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« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2003, 02:39:32 pm »
Anyone know an address that we can inundate with our disapproval of this move? I dont mean being ugly, just a support address where we can ask what happened to the forums and let them know that there is a group of people that would really like to get to the information.

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« Reply #16 on: December 03, 2003, 02:44:58 pm »
Wow, I really am speechles here, this is really unfortunate.
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« Reply #17 on: December 03, 2003, 03:18:12 pm »
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Anyone know an address that we can inundate with our disapproval of this move? I dont mean being ugly, just a support address where we can ask what happened to the forums and let them know that there is a group of people that would really like to get to the information.

dpeach
According to the myzaurus.com page (which hasn\'t been updated for about 6 months), the contacts are:
zaurussupport@sharpsec.com
myZaurusMaster@sharpsec.com
Judging from past experience in trying to contact Sharp, I wouldn\'t hold
out much hope. Spencer is the only person at Sharp who ever responded to
an email.

What I really find upsetting, is that Sharp couldn\'t even bother to let us know that they are pulling the plug. I have never ever had the misfortune of dealing with ANY other company that treats it\'s customers with such little respect.

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« Reply #18 on: December 03, 2003, 03:22:07 pm »
uhm...

1) still exists the other forum: http://externe.net/zaurus/forum/index.php, but I guess we should focus in just one

2) I\'m amazed with sharp actions; develop and ship a new product, and the week after forget about it? Is that the final word to completelly kill this product line? Then, OZ is the way!

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« Reply #19 on: December 03, 2003, 04:54:27 pm »
Just called up sharp,
They said the \"did not know\" that the site was down, and that they have no ETA as to if it\'s coming back. Supposedly, my concern will be directed to someone higher up on the foodchain.
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« Reply #20 on: December 03, 2003, 05:20:25 pm »
I spoke with Spencer this morning on his cell phone (glad to know it was his personal phone and not Sharp\'s!).  Apparently he gave his two-weeks notice on Monday, and they just offered him to go the same day.  He said he didn\'t realize that they would shut down the site so quickly, and also that he wasn\'t sure whether or not they would be bringing them back.

Shortly after that I called his (old) manager and left him a message.  I had also met this guy in Vegas.  He hasn\'t returned my call yet, but I still have hopes.

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« Reply #21 on: December 03, 2003, 05:27:26 pm »
offroadgeek, if possible, can you get a backup of docs.zaurus.com, or the sf.net clone they had?

Apparantly, that was the only source for thekompany\'s rom, and I was hoping to use thier home-on-sd image, which, sadly, I had not downloaded.
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« Reply #22 on: December 03, 2003, 06:10:03 pm »
The information from docs.zaurus.com was put in the ZUG howto section a while ago by offroadgeek. I\'m sure theKompany will find another place for their ROM quite quickly.
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« Reply #23 on: December 03, 2003, 06:14:42 pm »
Here I am.  My new zaurus is in transit.  I haven\'t even laid a hand on it yet, and Sharp is pulling the plug.

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« Reply #24 on: December 03, 2003, 06:17:48 pm »
gerry - tumnus is right.. it was the community site that had all the downloads... and I don\'t think anyone mirrored that.

Let\'s see if Sharp responds at all to our requests...

p.s.  tkcrom 2.0alpha 3 initrd.bin -] zug downloads

tkcrom 2.0alpha 3 zimage -] zug downloads

I offered to proto a while ago to mirror the tkcrom files on the ZUG, but he said that he was happy with them on the community site  

I just hope thekompany doesn\'t host them on their server.. .they have terrible throughput!

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« Reply #25 on: December 03, 2003, 06:19:06 pm »
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Here I am.  My new zaurus is in transit.  I haven\'t even laid a hand on it yet, and Sharp is pulling the plug.

 :cry:

which zaurus did you purchase?
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« Reply #26 on: December 03, 2003, 06:31:06 pm »
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Here I am.  My new zaurus is in transit.  I haven\'t even laid a hand on it yet, and Sharp is pulling the plug.

 :cry:

which zaurus did you purchase?

I\'m getting an 860.  Its in the country (Canada) at customs so I should have it tomorrow or Friday.

P.S.  Even without Sharp support - I\'m sure I\'ll still enjoy it.  As long as I can get the development tools, I\'ll be able to do everything I want with it.
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« Reply #27 on: December 03, 2003, 06:34:56 pm »
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P.S. Even without Sharp support - I\'m sure I\'ll still enjoy it. As long as I can get the development tools, I\'ll be able to do everything I want with it.
Just post what your looking for I\'m sure the community will come through then we can build up the downloads here as well.
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« Reply #28 on: December 03, 2003, 06:40:28 pm »
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Here I am.  My new zaurus is in transit.  I haven\'t even laid a hand on it yet, and Sharp is pulling the plug.

 :cry:

which zaurus did you purchase?

I\'m getting an 860.  Its in the country (Canada) at customs so I should have it tomorrow or Friday.

P.S.  Even without Sharp support - I\'m sure I\'ll still enjoy it.  As long as I can get the development tools, I\'ll be able to do everything I want with it.

I just got a 760 a few weeks ago. I\'m not at all impressed with Sharp, but I am thoroughly enthralled with my Z!
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« Reply #29 on: December 03, 2003, 06:56:24 pm »
well it looks like it will be opie for my zaurus.
Glad I didn\'t  spend too much time re-writing notessync, it would be for nothing.
I\'ll just make it work with opie
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