{"id":2514,"date":"2008-02-11T00:07:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T05:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/11\/gnome-conduit-oh-how-i-hate-to-love-you\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T00:07:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T05:07:26","slug":"gnome-conduit-oh-how-i-hate-to-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/10.10.2.102\/creevacom\/index.php\/2008\/02\/11\/gnome-conduit-oh-how-i-hate-to-love-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnome Conduit – Oh How I Hate to Love You"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gnome Conduit<\/a> is both one of the greatest utilities Ubuntu<\/a> and the most incomplete pain in the butt utilities. To give a quick run down to what it does here is what the project information says:<\/p>\n Conduit<\/span> is a synchronization solution for GNOME<\/span><\/a> which allows the user to take their emails, files, bookmarks, and any other type of personal information and synchronize that data with another computer, an online service, or even another electronic device. <\/em><\/p>\n Conduit<\/span> manages the synchronization and conversion of data into other formats. For example, conduit<\/span> allows you to; <\/em><\/p>\n Any combination you can imagine, Conduit<\/span> will take care of the conversion and synchronization.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now we’ll start off with the fact that this isn’t even a 1.0 release so there are bound to be some issues. Issues are what I’ve had all down along with this thing, even when it’s working properly. In some ways this should be essentially Rsync on crack – and sometimes it is.<\/p>\n Let’s go over the things I’m attempting to do with this utility:<\/p>\n While I did attempt to do this I did manage to partly get things working. Let’s go down the list.<\/p>\n I did manage to somewhat get my calendars to sync. The problem is that it never completes. It picks a strange percentage point and just stays there grinding away saying it’s syncing. I do see new items from one side to another so I don’t need to try to work with Evolution’s borked gcal sync (promised to be fixed next version). I can say syncing from outlook to Gcal was one of the things I missed most migrating to Ubuntu from windows. Since it never completely finishes I can’t say that this is working as designed. If it ever does finish I’ll give this function a glowing review.<\/p>\n\n
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