04.20.09
sl600l: More Corrupt Network Settings
The solutions to my occasional difficulties getting online with my Tosa which I had written about in this other blog post worked fine for a while, but then I had trouble getting online again.
I had thought that I had all my connectivity problems resolved, and a clear list of what to do if my network settings got corrupted again, so I was quite surprised when I had trouble getting online again. Read the rest of this entry »»
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10.10.08
Corrupted Networking Settings
I had been getting online rather quickly and easily with my sl6000 for the past month or two. But, when I tried to go online the other day, I kept getting messages in my pppd log kept saying “Failed to authenticate ourselves to peer,” over and over and over again. I wondered whether my ISP had done something to block my account or reset my logon password to a previous one. I tried calling them and could not get through.
Opera had crashed during my last session online, and I did notice that there was no listing for /dev/shm when I did the “df” command. But, the files in /etc/ppp/peers did not seem to have been corrupted. They looked like normal text files. Read the rest of this entry »»
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09.28.08
Finding Which File to Extract from a Tar Backup
A primary reason I have so little free K bytes in internal memory on my Zaurus is that I want easy access to all the files and email I have written or downloaded, no matter which SD card I happen to be using, and whether or not I am using my CF modem at the moment. I do not want to have to putz around, hunting through backups and then having to extract the files, I want them quickly and easily.
But I have gotten very tired of the lack of space, and started wondering if I could find a way to quickly and easily locate old files I need and extract them. I have not found a perfect solution yet, not one good enough to make me feel comfortable about erasing a bunch of files, which I think I might need access to on a moment’s notice, but I thought I would share what I have figured out so far, as I have found some techniques which I have found quite helpful when I need to examine the contents of a backup file.
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06.21.08
Battery Failure: Charging Light Issues
My EA-BL06 had been in almost constant use since August 2005, since I always leave my Collie plugged into it’s AC adapter. And, there were signs it might be losing the ability to charge. For over a year, the charging light would occasionally turn on for no apparent reason and that was happening a lot the last couple of months.
So, when I could not turn my Zaurus on one morning, I was not very surprised.
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06.12.08
The Myth About BCC Email
Once upon a time, people could respect others privacy when sending email to a number of recipients, by putting the addresses in a “BCC” field, which meant “blind courtesy copy,” or “blind carbon copy.” That was supposed to mean that the server or email client would remove the addresses of the “BCC” recipients before sending the email on to everyone in the “TO:”, “CC:”, and “BCC:” fields.
However, despite common belief, when we send email to someone as a “BCC” email, their address may be sent to all recipients, and is not necessarily privatized.
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05.15.08
I found some OESF/ZUG Downloads!
Hey, trying to find an ipk I wanted to check out, all the download links for http://www.zaurususergroup.org I tried were dead, but I found they seem to have moved to http://www.oesf.org/howto/downloads.
I do not know if all the ipks that were on the old feed are there, but check out and bookmark the software index there, in case it might have what you are looking for!
sdjf
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01.11.08
Make Backups to Prevent Grief
Geeks will be geeks and hackers will be hackers, and any time one of us messes around writing scripts or going on a cleanup campaign, IMNSHO, it is just plain stupid to not make backups. It also is rather foolhardy to install new software on the Zaurus without making a backup immediately beforehand, at least that’s been my experience when trying to install some packages that ended up trashing my system.
One day about a month ago, silly me had not made a backup in about four weeks, being too preoccupied with other things to want to take the time to change cards around to do it, and I sure paid a price for that stupidity. Read the rest of this entry »
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09.20.07
Unrecognized CF and SD Cards
I found a really cool, well-written wiki page at oesf about how to get your Zaurus to recognize a new CF or SD card which is not already recognizable:
http://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Updating_the_Zaurus_to_accept_new_CF_cards
sdjf
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09.04.07
No icon appears. Has my CF card gone bad?
I had a CF card scare the other day. I needed to send copies of some files on my old 128MB CF card to a friend. But my CF modem was plugged in to the CF slot on my Zaurus. So, I tapped on the “Eject card” icon in the taskbar, waited until the networking and CF card icons disappeared, and then removed my modem. Then I inserted my 128MB CF card and waited for the CF card icon to appear. And waited. And nothing happened, no icon appeared.
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08.10.07
Veritech 512MB SD Card
I had seen posts at oesf here and here indicating that some Sandisk SD cards, the other brand I was considering buying, were not reliable on sl5500’s, so decided to try a 512MB SD Veritech Card from http://geeks.com at the incredible price of about $7.
The card has an impressive red-green-blue label on it, with yellow control numbers etched on the back of it’s classic navy blue body.
The yellow etchings at the bottom of the back of the card:
6451AG 512M 025H1
Made in Taiwan
There also is a yellow control number along the right edge of the card. Read the rest of this entry »»
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