I maed some debian packages for Galatea/GalaTalk. The apt line is the following:

deb http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~knok/debian ./
deb-src http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~knok/debian/source ./

Then I made a Ruby script named "RssCast", to convert RSS feed into mp3 files with text-to-speech engine. The code is in http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~knok/trac/trac.cgi/file/trunk/rsscast/rsscast.rb. It requires festival and lame (ah, it's painful...). And if you want to convert Japanese text, also needs sox, jtext2wav.rb script and galatalk from the arove apt line. Unfortunately, I couldn't make Podcasting feed yet.

Sometimes I use festival as a text-to-speech engine. But it supports only non-Japanese languages. Then I can find a new engine with Japanes support, named GalaTalk. It is a part of production produced by Galatea Project. If I have a spare of time, I'll try to package it.

I have only one connectivity method between Motorola M1000 and Linux, it is Bluetooth. M1000 has "Desktop Suite" application to connect other PC via USB or Bluetooth. I refered an article posted on symbianos.org forum to connect my Linux box with M1000, but it was failed. pppd said:

Nov  8 16:04:59 otaniemi udev[10350]: creating device node '/dev/rfcomm0'
Nov  8 16:05:00 otaniemi dund[10348]: New connection from 00:0A:28:8E:F2:90
Nov  8 16:05:00 otaniemi pppd[10358]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0
Nov  8 16:05:00 otaniemi pppd[10358]: using channel 31
Nov  8 16:05:00 otaniemi pppd[10358]: Using interface ppp1
Nov  8 16:05:00 otaniemi pppd[10358]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/rfcomm0
:
(snip)
:
Nov  8 16:19:32 otaniemi pppd[10786]: local  IP address 192.168.99.1
Nov  8 16:19:32 otaniemi pppd[10786]: remote IP address 192.168.99.2
Nov  8 16:19:32 otaniemi pppd[10786]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid 10797)
Nov  8 16:19:32 otaniemi pppd[10786]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 10797)
Nov  8 16:19:32 otaniemi pppd[10786]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x3]
Nov  8 16:19:32 otaniemi pppd[10786]: LCP terminated by peer

It seems that M1000 terminates the connection when it was established. I don't know why the reason... Appended on 2005-11-25: My M1000 was hanged up because installing GnuBox for A1000 in the M1000. It causes something wrond, so my M1000 had exchanged with a new one by the vendor. Fortunately, M1000 has some serious bugs in the firmware, so the excahging was no charge.

I have only one connectivity method between Motorola M1000 and Linux, it is Bluetooth. M1000 has "Desktop Suite" application to connect other PC via USB or Bluetooth. I refered an article posted on symbianos.org forum to connect my Linux box with M1000, but it was failed. pppd said:

Nov  8 16:04:59 otaniemi udev[10350]: creating device node '/dev/rfcomm0'
Nov  8 16:05:00 otaniemi dund[10348]: New connection from 00:0A:28:8E:F2:90
Nov  8 16:05:00 otaniemi pppd[10358]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0
Nov  8 16:05:00 otaniemi pppd[10358]: using channel 31
Nov  8 16:05:00 otaniemi pppd[10358]: Using interface ppp1
Nov  8 16:05:00 otaniemi pppd[10358]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/rfcomm0
:
(snip)
:
Nov  8 16:19:32 otaniemi pppd[10786]: local  IP address 192.168.99.1
Nov  8 16:19:32 otaniemi pppd[10786]: remote IP address 192.168.99.2
Nov  8 16:19:32 otaniemi pppd[10786]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid 10797)
Nov  8 16:19:32 otaniemi pppd[10786]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 10797)
Nov  8 16:19:32 otaniemi pppd[10786]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x3]
Nov  8 16:19:32 otaniemi pppd[10786]: LCP terminated by peer

It seems that M1000 terminates the connection when it was established. I don't know why the reason...

I treid to use X/Qt 2 on Zaurus. So I need to build many binary packages from CVS HEAD. X/Qt has a good cross build framework, named xpkg. It looks like Portage or ports/pkgsrc but be specific for cross build. By the way, I got too many writeback spam, so I installed anti-spam plugin, but it seems to shut all writbacks out... X-)