[maemo-users] Re: OT: N770 for sale in the UK
David Bottrill wrote: > I have a N770 for sale > ... > It's in very good condition, little used So, if the 770 was not used much, why are you buying a N800? ;-D -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ The wealthiest individuals are neither the cleverest, the most creative, or the nicest people to spend time with. Career success does not guarantee happiness. We all know this. So why do people sacrifice their leisure, their health, their ability to be creative, and their relation- ships purely in order to earn more money? -- Carmine Coyote, June 2006 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Re: Battery Benchmarking?
Igor Stoppa wrote: > Lol, so I guess that all of you guys switch off your mobile phone before > going to bed, right? What's so funny about that? That's the very least. My cellphone is always off when I'm home, since I don't need it there. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Cannavaro Cannavaro Cannavaro, what else is there to say? [...] He stopped Klose and he stopped Ballack and he stopped Podolski and he stopped Odonkor and he stopped Schneider and he stopped Schweinsteiger, most of them more than once. [...] Cannavaro was the knife in Germany’s heart. -- Tim Bray, July 2006 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Re: Battery Benchmarking?
Igor Stoppa wrote: > No, the LED is off by default and the power-savvy user will wisely keep > it off and even switch it off if it gets accidentally enabled. > If you are more interested into running your device for longer time than > having that disco effect, keep it off. Full agreement on that. > The LED is meant to tell you, at basic level, "I'm alive even if the > screen is blank". Plus some other things like "You have email/You have > missed calls". The first one is bad, the second may be good (if desired). >> I am aware that Bluetooth&Wlan power management is very good and that >> it probably is not that relevant for power management to explicitely >> kill all connections when putting the cover on the device. > yes, arguable choice, but it can be disabled. Not on my 770, for sure... > 770 wasn't explicitly sold as always-on and therefore connectivity got > killed by default. UI and marketing choices "arguable"? Good choice, I think he was somehow implying. > Sorry if we have undermined your mental landmarks, but you just have to > adjust to the always-on concept. That's the fashion of the day. I see you're looking for flames: great, bring 'em on! ;-) I do appreciate your post about kernel timers, polling, and app developer responsibilities, and heartily hope you're being sarcastic here. Put another way, who gives a [] about the fashion of the day? > Yes, we gave up the shrink division and hired more developers :-D > No, unfortunately that's only my wild dream. Good thing the programmers are *not* running the asylum. ;-P -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ In the developed world, we do not have a shortage of IPv4 addresses at this time. [...] In the developing world the situation is already dire. In some places, entire universities are hidden behind a single routable IPv4 address, and in others, NAT's are as much as 5 levels deep. -- Jim Gettys, June 2006 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Re: Battery Benchmarking?
Simon Budig wrote: > I believe Nokia is missing a psychological factor here. Putting the > cover on the 770 allows the user to forget about it. He finished using > it and it is kind of stored away safely, it won't distract him. That's exactly how I feel about it. > The N800 has no equivalent. When you stop using it, its screen stays > lighted for a while - "wasn't there something else you wanted to use me > for?", it still demands a certain amount of attention. Then it switches > the light off at some point - if it is lying around in your vincinity > this is another visible intrusion that you'll notice even from the > corner of your eyes. Plus it - at least the prototype I've seen - keeps > blinking the blue LED in the cursor pad. Not sure what this is supposed > to indicate. Active Network connection? "not really switched off"? It does? Oh gosh, that's awful. I hereby predict that it will be soon disabled, somehow. ;-) > I am aware that Bluetooth&Wlan power management is very good and that > it probably is not that relevant for power management to explicitely > kill all connections when putting the cover on the device. > > However it sometimes is convenient to have the Wlan and Bluetooth > connections cut off when you explicitely put the cover on the 770. > Putting the cover on the 770 then gives the reassuring feeling of > "nobody can mess with it remotely, there certainly is no pending stuff > running there". That's another nice touch, in these days of diminishing privacy, and gives the best of both worlds. You want to keep it connected? Just leave it alone, and after a while the screen blanks, while connections stay up. You want to put it to sleep, away from world concerns? Just slide the cover on. Very simple, very functional. It feels good. > I guess the only option to do this on the N800 is the > flight mode, which of course requires actively reenabling this stuff > when you want to use it again. Certainly not as smoothely integrated > with the workflow as with the 770. > > At least these are my thoughts regarding the cover issue - it is a > psychological thing and I am a bit sad that Nokia apparently abandoned > this concept. The 770 cover also has an important protecting role: it is solid, and always at hand, thanks to the very well thought out "sliding on the back" mechanism. The auto-switch off when on the front, no button press needed, is a very nice touch. I'm sad that it has been dropped from the new model. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ In the developed world, we do not have a shortage of IPv4 addresses at this time. [...] In the developing world the situation is already dire. In some places, entire universities are hidden behind a single routable IPv4 address, and in others, NAT's are as much as 5 levels deep. -- Jim Gettys, June 2006 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Re: RSS reader behavior on HTTP redirects
Andrew Flegg wrote: > If the wifi provider was using 301 rather than 302 to redirect to the > login page, *they're* the ones mis-reading the specs, so the > enhancement you suggest would be useful there. The practical situation of 3xx HTTP response code is a mess with historical causes: Redirect in response to POST transaction http://ppewww.physics.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/post-redirect.html -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Note that the Justice Department invoked two of the Four Horsemen of the Internet Apocalypse: child pornographers and terrorists. If they can figure out how to work kidnappers and drug dealers in, they can probably do anything they want. -- Bruce Schneier, June 2006 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Re: ssh install failure
Neil MacLeod wrote: > Just a thought, but you may end up receiving fewer replies to your > messages as people won't bother to read what you have to say due to the > poor formatting, in which case it's in your own interests to at least > try to conform. I concur. I did not finish reading the René Seindal message, the one with two letters per line, which was even less readable than the ones with one letter per line. > My advice to you would be to stop inserting carriage returns every 6 or > 7 words and instead allow the text to wrap normally so that the viewer > can read your messages with text formatted as narrow or as wide as they > feel comfortable. That would definitely be best. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ I have been working on a design doc for restricted execution of Python as part of my dissertation for getting Python into Firefox to replace JavaScript on the web. -- Brett Cannon, June 2006 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Re: ssh install failure
>> Marius Gedminas: >>> (Why wrap the text so narrowly?) > Zoran Kolic: >> The eyes go downward, not left-right. > T > h > a > t > > d > o > e > s > > n > o > t > > c > o > n > v > i > n > c > e > > m > e > . > > > : > - > ) M e n e i t h e r . -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ I have been working on a design doc for restricted execution of Python as part of my dissertation for getting Python into Firefox to replace JavaScript on the web. -- Brett Cannon, June 2006 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Re: MMC Filesystem becomes read-only after a while
[Let's keep the discussion on the mailing list, no personal reply. Also, please don't top-post: replies should go *after* the replied-to text. Finally, if you could avoid HTML emails, it would be perfect. :-) ] Kahlil Johnson wrote: > How can I reformat it, I think I have done it before with fdisk but can > u do me some steps to do this, I want to make a guide at the mameo wiki > to document this issue/workaround. > > Thanks your help is appreciated. fdisk is used to repartition a block device, probably you don't need it. On Linux, one uses the mkfs command to reformat a partition, choosing the vfat type, in this case. I don't know whether the mkfs command is available on the 770, I reformatted the card's first (and only) partition on my main computer. If you don't have Linux, you can reformat it on Windows and other systems too, it's a standard FAT32 partition. > On 12/30/06, *Nicola Larosa* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Kahlil Johnson wrote: > > I have a problem where the MMC becomes a read-only filesystem after a > > period of time this means that I can't write to the device. > > The Linux kernel remounts filesystems as read-only when there are > errors > using them. I had this happen recently, when the partition on the > card got > corrupted for some reason. Try reformatting it. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ All we're asking is that you stop spreading misinformation about the current state of dynamic languages to the press, analysts, and your customers. This does not require you to champion or otherwise support these technologies - just stop lying about them. -- Ryan Tomayko to James Gosling, March 2006 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Re: MMC Filesystem becomes read-only after a while
Kahlil Johnson wrote: > I have a problem where the MMC becomes a read-only filesystem after a > period of time this means that I can't write to the device. The Linux kernel remounts filesystems as read-only when there are errors using them. I had this happen recently, when the partition on the card got corrupted for some reason. Try reformatting it. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ All we're asking is that you stop spreading misinformation about the current state of dynamic languages to the press, analysts, and your customers. This does not require you to champion or otherwise support these technologies - just stop lying about them. -- Ryan Tomayko to James Gosling, March 2006 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Re: pdf reader: suggestions for improvement
I share this concern, if not all the proposed solutions. :-) > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:09:10PM +0100, Damien Challet wrote: >> The pdf reader (a very nice piece of software) makes it a pain to go to the >> next/prev page for two reasons: >> >> 1) lack of dedicated button. There has been a few posts about that. What >> strikes me is that there are two buttons (select and the full screen button) >> that have currently exactly the same function: to switch from full screen to >> windowed mode and back. So we have one spare button. >> >> In principle one could use the select button to display the next page (short >> click) and the previous one (long click). Marius Gedminas wrote: > The Back button might be a better fit for going to the previous page. That's a great idea! Select to go the next page, and Back to go to the previous. It sounds just perfect. >> However, as suggested previously, FBreader uses nicely the zoom button to go >> forward/backward. This is being used for the zoom feature in the pdf reader, >> but honestly, how often to do change the zoom while reading a pdf file? >> Once. >> So the best suggestion is to use the select button to pop-up a zoom chooser >> and the zoom button to scroll down/go to the next page. >> >> Finally, when scrolling down (or up) a page with the D-pad, doesn't it make >> sense to switch to the next page if one is already a the bottom of a page? NO! Please don't! Please please don't! Pretty please? :-) It's really annoying when scrolling around a page with the arrow keys, one finds himself on the next or previous page without wanting it. Much better having dedicated keys, and using them. Did I already say please don't? ;-) > Or better yet -- support the "continous" mode that Acrobat Reader and > Evince have and show parts of both pages at the same time. No problem in continuous mode, of course. Unfortunately, KPDF exhibits this exact behavior even when *not* in continuous mode, and that's *mightily* annoying. I opened a bug in the KDE bug tracker for this problem, and it's slowly building consensus. >> 2) When displaying the next/prev page, please keep the horizontal position >> so >> that one does not have to adjust the centering at each page change. I second this one too. >> With these two modifications, the pdf reader program would much easier and >> faster to use. Definitely. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Looking good on paper is the first resort of those who want to appear to acknowledge some public concern without making any significant change. That's usually politicians, command-and-control business leaders and PR flacks. Real leaders know that looking good on paper means nothing unless it's the result of determined actions, not a replacement for them. -- Carmine Coyote, May 2006 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Re: getting started?
> GPE is not bad, ich imported all appointments from my Palm. Biggest > shortcoming: can't sync with desktop (at least nobody managed that so far). Furthermore, it doesn't import categories, nor private record settings. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Q. (anonymous): What do you think we should do about SOA? A. (Tim): Don't do anything. "SOA" may have meant something once, but it's just vendor bullshit now. -- Tim Bray, April 2006 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Re: Sip-client application
Rainer Dorsch wrote: > [Armin wants to develop a SIP client for the nokia 770.] > ... > There is the gizmo project, they might use SIP but AFAIK their code is > proprietary and can only use the gizmo SIP. > > I heard of a command line SIP application: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/maemo-developers%40maemo.org/msg05143.html > > Maybe others know more ? It's not easy to find a SIP phone program that works well; I had best fortune with Twinkle ( http://www.twinklephone.com/ ). However, it's a Qt program, so it won't be easy to port it to Maemo. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Many software developers have become hostage to the development frameworks that they utilise. In turn, many frameworks have made session state a fundamental building block of web development because it permits sloppy design. -- Alan Dean, April 2006 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
