can someone help me. i need to flash my n800. i need to restart, my n800 i really slowing down... SOME PLEASE HELP!!!

If you're running Windows Vista:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=6439

If you're running OSX (MAC):
https://maemo.org/maemowiki/HOWTO_Fl...mageWithMacOSX

If you're running XP:
http://www.nokiausa.com/A4410958

I have a bad feeling about the answer but... if you are running Linux?

Then you get a text based flasher utility...

http://maemo.org/community/wiki/HOWT...ImageWithLinux

Linux is the easiest of all of them I think. I kinda figured if you'd been running linux you'd be able to find the instructions.

oh good. I am so used to not being able to do things in Linux because all the world is Windows, this will take getting used to.

Now to hunt down the best sites for info on compiling things for this beast.

Zebee

Heh. I've been reading this site heavily, googling, finding what I can, I'm overwhelmed rather. But also thinking "goddamit, why isn't there a one stop shop? Why do I have to trawl threads and poke at un-populated wikis? (GPE I'm looking at you!)

Maybe I should start to create an N800 for linux users page, with the info that I find. At least then I will find the info again.

(Silly me found a page that talked about an expenses prog for the N800 which was being done by someone involved with gnucash, think I can find it again?)

Zebee

Well, I started playing with Slackware Linux in 1995 or so. Right now I've been running Ubuntu for 11 months, by far the best Linux distro I've tried (about 8 total now) and by far the longest. Usually I get through a month, and then it cacks and I reinstall Windows.

Reconfiguring how you think is the biggest hurdle. Instead of blaming Linux for hardware issues, now I blame the manufacturers. Microsoft is getting all that juicy inside knowledge of how things work and they shut out people like me. Fine. I'll go buy the Wifi card that *works* instead. (Which I did.)

But you're right, like you said, one of the biggest hurdles is having to look up all that info and it can be daunting. You don't realize just how much you picked up over the years with Windows. When something barfed, I could go into it and fix it without thinking. Now I'm lost most of the time until I find detailed instructions someone posted on what to do. Once you get used to it, it's almost a high. I *love* using this computer now. (I just bounced the desktop cube around a few times, hehehhe)

I started Slack a bit before that, and never went to Windows. Been using Linux as my home and work desktop (although work also had Ultrix and Irix) since around Windows 311g (I also dislike Ubuntu, probably because I don't do Windows - Ubuntu is loved by those who are used to MS, but not by those who aren't...)

The hard part with the threads here is to work out what to search on, and to try and pull the info together. If there's a repository of Frequently Needed Information I haven't found it yet.

I guess I'll just accumulate bookmarks for a while, experiment some, and then start writing it up.

I just realised that I have another bit of software on my iPaq (the only 'doze I use except for the VM instance of Xp that backs it up which I have to use since SynCE was abandoned) that I'll need to replace - ListPro. Maybe there's a Palm equiv.

Zebee

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