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Steveg does still exist folks. I've SEEN him.

Posted on 19 July 2005 at 05:37 AM by leece

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SURE he does.

Posted on 22 July 2005 at 12:35 AM by Poss

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Ahhh Well

Yes, I am still here. I did spend a fair bit of time disconnected (over a month). And my amount of online activity has been minimal all round. Lessee now ...

I have completed the tail box for the trike. It works tolerably well but I can see a lot of improvements for Mk 2. I need to put up a page about it and the Solar power system that goes with it.

Work is still there. I spend my time doing far too many data fixups and not enough process improvment. 8-(

My hip is still sore. On and off. The insurance company is having me vetted in a couple of weeks.

The root canal work was completed and an enourmous amount of money passed on to pay for the crown. So now I'm "as flash as a rat with a gold tooth" ... or something.

Posted on 23 July 2005 at 01:36 AM by Stephen Gunnell

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He does, seeeee! That's him down there.

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Posted on 24 July 2005 at 10:36 PM by leece

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Card fun.

Since I have started full time work again I have been missing having my Palm III available to synchronize to Outlook. However somwhere at WA Police my Windows installation disks went missing. Last week I bit the bullet and purchased a new Palm Tungsten E2. Nice colour screen, 32 MB of internal storage (up from 2MB on the III), a slot for SD cards, and the capability to play mp3s.

Unfortunately the mp3 player software is Real Player. To install you have to have a Windows machine with an internet connection and it requires the Real Player to be installed on your desktop. Along the way it also wants to collect your life history. 8-(

In the end I gave Real the flick after it kept failing to connect to its home site in a stable manner. So ... I went looking for an open source player. The choice appears to be TCPMP or TCPMP. Luckily TCPMP works. At least all the important bits do. It is still at version 0.66 and needs some more work in the interface and play lists. But it plays!

Part of the advantage of using an SD card is that is what my digital camera uses and viewing images on the E2 is a lot nicer than viewing them on the camera.

So anyway I came to load up some songs onto the card and I find I cant do it through pilot-link (the open source *nix tool set). No prob. I'll just grab the 12in1 card reader and mount the card as a USB storage device. Nope. No way. Lots of SCSI errors and no connect. Sooooo.... I load the card into the camera and use it as the interface to my Linux system. Ugly, possibly even desperate, but working.

Posted on 25 July 2005 at 07:59 PM by Stephen Gunnell

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More card fun

Now the camera is not the slickest or fastest device to be using as an USB - SD Card interface. Somewhere along the line I managed to trash the filesystem while trying to shut down a transfer before the camera batteries expired. D'oh.

The answer (after I had downloaded the toolset) was to run fsck.vfat. The inner secret is to use the -w switch that immediately updates the card when a problem is fixed.

I now need to get a file manager program for the E2 so that I can manipulate and rename files and directories on the SD Card. Then there is the 1GB card (with only 256MB I'm starting to get habituated to the song set). And the external keyboard. And ... commercial software. Ahhh Ahhh ahhhhhrrrrr ....

Posted on 27 July 2005 at 07:46 PM by Stephen Gunnell