Re: [ilugd] free alternatives to blackberry

2007-08-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
Kevin Muller wrote: I am about to buy a blackberry for my hutch postpaid connection. I was just wondering if there are free alternatives to blackberry.. i was told I've been using a Nokia E61 with a remote IMAP server for email when on the road, and it does work fine. Since its IMAP you get

Re: [ilugd] free alternatives to blackberry

2007-08-08 Thread PJ
Kevin Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: die !), and additionnaly that model has no camera (I always dreamt about being able to take photos with my mobile !), and no keyboard (i mean, there is only a virtual keyboard). Any other suggestions ? Maybe the Motorola A1200?

Re: [ilugd] free alternatives to blackberry

2007-08-08 Thread Ankur Rohatgi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08-08-07 10:35 AM, Kevin Muller wrote: I am about to buy a blackberry for my hutch postpaid connection. I was just wondering if there are free alternatives to blackberry.. i was told that some companies have made similar phones working with

Re: [ilugd] free alternatives to blackberry

2007-08-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi Ankur, Ankur Rohatgi wrote: I switched to a Nokia e90 communicator recently and unfortunately while it supports IMAP-IDLE, its not too good doing it. So i had to bite the bullet and get the blackberry connect software on my e90. Which i think is still better than getting a blackberry

Re: [ilugd] free alternatives to blackberry

2007-08-08 Thread Ankur Rohatgi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08-08-07 3:00 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: isnt network access cost these days low enough to not need to really worry about IMAP-IDLE really ? Hi Karan, I agree, especially with Airtel offering ONLY 1 unmetered GPRS plan. The e90 however had

Re: [ilugd] [X posted Possibly OT] Thin clients

2007-08-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 06-Aug-07, at 7:40 PM, Sudev Barar wrote: That said I find that the device has voltage range of 110~250 so in over a year not a single power supply is blown, this is without any UPS etc. neither is any moving part involved so you can say bye bye to AMC. Second form factor. Out of the way

Re: [ilugd] free alternatives to blackberry

2007-08-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 08-Aug-07, at 11:12 AM, Kevin Muller wrote: Thanks. I already knew that one, but the thing is that the product is not yet commercialised (I need something urgently, my mobile is about to die !), and additionnaly that model has no camera (I always dreamt about being able to take photos

[ilugd] GPLv3 project using Apache v2 library

2007-08-08 Thread आशीष Ashish
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I wanted to know, is it OK to use a library licensed under Apache version 2 license, in a GNU GPL version 3 project, as mentioned in [1], that Apache License, version 2.0 is compatible with GNU GPL. The library is going to be statically

Re: [ilugd] backing up large weekly data

2007-08-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 07-Aug-07, at 2:10 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: ah see, this is it. a) tut! tut! kenneth, the event is no longer called freedel. it is called freed.in. freed.in is not a 'north event' it is a nation-wide event, with participation from across india and even beyond our borders. frankly i would

Re: [ilugd] backing up large weekly data

2007-08-08 Thread Roshan
--- Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: frankly i would be happier if it remained a 'north event'. The strength of the foss movement in India is in the regions. There is never going to be an all-india foss movement/event. I feel that in each region one or more regional events come up

Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network

2007-08-08 Thread Anand Shankar
On 7/18/07, Sudev Barar wrote: On 16/07/07, vivek khurana wrote: --- Anand Shankar wrote: Looking for a cool, snap to setup with defaults, fast to finish solution for cloning disks over network: Have a look at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ . Might solve our problem. Anand Did you

Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network

2007-08-08 Thread Anand Shankar
Intentionally separated the mail for one more issue. We received the PCs in two lots, Batch-A plain vanilla FreeDOS on 160GB disks, so installing WinXP and Linux and ghosting it was simple. Batch-B same make and hardware, but with WinXP preinstalled. For Batch-B we have resized the Windows

Re: [ilugd] free alternatives to blackberry

2007-08-08 Thread Anupam Jain
On 8/8/07, PJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: die !), and additionnaly that model has no camera (I always dreamt about being able to take photos with my mobile !), and no keyboard (i mean, there is only a virtual keyboard). Any other suggestions ?