Re: ZOMG it runs XP!!!11!1!!one!
 

Now that the cat's out of the bag on this one, I un-moderated the comments and turned moderation back off. If you want to keep playing along, make sure to "rate up" the video on YouTube so it gets more exposure and see if others buy into it. Also, click "more" on the "tags" field on the YouTube page and look at the last tag. :D

Re: ZOMG it runs XP!!!11!1!!one!
 

The properly scaled screen was the first tip off... that and the XP accessibility keyboard. First thing I do in an XP install is turn off the Fisher-Price(tm) plastic theme. :)

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The video got a few honors on YouTube...

#56 - Most Viewed (Today) - Science & Technology - All
#98 - Top Rated (Today) - Science & Technology - All

thoughtfix - no direct DiggIt or del.icio.us links on your articles? btw, nice writing on all the articles I've read!

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Yay thanks srstein. I don't add DiggIt or del.icio.us code to my blog posts because I figure any user who finds it worthy enough would digg/del.icio.us it themselves. In all honesty, there are VERY few articles of mine I'd consider worthy for "mass consumption" as most of my writing has the target audience of people who either already have N800's or want to know what the device does. Is that something I should add?

I'm always up for suggestions: As announced the other day, I switched from short feeds to full content feeds in RSS simply because a few people asked me to.

Re: ZOMG it runs XP!!!11!1!!one!
 

You (Daniel) made Engadget fame today:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/25/n...eview-roundup/

cheers

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I saw! I'm honored. Oh.. and
Digg me for fun.

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Generally, I consider those links to be cheating a bit however it does make it easier and more likely for the posts to get submitted and read.

As far as adding them to your site it depends. If you decide to post more "mass consumption" articles on your blog then it may be fine. I bet the "Windows XP on 770" will catch a few eyes.

A few other posts could be interesting to the masses such as your n800 review, adding the n800 as an in-car media player, or if you ever get the VEX robot running. I'm sure there's more to come.

I've heard enough of the iPhone already, can we hear some more about the IT? :D

Re: ZOMG it runs XP!!!11!1!!one!
 

well, rdesktop: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/rdesktop/
auto-install: https://garage.maemo.org/docman/view...esktop.install

not hildonized, but going back and forth using the home key works.

Re: ZOMG it runs XP!!!11!1!!one!
 

Thank you SOO much for this port! This is the first port of RDESKTOP to the Nokia Internet Tablets which is even marginally useful. I can report that it seems to work with W2K and WXP SP2 with right click via the menu key and my bluetooth keyboard works as well. Finally, I can admin my W2K servers from my jacket pocket! I can also report that it does not seem to work with Vista's RD at all :(

I would love to see some sort of connection manager to hold information for multiple connections, support for the on-screen-keyboard and better hildonization...and Vista support. I will happily make a cash donation should these even get done! I have access to a fair number of machines running TS/RDP and am happy to test anything you would like.

Great work!

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rdesktop.org has a 1.5.0, if you have a linux box could you try and see if it works with Vista?

I added two feature requests (reminders if you will) about vista and server history, and I'll try to look into it soon. (btw going from 0.2 to 0.3 was only a night's work, so "soon" is not three-months-soon, more like three days :p )

Better (erm, real) hildonization would require major fiddling with the code. Last year, the original author/IT2005-porter Simon Guerrero started on that (there's some incomplete code in svn) but he didn't have the time to get it working. I don't really want to get into it, because it would just take too long. But I posted a job about this on the maemo garage so I'm looking for a developer to do the hildonization.

BTW it would work much better if maemo provided different keycodes for the built in hardware keys. As it is, it's not possible to use F4 and F5 keys (eg. via a bluetooth keyboard) because F4=menu and F5=home. I will add a bluetooth-keyboard-mode that removes F4 and F5 limitations in the next release. (I'll just move them to weird-yet-easy-to-find-on-a-bluetooth-keyboard key combinations. This time the "real" hardware keys won't behave, but it's ok since power key will still switch to desktop)