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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Which Is The Fastest Wm?

« on: July 21, 2006, 02:53:44 pm »

Fastest  will be DWM (Dynamic Window Manager)

The developer says "dwm is only a single binary, it's source code is intended to never exceed 2000 SLOC"

Less than 2,000 lines of code!

http://wmii.de/dwm/

However, I personally use and love his 'bloated' (<10,000 SLOC) wmii windowmanager.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / A Plea For Help..

« on: March 23, 2005, 09:15:35 am »

Laze / pdaXrom team,

A small suggestion for you:  perhaps you could update your About us | Thanks to... page your website?  It has not been updated since August of last year.

It is possible that some people are perhaps like me and don't like when a contribution seems to be ignored.  

I contributed one time to JeMi Web Design via paypal, but I don't even know if you received the money.  To a student with limited discretionary income, it looks as if my money went Poof!  

Remember, you are competing against my beer fund!

Patrick.
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Security and Networking / Can't Setup Usb Networking Under Debian

« on: December 30, 2004, 08:24:35 pm »

Hi all,

I can't seem to get USB networking going,  when I try in ping my C760 I get the following errors:

# ping -I192.168.129.1 192.168.129.201
PING 192.168.129.201 (192.168.129.201) from 192.168.129.1 : 56(84) bytes of data.
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted

Wireless networking works fine though.

I have usbcore, ohci_hcd, ehci_hcd, usbnet, uhci_hcd modules loaded.

Interfaces:
iface usb0 inet static
    address 192.168.129.1
    pointopoint 192.168.129.201
    netmask 255.255.255.0

I've been stuck on this for days so thanks for any suggestions you may have,
Patrick.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Status Update..

« on: December 21, 2004, 09:06:46 pm »

An old assembly language joke, that I hope is not too relevant...

   

"If we assume that every program has at least one bug and can be optimized by a single instruction, then it can proven, using induction, that every program can be optimized to one single instruction, which, unfortunately, will be wrong."

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General Discussion / Why Does All The Cool Stuff Come Out In Asia First

« on: December 09, 2004, 12:44:07 pm »

Interesting SF Chronicle article on cool Japanese toys
The Gadget Gap

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General Discussion / Foobar'd touch-screen!

« on: November 03, 2004, 12:50:25 pm »

Ouch!

Perhaps gentle application of heat?

Good luck,
Patrick.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Most important missing/to be fixed in pdaXrom?

« on: October 27, 2004, 11:47:18 pm »

I would very much like to see pdaXrom have support for non-root users.  

I'm not really comfortable with a *nix OS that doesn't have the concept of 'users'.
Running as user rather than root is something I rely on to protect myself from myself.  (yes, I have actually done rm -rf / some_directory as root).  I'm sure you can come up with many other good reasons too.

Thanks,
Patrick.

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General Discussion / c860 vs 6000

« on: August 19, 2004, 09:01:09 pm »

> 1. I've read that you can "brick" the thing if you make a mistake updating the ROM. How much of a danger is there really?

Not much danger, really.   The ROMs don't touch the bootloader, so you "always" have access to the service menus.

>2. Which ROM would people recommend for starters?
In your case, pdaXrom for sure.  Check that forum.  ver 1.1 is at RC2, and looks very good.  Only thing I don't like is that you pretty much have to do everything as root.

>3. How much of a nuisance are the Japanese characters on/near the keys?
None, Ctl and Alt are where my fingers expect them, with pdaXrom at least.

>4. How well does it work with Bluetooth? What card(s)
Don't know

FWIW, I'm very happy with my clamshell 760.  

HTH,
Patrick.

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General Discussion / 2TB memory cards ?!?

« on: August 07, 2004, 10:06:43 am »

Two Terra bytes[/i] in SD compatible format?

Please, let it be so!

theregister

Patrick.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / What do you prefer...

« on: July 24, 2004, 03:52:44 pm »

Surely the only shell any self-respecting Zaurus user should use is <drumroll> zsh! </drumroll>    

More powerful than bash and only 2/3 the size!

Patrick.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Where is rsync?

« on: July 04, 2004, 06:28:08 pm »

Ok, I installed rsync from debian arm repository.

I'm happy.

Patrick.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Where is rsync?

« on: July 04, 2004, 05:33:20 pm »

Hi, I'm trying out xpda rom.

Hope I'm not missing something really simple, but I can't find rsync.
Or how else do pdax users connect with their home computers?

Thanks,
Patrick.