I'm on an N810, transitioning from a series of Palms.
Do you use Gene's calendar alarms? If so, does the calendar app
have to be running for the alarm to go off?
GPE Calendar and the Garnet Palm VM both have to be running.
If I close the program, intentionally or otherwise, I get no alarms.
Not to mention that the sound sometimes doesn't work in Garnet...

Same question for anyone who might be running Kontact under KDE.

My life ceases to happen when it should, without my alarms.

Gene's trying to port them to OS2008, reluctantly, and having a bad time.
http://home.cfl.rr.com/genecash/nokia/index.html tells the tale.