Re: Limited life of flash memory

2008-12-02 Thread Mark
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Igor Stoppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can only repeat my advice: why don't you do some reading at least > about jffs2? > Because it's irrelevant in discussions about removable flash memory. Jffs2 only applies to embedded flash - it can't operate on devices that

Re: Limited life of flash memory

2008-12-02 Thread Igor Stoppa
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 09:29 -0700, ext Mark wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Igor Stoppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I would recommend you to do some reading about jffs2, ubifs and wear > > levelling in general. > > > > Then you'll understand better what people are trying to tell you

Re: Limited life of flash memory

2008-12-02 Thread Mark
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Igor Stoppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would recommend you to do some reading about jffs2, ubifs and wear > levelling in general. > > Then you'll understand better what people are trying to tell you. > -- > > Cheers, Igor > The problem is that I *do* understan

Re: Limited life of flash memory

2008-12-02 Thread Igor Stoppa
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 09:10 -0700, ext Mark wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:43 AM, kenneth marken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 December 2008 00:52:47 Mark wrote: > >> Unfortunately, this makes some fundamental assumptions that aren't > >> correct, such as that "the whole card" is

Re: Unzip utility for endusers

2008-12-02 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Faheem Pervez wrote: > The existing ones are busybox ones which frankly suck. For example, > busybox's tar will not accept the j argument which is used to uncompress and > untar *.tar.bz2 archives. It seems that Busybox could support bzip2. File a bug and it could be enabled for Fremantl

Re: Limited life of flash memory

2008-12-02 Thread Mark
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:43 AM, kenneth marken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 02 December 2008 00:52:47 Mark wrote: >> Unfortunately, this makes some fundamental assumptions that aren't >> correct, such as that "the whole card" is involved when writing and >> that it's sequential. Actuall

Re: Unzip utility for endusers

2008-12-02 Thread Faheem Pervez
The existing ones are busybox ones which frankly suck. For example, busybox's tar will not accept the j argument which is used to uncompress and untar *.tar.bz2 archives. On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Peter Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Bart wrote: > > Lake Stevens Dental wrote: >

Re: COMPLETE newbie with some questions.

2008-12-02 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Andre Klapper wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 02.12.2008, 07:18 -0500 schrieb Screamin Ike: >> One of my big pulls towards this particular device (which is the N810) >> was that it runs linux, so I'm operating under the assumption that it >> has a terminal emulator... > > It definitely has by

Re: COMPLETE newbie with some questions.

2008-12-02 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 02.12.2008, 07:18 -0500 schrieb Screamin Ike: > One of my big pulls towards this particular device (which is the N810) > was that it runs linux, so I'm operating under the assumption that it > has a terminal emulator... It definitely has by default (osso-x-term). > I'm also unde

Re: COMPLETE newbie with some questions.

2008-12-02 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:18:23AM -0500, Screamin Ike wrote: > One of my big pulls towards this particular device (which is the N810) > was that it runs linux, so I'm operating under the assumption that it > has a terminal emulator... somewhere. Yes. My N800 does. Perhaps because I installed it

COMPLETE newbie with some questions.

2008-12-02 Thread Screamin Ike
Hey, guys! First, I do not yet have my tablet. Due to budgeting concerns, the purchase date is currently about a month away, and so, then, will be the date I recieve my new tablet. And I am so excited, that I'm basically DEVOURING every bit of information I can find about the device. One of my big

Re: Music Player Exasperation

2008-12-02 Thread sebastian maemo
2008/12/2 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Well... with mplayer you can also play playlist... > > Tell me how to do it easily while you're at the gym, on an elliptical, and > you want to change what you're listening to. > > There are times to think and be uber-geek and times when the tech

Re: maemo-users Digest, Vol 44, Issue 1

2008-12-02 Thread Tony Green
On Monday 01 December 2008 10:00:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: "Martin Grimme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Music Player Exasperation > To: "Hal Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm the the developer of MediaBox. Thanks for your mail. The next > version of MediaBox will read FLAC tags an