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Forum: Nokia N800 2007-06-18, 17:38
Replies: 23
Views: 6,343
Posted By jpj
Re: N800 hospital companion - Don't check in without it!

Thanks again to everyone, and especially Karel for the laughs (not out loud if you don't mind, it hurts too much ;-)

I'm still hospitalized, had a dye-enhanced CT scan this morning to image the...
Forum: Nokia N800 2007-06-16, 02:10
Replies: 23
Views: 6,343
Posted By jpj
Re: N800 hospital companion - Don't check in without it!

Hi aleksandyr - small world, isn't it? How long ago were you at NWH? That's where my current odyssey started, and I connected up loud and clear right from the ER on up. Lost signal in the elevators...
Forum: Nokia N800 2007-06-15, 06:19
Replies: 23
Views: 6,343
Posted By jpj
N800 hospital companion - Don't check in without it!

Here's an N800 testimonial I never thought I'd write.

Last week I encountered a range of medical symptoms that made it impossible to sleep, notably abdominal bloating and pain with intense full...
Forum: Nokia N800 2007-06-11, 12:45
Replies: 9
Views: 2,992
Posted By jpj
Re: USB charging possible?

Although Karel's comment is accurate, you might want to consider the BoxWave miniSync cable sold as a Nokia E95 accessory. It a compact retractable cable around 1 meter long. One end plugs into a...
Forum: Applications 2007-06-07, 00:48
Replies: 56
Views: 11,879
Posted By jpj
Re: UKMP 1.0 released!

OK, konttori, I'm ready to give UKMP a test run. First, one question. I already have album art for all my collection, stored as folder.jpg files in each directory (one per CD). [Oops, that's my PC...
Forum: Announcements 2007-06-06, 18:51
Replies: 66
Views: 86,444
Posted By jpj
Re: No room for Personal Attacks

YoDude and mobiledivide are making a lot of sense here...
Forum: Nokia N800 2007-06-06, 18:48
Replies: 21
Views: 16,677
Posted By jpj
Re: Simple N800 hack...

Gee, I could've sold one of these guys my original N800, instead of waiting almost 3 months for Nokia to not fix my broken kickstand... ;-)
Forum: Nokia N800 2007-06-06, 18:18
Replies: 2
Views: 1,389
Posted By jpj
Re: SSID not Broadcasted

Nice tip, harliquin - I've done it the hard way for my own network and another that I visit often: turning on the broadcast temporarily for the initial hookup. Obviously this doesn't work unless you...
Forum: General 2007-06-06, 15:39
Replies: 13
Views: 7,168
Posted By jpj
Re: What do you guys put on your 2GB+ SD/SDHC Cards?

Flash media read/write speed is probably optimized by the factory format, which uses larger clusters (also called allocation units) than comparably sized magnetic media, for reasons related to the...
Forum: Announcements 2007-06-06, 01:09
Replies: 66
Views: 86,444
Posted By jpj
Re: No room for Personal Attacks

Sounds nice at first glance, but if you consider that the most vociferous trolls tend to achieve Senior Member status through sheer volume, such a strategy could easily backfire...
Forum: General 2007-06-05, 19:17
Replies: 13
Views: 7,168
Posted By jpj
Re: What do you guys put on your 2GB+ SD/SDHC Cards?

8GB Internal (2K clusters): map files for Maemo Mapper
8GB External (32K clusters): VBR MP3s for Canola

I'll reformat the internal card when Maemo Mapper 2.0 migrates from individual map files to...
Forum: General 2007-06-05, 19:11
Replies: 30
Views: 6,681
Posted By jpj
Re: Nokia's internettablets are missing something.....

I imagine iPhone will introduce a lot of slick UI concepts to sex up what is still basically a swiss army phone. Not that that's a bad thing, but in MANY apps there's no substitute for pixel count....
Forum: Nokia N800 2007-06-05, 18:56
Replies: 2
Views: 1,465
Posted By jpj
Re: Downloading maps taking forever!

You might be running into the metalayer-crawl CPU suck. Same thing happened to me with all those gazillions of little files. So I just nuked the crawler process. Sorry I can't give you the...
Forum: Nokia N800 2007-06-05, 18:30
Replies: 23
Views: 10,909
Posted By jpj
Re: Freedom Keyboard

Sorry I can't offer any help to the Freedom-ites, but for anyone still deciding which keyboard to buy, I can state that the Stowaway Bluetooth Keyboard has none of these problems.

It works with...
Forum: Applications 2007-06-04, 19:20
Replies: 17
Views: 3,928
Posted By jpj
Re: Problem with Maemo Mapper 1.4 and SD's

Isn't that done transparently by the card firmware?
Forum: Applications 2007-06-04, 19:18
Replies: 17
Views: 3,928
Posted By jpj
Re: Problem with Maemo Mapper 1.4 and SD's

On which system? On most systems default FAT32 cluster size is 4KB no matter the size.

Are you sure about this? is this result of some practical test?[/QUOTE]

I was speaking specifically about...
Forum: General 2007-06-02, 22:51
Replies: 172
Views: 35,833
Posted By jpj
Re: June 11, 2007 = Skype + New OS

Geez gang, doesn't the recently added clown avatar tell you anything? The dude is spoofing trolls, and people are taking him seriously. LOL
Forum: Nokia N800 2007-05-31, 17:01
Replies: 16
Views: 3,772
Posted By jpj
Re: Use while charging..

When I bought my first N800 on January 8 (the release day), I didn't even wait to find an AC outlet. Opened the box in my car and fired it up right there. The battery shipped with enough charge to...
Forum: Applications 2007-05-31, 16:50
Replies: 596
Views: 264,053
Posted By jpj
Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800

"Of course?" Try VE Streets; you might be pleasantly surprised. Not much difference at the most detailed level, but for the city/region views, I find them graphically clearer than Google Maps. VE...
Forum: Applications 2007-05-29, 02:14
Replies: 17
Views: 3,928
Posted By jpj
Re: Problem with Maemo Mapper 1.4 and SD's

Rocketman: That link is misleading as it discusses FAT12/FAT16 but not FAT32. In fact the default FAT32 cluster size is 16KB for a 1GB SD card and 32KB for anything larger (up to the 8GB SDHC...
Forum: Nokia N800 2007-05-26, 14:46
Replies: 1
Views: 1,652
Posted By jpj
Re: Screen Brightness

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5704

You'll need to install xterm to open a command shell. Then you'll use the gconftool-2 utility as described to extend the list of...
Forum: Applications 2007-05-26, 14:25
Replies: 72
Views: 13,535
Posted By jpj
Re: Omweather Trouble

My omweather 1.7.2 installation works normally for a while and then stops updating. Previous reports to the contrary were premature. I can get it working again by saving a new update interval, then...
Forum: Applications 2007-05-25, 00:50
Replies: 203
Views: 38,820
Posted By jpj
Re: Plans for Maemo Mapper v2.0

Depends on the repository. Also on Windows, I see the following sizes for featureless (duplicate) tiles from the various standard Maemo Mapper map sources:

Google Streets: 103 bytes
Virtual Earth...
Forum: Troubleshooting 2007-05-24, 23:59
Replies: 11
Views: 3,780
Posted By jpj
Re: N800 -- Small Bugs and Annoyances

My neighbor's cordless phone regularly disrupts all my 802.11b devices (N800 and two Squeezeboxes). Changing channels doesn't help. Fortunately, he doesn't use it much. I might offer to split the...
Forum: Applications 2007-05-21, 21:44
Replies: 203
Views: 38,820
Posted By jpj
Re: Plans for Maemo Mapper v2.0

Exactly. I'm all in favor of the database approach, but I also enjoy the ability to merge (and purge) detailed regional coverage from a larger PC based repository into working storage. Hopefully,...
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