Re: A nice idea for the gps

2006-11-17 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 12:49, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > The slides mentioned "apt-get install". > will that be the official install system? It will use ipkg, a smaller version which fits better for embedded systems. And of course there will be somekind of GUI to handle the installs with

Re: A nice idea for the gps

2006-11-17 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 11/17/06 7:23 PM, "Stefan Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mickey told that there will be three different kinds of feeds for > software download: > > 1. The officially feed with the base system and the software developed > by the phone vendor / OpenMoko team. > > 2. The contributions fee

Re: A nice idea for the gps

2006-11-17 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paolo Cavallini schreef: > too bad! missing our nice apt-get... ln -sf /usr/bin/ipkg /usr/bin/apt-get I doubt 99% of the apt-get fanboys will notice the difference ;) regards, Koen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8D

Re: A nice idea for the gps

2006-11-17 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Jellinghaus schreef: > The slides mentioned "apt-get install". > will that be the official install system? No, and that has been answered before: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-November/76.html (the rest of that threa

Re: A nice idea for the gps

2006-11-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
The slides mentioned "apt-get install". will that be the official install system? It might be nice too to have some application to manage the mobile phone, maybe in a way the system is mirrored on a pc, which might be a nice thing for backups anyway. on the other hand that might be less comforta

Re: A nice idea for the gps

2006-11-17 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 08:59, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > On Thursday 16 November 2006 23:48, Richard Franks wrote: > > > Going a little off-topic - say Bob writes a GPS application which does > > something similar to that idea, where would it be downloaded from? His > > own server? OpenMoko.o

Re: A nice idea for the gps

2006-11-17 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 16 November 2006 23:48, Richard Franks wrote: > But for me Security is not about Secrecy, it's about Control. If I can > easily and reliably opt-in or out of a system like this, then why not? I say it should somehow integrate with XMPP (Jabber). Anything that pushes adoption of Jabber

Re: A nice idea for the gps

2006-11-16 Thread Richard Franks
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 22:54 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: > I just read an interesting article[1] about using the gps in combination with > the > addressbook. Slashdot has a discussion about the obvious drawbacks. > What are your thoughts about this? Ha! My friend had this exact same idea a few years a

A nice idea for the gps

2006-11-16 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just read an interesting article[1] about using the gps in combination with the addressbook. Slashdot has a discussion about the obvious drawbacks. What are your thoughts about this? regards, Koen [1] http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/N