Why move now? Everyone's been hearing about the dual-core PowerPC chips for months, PS 3 and Xbox 180 will be running 3-core versions of this chip, so why go Intel?
This is common practice in the US and parts of Europe. "Pro-bono" cases raise the profile of the Lawyers and Law firms and don't cost them very much money (can be extremely expensive in lost time and therefore lost profits, however).
Money issues aside, their most important aspect is that they're for the public good. Quite a few environmental issues are/were defended pro-bono, because greenies can't often get the millions of dollars needed to fight against a corporate giant like Shell or BP.
It's the perfect complement to outsourcing to India. Lots of highly-skilled (well, adequately skilled) graduates hit the marked, average earnings go down because of high unemployment. People cost less. Lots of companies have to have some people abroad and some Local. This way both options are dirt cheap.
So what you're saying is that Apple users can't use Firefox now, because it's potentially unsafe. We can't use Safari either, because of the recent bugs announced. Um, Explorer 5.5? No, that's got bugs that are years old. So what do we do? Konqueror?
The review is excellent quality. Quite a bit different from the "comprehensive" Solaris 10 review on ZDNet. One lousy page of "but it's not Linux" complaints does not a comprehensive review make.
"Microsoft's options for continuing their current level of revenue are basically nil."
That's not actually true - businesses were forced into a new model three years ago where they pay every year regarless of whether they upgrade or not. I remember my IT department getting very upset at either signing an agreement nicknamed "Licensing 5.0" or needing a huge budget increase to cover all new software purchases from M$ in subsequent years.
And once it was popular, what would happen? What happened with Samba? MS started introducing changes disguised as bug fixes specifically to break the competition. That they broke their own customers' sites didn't seem to bother them very much. Do you really want to keep playing catch-up with a company who believes that a software monopoly is best for the world?
I'm sorry? Only the execs rally [sic] care about syncing their PDSAs? Well, that's just not true. I use my Palm everywhere - calendar, addressbook, notes, even text files (now:). And I'm as far from being an exec as can be while still being employed. Why shouldn't it sync with Outlook/exchange? Why schedule a meeting with someone only to fail to turn up because there's no way other than manual entry to get that data into your palm? Why not add a new email address to your palm just by clicking a button on your mail client and syncing your palm?
And as for the execs comment: who overrules what the techs recommen... sorry, decides which products and projects to go with in big and small business? And what do they inevitably do? Go with the gadgets.
I tried it. It allows you to add the files into the dialog box, then refuses to sync them across complaining that they're not owned by any application. Can this be a difference in the hotsync applications in Mac and PC?
Thanks for all those who responded. While I have not investigated everything so far, what I have seen is:
SiED: Great tool, wonderful. Text file support at last.
Plucker: Has potential, I haven't done anything but the basics as yet.
Documents to go: Included with the T3, thanks to all those who suggested it, but I really don't want to convert my text files to word (or excel) documents just to be able to view them. SiED good. Word bad. That said, my resume is great on here:)
CardExport: There is another product on the market aimed at macs called Missing Sync. I downloaded a trial of CardExport - it says it doesn't support Macs yet, and with good reason - once you run it, you have to reset your palm before you can sync again. I'm not paying for beta software. Missing Sync is aimed specifically at Macs. Won't mount your palm on anything but. No way to demo it. Next.
Filez: I can't really see the point, as I want to get the data onto the palm in the first place.
Application Launchers: Some people have raved about these, but invariably the descriptions on the web sites are light on specifics. "Loads of features" does not actually tell me how they are better or why I should invest in them.
kMoria: Oh my god where did all my time go!
Mac OS X is based on BSD unix. I can do anything I want in terms of terminals, accessing the command line, remote access using ssh, bash shell, cron regular events, even open applications using the command line. I can run X11 and use gnome or kde. And of course the all-important - I finally have a computer that can run Myst and dselect...
Us Mac-using Palm-using computer illiterate Unix SAs will bow to your superior knowledge. I'll use a PocketPC connected to a Windows XP desktop and a Windows 2003 server and I'll see how many times a week I can get all three to crash at the same time.
Actually, I'm a Mac user:)
Last I checked (2 months or 2 minutes ago) pilot-link support for OS X was "just around the corner" and had been since September. I used it at work on Linux and loved it, but it doesn't work on OS X yet.
Everything you've listed works fine or only on linux or is a wrapper for pilot-link.
I'm looking through my (Mac) for this and I can't find any reference to Palm Quick Install or anything that does something similar. It doesn't appear to be a program in the Palm directory or an option in the Palm desktop app.
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Ah, but sneaking up and installing a root kit would get you fired... in Australia.
Why move now? Everyone's been hearing about the dual-core PowerPC chips for months, PS 3 and Xbox 180 will be running 3-core versions of this chip, so why go Intel?
Solaris dumps a copy of memory into swap space (if there's enough room in swap) and then saves it to a core file on bootup. Amazing what real OS's do.
This is common practice in the US and parts of Europe. "Pro-bono" cases raise the profile of the Lawyers and Law firms and don't cost them very much money (can be extremely expensive in lost time and therefore lost profits, however). Money issues aside, their most important aspect is that they're for the public good. Quite a few environmental issues are/were defended pro-bono, because greenies can't often get the millions of dollars needed to fight against a corporate giant like Shell or BP.
It's the perfect complement to outsourcing to India. Lots of highly-skilled (well, adequately skilled) graduates hit the marked, average earnings go down because of high unemployment. People cost less. Lots of companies have to have some people abroad and some Local. This way both options are dirt cheap.
So what you're saying is that Apple users can't use Firefox now, because it's potentially unsafe. We can't use Safari either, because of the recent bugs announced. Um, Explorer 5.5? No, that's got bugs that are years old. So what do we do? Konqueror?
Is that because you can't copy what you can't see?
Why is /. taking so long to load? Has it been slashdotted?
The review is excellent quality. Quite a bit different from the "comprehensive" Solaris 10 review on ZDNet. One lousy page of "but it's not Linux" complaints does not a comprehensive review make.
"Microsoft's options for continuing their current level of revenue are basically nil."
That's not actually true - businesses were forced into a new model three years ago where they pay every year regarless of whether they upgrade or not. I remember my IT department getting very upset at either signing an agreement nicknamed "Licensing 5.0" or needing a huge budget increase to cover all new software purchases from M$ in subsequent years.
I guess now it's the consumers' turn.
And once it was popular, what would happen? What happened with Samba? MS started introducing changes disguised as bug fixes specifically to break the competition. That they broke their own customers' sites didn't seem to bother them very much. Do you really want to keep playing catch-up with a company who believes that a software monopoly is best for the world?
I'm sorry? Only the execs rally [sic] care about syncing their PDSAs? Well, that's just not true. I use my Palm everywhere - calendar, addressbook, notes, even text files (now :). And I'm as far from being an exec as can be while still being employed. Why shouldn't it sync with Outlook/exchange? Why schedule a meeting with someone only to fail to turn up because there's no way other than manual entry to get that data into your palm? Why not add a new email address to your palm just by clicking a button on your mail client and syncing your palm?
And as for the execs comment: who overrules what the techs recommen... sorry, decides which products and projects to go with in big and small business? And what do they inevitably do? Go with the gadgets.
Thanks, I'm looking forward to it.
Forgot one:
Pilot-link and several others have been useful to me in the past, on Linux and Solaris, but don't work on Mac (yet).
I tried it. It allows you to add the files into the dialog box, then refuses to sync them across complaining that they're not owned by any application. Can this be a difference in the hotsync applications in Mac and PC?
Thanks for all those who responded. While I have not investigated everything so far, what I have seen is: SiED: Great tool, wonderful. Text file support at last. Plucker: Has potential, I haven't done anything but the basics as yet. Documents to go: Included with the T3, thanks to all those who suggested it, but I really don't want to convert my text files to word (or excel) documents just to be able to view them. SiED good. Word bad. That said, my resume is great on here :)
CardExport: There is another product on the market aimed at macs called Missing Sync. I downloaded a trial of CardExport - it says it doesn't support Macs yet, and with good reason - once you run it, you have to reset your palm before you can sync again. I'm not paying for beta software. Missing Sync is aimed specifically at Macs. Won't mount your palm on anything but. No way to demo it. Next.
Filez: I can't really see the point, as I want to get the data onto the palm in the first place.
Application Launchers: Some people have raved about these, but invariably the descriptions on the web sites are light on specifics. "Loads of features" does not actually tell me how they are better or why I should invest in them.
kMoria: Oh my god where did all my time go!
Mac OS X is based on BSD unix. I can do anything I want in terms of terminals, accessing the command line, remote access using ssh, bash shell, cron regular events, even open applications using the command line. I can run X11 and use gnome or kde. And of course the all-important - I finally have a computer that can run Myst and dselect...
Us Mac-using Palm-using computer illiterate Unix SAs will bow to your superior knowledge. I'll use a PocketPC connected to a Windows XP desktop and a Windows 2003 server and I'll see how many times a week I can get all three to crash at the same time.
Actually, I'm a Mac user :)
Last I checked (2 months or 2 minutes ago) pilot-link support for OS X was "just around the corner" and had been since September. I used it at work on Linux and loved it, but it doesn't work on OS X yet.
Everything you've listed works fine or only on linux or is a wrapper for pilot-link.
I'm looking through my (Mac) for this and I can't find any reference to Palm Quick Install or anything that does something similar. It doesn't appear to be a program in the Palm directory or an option in the Palm desktop app.