Re: ``Freerunner reliable and stable''?!

2008-10-26 Thread Chris Wright
2008/10/26 Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm a bit tired of all those (useless) threads like this. I DO USE the FR > with Om2008.9 for everyday use, I do not even own any other cellphone. > We should improve what we have and stop useless discussions, as well > about Google's trick of Androi

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Wright
2008/10/1 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > eg: > > Press | Guess+dist > e e+0 w+1 r+2 d+2 s+1 > r r+0 t+1 e+2 f+1 g+2 d+3 > k k+0 l+1 o+2 i+3 j+3 > d d+0 f+1 s+1 e+1 c+1 r+2 w+2 I assume this takes into account the keyboard layout, so if I use dvorak or

Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Wright
2008/8/22 Lothar Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You must have a lock, since otherwise you may accidantly issue an > emergency call. > > Lothar With my current phone, you can make emergency calls on it, even if the phone is locked. It happened to me once. I got a call a few minutes later from the c

Re: ASU - out of memory?

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Wright
2008/8/22 Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/8/22 Tilman Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Pardon. >> I don't care for the warm and fuzzy feeling you get by having malloc >> fail on you. >> >> It does not give you a bit more system stability!

Re: ASU - out of memory?

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Wright
2008/8/22 Tilman Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pardon. > I don't care for the warm and fuzzy feeling you get by having malloc > fail on you. > > It does not give you a bit more system stability! The one app > receiving malloc errors is just not app of many. They all have a > problem then. > Imagin

Re: atd: how to start a job every 10 minutes ?

2008-08-15 Thread Chris Wright
2008/8/15 Harald Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Aug 15, Roland Mas wrote: > >> You may want ot look at cron instead of at. at is for one-time jobs, >> cron is for recurring jobs. > > will cron work while FR being suspended ? > > haven't checked yet, but so far I've read this only from atd, > and

Re: FSO: is zhone here to stay?

2008-08-08 Thread Chris Wright
2008/8/7 Stefan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 12:39, Craig B. Allen wrote: >> If zhone is going to be around for a while, how can I make a request >> for a new feature? > > Well, that depends a lot on what kind of feature request this is. As I wrote > above, zhone is mostly t

Re: any update on GSM interference issue

2008-08-04 Thread Chris Wright
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/08/02/kill-gsm-radio-buzz.html Maybe that could provide a less invasive means to getting rid of the problem? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/co

Re: Openmoko on Design

2008-07-29 Thread Chris Wright
2008/7/29 Marek Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday, 29. July 2008 20:17:00 Chris Wright wrote: >> But you do have a design team, according to Rasterman. > > Of course we have. How do you think we are trying to get to a device that is > ready for end user ? And this i

Re: Openmoko on Design

2008-07-29 Thread Chris Wright
2008/7/29 Marek Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > >> At the same time we heard comments from a key developer who indicated >> that the decision was made above him by unnamed individuals with whom >> the community has no obvious means of communication, and who apparently >> don't even listen to

Re: Alternative stylus - Group Buy

2008-07-21 Thread Chris Wright
2008/7/19 Steven ** <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anyone interested in a different group buy? > I want one of these: > http://www.jetmall.net/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=303 I'm with you, too. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmo

Re: Rules based policy engine

2008-07-20 Thread Chris Wright
2008/7/20 Ryan Meador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think it's important that we use an existing general-purpose platform such > as > Prolog (at least, it's about as general purpose as logic programming gets...). I would favor Rhino.DSL, simply because I know it integrates well with a language with db

Re: More HW from OpenMoko

2008-07-02 Thread Chris Wright
2008/7/2 Rodolphe Ortalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Probably not so much effort. But the real challenge imo is: > - the UI and the communication between that UI and the backend > (scientific-oriented) software > - the wise specification of that backend (numerical vs. symbolic vs. > both, reusing exis

Re: openmoko availability from the online store, set opening time if not date?

2008-07-02 Thread Chris Wright
2008/7/2 Crane, Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Maybe you guys could set a time that the web store will open, on > whatever day it does open? E.g. if it's not open by 10am, it's not > going to open that day. > > That could give everybody a fair shot of getting their orders asap. > > Matt Or at l

Re: Why not use votation system?

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Wright
2008/6/12 Brad Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michele > >> Do you want feature X or feature Y? > > you might need a table representing the cost and business feasibility > of each feature. We've seen a lot more transparency on the 3g decision > recently which reveals it to be more complicated than p

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Wright
2008/6/13 enaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm feeling reminded of those creditcard sized poket calendars we have > in germany. on those you have got the calendar information of a whole > year + the Information of hollidays and other special days. land > everything is readable and pretty clear to read.

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Wright
2008/6/10 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:40:08 +0100 Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > >> >> On 10 Jun 2008, at 02:17, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >> > browsing full web pages scrammed into a 2.8" screen as many have >> > suggested, is

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-09 Thread Chris Wright
2008/6/9 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/6/9 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> an 80x24 terminal is possible to make it readable @ qvga - if we allow >> scrolling. (and possible in landscape with an ultra-tiny 4-pixel wide font - >> possible (3 pixels for text, 1 for sp

Re: GTA03 case should incorporate stylus holder

2008-06-09 Thread Chris Wright
2008/6/6 steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Stroller you crack me up. (vi rules.) > > We need a religious war between the Digitii, the Stylii, and Quertii. > > Or three products? > > Rant away. Your views are always welcome. What of the Dvoraksai? I do think that thumb keyboards are best -- tactile fe

OT: ajax image galleries

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Wright
2008/6/3 "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There are some pics and videos by Einstein from freeyourphone.de: > - http://tinyurl.com/66ktzl (URL maps to http://freeyourphone.de/portal_v1/gallery/menu.php?gallery=members&album_id=8 ) Those AJAX image widgets seem to be designed ad

Re: Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

2008-06-03 Thread Chris Wright
The cost is probably on the order of paraplegia. And I wonder about the power requirements -- there haven't been significant advances in battery technology lately. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org

Re: Open Hardware

2008-06-01 Thread Chris Wright
Openmoko phones are as cheap as they are because they use commodity hardware, I'm given to understand. If you wanted a phone with open hardware, you'd probably be paying thousands for all the custom components. Plus there's testing and certification for various parts, which probably is also expensi

Re: Library can handle MP3 id3tag encoding

2008-05-27 Thread Chris Wright
2008/5/27 Bin Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > HI, > > Is there a good library can handle MP3 id3tag encoding easily? AFAIK, > the encoding that in the id3tag can't be decided, it maybe ASCII, > UTF-8 and others which sometimes cause the software to decode some > error character. > The libid3tag can do

Re: Switch from GTK to QT (was: ASU software - pre-pre-release impressions)

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Wright
2008/5/21 Nkoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Carlo E. Prelz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> My complaint is that it would be difficult for me to put my hands into >> the default apps. They are C++, QT, and expectedly using enough of >> those creepy C++-isms (possibl

Re: ASU software - pre-pre-release impressions

2008-05-20 Thread Chris Wright
2008/5/20 Ben Burdette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Travis Tabbal wrote: > C++ is difficult to link against, so that limits the languages that you can > use for development. For instance, D has a hard time with linking to C++ > (or did last I checked). C, on the other hand is far simpler to link to. >

Re: Will GTK be used in Openmoko? (was: Re: Software Status Update)

2008-05-15 Thread Chris Wright
2008/5/15 Flemming Richter Mikkelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 5/15/08, Geoff Ruscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think gtk should definitely be part of the platform. As far as I know the >> Java Swing hooks are for gtk. Since its shipping with Java it should be >> able to use the gtk, right?

Re: Root password and ssh?

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Wright
2008/5/14 Mo Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Except for if music files, images etc. on the phone are owned by root, > in which case we wouldn't be able to access them via ssh. On the contrary! 1. Disable root login via ssh. 2. Log in as a luser. 3. Su to root. -- http://dsource.org/projects/dmo