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In this post you will find information about how to easily clone your OS running in flash to an SD card. There are two deb’s that are used to accomplish the cloning process. install-tools.deb (800 Internal/External, 810 External) install-tools-N810e.deb (810 External) PREREQS Remove any virtual memory before starting, the script will clone and automatically setup virtual memory partition for SD [...]

As most of you probably know already, GUPnP is now officially part of Maemo and therefore future internet tablets. This is a major milestone and gives a big boost to my motivation to continue my UPnP adventure. Although I try to put as much of the bits and peaces of spare time i get from my job into UPnP work and I am pretty sure the Intel (former OH) will continue their work as well, we could certainly use more hands to accelerate the development.

Its been a while since I last blogged (not that nothing exciting had been going on). Maybe it is not a natural propensity, more like blogging when my job needs me to. Previously it was a tool to reach out to the maemo community, now it is to reach out to developers who may find the following open positions in my team interesting

1. Senior Architect
   
2. Senior Software Developer
3. Web Developer
   

All positions are based in Tampere, Finland. Some interesting facts and figures related to Tampere and surrounding region can be found here.

ProFUSION is proud to announce the first public release of our Guarana framework and its demo Enjoy.

Guarana is a set of free software libraries to aid embedded application development. It comes with with a remote control access library, module loader, model-view-controller machinery, basic data structures and a fast growing widget set.

Enjoy is a demo music player targeted at embedded touchscreen devices. It uses Guarana’s MVC and widgets and Emotion to play media.

Here’s a video running on the target demo platform, a Freescale imx31 3-stack board. (it will run on N8×0, but will not play music because Emotion’s gstreamer backend uses decodebin, we need to patch it to use DSP decoders/sinks)

More information about Guarana features and an Enjoy screenshot see the original press release.

For those that don’t know, Guarana is a Brazilian plant and also the name of an excellent soft drink. It’s also the base of some energetic drinks. That’s why the demo is called Enjoy… okay, okay, it’s also because it starts with “e” as well

Part 1 of the Maemo Summit lightning sessions has now been uploaded. Below you will find the first 7 videos, the others should come in the next day or two.

Debian in a chroot on the tablet - Alan Bruce (qole)

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Corporate budget planning is an interesting science that leads you to look at the future in a quite pragmatic way. First half of 2009: where is Maemo going to be? Where is the Maemo community willing to go and meet? The first Maemo Summit ever was a success! I was supposed to blog about that, but [...]

Was performed to add another cpu to the SQL server, which was task switching like crazy. Lost lots of cycles for no good reason. Now the server should have an easier time, but I’ll wait for the statistics to arrive to see what and how much has changed.

Anyway this is again a step in the correct direction. I want to make the site feel fast.

And I am really happy to see the importance of simplicity in the discussion about the maemo.org redesign. Simple elegant design usually means that it is faster to run.

      

Image by teoruiz via FlickrI will try to tell the story as my friend mooch told me quite some time ago. It was the beginning of the internet tablets, it was so beginning that the tablets were just called "devices" and that the 770 was only a prototype. I wasn't there yet but mooch told me he was and he just received his brand new shiny desktop to start doing something. In the search for a new

A Quick Look at maemo Bugzilla
2008-09-29 through 2008-10-05

This hack was originally needed mainly because I am usually under a proxied network at work, and for some security issues this connection can not be broadcast'ed by access points or routers, but I do want my tablet connected to the same wired network of my desktop.