Re: iPad

2010-01-27 Thread George Farris
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 16:05 -0700, Mark wrote: The Apple iPad: Yawn... a huge iPod Touch/iPhone that can't possibly fit in anyone's pocket. Really? I just can't wait for the jokes about the name to start:-) Maybe College humour will do a video.

Re: Nokia netbook

2009-08-25 Thread George Farris
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 17:04 +0200, William Maddler wrote: On 25/08/2009 16:47, Kenneth Loafman wrote: booiiing wrote: 2009/8/25 Garyg...@eyetraxx.net: I wonder why they chose Windows over Linux. And suggesting that Sony is weak in the mobile device market is not only unprofessional, it's

Re: Unix vs Windows security (was Re: Nokia device usage)

2009-03-12 Thread George Farris
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 22:15 -0600, Mark Haury wrote: James Knott wrote: Windows doesn't need (never has, and never will) to have the capability for simultaneous users. What would be the point? As PCs continue to shrink in size as they increase in power, it makes a lot more sense for

Re: Postal address in Contacts?

2008-06-20 Thread George Farris
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 18:09 +0100, Graham Cobb wrote: On Friday 20 June 2008 16:12:14 Mark wrote: I wouldn't need sync at all if gpe-contacts could export as CSV (or actually anything at all). This has been added to gpe-contacts (by Florian Boor), it is currently in the code in SVN (and

Re: Postal address in Contacts?

2008-06-18 Thread George Farris
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 10:13 +0100, David Greaves wrote: I hope this isn't getting heated... :) However, very few paper envelopes have a lookup facility - and having a portable little black book is better than having to go back to my desktop machine. I can use my N800 at home, I can't use

Canola2 sees all the songs but no artists or albums

2008-03-25 Thread George Farris
Hi I have this problem with Canola2, never had it with Canola1. C@ will see all the songs but will only show about 5 albums or artists even though there are about 50 or so albums on the flash drive. Any thoughts? The standard media player sees things fine, so does the recently released

Re: N800 user unhappy with OS2008 upgrade -- are there others?

2008-02-28 Thread George Farris
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 14:06 -0500, Larry Battraw wrote: 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

Re: N800 user unhappy with OS2008 upgrade -- are there others?

2008-02-28 Thread George Farris
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 15:19 -0500, Mike Lococo wrote: 1. The RSS reader is no better able to handle a feed with a hundred entries; my favorite feed falls in this class. I don't think the RSS reader will ever be a priority, unfortunately. It's been tagged (as far as I can tell) as

Canola2 beta

2008-02-03 Thread George Farris
Same problem as with the first beta. I have at least 30 albums on my flash card that the built in media player sees just fine. Canola2 only shows me 7 of them. There is something messed up with the way Canola finds music. Canola1 never had this issue. Basically Canola2, unusable for music at

Re: Hard to drag stuff on N800 OS2008 Desktop

2008-01-17 Thread George Farris
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:50 -0500, Russ Wenner wrote: Is anyone else having trouble dragging icons/windows on their N800 OS2008 desktop? Icons? Man I would love the ability to iconify an app on the desktop. Surely you didn't mean icons? ___

Re: N810 is here

2007-10-17 Thread George Farris
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 14:42 -0500, Kahlil Johnson wrote: Wow, still no OGG when will maemo people ever learn. Who cares about AAC, give us OGG. Did they leave the FM radio in? I really like that feature on my n800? No OGG is just plain weird, yup.

Re: Latest Release of UKMP does not Install Correctly

2007-08-29 Thread George Farris
On Wed, 2007-29-08 at 14:00 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: George Farris wrote: UKMP seems to have a few other problems: - No volume control in the application. Have you tested the +/- buttons on top of your n800? Yes thank you, I know they work but I find it far faster to grab a slider

Re: Latest Release of UKMP does not Install Correctly

2007-08-27 Thread George Farris
UKMP seems to have a few other problems: - The pause button is not very responsive once a song starts to play. - No volume control in the application. - Once albums are scanned once seems to have to delete the metadata if there is a change in the list. On Mon, 2007-27-08 at 13:33 -0400, Acadia

Re: Fwd: Skype on N800

2007-07-06 Thread George Farris
On Fri, 2007-06-07 at 20:16 +0100, Alan Williamson wrote: Skype is closed, proprietary software that uses an undocumented proprietary protocol. This mailing list is not the appropriate venue for hyping that sort of software. Big deal!!! So what its not open. I really do hate this sort

Re: Role of maemo i.e. in Re: Fwd: Skype on N800

2007-07-03 Thread George Farris
On Tue, 2007-03-07 at 17:37 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote: On 7/3/07, Kevin T. Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example: Poor Skype just couldn't get their software ready, however, and I went with Gizmo. I likely would have anyway, as the open source model appeals to me and I see no

Re: FTP app for OS 2007?

2007-03-14 Thread George Farris
On Wed, 2007-14-03 at 17:06 +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: First, I'm talking client not server -- sorry I didn't specify that. I guess I could go the SCP route, but having a user interface is nice (and a little easier for multiple files). I can upload to my server via http, but FTP is quicker

Re: Re : N800 and USB host Mode

2007-03-05 Thread George Farris
with this. -- George Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: [maemo-users] Flipping the screen

2006-12-08 Thread George Farris
On Fri, 2006-08-12 at 15:26 +0100, Frantisek Dufka wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not only lack of pushing. Someone looked into it and concluded that rotated screen is significantly less practical than left-hand using the current solution. You mean someone left-handed concluded

Re: [maemo-users] More auto turn on info.

2006-10-23 Thread George Farris
On Thu, 2006-19-10 at 13:19 +0300, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 08:01 -0700, ext George Farris wrote: Don't know if this information actually came through or not but... Recently I had to send my 770 back for warranty replacement (Nokia 770 white screen of death, vertical

Re: [maemo-users] Annoyances continued

2006-08-14 Thread George Farris
On Mon, 2006-14-08 at 10:43 +0200, Fionn Behrens wrote: Hi all, After having to reflash my 770 because it stopped booting completely, I am now fighting the next major annoyance: Whenever I tap on any link in the browser, it crashes right away. The only way to surf is opening a new window

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

2006-08-09 Thread George Farris
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 15:12 -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: On 8/8/06, Eduardo de Barros Lima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Do not include all translations files. Only the ones supported by the device. IMHO let it without any translation and have the translations as external

[maemo-users] Anyone have a usb headset working with gtalk or gizmo?

2006-08-07 Thread George Farris
I have enabled usb host mode on my 770 and would like to use a usb headset with gizmo and gtalk. Has anyone here on the list successfully accomplished that? If so could you please provide some details or a URL. Thanks very much. -- George Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED

[maemo-users] 2G mmc with 2006

2006-07-12 Thread George Farris
Nokia published the final release of the 2006 Software Edition. The image is available at http://maemo.org/downloads/nokia_770 . Cool. Anyone tried a 2G mmc card with 2006 yet? If so does it work? -- George Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Malaspina University-College

Re: [maemo-users] Metal case for Nokia 770

2006-07-11 Thread George Farris
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 23:55 +0300, Igor Stoppa wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 17:39 -0300, ext Adilson Oliveira wrote: Igor Stoppa escreveu: On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 22:16 +0200, ext Laurent MARTIN wrote: http://shop.brando.com.hk/bwmetalcase_details.php?i=74 Good idea, but I would like

[maemo-users] 2G mmc with 2006

2006-06-30 Thread George Farris
Nokia published the final release of the 2006 Software Edition. The image is available at http://maemo.org/downloads/nokia_770 . Cool. Anyone tried a 2G mmc card with 2006 yet? If so does it work? -- George Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Malaspina University-College

Re: [maemo-users] Constantly rebooting.

2006-06-21 Thread George Farris
On Wed, 2006-21-06 at 16:23 +0200, Michiel Toneman wrote: Hi George, I have something similar. I was loving using 2006 Beta for a couple of hours. Then I added a mail account. It retrieved mail the first time and then spontaneously rebooted. Since then, it will boot into the normal OS

Re: [maemo-users] Swap on mmc after six or more months

2006-06-20 Thread George Farris
On Tue, 2006-20-06 at 18:39 +0200, Armin M. Warda wrote: Hi, I added a modified 'CPU/Mem/Screenshot applet with swapon/off' to the ITOS2006 Maemo Application Catalog http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationCatalog2006 Again I modified Jakub's original version of the CPU/Mem/Screenshot

[maemo-users] Constantly rebooting.

2006-06-19 Thread George Farris
Hi all, I have 2006 beta installed and up until yesterday it was working pretty good. Now when I turn it on it will reboot in just after the screen dims or if I touch any icon on the side such as Web or Email or the menu. Sometimes I can get the menu open and run control panel but... The last

Re: [maemo-users] re : HELP: reading Gmail mails on N770

2006-06-09 Thread George Farris
On Fri, 2006-09-06 at 11:22 +0200, Gilles Reyna wrote: Hi Laurent, I do have the very same issue with my Gmail POP access. I can send but not receive. I know it works because I used to have another N770 that crashed after 8 hours :( (the infamous white stripped screen issue). During the

Re: [maemo-users] Maemo 2.0 beta published

2006-06-09 Thread George Farris
On Fri, 2006-09-06 at 17:10 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Today we published the maemo 2.0 beta on http://www.maemo.org. This release includes both the maemo 2.0 beta development environment and the Internet Tablet 2006 OS Beta image. For more details about the release you can

[maemo-users] Swap on mmc after six or more months

2006-06-08 Thread George Farris
Anyone been using a swap partition on an mmc for any length of time, say 5 or six months or more. Any problems do you recommend it? I have read a fair bit about the swap on the Nokia but am interested in stats on longer time frames. If I can get a card to last a year or so that would be great.