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Nokia Tablet / Nokia N810

« on: November 13, 2007, 08:01:32 pm »

There are all of a sudden a good number of very tempting gadgets, most of them at very good prices. I wish I could justify getting the Fujitsu, the EEEPC, or the N810, but I just can't at the moment .

So yes, I am VERY tempted, but not at this point in time.

I think i've finally found my zaurus replacement.....

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Debian And Uboot

« on: April 20, 2007, 10:44:30 pm »

How do I set the "hostname"?

Set Hostname in /etc/hostname usually in debian..... Just put the hostname in this file.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Debian And Uboot

« on: April 20, 2007, 11:41:40 am »

Ive been running the arm EABI on my N800 for a little while with a VNC server, works kinda like pocketworkstation. It is however lacking many packages that are on pdaxrom already, xfce was broken and couldnt find firefox/iceweasel, abiword or many others. Then again, icewm + lots of console programs work wonderfully - just not as many packages as pocketworkstation. I think this is because it uses armel feed and therefore doesnt seem to work with regular debian mirrors...

Definitely interested in how to boot this on the Z though and how to get access to more packages if anyone has any other armel mirrors for debian.

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Off Topic forum / Freedom Plan

« on: April 17, 2007, 10:02:48 pm »

If people in the Israeli side of the border found it inconvenient, think how much more terrible it had been on the Lebanese side.

For sure, I agree with you on this 100%. I also think it is stupid to start a war based on two soldiers being kidnapped. But there is more to it than meets the eye. Hizbullah had been waiting for an excuse to fight Israel and Israel also wanted an excuse to finish Hizbullah.
Do you know about the ideology of the Hizbullah?

‘If they [the Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them world wide.’ - Hassan Nasrallah

To me that seems a little more than resistance to occupation.

On September 14, 2006, Amnesty International released a report accusing Hezbollah of war crimes during the 2006 conflict with Israel.Human Rights Watch have similarly accused Hezbollah of war crimes in a report issued on August 5, 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hizbullah#Background_2

See, it works both ways.. war is not just one persons fault. There isnt always a good and bad guy.

I beg to differ. The Blue Line is a "line of convenience" if you will, to mark where Israel should withdraw from. The UN itself acknowledges that it is not a border.

Israel withdrew to where they should withdraw from, what is the problem exactly? If there is no border what are they meant to do? They withdrew to the UN agreed line. Unfortunately Hizbullah disagree.

The UN report was based on second hand facts because Israel did not permit any journalists, the Red Cross, UN personnel, into the combat zone until well after combat had died down. And in fact the report was compiled without UN personnel on the ground because they were denied access. BW the UN report says at least 52 dead (ie there were 52 confirmed deaths), truth is nobody knows the exact figures, because as Churchill said "Truth is the first casualty of war".

However no more bodies were every found. The Palestinians confirmed the UN body count. Or was there some vast conspiracy to cover up hundreds of bodies that were never found? I have spoken to many people who were in Jenin, on both sides. Thats why I felt I had the right to an opinion. I dont claim to have the truth, just an informed opinion.

As I said originally, some people refuse to accept facts because they dont fit so well with their world view. At least I am open to the fact that I may be one of those people :-)

I dont think there was either side that was right or wrong in the Lebanon war... There isn't usually a clearly defined 100% good/evil in a war situation. Everyone is bad and good on different levels. Clearly there was a huge over-reaction by the Israelis, but many there were terrified and half the country lived in bomb shelters for a month. A stupid corrupt government over-reacted and did not do a good job in deterring anything or anyone.

Anyways I was just pointing out a different view, I didn't expect anyone to accept it.... But its very easy to armchair commentate from thousands of miles away. I have a degree in Middle Eastern Studies focusing on the History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and have spent a lot of time travelling the region so I thought my opinion might be somewhat valid.

Btw I do love the illuminati conspiracies, did you know the supreme court of Israel has an illuminati pyramid on the roof and many illuminati designs all over the building?

Anyways Im gonna get back to the zaurus stuff and enjoying my new N800, i much prefer the non-political discussions here :-)

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Off Topic forum / Freedom Plan

« on: April 17, 2007, 02:21:51 pm »

Now where in all this do you see a conspiracy against Israel?

There is obviously a strong bias by the US towards Israel, however this does not negate the strong bias against Israel by most of the rest of the United Nations. I agree with you that the occupation of land by Israel must end, but after spending a month there last year in bomb shelters during the Lebanon war I am not very sympathetic towards the Hizbullah, and neither are many of my Lebanese friends - or many of the Arab inhabitants i met in Israel during the summer who also found bombs raining down on their heads sent by their 'brothers' in lebanon.

Also according to the United Nations, Israel is not occupying any Lebanese land since they withdrew their troops in the year 2000. They are still occupying Syrian land and the West Bank and Gaza strip, but no lebanese land (border was verified by a number of UN missions).

I was just drawing attention to the fact that one small nation seems to get an inordinate amount of press relative to the human rights violations (and often occupation/walls/apartheid and discrimination) going on in other countries around the world and in its immediate region. I was not trying to downplay any human rights violations that Israel has been responsible for over the last 50 or so years.

Israel does cause problems in the Middle East, but so do many of the other countries surrounding it and they are rarely brought to any sort of resolution in the UN or condemned by activists around the world. I think they just make a convenient scapegoat.
Do you honestly believe if Israel didn't exist there would be no Islamist terror anymore?

Not trying to start an argument or anything I was just raising a few points... I have spent most of the last ten years travelling the Middle East and found that the situation on the ground is very different to how it is portrayed in the media and elsewhere.

This thread began with the idea that the media lies, what would make you believe that their version of the Middle East conflict including the lebanon war is in any way balanced?

It was shown that Hizbullah staged and manipulated many journalists into reporting innacurate and overblown facts and statistics, much like during the Jenin 'massacre' where initial figures of thousands dead were quickly revised to 56 dead of which 39+ were armed gunmen. (UN Verified these statistics also).

Anyways, just my 2 cents not meaning to start any wars or anything :-)

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Off Topic forum / Freedom Plan

« on: April 17, 2007, 11:54:11 am »

If you want a good conspiracy, read Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, you can even find it in a zaurus readable format....

Im a bit sick of conspiracy stuff being used to push certain world views. Of course the media lies and absolute power corrupts - but not everything can be explained by inside job/illuminati/conspiracy stuff.

Im coming round to thinking that 9/11 was simultaneousy an inside job, an al qaeda job and probably another group (or three) got involved also. All the evidence provided in this thread and other 9/11 threads can be found to point to this conclusion just as easily. People see what they want to see.........

Conspiracies do exist, unfortunately most of the ones I have come across that hold water seem to be ignored by most conspiracists as they go against their world view. For example 'The Secret War against the Jews' is a fascinating book, but most conspiracists completely ignore this and similar works as they dont fit with the specific world view they are trying to prove. There is much evidence of a conspiracy against the state of Israel (check UN Human Rights council rulings that have singled out only this country hundreds of times while ignoring recurring genocides and rights violations in places like Sudan and East Timor). The world also seems to ignore the fact that Saudi Arabia is a completely  apartheid country where people of some religions are not even allowed to set foot.
Im sick of people ignoring facts that dont fit their view of the world....

I think it was Timothy Leary (Phd) who wrote that there are 23 conspiracies involved in nearly every situation. 23 Skidoo.....

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxii13 On Nand

« on: January 24, 2007, 11:04:16 pm »

the tar.gz wouldnt unpack for me, has anyone else managed to open it?

(thx meanie for all your efforts on the Z)

never mind, I figure this patch might fix it.

extract the files from akita-fix.tar.gz and copy mkfs.init to /sbin/ and rc.rofilesys to /etc/rc.d/
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Sharp ROMs / Wifi Card Not Working

« on: September 05, 2006, 04:26:49 am »

Ok have now flashed to pdaXrom and wifi works fine (but tried flashing to cacko again and no luck with the wifi) i guess i will stick with pdaxrom for the moment until someone figures a way to sort this problem out....

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Sharp ROMs / Wifi Card Not Working

« on: September 04, 2006, 12:58:45 pm »

Im having the same problem, also after flashing back from openzaurus.

Wifi card still works on openBSD so i know it isnt broken.. Anyone have any ideas how to install the modules? it worked last time in 1.23....

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New products and alternatives / Open Linux Mobile Phone By Trolltech

« on: August 15, 2006, 07:26:00 am »

Trolltech are releasing a Linux mobile phone that is open (for flashing also)

Trolltech Linux Mobile Phone

Seems like it will only be sold to licensees, although im not sure exactly what that means...
I am definitely interested in getting this, even if it is only sold as a dev kit...

Anyone know any more info? (Maybe lpotter??)

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Software / Announce: Simpleedit

« on: April 04, 2006, 01:44:46 pm »

great software,

any chance you could add the highlighting for ruby (and ruby on rails)?

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ELSI General Discussion / Ti 85 Emulator

« on: February 13, 2006, 09:53:46 am »

Here's my copy of this program.

-gern (=
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thank you so much, been looking for that for a while too....

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X/Qt / X/qt Jumbo Lite?

« on: January 29, 2006, 02:46:07 am »

Anyone have a download link for xqt-debian-jumbo-lite_0.4.3-0.1_arm.ipk?

cant seem to find the lite version on meanies site...

thanks

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Accessories / Joysticks On The Zaurus

« on: January 23, 2006, 02:18:48 am »

But how do I get it to actually work in games? Heretic and Doom don't seem to have a choice for joystick and I just tried a few snes games and it doesn't automatically work.

There is a menu option in doom to enable the joystick and it works nice: :

1 Press cancel to see menu
2.Select options then general options
3. Press right arrow to move to next page of options
4. Select enable joystick and press enter to enable it
5. Enjoy joystick enabled doom!

There you go, its really simple - i imagine heretic and quake have similar menu settings.
Are there any other games that might work with the joystick anyone can recommend?

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Software / Soft To Add Holidays To Default Pim?

« on: January 22, 2006, 10:24:55 pm »

Try Qualendar: http://ichitokumei.hp.infoseek.co.jp/qualendar (ENGLISH at http://ichitokumei.hp.infoseek.co.jp/quale.../index_en.html)
its a replacement calendar that handles holidays well - i cant remember how I got them in there in the first place i think by hand in an xml file...

maybe holidaycalc will help? http://holidaycalc.sourceforge.net/download.php