Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread Steve
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:36:48AM +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Sebastian Billaudelle wrote: Hi there! I thought about the risk of loosing the moko or of getting it stolen... I got the following idea: If you can't find you moko, you only have to send an SMS with a special

Re: Openmoko strives for openness (smedia glamo)

2008-04-04 Thread herve couvelard
I bet if you could name such a device, they would have no problem in using it for future products. I bet that if my incomes would exclusively depend on producing such a device, i would use time to search for it. Everything i do, or sale, depends on free software (even for drivers), even if

Re: Openmoko strives for openness (smedia glamo)

2008-04-04 Thread herve couvelard
Sebastian Billaudelle wrote: I think it would be the best way... And why is it not fair? He would be a real part of the project. What's wrong with that? Well, why not. i'm not concerned. just to be asked to the chip vendor. ___ Openmoko

Re: Accelerometer brainstorming

2008-04-04 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Alexey Feldgendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are roundabouts in tunnels an April fool? Never encountered one. No, roundabouts in tunnels are real - we even have one or two such tunnels here in Norway. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen Norway

Re: Openmoko strives for openness (smedia glamo)

2008-04-04 Thread herve couvelard
Wolfgang Spraul wrote: Dear Hervé, here is my perspective: [...;] Most chip vendors see their business in selling chips. Documentation is engineers can. Again we could only do this with vendors who understand what we are doing, trust us, and generally agree to the idea. We would

Re: customized CPE

2008-04-04 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | 1.City surveillance (live project) --- installing digital camera ... | using WiMax network ( mobile Internet ) . | Is OpenMoko CPE a good choice for niche or special | applications

Re: Power Management on Neo1973

2008-04-04 Thread Fredrik Markström
I'm getting an uneasy feeling about the GTA01 power management issues, the questions has been asked more then once in this forum, but I havn't seen any answeres. Is openmoko trying to put the lid on or what ? /Fredrik On Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Tim Niemeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread ramsesoriginal
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Alexey Feldgendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:35:17 +0200, Michele Renda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I steal the phone, the first thing that I will do is to turn off the phone. Then because I am afraid to be detected by cell I will

RE: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread Crane, Matthew
An application only tx/rx'ing periodic and small amounts of data may work better running on top of sms. Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco Trevisan (Treviño) Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 6:10 PM To:

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michele Renda ha scritto: When I steal the phone, the first thing that I will do is to turn off the phone. Then because I am afraid to be detected by cell I will change the internal sim, before to turn on it. Well, this is true but sending data on next power-on could help. BTW, here we're

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread Sean Anderson
It's certainly prudent to realise that this is far from a full-proof phone theft prevention system. I realise it's a little redundant to say aaw, but no security is airtight anyway!, but it's worth pointing out nonetheless. Encrypted data, a device that phones home... these are all flawed but

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread ramsesoriginal
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Sean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's certainly prudent to realise that this is far from a full-proof phone theft prevention system. I realise it's a little redundant to say aaw, but no security is airtight anyway!, but it's worth pointing out

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread Michele Renda
I don't want to say this is the solution for all the problems: As cool as all the solutions sound, we have to think of some problems/implications: 1) What happens if the sim gets changed? It continue to run, because the program is not sim related. Whe it see a tcp/ip connection it send a

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread Michele Renda
Hello I am a programmer, and I possible I will have some of the technical capacity to develop something like this. I don't have any experience about OpenMoko programming, so, is very possible I will not have success. But I will try to do, when I will buy my first FreeRunner ( I hope it will

Re: customized CPE - Android Openmoko

2008-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Dear khang, Is OpenMoko CPE a good choice for niche or special applications or not ??? Any ideas ? If not , many of the developers will go for Android . That is not good . Let me use this opportunity to talk a bit about Openmoko and Android. First of all we

RE: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread Crane, Matthew
A phone can always receive a call. The number itself is information and can be acted on, without answering the call. I think there's a couple of ways to send a cue in a similar way, maybe. Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco

Re: A few questions on the GSOC

2008-04-04 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On 4/4/08, Steven Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2008 11:25:17 pm Joseph Jon Booker wrote: 3. What is required to deem the project complete? http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_evaluations the evaluations determine if you get paid is the

Qemu images for FreeRunner

2008-04-04 Thread Michele Renda
Hello I'd like to know if there is a qemu image of freerunner. Now I am using qemu-neo1973: the software conteined in this release is the same software that it will be present in freerunner? This image contains also the GPS emulation? Thank you

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread ramsesoriginal
I too am (some sort of) developer. I tried to mess around a bit with soem simple openmoko programming some months ago (pre-GTA01), but since then we've gotten a long way. as far as I can understand it, most of this options ould'nt be difficult, and if the correct bindings are provided, could even

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread Michele Renda
According you is possible to prepare it with an qemu emulated system? Or is necessary to have the true hardware? ramsesoriginal wrote: I too am (some sort of) developer. I tried to mess around a bit with soem simple openmoko programming some months ago (pre-GTA01), but since then we've gotten a

Re: Qemu images for FreeRunner

2008-04-04 Thread Alexander Frøyseth
Can you send a link to the image? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Qemu images for FreeRunner

2008-04-04 Thread Michele Renda
Alexander Frøyseth wrote: Can you send a link to the image? I use the qemu image available using: svn checkout https://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973 then making openmoko/download.sh it download the openmoko image. I undestand that to have an Freerunner emulator I have to apply

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
The phone needs an application where we can configure which of all these ideas we want to use (sending coordinates phone no, detecting if out of reach from BT device, etc). I would like my phone to log the GPS info + current phone no to my server, where the information would be stored in a mysql

Re: customized CPE - Android Openmoko

2008-04-04 Thread Lucas Bonnet
Wolfgang Spraul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear khang, Let me use this opportunity to talk a bit about Openmoko and Android. First of all we really like Android! We don't see Android as competition, it is complementary to what we are doing and may help us in many ways. snip Thanks for this

Re: customized CPE

2008-04-04 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:32 PM, khang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taiwan CPE developers of WiMax (etc..) are looking for a new OS/plateform , so their applications won't be limited . We are planning 1.City surveillance (live project) --- installing digital camera

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
Sorry for replying to my own post. I just noticed that I quoted the wrong mail:( What I meant to quote was: Is possible to implement a system to get all these data to the server (one time it is allarmed) and to delete the phone copy. ___ Openmoko

Re: customized CPE - Android Openmoko

2008-04-04 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On 4/4/08, Wolfgang Spraul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... If you look at the Android software stack, you will notice that they basically only use the Linux kernel and a few traditional 'helper' libraries, written in C (jpg, png, etc). But the bulk of the system is written from scratch. They even

Re: Qemu images for FreeRunner

2008-04-04 Thread Alexander Frøyseth
Thanks I will try it when I is in Linux Michele Renda skrev: Alexander Frøyseth wrote: Can you send a link to the image? I use the qemu image available using: svn checkout https://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973 then making openmoko/download.sh it download the openmoko image.

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread beren
About the we can do nothing if the phone is turned off by the thief immediately - maybe we can do at least something: - implement the regular shutdown via a hidden menu entry, maybe with a password - if the phone is instead turned off via the (hardware) power button of the Neo we just fake a

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michele Renda ha scritto: According you is possible to prepare it with an qemu emulated system? Or is necessary to have the true hardware? AFAIK you can simply install Openmoko stack in any hardware, also in a standard PC, simply follow the wiki [1]! [1] http://tinyurl.com/6bkfpj --

Re: openmoko on ebay, usb board works with gta2?

2008-04-04 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Matthew, I have checked with the experts. GTA01 debug board will work with GTA02 (Freerunner), with some exceptions: 1. You can not program NOR FLASH 2. I2C and SPI aren’t available on the debug board The main functions, JTAG and serial console, will be just fine. And you CAN program NAND

Re: customized CPE - Android Openmoko

2008-04-04 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 01:25 +0800, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: Let me use this opportunity to talk a bit about Openmoko and Android. First of all we really like Android! We don't see Android as competition, it is complementary to what we are doing and may help us in many ways. For all those

Re: customized CPE - Android Openmoko

2008-04-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Marcus Bauer wrote: For all those who have missed it out, there is a company named Koolu which is going to sell the Neo with Android. [1] CTO of Koolu is Jon 'maddog' Hall, quite a well known personality. As another note, they just changed availability for developers from March to June. Thus if