Author: Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper

Just to answer my own question, sort of, I’ve found this. which turns out to be very useful. It’s not quite as automatic as I would like, but it seems to work. In case the page is moved/removed/whatever, I’ll paste some of it here… Assumptions – that you know how to log in to CPanel – that you know how to use Outlook, or know how to configure your Email client based on my descriptions of using Outlook, to add an IMAP account – for these examples, the LunarPages account name is lpaccount and password is lppassword ; your domain name will be mydomain.com ; I’ll do my best to keep those colors used throughout this text to highlight where Read more…

After a good couple of days of research, I’ve decided to take a chance on vortexhost.com. Unfortunately, I could not find any feedback on the webhost-reviewing sites about them, which doesn’t help put my mind at ease. But in the end, the really good comments I’ve read in vortexhost.com’s forums, combined with the really quick and professional replies to the e-mails I’ve sent Justin Reel (the admin of vortexhost) won me over to at least give them a try. They offer a 14-day money-back period, so here’s to hoping that I won’t need to see if I can get my money back. This is the first time that I’ve ever wanted to leave my e-mail on my webhost. Previous to Read more…

So, I’m tired of having things sort of work and sort of not sometimes with regards to my web hosting company and e-mail. In researching for webhosts, I’ve found some interesting comments from others, most notably that most people start off with web hosts searching for the best price (like me–currently using hachour.net for their really cheap prices), and then after becoming frustrated with the lousy service and support and unprofessionalism, become willing to pay money to not have to deal with it. That’s me. If you know me, then you know that I am currently in the running for the top 10 cheapest individuals in the world. However, I am now willing to pay (as little as possible) for Read more…

I realize most won’t care about this, but it’s an encouragement to me nonetheless. Adriaan has kindly accepted my new memofile conduit into kpilot’s CVS repository!! =:) I need to fix it up some as soon as I get a chance and make it kde-compliant for translations, etc., and I still need to get my hand-drawn UML diagrams into a tool and into CVS to go with the code, so those are the next 2 things on my todo-list. Speaking of UML tools…. Umbrello does a very nice job of reverse-engineering my C++ classes, but it does a lousy job with drawing the diagrams. For methods that call other methods internally (you know, like just about every method in the Read more…

Wow, been lax lately on keeping this up to date. My kpilot memofile conduit has been released upon an unsuspecting world. And as of yet, I’ve only heard back from Adriaan about it. =:/ Guess I was hoping for someone else (other than me) to actually care about it. I guess I’ll get tons of feedback as soon as Adriaan includes it in kpilot proper and people have translation problems. =:/ DOH! I just realized that I only send my announcement to kde-pim, and not also kdepim-users. Now rectifying that. Also, the camera that we got all excited about getting from Office Max on Black Friday has turned out to be less than the best camera in the world. We Read more…

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 reached a point in my conduit where the code needed to be designed/architected, not just thrown in, so I took a break from coding for a day and looked at design. I used umbrello (kde’s UML tool), and it does a fairly nice job. My only complaint is that it doesn’t do live round trip code syncing/generation, but I due to the fact that Read more…

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 to get a sneak peek at the deals before they came out. =:) But, now that they have come out, and I’ve spent a couple of hours looking through the advertisements that landed in my driveway, cleverly disguised as the morning newspaper, I think it’s all kind of silly. That’s not to say that we of the Kasper clan won’t be venturing out tomorrow morning Read more…

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 message pane selected and up/down moved between messages, or you had the message preview pane selected and up/down scrolled the message. This makes kmail tons more user-friendly, IMO!! Nice thinking, kmail guys!! Also, the fact that you can configure your keyboard shortcuts in KMail (in ANY KDE application) is WAY more user-friendly than Gnome’s model which doesn’t let you do this without becoming root, searching Read more…