Forum: Nokia N900
2009-08-20, 16:59
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Replies: 625
Views: 200,691
Re: First N900 Review
I sure hope that LED indicator is visible from the side. It's one of my favourite features about the N810; being able to glance into my pocket and know instantly whether I have messages.
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Forum: General
2009-08-15, 18:29
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Replies: 58
Views: 13,654
Re: Does Free Fail?
Personally, I think the surrounding infrastructure is what makes this difficult in Maemo land. Hopefully, come Harmattan (or whatever it is...), Maemo will have its entire development pipeline...
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle
2009-08-09, 15:54
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Replies: 149
Views: 42,895
Re: RX-51 Tablet picture released at Engadget
Same thought here. I won't pay for a GSM radio that I'm never going to use, unfortunately.
I am interested in seeing how much of that front face is the screen, but judging by the Nokia logo and...
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Forum: Alternatives
2009-05-20, 06:17
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Replies: 25
Views: 10,944
Re: Moblin opening up
Moblin 2 works beautifully on netbooks (just test drove it!) and should cooperate on one of those mystical "MIDs" :)
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Forum: Applications
2009-05-15, 22:03
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Replies: 632
Views: 189,393
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Forum: Applications
2009-04-29, 15:39
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,719
Re: Qtmapper questions...
No answers to contribute, but I just discovered qtmapper, too :)
AWESOME piece of software. I love how it is more decisively tied to OpenStreetMap. I didn't get an opportunity to really play with...
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Forum: Applications
2009-04-21, 01:17
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Replies: 14
Views: 4,427
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Forum: Multimedia
2009-04-12, 18:40
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,247
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Forum: Games
2009-03-23, 03:52
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Replies: 70
Views: 27,926
Re: The Mana World 0.0.28.1
Dude, you read my mind! I was just looking through the games in Ubuntu's repositories (wondering what had changed since I looked about a year / a half ago), tinkered with Mana World and thought "man,...
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Forum: Applications
2009-02-08, 23:02
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,436
Re: Telepathy-butterfly?
Okay, so I went and installed scratchbox in a 32-bit VM.
pymsn and python-crypto are two things we need but are not packaged. They all build and install happily in scratchbox, but that thing is...
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Forum: Applications
2009-02-03, 19:13
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,812
Re: ABIWORD for maemo
I've downloaded Abiword on regular Maemo before. Sadly, that was a while ago. (Only removed it due to lack of space; it worked really well). I believe it is in the extras-devel repository... Gnumeric...
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Forum: Applications
2009-01-13, 15:14
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Replies: 16
Views: 11,859
Re: Sync with google contacts?
Multisync 0.90 (available in Ubuntu 8.10's repositories - that's multisync0.90, not the stable one) can sync wirelessly from GPE to Evolution on the local machine. Using Conduit, you could sync...
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Forum: Applications
2008-12-28, 03:38
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Replies: 440
Views: 109,811
Re: WebKit engine for default browser
I installed your packages to test them out. I installed this with "sudo dpkg -i package1 package2 package3" in the terminal; the less hair-raising alternative to "red pill mode".
This is a nice...
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Forum: General
2008-12-25, 18:20
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,655
Re: os2008 coomunication suite on desktop
Empathy is certainly awesome. For the bleeding edge stuff, check out the Telepathy (https://edge.launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive) PPA on Launchpad.
Quick explanation on why it's called the...
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Forum: Nokia N810
2008-12-23, 16:37
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Replies: 23
Views: 6,066
Re: Why Can't They
Maemo Mapper works for some things, but my problem is that its mapping portion is essentially a glorified image viewer. The maps are all tiles of raster images, so cannot be routed (the online...
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Forum: General
2008-12-03, 00:23
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Replies: 38
Views: 12,493
Re: Usability Testing for "Maemo Organizer"
Oh, naturally. For example, there is no reason to keep tasks / calendars with seperate data. They should both refer to exactly the same kind of information; they're just different views. For some...
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Forum: Alternatives
2008-10-22, 05:06
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Replies: 859
Views: 322,038
Re: ANNOUNCE: Easy Debian Turbo-Charged Edition!
Yes, I just noticed that after removing all my other Java packages, qole.
Run "sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-openjdk"
That should jump into a longish configuration process that gets it...
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Forum: Alternatives
2008-10-20, 17:34
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Replies: 859
Views: 322,038
Re: ANNOUNCE: Easy Debian Turbo-Charged Edition!
A note about Java:
I noticed that there was no java command when I first installed this by copying the compressed image into a spare partition. I needed to run "sudo update-alternatives --config...
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Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo
2008-10-06, 04:17
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Replies: 75
Views: 15,145
Re: Diablo BLOWS
I think a lot of us bought an internet tablet knowing ahead of time that what we're buying is more a piece of really nice hackable hardware with a Linux operating system and a reasonably open...
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Forum: General
2008-09-29, 03:24
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,072
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Forum: Games
2008-09-29, 03:14
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Replies: 174
Views: 84,449
Re: New Port: FreeCiv SDL
So, just out of curiosity, has anyone compiled a newer version? (We are a few point releases behind here).
Someone really needs to get a mirror of FreeCiv SDL up on Maemo Extras, because it runs...
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Forum: Applications
2008-09-29, 00:01
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,926
Nice discovery for cli users: sudser
I noticed a (new?) package in the app catalog called sudser. It is quite simple, and very tiny, but it successfully eradicates the need for things like gainroot, rootsh or sshing to root. It simply...
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Forum: Design
2008-09-11, 17:52
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Replies: 117
Views: 85,277
Re: Show off you Startup Screen!
Oh oh oh, here is my completely unoriginal (but quite nice looking) splash screen!
For the second stage I have a desaturated and blurred version of my wallpaper.
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Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo
2008-08-23, 15:51
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Replies: 42
Views: 6,554
Re: Diablo/Modest email Useless
http://www.texas-exile.org/images/duckroll.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0)
I think this is sorted, then. Bug tracker, maybe the mailing list, are the places to go with this. You...
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Forum: Alternatives
2008-08-12, 04:58
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Replies: 215
Views: 85,519
Re: New Debian (beta3) for the N8x0 w/ XFCE
Ah! Here are my recent experiences tweaking the XFCE desktop. What we get out of the box is not quite ideal, since it is not a full xfce4-session. Indeed, xfce session is not actually running (which...
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