I’ve been too busy to blog much lately. Lots of my offtime was spent in getting my Zaurus back in working order. I brought it into work earlier this week with the aim of getting things set up to sync with my desktop. Instead, I wound up breaking the networking in it to the point where it wouldn’t connect to the network at all.
I used the opportunity to start over with the Zaurus, installing the newest ROM. Boy am I glad I did! The Z’s interface has been redesigned, with lots of apps easier to use and the filemanager better integrated. Plus, the networking support for my Socket WiFi card is included. Major kewl.
I still can’t sync over the network with the new Qtopia desktop, and the email client lacks SSL support, but other than that I’m pretty happy with my Z. There’s a lot of computing power packed into this little handheld.
I should also mention that completely killed my Win98 installation during my work to upgrate the Z’s ROM. Problem apparently was in the way I installed USB drivers I didn’t need. The error was completely mine and not the fault of Sharp, but it did cause me lots of grief.
I may take the time to upgrade to XP or W2K on my home desktop (in addition to Red Hat Linux, of course).