Re: dual monitors
So I've heard, but the NVIDIA driver seems to handle mixed resolutions fine. I've used it before with different resolutions when driving a VGA-to-composite TV adapter or driving an LCD TV, but both were limited duration uses so I didn't try running OOo while that setup was active. I would expect mixed resolutions to either prevent two displays from working entirely, or cause rendering artifacts or something at a low layer. The problems I'm seeing seems to be happening at a few layers of abstraction higher, where resolution should be irrelevant. How is the positioning of your monitors configured? The nvidia-xsettings app allows you to choose things like 'Left of', 'Right of', and 'absolute'. I've seen some anomalies on my computer when either one of the monitors is set to 'absolute' positioning. I've been running an nvidia setup with twinview and different monitor resolutions and haven't seen any of these problems (Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu). ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: 30% Apple
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of David Kramer To the best of my knowledge, and certainly a year or so ago when I had to make this decision, stock Android calendar/contacts/etc would not sync with any desktop app without the data going through some web- based service. Not under Windows and certainly not under Linux. I don't know because I don't do that. I happily sync to my exchange google accounts. What would you like to do, sync via USB or wifi or bluetooth or something? Direct to what applications? Outlook or something else? I never saw any reply about what specifically you wanted, so I just guessed you want to sync calendar, addressbook, etc via USB. Perhaps these all sprung up in the last year, but just by googling for a couple of minutes, I came across half a dozen. Companionlink, DejaOffice, MyLink, MyPhoneExplorer, android-sync.com ... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: 30% Apple
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of David Kramer ATT modifies their Android phones so you can't install software from anywhere else What would be the motivation for ATT to do such a thing? Does this statement warrant a fact-check? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: 30% Apple
On Feb 22, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: What would be the motivation for ATT to do such a thing? Control. Does this statement warrant a fact-check? http://androidcommunity.com/att-android-owners-can-now-side-load-apps-20100722/ Generally, ask Google about android and sideload. --Rich P. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: 30% Apple
On 02/22/2011 09:51 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of David Kramer ATT modifies their Android phones so you can't install software from anywhere else What would be the motivation for ATT to do such a thing? Does this statement warrant a fact-check? You can install software from the Google marketplace, or you can develop an application using the SDK and install it on the phone. Additionally, I have installed an app using the QIC code on an application's web site. However, ATT Androids come with some applications preinstalled, such as Yahoo search, but I now have Google Search as the default search and Dolphin browser as the default browser. I am running on Android 2.1 on a non-rooted Android. For instance, to install Opera, you go to the Opera web site, http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/, and scan the QIC code, but that brings up a browser in the Android, but as I mentioned, I have installed apps directly from the QIC code. Additionally, while the ATT Navigator app is installed permanently on my Android, I was easily able to install Google Maps with full navigation capabilities. -- Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: 30% Apple
On 02/22/2011 10:09 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: David has an ATT Android phone. He's competent to make such a proclamation. Also, it has been widely reported in Engadget, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, blah, blah, blah. If you wanted a fact check, why didn't you Google for one? Relevant terms could be ATT Android disable sideload You would also find that there are several ways around, ranging in severity from use the adb dev tool to load via USB to root your Android. David has an iPhone not an Android. I have an ATT Android. You can certainly install any Android app from the Android command line using the adb command. The real issue is that you cannot uninstall the ATT preinstalled apps, such as ATT Nav. And under Android 2.1 as I mentioned I was able to replace the default Yahoo search with Google, although I was able to add Google search before 2.1 was available for my phone. -- Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: 30% Apple
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:47:11AM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: On 02/22/2011 10:09 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: David has an ATT Android phone. He's competent to make such a proclamation. David has an iPhone not an Android. I have an ATT Android. You can certainly install any Android app from the Android command line using the adb command. The real issue is that you cannot uninstall the ATT preinstalled apps, such as ATT Nav. And under Android 2.1 as I mentioned I was able to replace the default Yahoo search with Google, although I was able to add Google search before 2.1 was available for my phone. Whoops, my mistake. David, did you have an Android from ATT and then trade it, or is that my imagination? -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: dual monitors
Stephen Jahl wrote: How is the positioning of your monitors configured? The nvidia-xsettings app allows you to choose things like 'Left of', 'Right of', and 'absolute'. I've seen some anomalies on my computer when either one of the monitors is set to 'absolute' positioning. I specified right of when configuring the new primary display, but after merging the changes into xorg.conf and rebooting, it has changes to Absolute. I figured that was normal. I have noticed that if I try to take a screen shot the image is of the entire desktop spanning the two monitors (which deviates from the workspace model I previously described), with black pixels filling in the region left by one of the monitors having fewer vertical pixels. I haven't looked into the bug reports for OOo, but at least one of the apps having problems (DockBarX) had an existing report describing the same symptom I observed on a dual-monitor setup. So at least some of what I'm observing isn't unique to my setup. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: 30% Apple
On 2/22/2011 11:42 AM, Kent Borg wrote: I have heard that T-Mobile is good about unlocking phones they sell. Once someone has been a customer for awhile and they think you aren't going to walk and refuse to honor the contract, if you go in and say I'll be traveling to Europe and want to use a foreign SIM... they will unlock it. I have not verified this myself, but I have read such things... I have a prepaid T-Mobile phone and they cheerfully supplied the unlock code. (And I still have the T-Mobile service for it; I wanted the unlock for international travel.) T-Mobile's official policy from their web site: SIM Unlock Code For information on the SIM Unlock Code, refer to the following: If you purchased a wireless phone from T-Mobile, your phone has been programmed with a SIM lock which will prevent the phone from operating with other compatible wireless telephone carrier’s services. If you wish to use the phone with the service of another wireless telephone carrier, you must enter a numeric SIM Unlock Code to unlock the phone. For customers with a T-Mobile Postpaid Plan, T-Mobile will provide the SIM Unlock Code upon request to eligible customers, provided the requesting customer has a minimum of 40 days of active service with T-Mobile. For customers with a T-Mobile Prepaid Plan, T-Mobile will provide the SIM Unlock Code upon request to eligible customers, provided the requesting customer has a minimum of 60 days of active service with T-Mobile and either a Prepaid Plan account balance of at least $10.00 or a prior refill within the last 30 days. T-Mobile will provide the SIM Unlock Code upon request to eligible former customers, provided that T-Mobile has such code or can obtain it from the manufacturer. You may request the SIM Unlock Code for your phone, together with instructions for entering the code, by calling T-Mobile customer care at 1-800-937-8997. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: 30% Apple
Since I hear a number of people here using android on t-mobile or att, I'll just mention... I recently switched from t-mobile to metropcs, and I love it. Unlimited everything for $50/mo (including taxes and everything) and no contracts. Yes there is some junk preinstalled, but nothing I care to root my phone for... And I happily install all kinds of stuff from any source I can find... Yup, I love it, and I can't wait till my wife's contract on t-mobile expires so she can switch too. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
