Re: Quickstart web page my first manual readed before product release

2008-05-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Michael Shiloh wrote: David Samblas Martinez wrote: Since I was a young wannabe I like to read manuals, I allways remember my first full specification readding at 13 years reading the full Epson ms-dos manuals (full command list especification included) 1 night before I can even start my fi

Re: Will GTK be used in Openmoko?

2008-05-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Michael Shiloh wrote: Have we made the decision then to officially move away from GTK? This was asked on the community list awhile ago, and IIRC there has been no "official" answer. Michael Sorry for coming in the middle of the thread like that. Just wanted to point something out. Moving fr

Re: Will GTK be used in Openmoko?

2008-05-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2008 20:58:48 +0300 Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: I will do my best to show you more respect than you have obviously shown me. No promises. indeed. but most of the world does use languages that for display purposes

Re: Will GTK be used in Openmoko?

2008-05-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2008 08:19:31 +0300 Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2008 20:58:48 +0300 Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: I will do my best to s

Re: Will GTK be used in Openmoko?

2008-05-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Karsten Ensinger wrote: Sorry if I sound harsh, but I want to make a point. You are right, that is an excellent excuse. What part of "free" you have not understand? Yes, very mature. YOU are free to do whatever you want regarding using toolkits within Openmoko. There WILL GTK as well as QT

Re: Will GTK be used in Openmoko?

2008-05-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2008 10:43:31 +0300 Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: in my culture it it good natured fun. And had it not been the first time I received a message for you, I might have. Since the rest of the mail was quite dismiss

Re: OT: Nokia expects open source developers to accept things like DRM, commercial IP rights, and SIM locks.

2008-06-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Martin Larsson wrote: > Sure, that's what he is saying. But it isn't possible to make DRM with > free software. > That's what he's not understanding. > > No, there is something more basic he is not understanding. This is it: If a player decides not play along, that player is a disruptive force.

Re: another GPS idea - speed-sensitive voicemail

2007-07-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ian Stirling wrote: > > There are 2 D/A, 2 A/D flexibly routed, and one D/A that is dedicated > to the earpiece. > > About the only limitation is that you can't do things that would > require more IO sources than are available. > For example, playing stereo MP3, and acting as voicemail/answerphone

Re: another GPS idea - speed-sensitive voicemail

2007-07-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Michael Welter wrote: > You're confusing GSM (Global Systems Mobile) with the gsm codec in > Asterisk. I find that highly likely. I'm pretty new to Asterisk. > They have different meanings. The codecs used by your mobile phone > are not the same as the gsm codec in Asterisk. But it does use some

Re: What is the FCC ID of the neo1973?

2007-07-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jeff Rush wrote: > > I'm curious of what use that information is -- does the registration > point to information at the FCC that says something about the > functioning of the phone? Are you worried that it is an illegal phone? In Israel, it is not enough to pay customs for cellular phones. They al

Re: Video playback - reasonable sized works!

2007-08-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ian Stirling wrote: > > 192Kbytes/sec - not really close. 192KB/s = 1536Kb/s B - Bytes b - bits Different units, same bandwidth. Shachar ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/communi

Re: Fwd: mailing list management

2007-08-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Mike Hodson wrote: > Why not reply to all? Because im rather sure I don't want to reply to > the author twice Well, I want you to reply to me twice, reason being that one copy goes into my "openmoko" folder and the other goes into my "inbox". This way, I know this is not just another boring email i

Re: Neo Base/Advanced

2007-09-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
pHilipp Zabel wrote: > > work and JTAG, which > you need if you have busted the bootloader (be it by hacking or it or > entering "nand erase" on the console). > Does the JTAG also support single-stepping (ICE)? Shachar ___ OpenMoko community mailing

Re: Community update: GSM firmware and GPS driver

2007-11-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ian Darwin wrote: > > Anything less will lead to this sort of frustration, over and over again. It is not always possible. The way I figured it out, the GSM module will always be closed. This is not due to the hardware specs being unknown, but due to the fact that the law requires a transmitter to

Re: Community update: GSM firmware and GPS driver

2007-11-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Mike Montour wrote: > A serial-attached GPS module with closed-source firmware is no worse > than the hard drive with closed-source firmware in everyone's desktop PC. Just for the record - I agree. It is unrealistic to expect EVERYTHING to be open source at this stage. I'm just stating that the mov

Re: /. : Feds Have Access To Cellphone Tracking On Request

2007-11-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
flexd wrote: > Wow that's alot of replies for something i wrote so quickly. > I didn't really mean it all seriously, and im all for being > untrackable and all, like you guys say. > > But if they wanna track me, then fine, they can if they want. > > I just pity the fool that's gonna sit and monitor

Re: Input Method Development

2008-02-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Sébastien Lorquet wrote: What I made is reverse engineering. I plan to release it under GPLv3 to be protected from software patents, will this be useful? I am not a lawyer and all, but I think the answer is "no". The GPLv3 (nor any other copyright license) can protect you if you infringe on

Re: Patents and OpenMoko

2008-02-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: What I want is for a our company's patents to be freely available, for anyone, but for defensive purposes only. Aside from patent-commons, which is just a way to allow mutual defense for fellow FOSS projects (assuming I understood this correctly), what I know of is to

Re: 10 PACK UPDATE!!!

2008-04-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Mohamed Hazem wrote: What about us the poor people with no one around interested in the FreeRunner ... How are we going to get our pouches and earphones ? Where are you? Shachar ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: 10 PACK UPDATE!!!

2008-04-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Mohamed Hazem wrote: Cairo, Egypt. When the neo is finally released, we will try to organize a group in Israel. You are free to join in on that group (assuming shipping a device from Israel to Egypt is both easier and cheaper). Otherwise, try to find people around you who are potentially in

Re: Freerunner and external Display

2008-05-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Florian Rebstock wrote: Hello, what i ever want to know: could it be possible - to connect the Freerunner with a external VGA Display or Beamer ? Because that would be pretty useful for small presentations or so... Florian Just run a vnc server on the device. It looks even cooler when there

Re: Arabic translation please

2009-04-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
reversed, resulting in an image that is fairly far from readable. * The best place I know of to find Arabic speaking FOSS related activity is project Arabeyes - http://arabeyes.org/. Sadly, it appears that the project is fairly inactive for some time now. Good luck Shachar -- Sh

Will my phone buzz?

2009-05-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
nyone tell me how I can find out? Is there some way to look at the board of a phone and tell whether it has the fix? Thanks, Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list comm

Re: Will my phone buzz?

2009-05-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Shachar Shemesh writes: Can anyone tell me how I can find out? Is there some way to look at the board of a phone and tell whether it has the fix? cat /proc/cpuinfo If it says 0305 you have V5 and need a fix. I'm sorry if I'm asking a sill

Re: Will my phone buzz?

2009-05-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
capacitor? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: ...Order shipped: OpenMoko direct order

2007-07-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Marco Crociani - Tyrael wrote: > 2007/7/25, Krzysztof Kajkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> I'm so jealous I live abroad and have to wait another day to have my >> neo sent, and than wait some time, just to wait to pay tax at customs >> when neo arrives to Poland! >> > Lucky you. In Israel, the fir

Re: What happened to the order?

2007-07-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > Let me check on this today. > > As I'm sure it's obvious to most of you now, we're having a heck of a > time with logistics this first time around. Please accept my sincere > apologies. I promise we will get much better really soon. > I sure hope so. I will order mine f

Re: Placing an order for September Release of FIC Neo.

2007-07-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ian Stirling wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Is there any way to place an order now for the public release of the >> consumer targeted FIC NEO to come out after September. >> >> I dont want to purchase the current version but want to place an >> order asap for the public release version wit

Re: Seeling my Freerunner on Ebay

2009-01-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
feydreva wrote: > Hello, > > I just bought an another phone, so I am selling my Freeruner on ebay. > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=270326829135 > > Starting bid is 100$, no reserve, free shipping. > > Phone is like new, it always had a zack invisible

Re: Neverball, anyone?

2009-02-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Steffen Winkler wrote: > Hi, > > since I've seen that game on a mobile telephone of a friend I want it > for the FR, too. > > > Source code is on the website ( http://neverball.org ) in the download > section...the source code has to be compiled, so I think the compiler > has to be installed on the

Anyone can sell me a phone in Sweden over the next 5 days?

2008-09-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, especially resellers. After deciding that getting a Neo in Israel is simply impossible for the next few months, I have been scheduled to go on a business trip to Sweden over the next few days. Mainly, I arrive on Sunday morning, and depart Tuesday evening. I was thinking of getting a Ne

Re: Anyone can sell me a phone in Sweden over the next 5 days?

2008-09-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Erland Lewin wrote: > 2008/9/7 Fredrik Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > If you're in Gothenburg you could buy mine, if you're really > desperate. :) > > > I missed the original posting, but I'm in Stockholm, and again, if > it's really important to you I guess you c

Re: Dedicated IRC channel #android-on-freerunner (on Freenode)

2009-09-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
s the difference between that and #freerunner-android, on the same servers? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/ma