Re: Maemo security longterm roadmap?

2007-11-07 Thread François Cauwe
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 17:36 -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Is it really an issue? Microsoft Windows has a trust system, but last I checked not even their own security patches get signed. No one uses it. Hi, I was maybe not so clear in my last message; What I mean is: We can trust software that

Function to check presents of WiFi connection

2007-11-07 Thread Michael Stepanov
Hi, I'm not Maemo guru. So, that's why my question may sound stupid a bit. I need to check WiFi connection before run my application. Is there some function in the Maemo SDk to do that or it's better to use command line WiFi utility? Thanks in advance. -- Cheers, Michael

Check if application is run

2007-11-07 Thread Michael Stepanov
Hi, I developed a simple Maemo application using its SDK which just run another SDL-based program with specified parameters. So, I'd like to catch the case when the SDL program crashed by some reason to run it again. What is the most efficient way to periodically check something in the Maemo SDK?

Re: Repositories mess: conclusions and actions

2007-11-07 Thread Tim Teulings
Hello! I'd like to share a simple 5-step plan :) It seems that the discussion again somehow stopped. The first steps of the plan seem to be quite practical, so hopefully we can start implementing something. And I'd strongly suggest we proceed with step 5 only after having implemented

Re: Details on SVG support status on N810 browser ?

2007-11-07 Thread Miko Nieminen
On 06/11/2007, vicente garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I preffer SVG support than javascript or flash support :P Without jokes, I think to support SVG is important ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org

R: Details on SVG support status on N810 browser ?

2007-11-07 Thread Marco Solari
Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Miko Nieminen Inviato: mercoledì 7 novembre 2007 10.21 A: vicente garcia Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Oggetto: Re: Details on SVG support status on N810 browser ? On 06/11/2007, vicente garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Data corruption on N770 in OS2007 HE

2007-11-07 Thread Alex DAMIAN
Hello, I found last night evidence of data corruption on my N770. Specifically, after the Application manager refused to install mplayer, I tried to install from command line; the dpkg complained of invalid Status: value in /var/lib/dpkg/status ; and I looked this file only to find 4 characters

Re: Data corruption on N770 in OS2007 HE

2007-11-07 Thread Joni Valtanen
What version of the mplayer have you installed? I'd like to test it. Mistral version worked fine when I tested last time with hacker. I agree with Frantisek with possible problem. - Joni On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Alex DAMIAN wrote: Well, first I was suspecting an off-by-2 (if that exists)

Re: Data corruption on N770 in OS2007 HE

2007-11-07 Thread Alex DAMIAN
Well, first I was suspecting an off-by-2 (if that exists) somewhere in code, since to ^@ is indeed 0 (and I thought of some error in a C program). It was more interesting since the error bytes would come in pairs and would replace the same letters l (ending of the word install , but in different

Re: Repositories mess: conclusions and actions

2007-11-07 Thread Ed Bartosh
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 09:26 +0100, ext Tim Teulings wrote: Hello! I'd like to share a simple 5-step plan :) It seems that the discussion again somehow stopped. The first steps of the plan seem to be quite practical, so hopefully we can start implementing something. And I'd strongly

Re: Check if application is run

2007-11-07 Thread Aleksandr Koltsoff
Hi Michael Stepanov wrote: when the SDL program crashed by some reason to run it again. What is the most efficient way to periodically check something in the Maemo SDK? I think in your case it would be sufficient to do something like this: while true; do ./run-your-application params sleep

Re: Check if application is run

2007-11-07 Thread Mika Yrjölä
On 11/7/07, Michael Stepanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I developed a simple Maemo application using its SDK which just run another SDL-based program with specified parameters. So, I'd like to catch the case when the SDL program crashed by some reason to run it again. What is the most

Re: Function to check presents of WiFi connection

2007-11-07 Thread Jussi Kukkonen
Michael Stepanov wrote: Hi, I'm not Maemo guru. So, that's why my question may sound stupid a bit. I need to check WiFi connection before run my application. Is there some function in the Maemo SDk to do that or it's better to use command line WiFi utility? I assume you just want to know

Re: Data corruption on N770 in OS2007 HE

2007-11-07 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Alex DAMIAN wrote: I hoped for an error in dpkg routines which handle the status file; now you made my day, I need a better tablet :) Or just replace cx3110x.ko in /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/current/ with quick fix attached to the bug https://bugs.maemo.org/attachment.cgi?id=594 Or if you

Re: Data corruption on N770 in OS2007 HE

2007-11-07 Thread Alex DAMIAN
You're right, I finished now reading the bug. I'll try the replace first , and then reflash the tablet with a new initfs. On 11/7/07, Frantisek Dufka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex DAMIAN wrote: I hoped for an error in dpkg routines which handle the status file; now you made my day, I need a

Gstreamer dsppcmsrc error

2007-11-07 Thread swelten
Hi I'm developing an application which takes the microphone data as input to determine where the user is located at the moment. Recognition is working fine but I got problems with the audio input. Gstreamer gives an error message telling Could not open resource for reading and writing. and

Re: Support to non-Linux developers (was Re: General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help)

2007-11-07 Thread Darren Kenny
Hi, Aleksandr Koltsoff wrote: Hello, Darren Kenny wrote: I'm a regular user of non-Linux distro - OpenSolaris/Solaris - that is both x86, has qemu, Xephyr, etc. Would be great to get this working on Solaris too - although I'm biased I suppose ;) Does solaris support anything like

Re: Support to non-Linux developers (was Re: General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help)

2007-11-07 Thread Aleksandr Koltsoff
Hello, Darren Kenny wrote: I'm a regular user of non-Linux distro - OpenSolaris/Solaris - that is both x86, has qemu, Xephyr, etc. Would be great to get this working on Solaris too - although I'm biased I suppose ;) Does solaris support anything like linux binfmt? (telling the kernel to

Re: Function to check presents of WiFi connection

2007-11-07 Thread Michael Stepanov
Thanks a lot, Jussi, this is what I really need! On 11/7/07, Jussi Kukkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Stepanov wrote: Hi, I'm not Maemo guru. So, that's why my question may sound stupid a bit. I need to check WiFi connection before run my application. Is there some function in

Re: About the upcoming maemo user karma

2007-11-07 Thread Jesse Guardiani
I really really really like Ohloh. I just set up Kagu Media Player under Ohloh and it give excellent statistics and information about our project: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/7442?p=Kagu+Media+Player All we need is a way to map Ohloh Contributors to maemo.org accounts, and map Ohloh Statistics

Re: Data corruption on N770 in OS2007 HE

2007-11-07 Thread Neil MacLeod
Frantisek Dufka wrote: Alex DAMIAN wrote: Does anyone else experience these issues ? Ahything random can happen with wi-fi connected 770 due to this https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2006 It doesn't matter which system (2006 or 200HE) you use. Frantisek I'd really like to get a

suggestion: include [maemo-*] in the subject line

2007-11-07 Thread Guang Yang
Can we include [maemo-*] in the subject line from maemo lists? It would be much easier to read/filter messages. Thanks, -Guang - Original Message From: Darius Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alex DAMIAN [EMAIL PROTECTED]; maemo-developers@maemo.org Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 9:51:22 AM

Re: Maemo security longterm roadmap?

2007-11-07 Thread François Cauwe
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:02 -0500, Mike Lococo wrote: If you want to see progress made on this front, you should start porting the infrastructure and writing maemo policies for vulnerable apps (like email or the web browser). It's extremely unlikely that Nokia is going to pick up the torch

Re: Maemo security longterm roadmap?

2007-11-07 Thread Mike Lococo
I was maybe not so clear in my last message; What I mean is: We can trust software that come from trusted source and that is 'signed'. But other software, that the end user still want to install can't be trusted. Actually bitfrost is aimed at an entirely different problem than containing

Re: Support to non-Linux developers (was Re: General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help)

2007-11-07 Thread Darren Kenny
I'm a regular user of non-Linux distro - OpenSolaris/Solaris - that is both x86, has qemu, Xephyr, etc. Would be great to get this working on Solaris too - although I'm biased I suppose ;) I'm very familiar with GNOME, etc, so would love to be able to get the development env set up on Solaris so

Controlling the volume

2007-11-07 Thread Alberto Garcia
Hi all. I'm developing a Last.fm player for the 770/N800/N810 and I'd like to know what's the proper way to implement the volume control. I'm using gstreamer (dspmp3sink) to play the files. Is there any way of controlling the volume with gstreamer? I tried with

Re: Check if application is run

2007-11-07 Thread Michael Stepanov
On 11/7/07, Mika Yrjölä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/7/07, Michael Stepanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I developed a simple Maemo application using its SDK which just run another SDL-based program with specified parameters. So, I'd like to catch the case when the SDL program

Re: suggestion: include [maemo-*] in the subject line

2007-11-07 Thread MoRpHeUz
Hi, On Nov 7, 2007 3:29 PM, Guang Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we include [maemo-*] in the subject line from maemo lists? It would be much easier to read/filter messages. Can't you create a filter using the to: field ? Like, every message with to: maemo-developers@maemo.org, goes to

New PyMaemo modules: Cython and Storm

2007-11-07 Thread Luciano Miguel Wolf
Hi all, PyMaemo has now two new modules: Cython[1] and Storm[2]. The first one is a fork of Pyrex, to generate code mixing Python and C data types. The second is an Object Relational Mapper. Both are available for OS2007 and OS2008 (Chinook Beta). To install Cython you have to use apt-get

Re: Controlling the volume

2007-11-07 Thread Frédéric Crozat
Le mercredi 07 novembre 2007 à 21:39 +0100, Alberto Garcia a écrit : Hi all. I'm developing a Last.fm player for the 770/N800/N810 and I'd like to know what's the proper way to implement the volume control. I'm using gstreamer (dspmp3sink) to play the files. Is there any way of controlling

Re: Data corruption on N770

2007-11-07 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Neil MacLeod wrote: Until this bug is eliminated any device instability while WiFi is enabled can be attributed to it. Well it is slightly worse. Also some device instability even when wifi is off can be attributed to it if wi-fi was enabled at least once on this device. Like this example

Re: Controlling the volume

2007-11-07 Thread Alberto Garcia
O Mércores 07/11/2007 ás 22:15, Alberto Garcia dicía... For control part, you can change volume property on dspmp3sink. Try using gst-inspect-0.10 dspmp3sink to discover the various properties on this particular sink. I don't have gst-inspect-0.10 in my N800. And GST_IS_MIXER(sink)

Re: Controlling the volume

2007-11-07 Thread Frédéric Crozat
Le mercredi 07 novembre 2007 à 22:15 +0100, Alberto Garcia a écrit : O Mércores 07/11/2007 ás 22:09, Frédéric Crozat dicía... For control part, you can change volume property on dspmp3sink. Try using gst-inspect-0.10 dspmp3sink to discover the various properties on this particular sink.

Re: Controlling the volume

2007-11-07 Thread Alberto Garcia
O Mércores 07/11/2007 ás 22:09, Frédéric Crozat dicía... For control part, you can change volume property on dspmp3sink. Try using gst-inspect-0.10 dspmp3sink to discover the various properties on this particular sink. I don't have gst-inspect-0.10 in my N800. And GST_IS_MIXER(sink) returns

Re: Question regarding garage project pages

2007-11-07 Thread Klaus Rotter
Quim Gil wrote: fwiw I also thing you are over-reacting to karma. :) Do you think so? Well... I didn't want to! :) Propose for a deal: let the karma system develop and flow and let's have a look to it again in, say, 3 months. Ok... I think most of the people here just didn't get the purpose

Re: Support to non-Linux developers (was Re: General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help)

2007-11-07 Thread Quim Gil
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 15:38 +, ext Darren Kenny wrote: I'm a regular user of non-Linux distro - OpenSolaris/Solaris - that is both x86, has qemu, Xephyr, etc. Would be great to get this working on Solaris too - Be our guest: http://maemo.org/community/wiki/roadmapwishlist/ If there are

Re: Pascal on armel Was: [Re: About the upcoming maemo user karma]

2007-11-07 Thread Igor Stoppa
Hi, On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 17:47 +0100, ext Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Igor Stoppa ha escrit: Currently i'm stuck with having source code for Delphi/FreePascal and not being able to compile it since (to the best of my knowledge) FreePascal only supports ABI, not EABI. Yes, that's the

Missing button_release_event messages?

2007-11-07 Thread George Nachman
I've written an app in PyMaemo that is very sensitive to getting OnButtonUp events on time and I noticed that if I touch the screen with my finger, move it, and let it up all very quickly that I don't get the button_release_event message. I do get a button_press_event and maybe a

Re: Repositories mess: conclusions and actions

2007-11-07 Thread Mikhail Sobolev
Hi Tim On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:26:47AM +0100, Tim Teulings wrote: I'd like to share a simple 5-step plan :) It seems that the discussion again somehow stopped. The first steps of the plan seem to be quite practical, so hopefully we can start implementing something. And I'd strongly

Re: About the upcoming maemo user karma

2007-11-07 Thread Henri Bergius
Hi, On Nov 7, 2007 8:38 PM, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really really really like Ohloh. I just set up Kagu Media Player under Ohloh and it give excellent statistics and information about our project: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/7442?p=Kagu+Media+Player Yep. We've been

Non-tablet software (was Re: About the upcoming maemo user karma)

2007-11-07 Thread Quim Gil
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:21 +, ext Andrew Flegg wrote: I'm trying to work out if it's a problem when your most used applications aren't actually on the tablet itself, so definitely don't appear in the Application Catalog. Well, wait. It's for maemo and you can download it, so it should be