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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rox-filer + Shared-mime-type

« on: June 12, 2005, 07:21:38 am »

As I stated in my original post, when I right click on the file the only menu option that comes up is "Customize" where apparently I can customize where I want to send documents like Windows Send-To menu option.

I've used Rox on the desktop and I know of this menu that you speak of, but for some reason on the Zaurus I don't have this menu.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Task Bar + Program Icons

« on: June 11, 2005, 11:06:59 pm »

I like having icons in my task bar to launch programs as I don't have to minimize programs to click the icons on the desktop.  Next to my pdaXrom menu icon I have an icon to aterm.  I tap on the icon and aterm opens.  I tap on the icon again and aterm minimizes.  When I tap on the icon the second time I want another instance of aterm to open.  How can I fix this?

/usr/share/applications/aterm.desktop has "SingleInstance=False"

/home/root/.matchbox/mbdock.session has "mb-applet-launcher -o -1 --desktop /usr/share/applications/aterm.desktop" in it.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rox-filer + Shared-mime-type

« on: June 11, 2005, 11:00:10 pm »

I searched for rox on the forums first, but didn't find a lot of info on the file manager aspect of it.  I have rox-filer and shared-mime-types installed, so when I click on a .doc file it opens up AbiWord, when I click on a .pdf it opens xpdf, but when I click on a .xls it gives an error instead of opening gnumeric.

"No run action specified for files of this type (application/vnd.ms-excel) - you can set a run action by choosing 'Set Run Action' from the File menu, or you can just drag the file to an application"

Um, there's no menu at the top of the rox window.  If I right click on the file a menu pops up "Customize" for where to send files in the filesystem, but no File menu.  What could I be missing here?  I have rox and rox-lib installed on my Z 860 running RC 10.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Can't Install Packages

« on: June 11, 2005, 09:56:32 pm »

I installed a package using the command line "ipkg" tool.  I then went to the graphical package manager and my options were back and it confirmed the package I wanted to install did.  Go figure.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Can't Install Packages

« on: June 11, 2005, 01:27:37 pm »

I'm sure this is an easy one to fix, but when I use the package manager now it doesn't give me the choice between / /mnt/cf and /mnt/card to install my packages like it did.  The box is just empty.  I tried to install a package like that and it won't install.  How can I go about getting my options back?

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For Sale / Wanted / For Sale: 256mb Sandisk Compact Flash

« on: June 03, 2005, 06:00:42 pm »

I have my ebay auction for a compact flash card ending in a few days in case anyone is looking for more memory for their Z.  Auction details and shipping info is on the page.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ssPageName=WDVW

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Off Topic forum / My Own Personal Sob Story

« on: May 27, 2005, 10:51:58 pm »

Please don't take my post personally, as there are many people that feel the way you do.  As tombraider said, life is full of small risks.  The thing is, most credit card companies don't hold you liable for fraudulant charges so it's not even a risk.  While it is a small hassle to get a new card (it's happened to me once) or call your credit card company because you're on their website and someone made a charge you didn't authorize, the conveinence of shopping online clearly outweighs the small hassle.

As far as the PayPal confirmation, you describe Alternative Address Confirmation.  There are two other ways to confirm your address with PayPal, according to their Help section:

1 When you add a credit card to your PayPal account, the address on file with your credit card company becomes confirmed.
2 Once you apply for PayPal Buyer Credit and are approved, the address used on your application will be confirmed on your PayPal account.

I doubt you'll want to do Buyer Credit anytime soon, so that eliminates option 2.  And option 1 has the dreaded credit card in it.  It was great when I moved last month I went to my credit card's website and changed to my new mailing address.  24 hours later I went to PayPal and changed to my new mailing address and it was confirmed.  No muss no fuss.

Maybe in the end there's no tinfoil hat and no blinders.  It's all about how much risk you're willing to take and live with the consequences.  You have your principles which may give you some difficulty ordering items sometimes, and I'm a little more liberal which allows me to buy what I want on the Internet but may present an identity theft issue down the road.

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Off Topic forum / My Own Personal Sob Story

« on: May 27, 2005, 09:08:06 am »

When I first started my PayPal account and I wanted to verify my address they mailed me a letter with a URL and code to enter to verify.  This was a few years back so they may have changed the process since Ebay took over.  I've had to move since then and it was a breeze as long as the credit card on file had the same mailing address.

I understand that identity theft is a big issue these days, but you have to trust someone if you want to get anything done.  I chose PayPal because I only use one credit card on the net and can check the website to see if any fraudulant charges were made.  Most credit card companies even call if big purchases were made just to verify it was you who made them.  I've been buying and selling on Ebay for a few years now and I don't like shipping to unverified addresses because PayPal doesn't protect me if someone claims I shafted them.

How come you only hear about when websites get compromised?  Because it doesn't happen often enough so it's considered news.  Facts are, you're safer dealing with online purchases than offline purchases.  People go to restaurants and pay with credit cards everyday.  Just hand it to the waiter/waitress and they don't think anything of it as the server walks out of site to pay the bill (and write down the credit card info since they only make $2.00/hr plus tips).  After their meal they go to almost any retailer and buy whatever.  Receipt prints out, you sign the merchant copy and you get the customer copy which has your credit info XXXX out.  To bad the cashier making minimum wage has the receipt that has your credit card information without the XXXX on it.

This type of hypocracy upsets me considering the websites are doing more to prevent fraud because they know people are going to target them saying they're not safe.  What people need to do is look at the people handling their offline transactions.

What's a geek to do?  Take off the tinfoil hat and get educated about the real problems of the system.

Here's a little light reading:

http://www.hotelmarketing.com/index.php/co..._offline_world/
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005...ft_offline.html

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Compiling Xmms?

« on: April 08, 2005, 08:12:05 am »

I tried it without having X running and it worked just fine.  Thanks pgas!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Compiling Xmms?

« on: April 07, 2005, 06:46:20 am »

So I've been tinkering with compiling software on my 860 yesterday.  I thought I'd start with xmms since the install is a basic ./configure && make && make install.  I started out by removing the xmms-related ipks so ./configure wouldn't complain that I have a version installed.  make worked fine with no errors, but make install compiles a few more things and fails:

Code: [Select]

 -c -o controlsocket.o `test -f 'controlsocket.c' || echo './'`controlsocket.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/controlsocket.Tpo" ".deps/controlsocket.Po"; \
else rm -f ".deps/controlsocket.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
gcc: Internal error: Terminated (program cc1)
Please submit a full bug report.
See for instructions.
make[3]: *** [controlsocket.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/card/home/root/xmms-1.2.10/xmms'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/card/home/root/xmms-1.2.10/xmms'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/card/home/root/xmms-1.2.10/xmms'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
df -h says I have plenty of free space left on my internal flash as well as on my sd card, I have gcc.img mounted as the documentation said, and I know I'll have to install xmms-mad to play mp3s, but I don't know why ./configure ran just fine as well as make and make install wants to be stubborn.  Anything I'm missing when trying to compile source right on the Z?

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Software / C860 & Gimp

« on: April 06, 2005, 09:19:17 pm »

I'm not a photography pro, and I love the gimp, but I definitely wouldn't want to be using it on my 860 for a period of time.  I haven't used the overclock applet but from what I've read on the forums it doesn't help all that much anyway.  It takes me at least 23 seconds to load the gimp (didn't even load an image either) with no other applications running.

Sounds like you're going to get what you pay for in this case.  You can drop a few hundred bucks on a Z and use the gimp, or you can drop a grand on a laptop which will actually get the job done.  If you're thinking laptops, I'd recommend the Averatec thin and light series of laptops.  For under a grand you can get a 12" LCD and a beefy processor and enough memory and hard drive space to do serious photography work in the field.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / How Install Gcc.img?

« on: March 25, 2005, 11:20:47 pm »

What I now need is some more info on the keycodes. dont know if showkey runs on zaurus. but i assume that this work some day

Have you tried "xev" on pdaXrom?  It's on my version (RC9) and will show you the keycodes of anything you press or tap on the screen.  If you don't have xev on your version I will put the keycode information here.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Emacs Runs Fine. Pdaxrom Now Rocks

« on: March 24, 2005, 04:49:45 pm »

You raise a lot of good arguments, most of them why I looked at LFS for awhile when playing with Linux distros.  I like to be a control freak at times on my system so I'd compile a program from source so I could customize it how I saw fit.  The problem is what if I didn't want the program anymore?  I'd have to look through half a dozen directories and remove related files, and still not know if I got them all.  So I tried installing software into seperate folders using --prefix and --exec-prefix on the ./configure script.  This made removing or upgrading programs a lot easier, but I'd have to symlink binaries and libraries.

LFS lets you optimize the software by compiling it, a distro like Red Hat doesn't optimize the software by compiling it but manages packages for when you want to upgrade or uninstall, but why I settled on Gentoo was because emerge compiles the software AND keeps track of what files go where for easy uninstall.

I'd love to try out emacs on my C860 since as one of your arguments there isn't an IPK for it (and XEmacs is not the same).  Maybe you can post a guide on how you did it and make it easy to update or uninstall in the future.  

What pdaXrom needs is emerge and the portage tree ported to the Z!!  

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Emacs Runs Fine. Pdaxrom Now Rocks

« on: March 23, 2005, 09:59:36 pm »

Maybe I don't understand the purpose of this project.  I use Gentoo on my laptop and I'm familiar with linuxfromscratch.org and I understand the benefits of compiling your software to take advantage of the bells and whistles that your hardware has.  I was under the impression that the IPK files are designed for the Zaurus in mind, so wouldn't they already be optimized?  Wouldn't it be easier to install an IPK that's already optimized for your hardware instead of compiling everything?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / How Install Gcc.img?

« on: March 23, 2005, 09:45:26 pm »

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~syrjala/xmms-itouch/

This plugin is designed for keyboards with multimedia keys on it (play/pause, back, next etc) but you press each button to map it to a function so I don't see why this wouldn't work on the 860 buttons near the On/Off.  This plugin also works whether xmms has the focus or not and I've been using it on my laptop for awhile now.  I think with this plugin I could have my Z playing MP3s and use the jog wheel etc to change songs and not worry if xmms has the focus or if the screen blank applet has the focus.  Make sense?