Re: ncurses-bin package (was: Fun crashes on OS2008)

2008-01-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Monday 07 January 2008 01:08:11 Eero Tamminen wrote: Hi, ext James Sparenberg wrote: On Wednesday 02 January 2008 03:13:41 you wrote: ext James Sparenberg wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2007 03:29:05 pm Marius Gedminas wrote: Two shell crashes on OS2008. One is reproducible

Re: OS2008 Damn ugly!!!

2008-01-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 02:55:39 Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 21:59 -0300, ext Alfredo J. Fabretti wrote: Designers need constructive criticism, comments like the original post only hurts their feelings. It's not that much about feelings really - we develop a pretty

Re: Missing OS2008 cmdline apps (was Re: how to install OS2007?)

2008-01-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 06:07:47 Marius Gedminas wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:42:01PM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: Hendrik, Actually ping requires root on all systems. Since in order to do icmp you need to put the nic into a different mode than it runs in normally

Re: GIMP on n800?

2008-01-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 28 December 2007 04:36:16 am Danilo Cesar DP wrote: It can be ssh -x, can't it? []'s Danilo http://net9.blogspot.com/2007/04/gimp-running-on-n800.html a video from long ago that might interest you. james On Dec 28, 2007 9:10 AM, Thomas Armagost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Fun crashes on OS2008

2008-01-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Saturday 29 December 2007 03:29:05 pm Marius Gedminas wrote: Two shell crashes on OS2008. One is reproducible but mostly harmless: $ type /bin/sh segfaults and your session ends. The other is not reproducible: while hitting the Up key to go back in history I suddenly got this: ~

Re: Missing OS2008 cmdline apps (was Re: how to install OS2007?)

2008-01-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sunday 30 December 2007 06:50:05 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 07:23:15PM -0500, James Knott wrote: Peter Flynn wrote: Marius Gedminas wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:43:51PM +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: If you're a new user, I'd forget O7 and go directly to

Re: Missing OS2008 cmdline apps (was Re: how to install OS2007?)

2008-01-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sunday 30 December 2007 08:10:39 am Peter Flynn wrote: Tuomas Kulve wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's bizarre. What security implications are there in ping that would mean it has to be run only by root? Forcing people to use root when not necessary is itself a security problem.

Re: ATARASHI - n800 optimized ezine is out!

2007-12-21 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 03:20:54 pm Fred Chittenden wrote: Spam Status: Spamassassin 0% probability of being spam. Full report: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7-deb   On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:06:51 +0100 Carlos Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: DO NOT RESTORE FROM A BETA BACKUP

2007-12-21 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 20 December 2007 11:51:58 am Mike Morrison wrote: I had no such issues restoring from the beta backup. On Dec 20, 2007 7:06 AM, Jonathan Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.maemoapps.com/2007/12/19/n800-updated-to-os2008-wheres -the-stylus-input/ I know I'm not alone

Re: starting up - ruggedizing

2007-12-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 09:13:43 am Fred Chittenden wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:55:00 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just ordered my first N800, and it should arrive in a few days. I've read this list enough to know that it will do the things I want it to do (and more) once I

Re: Disappearing Widgets.

2007-12-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 12:00:15 am Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 18:26 -0800, ext James Sparenberg wrote: Nope right now just running the stock 0S2008 BAF themes (Big A** Font) the 2007 ones wouldn't even install if I tried as dependencies don't match. You just go

Re: help!? my N810 seems dead(ish)

2007-12-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 12:08:38 am Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 09:54 +0200, Igor Stoppa wrote: That's weird - N800 and 770 have practically the same chargin interface - HW, SW and battery - and when doing idle chargin their current is comparable. Unless the N800

Re: Disappearing Widgets.

2007-12-18 Thread James Sparenberg
2007/12/18, Tuomas Kuosmanen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 18:26 -0800, ext James Sparenberg wrote: Nope right now just running the stock 0S2008 BAF themes (Big A** Font) the 2007 ones wouldn't even install if I tried as dependencies don't match. You just go along

Re: help!? my N810 seems dead(ish)

2007-12-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Monday 17 December 2007 08:56:21 pm Joshua Layne wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:56:43 +, Peter Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I have the identical problem, and some poking around revealed that the wire from the charger to the unit is internally broken close to (or within)

Re: What is 2nd piece in N800 FIASCO image?

2007-12-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 12:22:45 pm digger vermont wrote: Hello, Because I have a powerpc with linux I need to use 0x to flash images. 0x doesn't yet have the ability to flash the entire image but it can unpack the image and then install the individual pieces. The pieces are:

Re: OS2008: .bashrc or .bash_profile?

2007-12-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Monday 17 December 2007 03:23:55 am Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 15:44 +0200, ext Marius Gedminas wrote: curious. Does the IT do colors? You mean the terminal emulator? Yes, it does. It does many things, including, e.g., vim's mouse support. Yep, it's using the

Re: Disappearing Widgets.

2007-12-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Monday 17 December 2007 03:27:41 am Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 12:43 -0800, ext James Sparenberg wrote: OK, First, Yes I understand 2008 is a beta. So please don't anyone get defensive. But I think I have a case somehow of application vs 2008 and I'm trying

Re: OS2008: .bashrc or .bash_profile?

2007-12-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Monday 17 December 2007 03:33:02 pm Marius Gedminas wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 03:44:33PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: ash for me is fine. I just miss vim right now There will be vim for OS2008 eventually. If you've got a Scratchbox with chinook, you can build it from the

Re: OS2008: .bashrc or .bash_profile?

2007-12-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 13 December 2007 01:04:48 am Frantisek Dufka wrote: Laurent MARTIN wrote: Any idea on how I could simulate .bashrc, specially 'alias' command? TIA. Busybox shell (ash) is pretty good, you need bash only for bash-isms. From you post it looks like you don't need bash at all.

Re: OS2008: .bashrc or .bash_profile?

2007-12-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sunday 16 December 2007 07:55:55 am Peter Flynn wrote: Frantisek Dufka wrote: Laurent MARTIN wrote: Any idea on how I could simulate .bashrc, specially 'alias' command? TIA. Busybox shell (ash) is pretty good, you need bash only for bash-isms. My problem is that only ever having

Disappearing Widgets.

2007-12-16 Thread James Sparenberg
OK, First, Yes I understand 2008 is a beta. So please don't anyone get defensive. But I think I have a case somehow of application vs 2008 and I'm trying to track it down. Can't file a bug until I can say do this and that happens or at least say what is happening. I'm about to do a

Review of the automated update feature of 0S2008

2007-12-16 Thread James Sparenberg
All, Since I've been using it so much figured I'd give it a review. On 2008-beta it doesn't quite go automagic.. this IMHO is good. You do a normal Flash install. Then as expected it notices your backup (the backup HAS to be done under 2008 for all of this to work.) completes a

Re: OS2008 on N800: probable bugs

2007-12-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 07 December 2007 01:17:12 am Neil MacLeod wrote: Laurent GUERBY wrote: - I've had three times after selecting lock touch screen in keys where after pressing power and seeing now press HOME the HOME button was inactive and I had to remove the battery or shutdown through remote

Re: Noob Questions

2007-12-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 07 December 2007 07:45:52 am Kalle Valo wrote: ext Urivan Saaib [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: question is I'm wondering if it's possible to setup DNS suffix? I don't want to type the long domain every time I try to go to a box on my company's network. Yes, this is a missing feature

Re: Flashing from powerpc and linux

2007-12-06 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 06 December 2007 07:56:02 pm Jonathan Jesse wrote: Where is the 2008 Beta available at? At maemo.org I saw something asking for a serial number which I didn't have. Am I looking someplace incorrectly? On 12/6/07, Bob Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: digger vermont wrote:

Re: libraries for running os2007 apps under os2008

2007-12-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:20:59 pm Austin Che wrote: I made a script to allow me to run OS2007 apps directly under OS2008 by installing the appropriate libraries. http://austinche.name/maemo/compat-os2007.sh I hand picked the compatibility libraries to install mainly

Re: libraries for running os2007 apps under os2008

2007-12-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 05 December 2007 08:35:25 am Fred Chittenden wrote: Seems like a waste of time since it's likely that many of the 2007 apps are likely to be ported over to 8OS pretty soon. IMHO, there's other stuff to look at and work on. Although perhaps providing buggy old version on 8os may

Re: further beating on OS2008 beta

2007-12-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 12:25:54 am Eero Tamminen wrote: Hi, ext James Sparenberg wrote: Press Home key and thumb the terminal you want from the window list. (it would be nice if the terminal would e.g. show the current directory name in the window title though) Not very

Re: further beating on OS2008 beta

2007-12-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Monday 03 December 2007 11:18:52 pm Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: On Dec 3, 2007 11:58 PM, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 03 December 2007 01:27:22 am Eero Tamminen wrote: Hi, ext Paul Dundas wrote: Why did they remove the useful tabs and replace

Re: further beating on OS2008 beta

2007-12-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 01:32:43 am Jussi Kukkonen wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: But I find a relatively common use case for terminal involves switching terminals when in fullscreen mode - more so than switching apps. And in full screen mode (maximising terminal space), tabs really

Re: further beating on OS2008 beta

2007-12-03 Thread James Sparenberg
On Monday 03 December 2007 01:27:22 am Eero Tamminen wrote: Hi, ext Paul Dundas wrote: Why did they remove the useful tabs and replace it with multiple windows? Given that there is no WM in the traditional sense you can't resize and move between them easily. Tabs afforded the ability

further beating on OS2008 beta

2007-11-29 Thread James Sparenberg
All, So far a large part of my problems are sitting around apps that aren't yet ported to 2008. unzip, radio, mplayer, nmap, omweather are a few that are in the repository but don't install. For now there are some things I don't understand. I'm not trying to step on toes. I just don't

Re: further beating on OS2008 beta

2007-11-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 29 November 2007 06:37:43 am Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 01:49 -0800, ext James Sparenberg wrote: Why did they remove the useful tabs and replace it with multiple windows? Given that there is no WM in the traditional sense you can't resize and move between

Re: further beating on OS2008 beta

2007-11-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 29 November 2007 01:11:28 pm Thomas Armagost wrote: Martin Grimme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still wondering why Nokia now includes an X Terminal by default. Or is it just there in the beta releases? Mac OS X installs Terminal.app by default. This is a Good Thing. Please

Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job

2007-11-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 29 November 2007 01:42:19 pm Frédéric Crozat wrote: Le jeudi 29 novembre 2007 à 21:28 +0100, Laurent GUERBY a écrit : On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 23:43 +0100, Frédéric Crozat wrote: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667 Well, documentation for enabling A2DP is extremely

Problem in 2008 and looking for duplicate

2007-11-28 Thread James Sparenberg
All, OK. Since I installed 2008 If experienced a marked decrease in batter life. As in total IDLE time is around 1 hour. This is of course not good. So I started looking and I've found that even after a reboot something called metaplayer-crawl is running my cpu constantly at around

Re: Problem in 2008 and looking for duplicate

2007-11-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 28 November 2007 07:32:20 pm James Sparenberg wrote: All, OK. Since I installed 2008 If experienced a marked decrease in batter life. As in total IDLE time is around 1 hour. This is of course not good. So I started looking and I've found that even after a reboot

Re: Problem in 2008 and looking for duplicate

2007-11-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 28 November 2007 07:54:23 pm Austin Che wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2007 07:32:20 pm James Sparenberg wrote: All, OK. Since I installed 2008 If experienced a marked decrease in batter life. As in total IDLE time is around 1 hour. This is of course not good. So

Re: Bug in Maps application

2007-11-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 02:31:20 pm Frédéric Crozat wrote: Le mardi 27 novembre 2007 à 22:46 +0100, Frédéric Crozat a écrit : Hi, according to Wayfinder website http://www.wayfinder.com/?id=5365lang=en-US Nokia is supposed to support Maps application shipped with IT2008.

OS2008-beta1

2007-11-27 Thread James Sparenberg
The only gotcha's I'm finding are, 1. xterm is kinda borked. You can only change background color via the gui now and they moved the text buttons from the right to the bottom which means that if you are using the keyboard and editing a file it's barely usable in that 60% of the screen is

Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job

2007-11-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 03:26:48 pm Laurent GUERBY wrote: Real nice job indeed! Everything feels smooth on my N800 with RX-34_2008SE_1.2007.44-4 even scrolling graphic heavy photoblog entries like: http://www.mamicha.org/blog/index.php?post/2007/11/13/La-rigole-de- la-montagne Thumb can

I have USB host!

2007-11-27 Thread James Sparenberg
Ok. On OS2008 I did the following. 1. Got a femail to femail connector so I can attach keyboard cable to the IT USB cable. 2. ran this command in a term window (where # is teh command prompt) as root. # echo host /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode 3. plugged in the keyboard. 4.

Re: New, renamed version of 770-encode video converter now available

2007-11-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 01:30:51 pm Peter Flynn wrote: Andrew Flegg wrote: Many of you use my script 770-encode to transcode videos for your Nokia Internet Tablet. This name is obviously an anachronism, so to go along with the imminent availability of the N810, it's now been renamed

Re: N810 on a N800?

2007-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 15 November 2007 09:55:09 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm – I think I would rather wait until the “official” release! I understand your position, But I'm in a fix pickle myself. I've got some serious problems with my current install. So do I update, with some loss of

bora3.2 sdk ...

2007-11-06 Thread James Sparenberg
Ok, Running through the SDK I've gotten 3.1 installed N/P. I've gotten Armel to update N/P. However when I get to the x86 SDK what happens is that I'm suddenly stuck on the most basic of debs. Literally the base files. (Reading database ... 14668 files and directories currently

Re: bora3.2 sdk ...

2007-11-06 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 07:49:21 pm James Sparenberg wrote: Ok, Running through the SDK I've gotten 3.1 installed N/P. I've gotten Armel to update N/P. However when I get to the x86 SDK what happens is that I'm suddenly stuck on the most basic of debs. Literally the base files

Re: N800 headphone

2007-11-03 Thread James Sparenberg
they all had the same 3.5mm jack) On 11/3/07, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 November 2007 06:18:05 pm Peter Flynn wrote: Looks like the guy on Ebay who sold me the N800 left out the headphone and can't find it. Duuh. I can't locate a replacement (perhaps

Re: N800 headphone

2007-11-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 01 November 2007 06:18:05 pm Peter Flynn wrote: Looks like the guy on Ebay who sold me the N800 left out the headphone and can't find it. Duuh. I can't locate a replacement (perhaps unsurprisingly) and the Nokia dealers here (Ireland) seem to be phone-only people and haven't come

Re: need a community board?

2007-10-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Monday 29 October 2007 07:53:54 Berhan SOYLU wrote: I think we need a community message board. Nowadays, there comes nearly 20 mails per a day...mail group is so primitive for this..Is there anyone who knows why we don't have o message board like phpbb, smf or something like etc...? The

Interesting Bug in the garage UI.

2007-10-28 Thread James Sparenberg
Quim and others. Not really complaining but did notice somethin while posting feedback on a project in the garage. If you click on the forums link it takes you to the forums page. Expected. Forums work. no problem there . BUT if you first read an annoucement and post a reply

Re: Installing apps when there's no installer

2007-10-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Saturday 27 October 2007 11:09:39 Steve Greenland wrote: According to Peter Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: oh and you can't execute a binary from the mmc cards by default either. File system mount thing. Ah. But presumably you can $ ln -s /media/disk1/texmf/bin/latex /usr/local/bin/

Re: Installing apps when there's no installer

2007-10-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sunday 28 October 2007 05:52:24 Peter Flynn wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: [me] filetree: texmf default-install-location: /usr/share alternate-install-location: /usr/local/share alternate-install-location: /mnt/* alternate-install-location: /media/* (the * meaning prompt user

Re: N800 Disk Full? Erratic Behavior

2007-10-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sunday 28 October 2007 10:04:02 Peter Bart wrote: Ok rundown one section at a time. /home/user # cd / / # df -h FilesystemSize Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mtdblock42.0M 2.0M 0 100% /mnt/initfs this will always be at 100% as it's a

Re: N800 won't connect via WPA2...says network does not support

2007-10-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sunday 28 October 2007 10:09:24 Mike Klein wrote: Thanks for help all. I managed to unbrick my wrt54gl (tftp via orig. linksys firmware at reboot of unit...whew!) and got onto v24RC4 (was on rc1). This and a reboot after configuring for WPA2Mixed/TKIP+AES yields the following results:

Re: N800 Disk Full? Erratic Behavior SOLVED

2007-10-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sunday 28 October 2007 21:35:38 you wrote: On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 20:41 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2007 10:04:02 Peter Bart wrote: Ok rundown one section at a time. snip Thank you for going through one at a time. It has helped me to understand

Re: kphone on N800

2007-10-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sunday 28 October 2007 22:04:54 Jonathan Greene wrote: In OS2008, you can just add a SIP account just as you would Jabber or GTalk. This will work on the N800 and the N810 and even support bluetooth headset profile for maximum VOIPing! It looks as this also supports the built-in presence

Re: Installing apps when there's no installer

2007-10-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 26 October 2007 15:39:40 Peter Flynn wrote: A large number of the apps listed at http://maemo.org/downloads have a greyed out button labelled missing install. The link to these apps' homepages eventually takes you to the downloads, including a .deb, but I'm not an apt-get expert: how

Re: Installing apps when there's no installer

2007-10-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 26 October 2007 17:12:26 Peter Flynn wrote: Thanks Jonathan and James for pointing out Application manager to do this (far too easy for my tortured mind :-) It's always surprising and pleased to find that someone has taken the trouble to include this kind of functionality in an

Re: Installing apps when there's no installer

2007-10-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 26 October 2007 17:37:24 James Sparenberg wrote: On Friday 26 October 2007 17:12:26 Peter Flynn wrote: Thanks Jonathan and James for pointing out Application manager to do this (far too easy for my tortured mind :-) It's always surprising and pleased to find that someone has

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

2007-10-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 19 October 2007 03:51:29 Marius Vollmer wrote: 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 least one before starting the operation,

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

2007-10-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 19 October 2007 08:35:51 dave wrote: It should stay online for days, not hours. Something is wrong with your setup. I would guess that the AP is somehow broken regards to WLAN Power Save Mode. Can you try with some other AP to see if it helps? Also make sure that N800 isn't

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

2007-10-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 19 October 2007 09:26:07 Steve Greenland wrote: According to James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 18 October 2007 11:30:34 Marius Gedminas wrote: I sincerely hope Maemo Extras rejects sourceless packages. Marius Gedminas Marius, I would hope

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support and the repository question

2007-10-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 19 October 2007 09:30:50 Steve Greenland wrote: According to Krischan Keitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The optimum may be between the two - meaning we need some kind of a quality management for the community efforts. To approve that just verified and checked apps are in the official and

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

2007-10-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 19 October 2007 09:44:53 Steve Greenland wrote: According to James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I fully understand what it's doing but not why it's doing it. Since the act of doing the first update is the equivalent of apt-get update However if you use Adept/Synaptic/dpkg

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

2007-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 18 October 2007 20:01:36 Steve Greenland wrote: According to James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: a. open AM b. get asked if I want to update package lists. c. click to browse installable packages. d. wait for update packages (why it just did an update

Found out why BT sound is choppy.

2007-10-18 Thread James Sparenberg
Not sure where to go next on this. (beyond bug filing) Kagu is definitely the culprit. in that something about updating the screen causes BT sound to cut out. If you shrink the screen and open for example the browser scrolling and surfing has no affect on sound. But if you are doing anything

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

2007-10-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 18 October 2007 10:16:51 Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can you give more information about how the AM is slower than apt-get? Do you need to perform too many clicks in the UI to get your task

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

2007-10-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 18 October 2007 11:30:34 Marius Gedminas wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:48:35PM +, Steve Greenland wrote: snip My other pet peeve is that this encourages binary-only debs which you can't then fix/port to a different SDK version. I sincerely hope Maemo Extras rejects

Re: maemo-users Digest, Vol 30, Issue 29

2007-10-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 12 October 2007 08:59:28 Drew Baker wrote: This is one thing I really like about my Zaurus 5500. Granted it's dated now, but nice little reset button if need be. I've had similar issues with my 770. Sudo works well. IMO, the N800 _REALLY_ needs: 1) a hardware reset button,

Re: Improvements in the browser (was Re: 4.2007.38-2 available)

2007-10-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 01:32:01 Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: Il 5-10-2007 19:25, Steve Yelvington [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: I thought the browser tab thing was an urban legend, but it turns out they're there, and probably agnostic to the HTML engine. Last item in the dropdown menu is

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-06 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 05 October 2007 09:37:56 Acadia Secure Networks wrote: James, re: PS I'm finding a lot of things working much nicer in the new update beyond the documented updates. Like tabs in the browser! Then again I'm just glad I decided to wait recently. I'd done a number of fixes

Re: Improvements in the browser (was Re: 4.2007.38-2 available)

2007-10-06 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 05 October 2007 10:25:54 Steve Yelvington wrote: I thought the browser tab thing was an urban legend, but it turns out they're there, and probably agnostic to the HTML engine. Last item in the dropdown menu is Advanced,where you choose the browser engine, and among its (new?)

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-06 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 05 October 2007 12:04:16 Frédéric Crozat wrote: Le vendredi 05 octobre 2007 à 18:56 +0300, Marius Vollmer a écrit : ext James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marius, In reply to the space constraint and upgrade done to the entire OS. This was first solved in URPMI

Re: Improvements in the browser (was Re: 4.2007.38-2 available)

2007-10-06 Thread James Sparenberg
On Friday 05 October 2007 12:35:08 Luca Olivetti wrote: El Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:25:54 -0400 Steve Yelvington [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I thought the browser tab thing was an urban legend, but it turns out they're there, and probably agnostic to the HTML engine. Nope, the advanced menu

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 03:14:48 Marius Vollmer wrote: snip Likewise we can easily afford Debian style package management. The one serious constraint we might run into is that there is not enough storage space to carry out an update of the whole OS. But even that should not be that

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 08:12:02 Fred C wrote: On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:36:10 -0700 Thomas Leavitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm not understanding here is that the tablet is a debian Linux system, in it's essence... what's the issue with just making the updated packages available,

Re: problem after re-flash

2007-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 12:28:23 Luca Olivetti wrote: El Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:00:31 -0700 John Rudd [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I re-flashed my N800 last night, because it wouldn't boot (not sure how/why that happened, it just did). Today I was trying to install various packages,

Re: OpenSSH

2007-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 14:52:09 Gary Baribault wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install OpenSSH after re-flashing the latest version of our OS. maemo.org has links to once click installs that no longer work .. Anyone have a recent link that works? I've done the google thing with no

Re: problem after re-flash

2007-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 04 October 2007 15:10:55 Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na James Sparenberg ha escrit: Which brings up the question. Where do I file this kind of bug? James it's already filed, https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2063 Bye Thanks

Tangent topic..... ARM CPU info

2007-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
Multi core arm proc now out. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2917028234.html Linux friendly Hypervisor on ARM multi core http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2917028234.html ARM form Linux initiative. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8620895791.html N1000 could be a real killer *grin*

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 12:19:49 Andrew Flegg wrote: On 10/2/07, Acadia Secure Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also it would be helpful if Nokia would clearly specify ALL of the changes in this release. Is there any reason not to? The fact that the initial digit (i.e. the revision

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 14:43:34 Gary Baribault wrote: I'm sure that some of the N800 owners can backup/flash/restore in 20 minutes, but I would really be curious how many people take over 90 minutes. I'm near there and have only had the toy for about 20 days. By the time I'm finished

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 18:45:59 Fred C wrote: I don't consider my n800 a toy. I've been in and out of computers and prrogramming since 1968. The N800 is a new device of extremely limited power, but very nice utility, if used within reasonable limits. Those expecting more need a reality

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 19:03:56 Brad Midgley wrote: guys It takes longer to read this thread than it does to reinstall my apps. At least it's improving... I used to have to restore sources.list too... brad Ya don't have to read every post every time ya know *cheesy grin* James

Bluetooth headphones and mp3's

2007-09-26 Thread James Sparenberg
OK, Got them in today. One set Jabra stereo headphones. Installed a2dp. Installed kagu. Have music! Pros: No wires! works with phone and Nokia at the same time. Did I mention no wires. Cons: Until I figure out out to start things from the command line routing sound to a2dp kagu

Re: Bluetooth headphones and mp3's

2007-09-26 Thread James Sparenberg
on the dropouts though. James On 9/26/07, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, Got them in today. One set Jabra stereo headphones. Installed a2dp. Installed kagu. Have music! Pros: No wires! works with phone and Nokia at the same time. Did I mention no wires. Cons

Re: Bluetooth headphones and mp3's

2007-09-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 04:54:17 Berhan SOYLU wrote: James; Thanks for your funny explanation :) I'm using Nokia e60 that I think its sound quality is one of the best. I speak nearly 30 mins, when I hold phone in my right hand, right side of my brain afflicts, and vice versa... There

Re: Bluetooth headphones and mp3's

2007-09-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 02:38:11 Lars Persson Fink wrote: Thanks Simon, Do you know if the headsets have some priority between the devices, so that I will hear the person calling in my headphones and not the music, or will I hear both? Best regards, Lars Persson Fink ons

Re: Bluetooth headphones and mp3's

2007-09-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 06:01:38 Brad Midgley wrote: James Severe drop out problem. Almost as if the dang thing was constantly buffering. it helped in at least one case to make the n800 prefer to be bluetooth master. in hcid.conf: lm accept,master; lp hold,sniff,park; let us

Re: Bluetooth headphones and mp3's

2007-09-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 10:57:03 Simon Pickering wrote: Do you know if the headsets have some priority between the devices, so that I will hear the person calling in my headphones and not the music, or will I hear both? I think you need to look for the feature known as

Re: N800 update in red pill mode.

2007-09-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sunday 16 September 2007 19:19:32 Paul Dundas wrote: Huang Shan wrote: Sorry for being so late on this subject. Stil let me add my experience. I also updated my N800 in red pill mode. Here my story http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8992 There is (at least

Re: N800 update in red pill mode.

2007-09-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sunday 16 September 2007 08:35:47 Huang Shan wrote: Sorry for being so late on this subject. Stil let me add my experience. I also updated my N800 in red pill mode. Here my story http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8992 There is (at least one) broken library on the

Re: Question about MicroB Opera...

2007-09-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Monday 17 September 2007 05:28:17 Tim wrote: All, I had to reflash my N800 over the weekend. As a result, I had to reinstall MicroB. When I did, I found that MicroB was now my _only_ browser (i.e., I no longer had a way to switch from it to Opera like I did before I

Re: Questions #3: root

2007-09-13 Thread James Sparenberg
scripts to login automagically as a user other than user. (hard to type that sentence is). I do remember that someone had once gotten it to run as themselves (His first name was Jim... but the rest I forget.) If I remember I'll pass it along. James James Sparenberg wrote: On Wednesday 12

Re: Backing up an image...

2007-09-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 13 September 2007 00:16:14 Thomas Leavitt wrote: So, like, when my box locked up (for no particular reason I could tell) and I had to wipe and re-install, three days after I got the thing, it wasn't that big a deal... just a few wasted hours... but now, I've got a substantial

Re: Questions #3: root

2007-09-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 12:39:52 Thomas Leavitt wrote: What's the cleanest way to get this? Thomas ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users For me and my way of thinking.

Re: Tableteer redirect broken with microb

2007-09-06 Thread James Sparenberg Q
Quim, It does seem to work for me! Thanks for the fix. James On Wednesday 05 September 2007 03:07:28 Quim Gil wrote: This should be fixed now. On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 10:52 +0100, ext Andrew Flegg wrote: Hi, Not sure where the best place to raise this is, but hopefully some Nokian

Re: Visudo Help

2007-08-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 16 August 2007 20:44:16 Paul Klapperich wrote: On 8/16/07, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On this one visudo is not on the box but the real solution is don't chmod the file. VI it as root, then instead of doing wq to quit (write quit) do wq! (w q

Re: Visudo Help

2007-08-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 15:12:27 Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: Ok, after my major screw-up last week (I directly modified the sudoers file but failed to change the permissions back to 0444), I flashed to the newest OS upgrade and re-installed all of my applications. Now I need to modify the

Re: Flashing a N800 on Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-08-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Monday 13 August 2007 08:31:10 Marius Gedminas wrote: I've a new laptop (T61) with a new distro (Ubuntu Gutsy) and a new N800. I'm trying to upgrade it to the latest firmware, but the flasher fails: $ sudo .flasher-3.0 -f -F SU-18_2006SE_3.2006.49-2_PR_F5_MR0_ARM.bin -R flasher v0.8.7

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