The 911 button? how is it set up?

2007-03-10 Thread Clare Johnstone
Hi all, Just looking at the information on the Wiki about the hardware, I got curious about the so-called 911 button. I am supposing it is for emergency calls, but is my country (Australia) alone in not using that number for emergencies? Looking up what we do use, I found: http://www.telstra.com

Minor query on Wiki? Where was I supposed to send it?

2007-03-11 Thread Clare Johnstone
Hi, I was trying to find an email address for the wiki administrator to send this query (attached), but failed. (If I had wanted to edit the wiki there was help for that (lots).) Sorry to waste space on this list, clare NAND-typo-query.png Description: PNG image

Re: Crossroads

2007-03-13 Thread Clare Johnstone
On 3/14/07, Martin Lefkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why don't you collect all the information that came on this email list and post it to the Wiki, or FAQ? Marty Aha! Thank you Marty, that is a way out of this Merry-Go_round. Otherwise I was thinking about the normal advice "Don't feed

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

2007-03-19 Thread Clare Johnstone
On 3/20/07, Jim McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: continually asking the user to decide which data is to be encrypted and which not. There is the concept of "folders" which could be used :) clare ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@list

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-03-24 Thread Clare Johnstone
Dear all, This frightens me in my role as mother, grandmother etc, i.e. a representative of the public to which you hope to sell this phone. Essentially any laser device powerful enough to be useful has no place in a home which may ever have children in it. (Even quite old ones). clare On 2/16/

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-03-24 Thread Clare Johnstone
Yes, that is the whole problem. This would be an item in constant and casual use in the home, with no special precautions as might be used for knives, hot stoves or poisons, and bound to cause a curious child to experiment with it. clare On 3/25/07, Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-03-25 Thread Clare Johnstone
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:16:46AM +0800, Clare Johnstone wrote: > Dear all, > This frightens me in my role as mother, grandmother etc, i.e. a > representative of the public to which you hope to sell this phone. > Essentially any laser device powerful enough to be useful has no place in

Re: sd card

2010-01-01 Thread clare johnstone
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:54 AM, wrote: > > im using neovento 5.6. im trying to see some pics i have on my sd > card. How do i get it to work. some help please. the sd card is vfat. > Hi blackfalcon1, I am not at all sure about the vfat, as my card in the freerunner is being used for multibootin

Re: Which image

2008-07-01 Thread Clare Johnstone
Hi Folks, I have tried a lot of images, and been frequently disappointed by finding many Applications running on top of basic functionality with obvious and longstanding bugs. The latest image, the one called fso, is really exciting as it is simple to start with, beautiful to look at and seems to

Re: Debian on the FreeRunner -- now official

2008-08-16 Thread clare johnstone
The problem is in FSO ( see Michael's post re evas.) The workaround is to precede the number with a few backspaces clare On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Risto H. Kurppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Rorschach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:16:

Re: Debian on the FreeRunner -- now official

2008-08-16 Thread clare johnstone
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 1:02 AM, arne anka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Until then, you can use the AUX button to fire up a keyboard and then >> press Alt-Ctrl-X to get an xterm and Alt-Tab to switch between >> application. This is all a Debian user needs, right :-) > > as long as the keyboard is

Re: Debian on the FreeRunner -- now official

2008-08-20 Thread clare johnstone
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Joachim Breitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, . > Illume needs the latest enlightment libraries, so we can package it as > soon as the next e snapshot enters Debian. This will happen after the > CVS→SVN change of e, AFAIK. > > Until then, you can use the AUX

Swap Space was Re: Partitioning 4GB with the Debian Installer

2008-08-21 Thread clare johnstone
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Joachim Breitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Actually, the install.sh should be able to handle that as well, at least > theoretically. What problems did you have? > > Greetings, > Joachim When the installer partitions the disk, why does it not supply a sw

Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-24 Thread clare johnstone
Michele and others you could try reading what Andy said here: fromAndy Greenhide details Mar 23 (17 hours ago) to Nicolas Dufresne cc openmoko-ker...@lists.openmoko.org dateMar 23, 2

Re: how do i turn the phone off?

2009-03-27 Thread clare johnstone
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:37 PM, The Digital Pioneer wrote: > Universal phone shutdown instructions (works on any distro): > 1. Remove back panel > 2. Remove battery > 3. Replace battery Not on my Freerunner, this almost invariably provokes it to restart. Possibly the Qi booting does

Re: how do i turn the phone off?

2009-03-27 Thread clare johnstone
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 3:41 AM, The Digital Pioneer wrote: > Yes, mine does to. But you cannot deny that, with exception to the case of > another power source, the phone DID indeed turn off. :) No, Sorry the mail went before I finished, but I am glad someone else gets the same. I do however, es

Re: how do i turn the phone off?

2009-03-30 Thread clare johnstone
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:34 AM, wrote: > clare johnstone wrote: ... >> I do however, especially with the GTA01, always remove the battery at >> this stage, >> and only replace it when I want to restart. > > Just hold in the aux button when you insert the battery. >

Re: how do i turn the phone off?

2009-04-16 Thread clare johnstone
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:44 AM, wrote: > clare johnstone wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:34 AM, wrote: >>> clare johnstone wrote: >> ... >>>> I do however, especially with the GTA01, always remove the battery at >>>> this stage, >>&

Re: (FYP) No input method?

2009-04-17 Thread clare johnstone
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Paul wrote: > > I loaded FYP on my Freerunner, and I am rather impressed with what I saw. Hi Paul, Yes, it is very interesting; It has inspired me to start a webpage where I am putting some help files for simple-minded folk like myself. I hope to add more to it as

Re: [neovento] nand space workaround?

2009-05-13 Thread clare johnstone
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:54 AM, neovento wrote: > > What's the reason not to just copy it completely on the µsd ? > > There will be a tar.gz rootfs soon. Good!, thank you. clare - who thinks Neovento the best she has tried, and that was the previous version :)

[Neovento-5.3] a quick try - lovely

2009-05-13 Thread clare johnstone
Hi all, and author particularly; The things I liked - the console font made more readable - and then it got hidden by a pretty picture - how do I change that so I can read the messages? The black icon for brightness, The screen locker, very neat, After locking it stayed bright but a quick press of

Re: [Neovento-5.3] a quick try - lovely

2009-05-13 Thread clare johnstone
> The keyboard resize - please could it be made not quite so hairtrigger sorry I meant the Xterm resize clare ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [Neovento-5.3] a quick try - lovely

2009-05-13 Thread clare johnstone
etting it. LHST is 2.5 hours ahead of WST, I can work it out, but in Europe - 10.5 hours ahead of UTC. more later, thank you, clare > > > clare johnstone wrote: >> >>> The keyboard resize - please could it be mad

Re: [neovento] nand space workaround?

2009-05-13 Thread clare johnstone
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Joel Newkirk wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2009 13:10:03 -0400 > "Staley, Daniel L" wrote: > >> I recently installed neovento, and I like what has been done! >> >> However, because I flashed the neovento image to the nand, I am >> running pretty low on space for instal

Re: [neovento] nand space workaround?

2009-05-14 Thread clare johnstone
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Staley, Daniel L wrote: > I recently installed neovento, and I like what has been done! > > However, because I flashed the neovento image to the nand, I am running > pretty low on space for installing new packages (And with the debian repos > open to me...it is s

Re: (Neovento) gprs ui bug

2009-05-14 Thread clare johnstone
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:45 PM, reznor wrote: > > What you do is simple: > nano /usr/bin/gprsui > strg+w "search for 20" > change 20 to 25 or more. > > Ill generate a new image 5.4 with some changes including this soon I think. Yes Please. While you are doing that, would you make some comments s

[Neovento-5.4] angle brackets I have, but apt-get did not.

2009-05-25 Thread clare johnstone
Hi, am now starting on version 5.4, a bit late... I have found how to fix the keyboard to do the angle brackets: editing .matchbox/keyboard.xml and under G I put So obvious when you once see it - being xml. BUT I have struck a problem, I can't do ap

Re: [Neovento-5.4] angle brackets I have, but apt-get did not.

2009-05-25 Thread clare johnstone
Hi Arne, On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:41 PM, arne anka wrote: >> BUT I have struck a problem, I can't do apt-get >> it says: > > what's the command you use? apt-get install less but wget has the problem so it must be something basic. no proxy. debian-gta02:/var/cache/apt/archives# wget http://ftp

Re: [Neovento-5.4] angle brackets I have, but apt-get did not.

2009-05-25 Thread clare johnstone
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:07 PM, clare johnstone wrote: > Hi Arne, > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:41 PM, arne anka wrote: >>> BUT I have struck a problem, I can't do apt-get >>> it says: >> >> what's the command you use? > apt-get ins

Re: [Neovento-5.4] angle brackets I have, but apt-get did not.

2009-05-26 Thread clare johnstone
hi Folks, Please excuse short reply. This comes to you via GPRS, on the train. Igot the new version 5.6 but some doubts. I must recheck. Really do need pointer to source in use please. clare On 5/26/09, clare johnstone wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:07 PM, clare johnstone > wrote:

Re: [Neovento-5.4] angle brackets I have, but apt-get did not.

2009-05-27 Thread clare johnstone
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:52 AM, clare johnstone wrote: > Really do need pointer to source in use please. clare Never mind, I will find it. This is where I go away for a while, but I will be back, please keep up the good work. thank you, cl

Re: Solar charger (was Re: News Openmoko Shop Pulster)

2009-05-31 Thread clare johnstone
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Peter Harrison wrote: > I thought I would provide some of my experience with using solar > power. My experience involves using a 12v panel. You can get 12v Hi folks, Another source for our part of the world is jaycar.com.auyou can select "batteries and charg

[neovento-5.6] Modifying the keyboard

2009-06-03 Thread clare johnstone
Hi; I am finding a lot of improvements in this latest version; and I have not been able to try a lot of them, due to lack of time. however I have changed the keyboard (attached). The main reason was that some keys were not there. Especially some that I needed. e.g. backslash I now have on it all t

Re: Freerunner's Future

2009-06-06 Thread clare johnstone
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Werner Almesberger wrote: > The good thing about a new start is that you can stop fighting the > mistakes of the past and turn your full attention towards making > new ones ;-) > > - Werner Lovely, made me laugh which was needed after all that. I will get started

Re: [QtExtended] Best 4.4.2 image?

2008-11-28 Thread clare johnstone
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Alishams Hassam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using qtextended with mwester's kernel as a daily phone. > Using even the "unstable" kernel, ontop of daily phone features (making > and receiving calls, txt msgs, caller id, contacts off sim) it also > suspe

Re: working SIM install, network problems

2008-12-04 Thread clare johnstone
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Rodney Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian stable, and neorunner > > I have a semi-functioning Neo right now, thanks to the Hackable:1 folkes > (http://www.hackable1.org/) > > I have changed all instances, that I find, from 192.168.0.* to 192.168.1.*, > for my

Re: No more optimization team

2008-12-12 Thread clare johnstone
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Steve Mosher wrote: > Thanks david, > > One of the difficulties is CND. cannot duplicate which complicates > finding the root cause. If you can generate logs that will probably help. > > Steve Perhaps say what should be run in the phone and what to do to generate

Re: Version 2 -- New community distribution hackable1

2008-12-18 Thread clare johnstone
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Didier Raboud wrote: >> Marcus Bauer wrote: >>> fully in the spirit of "release early, release often" we want to > * This is not a judgment of quality of the given distribution. > * I don't think that multiplying the _distributions_ is doing any good to > the Ope

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

2008-12-29 Thread clare johnstone
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:38 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > Australia: > > Mobiles: 04nn nnn nnn (mobiles all *seem* to be prefixed as 04 - may or > may not be true The zero seems to be like the zero on an area code, - is omitted when the country prefix is used. > + is usually only seen with in

Re: [Android] on SD card

2008-12-31 Thread clare johnstone
Radek thank you very much for this post. I was able to try the Android; very interesting. Having the SD card version was a great help. I like the real clock faces especially. I will try your further suggestions if I get some spare time, by then it may all be different.. Good wishes for New Year, cl

Re: [SHR] Why is the Powerbutton sometimes red and sometimes blue while loading

2009-02-07 Thread clare johnstone
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Steffen Winkler wrote: > oh, sorry...thought that it is the same in english. > > It means "rechargeable battery" > Am Samstag, den 07.02.2009, 13:00 -0600 schrieb The Digital Pioneer: >> Sorry, but what is 'akku'? It meant the same in English when I was a schoolchi

Re: Qt Extended 4.4.2 SDK Build Instructions

2009-02-21 Thread clare johnstone
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Filip Onkelinx wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using my own QtExtended image, based on : > > QtExtended 4.4.3 snapshot (13 Feb 2009 version) > Kernel 2.6.28 > Based on Hackable1 (debian based rootfs, giving me easy access to all > commandline tools. It is also possible to 'sw

Re: caught again by the 2007.2 dialler

2008-08-29 Thread clare johnstone
And I thought I had a problem on FSO Milestone 2 because of unable to send numbers back to Voicemail - but I did have a "hangup" button :) And I *was* fascinated to get Voicemail... still hoping... clare On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:34 AM, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just got c

Re: FSO milestone3 my view (ON gta01)

2008-09-13 Thread clare johnstone
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Fredrik Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I hope I'm not the only one that think Zhone looks really nice (apart > from the default background). Although it's just a temporary UI, put > there to take advantage of the framework, I'm gonna miss it - it's > si

Re: One more rotate version

2008-10-22 Thread clare johnstone
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Thomas des Courières <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know http://www.assembla.com/ ? > they provide for free trac, subversion, and team managing facilities. > And they don't are affiliated with big brother ... > Beware: http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tab

Re: QtExtended 4.4.2 Changes?

2008-10-31 Thread clare johnstone
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Lorn Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat November 1 2008 2:55:36 am Pander wrote: >> I've just tried 4.4.2 with mwester's kernel and it gets losts in an >> infinite pile of 'blah blah Magic bitmask blah blah' so going back to >> 4.4.1. >> >> Does anyone else g

Re: [neovento-5.6] Modifying the keyboard

2009-07-08 Thread clare johnstone
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:42 AM, neove...@freerunner wrote: > > ok thanks, found it: > > http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/recipes/matchbox-keyboard/files Hi Neovento; All seems rather quiet - is everyone on Summer holiday? I did not succeed in finding how to make the Neovent

Re: QtMoko v14 unable to send sms???

2009-10-09 Thread clare johnstone
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Hi, > > 2009/10/9 Pablo Miño >> >> No matter if I reply a sms or start a new one, it happens the same. > I have my image installed on a partition on a SD card, installed from the > tar.gz file. > -- Hi, I am trying the tar.gz version a

Re: QtMoko v14 unable to send sms???

2009-10-09 Thread clare johnstone
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Radek Polak wrote: ? Btw the screen should look like this: > > http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/screenshots/keyboard_skin.png yes it did, on the 3rd change of input method, and then as i started to type the red circle with X changed to blue arrow, then

Re: QtMoko v14 unable to send sms???

2009-10-09 Thread clare johnstone
2009/10/9 Pablo Miño : > No matter if I reply a sms or start a new one, it happens the same. > When I start a new message (or reply a sms) I see a red circle with a > white cross and when I start typing it changes to an orange pentagon > with a white cross inside that is pointing backwards and it a

Re: Choice of scripting langage: towards Web2.0?

2007-04-04 Thread Clare Johnstone
On 4/4/07, Jonathon Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That said, I still think we should consider perl. ... So you have a lot of older gurus that could do just about anything with it, but who may not be willing to learn a new language. Hmm. well yes, Provided I can make it do perl for me I a

Re: Cheers for Harald

2007-07-13 Thread Clare Johnstone
Another little voice - Harald please take some time and get better, You are a vital cog in this machine... Clare On 7/13/07, Jonas Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting Mikko Rauhala on 07/12/2007 04:39 PM UTC: > to, 2007-07-12 kello 04:43 -0400, Phil Schaffner kirjoitti: >> Harald Welte's b

Re: Support for Left handers

2007-07-14 Thread Clare Johnstone
I have noticed some suggestions for managing the touchscreen which would be difficult for people lacking part of an important finger. Arthriticky tendencies in those remaining wont help either Hoping for easy stylus management... clare On 7/14/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm

Re: Support for Left handers

2007-07-14 Thread Clare Johnstone
On 7/15/07, Joe Friedrichsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . We have a *touch screen* folks! Why use a widget that was made to replace tactile interaction when the whole screen can be a widget? Seems like a little overly zealous retrofitting. . . This carburettor will fit on the electric car, dag n

Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Clare Johnstone
On 7/16/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jonathon Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > For the address book example. I would prefer to have a list that showed > only a few names with a large area for each. When you clicked the name, The important thing IMHO is to create applicati

Re: An idea for an advertisement

2007-07-23 Thread Clare Johnstone
On 7/23/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 22 Jul 2007, at 20:31, Adam Krikstone wrote: > AGPS is where focus needs to be. This natural (and free) > comparative advantage needs to be developed to attract new > developers and customers. Unfortunately people will want Tomtom, much of

Re: openmoko irc logs available ?

2007-08-06 Thread Clare Johnstone
And thank you Rod for the information, as I have been hoping to read IRC logs and as you say the time differences, and just the total time involved make IRC in real time prohibitive if you cant have it on all day at work.:) Clare in Perth, now expecting a phone...

Re: What's the real scope of hardware openness?

2007-08-06 Thread Clare Johnstone
Earlier someone said: I think you described just about every tech-savy teenager out there... On 8/7/07, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your explanation. >So, what are the current proposal for starting the real revolution? >I'm getting bored and frustrated. :) > There has to b

Re: Incorrect UPS tracking numbers?

2007-08-11 Thread Clare Johnstone
I am nearly happy now, Jouston Huang from online store sent me a new tracking number, which arrived yesterday Friday afternoon Aug 10 here, and I found that the phone which was shipped on Aug 7 our time had arrived in Perth from Singapore late the night before, and was being processed. I had e