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Forum: Competitors 2012-03-23, 15:54
Replies: 11
Views: 5,352
Posted By gryvn
Re: Wife wants a replacement for her N900, what Android replacement to go for?

In the cheap-or-free feature/dumbphone area there's this:

http://www.gsmarena.com/alcatel_ot_888-3794.php

It's got a proprietary Android locked-up OS but has a pretty decent PC interface that...
Forum: General 2012-03-23, 15:31
Replies: 32
Views: 9,545
Posted By gryvn
Re: tutorial on basic command line use?

Thanks, Geneven, That's pretty much exactly what I was needing when I started the thread, although I''ve found a lot of good information since.

I appreciate your contribution.
Forum: General 2012-03-23, 04:14
Replies: 32
Views: 9,545
Posted By gryvn
Re: tutorial on basic command line use?

"You can do an amazing amount of stuff with just an ssh connection."

You do a good sell. When confronted with an especially ill-designed and dysfunctional GUI I alwas know that theres a...
Forum: General 2012-03-23, 00:05
Replies: 32
Views: 9,545
Posted By gryvn
Re: tutorial on basic command line use?

"But yeah, installing all these things at once is probably overkill."

Was for me. Unfortunately, that's the thing that comes up on most searches as "the" answer to networking on Maemo. Just my...
Forum: General 2012-03-22, 22:46
Replies: 32
Views: 9,545
Posted By gryvn
Re: tutorial on basic command line use?

"Now, the world has bifurcated into the Steve Jobs "a computer should be as simple as a toaster" camp and the open source "real men compile their own kernels" camp. "

I hear ya. I was just...
Forum: General 2012-03-22, 22:38
Replies: 32
Views: 9,545
Posted By gryvn
Re: tutorial on basic command line use?

ROFL! Geez, guys, lighten UP, it's just a geek forum.

Next time I'm looking to get a spanking I'll go see Mistress Cruella, not to Maemo.org. She's LOTS more fun although she's not half as...
Forum: General 2012-03-22, 21:33
Replies: 32
Views: 9,545
Posted By gryvn
Re: tutorial on basic command line use?

Anthonie, you seem to be an unhappy person. I don't know command-line scripting but I'm a fair hand at lay psychology. Would you like to talk to someone about your anger issues?
Forum: General 2012-03-22, 21:13
Replies: 32
Views: 9,545
Posted By gryvn
Re: tutorial on basic command line use?

"you've got to deal with a lot more options and downright grungy details than in other systems."

I love grungy and hands-on, but I kinda like to know what I'm getting into. I've fallen into some...
Forum: General 2012-03-22, 19:39
Replies: 32
Views: 9,545
Posted By gryvn
Re: tutorial on basic command line use?

Thanks, Copernicus. I came at the n810 with no Linux background and apparently some fairly naive expectations of how to wring more usefulness out of it. It presented itself to my expectations as a...
Forum: General 2012-03-22, 19:09
Replies: 32
Views: 9,545
Posted By gryvn
Re: tutorial on basic command line use?

"The time you took to create a new topic, asking questions that even the Romans standing before the cross had become bored with, could have been used better."

My chagrin knows no bounds. Thank you...
Forum: General 2012-03-22, 18:07
Replies: 32
Views: 9,545
Posted By gryvn
Re: tutorial on basic command line use?

I can only hope, humbly, that some day, with much diligence and study, I too can become wise and proficient in an OS that many people aren't very familiar with, so that I too can be condescending...
Forum: General 2012-03-22, 17:52
Replies: 32
Views: 9,545
Posted By gryvn
Re: tutorial on basic command line use?

"But above all: Your question should've been answered by a simple google query done yourself."

And for that we'd have had to know, going in, that Maemo uses standard Linux syntax rather than some...
Forum: General 2012-03-22, 17:13
Replies: 32
Views: 9,545
Posted By gryvn
tutorial on basic command line use?

I can't imagine someone hasn't written one, I just can't find it. Basic command line edits and commands.

I need to edit a config file then run some commands. I could do it in DOS but not Maemo.
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Forum: General 2012-03-20, 03:05
Replies: 22
Views: 4,523
Posted By gryvn
Re: Remote PC app, n810 and wtf

Addison: I got Knots2 going. (Told you I wouldn't be able to leave it alone).

It works a lot better than anything else playing over the network on the 810, presumably because of the streaming,...
Forum: General 2012-03-20, 01:40
Replies: 22
Views: 4,523
Posted By gryvn
Re: Remote PC app, n810 and wtf

On what? Further hair loss and stress-induced cardiac arrhythmia?
Forum: General 2012-03-20, 01:36
Replies: 22
Views: 4,523
Posted By gryvn
Re: Remote PC app, n810 and wtf

I think I'm going to bag this for the day, maybe permanently. I'm beginning to think I've got at least major software, and possibly hardware issues. This thing has led me on a wild goose chase...
Forum: General 2012-03-20, 01:17
Replies: 22
Views: 4,523
Posted By gryvn
Re: Remote PC app, n810 and wtf

"root
reboot -n"

You mean FROM root? Those commands just give me "not found". Is it the same as a reboot with the power button?
Forum: General 2012-03-20, 00:55
Replies: 22
Views: 4,523
Posted By gryvn
Re: Remote PC app, n810 and wtf

"It will list Shared folders and Shared Media, sometimes they take a couple of seconds to appear. "

This may be the problem. Doesn't happen, never happened. Only local resources (internal storage,...
Forum: General 2012-03-20, 00:23
Replies: 22
Views: 4,523
Posted By gryvn
Re: Remote PC app, n810 and wtf

By the way, the pc connectivity project installs tightVNC, but also Cygwin, FileZilla, and it's own pc-connectivity business.
Forum: General 2012-03-20, 00:19
Replies: 22
Views: 4,523
Posted By gryvn
Re: Remote PC app, n810 and wtf

"your requests are actually something I've never even heard of before."

Maybe I wasn't clear. I'm not trying to do anything exotic, I just want to be able to use the 810 to access network shares...
Forum: General 2012-03-20, 00:12
Replies: 22
Views: 4,523
Posted By gryvn
Re: Remote PC app, n810 and wtf

"tightvnc-1.3.10-setup
dfmirage-setup-1.1.68.2 (I love this. It makes the screen on the tablet refresh faster and prevents any screen tearing)."

Where did you find these Windows executables on...
Forum: General 2012-03-20, 00:06
Replies: 22
Views: 4,523
Posted By gryvn
Re: Remote PC app, n810 and wtf

Hi Addison, I thought you might be watching.

I found a lot of discussions on networking with the 810, but the only one that seemed to be definitive and complete (as opposed to piecemeal solutions)...
Forum: General 2012-03-19, 23:16
Replies: 22
Views: 4,523
Posted By gryvn
Remote PC app, n810 and wtf

This may be more of a rant than a question, but I'd appreciate any efforts to enlighten me. I was going to put it in PC-connectivity-manager thread but I think it's more of a general...
Forum: Applications 2012-03-18, 00:13
Replies: 1,842
Views: 439,936
Posted By gryvn
Re: Dialcentral 1.0

D'OH! I have been navigating the dizzying technical heights of setting up SIP accounts all day without asking a single noob question, and here I miss this one. I didn't expect a credentials dialog at...
Forum: Applications 2012-03-17, 23:48
Replies: 1,842
Views: 439,936
Posted By gryvn
DialCentral 1.3.6-0 and GV password change, hanging

I searched for this problem but can't implement the suggestions I found. I had DC 1.3.6-0 running for SMS use only. I just got SIP configured successfully to be able to use DC for voice but had to...
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