Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-30 Thread sebastian maemo
2009/8/30 John B. Holmblad > Gary, > > your response suggests that the initial release of the N900 will not > support HSDPA. > > If that is the case then it would seem that the N900 will have poor > network performance due to a bandwidth limitation when the device is > used on mobile networks. I

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-30 Thread sebastian maemo
2009/8/20 Eugene Antimirov > Hi everyone! > > I'm sure all of you are eager to look at the newest N900. Here is the > first review of the device by Eldar Murtazin, Russian mobile > columnist. Hi, for me the big question is... Will I be able to install an XTERM application?... Will I be able to

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-30 Thread Valerio Valerio
Hello, On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:44 AM, sebastian maemo wrote: > 2009/8/20 Eugene Antimirov > >> Hi everyone! >> >> I'm sure all of you are eager to look at the newest N900. Here is the >> first review of the device by Eldar Murtazin, Russian mobile >> columnist. > > > Hi, > > for me the big q

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-30 Thread sebastian maemo
2009/8/30 Valerio Valerio > > for me the big question is... Will I be able to install an XTERM >> application?... Will I be able to install a GNU shell, like BASH?... and >> even more important than that... Will I be able to login as ROOT? >> >> If not, then for me it's just another powerful PDA.

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-30 Thread Peter Flynn
[Sebastian] > for me the big question is... Will I be > able to install an XTERM application?... > Will I be able to install a GNU shell, > like BASH?... and even more important > than that... Will I be able to login as > ROOT? These too are deal-breakers. No shell means no go, period. No Emac

Re: N800 etc.

2009-08-30 Thread Peter Flynn
[Java not only a language but a platform] > > Thats part of Suns stupid marketing strategy. Its a language and a > platform. C++ is a language. QT is a platform. Oh hell, according to > the marketing Java is an OS as well. It's a language. There are platforms and OS-like applications built with it

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-30 Thread David Greaves
Peter Flynn wrote: > [Sebastian] >> for me the big question is... Will I be >> able to install an XTERM application?... >> Will I be able to install a GNU shell, >> like BASH?... and even more important >> than that... Will I be able to login as >> ROOT? > > These too are deal-breakers. No she

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-30 Thread Peter Flynn
[David] > Maybe holding the unjustified vitriol until you read the reply that came *3 > minutes* after the post? (and well over an hour before you posted). My apologies for the crossed wires: I'm away from base so my access is sporadic, and messages don't always arrive as promptly as one might wi

GPE-Contacts and .vcf

2009-08-30 Thread sean
Using D-Bus Switchboard I have configure Gpe-contacts to be the default handler for a .vcf file. Whenever I try to transfer a contact from my Palm to the N800, Gpe-contacts always fails to import the contact. Actual steps, I transfer the contact from the Palm using Bluetooth, I am asked where I w

GPE-Contacts and .vcf

2009-08-30 Thread sean
Using D-Bus Switchboard I have configure Gpe-contacts to be the default handler for a .vcf file. Whenever I try to transfer a contact from my Palm to the N800, Gpe-contacts always fails to import the contact. Actual steps, I transfer the contact from the Palm using Bluetooth, I am asked where I w

Re: N800 etc.

2009-08-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Peter Flynn wrote: > [Java not only a language but a platform] > > > > Thats part of Suns stupid marketing strategy. Its a language and a > > platform. C++ is a language. QT is a platform. Oh hell, according to > > the marketing Java is an OS as well. > > It's a la

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-30 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Peter Flynn wrote: > [David] > >> Maybe holding the unjustified vitriol until you read the reply that came *3 >> minutes* after the post? (and well over an hour before you posted). >> > > My apologies for the crossed wires: I'm away from base so my access is > sporadic, and messages don't

Re: N800 etc.

2009-08-30 Thread Mark
On 8/29/09, Andre Klapper wrote: > In contrast to you, some companies out there might not have unlimited > human and financial resources to officially support every single > computer language (like Java) that you currently favor. It's even their > right to make such decisions (if this means losing

Re:Java

2009-08-30 Thread Mark
On 8/30/09, Fernando Cassia wrote: > No, you´re wrong. It´s a platform AND a language. Actually the truth is somewhere in between. It is technically just a language, but in order to achieve the goal of platform-independence (notice the terminology there?) it requires an appropriate "VM" to be ins

Re: GPE-Contacts and .vcf

2009-08-30 Thread Graham Cobb
On Sunday 30 August 2009 17:17:34 sean wrote: > I have also tried a manual import of the file using "Gpe-contacts" > "Tools" "Import VCard" function. > Same results. I have fixed a number of card import problems in the next release of GPE -- it is currently in Beta but is not ready for a full rel