Kasperian Moving Parts

kinda like batman, but with a wife and 3 kids

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I should have known better, but I dove straight into code with my kpilot memofile conduit. To be fair, I had no clue about kpilot’s code base or classes, so it wasn’t a waste of time or anything. It was necessary, and now I have a decent understanding of how things work within kpilot. But [...]

I actually had this done 3 days ago, but forgot to say so…. My kpilot memofile conduit now copies and saves all memos from my Palm (Clie) to a selected directory as files, the same way gnome-pilot’s memofile conduit does. That is all.

Happy Thanksgiving, all in America. I wonder if anyone even thinks about what Thanksgiving was originally intended to be anymore? For many, Thanksgiving is all about getting ready for Black Friday. Heck, I can’t claim to be unaffected by this myself, honestly. =:) If anything, I was pretty caught up in the excitement of trying [...]

Woot! After a late-night hacking session (well, I must be getting older… 12-midnight is now “late-night”!!!), my KPIlot memofile conduit: – shows up in Kpilot’s config dialog – accesses the MemoDB database – lists all memos in all categories Coming along nicely…. =:) Next: understand gnome-pilot-conduits’ memofile.

I just noticed also that KMail’s next/previous message keys are Right/Left Arrow, whilst Up/Down Arrows ALWAYS scroll the message. THIS MAKES TONS OF SENSE!!! I always hated in Evolution how if you hit the Up arrow while the message list is focused, you go to the previous message. In other words, you either had the [...]

So, the Knotes conduit in Kpilot doesn’t work for me, and several others. After talking with Adriaan de Groot for a while yesterday, I’ve come to the following conclusions: Knotes is not the right application to be syncing a Palm’s memos with. It doesn’t know anything about categories, etc. KJots is close, but that’s still [...]

So, I have just come out of a self-imposed exile from KDE (you remember them, right? the team that wrote KHTML–the HTML rendering engine that Apple uses?). A while ago, a friend of mine challenged my manhood by saying that Gnome had everything I wanted if only I would get used to it. I’d been [...]

So this time, I took my little Ashleigh to the toy store to spend her gift card so graciously given her by her thoughtful Aunt and nephews (Hi Jen, Elijah, Nate!!). And… wouldn’t you know it… there sat that same, dejected, all-alone-looking instant photo booth again. So we punished it with our silliness. That is [...]

In case anyone else in this world gets this error message, having found themselves in the same position as me, wherein said individual is using a Linksys WRT54GS wireless router, has a Linux box behind it, running fetchmail from one’s house, through said Linksys router, and has purchased Linksys’s Parental Control feature to protect one’s [...]

This is the coolest thing since sliced mustard, just let me tell you!! =:) I spent more time trying to figure out how to do it than actually doing it. As it turns out, Fedora gives you a disk image for precisely this reason. It turned out like this then…. 1) Search Google for a [...]

It was and truly. It was my beautiful bride’s birthday today. So the kiddos and I surprised her with (among other things) what she wanted for her birthday… a new vacuum cleaner!!!! This to replace our classic model that we’ve been hanging on to for the last 5 years or so. You can tell it’s [...]

To borrow from the uber-classic Office Space…. =:) It was a pretty good day at work today. And it’s rather rare that I come home thinking that. Aw, come on–don’t look at me like that. You can’t possibly come home every day thinking “man, what a fantastic, wonderful, groovily delicious day it was at work [...]

Okay, I’ve wasted the last 3 hours trying to get this to work and am done with it. Here’s what I’ve found: – NetworkManager has to have the mode set to “Managed” in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, from what I saw. This conflicts with FC’s insistence on making the mode “Auto” so that I can change the channel [...]