On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:01:25PM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote:
On Mon, November 6, 2006 1:31 pm, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:30:21PM +1100, david wrote:
I'm going to be /really/ annoying and ask whether
you really need a pda phone :-).
most ppl I know seem to
Fyi,
Adam Bogacki.
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On 11/6/06, Alexander Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The one advantage of having the 2 together is you can dial straight from your
contact list.
This is pretty much the only reason to put the two together, but don't
forget VoIP. You'll need WiFi on the PDA so you can call out with VoIP
and no
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:01:25PM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote:
I'm going to be /really/ annoying and ask whether
you really need a pda phone :-).
most ppl I know seem to think , yes'
The one advantage of having the 2 together is you can dial straight from
your contact list. for example
On Mon, November 6, 2006 7:09 pm, Alexander Samad wrote:
The one advantage of having the 2 together is you can dial straight from
your contact list. for example open calendar, view appointment, look at
invitees and open contact details and then ring, instead of having to
transfer phone
Hi all,
Im a little worried, and a little excited about the Novell, microsoft deal.
Worried because Microsoft tend to want to screw everyone they come in
contact with that is not Microsoft, and excited that they will be
working on some mutually benificial projects, like openoffice and Xen.
2006/11/6, tuxta2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi all,
Im a little worried, and a little excited about the Novell, microsoft
deal.
Microsoft has done this many times before, so often that Redmond has a name
for the technique: embrace, extend and exterminate. And yet people keep
doing these deals.
On Mon, November 6, 2006 8:48 pm, Ben wrote:
The other point is that getting a phone/PDA combo isn't the efficiency
helper it might seem to be, (which I'd forgotten about, having been rid of
the things for a while now).
-snip-
I have been a long time PDA user, largely for reasons you
On 11/6/06, tuxta2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you people think?
I would be very interested to hear some opinions.
This comment seems to be realistic, except for the finishing off bit.
I think Microsoft has much more to gain by keeping Linux around and
selling IP licenses for it.
Sorry Ben I don't know anything that has the behavior described - perhaps
you can check www.gnomefiles.org ?
Good Luck :)
James
On 11/6/06, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/6/06, James Dumay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/6/06, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking for a Gnome
What's the PDA for? Email, calendar, contacts, notes, photos, games,
browser, various apps, music player, ssh client ..
It'll very much depend upon what the requirement is.
Mary.
Voytek Eymont wrote:
On Mon, November 6, 2006 8:48 pm, Ben wrote:
The other point is that getting a
On Mon, November 6, 2006 11:36 pm, Mary Cudmore wrote:
What's the PDA for? Email, calendar, contacts, notes, photos, games,
browser, various apps, music player, ssh client ..
all of the above, plus a few more, to replace notebook
It'll very much depend upon what the requirement is.
yes.
On 11/6/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been a long time PDA user, largely for reasons you mentioned, every
time I was considering new hardware, that exactly why I always ended up
going for PDA-only
I wish I'd gone down that path myself. I've wasted $2K messing about
with
On Tue, November 7, 2006 12:19 am, Ben wrote:
On 11/6/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wish I'd gone down that path myself. I've wasted $2K messing about
with smartphones.
thanks, Ben, I feel $2k richer now...
One other option is to get a decent PDA with CF or USB functionality
quote who=Voytek Eymont
lastly, as much as I like Palm, sadly, I feel PalmOS is heading for dead
end, now that Palm is making wince Treos.
ALP is looking good. I think WinCE was inevitable with Palm and PalmSource
parting ways... But now PalmSource is part of ACCESS.
- Jeff
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:50:57PM +1100, Ben wrote:
On 11/6/06, tuxta2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you people think?
I would be very interested to hear some opinions.
This comment seems to be realistic, except for the finishing off bit.
I think Microsoft has much more to gain by
david wrote:
Excuse my ignorance... but
I've been asked to get a PDA phone for my wife, about which I know
zilch.
Can anyone suggest a retailer in or near the Sydney CBD that actually
doesn't faint when I say the word linux, or alternatively, is there a
model that is just so good
I'll add my 2c - I bought an o2 Atom PDA/Phone about 6 months ago, and
it's a decision I'm quite happy with, despite it being a Windows Mobile
device. I honestly have no idea how I lived without it before.
http://www.seeo2.com/product/XdaAtomExec/template/Product.vm
The Atom is a very small,
Acutally ben I found something almost exactly fits what you described
http://forgeftp.novell.com//greent/homepage/index.html
On 11/6/06, James Dumay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry Ben I don't know anything that has the behavior described - perhaps
you can check www.gnomefiles.org ?
Good Luck
Hey,
WAY off topic but did anyone get a copy of SQL Server 2005 SP2 before
Microsoft pulled it from their website?
I need it for testing on Vista.
~James
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On 11/7/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, November 6, 2006 8:10 pm, Ryan Verner wrote:
I'll add my 2c - I bought an o2 Atom PDA/Phone about 6 months ago, and
it's a decision I'm quite happy with, despite it being a Windows Mobile
device. I honestly have no idea how I lived
Sadly, having an algorithm coded in open source doesn't protect one from the
patent lawyers. For instance LAME (despite it's acronym) is a GPL
implementation of a MP3 encoder. Hence basically anyone can use this code,
under the terms of the GPL. However any MP3 implementation contains
algorithms
The Novell/MS should really mean nothing to developers who respect
intellectual property of Microsoft - Microsoft and Novell under the deal
(and any Novell customer) are able to share each others respective
intellectual property and allow external developers to extend and contribute
to those
David,
I can tell what not to get...
I bought a HP Ipaq 6515 at one point in time - it was a brilliant
concept - converged PDA, phone, GPS, etc..
The problem with it and the prior model that I upgraded from was the
incessant need to reset it at times nearly every hour. IT wouldn't run
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:17:15AM +1100, Martin Visser wrote:
snip...
So my understanding of the agreements is that Microsoft are basically saying
to Novell - You full well know that some of the code in SuSE Linux
infringes on our IP. (From elsewhere I read that this would possibly in
On 2006.11.07 10:17 Martin Visser wrote:
Sadly, having an algorithm coded in open source doesn't
protect one from the patent lawyers. For instance LAME
(despite it's acronym) is a GPL implementation of a MP3
encoder. Hence basically anyone can use this code, under
the terms of the GPL. However
On 5 Nov 2006, Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a Dell work station (about 3 years old) with external speakers
and Ubuntu 6.06 installed. The sound through the speakers is very low.
If I turn the volume up to FULL on the screen AND on the the speakers, I
can hear a music CD at a
I am looking for some web based software to run a poll or more of a
survey with multiple questions eg
Q1 Do you like Pizza? yes/no
Q2 What toppings would you like in the future?
Q3 Choose your favourite crust. (i) thin (ii) thick (iii) cheesy
I have found the
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:39 +1100, Robert Thorsby wrote:
I was always under the impression that mathematics cannot be patented.
If the algorithm is mathematics then the patent is invalid (even if it
has been granted and has patent numbers etc etc). Therefore, clause 7
of the GPL is not
Hi guys,
I've installed rsync server for windows and can open a cygwin command prompt
and ssh into the box where I want to grab files from.
From the linux box I can run rsync and it'll happily go through the
following, but not transmit files.
rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress
On 07/11/06, Michael Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I get the linux box to send files to the windows one? I need to
back
What do the ssh server logs have to say about this attempt?
Also I don't see in your rsync command line that you tell it to use ssh to
connect - it probably tries
On 11/7/06, James Dumay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Acutally ben I found something almost exactly fits what you described
http://forgeftp.novell.com//greent/homepage/index.html
That looks great, thanks for searching.
I won't be using it though. I've installed over 150MB of dependencies
and now
whoa hold on... the only reason Mono executables have a .exe extension is
because it is defined in the ecma-international standard for the Common
Runtime Language.
And it can't execute viruses. Besides, if your using Ubuntu, you have all
the dependencies you need.
What's so god aweful about
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 10:06 +1100, Penedo wrote:
I've never tried this but recently I found dpsyco in my Edge repository -
here is a pointer to the Ubuntu universe copy:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/admin/dpsyco
there is a slightly newer package in Debian.
I'd be glad to hear from
Well - you try to login as user Administrator on the Linux box, and you
say you don't have such a user so how do you expect this to work?
I actually didn't specify a username, it defaulted to Administrator. I was
thinking this was something that cygwin was doing. I did try specifying
root, but
On 11/7/06, James Dumay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Besides, if your using Ubuntu, you have all
the dependencies you need.
150MB needed to be installed (I'm just following the readme) and now
nand is spitting out an error because I don't have vte-sharp-2.0.pc
What's so god aweful about .exe?
Ben wrote:
On 11/7/06, James Dumay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Besides, if your using Ubuntu, you have all
the dependencies you need.
150MB needed to be installed (I'm just following the readme) and now
nand is spitting out an error because I don't have vte-sharp-2.0.pc
What's so god aweful
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:29 +1100, James Dumay wrote:
Novell are not handing the keys out to anyones castles, as GPL'd and
similarly licensed software will stay open and free
Yes, but as you point out,
You can be sued now and you could be sued before the deal if you
infringe on someones
Try installing libvte2.0-cil and libvte2.0-cil
Mono libraries in debian based operating systems end with a -cil postfix.
James
On 11/7/06, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/7/06, James Dumay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Besides, if your using Ubuntu, you have all
the dependencies you need.
On 11/7/06, David Gillies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about saving yourself the pain of compiling it and just download the
30Kb deb for ubuntu?
Because that would be too easy :-)
Working fine now...
just need to work out how to set config options...
Ben
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Hi, I've recovered a partition to the point where GRUB recognises its
fs (FAT), restored the MBR, and written GRUB to it. However, trying to
boot it via LILO or GRUB ends up with what AbiWord describes as U+00C7
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA - something I can't Google by. Can
anyone suggest
On 07/11/06, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What package did you use to install the ssh server onto Windows
Server? I am thinking of grabbing something similar to enable sshd on
a 2003 server. Just trying to determine the best way to do it.
cygwin, open ssh etc.
I used cygwin.
The YaKuake page on wikipedia suggested Tilda as a GTK+ alternative...
http://tilda.sourceforge.net/
I'm going to give it a go later, maybe you'll have better luck with it than
greent.
HTH,
Rog
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On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:09:34PM +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote:
I would like to know how to create a Debian package that consists of one
file, not generated by source. I have tried using a Makefile that just
copies files and running it with CheckInstall, but have failed to get it
to recognise
Adam Bogacki wrote:
Hi, I've recovered a partition to the point where GRUB recognises its
fs (FAT), restored the MBR, and written GRUB to it. However, trying to
boot it via LILO or GRUB ends up with what AbiWord describes as U+00C7
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA - something I can't Google
On 07/11/06, Jeremy Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can modify the version number in ./DEBIAN/control, but can't seem to
build any further from there afterwards.
To quote the dpkg-repack manual:
The package can be built from this temporary directory by running dpkg
--build, passing it the
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:29:21AM +1100, James Dumay wrote:
The Novell/MS should really mean nothing to developers who respect
intellectual property of Microsoft - Microsoft and Novell under the deal
(and any Novell customer) are able to share each others respective
intellectual property and
Jeremy Visser wrote:
This technique works with what I'm doing to the point of the version
numbers. I have managed to get dpkg-repack to build into a folder, where
I can modify the version number in ./DEBIAN/control, but can't seem to
build any further from there afterwards.
I tried sudo
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:29:21 +1100, David Gillies uttered
This will only build the binary packages, no source stuff will be
spat out
before you run this, make sure that package-name/debian/control is
executable
I suspect you mean package-name/debian/rules here. debian/control
On 11/7/06, James Purser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:39 +1100, Robert Thorsby wrote:
I was always under the impression that mathematics cannot be patented.
If the algorithm is mathematics then the patent is invalid (even if it
has been granted and has patent numbers etc
Steve Kowalik wrote:
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:29:21 +1100, David Gillies uttered
This will only build the binary packages, no source stuff will be
spat out
before you run this, make sure that package-name/debian/control is
executable
I suspect you mean package-name/debian/rules here.
I hope I'm not just wasting your time with something too obvious to say,
but the U+00C7 should be what you get when you use the character map
accessory and click on a latin capital c cedilla.
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On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 14:21 +1100, Penedo wrote:
On 07/11/06, Jeremy Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can modify the version number in ./DEBIAN/control, but can't seem to
build any further from there afterwards.
To quote the dpkg-repack manual:
The package can be built from this
As a budding software developer, I find this copyright and intellectual property
topic increasingly tragic. Where does it end? Who doesn't copy ideas? Didn't
Microsoft develop Windows 3.1 by borrowing the GUI idea from Apple ( and
subsequently squashing them). Now they want to protect themselves
Does any one know whether anyone from SLUG or LINUX Australia will be
attending the Making Links Conference.
The two day conference will address ICT capacity, infrastructure and
community-building potential for the not-for-profit sector.
http://www.makinglinks.org.au/
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For the life of me I can't find (and I swear I've googled this before to
no avail) where to set the time/date format in Thunberbird.
Does anyone know how to do this? It seems to completely ignore the
locale settings of my system (en_AU) and go for
As I'm aware,
Pia Waugh, Vice President of Linux Australia, will be in attendance.
Regards,
Mitch Seaton
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Phill O'Flynn wrote:
As a budding software developer, I find this copyright and
intellectual property
topic increasingly tragic. Where does it end? Who doesn't copy ideas?
Didn't
Microsoft develop Windows 3.1 by borrowing the GUI idea from Apple ( and
subsequently squashing them). Now
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