Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-05-26 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, For a long time I find myself looking for an open smartphone, with Linux and GPS. Initially I had high hopes for OpenMoko's platform, but now I think it is dying for several reasons: * their's latests phone model Freerunner has audio issues * It has weak connectivity (GPRS) * There is no

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-05-26 Thread Shay Ohayon
I have a T-Mobie G1 (bought in the states) and am pretty happy with it. It is pure Linux in its core, has an SDK for application development and the whole source is available (http://source.android.com/). I am not too interested on GPS applications or navigation but it has a pretty good GPS (tough

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-05-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
(As you used the word GNU in the subject line) On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:05:27PM +0300, Arie Skliarouk wrote: Hi, For a long time I find myself looking for an open smartphone, with Linux and GPS. Initially I had high hopes for OpenMoko's platform, but now I think it is dying for several

open street map and symbian

2009-05-26 Thread Erez D
hi There is an israeli site, which uses an open GPS software but a closed map. so for that (and other reasons - maps of other countries) i would like to use openstreetmap instead was anyone able to use openstreetmap on symbian ? thanks, erez. ___

Re: Israeli sites that are broken under firefox

2009-05-26 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 21:07, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/6 sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com: everyone who has complaints about orange web site, please post it here with the defect that bothers him. The device catalog is improperly displayed in Firefox, and

[TelFOSS] Announcement: Fring Open Source Apps on 31-May-2009

2009-05-26 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! The Tel Aviv Open Source Club will host a talk by Alex Nerst and Michal Geva about The Open-Source Fring Twitter and Last.fm Mobile Apps - on Sunday, 31-May-2009. The meeting will take place at Tel Aviv University, at the Schreiber MathsCS building, room 008 on 18:30. So mark your

Re: Israeli sites that are broken under firefox

2009-05-26 Thread Noam Rathaus
Maybe the flash works, but why the Hebrew is shown in reverse? 2009/5/26 Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com: Hi, On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 21:07, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/6 sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com: everyone who has complaints about orange web site, please post it

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-05-26 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:05:27PM +0300, Arie Skliarouk wrote: Hi, For a long time I find myself looking for an open smartphone, with Linux and GPS. Initially I had high hopes for OpenMoko's platform, but now I think it is dying for several reasons: * their's latests phone model

USB Flash with LCD or MP3 with Accessible LCD (OT?)

2009-05-26 Thread Eli Marmor
Hi, I'm looking for a USB flash with an LCD, which is accessible from the computer (i.e. you can control the content of the LCD from the computer which the USB flash is connected to). Alternatively, if there is any MP3, which its LCD is accessible from the computer, it may help me too. So far,

Re: Israeli sites that are broken under firefox

2009-05-26 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Macromedia sux? On Tuesday 26 May 2009 19:11:44 Noam Rathaus wrote: Maybe the flash works, but why the Hebrew is shown in reverse? ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Israeli sites that are broken under firefox

2009-05-26 Thread Tomer Cohen
Reversed text in Hebrew is a long issue in Adobe Flash, which fixed in the recent years for Windows users, but Linux (and Mac?) users are still unable to read it, and there is no (as far as I know) player-side script to workaround this issue. By the way - Flash on Linux is worse than running IE

OT:Job Offer

2009-05-26 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hello folks! I've been asked to pass this on - it's not specifically Linux (in fact I don't know what platform is used), but we all have to eat ... Company: Radwin Ltd., www.radwin.com Software Development - Student Project Description: Develop planning tools to be deployed to a wireless

Re: Israeli sites that are broken under firefox

2009-05-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:45:00PM +0300, Tomer Cohen wrote: Reversed text in Hebrew is a long issue in Adobe Flash, which fixed in the recent years for Windows users, but Linux (and Mac?) users of the Adobe Flash implementation. Other implementations (Gnash?) got it right. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Israeli sites that are broken under firefox

2009-05-26 Thread Diego Iastrubni
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 20:45:00 Tomer Cohen wrote: (Diego - Adobe bought Macromedia long time ago) Them too. Ok. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: USB Flash with LCD or MP3 with Accessible LCD (OT?)

2009-05-26 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, You can take any Rockbox (http://www.rockbox.org/) supporting player and write an program that would do what you need. -- Arie On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 18:35, Eli Marmor mar...@netmask.it wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a USB flash with an LCD, which is accessible from the computer (i.e.

Re: Israeli sites that are broken under firefox

2009-05-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
Maybe the flash works, but why the Hebrew is shown in reverse? Because the Orange website devs test in exactly one browser/os combination? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-05-26 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Tue, 26 May 2009, Arie Skliarouk wrote: Hi, For a long time I find myself looking for an open smartphone, with Linux and GPS. Initially I had high hopes for OpenMoko's platform, but now I think it is dying for several reasons: * their's latests phone model Freerunner has audio issues * It