Re: How to send an ESC

2009-03-23 Thread kenneth marken
Marius Gedminas wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 06:34:06PM +0100, kenneth marken wrote: Lillebjorn Nilsen wrote: I am working with Google Docs online from n810. And want return from (Google's) full screen. How can I send an ESC from the keyboard? that funny arrow button on the edge

Re: gpe Calendar

2009-03-16 Thread kenneth marken
OgnenD wrote: On Friday 13 March 2009 19:12:27 Florian Boor wrote: OgnenD schrieb: Can you spell unfinished software? Why do I need two pieces of software to run one calendar? Blah. You are not used to the Unix way of application design, right? ;-) I am but then again Unix was mostly

Re: Ihpone on Steroids to IT G5?

2009-03-13 Thread kenneth marken
John Holmblad wrote: Kevin, agreed. A more indepth discussion with some of those other users would have provided the opportunity to reveal that value associated with a Linux based mobile device. Now I have to wonder, does the iphone OS support multitasking?Is it a stripped down

Re: Unix vs Windows security (was Re: Nokia device usage)

2009-03-13 Thread kenneth marken
James Knott wrote: George Farris wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 22:15 -0600, Mark Haury wrote: James Knott wrote: Windows doesn't need (never has, and never will) to have the capability for simultaneous users. What would be the point? As PCs continue to shrink in size as they increase

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-09 Thread kenneth marken
Alejandro López wrote: Eero Tamminen wrote: As this thread is Nokia device usage, what you would use the Skype video for? :-) Mainly to communicate with my family when on business travel, but also to put in touch my kids (2 and 4 year old) and their grand mother (11000 km away) without

Re: N8xx ponderings

2009-03-09 Thread kenneth marken
lakestevensdental wrote: kenneth marken wrote: lakestevensdental wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:28 PM, kenneth marken kemar...@broadpark.no wrote: iirc, when first launched the linux variant was the lowest spec-ed one, and the windows variants both came with rebates that made them

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-09 Thread kenneth marken
lakestevensdental wrote: Fernando Cassia wrote: A couple points: 1. Apple makes proprietary, closed solutions. Try to reverse engineer Apple´s firmware for compatibility reasons and you´ll see Apple lawyers coming to get you. They've found there's a broad end-user market for stuff that

Re: N8xx ponderings

2009-03-09 Thread kenneth marken
Mark wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:57 PM, kenneth marken kemar...@broadpark.no wrote: more likely that said computer would be returned for a refund. that is, if it was not bought with XP in the first place... Yeah, good luck with that. None of the stores I know would take back that kind

Re: N8xx ponderings

2009-03-09 Thread kenneth marken
Mark wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:04 PM, kenneth marken kemar...@broadpark.no wrote: Mark wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:57 PM, kenneth marken kemar...@broadpark.no wrote: more likely that said computer would be returned for a refund. that is, if it was not bought with XP in the first

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-08 Thread kenneth marken
Andrew Flegg wrote: On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Jean-Christian de Rivaz j...@eclis.ch wrote: I don't understand why the next tablet will not be able to make regular phone call, since it will have 3G link. It's a non sense. You seem awfully sure about the features of a device which has

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-08 Thread kenneth marken
John Holmblad wrote: Andrew, yes, I am being overly presumptuous as to what kind of radio technology will and will not be in the next turn of the IT hardware. I must have read it somewhere that it was going to be HSDPA only. HSDPA do not result in data only, as HSDPA only builds on

Re: N8xx ponderings

2009-03-07 Thread kenneth marken
lakestevensdental wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:28 PM, kenneth marken kemar...@broadpark.no wrote: iirc, when first launched the linux variant was the lowest spec-ed one, and the windows variants both came with rebates that made them as cheap or cheaper then the start out config

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-07 Thread kenneth marken
Matt Emson wrote: See online reply. Sent from my iPhone On 7 Mar 2009, at 02:08, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:37 PM, John Holmblad jholmb...@acadiasecurenets.com wrote: I for one would like to see Apple acquire Nokia. That would be a great

Re: Nokia device usage

2009-03-07 Thread kenneth marken
hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 01:06:58PM +, Matt Emson wrote: 3. Apple does not support Free Software in general (if you know any Apple software released under the GNU GPL Free Software license, let me know) that puts it at odds with the N8xx tablets Linux OS

Re: N8xx ponderings

2009-03-06 Thread kenneth marken
Fernando Cassia wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:21 PM, lakestevensdental lakestevensden...@verizon.net wrote: After using a variety of small internet communication/computing devices, (n800, n810, netbook-eee PC on Xandros, Ubuntu and now XP, plus and Ipod Touch), I've come to some conclusions

Re: N8xx ponderings

2009-03-06 Thread kenneth marken
Ognen Duzlevski wrote: the only company that has given linux a fair chance in all this is asus, and they have the worst linux distro in use... Luckily, Ubuntu runs on Eee. while true, people will give xandros a spin, find it a nightmare and then return the whole eeepc for the windows

Re: N8xx ponderings

2009-03-06 Thread kenneth marken
Cedric Cellier wrote: funny then how more and more of the companies are dropping linux... I start to wonder if all these Asus/Acer/etc don't ship a Linux version first to obtain better OEM deal with microsoft later :-) would not be the first time, it also made microsoft keep xp alive longer

Re: N8xx ponderings

2009-03-06 Thread kenneth marken
Fernando Cassia wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:28 PM, kenneth marken kemar...@broadpark.no wrote: iirc, when first launched the linux variant was the lowest spec-ed one, and the windows variants both came with rebates that made them as cheap or cheaper then the start out config of the linux

Re: Facing Dilemma about N800/N810

2009-01-03 Thread kenneth marken
David Hagood wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 08:06 -0800, Tim Ashman wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2009 06:28:07 am Ryan Abel wrote: I ended up purchasing a replacement screen from mytrendyphone. Looks like an overseas (in in usa) company so I'll be interested to see how long it takes.

Re: N*x0 app similar to Splashshopper?

2009-01-03 Thread kenneth marken
Denis Dimick wrote: I use MultiList all the time, it's nice that you can enter lists for different stores, helps me remember things I need at the Hardware store, now if I just remember to take my wallet. ;) Denis or just wait for nokia to launch a tablet with NFC credit card ability... On

Re: Itouch v N8x0

2008-12-23 Thread kenneth marken
Mark wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Matt Emson mem...@interalpha.co.uk wrote: 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

Re: Itouch v N8x0

2008-12-22 Thread kenneth marken
Mark wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:47 AM, hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:19:17PM -0600, Mark wrote: I've been using my N800 tethered to my basic but bluetooth-enabled phone for Internet access on the go, and I can do a heck of a lot of stuff the iPhone

Re: Itouch v N8x0

2008-12-22 Thread kenneth marken
lakestevensdental wrote: Rick Bilonick wrote: I could not agree more! I wouldn't buy a car from a manufacturer that forced me to buy batteries, tires, service, etc. from it. Actually, the Apple app store is full of software from a variety of sources -- many free, many not. Like

Re: Itouch v N8x0

2008-12-21 Thread kenneth marken
Lake Stevens Dental wrote: Matt Emson 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

Re: Limited life of flash memory

2008-12-01 Thread kenneth marken
On Monday 01 December 2008 23:35:24 Sirio Negri wrote: Hi all! I found some days ago a few articles about the limited life of flash memory, specially for usb pendrive. The problem seems to be the limited times you can write on it. Does it exist also for rs-mmc? I know that the limit is very

Re: Default PIM software

2008-11-24 Thread kenneth marken
On Monday 24 November 2008 10:59:08 Michael Flaig wrote: Hi Quim, On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 08:11 +0200, Quim Gil wrote: As Quim's asked before - what are you using to define PIM? The only PIMish apps which ship with Maemo are Contacts and, arguably, Email. Acronyms and definitions apart,

Re: disk space running short on /

2008-10-20 Thread kenneth marken
On Monday 20 October 2008 19:23:01 James Knott wrote: Laurent GUERBY wrote: Hi, I'm running short of space on / (10 MB free) on my diablo N810 so I have to uninstall some apps to be able to install new apps (which otherwise fail leaving the system in an unknown state, not good). Is

Re: disk space running short on /

2008-10-20 Thread kenneth marken
On Monday 20 October 2008 21:17:44 Ryan Abel wrote: On Oct 20, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Denis Dimick wrote: Say someone does boot from SD, what happens when they remove the SD card to copy data over to it; I've run into a bug that causes scp to die/hang when copying large (AVI) files over

Re: MicroB about:config Awesome Bar

2008-10-20 Thread kenneth marken
On Monday 20 October 2008 21:35:05 Denis Dimick wrote: Anyone know of a way to disable the Awesome Bar in MicroB? I find it annoying when I start to type in a URL and it suggests words I've never entered. Thanks, Denis err, when did microb get the awsomebar ported?

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

2008-10-11 Thread kenneth marken
On Saturday 11 October 2008 12:43:06 John Holmblad wrote: All, fyi. Yesterday I found this news clip from Cnet concerning the Sprint XOHM Wimax launch and it features cameos of the N810 including an showdown between it and the Iphone (download speeds over XOHM on the one hand and ATT HSDPA

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-07 Thread kenneth marken
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 16:24:35 Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: True. Perhaps we (as a community) should try pushing this message more: red-pill mode is intended as a rescue environment in the event of b0rkage; not for every day use (even by power

Re: Which SDHC is which when using backup.

2008-10-06 Thread kenneth marken
On Monday 06 October 2008 13:25:29 Marius Vollmer wrote: Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ext Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I ask -- which is which? They should have different icons... the one where only the upper right quarter of the card is exposed is the internal

Re: Removing paired phones from Diablo

2008-10-04 Thread kenneth marken
On Saturday 04 October 2008 23:08:28 Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, I did not find any way to remove paired phones from the maemo phone control application. I am just wondering, if I just did not find it, if it is an intentional feature or a design problem. If it turns out to be a design

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread kenneth marken
On Friday 26 September 2008 00:01:00 Mark wrote: Wonderful... yet another wontfix response to usability issues... One problem is that putting the device in offline mode disables bluetooth, but taking it out of offline mode usually doesn't re-enable bluetooth (at least 75% of the time on my

Re: N800 and Centro - solved

2008-09-25 Thread kenneth marken
On Thursday 25 September 2008 19:15:52 Fernando Cassia wrote: 6. That is apparently the ONLY way to invoke the Mobile Operator Wizard run in the N800 OS. 7. If you start from Connection Manager, there's no way I could fnd to fire the Mobile Operator Wizard. BZZT Wrong!, that's why I ended up

Re: N800 and Centro - solved

2008-09-25 Thread kenneth marken
On Thursday 25 September 2008 19:31:39 kenneth marken wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2008 19:15:52 Fernando Cassia wrote: 6. That is apparently the ONLY way to invoke the Mobile Operator Wizard run in the N800 OS. 7. If you start from Connection Manager, there's no way I could fnd

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-25 Thread kenneth marken
On Thursday 25 September 2008 19:48:58 Fernando Cassia wrote: What is the reason for the Bluetooth icon to disappear when bluetooth is disabled? Is there any tweak/hack to make it REMAIN THERE? I want one-click access to turn Bluetooth on and off. there is a package (either on extra or

Re: Diablo's Modest/Email

2008-09-08 Thread kenneth marken
On Monday 08 September 2008 16:58:06 Matt Emson wrote: 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

Re: Diablo's Modest/Email

2008-09-08 Thread kenneth marken
On Monday 08 September 2008 22:01:36 Gary wrote: Mark wrote: Um, no, maybe it's one of those ugly hacks, but viewing just the headers is possible with POP3. Also, telneting to pine gives the equivalent functionality *without* any hacks. Perhaps with some mail clients but it's not part of

Re: Opera Mini for maemo?

2008-08-23 Thread kenneth marken
On Saturday 23 August 2008 01:16:04 Ryan Abel wrote: 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,