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Debian / Good Debian References

« on: October 17, 2007, 07:16:23 pm »

A few more debian links and tips, not all relevant to the zaurii but might be useful :

snapshot.debian.net : all debian package archived by date... since 2005 ! Useful if you use sid and need to downgrade...

debian-administration.org have a lot of good articles, not only the one linked on the first post, be sure to check it out

planet.debian.org : the URL says it all

gmane.org : gmane is great for reading and searching debian mailing lists.

When using the package search tool, be sure to check the package bug page, and the package developper information page. Lots of information there.

you can also get a package bug page by going directly to bugs.debian.org/<package name>, and to a bug number by going to bugs.debian.org/<bug number>


This work for package search as well : packages.debian.org/<package name>

Speaking of bugs, use reportbug to report a bug. It helps.

Also, remember to check /usr/share/doc/<package name>/README.Debian and /usr/share/doc/<package name>/changelog.Debian... Some information is there that you won't find anywhere else.

Finally, do yourself a favor, when you do something, try to do it "the debian way". If you don't know the debian way, Google a bit, or search in the packages descriptions... Debian is meant to be user-friendly, but only with users that are open and friendly enough to search for the documentation

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Themes, Icons, and Backgrounds / Icon Theme => Gnome 2.20 For Gpe

« on: September 23, 2007, 01:00:19 pm »

It looks great !

It would fit nicely with the blondie matchbox theme. I'll give it a try.

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Security and Networking / Suggestions For Broadband Networking At Home.

« on: September 22, 2007, 06:32:19 am »

Hi folks. Howdy.

Hi,

I've just finished with the purchase of my new apartment. I have started with the flooring & interior civil work for now.

I need to plan the electrical wiring of my new house. The house includes four bedrooms & two living rooms. I need all rooms to have a broadband connection that can used for accessing by plugging a laptop. One bedroom would have a desktop. There shall be two broadband connections provided by the local cable operator. I need these connections to be accessible in all 4 bedrooms by means of an ethernet cable & in the 2 living rooms (one above the other, separated by a floor) by  Wi-Fi. I plan to keep two Wi-Fi routers respectively in the living rooms for wireless access.

So that means 1 plug in each room; and 2 in living room (wifi AP + ethernet). You may find an AP that does switching as well, so you would need only one.

To begin with, what sort of cables should be used to distribute the broadbands to all rooms? Secondly what hardware would be best for me wherein the two broadband connections (from the cable operator) would be plugged in, which in turn would be distributed to all rooms? By saying hardware, I mean a gadget similar in lines of an EPABX system that distributes one or more telephone lines to multiple locations. Here instead of  telephone its broadband.

for the cable : it's a matter of distance. If you keep it short (the theory says 100 meters, in practice, you shouldn't try more than 50m), then standard cat5 ethernet cable, shielded, (UTP) would be OK.

For distribution of the two broadband computers, you should find SOHO routers able to handle 2 connections, and minimal switching, with filtering ability. You may want to add an ethernet  switch for distributing the network properly across all the rooms.

I also wish to have site filters, parental controls & the provision to block internet access to any room at anytime.

Site filtering and so on should be provided by the router. I'm not very well versed in the SOHO hardware router stuff (I tend to use software routers, firewall and proxy on a standard machine with a linux or a freebsd installed), so I'm not sure here.

Anyway, my network knowledge is rather enterprise oriented so YMMV

Have fun.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / State Of C3x00 Calendar Apps

« on: September 06, 2007, 10:21:52 pm »

I'm presuming from the lack of responses that nobody is using gpe-calendar then so I'm presuming it is still broke.

I don't need anything amazingly powerful and it doesn't need to sync with anything either but

a) It must work reliably
b ) It must support alarms and waking the Z up from suspend if necessary
c) Must be able to backup and restore the calendar

I originally asked for possible solutions running under Angstrom, pdaXii13 or cacko but it sounds like Angstrom isn't quite ready to replace pdaXii13 for me yet so I'm just looking for a working calendar app for pdaXii13 now.
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In angstrom (actually, in openembedded, I don't think it has been included in angstrom feeds yet), I've started using "dates" (and others PIM apps) from pimlico project : [a href=\"http://www.pimlico-project.org]http://www.pimlico-project.org[/url]

It looks great and is pretty usable. I didn't test alarms and so on yet as I first need to make sure the speaker / headphone issues are resolved. I hope they works, and let you know when I find out, even though I'm not sure if it would be possible to recover from suspend for an alarm in angstrom currently.

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Off Topic forum / Lan Games For Z And Others

« on: July 17, 2007, 03:36:24 pm »

AFAIK, only machines (tanks) are involved in scortched earth.

You could also try bzflag (if it runs on a zaurus, I think I saw a bitbake recipe somewhere for openembedded) : only tanks, and some modes don't have many destruction involved (cooperative and catch the flag mode available)

In the non-violent category, you could find some fun lan puzzles such as frozen bobble (bust a move clone involving penguins).

You could also find some racing games, but not many of them have a lan mode. I remember zsnes having a networked 2 player modes, I don't know if another snes emulator (running on the Z, such as snes9x) have it  as well. Then you could play pang or Super Mario Kart

Zsnes runs great on x86, but I think there is far too much ASM in it to be portable on arm.

Good luck

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dual Booting Pdaxrom And Angstrom?

« on: July 12, 2007, 08:09:38 am »

Let's try to wake up this thread while bitbake is eating all the CPU time

I'm interested in this, but I think the best would be to allow different kernels... That is, either use u-boot to boot angstrom, or altboot to boot pdaXrom. Using altboot + kexec, we could change the running kernel, and if altboot is started soon enough (it was the case when I used the hentges rom on my 5500) the additional boot time won't be a problem.

However, I have not yet a clear enough understanding of u-boot, pdaxrom and angstrom to know which problems would need to be addressed. The last time I changed kernel parameters I had to use the mean old buildroot (I needed a /bin/sh to repair, and there was no altboot at the time...), that tells you how old my knowledge is

I'm willing to spend time on this, any pointer / help / doc is welcome

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Installing Xserver On Console Image

« on: July 09, 2007, 06:36:22 pm »

The first news post on the frontpage links to the gmane version of the mailinglists which has...

*drumroll*

a search function

To summarize: you want to consult the mailinglists (archives) for any questions, not any forum, as the contact page makes clear.
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A lot of people seems to have trouble to get this right.

Maybe a link to the search function in the contact page would help ? Also, "support" could me more appropriate than "contact", even if it's not the main purpose of the mailing lists.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zpsx: High Performance Psx Emulator For The Zaurus

« on: July 07, 2007, 09:00:52 pm »

arrrgh... can't wait for my Terrier, it's on it's way right now... I'll be able to try in a few days

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Accessories / Hsdpa Modem ?

« on: July 05, 2007, 04:56:17 pm »

It only specifically mentions the "Zaurus SL-C3000" with a vague reference to "Other PDAs".

Also says it requires a "CD-ROM drive" to prepare operating environment for C01S".

So may only be compatible with certain Zaurii.  And I don't really understand what it is, both a modem and the drivers?

sdjf
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i think (i hope?) CD drivers are only for the non linux OS, windows like, you know?

i think we should contact them in order to be sure of what we need...

i also don't like the sentence "Service Area : C01SI is for use in Japan Only."...what do they mean by that???
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on [a href=\"http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/en/support/after/customer/vc701/index.html]http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/en/support/after/...c701/index.html[/url] the present the VC701SI, a CF type II card with PC card adapter, and it is clearly stated that "VC701SI can be used overseas"

Update :
on seiko compatibility list they say " *The utility software for Zaurus is not offered. Please make connection from the dial-up in Zaurus. For details, please see the instructions of SL-C3000, or ask SHARP corporation."

That tends to imply that the card is seen as a serial device, wich mean it's probably recognized on all rom

<awaken dream>I wonder if I could get one and use my work Orange Business 3G access for using it when I'm on on-call team duty shift... </awaken dream>

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zpsx: High Performance Psx Emulator For The Zaurus

« on: July 03, 2007, 04:12:31 pm »

Leads me to a question, would anyone be interested in improving psx4all's code? If it were opensourced? The GTE needs to be replaced, and to be honest I'm close to scrapping a lot of code. It needs serious work to get it running on the low performing GP2X well, which is our goal.

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Well, I'm not really that good at writing code, especially at such a low level, and I don't have time to learn properly... so I won't apply  

However, I'd be glad to help on  integration, packaging for various distributions, all this kind of little things if needed. These thing I know I can handle properly.

Just ask.

I know this is not what you're asking for... but it wouldn't be honest from me to pretend that I could do more

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zpsx: High Performance Psx Emulator For The Zaurus

« on: July 03, 2007, 08:37:05 am »

Hey zodttd !

it's great to hear this. I can hardly wait from my Terrier to be ready to test... I wait for the paycheck

It would be great if you could open the source as well... We could then port it into openembedded and maybe see it in more device than just Zaurus with pdaXrom.

I think that there is still no patch for overclocking /cpufreq in the angstrom kernel (but I may be wrong, I did not searched very hard since I do not have my 3200 yet, koen will probably correct me if this is the case), but it would be a good reason to try to work on it
Same goes for pxa overlay, I think I saw a package but I'm not sure it's relevant.
 
Anyway, it doesn't matter if the code is not perfectly clean as-is, it's why free software (as in free speech) is for ! "Release early, release often"

If you can convince people involved in the dynarec and such, of course. I understand that you may not open code that is not yours.

Also, do you plan to re-open psx4all site ? Do you need any help ?

Anyway, thanks,  and keep up the good work !

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zpsx (z Playstation Emulator) Fund Raiser

« on: June 30, 2007, 05:41:47 am »

yeah ! \o/

Ok,  now I can hardly wait my own Terrier. should be here in a week

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zpsx (z Playstation Emulator) Fund Raiser

« on: June 27, 2007, 02:19:09 pm »

Now... my only wish is to see the merging of pdaXrom and Angstrom teams into one team with a single goal - the creation of the best possible OS for our  Zaurii...

the ZAUROS!!!      

What a crappy name

Anyway, Angstrom and pdaXrom are really different. Different approach, different development model... and different product in the end. A bit of competition is a good thing if each project is making progress, sometimes picking some code from the other.

Well, IMHO

(And I do think they are both making progress).

What I would like would be a dual boot between the two roms

I saw a thread or two about that, and I'll probably try to look into it when I get my C3200

PS : Yai ! getting closer !! $55 more and here goes zottdt's Z ! Then there is still exophase... I know I'll need to wait a month to donate again, though

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zpsx (z Playstation Emulator) Fund Raiser

« on: June 27, 2007, 08:28:32 am »

do you need a credit card for a moneybookers account or paypal?
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In some countries, you may transfer money to a paypal account from a bank account via a regular wire transfer, without a credit card.
(I don't know if it's the case anywhere outside of america, it ain't possible in France for instance).

You can do that from all country supported when you use moneybookers.com, AFAIK. you do not need a credit card when using moneybookers : you just transfer money from your bank account to the moneybookers account.

EDIT: I think you can also send a bank check. In all case it may takes a few days to show up in your moneybookers account, the same way it would for a regular bank to bank transfer.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Zpsx (z Playstation Emulator) Fund Raiser

« on: June 26, 2007, 03:31:18 pm »

So far noden is the first to donate for this funding. I'll keep track of donations in the signature. smile.gif

it's nodens with an S at the end

anyone that do not want / can't use paypal, but is willing to donate via moneybookers, PM me. If you send money to me via moneybookers.com I'll donate the same amount to zodttd paypal account, giving you credits for the donation.

But if you can use paypal, do it, it'll be way simpler