Re: WikiReader

2016-07-26 Thread David Feugey
That's a first step. Thanks! My aim is to provide a backup of all these files: https://thepiratebay.cr/search/wikireader/0/7// But I need someone who have them... I can set up an temp SSH account to upload them on my server. (else, box or google drive should be ok) Second step would

Re: WikiReader

2016-07-26 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On 07/25/2016 12:56, David Feugey wrote: > Hi all. > > I'll like to get a copy of the latest files needed to use the WikiReader. > There are torrent files, but they are all inactive... I'm not sure which files you are looking for. I have base-20121207.7z, it can be downloaded from th

WikiReader

2016-07-25 Thread David Feugey
Hi all. I'll like to get a copy of the latest files needed to use the WikiReader. There are torrent files, but they are all inactive... If someone has the archives on its hard drive, I can provide some free hosting for all of them. I have 1 TB of disc and a good bandwidth. Thanks, David

WikiReader

2016-07-25 Thread David Feugey
Hi all. I'll like to get a copy of the latest files needed to use the WikiReader. There are torrent files, but they are all inactive... If someone has the archives on its hard drive, I can provide some free hosting for all of them. I have 1 TB of disc and a good bandwidth. Thanks, David

Re: [WikiReader] Giving, and last chance to get?

2013-05-24 Thread Patryk Benderz
Dnia 2013-05-23, czw o godzinie 14:19 -0700, Doug Jones pisze: I just got an email from Sean recommending this: http://igg.me/at/wikireaders4kids/x/3095893 26 days left to end of campaign?! Is this a joke? There is no chance they will raise 232k$ in 26 days... -- Patryk LeadMan Benderz Linux

Re: [WikiReader] Giving, and last chance to get?

2013-05-24 Thread Doug Jones
On 05/24/2013 12:21 AM, Patryk Benderz wrote: Dnia 2013-05-23, czw o godzinie 14:19 -0700, Doug Jones pisze: I just got an email from Sean recommending this: http://igg.me/at/wikireaders4kids/x/3095893 26 days left to end of campaign?! Is this a joke? There is no chance they will raise 232k$

[WikiReader] Giving, and last chance to get?

2013-05-23 Thread Doug Jones
of these. And if the wikireaders4kids campaign succeeds, all existing stock may vanish from the marketplace. So this may be your last opportunity to buy a WikiReader (although I expect used ones may be available for a long time). You can get them by pledging to that campaign, or for $14.99

Re: [WikiReader] Giving, and last chance to get?

2013-05-23 Thread Joseph Armbruster
10,000 units in overstock, of a product that was released years ago, then they may not be interested in ever making any more of these. And if the wikireaders4kids campaign succeeds, all existing stock may vanish from the marketplace. So this may be your last opportunity to buy a WikiReader

GTA04 (was: Re: [WikiReader] Giving, and last chance to get?)

2013-05-23 Thread Doug Jones
@Joseph Armbruster, you should have changed the subject line to something more appropriate. (I just did that.) The [WikiReader] tag indicated that the thread relates to the WikiReader, a different Openmoko product, not the open source smart phone most people talk about here. Some people

Re: [WikiReader] Updates available

2013-01-11 Thread Felix
Thanks for news Douglas, just updated and now I've it with latest update and no problems :) On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Douglas Jones dj...@frombob.to wrote: I just noticed that the base files and many of the wikis have been updated recently:

[WikiReader] Updates available

2013-01-07 Thread Douglas Jones
I just noticed that the base files and many of the wikis have been updated recently: http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: WikiReader Arduino shield (or generic serial touchscreen)

2012-11-05 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
at home that builds and runs the WikiReader simulator. Perhaps I can try to integrate your diffs and see what goes wrong. Christ van Willegen Thanks! I can change the gcc compile line and add a '-I{path}/drivers/include/' and that works, and I could probably do the same for the linker

WikiReader Arduino shield (or generic serial touchscreen)

2012-11-04 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
I've gotten rather excited recently about the wikireader since they can be had for under $15, and this looks like an ideal platform to make a nice touchscreen interface for home automation and other things you might want to do with other open hardware like the Arduino. I started by hooking up

Re: WikiReader Arduino shield (or generic serial touchscreen)

2012-11-04 Thread Christ van Willegen
include console.h, and the console library, things work on the real hardware, but the lcd/simulate version doesn't build, so I need to figure out how to add that to both. I have a virtual machine laying around at home that builds and runs the WikiReader simulator. Perhaps I can try to integrate

Re: WTB: Openmoko, WTS: Wikireader

2012-11-02 Thread Thomas Otterbein
wrote: Hi, I am Chris from Openmoko Shop www.pulster.eu We sell now the OM Wikireader for 49 eur. Shipping worldwide. Besides we still stock all Freerunner accessories and also give away free debug boards, screen protectors etc. For a customer we need some more GTA02 units. Please feel

Re: WTB: Openmoko, WTS: Wikireader

2012-11-02 Thread Patryk Benderz
Dnia 2012-11-02, pią o godzinie 13:04 +0100, Thomas Otterbein pisze: Hallo Christoph, ich habe einen GTA02, schon mit 1024-Rework (durch Golden Delecious, die auch [cut] Hi Thomas, I suppose your message was intended for Christoph only. If not, please use English language on this ML. --

Re: WTB: Openmoko, WTS: Wikireader

2012-11-02 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Hi Folks, sorry for my previous email. In deed it was intended for Christoph Pulster as response to his request for GTA02-devices. Best Regards thomas On Friday 02 November 2012 13:50:04 Patryk Benderz wrote: Dnia 2012-11-02, pią o godzinie 13:04 +0100, Thomas Otterbein pisze: Hallo

Re: WTB: Openmoko, WTS: Wikireader

2012-11-02 Thread shamsul hassan
More cheap over here .. Just *$14.75* http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-WR-01-Pocket-Wikipedia/dp/B002N5521W/ Thanks On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Thomas Otterbein th.otterb...@gmx.netwrote: Hi Folks, sorry for my previous email. In deed it was intended for Christoph Pulster as response

[WikiReader] 32GB microSD card works

2012-08-01 Thread Doug Jones
I am testing a 32GB card in my WikiReader. This is a Class 4 card by SanDisk. The model number is SDSDQ-032G-AFFP. I paid less than US$20 for it. It passed the calc.elf test, so I installed all of the English-language wikis listed on the update page at http://dev.thewikireader.com

Re: [WikiReader] 32GB microSD card works

2012-08-01 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Doug Jones dj...@frombob.to wrote: I am testing a 32GB card in my WikiReader. Thanks for the update - very useful information. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Re: [Wikireader] project gutenberg - was: updates not working?

2012-07-11 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote: On 07/07/2012 04:28 PM, Alexander Lehner wrote: Gutenberg WikiReader files seem to got lost completely. http://dev.thewikireader.com/2010/06/26/project-gutenberg/ Sad - I liked that one. Any chance, to get it updated? A. The links

Re: [Wikireader] updates not working?

2012-07-07 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote: I can see the tracker now. Thanks to whoever fixed it. I am seeding a bunch of these files now. Partiall - enpedia works, but depedia for example not. Alex. ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: [Wikireader] updates not working?

2012-07-07 Thread Doug Jones
On 07/07/2012 06:27 AM, Alexander Lehner wrote: On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote: I can see the tracker now. Thanks to whoever fixed it. I am seeding a bunch of these files now. Partiall - enpedia works, but depedia for example not. Alex. Alex, You may have just noticed that you

Re: [Wikireader] updates not working?

2012-07-07 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote: [...] I used the trick mentioned earlier in this thread. I trimmed the ?torrent off of the end of the URL and started downloading the entire file through Firefox. After a few megabytes I paused the download, copied the partial file into the download

Re: [Wikireader] project gutenberg - was: updates not working?

2012-07-07 Thread Alexander Lehner
Gutenberg WikiReader files seem to got lost completely. http://dev.thewikireader.com/2010/06/26/project-gutenberg/ Sad - I liked that one. Any chance, to get it updated? A. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: [Wikireader] project gutenberg - was: updates not working?

2012-07-07 Thread Doug Jones
On 07/07/2012 04:28 PM, Alexander Lehner wrote: Gutenberg WikiReader files seem to got lost completely. http://dev.thewikireader.com/2010/06/26/project-gutenberg/ Sad - I liked that one. Any chance, to get it updated? A. The links on that particular page don't seem to work any more

Re: [Wikireader] updates not working?

2012-07-07 Thread Doug Jones
On 07/07/2012 04:13 PM, Alexander Lehner wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote: [...] I used the trick mentioned earlier in this thread. I trimmed the ?torrent off of the end of the URL and started downloading the entire file through Firefox. After a few megabytes I paused the

Re: [Wikireader] updates not working?

2012-07-06 Thread Doug Jones
On 07/05/2012 03:28 PM, Doug Jones wrote: On 07/05/2012 02:06 PM, Alexander Lehner wrote: On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote: I see there are some new Wikireader updates available: http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ But I can't download them -- the tracker times out. Anybody

Re: [Wikireader] updates not working?

2012-07-06 Thread Doug Jones
On 07/06/2012 12:00 AM, Doug Jones wrote: On 07/05/2012 03:28 PM, Doug Jones wrote: On 07/05/2012 02:06 PM, Alexander Lehner wrote: On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote: I see there are some new Wikireader updates available: http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ But I can't

[Wikireader] updates not working?

2012-07-05 Thread Doug Jones
I see there are some new Wikireader updates available: http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ But I can't download them -- the tracker times out. Anybody else having this problem? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Re: [Wikireader] updates not working?

2012-07-05 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote: I see there are some new Wikireader updates available: http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ But I can't download them -- the tracker times out. Anybody else having this problem? yes, me. Tried it with the german depedia and using azureus

Re: [Wikireader] updates not working?

2012-07-05 Thread Doug Jones
On 07/05/2012 02:06 PM, Alexander Lehner wrote: On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote: I see there are some new Wikireader updates available: http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ But I can't download them -- the tracker times out. Anybody else having this problem? yes, me. Tried

Re: WikiReader Forth Simulator

2011-04-08 Thread Greg Santucci
Carsten Strotmann (private carsten at strotmann.de writes: János Bolyai writes in his blog at http://createuniverses.blogspot.com/2011/03/wikireader-forth-simulator.html I bought a WikiReader recently, which apart from being a 4GB text only offline version of Wikipedia, comes

Re: WikiReader Forth Simulator

2011-04-08 Thread Thomas HOCEDEZ
le Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:50:36 + (UTC) Greg Santucci thecodewi...@gmail.com a écrit: Carsten Strotmann (private carsten at strotmann.de writes: János Bolyai writes in his blog at http://createuniverses.blogspot.com/2011/03/wikireader-forth-simulator.html I bought

Re: WikiReader Forth Simulator

2011-04-08 Thread Carsten Strotmann (private)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/8/11 4:50 PM, Greg Santucci wrote: Hi, I'm the author of the Create Universes blog, and I'd like to thank you for mentioning my work here. By the way, my name is Greg Santucci, not János Bolyai. János Bolyai was a famous mathematician

WikiReader Forth Simulator

2011-04-05 Thread Carsten Strotmann (private)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 János Bolyai writes in his blog at http://createuniverses.blogspot.com/2011/03/wikireader-forth-simulator.html I bought a WikiReader recently, which apart from being a 4GB text only offline version of Wikipedia, comes with a fun feature where

Wikireader notices on Twitter? (was: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?)

2011-03-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Sean Moss-Pultz s...@openmoko.com writes: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Patrick Beck pb...@yourse.de wrote: Am Samstag, den 19.03.2011, 20:40 +0800 schrieb Sean Moss-Pultz: We are very focused on making WikiReader a retail success. We sent a newsletter out in January talking about

Re: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?

2011-03-21 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
Hi Patrick On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Patrick Beck pb...@yourse.de wrote: Am Samstag, den 19.03.2011, 20:40 +0800 schrieb Sean Moss-Pultz: Hi Patrick What would you like to hear in an official statement? We are very focused on making WikiReader a retail success. We sent

Re: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?

2011-03-21 Thread Patrick Beck
Hi Sean, Am Montag, den 21.03.2011, 21:22 +0800 schrieb Sean Moss-Pultz: Thanks for your kind words. We'd love to make a lot more devices for you all. But our resources are tight these days. We are working on a third device. But it's only in the early prototype stages. WikiReader is going

Re: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?

2011-03-20 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Christoph Pulster wrote: Pulster - Wikireader with 8 GB card - 109 eur Medion - Wikireader with 4 GB card - 80 eur A 16 GB microSD card is 19 eur. This pushes me out of business. This is an opensource community where people work and help together. So I'd vote to buy

OT: OLPC hw distribution [Was: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?]

2011-03-20 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 20-03-2011 12:25, Alexander Lehner escreveu: The One Laptop Per child project imo suffers from the same idea. If they would offer their product to the mass market, they would sell much more and finally could drop their price this way for developing countries. I think the OLPC project shoot

Re: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?

2011-03-20 Thread Patrick Beck
Hi Sean, it's great to hear from you :) Am Samstag, den 19.03.2011, 20:40 +0800 schrieb Sean Moss-Pultz: Hi Patrick What would you like to hear in an official statement? We are very focused on making WikiReader a retail success. We sent a newsletter out in January talking about our

Re: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?

2011-03-19 Thread Patrick Beck
Hi Christoph, when Openmoko Inc. still exists i hope we get a official statement from them, for the future of Openmoko Products. When i look at the Wikireader i have not seen any updates since months. It's not easy to sell original Wikireader for 109 Euro against 79.95 Euro for the Medion

Re: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?

2011-03-19 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
Hi Patrick On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Patrick Beck pb...@yourse.de wrote: when Openmoko Inc. still exists i hope we get a official statement from them, for the future of Openmoko Products. When i look at the Wikireader i have not seen any updates since months. What would you like

Re: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?

2011-03-19 Thread Jeff
I knew the mediaon and pandigital were the compressed and shortened versions of the Wikireader. The big one can use larger SD cards, so you can carry around more information. Mine has the full english wikipedia, wiktionary, and wikiquotes on an 8gb microsd. If you use a 16 gb card, you can add

Re: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?

2011-03-19 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Jeff jcolb...@netins.net wrote: I knew the mediaon and pandigital were the compressed and shortened versions of the Wikireader. The big one can use larger SD cards, so you can carry around more information. Mine has the full english wikipedia, wiktionary

Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?

2011-03-11 Thread Patrick Beck
Hi, i have seen a new product in a german onlineshop: The Medion Wikireader. http://www.conrad.de/ce/de/product/876441/?WT.ac=876441 Has Openmoko now a cooperation with Medion. Does the Company Openmoko still existing or was it sold to Medion? What brings the future - new devices? Many

Openmoko community resources (was Re: [WikiReader] what's up with Wikitravel?)

2011-02-04 Thread Rafael Ignacio Zurita
--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Sean Moss-Pultz s...@openmoko.com wrote: Yes it would require the new base file. Please let us know what you think! Hello Sean, community, question: which is the current status of the Openmoko community resources?.. You know? projects.openmoko.org is down, we know.

[WikiReader] Wikitravel announced

2011-02-03 Thread Doug Jones
It was nice to get the WikiReader newsletter today. I'd forgotten that I had subscribed to that. They announced Wikitravel. It's not listed on the update page yet, but I found the torrent here: http://wrmlbeta.s3.amazonaws.com/entrav-20101116.7z.001?torrent Seeding it now

[WikiReader] what's up with Wikitravel?

2011-02-03 Thread Doug Jones
I just added Wikitravel to my WikiReader. But it doesn't appear on the menu. Does it require a newer base file? Perhaps this one? http://wrmlbeta.s3.amazonaws.com/base-20110106.7z?torrent ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Re: [WikiReader] what's up with Wikitravel?

2011-02-03 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Doug Jones wrote: I just added Wikitravel to my WikiReader. But it doesn't appear on the menu. Does it require a newer base file? Perhaps this one? http://wrmlbeta.s3.amazonaws.com/base-20110106.7z?torrent Maybe... I'm using this base file: http://wrmlbeta.s3

Re: [WikiReader] what's up with Wikitravel?

2011-02-03 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: [WikiReader] what's up with Wikitravel? I just added Wikitravel to my WikiReader. But it doesn't appear on the menu. Does it require a newer base file? Perhaps this one? http://wrmlbeta.s3.amazonaws.com/base-20110106.7z

Wikireader Hitchhiker's Guide Splash

2010-12-31 Thread Jeff
As a new year's treat I threw together some instructions on how to flash your Wikireader with a modified boot rom that will give you a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Don't Panic splash screen. Usual caveats apply. You can brick your machine doing this, so be careful. https://docs.google.com

Re: Wikireader FAQ draft

2010-12-28 Thread Doug Jones
Christoph Pulster wrote: Any comments welcome ! Chris Openmoko Wikireader - Frequently asked questions - dimensions ? The Wikireaders size is 10x10cm with 2cm depth, Weight: 120g. Compare it here: PICTURES - handling ? The unit has only

Re: [wikireader] update experience

2010-12-26 Thread Alexander Lehner
, a bit, thanks! Do you have other pages of information than the github? Alex. On 12/25/2010 3:53 PM, Alexander Lehner wrote: Sorry for posting this here, I don't know if there's already a list for the WR. I've got a WikiReader now for some month and my 10y daughter surprisingly likes

[wikireader] update experience

2010-12-25 Thread Alexander Lehner
Sorry for posting this here, I don't know if there's already a list for the WR. I've got a WikiReader now for some month and my 10y daughter surprisingly likes it, so I finally decided to get one for my parents as christmas gift. The one I've got came with english, german and netherlands

Re: [wikireader] update experience

2010-12-25 Thread Jeff
be a globe icon on the main screen. You use that to select other languages/wikis. Hope that helped. Jeff On 12/25/2010 3:53 PM, Alexander Lehner wrote: Sorry for posting this here, I don't know if there's already a list for the WR. I've got a WikiReader now for some month and my 10y

Re: WikiReader strangeness

2010-12-09 Thread Joachim Pedersen
to reflash F. FLASH MBR I'm assuming that is the firmware on the epson. But I'm getting some errors when I make flash mo-lib/mini-libc/include -I/usr/local/src/wikireader/wikireader/samo-lib/include -c -o build/analog.o -Wa,-ahl=build/analog.asm33 src/analog.c src/analog.c: In function

Re: WikiReader strangeness

2010-12-09 Thread Christopher Hall
software. My next step was going to reflash F. FLASH MBR I'm assuming that is the firmware on the epson. But I'm getting some errors when I make flash It is actually on separate flash chip that the CPU initially boots from mo-lib/mini-libc/include -I/usr/local/src/wikireader/wikireader/samo

Re: Wikireader development - Ideas and improvements

2010-10-12 Thread Christopher Hall
generating the files for the wikireader: - Which base files use the wikireader for converting = XML Datadump? - How works the converting process where i have to store the data? - Is it possible to use only one file for converting? * so it's possible to generate own content - not a wiki. Yes

Re: Wikireader development - Ideas and improvements

2010-10-09 Thread Patrick Beck
it back into future releases. Feel free to email us if you have any questions! I have looked into the code a bit and have a few starting problems. Perhaps you can write a small howto about generating the files for the wikireader: - Which base files use the wikireader for converting = XML

Re: Wikireader development - Ideas and improvements

2010-10-04 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Christoph Pulster openm...@pulster.de wrote: Openmoko has not stopped the development of the Wikireader Sean, can you confirm this ? Hi Christoph We're still super active developing WikiReader. You can view our latest commits here: http://github.com

Re: Wikireader development - Ideas and improvements

2010-10-04 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
Hi Patrick On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Patrick Beck pb...@yourse.de wrote: i own a Wikireader since a month now and i am happy with the base functionality, but i have a few ideas and improvements and i am looking for other users they owns a wikireader (and develeops for it). Openmoko

Wikireader development - Ideas and improvements

2010-10-02 Thread Patrick Beck
Hello, i own a Wikireader since a month now and i am happy with the base functionality, but i have a few ideas and improvements and i am looking for other users they owns a wikireader (and develeops for it). Openmoko has not stopped the development of the Wikireader, but i think it can be useful

WikiReader / PDF, TXT or HTML?

2010-09-29 Thread Angel Martin Alganza
Hello, Is it possible to read other information (apart from Wikipedia articles) on the WikiReader? There are a bunch of files (mainly txt, pdf and html files I check out often, and it would be great if I could carry them with me on a memory card and check them out on a device like the WikiReader

Re: WikiReader / PDF, TXT or HTML?

2010-09-29 Thread Patryk Benderz
Dnia 2010-09-29, śro o godzinie 12:45 +0200, Angel Martin Alganza pisze: Hello, Is it possible to read other information (apart from Wikipedia I ain't no clue, but would be nice to have *nix ManReader :) Very often I am forced to work on systems where man pages are not installed. Such device

Re: WikiReader / PDF, TXT or HTML?

2010-09-29 Thread Angel Martin Alganza
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:58:44PM +0200, Patryk Benderz wrote: I ain't no clue, but would be nice to have *nix ManReader :) Very often I am forced to work on systems where man pages are not installed. Such device with all man pages contained would be very helpful. Maybe someone skilled

Re: WikiReader / PDF, TXT or HTML?

2010-09-29 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Patryk Benderz patryk.bend...@esp.pl writes: I ain't no clue, but would be nice to have *nix ManReader :) Very often Just convert them into textile and it should work, right? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: WikiReader / PDF, TXT or HTML?

2010-09-29 Thread Nashvin Gangaram
Is the Freerunner too small? I read documents on it... -Nashvin On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Patryk Benderz patryk.bend...@esp.plwrote: Dnia 2010-09-29, śro o godzinie 12:45 +0200, Angel Martin Alganza pisze: Hello, Is it possible to read other information (apart from Wikipedia

Re: WikiReader / PDF, TXT or HTML?

2010-09-29 Thread Angel Martin Alganza
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 01:24:18PM +0200, Nashvin Gangaram wrote: Is the Freerunner too small? I read documents on it... I don't know. Unfortunately I don't own a FR yet. I can't afford it atm, but I could afford a WikiReader if I could read other files apart from Wikipedia. Regards, Ángel

Re: WikiReader / PDF, TXT or HTML?

2010-09-29 Thread Ian Stephen
Patryk Benderz patryk.bend...@esp.pl writes: I ain't no clue, but would be nice to have *nix ManReader :) Very often Wikipedia (so I assume WikiReader) has pages on most of the *nix utilities. Not quite a ManReader, but close. IanS ___ Openmoko

Re: WikiReader / PDF, TXT or HTML?

2010-09-29 Thread David Lanzendoerfer
... I don't know. Unfortunately I don't own a FR yet. I can't afford it atm, but I could afford a WikiReader if I could read other files apart from Wikipedia. Hopefully we will have soon done a new release of OM. This time with bigger display and so on. Let's hope that we can get 100k presales

WikiReader strangeness

2010-09-27 Thread Joachim Pedersen
I've had my WR for about 9 months or so, its seen quite a lot of use and love, impressed many and been across the globe with me. A couple of weeks ago it just stopped starting up when the power button was pressed. When the power button is pressed a one or two pixel line flashes on the screen, and

Re: WikiReader strangeness

2010-09-27 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
Joachim Glad to hear you're getting good use out of WikiReader. Sorry to hear you're having hw problems. Drop us an email to supp...@thewikireader.com with your order number and we'll take care of you. --Original Message-- From: Joachim Pedersen Sender: community-boun

Re: Got also a WikiReader now

2010-09-10 Thread Jeff
It's easy to load languages on the card. But unfortunately, they don't have a Polish Wiki yet. As long as you get the international Wikireader, it supports up to a 16gb microSD card. International comes with an 8gb. English takes up about 5gb. Summer 2010 Update (8GB, 16GB) Download the base

Re: Got also a WikiReader now

2010-09-09 Thread Adam Bogacki
interface is nice for some tests, indeed. Just for the joy of yes, we can I'd be intersted in some different ways of abusing that device, and I'm missing a email group like this one for the OM handy. Any pointers to active hackers for the WikiReader? Thanks, Alex. Is there a dual

Got also a WikiReader now

2010-09-08 Thread Alexander Lehner
for the joy of yes, we can I'd be intersted in some different ways of abusing that device, and I'm missing a email group like this one for the OM handy. Any pointers to active hackers for the WikiReader? Thanks, Alex. ___ Openmoko community mailing

Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko

2010-08-22 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
And if it frees up developer resources to doing just hardware and kernel support by not doing a huge effort like OE-based Om2007.2/Om2008/Om2009 on the software distribution, I'm all for it. hmmm. on htcdream, having something half-usable was so hard... for instance: No alsa driver shipped

Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko

2010-08-20 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Hi, I have been watching the conversation about Android and its openness, and I think that Timo's answer is the closest. You should also remember that while Android is associated with Google, and certainly they had the greatest say of it, that other companies of the Open Handset Alliance also

Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko

2010-08-20 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] and finally Google (one ring to bind them all) the drum-beater. But like a lot of drum-beaters, they could only beat the drumthey were bound by contracts and agreements to do things. Even the mighty Google can not do everything they want to do. Great summary :) [cut] -- Patryk

Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko

2010-08-20 Thread Petr Vanek
On 20 Aug 2010 10:55:00 +0200 openm...@pulster.de (Christoph Pulster) (CP) wrote: Google can not do everything they want to do. They photograph my home without my permission, anyone can photo your house without your permission. as for google, afaik you can file a request not to be displayed.

Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko

2010-08-19 Thread Jim Ancona
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Christoph Pulster openm...@pulster.de wrote: Please note Android is a Google(TM) product. TM stands for total monopol. Or terrible monster. Google is evil. Android is no free OS. By what definition of free is Android not a free OS? Jim

Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko

2010-08-19 Thread arne anka
Please note Android is a Google(TM) product. TM stands for total monopol. Or terrible monster. Google is evil. Android is no free OS. By what definition of free is Android not a free OS? by free as in speech. it's not 100% open -- important parts of the os, namely hw drivers, are closed.

Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko

2010-08-19 Thread pike
Please note Linux is a Torvalds (TM). TM stands for total monopol. Or terrible monster. Torvalds is evil. Linux is no free OS. huh ? ok, troll. please, lets leave him there. dont respond to this mail ! $2c, *-pike ___ Openmoko community

Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko

2010-08-19 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 19 August 2010, Jim Ancona wrote: On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Christoph Pulster openm...@pulster.de wrote: Please note Android is a Google(TM) product. TM stands for total monopol. Or terrible monster. Google is evil. Android is no free OS. By what definition of free is

Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko

2010-08-19 Thread Jim Ancona
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:43 PM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: Please note Android is a Google(TM) product. TM stands for total monopol. Or terrible monster. Google is evil. Android is no free OS. By what definition of free is Android not a free OS? by free as in speech. it's not

Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko

2010-08-19 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2010/8/20 Jim Ancona j...@anconafamily.com: True with respect to most phones, because hardware manufacturers don't release their drivers. Not true with respect to the Freerunner. In any case, Android is exactly as free as Linux is, because you would have exactly the same problem running any

Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko

2010-08-14 Thread Martix
2010/8/14 Christoph Pulster openm...@pulster.de: PS: I heard on IRC something about next Openmoko phone running Android. I think, it's a good idea. Please note Android is a Google(TM) product. TM stands for total monopol. Or terrible monster. Google is evil. Android is no free OS. I agree.

WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko Was: When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-08-13 Thread Martix
Hi community, I want to share a few news about WikiReader and Openmoko Inc. I am publishing with permission my short interview with Sean Moss-Pultz the CEO of Openmoko Inc.: ___ May I have a question? How is it going with WikiReader

Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko Was: When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-08-13 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 13.08.2010 um 17:08 schrieb Martix: Hi community, I want to share a few news about WikiReader and Openmoko Inc. I am publishing with permission my short interview with Sean Moss-Pultz the CEO of Openmoko Inc.: ___ May I

[wikireader] There are updates!

2010-08-13 Thread Doug Jones
I just noticed that there are updated WikiReader files available. Happened a couple months ago. I don't think this was announced on the list at the time (or at least I didn't see it whizzing by). I see that the little gizmo can handle multiple wikis now. You can put subdirectories on the SD

Re: [wikireader] There are updates!

2010-08-13 Thread Jeff
that gives me a Hitchhikers Guide Dont Panic splash screen. On Friday, August 13, 2010 12:59:02 pm Doug Jones wrote: I just noticed that there are updated WikiReader files available. Happened a couple months ago. I don't think this was announced on the list at the time (or at least I didn't see

Re: [wikireader] There are updates!

2010-08-13 Thread Brian
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:41:25 -0500 Jeff jcolb...@netins.net wrote: Also, I was able to flash a new boot rom that gives me a Hitchhikers Guide Dont Panic splash screen. I'd consider buying one just for that feature alone. ___ Openmoko community

Re: [wikireader] There are updates!

2010-08-13 Thread Jeff
After I make sure everything is working correctly, I'll post the rom image and procedure to flash online. Like any other flash though, you can brick the device. On Friday, August 13, 2010 02:23:20 pm Brian wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:41:25 -0500 Jeff jcolb...@netins.net wrote: Also, I

Re: [wikireader] Project Gutenberg (again)

2010-06-10 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
. Awesome! When I return to Germany on Sunday (I study in the UK) I will finally order a wikireader to test this on real hardware. Thanks a lot. We really appreciate the support. Sean ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: [wikireader] Project Gutenberg (again)

2010-06-09 Thread Tom Bachmann
will finally order a wikireader to test this on real hardware. Tom ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [wikireader] Project Gutenberg (again)

2010-06-08 Thread Tom Bachmann
be straightforward to mimic the behaviour of italic fonts?). They are implemented. We just didn't include them to save space. (Font sets are super huge when you include all the unicode characters!) If you look at the function handle_data within http://github.com/wikireader/wikireader/blob

Re: [wikireader] Project Gutenberg (again)

2010-06-08 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
http://github.com/wikireader/wikireader/blob/master/host-tools/offline-renderer/ArticleRenderer.py you'll see what I mean. Hm. I thought I had convinced myself that the real problem was that only two bits are used to encode the font id, and they are already used up (default, italic, title

Re: [wikireader] Project Gutenberg (again)

2010-06-08 Thread Tom Bachmann
This has nothing to do with the data structures. We cache the fonts into the SDRAM to speed up the entire system. Without this, WikiReader is too painfully slow (reading from the SD card caps out at around 125kb/s.) Currently we use 32MB of SDRAM. This means we can hold a few font styles

Re: [wikireader] Project Gutenberg (again)

2010-06-08 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On Tuesday, June 8, 2010, Tom Bachmann e_mc...@web.de wrote: This has nothing to do with the data structures. We cache the fonts into the SDRAM to speed up the entire system. Without this, WikiReader is too painfully slow (reading from the SD card caps out at around 125kb/s.) Currently we use

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