I owned a RIM 950 for at least three years and haven't stopped looking for a similar gadget since mine broke.
All I want is a device that allows me to (i) thumb-type short (but frequent) notes and (ii) allows me to somehow transfer those notes into a PC (preferably using Linux). I'm not really looking for a high-end, camera-&-color-display-included type cell phone: just a simple, portable, rugged gadget in which I can thumb-type and then copy that stuff onto my laptop (rs232, usb, ir, etc all being ok).
Is there anything like this out there (other than aging psions)?
I don't think I am alone when I say that IMHO near-perfect, generalized MS Office compatibility would be the biggest boost Linux could receive in the desktop front.
Everybody knows what IBM has done to help Linux succeed in the server market, from multi-million ad campaigns to huge contributions on the development effort. Could IBM consider developing a standardized library and API to MS Office file handling, which would enable any Linux app to transparently read/write those formats? This is the sort of thing which unpaid hackers have problems developing (witness the uncoordinated efforts of GNOME, OpenOffice and KDE coders), but would be near-trivial to a professional dev team such as IBM's.
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I owned a RIM 950 for at least three years and haven't stopped looking for a similar gadget since mine broke. All I want is a device that allows me to (i) thumb-type short (but frequent) notes and (ii) allows me to somehow transfer those notes into a PC (preferably using Linux). I'm not really looking for a high-end, camera-&-color-display-included type cell phone: just a simple, portable, rugged gadget in which I can thumb-type and then copy that stuff onto my laptop (rs232, usb, ir, etc all being ok). Is there anything like this out there (other than aging psions)?
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keeps copies of all deleted, renamed, truncated or overwritten files
works with all applications on the system
file system independent
versioning (!): all versions of a file are kept in the trash directory
very configurable
I don't think I am alone when I say that IMHO near-perfect, generalized MS Office compatibility would be the biggest boost Linux could receive in the desktop front. Everybody knows what IBM has done to help Linux succeed in the server market, from multi-million ad campaigns to huge contributions on the development effort. Could IBM consider developing a standardized library and API to MS Office file handling, which would enable any Linux app to transparently read/write those formats? This is the sort of thing which unpaid hackers have problems developing (witness the uncoordinated efforts of GNOME, OpenOffice and KDE coders), but would be near-trivial to a professional dev team such as IBM's.