Re: multi-tutch?

2008-05-28 Thread Peter A Trotter
2008/5/28 Jan Stöckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hey given pro-linux.de (german news site)is right, MPX > http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/ is now a part of Xorg, and I can > remember that the display of the freerunner was ready for multituch, so > coud it be possible that the freerunner/openmoko is c

Re: (no subject)

2008-04-24 Thread Peter A Trotter
2008/4/24 Flemming Richter Mikkelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yeah. > > I recently bought a laptop. It came with Vista. When I booted it I > discovered a > bluescreen which is a bug because now the bgcolour should be red. > > Anyway, no my Gentoo is running and everything works nice:) > Blue scre

Re: Battery time

2007-11-11 Thread Peter A Trotter
> > * No terminal. Ugh. > > Do you really need a terminal app on a phone? > Most phones do not have a term on them. besides, it is opensource, so > anyone could get one working. Any takers? I guess most/all here are geeks. I have to admit that the first thing I want to know before buying a new sm

Re: Please welcome Graeme Gregory

2007-10-09 Thread Peter A Trotter
> > > Welcome Greg! > > good luck! > > > > BTW my name is Graeme, if you call me Greg Ill never know who you are > talking to :-) > > Graeme He's got two first names! Sorry Graeme - couldn't resist. I'm sure that is an old one for you though... Welcome to the OM team! -Pete __

Re: still having trouble getting Neo to boot Qtopia from SD

2007-09-27 Thread Peter A Trotter
Hi Ian, I have to admit I have not had time to out this on my SD card yet but I have booted it from the neo normally. On 27/09/2007, ian douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So to recap what I've tried, that doesn't work to get Qtopia on my SD > card and boot from SD: > > I went to http://www.q

Re: Changes between GTA1 and GTA2?

2007-08-16 Thread Peter A Trotter
On 16/08/07, Ashok Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/16/07, Steve Seltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ashok Kumar wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me what are the changes between GTA1 and GTA2? Which > > > version is going to be shipped as user release in september? > > > > It's on the wiki:

Re: User Interface idea

2007-08-13 Thread Peter A Trotter
Sounds like an interesting idea. Perhaps a gesture could be used to swap, not sure how you would make that clear to a user though. I need to carve out some coding time :S -Pete On 12/08/07, Derek Pressnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of the things that I've found on most pda-phones/smartp

Re: Neo1973 Phase 1 sales / order process / misconception

2007-08-07 Thread Peter A Trotter
On 07/08/07, Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all! > > I tried to stay out of this entire discussion (like most non-technical > discussions) for a long time. > > But I think there is just a big misconception of how and what at least > certain people percieve and what is actually going

Re: whee!

2007-07-27 Thread Peter A Trotter
On 27/07/07, Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Advanced kit arrived, yay! > > > > Batteries and uSD cards were missing, boo! > > Ok, now I feel stupid. Guess you get to call me a muppet after all :-} I reckon you were just trying to cheer us

Re: Order related inquiries

2007-07-24 Thread Peter A Trotter
Thanks for the update. I'll keep playing in software for a little while longer ;) -Pete p.s. sorry about pm. brain not working... On 24/07/07, William Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Community, We`re getting a lot of customer inquiries with regards to order / payment processing. If you

Re: WINNING NOTIFICATION...CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT IMMEDIATELY!..

2007-07-16 Thread Peter A Trotter
http://www.microsoftclaim.com/ LMAO what a believable web address ;) On 16/07/07, Edwin Lock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You want to accept money from MS? Would be quite ironic :P A little strange that MS would not check their randomly selected winners.. They might just want to give us a chance

Re: Minor correction

2007-06-28 Thread Peter A Trotter
I thought that was a little strange at the time, makes more sense having 2 in the Advance and little sense with 2 in the basic ;) -Pete On 28/06/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Community, Copy and paste was working too well last night. The Neo Base kit has one (1) MicroSD

Re: the keyboard on the competition

2007-06-28 Thread Peter A Trotter
On 28/06/07, Fabien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/28/07, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > someone on this list had a similar idea for enlarging number keys i > think, they would appear or resize depending on context iirc? > http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiphone/keyboard_large.htm

Re: rough seas

2007-06-21 Thread Peter A Trotter
I'm really sorry such a long silence on my end. Internally, I've been involved in changes that are so big and so tiring, that I really don't fall asleep anymore. I just go home and pass out. Quite often still in my work cloths. Without heroic efforts like this you'd have little to look back on

Re: How to buy/order Neo1973

2007-06-18 Thread Peter A Trotter
On 18/06/07, Tuan TRINH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I live in Paris, and I would like to order two Neo1973 for my hacking. Where and How can I order/buy Neo1973? Please advise me. Unfortunately they are not available yet. There is a buying interest list but it is only indicative. htt

Re: R: Openness (was RE: Concern for usability and ergonomics)

2007-06-13 Thread Peter A Trotter
On 13/06/07, Michele Manzato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Seghers Wrote: > Jonathon Suggs wrote > > There will always be complainers, that is just life...ignore them. > > It is, indeed, the complainers that I was commenting on. The one > that I quoted was complaining that stuff was being hidd

Re: Open Moko Themes

2007-06-13 Thread Peter A Trotter
On 13/06/07, Buddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/13/07, Emre Turkay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/12/07, Tim Newsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is where XAML or XUL are particularly suited. > > The idea is that the UI will be mostly svg commands or in some cases > > images.. But re

Re: Open Moko Themes

2007-06-12 Thread Peter A Trotter
UI for these different screen resolutions and potentially form factors is going to be more then a case of image resizing. It will be whole different layouts. I am quickly coming round to the idea of a near complete separation of GUI from application. It is the only way to really present the same a

Re: R: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-12 Thread Peter A Trotter
On 12/06/07, Michele Manzato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well I don't like this statement at all. Don't get me wrong, I can guess (some of) the reasons behind the plain words. But then I wonder whether there is really any transparency in the development of Neo/OpenMoko? What does it mean, being

Re: Clarification Rant

2007-06-07 Thread Peter A Trotter
On 06/06/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hold on chaps. > > Every phone I have bought since I started using them (circa 98 - late > starter, I know) has been heavily subsidised or more recently free. In > fact > in the UK it is hard to pick up a decent contract (plenty of minu

Re: R: Some thoughts about iphone & openmoko

2007-06-06 Thread Peter A Trotter
I've had a whole series of Sony-Ericsson phones. Ignoring the smart phones for a second there has been a real progression and positive trend in their UI's. They certainly have taken on board user feedback. All of my issues with the K750i were gone in the W880i - right down to making Text the defa

Re: Clarification Rant

2007-06-06 Thread Peter A Trotter
Hold on chaps. Every phone I have bought since I started using them (circa 98 - late starter, I know) has been heavily subsidised or more recently free. In fact in the UK it is hard to pick up a decent contract (plenty of minutes/texts and free internet) without getting a free phone. I tried once

Re: [SVHMPC] concept phone with only a touchscreen for UI

2007-06-05 Thread Peter A Trotter
On 05/06/07, kenneth marken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bradley Hook wrote: > A possible solution for this has been discussed under an accessibility > thread. The Maestro is a simple (yet effective) clip-on cover for > PocketPCs. There are a few different versions of it, which work with > various

Re: First impressions of Neo1973

2007-05-16 Thread Peter A Trotter
Nice Jose, I added the Sidekick3 dimensions... http://www.sizeasy.com/page/comp/1842 -Pete On 16/05/07, Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I've just done a fast "sizeasy" comparison: http://www.sizeasy.com/page/comp/1840 And, yes, the Neo1973 is big! 2007/5/

Re: Size and weight considerations for future Openmoko devices

2007-05-03 Thread Peter A Trotter
Plenty of good points well made and also some good points not so well made ;) The fact that FIC are keen to build a whole slew of devices about openmoko is great news and I hope that we will see different form factor phones as well as other devices. That said I am almost more excited about getti

Re: OpenMoko light web server

2007-04-17 Thread Peter A Trotter
Hopefully not wading in half cocked here but... AFAIK non of the major web browsers implement threading for their javascript engines, or at least not within a single window. Hence when your asynchronous call returns it does not get executed until the current javascript thread terminates. Obviousl

Re: Facebook OpenMoko Group [SPAM]

2007-04-12 Thread Peter A Trotter
*ducks* Hey, stop throwing about unsubstantiated claims!! Where is the link for that stat? -Pete On 12/04/07, Hans Cats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2007/4/12, Steven ** <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Except a lot of us already have accounts on Facebook. I and several > others joined the group.

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenMoko?

2007-03-23 Thread Peter A Trotter
On 22/03/07, Dossy Shiobara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007.03.22, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am obviously not against open source, but this religious stuff is like > the Taliban. Hank, I think you just invoked Godwin's Law 2.0. -- Dossy Hehe, that's my favourite. Zero

Re: Idea: up-to-date business card

2007-03-16 Thread Peter A Trotter
> weeks ago. It's nice not relying on any one company to store you > information. > > Does the OpenID spec allow for storing additional information besides > just your password? > > -Steven > > On 3/15/07, Peter A Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Idea: up-to-date business card

2007-03-15 Thread Peter A Trotter
It would be ideal trying to tie this in with OpenID authentication. I've not really had time to think this through fully but basically you would be replacing the one big store (Plaxo) with a distributed model. I was about to flesh that out a little but I think everyone can see where I am going. P

Re: Windows Mobile on Neo?

2007-02-13 Thread Peter A Trotter
Don't be worried. All the stuff you do within VMware on linux will stay there. Your MacBook is not in danger ;) -Pete On 13/02/07, Ryan Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, I'm just being too lazy. Im pretty scared about this OE thing because I am running Linux on VMWare Beta, on my brand

Re: OpenMoko Challenges

2007-02-12 Thread Peter A Trotter
Thanks for keeping us in the loop guys. I'll be happy to get my hands on the software for now! -Pete On 12/02/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Community, We, the OpenMoko Team, have promised exciting news about our project today. We have some information that we think you

Re: Fake it at FOSDEM

2007-02-09 Thread Peter A Trotter
I'm wondering what sort of response I'll get if I leave this on my desk at work - or even try to take a call on it. If they didn't think I was mad before... -Pete On 09/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm printing it now, if for no other reason than it'll make me smile!

Re: qemu and images.

2007-01-26 Thread Peter A Trotter
Side note final release 9/11 Isn't that a poorly chosen date... Whatever You do it will piss someone off. ...Dons flame retardent suit... We can't let terror rule our lives ...Flees stage left... ___ OpenMoko community mailing list communit

Re: CallWave

2007-01-26 Thread Peter A Trotter
It's clear the technology is available to make this possible without any crude hacks. We need to make friends with the carriers in so many ways to make this project fly. This is just one aspect - albeit a very cool one! Thanks for the link Jesse. -Pete On 26/01/07, Jesse Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Peter A Trotter
Can I call you a 'pirate' if you do share his fridge? Joking aside I think that you may have missed the point here. When I write an app for OpenMoko _if_ I decided to ask for money for that app I'm the sort of guy who wouldn't mind if someone else shared it with friends, modified the code etc. Ho

Re: Reactions From Other People to News of OpenMoko

2007-01-25 Thread Peter A Trotter
Hi Bryan, That's quite interesting feedback. I have only really brought this subject up with developer mates and one gadgetophile. The heavily windows leaning developers have expressed a cool enthusiasm but that will warm when they can see a product and get an idea for the sort of apps that are

Re: Sean, do you need a table in Brussel for the FOSDEM 2007? ; ) Re: Neo1973 device description and picture for xoo.

2007-01-22 Thread Peter A Trotter
I would expected that the people would came to the FOSDEM to see the OpenMoko/Neo1973 for the first time - or to save shipping cost to get one device... but comming for a free beer? You jest but the beer is great - and free beer always tastes better ;) I'd be there if I wasn't on contract righ