OESF Portables Forum
General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: roguetrooper on June 04, 2004, 01:39:44 pm
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Lets face it. Most of us Zaurus users are not your \"normal\" pda users. Especially those of us whom frequent this board. The Zaurus I purchased cost me $900 (far more than a Bluetooth/WiFi IPAQ 5550!) but I haven\'t regretted the purchase one bit - it is SUPERB (got it a few days ago!)
So here is an idea, lets tell each other where we are from and who we are and maybe our equipment - and I\'ll start.
I am 33, based Moscow Russia, but from London, I work here as an IT Project Manager for a large US Company. I have a PhD in Software Engineering (forgotten most of it!) and at work mainly use Windows HW/SW (ugh!! not outa choice)
I own an SL-C860 and 256MB CF Card at present, and run CACkO 1.21b
Mainly use my machine for MP3\'s and generally fooling around with Linux. Have an IP connection to my laptop (Dell C810 UXGA) and play around in a VT220 session via telnet, at the moment configuring apache and doing some php work on the Zaurus.
Thats it, anybody else?
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Scott D. Yelich
NYC
Unix Admin
c700/760/5600, 512SD x 3, 128/128/256 CF, dlink 660w wifi, linksys wcf12 wifi, pretec wifi
pdaxrom on 760, daniela on 700, OZ 3.3.61_pre1 on 5600
zaurus.spy.org
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Marta Pierce
Northern California, USA RN Surgery Nurse, ORSOS Lead
D-link wireless CF Card / Sharp CD-AG06 CF camera / Targus camera bag / soon to be mine a Socket LP 10Base CF Card
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Marta,
You should start a Poll~!
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Corey, USA, North Carolina
I work swing shifts in a factory, I am married and have a 5 year old son that keeps me busy while I am not at work. I have a 5600 with tkcrom2.0a3 and a c760 with pdaX installed. When I\'m not working or chasing the boy around I try to hunt down some fun toys for pdaX and compile them.
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here goes-
nate from chicago; it security/audit consultant
gear consists of:
- 5500 (tkcrom 2.0 or OZ)with 256/512 x 2 sd; 512 cf; sandisk wifi; buffalo wifi; socket bluetooth rev G; sharp camera; haicom GPS cf
- sigmarion III
- soon to have c760
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Bob (aka Robert Arnold) Weeks
Miami FL for approx 42 of the past 48 years.
Forensic Toxicologist for Miami-Dade Co FL Medical Examiner Dept (13yrs)
Life time bibliomaniac.
Eclectic musical collector.
PhD work in Pharmacognosy before fleeing academia.
Once upon a youth Harley rider.
Old enough to know better.
Too tired to care, anyhow (G).
Extremely strange sense of humor.
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Chris Swinney, 30 y/o, Gainesville, FL.
Anesthesiologist, graduating residency in three weeks!
Mobile WWW browsing and email with WiFi and BlueTooth connectivity.
Navigation with zRoadmap and GlobalSat BT-308 GPS.
Bible study with QPSword.
Casual wardriving with Kismet.
Idle moments I can ill afford playing Stratagus.
My dream: to have a \"virtual Palm\" inside my Zaurus. (Stay tuned to ZUG.)
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CTO, 35, NYC. Also student of computational linguistics.
Just got a hold of a 6000L.
About to ask someone somewhere about a Scheme-aware editor for the 6000.
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Soldier, 24, Republic of Korea (Im not korean, jusr a US service member).
I love playing with computers (and linux) and basically my ibook is too unwieldy for war-walking, so i got a...
6000L... very happy with it.
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Systems Analyst with a large Pharma co in IL. responsible for our Field Sales reps, 37, Kenosha, WI.
Our shop is mainly MS based with a touch of UNIX & VMS thrown in for good measure.
I use my Z mainly as a PDA at work but browse, email, games, MP3\'s and quick access to my linux machines at home and when I travel.
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Michael Hubbard
Currently living in San Francisco. I was born and raised in Southern California (Newport Beach, Lake Arrowhead respectively), but I\'ve lived in New Hampshire, Maine, and Florida (Miami).
I\'m 30 years old, an IT Project Manager with a specialty in the Supply Chain, for a very large company (Sarah Jessica Parker just signed on for the fall ads lineup).
I have a degree in Criminal Justice and almost went into law and politics.
When I\'m not working (too much), I\'m doing various things to support the ZUG (obviously), and for the local LUG I\'m involved in (BALUG). I also go offroading once a month with a local group.
I\'ve just recently started taking guitar lessons, because I seem to be always on a computer, either at work or home, so I thought I\'d pick up a creative hobby.
You can see the hardware I have from my sig... I don\'t use my 5500 very much anymore. I use my 760 on a daily basis to keep track of my various projects, for work, ZUG, BALUG, etc., daily note taking at work with iqnotes, and the other basic stuff - web browsing, email, pim...
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Sociologist, 34, Living in Germany, originally from Iran, PHD Student, Working at Computer Science Department, Teaching at Sociologie Department, owner of a 5500g with OZ 3.2 and Opie 1.0.3. I love this device. No need for a bigger because I have a FSC Stylus Tablet PC at work (very nice thing) and my good old Laptop at Home (and work) running Debian Sarge.
Cheers,
Sam
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high-school student, 17, living in seul, korea. I own c860 and in korea, ipaq is more exspensive than zaurus... (hmm..)
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I\'m a Sales Manager in the Auto ID business. From the UK, but I\'ve lived in the US for 14 years. Currently in Southern NH.
I have a C860, before that Dell Axim, Palm Vx, Psion etc.
My other computer is a Thinkpad, I\'m on my third generation. Also have an IMac that I\'d like to convert to Linux one day.
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Im a system developer (primarilly webbased internal and external tools) for one of Denmarks largest ISPs - Im from Denmark aswell. Im 25 years old.
I have a 5500 and 760 - i have had 3 Palm devices.
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I\'m 36 and develop interfaces for a medical imaging company in Vancouver. Prior to that I was a sys admin at a ski resort. Use my 5600 as a laptop replacement when I\'m on the road.
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Mike Jalkut, 53 yr, Santa Cruz CA
Compiler developer for Metaware (now ARC International) since 1986
Pastor, Gods Church, Leap of Faith Ministries (leapoffaith.org)
Married for 31 years to Teresa, two grown sons
SL6000, 256 CF, 256 SD
SL5600 (pxa250 w fixed kernel), 256 sd, symbol wifi
Mostly macs otherwise
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Joel Da Costa 22 years old
I live in Paris
I\'m business intelligence project manager in a small mobile phone company
own a SL-C750 with cacko 1.21B ROM
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Elio Lam, 36 years old. Trading company owner. Living in Shanghai but born and grown up in Hong Kong. Windows in office but dual boot Mandrake 10 and Windows XP in my Clevo 470D laptop.
SL-C700 TkcRom 2.5 beta
Panasonics SD 128mb x 1
PQI CF 128mb x 1
PQI CF 256mb x 1
EagleTec WiFi card.
EagleTec CF Lan card.
Air Cable Bluetooth adaptor
Pretec CF Bluetooth card
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36 year old originally from Vancouver, canada and now living in NYC. I\'ve been a sound engineer, electronics technologist and now a unix admin.
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Wow! Diverse group...
I\'m a 38yr old IT manager for a hospital in Wyoming. Built my first computer (Sinclair Z80) from a kit I ordered out of Omni magazine in the 70\'s. Been making a living with computers since the early 80\'s. I actually went from CP/M directly to Unix and then went back to pick up Dos and Windoze along the way.
Still miss the old days of charater based Unix systems and batch file menus on Dos...
I currently have about 5 palm based devices doing things like being remote controls in the home theater and controling Winamp (the only fairly good use for a windows box IMHO). I use a Kyocera 7135 Plam based smartphone as my pda. Once you have a really good PDA combined with really good wireless service and internet access virtually anywhere - you never look back.
Have a 6k that I purchased instead of a $15k Fluke wireless meter. Love Kismet - Still working on getting a satifactory packet sniffer to run. Love VNC, And there is just something cool about running a console session on a handheld device!
As far as other platforms - you name it - I run it... First love is still Unix / Linux.
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31y old guy from Poland. MBA in Warsaw University. I am about to finish project of restoration of 180y. old manor house outside of warsaw (www.esse.pl). I had to organize everything from scratch (there were no water, electricity, drunken guys in rooms who make fireplaces in old wooden floors. Roof was colapsing so - very positive beginning)
It took 7 year of my life. Now I am feeling like ship ready to sail seven seas.
had 5500 now 760 with pdaxrom, 256Mb CF, WiFi Dlink 660, 128Mb SD
Greetings to everybody on ZUG.
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Jason Ralphs
19 year old college student with an unknown major working in the admissions office of his college.
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piotr: Amazing house!!!
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32 yo, ex unix sysadmin currently in Sydney, Australia. Have recently returned to academia
to do another undergrad degree (mech eng). I\'ve had a 760 since they were released.
At first it was just a toy, but now it\'s an incredible workhorse that I use pretty much all day.
Cheers to all.
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22 years old french stdent in \"philosophie\", living in Rouen with my fiancée (!), my cat and my c750 pdaxrom 1.0.5, 64 mo CF.
I use my Z in class and man, i love that computer and abiword !!!
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Curt, 31y/o, Milwaukee Metro Area
BS/MS in Atmospheric Science... somehow ended up as an IT consultant. Hopefully getting out of consulting soon and into something permanent or in a totally different field. What field??? I have nooooo idea.
I\'ve owned 12 different handhelds and have finally settled on a C760 now that my client has given us access to Palms for work related stuff.
Trying to get my C760 set up with Gaim, Kismet or similiar, QtSMS, and zSafe. Afterwards, I\'m working on setting my C760 up to help with storm chasing activities. Searching for a relatively cheap, wireless weather station to mount on my truck.
Hope to have time to contribute software back to the Z community. On the list: OS X syncing software, builtin wifi sniffer into Network Applet, bug fixing stock PIM apps.
I\'ve run Linux (Redhat mostly) at home exclusively from \'97 til \'01. Now I\'m almost completely switched over to OS X... except for my Z, of course, and a couple of VirtualPC virtual machines.
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25 yo, unemployed, living in Antwerp/Belgium with my brother, a dog, my upstairsneighbor\'s cat and my soon to be delivered c860.
going to use the Z for replacing my crappy palm and broken Psion 3,3c & 5 and maybe my /home
PS: alan : just in time for the wedding
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49 years old
live in Eastern Washington State, U.S.
Mechanical engineer - analyze and design nuclear fuel
Learned FORTRAN in school but have since picked up C, Perl and more familiarity with Unix
Also a linux enthusiast
Got a 5600 when prices dropped last Fall and just dink around with it
Currently learning c++ so I can do some development on the Z (have been eagerly lurking in the development forums)
Love music and play a Hammond (but not very good)
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Scott, 37 years old, Systems/LAN Admin for a television station in Texas running more OSs on more proprietary machines than I care to think about on my day off. Former Paratrooper/Infantry Sergeant in the U.S. Army, lots of pretty ribbons and a Combat Infantry Badge from Desert Storm. Yee-hah. :wink:
SL-5500, rarely use it anymore but can\'t seem to part with it.
SL-C760 running Cacko QT 1.21b, daily workstation. Wired and wireless LAN cards, 512 and 256 SD cards. I never synch, I have a USB adapter for my SD cards, turns them into keychain drives.
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Simon, 26 yo (4 days ago!, just about recovered ;-)).
Currently writing up my PhD (Automotive Engineering), Degree in Mechanical Engineering with German, currently working in Engineering and Applied Science dept. at uni as a research officer doing NDT work.
Heavily involved in MATLAB for my PhD, used FORTRAN for placement work and as part of degree course. Visual Basic & VBA to earn money during the holidays.
Si
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Francis J Douse
33, born in SE London, now live in York in the North East of England (since 1998) where I live with the love of my life and two misbehaved cats. BSc, MSc, PhD in Computer Systems Engineering. Built my first computer (ZX80) when I was about 9 or 10, was learning Z80 machine code not too long after. Worked for at the Police Forensic Science Lab for a while doing work on VAX\'s etc to start with. More recently was doing UNIX sysadmin and worked on Linux embedded systems for a fibre optics company. Gave up on computers after I realised the whole world had gone mad with Windows. Left the rat race and the non-stop quest for more, more, more. Now I concentrate on the things I like and do a lot of study into philosophy, religion, history and everything for pleasure. I study Iaido and got a shodan in Karate about 11 years ago. Live in quite a nice place and I like to be out and about on my bike with my Z and listening to music. Had virtually every major PDA, more recently had a Clie which I dumped for a 5500, I liked it so much I eventually saved for a 860 which is the best computer I\'ve ever had. At home I\'ve been running a Sun workstation and now I have a media centre built on Debian. Obviously I won\'t go near MS Windows
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Jason Bhalla-Gaunt
21, Born in Huddersfield in the UK, currently living near Birmingham of the same country.
Currently a data entry monkey for a manufacturing company called AMS.
Furry lifestyler (look up furry fandom on the web), also into online games and most kinds of music.
What I own in relation to my Zaurus is listed below, I\'m also one of the ZUG Team.
Read my profile for other details
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Furry lifestyler (look up furry fandom on the web),
I have just got Wikipedia working on my Z so I learned all about the Furry Lifestyle without even having to connect.
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Roy El-Rayes
currently in philadelphia, but born in beirut, lebanon..
2 5600\'s (pxa255).. one running tkcRom and the other as a backup with original sharp rom..
i\'m a college student living with my gf and one of my best friends and i shall be 22 in 8 days.. i\'ve been programming since i was about 8 years old so that\'s my main hobby which ties in to my schooling.. i go to school for web design (it\'s the more.. creative side of programming) but i really fancy c++.. my current project is this:
http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/3dfb/ (http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/3dfb/)
when i\'m not doing school or working on websites for clients, i also work valet which lets me drive bmw\'s, mercedes, and any other nice car you can imagine.. i\'m actually thinking about getting a c860.. it seems to fit what i want more
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21 years old, student of Japanese in Gothenburg, Sweden. I plan to study some kind of computer oriented stuff later... perhaps computer linguistics.
My C750 is in flight from Japan as we speak. Boy am I excited
I already know one area of usage I will have for my Z that noone else has posted so far: As a DM helper tool for D&D sessions. Not exactly work, but it sure will be handy. And I will also use it, and this is the main reason I bought it, as an electronic dictionary with japanese (chinese that is) character input. To be able to look up Kanji just writing them is gonna be so quick and nice.
Otherwise, I\'m a mac man all the way. My PowerMac G5 (1.6 GHz) is my only computer right now, and gets alot of use. Alot.
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Paul: Aberdeen Scotland
Been writing software on Unix 20 years linux 11(C/perl/php/SQl....)
Now doing some project management work
have defunct sl5000d
SL760 64mb sd/256 CF Origo CF wireless with Cacko 1.21b
connectedt to my Dell 8600 running fedora core 1.
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I\'m from Lisbon in mainland Portugal (near where \"Rock In Rio\" was this year. PS: Britney came here and sang in playback...can\'t even sing, poor singer wannabe tsc tsc).
I\'m 23, and I\'m currently studying computer science in a portuguese university where I\'m also a systems administrator, since a year ago.
I use Linux since 1997, being SuSE at the time, tested (and still do when new versions are released) all the major distros, and I\'ve been happy with Mandrake, since 9.2 (I play with cooker, and use 10.0 in several other machines). I\'ve also looked into FreeBSD and OpenBSD. At work I deal with RedHat from 5.2 to 9.0, two Windows Domains in Windows 2000 Advanced Server with four machines in the active directory infrastructure. Our students labs use Mandrake and Windows XP deployed with Rembo(.org was bpbatch).
Running Linux was what drove me into buying a Z, and I currently own a 5500 imported from the U.S.A., and I\'d like to move further to a C model someday. (I\'ll keep dreaming... ) Right now I use the Z as I used my computer when I started to use Linux, and I\'m mostly tinkering with it, all the time. I plan to take some time this summer to really get deep into OE and start doing something useful. I don\'t even have PIM software installed. I use my Z to browse the web, wardrive, draw, play some games... (I must have some problem, since most of the time I use it to configure it... ).
I had contact with c, java, perl, html, javascript, haskell, prolog, caml. I\'ll extend and evolve my knowledge in more languages (and paradigms), and mostly learn to code better in general.
Feeling what someone posted above about being around computers all the time, I started recently to learn how to draw, and bought a few books I read somewhere were good to start with, and I\'ve made some progresses from stickman to more nice sketches. ehehe I\'m planning to buy a better drawpad, a couple of good pencils and markers more adequate to work further.
I listen to every kind of music, except things which have metal in the name (at least most of them) I mostly enjoy electronic music, from dance, trance, (you can take euro dance and italo from the list too ), d&b, jungle, chill out, hip hop, r&b, etc, etc, jazz, acid jazz, blues, etc, rock, some pop, etc... I plan to learn music maybe when I graduate (maybe I\'ll have the time and money by then), and if I can, I\'d like to learn how to play sax and that instrument used in jazz bands which I think it\'s named cello? It\'s like a huge violin.
I began to look into R/C cars, and have two 1/43 M-Tech Epoch Indoor Racer (the perfect indoor R/C car), which are full propo. I\'ll get into track building someday, but I don\'t have the time right now.
I\'m also a very (very... very ) shy person.
I\'ve also been trying to recover from delayed sleep phase disorder.
[EDIT]PS: oops, was this too much? :oops: [/EDIT]
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From Indianapolis, IN, USA. Middle-aged systems developer dude for aircraft engine test systems. Yes we use Linux! I\'ve written some aplications, available at http://www.cinlug.org/index.php?module=Sta...f=db/index.html (http://www.cinlug.org/index.php?module=Static_Docs&func=view&f=db/index.html)
Some folks call me Doc, others call me Dave.
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Carles, 35, from Barcelona - Spain (uhmm.. what a nice weather today; what about going to the beach this afternoon?). I have my own sw company (not a big one; just a couple of us), thus I\'m the CTO. I bought my Z for remote server access, so I don\'t need to carry a laptop, but I have actually ended up using it for:
1) web surfing from the sofa
2) provide my 2yo son with a computer of his size (he likes the image pad app)
3) casual email from anywhere
I hope not to have to use it for remote accesss; that\'ll mean I\'m in trouble ...
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Bob Rashkin, 54 years old.
I currently live in Calhan, Colorado, US (35 miles from Colorado Springs), although I was born in New York and spent my teen years in Los Angeles.
I work as a software engineer for a big defense contractor, designing and building satellite control systems.
I have a 5500 with CF and SD cards but no connectivity (there\'s no WIFI points in the area and I don\'t have a cell phone).
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Mario, 38, originally from Mexico City, living in Madrid, Spain for the last 5 years with my wife (11 years of uptime on the marriage and going strong)
C760, Linksys WCF12 WiFi, Expansys 256MB SD, Cacko 1.21b
I\'m a freelance Linux, Java and other UNIX consultant, been running Linux since 1993. Done programming, sysadmin, presales, architecture, written and translated tech books.
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IT Director, 42, Living in Pennsylvania (45 Minutes drive NorthWest of Philadelphia).
Own SL-5500 OZ 3.2, SL-6000, numerous SD, CF cards.
On the \'fence\' about pulling the trigger and ordering and SL-C860.
Retired PDAS...
Palm III
Palm V
Sony Clie\' N710C
Sony Clie\' N760C
Toshiba e550g (Only and last PocketPC I will EVER own.)
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24 years old, from Sweden (hello Ezekiel!), freelance graphic designer / illustrator.
c700, 256mb sd, 256mb cf, socket bt cf, corega ethernet cf
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Nathan Williams, 41 years old, Sr Process Analyst for The Hertz Corp., live in Oklahoma City, OK
My current assortment of goodies is listed in my sig block and I also own a SL-5500 and a rather well used Handspring Visor Platinum.
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Dawn Ahukanna (yes, I\'m a girl). Consultant for software firm in the UK, have a Chemistry degree and Chemical Engineering post grad. In my 30\'s ( women don\'t reveal details like age, weight etc).
Previous owner of Psion 3, 3c and 5mx.
Saw that light and got a C860. Have Aircable BT, SD and CF media blagged from my digital camera.
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Marc Riggs, living in Welwyn Garden City in the UK, currently work for a Video-on-demand over ADSL company in Stevenage.
I\'ve been a analyst/programmer since leaving University ~5 years ago.
I own a C860 which is currently heading back to Japan for repairs, and a iPaq [bought as a replacement], which not even close to a replacement!
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I am 40, living in Kiel, Germany.
KDE developer, working as a Qt programmer.
The company I am working for is writing Qt components, porting SW to Qt or writing new SW in Qt.
My pet project is to make KDE PIM applications ( I am working on korganizer, some other guy on KAdressbook) running on zaurus.
www.pi-sync.net
Lots of SD and CF memory cards, Aircable BT, CF GPS receiver, wireless and wired CF network cards.
Have a C-760 and my newest toy for this device is a XGA CF-card for output of images/presentations.
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My pet project is to make KDE PIM applications ( I am working on korganizer, some other guy on KAdressbook) running on zaurus.
www.pi-sync.net
Along with many others, I\'m really happy you are doing this. KO-Pi is just great!
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Lenny Volk
Certified Geek
Age 23
Moved to Raleigh, NC on Thanksgiving of last year
I\'m a sys admin for a hospitality company
I tried some college but got too caught up working to finish
I own a 5500 with Sharp\'s 3.13 rom
I\'m waiting for a 6000L to arrive
And I\'ve tought many people around the country that the Zaurus is a remarkable device
(shameless plug for my other thread on the 40 5500\'s I set up)
http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php?n...iewtopic&t=4746 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=4746)
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Living in Southern Indiana
Electronics Engineer
Age 49
Hobbies: Robotics, Wireless Networking, Techno Geek
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David
New Jersey, USA
SL-5500
theKompany Rom
64M SD
65M CF
SMC EZ Connect 802.11
Tumi PDA Case
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Botgeek: what kind of robotics do you do? I love the field, and I\'m kinda messing around with it.. I can\'t wait till I get better at it.
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Bryan DeLuca
Age 28
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX USA
UNIX SA/Security/Audit/Documentation (AIX, Solaris, Linux)
Currently working for a Fortune 5 company (Big, evil, you know the type). The Z is my PDA and an escape for when I can\'t handle the red tape anymore.
c860
Cacko 1.21b ROM
Overlay Brilliant
512MB SanDisk SD Card (Not a problem yet)
WCF12
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Angelique, Irvine California, 22, student at UC Irvine (graduating June 19!!!). Originally from Santa Rosa, CA. Hope to move back east someday...
I have an SL-5500 wih a wi-fi card, a Targus keyboard, 256 cf/16 cf/8 sd, Sharp-ROM, and a nice purse by Parcel with just enough pockets to fit all my Z accessories plus my wallet and makeup, of course (thank you Urban Outfitters!). And T-Mobile HotSpot.
I carry my Z everywhere; and use it to take notes in class, write essays, as an MP3 player, for email, and for surfing the net. I have had bad luck with Sharp microwaves and Sharp TVs, but my Sharp Z is the best thing I have ever purchased. I wish I could afford a 6000!!!
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Lea from Helsinki, Finland.
Computer security consultant (GSNA) taking a year off and doing stuff towards PhD.
I have had two Psions (3c & Revo), but because I\'ve used Unix based systems
since \'86, clamshell Zaurus was and is THE thing for me.
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I am Korean and living in Pittsburgh.
A graduate in Physics
SL-C760, Cacko 1.21b, Linksys WCF12 WiFi, 256SD, 256CF, CF type GPS, CE-AG06 Digital Camera Card
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Ed
Philippines
IT operations/Systems/Network admin
works for a company that distributes laptops copiers pabx etc.
Zaurus 5500/OpenZaurus
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G\'day. I\'m Gordon and I live in Sydney, Australia.
I\'m currently a Support Analyst for a large statement/bill printing company. I deal in Unix scripting and making internal webpages to assist in my support work (basically to keep the account managers off my back). I know C and have been using Perl for about 8 years.
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I\'ve decided to poste here too
Anton Maslovsky, 29, Moscow, Russia
Work as a software engineer in Moscow office of US company.
Supporting and maintaining Cacko Qtopia ROM ... for fun
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29 years old, from Turkey, Working in North Cyprus now, Linux System Admin. Sharing home with my gf and two cats and two dogs. Probably will move to Kenya in a year for volunteer IT business, and will move somewhere else after a year, (money vs life)
Very much in love with linux for a long time...
sl-5600 with oz-3.3.6-pre1,
Linksys WCF12,
64 MB Sandisk SD
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Felipe, 42, Math. Prof., Austin TX, USA.
I do have too many accessories, listed on my
Zaurus webpage (http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/voloch/zaurus.html)
together with a few things I did for the Zaurus. I use the Zaurus instead of a laptop on trips.
Otherwise I enjoy playing with it. I\'m going to Japan in August and maybe I\'ll upgrade to C860.
I run Linux at work and at home, but my wife prefers OS X and my contrarian teenage daughter prefers Windows, so I have all three at home. Plus I\'m playing with BSD on an old computer I bought at a garage sale.
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Jeremy, 27, Unix System Admin, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
I have been using linux since 95...and solaris since 99..
I work for a marketing company in the internet devision as the unix expert...
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Botgeek: what kind of robotics do you do? I love the field, and I\'m kinda messing around with it.. I can\'t wait till I get better at it.
I have like 2x all the mindstorms... it would be awesome to get the perl or python IR drivers ... or whatever... for z -- to control the bots :-]
Scott
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Keith, 19, Oregon State University. I\'m sure you can figure out my occupation. I use my zaurus for general tinkering and for road trips where it\'s a pain in the butt to lug around a whole pile of equipment... also for random wardriving. Kismet + Z5500 + D-Link DCF-660W = Bliss
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I have like 2x all the mindstorms... it would be awesome to get the perl or python IR drivers ... or whatever... for z -- to control the bots :-]
What perl do you use?
I have been converting to ipk and using the Debian stable arm packages and the perl 5.6.1 is very complete (including perl/tk for Xqt). There is a module libdevice-serialport-perl from Debian that should provide the interface you need to IR. I have mindstorms too and if I recall the communication is standard serial at 4800 or 9600 bps.
If you want python http://www.vanille.de/projects/python.spy (http://www.vanille.de/projects/python.spy) has pyserial. I find the python for the Z here to be very complete and use it for python and pyqt apps. You could probably make a very nice Qt Mindstorm GUI.
When I last worked with them I was using LegOS (Now brickOS). BrickOS is a replacement embedded OS for the Mindstorm that can run 8 concurrent threads. It is very stable IMHO and works well. Programming is done using a gnu H8 cross compiler (any doing Z C development should feel right at home). BrickOS/LegOS supports using the IR directly and has an API to write for code for the host end. You could probably also port that API to use the perl serial module.
LegOS (brickOS) IMHO is the best way to go if you are hitting the limits and performance of the base OS and/or NQC.
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I\'m Senthil,32. Originally from Chennai(Madras), India. Currently working as a software consultant for a company in San Diego, US.
I was an owner of Psion Revo previously. Right now I own a 5500, I am planning to move to C760 or C860 shortly.
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Skyline - 18 Highschool - i love girls, they are the best.
windowsME - shit
windowsXP - 2.8ghz / 1.5g ram / 5200-128mb / monitor speakers / wireless kb/mouse
redhat - laptop / kde / wireless / irda / dvd / ..firewire - shit
zaurus sl5000d - just got a week or two ago / wifi card / oz / love it (not as much as girls though)
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NH - daily.
MA - couple times a month.
NYC twice a month.
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Enjoy programming in c, perl, <cough html cough>, enjoy pen testing w/friends and for $$. Always legal though.
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Tim Sawchuck, 55 years young (I\'m growing old, not up.) Wireless phone tech for many years, burned out.
Now I sell cigars in the only \"work free smoke place\" in San Luis Obispo, California. Working at getting the shop setup for business online for the owner and a close friend, who is as much a techno dummie as I am a techno weenie.
My SL-5500 is my complete portable pocket computer that masquerades as a PDA with contacts, calendar (KO/Pi rocks), ogg music, a movie, shopping lists, e-books, Hancom sheet, password storage, checkbook, auto mileage, workout tracker; war-walking fun and wi-fi e-mail / web browsing when I\'m home on the deck smoking that last cigar of the day, watching the sun set into a glass of red wine.
I also run Mandrakelinux Cooker and work with them to keep USB connectivity for the Zaurus functional. I\'m an \"MS Free\" household.
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Botgeek: what kind of robotics do you do? I love the field, and I\'m kinda messing around with it.. I can\'t wait till I get better at it.
I have like 2x all the mindstorms... it would be awesome to get the perl or python IR drivers ... or whatever... for z -- to control the bots :-]
Scott
Have you checked out the oopic?
www.oopic.com
John
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Hi, John Waalkes here, 46, Controls Engineer for GM (Saturn).
Born in Germany, living in Tennessee (IMHO one of the most beautiful spots in the US and I have moved 33 times).
My primary job is to help out the Maintenance guys when they come up against a problem that stumps them (we can share the blame that way), but since they usually do such a fine job I tend to resemble the Maytag Repairman
Otherwise I\'ll engineer in a new feature or device for a conveyor (or whatever) and program it (I\'m a PLC programmer - visit www.plcs.net if you are interested in what sort of animal that is).
I live in an old farmhouse built in 1865 complete with 9 foot ceilings, wood floors, four fireplaces, 6 foot tall windows, and a spiral staircase. The house was built by a pair of teachers and just behind my house is the old one-room schoolhouse that they taught in (now used for storage).
Love linux, electronics, Memphis (Beale Street), and fishing
Always have a few beers in the fridge, and usually a cooler full in the front yard (I live out in the sticks so anything goes). Stop on by for a cool one
Our humble little car plant:
http://www.autointell.net/nao_companies/ge...mfg/saturn1.htm (http://www.autointell.net/nao_companies/general_motors/saturn/saturn-mfg/saturn1.htm)
http://www57.pair.com/lane/spctrip3.htm (http://www57.pair.com/lane/spctrip3.htm)
Oh, and I own a C860, and just gave my venerable old 5500 away to my bartender.
John
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Bob Rashkin, 54 years old.
I currently live in Calhan, Colorado, US (35 miles from Colorado Springs), although I was born in New York and spent my teen years in Los Angeles.
Calhan? Folks, that ain\'t the end of the world (that would be Matheson), but you can see it from there.
I more or less grew up in Black Forest. My daughter lives in the Springs and is a student at UCCS (Electrical Engineering).
I work as a software engineer for a big defense contractor, designing and building satellite control systems.
Silicon Mountain... No surprise there Ever get up to the Air Force Academy?
I have a 5500 with CF and SD cards but no connectivity (there\'s no WIFI points in the area and I don\'t have a cell phone).
Heck, when I lived out there, the jackrabbits would have to pack a lunch to visit Calhan
Well, except for these:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tall-tales/j.../jackalope.html (http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tall-tales/jackalope.html)
John
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I have like 2x all the mindstorms... it would be awesome to get the perl or python IR drivers ... or whatever... for z -- to control the bots :-]
What perl do you use?
I have been converting to ipk and using the Debian stable arm packages and the perl 5.6.1 is very complete (including perl/tk for Xqt). There is a module libdevice-serialport-perl from Debian that should provide the interface you need to IR. I have mindstorms too and if I recall the communication is standard serial at 4800 or 9600 bps.
If you want python http://www.vanille.de/projects/python.spy (http://www.vanille.de/projects/python.spy) has pyserial. I find the python for the Z here to be very complete and use it for python and pyqt apps. You could probably make a very nice Qt Mindstorm GUI.
When I last worked with them I was using LegOS (Now brickOS). BrickOS is a replacement embedded OS for the Mindstorm that can run 8 concurrent threads. It is very stable IMHO and works well. Programming is done using a gnu H8 cross compiler (any doing Z C development should feel right at home). BrickOS/LegOS supports using the IR directly and has an API to write for code for the host end. You could probably also port that API to use the perl serial module.
LegOS (brickOS) IMHO is the best way to go if you are hitting the limits and performance of the base OS and/or NQC.
I forget which perl I was using... I was grabbing all the stuff for the mindstorms about 2 years ago... and I found some perl code that would speak to the IR tower via a serial... I figured
on the Z, we could just go straight IR.
Scott
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Botgeek: what kind of robotics do you do? I love the field, and I\'m kinda messing around with it.. I can\'t wait till I get better at it.
I have like 2x all the mindstorms... it would be awesome to get the perl or python IR drivers ... or whatever... for z -- to control the bots :-]
Scott
Have you checked out the oopic?
www.oopic.com
John
I hadn\'t... but just took a quick look. I\'ll take a longer look later.
Actually, I was hoping to use the mindstorms as a simple
real world interface for an AI project... nothing too complicated on the mindstorm side.
Scott
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I hadn\'t... but just took a quick look. I\'ll take a longer look later.
Actually, I was hoping to use the mindstorms as a simple
real world interface for an AI project... nothing too complicated on the mindstorm side.
Scott
Ok, I suppose that that would work. And there are all sorts of linux tools for the Mindstorm.
Not a lot of IO, but maybe you don\'t need that much (our old PLC\' s handle up to 32k. Which is one hell of a lot of wires).
The switches and lights for the MS do look pretty cool
John
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Daniel Renfroe - 24 - Dallas, TX (Carrollton Actually) Married w/ no kids, 2 cats and a bad ass 94 Impala SS (9C1 clone) (my other passion)
Work for Delta Construction Services Company for 6 years now. Do CAD, Steel detailing, project management, IT and whatever else needs to be done. In the middle of getting a degree in Construction Management. I think I am the only guy in construction?
Dont have a Z yet (paying for me and my wife\'s school), have 1 Handspring Prism that I abuse every day, and a broken one for parts. Have lots of computers to play with mostly 486 and pentium. All started with my mother (who to this day knows nothing about computers) got me a Commodore 64 & a little programming book when I was like 6?7? Learned some minimal programming in ???? (not sure what?) on it, then someone gave me a old IBM PC JR a few years later (8 MHZ I think?). I\'m talking some serious power, basica + floppies and a lot of line numbers (most of my programs will still work in Qbasic on my AMD XP2200, although really, really fast. Continued to Visual Basic 6 and vbs/vba. Then about a year ago?, I bit the bullet and got a copy of Suse 8.2, now can\'t get enough of Linux, trying to figure out what to do next? (I am saving for a 6000, dont know how much longer the Prism will last)
www.deltabuildings.com (designed by me)
btw: the users of the ZUG are a very intresting group...
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I\'m in chip (IC) design, also 33 originally from Moscow/Russia like the original poster (179 then FUPM Fiztech).
Now living in Israel.
C760, running Cacko of course !
;-)
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Tokyo,Japan. But I am from China.
Own a C860, but was a 4-year Palm OS user, just switched to Linux PDA recently,\'cause I am a big Linux fan and a long time PC Linux user
BTW. anybody else lives in Japan or from China here?
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...degree in Construction Management. I think I am the only guy in construction?
Well, maybe currently, in a past life I was an Electrician
...(most of my programs will still work in Qbasic on my AMD XP2200, although really, really fast.
I guess so
Continued to Visual Basic 6 and vbs/vba. Then about a year ago?, I bit the bullet and got a copy of Suse 8.2, now can\'t get enough of Linux, trying to figure out what to do next? (I am saving for a 6000, dont know how much longer the Prism will last)
Have you seen some of the basic offerings for linux? Getting pretty good...
www.deltabuildings.com (designed by me)
I need a barn, I\'ll have to check y\'all out.
John
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Jennifer Schneider, 21, from Germany, am just a student (and a geekette )
sony desktop pc (FreeBSD) and Zaurus C860 (pdaXrom)
and i love music
--Jenn
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Wesley Stevens
Atlanta, GA, USA
20 years old
about 3 years playing with linux with one of them years windows free and still going and own 7+ computers and a 5600/abicom wl1100c-cf/512mb and 64mb sd cards/
i love my Z
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Daniel Savard, 41, living in Beloeil (about 35 km east of Montreal, Quebec Canada).
M.Sc. in physics, worked for IBM as scientific computing specialist and AIX expert for 5 years. I then started my own company providing consulting services as Unix and Tivoli (www.tivoli.com) expert.
I am using Linux since 1993 and my 1993 486 pc is still running Linux doing very useful work almost non-stop 24/7. I own many other Intel based computers.
My last hobby was fiddling with MythTV (www.mythtv.org) which is a very promising Linux-based project.
I got my Zaurus from my sister living in USA, they are not sold in Canada. It's a SL-6000L and I just received it a month ago. I am waiting for my GPS CF and plan to buy few other goodies and must have.
I have three children, two are still living with me and the oldest (18) is living in Jamaica most of the time. I also have two cats and no more mice in my old country house.
I am interested in embedded devices and I plan to take advantage on my Z to learn more about it.
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Simon Whiteley, 33, Married expecting first child March 2005.
Leeds, United Kingdom.
Print Finisher for 15 years, now a Learning Support Assistant in a High School.
First computer Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k (1982).
Various DIY PC's.
Microsoft free for 3 years, now trying to convert everyone I know to Linux. Several friends and family already bitten by the penguin!
I am looking forward to getting a PovRay modeler on my C860......when someone compiles one or by a miracle I do it myself!
Simon.
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Grigorios Prasinos
I am 29, from Athens, Greece.
Currently I am doing my PhD in Distributed Algorithm Engineering.
I use my beloved C750 mainly as a mini laptop, but also for some warwalking (with kismet).
Next step is to decide between a handheld or a CF based gps and start geocaching.
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Enrique, from Uruguay, Latin America. 33 years old.... Started in computers around year 1985 with a Sinclair zx81... A year later I built my own rs232 and comunications suite for my spectrum 48K, to use with a modem. No one was avail to chat with so I figured out I had to try with banks ... that is how I ended up hacking my way INTO a world class bank, and thus being the first "hacker" over here heh ... after that I dedicated mainly into gaming and graphics industry... refining myself with AMIGA computers into 3D bussiness and video production. Did some blueboxing also ... Now I am mainly a .net framework programmer, and I work at home, sustaining myself by means of an e-commerce website I did for myself, and programming projects with third parties.
Zaurus is not something known around here.... much less yet the C860... When I tell people that I had to buy it in Japan, make it go into USA, and make it be brought down here, the usual reaction is "this guy is nuts" but when I extract it from my pocket and show them some tricks, the usual geek starts screaming and going nuts for one too... so I think I am responsible for some more zaurus sales up there in Japan any time from now !
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43yo, married, 1 daughter(6), living in Hamburg, Germany
Im a SAP consultant, doing mostly ABAP (yes that's a Programming Language) programming.
I had several Palm-PDAs and was more or less content until i first stumbled over a bargain Z-5500. (I didn't keep it though)
When i dove into the matter i learned that something like the C7xx was around so i saved my money to get one. First, i just had to have it, because it's so cool, but thanks to the Ko/pi team i was able to sent my palmV into retirement and do everything i ever used a PDA for with it and a lot more. (PIM, mp3, movies, e-books, timetracking, war-walking etc)
I just love it and yet i'm a newbee ...
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Jo, 28, living in Lancaster, UK. Studied maths at Uni, then underwater archaeology, now I'm a land archaeologist, just discovering my hithertoo unknown prediliction for all things geek.
Graduated to a zaurus 750 after a few years as a psion devotee, love the flexibility of it all (particularly apache/php/mysql/phpwiki). Now waiting for a gps cf so I can show off to my fellow archaeologists.
'Fraid, that other than my zaurus, I'm still a windows girl for the moment!
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Cyril, 36 , living in Paris France. Consultant in Transportation and Management systems. Married and a 4 year old daughter (Pauline).
Bought a C860 at the end of last year (first in france).
Using it as a MP3 reader, PDF reader (news in the suburbs), PIM for work, game emulation (SNES,GB) and perl programming (learning)
My daughter uses it (carefully!) for drawing.
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I'm Yan, 26, I live in Montreal Canada.
I have a Zaurus SL-5600 with a SD 256mb card and soon (I hope) a WIFI card :-)
I bought my Zaurus via E-bay cause they dont sell them in Canada. I choose the Zaurus because it run Linux and is very flexible.
Until I learn how to customize and compile the rom, I use it as a PIM, mp3 player, portable e-book (I have a lot of texts) and to play small games :-)
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I'm actually new to this forum from New Jersey, USA. I'm 37 yo and a Director of Development for a financial firm on Wall St.
I first heard of Zaurus PDAs from my boss and was really impressed by it. I have various Unix and Windows servers at work running a multitude of applications. At home, I have a Mac Dual G5 and a Sony X505 laptop (thinnest laptop in the world).
I'm a former Palm and Pocket PC user. Have had a ton of PDAs because I can't seem to find the right one. But, I do think the Zaurus is it! Also very fond of cellphones especially those running Symbian.
Anyway, I have a C860, Ambicom WiFi, Ambicom BT, 256mb SD, 512mb CF.
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Nuno Carvalho
Oporto / Portugal
SL-5500
Male
25 years old
System Administrator / Network Admin / LUG Founder / Linux (Mandrake & Knoppix) && Windows User
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I'm 23 Years old, living near Reading (UK), I have a degree in Computer Science and am mostly disenchanted with the IT industry.
I run Debian (sarge and sid) on my various computers at home and work and try to find the spare time to contribute back to the free software community.
A sparkly new SL-5600 is currently winging its way to me from the US and I'm anxiously waiting its arrival, at which point my trusty old Psion 5 series will finally be going out to pasture.
Glad to have found such a thriving community
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Wow! I have been away for a few months (very busy) and just read this thread. This is great! So many Zaurus users does ones heart good.
Rod, 45yrs old. I live in Columbus, OH. with my wife of 22 yrs and kids. (I have lived in DC, Charlotte NC and Newport News VA.)
Most recently a Director of IT for a major communications co. Now doing IT Consulting for a business my brother and I own.
Put plainly, I love technology! I have it all, 4 or 5 PCs, a couple of laptops, handhelds, palmtops and PDAs. I have had just about every major handhelp and palmtop at one time or another. My favorites were the original Zaurus ZR-5800 (still have) and the Psion 5MX (still have it too). But I love my C-860 (see below for accessories)!!
I use it for everything. My favorite apps are: StageOne outliner, KO/PI, KA/PI, PDF viewer, VNC and now textmaker. With my wireless card in I can VNC into my server and control it or browse the web or check my email from outside on my patio - that is very cool. I love to go to Panera Bread and work there with my C860 and their wireless service (free). With the Z, I can work from anywhere there is a wireless connection! I don't know of anything else as powerful...
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Joe Lescoulie
23 years old
Fresno California
I work at a small community college bookstore in the agricultural center of the state. I'm married with a three year old and one more on the way (a boy!). I'm trying to get into the camups IT dept, and not having much luck, as I don't have many "real" credietials, (a+ cert, some cisco traning but no cert )It seems just saying "But I'm a nerd!" doesn't get you a job. I use my z as an mp3 player, a web browser and a game platform. I've been uning various flavors of linux for a few years now, and like to think I know what I'm doing (I'm supposed to be a pro damn it!) but if you look back at my previous posts it is pretty clear I have a long way to go.
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hello my name is Lu and I'm a zaurus addict.
Been dirty since i got my first fix 1 year ago. My little sl5500 was on the out at Circuit city(120 bucks), bought my micro-innovation keyboard(40 bucks), 3 wifi cards( 3 bucks each), socket serial connector for cell phone(15 bucks, xtra battery(4 bucks)... ( they freaked when i had the mother load at the counter...)
30 y.o. married and a linux addict. I pay for my gadgets by doing a gig as a pharmacist, for the anesthesiologist, i'm the pain in the ass.
been hacking linux since 98', redhat for dummies and now on debian sarge, married and occasionally get to enjoy the florida sunlight between hurricanes. Dual PIII 550mhz: Debian Sarge, 2 Laptop D800 Debian Sarge(mine and my wifes), Sager Gamelaptop n5690: Debian Sarge, 1 pIIIghz boxes, bittorent, backup, play divx on tv.
Love cars, 68mustang, 2 hopped up honda's, sad to say my honda is faster... scca soloII cone slayer.
I use txdrug with lots of personal additions specific to my work, mp3, camera occasionally( usually my big catches when I go fishn' ), my personal apache server is great for my compilation of protocols and specific info in my Hospital, kismet, vnc, ..... the list goes on.
Can't wait until the next model with the mind-link function comes out and I can call all the other Pharmacists and Physicians "Hill Billies".
peace, love, linux....
sl5500
shaprom
sd250mb
cd512
and other stuff on the rebate shelf at circuit city.
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Name: Mitch
Age: So close to 30 it hurts.
Job: Hospital admin (receptionist), hate it but it pays the bills and lets me buy toys.
Also, Social Sciences student
Hobbies: Regularly destroying my computer and rebuilding it, playing with my Z, warwalking (with my Z, would wardrive but can't drive), hating Micro$oft with a passion, and writing love poetry to a woman in my department at work.
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Dirk, 45, Systems and Network Admin from Columbus, OH. Have worked for the Columbus Metro Library for almost ten years now as Network and Unix guy. Got my RedHat CE cert in 2001 in Durham, NC. Since they wouldn't cover it I had to pay for it myself. Haven't used Windoze since 1999 at work, and finally got my wife's machine converted to SuSE last year. The first thing she noticed was no pop-ups and no crashes.
Hers was the last holdout, now everything at home runs Linux, either Debian for the Sparc boxes, or SuSE on x86.
Started with Sharp sometime in the mid-1990s with the ZR-5800, went to HC4600 and decided to give that up as a bad job. Found the 5800 could go a month or more on a single charge but the 4600 and Winderz could barely go a week. I got tired of having to start from scratch.
Bought my SL-5500 right after they were announced and have worn most of the paint off. Now the screen's flaking out and the keyboard is so loose it's hard to use. Currently it's running tkcROM v2 with someone's async IO enhancement and a 256MB SD card set up as /home.. I can't remember who did the enhancements, but I found it here and highly recommend it for the 5500.
They gave me a Dell Axim at work and after using it for about two weeks I gave it back. The only thing it did well was sync, everything else was useless. Plus there was almost no software available without shelling out dollars. We have so many advantages in the FOSS world I think we get a little spoiled.
So... Just received my SL-6000 about a week ago from amazon, I was so excited to get it I had it overnighted ($35!!). Ordered it with the CF adapter, and 1GB SD card. Man, this is the most beautiful screen I've ever seen on a handheld device.
Currently I collect old Sharp PDAs. Couldn't afford a Wizard back when, now they're $2.00 on eBay. Have ZR5800, ZR5000, ZR3000, ZQ7000, IQ7200, ZQ8000, the printer, fax modem and a bunch of the add-in cards. I just love this stuff.
Currently have: 64MB, 256MB, 1GB SD cards; 64MB CF, Linksys WCF11; Serial IO cables; Sharp Camera card; Sharp Microphone/Headphones; and a Piel Frama case.
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Scotty; age 60, living in Nome Alaska. Sailed here on a 27 foot sailboat a few years ago and the ocean froze solid so I came ashore for the first time in ten years. Very much a Linux fan, although slightly above beginner in skill level. I have an iBook running Yellow Dog and OS9 plus a couple of Intel desktop machines running Red Hat and Mandrake.
New SL 6000L owner. First PDA since a palmpilot a few years ago. (which gathers dust in a drawer).
I am very impressed with this machine !
Just got the domain, "mypdasite.com" want to make a pda friendly web site and would like suggestions for 'content'. Try to make it a useful homepage for Zaurus people. My 'other' page is nomegifts.com
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WOHO another Alaskan!!! Barry, 30, live in North Pole AK, was working as a computer tech for the North Star Borough school district. Now on an "extended leave of absence" due to budget cuts. Working as a "Guard Bum" in the air national guard. Have a 6000 and love it. Had a iPaq 5550 but getting a stable linux distro was taking too long. Have a 256mb sd card for apps and a 1GB cf for storing crap. Mostly run macs, just got a dual 2.5 G5 after 3 months of getting the ship date pushed back. Keep a few pc's around for linux servers and one winblows machine for gameing.
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I might as well throw in here.
My name's Roy, and I am living with my girlfriend and best friend here in Philadelphia. I am in college and in 3 months I shall be done. I plan on moving down to Orlando, FL as soon as I am done. I guess the shootings aren't enough here; I need the hurricanes in Florida..
I have used linux since about 97. I've had a computer in my hands since I was 6, so 12 years later I'm still going strong. Been programming (QBasic YES) since I was like 8. I grew up in #2600 and met many people when I was younger. They taught me many things, including asm, c/c++ and many, many, many other languages/skills. I'm going to college for web programming though. I can teach every single web class they've given me here, but you gotta have that little paper they call a diploma so I didn't really have a choice but to come
Web design is easier than other programming jobs, lets me be more creative, and it usually pays more, so it seemed the logical choice.
I currently have an 860. I had a 5600 before and was rather disappointed with it. It didn't live up to the expectations I had for the machine. I got the c860 though and I haven't even looked back. This thing does everything for me. Whether I SSH into one of my servers, listen to music, play nintendo, watch movies; whatever it is, I continue to amaze both myself and my friends. Everytime I bring the thing out to do anything it attracts attention, and I've even converted some Palm users to the Zaurus market.
At home I run a windows box (I'm a fan of Microsoft Flight Simulator), but my main workhorse is my Slackware machine. The thing has been going strong for more years than I can count. It was a Celeron 666 for so long, but I converted it into a MythTV box for a while and it was doubling as my Apache/MySQL server and MythTV box so I 'upgraded' to one of those VIA motherboards with the built-in processor. I wish I never did; the thing runs even slower now. Regardless, I had to recompile MySQL and now I get some odd error from MythTV so I just pulled it from the TV and I use it for development only. I also have my cute new Dell laptop that runs Slackware as well. A 3.2ghz laptop is a beautiful thing. I also have a dual PII 450 that sits at my feet. It has Slackware on it, but I haven't done anything with it. It is a nice big, full tower, so it also doubles as a table
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Man I'm late (again)! 5 months no entry in this thread and now me...
Peter, 38, from Germany. Bought a used C760 from a guy in the U.S. Great tool. Love it. Runs Cacko 1.22 since yesterday (moved between pdaXrom, Cacko 1.21b and TKC ROM before).
Studied Medical engineering on a German Polytechnic in the early Nineties, went into IT Support soon after degree. Still there, doing tech support for an Investment Banking Application in one of Germany's bigger banks.
Enjoy this forum, got a lot of help from here. Very interesting to read about all your backgrounds.
Peter
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-=shrugs=- I'm late too, but then again, I haven't exactly been around long. College student studying Computer Security & Investigations in Peterborough, Ontario, currently living at home to save money, which I am exceedingly short of at the moment.
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Hi, I am Gilberto from Mexico.
Electronic Instrumenation Engeneer.
I think that i am the only mexican with a zaurus.
I received recently the C700 from a friend of Japan and waitng my new WIFI CF.
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Just seen this post i hate being late!
anyway:
Luka /male/25
From Zagreb / Croatia / Europe
Have my own small constructing / engineering company
allso a student fo Economic sciences
in my spar time i luuuv playing with Linux ( have a dual boot XP / Debian)
i own Zaurus 5500 for about 6 months and i love it. ( Tkc rom with /home on SD)
CF PEGA WLAN card - wifi hotspots are just getting to start in zagreb a lot of opportunities
AmbiCom Air2Net Bluetooth BT2000-CF - Z is pared with my 6600 nokia.
Long time PDA user - but this is my first linux powered , mostly ipaq
hoping to upgrade to c700/750 - but it is really hard to find here
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I'm Matt, 29, living in the UK near London (well near Watford to be more precise).
I don't yet have a Zaurus, though I intend on having a C860 soon, and I've been playing around with QT on Linux desktop a bit so hopefully I will create some Zaurus apps once I have one!
Matt
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I don't yet have a Zaurus, though I intend on having a C860 soon, and I've been playing around with QT on Linux desktop a bit so hopefully I will create some Zaurus apps once I have one!
We really need more of you.
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I don't yet have a Zaurus, though I intend on having a C860 soon, and I've been playing around with QT on Linux desktop a bit so hopefully I will create some Zaurus apps once I have one!
We really need more of you.
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I have a few ideas for apps, so maybe I'll have to hold a poll for which I work on first :-)
Matt
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I have a few ideas for apps, so maybe I'll have to hold a poll for which I work on first :-)
You can always ask for UI-design help if you need any.
I might as well introduce myself now.
I'm a 24 year old student from the Netherlands. I study CS, and I do sysop and consulting on the side (mostly webapp design and implementation).
My main areas of interest are UI and user-paradigm design.
In the Z community, I just harass Zautrix with millions of bug reports. If he doesn't hate me by now, it's a testimony to his patience. I also mod the software corner, but that's really minimal.
If anyone feels like coding a backend for the app of their dreams but really sucks at making it usable, don't hesitate to get in touch.
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I'm 41 and also originally from Zagreb, Croatia (bok Luka). For last 20+ years I have studied and worked in US and Canada (MS in CS from University of Tennesee, Knoxville). I currently live in New Jersey (married, 2 kids) and work in a quantitative financial research in NYC (Wall Street for a large european bank where I manage a group of developers as well as do my own research - when I manage to find time). Areas I'm most interested in include machine learning applications in finance (neural networks, genetic algorithms, bayesian nonlinear forecasting). My favorite OS is OSX although I also love Linux and OpenBSD. I do most of my own development in C++ on back end, and PHP on the front end. My other big passion is photography.
As far as Zaurus toys, I have sl5500, sl860, audiovox voice/gprs card, and several 1G CF and SD cards.
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UK - Wiltshire - MD - Started with SL5000d, then 5500 now C760.
Best thing ever happened - Tkcrom with JavaB0ys kernel for Wireles Tools & Symbol C7xx - Cacko never even came close.
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I'm Chris from Jefferson City, Missouri, USA.
At work, I develop in-house IBM iSeries ("AS/400") applications, mostly insurance and accounting. At home, I use OSX and Linux.
I have an SL-5500 with all kinds of stuff.
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I’m Mike (Mikew) from Doncaster, England, at 61 I’m probably the oldest person to post so far.
I work as an IT Manager in the NHS (National Health Service) with 70+ Intel servers running mostly M$ software, all the really important work is done on a fault tolerant cluster of 4 x HP AlphaServers running VMS with duplicated databases. Significant changes to when I first started in IT when I worked on a number of huge ICL mainframes using the George operating system with 100MB disk drives 10 times larger than today’s PC, when the PC ran CP/M rather than Windows or even DOS and the main programming languages were COBOL & Fortran. Still like the text interface primarily to write software in a programming language called Mumps which I still use on my Psion with the help of the DOS emulator.
My home computing started with an Acorn Atom which eventually became the BBC microcomputer, still have Acorn Archimedes, Psion 3, 5mx & Netbook. Primary portable device is now my Zaurus C760 although I have never quite managed to move completely away from the Psion dues to lack of suitable software, no DOS emulator, bank account or something to keep track of staff annual leave/absence.
My main hobby for 20 years was teaching & coaching swimmers, these days I spend most of my spare time helping out a growing group who need support & coaching to get the most out of their PC, age range from my 3 year old grandson who’s favourite saying is ‘I know how to do it’ as he elbows me out of the way to someone who purchased his first PC in his 80s.
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hi my name is Stefan age 22 I life in Austria/Vienna (for those of you who dont know that small country next to Germany, and we got no Kangaroos here )
I work as a Sysadmin but most of the day lets say "Managers-Toy-Admin" in the construction industry (Mostly M$ Stuff but we want to move forward to Linux in the next years)
I played with Computers since I was around 6 Years but figured out quite late that this is what I want to do in the future (at around 17)
Since I started workin I tested a lot of PDAs (good thing I didn't have to pay for them all I only bought the Z's on my own ) here is my History: Psion 3c, Psion Revo, Compaq Ipaq 3630, HP Ipaq 3870, Sony Clie N700C, Clie NR70V, Handspring Treo 270, SonyEricsson P800, Zaurus SL-C700, Sony Clie TH55, MDA2, and then finaly come back to the Z with my C3000 cuz the Z is simply the best PDA I ever used
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LEt's see where to start....
My name is Chris, I'm a 38 year old financial advisor living in Kalamazoo, Michigan USA.
Yes there really is a Kalamazoo!
I grew up with computers, first one was an old Ohio Scientific, it had DUAL 5 1/4 floppy drives...I know you're jealous!
Anyway, currently own 3 desktop computers (file server, mine and one for da wife) a Dell Inspiron 8100, a visor deluxe and a visor prism.
It's time to graduate from the Prism to a C3000! I've been reading alot here and posting a little trying to learn and get off the fence and order my C3000 from pricejapan.
Looks like I'm the only one from Michigan....I'm SURE I'm the only financial advisor, I don't know any other financial advisors that are geeks.
Just finished remodeling our house, I swear I threw away most of the origina l house! My other hobbies include photography and cars. But that's it for now!
Chris
Future Z owner
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Impressive thread so far! Given that some (if not most) Zaurus are sold in Japan only, it's not that surprising to see that people here are passionate about their Z, and come from nearly all over the planet!
OK, my turn to introduce myself...
Patrick, 34, married with two kids, and a job which (almost) doesn't involve computers (airline pilot), and live in the south-west of France (Europe).
I've discovered computers at the age of 11 and I've been hooked up since that time, but I somehow managed to make it a leisure only and not my primary job! I've owned a Sinclair ZX81, Amstrad CPC 464, Amiga 500, and then a couple of desktop and laptop PCs. I've been "playing" with Linux since the era where you needed 50 floppies to install the first distribs (back when there was only Slackware/SLS, with version numbers in the 0.92 and such, and CDs were not very common), but never actually "worked" with it - because computers are only a hobby for me!
As far as PDA are concerned, I've owned a Psion 3a, Psion 3c, Palm V, Sony Clie S500C, Sony Clie N700C (both of them were Japanese devices), Sony Clie NX70V (US model, this time), Tungsten T (as a backup/test unit and to use with my Garmin GPS in the car), Handspring Treo 600 (great smartphone, btw), and now a SL-C3000 Zaurus purchased last month.
I've been running a Clie-centered website in the past, and will try to contribute to the Zaurus community with a few Zaurus articles (I write articles in a French PDA website), howtos and docs translations.
If I can manage to install the necessary tools, I'd like also to write a few Qt apps for the Zaurus, but I'd need a Zaurus-based chaintool (which already exist, albeit in a "work in progress" state as far as I could see), and a good "Getting started with Qt programming" book (I've mostly written (simple) PalmOS or C++Builder apps so far...)
My first goal is to write a simple UI to be able to use my GSM/GPRS CF card with the Zaurus (don't feel like using minicom all the time to handle voice calls).
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Sergio from Santiago,Chile. I have a master in computer science and i work as support engineer (IT) in a financial institution.
I own a 5500 Z with OZ 3.5.2 and a 56K modem (which i´m not currently using). Primarly i use the Z for doing network stuff (VNC, web server, SSH, etc..) with my Fedora Core 2 Box, but i´m planning to do more Java related stuff (JDBC, RMI,etc).
Sergio
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Check the member name for location, USA of course.
I started life in pdp land, graduated to the Plato project (Cyber 760, I think), considereed owning a VAX at one point, own various Macs, PCs, SGIs,... oh yeah, and a zaurus 5500. These days, I try to stick with perl/Tk, although I could be convinced to work with something like Qt. I will hopefully be returning to grad school to get a PhD in neuroscience.
In the mean time, I'm learning to love the dim side (M$) and windows CE. Actually, I think how nice embedded linux would run on everything. We shall see. It's only a matter of time before some vendor "gets" PDAs + linux + upgrade path. Too bad it's not going to be apple or sharp.
I came up with a really cool idea for rapid multi-character recognition across latin & non-latin character sets. But, I could never implement it because I couldn't find which library/routines/whatever on my zaurus provide this service. Anyone want to volunteer that special knowledge?
-Jim
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wow.
didn't think i'd have so much fun reading about other people in a zaurus forum!
after hearing about all you guys i'm starting to think i'm not as much of a geek as i thought i was.
i'm probably one of the least interesting people here...
my name is adam mcauley, i'm 30 years old and i live in sheffield, UK. I've had a zaurus since january this year, thanks to ebay.
I've had my eye on them since the old 5000 developer models were out but could never justify the expense. I work as a web developer in Sheffield (Perl, PHP, mysql, linux, apache) & i've been using linux for a few years.
as i am a newbie, not only to zaurus, but to pda's in general, i'm still finding out what it is i'm trying to do that the Z can't. A nice remote control app would be nice, the opie thing (lirc) doesn't seem to work for me. and there doesn't seem to be any good map software for the UK.
used the sharp rom, didn't like it, switched to cacko 1.22 one night after a couple (ahem) of beers down the pub.
oh, and when people at work saw my 860, they all thought it was cool, esp with the funky japanese chars all over the keyboard. even the non geeks were impressed.
ps. Maslovsky is a genius.
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39 yr old American lawyer living in Tokyo. Originally from the midwest.
SL-C3000 with WL12-CF-S11, Filco USB keyboard and Logitech mouse. iRiver IHP-120 for external storage. Pocket Dict softcase and Pelican 1120 hard case.
Home systems are an RH7.1 server and homebrew desktop running Ubuntu and Fujitsu laptop running Xandros.
And the mammothrept is my four year old. (Mam"mo*thrept) n. [Gr. grandmother + to nourish.] A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child. [R.]
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Well, I'm the proud new owner of a Zaurus SL-C860 as of Wednesday. Been reading the forums and whatnot in preparation for its arrival. It's sooo cool!
I'm in my 30's, from New Mexico, USA. Yes, we ARE a state. I'm a Materials Engineer - though currently on an extended leave raising 3 boys that my partner and I recently adopted. 0-3 in nothing flat...Now, that'll keep you on your toes! Learning Linux should be a piece of cake in comparison
Still playing around with the Sharp ROM, but I have Cacko and pdaXROM already downloaded and I *almost* have enough nerve ready to go for it...nah, maybe just a bit more research first.
Anyway, thanks to all that have contributed in the past and continue to do so.
Jen
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Hi all,
Simon Williams, 17, living in Tavistock, Devon, England (Devonshire born and bred ). A total geek (well, nearly). Yet to find any Linux geeks my age in this area
Studying Maths, Physics, Electronics and Computing (M$ Visual Basic- YUK!) for A level.
I type dvorak.
Learning C/C++ (in addition to VB), with a mind to contribute to the Linux community.
"Command Line Junkie"
Know a reasonable amount of Japanese and Spanish and teaching myself Russian.
Networking expert (nearly).
Against the illegal, immoral, fraudulent, wasteful, communist, bureaucratic EU in every way.
Against Micro$oft in almost every way.
Still stuck with SL-5500, because my parents won't let me buy a new one :'(
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Still playing around with the Sharp ROM, but I have Cacko and pdaXROM already downloaded and I *almost* have enough nerve ready to go for it...nah, maybe just a bit more research first.
PDAXRom is another story, but Cacko is really just an improved Sharp ROM, it's really quite straight forward.
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Against the illegal, immoral, fraudulent, wasteful, communist, bureaucratic EU in every way.
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I wonder if that's based on actual knowledge of the EU and it's goals, or just a ill-thought out reactionary position as dictated by those who act patriotic but actually haven't got a clue what it means?
Was this thread intended for a statement of political views too? If so, I'll gladly weigh in.
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Still playing around with the Sharp ROM, but I have Cacko and pdaXROM already downloaded and I *almost* have enough nerve ready to go for it...nah, maybe just a bit more research first.Â
PDAXRom is another story, but Cacko is really just an improved Sharp ROM, it's really quite straight forward.
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Yeah - I went ahead and flashed it with Cacko just a couple of days later. I like it, but I'm getting some errors now with packages that ran before. i.e. the ir keyboard and frotz...still maybe it's something stupid I am doing - I keep learning just how much I don't know!
I'm having a blast though - I might try OZ next.
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Hi folks !
Blaise, 36 yo guy, living in Toulouse / France, gis and webmapping developer.
Started with Apple II... many years on Linux but always so much to learn. I am now working with Apache, Php, MySql and MapServer( http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu) ).
Not familiar yet with mobile devices, but now I want to try to port MapServer to a Z and add a gps, connections...
Also very interested in Flash player (development ?) on Z.
I bought a SL-5500 recently, startup is not easy, but thanks to this forum, I just got my first help very fast, so... keep on going !
blaise
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Hello... Doug from Erie PA USA
52 yr old Presbyterian minister.
I've used my 5500 since Sept 01, mostly for notetaking during meetings, augmented by that wonderful Targus keyboard and to IRK (yeah Craig!) or to keep me from missing appointments. (almost switched over to KDE-PIM (yeah zautrix) Even used the Z this week during a funeral, reading from qpsword.
I am still using windo$e in my PC's, but am easing my way into Linux, since getting wind of the open source community through Star Office 5.0 and openoffice.org (since May 2001).
I have dual booted with ASPLinux 7.2, knoppix, kanotix, slax, beatrix and yoper, but still not comfortable with anyone of them!
My 5500 is pretty stock, with only a 512 SD and 512 CF running Cracko's 5500 rom, "home-built" battery extender.
But it really has been this community that has made the Z worth it all!
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doug --
since you're into try...
try NLD -- Novell Linux Desktop -- it will be useable out of the box.
Novell purchased SuSE and Ximian... they've highgly customized and configured
gnome (and kde) for NLD. Does it cost money? If you want support (online?) --
but *I* feel it's worth it.
I love freebsd -- but I have NLD at work (since we standardized on SuSE anyway),
on my work laptop (just put in the cd, installed, it repartitioned, etc.) and as my main
desktop at home -- win xp (for games) base + vmware to run nld desktop and freebsd
(and other) nodes.
www.novell.com
products
NLD
http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/ind...menu_nld_bottom (http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/index.html?sourceidint=productsmenu_nld_bottom)
remember, this is still just SuSE (SLES 9) + gnome... but it's already configured
and it has the full weight of novel l behind it.
Scott
ps: jm02, IMnsHO, YMMV
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Against the illegal, immoral, fraudulent, wasteful, communist, bureaucratic EU in every way.
Against Micro$oft in almost every way.
Stop the politics. Governments may be illegal, immoral, fraudulent, wasteful, communist, bureaucratic in some form or another, but this isn't the place to blame them for it.
I am still using windo$e
Stop doing that, damnit.
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- Wowzers! And here I thought I'd be going to bed! (drool)
- 43 yr old software engineer living in Nashua, NH. Married three years ago; no kids. Currently writing database-driven applications using Notes/Domino on Winbloze (this is personal preference based on experience, ev1l, not "MS bashing" ... Winbloze is an inferior operating system, imho; that's just how it is), doing S2S, C++ integration, digital signatures ... essentially making Domino do all sorts of things it's not supposed to be able to. (wink) Work from home 24x7, I actually work for an itsy-bitsy contractor to the Dept of Energy, and everything I do runs on DoENet, the internal network, so it's not public-facing. Well some of it is, but you need an account to see it. (vaccuous stare)
- Like hardware as much as software; college degree is actually EE. Built most of the systems I own, and maintain my own LAN with multii-layer security (ostensibly for work, though I get a bit of utility out of it from time to time). Nothing is bulletproof, but I do what little I can in the even littler time I have!
- Been interested in computers as long as I can remember; first language was Fortran IV when I was 14, and one of the few I've actually received instruction for. (grin) Forgotten more computer languages than I know. (wall-eyed stare) Currently taking Java courses 'cause work wants me to. (shrug) I taught myself Java years ago, but if they want formal training, I don't mind. I do the homework on Hiro. (wolfish grin)
- Have six computers (not including pdas), but only use three with any real frequency. Waiting for the wife to finish configuring her new system so I'll have a dedicated Z cross-dev system instead of dual-booting like I do now. (pout) Then I'll have seven. (snicker) And I'll be able to debug blueZ a lot easier ... it's sweet when it works, but when it doesn't it's very frustrating. It's about time to poke at it.
- First paid programming was on a 370, followed by a stint with a distributed multi-version Unix project in '95. Dabbled in *nix before that, but really got my feet soaking wet then, and just loved it. Haven't liked any other OS nearly as much since.
- First personal Linux was in '96 as the firewall for my first LAN. Been my firewall ever since, though I've upgraded the hardware twice and the Linux version four times. Linux runs on four of the six boxen, five if you count the dual-boot. Looking to migrate my entire work environment to Linux, just to ditch Winbloze, because it blows! I really, really want to be rid of that worthless tripe before XP's lifecycle ends and I'm forced to "upgrade" to the next in-kludge-ation. Then all six will be Linux. Yes!
- Never have owned a Palm ... can't stand things that won't multitask ... though the wife swears by her Treo 650. First PDA was a Cassio, then went to Sharp (YO series), then Sharp Zaurus (very early, no linux), then Psion 5/5mx, then an SL-5500, and now a C1000. I was very depressed when Psion left the PDA market, and thought I'd have to ultimately get a Palm, or worse, a Winbloze CE. (violent shivver) But Sharp came to the rescue, and the awesome wife got me Cricket for my birthday three years ago. Linux in my pocket? Wowzers!!
- First pocket computer was an HP-41C I got as a senior in high school, back when a pair of them were the backup orbital mechanics/landing insertion computers on the space shuttle. Had the card reader and two expanded memory modules for it. That was replaced with an HP-71B I got in college (1984), which I still own, along with a 32KB (!) memory module, the FORTH module, the card reader, and an HP-IL interface. I also still have both the Psions and a TRS-80 PocketPC. Cricket (the SL-5500) got sold off to get the new GB SD for Hiroshi (the C1000). I can't imagine a better pocket system than a Zaurus, except a Zaurus clamshell.
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Name: Bam
Location: Gobi Desert, Mongolia
Interests: Decompile Palm Applications(ASM), PIC programming, Linux(recently), plc's electronics, hek anything technical
The rest, is just that, the rest.
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I'm amazed at the diversity on here - like others have said, it's fantastic to read who and where people are, and what they're using their Zs for.
I'm Nick, from Leeds in England. Married with one son, who turns two next week (blimey, where did that time go?) I work as a technical architect for a large-ish systems integrator. Z-wise, I've got an SL-5500 running Cacko 64/0 with a 512MB SD card, and I'm just amazed that X works on it: the idea of me buying the 5500 was as a cheap introduction to see if I can live with Linux as the embedded OS, and the answer is an emphatic "yes". I want more now
I've had most Psion devices from the Organiser II through to the 5MX, taking in the 3a, 3c, Siena, 3mx and series 5 on the way, and keeping all but the series 5 (the 5MX will do for my history of PDAs "display" ) and then decided to look at the WinCE clamshells in the form of the HP 320lx, 620lx, Jornada 680 and 720. I also tried an ipaq 3630, but it wasn't for me: the OS is hobbled, whereas WinCE straight up is quite nice. I develop as a hobby for the 720, and I do like Embedded Visual C++: it just works, and works well .
To me, these things are much more than just PDAs: to keep me interested, they have to be full on computing devices. The fact that they help keep me organised is a given; they've got to interest me to keep me using them
I've written a couple of reviews of WinCE stuff for hpcfactor.com, a site devoted to clamshell WinCE devices. "Back in the day", I used to write for CU Amiga and Amiga Computing whilst I was a student at Leeds University, studying computer science. I also used to tinker at developing for the amiga, and wrote the amiga driver for the cheap Tabby graphics tablet which did well in the UK.
Anything gadgety, geeky or technical normally piques my interest: I recently was playing with Atmel AVR chips to try and get data out of my car for real-time display of engine data... Got so far with that, then sold the car which sort of put a dampener on the project
Enough waffle, I'll stand aside for the next person!
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My pet project is to make KDE PIM applications ( I am working on korganizer, some other guy on KAdressbook) running on zaurus.
www.pi-sync.net
Along with many others, I'm really happy you are doing this. KO-Pi is just great!
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I second that! KOPI especially. My wife has RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Distrophy) and has to take a lot of medication and I have psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, which requires a few daily and weekly meds myself, not to mention that both of us have a lot of appointments with the MD. KOPI helps me keep track of it all. I don't know how I did without it now.
I am originally from Louisiana, right outside of New Orleans (yes Katrina hit that area real hard and I lived in a mobile home there), but have been living in the Netherlands (Leeuwarden) for a year now (just got my 5 year papers to stay here today) with my wife who I met online.
We have 2 sl5500s which I brought over from America. I use it for a PDA (of all things), but also for Bible Study, MP3 player, games (I even have Zork). I'm an former graphic artist (photoengraver, offset printer and screen printer / artist), but my arthritis forced me into premature retirement. I started using Mandrake linux back when 7.0 was out ( can't remember when that was). Now I only use Linux (Mandrake Move) occasionally on my desktop and my Zauri are my main Linux boxes.
As I am trying to learn to speak Dutch, I'm looking for any Dutch-English tools that will run on Zaurus. I have bdicty and even bought one (Dutch-English thingy)from them, that I thought would work (because it was the same extention as my English Pro dictionary), but it was for some other platform. I also have zbedic (running Wikipedia), Opie Reader, and Konqueror (in case I find one in HTML) so I'm keeping my eyes peeled and widely peripherized.
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Stephen Tucker
Sarasota, Florida now was in Gainesville,Georgia
Owner of Streamlinecpus
Managed some of the top golf courses in the U.S
Loved computers and decided to take that road. Met some of the best freinds/ partners ever in the TRIsoft boys Marc and Rob. Since owning Streamline have met people all over the world. Truly an experience I have enjoyed.
As far as my hardware HAHA what do I not have thats a easier question to answer.
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too late for me, I was an old member of zug, while too late to post something here.
Chen Yang, 30 years old, in Beijing, China (Very few people from China)
Working for a US IT company, mainly in compiler related R&D.
Logically, I have owned my first Zaurus SL-5500 since Feb, 2003, when I was in university. From the great deal of HSN, 178$, with the help of my friend in IL. The price is a little cheaper than it was introduced, but it was still a little expensive for my hobby. But I physically owned it after half a year. Planned to write applications for it since I was a little too confident, while after graduation, I found myself absorbed in my job. And it was stolen when I was having a business dinner with colleagues from US on March, 18, 2004. Great sorrow!! I have dreamed several times since then, told that it was returned but never happened.
I started to long for a C series since I lost my SL5500, but I cannot afford the price. Then another SL5500 came into my vision. I got it from Jonathan in ZUG's forum, it was great! Thanks to him. I installed the Sharp ROM 3.13, with what I have backuped from my original Zaurus. Did little development based on that, extended the murphytalk pingyin input method with software keyboard support. And I was in making the Ambicom CF FM card working.
Got my C3000 this august with the help of my friend in Tokyo. It was great! A powerful portable workstation for me.
That's all.
Nice to meet all the Zaurus users here.
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Stuart Adams.
I'm a 19 year-old college student (net. admin), living in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
My c1000 is my first PDA, and it rocks. The Planex CF Wifi card isn't the greatest, but oh well.
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Joseph ,46 years old. I own a construction company that specializes in the construction of retail and restaurant chains.
MA Philosophy from Concordia University in Montreal.
Have been living in Vancouver (Richmond) for the last 16 years.
I've been obsessed with PDAs for 9 years and have bought a new model every 6 months on average. Started with palm, moved onto Psion, back to palm and now using a palm and my newly acquired love: my 3100. My work laptop and home computer are running 100% Ubuntu (no dual-booting for this guy). My office desktop computer still on windows.
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Cresho
34 year old male student....again (career change)
been buying sharp products since i can remember. I owned a wizard for 2 years and now i have a sl5500 and a c1000. I love them both and intend to buy more sharp products as long as it keeps my interest and even better with linux. I preffer to learn linux as a hobby over watching stupid television shows except for scifi battlestar galactica. hmmmmmmmm.....i dont watch tv anymore. I stoped buying music ever since it took a wrong turn somewhere in 1994.
who knows what the future will bring but certainly is not american
I am an advocate of free speech especially with the http://www.eff.org (http://www.eff.org)
I predict americans will become enslaved in drm due to the lack of knowlwdge the majority displays. GNU will die since patents will destroy it and we will all loose the freedom to create.
I am here trying to assist in liberating the many mislead users to freedom and help spread fthe word.
just a marvel fact....
why are we not running ethonol fuel for 76 cents a gallon and why do we pay 4 dollars a gallon for gas? brazil runs pure ethanol on their cars. Someone is pulling a fast one on us. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4581955.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4581955.stm)
hawaii has been fueling the cities power with sugar for over 100 years. why do we use nuclear power? on a different note http://www.ergon.com.au/environment/macada...=true&platform= (http://www.ergon.com.au/environment/macadamia_power.asp?yf=true&platform=)
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I really like reading this thread, but never took the time to post here :
I'm Werner from Belgium.
Age: 37
Married.
A son (age: 6) and a daughter (age: 8).
I'm working as a surveyor. We're in land-surveying, GIS and road design.
I'm developing apps for survey-specific-calculations and tools to improve Acad functionality.
I'm using computers since I was about 15. I've seen quite a lot of different systems (commodore, amiga, atari, HP85, XT, AT, HP-Apollo, .... P-IV)
My first handheld was a HP95LX, which I used until I bought a HP680 in 2001. That one I never liked, but I used it until I bought my SL-C860 last year. That's the one I love.
C860
PDair case
Grinder Gear case
1Gb, 256Mb, 256Mb SD-cards
WL-110 Wifi
Ko/Pi and Ka/Pi running on my Z, at work and at home
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TsingTao (aka OddManOut; Omnitus; Sandman; SingWah)
SF Bay area in California, USA
(as of Sept 29 '05 change that to Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan)
Age: 25
Single
No kids yet (But I'm pretty tight with mum, da, and my sibs)
Been working as a Network/Systems administrator (and occasional moving man) at the NASA/AMES Research Center out at Moffett Field, CA. Now I'm switchin' gears for a little while to study Japanese down in the Nagoya area. Hopfully when I return in a year my next job will be a little heavier on networking and Unix/Linux and a little lighter on 'moving'...
My father was and is a letter carrier (well for 3 more months anyway) on light duty due to an on the job car accident. He's been the defacto 'IT Guy' at his station and throughout the Bay Area for special projects since about 1984, and he ran his own consulting buisness for a number of years. As such we've had PCs around the house as long as I can remember. Back in the 80's and early 90's I was barely allowed to use them, since I graduated HS I've been buying/building/servicing most of the ones around our house. I generally have 2 - 3 in my room at any one time. Most are dual booted with Win2K or above and one or more linux distros. I have the most experience with PCs and Windows, a little bit with Linux/Unix (studied in school and I'm tinkering more and more with it recreationally), and a tiny bit with Macs, though I've never owned one...
My first handheld was a Cassiopeia I purchased in 2002 as a souvenier of my first trip to Japan. I didn't use it too much. Next I purchased a Zaurus SL-5500 off eBay to help me with some trouble I had getting up on time (imagine my surprise that it didn't have a built in alarm clock). It did that and a whole lot more. Next I purchased an NEC Mobilepro 780. I later acquired the ROM from a 790 and slapped it into the 780 so I could have HPC 2000 running on it. NICE to type on, but finding software was hideous (made a nice Nokia 770-esque wireless coffee table internet appliance though...). And it was really too big to lug around. Next up I got an HP Jornada 720. A Little tougher to type on, but more portable and more powerful. Same limited OS though. So then I bit the bullet and sold the Zaurus, Mobilepro and Jornada on ebay (with a truck load of accessories) and put the $800 I got towards a C-1000. And that's pretty much it for now...
For my current accessory load, check my sig...
Thanks!
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Wow, I am amazed by the variety of people here... I assumed many would be programmers, sys admins or net admins, but not the case at all!
Paul, Cambridge, England, 38, daughter living in Albuquerque with her mother, remarried with little boy aged 17 months, not much time to practise hobbies right now but the Z soaks up the spare time I don't have.
Built a computer (not like today when it's just assembling, I mean literally soldering together) in 1980 aged 13 - a UK101 (Ohio Superboard clone). Cost GB£220 (lot of money for a kid). Took days and days of soldering, worked first time! 4K (not 4M) memory expansion cost me GB£25!
Bought a Sharp pocket computer (just found it on google: http://www.pc1500.com/) (http://www.pc1500.com/)) aged 17y for my A levels. It looked like an oversized pocket calculator with 24 char dot-matrix display and qwerty keyboard. I programmed it in basic, got the advanced programmers/hardware manual from Sharp and was able to write stuff in assembler, and built a cassette interface for it. Sold it during university years to raise money for an Amiga 500 (a lot of money for a student living on GB£1100 a year back in 1987). Learned 68000 assembler, gui programming etc.
Graduated in electronic/electrical engineering from University of Leeds, worked on radio systems with embedded microprocessors (software & hardware), a stint doing tcp/ip networking left me wanting more, joined a consultancy doing Internet stuff (programming websites, setting up firewalls, routers etc) when virtually noone had heard of the Internet (I remember receiving one of the first spam emails of anyone in the office!), learned Solaris.
Joined an ISP as senior sysadmin, got really deep into Solaris/unix. Started dabbling with linux (redhat 7). Left, went back into programming in Java, employer went bust. Became consultant in a big internet payment company where I really got into Linux (debian servers, suse desktops), left when it was bought by a bank 2 years ago, back to the ISP which had gone bust, sold, bought and rebuilt. Am still there, developing java websites and sneaking in fancy features that are cool!
I've been a Z fan since a real geek friend of mine told me about the Zaurus when the 5xxx first emerged, he bought one, but I didn't appreciate linux enough back then. I became a PDA addict quite late compared to colleagues, started with a 2nd hand palm compatible Visor Deluxe, then as addiction grew, sold that and got a Sony N770 palm, then a Palm T3 18 months ago. Palm was great for PIM, but networking was frustrating, and my love of linux had been growing.. had been lusting after a clamshell Z, started reading the forums, and took the plunge in March this year. I intended to sell my Sony 770 & T3 but somehow... I still have my UK101, Amiga 500, and also bought a Sinclair ZX80, 81, Spectrum, Memotech, Amiga 3000 and others to collect.
I still use my T3 as a PIM and for games, but the Z is ebook reader, web browser, mp3 player, ssh client, vnc... latest learning how to convert video for quality playback, and one day hope to actually write the other 50% of my phone dialler/sms/fax program in Qt/C++... and write it up and put it on my web pages.
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Jay Coles, Sydney, Australia, 19
Student _ Computer Enginering(Electrical engineering focusing on the computing parts)
January 2005:
had a 1930, HP announces no windows 2003 SE support so i start looking around, had started using linux a couple of days before that to get a head start on my operating systems class, found handhelds.org and signed up for the waiting list for the 1930. (i should not that from this point on i went totally linux so that i would use it and not just boot into windows ever time)
The x30 from dell comes out with the pxa270, read up on it and decide its a great chip after several technical bugs that were samsung ARM specific (ie no over/under clocking software and bad battery life per MIP and crappy performance) like the bluetooth and wifi after having a SD wifi card that lasted 1 month before problems begain (outside return period of one month). Sold 1930 to friend and got x30 high (624Mhz w/wifi bluetooth). (decided that life without microsoft is not as hard as they make it out to be and decided not to install windows unless absultly nesscary)
generaly happy but was looking for apps that are not considdered usefull for PDA's (ie samba like file sharing) that prevented it bieng usefull, the best i could get was a web sever with cgi support, but there is no scripting under windows and the .net compiler i was running on my PDA sucked, and an ftp server that was great until you tried connecting to it or changing an option. tryed to start up the handhelds.org port which got to the stage where we had a working kernel then development stopped, then the x50 port started, used our mailing list (with permission), got slashdoted, and now all the project is in limbo as no one who knows ewhere to start wants to help. oh well ive got a c3000 now
found an article on engadget about the c3000, then faound 5 more and was convinced this was my next PDA. Told the mailing list to find a new admin as i was changing PDA's (never happended, still admin ) and have never looked back
Currently working on/Waiting For:
* 2.6 kernel for a security based/ UNIONfs enhanced / speed optimised distro of my own creation (waiting on sound support)
* a pxa270 feed of the latest versions of programs with security patches and iwmmx patches (by converting mmx to iwmmx)
* develop an FUSE filesystem that caches mp3's to save battery life
* Advanced overclocking of System BUS, MEM Bus, CPU speed/voltage acording to programs requirements (intel app note that interfaces to performance monitoring hardware on chip)
* plan to build and dual CPU ixp2000 (intel xscale @ 1Ghz) based motherboard that can take up to 4GB's of RAM in DIMMS for cross compiling and to replace my home computer. bassically build my own computer like people did in the old days and to test what i have learnt.
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Hi --
I'm a 59-year-old semiretired hospital porter in Toronto, ON; an ex-Yank, union militant, and NDP supporter. Some people were born to be hanged, I was born to be Canadian.
I bicycle for transportation/recreation, read sf and fantasy, photograph SF fan events around the Greater Toronto Area. I've owned a Franklin eBookman, a treo90, and now a Zaurus SL5500. By far the best handheld yet, at least until I can afford to upgrade to a clamshell Z.
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Just wanna keep this topic alive and have my name logged here also
I'm 21 yo student, studying in Singapore but was born in Vietnam (seem to be the first vietnamese here ).
My first experience with linux is gentoo and i like it much. I have 2 Sl5500 (one from my friend, who introduced me Zaurus) and one SL6000. But most of the time i play with my Sl6000 only (since i have it). I luckily found my 6600 in S'pore and bought it with all of my money... no regret at all
I really admire the knowledge about programming and linux of so many users here
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All right, I'll help keep it alive.
I currently live in So.California but my second home is Turiff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
I am (currently) 50 years old.
I have a BS. Biomedical Engineering, MS Manufacturing Engineering. and currently working on a MA in Medieval History & Technology.
I am (currently) a Software Engineer with Verizon On Line.
Married.
Husband NOT into tech but understands me and my love of it.
All the PDA's I have owned:
Sharp Zaurus OZ-Wizard (their first)
Casio Zoomer
Newton OMP
Newton 2x00
Palm Pilot
GeoFox (clamshell)
HP Jornada (clamshell)
Compaq Aero 1500
Compaq iPac
Yopy 3000
Sony Clie
and now a C1000
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Might as well put my info here.
I'm male and 15 years old. I live in Northern Nevada. I have owned a Casio e125 and a Toshiba e800 (both Pocket PCs). I found out about the Zaurus while researching for a new PDA after the e125. I decided to take the plunge this time.
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consider adding yourself to the map
http://www.frappr.com/zaurus (http://www.frappr.com/zaurus)
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consider adding yourself to the map
http://www.frappr.com/zaurus (http://www.frappr.com/zaurus)
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Can't. Although it says "Attach Photo optional" it gives an error saying:
"Your photo was not uploaded successfully.
Please try again or use another picture."
The "Group Map" link to
[a href=\"http://www.frappr.com/zaurus/map]http://www.frappr.com/zaurus/map[/url]
just sends you back to the main page again.
And the "Zaurus RSS" link to
http://www.frappr.com/?a=rss&gname=zaurus (http://www.frappr.com/?a=rss&gname=zaurus)
gives a screen of what looks like HTML gibberish.
The instructions are kind of limited.
Sorry, but the site looks a bit "beta", IMHO.
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consider adding yourself to the map
http://www.frappr.com/zaurus (http://www.frappr.com/zaurus)
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Can't. Although it says "Attach Photo optional" it gives an error saying:
"Your photo was not uploaded successfully.
Please try again or use another picture."
The "Group Map" link to
[a href=\"http://www.frappr.com/zaurus/map]http://www.frappr.com/zaurus/map[/url]
just sends you back to the main page again.
And the "Zaurus RSS" link to
http://www.frappr.com/?a=rss&gname=zaurus (http://www.frappr.com/?a=rss&gname=zaurus)
gives a screen of what looks like HTML gibberish.
The instructions are kind of limited.
Sorry, but the site looks a bit "beta", IMHO.
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I just did it with no problem. Maybe your picture was too big???
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I just did it with no problem. Maybe your picture was too big???
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That was the main point. Picture = optional; so I did not use a picture. But it would not work without one (so it says).
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ludo aka Ludovic Angot
32 (or 31, I forgot), married, one 11months old son
Taiwan (Hsinchu to be precise)
PhD in electromagnetism from France
Job: RF (radio frequency) testing
Details: Taiwan branch of a US company: testing all those IC that go into your wireless LAN card, or bluetooth product
Current project: WLAN IEEE 802.11b&g
Zaurus: C3000, bought second hand, about 2 months ago. Learning Java, linux, how to use/make/modify dictionaries...
Other: woodworking, RC electric helicopter (crashed one year ago)
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K. M. from Dallas, TX, USA. 25, m
I stumbled across the Zaurus when reading about Linux one day, but went on my way because while it looked great, I felt they were too pricey, hard to get, and I have only recently started using somethign besides Windows (OSX). Time went on, and I was frustrated with all the gizmos and gadgets I tend to carry. Sony PSP, iPod, Nintendo DS, laptops x2 (one is old, stays home), Tungsten T3, and a T-Mobile Sidekick II. I wanted to cut it down to 2 or 3 devices, and that means leaving stuff at home.
Anyway, at first I thought I would build something. I started scouring the web, and remembered Mini and Nano-ITX, and how they worked with Windows. The smallest board I found was 2.7" x 3.9", IDE, CF, and SD connectors I believe, and a 600MHz Transmeta CPU. But no real video support . The 3.5" boards aren't really available to "normal" people.
Nano-ITX was still just too big. 120mm x 120mm is pretty small, but not small enough.
So I started really looking into the Zaurus, especially when I found the CF GPRS modem (I don't like the CF card placement for this, messes with typing on the clamshell models). Then I found this place, and started reading about the different ROMs available, what the Zaurus itself could do, etc.
So now I have decided on the SL-C3100. If anyone has been holding off on the SL-C3100 while waiting for a new model to come out, I promise that next week it will
I wanted the 3100 for more flash-ROM, the internal drive (which I will probably replace with a 4GB CF card when I can), and with my electronic toys I love having "the latest and greatest". With the Zaurus I can just carry it and my Sidekick and have most (more) of what I want. MP3 player, maybe a movie or two, word processing, emulators (my PSP's biggest use until Battlefront II forced a Firmware upgrade to 2.0), and some PDA functionality. Not to mention I find Linux very interesting
The only thing really missing for me is a music writing/creation app . I use Bhajis Loops on my T3 (awesome application, imho) and GB/Logic on the iBook. I've read some threads about the Linux music apps, and the problems encountered with the Zaurus. I've looked into LMMS (Linux Multimedia Studio), but don't know enough about Linux to know if it is really feasible. I should probably make a new thread discussing it instead of talking about it here
Anyway, enough rambling. Great site, lots of good information, and I hope I get my Zaurus soon.
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I'm your basic gizmo guy. I'm not a programmer or techie. I am a wholesale business owner with just enough computer experience to keep a small windows network working. I've had HP Jornadas, Ipaq's and then read about the Zaurus sl-c700 a couple of years ago. I bought a 700, moved to a 760. Currently I'm loving the sl-c860 with Cacko 1.23,Ambicom 1100 wifi card, Lexar 1gig sd card. I bought a 4 gig sd card but the 860 wont recognize it. I really like the clamshell form factor, the keyboard, the great screen, replaceable batteries. This little box does everything but link to my windows business software applications over "Gotomypc.com"
I'd really like to get the sd card to work......any suggestions?
Roger Small
Los Angeles, CA. USA
61 years old, married
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Software Developer at an investment bank in NYC
I do Java and *nix
Own a C3000, Linksys WFC12
Sharp ROM since I'm afraid of losing Japanese handwriting support and dictionaries
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Hello all, I'm a new user here. I just (10 minutes ago) ordered a Zaurus - C1000. After lurking here for about a week, I figured this would be a good time to introduce myself.
I'm Bjorn Keizers, 23 years old, living in the Netherlands (Europe). I'm a full time journalism student (3rd year). I'm a PDA veteran, starting with Sharp organizers, buying he first Palm Pilot Pro, moving up to CE & Pocket PC and now the final frontier: a Linux-based PDA. I even did some Palm programming a couple years ago :-)
Pleased to meet you!
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Buenos Aires, argentina. Physics student (almost finishing the master)
SL-5500 + 1gb sd + wcf12
Probably the olnyArgentain in the forum an one of the few zarus owners in Argentina. Thes things are not exported to South America, the market is owned by palm and ipaq (mostly palm). I had to buy it on ebay and been sent all the way to here.
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David Johnson, age 55 (tied for oldest as far as I could see). Math Prof., Lehigh University (specializing in differential geometry and geometric measure theory). Two grown kids, one more grown than the other. Originally from Fresno, California; went to UC Berkeley and MIT, worked at TAMU, Rice, and Lehigh. Other intersts: cycling.
I've been using linux since (I think) 1991; my first kernel was 0.96c; I'm registered linux user 300 and something. Last Windows machine I owned ran 3.1, I'm happy to say.
My 5500 was my second PDA, and the first one I understood. I had stopped using it since it was not all that useful, until I installed OZ on a lark.
When I had a chance to use someone else's money I got a 3100, and put pdaXrom on it. It's great; a real computer that fits in a pocket.
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David Johnson, age 55 (tied for oldest as far as I could see).
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Wrongness, I'm 59.
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Polish guy, 27, studying early music at the Royal Academy of Music in London, UK
Zaurus SL-C1000, Sd 1GB, CF 1Gb + ALink WiFi
Currently pdaxrom but thinking of changing to cacko with x/qt - not sure...
Any other Londoners?
All the best!
P.
Visit my website (http://www.antiquamusica.com)
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Kiwi male (44) living in Sydney, Australia. Working in IT in the television industry.
C3100 with Cacko ROM and X/QT. Mostly use for multimedia entertainment and web access. Using 2GB SD card, at last!!
Cheers
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Guido (31) from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Paramedic and MSc. in health science working at an (112) emergency dispatch center.
Have a SL-6000L running OZ/Opie & GPE (alt boot) 3.5.4 which I primarely use as a gadget and for its PIM functions. Currently try to develop some programming skills.