Maemo mapper 2 supports 770, and can download map easily. I am staying in Singapore, and the map I downloaded includes: 1. 1'28"04.66N/103'41"10.47E to 1'17"48.99N/103'52"04.18E 2. 1'25"29.74N/103'52"04.18E to 1'17"48.99N/103'58"57.12E 3. 1'17"48.99N/103'44"37.56E to 1'14"20.82N/103'54"15.55E These areas does not cover whole Singapore, but should be more than enough for me.
For sure, it's a great deal to buy such an amazing gadgets with 99Euro, and what also makes me happy is maemo thank contributors in this way.
Thanks, maemo.
Blogger publish ATOM feed for recent posts by default, including posts from all categories.
To publish a feed with only posts from a given category is also very simple. For example, in a blogger site http://blog.lizhao.net/ with category named 'maemo', the feed is:
http://blog.lizhao.net/feeds/posts/default/-/maemo
For more discussion about the format, plz refer to another article
MicorB for ITOS2007HE may be on the way, but who knows when will it finally arrive. Based on the waiting experience, I decided to reinstall minimo, while waiting it.
When I tried minino 1 mth ago, it is not stable on 770, but I also heard if increase memory buffer size, it can perform much better. So, I try to set the buffer size to 4096 or 8192, according to mozilla site.
On 770, just run: vi /home/user/.mozilla/minimo/prefs.js and add one line:
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 8192);
trying google calendar/reader/gmail for a while, yea, it is much more stable, but an annoying bug is still there.
I feel if there is unknown errors happened in rendering a page, the corresponding tab can not be closed, or refresh, and it will affect other tabs.
If anybody know how to solve this, plz tell me. :-)
try: user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 8); and user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 4);
After making a deb package for maemo platform, and depolying it to a repository recognized by Maemo application manager, it is valuable to let application manager display a interesting icon beside the package name.
There are several points need to note:
dpkg-scanpackages ....... > .../Packages.gz
dpkg_scanpackages="/tmp/dpkg_scanpackages-$$"
cat $BIN_SCANPACKAGES | $BIN_SED -e "s/('Package',/('Package', 'Maemo-Icon-26',/" > $dpkg_scanpackages #this is for dpkg-scanpackage 1.3
cat $dpkg_scanpackages | $BIN_SED -e "s/Size MD5sum Section Priority Description))/Size MD5sum Section Priority Description Maemo-Icon-26))/" > $dpkg_scanpackages #this is for dpkg-scanpackage 1.4
chmod 755 $dpkg_scanpackages
$dpkg_scanpackages ....... > .../Packages.gz
Most DVD players sold today have DivX support, I think. So, it is a good choice to convert videos to DivX and enjoy thems in sofa.
The free version of any video converter do the job quite well.
You may want to test the video converted with DivX Player before burning CDs.
sdcv is a lightweight console version of StarDict dictionary.
Now, sdcv for maemo has a simple GUI, which can speak words, and this page is depreciated! plz visit http://sdcv.garage.maemo.org/
We have two GUI dictionary tools for N770/N800 (or ITOS 2007, or maemo 3.1/3.2) --- stardict and sdictviewer.
sdictviewer is based on python, and runs slowly on the slow devices. It even takes several seconds to search a word. I also prefer dictionaries provided by stardict.
However, stardict.garage.maemo.org hasn't release anything so far. I tried a version compiled by a friend, and found it is slow too. What even worse is lots of bugs cause it always crash on 770 with 2007 HE.
So, the command line version of stardict may be a good alternative. The latest source deb from ubuntu can be compiled on maemo development environment (scratchbox), without any change.
The problem is the compiled binary can be executed on scratchbox smoothly, but crashs on 770 device. I spend hours to figure out the bugs, and now it works great on 770 device.
So, it should be good idea to share the patch. A new project at garage.maemo.org is opened, named sdcv (StarDictCommandVersion). Source and binary will be uploaded soon. Welcome to test it on both 770 and 800.
In previous article, we give stardict as an example to compile deb package on ITOS2007 platform. However, after trying stardict, I found it is slow and bug-full on my 770.
So, I decide to use the text mode version of stardict -- sdcv.
It is relative easier to build sdcv than stardict, as it does not need support of GUI libs, therefore, no need to change config files for automake tools.
The trouble I met is to install libglib2.0-dev on my scratchbox, as it need pkg-config package. Downloading libglib deb and forcing dpkg to install it can bypass this problem.
another problem is the config of libreadline, I do not bother to study into config file, and just replaced all @libreadline@ with -lreadline.
Now, you can download the deb package.
I decided to get a Nokia internet tablet, when I found the basic Chinese support works. Last week, I got 2 Nokia n770 instead of n800 for my wife and me, as I can not reject the price ($250 for 2). IMHO, I also prefer its design to N800. Actually my wife love it as soon as she got it, although she does not want a tablet at all before that. It can save her much effort to bring slides, books or laptop, while the screen size is acceptable. From maemo.org/news, we know N800 will get support for next two version of maemo, while N770 has no support for even ITOS2007. It's OK. As the hacker edition (HE) of ITOS2007 works great. maemo news also announces a new hacker edition will come soon. But I decide that I had better to install ITOS2007 HE MK2 on 770, other than just waiting the new version. This article lists what I did on the 770, for future reference. It is only for ITOS2007 HE MK2. For a new comer, it is good to start from
/dev/mmcblk0p1:1,30000,6 /dev/mmcblk0p2:30001,,PS: The largest swap file ITOS2007 can manage is 64M, sb. says we can use swap partition larger than 60M, however, I failed.
# cp bootmenu.conf.n800.example bootmenu.conf # vi bootmenu.confchange the parameters in bootmenu.conf, and then install.
I am still staying in S'pore, where Nokia just begin n800 trial session, and the unknown date to sell. Last week, I booked a N800 from Amazon and my wife will goto US to pick up it for me. Interesting, the second day woot promoted Nokia N770 at $130. Wow, what price! So, canceled the 800 and I booked two 770 for my wife and me. What even more interesting is I found online shop all around the world begin to promote the N770, and expansys even deliver to S'pore with lower price. It's OK. The reason I love Nokia internet tablets is they are using Linux as OS, so that I can compile software I am interested in. Although I can only get the 770 next mth, I can not resist to do sth. for it. Due to my native language (Chinese), I think a good dictionary is a good startpoint. Guoyong has write a brief description of how to compile it. It's a great article, however, for a beginner, more details may be better. So, I add several points here.
When I was writing papers, choices of words always cause troubles for me, whose native language is not English. WordNets can help me much.
Of cause, WordNets' use is not limited to this scenario. Many guys love this tool, and if you are one of them, I guess you must like Visuwords
Visuwords presents a flash visual interface to wordnets, which can attract your eyes quickly. Now, we do not need to click the dropdown list many times to see synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, and holonyms of a word.
If I get more free time in near future, I may try to integrate Visuwords with stardict.
Without reference management software, writing long papers sometimes can end as a disaster. As I was used to write paper using latex, it is not a problem util now when I need to write in MS Word.
OK, I know EndNotes is the de-facto standard for Word to manage references, but it is a bit expensive.
Fornunately, there are free/opensource alternatives we can use, please refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software for more info.
I tried Zotero with Word, and found it is so convenient, although it supports a few reference/citation styles. But that's enough for me so far.
Hope it keep going and supports more features.
I must stay in home today to wait a cleaner, our home is so dirty now.
While I was so boring that I wander around to find anything interesting to do, I recalled today is the first game in the series of houston VS. utan.
I haven't subscribed any sports channel like ESPN, so the only chance is to try whether those P2P network TV can work.
I downloaded sopcast and installed its GUI gsopcast on my kubuntu.
So great that free China sports channels are broadcasting this game and can play smoothly using sopcast.
What even better is the result. :-D
It is not convenient to print duplex pages on Brother DCP-115C, here gives the tips.
If you are in some countries, when you search in Google, it may auto-redirect you to search results specified according to your location. For example, if you are in Hongkong, Google will automatically search from google.com.uk, which is undesired for many of us.
I just submitted a search plugin to Firefox community, you can install it to avoid Google to do that, i.e., it always search from google.com.
Please search "Li, Zhao", and install the plugin with id=16536 (when mouse move over, the ID will display) from:
all google's search plugins
You may expect a xdm will display when you open a vnc viewer to a server, there are at least two benefits:
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = nobody
server = /usr/bin/Xvnc
server_args = -inetd -ac -query localhost -once -geometry 1300x900 -depth 16
}
The reason to use 16 depth instead of 8 is eclipse cannot run on 256 colors.
I have a very old laptop with PII 300Mhz CPU. I managed to install Gentoo Linux before, but seldom use it. Today, When I was cleaning my desktop, found it, but I forgot almost everything about Gentoo when I want to install sth.
It is burdonsome to install anything on such a old Gentoo box, so, it is the time shift to a light Linux distribution, such as DSL and puppy.
After spend 10mins to download DSL 3.3 RC2, it bootup the PII in 1 min. Wow, it really rocks on my ancient machine. Unfortunately, it does not support Chinese. However, by studying mydslPanel (the tools to install software on DSL) for half an hour, my Firefox can display Chinese fonts properly already.
To install chinese fonts, please do:
These days, I am trying to write a crossplatform tools (https://sourceforge.net/projects/bloghub) using JAVA, on a Kubuntu laptop. Although I expected that Linux JAVA chinese support could be much better than 5 years, when I use JAVA to do development, I am so disappointed that my JAVA system just show all Chinese characters as blank boxes.
Fortunately, the solution is quite simple:
My blog finally moved to new blogger now, with brandnew layout. It is good, considering it hasn't been changed for several years. Another reason to immigrate is I have no time to maintain some features I implemented based on old blogger system, while new blogger provides some attractive ones. I must say sorry to buddies who are using blogcat services, as it is out of work now.
Pre-requisites:
