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  1. J

    And no, I am not attaching a Gechic to my Pandora unfortunately; that's why I am eagerly waiting...

    And no, I am not attaching a Gechic to my Pandora unfortunately; that's why I am eagerly waiting for the Pyra; I bought one of those + that MS foldable mobile keyboard for my laptop and Android devices and they work so well that now I cannot wait for the Pyra. It seems to really move to the only...
  2. J

    I was 'lucky' enough to get 40 Zipit's from an abandoned lot. Which is why I still play with...

    I was 'lucky' enough to get 40 Zipit's from an abandoned lot. Which is why I still play with them; doesn't matter if I brick anything :) It is a lot of fun, but the proprietary loader and the pain-in-the-ass software issues are holding me back a bit :)
  3. J

    News from the meeting at GC

    Yes, punch cards definitely or at times when you had to program through rewiring (I have a computer from 1962 in my office which you program by rewiring; still works fine) but modern programming, while more efficient, has the same kind issues, but less disastrous (often anyway). People do have...
  4. J

    News from the meeting at GC

    I think this needs to be said more often. People grossly underestimate the creation of hardware. My company creates very tiny hardware and every time you think everything is working well, problems turn up which you could not have foreseen. This seems strange for software people as 'it has been...
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    News from the meeting at GC

    I use my Zaurus still too and my Zippit Z2 ; they all work fine for emulation and development of some things, but the Linux is too old and on those it is very very hard to update; I have a cross compiler chain but it is really hit and miss if an image works or not and if software from that image...
  6. J

    PICO-8

    Will the original PICO-8 work on the Pyra? I have the PocketCHIP and I must say it's addictive working on it for little games. It's very complete and works smoothly.
  7. J

    Debian installation

    I will try wicd... Once I have networking I can get somewhere but I tried wpa_supplicant etc and it all just doesn't work :) Current setup is just a chroot to Debian which seems to work quite well. The only downside is that I cannot figure out how to safely kill the default window manager...
  8. J

    WM & networking question

    Under supersaxxon/angstrom; how can I change the window manager to another one (can I?) and how do I start / connect the wifi from the console? Does anyone know? Thanks
  9. J

    Debian installation

    As Pandora is basically the same hardware for all, i'm not sure if i'm crazy or if I cannot really read. I followed all the Debian-on-SD (and Pandian as well) on Pandora and have a few points; - it boots from SD - I have Debian commandline but - all X configs give me a black screen and no...
  10. J

    PanDebian Issues

    I managed to get Pandian running for anything I need it for like this: I boot in Angstrom, xhost +, mount --bind /dev and mount --bind /proc to the Pandian image on my SD in slot 2, chroot into Pandian, apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; apt-get dist-upgrade, export DISPLAY=:0.0...
  11. J

    Battery charger

    Hotswapping sounds good; I must have missed that feature :( But yeah that would fix it for me... I still might make something to change my openpandora battery :)
  12. J

    Battery charger

    That is assuming it will last a day. My days are 14-16 hours when i'm travelling. And the issue is not that you cannot do with one battery; the issue is that when I have back-to-back meetings I do not have time to leave the device in the hotel room. And yes it might be rare. I'm not sure. We are...
  13. J

    PanDebian Issues

    After apt-get update; apt-get upgrade my wifi stops working with 'Could not get firmware' ; the .bin is in /lib/firmware but it still gives that error. Any ideas? The only docs I can find are referring to /lib/udev/firmware.agent which does not exist and is not in udev.deb (where it should be...
  14. J

    Battery charger

    Well it would be better not to have to pull off the plastic lid to charge a battery.... And buying a whole device just to do that... I'm going out on a lim here but how hard could it be to just deliver the battery charging circuit? It would save a lot of money for sure. 
  15. J

    Battery charger

    Not sure if this has been mentioned before but what I really miss for the Pandora is an external battery charger; found this thread;  but would love to hear something official for the Pyra as it's annoying how to not being able to charge an empty battery while going out with the Pandora... 
  16. J

    Feature voting page

    Thanks! I found this page http://www.pyra-handheld.com/specs.html and it says micro USB Debug & Charging, but the Pandora said that too and it can only be used to charge other things with? So this means I can charge the Pyra with micro USB? That would be excellent as that would mean infinite...
  17. J

    Feature voting page

    Is there any feature voting page? I find it very hard to find if features were mentioned in the forum and i'm sure most of the stuff which is going into the Pyra has already been decided and is set in stone by now, but still, it might be handy?  Anyway; not sure if it was named or not before, I...
  18. J

    Release Mono RunTime

    Thanks for the great work ! Hopefully it allows me to use my Pandora a lot more as our dev environment is written in Gtk#. It works on Chromebook/Crouton (I use it there the most now), but it would be great if it worked on the Pandora as that would make me more mobile. I'll let you know how it...
  19. J

    Help! java and Blackboard collaborate software on Pandora...

    Note that installing the Oracle JRE/JDK for ARM is usually a better idea for commercial software. It's much (much!) faster, has a smaller  memory footprint and is generally better in supporting everything you want to run.  I use it all the time on my Pandora and it's great!
  20. J

    Second SD slot malfunctioning?

    In the first SD slot I have my 32 gb card which contains all software I installed; it has been working perfectly since the beginning; no errors and it's fast enough for me. In slot 2 I have some games and emulator images etc on another 16 gb card which has some IO errors which make some games...
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