Re: Modest/TinyMail problems (continue from the blog comments)

2008-06-25 Thread Dave Cridland
ndwidth, big mailbox support was mostly accidental initially, and only later turned into a really experimental, cutting edge, thing. (It's now not quite so starkly cutting edge, since Tinymail has caught up rather a lot). > If somebody would pick it up, I'm sure he'd full

Re: [Offtopic] Broken 770 or broken configuration

2007-02-24 Thread Dave Cridland
stand things. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade ___ maemo-developers mailing

Re: meta-question re maemo-developers Digest

2007-02-22 Thread Dave Cridland
size of the digest the list is sending. There's a mailman variable called digest_size_threshold, probably available to the list admins at http://maemo.org/mailman/admin/maemo-developers/digest I think it defaults to 30k, but I don't know if it includes headers and suchlike or not.

Re: WebCam Help

2007-02-22 Thread Dave Cridland
ready. I admit this is a strong contender for the world's least helpful message. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMT

Re: Security Guidance for N800 OS development

2007-02-21 Thread Dave Cridland
like this? Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade ___ maemo-developers ma

Re: Security Guidance for N800 OS development

2007-02-20 Thread Dave Cridland
you want a firewall on the device, you ought to be able to provide some kind of argument for why it would be useful. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Poly

Re: Security Guidance for N800 OS development

2007-02-20 Thread Dave Cridland
, email, web pages) can cause issues, > but in general they're much less of a serious issue, and they're > certainly no different to any other platform. Disagreement again. Can you explain why the N800/770 are sufficiently distinct to any other platform as to require speci

Re: Security Guidance for N800 OS development

2007-02-19 Thread Dave Cridland
- there's already a huge amount of literature on writing secure programs on Linux, and UNIX in general. If you're running network daemons on the device, you deserve everything you get, of course, but even then, there's plenty of documents and guides. Dave. -- Dave Cridland

Re: [maemo-xxx] Header is missing

2007-02-19 Thread Dave Cridland
n this list I'm actually considering filtering into a different folder anyway. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP,

Re: Security Guidance for N800 OS development

2007-02-19 Thread Dave Cridland
seem to think, and I can't see anything specific to Maemo which needs addressing. If anything, the 770/N800 are a lot more secure than the average Linux box, let alone the average computer. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - acap://acap.dave.cri

RE: [maemo-developers] New list spin-off?

2007-02-05 Thread Dave Cridland
r mailing list setup you use, however. Even me. Sure, and it's important to consider the audience, as well. If the maemo-users@ list set Reply-To and had a subject tag, I'd consider that reasonable. A maemo-developers@ list that did the same would be irritating. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - m

RE: [maemo-developers] New list spin-off?

2007-02-02 Thread Dave Cridland
device (anyone around here got one of those?), a lengthy [list] prefix takes up a substantial chunk of space, meaning that the actual subject line itself is obscured. So I'd prefer them to be off, but I'd happy with a short prefix, too. (The List-* headers are well worth looking at

Re: [maemo-developers] New list spin-off?

2007-02-01 Thread Dave Cridland
to do involves scratchbox, it's maemo-appdev@ - If what you're trying to do involves hacks on the device (such as using xterm), it's maemo-users@ - Otherwise, it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] or whatever. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [maemo-developers] pyopenssl

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri Jan 26 16:38:32 2007, Zoran Kolic wrote: Does someone use pyopenssl on 770? Any opinion on libssl from command line? I have a fork of pyOpenSSL with some extra features in - I'll port it to Maemo quite happily. 2.4 or 2.5 flavour? Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: [maemo-developers] N800 Developer Device program: European discount codes sent

2007-01-23 Thread Dave Cridland
. Hmmm. I'm not terribly good at self-publicity, and I really don't enjoy this sort of thing, but I'll see what I can do to persuade the Nokians: 1) Who am I? Dave Cridland. Contact details, homepages, etc, in my signature. 2) How do I meet the criteria? I'm a special

Re: [maemo-developers] N800 GUI Improvements from a Newton Developer's Perspective

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Cridland
g", would you believe, even though these will obviously never catch on.). -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade ___

RE: [maemo-developers] Re: N800 Developer Programme Application

2007-01-12 Thread Dave Cridland
ms to be carefully interpreting every word anyone connected with Nokia says, in the hope of gleaning some information from it. In this case, your last sentence does not use the subjunctive, and furthermore uses the word "that", which has been seen by some to imply that the selection

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: wxPython

2007-01-12 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri Jan 12 03:29:58 2007, Jeffrey Barish wrote: Dave Cridland wrote: > On Thu Jan 11 16:28:30 2007, Jeffrey Barish wrote: >> Is anyone aware of a port of wxPython to the 770 or 800? > > Before you think seriously about wxPython, I'd recommend > reconsidering - pyg

Re: [maemo-developers] wxPython

2007-01-11 Thread Dave Cridland
ssume that working with pyGTK would be more efficient anyway. I'm speaking as someone who's worked heavily with wxPython and started using pyGTK specifically for the 770 - I'm free from bias in that respect. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:

Re: [maemo-developers] Using the N770/N800 as a remote control.

2007-01-10 Thread Dave Cridland
S receiver to sort that out, then have your music follow you about the house. Dave. (Now scared someone will actually *do* this) -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotro

[maemo-developers] Telomer, a WIP email client

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Cridland
ttp://trac.dave.cridland.net/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/Polymer770 - and feel free to drop me a line by Jabber, email, etc to let me know how you get on. I'm also about on #maemo as dwd if you prefer IRC. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - acap://aca

Re: [maemo-developers] Alternative input method

2006-12-22 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri Dec 22 16:40:05 2006, Ilya Schurov wrote: Unfortunately, scratchbox-0.9 doesn't work under 64bit system (i'm AMD64 Gentoo user) Yes it does, I run AMD64 Ubuntu, and it works fine here, running as a 32-bit app, installed straight from tarballs. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mai

Re: [maemo-developers] python + osso_browser does work.

2006-12-12 Thread Dave Cridland
something more suited to being just a shell, if they wanted. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMT

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: Proper documentation (was Re: HildonProgram input to gtk_widget_show()?)

2006-12-01 Thread Dave Cridland
so I put it all in /home and symlink, which works just fine: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-10-15 19:58 /scratchbox -> /home/scratchbox Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridl