Re: Our new Main page of wiki

2008-05-01 Thread Nick Guenther
It's not just the titles that are awkward, all the text sounds kind of awkward. Brenda, don't be offended at this, but your first language is not English is it? Perhaps you should leave the content of the consumer-facing pages (at least, the ones that are in english) to someone who has English intu

Re: Community Update???

2008-04-29 Thread Nick Guenther
because the coders would rather code? This sort of sounds like it would end up really really stupid, if it was used at all. Subscribe to the dev mailing list. On 4/29/08, ramsesoriginal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whi not have an official openmoko twitter stream? > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:

Re: Ugliness (was Re: 10 PACK UPDATE!!!)

2008-04-26 Thread Nick Guenther
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 25 Apr 2008, at 16:25, Lowell Higley wrote: > > > > Nine out of ten "typical consumers" I show it to think it's ugly and > wouldn't buy it because of looks alone. If I show it to a techie type, I > get the "what are the s

Re: 99

2008-04-20 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Brandon Kruger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun April 20 2008 7:27:06 pm Kevin Dean wrote: > > I'm happy paying $399 for all ye who feel the need to pay $400 to make > > it even. :P Though, I'll hop on the even bandwagon if it's dropped as > > long as Openmo

Re: 99

2008-04-20 Thread Nick Guenther
It's not about paying more, it's about transparency and setting a standard for others to follow. I vote for 400$ also. On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Kevin Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm happy paying $399 for all ye who feel the need to pay $400 to make > it even. :P Though, I'll hop on

Re: I just want a free phone

2008-04-14 Thread Nick Guenther
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Breakable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > I read some discussions about the accessories to GTA02. In my humble opinion > the community should not expect the OpenMoko Inc to provide all the > accessories, as soon as the phone is released, especially for the

Re: LCD protector

2008-04-12 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Ajit Natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > A friend of mine who owns an iPhone purchased an LCD protector. It is a > sheet of clear material cut to the dimensions of the LCD screen. When > affixed to the screen, it doesn't affect touch screen operatio

Re: Smart LCD birght/dim...

2008-04-12 Thread Nick Guenther
AM, Ortwin Regel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exactly my thoughts: This sounds way too complicated to actually be > useful. I'd rather adjust my brightness manually. > > > > On 4/12/08, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 11,

Re: Smart LCD birght/dim...

2008-04-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:50 PM, "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since Freerunner won't have an hardware light sensor to set its LCD > brightness, I got some ideas about smartly changing the luminance of the > GTA02 screen to save its battery (still with an unknown life time

Re: customized CPE

2008-04-04 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:32 PM, khang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Taiwan CPE developers of WiMax (etc..) are looking for a new > OS/plateform , > so their applications won't be limited . > We are planning > 1.City surveillance (live project) --- installing digital camera > wi

Re: (no subject)

2008-03-31 Thread Nick Guenther
On 3/31/08, Thinesh thusinthaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to get into the community... > > add me in.. > Why? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: 3 nets

2008-03-30 Thread Nick Guenther
on it? > > > joerg skrev: > > Am So 30. März 2008 schrieb Nick Guenther: > > > On 3/30/08, khang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > and cablenet > (IPTV, vedio on demand .. ). > Is it possible ? > > This thing is too tiny to have a coaxial connection

Re: 3 nets

2008-03-30 Thread Nick Guenther
On 3/30/08, khang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to have an openmoko device (GTA0?) > which can access to 3 nets :Internet (email ,VoIP > wikipedia etc..),phonenet(3G,GPRS..) and cablenet > (IPTV, vedio on demand .. ). > Is it possible ? If you'd searched for news articles on Openm

Re: 2.6.24 kernel RNDIS is not work when I use the same NeoRndis.inf

2008-03-17 Thread Nick Guenther
On 3/17/08, polz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2008 10:03:04 Xiangfu Liu wrote: > > hi > > > > i flash my NEO1973 with the new kernel > > when i connect to the Windows XP > > it 's not work > > i can see the Device in the computer but it is not work > > but it's work with

Re: Coolest thing at ETech (other than Openmoko :-) ): Fireeagle

2008-03-05 Thread Nick Guenther
Big Brother much? On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Dean Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What its going to be.. is a series of api's to allow you to; > > 'provide' your physical location (manual web entry-sms-gps phone > app) > > 'promote or interact out onto other platforms (faceboo

Re: Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

2008-03-04 Thread Nick Guenther
mething the phone should be emitting in normal operation. > > > Nick Guenther wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Ben Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hey, > >> > >> Just a reminder to everyone *NOT* to pull out the battery while

Re: Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

2008-03-03 Thread Nick Guenther
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Ben Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Just a reminder to everyone *NOT* to pull out the battery while the neo > has USB power. > > You may not have heard it but the phone gets quite angry. As evident by > a quiet scream the phone emits as the component

Re: Bootin from SD

2008-02-29 Thread Nick Guenther
Rewriting the u-boot is not /that/ dangerous. I don't have a debug board either and I've done it about 10 times now. Just make sure all your batteries have full power, and your USB cords are plugged in snugly, and don't trip onto your neo while doing it. On 2/29/08, Emre Turkay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Idea of a voice mail application

2008-02-29 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/29/08, Dean Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... and if your boss heard a message like this - come Monday you'd be > looking for a new job. > > Can I suggest that you don't really have the processing power onboard the > neo to perform a real intelligent call routing application (and

Re: OSX issue: Anyone successful to config RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget on 10.5.2

2008-02-29 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/29/08, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have now upgraded my Mac to 10.5.2 and tried to connect the OpenMoko > through RNDIS. > > Opening the System Settings shows a new interface called RNDIS/ > Ethernet Gadget but it is shown as a Phone Modem. So, I can confi

Re: FAX2PDF with OpenMoko?

2008-02-26 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:02 PM, kenneth marken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 February 2008 17:46:28 Tilman Baumann wrote: > > Nils Faerber wrote: > > Fax is dead. > > > > yep, instead one should start to see printers with a built in mailing system > so that one could assign a ma

Re: Question for OpenMoko: can we please buy just a battery?

2008-02-21 Thread Nick Guenther
Okay, but let's not get distracted: can we *just* buy a battery? ((Some of us don't have skills with a soldering iron (yet).)) -Nick On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Kyle Bassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can second this. I have used a similar design in some mobile handheld > prototypes, h

Re: GTA02 Battery Capacity (Was: Re: More about the GTA02)

2008-02-14 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > some schematics anyway. All this very suboptimal with regard to an "open > > phone". All my Sony-gadgets are more open, w

Re: GTA02 Battery Capacity (Was: Re: More about the GTA02)

2008-02-08 Thread Nick Guenther
On Feb 8, 2008 4:04 AM, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've researched this a little, and this is what I've learned: > > 1. We are still looking at a number of different batteries, so there is > no "final" capacity or feature set determined yet. > > 2. The capacity will most

Re: Patents and OpenMoko

2008-02-08 Thread Nick Guenther
On Feb 8, 2008 4:46 AM, Sander van Grieken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think that we all agree here that the patent system is completely broken. > > > > By filling patent, even for defense only, you are playing the rule. > > > > What I've seen so far is that small companies that cannot affor

Re: NO VOICE WHEN USING VOIP IN QTOPIA

2008-01-17 Thread Nick Guenther
2008/1/17 左 国坤 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, Nick > > tks for your advice. Oh! Oh no, don't be thankful. It was totally a guess. I ONE HUNDRED PERCENT disclaim that I know about anything I'm talking about. Try what Mikael suggested first and report back. (btw you can edit qpe.sh onboard the neo, jus

Re: NO VOICE WHEN USING VOIP IN QTOPIA

2008-01-17 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/17/08, Mikael Lammentausta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/1/16, 左 国坤 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, Lorn, > > > > I have tried > > alsactl -f /etc/alsa/capturehandset.state restore > > but no any improvement. > > > > can you please tell me when you release your improved snapshot? > > > > R

Re: OpenMoko will be at SVHMPC meeting TONIGHT in Menlo Park

2008-01-17 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/16/08, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good question, Jeffrey, and you suggest a question that I'd like to ask > you, the community: > > Why do you chose to develop on OpenMoko, rather than on Android? Or do > you do both? > > (Beside the lack of Android hardware) > > Michael I co

Re: New to OpenMoko

2008-01-17 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/16/08, andy selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16/01/2008, Wilkinson, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, OpenMoko newb (waiting for FreeRunner release) - so bare with me. > > > > Why would I use Qtopia images as opposed to OpenMoko images ? > > I haven't flashed an openmoko image in a

Re: New to OpenMoko

2008-01-17 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/17/08, Barry Steele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > I've flashed the rootfs and a new kernel. > > So then I got all excited and inserted my SIM into it and powered up. > > Turns out I should have read some more. My current phone (Nokia N80 - > can I run openmoko on that?), is a 3G ph

Re: office

2008-01-15 Thread Nick Guenther
On Jan 15, 2008 5:45 PM, Tim Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone aware of any office apps being developed for openmoko. I'm not so > much concerned with editing as I am viewing. Are there any lightweight > office viewing apps that would be compatible with open office, and m$ > office?

Re: what's not functional?

2008-01-14 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/14/08, Mark Arvidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > If your usage is for North America, be aware that the Neo as it is offered > now does not include support for the 850MHz band, so you will only be able > to use the 1900MHz in these parts. > > The battery life is 3-4 hours, and the

Re: FYI: Yahoo Go 3.0 (beta)

2008-01-14 Thread Nick Guenther
On Jan 14, 2008 3:32 AM, Gilles Casse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XML-based widgets: > http://mobile.yahoo.com/go > I think... I don't understand. How are these XML based? Do you need a special app to run them or is "XML based" the new word for DHTML/AJAX (so, need a full webbrowser)? -Nick ___

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: root

2008-01-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On Jan 10, 2008 2:58 PM, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are user applications and GUI run as root? If yes, is it safe? What is > the root password in OpenMoko, by the way? > This has been noted, but it's not a top priority to fix it: http://bugzilla.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?i

Re: Status icons (USB, charging, etc.) have disappeared

2008-01-05 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/5/08, Nicolas Linkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > without warning the status icons showing USB, charging state etc. (upper > right corner) have disappeared. Even a reboot has not brought them back. > Is this a known issue? And if yes, is there a fix for this? Those applets are flakey

Re: Neo fast charge utility

2008-01-02 Thread Nick Guenther
On Jan 2, 2008 11:57 PM, Lorn Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Guenther wrote: > > Hijacking a bit: > > > for the record, all thunder does is write > > "fast_cccv" or "closed" to > > /sys/devices/platform/s3c2410-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0

Re: Neo fast charge utility

2008-01-02 Thread Nick Guenther
Hijacking a bit: On the topic of making the neo a usable phone (namely, overcoming the terrible battery life), I'm trying to figure out how to get a USB charger going I have a Zap R12 (branded by Noma since I got it in Canada) which is a Li-On battery attac

Re: Turning Off The Display

2007-12-27 Thread Nick Guenther
On 12/26/07, Thomas Gstädtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey there, > > does somebody know if it is possible to turn off the Neo's display? > Currently only the backlight is disabled and the display still stays on > (what's totally useless and a waste of energy). > I tried to use xset, but the dr

Re: Network questions

2007-12-23 Thread Nick Guenther
On Dec 23, 2007 1:19 AM, Joshua Layne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:15:50 -0500, "Nick Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Dec 22, 2007 12:38 PM, Nicolas Linkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi

Re: Network questions

2007-12-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On Dec 22, 2007 12:38 PM, Nicolas Linkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am geting confused with the network settings: > > - my PC has IP 192.168.0.2 > - my router has IP 192.168.0.1 > - my printer has IP 192.168.0.10 > > Now I am, supposed to set usb0 to 192.168.0.202. Does that work with

Re: new Qtopia image... Predictive keyboard not being predictive

2007-12-21 Thread Nick Guenther
On Nov 29, 2007 3:09 AM, Krzysztof Kajkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wiadomość napisana w dniu Nov 29, 2007, o godz 2:25 AM, przez Lorn > Potter: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> I've actually been very lucky with the predictive keyboard. > >>> Especially since I > >> have gorilla hands

Re: 2007.11 snapshot available

2007-12-09 Thread Nick Guenther
If we're bringing this up... it's already been had at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wishlist:Text_Input I favour http://www.strout.net/info/ideas/hexinput.html myself. On Dec 8, 2007 6:23 PM, Ben Burdette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check out the Dasher text input system. > > http://www.inference

Re: Community update: GSM firmware, 850MHz experiment, GTA02 progress

2007-12-09 Thread Nick Guenther
On 12/9/07, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > GSM Firmware update: > We've been informed that everything legal has been agreed upon by all > parties, and all that remains is to get everything signed. Apparently > the process of getting things signed takes a few weeks! > > 850MHz e

Re: Canadian government opens wireless spectrum (was Re: Sean's impact being felt...)

2007-11-29 Thread Nick Guenther
On Nov 29, 2007 2:21 PM, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29/11/2007, Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Verizon Wireless opens up > > > > In a stunning about-face, the second-largest wireless carrier in the US, > > Verizon Wireless, has said that it would allow any compatible d