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Forum: Nokia N900 2012-01-17, 09:47
Replies: 86
Views: 25,581
Posted By rich c
Re: What phone are you going to get after the N900 ??

One thing not mentioned yet that I'm missing. Notification light! Having to unlock the screen to check the notification bar is nowhere near as efficient.
Forum: Nokia N900 2012-01-16, 09:20
Replies: 86
Views: 25,581
Posted By rich c
Re: What phone are you going to get after the N900 ??

As I mentioned elsewhere, I've recently 'replaced' my N900 with a Samsung Galaxy SII which seems to fulfil my day to day needs based on a couple of day's usage.

Having said that, my N900 will...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-11-26, 16:51
Replies: 375
Views: 191,765
Posted By rich c
Re: [Announce] CSSU stable release

Awesome stuff! Great to see a CSSU Stable at last! At least no-one can accuse the (most excellent) people involved of rushing it! :-D
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-09-10, 17:57
Replies: 5,430
Views: 1,699,320
Posted By rich c
Re: The in-development Maemo 5 Community SSU

I had a broken packages problem which I managed to fix by firing up HAM and disabling various repos followed by a re-enable. I guess the forced refresh/update allowed the system to 'see' the broken...
Forum: Community 2011-05-25, 20:03
Replies: 446
Views: 90,296
Posted By rich c
Re: PETITION to Nokia to release the full source code of the Maemo OS to this Community.

I voted yes. As far as I'm concerned, Nokia have nothing to loose as I will never buy another Nokia product with the current Microsoft agreement in place. However, I would really like my N900 to...
Forum: Applications 2011-03-30, 01:40
Replies: 11
Views: 4,745
Posted By rich c
Re: Insanely slow app manager

I found App Manager in particular was a lot quicker after I changed swappiness from the default 100 to something a bit saner! I did it 'manually' but Swappolube (http://wiki.maemo.org/Swappolube)...
Forum: Development 2011-03-01, 02:14
Replies: 19
Views: 6,778
Posted By rich c
Re: How to use root within script/program?

Setuid maybe? Here's an explainiation (http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-bsd-linux-setuid-file/) I pretty much picked at random from a Google search.
Forum: General 2011-02-12, 03:13
Replies: 34
Views: 11,251
Posted By rich c
Re: What are the options? WebOS, Android or iOS?

The more I think about it, the more WebOS seems like an option! As it stands, it'd be WebOS followed by Android followed by iOS if I were desperate! However by the time I need to replace my N900,...
Forum: General 2011-02-11, 09:05
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,371
Posted By rich c
Re: breaking news:nokia partners with microsoft

I fully concur with the sentiments expressed that this is, in effect, a Nokia/Microsoft suicide pact! My next phone will now, beyond doubt, be a Nexus S or similar.
Forum: General 2011-01-23, 11:01
Replies: 10
Views: 4,693
Posted By rich c
Re: 2010 sees large scale increase in smartphone trojans

Rumours? Nope. That's pretty much how I run my home network. Not sure what you're getting at on the whitelist point though... Total cost of protecting my Linux machines? £0.
Forum: General 2011-01-23, 09:45
Replies: 10
Views: 4,693
Posted By rich c
Re: 2010 sees large scale increase in smartphone trojans

What I got from that article was:
"Don't get an Apple product and if you've got an Android device, be careful what you install."

It all boils down to the same sensible precautions you'd take on a...
Forum: General 2010-09-10, 09:13
Replies: 234
Views: 86,972
Posted By rich c
Re: Nokia CEO Resigns

As a Linux guy, this makes me.... nervous. Still, I'm willing to let the guy's actions speak for themselves...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-09-05, 13:15
Replies: 8
Views: 1,947
Posted By rich c
Re: Help needed (:

Fear not, GParted is a GUI (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php). The commonly circulated FUD that you have to use the command line to use Linux is just that. FUD...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-08-29, 21:44
Replies: 15
Views: 2,989
Posted By rich c
Re: newbie on n900 (1 day)

Welcome!

May I be the first to say.... Sarge? Really? :eek:
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-07-30, 23:55
Replies: 6
Views: 4,251
Posted By rich c
Re: Security when open and closed collide

Apparently, the Android wallpaper malware thing isn't true (http://www.androidtapp.com/android-wallpaper-apps-falsely-accused-of-spyware-and-stealing-sensitive-user-data-fud/)...
Forum: Community 2010-06-16, 08:43
Replies: 60
Views: 24,269
Posted By rich c
Re: [Council] "Chromium" removed from maemo.org repositories

This might be a place to start... (http://www.falkotimme.com/howtos/checkinstall/)
Forum: Multimedia 2010-06-15, 14:08
Replies: 3
Views: 1,574
Posted By rich c
Re: tablet-encode

Great tip! I needed to do that & ended up using Handbrake to rip then tablet-encode to convert. I love all the cool stuff you can do on the command line if you know how!!!:cool:
Forum: Multimedia 2010-06-14, 17:15
Replies: 3
Views: 1,574
Posted By rich c
Thumbs up tablet-encode

I've just started using tablet encode. It sure beats messing about with Handbrake as I'd been trying previously! :D
Forum: General 2010-03-02, 23:04
Replies: 62
Views: 17,706
Posted By rich c
Re: What's your Maemo device's killer app?

X Terminal, without a doubt.
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-03-02, 05:24
Replies: 4
Views: 3,418
Posted By rich c
Re: does anyone know how to do a offline install in n900

As we're basically talking about Debian here, I'm sure you could download a .deb file and copy/move it to your n900 and then run (as root) dpkg -i whateverthe packageis.deb

Simple(ish)...
Forum: General 2010-02-21, 08:55
Replies: 23
Views: 31,262
Posted By rich c
Re: Any antivirus for N900

I have A/V (KlamAV) on my Linux desktop machines to occasionally scan shared filesystems that Windows machines use... Purely so they don't get re-infected if there is a virus in there, not for the...
Forum: Alternatives 2010-02-18, 11:57
Replies: 1
Views: 7,442
Posted By rich c
Re: Apps for Debian on N900

An awful lot! Have fun browsing this lot (http://packages.debian.org/stable/).
Forum: Community 2010-02-17, 09:29
Replies: 6
Views: 1,731
Posted By rich c
Zero reply threads.

This seems to be the place to make website suggestions...

Would it be possible to have a search facility for zero reply threads and have the occasional 'drive' to answer them like Linuxquestions...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-02-15, 02:59
Replies: 48
Views: 27,314
Posted By rich c
Re: "Cool" X Terminal commands for a noob?

There's things like df -h to see what % 'disk' space you have left, for example. Here's a link (http://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html) to a pretty comprehensive list of busybox commands. (Be...
Forum: General 2010-02-13, 21:10
Replies: 2,070
Views: 748,092
Posted By rich c
Talking Re: New members say hello !

Got my N900 on Friday and I'm VERY pleased with it. I've been using SimplyMepis Linux on my PCs at home for some time now, so the N900 felt very comfortable and familiar pretty quickly once I'd...
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