Re: unable to get into flashing mode on N800

2009-03-06 Thread Ryan Abel
On Mar 6, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > 2009/3/6 Ryan Abel : >> On Mar 6, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: >> >>> of course you still need to have a fully charged battery in ! >>> If the charger fails, then the battery kicks i

Re: unable to get into flashing mode on N800

2009-03-06 Thread Ryan Abel
rd. Either way, any benefits certainly aren't worth the risks. Charge your tablet fully, unplug the charger, then flash. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-06 Thread Ryan Abel
with the devices. You obviously don't know me very well, then. You also, clearly, aren't really interested in having a rational discussion here. Thanks for the flames. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-06 Thread Ryan Abel
aulty item that breaks in a millon pieces in the first >> week of use. >> > > The outrage is due to the *fact* that the device doesn't live up to > its PR. _What_ "PR"? -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___

Re: unable to get into flashing mode on N800

2009-03-06 Thread Ryan Abel
On Mar 6, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > 2009/3/6 Ryan Abel : > >> On Mar 6, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote: >> >>> the subject line says it: I can't get my N800 into flashing >>> mode >>> by holding dow

Re: unable to get into flashing mode on N800

2009-03-06 Thread Ryan Abel
er "flashing mode" unless it's connected to USB)? If so, are you sure you have the right "Home" key (it's the one with the house on it)? -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@mae

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-06 Thread Ryan Abel
ser apps? There's one, I think, and that's "Map". Maybe you could make a case for Rhapsody, but everything else works just fine without additional effort. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mai

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-06 Thread Ryan Abel
On Mar 6, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Mark wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:48:26AM -0700, Mark wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Ryan Abel >>> wrote: >>>> On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Mark wr

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-05 Thread Ryan Abel
>> Marius Gedminas >> > > And *that* is the summary of the state of the tablets: they're *great* > for hackers, but as consumer end-user devices, not so much. And? This is exactly how Nokia's positioned them, so it sounds like th

Re: FYI - Gizmo (SIP) to Skype gateway

2009-02-20 Thread Ryan Abel
On Feb 20, 2009, at 5:14 AM, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > 2009/2/20 Ryan Abel : >> On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:57 PM, Wayne Fiori wrote: >> >>> Does Gizmo use less resources than Skype? Gizmo's sound quality was >>> considerably lower than Skype's back i

Re: FYI - Gizmo (SIP) to Skype gateway

2009-02-19 Thread Ryan Abel
On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:57 PM, Wayne Fiori wrote: > Does Gizmo use less resources than Skype? Gizmo's sound quality was > considerably lower than Skype's back in Gizmo v4 (PC). Is that still > the case? It does if you connect with rtcomm. . . . -- Ryan Abel Maemo Comm

Re: damaged power connecter

2009-02-19 Thread Ryan Abel
> > [citation needed] Let's make this even clearer. ;) No, no such option ever existed. The USB port is not wired up to charge the battery, so please don't spread lies. Thank you. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-use

Re: FYI - Gizmo (SIP) to Skype gateway

2009-02-19 Thread Ryan Abel
or real". > Gizom has video calling, while Skype did not last I tried. Well, the nice thing about Gizmo is that is uses free protocols (Jabber, SIP) so you can use any Jabber or SIP client to connect to its network (like rtcomm). Unlike Skype, which requires you to use their client (whi

Re: Facing Dilemma about N800/N810

2009-01-03 Thread Ryan Abel
- Original message - If I remember correctly Nokia talked about April 2009 for the release of Maemo 5. http://ovenordstrom.blogspot.com/2008/09/maemo-5-future-for-nokias-internet.html (blogspam?) You do not. Nokia has made no announcements about the next tablet.__

Re: What are the new features and improvements in the latest upgrade to OS2008?

2008-12-24 Thread Ryan Abel
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Tim Ashman wrote: > I took a look, and it is marked as Low or won't do. It is a shame since that > is a show stopper for me. I've been using the web interface on the tablet > but I now just have been ssh'ing to my home machine and running kmail > remotely to che

Re: What are the new features and improvements in the latest upgrade to OS2008?

2008-12-20 Thread Ryan Abel
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Gary wrote: > Thanks for the useful links -- they're much more detailed than the > Wikipedia entry on Maemo. I sometimes yearn for the days when one > could find such information solely on Usenet, mailing lists, or FTP > sites. > Well, having written most of the

Re: What are the new features and improvements in the latest upgrade to OS2008?

2008-12-19 Thread Ryan Abel
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:35 PM, John Holmblad wrote: > what is the url to the www page that documents the new features and > improvements that are contained in the latest upgrade to OS2008? I > cannot seem to find anything at the Nokia www site for OS2008. > There never having been one in the pa

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

2008-12-19 Thread Ryan Abel
Also, please don't unnecessarily cross-post. I know everybody thinks THEIR issue is so important that it requires spamming, but it's really not, so please send it only to the appropriate list. Which, in this case, is maemo-users. Thanks! :) ___ maemo-use

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

2008-12-19 Thread Ryan Abel
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Andrea Grandi wrote: > If you try to load Facebook.com website, the situation is even worse: > it takes about 85% CPU simply doing nothing. > Is it _actually_ doing nothing, or do you just _think_ it's doing nothing and, in fact, it's _actually_ running a ton of

Re: App-Manager failure

2008-11-29 Thread Ryan Abel
- Original message - Dave Neary wrote: > Sometimes, the server-side cache serves up an empty page > (it has some problems which have not been resolved), It's not Drupal is it? I ask because I've recently deployed a Drupal instance (PHP) that's a subsite of my company's main site (J2EE) a

Re: App-Manager failure

2008-11-28 Thread Ryan Abel
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Peter Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Small buglet: the page says "switch on your tablet while holding the > Home-button (N800)" but I couldn't find any documentation which referred > to a "home button". I guessed it referred to the middle button of the > upper r

Re: App-Manager failure

2008-11-24 Thread Ryan Abel
sn't actually market them. I've yet to see anybody convincingly back up the claim that a "bunch of Linux" is required to use the device "as advertised", but this argument seems to be made up mostly of emotion, and I've had it more times than I care to remember, so I'm quite certain I know what the result of this one will be. Feel free to prove me wrong, though. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: App-Manager failure

2008-11-24 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 24, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote: > "ext Ryan Abel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Didn't the Application manager log provide enough information? >>> >>> (And if not, what was missing from it and could you file a bug abo

Re: App-Manager failure

2008-11-24 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 24, 2008, at 8:37 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote: > Hi, > > ext Mark Haury wrote: >> Ryan Abel wrote: >>>> Yes, upgrade to Diablo, it has a much more useful Application >>>> Manager. :) >> >> ...and a bunch of other stuff is broken that p

Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-23 Thread Ryan Abel
gs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3788 Editing anonymously over https shouldn't present a problem. . . . -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Default PIM software

2008-11-23 Thread Ryan Abel
oted, primarily, for its god- awful js compatibility and performance. :) -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: App-Manager failure

2008-11-22 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 22, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Peter Flynn wrote: > Ryan Abel wrote: > >> Ignore trolls and upgrade. :) Seriously, you get a whole 70 extra >> megahertz for _free_, not to mention improvements pretty much >> _everywhere_. > > A lot depends on what the improvements a

Re: Default PIM software

2008-11-22 Thread Ryan Abel
lt of your blurting is usually threads exactly like this one. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: App-Manager failure

2008-11-22 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 22, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Mark Haury wrote: > Ryan Abel wrote: > >>> Yes, upgrade to Diablo, it has a much more useful Application >>> Manager. :) > > ...and a bunch of other stuff is broken that previously worked... "bunch of stuff" isn't

Re: App-Manager failure

2008-11-22 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 22, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Peter Flynn wrote: > Ryan Abel wrote: >> Yes, upgrade to Diablo, it has a much more useful Application >> Manager. :) > > I haven't got that far yet. Having avoided OS2008 on the information > on > most forums that it basically b

Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-22 Thread Ryan Abel
ize on Extras came from the community and maemo.org. Nokia was not involved. ;) -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Abel
are working fine, so we're down to two culprits something local to the user or one of the half-dozen other repositories I'm sure they're using. . . . > Even if a repository is gone or has > a problem, it should skip it and finish the refresh, with a message > that

Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 21, 2008, at 8:00 PM, sebastian maemo wrote: > 2008/11/22 Ryan Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Nobody's arguing that moving things to the maemo repositories is > bad, > > the issue is the process. > > The specific question was and still is th

Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Abel
is that one of them is gone for good. Actually, the Application Manager lies. Even though it says the old list is still being used, it actually means that the old list is still being used for the repositories that failed to refresh. The repositories that d

Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 21, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Ryan Abel wrote: > On Nov 21, 2008, at 6:24 PM > >> The descriptions are frequently insufficient to figure out what a >> package is or does. > > This is a packager issue, maemo.org has no control over how people > describe their packa

Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 21, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Mark wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ryan Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Clearly transitions like these can cause some short-term instability >> that makes things harder for specific individuals, but the overall >> effect for

Re: Aw: Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Abel
In fact, the first major fruits of those efforts went live just on Monday.[2] . . . and, no, the repositories are not similarly affected. repository.maemo.org has a massive akamai cache that keeps it running quickly. [1]https://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Fast_Server [2]http://bergie.iki.fi

Re: App-Manager failure (was: Re: Aw: Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Abel
ora Application Manager included logs, but you might poke around its menu a bit). -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Abel
ing FUD instead of looking at the facts: [1]https://wiki.maemo.org/Extras [2]https://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Reducing_number_of_external_repositories [3]https://wiki.maemo.org/Extras_repository_process_definition [4]https://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Consolidation_of_Extras -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair __

Re: Pb with Maemo wiki

2008-11-18 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 18, 2008, at 5:02 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Ryan Abel wrote: >> On Nov 18, 2008, at 4:16 AM, COURTAUD Didier wrote: >>> I tried to look at the new Package Categories that have been >>> announced >>> and for that I load >>>

Re: Pb with Maemo wiki

2008-11-18 Thread Ryan Abel
ing Firefox 3 on Red Hat Linux Reload and make sure you clear your cache. . . . (ctrl-shft-r) -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: What is the best app to read .doc or .ppt files on N810

2008-11-14 Thread Ryan Abel
t; removing features in order to lighten the load, then there's no point. > Complete compatibility and functionality is necessary, and incomplete > versions are more frustrating than useful. Such are the pitfalls of working with limited hardware. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council

Re: Connecting to the Internet via Bluetooth

2008-11-02 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 2, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Leonardo F. Fontenelle wrote: > Em Dom, 2008-11-02 às 18:27 -0500, Ryan Abel escreveu: >> >> Or how about the up-to-date version https://wiki.maemo.org/ >> Bluetooth_PAN ? >> >> Though I believe the dummy fixes are bundled with 36-5.

Re: Connecting to the Internet via Bluetooth

2008-11-02 Thread Ryan Abel
-to-date version https://wiki.maemo.org/ Bluetooth_PAN ? Though I believe the dummy fixes are bundled with 36-5. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

2008-11-01 Thread Ryan Abel
until we see what the hardware is capable of really. Considering the hardware is already doing 720p with only NEON optimizations, well. . . . -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lis

Re: Repeat quetion : Diablo update to OS2008HE ? (Was: Software Choices for New Nokia 770?)

2008-10-29 Thread Ryan Abel
his discussion has been had many times before, though, so I suggest anybody interested visit the mailing list archives. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Repeat quetion : Diablo update to OS2008HE ? (Was: Software Choices for New Nokia 770?)

2008-10-29 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 29, 2008, at 5:40 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > ext Ryan Abel wrote: >> Well, when Nokia is done with Diablo to the point that they wont even >> apply a simple patch like this[1], then I'd say future plans are >> pretty >> important. > > It's not that &

Re: Repeat quetion : Diablo update to OS2008HE ? (Was: Software Choices for New Nokia 770?)

2008-10-29 Thread Ryan Abel
ture plans are pretty important. [1]https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3470 -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Repeat quetion : Diablo update to OS2008HE ? (Was: Software Choices for New Nokia 770?)

2008-10-28 Thread Ryan Abel
said, I'm fairly certain Nokia doesn't even know for certain whether Fremantle will be supported on the OMAP2 generation yet. Let's wait until it's decided one way or the other before we start throwing stones. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Repeat quetion : Diablo update to OS2008HE ? (Was: Software Choices for New Nokia 770?)

2008-10-28 Thread Ryan Abel
tells me it's a city in Australia, which seems not relevant. Your google-fu is very weak. The first four results are all relevant: http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&q=fremantle+maemo -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___

Re: Repeat quetion : Diablo update to OS2008HE ? (Was: Software Choices for New Nokia 770?)

2008-10-28 Thread Ryan Abel
hey had lots of choices for hardware at every stage of the > tablet game, and if they didn't start out with something more cutting > edge, that's their problem, and shouldn't be ours. So, using one of the fastest ARM SoCs at the time of release doesn't count as usi

Re: Software Choices for New Nokia 770?

2008-10-27 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 27, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Urivan Saaib wrote: > I've been playing with Diablo on my n770 for several months. It has > been > fairly stable. No, you've been playing with Chinook. Diablo is not available for the 770. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Comm

Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

2008-10-26 Thread Ryan Abel
What about something like powerlaunch? Music playback is a pretty common use case, and having to take the tablet out of your pocket to change the volume or the song is a pain. Some hooks into dsme/mce so you can issue commands with the screen turned off would be a nice feature. -- Ryan

Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

2008-10-23 Thread Ryan Abel
t; than both hardware and OS/software. Archos is a bad example. I doubt they'd ever be interested in anything than their own proprietary, accessory peddling mess. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-21 Thread Ryan Abel
aScript improvement, not necessarily a general performance improvement. Fennec is only faster because it is based on a newer version of Firefox. MicroB will get faster, too (it already has over the past two SSU updates), as it comes inline with Firefox trunk. -- Ryan Abel Maemo

Re: Filesystem in Diablo

2008-10-20 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 20, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Christer Eliasson wrote: > Where is my "Documents" folder? /home/user/MyDocs/.documents[1] [1]http://wiki.maemo.org/MyDocs_folder -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing lis

Re: disk space running short on /

2008-10-20 Thread Ryan Abel
dure), and, perhaps, a cloning wizard, then things would be much simpler. [1]http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3745 [2]http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_Community_distribution -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list

Re: disk space running short on /

2008-10-20 Thread Ryan Abel
e to the conclusion that it wasn't worth the time and effort (and suffering for their support staff) for their average user's use-case. Clear enough? -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-use

Re: MicroB about:config Awesome Bar

2008-10-20 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 20, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Denis Dimick wrote: > Maybe I'm confusing it with the lower bar that lists words you can > pick from when your typing in a URL. Which is a global feature completely unrelated to MicroB. Toggle it in input setting in the control panel. -- Ryan

Re: disk space running short on /

2008-10-20 Thread Ryan Abel
ssu > update > shows up in app manager, until whoever do those alternate boot > systems can > get back up to speed. Personally, I'm hoping the N900 ships with a NAND-free 256MB RAM PoP and moves the OS to a big eMMC (2-32GB). Problems solved. -- Ryan Ab

Re: disk space running short on /

2008-10-20 Thread Ryan Abel
it, then bad things, but if the tablet is powered off, and you're using a machine that can recognize ext2/3, then you just copy as usual. Both tablets have two mass storage devices (the N810's just happens to be soldered on), so use one SD as a permanent boot device, and the other fo

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-20 Thread Ryan Abel
yboard, it changed the behavior of MicroB and > made it useless as well. Were you a responsible tester? Did you file a bug?[1] Or do you just expect devs to fix things even when they don't know there's a problem? [1]http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ -- Ryan

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-20 Thread Ryan Abel
perhaps the Mozilla team is clueless about the platform? Nah, the guys working on Fennec aren't clueless, they just don't have unlimited free time, so getting it working with a device that has a hardware keyboard to make their job easier was probably a priority. ;) -- Ryan Abel

Re: disk space running short on /

2008-10-20 Thread Ryan Abel
the system over multiple partitions"- methods (it also provides you with a bootable backup). -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: disk space running short on /

2008-10-20 Thread Ryan Abel
g_from_a_flash_card -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: A Race between the IPhone and the Nokia IT WE

2008-10-18 Thread Ryan Abel
s the newest "vintage" has the upper hand. Considering that the OMAP3 in the Archos 5 has easily 2-3x the performance of the OMAP2420 in our tablets, yes, the differences illustrated here are certainly CPU-bound. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___

Re: A Race between the IPhone and the Nokia IT WE

2008-10-18 Thread Ryan Abel
2008/10/website-load-ti.html It should be noted that what this comes down to, really, is a CPU speed comparison and not a useful browser comparison. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-07 Thread Ryan Abel
er concern though... Honestly, if your system is that broken, Application manager isn't going to help you much. Better to say yourself the frustration and just reflash. . . . -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-06 Thread Ryan Abel
to get yourself in trouble. You don't need it and you don't want it, so don't use it. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: S6 benq

2008-10-05 Thread Ryan Abel
ic, again? [1]http://lists.maemo.org/mailman//listinfo/maemo-users -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: S6 benq

2008-10-03 Thread Ryan Abel
ash: SHA1 > >Hy all, > > I juste discover the last Internet device from BenQ : > http://benq.com/products/MobileInternetDevice/?product=1402&page=specifications > > Atom powered with 512M of RAM, and it run with Midinux ... > > what do you think about it ? Plea

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-03 Thread Ryan Abel
uot; when installing this update. I can't explain it myself. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

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

2008-10-01 Thread Ryan Abel
there's no public images available for RX-48. The RX-34 and RX-44 images don't have the stuff needed for the RX-48, so getting them running on the RX-48 isn't going to be an option like it was for the RX-34 back in November with the RX-48 image. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community

Re: Flash player conflict stopping the feature update

2008-09-30 Thread Ryan Abel
on't know if that would work, but > this > is a "heads up" to those who, like me, did the same to get Flash to > work > with Youtube and Myspace etc. Just uninstall the package from Application manager and all will be well. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council cha

Re: Which *class* of SDHC card to get?

2008-09-27 Thread Ryan Abel
bably be quite affordable. SDHC specifies up to 32GB, but the hardware tops out at 2048GB. I'm not sure why it's at 32GB at the moment, but it certainly wont require hardware changes (and shouldn't require software changes as far as I can guess). By the way

Re: UI Questions

2008-09-27 Thread Ryan Abel
On Sep 27, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Eric Warnke wrote: > It's in garage. > > https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/?root=browser That's old. tablet-browser-ui is indeed closed. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Ryan Abel
On Sep 26, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote: > ext Andrew Flegg wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Ryan Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There is a project to combine the Bluetooth and WiFi applets into a >>> single applet (an "Advanced

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Ryan Abel
th and WiFi applets into a single applet (an "Advanced Connectivity" of sorts), but it hasn't really gotten off the ground lacking anybody with real knowledge of libconic and the connectivity interfaces, and, unfortunately, because both applets are closed there are no examples

Re: Which *class* of SDHC card to get?

2008-09-22 Thread Ryan Abel
ass 4. I have no clue > if class 2 > would be to slow or class 6 would be a significant boost, but cannot > complain > about my class 4 card. Class 6. All the decent cards are cheap these days, anyway. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair _

Re: N800 RIP?

2008-09-19 Thread Ryan Abel
ntinued or not. > In fact, it's still available from Nokia UK's shopping site. > > I asked Nokia repeatedly, they wouldn't answer me. Nokia doesn't announce discontinuations. They just sort of slowly stop selling them and don't tell anybody. -- Ryan Abel Maemo C

Re: N800 RIP?

2008-09-19 Thread Ryan Abel
On Sep 19, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Denis Dimick wrote: > The n800 has been discontinued, about a year ago. You may find one > on e-bay, or just pick up the n810. Er, year? The N810 hasn't even been _out_ a year. More like 4-6 months. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Co

Re: reseting my Nokia 770 back to factory

2008-09-17 Thread Ryan Abel
On Sep 17, 2008, at 1:42 AM, Justin Slootsky wrote: > How do I reset my Nokia 770 back to "as delivered" ?? http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-users mailing lis

Re: n810 and Active X

2008-09-11 Thread Ryan Abel
#x27;s a proprietary Microsoft technology; I'm not aware of even >> how >> you'd *begin* to attempt to bring ActiveX controls to the N810. > > using Wine, maybe? You are aware that Wine is x86-only, right? -- Ryan Abel maemo.org Community Council member

Re: run application on maemo (Nokia 770)

2008-09-11 Thread Ryan Abel
s (reduced battery life, potentially, being one of them). Installing a package is both simpler and safer. ;) -- Ryan Abel maemo.org Community Council member ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: run application on maemo (Nokia 770)

2008-09-11 Thread Ryan Abel
On Sep 11, 2008, at 5:30 AM, Michael Stepanov wrote: > If you activate R&D mode (using flasher, for example: > > sudo ./flasher-3.0 --enable-rd-mode -R > > ) you can use a command > > sudo gainroot > > To get root privileges. R&D mode is the wrong way to go about getting root access. Install bec

Re: Diablo's Modest/Email

2008-09-10 Thread Ryan Abel
On Sep 10, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Mark wrote: > Once again, nice theory, but very far from reality. In reality, *very* > few open source products approach anything like the reliability, > usability, versatility or feature set of their commercial competition. > Yes, a few projects beat their commercial r

Re: Diablo's Modest/Email

2008-09-08 Thread Ryan Abel
On Sep 8, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > I just wanted to write that I don't think Andre Klapper wanted to be > rude and force others to follow his own ideas. > I might be wrong, of course, but having followed his work on Maemo as > bugmaster and having read several of his mails, I

Re: Opera Mini for maemo?

2008-08-22 Thread Ryan Abel
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eugene Antimirov wrote: >> May be there are some other(free) web page >> sanitizing proxies? >> > I'm not sure if this still works but one used to be able to go to > m.google.com, search for a site by FQDN, then view the page(s) san

Re: Removing excess packages after Diablo upgrade

2008-08-20 Thread Ryan Abel
- Original message - > "ext R. G. Newbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > These along with many other packages (chinese-font, clink-av0, gnuchess > > for example) are listed as dependencies/requirements of 'OS2008 feature > > upgrade 1:4.2008.23-14'. > > > > Is there any way to remove t

Re: Aw: Re: Not able to install modest (and other applications) again

2008-08-15 Thread Ryan Abel
> But your hint is good. Is there a history of the nokia repositories used for > upgrades? > Well, uh, diablo/ is the upgrade path for 23-14 and diablo-1/ for 30-2. Other than that, no other updates have been pushed via the repo. I do wonder why Nokia though it would be a better idea to have a r

Re: Not able to install modest (and other applications) again

2008-08-14 Thread Ryan Abel
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Uwe Kaminski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But i can't browse trough the Nokia system catalogue: > http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com/updates/diablo-1/ Well, you can probably get all the packages you need back by adding http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com/update

Re: Out of memory for updates on N810

2008-08-14 Thread Ryan Abel
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Christer Eliasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So there is no possibility to mount the internal flashcard as a /home/user > on the N810 ? > Or even move the /usr to a external flashcard ? > Well, you COULD, but it's a stupid idea. > Would be a nice hack todo enabl

Re: Out of memory for updates on N810

2008-08-14 Thread Ryan Abel
- Original message - > I am trying to install several updates but I get a message that I don't > have enough memory. One of the updates is an OS2008 update. Do I have > any options other than removing apps to free up space? Is there any way > to store apps in the internal memory or an exte

Re: Anonymous wiki edits: disable NOW (please)

2008-08-10 Thread Ryan Abel
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Andrew Flegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The spam problem can be solved using a captcha. Well, here we are almost over a month and a half later still with no real solution and still with just a few people fighting the spam. As https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?

Re: browser/browserd combo unpredictable and unreliable behaviour

2008-07-27 Thread Ryan Abel
- Original message - > This was meant to be a bug report, but since the bugtracker is > following the fate of the repositories (i.e. it's currently borked) > here it goes. > > SOFTWARE VERSION: > 4.2008.23-14 > > > The new combo browser/browserd is very unreliable. Things that happened to

Re: Counting SD ram

2008-07-26 Thread Ryan Abel
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:38 PM, ScottW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I keep seeing people saying they have 2 8gig SD chips in their n810, yet I > only see a slot for 1. Where does the 2nd one go? That'd be an N800. The N810's internal card is a permanent 2GB. ___

Re: How to get Rotation in Advanced Backlight?

2008-07-24 Thread Ryan Abel
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does the rotation function in Advanced Backlight depend on something >> else being installed? The screenshot shows the setting and the >> description mentions it, b

Re: Installing wget on Os2008/Diablo

2008-07-24 Thread Ryan Abel
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Matt Emson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.) > becomeroot is deprecated. rootsh should be used instead, as it is avai

Re: How to get Rotation in Advanced Backlight?

2008-07-23 Thread Ryan Abel
- Original message - > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does the rotation function in Advanced Backlight depend on something > > else being installed? The screenshot shows the setting and the > > description mentions it, but it doesn't have that option o

Re: Dialblo vs. Chinock vs. OS2008

2008-07-22 Thread Ryan Abel
On 7/22/08, tj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am befuddled and confused by all of these names. I have OS2008 loaded > on my N800, so > What is Diablo? > What is Chinook? > Nokia's codenames are no different from Apple's big cats. Except Nokia uses winds. ___

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