Re: Lucy the Football

2005-10-17 Thread cmetzler
This email is about Mozilla-thunderbird. [ snip ] Various other people have written you helpful messages about the specific issues you've been facing. I'd like to write instead and make a suggestion I hope you'll take to heart: give your posts subject lines that indicate what the content of

Re: Lucy the Football

2005-10-16 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My previous posting regarding mounting the newly installed hard drive was helped quite a lot with the advice I read here ... thank you very much. There's a superb way of finding out all about an unknown drivge, and that's sudo cfdisk /dev/hdd whereupon it told me the

Re: Lucy the Football

2005-10-16 Thread george5
Progress ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... snippage ... Installing Thunderbird ... Then a couple of problems surfaced: 1. The menu items highlight to white on white. This is a common bug already posted here before. You can check for fixes in the list archives. I'll try that; the simple answer

Re: Lucy the Football

2005-10-16 Thread george5
Even More Progress ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... snippage ... Installing Thunderbird ... 2. The second time I opened Thunderbird, it was empty, and the Install Wizard wanted all my data all over again. 150 messages vanished ... but it had let me do the setup all by myself without a peep of

Re: Lucy the Football

2005-10-16 Thread Adam Porter
Antony Gelberg wrote: Adam Porter wrote: ~/.mozilla-thunderbird. You can drill down to more specific stuff if you want. Really, you should consider something like Ubuntu, MEPIS, or Xandros. It will take care of many of your problems off-the-bat. You seem to have a new standard answer

Re: Lucy the Football

2005-10-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Antony Gelberg wrote: Adam Porter wrote: ~/.mozilla-thunderbird. You can drill down to more specific stuff if you want. Really, you should consider something like Ubuntu, MEPIS, or Xandros. It will take care of many of your problems off-the-bat. You seem to have a new standard answer

Lucy the Football

2005-10-15 Thread george5
My previous posting regarding mounting the newly installed hard drive was helped quite a lot with the advice I read here ... thank you very much. There's a superb way of finding out all about an unknown drivge, and that's sudo cfdisk /dev/hdd whereupon it told me the names of all the drive's

Re: Lucy the Football

2005-10-15 Thread Adam Porter
~/.mozilla-thunderbird. You can drill down to more specific stuff if you want. Really, you should consider something like Ubuntu, MEPIS, or Xandros. It will take care of many of your problems off-the-bat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Lucy the Football

2005-10-15 Thread Kent West
-descriptive subject line like Lucy the Football; although it's witty, there's enough traffic on this list that if a subject line doesn't interest the members, the posting may just be skipped over. Just a thought.) -- KKent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe