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For Sale / Wanted / Zaurus Accessories For Sale.

« on: February 21, 2005, 12:59:11 am »

I got the batteries!  They were shipped promptly.  Thanks VeeDub.
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Glad to hear it.

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For Sale / Wanted / Zaurus Accessories For Sale.

« on: February 19, 2005, 01:22:46 pm »

Remember, that 6 to 7 days to russia is bussiness days, as in, Mon through Fri.  So you're realy looking at a week and a half real time.  Do let me knwo when it arrives.

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For Sale / Wanted / Zaurus Accessories For Sale.

« on: February 17, 2005, 12:14:25 am »

bump

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For Sale / Wanted / Zaurus Accessories For Sale.

« on: February 07, 2005, 01:24:15 am »

Just a litle post superbowl bump.

These are REALY good deals guys, 128MB SD cards for $10.  Come on folks.

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For Sale / Wanted / Zaurus Accessories For Sale.

« on: February 05, 2005, 01:17:29 pm »

The following are still available.  The cradle, both SD cards and both cases.  Everything else is sold.  If you don'tlike what I'm asking, make a better offer.  Now that my Z and most of my accessories are gone, I just want to dump this stuff.


I have for sale, the following accessories.  Shipping for 1 item is $3.00, multiple items I will have weighed and let you know.

SOLD $15.00 each.  Two 5xxx series rechargable batteries.  Both hold a charge.

sold -  MicroInnovations keyboard, also known as the PocketTop keytboard.  only slightly used, great shape, works perfectly.  I have personlay used this with several differnt PDA's, and it's intended to work with most PocketPC's and Palm Pilots as well as Z's.

$10.00 each.  
SanDisk 128MB SD card.    (ON HOLD)
SimpleTech 128MB SD card  (ON HOLD)
Original Zaurus USB cradle.

$5.00 each
NiteIze PDA holster.
Targus zippered PPDA case.  The Targus case sucks for carying PDA's, but it's awsome for carrying your pockettop and memory cards.

1 Original Sharp AC charger, $10.00, 1 replacement AC charger from casio, $8.00 Sharp AC is SOLD, Casio is on hold, waiting for M/O to arrive.


I also have some litle things I can throw in if someone want to pay a litle more like Sylii and earbuds.

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For Sale / Wanted / Forsale: Sl5500 And Goodies

« on: February 02, 2005, 08:41:03 pm »

I have one offer for $60.00 for the PDA only, no batteries no accessories.  I assume it's also a broken screen situation.  I'll give you until the end of friday to make me a better offer.  PLEASE, send it to my email address.


*Everyone else, I'd realy rather sell the bundle because I don't know how well I can sell the rest of the accessories by themselves, so make me an offer.  I'm thinking $200 for the whole kit and caboodle, plus shipping.

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For Sale / Wanted / Forsale: Sl5500 And Goodies

« on: February 01, 2005, 05:34:43 pm »

This item has been split, please see my other thread.


Okay, I need some cash because I'm getting married in a month and a half and the ring she wants is still a couple hundred bucks more than I can swing.  I'm selling stuff that may be of value, and today, it's my Z.

It's in good condition for a used sl-5500.

 What's that mean?  

It has the usual cosmetic dings and scratches, but nothing seriously ugly or in any way structural.  No gouges, no cracks, just paint scratches from regualr wear and tear.  The screan is good and free of noticable scratches.   The original stylus was lost ages ago, but I do have a Palm tungsten T stylus for it, which is one of the best replacements available.  Somewhere I actualy ahve about 3 Tungsten T stylii, and I'll included them all if I can find them, but I guarantee 1.

What does it come with?

You get the Zaurus itself, flashed with whatever ROM you want.  I'm going to want to flash it before I part with it for my own safety, so just tell me what ROM you want and I'll get it flashed.  It still has it's originaly flip cover, which still holds itself open.

I have 2 standard battereis for it, both used, but they both hold a charge as well as the 5500 ever did.

2 AC chargers.  The origianl sharp charger and one from, I think Casio, that is the right voltage/amperage/plug size.

2- 128MB SD cards.  1 SanDisk (no problems with this one though) and 1 SimpleTech.

MicroInovations IR keyboard.  This was also sold under the brand name 'Pocket-Top" and I think a couple of other names in other countries.  It is in near perfect condition, only slightly used.

'Earhugger' brand ear buds with an in-line volume control.

1 NiteIze PDA holster, perfect for carrying on a belt.  

1 Targus zippered PDA case.  If you've ever had one of these you know that they suck for carrying a PDA in, but I found it to be great for storing the keyboard, memory cards, earbuds, extra stylii and when I had one, I kept my Wi-Fi card in it.

I may be able to find the disk that came with it, but no promisses.

I know this model is getting a litle out-dated, but it's a very solid pda, and I'm offereing it with some awsome accessories.  I will entertain any offer, so don't be shy.  However, I do need money soon, so if there are no serious offers within a few days, I'll be putting it on ebay.  I just posted it here first, because at one time I got a lot of help at the old zug, and I thought I'd give you folks first dibs.  

Also, while I would prefer to sell this as a bundle, I am willing to split it up if I get any realy good offers.
I'll try to keep and eye on this thread, but I'd prefer you send your offers via email to stephencoons@softhome.net

EDIT*  I also have the USB cradle, don't know how I forgot to mention that, but I have it.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / differences between opie and gpe

« on: October 15, 2004, 11:19:33 pm »

I agree that it has huge potential, it's just not right for casual users, "yet."   The pdaXrom dev kit should NOT work.  pdaX uses a different gcc whic will break it all by itself, plus the other differences are too numerous to count.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / differences between opie and gpe

« on: October 11, 2004, 09:19:39 pm »

If that's what you're intersted in, you need to run Opie, period.

GPE actualy runs a variation of the X windows System that Linux on the desktop.

This is nice in the sense that it's pretty, and can run some more powerful apps if you put the work into it.  However, it takes a lot more CPU power to  crank it over.  Also, at the moment, the GPE version is VERY broken IMHO.

So, if you want a super cool AND super geeky interface with lot's of potential but you're also willing to put in lot's of work, GPE is cool.

If you want a basicaly finished and pollished interface with lot's of apps that a monkey can install to make a useful and user friendly tool at the same time, use the Opie interface.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / X on the 5500/5600

« on: October 10, 2004, 08:09:36 pm »

Every once in a while, even someone as pig-headed as I am, must admit a mistake.

When the pdaXrom first started gaining steam, several people made posts about the posability of X on the 5x00 series.  A number of people, including myself, espressed oppinions about what a tragicaly stupid idea that was.

While I can't speak for anyone else, I have to say that I now believe I was dead wrong.  Now that I've seen the GPE version of Open Zaurus 3.5.1, I finaly see the power behind X on a QVGA PDA.  

Even as terribly broken as GPE OZ is right now (first release), it's still a breath of fresh air to my Z and I would LOVE to see pdaxrom for the 5500 or some of the pdaxrom guru's lending mickeyl a hand to get GPE-Oz where ti belongs.

Just my $0.02 for the day.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.5.1 installed, now what?

« on: October 04, 2004, 07:32:25 pm »

I have tried to add /mnt/cf/upgrades as a source (the file is there coppied directly from the oz feed) using the line

Code: [Select]

src upgrades /mnt/cf/upgrades/

Code: [Select]

src upgrades file:///mnt/cf/upgrades may be more useful.

I love you mickey.

That works like a charm, and now i can install what I need to moutn my SD card, then I can instal.........

THanks.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.5.1 installed, now what?

« on: October 04, 2004, 04:33:10 pm »

I'm right there with you trying to get the GPE version working.  I have just now finaly gotten my CF card to mount correctly, after a couple of re-flashes, and I have also found ipkg to be completely borked.

I have tried to add /mnt/cf/upgrades as a source (the file is there coppied directly from the oz feed) using the line

Code: [Select]

src upgrades /mnt/cf/upgrades/but every time I try to update lists through the front end (GPE-package) or through the command line using ipkg update, it returns an error saying that there was an error with /etc/ipkg.conf or that /mnt/cf/upgrades/Packages could not be found.

This release 'looks' great but I'm still waiting for functionality.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OpenZaurus 3.5.1 released !!!

« on: October 04, 2004, 02:26:13 am »

It's great for a first OE release, but I'd realy like to see totaly revamped automatic card mounting and a totaly redone package manager in the GPE version.  In this day and age, you just shouldn't have to manualy mount a card (or be totaly unable to mount them like me) and you shouldn't have to install packages from the command line or run extra programs like ipkg-link to make them work.

With the inability to mount cards or install software through the graphical installer, this release is just useless eye candy for me.


Mickey, don't get me wrong, I know it's the first OE release AND your first GPE release and given that, it's awsome.  You guy's have done GREAT work, and tommorrow I'm going to give the Opie version a go.  I just wish I could use GPE.   It's just so beautiful.  I'm realy looking forward to 3.5.2.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / more info on gpe?

« on: October 02, 2004, 10:57:10 pm »

vfat is fat32

pierced was a typo, don't know how it got there....

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / more info on gpe?

« on: October 02, 2004, 02:34:49 am »

I tried the -t option in mount, but I must be doing it wrong.  Can you tell me EXACTLY what commands to enter to mount my SD card to the default directory (I believe its /mnt/card) and my CF card to it's default directory?

The Sd is formated ext2 and the Cf is formated vfat.pierced


Thanks.  if I can get that working, then I'm on my way.