Somewhere out there!

I’ve found The Unofficial Video Card List very useful over the last couple months when examining different video card options.

Been meaning to put together another discussion about personal-google, but haven’t found the time to collect my ideas. Dowser is something I think that might be very useful is the development of this:

Dowser is a research tool for the web. It clusters results from major search engines, associates words that appear in previous searches, and keeps a local cache of all the results you click on in a searchable database. It helps you keep track of what you find on the web.

Even though my Psion is doing everything I need at the moment, this PDA is still quite high on my wish list. Anyway I need to do some business development work, with PDAs and RFID or barcode scanners sometime soon.

• FirstLoox.org – Reviews
• Mobile-review.com Fujitsu Siemens Pocket LOOX 720 the third Pocket PC with VGA display
• Mobile-review.com Review of the PDA Fujitsu Siemens Pocket LOOX 720

Firstloox also has a nice comparison of the recently release VGA PDAs. The ASUS models also look nice.

Following up on the ATI post, here is a decent HOWTO for Debian and nVidia.

I’ve been thinking about a new video card. Ran across the follow link which will be useful if I get an ATI card: ATI Linux driver packages for Debian. Although this combined with this and a AMD64 shuttle is top of my list at the moment.

Passive cooling is also an option for sound reduction.

Still considering which CRM product to use. Although it seems there is really only three good choices in the LAMP/OSS world.

SugarCRM has released a new 2.0 version. This time round there is some difference between the OSS and professional versions. Here is a useful review of this new version. One of its major new features is a Calender plug-in. There is a quotes modules in the professional edition. However, the main feature missing from the OSS version which the Pro version has is decent ACLs.

SugarCRM also has a plug-in to Outlook. Given how easy it is to development plugins to Thunderbird/Firefox it would be nice to see something like this for Sunbird whenever it gets a extension option.

Being purely OSS driven XRMS does not have such clear cut version releases. There is some comparison here of XRMS to Sales Force, although the comments can apply to any consideration. XRMS also has a calender plug-in, although it seems to be still under littler more development.

Dark Horse CRM has released a new 2.9 version and changed it’s name to Centric CRM. Seems to have a more open OSS license now, although its hard to tell if the user number is restricted like the previous Dark Horse Free version.

In all Centric is the most mature product, although the fact it is JRE oriented makes its difficult to maintain and develop. XRMS seems development pretty rapid, although its hard to tell as the online demo is obviously not updated as much as the its commercial competitors due lack of developer time.

I suspect I’ll finally get the time to development something in the next month. So I’ll be putting these products though some testing.

One unfortunately thing, is that none of them seem to have a good work flow management system. Although I think Centric is close to something. Plus for neither has a good system for tracking internal tickets/jobs associated with other work flows related to the business. It would be nice to integrate this, at least on a simple scale.

New version of thunderbird has been released.

It has some really cool new features:

• Message Grouping like Outlook.
• Virtual Folders like Evolution.

Also when you are installing this, have a look at this extension minimizetotray. You can combine that with these tips for speeding load times.

Found a link to DHTML Lemmings at Slashback: Echo, Lunchbox, Questions.

Damn that’s cool.

I’ve started reading ebooks on my Psion 5MX and sometimes like SE P800.

After downloading some stories in lit format from Fictionwise I converted to mobipocket format by first using Convert LIT and changing them to OEBF. Then with Mobipocket I created some I could read on my Psion 5MX.

I must say its very cool being able to open my Psion at exact the right page.

Some other useful ebook resources at this site.

Couple Python Cookbook useful recipes:

• passwd-file-compatible ($1$) MD5 crypt
• A very simple session handling example