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General Discussion / Who Uses Ruby?

« on: April 10, 2005, 06:16:20 am »

Just noticed this thread (haven't been to this site in a while) and I use Ruby for quite a few things.  Really like the language.  Currently developing a server side app (using my Z as the testing ground) and have some ideas for development for the Z community.  :-)

I just got done compiling source from the latest stable releast (1.8.2) directly on the Z.  I have a Sharp 3.10 ROM.  Compiler I used is this one:
http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=1467

I'd be happy to pass along build if anyone is interested.  It compiled clean right from the start.  :-D

- Michael

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Windows Issues / 5500(rom 3.10) cant sync with XP(intellisync)

« on: August 24, 2004, 03:32:08 pm »

Follow this thread:
https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...wtopic=5982&hl=

Hope that helps.

- Michael

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Sharp ROMs / Can't install IPKs

« on: August 24, 2004, 03:19:52 pm »

mikew,

Can't help with the Cacko as I use the standard Sharp ROM, but if you do decide to 'go back', you'll need to go the Sharp site to download the ROM you want to return to.  You'll need to follow the instructions for flashing from a cf/sd card I believe.

Hope that helps.

- Michael

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Sharp ROMs / Apps dependent on Documents tab

« on: August 24, 2004, 03:14:59 pm »

iamasmith,

You probably already found all of this, but mentioning just in case.  You can get around the save/load issue by using import/export.

Using 'save', seems to save it as an "_" (underscore), even though the name is clearly there.  Saves it under "/home/zaurus/Documents/application/octet-stream/_".

Using 'saveas', at least retains the same name you type in, but under "/home/zaurus/Documents/text/plain/filename".

In both cases, I told it to save to the SD card, but went to the places listed above for some odd reason.

By using import/export, you can definitely control where it loads and saves.

I'm using the Sharp 3.10 ROM, but as you mention it shouldn't matter (in your case as well) since it's looking for the old Documents layout.  At any rate, import/export definitely works and it will still runs your apps in the window.    I mostly use vi/command line anyway, but thought this app would be fun to have on hand if I can't telnet for some reason.  Though I seem to still default to the Konsole anyway.  

Hope that helps.

- Michael

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Sharp ROMs / Operation not permitted

« on: August 21, 2004, 02:03:49 am »

never mind, I'm a moron.  I know my answers.  

- Michael

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General Discussion / What have I done?

« on: August 21, 2004, 01:02:10 am »

Awesome Twisk!!!  

Glad I could help!

- Michael

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Sharp ROMs / Operation not permitted

« on: August 21, 2004, 12:58:45 am »

Ok, so this one got me thinking - and maybe that's my problem.  

Anyway, on both my CF and SD cards, I get the message "Operation not permitted", when trying to do an "ln -s".  Did some searches and the only meaningful article I found was a post by gdog.  Someone mentioned to him that vfat drives can't store or has limited store for permissions and such.

So, not knowing nearly enough about the internals, I guess I could buy that.

However, here's my question.  I can "ln -s" to my hearts content when it involves any directories created by the OS itself.  So for example, my QtPalmtop directory, Documents, etc etc on my SD or CF card.  No problem, everything links just fine.  I've even moved several of the more large binaries and libraries to my SD card and created links no problem.

However, I obviously can't, when it comes to directories I've created (using mkdir).

Ok, so now really the question:  What does the OS do differently when these directories are created, that's done different from doing a(n) mkdir?

It seems odd (read unfare  ), that the OS can create directories and files on my SD and/or CF card that allows perm changes and linking abilities and I can't.    

So does anyone know what it's doing?  Is there a way to do this from the command line?  Almost seems like there's got to be a way if the OS can do it.  Is there a list somewhere of what commands the busybox binary supports/is looking for?  I'm thinking beyond the links created as defaults.

I _really_ don't want to have to move everything off of my SD or CF and reformat it for ext2.  I just recently upgraded and have everything setup extremely well for what I want to/am doing and don't really want to hassle with that.    

So.... there's obviously a way.  Does anyone know the answer or possibly point me in a direction?

Many thanks.

- Michael

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General Discussion / Newbie linking problems

« on: August 20, 2004, 06:01:15 pm »

Here's the home page for zethereal:
http://www.cartel-securite.fr/pbiondi/zaurus/zethereal.html

I have been unsuccessful at getting the 1.0 version to run on the Sharp ROM (3.10).  I haven't tried the .9 version.  After creating my links and such, I then get an error about some missing libmodule (something like that).

I'll probably fuss around with it again shortly.  I broke down and loaded tcpdump in the meantime, which works great of course.

Hope that helps.

- Michael

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Sharp ROMs / Strange Environment Problem

« on: August 20, 2004, 05:41:11 pm »

doseas,

Thanks for the reply.  I have checked there to be sure, but sadly no.  The _only_ place it's currently being set is from bash.qpe.

I moved my .profile under /home/zaurus, in case that was somehow causing problems, but still no dice.  I also don't have a .bashrc file.  It's a very odd problem and I haven't tracked it down yet.  I'm sure there are other people out there with the same problem.  Well at least one that I know of.     You can see the QtJournal thread.

Not a huge deal, but just annoying to have to set it at command line, when it should be set.

Ah well.  C'est la vie!  

- Michael

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Sharp ROMs / Silly File Moving Question

« on: August 18, 2004, 06:35:24 pm »

I've answered my own question.  Decided to "bite the bullet" and give it a try.  All the files I wanted to move seem ok and no problems during boot and/or suspend from what I can tell.

List of files moved are:
awt.jar
core.jar
i18n.jar
libhanlib_pda.so.2.4.10
libopie.so.1.0.0
libqtopia.so.1.6.0
libz.so.1.1.2
libhstorage.so.1.0.0


- Michael

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Sharp ROMs / Silly File Moving Question

« on: August 18, 2004, 04:24:15 pm »

Before I did this, I wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to break anything.

In an effort to get a bit more space, I was thinking of moving some of my larger libraries to my SD card.  Before doing so, I just wanted to make sure that some of the applications and/or ROM weren't expecting the file itself to be in the directory.  I would think a sym link to my card would work, but better safe than sorry.  

Anyway, files I'm interested in moving are: awt.jar, core.jar, i18n.jar and libhanlib_pda.so.2.4.10

TIA,

- Michael

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Sharp ROMs / Strange Environment Problem

« on: August 18, 2004, 01:20:32 pm »

Was wondering if anyone else has run across an odd issue I'm having.

When I bring up a console window (just click on Konsole), I get my prompt and everything is good.  However, my LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.  

I've looked in the qpe.sh file and it's actually set twice in there.  But if I 'echo' the ENV variable after I get the command prompt, it's empty.  I actually have to manually set it.

Anyone know why this might be?  I'm using the Sharp ROM 3.10, SL-5500 and the Konsole App.  App shouldn't matter, but just in case.

Root user btw way is fine when logging in either ssh or konsole.

TIA,

- Michael

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Software / Strange Calendar Problem

« on: August 17, 2004, 03:10:53 pm »

Thanks Gentlemen!!

Ok, the OpenSSH FAQ did the trick.  I totally missed this one.  Apologies for the oversite.

The specific issue causing the problem was the OpenSSH directory under /home/zaurus/Documents.  :-(  Somehow I missed these in my searches.  

Anyway, as a quick test I simply set perms wide open (777) for this directory (OpenSSH) and all is good.  So I guess these files are "thumb-nailed" in datebook for some reason?  Or does the OS scan _all_ documents within the Documents/?  I'm assuming it's the thumbnail issue, since it's only the month view that was crashing the application.  To bad this feature can't be turned on for main ROM.    

Thanks again!!

- Michael

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Software / Strange Calendar Problem

« on: August 17, 2004, 12:48:09 am »

Well, rather than changing _everything_, any clues as to which file?  

- Michael

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Software / Strange Calendar Problem

« on: August 16, 2004, 10:15:33 pm »

An update.

While looking again through the forums, I stumbled upon the 'sudo' command.  Forgot I had that loaded for BT, so decided to try "sudo datebook" as user zaurus.  It works!

So there's definitely a permissions problem somewhere, but it's not clear to me what it's looking for or trying to ?

**
Again, this worked last week and sadly I have not altered anything since then.    

- Michael