Let s call this Ari Virtanen and say:

"Ari read my lips: where-iz-da-up-date?"

I've no idea why a Friday seems more popular than any other day of the week.

As to why today (Friday, 29 June) would be a likely candidate for new firmware, it's linked with the "Skype in H1" announcement - today is the last Friday in H1.

However as Skype may be a seperate download and not part of the firmware (and Skype is likely to be delayed beyond H1), all bets are now off!

Thanks, though "expected by the end of the first half" is not exactly the promise that coheed22 was asking for, it does atleast make me feel less crazy for thinking i read that. thanks

:-)

well, I ve been working in an equity fund private bank and during the training period, day 1, lesson 1 was

"never assume that performance of the future is a computable function of the performance of the past"

You can already do this. If you have MythStreamTV installed on your backend, you can start a stream then use mplayer to play the stream. I tested this the other day. There is also GMyth.
http://gmyth.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://labs.morpheuz.eng.br/blog/25/...gms-and-gmyth/

Blimey...so no word from anyone yet eh?
I really hope it's not a firmware upgrade...
I haven't had time to get me a card to boot off from so I don't lose everything I've installed over the past 4 weeks...

tap tap tap.

June 29, 2007? Great pick Millhouse!!

I've worked in a few software companies where Friday releases are more common:

1. Only limited numbers will upgrade over a weekend, making it less problematic if there's a major issue
2. You've got all week to prepare
3. You want to give yourself as much time as possible

The last one's the big one, I think. S/w releases are a big thing to co-ordinate so having all week to get the servers updated etc. makes sense.

Also, I'll echo the sentiments about the lack of communication. Lots of hints from Nokia about "a new release", but nothing on maemo-announce, -users or -developer. Nothing on their blogs syndicated to planet.maemo.org. Nothing on the maemo.org frontpage.

This is Nokia shooting themselves in the foot on the "trying to be more open development". Bemoaning the lack of assistance with Hildon Desktop and Maemo, but then not communicating when releases are going to occur are mutually exclusive positions.

No-one will contribute if it's just Nokia taking what others do for free (or for a discounted device).

just to add to the speculation...
anybody know the time there in finland?
maybe the update is set to be available when the day is over?

by my guess thats 5 hours, but not exactly sure on this one