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For Sale / Wanted / Price Drop: C3000, 1gb Sd, Ambicom Wl1100c-cf, Socket Bluetooth, Fancy Stylus - $150

« on: June 30, 2008, 06:23:16 pm »

PRICE DROP

I'm selling a modest condition C3000 with a 1GB SD, a Socket Bluetooth card and an AmbiCom WiFi card. The screen was replaced 2006 and has no dust, scratches, or bad pixels. The stylus is also new (the fancy one you can buy from Dynamism). These cards are compatible with all ROMs.

I've attached 7 photos to illustrate its condition and accessories.

I'm in the United States (near Chicago, IL) and can ship internationally if you pay with PayPal and a verified address.

I'm asking $150 OBO PayPal + shipping and insurance for all of it. It is priced to sell!

Feel free to PM, post or e-mail bberman AT fas.harvard.edu for more detailed pictures or questions

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / A Better Browser/config Or Faster Wifi?

« on: February 25, 2007, 12:32:55 pm »

Well .. at this point, if I knew I could run a QT based web browser on Cacko.. and also access this website efficiently - I wouldn't mind paying for a commercial browser.   But with an embedded device I'm a little leary of meeting those requirements - when performance concerns of the hardware appear to be somewhere between the physical limits and excellent programming.

There is Piscel browser. It's a decently fast browser delivered on an SD card, but it's hard to find now. There is a review on this site.

Last I remembered, Piscel on a 512 MB SD Card costs somewhere around $125.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bt Dial-up Problem - Status: Network Disconnect

« on: February 25, 2007, 12:27:17 pm »

Try setting your phone number to *99***1# . That instructs the phone to use its other GPRS connection details; normally by using *99#, you would have to pass those details yourself through the init string.

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Personal Java/Jeode/J2ME Personal Profile / Mobile Gmaps On The Zaurus

« on: June 26, 2006, 12:33:02 am »

Same problem here -- MIDP loads the java app fine, i just don't get any maps?  Anyone crack this?
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I knew this topic looked familiar... [a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=18860]https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=18860[/url]

If you are not prompted in the beginning to agree to terms and conditions, then there's something wrong. If you do, make sure you're using the latest version of Google Mobile Maps. Also, if you are trying this over a cellphone connection, most providers block direct internet connections. Google Maps requires one.

This wouldn't be a problem if there were some way to set properties (i.e., the Google Maps URL property) on the Zaurus. They are stored in the JAD file. By configuring a reverse proxy server, this would enable all of us with internet plans like T-Zones to use Google Maps on our Zauruses.

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Accessories / Question Concerning Authenticity Of Lexar Sd Card.

« on: June 21, 2006, 02:53:29 pm »

Could some of you Lexar SD card owners please have a quick look at the back of your card and tell me in what way the text on your card is put? I've heard it's usual imprinted with laser, in my case it are white letters just 'printed' on the card itself (3401-1GBSB 5005C Made in China). Maybe, just maybe, my card is a fake - which would explain the errors.

Thanks in advance.
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Mine is imprinted by laser, reading:
LEXAR MEDIA
SD1GB-100M
1204534
A040607N
MADE IN U.S.A.

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Software / Building An Epwing Wikipedia

« on: May 07, 2006, 11:33:26 pm »

Sorry about the belated response icruise; that is a great idea. The encoding problem was solved, which means there will be no accented characters in the dictionary. I'll have it finished even sooner. I was already refactoring it to work with bedic, so I'll make a Wikipedia in both formats.

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Software / Building An Epwing Wikipedia

« on: April 19, 2006, 08:56:53 pm »

Unfortunately, the FreePWING Perl library breaks at about 250 MBs worth of articles. I'll have a version reworked for the simplified bedic format and I'll try it with Xerox.

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Software / Building An Epwing Wikipedia

« on: April 15, 2006, 12:50:08 pm »

How long do you think it'll take to come up with a well formated version (and what exactly does nicely formatted mean)? Will there be hyperlinks within the text, or will that be left out? Also, given the size of the files, am I right in assume that this will this be a "do it yourself" kind of project (ie. you write the scripts and the people who want it download the raw wikipedia data and then run them to create the EPWING dictionary version)? If so, will it require a linux computer? I only have access to Windows and Mac boxes.
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I have already generated a unformatted Wikipedia (in English and for a test, in Japanese), which uses only the FreePWING library's text encoder. The hyperlinks will not be active since I can't understand documentation which clues me on how to make inter-dictionary and internet hyperlinks. Everything else works.

The issue with distributing the program is that I packaged up Loeffler's parser and the FreePWING libraries with a commercial program into a .Net library. I don't think this package can be legally distributed, because I don't have the source to the packaging of the Perl runtime inside this package. The programs I wrote require Windows, this library, and Cygwin (Linux on Windows). I'm going to BitTorrent the Wikipedia. Eventually, somebody with bandwidth could host it.

Currently, I'm stuck on an encoding bug. The FreePWING parser wants ASCII text, but the Wikipedia is encoded between UTF8 and Unicode. That means I can format all day, but an accented character is seen by the parser as two characters, one of them invalid, instead of one character.

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Software / Building An Epwing Wikipedia

« on: April 14, 2006, 10:52:40 am »

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That's good news. Does that mean that you're close to success? How big do you think the resulting files will be? Obviously, it would preferable if it would be under 4GB, so it could fit on the microdrive of the older Zaurus models, or on a 4GB SD card. I think most people want to avoid using the CF card slot for memory.

By the way, do you know if this same process can be done for the Japanese language version of the Wikipedia?
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I could make an ugly Wikipedia now, bt it would be better to have a nicely formatted Wikipedia. I've confirmed with a test dictionary that the Epwing system works.

This process will work for the Japanese, and for that matter any, Wikipedia. It should work with all the other Wikis with the code I have now and could be easily extended to support any XML document.

For a size estimate, the bz2-compressed text-only English Wikipedia is about 1 GB.

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Software / Building An Epwing Wikipedia

« on: April 13, 2006, 11:33:20 pm »

Problem solved: a Makefile for a Loeffler-markup processed EPWING dictionary should read...

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FPWPARSER = null.pl

include fpwutils.mk...where null.pl is an empty file.

Then, create a catalogs.txt with the following...

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[Catalog]
FileName   = catalogs
Type       = EPWING1
Books      = 1

[Book]
Title      = "Wikipedia-English"
BookType   = 6001
Directory  = "WIKI"...replacing the title and directory as seen fit. The title must be EUC-JP encoded, so the above text would produce an error. Leaving the title space empty seems to work fine.

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Software / Google Maps Java App

« on: April 13, 2006, 11:09:43 pm »

Instructions:
If you don't have Java, install it from Meanie's website:
http://zaurus.daemons.gr/menaie/mirror/stu...s_1.1.8_arm.zip
Also, thanks to Meanie for the following required package; a recompiled ME4SE Jar that supports VGA:
http://zaurus.daemons.gr/menaie/mirror/stu...her_0.2_arm.zip
Download to disk (save to Documents/Install_Files):
http://google.com/glm/apps/v1.1.1/gmaps-midp1.jar
Execute the following command:
evm -classpath /home/QtPalmtop/midp/me4se.jar:/home/QtPalmtop/midp/midpfull.jar:/home/zaurus/Documents/Install_Files/gmaps-midp1.jar org.me4se.MIDletRunner com.google.googlenav.GoogleNav

I didn't have a working internet connection, so I couldn't verify if the map display actually worked. However, the MIDlet loads fine.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / 2gb And Up Sd Cards Supported

« on: April 12, 2006, 09:41:19 pm »

Cresho:
2006/4/8 Handheld Linux Zaurus Software IndexにてCreshoさんにより1GB越のSDに対応するドライバが配布されていたので、アンインストールできるよう改良してみました(zaurus_sd_driver_update_cxxxx_1.0+tetsu_arm.zip)。
He provides a package, and it works fine for me.

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Software / Building An Epwing Wikipedia

« on: April 12, 2006, 08:27:23 pm »

Here is the problem:

I've made the "eword", "head", "text", "textref", "texttag", and "word" files. What do I do to turn them into a "honmon" and "catalogs"? The Google translation of the FreePWING documentation isn't much good.

(http://www.sra.co.jp/people/m-kasahr/freepwing/doc/freepwing.html)

I'm under the impression that I use "fpwmake" with a specially crafted Makefile to produce a "honmon" and "catalogs".

(http://www.sra.co.jp/people/m-kasahr/freepwing/doc/freepwing-02.html#Makefile)

I add "include fpwutils.mk" into the Makefile and perform...

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% perl /usr/local/libexec/freepwing/fpwsort
% perl /usr/local/libexec/freepwing/fpwindex
% perl /usr/local/libexec/freepwing/fpwcontrol
% perl /usr/local/libexec/freepwing/fpwlink...in the directory with the "eword" et cetera files.

I end up with...
esort    sort
ctrl                  eword    text
ctrlref               head     textref
eidx0                 idx0     texttag
eidxref0              idxref0  word
...but running "fpwmake" yields...

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test -d work || /usr/local/libexec/freepwing/mkdirhier work
/usr/local/libexec/freepwing/perl.sh   /usr/local/libexec/freepwing/fpwhalfchar
\
   -workdir work
/usr/local/libexec/freepwing/perl.sh   /usr/local/libexec/freepwing/fpwfullchar
\
   -workdir work
/usr/local/libexec/freepwing/perl.sh   /usr/local/libexec/freepwing/fpwparser \
   -workdir work
Can't open perl script "/usr/local/libexec/freepwing/fpwparser": No such file or
 directory
make: *** [work/parse.dep] Error 2Since I used Mr. Loffler's markup parser, I don't think I need to run fpwparser.
I'm running this inside of Cygwin and performed a normal "./configure & make & make install" procedure on the FreePWING utilities. Is there something I'm missing?

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Software / Building An Epwing Wikipedia

« on: April 12, 2006, 06:32:38 pm »

Yes, an EPWING version is very doable. If I use Mr. Löffler's markup-parser scripts, the issue will be the Perl code that builds the actual EPWING dictionary. It would not be difficult to transform the 4.8 GB English Wikipedia XML into a document in this markup.

I should mention that I have built a .Net 1.1-compatible library for manipulating EPWING files based on FreePWING (it will only run on Windows because of how the Perl intepreter is packaged).

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Software / Building An Epwing Wikipedia

« on: April 10, 2006, 04:38:22 pm »

Or, does anyone have a detailed description of what the bedic project's xerox application does and how it does it?
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By searching, you could have found these links where you could have found a detailed description of the bedic format and nuts and bolts of making bedic dictionaries:

[a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16160&st=0]https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16160&st=0[/url]
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*che...mat.txt?rev=1.5
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bedic/libbedic/doc/
http://bedic.sourceforge.net/index.html
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Thanks-I tried reading the source for Xerox to figure out what it does with a file in 'simplified bedic' format. Unfortunately, I don't really understand C.

I'm trying to write a program that will transform the new Wikipedia XML files into bedic and EPWING dictionaries (preferably EPWING). Since the Wikipedia-to-simplified-bedic conversion produces a file too large for Xerox to handle, I'm just building a C#/vb.net program to let people build an updated Wikipedia for themselves whenever they please. In order to do that, I need to know how Xerox constructs the index and calculates the remaining fields.
It would be better to use the EPWING format for the Zaurus considering that I can put pictures and hyperlinks into it. I couldn't find anything under the libeb project that actually documents the construction of an EPWING file, so I'm wondering if anyone knows where I can find the specifications of the format.

Thanks again