Saturday, November 05, 2005

I've decided to move from using Radio Userland to a Blogger weblog hosted on my own domain. I've been using Linux for the past couple of years and it's proven too painful to keep using the Radio Userland software under Wine. No more posts will be added to this weblog, or any of its categories. The new weblog is here and the atom feed is here. 5:56:28 PM

	Saturday, February 26, 2005

A review of the Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000. This is very similar to the SL-C760 Zaurus but has a 4GB hard drive. 4:17:33 PM

	Saturday, January 15, 2005

Previously I'd mentioned that the Billionton Bluetooth CF Card with manufacturer id 0x022d, 0x2000 didn't work on the Zaurus. It seems that this problem has been fixed in the latest pdaXrom (1.1.0 RC8), where that card works fine with the bluez software from the standard feed. 6:24:57 PM

	Tuesday, June 22, 2004

I've compiled Portable.NET for the Zaurus running pdaxrom. This enables you to run some .NET programs on the Zaurus, including GUI programs that use System.Windows.Forms. You will need to install, in the following order: treecc_0.3.1alpha_arm.ipk pnet_0.6.7alpha_arm.ipk pnetlib_0.6.7alpha_arm.ipk pnetc_0.6.7alpha_arm.ipk Note that these are quite big, totaling about 18MB so I recommend they be installed in /mnt/user. I used the recent CVS version from yesterday hence the reason I marked them alpha. Some compiled examples to try are in pnet_samples.tar.gz. To run the executables use 'ilrun'. So to run the FormsTest.exe program use: ilrun FormsTest.exe 'cscc' can be used to compile C# programs on the Zaurus. The pnetc module is included which enables you to compile some C programs to .NET assembly on the Zaurus as well. See the Portable .NET site for information. 9:41:21 AM

	Sunday, April 18, 2004

I've compiled wxWindows v2.5.1 for the Zaurus PDA running the pdaxrom. The wxwindows_2.5.1_arm.ipk file is 4MB. Some examples from the distribution are in the 130KB wx_examples.tar.gz file. Untar the examples in any directory after installing the ipk. It includes bomb (Minesweeper), Life (Conway's Life) and a fractal mountain drawer.   2:42:46 PM

	Thursday, April 08, 2004

pdaxrom version 1.0.5 is out with a number of fixes including automatic screen rotation and a working hardware on/off button. Also available is the SDK for developing applications. 2:15:20 PM

	Sunday, March 21, 2004

Kartik Agaram has a RSS news aggregator written in Python that displays all articles in a single HTML page in reverse chronological order. It's called 'Read What I Read' and includes source. A nice feature of this sort of aggregator is you can run it on your desktop and copy the HTML over to a PDA and read it at your leisure. 9:50:11 AM