A little while back I ended up getting my Treo 755p. It has been working great and I have been keeping all my evolution info sync’ed with it.

I did how ever run into a issue a week or so back that it would not sync anymore with gpilot. The actual error I was “gpilotd-WARNING **: An error occurred while getting the PDA’s system data”. A quick look around on the internet turned up a post at the ubuntu forms.

After reading the post, the solution to the Treo not syncing was the backup your files rest the Treo to facotry default.. This seemed like a major pain and I just pulled the battery out of the palm for a second to hard reboot it. After that I was able to sync and didn’t have to blow away the Treo to factory default. I am assuming one of the database files was stuck open on the Treo.

I wanted to actually update the forum posting so people don’t just take what it says as the only solutions, but ubuntu locks the thread after they feel a solution has been made.

After installing the latest kernel image for ubuntu on my laptop I had to close down pan (Newsgroup Reader) and reboot. Pan would not stop running and I eventually had to kill the process. After rebooting the laptop I tried to start up pan2, but would only get the error message

“pan: fptools.c:458: _FP_fgets: Assertion `*buf’ failed. Aborted (core dumped)”

This was telling me that my current task list of downloads was corrupt. removing the task file

“~/.pan2/tasks.nzb”

resolved the issue but sadly all my pending downloads where lost.

Work has been getting all our coffee from The Heritage Coffee Company. My personal favorite blend so far has been the Sumatra Mandheling.

Wikipedia currently at the time of this post lists Sumatra Mandheling as:

Sumatra Mandheling and Sumatra Lintong — Mandheling is named after the similarly spelt Mandailing people located in North Sumatra, Indonesia. The name is the result of a misunderstanding by the first foreign purchaser of the variety, and no coffee is actually produced in the “Mandailing region”. Lintong on the other hand, is named after the Lintong district, also located in North Sumatra.

I have been pretty busy and have not really been in the mood to type up any blog posts. Most of my time has been spent working on gutting the basement. Ended up getting a 30 yard bin from Waste Management to put it all in and at first it seemed like I might have gone over board on the size, but after a few days it was clear that it was getting pretty full.

Cleaning out the basement and gutting it for re drywall and finishing turned out to harvest a fair bit of junk.

Erika actually talked me into putting a tree up this year. First time in many years that the house has had a tree up.