{"id":497,"date":"2003-09-21T23:11:05","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T04:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=497"},"modified":"2003-09-21T23:11:05","modified_gmt":"2003-09-22T04:11:05","slug":"lovin-the-zaurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2003\/09\/21\/lovin-the-zaurus\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovin’ the Zaurus"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve said before <\/a> that I’m not a PDA type. No interest at all in schedules, address books, tasks list, sync with my pc. I’ve never carried a datebook, no use me trying to start with an electronic one.<\/p>\n

I’ve always said that I’d never get a handheld until it was a real computer. The Ipaq<\/a> is almost there, but with no keyboard and having to use the addon sleeve before you can add anything of value to it, not quite where I want it to be.<\/p>\n

With all that in mind, I’ve gone and bought myself a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500<\/a>. They aren’t sold in Canada, so I bought a refurbished one from Nikotools on Ebay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also bought 128Mb of SD (Secure Digital) memory and I already have a 256MB and 2x16MB compact flash cards. To round it all out, I ordered a PC-Card to CF adapter<\/a> so I can use my existing 10\/100 ethernet and 802.11 Wifi PC Cards.<\/p>\n

I’ve been visiting the Zaurus Software Index<\/a> and picking up all sorts of neat stuff such as VNC<\/a> (viewer and server), Gaim and such Linux staples as less, top, perl, joe, openssh, sshd, and even Midnight Commander<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Once I have the Wifi happening this week, I’ll be discovering<\/a> the wireless world that surrounds me.<\/p>\n

If I want, I can load up Apache, PHP, Mysql, PHPMyAdmin – you name it – this is a REAL Linux box in the palm of your hand.<\/p>\n

Makes a good MP3 player, too.<\/p>\n

Now if I can only get my 6-yr-old to stop wanting to play with the “Cute Little Computer”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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