On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:27:18AM -0700, Mark wrote:
But it's VERY important to keep the underlying OS a full desktop
version, complete with *all* the apps in the standard repositories
with no porting necessary. Anything else will result in a massive
fail. That's Maemo's #1 failing: there
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:58:13AM -0700, Mark wrote:
Many desktop apps could be ported to the Internet Tablets with
little effort.
That's a lie. If it were that easy, there would be thousands of
Maemo apps.
In many cases it *is* that easy. The problem is that many desktop apps
just don't
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:30:06PM +, Edward Johns wrote:
apt-cache search python
I see a list of python packages I can install. However, if I search
for python in the application manager I get no results. Should the
result be the same for both? Why do they differ?
The application
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 06:43:51PM +0100, Marijn Kruisselbrink wrote:
I'm considering buying one, but I'm not interested in using
it as a phone, so I plan to put no SIM card. Some time ago I
read on this same list that the N900 had some problems when
no SIM card was inserted but I
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 06:35:33PM +0100, Alejandro López wrote:
I'm considering buying one, but I'm not interested in using it as a
phone, so I plan to put no SIM card.
By the way, although I think you can use it perfectly without a SIM
card, the device really shines when you have a 3G data
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:25:23PM +0100, Alberto Garcia wrote:
More info and examples here:
http://blogs.igalia.com/berto/2009/12/17/remapping-the-n900-arrow-keys/
In the first comment Conny explains how to add umlauts.
FYI, I've just added all this info to the Maemo wiki:
http
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:44:00AM +0100, Mustali Dalal wrote:
Is there a list of all the symbol enumerations available
somewhere? I want to remap the Fn+Up arrow to the pipe symbol.
dead_pipe didn't work :)
You're probably looking for 'bar'. And that is not a dead key, by the
way. Dead keys
For those who don't know it, this is how arrow keys are arranged in
(some) non-English layouts:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26328...@n02/4117627018/
My N900 has an English keyboard, and I like it because I use the X
terminal a lot so having separate keys for the arrow keys is good.
However I
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:55:25AM +0100, Alberto Garcia wrote:
I wonder how I can remap the arrow keys so that pressing them in
combination with Fn produces the symbols that I'm missing.
Here's the answer:
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-51
xkb_symbols arrows_4btns
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:25:49PM +0100, Marcel wrote:
I'm seriously planning to buy an N900 and I'm following this list
for some time now. Someone here said some time ago that Maemo's
userland is quite different from the typical GNU/Linux one. Having
experienced the Neo Freerunner as just
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:48:27AM +0200, Andrea Grandi wrote:
after some days using the N900 (with already lot of charge/discharge
cicles) I'd like to compare my battery duration with other people.
During the first days I used the N900 a lot, including browsing the
web, instant messaging,
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:14:14PM -0400, hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
How do you use accelerometer on a netbook?
You program it to park the hard disk heads when the accelerometer
readings warrant.
ThinkPads do exactly that:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Active_Protection_System
There's
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:25:18AM -0600, Mark wrote:
telnet belongs on an Interner Tablet, and claiming otherwise is
akin to claiming that the WWW is the internet.
Misnomenclature aside, making claims about a device's abilities that
can only be attained by installing additional or 3rd
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 09:30:23PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
It's sad that there is no evidence that Nokia marketing even
understand that the problem exists, let alone understand the problem
itself.
I think that neither Debian or Ubuntu come with telnet installed by
default. I'm not
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 03:56:48PM -0600, Mark wrote:
And the only reason that Linux and Macs are so relatively safe from
viruses and worms is because they aren't targeted, not because they
are fundamentally more secure.
This would make sense if creating a virus required a significant
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:12:49AM -0500, Ognen Duzlevski wrote:
I am curious to find out what people use their Nokias for. If anyone
could share their usage patterns, it would be appreciated.
I've got an N810 and here are my comments:
* The web browser is my #1 app, without any doubt. I
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:50:38AM -0500, Scott wrote:
I ran the update for the Maemo Mapper and it did not update
correctly. The fix is up on
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=232348
You should also fix /var/lib/dpkg/info/maemo-mapper.list to update the
paths of
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 08:32:43PM -0600, Mark wrote:
The bottom line is that IMAP is totally unnecessary and irrelevant.
It's yet another case of a competing standard that only complicates
the world and doesn't provide any real advantages.
I frankly don't understand this...
Going to the
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:13:40AM -0600, Mark wrote:
...all of which can just as easily be done with POP3.
How can I have multiple e-mail folders with POP3 ?
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On Thursday 11/09/2008 09:30, Mark said...
...all of which can just as easily be done with POP3.
How can I have multiple e-mail folders with POP3 ?
Use Procmail to filter and direct messages to different mail files
(folders).
You mean in the mail server? And how can I switch between
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:44:02AM -0600, Mark wrote:
...all of which can just as easily be done with POP3.
How can I have multiple e-mail folders with POP3 ?
Use Procmail to filter and direct messages to different mail files
(folders).
You mean in the mail server? And how can I
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:15:49AM -0600, Mark wrote:
So there are features that IMAP has that POP3 doesn't ??
What are those features ??
The features that the IMAP clients, not the protocol, present
as assets are exactly the same as you get through any Webmail
interface. POP clients
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:16:25AM +, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
Maemo platforms [...] Maemo will continue to be based on Gnome
[...] and S40 and S60 will evolve with Qt
Okay, but can you assume Nokia wont step by step drop Maemo?
Of course not (not even before this announcement).
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:24:30PM +, Matt Emson wrote:
I hope that QTopia will be offered as an alternate, not a
replacement to Maemo.
http://www.nokia.com/A4813580 - go to webcast
According to Kai Öistämö (around minute 9):
I want also to make clear that the key driver for Nokia doing
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