RE: atomic clock / radio-receiver chip

2008-06-01 Thread Tim Newsom
I have one (or something equivalent) in my watch (Casio Pathfinder Wave Ceptor). It synchronizes the time of my watch every night at midnight. /shrug --Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cdr Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 11:26 AM To:

RE: .Mac like service

2008-04-29 Thread Tim Newsom
-Original Message- From: Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:29 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: .Mac like service /snip alternatively, an application to sit on my pc and do all this stuff locally would

RE: Loosing your moko

2008-04-09 Thread Tim Newsom
-Original Message- From: David Pottage [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 8:15 AM To: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: Loosing your moko On Wed, April 9, 2008 2:39 pm, Sebastian Billaudelle wrote: Yes, i think a normal

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-26 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 8:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I'm concerned, this should have ended last week. The original question asked was why continue with OpenMoko development when Qtopia is available, faster, more complete and stable?. It was debated and some pretty conclusive reasons

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-08-26 Thread Tim Newsom
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 9:36, Lars Hallberg wrote: Josef Wolf skrev: [ I warm-up this old thread again... ] On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:02:31AM +0200, Lars Hallberg wrote: a mock-up on a 90-key by one stroke finger keyboard. Think this might be an usable and pretty efficient input method.

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-08-26 Thread Tim Newsom
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:35, Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote: On 20:15:37 2007-08-26 Edwin Lock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you have to get used to it every time again? doesn't seem like a very good idea. My experience is that people like to get used to things and do them like the got used

another linux platform platform

2007-07-26 Thread Tim Newsom
I just noticed this: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5539544742.html They claim to have many of the features we have talked about on the list... however, I am wondering about the pending patent related to placing security in the bootloader for signature checking of a boot image. Does anyone

Re: Data Link Disable Capability?

2007-07-26 Thread Tim Newsom
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:32, Giles Jones wrote: Anything and everything is possible. Obviously, you mean this withing the realm of programming openmoko. Otherwise, its a very broad and bold statement. /grin --Tim ___ OpenMoko community mailing

Re: whee!

2007-07-26 Thread Tim Newsom
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:06, Mark Eichin wrote: Ok, now I feel stupid. Guess you get to call me a muppet after all :-} The batteries and cards were all wrapped together in one of the foam cutouts. I don't know how I missed it this morning, when I got home I went through every compartment to

Re: another linux platform platform

2007-07-26 Thread Tim Newsom
Err... That was supposed to br linux phone platform... On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 8:35, Tim Newsom wrote: I just noticed this: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5539544742.html They claim to have many of the features we have talked about on the list... however, I am wondering about the pending

Re: Camera on GTA02

2007-07-23 Thread Tim Newsom
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:27, coomac wrote: Rather than alienate one group over the other, why not have something for both? A non camera version for those who don't need the feature as well as a camera version with the exact same specs for those who can't live without it? I mean, why have a

Re: projects of interest? - mebot

2007-07-18 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:27, Jeff Andros wrote: On 7/18/07, Tim Newsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip You could expand this a little and possibly select items from multiple location lists and then select Find the shortest route to complete all tasks snip --Tim just don't expect it to do so

Re: ringtones?

2007-07-18 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:02, Jeff Andros wrote: I haven't used a mac other than casually (checking email) since os9... so I'm not so up on growl.  I'd like basically arbitrary code execution, but with some (read LOTS) of protection on how that gets registered (can't let Sean's dad install

Re: Fwd: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Tim Newsom
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:28, Daniel Bartholomew wrote: Well, since Apple has gone iThis and iThat with everything and dropped their use of PowerThis and PowerThat, why not co-opt that? How would you like a PowerPhone? -- Daniel Bartholomew Well, in a similar vein (throwing in my own silly

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Tim Newsom
OK.. Great minds think alike... Or maybe not. /grin On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:11, Shawn Rutledge wrote: How about simply the youPhone, or uPhone? On 7/16/07, Ian Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I completely agree. My idea is to make two advertisment campains: one on maisntream media: maybe

Re: Charging the NEO1973

2007-07-12 Thread Tim Newsom
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 9:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or hack a USB socket onto one of the many discarded 5V chargers you have lying around. If your house is like mine, they seem to show up out of nowhere. Michael So that's what happens to all of the 5v chargers I place in the drying

Re: Linux

2007-07-08 Thread Tim Newsom
Um... Japan does have GSM service... I am positive as I recently had guests in my house from japan. They brought their cell phones and I showed them how to make them work in the US. As far as I know... Granted, making them work in the us meant dropping the 3g and switching to GSM service...

Re: Location Privacy Protocols, was Re: GPS trail - crazy idea

2007-07-06 Thread Tim Newsom
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:25, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Another good reason from an open-source product. Maybe there is a vast untapped market for selling open-source phones to the governments of the world (to protect them from the other governments of the word. ;-)) -wolfgang Except that as

Re: An alternative gaming top case

2007-07-03 Thread Tim Newsom
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 4:01, Robin Paulson wrote: excuse my ignorance, but do you mean a 3d scanner as in a device for measuring a 3d object? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_scanner if you do, and have a Neo, that would be awesome. any chance of using it to produce an electronic model of the

Custom case designs...

2007-07-03 Thread Tim Newsom
I have been thinking a little more about this and I struck upon an idea... What if you could buy a custom case with a custom message on it. I am not talking about painted messages but letters and shapes cast into the plastic shell. Raised, sunk, custom fonts etc. Naturally we can't just

Re: Custom case designs...

2007-07-03 Thread Tim Newsom
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 8:59, no_use wrote: these are exactly the reactions i got from my friends.. specially as the mainbord seems rectangular, i wouldn't like to see it with this rounded top and bottom.. ..and all i want is 3G.. :( So add case design ideas to the wiki where previously noted.

Re: community Digest, Vol 34, Issue 17

2007-07-03 Thread Tim Newsom
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 9:50, Michael Sersen wrote: About custom case design for the Neo and beyond; I am very interested in this idea. I have a cnc router at my disposal and can make custom parts from materials such as Corian and exotic hardwoods and some soft metals. I'd love to see some spec's,

Re: Custom case designs...

2007-07-03 Thread Tim Newsom
There are several types of clear plastic which could be used to fulfill this idea.. Both as plastic injection and liquid casting material. --Tim On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 9:50, Shakthi Kannan wrote: Hi, On 7/3/07, Ben Burdette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Case modding for phones, cool. Maybe we

Re: Custom case designs...

2007-07-03 Thread Tim Newsom
That's not necessarily true.. Look at plastic bottles. Clear soda bottles are fairly strong and not nearly as brittle as some other clear plastics. Plus, that plastic is useful as injection material. Plus, if it were cheap enough to get new cases, most people would not care if they dropped

Re: Come see OpenMoko at Ubuntu Live

2007-07-03 Thread Tim Newsom
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:24, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Dear Community, Michael Shiloh has volunteered to setup a booth at Ubuntu Live (http://www.ubuntulive.com) July 22 to 24 in Portland, Oregon. He'll be demoing and talking about both the platform and the Neo. If you're in town, please stop by!

Re: Custom case designs... (the business perspective)

2007-07-03 Thread Tim Newsom
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:56, Matthew S. Hamrick wrote: Also.. to follow up on what Adrian recently said.. The tech shop also has a CNC milling machine. I'm no expert, but I believe that the idea is that you put a CAD file in one side and take out a completed part out the other. So... if you

Re: Custom case designs... (the business perspective)

2007-07-03 Thread Tim Newsom
Note... I did ask about permission and we were told to wait on discussing with official personel till phase 2 of the phone. So scanning the actual case and building a knockoff would (in my opinion and until I am corrected by FIC / Sean or other person with some authority) be a violation of

Re: An alternative gaming top case

2007-07-02 Thread Tim Newsom
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:39, Robin Paulson wrote: I have added a sub-section to the Neo1973 hardware section of the wiki, concerning alternate cases. there are a few ideas as starters, including one with a d-pad and a steampunk design. Anyone with any other ideas/more info to flesh out what i've

Re: An alternative gaming top case

2007-07-01 Thread Tim Newsom
Sean, Supposing some company decided to provide alternate case designs or add on products for the neo1973, who do they need to talk to about branding / authorization to sell them to the public? OR Is it possible that FIC or the OpenMoko company will have a section on their sales page

Re:Graphics Accelerator needs matching joystick and keys

2007-06-29 Thread Tim Newsom
There's also the possibility of adding some kind of attachment to a specially designed battery or backpack which could add this ability by interfacing with the I2C or SPI ports available. --Tim On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:43, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Kenshin writes: I think there is a huge benefict

Re: Graphics Accelerator needs matching joystick and keys

2007-06-29 Thread Tim Newsom
Hehe, I know that.. I was mentioning it for the benefit of the previous person who was asking about joysticks. --Tim On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:22, Steven ** wrote: Someone has already mentioned on this list about using the Wii Nunchuck.  Apparently it will connect to the I2C fairly easily. 

Re: An introduction

2007-06-27 Thread Tim Newsom
.. Does that make any sense? --Tim On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 5:49, Vladimir Giszpenc wrote: On 6/27/07, Tim Newsom wrote: This could provide the xaml parser for use in an interface design some of us have spoken about. Separating the interface from the actual code that processes the events... Or that's

Re: An introduction

2007-06-26 Thread Tim Newsom
This could provide the xaml parser for use in an interface design some of us have spoken about. Separating the interface from the actual code that processes the events... Or that's how I understand it. Its a truely awesome development. --Tim On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:58, Vladimir Giszpenc wrote:

Re: Let's play...

2007-06-19 Thread Tim Newsom
OR... They could have it being developed on an internal developer machine and not go live till they are ready. On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Guess the OpenMoko Web Store URL! Sooner or later, they have to start selling. But from where? webstore.openmoko.org??

Re: Let's play...

2007-06-19 Thread Tim Newsom
Oh... And the neo1973 will probably be sold at some FIC site ... I mean... OpenMoko is not just for the neo1973 and they are only related because OpenMoko can run on the neo1973. Indeed, suns new java phone os and probably windows mobile will also run on the device. Plus, since its an FIC

Re: Open Moko Themes

2007-06-13 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 4:52, Buddy wrote: On 6/13/07, Emre Turkay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/12/07, Tim Newsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is where XAML or XUL are particularly suited. The idea is that the UI will be mostly svg commands or in some cases images.. But rendered completely

Re: Open Moko Themes

2007-06-13 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 7:08, Emre Turkay wrote: On 6/13/07, Peter A Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the application is then used on a different form factor device you can simply produce a new SVG file. All the UI script and images are linked to the SVG. This also gives us a nice separation

Re: Open Moko Themes

2007-06-13 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:15, John Seghers wrote: Tim Newsom wrote As I understand it, you would not even need to build a different svg file. You could use the same one and it could automatically scale because the engine would scale it.. It should be possible (in my mind) to take a layout

Re: Open Moko Themes

2007-06-12 Thread Tim Newsom
This is where XAML or XUL are particularly suited. The idea is that the UI will be mostly svg commands or in some cases images.. But rendered completely by the engine. Look up what you get for using it and you will see what I am talking about. There is work to be done getting XAML to

Re: standard API for linux phones?

2007-06-11 Thread Tim Newsom
From what I read, the LIPS group is creating an 'open' standard. The impression I got from that was the other phone standards group was 'closed' whatever that means. If we are going to back a group, maybe FIC should join it and help in the development process of the standard. None of the

Re: Web-based GUI technology for OpenMoko

2007-06-11 Thread Tim Newsom
. Separating the interface allows us to experiment with a number of different interface technologies. And the only thing the experimenters need to know is the semantics and syntax of the XML interface. -Cheers! -Matt H. On Jun 11, 2007, at 9:18 AM, Tim Newsom wrote: If we are heading in the direction

Yet another contender in the market?

2007-06-07 Thread Tim Newsom
Has anyone else seen the samsung F700? Its features are pretty nice... No idea on the OS but I would definitly take one over an IPhone... If it performs anything like it looks... Hehe. Its got very good specs. --Tim ___ OpenMoko community mailing

Re: Yet another contender in the market?

2007-06-07 Thread Tim Newsom
and no bluetooth.  And the screen is even smaller and lower resolution than the iPhone. -Steven On 6/7/07, Tim Newsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else seen the samsung F700? Its features are pretty nice... No idea on the OS but I would definitly take one over an IPhone... If it performs anything

Re: Yet another contender in the market?

2007-06-07 Thread Tim Newsom
and the FIC Neo1973 will be successful and FIC produces more open phones in future. 2007/6/7, Tim Newsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hmm... I thought it listed wifi and bluetooth on samsungs website... --Tim On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 8:57, Mark McClellan wrote: nice. very nice. i really hope this is close

Iphone 3rd party development allowed...

2007-06-05 Thread Tim Newsom
So apparently Jobs decided to allow 3rd party software on the phone after all... Interesting development. --Tim ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Iphone 3rd party development allowed...

2007-06-05 Thread Tim Newsom
AhI see. /shrug. --Tim On 6/5/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure Jobs and company are not blind to the strength of open source software and the boon it would provide if they made a freely available dev kit for the phone. As someone who worked at Apple for ten years,

Re: Neo1973 Update!

2007-06-04 Thread Tim Newsom
If your tracking movement with 2 3D accelerometers... What would another one provide. As far as I can tell (I am not an expert...) Tracking all 6 vectors will tell you absolute movement in space. I.e, when 2 vectors point in the same direction with the same magnitude at approximately the same

Re: First impressions of Neo1973

2007-05-16 Thread Tim Newsom
the Sidekick3 dimensions... http://www.sizeasy.com/page/comp/1842 -Pete On 16/05/07, Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've just done a fast sizeasy comparison: http://www.sizeasy.com/page/comp/1840 And, yes, the Neo1973 is big! 2007/5/16, Tim Newsom [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Durability of the Neo1973?

2007-05-15 Thread Tim Newsom
On Tue, 15 May 2007 18:16, Ian Stirling wrote: FIC is not a small company. http://www.fic.com.tw/about.htm Over 5000 employees isn't small. Smaller than Nokia/Sony, sure. But they are well over 20 times the size of Trolltech, who launched the greenphone. Ahh.. But who manufactured the

Re: Durability of the Neo1973?

2007-05-15 Thread Tim Newsom
No problem.. It was more of a rhetorical(sp?) question anyway. I was just trying to point out that the situation was a bit different. --Tim On Tue, 15 May 2007 18:41, Robin Paulson wrote: ahh, damn gmail shitesorry tim from trolltech.com Q. Did Trolltech design the phone? Are there

Re: First impressions of Neo1973

2007-05-15 Thread Tim Newsom
On Tue, 15 May 2007 22:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007, Tigran Zakoyan wrote: Jason Elwell wrote: I dont know whats more sad... You creating a paperdoll of an OpenMoko, or the fact that I downloaded it and made one for myself! LOL! Me too :) BTW, can't agree 1973 is

Re: OpenMoko light web server

2007-04-17 Thread Tim Newsom
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 3:54, Alexander E Genaud wrote: Tim, I believe Microsoft created the non-standard XMLHttpRequest object through Active X around IE 5 but it has become something of a standard implemented by Firefox, Safari/Konquerer, Opera, and perhaps others. I've been using a nice

Re: OpenMoko light web server

2007-04-16 Thread Tim Newsom
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:58, Matthew S. Hamrick wrote: Okay.. a few points: snip Q. javascript? on a phone? Isn't that going to suck down the power? A. in a word, yes. But I think the main problem will not be the added overhead of using javascript, it's going to be the frequent request /

Re: Blacklist/whitelists

2007-04-06 Thread Tim Newsom
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 8:35, Andreas Kostyrka wrote: You cannot block them. But you can make the phone completly ignore it. OTOH, that's not the same thing because combined with a delivery report, somebody else can see when you turn your phone on :( Andreas Is it possible to turn delivery

Re: Blacklist/whitelists

2007-04-06 Thread Tim Newsom
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 9:41, Martin Raißle wrote: Is it possible to turn delivery reports off? --Tim I think it's not .. at least not for the receiver of a message ... martin That seems weird... Even in email you can turn off read receipts... It seems like an invasion of sort (though a minor

Re: Blacklist/whitelists

2007-04-06 Thread Tim Newsom
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:22, Jonathon Suggs wrote: Ok, I'll be honest that I have no proof that this is how it actually works, but I don't think it works the way you are saying it does. Again, not 100% positive, but the receipt that you receive is only a message that it has been successfully

Re: Blacklist/whitelists

2007-04-06 Thread Tim Newsom
On a related note to all of this sms talk... Can you send an sms with delivery receipt to a range of addresses and get back notification for all phone numbers which actually exist? (Obviously it will be one at a time, not boradcast) Or does it just return success once it changed network

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-22 Thread Tim Newsom
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:17, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Thoughts? From what I remember of the discussions so far, that seems to meet the majority of requirements for encrypted file storage and also manages many of the things related to authentication that we have been discussing. Now, if we can

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-22 Thread Tim Newsom
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:13, Tim Newsom wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:17, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Thoughts? From what I remember of the discussions so far, that seems to meet the majority of requirements for encrypted file storage and also manages many of the things related to authentication

Re: Regarding encryption on openmoko...

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 1:33, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: I don't really see why one would want to use Truecrypt when there's been LUKS in the Linux kernel for years now... Well, for one I had never heard of LUKS till earlier yesterday. Now I will have to go check it out. (Grin) --Tim

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 9:34, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Tobias Gruetzmacher writes: Right -- these look like good approaches, but to a different problem. /please excuse my direct manner.. Its just how I write (smile) What do you mean by different problem? Maybe I don't fully understand. The way I

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:03, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Hope my notes above are helpful... Hehe that's great. At least I am certain that you and I are on the same page now. I thought from my very quick glance at truecrypt that it could encrypt individual files also but I have not had a hard look

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:35, Jonathon Suggs wrote: My challenge is just to think bigger. Think how this could be incorporated to work with *any* phone. Then you can have a much larger group of people to brainstorm, test, and bugfix. We have enough protocols and standards to support.

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:35, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: But it has the encryption jail drawback. So maybe one way to deal with these issues is to build out the framework by constructing a new api for reading and writing data based on this provider concept.. Including the authentication. Then deal

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:59, Henryk Plötz wrote: Moin, Plus: If you really want per-file encryption that would only need some minimal modifications to the existing solutions. Or use unionfs. That's very interesting and opens up lots of potential. Your right, key management along with many

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-20 Thread Tim Newsom
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 2:08, Jim McDonald wrote: Tim Newsom wrote: The best part is that if you don't want it, you don't use it. And those that do want it, can use it and its all completley transparent to the applications. But not at all transparent to the end user. Again assuming

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-20 Thread Tim Newsom
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 8:12, Jim McDonald wrote: Tim Newsom wrote: [Encryption options] Yep I understand that there are lots of possibilities and options, I just think that if something ships by default it should provide end users with a very simple dialog that is basically an on/off switch

Regarding encryption on openmoko...

2007-03-20 Thread Tim Newsom
After reading about truecrypt on slashdot I think that could pose as a suitable start to the encryption solution... At least as a starting place to build a framework on and test out some ideas. --Tim ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-19 Thread Tim Newsom
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:25, Jim McDonald wrote: Clare Johnstone wrote: On 3/20/07, Jim McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: continually asking the user to decide which data is to be encrypted and which not. There is the concept of folders which could be used :) clare True, but that's just

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-19 Thread Tim Newsom
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:09, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I like this -- except it doesn't quite match my sample-of-one user study. My degree-of-security-wanted is by data, not by application. The same app is used for things like VINs and tire sizes and oil filters for cars (no security) and for student

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-18 Thread Tim Newsom
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:05, Henryk Plötz wrote: Moin, /snip Some feedback will be necessary so the user can see that the gesture was correctly detected before sending the PIN to the SIM. I propose some sort of bubblebabble-digest. -- Henryk Plötz Grüße aus Berlin ~ Help Microsoft fight

Fw: Re: Possible security hole for Dialers/troyan horses

2007-03-05 Thread Tim Newsom
Sorry, got caught in the reply to issue. -Original Message- From: Tim Newsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Possible security hole for Dialers/troyan horses Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 7:02:58 -0800 On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 0:05, Evgeny wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 07:35

Re: Possible security hole for Dialers/troyan horses

2007-03-02 Thread Tim Newsom
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 6:09, Evgeny wrote: It still Linux based phone — there is absolutely no real-life viruses for Linux at this time, trojans are possible treat, but user have to install them by himself. That's a pretty strong statement.. Are you absolutely sure there are no viruses for

Re: Possible security hole for Dialers/troyan horses

2007-03-01 Thread Tim Newsom
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:42, Tomasz Zielinski wrote: 2007/3/1, mathew davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: then give it a rating of some sort 1 - being safe/trusted program and 10 - being known bad binary/ don't use at any cost unless you really want bad things to happen. Well, nobody will recognize

Re: lets be nice

2007-02-19 Thread Tim Newsom
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:35, ryan lerch wrote: hi all, just a friendly reminder that we are getting a lot of people subscribing to and posting to this community list that may not know all the mailing list etiquette that you do. So please be nice to these new-comers, and be patient with them; *

Re: Encrypting voice comunications..

2007-02-02 Thread Tim Newsom
on the phone? On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 9:29, Mikko J Rauhala wrote: On pe, 2007-02-02 at 09:06 -0800, Tim Newsom wrote: If we have access to the mic and speakers while a call is in process, and we have the ability to record conversations etc... Where does the processor sit in that chain? Can we consume

Other uses for the gsm/gprs hardware....

2007-02-02 Thread Tim Newsom
While the phone is not on a call, can we use the gsm audio codec or other hardware/software to do useful work? For instance, decoding of some audio file or something like that. I know we don't have access to the bare metal of the chip, but its probably at least an arm processor with some dsp

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread Tim Newsom
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:12, Jeff Andros wrote: as I understand it, you can get more value out of the accellerometer than that in the simplest case, we know a gps can be off by a certain percent.  say you leave the phone still for a long time, you could average the error and get more precise

Re: Neo Carputer (was: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer)

2007-01-26 Thread Tim Newsom
You're speaking of OBD or CAN. There are some good interfaces out there, though the auto companies try to protect their information. It would be neat to build a plotter/scanner interface for measuring the car sensors on the Neo using either bluetooth or serial/usb. Bluetooth OBD scanner:

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread Tim Newsom
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 9:12, Steven Milburn wrote: yes,  accelerometers measure acceleration.  The first derivative of acceleration is velocity.  Granted errors in the accelerometer compound when deriving velocity, but you've usually got GPS information to calibrate against (As Jeff was saying). 

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread Tim Newsom
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:18, Steven Milburn wrote: Wow, I can't believe I got that backwards, thanks for the correction.  Kind of embarrassing considering I actually work on this stuff.  However, it doesn't invalidate that you don't need any more information than the accelerometer and a

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-24 Thread Tim Newsom
For GeoPointing to work right, you would also need an electronic compass module in the phone Right? Cause accelerometers don't know which direction your pointing and gps isn't probably accurate enough to derive what you pointed at when you moved it maybe 2 or 3 feet during the gesture.

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-24 Thread Tim Newsom
could vibrate a little when it found the answer. Then you can look at the face to see what it was. On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 9:27, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:04, Tim Newsom wrote: For GeoPointing to work right, you would also need an electronic compass module

Fw: Re: built-in scripting languages

2007-01-23 Thread Tim Newsom
Bah, forgot to reply all. I think that's an excellent idea actually... A website where you can log into, set up preferences about the packages you have installed and build an image based on that. Is that ability already in existence? I mean, I am sure ipkg has the ability to update all of

Re: Non-gprs Internet access options without wifi (cel-dialup)

2007-01-12 Thread Tim Newsom
There is going to be bluetooth on the phone. The range is small, but the possibility of a bluetooth to wifi adaptor might be interesting... Maybe something small enough to clip on a belt. Then connect to it through bluetooth and have it connect to wifi and redirect network traffic. I am

Re: FPGA

2006-12-08 Thread Tim Newsom
ROM isn't required, and the CPLD can function immediately on system start-up. /Ole On 12/7/06, Tim Newsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... So how many times can you reprogram it before it wears out? Like flash has a max number of times it can be written and eprom and eeproms did... What's

Re: Will the Neo1973 support Dual-SIM with SPST?

2006-12-01 Thread Tim Newsom
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 7:59, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On 12/1/06 11:28 PM, Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just copy the sim card into the phone? We use Linux, so we can do whatever we like I'm not sure, but doesn't the GSM module want to talk to the SIM card directly?

Re: Light sensor

2006-11-30 Thread Tim Newsom
the problem with doing it this way, is you'd need some way to notify each application of all the sensors available at runtime, or you re-compile each availability sensitive app for every combination of sensors (having that many versions of software is sure to turn off Sean's dad) there's

Re: Another idea for an application for the Neo: Instant sync to web page duplicating info on phone

2006-11-29 Thread Tim Newsom
I love this idea and I would like to suggest a method of handeling a portions of it... Use web services... Web methods or whatever you call it. If you build an api for uploading sets of data they could be implelented in almost any lauguage and used natively like normal objects. Perl, php,

Re: Another idea for an application for the Neo: Instant sync to web page duplicating info on phone

2006-11-29 Thread Tim Newsom
Yeah. But more specifically I am defining the type of api as web services or web methods (they are the same thing usually). Basically, the web method is a standard used to define the remote method calls, their required parameters and types of acceptable data from within a program. Any

Re: Another idea for an application for the Neo: Instant sync to web page duplicating info on phone

2006-11-29 Thread Tim Newsom
Right.. For peer to peer or requests directly to the phone that's true. There is no reason we could not build a community shared server to be the intermedary between the phones however... Something that doesn't store the data longer than necessary for another phone to retreive the

Re: Please think about incrementel sync Re: Another idea for an application for the Neo: Instant sync to web page duplicating info on phone

2006-11-29 Thread Tim Newsom
Web services are XML data transfer. The problem with xml is that it is wordy for data (size) but good for parsing. What I mean by that is that its not the most efficient way to transfer data ( ok thats obvious) but its a defined format and easy to parse just about anywhere.. just slow. If you

Re: Please think about incrementel sync Re: Another idea for an application for the Neo: Instant sync to web page duplicating info on phone

2006-11-29 Thread Tim Newsom
So here is a document talking about some of the things we have mentioned... From the link to nokia... http://research.nokia.com/tr/NRC-TR-2006-005.pdf Interesting, they have thought of quite a bit of this already. --Tim. On 11/29/06, Jeff Andros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/29/06, Tim

Re: X and Matchbox

2006-11-28 Thread Tim Newsom
Related to this, was my question about themes. I will have to check out the abilities of the gtk theme engine in regards to this, but I have an interest in porting the LCARS theme from the 770 or other themes to the phone. It would seem to me (and maybe I don't understand as well as I thought