ldap in mozilla and IPv6

The bug has existed for so long:
ipv6 enabled on winxp
thunderbird, mozilla etc address book hangs because the ldap connection tries to create IPv6 socket to IPv4 address.

So easy to fix, why hasn't it happened?
I'd fix it for them, but haven't followed it through.
I note some statements about IPv6 support in latest mozilla stuff, but so far no fix.

The ldap directory service attempts to
connect to the ipv6 socket ::ffff:xx.xx.xx.xx instead of the ipv4 socket
xx.xx.xx.xx

This is consistent with the last few years and on the thunderbird 3.0a1 that I
just downloaded/installed it still fails in the same way on a dual hosted ipv4
ipv6 machine.
Logging ldap:5 only produces the following:
0[274310]: nsLDAPOperation::SimpleBind(): called; bindName = '';
2348[278d2d0]: nsLDAPConnection::Run() entered

channel deepening port phillip bay victoria

The newspaper reports today that the SEES will give the go ahead for channel deepening and dredging in port phillip bay, victoria.

As the SDFV secretary, I expected to see some prior notice - but we haven't received any thing through official channels.

What's the dredging going to mean for me?
Well it may interfere with some winter diving.
It's unlikely to interfere with summer diving (beach tourism too big for them to interfere with).
Long term should make no difference and if their predictions of fewer larger ships coming in are correct that means less ships to dodge while drift diving.

Alternatively it may absolutely ruin the ecology of port phillip bay - but the EES , SEES and monitoring process is meant to prevent that.
What's it going to cost POMC if they do stuff the bay? Is there an eco-bond?

Have to wait for the report I guess.

OSX 10.4.9 upgrade loginwindow crash

Mac OSX 10.4.9 upgrade led to loginwindow crash.
Repeatedly put you back at login window after you type your password in.
Safe boot made no difference.
This is a new intel powerbook pro model - from about jan07.

crashreporter showed loginwindow crashing.

Solution: Remove users keychain file!!!!!
Tried all the other things first though - you know: remove user preferences, delete user Caches
delete System/Caches and System/Library/Caches

This seems to have been a problem that nobody else has identified - may be unique to this box.
Was set up by using the import/migration from a powerpc based unit during system set up.


Perhaps this should go on macfixit or macintouch or apple proper.

deepdan

"This act of worship is called `deepdan', and the entire lake is illuminated" by candles.
So that could be why I can't get deepdan username on some systems like yahoo.

deepdan started as a name for me in forums back in the mid 80's to early 90's.
At the time I was considered a deep (air) diver.
Now the trimix community dives much deeper but I keep deepdan out of amusement.
I still prefer that 27-55m range though.
Which is where some of the best diving locally is.

viplus

Why do scuba tanks fail viplus?
Passed in 2001 failed in 2007
Chances are the tanks sat around and probably had no more than 10-20 fills.

Then again, what do I care? my one failed and was replaced (for a fee) ages ago with one that doesn't need viplus.

expire on mammoth

for a in $(ls /home) ; do echo $a; chage -l $a | grep 2007 ; done

And then change the end date of some of them using
usermod -e 2008-02-20 ttngu35

distribute_passwd+group+shadow+gshadow

Why press "i" during mammoth boot up?

Why Oh Why?

redhat 9 system - swap partition on /dev/sda1 is commented out in /etc/fstab.

After major power fail, boot fails unless i is pressed for Interactive startup.

It hangs after enabling local filesystem quotas ...OK.
Which should have 'enabling swap space' as the next line showing on the console in a successful boot sequence.

So: is it related to having no swap partition/file?
Is it something else entirely?
sun cobalt lx50