On an XP system: When Firefox fails to regard Thunderbird the "Default Mail Application" (even though you set that elsewhere) the problem may be solved by:

• Opening the Control Panel

• Opening the Folder Options

• On the File Types tab, find the (None) URL:MailTo entry

• Click the Advanced button

• In the Actions window, you should see the entry:* open*

• Click the Edit... button

• Set the Application Used to Perform Action to the correct path of your Thunderbird as:

  "C:Program FilesMozilla Thunderbirdthunderbird.exe" -compose "%1"

Worth a look --

• nomachine.com From their website:

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  **

  NX Free Edition ** A complete solution for remote access to your Unix workstation. It allows 2 concurrent users to connect no matter what their location is, and share the desktop. NX Free Edition is incredibly easy to install and run, leverages the competence and quality of the company that makes NX and, most importantly, is free forever.

• 2X TerminalServer

  Using a compressed version of the X protocol, 2X TerminalServer for Linux provides users with a secure, personal Linux desktop accessible from anywhere in the world, over any connection...

  2X TerminalServer for Linux is an Open Source project, licensed under the GPL and is free of charge. Only user to user support is available via the 2X forums.

For some reason, my fresh Ubuntu install didn't include all the NFS bits... had to do this:

**

apt-get install nfs-common portmap **

* /etc/init.d/portmap restart *

* /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart *

and then I was able to:

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mount 192.168.0.50:/myshare /mnt/myshare **

OK so I tried to run simutrans on my new 64-bit Ubuntu box... and got this:

$

./sim99-18-1671

./sim99-18-1671: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

If you look at which libraries are actually being loaded, this way:

$

ldd ./sim99-18-1671

linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf7fac000) libSDL-1.2.so.0 => not found libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7f93000) libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 => not found libstdc++.so.6 => not found libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7f6e000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7f63000) libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7e13000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7fd1000)

...you'll see that several libraries aren't found, and that the other libraries that are found are 32-bit (in /lib32)... not the system standard 64-bit (in /lib).

To overcome this, we'll have to:

$

**

sudo apt-get install apt-file * $ sudo apt-file update $ sudo apt-file --architecture i386 search libSDL-1.2.so.0 ia32-libs: /usr/lib32/libSDL-1.2.so.0 [...more listing here...] $ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs *

and likewise for any other missing 32-bit libraries.

If you've tried to open a Peachtree company file on a computer that serves company-files but isn't actually running the Pervasive engine, Peachtree can irrecoverably hang at startup.

Using the Registry editor, find and modify:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePeachtreePeachtree Complete Accounting14Options lastcompanyopenlong

and set it to the "real" company file -- or to a legal filename that doesn't exist. Then Peachtree will start and you can re-point it to the correct location.