Re: is there an effort to port ubuntu to openmoko?

2009-01-08 Thread Didier Raboud
Note that Debian is already ported. Ubuntu is "just" "Debian unstable+six months of stabilization"... Regards, OdyX -- Swisslinux.org − Le carrefour GNU/Linux en Suisse − http://www.swisslinux.org ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.

Re: How do you like to read a phone number?

2009-01-05 Thread Didier Raboud
Hi, Switzerland From outside (many people write all their numbers like this, gives the "international" trend...) : +41 xx yyy yy yy From inside : 0xx yyy yy yy Where "xx" is the regional code. AFAIK, mobile phones are always "7x", with x = 6, 8, 9 And you can replac

Re: Version 2 -- New community distribution hackable1

2008-12-17 Thread Didier Raboud
Didier Raboud wrote: > Marcus Bauer wrote: > >> >> >> Hey guys, >> >> fully in the spirit of "release early, release often" we want to >> announce hackable:1, a new distribution for the Neo and othe

Re: Version 2 -- New community distribution hackable1

2008-12-17 Thread Didier Raboud
Marcus Bauer wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > fully in the spirit of "release early, release often" we want to > announce hackable:1, a new distribution for the Neo and other hackable > devices. > > > What is hackable:1 ? > distributions = distributions + 1 -- Swisslinux.or

Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-15 Thread Didier Raboud
Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > "Yorick Moko" writes: >> * It's still more reliable and easy to use a 20EUR cellphone than use >> the FR as a daily phone, more than six months after Openmoko said it >> was mass market ready. I love the FR, but should we admit that some >> things really went wrong?

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread Didier Raboud
arne anka wrote: > > om provides and develops only one distribution! > > if there are more than this one it is done by community effort -- people > who bought the freerunner exactly because the _could_ do that. > i for one don't see any sense in helping google to do their homework -- > and contro

Re: Android open sourced

2008-10-21 Thread Didier Raboud
Cédric Berger wrote: > Here we are > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/10/android-open-source-cell-phone.html > > time to port to Neo ! Hey... it says "open-source" (you can read the code) not "free software" (you can do whatever you want)... http://code.google.com/android/terms.ht

Re: Back to the basics: improving user experience

2008-10-17 Thread Didier Raboud
Christ van Willegen wrote: > Perhaps another idea to lighten the core developers' load... > > Invest a little time (a day or so?) to properly set up a VMWare image > that can be downloaded by developers that want to help in any way. > > Make it easy to update sources, and easy to build both kern

Re: Back to the basics: improving user experience

2008-10-16 Thread Didier Raboud
Vasco Névoa wrote: > > I agree with you partly; the main efforts should go into getting the > new framework out - *as long as it runs on a rock-solid core system*. > So I support the idea of accelerating the FSO integration... but in > the meantime people have to use the sucking Qtopia ware in th

Re: Weekly Engineering News 41/2008: back to the basics

2008-10-15 Thread Didier Raboud
Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > (...) > Comments? This is the best thing I have read about Openmoko development since a long time : Openmoko Inc. focusing on parts where money has real value : core stuff, which needs high qualifications and good coders. "Week-end coders" will then build their toy on the

Re: Neopwn

2008-09-22 Thread Didier Raboud
Russell Hay wrote: > I'm assuming they're not intending to release the full code? Certainly > cant see any mentions of license or downloads on their site. Formally, they only have to release the source code to their buyers... -- Swisslinux.org − Le carrefour GNU/Linux en Suisse − http://www.sw

Re: fso bug/oddity

2008-09-17 Thread Didier Raboud
Tilman Baumann wrote: > Tilman Baumann wrote: >> Tilman Baumann wrote: >>> dbus is getting flodded by org.freedesktop.Gypsy.Time.TimeChanged, >>> org.freedesktop.Gypsy.Satellite.SatellitesChanged and >>> org.freedesktop.Gypsy.Time.TimeChanged signals. >>> But GPS is off. >>> >>> I think neither of

Re: New(ish) keyboard input method

2008-09-11 Thread Didier Raboud
Craig B. Allen wrote: > dasher is available in the Debian distribution. > > It's pretty slow, and hard to see the letters. But I have not tried > tweaking it other than selecting "stylus" mode in preferences. > > -- Craig Anyway... I think it can be a real plus for the FreeRunner ! Okay, it c

Re: Swype - Jaw dropping fast and accurate entry of text via touch screen [w/video]

2008-09-10 Thread Didier Raboud
nickd wrote: > http://cnettv.cnet.com/9742-1_53-50003669.html > > This would be awesome. > > -Nick But proprietary... Take a look at the other method previously pointed by Dan : http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ It's GPL... Regards, OdyX -- Swisslinux.org − Le carrefour GNU/Linux

Re: Fennec on Openmoko

2008-09-09 Thread Didier Raboud
arne anka wrote: >> At the moment i got iceweasel running on my debian freerunner. It is >> also a firefox port which works great. I could use any original addon >> from mozilla. :) > > i recently found out about midori -- a small webkit based browser, > available in the debian repositiories I j

Re: Trading in €uros ?

2008-04-15 Thread Didier Raboud
Didier Raboud wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering. With the actual fall of the U$D, why not setting the Neo's > prices in €uros ? (Which is actually pretty strong.) (or ¥ens, ...) > > This would imply a rising price (with time) for American customers instead > of a fal

Trading in €uros ?

2008-04-15 Thread Didier Raboud
on is good for me if the U$D continues to go down : my future Neo will cost less to me. :) Regards, OdyX, aka Didier Raboud ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-10 Thread Didier Raboud
Sven Klomp wrote: > On Thursday 10 April 2008 10:19:22 Didier Raboud wrote: >> Sven Klomp wrote: >> >> > On Thursday 10 April 2008 01:17:51 Denis wrote: >> >> Centralized database is evil. I'm going to use my own server for >> >> track

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-10 Thread Didier Raboud
Sven Klomp wrote: > On Thursday 10 April 2008 01:17:51 Denis wrote: >> Centralized database is evil. I'm going to use my own server for >> tracking my Neo. I think it's the only way to keep privacy. > > I don't know if it was already mentioned, but encryption of the GPS data > might be a solution

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-09 Thread Didier Raboud
Denis wrote: > Then why on Earth would a hijacker use standard image? Because the Neos will always be one particular phone in a sea of other phones (even in an ocean of other phone _types_). I was assuming that the hijacker were only random hijackers targetting all possible phones to just resell

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-09 Thread Didier Raboud
Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: > On 4/7/08, Didier Raboud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> * If I loose or let my Moko being stolen, I can find my connection >> parameters (on the paper) and go to track.openmoko.com and there I can >> find >> 24 coo

Re: Loosing your moko

2008-04-07 Thread Didier Raboud
ill restart to send coordinates to the default server with its SIM-change and flash-change prone ID. * I as user can take the freedom to deactivate it to protect my positions and/or save money (depending on the costs induced by the GPS tracker) Regards, Didier Raboud ___