Re: Dash GPS personal nav device (uses OpenMoko) opens API
Bastian Muck schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That's very interresting. The site sais: Dash includes maps for the United States (Continental US, Hawaii and Alaska) only. It will not work in Canada, Mexico, Europe or any location outside the United States. Since when are Canada, Mexico and Europe in the United States? I thought I would live far away from the USA (Germany). ;-) equaly weird when you have a flight from Europe (Germany) to Canada (Vancouver) and you have to change planes in Chicago. Canada is listed as a national departure not international... So I have get off the international arrivals and get through the customs to check in to US??? my globe recently said Canada and US were two different nations ;-) anyway back to Topic. the Dash is really an impressive gadget. Id like to have one or at least see some process in implementing routing with openstreetmap vector data. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Apologies for spam - we will blacklist that account right away
Harish Pillay wrote: May I make a suggestion to whoever is running this mailing list to add the greylist technique to it as well? I have had milter-greylist running on my main email servers for over 12 months now, and the amount of spam reaching my users/mailing lists has gone down to almost zero. I know greylisting works and is stopping spam very effective (for now). However this behaviour puts high volume mailservers in a lot of stress. Also I am experiencing, that spammers are adapting to greylisting and are connecting multiple times to mailservers. Supposedly in order to pass greylisting. Thus, the administrators of these high volume mailservers have to get rid of several thousands incoming connections per minute from a single spammer (think of a botnet DDoS you) and delayed outgoing connections for your customers. You therefore have a higher deferr rate outgoing (doubling outgoing connections) and therefore have a bigger mailqueue, additionally you have more incoming connections (spam) blocking your available TCP ports permanently only for the cause to reject them. So my advice would be to not use greylisting, as it pushes the problem to other parts of the internet and is effective only for a limited time (if anyone is using it). My thought is, that it would be much more effective to block subscription by sophisticated captchas (take care of XSS vulnerabilities ) . Also it might be effective to block subscriptions by using lists of compromised hosts like CBL (http://cbl.abuseat.org). Try to identify which IPs are causing trouble and do match them with several blacklists. The lists do not always work in the same way as it does for others. Sometimes also only a mix of several lists are working. http://karmasphere.com/ might help you there. If you dont have enough samples, be conservative. It is more a hassle to gain legitimate listmembers back, who you have been lost during subscription, as blocking fake accounts afterwards. Have an eye on your subscriptions. Too many new listmembers is certainly not a cause of marketing. I might have come a little off topic, but perhaps it helps someone. I am now getting back to my cookies, ice cream, cake and teas ;-) Cheers Thomas ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: opensource aerial photography project (was Re: OM Camera - a new angle)
Robin Paulson wrote: On 19/09/2007, OJW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 September 2007 19:12, Ian Stirling wrote: It must have wi-max, and be able to fly up to several kilometers, to take pictures for use with the OM mapping system. Need to integrate with these guys... http://diydrones.com/ [phone with GPS and camera being used to fly a model aircraft, and send georeferenced photos back over the network] interesting stuff this has got me thinking - openstreetmap is progressing as a nice alternative to google maps and so on, but is there an open-source equivalent for the photography part of google maps/earth? something working in a similar way to osm, using photos taken by anybody, with a UAV or any airborne vehicle, and licensed under GNU FDL? this sort of technology is getting cheaper and cheaper, it's well within the price range of common people now ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community yes there is: http://openaerialmap.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Regards, Thomas ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: An idea of sorts
Giles Jones wrote: On 28 Jul 2007, at 14:23, Max Giesbert wrote: sounds like an excellent idea to me. would definitely be a killer application to use the phone in a peer-to-peer style without using the telco network. UI-wise this could be realized in organizing the addressbook more like a IM client where you can see if your buddies are in BT-/WiFi-Range, Online (via any network connection (GPRS/UMTS/BT/WiFi)) or offline (callable/SMSable). In any situation you could choose to send text/chat or call your buddy. And the phone chooses the best (cost/battery life/reception) way to contact the buddy. what do you think? max How about friends list? so you can basically add people to your friends list via email. The Nintendo Wii has a serial number built in and you can send a friend request to another Wii or to any other email address. When sending a message for the first time it asks for permission to be added (one way to stop spam). You can then email pictures to your Wii. An easy way to install new software would be to be able to email it to your phone and use the phone's wifi to download the email. Of course security would have to be present to stop it installing anything received in an email. Hi, correct me if I am wrong, but shouldnt Jabber/XMPP do this out of the box with (formerly Apples) Bonjour (http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0174.html)? You should simply have your IM Client active and see automatically every friend who is on your list as available (or what message he has selected). Exchanging data like pictures, binary or simply text is therefore already implemented? For seeing people how you dont know, you could join a Chatroom called Local for everyone available in short range technoligy like Wifi/BT/Infrared and Global for GPRS/Wifi(Internet). Who is subscribed to your personal Global Chatroom should be identified first... probably some kind of social group which has met before in person... Managing your calls over Jabber should also be possible through a IM Gateway which communitcates to your phonebook. Click on a friend and open a jingle connection directly (wifi/bt) to your friend or first to the gsm module which then dials out over normal voice Regards, Thomas ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
