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Off Topic forum / Cellular Broadband

« on: July 29, 2007, 09:33:13 pm »

So I've got a cellular phone plan with the old AT&T that Cingular would charge me an arm and a leg for if I modify it now.

I want to add a data plan, but like I mentioned, Cingular would charge me an arm and a leg to modify it.

Does anyone know of any reasonably priced cellular broadband plans that I can use with an old cell phone (and will probably connect to my Z for any significant usage)?   I'll need someone to offer just the cellular broadband and not the cellular telephone portion as I'm going to keep my old AT&T plan.

Any ideas?

Maybe there exists some plan where I can use a CF i/o card with my Z!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Suspend & Xmms

« on: July 29, 2007, 03:40:32 pm »

Has anyone had the experience that when your Z suspends due to inactivity (lets say after 30 minutes of playing MP3s with no interaction) that when you resume, XMMS won't be able to find any of the MP3s in your playlist.  

Then I have to unmount my card where the MP3s are and remount it.    

After a few weeks of doing this, it seems the filesystem area where the MP3s were sitting got corrupted and I had to fsck it; effectively losing all the data.

As a solution, my thought is to have one of the suspend scripts kill XMMS if it is running at the time of suspend.  

One question I have is, does the system differentiate between suspend due to a commanded suspend or a suspend due to inactivity?

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Off Topic forum / Web Ftp

« on: June 25, 2007, 12:45:03 pm »

Anyone using any web browser based ftp clients on their servers?   I'm looking for one that can specifically support multiple file upload (not 100 text boxes but real multiple-file select and upload).  I want a user to be able to hit the site, get a file seelct dialog box, select all 800 pictures from his last vacation or whatever, then hit upload and walk away.  X mins later, it's uploaded.

Any ideas?  Anyone using such an interface?  PHP, Perl, Java are all supported.

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General Discussion / Zaurus And I On Vacation

« on: May 16, 2007, 12:40:50 am »

For reasons outside of vacation, I had to reflash my Z lately and wipe it clean.    In a week I'm heading on a European Vacation for a month.    Thus far I've got my GPS software installed (GPSDrive), my voip software installed (Kphone/SI), Firefox, and an email client.

Other suggestions?

What are YOUR necessity software when you're on vacation?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Kphonesi / Pdaxii13 / Scratchy Noise

« on: May 13, 2007, 03:19:32 pm »

I installed Kphone/SI v1.0.2 on my Pdaxii13 Akita from https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...ndpost&p=153281 and installed it to /mnt/card/.  It registers with sipphone.com, I can dial out (and the other line picks up) but it's radio silence on the other end and on my end all I hear is scratchy noise.

Anyone else experience this?


EDIT : The preferences screen is larger than the Z's viewing area.   Is there a sample config file that someone can provide I can use?  

EDIT2 :  I'll have to try it again while plugged in via hard wire.  I was using it via wireless at home and I read that the added latency of the wireless connection well screws up things.

EDIT3  : So I plugged in via hard wire and I got the same static.

EDIT4:  I confirmed that I can record through my left earbud via KhdRecord and I can playback the recording via XMMS in the right earbud.

EDIT5 : Calling sipphone.com's test #'s and such I can hear perfectly fine.  That's odd, I just can't call outside lines.

EDIT6 : I found ~/.qt/kphonesirc and it seems to have all the right stuff in there.   The software seg faults when saving the preferences screen (but it does save changes to kphonesirc).  The software also seg faults when terminating a call.  Both of these are expected from other posts on the forum.

EDIT7 : Success!  I grabbed  Like I mentioned in EDIT6, I found the config file in ~/.qt/kphonesirc.  I kept reading and reading more and more posts on OESF Forums as well as random other web pages about running Kphone 4.2 and 4.0series on other Linux mobile devices and the kicker for the scratchy noise is attributed to the codec that was selected.  

Kphone/SI has 5 available codecs, ulaw, alaw, gsm, ilbc, and speex.   By default, Kphone/SI tries to use them in that order unless you disable it by using a -1 in the config dialog box (or the config file).  I disbled speex, ilbc, alaw, and ulaw as I read some of them are very resource intensive codecs.   Enabling them one by one, I found my optimal settings are gsm as "0", alaw as "1", and the rest disabled via "-1".    Now I make calls out to landlines and mobile lines no problem.  

The only slight problem is that even at max volume (via Xmixer), using my headphones (right earbud for speaker and left earbud for mic) as a mic results in a pretty low microphone volume.  I'm not sure how to boost it up other than putting it just about between my lips    

Also, I didn't have any problem with using my router (I did have to open up the Z to the world unfirewalled), but I did put in the STUN and proxy servers just to be safe

In addition, I didn't have any problems using it over my wireless connection.

At any rate, that's my experience with Kphone/SI on my Z.

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Cf Vs Sd Vs Nand

« on: April 11, 2007, 12:28:37 am »

This msg has been retracted.

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Off Topic forum / Online Backup + Web Hosting

« on: April 04, 2007, 12:34:38 pm »

So I figured maybe someone knows one :

Here are my needs :

1) Weekly 150MB backup from my office to an offsite storage location (some rsync or equivalent)

2) Less than a handful of domains (all diskspace tallying up to maybe couple hundred megs right now) that need web hosting.

3) SMTP/POP access needed for each domain (tally in maybe 100MB disk space needed or so;  This implies the need for just 1 static IP)

4) Definately needs to be 24/7 99.9% uptime.

5) Doesn't need to be triple-redundant OC-36 data pipes, but something decent, at minimum 1/2 T1 to T1 speed to serve, and can be down to a 1/4 T1 to download (to service my offsite databackup from office).

6) Maybe some shell access for random other low diskspace / low bandwidth applications.  (this one is optional)

And of course

7) as cheap as possible


Anyone know of such a service/company?

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Sharp ROMs / List Of Cacko Package Feeds

« on: September 20, 2006, 01:58:09 pm »

So who's going to help out the newbies (like myself) and post a list of Cacko app package feeds that I can stick in my ipkg.conf?

I've seen a feed listed here and there but no nice comprehensive listing.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Web Browser Screen Shots

« on: August 25, 2006, 12:26:35 pm »

Ok, I haven't seen a thread dedicated to this.  Lets see some screen shots from the following sites in Firefox/opera/Konqueror/etc .. Indicate the Zaurus, the ROM, and browser and version.

http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.slashdot.org