Re: Idea of a voice mail application

2008-03-01 Thread Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ha scritto:

Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano ha scritto:
In italy the caller will pay for the call but the recipient no, as a 
recipient if the caller will leave the message on the carrier message 
box (don't know how to translate, pardon) i have to call it and 
listen the messages in a slw and bad way, paying for the call.


Well, yes! But now the caller can avoid to pay to leave a message to 
the carrier (he has just to stop the call). With a local answer 
machine he couldn't!



yes but usually if the caller is calling you it's in his plan to pay the 
phone call, so if you can use the voice mail application on your phone 
it's up to you. So it doesn't matter the costs and who is paying as i've 
understood the prices are different for every operator and even for 
every country so the only thing that should be useful is would you like 
an app like that?


For me the answer is YS :D

(actually i don't have time to develop it but i can help a little bit)


Bye

Pietro

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Re: Virtual QWERTY Keyboards to be used with Fingers...

2008-03-01 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:47:31 +0100 Karsten Ensinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled:

 Sorry to jump into the thread this late, but I am wondering
 if you already examined the following Wiki-Link?
 We had a very extensive discussion about text input running
 on the community list several months ago.
 Nearly all proposals were documented on the following Wiki:
 
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wishlist:Text_Input
 
 My personal favourites are the Quickwriting (there is even
 a java demo available) and another text input (although
 it seems to be another implementation of this more moko-like
 implementation: http://www.micropp.se/openmoko/splash.html ).
 
 If I remember correctly, all participants of the discussion
 came to the conclusion, that a regular qwerty keyboard is not
 sufficient no matter how clever you pimp it, due to
 restriction of precision of finger typing and lack of screen
 space.

i disagree. reality of the qtopia predictive keyboard and actual use of it
disagrees. talk and theory is fine - actual code that works is disagreeing.
users of that code are disagreeing.

 An intelligent input prediction (e.g. T9) sucks, when one
 is using different languages regularly (you always have to
 remember switching to the right dictionary BEFORE typing).
 ( Not everyone on this planet is using english in day to day
 conversations. ;-) )

sure - but t9 is ambiguous. it REQUIRES a lookup or multi-press (turn t9 off)
to be useful. i was talking of an error correction system that uses
dictionaries. if you use a stylus the error correction never needs to take
place - if you use a finger it will be needed. but it doesn't predict. it
corrects - much like a spell checker does. different from t9. the other
keyboard entry methods there are much harder to learn to use. you add a barrier
of entry for many people. if others wish to pursue these funky keyboard entries
- please do. i don't intend to to start with. i intend todo a qwerty style
keyboard with multiple configurable layouts (eg qwerty, then a numberpad entry -
u can have a more complicated terminal hacker entry etc.)

as for dictionaries - that's part of life i guess. anyone is free to work on
another keyboard if they want. in the end the proof is in the pudding. who will
go and actually write code. you can have all the ideas in the world, but he who
puts them into code and makes them usable by others wins :) so don't stop-
please, work on alternate input methods. i am going with the one i have seen
work, demonstrated live on a Neo and used.

 They also suck if ones vocabulary is much more advanced than
 the one which is implemented (and I personally do not want
 to adjust my vocabulary to fit the needs of the input system).

thats why dictionaries can be added to, imported, words learnt automatically
and added, etc. etc. :)

 Just my 2 cents.
 
 Regards
 Karsten
 
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Re: Virtual QWERTY Keyboards to be used with Fingers...

2008-03-01 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz

On 3/1/08 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:

On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:47:31 +0100 Karsten Ensinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled:

  Sorry to jump into the thread this late, but I am wondering
  if you already examined the following Wiki-Link?
  We had a very extensive discussion about text input running
  on the community list several months ago.
  Nearly all proposals were documented on the following Wiki:
  
  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wishlist:Text_Input
  
  My personal favourites are the Quickwriting (there is even

  a java demo available) and another text input (although
  it seems to be another implementation of this more moko-like
  implementation: http://www.micropp.se/openmoko/splash.html ).
  
  If I remember correctly, all participants of the discussion

  came to the conclusion, that a regular qwerty keyboard is not
  sufficient no matter how clever you pimp it, due to
  restriction of precision of finger typing and lack of screen
  space.

i disagree. reality of the qtopia predictive keyboard and actual use 
of it
disagrees. talk and theory is fine - actual code that works is 
disagreeing.

users of that code are disagreeing.


I have to agree with Raster here. Trolltech did an amazing job on their 
QWERTY (onscreen) keypad. I highly recommend you trying it out on the 
Neo if you haven't already. Personally, I think it's the best touchpanel 
keyboard on the market now. Bar none.


Sean



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Re: Virtual QWERTY Keyboards to be used with Fingers...

2008-03-01 Thread Karsten Ensinger

Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:

On 3/1/08 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:

On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:47:31 +0100 Karsten Ensinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled:

  If I remember correctly, all participants of the discussion
  came to the conclusion, that a regular qwerty keyboard is not
  sufficient no matter how clever you pimp it, due to
  restriction of precision of finger typing and lack of screen
  space.

i disagree. reality of the qtopia predictive keyboard and actual use 
of it
disagrees. talk and theory is fine - actual code that works is 
disagreeing.

users of that code are disagreeing.


I have to agree with Raster here. Trolltech did an amazing job on their 
QWERTY (onscreen) keypad. I highly recommend you trying it out on the 
Neo if you haven't already. Personally, I think it's the best touchpanel 
keyboard on the market now. Bar none.


Sean


I am afraid, I have to admit that I have NOT tried the Trolltech stuff
at all. Maybe because I thought I would deceive the openmoko movement
by trying other stuff on the Neo. ;-)
I will give it a try until next weekend and will change my mind if
it is as cool as you claim.

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Re: Idea of a voice mail application

2008-03-01 Thread Stroller


On 29 Feb 2008, at 17:34, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:


siaPeter Trapp ha scritto:

Hi everybody,
I thought about the possibility of a voice mail installed on the  
neo.  The idea is to let the application decide if you are  
reachable for the caller or not. The decision will be done on  
profiles (time, who is calling, what to do (let it ring or answer  
directly) ). Eg: Saturday 10:00pm and your boss is calling (and  
you have a signal)
Neo is aware that it is weekend and who is calling. It just  
turns on the voice mail... Dear Boss, actually it is weekend and I  
just don't want to get some work right now. Sorry, my neo will not  
even inform me that you've called. So don't try again later. It  
would not help until Monday 9am! Have a nice weekend

  --- without the possibility to leave a message  ;)


I would like this feature also, and really I assumed it would become  
a commonplace usage on OpenMoko.


Cool, but your caller will pay for this.. So maybe it won't be so  
happy :P


Stuff the caller. I carry a mobile phone so I can make outgoing calls  
when I'm away from home, not so I can be interrupted in the middle of  
a conversation. If someone is calling me they assume that they're  
going to incur the cost of a call, anyway, so I don't see that the  
cost of a call to voicemail is a large imposition (it is probably  
better than me answering my phone to say stuff you, at least).


Stroller.


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Problem trying to build qemu-local using MokoMakefile

2008-03-01 Thread François TOURDE
Hi,

Trying to run make qemu-local, I got the following message, some
lines after Please wait, programming the NAND flash...

-8---8---8---8---8--
neo_vib_switch: Vibrator stopped.
neo_bl_switch: LCD Backlight now on.
qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0x
-8---8---8---8---8--

(More detailed trace can be found here: http://pastebin.com/m239ade67)

Any idea?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: GTA02 Battery Capacity (Was: Re: More about the GTA02)

2008-03-01 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

Andy Green ha scritto:

Depends on what you're doing with it... is the backlight on all the
time... making a call... I can't give you a straight answer because I
didn't examine this yet.  Instead I spent all my time around power
consumption looking to optimize suspend current since that can involve
circuit changes.


That's reasonable...
Btw I know that the neo is more a computer than a phone, so its power 
compsumation depends much on what you're doing with it; btw let's 
consider it only just as a phone, and so I'm curious about the two 
standard values that generally vendors claim: standby time and 
conversation time.



For suspended time with GSM modem off we have the consumption down to
~2mA and I expect that will improve further by software changes, so on a
1200mAh battery like we ship maybe it can last 20 days (unverified!)
doing nothing at the moment.  With GSM modem on in suspend maybe 5 days


Ok, 5 days of standby time is quite good, but could it be greater?
I've heard that the iPhone, for example, has a standby-time really much 
long...



Whatever the figure is for usage time it will change by a factor of 5
or 10 depending if you run the GSM transmitter, wifi, CPU is always
busy, GPS, and the worst suspect the backlight, so you need to define
exactly what you do with the device during this usage to get a
meaningful figure.


Of course...
Btw I think that my average day usage will be something like: GSM always 
working, wifi for about 1 or 2 hours, some sms (1 or 2) and calls (about 
half hour). In such conditions, do you have an idea about how much will 
the neo stay up?


I'm also figuring another usage-way while traveling using both the GSM 
on standby and the GPS up (with a maps software): any idea about this?


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Re: Virtual QWERTY Keyboards to be used with Fingers...

2008-03-01 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

Karsten Ensinger ha scritto:

I am afraid, I have to admit that I have NOT tried the Trolltech stuff
at all. Maybe because I thought I would deceive the openmoko movement
by trying other stuff on the Neo. ;-)
I will give it a try until next weekend and will change my mind if
it is as cool as you claim.


Ok, we're waiting for your report...!

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Re: Virtual QWERTY Keyboards to be used with Fingers...

2008-03-01 Thread Ortwin Regel
On 3/1/08, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 3/1/08 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
  On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:47:31 +0100 Karsten Ensinger
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled:
 
Sorry to jump into the thread this late, but I am wondering
if you already examined the following Wiki-Link?
We had a very extensive discussion about text input running
on the community list several months ago.
Nearly all proposals were documented on the following Wiki:
   
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wishlist:Text_Input
   
My personal favourites are the Quickwriting (there is even
a java demo available) and another text input (although
it seems to be another implementation of this more moko-like
implementation: http://www.micropp.se/openmoko/splash.html ).
   
If I remember correctly, all participants of the discussion
came to the conclusion, that a regular qwerty keyboard is not
sufficient no matter how clever you pimp it, due to
restriction of precision of finger typing and lack of screen
space.
 
  i disagree. reality of the qtopia predictive keyboard and actual use
  of it
  disagrees. talk and theory is fine - actual code that works is
  disagreeing.
  users of that code are disagreeing.

 I have to agree with Raster here. Trolltech did an amazing job on their
 QWERTY (onscreen) keypad. I highly recommend you trying it out on the
 Neo if you haven't already. Personally, I think it's the best touchpanel
 keyboard on the market now. Bar none.

 Sean


Maybe it is. I still hate it and any other form of predictive text
input I have used so far. That doesn't mean I want to prevent anyone
else from having it. I can understand that some people are happy with
it and it would probably be a good idea to use it as the default input
method. What I want is an alternative I can very easily switch to.

We don't want the perfect input method because it probably doesn't
exist. Let's agree on disagreeing and try to figure out a base set of
alternative input mechanisms that should be included in Openmoko as
well as making it easy for the user to install more of them.

Some options I can think of that would find an audience:
-Predictive QWERTY, maybe with different prediction modes (dictionary,
closeness, combination, none)
-Multitap 3*4 standard phone layout (maybe with optional prediction if
patent issues can be avoided)
-Dasher
-A sliding method. My favorite, even though I never used one and don't
really know which of the ideas floating around will be the best one.

The next thing to consider is size. There are basically two options:
-Use about 1/3 of the screen so that the running program is still
visible. The problem with this is that the space is very small and
some of the methods above would not work at this size or only work
with a stylus.
-Use pretty much the whole screen while inputting something and close
the input method afterwards. This worked very well on my Palm device
for two thumb landscape QWERTY input but that screen was twice as big
as the Neo's. It is my prefered way of doing input because I don't
need to see the program while typing. I only need to see about two
lines of the text I last typed.
For all methods where this makes sense, both sizes should be available.


Last, let me describe my imaginary perfect input method:
The input area is divided in 3*3 squares. A letter is written by
starting on a defined square and moving over one square to end in a
3rd square. So every letter is a combination of 3 adjacent squares
drawn in the right direction.
Now here is what makes this fast and thus great: If the next letter
you want to draw starts on the square you just ended on, you simply
continue your slide and add two squares. This way, many letter
combinations and even whole words could be written in one continuos
sliding motion.
There are 44 possible combinations (if I counted right) which should
be plenty if we plan for a shift-combination and a numbers/special
characters-combination.
The character layout shouldn't follow any alphabet or QWERTY logic but
instead be entirely based on language. The reason is that it would
require learning from the ground up anyway so it should be as fast as
possible once you have learned it.
The small version for only taking up 1/3 of the screen would be
perfect in 2*5 which would also result in 44 combinations (again, if I
counted them right...).
Feedback and actual implementation of this would be very welcome! In
fact, I offer 30 Paypal €uros to the first person to make this work on
my Neo (meaning it has to come with simple installation instructions).

Ortwin

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Re: Virtual QWERTY Keyboards to be used with Fingers...

2008-03-01 Thread Ortwin Regel
On 3/1/08, Ortwin Regel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 3/1/08, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On 3/1/08 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
   On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:47:31 +0100 Karsten Ensinger
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled:
  
 Sorry to jump into the thread this late, but I am wondering
 if you already examined the following Wiki-Link?
 We had a very extensive discussion about text input running
 on the community list several months ago.
 Nearly all proposals were documented on the following Wiki:

 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wishlist:Text_Input

 My personal favourites are the Quickwriting (there is even
 a java demo available) and another text input (although
 it seems to be another implementation of this more moko-like
 implementation: http://www.micropp.se/openmoko/splash.html ).

 If I remember correctly, all participants of the discussion
 came to the conclusion, that a regular qwerty keyboard is not
 sufficient no matter how clever you pimp it, due to
 restriction of precision of finger typing and lack of screen
 space.
  
   i disagree. reality of the qtopia predictive keyboard and actual use
   of it
   disagrees. talk and theory is fine - actual code that works is
   disagreeing.
   users of that code are disagreeing.
 
  I have to agree with Raster here. Trolltech did an amazing job on their
  QWERTY (onscreen) keypad. I highly recommend you trying it out on the
  Neo if you haven't already. Personally, I think it's the best touchpanel
  keyboard on the market now. Bar none.
 
  Sean
 

 Maybe it is. I still hate it and any other form of predictive text
 input I have used so far. That doesn't mean I want to prevent anyone
 else from having it. I can understand that some people are happy with
 it and it would probably be a good idea to use it as the default input
 method. What I want is an alternative I can very easily switch to.

 We don't want the perfect input method because it probably doesn't
 exist. Let's agree on disagreeing and try to figure out a base set of
 alternative input mechanisms that should be included in Openmoko as
 well as making it easy for the user to install more of them.

 Some options I can think of that would find an audience:
 -Predictive QWERTY, maybe with different prediction modes (dictionary,
 closeness, combination, none)
 -Multitap 3*4 standard phone layout (maybe with optional prediction if
 patent issues can be avoided)
 -Dasher
 -A sliding method. My favorite, even though I never used one and don't
 really know which of the ideas floating around will be the best one.

 The next thing to consider is size. There are basically two options:
 -Use about 1/3 of the screen so that the running program is still
 visible. The problem with this is that the space is very small and
 some of the methods above would not work at this size or only work
 with a stylus.
 -Use pretty much the whole screen while inputting something and close
 the input method afterwards. This worked very well on my Palm device
 for two thumb landscape QWERTY input but that screen was twice as big
 as the Neo's. It is my prefered way of doing input because I don't
 need to see the program while typing. I only need to see about two
 lines of the text I last typed.
 For all methods where this makes sense, both sizes should be available.


 Last, let me describe my imaginary perfect input method:
 The input area is divided in 3*3 squares. A letter is written by
 starting on a defined square and moving over one square to end in a
 3rd square. So every letter is a combination of 3 adjacent squares
 drawn in the right direction.
 Now here is what makes this fast and thus great: If the next letter
 you want to draw starts on the square you just ended on, you simply
 continue your slide and add two squares. This way, many letter
 combinations and even whole words could be written in one continuos
 sliding motion.
 There are 44 possible combinations (if I counted right) which should
 be plenty if we plan for a shift-combination and a numbers/special
 characters-combination.
 The character layout shouldn't follow any alphabet or QWERTY logic but
 instead be entirely based on language. The reason is that it would
 require learning from the ground up anyway so it should be as fast as
 possible once you have learned it.
 The small version for only taking up 1/3 of the screen would be
 perfect in 2*5 which would also result in 44 combinations (again, if I
 counted them right...).
 Feedback and actual implementation of this would be very welcome! In
 fact, I offer 30 Paypal €uros to the first person to make this work on
 my Neo (meaning it has to come with simple installation instructions).

 Ortwin


Well, so I can't count. If you consider that valid 3 square motions
are also moving to another square and then moving back to the old one
(which I didn't above) you end up with 68 for 3*3 and 70 for 2*5.
However, it might make 

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Re: GTA02 Battery Capacity (Was: Re: More about the GTA02)

2008-03-01 Thread clare

Andy I do hope you will put as much as you can back into GTA01, as I
have real hopes now of using mine regularly.

thanks
clare


On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Andy Green wrote:


I think we will improve this a small amount in kernel updates we already
know we can do, but how much I don't know.  We already know we waste
current with bad GPIO levels in suspend and can fix them (I have a list
here to do).  Also I derated these estimates somewhat just in case
since I did not verify them.  So I expect we exceed this figure soon.



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Re: GTA02 Battery Capacity (Was: Re: More about the GTA02)

2008-03-01 Thread Tim Knapp
On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 13:21 +1100, clare wrote:
 Andy I do hope you will put as much as you can back into GTA01, as I
 have real hopes now of using mine regularly.

+1 from me too :)

-Tim

 
 thanks
 clare
 
 
 On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Andy Green wrote:
 
  I think we will improve this a small amount in kernel updates we already
  know we can do, but how much I don't know.  We already know we waste
  current with bad GPIO levels in suspend and can fix them (I have a list
  here to do).  Also I derated these estimates somewhat just in case
  since I did not verify them.  So I expect we exceed this figure soon.
 
 
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Re: Virtual QWERTY Keyboards to be used with Fingers...

2008-03-01 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:10:14 +0100 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]
babbled:

 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto:
  thats why dictionaries can be added to, imported, words learnt automatically
  and added, etc. etc. :)
 
 I had also an idea about this... What about a dictionary-sharing using 
 internet? I mean a kind of repository of dictionaries that users could 
 integrate using their personal dictionaries that they've generated using 
   the phone itself.
 The process of submission could be also automatized but - of course - 
 there are some privacy isses that should be considered!

sure. i see no reason that over time such things could not be done.

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Idea of a voice mail application

2008-03-01 Thread Mark Haury




On 29 Feb 2008, at 17:34, Marco Trevisan (Trevio) wrote:

 siaPeter Trapp ha scritto:
 Hi everybody,
 I thought about the possibility of a voice mail installed on the  
 neo.  The idea is to let the application decide if you are  
 reachable for the caller or not. The decision will be done on  
 profiles (time, who is calling, what to do (let it ring or answer  
 directly) ). Eg: Saturday 10:00pm and your boss is calling (and  
 you have a signal)
 Neo is aware that it is "weekend" and who is calling. It just  
 turns on the voice mail... Dear Boss, actually it is weekend and I  
 just don't want to get some work right now. Sorry, my neo will not  
 even inform me that you've called. So don't try again later. It  
 would not help until Monday 9am! Have a nice weekend
   --- without the possibility to leave a message  ;)

I would like this feature also, and really I assumed it would become  
a commonplace usage on OpenMoko.

 Cool, but your caller will pay for this.. So maybe it won't be so  
 happy :P

Stuff the caller. I carry a mobile phone so I can make outgoing calls  
when I'm away from home, not so I can be interrupted in the middle of  
a conversation. If someone is calling me they assume that they're  
going to incur the cost of a call, anyway, so I don't see that the  
cost of a call to voicemail is a large imposition (it is probably  
better than me answering my phone to say "stuff you", at least).

Stroller.

In the USA, the originator of the call is irrelevant. It charges against
your plan minutes regardless of whether you are making or receiving a
cellular call. So if software on your phone is picking up the line and
your phone itself is acting as the answering machine, it will use up
your minutes as well as costing the caller minutes. Actually, if they're
using a landline and you are a local call for them, it won't cost the
caller anything, while it uses your minutes regardless.

The exception is that often if the caller and the recipient are both on
the same network, neither is charged. I know that's true of T-Mobile.

Another issue is that this function will only work if your phone is both
turned on and in service. Of course, maybe this functionality is only
needed in that situation anyway (e.g. you are in service and want
to receive calls from certain people and not certain others.)

That said, I still think it's an extremely useful function for the phone
to have by virtue of its power and flexibility. If it could do things like
give different outgoing messages based on who's calling, or forward the
incoming message (maybe even send to email?), or automatically send a text
message and that kind of thing, it would be really cool. The suggestions
of real-time screening (like you can do with a home answering machine) and
sending calls from specific numbers (or all but specific numbers) directly
to the provider's system voicemail are great too.

Mark




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Re: Idea of a voice mail application

2008-03-01 Thread Ortwin Regel
And people just accept paying for incoming connections?! I still can't
get over how US phone contracts work... O.o

On 3/2/08, Mark Haury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 29 Feb 2008, at 17:34, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
 
  siaPeter Trapp ha scritto:
  Hi everybody,
  I thought about the possibility of a voice mail installed on the
  neo.  The idea is to let the application decide if you are
  reachable for the caller or not. The decision will be done on
  profiles (time, who is calling, what to do (let it ring or answer
  directly) ). Eg: Saturday 10:00pm and your boss is calling (and
  you have a signal)
  Neo is aware that it is weekend and who is calling. It just
  turns on the voice mail... Dear Boss, actually it is weekend and I
  just don't want to get some work right now. Sorry, my neo will not
  even inform me that you've called. So don't try again later. It
  would not help until Monday 9am! Have a nice weekend
--- without the possibility to leave a message  ;)
 
 I would like this feature also, and really I assumed it would become
 a commonplace usage on OpenMoko.
 
  Cool, but your caller will pay for this.. So maybe it won't be so
  happy :P
 
 Stuff the caller. I carry a mobile phone so I can make outgoing calls
 when I'm away from home, not so I can be interrupted in the middle of
 a conversation. If someone is calling me they assume that they're
 going to incur the cost of a call, anyway, so I don't see that the
 cost of a call to voicemail is a large imposition (it is probably
 better than me answering my phone to say stuff you, at least).
 
 Stroller.

 In the USA, the originator of the call is irrelevant. It charges against
 your plan minutes regardless of whether you are making or receiving a
 cellular call. So if software on your phone is picking up the line and
 your phone itself is acting as the answering machine, it will use up
 your minutes as well as costing the caller minutes. Actually, if they're
 using a landline and you are a local call for them, it won't cost the
 caller anything, while it uses your minutes regardless.

 The exception is that often if the caller and the recipient are both on
 the same network, neither is charged. I know that's true of T-Mobile.

 Another issue is that this function will only work if your phone is both
 turned on and in service. Of course, maybe this functionality is only
 needed in that situation anyway (e.g. you are in service and want
 to receive calls from certain people and not certain others.)

 That said, I still think it's an extremely useful function for the phone
 to have by virtue of its power and flexibility. If it could do things like
 give different outgoing messages based on who's calling, or forward the
 incoming message (maybe even send to email?), or automatically send a text
 message and that kind of thing, it would be really cool. The suggestions
 of real-time screening (like you can do with a home answering machine) and
 sending calls from specific numbers (or all but specific numbers) directly
 to the provider's system voicemail are great too.

 Mark


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Re: About ipkg on Openmoko

2008-03-01 Thread ian chu
After I did these steps , I can ping outside IP successfully!
But when  $ ipkg update  , it still failed like previous

what should I do to make my Openmoko download ipkg update ?
or I can only copy the file and update locally



2008/2/29, Marcin Juszkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Dnia Friday 29 of February 2008, Xiangfu Liu napisał:

  #!/bin/sh
  echo ...ip address 192.168.0.200
  ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.200
 
  echo ...ip forward
  echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
  modprobe iptable_nat
  iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
 
  maybe work


 http://blog.haerwu.biz/2007/03/22/hotpluging-usbnet/ describe simple
 automation for it.


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