Time for my biweekly computer problems update.

Thanks to all who have helped with previous ones, which I posted on:

• March, 2005: Sat 05 Mar 2005, Sun 27 Mar 2005


• April, 2005: Sat 16 Apr 2005, Sat 29 Apr 2005


• May, 2005: Sun 15 May 2005, Sat 28 May 2005


• June, 2005: Sat 11 Jun 2005, Sat 25 Jun 2005


• July, 2005: Sat 09 Jul 2005


• August, 2005: Sat 13 Aug 2005, Sat 20 Aug 2005


• September, 2005: Sat 03 Sep 2005, Sat 17 Sep 2005


• October, 2005: Mon 03 Oct 2005, Sat 15 Oct 2005, Sat 29 Oct 2005


• November, 2005: Sat 12 Nov 2005, Sat 26 Nov 2005


• December, 2005: Sat 10 Dec 2005, Sat 24 Dec 2005


• January, 2006: Sat 07 Jan 2006, Sat 21 Jan 2006


• February, 2006: Sat 04 Feb 2006, Sat 18 Feb 2006


• March, 2006: Sat 04 Mar 2006, Sat 18 Mar 2006


• April, 2006: Sat 01 Apr 2006, Sat 15 Apr 2006, Sat 29 Apr 2006


• May, 2006: Sat 13 May 2006, Sat 27 May 2006


• June, 2006: Sat 10 Jun 2006, Sat 24 Jun 2006


• July, 2006: Sat 08 Jul 2006

Thanks to all who replied, including nikolasoco, jeanlucpikachu, zaimoni, and tvn.

Here's my fortnightly update:

• 1. Firefox crashiness: It still crashes a lot, but not as much as with BitLord. I'm going to follow zaimoni's advice and disable TalkBack.


• 2. Dual-booting Windows 2000 and Ubuntu Linux on a ThinkPad: I haven't tried it yet; soon.


• 3. IP redirection and CUPS revisited: Lots of good documentation, thanks to nikolasco and the good folks in HOWTO land.

Now for the new questions...

Slow search in Mozilla Thunderbird

Is there any way to get a system runnig Mozilla Thunderbird (1.5.0.4) to search message headers faster, using roughly the same time (to within an order of magnitude) as MS Outlook and Outlook Express?

Failure to hibernate, redux

Hirilonde is again not hibernating! Ugh. What's more, this time, it fails out with the message "insufficient system resources to perform operation", and kills the hibernate tab in "Power Options Properties".

Which of the following applications (listed in descending order of my suspicion) could be the culprit?

• Mozilla Firefox (1.5.0.5)


• Mozilla Navigator (1.7.12)


• BitTorrent 4.20.4


• BitLord 1.1 (a BitTorrent client)


• Trillian Pro 3.1


• Google Desktop


• SpamBayes

Boldface indicates apps that have been on when WinXP Pro SP2 has failed to hibernate. The rest have been off in at least one case where it failed to hibernate anyway.

Software incompatibilities

On a more general note, is there any software that can detect potential conflicts among drivers or between drivers and applications? I have Norton Systemworks on Numerramar, but that seems to have limited efficacy (besides which, Numerramar, which runs Windows 2000, is one of my most stable systems to begin with).


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Banazir