Music Player Exasperation

2008-11-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm frustrated with the music players available for my N800 and home I'm just not getting something basic. First, before I go into feature issues, I'm using FLAC files. I've ripped my entire CD collection to flac on my LAN so I keep it lossless and want to copy those files to an SD card so I

Re: Unzip utility for endusers

2008-11-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
It might help if you ask in a new and separate thread, since many people won't see this since it's replying to a music thread. Hal On Sunday 30 November 2008, Lake Stevens Dental wrote: OK, perhaps I've missed it -- perhaps it's ready to bite my nose off while poking around Maemo. As a

Re: Music Player Exasperation

2008-11-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 01 December 2008, Martin Grimme wrote: Hi, I'm the the developer of MediaBox. Thanks for your mail. The next version of MediaBox will read FLAC tags and sort by track number, so that you don't have to encode the number in the filenames. Your mail reminded me to make track number

MediaBox Media Center Shuts Off Playback

2008-11-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have most of my music in .flac files so I installed Mediabox Media Center on my N800 to play them back. I started playing a track on it and after about 1 minute it went silent. I tried this several times, always with the same result. I figured it was going silent when the screen went

Re: MediaBox Media Center Shuts Off Playback

2008-11-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
One point I forgot: When the music shuts off at 1 or 2 minutes in, it looks like MBMC is still playing since the status bar still advances at some point, it's just that I can't hear anything. Hal On Monday 24 November 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have most of my music in .flac files so I

Re: External Keyboard Recommendations

2008-06-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 23 June 2008, you wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had to shelve a lot of what I was doing and now I'm at the point where I want to get an external keyboard to replace the iGo one I have, which is cramped. I have a compact Gyration

Re: External Keyboard Recommendations

2008-06-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 23 June 2008, Gary wrote: Nobody's made a compelling argument for USB so let me take a guess why they're suggesting it; 1. ubiquity. there 10 hojillion keyboards of every shape, size and flavor out there, including compact units all the way up to high tech fancy devices like the

Re: External Keyboard Recommendations

2008-06-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 23 June 2008, Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Mark ha escrit: Correct. There are some roll-up keyboards, but those aren't ideal for the reasons discussed, and I've never seen a hard plastic USB keyboard that folds up. There's this one (it's sold out but probably looking around you

External Keyboard Recommendations

2008-06-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
I had to shelve a lot of what I was doing and now I'm at the point where I want to get an external keyboard to replace the iGo one I have, which is cramped. I know several people strongly recommended the iGo Stowaway (not the Ultra Slim, but the regular one), however, within the past few

Re: Exporting an X Session From Another Linux Box to an N770

2008-05-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 25 May 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote: I've got an N770 running the stock OS. Can I export an X session to it from another Linux system? ... Thanks for any help! Thanks to both of you that answered. I somehow had gotten the impression that the tablets handled the display differently

Exporting an X Session From Another Linux Box to an N770

2008-05-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
I've got an N770 running the stock OS. Can I export an X session to it from another Linux system? I'm making a carputer that will run LinuxICE (ICE = In Car Entertainment), which is based on Ubuntu. Eventually I'm going to make a control panel that slides out of the radio bay, but that will

Re: Is OS2006 still supported?

2008-04-18 Thread Hal Vaughan
Note: Part of this is venting, but it's stuff I do feel I have to say. Note what I say in the last paragraph and don't take the rest personally. I've been in and out of this group and until now didn't realize that Nokia was actively involved here and that, in itself, impresses me. So take

Re: Is OS2006 still supported?

2008-04-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 17 April 2008, Ryan Abel wrote: Frédéric Mantegazza wrote: As a new user of Nokia 770, I feel a little disapointed. Such are the pitfalls of purchasing an almost 3 year old unsupported product. ;) Which tells me right off if I buy the latest, I can count on it being unsupported

Videos and VNC

2008-02-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm thinking of using an N770 as the control for a headless system for several reasons. While it's not a must, one thing that would be nice is to also view video through such a setup. There will be times when I'll be stuck alone with this system and it will have a DVD player so if I could

Re: Is anyone actually trying to use Bluetooth keyboards?

2007-09-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Brian Litzinger wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:54:22AM -0600, Johnny wrote: Does everyone just not use BT keyboards and wire in through USB or SSH into it remotely?? My experience has been that I can get a bluetooth keyboard associated and working. But

Re: Is anyone actually trying to use Bluetooth keyboards?

2007-09-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 26 September 2007, you wrote: Hal, I write too - though I'm a bit of a self-publisher since I actually sell my work (see Piratefish.org for more detail there) and I wanted the ability to write anywhere, as portably as possible.  The I-Tech is nice because it's very low mass, and

Re: N770 Mysteriously Became a Brick

2007-08-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 29 August 2007, DrFredC.com wrote: From what I understand, the WSOD is a permanent condition and there is no recovery other than through repair work or warranty replacement. K First try taking out the battery and reinstalling it. While doing this, check to make sure the

N770 Mysteriously Became a Brick

2007-08-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
Last night I was using my N770 and it was fine. I put it back in the metal case, with the screen protected, and it deactivated as normal. Today I took it with me, which basically involved leaving it in my car glove compartment for about 4 hours. It was squeezed a bit, but not by anything

Re: N770 Mysteriously Became a Brick

2007-08-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
many hours off the charger and not being used? This makes me wonder just how reliable this unit is if it can just stop responding like this. Is there any way to find out why it did this? Thanks! Hal Regards Samer Azmy On 8/28/07, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night I was using

Re: N770 Mysteriously Became a Brick

2007-08-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 28 August 2007, you wrote: I'm happy to know that it responds now for why it worked after you completely remove it,I dont know but for N770 being reliable, I find it is Good to know. Is it possible this happened just because the battery lost all its charge? Does putting it in

Re: N770 Mysteriously Became a Brick

2007-08-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 28 August 2007, you wrote: iOn Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 05:04:43AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: Is it possible this happened just because the battery lost all its charge? Does putting it in the case backwards so it deactivates drain the power instead of just turning it off? I have

Re: 770 Brickage

2007-08-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Jesse Thompson wrote: I know this doesn't pertain to Maemo as such, but I would appreciate any pointers in the right direction as well. With still 1 bar of battery left, and no low battery warnings to speak of, my Nokia 770 switched itself off today and then would

Re: External Keyboards

2007-08-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 25 August 2007, Damien Challet wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2007 17:49:06 Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 20 August 2007, Mike Klein wrote: You're looking for a bt-legacy adapter for ps/2 (or usb) devices...as far as I know they only do this (i.e. Motorola) for audio line out

EMail and Contact Info Storage

2007-08-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
Where does the N770 store email addresses the included email/contact info programs use? I've tried searching, but I've noticed the BusyBox grep doesn't have a recursion function. (Or does it? I didn't see one.) Thanks! Hal ___ maemo-users mailing

Re: External Keyboards

2007-08-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 25 August 2007, you wrote: Size, when open is full with good tactile feedback. It doesn't slide around and the battery lasts long. Size, when closed, is ~2.5x4. Isn't 2.5 a bit short? Otherwise it sounds great. I wish items like this would have a full sized picture in their

Re: Nokia 770 Apps That Sync With Linux Apps

2007-08-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 20 August 2007, you wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm moving to my Nokia 770 from a Palm Tungsten C. There's only one issue I've found that is keeping me from dropping use of the Palm completely: I need to sync some apps with the apps I use in KDE on Linux. I've found info

Re: Cannot Install SSH Server

2007-08-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 22 August 2007, Neil MacLeod wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I've been searching all over Maemo and on the Internet. I want to install either dropbear or an ssh server on my Nokia 770. The pages in the wiki have several steps, but basically use what's in http

Re: Cannot Install SSH Server

2007-08-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 22 August 2007, Neil MacLeod wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: If you install openssh as root using apt-get install ssh you should end up with both the server and client tools installed. I finally got it. The problem is that it's in the extras repository (at least for mistral

Re: External Keyboards

2007-08-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 20 August 2007, Mike Klein wrote: You're looking for a bt-legacy adapter for ps/2 (or usb) devices...as far as I know they only do this (i.e. Motorola) for audio line out. That's my problem with all bt keyboards...they're either chintzy little folding things that always flex too

Cannot Install SSH Server

2007-08-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
I've been searching all over Maemo and on the Internet. I want to install either dropbear or an ssh server on my Nokia 770. The pages in the wiki have several steps, but basically use what's in http://repository.maemo.org mistral free non-free but all that has is ssh client. All the links

Re: Need an SSH client for the Nokia 800

2007-08-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 20 August 2007, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 20 August 2007, Ed Bartosh wrote: В Чтв, 16/08/2007 в 17:42 +0100, ext Neil MacLeod пишет: Marius Gedminas wrote: Someone should take the ssh package from the SDK repository, change the section to user/net, and upload

Nokia 770 Apps That Sync With Linux Apps

2007-08-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm moving to my Nokia 770 from a Palm Tungsten C. There's only one issue I've found that is keeping me from dropping use of the Palm completely: I need to sync some apps with the apps I use in KDE on Linux. I've found info on GPE, but have not found enough to actually be able to sync the

External Keyboards

2007-08-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
I had to do searching to find an external keyboard. Now I'm using the Stowaway by Think Outside which connects with bluetooth. I'm curious what other keyboards people are using, since I may want to get a better one for my Nokia 770. The biggest issue I am having is not just size, which I