From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:22 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1898 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Tuesday 29 December 2009 Number 1898 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Freebies : Ian Manners" 2 Thunderbird 3.0 : Peter Moylan 3 Re: Thunderbird 3.0 : Peter Moylan **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:19:41 +1100 (EDT) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: Freebies Free - pickup from Melbourne Australia 1 ================================= RS/6000 7025-F50 604e 332MHz (Dual) 1.5G ram SCSI CDROM, FD Drive, * Both Keys * 2 bays have backplains AIX 4.3.3 CD's, installation docs etc Chassi stamp 13th July 2000 [NO keyboard or monitor] Includes :- IBM grey clunker mouse IBM Green screen terminal (missing serial adapter) Matrox PCI VGA Adapter (GX150 ?) LSI Logic SYM22910 64bit SCSI Card IBM 32bit PCI SCSI RAID Adapter 76H6871 3 x 18G IBM UltraStor SCSI HD's 2 x 9G IBM SCSI HD's 1 x spare tray History - Spare unit for a remote backup company, rarely used, checking inside power supply with a torch confirms that as do the logs. Serial racks and Tigris units all gone elsewere. Came with a UPS but the UPS is : a) rubbish b) acid leaked c) it is now in the rubbish (batt's were date stamped 1997) 2 ================================= MicroTek SCSI Slide scanner 35t Plus Includes software and drivers (Win98/ME) FD's and 1 CD, Neg holder (slides are internally transported) 1950dpi - checked and it works very nicely. Contact me via http://www dot comkal dot net/ if interested. Otherwise it gets gutted for parts and the rest goes to the local computer recyclers. (I already have my own F50) Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:46:34 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Thunderbird 3.0 In case anyone is tempted to upgrade to Thunderbird 3.0: don't. It's nowhere near ready for a beta release. The user interface is inferior to that of Thunderbird 2.0.0.14. The fonts are ugly. In newsgroups, it gets the threading wrong (why?, given that it was right in earlier versions), and it keeps wanting to wasted enormous amounts of time offering to download 800,000 headers when it finally turns out, after many hours of downloading, that there are 20 unread messages. I'm using it now, but only because the README hints that once you've upgraded it's impossible to go back to a previous version. As a result, I'm scared to upgrade to 2.0.0.14. The worst part: when I first installed it, my computer became unusable for about 3 hours - I couldn't even do a shutdown - because Thunderbird was busy with an "indexing" operation. Why, oh why, do developers give priority to introducing new features at the expense of fixing the existing bugs? [1] If it's any consolation, Micros**t did the same thing to me. Windows Vista is grossly inferior to Windows XP, but I can't upgrade to XP without risking losing all of my user data. That's because some idiot decided to configure my laptop with only a single partition, therefore no separation between the system partition and the user partition. I'm told that many people are now parting with lots of money to upgrade to Windows 7, just for the sake of getting away from Vista, but that still doesn't give them something as good as XP. And, for most of them, they still have to put their user data on drive C: [1] OK, I'll admit that one bug was fixed. Unicode characters can now be read without having to do a dummy "reply" in order to read the non-ASCII characters. But, heck, the bug list was so long that fixing just one bug is hardly a major advance. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:16:57 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: Thunderbird 3.0 On 29/12/09 22:46, Peter Moylan wrote: > [1] OK, I'll admit that one bug was fixed. All right, two bugs. My "Local folders" in Thunderbird includes a lot of empty but undeletable folders, with names (including subfolder names) that echo the names of existing mail accounts. In Thunderbird 3 you can now delete some of the subfolders. It's tedious - you can't delete or rename a top-level folder, and you can't delete anything whose name is the same as the name of something that's already in "Trash". With the aid of frequent "empty trash" operations I've now managed to get rid of about 100 unwanted folders. [2] I've also succeeded in completely deleting the top-level folders corresponding to accounts that no longer exist. I'm now looking forward to being able to delete the rest when Thunderbird 4 comes out. [2] Yes, I've tried to delete the unwanted folders directly in the file system. Thunderbird just re-creates them. It's very helpful that way. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG ===