Re: N810 and Garmin GLO ?

On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Andrew Daviel wrote: I just read a review of the Garmin GLO GPS/GLONASS receiver. Looks pretty good. I'm assuming it would work with Maemo Mapper on my N810, a lot better than the built-in chip which can have appalling acquisition times, and sucks power. Well, I bought

N810 and Garmin GLO ?

/shop.do?pID=109827 -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: cellphone tether works from N810 but not laptop

Fedora 9 with the problem. I was wondering if anyone had any insight into differences between the N810 and x86 Linux networking software that might explain what I was seeing Andrew Good luck! Valeri On Wed, August 22, 2012 5:47 pm, Andrew Daviel wrote: I have a Nokia E71 phone, an N810

cellphone tether works from N810 but not laptop

'ignoring due to lack of mobile broadband capability' I had naively thought the two devices used the same capability on the phone. Does anyone know what the problem is, and if it's possible to get a connection on the laptop at greater distance ? -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada

Re: Using phone as modem

On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Andrew Daviel wrote: Somewhat off-topic, but I suspect there's the expertise on this list. For the benefit of any search engines or other curious entities, I solved this. Sort of. Fedora 9 with the Nokia E71 phone just worked using the USB cable (which I'd left at home

Using phone as modem

connect then the laptop ought to be able to Any suggestions ? -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

N810 slow since rebooting

suggestions ? -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Looking for gps logger for n810

you mean ? -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

FYI - possible GPS degradation in next few years

an 85% chance of sub-optimal performance through 2013) -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

N810 hanging in USB host mode

suggestions ? -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

xdaliclock

://andrew.triumf.ca/N810/xdaliclock-arm.tar.gz Source code, 2 ARM binaries On my desktop, I can find system fonts in xlsfonts or xpaint, and say e.g. xdaliclock -fn '-urw-urw palladio l-bold-r-normal-*-*-880-*-*-p-*-iso8859-*' but on the tablet I can't find a font chooser. The builtin font works OK. -- Andrew

Re: Office document support

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Does anybody know what is the status of viewing MS office and openoffice documents on the N810? At some point I was playing with OpenOffice server mode. It's broken right now, but the idea was if you wanted to view an office document on the tablet,

Tweaking flite vocabulary in maemo-mapper

for Festival suggest that all sorts of things are possible, if only I understood Lisp :-) -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Looking for gps logger for n810

the actual position. I was trying to write a filter to post-process mapper tracks but it's crude. Probably there are tools out there but I haven't looked; I tend to write my own in Perl and make maps in XFig. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo

command-line for Bluetooth copy ?

wonder why the BT implementation on Linux needed to reinvent the wheel, and could not just appear as another transport layer like Ethernet or FDDI. Then scp/ssh/smb etc. would just work.) -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo

FYI - dot tel domain = contact info in DNS

GPS as my cellular carrier seems to now, as a shorthand for geographic location in WGS84 coordinates rather than Global Positioning System). -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo

Maemo-mapper and Google Satellite

Mapper ? The other satellite views are OK, but I believe not such good resolution. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

digital clock to 0.1s accuracy

on the previous line. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Twitter shell for N810 ?

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Matt Emson wrote: Andrew Daviel wrote: Is there a Twitter client for the tablet ? Mauku. I wrote a simple one in Mono that works up to a point on the NIT, but Mauku is the way to go. I just installed that, and signed up to try Jaiku. But it's a GUI. What I'm looking

Re: Nokia device usage

in the Navit code. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF,Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Twitter shell for N810 ?

might be a problem on the tablet. Alternatively, I can use gnokii with my cellphone to send an SMS. Which might actually be easier, though a Web API would also work when on WiFI. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo

FYI - Gizmo (SIP) to Skype gateway

If you didn't see this ... Now that I think about it, I believe both Gizmo and Skype applications bundled with the N810 are teasers to download the real application. I'm not sure which works better; I've not really tried either for real. Gizom has video calling, while Skype did not last I

Control digital camera ?

photos on the road with only the tablet. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Creating GPX for Maemo Mapper from Google Maps

in JavaScript and Flash. So what I'm doing is asking for output from maps.google.com in KML, based on what Google Earth does, then parsing it in Perl. Seems to work. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) ___ maemo-users

Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

back recently. I suspect I'd only get this fixed by locking a Proxim engineer and a Nokia engineer in a room with the devices and not letting them out till it works. Unless it's some problem with the spec itself, in which case I'd need to add an IEEE guy. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel

Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

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Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Gary wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Andrew Daviel wrote: measuring the battery current and setting up an AP4000 Can I assume this is a Proxim AP? The 700s may be found for a fair price these days and use the same chipsets and firmware. Of course

Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Gary wrote: Andrew Daviel wrote: I was measuring the battery current directly: http://andrew.triumf.ca/andrew/photos/100_0536.JPG That isn't a 3rd party battery is it? Yes. The original Nokia one failed (I think the clips might have fatigued due to vibration

Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Gary wrote: Andrew Daviel wrote: Meantime after trying several local stores for an OEM one I found this clone which has worked nicely ever since. I ask because the only time I had battery issues was when I'd installed one of the early canola betas. It seemed like

Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

. Done. Sorry; I forgot to check the file permissions. Also can you please file a bug for this? I really don't want to get this buried into email. Having this in bugzilla makes it much more visible. https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3708 -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada

Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

to keep robots out currently at defcon in Las Vegas, then on vacation. may not answer quickly -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https

Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

, but it is consuming power. I might be able to try a spectrum analyzer, but not today. This is driving me crazy .. I'd give up if there weren't such dramatic power savings when it works properly. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time

Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Andrew Daviel wrote: I may be able to get a spare Proxim AP to take home. There's a limit on what I can mess with on our production WLAN :-7, and I'd have a less noisy environment. Well, I got one. The power consumption seems normal (i.e. PS mode seems to be working). I

Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

are bunched up in a group. As expected; it just looks weird. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

, but not beacon interval. The SMC does neither. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Andrew Daviel wrote: Is there anything for the tablets that can log wireless traffic in enough detail to show whether PSM is working ? airodump-ng ?? Should have tried before posting. I have a couple of capture files made with airodump-ng --beacons, which I can view

Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

setting this larger would have little effect if I don't have much broadcast traffic. Besides, the problem is at work, not home. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

Lenovo on the way (Windows, though) -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

apt-get vs. hildon-application-manager in Diablo

. - does anyone know where I can download a clean copy from (without flashing!) or can send me a copy ? -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Power consumption and WLAN APs

to change some settings (writing this at home I can't login to check). What power-management issues have you seen affecting battery life ? Would it affect other laptops as well or just the tablets ? -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager

Re: Diablo released (AGPS)

to fixing the GPS woes (thanks, Zoltan). -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Diablo released (AGPS)

effect this has - I'm indoors with too weak a satellite signal to get a fix. Looks interesting ... certainly agps-ui lets you choose your estimated position. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https

Re: Wayfinder Navigator vs Garmin

to do marine vs. automobile :-( -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Wayfinder Navigator vs Garmin

give better accuracy, though I hadn't noticed my N810 being wildly off. http://www8.garmin.com/aboutGPS/waas.html -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: passing arguments to hildon applications

the message is forwarded to the receiver. Thanks! I added sleep(2) and it worked with the PDF viewer http://andrew.triumf.ca/N810/repository/dists/chinook/user/binary-armel/mime-open.deb -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo

Re: Lock, sleep, power-down

the WiFi to 10mW but it didn't make much difference. I agree; the backlight should turn off. With the light on, I estimate 9 hours battery life. http://andrew.daviel.org/N810-FAQ.html#battlast -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list

Re: Battery checks on N810 tablet

Thanks for the reply. On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Eero Tamminen wrote: ext Andrew Daviel wrote: I read your post on maemo users re. startup when you say RD mode disables some battery checks. What checks are those? AFAIK Battery type/safety ones, disabling them allows connecting e.g. adjustable

Yet another N810 FAQ

a definitive URL. (as to why it's not a Wiki .. I *still* find it easier to edit on my own servers with vi than to use a browser as an editor ...) -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org

Re: OpenOffice (was Bluetooth keyboard?)

On Thu, 1 May 2008, Andrew Daviel wrote: All I need now is a script to do wget and mail ... something like Babelfish would be good - translate this URL except to PDF not German. I don't actually need the Office files on the tablet at all. I could use my desktop machine if I figured out

FYI, Nokia N810 user survey

boxes. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: OpenOffice (was Bluetooth keyboard?)

figured out OpenOffice server mode ... -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Adding/changing browser helper applications in N8*0

which I might be able to tweak to change the image settings. Proxy settings are tweakable via about:config though I haven't got an equivalent to profile changing yet. Andrew Daviel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https

Re: OpenOffice (was Bluetooth keyboard?)

would be great (Google's HTML version of PowerPoint is I guess part of their indexing process and doesn't seem to preserve the layout/graphics particularly well). -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https

Re: launching scripts/apps from desktop icons

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a huge fan of the Command Navigator app. It replaces the silly Contacts taskbar app, and can be configured to launch arbitrary command line programs via a menu. I tried installing that on my N810 with apt-get, also personal-menu_0.4-2 with

launching scripts/apps from desktop icons

On my desktop I don't have much time for the GUI; I find it much easier to type ls -lt foo* than wait for some app to paint 2000 icons I'm supposed to choose from. But I have a few Gnome toolbar icons I have tied to commands like xterm -e ssh -i foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] using create launcher.

writing HTML for tablets

system to handle it. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: writing HTML for tablets

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 07:55:15PM +0200, Olivier Ricou wrote: You have the feeling your eyes cannot see a higher resolution but you are wrong (*). For usual text I agree low resolution is ok however if you read a PDF or any antialiasing text, if

Re: gpsd command line

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Chris wrote: I have the same question. Would love to try NavT. http://maemo.org/development/documentation/how-tos/3-x/howto_connectivity_guide_bora.html http://maemo.org/api_refs/4.0/gpsbt/group__gpsbt__api.html I tried this; it started but stopped right away, though some

Re: signedness of char on ARM vs x86

and the application works properly, too. For opencv I did export CFLAGS=-fsigned-char; export PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.5; ./configure ; make ; make check cc. to maemo-users in case others run into this porting packages from x86 On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Andrew Daviel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Python versions, build in scratchbox

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, José Luís wrote: Yes, rebuilding qemu with arm-eabi patches ( http://qemu-arm-eabi.wiki.sourceforge.net/) will fix this problem. And sorry because the link that I passed to you was in portuguese. - tried reading with Babelfish; not so bad, but this is better :-) But the

Re: Mouse button 2/3 on N8*0 ?

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Martin Grimme wrote: If the app supports the additional mouse buttons, it should do so on the tablet as well without modifications. E.g. I'm able to scroll through lists with the mouse wheel on the tablet via vnc. Am I being dumb ? AFAIK my N810 doesn't have a mouse wheel

Python versions, build in scratchbox

python2.4, I get 2.4.2 My N810 now has OS2008 51-3, with Python 2.5.1. I'd kind of assumed that OS2008 scratchbox would have the same version as the tablet... and that setup.py install would work. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager

Re: Python versions, build in scratchbox

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, José Luís wrote: Hi, you have to install python2.5-dev package in scratchbox (apt-get install python2.5-dev). OK - that gets python2.5 and libffi4, too. To install your package you can use python2.5-dev setup.py install command. I guess you mean python2.5 setup.py

Re: where is crontab ?

-0.9.deb http://andrew.triumf.ca/N810/repository/dists/chinook/user/sources/cron-0.9.tar.gz http://andrew.triumf.ca/N810/repository/dists/chinook/user/binary-armel/nbsmtp-1.00m.deb http://andrew.triumf.ca/N810/repository/dists/chinook/user/sources/nbsmtp-1.00m.tar.gz -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF

GPE ICS/WebDAV/CalDAV

institutions. As to why not everyone use Google - some organizations and countries forbid storing private information offsite/offshore, espcially somewhere subject to the Patriot Act. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager

hildon-libs0 - osso-af conflict

0.14.11-1) is to be installed. dpkg: warning - ignoring conflict, may proceed anyway ! # dpkg -i libdbus-1-2_0.61-osso28_armel.deb (from bora) -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo

Mouse button 2/3 on N8*0 ?

RTFM - help - that button 3 in the browser is implemented as tap-and-hold : save link as etc.) -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https

Re: N810 gps troubles

from this information. - I'm curious. What time-to-first-fix are people experiencing ? (I guess I should quantify my own experience..) -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo-users

Connecting N8*0 to laptop - USB or Ad-Hoc WiFi ?

would work OK, but no keyboard. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Connecting N8*0 to laptop - USB or Ad-Hoc WiFi ?

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Ryan Pavlik wrote: You should be able to join (or even create!) an ad-hoc (Computer-to-Computer) network with the N810 - I see them all the time on my network list. OK, yes - my old Dell with an Orinoco card will do ad-hoc in both Windows and Linux. The N810 shows an

Re: N810 gps troubles

..) -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Cross-compiling for the N800

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Peter Flynn wrote: All installed, but compiling the utility with cc -o foo foo.c bar.c produces a binary which executes perfectly inside the VMware dev img window, but whe uploaded to the N800 says Personally, I installed scratchbox as per

QR (mobile codes)

they don't understand (see me naked on www...), much like the legend of the Chinese take-out in Britain whose sign apparently read death to the round-eyes or some such ) -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager

Re: Locked out of my own machine?!?!?

-server.deb then use scp and rsync to get back to where I was (apt-get over ssh from a desktop being a bit easier than poking application-manager with the stylus) Ramblings and documented mistakes at http://andrew.triumf.ca/andrew/n810-blog.html -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604

Encrypted filesystem/containers on N8*0 ?

of RAM by cooling it, power-cycling then booting an alternate low-footprint OS - e.g. if someone steals your laptop when it's suspended or on) -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo

Resetting the screen lock number on Nokia N8*

reflashing, and AFAIK sshd won't start up until you have entered the number after booting. Anyone know how to reset the number if you really have to ? -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo

Re: Resetting the screen lock number on Nokia N8*

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Austin Che wrote: How exactly would you get past the lock ? You should be able to use the flasher to set the default root device to the external card and then put on the card an OS that ignores the device lock on startup. OK. Of course it must be an ARM OS not

shift-notifier in osso-xterm on N810

a shift notifier (abc/Abc/ABC/Fn) in the corner, and leaves it there till I close and re-open the keyboard. Not that it isn't useful, I just begrudge it 15% of the screen. It might be better as a pop-up that goes away after a second or so. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222

Re: shift-notifier in osso-xterm on N810

suggestions. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Is there an implementation of diff for OS2008?

find them on my N810 with apt-get install less. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Stale timezone rules for Canada

Apr 6 01:59:59 2008 MST isdst=0 gmtoff=-25200 -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Nokia N810 and Google Maps

and Java. Actually, what I really want is to overlay the Google results on the Nokia or Maemo-mapper maps that I already have, rather than downloading tiles over GPRS) -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager