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For Sale / Wanted / Psion Series 5 And Sl-5500 (collie) With 128mb Sd Card And External Keyboard

« on: November 29, 2008, 09:07:06 am »

Zaurus has now gone, Psion still available.

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For Sale / Wanted / Psion Series 5 And Sl-5500 (collie) With 128mb Sd Card And External Keyboard

« on: November 25, 2008, 04:28:38 pm »

An SL-5550, 128mb sd card, leather case and external IR keyboard. Its currently running the Hybrid Rom (a sharp rom derivative). Its in good condition and fully works, however I can't find the cradle, if/when I find it i'll post it free of charge to the winning bidder if they want it. I'm selling as I liked it so much I went and bought a CL-1000.

Its on ebay at:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...E:L:LCA:GB:1123

I'm prepared to ship worldwide, but bidders outside europe/us/canada need to contact me to work out postage costs.

Also if anyone's interest I have a Psion series 5 for sale too, see http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Psion-Series-5-PDA-w...%3A1|240%3A1318

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Otterbox

« on: May 06, 2007, 01:56:11 pm »

Correct, I think.
The zaurus won't fit as the dimension from the hinge to the SD slot is about 0.125" too long.
I thought of dremmeling my Otterbox to make it fit, but there seems to be too little spare material to work with.
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Which otterbox do you have? the 2600 or 3600? I just noticed the 3600 is 3.6" wide internally where as the 2600 is 3.375" internally. I've just remeasured my zaurus with a different tape measure and make it to be just over 3.3" wide.

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Otterbox

« on: May 05, 2007, 09:49:30 pm »

I have the Otterbox you mention, also the Pelican 1020. It'll fit almost perfectly in the 1020, but not at all in the Otterbox.

Thanks. I just saw the dimensions of the otterbox and it looks like its not wide enough for the zaurus?

I was thinking the otterbox looked perfect, it lets you use the PDA inside it, cables can even be passed in and its water proof and floats. Looks like I'll need to look a bit harder

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Otterbox

« on: April 29, 2007, 07:29:53 pm »

Has anyone tried a CL-1000 in an otterbox 2600 or 3600 case?

I need a case for my zaurus which is:

waterproof
floats
lets me see the screen
use a CF or USB bluetooth card
can sustain dropping the zaurus a metre or two

My intended use is as a GPS mapping device on a boat, so the zaurus will almost certainly be splashed and could fall in the water.

Alternativley are there any other cases which could do this? I've seen the Pelican 1020 mentioned but it doesn't look like you can read the screen through it?

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Cxx0 Hardware / Otterbox Cases For Cl-1000

« on: April 27, 2007, 05:27:42 pm »

Has anyone tried a CL-1000 in an otterbox 2600 or 3600 case?

I need a case for my zaurus which is:

waterproof
floats
lets me see the screen
use a CF or USB bluetooth card
can sustain dropping the zaurus a metre or two

My intended use is as a GPS mapping device on a boat, so the zaurus will almost certainly be splashed and could fall in the water.

Alternativley are there any other cases which could do this? I've seen the Pelican 1020 mentioned but it doesn't look like you can read the screen through it?

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PocketPenguin / Build Your Own Linux Powered Pda

« on: June 24, 2006, 09:34:02 pm »

I just came across this post and am really amazed, can't wait til I can buy one! I've long thought about building a custom PDA and many of the ideas discussed in this post (like USB host, external monitor support, GSM/GPRS etc).

There are a couple of things that have sprung into my mind reading this post:

1. uboot (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot) might make a good bootloader. Its smaller than having an entire linux kernel and can read images from an mmc card or over serial using kermit. Its currently used by the gumstix. Although one thing they do which I don't like is to place it in flash meaning you can remove it and brick your device (unless you use JTAG).

2. If this device is a success a lightweight version might be nice. I still often use my Psion 5MX despite having a Zaurus 5500 because it runs for 30 hours on 2 AA batteries and is perfectly adequate for many tasks. Perhaps a device of the same size/shape, same keyboard, running the same software but only has a monochrome screen, 100mhz CPU, 64mb of RAM, SD/CF and bluetooth. For tasks like checking email, reading ebooks, using IMs, word processing, spreadsheets, PIM and basic web browsing and possibly even coding it would be ideal. Hopefully it would also be a lot cheaper, on the subject of cost does anyone know what this thing is likely to cost?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Gpe-mini-browser And Https: Not Working

« on: April 18, 2006, 05:33:52 pm »

The browser doesn't do anything (not even a message on STDOUT) when I try to access htpps sites.

Can I fix this by installing a lib? Which one? ipkg info 'gpe-mini-browser' doesn't suggest any.
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I don't think gpe-minibrowser supports SSL at all yet.
Does anyone know of any other browsers which work in GPE and have ssl support? The only one I can find is firefox but it doesn't fit properly on my screen.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Openzaurus 3.5.4 Released

« on: April 17, 2006, 08:56:34 pm »

I've managed to solve the resolv.conf probelm (through somewhat of an ugly hack) by taking the tar.gz image, extracting it on my desktop PC, removing /etc/default/volatiles/01_resolv.conf and creating /etc/resolv.conf as a real file with my dns settings in it (although dhcp should override these). Then turning this into a new tar.gz file and installing it to the sd card on my zaurus.

I can't see why the default setup caused this problem, but this lets me get round it.