Re: OT: Re: gender-neutral English usage

2010-01-20 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:30:13 +0100 Krister Svanlund adsumm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:12 PM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: [...] what exactly has one's value to do with the gender or the pronoun you are using to refer to him or her? your proposition is based on

Reminder of meet (Was: Meetup of people interested in the OpenMoko, and other open hardware)

2009-01-30 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:01:56 +0530 Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: Hi, A reminder to people in Delhi, and NCR. We are meeting tomorrow (Sat., 31/1) as per the following details. A Wiki page for the meeting, where one can sign up to offer/get rides is at http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin

Meetup of people interested in the OpenMoko, and other open hardware

2009-01-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi, Below is a copy of the message sent to local LUG lists in Delhi, India. We are having a meeting of people interested in the OpenMoko, and in other hardware, as per the details below. All are welcome to participate. Regards, Gora Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:58:02 +0530 From: Gora Mohanty g

Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:38:30 -0800 (PST) Gothnet openm...@nastylittlehorse.net wrote: john dowd wrote: I've been using minicom but its a disaster. Unless some has settings that they would like to share. [...] Search the wiki for a program called neocon, that seemed to work for me.

Re: Indian FR Owners

2009-01-07 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:33:47 +0530 Vibhav Sharma khoonir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm sure there are about 100-200 of us (Indian FR Owners) out there. Atleast it appears so from what Rakshat of IDA systems tells us. [...] I'm in Gurgaon and would be happy to help organise one for NCR.

Re: How do you like to read a phone number? (India users)

2008-12-30 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:48:55 +0100 Michele Renda michele.re...@gmail.com wrote: Il 29/12/2008 13:45, Carl Lobo ha scritto: Try http://www.ashesh.net/blog/downloads/PDF/Mobile_Telephone_Number_Codes_India.pdf Seems to be accurate from first glance. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 6:09 PM,

Re: [Debian -FSO -GPS] No Fix

2008-11-20 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:56:33 -0800 (PST) Fragggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think so. cat /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-gps.0/pwron shows a 1 I have put the Freerunner next to a window over Night and logt the output of /dev/ttySAC1. After a few

Re: GPS sensitivity

2008-10-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:30:22 +0530 Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I recently tested the performance of a Nokia E71 with the FR, while standing 2 feet from a window inside my office building. [...] Um, does the Nokia E71 have assisted GPS (AGPS), as I rather suspect it does? If so,

Re: GPS sensitivity

2008-10-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:09:34 +0100 Leonti Bielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My brother has Nokia N95 and it has about the same performance as my Neo. No fix inside, around 40 seconds fix outside. Again, I must ask. Is AGPS enabled on the Nokia N95? That needs to be specifically turned on, and a

Re: GPS sensitivity

2008-10-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:56:54 +0100 David Garabana Barro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I allways though Freerunner had AGPS. That's what wiki says: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Hardware#AGPS Isn't it true? [...] Yes, I believe that it does have AGPS capabilities. But AGPS

Re: GPS sensitivity

2008-10-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:50:01 +0100 Johny Tenfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I must ask. Is AGPS enabled on the Nokia N95? But when you want to compare N95 GPS with FreeRunner GPS, you must turn AGPS off in Nokia, or turn AGPS on in FreeRunner... [...] You are right. Sorry, I

Re: GPS sensitivity

2008-10-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:04:55 +0100 Leonti Bielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are talking here about hardware GPS performance of Freerunner. So to compare two GPS devices they have to be in equal positions. [...] Yes, fair enough. You are right. Please see my earlier reply to Johny Tenfinger.

Re: A mailing list for FLOSS-GPS community?

2008-09-17 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:02:42 +0300 Risto H. Kurppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I suppose there are some tangogps/navit/other gps software users and developers here on this list who would be interested in getting together with the rest of the FLOSS GPS community see

Re: GNOME running on Freerunner

2008-08-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:57:43 +0530 sparky mat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I managed to get the whole of GNOME running on Freerunner (using the Debian installer - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner ) [...] Cool! I do not yet have a Freerunner, but would love to know that Pango also works,

Re: GNOME running on Freerunner

2008-08-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:56:29 +0800 xiangfu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] if the Freerunner have indian fonts file i think it is can display Hindi text. [...] Yeah, sorry. Forgot about that. A Hindi font is included in the ttf-indic fonts package on Debian, and a list of open-source Hindi fonts

Re: GNOME running on Freerunner

2008-08-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:21:24 +0530 Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] http://free-opensource.qvantel.net/mediawiki//index.php/Debian_on_FreeRunner#Indian_localization [...] Cool. Thank you. I am going to publicise that page. Regards, Gora

Re: Special Letters?

2008-07-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:40:11 +1000 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:18:37 +0200 Ole Holm Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Sounds great that it will be possible to create better support for Danish and other non-english languages. Does

Re: Special Letters?

2008-07-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:31:48 +1000 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:48:43 +0530 Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: [...] This sounds great. What is the level of OpenType support? Are complex text layout (CTL) languages like Indian

Re: Special Letters?

2008-07-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:01:24 +1000 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] this is why EFL doesn't have support. i'd have to write it all, OR use pango... and pango, last i looked, was not light on overhead, Agreed there. Have not actually benchmarked Pango myself, but

Re: Special Letters?

2008-07-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:21:44 +1000 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:51:09 +0530 Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:01:24 +1000 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] this is why EFL

Re: Let us impact the material world

2008-07-01 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:56:58 -0400 Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Think: The collapse of so many hi tech companies on our stock exchanges has humbled many. Creators within the digital world -- no matter how novel and exciting -- will have no value unless they impact the

Re: GSM Tower Location and GPS

2008-06-25 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:40:25 +0100 john [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have discussed doing this kind of thing in IRC a few times. I think It would be good if somebody setup a project on projects.openmoko.org. I have signed up on http://projects.openmoko.org (did not know about that site earlier)

Re: Patent threat to OpenMoko devices?

2008-06-24 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:12:36 +0200 Daniel Mewes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Typhoon Touch Technologies has initiated legal measures against different companies with reasonings including - but not limited to - producing touch screen driven smartphones, as far as I understand it.

Re: GSM Tower Location and GPS

2008-06-24 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:57:28 +1200 Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Here's another idea: Record signal strength and position information for generating a coverage map. We can record tower code, signal strength, and phone location. This information could be used with the Open

Re: mobile gps gaming

2008-04-30 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:43:52 +1200 Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just listened to an interesting piece on the bbc about gps gaming on mobile phones: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/digital_planet.shtml at 15:40 onwards talking about a company in england that is

Re: Cooperative Differential GPS

2008-03-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
(Please note that I am copying this message to the OpenStreetMap folk: http://openstreetmap.org as we will hopefully find more GPS/mapping experts there. Please edit the list of recipients if you need to.) On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:24:56 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! After hours of

Re: Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

2008-03-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:47:40 +0100 Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a reminder to everyone *NOT* to pull out the battery while the neo has USB power. i did this. i had to get a new neo: my first one got *fried* from this. dunno what to do with the old one, frankly it

Re: 25 native [iPhone|OpenMoko] we hope to see

2008-03-03 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 16:17:42 +0100 (CET) David Samblas Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] 22. Digital level Is any side of the phone straigh enough to be able to develop such a freaking geek widget? I could be a funny exercice to play with the accelerometers. [...] The Neo 1973 does

Re: Yet Another Map Application

2008-02-25 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:30:54 +0100 Schmidt AndrĂ¡s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I am happy to announce the shiny new release of Yet Another Map Application - Yama in short :-). [...] Looks cool. Have to try it out. Not sure if you are aware of this, but Yama is the Hindu god of death!