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For Sale / Wanted / Wanted - Socket Bluetooth Cf

« on: May 14, 2010, 06:23:39 am »

How can i know the revision of mine?

(sorry, too limited to remember, too lazy to search ...)

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OESF Announcements / Recent Site Outage

« on: April 11, 2010, 05:57:26 am »

good to hear this explanation.

I myself has also moved to newer gadgets, but keep a daily eye on oesf, and I was sad it going out-of-business.

Congrats!

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Nokia Tablet / N900 Anyone?

« on: March 12, 2010, 06:17:46 am »

I'm using a fujitsu u810, and I'm very satisfied; it's 2 years old now, and even it's still performing very well, I'm looking for a replacement (geeks need to change toys sometime ...)

With the u810, I find suspend/resume very nice, just something like 5secs each, and extremelly robust; my last uptime was 35 days!!, suspending once or twice a day!!

It has 5'' tablet touchscreen, and battery wise is about 4/5 hours with the extended battery that comes as default.

Now I'm looking for an ultraportable notebook (not netbook), since I got a little tired of underpowered computers, that don't allow me running powerful development tools nor other os emulation.

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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing

« on: December 30, 2009, 10:45:34 am »

I'm located in Spain, and I'm using a simyo sim for data only.

http://www.simyo.es/que_es_tarifas.html

Tarifa Diaria
Si navegas:    Sólo pagarás:
Menos de 11 Mb    0,09 €/Mb
Entre 11 y 100 Mb    0,99 €/dia
Más de 100 Mb    0,99 €/dia + 0,09 €/Mb
Hasta 500 Mb    Nunca pagarás más de 5€

Translated:
less than 11Mb: 0.09euro/Mb
between 11 and 100Mb: 0.99euro/day
more than 100mb: 0,99euro/day+0.09euro/mb
Up to 500Mb/month, never more than 5euro
More than 500Mb/month: 5euro+0.09euro/Mb

I don't know where you see "per month". I understand all these prices to be *daily*.
The monthly plan is above, 24.99. And you must add 16% tax...

hi fpp

1) the plan for 24.99 is for unlimited data, up to 5gb full umts, from that at low speed

2) the plan I'm talking about is 5euro/month +16%vat is for up to 500mb/month; even it's true in their website per month is not explicitly detailed, that's how it works. I've been using it for more than a year, and I do review my invoices monthly. And there is not any minimum monthly fee!

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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing

« on: December 26, 2009, 05:57:57 pm »

I'm located in Spain, and I'm using a simyo sim for data only.

http://www.simyo.es/que_es_tarifas.html

Tarifa Diaria
Si navegas:    Sólo pagarás:
Menos de 11 Mb    0,09 €/Mb
Entre 11 y 100 Mb    0,99 €/dia
Más de 100 Mb    0,99 €/dia + 0,09 €/Mb
Hasta 500 Mb    Nunca pagarás más de 5€

Translated:
less than 11Mb: 0.09euro/Mb
between 11 and 100Mb: 0.99euro/day
more than 100mb: 0,99euro/day+0.09euro/mb
Up to 500Mb/month, never more than 5euro
More than 500Mb/month: 5euro+0.09euro/Mb

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Slow Forums - Server Problems ?

« on: December 26, 2009, 05:52:52 pm »

you can 'solve' this issue by configuring your computer to have an ip addrress in the same offending subnet, like 192.168.1.27; as root, just type

ifconfig eth0:alt 192.168.1.27

and it'll go fast again; of course, I also expect to see the root cause being solved asap ....

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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing

« on: December 23, 2009, 03:22:58 pm »

I think mobile devices need integrated 3g:

- no dongles hanging

- when I'm at home/office, I don't use a mobile device with small screen/keyboard, apart from emailing and low network tasks

- no tethering: 3g gets too much battery, so I don't want to spend my phone call battery for data; phone is too important to waste the battery twittering or so ...

- with a mobile device, network consumption is not very high, because it barely plays videos and battery runs out faster; for real downloading I'll always use dsl with a powered computer ...

- 3g is getting real cheap, at least in europe: I have one special sim for 3g, 5euro/month for 500MB

- nowadays even the cheapest phone is 3g enabled, come on, even if you don't use it, it should be already integrated, it doesn't add much to the cost. Isn't bluetooth and wifi already integrated, even some people may not use it?

- I think I read like 1 month ago that wpa2 security was also at risk; there was a group working on rainbow method to decrypt; of course, though, there also exist 3g decrypting tools ... but the point is that the vast majority of people just use wep, like 90% of wifis are wep only, giving a false sense of security

- internal 3g should be implemented with hot-pluggable sim, like the nokia booklet does, then you can easily plug the sim in the laptop or whatever other 3g device you want to use. I'm amazed that all phones you have to switch it off / remove the battery to change the sim; this is obviously a 'carrier-friendly feature' manufacturers don't want to change, to prevent sim swapping. I'm amazed people never complain about this; for me, the nokia booklet is a winner just for this feature

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Sharp PC-Z1 NetWalker / Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing

« on: December 23, 2009, 11:51:51 am »

uhm... no 3g, no way !!

guys, we are in year 2010, wifi is dead (bad security, restricted geographical availability)

(looking at my stats, I can't realize I joined this forum about 6 years ago.....)

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

« on: August 28, 2009, 05:38:43 am »

Uhm... this post seems to be a hot one for these times ...

I also think there are some showstoppers:

- no integrated 3.5G
- screen bezel too big, why not make screen go to the maximum height/width ?

And, regarding the N900, I also think the screen is too small.

So, I'm waiting for next week archos announcement of a 5'' android tablet, let's see ....

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General Discussion / Umid M1

« on: May 05, 2009, 04:43:14 am »

Speculatrix, I would certainly go for the TV.

WAF (wife-acceptance factor) is a major constraint in modern life, that we always tend to underestimate in the short-term, but in the long term it will come back to you even stronger.

Unless you can have both, I definitely go for the TV.

;-)

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New products and alternatives / Raon Digital Everun Note Or The Libretto 2.0?

« on: February 26, 2009, 04:52:34 am »

I'm running ubuntu (8.04, 8.10 and now 9.04).

I also get external resolution 1920x1200, which, from windows is not available; windows graphic driver allows only a max external resolution of 1600x???.

My 40GB is splitted in a 20GB Vista and 17GB ubuntu partitions; I just have office 2000 installed in the windows partition, and I only have 500MB free!!

I have to agree that the cramped keyboard and its configuration is really poor; but on the other side, couldn't be bigger for this small footprint, I guess, so I have to live with it as long as I get such a small computer.

It's my main computer, actually, and soon it'll be 1 year old with daily use !!

HTH

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New products and alternatives / Raon Digital Everun Note Or The Libretto 2.0?

« on: February 17, 2009, 04:14:33 am »

I have a Fujitsu U810, and for fast boot (2-3 sec) I have linux+suspend on lid close, resume on lid open.

It works very well, an it's really as fast as my zaurus resume could be.

On resume, battery keeps the unit for 3/4 days. So after closing the lid on Friday, on Monday I resume in 2/3 sec without any problem.

HTH

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General Discussion / Zaurus Out Of Production?

« on: December 16, 2008, 02:34:28 pm »

the end of an era, but the start of the new future!

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pdaXrom Development / I Will Pay Anyone $150 Us Just Compile Aspj Rt73 Module For Zaurus

« on: October 16, 2008, 03:57:53 am »

I really don't think I have ever been so excited in all my life !

I won't say the obvious.


Anyway, congratulations to all of you who had, not only the power but also the will!!!

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Debian / Can A Card Get "tired"?

« on: September 25, 2008, 05:06:03 am »

No idea, but maybe an overheating issue?