Further to this.
The Compiz bug where titlebars go AWOL still seems to be present, but I’ve narrowed it down some. It only happens with maximised windows. The reason I only noticed it with Firefox for a while is that Firefox is the one thing I typically maximise.
Otherwise, things continue to work well. I’ve finally got my T|X syncing to Evolution in a reasonable manner, which is something I was never able to get working on Feisty. Not that I particularly like Evolution as a PIM.
My one criticism of Palm support on Ubuntu right now would be that there’s no easy way to install things to a Palm via the GUI. The only way I can find to do it is by running gpilot-install-file -l file.pdb to queue the install and then do a sync. It’d be lovely if the GPilot kit included a simple GUI that can be associated with PDB/PRC files.
In other news I’m about to start trialling Ubuntu LTS as a replacement for FreeBSD at work. We use FreeBSD for network-infrastructure type jobs, like firewalls and SOCKS gateways. Ubuntu is a whole lot easier to keep updated so I’m going to fool around with ucarp on it under VMware and see how that goes.
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One of the lines the ALP is running at the moment is “a vote for Howard is a vote for Costello”. As if that’s supposed to dissuade people from voting Liberal.
A better line would be “a vote for Howard is a vote for Howard, because you can’t trust the guy to keep his word on this”.
If I thought I could actually trust John Howard to stand down in eighteen months I’d be voting Liberal, because frankly Peter Costello’s social policy agenda is much more in line with traditional social-liberal/left views than Kevin Rudd’s.
But Howard can’t be trusted to keep his word on anything. If the Liberals win, in eighteen months it’ll be “the party still wants me”, “it was a non-core promise”, “I’ve got a lot to contribute”, and so on. The only way John Howard is leaving the Lodge is in a pine box, electorally or literally.
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I really really like my Palm T|X. It’s starting to look like it’ll be a perfectly good media player as well as doing all the nice PDA stuff, and I’ve been slowly getting hooked on using it to dial my phone via Bluetooth.
Which leads to the obvious question: why not just be done with it and buy a Treo when my phone contract comes up?
Easy. Because Palm don’t actually make the Treo I’d like to buy.
What I want is a T|X with a phone built in. No keypad, no keys at all apart from the navigation keys down the bottom. Maybe stick a jog-dial on the side if the OS can be made to use it sensibly. The critical thing is the display. The T|X is simply the best PDA I’ve ever owned — and I’ve owned a few — because it doesn’t waste screen space on a fixed writing area nor does it compromise by having a keyboard.
I will almost certainly not be getting an iPhone when those come out next year. I
But a T|X with a phone? Golden.
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