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Forum: Nokia N900 2020-08-20, 08:51
Replies: 30
Views: 8,845
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: What is your N900 running/doing nowadays?

My own answer is that at this point, my N900s are basically pocket linux CLI computers.

I gave up on using the N900 as a phone back around 2016, when the T-Mobile cell towers in the US were...
Forum: Nokia N900 2020-08-20, 08:38
Replies: 30
Views: 8,845
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
What is your N900 running/doing nowadays?

I'm curious how y'all use your N900s, in this day and age? And do y'all still run Maemo 5 on them?
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2020-08-20, 07:45
Replies: 2
Views: 4,082
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
musl libc + zlib pro-tip

Hey so if you suffer from my kind of brain damage, and decide it'll be a great idea to start compiling things against musl libc instead of glibc be warned:

If you repoint `usr/lib/libz.so.1` to...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2020-02-29, 18:36
Replies: 20
Views: 6,050
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: updating OpenSSL & Python (2+3)

It's definitely doable.

A few years ago I stopped relying on the community repos and just started building stuff from source.

I went for the LibreSSL fork of OpenSSL, and I have it installed...
Forum: Neo900 2020-02-29, 17:58
Replies: 19
Views: 9,052
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: Move Dead Neo900 project topic to OLD

Appreciate seeing this thread - first I'm hearing of the Neo900 project being stopped.

I haven't had time to come on TMO for... approximately five years now?

I had already inferred that the...
Forum: Buy & Sell 2016-06-19, 22:37
Replies: 3
Views: 2,838
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: WTS for sale Nokia n900 like new

Asking this publicly because I think it might be useful for others who might be considering it besides just me:

Does it still work as a phone just fine? (Never exhibited the...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2015-02-19, 19:16
Replies: 26
Views: 9,780
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Announce] fkdep - commandline script to fake dependencies

Alright, version 2.0.1 is in extras-devel, and is on its way to extras-testing.

I hope you didn't install 2.0.0 from the repos in the brief time it was there, because if you did, dpkg will flail...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2015-02-19, 15:42
Replies: 26
Views: 9,780
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Announce] fkdep - commandline script to fake dependencies

Heads up: I fixed a couple of bugs and pushed version 2.0.1 into devel.

Bug 1 (help text): The help text had "\n" at the end of one of the lines, accidentally left over from either when it was...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2015-02-19, 08:00
Replies: 26
Views: 9,780
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Announce] fkdep - commandline script to fake dependencies

NOTE: new version(s)/changes:

NO MORE automatic installing of .deb file if you run it as root. I know this was convenient, but I think there are several good reasons:
1. Principle of least...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2015-02-19, 07:48
Replies: 26
Views: 9,780
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Announce] fkdep - commandline script to fake dependencies

Finally uploaded this to the repos! I had the autobuilder do Diablo and Chinook as well as Fremantle, although I can't guarantee that it works the same perfect way out of the box on Maemo 4 the way...
Forum: Nokia N900 2015-02-14, 20:46
Replies: 544
Views: 277,379
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Pre-Pre-Pre Announce]Black Aluminium replacement body & backcover for N900

Sure, I think it matters - if people want to know, I think people ought to know. I know originally Estel wanted to keep some donation amounts unrevealed just in case the large donation amounts...
Forum: Applications 2015-02-14, 19:43
Replies: 3
Views: 4,312
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Announce] esceval - Tiny helper utility for doing convoluted things with arbitrary strings in shell scripts.

I went ahead and packaged a new version several days ago (the only change is that the "Description" field in the packaging is fixed), since no one was voting on the one in Testing anyway, so I wasn't...
Forum: Applications 2015-02-12, 05:41
Replies: 8
Views: 6,364
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Announce] Traceroute for Linux (traceroute2)

Well, you can't count it undoing two busybox-power symlinks against it - like every tool does that: tar will clobber busybox-power's tar symlinks last I checked, ping will definitely clobber...
Forum: Applications 2015-02-11, 18:45
Replies: 8
Views: 6,364
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Announce] Traceroute for Linux (traceroute2)

Well, we can't update the packages in the official repositories, but I thought there wasn't anything preventing you from uploading a package with the same name to the extras-devel repo, and promoting...
Forum: Applications 2015-02-11, 07:51
Replies: 3
Views: 4,312
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Announce] esceval - Tiny helper utility for doing convoluted things with arbitrary strings in shell scripts.

Secondarily, there are shell scripting use cases where esceval (or something like it) is helpful and would make code more legible, even though it's not necessary.

Specifically where you have to...
Forum: Applications 2015-02-11, 07:37
Replies: 3
Views: 4,312
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Announce] esceval - Tiny helper utility for doing convoluted things with arbitrary strings in shell scripts.

More technical explanation of the rationale:

Imagine that you have a shell script where you need to dynamically create a list of arbitrary strings. And you need to do this in several places in...
Forum: Applications 2015-02-11, 06:53
Replies: 3
Views: 4,312
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
[Announce] esceval - Tiny helper utility for doing convoluted things with arbitrary strings in shell scripts.

I wrote a really, really tiny C commandline program that takes all arguments given to it, and prints them almost verbatim, just 'escaped' in the Bourne/POSIX shell sense of the word.

It's so...
Forum: Applications 2015-02-11, 05:46
Replies: 8
Views: 6,364
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Announce] Traceroute for Linux (traceroute2)

Can you clarify why you thought having this name-conflict with traceroute in the SDK repos is a problem? Neither dpkg nor apt-get have any problems with same-name packages being available in...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2015-02-09, 07:38
Replies: 0
Views: 2,793
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
[Announce] [Feedback wanted] /run, "system-feature-root-run-dir" metapackage, etc.

- Intro -

For those who don't know, upstream Debian has moved to using /run instead of /var/run as the tmpfs mount point for runtime files that are not meant to persist across reboots.

See:...
Forum: Applications 2015-02-08, 21:53
Replies: 1,392
Views: 432,968
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app

I see, and I can completely understand why you'd do so: if it's just a few ints here and there, it's reasonable enough, since the overhead to add some text file parsing to load the keyset(s) would be...
Forum: Applications 2015-02-08, 06:21
Replies: 904
Views: 395,997
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [DEVEL] Saera: Siri clone for Maemo5 and Harmattan

taixzo: What would you say you need/want more, an N9, N900, or Jolla?
Forum: Applications 2015-02-08, 06:07
Replies: 1,392
Views: 432,968
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app

Well, on the devices I have which are constantly on Extras-devel, I've found the UI perfectly fine. I don't really have anything stand out in my mind as particularly bad/unintuitive about it. Well,...
Forum: SailfishOS 2015-02-08, 05:42
Replies: 49
Views: 9,389
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Announce] SSH Access confirmation

This is awesome. I'm glad it's fairly easy to do this on the Jolla. (V.s., for example, the N900, where the work to set this up would likely be much greater, since by default I don't believe there's...
Forum: Applications 2015-02-06, 14:38
Replies: 1,392
Views: 432,968
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app

Quick request:

Any chance you could promote one of the more recent versions down to extras-testing, and eventually extras? I see it's been sitting on 1.0.0 in extras and extras-testing for a...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2015-02-05, 04:35
Replies: 28
Views: 18,464
Posted By Mentalist Traceur
Re: IPv6 support for Nokia N900 (version 0.2)

Yeah,
apt-get [remove/autoremove] --purge
..the purge flag tells it to delete all files the package declares as "conffiles". Normal "remove" leaves all those files in place.

There's also:...
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