Re: [silk] Help needed with Thunderbird 3

2010-01-28 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote, [on 1/28/2010 7:29 AM]:

 I downloaded Thunderbird 3 [1] (and the update to 3.0.1) a couple of
 weeks ago. A much-needed update to Thunderbird, especially in the area
 of search.
 
 imap flags / cache getting reset for some reason or the other
 file a bug report with tbird. the imap server on frodo is dovecot

Turning off the 'conditional store' setting seems to have helped, as in
here:

http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/thunderbird_3_rc1_seems_to_be_having_problems_keeping_read_messages_marked_as_read

Udhay
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Re: [silk] Outlaws and Hackers

2010-01-28 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Christopher Kelty wrote, [on 1/28/2010 11:45 AM]:

 For those of you interested, on the west coast, or passing through:
 
 http://outlawbiology.net/

Sounds like great fun, Chris. Please post links to the proceedings.

Udhay, several thousand km away, bah humbug
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Re: [silk] Help needed with Thunderbird 3

2010-01-28 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
 http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/thunderbird_3_rc1_seems_to_be_having_problems_keeping_read_messages_marked_as_read

Has any of you had any success in getting calendaring (ICS - invites
from outlook) to work well with Thunderbird. I am using sunbird but it
doesn't seem to work well with thunderbird 3.0.1 atleast.

-- Vinayak



Re: [silk] Help needed with Thunderbird 3

2010-01-28 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Vinayak Hegde wrote, [on 1/28/2010 5:50 PM]:

 Has any of you had any success in getting calendaring (ICS - invites
 from outlook) to work well with Thunderbird. I am using sunbird but it
 doesn't seem to work well with thunderbird 3.0.1 atleast.

The latest version of Lightning [1] should work.

Udhay

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2313

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Re: [silk] Help needed with Thunderbird 3

2010-01-28 Thread Giancarlo Livraghi

Two not-so-silly questions.

I have Thunderbird 2.0.0.23. Should I upgrade or wait for some debugging?

How can I have more than one language spellchecking in Thunderbird? 
(Please don't answer rtfm aka look it up).


(If it's necessary to know... os linux - ubuntu 9.10).

Thanks

Giancarlo



[silk] Zero rupees

2010-01-28 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
This is a very interesting idea, but of course not a silver bullet. There's
some interesting comments too. Can't easily quote the entire text via the
phone...

http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/paying-zero-public-services

Paying Zero for Public Services

Imagine that you are an old lady from a poor household in a town in the
outskirts of Chennai city India. All you have wanted desperately for the
last year and a half is to get a title in your name for the land you own,
called patta. You need this land title to serve as a collateral for a bank
loan you have been hoping to borrow to finance your granddaughter’s college
education. But there has been a problem: the Revenue Department official
responsible for giving out the patta has been asking you to pay a little fee
for this service That’s right, a bribe. But you are poor (you are officially
assessed to be be...

Sent from my mobile device, apologies for terseness, spelling and style.


Re: [silk] admin note on silklist postings

2010-01-28 Thread ss
On Thursday 28 Jan 2010 11:09:04 am Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
 On Thursday 28 January 2010, ss wrote:
 [snip]

  The thing is its size. The photos don't tell you how huge it is.

 Shiv, I am sure you appreciate that it takes superhuman strength to resist
 a punchline setup like this one.

Those minarets are miniscule in comparison ain't they? :D

http://www.crackheads.org/jokes/Via-Agra.jpg

shiv



Re: [silk] admin note on silklist postings

2010-01-28 Thread Charles Haynes
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:35 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thursday 28 Jan 2010 11:09:04 am Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
 On Thursday 28 January 2010, ss wrote:
 [snip]

  The thing is its size. The photos don't tell you how huge it is.

 Shiv, I am sure you appreciate that it takes superhuman strength to resist
 a punchline setup like this one.

 Those minarets are miniscule in comparison ain't they? :D

 http://www.crackheads.org/jokes/Via-Agra.jpg

I don't think we should go there, given that it was built as a
memorial, necrophilia jokes would be de rigeur (de rigor?)

-- Charles