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For Sale / Wanted / Sl-5500 + Extras For Sale

« on: January 10, 2010, 06:57:07 pm »

I have one working SL-5500 & also one with a broken touch screen. It comes with two cradles, charger, Wi-Fi card, Microinnovations MP-0118 IR keyboard, SD Card 64 MB, CF card 32 MB. I refuse to do ebay.

Make an offer. I'm in Baltimore, USA: Just call me guilfordstuff at the old gmail.com, thanks.

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5x00 Hardware / (2) Sl-5500 For Sale

« on: January 03, 2010, 06:37:59 pm »

I have one working SL-5500 & also one with a broken touch screen.  It comes with two cradles, Wi-Fi card, Microinnovations MP-0118 IR keyboard, SD Card 64 MB, CF card 32 MB.  I refuse to do ebay.

Make an offer.  I'm in Baltimore, USA:  Just call me guilfordstuff at the old gmail.com, thanks.

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General Discussion / Pepperpad Plus

« on: June 07, 2006, 11:30:35 pm »

I'm looking for a non-microsoft solution.  Here's the configuration I'm planning:
--- Pepper pad 3 (2.2 lbs, AMD processor, lots of connectivity, fedora core 4, touch screen, keyboard)
--- zaurus (5500, have it already)
--- Nokia 6103 phone (EDGE, FM radio, WAP browser & calendar/PIM synchronization)
--- iPOD nano ($150, contacts/PIM, music).  
Everything but the iPOD can link with bluetooth and the the iPOD & zaurus can use USB to synch.  The idea of music on a cell phone is a passing fad.  The new hotness will be the bluetooth iPod nano with multi-pairing bluetooth headset.  The multi-pairing headset is out, but, the iPod doesn't have built-in bluetooth.  The Nokia 770 is nice but too small for a laptop replacement.  I just can't see getting things done on a teeny-tiny-tablet (T3).

As for cost, the phone is free with cell contract; plus pepper pad 3 ($700 or less), plus iPOD ($150).  The minimum is $850, which is the price of a notebook but with much more specialized hardware.  

Originally, I was including getting a new zaurus (C3x00).  I was just examining the list and realized that the original mission of the zaurus was to provide a portable computer that you can carry everywhere.  But I never did carry it everywhere.  I carried my Z in a bag.  The iPOD and cell phone will go everywhere with me and the pepper pad will fit in the same bag I've been carrying the zaurus in.  I really like the PDA-sized devices, but, I guess they may really be dead because I can carry my info on the phone & iPod.  I may get a new Z anyway.

I am not sure how successful it will be given that the 1st gen UMPC devices are only about $300 more and the Nokia 770 and zaurus's which are pocketable are about $150-$300 less.
For a price point of $500, I might try it. For $699, I would get a laptop, stretch for a UMPC, or stay content with the Z until something better comes out.
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agreed. I am wondering when the new Nokia 770 will be out which in theory has a thumboard or something - not seen any pics left.

the flybook would be a great if slightly oversized handheld if only it wasn't so expensive! The Lifebook P7120 (or Loox T70R or T70S) is really fabulous with its hi-res display but is too big to be a handheld. The Sharp Muramasa CV50 is smaller than the flybook but even more expensive yet lacks the communication adaptors.

hmm, if only I could afford all of them to try them out and see which I liked the most!
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General Discussion / Pepperpad Plus

« on: May 22, 2006, 08:54:08 pm »

See  Mobile Tech Review for Pepperpad+ sighting: $500 MSRP, AMD processor, etc....

Also see the carrypad journal comments on the design.  Carrypad Journal is a blog, so, I can't directly link.  Second article down at this time.

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General Discussion / Who are you and where are you from?

« on: February 23, 2005, 08:11:28 pm »

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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General Discussion / Trivia Hunt : Why Is It Called A Zaurus

« on: February 21, 2005, 08:55:55 pm »

Yep, it means horrible lizard.
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Terrible, not horrible, silly
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Saurus is a Latin word (by definition, it uses latin characters).  According to the Oxford Latin Dictionary, saurus means a fish, in particular the horse-mackerel.

What you may be looking for is "saura" (\sigma\alpha\upsilon\rho\alpha), which is a Latinized Greek word meaning a type of lizard or salamander.  Neither terrible nor horrible is implied in the original word.      


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General Discussion / Who Uses Ruby?

« on: February 21, 2005, 06:26:03 pm »

So it is just the two of us then? How disappointing!  I was hoping there were a few more of us Ruby learners/users

I'm about to start on a project using Ruby on Rails as a backend. Don't know a thing about Ruby yet (which is why i took the project in the first place).
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Ruby looks great for object oriented stuff.  I have a serious hankering to learn it.... unfortunately, it comes out nearly dead last in execution speed when compared to things like python & perl.  I hear that the parrot engine (which is the underlying engine for perl 6)  is going to get a ruby front end.  In that case, all languages which have a parrot front end interface (they might be calling it a language module or some such techospeak) will have the same execution speed.    I've seen a number of perl types praising ruby.  If you've written perl with objects, you'd know why.

I checked on ruby under parrot recently, and, the project doesn't appear to be  making progress.  I guess the parrot internals are still their focus.

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General Discussion / Will The New Clio Nxt Run Zaurus Software

« on: February 10, 2005, 10:58:24 pm »

...so the specifications don't concern me, it's the looks of it. Not to say I wouldn't prefer something more powerful, but for me, that isn't the primary focus.
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The NXT looks to me like a nice combination of tablet entry, screen resolution (for pdf reading), and long battery life (I'm guessing 8-10 hours).  I was even thinking this would make a nice add-on for my zaurus.    The athlon tablets I was looking at were $1400+, and, price matters to me .  The ability to run some of the apps that the zaurus enjoys, instead of getting nickeled-and-dimed to death for inferior software, would really add value too.  

I'm still waiting to hear how vaporous this product is.   I suppose if it catches on, OE will get a port.

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General Discussion / Will The New Clio Nxt Run Zaurus Software

« on: February 09, 2005, 11:42:58 pm »

The new clio NXT (due in April if not vaporware) is an Intel PXA255 400MHz machine w/ 800x600 graphics & touch screen.  Not sure the screen is as nice as the Zaurus 6000, but, it will enjoy better support.

Anyone want to hazard a guess whether the zaurus library can be made to run on it.

See http://www.dataevolution.com/productsClioNxt.php for details.

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Software / ipkg & add/remove software not recognizing all .ipk file

« on: February 27, 2004, 11:52:58 pm »

I have an SL-5500 with Sharp 3.10 ROM.

Software installation is currently selectively broken.

I downloaded various versions of the IRK package & put them on my CF card.  When I try to install them,none of the IRK\'s appear on the list of available packges,while plenty of other packages show up.  When I try to install from the command line, I get the error

mkdir: Cannot create directory `//home/tmp/ipkg/irk-sl5600\': Permission denied

The output of ipkg then suggests that I run \"ipkg update\" which then attempts to connect to http://www.gnurou.org/, which is a site definitely not associated with Sharp.  

What the heck is going on?  Has some package from gnurou.org replaced my ipkg app? :evil:  This particular version of ipkg seems to be somewhat incompetent, if it is trying to create a directory with two prepended slashes.

Now here\'s the interesting thing... I had already installed and then uninstalled one of the IRK packages.  I think my ipkg has been replaced or damaged somehow.

Any insight will be appreciated.