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Thunderbird 3 Smart Folders
by Wayne Stallwood 06 May '10

06 May '10

Ok after an initial "ugh" when Thunderbird got updated to version 3 as part of my upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 I have sort of adjusted and it *is* better. But one thing that I can't get is adding smart folders properly...has anyone done this and how ? At the top of the folder tree I have an "Inbox" smart folder which is a combination of my local (pop collected) inbox and an imap work one I want to add another smart folder that only shows unread items in the same way just under this. I can change the filter on the existing "Inbox" smart folder so that messages are only shown if status-isn't-read and that works fine (although annoyingly it only updates if you leave it and navigate back) but what I can't seem to do is add an additional folder that behaves like this. I worked out that the easy way to add new smart folders is to perform a search and then in the search options click "save search as virtual folder" but this only allows me to add the virtual folder as a subfolder to one of my existing accounts...not put it at the top with the other smart folders.

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Keyboard is king?
by Anthony Anson 06 May '10

06 May '10

Can anyone suggest why, occasionally, I turn on the Eee (t's still running Tellytubbies Xandros) and no keyboard function works. Right arrow, left arrow, tab, nuffin. Order is restored when the mouse is tweaked. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/

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Re: [ALUG] Any raid experts among us?
by Adam Reid 06 May '10

06 May '10

Righty... the situation's changed a bit now, as Brett outlined. Raid is now repaired, but won't start on boot, for reasons not known. Syncing doesn't cause lockups, or that's not proven, but something does cause a USB devices to stop responding, eg keyboard & mouse. this happened on the live cd as well, although the PC was working normally otherwise. Basically, as it stands now, I have a working raid, in the live cd mdadm --assemble --scan /dev/md0 works perfectly, but something has changed that stops it being loaded at boot time; the kernel gives up waiting for the root device to be ready & drops me at busybox. I could make a backup of the array and reinstall the whole system, but I'd prefer to solve the problem if possible. I'm making a full backup tomorrow anyway, whatever happens.

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Any raid experts among us?
by Adam Reid 05 May '10

05 May '10

Allo all, I've run into a spot of bother (understatement of the year) while upgrading Ubuntu to 10.4. More specifically, after upgrading, the device names of my drives seem to have shuffled around a bit, and raid5 (softraid) broke. I'm unable to rebuild the array, as it seems to value the old device names more highly than the uuid's, and errors out. Pastebin of the current drive situation is at http://www.pastebin.com/2AT9fQYF . The drives used to be sda, sdb and sdc, but somehow the dvd drive took over sdb post-upgrade. You can see my attempts to sort the situation here, and the results: http://www.pastebin.com/t8wPxZHu . I can get to busybox on the PC, and am using a liveCD to try to repair it. I'm wondering whether shuffling the cables around to realign the drive letters is a sane idea ... or whether that'll make the problem worse. Any insight much appreciated.

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Geekbench In Xubuntu
by Simon Royal 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hi I am interested in getting Geekbench in Xubuntu. I have downloaded the file from the website, unpacked it and went to Execute it, but it doesn't do anything. I'm dual booting XP and Xubuntu on my ThinkPad 600 and have benched XP and would like to see if there is an diference under Xubuntu. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now

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Xubuntu Sound Problems Continue
by Simon Royal 02 May '10

02 May '10

Hi I still havent gotten any further with geting sound to work on my ThinkPad 600 under Xubuntu 10.04. I tried following some tips I found online and atleast got something to show up in Mixer. When the machine boots you hear the speakers being initialised - you get that crackle for a second or so. But when I play an MP3 in Exaile it plays all crackly and you cant even make the song out. However, tonight I was on FaceBook and someone started chatting to me and when I got a new message I got a sound. I have never had that before, so something must be working somewhere. I just double checked an MP3 again and no joy, and I then thought about playing an audio CD, but while the CD played I got no sound. Any further ideas? Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now

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Xubuntu Copy Dialog Box
by Simon Royal 01 May '10

01 May '10

Hi I was copying some file to my USB Flash Drive the other day from Xubuntu and it didn't come up with a copy dialog progress box. I didn't think too much of it at the time. This morning I was trying to create an alias of my windows partition on my desktop and accidently dropped it so it is copying the whole partition onto my desktop and there is no dialog or progress box. It is a 6GB partition and there is no way to stop it. I can here the hard drive chugging away so I know it is doing it. Why is there no box that comes up? Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now

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Xubuntu Sound Help Please
by Simon Royal 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hi I am running Xubuntu 10.04 - upgraded yesterday from 9.10. I have not had sound working in either versions. I have a ThinkPad 600 - which is notorious for sound problems. In Mixer it only listed Dummy as a device. I followed some instructions written for Ubuntu a while back specifically for the TP 600. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=188736 Now I have partial success. In Mixer it shows CS4237B (Alsa Mixer), CS4237B (OSS Mixer) and Playback: CS4237B Analog Stereo as well as a couple of capture devices. Now when I play an MP3 using Exaile playback is very choppy to the point of you cannot hear the music. I followed the instructions carefully and double checked I had everything for the sound written properly. II could not find on my system in the boot folder the menu.lst to edit the acpi settings and I am wondering if this has anything to do with it. Also on boot it shows on the screen the following message 'cs423x pnpbios unable to assign' or something like that as it shows only briefly before loading the desktop. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I seemed to have gotten this far. It would appear to me that the drivers or modules are loading correctly but it is a hardware conflict that needs resolving. Please help. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now

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Xubuntu 10.04 First Look
by Simon Royal 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hi I installed Xubuntu 10.04 last night, updating via Update Manager option. It took a long while - about 12 hours - but I think this is more down to it only being a 300Mhz P2 rather than any reflection on the software. The general look is the same as 9.10. It seems generally faster. Firefox booted a lot quicker and page navigation was quicker. Boot time is considerably faster and has a new look boot screen. So far so good. Machine is a ThinkPad 600 P2 300 with 296MB RAM and 15GB HD. The update didnt resolve the audio problems, something I will have to resolve myself. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/

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Xubuntu 10.04
by Simon Royal 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hi I am currently running Xubuntu 9.10 on my ThinkPad. The new Ubuntu 10.04 LTS came out today and in my Update Manager it says there is 10.04 ready to be installed. I cannot find anywhere on the Ubuntu or Xubuntu site a reference that Xubuntu 10.04 has been released today as well. This is the first time I have upgraded from one major version to another. I am assuming the update available will install Xubuntu and not the latest version of Ubuntu over the top of what I have already? Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now

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