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Forum: Newbie 2009-02-06, 05:42
Replies: 3
Views: 2,853
Posted By linuxbear
Re: maemo installation on Fedora 8

TYPOS DUE TO THUMBPAD

It would be great if there was working n800 port to i386 debian. I hace p2 laptop with 286 meg of ram that would probably get alokg very well wih this n800 deskop manager....
Forum: Upgrading 2007-05-08, 04:02
Replies: 59
Views: 34,714
Posted By linuxbear
Re: n800, SD, SDHC, and storage

It might be safer to move it all to your linux desktop and then write it back to the chip. Once it is on the ext.xx or reiser FS it will be defragged.
My wife has been writing to SD cards so...
Forum: General 2007-05-08, 03:39
Replies: 72
Views: 12,410
Posted By linuxbear
Re: i keep trying to like this thing

The only freeze I have encountered on my 770 is an occasional one for about 20 seconds using FBreader. Unfortunately this is my most frequently used app, as I am a voracious in-bed reader, but I can...
Forum: General 2007-05-08, 03:32
Replies: 72
Views: 12,410
Posted By linuxbear
Re: i keep trying to like this thing

I suspect we might be seeing more folks who don't like the device/UI in the near future. Nokia is advertising it in the US and making a quick reference to open source, while saying nothing about the...
Forum: Applications 2007-04-10, 01:09
Replies: 40
Views: 18,107
Posted By linuxbear
Re: PalmOS Emulation

also a release doc from Access

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=CMPTW_inter.story&STORY=/www/story/02-12-2007/0004525010&EDATE=MON+Feb+12+2007,+03:00+AM
Forum: Applications 2007-04-10, 00:40
Replies: 40
Views: 18,107
Posted By linuxbear
Re: PalmOS Emulation

Hi,
It looks like the long awaited linux platform for the palm might be completed. It will be interesting to see if they develope a device for it. Also, from what I understand they will be open...
Forum: OS2006 / Maemo 2 / Mistral - Scirocco - Gregale 2007-03-28, 03:39
Replies: 2
Views: 1,538
Posted By linuxbear
App manager broken

Hi,
It appears that my application manager application will not uninstall. I had this problem a while back with Adept package manager on Kubuntu and resolved it by unlocking a file in /var (I...
Forum: Competitors 2007-03-28, 02:24
Replies: 23
Views: 12,987
Posted By linuxbear
Re: HTC 7500 and 7501

Actually from what I have managed to gather, they will be using a virtual machine. I believe it is called Garnet VM and might be downloaded as source code seperate from the OS. I understand that...
Forum: Design 2007-03-22, 04:00
Replies: 1,187
Views: 513,642
Posted By linuxbear
Re: Show off your screenshots

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=259&stc=1&d=1174535960
Forum: Off Topic 2007-01-25, 22:00
Replies: 17
Views: 3,055
Posted By linuxbear
Re: What OS/Browser Do You Use To View This Site

I mostly use Xandros 4 linux and Opera about 80% of the time, but am running gatesware right now as I needed to be in windows for an hour.

Glen
Forum: Off Topic 2007-01-25, 21:56
Replies: 9
Views: 2,319
Posted By linuxbear
Re: Vista Or No Vista?

I'm grabbing Kubuntu (that's Ubuntu with a KDE UI) right now to give it a run. Because I only run Windows about 20% of the time, I have no intention of paying the exorbitant MS tax for the...
Forum: General 2007-01-25, 21:42
Replies: 0
Views: 1,221
Posted By linuxbear
Wiki(pedia)seek

Hi,
Here's another way to get to wikipedia, use this as a text search engine for wikipedia. It is "cleaner" than the wikipedia UI from the onset and after the engine has returned results.
...
Forum: OS2006 / Maemo 2 / Mistral - Scirocco - Gregale 2007-01-20, 18:48
Replies: 8
Views: 4,812
Posted By linuxbear
Re: Ted word processor

I found another link today at debian, there is an "experimental" gtk version as well, but I think that the standard version might "just work". I had no problem installing an RPM package from my...
Forum: General 2007-01-17, 05:45
Replies: 38
Views: 8,168
Posted By linuxbear
Re: Apple - Widescreen iPod & Mobiltelefon & Internet Communicator

...depends on what you bought your Nokia for. When I chose mine I wanted a fully usable mini-computer which would be a good lap-top replacement. OSS and linux was a pleasent surprise too.

The...
Forum: General 2007-01-17, 05:28
Replies: 8
Views: 2,467
Posted By linuxbear
Re: White screen on the N800

I remember my hardware days when I was a senior engineering technician with R&D, @ Maxtor: companies @ least American companies rarely do full QAs anymore. It seems that they believe the cost of...
Forum: General 2007-01-17, 05:20
Replies: 6
Views: 1,761
Posted By linuxbear
Re: porting software to nokia 770

Thease apps might be too large, unless you choose to put them on a flash card and then you would probably need to copy them to all the cards you are using to insure that they are allways there. You...
Forum: OS2006 / Maemo 2 / Mistral - Scirocco - Gregale 2007-01-17, 05:08
Replies: 8
Views: 4,812
Posted By linuxbear
Re: Ted word processor

I should have used "Ted" to post the original and done a spell check :-)

this is the homepage:

http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/
Forum: OS2006 / Maemo 2 / Mistral - Scirocco - Gregale 2007-01-17, 05:00
Replies: 8
Views: 4,812
Posted By linuxbear
Ted word processor

Hi,
I found this great little word processor that will read and write .rtf (rich text) files so there is inter-usability between almost ANY word processor including MS word --if the file is...
Forum: General 2006-12-26, 06:50
Replies: 0
Views: 997
Posted By linuxbear
cabinet

GNome has a nice feature that allows one to add a cabinet to the task bar which is independant of the menu. This allows one to add trial apps and other I_NEED_TO_DO_THIS now stuff neatly contained...
Forum: General 2006-12-26, 06:37
Replies: 39
Views: 7,102
Posted By linuxbear
[QUOTE=lbattraw]The key to successful charging is...

[QUOTE=lbattraw]The key to successful charging is current limiting.

I built a little USB battery box for my Wife's Palm pilot (she's just gotta have her music at work) and it charges very well...
Forum: Competitors 2006-12-26, 06:15
Replies: 14
Views: 5,004
Posted By linuxbear
Also, if the 770 ran Windows, it would have cost...

Also, if the 770 ran Windows, it would have cost at least $100 more than it costs now.

And, if the 770 ran Windows, we wouldn't call it "running". "Crawling", yes...[/QUOTE]

Windows "anything"...
Forum: Nokia 770 2006-12-26, 05:54
Replies: 128
Views: 55,934
Posted By linuxbear
Actually, I have found that Opera works a lot...

Actually, I have found that Opera works a lot better on my Linux-box at home than firefox, Firefox seems to be more optimized for windows, while Opera seems to perform very well on both platforms....
Forum: Applications 2006-12-26, 05:35
Replies: 5
Views: 1,620
Posted By linuxbear
I would like to see ogg added to the native...

I would like to see ogg added to the native player on the device. I like the abliity to choose a group of songs or podcasts within a directory and have the player play them sequentially. Since I keep...
Forum: General 2006-12-04, 02:47
Replies: 7
Views: 2,788
Posted By linuxbear
to quote users on slashdot.org "but does it run...

to quote users on slashdot.org "but does it run linux?" nope, it's windows mobile, which means a lot of crashes, at least $100 of the device is the cost of the
OS and it's a resource hog. Linux...
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