Thunderbird 3 on MacOS 10.6

I haven't figured out yet, why this happens, but here are the symptoms:

Updating from Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 to 3.0 yields in a perfectly usable Thunderbird 3 including all emails and setting, but each time I want to close Thunderbird, it does not respond any more and has to be killed.

Installing ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on a Mac Book Pro 5,5

First (can't say it often enough): BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA. While you can use e.g. the free version of Superduper! to keep a bootable clone copy of your system on an external harddrive partition, you have TimeMachine as a very convenient program to keep your data backuped, so there is NO EXCUSE for you to not have backups, just in case you accidentally crash your system.

Installing rEFIt and opensuse 11.1

This post is actually just a copy of the post found here for the sake of completeness.

MacOS 10.6, python and PIL

Since I got a python script from avocadohead (kudos and thanks for saving a lot of time) for easily creating a plain html gallery with thumbnails using imagemagick, I needed to get python running. The version included in MacOS 10.6 is known somewhat troublesome when installing the PIL library so I chose the easy way: