Re: [OT] Raspberry Pi

2012-01-02 Thread David Pottage
to other programers at my workplace, most are interested in raspberry Pi, and many people have told me about it as new exciting news, in a similar way to how I heard about Open Moko three years ago. -- David Pottage ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Recommendations for a data-only GSM/UMTS device in USB stick ff

2011-11-19 Thread David Pottage
to your ISP, or any other phone number. You may find that your current phone does what you need. -- David Pottage ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: FS Freerunner

2010-09-05 Thread David Pottage
On 05/09/10 17:13, xChris wrote: I know about it. I had no luck, the FR does not 'see' my 3G SIM (three mobile UK). But the WTF is that a 2005 mobile (Nokia 6320i) CAN use that SIM and the FR can't! Is it that the FR can't read the SIM, or can't register with the network. Three are well

Re: HELP: sim card not registering...

2009-02-24 Thread David Pottage
no longer worked in any phone. In my case, my operator (Orange UK) was happy to send me a replacement. -- David Pottage ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: MD5 checksums for images

2009-01-13 Thread David Pottage
tools, and most people are familiar with the commands to check MD5 sums, so if the images come with MD5 sums they will be checked easily. If they come with another sort of checksum, it will be harder to check, for no real benefit. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments

Re: auxlaunch ver 0.6

2008-12-01 Thread David Pottage
On Sunday 30 November 2008 23:24:07 Al Iasid wrote: Here's info on an update to auxlaunch, (finger-friendly app launcher and window switcher). Download at [1] and wiki page at [2]. Version 0.6 changes include: [...] Sounds interesting, would you care to mention which distro it is for? From

Re: [OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

2008-11-27 Thread David Pottage
, and feed in a new CD every few minutes. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: The forbidden topic: Glamo OpenGL

2008-11-15 Thread David Pottage
the same and only the hardware specific stuff gets changed. If this is the case, I doubt they would be willing to produce a GPL driver, as that would require them either to publish the source of their entire engine, or to write a new one. -- David Pottage

Re: Receiving empty sms after registration

2008-11-01 Thread David Pottage
On Friday 31 October 2008 12:03:33 Alexandre Girard wrote: Hi, I receive an empty sms each time I register with my phone provider (Bouygues in France, Simio in Spain), with an origin address like _@. Has anybody got the same behavior? Is it coming from the phone or from the provider? I

Re: GTA03 - buttons or touchscreen

2008-10-26 Thread David Pottage
solution would be to have a small numeric keypad that won't take much room. Option 2: Mini Qwerty, no Touchscreen I HATE this idea, because it will make all existing Openmoko software incompatible. Please don't take this route. -- David Pottage

Making sound work (was Re: New Rasterman Image...)

2008-10-07 Thread David Pottage
ideas. I am running the latest FDOM (Based on ASU 2008.9). -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: GSM Firmware crash

2008-10-05 Thread David Pottage
On Sunday 14 September 2008 16:10:12 Andreas Fischer wrote: Hi all, Yesterday I experienced a crash of the GSM firmware - my Freerunner started to vibrate and there was a message on-screen that stated that the GSM Firmware had crashed and that I would be unable to use phone functionality. I

Re: rescue my freerunner

2008-10-03 Thread David Pottage
fix the offending files or take a copy of your data. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Suspend vs. Lock vs. Screen Off

2008-10-02 Thread David Pottage
but not as much as suspending. Depending on your settings, your freerunner may suspend after a time with the backlight out. Pressing the Aux key to lock the screen does just that. The phone will turn out the back light or suspend according to it's settings. -- David Pottage

Re: Screen shot failure?

2008-09-16 Thread David Pottage
is not avalable for Ubuntu, but you can download the rpm and extract the binary with alien Steps are: cat /dev/fb0 myscreenshot_001.raw copy to your desktop b2png myscreenshot_001.raw myscreenshot_001.png 9 480 640 16 -- David Pottage ___ Openmoko

Re: Chancing SIM card without reboot

2008-09-02 Thread David Pottage
Fredrik Wendt wrote: Hi. Just wanted to know if I'd damage the hardware by doing: 0. Connect FR to computer using USB cable. 1. Turn on FR (FSO-testing), fire up zhone. 2. Open FR, remove battery, open SIM pocket, change SIM card, replace battery, replace back cover - all while the FR is

Re: Is it possible to netboot a FreeRunner?

2008-08-31 Thread David Pottage
On Sunday 31 August 2008 16:34:35 Jeff Sadowski wrote: You would probably need a driver built into uboot to recognize a usb network device or maybe a way in uboot to setup wifi. I know my avaya wireless phones look for new images on my tftp server when they boot. Maybe if there was a way to

Re: Nokia wired headsets compatibility

2008-08-27 Thread David Pottage
with my E51). It does not work properly. When connected to the Neo, I only get sound it one ear, and it is not very loud. I have not tested the microphone support. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function

Re: Krells!

2008-08-23 Thread David Pottage
On Saturday 23 August 2008 08:25:08 Dale Maggee wrote: If you're like me, you're a big fan of gkrellm, and you always have it running so you can keep an eye on what your system is doing. I wanted to have a remote display of my FR CPU usage on my host, for the same reason - to be able to see at

Re: Cincinnati Bell Wireless

2008-08-23 Thread David Pottage
On Friday 22 August 2008 02:47:00 Nick Matteo wrote: Hello, I intend to buy a FreeRunner. This will be my first time owning a cell phone, though. My service plan is offered through my university by Cincinnati Bell Wireless, and includes a free phone. Can I expect that removing the SIM card

Re: Qualcomm Snapdragon? (Re: Intel Atom )

2008-08-14 Thread David Pottage
OpenMoko faster than you can say software patent. With someone like Qualcomm, I would want all the drivers and all the docs under a GPL license before I would consider them, preferably GPL-3 with it's even stronger protections against software patents and similar tactics. -- David Pottage Error

Re: InvibleShield at ZAGG : swindling ?!?

2008-08-12 Thread David Pottage
it would work for the freerunner. I would suggest that anyone else buys just the screen protector. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Hardware buttons not working in 2007.2 build

2008-08-03 Thread David Pottage
Hello I have a freerunner, which I have updated to the latest 2007.2 build using opkg update, and I have found that it is now ignoring the hardware buttons. I know that the buttons themselves work, and that there is not a hardware fault because the work normally in uboot, and Qtopia. Has

Re: Removing SMS Messages from OM

2008-08-01 Thread David Pottage
John Whitmore wrote: Sorry can't find answer to problem. Hello all, Well my OpenMoko has arrived and I'm very happy with it. Thanks to all the people who've made this happen. I do hope that in the future I can join the contributors. Before that I've got two minor problems which somebody

Re: Request for help: Would like community applications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld

2008-07-30 Thread David Pottage
projects with their clever design. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: SMS

2008-07-27 Thread David Pottage
On Saturday 26 July 2008 22:15:54 David Pottage wrote: The SMS applet on my phone is doing the same. If I try to start it from the command line. I get 4 coppies of the error message: Gtk-WARNING **:gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -11 and height -11

Re: device only powers up on its own

2008-07-26 Thread David Pottage
Dimitri wrote: Thanks guys for responding so quickly. I didn't realize that I had to hold down the power button for 5 seconds; I was only holding it down for maybe 3 seconds. Alternatively, you can hold down the AUX button while you press the power button to bring up the boot menu. That

Re: SMS

2008-07-26 Thread David Pottage
On Saturday 26 July 2008 07:53:01 stef wrote: hello, i've got my freerunner since thursday and it works quite fine except the SMS applet. At first I could open the applet and send messages but now it fails. When I try to start the applet it seems to be loading but it stops after a while. Is

Re: SMS

2008-07-26 Thread David Pottage
On Saturday 26 July 2008 22:15:54 David Pottage wrote: The SMS applet on my phone is doing the same. If I try to start it from the command line. I get 4 coppies of the error message: Gtk-WARNING **:gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -11 and height -11 I have

Re: Rules based policy engine

2008-07-20 Thread David Pottage
. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Accelerometer(s), Camera, and Memory

2008-07-19 Thread David Pottage
On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:47:38 Dee Ayy wrote: Is there no camera? After tracking my stolen phone with 2 accelerometers and GPS, my app will like a nice candid snapshot/video of the culprit. There is no camera. Also you can't use the accelerometers to do ineral navigation for more than a

Re: Possible Camera

2008-06-18 Thread David Pottage
to. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Dual SIM?

2008-06-12 Thread David Pottage
or circumvention technology, especially networks who might object to you using cloned SIM cards to do least cost routing. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SE-17.pdf -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function

Re: Font type and size was (QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03)

2008-06-11 Thread David Pottage
sysadmins who actually find and fix the root cause. For myself I already have a QVGA Nokia phone with PuTTy, so I can log in remotely in an emergency, but VGA is so nice that with a Freerunner I probably would log in in other situations as well. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c

Re: 2.5mm or 3.5mm

2008-05-30 Thread David Pottage
cellphone headset? (or does anybody know of 3.5mm headSET standards or adapters?) -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org

Re: using the openmoko neo101 in mass storage mode

2008-05-30 Thread David Pottage
emulated results back to windows. I dare say windows would get confused if I file it had cached got changed by Linux, but the user could probably put up with that. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread David Pottage
to resolve trust issues, even if you spend more on fuel driving to the meet than you save on postage. -- David Pottage ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: research project topic

2008-04-27 Thread David Pottage
OpenStreetmap, until it had deduced the map projection, scale etc to sufficient precisson. -- David Pottage ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

RE: Newbee ..- encrypted calls/SMS

2008-04-25 Thread David Pottage
access points, and do it over VOIP, or to do VOIP over GSM, and put up with the huge latency, which will give you a walke-talkie like connection. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ Openmoko community

Re: Freerunner AC adaptor

2008-04-22 Thread David Pottage
on it before I plug it into the mains for the first time. http://quickstart.openmoko.org/photographs/usbChargerAdapters1.jpg -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Re:Synchronization

2008-04-11 Thread David Pottage
it possible to sync with another cellphone without the need for a normal computer. If we could have that as a standard feature on the consumer version of the Freerunner it would be very cool. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-09 Thread David Pottage
), reminding users that they are being tracked. That way it would be hard for someone to covertly track another person. The popup could be disabled if a ‘stolen’ flag is set in the central DB. (via a request from the police). That is my view. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many

Re: Using Wi-fi on Neo FreeRunner

2008-03-12 Thread David Pottage
linux. (Both the Neo 1973, and Nokia phones use ARM CPUs), but in practice it would be a huge project, so is unlikely to happen any time soon. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: Application idea: Bicycle computer

2008-03-06 Thread David Pottage
the Neo using that. The keyboard cable would pass via a well sealed hole in a waterproof case. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread David Pottage
sales tax rate such as Belgum, Europeans buying Freerunner phones could save around 10% compared with buying from a German web shop. Having said that, it is not a huge cost, and having a web shop any where in Europe is a great improvement over importing from the Far East. -- David Pottage

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

2008-02-10 Thread David Pottage
update renders you Neo 1973 temporally unusable, and to charge the spare battery. I have a Nokia 1100, as a spare, and I use it's battery interchangeably with other devices. -- David Pottage ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES:

2008-01-13 Thread David Pottage
of the basic language. -- David Pottage ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: What to use while waiting of v2?

2007-12-16 Thread David Pottage
, otherwise it is similar to the N800. They are remarkably small, more like a large smartphone than a PDA. I work for Nokia, (but not in device development) BTW, so you may wish to take my views with some salt. -- David Pottage ___ OpenMoko community mailing

Re: Some ideas for the accelerometer

2007-10-12 Thread David Pottage
we should make use of them where we can. We should not just copy the iPhone or whatever, that only uses it's accelerometer as a tilt sensor to make the display image the right way up. -- David Pottage ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread David Pottage
a direct frame buffer system such as Qtopia is sensible in an early version before the GPU device drivers are working, but after that there is little benefit. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ OpenMoko

Re: [-SPAM-] Re: application idea

2007-09-19 Thread David Pottage
code database using user contributed information. Basicaly users are asked to type in the postocode and location of their homes, busneses, and any other site they can find. We many have to use similar database for other countries. [1] http://www.freethepostcode.org/ -- David Pottage Error

Re: Buying Openmoko GTA02 from Europe

2007-08-22 Thread David Pottage
will be possible through Paypal or direct postal payment in Switzerland. Shiping costs will be around 20-25EUR for countries in Europe. I *HATE* paypal, so in any case, if you can find another way of receiving payments that would be good. Regards -- David Pottage

Re: power management

2007-07-27 Thread David Pottage
or so of inactivity. A tickless kernel might save a few more percent on top of that, but it is sleep mode you need to get from 3 hours battery life to 5 days. -- David Pottage ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: another linux platform platform

2007-07-26 Thread David Pottage
unauthorized firmware. (Though it will still be helpful for virus protection and the like). -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: OK, the forum is coming..

2007-07-21 Thread David Pottage
graphics suggestions. I don't mind being a moderator. I won't have time to moderate all the time though. Do you prefer phpBB or Invision ? personally i prefer the former. Personally I am familiar with phpBB, but not Invision, so that would be my preference. -- David Pottage

Re: Store info - shipping costs to Germany

2007-07-10 Thread David Pottage
share an order with. It would also create an opportunity to meet fellow hackers. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org

Re: Linux

2007-07-08 Thread David Pottage
(formerly Vodaphone) network. -- David Pottage ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: GPS can work stand-alone (Re: Advertising/hype)

2007-07-03 Thread David Pottage
BT devices out there, and most people leave BT switched on, as it does not drain the battery much. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: GPS bluetooth receiver

2007-07-02 Thread David Pottage
be very easy to write the necessary demon, it might even be possible with a few pipes in shell. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http