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Accessories / SD Card recommendations?

« on: December 12, 2003, 01:05:41 pm »

I read in Linux Journal a while back that there were serious issues with San Disk cards becoming unusable after formatting.  If I may quote:

You will need more than the 32 or 64MB of RAM that comes with the Zaurus, because the system uses most of that memory even if you haven\'t installed anything. With a stock 32MB 5000d using ROM 2.37, only 600k of memory are free without any application installed or started. You have two places to put more memory: the SD/MMC slot or the CompactFlash slot. You need the CF slot for a network card, but SD/MMC can be tricky.

SanDisk cards, the most popular and cheapest SD cards, are prone to failure. Sharp even had to release a new driver to fix some problems with the less than $50 US 128MB SanDisk cards that would fail after repartitioning or work only once. The real problem is SD drivers can never be free software because of the copy-restriction system. Get an MMC card instead; free drivers are available.

Remember, this was written for the January 2003 issue about the 5500, and I\'m not sure if any of this has been resolved.

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Pittsburgh / Need some activity/meeting for P\'burgh ZUG

« on: November 06, 2003, 09:47:04 am »

I\'m game for a meeting.  I live in Ross Twp. and work downtown, got my Z about a month ago.

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Accessories / GPS for 5600

« on: October 13, 2003, 07:49:16 pm »

The Screen Savers had a whole segment on Wardriving with a 5600 and they used a Socket Low Power WLAN card with Kismet.  See the whole story: http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/story/0...3528416,00.html

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Software / Hancom Word document

« on: October 13, 2003, 07:36:21 pm »

Zaurus File Transfer will bring up a window you can copy to/from and cut and paste to/from just like an Explorer window.  It should have been installed when you installed all of the other Zaurus apps.