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General Discussion / Pda Pim Apps...

« on: April 25, 2008, 07:48:20 pm »

Hi,

just saw an introduction to andriod. And even I don't prefer the andiod system nor sdk it made me remember my post in this thread (#11).

PIM Application Integration in android

I really enjoy seeing my visions coming alive  

  Oliver

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OpenBSD / Sd And Sdio Support Coming Into Openbsd

« on: November 11, 2006, 08:37:04 pm »

Hi all,

nice gadgets listed here. Since you mentioned a nearly 1kg UMPC: I'm still on my plan buying a Flybook V33i soon.

http://www.flybook.me.uk/

One (known) site already shows how to get Linux working on a previous release A33i (with a Transmeta Crusoe).

http://www.fuschlberger.net/flybook/0

My thought is: This will be my Intel based "Zaurus" with a bigger screen, keyboard, performance and case  with already built in GPRS/EDGE modem.

I really would appreciate to work with OpenBSD on it, but I guess it will be Linux since I need Vmware running.

  Bye, Oliver

--
C3K full HD OpenBSD 3.9; ratpoison, mutt, remind, tetex

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Software / Console Pim?

« on: September 13, 2006, 08:29:07 pm »

Wakeup depends on the OS you're using.

Long time ago I've used pdaXrom and there you are able to create a script which return  the number of minutes the PDA felt into sleep. After that it will wakeup automatically. It's possible to use remind in a batch script to check out the next timed event and calculate the minutes until then. So the PDA will wakeup just before the timed event occures.

Now I'm using OpenBSD and wakeup (better: apmsleep) is not possible  

  Greetings,

  Oliver

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / latex

« on: February 03, 2006, 07:48:46 pm »

Nice to hear that it's working. There is just one own cls file in texmf-var but nothing spectacular. Just an extension to the g-brief.cls to write proper bills for according the german fiscal authorities.

Remember I haven't deleted any of the huge texmf directory so it could be shrinked by removing the ./doc and some other directories.

Working mirrors of the tgz are out there, so I will freeup my webspace.

Nice to see there are still many people out there, who like and enjoy LaTeX.

  Happy TeXing,
  Oliver

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / latex

« on: February 03, 2006, 12:08:30 pm »

I have made and tar zip from the whole dir. You should place it to /usr/local and untar it. I saw no soft links to other places and my ld.so.conf does not show any entries for this package.

You can download it from http://doshome.edvings.de/tetex_C31k.tgz
It will be there for a week or two since webspace is limited but needed.

Hopefully I haven't any private tex things in this tree  

-- Oliver

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General Discussion / Who Uses Sl-cxx00 For Serious Work?

« on: February 01, 2006, 08:50:19 pm »

Nearly a year ago I was searching for a subnotebook or smartphone or PDA. Non of the available products met my needs. Then I found the Zaurus at the web - Linux driven nice to see.

After trying lots of applications on the standard ROM also console based apps I was satisfied but not overwhelmed. I've also tried Debian PoketWorkstation and it worked out to be more Linux like but slow.

Then I switched to OpenBSD 3.7 after it's release and found a system I wanted to stay and work with. Nearly any application from the portstree I wanted to use compiled nicely and worked great. Only problem I had was triggered wakeup for using alarms, a slower mplayer as on SharpROM and it couldn't get connected as usbstorage to host computers.

Finally I did my last switch to pdaXRom and wakeup and usbstorage works perfectly. I don't like the partition layout with installing here and linking there. But once set up it is not noticed anymore. Any new application goes to /usr/local on /mnt/ide.

Now I'm using the system very console driven with ratpoison as WM. No taskbar, no window borders nor titlebars. Complete screen to work with!!!

remind for appointments
devtodo for todos
mutt for mails
dillo for web
latex for creating pdf files and presentations
xpdf for reading pdf's
index or sqlite as database
vi or emacs for all text stuff
ImageMagik for pictures - even for 2MB files from the digicam
mplayer in fullscreen works fine with a well transformed movie

I haven't carried my heavy laptop since. And finally I'm completely offline productive with the GPRS AudioVox Card. Get / send mails and surf whereever I am. No hotspot, no dialline needed.

The only thing I could get weak on is the upcoming flybook V33i with Linux on it. But that's another story and it will not fit in my pocket.

  Have a nice Zaurus time,
  Oliver

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General Discussion / Pda Pim Apps...

« on: February 01, 2006, 07:33:42 pm »

From a PIM I expect more interaction with the P (me as personal). Nowaday PIM events are only based on timed events. They should be based on more external events like GPS position (Your reaching facility XY: You wanted to check out this and that) or when writing mails (Your writing to Tom: you wanted to tell him about ...) or as "smartphone" same for calling Tom....
So the system should be more interactive with the environment. I already spent some thought on a OS and application independent layer for such kind of evnt triggering. But I have no time to go deeper into it. Will keep in mind and see in the future.

-- Oliver

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / latex

« on: February 01, 2006, 07:03:06 pm »

Hi Marcus,

on my C3100 I have compiled tetex-3.0 nearly 6 month ago. So I can't remember the dependencies which were needed. But I have compiled it to an extra directory /usr/local/teTeX with bin-dir and texmf-dir. Maybe it's competely there.

For me it works perfectly. I'm using vi, pdflatex and xpdf. I just started xdvi to check if it works too and it started up and is quite fast. It's faster as xpdf and has no screen problems while scrolling like xpdf. Maybe I switch over to work with xdvi in the future   .

Tell me if your interested in my teTeX directory. It's 260MB because I haven't stripped any of the texmf directory. I could tgz it and make it downloadable for you anywhere.

On the other hand with your working compiler you shoul be able to compile tetex-3.0 yourself after checking out all the options from the configure script.

  Greetings,
  Oliver

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OpenBSD / Anybody Working On Wakeup?

« on: September 25, 2005, 08:11:22 pm »

Hi,

till now I've just viewed the source of apm.c for Linux and apm.c for OpenBSD and realized major differences. The only source of apmsleep.c I found, is based on apm for Linux.

Oh, oh, big work waiting for me? I'll go into deep with this next month, when having some spare time. But I can't promise anything - my experiences with C are years ago and my kernel knowledge is 'make ...' if everything is prepared.

  Kind regards,

  Oliver

PS@obscurite: 'apm -S' is light suspend and zzz is a synonym for 'apm -z' - deep suspend. Nothing deals with wakeup times, but thanks anyway.

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OpenBSD / Pc Link Via Usb - How?

« on: September 25, 2005, 07:49:07 pm »

Hi Mike,

I'm doing ssh via CF LAN card at home too. There is connectivity, sure.

But at work it would be nice to just connect the tiny USB cable to the Desktop PC. There is no (nearly no :)) way to connect to the network there via LAN.

An USB LAN adaptor would be an alternative but it's much more expensive to leave this at the work/customer location instead of a simple cable always connected to the PC. And I have to link it via crossover to the PC, but this could be managed.

  Thanks for this proposal,

  Oliver

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OpenBSD / Pc Link Via Usb - How?

« on: September 16, 2005, 08:40:43 am »

Hello,

is it possible to connect the Zaurus as Client to a PC via USB?

I couldn't find any howto for this issue. When connecting the USB cable there are no /var/log/message entries recorded.

  Oliver

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OpenBSD / Anybody Working On Wakeup?

« on: September 13, 2005, 08:49:20 pm »

Hi users,

is anybody allready working on a wakeup solution for OpenBSD on a Zaurus?

I've just read the pdaXrom thread:

Ko/pi Alarm Applet Needed

They suggest to grep the next at event (maybe checking cron would be nice too) and then do an apmsleep till some seconds before this event.

I couldn't find apmsleep nor apm in the ports tree. It's must be in a system package.

When holding the power button for some seconds the Zaurus fell into sleep. It seems to be a kernel thing because it's still functioning with a moved /usr/sbin/apm. So how to use apmsleep for this? Any suggestions?

  Oliver

PS: My snapshot installation of 3.8beta from 09/02 is working like a charm on a C3100. Growing up the system from the ports tree is much of fun.

PPS: If you like working on a console - try ratpoison! Why loosing 5% of the tiny screen for titlebars and a panel?  (thanks barryg for this suggestion on your website)

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Software / Remind

« on: March 22, 2005, 06:21:49 pm »

Never heared about this tool before, but reading the link you mentioned above I was interested.

At the terminal the debian package remind_03.00.22-1_arm.deb works well on my standard Sharp ROM 1.01. Just extract the binaries to a bin-dir of your $PATH.

But sorry I have no hint to use the tk version on a Zaurus.

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Sharp ROMs / C3k Sharp Rom 2.4.20 Crypted Fs Module

« on: March 21, 2005, 04:07:49 pm »

Ok, I've found a way to crypt directories without the use of an additional  kernel module. NFS support is needed, but already compiled into the Sharp ROM for the C3K.

I'm using the debian package cfs_1.4.1-7.1_arm.deb in combination with the nfs-server from the debian potato feed.

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Sharp ROMs / C3k Sharp Rom 2.4.20 Crypted Fs Module

« on: March 17, 2005, 08:45:22 pm »

Hi,

I really don't understand why vendors like Sharp sell their PMTs or others their PDAs as business devices without the ability of encypting the data on it.

But Sharp did the right choice and we are working on Linux. So there will be a solution for this.

Some web searches showed me, I need to use a kernel module like fuse ( http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ ) or shfs ( http://shfs.sourceforge.net/ ) or another.

Till now I've tried to setup a toolchain to compile a Z kernel or modules for it but without sucess. Not on my slackware laptop, nor on a Vmware box with gcc 2.95 compiler, nor on a cygwin installation, and finally not on the Z itself.

When installing the mplayer on the SL-C3000 I saw they provided the bvdd kernel module. So it's possible to install additional modules without refreshing the ROM.

My plea: If anybody has a working environment to compile a kernel module like the bvdd for mplayer, please compile the fuse module for the standard Zaurus c3k Sharp ROM.

Maybe any other encyption module would be more usefull? Hopefully not  the wrong question to get a module soon?

I will work to setup my kernel environment to compile one on my own, but I think this will last some time.

  Kind regards,

  Oliver

PS: Some companies I'm working for do not allow to take confidential data on a laptop or PDA without beeing crypted. And I don't want to giveaway my personal data in case of loosing the PMT neither.