Javability (Java, Zaurus, Linux, Live)

26.8.04 15:05 Browse happy (

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You use Microsoft Internet Explorer?
Why use old, fat, featureless and insecure technology?
Switch today and browse happy.
My favoriteb bowsers: Konqueror and Mozilla firefox

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25.8.04 18:42 OpenZaurus 3.5.1-pre1 applications (

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As written few days ago, OpenZaurs 3.5.1-pre1 build with OE runs quite well. Today I have compiled konqueror embededded, so now I finally have a web browser on my Z.

Other applications running nice (beside standard installed applications): kdepim, checkbook, euroconv, eye of zilla, remote desktop (starts but crash while conneecting), opie dictionary, opie reader, opie record (can't write file, maybe because my opt/hoem are on SD card), opie sheet, opie irc, oxygen, qpeGPS (no gps receiver :-(, tinyKate, wellenreiter, asteroids, fifteen pieces, go, kcheckers, mine hunt, OYatzeee, ParaShoot (sigsev), patienece, snake, tictactoe, opie formatter.

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20.8.04 12:25 OpenZaurus 3.5.1-pre1 status (

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OpenEmbedded is a build system allowing cross compiling build system for embedded targets. One of the first goal is to port OpenZaurus on the new build system (see status.

OpenZaurus 3.5.1-pre1 builds fine in OE since several weeks. Big showstoppers have been fixed during last weeks. I 'm running OpenZaurus 3.5.1-pre1 (cvsdate 20040818, gcc 3.4, opie-image, no uclibc) on my Collie (SL5500d) and it runs just fine. The performance is much better than previous versions (gcc 3.4?), all performance tests in system info except CF card test shows better results.

I use opie as I think it is still much more polished than GPE, but I agree that GPE is the better platform if you want easily port applications onto Zaurus. For now I will use opie during next weeks (I used to flash my Zaurus 10 times a weeks, now I need it again for productive work). but I will give GPE a try soon again.

I've moved my home and opt directory to SD card which gives me a 128MB for applications. So far, all applications I've build and installed (patience, important for my girl friend, libpcap, tictac, qpegps) run without problems from SD card.

Thanks to all people (mainly kergoth, mickeyl, zecke, ljp, pb, treke..) who work on this great build environment and opie.

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10:19 Philip Blundell: GPE Palmtop Environment and the OpenEmbedded Project (

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See GPE Palmtop Environment and the OpenEmbedded Project by Philip Blundel.

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18.8.04 12:51 BT500/Linux: frequently accessed page (

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My web server statistic shows that one of the most often accessed page is the Acer BT500 and Linux page on which I describe how you use BT USB sticks (specially Acer BT500) under Linux.

For all of you interested by BT under Linux, I would like to point to the excellent work done by the KDE team in the KDE Bluetooth Framework. It integrates BT quite easily in your KDE desktop, allowing BT browsing for devices, file access in Konqueror (obex), Object push and connection information.

See also KDE Bluetooth screenshots

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12:40 Real's How To (

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Did I ever mention Real's How To. It's an excellent collection of Java code samples (Applet, AWT, Swing, IO, Networking, Servlet/JSP/EJB ...). As I don't code daily, I like to have a repository of code samples I can check quickly in order to see how problems can be solved. It is online since a very long time (and I'm reading it regulary since at least 4 years).

Thanks to you, R�al Gagnon.

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15.8.04 22:28 Javability T-Shirt (

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Playing this evening with spreadshirt, I build my own Javability T-Shirt. You can buy it here.

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13.8.04 13:52 Protrait (

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Pascale did it, Russ did it, so here is my portait:

Do it yourself

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12.8.04 21:15 Convert anything to text/RTF/HTML (

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Today I was looking for a Java RTF to text converter. The RTFEditor in JDK didn't feet our needs as it is only a quick hack on for example does not support different encodings (as all other classes in JDK/swing do).

I remember evaluating 2 years ago the dtSearch Index engine which is a very good, fast and cheap (compare this to other commercial engine as google, which of course are also another dimension) full text indexing engine, and what's particular interesting, it runs on Linux and has a Java API.

Beside the index engine itself it contains also a converter for a large amount of document types to text, rtf and html.
The converter is also accessible through the Java API, allowing to convert with few lines of code any document to text. Both file conversion and memory conversion are supported. All you have to do is add dtsearchengine.jar and two DLL's to your classpath.

Here is a sample code (from mind, don't have my development platform here):


FileConverter fc = new FileConverter();

fc.setInputFile(inFile);

// for memory, use fc.setDocBytes(byte []) instead

fc.setOutputFormat(FileConverter.it_Utf8);

fc.setOutputFile(outFile);

// for memory, use fc.setOutputToString(true) and read fc.getOutputString() after execute

fc.execute();