Converting OS X AddressBook to KAddress?

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Monday, August 19, 2002, at 08:54  PM, Angela Kahealani wrote:

	O.K., sorry for intruding in this thread but let me just ask this 
one question: What in the &*%^^($#$#Q is your problem???? As far as I 
knew this list, and every single other one like it, is for discussing 
technical issues and sharing technical opinions. Nothing more, niente, 
nada!!! If you have some personal problems with Apple or with Steve Jobs 
I'm completely sure NO ONE HERE WANTS TO KNOW about them. NO ONE, NADIE, 
NENHUM!!!! Conversations that fall off topic are taken off line between 
the people involved, NOT ONLINE. STOP WASTING THE BANDWIDTH.

	So really, quit complaining and if you have nothing better to say, 
if you have nothing good to say about anything, then don't say anything 
for Christ sakes girl! The world is filled with enough bad things 
already. If you really hate Apple and it's products so much, then why do 
you even have a Mac???? Go buy a Piece(of)Crap and increase just a 
little more good old Billy's wealth and install any x86 distro you 
prefer. If you really think YellowDog is such a crappy distro then at 
least have a little respect for the people who, UNLIKE YOU, did take the 
time to build a system and offer it to us, INCLUDING YOU, in order to 
give us  options. You know, not only are they here in this list and 
listening, they are also very kindly giving you a bit of their bandwidth 
so that you can read other people's experiences and they yours 
(experiences, NOT INSULTS!!!). Please stop bothering us with your hang 
ups. As Stefan very well said, take all your immense knowledge and solve 
the overwhelming amount of beginner's  problems you have with the system 
you so much claim to master as if you were some kind of fake Yoda!!!

	Or even better, design your own system in assembler code, or 
however you call it, and become Angela Gates, we'll all be so happy for 
you.

	I now, as for myself, declare this thread over and will ignore 
every single message you post from here on, so don't bother to even 
think of a reply to this. Stop trying to get us into your bad mood!

	Sorry for the trespasrsing Christopher, I know it's up to the list 
admins to kick peoplo back into their places, nut I just lost it...



		Juan.

>
> Yes, it is possible to program around Apple's bugs and design
> deficiencies, but one of the reasons to run YDL/KDE/MOL or
> MacOSuX is to get AWAY FROM Apple proprietary technologies like,
> say, oh, for example, AppleScript. You must have missed my
> posting pointing-out that the export of VCards which
> AppleAddressBook DOES do one at a time, which MAY be
> AppleScriptable, does NOT export all the fields in the
> AddressBook database. Since I imported from a database with a
> nuimber of other fields, that renders AppleAddressBook
> untenable, especially in combination with it's lame import
> ability that requires manual assignment of fields on EACH
> import, thus precluding keeping the main database externally to
> Apples System Wide Integrated Address Book database and
> autoimporting on every change in the external database.
>
> Besides, any program that can import should correspondingly
> export, or it has been POLITICALLY designed, not rationally
> designed. I'm leaving the MacOS World as much as possible
> because all their design decisions are political any more. As an
> engineer, that really rubs me the wrong way.
>
> I COULD write an entire operating system and windowing system
> from the assembler level on up (and have done so as of 1978 on a
> 16-bit minicomputer), but the point of purchasing a packaged
> deal is to not have to reinvent those wheels. The point of YDL
> is to go to NON-PROPRIETARY solutions. If I want maximum utility
> and minimum stability on my computer, I just keep running
> MacOS9. Running a proprietary house of cards is the problem I'm
> trying to solve by going to UNIX based OS, and so far neither
> MacOSuX nor YDL, as installed by the installers, comes close to
> being a workable system on my OldWorld Macintosh. I specifically
> REFUSE to allow Apple's proprietary packaging of hardware with
> software to force an upgrade of hardware, which is why I'm
> running YDL in my spare time... and therefore why I'm reading
> this mailing list to try to figure out how to get open source to
> actually work, since TerraSoftSolutions' installer didn't
> deliver a working package, and no amount of yup or apt-get
> update/upgrades solved the configuration problems inherant in
> how TSS's installer installed/configured YDL. The keyboard ain't
> mapped right, the KDE desktop isn't aligned right on my main
> monitor, my secondary monitor doesn't work at all, and I can't
> get to my data on my HFS+ partition, which is the only format
> even remotely compatible between the three OS's I'm running here
> during transition. Nevermind will I be able to back-up my YDL
> system onto the 1st generation (2.6GB/side) DVD-RAMs I use via
> both an IDE and SCSI drive. There is yet needed much
> figuring-out how to configure YDL, which is why I'm reading this
> and every other mailing list out of TSS, as well as too many
> Linux UseNet NewsGroups.
> --
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