The answer is to click on the account in question (i.e. one level up from your Inbox), then click “Manage Folder Subscriptions”. From there on it should be obvious – find the folders, and tick the boxes. Job done.

If you are running Ubuntu linux 7.10 (also known as Gutsy Gibbon) and are trying to get the Wacom tablet functions of an HP 2710p tablet to work, then hopefully you won’t waste about 6 hours trying. Or if you’re lucky, you also spend 6 hours of your employer’s time trying to figure it out, and it won’t seem so bad. Ahem.

Alternatively, to get the digitizer working quickly, simply edit the xorg configuration by running “sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf”, scroll down to the bottom, and where it says “Uncomment if you have a Wacom tablet” simply remove the # signs from the next three lines. It’s really that easy. I would say annoyingly easy.

Maybe you followed all the other stuff and got as far as trying to run “wacdump -f c100 /dev/ttyS0″ or “wacdump -f c100 /dev/input/wacom” or “wacdump -f c100 /dev/event0″ but they are all wrong. Variations on the wacdump theme might get you “WacomOpenTablet: Connection timed out” but that’s a red herring too. It’s actually “wacdump -f tpc /dev/input/wacom”, and you don’t actually need to setserial or compile tc1100ts.c or anything else. Hopefully the Ubuntu guys will figure out how to detect that there’s a Wacom tablet and do the uncommenting automagically for Hardy or later, but if not perhaps this’ll help. I’ve no idea if this will help for Fedora or SuSE or anything else, but if it does, feel free to let everyone know in the comments.

Update: Hardy 8.04

For anyone who is trying on Hardy, it works fine too. At the time of writing you just have to copy some stuff into /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart the X server. No recompilation or anything like that. Add three more input devices, and then add the activation within the section ServerLayout. So actually marginally more difficult than it was in Gutsy, since the code used to be there ready and waiting.

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “wacom”
Identifier “stylus”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option “Type” “stylus”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″# Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “wacom”
Identifier “cursor”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option “Type” “cursor”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″# Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Default Layout”
Screen “Default Screen”
InputDevice “Synaptics Touchpad”
InputDevice “stylus” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “cursor” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “eraser” “SendCoreEvents”
EndSection

Dear webmaster at PMO.gov.uk,

As the owner of the gravitystorm.co.uk domain, I frequently choose different email addresses to use on different websites, so that I can trace who is providing my email addresses to third parties. The email address petitions@[redacted].co.uk has been used exclusively on the “petitions.pm.gov.uk” website. I’m sure you can see how I can be certain that it is only you, and I, who have knowledge of this alias.

Can you please inform me as to whether you, or your contractors for the site (”MySociety”) are responsible for passing on my address to the fraudsters who emailed me (see below). I can provide the full messages that I received today if this helps in any way.

Please note that I am fully aware that you have nothing to do with the spam itself, but you are quite obviously leaking my email address to third parties without my permission.

Many thanks,
Andy Allan

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION{CONGRATULATIONS}
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:32:37 -0800
From: UK COVENTRY PROMOTIONS <coventrylotterypromotions @coventrylotto.com>
Reply-To: covpayer34@aim.com
To: petitions@[redacted].co.uk

I doubt this will get anywhere, but I may as well fish for an apology (and who knows, it might even prod them into fixing whichever hole these email addresses are leaking from).

Even today’s xkcd is in on the trend:

…although I find the forum discussion on just what being “it’s complicated” means more interesting – does everyone need to jump through all these hoops when marking relationships? Is “somehow known to me” insufficient? Am I the only one happy with a certain bit of ambiguity, even as to who is a friend? I model myself on the bit in Donnie Brasco, where ‘a friend of mine’ is a completely different relationship to ‘my friend’, but I don’t think anyone notices much.

So just to prove I’m not an Internet dinosaur (yet), here’s Yet Another Stupid Web 2.0 Video embederised herein:

(Bonus points if you spotted the pun…)

I’ve only been to Skye once, and that was many years ago, but I have to agree with the comment on the Quiraing – one of the most awesome places I’ve ever been. Don’t miss it if you’re nearby. I can’t remember much else about my visit – other than a very, very talented busker in one village who we listened to ad-libbing about what was going on in the town in an amazing cross between folk guitar and observational comedy.

I’d love if he could link to openstreetmap instead of the ordance survey, but the coverage of Skye is somewhat lacking at the moment!

Mike’s recent reappearance and Ed’s not-so-recent conversion to wordpress reminded me that my weblog needed upgrading once again – and I then spent two days fiddling with the new widgets in the sidebar. Wordpress just keeps getting better. Finally, I can show where the recent comments are lurking – and it’s not always on the most recent posts – along with who’s posting what in the nearby circle. With all the new widgets though I’m considering adding a second sidebar!

Anyway, enough meta-talk for now.

http://www.surveymethods.com/Preview.aspx?B7A9BDB0E3F9E0F2F6BDBBB0BBF1E0ECB4&DO_NOT_COPY_THIS_LINK

If your survey system is vulnerable to reuse of the link, it’s better to fix the problem, rather than tacking on such rubbish at the end. Shame on you, whoever you are.

While looking at the list of pages that link to the current “Picture of the Day” on the front page of Wikipedia – it’s currently a Giant Planes Comparison (with the links in question shown on that page) – I was wondering why quite so many people link to it from their Wikipedia User pages. So I picked one at random (User:Harryboyles as it happens, although that’s really not important), and found that he is one of 248 people to classify themselves in the category “Wikipedians who help fix disambiguation pages with links“.

What? Are these people who use links in order to fix broken disambiguation pages? Or are there broken disambiguation pages that have links, which these people fix? Does anyone see the delicious irony here?

Actually, if you look further, it’s actually not the disambiguation pages that need fixing, it’s the other, unspecified, pages that link to the disambiguation pages that need fixing. So it doesn’t matter which way you read the collective title of people-who-fix-something-or-other, since it actually means something else entirely.

Well, somebody needs to clarify all this ambiguity, and it looks like that someone is me.

This vexes me. I never know whether I want the arrow to point up, or down, since I can’t remember which application does which. I always want the newest at the top (apart from when I’m sorting by name or something else for a minute, but then I want it back to normal), but the arrow is completely useless as an indicator, since there’s not enough info to tell which way is which. Anyone have any better suggestions for visual feedback?

However, this amused me, from the climbing list I’m on – Yahoo! put the following tagline in a poor guy’s email:

All New Yahoo! Mail – Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you.

… which then got promptly munched by the anti-spam filter on the mailing list. Nice work, Yahoo!

So if you use Yahoo!, or Hotmail, or any other crappy free email, and every now and then you emails don’t get through, maybe this is the reason.