Re: pre-800 owner skeered away
 

Hello amkaos.. trying my best to help out fellow Maemo newbies.. but some things you just gotta give it a hack yourself.

1. Online Poker? You're on your own with that.. not gonna help someones gambling habits :)

Hint .. Maemo.org offers software to try a virtualized version of its environment on the Windows.

2. remote access? that's something that's well answered in other posts.. use the forums search tool.. some terms:

remote access, rdesktop, rdp,

Now, when you start using the N800 for things like remote access, and other extra functionality not marketed by Nokia, you will need to invest some of your own time.. as you call it.. part time job..

Re: pre-800 owner skeered away
 

not sure what the microB part of the app is--whatever , if that is what it takes to get firefox goin..
im not sure why you need Orb unless thats what it takes to gain access to drives on network..
how in the damm does vista recognize sd on linux 800?
thanx

Re: pre-800 owner skeered away
 

@ghoonk: A2DP can be done now. It was possible before, with a little more effort, but now it looks quite easy. I had used my bluetooth headphones with the n800 all summer. I haven't had a chance to pair up my headphones yet, but as soon as that SDHC card comes in, that'll be the second thing I do (after transferring music). Also, the n810 has a micro SDHC slot, not a full-sized SDHC.

Re: pre-800 owner skeered away
 

microB is the name of the webbrowser on the n800. It's based on the gecko engine which is the same engine that firefox uses. There's also a port in progress of the "full" firefox web browser at the moment, but it has a long ways to go.

You can use just the regular n800 file manager to copy files from smb (i.e. windows) shares, or any upnp devices on the network. The quicker way to do it is to plug the n800 into the PC using the USB cable and copy the files over.

When you plug your n800 into your PC, the n800 becomes nothing more than an over-glorified card reader, and you can just drag and drop files via windows explorer like you could to any other SD card.

Re: pre-800 owner skeered away
 

k, gotcha.. so what about the Orb thing.. thats the only way you access from home network?

Re: pre-800 owner skeered away
 

Well it's probably the easiest, all things considered.

You can copy things via (unprotected) windows shares, and that's quite handy. You can also install ssh-server and use a program called winscp to copy files that way.

It kinda depends on what files you want to copy. The easiest way for many things is just via USB.

Re: pre-800 owner skeered away
 

amkaos - I was quite happy to be plucking around the other night at home, wireless to my home network. Was in the File Manager, found my laptop, and started pulling and playing music files from the File Manager. Easy as pie.

I believe Orb is an on-the-fly video converter to convert and play anything on your home network. Not necessary.

Re: pre-800 owner skeered away
 

Correction of the correction :)

The N810 has one MiniSDHC slot. It will of course support a MicroSDHC card inserted in a MicroSD to MiniSD adapter. That said, I highly recommend N810 owners stick with MicroSDHC as they're usually comparable in price to MiniSDHC.. who knows.. the next tablet might drop MiniSDHC support in favour of one or more MicroSDHC slots.

I own the N800, and buy full size SDHC cards only because the larger size cards are on the market first for full size SDHC and are usually half the costs of Mini/MicroSDHC cards.

Re: pre-800 owner skeered away
 

Another tip - for Calendaring, I use the double whammy of GPE Calendar and Erminig. GPE Calendar is a pretty simple calendar app that gets the job done, and it can sync to Google Calendar with Erminig.

I believe I had some problems with Erminig in OS2007. It's not quite as easy as "Bob's your uncle" - there is no app manager package - but the directions are straightforward and work if you follow them.

Re: pre-800 owner skeered away
 

wait, right now from laptop, i can access any drive on network and stream to play on laptop w/o copying files.. so Orb does that, correct?
i d rather not copy files just so play them..
tahnx