gerbick | # 491 | 2010-09-29, 20:39 | Report

Ok.... the references... they're back cool again.

mikec | # 492 | 2010-09-29, 20:43 | Report

You know you wanted more



Sorry

gerbick | # 493 | 2010-09-29, 20:54 | Report

You owe me a cup of tea... and almost a computer screen!

Dave999 | # 494 | 2010-09-29, 20:59 | Report

you are correct. and that is Chuck Norris! forget the higlander.

also just voted again.

NOMOS | # 495 | 2010-09-29, 21:11 | Report

This is so cool. I have no knowledge of programming or scripting, and I am running my device at 900 mhz, overclocked myself, have conky to check my set up, running ultra low voltage, and am pretty sure ill get android running on it too with the autoinstaller.

But, you know what always makes other peoples jaws drop?
FM transmitting in a car. Without a cable, they are always confused. So funny.

maxximuscool | # 496 | 2010-09-29, 21:54 | Report

Yep I voted 6x times

maxximuscool | # 497 | 2010-09-29, 21:58 | Report

You know what drop more people jaws?
Unlocked the FM transmitter so that it will work with any type of stereo frequency range

I've put together the hack and write a small script for it and combination to make it unlocked completely

Here in NZ the car we bought are from Japan and the stereo came with it usually have the japanese frequency range. Which is 76~88.0Mhz. So N900 is the best

Last night I just hacked something else

SAABoy | # 498 | 2010-09-29, 22:38 | Report

this sounds very evil

SAABoy | # 499 | 2010-09-29, 22:38 | Report

""""'"Worthwhile comment from C. Whiteham in the poll comments:

C.Whiteham says:
September 29, 2010 at 1:38 pm

To really get a sense of how Not-In-The-Same-League the smartphones (such as Galaxy S and other Android things) are, compared to the Internet tablets (N900, N9, N8, etc.), you really need to compare what happens when there is NO APP for what you want to do. Let’s think of something weird that no one would ever write an app for.

Does the Galaxy S have an app for “when the battery strength is less than 30, then send me an email”? NO. End of story. Sorry. Better luck next time.

Wait, does the *N900* have an app for “when the battery strength is less than 30, then send me an email”? No, it doesn’t. So what to do? Well, you can just type the following two lines in a file:

#/bin/bash
while /bin/true; do sleep 60s; if (( 30 \> $( lshal | grep percentage | grep -o \\d\\d ) )); then dbus-send –type=method_call –dest=com.nokia.modest /com/nokia/modest com.nokia.modest.MailTo string:”mailto:myemail@myaddress.com\nbattery is low!” ; fi ; done

There you go, *NOW* the N900 will send you an email when battery strength is less than 30.

But wait, Galaxy S owner, I know what you want to say: “But my cousin’s neighbour’s mom knows someone who wrote an Android app that does *exactly* that, which is available for only $0.99! And it even has coloured blinking lights on our HIGH RESOLUTION screen!”

Okay, fine then, does the Galaxy S have an app for “turn on the FM transmitter and speak the cellular signal strength on my car hifi using Mandarin Chinese”? NO. End of story. Sorry. Better luck next time.

Wait, does the *N900* have an app for “turn on the FM transmitter and speak out loud the current cellular signal strength on my car hifi using Mandarin Chinese”? No, it doesn’t. So guess what the N900 owner does? Why, create a new program with the following two-line text file, of course:

#/bin/bash
/usr/bin/fmtx_client -p 1 && dbus-send –system –print-reply –dest=com.nokia.phone.net /com/nokia/phone/net Phone.Net.get_signal_strength | espeak -v zh

Let me guess, Galaxy S owner, you’re about to say, “Wait a minute! Did you just CREATE TWO NEW APPS there by typing in two lines of shell scripting?” Yeah, you can do it while you’re waiting for the train. What’s that, you were NOT about to say that? You were actually about to say, “What on earth is ‘shell scripting’?” Well, it’s like programming, but simpler. What’s that you say? “What is ‘programming’?” “What’s a ‘file’?” “What’s an operating system?”

What’s that? “Why are we talking about computers, anyway? This is a smart phone competition! Besides, who wants to type in those REALLY LONG 2-line programs which are freely customizable? We have an app store where we can wait for Google to get around to making exactly the right app, and you’re stuck with –okay, I guess the N900 has an app store, too, plus your set of three no-cost Maemo repositories… But, umm … we have more gigahertz than you! Yeah, that’s it!”

Seriously, Galaxy S, come back when your user does NOT need to go running off to some app store every time you want permission to do something with the device.''"""""

awesome. thats a veriation of nerd rage; nerd pwn.

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9000 | # 500 | 2010-09-29, 23:46 | Report

To add more fun to the similar situation, secretly played a MP3 of a woman speaking in hideous voice followed by horrible screaming thru the FM radio of your friend's car.

Though later I learnt not to do that again unless I am the one who drive, it was really fun as hell.