nothing on the market that can replace this machine. small,
pocket-sized, root access, text shell, precise stylus.
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a Linux PC with the N900, so I have all my contacts there?
Just curious: for the N900 have the same (useless) contacts program as
the N800 came with? Or can you use GPE contacts and have it interface
cleanly to the phone?
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How can I format it? Is there something tablet specific?
You can use File Manager to format it, or you can use mkdosfs directly.
But if it saeems OK, why format it? Or is it still not OK in some other
way?
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* fingers to posh that centre-square button and
not the squarish ring around it.
But I suppose it could be hardware. Does the button make good contact?
Is there dirt in the switch?
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getting an eeepc until they got aaround to the
1000HE, which has an almost full-size keyboard. I too have large hands.
I span more than an octave on a piano. My 1000HE runs Debian testing.
The only typing problem I have with it is mixing backspace up with
delete. Usually easy to undo.
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On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:35:29PM -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote:
How do you use accelerometer on a netbook?
You program it to park the hard disk heads when the accelerometer
readings warrant.
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kernel, as documented on
Debians eeepc pages. Works like a charm.
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-electronics dealers. There's an enormous, and
largely random, variation in prices even within one retail store. It's
worth shopping around.
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. Now I have
contacts in both applications and it's a mess.
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it doesn't know
how to handle that gracefully, so instead of an error message it just
crashes.
My son Geoffrey suggests:
What happens if your internet connection is down? Then maybe it might
know enough not to try to connect? Then maybe you'd get a chance to
edit the URL?
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against W7
beta's poor ability to recognize drivers and stuff. Ubuntu 8.1 did just
fine finding everything -- no BS M$ W driver $ignature enforcement.
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. Apple licenced the name to build their computers. There was
legal dispute about the scope of the licence when Apple started with
itunes.
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with the form
factor and shipped OS.
Apple is certainly doing well with their ipods -- even though they're
not phones.
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And there's trouble with the openness of the video drivers, which may
make it difficult to upgrade or use nonUbuntu Linuxes.
Or have I mixed this up with another netbook?
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were the old comparison ads between Atari and Amiga. They adequately
described all the shortcomings of the Atari -- except they attributed
them to the Amiga instead.
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to upgrade or use nonUbuntu Linuxes.
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gutenberg for much older works, and
the author Cory Doctorow makes hos published works available for free
download from hos web page. Both Baen books and Cory Doctorow find that
free downloads seem to increase actual sales.
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It'll be my only Windows machine, and there are a few things Windows is
useful for -- mostly testing whether software I write that's supposed to
be portable really is.
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for nine
months on one set of three AA batteries. They sell a recharger that
you install in the Alphasmart for use with rechargeable batteries, but
why bother?
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force on the
power cable. The jack in the N810 seems to be damaged.
First I'd suspect the charger itself, it's power cable is quite thin
and can break. Have you tried another charger?
I've seen quite a few complaints about power cable damage on this forum
over the years.
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On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:30:02 -0500, hendrik wrote:
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:21:08PM +, Faheem Pervez wrote:
If it's a plain, no-frills GTK text editor with the keyboard working;
then I'd recommend leafpad.
Thanks. leafpad seems to work fine. And the keyboard pops up when
needed. I
I've written a python program that I'm currently running from the xterm.
What do I have to do to get it to run from a few stylus-clicks, the same
way I get to run GPE Calendar, or Leafpad, or the xterm, for that matter?
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etc, then I'd recommend looking at Khertan's PyGTKEditor.
I'll look into that sometime. For now, I'll be using leafpad.
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On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
I installed scite on my 800 (using
I installed scite on my 800 (using the application manager, I believe).
Looking at the menus, it's probably a fairly good programming editor.
But it doesn't activate the on-screen keyboard. This would probably be
fine on ghe N810, but it seems to be a show-stopper on the N800.
Or does
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:19:10 +0100, Jonathan Marsaud wrote:
Le mercredi 04 février 2009 à 18:08 +, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
I installed scite on my 800 (using the application manager, I believe).
Looking at the menus, it's probably a fairly good programming editor.
But it doesn't activate
when it's held in landscape
mode, isn't it?
I press it short or long, and nothing happens.
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On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:18:50PM -0500, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
how about taking the screen from 800 and putting it in 810?
julius
That wold be a way of finding out if anything else is broken. I suppose.
Is it still possible to ssh into the broken 810 from elsewhere?
-- hendrik
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:07:48PM +0100, Thomas Schmidt wrote:
Hi,
Am Dienstag, den 30.12.2008, 04:26 -0500 schrieb hend...@topoi.pooq.com:
I'm trying to find and install a package, the setuptools for
python2.5. The package appears to be available online, but I have
no success in
seeing
the corresponding library .debs in chinook.
I guess I can use apt-get or aptitude to install libsqlite3 and
libsqlite3-dev on the off chance that they will satisfy anki.
-- hendrik
[]'s
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 13:56, hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
I'm trying to install anki
programs can access data bases.
Now that's either already there someplace (in which case I have to learn
where and how to tell python where to look), or it's in some python
package somewhere...
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works with no
other power).
If only my N800 *would* recognise my self-powered USB keyboard as a
keyboard!
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out a driver that was
present in Debian. And maybe it demands power from the USB port in
hookup mode that it doesn't need otherwise. Perhaps draining USB power
is how it recognises there's a computer there.
I just know it's annoying.
-- hendrik
I'll bet it's a power issue
*. But I do believe it
uses UTF-8 as its normal character code (can anyone confirm this?)
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company's main site (J2EE) and
I've seen some odd things with caching. This is off topic for this
list but I'd like to discuss it off list if so...
Not off-topic if it's affecting maemo users.
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visits are/were, cor example.
but they have to link to each other plus whatever
you use for Browser, Email, and IM/SIP, which are not themselves PIM
apps.
I don't have as much need for these other links, but I admit they mioght
be useful.
-- hendrik
.
Attachments are, I believe, part of the message. It's URLs that point
putside the message that would cause problems.
The tablet should have a way of putting things on a queue for to be
looked at when you do have net connectivity.
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You misunderstand; we're talking about attachments that can't be
opened on the ITs because there's no application that can handle them.
Ah yes. I see.
Of course, attachments are integral to messages and it's only the
client that makes them appear
How do I get Japanese input on the N800? At the moment I'd be happy with
hiragana and katakana, but in a year or so I'll probably need kanji, too.
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I know with an armel branch)
Rumour has it that someone has installed the Ubuntu userspace in a
chroot on top of the maemo kernel.
Runour further says that Ubuntu is working on getting ubuntu to run on
the Nokia tablets.
Of course Ubuntu is closely related to Debian.
-- hendrik
, tools,
whatever you want to call them.
So the worst case here; Nokia drops out of the Linux market, or reduces
their support for older hardware platforms.
Since the software is open source,
except for the close-source binary-blob drivers that drive the
proprietary chips.
-- hendrik
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 07:52:09PM +0100, Fred Pacquier wrote:
So, before the Fremantle wave definitely buries the 770 platform (and
This sounds like something I should know about. Googling Fremantle
tells me it's a city in Australia, which seems not relevant.
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with maemo ...
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version now?
Possibly OS2008? Or the latest Diablo release? And then start hacking
from there?
Whoops! I failed to notice that it's a 770 you're talking about. I had
success installing Diablo on my N800. Anybody know if such works for
N770?
-- hendrik
When setting up to boot from an internal or external SDHC card, it says
to set up a FAT partition as its first. What is that FAT partition used
for that makes it so necessary? How big does it need to be?
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server is running on a different
machine from the one being upgraded.
I don't recall any such warning for ssh, though. ssh connections seem
to stay up even when the ssh demon is replaced, perhaps because the ssh
demon is only involved in starting connexions, not in maintaining them.
-- hendrik
than that. The xserver-xorg.postinst is the mother of all maintainer
scripts (almost 2000 lines), so I don't know what it does, but I don't
think it will restart the server this side of 1980.
It was included in the instructions for the sarge-etch upgrade, if I
recall correctly.
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Windows to label your cards, especially if they are
identical. I had a heck of a time sorting them out that way and ended up
using Linux instead.
How do you do that on Linux? As for a card reader, can I use the N800
for that when it's plugged into my computer's USB port?
-- hendrik
On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:19:29 +0300, Tuukka Tolvanen wrote:
Select the card in the file manager's left pane; menu - file - rename.
It worked. Thanks. That was easy.
...of course you'll have to find out which one is which for that ;)
Bootstrapped the identity question by taking one out.
to
determine that it's talking to a host.
Does that driver have to be installed specially?
No, nothing needs to be installed in Chinook and Diablo, it just
works.
Too bad. If something did need to be installed, I could install it.
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USB
keyboard. So evidently, there's something else that has to be done.
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:00:55 -0600, Mark wrote:
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:49:08 +0100, Matt Emson wrote:
This should get you started...
Get what the mode is currently set:
cat /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode)
Turn
, but the n800 is ignoring me when I open the
notes utility.
-- hendrik
Outside of linking to another USB port, do you have any idea of what
other devices might/does the n800s USB port work with?
Anything that has kernel driver in 2.6.18 linux kernel (or 2.6.21 for
OS2008) which
up new interfacing to get to 64Gb, and
they won't work in the n800. By the time I ca afford devices that can
use cards that big, the cards will probably be quite affordable.
By the way, it looks as if I'm ending up with two class 6 8Gb cards. I'm
planning to boot from them.
-- hendrik
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:22:42AM -0700, Erik Hovland wrote:
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wend out shopping for an 8GB SDHC card for my n800, and was surprised
by the enormous range of prices -- almost an order of magnitude. Of
course there's
their guarantees.
7. What is the best way to use the web cam? Is there a way to take
video with it?
I suspect the CPU isn't fast enough for that, but I could be wrong.
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get a 32G card. Has enyone tried one out yet?)
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to the N810.
using Wine, maybe?
I think it's a dead duck, sorry.
At least a drunk duck :-(.
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on
n810 and get a bit more Internet Explorer compatiblility. Not that
I'd want that, though.
By the way, is maemo closer to arm or armel in Debian?
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you). This can make a large difference
if you have processes that like to often check things from the network.
I also set audio volume to zero most of the time. It
actually shuts up the little motif it plays during startup. so I can
turn it one where I have to be quiet.
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things may be worse on maemo.
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If you want a physical keyboard on the n800 (touch-typists care about
this a lot), your choices are
(a) bluetooth
(b) USB with a female-to-female adapter and some software hacking.
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hacking.
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USB keyboards don't really require what I would call software
hacking. You can use the command line, or better yet install USB
Control, and it's a piece of cake.
Sounds like it's better now than I heard last year.
The caveat with either is that a reboot may
in a temporarily brain-dead
state or something.
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does, in fact, write elsewhere.
Finally, debian lenny now has a package called scratchbox2. The
instructions I've seen all use variations on scratchbox 1.*. Is that a
sign the instructions are obsolete? Or is scratchbox2 really a very
different thing?
-- hendrik
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:53:37PM +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi Hendrik,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have tried several times to install scratchbox and other soeftware for
maemo development on my Debian system, and have not succeeded. There
seem to be instructions and relevant
.
Exactly. It's *export*, NOT *sync*. And the sync application was
designed to handle certain situations by doing an export operation
*rather than* a sync operation.
This reminds me of an argument I had with my child's grade school
teacher, who maintained that a square was *not* a rectangle.
-- hendrik
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 07:13:24PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
--
The *REAL* Y2K is the year 2048.
Isn't that Y2Ki ?
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trouble recognising some text, they make it into
an image for a CAPTCHA. It's a little more complicated than that, but
the result is that the responses they get are used for digitising the
library.
The monotone developers are currently adapting it to ikiwiki.
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nine months between battery
replacements.
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On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:34:04PM +0100, Matt Emson wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
So any recommendations on [...] external keyboards since the
Stowaway seems to have been taken off the market?
Yes, buy a OTG dongle and go USB. Bluetooth is a PITA. USB works really
What is an OTG dongle,
poster; I'll try to figure out how to do that.
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, but be honest about it.
If they're meant for developers, it should be easier to install
the software development environment..
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Web Address, and Jabber (again?).
But no plain old old-fashioned address. I don't even need to
formally split into street names and numbers, etc.
Just a plain old multi-line text field would do (Unicode or UTF-8
preferred, of course).
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inadvertently forget to shut down the screen.
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. I would love to find out how to boot
the Debian installer for my n800.
http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort
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On Thu, 22 May 2008 03:14:34 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
It looks as if it's scheduled for release as part of lenny, and that the
architecture will be called armel. I would love to find out how to boot
the Debian installer for my n800.
http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort
They also list
do I need? How do I get started with it? Do I need to
convince anyone that my ideas (such as nonautomatic task ordering) are
worthwhile?
-- hendrik
I've certainly considered it -- but first I want to put together a sync
mechanism that
* doesn't care how many places you sync
as deletion and insertion.
But I agree. Devising a complete sync mechanism just for a to-do list
is overkill.
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, perhaps by dragging them up and down the list. I could do
that on the Palm if I used their memo tool as a to-do list. I
completely ignored the official to-do list on the Palm.
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to be.
You might even want to mopve the entire .gpe directory tree.
Think this might work?
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That said, my glasses are approximately -7 diopters. I can see
all the pixels I want by taking my glasses off and holding my n800
about 12 cm from my nose.
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without
also overriding background.
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interpreter everyone uses is closed
source, not avaliable on every platform, and has bugs that have been
exploited by email viruses.
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for my own calendar had become
unchecked. Once diagnosed, problem was easy to solve -- I just checked
my calendar again. Detailed discussion is available at
http://bugs.linuxtogo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154
My original post follows below.
-- hendrik
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:35:52 +, Hendrik Boom
of the .gpe/calendar file
and be ready to send it to whoever volunteers to look at it.
I'll look into how to submit one. I've made a copy of the .gpe/calendar
file.
-- hendrik
I am back w/c 3rd March so if no one has looked at this before then feel free
to send me an email and I will try
/calendar
file.
Where do I submit bug reports for gpe-calendar? The obvious links led
me to http://bugzilla.handhelds.org/enter_bug.cgi, but gpe doesn't seem
to be on the list it accepts bugs for.
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:17:09 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:26:33 +0100, Tommy Persson wrote:
Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I tried posting on this yesterday, but the message seems to have gone
astray.
I've installed some gpe utilities on top of the factory
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:45:56 +, Graham Cobb wrote:
On Sunday 17 February 2008 19:35:52 Hendrik Boom wrote:
Yesterday, when I pulled my N800 out of my briedcase, I noticed that:
(1) it was already on
(2) the calendar program had lost *all* my appointments, although my
to-do list
. OS2008? The
hacker edition of the system?
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:26:33 +0100, Tommy Persson wrote:
Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I tried posting on this yesterday, but the message seems to have gone
astray.
I've installed some gpe utilities on top of the factory-installed
OS2007 on my N800.
Yesterday, when I pulled my
other note, restore doesn't work but that seems to be true
for
all uses of the backup/restore utility.
What's the point of a backup that you can't restore from? Or have I
misunderstood something?
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with a fingernail (so I'm not constantly digging out
a stylus while walking through the store)...)
With or without a stylus, it's still a two-handed operation, so you need
a grocery cart and not a basket.
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