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I’ve been reflecting this week on the extent to which I am a different person from the one who took delivery of My Mo.
Random thoughts about maemo this week. No obvious theme or big rant. Just what My Mo has been up to, and what I’ve been thinking.
Random thoughts about maemo this week. No obvious theme or big rant. Just what My Mo has been up to, and what I’ve been thinking.
Things have been a bit lumpy in the Maemo community this week. It started with the repositories crashing last weekend – and oddly, no-one was around to fix it till Monday. Even the host RevdKathy.com is on has 24/7 emergency service so I was a bit baffled. The whole event with tech things being unsteady has felt vaguely ... unprofessional. And as Nokia are the bill-payers for that end of things, it’s faintly worrying about the level of their genuine commitment.
Things have been a bit lumpy in the Maemo community this week. It started with the repositories crashing last weekend – and oddly, no-one was around to fix it till Monday. Even the host RevdKathy.com is on has 24/7 emergency service so I was a bit baffled. The whole event with tech things being unsteady has felt vaguely ... unprofessional. And as Nokia are the bill-payers for that end of things, it’s faintly worrying about the level of their genuine commitment.
It’s not often the bear growls. But I learned something today that made me angry. It appears that some of the n900s being sold by Vodaphone are carrying a branded, locked and otherwise knobbled version of the wonderful, open, free maemo firmware. I just can’t quite make up my mind whether I’m madder at Vodaphone for doing it or Nokia for letting them. Do you blame the choir-master for castrating the boy soprano “So he can sing for life” or the boy’s father who let him do it (for a price)?
It’s not often the bear growls. But I learned something today that made me angry. It appears that some of the n900s being sold by Vodaphone are carrying a branded, locked and otherwise knobbled version of the wonderful, open, free maemo firmware. I just can’t quite make up my mind whether I’m madder at Vodaphone for doing it or Nokia for letting them. Do you blame the choir-master for castrating the boy soprano “So he can sing for life” or the boy’s father who let him do it (for a price)?
There are many people quick to jump all over Nokia, suppliers of the maemo-based n900. But today they’ve neatly shown that somewhere in that vast empire they employ a psychologist or two.
There are many people quick to jump all over Nokia, suppliers of the maemo-based n900. But today they’ve neatly shown that somewhere in that vast empire they employ a psychologist or two.
I other news, I sent an MMS today.
That may not sound like news to most phone owners. But n900 (like the first edition iphone) came without MMS capability.
The difference is that whereas iphone owners had to wait for Apple to decide this was worth doing and implement it, n900 is designed for anyone who wants to make improvements. So community member Frals has been working on creating an MMS function.
It's still a way from fully working, and it's a good bit clunky to use, But it most definitely works, and I can transfer MMS between n900 and n95 relatively cleanly now.
Huge, huge thanks go to Frals for this. I stand in awe of people who can write stuff like that.
(Note - LJ doesn't have 'in awe' as a mood option!)
That may not sound like news to most phone owners. But n900 (like the first edition iphone) came without MMS capability.
The difference is that whereas iphone owners had to wait for Apple to decide this was worth doing and implement it, n900 is designed for anyone who wants to make improvements. So community member Frals has been working on creating an MMS function.
It's still a way from fully working, and it's a good bit clunky to use, But it most definitely works, and I can transfer MMS between n900 and n95 relatively cleanly now.
Huge, huge thanks go to Frals for this. I stand in awe of people who can write stuff like that.
(Note - LJ doesn't have 'in awe' as a mood option!)
I other news, I sent an MMS today.
That may not sound like news to most phone owners. But n900 (like the first edition iphone) came without MMS capability.
The difference is that whereas iphone owners had to wait for Apple to decide this was worth doing and implement it, n900 is designed for anyone who wants to make improvements. So community member Frals has been working on creating an MMS function.
It's still a way from fully working, and it's a good bit clunky to use, But it most definitely works, and I can transfer MMS between n900 and n95 relatively cleanly now.
Huge, huge thanks go to Frals for this. I stand in awe of people who can write stuff like that.
(Note - LJ doesn't have 'in awe' as a mood option!)
That may not sound like news to most phone owners. But n900 (like the first edition iphone) came without MMS capability.
The difference is that whereas iphone owners had to wait for Apple to decide this was worth doing and implement it, n900 is designed for anyone who wants to make improvements. So community member Frals has been working on creating an MMS function.
It's still a way from fully working, and it's a good bit clunky to use, But it most definitely works, and I can transfer MMS between n900 and n95 relatively cleanly now.
Huge, huge thanks go to Frals for this. I stand in awe of people who can write stuff like that.
(Note - LJ doesn't have 'in awe' as a mood option!)
There’s been Yet Another Thread™ on the problems in the community this week. It started well as a discussion on the nature of ‘constructive criticism’, and went downhill fast. (Including some lovely practical demonstrations of destructive criticism.)