Re: Discussion: what are your dreams for the Openmoko

2012-04-30 Thread Ken Young
-user support from the manufacturer or carrier. It's not a perfect solution, but I'd be satisfied with it. Ken Young Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory kyo...@cfa.harvard.edu

Free, as in beer, Freerunner - contest over

2010-03-06 Thread Ken Young
Someone wrote a program to rotate text, and has thereby won my extra Freerunner. So there is no reason to send me any other code snippets. If someone wants to tell me what Sendeh roo shamsheer means, I'd still appreciate it, but I have no more prize phones to send. Ken Young

Free, as in beer, Freerunner

2010-03-05 Thread Ken Young
first gets the phone. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

gta02-core (was Re: OM future)

2010-02-25 Thread Ken Young
Wolfgang Spraul wolfg...@sharism.cc wrote: If the FreeRunner would be bug free, I'm sure people would still use them in 10+ years, easily. The truth is that even though the Freerunner is buggy as hell, some people will still be using them in 10+ years. Face it, we are now in the same boat as

openmoko PROJECTS area down again

2010-01-16 Thread Ken Young
The PROJECTS area (GForge site) of openmoko.org has been down for about one week.Has it been officially abandoned? Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-02 Thread Ken Young
gta03 phone, and a more tractible engineering project too. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

[All] New version of the orrery program available

2009-11-30 Thread Ken Young
A new version of the orrery program has been uploaded to the GForge site, and to opkg.org. There are not many new user features - the Monthly Moon Calendar is prettier, and both moon calendars now show Blue Moons (including the one on New Years Eve, this year). Finger friendliness has been

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Ken Young
array of icons representing the applications which can be launched. Allow the user to set the brightness, screen blank time and suspend time. Stop there. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-26 Thread Ken Young
the GTA01 is very noticeably faster in graphics. I've got both, and I've run 'em side-by-side. The glamo actually is a graphics DEcellerator. That's why GTA02-core is kicking it out. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

WikiReader

2009-10-15 Thread Ken Young
[...] It will be entertaining if the folks who purchase WikiReaders start hanging out on the Openmoko IRC channel. One set of participants will be blathering on about wpa_supplicant files, and the other will be asking how to insert AAA batteries. Ken Young

Re: OpenMoko Cambridge pub meet

2009-09-01 Thread Ken Young
* Cambridge - as in England. But if he means Cambridge Mass, I'll be a happy guy. Ken Young (in Cambridge, Mass) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: OM2009

2009-08-27 Thread Ken Young
efforts on SHR. This should not be interpreted as paroli being abandoned as paroli is in the SHR feeds. I haven't tested it, but getting it to work would be one of my first tasks if it doesn't. paroli has a LOT of fans, and your work on it is greatly appreciated! Ken Young

Re: Account at http://projects.openmoko.org/

2009-08-06 Thread Ken Young
the commit lists. Also, project news is no longer being moved to the Latest News section of the home page. Should the administration of that site be passed to someone else?I'd be willing to administer it, if nobody else wants to. Ken Young

Re: Anti-Whining: Happy Moko Moments

2009-07-16 Thread Ken Young
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. There's no way I could do it with my Android G1 phone. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

RE: GOT MY PHONE!!! :) Doesn't work... :(

2009-07-09 Thread Ken Young
channel to be more efficient. Glad you got your phone! Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: YOUR action is needed to get the Community Updates up running again

2009-06-18 Thread Ken Young
that the Community Updates are one of the most important features of the wiki. If they stop coming out, the project will really look moribund. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman

[orrery] new version (2.6) available

2009-04-26 Thread Ken Young
If Sean is ever to begin receiving daily orders for pallets of 50,000 3G-enabled Freerunners, certain core applications must be attractive, quickly responsive, and absolutely bullet proof. We all know what these applications are: Dialer, Contacts, Meteor Shower Information, SMS Messaging and

Survey about the Touchscreen

2008-11-21 Thread Ken Young
Denis Galvo wrote: Really, we don't need a hi res screen on a day by day gadget I could not possibly disagree more strongly. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo

Survey about the Touchscreen

2008-11-21 Thread Ken Young
Denis Galvao wrote: On 21/11/2008, at 13:20, Ken Young wrote: Really, we don't need a hi res screen on a day by day gadget I could not possibly disagree more strongly. So, give me a reason where you will need that. As long as we have at least a VGA resolution screen, it is relatively easy

Android open sourced

2008-10-21 Thread Ken Young
to the particulars of the Freerunner hardware? Porting Android sounds to me like a way to spend a huge amount of time to produce another distribution for the Freerunner which will be no more reliable (at best) than the others ones are. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community

Back to the basics: improving user experience

2008-10-16 Thread Ken Young
the Freerunner works as a phone, the thing is just a toy for nerds no matter how wonderfully anything else might work on it. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread Ken Young
Joerg Reisenweber (joerg at openmoko.org) wrote: wrong! won't help, don't try! /j That's a bit cryptic - what are you saying is wrong? It it the idea of removing the shielding, or the claim that the GPS performance improves dramatically if the microSD card is removed? Ken Young

GPS

2008-07-14 Thread Ken Young
at all. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

GPS

2008-07-13 Thread Ken Young
. In desperation, I re-flashed the kernel and rootfs, and again installed only gpsd and tangogps for GPS software. No joy. The GPS init now seems completely nonfunctional. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

US Shipping

2008-07-09 Thread Ken Young
of Steve's post was Phones are headed out of fremont CA. which suggets that shipping began yesterday. For what it's worth, I've heard nothing either (order 1367). Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

HP calculator on neo1973 - was: More HW from Openmoko

2008-07-06 Thread Ken Young
as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. The calculator ROM images are a different story, but I'm not modifying them. They are available several places on the web. Ken Young

Re: Error while paying

2008-07-03 Thread Ken Young
with both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Same error each time. Does anyone know what's going wrong? Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Error while paying

2008-07-03 Thread Ken Young
Trust's way of saying Credit Card Declined. I called Citibank, got them to lift the block, and the transaction went through smoothly after that. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman

More HW from OpenMoko

2008-07-01 Thread Ken Young
on a VAX 11/750 - the Freerunner should be about 20 times faster than that machine in floating point. It was also rare to run across an 11/750 with more than 4 MByte of RAM. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

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

2008-06-13 Thread Ken Young
the VGA resolution on a 2.8 screen I ask: When was the last time you saw a 150 DPI laser printer? Why are they so hard to find? Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo

GTA03 speculation [UNOFFICIAL]

2008-06-12 Thread Ken Young
from four to three will be fixed on the GTA03? To me, that seems like at least as big a problem as the Glamo. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

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

2008-06-11 Thread Ken Young
translucent, eats some of the energy stored in your battery, and reduces the amount of useful work which can be done between recharges. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman

[no subject]

2008-06-10 Thread Ken Young
is it that viewing web pages, which are designed for 14 or 17 screens is nigh madness, but viewing videos or movies, which are designed for even larger displays, somehow makes sense to you? Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions

2008-06-10 Thread Ken Young
. There are not nearly so many of those people as there are Apple fanboys, but they are willing to part with serious money to get the best phone for their work and hobbies. Think Differently! -- Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

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

2008-06-09 Thread Ken Young
be a good one. Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

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

2008-06-06 Thread Ken Young
platform shouldn't be moving *backwards*. Otherwise, why not just restart the production line for the Greenphone? Ken Young ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

2008-06-05 Thread Ken Young
of resolution. i'm just not sure. Please, please, please, please, please don't drop to a QVGA LCD on future OM phones. The beautiful full VGA screens on the neo and Freerunner are just about the only piece of hardware they have which is better than what you find on a typical smart phone. Ken Young

Got my phone! + A comment and a Question

2007-07-27 Thread Ken Young
will boot. What does that mean vis a vis the parts of the filesystem which can't be distributed over the internet?How do we get those parts? Ken Young Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Ken Young
How 'bout For those who prefer JTAG to Bluetooth. or It's not just a phone, it's a hobby. or Get one before the phone companies figure out what they are. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Problem with emial order confirmation

2007-07-14 Thread Ken Young
I ordered the neo1973 on the first day the openmoko.com site went live. Today I received a message, saying that to confirm the order, I must reply to the email with a message containing (as the first characters of an otherwise empty line) the string YES_I_DO . However, when I sent that