Category Archives: Maemo

Poking Around in the Minefield

After getting an initial version of mobile Firefox (currently called minefield) compiled and running on the Maemo SDK, I compiled a version for ARM and put it on my n810: It’s definitely a very early effort, like all of the … Continue reading

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Walk Through Minefields

I got networking going in my scratchbox install and was able to build my own minefield 1.9 Mozilla and get it talking to the intarwebs: Pimp, I know, you’re jealous. Turns out Brad is way more pimp, and actually had … Continue reading

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Native GCC on the N810

I started out trying to install the rtcomm update that gives all kinds of new protocol support to the built in messaging app. I was having install problems even with red pill mode on. Then when poking around in the … Continue reading

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Testing out Maemo WordPy 0.6

I saw the post on Maemo Apps about the WordPy update. I just installed it and used it to upload an image to Flickr, now I’m posting from it. The image I uploaded is my Serial Experiments Lain inspired N810 … Continue reading

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Swapped Keyboard Mapping Techniques on the N810

In the comments to my previous post about remapping keys on the keyboard of my N810 there was a mention of editing the X server keyboard mapping file at /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-44, which I assumed was a pretty nasty hack. But Daniel … Continue reading

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Subversion for OS2008

I’ve been keeping an eye out for OS2008 software that I was using on my N800, and last night I just saw that Subversion is now available. That’s a killer bit of software for me. I use my own svn … Continue reading

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Power Outage, Partial Network Outage

There’s a storm currently rolling through the Bay Area. Not really a major storm for most places, but we don’t get weather too frequently. My power had been flickering, and just a few minutes ago finally knocked off completely. I … Continue reading

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Adding Pipe and Tab to the N810 Keyboard

I’ve been poking around with remapping the keys on the N810 keyboard and got xmodmap working this morning. I didn’t think it was available for OS2008, but you can snag the xmodmap binary for OS2008 from here. I used some … Continue reading

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Maemo Mapper on the N810

I fooled around a little bit with the mapping application built into the N810, but wasn’t too impressed. Sure, it could be useful for when I get lost and need to find out where the hell I’ve ended up. A … Continue reading

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Redirection and Other Characters on the N810

A weird quirk I’ve run into while fooling around with doing a little development on the N810, there doesn’t seem to be a way to enter redirection characters (great than or less than signs, or angle brackets, whatever you want … Continue reading

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