Re: 3G dongle connected to N900?

Jan Knutar wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2010, Bernard Tyers wrote: Is it possible to connect a 3G dongle, via USB cable and running the USB host software on the N900, providing you with cellular data access? N900 does not have USB Host Mode, so no. You're kidding? Did they not learn from t

Re: latest OS2008 and alarm

Levend Sayar wrote: Hi, everybody. I just joined this list. I have a N800. I recently upgraded its OS. I am using the latest release right now. But I have a problem. When I set a alarm with clock application, it does NOT work if the N800 is powered off. It only alarms when it is powered on. I

Re: N800 Web browser quit working

I've had this a few times but a reboot always fixed it, so I assumed it was a memory leakage problem, possibly from some other app. ///Peter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: WiFi usage issues.

James Knott wrote: Peter Flynn wrote: have the same issues with some wifi connections, but not all. I use IMAP/SSL and SMTP for my email on all devices, and a few locations appear to have those ports blocked (pubs, cafes, etc). When asked, they all claim not to, but I suspect either they

Re: WiFi usage issues.

Bernard Tyers wrote: My issue has been that when using WiFi interface, some web services do not seem to work, namely SMTP/IMAP/app-manager. When I use 3G/2G all services work as expected. I have the same issues with some wifi connections, but not all. I use IMAP/SSL and SMTP for my email on al

Re: Forced Upgrade to N900 from N810

Peter Flynn wrote: How have others migrated their calendar data to elsewhere? Sorry for the false alarm: a little more digging revealed: http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11459&highlight=gpe+backup I hadn't realised the commandline option was available on

Re: Forced Upgrade to N900 from N810

Graham Cobb wrote: Peter Flynn wrote: Presumably as it's an SQLite file, there must be a GUI or CL interface to let me open the database and delete from where date<20081231 or something. Do you have pointers to something suitable? n900's come with the sqlite3 commandline progr

Re: Firefox on n810

Gary wrote: yeah, just updated from RC1 with the app manager. it takes a moment to initialize but not much longer than microB. It must be huge, though. I'm installing Mer now, too. all the fuss about the iPad reminded me to dust off my Nokia tablet & hug an open platform. ;) Is Mer really f

Re: iPad

Brad Midgley wrote: Mark The Apple iPad: Yawn... a huge iPod Touch/iPhone that can't possibly fit in anyone's pocket. Really? It should set a decent baseline for a good looking tablet with nice battery life. I'm just going to wait for the Notion Ink device which is supposed to be out in J

[Fwd: Re: Forced Upgrade to N900 from N810]

Graham Cobb wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 14:22:46 Dieter Plaetinck wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:18:28 + Peter Flynn wrote: Presumably as it's an SQLite file, there must be a GUI or CL interface to let me open the database and delete from where date<20081231 or something

Re: Forced Upgrade to N900 from N810

Graham Cobb wrote: [...] > I certainly intend to issue new versions with accumulated bugfixes (I have > fixed some common bugs while doing the N900 port). And I intend to continue > supporting the chinook/diablo version for some time to come. But that > probably only means fixing major bugs. >

Re: Forced Upgrade to N900 from N810

Graham Cobb wrote: On Thursday 14 January 2010 16:01:47 Peter Bart wrote: Where might I find GPE? Peter, The GPE apps for Fremantle are in "extras-testing", meaning that they are effectively in "Beta" status. I have found and fixed a number of problems and new versions will be created soon

Re: possible bug in N900 Maemo 5 desktop ??

Mark wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Aldon Hynes wrote: I'm with Timo on this. If you don't like the N900, there is a better site to be posting on. It is called eBay. When you post your N900 there, let us know, some of us might respond more favorably there. Aldon I wasn't stupid en

Re: possible bug in N900 Maemo 5 desktop ??

Timo Pelkonen wrote: Is there a way to ignore people within maemo mailing lists? procmail is your friend... *plonk* ///Peter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: NOKIA N900 to cable ethernetþ

Alessio Stella wrote: > Dear all, >thank you for the very useful replies. I don't know how to post > indented as an answer to your messages.. Change your webmail settings for Reply to "Indent with >" or (better) use a real email client. ///Peter _

Re: NOKIA N900 to cable ethernet

Alessio Stella wrote: > Dear all, >how can I connect a NOKIA N900 to ethernet cables LANs, for instance > when I am in a hotel that provides ethernet cables connection but not > wireless?? > > Is there an adaptor? Or some sort of small router to use in the middle? I use my WiFlyer (http://w

Re: cannot download LCARS themes

Mark wrote: [...] > That particular issue probably just wasn't on their radar. I don't > think the dark themes were even available when they were working on > their apps. Plus, they had bigger fish to fry - GPE are supposedly > working on better import/export, which is a much more important issue

Re: cannot download LCARS themes

Mark wrote: [...] > Actually, it wasn't LCARS that was broken, it was GPE that disregarded > some of the system colors. Thank you for the correction. I tried for nearly a year to get any kind of response from either author, but got nothing, so I assumed neither of them was interested in making

Re: cannot download LCARS themes

Timo Pelkonen wrote: > > > 2009/12/24 Kevin Kempter > > > Hi All; > > I just got a new N900 - it rocks. However I cannot download any of > the lcars > theme's. > > On my N900, I browse to maemo.org then select > Down

Re: N900 features

Mark Haury wrote: > Peter Flynn wrote: >> Mark Haury wrote: >> [...] >> >>> Abiword doesn't work for me. I can't get it to open anything other than >>> its native proprietary format. I've tried the maemo version, the linux >>

Re: N900 features

Laura Conrad wrote: >>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Flynn writes: > > Peter> I've never quite understood why, given that only 10 years > Peter> ago, my main system was a 64Mb desktop running Red Hat 3 or > Peter> something, and WordPerf

Re: N900 features

Mark Haury wrote: > OpenOffice.org is available for the N8x0 through Easy Debian, but I > don't know if it will work with the N900 yet. I'm amazed that it even executes. It must be 10x the size of AbiWord. Is it actually usable? My experience of large programs on the N800 is that they take fore

Re: N900 features

Mark Haury wrote: [...] > Abiword doesn't work for me. I can't get it to open anything other than > its native proprietary format. I've tried the maemo version, the linux > version and the Windows version, all with the same results. You mean on the N900? Or anywhere at all? I've been using it un

Re: N900 features

sebastian maemo wrote: > Hi everybody: > > One of my clients has recently asked me about the possibility to get a > portable computer like my N770... :-) > > I've talked him about the N900, and despite the price of the unlocked > device, he has asked me to check whether its features would satis

Re: N900 $510

Mark wrote: > N900 $510 > http://www.buy.com/prod/nokia-n900-unlocked-maemo-internet-tablet-3g-phone-panoramic-desktop/q/loc/12435/212003401.html?adid=17582 If that's true then it might put me back in the market. But it would have to do *everything* my N800 does, without error. The fact that it's

Re: N900 $510

Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Am 09.12.09 23:19, schrieb Mark: >> You can complain about reality all you want, but that's not going to >> change it. The reality is that NO ONE is paying $900 for an unlocked >> iPhone, and the unlocked price for an iPhone is far, far below what it >> will be for an N900

Re: Survey: what characters matter in a mobile keyboard?

dne...@maemo.org wrote: > The question is about keyboards in mobile devices. What characters to > put, what characters to sacrifice? You know it's a hot topic and > maybe yourself have thought sometimes: why do they put X which I > don't used, while Y is missing? In effect, this is also equivalent

Re: OS Stability

Mark Haury wrote: [...] > Every Linux handheld device that I've been interested > in and followed has *required* periodic re-flashes of the OS, either to > fix growing instability or to flash a new image that increases stability > and/or hardware or software functionality. This was true for my

Re: nice N900 cases from Piel Frama

Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente wrote: > I've used several cases from them in the past, and they are really > really good ;) > > 2009/12/1 Eric Cooper : >> I've been a very satisfied customer of theirs, so I asked about N900 >> cases and just received a message back that they have now introduced

Decision-making processes (was: Re: bluetooth keyboards and N900

igor.sto...@nokia.com wrote: >> Yeah, I guess you don't consider market statistics that Nokia is >> continually losing share to be "facts", because they don't fit with >> your fanboy views. > > In case you had not realized it yet (hint: read my email address) i'm > not a fanboy, i'm just an employ

Re: bluetooth keyboards and N900

Timo Pelkonen wrote: > Then let the markets decide it instead of your speculation, markets are > always right unlike persons. And the Tooth Fairy will still visit you. Markets are easily swayed and perverted. People -- especially experts with good judgment -- are right much more often than ma

Re: bluetooth keyboards and N900

Valerio Valerio wrote: > The problem is that the generic pc-105 layout was removed from Maemo5, I would have thought the solution is for it to be put back again. Removing pc-105 is a bit like saying "we don't support ASCII any more". ///Peter ___ ma

Re: Printing (N800)

Peter Flynn wrote: > I did some more tests, both with plaintext files and PDFs, and all of > them print in microscopically small type Duh. For some unfathomable reason, the config on the desktop (the print host) was set to "Print 9 pages per sheet". I've never

Re: Printing (N800)

Attila Csipa wrote: > On Monday 23 November 2009 01:13:02 Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: >> I think we can do it in the community. >> Prepare needed packages to install on the device (cups) and even port >> some nice Setup UI to Maemo. >> I can easily re-add printing support to Xournal, not a problem at

Printing (N800)

I've been using CUPS to print from my N800, and it seems to work now (an earlier version was shipped with a fatally-broken pstotext utility), even finding locally-published printers. But it's restricted to printing from the command line (eg lpr foo.pdf), and then only sometimes -- at other time

Re: best way to get a n900 in Belgium?

Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:54:58 +0200 > Xavier Bestel wrote: > >> Anyway, I'm pretty interested in buying one sooner than later too (if >> possible avoiding the ridiculous +50€ we have to pay in France >> compared to the rest of Europe). Anyone knows about the availability

Re: Emacs iconless

Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: > On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 18:25 +0200, ext Peter Flynn wrote: >> Peter Flynn wrote: >>> I successfully installed Emacs-x and it's been running well. But when it >>> loads, no icon appears in the sidebar of the screen, so if I run another

Re: best way to get a n900 in Belgium?

Laurent Léonard wrote: > I'm also interested in that piece of information. I contacted the 2 official > Nokia resellers in Brussels, but I got an answer only from one and he has no > information at all about the N900, its price or availability in Belgium. I asked three Nokia stores in Ireland (a

Re: Emacs iconless

Peter Flynn wrote: > I successfully installed Emacs-x and it's been running well. But when it > loads, no icon appears in the sidebar of the screen, so if I run another > application while Emacs is running, I can never get back to Emacs > afterwards. Is there something needs a

Emacs iconless

I successfully installed Emacs-x and it's been running well. But when it loads, no icon appears in the sidebar of the screen, so if I run another application while Emacs is running, I can never get back to Emacs afterwards. Is there something needs adding to the menu entry to specify an ico

Re: USB ethernet

>> What I have done is used an ASUS WL-330GE Wireless Access Point. I have a WiFlier AP which I forgot to bring, duuh; but it wouldn't be any use, as connecting such devices to the campus network is prohibited and would result in disconnection. ///Peter

USB ethernet

I am away at a conference and the dorm room only has a wired connection. Is there such a thing as a mini-USB-to-RJ45 box or cable, and will the N800/OS2008 recognize/support such a connection? ///Peter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.or

Proxies

In the network applet for N800/OS800, in Connections, you can specify in the Advanced section what your proxies are. This is fine for the protocols provided for (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and RTSP) but I can't see how to tell it to use the same IP address for *all* protocols. In particular, it would be

Twitter

I've been using Mauku for a while and it works well, but it has no Follow or Follower controls, and Search function, so you can't follow a #topic. Does anyone know a Twitter app for N800/OS800 that has these features? ///Peter ___ maemo-users mailing

Re: Some buttons not working properly on N800

sean wrote: > I do not recall ever having any problems unlocking my N800. > As long as I press the correct button. I have an N800 running the same, and it seems to lock and unlock OK (first time I'd tried it...I have the CarryMobile case, so I've never needed to lock and unlock, I just close the

Re: Asking for developers and user support for a N900 application

Andrea Grandi wrote: > Hi, > > 2009/9/6 Peter Flynn : >> SIMs for pre-pay (pay-as-you-go) services here cost about €5 (similar in >> the UK), so if you have that level of funding you can probably get them >> to test. > > usually it's very difficoult to buy

Re: Asking for developers and user support for a N900 application

Mark wrote: > I think the codes you are referring to are only available from a > phone. Even if the N900 has full phone features, there are still > likely to be different formats for each carrier as well as the codes > and the information would have to be parsed from text messages, so it > probably

Re: GPE-Contacts and .vcf

- Original message - > On Monday 31 August 2009 20:38:23 sean wrote: > > Would an updated version of Calendar be in the works that supports an > > alarm powering on the N800 and perhaps flashing the led? (...) > This is one of the most often requested enhancements to GPE Calendar but there

Re: Re:Java

- Original message - > > Am Sonntag, den 30.08.2009, 17:20 -0600 schrieb Mark: > > On 8/30/09, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > > No, you´re wrong. It´s a platform AND a language. > > > > Actually the truth is somewhere in between. > > Sigh, obviously you know better than Sun. They made it clea

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

[David] > Maybe holding the unjustified vitriol until you read the reply that came *3 > minutes* after the post? (and well over an hour before you posted). My apologies for the crossed wires: I'm away from base so my access is sporadic, and messages don't always arrive as promptly as one might wi

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

[Sebastian] > for me the big question is... Will I be > able to install an XTERM application?... > Will I be able to install a GNU shell, > like BASH?... and even more important > than that... Will I be able to login as > ROOT? These too are deal-breakers. No shell means no go, period. No Emac

Re: N800 etc.

[Java not only a language but a platform] > > Thats part of Suns stupid marketing strategy. Its a language and a > platform. C++ is a language. QT is a platform. Oh hell, according to > the marketing Java is an OS as well. It's a language. There are platforms and OS-like applications built with it

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

Mark wrote: [...] > As with anything, it depends on the app. Sure, small, light apps > designed for cellphones will run on anything. But "real" Java apps are > quite different. I can assure you that the Java apps that run > sluggishly on my current desktop workstation will not even begin to > run o

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: > One thing concerns me based upon earlier reviews - it appears that the size > of the screen will be smaller. That may not be a big issue as it appears > from the pictures that Nokia is utilizing the space better than the 810. > Only time will tell. It also looks like th

Re: Claws-mail problems deleting messages

Peter Flynn wrote: > Does anyone use Claws-mail on an N800/OS2008? [...] > How do you actually get rid of a message? Permanently. The documentation says: > When the 'Execute immediately when moving or deleting messages' > option is used, operations performed on messag

Claws-mail problems deleting messages

Does anyone use Claws-mail on an N800/OS2008? I have been using it to get mail from several accounts with IMAP4 while travelling, and it has been excellent until the last update some months ago. Since then, I can't find out how to delete a message: the behaviour has changed completely. If I tap

Re: Full screen non-Hildon X applications possible?

Tim Teulings wrote: > Hello! > >> Did you find out how to do this? Googling returns nothing except this >> thread, a lot of repo listings, and some pages in japanese... > > Hildon/the window manager follows the freedesktop WM spec. > > See: > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/1.4/ar01

Re: Full screen non-Hildon X applications possible?

Eric S Fraga wrote: > At Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:53:36 +0200, > Damien Challet wrote: >> It is possible to have any (windowed) application with xbindkeys and wmctrl >> in >> full screen, >> >> google >> >> wmctrl maemo xbindkeys >> >> it works very well for emacs, nxclient, etc. >> >> > > Excellen

Re: Emacs and libxaw7

David Greaves wrote: > Peter Flynn wrote: >> The next Emacs stage is to get the X version running on my N800 under >> OS2008. From other posts (eg in "Full screen non-Hildon X applications >> possible?"), some people have obviously managed this, but there is

Re: Emacs and libxaw7

The next Emacs stage is to get the X version running on my N800 under OS2008. From other posts (eg in "Full screen non-Hildon X applications possible?"), some people have obviously managed this, but there is an apparently undocumented dependency, libxaw7, which I cannot find in any repository.

Re: omweather failure

Alejandro López wrote: > Peter Flynn escribió: >> Has weather.com changed their format again? >> omweather is not updating since Saturday. > > No problem here. Using version 0.22.6. Same here. But it started working again this morning. Very weird. First this, then one of my

Re: omweather failure

Has weather.com changed their format again? omweather is not updating since Saturday. ///Peter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Emacs

Eero Tamminen wrote: > ext Peter Flynn wrote: [..] >>> Why should it have a problem with ownership when I'm installing as root? > VFAT is lacking many features of real file system. VFAT is used > on MMC/SD cards by default for PC i.e. Windows/OSX/etc compatibility > rea

Re: ncurses

Eero Tamminen wrote: > Hi, > > ext Peter Flynn wrote: >> I've been rearranging my SD cards and I wanted to install Emacs_22.1-1 >> (this is for OS-2008) to replace the older version. >> >> It's looking for ncurses-base and libxaw7 but I can't fi

Re: omweather failure

Kevin T. Neely wrote: > Guess it just wasn't there a couple days back when I checked. Hooray > for those omweather guys, they're usually only a few days behind > weather.com's incessantly changing of format/syntax. Yes, they do an excellent job. But weather.com have screwed up something: all m

omweather failure

Suddely, omweather on my N800 has started popping up messages saying the location cannot be found or the zip code is wrong. It's been working just fine for weeks since the last upgrade, and I have it configured for about 15 locations that I commonly visit, including a couple that I added to the

Reading PDFs

One of the problems with PDFs that are designed for printing is that the margins and the orientation are understandably suboptimal for reading on an 800x480 screen on a handheld device. While sorting out some material for a long flight and trip next month, I realised that by trimming the margin

Re: replacement battery for N810

Kevin T. Neely wrote: > Nokia uses the same charger for all its batteries, so I'm sure that > wouldn't be a problem. But you can get several differently-rated Nokia chargers with the same micro-plug (like the N800) intended for other devices like phones. So they'll fit, but the weaker (phone) o

Re: Rumor mill: Maemo 5 device

Mark wrote: > However, $750 and and/or a smaller screen would be showstoppers for > me. That price would be a showstopper for anyone, even if included GPS and an accelerometer. That's well over three times the going rate for a pocket device. > Also, at this point regular cellular voice would b

Re: Emacs

Peter Flynn wrote: > Having fixed the ncurses-base dependency, I tried to install with > >> # mkdir /media/mmc1/emacs >> # dpkg --instdir=/media/mmc1/emacs -i emacs_22.1-1_armel.deb >> (Reading database ... 18457 files and directories currently installed.) >> Un

Emacs

Having fixed the ncurses-base dependency, I tried to install with > # mkdir /media/mmc1/emacs > # dpkg --instdir=/media/mmc1/emacs -i emacs_22.1-1_armel.deb > (Reading database ... 18457 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking emacs (from emacs_22.1-1_armel.deb) ... > dpkg: error p

Re: ncurses

Peter Flynn wrote: > I've been rearranging my SD cards and I wanted to install Emacs_22.1-1 > (this is for OS-2008) to replace the older version. > > It's looking for ncurses-base and libxaw7 but I can't find any that > install. I have the maemo-Extras repo insta

Re: omweather weirdness

Karl Kobel wrote: > Peter, > > Sorry if I wasn't totally clear. I just abbreviated the entire path. > Unless you want the 'bleeding' edge development builds, you shouldn't > have any repositories ending in devel. > > A new version was posted to the 'normal' repository, superseding the > develo

ncurses

I've been rearranging my SD cards and I wanted to install Emacs_22.1-1 (this is for OS-2008) to replace the older version. It's looking for ncurses-base and libxaw7 but I can't find any that install. I have the maemo-Extras repo installed, and I can see ncurses-base in there, but it doesn't app

Re: GPE and Pimlico

lakestevensdental wrote: > I haven't heard of or tried Pimlico, have heard of and use GPE, I too had never heard of Pimlico (apart from the London suburb of the same name, and the old Ealing comedy "Passport to Pimlico" :-) but it doesn't appear in my Apps list, so presumably there is a repo to

Re: omweather weirdness

Peter Flynn wrote: > Karl Kobel wrote: >> Tim & Peter, >> >> I also had this 'problem'. >> >> Check your App-Manager repositories. Make sure the ...Devel repositories >> are disabled. There is a 'test only' version in there. >&g

Re: omweather weirdness

Karl Kobel wrote: > Tim & Peter, > > I also had this 'problem'. > > Check your App-Manager repositories. Make sure the ...Devel repositories > are disabled. There is a 'test only' version in there. > > Un-install, disable the Devel repository, and reinstall. I don't seem to have Devel. Extras-

Multi-select

Just out of curiosity, is there a way to multi-select from a list (eg the App Mgr Installable Apps list) using the screen and stylus, or do I have to attach my keyboard? ///Peter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.or

omweather weirdness

I've had omweather on-screen ever since I got my N800 and it's been great. There was an update to the stations database the other day, and suddenly omweather has vanished from the screen, and it's no longer in the applet setup menu. So I uninstalled it (and the stations database) and reinstalle

Re: Default Contact Application

Luca Olivetti wrote: > En/na Mark ha escrit: > >> I wasn't very clear: what I meant to say was that IIRC the built-in >> apps can't be defeated as the defaults for their particular actions, >> but there may be hope for some types of files that aren't already >> associated with the as-shipped apps.

Re: N810 for $180

Mark Haury wrote: > I'm using GPE myself, but I've spent 6 months trying to fix the botched > data import. There's just no way to reliably import data or specify > corresponding data fields. Yes; the apps seem to have been designed by someone who has heard PIM apps described, but has never seen

Re: Default Contact Application

sean wrote: > Is there a way to change the default Contact application from the built > in one to something else, in this case I am trying out GPE Contacts? I don't think it's possible, but I have a dim recollection of someone posting a long time ago to say it *was* possible, just difficult. >

Re: N810 for $180

Mark wrote: >> What's the replacement for the N810? > There is none. From the details they've given thus far, the next > generation of Maemo devices are going to be completely different than > the current tablets, with incompatible hardware therefore > software/OS. I don't care if they are diff

Re: N810 for $180

> Lake Stevens Dental wrote: >> FYI, Buy.com has the n810 for $180. >> >> Which is another way of saying, the end of the n810 series is near... >> It's still a great little unit, as is the n800. What's the replacement for the N810? My N800 is still going fine, but if I was in the market for

Re: Starter Tips

sean wrote: > Hello All, > > I just purchased a used N800, and it arrived a little earlier today. > Just looking for any real user tips as to get the most out of the device? > > I hope that it can replace my aging palm as best as possible, but I have > read of the lack of built in PIM, GPE

Abiword

My updater icon flashed yesterday and it turned out to be Abiword. Amazing. The new version fixes the scrolling bug on the N800, and adds a sheaf of new file formats supports, including .docx Serious congratulations to them all. ///Peter ___ maemo-use

Re: pdf reading?

Laura Conrad wrote: > Peter> What missing on mine is being able to rotate the display 90 > Peter> degrees so that you can read a page in portrait > Peter> orientation. I *hate* having to flip up and down to see the > Peter> missing half of a page. > > Can't you do that at the OS le

Re: pdf reading?

Laura Conrad wrote: > Marius> If you're reading in full-screen mode, you can also press > Marius> the area on the middle of the right side of the screen. > Marius> There are translucent buttons that show up when you display > Marius> a new page and then fade out, to give you a hint

Re: Where is telnet?

Alberto Garcia wrote: > 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 b

Re: skype2 ?

Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > Question might be somewhat naive, but does anybody know if there is any > chance of skype2 making it to N8x0 devices? It sure would be nice to be > able to utilize built-in camera... It certainly would...it's always puzzled me that Nokia built it in, but it's basically

GPE Calendar and LCARS Theme

I'd like a little advice about this before filing a bug report. If you run GPE Calendar and you use the LCARS Theme (any of them), the calendar entries come out in pale yellow on a white background, which means they're unreadable. OK, so LCARS does some fairly deep surgery on theming, but I hav

Installing packages onto /media/...

I have a nicely-running N800, but the apps I use are taking up most of the internal space. I want to add a couple of big ones (TeX is one) and I have plenty of space on SD cards. Is there a command for package installation that says, in effect, "install this all in /media/foo/bar and symlink it

Re: Unzip utility for endusers

Peter Bart wrote: > Lake Stevens Dental wrote: [...] >> Is there some simple click and unzip utility for the tablets? Or do I >> have to walk thru the stinky side of linux command line to unzip a file? > > Interesting. Do I really have to [re

Re: Abiword

Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: > Hmmm... Interesting. Abiword was in my catalog and is installed on my 810 > (running Diablo). The current version is 2.6.4. I've had no problems. Turns out it's still in extras-devel, which is (natch) not added by default to a new installation of Diablo. Working fine

Re: CUPS

Peter Flynn wrote: > Did anyone ever get CUPS working, either under OS2007 or OS2008? I searched the extras-devel manually and it seems to be in the Packages file, but it's not appearing in the App Manager. My catalog entry for extras-dev says Distributions chinook diablo, and Compone

Re: Headset plugged in disables ringtones

Eero Tamminen wrote: > But not to both at the same time (i.e. music to headphones, > alarm to speaker). Would you remember to switch sound to > speakers when you take the headphones off your head? I think > it's just easier to unplug the headphones from the device. Surely an incoming call should

Re: getting the wep key from the tablet?

Jonathan Greene wrote: > any one know if it possible to get the wep key i am connected to in > order to use it on my laptop? Someone (I forget whom, but thanks) posted this here the other day in response to a query on mine. It's well hidden, in directories with names you would never guess, and n

Re: Abiword

Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: > Hmmm... Interesting. Abiword was in my catalog and is installed on my 810 > (running Diablo). The current version is 2.6.4. I've had no problems. Weird. Not there now anyway. It goes straight from A-GPS to Abuse. Dave Neary wrote: > Abiword's in a separate repositor

Abiword

What is the current status of Abiword for Diablo? Garage says it's 4-beta but doesn't provide any download links, and says there are no files associated with this project. Abiword's own site has no mention of it, and it's not in maemo.org/downloads Where should I be looking? ///Peter ___

Re: App-Manager failure

Ryan Abel wrote: [...] > Pretty much everything, but I can only recommend that you upgrade, OK, all done and working, and thanks for the pointers. > http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware Small buglet: the page says "switch on your tablet while holding the Home-button (N800)" but I

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