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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Findwild

« on: August 05, 2007, 01:45:45 am »

Actually, no.

What i'm looking for is an indexing utility, such as beagle / googleDesktop / etc.
i had written a "locate alternative" script, which is just a big list of files + files inside archives (zip, ipk, etc.) which serves me relatively well
(forgot the link, but it's "out there").

a real indexing program will make the Z a real helper in that respect.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Spitz.xmodmap Non English

« on: July 16, 2007, 05:29:05 pm »

sorry i don't know.
what i did (hebrew and russian keyb layouts)
i changed the whole keyboard map to totally different letter set.

in case of polish key-set, only 6 or 8 keys need a modifier. hmmm.  
in the "standard" xmodmap there are already keys dedicated to nordic/latin accents, using the Fn. do they work normally for you (i don't have the Z here).

you can try to use them with "shift+..." if something else doesn't work, but then it's not easy to use capitalized letters.
did you try using Ctrl or Alt as modifiers? (like the real polish "programmers" keyboard) ?

i will try myself as well (poczebuje to tez) but it's not that urgent for me so it might take a while.

czesc

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / How Do You Over / Under Clock On R198?

« on: July 12, 2007, 08:22:59 pm »

It looks like things are done a little different in 2.4 kernel especially for the pxa270.

Shula: you're using that script on pre beta4 release ? .... /proc/cccr_change and /proc/driver/w100/fastsysclk do not exist on 2.6 kernel proc tree.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=164705\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

sorry guys
i tested this script in this particular setting only:
pdax beta3 and lower
kernel 2.4.x of course
on my C860


my newly r197 doesn't work for these values and /dev/ .

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / A Tip For Links2 Users

« on: July 10, 2007, 04:29:10 pm »

it does help. thanks!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / How Do You Over / Under Clock On R198?

« on: July 09, 2007, 09:06:42 pm »

Code: [Select]

#This script serves me well on my C860:
#/bin/bash
#
# overclocking from the command line, by 'shula'
#
echo overclocking...

if grep -q 161 /proc/cccr_change; then  echo status: normal
elif grep -q 162 /proc/cccr_change; then  echo status: high  
elif grep -q 141 /proc/cccr_change; then  echo status: low
fi

changed=0
case $1 in
    normal)
        echo 161 > /proc/cccr_change
        echo 100 > /proc/driver/w100/fastsysclk
        echo changing to $1
        changed=1
       ;;
    over|high)
        echo 162 > /proc/cccr_change
        echo 100 > /proc/driver/w100/fastsysclk
        echo changing to high
        changed=1
       ;;
    under|low)
        echo 141 > /proc/cccr_change
        echo 100 > /proc/driver/w100/fastsysclk
        echo changing to low
        changed=1
       ;;
esac

if test 0 -eq $changed; then
    echo 'usage:  overclock [normal|high|low]'
fi

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / How Do You Over / Under Clock On R198?

« on: July 09, 2007, 09:04:43 pm »

#This script serves me well on my C860:
#/bin/bash
#
# overclocking from the command line, by 'shula'
#
echo overclocking...

if grep -q 161 /proc/cccr_change ; then  echo status: normal
elif grep -q 162 /proc/cccr_change ; then  echo status: high  
elif grep -q 141 /proc/cccr_change ; then  echo status: low
fi

changed=0
case $1 in
    normal)
        echo 161 > /proc/cccr_change
        echo 100 > /proc/driver/w100/fastsysclk
        echo changing to $1
        changed=1
        ;;
    over|high)
        echo 162 > /proc/cccr_change
        echo 100 > /proc/driver/w100/fastsysclk
        echo changing to high
        changed=1
        ;;
    under|low)
        echo 141 > /proc/cccr_change
        echo 100 > /proc/driver/w100/fastsysclk
        echo changing to low
        changed=1
        ;;
esac

if test 0 -eq $changed ; then
    echo 'usage:  overclock [normal|high|low]'
fi

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Builder Setup Guide On Windows Host

« on: July 09, 2007, 05:28:45 pm »

I remember running a Zaurus real ARM virtual-machine on QEMU or on VirtualBox, but i might as well just dreamt it :-) as i sometimes dream of technical desires.

Is there such thing as virtual zaurus machine running in x86 host?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / A Tip For Links2 Users

« on: July 09, 2007, 08:32:21 am »

1. can you please put screenshots of links2 "in action" ?
2. does it support javascript "the way we know it" ? i.e. can it replace Minimo on web-browsing?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fixes For R198/r197

« on: July 02, 2007, 04:47:42 am »

... every time I try to click on one of the links to download a service pack, it just opens up a new window with garbled text....
It's probably something simple but it's 4am and I want to see what r197 is all about!
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=164144\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

it's a known problem with the forum.

do this:
1. with the mouse, select and "Copy" the file's name to the clipboard
2. right-click on the link, and choose "Save As"
3. paste the file's name
4. save :-)

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Useful Applications

« on: February 17, 2007, 03:05:49 am »

I want to create a comprehensive list of all apps available or zaurus, per distribution.
e.g. spreadsheet: pdaxrom: gnumeric; cacko: whatever...

here's my 2 cents:

Browsers: minimo (for encoding and javascript-challenging sites)

Email: Sylpheed or webmail

Text Editor: scite for development, leadpad and textedit !!  textedit is great for simple formatting and save/load as HTML/txt.

PIM: there's no point in a scheduler if i can't trust the Z's clock (when battery runs flat)

PDF: i convert PDFs to HTML (pdftotext)

Dictionaries: i use less and a lookup script i made.  works perfect!
i found a collection of plain text tab-separated dictionaries.    

IM: Gaim

Media Players: vlc, mplayer from the command line

Graphics: GQView, gpaint, mtpaint

File Managers: emelfm is great, "mortom commander" (midnight commander) in text-based.

Terminal:  xterm with utf8 supprt and big fonts

Other Tools:

development: python, php, apache

audio recording:  "shine" and a script (binary and wrapper script)

information retrieval: a "locate" replacement i wrote, which drills down into archives, ipks, cramfs' etc, and help me search for files  

language input: i switch between input methods with these scripts (keyboard-switch.sh is assign to a shortcut button).  i mapped the hebrew keyboard and russian keyboards.

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Deals and Great Z Buys / For Sale - Bricked C860

« on: July 23, 2006, 07:08:09 am »

hi
i burned my power supply on the Z by giving it reversed polarity.

i'm selling it in case someone want to fix it (i dont know how), or for spare parts.

suggest your price.

makorepolaazazel@yahoo.com

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Ko/pi Alarm Solution

« on: January 10, 2006, 03:54:46 pm »

(a cross post)

i wrote a command-line alarm program, that uses the APM scripts etc.
if you need an alarm,
with multiple schedules,
horrible sound,
configurability,
and your XTerm (or even VT-0) is at hand, you shoud try it:

http://shula.is.dreaming.org/zaurus/zaurus-scripts.html

it depends on python,
cron daemon, or other scheduling process running,
and if you want a popup msgbox, you should have gtk  (pdaxrom's default anyway).


it works on my pdaXrom 12  (or is it 10? 8? i dont remember)
with python, /etc/apm/wakeup.d has a link,
and so far so good.

enjoy

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Alarms, Why Not Kernel Level?

« on: January 10, 2006, 03:41:31 pm »

i wrote a command-line alarm utility, that uses the APM scripts etc.
if you're a command-line lover, try it
http://shula.is.dreaming.org/zaurus/zaurus-scripts.html

it depends on python,
and if you want a popup msgbox, you should have gtk  (pdaxrom's default anyway).

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Software / Zbedic Deserves Your Support!

« on: December 27, 2005, 12:11:19 am »

i use my own plaintext dictionary files, formatted like this:
entry \t definition
entry \t definition
entry \t definition

and "less" for finding words.
i also have couple of command line utilities for quicksearch, like
less -p "$1" -I ~/dictfile.txt

it works great if i run the XTerm with UTF8 and TTF fonts (like i do).

i have dictionaries for english, french, russian, hebrew, etc.

i also wrote a polish-english dictionary in python, with interactive console commands, which makes more soffisticated itterative searches in a SQLITE database.
works like a charm.

once i'll have a webserver, i'll post it there.
until then, ask me and i'll mail you the source-codes and the dictionaries.

shula

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Software / Hebrew Input In X-based Roms

« on: June 11, 2005, 03:06:25 pm »

i wrote few scripts that switch hebrew-english keyboard layout.
i didn't make it IPK because i'm lazy, and there's not much demand anyway.
tested on PDAXROM RC8.

read the instructions (readme)
copy the files to the right place, and enjoy.

שולה


ps.
i have all kinds of solutions for hebrew (maybe even for arabic, urdo, etc).
PM me if you have problems.

שלום