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Comment on Syncing your Zimbra contacts to your iPhone with Funambol by David

David — Thu, 12 May 2011 05:23:33 +0000

Hi all, Am desperate to get my contacts synchronised with my Iphone3 and Zimbra. I am not an advanced tech by any means but able to get things done as required. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to actually set all this up based on my workplace install;

Ubuntu 10.10
Zimbra ( the free edition – my boss didn’t want to spend the money on the network edition)

Thks
David from Oz

Comment on Zimbra web: Language = English, Time format = 24 hour by How I change time format - Zimbra :: Forums

How I change time format - Zimbra :: Forums — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:47:16 +0000

[...] an old thread, but still appears in search. So, easy solution found here: Zimbra web: Language = English, Time format = 24 hour | Bart Verwilst a.k.a Bort :: Blog By default, when using English as your Zimbra webclient language, all time notations (in your [...]

Comment on Syncing your Zimbra contacts to your iPhone with Funambol by Roland

Roland — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:11:40 +0000

made a wiki for this:

http://wiki.breedveld.net/index.php/Sync_Zimbra_and_iPhone_with_Funambol

Comment on Syncing your Zimbra contacts to your iPhone with Funambol by Susan

Susan — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:24:01 +0000

Anyone know how to get Funambol to sync email addresses with the iPhone 4? Works great except that!

Comment on One symlink to rule them all: /lib64 by Oops

Oops — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:56:04 +0000

Here is a trickier case: I’m not root, and just removed /lib64. I tried:

/lib/ld-2.11.1.so /usr/bin/sudo
sudo: must be setuid root

Comment on Netbeans freeze when committing to Subversion -> workaround/fix by John Page

John Page — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:56:58 +0000

Thanks for a much-needed fix.

Comment on Netbeans freeze when committing to Subversion -> workaround/fix by Me

Me — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:23:07 +0000

Cool,
many thanks. Took me the bigger part of the day…
Machiel

Comment on Belgian energy prices: Nuon vs Electrabel by Alyssa Thompson

Alyssa Thompson — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:04:53 +0000

Gas prices these days are just getting higher, i think the government should focus more on alternative energy..~’

Comment on Antialiased fonts in Netbeans 6.7+ ( Linux ) by Bart Verwilst

Bart Verwilst — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:54:27 +0000

It’s not only SVN support that i found to be lacking.. Rightclicking a source file exposes around 30 items on the menu for example, while Netbeans generally ( for me ) feels a lot cleaner..

Comment on Antialiased fonts in Netbeans 6.7+ ( Linux ) by Johan Van den Neste

Johan Van den Neste — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:27:18 +0000

WhatEhat about subversive for eclipse? It is a drag to install, but works quite well. I can get you the failsafe instructions if you wish.

Comment on Google chrome and desktop integration by Koen Vereeken

Koen Vereeken — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:32:50 +0000

By the way .. they do have GTK theme support now in their browser

Comment on Google chrome and desktop integration by Koen Vereeken

Koen Vereeken — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:36:31 +0000

I agree, it’s an improvement for the Linux browsing experience I know integration with the window manager is better, etc etc, but you have to admit the window layout of Chrome (and Steam) looks more neat than the standard layout does.. Maybe one day GTK will ‘reinvent’ the Google window layout

Comment on Dell Mini 9 by groeten

groeten — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:43:00 +0000

Beauty? It’s a piece of crap. The touch pad is horrible, as in unusable and you need to use a mouse. Kind of defeats the purpose right there. It’s way too slow for XP, linux is actually usable, were it not for the crappy touchpad. Of course it incorporates all the other crappiness that makes dell laptops so bad. But those tend to conveniently appear once the warranty has expired.

You get what you pay for and with dell this certainly is true.

Netbooks are just another fad that will pass. Too big to be a convenient pocket device, too small to be usable as a real laptop. In other words, pretty much pointless.

Comment on Belgian energy prices: Nuon vs Electrabel by Kalyan K

Kalyan K — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:12:09 +0000

Thanks for this. I had been having too many issues with Electrabel and I paid about 3000 euros for Gas and Electricity for 1 year for a 1 bed room apratment. Can any one imagine? Its nuts….!

Finally I chose Nuon because it seems cheaper. Thanks for the posting.

Comment on Zimbra web: Language = English, Time format = 24 hour by Portshot

Portshot — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:30:04 +0000

Thanks very much for this tip, changing to English – UK. I’m in Canada and learned time in Québec in 24h. In English Canada, they use AM/PM. Really bugged me that I couldn’t change the time format in Zimbra. This works good.

Comment on Active-Passive bonding on Solaris 10 by implicate_order

implicate_order — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:16:26 +0000

perhaps a little bit of “googling” would give you your answers and saved you some time.

But here goes:

1) IPMP is not Bonding (in the strictest sense), since IPMP only does Active/Passive High Availability with your NICs
2) Link aggregation is what you would consider bonding.

The two are very different beasts.
IPMP is done to provide FT across disparate switches.
Aggregation (and infact any teaming/bonding/aggregation) cannot be done across disparate switches. All members of the aggregation have to be on the same switch.

The “bond” groups you set up in the /etc/hostname.xxx files were not really bonds but IPMP FT (Fault Tolerance) groups.

IPMP works in several ways. The simplest is link-detection mode where it works at the datalink layer.

When you do that, you will see the “no test address configured” message in /var/adm/messages

You could set up two aggregated nics and then IPMP the two to set up switch disparity. The process would be exactly as you did with your /etc/hostname.e1000gx files, except the filenames would be /etc/hostname.aggr1 etc.

Comment on Mounting Samba on Linux: smbfs vs cifs by Sérgio

Sérgio — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:22:00 +0000

CIFS works fine to mount windows9x ?

Comment on Zabbix 1.6.1 for Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 by Tristan Rhodes

Tristan Rhodes — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:36:32 +0000

Bart,

Thanks for your great work in making Zabbix packages, and getting them into Ubuntu releases!

Just in case you haven’t been watching, Zabbix 1.6.4 is out now.

Thanks,

Tristan

Comment on Firefox 3 SSL certificate warnings.. confusing? by Mauricio

Mauricio — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:15:45 +0000

Well, at this time you can find Addons to disable this functionality on Firefox, however I don’t recommend it.

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1326622,00.html

Yes it’s so frustrating and I think that firefox should change the message appearance, the current looks like a fatal error!

Comment on Active-Passive bonding on Solaris 10 by Rahul

Rahul — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:55:56 +0000

Can any one tell me what entry i have to make in “/etc/hosts” file for “group bond0″ and “group bond1″ Please

Thanks

Comment on Telenet speed upgrades by De Schepper Victor

De Schepper Victor — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:15:39 +0000

Waarom hoor ik niets op mijn aangetekend schrijven sinds januari al 2 maal aangetekend geschreven??????

Comment on Zabbix 1.6.1 for Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 by Bart Verwilst

Bart Verwilst — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:59:40 +0000

No prob No, I will wait for 1.6.3 to hit the streets, which will be very soon now! Also, I’ve managed to push my changes upstream into Debian and Ubuntu, so I will base 1.6.3 on the latest debian/ubuntu release debs from now on.

Comment on Zabbix 1.6.1 for Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 by Arve

Arve — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:54:11 +0000

Hi, and thank you for the repo. Will you upgrade det Zabbix to version 1.6.2 soon?

Comment on Zabbix 1.6.1 for Centos 4.x by Tim

Tim — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:02:13 +0000

Wow. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for to get my RHEL and CentOS servers properly connected to my Zabbix 1.6 monitoring server. Can you provide step-by-step directions to get those patches applied?

Comment on One symlink to rule them all: /lib64 by Bart Verwilst

Bart Verwilst — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:13:27 +0000

Actually i tried LD_LIBRARY_PATH first, but that didn’t work… Having /bin/sh statically linked should be the job of the distro imo

Comment on One symlink to rule them all: /lib64 by Philip Paeps

Philip Paeps — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:32:43 +0000

You could probably have used LD_LIBRARY_PATH too… But there is a reason I always have /bin/sh linked statically.

Comment on Native 64bit Flash on Ubuntu 8.10 x86_64 by Anthony Hildoer

Anthony Hildoer — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:11:35 +0000

I automated the process of installing flash 32bit and 64bit in Ubuntu Desktop. It even works with pulseaudio.

Automated Flash Install:
http://www.hildoersystems.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76:automated-install-of-flash-10-for-ubuntu-desktop-32bit-and-64bit&catid=39:multimedia&Itemid=59

Comment on iPhone: The good, the bad, and the ugly. by Koen Vereeken

Koen Vereeken — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:43:11 +0000

Another downside is that the SMS application doesn’t support delivery reports..
You do have an application that supports sending files via bluetooth, but you have to pay for it

By the way, fix your OpenID authenticator

Comment on Apple lock-in by Bart Verwilst

Bart Verwilst — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:58:58 +0000

This is not a testing ground

Comment on Apple lock-in by Koen Vereeken

Koen Vereeken — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:49:20 +0000

just testing my openID…

Comment on Apple lock-in by Bart Verwilst

Bart Verwilst — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:01:36 +0000

@Koen: actually i didnt spend any money on it Got it from Netlog

Comment on Apple lock-in by Koen Vereeken

Koen Vereeken — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:09:33 +0000

Bart: since you already spent too much money on your iPhone, why not purchase the Zimbra Mobile plugin. This will enable you to use your iPhone with Zimbra.

Comment on Syncing your Zimbra contacts to your iPhone with Funambol by Bart Verwilst

Bart Verwilst — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:45:32 +0000

The piece connecting Funambol server to Zimbra is this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/zimbrafunambol/ . You can then use the IPhone Funambol app ( available from the App Store ) to sync your contacts to/from that Funambol server. The howto that made the server part work can be found here: http://zimbrafunambol.wiki.sourceforge.net/installation-guide

Comment on Syncing your Zimbra contacts to your iPhone with Funambol by bajo

bajo — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:37:41 +0000

Can you tell me how this setup works.

I assume one Funambol connector connects the Funambol server to the Zimbra server and another one connects the Iphone to the Funambol server.

Is this in the right direction ??

Comment on Apple lock-in by Bart Verwilst

Bart Verwilst — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:48:03 +0000

Kris, for the rest the IPhone really is a nice device! While my preference would probably go out to the G1 for the more open state, I must say I generally love the IPhone.

Comment on Apple lock-in by Kris Buytaert

Kris Buytaert — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:32:10 +0000

Hahaaaa.. told ya so

Comment on Zabbix 1.6.1 for Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 by Bart Verwilst

Bart Verwilst — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:09:33 +0000

An Apache Alias to the Zabbix directly is indeed everything that you need to get going Jimi. As for giovani, the documentation on http://www.zabbix.com can explain the installation steps better than i can

Comment on Zabbix 1.6.1 for Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 by giovani

giovani — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:56:40 +0000

Hi, i am new to linux but neet to install a monitoring system. can i have a guide on how to install zabbix 1.6.1 on ubuntu 8.04?

Thank you very much

Comment on Syncing your Zimbra contacts to your iPhone with Funambol by Bart Verwilst

Bart Verwilst — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:13:57 +0000

@Scott: Yes it does

Comment on Syncing your Zimbra contacts to your iPhone with Funambol by Scott

Scott — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:44:10 +0000

Does it sync the photo associated with the contact to/from Zimbra too?

Comment on Native 64bit Flash on Ubuntu 8.10 x86_64 by Paul

Paul — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:08:53 +0000

Thank you.

Comment on Active-Passive bonding on Solaris 10 by sorted78

sorted78 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:35:58 +0000

bollocks article! aggregation and IPMP are two completely different things.

Comment on Syncing your Zimbra contacts to your iPhone with Funambol by Stijn

Stijn — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:12:37 +0000

it’s iPhone Bart, not Iphone

Comment on Zabbix 1.6.1 for Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 by Jimi

Jimi — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:12:01 +0000

Hey, so i got zabbix both server and agent running per your packages and i thank you very much. Is there an RTFM to where to go from here? Do i need to add an apache entry so i can hit ip/zabbix?

Comment on Native 64bit Flash on Ubuntu 8.10 x86_64 by Serge van Ginderachter

Serge van Ginderachter — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:11:46 +0000

I actually implemented this through the Debian alternative system, which enables me to skip the uninstallation of those other packages. I also keep using nspluginwrapper for the acroread package.

Comment on Zimbra web: Language = English, Time format = 24 hour by Bart Verwilst

Bart Verwilst — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:21:17 +0000

What version of Zimbra are you using?

Comment on Zimbra web: Language = English, Time format = 24 hour by Guy

Guy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:07:30 +0000

Doesn’t work for me

Comment on Zimbra web: Language = English, Time format = 24 hour by Bart Verwilst

Bart Verwilst — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:43:45 +0000

How’s that?

Comment on Zimbra web: Language = English, Time format = 24 hour by Philip Paeps

Philip Paeps — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:43:13 +0000

That sounds like a bug…

Comment on Choosing development languages by Bart Verwilst

Bart Verwilst — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:55:34 +0000

Andy, it’s not really the “theme”, but the overall look and feel of the widgets themselves, no matter how they are themed. For some reason, I always think of KDE/Qt apps as a form with some widgets thrown on it, while a Gnome/GTK app is really one solid interface… hard to explain

Actually Peter Leemans suggested Vala, and that seemed to be pretty nice too, Gnome-ish and C#-ish, just what i was looking for