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Forum: Nokia N900 2011-04-20, 13:07
Replies: 141
Views: 160,001
Posted By Funklord
Re: Soldering advice needed for re-attaching N900 USB to mainboard.

Anyone done a mod to expose the 5V and gnd as large pads on the outside, since it seems the usb connector is so prone to wear & tear?
Or is it possible to get at the charger through another way than...
Forum: General 2011-03-21, 18:01
Replies: 36
Views: 14,277
Posted By Funklord
Re: Is N900 the last resistive touch screen device ever made on earth?

One, important factor, or let's say THE most important factor for n900 to choose a resistive screen, is the accuracy.

n900 uses predominantly the same software that runs on your PC, which are...
Forum: General 2011-03-16, 02:45
Replies: 36
Views: 14,277
Posted By Funklord
Re: Is N900 the last resistive touch screen device ever made on earth?

Both have advantages and disadvantages, which have been discussed for much longer than a decade.
It's silly when people speak about one being "better" than the other.
Although, I think...
Forum: General 2011-03-16, 02:39
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,459
Posted By Funklord
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

I think this, on the front page of the site, says it all:



If you've come to bash Nokia, you're clearly in the wrong forum. Since this forum is first and foremost for developers, it's sad to...
Forum: General 2011-03-12, 00:19
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,459
Posted By Funklord
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

The real fragmentation is coming from commercial interests, creating things like iphone, android and webos, who purposely try to create their own "software eco-system" (sorry about the bad language)...
Forum: Development 2011-03-11, 15:43
Replies: 51
Views: 21,826
Posted By Funklord
Re: Time for an open maemo fork?

Yes, syncing is not as easy as it first looks, and all approaches have severe down sides.
The best automatic syncing mechanisms use a lot of metadata and complicated algorithms to determine what to...
Forum: General 2011-03-10, 22:56
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,459
Posted By Funklord
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

I'm not sure I totally agree with you there, if everyone runs after the same big bucks, everyone profits only a little.
But If you cater for a market that everyone else ignores, you earn the big...
Forum: General 2011-03-10, 21:41
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,459
Posted By Funklord
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

I was blaming the 1st party, ie. Nokia. Who left a lot of the initially installed, and most used (on a phone) apps to rot, while focusing on something else.
I'm not saying that something else wasn't...
Forum: General 2011-03-10, 04:16
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,459
Posted By Funklord
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

No, because in this case, there's a chevy and a chevy factory, and someone wanted everything changed to produce fords instead, because hell, ford sounds nicer.

Now, if they wanted it changed to...
Forum: General 2011-03-10, 01:41
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,459
Posted By Funklord
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

What? transactions?
We're talking about an embedded system here, recording unnecessary information because of the odd chance that a user wants to roll back to an old, possibly even more faulty...
Forum: General 2011-03-09, 23:17
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,459
Posted By Funklord
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

There's nothing about rpm that makes it inherently better than any other package system.
It used to be the *worst* package manager, now it's merely mediocre.
Switching to rpm should *not* be a...
Forum: General 2011-03-09, 01:37
Replies: 299
Views: 132,220
Posted By Funklord
Re: N950 with MeeGo this year, but who trusts Nokia anymore?

But I know the price!
it will be paid by the blood of a thousand maemo developers...
:D
Forum: Development 2011-03-09, 01:32
Replies: 51
Views: 21,826
Posted By Funklord
Re: Time for an open maemo fork?

I'm not particularly fond of some parts of GTK+ & co since many of the libs and tools are too bloated for embedded use, and many of them depend on each other for no reason what so ever.
It may be...
Forum: Development 2011-03-08, 16:08
Replies: 51
Views: 21,826
Posted By Funklord
Re: Time for an open maemo fork?

Not to sound like a whiner, but there are some small issues with both FSO and ofono, that make them less likely to become adopted as standard:

FSO tries to integrate too much, and has too many...
Forum: Development 2011-03-06, 22:22
Replies: 51
Views: 21,826
Posted By Funklord
Re: Time for an open maemo fork?

The thing I'm missing the most is that no standard way of making phone calls exists on linux.
We have interfaces for LEDs, NICs, usb pointing devices and all sorts of weird hardware. But making a...
Forum: General 2011-02-23, 12:16
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,459
Posted By Funklord
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

Funny, I've owned several of the winCE devices in the 90s, pocketpc phones by HTC.

The winCE devices in the 90s were terrible pieces of very expensive crap.
Nothing they claimed worked, you...
Forum: General 2011-02-22, 17:28
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,459
Posted By Funklord
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

If a procedure to resolve a problem is obvious, (as it typically is with many windows problems) the problem shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Unintended problems often have severely...
Forum: General 2011-02-21, 23:42
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,459
Posted By Funklord
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

Let's get to one MAJOR difference, Maemo on the n900 typically has around 100 programs that run simultaneously 100% of the time, and still retains a reasonable cpu/memory footprint and most...
Forum: General 2011-02-21, 23:10
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,459
Posted By Funklord
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

Wrong. Pros use the appropriate technology for the appropriate task, and get paid for it, since the end result is better. When micro-management strikes, the pros quit.

Here's a model of the...
Forum: General 2011-02-20, 21:59
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,459
Posted By Funklord
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

So far, nothing said on this board indicates any sanity in the MS-Nokia deal for end-users or Nokia employees. The only benefits seen are for a select few at the top of Nokia (and Microsoft).
And...
Forum: General 2011-02-20, 06:32
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,459
Posted By Funklord
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

Interesting. What is the value of a 1% increase in his shares, and what is the highest penalty/settlement anyone has ever been made to pay for this crime?



YES the uber-popular windows CE...
Forum: General 2011-02-20, 05:55
Replies: 1,963
Views: 576,459
Posted By Funklord
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

No, his shares go up, his wallet gets fatter, obvious, why should I be explaining this to you?


No, but Nokia dropping Maemo (and theoretically android) and soon to be acquired by MS will.

...
Forum: General 2011-02-18, 16:19
Replies: 207
Views: 63,050
Posted By Funklord
Re: A little confuised on the N900/Maemo haters... please explain.

Yes, bring in one of the silliest human inventions that has ever been passed as "science"
Put people in neat little boxes with names on them, based on vague understanding of a system that is...
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