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Software / KOrganizer / KO/Pi (KOrganizer Platform independent)

« on: April 22, 2004, 12:37:10 am »

zautrix, I love you!

How many times have you had to answer that question?  Ack!

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Software / KOrganizer / KO/Pi (KOrganizer Platform independent)

« on: April 21, 2004, 11:26:30 am »

zautrix, after upgrading to 1.70, the time required to save the data file jumped from ~7 seconds to ~70 seconds.  I checked the size of the file, and it is has grown, but not by an order of magnitude.

Something makes me think that there could be some external factor involved in this, or it may be something in the data that has caused things to slow down.  During the file writing process, the Zaurus is completely unusable and unresponsive.

Got any thoughts on that?

havoc

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General Discussion / Big plans

« on: April 19, 2004, 06:32:18 pm »

BTW, I\'m exceedingly interested in this for use with a digital camera as well.  I would love to have a 20-80G external drive on my Canon 10D.  I know there are lots of other issues that may impeed success, but I\'m still interested.

.... and I would be deleriously happy to carry a HD with it\'s own powersupply on my belt if I could do this.

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General Discussion / Big plans

« on: April 19, 2004, 06:28:39 pm »

dood!  I want a 40G cf-adapted drive on my 5600!  (panting, shaking)  tell me more.

BTW, what about the additional power draw?  When thinking along these lines, I wondered what the drive was going to cost the user in terms of battery life if you ran if off of the internal battery, or what options you\'d have if you wanted to add external hd-only power.  Just random thoughts from a guy who\'s not nearly as qualified as you.

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Sharp ROMs / /usr/mnt.rom/cf belongs to root, cf access restricted to roo

« on: April 15, 2004, 05:07:50 pm »

.... or, maybe not...

On boot, the cf card falls back to root.root.  I can su to root, umount and remount it, and it comes back as zaurus.qpe.

this is getting old....

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Sharp ROMs / /usr/mnt.rom/cf belongs to root, cf access restricted to roo

« on: April 15, 2004, 05:05:51 pm »

I missed your post, Simon.  I\'m sorry.  You must have posted while I was composing.... I never looked above my last post.

Thanks, jabbath, for pointing out Simon\'s post and filling in the details to save my reputation of severe laziness!

That worked... my question now is, \"what changed?\"  Why did /mnt/cf suddenly and spontaneously start mounting as root?  Why wasn\'t /mnt/card affected?

None the less, thanks much to both of you.... I\'m more happy with my Z again.

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Sharp ROMs / /usr/mnt.rom/cf belongs to root, cf access restricted to roo

« on: April 15, 2004, 04:23:47 pm »

jabbath, I\'m conflicted... as is my Z.

From /etc/fstab (I include the line for /dev/mmcda1 for comparison):

/dev/hda1       /mnt/cf         auto    noauto,owner    0  0
/dev/mmcda1     /mnt/card       auto    noauto,owner    0  0


ls of /dev for hda* (incomplete) and mmcda*:

brw-rw----    1 root     operator   3,   0 Aug  1  2003 /dev/hda
brw-rw----    1 root     operator   3,   1 Aug  1  2003 /dev/hda1
[etc]

brw-r--r--    1 root     root      60,   0 Aug  1  2003 /dev/mmcda
brw-r--r--    1 root     root      60,   1 Aug  1  2003 /dev/mmcda1
brw-r--r--    1 root     root      60,   2 Aug  1  2003 /dev/mmcda2


Interestingly, looking at the /etc/group file, I see that group \"operator\" has no members, nor does group \"qpe\".  From the group file, zaurus is not a member of any group....

\'cat /etc/mtab\' gives me:

/dev/root / jffs2 ro 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/dev/ram1 /dev minix rw 0 0
/dev/mtdblock3 /home jffs2 rw,noatime 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/mmcda1 /usr/mnt.rom/card ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /usr/mnt.rom/cf vfat rw,noatime 0 0

...

I\'m confused.

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Sharp ROMs / /usr/mnt.rom/cf belongs to root, cf access restricted to roo

« on: April 15, 2004, 03:52:47 pm »

jabbath, thanks... apparently, there is something else going on here.

when /usr/mnt.rom/cf is unmount, it now belongs to zaurus:qpe.  When I insert the card, it switches back to root:root.

I inserted the card into my notebook, mounted it, and it works correctly with defaultuser:users as owner:group.  I tested with a spare card, and got exactly the same results of owner switching to root:root when inserted.

Could I have screwed up something in the config files?

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General Discussion / State of the Zaurus?

« on: April 15, 2004, 12:42:12 am »

Korganizer/PI (platform independent) changed everything for me.  Since zautrix released ko/pi for the Z, all other PDAs are irrelevant if they don\'t run ko/pi.

I have run KO on the desktop for a long time (I\'ve been running a Linux desktop for about three years now), but been frustrated by 1) the inability to reliably sync it with my Palm devices, and 2) the fact that KO was tied to my desktop, which limited it\'s usefulness.  now that KO runs \"in my pocket,\" I seldom use the desktop copy for anything other than alarms.  KO is 10x as useful on my Z than on my desk, and 100x more useful than any PalmOS software I ever used.

I\'m running an SL-5600, and I\'m getting about 5-8 hours battery life with the backlight turned down one notch, and not messing with multimedia stuff much.  Even with the backlight on full brightness, the larger 5600 battery offers significantly longer run time.

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Sharp ROMs / /usr/mnt.rom/cf belongs to root, cf access restricted to roo

« on: April 14, 2004, 04:39:22 pm »

Something happened to by SL-5600 the other day that caused /usr/mnt.rom/cf to become owned by root.  (/usr/mnt.rom/card is owned by zaurus.)  Now, all files on my cfcards are likewise owned by root.  That means I can\'t write to the cf card as the normal user, and I cannot delete files as the normal user.

I am not able ot change the owner of the mount point because it is part of \'/\', which is mounted read only.  Likewise, I cannot delete the mount point and recreate it.  I cannot umount /mnt/cf/, and remount it as zaurus because only root is allowed to mount that mountpoint.

I\'ve pretty much tried everything I can think of to restore full read and write permission for the normal user for the cfcard, and I\'m stumped.  Is there anything short of reformatting the Z to allow be full access to that mount point again?

thanks,
havoc

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General Discussion / speex to me!

« on: April 08, 2004, 11:29:16 pm »

/usr/local/bin/speexdec filename.spx

speexdec defaults output to the audio device.

pausing, seeking ... can\'t help... wish I could.

I\'m trying to figure out how I can capture audio directly from the mic and pipe it through speexenc, now.

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General Discussion / speex to me!

« on: April 08, 2004, 04:21:31 pm »

bender647, I took a 46 second \"mostly voice\" recording (lots of extraneous background noises), and the speexenc you compiled on it.  The input file was 1.9 MB, the output file a mere 217 KB.  I was able to play the audio back through the Z\'s speaker with speexdec without a problem.  Of course, the only interface is via the terminal (I did this while\'s ssh\'d into the Z from my notebook).

Great work!

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General Discussion / speex to me!

« on: April 08, 2004, 03:54:32 pm »

I downloaded them.  I haven\'t installed them yet, but I seem to have caused my poor Z to have conniptions....  I\'ll post again if I learn something interesting.

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Software / KOrganizer / KO/Pi (KOrganizer Platform independent)

« on: March 20, 2004, 03:08:21 am »

PS: Is there a place to make donations for all your hard work on this?

z, I got a note from SourceForge.net yesterday (?) that they have made a donation system available to all projects.  This might be something worth looking into if you don\'t mind jumping through the hoops if you dont\' already have a sourceforge project established.

Also, there\'s Amazon.com\'s \"tip jar.\"  I don\'t know what percentage of a cut they take.

-havoc

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General Discussion / Linux for desktop?

« on: March 19, 2004, 08:49:05 pm »

wigglit, dood, I have a bud who REFUSES to learn vi (actually, vim).  He still hacks massive DOS batch files (in DOS edit) line-by-line, and it takes him all day.  I keep telling him, \"Jerry, regular expressions are your friend!\"  He keeps ignoring me.  Oh, well.

The thing about sledgehammers is, once your proficient with them, you can REALLY kill ants in a hurry with them!

:-D

Slackware and Debian are both excellent distros.  The fact that I don\'t use them does not diminish their quality in my view.  In fact, they are probably what I would consider the quintessential Linux distros.  I hold them both in the highest regard.