I'm not sure what has happened, but the normally dependable MaemoDrac
stopped working a couple days ago on my n810. When one clicks play, it
pops briefly into the card screen then back to the front menu.
I tried uninstalling and installing it -- same problem. Minimally, there
seems to be a
sean wrote:
Is anyone able to recommend a case for the N800?
I would like one that protects the unit, perhaps has built in slots for
space memory cards, and allows easy use of the unit.
Thanks
Sean
I've been using an inexpensive notebook/personal planner with
I know marketing isn't what Linux folks are all about, but you're knee
capping yourself when you don't at least provide a short blurb about
what Eclipse Integration products are all about in your email. At
least enough to make someone want to click the provided links would
seem mimimalist.
sean wrote:
What will make the Nokia Netbook any more unique then some other model?
It will be the first line of netbooks abandoned by it's maker and left
up to user support?
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Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote:
So, how do you explain other companies selling netbooks with Linux? They
don't know what they are doing?
It's a marketing/business decision. If the company feels there's
sufficient market to support the extra hassles of inventory management
of Linux units, and
Gary wrote:
lakestevensdental wrote:
but there's no Linux marketing agent to sit down at the
table with Nokia and some cell provider to cut a deal.
These companies would probably disagree:
http://www.canonical.com/partners
http://www.novell.com/linux/partners.html
http
Gary wrote:
lakestevensdental wrote:
You appear to be ignoring the power of numbers. Nokia's netbook,
bundled with Windows will sell far more units with than without. The
larger quantity sold with Windows will allow Nokia to produce sell their
netbook for less than otherwise, perhaps
Mark Haury wrote:
lakestevensdental wrote:
Mark wrote:
But $25 is nothing to sneeze at. I would still rather pay $25 less and
install kubuntu on the entire drive than pay $25 more and end up with
dual-boot. Either way, it's still Linux I'll be using, so why should I
have to pay
But they _should_ offer it as a purchase option, and let those of us who
would rather do without Windows get a better price.
As I understand it, the per unit price for Windows to an OEM is
something like $25/unit, not the $100+ that end users pay (kind of
stupid marketing but that's MS
Mark wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:24 AM,
lakestevensdentallakestevensden...@verizon.net wrote:
But they _should_ offer it as a purchase option, and let those of us who
would rather do without Windows get a better price.
As I understand it, the per unit price for Windows to
s...@ece.ucsb.edu wrote ---I have a Lenovo S10 netbook dual booting Windows
XP and Fedora Core 11 (with rpmfusion software repository enabled for
non-free stuff). I much prefer Fedora over XP. Fedora works well: wireless,
suspend, hibernate,
flash videos, videos (via VLC) all work
I haven't heard of or tried Pimlico, have heard of and use GPE,
primarily for it's calendar and todo utility.This doesn't mean one
is better than another. Just GPE was there first and probably has more
users. I may take a look at Pimlico, just to see what it's like. I
just got thru
The SmartQ5 noted in the link below is one of those looks nice,
but Close to vaporware, worked, but slow because of processor
limitations. An updated version supposedly has the same limits, but
tweaks the size. http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale/smartq.html
Andrew Daviel wrote:
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Does anybody know what is the status of viewing MS office and openoffice
documents on the N810?
At some point I was playing with OpenOffice server mode. It's broken
right now, but the idea was if you wanted to view an
Mark wrote:
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:03 PM, lakestevensdental
lakestevensden...@verizon.net wrote:
Andrew Daviel wrote:
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Does anybody know what is the status of viewing MS office and openoffice
documents on the N810
Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
Dear Folks,
This is very off-topic, but you might actually have the
information:
My girlfriend is going from USA to England for two weeks. I want to give
her an N810 tablet, but I don't have the faintest idea if / how is WiFi
available there. Any hints (is
Marius Gedminas wrote:
So, I finally got my first N810 back from repairs (turns out it was
fixed months ago, but nobody bothered to give me a call/send an email)
and it was time to install all OS upgrades.
FYI, in the past few months, (starting around the first of the year?)
there's been an
You might try Erming sync program and change your Google calendar
settings there. In theory, when you update, it will fix your GPE
settings, without GPE running.
Mark wrote:
Does anybody know where the gpe calendar settings are stored? I
screwed up trying to subscribe to a public Google
hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 01:15:58PM -0700, lakestevensdental wrote:
* W7 requires 4 partitions, leaving only 1 partition for a dual boot
to Ubuntu or other OS. Ubuntu currently recommends an separate
partition for swap memory, but W7 isn't
Olavo Junior wrote:
hi,
which video format is better for n810 (avi, mpg, ...) ? I have a
N95, but our videos (mpg4) don't play in n810, sound ok, but images is
too slow
How to I convert .mp4 to maemo better format with linux?
As others have noted, there's an encoder
Fernando Cassia wrote:
A couple points:
1. Apple makes proprietary, closed solutions. Try to reverse engineer
Apple´s firmware for compatibility reasons and you´ll see Apple
lawyers coming to get you.
They've found there's a broad end-user market for stuff that meets a
certain ease of
kenneth marken wrote:
lakestevensdental wrote:
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:28 PM, kenneth marken
kemar...@broadpark.no wrote:
iirc, when first launched the linux variant was the lowest spec-ed
one, and
the windows variants both came with rebates that made them as
cheap or
cheaper
of the repo apps are made to the same reliability or
usability standards as one might wish. As anyone who uses MS junk might
say -- So what else is new?
Always, Fred C
Best Regards,
John Holmblad
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lakestevensdental wrote:
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:28 PM, kenneth marken
kemar
Mark wrote:
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:29 PM, lakestevensdental
lakestevensden...@verizon.net wrote:
\ Good luck carrying that non-Apple albatross around your neck... It's
not like there's nothing to learn from the successful.
Always, Fred C
...or non-Micro$oft, or non-Linux
Mark I'm using Erminig to sync gpe calendar with Google Calendar with
great
Mark success. The only time I've had trouble was the other day when
Google
Mark had an outage. Generally speaking, if I can access gmail and google
Mark calendar on the Web then I have no trouble
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:28 PM, kenneth marken kemar...@broadpark.no
wrote:
iirc, when first launched the linux variant was the lowest spec-ed
one, and
the windows variants both came with rebates that made them as cheap or
cheaper then the start out config of the linux one.
FYI, you can
Laura Conrad wrote:
No, you have it wrong. The password is lower case, and the entry
routine erminig is using is converting the first letter to upper case.
When you enter things on the tablet, it frequently capitalizes the first
letter. This can cause problems for passwords that are ed
Ognen Duzlevski wrote:
Hello,
I am curious to find out what people use their Nokias for. If anyone
could share their usage patterns, it would be appreciated.
I've both an n800 and n810.
* Initially, I bought the n800 for use as an internet phone while
traveling. Still use it
After using a variety of small internet communication/computing devices,
(n800, n810, netbook-eee PC on Xandros, Ubuntu and now XP, plus and Ipod
Touch), I've come to some conclusions that might be worth sharing.
1. None of these devices is a truly one size fits all solution for small
, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:21 AM, lakestevensdental
lakestevensden...@verizon.net mailto:lakestevensden...@verizon.net
wrote:
After using a variety of small internet communication/computing
devices,
(n800, n810, netbook-eee PC on Xandros, Ubuntu and now XP, plus
and Ipod
Touch
Jeff Brown wrote:
I haven't tried Gizmo, but I can say that I don't think Skype sucks as I have
used it exclusively on my 810 to make international calls with more than
adequate success.
Best to all!
Gizmo works fine on the tablet as does Skype. I've used both for
placing calls of all
Denis Dimick wrote:
The Power plug is the same one Nokia uses for a number of their cell
phones (5300 for example), however, I to have had a number of issues
with the power plug, and have bought a number of after-market plugs
and still am unhappy.
Anyone come up with a good after
OK, fine. Do you have a link to download to add it to a tablet?
Always, Fred C
Martin Grimme wrote:
Hi,
the N810 can only do mono sound over Bluetooth. What you want is A2DP
support, which somehow exists in form of community projects in
connection with mplayer, but it's not (yet)
That's great, except I don't get over to Europe that much. Plus I've
got a dedicated nav system for the car.
Personally, I think it would be nice if there were some sort of GPS
topo application for backpacking on and off trail. Toss in a small
solar panel that hangs on the top of my pack
Rick Bilonick wrote:
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 04:37 -0500, Peter Bart wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:55:19 -0500
Rick Bilonick r...@nauticom.net wrote:
snip
If you have the mailboxes on one of the memory cards check to see
if the card is read only. I had that issue and discovered a
lakestevensdental wrote:
neither plays wma digital rights audio books. Our local library
has just started to offer mp3 audio books for download, but there are
so many fewer books offered in mp3.
Sansa's e2x0 series really does audiobooks and basic music quite
well. A refurb 8g runs
Rick Bilonick wrote:
I could not agree more! I wouldn't buy a car from a manufacturer that
forced me to buy batteries, tires, service, etc. from it.
Actually, the Apple app store is full of software from a variety of
sources -- many free, many not. Like Maemo, it's a central clearing
house
kenneth marken wrote:
lakestevensdental wrote:
Rick Bilonick wrote:
I could not agree more! I wouldn't buy a car from a manufacturer that
forced me to buy batteries, tires, service, etc. from it.
Actually, the Apple app store is full
As luck would have it, I recently came across an Ipod Touch 8G as a
promo for participating in an online continuing ed podcast deal. After
week or so of playing around with in and my n800, I figure it might be
useful to share my experiences and comparison of both units. I've had
my n800
A couple comments on this subject. First, it doesn't do anyone any good
to attack the messengers or worker bees regardless of what their
involvement with the tablets is. Stuff happens, stuff gets noticed and
brought to attention, stuff gets corrected. No one is intentionally
screwing things
Mark wrote:
I also have to point out that the maemo site is always incredibly
slow, which can't possibly help any of these situations. It doesn't
matter whether I'm on my home desktop, my N800 on WiFi, or a school
machine on a very fast network, it always takes forever for pages on
the maemo
I've been having the same issue. App manager would fail to
update/download Claws. I hadn't figured out the work around noted below.
However, I did note that the Tools/Application Folders shows everything
on the list following Claws repository also to have failed to update. I
gather the
Thanks everyone for helping clarify this issue.
It should also be noted that when one's email program goes down, one
also loses direct contact with the list discussion of how to fix the
problem unless one also has access to email thru another system.
It's sort of a classic Catch-22, you can't
I've recently had some sort of email login problems which appear to
freeze the tablet for a while, possibly because a timeout somewhere is
set too high or something like that. During this time, other processes
or apps seem to lock up or slow down. Occasionally, I've had to reboot
to clear
Denis Dimick wrote:
. $400 for a n810 is a lot to shell out when you can buy a small
laptop, Acer, Asus, etc. and have a system with just a tad larger
footprint.
Just my .02,
My two cents -- I've got both an EEE pc AND n800. They fill different
niches. I find the n800 great for RSS,
If Nokia is really serious about being a larger player, they ought to
aggressively develop and license the Maemo tablet OS to other
manufacturers so that it has an opportunity to become a dominant player
in the this growing market niche instead of just another somewhat
self-limiting (soon to
Ryan Abel wrote:
On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:26 PM, lakestevensdental wrote:
If Nokia is really serious about being a larger player, they ought to
aggressively develop and license the Maemo tablet OS to other
manufacturers so that it has an opportunity to become a dominant player
Michael Conklin wrote:
I had the same experience - I deleted documentation files and it
seemed to provide enough space but when I rebooted I got in an endless
reboot loop and had to reflash. Fortunately that fixed some other
problems I was having like the RSS feeder not working, still a
It's my understanding from previous threads on this subject that a Class
6 card is just about as fast as the current n8xx processing can handle.
As I understand it, the primary use of faster cards is for large format
digital photo and video applications.
It's possible that if you ever
Mark wrote:
Nokia has the resources to develop its own chips, which it could
easily keep open. That would solve the problems for everybody (meaning
consumers, developers and Nokia).
Perhaps. One way to look at this is the old VHS/Beta debate of 20 years
ago. Sony's beta was technically the
Leandro Sales wrote:
Is Farsight 2 available for maemo?
Don't know. Seems Maemo has had it's fill of Hindsight issues, but that
probably doesn't count. :-)
Always, Fred C
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Kevin T. Neely wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 04:07:39PM +0200, Arnau Bria wrote:
My wife and daughter are wandering around Europe
with my tablet so they can call me over the internet, so I'll have to
wait for a week or so to see what does or doesn't work in the Claws
calendar plugin.
Mark wrote:
If you're syncing with the tablet, then you have a PIM on the
tablet. I don't use Google or any other online document or calendar
services and never will. There's no substitute for having (often
private/sensitive) data on the local machine rather than in the hands
of some faceless
I stand corrected. If you wait around for a few seconds shared media
does show up.
It may be something to do with the time scanning 8 4g
cards, then looking for network stuff, that has me always clicking into
cards before shared media appears.
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:27:05 -0700
David
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:54:05 -0700
Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Get a bluetooth usb dongle for the deskktop and connect with your
tablet's bluetooth. You can access any shared drive on the pc's
network.
Dealextreme.com has bluetooth dongles cheap if you can wait for
delivery. Some may
Get a free logmein.com account on one your desktop and leave it on or
in a mode that can be awoken from the internet.
Then, anywhere in the world you've got internet access, with the
tablet browser (or any other computer with a browser), log into
logmein.com and access your desktop. Caveate
Mark wrote:
No, we can't! That's the point! Often there is no wireless access in
the time and place where the document needs to be *edited* or created,
not simply viewed.
If there is cell phone access, and your cell phone has internet
access, it seems you ought to be able to connect to the
Simple launcher is great, but does have limits and a bug or to that
could be updated.
A two click kludge solution might be to create a local web page with
links to what you want, assuming you can write a modestly simple web
page with links to the files you want to open and the browser/system
Ditto here. At least when there's wifi access, you can use Gmail for a
PIM of sorts. It would be nice to have a platform independent software
app that synced with Gmail to coordinate everything.
I wish there were a usable PIM for the Internet Tablets. I've tried
the gpe suite, and it
Mark wrote:
If I have the exact hardware that I want, why should I have to worry
about the device being unsupported in such a short period of time? My
laptop is 8 years old, and it would still be meeting my needs if the
backlight hadn't died last year, and the replacement part for it is
IMHO, the market for current tablet like items seems stable. Nokias
N8xx seems to be leading the parade. Buying into older technology just
before it's abandoned is never fun...
As a point of comparison between the internet tablets and microlaptops
-- Recently, I bought an ASUS EEE PC
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