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  1. Re:I use my PDA by Baloo+Ursidae · · Score: 1 · on Where is the Killer Calendar?

    What about KDE PIM and it's KPilot component? Works wonders for me...

  2. Re:a reliable alternative to microsoft outlook by pierpa · · Score: 1 · on Novell Releasing Hula and 200,000+ Lines of Code

    your question is widely answered at this link.

    to summarize... yes: there are at least two alternatives: opengroupware + cyrus and suse's opengroupware (cyrus + openldap + comfire). for client side: kontact (korganizer) is desktop ready. it is difficult to enable (and has many flaws at my advice) for workgroup environment, but is a very good for everyday scheduling, overall if integrated with palm (via kpilot).

  3. My Favorite Third Party App for Palm, kpilot. by twitter · · Score: 2, Informative · on Limitations in Current Breed of Palm Handhelds?
    Here and now, Kpilot rocks. It syncs very well with Kontact and will move your notes for you. It moves all your attached notes too, such as appointment information and todo notes. I don't use it for email, but it also syncs with kmail. KDE is also working on a cell phone application so that all your database will belong to you. I've already used my old handspring to recover ancient contacts from a backup of previous syncs with Lookout. Syncing with Lookout had become a chronic pain two years ago and the Kpilot, Kontact combination is far superior to that old junk. You even needed to use a serial cradle for Windows 2000, yuck. KDE is indeed the Kool Desktop Environment.

    Way cool things are coming with GPE, the Gnome Palmtop Environment. It's not quite ready for prime time on OpenZaurus yet, but it's beautiful and has the best handwriting recognition I've seen. Syncing software for that platform is in the works and already exists, I think, for Evolution. The further away from non free you get, the better things are.

  4. Re:Innovation by ocelotbob · · Score: 1 · on Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead
    It's been available in KDE for a couple years, too. Hasn't been ported over to KDE 3 yet, but word around the campfire is that there are a couple people working on porting it over in time for KDE 3.2.

    Of course, if KDE's not your cup of tea, you can always go for just the core libs, and Xstroke. No recompiling required, and it works with any X app. I'm sure similar functionality is available in Windows as well. You just gotta look.

  5. Re:Clie and Linux by hacker · · Score: 4, Informative · on Review of Sony Clie TG-50
    This isn't needed anymore.

    Actually, this has absolutely nothing to do with pilot-link. It has to do with the way USB on any hardware is handled. You have to make the physical electrical connection between Palm handheld and Cradle before the hardware (your computer) can see the device, map a driver against the device, and allow you to communicate across it.

    That being said, the pilot-link maintainer (hey, that's me!) has fixed this in a pseudo-fashion by adding a sleep() loop in the latest CVS code that I can see, which means you can launch pilot-link first, or hit the HotSync button on your Palm/Cradle first, and it will "Just Work".

    KDE's Kpilot works like this, Gnome has a similar application too.

    Both of these tools, built on top of the libraries provided by pilot-link, provide their own daemon process; kpilotDaemon from KPilot in KDE-land, and gnome-pilot (gpilotd) in GNOME-land, which polls for device creation in /proc, and binds accordingly.

    Other than being built upon pilot-link, these applications have nothing whatsoever to do with the pilot-link codebase. This means, for those who don't run GNOME or KDE (a growing percentage from what I understand), this is not an option, so they use pilot-link and J-Pilot (also built upon libraries provided by pilot-link).

  6. Re:Great! by numatrix · · Score: 1 · on Palm OS Emulator Ported to Sharp Zaurus

    Umm, no. Wrong zaurus. That's the japanese zaurus; when most people refer to zaurus generically, they're referring to the SL-5500 (or the developers version which is the 5000, or the german versions of those; stick a (d) at the end of the product) There ~is~ a gameboy for the zaurus though. Just had the wrong link.

  7. Re:not blacklists, whitelists by LinuxHam · · Score: 2 · on Spam Increases Make Things Tough For Companies

    Check it out here.

    Got it from O'Reilly's "Stopping Spam". It's a Procmail recipe that composes a reply and then looks for the new To: address in a locally-stored whitelist. If the address is found, the email is accepted. Otherwise, it returns an email with instructions. The sender just has to resend one email with the password in the subject line.

    Totally self-maintaining. Spammers don't get replies and can't add themselves to your list. Even on the off-chance they did, no spammer is going to put "flarkelmarkle" in their subject line just so that one freaking person can get their crap.

  8. Re:A Linux-PDA is useless for me without... by tmuka · · Score: 1 · on Linux PDA Part Deux

    I am happy to report that I DO CURRENTLY sync my palm IIIxe with the Kab (KDE address book) using kpilot provided with KDE since version 2 i believe. It is very functionaland adaptable. The documentation even caters to those wishing to create thier own conduits and interfaces.

    I also use pilot-link for very convenient command line interaction with my palm.

    I could be biased, but i these linux tools for palm transfers much more powerful than their windows counterparts!

  9. Re:Slashdot to thank by Troodon · · Score: 1 · on Mouse Gestures in Mozilla

    Ah well, if you recognise the power of the Dark Side? and convert to KDE you can use Kgesture to control/open/close/etc apps via DCOP.

  10. Re:Gesture Recognition by Troodon · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Mouse Gestures in Mozilla

    ...Only Konquerer and IE left to go...

    Courtesy of Mike Pilone and DCOP, KDE has had this for a couple of months: Gesture Recognition for KDE. Not just Konquerer you can control either. The project is here.