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Forum: Applications 2009-10-22, 22:30
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Posted By ssam
Re: Offline Wikipedia for n900

cool. please keep the torrent seeding as long as you can. thanks
Forum: Applications 2009-10-21, 22:23
Replies: 24
Views: 17,605
Posted By ssam
Re: Offline Wikipedia for n900

torrent links at http://aarddict.org/ (you can also buy dvds now)

just download the 7GB file, put on the SD card, and open it with aarddict. no extra space needed. the file aread has a very fast...
Forum: Off Topic 2009-08-16, 11:43
Replies: 11
Views: 2,199
Posted By ssam
Re: Which Desktop Distro to use?

have a read of: http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

personally i like the distros on a short release cycle (6 months), because you get new stuff quickly.

i get a bit grumpy with...
Forum: General 2009-08-14, 14:27
Replies: 21
Views: 8,353
Posted By ssam
Re: performance

you will save power by letting the run fast, to get a job done, and then it can drop to a low power idle mode. search "matthew garrett power management" for some good blog posts and videos.

i...
Forum: Applications 2009-06-17, 15:46
Replies: 13
Views: 5,619
Posted By ssam
Re: Wikipedia for Aard Dictionary updated

if they publish a list of good/useful articles, then it would not be too hard for aardc to skip articles not on the list. though you would end up with a dead links in articles.

what might be nice...
Forum: Competitors 2009-02-27, 11:48
Replies: 3
Views: 1,782
Posted By ssam
Re: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

if you put aarddict and wikipedia on your internet tablet it makes a pretty good offline hitch hikers guide. http://aarddict.org/
Forum: General 2009-02-26, 11:48
Replies: 40
Views: 8,691
Posted By ssam
Re: What ports/apps you will like to see in the tablets ????

good calendar/todo/notes/contact system that is easy to sync with a linux desktop and works offline. I dont want to use a closed third party system like google, but dont mind running my own sever...
Forum: General 2009-02-24, 11:16
Replies: 32
Views: 16,845
Posted By ssam
Re: Can the n800 play FLAC audio format?

my experience on a 600MHz via x86 CPU is that flac takes much less CPU power to decode (at least a factor of 2) than ogg vorbis. That was using gstreamer codecs.

there may be variations between...
Forum: General 2009-02-16, 20:43
Replies: 24
Views: 6,952
Posted By ssam
Re: I'm donating a N700

ok, can you PM me your address. If you can manage with out the box and charger (it uses the same as the N800, and my charger has a UK plug), then i think it may only be about £10 (GBP) to post, which...
Forum: General 2009-02-16, 13:26
Replies: 24
Views: 6,952
Posted By ssam
Re: I'm donating a N700

I would also be willing to donate an n770 to a dev. i am in the UK, but i could also send to europe.
Forum: Applications 2009-02-11, 14:16
Replies: 70
Views: 15,908
Posted By ssam
Re: Installing Encyclopedia???

The category: pages (along with all other namespaced pages) were deliberately stripped out. This was because most of them are not useful (eg help pages), and some of them are huge and caused problems...
Forum: Applications 2009-02-04, 14:32
Replies: 11
Views: 2,180
Posted By ssam
Re: sdict and wikipedia help needed

there is now a complete english wikipedia aar file on aarddict.org. it is about 6GB, and available via bittorrent.
Forum: Applications 2009-01-25, 21:00
Replies: 11
Views: 2,180
Posted By ssam
Re: sdict and wikipedia help needed

sdict is being superseded by aarddict (http://aarddict.org/).

there should be a full dump of wikipedia available very soon. we are mostly just figuring out a good way to distribute it.
Forum: Applications 2008-10-25, 10:50
Replies: 93
Views: 32,510
Posted By ssam
Re: Fennec Alpha 1

i like the descriptions in the preferences

Load images (makes websites pretty)
Enable javascript (makes websites flashy)
Enable plugins (makes websites annoying)
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2008-02-16, 18:33
Replies: 5
Views: 1,652
Posted By ssam
Re: details about the files in the /proc file system

http://linuxgazette.net/issue46/fink.html might get you started. there is lots of infomation if you google for it.
Forum: Off Topic 2008-02-04, 18:38
Replies: 20
Views: 3,479
Posted By ssam
Re: Hey! Linux people!

Linux has been my main OS for about 5 years.

The amount one needs to use the terminal for for normal stuff in linux is getting less and less. The same with the amount you need to know.

For...
Forum: Applications 2008-01-30, 20:16
Replies: 34
Views: 11,834
Posted By ssam
Re: sdict Wikipedia

i am seeding now
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2008-01-25, 10:23
Replies: 3
Views: 1,847
Posted By ssam
Re: Grafical calculator?

also there is lybniz
Forum: Applications 2008-01-16, 16:47
Replies: 1
Views: 2,466
Posted By ssam
conduit

is any one using conduit? http://www.conduit-project.org/

it seems to have n800 support and an experimental hildon GUI.
Forum: Newbie 2008-01-13, 12:49
Replies: 2
Views: 1,446
Posted By ssam
Re: Charging over USB?

no.

i think the official reason that they did not make this possible, is that USB does not provide as much current as a the charger (so it would take longer to charge).

the is a hack for the...
Forum: Off Topic 2008-01-12, 16:30
Replies: 39
Views: 5,998
Posted By ssam
Re: Is YOUR HotSpot open?

partly open. anyone can use port 80.

some noob using it was sending spam (i imagine due to a windows virus). so i had to close the email ports.
Forum: OS2007 / Maemo 3 / Bora 2008-01-09, 09:54
Replies: 16
Views: 53,029
Posted By ssam
Re: How to update Flash 9 plugin?

it is not necissarily true that the linux ARM version is effected by the vunerability.

however it would be nice to know and if it is, get a fix
Forum: Games 2008-01-09, 08:48
Replies: 17
Views: 8,699
Posted By ssam
Re: FreeCiv

it is being worked on http://blogs.gnome.org/sudaltsov/2008/01/04/nokia-n810-ordered/
Forum: Nokia N800 2007-12-19, 21:10
Replies: 39
Views: 9,661
Posted By ssam
Re: OS2008 - now can't install any apps...

the applications repositories are very slow at the moment.

i think once the initial rush has calmed down you'll be able to install stuff
Forum: General 2007-12-19, 20:41
Replies: 19
Views: 10,477
Posted By ssam
Re: Please download OS 2008 from Torrent

when you follow through http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-693eb904ad5011dc85b7b974c6dc13691369 to get the n800 firmware you get a directory with firmware images listed in my post above. the -2...
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