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General Discussion / Does Anybody Know When Conics Will Be Back Up?
« on: November 03, 2006, 04:56:59 am »
when I checked today, looks like its back up.

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Is This A Self Powered Hdd?
« on: January 26, 2006, 03:29:53 am »
How about this one as another option?  I'm almost tempted to buy it, a 40GB for SGD$299 whereas the unit without HDD is already SGD$249!

http://www.eastgear.com/shop/product_info....products_id=444

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Is The Case Of The C3100 "factory Sealed"?
« on: December 07, 2005, 05:03:40 am »
thanks neuroshock, nice details.  still trying to decide if I should upgrade my 760 to a c3100 or wait till next year and see what santa/sharp brings to the shop...!

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my symbol is working on my dlink DI624 (which is a b/g router) set to auto mode (i.e. auto-toggle between b/g/aetheros superg).  WEP is on in shared mode, and MAC filtering, although I plan to change to WPA when I get the time.

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General Discussion / Using A Zaurus For Lecture Notes
« on: March 30, 2005, 03:40:30 am »
I use my c760 at airports to reply to emails etc, the keyboard is fine.  I hold it mainly with my left hand, with thumb free, and mainly the righthand to type with 4 fingers (thumb for space bar).

for lecture note taking though, I think a pen+paper is still more versatile, you can draw arrows and other pictograms/pictures, and you are not constrained by the vga screen of the sharp...

for business though, it's no problem (less of understanding concept, and more of note taking to remember what to do)

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Accessories / Ea-bl08k Battery For C-700
« on: March 28, 2005, 02:32:14 am »
http://conics.net/shp/pda/zaurus-sl-c700/sl-acc.html

I bought some accessories from him for my c760, and they were shipped to singapore.  Bit more expensive than brando though for the battery.  Let me know if you plan to order from brando, maybe I'll get a spare battery for my c760 too.

of course, I'm thinking about those c1000/3000s now... slurp...

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Cxx0 General discussions / Thumbboard Of The C Series...
« on: February 03, 2005, 11:20:58 pm »
I can touchtype on it on a flat surface (not as fast as on a normal keyboard of course), but when on planes etc, I find the best solution is to hold it with the left hand, with thumb free to type, and then use the right hand with all five fingers.  it actually works pretty well, occasionally my right hand strays over the center but it's enough to get quite good speed.

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General Discussion / Kingmax 60X SD card = fast swapfile
« on: December 02, 2004, 03:50:54 am »
Here's my results from a panasonic 1GB ext2:

$ ./bonnie -d /mnt/card/ -f -b -n 0
Writing intelligently...done
Rewriting...done
Reading intelligently...done
start 'em...done...done...done...
Version  1.03       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
zaurus         300M            1290   6   504  61             749  57  20.4  95
zaurus,300M,,,1290,6,504,61,,,749,57,20.4,95,,,,,,,,,,,,,

So I guess that makes it 1290kbs@6% CPU write, 749kbs@57% CPU read?

Reads seems too high in CPU, I'll probably have to rerun it again, my screen saver did pop up a few times (didn't realise the benchmark would take SO long to run!).

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Here's the rerun:

$ ./bonnie -d /mnt/card/ -f -b -n 0
Writing intelligently...done
Rewriting...done
Reading intelligently...done
start 'em...done...done...done...
Version  1.03       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
zaurus         300M            1338   70   505  9             750  18  20.4  95
zaurus,300M,,,1338,70,505,9,,,750,18,20.4,95,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Now it says writes take 70% CPU time?!?  yet another run time...

Version  1.03       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
zaurus         300M            1318   24   505  9             759  18  20.6  96
zaurus,300M,,,1318,24,505,9,,,759,18,20.6,96,,,,,,,,,,,,,

ok this seems better?!?

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Accessories / Symbol Spectrum 24 WiFi card problems.
« on: September 17, 2004, 03:45:54 am »
don't know if this helps/hinders, but at home I use a dlink 624 revision B (which is the aetheros 108mbps version), a fujitsu P51010 w/802.11b, my symbol card works fine in my C760, I was browsing through my webmail for a lark (fonts are a bit too small to read comfortably).

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Cxx0 General discussions / Got myself a C860!
« on: September 17, 2004, 03:42:09 am »
congratulations!  Having had a C760 now for so long, I'm actually wondering if Sharp has a new model in the works...!

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Accessories / Why are SD cards so FRAGILE ?
« on: September 13, 2004, 11:10:19 pm »
hmm, strange, I've had a toshiba 128MB, 2x panasonic 256MBs and a 1GB rebadged Panasonic, with no problems, swapping them between phone (treo 600), Sl5500D, C760, and my fujitsu p5010 with no worries over the last 3 years (well, when I first bought the SL5500D, it was 3 years ago).

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Sharp ROMs / Can Chinese support in Cracko Rom
« on: September 06, 2004, 05:17:21 am »
I use qpzidian and that displays Chinese characters fine (albeit I run it in rotated magnified mode, otherwise the fonts are too small).

See Sephiroth's post above for the unicode font to use.

Haven't had a chance to try murphypinyin, now that Sephiroth's got some hints, I should try it!

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Software / 1 gig SD cards
« on: September 06, 2004, 05:14:04 am »
I'm using a 1GB SD card bought from eastgear.com, I think it's the NCP highspeed (which I also think is a rebadged panasonic), high speed anyway.  Works fine, I had it in vfat, it worked in my tre600, then I stuck it into my c760 and reformatted as ext2.

aside - I bought it for SGD$299, and a few months later they were selling it at COMEX 2004 for SGD$255.  sigh.

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General Discussion / Zaurus Makes Appearance at DefCon
« on: August 25, 2004, 03:14:18 am »
pity it doesn't mention whether it's an SL5500/5600 or the C7xx series.  Also interesting that netstumbler picked up the wrong mac address, whereas kismet worked fine.  I've seen the same problem running kismet and wellenreiter, pity I can't remember what versions of each, it's been a while since I've tried some war walking.

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Software / DLINK DWL-G650 AIRPLUS XTREMEG
« on: June 03, 2004, 02:37:35 am »
I just setup a DI624 (revision B, firmware 1.29) with 128bit WEP, and I could surf with opera 7.30 on my zaurus (symbol wireless - see sig).  But this was in infrastructure mode, you sound like you want an ad hoc network?

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