My problem with Thunderbird, if I remember correctly (it's been awhile since I've checked), is that you can't selectively mark messages for deletion from the server.

That was my problem.

I wonder if that was done to sync better with the iPhones since Google and Apple seem to have cozy relationship going and all. Not the exclusive reason, but a driving force. eh, just wondering.

are they all in one thread, or they in individual threads?

It's Gmail incoming email, in the incoming folder. They're in a long line of individual messages. There are ~20 in a row, then I got a message from someone else, then there are ~15 more in a row, then a 2nd message from someone else, then ~10 more in a row.

As far as I know, you only have two printing options from gmail:

1) print an individual email message; 2) print an entire "conversation" or thread.

So you have 40 odd individual email messages, you'll have to print them one by one.

Comcast Admits Delaying Some Traffic

EW YORK (AP) -- Comcast Corp. on Tuesday acknowledged "delaying" some subscriber Internet traffic, but said any roadblocks it puts up are temporary and intended to improve surfing for other users.

The statement was a response to an Associated Press report last week that detailed how the nation's largest cable company was interfering with file sharing by some of its Internet subscribers. The AP also found that Comcast's computers masqueraded as those of its users to interrupt file-sharing connections.

Internet watchdog groups denounced Comcast's actions, calling it an example of the kind of abuse that could be curbed with so-called "Net Neutrality" legislation. It would require Internet providers to treat all traffic equally - as has largely been the case historically.

Comcast has repeatedly denied blocking any Internet application, including "peer-to-peer" file-sharing programs like BitTorrent, which the AP used in its nationwide tests.

On Tuesday, Mitch Bowling, senior vice president of Comcast Online Services, added a nuance to that statement, saying that while Comcast may block initial connection attempts between two computers, it eventually lets the traffic through if the computers keep trying.

How nice of them.

ION, how insane will Apple stores be tomorrow when Leopard comes out?

They handled the lines for the iPhone pretty efficiently. The wait wasn't as long as some people thought it would be.

This is probably a really dumb question but here it is:

My work computer is a 4-year-old Dell laptop hooked up to a dock and a monitor. It's getting to the retirement age but the work people are as usual too cheap to replace the damn thing. (I think it has only 256 MB RAM.) In the last couple of months, *everything* has slowed down to a crawl speed. Right now, I only have three applications open -- outlook, mozilla and powerpoint and just switching windows take 5+ seconds. The campus network system keeps up-to-date antivirus definitions, plus I've defrag'd the hard drive a couple of weeks ago and ran a spy ware program. Short of getting a new hard drive or more RAM, is there anything else I can do to get it to perform a little better as a temporizing tactic?

The first thing to do is open task manager and see what's eating up all the CPU and/or memory.

The first thing to do is open task manager and see what's eating up all the CPU and/or memory.

Just for entertainment, what are the odds that it is the latest Microsoft update?