Moving filesystem to card?

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Mellor
I am a new 770 user. I read that moving the filesystem to the media card improves the computer's performance. Is this really a big improvement, or can I use the entire card for files (movies)? Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list

Re: N810 and future directions for Maemo

2007-10-22 Thread Brad Midgley
David I would also like to suggest that the built-in GPS software allow for time-syncing the device: perhaps not necessarily a full NTPD implementation, but even doing the occasional ntpdate sync from the GPS would be nice to keep the clock set. maemo uses gpsd. ntp can set the time using

N810 goes on sale ...

2007-10-22 Thread Alan Williamson
http://www.google.com/products?q=n810+nokiabtnG=Search well ... nearly. Some early birds getting a head of the curve trying to guess some of the prices -- Alan Williamson a wiki -and- a blog @ http://www.Blog-City.com/ b: http://alan.blog-city.com/

Re: N810 goes on sale ...

2007-10-22 Thread Jonathan Greene
looks like at least one store is going with a loss leader plan or possibly using the N800 price with the N810 On 10/22/07, Alan Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.google.com/products?q=n810+nokiabtnG=Search well ... nearly. Some early birds getting a head of the curve trying to

Re: N810 goes on sale ...

2007-10-22 Thread Peter Bart
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 07:05 -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: looks like at least one store is going with a loss leader plan or possibly using the N800 price with the N810 On 10/22/07, Alan Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.google.com/products?q=n810+nokiabtnG=Search well ...

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-22 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ext Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My personal pet peeve with the app manager is all those confirmation dialogs. Yeah, and there will be more in the future... There should be at

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-22 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How important is it to fix this? I'm working on the assumption that you would only activate Show all packages in an emergency, but would usually leave it off (precisely because it decreases the

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-22 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope the document that you refer to is not screwed up. I will check myself. Nope, it's fine. Please read it again. :) ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org

Re: N810 goes on sale ...

2007-10-22 Thread John Rudd
I think the $230 one is rather confused. They're saying it's a GSM device with EDGE and 8GB of internal storage. Jonathan Greene wrote: looks like at least one store is going with a loss leader plan or possibly using the N800 price with the N810 On 10/22/07, Alan Williamson [EMAIL

Re: N810 . Email Client / RSS Client

2007-10-22 Thread Zoran Kolic
Is the Email client still p*ss poor when it comes to IMAP folders? Or have they actually fixed that? And how is the RSS Reader? I see from the various videos online they have added some nice eye candy (scrolling and jump to site etc) but has anyone used it in anger? Whatever personal

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-22 Thread Steve Greenland
According to Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ext Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How important is it to fix this? I'm working on the assumption that you would only activate Show all packages in an emergency, but would usually

Re: Hacker Edition: a short review

2007-10-22 Thread Steve Greenland
According to Krischan Keitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Higher values will instruct the kernel to use the swap file more often instead cleaning the cache first. You can check the actual value with: cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness The default is 1. Seatbelt will set this value to 100. For those

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-22 Thread Kemal Hadimli
On 10/22/07, Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: much faster. But I'm a little baffled -- it still shows (some) lib* packages, which I would consider the first thing to filter out, since they'll be installed by dependencies, and there is little reason (for a non-developer, at least) to

Re: Newbie questions

2007-10-22 Thread Steve Greenland
According to Antonio Orlando [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * How can you make an application (eg: claws-mail) start automatically at power-up? (I'm happy working at the command prompt as root.) I don't know if it's the right way to do this, but I can successfully start an application at startup

Re: Two Reasons to Celebrate in Helsinki

2007-10-22 Thread Steve Greenland
According to Acadia Secure Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: well I guess its been a good, no, outstanding, week for Finlandwhat with the launch of the Nokia N810 and capped of by a razor thin (could it have been any closer?) capture of the F1 Driver's championship by Kimi Räikkönen:

Re: Moving filesystem to card?

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Mellor
Can I reduce the size of the boot partition? I would like to have more than 500M available for files. On 10/22/07, Frantisek Dufka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Mellor wrote: I am a new 770 user. I read that moving the filesystem to the media card improves the computer's performance. Is

Re: N810 . Email Client / RSS Client

2007-10-22 Thread Neil MacLeod
DrFredC.com wrote: It seems to keeps unread stuff on my n800, at least for a day or so. It would be nice to have a setting for how long to keep things that aren't explicitly set to be kept. Read the bug Marius referred to... you probably don't have auto-update enabled, or don't update

Re: Moving filesystem to card?

2007-10-22 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Mike Mellor wrote: Can I reduce the size of the boot partition? I would like to have more than 500M available for files. That's a bit unclear, what files you mean exactly and what do you want to reduce? Everything on card is a file. How large card you have? 300-400MB can be enough for root

Re: Moving filesystem to card?

2007-10-22 Thread Neil MacLeod
Mike Mellor wrote: Can I reduce the size of the boot partition? I would like to have more than 500M available for files. Sure, 256MB should be just about adequate as the boot partition. Also see the following thread on ITT for scripted OS cloning instructions (the same instructions as

Re: [OT]: gtalk VOIP client for i386 Linux

2007-10-22 Thread Nick Phillips
On 22/10/2007, at 5:36 AM, Michael Flaig wrote: Hi Rainer, I know of two projects who are working on gtalk for linux. Google summer of code sponsored integration of jingle into gajim. In SVN there is a jingle enabled version but it is still work in progress and the required libs are not

Re: Moving filesystem to card?

2007-10-22 Thread sebastian maemo
Hi Mike: It's OK. If you decide to do it following the wiki, then I think I could help a bit: http://maemo.org/community/wiki/HowTo_EASILY_Boot_From_MMC_card First of all, the two partitions are not exactly a boot sector and a file sector: First partition /dev/mmcblk0p1 is VFAT partition. This

Re: [OT]: gtalk VOIP client for i386 Linux

2007-10-22 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi Nick, many thanks for your reply. I created a page for googletalk on a linux desktop in the maemo wiki. In this page I summarize all the information I found so far: https://maemo.org/community/wiki/gtalkonlinux/ Since I have neither tried any of the approaches nor asked if that content is

Re: Subscribe to maemo wiki

2007-10-22 Thread Quim Gil
Of course this is wrong. Please provide details and follow Users reporting not having permissions to subscribe to wiki pages http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2154 PS: filing bugs is the most efficient way of reporting issues. Thanks! On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 04:59 +0200, ext Rainer Dorsch

App downloads stats (was Re: chinook)

2007-10-22 Thread Quim Gil
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:40 +0400, ext Mikhail Sobolev wrote: The main FBReader author would happily make FBReader available from the extras repository. The main reason why it's not there yet is the lack of way to see how many installations are happening from it. :) The download numbers