Re: Spam

2008-06-15 Thread Alexander Frøyseth
No increase in spam here.
I use thunderbird, so I don't see any spam :D
Mo Abrahams skrev:
> Did anybody else notice a huge increase in the spam they get since they
> first joined this mailing list? I never used to get any, and within a
> week of joining this list I get lots.
>
> Mo.
>
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Re: Spam

2008-06-15 Thread arne anka
> Did anybody else notice a huge increase in the spam they get since they
> first joined this mailing list?

not yet -- but the archive at lists.openmoko.org does not hide  
email-addresses. thus, harvesting should be pretty easy.
maybe the archive could be configured to chop off everything after @?

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Re: Spam

2008-06-15 Thread Alexander Frøyseth
Yes, but if anyone really wants to get the email addresses, they just 
join the list ;)


arne anka skrev:
>> Did anybody else notice a huge increase in the spam they get since they
>> first joined this mailing list?
>> 
>
> not yet -- but the archive at lists.openmoko.org does not hide  
> email-addresses. thus, harvesting should be pretty easy.
> maybe the archive could be configured to chop off everything after @?
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Re: Spam

2008-06-15 Thread arne anka
> Yes, but if anyone really wants to get the email addresses, they just 
> join the list ;)

true, oh pharao -- which poses the question, why not use a foru ... uhm,  
never mind :-)

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Re: Spam

2008-06-15 Thread AVee
On Sunday 15 June 2008 13:36, Mo Abrahams wrote:
> Did anybody else notice a huge increase in the spam they get since they
> first joined this mailing list? I never used to get any, and within a
> week of joining this list I get lots.

I use a unique email adress for this list, but my spam folder doesn't hold a 
single email with that adresses anywhere in it. So at least there wasn't any 
spam in the last 20 days...

AVee

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Re: Spam

2009-01-23 Thread Pander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Can mailman be configured that you have to sign your messages correctly
and otherwise they will not be distributed?

Steve 'dillo Okay wrote:
> Hmmm. It would appear that somebody's desktop system or server has  
> been compromised.
> You all might want to check your AV software.
> Can I also suggest that people not use the offensive subject in their  
> replies? ---It only gives the bigots
> more traction and voice.  If you think the message is offensive, just  
> think of what it will look like in a Google search
> 3 months from now.
> 
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Re: Spam

2009-01-23 Thread Jim Ancona
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Steve  'dillo Okay
 wrote:
>
> Hmmm. It would appear that somebody's desktop system or server has
> been compromised.

No, looking at the headers, almost certainly not. Someone simply
forged Mickey's address using their email client. I receive spam
"From" my address all the time. The only difference is that they sent
it through the mailing list.

> You all might want to check your AV software.
> Can I also suggest that people not use the offensive subject in their
> replies? ---It only gives the bigots
> more traction and voice.  If you think the message is offensive, just
> think of what it will look like in a Google search
> 3 months from now.

A better rule (which I have just violated) is not to reply at all,
since it just clutters the list.

Jim

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Re: Spam

2009-01-24 Thread Paul Boddie
Jim Ancona wrote:
> No, looking at the headers, almost certainly not. Someone simply
> forged Mickey's address using their email client. I receive spam
> "From" my address all the time. The only difference is that they sent
> it through the mailing list.

Indeed. Readers should exercise common sense when seeing mail from people, 
especially relatively well-known people in the community, which seems out of 
character or nonsensical before jumping to conclusions about that person 
becoming a spammer, going over to the Dark Side, and so on.

> A better rule (which I have just violated) is not to reply at all,
> since it just clutters the list.

To avoid some problems with forged mail, I recommend setting up an SPF policy 
record:

http://www.openspf.org/

See the "Deploying SPF" part of that page and the associated setup wizard.

When I looked at openmoko.org's DNS records, I couldn't find any evidence of 
SPF policies, so perhaps someone should look into it. And everyone else who 
isn't publishing SPF policies for their domain should consider doing so, 
too - it's a pain to get a deluge of spam backscatter in one's inbox, but you 
can prevent it from happening.

Paul

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re: spam

2009-01-25 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, arne anka wrote:

> the best course of action, is to delete an forget it, the subject is a
> pretty good hint ...

And perhaps for openmoko to start publishing SPF records

Paul

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Re: spam

2009-01-25 Thread Damian Spriggs
I really don't care what type of sun tanning lotion they are using.  
But there's not much you can do about forged headers and open relays.


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On Jan 25, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:


And perhaps for openmoko to start publishing SPF records

Paul


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Re: Spam

2009-01-27 Thread roguemoko
Paul Boddie wrote:
> To avoid some problems with forged mail, I recommend setting up an SPF policy 
> record:
> 
> http://www.openspf.org/
> 
> See the "Deploying SPF" part of that page and the associated setup wizard.
> 
> When I looked at openmoko.org's DNS records, I couldn't find any evidence of 
> SPF policies, so perhaps someone should look into it. And everyone else who 
> isn't publishing SPF policies for their domain should consider doing so, 
> too - it's a pain to get a deluge of spam backscatter in one's inbox, but you 
> can prevent it from happening.

This should especially be done by mailing list servers and more so in 
openmoko's case as the contact with openmoko personnel and developers is 
pretty crucial.

Preventing your own people from being impersonated and forged mails 
being relayed via your own list seems common sense to some of us, or at 
least me :)

As the from address is maintained when sending to this particular list, 
I guess it's not even necessary for them to be checking records, so long 
as they publish some that we can check ... though they should be doing both.

The only problem with implementing this now would be the multiple 
sending servers required to be added to the records or the set up of 
auth smtp (with increased BW usage) and then the requirement for 
openmoko.org email users to adhere to the set up. Doable but not exactly 
trivial.

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Re: Spam

2009-01-28 Thread Jan Henkins
Hello,

On Wed, January 28, 2009 01:59, roguem...@roguewrt.org wrote:

> This should especially be done by mailing list servers and more so in
> openmoko's case as the contact with openmoko personnel and developers is
> pretty crucial.
>
> Preventing your own people from being impersonated and forged mails
> being relayed via your own list seems common sense to some of us, or at
> least me :)

There is another situation that I find to be a worry: In order to send
mail to this list you have to have a registered address. In the above case
it was proper "openmoko.org" addresses that was used in the Joe Job
attack, but it could have been anybody else who have sent an email to the
list. Looking in the list archives I can see that not enough is being done
to obscure sender addresses. Currently the only thing that is being done
is to replace the "@" with a "at". So "dor...@grey.com"
would become "dorian at grey.com". Sweet! Armed with wget to leech all the
archives, a few text tools (grep, Perl, Python, etc) and I can build up a
list of addresses (almost 100% confirmed working addresses) that could be
used for various spamming activities. A list of active addresses is worth
money too! ;-) So what I suggest is that the list administrators obfuscate
list members' addresses even more. MailMan's Pipermail archiver can do
this if properly set up.

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Re: Spam

2009-01-28 Thread Sam Kuper
2009/1/28 Jan Henkins 
> So what I suggest is that the list administrators obfuscate
> list members' addresses even more. MailMan's Pipermail archiver can do
> this if properly set up.

Adding ReCAPTCHA's mailhide[1] might improve this further.

[1] http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/

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Re: Spam

2009-01-28 Thread Stroller

On 28 Jan 2009, at 09:56, Jan Henkins wrote:
> ...
> There is another situation that I find to be a worry: In order to send
> mail to this list you have to have a registered address.
> ... but it could have been anybody else who have sent an email to the
> list. Looking in the list archives I can see that not enough is  
> being done
> to obscure sender addresses. Currently the only thing that is being  
> done
> is to replace the "@" with a "at". So "dor...@grey.com"
> would become "dorian at grey.com". Sweet! Armed with wget to leech  
> all the
> archives, a few text tools (grep, Perl, Python, etc) and I can build  
> up a
> list of addresses (almost 100% confirmed working addresses) that  
> could be
> used for various spamming activities. A list of active addresses is  
> worth
> money too! ;-) So what I suggest is that the list administrators  
> obfuscate
> list members' addresses even more. MailMan's Pipermail archiver can do
> this if properly set up.

Surely the traditional mailing list problem remains - subscribers to  
the list will still receive messages with the full from address  
intact. Or do you intend to obfuscate that, too? Surely a spammer can  
just subscribe to the list to obtain all our addresses?

Obfuscating email addresses on the web archive is, IMO, no substitute  
for sensible policies (greylisting, RBL, SFF?) at your incoming mail  
server.

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Re: Spam

2009-01-28 Thread arne anka
> Obfuscating email addresses on the web archive is, IMO, no substitute
> for sensible policies (greylisting, RBL, SFF?) at your incoming mail
> server.

not as such. but i think it is  a necessary part.

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Re: Spam

2009-01-29 Thread Jan Henkins

On Wed, January 28, 2009 16:08, arne anka wrote:
>> Obfuscating email addresses on the web archive is, IMO, no substitute
>> for sensible policies (greylisting, RBL, SFF?) at your incoming mail
>> server.
>
> not as such. but i think it is  a necessary part.

>From a mail server perspective I have to agree, if you do not have
greylisting. SPF and some form of RBL service activated, you are courting
disaster. Obfuscating mail addresses in web archives is a seperate issue,
but just as important. But like it was said, it does not substitute or
replace sensible email policies, but it keeps the bad guys from harvesting
active e-mail addresses.

Both these things are not difficult to set up, and I would urge Openmoko
to act while the issue is still in discussion.

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Re: Spam

2009-01-30 Thread roguemoko
Stroller wrote:
> On 28 Jan 2009, at 09:56, Jan Henkins wrote:
>> ...
>> There is another situation that I find to be a worry: In order to send
>> mail to this list you have to have a registered address.
>> ... but it could have been anybody else who have sent an email to the
>> list. Looking in the list archives I can see that not enough is  
>> being done
>> to obscure sender addresses. Currently the only thing that is being  
>> done
>> is to replace the "@" with a "at". So "dor...@grey.com"
>> would become "dorian at grey.com". Sweet! Armed with wget to leech  
>> all the
>> archives, a few text tools (grep, Perl, Python, etc) and I can build  
>> up a
>> list of addresses (almost 100% confirmed working addresses) that  
>> could be
>> used for various spamming activities. A list of active addresses is  
>> worth
>> money too! ;-) So what I suggest is that the list administrators  
>> obfuscate
>> list members' addresses even more. MailMan's Pipermail archiver can do
>> this if properly set up.
> 
> Surely the traditional mailing list problem remains - subscribers to  
> the list will still receive messages with the full from address  
> intact. Or do you intend to obfuscate that, too? Surely a spammer can  
> just subscribe to the list to obtain all our addresses?
> 
> Obfuscating email addresses on the web archive is, IMO, no substitute  
> for sensible policies (greylisting, RBL, SFF?) at your incoming mail  
> server.
> 
> Stroller.

I think all are good ideas so far, with the problem at hand, SPF deals 
specifically with the relaying and reception of forged emails. Although 
the most relevant solution, there's still a lot of people not using it 
so success varies and it also forces some requirements on the users of 
the domain. Being 'open' pioneers, it's be nice to have.

 From experience, greylisting, helo and RBL rejections are equal to, if 
not at some points greater than, the amount of flagged spam I recieve. 
They're also the kind of techniques that subtly force other admins to 
fix their servers. Any issues I've had have been outweighed by the benefit.

I see the web side of things more about being considerate, not so much 
an obligation. If it was a forum I'd care but I completely agree with 
Stroller. Short of removing the addresses from the emails, I can't 
imagine much else you could do (and I'm not suggesting that btw ;).

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Re: ****SPAM(7.5)****

2011-01-11 Thread Benjamin Deering



You are right, I did not have it on the top of my mind since I use the
workaround:

As a temporary workaround one can enable otimed subsystem in 
/etc/frameworkd.conf:

[otimed]
disable = 0

Would using otimed allow setting time from GSM and GPS like it used to?

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Re: [-SPAM-] Re: application idea

2007-09-19 Thread Ian Stirling

ian douglas wrote:

Tilman Baumann wrote:

The biggest challenge would be a mapping from gps coordinates to 
regions/postcodes or such.
If you have this information, you could do all sorts of crazy stuff. 
But i doubt these data would be very easy to get.



I've seen it at another contract I worked a year ago, but not sure if 
the GPS-to-US-zip-code data was freely available or a paid service. The 
database I used for my job there had the entire US postal code regions 
mapped out based on latitude/longitude so the data IS out there. Just a 
matter of seeing if it's free to download from somewhere. The database 
was gigantic though, I'm not sure it's something you'd want to store on 
the device itself.


Going to the 5 digit zips is easy - it's well under a meg.
5 digit + 4 is a whole different matter.


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Re: [-SPAM-] Re: application idea

2007-09-19 Thread David Pottage

On Wed, September 19, 2007 12:00 pm, Ian Stirling wrote:
> ian douglas wrote:
>> Tilman Baumann wrote:
>>
>>> The biggest challenge would be a mapping from gps coordinates to
>>> regions/postcodes or such.
>>> If you have this information, you could do all sorts of crazy stuff.
>>> But i doubt these data would be very easy to get.
>>
>>
>> I've seen it at another contract I worked a year ago, but not sure if
>> the GPS-to-US-zip-code data was freely available or a paid service. The
>> database I used for my job there had the entire US postal code regions
>> mapped out based on latitude/longitude so the data IS out there. Just a
>> matter of seeing if it's free to download from somewhere. The database
>> was gigantic though, I'm not sure it's something you'd want to store on
>> the device itself.
>
> Going to the 5 digit zips is easy - it's well under a meg.
> 5 digit + 4 is a whole different matter.

But is the data freely available, or is it constrained by copyright or the
like.

In the UK, postcode (zipcode) data is restricted by copyright, and the
post office makes money selling licenses to users. Even if we could get
the data, we could not freely distribute it.

In the UK there is a project [1] to build a post code database using user
contributed information. Basicaly users are asked to type in the postocode
and location of their homes, busneses, and any other site they can find.
We many have to use similar database for other countries.

[1] http://www.freethepostcode.org/

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Re: [-SPAM-] Re: application idea

2007-09-19 Thread Giles Jones
David Pottage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :

> But is the data freely available, or is it constrained by copyright or the
> like.
> 
> In the UK, postcode (zipcode) data is restricted by copyright, and the
> post office makes money selling licenses to users. Even if we could get
> the data, we could not freely distribute it.

I'm not particularly bothered about free solutions to making sat nav work on 
the Neo. If someone can make the Tomtom map data and postcode file work on the 
Neo it would be good. It's not that expensive to get a licence for these day.

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Re: [-SPAM-] Re: application idea

2007-09-19 Thread andy
Just wondering if there is a reason for the [-SPAM-] in the subject line?

Andy

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:11:30 GMT, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Pottage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
> 
>> But is the data freely available, or is it constrained by copyright or
> the
>> like.
>>
>> In the UK, postcode (zipcode) data is restricted by copyright, and the
>> post office makes money selling licenses to users. Even if we could get
>> the data, we could not freely distribute it.
> 
> I'm not particularly bothered about free solutions to making sat nav work
> on the Neo. If someone can make the Tomtom map data and postcode file work
> on the Neo it would be good. It's not that expensive to get a licence for
> these day.
> 
> ---
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> 
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Re: [-SPAM-] Re: application idea

2007-09-19 Thread Casey Harkins

David Pottage wrote:

On Wed, September 19, 2007 12:00 pm, Ian Stirling wrote:

ian douglas wrote:

Tilman Baumann wrote:
I've seen it at another contract I worked a year ago, but not sure if
the GPS-to-US-zip-code data was freely available or a paid service. The
database I used for my job there had the entire US postal code regions
mapped out based on latitude/longitude so the data IS out there. Just a
matter of seeing if it's free to download from somewhere. The database
was gigantic though, I'm not sure it's something you'd want to store on
the device itself.

Going to the 5 digit zips is easy - it's well under a meg.
5 digit + 4 is a whole different matter.


But is the data freely available, or is it constrained by copyright or the
like.



There is public domain data for 5 digit zips in the US.
   http://zips.sourceforge.net

-casey

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Re: [-SPAM-] Re: application idea

2007-09-24 Thread Ian Stirling

andy wrote:

Just wondering if there is a reason for the [-SPAM-] in the subject line?



Because for some reason my ISP tagged it as spam.
And I forgot to edit it.
Oops.


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Re: Spam in projects.openmoko mailinglist

2009-07-30 Thread sriranjan
Michael Tansella wrote:
> HI,
> I'm the developer of openmokoder project: 
> http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/openmokoder/
> Since 3 days I get mails with subject "Openmokoder-commits moderator 
> request(s) waiting"  but unfortunately I'm unable to log in at 
> http://lists.projects.openmoko.org/mailman/admindb/openmokoder-commits
>  because of wrong password. But I'm pretty shure that it is correct. 
> Additionally I get Mails from that list with subject:
> � VIAGRA � Official Site 
>
> Any hints?
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Re: Spam in projects.openmoko mailinglist

2009-07-30 Thread arne anka
> Additionally I get Mails from that list with subject:
> � VIAGRA � Official Site  
> 

to what address do you get that spam?
faking the from-header is widely used -- i get a lot of spam sent  
allegedly from my address.
simply ignore it.

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Re: Spam in projects.openmoko mailinglist

2009-07-30 Thread DJDAS
arne anka ha scritto:
>> Additionally I get Mails from that list with subject:
>> � VIAGRA � Official Site  
>> 
>> 
>
> to what address do you get that spam?
> faking the from-header is widely used -- i get a lot of spam sent  
> allegedly from my address.
> simply ignore it.
>
>   

I received spam even from my project page (BlueMoko) same as Michael:



The bluemoko-comm...@projects.openmoko.org mailing list has 1
request(s) waiting for your consideration at:

http://lists.projects.openmoko.org/mailman/admindb/bluemoko-commits

Please attend to this at your earliest convenience.  This notice of
pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily.


Pending posts:
From: bluemoko-comm...@projects.openmoko.org on Wed Jul 29 17:47:15 2009
Subject: Dear bluemoko-comm...@projects.openmoko.org 76% 0FF on Pfizer !

Cause: Post by non-member to a members-only list



Bye.



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Re: Spam in projects.openmoko mailinglist

2009-07-30 Thread arne anka
> Pending posts:
> From: bluemoko-comm...@projects.openmoko.org on Wed Jul 29 17:47:15 2009
> Subject: Dear bluemoko-comm...@projects.openmoko.org 76% 0FF on Pfizer !
>
> Cause: Post by non-member to a members-only list

so? what part don't you understand?
the usual kind of spamming -- send to each and every address ever  
encountered you spam and hope for the best.
it's an issue for years now, did you honestly never encounter that kind of  
spam?

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Re: Spam in projects.openmoko mailinglist

2009-07-30 Thread DJDAS
arne anka ha scritto:
>> Pending posts:
>> From: bluemoko-comm...@projects.openmoko.org on Wed Jul 29 17:47:15 2009
>> Subject: Dear bluemoko-comm...@projects.openmoko.org 76% 0FF on Pfizer !
>>
>> Cause: Post by non-member to a members-only list
>> 
>
> so? what part don't you understand?
> the usual kind of spamming -- send to each and every address ever  
> encountered you spam and hope for the best.
> it's an issue for years now, did you honestly never encounter that kind of  
> spam?
>
>
>   
No, this seems a mail generated from the versioning system who alerts me 
of a pending commit request not a common spamming message.
Furthermore my email address is not mentioned inside the message as the 
usual spam. It smells of security issue on the projects.openmoko site...

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Re: Spam in projects.openmoko mailinglist

2009-07-30 Thread Michael Tansella
Am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2009 10:45:08 schrieb arne anka:
> > Additionally I get Mails from that list with subject:
> > � VIAGRA � Official Site
> > 
>
> to what address do you get that spam?
> faking the from-header is widely used -- i get a lot of spam sent
> allegedly from my address.
> simply ignore it.

It's the Mail address I'm registered at projects.openmoko.org. But my main 
problem is that I can not log in at 
http://lists.projects.openmoko.org/mailman/admindb/openmokoder-commits so I 
get this "Openmokoder-commits moderator request(s) waiting" mail every day

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Re: Spam in projects.openmoko mailinglist

2009-07-30 Thread arne anka
> No, this seems a mail generated from the versioning system who alerts me
> of a pending commit request not a common spamming message.

???
nothing's easier than spoofing the sent-from. just because it says it is  
sent from something-commits does in no way mean, it really is.

> Furthermore my email address is not mentioned inside the message as the
> usual spam.

???

> It smells of security issue on the projects.openmoko site...

still possible, if one take sthe password issue in account. but not from  
the quotes of spam.

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Re: Spam in projects.openmoko mailinglist

2009-07-30 Thread Christian Adams
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moinmoin,
Am 30.07.2009 um 10:57 schrieb DJDAS:

> arne anka ha scritto:
>>> Additionally I get Mails from that list with subject:
>>> � VIAGRA � Official Site
>>> 
>>>
>>
>> to what address do you get that spam?
>> faking the from-header is widely used -- i get a lot of spam sent
>> allegedly from my address.
>> simply ignore it.
>>
>>
>
> I received spam even from my project page (BlueMoko) same as Michael:
>
> -- 
> --
>
> The bluemoko-comm...@projects.openmoko.org mailing list has 1
> request(s) waiting for your consideration at:
>
>   http://lists.projects.openmoko.org/mailman/admindb/bluemoko-commits
>   
> Please attend to this at your earliest convenience.  This notice of
> pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily.
>
>
> Pending posts:
> From: bluemoko-comm...@projects.openmoko.org on Wed Jul 29 17:47:15  
> 2009
> Subject: Dear bluemoko-comm...@projects.openmoko.org 76% 0FF on  
> Pfizer !
>
> Cause: Post by non-member to a members-only list
>
> -- 
> --
>
> Bye.

i'm getting these mails _every_ day since nearly 200 days now for my  
project
at projects.om.org and i also am not able to log in to the mentioned  
mailman/admin

i really would like to turn this off.

cheers,
christian (morlac) adams

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Re: Spam in projects.openmoko mailinglist

2009-07-30 Thread DJDAS
arne anka ha scritto:
>> No, this seems a mail generated from the versioning system who alerts me
>> of a pending commit request not a common spamming message.
>> 
>
> ???
> nothing's easier than spoofing the sent-from. just because it says it is  
> sent from something-commits does in no way mean, it really is.
>   

Sorry but which part of "the mail was sent from the versioning system" 
you didn't understand? :)
This is NOT spoofed but was sent form the projects server, please look 
at the headers:

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X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,NO_REAL_NAME 
autolearn=no version=3.1.5
Received: from projects.openmoko.org (projects.openmoko.org [88.198.93.218])
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Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=projects.openmoko.org)
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MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: 1 Bluemoko-commits moderator request(s) waiting
From: bluemoko-commits-boun...@projects.openmoko.org
To: bluemoko-commits-ow...@projects.openmoko.org
Message-ID: 
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:03:04 +0200
Precedence: bulk
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Sender: mailman-boun...@projects.openmoko.org
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X-Virus-Status: Clean

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>   
>> It smells of security issue on the projects.openmoko site...
>> 
>
> still possible, if one take sthe password issue in account. but not from  
> the quotes of spam.
>
>   
Maybe they were able to automatize the commit requests for all (o part 
of) the projects hosted in the site registering an account (or using an 
anonymous one if possible) that asks for commits and using the 
subject/notes field to add spamming messages...



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Re: Spam in projects.openmoko mailinglist

2009-07-30 Thread Sander
DJDAS wrote (ao):
> arne anka ha scritto:
> >> No, this seems a mail generated from the versioning system who alerts me
> >> of a pending commit request not a common spamming message.
> >> 
> >
> > ???
> > nothing's easier than spoofing the sent-from. just because it says it is  
> > sent from something-commits does in no way mean, it really is.
> >   
> 
> Sorry but which part of "the mail was sent from the versioning system" 
> you didn't understand? :)
> This is NOT spoofed but was sent form the projects server, please look 
> at the headers:

These headers and this email are from the process that manages the
'moderator request(s) waiting' queue.

My guess would be that a spammer spams the mailaddress which receives
the commits, and that mailman refuses to send the spam to the members of
the commit list due to the spammer being a non-member.

With kind regards, Sander

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> Subject: 1 Bluemoko-commits moderator request(s) waiting
> From: bluemoko-commits-boun...@projects.openmoko.org
> To: bluemoko-commits-ow...@projects.openmoko.org
> Message-ID: 
> 
> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:03:04 +0200
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> List-Id: cvs commits 
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> djdas.djdas.net
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> 
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> >   
> >> It smells of security issue on the projects.openmoko site...
> >> 
> >
> > still possible, if one take sthe password issue in account. but not from  
> > the quotes of spam.
> >
> >   
> Maybe they were able to automatize the commit requests for all (o part 
> of) the projects hosted in the site registering an account (or using an 
> anonymous one if possible) that asks for commits and using the 
> subject/notes field to add spamming messages...

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Re: Spam in projects.openmoko mailinglist

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Tansella
OK I just deleted the mailing list - I don't need it

Greets 
Michael

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Re: Spam in projects.openmoko mailinglist

2009-08-01 Thread Christian Adams
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moinmoin,
Am 31.07.2009 um 11:16 schrieb Michael Tansella:

> OK I just deleted the mailing list - I don't need it
>
> Greets
> Michael

dumb question: how? maybe i'm to blind to find where/how ..
.. lack of sleep maybe ..

cheers
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Re: Spam in projects.openmoko mailinglist

2009-08-01 Thread Michael Tansella
Am Samstag, 1. August 2009 10:23:05 schrieb Christian Adams:
> moinmoin,
>
> Am 31.07.2009 um 11:16 schrieb Michael Tansella:
> > OK I just deleted the mailing list - I don't need it
> >
> > Greets
> > Michael
>
> dumb question: how? maybe i'm to blind to find where/how ..
> .. lack of sleep maybe ..

you go to projects.openmoko.org
log in
go to your projects overview
choose tab mailinglist
admin
remove

But unfortunately I still get this Mail every day from that now non existing 
mailing list.

Beste Grüße
Michael

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Re: ***SPAM*** Re: In the press

2008-07-15 Thread Scott Derrick
I don't think its the wiki software that is the problem.

Its the ad-hoc management method of everybody editing and no one doing 
QA to insure old stuff is thrown out or clearly marked,  consistent 
format,   new  pages in the right place,  appropriate links to and from 
the document, etc

There has to be some kind of control to enforce a standard,  I'm a 
libertarian at heart but the free-for-all method used now falls apart 
when you have multiple projects(1973, FreeRunner, etc) and hundreds of 
contributers..

I think OpenMoko stands to gain the most from teh effort and should step 
up to the plate to provide a WikiBoss that can provide the standard, 
organize volunteers to police  "their" areas of expertise. 

Unless this of some other kind of oversight is done any new wiki will 
degenerate into the state of the current wiki in short order.

Scott

Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> Since Ken really liked OpenWRT's Wiki, I looked at it and see they use 
> MoinMoin. So, I am willing to set up MoinMoin on a server to be used as 
> an FR community wiki. 
> If people think it's a good idea then I will set up a website for it and 
> register it. Perhaps something like mokofanbox.org or whatever. I don't 
> really care. I can register it and I will make it available to whomever 
> can administer it. Jay seems to be willing. 
> Anyhow, if that's what will help us out then just give me the green light 
> and I'll do that much. If it works out - Great!
>
> Curtis
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Re: SPAM Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-28 Thread Andy Powell
On Friday 28 March 2008 10:37, joerg wrote:
> Waaah! 10.142.178.13 spamming the list :-(

it's probably gmail being sucky yet again and sending mail out repeatedly

Andy

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Re: [SPAM] Quake III on Nokia devices

2008-11-28 Thread Marcel
Am Friday 28 November 2008 16:24:28 schrieb Ivan Shirokoff:
> Hello everybody =)
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/nokia-quake-iii-gains-on-phone-server-bl
>uetooth-keyboard-and-mo/
>
> I wonder if there any way we would get something like this on FR? =)

Unlikely from what I've heard about the glamo. Especially with today's state 
of drivers, although Graeme was working on a new/better one if I remember 
correctly.

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Re: ***SPAM*** ***SPAM*** Re: Yaouh 0.5 out

2009-03-03 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Daniel.Li  wrote:
> Hi fellows,
> Where are the resources of those maps?
> Well, I mean the data of map? Where does it comes from?
>
> I found that map of euro is much more clear, compared to my location.
>
> Any ideas?

Openstreetmap.org - feel free to add details in your area, see
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page


r

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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-02 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:43:23 +0200
Petr Vanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> 
> No problem here. I reflashed previous QT snapshot 4.3 so i presume if
> you use kernel from 4.3 you are ready to go.
> 
> unless...I was also looking at the "services" screen or what it's
> called in QT4.4 so i might have activated USB networking by an
> accident and it's kernel independent? Check it out anyways.
> 

hmmm ... I'm guessing that image isn't the official released one, too
many bugs (old and new):

- lots of kernel-warnings spit out during booting (using
uImage-gta02-mwester-stable-d6f9fd270943fb22.bin from I believe the
previous 4.3.x snapshot version). Or maybe this is a uimage issue?
- timezone management isn't working (the files just aren't there
in /usr/share/timezone). Also the time itself can't be changed.
- echo problem is back
- alarm keeps vibrating the phone, after pressing "snooze"
- each received call arrives twice, causing the second call to show up
as "missed"

The image is called 4.4.1, but my phone reports it as 4.4.2 ... I
thought it was going to be 4.4.3?

Franky

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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-02 Thread Kishore
On Thursday 02 Oct 2008 11:53:46 pm Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:43:23 +0200
>
> Petr Vanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > No problem here. I reflashed previous QT snapshot 4.3 so i presume if
> > you use kernel from 4.3 you are ready to go.
> >
> > unless...I was also looking at the "services" screen or what it's
> > called in QT4.4 so i might have activated USB networking by an
> > accident and it's kernel independent? Check it out anyways.
>
> hmmm ... I'm guessing that image isn't the official released one, too
> many bugs (old and new):
>
> - lots of kernel-warnings spit out during booting (using
> uImage-gta02-mwester-stable-d6f9fd270943fb22.bin from I believe the
> previous 4.3.x snapshot version). Or maybe this is a uimage issue?
> - timezone management isn't working (the files just aren't there
> in /usr/share/timezone). Also the time itself can't be changed.
> - echo problem is back
> - alarm keeps vibrating the phone, after pressing "snooze"
> - each received call arrives twice, causing the second call to show up
> as "missed"
>
> The image is called 4.4.1, but my phone reports it as 4.4.2 ... I
> thought it was going to be 4.4.3?

Yup! I have all of those issues you mention. Anyway, USB networking is now 
working after i flashed mwester kernel. I am able to ssh but i cannot connect 
to the internet. ping google.com gives me "ping: bad address 'google.com'".

I checked /etc/resolv.conf and it is empty.
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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-02 Thread Lorn Potter
Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:43:23 +0200
> Petr Vanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>
>> No problem here. I reflashed previous QT snapshot 4.3 so i presume if
>> you use kernel from 4.3 you are ready to go.
>>
>> unless...I was also looking at the "services" screen or what it's
>> called in QT4.4 so i might have activated USB networking by an
>> accident and it's kernel independent? Check it out anyways.
>>
> 
> hmmm ... I'm guessing that image isn't the official released one, too
> many bugs (old and new):
> 
> - lots of kernel-warnings spit out during booting (using
> uImage-gta02-mwester-stable-d6f9fd270943fb22.bin from I believe the
> previous 4.3.x snapshot version). Or maybe this is a uimage issue?

yes, this has nothng to do with qtextended.

> - timezone management isn't working (the files just aren't there
> in /usr/share/timezone). Also the time itself can't be changed.
hmmm...
indeed. sorry. I will update with a new image.

> - echo problem is back

odd.

> - alarm keeps vibrating the phone, after pressing "snooze"
> - each received call arrives twice, causing the second call to show up
> as "missed"

also odd. I haven't seen this.

> 
> The image is called 4.4.1, but my phone reports it as 4.4.2 ... I
> thought it was going to be 4.4.3?

Thats because its really a snapshot. which is just 4.4.1 + a few bug fixes.




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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-02 Thread Kishore
On Friday 03 Oct 2008 4:46:45 am Lorn Potter wrote:
> Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:43:23 +0200
> >
> > Petr Vanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> No problem here. I reflashed previous QT snapshot 4.3 so i presume if
> >> you use kernel from 4.3 you are ready to go.
> >>
> >> unless...I was also looking at the "services" screen or what it's
> >> called in QT4.4 so i might have activated USB networking by an
> >> accident and it's kernel independent? Check it out anyways.
> >
> > hmmm ... I'm guessing that image isn't the official released one, too
> > many bugs (old and new):
> >
> > - lots of kernel-warnings spit out during booting (using
> > uImage-gta02-mwester-stable-d6f9fd270943fb22.bin from I believe the
> > previous 4.3.x snapshot version). Or maybe this is a uimage issue?
>
> yes, this has nothng to do with qtextended.

I get plenty of errors with regard to splash plugin not found. Seems like 
there should have been a splash screen that is trying to be updated but then 
it does not exist. And yes, boot it still slow.

> > - timezone management isn't working (the files just aren't there
> > in /usr/share/timezone). Also the time itself can't be changed.
>
> hmmm...
> indeed. sorry. I will update with a new image.

I hope it will be possible to just upgrade from the current install i just 
spent a few hours setting up the moko, transferring contacts etc. (My previous 
motoming phone does not have an export all feature)

> > - echo problem is back
>
> odd.
>
> > - alarm keeps vibrating the phone, after pressing "snooze"
> > - each received call arrives twice, causing the second call to show up
> > as "missed"
>
> also odd. I haven't seen this.
>
> > The image is called 4.4.1, but my phone reports it as 4.4.2 ... I
> > thought it was going to be 4.4.3?
>
> Thats because its really a snapshot. which is just 4.4.1 + a few bug fixes.

I do not use the FR as my primary phone yet so have not tested how well it 
manages calls.

Ps: Lorn, In your blog post for today, you mention dynamic rotation. Does that 
mean it adjusts based on accelerometer reading? I could only find one 
application where i had to tap on the screen to make it rotate.
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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-02 Thread gromez
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Franky Van Liedekerke
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:43:23 +0200
> Petr Vanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[...]

> - timezone management isn't working (the files just aren't there
> in /usr/share/timezone). Also the time itself can't be changed.

Same problem. A solution for getting the right date is to use the date
command from ssh.

> - echo problem is back

During a call, people notify me that they hear their own voice, so
echo problem is back.

> - alarm keeps vibrating the phone, after pressing "snooze"

I've tried alarm this morning and it worked fine.

> - each received call arrives twice, causing the second call to show up
> as "missed"

Similar problem with calls and text messages. Even if I read them it
seems they are never marked as read.

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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-02 Thread Lorn Potter
Kishore wrote:
> On Friday 03 Oct 2008 4:46:45 am Lorn Potter wrote:
>> Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:43:23 +0200
>>>
>>> Petr Vanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 No problem here. I reflashed previous QT snapshot 4.3 so i presume if
 you use kernel from 4.3 you are ready to go.

 unless...I was also looking at the "services" screen or what it's
 called in QT4.4 so i might have activated USB networking by an
 accident and it's kernel independent? Check it out anyways.
>>> hmmm ... I'm guessing that image isn't the official released one, too
>>> many bugs (old and new):
>>>
>>> - lots of kernel-warnings spit out during booting (using
>>> uImage-gta02-mwester-stable-d6f9fd270943fb22.bin from I believe the
>>> previous 4.3.x snapshot version). Or maybe this is a uimage issue?
>> yes, this has nothng to do with qtextended.
> 
> I get plenty of errors with regard to splash plugin not found. Seems like 
> there should have been a splash screen that is trying to be updated but then 
> it does not exist. And yes, boot it still slow.

thats because I removed that, but some script is still trying to use it. It's 
harmless

> 
>>> - timezone management isn't working (the files just aren't there
>>> in /usr/share/timezone). Also the time itself can't be changed.
>> hmmm...
>> indeed. sorry. I will update with a new image.
> 
> I hope it will be possible to just upgrade from the current install i just 
> spent a few hours setting up the moko, transferring contacts etc. (My 
> previous 
> motoming phone does not have an export all feature)

ok. I will put up a ipkg of the needed zoneinfo files.

> 
>>> - echo problem is back
>> odd.
>>
>>> - alarm keeps vibrating the phone, after pressing "snooze"
>>> - each received call arrives twice, causing the second call to show up
>>> as "missed"
>> also odd. I haven't seen this.
>>
>>> The image is called 4.4.1, but my phone reports it as 4.4.2 ... I
>>> thought it was going to be 4.4.3?
>> Thats because its really a snapshot. which is just 4.4.1 + a few bug fixes.
> 
> I do not use the FR as my primary phone yet so have not tested how well it 
> manages calls.
> 
> Ps: Lorn, In your blog post for today, you mention dynamic rotation. Does 
> that 
> mean it adjusts based on accelerometer reading? I could only find one 
> application where i had to tap on the screen to make it rotate.

We have not done anything with motion sensors yet. So it is not automatic 
rotation on the Neo.


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Software Engineer, Systems Group, Qt Software, Nokia Pty Ltd



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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-02 Thread Kishore
On Friday 03 Oct 2008 11:29:39 am Lorn Potter wrote:
> Kishore wrote:
> > On Friday 03 Oct 2008 4:46:45 am Lorn Potter wrote:
> >> Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:43:23 +0200
> >>>
> >>> Petr Vanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  No problem here. I reflashed previous QT snapshot 4.3 so i presume if
>  you use kernel from 4.3 you are ready to go.
> 
>  unless...I was also looking at the "services" screen or what it's
>  called in QT4.4 so i might have activated USB networking by an
>  accident and it's kernel independent? Check it out anyways.
> >>>
> >>> hmmm ... I'm guessing that image isn't the official released one, too
> >>> many bugs (old and new):
> >>>
> >>> - lots of kernel-warnings spit out during booting (using
> >>> uImage-gta02-mwester-stable-d6f9fd270943fb22.bin from I believe the
> >>> previous 4.3.x snapshot version). Or maybe this is a uimage issue?
> >>
> >> yes, this has nothng to do with qtextended.
> >
> > I get plenty of errors with regard to splash plugin not found. Seems like
> > there should have been a splash screen that is trying to be updated but
> > then it does not exist. And yes, boot it still slow.
>
> thats because I removed that, but some script is still trying to use it.
> It's harmless

OK. Harmless but still looks bad but no issue really.

> >>> - timezone management isn't working (the files just aren't there
> >>> in /usr/share/timezone). Also the time itself can't be changed.
> >>
> >> hmmm...
> >> indeed. sorry. I will update with a new image.
> >
> > I hope it will be possible to just upgrade from the current install i
> > just spent a few hours setting up the moko, transferring contacts etc.
> > (My previous motoming phone does not have an export all feature)
>
> ok. I will put up a ipkg of the needed zoneinfo files.

Thanks!

> >>> - echo problem is back
> >>
> >> odd.

I put in a SIM to test. Neither I nor the other side experience any echo.

> >>> - alarm keeps vibrating the phone, after pressing "snooze"
> >>> - each received call arrives twice, causing the second call to show up
> >>> as "missed"
> >>
> >> also odd. I haven't seen this.

When i answer a call it does register the same call as a missed call too. I 
have another issue where if the call was from an unknown contact and i wish to 
add to my contacts list, it would ask me if i want to create a new contact and 
there touch screen does not respond to my input on either of "yes" or "no" or 
elsewhere. I have to press the AUX button to recover.

Also when i choose to delete data from the call history, it okays my input but 
does not delete the entry.

> >>> The image is called 4.4.1, but my phone reports it as 4.4.2 ... I
> >>> thought it was going to be 4.4.3?
> >>
> >> Thats because its really a snapshot. which is just 4.4.1 + a few bug
> >> fixes.
> >
> > I do not use the FR as my primary phone yet so have not tested how well
> > it manages calls.
> >
> > Ps: Lorn, In your blog post for today, you mention dynamic rotation. Does
> > that mean it adjusts based on accelerometer reading? I could only find
> > one application where i had to tap on the screen to make it rotate.
>
> We have not done anything with motion sensors yet. So it is not automatic
> rotation on the Neo.

OK, Is there an API that one can use to write a small script daemon?
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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-03 Thread gromez
Tried the latest mwester stable kernel
(uImage-gta02-g78199ea0_mwester-stable.bin) and everything is OK
except the battery gauge which is always empty when I unplug the FR
from USB.
Even my Sandisk 8GB microSD works fine :)

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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-03 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:00 AM, gromez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Tried the latest mwester stable kernel
> (uImage-gta02-g78199ea0_mwester-stable.bin) and everything is OK
> except the battery gauge which is always empty when I unplug the FR
> from USB.
> Even my Sandisk 8GB microSD works fine :)
>

Everything fine? So no echo issues, no missed call for every received call?
That would be great for me!
Where did you get this kernel?

Franky
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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-03 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Franky Van Liedekerke
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:00 AM, gromez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Tried the latest mwester stable kernel
>> (uImage-gta02-g78199ea0_mwester-stable.bin) and everything is OK
>> except the battery gauge which is always empty when I unplug the FR
>> from USB.
>> Even my Sandisk 8GB microSD works fine :)
>>
>
> Everything fine? So no echo issues, no missed call for every received call?
> That would be great for me!
> Where did you get this kernel?
>

never mind, I found the kernel :-)
But are the mentioned issues really resolved?

Franky
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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-03 Thread gromez
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Franky Van Liedekerke
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:00 AM, gromez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Tried the latest mwester stable kernel
>> (uImage-gta02-g78199ea0_mwester-stable.bin) and everything is OK
>> except the battery gauge which is always empty when I unplug the FR
>> from USB.
>> Even my Sandisk 8GB microSD works fine :)
>
> Everything fine? So no echo issues, no missed call for every received call?
> That would be great for me!

Well, these problems are not kernel related so there are still present :(

> Where did you get this kernel?

Here: http://qtextended.org/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?lid=91

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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-03 Thread Devendra Gera
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:00 AM, gromez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Tried the latest mwester stable kernel
> > (uImage-gta02-g78199ea0_mwester-stable.bin) and everything is OK
> > except the battery gauge which is always empty when I unplug the FR
> > from USB.
> > Even my Sandisk 8GB microSD works fine :)
> >
> 
> Everything fine? So no echo issues, no missed call for every received call?
> That would be great for me!
> Where did you get this kernel?

Well I have no issues as far as echoes and duplicate missed calls. I'm
using the kernel from the 4.3.2 release. I do hear a small "audio
effect" (like loud static which does down - quite tonefully, I must
add) whenever a call ends. I can live with the unintended call end
indicator.

Problems that I do have :

* WiFi - connects and is usable, but makes the interface really slow
  after a while. Then causes freezes. I'm using WPA-PSK-TKIP btw.
* The aux red LED keeps on glowing even after I disconnect the USB
  cable. I can get it to behave as expected by playing around with
  repeated inserts of the cable. One of those times, it behaves
  correctly. I wouldn't call it a fix or even a workaround though. It's
  more of a buggy bug.
* Missing zoneinfos. I'll try the updated image today.

I haven't tried setting up my GPRS yet.

--gera.


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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-03 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
Hi,

her are my results after a fresh flash with the latest uimage and
rootfs from qt:

On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:16:45 +1000
Lorn Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > 
> > - lots of kernel-warnings spit out during booting (using
> > uImage-gta02-mwester-stable-d6f9fd270943fb22.bin from I believe the
> > previous 4.3.x snapshot version). Or maybe this is a uimage issue?
> 
> yes, this has nothng to do with qtextended.

using the new uimage, these are gone
 
> > - timezone management isn't working (the files just aren't there
> > in /usr/share/timezone). Also the time itself can't be changed.
> hmmm...
> indeed. sorry. I will update with a new image.
> 
> > - echo problem is back
> 
> odd.

using the new uimage, this still seems to be a problem
 
> > - alarm keeps vibrating the phone, after pressing "snooze"

this also no longer happens. But the issue of the alarm not sounding on
time after suspend still remains (the alarm is on time only once, after
a fresh reboot, all subsequent alarms seem to drift off in time when
the phone is suspended)

> > - each received call arrives twice, causing the second call to show
> > up as "missed"
> 
> also odd. I haven't seen this.

after a dialer crash and some reboots, this no longer is the case. But
now, at the end of each call, the call-volume setting window pops up
briefly, with the sound setting/noice.

Franky

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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-06 Thread Bastian Muck
I had no problems with echo. But I can confirm the other issues. And one
is missing: I can't recieve SMS. Does anyone? I wrote one to myself and
a friend wrote one. after half an hour i turned neo off and put the card
in my old phone and this recieved both messages.
But now, i have another issue: somehow the theme changed. And at this
theme the buttons at the bottom don't appear. so I neither can change
nor  do any other  important things.

Greetings Bastian

gromez schrieb:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Franky Van Liedekerke
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:43:23 +0200
>> Petr Vanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>
> [...]
>
>   
>> - timezone management isn't working (the files just aren't there
>> in /usr/share/timezone). Also the time itself can't be changed.
>> 
>
> Same problem. A solution for getting the right date is to use the date
> command from ssh.
>
>   
>> - echo problem is back
>> 
>
> During a call, people notify me that they hear their own voice, so
> echo problem is back.
>
>   
>> - alarm keeps vibrating the phone, after pressing "snooze"
>> 
>
> I've tried alarm this morning and it worked fine.
>
>   
>> - each received call arrives twice, causing the second call to show up
>> as "missed"
>> 
>
> Similar problem with calls and text messages. Even if I read them it
> seems they are never marked as read.
>
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Re: [SPAM] Re: kernel for qt extended 4.4

2008-10-07 Thread Nishit Dave
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Bastian Muck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I had no problems with echo. But I can confirm the other issues. And one
> is missing: I can't recieve SMS. Does anyone? I wrote one to myself and
> a friend wrote one. after half an hour i turned neo off and put the card
> in my old phone and this recieved both messages.
> But now, i have another issue: somehow the theme changed. And at this
> theme the buttons at the bottom don't appear. so I neither can change
> nor  do any other  important things.
>
> I used FR with Qtextended as my one and only daily phone today, because I
lost my Motorokr E6 the night before the last (using OM2008.8-update was an
actual waking nightmare yesterday).  I have been very happy with the results
so far, but the problems I have found, confirming yours are:

1. Default volume too low: had to hand-edit gsmhandset.state, the volume
control in settings > call settings did not do the trick
2. Using the headset during a call requires you to select speakerphone from
the menu - audio is routed usually through one earphone, but for the mic,
you have to use the FR's speaker-mic.  Selecting headset does not work -
Could this mean the settings in gsmheadset.state and gsmspeakerout.state
have been interchanged?
3. Strong echo heard by most of the callers
4. Phone needs to be reminded of power management functions when plugged in
- I have already saved the settings in (added to) my profile
5. Whenever a new SMS is received, the phone reports earlier messages as
unread in the popup notification
6. Some messages are received twice
7. Somehow, the phone seems to create copies of messages in the inbox - I
now have 159 messages in one day, when the total received was perhaps 16.
Sent items shows the correct number
8. In GPRS settings, I can't modify the APN setting, so there is no way to
figure out if it works.  The wiki says here [1] that it should be specified
in the chat file.  However, I don't know if Qtextended uses the same
functionality to connect to GPRS.  There are no such files in /etc/ppp
9. I don't think networking through usb0 works correctly.  I have specified
my proxy in settings > internet > new > ethernet, also exported it as an
environment variable under SSH, but no cigar.  Ping to www.google.com or
208.67.222.222 doesn't seem to work.  I am using Freeproxy as a bridge
between my corporate lan on my laptop, and the FR
10. Due to 9 above, settings > software packages does not work.  Neither
does opkg, for much the same reason, although I believe nothing should be
installed from the OM repositories
11. What about GPS? Both 8 and 9 mean there is no way to test how it works.
Plus there are hardly any tried and tested routing / navigation applications
available (roadmaps seems to be experimental, haven't tried it).  We need
something like TangoGPS or Navit
12. The qwerty keyboard is too tiny and a bit messy.  The predictive
keyboard seems to have done away with the right-to-left flick for backspace

So there are twelve problems I can enumerate quickly, but they are not
showstoppers. I believe most of these issues will be cleared up quickly.
Battery life is much better than under any of the OMs, applications start up
much faster and I haven't even tried fastload yet, and respond much faster
too!

All in all, FR with Qtextended (4.4.1) is the closest I have gotten to a
phone, much better than the 2007.2 factory image, which was quite buggy, and
of course, everyone's favourite 2008.x.

[1]
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manually_using_GPRS#gprs-connect-chat.2C_version_1
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Re: ****SPAM(6.7)**** Re: backup battery and case screws questions

2010-10-24 Thread Benjamin Deering
Thanks,

I may continue to run with just one screw.   I searched for a while for 
a screw to match the specs given earlier, but haven't found any.  My FR 
with 2 screws gets much better reception the the FR with 1 screw (the 1 
screw is placed to make the antenna contact, so the missing screw may be 
irrelevant).

Ben

On 10/24/2010 02:37 PM, Paul Fertser wrote:
> Benjamin Deering  writes:
>
>> I use an allen (hex) wrench to remove them, I am seeking replacements
>> because I lost one.
>>  
> FYI i'm using my gta02 as my only daily cell phone for more than a
> year without any screws whatsoever.
>
>


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Re: ***SPAM*** (was : Re: FAQ Interactive, Funny Images and VideosOnline)

2008-02-08 Thread Steven Le Roux
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:32:35 -0800, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yup. I already brought it to the attention of our list superuser, who
> will remove this spammer.
> 
> Michael

good, 

note that I just replied it to inform others to not read it, to save time ;)



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Re: ***SPAM*** (was : Re: FAQ Interactive, Funny Images and Videos Online)

2008-02-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
Yup. I already brought it to the attention of our list superuser, who 
will remove this spammer.


Michael

Steven Le Roux wrote:

Just for the record...



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RE: [Spam?] Re: google earth - [was: Re: Another simple GPS+GPRSidea]

2006-11-28 Thread Sam Kome
I _love_ the idea of openstreetmap, but truly doubt that it will retain
enough dedicated participants over time.  Initial capture is not enough;
eternal vigilance is needed to recapture the data everytime a bulldozer
appears or a planning committee renumbers the addresses. 

Reverse engineering street addresses/locations should be perfectly legal
anywhere but say, all of Myanmar, or the thousands of restricted areas
in the USA.  

SK

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To: community@lists.openmoko.org
Subject: Re: [Spam?] Re: google earth - [was: Re: Another simple
GPS+GPRSidea]

On 11/28/06, Sam Kome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a bit of experience in GIS data and applications. Okay, a lot.
>
> Sean is absolutely right about the rarity and high price of street
maps,
> not to mention the legal rights problems which can drag in Queens and
> Kings.

The more I read about Open Street Map, the more I like it:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org

Would this bother any Kings or Queens? It's not stealing someone elses
work, just refusing to pay for it and making ones own.

Richard

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Re: [Spam?] Re: google earth - [was: Re: Another simple GPS+GPRSidea]

2006-11-28 Thread Richard Franks

On 11/28/06, Sam Kome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I _love_ the idea of openstreetmap, but truly doubt that it will retain
enough dedicated participants over time.  Initial capture is not enough;
eternal vigilance is needed to recapture the data everytime a bulldozer
appears or a planning committee renumbers the addresses.


I disagree, I'm not a GIS-ologist, but my assumptions is that
OpenStreetmap, or a similar project, will continue to grow slowly
until:
a) GPS devices become ubiquitous, as does the technology to streamline
and facilitate the acquisition and syncronisation of 'tagging' info.
b) Some corporate or governmental agency acquires the rights to place
such streetmap data into the public domain. Likely a result of
widespread GPS adoption (a).

You are right in that if you look at who is creating these uploads, it
is mostly a small subset of devotees.. however for all the towns and
cities I've lived in, the actual street layouts and names don't change
terribly often.

One thing the Neo1973 should be able to do easily, which would
differentiate it somewhat, is that it could time its GPS acquisitions
to fill in the missing datapoints, by comparing existing datapoints -
if a road takes a sharp bend, the extent of which is not picked up by
the first pass:

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Then the Neo could compare its own vectors, and the timestamps for the
first pass.. and flesh out the missing corner, add a few more passes
and you've boosted your accuracy.

Dedicated participants, as you say, are only required at the
early-adoption stage because they are the ones who end up creating the
mechanisms which the masses end up using?

Richard

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Re: [Spam?] Re: google earth - [was: Re: Another simple GPS+GPRSidea]

2006-11-28 Thread Richard Franks

On 11/28/06, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

however for all the towns and
cities I've lived in, the actual street layouts and names don't change
terribly often.


Let me qualify this rather anecdotal statement.. I don't think
street-layout/renumberings change often enough to be show-stopper
problem for a project like OpenStreetmap.

If you work a lot with streetmap data, then you probably deal with
renumbering/layout changes on a daily basis. But what percentage of
roads require such changes per year? What percentage of the total
streetmap mileage is affected? Does this occur more frequently in
urban, suburban, or rural areas? I think you'd need to take account of
at least these variables to determine the extent of the problem, and
the ease of the fix.

I'm also thinking in terms of highway maintainance -- if one section
is under maintainance, and traffic from both directions are forced to
share one side of the highway.. then temporary traffic information
could be mined quite easily if the highway is wide enough to draw
conclusions from the offset in expected GPS vectors.

Likewise for accidents, or temporarily blocked roads. All it requires
is a few more programmable GPS devices on the roads who share data,
and you have the basis for an automonous dynamic nagivation system,
which has the potential to report back issues rather quickly.

Richard

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RE: [Spam?] Re: google earth - [was: Re: Another simple GPS+GPRS idea]

2006-11-28 Thread Sam Kome
I have a bit of experience in GIS data and applications. Okay, a lot.

Sean is absolutely right about the rarity and high price of street maps,
not to mention the legal rights problems which can drag in Queens and
Kings.

The first question to answer is: what is the necessary accuracy?
If you're not routing ambulances then there may be adequate data
available from public sources. Availability varies tremendously by
country, even by internal divisions, but streets are always changing,
hence more difficult to obtain.  

If street level geocoding is needed, one approach would be to take
advantage of Google or Yahoos geocoding APIs. Would work for a limited
(but large) number of hits/day, and for a non-commercial application.  

For basic context like major roads, landmarks, postal code or political
boundaries, data may well be available for free or the cost of bashing
them into a useful shape.  These data also have the advantage of smaller
file sizes.

Hope this helps.

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On 11/27/06 8:16 PM, "Marcus Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You may ask Sean about availability of maps for the Neo1973 (a quick
> search in the ML-archives gives no hits).

Mapping data is actually really difficult. There are only two providers
worldwide:

* Navitec
* TeleAtlas

And they are really expensive. We have some commercial software lined up
that we could sell, but I'm not too excited at anything at this point.
Hopefully we can come up with something free together.

-Sean


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Re: [Spam?] Re: google earth - [was: Re: Another simple GPS+GPRS idea]

2006-11-28 Thread Richard Franks

On 11/28/06, Sam Kome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have a bit of experience in GIS data and applications. Okay, a lot.

Sean is absolutely right about the rarity and high price of street maps,
not to mention the legal rights problems which can drag in Queens and
Kings.


The more I read about Open Street Map, the more I like it:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org

Would this bother any Kings or Queens? It's not stealing someone elses
work, just refusing to pay for it and making ones own.

Richard

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Re: [Spam?] Re: google earth - [was: Re: Another simple GPS+GPRS idea]

2006-11-28 Thread Richard Franks

On 11/28/06, Paolo Cavallini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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and the OpneMoko could be *the* right tool to implement the
OpenStreetMap approach, thus boosting it.
pc


Well, not all GPS devices are equal.. and there's always going to be a
device better at XYZ if the device specialises in a particular
technology.. but the power to extract more meaning from less accurate
data is preferrable to having more accurate data which is harder to
apply context to.

E.g. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London

'Tagging' street names is slower than extracting the data.. but how
quicker would it be if one could in 'map my route' mode, hit a button,
speak the name of the street.. or a geographical feature, which is
recorded relative to the GPS timestamps?

Richard

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