Re: Discussion: what are your dreams for the Openmoko Community

2012-05-31 Thread Lally Singh
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: It has become a little quiet here in the last weeks so that I really fear about the spirit and status of this community. So what are your dreams with respect to open mobile handhelds? What would you like as

NEW PALM - And great news for OM

2009-01-08 Thread Lally Singh
incoming interest just by the other products driving in more customers into the marketplace. Oh, and did I mention that OM's the only one of the four that's C/Posix programmable? iPhone: Obj-C, Android: Java, Palm: HTML/AJAX/Javascript. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science

Re: NEW PALM - And great news for OM

2009-01-08 Thread Lally Singh
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:17:55PM -0500, Lally Singh wrote: Isn't this about the N-th time Palm has said that? Rui They've been promising forever, but this time they're out with an actual product. A new linux-based

Re: My freerunner on ebay

2008-12-07 Thread Lally Singh
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:16 PM, carmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: every single freerunner is sold becaise 'i dont have enough time to hack on it' Not particularly. Hacking the freerunner takes quite a bit of setup and tracking. More than most expected, I suspect. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D

Re: Android rootfs image?

2008-11-25 Thread Lally Singh
of special certificate or other means or proving I got it from them. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Freerunner's GSM Calypso Modem Firmware Upgrade...

2008-11-24 Thread Lally Singh
Seemingly no luck here. T-Mobile SIM, I suppose 3G. Still says sim missing. -ls ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Calling interested Glamo OpenGL developers (was: The forbidden topic: Glamo OpenGL)

2008-11-21 Thread Lally Singh
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Timo Jyrinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/11/21 Lally Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip I'm taking a protective role for the community in all this. IMHO the community's what makes the OM phone interesting. I'd rather not see well-intentioned hackers spend long

Re: Survey about the Touchscreen

2008-11-21 Thread Lally Singh
of the time. A 480x640 screen can show a lot of information, even if it's navigated by finger-only. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org

Re: Calling interested Glamo OpenGL developers (was: The forbidden topic: Glamo OpenGL)

2008-11-20 Thread Lally Singh
of one or more vector units.. Of course, we could just look for an embedded Sony Cell :-P -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org

Re: Calling interested Glamo OpenGL developers (was: The forbidden topic: Glamo OpenGL)

2008-11-16 Thread Lally Singh
making the best performing, most functional implementation possible. If that goal's met, *then* go back and shove it into Xorg. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Re: Calling interested Glamo OpenGL developers (was: The forbidden topic: Glamo OpenGL)

2008-11-16 Thread Lally Singh
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Gothnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lally Singh wrote: Just fair warning here. As I don't think OM will use the Glamo in future devices, doing the right thing isn't as critical as normal software projects... Doing the right this IS critical to support

Re: Buzzing (was :The forbidden topic: Glamo OpenGL)

2008-11-16 Thread Lally Singh
, which we don't need. X ran fine on my 8mb 486. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Compilation errors

2008-10-22 Thread Lally Singh
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Charles-Henri Gros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lally Singh wrote: Hey folks, I'm working on getting the entire OM stack to build under OpenSolaris (under an LX zone), and am having a problem. I'm using Mokomakefile. Specifically: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I

Porting MokoMakefile, odd errors

2008-09-19 Thread Lally Singh
/openssl-native_0.9.8g.bb NOTE: Handling BitBake files: | (5436/5436) [100 %] NOTE: Parsing finished. 0 cached, 5196 parsed, 237 skipped, 0 masked. ERROR: Parsing errors found, exiting... gmake: *** [openmoko-asu-image] Error 1 real2m15.427s user1m57.723s sys 0m6.409s -- H. Lally

Re: Opkg: how to protect configuration files?

2008-09-13 Thread Lally Singh
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Mac USB Networking

2008-09-11 Thread Lally Singh
172.16.1.255 ether 00:50:56:c0:00:08 vmnet1: flags=8863UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 172.16.74.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 172.16.74.255 ether 00:50:56:c0:00:01 Thanks in advance! -ls -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia

Re: Frogpad keyboard and Neo Freerunner

2008-09-10 Thread Lally Singh
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lally Singh wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Pablo Ruiz Múzquiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've seen some mails on this topic but I can't find any conclusive one. There's a quick video demoing frogpad

Re: Openmoko.org is down?

2008-09-10 Thread Lally Singh
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Re: how to compile from source directly from a neo freerunner

2008-09-09 Thread Lally Singh
, wouldn't it so slow? It's a 400Mhz, btw! :P A few of us here started with much slower desktop PCs. Like pentium-90s. Now all we need is a symbol keyword completing keyboard for C/C++ :-) -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech

Re: Chancing SIM card without reboot

2008-09-05 Thread Lally Singh
does OpenMoko aspire to cater to? Hmm, didn't we just pay nearly $400 for this thing? -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman

Re: GTA05 suggestions

2008-08-29 Thread Lally Singh
) add in the screw bolts around a USB port. And the rest of us can have all the fun hacking away with the possibilities :-) -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Fourth Request: What is the warranty for the FreeRunner?

2008-08-27 Thread Lally Singh
Any sort of warranty? A purchasable extended warranty? Spare parts prices? Anything? -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org

Re: Fourth Request: What is the warranty for the FreeRunner?

2008-08-27 Thread Lally Singh
: Warranty depends only from the distributor. Phone buyed from the openmoko store only have the DOA warranty (14 days). Please if you want to know more things search the mailing list (EG: what DOA means). 2008/8/27 Lally Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any sort of warranty? A purchasable extended

Re: Fourth Request: What is the warranty for the FreeRunner?

2008-08-27 Thread Lally Singh
] wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Lally Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OM said that they were deciding on something beyond DOA. Also, Koolu doesn't offer a warranty (just the same 14/28 DOA warranty), and they're the only place you can get a FR in north america, so there's no help

Re: SDcard holder - convenience rework

2008-08-07 Thread Lally Singh
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850 10 pack availability, and dibs

2008-08-07 Thread Lally Singh
Hey folks, Any ideas when the 850 10 packs will be available again? Btw, I'm completely calling dibs on the first one for the NY group :-) Thanks, -ls -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community

Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-05 Thread Lally Singh
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Neng-Yu Tu (Tony Tu) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lally Singh: The warranty is also bugging me. Is there anywhere else I could get one? Or would OM be willing to sell an extended warranty for a bit more $$? Our sales and marketing both are in US working

Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-04 Thread Lally Singh
community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: Let us impact the material world

2008-06-28 Thread Lally Singh
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Re: moko running everything as root

2008-06-22 Thread Lally Singh
user of the phone can use sudo to get to what they need. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: My blog: Photo Tour Of The ASU

2008-06-17 Thread Lally Singh
new or under-reviewed applications. I'm glad Raster joined up w/Moko for this. What's that slider view for (the one with three panels)? The equations, zoomed text, giant icon, etc? I'm guessing something goes in there, but I have no idea what. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science

Re: Why not use forum?

2008-06-12 Thread Lally Singh
of forum? Personally I see no advantages of web forums ;) Well, it's a more reliable method to isolate threads from each other. For example, the whole PANIC! iPhone is $200! thread is listed as a dozen or more threads in gmail right now. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science

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

2008-06-11 Thread Lally Singh
are best done as customizations on an expert platform. One that we hope that OM will become. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org

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

2008-06-10 Thread Lally Singh
. In the mean time, ignoring the current primary demographic -- geeks -- will kill off the phone before it has a chance to become usable for the demographic you want: consumers. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech

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

2008-06-10 Thread Lally Singh
write a lot, LOT more here, Stroller. If OM's going QVGA onwards, please let me know now, so I won't waste $400 on a dead-end phone platform. Seriously, it's 2008. If you can't do it at 640x480, get a better CPU. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech

Re: Free Runner price vs iphone 3G price

2008-06-10 Thread Lally Singh
for the next 2 yrs, and in the US a contract is pretty standard), so it really does just come down to $200 vs whatever another phone costs. Sheesh. We get it, we just don't care. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko

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

2008-06-07 Thread Lally Singh
for it! The novelty of openness is only worth so much by itself. This is all in the most sincere support of OM, but what kind of friend would I be if I didn't tell you the whole truth? -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech

Re: USA, East coast groupe order

2008-06-05 Thread Lally Singh
in VA. Philippe Indeed. I'm in southwest va for school, but my family's right outside DC. A NY trip sounds fun. Maybe we can ship to NY, then a few of us can go up to NY for a weekend of good drinking OM fun? -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech

Re: GPS -- AGPS

2008-06-05 Thread Lally Singh
response. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech

Re: GTA03 case should incorporate stylus holder

2008-06-05 Thread Lally Singh
a stylus, will get patched pretty quick. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

2008-06-05 Thread Lally Singh
be the only one itching to use a GPU as a parallel coprocessor on this list. *sigh* so far it's only CUDA (AFAIK) that's even touching mobile devices. Man I wish we had a handspring-type connector and some little modules for this kind of stuff. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science

Re: GPS -- AGPS

2008-06-05 Thread Lally Singh
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Joerg Reisenweber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Do 5. Juni 2008 schrieb Lally Singh: AFAIK, the AGPS allows you to upload additional information into the onboard correlator (the CPU that does the actual location calculations for GPS) to enhance the accuracy over

Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

2008-06-02 Thread Lally Singh
at rates of more than 40 FPS, and will support 1080p HDMI, WSXGA+ LCD or CRT, and NTSC/PAL TV outs. It's still ARM based, so it should work with OM. It'll run Android if you want, and may end up with a slightly smaller phone, as it integrates the GPU. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer

Re: using the openmoko neo101 in mass storage mode

2008-05-31 Thread Lally Singh
. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Software Status Update

2008-05-14 Thread Lally Singh
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Re: Re: OM IDE (was: Re: Common Lisp for OM (Was: Programming OM))

2008-05-08 Thread Lally Singh
/community -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Lally Singh
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Re: Freerunner...when??

2008-05-08 Thread Lally Singh
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Re: openmoko fans web site

2008-05-08 Thread Lally Singh
list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org

Re: openmoko fans web site

2008-05-08 Thread Lally Singh
Excellent!! Now all we need are discussion forums. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Kim Alvefur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 14:53 -0400, Lally Singh wrote: A site like that would be great if it followed something like sourceforge.net, plus some discussion forums

OM IDE (was: Re: Common Lisp for OM (Was: Programming OM))

2008-05-07 Thread Lally Singh
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Re: OM IDE (was: Re: Common Lisp for OM (Was: Programming OM))

2008-05-07 Thread Lally Singh
: What's wrong with Eclipse? It's much more common for embedded IDE's isn't it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lally Singh Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:08 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: OM IDE (was: Re

Re: OM IDE (was: Re: Common Lisp for OM (Was: Programming OM))

2008-05-07 Thread Lally Singh
and is looking super-nifty by now) :) Wednesday 07 May 2008 skrev Lally Singh: Nah, I'd been planning on getting haskell up for OM. They already have a basic ARM target for ghc, and there's already a haskell-GTK mapping. But, now that we're talking about development

Re: OM IDE (was: Re: Common Lisp for OM (Was: Programming OM))

2008-05-07 Thread Lally Singh
ago, it was buggier. I'd say it's pretty solid these days. And it's way faster. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lally Singh Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 1:19 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: OM

Re: Freerunner and external Display

2008-05-06 Thread Lally Singh
mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: When will you update the Production Status, steve?

2008-05-05 Thread Lally Singh
I can tweak out the simulator (a full running copy of the game, with rendering turned off and an AI controlling the player). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lally Singh Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 7:57 PM To: List for Openmoko

USB oscilloscope

2008-05-04 Thread Lally Singh
attention, what uses does the debug board have? I figure it'll test pin connections, etc., but is there any use for it for those who don't plan to directly modify the board? I might add something onto the I2C bus later, but that's a separate device. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer

Re: When will you update the Production Status, steve?

2008-05-04 Thread Lally Singh
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Re: Request for stable, automated build process

2008-05-03 Thread Lally Singh
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Re: Request for stable, automated build process

2008-05-03 Thread Lally Singh
a lot happier on maven. On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Hugo Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 08:21:27PM -0400, Lally Singh wrote: Just out of curiosity, would maven be completely out of the question? Please, for the love of all that's holy, no. I work with maven

Re: Unofficial poll: Do you want 3G in the proposed successor, GTA03?

2008-04-07 Thread Lally Singh
(which is admittedly scarce in some areas). WiFi's useful for a lot of things. But, 3G may get cheaper in the states. When the 3G iPhone comes out, Apple may coerce ATT to provide cheap data for it. Perhaps within the existing $20 data plan. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-05 Thread Lally Singh
make sense to make any such security system a user-installable package. That way they know what they're getting into. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: Accelerometer brainstorming

2008-03-31 Thread Lally Singh
that it's trivial. also this research paper: Footstep identification from pressure signals using hidden markov models http://www.ee.oulu.fi/mvg/files/pdf/pdf_459.pdf You folks are freaking me out. Outside of tracking people, any other ideas for why you'd want this? -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D

Re: Wrist Computing

2008-03-30 Thread Lally Singh
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2008 04:56:53 Lally Singh wrote: Thinking of something like: http://www.eurotech.com/EN/products.aspx?pg=Zypad%20WL%201000pp=Wearable%2 0Computerspc=411pid=260 I'd love a little wrist mount

Wrist Computing

2008-03-29 Thread Lally Singh
Thinking of something like: http://www.eurotech.com/EN/products.aspx?pg=Zypad%20WL%201000pp=Wearable%20Computerspc=411pid=260 I'd love a little wrist mount for an openmoko phone. It'd be a wonderful place to mount it in GPS mode when on a motorcycle. Even otherwise, a great way to quickly look

Re: Wrist Computing

2008-03-29 Thread Lally Singh
thanks On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:05 AM, JW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any thoughts? watch less star trek ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- H. Lally

Re: Openmoko strives for openness

2008-03-27 Thread Lally Singh
changing chips down the road, something a lot more hackable here would be wonderful. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman

Re: Openmoko strives for openness

2008-03-27 Thread Lally Singh
. But the vendor isn't quite ready to add value to their products like that. *sigh* It's a shame. It's too bad we can't get the openness we're seeing out of Sun for their opensparc project :-) ... unless OM wants to go sparc anytime soon :-P -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-21 Thread Lally Singh
Definite cultural problem within the open source/free software community. People use it for both definitions of 'free', and complain heavily over everything that isn't free (in $$). Small companies need to account for the risks they're taking for the community in their margins, otherwise they

Re: FreeRunner delayed a further 6 months?!?!??

2008-03-19 Thread Lally Singh
more developers who were just waiting for the project to hit their buy-in point. Open source projects charge a price in hours worked, not dollars. Never pretend that the former isn't easily worth as much as the latter. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech

Re: Price of the Freerunner published?

2008-03-19 Thread Lally Singh
. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Openmoko strives for openness

2008-03-19 Thread Lally Singh
The openness is much appreciated!! The hack value of this phone is really mind-boggling. IMHO It could become to this generation's young hackers what the old Apple IIs and Commodores were to my generation. As for the 6400 vs the 2443, is there any reason to prefer the 2443? The 6400 seems

Re: FreeRunner delayed a further 6 months?!?!??

2008-03-18 Thread Lally Singh
PROTECTED] Reply-To: List for OpenMoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org To: Lally Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: List for OpenMoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: FreeRunner delayed a further 6 months?!?!?? Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:06:25

Re: FreeRunner delayed a further 6 months?!?!??

2008-03-18 Thread Lally Singh
OM's unusual in the sense that they're asking us to do three things: 1. Invest $400-600 in them. 2. Use their device in such a personal way -- a cell phone is as much a part of my daily setup as my shoes or wrist watch. 3. Develop on it, in our usually too-rare spare time, unpaid. In exchange,

Re: FreeRunner delayed a further 6 months?!?!??

2008-03-18 Thread Lally Singh
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Lally Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh sheesh. Why are you trying so hard to poison this project? Read the rest of the response. I said the proper response is please file a bug report. Or shove it on a wishlist. Someone spent time trying to contribute

Re: OpenMoko and accessories design

2008-03-16 Thread Lally Singh
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Re: FreeRunner delayed a further 6 months?!?!??

2008-03-16 Thread Lally Singh
the future plans. Don't you agree? -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/ ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- H. Lally Singh

Re: FreeRunner delayed a further 6 months?!?!??

2008-03-16 Thread Lally Singh
have hours to dig through mailing lists and the wiki to get some basic progress data. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman

Re: FreeRunner delayed a further 6 months?!?!??

2008-03-14 Thread Lally Singh
Ugh. Outside of chip firmware, what don't we have? Also, what's the standard for consumer-level devices? I've seen some terrible, terrible mobile Windows devices. These devices have a day and a half of battery life, crash about that often, and have little more than an address book, weak

Re: GSoC 2008: Call for ideas

2008-03-09 Thread Lally Singh
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Re: GSoC 2008: Call for ideas

2008-03-09 Thread Lally Singh
Cool, can we use it directly or need a port? On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Joachim Steiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lally Singh wrote: For middleware, it looks like all that's really needed is an OM version of Cocoa's NSNotificationCenter. IMHO I think it's a great place to start

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-02-28 Thread Lally Singh
list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org

Re: Never getting GPS lock

2008-02-24 Thread Lally Singh
. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ OpenMoko

Re: proprietary firmware

2008-02-09 Thread Lally Singh
On Friday 08 February 2008 08:46, Lally Singh wrote: On Feb 7, 2008 8:32 PM, Wolfgang Spraul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He suggested we treat any chipset with proprietary firmware as a black- box, a circuit. He suggested we ignore the firmware inside. If the firmware is buggy

Re: proprietary firmware

2008-02-09 Thread Lally Singh
gps receivers for a company that worked on ionospheric/atmospheric modeling. You can usually get the raw data you want (e.g. ephemeris frames) through a published binary protocol. I'd look it up right now, but the manufacturer's website only has it in windows help file format. Ew. -- H. Lally

Re: proprietary firmware

2008-02-08 Thread Lally Singh
:-( -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Pocket Supercomputing?

2008-01-31 Thread Lally Singh
better off being AJAX based. X widget sets haven't been designed for good use over slower network links in ages. May as well take advantage of web standards, and we can likely avoid having to write/invent anything specifically for the neo. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia

Re: GTA01 Modified Handset

2008-01-30 Thread Lally Singh
GSM providers in the states, in my area I only have T-mobile and ATT Lally Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/30/08 10:12 PM Any recommendations on sim vendors in the states for use with these phones? I'd like something that'd auto-bill me like a regular phone plan, without getting ripped off

Re: GTA01 Modified Handset

2008-01-30 Thread Lally Singh
Oh, the 128 is onboard storage. What *is* the onboard CPU RAM on this thing? Is it just what's built onboard the CPU? On Jan 30, 2008 11:27 PM, Lally Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoops, I meant RAM (128 mb on the current unit). Yeah, I was afraid it was just the two. At least t-mob's