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General Discussion / Zaurus Linux Shell Scripting Questions

« on: December 17, 2004, 01:27:35 am »

To add to what ran posted just as I was getting ready to hit "Reply"    ...

Choice of shells is largely a matter of personal preference:  some prefer one set of features or style of syntax over another.  Another factor is whether or not a particular shell is likely to be found under different OS environments or not.  The sh shell is ubiquitous and can be found on every *nix like platform, but lacks some of the more advanced features (history editing, for example) of the somewhat more "bloated" shells like csh or bash.  Both bash and sh appear to be standard on all versions of Linux that I've encountered thus far, but you can usually add ash, ksh and so on.

The "Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide" that ran mentioned is a good resource and can be found at: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html  among other places.  Also, "Bash Reference Manual" at http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html

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Sharp ROMs / Trolltech Qtopia 2.1 ROM soon

« on: December 10, 2004, 01:59:25 am »

Regarding Tumnus's list of questions, I am not too sure I would want a Today app on resume everytime. Better would be to link it to a hardware button and bring it on by choice. Just my preference though.

Under the Sharp 2.0 ROM, I used to have the Today app launch upon every resume, and, I agree, it got to be a bit much.  What I would like to see is an option to have it automatically display on resume after a period of time.  For example, display on resume if it has been at least 30 minutes since I last resumed.

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Sharp ROMs / Trolltech Qtopia 2.1 ROM soon

« on: December 09, 2004, 01:28:42 am »

1. exceptions? like repeat every 3rd day? <- yes
What do you mean by snooze?

By exceptions he means that if, say you have a meeting regularly scheduled for every Thursday, but the meeting gets cancelled for one week or perhaps it gets moved to Wednesday that week, or a different time.

By snooze he means that an alarm goes off as scheduled, but you hit a snooze button not to cancel the alarm, but to put it off for some period of time -- ie, remind me again in 10 minutes, or in 30 minutes, etc.

BTW, Microsoft Outlook supports both of these features and is a good model to use.  To create exceptions, it offers an "Edit this one occurance" as well as an "Edit the series" option.

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General Discussion / Palmsource To Port Palm Os On Top Of Linux

« on: December 09, 2004, 01:16:43 am »

Here's a link to the original press release:
http://www.palmsource.com/press/2004/120804_cms.html

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OESF Announcements / Forum Changes

« on: December 08, 2004, 12:43:47 am »

Thanks ORG!  I like the new forum arrangement -- it is much cleaner than before.

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Personal Java/Jeode/J2ME Personal Profile / PersonalProfile for Zaurus

« on: December 08, 2004, 12:37:32 am »

I've uploaded it to the downloads section (available as soon as the Webmaster blesses it) in the Packages/Libraries area.

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Deals and Great Z Buys / 128mb Sd Card Us$1.95 After $20 Rebate

« on: December 08, 2004, 12:28:23 am »

Smart Technologies brand:
http://www.pcconnection.com/ProductDetail?sku=5536744

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General Discussion / Free WiFi hot spots.

« on: December 08, 2004, 12:19:34 am »

well, my wifi works at home. However, I can't make it work in my office. Because the ssid is something like "4th floor", and I can't type space. How can I solve the problem?  

I can't remember if the 802.11 spec allows spaces in the SSID or not, but the fact is that many (all?) access points support it.

To enter an SSID with a space in the Zaurus, use the Network Settings Applet and create it without the space.  Then using an editor, such as vi (but not TextEdit), edit the corresponding entry in /home/etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.opts.

The network entry will look like:
YourNetworkConfigName,*,*,*)
...
DesiredSSID="SSIDname"

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Off Topic forum / Ziff Davis Media Acquires Deviceforge Llc

« on: December 07, 2004, 02:01:07 am »

DeviceForge LLC is the publisher of several Linux related websites, including LinuxDevices.com, DeviceForge.com, and DesktopLinux.com.

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Windows Issues / Browsing The Windows Network

« on: December 07, 2004, 01:44:52 am »

No GUI that I'm aware of, but smbclient (http://killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=2309) should allow you to do something like this:
  smbclient -L pc204-134 -I 192.9.204.134

(I don't know why our screwy network requires us to specify both the hostname with -L and the IP address with -I)

and be presented with a list of servers that you can browse to.

Then, a command like this:
   smbclient \\\\my_windows_host\\c$ -I 192.9.200.15 -U my_win_username -W my_domain

[Note that all backslashes are escaped (ie, doubled)]
(again, I don't know why we had to specify the IP addr of my_windows_host)

should start a client session with my_windows_host, where you can do this:

  smb: \> dir
to get a remote dir listing

  smb: \> pwd
to get the remote working directory name

  smb: \> !pwd
to get the local working dir name

  smb: \> get somefile
to get a file

and, finally:
  smb: \> quit

to do the obvious.

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Software / Rexx Language

« on: December 04, 2004, 06:22:20 pm »

In my searches for various rexx versions, I ran across this one:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/regina/
which shows:
regina-rexx_2.2-1_arm.deb

Regina being the other major rexx language and around a long time. Whether or not there is a version here that would run on the Z, I don't know? But maybe someone could get hold of the sources and compile one?

Oh, yeah... I forgot about Regina -- I used to use it on a SparcStation a few jobs back.  The debian-ARM package you pointed to (also requires regina2_2.2-1_arm.deb from the same location) _should_ work on the Zaurus.  However, I get a Segmentation fault when I try to install it.  In fact, I get a SegFault even just listing the contents:  dpkg-deb -c regina-rexx_2.2-1_arm.deb gets only part way through.  I wonder if the Debian project uses a newer version of dpkg than the one that comes in the Zaurus 3.x ROM.

If anyone has a cross-compiler toolchain handy (it will be a while before I can rebuild my Zaurus development workstation), you can grab the sources for these two packages from these URLs, about 3/4 of the way down the page:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/interpreters/regina-rexx
http://packages.debian.org/stable/libs/regina2

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie, OpenEmbedded sites down?

« on: December 03, 2004, 01:33:23 am »

According to this article, it will be back "soon":
http://www.linuxdevices.com/cgi-bin/printe...id=NS3993126439

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5x00 General discussions / Kismet Goes Background

« on: December 03, 2004, 01:30:40 am »

Frequently, running an application a second time will bring the already running copy to the front -- not sure if it works for Kismet...

I always use the Kismet Qt/e GUI for launching Kismet, which does provide a Taskbar icon:
   http://killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=226

If you run into the problem of not having enough room on the task bar to see all the icons, I highly recommend the TaskList Applet, which gives a popup menu on the Taskbar for all running application icons -- it is the closest thing we have to an alt-tab:
   http://killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=1134

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Software / Looking For Evolution

« on: December 03, 2004, 01:08:48 am »

Are you talking about Evolution to run on the Zaurus??  I don't think that it has been ported, but you might want to check the pdaXrom project, just to make sure.

Evolution should be available for nearly every desktop Linux distro.  Depending on your distro & which package manager you use, it might be as easy as doing:
   apt-get -install evolution

It is a fairly good MS Outlook work-alike without some of the fancier bells-and-whistles.

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Software / Rexx Language

« on: December 03, 2004, 01:02:30 am »

I used to love to whip up Rexx scripts for getting applications to work together on my Amiga.  Now that was a useful OS!

Haven't seen Rexx yet for the Zaurus, but, as someone pointed out, IBM released the source for object-Rexx, so it may be possible to get it to run on the Zaurus.

In the mean time, I've found that Perl can do pretty much everything that Rexx did, and there is a version of Perl that runs on the Z -- it's what I use when I need to knock out a quick-and-dirty program or batch script.