Re: ``Freerunner reliable and stable''?!

2008-10-26 Thread Chris Wright
2008/10/26 Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm a bit tired of all those (useless) threads like this. I DO USE the FR with Om2008.9 for everyday use, I do not even own any other cellphone. We should improve what we have and stop useless discussions, as well about Google's trick of Android

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Wright
2008/10/1 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: eg: Press | Guess+dist e e+0 w+1 r+2 d+2 s+1 r r+0 t+1 e+2 f+1 g+2 d+3 k k+0 l+1 o+2 i+3 j+3 d d+0 f+1 s+1 e+1 c+1 r+2 w+2 I assume this takes into account the keyboard layout, so if I use dvorak or some

Re: ASU - out of memory?

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Wright
2008/8/22 Tilman Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Pardon. I don't care for the warm and fuzzy feeling you get by having malloc fail on you. It does not give you a bit more system stability! The one app receiving malloc errors is just not app of many. They all have a problem then. Imagine, the

Re: ASU - out of memory?

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Wright
2008/8/22 Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/8/22 Tilman Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Pardon. I don't care for the warm and fuzzy feeling you get by having malloc fail on you. It does not give you a bit more system stability! The one app receiving malloc errors is just not app of many

Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Wright
2008/8/22 Lothar Behrens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You must have a lock, since otherwise you may accidantly issue an emergency call. Lothar With my current phone, you can make emergency calls on it, even if the phone is locked. It happened to me once. I got a call a few minutes later from the call

Re: atd: how to start a job every 10 minutes ?

2008-08-15 Thread Chris Wright
2008/8/15 Harald Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Aug 15, Roland Mas wrote: You may want ot look at cron instead of at. at is for one-time jobs, cron is for recurring jobs. will cron work while FR being suspended ? haven't checked yet, but so far I've read this only from atd, and atd

Re: FSO: is zhone here to stay?

2008-08-08 Thread Chris Wright
2008/8/7 Stefan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 12:39, Craig B. Allen wrote: If zhone is going to be around for a while, how can I make a request for a new feature? Well, that depends a lot on what kind of feature request this is. As I wrote above, zhone is mostly to test

Re: any update on GSM interference issue

2008-08-04 Thread Chris Wright
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/08/02/kill-gsm-radio-buzz.html Maybe that could provide a less invasive means to getting rid of the problem? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Openmoko on Design

2008-07-29 Thread Chris Wright
2008/7/29 Marek Lindner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, At the same time we heard comments from a key developer who indicated that the decision was made above him by unnamed individuals with whom the community has no obvious means of communication, and who apparently don't even listen to the

Re: Openmoko on Design

2008-07-29 Thread Chris Wright
2008/7/29 Marek Lindner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday, 29. July 2008 20:17:00 Chris Wright wrote: But you do have a design team, according to Rasterman. Of course we have. How do you think we are trying to get to a device that is ready for end user ? And this is just the beginning. We

Re: Alternative stylus - Group Buy

2008-07-21 Thread Chris Wright
2008/7/19 Steven ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone interested in a different group buy? I want one of these: http://www.jetmall.net/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPRODProdID=303 I'm with you, too. ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Rules based policy engine

2008-07-20 Thread Chris Wright
2008/7/20 Ryan Meador [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think it's important that we use an existing general-purpose platform such as Prolog (at least, it's about as general purpose as logic programming gets...). I would favor Rhino.DSL, simply because I know it integrates well with a language with dbus

Re: openmoko availability from the online store, set opening time if not date?

2008-07-02 Thread Chris Wright
2008/7/2 Crane, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe you guys could set a time that the web store will open, on whatever day it does open? E.g. if it's not open by 10am, it's not going to open that day. That could give everybody a fair shot of getting their orders asap. Matt Or at least

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Wright
2008/6/10 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:40:08 +0100 Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On 10 Jun 2008, at 02:17, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: browsing full web pages scrammed into a 2.8 screen as many have suggested, is really...

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Wright
2008/6/13 enaut [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm feeling reminded of those creditcard sized poket calendars we have in germany. on those you have got the calendar information of a whole year + the Information of hollidays and other special days. land everything is readable and pretty clear to read. so

Re: Why not use votation system?

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Wright
2008/6/12 Brad Midgley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michele Do you want feature X or feature Y? you might need a table representing the cost and business feasibility of each feature. We've seen a lot more transparency on the 3g decision recently which reveals it to be more complicated than people

Re: GTA03 case should incorporate stylus holder

2008-06-09 Thread Chris Wright
2008/6/6 steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Stroller you crack me up. (vi rules.) We need a religious war between the Digitii, the Stylii, and Quertii. Or three products? Rant away. Your views are always welcome. What of the Dvoraksai? I do think that thumb keyboards are best -- tactile feedback.

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-09 Thread Chris Wright
2008/6/9 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/6/9 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: an 80x24 terminal is possible to make it readable @ qvga - if we allow scrolling. (and possible in landscape with an ultra-tiny 4-pixel wide font - possible (3 pixels for text, 1 for space). not

OT: ajax image galleries

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Wright
2008/6/3 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are some pics and videos by Einstein from freeyourphone.de: - http://tinyurl.com/66ktzl (URL maps to http://freeyourphone.de/portal_v1/gallery/menu.php?gallery=membersalbum_id=8 ) Those AJAX image widgets seem to be designed

Re: Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

2008-06-03 Thread Chris Wright
The cost is probably on the order of paraplegia. And I wonder about the power requirements -- there haven't been significant advances in battery technology lately. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Open Hardware

2008-06-01 Thread Chris Wright
Openmoko phones are as cheap as they are because they use commodity hardware, I'm given to understand. If you wanted a phone with open hardware, you'd probably be paying thousands for all the custom components. Plus there's testing and certification for various parts, which probably is also

Re: Library can handle MP3 id3tag encoding

2008-05-27 Thread Chris Wright
2008/5/27 Bin Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: HI, Is there a good library can handle MP3 id3tag encoding easily? AFAIK, the encoding that in the id3tag can't be decided, it maybe ASCII, UTF-8 and others which sometimes cause the software to decode some error character. The libid3tag can do raw

Re: Switch from GTK to QT (was: ASU software - pre-pre-release impressions)

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Wright
2008/5/21 Nkoli [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Carlo E. Prelz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My complaint is that it would be difficult for me to put my hands into the default apps. They are C++, QT, and expectedly using enough of those creepy C++-isms (possibly, even those

Re: ASU software - pre-pre-release impressions

2008-05-20 Thread Chris Wright
2008/5/20 Ben Burdette [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Travis Tabbal wrote: C++ is difficult to link against, so that limits the languages that you can use for development. For instance, D has a hard time with linking to C++ (or did last I checked). C, on the other hand is far simpler to link to.

Re: Will GTK be used in Openmoko? (was: Re: Software Status Update)

2008-05-15 Thread Chris Wright
2008/5/15 Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 5/15/08, Geoff Ruscoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think gtk should definitely be part of the platform. As far as I know the Java Swing hooks are for gtk. Since its shipping with Java it should be able to use the gtk, right? Plus as

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Wright
2008/5/14 Mo Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Except for if music files, images etc. on the phone are owned by root, in which case we wouldn't be able to access them via ssh. On the contrary! 1. Disable root login via ssh. 2. Log in as a luser. 3. Su to root. -- http://dsource.org/projects/dmocks