A bit of a rant.
 

I just hacked together a female-female usb adapter out of 2 male-female adapters and the results are stunning to say the least. I feel like I can actually use my n810 for serious, productive work now. I have 2 problems though: Lack of any word processing software and a huge mess of wires.

The latter isnt that big of an issue but the former-well, letś just say that it completely halts my prospects for the little n810.

I think I would be speaking for everyone when I say that Notes just doesnt cut it and abiword is a complete mess. As far as the latest build goes; Pasting crashes the program immediately and the letter p doesnt seem to be important to Abiword as he completely ignores it when I try to use it. I just installed easy debian for openoffice but I can only hope that soon installing 2 gigs of data just to use a word processor will become a forgotten chore in the future of maemo.

/endofrant

Re: A bit of a rant.
 

As far as rants go, I've seen worse ;)

So, as far as this usb deal you're doing goes...

I've been meaning to look into what I need to do start experimenting with what I can and cannot do with usb on the N810.

However, I haven't really gotten anywhere (technically, haven't really started trying ;))

Care to share what you're doing, or trying to do?

Re: A bit of a rant.
 

Nothing special. Just installed the usbcontrol app and hooked up a keyboard.

I wrote a 2 page outline in openoffice, which is surprisingly stable considering the way it's emulated.

Re: A bit of a rant.
 

Well good to hear that it's working for you.

Re: A bit of a rant.
 

There are some good news on that front, although I don't think it's made it to the repositories yet.

Re: A bit of a rant.
 

Was already in repositories last night.