Dear Warner,
Merry Christmas!
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Warner White wrote:
The usb ports are working under Intrepid. And I just discovered I don't
have any serial ports! I guess they've gone the way of floppies.
I actually like serial ports and serial port adaptors because I know how
to test them (short pins 2&3 with paperclip and run minicom :^)
You sync under Ibex with the serial port? Or with VBox?
The Sync stuff is built into Gnome...
I haven't run Outlook for years.
Neither have I!!!
I've very happily been using Palm Desktop and would like to keep using
it or an equivalent if I can, but my attempts with Evolution and gPilot
haven't worked, and I haven't been able to download kPilot successfully.
hmmm...
Sometimes I wonder why I go through all of this. I could just run MS
stuff and stop fussing with it all, but I think the answer is that I
don't like MS and I love puzzles. I want to solve this one.
welcome to my world...
With respect to Ubuntu--it's getting there. It's getting close to
mainstream, but as long as it takes this kind of fussing it's going to
remain a geek's thing. And maybe we should all wish it would. It's not
worth the predators' time right now, but once it is, along will come the
viruses and trojan horses, etc.
Architecture, Provenance, and Ten Thousand eyes on the code can make the
bugs pretty shallow...
Regards,
Flint
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