Re: Visudo Help

2007-08-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 16 August 2007 20:44:16 Paul Klapperich wrote: > On 8/16/07, James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On this one visudo is not on the box but the real solution is don't > > chmod the file. VI it as root, then instead of doing wq to quit (write > > quit) do wq! (w q then ex

Re: Battery Life

2007-08-17 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:46 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: > >> How do we know what the actual current consumption is? > > You use extra hardware for that, not software. :-) I always wondered if the N800 platform made this information available. I'm still wondering what the proprietary power managem

Promising GlideMobile

2007-08-17 Thread D. L. Fuller
Here's something that shows the promise of being practical and useful -- the new version (2.0 Beta) of Glide on a PC/Mac/Linux desktop combined with 770/800 access through GlideMobile. Plus a GlideSync application for convenient uploading from the desktop. http://www.glidedigital.com/

Re: maemo-users Digest, Vol 28, Issue 35

2007-08-17 Thread David Fass
Thanks a ton! -- Dave > > "Click to install" doesn't work on the 770. You have to add the repository to > the Application Manager by hand. In the Application Manager, use the > Tools/Application catalogue... menu item and add a new catalogue. If you go > to http://www.cobb.uk.net/770 you will

Reorganizing bugs.maemo.org

2007-08-17 Thread Quim Gil
We are planning to reorganize the products and components structure in http://bugs.maemo.org in order to make it more user friendly and manageable. We also want to have a structure platform-centric, without being so defined by hardware as it is now. http://maemo.org/community/wiki/bugsmaemoorgreor

Re: how to install GPE Calendar?

2007-08-17 Thread Graham Cobb
On Friday 17 August 2007 09:23, Marius Vollmer wrote: > But, downloads.maemo.org claims that GPE Calendar works with both IT > OS 2007 and IT OS 2006, so the .install file should have entries for > both. It only has one for IT OS 2007, tho, and that is the problem: Ah, sorry for that. I misunder

Re: Battery Life

2007-08-17 Thread Michael Thompson
On 17/08/07, Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > ext Michael Thompson wrote: > > On 17/08/07, Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: > >>> True. But still seeing power consumption could help and having actual > >>> current drawn from battery somewh

Re: Battery Life

2007-08-17 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Michael Thompson wrote: > On 17/08/07, Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: >>> True. But still seeing power consumption could help and having actual >>> current drawn from battery somewhere in /proc would be very useful in >>> many situations. >>> >>> >>

Re: Battery Life

2007-08-17 Thread Michael Thompson
On 17/08/07, Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: > > True. But still seeing power consumption could help and having actual > > current drawn from battery somewhere in /proc would be very useful in > > many situations. > > > > > > These were just examples

Re: Visudo Help

2007-08-17 Thread Paul Klapperich
Hrmmff... One of these days I'll stop embarassing myself ;) /usr/sbin I guess, but it's in my path when I'm root, so I just type visudo. If it's not there automatically, I can't think of what might have installed it. I did find this thread [1] on the ITT forums that shows others using it with no m

Re: Battery Life

2007-08-17 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: > True. But still seeing power consumption could help and having actual > current drawn from battery somewhere in /proc would be very useful in > many situations. > > Even if I agree with things you said I still think your response is > influenced by the fact that N

Re: Battery Life

2007-08-17 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Eero Tamminen wrote: > You use extra hardware for that, not software. :-) Extra hardware may not be needed. > But anyway, that is not really relevant information when talking > about applications. The question is not how much doing a thing > consumes power, but is doing that thing really somethi

Re: how to install GPE Calendar?

2007-08-17 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Graham Cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Click to install" doesn't work on the 770. It works 'somwewhat'. The Application Manager will silently ignore files that are not compatible with the 770 instead of complaining loudly. (I don't really remember if there was a good reason for this o

Re: Battery Life

2007-08-17 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, > ext Michael Thompson wrote: >> How do we know if an application has good power usage. It wakes up only when it's doing something for you. When it _does_ things for you, it has good responsiveness and doesn't make rest of the system non-responsive. >> How do we know what the actual curren