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Accessories / NiMH batteries for battery extender

« on: December 10, 2003, 05:44:00 pm »

my mistake, i was not familiar with a special NiMH battery that was designed to quick charge specifically.  normal NiMH batteries are as i have stated though, this I-C3 is apparently not just a standard NiMH, so that is where i was missunderstanding.

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Software / Matchbox compaired to QTopia for Zaurus ?

« on: December 10, 2003, 05:30:50 pm »

if only they had a slackware for zuarus with window maker

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5x00 General discussions / Did I get ripped off?

« on: December 10, 2003, 05:17:26 pm »

wow, i got my sl5500 as a display model straight after it was discontinued for the sl5600, i got everything with it in the box and had never been personalised before i got to it...got it for a total after taxes for $275, that included the extended 3 year warantee :-D

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Software / Matchbox compaired to QTopia for Zaurus ?

« on: December 10, 2003, 05:00:05 pm »

i think i understand what you are explaining...so qtopia is like red hat, a package of software, including a gui such as gnome or kde,  and matchbox is just the gui or window manager like gnome or kde, so you would still have to load the software that is included with the qtopia ?  am i getting that correct ?

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Software / Matchbox compaired to QTopia for Zaurus ?

« on: December 10, 2003, 04:40:42 pm »

window manager and GUI, wouldnt a window manager serve as a GUI much like window maker and gnome ?

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Accessories / NiMH batteries for battery extender

« on: December 10, 2003, 04:36:41 pm »

In short, if you dont \"need\" to charge them that quickly, save yourself some money and charge them properly over a longer period of time.  slow charge.

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Accessories / NiMH batteries for battery extender

« on: December 10, 2003, 04:35:10 pm »

quick charging any of the rechargable batteries will cause them to develop a shorter life span but is more difficutl or takes more quick charging sessions with the NiMH and Lithium Ion rechargables than the NiCD to shorten its life span.  In the business field, this is called planned obsolecence and is intended to shorten the life of the product as to get the consumer to purchase more of then increasing the products sales...quantitiy over quality...just a bit of explination.  Also, the charge for a NiCD will have a longer shelf life than the NiMH which has a longer self life than the Lithium Ion, but Lithium Ion back towards the NiCD tend to have a longer life span due to the chemical memory that tends to develop in the NiCD\'s. :-)

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Software / Matchbox compaired to QTopia for Zaurus ?

« on: December 10, 2003, 04:07:00 pm »

I just read some articles on Matchbox for the Zaurus PDA.  I was wondering if anyone with more indepth experience with linux and pda\'s had any suggestions, comments, complaints, lies, rumors, stories...concerning Matchbox as a possible gui for the zaurus

http://handhelds.org/~mallum/matchbox/
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5966737838.html

just some reference sites i read up on the subject.

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General Discussion / What the heck is going on?

« on: December 09, 2003, 09:45:32 am »

btw, i am hoping that by tax time, i will be logging onto the net with my zaurus with a cf netcard i can plug into my hub along with a full size keyboard to type more quickly.  If all works out, i will be logging onto the yahoo linux chat room with gaim or gyack...cant wait!!!

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General Discussion / What the heck is going on?

« on: December 09, 2003, 09:39:32 am »

I was thinking maybe a frontpage that has two options, one for dialup/zaurus users and the other for straight broadband/home pc users.  one would be more lean than what is here now, the other would stay the same or even grow for those who are not hindered by slower connections, but both cross linked in certain areas such as posts and what not so they all have the same important information available

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General Discussion / What the heck is going on?

« on: December 09, 2003, 09:34:58 am »

I am not all that html literate, but if there is a possible way, could you maybe consider making a zaurus/dial up site that links certain info from this site to it without all the graphical stuff that zaurus/dial up users can log onto seperate from broadband users but still lets them view the same posts and other relivent info as the broadband users on this site...

Sorry guys... sometimes I forget about dial-up woes, and just throw up a bunch of crap on the site. 

I\'ve made a few changes, mostly moved a couple blocks (calendar, stats, maps) to the right side.  And now there should only be the main ZUG Menu block on the left (unless you aren\'t logged in!).  This should help because when you\'re in the forum, the right blocks aren\'t displayed, so there will be less to load.

I\'ve changed the default setting for only 5 news articles to load on the home page.  I think by default your personal settings are set at 10.  You can change them by going to My Account -] Change homepage, then change it to whatever number you want.  You can even select to only have 1 news article show.  That will reduce the amount that needs to be loaded on the homepage.

Other than that, the forum itself is very lean.  No fancy graphics or anything.

Hope this helps the dial-up users, and all.

Please keep the suggestions coming!

offroadgeek

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General Discussion / What the heck is going on?

« on: December 09, 2003, 09:30:57 am »

I think the download section should stay also.  I am new and i see that the contents of the download section can grow a bit more, but it is more versitile than what i have found on the web.  and Foxdie is correct in saying that it does draw more viewers and hopefully more members for having something more material than reference to offer.

I think the current board software is the best around, you can do a lot more with it than most of the others. As for the downloads section I\'d say YES because it draws more people here. I think if you\'re looking to make this one fo the most successful Z sites than we need a comprehensive database of what we can do and what we can download for our Zaurii.

My suggestion would be to contact killefiz and integrate his website directly into the ZUG site, not just a small link of the most recent software on the main page.

I wouldn\'t worry about the DB loss, I think it\'s murphy\'s law that puts it as \"anything that can go wrong WILL go wrong at the WORST possible moment\". All I can suggest is keep making daily backups and fix the login problem

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5x00 General discussions / New, naive user

« on: December 09, 2003, 09:17:49 am »

if you are familiar with linux and some shell commands depending on the shell you use, you should be able to try the password command to change the password in the console, although, right off the top of my head, i can not recall the command to change the password in the console but it may work if you know how.  If it does work, you should be able to use alpha along with numerical charactors....the embeddedKonsole if great, install it and give it a try :-)  yep, the root pw is the same as the user pw that you put in for normal login...lol...i am new, so compair others replies against mine   Cheers