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Forum: Nokia N900 2010-07-15, 19:07
Replies: 288
Views: 129,272
Posted By sljonson
Re: N900 Bluetooth Keyboard + Mouse scripts

I'm using version 0.6 and I've finally gotten my MS Notebook Mouse 5000 to work. It's a PITA to get to switch to use a different system. But after that hurdle, I can turn the mouse off and back on....
Forum: Competitors 2009-12-31, 15:48
Replies: 86
Views: 30,070
Posted By sljonson
Re: "Surging iPod touch eclipses the iPhone" ... while Nokia stupidly abandons tablets!

There is a market for people who want a form factor like the N8x0. The cell radio add a big premium to the price of smartphone. So the N900 w/o a SIM card is really an option. I hope Nokia doesn't...
Forum: General 2009-12-31, 15:43
Replies: 20
Views: 7,418
Posted By sljonson
Re: Ok, I'm Impressed, Just Not Convinced (Yet)

The N900 is a funny device. It's the 4th ineration of some lon term research that Nokia ha been going since 2001 or so. The first 3 iterations where the Internet Tablets. A size up from the PDA's of...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-12-28, 14:07
Replies: 274
Views: 78,845
Posted By sljonson
Re: I thought there was a firmware update this month

You won't have to reflash the N900 using Flasher or PC Suite software, It will be an incremental updates you'll insall via the App Manager. The usual routine is that you will get notifiction when...
Forum: Applications 2009-12-24, 05:23
Replies: 59
Views: 19,566
Posted By sljonson
Re: App Manager get stuck on "checking for updates" on wi-fi, works fine on cellular

Well with you additional testing, it seems the issue is with Akami's name servers coming from the public IP address of your Wifi connection.

And please forgive my brain dead idea of getting the...
Forum: Applications 2009-12-24, 00:37
Replies: 59
Views: 19,566
Posted By sljonson
Re: App Manager get stuck on "checking for updates" on wi-fi, works fine on cellular

No. As I posted. The problem was a DNS timeout error. In the venacular is that DNS resolver on the N900 failed to resolve the host name of the site. Basically it means a device looking up the IP...
Forum: Applications 2009-12-24, 00:31
Replies: 59
Views: 19,566
Posted By sljonson
Re: App Manager get stuck on "checking for updates" on wi-fi, works fine on cellular

That is the proper host name. The error message you posted is a DNS error. The error means that the N900 didn't get any answer when trying to get the IP address to downloads.maemo.nokia.com. Ther are...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-12-14, 04:09
Replies: 2,626
Views: 1,252,429
Posted By sljonson
Re: How sturdy is the USB port?

Texrat mentioned that the female portion of the N900 usb port came out when the pulled the UBS cable out. So it appears to be possible.
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2009-12-13, 08:46
Replies: 12
Views: 9,087
Posted By sljonson
Re: How secured is the N900 with Maemo5?

Technically the user 'user' has an invalid password hash. Unix platforms store user passwords as a hash instead of plain text. To login in you type your password. The server calculates a hash based...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2009-12-12, 07:38
Replies: 5
Views: 8,081
Posted By sljonson
Re: How to set up US sipgate.com sip service on N900?

I don't have SIP gate account. But you probably left something out of your credentials. Proxy Server is not the service host name you connect with. The service host name actually goes in as part of...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-12-11, 19:31
Replies: 84
Views: 23,099
Posted By sljonson
Re: What's your N900 uptime?

And in case someone want to know what the output to 'uptime' means. The fields are as follows.

1) Current time
2) The current uptime (i.e. time since last reboot)
3) Load Averages for the last 1...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-12-10, 16:24
Replies: 81
Views: 41,303
Posted By sljonson
Re: Micro SD Not Recognized YES I SEARCHED

All of the drivers and subsystems output status messages to tell you what's going on. The command 'dmesg' dumps the kernel's log buffer. What you see on a line is a time stamp' [ dddddd.dddd]', the...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-12-08, 17:21
Replies: 176
Views: 128,102
Posted By sljonson
Re: N900 GPS problem

Ovi Maps on N900 doesn't support Voice Naviation at the moment.
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-12-04, 18:35
Replies: 86
Views: 93,170
Posted By sljonson
Re: GUIDE: How to improve battery life SIGNIFICANTLY

Actually having the cellular radio on doesn't drain that much power. The big power drain when data is actually being transmitted: during a phone call or actual data transfer on a data connection....
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-12-03, 23:04
Replies: 179
Views: 61,921
Posted By sljonson
Re: Nokia n900 horrible!

No, veterans of Maemo.org see that N900 for what it is. They have been involved with the softare and hardware they even stop of it's evolution from N770 to present day. Others' like myself have been...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-12-03, 18:01
Replies: 87
Views: 16,078
Posted By sljonson
Re: Should I wait?

There are always manufacturing defects in large runs of any products. Bad parts, bad solder joints, etc. And even with OEM testing, not every defective unit will be detected. A marginal solder joint...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-12-02, 19:02
Replies: 1
Views: 3,922
Posted By sljonson
The N900's Killer App.

I've been catching up on threads. And I found this post among a thread on the N900's media player.

http://talk.maemo.org/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=44

I think Endri points out the N900's...
Forum: Multimedia 2009-12-02, 18:32
Replies: 420
Views: 246,839
Posted By sljonson
Re: VLC Player Officially coming

The DSP (Digital Signal Processor) in the N900 is ensentially a co-processor which handles the chores of decoding video and sound streams (in this context). It's very much more efficient then having...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-12-02, 16:33
Replies: 784
Views: 280,212
Posted By sljonson
Re: This phone is freaking amazing.. day in the life..

The N900 and Maemo is a new OS platform for Nokia's phone. It don't have the legacy of many man-years of code development the rest of the N series and other phones have. They why it's missing things...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-12-02, 05:32
Replies: 20
Views: 4,746
Posted By sljonson
Re: Am I doing something wrong?

The N900 doesn't have any issues with playing standard Youtube videos. HD Youtube videos push the N900 to the limits of what it the hardware and software can handle. Perhaps in the future the N900...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-12-01, 16:56
Replies: 33
Views: 18,206
Posted By sljonson
Re: Contact Importing

OK a more intensive howto. First you need to have all of you contacts vcards copied into your N900. It's best if you can put them all into the same location (i.e. in a folder under Mydocs). And the...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-11-30, 08:15
Replies: 26
Views: 7,731
Posted By sljonson
Re: I'll buy N900, but I have questions about it :/

The reason for not Video calls right not is not because of the 3G network. The reason is no software. Video calls to my knowledge are all data anyway.
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-11-29, 11:35
Replies: 712
Views: 404,929
Posted By sljonson
Re: N900 battery issue

Don't freak out about the the amount of free memory. The kernel will tend to use most of the memory available as the system runs.The expect stuff will be application code and data pages. The kernel...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-11-29, 11:04
Replies: 40
Views: 39,172
Posted By sljonson
Re: Call Log with Maemo 5 / N900 (especially vs Symbian S60)

I could not sleep and this question intrigued me. After digging around I found it. It's an SQLite 3.x database according to 'file'. It's not going from the console; because, it's a binary blob. The...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2009-11-29, 05:05
Replies: 88
Views: 101,330
Posted By sljonson
Re: How to install deb files in N900

'Documents' is actually a non-obvious location.

/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/

Note the period infront of the '.documents' directory/folder. FWIW, names that start with a period are hidden from...
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