Re: [OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

2008-11-28 Thread Dale Maggee
David Pottage wrote: On Thu, November 27, 2008 7:06 am, Denis Johnson wrote: ... Preferably using something like http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ (if someone knows a Linux equivalent please chime in) The linux equivalent is cdparanoia. Like EAC it will produce bit perfect rips of

Re: python-ctypes and binutils

2008-11-28 Thread Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes
Hi Andrew! That's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks! - Gunnar Andrew Chu wrote: Hi Gunnar, I'm not sure if this will answer your question or not, but it sounds like you are looking for the following package: http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgname=binutils-symlinks

Re: Problem editing wiki

2008-11-28 Thread BrendaWang
Hi, I am Openmoko Wiki editor, This problem seems caused by clouldTag extension, now we disabled this function. And while I edit wiki, it's OK now . So it fixed. Please let me know if it OK for you also. Brenda glownan ??: Thanks! Thomas Franck wrote: Hi.. I have a problem

Re: [OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

2008-11-28 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | FLAC *is* compressed, but it's lossless compression, meaning that there | is no change to the sound when you encode it to FLAC, Whereas when you | encode to MP3 or ogg, you're losing audio information. | |

Re: [QtExtended] Best 4.4.2 image?

2008-11-28 Thread clare johnstone
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Alishams Hassam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using qtextended with mwester's kernel as a daily phone. Using even the unstable kernel, ontop of daily phone features (making and receiving calls, txt msgs, caller id, contacts off sim) it also

Re: [OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

2008-11-28 Thread arne anka
but it's kind of on-topic you know with the Android image getting recooked for this). now i am confused. care to elaborate? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Problem editing wiki

2008-11-28 Thread glownan
I tried and its working OK for me as well. Thanks BrendaWang wrote: Hi, I am Openmoko Wiki editor, This problem seems caused by clouldTag extension, now we disabled this function. And while I edit wiki, it's OK now . So it fixed. Please let me know if it OK for you also. Brenda

Re: [OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

2008-11-28 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | but it's kind of on-topic you know with the Android image | getting recooked for this). | | now i am confused. | care to elaborate?

Re: [OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

2008-11-28 Thread arne anka
| but it's kind of on-topic you know with the Android image | getting recooked for this). | | now i am confused. | care to elaborate? http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2008-November/006894.html well, that's the starting point -- but how is the discussion about flac vs

Re: [OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

2008-11-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 Nov 2008, at 11:06, Sean McNeil wrote: ... I'd like to point out also that the CD source is already lossy in that it is a digital representation of analog signals. Recording companies, however, compensate for this and work to make the sound output from a CD player as ideal as

Re: Accel digital spirit-level wanted

2008-11-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 Nov 2008, at 07:02, bytestore wrote: anybody, write programm digital building level The English word for this is a digital spirit level. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_level HTH, Stroller. ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: [OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

2008-11-28 Thread Sean McNeil
Dale Maggee wrote: Denis Johnson wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * It's my Hard drive that doesn't support FLAC! If I used flac, my music library (I guess mp3 collection will soon become a misnomer!) would be *enormous*! Yes, I

[debian/fso] Re: zhone and sms

2008-11-28 Thread arne anka
please prefix the subject with your distribution! What should I do make it send after I write the message? dunno. but to help, enable logging to file in framework.conf, open a bug at the fso trac and append the log (remove any private information before, like phone numbers and the sms

Re: [OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

2008-11-28 Thread arne anka
with all due respect i'd like to point out that this is now _totally_ off topic (and the issue of loss / lossless compression has been discussed elsewhere in extenso). seeing the huge number of traffic the list generates already it would be very kind of you to discuss the issue of music and

Re: [OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

2008-11-28 Thread Dale Maggee
Denis Johnson wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * It's my Hard drive that doesn't support FLAC! If I used flac, my music library (I guess mp3 collection will soon become a misnomer!) would be *enormous*! Yes, I realise it's lossless etc etc, but

Re: [OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

2008-11-28 Thread Denis Johnson
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * It's my Hard drive that doesn't support FLAC! If I used flac, my music library (I guess mp3 collection will soon become a misnomer!) would be *enormous*! Yes, I realise it's lossless etc etc, but 320kpbs mp3s are close

Re: Accel digital spirit-level wanted

2008-11-28 Thread bytestore
:) Many thanks, I did not know Stroller-2 wrote: On 28 Nov 2008, at 07:02, bytestore wrote: anybody, write programm digital building level The English word for this is a digital spirit level. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_level HTH, Stroller.

Re: [OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

2008-11-28 Thread Sean McNeil
Stroller wrote: On 28 Nov 2008, at 11:06, Sean McNeil wrote: ... I'd like to point out also that the CD source is already lossy in that it is a digital representation of analog signals. Recording companies, however, compensate for this and work to make the sound output from a CD

[FSO ms4] Settings?

2008-11-28 Thread Arigead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, perhaps I've missed an email on this but I've noticed that the spanner/wrench settings in FSO ms 4 have no effect. I've not tested all settings but some I've tested don't appear to work like the power setting to change the phone

[SPAM] Quake III on Nokia devices

2008-11-28 Thread Ivan Shirokoff
Hello everybody =) http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/nokia-quake-iii-gains-on-phone-server-bluetooth-keyboard-and-mo/ I wonder if there any way we would get something like this on FR? =) ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: [SPAM] Quake III on Nokia devices

2008-11-28 Thread Marcel
Am Friday 28 November 2008 16:24:28 schrieb Ivan Shirokoff: Hello everybody =) http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/28/nokia-quake-iii-gains-on-phone-server-bl uetooth-keyboard-and-mo/ I wonder if there any way we would get something like this on FR? =) Unlikely from what I've heard about the

Re: [Debian -FSO -GPS] No Fix

2008-11-28 Thread Antony King
I've put milestone 4 back on, and I'm now getting UBX messages in the debug log, so something clearly broke in 4.1 . Took a while (it's raining hard and I'm indoors) but I finally got a fix. Methinks something's broken between 4 and 4.1 - there doesn't appear to be an existing bug for this so

Choosing a distro right now

2008-11-28 Thread Jelle De Loecker
Hi everyone, I've been happily running QTextended 4.1.0 for a while now, it's quite stable and fast, but I'd like to try a distro using X11 again. How are the others doing, right now? I'm not looking for a milestone release, a snapshot is good, too. I read the SHR doesn't use a PIM at the time,

microSD issue again

2008-11-28 Thread Dmitry Popov
Hi All Who have same problem ? Transcend 2Gb microSD GTA02v6 # mmcinit cmd 0x8, arg 0x1aa flags 0x75 Error after cmd: 0xfffc Card Type: SD Manufacturer: 0x1c, OEM SV Product name: USD , revision 1.0 Serial number: 167850 Manufacturing date: 2/2007 MMC/SD size:

Re: microSD issue again

2008-11-28 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Hi All | Who have same problem ? | Transcend 2Gb microSD | glamo-mci glamo-mci.0: Error after cmd: 0x8020 | mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/write command | end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector

[FSO ms4] Operator SMS Message problem

2008-11-28 Thread Arigead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, this problem arises from another thread that I started [FSO ms4] GPRS problem on one network where I'm having problems establishing a GPRS connection to one of the Irish Operators. This problem is not related but found it along the

Internet Key on Neo Freerunner?

2008-11-28 Thread Giovanni
In these days many telecom operators are offering USB internet dongles, which can connect to a computer by USB port and allow the computer to access the internet in any place through wireless communications (UMTS, GPRS, etc.). In Italy, all the telecom operators (Vodafone, Tim, 3, etc.) are

Re: is FDOM unstable

2008-11-28 Thread Levy A. M. Sant'Anna
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 21:18, David Reyes Samblas Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/11/18 Levy A. M. Sant'Anna [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FDOM is so cool and have so much potential that I try to use it every day, all the apps. Tanks a lot :) feel free to join the devel list to discuss about

Re: Internet Key on Neo Freerunner?

2008-11-28 Thread arne anka
the internet in any place through wireless communications (UMTS, GPRS, etc.). gprs does the fr by itself, umts requires i 3g sim and those are know to be ... uhm ... problematic with the fr, though i don't remember if the recent firmware upgrade for the modem does fix it. What

A light for the Freerunner

2008-11-28 Thread Patrick Beck
Hello, because i like my light on my older phone, a Sony Ericsson W800i, i added a light on the miniusb - connector. Perhaps anybody like it or has any improvements for me :D Here you can find a wiki article about the light http://yourse.de/wiki/doku.php?id=openmoko:usb_light And here two

Re: Accel digital spirit-level wanted

2008-11-28 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:17:17 -0500, Joel Newkirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:28:32 -0800 (PST), bytestore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :) Many thanks, I did not know Stroller-2 wrote: On 28 Nov 2008, at 07:02, bytestore wrote: anybody, write programm digital building