Re: RFC: delete page USB

2008-08-30 Thread Paul Jimenez
Don't delete it; someone will recreate it. Make it a redirect to the Category:USB page. Fredrik Wendt wrote: lör 2008-08-30 klockan 00:29 -0700 skrev Michael Shiloh: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB My comment: Just go ahead! :) / Fredrik

Bluetooth on om 2008.08

2008-08-21 Thread Paul Buede
Anyone know how to pair a bluetooth headset? I was able to do it on the Qtopia release, but don't see an app to do it on ASU. Is there a package I need to install? Am I just blind? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Ahah: and you released anyway ? - Re: [ Software Testing Report : 2008.08.07 ]

2008-08-20 Thread Paul Buede
Since we're top posting... I just want to throw in that I really like OM 2008.8. After seeing all the problems people had with it when it came out I went to the newest Qtopia but I had issues with reception and using devices like headsets/speakerphone. I then decided to try OM 2008.8. At first the

Re: Gestures now working on fso-testing

2008-08-18 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
I'm happy now... Thanks Denis. I'll try the new FSO image today :) Paul On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Denis Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those who may be interested in the gestures project http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Accelerometer-based_Gestures. After some assist today kudos

Re: maps for others country?

2008-08-17 Thread Paul Wouters
create a map before departure, it's very interesting. Is there a way to preload map packages from openstreemaps based on coordinates? So that we can create city or country maps, without actually being there ? :) Paul ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-16 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
Hi Fredrik, Thanks. Recognized gestures, are already sent through dbus, check http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Accelerometer-based_Gestures#DBUS Paul On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Fredrik Wendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul-Valentin Borza wrote: I'll probably do a better integration

Re: Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-15 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
running gesm --neo2 --config /etc/accelges/neo2 --new up.model (for top accel) or gesm --neo3 --config /etc/accelges/neo3 --new up.model (for bottom accel) What we might need to really improve the accuracy, is a gyroscope. Perhaps in GTA03? Thanks, Paul On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Yaroslav

Re: Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-15 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
There's a bug unfortunately with the landscape mode. I think half of it has been corrected (on FSO). Paul On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:07 PM, C R McClenaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Bravo - coolest app to date. I've installed on FSO MS2 with updates for dependencies. For me not only

Re: Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-15 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
Yes, I'll have to rethink the design a little bit to reduce power consumption. On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Yorick Moko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cool! Thanks! 1 quick question. wiki says: Remark: The Alpha 2

Re: Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-15 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
Don't know what to say here, sorry. Paul On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Christian Anke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag 14 August 2008 20:50:54 schrieb carcinoma: Am Donnerstag 14 August 2008 20:23:02 schrieb Ben Holt: Paul-Valentin Borza wrote: Have fun with it! i'm sad

Re: Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-15 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
Try the 2008.8 release. Paul On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Bastian Muck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timo Jyrinki schrieb: 2008/8/15 Christian Anke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: what is with this? the top accelerometer does not work! Also after

Re: Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-15 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
I'll probably do a better integration with the framework on the next release. Paul On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:30 AM, thomasg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really great work! But I don't think a service depending on a running xserver should be an init script (even if the script can require the X

Re: Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-15 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
model you like - it's a continuous density left-to-right hidden Markov model Thanks, Paul On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Daniel Benoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks good :) Here's my experiences, don't know if these are planned for future releases: I don't know if something is wrong

Re: Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-15 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
You're right, but with the expense of more computational power; and indeed it's all about the features that the hmm, and classifier use :) Paul On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko site-openmoko.org@ onerussian.com wrote: Well, that might be an idea to use both

Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-14 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
with it! Thanks, Paul -- http://www.borza.ro ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-14 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
Thanks, didn't know that. I'll definitely try it out. Thanks, Paul On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Harald Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paul, On Aug 14, Paul-Valentin Borza wrote: There's a quick way to install it, and a more detailed way... Read http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki

Re: Qtopia issues with 4.3.2-080808

2008-08-13 Thread Paul Buede
Lorn Potter wrote: Paul Buede wrote: I am not sure the most appropriate place for this, so I will post my issues here and take them elsewhere if there is a better place for them. I flashed with the qtopia-4.3.2-080808-rootfs-08081019.jffs2 and uImage-2.6.24+git30

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-12 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
Ok, I understand now. They can be made like you just said, only that I need to recalibrate the whole thing, so that more states are created per cycle. I'll try in a future release. Right now I'm concentrating on the UI, and writing docs on the Wiki. Thanks, Paul On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:46 PM

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-12 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
Hmm.. Don't know what to say here. Are you using the 2008.8? Older versions of rootfs used to make one accelerometer work, and the other do not; but I never encountered BOTH of the accelerometers not working... Paul On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Daniel Benoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-12 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
these above would be useful. I envision them to be made quite rapidly.) Stroller. On 11 Aug 2008, at 17:46, Paul-Valentin Borza wrote: The fact that is currently undocumented is all my fault. Sorry for that - I'll catch up this weekend. Till then, I have to work on the release. Yes

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-ba sed Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-12 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
Thanks! :) On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Urivan Saaib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, Congratulations! This is a great advance feature. I'll be using it a lot! Regards, ==Original message text=== On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 0:35:39 PDT Paul-Valentin Borza wrote: Hi

Another question on qtopia, and md5

2008-08-12 Thread Paul Buede
be e250609cd4838817be07e1934adcb375 But I have downloaded it twice now, and both times I get: pblap:/home/paul/openmoko # md5sum qtopia-4.3.2-080808-gta02-flash.tgz 9f3de59d6f90868e39059ab634a6430b qtopia-4.3.2-080808-gta02-flash.tgz Is this the case for anyone else

Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-11 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
, I will continue to improve it, and I'll use the Neo for my primary development target. More on http://gestures.borza.ro Thanks, Paul -- http://www.borza.ro ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-11 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
from the figure you painted in the air? Or even better. Do you think it would be possible to do something like palms grafiti without knocking your neighbor out? :) Norbert On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 09:35 +0200, Paul-Valentin Borza wrote: Hi, As Google Summer of Code 2008 is almost at its end

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-11 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
Those were some gestures that I thought were useful to use - due to lack of imagination for short gestures. If anyone can think to some short gestures, please tell me how these short gestures should look like, and I'll create them. We're not constraint to use those gestures, not at all. Paul

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-11 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
of the gestures seems to be a little, well, over the top, I mean, if I was on the bus and I started doing the Z shape for example people would think what I was upto, do the gestures have to the this exagerated or was that just for the demo so people could clearly see what you were doing? Paul

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-11 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
you painted in the air? Or even better. Do you think it would be possible to do something like palms grafiti without knocking your neighbor out? :) Norbert On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 09:35 +0200, Paul-Valentin Borza wrote: Hi, As Google Summer of Code 2008 is almost at its end, here's

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-11 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
(as in accelerometer gestures), and they generate signals: Recognized signal On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bravo Paul, I'm looking forward to this project maturing. Will your next release be able to record new gestures or only detect the ones in the demo? Am I right

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-11 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
Your probably using an older version, since what you just saw in the video is not released yet :) I will release a package this week. try hexdump /dev/input/event2 and hexdump /dev/input/event3 and restart your Neo :) Paul On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Benoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-11 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
for each gesture. Paul On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On 11 Aug 2008, at 08:35, Paul-Valentin Borza wrote: ... There still are some things that need to be worked on for the GUI, but I will release another package on Thursday/Friday with everything you've

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-11 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
The listener daemon doesn't start up automatically, only the one that recognizes gestures. For on, it just sends the recognized gesture, regardless of the context the phone is. Paul On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On 11 Aug 2008, at 16:12, Daniel Benoy wrote

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-11 Thread Paul-Valentin Borza
/accelges/source/browse/accelges_svn.bb Thanks, Daniel On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Daniel Willmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hey, On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:35:39 +0200 Paul-Valentin Borza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Google Summer of Code 2008 is almost at its end, here's a video showing

Re: Freerunner with latest qtopia, poor GSM

2008-08-11 Thread Paul Buede
Tim Erwin wrote: I've been running my freerunner with the 08/08/2008 qtopia release. Now I'm using it as a phone I've noticed the GSM reception is poor... or more to the point qtopia seems to spend as much time reporting No network as it does with a signal. I am using the qtopia

Re: Freerunner with latest qtopia, poor GSM

2008-08-11 Thread Paul Buede
Tim Erwin wrote: Interestingly, I flashed with the 08/08/2008 qtopia release this morning, from my opkg updated stock image, and also notice my signal is weaker. I am just using the stock image from qtopia, I haven't done any updating. I will do a update and see if I get the same

Re: ATT sim card not working, Tmobile does

2008-08-07 Thread Paul Buede
-SWAP_W0QQitemZ270245436267QQihZ017QQcategoryZ29778QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem 2) Go to ATT store and tell them you got a new device. Ask them to give you a 4022 card. [ Better way would be to act dumb, try different cards till you get a 4022, it seems like ATT likes dumb customers than the geeks]. Regards Sumod On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Paul Buede

ATT sim card not working, Tmobile does

2008-08-04 Thread Paul Buede
Ok, so I am still searching for the right carrier, but thats another story. In the meantime I thought I could add to some discussion here: With a brand new ATT sim, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# libgsmd-tool -m shell libgsm-tool - (C) 2006-2007 by Harald Welte and OpenMoko, Inc. This program is

Re: GSM detection/identification

2008-08-03 Thread Paul Buede
Matt Joyce wrote: The wiki has some interesting info on GSM : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gsm The AT commands to interact with the hardware are here : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Hardware:AT_Commands (I wonder if they are an extension of the earlier dial up modem commands ala Hayes?)

Software requests

2008-08-03 Thread Paul Buede
I am trying to do a couple things, and noticed I don't see expect or cron in the opkg list, or on the freerunner. Can someone, who packages, make those available? I suppose I can try to set up a dev environment, guess I could put make and stuff on the phone. I am pinched for time though, so I

Re: GSM detection/identification

2008-08-03 Thread Paul Buede
Paul Buede wrote: Matt Joyce wrote: The wiki has some interesting info on GSM : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gsm The AT commands to interact with the hardware are here : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Hardware:AT_Commands (I wonder if they are an extension of the earlier dial up modem

Re: GSM detection/identification

2008-08-03 Thread Paul Buede
Steven Kurylo wrote: And that the three operators I could see in my tests must all allow roaming on each others networks, which is why my T-Mobile SIM lets me see only those three. I should be able to see Verizon, US Cellular, and who knows what other operators from some of the places I

Re: GSM detection/identification

2008-07-30 Thread Paul Buede
ian douglas wrote: Paul Buede wrote: the coverage isn't great in the rural areas I find myself. When driving around, if out of reach of tmobile, it will say registering as if there is no sim card. But, on the little image of the antenna, that shows how strong my connection is, I still

GSM detection/identification

2008-07-29 Thread Paul Buede
So, I picked up a tmobile sim, and signed up with them (I have another week to cancel), and so the phone registers with tmobile. I am finding the coverage isn't great in the rural areas I find myself. When driving around, if out of reach of tmobile, it will say registering as if there is no sim

Flash ASU

2008-07-28 Thread Paul Buede
Hey, I was looking at the wiki but could not find something that laid the steps out for me. I have been messing with the default image, and have it upgraded as of yesterday. I want to check out the ASU image. Whats the best way to do that? I don't have anything in the phone yet that I want to

Re: Dot'n reply above quote

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Bohme
Yocto wrote: One more thing I like with other mailing lists. They start their subjects with a token describing their mailing lists in square brackets. This allow to quickly sort / filter the incoming mails. Examples: [jQuery],[Qemu-devel], [ECOS], [Rtai], [vlc] It would be nice

Re: Problem in logging in freerunner through ssh

2008-07-17 Thread Paul Bonser
for 192.168.0.202 has changed and you have requested strict checking. Host key verification failed. = Can anyone suggest me the problem and the solution to fix it. Remove line 3 from /home/saurabhg/.ssh/known_hosts. That should fix it. Paul

Re: In the press

2008-07-15 Thread Paul Boddie
with technical knowledge have their own responsibilities, not limited to correcting stuff that they've contributed and auditing any subsequent edits. Paul ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: $106 in Brokerage!!?!!?!

2008-07-15 Thread Paul Wouters
with their google apps nonsense, false 'on stock' messages, etc Paul ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: MokSec - The Security Framework

2008-07-13 Thread Paul Jimenez
Alex Oberhauser wrote: Bumbl wrote: It would be more important to not run everything as root I think This will be also a main focus. When we receive the Freerunners, we will see how fast we can change this bad state. Personally, I'd be more interested in an encrypted

slightly off topic: Rogers Canada slashes data plan pricing

2008-07-09 Thread Paul Wouters
perhaps? Paul ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: OpenMoko is the only 100% F/OSS-based Linux smartphone project

2008-07-08 Thread Paul Wouters
I purchased an openmoko though. I'm tired of fighting against mobile phone vendors. Paul ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Let us impact the material world

2008-06-27 Thread Paul Wouters
at it as soon as I can order my Freerunner in Canada Paul ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: handwriting recognition?

2008-06-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, ramsesoriginal wrote: As far as i know, there's already a handwriting rekognition on the openmoko.. Can we use it to unlock the phone instead of using a pincode? :) Paul ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Wireless providers in the US

2008-06-11 Thread paul
Could those of you in the US, who have the prior phone,and who plan to get the new one, share what providers you are using? Also, any details would be great. I am going to be leaving Sprint, and ditching my Treo 650 for the new phone. It is very exciting, but I am a little lost as to what all

Re: USA, East coast groupe order

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Buede
Count me in. Feydreva wrote: It seems we will never have 10 people in VA, nor in Maryland, nor in New york. New york group is already 5. Why not all go in the NY group then ? I was thinking joining the NY group, and get someone to send me the phone in VA. Philippe

Re: OT: ajax image galleries

2008-06-04 Thread Paul Bonser
. -- Paul Bonser http://blog.paulbonser.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

2008-06-03 Thread Paul Wouters
to closed phones. If I wanted that, I would already own an iphone. Paul ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Paul Jimenez
steve wrote: Mass Pro is slated to start between may9 and may 16. Steve's rule say add a week. Then you got test, then you shipping. On Monday ( or maybe Sunday night for my EU friends ) I will do an update. Could you also include status of debug boards? Will they go on sale at the same

Re: Stylus Recommendation

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Jimenez
Ponoko has acrylic in 1/8 and some 1/4 thicknesses that you can get laser-cut for fairly reasonable prices - IIRC, they just opened a bay-area cut/ship center to reduce shipping in the US (they're originally from New Zealand!). Looks like a typical project from 7x7x1/8 acrylic is around $10-$20.

Re: Shipping Specs for Freerunner (Was: Group Sales: U.S. Midwest area)

2008-05-01 Thread Paul Buede
If you are in Frederick, join our Maryland purchase group, I am 30 minutes from you. Kevin Dean wrote: Okay, so I just did some number crunching using the information Steve gave and honestly, there's no reason at all the 10-packs need to be broken up by region. It costs $14.40 to ship a

Openmoko at EuroPython 2008?

2008-04-27 Thread Paul Boddie
(and exciting) such technologies are for both users and developers. Paul P.S. I apologise if anyone perceives this message to be overly promotional. My intention is merely to encourage people to consider EuroPython as a venue to show the exciting things going on in this community to an audience

Re: Baltimore/DC Group

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Buede
I started one for Maryland, I live out past Frederick, so I am in the DC area. Joshua Broussard wrote: How have I not yet seen a call for group orders from the WMA to Baltimore, but there is one for Utah... No offense Utah... Any interest? r/ Josh

Re: Steve on V5 versus v6

2008-04-21 Thread Paul Jimenez
Related to making openmoko gear - is there vector art of the logo somewhere? I checked the wiki and couldn't find a reference, and checked downloads.openmoko.com and again came up empty. Inquiring minds want to know! Also, if it is published, we'd probably want some kind of license to use it that

Re: Charging Neo Freerunner via USB port

2008-04-18 Thread Paul Jimenez
Hi Michael, This is a good start, very informative. Some good additions, I think, would be: * Why does computer/usb charging max out at 500mA? is that a limitation of the USB spec? * you mention 'other manufacturers' that 'identify their own chargers' with various resistors... if

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-14 Thread Paul Jimenez
On Monday, Apr 14, 2008, steve writes: Ok thanks dirk. Frankly, some people thought the pouch sucked. If I ship a pouch, you have no choice. you get my pouch. My opinion: it's a phone sock. Ideally I would love to have the community develop this accessory if they want it. Anyone have

Re: Metal case [was: Application idea: Bicycle computer]

2008-03-18 Thread Paul Jimenez
How about a case that's part metal and part plastic? Make it plastic just around the antennas (which, IIRC are at the 'ends' of the phone) and metal everywhere else? Heck, it could end up having a *good* effect by being extra shielding between the antennas and the (noisy) electronics of the

Re: GTA02 Battery Capacity (Was: Re: More about the GTA02)

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jimenez
On Thursday, Feb 14, 2008, Kyle Bassett writes: There is talk about pushing startup power control of the internal devices (wifi, bt, gps, mmc, etc.) to user level, as every user may or may not want certain devices available at bootup/all the time (availability vs. duration). Indeed, this along

Re: Qtopia 4.3.1 flash image and SDK

2008-02-11 Thread Paul Eggleton
Lorn Potter wrote: Trolltech released Qtopia Phone 4.3.1 today, and with it, a new flash image and vmware based open source Qtopia SDK for the Neo. Thanks Lorn. Could you also perhaps briefly mention what's new in this release? Cheers, Paul

Re: proprietary firmware

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Jimenez
+1 Software by its nature is easier to fix than hardware or even firmware; this approach does the Right Thing: vendors win because the firmware layer just got a whole lot easier to write and the rest of the world wins because we get as much control as legally permissible of our hardware. On

Community Update GPS comments...

2007-11-04 Thread Paul Breed
At the lowest level GPS runs hardware ranges or time offsets from each satellite. This does not directly give you a position. Some significant spherical trig is necessary to turn this into position. A lot of (AGPS) phones only have that hardware and rely on some system software (maybe not

Re: Debug board

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Jimenez
On Saturday, Sep 15, 2007, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone happen to know if the debug board of the advanced Neo kit will be compatible with future versions of the Neo (or other FIC OpenMok o phones, at that)? It will definitely be compatible w/ GTA02. As for

Re: At the risk of being flamed : State of software

2007-08-25 Thread Paul Eggleton
started. Cheers, Paul ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Phone arrive! - Torx required?

2007-07-27 Thread Paul Eggleton
and slid into the LOCK position. Cheers, Paul ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Possible App - Security

2007-07-18 Thread Paul Wouters
connection if you want to do GSM data calls - unless you want to do a cryptophone style DiffieHellman. I am not sure if the latter one is patented. Paul ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman

Re: How many women on OpenMoko?

2007-07-05 Thread Paul Wouters
effort women have to put in, and extra shit they have to endure, to be seen as equal to male developers. It is not about the Readers Digests prejudice of women talk more on the phone or the different design of a GUI based on gender. Paul So a quick show of hands - how many women do we have

Location Privacy Protocols, was Re: GPS trail - crazy idea

2007-07-05 Thread Paul Wouters
, and followed others across a north-american trip on a day to day basis: Identity Trail: Covert Surveillance Using DNS Saikat Guha and Paul Francis (Cornell University) http://petworkshop.org/2007/papers/PET2007_preproc_Identity_trail.pdf Which brings up an interesting point of how to deal with DNS requests

Re: IM application and other questions

2007-07-05 Thread Paul Wouters
of bird is smaller than a finch? sparrow?) I'm the packager for gaim-otr/pidgin-otr. I do hope that pidgin can be build for the Openmoko. I haven't looked at the required effort though. Paul ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community

Re: IM application and other questions

2007-07-05 Thread Paul Wouters
. (The Parawireless HIPI for one is awful in that respect) Paul ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: rough seas

2007-06-22 Thread Paul A. Lambert
Is anyone successfully developing openmoko software on other platforms? Quite a bit of good work could get done if there was an x86 openmoko build. Of course, it might be impossible to actually make a phone call, but other interesting components could be developed. Paul On Jun 21

Re: standard API for linux phones?

2007-06-12 Thread Paul A. Lambert
still be very interested in seeing what they are cooking up. Paul Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:community- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin Paulson Sent: Monday, 11 June 2007 7:16 PM http://lipsforum.org/downloads/legal

Re: information efficient text enty using dasher

2007-05-29 Thread Paul Jimenez
On Tuesday, May 29, 2007, Peter Hoffmann writes: Hi i just stumbled over a video at the google talks series[0] about information-efficient text entry using dasher[1]. I think this is quite an interesting input method for mobile devices with touch screens or motion sensors. And it is open source

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

2007-04-17 Thread Paul Lambert
the external. Seems like some creative API mapping could make the two types of communication similar. 3) Why is there a browser on your server side picture? Paul Paul A. Lambert CTO, Picomobile Networks Inc. 256 Gibraltar Drive, Ste 108 Sunnyvale, CA, 94089 cell: +1-650-787-9141 skype

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

2007-04-17 Thread Paul Lambert
-Original Message- On Apr 17, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Paul Lambert wrote: Cool ... Comments: 1) I don't see the widget container and ECMAScript engine. If we're using HTML for display rendering, the architecture needs to include explicit considerations for a few core

Re: tomtom on the Neo1973

2007-04-02 Thread Paul McMillan
their API. Sorry for the shouting. -Paul ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: tomtom on the Neo1973

2007-04-02 Thread Paul McMillan
over google maps (simplest way to usefully display the data) to see if the concept is useful. -Paul [1] Also, these tracks could be used to predict where you were likely to be going, and provide an estimate of how long it would take. This functionality would require no maps at all, or could make

Re: tomtom on the Neo1973

2007-04-02 Thread Paul McMillan
What if somebody writes a free application that works but with charts that cost money ? You can't buy the charts. They are protected by various technical and licensing methods in each of the products you use. The companies can't take the risk of an open source software product revealing and

Re: VoIP call transfer?

2007-04-02 Thread Paul McMillan
a ported GUI, which may or may not be possible to integrate well with the rest of the device. We'll see... -Paul ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: tomtom on the Neo1973

2007-04-02 Thread Paul McMillan
I agree that while this is unlikely, it's the best option for all involved. You would need a software company to write that binary library though... which would probably not be a particularly profitable enterprise. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: VoIP call transfer?

2007-03-28 Thread Paul McMillan
of making international calls via from your cell cheap and easy. Paul p.s. Ignore the guy who has no imagination... most things are possible with a little thought. On 3/28/07, mathew davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an itch that I would like to explain to you and give an idea of how

Re: VoIP call transfer?

2007-03-28 Thread Paul McMillan
, including downloading it directly to the phone, or email-like playback. I imagine that in the future, someone will provide all this functionality bundled together as a service you can just subscribe to. Paul On 3/28/07, mathew davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah with such a closed minded

Neo-use idea

2007-03-19 Thread Paul Jimenez
If someone wants to repurpose the neo hardware, check out what the guys at http://www.environmental-studies.de/products/pet-tracking/pet-tracking.h tml are doing. They're sold out for now, but they might be worth talking to to see if they want to try and start from a base Neo and just add some

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

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Wouters
, open email, open calendar, etc). It doesnt add more security compared to a scribbled login pattern. And it doesnt require a fingerprint reader. Paul ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Paul M
short drags, really. Agreed treating it as vectors rather than as an absolute position makes it much more flexible. Paul M -- There are no innocent bystanders, what were they doing there in the first place? William S. Burroughs

Re: Itch3: Anti-lost/theft protection

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Wouters
something useful in 160 chars is hard. It's better to design things beforehand, so you can just send simple commands with arguments. I wonder if you can send SMSes on the Neo without the user noticing anything, or wether things like the backlight will be turned on (by the closed off chip hardware). Paul

Re: 'My Account' - a way to store information about the phones owner, so they can be reunited if it's lost.

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Wouters
email, or target website address within the phone. I see no advantage to a centrallly run repository. (and I do see disadvantages of such privacy stores. Paul ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman

Re: 'My Account' - a way to store information about the phones owner, so they can be reunited if it's lost.

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Wouters
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Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-03 Thread Paul Wouters
to disk, and can be safely intercepted. And that's all provided your onetime pad is truly random, which it won't be, and that people won't accidentally use the same page twice. Paul ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Wouters
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Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile Embedded wrote: Also, most data plans specifically prohibit VoIP usage and may even prevent it technically. AFAIK, only T-Mobile did that, and they removed that clause a few months ago. Paul

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Wouters
try and do encapsulation over port 443. But yes, guaranteed in-order delivery of telco networks is really not a very nice basis to run UDP (or TCP) over. Guess the telco world still believes in the OSI model :( Paul ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: Encrypting voice comunications..

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Wouters
. You'll need to use a headset. Paul ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

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