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Forum: Neo900 2013-12-19, 16:17
Replies: 3,244
Views: 1,506,995
Posted By Benson
Re: Neo900 - finally a successor of N900

So... this chip, in addition to the running the N900's own touchscreen, can also handle 4 capacitive contacts. Would be great to use these (e.g. place a strip or ipod-like touch wheel on the battery...
Forum: Neo900 2013-09-19, 01:38
Replies: 3,244
Views: 1,506,995
Posted By Benson
Re: Neo900 - finally a successor of N900

I'd point out that the HP48 calculators all used bidirectional CIR for calculator-to-calculator and calculator-to-printer comms. Not that that's a particularly compelling use-case now, as the later...
Forum: Community 2011-06-06, 06:08
Replies: 446
Views: 87,800
Posted By Benson
Re: PETITION to Nokia to release the full source code of the Maemo OS to this Community.

Over a third of the no votes are dual-votes; most likely, like mine, meant to mock this silly poll.
Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-05-17, 02:40
Replies: 7,353
Views: 1,755,099
Posted By Benson
Re: N9 hits FCC???

So tonight I was at the local pub, and this scrawny guy in a black turtleneck walked in with a phone in an N900 case, but it didn't really fit right. I spiked his drink with a potent cocktail of...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-05-13, 06:02
Replies: 2,990
Views: 1,102,966
Posted By Benson
Angry Re: [Announce] kernel-power v47

It's actually an issue with gstreamer0.10-av, which was depended on by the new ogg-support.

And it was fixed days ago, so no need to revert.

And all this was already covered...
Forum: Competitors 2011-05-12, 03:58
Replies: 37
Views: 12,416
Posted By Benson
Re: Nokia will announe something next week but what?

Actually, it is my understanding that Bing Maps and ovi Maps are to be merged. One can only assume this is an attempt to take the worst parts of both and get a market-leading mapping solution by way...
Forum: Multimedia 2011-05-06, 00:49
Replies: 526
Views: 205,190
Posted By Benson
Re: [ANNOUNCE] SomePlayer is available for Maemo 5

One would ordinarily look at the output of apt-get remove and either say N if there's unexpected stuff, or just reinstall them afterwards...

Anyway, you need to downgrade ogg-support to 1.0.6~rc1...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-05-05, 01:07
Replies: 2,990
Views: 1,102,966
Posted By Benson
Re: [Announce] kernel-power v47

And our winner of the "gratuitous use of cat*" award for today is...
*Also, echo. And output substitution.
Or was this meant as an entry to the obfuscated code competition? ;)

Anyway, congrats...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-04-09, 17:33
Replies: 5,430
Views: 1,659,625
Posted By Benson
Re: The in-development Maemo 5 Community SSU

What sort of sense would that make? Distributing entire roms is necessary (or rather, very helpful) on Android because it's structured as a base system + apks, with app management only applying to...
Forum: Community 2011-04-03, 07:00
Replies: 197
Views: 39,077
Posted By Benson
Re: should d**kheads who anonymously troll via tags have their tagging privileges revoked?

So disputes over tagging are to be settled on the field of honor, then? Capital, I say!
Forum: Accessories 2011-03-29, 02:50
Replies: 20
Views: 56,852
Posted By Benson
Re: Mod idea: inductive charging from Palm Touchstone kit

Alright, here's pictures. (Click through to flickr for bigger versions + a few more shots.)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5029/5569405925_649a43b252.jpg...
Forum: Accessories 2011-03-28, 22:30
Replies: 20
Views: 56,852
Posted By Benson
Thumbs up Re: Mod idea: inductive charging from Palm Touchstone kit

Mod accomplished!
Pics and detailed description to follow in a bit.

Since the USB port lifted the VBUS trace off the board, and I couldn't locate VBUS anywhere else (except, per the schematics,...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2011-03-07, 06:42
Replies: 256
Views: 149,914
Posted By Benson
Re: MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition for N900

That, or just another option for people who are looking to the future where there won't be any maemo devices but will be a lot of meego devices, and making apps so that you will have them then...
Forum: General 2011-03-07, 05:40
Replies: 46
Views: 13,119
Posted By Benson
Re: How many maemo users do we have?

I think lma's intent was to look for updates over a 24-hour period -- since most N900s are still running the default 24-hour update interval, that should get close, maybe filter for unique IPs as...
Forum: Development 2011-03-07, 05:26
Replies: 51
Views: 21,501
Posted By Benson
Re: Time for an open maemo fork?

First, why do you care if they're GPL, or more generally a "copyleft" license? As long as they're under a OSD-compliant or "free software" license, they should suit the mentioned purpose of...
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-03-07, 00:22
Replies: 24
Views: 7,362
Posted By Benson
Re: im about to

If rebooting fixes it, and it's been up for a while, you should suspect swap fragmentation.

You can defrag your swap by setting swap partitions on both internal memory and SD card, and switch...
Forum: General 2011-03-06, 14:41
Replies: 7
Views: 4,230
Posted By Benson
Re: Alternate way of creating Nokia N900 Playlists

You could use QueenBeeCon or something, since someplayer is fully controllable via dbus.
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2011-03-05, 18:34
Replies: 256
Views: 149,914
Posted By Benson
Re: MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition for N900

Really? Because if past experience is any guide, most users will want this because it's the new shiny. After they install it, then they'll whine endlessly about how it's lacking features existing in...
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-03-05, 12:49
Replies: 138
Views: 38,924
Posted By Benson
Re: HELP! My mates think my N900 is a piece of crap!

Temporarily, at least, the FMTX is quite impressive. When his iPhone is plugged into a tinny speaker providing barely adequate volume at his workbench, and my N900 is sitting next to the boombox on...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-02-25, 02:03
Replies: 23
Views: 6,070
Posted By Benson
Re: Request can some one create a new tab in power menu called desktop

romiiio, since you have the CSSU, have you considered enabling forced autorotation, thus freeing up long-press camera to do this (or anything else)?

Of course, forced rotation does break a bunch...
Forum: General 2011-02-24, 05:35
Replies: 10
Views: 3,074
Posted By Benson
Re: [Request] Keeping internet ALIVE

Absolutely nothing of value.

You should use this instead, it will increase the net justice of the universe by at least one quantum per day. ;)
while [ 1 == 1 ]; do wget...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-02-20, 15:52
Replies: 23
Views: 8,898
Posted By Benson
Re: Operator Device Identification - eg, T-Mobile US recognizing it and cutting the $10/mo data plan

Been running PR1.3 since it came out, still using the cheap ($9.99 when I signed up, IIRC) plan, bittorrenting, httping, and sftping loads of data (>10GB/mo), and no complaints from T-Mobile USA yet.
Forum: Accessories 2011-02-14, 06:36
Replies: 20
Views: 56,852
Posted By Benson
Re: Mod idea: inductive charging from Palm Touchstone kit

Odd coincidence that this thread got bumped just when I was going to hunt it down. Thanks, Descalzo! :)

My N900 just took one too many power-cable-assisted dives to the floor yesterday, and now...
Forum: General 2011-02-13, 06:39
Replies: 120
Views: 42,176
Posted By Benson
Re: Worth buying the nokia n900 now?

Eh, the hardware doesn't care if you're running games or what -- if you don't want to use the d-nubs as gaming controls, I'm sure you can get them to move the cursor a la U820, or just ignore them....
Forum: General 2011-02-12, 03:35
Replies: 16
Views: 8,946
Posted By Benson
Re: Intel Backs MeeGo...Dissapointed in Nokia/M$ union

Guess I will have to inform my desktop that it's half as bad as Windows because it's Slackware instead of Ubuntu.



This just in: my desktop doesn't care what Debian fanboys think!
(It may...
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