Ramón's questions

I originally started an Ubuntu forums post about this but I never received any responses. Anyways, I've got my Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos folders pointing to Samba shares on my server via CIFS volumes mounted in my fstab file. The problem is I end up with duplicate entries in the Places menu.

I can remove the bookmarks for those folders but then the menu looks ugly as the mounted volumes are still displayed and I can't find a way change their icons in the menu. I've circled the offending menu entries in the screenshot. How can I hide them?

I recently installed ssmtp on my server to enable e-mail notifications for a redmine install. While I was verifying everything was setup correctly I got an e-mail notification about a failed cron job. This turned out to be really helpful and I never would have noticed it had I not set this up.

It's been a few days since and I haven't received any other e-mails from the system. By default, what mail gets sent to root?

I've created a simple indicator in python using the appindicator module. However, it always shows up to the left of the existing indicators. Is there some way to control what position the indicators appears in?

For example, it currently displays like so...

my indicator, volume indicator, messaging indicator

but I want...

volume indicator, messaging indicator, my indicator

How can I get two clocks in my Gnome panel with one being in my local time and the other being in UTC?

Whenever I type sudo apt-get remove and then press the Tab key for auto-completion I get the following message:

grep-status: /var/lib/dpkg/status:15945: expected a colon
.

I don't see anything especially strange at line 15945 in the status file. It's a dot character in the description field of a mono library package and inserting a colon did not help. Removing the line containing the dot did not work either. Overwriting the file with status-old resulted in the same message.

Is there some way to rebuild the status file?