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Forum: Multimedia 2012-12-03, 06:10
Replies: 390
Views: 163,673
Posted By jabawok
Re: gPodder 2.0 for Fremantle

For anyone running gpodder on N900, heres a working patched youtube.py for gpodder 2.20.2-1:

http://jabawok.net/uploads/20121203-maemo5-gpodder-youtube-fix/youtube.py

just download that (wget...
Forum: Nokia N900 2012-07-26, 10:18
Replies: 36
Views: 29,171
Posted By jabawok
Re: N900 Cant access the modem.

Many, Many thanks, ForeverYoung!. After the exact symptoms reported in this thread, and roughly copying your ingenious solution, my N900 is reliable again, hopefully ready for another few years of...
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-08-02, 12:43
Replies: 141
Views: 156,801
Posted By jabawok
Re: Soldering advice needed for re-attaching N900 USB to mainboard.

I managed to repair my faulty USB port today. Many thanks to everyone to posted pictures to this thread, it was of immense help.

I apologize for lack of photos; I found myself reaching for my N900...
Forum: Alternatives 2011-01-18, 15:34
Replies: 8
Views: 4,128
Posted By jabawok
Re: Can someone post a tutorial (easy way) porting SHR to N900 step by step

May I suggest if you are asking such a question, it might not be the thing for you... If you are really keen, do a bit of research on google and see what you are really getting yourself in for.
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Forum: Nokia N900 2010-10-03, 13:48
Replies: 12
Views: 4,593
Posted By jabawok
Re: TV-OUT problem with 51-1

For anyone wondering, you can obtain xvattr functionality by installing easy debian chroot, and from inside that environment run apt-get install xvattr

I use the following to play 4:3 ratio videos...
Forum: Applications 2010-09-23, 15:02
Replies: 383
Views: 172,600
Posted By jabawok
Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui

Saturn, debernardis, i'm fairly sure Dirty Expire Centisecs, Dirty Writeback Centisecs and Page Cluster are not boolean. Could you replace the checkboxes with textboxes (default "0"), like the first...
Forum: Alternatives 2010-09-12, 07:51
Replies: 7
Views: 2,698
Posted By jabawok
Re: window 7 on N900

Why would u b excited about running desktop windows on a phone. Think about it. 600mhz arm and 256M of ram. Even windows xp would run dog slow, if it were even possible to compile it for ARM (it isnt...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-09-01, 11:20
Replies: 11
Views: 5,658
Posted By jabawok
Re: Screen vs Digitiser/touchsensivity REPLACEMENT

Take a look at my post here (and the thread in general)

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=58886

Its post #2.
Forum: Applications 2010-08-29, 13:47
Replies: 599
Views: 146,261
Posted By jabawok
Re: FeedingIt - RSS Reader

Brilliant! Thanks for the response, and might I add, well done for being so active in this thread, Its highly commendable.
Forum: Applications 2010-08-23, 01:55
Replies: 15
Views: 5,094
Posted By jabawok
Re: Interval training App

Big Fat Jan's solution is very elegant, but heres a simpler method. Paste this one-liner into xterm:
SOUNDFILE="/usr/share/sounds/game-chess_illegal_move.wav" ; while true ; do aplay $SOUNDFILE;...
Forum: Applications 2010-08-20, 05:30
Replies: 599
Views: 146,261
Posted By jabawok
Re: FeedingIt - RSS Reader

Loving FeedingIt. Definitely most used app. Theres two minor niggles I have which, if sorted, would make FeedingIt absolutely perfect. Appologies if these are already fixed in dev versions, Im just...
Forum: Games 2010-08-16, 06:15
Replies: 29
Views: 10,077
Posted By jabawok
Re: N900 as a gaming phone?

Looking for roguelikes? Rogue itself works beautifully in Dosbox.
Forum: General 2010-08-10, 10:27
Replies: 6
Views: 4,654
Posted By jabawok
Re: I want to install Python

um.. am i missing something here? im pretty sure python is already loaded out of the box.
~ $ python
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Nov 26 2009, 22:24:46)
[GCC 4.2.1] on linux2
Type "help",...
Forum: Applications 2010-07-29, 08:26
Replies: 4
Views: 2,825
Posted By jabawok
Re: [Problem] FM Transmit & Power Adapter

Im guessing, but i think its to do with the power regulator in car chargers. Mine still lets me activate the fm tx, but signal drops right off when you activate charging.

My solution was to buy an...
Forum: General 2010-07-27, 07:43
Replies: 13
Views: 5,252
Posted By jabawok
Re: N900 really laggy

Its laggy because it is "swapping" due to not enough physical ram. See this thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=58935&highlight=optimize+n900
The script from there has helped me a *lot*.
Forum: Applications 2010-07-22, 11:10
Replies: 2
Views: 3,581
Posted By jabawok
Re: Help needed !! How to run gftp CLI and make gftp default ftp client

Cant answer your question off the top of my head, but running gftp with root privileges (sudo) is probably a bad idea. It would be too easy to damage the phone in this mode by writing into system...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-05-30, 05:40
Replies: 9
Views: 2,597
Posted By jabawok
Re: please try this video

flash is slow.

try loading this direct link with media player:
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/1535/vts011hai.mp4
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-05-28, 18:34
Replies: 6
Views: 7,284
Posted By jabawok
Re: install meego with windows

yep, if you are asking such a question, this early version of meego is certainly not for you. You need to at least be familiar with a command line. Meego v1 has no graphical user interface.
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-05-19, 08:18
Replies: 24
Views: 4,846
Posted By jabawok
Re: RootFS again.. I don't understand!

In case nobody has mensioned this, the 256MB rootfs is on a separate, fast (expensive) flash disk to the 32GB emmc flash. Having the most commonly used parts of the OS on the faster disk speeds the...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-05-18, 08:46
Replies: 10
Views: 7,177
Posted By jabawok
Re: IM for n900

an IM network is for sending messages using that particular network. If you have a jabber account, you can send messages to other people logged into their jabber accounts. To send an SMS (to a cell...
Forum: Applications 2010-04-30, 08:07
Replies: 336
Views: 507,502
Posted By jabawok
Re: N900 Users... quick question(s) about what programs you use often...

most heavily used apps: vncviewer, rdesktop, rss reader, gpodder.
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-03-15, 14:30
Replies: 231
Views: 84,677
Posted By jabawok
Re: N900 NOT upgradeable to MeeGo

Get over it guys. my N810 is not upgradable to maemo 5. Big whoop, its still an awesome device. And my 770 still has awesome community support. The world moves on.
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-02-23, 09:37
Replies: 211
Views: 83,667
Posted By jabawok
Re: N900 generally slow and unresponsive

I'm going to give swappiness = 0 a serious run for a while to attempt to determine which processes' memory allocations are growing (and getting swapped out). I'll try to remember to report back here...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-02-23, 09:22
Replies: 211
Views: 83,667
Posted By jabawok
Re: N900 generally slow and unresponsive

pycage I think you're wrong here. Swap on Linux purely swaps out the least-often-accessed pages of memory in preference for file cache according to the settings in /proc/sys/vm (especially the...
Forum: Applications 2010-02-13, 05:02
Replies: 3
Views: 2,504
Posted By jabawok
Re: X Terminal

Hi.. you wont be able to copy to /usr/bin unless the copy command is running with root level privileges. This has been done for a reason, on linux based systems. Every file on the system is tracked...
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