Re: GTA03 - buttons or touchscreen

2008-10-25 Thread Knight Walker
My preferences, in order: 3) combination touchscreen plus qwerty 1) touchscreen (no qwerty buttons) 2) qwerty keyboard and tracker ball ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: PIM software (was: Back to the basics: improving user experience)

2008-10-17 Thread Knight Walker
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 14:02 +0200, Mark Weinem wrote: Yes, the do indeed use MySQL! The follow-up question to that is: Does it really _need_ MySQL, or does it just use the convenience of an SQL back-end? If it just needs SQL, then it could be altered to use SQLite. If it requires MySQL, then

Re: OpenMoko apps website ?

2008-08-19 Thread Knight Walker
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 12:09 +0100, Valerio Valerio wrote: Hi, besides projects.openmoko, I think OpenMoko should have a new website more oriented to the users, it all the OpenMoko applications organized by categories, with screenshots, small descriptions and also the direct link to the

RE: MokSec - The Security Framework

2008-08-19 Thread Knight Walker
Apologies for the tardiness of this post. On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 10:57 -0400, Crane, Matthew wrote: I would think on a phone the primary concern is protecting the user data. E.g. sms, contacts, history. If somebody was able to malicously install software on the phone, your pretty much

Re: not being able to use Skype is a big problem

2008-07-03 Thread Knight Walker
On Jul 2, 2008, at 10:22 PM, Jeremiah Flerchinger wrote: hacking android to run was tried, without too much luck, as mentioned at http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/21/android-neo1973 Depending on how open Android is made, it, or parts of it may run on OpenMoko. I'm not holding my breath though,

How Slow Is Fast?

2008-07-03 Thread Knight Walker
Anyone who has paid attention to this mailing list over the last few months has seen the It doesn't have 3G, it's worthless messages about the FreeRunner. For me (And many, many others) having a fast, power-hungry wireless pipe to the phone isn't as important as everything else the FreeRunner

RE: Battery life case design

2008-07-02 Thread Knight Walker
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 00:04 +0200, Diego Fdez. Durán wrote: El mar, 01-07-2008 a las 13:22 -0700, steve escribió: A deeper back cover is an option. The cad files are open. I also thought of an external battery pack What about this: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/7d34/ ?

Re: Which image

2008-07-02 Thread Knight Walker
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 12:16 +0200, Jay Vaughan wrote: The point is - what can we *developers* target for our end users? Without some stability on this image issue, 3rd-party developers are gonna get screwed. There may well be a market for new apps on OpenMoko; but not if there is no

Re: Let us impact the material world

2008-07-02 Thread Knight Walker
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:24 -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: Doesn't IM requiere permanent connection? For status updates, etc? Not necessarily. A lot of us used IM back in the old dial-up days. I've done a lot of thinking on this subject over the last several years and tried several systems with

Re: Let us impact the material world

2008-07-02 Thread Knight Walker
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 20:54 +0800, xiangfu wrote: may be can use SMS control the remote NEO like send #neo_command shutdown -h now then the neo poweroff : ) Something like this has been floating around the mailing list for months (or more) now. Personally, I'm hoping that the SMS stack in

Re: Bluetooth Headset compatible to Freerunner?

2008-07-01 Thread Knight Walker
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 15:07 +0200, kenneth marken wrote: try this then: http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/accessories/overview/hbh-ds205?cc=gblc=en Does anyone have one of these, or has anyone used one? If this has a mic (for the headset/handsfree profile) and can stream decent sound in

Re: Bluetooth Headset compatible to Freerunner?

2008-07-01 Thread Knight Walker
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 15:11 +0200, kenneth marken wrote: i think its as sonyerricson only feature or something. its the same thing they use on their watches: http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/accessories/overview/mbw-150classicedition?cc=gblc=en where if its paired up with a recent

GTK on FSO (was: Community Initiative GTK)

2008-07-01 Thread Knight Walker
As a long-time Linux user, I have an emotional attachment to GTK+ that ... um ... transcends reason. And primarily for that reason, I would like to see the old GTK+ interfaces (often called GTK software stack or 2007.2 stack) maintained. I will even be helping where and how I can (Though I can't

Re: moko running everything as root

2008-06-18 Thread Knight Walker
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 14:41 -0400, Kevin Dean wrote: You dispute that the user data is the most important part of the mobile device experience? No one (that I've seen thus far) is arguing that the user data is not the most irreplaceable (and to the user, important) part of a mobile device.

Re: Utah Group buy?

2008-04-27 Thread Knight Walker
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 14:54 -0600, Travis Tabbal wrote: Are there enough of us in Utah to bother? Maybe I can join the Denver group if not. :) Since there have been almost no replies, I'm guessing not, though this should probably be circulated around local LUG lists to see if extra interest

Re: 850MHz or 900MHz? ATT or TMobile?

2008-03-25 Thread Knight Walker
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 00:50 -0700, Lowell Higley wrote: I bought a tri-band phone while I lived in Europe. It is 900Mhz/1900Mhz. I had no problems with it on T-Mobile's USA network while I was their customer. I tend to buy my phones is Asia or Europe because they are unlocked and usually

Re: An idea of sorts

2007-07-28 Thread Knight Walker
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 15:36 +0100, Giles Jones wrote: ipkg is based on dpkg, it's more lightweight. It's also a bit more than just a dpkg clone, since it includes repositories and such. Don't get me wrong, we need package management, it's just that I've owned Windows Mobile phones and

Re: email vs forum

2007-07-25 Thread Knight Walker
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:39:08PM +0200, ramsesoriginal wrote: nice. And now explain this to your Grandmother. Because as Einstein said: you have only understood something whe you can explain it to your grandmother. For you it's easy to say that you simply have to use IMAP, but the average

Re: Replying to digests Was: Re: community Digest, Vol 36, Issue 48

2007-07-19 Thread Knight Walker
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 05:44:29PM -0400, Jon Radel wrote: [Entire digest that has nothing at all to do with the above that both you sent out again removed.] Spam the whole mailing list? Ah, at least you're forthright and know yourself well... Ever occur to you two forum fans that the

Re: adding data services with t.mobile for neo 1973

2007-07-01 Thread Knight Walker
On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 09:40 -0700, Brian Beattie wrote: I'm thinking about getting an openmoko phone and I have service with t.mobile. Searching the t,mobile web page does not tell me how to add data service to my plan since they think, there are no internet plans compatible with my device.

Re: UI ideas/questions or can we animate things as smooth as iPhone?

2007-06-07 Thread Knight Walker
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 01:23 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: ... GameBoy provided nice full-screen animations in 1989, eighteen years ago. This is nothing like the GameBoy, or the C64, or the Amiga. The GB was a single-tasking system that would always only be doing one thing at a time.

Re: Blacklist/whitelists

2007-04-06 Thread Knight Walker
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:31:47AM -0700, Tim Newsom wrote: That seems weird... Even in email you can turn off read receipts... It seems like an invasion of sort (though a minor one) to not allow disabling of delivery reports for the receiving party. There are two kinds of delivery reports,

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-20 Thread Knight Walker
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:06:18PM +, Jim McDonald wrote: Yep I understand that there are lots of possibilities and options, I just think that if something ships by default it should provide end users with a very simple dialog that is basically an on/off switch for 'protection of personal

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-18 Thread Knight Walker
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 12:19 +, Jim McDonald wrote: Or perhaps some sort of voice recognition, perhaps a user-chosen phrase? I vote no on this one, primarily due to not being able to access this information without nearby people hearing (Or possibly recording) the pass phrase (Think about

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-18 Thread Knight Walker
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 18:57 +0100, Paul Wouters wrote: Excellent idea. Let's ditch the passphrase/pin though, because once we copy the data off phone to another device, brute forcing anything you can type comfortable using a pin or keyboard will be trivial. I wouldn't. Brute-forcing a

Re: Voice Activated Controls

2007-02-26 Thread Knight Walker
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 05:08:18PM -0600, Jonathon Suggs wrote: Does anyone know of any software for natural language processing that could be ported to OM/Neo? I really like some of the software that is available for the PocketPC (MS Voice Commander and Fonix). They both run and work well

Re: Idea: Caller set ringtone

2007-02-13 Thread Knight Walker
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:13:43PM +, Ole Tange wrote: Caller should be able to transfer and set his ring tone. If the phone displays a picture when the phone is ringing, then caller should be able to transfer and set this as well. No phone I've seen yet allows the caller to set anything

Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-07 Thread Knight Walker
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:25:30PM -0700, Ben Burdette wrote: So, I'm thinking seriously about getting a neo1973 when they become available. I called the local T Mobile office and asked them whether I could borrow a phone to see how the signal strength is where I live. They said I could

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-02-01 Thread Knight Walker
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:48:15AM -0600, Jonathon Suggs wrote: That sounds very interesting. I very much like the concept and look forward to seeing how it is implemented. Although it is an overall travesty, Windows Mobile has a single messaging program that you can configure all of your

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread Knight Walker
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 22:48 -0700, Richi Plana wrote: I, personally, do not use MMS. I'm not even sure if that service is available here in Calgary, AB with the carriers here. I've had a dinky, free phone since the start waiting for the right phone (this one) to come along. However, we should

Re: Silent mode timeout

2007-01-29 Thread Knight Walker
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:30:38AM -0700, Ben Burdette wrote: A simple feature that I'd like to see is a silent mode timeout. What always happens with my current phone is I set it to silent mode because I'm in a movie or a meeting, and then later I forget to turn the ringer back on. This

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Knight Walker
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 22:04 +0100, Ortwin Regel wrote: I like open source and stuff but some things, especially games, are closed in many cases. What are the possibilities for selling closed software for OpenMoko devices? Will there be a central online marketplace? What about DRM, is there a

Re: Required Software

2007-01-26 Thread Knight Walker
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 10:16 -0700, Richi Plana wrote: I've been working with Linux for such a long time and I'm not sure what that VPN client is. Truth is, though most popular network devices (Cisco, etc.) use VPN that Linux supports, it's Microsoft's VPN system that's most prevalent in the