Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in
news:fimm9d$met$1@aioe.org:
> I know- I've looked at the 800 a couple of times, but I think
after
> years of using WinMo devices, I'm not ready to buy into yet
another
> "not quite a real PC" format, particularly when the Eee PC and
Intel's
> similar flash- based mini-laptops running "real" Windows are
within
> reach.
>
>
I dual-booted Red Hat Linux/Windoze for a couple of years, then
got away from Linux as the software, at that time, never seemed
to get "stable" because the very young people coding had short
attention spans before moving on to something more interesting to
them. Code was just left hangin'.
So, when I held my first N800 burning my fingers, I was supposed
to be disappointed by its Linux hacker roots. Some of that
unfinished business is still present, but there are loads of
TEAMS working on some really neat, REALLY TINY CODED stuff like
Maemo Mapper that makes it great!
This morning, while on free wifi at breakfast in a diner next to
a bar with free wifi..(c;...I downloaded Peekaboo from maemo.org.
It's just been "released", which means it runs for an hour
without crashing in Linuxspeak. Peekaboo turns the tablet into a
webcam server that anyone can use. It creates a webpage that,
unfortunately for now, doesn't tunnel its way through the
routers, so you'll need to PORT it if you want it on the net for
others. The software couldn't be simpler to operate...pop out
the N800's little webcam, boot Peekaboo then press its ONLY
button to start it streaming. There's a TV box the development
team says will, "someday", show us the video before streaming it,
but it doesn't function, yet. Remotely, you just
http://the
tablet's IP address, port 8080 and it streams back to your on
port 8888. Just these little gadgets keep popping up almost
daily! A team forms around them because Nokia had the foresight
to give them all a place to congregate, chat and develop,
maemo.org. Sheer genius on Nokia's part. They don't have to do
much coding to sell it at all....just let the hackers have at it
for all to enjoy.
Linux, and Linux tablets aren't what they were when I lost
interest in begging root to do something. Hell, I nearly threw
my laptop out in the trash, today. I have a BT USB dongle and
have never tried to pair the ROKR Z6M's DUN to my WinXP laptop so
I could use it without wifi. Bluetooth pairing the phone to the
N800 is a 2 minute job, even for a novice. After delving many
layers into the Windows Bullshit trying to obfuscate using BT DUN
as much as possible, I FINALLY got it working without hiring an
MSCE to pair it. Why does it have to be SO HARD?! The N800 does
it in about 6 keystrokes!...DUHH! After I got it paired and
turned on DUN, OBEX, OBEX PUSH, FTP so I could also get stuff on
and off the phone from the laptop, I find out the STUPID
interface software ONLY GOES 115,000 BAUD like we're using RS-
232C from 1988! BT to the little Linux box runs 800-900K on
EVDO...but NOT THE DAMNED WINDOWS XP FROM GATEWAY with its
WINDOWS SERIAL PORT! It's got USB2 ports, now I have to find a
way to INCREASE ACCESS SPEED TO THEM!....(sigh)
I need to check on a new software from Kensington, the dongle's
manufacturer. Haven't done that, yet. Maybe they have a hack.
Larry
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Of course, if you get adventurous, it has XTERM so you can
destroy it like the old days...(c; If you destroy it, you simply
plug in the USB cable to the Windoze box and run the Nokia Maemo
update, again, to put it back....minus everything you ever
installed, of course....(c;
XV-6800 WiFi. Is it usable without a Verizon Data Plan, or do they somehow prevent its use.
Linear Mode
