Re: OT: Re: gender-neutral English usage

2010-01-20 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:30:13 +0100 Krister Svanlund wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:12 PM, 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 i

Re: Yet Another Map Application

2008-02-25 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:30:54 +0100 Schmidt AndrĂ¡s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I am happy to announce the shiny new release of Yet Another Map > Application - Yama in short :-). [...] Looks cool. Have to try it out. Not sure if you are aware of this, but Yama is the Hindu god of death!

Re: 25 native [iPhone|OpenMoko] we hope to see

2008-03-03 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 16:17:42 +0100 (CET) David Samblas Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > 22. Digital level > Is any side of the phone straigh enough to be able to > develop such a freaking geek widget? > I could be a funny exercice to play with the > accelerometers. [...] The Neo 1973 d

Re: Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

2008-03-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:47:40 +0100 Jay Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just a reminder to everyone *NOT* to pull out the battery while the > > neo has USB power. > > > i did this. i had to get a new neo: my first one got *fried* from > this. dunno what to do with the old one, frankly

Re: Cooperative Differential GPS

2008-03-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
(Please note that I am copying this message to the OpenStreetMap folk: http://openstreetmap.org as we will hopefully find more GPS/mapping experts there. Please edit the list of recipients if you need to.) On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:24:56 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all! > > After hours o

Re: mobile gps gaming

2008-04-30 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:43:52 +1200 "Robin Paulson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i just listened to an interesting piece on the bbc about gps gaming on > mobile phones: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/digital_planet.shtml > > at 15:40 onwards > > talking about a company in engla

Re: Patent threat to OpenMoko devices?

2008-06-24 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:12:36 +0200 Daniel Mewes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Typhoon Touch Technologies has initiated legal measures against > different companies with reasonings including - but not limited to - > producing touch screen driven smartphones, as far as I understand

Re: GSM Tower Location and GPS

2008-06-24 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:57:28 +1200 "Robin Paulson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Here's another idea: Record signal strength and position information for > > generating a coverage map. We can record tower code, signal strength, and > > phone location. This information could be used with the

Re: GSM Tower Location and GPS

2008-06-25 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:40:25 +0100 john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have discussed doing this kind of thing in IRC a few times. I think > It would be good if somebody setup a project on projects.openmoko.org. I have signed up on http://projects.openmoko.org (did not know about that site earli

Re: Let us impact the material world

2008-07-01 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:56:58 -0400 Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Think: The collapse of so many hi tech companies on our stock exchanges > has humbled many. Creators within the digital world -- no matter how > novel and exciting -- will have no value unless they impact the ma

Re: Special Letters?

2008-07-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:40:11 +1000 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:18:37 +0200 Ole Holm Frandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > babbled: > > > Sounds great that it will be possible to create better support for > > Danish and other "non-english" langua

Re: Special Letters?

2008-07-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:31:48 +1000 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:48:43 +0530 Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: [...] > > This sounds great. What is the level of OpenType support? Are complex text > > layout

Re: Special Letters?

2008-07-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:01:24 +1000 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > this is why EFL doesn't have support. i'd have to write it all, OR use > pango... > and pango, last i looked, was not light on overhead, Agreed there. Have not actually benchmarked Pango myself,

Re: Special Letters?

2008-07-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:21:44 +1000 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:51:09 +0530 Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:01:24 +1000 > > Carsten Haitzler (The Raster

Re: GNOME running on Freerunner

2008-08-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:57:43 +0530 "sparky mat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I managed to get the whole of GNOME running on Freerunner (using the Debian > installer - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner ) [...] Cool! I do not yet have a Freerunner, but would love to know that Pango also wor

Re: GNOME running on Freerunner

2008-08-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:56:29 +0800 xiangfu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > if the Freerunner have indian fonts file i think it is can display Hindi > text. [...] Yeah, sorry. Forgot about that. A Hindi font is included in the ttf-indic fonts package on Debian, and a list of open-source Hindi fo

Re: [Debian -FSO -GPS] No Fix

2008-11-20 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:56:33 -0800 (PST) Fragggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think so. > > cat > /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-gps.0/pwron > shows a 1 > > I have put the Freerunner next to a window over Night and logt the output of > /dev/ttySAC1. >

Re: How do you like to read a phone number? (India users)

2008-12-30 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:48:55 +0100 Michele Renda wrote: > Il 29/12/2008 13:45, Carl Lobo ha scritto: > > Try > > > > http://www.ashesh.net/blog/downloads/PDF/Mobile_Telephone_Number_Codes_India.pdf > > > > Seems to be accurate from first glance. > > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Michele Re

Re: Indian FR Owners

2009-01-07 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:33:47 +0530 Vibhav Sharma wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sure there are about 100-200 of us (Indian FR Owners) out there. > Atleast it appears so from what Rakshat of IDA systems tells us. [...] > I'm in Gurgaon and would be happy to help organise one for NCR. Please > reply o

Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:38:30 -0800 (PST) Gothnet wrote: > > > > john dowd wrote: > > > > I've been using minicom but its a disaster. Unless some has settings > > that they would like to share. [...] > Search the wiki for a program called neocon, that seemed to work for me. [...] Haven't trie

Meetup of people interested in the OpenMoko, and other open hardware

2009-01-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi, Below is a copy of the message sent to local LUG lists in Delhi, India. We are having a meeting of people interested in the OpenMoko, and in other hardware, as per the details below. All are welcome to participate. Regards, Gora Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:58:02 +0530 From: Gora Mohanty To

Reminder of meet (Was: Meetup of people interested in the OpenMoko, and other open hardware)

2009-01-30 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:01:56 +0530 Gora Mohanty wrote: Hi, A reminder to people in Delhi, and NCR. We are meeting tomorrow (Sat., 31/1) as per the following details. A Wiki page for the meeting, where one can sign up to offer/get rides is at http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/Main

Re: GNOME running on Freerunner

2008-08-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:21:24 +0530 "Shakthi Kannan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > http://free-opensource.qvantel.net/mediawiki//index.php/Debian_on_FreeRunner#Indian_localization [...] Cool. Thank you. I am going to publicise that page. Regards, Gora

Re: A mailing list for FLOSS-GPS community?

2008-09-17 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:02:42 +0300 "Risto H. Kurppa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I suppose there are some tangogps/navit/other gps software users and > developers here on this list who would be interested in getting > together with the rest of the FLOSS GPS community > > see http://rist

Re: GPS sensitivity

2008-10-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:30:22 +0530 "Nishit Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I recently tested the performance of a Nokia E71 with the FR, while standing > 2 feet from a window inside my office building. [...] Um, does the Nokia E71 have assisted GPS (AGPS), as I rather suspect it does? If

Re: GPS sensitivity

2008-10-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:09:34 +0100 "Leonti Bielski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My brother has Nokia N95 and it has about the same performance as my Neo. > No fix inside, around 40 seconds fix outside. Again, I must ask. Is AGPS enabled on the Nokia N95? That needs to be specifically turned on,

Re: GPS sensitivity

2008-10-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:56:54 +0100 David Garabana Barro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I allways though Freerunner had AGPS. That's what wiki says: > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Hardware#AGPS > > Isn't it true? [...] Yes, I believe that it does have AGPS capabilities. But

Re: GPS sensitivity

2008-10-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:50:01 +0100 "Johny Tenfinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Again, I must ask. Is AGPS enabled on the Nokia N95? > > But when you want to compare N95 GPS with FreeRunner GPS, you must > turn AGPS off in Nokia, or turn AGPS on in FreeRunner... [...] You are right. Sorry, I

Re: GPS sensitivity

2008-10-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:04:55 +0100 "Leonti Bielski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are talking here about hardware GPS performance of Freerunner. > So to compare two GPS devices they have to be in equal positions. [...] Yes, fair enough. You are right. Please see my earlier reply to "Johny Tenf