Sean interview

2007-01-21 Thread Tomasz Zielinski
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRvtAAXTIlg Nothing new, but still worth watch :-) -- Tomek Z. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Signal-to-noise ratio

2007-01-21 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia poniedziałek, 22 stycznia 2007 04:51, Corey napisał: > On Sunday 21 January 2007 20:43, Greg Tada wrote: > > I'd like to help out this project, I really would. But when zealots > > like Renaissance Man (Who calls themselves that? Yeah that's not > > pretentious at all) et al hijack this list

Re: Sean's Aim...

2007-01-21 Thread Justyn Butler
On 22/01/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I promise not to leave you guys hanging. I just don't have a good plan worked out yet. Lucky for me I still have time ;-) -Sean That's good enough for me, thanks Sean. Justyn ___ OpenMoko com

Re: Stylus

2007-01-21 Thread Jeff Andros
one of the more in the loop guys will have to get back to you on this... sean said that there are stylus window templates in the UI. Me I'm hoping for a stylus that's a little less of a cheap plastic stick than most of these things seem to have On 1/17/07, Sven Neuhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-21 Thread Kent Karlsson
Hey, What do you guys think about creating a nice lib which makes it easy for games to support different multiplayer modes? Live connection over Bluetooth and/or GPRS (Perhaps mixed). Play by mail over email or sms. It would be awesome if we could switch between the modes as well for game

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-21 Thread Jeff Andros
tron? like this?(http://codeninja.de/tron/) I'm down. we've got agps, and the data link should be fast enough to relay position data. it's a whole lot more manageable on the bike... could make a case for that environment hardened device. On 1/16/07, el jefe delito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So

Re: Sean's Aim...

2007-01-21 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/22/07 6:38 AM, "Steve Grevemeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The one idea I did see in the last couple of days that I think NEED to > get some serious attention is that of an upgrade path for developers. I promise not to leave you guys hanging. I just don't have a good plan worked out yet.

Re: Idea for one of the next Neos: Projecting the display via LEDs

2007-01-21 Thread Ben Lau
On 1/22/07, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 21.01.2007 um 18:17 schrieb Uwe Koch: > I think it must be possible to integrate 3 neccessary LEDs into the > next gen > Neo, and display the Display - say on a letter format size - to a > white wall! 3 LEDs is not enough. You n

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/22/07 4:58 AM, "Milan Votava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be nice to know if Sean's aim is > > 1. to satisfy his and our need for open source toys like Neo > > or > > 2. to earn money like almost everybody on this planet while > exploiting geeks like us to achieve his goal :-) >

Re: Neo1973 device description and picture for xoo.

2007-01-21 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/22/07 2:36 AM, "Stefan Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, I thought it could be fun to see and play with. > > http://www.datenfreihafen.org/~stefan/OpenMoko/neo1973-xoo-device.tar.bz2 > > Start with 'xoo --device /path/to/neo1973.xml' Wow somebody buy this guy a beer! -Sean _

Re: Signal-to-noise ratio

2007-01-21 Thread Corey
Troll alert. On Sunday 21 January 2007 20:43, Greg Tada wrote: > I'd like to help out this project, I really would. But when zealots > like Renaissance Man (Who calls themselves that? Yeah that's not > pretentious at all) et al hijack this list for their own religious > soapboxing, I don't have t

Signal-to-noise ratio

2007-01-21 Thread Greg Tada
I'd like to help out this project, I really would. But when zealots like Renaissance Man (Who calls themselves that? Yeah that's not pretentious at all) et al hijack this list for their own religious soapboxing, I don't have time to filter through all of the crap. I'll come back later when this c

RE: Text input, OpenMoko and Tengo

2007-01-21 Thread David Schlesinger
>"Patent-Pending" is a warning. It basically means this: "If you do >anything even remotely similar to what we've claimed in our patent >application we will sue you back to the stone age once our patent is >granted." Not at all. It simply means that a patent has been applied for, but hasn't yet b

Re: Neo1973 device description and picture for xoo.

2007-01-21 Thread Daniel Bartholomew
If you have fluxbox installed: /usr/bin/fluxbox will give you a nice little environment to play in -- Daniel Bartholomew ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Neo1973 device description and picture for xoo.

2007-01-21 Thread Daniel Bartholomew
Thanks! The fact that it's so big isn't much of an issue. Just hold down the Alt key and you can grab anywhere in the window and move it around to see all of the actual "display" area. ...a quick hint for getting a command-line: Go to the Device menu and choose preferences. Then put in "/usr/bin

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jan 21, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Hehe...waterproof phones would be really cool. It's just so expensive. Sort of on that same note, though, once the design becomes a little more solid, building some additional durability into the phone would be a nice thing. So many pho

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Corey
On Sunday 21 January 2007 18:28, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > On 1/22/07 4:46 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Michael, wishing for "Free Your Phone" T-shirts and stickers > > Coming soon... ;-) > Hell yeah! I would definitely pay money to be a walking billboard for FIC - a worthy ca

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/22/07 4:46 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Join us. "Free Your Phone." >>> >>> I totally love this catch phrase! I hope that the FIC marketting uses >>> it as the official tagline of all its openmoko devices! >> >> It will for sure! This just popped into my head one

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-21 Thread Wil Chung
I like the ideas that you listed. I think a multi-touchscreen interface can get us more unique games, though right now, as it stands, games that are shorter are better, since I think most people play them on the go, when they're waiting in line, on the subway, for just a couple minutes. So, some

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Milan Votava writes: > >It would be nice to know if Sean's aim is > >1. to satisfy his and our need for open source toys like Neo > >or > >2. to earn money like almost everybody on this planet while >exploiting geeks like us to achieve his goal :-) > > >I bet the second will prove as true... If I

Re: Wish for 2nd generation Neo: USB 2.0

2007-01-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Harald Welte writes: >On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 06:56:30AM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Harald Welte writes: >> > >> >The main problem (with more powerful SoC) is not to provide a USB2.0 >> >host port in the device. The main problem is power. You need a pretty >> >powerful DC/DC step-up converter

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-21 Thread Renaissance Man
I actually become aware of the FS movement via the GNU moniker, so it worked on me. For many years I was only aware of the OS movement (through knowing about "Linux"). Renaissance Man On 22 Jan 2007, at 12:13 am, Marcel de Jong wrote: Hello all, On this recent discussion on yes/no GNU/Lin

Re: Text input, OpenMoko and Tengo

2007-01-21 Thread Daniel Bartholomew
On 1/21/07, Ulrik Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, since it's just pending, that means that an implementation of something that works in the same way would only be legal to distribute on "borrowed time"? "Patent-Pending" is a warning. It basically means this: "If you do anything even re

GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-21 Thread Marcel de Jong
Hello all, On this recent discussion on yes/no GNU/Linux, I saw this and that popped up a question for me: On 1/21/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If more people are aware of why freedom and community matter, then they will buy more products that support freedom and community, li

Re: Sean's Aim...

2007-01-21 Thread Justyn Butler
I agree that something, anything, that will help me justify upgrading my phone every six months is needed. In my case I particularly feel the need for 3G but I want to get building right now, on v1. I'd personally settle for a minor discount on the next version for so called "early adopters". But

Re: [OT] aims ( was Re: Free Your Phone )

2007-01-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 21/01/07, Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 21 January 2007 13:58, Milan Votava wrote: > It would be nice to know if Sean's aim is > 1. to satisfy his and our need for open source toys like Neo > or > 2. to earn money like almost everybody on this planet while > exploiting geeks like

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Renaissance Man
On 21 Jan 2007, at 10:58 pm, David Ford wrote: Free software existed before GNU, it will exist after GNU. Yes, but will we still enjoy the freedom it was intended to bring? Or will it be a mix of free and unfree components barely usable without the unfree components that users will expect

Re: Text input, OpenMoko and Tengo

2007-01-21 Thread Ulrik Rasmussen
On Sunday 21 January 2007 21:18, Richi Plana wrote: > Is that even such a big difference that a patent can be granted? What if > we implemented something similar with the same variations as above? For > instance, why stop at grouping keys in horizontal groups. People could > potentially tap on the

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 21/01/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Both my girlfriend and father are aware of Free Software and what it >means. This is due to me coming across the FSF out of curiosity about >GNU, and then passing that knowledge onto them. That's nice. I simply doubt that they'll be m

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 21/01/07, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: in the near future someone else will ask openmoko to prefix their name with GNU and it'll start all over again. I did not ask OpenMoKo to prefix their name with GNU. I apologies if that was not clear. -- Regards, Dave ___

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 21/01/07, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: p.s. it's religious and for every one that feels GNU should be the sole title bearer, there is another that feels they should not. No one is advocating that GNU be the *sole* title bearer, although plenty of people are advocating that Linux be

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 21/01/07, Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally, I never actually use the "GNU/Linux" identifier - but I can understand the logic and reasoning behind it, and it certainly doesn't bother me when other people use it. If you understand the reasoning, I'm curious why you don't use it..?

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 21/01/07, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Although I support the goals of the FSF, I hold progress ahead of my political philosophy. To value a political stance over "practical progress" does go counter to our general culture, which encourages us to dismiss any philosophy that dif

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
Please take this off the list :) You and I disagree about whether they are pushing their name more than pushing free software. You and I are not going to agree on this, nor will others. Free software existed before GNU, it will exist after GNU. To be honest, it was "Linux" that catapulted "

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20/01/07, Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Credit whom credit is due. Either they accept that credit is givin to everyone, and that this is a long list, and that if people highlight some feature of their choice it is freedom of speach, or they don't. but the gnu way of placing

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Renaissance Man
On 21 Jan 2007, at 9:54 pm, David Schlesinger wrote: >Both my girlfriend and father are aware of Free Software and what it >means. This is due to me coming across the FSF out of curiosity about >GNU, and then passing that knowledge onto them. That's nice. The point is these people are certainly

Sean's Aim...

2007-01-21 Thread Steve Grevemeyer
> It would be nice to know if Sean's aim is > 1. to satisfy his and our need for open source toys like Neo > or > 2. to earn money like almost everybody on this planet while exploiting geeks like us to achieve his goal :-) > > I bet the second will prove as true... > > Milan The great thi

Re: Wiki + Mailing List

2007-01-21 Thread Corey
On Sunday 21 January 2007 14:20, Ted Lemon wrote: > I think that if the discussion here can be tolerated, it's > better because it's cross-pollinating. > Generally speaking, what helps on mailing lists is actually two- > fold. > First, we need to exercise restraint. > part of what perpe

[OT] aims ( was Re: Free Your Phone )

2007-01-21 Thread Corey
On Sunday 21 January 2007 13:58, Milan Votava wrote: > It would be nice to know if Sean's aim is > > 1. to satisfy his and our need for open source toys like Neo > > or > > 2. to earn money like almost everybody on this planet while > exploiting geeks like us to achieve his goal :-) > > > I b

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
I don't believe that one must always forgo open source toys to earn money. In my opinion, customer service is by far the most important element of making a lot of money. Make happy customers with whatever your product is and it's viral. Your product doesn't have to be the cure that saves us

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
No more comments to the list on this. I've already covered your below response. -david Renaissance Man wrote: That might be the case if those who oppose the use of "GNU" actually had a rational case. The fact is they just don't; it's mostly just an emotional reaction from what I can see. _

RE: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread David Schlesinger
>Both my girlfriend and father are aware of Free Software and what it >means. This is due to me coming across the FSF out of curiosity about >GNU, and then passing that knowledge onto them. That's nice. I simply doubt that they'll be making cell phone purchasing decisions based on that knowle

[OT] gnu debate ( was Re: Free Your Phone )

2007-01-21 Thread Corey
On Sunday 21 January 2007 13:40, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 20/01/07, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and thus it feels more like agenda-pushing. > > The whole Free Software concept __is__ an agenda, That is a crucial point. One cannot expect such an extremely fundamental aspect o

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Simon
On 1/21/07, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How does the end result differ from anything I or any on my side of the fence have suggested? Nothing changed so why bring it up in the first place? Both sides accuse the other of this fervour. Why slight one side of the fence? Reread the thr

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Renaissance Man
On 21 Jan 2007, at 9:01 pm, David Schlesinger wrote: I don't actually believe this, other than for the excruciatingly small minority of people who hang out on mailing lists such as this one. The overwhelming majority of people neither know nor care what the operating system on their cellphon

Re: Wiki + Mailing List

2007-01-21 Thread Ted Lemon
I've used mediawiki a bit on controversial topics; unfortunately it's no better than a mailing list because it does nothing to quell change wars. Also, it's isolating - I think that if the discussion here can be tolerated, it's better because it's cross-pollinating. Wiki discussions ten

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Richi Plana
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 21:58 +0100, Milan Votava wrote: > It would be nice to know if Sean's aim is > > 1. to satisfy his and our need for open source toys like Neo > > or > > 2. to earn money like almost everybody on this planet while > exploiting geeks like us to achieve his goal :-) I sincer

Re: Wish for 2nd generation Neo: USB 2.0

2007-01-21 Thread Harald Welte
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 06:56:30AM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Harald Welte writes: > > > >The main problem (with more powerful SoC) is not to provide a USB2.0 > >host port in the device. The main problem is power. You need a pretty > >powerful DC/DC step-up converter to provide the 5V power sup

RE: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread David Schlesinger
>If more people are aware of why freedom and community matter, then >they will buy more products that support freedom and community, like >more Neos. I don't actually believe this, other than for the excruciatingly small minority of people who hang out on mailing lists such as this one. The overw

Re: WiFi

2007-01-21 Thread michael
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, David Schlesinger wrote: What is the rationale behind the exclusion of WiFi? The long and short of it is that there?s no sufficiently low-power WiFi chip available which has an open driver, or at least there wasn?t when the hardware design got nailed down. It?s too late

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Milan Votava
At 21:29 21.1.2007, Dave Crossland wrote: On 20/01/07, Declan Naughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Join us. "Free Your Phone." > > I totally love this catch phrase! I hope that the FIC marketting uses > > it as the official tagline of all its openmoko devices! > > If freedom is a real goal

Wiki + Mailing List

2007-01-21 Thread Richi Plana
One of the great strengths of the open community is the myriad of inputs coming from its members (ie. posts to a mailing list). Unfortunately, it can also be one of its weakness. There is an increased probability of a degradation in the signal-to-noise ratio. Also, discussions could go on so many t

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread michael
Join us. "Free Your Phone." I totally love this catch phrase! I hope that the FIC marketting uses it as the official tagline of all its openmoko devices! It will for sure! This just popped into my head one day while taking a shower. I think it's really started to stick. Plus somebody who knows

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Declan Naughton
On 1/21/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 20/01/07, Declan Naughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Join us. "Free Your Phone." > > > I totally love this catch phrase! I hope that the FIC marketting uses > > > it as the official tagline of all its openmoko devices! > > > > If fr

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20/01/07, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Changing the system title to include GNU/Linux, would increase public awareness of GNU, but I don't see how it would directly improve the technology or how it would sell more Neo's If more people are aware of why freedom and community matt

Re: Wish for 2nd generation Neo: USB 2.0

2007-01-21 Thread michael
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Koen Kooi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harald Welte schreef: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:23:24AM +0100, Sven Neuhaus wrote: Since everyone is drooling about the next iteration of the Neo which is exptected to include WiFi, I figured I'd add a req

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20/01/07, Declan Naughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Join us. "Free Your Phone." > > I totally love this catch phrase! I hope that the FIC marketting uses > > it as the official tagline of all its openmoko devices! > > If freedom is a real goal then I agree. And I'm not so sure that is

Re: Text input, OpenMoko and Tengo

2007-01-21 Thread Richi Plana
I've the same sentiments as Ulrik. The Tengo technology seems just like a variation of existing technologies from companies like Tegic (now AOL) T9 and Zi Corporation's eZiText with the following differences: 1) A virtual keypad instead of a physical one (Zi eZiTap-like) 2) Six key groups instead

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Renaissance Man
That might be the case if those who oppose the use of "GNU" actually had a rational case. The fact is they just don't; it's mostly just an emotional reaction from what I can see. Renaissance Man On 21 Jan 2007, at 8:09 pm, David Ford wrote: Your statement should read ... "Maybe those who're

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
How does the end result differ from anything I or any on my side of the fence have suggested? Nothing changed so why bring it up in the first place? Both sides accuse the other of this fervour. Why slight one side of the fence? It's an issue that gets heated because the GNU-it-all side pipe

Re: Text input, OpenMoko and Tengo

2007-01-21 Thread Jeff Andros
I'm not that much into patent laws, but how long can it take for a patent to get accepted/rejected? With good lawyers and enough cash, I've heard of companies pulling this out to like 10 years On 1/21/07, Ulrik Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, since it's just pending, that means tha

Re: upgrade options for early adopters

2007-01-21 Thread Andrew Turner
This is a thought that seems inspired by other "early adopter" programs like Nokia's N770 internet tablet, which was just superseded by the N800, with new OS versions not backwards compatible. Therefore, the devs & users of the Rev1 device are left to purchase, for full price, the new version to k

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Renaissance Man
Well, that wasn't so hard now was it. Maybe those who're so keen to make a big fuss and accuse people like Crossland of religious fervour could take a page out of Sean's book? Renaissance Man On 21 Jan 2007, at 2:28 pm, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On 1/21/07 4:57 AM, "Dave Crossland" <[EMAIL PR

Re: WiFi

2007-01-21 Thread Renaissance Man
Heh, I think OpenMoko needs a web forum, otherwise such subjects are going to be done to death over and over. I recently just sparked a big discussion on just this subject Tom. I'm of much the same opinion as you. The absence of WiFi appears to be purely down to technical issues, but tempor

Neo1973 device description and picture for xoo.

2007-01-21 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. Just some sunday fun. I resized the Neo1973 Mock-up and write a small description for xoo. http://projects.o-hand.com/xoo It's not really useable at all, as you need a really high screen resolution to fit the whole picture on your screen. And of course the dpi are wrong. Even no buttons

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Sean! On 21/01/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/21/07 4:57 AM, "Dave Crossland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20/01/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> the OpenMoko Linux Distribution > > Can the FIC marketting department call it 'the OpenMoko GNU/Linux > Di

Re: Idea for one of the next Neos: Projecting the display via LEDs

2007-01-21 Thread Ulrik Rasmussen
On Sunday 21 January 2007 18:46, Wil Chung wrote: > Dr. H., I agree that it needs a beam scanner, on first though, but does it > have to be mechanical? I know you can direct radio waves with something > like a phase array, might not light be directed with a phase array? I > don't know, as it's ju

Re: Linux vs. GNU/Linux

2007-01-21 Thread Corey
On Sunday 21 January 2007 09:05, Ole Tange wrote: > If people ask you why you chose the one then answer them politely by > personal email. > Another solution is to ignore the thread. Most/all mail clients have this ability, for good reason.[1] In the mean time, those who still desire to partici

Re: Idea for one of the next Neos: Projecting the display via LEDs

2007-01-21 Thread Ole Tange
On 1/21/07, Wil Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think you need to also put it on the wiki of Ideas. :) http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMokoIdeas I have created: http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/ExternalDisplay /Ole ___ OpenMoko comm

Re: Idea for one of the next Neos: Projecting the display via LEDs

2007-01-21 Thread Wil Chung
I think you need to also put it on the wiki of Ideas. :) http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMokoIdeas Perhaps we need to separate between ideas for future hardware, and ideas for software? As for the idea, I think it has merit, although I'm not sure how good the picture quality would be. And

Re: exchange email?

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
All servers using current methods are notifying the client that new content is available using current protocols. The server can't know where the client is until the client pipes up and says "i'm over here at 10.0.0.5" nor can they know what is new content unless the client tells them what the

Re: porting PalmOS apps?

2007-01-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Paul Bohme writes: > >> Making legacy apps written for the "Garnet" OS (née "Palm OS") run on Linux >> is decidedly non-trivial. An emulator for this is going to be part of the >> ACCESS Linux Platform... >> > >Interesting - so an emulator for the old 68k stuff? Yes. Their mockup of the interf

Re: Idea for one of the next Neos: Projecting the display via LEDs

2007-01-21 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 21.01.2007 um 18:17 schrieb Uwe Koch: I think it must be possible to integrate 3 neccessary LEDs into the next gen Neo, and display the Display - say on a letter format size - to a white wall! 3 LEDs is not enough. You need something to make the beam scan the wall rectangle you want to

Idea for one of the next Neos: Projecting the display via LEDs

2007-01-21 Thread Uwe Koch
Hi, it's still always the same problem: Mobile phones' displays are to small (size or resolution) to view documents, ebooks, whatever - but they are small to carry with. On the other hand PDAs are to large to carry with but are a better solution for ebooks or reading texts - but is it large enou

Re: porting PalmOS apps?

2007-01-21 Thread Paul Bohme
David Schlesinger wrote: On 1/21/07 5:52 AM, "Joe Pfeiffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wouldn't say the API is as bad as you do, but it's certainly *different*. What's the old rule - 'if you can't think of something nice to say...' So I'm not going to say anything. >:) Only

Openmoko as tool to enable the users beeing active part of the OpenMoko community Re: Time for a community manifesto? And let us spread this good News :) Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Tim! On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Tim Newsom wrote: > It might be interesting to build some capability into the help system > where people can submit tips for applications, or even help information, > which gets sent to some openmoko.org repository and packaged up like an > rss feed. Yes this

RE: exchange email?

2007-01-21 Thread Dean Collins
"Microsoft "push email" isn't push at all. If you read the specifications, it's just another method of polling a server to determine if and what segments of new content is ready for transfer." Hmmm well I'm not an expert so whatever you say however from my understanding it is the server that

BTW Manifesto - I found "My Mobile 2.0 Manifesto" from Fabrizio Capobianco (funambol) Re: Time for a community manifesto? And let us spread this good News :) Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Robert Michel
Salve! Robert Michel schrieb am Samstag, den 20. Januar 2007 um 16:47h: > Dear OpenMoko fellows! > Seans mail sounds like a manifesto, Debian has one,too, so > what do you think when we community would having one as well > to emphasise our effort to share knowhow, skills and solutions, > and

RE: WiFi

2007-01-21 Thread David Schlesinger
>Done: >http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/QuestionsAndAnswers Hurray! The power of the open source community! =D ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: OpenMoko devices and Mac OS X

2007-01-21 Thread paolo massei
* domenica 21 gennaio 2007, alle 14:40, Andreas Kostyrka wrote: > > SIM == Subscriber Identity Module. Don't think copying will work. > > Well, technically the SIM provides the cryptographic secrets that are > needed to logon onto the GSM network. Don't think you can copy it, BUT > there are a nu

Re: Linux vs. GNU/Linux

2007-01-21 Thread Marcel de Jong
On 1/21/07, Ole Tange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The discussion whether to call it Linux or GNU/Linux has been going on for some time and now it is also on this mailinglist. May I suggest a compromise: If you want to call it GNU/Linux, then call it GNU/Linux, but stop bothering people that calls

Re: WiFi

2007-01-21 Thread Ole Tange
On 1/21/07, Tom Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the rationale behind the exclusion of WiFi? Will you consider including it on future revisions? Will it be possible to extend the MoKo with a WiFi card or something like that? See: http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/InternetAccess

Re: WiFi

2007-01-21 Thread Richard Franks
On 1/21/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What is the rationale behind the exclusion of WiFi? The long and short of it is that there's no sufficiently low-power WiFi chip available which has an open driver, or at least there wasn't when the hardware design got nailed down. It's t

Re: exchange email?

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
The term "Push email" comes from a client signing on to the server and issuing a "look for ..." instruction to the server. Also known as idling or long-delay poll. The logic of it is to have the client only issue new "look for ..." instructions when those instructions change, and until the cl

Re: Text input, OpenMoko and Tengo

2007-01-21 Thread Ulrik Rasmussen
So, since it's just pending, that means that an implementation of something that works in the same way would only be legal to distribute on "borrowed time"? I'm not that much into patent laws, but how long can it take for a patent to get accepted/rejected? Since a method like this seems very e

Linux vs. GNU/Linux

2007-01-21 Thread Ole Tange
The discussion whether to call it Linux or GNU/Linux has been going on for some time and now it is also on this mailinglist. May I suggest a compromise: If you want to call it GNU/Linux, then call it GNU/Linux, but stop bothering people that calls it Linux. If you want to call it Linux, then call

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
And what are the GNU free distributions to be called? If you cut yourself, do you get a bandaid or medically sterile adsorbent pad attached to an affixable length of flexible material? Band-aid may be trademarked and copyrighted, but that's still what everyone calls such items and there whate

RE: exchange email?

2007-01-21 Thread David Schlesinger
>Microsoft "push email" isn't push at all. If you read the >specifications, it's just another method of polling a server to >determine if and what segments of new content is ready for transfer. I think this is true for the "Outlook Web Access" interface which, for instance, Evolution (and Pock

Re: exchange email?

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
Microsoft "push email" isn't push at all. If you read the specifications, it's just another method of polling a server to determine if and what segments of new content is ready for transfer. Just like ETRN, POP3, and IMAP, none of it requires human intervention and all of it can poll for new

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
The point you are avoiding or ignoring is that GNU people are ascribing credit for a single principle contributor. If a contributor of a dwindling side of a ratio of software is a principle, then so must everything else be that went into the development of Linux and this phone that is larger.

Re: porting PalmOS apps?

2007-01-21 Thread David Schlesinger
On 1/21/07 5:52 AM, "Joe Pfeiffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wouldn't say the API is as bad as you do, but > it's certainly *different*. Only from Linux. It's actually very similar to the pre-OS X Mac OS APIs... Making legacy apps written for the "Garnet" OS (née "Palm OS") run on Linux i

Re: WiFi

2007-01-21 Thread Robin Sonefors
It's not included, because no low powered wifi chip with free drivers could be found when the phone was being designed. If one can be found for the next revision, I'm sure it will be included (since the lack of wifi seems to be the no 1 complaint so far) sön 2007-01-21 klockan 15:11 + skrev To

Re: WiFi

2007-01-21 Thread David Schlesinger
>What is the rationale behind the exclusion of WiFi? The long and short of it is that there¹s no sufficiently low-power WiFi chip available which has an open driver, or at least there wasn¹t when the hardware design got nailed down. It¹s too late in the process to add one now, but maybe in some fu

Re: WiFi

2007-01-21 Thread Tomasz Zielinski
2007/1/21, Tom Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm new to the list, so I don't know whether this was already discussed, but I'm surprised (and a bit sorry) that the OpenMoKo spec doesn't include WiFi Whoa, you are right! Nobody noticed this thing before you mentioned it! -- Tomek Z. [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: How licensing discussions can tear communities apart

2007-01-21 Thread David Schlesinger
I would like to propose the creation of "alt.flame.open-source-license". I See A Great Need. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

WiFi

2007-01-21 Thread Tom Berger
Hya, I'm new to the list, so I don't know whether this was already discussed, but I'm surprised (and a bit sorry) that the OpenMoKo spec doesn't include WiFi - I'm currently using an HTC Universal and would very much like to switch to the MoKo as soon as it's available, but I find that the WiFi o

Re: OpenMoko devices and Mac OS X

2007-01-21 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
As in, GNUStep? That's an interesting thought. Ah, I forgot to mention it is not only a thought... mySTEP is an FOSS project for the Sharp Zaurus that is only waiting for appropriate open Linux based mobile phone hardware to come :-) Please inform yourself at http://www.quantum-step.com/wi

Re: Q1: GPS software bundled ,Q2:Java support

2007-01-21 Thread Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded
Jay, On Q2: The Mobile & Embedded Community (http://www.mobileandembedded.org) is keeping a close eye on OpenMoko. We definitely want to see Java ME on this device. Anybody who is interested in working on porting Java ME to OpenMoko please let me know. Btw, I believe Koen has already started so

Re: OpenMoko devices and Mac OS X

2007-01-21 Thread Dr . H . Nikolaus Schaller
Am 21.01.2007 um 15:16 schrieb tony: Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Sharing applications is much more complex and more or less means removing some parts of OpenMoko (e.g. GTK, the built in applications) and replacing with a MacOS/Cocoa compatible software layer. The best thing with OpenM

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/21/07 4:57 AM, "Dave Crossland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20/01/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> the OpenMoko Linux Distribution > > Can the FIC marketting department call it 'the OpenMoko GNU/Linux > Distribution'? We'll just call it OpenMoko. I think short simpl

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