From the Orient

Aquarius has answered his own question about getting websites onto the Zaurus.

The discovery that Opie-Reader supports documents in Plucker format means that you can get Plucker to whack out websites into pdb files and upload them onto your Zaurus.

At the moment, this process is entirely manual, but you could set up a couple of cron jobs to sort that out.

I’m waiting to fix Debian before doing this for real; unless I run Plucker on the Zaurus itself, connecting to the internet through the TCP/IP USB cradle. No need to sync the resultant file over. (I haven’t tried this)

Zaurus Geek has a number of tips on his website on getting started with a number of instructions on getting a variety of software packages running on the Zaurus.

So far, I’ve installed the Terminal, installed a VNC server (it is rather cool really seeing your PDA operated from a PC; allowing you to use a bigger keyboard), copied in the swap space scripts and installed the Palm emulator (when I first got the Zaurus I figured I’d need the emulator to slowly migrate over, but in fact I’m not going to bother). When I get round to it, I’ll install SSH as well.

One of the most useful things I’ve found so far is IQNotes which is an extensible tool for keeping track of everything you do in a hierarchical format.

IQNotes is the hierarchical notes, which acts like sketcher, ordinary notes, address book, todo, event organizer and much more, because you can define your own type of the note.

I’m going to look forward to programming things here as the format for the todos and calendars is XML making it very easy to plug into.

Unofficial Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 FAQ. This is a great resource, and really got me off the mark with my new toy^Mdevice

Pretty stressful day at work today, no blogging. More in the journal as and when.
Looks like there is a lot of talk about Pingback at the moment. Looks like Ben Trott is at going to put something into MT 2.5

So I’ve thrown together some code to do this, and we’ll be adding it to the 2.5 version of Movable Type (with a setting to turn the auto-discovery on and off).

However, it looks like Ben seems reluctant to actually inplement Pingback as is. I wonder if Aq has mentioned the work he has already done here

Phoenix 0.1 (Pescadero) [via kryogenix.org] has been released to the wild. Now, this is a very cool thing, being very very fast (although it is difficult to tell on broadband).

At first I thought that it had picked up my theme from Mozilla, but a scan of the FAQ revealed that they had simply chosen the cool Orbit theme for the icons.

Sadly, I won’t be able to use it at work just yet as I need a proxy to connect to the internet.

How do I set up my proxy without a prefs panel?

You can manually edit your prefs.js file. Simply copy the values from your Mozilla profile prefs.js. Update: Yes, we realize that manual proxy isn’t working in 0.1. Unfortunately, it got broken in Mozilla right before we spun up the final builds. We’re targetted 0.2 for 2 weeks from now, and it will correct the problem.

Hixie’s Natural Log: Pingback 1.0 announces the Pingback 1.0 Specification