Thunderbird not able to deal with attachment that has special characters in name

I'm using the Portable Apps edition of Thunderbird (2.0.00.22).  The attachment has a few %20 in its name because it was downloaded.  When trying to send the message, T-bird would say "can't open ....  Please check "Temporary Directory" setting".  After removing the %, it worked fine.

Jaunty on HD 4670

The Vista drive died on my desktop so I decided to install Ubuntu Jaunty x64 instead. The computer has a pair of HD 4670 in CrossFire. I had to go through safe video to install it, otherwise the screen just blanks on me.

X seems only recognising resolution up to 1280x1024. It's not detecting/using the 1920x1200 on the KDS 24" monitor. I fudged with xrandr and xorg.conf but couldn't get anything to work better. Then I moved on to try fglrx (open source ati driver doesn't support 4670 yet). The one in the repository made X fail, since fglrx.ko isn't at the place it's supposed to be. Don't know if it's a x64 issue or not.

Then I downloaded installer from ATI, not hoping for much, but it works like a miracle! Installer went through fine. Log off, log on, voila, I got 1920x1200! I never really was fond of ATI's drivers, but this one did shine.

Tried a H.264 1080p video under Movie Player (Totem) and it ran fine. Action sequences were smooth, but it would slow down visibly if the control menu is shown. Probably a player bug. In fact if the controls are gone and I move the mouse to get them, the screen would go back to desktop background briefly before returning to video with control bar. Annoying.

SATA controller in E6400

It's almost unworkable with Windows XP.  To get it to be useable for XP, I'll have to set it to IDE mode in BIOS; AHCI and IRRT won't work.  There're a few links relevant on getting those modes to work with XP, but so far I haven't figured it out how exactly in my case.  There're just a lot of moving parts.

http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19264477/19450243.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/benhunter/archive/2007/07/12/bdd-2007-integrating-mass-storage-drivers-into-your-xp-image.aspx#1563162

In addition, Acronis Disk Director and GPartEd seem to stumble too on the controller, even with IDE mode.  Acronis would say no disk found, and GPartEd would be stuck with I/O error upon booting.

Acronis 2009 Disk Director Home doesn't support Latitude E6400

I've already set the SATA controller to operate in IDE mode (otherwise TrueImage won't recognize it either), but Disk Director still says no hard drive found.

BTW, TrueImage 2009 is really fast in generating image. A 10 GB partition of Windows XP only took 10 minutes to be imaged to a network drive.

Mounted volume issue

One of the mounted volumes got moved to a directory (prob. by an accidental drag-n-drop - need to test the behavior though), so I tried to recreate the folder and mount the volume to its original location.  I got "folder does not exist or already a drive path to some other volume".  WTH?

Some googling turned up this link http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.general/browse_thread/thread/570ac48bce7413ba?pli=1
Essentially you need SYSTEM to have full control on the empty folder to create the junction point, but the created folder inherited the parent, which was configured to not have that - probably an oversight when setting up sharing.