Re: Curious: Maemo devices other than Nokia?

2008-01-23 Thread Brian Waite
On Monday 21 January 2008, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Hanno Zulla > > | Maemo (as such) is free enough, some of the apps and drivers that Nokia > | ships with its tablets are not. A competitor interested in building a > | Maemo device should be able to adapt Maemo to its hardware and build > | repl

Re: N810 Maemo Program/USA Store

2008-01-05 Thread Brian Waite
Not a Nokia employee. The mail was clear. There are some countries that do not have stock of N810s. Those countries will not have active codes until the N810 is in stock. I would bet most of my life on the code working at letstalk.com, because it actually does work. It is a valid Gift Certificate

Re: Build the entire Mozilla based browser for maemo

2007-12-19 Thread Brian Waite
On Wednesday 19 December 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yong Zhang wrote: > > Can someone give some guidelines or point me some links on > > how to build the Mozilla based browser for maemo from > > scratch? Which packages from garage.maemo.org/svn/browser/ > > need to be included to make the fin

Re: Nokia Store/Nseries Store

2007-12-19 Thread Brian Waite
On Tuesday 18 December 2007, John Mitchell wrote: > All, > > Heads up! Buying from the Nseries site is different than buying > from the Nokia site. The Nseries site offers no place to put a > discount coden during the purchase process! Don't worry, Nokia will send instructions on where the cod

Re: umac.ko

2007-12-11 Thread Brian Waite
On Tuesday 11 December 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > En/na Kalle Valo ha escrit: > >> "ext Luca Olivetti" writes: > >>> En/na Kalle Valo ha escrit: > "ext Alex Iliadis" writes: > >> > >> [packet injection] > >> > > Is there a way that we can modify the source of the umac.ko > > > >m

Re: N810 availability?

2007-11-26 Thread Brian Waite
On Monday 26 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > > Is there anything you can do a little less silently? Such as > > comment (or even *hint*) as to what the delay *is*? > > Now we can comment that there is an OS2008 beta for the N800 targetting > basically you, the developers: > http:/

Re: About the upcoming maemo user karma

2007-11-02 Thread Brian Waite
On Friday 02 November 2007, Quim Gil wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 17:54 -0400, ext Brian Waite wrote: > > Please do not count wiki creates unless you can count edits too. Adding > > wiki creates causes some issues: > > Hum. You are right about the issues. > > Hen

Re: About the upcoming maemo user karma

2007-11-01 Thread Brian Waite
On Thursday 01 November 2007, Quim Gil wrote: > Hi, > > We are near to implement user karma in maemo.org. Like most karma > systems, it is used as a nice add-on to promote and show off those > investing time and energies in the project. I really like the concept of proving some carrot for people to

Re: Java acceleration/Jazelle

2007-07-18 Thread Brian Waite
> > A couple thoughts from a former hardware hacker here: first, serial > ports are your friend so if you can find a sacrificial device that has > a cracked screen or some other serious but non- life-threatening > defect you should probably invest in a level-shifter chip and a DB-9 > connector (and

Re: Internet Tablet Power Management presentation from linux-pm summit 2007

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Waite
On Thursday 12 July 2007, Igor Stoppa wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 08:48 -0400, ext Brian Waite wrote: > > [snip] > > > So I have another request, Can we possibly have different profiles for > > battery/powered? I think it is really important to be able to say if I am

Re: Internet Tablet Power Management presentation from linux-pm summit 2007

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Waite
On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Igor Stoppa wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:26 +0300, ext David Weinehall wrote: > > On ons, 2007-07-11 at 15:16 +0200, ext Visti Andresen wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > I could suggest using a "double click" on the power button > > > > > > First click opens the "Devic

Re: Lecture at my LUG: Presenting the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet

2007-04-16 Thread Brian Waite
A big 'Me Too' here. I intend to put together a LUG presentation, but have yet to do it (other than) saying I would to the LUG that is). Getting any kind of Nokia/shard collaterall would greatly speed things up. I can talk till I am blue but I havte making slieds and someinthg has to keep peopl

Re: Hildon Desktop for desktop Linux? Anybody tried yet?

2007-04-13 Thread Brian Waite
On Friday 13 April 2007 07:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Has anybody tried to compile Hildon Desktop for their Linux (e.g. > Ubuntu?) yet? > Lucas and I have blogged about it sometime ago. Any > experiences/comments/questions/whatever to share? > I am getting some hardware to play with

Re: WebCam Help

2007-02-22 Thread Brian Waite
On Thursday 22 February 2007 15:17, Dave Cridland wrote: > On Thu Feb 22 15:53:19 2007, Kees Jongenburger wrote: > > Do you have hints onto how to get rid of the gtalk client when > > poping > > the device? > Open the gtalk client, Choose Tools->Settings Uncheck 'Start when Camera opened Press 'O

Re: [maemo-developers] Wii-Remote

2007-02-15 Thread Brian Waite
On Thursday 15 February 2007 15:35, Simon Budig wrote: > Andreas Hubel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > has somebody already tried to connect a Wii-Remote with an Nokia 770 or > > N800 via Bluetooth? > > Yep. The N800 discovers the Wiimote fine, however, it does not allow > connecting without a passc

Re: [maemo-developers] busybox, sh and $HOME

2007-02-09 Thread Brian Waite
On Friday 09 February 2007 07:43, william maddler wrote: > Laurent MARTIN wrote: > >> I really have no idea... and looks like it doesn't look at .profile > > > > I've noticed this too on my N800 (see earlier posts on users list): for > > what I've understood, this is due to the fact that you run as

Re: [maemo-developers] Mildly concerned about order status

2007-01-30 Thread Brian Waite
I thin kthe best thing to do is call Nokia direct at the phone # in my last mail. I ordered mine over the phone when the CCs were having trouble. Once i heard it cleared up I Called back to make sure I wasn't stuck in a mgr queue I did not need to be in. Later that night they called me back and

Re: [maemo-developers] "This Nokia N800 discount code is for you"

2007-01-25 Thread Brian Waite
Larry, I am willing to bet your code works. The code is not valid at the Nokia US store. Although it registers, you cannot complete the transaction. (Credit Card verification failure. Read my post from before you can call and get it taken care of or wait. I bet by Monday they have it working ri

Re: [maemo-developers] "This Nokia N800 discount code is for you"

2007-01-25 Thread Brian Waite
Ok after a 30 minute converssation I have finally had my order accepted. You can't use the code online it says error processing credit card. You can't call 866-59nokia, they are clueless. You CAN call 888-665-4228 but level 1 support will just place the order at nokiausa and fail. You need get t

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: Using the N770/N800 as a remote control.

2007-01-16 Thread Brian Waite
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 15:42, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On 16 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 1/16/07, Ted Zlatanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Would it be possible to write a generic remote control for the > > > 770/N800, which talked (over TCP/IP or Bluetooth) to a master > > > con

Re: [maemo-developers] Alternative input method

2006-12-22 Thread Brian Waite
On Friday 22 December 2006 04:15, Ilya Schurov wrote: > Hi list, > > I would like to implement Quikwriting [1] input method for Maemo > platform as an addition to existing virtual keyboard and handwriting > recognition. As far as I understand, Maemo uses generic GTK+ IM API, but > I can't find any

Re: [maemo-developers] maemo weekly news anyone?

2006-11-15 Thread Brian Waite
speakers as editors so I don't use too many strange constructs. Thanks Brian On Tuesday 14 November 2006 12:22, Brian Waite wrote: > Hi all, > I am a new owner of a Nokia 770. Reading the archives I saw there was a > desire for a Summary Maemo-traffic post on a periodic bas

RE: [maemo-developers] maemo weekly news anyone?

2006-11-14 Thread Brian Waite
Hi all, I am a new owner of a Nokia 770. Reading the archives I saw there was a desire for a Summary Maemo-traffic post on a periodic basis. I would be willing to try to take up this charge. For some background, I have been involved in Linux embedded development for a long time now and curren