Re: best way for a Canadian to buy a FreeRunner?

2009-07-15 Thread David Murrell
My phone is currently getting its buzzfix applied by sdgsystems, and in my dealings with them they seem like a decent bunch of competent people - if I had the need to, I'd deal with them again. They answer the phones and emails that I send them promptly and correctly, and getting the phone fixed

Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?

2009-06-17 Thread David Murrell
Hi Brolin, Fundamentally, at this point, my Openmoko Freerunner fails the Not Interested in Technology - Significant Other Acceptance Procedure, otherwise known NIT-SOAP. If you want a phone that is going to Just Work, get a Nokia. If you want a Linux smart phone to hack about on, an

Re: How to get buzz fix in Australia

2009-06-15 Thread David Murrell
://sdgsystems.com/estore/cart.php?target=categorycategory_id=17 Long answer: I emailed Brian at SDG Systems, and got this response: On Jun 9, 2009, at 12:37 AM, David Murrell wrote: Hi, I have a A6 Freerunner in need of a buzz fix, do you provide said fixes for people outside of the United States

Re: Buzz fix attempt, tomorrow

2009-01-28 Thread David Murrell
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 13:04 -0600, Steven ** wrote: I too applied the fix. Or, I should say, got a co-worker to apply the fix. He worked with surface mount components for a few years and our lab has all the necessary equipment to do surface mount soldering. As well as a stock room with a

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

2008-06-08 Thread David Murrell
I'll go for resolution over pretty graphics any day of the week. A day to day example of this is that I don't run compiz on my desktop machines because it runs faster that way. I'm a function over form kinda guy. (For the record, the distro is Ubuntu, not slackware, or gentoo, or anything that

Re: duplicate mail

2008-06-04 Thread David Murrell
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 02:37 +0200, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: Am Mi 4. Juni 2008 schrieb Philippe Guillebert: Hi list, Am I the only one to get some of the e-mails on this list twice ou more ? looks like the issue is back ... didn't motice it lately. But it's individual issue, seems we

Re: early experince Freerunners w/ ASU load, vs. thousnads of Freeruners

2008-05-25 Thread David Murrell
Since I'm a software guy, my list of nice to have's are: *Some sort of example workingish software stack to hack on *A documented way of unbricking it if/when I stuff up *Hardware that works I'm not seeing any problems at this stage... Here's how I see this working: Openmoko ships the phones

Software

2008-05-05 Thread David Murrell
time) Alternatively, a prompt saying Its $persons birthday. With a button saying Send a message :) Ok, I'm a guy, and I forget birthdays, and don't really understand the thing about getting a text message saying happy birthday, but evidently others do... TTFN, David Murrell

RE: OpenMoko Remote Controller (SoC)

2008-04-28 Thread David Murrell
Controller (SoC) David Murrell wrote: Wait a minute... /me backs up the metaphorical truck... Just _how_ accurate are these accelerometers? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Technical:Accelerometer_Fundamentals gives some ideas. The basis of this is the accelerometer used in the wii - as that is about

RE: OpenMoko Remote Controller (SoC)

2008-04-27 Thread David Murrell
Wait a minute... /me backs up the metaphorical truck... Just _how_ accurate are these accelerometers? Are we talking the sorta half second delay with exagerated drunk movements required to operate the nintendo wii, or precise movements that can catch my cat doing the sideways wiggle in realtime

RE: Ugliness (was Re: 10 PACK UPDATE!!!)

2008-04-26 Thread David Murrell
it out at a club as some sort of post adolescent pre mating ritual display of shiny objects to attract the opposite sex. If I wanted to do that, I'd get an iPhone. Also, I'd go to clubs. -- Cheers, David Murrell ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

RE: NZ Group order

2008-04-25 Thread David Murrell
, David Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got approval from my er, financial controller :) Wife? Partner, rather than wife, but this fits into the capital expenditure range, so she gets a say on it. Yeah, me too... although I am on another group buy list ;-) Christ van Willegen do

NZ Group order

2008-04-24 Thread David Murrell
I've got approval from my er, financial controller :) , so I've stuck my name down on the Auckland list. Cheers, David Murrell ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community