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mobiledivide	2008-03-26 , 17:07
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This thread is like watching a boxing match with the added bonus being the 'ThankYou' posts found at the bottom of each post are like the touts in each corner, great entertainment

The Following 9 Users Say Thank You to mobiledivide For This Useful Post:
ARJWright, Benson, Bundyo, GeneralAntilles, iontruo2, pixelseventy2, qwerty12, Texrat, Zoso

	Texrat	2008-03-26 , 17:11
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I said I was done, but I just gotta say: bless you tz1 for providing such an awesome example of How It's Done.

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	Benson	2008-03-26 , 17:41
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Originally Posted by tz1

The platform is very good out of the box, and only gets better because I can extend and enhance it easily - maybe not as easily as one or two clicks, but there is a lot of stuff not on my Macintosh powerbook because there is no way to get it to work (challenge - create a virtual serial port - something that Google Earth or other closed mapping program could recognize as a serial port for a GPS NMEA stream, but takes data from a TCP (or UDP) port. I have all the dev docs, yet I've not attempted it).

Well, I've no mac (

, depending), but I think ptys are your ticket here.
Do something like

Code:

nc -l -p port </dev/ptyp0 >/dev/ptyp0

And let GE go to /dev/ttyp0; change p0 to an available choice in [p-sP-S][a-z0-9] if needed. I got my info on pty specifics from pty(4)

bobloadmire	2008-03-26 , 17:55
Posts: 87 \| Thanked: 5 times \| Joined on Jan 2008	#74

thank god nokia will never be like apple! dodged a bullet there.

nilchak	2008-03-26 , 17:56
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Originally Posted by fms

Actually, that is wanting to censure him, and wanting it in a rather impotent manner ("can't kick him, can't ban him, so let's all complain about him being rude").

The correct way to respond to a troll without telling him what and how to speak is to address the matter of his flame bait in a way that will eventually lead him to understand his lack of purpose in life and commit suicide, nicely and cleanly.

Yes, and the best way to do that is not to answer or respond to the troll message AT ALL.

A blank thread with a single posting (the troll) is the best way to silence him/her, without also censuring or trampling on the right of speech.

In fact I stayed away from this thread for the same reason, clearly understanding this was a useless troll.

	ysss	2008-03-26 , 18:44
	Posts: 4,384 \| Thanked: 5,524 times \| Joined on Jul 2007 @ ˙ǝɹǝɥʍou	#76

8 pages of defensive ramblings against a TROLL??
Why bother at all...

I think I'm starting to understand where all the development efforts are going to, instead of improving the NIT platform.

	Benson	2008-03-26 , 18:54
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ysss, you must not have read them! We scared the troll off long ago, flaming each other so vehemently.

	GeneralAntilles	2008-03-26 , 18:55
	Posts: 5,478 \| Thanked: 5,222 times \| Joined on Jan 2006 @ St. Petersburg, FL	#78

Originally Posted by ysss

I think I'm starting to understand where all the development efforts are going to, instead of improving the NIT platform.

Not many of the people talking in the thread are developers. :\

	Benson	2008-03-26 , 18:58
	Posts: 4,930 \| Thanked: 2,272 times \| Joined on Oct 2007	#79

Well, maybe we could be, if we spent our time learning. But flamewars are soooo much more fun!

	penguinbait	2008-03-26 , 19:27
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Seriously, I gave my my wife a n810, she uses it everyday. She uses it to keep in touch with family on MySpace. She plays games on it. She uses it to check webmail. She uses it to check the bank. She uses it whenever shes bored. Its running the firmware it shipped with, which is 1 version old. She has become a addict like the rest. She has not once asked me to fix anything, or install anything. She is a stay home mom of 4 with very little computer or technology experience.

I use it as a computer, since that is what it is. I print with it, I do spreadsheets and word processing documents. Email... I connect to VNC and Terminal Services. I can play quake2 multiplayer and mame roms with a joystick. I can access media on DVD/CDROM's. I can use Maemo Mapper, to find directions using bluetooth to my cell phone, and t-mobile 5.99 a month plan, also get web. I also use Maemo Mapper to view satellite maps of areas when I am out on the trails. Well the camera is not great, or even good, I can video call my wife which is awesome even with a crappy picture. I play music (MP3) and Movies/TV shows. Did I mention it runs KDE?

I can't wait to see what the next generation will bring...

I would like to thank Fanoush, Pipeline, Gnuite and many other developers for all the awesome software. As well as Nokia and the whole Maemo team!!!

The tablet is like everything else in life, its what you make of it.

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