Re: [PATCH] Added echo suppression fixes for the OpenMoko Neo phone.

2009-03-17 Thread Ian
Seems that this hasn't yet been 100% solved. I'm using QT Extended Improved 20090316 and my friend reported hearing bad echo when he called me today. I'm pretty sure that it was the first call since boot, so it's likely that none of the places in the code that the echo suppression is activated had

Re: [PATCH] Added echo suppression fixes for the OpenMoko Neo phone.

2009-03-18 Thread Ian
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Chris Samuel wrote: >> >> On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Radek Polak wrote: >> >> > did you built it yourself or are you using binary from somewhere? >> >> I think he's using the latest (as I write) sn

Re: New 2008.12 Release

2008-12-20 Thread Ian
ontrol I suppose... My 2c of annoyances (I still have several dollars of annoyances left) -Ian -- http://darkstarshout.blogspot.com/ -- On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will be heard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue but develop polkadots, and hell

Re: Openmoko keyboard mockup

2009-01-07 Thread Ian
ht in trying to reform the > patent system. i'm just rattling my chains and moaning in my corner... > 'brains! brains! braiins! need moore brains!' :) Raster... you are my new hero. It's not the first time I've heard this kind of argument (Andr

Re: Openmoko keyboard mockup

2009-01-07 Thread Ian
ining power) when the keyboard is displayed (and probably a setting to disable the behaviour somewhere logical). Cheers, -Ian -- http://darkstarshout.blogspot.com/ -- On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will be heard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue

Re: Fast dfu-util for Mac?

2008-09-15 Thread Ian
lt me with it's unnaturally fast flash in a matter of seconds voodoo magic USB2 stuff. It has occurred to me that it would actually be faster to reflash the neo over wireless - not that I would recommend that practice for hopefully obvious reasons. Cheers, -Ian On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:27 A

Re: (OM2008.8-update) (audio/GSM) alsamixer names

2008-09-15 Thread Ian
Disclamer: I'm not a kernel hacker... yet. Just poking around I'd say look in the kernel sources under /sound/soc/codecs/wm8753.c Happy Hacking, -Ian On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Vasco Névoa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > Some callers have been complaining m

Re: Should I update u-boot?

2008-09-15 Thread Ian
his the file I need? > http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.8-update/Om2008.8-gta02-20080903.uImage.bin No, that's a kernel image packaged for uBoot. Cheers, -Ian -- On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will be heard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue b

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] missing LAN tools

2008-09-22 Thread Ian
ke (this is on my laptop, not the FR): #always needed for firehol version 5 #Don't let anything in from the Internet that I didn't request interface ppp+ internet src not "$UNROUTABLE_IPS" protection strong client all accept # Accept all client traffic on any other interface an

Dialer UI Design

2008-09-29 Thread Ian
(progress bar, hour glass, etc), otherwise the reaction is disconnected from the action that caused it in the user's mind and worse, the user will press the control again. Cheers, -Ian -- http://darkstarshout.blogspot.com/ -- On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will b

Re: Dialer UI Design

2008-10-01 Thread Ian
e other problem is that it's closed source, but maybe "Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia" will follow Nokia's (They are now independant) lead and open it up some day. Cheers, -Ian -- http://darkstarshout.blogspot.com/ -- On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sou

Re: [debian] Evince works and is nice for ebooks

2008-10-06 Thread Ian
he could use to SSH into it to make this faster... Open - It's why I bought the thing So yeah, overall the phone hardware is OK, but I wouldn't really call it good. My main personal complaints are the lack of a sunlight readable screen, USB1.1 and the lack of a keyboard or keypad. The

Re: [u-boot] Wrong image format for bootm command

2008-10-07 Thread Ian
d_don.27t_get_a_prompt_anymore.3F Let me know if you have any trouble - I did this myself (on purpose) the other day, so it's still fairly fresh in my mind. Cheers, -Ian On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Matthew Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > I'm having trouble booting my

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-27 Thread Ian Stirling
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2007 17:23:14 Renaissance Man wrote: It's not a matter of "should." A person DOES have the freedom to run proprietary software on their open phone if they choose, but that freedom, if acted on, has consequences (called an externality in economics).

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-28 Thread Ian Stirling
Mike wrote: The amount of applications available for the phone is not the goal; the goal is to have a 100% free software phone. That is abosulutely not the goal. The goal actually IS a "[large] ammount of applications available for the phone". If someone from OM chimes in and says OSS-only rea

Re: Position of u-SD slot?

2007-01-28 Thread Ian Stirling
Michael Dickens wrote: On Jan 27, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: Unfortunately, it's behind the battery. It's a SIM card/microSD combo device. Anyone believe that there is space to run an antenna wire (or 2) around the battery w/o ruining the device? - MLD Probably tricky. OTOH, a

Re: Phone enhancements

2007-01-29 Thread Ian Stirling
Bryce Leo wrote: You'd have to be doing some serious zigzagging: resolution of GPS at street level is about 50 meters... Exactly the point!! if you're zig zaggin that much you definately need to have the cops get called! But on a serious note, how could it be 50 meters? That's about 165 feet

Re: Silent mode timeout

2007-01-29 Thread Ian Stirling
Scott Oberg wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Schmidt wrote: Hello. I cc openmoko-devel for interested developer. On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 09:30, Ben Burdette wrote: A simple feature that I'd like to see is a silent mode timeout. What always happens with my current

Re: Phone enhancements

2007-01-29 Thread Ian Stirling
Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: Hi! On 1/29/07, Graham Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryce Leo Sent: 29 January 2007 14:31 To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: Phone enhancements > You'

Re: Encrypting voice comunications..

2007-02-03 Thread Ian Stirling
Mikko Rauhala wrote: pe, 2007-02-02 kello 09:54 -0800, Tim Newsom kirjoitti: So, though possibly inefficient, we could not some how take the analog audio stream, do some predictable and reversible encoding/encrypting then convert into sounds again.. Like doing base64 encoding for binary data..

Re: Voice over GPRS?

2007-02-03 Thread Ian Stirling
Crane, Matthew wrote: With a point to point link what would be the minimal software stack needed? There's only so much CPU, might it be more appropriate to use a relatively lightweight process to rx/tx+encrypt/decrypt the data? In any case, the idea of an open encryption standard for cell ph

Re: Posibility to get status informations with the help of a LED

2007-02-03 Thread Ian Stirling
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer writes: Harald Welte wrote: I searched the different hardware specs and archives of the mailing list but didn't find any information if LEDs will be one part of the hardware. AFAIK the Neo1973 v1 will have no LEDs (beside the screen backlight and insi

Re: [OT] Re: data encryption + Biometric security

2007-02-03 Thread Ian Stirling
Harald Welte wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:45:55PM -0500, Heilpern, Mark wrote: In any case, to get back to the Neo1973, or even future phones: I don't think that there are many sensors that fulfill the following criteria 1) full hardware docs (may be under NDA, but allowing GPL softwar

Re: Posibility to get status informations with the help of a LED

2007-02-04 Thread Ian Stirling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Harald Welte wrote: I searched the different hardware specs and archives of the mailing list but didn't find any information if LEDs will be one part of the hardware. AFAIK the Neo1973 v1 will have no LEDs (beside

Re: Neo1973 video (was Re: What would be a realistic but challenging level for Bryce announced trophy money for video playback on the Neo1973? Re: h.264 format is now open?)

2007-02-04 Thread Ian Stirling
Mikko Rauhala wrote: la, 2007-02-03 kello 14:47 +0100, Harald Welte kirjoitti: Also, the 770 has a landscape display. We have a portrait display. The S3C2410 cannot rotate the image, so you would have to rotate every frame in software, too! Modifying a player to render the image to be rotate

Re: Posibility to get status informations with the help of a LED

2007-02-04 Thread Ian Stirling
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Gabriel Ambuehl writes: On Saturday 03 February 2007 18:50:02 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Which is utterly sad, given I'm such a big fan of Blinkenlights... Trying to make sure we get a couple of multicolor LEDs in v2 ;) Much as I love flashing lights (there's just something *wron

Re: Posibility to get status informations with the help of a LED

2007-02-04 Thread Ian Stirling
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Ian Stirling writes: We really want buttons with changable logos - http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/ However, the only sort-of-practical way to do this is to use one internal 50*10mm or so OLED display, with 4-8 hardware buttons on top of it, which are

Re: Text messaging on the OpenMoko platform

2007-02-06 Thread Ian Stirling
Fabian Off wrote: Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Mikko J Rauhala: You can do nice things with your own persistently available server, yes, but one shouldn't be necessary to mostly enjoy OpenMoko. You mentioned a web gateway; I assume you mean a web proxy that's tunable to eg. recompress im

Re: Free maps after all?

2007-02-09 Thread Ian Stirling
Florent THIERY wrote: Just to mention, use of Google maps is not free, it comes only with their software, or trough the browser interface Of course. But, do you really think that the open source community will be able to add every POIs (shops, cafes, etc...) ? The content to generate (tagging

Re: Hardware changes between phases ?

2007-02-09 Thread Ian Stirling
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 12:06 -0800, Pranav Desai wrote: Are there going to hardware changes between Phase1 and Phase2 ... from this posting it sounds like that, just wanted to verify. Yes. Are we talking: Cosmetic changes - option of coloured covers, a 24K gold neckc

Re: Hardware changes between phases ?

2007-02-09 Thread Ian Stirling
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 18:02 +, Ian Stirling wrote: Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 12:06 -0800, Pranav Desai wrote: Are there going to hardware changes between Phase1 and Phase2 ... from this posting it sounds like that, just wanted to verify. Yes

Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-09 Thread Ian Stirling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mary... I've been looking into this issue in a related way. One of the biggest opportunities for the Neo will be writing mobile oriented data retreval and sync applications using gps/GPRS. For example, imagine an application that uses GPS location information to det

Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-10 Thread Ian Stirling
kkr wrote: Le vendredi 09 février 2007 à 20:33 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : For example, imagine an application that uses GPS location information to determine your car's proximity to your favorite grocery store on your way home. When you get to within 5 miles of the store, your Neo uses

Re: stolen neo software, like MacLoJack

2007-02-10 Thread Ian Stirling
Declan Naughton wrote: http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/maclojack/ We could provide a similar service in OpenMoko. When the device is reported stolen (from the web), a daemon on the phone will phone home (heh. To our webservice) current GPS location and pictures and stuff (with the GPS location

Re: Abuse - was Idea: Caller set ringtone

2007-02-13 Thread Ian Stirling
Ole Tange wrote: Caller should be able to transfer and set his ring tone. If the phone displays a picture when the phone is ringing, then caller should be able to transfer and set this as well. To avoid abuse the callee should be able to deny people from doing it. Default would be deny. T

Re: R: Camera and MMS

2007-02-14 Thread Ian Stirling
t3st3r wrote: Andreas Kaeser wrote: Michele Manzato wrote: Voting for integrated Camera as well ... Well, as much as I would like a camera in my all-in-one gadget, it would be prohibitive for my every day use: in my working environment anything capable of picture recording is strictly dis

Re: R: Camera and MMS

2007-02-14 Thread Ian Stirling
Alexander Steinert wrote: However I have nothing against the following: two models, one with camera and one without it. However I have no idea how hard and costly this to implement (usually, developing 2 devices costs more but probably dropping features is relatively easy - just do not so

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-02-15 Thread Ian Stirling
Stefan Schmidt wrote: Hello. On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 01:01, kkr wrote: I can't see a stylus on the pictures (on openmoko.org)... Has it one? It has a stylus, but no place in the case to hide it. My thoughts on this: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Expansion_Back - a modified case. _

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-02-15 Thread Ian Stirling
denis wrote: Ian Stirling schrieb: Stefan Schmidt wrote: Hello. On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 01:01, kkr wrote: I can't see a stylus on the pictures (on openmoko.org)... Has it one? It has a stylus, but no place in the case to hide it. My thoughts on this: http://wiki.openmoko.org

Re: Connect self-powered USB storage devices?

2007-02-17 Thread Ian Stirling
Mikko Rauhala wrote: pe, 2007-02-16 kello 12:37 -0600, Steven ** kirjoitti: So, I know the USB port is a mini and it's unpowered. But... Assuming there's a USB mini to full USB adapter, is there any reason you couldn't connect the Neo to a USB hard drive? Most (all) of the USB hard drives I've

Re: Which colors will be available for the phase 1?

2007-02-18 Thread Ian Stirling
kkr wrote: Do we already know which colors will be available for the phase 1? On internet, I saw images (computer generated images?) having the following colors: - black/silver - white/green - white/orange - white/red On the official Web site, I saw only these: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki

Re: homebrew hardware and WiFi

2007-02-18 Thread Ian Stirling
adrian cockcroft wrote: Hello, I'm new to the OpenMoko lists, but I'm a member of the Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club that started up last year at http://www.hbmobile.org . We have been working towards our own family There is a WiFi and Bluetooth combo card available here that some o

Re: homebrew hardware and WiFi

2007-02-18 Thread Ian Stirling
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: One other hope I have is that the RF chip designers will start making more flexible radios. Does a GSM/wifi/bluetooth/GPS phone really need 4 different RF chips and associated antennas and cabling? Using software-radio techniques it might be possible to combine some

Re: GPS time synch

2007-02-19 Thread Ian Stirling
Mark Chandler wrote: Would it be possible to keep the Neo's internal clock accurate using time stamps from GPS information? I know GPS provides that information for some output formats and that it wouldn't be the stratum 0 accuracy that you get from more expensive hardware. But it would probabl

Re: Wiki Editing Guidelines

2007-02-19 Thread Ian Stirling
Harald Welte wrote: Hi! http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenMoko_Wiki_Editing_Guidelines The most impportant one I would like to point out is that the Neo1973 is only _one_ of the devices that run OpenMoko. Thus, all hardware related information that you add, needs to indicate that it relates to

Re: About March Release

2007-02-19 Thread Ian Stirling
Jason Elwell wrote: > There was a thread on this list awhile ago that said that changes could be > made to the hardware should a problem be identified. Sean did say however > that they will be offering upgrade incentives on the new hardware. > > Also, it has been said that eventually there will

Re: GPS time synch

2007-02-20 Thread Ian Stirling
Perry E. Metzger wrote: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:47:23PM +1100, Mark Chandler wrote: Would it be possible to keep the Neo's internal clock accurate using time stamps from GPS information? yes. That is only during GPS being powered up, of co

Re: GPS time synch

2007-02-20 Thread Ian Stirling
Perry E. Metzger wrote: Ian Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Based on ballpark estimates from other similar devices, it's probably around 70mW. This will really hurt if you keep it on all the time, fortunately, for most applications, you probably don't need to. If it wor

Re: Marketing fodder for Neo: FCC presentation

2007-02-23 Thread Ian Stirling
David Pinto wrote: Expect the large carriers to do whatever they can to prevent from open platforms to gain market share. One of their biggest concerns is turning from *Cellular Service Providers* into *Wireless Network Providers* (which is exactly what Neo will catalyze). There are suggestions b

Re: OpenMoko workshop at ETel

2007-02-27 Thread Ian Stirling
adrian cockcroft wrote: Rough notes, taken as Sean talked. Multitouch - capacitive allows multi-touch, resistive doesn't. Lots of prior art, so this isn't going to be a patentable thing This isn't completely accurate. Resistive touchscreens have two resistive components. One is a film ove

Re: FOSDEM OpenMoko talk now on video.google.com

2007-03-01 Thread Ian Stirling
Steven ** wrote: I added the price breakdown from the presentation to the Wiki: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_much.3F I uploaded to rapidshare http://rapidshare.com/files/18781887/rect.avi which is a better encoding of the video - 66M, but with most of the larger text visible. With

'My Account' - a way to store information about the phones owner, so they can be reunited if it's lost.

2007-03-01 Thread Ian Stirling
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/My_Account is an overview of some ideas. Briefly, a way for anyone with the phone to access a history of the phone (bought/sold status, reported as stolen, ...), a way for the user to set these as well as contact information for people to return the phone in some

Re: FOSDEM OpenMoko talk now on video.google.com

2007-03-01 Thread Ian Stirling
kkr wrote: Le jeudi 01 mars 2007 à 12:44 -0600, Jonathon Suggs a écrit : kkr wrote: Why not use an open format (.ogg) rather than proprietary one (.avi)? It was not a criticism, only a question! If you felt it as such a criticism, I'm sorry... If I've asked it, it's only: - FOSDEM use too o

Re: 'My Account' - a way to store information about the phones owner, so they can be reunited if it's lost.

2007-03-01 Thread Ian Stirling
Paul Wouters wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Ian Stirling wrote: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/My_Account is an overview of some ideas. Briefly, a way for anyone with the phone to access a history of the phone (bought/sold status, reported as stolen, ...), a way for the user to set these as well

Re: 'My Account' - a way to store information about the phones owner, so they can be reunited if it's lost.

2007-03-02 Thread Ian Stirling
Paul Wouters wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Ian Stirling wrote: Reflashing never gets you back a different account number, it keys off the IMEI, which is not flashable. (well, perhaps it is, but it's not flashable from the linux side, and AIUI, nobody else knows how at the moment.) I really

Re: Itch3: Anti-lost/theft protection

2007-03-04 Thread Ian Stirling
t3st3r wrote: so, operators are better to secure their networks. You do realise that this essentially means 'throw away all existing GSM phones' ? If you can clone the IMEI of a phone, the network has no way of telling it from the cloned phone. Yes, you can do potentially clever things on t

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Ian Stirling
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 11:34:47 Lars Hallberg wrote: Should be as clear as on the pictures... But You might need to look close... But the neo case have a hole for the nose for that special Clear yes, but also about 3 times smaller than on your desktop screen... purpos

Re: Yet another finger keybord (gui mock-up).

2007-03-05 Thread Ian Stirling
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 11:34:47 Lars Hallberg wrote: Should be as clear as on the pictures... But You might need to look close... But the neo case have a hole for the nose for that special Clear yes, but also about 3 times smaller than on your desktop screen... purpos

Re: GPS for 911 calls

2007-03-05 Thread Ian Stirling
Michael Welter wrote: What is the protocol for sending the GPS coordinates to the 911 dispatcher? I don't think there is one protocol. Unfortunately, I suspect a 'say GPS coordinates' button on the 911 screen may be the most compatible way. ___ Op

Re: coverage at linuxdevices.com

2007-03-07 Thread Ian Stirling
Attila Csipa wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 07:01, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: As I understand it Andreas, the hackers lunchbox is including the dev board connecting thru the JTAG interface of the phone. You would purchace your phone seperatly. Someone please correct me if I missunderstand. This is

Re: AGPS - protocol specs?

2007-03-08 Thread Ian Stirling
Nils Faerber wrote: Hi! I am interested in doing a little research on the AGPS part. As far as I understood the used Hammerhead chip will dump out the more or less raw GPS data into userland which will then need to be post-processed in order to get the usual NMEA or whatever messages. So, can

Re: coverage at linuxdevices.com

2007-03-08 Thread Ian Stirling
Klaus Rautenberg wrote: I read that all phase 0 phones are already in use and that the next devices are expected in late March or early April. Is there something like an order list to which we can register? I didn't found informations about how many devices will be available and we just want to

Re: AGPS - protocol specs?

2007-03-08 Thread Ian Stirling
Nils Faerber wrote: Ian Stirling schrieb: Nils Faerber wrote: Hi! I am interested in doing a little research on the AGPS part. As far as I understood the used Hammerhead chip will dump out the more or less raw GPS data into userland which will then need to be post-processed in order to get the

Re: AGPS - protocol specs?

2007-03-08 Thread Ian Stirling
Martin Lefkowitz wrote: Message: 10 Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:19:40 + From: Ian Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The gpsd will output assorted parameters, including current position, ... You can take this - or even output from a nearby (1m) GPS, and the bitstream input and output

Re: AGPS - protocol specs?

2007-03-08 Thread Ian Stirling
Martin Lefkowitz wrote: Still confused on the term nearby GPS A completely separate GPS unit, that is nearby, close in location, with almost the same position, ... Its only purpose is to measure the GPS coordinates - lat, long, time, from which can be derived the satellite signals sent to t

Re: AGPS - protocol specs?

2007-03-08 Thread Ian Stirling
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2007 20:18:50 Ian Stirling wrote: A completely separate GPS unit, that is nearby, close in location, with almost the same position, ... Its only purpose is to measure the GPS coordinates - lat, long, time, from which can be derived the satellite

Re: AGPS - protocol specs?

2007-03-09 Thread Ian Stirling
Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd. wrote: Hello. Nils Faerber napisał(a): There is all sorts of wacky stuff - for example, peer-peer DGPS that can be done, where all stationary neos on charge with a GPS signal and a free internet connection contribute to a global ionospheric model. Then any Ne

Re: AGPS - protocol specs?

2007-03-09 Thread Ian Stirling
Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd. wrote: Ian Stirling napisał(a): Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd. wrote: Hello. Nils Faerber napisał(a): There is all sorts of wacky stuff - for example, peer-peer DGPS that can be done, where all stationary neos on charge with a GPS signal and a free

Re: Idea: Protective Screen Foil

2007-03-09 Thread Ian Stirling
Elrond wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:44:10AM +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: Dnia pi?tek, 9 marca 2007, Elrond napisa?: After talking to a few people on irc, it became obvious, that the screen is really superb. And to cite someone from irc: "[...] you don't want to ruin that with

Re: AGPS - protocol specs?

2007-03-09 Thread Ian Stirling
Philip Ray Schaffner wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 12:46 +, Al Johnson wrote: ... > > So *military* devices does it. But not civil. This is for *civil* devices. http://pro.magellangps.com/en/products/aboutgps/dgps.asp http://pro.magellangps.com/en/products/aboutgps/rtk.asp http://en.wikiped

Re: Idea: Wake me during light sleep

2007-03-12 Thread Ian Stirling
Dean Collins wrote: Hey guys, you're missing the point. You need to stop thinking of the openmoko device being a standalone unit, you are always connected to your pc when in mobile phone coverage. Just use your gprs data link. Start thinking of the Neo as a portable 'viewer' to applications

Re: Device support / life

2007-03-14 Thread Ian Stirling
Elrond wrote: Hi all and Wolfgang, On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:12:48AM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: [...] The second cent is that many folks here are looking at the developer's phone as simply a way of getting the consumer's phone 6 months early. 2) P1 phones a) I have not read any

Re: Crossroads

2007-03-15 Thread Ian Stirling
Benjamin C Burns wrote: Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Companies like Cingular have been known to whitelist handsets. They *could* do it for the Neo. I highly doubt they would. I mean no offense here, but by "whitelist," do you actually mean "blacklist," or ban? I don't really follow the day-to-da

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-18 Thread Ian Stirling
Henryk Plötz wrote: Moin, Am Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:40:26 +0100 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would appreciate a fingerprint sensor - there are a lot of Asian mobile phones / smart phones with a fingerprint sensor... Yeah, but a fingerprint sensor adds only convenience and no security at all. st

Re: Galileo receiver

2007-03-18 Thread Ian Stirling
Hans Bakker wrote: Hello, would it be possible to use an hybrid GPS/Galileo receiver instead of a GPS receiver? Galileo (although it is not available yet, but the receivers are) will be more accurate than GPS Futhermore building this into the phone will make that you can use Galileo with the sam

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-19 Thread Ian Stirling
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: It's also not clear to me that more than two levels of security (open/password protected) are needed -- where password protected means encrypted using whatever scheme we've got. Personally. Unencrypted: Anything that you might want on display on the screensaver and don't

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-20 Thread Ian Stirling
Mikko Rauhala wrote: 'lo Didn't appear in the wiki, so I figured I'd throw it out there first: compressed SMS for when a persistent TLS-encrypted and -compressed Jabber connection just isn't there (eg. if it would be too expensive in a particular locale), but you need to send "long" text message

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-22 Thread Ian Stirling
Andreas Kostyrka wrote: * Jonathon Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070321 22:58]: Andreas Kostyrka wrote: ...plus probably a system that would automatically upload/download moko-ness information. This way all mokos could keep in touch, and people that switch phones more often would be able to tu

Re: Wishlist: IR LED (was Freq Range?)

2007-03-23 Thread Ian Stirling
Edwin Lock wrote: IR LED would be perfect! Just think, normal mobiles like my siemens can't access the IR hardware because java(on the siemens) doesn't allow it. Only symbians can access IR as far as I know.. It would be brilliant if I could use the openmoko as a remote for my hifi and my pc m

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-03-27 Thread Ian Stirling
kkr wrote: Le mardi 27 mars 2007 à 18:07 +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz a écrit : On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 10:54 +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007 01:16:46 Clare Johnstone wrote: Dear all, This frightens me in my role as mother, grandmother etc, i.e. a representative of the public to

Re: tomtom on the Neo1973

2007-03-31 Thread Ian Stirling
Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: On 3/31/07, *Patrick Beck* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hello, i follow the deployment of the Neo1973 and Openmoko since they become public. I have discussed with a few others on the IRC, about the Idea to use t

Re: UI long term development perspective: physics engine

2007-04-01 Thread Ian Stirling
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Well it's probably going to be a while before I can code again...but I would love to see / help form a project to improve OpenMoko's UI. In my opinion, we need to create new "verbs." Click, double click, drag, drop, etc... are not exciting anymore. The are relics from the

Re: UI long term development perspective: physics engine

2007-04-01 Thread Ian Stirling
Florent THIERY wrote: Would it be possible to get video captures or raw measurements of the touchscreen's reported coordinates? For instance, i'm pretty curious to know what exactly the touchscreen sees when you touch the screen with 2 fingers at the same time, when you move them, when you move

Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Ian Stephen
Quoting "Risto H. Kurppa" : > Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? > Do you use FR as your primary PDA? > > What distribution you run most of the time? Yes No SHR ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openm

Bluetooth fail (poll?)

2010-01-23 Thread Ian Stephen
The jurisdiction where I reside recently implemented a law banning handheld devices while driving. I bought a Jabra BT125 because someone reported success with it and the Freerunner. I've gone over the SHR manual web page and the manually using bluetooth page and everything else Google could fin

Re: WikiReader / PDF, TXT or HTML?

2010-09-29 Thread Ian Stephen
> Patryk Benderz writes: > > I ain't no clue, but would be nice to have *nix ManReader :) Very often > Wikipedia (so I assume WikiReader) has pages on most of the *nix utilities. Not quite a ManReader, but close. IanS ___ Openmoko community mailing

GTA02 for sale on ebay, currently going for $20

2012-12-30 Thread Ian Darwin
I posted this on eBay hoping the world would beat a path to my door, but they don't seem to have; the GTA02 has only gone up to $20 (as of Dec 30, 2012) and there's just a few days left on the auction. If you've been meaning to pick up a GTA02 (or a spare) for dev or testing, this could be a ba

Re: GTA02 for sale on ebay, currently going for $20

2012-12-30 Thread Ian Darwin
FreeRunner port tht I have installed on it at present, supports WiFi nicely. On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:44:13PM -0500, Ian Darwin wrote: I posted this on eBay hoping the world would beat a path to my door, but they don't seem to have; the GTA02 has only gone up to $20 (as of Dec 30, 2012) an

Re: Wanted: GTAxx with Wifi and RS-232

2013-01-02 Thread Ian Darwin
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 05:17:16PM +0100, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > Hi Troy, > > On 30 December 2012 21:08, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > I can do this with a GTA02 (wifi built-in, and USB-host mode), or *maybe* > > > My per-unit budget for the hardware is between $50 (bare GTA) and > > $150 (GTA

Re: Wanted: GTAxx with Wifi and RS-232

2013-01-02 Thread Ian Darwin
> > I wouldn't think so, or he or somebody would have bid my GTA02 on > > eBay higher than $50. I wouldn't expect to get more than $50 fo a > > GTA02, unless it's brand new in sealed box or it has the fancy black > > penguin case or something. Everyone knows that GTA02 has WiFi and > > USB, and can

Re: Enhancing an RPi with phone capabilities

2013-01-25 Thread Ian Darwin
On 2013-01-25 8:17 AM, jcomm...@math.leidenuniv.nl wrote: Thanks for your replies. I think I have some good pointers here. But, to make one thing clear. I am not looking that much for VoIP options, but would like to connect to an existing carrier, with a SIM-card. The point is that I want other p

Re: The "open hardware" phone project that's had the most interest

2013-10-05 Thread Ian Stirling
On 10/05/2013 04:04 PM, Pascal Gosselin wrote: While I understand the needs/wants of open hardware, the average smartphone user really couldn't care less. That's the core of the problem, lack of a large user base. HOWEVER, what a *lot* people seem to be interested in, is an open architectu

Re: Kickstarter: Open Source Graphics Processor (GPU)

2013-10-12 Thread Ian Stirling
On 10/12/2013 05:43 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: The main fear I have is that there is not enough funding because nobody can really use it in daily work without investing another lots of money (to integrate the FPGA with something). BR, Nikolaus Speaking in generalities - FPGAs use lot

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-16 Thread Ian Stirling
On 10/16/2013 10:13 AM, Balint Szente wrote: What is not clear for me is that can a software be FSF/OSI "free" but illegal to use? In principle, one can take osmocombb through your local approvals process, and get it approved for use in your country. It may also be legal to use in certain ci

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-28 Thread Ian Stirling
On 10/28/2013 10:03 PM, Michael Spacefalcon wrote: * Most of the Openmoko community sees my FreeCalypso work as being illegal, because they have voluntarily chosen to live and/or accept citizenship in repressive countries which deem it to be so. I suspect that the power-keepers of the Om Wiki

Southern California Linux Expo, Feb 8-10 2008

2008-01-14 Thread ian douglas
Hey all, Just saw that OpenMoko is going to be at the SCALE show this year -- can't wait to drop by and meet some of you guys. Got any good giveaways planned? ;o) Ian ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: what's not functional?

2008-01-14 Thread ian douglas
make/receive a phone call. Your mileage will vary, though, depending on the type of SIM card you have and where you're located. Ian Jeremiah Flerchinger wrote: I thought I remembered someone said t-mobile sim cards weren't connecting correctly to the network, but at&t cards were wo

Re: Southern California Linux Expo, Feb 8-10 2008

2008-01-14 Thread ian douglas
It was in an announcement to their mailing list. Here's an excerpt: "The commercial booths have all been filled. Several non-profit groups have recently been added to the SCALE expo floor: Enlightenment, which will be showcasing the work going into E17. Enlightenment is rarely seen at conferen

Re: New to OpenMoko

2008-01-17 Thread Ian Darwin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:03:01PM +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > Well, first, it will be less of a decision, but rather something like survival > of the fittest. Second, compiled languages are fine for performance > critical stuff. Coding application logic in a scripting language makes > m

Re: JavaFX

2008-01-23 Thread Ian Darwin
Wallace Jackson wrote: ... Also, I saw a NEO1973 on Sun's JavaFX announcement release on-line, behind the presenter (bigger than life!)... Does this mean that JavaFX is ready to rock for NEO application? No. Sun were nice enough to credit OpenMoko for making a superior Linux phone (see their

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