Forum: Applications
2009-10-01, 17:16
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Replies: 295
Views: 751,259
NOAA charts of US waters (Pacific)
After seeing someone talking about NOAA charts on an iPhone app, I played around and converted some to a slippy map that works on my tablet. They aren't all there, just ones more useful for myself...
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Forum: Applications
2008-12-07, 00:27
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Replies: 596
Views: 264,559
Alternate GPX route download site
I like to make GPX files on my desktop then download them to my tablet for use by Maemo Mapper.
After grumbling that I had to screen-scrape output from gnuite.com instead of "save to file", and...
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Forum: General
2008-07-29, 23:34
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Replies: 55
Views: 12,125
Re: Hotspots: fee or free
I was just reading about the Boingo client; their FAQ seems to say it will connect to various sites and partners even if there is no Web login. Neat, if it works.
These companies seem to all be...
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Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo
2008-07-22, 20:13
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,735
Re: Playing WAV files
Stream URL passed to media player has no cookie, referer or authentication information so "open with media player" will fail if you needed to login to get media. Save to file works. Or the website...
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Forum: Nokia N810
2008-07-22, 19:41
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,246
Re: Network "noise" affecting battery life ?
Excellent explanation of power-saving mode by Kalle:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/maemo/users/38954#38954
Network noise should not be a problem compared to PSM failure
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Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo
2008-07-21, 08:02
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,735
Re: Playing WAV files
Excellent: http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=173560
App is dbus-switchboard
I've been trying to figure out how to do that for a while.
It turns out that my problem is...
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Forum: Nokia N810
2008-07-21, 00:01
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,751
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Forum: Nokia N810
2008-07-20, 23:51
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,191
Re: Restoring my N810 to sell help
Also remove your personal stuff from MyDocs, which the flasher will restore from backups.
But I think you can just say "no" when it asks. Ditto restoring any extra apps and repositories that you may...
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Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo
2008-07-20, 23:49
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,735
Playing WAV files
A colleague just got an iPhone on Rogers (Canada, first day on sale I think) and was enthusing about the voicemail app where the messages are downloaded to the phone and you can use a media player on...
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Forum: Nokia N810
2008-07-20, 22:43
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,246
Re: Network "noise" affecting battery life ?
I just found a post on mamo-users mentioning power management issues on some wireless APs. Not sure of the details.
I tried running a broadcast ping for a few hours at home but it didn't make much...
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Forum: Nokia N810
2008-07-20, 22:41
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,515
Re: N810 For Motorcycle Use???
Yes.
http://andrew.daviel.org/n810-bike.jpg
Caveats:
It's not waterproof
It's not vibration-proof. The battery clips inside my Nokia battery pack broke, I think due
to the pack moving around...
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Forum: Nokia N810
2008-07-20, 22:34
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Replies: 19
Views: 7,323
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Forum: Nokia N810
2008-07-19, 01:11
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,246
Network "noise" affecting battery life ?
When my tablet was sitting idle at home, with WiFi enabled on my home network, the battery ran down at about 1% per hour ("battery-status" app)
When I took it to work, still idle with WiFi enabled,...
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Forum: Nokia N810
2008-07-19, 00:57
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,256
Re: Help me get connected to N810 from pc
X11 does work over the net, but osso-xterm does not use it.
I build gnuplot for my N810; the following results in a window on my desktop:
desktop$ xhost + my-N810
desktop# iptables -I INPUT...
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Forum: Accessories
2008-07-06, 00:20
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,973
Re: Stowaway Keyboard choices
Just bought a "MWg UBiQUiO Folding Bluetooth Keyboard with Skype Keys" (doesn't seem to have a model number). About $80. 5-row US B/T keyboard. I had a heck of a time pairing it and I'm still not...
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Forum: Applications
2008-06-26, 19:39
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Replies: 455
Views: 171,183
Re: Navit GPS (and libgarmin) for os2008
I just installed Navit on Diablo. I have some Garmin maps that work on
my GPSMap76, and one I built using Mapdekode
I note that the sample map has to be turned off before the Garmin
ones will...
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Forum: Applications
2008-06-26, 18:31
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Replies: 455
Views: 171,183
Re: vi
And copying files back and forth is simpler ?
vi works everywhere on all *nix. Even stripped down ones, even across serial lines from 15-year-old VT100's
i - go to insert mode, move around with...
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Forum: Applications
2008-06-26, 06:48
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,021
Re: Cron has gone?
We are pretty trusting ... yes, really the source ought to be available for scrutiny and the repositories ought to be digitally signed. I'm guilty too, I haven't figured out how do make a Debian...
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Forum: Nokia N810
2008-06-26, 06:17
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,105
Re: GPS doesn't find its location
Diablo has an A-GPS app which should let you enter your approximate position for a faster fix. An associated daemon (supld) will retrieve ephemeris data over the net, and position guesses from WiFi...
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Forum: General
2008-06-05, 23:23
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Replies: 10
Views: 3,630
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Forum: General
2008-06-05, 08:57
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Replies: 7
Views: 9,236
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Forum: Troubleshooting
2008-06-02, 12:11
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,297
Re: N810 battery connections loose (broken?)
I bought a new aftermarket battery (couldn't find a Nokia one, and given that it failed, not sure I want to). Things seem normal now. I can't make it fail by wiggling the battery.
I was wondering...
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Forum: Development
2008-06-02, 11:58
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,136
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Forum: Troubleshooting
2008-06-01, 01:56
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,297
N810 battery connections loose (broken?)
I have an N810 with the original Nokia battery pack. A couple of days ago
I was using it in the vehicle mount as a GPS when it unexpectedly rebooted
(annoying, since I didn't have a paper map and...
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Forum: Troubleshooting
2008-05-23, 09:19
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,763
Re: N810 DHCP behavior
Try running ethereal/wireshark on your LAN. As I recall, clients can send various options
to the DHCP server, which may use them or ignore them. One such I recall is hostname.
Maybe the Windows...
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