Re: Custom case designs...

2007-07-03 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Oh... but doesn't PETN have some issues with long-term durability when exposed to UV? On Jul 3, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Jeffrey Thomas wrote: Clear soda bottles are fairly strong and not nearly as brittle as some other clear plastics. True enough, and i stand corrected. Their flexibility may

Re: Brainstorm: less functionality per device, more devices

2007-07-03 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Okay... this topic has been discussed to death, here and elsewhere. Let me recap by saying: a. A constellation of cooperating devices is bad because you have to make each device smart enough to talk to each other device, and know what it's supposed to do. And as Fabien points out, testing

Re: Custom case designs... (the business perspective)

2007-07-03 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Also.. to follow up on what Adrian recently said.. The tech shop also has a CNC milling machine. I'm no expert, but I believe that the idea is that you put a CAD file in one side and take out a completed part out the other. So... if you have the CAD files for a case, you could feed them

Re: Custom case designs...

2007-07-03 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
the bottle of choice for solar water disinfection. http://www.sodis.ch/Text2002/T-Howdoesitwork.htm On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:48, Matthew S. Hamrick wrote: Oh... but doesn't PETN have some issues with long-term durability when exposed to UV? On Jul 3, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Jeffrey Thomas wrote

Re: Custom case designs... (the dot-org perspective)

2007-07-03 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
there are enough interested designers / makers that sharing the cost and effort would bring the costs down to something pretty reasonable. Oh... and it would also be easy to laser etch designs on the newly created plastic cases. -Cheers -Matt H. On Jul 3, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Matthew S. Hamrick wrote

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-14 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
to test your device in something approaching real-world conditions.) -Cheers -Matt H. On Jun 14, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Robin Paulson wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 16:26, Matthew S. Hamrick wrote: Gibson Musical Instruments, where we were designing what was effectively a custom PDA (don't ask

Re: Will Openmoko ever see the light of day? Was Re: Concern for usability and ergonomics

2007-06-13 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Duncan... Let me just add to what Sudharshan said... There is a stunning amount of variability in the mobile device supply chain. I used to work for Gibson Musical Instruments, where we were designing what was effectively a custom PDA (don't ask.) There were several delays, including

Re: [SVHMPC] linux phone standard

2007-06-12 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Well... I used to work for PalmSource, one of the LiPS founding members. I've been trying to find something nice to say about LiPS for the last 24 hours and the best I can come up with is, It's not Microsoft. But yeah... my impression has always been that some of the companies involved

Re: unbundling of phone services

2007-06-12 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
A Mobile LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) system would be slightly different that an MVNO. MVNO's mostly differentiate themselves on branding instead of services. LLU is what you get when you force ILECs (Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers) to allow third parties to connect to the local loop

Re: unbundling of phone services

2007-06-12 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
at the carrier's data center and hook directly into their terrestrial SS7 network. That way it would be accessible to the whole network. -Cheers -Matt H. On Jun 12, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Jon Radel wrote: From: Matthew S. Hamrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Mobile LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) system would

Re: Web-based GUI technology for OpenMoko

2007-06-11 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Yeah... we're thinking that we were going to totally separate the model and domain processing from the view/controller part of the application. That way we could have a couple different HTML interfaces as well as a SVG/ECMAScript interface. I'm not terribly familiar with XAML or XUL, but I

Re: Web-based GUI technology for OpenMoko

2007-06-11 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
direction. Cheers Adrian On 6/11/07, Matthew S. Hamrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah... we're thinking that we were going to totally separate the model and domain processing from the view/controller part of the application. That way we could have a couple different HTML interfaces as well as a SVG

Re: cellphone-sized X86 PC motherboard potential OpenMoko platform?

2007-06-10 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
as well. So I still see no reason for having a energy comsuming x86-monster in my phone. :) [1] http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/mobile/ 2007/6/10, Matthew S. Hamrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Before we run off and predict that the sky is falling, let's consider a couple of things: 1

Re: EFL/GTK UI

2007-06-08 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Hmm... this looks cool. I totally agree with the comments about WIMP (Windows Icon Mouse Pointer) interfaces. Especially for mobile devices. Thanks for pointing this one out. -Matt H. On Jun 8, 2007, at 6:15 AM, Florent THIERY wrote: I finally found this again:

Re: New HTC Touch

2007-06-05 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Funny.. this is very similar to the interface we designed for the Wurlitzer Digital Jukebox remote control. Great minds think alike, I suppose. I like that HTC is trying to build something other than the most basic WinCE ports. I spend a lot of my day developing software on a HTC Apache,

Re: Phone Call Security

2007-06-04 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
, Pander wrote: Matthew S. Hamrick wrote: ... Could it be possible to have you GSM request a non-encrypted channel? Would this channel provide more bandwidth or less delay because of that? If so, the extra bandwidth or reduced delay could be used for efficiently using your own encryption

Re: Phone Call Security

2007-06-03 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Encrypted voice calls is a question that's been around for a while. When I worked for RSA and later Certicom, we had frequent discussions about the strength (or lack thereof) of the LFSR-based encryption that was then in frequent use in GSM phones. I should probably mention that GSM and

Re: concept phone with only a touchscreen for UI

2007-06-02 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
It's interesting.. here in the states, people really love the tactile feedback you get with a real keyboard. But I've heard several people say that touch screens are quite popular in Asia. If so, that might explain why BenQ (and not Motorola) did this design and maybe Apple is thinking

Re: concept phone with only a touchscreen for UI

2007-06-02 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Well... for a while I was thinking about implanting a strong magnet under the skin in one of my fingers to detect alternating current. There are a few people out there who have done this and they say they can feel a very mild wiggle when the magnet comes near a wire carrying AC. It might

Re: OpenMoko light web server

2007-04-24 Thread Matthew S . Hamrick
. On Apr 16, 2007, at 9:36 PM, Tim Newsom wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:58, Matthew S. Hamrick wrote: Okay.. a few points: snip Q. javascript? on a phone? Isn't that going to suck down the power? A. in a word, yes. But I think the main problem will not be the added overhead of using

Re: built-in scripting languages.

2007-04-18 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
I think maybe we need a new version of Godwin's law... any discussion about scripting languages should stop as soon as someone mentions Lisp (or Smalltalk.) But seriously... speed probably shouldn't be THE deciding factor in a built-in scripting language. It's the ability to get things

Re: [SVHMPC] OpenMoko light web server

2007-04-17 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
-Matt H. On Apr 16, 2007, at 9:36 PM, Tim Newsom wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:58, Matthew S. Hamrick wrote: Okay.. a few points: snip Q. javascript? on a phone? Isn't that going to suck down the power? A. in a word, yes. But I think the main problem will not be the added overhead of using

Re: OpenMoko light web server

2007-04-17 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
libraries to make web apps... I spent a little bit of time playing with RubyCocoa and RubyOnRails. I did notice that the rails framework was much easier to wrap one's brainstem around. On Apr 17, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Rory McCann wrote: Matthew S. Hamrick said the following on 16/04/07 18:11

Re: OpenMoko light web server

2007-04-17 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
I think that you can get an extra thread when you do a request, but I'm not entirely certain. The way jowles was designed was that it was event based with a timer to run the function that queries the server for events. I used the setTimeout() function to effectively put the main loop to

Re: 0K Re: OpenMoko light web server

2007-04-17 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
No. we're talking about BOA for the server and Firefox for the browser. And... I'm also thinking about exporting an interface off the device, so it might wind up being Firefox, Opera, Safari/WebKit or IE. On Apr 17, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Jonathon Suggs wrote: I wonder if there would be an

Re: [SVHMPC] 0K Re: OpenMoko light web server

2007-04-17 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:svhmpc- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew S. Hamrick Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 4:07 PM To: SVHMPC; OpenMoko Community List Subject: Re: [SVHMPC] 0K Re: OpenMoko light web server I think some of the context didn't get forwarded to one or both lists. Here's

Re: OpenMoko light web server

2007-04-16 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
I didn't realize busybox had a httpd daemon. I've been concentrating on boa (lightweight web server), jowlesd (a daemon to communicate with the GSM module), and jowlesc (the cgi-bin client that simply forwards XML to jowlesd over a named pipe.) If you're httpd daemon can handle CGI

Re: OpenMoko light web server

2007-04-16 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Okay.. a few points: Q. is an XSS worm on the way? A. not unless you make your interface susceptible to known web app vulnerabilities: XSS, SQL Injection, session hijacking, etc. Of course, it's very hard to disprove the existence of a vulnerability, but I can say what I'm doing to prevent

Fwd: Palm, Access, Linux and Irrelevance

2007-04-12 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Forgot to forward this to the lists... Begin forwarded message: Subject: Palm, Access, Linux and Irrelevance Hey Brad... A friend forwarded me your Opening up the Wireless Handset article, and I figured I have a few apropos comments. First... I've been in the mobile value chain for

Re: An Update

2007-04-02 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Depends on the development model. Peter Naur has an interesting take on software development, which I paraphrase... The software that's released is an artifact of the true value of the organization; the ability to efficiently communicate models in the problem space amongst the people that

Re: An Update

2007-04-02 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
/Essays.html -Cheers -Matt H. On Apr 2, 2007, at 12:38 PM, Matthew S. Hamrick wrote: Depends on the development model. Peter Naur has an interesting take on software development, which I paraphrase... The software that's released is an artifact of the true value of the organization; the ability

Re: VoIP call transfer?

2007-03-28 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Matthew... what you're describing is sometimes called Fixed Mobile Convergence. Or rather, the FMC term has grown to encompass the scenario you describe. I use Skype on a HTC Apache (or is it the Wizard?) with EVDO and voice from Verizon. Honestly, I'm surprised Verizon lets me get away

Re: E-mail style voicemail.

2007-03-26 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Hey Matthew. My understanding is that Wildfire had an interface vaguely like this in the 90's, and at least one Canon voice-mail / desktop mash-up device had a voice-mail system where entries were presented as a list on a screen. So I would be real surprised if Apple tried to patent the

Re: E-mail style voicemail.

2007-03-26 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Cool. I keep telling people that the reason I'm building my own mobile is that I want to prototype the thing that I want T-Mobile to sell me for $50 next year. I've chatted with the local T-Mob guys about this exact solution and was greeted with blank stares. Now I'll be able to add the

Re: Idea: up-to-date business card

2007-03-15 Thread Matthew S . Hamrick
and specs as open source, so I would think that if enough people thought it was a good idea, some of the major handset vendors would start integrating it. -Cheers -Matt H. On Mar 14, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Jonathon Suggs wrote: Matthew S. Hamrick wrote: Yes... if you have a Blackberry, Treo or HTC

Re: Idea: Datatransfer during conversation

2007-03-14 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Yup.. This is the vCard Bursting concept. One of the designs we're working on at the Homebrew Mobile Phone Club includes a mobile phone where the audio path goes through the apps processor so it can start sending data over the GSM voice channel. There's a little more info on that at:

Re: Idea: up-to-date business card

2007-03-14 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Yes... if you have a Blackberry, Treo or HTC phone, run Windows and don't mind keeping your data on Plaxo's servers, Plaxo is indeed a good solution. Still... I'm fairly certain that most GSM phones can't make the data call to the Plaxo servers _while_ they are on a voice call with

Re: Idea: up-to-date business card

2007-03-14 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Yeah... this is called Meishi. I developed it while I was in Japan. The idea was that you put a unique bar code on the bottom of your business card. The code is essentially a serial number and URL to your online Meishi server MACed with a secret key you maintain. You give your business

Re: What AT commands does NEO1973 support?

2007-03-13 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Since no one else has lept on this one, I'll pipe in with my comment. At the eTel conference, I asked Sean Moss-Pulz about this indirectly, actually asking if the GSM module they're using is open enough for me to download the details of their AT command set support. Unfortunately, the GSM

Re: Idea: Wake me during light sleep

2007-03-12 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Lefty... I say, seems like you could do this all without a PC (or a Mac.) But I understand what you're saying... people on this list (and most potential users of the Neo) are likely to have multiple PC's from which they could do the same thing. But one of the things that's really vexed me

Re: Creating a SIP client for the OpenMoko

2007-03-12 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Viva SIP! I've been working on some IP telephony applications at my day job, and the more I learn about SIP and the way people are using it, the more I like it. (Though I have to admit, I'm pretty illiterate with respect to IAX, I just like SIP more than I like SS7.) The cool part about

Re: What moblie service to get, part 2

2007-03-10 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Just as a data-point, what I'm doing in the US is I have a family plan with T-mobile with 700 or so minutes, free nights and weekends, unlimited data, and unlimited free T-mobile to T-mobile. I use a Sony- Ericsson T610 as my daily driver though I carry a Samsung T509 when I need EDGE. I

Matt Waxes Poetic About Software Security [Was: Re: [SVHMPC] Headset connector query]

2007-03-09 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
Well... ya' know... the first step might be to not include software that turns the AV inputs on remotely. But the real problems are: a) can you device be upgraded remotely without your knowledge. and b) can your software be exploited remotely without your knowledge. With respect to the