[Fwd: Re: Excel on Nokia N800]

2007-04-15 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
Magda, I did some further testing with one of my most complex Excel workbooks (a 5 year financial plan) with tons of cross links, computations, error checks, etc. and, to my surprise, it rendered quite well, down to and including some detailed (computed) bar graphs on some of the worksheets.

Re: Scratchbox and maemo development

2007-04-15 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
Mike, another example of a very good ARM emulator is the one that Microsoft has created for Windows Mobile SW developers. This emulator has already been updated to support WM 6.0 and it can be obtained either as a part of the Windows Mobile SDK or, stand alone. Here is the url to the downloa

Re: x11vnc no response to taps on left of screen

2007-04-15 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
All, here is an interesting data point regarding the use of VNC and the non-response to taps on the left side of the screen image. If I use the N800, under the control of a VNC (Tightvnc) client to connect to a Windows System using the N800 Rdesktop (RDP) client, then I my taps on the left s

Re: x11vnc no response to taps on left of screen

2007-04-15 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
Jeffrey, are you certain that the VNC problem you are experiencing is causing the 802.11 to be dropped? I also use VNC and experience the problem of the left hand side of the virtual screen not responding to mouse clicks. I am using Tightvnc as the VNC client running on Windows XP SP2. Howeve

Re: hunting for Linux developer

2007-04-15 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
Quim, great idea as long as someone manages the list to remove obsolescent postings. Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - MAEMO platform > - porting applications to MAEMO No, I don't have the skills to apply. ;) This email hits

Re: No more 770 bug activity?

2007-04-15 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
Marius, re: your comment Nokia currently stands in the middle between open and closed. I imagine it is frustrating to both sides. Is the reason that Nokia has some portions of the software as closed source, because the suppliers of those components,or the underlying hardware com

Re: Lecture at my LUG: Presenting the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet

2007-04-15 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
Amichai, I have this on my "to-do" list as well for the LUG in my area. I was hoping to find something in the publically available Nokia presentation "archives" in order to not have to "reinvent" the wheel of maemo/Internet Tablets/770/N800/etc. Besides it would be in Nokia's marketing intere

Re: Looking for a willing SoC Mentor

2007-04-15 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
Kyle/William, this project looks interesting to me as well. I am not signed up as a mentor but, if it is not too late and if you, William, end up being tied up by another SOC project then I would be pleased to step in, assuming that this is still technically feasible under the rules for SOC me

Votes wanted for the "phoneME port" proposal ;)

2007-04-15 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hello, Sorry for bothering everybody the direct way via the list. I just didn't find a better idea to reach all mentors. I hope all non-affected people forgive me for wasting their bandwith ;) I am a bit ... well ... disappointed that my proposal about porting the phoneME-Java-implementation to

2 Dimensional Bar Code Reader for Linux?

2007-04-15 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
All, has anyone developed a code reader that runs on Linux to read the kind of codes that are described in this New York Times article? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/business/01code.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin I wonder what is the minimum camera resolution that is required for th

Re: No more 770 bug activity?

2007-04-15 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2007/4/15, Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The UI is different, it was decided to have it closed in order to > protect it from changes and deviations out of the control of the > project. Unless _I'm_ misunderstanding you, this suggests a fundamental misunderstandin

Re: N770 OS2007 hacker edition made it to the title page of Linux Weekly News

2007-04-15 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Laurent GUERBY wrote: >>> hehehe an apt-like upgrades would be really nice! Another thing that I >>> really miss >>> from each nokia firmware release is the lack of commandline tools like >>> ping, telnet(or nc), >>> gunzip... >> Isn't gunzip already available from busybox? > > It is, s

Re: SoC: 5 preliminary slots

2007-04-15 Thread Mathieu Blondel
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My proposal/plans are available at http://maemo.org/maemowiki/GeoClue Thanks! Here is my proposal together with some additional details and a screenshot (people love screenshots ;-)) : http://www.mblondel.org/journal/2007/04/15/google-summer-of-code/ Stu

Re: 3.2007.10-7 - Detailed change log?

2007-04-15 Thread Neil MacLeod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Behalf Of ext Neil MacLeod Would it be possible to provide a detailed change log for 3.2007.10-7, ideally cross-referenced with the public Bugzilla so that we (the users) known which of those bugs we have raised have been addressed? The published change log is ex

Re: No more 770 bug activity?

2007-04-15 Thread Neil Jerram
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not going to get into details about the packages mentioned, but as a > general answer... Which I appreciate ... I also appreciate that there have now been lots of other followups on this, and that my own reply is late, so I won't repeat what others have said, j

Re: Maemo Language bindings and priorities

2007-04-15 Thread Neil Jerram
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm collecting developer feedback regarding language binding needs on maemo. > Hildon and other APIs need bindings in order to have native support in > languages other than C. Currently there exists unofficial bindings for C++, > for example, and bindings for