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Saturday, January 26, 2002
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 Saturday, January 26, 2002
started 1/28/2002; 1:41:35 AM - last post 1/30/2002; 12:18:54 PM
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Doc Searls - Saturday, January 26, 2002 
1/28/2002; 5:41:35 AM (reads: 5356, responses: 7)
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Value Subtraction 
| | I see the new Palm Desktop has eliminated banners. You can't create an event that runs from one date to a later one. Only daily events. Kinda sucks. |
| | Is there a personal info manager (calendar, contact list) that's native to OS X, syncs with a Palm device and imports existing Palm data? Other than Outlook/Entourage? Thanks. |
Industrial grade Linux
Blech support
| | So I've got Palm Desktop 4.0b77 working on OS X 10.1.2 here. It successfully imported all my data (no small task, it's not small), except for some item colors that conflicted with the new defaults. |
| | But it won't sync. I have USB and PalmConnect enabled (never did figure out how to sync with IrDA). Far as I can tell the conduit settings are all cool. But when I hit the sync button on the cradle, a box telling me the process is starting appears for a moment, then disappears. The a Transport Monitor box that says "Could not complete your request. Hotsync is already in Progress. Try again when it is finished." The handheld says " the connection ... has been lost. Please check your setup and try again. I don't see HotSync or anything like it among the running processes. |
| | While Mac OS X is not yet supported by Palm, testing has shown that you can perform a HotSync operation if the Classic environment in Mac OS X is running and you are using the PalmConnect USB Kit (the PalmConnect Serial Kit and the Universal USB cradle do not currently work in the Classic environment, but they do work in Mac OS 9.x). Please note, that the Classic environment must first be running to perform a HotSync operation (tip: set the Mac OS X preferences to launch Classic at startup). |
| | I have Classic running. I'm not using that kit. I have a Handspring kit. The support system at Handspring seems to believe OS X doesn't exist. |
| | PalmInfoCenter seems to indicate that it works for some Handsprings, including one with IrDA. I'd try that if I knew how to initiate a sync from the PDA. Anyboy know how? Any other ideas? |
| | [Later: I restarted (punching uptime back to zero, which I hate), and now it's to be working. It's syncing right now, without the Classic Environment running at all. Funny: Conduit Manager shows in a terminal window under the top command, while it doesn't show up at all in Process Manager. RadioUserland doesn't either. Wonder what's up with that?] |
Whacksing poetic
From the Department of Self-Terminating Obsessions
| | Got a spam for "Extreme Adult Animal Fetish" this morning. |
| | Yes, we're there now. And we didn't even need a handbasket. |
Rock on
| | So get this. I'm reading, for about the 10th time, the book Basin and Range, by John McPhee. You can't be a geology freak and not read John McPhee, or appreciate the characters he writes about. |
| | Along with the mountains and valleys of Nevada, Basin & Range is about the geologist Kenneth Deffeyes. The book was written more than twenty years ago, so I've been wondering what's up these days with Ken Deffeyes. He's a professor emeritus of geosciences at Princeton, but how emeritus is he? Like, is he still alive? |
| | The book is published by Princeton University Press, but ironically unpromoted on Deffeyes own page. |
Involuntary archaeology
| | We had huge rains here today, the first of the year. After inspecting the new drainage system and feeling peased that everything was holding up under the onslaught, I headed inside. But just before I opened the door I remembered the boxes I had stored under the back deck — a pile of those clear storage container boxes with the red door lids on top. Very easy to move and stack. Most of our surplus belongings are in about 50 of these things, which cost about $5 each at Home Depot. Very waterproof on the bottom, but not on the top. Most of them are stored in proper locations. But not the ones under the deck. |
| | Those were the extra boxes that I parked under a plastic sheet about six months ago and forgot about. |
| | Well, it was a mess. Water had pooled in the plastic on the lids of these things, and some of them weren't covered at all. When I opened them up, I found about half of them were 1/4 full of water, and most of them had been wet before. |
| | So I spent about 2 hours pulling the mess out through the mud, and throwing away most of the contents, which were fat magazines from the height of the dotcom boom, saved for purely archival reasons. The recycling bin now contains about 300 pounds of soaked magazines in advanced stages of moldy decomposition. I smell like a corpse. Most were slabs of puffy white and black mold. About as ugly and messy as you can imagine. All in a dark crawl space on mud under a drippy ceiling (the back deck). |
| | But the rain stopped tonight. The boy and I sat out on the roof in a rocking chair, watched the clouds scud away under a full moon, and fell asleep in bliss. |
| | Now I'm back in the house, paying bills and catching up on my bookkeeping. Life could be worse. |
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Brent Simmons - Re: Saturday, January 26, 2002
1/28/2002; 11:59:51 PM (reads: 493, responses: 4)
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Conduit Manager shows in a terminal window under the top command, while it doesn't show up at all in Process Manager. RadioUserland doesn't either. Wonder what's up with that?
It's a bug in ProcessViewer.
Background:
There are two formats for apps on OS X: Mach-O and CFM.
Cocoa apps are Mach-O.
Carbon apps may be Mach-O apps, but if they're ports from OS 8/9 they're probably CFM apps. (For example -- BBEdit and MSIE are also CFM apps.)
The bug is that, instead of displaying the name of the app as top does, ProcessViewer displays LaunchCFMApp for each CFM app.
It's annoying, but then I usually use top or ps rather than ProcessViewer, so it doesn't annoy me that much.
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Glenn Fleishman - Re: Palm and OS X support
1/29/2002; 12:27:01 AM (reads: 554, responses: 2)
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Palm Desktop is the only thing that does Palm sync on OS X because Palm writes the API. They are apparently extremely late. I have had conversations with many developers who express thinnly veiled scorn and frustration at having to wait for Palm to release a new API (in which Palm and Apple are working together and Palm has devoted few resources given its current financial status).
So we'll see Entourage X (Office v. X) support as soon as Palm Inc. gets it right. Which means it'll probably work in Palm Desktop before Entourage since they are ostensibly working and testing in concert.
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Doc Searls - Re: Saturday, January 26, 2002
1/29/2002; 12:28:46 AM (reads: 504, responses: 0)
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Great answer.
Plus, ProcessViewer seems always to take up most of its own cycles. I think Heisenberg said something about that one...
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Doc Searls - Re: Palm and OS X support
1/29/2002; 12:31:01 AM (reads: 631, responses: 0)
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Somebody at Macworld told me Apple gave Palm a bunch of money for some reason. If it's true, maybe this is it.
Meanwhile, sure sucks.
The Palm Desktop calendar is a fraction as useful as Now Up To Date used to be.
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Chris Janton - Re: Palm and OS X support
1/29/2002; 2:18:03 PM (reads: 488, responses: 0)
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>I see the new Palm Desktop has eliminated banners. You can't create an event that >runs from one date to a later one. Only daily events. Kinda sucks.
Click on New Event. Give it a title. Click on the box "No Time". Click on "Repeat Event". Enter a date for the event to end. Click OK. There's now a "banner" across the top of each day.
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Nicholas Riley - Re: Palm and OS X support
1/30/2002; 12:04:27 AM (reads: 699, responses: 0)
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Personal Organizer (formerly
Consultant) has OS X sync support now. I haven't tried it, for
reasons mentioned below. You can download the conduit here.
Now Up-to-Date, on the other hand, has not improved, and IMO has
become worse under Power On's management. All the old useless modal
dialog boxes have remained, and the new features aren't particularly
useful. The Now Up-to-Date Palm sync is horribly broken, especially
if you have a laptop and switch time zones. It requires that you
change your sync type so the Mac overwrites the Palm every time you
change time zones, otherwise you end up with every single event
duplicated. And even if you don't do that, duplicate events and
contacts pop up all over the place.
And finally, Now Up-to-Date and Contact don't sync the contents of the
Palm "memo pad" at all, because there's no equivalent. You have to
use Palm Desktop for it. It's really a mess, and you can tell that the
sync support has just been added in a haphazard fashion.
Claris Organizer, which became Palm Desktop, has such a terrific
interface, but it's prone to corruption with Palm syncing and
repeating events. I hope that bug is fixed in the OS X version, which
I can't switch to because I use so many other conduits that haven't
been ported (AvantGo, PasswordWallet, Pocket Quicken, etc.)
Remember when Mac software used to be better than the competition? I
sometimes wonder why I bother.
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dave rogers - Re: Palm and OS X support
1/30/2002; 4:18:54 PM (reads: 587, responses: 0)
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Doc, you must have bad Palm karma or something. I had no problem syncing my Visor with the new PD for X. I subsequently did have a problem following a restart where PD didn't load the data file. I manually opened the old one and did a re-sync and everything's been fine since. Had to clean up some duplicate entries, but that was it.
Chris mentioned how to do banners, so they're not gone. Plus, you can drag a banner or any calendar item to the desktop and it becomes a vCal thingamabob that you can send along to someone (I'm not sure why you'd do this, but it seems pretty cool). So that's a value added, though I don't know about how much.
If you double-click one of those vCal things, it appears in your calendar.
I've used PD since it was Claris Organizer, and it's sufficient for most of my organizing needs. I like it.
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