RE: Organiser / Phone to integrate with Linux

2007-06-06 Thread Maurice Butler
Remember what maxwell smart looked like with his shoe to his ear, the combined phone organisers work about just as well. The phones are not the best phones - poor reception bulky and hard to use, the organisers are comprisied because of the phone functions and not as good as a stand alone

Re: Organiser / Phone to integrate with Linux

2007-06-06 Thread Roy Britten
I'm considering a phone / organiser combined. Any one have any recommendations? (Or should avoids) As others have suggested, a PalmOS Treo is your best bet for syncing. They are reputed to have poor battery life, though (certainly the one I have through work needs recharging daily if used more

Re: Organiser / Phone to integrate with Linux

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Hellyar
I think if you wanted an organiser/phone (smartphone) thats more or less guaranted to synch with ubuntu than a Palm Treo 650/680 would be the way to go. Palm also has newer 7xx devices. Palm's thanks to pilot-link synch pretty much all the time as long as the kernel matches the release of

Re: Organiser / Phone to integrate with Linux

2007-06-06 Thread Daryn Hanright
* Chris Hellyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think if you wanted an organiser/phone (smartphone) thats more or less guaranted to synch with ubuntu than a Palm Treo 650/680 would be the way to go. Palm also has newer 7xx devices. Palm's thanks to pilot-link synch pretty much all the time

Re: Organiser / Phone to integrate with Linux

2007-06-06 Thread Kerry Mayes
Thanks for all these replies - plenty of food for thought. I especially hear that a phone/organiser is a compromise on both sides. Main reasons for wanting to change is that I will be getting a new phone for work and my existing tungsten T is getting old and a bit flakey - the touch screen

Re: back on list

2007-06-06 Thread Reg
Roger Searle wrote: I have 3 suggestions for playing music - they are all amarok. Roger OK from the brief look at it B4 I killed it off it seemed it would have done the job if it had of worked. All I have to do now then is get it back on and working. -- Regards Reg

Re: back on list

2007-06-06 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, June 7, 2007 10:09 am, Reg wrote: Roger Searle wrote: I have 3 suggestions for playing music - they are all amarok. Roger OK from the brief look at it B4 I killed it off it seemed it would have done the job if it had of worked. All I have to do now then is get it back on and

Re: back on list

2007-06-06 Thread Reg
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, June 7, 2007 10:09 am, Reg wrote: Roger Searle wrote: I have 3 suggestions for playing music - they are all amarok. Roger OK from the brief look at it B4 I killed it off it seemed it would have done the job if it had of worked. All I have to do now

Re: back on list

2007-06-06 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, June 7, 2007 10:44 am, Reg wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, June 7, 2007 10:09 am, Reg wrote: Roger Searle wrote: I have 3 suggestions for playing music - they are all amarok. Roger OK from the brief look at it B4 I killed it off it seemed it would have done the job if it had of

Re: back on list

2007-06-06 Thread Roger Searle
Reg wrote: Roger Searle wrote: I have 3 suggestions for playing music - they are all amarok. Roger OK from the brief look at it B4 I killed it off it seemed it would have done the job if it had of worked. All I have to do now then is get it back on and working. Hi Reg, I

Re: Organiser / Phone to integrate with Linux

2007-06-06 Thread Daryn Hanright
* Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, June 7, 2007 9:56 am, Kerry Mayes wrote: I love plucker, an app that pulls down web pages and puts them into a nice readable format for the palm device. -- Nick Rout Nick, have you tried my Christchurch Portal for plucker?

Re: simple way to lose one's mind

2007-06-06 Thread Olwen Williams
I took a rudimentary look at the links and have some comments. 1) I can program but often even for the most rudimentary tasks I need to use a manual. 2) One of the first programming aptitude tests (do programming aptitude tests still exist?) I took introduced a series of very simple instructions

linux.conf.au 2008 calling for presentations

2007-06-06 Thread Brenda Wallace
--  Forwarded Message  -- == linux.conf.au 2008 Call For Presentations == linux.conf.au isn't just a Linux conference. It is a technical conference about Free Software, held annually in Australasia. We invite submissions on any Free Software related subject; from Linux and the

Re: simple way to lose one's mind

2007-06-06 Thread John Carter
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Olwen Williams wrote: I took a rudimentary look at the links and have some comments. 1) I can program but often even for the most rudimentary tasks I need to use a manual. An interview is a strange and bizarre event in ones life... I favour a person who comes with a