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For Sale / Wanted / For Sale: Sl-6000 With Lots Of Extras
« on: September 14, 2008, 03:39:25 pm »
** EDIT: SOLD to Cortez! **

The release of the new iPod Touch also marked the arrival of the device that I always wanted my Zaurus to be. Therefore I'm looking to sell my SL-6000L, which has been functioning only as a voice recorder for about a year. I invested a lot of money in kitting it out, so it comes with some handy extras.
  • SL-6000L (the model with the 3.5" 640x480 screen!). A bit faded and scratched in places, as you might expect, but no worse for the wear. The screen has been covered with protective film since about the sixth month of ownership. The plastic display protector is still in place and has rarely been taken off.
  • Socket Bluetooth CF card. Doesn't stick out and is compatible with a lot of open-source drivers.
  • Extra battery. This has been kept in the fridge at 40% charge for optimal longevity. The original battery still holds a fairly long charge, though a Wi-Fi connection will easily drain it in about an hour.
  • 1GB SD and CF cards (1 each). This is the maximum storage capacity the original Sharp ROM is compatible with.
  • The original Sharp (Qtopia) ROM with extended libraries and tons of working software. For example, I paid around $40 for a Textmaker license, and I've gathered great apps – many of which have since vanished online – from far and wide. I'll remove all my personal data but keep my highly polished ROM as is. Seriously, it looks good and is very stable.
  • Dock and power cord (naturally).
  • At least one extra stylus.
  • 2.5mm to 3.5mm headphone jack adapter. This is important if you want to, say, listen to music.
  • All the original software CDs.
  • I'll even throw in some Displex display polish.
I'm happy to offer photos of the unit, screenshots of the tweaked ROM, and a list of the installed software and/or libraries. To make it easier, I may post the classified on my blog in the next few days.

I'm in Germany but will ship to anywhere except Nigeria (unless, of course, you're a prince who's looking to temporarily transfer money into my bank account). I'm asking for 125 euros ($175) on account of all the extras, which put my total expenditure somewhere in the $500 range, but that price is definitely negotiable. Most important to me is that my Z finds a good home.

Please get in touch if you're interested!

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Mac Issues / Still Any Mac&zaurus Users/developers There?
« on: May 29, 2007, 05:36:09 am »
Mac and Z user chiming in. I'm using my Tosa (Sl-6000) for a few odds 'n' ends these days, but I'm so bored by the lack of anything happening in the Z world. This is the first time I've checked these forums in months. ROM development for the Tosa has all but stopped (Angstrom seems to be interesting, though), and the things I enjoy about using OS X are but a distant dream on the Z. I like tinkering, but sometimes I really just want things to be simple.

I've thought about selling the Tosa. I've thought about getting an iPhone. And I guess what I'd really like is a Zaurus that runs OS X. I suspect I'll use my Z as long as it continues to serve my basic portable needs, and then finally get an Apple PDA if it ever appears.

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Software / Corsair - Rss/podcast Aggregator
« on: February 10, 2007, 03:43:19 pm »
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Sorry for the late answer... You found that IPK on ELSI (www.elsix.org), since that's where I put them (ok, that links to my website). The reason it works directly on zaurus is that I used the zaurus toolchain to compile Corsair (Qtopia 1.5.0). I've made one update since, which is to include some hi-res icons for the VGA zauruses. I haven't taken the time to work on the code since, so the newer corsair codebase is not (yet) merged in.[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=153566\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Actually, I installed two IPKs that were mentioned on this forum -- I forget which exactly -- and the latest Corsair was up and running! The buttons weren't scaled, of course, because the resolution on the 6000 is higher, so I added new PNGs and everything's fine. If I have time, I ought to post a screenshot. It works really well and looks nice.

... but I've actually been using the latest version of KeroPlayer for my podcasts. I like the interface much better. I made an English translation of the .rb Ruby file, if anyone wants it.

So now it's just Corsair and KeroPlayer. I've ditched dmBlogger entirely. Besides, it doesn't work with the new version of Ruby that KeroPlayer requires.

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Software / Is Kde Pim/pi Dead?
« on: January 06, 2007, 06:51:20 am »
Well, the title of this thread is my question. Is KDE PIM/Pi dead? There have been no updates since the 2.2.7 testing version from October 2005, the Pi-Sync site has had no news since August 2005, and the KDE PIM/Pi thread on these forums hasn't had any activity since March 2006.

This was one of the most useful apps on my Z, and I suppose I expected it to keep getting better and better and work out all its kinks. There was a promising flurry of activity just before it lost all signs of life. New versions seemed to be coming out every week. And now... nothing.

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Software / Corsair - Rss/podcast Aggregator
« on: November 28, 2006, 01:15:27 pm »
I have no idea where I found it, T_O. I do know, though, that 0.2.5 never worked for me, and I thought that 0.2.6 might be different. Looks like the "official" releases aren't playing well with the 6000, and I'll have to go back to 0.2.4. I'm not a developer, just a dilettante, so I can't give any compiling or building help.

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Software / Corsair - Rss/podcast Aggregator
« on: November 27, 2006, 02:58:09 am »
"corsair: error while loading shared libraries: libqtopia.so.1: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory"

I'm on a 6000 running the stock ROM (Qtopia 1.5.4). Corsair 0.2.4-1 worked fine.

Anyone got any suggestions?

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Software / Gizmo!
« on: October 04, 2006, 02:06:43 pm »
Yeah, I spotted this too. Can't anyone try compiling the 770 version for the Z?

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Software / Corsair - Rss/podcast Aggregator
« on: October 02, 2006, 06:57:30 am »
What's the progress on Corsair? I've since put Keroplayer and dmBlogger to the side and re-installed Kino in order to use Corsair exclusively, but I'd love a few more preferences such as auto expire, zPlayer/Sharp Music Player support, and groups. This is such a good start... it would be a shame to see Corsair simply languish.

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General Discussion / Zaurus In Doctor Who
« on: September 02, 2006, 06:22:05 pm »
So I'm watching the "Dalek" episode of the 2005 series of Doctor Who. And there's this aide who does something odd with his PDA: he expands it.

Close-up comes, and what do I see? One of the silver SL-5XXX Zaurus models.

This episode was set in something like 2020, so I'm guessing that by this time Microsoft has been supplanted by the open-source movement and retro hardware.

Attached are two shots of the close-up. I've also made a mediocre quality MP4 video clip of the short sequence if anyone wants it, but there's not much more revealed than what you're seeing in these images.

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Mac Issues / How Many Of You Are Recent Switchers?
« on: July 12, 2006, 02:05:33 pm »
This isn't a Mac "issue" per se, but it doesn't really belong in a non-Mac-related forum here.

We're a pretty geeky crowd here, and I was wondering how many of you fellow Z users are recent (as in, the past year) switchers to the Mac? You get one side on, for instance, the MacRumors forums, where non-techie folks seem to be a dime a dozen, but it'd be nice to get some idea of how many power users have taken the plunge.

For the record, I switched in the pre-iPod days.

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From this longer post on Macsimum News:

"A Nokia press release from the World Wide Web Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, states that they’ll be releasing their Web Browser for S60, based on Apple’s WebCore to the open source community. Here’s the press release in its entirety:

Mobility-enhanced code release to drive open source collaboration, reduce browser fragmentation & deliver true web rendering on smartphone devices..."

Does this look like something we might be able to get on the Z? Sounds like it would be perfect.

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6000 - Tosa / Xqt For 6000
« on: May 24, 2006, 08:35:05 am »
This looks fantastic. I'm going to let the more adventurous Tosa users play around with it and report back on any bugs (especially with the 3000 automounter IPK), and then I'll feel more comfortable about installing it.

Thanks, Meanie.

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6000 - Tosa / Rom Discussion On Tosa
« on: May 17, 2006, 01:37:33 am »
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e17 on Zaurus 6000 looks pretty sweet!!

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I run PDAX rom as my daily rom now.
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How's the overall speed of pdaxrom compared to a ROM like Sharp or OZ?

Can you play movies fullscreen using mplayer in pdaxrom, or does it suffer from the same video acceleration issues as the other ROMs?

Is there any good PIM software, or does the K/Pi suite work just as well?

What's the deal with WiFi and Bluetooth? Is the reconition of the 6000's built-in WiFi flaky? Is Bluetooth working as good as or better than the Sharp-based ROMs?

I'd really appreciate it if you could answer all those. I'm dying to ditch the Sharp ROM for something as beautiful as E17, but stability, speed and hardware integration have kept me from pdaxrom so far.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / 2gb And Up Sd Cards Supported
« on: May 15, 2006, 02:43:18 am »
I'd really like a nice IPK of this for the 6000 (Tosa), if possible. Any chance we might see anything soon?

One of the biggest limitations of my Z right now is storage -- I'm maxed out at 1GB CF and 1GB SD -- and card storage prices are dropping like a rock. 4GB 150x SDs can be had for $93.

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Mac Issues / Ajzaurususb 0.3.2 Update
« on: May 15, 2006, 02:28:48 am »
Thanks for the update.

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