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

2009-12-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Peter Flynn peter.fl...@mars.ucc.ie writes: The problem seems to be that while some decisions are self-evident, obvious, and uncontentious (eg let's give the N7*/8*/9* series wireless capability), a few of them are so spectacularly wrong that the user community is amazed, and because

Re: Nokia developers - WAS: bluetooth keyboards and N900

2009-12-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Mark wolfm...@gmail.com writes: Ah, the joys of industry jargon... Yep, and petty ego protectionism. (On Igor's part, just to be clear.) ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

FW: New Flasher-3.5 installation package for Mac now published

2009-12-02 Thread Jarmo.Tikka
FYI //Jarmo -Original Message- From: Tikka Jarmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki) Sent: 02 December, 2009 16:25 To: pc-connectivity-de...@garage.maemo.org; maemo-pccf-supp...@nixu.com Subject: New Flasher-3.5 installation package for Mac now published FYI we now have new flasher-3.5 installation

Re: OS Stability

2009-12-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Mark wolfm...@gmail.com writes: What I said was that I've never _heard_ of Windows Mobile devices being reflashed like Linux devices. I would change that to Maemo devices. Linux, the kernel, is certainly not to blame for a clogged up user land, and Maemo is so different from any other

N900: unable to play some mms:// streams

2009-12-02 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
Hello, I'm not sure this is a bug... here is the story. In order to watch italian national TV, a linux user must do funny things, like parsing the page, downloading relinkers and extract the real mms url. I have a script that makes this and produces a page with mms://... links and embedded

Re: bluetooth keyboards and N900

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Haury
Timo Pelkonen wrote: 2009/12/2 Peter Flynn peter.fl...@mars.ucc.ie mailto:peter.fl...@mars.ucc.ie 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.

Re: OS Stability

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Haury
Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Mark wolfm...@gmail.com writes: What I said was that I've never _heard_ of Windows Mobile devices being reflashed like Linux devices. I would change that to Maemo devices. Linux, the kernel, is certainly not to blame for a clogged up user land, and Maemo

Re: OS Stability

2009-12-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:17:57PM -0700, Mark wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Henrik Madsen h...@imm.dtu.dk wrote: If you have never had an issue with stability on Windows Mobile you are the blind person. Almost all producers of mobile phones are now leaving Windows Mobile and

Re: OS Stability

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Haury
Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:17:57PM -0700, Mark wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Henrik Madsen h...@imm.dtu.dk wrote: If you have never had an issue with stability on Windows Mobile you are the blind person. Almost all producers of mobile phones are now

Re: OS Stability

2009-12-02 Thread Thomas Waelti
With Windows Mobile, you almost never update - but not because of inherent stability, but commercial issues: the device producer normally just buy a certain version of WM for their device, but won't offer subsequent upgrades, so you end up with the original version and are pretty much stuck.

Maemo Barcelona: Shared Room Allocations

2009-12-02 Thread Andrea Grandi
Hi all, I was looking to this table: http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo-Barcelona_Long_Weekend/Accommodation I see that there are still 6 available slots in the room allocation table. Are there 6 non assigned room because we're only 24 sponsored people or not all sponsored people have signed their name

Re: OS Stability

2009-12-02 Thread sean
Thomas Waelti wrote: I reflashed the PalmOS and updated to slightly never version a few times (mostly .1 version increases, like 3.5.1 or so IIRC). PalmOS however was a VERY simple and limited OS. I had 3 different Palms overr the years. Normally, the upgrades just fixed some stability

Re: OS Stability

2009-12-02 Thread Mark
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Thomas Waelti twae...@gmail.com wrote: snip I would say the Maemo pattern has followed the Symbian pattern quite well, including the maturity of the released software (first initial firmwares with some bugs, more mature releases with additional features later

Re: OS Stability

2009-12-02 Thread Peter Flynn
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 old

Re: Xournal for OS2006

2009-12-02 Thread Ivan Vilata i Balaguer
Aniello Del Sorbo (el 2009-12-02 a les 21:31:22 +) va dir:: A member of the Maemo.org community just gave me his Nokia 770 to help me port back Xournal on it :) I'll try to find out that .deb (it was version 0.3.1) but hopefully soon you'll have the latest version :) That's even better

Re: nice N900 cases from Piel Frama

2009-12-02 Thread Max Maher
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 06:33:40 Uwe Kaminski wrote: Eric Cooper schrieb: 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 them:

Re: bluetooth keyboards and N900

2009-12-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 07:37 +0200, Timo Pelkonen wrote: But even when perverted, markets are still right. Can you buy something at a price that is opposite to market prices(without fraud)? Haha ! The market is right because the market price is the market price ? That's a sophism, plain and