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Thu, 2009-07-02 20:55 — admin

Hardware

Notebook IBM

AC adapters are expensive in Switzerland.
1) They cost about 70-80.- fr. in usual shops inside Switzerland.

http://www.rabais-etudiant.ch/product_info.php/cPath/38_48/products_id/124/language/en

2) On ebay.de they can be found for (30-50.- fr) 20-30€ inclusive shipping.

http://computer.listings.ebay.de/Netzteile_Fuer-IBM_W0QQfclZ3QQfromZR11QQsacatZ79540QQsocmdZListingItemList
http://cgi.ebay.de/Notebook-Laptop-Netzteil-fuer-IBM-72W-16V-4-5A_W0QQitemZ270124440816QQihZ017QQcategoryZ79540QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

===Phone: voice over IP (voip)===

Open Source, standard-compliant, SIP number, lower rates than Paypal

ville/opérateur Tarif/min HT Tarif/min TTC (Résidants UE)*

SWITZERLAND 0.014€ (0.224 fr) 1.344fr/h 0.017€ (0.0272 fr)

SWITZERLAND GSM 0.184€ (0.29 fr) 17.6fr/h 0.220€ (0.352 fr)

filesystems (hard disk)

  • NTFS is a proprietary filesystem format on Windows XP, 2000, Vista.

There's NTFS support for Linux with full read/write features with NTFS-3G. It doesn't support access rights or compression capabilities (he can read compressed file, but not write it).

Linux

Distributions

There are many good distribution now.
- Best one: Ubuntu 7.04 it's powerful, easy to use and reliable (HH), good integration, great hardware support, community support.
- Kunbuntu http://kubuntu.com/ is based on Ubuntu and can be installed directly as is or can be upgraded from a plain Ubuntu install.

Topics

Migration from Windows to Linux

Email

Email clients I recommend are:

  • Linux: Evolution, Kmail, thunderbird
  • Windows: thunderbird, eventually Outlook (it's good, but take much space and ressources)

PIM

Goal: have any personnal information in one system and be able to synchronize it with PDA.
Suggestion: Windows: thunderbird + Outlook (for calendar and sync.). Linux: Kmail or Evolution. Sync to check.

PDA synchronization

Goal: sync PocketPC with a PIM program under Linux.
Summary: PDA and pocketpc sync with Linux work with two famous PIM programs: Evolution and Kmail. Evolution seems to sync better than Kmail. Support under Ubuntu.


NEW INFO

PIM and email

Import Outlook into Kmail:

Suggested procedure:
Source
Outlook has many format for PST file.

  • Outlook xp
  • Outlook 2003, no conversion supported a priori.

  1. Kmail has no converter for Outlook to Kmail
  2. Use Readpst (maintained in 2006). http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30390/47/readpst.1.html

Reported errors.

  1. Use Outport (maintained 2004). http://outport.sourceforge.net/index.php.
  2. Use another method

http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/29/
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html

  1. Thunderbird
    1. IMAP mailbox

  • Libpst: is no more supported (from 2002)

Thunderbird
Profile: http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup

Move profiles

Move an existing profile or restore a backed up profile

It's possible to move the location of a profile folder. This could be useful if you have a backed up profile folder somewhere on your hard drive and want to tell Thunderbird to use that as your profile. This section explains how to do this.


1. Shut down Thunderbird completely (File > Exit).
2. Move the profile folder to the desired location. For example, on Windows XP, move the profile from C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default to D:\Stuff\MyMailProfile. If you are reading these instructions because you want to restore a previously backed up profile, this step isn't necessary. Just note the current location of the profile you want to restore.
3. Open up profiles.ini in a text editor. The file is located in the application data folder for Thunderbird:
  • On Windows Vista/XP/2000, the path is %AppData%\Thunderbird * On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Thunderbird * On Linux, the path is ~/.thunderbird/
    • On Mac OS X, the path is ~/Library/Application Support/Thunderbird/

4. In profiles.ini, locate the entry for the profile you've just moved. Change the Path= line to the new location. If you are using a non-relative pathname, the direction of the slashes may be relevant (this is true for Windows XP).
5. Change IsRelative=1 to IsRelative=0.
6. Save profiles.ini and restart Thunderbird.

Method 1

Moving a Firefox or Thunderbird profile to a new location

Firefox or Thunderbird should already be installed on the computer where you are moving the profile and a profile folder and profiles.ini file will already exist in the Thunderbird or Firefox default profile path.

The official Help documentation at mozilla.org describes procedures for Thunderbird and for Firefox whereby you can move your profile to another location and then simply point Thunderbird or Firefox to it through a simple edit of the "profiles.ini" file. This is easier than Method 2, below, which requires somewhat more complex file editing. Some users have reported that the procedure sometimes does not work, however, and the failure may be caused by installed extensions and/or themes [1]. If you try this method and it doesn't work for you, see the Troubleshooting section below or try Method 2 or Method 3.


1. Create a new, empty folder in the desired profile location with the name you wish to use for the new profile, for example, D:\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\newprofile
2. Copy the entire contents of the Firefox or Thunderbird profile folder you are moving into the new profile folder you just created.
3. If you do the copy via a CD, remove the write-protection from the copied files.
4. Find the Firefox or Thunderbird profiles.ini file (it will be located in the Firefox or Thunderbird default profile folder path) and open it in a text editor.
  • (Optional) Change the "Name=" line to the name of the new profile folder you created, e.g., Name=newprofile
    • Change "IsRelative=1" to "IsRelative=0"
      • Change the "Path=" line to the actual location of the new profile folder, e.g., Path=D:\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\newprofile.

5. If you are moving a profile from its default location, the original profile folder can now be removed.
6. Open Firefox or Thunderbird, to test if the profile move was successful.

Caution: Incorrect editing of the "profiles.ini" file can cause a Firefox or Thunderbird "already running but is not responding" error if the profile cannot be found (bug 278860).

Instead of editing the "profiles.ini" file by hand after performing steps 1, 2 and 3, you could alternately use the Firefox or Thunderbird Profile Manager to create a new profile [2], using the "Choose folder" option to select the new profile folder. You can also use the Profile Manager again to delete the original profile (always use the "Don't Delete Files" option as a safety precaution when deleting profiles).

When you restart Thunderbird, go to "Tools -> Account Settings" and for each account (including Local Folders), click on "Server Settings" and verify that "Local directory" is pointed to the correct location. If it isn't, then click on the "Browse" button to fix it. You may need to exit and restart Thunderbird for these changes to take effect.


skyward@Master:/mnt/hdb2/in_transfer emails_outlook to kmail_29.05.07$ readpst -ko result_convertedfile Outlook_as30.05.07/Outlook.pst
Opening PST file and indexes...
debug_fp is NULL
ERROR: Unknown block constant - 0X47B4 for id 0x227af2
About to start processing first record...
Processing items...
Processing Folder "�l�ments supprim�s"
Processing Folder "0 Education"
debug_fp is NULL
mk_kmail_dir: Cannot change to directory .�l�ments supprim�s.directory: No such file or directory