10/10 What's a good iCal supporting contact manager in unix?
\_ The Sunbird project's working on it, but isn't there yet. Amusingly,
there's an old program called ical for unix that... doesn't support
iCal.
\_ Google Calendar kicks ass. I love how you can share and overlay
your schedule with someone else. It's a bit slow now but it's
still beta-ish and like all Google products it'll just get
better and better.
\_ The Sunbird project's working on it, but isn't there yet.
Amusingly, there's an old program called ical for unix that...
doesn't support iCal.
\_ The problem with calendar standards today is there aren't any.
Or ok, more specifically, they are incomplete and unspecified in
ways that matter. The reason for this is all the calendar
companies have made their own decisions re: how to handle various
things such as "every other week". Some take it literally and just
do $week+2 while others take it to mean "$week2 and $week4 of
$currentmonth". That's just 1 small example. So when you have a
device or program that supports 1 version of the standard and then
try to sync with a system that has a different idea your calendar
will get all messed up, usually in unfixable ways. --calendar guy
\_ hey, what do you mean you are a "calendar guy?" are you working
on calendar? any recommendation for PERSONAL calendar server
I can run on my laptop?
\_ it's one of the services i currently support at work. i've
attended the ical standards committe talks, on the mailing
list, blah, blah, blah. sorry but i use the same calendar
i support for work for 10k+ people. i don't know much of
anything about the smaller programs.
\_ I like Meeting Maker. What product do you support? |