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I am the happy owner of a Matrox TripleHead2Go and three 19" TFT screens. Needless to say this makes for some pretty cool gaming moments (see the Dead Space gallery for some, much too small, screenshots to get an idea of the view you get).

Installation under Windows was fairly easy with the included software.  Getting the thing to work under Linux was ... also fairly easy.

All that was required was a small edit of xorg.conf :setting the Modes parameter under the Screen section (subsection Display) to "3840x1024" was enough.

The one other thing I did in order to be able to maximize windows to just one screen instead of having them span all three, was add the following line to the Device section : 

Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOverride"   "1280x1024+1280+0, 1280x1024+0+0, 1280x1024+2560+0"

Notice that I start with the middle screen (+1280+0), then put the left one (+0+0), and then the right one (+2560+0).  This is to ensure that the middle screen is used as the "main" screen (e.g. to decide where to display GDM).

More screenshots and possibly some pictures will follow, eventually.  For now, here's my xorg.conf.

 I use Sunbird if I want to subscribe to an online calendar (mostly via ical), but sometimes I want to import some events into my Palm.  Since I use J-Pilot to sync my Palm, this translated into the need to move events from Sunbird to J-Pilot.

Attempt 1 : export events into a CSV file and import that into J-Pilot (which, by default, only supports importing from CSV and DAT/DBA)

FAIL.  The CSV format is different.

Attempt 2 : Google and The CompuTech Group to the rescue with this article : http://www.computechgroup.com/?p=381

It boils down to this : 

1. Checkout, compile and install jp-icalendar ( http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=61960 ).
   1. svn co https://jp-icalendar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jp-icalendar/trunk jp-icalendar
   2. cd jp-calendar
   3. ./autogen.sh
      1. If this fails with errors like the following, skip this step and run autoreconf --force --install --symlink instead.
      2. configure: error:
         
         *** [Gentoo] sanity check failed! ***
         *** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! ***
         *** (libtool.m4 = 1.5.26, ltmain.sh = "1.5.24 Debian 1.5.24-1ubuntu1") ***
         
         Please run:
         
           libtoolize --copy --force
         
         
   4. ./configure
   5. make
   6. make check
   7. sudo make install

Now when you have an ics file, you can simply import it into J-Pilot via icalendar-import calendarfile.ics

If you're a GUI user and would like these files to be imported automatically when you double-click them, configure .ics files to be opened with `/usr/local/bin/icalendar-import' (or wherever your icalendar-import is installed).  Keep in mind that if you import it twice, all events will show up twice as well!  It's logical, but worth mentioning ;-)

Note: after syncing with my palm, the poor thing crashed every time I tried to open the calendar.  Quickly solved by restoring a backup, but nevertheless annoying.  I think the descriptions for some of the imported calendar entries were too long or so ...