Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-05 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:45:51 +0200 Patryk Benderz wrote: > [cut] > > True! You have to open it, unplug each internal cable (display unit, > > maybe something more) and clean everything with alcohol, flux remover or > > something similar. > While using alcohol on LCD screen be careful. AFAIR LCD m

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-03 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:43:10 +0200 Hrabosh wrote: > omcomali@porcupinefactory.org píše v St 03. 08. 2011 v 19:04 +0200: > > Hi all, > > > > Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a > > lake for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately, it > >

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-03 Thread omcomali . rhn
Thanks for your answer, Lukas! Now I suspect that SHR-Today worked better because it's much darker than Illume desktop. Similar things happened to me when working on monochrome LCD displays with broken capacitors. rhn On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:17:07 +0200 Lukas Märdian wrote: > Hey! > > As dev

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-03 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:26:04 +0200 Ed Kapitein wrote: > On 08/03/2011 07:04 PM, omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a > > lake for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately, it > > does

Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-03 Thread omcomali . rhn
Hi all, Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a lake for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately, it doesn't quite work any more. It spent about 10 secs underwater, and after a few days of drying, it seems to boot properly both from NAND menu and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] release candidate 1 for new SHR-testing 2011.1

2010-12-14 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:32:50 +0100 Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > Am Dienstag 14 Dezember 2010, 19:15:37 schrieb > omcomali@porcupinefactory.org: > > Fortunately, only root folder's metadata were lost. Everything important > > was recovered and backed up :) > > > > More tests: the pim database,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] release candidate 1 for new SHR-testing 2011.1

2010-12-14 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:37:02 +0100 omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote: > > After a reboot, the filesystem on my SD card (4 GB Verbatim class 4) lost its > shape, requiring a destructive fsck, so this might be the end of testing for > me. > > cheers, > rhn > Fortunately, only root folder'

Re: [ANNOUNCE] release candidate 1 for new SHR-testing 2011.1

2010-12-12 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:50:43 +0100 Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > Am Sonntag 12 Dezember 2010, 13:54:33 schrieb > omcomali@porcupinefactory.org: > > Hey, > > The moment I read this email, I forced myself to do a reinstall. > > So far, so good. The switch from Illume to Illume2 was a bit confusin

Re: [ANNOUNCE] release candidate 1 for new SHR-testing 2011.1

2010-12-12 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:47:16 +0100 Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > Hi, > i want announce the RC1 for the upcomming SHR-testing release in 2011. > > http://build.shr-project.org/tests/shr-testing/images/om-gta02/ > > So please test these images and report the bugs so that we can release a > really w

Coto - a clone of openalchemist

2010-11-19 Thread omcomali . rhn
Hey, Lately, that evil game took many precious hours of my life again, so I decided to refresh an old project of mine to be able to play it on the Freerunner. 3 years ago I wrote a clone of openalchemist in Python + GTK (openalchemist used way too much CPU), but it used keyboard only. This week

Re: When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-08-17 Thread omcomali . rhn
I might be the other person who likes the bezel. It's a little too close to the screen, but it prevents the screen from accidental scratches and misclicks. The resistive screen is quite soft, and I'd be afraid to put it face-down on uneven surfaces or put it in my pocket in fear that the screen

Re: Create personal Maps for tangogps or similar

2010-08-05 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 17:53:45 +0200 Kevin Zuber wrote: > > > > Well, you can't :) > > > > I read your other post. To make it all work, you need to: > > a) rectify your image - there are services like > > http://labs.metacarta.com/rectifier/ , but be careful, they publish your > > maps by default.

Re: Create personal Maps for tangogps or similar

2010-08-05 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:31:14 +0200 Kevin Zuber wrote: > > I can help you with the splitting part. A few weeks ago I wrote a script to > > render OSM data to svg, convert it to png and split the files into > > directories. It renders a specific subset of OSM data, but it can be used > > to split

Re: Create personal Maps for tangogps or similar

2010-08-05 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 11:16:31 +0200 Kevin Zuber wrote: > Dear Openmoko Community, > > I want to create some personal maps for viewing on the freerunner GPS > application (like tangogps). > > All available maps (open streetmap and google maps etc.) does not meet > my demands, so I want to create o

Re: T-mobile even more plus

2010-08-03 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:55:13 +0200 Ed Kapitein wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 00:07 +0200, omcomali@porcupinefactory.org > wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:47:18 +0200 > > Ed Kapitein wrote: > > > > > On 08/02/2010 09:18 PM, omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote: > > > > Hi Ed, > > > > >

Re: T-mobile even more plus

2010-08-02 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:47:18 +0200 Ed Kapitein wrote: > On 08/02/2010 09:18 PM, omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > > > Congratulations for capturing the beautiful GPS track. Could you share how > > you managed to do it? Did you wait for the plane to start or did you get on

Re: T-mobile even more plus

2010-08-02 Thread omcomali . rhn
Hi Ed, Congratulations for capturing the beautiful GPS track. Could you share how you managed to do it? Did you wait for the plane to start or did you get on the plane with a GPS fix? Both times I tried, the Freerunner lost fix just before the start. Cheers, rhn On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:36:23 +

Re: script for batch conversion of tango track log to gpx

2010-07-25 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:45:37 +0100 Tim Abell wrote: > here's one I just wrote > > http://gist.github.com/489870 > > Tim Abell > Here's a script to cut/fix invalid data points I wrote some time ago. rhn gpslogcrop.py Description: Binary data ___

Re: [Shr-User] [SHR-T] Images from 29th of May

2010-07-18 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:45:37 +0300 "Risto H. Kurppa" wrote: > Hi there! > > The latest SHR-testing images are available at > http://build.shr-project.org/tests/shr-testing/images/om-gta02/ > > Martin Jansa / JaMa prepared them in the end of May but it wasn't > announced anywhere - so here you g

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-01 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Sat, 1 May 2010 13:48:58 +0200 Christoph Mair wrote: > Dear community, > > we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved Freerunner: a > navigation board! > > What is it? > The Freerunner Navigation Board is a small PCB which is able to measure > rotations as well as the mag

Re: Debian - issues

2010-02-20 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:12:17 +0100 Sebastian Reichel wrote: > I just guessed he meant the software stack of them because their > distribution uses openembedded and not *.deb files ;) > > -- Sebastian That's right, SHR as in the distribution. I hope my other post cleared that up ;) Cheers, rhn

Re: Debian - issues

2010-02-20 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:13:37 +0100 Sebastian Reichel wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 02:04:03PM +0100, omcomali@porcupinefactory.org > wrote: > > I guess I'm going to wait for a new kernel as Timo suggested. > > I guess I will upload one later today. It will require loading more > modules

Re: Debian - issues

2010-02-20 Thread omcomali . rhn
Thanks for the responses! I thought the debug-disabled kernel gave only ~20% speedup, that's a nice surprise! I guess I'm going to wait for a new kernel as Timo suggested. By the way, can any of the Debian gurus suggest an easy way to rebuild a Debian package with different build options? And w

Re: Debian - issues

2010-02-19 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:35:30 +0200 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > omcomali@porcupinefactory.org writes: > > It's installed on SD card with multiple partitions, but how to mount > > the other partitions? I couldn't find the relevant device files in > > /dev, except for mtdX, which are character

Debian - issues

2010-02-19 Thread omcomali . rhn
Hi, I just installed Debian to be able to use some packages from the repos, and I need help to get it to behave. It's installed on SD card with multiple partitions, but how to mount the other partitions? I couldn't find the relevant device files in /dev, except for mtdX, which are character de

Re: [SHR-U] WiFi-related memory leak

2010-02-19 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:18:32 -0800 (PST) vancel35 wrote: > > I don't know if what I saw was the same problem, but I left mine on my wifi > ovenight and when I woke up, it wasn't responding very quickly, but as far > as I know, nothing had been killed. > > I didn't even think about the Wifi bein

Re: elm_browser initial release

2010-02-15 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:49:16 +0100 Patryk Benderz wrote: > [cut] > > Not everyone uses the card all the time, so ~/Downloads would be > > better. You can symlink that to whatever you wish (like it used to be > > in TangoGPS). > Symlink is a good idea - I use it since "ages" but wouldn't ~/Maps >

Re: elm_browser initial release

2010-02-14 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:39:18 +0100 Lars Hennig wrote: > Am Sonntag 14 Februar 2010 schrieb Petr Vanek: > > How about ~ by default but having it as a configurable string? And the > > downloader perhaps too? "wget". Some might change it to > > "wget -c"  (continue downloading) > > Even better woul

Re: RFC: FSOSHRCON 2010 kickoff

2010-02-10 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:24:32 +0100 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > Dear guys, > > I just returned from FOSDEM (*) where we had a mini Openmoko devroom. > Seeing all the interested people and experiencing the scent of imminent > breakthroughs wrt. supporting foreign platforms got me really motiva

Re: OT: Re: gender-neutral English usage

2010-01-20 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:28:11 +0100 "arne anka" wrote: > >> > what exactly has one's value to do with the gender or the pronoun you > >> are > >> > using to refer to him or her? > >> > your proposition is based on the assumption that one gender is less > >> > valueable than the other, hence, usi

Re: OT: Re: gender-neutral English usage

2010-01-20 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:30:13 +0100 Krister Svanlund wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:12 PM, arne anka wrote: > >> I think it could be just historical. Nowadays, you should act the same > >> regardless of the gender of the person you're talking to or about except > >> in some situations. At lea

Re: OT: Re: gender-neutral English usage

2010-01-20 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:55:18 +0100 "arne anka" wrote: > > And I can't see > > the need for gender-specific pronouns at all. > > well, since a lot of (most?) languages have those, there's certainly a > need for that :-) > I think it could be just historical. Nowadays, you should act the same

Re: OT: Re: gender-neutral English usage

2010-01-19 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:14:43 +0100 "arne anka" wrote: > > AFAIK, German has a neutral gender in addition to masculine and > > feminine, but I know even less about German than Spanish. > > german neutral pronoun "es" is very similar to english "it" (and not only > etymologically), ie it is only

Re: Happy New Year from FSO

2010-01-14 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:31:16 +0100 Michal Brzozowski wrote: > 2010/1/14 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer > > > In the last 6 months, I worked roughly 60 hours per week on FSO2. Thanks > > to my wife having a full-time-job, I could do this without causing any > > financial trouble. > > > > > Wow! You are

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2010-01-07 Thread omcomali . rhn
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 23:00:19 +0100 Fabian Schölzel wrote: ---snip--- > You also said, that he could run into trouble because of the things he writes > here. Well, that may be. Myself i think, only people, that are not able to > deal with that amount of info and openness, would generate trouble