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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Re: How robust is a Gemini?

« on: August 21, 2021, 11:45:55 pm »

Thank you jakfish and Daniel.  Your information is helpful.

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Re: How robust is a Gemini?

« on: August 09, 2021, 04:21:58 pm »

Thank you Varti.  That is good to know.  Thank you also for moving this to get more visibility.

I gues that a second way to ask my question would be poll-like.  If you use your gemini on a fairly regular basis (daily or almost daily), how long have you been using it with only minor adjustments and/or how long before its functionality broke down and forced you to get another device?

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / How robust is a Gemini?

« on: August 08, 2021, 09:39:07 pm »

I am just stumbling across the gemini and like what I see.  I am interested in knowing how long it will last under daily use.  In particular, I have had clam shells in the past and the hinges and/or  screen ribbons often fail.  Is it common for a gemini used daily to last for several years without this kind of failure? 

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General Discussion / Happy New Year

« on: September 04, 2014, 08:10:44 pm »

I also stop by every once in a while to see what's going on.  I still have my Z that I use occasionally, but have migrated through the nanonote and now an openpandora for use daily at work.  The Z is a nice machine because of the keyboard and the fact that the lcd ribbon (cable ... whatever is there) is designed well.  On the nanonote the ribbon going through the hinge would eventually rip, resulting the screen no longer working.  It started to show up as colored lines through the screen.  This is now showing up on my pandora as well, so I will have to replace the ribbon.  I think that the pandora developers are aware of it and making changes.  I have never experienced this problem on the zaurus.  Of course with the swivel the design is different.

The community with the pandora is strong, much like what there was with the zaurus several years ago.

Just wondering, were you ever able to repair the torn Nanonote cable?

I did not ever fix the cable on the nanonote.  I did not try very hard.  The people at pandora actually sell the ribbon cables and there is a video describing how to replace it.  I did not see similar support at nanonote (though I didn't look real hard).

The nanonote was nice because of its size.  It fits nicely into pretty much any pocket.  With the pandora I have to wear cargo pants to comfortably carry it on my body.  On the other hand the pandora screen has better resolution and I am able to put a more advanced os on the pandora than was on the nanonote.

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General Discussion / Happy New Year

« on: January 11, 2014, 11:40:12 am »

I also stop by every once in a while to see what's going on.  I still have my Z that I use occasionally, but have migrated through the nanonote and now an openpandora for use daily at work.  The Z is a nice machine because of the keyboard and the fact that the lcd ribbon (cable ... whatever is there) is designed well.  On the nanonote the ribbon going through the hinge would eventually rip, resulting the screen no longer working.  It started to show up as colored lines through the screen.  This is now showing up on my pandora as well, so I will have to replace the ribbon.  I think that the pandora developers are aware of it and making changes.  I have never experienced this problem on the zaurus.  Of course with the swivel the design is different.

The community with the pandora is strong, much like what there was with the zaurus several years ago.

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Ubuntu / Installing Zubuntu

« on: February 22, 2011, 11:51:35 pm »

Hello,

I have 3100 that I am  trying to install Zubunt.  Ihave tries numerous different SD cards and everytime I boot with them it states no SD card found.

It's been a while since I installed Zubuntu though I use it daily . . .

Have you tried putting the Fat stuff on a CF card?  I don't remember the SD being formatted fat.  I do vaguely remember that the sd card was a no go in a situation where the CF worked, and perhaps it was with this initial startup stuff.

Good luck.

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New products and alternatives / Pandora Is Starting To Really Interest Me

« on: May 23, 2010, 07:27:26 pm »

Still no news? Anyone got theirs yet?

They have started producing the first batch.  This will be my next portable when my c1000 needs replacing.

http://www.open-pandora.org/index.php?opti...mid=2〈=en

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Ubuntu / Flash For Zubuntu's Firefox

« on: December 23, 2009, 11:43:16 am »

Maybe this topic would be better off moved to the new dedicated NetWalker section.

This is discussion of flash on zubuntu, which seems to make sense here.

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Ubuntu / Can Boot Zubuntu From Sd But Not From Cf Card

« on: December 22, 2009, 03:39:13 am »

I believe the kexec kernel provided by omegamoon simply does not look at CF cards. I now flashed zImage-kexecboot-2.6.26-r12-c7x0.bin from Angström and it does find zubuntu on the CF card and starts to boot it   . But then it stops with something like "waiting for root /dev/hda1"  .

I assume this is because some module is not yet loaded at this stage. I will try to locate the module and put it into /etc/modules.

Has this issue been resolved?  I would like to multiboot from a cf card.  In other words:

   1)  Has the kexec kernel provided by omegamoon been revised to recognize CF cards?
or
   2)  Does the Angström image get past "waiting for root /dev/hda1" with Zubuntu?

Thanks.

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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Zaurus Is Dead .... Long Living Zaurus Aka Pc-z1

« on: September 16, 2009, 08:30:27 pm »

Where are you seeing those reviews, fpp??

There is a review (Part 1 of ?) on http://innovatingtouch.com/, as well as a forum.

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Ubuntu / Back Quote

« on: August 22, 2009, 02:55:22 pm »

I couldn't find a back quote on the keyboard.  So I edited both /etc/keymap.2.6 and /etc/keymap.2.4 and put "grave" in the <function>-q spot.  I tried loadkeys but that didn't seem to work for me.  After reboot I got a back quote when pressing <function>-q.

I am not sure which file  (2.6 or 2.4) gave the proper results.  I am little rushed now to test it again.

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New products and alternatives / Always Innovating Touchbook

« on: August 20, 2009, 01:37:56 pm »

The touchbook has started shipping.      http://innovatingtouch.com/index.php?topic=22.0

Let's hope the pandora gets shipped in the next couple of months too.

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Ubuntu / Usb Networking

« on: May 13, 2009, 01:33:28 pm »

Did somebody know how to activate the USB networking ?

FWIW:  Whenever I plug in my usb ethernet adapter I have to run this code:

[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']echo -n 1 >/sys/bus/usb/devices/1-2/bConfigurationValue[/div]

Some recent advance in the system development sets a lower power  cutoff threshold that my adapter doesn't meet.  Thus the workaround.  I've never crashed using this workaround.  It has been covered in the forums.

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu Help

« on: March 19, 2009, 06:45:44 pm »

Hi

Im pretty new to the zaurus thing and i was wondering if anybody could help me out with trying to get zubuntu onto my zaurus, ive had ago at omegamoons way and i just cant seem to extract the files onto a sd/cf card, i dont mind if i mess up my zaurus a few times cos i find it all a learning curve. Can anybody help me or do they have a video u can follow. Thanks for any help i get.

Regards

whykick

(I am making a guess at your needs without knowing how much linux experience you have.)

Linux on your pc along with a card reader makes this easy.  (You can make a live disk to use if your pc is running windows.  Puppylinux works for me.)  

Once running linux, use gparted to create the partition(s) you want on the card.  Then copy the files to be extracted there.  To extract use the "tar" command i.e. "tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz"

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Ubuntu / Zubuntu 1.0 Rc1

« on: March 02, 2009, 06:39:43 pm »

Is there any battery monitor app that you guys will recommend?

And what applications did you guys use on Zubuntu?

awk ' {print $7}' /proc/apm