I made a w3m patch for mingw environment to use emacs-w3m on Meadow, an emacs variant for Windows. My patch is really ad-hoc because the purpose is for emacs-w3m only, so it only works with -dump option. It can't use fork() on Windows environment, and some functions like saving buffer, uncompressing network stream, handling local CGI depends on fork(), so such functions were disabled by my patch. Anyway, I submitted the patch to the mail list of w3m.

Last week, Binary 2.0 Conference (Japanese) was held. "Binary 2.0" is a new buzzword inspired from "Web 2.0", so the definition is not clear. But many peapole enjoyed the conference. In that time, there are two new presentation methods. The first one is SPS - SDL Presentation System (Japanese). It seems realy cool. The presentation had some beautiful effects, like wave of water on the mouse cursor. The second one is GDB presentation method (Japanese) . He made a MIPS compatible CPU on a FPGA board, and control it via GDB remote debug protocol. It is also cool. On the other hand, I tried to make my presentation by Macromedia flash. It is my challanging since 2003, however I can't beat the above methods. However my method has an advantage, portability. The SPS make an executable file, it is dangerous to execute, and not portable. My presentation file can play under many flash player, like rich mobile phone's browser.

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-)