Re: N900/Maemo 5 review
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 15:56, Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: > Nope. Won't run and won't be available. Well, that's a shame for Nokia, 'cause I'm not about to buy a new device unless I can verify that the various deficiencies of the N800 OS have been fixed. Also, I doubt if it's feasible for open source developers and software porters to keep buying new hardware every year for the privilege of doing unpaid work for Nokia. Hopefully it will at least be possible to run the new OS under some kind of emulator on a desktop machine. mathew ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Cant flash N810
try with sudo On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Juha Kallioinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > ext Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i follow the steps mentioned in > > http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howto_flashlatestnokiaimagewithlinux > > > > I got this output: > > > > # ./flasher-3.0 RX-44_DIABLO_4.2008.23-14_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R > > If that's the command line you really used then you're missing one argument > "-F". Try this instead: > > # ./flasher-3.0 -F RX-44_DIABLO_4.2008.23-14_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R > > Hope this helps, > Juha > > -- > Juha Kallioinen JID: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -- Mathew Chacko Geneva, Switzerland. 64bit Ubuntu Rocks on 64bit Macbook Ask your IT question! ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: OT: Nokia to release Symbian/S60 under open-source license
tanguyr wrote: > Also, it will commit to moving the platform to open source > during the next two years, with the intent to use the Eclipse Public > License. Will this mean the death of mandatory code signing for basic functionality like file storage, I wonder? mathew ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Nokia: Linux Needs to Learn Business
Theodore Tso wrote: > I'm not speaking for Nokia, but I've talked to a number of folks from > Nokia, and the problem is that their suppliers are not willing to > release specifications under any kinda of NDA that would allow them, > or someone else, to release open source device drivers. If they did > this, they would either be late to market by 6-12 months, which is an > eternity, or they would not be able to use the latest hardware which > has a combination of the latest functionality (i.e., 3G support, GPS, > WIFI, etc. all on one chipset) that competitors such as Apple and > iPhone might use. Fine by me. I don't want bleeding-edge hardware. I'm happy to have what was state of the art last year, with open specifications and software. > I very much doubt that Android or other Linux mobile solutions will be > much different. Android in particular tries to make it such that > application vendors don't even know that they are running on a Linux > OS; what they see is a restricted Java environment. Sounds good to me. Solves issues with security and stability, and lets me develop in a modern programming language I already know rather than a crufty old one I'd rather never see again. Gives me access to state of the art development environments. Plus, I don't have to care about setting up cross-compiling for a different CPU architecture. > Compared to what you can get, even ignoring the carrier subsidies, > that's a pretty anemic feature set. The iPhone has a pretty anemic feature set too, so it's not going to be a success, right? > It's just like in the airline business, where people will kvetch about > comfort, and lack of hot food in economy class, but where time and > time again, it has been proven that when it comes down to deciding > whether to fly with airline X or airline Y, the vast majority of > customers overwhelmingly go with whatever is cheapest. > Have you looked at how well the US airline industry is doing? Price wars only worked up to a certain point. Once the experience got bad enough, people stopped flying no matter how cheap it was. Personally, I paid extra to fly with a European airline last time I had to travel internationally, just so I could get decent service. I don't see the European airlines going out of business, so there must be a viable market. Ditto the iPhone. Clearly people will buy a phone with an anemic feature set and year-old technology if it offers a compelling user experience and applications they actually want. It's the applications that really let the N8x0 down, in my view, not the lack of bleeding-edge proprietary hardware. mathew ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Nokia: Linux Needs to Learn Business
Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > I think that what Ari wanted too say is that Nokia and the industry in > general is not YET ready to work the way the open source community > wants them to. > Well, goodbye then Nokia. We'll all switch to OpenMoko or Android. > I read his wording this way: "we want to listen and we are listening > and actually even doing steps towards those open source rules. But the > community asks too much and too fast. > We listen and act. You do the same." > I don't buy DRM-crippled media and won't buy a phone I can't unlock and do what I want with. If that means I never buy another Nokia phone, so be it. I loved my Nokia back in the 90s, but the company really lost its way, producing a succession of really lousy "fashion" phone designs that were totally impractical, and failing to realize that quad band and Bluetooth were de rigeur for a business phone. I thought the N series showed that they had gotten a clue, but this stupid comment--by their VP of open source, no less--really has me wondering. mathew ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: New N810 - worst purchase I've made this year.
On Mar 26, 2008, at 13:03, Chris Van wrote: > > 2) LEAP on MSCHAP2 wifi not working (I mean, the device is > advertised as being able to use wifi) > > I just bought it about a week ago, and GPS worked great - until I > updated from Nokia. I shouldn't really have to say it, but being > told that the device can get on wifi and then finding that it can't > use LEAP - which most offices I've ever visited use - is kind of a > bait and switch. LEAP is a proprietary Cisco protocol. The standard is WPA. I hardly think it's Nokia's fault that Cisco don't provide drivers for their non-standard protocol. mathew ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Streaming Music to the N800
On 7/30/07, Graham Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the moment it looks like DAAP may be more likely to provide the solution > than UPNP (although there is no good free daap client for Windows, > unfortunately). DAAP is the protocol used by iTunes. iTunes runs on Windows. So do other DAAP clients that run on Windows, like jTunes, OurTunes, Get It Together, and LimeWire. mathew ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Fwd: Skype on N800
On 7/2/07, Neil MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "Skype seen in public" details seem to have been found by chance > and not through any concious effort on behalf of Nokia to push this > information into the public domain - it's interesting to note that > someone found a YouTube video yesterday demonstrating Skype on N800, > but it's already been taken down! What's so wrong with building a little > interest in the product through some viral marketing? Skype is closed, proprietary software that uses an undocumented proprietary protocol. This mailing list is not the appropriate venue for hyping that sort of software. I use Gizmo. I will not use Skype, because I don't want to see VoIP fragmented into proprietary networks the way IM is. mathew ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Google xhtml & mobile reader problems ?
From my reading of the XML standards, Google's XHTML for Google Reader's mobile interface is invalid. The standards say that comments may appear anywhere within the document, or within the DTD where allowed. However, the document doesn't begin until after the XML declaration. Therefore, it's illegal to have a comment before the XML declaration. Furthermore, the XML declaration, if present, must be the very first thing in the document. So, doubly invalid. I reported the bug to Google by e-mail. Hopefully someone will fix it. mathew ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Pimlico
Just saw this: http://maemo.o-hand.com/> Prebuilt N800 / N770 packages at http://maemo.o-hand.com/> Calendar and Contacts so far. mathew -- http://www.pobox.com/~meta/> ___ maemo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N800 as a Business Productivity Tool - Mail
On 2/16/07, Acadia Secure Networks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For starters, although the N800 allows the user to create multiple mailboxes, it only seems to maintain one set of IMAP folders. This is a non-starter. My N800 mail client doesn't handle IMAP folders at all. I had it log in to my IMAP server, but none of my folders showed up except the inbox. Am I missing something? mathew -- http://www.pobox.com/~meta/> ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Reader Mini
On 2/7/07, Gavin O' Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unfortunately given that most websites don't publish the full article in the RSS feed, it might not work out too well. When I really want to keep up with a site that doesn't publish useful feeds, I write a quick scraper in Ruby and set it up via cron to make a private Atom feed for me on my web host. mathew -- http://www.pobox.com/~meta/> ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] configuring a proxy on N800
It's also not very helpful that you can't change the proxy settings if you're connected to the network... mathew ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Re: Some Thoughts Regarding IT OS 2007 and the N800
Hi. Just got an N800, so far my biggest disappointment about the OS is the inability to set ISO format for dates and times. I use ISO format everywhere. My wristwatch, my Linux desktop (Ubuntu, GNOME), my Linux command line (ls -la gives me ISO dates), my Mac, my calculator, everywhere. This is not negotiable, any more than it's reasonable to tell me that because I live in the USA I have to use feet and inches. I've built myself an [EMAIL PROTECTED] locale definition file. It specifies US currency, ISO 8601 date and time, A4 paper, metric measurements, 12 hour time format disabled, and standard C collation. I'd be happy to contribute it, obviously it'd be easy to convert for UK use. It could then be incorporated into Maemo as "US English (ISO)" and "UK English (ISO)". On Linux, I put it in /usr/share/i18n/locales as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then run # localedef -i /usr/share/i18n/locales/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and export [EMAIL PROTECTED] in /etc/profile. Presumably I can do something like that on the N800, once I work out how to get a shell. I have to say that POSIX or not, the locale mechanism is just utterly broken. It makes very little sense for currency, paper sizes, date and time formats, and telephone number formats to be nailed together into a single atomic selection. In the UK, there are lots of people who hate the metric system, and there are probably as many people like me who are young enough that we never learned anything else. It doesn't make sense for all those preferences to be OS-wide either. For example, in desktop publishing it's useful to have rulers in DPI, but that doesn't mean I want everything else in Imperial measurements. mathew -- http://www.pobox.com/~meta/> ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
