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Accessories / Official Pcmcia Cards Compatible With Zaurus!

« on: March 15, 2005, 04:29:44 pm »

If you want longer range form WiFi what you need is a high gain arial. Most CF / PCCard adapters use a printed arial which are prety much 2D in their reception.  360' high gain arials are available for some cards or put a hign gain arial on your router which will have the same effect barring local noise....
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I seem to remember that you used to be able to get some "Zoom" branded PCMCIA WiFi cards which could be fitted with an external ariel (they had the standard connector (is it called ANC or something?) on the card. You could even mount the arial at the end of a wire, so all you war-drivers can stick the ariel out your sunroof  

Note: I have no idea if those cards work with the Z, and it doesn't look like they are listed on their website anymore so maybe you'd have to try ebay or something.

Matt

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Accessories / Flashing With Usb Power Cable?

« on: March 15, 2005, 04:25:00 pm »

Again, I can't talk about the 5500 as I have an 860.

I've flashed the 860 a couple of times using a sync-charge USB cable  with no problems.

The things Mike says above all makes sense to me...

Matt

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Deals and Great Z Buys / C1000 On Pricejapan

« on: March 15, 2005, 04:22:08 pm »

I bought an SL-C860 from PriceJapan a few weeks ago, shipping to the UK.

It comes with a Japanese power supply, so you need to get one for your country (or a sync-charge cable or whatever).

I didn't have to pay any customs fees when it arrived.

Matt

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Sharp ROMs / Need A Snapshot Of / On Cacko 1.22

« on: March 12, 2005, 07:56:05 am »

Here's mine from Cacko 1.22, with hotfix A:

Code: [Select]

$ ls -la
drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 .
drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Dec 21 20:34 bin
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Dec 31 10:47 boot
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         9088 Mar 12 12:52 dev
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Dec 21 20:34 etc -> /home/etc
drwxr-xr-x   12 root     qpe             0 Mar 10 00:03 home
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root            0 Dec 21 20:34 lib
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Dec 21 20:34 mnt -> /var/mnt
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Dec 21 20:34 opt
dr-xr-xr-x   60 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 proc
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root            0 Feb 26  2004 root
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Dec 21 20:34 sbin
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           12 Dec 21 20:34 tmp -> /dev/shm/tmp
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          214 Dec 21 19:52 usr
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Dec 21 20:34 var -> /home/system/var
Hope it helps,
Matt

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Software / What New Application Do You Want?

« on: March 10, 2005, 10:00:40 am »

1. GUI for SMB client with Network Browser similar to Windoze

So like a GUI which lets you browse the network looking for available windows shares and allows you to mount/unmount them? I can see that would be useful, not sure if I'll get around to it though.

2. Good Maping SW which can use commercial maps

I've thought about the whole map availability problem a bit. It seems to me that to have any chance of this we'd need to talk to the big map vendors that the other GPS solutions out there license the maps from. We'd need to get them to agree some kind of royalty basis, where we would get the maps from them and encrypt them etc, integrate them into mapping software and all that. Then we'd negotiate a royalty fee per copy of the maps that we sell, and sell license keys for that price so all the money would go to the map provider. I don't know if any of them would be willing to enter into such a deal, but that would be my best idea of getting this working for real...

3. Image Viewer / Editor that can cope with large jpegs form a digital camera

I haven't actually tried out the Z image software that's available yet... is none of it sufficient then?


Matt

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Security and Networking / Automatic Port Forwarding

« on: March 10, 2005, 09:43:49 am »

Here is my scenario for checking email:

If I'm at home I use the WiFi connection in the Z to connect to my home IMAP server. Fine, all is good and happy.

Now I go to work. In order to connect my Z at work through to my Z at home I need to first establish an ssh tunnel through to my machine at home, and reconfigure the email app to connect to the local port which goes through the ssh tunnel.

Having to switch between these two configurations is a bit of a pain. I was thinking that it would perhaps make more sense to have a little daemon running on the Z which listens on a port, and the email client connects to that local port. Once it gets a connection, the daemon could then determine which network profile is active and either forward out from that port directly to the IMAP server when I'm at home, and otherwise then create an ssh tunnel, and forward everything via that.

Does such a thing already exist somewhere?

It's not really a big project so I will put something together myself if it doesn't already exist.

Matt

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Software / What New Application Do You Want?

« on: March 09, 2005, 09:09:53 pm »

ZUC is fine, though on an SL-C860 at least it seems non-perfect... magnified mode of any app looks kind of silly, and non-magnified mode then this app wastes half the screen...

But yes, you're right, we don't exactly need another conversion app, would just be a fairly easy way for me to get into Qtopia application development due to the fact I've written a conversion app before

Matt

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Software / What New Application Do You Want?

« on: March 09, 2005, 08:15:41 pm »

Hi everyone,

OK, so I've owned my Z for a week or so, and now it's time for me to start thinking about what software to write for it! I thought I'd try and guage the level of interest for a few of the things I've been thinking about creating, so we shall see what response I get!

A bit more info on the above apps....

Unit Conversion App
This would basically be a port of the program that I wrote for the Palm, called Converter which contains many unit types and was rather popular on the Palm.

Geocaching Tool
For those fellow Geocachers out there, this would allow you to import cache info, upload to your serial/bluetooth/etc GPS, or use the GPS directly to search for the cache, and upload logs etc

SSH Tunnel Manager
Would allow you to use a GUI to create ssh tunnels to remote networks.

Other
Please let me know what apps you're wanting and I'll consider it if it interests me enough!

Thanks!
Matt

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Feeds

« on: March 09, 2005, 09:03:54 am »

Janusz,

Just curious... why are you after the whole source for cacko and everything contained in it?

Matt

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Software / Ssh Tunnel Gui

« on: March 09, 2005, 07:01:47 am »

In order to connect to my home machines from work (for VNC or to collect email etc), I connect an SSH tunnel on my Zaurus to home. Currently I have to run a script and if I need to change anything I need to edit that etc.

It would be nicer if there was a GUI way of doing this, does one exist?

If such a thing doesn't exist, would anyone else find one useful if I created such a thing?

Thanks,
Matt

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Sharp ROMs / Cf Card Insertion Behavior

« on: March 09, 2005, 04:46:53 am »

Hi guys,

If I insert my WiFi card, the Z detects it and puts the little "dish" icon on the task bar which I can then tap and connect to the network.

If, however, I insert my bluetooth card, it again gets detected, but it doesn't put the icon on the task bar and instead I have to navigate to the network settings and launch my PAN or GPRS bluetooth connection from there.

Is there some reason for this difference in functionality? Is there any way to make it so that when the bluetooth card is inserted it gets the icon on the task bar?

Thanks,
Matt

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General Discussion / Shirtpocket Troubles?

« on: March 08, 2005, 06:55:34 am »

Well, there seems to be lots of consensus that they have been good in the past, but my experience (and that of others since the start of this year) seems to be somewhat different....

I know that they are in a transition of moving location etc, but this seems to have caused lots of problems and no one seems to have been able to contact them for several months.

I would suggest that if anyone is planning on buying something from them that they first make sure that they can get in contact with them before placing their order.

I hope they get themselves back in order soon and repair their reputation.

Matt

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Linux Applications / Best Dev Method/environment For The Zaurus?

« on: March 08, 2005, 06:45:53 am »

I've only just bought my Zaurus, so I too am in the process of setting up a build environment etc...

I suppose it depends on what ROM you're writing your apps for, but assuming that you're using the Sharp ROM or one of the derivants (eg. Cacko), then using the C++ Qtopia libraries would allow your app to be most in-tune with the underlying environment... That's certainly the way I intend to start...

I shall be developing on my Linux system, though developing C++ Qtopia apps using windows should work just fine too... and yes, you should be able to build them on the Z too if necessary.

Note that the above is what I've learnt from reading up on this rather than practical experience though! (Well so far anyway!)

Matt

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Security and Networking / Network/bluetooth Connectivity Pass Thru To Pc

« on: March 08, 2005, 05:36:18 am »

I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work...

Set the default gateway on the PC to be the Zaurus.
Configure the Zaurus to do IP forwarding.

Just have to get all the routing right, but I'm sure it could be done...

But yes, getting a USB adaptor for the PC would seem simpler

Matt

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Security and Networking / Losing Route To Zaurus

« on: March 07, 2005, 04:50:44 pm »

This might be a more general WiFi issue rather than something specific to the Zaurus, but this is the first time I've run into it.

I connect the Zaurus to my WiFi network and I use the network on it just fine. If I switch to my desktop and ping the Zaurus it succeeds just fine. I then leave the Zaurus alone for a while, still switched on etc but not using the network. After maybe something like 5 mins or so I try to ping the Zaurus again but this time it fails saying that there is no route to host. The Zaurus still says it is connected to the network and the webpage of my access point still lists the Zaurus as being associated with it. I then use the network from the Zaurus, eg. browse a webpage, and after that the Zaurus is pingable again.

Any ideas what causes this behaviour?

Thanks,
Matt