Posts tagged Maemo

The day just flew by. We had all the Maemo community talks. Some people have asked me to put my LinuxTag presentation online, so here it is: What do I want from Maemo?. In the evening we went to a nice outdoors cafe in a large and beautiful park (Tiergaten) and talked about various things until 1 AM. My email is piling up, and Google Reader is overflowing.

Nokia kindly invited me to speak about Maemo at LinuxTag 2008. WiFi is a bit problematic here. At the hotel there's no free wifi, you can buy some kind of access from Swisscom at silly prices (8 EUR for 1 hour, with a 100 MB download limit) with silly limitations, and besides my laptop refuses to associate with the AP and doesn't even get to the login page. WiFi works at LinuxTag itself (at least in the conference rooms; the expo hall was spotty), but you have to visit a pointless and slow web page and press a button labeled 'Go' before they let you ssh around.

... not having a headache. In other news, my Nokia N810 Internet Tablet finally arrived. It looks better in real life than in pictures. Strange quirk: the 2 gigs of extra internal flash memory (formatted as FAT32) are mostly unused (according to df) while at the same time being three quarters full (according to du): /media/mmc2 $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mmcblk0p1 1.

If you have python but not unzip (consider, e.g. a Nokia Internet Tablet), you can extract zip files with python -m zipfile -e filename.zip .

The inability of Nokia to provide reliable web servers for repository.maemo.org and tablets-dev.nokia.com is annoying. I am unable to build packages for N810 because the apt repository that contains build dependencies is down, and apparently has been down for a couple of days already.