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Nokia Tablet / So....

« on: July 08, 2007, 01:33:20 pm »

aye, sexxy lil toy.  I am typing from it now.  I find I am using  it more than my Z......  lets wait for the new gizmo effect to go its course.

--=Fish
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no kidding... I have noticed that i have more uses for the nokia right now than I didwith my 5500 when I first bought it.

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Nokia Tablet / So....

« on: July 08, 2007, 02:09:06 am »

I wanted to woot one, but didn't have the money at the time.  The bug bit me bad tho cuz I'm posting from a spankin new N800

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5x00 Hardware / Need Help Flashing My 5500

« on: May 12, 2006, 05:50:41 pm »

I had no luck formatting the CF card or using it to flash a new OS / desktop.

I got a new CF card and it works fine...problem solved at least!
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for future reference to anybody else with this problem... I have noticed that a few of my 'new' CF cards aren't actually partitioned, they're just raw formatted somehow and winbloze plays along happily. creating a partition with fdisk, then formatting via mkfs.msdos /dev/hda1 makes CF play nicely with my Z for flashing.(mind you I do all this on my z as I can only get fdisk in winbloze to work on the ide channels.)

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5x00 Hardware / External Battery Pack With Sl-5500?

« on: May 12, 2006, 05:42:19 pm »

Hi everyone,

It's seem it's been a while since last post here. Can someone who has used these battery packs share their personal experience?
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I built a brick that uses 4AA batteries through the charging port. It gives about 20 hours of bonus time to continuous(mp3) use, or 4 ish charge cycles.

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5x00 Hardware / Possible Charging Problems?

« on: May 12, 2006, 05:38:13 pm »

The 5500 chews up battery like crazy. even a 1800mAh battery will go quick. Although 1:50 does seem kinda fast. I usually get about 1:00-1:20ish on my stock battery. That's reading pdfs without backlight. And use home on SD as well.

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Nokia Tablet / Nokia Making 770 Successor

« on: May 12, 2006, 05:16:00 pm »

http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/12/wsj-sez...re-google-talk/

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5x00 General discussions / Sl-5500 As A Web Server?

« on: September 21, 2005, 12:13:32 pm »

The 5500 is well suited to a low traffic server. the problem you will run into is it takes a bit of time to access data from the SD card.

I run apache and MySQL on my 5500 but that is for a more personalised approach to my tool. As I can put my Z on the charger with its wifi card, and browse my pages from my PC's browser. I am currently trying to access the DTM data from the web pages so I can access my PIM from my fullscreen desktop.

If you're looking for a low power web server with solid state storage, you my want to look into a EPIA m5000 with SD=>IDE converters. That should sip power to the tune of <60watts.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Is Shirtpocket Still Trading?

« on: August 19, 2005, 02:41:53 pm »

According to everybody's impressions the HDD on the 3100 doesn't have much impact on the battery at all, as the drive spins down after use. I think people have been reporting life very much the same as the other clamshells.

The big complaint I have heard is the 3000 is a bit sluggish from suspend, a problem the 3100 remedied with more flash.

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6000 - Tosa / Backup Rom To Flash Card

« on: August 05, 2005, 12:33:25 pm »

I know I can load the original rom again if I foul things up from another source. But I want to rip my original rom to CF just in case. What do I need to do?
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dd if=/dev/mtdblock0 of=/mnt/card/something.rom

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General Discussion / Portable Linux Gaming/media Device - Gpx2

« on: August 03, 2005, 11:11:00 am »

they problem here is that it is being nudged into us.  That is just a start.  Sooner or later, it's gona be all the files drm.  So i honstly think everybody should just make a stand and say no to this kind control.
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For the most part I gotta agree with cresho, it's not the fact that it has the DRM capability so much as they had to LICENSE said DRM, so by buying this you are paying a "drm tax" even if you don't intend to use said functionality. that money still makes it back to M$ or whoever else holds the license.

It's no different than buying a new laptop with WinXP on it, even if you intend to install linux you've already paid the M$ tax and they still get your money.

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Software / Browser to view GMail

« on: July 27, 2005, 11:41:01 am »

Well, I'm back! Installed the ipk's for stunnel and openssl. Configured GMail for pop-access; set up the smtp and pop server in qtmail (using 465 for SMTP port). Qtmail gets to "connction established" with gmail and then justs sits there. Help anyone?!
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I was able to get my Z to download my gmail with stunnel but not send. Did you setup QTmail to connect to localhost port 465? that's what it took for me.

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I should also mention that when you install stunnel you need to edit the inetd.conf file to set up the tunnels, you didn't mention if you did that.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Slashdot Asks:

« on: July 27, 2005, 11:35:25 am »

Despite the poor battery life and being a bit dated my 5500 is still an awesome tool. After getting my Wifi setup the way I like. I can leave it on the car charger when I get home at night, VNC into it to sync and play and I still have ssh for quick command line stuff

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General Discussion / Another Embedded Linux Device

« on: July 27, 2005, 11:29:36 am »

Walt Mossberg's got a review that's pretty enlightening.
http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20050721.html
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Well as I am sure you can attest no embedded linux device yet has had a decent PIM. I kinda laughed at the statement that it can't play wmv or quicktime.

I wasn't aware those two formats could be played on ANYTHING but their native player.

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General Discussion / The Z as a PIC Programmer / Oscilloscope

« on: July 25, 2005, 11:07:48 am »

That would be awesome if we could get one of those working on a 6k/1k/3k. nothing like having an oscilloscope/logger in your pocket

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General Discussion / Fic Develops A Webpad That Runs Linux

« on: July 25, 2005, 10:59:57 am »

Where's the Bluetooth, keyboard?
Default 64MB storage? 20Gb HDD is an option.

except for processor speed the pepper pad seems a better webpad.