I'm proud to introduce my new, non Maemo specific, blog! eth0: ifconfig realworld up!. It will host italian translations of Maemo related posts from MaddRaves, as well as my other rants and raves about online and offline world.
I've always been a PalmOS entusiast, I decided to leave it only when Nokia 770 was released. So, it's easy to understand how happy I was when I read about GVM. Being able to use Palm's apps on my Maemo IT could fill the gap for PIM applications.
Installing GVM was pretty smooth, and using Addressbook on my N800 gave me a shiver of pleasure along my back, bringing me back in time ;).
At that point I decided to install Iambic Agendus, perhaps the application I miss the most from the Palm times. Well, that wasn't a good choice, GVM crashed and refusing to start anymore. :(
I'm goint to remove the whole stuff and try a fresh install. We'll se.
Italian at: http://www.eth0.it/2007/11/13/garnetvm-iniziamo-male/
N810 maemo submission accepted
Congratulations! You have been accepted to the N810 maemo device
program. We will send your discount and instructions as soon as the
device is available in your selected shop (soon).
At least, this way, it'll be asier to accept the fact that I'm still unable to upgrade my E90!
BTW, thank you to everyone!
Jammie Thomas, 30-year-old single mother of two, has just be fined to pay $220.000 to Capitol Records, Sony, BMG Music Entertainment, Arista Records, Interscope Records, Warner Bros Records and UMG Recordings. She was accused of sharing 24 (twentyfour) songs copyrighted by those majors. This makes about $9.200 for every single song.
Won't comment it, just take your conclusions and remember it when you buy your next music CD...
More infos:
http://www.theregister.com/2007/10/05/riaa_wins_first_music_sharing_jury_trial/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/03/first_riaa_music_sharing_trial_begins/
Some good (try before you pay) music:
http://www.magnatune.com
(feel free to comment and add more free sources)
Yes, sounds like this small sequence will show once again how useless, pointless are actual protection systems and DRM. Will they ever learn the lesson? Who knows...
Usually I don't like to advertise "commercial" {sites|resources} but this time its something different. I'm talking about MagnaTune. What makes it "different"? Well, first of all it's an independent music store, sporting a lot of good music, I have to admit. But what makes it really interesting is the chance to download and/or listen to high quality full versions. The price you have to pay for that is a voice telling "this is track N of ablum X at Magnatune.com", but that's fine if you want to evaluate before you buy. And it's when you chose to buy that comes tha very very very nice part: you are free to make the price! Yes, there is no fixed price. You are free to decide how muce you want/can pay for the album you want to download in a range fro 5$ to 18$ or 4eur. tp 7eur. (50% of the price you pay will go straight to the band/singer). This way you will be able to download your music and share it with your friends. Yes, the license allows to make up to three copies of every CD you buy and give it to your friend.
Look, I'm not sayig those guys are the "good" guys. What I see is a different way of doing business. Being able to listen to the music before I buy will make me happier to pay the maximum if I find something good. That's the lesson majors should learn and understand, instead of complaining against peer-2-peer and losses!
Google just confirmed slots assigned to Maemo for Summer of Code. The four project assigned:
More infos on Google SoC pages.
Stay tuned!
Some time passed since Godot arrived and I started playing with it and, yes, I have to admit I’m happy with it! It is about 2 years since when I first discovered Maemo and sounds like things are going better and better every day.
Yes, maybe something should be fixed on Nokia’s side, but (maybe?) we should look at Maemo from a different point of view, I mean the same point of view we would look at a (new) Linux distribution: still “something” needing to be fixed, but things are growing fast! And if everything will go well with Google Summer of Code we will also get some iteresting and somehow intriguing pieces of code as well. The current list of ideas:
Only 4 of them will get a slot for SoC (and I hope Smoove will get its slot, since I’ll mentor it), but neverthless it clearly shows how the interest is growing.
And in the past few weeks Jlbrd did what I think is a GREAT job, porting Claws-Mail to Maemo and also making it part of the “official” Claws Mail release (IMHO, one of the best mail clients around!).
Another (imho) good news is that Nokia is now member of Linux Foundation as Ari announced. I mean, if they (Nokia) will move in the right direction we could see something very interesting happening in the next months. It would be nice to see the same attitude Nokia sported with Maemo applied on other “devices". We will see.
In the meantime, I keep having fun with such a great environment and device!
Stay tuned!
I was at office today and needed to set up a quick and dirti SSH VPN so the attached script came out.
It still needs some work to be done (checks, status management, start & stop, etc.) but it works! :)
Well, actually it wasn't meant to be used on N800. I was using it on my laptop, but after a quick test I found it's working pretty well. So, why not use it?!
Basically you only need to change values for the variables:
REMOTE_USER="maddler" REMOTE_ADDRESS="192.168.1.199" VPN_IP_LOCAL="10.0.0.1" VPN_IP_REMOTE="10.0.0.2"
Have fun!
I really want to thank jlbrd (proudly hosting his blog on Maemo People) for his port of Claws-Mail. Yes, it still needs improvements and fixes here and there but, I think, it clearly shows the power of Maemo platform. Being able to use the same mail client on my laptop and desktop made me felt comfortable already but now, being also able to use Claws-Mail on N800 as well, it's even better. Claws-Mail is one of the best mail client I've ever tried and it remains usable enough even on N800. Again a *big* thank you to jlbrd for the port and to Claws-Mail's developers for such a great job!
spim is a self-contained simulator that will run MIPS32 assembly language programs. It reads and executes assembly language programs written for this processor. spim also provides a simple debugger and minimal set of operating system services. spim does not execute binary (compiled) programs.
More info here.
Thanks to Andrea Grandi
Cnet awarded 770 9th place in their list for worst tech of 2006.
Well, if you consider that they looked at that just like "standard" PDAs.
Here is their description:
"This thing, it surfs Internet. You want to make phone call? You can't make phone call. You like Ethernet? No Ethernet. You get Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi is nice. No wires! You like slow load times? Yes? It is good for that. You like battery that lasts more than three hours? It does not have one. Nice screen, though."
I think N800 release just raised a big question: "what happens when commercial products' end-user meet Open Source?". Yes, the question is not new, and maybe it was asked already when 770 first shown.
But, how and why things changed? The aproach used by Nokia in Internet Tablets development is both something showing how far GPL and LGPL can go, as well as raising some well known "issues" of Open Source projects.
I really missed the capability of executing .profile/.bashrc upon opening a new osso-xterm session. That’s not a bug nor, maybe, a real issue. But makes me feel more comfortable :)
By the way, after playing for a while a found a good hack: a slight modification to the default osso-xterm.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Name=X Terminal
Comment=Terminal Emulator
Exec=/usr/bin/osso-xterm /usr/bin/bash
Icon=terminal
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=System;TerminalEmulator;
X-HildonDesk-ShowInToolbar=true
X-Osso-Type=application/x-executableDownload: osso-xterm-bash.desktop
It needs to be saved to /usr/share/applications/hildon
In order to have this to work, you also need bash-m package:
repository: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/nokia770
distribution: mistral
components: user
Here is the sources.list I'm using on Godot (my N800). It's here mainly for my reference, but maybe it could help you as well!
Extended sources list
Thanks to Jens Becker (and Jaffa who already posted his findings on maemo-developers list) amd his patience I've just found FM radio is WORKING on Nokia N800!
For some reason it's not showing up in my packages' lists but fmradio app is here!!!
If you want to try here is direct link to package!
It could be nice to have this repo in your sources.list as well:
deb http://repository.maemo.org/catalogue/certified bora userOnce installed go to the applet selection, and add "FM Radio" to your desktop.
Headphones are needed in order to operate radio, but you can both listen from headphones as well from speakers.
Have fun!
UPDATE: Thanks to X-Fade, FMradio application is now showing up in downloads. Here is direct install link
As many already noticed the Dummy IAP is not working on N800. This basically means that you cannot use browser, chat, calls and so on if you use a bluetooth or USB connection.
But, as maybe someone said already, I had a dream! What if I define a not-so-dummy ad-hoc wlan connection and use same usb0/BT subnet? Want to know more?
I just started a new project on Garage. It will contains packages for basic network utilities (ping, host, traceroute, etc...).
First release contains iputils' ping, arping and tracepath. After initial testing they will be uploaded to extra repository.
Here is first release of Iptools packages. Included tools:
Packages can be downloaded from Garage project page: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/nettools/
Give it a try!
More to follow!
I've just found a thought-to-be-lost 1GB SD card! Amazing what you can find in your laptop backpack!
Of course I promptly placed the card in my N800, expanding total extra storage size to 2GB! I think soon I'm going to buy a 4GB SD card to replace one of those. Doh!
Good reading from ThoughtFix's blog.
Come dicevo nel mio post precedente, ero gia` piu` che soddisfatto del mio 770, che era e continua ad essere un prodotto piu` che egregio. L’N800 pero` e` riuscito a soprendermi e a farmi restare a bocca aperta. In attesa di una recensione piu` ampia, in questo post cerchero di riassumere le prime impressioni e le caratteristiche piu` interessanti.
I’ve been a Nokia 770 (proud) user for quite a long time now (I think about 1.5 years), and wouldn’t believe I could ever been happier than that until when I got my brand new N800 (thanks to Memo Team for thinking I deserved to be in the Developer Program, which entitled me to get the N800 without having to sell my 770!).
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