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Just came across this -> http://rt.com/panorama/shukhov-radio-tower-3th-level.html

All i can say is wow, what a view!.

OK, it appears as though theres an annoying bug in Thunderbird 3.0.3 on OSX.

For some reason Thunderbird, on occasion mis-reports the ammount of unread emails in the badges (i.e. dock, etc). Leading to the badge displaying in some cases double the number of unread emails, as opposed to the correct ammount. (Screenshot: Thunderbird BUG (OSX)).

Browsing the interwebz, i've come accross a bug report for this, which says it has been fixed in git, for 3.0.4: Bug Report @ bugzilla.mozilla.org 551694.

So I guess we just have to wait for 3.0.4 and put up with it till then (even tho it is frustrating when you frequently get over 50 emails a day!), i believe 3.0.4 is targetted for the end of the month, but we shall see .

Keith

OK, so i've had some time today, to look into why eggdrop fails to detect TCL Threading in some cases (eggdrop1.6.19).

It would appear as though TCL have changed the symbols they export in version 8.5 and above, so that TclpFinalizeThreadData no longer exists, but Tcl_FinalizeThread does.

This means that if your using TCL 8.5+ with threading, eggdrop will fail to detect it because it looks for the wrong symbol.

If your using the latest CVS this is fixed, as of Tue Jan 26 03:12:15 2010 UTC according to cvsweb, so just type cvs update to grab the latest.

If your not comfortable running the latest CVS, you have a few options.

1) Continue to hack config.h after ./configure - replacing #undef HAVE_TCL_THREADS with #define TCL_HAVE_THREADS 1. When you have a threaded TCL.
2) Patch your eggdrop with the path from Solution 1 at: http://eggwiki.org/Threaded_Tcl
3) Download a fixed version of eggdrop that looks for the new symbol, this can be found here: Eggdrop 1.6.19 +ctcpfix +threadfix

UPDATE (20/03/2009): I've Removed my version of the threading patch, Solution 2 is better. NOTE: My version of the eggdrop source in #3 above, just changes the configure script, so that it looks for Tcl_FinalizeThread and if its not found, looks for TclpFinalizeThreadData, it appears as tho the fix preferred and used by the developers, is to change the symbol thats looked up, so it removes this problem.

HTH

Keith