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Linux PIMs and synchronisation
by Chris G 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

I have recently bought a Nokia E71 smartphone, mainly for its full keyboard and built in GPS, I'm looking for ways to connect it to my Linux box. Getting the data across isn't actually too difficult, I have it working with Funambol already but my problem is that there doesn't seem to be a simple and straightforward desktop (or web) application that lets me access (and edit) my contacts and calendar. It *feels* like Linux is going the Windows way of humungeous applications that do everything. There are lots of "groupware" applications that will talk to Funambol but they're all huge with web site maintenance, E-Mail and lots of other things that I most definitely don't want (as part of my PIM anyway). There seem to be no simple desktop PIMs that will talk to Funambol. The nearest things to what I want are Evolution (which needs some faffing about to get it to work, it's not "out of the box) and the Mozilla Sunbird and Lightning calendars (but what do I do about contacts?). The demo application that comes with Funambol just about works but it is a *bit* clunky, however it's about the nearest to what I want. Does anyone have any better suggestions for this whole thing? As it is it seems to me that Funambol is a bit OTT, there's about 200Mb of it! All I really want is a PIM that will talk SyncMl direct to my Nokia, I don't really need a server (Funambol) that allows me to synchronise with Outlook, Groupware systems, and everything else as well as my Nokia. -- Chris Green

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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : McGintys, Northgate Street
by samwise 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Third Monday" ALUG Ipswich Social Meeting is back next week (Monday 15th September) at 20:00: P J McGinty & Sons 15 Northgate Street Ipswich Suffolk IP1 3BY Tel: 01473 251 515 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP1+3BY WWW: http://pjmcginty.moonfruit.com/ McGintys pub is in the centre of Ipswich, not far from our old haunt - The Milestone. It's directly opposite the town's central library and has a reputation for good Irish beer. All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Hopefully, it shouldn't be too hard to find the pack, look for those huddled around a laptop! Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. Hope to see you there, Peter. ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Reindeer
by Richard Lewis 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

Anthony, have you been there? Or just heard? I went home via the Reindeer on Friday (5/9). The lights were on, but the door was shut and there was a crude notice saying something like closed until further notice. I'll try and have another look tonight. And then post an announcement a.s.a.p. regarding Thursday's meeting. We met at the Alexandra Tavern last month. It was nice, but may be a bit out of the way. City centre pubs are probably better. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis JID: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +-------------------------------------------------------+ |Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.| |http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html | +-------------------------------------------------------+

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[ALUG Announce] 2nd Thurs Pub Meet 11th Sep
by Richard Lewis 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- Dear ALUG, The monthly second Thursday social meeting of ALUG will take place on * Thursday 11th September * at The Reindeer (10 Dereham Road, Norwich, NR2 4AY) which has now re-opened! I took a short detour on my way home last night to have a look. The door was open, the lights were on, there was someone at the bar, and I saw a man sitting at the window with a pint of beer. Therefore I'm confident that we'll arrive on Thursday to find an open pub. I intend to be there from about 20:00. Others may be there earlier. On a personal note, I'm moving to London soon and this is likely to be my last pub meet for a while. :'( We look forward to seeing you there. Cheers, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis JID: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +-------------------------------------------------------+ |Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.| |http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html | +-------------------------------------------------------+ ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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What's happened to GnomeFiles?
by Torben Stones 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

Is it just my connection at work or has something happened to www.gnomefiles.org? When I type that address I get sent to www.osnews.com. Does anyone know what has happened? Torben -- You've got a lot of choices in your life. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.

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Calendar/contacts list recommendations wanted
by Chris G 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

I'm looking for a simple Calendar and Contacts list for Gnome (doesn't have to be a Gnome application really, I run fvwm) which can do syncMl synchronisation. There are a couple of full-blown productivity suites that do what I want but they're too big really, I don't want E-Mail and/or groupware. Any suggestions? I have looked using Google and on freshmeat.net but can't really find a *simple* utility. The best so far seem to be:- eGroupWare - PHP/web based, does *way* more than I need Simple Groupware - similar to eGroupWare ScheduleWorld - closer to what I want but seems to expect me to use their server I don't actually need a web based solution but it's OK if it is web based. I'd rather like command line access to the addresses at least so I can get E-Mail addresses into mutt. (I guess if it's mySql based it would be easy enough to write a script to do this) -- Chris Green

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2 laptops, 2 wireless LAN I/Fs, and ... ?
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hi Folks, Given two laptops, each equipped with a wireless LAN interface, it seems to me that each should be able to find the other on a "point-to-point" basis (i.e. wireless equivalent of a CAT cable), without the need for each to connect to a wireless hub. But I'm not seeing how to achieve this! With both I/Fs switched on, neither seems to be aware of the other (when I start up a connection setup "wizard", and ask it to search for a network, though capable of detecting my next-door neghbour's BT Home Hub). Any suggestions? (And I have no experience whatever of using wireless networking, so keep it gentle ... )! With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 08-Sep-08 Time: 13:34:45 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Can anyone help?
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

Hi Folks, Machine: Advent 8117 laptop Problem: While lifting up the keyboard to access the second RAM slot to install more RAM, I accidentally popped off two of the keys (adjacent). They are: (a) "Prt Sc"/"SysRq" (b) "Pause"/"Break" I'm not anticipating problems popping them back on again, but I can't remember which way round they should go! The top row of keys is: Esc F1 F2 F3 ... F11 F12 XXX YYY NumLock ScrollLock and one of XXX or YYY is (a) above, the other is (b). Does anyone know which way round it should be? With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 05-Sep-08 Time: 16:12:33 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Xorg.conf or nVidia problem
by paul 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Hi all I'b be grateful for help with the following problem When my new install of Ubuntu 8.04 boots the screen changes resolution instead of sticking with the 1152x768 I'd like it to. I'm using the GeForce4 MX 4000 & a single monitor ADI GD-790. The Splash screen appears normally but the Nvidia logo & log-in screens appears magnified - what should be only the upper left corner covers the whole screen! Luckily the log-in box is still visible so I log-in and the screen returns to the correct 1152x768. my Xorg.conf file is below. the lines starting ##### i've removed which improves things a little. # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@vernadsky) Thu Jun 5 09:26:53 UTC 2008 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "0" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "ADI GD-790T" HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce4 MX 4000" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" option "Composite" "Enabled" ##### Option "TwinView" "0" ##### Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0" Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0; 1152x768 +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection cheers paul Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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New computer.
by Torben Stones 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

Well last week my hard disk gave up the ghost. This is the first disk I've had that has actually died, the other two just started to produce loads of bad sectors and the SMART monitor gave me warning. But there was nothing with this drive, lucky I just backup most of the important stuff. Anyway enough of my rambling. I could just buy a new hard disk and get every thing up and running, but I just might use this as an excus to update my computer (It's 6-7 years old), and get something more up-to-date and hopefully more efficient. Finally my question. Has anyone got any experiance of the EffcientPC.co.uk guys? I was looking at the Flexible range that they do, and was wondering if I should go with the Camulus or Isis systems. The only difference is one is Intel/nVidia and the other is AMD/ATI (respectively) any thoughts? And finaly has AMD open sourced the ATI graphics drivers yet? I am right in thinking that they committed to that when the bought ATI, am I not? Anyway thanks for any thoughts. Torb -- You've got a lot of choices in your life. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.

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