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6000 - Tosa / Which Memory Card Speed Worth It?

« on: December 08, 2004, 10:35:10 pm »

Hi,

I've just made a couple of tests with my cards.
I have a Sandisk Ultra II 512 mb SD cards, Lexar 40x 512mb and Lexar 80x 1gb CF cards.

To test the reading speed I've created a 54mb file and put it to all the cards.
Then I was copying the file to /dev/null watching the time.

It took 64 secongs to read the 54mb file from SD card. Therefore the maximum speed for SD card is around 900 kb/s.

For CF cards it took 30 seconds to transfer the file. The same time for Lexar 40X and 80X!
So the speed would be not more than 1.9 Mb/s which is equal to ~13X .

Looks like there's no sence of having an SD card faster than 6X and CF faster than 13X.

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X/Qt / Debian with Xqt

« on: December 02, 2004, 11:16:06 pm »

dumb question,

after chroot command how do you guys accessing all other files above /mnt/~your_card~/debroot/ folder ?
i.e. how do you read /mnt/~your_another_card/* from debian ?

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General Discussion / Zaurus emulator for PC

« on: May 15, 2004, 07:49:52 am »

If you are asking this because you intend to develop applications on the zaurus

It\'s possible, but I should have some motivation to do so
I realy like hardware of the last Zaurus model. That is exactly the configuration of handheld I was waiting for almost a year not changing my current palm for something else.
I\'ve almost decided to buy Zaurus during my next trip to Civilization (your island, actualy  ), so that would be a motivation to join some Zaurus opensource project.

then it is perfectly possible (even I have managed to do this) but you need a good knowledge of  C/C++ and a linux box and the source code to the application you want to run.

You want to say that you had to write a code to run it ?

What are your programming/linux/c/c++ skills like?

I was not writing anythig serious on C/C++ for ages, but I\'m reading a lot of UNIX/C code at work.

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General Discussion / Zaurus emulator for PC

« on: May 13, 2004, 05:54:41 pm »

Most people want to do the opposite and emulate the pc on their zaurus. which sort of works, unless you want to run windows on it, or anything that needs more than a 386 processor to run.
You *can* compile zaurus QT stuff to run on a linux PC framebuffer emulator.
But that is a lot of hassle and probably only usefull to developers and not as an intro to the zaurus.

If you\'re programming for Palm some kind of emulator is the easiest way to test a code, so you dont need to syncronize your handheld with PC and make hard resets on every failure.
Zaurus vs Linux is different story so that nobody needs that emulator..

Your best bet is to find a local freindly guy with a zaurus, or find a local outlet that sells (and demos) them.
Check if there is a local ZUG near you, I am sure if there is you will find a few kind souls who would be willing to show off their pride and joy.
Peter.

I live on a island. Believe me there is only a big village around, even some basic model of palm is hard to find. Even that we joined EU recently, I\'m not sure that it would change anything soon.

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General Discussion / Zaurus emulator for PC

« on: May 13, 2004, 05:17:41 pm »

I don\'t know of a Zaurus emulator per se.  (It would be a good project, though).

Yeah, I was searching for it a lot, haven\'t find any.
Pls tell me if you\'ll see at least something similar.

However, if you have a PC running Linux, you can download a desktop version of Qtopia that will at least give you some idea of what the interface is like.

I\'ll try to, thanks.

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General Discussion / Zaurus emulator for PC

« on: April 28, 2004, 08:34:09 am »

Thinking to migrate from Palm to Zaurus.
Is there any Zaurus emulator for PC like this one for Palm (http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/emulator/) ?