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Thanks to Robert, Paul, Russ and George for their useful and actionable
advice on my queries!<br>
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I will have a play with some of the stuff I've learned for the time
being.<br>
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I am on normal headers in Thunderbird, but there's still more header
than there is message text for some reason. It tells me practically
every server and IP address that the message has passed through on its
way to me, which I don't actually want to know and just creates clutter
on my screen. I'll do a seach for 'terse headers' to see if I can find
that.<br>
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I asked about executable files because I want to set certain programs
to start up at every session and I don't know what command to use. In
MS it's a case of finding the program directory inside which is the
executable file required. I shall have a look in /bin and hopefully
find what I'm after there.<br>
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Incidentally, what file managers do people like? I'm not sure if Ubuntu
defaults to Nautilus or Thunar, but I'm considering alternatives that
are easy to use and good-looking, with speed of searching being a
lesser consideration also. <br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Matthew<br>
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Russ Phillips wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, October 7, 2007 12:04 pm, Matthew Tolley wrote:
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<pre wrap="">(1) In MS regular Registry cleaning and spyware sweeps were needed
to maintain speed and security. What kinds of maintenance should I do
regularly on linux, and how often?
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The only sort of junk I've ever found on my machine is hidden folders in
my home directory belonging to programs that I no longer use. They don't
slow anything down, and they take up very little space, so I generally
don't worry about them.
In Linux, any file or folder with a name beginning with a dot (.) is
hidden. Programs usually store settings etc in a hidden folder in your
home directory, so you may want to check for such folders that have been
left behind after a program has been uninstalled.
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<pre wrap="">(2) What file extensions in linux are equivalent to program files in
MS (such as .exe)? And where will I find them?
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Linux doesn't really care about file extensions. There's an "executable"
property instead - if this is set, the file is a program file.
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<pre wrap="">(4) On other OSs, having more than one AV is a no-no. Is this also
the case on Linux? For some reason ClamAV hasn't configured correctly on
my machine. How do I fix this? Does anyone use F-Prot or Aegis and how
do you rate it?
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It's probably a bad idea to use more than one AV that does on-access
scanning. I've used Clam, but none of the others.
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<pre wrap="">(5) I moved to Thunderbird because it seems the most highly
recommended email client (David's advocacy of Kmail notwithstanding).
Thanks to Robert who sent me the link on deleting duplicate emails (this
works really well). My mail headers in Thunderbird have way too much
information though (about 20 lines of it) - how can I change this? I
only really need the sender's email, addressees, date and subject.
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Sounds like you've got View->Headers set to "All". Try changing it to
"Normal". Also, in the headers area, there should be a [-] in the
top-left. Clicking that will reduce it to a single line. Clicking it again
(it'll have changed to a [+] will return the previous view.
Russ
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