Could not acquire the session semaphore

Error 409: Could not acquire the session semaphore in time. Please be patient.

This is an issue with the login when WebSphere Portal does not have Internet access. The “retrieving data” error message indicates that the portlets are not able to access the Internet, which is true since portal does not have access to the Internet. [...]

Proxy Management in Firefox

Are you really bugged by the need to keep changing your browser proxy setting to access blocked sites ?FoxyProxy is the answer to all your proxy woes.
If you are using a proxy proxy.com to access all sites running on port 7777 then do the following :
1. Add proxy.com as proxy
2. Then for that proxy add [...]

Thunderbird config to refresh all imap folders

Under Edit ->Preferences -> Advanced -> Config Editor set the following parameter
user_pref(“mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new”, true);
And if you don’t want the sending bar that pops up set the following parameter
user_pref(“mailnews.show_send_progress”, false);