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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Japanese Study Possible W/ Pdaxrom

« on: August 01, 2006, 04:02:15 pm »

At last, someone who is having similar problems to me.

Now that PDAXROM seems to support Japanese pretty well, it's becoming an even more attractive option but it still has that major stumbling block, the block that that keeps me on the the Sharp/Cacko roms: it can't run the great "Genius" dictionary bundled with the C3000+.

If the encryption on those dictionary files is ever cracked and is made to work on another OS, I'd be all over it before you could say something quite long and difficult to say.

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Software / Perl Gui Development On The Z

« on: June 01, 2006, 01:40:02 pm »

Just saw the reply now..

Very helpful.  I've been away from programming for only a few years but it feels like 50 - everything is starting to look further and further above me!  Having said that, Python looks promising so I'll give it a shot.  Time for some midnight oil.  Thanks again.

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Software / Perl Gui Development On The Z

« on: June 01, 2006, 03:05:39 am »

Is it possible? making a simple GUI using perl on the Z?

I do a lot of text processing and would really like to learn an "easy to master" language that I could use on multiple platforms that could also display a real simple GUI to make it a little more friendly.  I've also heard about Python, but a bit in the dark about that.  One condition is that it must be able to support Japanese characters for file input/output.

Any thoughts appreciated.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Sftp

« on: March 20, 2006, 08:34:29 am »

Thanks for that (and a belated thanks to Mjolinor).

I set the passwords, as you said, and I started "sshd". On my desktop I typed ssh <Z's IP address> but the connection times out.  Also tried ssh zaurus@<Z's IP address>.

Don't seem to be doing to well with this.  I can live without it, just thought it would be handy to have.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bizarre Boot Procedure

« on: March 16, 2006, 11:47:13 am »

yep-exactly.....flashcard program.  tkc has one "soq" but its not robust nor transferable to other card programs
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Got Debian up and running.. easier than I thought.. but deleted it soon after.  I think it's just too "heavy" for the 'ole Z.  Looks and acts the business, but as I said, a bit of overkill for what I use it for.  I'd also have to charge the battery a lot more often..

If you hear of any good flashcard programs out there, let me know.  "JMemorize" looks the business (interval learning, bar graphs) but my java machine is too low a version for it.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bizarre Boot Procedure

« on: March 16, 2006, 08:55:41 am »

The CF card idea appealed to me mainly because my batteries last longer; I have a feeling that even when the MD  "spins down", it draws a little more power than it should.

As far as my original proble, everything is fine... except one thing: I don't seem to be able to access HDD1/2 through the terminal.  I have a feeling it's an fstab thing (now at the limit of my puny knowledge).

If someone has a minute, can someone post the contents of a "standardish" fstab file?  Just so that I have an idea.  Thanks.

As soon as everything is AOK, I want to get debian up and running - mainly so that I can get access to a decent flash-card program for my studies; bit of an overkill but haven't seen anything else out there that runs directly on the Z.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bizarre Boot Procedure

« on: March 16, 2006, 01:24:55 am »

Fantastic!  Thanks for that, it worked a treat.  You're a lifesaver.  I feel GOOOOD!

 I plan to bottle the feeling I have now, and sell it via paypal.  Interested parties please let me know.

Amazing how the Z can just bring me to my knees like that.. worst thing is, I'm up for more punishment; I won't be happy unless debian is up and running.  You'd think I'd have learnt my lesson.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bizarre Boot Procedure

« on: March 15, 2006, 11:07:22 pm »

Try "mount -oremount,rw /dev/hda1" (or whichever device).  This works in regular desktop linux, and it works on my zaurus 6000 (for the read-only root), so I think it will work in your case.

Is there a magic command that makes a filesystem read/write? and why oh why does HDD3 work! It's teasing me, isn't it.  Playing with me for kicks.
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Thanks derekp.  After trying what you said, it complained that "can't find it in fstab"; this is a current fstab dump:

/dev/mtdblock2   /       jffs2   noatime   1  1
/dev/mtdblock3   /home       jffs2   defaults,noatime   1  2
none      /dev/shm   tmpfs   size=1m,noauto   0  0
/dev/mmcda1   /mnt/card   auto   noauto,owner   0  0
none      /dev/pts   devpts   gid=5,mode=620   0  0

If I edit this file, and boot up without adding those little HDD1/2 files, it will come up with the usual message of "HDD not initialised", but I can't add those files because it's read-only - an annoying vicious circle.  The only way to boot up is to go through the service menu and start again (thus clearing any changes and bringing me back to square one).  I can't believe it's THIS difficult to write those files..

For extra info, here is my DF output:

Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                   32768     32768         0 100% /
/dev/root                32768     32768         0 100% /
/dev/mtdblock3           91136      6176     84960   7% /home
/dev/ram1                   44        29        15  66% /dev
none                      1024        44       980   4% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1                 9725      1043      8180  11% /hdd1
/dev/hda2                 9755      1043      8208  11% /hdd2
/dev/hda3               978856         4    978852   0% /hdd3
/dev/hdc1              1997536    396640   1600896  20% /usr/mnt.rom/cf

and I'm running Trisofts rom (the only rom that lets me actually boot!).

If anybody out there has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it; never knew how much I needed the Z until it went.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bizarre Boot Procedure

« on: March 15, 2006, 12:57:37 pm »

What a day.. 12 hours fiddling.  When the z is good, it's GOOD.  BUT when I start to fiddle... We grow through pain.

To cut the story short, I replaced the HD in my 3100 with a CF.  I couldn't format the card on my desktop (another nightmare story) so I thought I'd just throw it in and see what happened.

Not much.

After discovering the console in the bootloader (by pressing D+B after power is added - for a long time), I set the CF to the correct HDD1/2/3 values using fdisk (HDD1=1-20,83 HDD2=21-40,83 HDD3=41+ c).  At last, I could now get it to boot, but only when I choose "restore the hard disk" (or whatever it's called in the startup menu thing) - a standard try at booting just ends in the message, "Hard disk not initialised".  Well, at least it kind of boots.

OK, another 6 hours before bed - I can do this.

I then found the reason. The Z doesn't want to give you the time of day unless HDD1 and HDD2 have a few tiny, pointless files in a directory called ".sys", so I downloaded them with the intention of finishing this madness and getting some sleep (Trisoft, my hero).

And this is where I stand now.  I've got the files, I've got a machine that can eventually boot normally (with a bit of fiddling), and I can even write normally to HDD3, but I have absolutely NO idea how to copy the files onto HDD1/2 on the card.  Everytime I try to write to the card it says "Read only file system" GRRRRRH!HHHHHR!!!!!"$!"#$RSDAF!!!!!! are you doing this deliberately?  I was VERY close to demonstrating Newtons laws with the Z and a concrete floor.

2:40am, I've had enough.  How do I write those tiny little files to HDD1/HDD2 without it moaning at me?  Is there a magic command that makes a filesystem read/write? and why oh why does HDD3 work! It's teasing me, isn't it.  Playing with me for kicks.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Sftp

« on: March 14, 2006, 11:45:00 am »

Did you set the user passwords?
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I guess a 6 month delay may be considered by some as.. slow (just found out somebody responded )

Still trying to make it work... How do I set the user passwords? Same as SU?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Dictionary

« on: January 31, 2006, 09:52:02 am »

Can the dictionary files of the 3100 be used on my desktop?  Would be handy..

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Text File Corruption

« on: January 30, 2006, 02:52:40 am »

Like I said, it isn't 100%.
Right now your Text Editor is using UTF-8 which obviously supports Japanese.

But since ShiftJIS is still the predominant Japanese encoding (I suspect some apps in the Zaurus use it as default), you're bound to run into mojibake sooner or later.
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after reading that, it made me think of a possibility.  Sometimes I cut and paste from the built in dictionary into the text editor - maybe the dictionary uses a different encoding and it's confusing matters.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Text File Corruption

« on: January 29, 2006, 03:23:03 am »

Assuming you installed the Japanese support package from the Cacko feed, its not 100% complete.
The Text Editor still doesn't support Japanese character encoding ie Shift-JIS etc.
My guess is you've previously opened the vocab lists in another SJIS-capable editor or in Windows (which defaults to SJIS for Japanese input) thus causing the mojibake.

Check out this post to enable SJIS support for the Text Editor:
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16808

I wrote it for the C1000 but should work for the 3100 too.
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All my Japanese study is on the Z so I can't blame another source (like my desktop).  I've literally closed and opened the same file on the Z (straight away) and seen it open as mojibake; it's starting to make me paranoid.

The missing files you mentioned in your thread - if some were missing wouldn't all Japanese support fail ?  As it is, it works fine it just goes strange every month or two.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Text File Corruption

« on: January 28, 2006, 05:40:03 am »

I use the text editor (in Cacko) to store lists of Japanese vocab but every now and again when I open the file, the whole file contents has turned to mush (mojibake).

It only happens once every month or two but it's still a pain.  I've tried opening the file on another computer using various software but I always end up deleting the file.  It's a shame because it's made me a little paranoid about using it..

There doesn't seem to be rhyme or reason, just seems to happen under normal operation.

Anybody else have a similar problem?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Sftp

« on: January 10, 2006, 10:04:02 am »

on the zaurus itself try

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ssh 127.0.0.1 to confirm that ssh is accepting locally on the Z.  Have you implemented any firewalls on the Z or desktop?
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Seems to connect locally without problem (when su) but won't connect from the desktop.  I've tried ssh ipadress and ssh zaurus@ipaddress

Firewalls? I haven't changed anything.. just standard Cacko ROM..