Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm
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| — | Winston Churchill |
Let’s be clear. Your career is YOUR responsibility, not your employer’s. Your employer is not your mother.
Thunderbird 3 kicks ass
It’s still in beta, but completely useable. Usually, betas from Mozilla are more stable then releases from Microsoft.
The only real problem I discovered was that TB would freeze eating up 100% CPU, but thanks to the fine folks at forums.mozillazine.org I discovered it was due to the enabled-by-default offline caching of messages from IMAP accounts. I disabled this setting (I have a huge IMAP account), and the problem went away.
Some add-ons I used on Thunderbird 2 don’t work in Thunderbird 3, while others are needed to “fix” some stupid changes. This is my current list of essential add-ons for TB 3:
- AttachmentRemember
- Change quote and reply format
- Compact Header
- Enigmail
- Lightning (nightly)
- Lightning Nightly Updater
- Provider for Google Calendar (nightly)
- Quicktext
- TB3 Classic theme
I’m having some problems with “phantom” calendars; I have some events in my calendar which don’t belong to any visible calendar, probably because I installed Lightning nightly over my previous TB2 (Lightning 0.9?) install, so I’ll try creating a fresh profile and copying only my e-mail messages and address book over it.
Windows 7: Fix for error 809 on VPN connection
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PolicyAgent\AssumeUDPEncapsulationContextOnSendRule
This key should be created and set to 2 (DWORD) to allow server-side NAT
FireGPG is a Firefox extension under MPL that provides an integrated interface to apply GnuPG operations to the text of any web page, including encryption, decryption, signing, and signature…
