question on airport wireless
I spend a lot of time in the airport waiting for flights due to my job and I love the n800 to just check my work related mail, personal email, etc... A lot of times the new Boingo wireless app that is a part of OS2008, but some of the airports do not use Boingo in those locations i ofen have to wait a long time to authenticate/get an ip address... however my laptop running vista connects just fine. any thoughts on what may be happening? Jonathan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: OS2008 Damn Cool!
I would like to echo that I love how the new OS2008 looks and works. Great job On Dec 28, 2007 12:51 PM, Jon Dodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wanted to say that I really appreciate the OS2008 upgrade. Ive heard it said on the listserv and it seems to be true in my case, it really is like a new device. Things I appreciate: * Default Media Player plays mp4 now. * New theme is super-slick * Seems the new browser is Mozilla and the rendering is better. Improved YouTube flash video, which is very nice. * New Menu structure is much easier on my fingers * Minimizing mplayer doesnt make everything double large and impossible to change the screen bright or system volume. * Internet Radio included is super cool With that I had a few questions. * Currently there are a few bars for selecting screen bright and in OS2007 there were many more. Didn't find a place to bring it back. I can handle this change, I just don't see the benefit. * When I use the browser, in general, and this is just a perception that may or may not be accurate, it just seems slower. * When I type a URL in the the browser, occasionally it doesnt register and it just reloads the page I am on. * When I install fceu I get a dbus dependency error and I can't install it. Same with OS2007, if I can't play NES roms ill sepku. Ok, maybe not, but it would be nice. * Why can't the default media player play DiVX? It advertises it can, but doesn't seem to be able to. * Why can't mplayer play mp4? * Why can't it charge via USB? And this is an unrelated soapbox moment, please disregard if it gets in the way of the previous questions: Openess free of patents is an amazing thing. It makes it possible to implement web functionality in your device with a much lower cost. Paying a patent for a video tag seems as silly to me as a patent for a checkbox. OGG might suck compared to mp4(debatable on how teh) but it is patent free and easy enough to support in unixland. I imagine you switched to minimo to cut costs for licensing Opera(and other reasons), OGG would provide the same benefit. Then again you may have already blanket licensed the mp4 patent so it doesn't apply to you anymore because the initial investment has already been made. Regardless, its not just about Nokias interest, there is a world of innovation to continue well beyond the walls of Nokia. Im not trying to create a flamewar, I just wanted to toss in a few cents. PS Ill keep buying the NXXX because it is an amazing device. Thank you for making it. PPS sorry for my harsh title, sometimes you just need to say it. The device is damn cool and looks great too! -- -jon http://www.jdodson.org http://youtube.com/jbdodson ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: airplane mode for traveling
On Dec 14, 2007 11:11 AM, Jonathan D. Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 09:07:42AM -0700, Jonathan Jesse wrote: :The same happens on my Dell, but there is a setting in the BIOS that allows :you to disable wireless throug hthe Fn Key while still allowing Bluetooth. come to think of it I do have the same Fn key... back to the Nseries, there are non airline situations where I'd like 802.11 off and BT on, just from a power conservation view (yeh if it's not connected and not searching for new connections the 802.11 radio is probably pretty cheap, anyone have a nuber for that?) -Jon Had no problems flying on Friday with my bluetooth keyboard, no one noticed or cared. I asked the lady at the United counter and she didn't know if it was allowed or not and told me to follow what the flight attendents told me. Jonathan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: airplane mode for traveling
On Dec 13, 2007 4:20 PM, Steve Yelvington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am onlya frequent flier (Delta Platinum) and by no means an official source, but it's my understanding there is NO FAA rule regarding devices that might emit RF radiation. Try google site:faa.gov bluetooth and see what shows up. The ironclad rule is that you have to do as you're told by the crew (and if you don't, you can be arrested for that). The airlines make their own policy decisions and you have to obey them. I have not seen any specific references to Bluetooth in any back of the magazine policy documents on airlines I've flown recently. I've heard that British Airways specifically OKs Bluetooth but can't verify that. Boeing has been trying to peddle wi-fi in aircraft for some time. Apparently the satellite link part is pretty expensive. So whether or not bluetooth is allowed I'll talk with the airlines, but do you have to switch to Offline Mode to comply with the wireless portion? If so then bluetooth is disabled as well ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Flashing from powerpc and linux
Where is the 2008 Beta available at? At maemo.org I saw something asking for a serial number which I didn't have. Am I looking someplace incorrectly? On 12/6/07, Bob Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: digger vermont wrote: Hello All, Just got an N800 today. :) It looks like the only way to flash it from a powerpc and linux is to use 0x. Is that correct? It doesn't look like it can yet flash the image as a whole. But it can unpack the it into pieces as: 2nd, kernel, rootfs, xloader, initfs, secondary Will it work for me to then install the individual pieces? Or will I be missing something? I've flashed from linux several times onto my 770s and now my 810, and have never needed to unpack components first... just download the flasher and the image, run the flasher with the command line from the howto on the maemo.org site. I can see the flasher breaking out the various components as it installs them one by one onto the tablet. Can't imagine it'd be different on PPC... ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job
On Nov 27, 2007 4:26 PM, Michael Wiktowy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 27, 2007 10:18 AM, nick loeve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Been playing with the beta. Looks awesome! Great work... the changes to make the GUI fit the form factor are very very nice... The development of the GUI over the OS releases would be a good case study for some Interaction/UI students. :) There are a few quirks but I agree. With OS2008 it is like a whole new (and better) device. Everything is blazing fast compared to OS2007 and there doesn't seem to be any glaring brokenness. A little bit of overclocking goes a long way :] The new transparent UI looks great and dragging things around on the desktop is a breeze. Photo viewing (with automatic aspect portrait/landscape adjustment) is snappy. Much smoother media/flash viewing. Much more standard infrastructure so that you can cross-compile easier. I love rtcomm and how it integrates all the IM/VoIP under one app. The mozilla-based browser works very well. Pretty spectacular guys ... well worth the wait. Two thumbs up! I'll keep digging and bugzilla things as I find them ... but it is not easy work anymore ;] /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users So how do you get this great OS2008? ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job
On Nov 27, 2007 4:44 PM, Jason Whelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: its available here - http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3910524 So it is still unsupported then? Everything I was trying to read said November 2007 so I just wondered where I could find it ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
charger for the n800
Quick question, I'm off traveling and have left the charger at home. Someone at the same confrence has a n770 and I am wondering if the charger is compatible? Thanks, Jonathan ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
