Re: Why do I want WiFi?

2007-01-18 Thread Richard Bennett
On Thursday 18 January 2007 13:25, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Thursday 18 January 2007 09:54, Renaissance Man wrote: Seamless swapping needs the carriers' help. And they won't do it for free, rest assured. Already being done. See http://truphone.com Doesn't really say how it works. An

Re: what is the difference between openMoko and windows mobile based phones

2007-01-18 Thread Richard Bennett
On Thursday 18 January 2007 12:39, hank williams wrote: What I mean by this is that it seems everyone is saying that the big difference is that you can get 3rd party *real apps* on the phone. And this is said as if windows mobile phones like moto q, blackjack and pocket PC phones wont allow

Re: Neo1973 device description and picture for xoo.

2007-01-22 Thread Richard Bennett
On Monday 22 January 2007 12:17, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Wow somebody buy this guy a beer! Best place would be the beer event of fosdem. Friday evening. ;) Deal. Drinks will be on me! -Sean Does that mean Openmoko will be at FOSDEM in Brussels next month? and you are refering to this

Re: Is python built-in

2007-01-22 Thread Richard Bennett
On Monday 22 January 2007 14:03, Tomasz Zielinski wrote: 2007/1/22, Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would like to know if python and pygtk is going to be installed in Neo1973 devices. Of course, some extra info about extra-python-features in this device would be nice.

Re: how to get the video Re: Sean interview

2007-01-22 Thread Richard Bennett
On Monday 22 January 2007 20:28, Dave Crossland wrote: On 22/01/07, Robert Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it available in a downloadable format for people who can't view Flash movies? (I'm running Linux on a PPC machine here, so nothing from Adobe...) hmm I found this

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-22 Thread Richard Bennett
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 00:30, Gervais Mulongoy wrote: The best part is that neither carrier will be able to stop me from writing warez for this phone and all future OpenMokos. You're lucky it isn't a Windows mobile phone, or you'd have your phones and email tapped by the FBI if you posted

Introduction, and: Re: an idea: GPS blog?

2007-01-23 Thread Richard Bennett
thinking the same thing, if you are talking about colored curves over a map that is. Maybe I can take this opportunity to introduce myself: I'm Richard Bennett, I'm an independent software developer living in Belgium, but doing a lot of my work in the US through my partnership company

Openmoko podcast

2007-02-01 Thread Richard Bennett
Hi, i didn't see this podcast mentioned here yet: http://www.lugradio.org/episodes/70 Lugradio have a typically disrespectful Openmoko (Yoko-Ono, Open-boner) review, and an interview with Mickey Lauer. I also never realized that FIC is not just some little startup, but actually the company

Wiki pdf / images

2007-02-04 Thread Richard Bennett
Hi, I am trying to add a pdf and some images to an openmoko wiki page http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/AtFOSDEM , but the 'attach file' option in 'More actions' is grayed out. Can attaching files be allowed, or am I doing something wrong? Richard

Missed call communication protocol

2007-02-07 Thread Richard Bennett
Hi all, In keeping with moving the control advantage away from the network operators, and to the users, I wonder what you think of this suggestion: When you use a SIP server, like Openser.org , you can set the CLI (Calling line identifier) to any value you like when you send the call on to a

Re: Missed call communication protocol

2007-02-07 Thread Richard Bennett
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 13:42, Florent THIERY wrote: I like it too, but technically, it's a hidden channel (illegal...) Hi, I wonder if it is illegal, it is used quite a lot allready: Callback has been used for years to circumvent collecting charges: ring a number that returns a 'busy'

Re: Missed call communication protocol

2007-02-07 Thread Richard Bennett
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 12:26, wim delvaux wrote: If this works I vote for it (for as long as it will work ...)  However receiving SMS is also free no ? couldn't you use that ? You usually pay to send SMSses. Of course some calling plans entitle you to X free speech minutes, and X free

Re: Missed call communication protocol

2007-02-08 Thread Richard Bennett
On Thursday 08 February 2007 09:01, Alexandre Ghisoli wrote: Sorry to throw a spanner in the works but I'm not sure that this will work here. It may work in other countries. I think I heard about it working in the US. I'll second that for switzerland. When you subscribe for a E1 channel

Re: Missed call communication protocol

2007-02-08 Thread Richard Bennett
On Thursday 08 February 2007 16:20, Jonathon Suggs wrote: Telcos are not going to let this type of thing happen. I'm all for being able to do things for 'free as in beer' with my 'free as in speech' phone...BUT if we start abusing some features/protocols then they will notice/retaliate. True,

Re: Missed call communication protocol

2007-02-08 Thread Richard Bennett
On Thursday 08 February 2007 15:06, Alexandre Ghisoli wrote: I was working on a project, maybe 15 years ago, where we developped a modem to transfer data : 1/ during setup, for free 2/ during the blanks of a conversation (approx 80% of the time, because only one speaks at time, so you got a

Fake it at FOSDEM

2007-02-09 Thread Richard Bennett
Hi, It's not that I have too much time on my hands or anything, I just finally got around to adding some stuff to the WIKI that I had lying around: http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/AtFOSDEM Cheers, and see you there! Richard. ___ OpenMoko

Re: Fake it at FOSDEM

2007-02-09 Thread Richard Bennett
On Friday 09 February 2007 23:03, Marcel de Jong wrote: On 2/9/07, Richard Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It's not that I have too much time on my hands or anything, I just finally got around to adding some stuff to the WIKI that I had lying around: http://www.linuxtogo.org

Re: Get your own OpenMoko T-Shirt

2007-02-12 Thread Richard Bennett
On Monday 12 February 2007 04:59, Daniel Willmann wrote: Hi, I spent some time designing t-shirts and polo-shirts with the OpenMoko logo: http://www.spreadshirt.net/shop.php?sid=211795 Thanks goes to the coreteam who allowed me to use the logo. Hi, Is this something where the proceeds go

Re: Attaching accessories (was: OpenMoko Challenges

2007-02-12 Thread Richard Bennett
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 02:08, Florent THIERY wrote: http://www.cyberpowersystems.com/CPH420MP.asp , available on Amazon There seem to be battery powered usb hubs ** *Hub 420 MP* You do run the risk of looking a bit like a nerd with one of those and a few USB peripherals hanging off your

Re: Attaching accessories (was: OpenMoko Challenges

2007-02-13 Thread Richard Bennett
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 03:36, Ryan Kline wrote: Wouldn't it be hilarious if we finally find a USB power solution after spending many hours laboriously building a device only to find that Sean has decided to power the USB port. yes, but that wouldn't solve all the problems: You'd still

Re: Attaching accessories (was: OpenMoko Challenges

2007-02-13 Thread Richard Bennett
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 13:05, Florent THIERY wrote: yes, but that wouldn't solve all the problems: You'd still have something hanging off the bottom of the phone. To me, the most valuable feature is the keyboard; a small one, but usable. And it's not something you use on mobility

Re: Content from the old wiki to the new wiki

2007-02-18 Thread Richard Bennett
On Sunday 18 February 2007 02:50, ryan lerch wrote: The content transfer from the old wiki (http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/) to the new one (http://wiki.openmoko.org/) is about 1/3 complete. if you have some spare time, and are not a developer as such, yet want to help out, feel

Re: Content from the old wiki to the new wiki

2007-02-18 Thread Richard Bennett
On Sunday 18 February 2007 17:30, Ole Tange wrote: On 2/18/07, Ole Tange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/18/07, Richard Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can PDF files not be uploaded? it says that that is not a recommended image format, but I'm trying to upload it as a file

Re: Content from the old wiki to the new wiki

2007-02-18 Thread Richard Bennett
On Sunday 18 February 2007 17:19, Ole Tange wrote: Ok, I moved the FOSDEM article. I created a new section ' FIC / OpenMoko at Events' on the new wiki to allow grouping all events together. I would think it might be better put under http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Current_events Except

Re: FOSDEM OpenMoko talk now on video.google.com

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Bennett
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 09:07, denis wrote: Have you ever seen Nokia (or any other company) announcing the SAME device (just with 2-5 more features) in 6 months. I have never seen this. Yeah. I think it is really great that they are so open about these things. At least this way everybody

Re: Crossroads

2007-03-14 Thread Richard Bennett
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 09:30, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: I have a much more important question, however: will the Neo work with european electrons, or will I need to import asian ones? If I'd need to import a new set of electrons to use for charging my battery every time it runs out,

Re: Message duplicates (was: Changes between GTA1 and GTA2?)

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Bennett
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:06:53 +0200, Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's actually a crashing spamassassin, which then causes the DATA section of an incoming SMTP transfer to time out, which again causes some sending email servers, such as gmail, who have a short timeout, to transfer the

Re: Message duplicates (was: Changes between GTA1 and GTA2?)

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Bennett
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:25:12 +0200, Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:56:57AM +0200, Richard Bennett wrote: Hi Harald, Could you please check whether spamassassin has crashed again? it locked up again :( The duplicate messages seem to have started once

Re: ATT is cruising for a bruising

2007-09-10 Thread Richard Bennett
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:06:02 +0200, Sander van Grieken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wifi+in china - use Tor Maybe better just not use email at all in that case: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/10/misuse_of_tor_led_to_embassy_password_breach/ ___

Re: Message duplicates

2007-09-11 Thread Richard Bennett
Hi Harald, Could you please check whether spamassassin has frozen again? The duplicate messages seem to have started once more. Thanks, Richard. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: GPS accuracy

2007-09-22 Thread Richard Bennett
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:43:45 +0200, Krzysztof Kajkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Check out picture in this article: http://www.openmoko.org.pl/node/41 I had my Neo on the buttom of my back pack while riding a bike. Accuracy was up to about 2m. It was realy good. Hi, Do you mean your

Re: Help Request for our Webshop

2007-09-23 Thread Richard Bennett
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:33:42 +0200, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Community, We have a specification and database model in place for our new webshop but we can't find the resources needed to implement this in the near future. I think it is great that you ask this of the

ARM offers more duplication

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Bennett
See: http://www.theregister.com/2007/10/04/arm_linux/ http://www.arm.com/markets/cmc/linux.html http://www.arm.com/products/os/linux.html ARM are developing another open source Linux platform including an X11, GTK+ GUI environment. Shame openembedded or openmoko didn't show up in their Google

Re: Bi-weekly OpenMoko community update

2007-10-15 Thread Richard Bennett
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:18:55 +0200, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so no, we do want and require the source code to everything Change your government then. Of course. This is but a small first step on the road to world domination ;o) ___

Re: GTK vs QTopia vs Android - (was: Re: Android needs applications) (will be: new vision for openmoko)

2007-11-16 Thread Richard Bennett
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:59:33 +0100, Michael Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So make a poll for GTK-OS versus Qtopia. maybe it is not only a technical question. Is there an emulator to test both systems on my windows machine? then i can give a vote based on the stomach. If not, then I vote

Re: New To the list

2007-12-07 Thread Richard Bennett
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:18:15 +0100, flexd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe it's called a Neo1973, not Treo. Maybe they changed the name to accent the tri-band character of the phone ;o) ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: support for using yyyy-mm-dd (2008-01-31) date format in Wiki and elsewhere

2008-02-05 Thread Richard Bennett
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:27:31 +0100, Jeremiah Flerchinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I myself am used to using dates like 04 Feb 2008. How about just inverting this order so it matches what you want, but the abbreviation of the month is used? Then nobody would get confused on what is the

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Richard Bennett
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:48:08 +0100, David Pottage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If FIC setup a web shop in a European country with a low sales tax rate such as Belgum, Europeans buying Freerunner phones could save around 10% compared with buying from a German web shop. Don't you mean

Re: FreeRunner delayed a further 6 months?!?!??

2008-03-16 Thread Richard Bennett
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:49:57 +0100, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do agree with this... Btw imho all the words written in this thread are due to only one thing: the lack of communication by the FIC developers (the hardware ones first of all, but also the software

Re: 10 or more phones order

2008-04-28 Thread Richard Bennett
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:28:56 +0200, Ilja O. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Federico Lorenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And why is it not in Python? It would be too easy to read. So why's it not in Perl then, You could do all that in a simple one-liner... ;o)

OT: Do Linux-oriented companies use Linux?

2008-07-13 Thread Richard Bennett
Hi, I'm interested in promoting the use of Linux at the workplace. I've found that invariably policies at companies make it harder to use Linux as they will prohibit its use on the network, or use MS-centric tools like Exchange or proprietary document formats or software that requires

Antwerp group buy

2008-07-13 Thread Richard Bennett
Hi all, We're at about 7 confirmed people around Antwerp, Belgium, who will be placing a group-order, probably from Germany. That way we should save considerably on postage and get a discounted purchase price. Anyone who'd like to join us to order within the next week or so, and can come to

Adding new page to wiki (was: Re: sysfsutils -- the script)

2008-07-24 Thread Richard Bennett
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:22:37 +0200, arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't you have access to the wiki? nope. lost my creds somewhere -- and to be honest, i never got the hang of this whole wiki thing ... at least when it comes to creating pages from scratch. Hi, In case this helps,