Re: Power Management on Neo1973 - kernel 2.6.24

2008-01-11 Thread Alexandre Ghisoli
Le jeudi 10 janvier 2008 à 22:40 +0100, Tim Niemeyer a écrit : > Today, i played a bit with power measurement and standby. > It was very surprising, and the actual power was very different from time > to time. Sometimes neo booted and did draw about 400mA in idle. Sometimes only > 280mA. > In Stan

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 10.01.2008 um 22:20 schrieb Michael Shiloh: We're still testing the hardware and gathering up little issues before determining whether we need to create another version of the board. We still expect to start shipping Neo FreeRunner sometime in the next few months. As always, we can't be

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:03:32 +0100, Lon Lentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you aware of any online sites that might have done any video of this? Searching YouTube gives quite a bunch of results for "OpenMoko". -- Alexey Feldgendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler

Re: Openmoko wallpaper

2008-01-11 Thread Peter Ruzicska
Please upload to your site the original image! With your sign on the lower right corner :) But without blackened moon. thanks a lot! speedyx86 Flyin_bbb8 írta: no the picture is in png format 'n high res.and 1639 KB, should be a JPG with ok quality then the size will be much more less then ma

Re: Power Management on Neo1973

2008-01-11 Thread Tim Niemeyer
Hallo Shawn, * Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-01-08 15:02]: > On Jan 10, 2008 2:40 PM, Tim Niemeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > with actual battery you need to minimize the power consumption to 10mA for > > 5h lifetime! sry, has you also realised, i mean 5day! ;-) > What is your metho

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Jay Vaughan
We're still testing the hardware and gathering up little issues before determining whether we need to create another version of the board. We still expect to start shipping Neo FreeRunner sometime in the next few months. As always, we can't be more specific, because we're not sure. A

Re: Power Management on Neo1973

2008-01-11 Thread joerg
> I was thinking of > > cutting a strip of thin, double-sided PC board material and sticking > > it between one battery contact and the corresponding phone contact, > > then connect a current meter between the two planes of that strip. Alu-stickytape applied on both sides of a thin plastic, e.g. f

Re: Power Management on Neo1973

2008-01-11 Thread Nils Faerber
Tim Niemeyer schrieb: > Hallo Shawn, Hi! > * Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-01-08 14:19]: >> Well what's the best uptime on battery that has been seen so far, with >> unmodified phones and with an existing software image? I see less >> than 20 minutes when I'm trying to just use it as a G

Re: Neo security: running everything as root, and lacking a root password (was: Re: root)

2008-01-11 Thread Joseph Reeves
Of course, F-Secure sell mobile anti-virus software, and he could have easily avoided infection by employing a more sensible use of Bluetooth, so I always take these sorts of comments with a pinch of salt. Having said that, the F-Secure blog is pretty good, and probably essential reading for anyone

Only 10 days to go: Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days countdown

2008-01-11 Thread Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded
Newsletter #4: https://developerdays.dev.java.net/newsletters/MEDD-Countdown4.pdf Enjoy! -- Terrence -- Terrence Barr Technical Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded Community Phone: +49 711 720 98185 http://www.mobileandembedded.org http://www.sun.com Registered Office: Sun Microsystems GmbH,

Re: Community update, January 2, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Joseph Reeves
Hi Michael, Going back to your previous email first: >Fortunately we have a watchful community to catch our mistakes as quickly as possible! Please continue to let me know if we make such mistakes in the future. Please understand that I wasn't trying to suggest any mistakes had been made, I was

Re: Openmoko wallpaper

2008-01-11 Thread Marcel
The original image (no blackened moon, it's a lens reflection) and the most recent of the wallpaper'd one can be seen here: http://tanuva.de/index.php/mokocars-at-night-gallery/ @clare: Maybe I make an even smaller jpegged one (800x600?) as a preview and one attaches a hires tar.gz version to it

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Al Johnson
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/11/ces_video_openmoko_handset/ Won't tell you anything you don't already know from the list though. On Friday 11 January 2008, Lon Lentz wrote: > Michael, > > Are you aware of any online sites that might have done any video of this? > > On Jan 10, 2008 4:2

Re: community Digest, Vol 61, Issue 21

2008-01-11 Thread Kos
Sorry about that, I was doing to much at the same time On Jan 11, 2008 3:12 PM, Kos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ze gaat gaan schaatsen? > ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/commun

Re: root

2008-01-11 Thread Zitune
Effectively the resource must be freely access ... but it could be a good idea that to protect system file from a mistake of the default user. After all, on our desktop, most of us are single user but very few log on directly on root account. On Jan 11, 2008 1:56 PM, Schmidt András <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: root

2008-01-11 Thread François TOURDE
Le 13889ième jour après Epoch, Schmidt András écrivait: > In my opinion there is nothing that the root account can protect on a > single user handheld device. Think of reflashing OS, apps, etc... > Phones are normally used single user. Yes, but this one can probably be multi-users. Maybe can I

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread andy selby
> Michael, > > Are you aware of any online sites that might have done any video of this? Try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZsps3bj6yE ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Brad Midgley
I was able to make out "what's new" and "two things that are new" and nothing after that. We can probably guess he meant wifi and maybe fixed gsm firmware. On Jan 11, 2008 8:45 AM, andy selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael, > > > > Are you aware of any online sites that might have done

Re: root

2008-01-11 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Schmidt András writes: >In my opinion there is nothing that the root account can protect on a >single user handheld device. >Phones are normally used single user. >When an application gets the rights for that user then it can access all >personal information and all network resources (Wifi, GSM n

Re: root (Neo Security)

2008-01-11 Thread Christopher White
The basic filesystem should be protected. Given that OpenMoko is open, I can install any app I choose, which is great and the entire reason I'm here. But I'm going to be much more reluctant to install an app that I did not write if it's going to run as root all the time. Assuming I fully trust

Re: root (Neo Security)

2008-01-11 Thread Christopher White
The basic filesystem should be protected. Given that OpenMoko is open, I can install any app I choose, which is great and the entire reason I'm here. But I'm going to be much more reluctant to install an app that I did not write if it's going to run as root all the time. Assuming I fully trust

Re: root

2008-01-11 Thread Schmidt András
In my opinion there is nothing that the root account can protect on a single user handheld device. Phones are normally used single user. When an application gets the rights for that user then it can access all personal information and all network resources (Wifi, GSM network). What else remains

Re: root

2008-01-11 Thread Schmidt András
Hi! I have dark thoughts today and just wanted to stir the already boiling water a little :-). Sorry for doing that! Certainly I did not mean it really seriously :-). Although I mean that creating a user that can access our private data and network as well but has no system privileges (as it

Re: root

2008-01-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jan 11, 2008, at 5:56 AM, Schmidt András wrote: In my opinion there is nothing that the root account can protect on a single user handheld device. Phones are normally used single user. When an application gets the rights for that user then it can access all personal information and all net

Re: Neo security: running everything as root, and lacking a root password (was: Re: root)

2008-01-11 Thread Mark
It doesn't seem like separate restricted users for different phone system parts would be that helpful. The code still needs to be secure. Say for example gsm gets compromised, then even with separate users they still have full gsm access and can make phone calls. The only advantage to isolating

Re: Community update, January 2, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Joseph Reeves wrote: Hi Michael, Hi Joseph, Going back to your previous email first: Fortunately we have a watchful community to catch our mistakes as quickly as possible! Please continue to let me know if we make such mistakes in the future. Please understand that I wasn't trying to

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Jay, Thanks for your enthusiasm. Jay Vaughan wrote: We're still testing the hardware and gathering up little issues before determining whether we need to create another version of the board. We still expect to start shipping Neo FreeRunner sometime in the next few months. As always, we

R: root

2008-01-11 Thread Michele Manzato
Today I was in Wien airport which has wifi and is publicly accessible (although you can't reach Internet). I was there with my laptop and I could easily browse other devices nearby, and there were many. I also spotted some iPhones which advertised their ssh service and some other devices which adve

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 10.01.2008 um 22:20 schrieb Michael Shiloh: We're still testing the hardware and gathering up little issues before determining whether we need to create another version of the board. We still expect to start shipping Neo FreeRunner sometime in the next few

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Brad Midgley
Michael > I'm pretty sure that the only "new" things we mentioned were new > hardware features: WiFi, faster processor, 2D/3D accelerator chip, and > the accelerometers. ah yes, 3d! It'll be nice to have 3d renderings using something like google earth ;) -- Brad ___

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 11 January 2008 21:21:41 Michael Shiloh wrote: > Hi Lon, > > Will from our office pointed me at these, but that was yesterday and > apparently even more have appeared: > > http://gizmodo.com/341755/openmoko-neo-freerunner-linux-smartphone-hands+on > http://takezero.net/3g-and-mobile-news/

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/11/08, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Lon, > > Will from our office pointed me at these, but that was yesterday and > apparently even more have appeared: > > http://gizmodo.com/341755/openmoko-neo-freerunner-linux-smartphone-hands+on > http://takezero.net/3g-and-mobile-news/han

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Jan 11, 2008 2:17 PM, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The comments are.. not so happy. :/ Yeah it didn't make a good impression to show the boot messages, and a buggy crashing version of the UI. It really doesn't make sense, in that the rest of us are getting better results with the

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Denis
Unfortunately, opengl drivers for the SMedia chip will unlikely be ready by the release of FreeRunner. Only XRender extension is implemented by now. Also, GoogleEarth is closed-source and therefore can not be recompiled for ARM. P.S. Does anyone know whether we'll see accelerated XVideo extension

Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Lon, Will from our office pointed me at these, but that was yesterday and apparently even more have appeared: http://gizmodo.com/341755/openmoko-neo-freerunner-linux-smartphone-hands+on http://takezero.net/3g-and-mobile-news/hands-on-with-fics-openmoko-powered-freerunner-2 http://youtube.co

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Brad, I'm pretty sure that the only "new" things we mentioned were new hardware features: WiFi, faster processor, 2D/3D accelerator chip, and the accelerometers. Fixed GSM firmware is not new because that's already included in GTA01 units (those that shipped after we got the fixed firmwar

Re: root

2008-01-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Schmidt András wrote: I assume that sudo prevents the harware to be bricked accidentally by the user or by a userspace program. What I wanted to mean is that protecting the user's data is more important than protecting the device itself. Sudo takes away securit

Design of the outer edge of phone case

2008-01-11 Thread Zeth Green
Warning: Totally frivolous post. The picture on the news.com site, has the word "FreeRunner" written at the bottom and a rather cool all black look (i.e. no transparent edge). Is this photo a fake or is it a real photo of the new case? http://linkpot.net/stenched/ I see that the demoed phones

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Lon Lentz
Thanks, Michael. That was what I was looking for. Geek tech sites covering you guys at the show. I read the "not so happy" comments following the Gizmodo article. A lot of those comments have been made here on this list. Like the repeated ones about the boot scroll being visible. I would re

Re: Openmoko wallpaper

2008-01-11 Thread clare
Hi Marcel, I think I have not been clear enough. I always thought you intended the pic as a decoration for the wiki home page, and that I thought not a good idea. Just putting files in the wiki, with a warning as to size, is fine. regards, clare On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Marcel wrote: The origin

Re: Power Management on Neo1973

2008-01-11 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Jan 10, 2008 2:57 PM, Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah. I wonder if the battery has deteriorated somehow (from the > phone running and being plugged in to USB for days or weeks at a time, > and being overcharged? but the power management chip should not > overcharge it, right?),

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Lon Lentz wrote: I read the "not so happy" comments following the Gizmodo article. A lot of those comments have been made here on this list. Like the repeated ones about the boot scroll being visible. I thought that was weird. The boot scroll is one of my fav

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Jeff Andros
On Jan 11, 2008 11:26 PM, Ted Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Lon Lentz wrote: > > I read the "not so happy" comments following the Gizmodo article. > > A lot of those comments have been made here on this list. Like the > > repeated ones about the boot scroll bein