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04:15.59kRiMe8_anyone in here from cali im going on vacation want to know the  hot spots to hitup
05:15.05lazdwhat part of cali are you in?
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06:17.53daurnuh, I've only been for a few days
06:18.01daurnbut, san fran was good
06:18.05daurnLA was a piece of crap
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06:50.26lazdanyone alive?
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08:02.30kRiMe8_im going to san fran
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14:14.28krylhi
14:14.38krylI search a doc on zaurus I/O ?
14:14.45krylI have a sl-c760 model
14:15.09krylI want to detail the io capability for robotic device control
14:15.33krylis it possible to obtain some help there please?
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19:47.39lazdanyone around?
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20:02.43kRiMe8word up all
20:03.36lazdsappanin
20:03.39lazdhows cali
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20:08.33kRiMe8nice i just got to the hotel
20:08.52kRiMe8and i just missed the bad weather back home in FLA
20:09.31lazdgood stuff, native northern californian here. it's rainy up here in chico
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20:09.56lazdso i assume you're using your zaurus right now?
20:10.35kRiMe8no i got my laptop with me i need to charge my zaurus
20:10.55lazdic, what model/distro are you running on the z?
20:17.38kRiMe8opie 1.2.1, openzaurus ver. 3.5.4.2-rc2 with the 2.6.17-3.5.4.2-rc2 linux kernal
20:18.03lazdgood stuff, OZ3.5.4 here on a collie
21:10.15kRiMe8nice i need to track down a collie, i found my poddle in a pawn shop for under $100
21:19.13summatusmentisI've got a collie, and a terrier(3200)
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22:49.08lazdgood stuff, what have you guys been doing with you zarii lately? anything cool?
22:51.05lazdas for me, mostly as a GPS navigator with qpeGPS and Roadmap and i'm looking forward to connecting to my phone via bluetooth to do "dialup networking" (already have my laptop doing this, need a BT card for the zaurus)
22:55.04bluelightninglazd: do you use opie?
22:56.27lazdyeah 1.2.1 under 2.4.1.8
22:57.01bluelightninglazd: cool.. I'm an Opie developer, always nice to hear people using it :)
22:57.18lazdrighton! what parts do you work on?
22:57.21bluelightning1.2.3 came out recently, pity there is no distribution that includes it yet
22:57.33bluelightningI've made bugfixes all over the place really
22:58.00bluelightningif I had to pick a box, then PIM is my area of greatest interest
22:58.17bluelightningI've done a bit of work on getting OpenSync to work with Opie also
22:58.45lazdgood stuff, the PIM apps work nicely, i never did do anything with syncing
22:59.45bluelightningthere are two other areas I'd like to see improved as well: (1) mp3 playback and (2) web browsing
23:00.05lazdindeed, i'm forced to use opieplayer 1 to get streaming radio to function
23:00.17lazdi stream from my desktop computer using icecast and liveice and walk around the house with the zaurus
23:00.28bluelightningI haven't done anything for (1) yet... for (2) there is a new version of Konqueror Embedded but again we are hampered by the lack of an officially supporting distribution
23:00.31lazdweb browsing -- i don't even try
23:01.01lazdyeah, it's a pity that OZ died and that angstrom doesn't yet fully support the collie, leaves me sorta stuck
23:01.27lazdi've got an konq, i just avoid using it
23:01.30bluelightningIIRC the problem with collie was always the partially-closed kernel
23:01.55lazdthe best use i had was downloading a full html version of 1984 at an airport in seattle on my way to BC
23:02.01lazdplenty useful :)
23:02.11lazdit's no safari, however, what an experience.
23:02.13bluelightningcool, good book that one :)
23:02.43lazdsafari on the ipod touch is simply wonderful, closest thing i've seen to a desktop browsing experience in my hand
23:02.57lazdit's so interesting, my good friend got an ipod touch and the hacking community has been going wild porting apps and getting things to work
23:03.19lazdstill with nowhere near the total functionality of the zaurus, but boy does it full those gaps 1 & 2
23:03.27bluelightninghmm
23:03.55bluelightningI'm not particularly enthused by anything apple-related, but yes they make some nice stuff
23:05.09lazdthe touch really picks up where other handheld computers left off, it sucks there is no developer support at the moment, but rumor has it a SDK will be available in january
23:05.47kollaI've played with iphone, and I really dont grasp what's so great
23:05.53lazdi can see it making quite a large impact on the market due to it's roots
23:06.13lazdindividuals are currently under the impression that the iphone is a phone with an mp3 player in it
23:06.41lazdslowly but surely, jobs is slipping a full UNIX computer into the pockets of average people, giving them the potential for the power we've had all these years
23:07.10bluelightningbut, under the strict control of Apple (and AT&T)
23:07.19lazdunfortunatley :(
23:07.24kollaand what power is that? :)
23:07.26lazdbut the itouch holds pormise
23:07.37lazdeverything you can do with a zaurus!
23:07.52kollathat's not much :)
23:07.55lazdi never wondered why iPod was a word that had no direct connection to MP3s, it's meant to be the newton 2
23:07.57lazdheh
23:08.03lazdi actually sat down
23:08.09lazdand wrote a list of the shit my zaurus does
23:08.12lazdit's pretty amazing
23:08.21kollanewton was a hek lot better than both zaurus and iphone
23:08.25kolla+c
23:08.26lazdcompared to the itouch, in it's infancy, the zaurus is far more powerful
23:08.47lazdi've never used a newton, it had many cool features i've read about, but really -- OSX in your hand is alot of power
23:08.50lazdi'mma paste that list :D
23:09.04bluelightninglazd: don't forget to pastebin :)
23:09.09kollaOSX hands you lots of bloat
23:09.16lazdagreed
23:09.31lazdwith a 400MHz ARM, the bloat hasn't surfaced yet :P
23:09.35kollaand from apple.. a battery that you need to surgically replace after Too Short Time [tm]
23:09.46lazdplaying the the iphone (my roomate has got one), the UI is snappy
23:09.52lazdagreed! the battery is a problem
23:09.58lazdapple always had a problem of trying to keep people out of the box
23:10.07lazdremember "Cracking" old macs? you needed a special tool to get them apart!
23:10.11kollaI had no problem running away from the UI on the iphone :P
23:10.18lazdhehe
23:10.25kollaaso, without a stylus it was really a pain
23:10.27kollaalso
23:10.28lazdwhat's your current comfortable environment?
23:10.46kollacomfortable? not since decade+ :)
23:10.50lazdah
23:10.54lazdthe term
23:10.54lazdlol
23:11.12lazdwell, just pop open a virtual terminal on the iphone and you'll feel right at home :D
23:11.25lazdfirst app i installed on my zaurus, that's for sure
23:11.25lazdlol
23:11.51kollaI dont fancy that I need to look at a display or keys to type, I'm currently using SE phone which is ok, palm was really stupid in all ways, but also on that I could type blindly
23:12.48lazdhttp://lazd.net/-random/What%20does%20a%20zaurus%20do.txt
23:13.17kollawell, the typical feature list
23:13.24kolla"organize"
23:14.16kollathe newton recognized text as different kinds of datatypes that could be managed by various installed apps
23:14.51kollameaning that all apps integrate more or less automatically
23:15.17lazdthe lovely product of apple's control'
23:15.20lazdintegrated elegance
23:15.37lazdin that case, not at the cost of potential
23:15.46lazdbut in many cases, it has been.
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23:18.25kollayou could even type a sentance and it would recognize words, and create links.. so that if you type "meeting with john on wednesday 12th of november in the green room" it would actually link the "john" in your addressbook to the date in the scheduler and the "green room" also in addressbook
23:18.38lazdsmart stuff
23:19.04kollaand screen rotation was something you just had, in any app
23:19.57lazdwe're doing it now with the motion of physically orienting the device
23:20.05lazdgreat technology
23:20.11lazdi just hope apple doesn't lost sight of it's roots -- the garage
23:20.16lazdthe homebuilt computer club
23:20.27lazdhomebrew*?
23:20.27lazdlopl
23:20.34kollaI hate that physically stuff..
23:20.48kollawhen I'm in my bed, I dont want it to tilt around on its own
23:20.51bluelightningbbl
23:21.03lazdyeah good point, if you're laying sideways
23:21.21kollaI dont see the point of making it automatically
23:21.32lazdnot a problem that couldn't be solved with some clever shaking gestures
23:21.49kollaor an option to turn that darn thing off
23:21.52lazdhaha yes
23:22.31lazdthe point is that it's a natural motion, but nothing in nature reacts in this way when rotated except liquids
23:22.40lazdjust another way of abstracting user input
23:22.50lazdhell, the think senses proximity and light too
23:22.53lazdthing*
23:22.56kollawhy should I be bothered with laws of nature in a virtual environment?
23:23.00kollasheesh!
23:23.13lazdhaha it all goes back to familiarity
23:23.29kollamight just well get a good old notebook and a pencil, cause that's soon what apple will sell me
23:23.48kollajust a darn expencive and glorified one
23:23.56lazdnah, the point is that generations past ours will continue to evolve their input methods
23:24.17kollano, they will si there with a major energy crisis
23:24.19kollasit
23:24.35lazdexploring new and different ways that draw analogs to familiar motions will drive changes in input methods
23:24.38lazdhaha entirely agreed
23:24.39kollawhen the oil ends real soon now, there will be no more cheapo electronics
23:24.51lazdhttp://sustain.lazd.net/ you might be interested
23:24.58lazdproject for a college class i'm taking
23:25.58kollaok, I might be a cynic, but in my view.. our responsibility is irrelevant :)
23:26.15kollawe wont manage to kill life
23:26.19kollanot even if we tried
23:26.37lazdhumanity, however, we are more than capable of destroying
23:26.55kollaso we will be destroid
23:27.02kolladestroyed
23:27.13kollabut life goes on
23:27.41lazdlife will continue within the bounds of the sarcophagus erected around the chenobyl reactor that blew up in 1986, in fact, it thrives in the form of a thick black slime on the walls that feeds of the gamma radiation that will continue to be produced for a moderate 24,000 years
23:27.44kollaand yes, earth will die one day, but not becuse of us :)
23:27.54lazdbut humanity, as we know it, does not exist in that picture
23:28.28kollalazd: been there? it's more like a national park these days, where wild life goes on without human contact
23:28.30lazdand of course, we'll eventually be engulfed by an exploding star and become of victim of the very thing that gives us life
23:29.27lazdno i haven't, i've read quite a bit on the subject recently via elena filatova's photo essays
23:29.30lazdvery interesting
23:29.52kollathe motor bike rider?
23:29.58lazdyes, http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html
23:30.01lazdlol angelfire, but yes
23:30.36lazdyeah, humanity isn't in the picture painted by elena's photos
23:30.53lazdlike kolla said, we won't stop life, but like i said, we may stop us.
23:31.30kollawell, that's good though, isnt it? :)
23:31.46lazdin the grand scheme of things, a little slime goes a long way :)
23:32.55kollaremember when I had biology at school and we compared population maps with those of rats...
23:34.01lazdin terms of growth or in the analogy of an "infestation" of a given environment?
23:34.19kollaboth, really
23:34.25kollathey're connected
23:35.47lazdby all means
23:36.13lazddid the course point out the analogy of humans as an infestation?
23:38.35kollaour teacher just said something along the lines of "you might see some resemblence here..." :)
23:38.59lazdhaha
23:39.01kollathe graphs were more or less identical :)
23:39.40kolla".. I dont want to predict the future, but... you get the idea." :)
23:39.49lazdheh
23:40.16lazdyup.  we're on the edge of a slippery slope if we're not already sailing merrily down it
23:42.27lazdto the outside, we're WAY off topic, but a quick scroll up brings the roots of the conversation to like -- the energy crisis means no fun for all of us. hopefully i'll have some solar panels to charge my zaurus by then
23:42.36lazdto light*
23:43.20lazdand sumbuddy better keep those intertubes around, useful little tubes they are.
23:43.52kolla:)
23:45.52lazdkolla, if there's any chance of finding a source for the rats/human population graphs, i would appreciate it if you sent it my way, it'd be a great idea to bring up in class
23:46.09lazdbetter yet, create an account at sustain.lazd.net and add it as an Idea
23:46.26lazddid you check out the whole idea behind sustain.lazd.net?
23:46.54kollanot really
23:46.58kolladoing it now
23:48.36lazdthe whole point is that entries are added and tagged with keywords, then the system correlates entries based on their tags (currently very rudimentry) and displays the results to a visitor who hopefully will read them all and gain insight or a push to make a change
23:49.20lazdhere's a good example, http://sustain.lazd.net/daprocess.php?types=9
23:50.45lazdafter adding a few entires, it put a select few together and prompted me to gain deeper insight into the problem that is america's gigantic, selfish footprint. then i saw a news article about a the renewable energy efforts of iceland and added it as a solution
23:52.39lazdso it doesn't produce anything new, it just takes things we know and puts them into perspective, hopefully prompting some useful inference.
23:53.26kollamm
23:57.48lazdit's odd/interesting, when signing up for "computers in our society: the ethical impact of computers in our world", i never thought that we... wouldn't mention computers... the text of the class has nothing to do with computing (daniel quinn's "ishmael" and "the ecology of commerce") and the content of lecture only concerns only the topic of sustainability as a result of a new initiative on the university's part -- http://www.csuchico.
23:57.53lazdso.... i wrote sustain.lazd.net
23:58.18lazdbecause i didn't want to write papers on ray anderson's major influences for his fucking carpet tile company or something
23:58.19lazdlol
23:58.55kolla:)
23:59.31lazdit's nice, the teacher is letting me get away with it too and giving A's for all the assignments based on my progress on the site. i hope it ends up actually doing something useful. i had the whole class create accounts, but no one has been active...
23:59.54lazdthe system is useless without tons of information... i should start promoting it when i finish it
23:59.55kollaI used the term "proofiness" in  discussion earlier today, I was really thinking of truthiness, but then I did a google on proofiness and found this one.. http://www.watleyreview.com/2006/032106-2.html

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