On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 04:04:59PM -0700, Nicole TWN wrote: > Hi gang, Nicole here in the third or fourth circle of Hell, AKA Los Angeles. >
Hard to tell which circle cuz of the smog, huh? ;) > My favorite geek toy, my beloved Zaurus 5500, recently inspired one of the > interns to get one for his very own. He opted for the even shinier 5600, > and has recently made a shocking discovery: Sharp has changed their synching > mechanism from XML- and TCP-based to some proprietary format and protocol, > not only for the 5600 but also for the latest 5500 ROM. Not _exactly_ proprietary data format. The DaTa Manager (DTM) stuff is documented at Sharp's site: http://community.zaurus.com/projects/dtm/ > Works under Windows, of course, but they aren't doing jack for the > open source community. Well, they're doing a LITTLE jack for us. ;^) But yeah. Sadly, the biggest market out there is Windows users, so they have to cater to them, first. :^( > Well. THIS cannot be allowed to stand. Andrew (said intern) is launching > a project to reverse-engineer the synching protocol and restore the ability > to sync natively in Linux. Make sure he looks at the URL above before going TOO nuts. ;^) It'll, at the very least, help. You guys may also want to consider OpenZaurus as an alternative to the Sharp stuff. http://www.openzaurus.org/ > All work is (and will be) GPL'd. If you're interested, check out his > website at www.cyph.org or drop him a note at cyphactor at socal dot rr dot > com. > > Life is good at work. I have a whole lab of machines to play with. Cool. :) -bill! _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
