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maemo news highlights S3 is a cruel mistress Well, I suppose I have no one to blame up myself. You may recall my triumphant declaration that S3 suspend was working on my desktop machine without any quirks. Naturally, that couldn’t ... [More] last. Yesterday, something happened to the machine such that it will no longer resume from S3 - and it seems to be a very low level problem - I can’t resume successfully in windows anymore, either. I tried using a custom stripped down kernel but to no avail - I get identical symptoms in all cases. When I power it back on, basiclaly nothing happens. The drives power up and the disk activity light comes on solid for a while and then goes out - nothing else happens. Looking at the kernel logs, it seems control is never returned to the OS - and that would explain the failure on windows too. I tried out S1 and I’ve confirmed that that still works, but something has broken S3 and I can’t for the life of me say what it is. I even wiped the BIOS configuration and recreated it, wondering if something bad had ended up in the nvram - but I’m not seeing any changes. If anyone out there has any suggestions, I’m eager to hear them - but I’m feeling very pessimistic... 0 favs 2007-08-25 18:45 UTC to Planet maemo by Philip Langdale maemo wiki cleanup: first milestone We have just got to a first milestone of the maemo wiki, thanks to the priceless help of some big hearts at #maemo (details to come in a next post): We have gone through most (all?) of the content. All the good content is now linked from the main page. There are still pages with an uncertain future (pro-official docs, candidates to be deleted, pages probably irrelevant today, content in non-English... All of them are located at WikiReorg. The priority now is to clear up this page. We got rid of all the orphans Now we have a big list of pages to delete. If you find there content worth to be kept move the link to WikiReorg. We can always recover old content from the old wiki. We have also gone through the functionality expected in a wiki nowadays, in order to know in details what we have got and what is... 0 favs 2007-08-25 22:16 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil Impressed by 3rd party iPhone apps Marcelo got an iPhone and I could use it for a while, my initial idea was to compare my virtual keyboard with their (mine is “better”, easier to type, because the screen is larger!), but I also paid attention to graphics effects, and other things that I could use to improve my own skills… BUT what impressed me most was the number of 3rd party applications already available for it! Apple has invested no money to create a public development infrastructure, community resources and not even a cross compiler toolchain. Actually, they tried hard to avoid people writing native applications, but even with these factors they got to the point they have more useful (IMO) applications than N800, with Nokia creating Maemo, funding scratchbox, tons of resources to improve Gnome and related tools. Sure, they already ship with great apps by default, as an excellent media player and browser and simple but good enough mail client, maps, PIM… but you can already... 2 favs 2007-08-25 07:27 UTC to Planet maemo by Gustavo Barbieri 25 Aug 2007 2007-08-25 13:35 UTC to Planet maemo by Zeeshan Ali0 favs Maemo UI design... 2007-08-24 21:37 UTC to Planet maemo by Tim Samoff2 favs 25 Aug 2007 2007-08-25 12:42 UTC to Planet maemo by Zeeshan Ali0 favs PyMaemo for Chinook 2007-08-24 22:42 UTC to Planet maemo by Luciano Wolf2 favs Helping the Browser Project 2007-08-24 09:01 UTC to Planet maemo by timeless3 favs DVD to Internet Tablet in Two Steps 2007-08-24 12:19 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman3 favs Testing the Ubuntu Mobile Kernel 2007-08-24 22:07 UTC to Planet maemo by Ian Lawrence0 favs [Less]

maemo news highlights S3 is a cruel mistress Well, I suppose I have no one to blame up myself. You may recall my triumphant declaration that S3 suspend was working on my desktop machine without any quirks. Naturally, that couldn’t ... [More] last. Yesterday, something happened to the machine such that it will no longer resume from S3 - and it seems to be a very low level problem - I can’t resume successfully in windows anymore, either. I tried using a custom stripped down kernel but to no avail - I get identical symptoms in all cases. When I power it back on, basiclaly nothing happens. The drives power up and the disk activity light comes on solid for a while and then goes out - nothing else happens. Looking at the kernel logs, it seems control is never returned to the OS - and that would explain the failure on windows too. I tried out S1 and I’ve confirmed that that still works, but something has broken S3 and I can’t for the life of me say what it is. I even wiped the BIOS configuration and recreated it, wondering if something bad had ended up in the nvram - but I’m not seeing any changes. If anyone out there has any suggestions, I’m eager to hear them - but I’m feeling very pessimistic... 0 favs 2007-08-25 18:45 UTC to Planet maemo by Philip Langdale maemo wiki cleanup: first milestone We have just got to a first milestone of the maemo wiki, thanks to the priceless help of some big hearts at #maemo (details to come in a next post): We have gone through most (all?) of the content. All the good content is now linked from the main page. There are still pages with an uncertain future (pro-official docs, candidates to be deleted, pages probably irrelevant today, content in non-English... All of them are located at WikiReorg. The priority now is to clear up this page. We got rid of all the orphans Now we have a big list of pages to delete. If you find there content worth to be kept move the link to WikiReorg. We can always recover old content from the old wiki. We have also gone through the functionality expected in a wiki nowadays, in order to know in details what we have got and what is... 0 favs 2007-08-25 22:16 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil Impressed by 3rd party iPhone apps Marcelo got an iPhone and I could use it for a while, my initial idea was to compare my virtual keyboard with their (mine is “better”, easier to type, because the screen is larger!), but I also paid attention to graphics effects, and other things that I could use to improve my own skills… BUT what impressed me most was the number of 3rd party applications already available for it! Apple has invested no money to create a public development infrastructure, community resources and not even a cross compiler toolchain. Actually, they tried hard to avoid people writing native applications, but even with these factors they got to the point they have more useful (IMO) applications than N800, with Nokia creating Maemo, funding scratchbox, tons of resources to improve Gnome and related tools. Sure, they already ship with great apps by default, as an excellent media player and browser and simple but good enough mail client, maps, PIM… but you can already... 2 favs 2007-08-25 07:27 UTC to Planet maemo by Gustavo Barbieri 25 Aug 2007 2007-08-25 13:35 UTC to Planet maemo by Zeeshan Ali0 favs Maemo UI design... 2007-08-24 21:37 UTC to Planet maemo by Tim Samoff2 favs 25 Aug 2007 2007-08-25 12:42 UTC to Planet maemo by Zeeshan Ali0 favs PyMaemo for Chinook 2007-08-24 22:42 UTC to Planet maemo by Luciano Wolf2 favs Helping the Browser Project 2007-08-24 09:01 UTC to Planet maemo by timeless3 favs DVD to Internet Tablet in Two Steps 2007-08-24 12:19 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman3 favs Testing the Ubuntu Mobile Kernel 2007-08-24 22:07 UTC to Planet maemo by Ian Lawrence0 favs [Less]

maemo news highlights Helping the Browser Project As I wrote in an earlier article (#2), that there are a number of ways to help the browser team improve MicroB. The browser team and http://maemo.org would like to ... [More] encourage contributions. To that end, I am happy to announce that I've sent George Kibardin a maemo.org t-shirt, in appreciation for the good bugs he has filed. And with the hope and expectation that we will continue to receive good reports from him. I can't guarantee that we'll send shirts monthly, but I hope to be able to. Note that we also would like to encourage people to make patches, and code contributions, it's quite likely that the next shirt will be sent to someone for contributing a patch or two that improves our code. 3 favs 2007-08-24 09:01 UTC to Planet maemo by timeless Testing the Ubuntu Mobile Kernel First install ubuntu mobile in a chroot using the guide here Inside the gutsy chroot make sure we are getting the correct kernel source to test: [email protected]:# apt-cache search linux source | grep linux | grep source linux-source-2.6.22 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.22 with Ubuntu patches install the source so that the patches are applied to the source: [email protected]:/usr/src# apt-get install linux-source this will install the source in the chroot /usr/src directory. Copy the installed source to the main system directory /usr/local/src to test it using autotest: [email protected]:/usr/src# exit [email protected]:~$ sudo cp /home/ian/Dev/Ume/ubuntu/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.22.tar.bz2 /usr/local/src Autotest looks in the folder /usr/local/src for a file named linux-2.6.22.tar.bz2 so we need to rename the file we copied over: [email protected]:~$ sudo su Password: [email protected]:/usr/local/src# mv linux-source-2.6.22.tar.bz2 linux-2.6.22.tar.bz2 Check out autotest: [email protected]:/usr/local/src# svn checkout http://test.kernel.org/svn/autotest/trunk /usr/local/autotest... 0 favs 2007-08-24 22:07 UTC to Planet maemo by Ian Lawrence Maemo UI design... Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been spending some time writing a document called, “An Unofficial Guide to Creating a Most Excellent maemo User Interface.” Maemo, if you don’t know, is the open-source development platform that applications are created under for the Nokia Internet Tablets (currently, the 770 and the N800). The document has just gone to beta, so I thought it would be a good time to mention something about it publicly. The guide has turned out to be around 25-pages, complete with case studies, graphical... 0 favs 2007-08-24 21:37 UTC to Planet maemo by Tim Samoff Chinook look’n'feel 2007-08-24 06:54 UTC to Planet maemo by Tuomas Kulve3 favs DVD to Internet Tablet in Two Steps 2007-08-24 12:19 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman0 favs Capoeira Videos 2007-08-24 11:00 UTC to Planet maemo by Eduardo Lima0 favs Help the Maemo Browser project - Get a T-Shirt! 2007-08-24 11:24 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman0 favs [Python for Maemo] Python-GPSbt and Python-abook released 2007-08-24 03:28 UTC to Garage News by Luciano Wolf1 favs [OpenSSH] OpenSSH client and server packages are available 2007-08-24 03:29 UTC to Garage News by Ed Bartosh1 favs Geoclue 0.8 “SoC” released 2007-08-22 19:24 UTC to Planet maemo by Jussi Kukkonen6 favs [Less]

maemo news highlights Helping the Browser Project As I wrote in an earlier article (#2), that there are a number of ways to help the browser team improve MicroB. The browser team and http://maemo.org would like to ... [More] encourage contributions. To that end, I am happy to announce that I've sent George Kibardin a maemo.org t-shirt, in appreciation for the good bugs he has filed. And with the hope and expectation that we will continue to receive good reports from him. I can't guarantee that we'll send shirts monthly, but I hope to be able to. Note that we also would like to encourage people to make patches, and code contributions, it's quite likely that the next shirt will be sent to someone for contributing a patch or two that improves our code. 3 favs 2007-08-24 09:01 UTC to Planet maemo by timeless Testing the Ubuntu Mobile Kernel First install ubuntu mobile in a chroot using the guide here Inside the gutsy chroot make sure we are getting the correct kernel source to test: [email protected]:# apt-cache search linux source | grep linux | grep source linux-source-2.6.22 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.22 with Ubuntu patches install the source so that the patches are applied to the source: [email protected]:/usr/src# apt-get install linux-source this will install the source in the chroot /usr/src directory. Copy the installed source to the main system directory /usr/local/src to test it using autotest: [email protected]:/usr/src# exit [email protected]:~$ sudo cp /home/ian/Dev/Ume/ubuntu/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.22.tar.bz2 /usr/local/src Autotest looks in the folder /usr/local/src for a file named linux-2.6.22.tar.bz2 so we need to rename the file we copied over: [email protected]:~$ sudo su Password: [email protected]:/usr/local/src# mv linux-source-2.6.22.tar.bz2 linux-2.6.22.tar.bz2 Check out autotest: [email protected]:/usr/local/src# svn checkout http://test.kernel.org/svn/autotest/trunk /usr/local/autotest... 0 favs 2007-08-24 22:07 UTC to Planet maemo by Ian Lawrence Maemo UI design... Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been spending some time writing a document called, “An Unofficial Guide to Creating a Most Excellent maemo User Interface.” Maemo, if you don’t know, is the open-source development platform that applications are created under for the Nokia Internet Tablets (currently, the 770 and the N800). The document has just gone to beta, so I thought it would be a good time to mention something about it publicly. The guide has turned out to be around 25-pages, complete with case studies, graphical... 0 favs 2007-08-24 21:37 UTC to Planet maemo by Tim Samoff Chinook look’n'feel 2007-08-24 06:54 UTC to Planet maemo by Tuomas Kulve3 favs DVD to Internet Tablet in Two Steps 2007-08-24 12:19 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman0 favs Capoeira Videos 2007-08-24 11:00 UTC to Planet maemo by Eduardo Lima0 favs Help the Maemo Browser project - Get a T-Shirt! 2007-08-24 11:24 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman0 favs [Python for Maemo] Python-GPSbt and Python-abook released 2007-08-24 03:28 UTC to Garage News by Luciano Wolf1 favs [OpenSSH] OpenSSH client and server packages are available 2007-08-24 03:29 UTC to Garage News by Ed Bartosh1 favs Geoclue 0.8 “SoC” released 2007-08-22 19:24 UTC to Planet maemo by Jussi Kukkonen6 favs [Less]

maemo news highlights 23 Aug 2007 GUPnP tools released I am pleased to announce the first release (0.1) of GUPnP Tools, featuring GUPnP Universal Control Point. Here are some screenshots: I must point out at ... [More] that GUPnP tools is part of the GUPnP project despite the fact that it's source repo is at a different location under a different SCM. Users should use the gupnp bugzilla and mailing-list for reporting bugs and asking questions. Also I realized that writing a CLI for the universal control point isn't really worth the trouble so I'll start working on the network light now. 0 favs 2007-08-23 19:09 UTC to Planet maemo by Zeeshan Ali SoC musings seeking employment Summer of Code has now practically ended. I’ll post a more detailed look at my original plans and actual accomplishments soon, for now I’ll just say that I’m fairly happy with the results: some things we’re left undone, but other unplanned features got implemented. What I’m wondering is how the rest of Maemo SoC went — according to Mathieu Blondels last post he’s doing ok (although that was a month ago), but the other two projects seem to have been dropped in the mid-term evaluation. Smoove “Instant Desktop migration” and the Ruby bindings project have had no activity at all as far as I can tell (there’s some progress on the Ruby front, but it seems unrelated). Now, a sample size of four means that we can’t draw too much conclusions, but a half-way failure rate of 50% still seems high — compare with Gnome’s 2 out of 29 = 7%. What went wrong? Eminently employable... 1 favs 2007-08-23 13:01 UTC to Planet maemo by Jussi Kukkonen Take the chance to upgrade your Nokia 770 to the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet with our limited offer There's never been a better time to upgrade your internet tablet to a Nokia N800. By ordering online today you can get a 15% discount on the price. 2 favs 2007-08-23 13:08 UTC to Tableteer Geoclue 0.8 “SoC” released 2007-08-22 19:24 UTC to Planet maemo by Jussi Kukkonen5 favs GPS and Address-book now supported 2007-08-23 14:40 UTC to Planet maemo by Luciano Wolf0 favs [MySQL] MySQL database now available 2007-08-23 04:29 UTC to Garage News by Tony Green1 favs Want a feature on the Nokia 770 or Nokia N800? Ask! 2007-08-22 21:57 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman1 favs MicroB for 770 2007-08-23 06:58 UTC to Planet maemo by timeless0 favs Tigla ist b0rked 2007-08-22 11:37 UTC to Planet maemo by Pete Savage1 favs GNOME 10th birthday party in Helsinki 2007-08-21 18:00 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil3 favs [Less]

There's never been a better time to upgrade your internet tablet to a Nokia N800. By ordering online today you can get a 15% discount on the price.

carrierdetect has added a photo to the pool: Nokia N800 with iGo Stowaway BT keyboard, running Kismet in an Xterm.

carrierdetect has added a photo to the pool: 'War Railing' - N800 can be seen picking up WLANs as it passes into range.

henribergius has added a photo to the pool: My N800 knows where it is