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2010-07-10
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Hello guys! I'm a college student in the U.S. and I recently bought a n900 (kinda late to the game) and i love it! I've been floating around this site for a few days and from my observations I must say this community is pretty cool (i guess by cool i mean geeky) with some surprisingly intelligent individuals. I guess the personalities here must be pretty unique if we're willing to buy an expensive, non-mainstream linux device that relies on it's members to come up with apps for it...
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2010-07-12
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Greetings from Northern California! Recently bought the N900 largely on Kyle Rankin's recommendation in a Linux Journal article. Spent a few weeks researching it online and finally placed the order. Amazing device. I've been using Ubuntu on several desktops and even netbooks for some time, so the N900's approach isn't entirely unfamiliar, though the interface and a few specifics are taking a bit to get used to. Will be posting on occasion when unable to find answers in the forums.
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2010-07-13
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Originally Posted by Nathraiben
Lots of - we just don't usually append ">>>>FEMALE!!!<<<<" to our usernames.
I get it. I wanted to choose a "feminine" avatar, just for visibility - so that people just don't assume that internet is all male - but I think I have to get more Karma before being allowed avatar and/or signature with my posts.
Originally Posted by Nathraiben
Thank you! My first "hack" was to import my old WIndows Mobile contacts by copying a script from the forum and putting it on my n900, and even though I was following instructions it feels nice to be in the terminal.
Welcome to the mad world of Maemo! You should really start investigating - if not to help with writing application (which everybody would love you for), at least just because there's a lot of fun to be had when hacking your own little
phonecomputer.
But where to start with coding? Does everybody need C++? Or is it OK to dive into this Qt thing? I guess there's a lot of guides on the netz... It'll have to be next month, when my brain has cooled down a bit.
Anyways, I'm enjoying being able to surf anytime, and my RSS feed which encouraged me to find interesting chinese blogs. I'm a China buff.
XO
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2010-07-13
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@ New Jersey
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Old member returning...
I joined back in 2007 just before purchasing my n800, which I carried with me everywhere until about six months ago. Then the screen went bad and I could find no solution. The poor little guy sat on my dresser for weeks as I learned to live without him and soon stopped coming to maemo.org on a daily basis.
Wracked with withdrawal symptoms, I became a daily reader of engadget.com and pocketables.net, looking for the logical successor to my lovely little Nate. Sad thing is that while there are a lot of tablets out there, most are not available (or available yet) in the US, and none (IMHO) are a match for the Nokia product.
So I finally shopped victoriously on eBay and am now the very happy owner of an n810.
THIS FORUM is one of the reasons I bought my first Nokia tablet and a major reason I opted to buy a second. The support from the people in this forum is amazing, so if you're new to Maemo, welcome... if you own an IT, you will be glad you came in here.
DF
I joined back in 2007 just before purchasing my n800, which I carried with me everywhere until about six months ago. Then the screen went bad and I could find no solution. The poor little guy sat on my dresser for weeks as I learned to live without him and soon stopped coming to maemo.org on a daily basis.
Wracked with withdrawal symptoms, I became a daily reader of engadget.com and pocketables.net, looking for the logical successor to my lovely little Nate. Sad thing is that while there are a lot of tablets out there, most are not available (or available yet) in the US, and none (IMHO) are a match for the Nokia product.
So I finally shopped victoriously on eBay and am now the very happy owner of an n810.
THIS FORUM is one of the reasons I bought my first Nokia tablet and a major reason I opted to buy a second. The support from the people in this forum is amazing, so if you're new to Maemo, welcome... if you own an IT, you will be glad you came in here.
DF
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IT: N810 / Diablo (former N800 now broken)
PC: Windows 7
Cell: Blackberry Bold (crippled by my employer)
MP3: Insignia NS-DV4G or IT/Canola
IT: N810 / Diablo (former N800 now broken)
PC: Windows 7
Cell: Blackberry Bold (crippled by my employer)
MP3: Insignia NS-DV4G or IT/Canola
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2010-07-13
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Originally Posted by DistantFire
The same thing happened to my N800 a year ago, but I immediately bought another new N800 on eBay. Welcome back!
Old member returning...
I joined back in 2007 just before purchasing my n800, which I carried with me everywhere until about six months ago. Then the screen went bad and I could find no solution. The poor little guy sat on my dresser for weeks as I learned to live without him and soon stopped coming to maemo.org on a daily basis.
Wracked with withdrawal symptoms, I became a daily reader of engadget.com and pocketables.net, looking for the logical successor to my lovely little Nate. Sad thing is that while there are a lot of tablets out there, most are not available (or available yet) in the US, and none (IMHO) are a match for the Nokia product.
So I finally shopped victoriously on eBay and am now the very happy owner of an n810.
THIS FORUM is one of the reasons I bought my first Nokia tablet and a major reason I opted to buy a second. The support from the people in this forum is amazing, so if you're new to Maemo, welcome... if you own an IT, you will be glad you came in here.
DF
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N800 / Diablo / 16gb int / 16gb ext / Globalsat BT-359 gps ..... Dell Streak 5 - Android 2.2.2
N800 / Diablo / 16gb int / 16gb ext / Globalsat BT-359 gps ..... Dell Streak 5 - Android 2.2.2
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2010-07-13
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Originally Posted by monster
Hehe, being of the "gender doesn't matter" faction, I usually don't care whether people think we're not out there. But I found that most of them realise it once I get one of my *****y fits...
but I think I have to get more Karma before being allowed avatar and/or signature with my posts.
I'm rather sure I uploaded my avatar pretty soon after joining, so whatever the restriction is it should be easy to go past it.
Thank you! My first "hack" was to import my old WIndows Mobile contacts by copying a script from the forum and putting it on my n900, and even though I was following instructions it feels nice to be in the terminal.
But where to start with coding? Does everybody need C++? Or is it OK to dive into this Qt thing? I guess there's a lot of guides on the netz... It'll have to be next month, when my brain has cooled down a bit.
If you want to be "future prove", rather grasp the nettle and go with Qt and C++. It's quite amazing how easy it is do develop any N900 application from within the Qt SDK that will then work on Symbian3 phones (or your desktop) as well. And of course on MeeGo, once it's out.
Anyways, I'm enjoying being able to surf anytime, and my RSS feed which encouraged me to find interesting chinese blogs. I'm a China buff.
XO
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2010-07-14
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Originally Posted by Nathraiben
Hehe, being of the "gender doesn't matter" faction, I usually don't care whether people think we're not out there. But I found that most of them realise it once I get one of my *****y fits...
Haha! I understand your position but feel that many women would be more inclined to approach the community if there wasn't this image of a testosteron wall surrounding all things geeky.Don't you get the links in your control panel under "Settings & Options"? If not, I'm sure it's not related to the number of thanks, but maybe you just need 10 posts or something like that?
I'm rather sure I uploaded my avatar pretty soon after joining, so whatever the restriction is it should be easy to go past it.
Thanks for the advice on developing. Maybe I'll throw out something fun in a few months.
Hehe, if I wasn't seriously lacking the language skills I guess I'd do the same with Korea and Japan.
Sadly, I can only understand the ones written in english... so far.
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I'd rather be eating chinese
•Fairly new to the N900.
•Wants to learn to develop when I have the time.
•Used to write Basic 2.0 on the C64 back in 1990.
Favourite app: Feedingit
I'd rather be eating chinese
•Fairly new to the N900.
•Wants to learn to develop when I have the time.
•Used to write Basic 2.0 on the C64 back in 1990.
Favourite app: Feedingit
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