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Off Topic forum / Name At Bottom Of Topic In Italic

« on: March 27, 2005, 11:24:12 pm »

Lardman,

I'll take your word for it on the italics thing.  

As for the little white thing on the corner of the icon -- you're correct, it does mean a thread that you participated in. And, I swear, that this is a new feature -- I've missed having this indication that the old board software used to provide -- although I still feel that the old system's dot was more noticible.  

Another thing I noticed today is that my unread groups don't get marked as "read" as soon as I visit the first group, so I wonder if ORG recently upgraded the board software...

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Linux Applications / Perl Error

« on: March 03, 2005, 01:56:34 am »

Add the following to your .bashrc or .profile file:

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LANGUAGE="en"
LC_ALL="C"
LANG="en"

export LANGUAGE LC_ALL LANG

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Software / Db.* (open Source Embedded Db) Avail For Arm Linux

« on: March 03, 2005, 01:33:06 am »

From article at http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9892138016.html:
"ITTIA has ported an embeddable, open source, C-language database to ARM Linux, and is inviting developers who write code for Linux on ARM to join a user support community..."

"The db.* database, a small-footprint C-language database, was first released by Raima in the 1980s as dbvista..."

For more info, see the above article and this link:
http://www.ittia.com/dbstar/dbstar.html

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / Where Are The Icons?

« on: February 18, 2005, 02:03:15 pm »

Many of the icons for the PIM apps were compiled inline, so they don't appear in the filesystem.

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Software / Where To Find Latest Software ?

« on: February 18, 2005, 01:57:02 pm »

The Zaurus Software Index used to be an excellent source for the latest Zaurus software, new packages, updates, screenshots of existing software. Sadly it seems it has not been updated for a while.

Is there a better place to find new software ?

ZSI has been replaced with ELSI http://www.elsix.org/

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General Discussion / Switching Between Windows

« on: February 18, 2005, 01:51:03 pm »

Okay, I'm not so far into the game that I don't mind killing the process or whatever, but I'd still like to know if there's some general way to switch between running processes (like C-Tab in Windows.)

In general, tapping on the icon for a program a second time will bring the already running instance to the front.

Also, the TaskList Applet (http://www.elsix.org/index.php?w=project&p=877) is useful for obtaining a list of running applications, and switching between them.

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Software / Pinned Paper Icon In Calendar?

« on: February 15, 2005, 01:28:12 am »

It means that a file was modified on that date.  If you go to the third tab in the single day view, you will see the files themselves.

Note: having this feature turned on for SD and CF cards (which is the default) can cause the calendar app to crash in the month view.  Search this board for info about changing file permissions to prevent the crash, or turn the option off by Option > Link File and uncheck SD & CF cards.  You cannot turn off the feature for internal (RAM) storage.

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Off Topic forum / Twenty New Linux Cellphones On The Way

« on: February 15, 2005, 01:20:45 am »

Surprised nobody has mentioned it yet...

Excerpt from the article: "Trolltech announced today that more than fifty companies are currently developing or shipping Linux-based devices using its Qtopia graphical application platform software, including more than twenty mobile phones."

See here for more details:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4669946597.html

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Software / Globally Set Path Variable

« on: February 01, 2005, 01:57:37 am »

Should work from either .bash_profile or .bashrc in /home/zaurus.  Remember to have a "export PATH" statement somewhere in the file, or the assignment won't stick.

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Windows Issues / Cradle / Usb Cable Under Windows Nt4?

« on: January 28, 2005, 01:11:54 am »

NT4 doesn't officially support USB devices.  There is a company that makes an unofficial driver for USB on NT4.  When I installed it, I could then see the Zaurus using USBview.  However, the installer that Sharp provides for the sync software looks at the OS and says "Sorry, this doesn't work on Windows NT".  I never bothered trying to get around it, since I went ahead and upgraded my PC to Windows 2000.

You may want to see if your laptop can handle Win2K.  If not, perhaps a 'lite' version of Linux??

Another way to go may be peer-to-peer over WiFi...

As far as syncing over serial, I think that it can be done.  Search this board for more info on how to set it up.

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Forum Software Loses Track Of Unread Msgs

« on: January 26, 2005, 01:49:10 pm »

I haven't been online for a few days & sat down to read all the new msgs since the last time I logged in.  I went into the first forum with unread messages, read a couple of posts, posted one reply, then used the "Mark this forum as read" selection at the top of the page.  The software returned me to the forum index; however, all of the forums were now marked as being read and the "last login time" read as "today".  When I go into the individual forums, they still correctly show which messages are new, so it isn't a total loss, but I miss the convenience of seeing at a glance in the index which forums I should read.

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Security and Networking / Cf Wifi Card Experts Please!

« on: January 26, 2005, 01:33:58 pm »

cardctl ident gives the following output:

Socket 0:
  product info: "WLAN", "11Mbps_PC-Card_3.0", "ISL37100P", "Eval-RevA"
  manfid: 0x000b, 0x7100
  function: 6 (network)
------------------------------------------------------------------

 /etc/pcmcia/config file has this added under wireless network adapters section:

card "Zonet CF WLAN"
  manfid 0x000b, 0x7100
  bind "orinoco_cs"

-----------------------------------------------------------

Cardctl ident is telling you the problem:
your Zonet WLAN card shares the same manfid as the network card it is being recognized as.  

This happens frequently among the low cost manufacturers, who, rather than applying to the CF Association for their own ID, simply invent or borrow what they think is a non- or seldom-used ID.  I experienced the same problem with my TrendNet Ethernet card, which was being recognized as a memory card.

The solution is to edit /etc/pcmcia/config (as root) and either move the entry for your card above the other one, or comment out the entry for the wrong card.  After editing the config file, you either need to reboot, or run this command as root:

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kill -HUP `cat /var/run/cardmgr.pid`(notice those are backticks)

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General Discussion / Man For Zaurus ?

« on: January 26, 2005, 01:13:51 pm »

Anybody knows can we intall man in Zaurus 5500 ? so i can get help  in zaurus directly.

Try using the search engine before posting...    

See my response in this thread:
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=3487

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OESF Announcements / Site And Forums Moved! (again)

« on: January 23, 2005, 07:15:41 pm »

ORG,

Thanks for the Email you sent out informing us about the move & a big thanks for all your hard work keeping the OE Forums/ZUG websites going!!!

-David

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General Discussion / cf slot not working...

« on: January 14, 2005, 01:12:49 am »

The link that doeseas provided is dead...so I don't know what he tried before.

Here's the text of my original post:

Open up a terminal window (command line) and type:

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ls -l /etc/mtab
The result should look something like:

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12 Jun 11 22:15 /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts
If it doesn't have the arrow pointing to /proc/mounts (and my guess is that it  doesn't), then it got turned into a real file somehow and remembers a time when you did not have those cards mounted.

If it did get turned into a file (arrow part is missing), su to root (assuming a 3.10 ROM; otherwise you're already root under 2.x), then type the following:

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rm -f /etc/mtab
ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab
If the arrow part was there to start with, then I'm afraid I can't help you.