Re: Decent PIM for the N8x0

2008-05-01 Thread Larry Battraw
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) After that, it would be *nice to have* a few other things, but without them it's still very workable. I have quite a few more suggestions for the calendar but I don't know where to send them either.

Re: GPE Google calendar

2008-04-01 Thread Larry Battraw
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:39 PM, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to sync the GPE calendar with Google calendar? Yes and no. As mentioned, Erminig is the thing that will do it. However, there are some problems that I've run into that make it impossible for it to fully sync

Re: A2DP audio

2008-03-19 Thread Larry Battraw
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Adam Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I'm in a posting frenzy at the moment (don't worry, I'll go quiet again soon), I'll ask another (probably silly) question, if I may. Has anyone found or got A2DP working with a Bluetooth stereo headset, yet? Yes.

Re: Audio connection problem

2008-03-13 Thread Larry Battraw
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:21 AM, David Hagood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found that running the N800 through a ground loop isolator helps immensely - especially if you are charging the device as you use it. The Radio Shack ground loop isolator (RS #270-054) works well for this. Yes,

Re: Audio connection problem

2008-03-13 Thread Larry Battraw
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very familiar with the ground loop problem, and this is not related to that. Ground loop problems are a result of noise created by other devices, whereas this noise is created by the Nokia itself. It's also a completely

libgpsbt and libgpsmgr debs/OS2008 2007.51-3

2008-03-12 Thread Larry Battraw
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Re: N800 user unhappy with OS2008 upgrade -- are there others?

2008-02-28 Thread Larry Battraw
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Norman Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally upgraded my N800 to OS2008 about a month ago. I've gotten used to the new look and feel, about which I'm mostly neutral, but otherwise it has been nothing like what I was promised: 1. The RSS reader is no

Microb-based browser settings come from? (OS2008-latest N800)

2007-12-24 Thread Larry Battraw
I'm having a unusual problem where proxy settings from another defined connection have permanently contaminated the settings written into the prefs.js for the browser. No matter what settings I choose for my current connection it always writes in the proxy settings from a former connection (I

Re: starting up.

2007-12-19 Thread Larry Battraw
On Dec 19, 2007 8:55 AM, [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 write a few minor applications for it. I've been programming since the 60's,

Re: Proxy settings

2007-12-01 Thread Larry Battraw
You need to go to the Control Panel/Connectivity and select the Connection button, edit it and click Advanced on the last screen to locate the proxy settings for the built-in applications like the browser. Larry On Dec 1, 2007 8:58 AM, Sascha Feldhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using a

Re: How is the N800 antenna implemented?

2007-07-30 Thread Larry Battraw
On 7/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know how the antenna in the N800 headphones is implemented? Are they using the ground conductor as the antenna, are they using the two headphone lines as a dipole antenna, or what? Using the ground connector wouldn't really

Re: RTCom - SIP Service

2007-07-20 Thread Larry Battraw
On 7/20/07, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ext Larry Battraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As an aside, has anyone had their Application manager break after trying to to install RTCom? I managed to get RTCom installed manually via apt-get/dpkg but now whenever I run the Application

Re: RTCom - SIP Service

2007-07-19 Thread Larry Battraw
As an aside, has anyone had their Application manager break after trying to to install RTCom? I managed to get RTCom installed manually via apt-get/dpkg but now whenever I run the Application manager the window will appear almost instantly, titled Application manager, and sit forever. It can

Re: Status of SyncEvolution and PIM applications

2007-07-09 Thread Larry Battraw
On 7/9/07, Lars Persson Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, Thanks very much for all your answers. I'll try to summarize them here to see if I got it all: 1. What are the different PIM solutions available? GPE, Pimlico, Winzig and Opened-hand. 2. What synchronization possibilities

Re: Database Need

2007-07-01 Thread Larry Battraw
Totally agree. On the Zaurus you had Java and it made it easier to bring over some really great programs like HSQLDB and several others I can't recall off-hand. Some of the better ones were amazing and allowed connections to real DBs like PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc. They also allowed for form

Re: My two applications for the N800

2007-06-10 Thread Larry Battraw
On 6/7/07, David Hautbois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I developed two python applications for the N800 (snip) 2 - Erminig A python application to sync GPE Calendar and Google Calendar. Features : Two ways sync recurrent events an exceptions supported add/modify/delete events Be careful

Re: happy birthday maemo!

2007-05-25 Thread Larry Battraw
On 5/25/07, Ferenc Szekely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, We launched maemo exactly two years ago. Happy birthday! Cheers, ferenc And what better way to celebrate a birthday than with a few presents? New firmware, bluetooth headset support, USB host support; I'm sure there are quite a

Re: SDHC 8G support

2007-04-08 Thread Larry Battraw
On 4/8/07, Phillip N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El dom, 25-03-2007 a las 17:40 +0100, Neil MacLeod escribió: http://intr.overt.org/blog/ Hi maemos!.. Finally got my n800 up and running.. wohoo!! i flashed the kernel of OS2007, with this image:

Re: kind of off-topic, but not completely: some questions about the N800

2007-04-02 Thread Larry Battraw
On 4/2/07, andrei raevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, I have just acquired the N800 and I love it. I do have a number of questions about it which are not really maemo-related, but since this list is one of well-informed N770/N800 users I thought I might at well ask here. First

Re: Javascript inconsistencies in Opera after firmware

2007-03-26 Thread Larry Battraw
On 3/26/07, Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:44:14AM -0600, Tim wrote: Arg. I found it. :-/ (It must have been really late when I check ed the last time!) But, it is enabled and I'm still having the issues (and, as I said, I wasn't before the firmware

Re: python on v3

2007-03-24 Thread Larry Battraw
On 3/24/07, Jonathan Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to install python runtime (2.5) on my n800 which makes it impossible to get gpodder going. Anyone else have any luck? I had no problems (I did it from the command line), although I discovered gpodder ignores the download path

Re: python on v3

2007-03-24 Thread Larry Battraw
user #maemo:name Dates deb http://maemo.o-hand.com/packages bora/ #maemo:name Minimo deb http://home.ufam.edu.br/~agan/minimo/ bora user On 3/24/07, Jonathan Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the command? I'll give that a whirl... Thanks, JG On 3/24/07, Larry Battraw [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ANN] Simple Launcher -- Home applet to launch your apps

2007-03-23 Thread Larry Battraw
On 3/23/07, Mikhail Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Yesterday I made the first public release of simple-launcher. It's a home applet that shows icons of often used applications: you click and the application starts :) [Some] known limitations (that's why it's 0.9 :)): * there's no

Re: Does a full size (desktop) Bluetooth keyboard work with N800?

2007-03-19 Thread Larry Battraw
On 3/19/07, Tom Karches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried using a full size keyboard with the N800? Like this Dell one (I don't care about the mouse...) : http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=usl=ens=bsdcs=04sku=310-8142 --tom As long as it's a ordinary BT

Re: First release of maemo port of Claws Mail

2007-03-17 Thread Larry Battraw
Has anyone had luck using POP3 for gmail with this client? I always get a connection error. Larry On 3/16/07, Jean-Luc Biord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Claws Mail, (formerly known as Sylpheed-Claws), is a GTK+-based e-mail client and news client for Linux, forked from Sylpheed in April

Re: N800 and USB host mode

2007-03-06 Thread Larry Battraw
On 3/5/07, Michael Wiktowy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/5/07, Larry Battraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that better support may be forthcoming, but that would be part of a new kernel or a back-port of the fixes. The Nokia folks seem to be strangely silent on the whole USB host

Re: Bluetooth mouse.

2007-03-06 Thread Larry Battraw
On 3/5/07, Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try -mouse ps2,/dev/input/mice. Of course, you still won't get a cursor. (OS2007 can find a mouse just fine, in theory, if you tell it to. OS2006 can't.) Cheers, Daniel Thanks for the tip. I've compiled xsetroot so I just use the

Re: N800 and USB host mode

2007-03-06 Thread Larry Battraw
particular project, whether they're Nokia or not, current status, etc. Searching the dev list for roadmap will get you the details. Larry On 3/6/07, Michael Wiktowy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/6/07, Larry Battraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was never a removal of the functionality since

Re: N800 and USB host mode

2007-03-05 Thread Larry Battraw
On 3/5/07, Paul Klapperich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/5/07, Jeff G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just run flasher to see its options and your question is answered ;-) i think it was --enable-usb-host or something like that Can you do that (turn on USB-Host mode) without re-flashing the

Re: [maemo-users] suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-12 Thread Larry Battraw
On 2/12/07, Paul Klapperich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Handspring Visors used to have scrollwheels way back before Palm bought them back up. That was at or before Blackberrys were gaining traction. Handera Palm OS products had them, too, I think. --Paul I believe you're thinking of the Sony

Re: [maemo-users] Re: Two power management settings

2007-02-12 Thread Larry Battraw
On 2/12/07, Neil MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry Battraw wrote: Any battery/cell [1] can be overcharged, particularly Lithiums as they cannot tolerate overcharge without potentially dire consequences. I thought Lithium cells came with protection circuits to prevent over charging

Re: [maemo-users] Re: Two power management settings

2007-02-11 Thread Larry Battraw
On 2/11/07, Neil MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil MacLeod wrote: I also don't think it's possible to overcharge Li-Ion batteries these days (unless they're made by Sony). :) Oops, the BP-5L battery in the N800/770 is a Lithium Polymer design - I'm fairly confident these also can't be

Re: [maemo-users] N800 doesn't charge that well

2007-02-10 Thread Larry Battraw
On 2/9/07, Kahlil Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a N770 and an N800, I have had issues where I leave the N800 charging with the N770 cable and it doesnt charge at all. It doesnt loose power but it doesnt increase it either. When I plug it in, I am able to see the charging icon but when

Re: [maemo-users] Two power management settings (was: FM Radio - suggestions)

2007-02-10 Thread Larry Battraw
On 2/10/07, Neil MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Smirl wrote: Is the N800 smart enough to know when it is on AC and not blank the display? The N770 didn't appear to have this feature. The clock could be set as a screen saver when on AC power. I think it's a mistake that there is only

Re: [maemo-users] RSS News Reader application only shows a few articles

2007-02-03 Thread Larry Battraw
On 2/2/07, Paul Klapperich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that if you open a feed that all of the items are marked as read unless you tick the save for later, even if you don't scroll the whole thing. On the next refresh, all read items are not displayed. Very annoying design choice.

Re: [maemo-users] Re: Charge from a USB port.

2007-02-01 Thread Larry Battraw
On 2/1/07, Simon Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No we just chopped the end off the nokia charger and soldered to a USB lead. I was unable to source the correct size power plug from Maplin or anywhere else it is smaller than the smallest hence the chopping off. Regards Simon Does this

Re: [maemo-users] Re: N800: virtual memory

2007-01-30 Thread Larry Battraw
Sorry, my mistake. It's actually xD (and SmartMedia), not microSD. Larry On 1/29/07, Gopi Flaherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 29, 2007, at 8:54 PM, Larry Battraw wrote: spares. The only cards I know of that don't are microSD (TransFlash), and SmartMedia. In those cases software

Re: [maemo-users] SDHC - 4BG?

2007-01-29 Thread Larry Battraw
On 1/29/07, Jonathan Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have to do anything special for the 4GB cards to work? There's a radioshack within striking distance and they have Sandisk cards in stock... :) I might suggest visiting newegg.com before making any decisions. Last I checked they

Re: [maemo-users] Re: N800: virtual memory

2007-01-29 Thread Larry Battraw
On 1/29/07, Danny Milosavljevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:06:42 -0500, Larry Battraw wrote: From my limited experience, VM helps when you're opening several applications/windows, particularly web pages. Without out it things may start disappearing when you run low

Re: [maemo-users] JAVA for the 770

2007-01-26 Thread Larry Battraw
On 1/26/07, sebastian maemo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Wahlau: (snip) So you run your pre-installed browser (that is an Opera version), and go to the maps.google.com webpage. You don't need to install anything. If you wait a few seconds for the webpage to download, you'll see the typical

Re: brightness Re: [maemo-users] Re: Storage/Sleep Issues..

2007-01-25 Thread Larry Battraw
On 1/25/07, Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/25/07, Igor Stoppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here we are really talking of being able to charge the battery outside its safety ranges. Given the right knowlege it is possible cause do phisical damage to the device and the user. No,

Re: [maemo-users] gcc compiler suite, linker, and make for ARM on ITOS2006

2007-01-23 Thread Larry Battraw
On 1/23/07, Paule Ecimovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Larry Thanks for this link to the Maemo 2.1 SDK. This is full of useful programming examples, although I am looking for gcc to run from the Nokia 770 itself from within an osso-xterm in order to be able to compile, link, and run

Re: [maemo-users] Anyone tested bluetooth Frogpad yet?

2007-01-22 Thread Larry Battraw
On 1/17/07, Andrew Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone tested bluetooth Frogpad yet? I am a right-hander that picked up a left-hand frogpad for the purpose of being able to use a mouse, or pen in my right hand while using the frogpad in

Re: [maemo-users] Storage/Sleep Issues..

2007-01-20 Thread Larry Battraw
On 1/19/07, John P. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, How does one sleep the N800 or is it required? I have been just stuffing it in the sleeve, but sometimes it comes back out lit up. I wonder if I am using battery that I could save. Try hitting the power button and selecting

Re: [maemo-users] Bluetooth keyboard

2006-10-12 Thread Larry Battraw
On 10/12/06, Willie McKemie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response! First off, you'll need to pair it with the 770. My MS keyboard has a small, recessed button that initiates pairing. It won't be visible Is that the key in the upper right, labeled Sleep? That one gives me no

Re: [maemo-users] USB Flash Drive

2006-09-15 Thread Larry Battraw
What you're seeing is symptomatic of having switched the 770 to host mode via the echo host /sys/devices/platform/tahvo-usb/otg_mode method. I have never gotten my 770 to work as a host this way, and it's sad that this is actually given as an alternative to using the flasher program because it

Re: [maemo-developers] RE: [maemo-users] Future features for Maemo Desktop (Task Navigator, Home, Status bar)?

2006-08-18 Thread Larry Battraw
and is an afterthought. Things like the ability to set the key repeat rate and a icon indicating a keyboard is detected on the status bus, etc. Finally, it would be great to have a context menu for application icons (that are running) on the taskbar to minimize, restore, go full-screen, and close. Thanks, Larry

Re: [maemo-users] Check battery level

2006-08-18 Thread Larry Battraw
Somebody knows how to do it but a message or attachment is missing: [maemo-users] Check battery level carles.bruguera carles.bruguera at guifi.net Thu Aug 10 21:09:56 EEST 2006 * Previous message: [maemo-users] Upgrade to OS 2006 Edition with a Linux Host * Next message: [maemo-users]

Re: [maemo-users] Re: [maemo-developers] Future features for Maemo Desktop (Task Navigator, Home, Status bar)?

2006-08-18 Thread Larry Battraw
On 8/18/06, Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 08:15:12PM +0300, Igor Stoppa wrote: Done already, check the power management and drivers code. Next? Cool! By the way, I remember hearing somewhere that in OS2005 if you had the audio player open and paused, the

Re: Fwd: [maemo-users] Problems with audio-playback since IT2006 update

2006-08-15 Thread Larry Battraw
I notice the skips tend to be right after launching the player and starting playback of a large playlist. They coincide with the reading of all files in the playlist for length which maxes out the CPU until all the files are read. Ditto on the bizarre attempts to connect to the network when a

Re: [maemo-users] gnumeric for ITOS2006 huge size

2006-08-08 Thread Larry Battraw
Well, it is a first release and by nature isn't optimized. I'm sure it will slim down a bit given time. FYI the actual resident size on the 770 is about 12M, not 30 as the installer indicates. Larry On 8/8/06, Armin M. Warda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, gnumeric for ITOS2006 requires -

Re: [maemo-users] 2G mmc with 2006

2006-06-30 Thread Larry Battraw
A patch for the problem has already been created. I would be a little surprised if the patch wasn't included in the final IT2006 release kernel. The beta release definitely did not have the patch so it was necessary to download and flash the updated kernel image. Larry On 6/30/06, George Farris

Re: [maemo-users] 2006beta: invisible emails

2006-06-28 Thread Larry Battraw
Is there a location that the patched kernel image can be downloaded from? I've noticed frequent reboots when accessing heavy web pages (Specifically gizmodo.com) and would like to see if it helps. LarryOn 6/28/06, Kimmo Hämäläinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 10:02, ext Laurent

Re: [maemo-users] usb-storage.ko for the Nokia

2006-04-11 Thread Larry Battraw
On 4/11/06, Bob Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would echo David's original question, is there any reason why the OTG mode could not be used to switch from master to slave mode, driven from a command or voltage sensing on the 770. After all as has been noted elsewhere the 770 needs 5volts