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General Discussion / Oesf Is Back & Alive Once Again!

« on: October 06, 2016, 11:35:57 am »

Good to see you back, koan.  

I think that the index.html or equivalent is simply missing for the www.oesf.org addie.  I did some research yesterday and wrote a long post that disappeared, but I think that if someone in addition finally has ftp access, while shell access would be more efficient, it still may be possible to remove the bad code rendering the oesf.org inaccessible.

Will try to rewrite that by tomorrow, too busy today, My hunch is that the wiki pages may actually still be at archive.org but hidden.  And I think that even with link rot, elsix.org is still valuable, quickening taught me a long time ago that searching there, I would at least then have the correct package name to search the net for, and often could find what I needed somewhere.

What I have been hunting for is the link to the main wiki page, and not sure what it is!  Anybody know?

I did save copies of two wiki pages on my site years ago, the ones about sd/cf cards, but I don't think those have the wiki url itself.

http://sdjf.esmartdesign.com/wiki

sdjf

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General Discussion / Oesf Is Back & Alive Once Again!

« on: October 02, 2016, 05:09:13 pm »

Elsi aka elsix.org was the place to go to find out what software was available for the Zaurus, and where to find it.  It will be a while before google has spidered the forum well enough to see if there are any hits here for references to it, other than in tumnus's signature line.  I don't know if statistics about elsix visitors were gathered, from when it was available.

But it will take a while before people find their way back here...many may have changed their email addresses, and won't get any notifications.  It will be more like web searches turning up the forum, convincing the spiders to do their jobs.

SEO would dictate we will get more people coming back by posting links elsewhere.  I finally just got a blog post up about this, but need to go back and add links to the forum instead of just letting people look at the sidebars in my blog.

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6000 - Tosa / Replace The Internal "backup Battery" Any1 Try It?

« on: September 30, 2016, 08:52:52 pm »

With remaining Tosas as old as they now are, most are likely suffering from dying backup batteries, so this becomes an even more important topic now than when it was originally posted.

My hunch is that the innerds of the sl6000 family including the backup battery are pretty much the same as for the sl5500, and I know that quickening did successfully replace the backup battery on his collie, although it was intricate surgery.  It was a standard coin battery, I do not recall offhand which type, but pretty easily available.

What I am not clear on is whether the original is rechargable, and I am not going to even being to try to disassemble my Tosa now to find out, I will use it until it becomes impossible.  But it has been nearing that point for quite a long time.

I still am not certain, whether the Tosa will when when connected to power when the backup battery finally does die.  I know with my Collie, once the backup battery finally went, then every time I turned the Collie on, it turned itself off, and I have it tucked away for when and if I get brave and decide to try to perform surgery.  Given the collie's lack of usb support, I am more likely to try with the Tosa when the time comes.

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / [solved] Forum Infected With Malware

« on: September 30, 2016, 10:54:32 am »

Well, it has happened once, with one of the search results with the "Call of Duty" tag, that I was redirected on a phishing site instead of the forum's thread, so I believe that this malware can be harmful when searching the forum via Google (I do that sometimes).

Varti

I see what you mean, they are in the oesf domain although not in the forum itself.  But, who has admin rights who can remove those pages?  Do moderators or does it have to be someone at a higher level?

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / [solved] Forum Infected With Malware

« on: September 29, 2016, 11:26:50 am »

Those pages are not in the forum, whose working url is https://www.oesf.org/forum, they are in the home page link https://www.oesf.org.

In a browser, I cannot even get to https://www.oesf.org, only the forum when I go directly.

The google search of oesf.org (not forum) turns up the feed, which is alive and well (yay!), and a bunch of pages which should get removed if they are still there, but who can do that?

 https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww....amp;btnG=Search

The only place in the forum where "call of duty" now appears is in one user's profile, as far as I can tell???

Okay, I see those pages are still on the web, and accessible via google, although not in the forum itself.  Is offroadgeek the only person now with admin rights?  I PM'd speculatrix (or emailed, I forget which) to see if he is still reachable, although not about the malware.

sdjf

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Alive?

« on: September 29, 2016, 11:06:08 am »

Thanks Varti!

I am not so sure it is okay to close the trouble ticket at ibiblio.  I have tried, without success, to add my two cents to that trouble ticket.  As offroadgeek mentioned in his 2010 post about oesf coming back online back then, zaurususergroup.org and elsix.org are part of the package.  I have not checked ZUG, but can say for sure that we are still denied access to elsix.org, and that is an essential part of oesf...how else do we find out about software, all in one place?

And the wiki issue still needs to be worked on, although that is an independent topic, and I will add to the subforum here about that.  It is just as essential as elsix.org, but we need someone who is willing to restore it - if not as an active wiki, at least as a static image of it's last state, because where else can we find how-to's about embedded linux?  Those pages are classic...

It is possible that elsix.org is getting worked on, but with no update from offroadgeek, no way to know for sure.

sdjf

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General Discussion / Oesf Is Back & Alive Once Again!

« on: September 28, 2016, 11:31:35 pm »

Thanks ArchiMark!  It has been so long since I noticed OESF down last spring when I was hunting for some information, that I no longer recall what I was looking for or wanted help with!  But I am so, so glad to see oesf back up and running.

It looks like elsix.org is still broken, though, and that is a very important part of OESF.  I hope it will get fixed, it might have been where I needed to get information from!

Cheers!
sdjf

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / [solved] Forum Infected With Malware

« on: September 28, 2016, 11:28:09 pm »

I wonder if the malware had anything to do with triggering the last 6 months or so of outage?

Looking at his profile, it looks like InSearchOf has not been here (at this point) since July 2015.  Several moderators have privatized the dates of their last visits, so it is hard to say if there are any active moderators at all!

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Zaurus Kexecboot-enabled Kernels

« on: May 05, 2013, 12:23:23 am »

Hey, I'm still using both my sl5500 and sl6000 daily!!!  And they both are attached to my Raspberry Pi, one using usbd and the other via ethernet.

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Security and Networking / Bluetooth Internet

« on: December 27, 2012, 08:43:02 am »

Maybe some thoughts I have will help, although I have not experience with bluetooth or the other service you are trying to use.

You did not say which browser you are using, so it would be good to post that.  My guess is that your browser is looking on a different tty than the one that the connection to the Mac is set up for.  What I am not sure of is how you figure that out unless you either see the tty name in "ps ax" or run strace to start your browser and examine the output of that.

For seeing the tty for your Mac connection, I would think "ps ax" would give you that unless you are running an inferior busybox version of ps.

More about ps versions here:

http://sdjf.esmartdesign.com/commands/ps.html

Also, another way to go would be to set up ssh to your Mac and then run a VNC client on your Zaurus.  Or just ssh in to the Mac and use a text browser.

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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Jaunty Repository Gone?

« on: June 17, 2012, 11:52:44 pm »

What kind of processor does the netwalker have?  I have noticed some stuff in the archlinuxarm repository for sharp and wondered what it was for.

ArchLinux is about as bare bones as you can get, no GUI, just minimal commandline, you have to decide what you want to install and have Pacman do the work or compile yourself.

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Firefox / Google Warning About Oesf.org

« on: June 06, 2012, 01:39:27 pm »

Here is an example, it has a few tar files and various modules.

https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=27143

Google is claiming that visiting 23 pages results in software being downloaded automatically when the pages are visited.  At least, that is how I read the intermediary page saying go visit the page if you want to take the risk.

they provide the page url, but not as a hot link.

sdjf

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Firefox / Google Warning About Oesf.org

« on: June 06, 2012, 01:30:27 pm »

I wonder if downloadable ROMs, scripts and code could be getting labelled as malware because they were created on Linux rather than Windows machines?

I ask this because I created a spreadsheet template with Hancomm Word on my Zaurus, and when I emailed it to a friend, her Windoze machine refused to let her write to it, saying it contained malware!  If they are going to label Linux created files and binaries as malware, I am not sure what can be done about that.

sdjf

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6000 - Tosa / Original Sharp Rom

« on: May 20, 2012, 12:08:02 pm »

Does that mean you now have a Tosa?  I never flashed any other ROM, so would have to google for it to help, have you tried googling for  2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix-021129 ?  That is the version that sl6000L came with.

sdjf

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5x00 Hardware / Sl-5500 Cradle Issues

« on: April 01, 2012, 12:28:17 am »

Which Sharp ROM?  I use 2.38 and have never seen a device manager.

Have you tried simply restarting the usbd0 connection after plugging power in?

Command would be something like:

ifconfig usbd0 192.168.129.201 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

Also, are you sure that 192.168.129.201 is the right IP?  I still get very confused about figuring out the right one, but maybe somebody else can help who knows more.

Meanwhile, try the above ifconfig command, and right after that, try your ifconfig -a

sdjf