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Off Topic forum / tmobile mda IV

« on: February 03, 2005, 11:12:08 am »

Cool. But if it's like other T-Mobile MDA phones, it won't be coming out in the US anytime soon. I swear, the United States is so frickin' behind on mobile phone technology....

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Software / Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (openttd) 0.3.5 Avail

« on: February 02, 2005, 03:37:31 pm »

Anyone have good instructions on this? I was trying to figure out how to build the company HQ and couldn't figure out how to place the HQ in a town...

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Software / Supertux On Sl-c860

« on: February 02, 2005, 03:37:04 pm »

6MB, and it needs temp space on the Sharp memory. Yikes!

Not that I can't unpack it manually , but in the future I wonder if you could keep all temp files on the card if one exists?

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General Discussion / Other Operating Systems

« on: February 02, 2005, 03:23:31 pm »

Apple also had the art and education community for a *long* time to support their high-end boxes.

Open source applications is often the best, but what about support? Support is a surprisingly big deal in the consumer and business world. Many Linux companies make their money solely on support. I don't know if all of the open-source developers (many of them working part time as a hobby) could make the transition to having a full support staff to answer a question when Joe Newbie can't figure out how to use the PIM stuff.

Having said that, I think there is a sufficient geek-factor market in the US for a Linux PDA. Nerds spend money on gizmos after all.  The major bitch-factor on the Slashdot-type forums about the SL-6000L initially was the high price, I don't think too many people would bitch at the $379 closeout price.   I also think the clamshell would've gone over so much better than the brick design.

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6000 - Tosa / 6000l Help Needed. Need To Do Two Things.

« on: February 01, 2005, 03:26:47 pm »

IRK works great with my Targus universal keyboard. Give it a try.

If you don't want to use SSH, Telnet is actually built into the Zaurus. There is no downloads needed, just edit your inetd.conf file to use the in.telnetd.

From this link:

To enable your Z's telnet server, edit /etc/inted.conf and add the following line ..

telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd

bear in mind that everything you type and see in a telnet session is sent in the clear. This shouldn't be a problem if you're using the USB cable, but it's definitely a recipe for disaster over ethernet or on a wireless LAN.

As an alternative to telnet, you can use SSH. Download OpenSSH  install it on the Z and then generate a key file:

ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f/usr/localetc/ssh_host_key -N ''

(NB: two single quotes on the end there) add the following to /etc/inetd.conf:

ssh stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/bin/sshd -i

and restart inetd with:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart

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6000 - Tosa / Gaim

« on: January 26, 2005, 09:06:08 pm »

No problem. Maybe trying traceroute or one of the alternative programs like lft will help?

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Software / Tkcplayer Crashes With Tkc Rom

« on: January 25, 2005, 07:01:23 pm »

There's some stuff going on in theKompany's embedded product mailing list concerning the crash bug, apparantly they are working on fixing it (not for ARM yet, but I guess soon). Might want to go to the site and see if you can join to ask your question. I haven't had a problem but I haven't used tkcPlayer much honestly, yet.

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General Discussion / Zaurus Hacks Book

« on: January 25, 2005, 06:19:08 pm »

The Z series is one of the better portable web browsing solutions, thanks to built-in keyboards and nice 640x480 screens. Granted, there are some PDAs now that do this, from okay to good. (Most are bricks, not clamshells).

The Z has pretty so-so user software (e.g. office software) except for those who fiddle. There's no equiv of Pocket Office for instance that I know of, the Hancom stuff goes only so far. Doodling is limited due to seemingly lack of support of stylus sensitivity. Things like that.

*However*, for those who mainly use computer for server-type apps, the Z is pretty darn good -- as in Linux vs. Windows, FTP daemons for instance seem to be faster and better organized in the Linux environment. The Z seems very nice for those who hack around a lot. It's pretty good for certain types of Unix-based apps as well.

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6000 - Tosa / Gaim

« on: January 24, 2005, 09:50:14 am »

i have qazoo for yahoo, and it was working while i was in America & England, but for some reason it no longer works.  i am in Ethiopia now, and the local telecomm tells me that they are not blocking any ports...   has yahoo changed anything?

That's my settings too and Qazoo for Yahoo does work here.

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Software / Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (openttd) 0.3.5 Avail

« on: January 20, 2005, 12:40:10 pm »

stupkid: FYI the IPK definitely does not work if you try to install to a SD card (but I got around it manually).

Looks very good so far.

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6000 - Tosa / Ftp Server On Zaurus 6000

« on: January 20, 2005, 11:00:22 am »

pure-ftpd works on the SL-6000L.

Yes, it will do nothing when run from the console, but that's normal. You should be able to connect to it (you may need to run as root though).

In Linux, you can run *any* command as a background task by appending a space and an ampersand, e.g.:

/usr/sbin/pure-ftpd &

This will run pure-ftpd as a server process. I actually put that line in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, since I want to run pure-ftpd all the time.

Downside: if run in the background, the only way to kill pure-ftpd is the standard Unix way:
1) Find the pure-ftpd process via
ps -ef | grep pure-ftpd (*)
2) Look at the first number in the row, this is the PID.
3) Kill the PID number that is associated with the program (kill %pid%, e.g. kill 296 if 296 was the PID for pure-ftpd)

Pure-FTPD uses Linux logins as its account management too. You'll have to use /bin/adduser and /bin/deluser in order to add or delete accounts. *AND* you'll probably want to put passwords on your root and zaurus account (using the passwd account) if you are connecting on any public network.

So there may be better options, but pure-ftpd works. For me at least.

(*) ps: Shows all process on Unix. -e = all process -f = full. grep: searches lines that gets fed into it for a pattern.

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6000 - Tosa / Manual Installation Of .ipk From Console

« on: January 19, 2005, 12:14:26 pm »

To install a package from the command line, run:

ipkg install <file.ipk>

It's sometimes possible to manually install an application by converting the file to a .tgz, unzipping (via WinZip), and then placing the files extracted in the appropriate directories (setting permissions when appropriate.  )

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General Discussion / Zaurus As A Laptop/desktop

« on: January 15, 2005, 05:55:19 pm »

Heh... I was hoping not to pay for something.

But Elgato this week updated EyeTV to support Clear QAM, ie, unencrypted digital cable.  That might steer me away from MythTV.  

Yeah, this is off topic, but interesting to me. Especially if Apple with EyeTV can provide a HDTV recording solution before the FCC starts enforcing that broadcast flag on gear.

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Software / Has anyone got Crimson Fields to work on an 860?

« on: January 14, 2005, 11:31:55 am »

I'm able to run the game on an SL6000 with the default Sharp ROM and an ungodly number of libraries. Make sure the icon is in magnified mode. It won't run in 640x480 mode.

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General Discussion / Need A Utility To Clean Up Extranous Files.

« on: January 14, 2005, 11:19:20 am »

I wouldn't mind seeing a "garbage" removal tool being developed as well.