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Forum: General 2011-02-13, 10:18
Replies: 1,963
Views: 551,853
Posted By Techark
Re: Nokia - Microsoft partnership (merged threads)

Way I see this there were two possibles that lead to this.

Elop came in with this in mind from the start and the board hired him to do just this.

Elop came in looked at where the programmers...
Forum: General 2011-02-11, 14:02
Replies: 1,963
Views: 551,853
Posted By Techark
Re: breaking news:nokia partners with microsoft

Sad just sad.
N900 my last Nokia.
Another great brand bites the dust. Sorry for all those that will lose their jobs over this.
Nokia is now just another phone maker turning out the same stuff...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-11-11, 02:38
Replies: 78
Views: 13,044
Posted By Techark
Re: Are you with still with N900 just because you are in a contract?

No you are wrong. You just don't look at the big picture.

I get $650 worth of talk time credits. free unlimited voda to voda calls and all my family are on voda, 2 gig of data with an extra 1 gig...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-11-10, 11:01
Replies: 78
Views: 13,044
Posted By Techark
Re: Are you with still with N900 just because you are in a contract?

I bought the N900 outright and used it on a contract I already had with vodafone, replaced the Blackberry I was using.

My contract was up last week and Voda offered me the new HTC DesireHD for...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-10-31, 13:00
Replies: 149
Views: 37,278
Posted By Techark
Re: How bad is the mail client...

Only improvement is that it doesn't take 45 seconds to open now.
At least that made it bearable, I was about to toss the N900 because I was sick of waiting 45 secs for it to open a new email. Took...
Forum: Off Topic 2010-10-25, 02:19
Replies: 267
Views: 33,406
Posted By Techark
Re: Is it okay for a student with limited financial resources to pirate software?

Problem with your long winded post is simple.
You make AutoCAD in 15 dimensions and 4 people buy it for 100 billion each for it then you release it for free because as you said you are now rich and...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-08-20, 00:49
Replies: 112
Views: 56,188
Posted By Techark
Re: Modest fixes

It is already in the works.
http://trojita.flaska.net/
It is in extras and it does work.
Now if he would just add notifications to it then I could use it and dump modest forever.
But as it...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-08-19, 01:45
Replies: 1,571
Views: 725,667
Posted By Techark
Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls

Deleting the <li type="int" value="148"/> does no good they will just all come back with the next sync of mail.
It also does not speed things up any.
I am having the same problem of the long...
Forum: Applications 2010-08-11, 01:04
Replies: 44
Views: 24,133
Posted By Techark
Re: Trojita - QT imap email client

Hmm the one on extras doesn't work for me can't connect to anything.
I see from the site that 2.0 is out maybe I will try and manual load of it and give it a go later.

Anything that halfway...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-07-09, 02:45
Replies: 10
Views: 6,449
Posted By Techark
Re: Finally happy with my xterm keyboard layout

How about sharing how you did it the rest us.
I have a lot of the same issues so tell me how you did it and I can customize from your work.
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-07-09, 02:42
Replies: 40
Views: 10,980
Posted By Techark
Re: N900 Users Discussion Panel, Set up by Nokia (London)

Be sure and mention how bad the email client on this thing is.
http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/turn_modest_into_a_useable_email_client/
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-06-20, 06:37
Replies: 3
Views: 1,552
Posted By Techark
Re: [HELP] Losing calls...

No this is supposed to be an internet tablet that has phone capabilities included.
How long did you let it ring? Since this a not primarily a phone it can sometimes take a few seconds for the ring...
Forum: General 2010-06-16, 13:52
Replies: 41
Views: 12,263
Posted By Techark
Re: Just when I start to think the N900 is bad..

Oh I disagree.
I have an Iphone 3G in the family. wife has one and I have tried doing things on it, I can't do half that on it at the same time jumping back and forth between programs becomes...
Forum: General 2010-06-16, 13:48
Replies: 41
Views: 12,263
Posted By Techark
Re: Just when I start to think the N900 is bad..

That is saving family time for me.
When you own your business and you are the last man in line to keep a client happy or lose him then being able to do that remotely rather than jumping back in the...
Forum: General 2010-06-16, 09:35
Replies: 41
Views: 12,263
Posted By Techark
Just when I start to think the N900 is bad..

With all the N900 bashing that goes on here lately I sometimes find myself thinking maybe I should have bought or buy a Droid phone or God forbid an Iphone.

The N900 shows me there really is no...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-06-09, 03:14
Replies: 22
Views: 9,595
Posted By Techark
Re: Any way to modify the n900 to allow FM transmitter while charging?

So far only tried it with the USB cable connected to my computer, have not tested it yet with a wall charger.
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-06-09, 00:35
Replies: 22
Views: 9,595
Posted By Techark
Re: Any way to modify the n900 to allow FM transmitter while charging?

I get the same thing. If I try to use the FM while charging it pops up a yellow message in the middle of the screen that says

Unable to use FM transmitter while USB is connected.
Unplug USB to...
Forum: Off Topic 2010-06-09, 00:28
Replies: 12
Views: 3,762
Posted By Techark
Re: Good News Nokia Lovers - Apple shares down after the iPhone 4 announcement :lol:

A former TI guy huh?
I spent some time working with TI myself.
Forum: Off Topic 2010-06-08, 22:38
Replies: 10
Views: 2,263
Posted By Techark
Re: OK Nokia WTF??

I figure they were just trying to rub it in that we still don't have a decent OVI store with cool apps even after PR1.2
Forum: Off Topic 2010-06-08, 09:36
Replies: 10
Views: 2,263
Posted By Techark
Re: OK Nokia WTF??

Yeah well why send me am email to tell me about it with a download button is my point.
They clearly know I have an N900 if as soon as I get the page it says Sorry you can't use it.
Forum: Off Topic 2010-06-08, 08:35
Replies: 10
Views: 2,263
Posted By Techark
OK Nokia WTF??

Why send me an email.

Get a new perspective on the world with the Nokia Point & Find augmented reality browser for Nokia devices. Point your device's camera at landmarks and get descriptions,...
Forum: General 2010-06-05, 05:19
Replies: 5
Views: 2,659
Posted By Techark
Re: IPMI tool for n900

Can I ask why you would need that for a N900?
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-06-05, 02:27
Replies: 19
Views: 3,509
Posted By Techark
Re: Any one going blind using the N900

Yep if I play with it too long my eyes go all blurry and I can't see.
I have to wear my glasses now to play angry birds for more than 10 minutes or I can't see for the rest of the day.

I am old...
Forum: Applications 2010-06-02, 06:29
Replies: 1
Views: 1,387
Posted By Techark
Possible idea for different email alerts..

Just thinking out load here and to get some feed back and ideas of the community.

Looking around my 900 file system and I see that the email alert is stored at, /home/user/.user-emailtone which is...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-06-02, 04:37
Replies: 108
Views: 16,547
Posted By Techark
Re: Why did you get the N900?

Because I am a sys admin that needs the ability to connect to my servers and network gear via ssh, connect to a help desk via the web, connect to my network management software from the web and...
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