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Forum: Applications 2008-05-20, 06:59
Replies: 4
Views: 1,475
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: ssh only when needed?

1. does it take up resources? Not unless you are sshing in,and then it's neligable. It's not a gui so very light.

2. can you set it to not auto start? yes, this way.

$ sudo update-rc.d -f...
Forum: Troubleshooting 2008-05-06, 09:04
Replies: 9
Views: 2,678
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: Broken UI, invisible widgets

I hate to say this but I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with this problem, and glad too, to say, I found my cure (ymmv). Go to thisURL
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Forum: General 2008-05-05, 03:31
Replies: 34
Views: 5,417
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: POLL: How many times have you reflashed?

Hey IMHO if you haven't reflashed you haven't pushed the envelope hard enough! ;)
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2008-04-17, 09:47
Replies: 3
Views: 2,877
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: Get rid of the Nokia Warning when installing!

since this is based on Debian 'pinning' should work. Try editing /etc/apt/preferences as follows (file probably doeesn't exist yet.) This seems to work for me

Package: hildon-application-manager...
Forum: General 2008-04-07, 04:56
Replies: 23
Views: 4,689
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: Are you going to buy a new gadget with your Economic Stimulus Check (US Only)

Ah grasshopper, I see by the nativity of your post that you are not yet married. Foolish single person. Once one has reached the level of married with children such concepts as "money" and...
Forum: Applications 2008-03-17, 01:54
Replies: 194
Views: 51,510
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: [Announce] OS2008 Personal Menu

I cheated, I launched mahjong, then xterm, then ran;

ps ax | grep mahjong

That gave me the command line used to launch it. cp'd the line, killed mahjong and tried it.
Forum: Applications 2008-03-16, 22:55
Replies: 194
Views: 51,510
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: [Announce] OS2008 Personal Menu

To launch majong try

/usr/bin/mahjong_startup /usr/share/osso-mahjong/osso_mahjong.conf
Forum: Applications 2008-02-09, 07:41
Replies: 27
Views: 17,079
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: [Announce] bash as the default shell

Well for reason of "eh" a week ago I bit the bullet and installed bash as the system shell ( rm /bin/sh then ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh) Works well, nothing broke, overall it feels solid reboots work...
Forum: Applications 2008-02-03, 12:34
Replies: 1
Views: 1,150
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: Browser is dragging on when loading flash websites

I'm becoming convinced that this is a flash problem more than anything else. Adobe seems to have fixed something.
Forum: Multimedia 2008-01-17, 09:42
Replies: 335
Views: 112,925
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: xmms now available

BT Audio with XMMS howto.

All I've just written up my howto on bluetooth audio on the IT with xmms. I've done that while listening to 3 ELP albums back to back with nary a dropout and beautiful...
Forum: Nokia N800 2008-01-06, 06:05
Replies: 78
Views: 39,667
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: Lousy experience on Nokia N800

Despite the claims to Wh.I.N.E. (whine is not effective) I see something else in here. The true underlying point, is I believe, that the n800/n810 are not garage products. Clem and his second...
Forum: Applications 2008-01-02, 10:09
Replies: 28
Views: 7,994
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: Google Reader for the Tablet

Sweet, but one "problem" when the page is viewed with the left hand navigation bar open the scroll bar on the far right hand side for the articles is off the right hand side of the screen (even in...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2007-12-23, 21:47
Replies: 150
Views: 57,458
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: ATTENTION: How to fix Maemo Extras Repository

Technut is right, debs don't care where the last/next one came from. The only (outside of app manager) care about if they themself match the key signature for their point of origin this time.
Forum: Applications 2007-12-19, 10:23
Replies: 40
Views: 16,772
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: Customize X-term?

just type <ctrl> not as a single keystroke but as the typed string.
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2007-12-17, 08:41
Replies: 10
Views: 5,327
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: Redirect Loop/Crazy Pills???

Personally I haven't seen this at all. But frrom experience with browsers, try this. Close the browser, open a term window and move .mozilla to mozilla (just removes the leading dot). Then start the...
Forum: Nokia N810 2007-12-16, 07:31
Replies: 4
Views: 2,879
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: How to disable auto word complete on N810?

open the control panel, click 'text input settings' then click the language tab. then there is a button, that looks like a separator bar, marked settings, on that screen, click the "button bar"....
Forum: Applications 2007-12-14, 18:31
Replies: 28
Views: 8,120
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: File Manager

Canoe can be found at http://maemo.lancode.de if needed. Don't know if it has been ported to OS2008 yet.
Forum: Nokia N810 2007-12-11, 07:48
Replies: 3
Views: 2,066
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: Icon size and other tweaks...

1. To remove an item from the menu (or otherwise re-orgaize it try

Utilities => Contol Panels => Navigation (Panel in OS2008) then click the oganize button and drag and drop away.

2. To...
Forum: Applications 2007-11-30, 08:21
Replies: 15
Views: 3,428
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: OpenSSH update

I already had a new root passwd. Just reset it to the same thing I already had it and drove on. No problem at all ~Wii~

Ed thanks It's often simple things like this that make all the difference.
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2007-11-30, 08:11
Replies: 16
Views: 5,850
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: Maemo Garage and OS2008

Just for the sake of adding info. NOTE: Nuclear fix!


open the xterm as provide ( utilities => xterm )

type at the $ sign (command prompt)

~$ rm -i .browser
the rm is 'remove' the i...
Forum: Multimedia 2007-11-28, 03:12
Replies: 335
Views: 112,925
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: xmms now available

Free -

Ok OS2008 beta is out... so ... Guess it means I have to try it out. Went to your site. Got your latest for the n800 (Nov 22) and uh oh... then did something totally windows and...
Forum: General 2007-11-28, 00:18
Replies: 388
Views: 186,010
Posted By linuxrebel
Cool Re: N800 USB Host Mode Experiment

OK... using the above info .. on the latest 0S2008 .. I can do this.

1. Enabled R&D mode (not tested outside this mode)

2. echo host > /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode

3. Using...
Forum: Competitors 2007-11-26, 04:22
Replies: 21
Views: 10,129
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: "Most Wanted" Poll: Asus Eee PC takes a dive

Ummm Techno geeks... the #1 product is a Zune after all. :D
Forum: General 2007-11-25, 18:59
Replies: 27
Views: 7,241
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: Best program to listen to music n800?

Actually xmms did just release an update. It's become a lot like utils, not much left to do.

As for zerojay, it doesn't have to be 'new code' to be good (in truth new code usually has as many if...
Forum: Multimedia 2007-11-21, 05:15
Replies: 335
Views: 112,925
Posted By linuxrebel
Re: xmms now available

Ok installed it over on my 770. There I am running the latest HE 2007 OS. If I try and start xmms (even with just a simple xmms at the command line) I get the error "Illegal Instruction" I'm...
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