Re: What should a community manager do?

2008-10-11 Thread Norbert Hartl
Excellent posting!! This is a very good job description for someone like a community manager. Norbert ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Temporary testing and development feeds for ASU

2008-08-14 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 14:26 +0200, Holger Freyther wrote: On Thursday 14 August 2008 05:25:54 Robert William Hutton wrote: Holger Freyther wrote: testing feeds: http://people.openmoko.org/~zecke/om2008.8-testing/all http://people.openmoko.org/~zecke/om2008.8-testing/armv4t

Re: Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-14 Thread Norbert Hartl
Excellent!! Two things in one go :) I have trained a bit. But I have problems to train z and some of the others. shake-shake is very prominent in detection :) I noticed also that gesd is running on 17% cpu permanently. Could this be a reason for the problems in detecting or the delay until the

Re: What could be done to improve the OM development process?

2008-08-13 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 11:02 +0200, Holger Freyther wrote: On Wednesday 13 August 2008 00:05:14 Jeffery Davis wrote: 2. Better communication between the development community and the end user community. I have yet to see anyone say they're pleased as punch with the keyboard. When almost

Re: What could be done to improve the OM development process?

2008-08-13 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 00:05:14 Jeffery Davis wrote: 2. Better communication between the development community and the end user community. I have yet to see anyone say they're pleased as punch with the keyboard. When almost everyone is unhappy, closing bugs as 'working as

Re: Ahah: and you released anyway ? - Re: [ Software Testing Report : 2008.08.07 ]

2008-08-13 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 12:25 +0200, Sébastien Lorquet wrote: It's easy to blame an announcement. +10 Openmoko NEVER said any software realeased as now was 100% ready for daily customer use. I don't think that counts. This no excuse because people automatically expect things. So you don't

Re: [ Software Testing Report : 2008.08.07 ]

2008-08-13 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 20:20 +1000, Dale Maggee wrote: Wendy, I'd really like to be notified when these bugs are fixed, specifically: - Some of the testing phone can not make phone calls but can receive/send SMS??? (With alert messageno network) - Two of our phone can not wake up from

Re: OpenEinstein Newton emulator - Working?

2008-08-13 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 12:52 +0200, Tilman Baumann wrote: Who wrote: Is there any interest? The large screen seems perfectly suited to a Newton Emulator and the Newton UI really is awesome to behold - just so intuitive! I always wonder why no one ever tried to build a modern newton like

Re: What could be done to improve the OM development process?

2008-08-13 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 14:09 +0200, Olivier Berger wrote: Holger Freyther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 13 August 2008 00:05:14 Jeffery Davis wrote: 2. Better communication between the development community and the end user community. I have yet to see anyone say they're

Re: GPRS working (somewhat) with T-Mobile and Freerunner

2008-08-11 Thread Norbert Hartl
I gave it a try, too! I have a t-mobile flat rate which I use from my laptop. I just copied the file to the freerunner altered /etc/group as you supposed. My files look like this: /etc/ppp/peers/t-mobile --- user tm connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/connect-t-mobile

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2008.8

2008-08-11 Thread Norbert Hartl
Hi, I read the post about the new review for the freeunner on golem. While reading I wondered what screenshots they used in a text announcing the new firmware. A few moments later I followed the link to the wiki page for Om2008.8. I think the screenshots on the page should show what you get

No pin dialog/ qpe

2008-08-11 Thread Norbert Hartl
What is qpe exactly doing? I noticed a lot of problems other people reporting like the no pin dialog. Looking at the device qpe uses 100% CPU for a long time. I don't understand it but the CPU usage of qpe is capable to slow down other things extremely. The SIM Pin dialog is working with the new

Re: No pin dialog/ qpe

2008-08-11 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 21:01 +1000, Lorn Potter wrote: Norbert Hartl wrote: What is qpe exactly doing? I noticed a lot of problems other people reporting like the no pin dialog. Looking at the device qpe uses 100% CPU for a long time. I don't understand it but the CPU usage of qpe

Re: No pin dialog/ qpe

2008-08-11 Thread Norbert Hartl
Thanks! But your proposal is a bit harsh for me :) You just need to put 0 to the config items in section SD Card. That solves it as well. Norbert On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 13:35 +0200, Rorschach wrote: Thanks Norbert very much for finally finding the real problem with the pin dialog not

Re: No pin dialog/ qpe

2008-08-11 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 13:41 +0200, arne anka wrote: If Qtopia is not allowed to search the SD card, it will not be able to see/use files on it, so then why have it at all? wouldn't it be sensible to have some flag or checksum indicating that the card and it's content are unchanged, thus

Feed updates

2008-08-11 Thread Norbert Hartl
Since the release of Om2008.8 there were IMHO no further updates over the feeds. Is this caused by the hard-earned rest of the exhausted developers or has development switched to a dev branch/feed? Norbert ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: No pin dialog/ qpe

2008-08-11 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:01 +0200, arne anka wrote: wouldn't it be sensible to have some flag or checksum indicating that the card and it's content are unchanged inotify does inotify tell you if the card was manipulated outside the fr? No, inotify is an observer at runtime.

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-11 Thread Norbert Hartl
Wow, that is great!!! How fine grained is the resolution of the movements? I mean how detailed you could draw a shape on the screen from the figure you painted in the air? Or even better. Do you think it would be possible to do something like palms grafiti without knocking your neighbor out? :)

Re: No pin dialog/ qpe

2008-08-11 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 03:26 +1000, Lorn Potter wrote: Norbert Hartl wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 21:01 +1000, Lorn Potter wrote: Norbert Hartl wrote: What is qpe exactly doing? I noticed a lot of problems other people reporting like the no pin dialog. Looking at the device qpe uses 100

Re: Feed updates

2008-08-11 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 02:36 +0200, Holger Freyther wrote: On Monday 11 August 2008 14:15:20 Norbert Hartl wrote: Since the release of Om2008.8 there were IMHO no further updates over the feeds. Is this caused by the hard-earned rest of the exhausted developers or has development switched

Re: 2008.8 Goes to sleep too fast!

2008-08-10 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 09:32 +0200, Anton Persson wrote: Hi, I have a problem, my FreeRunner goes to sleep to fast when I'm running the 2008.8 release. If I connect it to the USB socket of my computer I can hardly manage to login via SSH before it goes into hibernation, quite unuseful.

Re: FR at golem.de

2008-08-06 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 14:35 +0200, Tobias Kündig wrote: This is the worst review I ever read from Golem. So many mistakes. They bought their Freerunner and wrote the review. I bet they haven't tested it for more than 1 day. Fow how long do you think you should check a device before writing

Re: Navit?

2008-08-06 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 19:05 +1000, Dale Maggee wrote: Michael Sheldon wrote: Dale Maggee wrote: do you have an ipkg? did you get gpsd support to compile? I've tried compiling the svn version, but I get the following during 'make':

Re: FR at golem.de

2008-08-06 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:19 +0200, Michele Renda wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norbert Hartl wrote: On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 14:35 +0200, Tobias Kündig wrote: This is the worst review I ever read from Golem. So many mistakes. They bought their Freerunner and wrote

Re: FR at golem.de

2008-08-06 Thread Norbert Hartl
Michele Renda wrote: Norbert Hartl wrote: On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 14:35 +0200, Tobias Kündig wrote: This is the worst review I ever read from Golem. So many mistakes. They bought their Freerunner and wrote the review. I bet they haven't tested it for more than 1 day. Fow how long

Re: ASU - desktop theme instead of ASU theme in X?

2008-08-03 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 14:05 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: More info: todays upgrade ('opkg update', then 'opkg upgrade') didn't solve the problem with the desktop theme or screen or whatever. If anybody knows how to get back the standard ASU look and feel on the screen, I will be very