Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-11 Thread Matt Emson
Mark wrote: > You're putting words in my mouth. I never said that. I said that they > were either Linux or Mac fanboys OR were simply targeting the most > common OS. > I don't personally disagree with Mark's statement, except for the wording. I would have put it as: > But NOT impossible, and t

Re: 3G + iphone - not so fast

2009-03-10 Thread Matt Emson
HSDPA (3.5G)? Also, was this comparing 3G to EVDO? In the UK, all the 3G that O2 provides is HSDPA and it is blazingly fast. No offence to the people in the States, but your GSM network is in the stone age. I'd def go for EVDO if I was in the States. Sent from my iPhone On 10 Mar 2009, at 19

Re: N8xx ponderings

2009-03-10 Thread Matt Emson
Mark wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:20 PM, kenneth marken wrote: > >> i wish i could point you to the law text, but sadly its only in norwegian... >> >> > > To quote Dickens, "the law is an ass". Remember that Dickens was English and in British English, "Ass" is a kind of Donkey, wher

Re: Twitter shell for N810 ?

2009-03-09 Thread Matt Emson
Daviel wrote: > 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

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-07 Thread Matt Emson
Sent from my iPhone On 7 Mar 2009, at 16:05, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote: > Mark, >You can substitute "Motorola cell phones" for "Nokia tablets" and > your arguments will remain valid. Hardware is easier than software. > julius Now, that's just plain mean!! No company makes phones as bad a

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-07 Thread Matt Emson
See online reply. Sent from my iPhone On 7 Mar 2009, at 02:08, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:37 PM, John Holmblad > wrote: >> >> I for one would like to see Apple acquire Nokia. That would be a >> great >> combination. > > A couple points: > > 1. Apple makes proprietary,

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-06 Thread Matt Emson
On 6 Mar 2009, at 18:16, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote: > Ognen, >I'm sorry that you took offence at my joke. This really was a > joke, but obviously poorly worded. > >I find it mildly amusing that people complain about N810 > functionality and the need to add application at the same breath

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-06 Thread Matt Emson
The giant stand emblazoned with Nokia N800 blurb and with an N800 attached to it was always a give away. Displayed in PC World right next to consumer laptops and other PDA like devices. Nowhere did it mention that consumers should avoid the device. If there was no PR, no one would own any of

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-06 Thread Matt Emson
Andrew Flegg wrote: > Right, so although your complaints may be valid (I'm not saying > they're not - honestly, I'd love my tablet to be faster, which is why > I'm looking forward to an RX-51/71), they're not relevant to any > discussion about Nokia mis-selling the tablets or promising they can > d

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-06 Thread Matt Emson
Andrew Flegg wrote: > Agreed, and fully understandable. Can we draw up a list of what - > exactly - the N8x0 fails to do out-of-the-box which it is advertised > it *can* do; and requires hacker-like skills to enable? If I'd never owned another device (Palm, Handspring, Apple Newton, Sharp Zaurus

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-06 Thread Matt Emson
Mark wrote: > Sure, they "say" it, after you've already bought the thing and are on > a mailing list and a discussion such as this comes up, but NOWHERE in > the sales literature or at any sales point that I've seen does it say > that. That little morsel is *not* freely disseminated. I'm trying to

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-05 Thread Matt Emson
Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > This is not the N810 fault. > I had the N800 first. But I bought the other two devices over time, because the N800 wasn't capable of doing what I needed it to - play back music without screwing up the gaps between tracks as Canola does, Surf the web without struggl

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-05 Thread Matt Emson
Ognen Duzlevski wrote: > Hello, > > I am curious to find out what people use their Nokias for. If anyone > could share their usage patterns, it would be appreciated. Six months ago, I would have given you a long list. Now, nothing. It sits about doing nothing. I grab it to take meeting notes arou

Re: Twitter shell for N810 ?

2009-03-04 Thread Matt Emson
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. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman

Re: Car Mileage Calculator Released

2009-02-20 Thread Matt Emson
James Knott wrote: > Does it also do metric i.e. kilometers & litres? > Or, indeed, can it use a mixture of metric and imperial*? (We use metric litres for fuel, but miles for distance in the UK.) M * imperial is what we call the old British system of measurement that the US uses (with sligh

Re: damaged power connecter

2009-02-19 Thread Matt Emson
Mark Haury wrote: > Matt Emson wrote: > >> Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >>> Which shows "newer" is not always "better"... anyone remembers the >>> good old PalmPilot cradles? >>> >>> Not only were those rock-solid, but

Re: damaged power connecter

2009-02-18 Thread Matt Emson
Fernando Cassia wrote: > Which shows "newer" is not always "better"... anyone remembers the > good old PalmPilot cradles? > > Not only were those rock-solid, but also it was impossible to break > any connectors by pulling hard or by tripping on wires it'd just > unplug itself without any dama

Re: identi.ca group

2009-02-18 Thread Matt Emson
Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote: > I didn't have a look at the APIs, but does Laconica/Identica support > some extras there? Or is the sending/receiving the same and groups/tags > are just handled by the server? > I don't know. Identi.ca has probably changed since I last looked at it. Jaiky supp

Re: identi.ca group

2009-02-18 Thread Matt Emson
Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente wrote: > I think that any jabber client is enough: > http://laconi.ca/trac/wiki/Documentation#usageXMPP > Well, no. Mauku should be able to support identi.ca. The identi.ca back end supports the Twitter API - as Mauku already supports that API, should be fairl

Re: identi.ca group

2009-02-18 Thread Matt Emson
Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote: > I sent messages via Jabber and receive them at the moment with twitter > (identi.ca post them for me to twitter) over mauku. but I hope mauku > will get native laconi.ca support... The difference in the API is the URL base it uses. It took me about 10 minutes to

Re: Amazon Shopping App

2009-02-05 Thread Matt Emson
> fyi. While doing some shopping at Amazon.com I came across the > following > new App for the Iphone: This has been around for ages. There's supposedly a version for Android too. > I wonder if it can find/read bar codes in the images? No idea, but I doubt it will work well, given the iPhon

Re: Bluetooth headset - N800

2009-01-27 Thread Matt Emson
On 27 Jan 2009, at 17:36, Rick Bilonick wrote: >> > > I A2DP works in Maemo, it doesn't work out of the box. I have a > Motorolla S9 stereo headset. It works with my N810 but not in stereo > (I've tried). IIRC, it was a dirty hack back in the ITOS2007 days. No idea if ITOS2008 improved that. Ne

Re: Bluetooth headset - N800

2009-01-27 Thread Matt Emson
lakestevensdental wrote: > Finally, there are stereo bluetooth headsets that apparently can pair > with some (but not) all devices. Possibly because stereo protocols There are a number of different Stereo profiles for Bluetooth. I believe A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) is the most

Re: Cisco.Webex support on Iphone Why not also on N800/N810

2009-01-20 Thread Matt Emson
John Holmblad wrote: > I don't own an iphone so I don't have the means to test/verify your > perception about webex on a small screen. I have to believe, however, > that Cisco would not have invested the time and effort to make a > no-cost iphone client available if they did not themselves conc

Re: Cisco.Webex support on Iphone Why not also on N800/N810

2009-01-19 Thread Matt Emson
Java is a large install on most platforms. 12mb actually seems quite small to me. I can't imagine Webex being pleasant on any screen as small as the N8x00 or iPhone. M Sent from my iPhone On 20 Jan 2009, at 00:29, John Holmblad wrote: > Gary, > > thanks for sharing the Jalimo links. I w

Re: N810 with GSM radio

2009-01-14 Thread Matt Emson
Marius Gedminas wrote: > 3G is UMTS (or WCDMA); HSDPA is sometimes called 3.5G. > In the UK, O2 only use HSDPA for their "3G" service, apparently. When you buy an iPhone with them, they mumble about their 3G actually being rated faster than normal 3G and make excuses about the naming conventi

Re: N810 with GSM radio

2009-01-14 Thread Matt Emson
John Holmblad wrote: > Having said that, and, given that there is a WIMAX > version of the N810 I don't see an inherent technical or cost reason why > there could not also be a version with a 2g/3g radio (GSM/HSDPA, or > CDMA/EVDO) as well. > I suspect it would be GSM/HSDPA based, as this is

Re: Itouch v N8x0

2008-12-24 Thread Matt Emson
On 24 Dec 2008, at 21:38, Tim Ashman wrote: >> > > I sent an email to audible about 6 months ago asking them to either > support > maemo or publish an api so someone could write an opensource version. I think the issue is more LINUX host OS vs Windows and Mac OS X host OS on this one. You gen

Re: Itouch v N8x0

2008-12-24 Thread Matt Emson
On 23 Dec 2008, at 23:42, lakestevensdental wrote: >> > I don't expect my tablet (or Itouch) to play my audio books. Most audiobooks I buy are from Audible. They support pretty much every player under the sun, and prices are not over the top. M ___

Re: Itouch v N8x0

2008-12-24 Thread Matt Emson
On 23 Dec 2008, at 02:10, Jerry Van Baren wrote: >> > It isn't fair to fault open source 'free' software for things > (ports) proprietary companies refuse to do. It isn't fair to expect companies attempting to make profit form their software to give it away for free or to port to an untested p

Re: Itouch v N8x0

2008-12-22 Thread Matt Emson
On 22 Dec 2008, at 21:40, lakestevensdental wrote: > > Maemo could evolve more in the app store's direction, IMHO. > Agreed :-) For end users of a consumer nature, an "app store" would be the only reasonable option I think. Android seems to have gotten the idea - provide an app store for main

Re: Itouch v N8x0

2008-12-22 Thread Matt Emson
On 22 Dec 2008, at 20:41, Denis Dimick wrote: > I've had both a n810 and an iPhone (Jailbroken) and ended up selling > the iPhone; I was tired of not being able to manage my Music the way > I wanted to - iTunes sucks. I've never really had a problem with iTunes (5th gen iPod owner), but I'

Re: Itouch v N8x0

2008-12-22 Thread Matt Emson
On 22 Dec 2008, at 11:38, Marius Gedminas wrote: >> > > You mean the one that doesn't flat-out refuse to work with my Linux- > only > laptop? If we're being pedantic, why would you buy a product that clearly states it does not support LINUX? That's a bit like me buying a book in Japanese and

Re: Itouch v N8x0

2008-12-22 Thread Matt Emson
> I know that my N800 can't power > USB memory drives, Works for me. Maybe it's size related? I've mounted unpowered USB keys (Americans would say "thumb drive" I'm guessing) up to 2Gb. The only brand I remember ottomh is PNY, which would have been 1Gb. I used a 64Gb one to stream video once (

Re: Itouch v N8x0

2008-12-19 Thread Matt Emson
On 19 Dec 2008, at 22:49, lakestevensdental wrote: I can't agree with your comments ont he keyboard. The N800 on screen is extremely flakey and the layout is really annoying. I've played with a few iphones and found the onscreen far more precise and less prone to odd results. The entire Ch

Re: Browserd consumes too much CPU on N810 - OS 2008 (5.2008.43)

2008-12-19 Thread Matt Emson
Andrea Grandi wrote: > If you try to load Facebook.com website, the situation is even worse: > it takes about 85% CPU simply doing nothing. Use the iPhone version of Facebook (iphone.facebook.com) as it's streamlined and doesn't have the idiotic chat enabled. If you want Facebook chat, use Pidgin

New Twitter client

2008-12-14 Thread Matt Emson
Hi all, Dunno how interesting this is, but I started to write a Gtk# based Twitter client on Saturday evening. It runs on Windows/Linux and probably Mac OS X too (not tried it, will do though.) It'll also run fairly well on the N800 using the Mono 2.01 runtime.I don't have a package yet, and I

Re: Unzip utility for endusers

2008-12-01 Thread Matt Emson
Hal Vaughan wrote: > > 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 > Depends whether you are using a threaded email client or not. I mostly don't, for the very reason you mention :-) M __

Re: N810 dead?

2008-11-18 Thread Matt Emson
James Knott wrote: > Try removing & reinstalling the battery. I find that helps, when my > N800 is out to lunch. > This is so true that actually added a "tab" of tape to my battery to make it easier to get out. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-us

Re: Removing Modest from Diablo

2008-10-10 Thread Matt Emson
Denis Dimick wrote: > You could do a force, but your not going to like what happens. > Non bootable self destructing system by any chance? Saw that happen trying to force an older version of gcc to install in Chinook. Ouch! M ___ maemo-users mailin

Re: Updating n810w (rx-48) to latest firmware

2008-10-01 Thread Matt Emson
Mark wrote: > If I understand correctly, you're expecting the update tools to > automatically pick up the latest OS image and install it. He is using Windows, so, yeah - the tool should be picking up the latest firmware automatically. The issue is more likely related to what Ryan was saying abo

Re: Flash player conflict stopping the feature update

2008-10-01 Thread Matt Emson
Ryan Abel wrote: > On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Matt Emson wrote: > > That "someone" being timeless. :) "Someone" being a simple way not to have to go search for the culprit/genius/kind individual that created the package, obviously ;-) > >> Unfortunat

Flash player conflict stopping the feature update

2008-09-30 Thread Matt Emson
Someone on the Internet Tablet Talk Forums released a package that fixed the Flash Player version string issue that stopped a lot of sites recognising that the version of flash in ITOS2008 was compatible. Unfortunately, it seems this package is stopping installation of the latest feature upgrad

Re: [Fwd: XOHM is Live in Baltimore]

2008-09-29 Thread Matt Emson
John Holmblad wrote: > This makes me wonder if Nokia is hedging its bets on the success of WIMAX/ > Had a meeting with a provider of microwave based internet last week. He mentioned they were involved in the rollout of WiMax in the UK. Unfortunately, he also made it sound like it was unlikely

Re: N800 RIP?

2008-09-29 Thread Matt Emson
Martin Grimme wrote: > 2008/9/26, Jeffrey Barish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> The N800 was >> manufactured in Korea. Anyone know by what company? >> > > Not all units were manufactured in Korea. The units sold in Europe > were manufactured in Finland (at least mine was). > Confirmed.

Re: USB keyboard on n800?

2008-09-28 Thread Matt Emson
> How does it recognise a keyboard, anyway?  Hardware manufacturer id, device id and device class (e.g. Mass storage, input device, etc) > Does that driver have to be installed specially? No, nothing needs to be installed in Chinook and Diablo, it just "works". > -- hendrik ___

Re: USB keyboard on n800?

2008-09-27 Thread Matt Emson
This should get you started... Get what the mode is currently set: cat /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode) Turn off the onscreen kbd: gconftool-2 -t bool -s /system/osso/af/keyboard-attached true Turn on the onscreen kbd - this is important as is sometimes doesn't happen -though it should:

Re: Diablo's Modest/Email

2008-09-13 Thread Matt Emson
> Just curious -- which country are you calling 'this'? The UK, well England if you want to be pedantic. I understand it was popular elsewhere, but the UK is all I can comment on. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maem

Re: Diablo's Modest/Email

2008-09-12 Thread Matt Emson
On 11 Sep 2008, at 16:24, Mark wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Matt Emson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mark wrote: >>> >>> You are so incredibly wrong. >> >> About? > > Pretty much everything... > Well, no. You sta

Re: Diablo's Modest/Email

2008-09-11 Thread Matt Emson
Mark wrote: > > You are so incredibly wrong. About? That the Archimedes uses ARM processors, um, no. Acorn designed the original ARM processor. The A in ARM originally stood for "Acorn". That my A7000 is an embedded device in disguise? No, it's a full desktop machine, uses standard RAM, standa

Re: Can't Install New Apps in Diablo on N810

2008-09-10 Thread Matt Emson
Rick Bilonick wrote: > I've been running Diablo on an N810 for several months. A few weeks ago > I used the method set up by penquinbait to clone the OS onto a 4gb > external memory card. This has worked very nicely - at least until a few > days ago. I've installed lots of apps given I had the spac

Re: Diablo's Modest/Email

2008-09-10 Thread Matt Emson
Riku Voipio wrote: > Mark wrote: > >> Your setup may be able to handle IMAP just fine, but it could at least >> as easily handle POP3. If you're running it on an ARM system you >> clearly are not leaving messages (especially with large attachments) >> on the server indefinitely (there's no ARM s

Re: Diablo's Modest/Email

2008-09-08 Thread Matt Emson
Matt Emson wrote: > If I then checked my main email client, sure enough it was there To clarify - if I check me email later on that day on my MacBook - when no other client had attempted to download the email since the N800 has attempted to. i.e. the email *does* exist.

Re: Diablo's Modest/Email

2008-09-08 Thread Matt Emson
Not solving any of Tim's issues - reporting some of my own: 1) Email will not open - quite often I'll double tap on an email and it does not open, but I can see it is downloaded by the little progress bar in the bottom corner. If I click again, it opens up mostly. However, sometimes it takes a

Re: Problem flashing RX-34_DIABLO_4.20 08.23-14_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin

2008-08-20 Thread Matt Emson
Peter Bart wrote: > Getting the software loaded is another story. I'm > finding some of the software for Diablo won't load. Notably Leafpad and > Maemopad+. > Won't load or can't be installed? Loading is what happens after installation. Installation is what happens when you first put the prog

Re: The PDF's hyperlink don't work in N810

2008-08-12 Thread Matt Emson
Jun Xu wrote: > > The PDF's hyperlink function doesn't work in N810. It seems that its > code is deformed in various ways. > Hyperlinks seem to work in Evince (just tested.) I personally use Evince because it seems like a fuller PDF viewer (though it does seem slightly slower.) I'd suggest look

Re: Hyperlink

2008-07-29 Thread Matt Emson
cedric cellier wrote: > So what ? > Does this matter ? Well, maybe, or not. Depends how you view their questions. I find them odd, and slightly annoying. Buy that's my problem, obviously. At any rate, I think they are asking technical programming questions on the wrong list. Given their employe

Re: Hyperlink

2008-07-29 Thread Matt Emson
Jun Xu wrote: An interesting aside; have you noticed the Chinese guys all come (or, at least, claim to come via email address) from Plenware? /> About Plenware:/ /> Plenware is an IT service company that provides software development services and data communication solutions for top > compani

Re: Installing wget on Os2008/Diablo

2008-07-24 Thread Matt Emson
Ryan Abel wrote: > becomeroot is deprecated. rootsh should be used instead, as it is > available in Extras. > Without me having to go on a hunt for info, what is the difference? It does the same thing, right? M ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-use

Re: Need C++ Compiler

2008-07-24 Thread Matt Emson
Kalle Valo wrote: > "ext Matt Emson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> As Maemo doesn't use C++ that much (if at all?) >> > > The browser is written in C++ AFAIK. > But this will not affect the compiler ABI issues I meant to allude t

Re: Installing wget on Os2008/Diablo

2008-07-24 Thread Matt Emson
John Holmblad wrote: Log in as root (install becomeroot deb and type "sudo gainroot" in terminal.. or do the ssh trick, whatever you find easier.) apt-get install wget > All, > > has anyone been able to install wget on OS2008/Diablo? > > If so can you share how you did it? I thought I saw wg

Re: Need C++ Compiler

2008-07-24 Thread Matt Emson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That wsa on Debian. I imagine things may be worse on maemo. It uninstalls everything until the daemon that watches for crashes reboots the OS and it then fails to start because the fundamental OS is no longer bootable. It does make you type in a long phrase to confirm

Re: Need C++ Compiler

2008-07-23 Thread Matt Emson
Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: As Maemo doesn't use C++ that much (if at all?) you can probably use the gcc/g++ from Bora - however, libc and such will probably be an issue. I did have a go at getting it to work, but apt-get goes into a mad dependency spiral and kills the OS trying to downgrade the s

Re: What is flash?

2008-07-22 Thread Matt Emson
Karl Kobel wrote: > Yes, I see now... > > "I here alot about flash what is it?" > > I assumed he was refering to 'flash', the noun. > > > "Did you try to flash the 770 again?" > > Andre was referring to 'flash', the verb. > I haven't been reading all the threads that Jeff posted, but to be hon

Re: can we use a shell on N810?

2008-07-09 Thread Matt Emson
Ryan Abel wrote: >> Yes. The only bad part is how it handles control coded with the pop up >> keyboard on the N800, but the N810 should be okay. > > It was fixed in Diablo. . . . > > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2392 So it WAS! Woo, that's neat ;-) When I get round to upgrading my SD to

Re: can we use a shell on N810?

2008-07-09 Thread Matt Emson
Forrest Sheng Bao wrote: > Hi dudes, > > Do we have a shell on N810 like the one on OpenMoko? > > http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/open-moko-software.media/om2term.png Yes. The only bad part is how it handles control coded with the pop up keyboard on the N800, but the N810 should be okay. Does

Re: locked device

2008-07-03 Thread Matt Emson
>> One more quesiton, I had to charge device and when chargong I was not >> able se boot menu... is thi snormal? >> > > I don't think so. If I reboot on power, I go straight in to the FLASH image with no hint of the bootmenu. Or at least, this happened when booted to FLASH and attempti

Re: maemo on GTK FB

2008-06-30 Thread Matt Emson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > I am a newbie to maemo framework. Sandeep, my understanding is that Maemo sits on top of a framework called "Hildon" that is based on GTK+, but not necessarily the same thing entirely. Others will be more precise, but YMMV greatly as to how easily it is to i

Re: Diablo released

2008-06-24 Thread Matt Emson
Quim Gil wrote: > http://maemo.org/news/announcements/view/os2008_feature_upgrade-reflash_your_tablet-for_the_last_time.html > > SDK announcement to land soon Cool! Downloading this *now* and hoping to avoid the "rush" that happened last time round ;-) If only I had my N800 with me today! Luckil

Re: External Keyboard Recommendations

2008-06-22 Thread Matt Emson
Hal Vaughan wrote: > So any recommendations on [...] external keyboards since the > Stowaway seems to have been taken off the market? Yes, buy a OTG dongle and go USB. Bluetooth is a PITA. USB works really well. The adapter will cost you less than $10 is you shop around, the keyboard - well,

Re: Sluggish performance on my N800

2008-06-09 Thread Matt Emson
Eero Tamminen wrote: > Have you filed a bug against Modest about this? No... it doesn't exactly cause a big problem, it should be optional - except I didn't see any way of turning off the checking. More worrying is the bug that insists on opening the original mail app sometimes when you click o

Re: Sluggish performance on my N800

2008-06-09 Thread Matt Emson
Mike Wright wrote: > Anyone tell me why this might be? > Try clearing the browser cache. That worked for me. It you go in to the prefs for the browser, there is a way of doing it. I left my N800 at home today, so I can't say for sure what it is. Do you have Modest installed? Latest version s

Re: bittorrent

2008-05-08 Thread Matt Emson
Transmission works flawlessly for me. Didn't realise the other one existed. - Original message - I would suggest asking on the forum on Garage for this one ... unless someone here has a suggestion.  Or try Transmission which came through after my email. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Leo

Re: Battery life VERY short on N810, last OS2008...

2008-04-21 Thread Matt Emson
Eero Tamminen wrote: >> It is. Sitting on poll(). >> > > In that case crawler is not the issue. > Humour me. Kill the crawler, stop it form respawning (rename the file), fully charge your tablet, leave it over night. If it is dead as per usual, yes it is another issue. What is there to l

Re: Battery life VERY short on N810, last OS2008...

2008-04-21 Thread Matt Emson
Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:09 +0100, ext Matt Emson wrote: > >> Even though it often doesn't look like it is the metalayer-crawler, >> killing it always makes a big difference for me. Honestly, I had my >> > ... > > You co

Re: Battery life VERY short on N810, last OS2008...

2008-04-21 Thread Matt Emson
Giacomo Tufano wrote: > The 'metalayer-crawler' is, apparently, idle (bad, I'd like a simple > solution). :-( > Even though it often doesn't look like it is the metalayer-crawler, killing it always makes a big difference for me. Honestly, I had my first week of N800 ownership with the battery

Re: Battery life VERY short on N810, last OS2008...

2008-04-21 Thread Matt Emson
Giacomo Tufano wrote: > After installing the last revision of OS2008 (I don't really know why > I did it, because I had no problem on startup) battery life is very, > very short. I go from full battery down to automatic shutdown in a > night... One thing comes to mind : metalayer-crawler... Thi

Re: can't install software

2008-04-09 Thread Matt Emson
> From: "Jon Dodson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Make sure your internal memory card is inserted, recognized and has enough room to hold the install files. This is the usual cause of issues like that for me. >> for some strange reason i have been unable to install any software a few >> days af

Re: N800 not N-series? :-)

2008-04-08 Thread Matt Emson
Jac Kersing wrote: > Hmmm, > > Nokia just lauched the Nokia Music Store, however when trying to access it > using a N800 I'm getting a page stating: > > "Nokia Music does not support Mozilla Firefox (Linux) on your operating > system Yep, same here. I was in Waterloo Station in London and the Cl

Re: n800 USB OTG adapter

2008-04-03 Thread Matt Emson
Andrew Barr wrote: > Thomas Armagost wrote: > > >> Would the OTG adapter >> enable me to use the Plantronics 470 as the n800's microphone? >> > > You need to switch the controller into peripheral or gadget mode first. > There is a GUI control panel for this out there somewhere, the name of

[Fwd: Error in email to twine.com (was Re: Re: Ogg support)]

2008-03-31 Thread Matt Emson
: Twine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matt Emson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Twine Tie it all Together <http://www.twine.com:4242/> Dear Twine user, There was a problem sending your email: The message was not from an email address of a Twine user. Click here <http://www.t

Re: Ogg support

2008-03-31 Thread Matt Emson
Tuomas Kulve wrote: > Media Player doesn't allow you to open ogg files directly but when the > Metalayer Crawler adds your oggs to the Library then you can play the > oggs from there with the Media Player. Metalayer-crawler is the first thing I disable and remove after reflashing my N800. It is e

Re: N810 European Power Adapter

2008-03-20 Thread Matt Emson
Luca Olivetti wrote: >> I find US and European outlets scary as heck, because they usually >> have no on/off switch. It's fairly rare to find an outlet int he UK >> without a on/off switch. >> > > Maybe that's because your huge plug it's too difficult to unplug we > just unplug them ;-) > O

Re: N810 European Power Adapter

2008-03-20 Thread Matt Emson
Theodore Tso wrote: > This is all true, but those plugs take up a huge amount of space in > laptop bags... and the number of times that I've had my equipment > blow up due to grounding problems or power surges is nil. And a fuse > doesn't protect against voltage spikes. > Size is relative. Dep

Re: N810 European Power Adapter

2008-03-20 Thread Matt Emson
Jerry Van Baren wrote: > Luca Olivetti wrote: > >> En/na Kip Warner ha escrit: >> >> >>> Thank you, I think I will do that. I haven't been to Europe, but is >>> there just one standard plug across the EU, or do they vary? >>> >> The do vary but generally only the earth plug, so if yo

Re: Using a SE W890i as Bluetooth modem (DUN)

2008-03-20 Thread Matt Emson
Henrik Frisk wrote: > I just received my new phone, a SE W890i but with this I'm not > able to connect. My SE K800i is the same. UK Vodafone. Will pair etc, even goes through the motions of connecting, but no traffic. M ___ maemo-users mailing list ma

Re: startup questions

2008-03-19 Thread Matt Emson
Mark wrote: > > That really is a huge pain. What if you're out somewhere away from > your desktop and need to be root? And all these other workarounds may > work, but we shouldn't be having to jump through these hoops to gain > root on our own personal devices. Installing "becomeroot" solves this

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

2008-03-19 Thread Matt Emson
Mark Haury wrote: Public answer (as I replied privately too) Install "becomeroot". Google for it. Matt > I've searched the site, and the root password on my N800 with OS2008 > 2.2007.51-3 is *NOT* "rootme". How the heck do I get root access on my > own @#!$%^ machine!?!? > > They should at *le

Re: N810. Bluetooth networking

2008-03-12 Thread Matt Emson
Nils Faerber wrote: > I would like to see PAN being used for that - using DUN from Linux > device to Linux device seem pretty brain dead to me, sorry. > But PAN is ont integrated in Maemo - well I guess the modules are there > and pand exists but it is not integrated into the framework and UI.. We

Re: N810. Bluetooth networking

2008-03-12 Thread Matt Emson
Vladimir wrote: > Hi all. > > I want to be able to connect Nokia N810 using Bluetooth to my PC and > use PC network connection to connect to internet. I found a howto: > http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howto-bluetoothnetworking-dun-ppp/ If you can set up a Bluetooth PAN (Private Area Network) in W

Re: Twitter Client

2008-03-11 Thread Matt Emson
- Original message - > So can you IM into twitter? Yeah, but it's not as slck as something like thwirl or tweetr. M ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Twitter Client

2008-03-11 Thread Matt Emson
Tim Ashman wrote: > Anyone know of a twitter client for the n810. I can use the website directly > to tweet and the RSS Reader to watch but I'd like to have an interface that > didn't use the web for creating the tweets? > > Also does anyone know of a way to decrease the RSS feed update time on

Re: Restoring on screen keyboard

2008-03-10 Thread Matt Emson
Paul Gear wrote: > I experience this issue as well sometimes when i use my Thinkoutside > Bluetooth foldable keyboard. Like you, i've found no workaround. I updated to the second release of OS2008 (51-3 is it?) and tried again. It seems to work for me if I just yank the USB connector out now, bu

Restoring on screen keyboard

2008-03-06 Thread Matt Emson
I have an odd issue. I've just bought a nano usb keyboard to use with my N800. All works fine with a (non OTG) USB convertor under OS2008. The issue is that no matter how I disconnect the keyboard, I lose the ability to spawn the on screen keyboard - a reboot is required to sole the issue. I rem

Re: osso-rss-feed-reader source (was Re: N800 user unhappy with OS2008 upgrade...)

2008-02-29 Thread Matt Emson
Eero Tamminen wrote: > This is a localization package, I don't see why RSS would need that to > build. Does it build if you just remove that dependency from the > debian/control file? In fact, it looks like it is only there because the developer is an Indian - it's a translation package for Mara

Re: task launcher environment

2008-02-29 Thread Matt Emson
Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: Change the .desktop file to run a script that ensures you have the correct user and environment and cwd/pwd or whatever. This is a common problem with launching apps outside of the commandline I think - for example BeOS would do the exact same thing, including losing

Re: fetchmail?

2008-02-29 Thread Matt Emson
Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > Is email received by a standard fetchmail mechanism? Is arriving email placed > in a standard location like /var/mail/user or /var/spool/mail/user? I noticed > that the directories /var/mail/ and /var/spool/mail/ exist but they are empty. I thin that is 100% dependent

Re: audible notification when email arrives?

2008-02-29 Thread Matt Emson
Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > Is there a way to get audible notification when email arrives? Modest flashes the D pad light and I'm sure it also "pings". Chat messages ping. Claws did too in OS2007. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.o

Re: Nokia buys Trolltech

2008-01-29 Thread Matt Emson
Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:16:25AM +, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > > >>> Maemo platforms [...] Maemo will continue to be based on Gnome >>> [...] and S40 and S60 will evolve with Qt" >>> >> Okay, but can you assume Nokia wont step by step drop Maemo? >>

Re: Nokia buys Trolltech

2008-01-28 Thread Matt Emson
Steve Yelvington wrote: > Now, this is interesting. > > http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-28.4605718236 > Okay, usually I don't post FUD, bet here goes: About 8 months ago, I was working for a company that wanted to utilise RFID with locational reporting. Nokia

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