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Speaking of the Zaurus
by cragos＠gmail.com 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

My Collie Zaurus SL-5500 is starting to flake out. It died/corrupted itself a while back. When I reflashed it with Hentges, its root partition was corrupted again before the week was out. I'm going to try removing its newer OS and reverting to a circa 2004 openzaurus distribution, since all I really need are madplay, a functioning terminal, and JustReader. I really hate the way these new versions of OpenZaurus et al have gotten so bloated that they need to bleed off into the CF/SD cards for basic Qtopia/OPIE system files. I've seen the PalmOS devices that Tom Bruno and Chris Bier carry around, but the eBook readers on both seem far less functional than JustReader, and the situation seemed to be even worse for PocketPC/WinCE owners when I was trying to hook my dad up with part of my eBook collection in '04-'05. Software issues aside, I've also never seen anything with a screen as large as a Zaurus, although it's been a while since I was really in the market. Short of hitting the lottery I'm not going to be able to afford a Zaurus SL-6000, and they're discontinued anyway. What's a poor boy to do when all he wants is something to play MP3s and read eBooks on? Is there anything on the market that'll run Qtopia/OPIE-based Linux distributions well? Thanks, Sean Crago

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Laptop memory - gone!
by Greg Brooks 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Everyone bow in Oren Beck's direction - he got the laptop RAM.

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The slightly-less-great KCLUG laptop (memory!) giveaway...
by Greg Brooks 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Another giveaway - no stories or noble causes required this time; just be the first one to say "Yeah, I'll take that!" and it's yours. Up for grabs: Two 512mb sticks (1gb total) of laptop RAM. Used but fully functional, and pulled from my Vaio VGN-A690 as part of an upgrade. (Helloooo, 2GB of RAM me!) This is Sony's originally installed RAM, so I don't know the manufacturer. Specs from Sony are: 533mhz DDRII SDRAM, PC2-4200. One stick or both, it's up to you. Contact me directly at gregb(a)west-third.com if you're interested, and I'll post another email when the RAM's no longer available. Greg

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Smartphone w/ Linux?
by Kyle Sexton 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Does anyone have a smartphone/PDA that works well with Linux? The only ones that I really know of are the Treo's, and Palm OS is getting a little long in the tooth. If you have a success story or recommendation of a phone let me know! -- Kyle Sexton

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Indexing home videos
by brad＠bradandkim.net 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Does anyone know of an existing system for indexing home videos? I could throw together a small db and set up some frontend for searching and entering videos but if there is something out there it would save me time. I plan on converting the raw dv to dvd, burning a copy and also keeping a copy on disk. A way of naming and then searching them for content would be really nice. Thanks, Brad

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RE: Smartphone w/ Linux?
by Jared Jennings 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Did anyone see this news article? http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2007/Apr-09.html Jared On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 08:51 -0500, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote: > I found out that SyncML would probably work on my phone, but Sprint > seems to be blocking it. Try https://zyb.com/ for online sync. Luke > was talking about a Zaurus, by the way.

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RE: Smartphone w/ Linux?
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

I found out that SyncML would probably work on my phone, but Sprint seems to be blocking it. Try https://zyb.com/ for online sync. Luke was talking about a Zaurus, by the way. _____ From: Kyle Sexton Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 5:33 PM On 4/9/07, Luke-Jr <luke(a)dashjr.org> wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 10:02:40 pm Kyle Sexton wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:30:36PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > > On Monday 09 April 2007 07:27:36 pm Kyle Sexton wrote: > > > Does anyone have a smartphone/PDA that works well with Linux? The only > > > ones that I really know of are the Treo's, and Palm OS is getting a > > > little long in the tooth. If you have a success story or > > > recommendation of a phone let me know! > > > > Zaurii run Linux. > > Is that a phone? It can be if you add a headset and cell CF card (or 802.11 for a wifi phone) :) Heh, I think I may have found a solution. Looks like with SyncML and services like www.scheduleworld.com <http://www.scheduleworld.com/> you can pretty much sync any phone OTA. In addition there are Evolution plug-ins for SyncML. :) -- Kyle Sexton

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Hey look, Debian 4.0 is out...
by Jon Pruente 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408 I'm sure the Debian fans around here noticed, but for those not watching for it it's now official. It's a tad late from the projected Apr. 2 release. At least at this rate their release schedule should inspire fewer jokes... I have run Testing as recently as 2 weeks ago, and what I saw was pretty nice. I may wipe the Ubuntu 7.04 beta on my P4 and give this final Debian 4.0 release a go again. Jon.

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This may be of interest.
by Oren Beck 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

A good reading as to the Zen of Linux is this: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html which is a slightly wandering tome on the divergences between Operating Systems and the why/how those came to be. HtH Oren

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Free Online Taxes
by Billy Crook 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

There's some IRS program called Freefile. If you make less than $52k a year, you can choose any of these companies ( http://www.irs.gov/app/freeFile/jsp/index.jsp) and do your federal return for free online. I used HR block online the last two years, so I was going to again, and I got THIS: We've detected that you're using an operating system that is currently not supported by TaxCut Standard Software. TaxCut Standard Software has been optimized for the following operating systems. Win2000, WINXP, Win Vista, MAC OS 10.2.8, MAC OS 10.3.9 and MAC OS 10.4.8 WTF, Why do they care what OS I run? It's a damn web application. All they need to do is optimize for the only real browser platform, Mozilla, and It'll work anywhere someone has a web browser. Their inflammatory remarks have angered me, and I want to choose some other company now. Any suggestions?

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