Edgy Eft upgrade (from 6.06 to 6.10). I upgraded this last weekend to the latest Ubuntu, and I spent a good part of the weekend doing it. In my experience, I've only had a few upgrades go smoothly, but that's probably because I usually end up installing something on my system that doesn't come with the regular distribution, or I setup something in a different way than expected. When writing scripts to run an upgrade, I suppose there are only a certain number of scenarios that one can expect to encounter. My laptop is an emachines m6805, which has an Athlon64, Broadcom BCM4306 wireless and a 64MB ATI 9600 Mobility Radeon. I had XGL working before the upgrade, but I lost that (I needed to compile lots of stuff from source to get compiz to work right). Now I can't even start Gnome using the binary ATI drivers. I have my wireless working though, which is the more important part. My biggest problem during the upgrade was, from I could tell, my wireless. I use ndiswrapp...
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In continuing with the email theme of my last post, I'm including one last bit of useful code: the E-mail Form. I use this form to display the details of my email files. It's not a very pretty form, but it might be a good starting point for something nicer. One notable missing feature in this form is that the email cannot be edited and saved. I use it purely for viewing in my programs. Adding edit and save features should be easy though. The code as written, is fairly easy to use. The main procedure to use is the "ViewEmail" procedure. Just passing it a TIdMessage will display it in a small window. Here's the code: Delphi Form code: object fmViewEmail: TfmViewEmail Left = 445 Top = 172 Width = 383 Height = 408 Caption = 'View E-mail' Color = clBtnFace Font.Charset = DEFAULT_CHARSET Font.Color = clWindowText Font.Height = -11 Font.Name = 'MS Sans Serif' Font.Style = [] OldCreateOrder = False DesignSize = ( 375 ...