2009/7/26 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 03:13:20PM -0400, Warren Baird wrote:
There seems to be a repeated theme of people posting how crappy the
Freerunner is and how nothing works for them. Usually a number of people
then jump on the thread and talk about
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 03:13:20PM -0400, Warren Baird wrote:
There seems to be a repeated theme of people posting how crappy the
Freerunner is and how nothing works for them. Usually a number of people
then jump on the thread and talk about how the FR works well for them.
I like to try
I've got a simple success to share.
My nine year old niece and her family expressed an interest in
geocaching. I said, Oh, my phone does GPS! which led to this
series of Happy Moko Moments:
* Used Midori over GPRS to create an account on geocaching.com and to
look up the latitude and longitude
Am 17.07.2009 um 09:08 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:
I can add three special use cases from customers and friends:
a) one Freerunner is used as the on-board computer of a student-
built racing car (Formula Student)
b) two Freerunners have been used in the German Historic Museum in
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 08:52:01 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
Here is a link to the rocket project:
http://www.ssc.se/?id=14315 (english)
http://www.dlr.de/irs/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5038/8410_read-14463/
(german)
and a link to the (german) forum where you can see the photos of the
2009/7/22 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org:
Am 17.07.2009 um 09:08 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:
I can add three special use cases from customers and friends:
a) one Freerunner is used as the on-board computer of a student-
built racing car (Formula Student)
b) two
Am 22.07.2009 um 09:46 schrieb David Reyes Samblas Martinez:
2009/7/22 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org:
Am 17.07.2009 um 09:08 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:
I can add three special use cases from customers and friends:
a) one Freerunner is used as the on-board computer of a
2009/7/22 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org:
Am 22.07.2009 um 09:46 schrieb David Reyes Samblas Martinez:
2009/7/22 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org:
Am 17.07.2009 um 09:08 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:
I can add three special use cases from customers and friends:
I think the best is to link to the original server (it has enough
bandwidth).
Is that the original server?
http://www.goldelico.com/images/dlr/
Yes.
I search in the links of the rockect project on DLR and I don't find
them, only the launching one
They are not directly hosted at DLR.
A
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 09:03:03 David Garabana Barro wrote:
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 08:52:01 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
Here is a link to the rocket project:
http://www.ssc.se/?id=14315 (english)
http://www.dlr.de/irs/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5038/8410_read-14463/
(german)
2009/7/22 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de:
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 09:03:03 David Garabana Barro wrote:
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 08:52:01 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
Here is a link to the rocket project:
http://www.ssc.se/?id=14315 (english)
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 03:13:20PM -0400, Warren Baird wrote:
Here are a few of my own:
- the GPS with tangogps has been really useful to me a number of times,
especially on business trips
It's good for showing off the high resolution of the screen. Having
480x640 instead of 320x240
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 02:05:00PM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen ccc94...@vip.cybercity.dk writes:
FWIW, you can s/-t raw -c 2 -f S16_BE -r 44100/-f cdr/.
Sure but I have another version for 22050 Hz podcasts so I preferred
to be explicit.
'-f cdr -r 22050'
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen ccc94...@vip.cybercity.dk writes:
FWIW, you can s/-t raw -c 2 -f S16_BE -r 44100/-f cdr/.
Sure but I have another version for 22050 Hz podcasts so I preferred
to be explicit.
And indeed it decodes in realtime at just 100 MHz.
You are using the cpufreq patches? Any
On Friday 17 July 2009, David Fokkema wrote:
Using the FR as an
alternative to this (Nagios SMS notification)
http://www.nagios.org/products/notification/foxbox/
Not that using the freerunner would not be a good application, but if
you are interested in even cheaper ways to do that: we
I have complained quite a bit about the FR and UI/UE in the current
distros, but I find myself missing my device and eagerly awaiting it's
return from SDG w/ the buzz-fix added.
Steve
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On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:21:24PM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
ivorbisfile_example foo.ogg | aplay -t raw -c 2 -f S16_BE -r 44100 -B
800 -
FWIW, you can s/-t raw -c 2 -f S16_BE -r 44100/-f cdr/.
CPU usage should be strictly less than 25%.
Coolness. I looked around and
Warren Baird wjba...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca writes:
What are your successes with the Freerunner?
I love how easy it is to do quick application development.
For example, last week I was in Norway and suddenly figured out that
all the hiking maps have UTM coordinates which I know nothing
about. The
The Digital Pioneer digitalpion...@gmail.com writes:
That said, if anyone knows a way to make it not cut and skip when playing
OGG with mplayer niced at -19, I'd love to hear it. It's not too bad right
Use tremor.
gcc -o ~/bin/ivorbisfile_example -lvorbisidec
On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 12:21 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
The Digital Pioneer digitalpion...@gmail.com writes:
That said, if anyone knows a way to make it not cut and skip when playing
OGG with mplayer niced at -19, I'd love to hear it. It's not too bad right
Use tremor.
gcc -o
Hi
But I could sit in the train in peace.
And while on that train, did you see the light at the end of the tunnel?
no, sorry, i was staring at a black terminal
:-)
*-pike
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My 2 Cents:
My goal is to have the FR with me on a one week outdoor holiday without
power plants, without battery shops etc.
(Mainly is GPS tracking, and some GPRS/UMTS connects).
So I was trying different ways to keep the phone charged 24/24 + 7/7 by
alternative resources: solar power,
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Alexander
Lehnerleh...@edv-buero-lehner.de wrote:
See some funny pictures on my site:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:Blutsauger
ok, i think you get the biggest geek award thus far. that setup is
most impressive
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Warren Baird
wjba...@alumni.uwaterloo.cawrote:
There seems to be a repeated theme of people posting how crappy the
Freerunner is and how nothing works for them. Usually a number of people
then jump on the thread and talk about how the FR works well for them.
With my Freerunner, I am able to control a telescope
5000 miles away, and analyse the data, while I sit in a
pizza parlor. It's the high resolution display and the
X11 server that lets me do this.
Ken, this is ... this is only a word comes to my mind, beautiful.
there will be awesome to
I can add three special use cases from customers and friends:
a) one Freerunner is used as the on-board computer of a student-built
racing car (Formula Student)
b) two Freerunners have been used in the German Historic Museum in
Berlin for a SMS noteboard to attract and entertain visitors
rakshat hooja schrieb:
You also asked for happy moments so when I palyed Duke Nukeem 3D with
accelerometers on the Freerunner almost 8 months ago I was one happy
person. It was my favourite game on my 486 when I was in school!
I loved to be able to play Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle
El Thursday, 16 de July de 2009 21:13:20 Warren Baird va escriure:
What are your successes with the Freerunner?
I have converted the neo with om2009 on an usable development system using
distcc and make from Angstrom repositories and the toolchain on the host.
I tested it building rakudo from
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller пишет:
I can add three special use cases from customers and friends:
a) one Freerunner is used as the on-board computer of a student-built
racing car (Formula Student)
b) two Freerunners have been used in the German Historic Museum in
Berlin for a SMS noteboard
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Warren
Bairdwjba...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
What are your successes with the Freerunner?
Well I'm just falling in love with my freerunner. Me and some of my
friends made a small robot and controlled that wireless-ly using the
Freerunner. I used accelerometer
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 08:31 +0200, David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote:
With my Freerunner, I am able to control a telescope
5000 miles away, and analyse the data, while I sit in a
pizza parlor. It's the high resolution display and the
X11 server that lets me do this.
Ken, this is ...
i know this isn't really impressive, but i use mine as a phone. every
day. it's been my main phone since i got it last august, and while it's
not been trouble-free, fully-updated OM2009t5 is perfectly usable for me.
however, my great moments have all come from having this device that can
do
Hi,
which software you are using for pdf viewing?
with kind regards
Patrick
Am Donnerstag, den 16.07.2009, 15:13 -0400 schrieb Warren Baird:
- It's very useful as a PDF reader - with the high-res screen I've
been able to read documents while walking or while standing on a metro
or bus,
Gonna first answer this one small ogg bit.
2009/7/17 The Digital Pioneer digitalpion...@gmail.com:
That said, if anyone knows a way to make it not cut and skip when playing
OGG with mplayer niced at -19, I'd love to hear it. It's not too bad right
now, but there's usually at least one cut per
hi
i had min. 2 happy moments after the FR fell 2 times
off my bike at high speed and still works (except phone functionality).
TangoGPS is definitly a killer-Application
Juergen
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Warren Baird wrote:
I like to try turning that around and start a thread for people to talk
about their successes. Maybe if we get enough good ones we can push it
onto the wiki.
It is a nice gps device, with its high-resolution screen.
Good for OSM mapping, good for having a map display
There's some pretty cool stuff going on out there.
To try and get some of this off the mailing list and into the wiki, I've
created a 'Successful Use Cases' wiki page:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Successful_Use_Cases
The idea is to gather together all the cool things people are doing with the
On 7/16/09, Warren Baird wjba...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
There seems to be a repeated theme of people posting how crappy the
Freerunner is and how nothing works for them. Usually a number of people
then jump on the thread and talk about how the FR works well for them.
I like to try
Warren Baird wrote:
There seems to be a repeated theme of people posting how crappy the
Freerunner is and how nothing works for them. Usually a number of
people then jump on the thread and talk about how the FR works well
for them.
What are your successes with the Freerunner?
With my
When I was in school I've heard of Neo1973 and I used to dream of it
already :d
Next my first love with the FR : when I was hired to work on it and make
specific product (OpenGuide for french people http://www.openguide.fr )
I also have a lot of good times, examples are :
- running debian
-
Hi
just an hour ago, I had to leave the building
while a webserver that I was working on had a
load of 20% and rising. While walking to the
train, I enabled GPRS, started a terminal and
logged back in.
.. and the load went down.
Well, it wasn't the FR bringing the load
down. But I could sit
But I could sit in the train in peace.
And while on that train, did you see the light at the end of the tunnel?
md
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On 7/17/09, tb bumbl...@gmail.com wrote:
what a liberal school which allows a phone during an exam
using phones is prohibited even during normal classes here
That's really small class, we can use phones as calculators on some
lessions. And writing python script wasn't cheating, as I needed to
I use my freerunner to control my media center in my home and another in my
car, all running Linux.
I lost the number of times that wifi or even gprs saved me with a ssh
conection to my servers.
regards,
Levy
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There seems to be a repeated theme of people posting how crappy the
Freerunner is and how nothing works for them. Usually a number of people
then jump on the thread and talk about how the FR works well for them.
I like to try turning that around and start a thread for people to talk
about their
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
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Damian Spriggs damianspri...@mac.comwrote:
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
and we managed to fly clear of the ship just before it exploded, and
thus we saved all of humanity with a Freerunner.
I had wondered what happened to that ship!
md
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I'm definitively going to like this thread :-)
I was one of the first to buy a Neo and have had some nice times with
it. I especially used it for tracking for OpenStreetMap and still
remember using the phone from commandline. Unfortunately, due to work
circumstances, I had less and less time to
Well, my biggest success so far with the FR is bluetooth. I now use my FR as
a portable media player, and can use GSM with bluetooth.
That said, if anyone knows a way to make it not cut and skip when playing
OGG with mplayer niced at -19, I'd love to hear it. It's not too bad right
now, but
I am totally awed with this mini-comp with not-so-good-yet-workable GSM
capabilities.
But the best hack/trick I could try on my FR was when I was totally out of
any comp anywhere (linux/win) although there was WiFi available and I wanted
to flash SHR-U on the device.
Well it was so simple...I
On 7/17/09, Vikas Saurabh vikas.saur...@gmail.com wrote:
I am totally awed with this mini-comp with not-so-good-yet-workable GSM
capabilities.
But the best hack/trick I could try on my FR was when I was totally out of
any comp anywhere (linux/win) although there was WiFi available and I
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Sebastian
Krzyszkowiakseba.d...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
Look at Debian and debootstrap ;) (that's also the way of installing
Debian on FreeRunner)
or at gentoo ;)
Nicola
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Warren Baird wrote:
- I was able to show off the client software from my 'day job' - a
quite complex j2se application - running on a cell phone, which
definitely impressed people.
What are your successes with the Freerunner?
With my Freerunner, I am able to control a telescope
5000 miles
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and we managed to fly clear of the ship just before it exploded, and
thus
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