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New products and alternatives / Em・one

« on: February 19, 2007, 11:53:21 pm »

I use an IR keyboard and can touch type. The clam shell (pick any of them) keyboards look too small to touch type. And if they are, I don't see the point.

No you cannot touch type on the the clam shell keyboards. If you're holding the machine then you use your thumbs to type, if you have the machine on a stable surface then you can peck at it with your fingers. The advantage of an onboard keyboard is that you can use it anywhere. When I'm travelling on train/bus it's pretty difficult to whip out an IR keyboard and start typing. Carrying around an IR keyboard also presents its own logistics problem.
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On a relatively stable surface I can use 4 fingers and a thumb pretty quick. The keyboard layout is just different enough from North American standard Qwerty that it's best to slow down anyway.
Craig, if you're an sf fan, I'll have my C860 at the Ad Astra convention in Toronto the first weekend of March ... it's been a couple decades since I got down to Ottawa though.

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Themes, Icons, and Backgrounds / Zaurusthemes.org Down?

« on: February 17, 2007, 02:24:08 am »

yeah i don't know who runs this site.  It's an old copy.
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Old or not, it still has the wallpapers I'm after.

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Themes, Icons, and Backgrounds / Zaurusthemes.org Down?

« on: February 16, 2007, 04:44:35 pm »

Ah, I googled and found the mirror site is still up! http://mirrors.ldwp.com/web/zaurusthemes.o...urusthemes.org/

Lovely stuff, Cresho.

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Software / Vlc Player For Zaurus

« on: February 15, 2007, 06:24:54 pm »

I recall running it on the 5500, it wasn't too bad. Won't run on a clamshell ...

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Themes, Icons, and Backgrounds / Zaurusthemes.org Down?

« on: February 15, 2007, 02:23:18 am »

Thanks, Jon!

Try this site, it's for pdaxrom, but it has a ton of wallpaper for most clamshells.
http://zaurus.spy.org/feeds/jedhead/
Righthand column has wallpaper.
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Themes, Icons, and Backgrounds / Zaurusthemes.org Down?

« on: February 15, 2007, 12:05:42 am »

i was casting about for some new wallpaper to vary my old drab ones, so I surfed over to zaurusthemes ... which isn't there.  

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General Discussion / Site Down?

« on: February 06, 2007, 04:05:52 pm »

Must... View......... New................. POSTS!

Ahhh! Thats better! The world of portable hyper-geekdom returns!

So what was the reason for the downtime this time mr offroadgeek? Isn't this forum being hosted by ibiblio now? I would've thought it hard to get any bigger than that so whats the battle plan to try and prevent further extended outages?
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Now, now, let's not complain too hard, or offroadgeek might wanna get paid for this.

Not that I would find say $5 a month too steep, I already pay $12 a quarter at sff.net.

I probably ought to contribute here once in a while too, ne?

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Testing If Forum Is Back Online...

« on: February 06, 2007, 03:46:40 pm »

I'm just testing if I can post here and here is the date & time of this post
Feb 05 - 2007 at 9:32 PM Central Standard Time

Jon
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Back online! Yay!!  

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Cxx0 Hardware / Sd-link11b

« on: January 05, 2007, 02:53:36 am »

I'm going to have to check this against the version of the driver I downloaded a few months ago which had the effect of deleting my SD slot. (Luckily, uninstalling it restored the slot.) If it's different I'll try it out on the 860.

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Mac Issues / How Many Of You Are Recent Switchers?

« on: December 31, 2006, 11:56:30 pm »

I bought my wife a used eMac about 6 months ago, to replace her WinXP Home desktop, which was just too vulnerable. I run a Xandros Linux box, and an old Win XP machine as a webserver and utility machine for stuff Linux doesn't do yet. (My Abyss X2 server runs on Windows, yes, but it's reasonably secure, and its the paid version which I would have to pay for again to switch to the Linux version of.)
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Uggghhh, only about 10 more years and we won't have any more of them in the schools....  Pain to work on.  Fun to carry a lab of 30 or so up a flight of stairs too.  
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Yeah, the sucker is heavy.
The medical & genetics research institute that about half of my half-time hours as a semi-retired beast of burden are billed to runs about 90% Win2K and 10% Macs, I expect 10.4 ... for the graphics, they tell me. My Zaurus may just be the only machine that ever signs in to the hospital/institute network using Linux, and I only use the free networking on coffee and lunch breaks to check my email etc.  The IP guys who know me are duly impressed that a lowly porter is the only person they know of at MSH running Linux ... one or two of 'em run Fedora or Suse at home. That said, one of the research institute IP guys has a SL 5500 in his desk drawer.

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Software / Abookreader 0.9.0a

« on: December 31, 2006, 11:04:32 pm »

For anyone who is interested: I've made an ipk of version 0.9.1 with English settings file. Get it from here:  my feed

seiichiro0185
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Thanks, I guess I'll have to give that a try too, at some point. What's the lowdown on the version change?

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General Discussion / Sl-c1000 Portability

« on: December 30, 2006, 10:41:52 pm »

Mine's in this post on the same thread as antikx's: https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...ndpost&p=117249 Hangs from my belt just like the slipstick I used to carry when I was a freshman engineer, 42 years ago. (Flunked calc and switched majors.) It has room for camera card, wifi card, extra CF and SD cards, and even a CF-to-PC-card adapter.

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Software / Abookreader 0.9.0a

« on: December 28, 2006, 06:47:03 am »

use tree!explorer, with run as root checked.
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Thanks!
Edit - got home from work this evening and still couldnt figure out how to move/copy this file from my documents directory to the QtPalmtop/bin directory; then I got a brainstorm and enabled "start as root" for Zeditor. Very carefully hand-editing the existing file to match yours worked; I now know which buttons to push! They're all in English. I'll let you know if any of them are mislabeled. Lovely so far, though.  

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Software / Abookreader 0.9.0a

« on: December 27, 2006, 09:10:26 pm »

I downloaded the .ipk for this upgraded version of aBookReader from bam's site; also downloaded the abookreader.setting file to try to change the gui from Japanese to English, but I can't figure out how to overwrite this file on top of the old home/QtPalmtop/bin/abookreader.setting file. I tried to edit it in Zeditor and failed for lack of permissions. How can this be done? aBookreader works just fine, but I still can't read the settings.

I feel like a total noob. Help?  

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Off Topic forum / Help...i Need To Downgrade!

« on: December 26, 2006, 05:46:35 pm »

I see what you guys are saying...and I appreciate that, but I did buy the C3100 to be used for work. Now work has changed some of the projects, and I feel now I have more than what I need. With my work, I see me needing a C3xxx device again since the company scrapped all the current projects, so I'm not sure what to do.
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I don't use my 860 for work at all, at all ... I'm a hospital receiving dock porter. I use it to check my email at coffee break and lunchtime.  If you were going to get one now for what you just want as a PDA and to play with, instead of for work, I'd recommend an 860.

In fact, however, I'd trade mine for yours in about a second. The hard-drive, the possibility to use the updated driver for the multiG SD cards, mrowff ... Can't afford it though.