Re: OpenMoko Cambridge pub meet

2009-09-01 Thread Damian Spriggs
Could always organize one of our own. Miracle of Science [1] on Mass Ave would be a nerdy appropriate venue [1] http://www.miracleofscience.us/ On Sep 1, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Ken Young wrote: I'm afraid he means *real* Cambridge - as in England. But if he means Cambridge Mass, I'll be a happy

Re: Micro SD question

2009-08-07 Thread Damian Spriggs
I've had no problems with my Trancend 8Gb on SHR, Hackable, or Android. On Aug 7, 2009, at 11:54 PM, Cristian Gómez wrote: Hi all, I'm waiting for my FR (can't wait). I'm following the list and see some messages complaining about problems with some micro SD cards (like Kingston) I want

Re: [android] panicking images and suspend/resume ?

2009-08-05 Thread Damian Spriggs
Fix for incoming call to voicemail bug: http://www.mail-archive.com/android-freerun...@android.koolu.org/msg01047.html On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Chris Samuel wrote: On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:54:13 pm Michael Sheldon wrote: I don't know about the panicking image, but the koolu cupcake alpha 1

Re: Questions about installing Android to an external SD card

2009-07-20 Thread Damian Spriggs
I've been using it for a few days now, and at first, it was quite slow. Then I hacked around, uninstalled a few things, and found a little app that activates a user defined swap. So far it's worked like a charm. I can make calls, but haven't tested receiving them (all my friends are

[android] Re: Questions about installing Android to an external SD card

2009-07-20 Thread Damian Spriggs
On Jul 20, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Marcelo wrote: Then I hacked around, uninstalled a few things, and found a little app that activates a user defined swap. Can you provide more details? Installed this: http://code.google.com/p/a-swapper/ and threw 128M at it. I doubt the stuff I uninstalled had

Re: I need a cookbook. Pleeeease...

2009-07-18 Thread Damian Spriggs
On Jul 18, 2009, at 9:12 AM, li...@kitepilot.com wrote: Done with the apology, I hope someone here can provide me a simple cookbook to change this QT thing to the latest Openmoko. Not a full cookbook, but the 2 quickest/easiest recipes. (No disrespect to the OM and SHR teams, but they

Re: Anti-Whining: Happy Moko Moments

2009-07-16 Thread Damian Spriggs
A few weeks ago there was an alien armada threatening to annihilate all life on the planet. So I grabbed my trusty Freerunner, and Will Smith flew me up to their mothership in orbit where I hacked out a little python script to disable their defense shields. I uploaded the script to their

Re: Hello world. Is the Neo Freerunner dead?

2009-07-07 Thread Damian Spriggs
Will it talk to the ATT's US network? It does. What do I tell them? No need to tell them anything. I haven't, and have not had a problem in the 8 months I've had my Freerunner. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Hello world. Is the Neo Freerunner dead?

2009-07-07 Thread Damian Spriggs
Slight correction on my part: If you already have ATT service, there is no need to tell them anything. Just swap the SIM card out of your old phone and into the Freerunner. On Jul 7, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Damian Spriggs wrote: Will it talk to the ATT's US network? It does. What do I tell

Re: How to stop mailing list spam.

2009-07-02 Thread Damian Spriggs
Go to the list options page and select the digest option. That will only send one a day. Then in your mailer, create a filtering rule for the digest. And it's not spam if you sign up for it. ;) On Jul 2, 2009, at 7:08 PM, abatrour wrote: How do I stop all the emails being sent to my

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-22 Thread Damian Spriggs
Sure, it's a developer phone, and is marketed as such, but what they don't tell you is what kind of developer. When I got mine 6 months ago, I took that to mean applications, not everything about this needs massive help. I think one of the pitfalls for OM was trying to put everything out at

Re: Project B guessing game

2009-06-10 Thread Damian Spriggs
I'm going to guess that it's an end user programable version of one of these: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/b278/ Because we all know how good they are at making electronics that produce an annoying noise :) On Jun 10, 2009, at 5:39 AM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote: It

Re: How to get started with Openmoko phone?

2009-06-07 Thread Damian Spriggs
Yep, you'll have no problem keeping your phone number. When you sign up with a new provider, they'll transfer it for you. -- Damian On Jun 7, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Mike wrote: Thank you, Robin and Damian! I know how it works now. Another question: Shall I be able to keep my cell phone

Re: Visit at Openmoko

2009-05-26 Thread Damian Spriggs
Wow. So we have rumors of mass layoffs, a semi-official Wait for the official announcement announcement, and mass panic. This can only mean one thing: OM has been bought out by Microsoft for 2 copies of MS Bob and a case of Pocky. You heard it here first! *grin* On May 26, 2009, at 1:00 PM,

Re: Openmoko on FLOSS weekly

2009-05-19 Thread Damian Spriggs
I just started listening to it. The sound quality is fine, even with Skype, but uhm, the answers are uhm, a little uhm, hard to uhm, follow. Uhm. ;) On May 18, 2009, at 10:40 PM, Christopher Hall wrote: How did it sound, we had some problems with the Skype connection from Taiwan.

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration

2009-04-28 Thread Damian Spriggs
connection with TwitterMoko (because it crashes if there is no web access) [1] http://projects.openmoko.org/frs/?group_id=165release_id=193 I have had problems with it not working after a resume, but I haven't tried it out yet. Hope this helps --- Damian Spriggs On Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at 01

Re: [android] koolu beta 6?

2009-04-19 Thread Damian Spriggs
I tried it a few days ago: Pros: - I liked the installation. They package everything in a single tarball that you expand on your SD card. Boot from the card, and it installs QI, kernel, and root fs. No mucking about trying to figure out which kernel works with what release - After the first

Re: Request for Feedback - SATAN

2009-03-20 Thread Damian Spriggs
I've installed it just fine a few times, but could never get it to run (SHR Testing and Unstable) On Mar 20, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Anton Persson wrote: Hi folkz! I just wanted to request user feedback for my app SATAN, if there are _any_ users out there.. I know some people have at least

Re: Context based usage of the 'AUX' button

2009-03-02 Thread Damian Spriggs
I've had this happen when ScummVM freezes or exits unintentionally. I've found that starting and quitting ScumVM without playing anything brings the AUX lock back. you could also remap the key with xmodmap. On Mar 2, 2009, at 1:17 PM, The Digital Pioneer wrote: Ack, nope, AUX has no

Re: Context based usage of the 'AUX' button

2009-03-02 Thread Damian Spriggs
try this: enlightenment_remote -binding-key-add ANY Keycode-177 NONE 1 simple_lock On Mar 2, 2009, at 1:36 PM, The Digital Pioneer wrote: My broken AUX has nothing to do with ScummVM. AUX hasn't done anything since I flashed SHR-unstable. ___

Re: Neverball, anyone?

2009-02-13 Thread Damian Spriggs
After a quick glance of the system reqs. I want to know what kind of phone your friend has that'll run that application! On Feb 13, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Steffen Winkler wrote: Hi, since I've seen that game on a mobile telephone of a friend I want it for the FR, too. My programming skills

Re: New Release of GuitarTune v0.20 (based on Alsa)

2009-02-08 Thread Damian Spriggs
Bass Guitar, low E is at about 40.5 HZ (though the harmonic makes it low E on a guitar). Low B (5 string Bass) is ~31HZ I'd suggest, instead of a fret-board, a gauge (like a speedometer) to show how close to in tune you are. Sort of like standard analog tuners. It's been a while since I've

Re: [SHR] SMS

2009-01-27 Thread Damian Spriggs
To change the date/time: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/time.html Even after setting the time, the messages all have the wrong timestamp (mine say January 1970) The [X] button works for me, though (shr unstable, latest updates) On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Matthew Lane wrote: I have a

Re: spam

2009-01-25 Thread Damian Spriggs
I really don't care what type of sun tanning lotion they are using. But there's not much you can do about forged headers and open relays. (d) --- Damian A. Spriggs Writer: Weekly World Shrew http://www.weeklyworldshrew.com On Jan 25, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Paul Wouters wrote: And perhaps for

Re: How do you like to read a phone number?

2008-12-29 Thread Damian Spriggs
That's because nobody outside the US wants to talk to us these days, anyway. ;) (d) --- Damian A. Spriggs Writer: Weekly World Shrew http://www.weeklyworldshrew.com On Dec 29, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Pat Barrett wrote: That's close, the traditional way of writing it is (651) 867-5309 or else

Re: [FSO/SHR/debian] SMS location app

2008-12-24 Thread Damian Spriggs
On Dec 25, 2008, at 12:33 AM, Angus Ainslie wrote: I've started an app to help find lost or borrowed Freerunners. It watches for specially formatted SMSs and when it sees the right one it SMSs back its location. Now this is just brilliant! Good work, and thank you. (d) --- Damian A.

MAME?

2008-12-21 Thread Damian Spriggs
Has anyone ported/started working on a port of MAME for the freerunner? A quick search didn't turn up anything. I know there's a port for the iPaq, so I don't think a freerunner version should be too tough. I just don't want to duplicate anyones efforts. Thanks (d) --- Damian A. Spriggs