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

2008-12-29 Thread Roland Mas
Michele Renda, 2008-12-29 13:27:45 +0100 : > Il 29/12/2008 13:20, Roland Mas ha scritto: >>For France (+33), the usual format is +33 # ## ## ## ## >> (international format) or 0# ## ## ## ## (without the international >> prefix) > Thank you for your answer. > &

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

2008-12-29 Thread Roland Mas
#.##). Roland. -- Roland Mas Sauvez une souris, mangez votre chat. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [debian] how to build emacs 23?

2008-10-07 Thread Roland Mas
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 2008-10-07 10:02:56 +0200 : > I would like to build emacs 23 for Freerunner on Debian, but I have > no clear idea how to do it. Pointers would be appreciated. Unofficial source packages are available on http://emacs.orebokech.com/ Roland. -- Roland Mas In every li

Re: [debian & gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Roland Mas
Fox Mulder, 2008-09-24 18:28:25 +0200 : > Ok, than this bug still exists. Actually... I left the FR running since my last mail, and it now displays the correct GPS time. I didn't keep an eye on it, so I don't know how long it took. Roland. -- Roland Mas Bee There Orr Bee

Re: [debian & gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Roland Mas
d installed fso-gpsd > for that to work? Yes. > Is the gps-time correctly shown in tangogps? I must confess I don't look at GPS time that often (NTP is there for a reason :-). Now you mention it, it seems to believe we are currently on the 30th of November, 2008 at midnight. Ro

Re: [debian & gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Roland Mas
ces these days because I'm stuck at home working, but I get a fix that lasts for as long as I've looked at it so far. Roland. -- Roland Mas Au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes n'ont qu'un oeil. ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Numptyphysics on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-09-01 Thread Roland Mas
know. Roland. -- Roland Mas It would be hard to be deader without special training. -- in Theatre of Cruelty (Terry Pratchett) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Debian on the FreeRunner -- now official

2008-08-16 Thread Roland Mas
h / FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs462M 287M 151M 66% / debian-gta02:~# Still not small enough to fit into NAND flash, unfortunately. Roland. -- Roland Mas C r ' s d a ue ell r a u i r . -- Signatures à collectionn

Re: atd: how to start a job every 10 minutes ?

2008-08-15 Thread Roland Mas
ron instead of at. at is for one-time jobs, cron is for recurring jobs. Roland. -- Roland Mas ... all in all it's just another rule in the firewall. -- Ping Flood ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-14 Thread Roland Mas
h to something else until it stabilises a bit. Probably some time around FSO milestone 3. In the meantime, there is http://wiki.debian.org/pkg-fso. Roland. -- Roland Mas How does an octopus go into battle? Fully-armed. ___ Openmoko community mailing li

Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-14 Thread Roland Mas
is evil. Should have gone for Debian right at the start :-) (In order not to degenerate into a DSW, here are my own contributions so far: 1. a Python script to load and save contacts to files in 2007.2, and 2. a failed attempt at another script to switch from lock-and-suspend to lock-only when a call is active. You win hands down.) Roland. -- Roland Mas Why did the elephant cross the road? Because it was the chicken's day off. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-13 Thread Roland Mas
barrier to entry for prospective developers, I doubt they'd be able to accomplish much even if it was a single command to run. Half an hour. 15 commands to copy and paste. How much more hand-holding does a developer need? Roland. -- Roland Mas A man walks into a bar. Bang. _

Re: GPRS / Wifi

2008-08-10 Thread Roland Mas
wconfig $INTERFACE channel 7 > iwconfig $INTERFACE key open > udhcpc -i eth0 I prefer using just "ifup eth1" and have pre/post scripts in /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/network/*.d, but that's a matter of taste. Roland. -- Roland Mas - Ogenki desuka, yau de poêle

Re: GPRS / Wifi

2008-08-10 Thread Roland Mas
ly if needed by an > application. At least on Debian, there's a "diald" package that does exactly this. I guess it could be ported to Openmoko. Roland. -- Roland Mas M-x execute-extended-command ___ Openmoko community mailing lis

Re: wrong offset of mouse in landscape mode (and scummvm)

2008-08-06 Thread Roland Mas
x27;d have been bitten by that earlier... Roland. -- Roland Mas Êtes vous sûr ? (O/N) -- Derniers mots d'un ordinateur ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Ringtone and vibration configuration

2008-07-26 Thread Roland Mas
Hans L, 2008-07-26 03:55:14 -0500 : > I think next I will attempt to make a program to record beats in > real time by pressing the touchpad to the beat. And next, you'll port Guitar Hero or Frets On Fire, and you'll be adulated by lots of people :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas Th

Re: How to import vCard into contacts

2008-07-24 Thread Roland Mas
Maciej Piechotka, 2008-07-24 11:58:03 +0200 : > On my previous phone I had large collection of the contacts (email, > phones etc.). I've exported it by gammu to the vCard format. How to > import them into OpenMoko Contacts? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Import_Vcf_Contacts Rola

Re: sysfsutils -- the script

2008-07-24 Thread Roland Mas
led kernel is from Jul 23 06:34:19 CEST with Version: 2:2.6.24+git24+be0f111b3d1570dec174ff301d08bad995ccf1e6-r0 (and yes, I have rebooted into it :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas La menace de la baffe pèse plus lourd que la baffe elle-même. -- in Sri Raoul

Re: sysfsutils -- the script

2008-07-24 Thread Roland Mas
y! ...that, or the kernel just forgets to switch the LED off. Andy? Roland. -- Roland Mas Reincarnation likes a joke as much as the next philosophical hypothesis. -- in The Truth (Terry Pratchett) ___ Openmoko community mailing list co

Re: Has anyone tried the invisibleSHIELD on the freerunner?

2008-07-23 Thread Roland Mas
o interesting after the customs took their toll :-/ Roland. -- Roland Mas One... two... one, two, many, lots! -- Lias, in Soul music (Terry Pratchett) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mai

Re: Matchbox Keyboard Layout Change

2008-07-21 Thread Roland Mas
R touchscreen according to the same methods that gave us the Dvorak-ish keyboard layouts", in which case I'm all in favour :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas Why did the elephant cross the road? Because it was the chicken's day off. ___ Openmoko comm

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-21 Thread Roland Mas
o: you rock too. So there. Now this gets me wondering whether the Freerunner could sustain an Openstreetmap editor for realtime map-making :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas Homme qui plus rien à dire, citer proverbe chinois. -- Proverbe chinois. ___ Openmo

Re: Import Contacts

2008-07-20 Thread Roland Mas
Maybe something needs the daemon to be started, and it's not started initially... Roland. -- Roland Mas Au royaume des aveugles, il y a des borgnes à ne pas dépasser. -- in Soeur Marie-Thérèse des Batignolles (Maëster) ___ Openmoko community m

Re: Import Contacts

2008-07-20 Thread Roland Mas
t" with > signature "s" on interface > "org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.addressbook.Book" doesn't exist > > I have installed via opkg python-dbus per wiki instructions. Strange. It still works here. You do have openmoko-contacts2 installed, right?

Re: Special Letters?

2008-07-20 Thread Roland Mas
ne. I guess the problem is mostly the input method. Roland. -- Roland Mas Bee There Orr Bee A Rectangular Thyng! -- in Soul Music (Terry Pratchett) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/li

Re: Rules based policy engine

2008-07-20 Thread Roland Mas
ill do to battery life. You could approximate with the GSM cell identifiers. Roland. -- Roland Mas Et c'est tellement plus mignon de se faire traiter de con en chanson... -- in En chantant (Michel Sardou) ___ Openmoko community

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-19 Thread Roland Mas
Timo Jyrinki, 2008-07-18 13:42:02 +0300 : >>> Does anyone else have a reliability problem now with the new >>> kernel and GPS when SD card is used? Am Fr 18. Juli 2008 schrieb Roland Mas: >> I have. Didn't manage to properly isolate the problem, but my gut >&

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-18 Thread Roland Mas
o reliably fix it. Roland. -- Roland Mas Au royaume des aveugles, il y a des borgnes à ne pas dépasser. -- in Soeur Marie-Thérèse des Batignolles (Maëster) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Roland Mas
arne anka, 2008-07-18 15:09:01 +0200 : > is there a way to detect when it wakes? a hook to plug custom > actions into? You might try sticking a script in /etc/apm/resume.d, at least as a first approach. Roland. -- Roland Mas Certains disent que les vrais hommes ne font pas de backups

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Roland Mas
suspend; 4. Freerunner is still in the bag (and you're walking to/from work), so its touchscreen prevents further suspends. Roland. -- Roland Mas Qu'est-ce qui est petit, jaune et vachement dangereux ? Un canari avec le mot de passe de root. ___

Re: Import Contacts

2008-07-18 Thread Roland Mas
=fr_FR.UTF-8", so names starting with É sort among the names starting with E rather than at the very end. The backside of that is that agpsui tries to interpret gpsd's output as fr_FR, with its decimal separator set to a comma rather than a dot, and therefore wrong data comes out. But

Re: Calendar

2008-07-17 Thread Roland Mas
dar server? I have a CalDAV server that I use with Sunbird/Iceowl and Evolution, on both my main computer and my laptop when I'm away from home, and I'd just *love* to access it from my phone too. Any insight would be most welcome. Roland. -- Roland Mas Plant a radish, get a radish,

Re: Import Contacts

2008-07-16 Thread Roland Mas
ge-contacts.py script does magic to avoid that need. On the other hand, I'm playing with Python and Dbus for something else (to disable suspend when you're talking on the phone), and I have similar unexpected errors on other Dbus interfaces. I'm still trying to debug that. Roland. --

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread Roland Mas
thomasg, 2008-07-15 12:42:07 +0200 : > Testresults from other people appreciated. Confirmed here. Thanks for sharing :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas Un clavier azerty en vaut deux. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org h

Re: Import Contacts

2008-07-14 Thread Roland Mas
), but I'm reluctant to create yet another account on yet another website. Could you add the link (and maybe rephrase the text on the article to remove the thing about running from a terminal rather than SSH)? Thanks, Roland. [1] http://www.placard.fr.eu.org/~roland/tmp/manage-contacts.py --

Re: Import Contacts

2008-07-14 Thread Roland Mas
Roland Mas, 2008-07-14 15:09:34 +0200 : > - you can dump all contacts to a file (a series of concatenated > vcards); Forgot to mention: that feature uses a gross hack, I'd be happy to see it cleaned up. I just didn't manage to find the query syntax for the getContactList()

Re: Import Contacts

2008-07-14 Thread Roland Mas
xt $ emacs/vim/nano/gedit/whatever contacts.txt $ ssh openmoko python manage-contacts.py load < contacts.txt As far as I'm concerned (look, I'm a Debian integrist, I'm *supposed* to care about these things :-), my modifications to the initial script are subject to the WTFPL. Ro