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Forum: Nokia N900 2013-11-24, 17:00
Replies: 23
Views: 37,235
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: Bitcoin server running on an N900

A silly calculation.
Based on http://blockexplorer.com/q/nethash - I make the difficulty at the time of release about 600, rising to 1200 a month later.
http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator ...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2011-07-12, 14:32
Replies: 349
Views: 254,449
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: MeeGo-Harmattan HE

The n900 accelerometer supports double-tap detection in hardware.
http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_accelerometer
This is not implemented properly in the driver.
Though - run some program using the...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-08-11, 20:32
Replies: 12
Views: 4,991
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: Two questions about unusual uses of the hardware.

In short - ranging will never work.
I've got a half-designed laser ranger module that I want to get selling on ebay, and have looked into the schematics of the n900.

There is no IR reciever of...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-08-09, 11:01
Replies: 27
Views: 17,070
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: [GUIDE] USB-port loose? There, fixd' it...

There are several problems with this.

Firstly, it is quite possible to screw your n900 by taking it apart - at least one actual electronic engineer by profession has had it fail due to the LCD...
Forum: Applications 2010-08-07, 21:23
Replies: 16
Views: 6,824
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: [Request] Strobe light using flash

This risks burning out the flash LEDs, if not done with care.

http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_Hardware_Flash_Torch

The LEDs cannot safely be flashed at high power for more than 0.5 seconds.

There...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-08-03, 09:44
Replies: 12
Views: 4,991
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: Two questions about unusual uses of the hardware.

It may not be impossible.
It's in principle possible to record IR with the camera.
Place a remote _right_ up against the camera.
Trigger while watching viewfinder.
The stripy pattern contains...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-08-03, 09:41
Replies: 69
Views: 25,241
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: Methods for determining battery drainage / cause

It doesn't.
This is exactly backwards.

I'm trying to write a page explaining power use - this is not done yet.

http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_Software_Power_management
In a couple of days I hope...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-08-01, 12:55
Replies: 8
Views: 5,243
Posted By SpeedEvil
USB Host. (Are we there yet?)

USB host mode has been somewhat of a slog, which continues.

USB host mode lets you plug in random USB devices to your N900 using just a commonly available F-F adaptor cable plugged into the normal...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-07-16, 18:19
Replies: 7
Views: 5,638
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: dpad accessory for the n900

Switch is the trivial part.
You also need a microcontroller which implements the USB HID stack, and talks to the USB bus and the n900.
http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/hidkeys.html
for example...
Forum: Community 2010-06-21, 18:14
Replies: 276
Views: 57,141
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: Community input for new t.m.o. policy

I question the blanket 'no business advertising'.

While in some cases, this would be clearly inappropriate - for example -
'BUY MY AWESOME SCREEN PROTECTORS' - in others, it might be less so.
...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-06-14, 12:50
Replies: 3
Views: 3,867
Posted By SpeedEvil
Want wpa_supplicant? cisco LEAP and others.

First - see the caveats on http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-devel - then add caveats about software downloaded from some random dudes website.

I compiled wpa_supplicant and friends.

It's at...
Forum: Community 2010-06-12, 10:52
Replies: 60
Views: 23,499
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: [Council] "Chromium" removed from maemo.org repositories

What would be needed to be perfectly fine legally would be to take the chrome repository, and fork it.

This fork would need to have none of the source-code of courgette - that would need totally...
Forum: Brainstorm 2010-06-10, 12:34
Replies: 18
Views: 37,940
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: OBD2 Car Software

The fundamental protocol of most of these devices is quite simple.
>90% use http://www.elmelectronics.com/dsheets.html chips, look at the datasheet for the elm327.

In principle, you could just...
Forum: Brainstorm 2010-06-08, 10:50
Replies: 38
Views: 7,778
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: Community Driven "Appstore"

The '12 million' number regrettably is bogus.

11.88 million of that is new versions of fmms.

:)

To paste something I wrote elsewhere.

While interesting, this is highly misleading.
Take -...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-06-05, 21:39
Replies: 31
Views: 7,460
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: Flash Vulnerability

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-01.html claims that 9.x is not vulnerability free.

I do not know if this affects the ARM version.
At best, exploits would need to be...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-06-04, 16:28
Replies: 252
Views: 136,050
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: USB HOST MODE! (Coming soon)

http://depot.javispedro.com/nit/usb/displaylink.jpg may be interesting.

This is javispedro's early success in getting DisplayLink monitor to work - basically it's a 'monitor over USB' solution.
...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-06-04, 12:00
Replies: 252
Views: 136,050
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: USB HOST MODE! (Coming soon)

Basically not.

The 'interesting' parts of the USB are mostly confined to the USB module inside the chips.

That's what we're trying to work out at the moment, and it's generally better done...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-06-04, 02:34
Replies: 12
Views: 5,618
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: Time in CPU States

Powertop is good for this.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=491333

I can't be bothered reading other peoples scripts at this time of night.

while true ;do sleep 10;cat...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-06-04, 02:04
Replies: 9
Views: 4,957
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: Screen scratch solutions?

I've _destroyed_ several screen protectors.
First two were with 'blocks' - that I got a bit addicted to - tiny bit of grit gets to the stylus - and ...

Then I went gardening, and managed to put...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-06-03, 18:12
Replies: 9
Views: 4,957
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: Screen scratch solutions?

For truly hairline scratches, the protector may completely conceal them.
It has a jelly-like substance on the back that it sticks to the screen with.
This will conceal small scratches.
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-06-03, 18:08
Replies: 13
Views: 4,964
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: Water under screen :(

Rice doesn't help much.
Think about it this way.
If rice absorbed huge amounts of water from the air, you'd need to keep it tightly sealed, or it'd be a drippy mess.

And - well - it's not.
...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-06-03, 18:05
Replies: 252
Views: 136,050
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: USB HOST MODE! (Coming soon)

OTG can never be got to work.
There are various reasons why the n90 can never support USB OTG - the wiring is basically wrong, though the components themselves support it.

USB host - what your PC...
Forum: Community 2010-06-01, 11:50
Replies: 45
Views: 14,459
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: [Testing Squad] - June 2010 - We need testers!

I have not seen the testing chart, as I have failed to see a link to it.
Searching the wiki shows nothing.
Forum: Community 2010-06-01, 11:40
Replies: 45
Views: 14,459
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: [Testing Squad] - June 2010 - We need testers!

Another issue that would make the QA list easier to use would be if there was some way to get a list that is not broken into many parts.

I have scrollbars, I'm quite capable of scrolling down a...
Forum: Community 2010-06-01, 11:37
Replies: 45
Views: 14,459
Posted By SpeedEvil
Re: [Testing Squad] - June 2010 - We need testers!

You did actually test all of the themes?
For example, for ones that make UI elements invisible.
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