Zaire still won't connect

[Net Llama!]

On 07/12/03 18:36, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I don't have pilot-link. Do I need it?

I know nothing about palm pilots.  I've never owned one, and never used 
one.  I spent 3 minutes Googling and found numerous references to the 
requirement that pilot-link be installed & functional before you can access 
a palm pilot in Linux.  Of course about 1 of those three minutes was trying 
to figure out what the heck a 'Zaire' was, until i realized that you meant 
Zire.  For your edification:
http://snovae.in2p3.fr/ycopin/soft/zire.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/62164
http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/hardware.html

and last, but certainly not least, the official jpilot documentation where 
pilot-link is explicitly specified as a prerequisite:
http://www.henrikbecker.mynetcologne.de/jpilot/jpilot-manual-en-2.html#ss2.1

> I downloaded Ximian Evolution.  It won't work with the palm because I
> need some gnome tools.
> 
> Grrr....
> 
> Oh well, I will just have to not use my  palm for a few months/years
> longer. I am getting fond of pcal. I will not bother with this problem
> anymore. I have at least 30 hours of my time invested, all wasted.

Perhaps it wouldn't have been had you spent a few minutes reading the 
documentation.

> I'll skip my usual rant. Not worth it. But, its worth noting in passing
> that linux developers wrote devfs without getting any input from
> me. I would have told them to make all handhelds plug and play with
> linux before they fix something that wasn't broken. That is, if they
> are serious about getting linux on the desktop, which apparently they
> are not. I would never recommend linux to the average user because of
> shortcomings like this. This is a show stopper.

No.  Not reading documentation is the show stopper.  PEBCAK.

> It is hard not to get the impression that linux is a place where
> adolescents like to play. For example, going though the warehouse at
> Lindows, I noted that there were pages of mp3 players and cd rippers. But,
> there are only two office suites. One staroffice, which came out of a
> commercial background and was a free gift (charity) to the opensource
> movement and is a serious package. The other is koffice, the opensource
> answer to MS. I have never found Koffice useful.  Don't linux advocates
> get worried ?

Only about FUD mongers.  Some people deserve windoze.

> Bill Gates must sleep well at night.

i'm sure he does.

> 
> Joel
> 
> P.S. This wasn't the rant. I erased that.

you sure fooled me.


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