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

2009-03-12 Thread Mike Lococo
Thanks, Mike Lococo ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: modest does not update newmail in imap folder

2008-08-18 Thread Mike Lococo
as containing unread messages when the user next checks mail in Modest. Thanks, Mike Lococo ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Send-Only Accounts in Modest

2008-07-07 Thread Mike Lococo
the faulty account). It's worth noting that Modest already throws an error during account creation if the mailserver is bogus, so it's not necessary to issue such a loud error message during mail-check. Thanks, Mike Lococo ___ maemo-users mailing list

Re: Send-Only Accounts in Modest

2008-07-06 Thread Mike Lococo
, Mike Lococo ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Send-Only Accounts in Modest

2008-07-06 Thread Mike Lococo
in the long-run. Thanks, Mike Lococo ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Send-Only Accounts in Modest

2008-07-05 Thread Mike Lococo
with a mail setup like this? I thought it was a moderately common arrangement. Or do other folks have the same issue and are just being quiet because they don't have a solution? Thanks, Mike Lococo ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org

Re: Cell Phone As Modem

2008-06-01 Thread Mike Lococo
. Verizon has bee doing this for years, I don't have experience with ATT but it wouldn't surprise me. Verizon calls it Broadband Access, it's an extra $15/month. If you do successfully workaround the block and tether your phone without the feature, you're in violation of your TOS. Thanks, Mike

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

2008-02-28 Thread Mike Lococo
application, and nobody *needs* Nokia's code to make progress there. Thanks, Mike Lococo ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Videos and VNC

2008-02-21 Thread Mike Lococo
, they involve varying degrees of complication but that's the route you'll want to go. Look into UPnP and other media servers that have Nxx0 clients. Thanks, Mike Lococo ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman

Re: OT: Mailinglist Reply To All (was Re: [Fwd: Re: Skype video?])

2008-01-17 Thread Mike Lococo
is as far as the discussion need proceed. If you have further comments, please take the discussion off-list. Thanks, Mike Lococo ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: OS2008 - Retro Themes

2007-12-26 Thread Mike Lococo
Some things are so ugly, it's not possible to be polite. Then you have exceedingly poor self-restraint. Please keep communications to the list polite, most especially in your subject lines which subscribers have no choice to skip unless they put you in a killfile. Thanks, Mike Lococo

Re: A/V Sync in Media Player

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Lococo
Andrew Flegg wrote: On Dec 3, 2007 2:39 AM, Mike Lococo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else has A/V sync problems with their N800 when watching feature length films? [snip] 2) Run through Bleb's tablet-encode with the default settings What version of tablet-encode are you using

A/V Sync in Media Player

2007-12-02 Thread Mike Lococo
to confirm that the audio and video correctly sync as expected. 4) Copy the Nokia-optimized video to your N800 and watch it, noticing that the A/V sync is way off. I'm running OS2007 at the moment. Thanks, Mike Lococo ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo

Re: maemo News needs your love

2007-08-15 Thread Mike Lococo
Can you please go to http://maemo.org/news/ , login with your maemo/garage account and click on the hearts to mark as favorite your preferred stories in the page? 5 minutes (if you have already an account). How do you favorite a planet story? I don't see the heart widget like on other

Gpe and Multisync

2007-07-31 Thread Mike Lococo
? Thanks, Mike Lococo [1] http://www.cleardefinition.com/page/Sync_Evolution_and_GPE_on_N800/ [2] http://internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=923 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo

Re: Status of SyncEvolution and PIM applications - 0.6 released

2007-07-30 Thread Mike Lococo
I have added an entry for Nokia 770/800 to the Compatibility web page: http://localhost:8889/projects/SyncML/Compatibility.html#Nokia+770%2F800 Did you really mean to post a link to localhost? - Mike Lococo ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users

Re: intending to buy a n 770

2007-07-24 Thread Mike Lococo
than the one already installed on. Not today. Some Nokia engineers appear to be involvemed in the Ubuntu Mobile project, though. It may be that as that project matures it gains Nxxx support. It's too early to make any predictions though. Thanks, Mike Lococo

Re: my two big fustrations with the N800 - please help me find aworkaround!

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Lococo
. It's a problem with wide recognition, though, and I expect Nokia is working quietly toward some improvement. - Mike Lococo ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Fwd: Skype on N800

2007-07-06 Thread Mike Lococo
this depends on how far you are willing to bury your head in the sand and raise your *** into the air...i will leave this 'experience' to others, sorry This is the third post in an unproductive (and now uncivil) thread. Please refrain from this type of behavior. - Mike Lococo

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

2007-07-03 Thread Mike Lococo
in the area. The details and release date still aren't public, but we're running more or less on schedule. See our January press release for the public 'schedule': http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1096860 Thanks, Mike Lococo ___ maemo

Re: Skype on N800

2007-06-29 Thread Mike Lococo
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/shut-yo-mouth/is-that-skype-on-a-nokia-n800-273037.php The JK post (1) is much more informative. This has been scheduled for the end of the quarter and a fair number of folks are waiting with baited breath for the next OS update in expectation that Skype will be in

Re: Skype Update?

2007-05-08 Thread Mike Lococo
Skype is a little heavy for the N800. Besides, it's only taken Skype two-three years to release an upgrade for Linux from version 1.3 to 1.4. While the Windows world is using v 3.1. I'm waiting for Skype to support video-calls on the N800 so we finally have a video-calling solution that works

Re: Accuracy of the power meter?

2007-05-07 Thread Mike Lococo
I've been noticing that I don't get anywhere near the promised 10 days idle battery life on my N800. With bluetooth and the wireless turned off (offline mode), and with the display off and keys/touchscreen locked, I'm getting at best 8-10 hours of idle time before the battery is completely

Re: Left hand scroll bar?

2007-04-21 Thread Mike Lococo
I have been enjoying my N800 for the the past few days, however there is one thing that could stand improvement. I'm a leftie and find the using the stylus on the vertical scroll bar, located on the right side of the window, to be awkward. Is it possible to move the scroll bars to the left

Re: Media Player Syncing (was Re: Adobe Media Player...)

2007-04-19 Thread Mike Lococo
As for the the closed-source issue... I am an open source advocate myself (I guess I wouldn't have an N800 if I wasn't!). But, going too far is to say that people like Earthlink (feather.net), Gizmo, and Rhapsody (among others) shouldn't be allowed to create apps for the IT. I think you've

Media Player Syncing (was Re: Adobe Media Player...)

2007-04-18 Thread Mike Lococo
... attempt to make an iTunes killer of sorts... It would be so nice to have a media app on IT and computer that synced like iTunes does. When I plug my 770 (or any USB-drive) into my computer with a recently-downloaded version of Winamp, Winamp asks if I want to manage media on it. Many

Re: Is it possible to change screen orientation with N800?

2007-04-17 Thread Mike Lococo
I was wondering wether it is possible to switch from landscape to portrait display mode with the default setup. FBReader can do this in fullscreen mode, there may or may not be other applications that are able to as well. It is not (yet) possible to do this globally, or for the main desktop

Re: IT OS 2007 v.3 Upgrade

2007-03-28 Thread Mike Lococo
I think we should stop wasting time on things like this that really don't matter and concentrate on things that do. In my experience anything that involves legal takes ages and is very difficult to change Hmmm... That's an interesting point and one obviously one that is shared by Nokia. My

Re: IT OS 2007 v.3 Upgrade

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Lococo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has been discussed several times. A provisional conclusion is that a) Even if it sounds incredible we are following POSIX standards, and we did not create them. b) We will probably enable the possibility of users to select their preferred display. This won't come in

Re: IT OS 2007 v.3 Upgrade

2007-03-23 Thread Mike Lococo
6. Still no 12/24-hour clock. Nokia, you’ve got to get this right. Due to daylight savings time changes that are different around the world, we can’t just select some other region that uses a 24-hour clock. This is standard on every version of Linux and actually

Re: Request for (major) help...

2007-03-12 Thread Mike Lococo
I was wondering if there was anyone willing to communicate with me via private email in order that I can fully understand a few things about installing Maemo apps... I know this is a weird request -- and I couldn't offer any compensation other than my undying gratitude -- but I am stumped by a

Re: N800 and network security

2007-02-27 Thread Mike Lococo
I’d like to connect to my departmental network (Windows based), but our IT folks won’t let me for fear of viruses, worms, etc. Is there anything on the web that I can show them that would indicate that the N800 is not a security risk? Or maybe it is??? Thanks! It's hard to make an

Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet

2007-02-12 Thread Mike Lococo
Or let them figure out that buttons on both sides (with key customization in control panel) are useful for all. And that will make both righties and lefties very happy! Continued expansion of the form factor makes me very unhappy. I wish they'd have left the stereo speakers off the N800 and

Re: [maemo-users] Re: N800 and Bluetooth Headsets

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Lococo
The SINGLE worst problem with the 770/800 is NO BT headsets. It's a long standing complaint. I've come to believe it's a conscious decision. No argument here - It seems like the exclusion was conscious, but I can't figure out why. It's being actively worked on. The reason for the delay is, I

Re: [maemo-users] Feature Suggestion

2007-01-29 Thread Mike Lococo
Jonathan, It seems there is no standard for how developers design home screen applets. I'd like to see there be a mandatory resize function so you could make sure that things could be smaller or larger as needed. Two examples are the GPE-Calendar and Canola applets which I'd make smaller.

[maemo-users] Version number for New OS 2006 firmware

2007-01-27 Thread Mike Lococo
Hi Folks, Is there a guide anywhere for deciphering the release version numbers? The descriptions of final, latest, and updated used on http://www.maemo.org/downloads/nokia_770.php are not really helpful. Thanks, Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list

Re: [maemo-users] Premium eBooks?

2007-01-26 Thread Mike Lococo
Jonathan, Fair enough - was just wondering what others were doing. I think the consensus is that we're getting content from any one of the many sources that do not encumber it with copy protection. Obviously this does limit choice of content, but the alternative is having limited choice

Re: [maemo-users] Usage

2007-01-26 Thread Mike Lococo
To me my 770 is a laptop replacement. ... However I get the feeling most here see it as either a PDA (like a palm) or as a multimedia device (ala windows mobile or an iPhone). It's good for all those things, but there are more people that listen to music or use a calendar than that run

Re: [maemo-users] Striped Screen of Death?

2007-01-19 Thread Mike Lococo
Mike Klein wrote: thanks - guess I need to make the call then. I was hoping there was some sort of fix we could run from a computer Doesn't Nokia provide a means of re-flashing the device? Or do you need SDK installed for this? There is a means of reflashing the device, it does not

Re: [maemo-users] gpe-PIM

2007-01-12 Thread Mike Lococo
I'm trying to install the GPE PIM tools... I've successfully installed gpe-todo but am having issues with calendar and contacts. Please disregard, I've solved the problems. It would be nice to share the solution so that others facing similar issues can benefit. Thanks, Mike

Re: [maemo-users] Story of the firmwares

2007-01-03 Thread Mike Lococo
Kahlil, Hi can anyone help me giving me an intro to the firmware biosphere for the maemo enviroment. I bought it with 2005 firmware, then I upgrade to 2006. however the front page list two firmwares, Sardine and Herring. I want to know whats up with that, is that development firmwares, fork of

[maemo-users] Unison and large transfers

2006-12-12 Thread Mike Lococo
Greetings, Is anyone else using unison to sync directories of several hundred megabytes? In addition to using it for backup, unison is my preferred method of transferring files to and from the 770. However, when I move a large volume of data (for example a 300MB audio book from

Re: [maemo-users] 770 on the way

2006-12-07 Thread Mike Lococo
If the 870 had a pull-out keyboard, that would be compelling enough for me. Otherwise, I'd probably skip a generation or two. Indeed! I have an n770 and would definitely buy an 870 if it had a keyboard with a CTRL and ESC button (that is, a keyboard on which I could code, run vim, etc) I

Re: [maemo-users] Crashing 770

2006-12-04 Thread Mike Lococo
Shivkumar, ... whenever I start GPE calendar after a long break it always crashes. It requires a second attempt to come up. Report this at http://bugzilla.handhelds.org/. I think that hildon may kill apps that take too long to start, and if you have many calendar entries you may be getting

Re: [maemo-users] GooSync

2006-11-10 Thread Mike Lococo
Outlook - GPE Calendar synchronisation works quite well through ScheduleWorld's web-based SyncML server. Is there any documentation for this or previous mailing list threads that I might have missed? I wasn't aware that GPE was capable of any kind of syncing on the 770 (beyond copying the

Re: [maemo-users] New user questions

2006-06-26 Thread Mike Lococo
Alex gave lots of good advice, which I'll only add to... 1. I use Mac OS X. Is there any way (other than using Virtual PC or buying an Intel-Mac) to load system updates onto the 770 using it instead of Windows? -- Go to the Maemo website (at http://www.maemo.org) and there is a flasher

Re: [maemo-users] extending 770 video player

2006-06-13 Thread Mike Lococo
Loreno Oliveira wrote: Apparently, the browser has some built-in smartness for opening pull streams (the client application starts and controls the stream transfering). This is uncommon but definitely cool :-) Thanks for the correction, that is uncommon. Typically, fast playback is