Re: openmoko.com

2007-02-20 Thread Ben
On 2/21/07, ryan lerch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: openmoko.com was the only official openmoko website until openmoko.org was released about a week ago. AFAIK, there was never any sort of redirect from openmoko.com to openmoko.org - (where all the content is). Hopefully one can get done soon...

Re: openmoko.com

2007-02-20 Thread ryan lerch
openmoko.com was the only official openmoko website until openmoko.org was released about a week ago. AFAIK, there was never any sort of redirect from openmoko.com to openmoko.org - (where all the content is). Hopefully one can get done soon... hope this helps... ryanlerch On 2/21/07, Ben <[EMA

Re: openmoko.com

2007-02-20 Thread Ben
On 2/21/07, Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Last night, when I checked openmoko.com, all the content had disappeared. I was pretty excited, thinking this meant new content (hopefully involving ordering a phone) was about to appear. It's still empty anybody know what's up? I don't

openmoko.com

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Last night, when I checked openmoko.com, all the content had disappeared. I was pretty excited, thinking this meant new content (hopefully involving ordering a phone) was about to appear. It's still empty anybody know what's up? ___ OpenMoko commu

Re: GPS time synch

2007-02-20 Thread Jae Stutzman
GPS is much more accurate for time information, but GSM is "good enough" for knowing the time! Most GSM phones do sync to the network. Hopefully there are some "undocumented" commands for the GSM module that are unknown at this time. NTP over GPRS is a solution looking for a problem IMHO. Here is

Re: GPS time synch

2007-02-20 Thread Ian Stirling
Perry E. Metzger wrote: Ian Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Based on ballpark estimates from other similar devices, it's probably around 70mW. This will really hurt if you keep it on all the time, fortunately, for most applications, you probably don't need to. If it works at 2s on, 30s off

Re: Warranty on phase 1 phones

2007-02-20 Thread Pranav Desai
On 2/20/07, Jeff Andros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/20/07, Pranav Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/20/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:32 -0800, Pranav Desai wrote: > > > > > > Is there any warranty on phase 1 phones ? If the screen is bad, so

Re: Re:Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 11:29 -0700, mathew davis wrote: > That is totally understandable. I can see that side of it also. I > will use the wiki and mailing lists for now the combination can like > Joe said cover everything. It will be nice to have the forums up when > Phase 2 starts though. You

Re: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Steven **
I think Gmail handles mailing lists pretty well. It works just fine with this list. I just added a filter that labels and archives all mail to the list. Gmail handles the threading very well and will even let you see old messages you previously deleted for each thread. But obviously, I only se

Re: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Jon Phillips
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 21:20 +0100, kenneth marken wrote: > Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 21:05:35 kenneth marken wrote: > >> its fully possible in some forums to have proper threading... > >> > > > > And that's mostly true (leaving mails from broken email clients aside) fo

Re: Warranty on phase 1 phones

2007-02-20 Thread Jeff Andros
On 2/20/07, Pranav Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/20/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:32 -0800, Pranav Desai wrote: > > > > Is there any warranty on phase 1 phones ? If the screen is bad, some > > input ports don't work, etc. what will be the proces

Schematics/PCB

2007-02-20 Thread Justyn Butler
Hi, I'd been assuming that the PCB and/or schematics for the Neo1973 had been made available along with the source code. Looking now, I realise that they haven't. I'm a hardware kind of person, and I've been looking forward to creating add-ons and modifications to my Neo1973 the second it arriv

Re: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread kenneth marken
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Tuesday 20 February 2007 21:05:35 kenneth marken wrote: its fully possible in some forums to have proper threading... And that's mostly true (leaving mails from broken email clients aside) for mailinglists as well. I think in Thunderbird you should barely be able to

RE: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Sam Kome
Sorry to bend the thread a little, but I wanted to respond to Andreas' T9 comment. My position is neutral; T9 seems to work well for some people and some purposes, not so well for others. These folks did a decent usability test that should be useful to consider when designing the onscreen keypad/

Re: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 21:05:35 kenneth marken wrote: > its fully possible in some forums to have proper threading... > And that's mostly true (leaving mails from broken email clients aside) for mailinglists as well. I think in Thunderbird you should barely be able to tell whether you are u

Re: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread kenneth marken
Paul Bonser wrote: On 2/20/07, Perry E. Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> which seems to have a lot of what you're looking for (a lot of the >> discussion on the various mailling lists seems to end up getting >> distilled into wiki articles). > > It's interesting t

Re: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Paul Bonser
On 2/20/07, Perry E. Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> which seems to have a lot of what you're looking for (a lot of the >> discussion on the various mailling lists seems to end up getting >> distilled into wiki articles). > > It's interesting to note that most you

Re: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
mathew davis writes: > >It's funny that you mention that I am only 24 so I guess I would fit in the >youngster category. I don't even know what usenet is. I guess >that's why usenet is a huge, distributed bulletin board system with topics groups on every conceivable (and many inconceivable) subj

Re: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Andreas Kostyrka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * mathew davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070220 19:57]: >>It's funny that you mention that I am only 24 so I guess I would fit in >>the youngster category. I don't even know what usenet is. I guess that's > usenet, news => it's just a very email-

Re: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Perry E. Metzger
"mathew davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's funny that you mention that I am only 24 so I guess I would fit in the > youngster category. I don't even know what usenet is. Usenet was (well, is, but it has been dying for a long time) a global system in which RFC-822 style messages (same form

Re: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* mathew davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070220 19:57]: >It's funny that you mention that I am only 24 so I guess I would fit in >the youngster category. I don't even know what usenet is. I guess that's usenet, news => it's just a very email-ish forum system. It's older than the "Internet" ;)

Re: lets be nice

2007-02-20 Thread Jon Phillips
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 22:16 -0800, Tim Newsom wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:35, ryan lerch wrote: > > hi all, > > > > just a friendly reminder that we are getting a lot of people > > subscribing to and posting to this community list that may not know > > all the mailing list etiquette that you do

Re: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070220 19:57]: > My children (I've got one who just finished his undergrad degree in > CS, and a second who is a pre-med) don't send much email, but are > constantly texting. Well, I do texting mostly on phones with a sensible keyboard or grafitti entry system.

Re: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Perry E. Metzger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> which seems to have a lot of what you're looking for (a lot of the >> discussion on the various mailling lists seems to end up getting >> distilled into wiki articles). > > It's interesting to note that most youngsters seem to prefer forums, and most > of us old-timers

Re: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070220 19:57]: > It's interesting to note that most youngsters seem to prefer forums, and most > of us old-timers (IIRC you're my age, Joe) prefer mailing lists. I wonder why > that is? I think it's not a question of age as such. It's mostly a question of t

Re: Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread mathew davis
On 2/20/07, Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >It's interesting to note that most youngsters seem to prefer forums, and most >of us old-timers (IIRC you're my age, Joe) prefer mailing lists. I wonder why >that is? I don't know how old you are, but I'm afraid I

Re:Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >It's interesting to note that most youngsters seem to prefer forums, and most >of us old-timers (IIRC you're my age, Joe) prefer mailing lists. I wonder why >that is? I don't know how old you are, but I'm afraid I count as an oldster these days... there are some defin

Re: Re:Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread mathew davis
On 2/20/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, I'd really prefer to keep what we have now until phase 2 (end-user mode). We just don't have the bandwidth to moderate a forum now. That is totally understandable. I can see that side of it also. I will use the wiki and mailing list

Re: Copyrights in the wiki

2007-02-20 Thread Jon Phillips
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 18:22 +0100, Harald Welte wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 01:54:56AM +, Ole Tange wrote: > > On 2/17/07, denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I got a question. Is it allowed to post screenshots from MacOS > > >applications and use them as a reference for the layout and l

Re:Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread michael
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: mathew davis writes: Hi I am kind of new to mailing lists so forgive me if I am steping on anyones toes. I am used to working with forums more than mailing lists and find them to be a little easier for newcomers to work with than mailing lists. Is t

Re: Warranty on phase 1 phones

2007-02-20 Thread Pranav Desai
On 2/20/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:32 -0800, Pranav Desai wrote: > > Is there any warranty on phase 1 phones ? If the screen is bad, some > input ports don't work, etc. what will be the process then ? Of course we'll have a warranty ;-) I'm not sure

Re: Re:Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 10:29 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > FWIW, I don't find forums any more useable than mailling lists. With the addition of many great searching / archiving properties. And (most important for me) offline mode ;-) > On > the other hand, wikis seem to end up with lots of the so

Re: Warranty on phase 1 phones

2007-02-20 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Andreas Kostyrka writes: > (E.g. experiences with laptops show, that a dead display is > practically never repaired.) That's because the price of spare parts is normally jacked so high that companies often make more money on replacement parts than on the initial product's sale. >>I find it u

Re:Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
mathew davis writes: >Hi I am kind of new to mailing lists so forgive me if I am steping on >anyones toes. > >I am used to working with forums more than mailing lists and find them to be >a little easier for newcomers to work with than mailing lists. Is there a >plan for a forum? I think that it

Re: Warranty on phase 1 phones

2007-02-20 Thread el jefe delito
Are you asking for some kind of "cover everything I can do to this device" warranty? If yes how about we sell you one for US$350? If it has unlimited replacements for a year, maybe! ;) lol ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.o

Forums Page?

2007-02-20 Thread mathew davis
Hi I am kind of new to mailing lists so forgive me if I am steping on anyones toes. I am used to working with forums more than mailing lists and find them to be a little easier for newcomers to work with than mailing lists. Is there a plan for a forum? I think that it may not be as important to

Re: Warranty on phase 1 phones

2007-02-20 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 10:08 -0600, el jefe delito wrote: > Would this warranty cover accidental breakage of the large screen, say > by leaning on it against a desk or something? hehe...sorry man. Couldn't help you here ;-) > I find it unlikely but it would really put minds at ease when spending >

Re: GPS time synch

2007-02-20 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Ian Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Based on ballpark estimates from other similar devices, it's probably > around 70mW. > > This will really hurt if you keep it on all the time, fortunately, for > most applications, you probably don't need to. > If it works at 2s on, 30s off, as seems like

Re: GPS time synch

2007-02-20 Thread Ian Stirling
Perry E. Metzger wrote: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:47:23PM +1100, Mark Chandler wrote: Would it be possible to keep the Neo's internal clock accurate using time stamps from GPS information? yes. That is only during GPS being powered up, of co

Re: Warranty on phase 1 phones

2007-02-20 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* el jefe delito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070220 17:20]: >Would this warranty cover accidental breakage of the large screen, say by >leaning on it against a desk or something? I fear not. It's the one most probable way to kill the phone, and probably the most expensive part to replace. (E.g.

Re: Wiki Editing Guidelines

2007-02-20 Thread Harald Welte
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:58:38PM +, Ole Tange wrote: > On 2/19/07, Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>From reviewing the 'Recent Changes', I have drafted a (currently still) > >small list of rules for Wiki editing. It is available at > >http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenMoko_Wiki

Re: Warranty on phase 1 phones

2007-02-20 Thread el jefe delito
Would this warranty cover accidental breakage of the large screen, say by leaning on it against a desk or something? I find it unlikely but it would really put minds at ease when spending a small fortune on a phone; plus it might be that extra incentive to lure even more to this phone...

Re: Market Timing (was USB Connectivity)

2007-02-20 Thread Martin Lefkowitz
Interesting, then I wonder why all these projects are cropping up now? Linux 2.6 maybe? 90nm? Batteries? Andreas Kostyrka wrote: > * Martin Lefkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070220 15:55]: > >> The fact that you can buy a GSM/GPRS module that runs off the AT command >> set is the big innovation

Re: Warranty on phase 1 phones

2007-02-20 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Ole Tange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070220 14:52]: > On 2/20/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:32 -0800, Pranav Desai wrote: > >> > >> Is there any warranty on phase 1 phones ? If the screen is bad, some > >> input ports don't work, etc. what will be the proces

Re: Market Timing (was USB Connectivity)

2007-02-20 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Martin Lefkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070220 15:55]: > The fact that you can buy a GSM/GPRS module that runs off the AT command > set is the big innovation. I don't know how long this has been > possible, but I've only heard about this recently. Well, that's not such a big innovation. HTC seems

Market Timing (was USB Connectivity)

2007-02-20 Thread Martin Lefkowitz
They are completely closed because they are very intimate with the chipsets they are using. In fact the chipsets are specifically designed for the company that builds the phone. While you can buy something with the same core, typically you can't buy the chips that are actually in the phone. The

Re: Connect self-powered USB storage devices? [ipod]

2007-02-20 Thread Santiago Crespo
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:37:24PM -0600, Steven ** wrote: > > On a related note, could an iPod be connected to the Neo? Yes. On lun, 2007-02-19 at 18:24 +0100, Harald Welte wrote: > i don't know why there is a _technical_ reason for not doing so. But > then, Apple seems to do all kinds of s

Re: Warranty on phase 1 phones

2007-02-20 Thread Nils Faerber
Ole Tange schrieb: > On 2/20/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:32 -0800, Pranav Desai wrote: >> > Is there any warranty on phase 1 phones ? If the screen is bad, some >> > input ports don't work, etc. what will be the process then ? >> Of course we'll have a

Re: GPS time synch

2007-02-20 Thread Ole Tange
On 2/20/07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Harald Welte wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:47:23PM +1100, Mark Chandler wrote: >> Would it be possible to keep the Neo's internal clock accurate using >> time stamps from GPS information? > yes. That is only during GPS being p

Re: USB Connectivity

2007-02-20 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 08:57, Krzysztof Kajkowski wrote: > 2007/2/20, larpoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > A few questions about USB connectivity > > Hi! Excuse me for not replying on each of your questions but try to > answer yourself ;) Basically your Neo1973 phone would be running linux

Re: GPS time synch

2007-02-20 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:47:23PM +1100, Mark Chandler wrote: >>> Would it be possible to keep the Neo's internal clock accurate using >>> time stamps from GPS information? > >> yes. > > That is only during GPS being powered up, of course. We

Re: Warranty on phase 1 phones

2007-02-20 Thread Ole Tange
On 2/20/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:32 -0800, Pranav Desai wrote: > > Is there any warranty on phase 1 phones ? If the screen is bad, some > input ports don't work, etc. what will be the process then ? Of course we'll have a warranty ;-) I'm not sure

Re: USB Connectivity

2007-02-20 Thread Krzysztof Kajkowski
2007/2/20, larpoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, A few questions about USB connectivity Hi! Excuse me for not replying on each of your questions but try to answer yourself ;) Basically your Neo1973 phone would be running linux with kernel 2.6.x so all modules should work on your phone just like on y

Re: Warranty on phase 1 phones

2007-02-20 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:32 -0800, Pranav Desai wrote: > > Is there any warranty on phase 1 phones ? If the screen is bad, some > input ports don't work, etc. what will be the process then ? Of course we'll have a warranty ;-) I'm not sure of the exact terms at this point. Probably something st