Google Calendar adds free/busy scheduling
Just stumbled across the button “Check guest and resource availability” when adding a new appointment in Google Calendar. Sure enough, when clicked, a nice little window pops up that allows you to find slots of free time in common across invitees. Not sure if this is available across all of Google Calendar or if this is a Google Apps Premium feature (I’ve had imurdock.com in GAFYD for a while now and upgraded over the weekend). One problem is immediately apparent though: It only appears to be checking the main calendar (I actually have several calendars—work, home, travel, etc.). This is a problem with the SMS interface too, which only appears to operate on the main calendar.
February 26th, 2007 at 1:18pm
Is that an Ubuntu box? xD
February 26th, 2007 at 2:40pm
Yep. -ian
February 26th, 2007 at 3:16pm
now you just need beryl/compiz + awn ;)
February 27th, 2007 at 1:40am
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February 27th, 2007 at 8:03am
Alas, my video card doesn’t seem up to it. Xgl/Compiz is so slow that it’s unusable. AIGLX/Beryl is much better, but still too pokey to be usable beyond experimenting. Avant Window Navigator looks interesting, but it dumps core when I try to run it. (I have an IBM ThinkPad X31 with a video card lspci reports as “ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY”. The ATI driver doesn’t seem to support this particular chipset, so I’m using the open source driver, and I assume that’s the source of my problems. But that’s just a guess. Prove me wrong by showing me how to get this to work! :-) -ian
February 27th, 2007 at 9:52am
aiglx and compiz are working fine here.
i have the same video card and use the open source driver, too.
instead of xgl or beryl, compiz with aiglx is “quite fast” on my laptop.
here is my xorg.conf:
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “X.org Configured”
Screen 0 “Screen0″ 0 0
InputDevice “Mouse0″ “CorePointer”
InputDevice “Keyboard0″ “CoreKeyboard”
Option “AIGLX” “true”
EndSection
Section “Files”
RgbPath “/usr/share/X11/rgb”
ModulePath “/usr/lib/xorg/modules”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc/”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/TTF/”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Type1/”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/CID/”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/”
EndSection
Section “Module”
Load “record”
Load “extmod”
Load “dbe”
Load “dri”
Load “glx”
Load “xtrap”
Load “freetype”
Load “type1″
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Keyboard0″
Driver “kbd”
Option “XkbLayout” “de”
Option “XkbRules” “xorg”
Option “XkbModel” “pc105″
Option “XkbVariant” “nodeadkeys”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Mouse0″
Driver “mouse”
Option “Protocol” “IMPS/2″
Option “Device” “/dev/misc/psaux”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5 6 7″
EndSection
Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor0″
VendorName “Monitor Vendor”
ModelName “Monitor Model”
EndSection
Section “Device”
Option “XAANoOffscreenPixmaps” “true”
Option “DRI” “true”
Option “AGPMode” “2″
Option “EnablePageFlip” “true”
Option “AGPFastWrite” “false”
Identifier “Card0″
Driver “radeon”
VendorName “ATI Technologies Inc”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0″
Device “Card0″
Monitor “Monitor0″
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes “1024×860″
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “Enable”
EndSection
Section “DRI”
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
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i am using xorg-7.2 and xf86-video-ati-6.6.3.
February 27th, 2007 at 10:17am
For what it is worth, Ian, according to an official google feature comparison chart which I saw yesterday but can’t find now, the freebusy/resource scheduling is Premium-only. (Ah-ha: here it is.)
February 27th, 2007 at 11:04am
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February 27th, 2007 at 11:57am
OMG Ian Murdock uses Ubuntu!!!!1
February 27th, 2007 at 1:51pm
Is it me, or are these usual ‘feature stumbles’ that users of Google software frequently experience purely just that - a sumble, or is there more to it?
A theory I have is that Google software products are designed to let you have more, at a certain time (whether it be after a time period of use, or frequency of use) - GMail is a classic example with its invite feature when it was closed beta.
Interesting post however, thanks :)
February 27th, 2007 at 1:53pm
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
–Joseph Campbell
This quote should not be taken as a defeat, but to always look back at the wonderful accomplishments that Debian has achieved at what it does best.
February 27th, 2007 at 6:16pm
I am running an HP Pavilion dv5000 with AMD Turion64 with Ati Radeon Xpress 200m and I run Ubuntu Edgy Eft. I installed yesterday and got Beryl running yesterday as well. You can check out my post with a link to where I got the HOWTO: on getting Beryl and my Ati card to coexist.
http://kurtknapp.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/ubuntu-beryl-works/
Hope this helps anyone that is having trouble.
February 27th, 2007 at 7:01pm
>OMG Ian Murdock uses Ubuntu!!!!1
LOL! :)
February 28th, 2007 at 3:13pm
If the Debian father uses Ubuntu, does it mean the the beginning of the end for debian? Many clouds apparing to the sky, for me debian isnt only a distro, it is a idea
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:33am
nice… :-)
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:40am
Avant Window Navigator requires a composite manager, as is written in the install documentation, so probably the problem is you not having Beryl/Compiz, not the opensource drivers :)
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:27pm
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March 2nd, 2007 at 3:35pm
No, I was running AWN when I was running Beryl (albeit slowly). -ian
March 2nd, 2007 at 7:51pm
[…] But here’s the other reason I’m looking forward to calendar solutions. Right now, I do a subpar job of keeping my calendar up-to-date, because the incentive is low. The only audience for it apart from myself are my three colleagues, and they know how to reach me via IM and phone if something’s not totally current. But if all of a sudden I have the ability to share my calendar on a wider basis - say through something like Google Apps free/busy (speaking of, if any of you have a script that will sync an iCal into Google Calendar let me know)- the dynamics of my interaction with that calendar change dramatically. All of a sudden I’d have a reason to put details like flight schedules and so on in there. I’d be surprised if some of the coming calendar advances don’t encourage greater calendar activity much as blogging has spurred publishing. […]
March 3rd, 2007 at 11:42pm
pues cada vez más personalidades del mundo de la informática utilizan ubuntu. lo que no sabemos es qué opina de él.
saludos
March 4th, 2007 at 8:54am
Ian Murdock, fundador de Debian, usa Ubuntu en su PC personal.
Me resulta cuanto menos curioso, que el fundador de Debian, use Ubuntu (distro basada en Debian) en su PC personal.
March 4th, 2007 at 9:01am
Ian, can u explain why you choose ubuntu? i think this will be interesting for many people :).
Thanks in advance, and thanks for all :)
March 4th, 2007 at 9:05am
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March 4th, 2007 at 10:53am
The Google Calendar is an excellent tool and as much or more than the ical of .mac with the gratuitous and very safe difference of to be as well as the text messages to mobile for remember an appointment is an excellent application.
Ian Murdock uses Ubuntu! That horror! The world will finish! Oh, please, stop the demagoguery, until guru of the users of linux has his partition in Windows to play his counter strike, that is bad? perhaps to be the founder and creator of a distribution linux the cruifixer and forces to him to use always this distribution? We are criticizing just like what we tried to be conceited, the freedom of election. Oh… I congratulate Ian not to close itself in band nor to be a intolerant linux user, thing that is to be thankful and to admire.
March 4th, 2007 at 2:30pm
[…] A punto de partir para el estadio (Atlético Nacional - Independiente Medellín), estaba leyendo en el blog de Ian Murdock una entrada sobre Google Calendar en la cual hay una captura de pantalla, la amplio y llama poderosamente mi atención la parte superior izquierda. Me doy cuenta de que el creador de Debian usa ubuntu… […]
March 5th, 2007 at 3:12am
Some Debian users and developers are immature and stupidly childish. Ubuntu is a good distro, and has done in months what they failed to do in years. Those f*** u t-shirts and rabid anti ubuntu stance only makes them look worse. Its not like they are being forced to use it or anything, they might even ignore the changes and bug fixes. To each their own.
I see many distros now using ubuntu instead of debian as a base. Clearly something is being done right in canonical; not to mention distrowatch; and the outstanding support in forums, chats and pages where you are not treated to the typical RTFM attitude of “certain” communities.
I use Debian at work, and Ubuntu at home. Have used Debian since potato, one thing is clear: It will not conquer the desktop, Ubuntu will. Debian is perfectly fine in a server, but for end users, its so absurd, that it makes using a distro like slackware or gentoo look much simpler in comparison.
So if you change your video card, do you do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and answer 20 unrelated questions or simply edit a single word in a single line at /etc/X11/xorg.conf ? Come on Debian fanatics, get a clue; this is not supposed to be a cult. Ubuntu / Canonical are helping the community a lot maintaining 2000+ packages with full time paid developers, What is this childish jealously?
I congratulate Ian for staying true to his ideals and being of true help to the community. We are finally getting there.