Maddler's Rants 'n' Raves

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

Maddler • Maemo, Nokia 770, Nokia N800

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."

Maddler • Maemo, Nokia 770

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.

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Maddler • Maemo, Nokia 770, Nokia N800

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-executable

Download: 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

Maddler • Maemo, Nokia 770, Nokia N800

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

Maddler • Maemo

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 user

Once 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

Maddler • Maemo, Nokia N800

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?

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Maddler • Maemo, Nokia N800