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Forum: Development 2008-08-26, 05:25
Replies: 93
Views: 31,672
Posted By hircus
Re: Vala for Maemo development

Check out Genie (http://live.gnome.org/Genie). It's an alternate front-end language to Vala, compiled using the same compiler, with a Python-esque syntax.
Forum: Competitors 2008-05-21, 22:26
Replies: 5
Views: 2,393
Posted By hircus
Olpc Xo 2.0

From infoSync World (http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/9379.html):

Key goals for the OLPC XO 2.0 include an even lower target price of $75 than the original $100 price point, reducing power...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2008-05-11, 17:58
Replies: 771
Views: 228,097
Posted By hircus
Re: What do we know about Diablo (Maemo 4.1) ?

One explanation for the uncertainty surrounding apt-get upgrades from Diablo to the next release: even with Debian and Ubuntu, sometimes upgrades between different distributions go wrong. Other...
Forum: Applications 2008-04-10, 23:44
Replies: 34
Views: 6,032
Posted By hircus
Re: Commercial Software. Evil?

Nobody has brought it up here, but part of the reason might just be that proprietary software developers distrust platforms that are openly touted as being open. Thus Linux in general, and Maemo in...
Forum: Newbie 2008-01-21, 06:55
Replies: 5
Views: 5,035
Posted By hircus
Re: user password

If you cat /etc/passwd | grep user from xterm, you'll notice that the password is set to just '!', compared to a long hash for root's password. So nobody will be able to log in as user through SSH.
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Forum: Nokia N800 2008-01-07, 19:50
Replies: 39
Views: 26,772
Posted By hircus
Re: GPE calendar sync to Google calendar

Ermining worked fine for me until today (minus some funny mishandling of daylight saving -- some of my local appointments were shifted by one hour). Today I recreated some of my appointments on...
Forum: Nokia 770 2007-11-14, 23:23
Replies: 5
Views: 2,038
Posted By hircus
Re: java applets

Unfortunately, not at the moment, and it's not likely that Sun's Java will support the ARM architecture anytime soon. The mobile profiles of Java that are meant for mobile phones won't be able to run...
Forum: Nokia N810 2007-10-25, 17:35
Replies: 33
Views: 7,382
Posted By hircus
Re: No places yet for Pre-Orders

Considering the base hardware is almost unchanged from the N800, the SDHC corruption problem etc. that plagued the N800 would probably be unlikely to recur.

Reviewers have been very impressed by...
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