To be honest, I've been watching and haven't found anything yet. Haven't
checked in a month or two though.
The PDA is a Viewsonic V37, using a StrongArm processor. There are a lot
of Linuxes out there for some PDAs, but the StrongArm stuff, in particular
this generation of them, hasn't been on the list that I could find. It's
running PocketWindows 2002, which is rather old, and hence doesn't support
nifty things like WPA2 on the SanDisk wifi SD card I've got for it.
I do have an old Agenda VR3 that I haven't been able to boot for a bit, and
have been thinking if all I wanted was calendar it might be interesting to
mess with that instead. But that used to eat batteries like candy, and the
Viewsonic is rechargable and lasts a lot longer per charge, it seems.
Also have a Palm m105 kicking around I could try. Problem with the Agenda
and the Palm is, no wifi, no SD or CF cards.
Tony
--On Friday, February 06, 2009 03:12:34 PM -0500 David <hac...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Chances are your PDA is supported for some sort of Linux Distro. The
functionality and stability may be in question, along with active
development for software. Besides that, most Windows Mobile based PDA's
are
supported.
slashdot.org/~Drakkenmensch "Is this going to be another one of those
hollow
claims backed up by a viral video, like unlocking car doors with a tennis
ball?"
slashdot.org/~Mindkata "Its much easier with a cricket ball. Just use it
to
break the window."
---
David McClellan
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Tony Harris <harr...@ccv.vsc.edu> wrote:
> What sort of PDA is it? And, what sorts of things do you want to sync?
>
> PalmOS based PDAs are, so I understand, not too hard to sync. In fact a
> lot of Palm functionality is built into Ubuntu, including syncing with
> Evolution for mail and calendaring. (Now, if you can get Evolution to
> correctly work with an Exchange server like it's supposed to, and not be
> slower than death, then let me know how you did it!)
>
> WindowsMobile based PDAs are a bit more of a hassle. I have one of
those
> (got it free) and am basically just not syncing it right now. You can
> definitely make it work, and in fact my desktop machine sees it, but
since I
> haven't gotten Evolution working, I haven't spent a lot of time
figuring out
> how to fully sync with the PDA.
>
> What I really want is for Sunbird to be supported for syncing, and I'll
> keep my calendar there, or even better if Sunbird and Thunderbird could
> support Exchange via OWA.
>
> I'd also love to see Linux for my PDA, actually. With full support
> including WPA2 for the little SD wifi card I have for it.
>
> Tony
>
>
>
> --On Thursday, February 05, 2009 04:36:31 PM -0800 Warner White <
> warnercwh...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Josh, Rick & Tony--
> >
> > Thanks for your responses. Now I know what to do.
> >
> > For people switching from Windows to Linux this is one of the
> differences. Somehow I thought the Alt+#### was just built into
"things." I
> didn't occur to me that it was an OS thing. But, for making the
> transition,this is just one more thing. If only I could get my PDA to
sync
> in Linux I'd be all set. (And if KMyMoney weren't quite so clunky.)
> >
> > So, for me, I want it more GUI and more like what I'm used to, but the
> more it gets like that, the more viruses and other troubles we'll have.
> >
> > I thought of taking my problem to the Ubuntu forum, but I was sure I
> would get a quicker and more complete response from you.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Warner
> >
> > Warner White
> > 12 Harbor Watch Road
> > Burlington VT 05401
> > H: 802-863-0182
> > C: 802-318-0956
> > www.warnerwhite.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Josh Sled <js...@asynchronous.org>
> > To: VAGUE@LIST.UVM.EDU
> > Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 12:47:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: Loss of Alt+#### function
> >
> > Warner White <warnercwh...@yahoo.com> writes:
> > > I have lost the use of the combination Alt+four numbers to get
special
> characters. For example, Alt+0151 (on the keypad with NumLock on) to
get an
> em dash. Now when I do it, nothing happens. It's
> > > working on Windows with Firefox, with OpenOffice, etc., but not on
my
> two Ubuntu machines.
> > >
> > > I think it was working until recently, but I'm new enough to Ubuntu
> that I can't be certain.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > That is something unique to Windows. But, 'nix has a better
> > alternative…
> >
> > You'll want to make use of the 'Compose' key. Which key this is
mapped
> > to on your keyboard varies, but (under Gnome), can be set in
> > Panel >
> > System >
> > Preferences >
> > Keyboard >
> > [tab:]Layouts >
> > [button:]Layout Options >
> > [expander:]Compose key position.
> >
> > I have it mapped to the right "Menu" key on my Windows-layout 104-key
> > keyboard.
> >
> > The idea with Compose is that you first hit the compose key, then a
> > variable-length sequence of characters in order to affect a single
> > composed key. For instance, I'd hit <Compose> <'> <e> to get é, or
> > <Compose> <"> <o> to get my heavy-metal ümulats like sö.
> >
> > But that's just the beginning of the fun! There's all sorts of
awesome
> > Unicode characters this allows you to enter.
> >
> > For instance, you might talk about the √∞°² (sqrt infinity
degrees
> > squared), or want to try out ½ of the vulgar fractions. Maybe you
> > dislike :), and would rather ☺. Or don't like hearts like <3, and
would
> > rather use ♥.
> >
> > Like talking about ∿ waves? Or need to talk about how things
might be
> > ≥ and ≤ others? What about the null set ∅. Or how things are
cold ± a
> > few degrees?
> >
> > The <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey> link already posted
> > is very good, except for their bad instruction about creating a
> ~/.XCompose
> > file by copying one out of /usr/share …
> >
> > Instead, just add [[[
> > include "%L"
> > ]]] as the first line of ~/.XCompose, and the current default file for
> > the locale will be loaded first, then you can override things to your
> > heart's content. I've attached my ~/.XCompose to give you some ideas.
> > But also, take a look at </usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose>
to
> > see what's already defined.
> >
> > Also the Panel > Applications > Accessories > Character Map is great
for
> > finding the details of unicode characters.
> >
> >
> > Cheers…
> > --
> > ...jsled
> > http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
> >
>
>
>
