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	<title>Yonder thoughts &#187; Mobile</title>
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	<description>Just another monday morning</description>
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		<title>Using a Windows Mobile GPS on Linux</title>
		<link>http://blog.mrfjo.org/2009/04/06/using-a-windows-mobile-gps-on-linux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>espen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nerd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cell Phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[htc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kismet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to use a GPS enabled Windows Mobile with a Linux Client.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For some time now i have been searching for a way to use the GPS on my Windows Mobile HTC Touch Diamond on Linux.</p>
<p>I tried several solutions to make it communicate and send raw NMEA output to the Linux gps-daemon.<br />
Even wrote some small programs to read directly from the raw serial port on the HTC, but that was just crashing.<br />
Then i found <a href="http://users.skynet.be/hofinger/GPS2Blue.html">gps2blue</a> which is a small program running under Windows Mobile and reading raw data from the GPS, and sending the data either over TCP/IP or Bluetooth.<br />
Since my main laptop doesn&#8217;t have Bluetooth i use the TCP/IP options. Here, there are several choices how to connect the phone to your computer. Either by using RNDIS and a USB cable, or WIFI network.<br />
You can even create a AD HOC network on Linux and have the phone and computer communicate where there are no other available WIFI network.</p>
<p>But then again i had the problem of getting gpsd to read that data, since gpsd mainlyread its data from a serial device.<br />
I searched a bit around and found a tool called <em>socat</em><br />
<code>Description: multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer<br />
 Socat (for SOcket CAT) establishes two bidirectional byte streams<br />
 and transfers data between them. Data channels may be files, pipes,<br />
 devices (terminal or modem, etc.), or sockets (Unix, IPv4, IPv6, raw,<br />
 UDP, TCP, SSL). It provides forking, logging and tracing, different<br />
 modes for interprocess communication and many more options.<br />
 .<br />
 It can be used, for example, as a TCP relay (one-shot or daemon),<br />
 as an external socksifier, as a shell interface to Unix sockets,<br />
 as an IPv6 relay, as a netcat and rinetd replacement, to redirect<br />
 TCP-oriented programs to a serial line, or to establish a relatively<br />
 secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell<br />
 scripts inside network connections.<br />
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<p>So to use this with gps2blue i ran the following command <code>socat tcp4-listen:31873 pty</code> This will create a new device in /dev/pts/.<br />
Atleast with my udev enabled ubuntu.</p>
<p>Then i could fine run gpsd /dev/pts/3 and use what client i wanted.</p>
<p>The same principle also works on Windows, but there you need to use HW VSP instead of socat.</p>
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		<title>Windows Mobile 6.5</title>
		<link>http://blog.mrfjo.org/2009/04/04/windows-mobile-65/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>espen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nerd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[6.5]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have for a long time now been thinking about upgrading my HTC Touch Diamond to Windows Mobile 6.5, and have been watching several custom cooked rooms over at XDA. I am currently using this This build, but already looking at some newer ones. The upgrade went flawlessly, and rolling back the backup made from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have for a long time now been thinking about upgrading my HTC Touch Diamond to Windows Mobile 6.5, and have been watching several custom cooked rooms over at XDA.<br />
I am currently using this <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=481896">This</a> build, but already looking at some newer ones. </p>
<div id="attachment_18" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 235px"><img src="http://blog.mrfjo.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pccapture4o-225x300.png" alt="Windows Mobile 6.5" title="Windows Mobile 6.5" width="225" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-18" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Windows Mobile 6.5</p></div>
<p>The upgrade went flawlessly, and rolling back the backup made from Sprite Backup also worked flawlessly. Yay!</p>
<p>As you see from the picture above the new main Today plugin is quite more organized than Manilla3D. You get a nice, clear overview over new messages, the time, emails, appointments, the calendar and more.</p>
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