Re: is there an effort to port ubuntu to openmoko?

2009-01-08 Thread Didier Raboud
Note that Debian is already ported. Ubuntu is just Debian unstable+six months of stabilization... Regards, OdyX -- Swisslinux.org − Le carrefour GNU/Linux en Suisse − http://www.swisslinux.org ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: How do you like to read a phone number?

2009-01-05 Thread Didier Raboud
Hi, Switzerland From outside (many people write all their numbers like this, gives the international trend...) : +41 xx yyy yy yy From inside : 0xx yyy yy yy Where xx is the regional code. AFAIK, mobile phones are always 7x, with x = 6, 8, 9 And you can replace the

Re: Version 2 -- New community distribution hackable1

2008-12-17 Thread Didier Raboud
Didier Raboud wrote: Marcus Bauer wrote: Hey guys, fully in the spirit of release early, release often we want to announce hackable:1, a new distribution for the Neo and other hackable devices. What is hackable:1 ? distributions = distributions + 1 Just

Re: Version 2 -- New community distribution hackable1

2008-12-17 Thread Didier Raboud
Marcus Bauer wrote: Hey guys, fully in the spirit of release early, release often we want to announce hackable:1, a new distribution for the Neo and other hackable devices. What is hackable:1 ? distributions = distributions + 1 -- Swisslinux.org − Le

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread Didier Raboud
arne anka wrote: om provides and develops only one distribution! if there are more than this one it is done by community effort -- people who bought the freerunner exactly because the _could_ do that. i for one don't see any sense in helping google to do their homework -- and control

Re: Android open sourced

2008-10-21 Thread Didier Raboud
Cédric Berger wrote: Here we are http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/10/android-open-source-cell-phone.html time to port to Neo ! Hey... it says open-source (you can read the code) not free software (you can do whatever you want)... http://code.google.com/android/terms.html

Re: Back to the basics: improving user experience

2008-10-17 Thread Didier Raboud
Christ van Willegen wrote: Perhaps another idea to lighten the core developers' load... Invest a little time (a day or so?) to properly set up a VMWare image that can be downloaded by developers that want to help in any way. Make it easy to update sources, and easy to build both kernel

Re: Back to the basics: improving user experience

2008-10-16 Thread Didier Raboud
Vasco Névoa wrote: I agree with you partly; the main efforts should go into getting the new framework out - *as long as it runs on a rock-solid core system*. So I support the idea of accelerating the FSO integration... but in the meantime people have to use the sucking Qtopia ware in their

Re: Weekly Engineering News 41/2008: back to the basics

2008-10-15 Thread Didier Raboud
Risto H. Kurppa wrote: (...) Comments? This is the best thing I have read about Openmoko development since a long time : Openmoko Inc. focusing on parts where money has real value : core stuff, which needs high qualifications and good coders. Week-end coders will then build their toy on the

Re: Neopwn

2008-09-22 Thread Didier Raboud
Russell Hay wrote: I'm assuming they're not intending to release the full code? Certainly cant see any mentions of license or downloads on their site. Formally, they only have to release the source code to their buyers... -- Swisslinux.org − Le carrefour GNU/Linux en Suisse −

Re: New(ish) keyboard input method

2008-09-11 Thread Didier Raboud
Craig B. Allen wrote: dasher is available in the Debian distribution. It's pretty slow, and hard to see the letters. But I have not tried tweaking it other than selecting stylus mode in preferences. -- Craig Anyway... I think it can be a real plus for the FreeRunner ! Okay, it consumes

Re: Swype - Jaw dropping fast and accurate entry of text via touch screen [w/video]

2008-09-10 Thread Didier Raboud
nickd wrote: http://cnettv.cnet.com/9742-1_53-50003669.html This would be awesome. -Nick But proprietary... Take a look at the other method previously pointed by Dan : http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ It's GPL... Regards, OdyX -- Swisslinux.org − Le carrefour GNU/Linux en

Re: Fennec on Openmoko

2008-09-09 Thread Didier Raboud
arne anka wrote: At the moment i got iceweasel running on my debian freerunner. It is also a firefox port which works great. I could use any original addon from mozilla. :) i recently found out about midori -- a small webkit based browser, available in the debian repositiories I just

Trading in €uros ?

2008-04-15 Thread Didier Raboud
is good for me if the U$D continues to go down : my future Neo will cost less to me. :) Regards, OdyX, aka Didier Raboud ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Trading in €uros ?

2008-04-15 Thread Didier Raboud
Didier Raboud wrote: Hi, Just wondering. With the actual fall of the U$D, why not setting the Neo's prices in €uros ? (Which is actually pretty strong.) (or ¥ens, ...) This would imply a rising price (with time) for American customers instead of a falling one for European ones

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-10 Thread Didier Raboud
Sven Klomp wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008 01:17:51 Denis wrote: Centralized database is evil. I'm going to use my own server for tracking my Neo. I think it's the only way to keep privacy. I don't know if it was already mentioned, but encryption of the GPS data might be a solution to

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-10 Thread Didier Raboud
Sven Klomp wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008 10:19:22 Didier Raboud wrote: Sven Klomp wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008 01:17:51 Denis wrote: Centralized database is evil. I'm going to use my own server for tracking my Neo. I think it's the only way to keep privacy. I don't know

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-09 Thread Didier Raboud
Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: On 4/7/08, Didier Raboud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * If I loose or let my Moko being stolen, I can find my connection parameters (on the paper) and go to track.openmoko.com and there I can find 24 coordinates a day. This could help me find it back or help

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-09 Thread Didier Raboud
Denis wrote: Then why on Earth would a hijacker use standard image? Because the Neos will always be one particular phone in a sea of other phones (even in an ocean of other phone _types_). I was assuming that the hijacker were only random hijackers targetting all possible phones to just resell

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-07 Thread Didier Raboud
and flash-change prone ID. * I as user can take the freedom to deactivate it to protect my positions and/or save money (depending on the costs induced by the GPS tracker) Regards, Didier Raboud ___ Openmoko community mailing list community