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Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Jon B. - Apr 02, 2008 9:51:43 am PDT #5431 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

you can do it with a filter in 1.5.0.14 (I'm living off my U3 drive while the computer's down), but no other way.

Huh. I want to be able to set the default to leave messages on the server, but be able to individually tag messages (once they're on my machine) for deletion from the server. This is easy-peasy in Eudora. Can I do this in Thunderbird?


§ ita § - Apr 02, 2008 10:17:25 am PDT #5432 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Can I do this in Thunderbird?

Not yet, I don't think. But I'll look at the 2.x version when I get home. I have it there on Linux.

This discovery solves 50% of my problem. I'd really like to be able to use Thunderbird--I quite like what I've seen of it in my jury-riggedness of the past few days, but, yeah, individual delete-from-server is a hard habit to kick once you've taken the first hit.


meara - Apr 02, 2008 10:37:28 am PDT #5433 of 25501

The problem is, I love having a DVD burner in my current TiVo. It's perfect if I want to give someone a copy of a show, or burn something to take on a trip and watch on my laptop....

I suppose if I were truly super fancy, I'd have slingbox. :)


Juliebird - Apr 02, 2008 1:03:13 pm PDT #5434 of 25501
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I want to get my mum an MP3 player for her birthday and only have personal experience with iPod. I've heard of Zune, but don't know what else is out there or what would be the most simple device to use to a technologically challenged woman. Any suggestions?


DCJensen - Apr 02, 2008 7:04:15 pm PDT #5435 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Firefox just upgraded me to Firefox 3, beta 5.


Vortex - Apr 02, 2008 7:17:54 pm PDT #5436 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I haven't upgraded. I am always wary of the upgrade. I remember upgrading my window media player, and losing the ability to listen to internet radio. I tried to uninstall the new version and put the old one back on, but it wouldn't let me.


Gris - Apr 03, 2008 3:05:36 am PDT #5437 of 25501
Hey. New board.

I upgraded, too. We'll see if it crashes less for me.


DCJensen - Apr 03, 2008 4:18:36 am PDT #5438 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Firefox, Beta 5:

I'm missing my home icon. It was taken away in earlier betas, relegated to a personal toolbar item, now they removed the toolbar item.

I had to drag my homepage link to my personal toolbar. I can rename it "home" but still? I'm not sure why they decided I don't need it.

There must be a setting, somewhere...


Gris - Apr 03, 2008 5:46:42 am PDT #5439 of 25501
Hey. New board.

It's still in my bookmarks bar...


§ ita § - Apr 03, 2008 6:37:10 am PDT #5440 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

From what I can tell, Jon (cursory examination only), the more recent version of Thunderbird can achieve deletion from the POP server if you have it set to delete from server when you move messages out of your inbox (not just to trash--to any other folder)--but then you can't keep it in your inbox folder on your local machine.

I'm going to keep looking. It's frustrating to have it be a filter option, but not an option you can exercise using the menu.