Top 10 Things To Do In Pdaxrom

[zi99y]

I was thinking of all the things I use my Zaurus for and it occurred to me that it does a pretty amazing range of jobs.

For your viewing pleasure, and for no particular reason, I have listed my top 10 things to do in PDAXROM!    

(In descending order of popularity)




10. Wikipedia (zbedic)
- Outdated but still contains much interesting information.

09. Watching videos (mplayer)
- Hard to perfect when encoding but if it works it's a great screen to watch stuff on.

08. Emulation (snes9x, gnuboy...)
- The snes puzzle games work great with the keyboard, action games not so good.

07. Calendar (gpe-calendar)
- Pretty useful calendar although I haven't got it to sync with another - I use google calendar normally.

06. Roguelikes (glhack and all of zdevils other packages)
- Some good gaming fun to be had with all these games.

05. Learning development
- At different times I've been learning LAMP, python, bash scripting, and C#.

04. RSS Feed Reader (Liferea)
- It's a little slow, but great at reading news feeds offline.

03. Ebooks (xCHM, epdfview, links...)
- Learning about stuff through books is useful, pdfs aren't very good but chm files work well in xchm.

02. Web browsing & Email (Sylpheed, Dillo, elinks...)
- Handy when connected via wifi, I don't need a full browser like firefox for most browsing. Sylpheed is very handy to write offline emails and keep your entire mailbox with you where you go.

01. Learning bash/linux/pdaxrom
- Spending many hours tweaking, breaking and learning the system. Installing new packages and playing with window managers. This is what I do with 80% of my time spent with pdaxrom, and it's all worth it!

[speculatrix]

is this a top-ten list of things you wish you could do if everything was fixed and working, or is it top-ten things you can already do!!!

[kkazakov13]

I use mine (when in pdaXrom, and not breaking everything for testing) for:


1. Reading e-books - FBReader

2. Watching videos - optimized and customized mplayer, under console.

3. Browsing - Firefox (and _only_ firefox, sometimes maybe dillo, but rarely)

4. Writing quick notes - Leafpad

5. Checking where my salary went - Gnumeric

6. Translating
 - Bulgarian - English translation - kbgoffice
 - English - German translation - qbedic

7. Listening music - Glurp + MPD ( searching for more intuitive one than glurp )

8. Storing all my passwords for everywhere - PwM/Pi

9. Reading developer documentations - epdfview

10. Playing games - ScummVM mostly, Flashback, Gweled


That's my top ten  I use it for more things, of course.

[zi99y]

speculatrix: All of what I mention works brilliantly - not many bugs in my tweaked beta3 setup.

kkazakov13: I notice you have a 3200 also, may  I ask how you encode your videos and what mplayer parameters you use when playing them? I always have terrible trouble with this.

[tombraider]

It would be really great if when you pressed the "on" button,  it turned on.  ;-)

I was thinking of all the things I use my Zaurus for and it occurred to me that it does a pretty amazing range of jobs.

For your viewing pleasure, and for no particular reason, I have listed my top 10 things to do in PDAXROM!   

(In descending order of popularity)




10. Wikipedia (zbedic)
- Outdated but still contains much interesting information.

09. Watching videos (mplayer)
- Hard to perfect when encoding but if it works it's a great screen to watch stuff on.

08. Emulation (snes9x, gnuboy...)
- The snes puzzle games work great with the keyboard, action games not so good.

07. Calendar (gpe-calendar)
- Pretty useful calendar although I haven't got it to sync with another - I use google calendar normally.

06. Roguelikes (glhack and all of zdevils other packages)
- Some good gaming fun to be had with all these games.

05. Learning development
- At different times I've been learning LAMP, python, bash scripting, and C#.

04. RSS Feed Reader (Liferea)
- It's a little slow, but great at reading news feeds offline.

03. Ebooks (xCHM, epdfview, links...)
- Learning about stuff through books is useful, pdfs aren't very good but chm files work well in xchm.

02. Web browsing & Email (Sylpheed, Dillo, elinks...)
- Handy when connected via wifi, I don't need a full browser like firefox for most browsing. Sylpheed is very handy to write offline emails and keep your entire mailbox with you where you go.

01. Learning bash/linux/pdaxrom
- Spending many hours tweaking, breaking and learning the system. Installing new packages and playing with window managers. This is what I do with 80% of my time spent with pdaxrom, and it's all worth it!
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[kkazakov13]

kkazakov13: I notice you have a 3200 also, may  I ask how you encode your videos and what mplayer parameters you use when playing them? I always have terrible trouble with this.
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I just answered you here
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[Meanie]

ok, this is what I do:

1. configuring solaris servers and applications using either bash in cli or use Z as X client for headless servers.

2. listen to mp3s with xmms

3. using vim to edit scripts

4. writing documentation with one of the text editors

5. reading web pages with dillo or firefox

6. compiling new packages

7. viewing photos with gqview

8. watching video clips in gmplayer

9. using dictionaries to look up words (english/german/french/chinese/japanese)

10. playing games

[loji]

The Zaurus is a very usefull tool   I drove cross country three times in the past couple of months ... and the Z was definatly handy. I mainly use it as communications + entertainment.

1. Email - (Sylpheed) - was my ONLY source of online communication for 2 months in Utah, I was applying for jobs from my Z at coffee shops .

2. IM - (Gaim, xirc) - how I kept in touch with my friends back home

3. Web - (Dillo, Firefox) - research, news, internet goodness, MAPS

4. Games - (xSNES) - playing my Nintendo roms from the SD card

5. Movies - (Mplayer) - watch anime (already got subtitles, who needs audio)

6. Music - (xmms) play mp3s on SD card through portable speakers = my z-pod

7. Hotspot finder - (kismet, wifi-radar) I learned coffee = internet access

8. Txt edit - (Abiword) - lets me update my resume, and write cover letters

9. GCalc - How much where my bills??

10. Linux experience + learning tool + scripting + Bash




Things the zaurus did Not do -

1. wake-up alarm O:-)  (it's nicer to sleep in anyway)  
2. easy-to-setup printer support (it's linux, is printer support ever easy?)


So basicaly the Z was my entire tie to the outside world while driving through towns where the cows outnumbered the people. (literally, I saw one in southern Utah that was Pop. 24 on the sign!)  -- it's equally useful in the city, one doesn't always want to carry around a laptop bag jumping subways in a new town. The Z always fits