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Wifi networking worked, as long as you were already associated with access point under Maemo before you run the launcher to start up Android:
It is kinda sluggish on this hardware, there are some keyboard quirks, and I’ve had a few different apps (including the apps launcher app) crash away for seemingly no reason. But it’s a fantastic first effort, amazing they got it working at all. Kudos to the whole team!
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Wifi networking worked, as long as you were already associated with access point under Maemo before you run the launcher to start up Android:
It is kinda sluggish on this hardware, there are some keyboard quirks, and I’ve had a few different apps (including the apps launcher app) crash away for seemingly no reason. But it’s a fantastic first effort, amazing they got it working at all. Kudos to the whole team!
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Just tried to rotate my screen to see an iphone web app and … whoa. I found the menu’s were in order over on the left side, but I had to “use the force” to figure out where to click to get things restored.
Technorati Tags: android, maemo, n810, rotation, bug, kernel
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Just tried to rotate my screen to see an iphone web app and … whoa. I found the menu’s were in order over on the left side, but I had to “use the force” to figure out where to click to get things restored.
Technorati Tags: android, maemo, n810, rotation, bug, kernel
2 ]]>Just like colliding with the front of your garage when you intended to stop anyway is still a bad thing.
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10 ]]>Just like colliding with the front of your garage when you intended to stop anyway is still a bad thing.
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10 ]]>I wanted to do something different again, so I persuaded the people at Brandt to do a kind of Rolf Harris punk thing. It’s a little bit funky. I don’t think it will please everyone but it will be noticed. Each one is different.
There was a shortage of T-shirts in these colours, so we did a small batch of classic retro-style dark green T-shirts too, with white banding and stripes with white flock-print. They are quite nice but less challenging.
Like last time, I chose to do a small number of expensive T-shirts rather than lots of cheap ones. Scarcity adds value.
13 ]]>I wanted to do something different again, so I persuaded the people at Brandt to do a kind of Rolf Harris punk thing. It’s a little bit funky. I don’t think it will please everyone but it will be noticed. Each one is different.
There was a shortage of T-shirts in these colours, so we did a small batch of classic retro-style dark green T-shirts too, with white banding and stripes with white flock-print. They are quite nice but less challenging.
Like last time, I chose to do a small number of expensive T-shirts rather than lots of cheap ones. Scarcity adds value.
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As generated by Wordle from the maemo.org intro
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0 ]]>0 ]]>The reason I made it was because as I browsed and contributed to GNOME’s code, I noticed that a lot of developers seem to either ignore reference counting or they use it incorrectly all over their code.
I even saw people removing their valid reference usage because they had a memory leak they wanted to solve. As if introducing a race condition is the right fix for a memory leak! Some people have rather strange ways of fixing bugs.
What people who don’t want to care about it should do, and I agree with them, is to use Vala instead.(Or D, or Python, or C#, or Java, before I get hordes of language fans in my comments again. Oh! Or C++ with smartpointers too! - oeps, I almost forgot about the poor céé plus plus guys -)
Anyway, I’m sure my guidelines are not correct according to some people, as there are probably a lot of opinions on reference counting. In general I do think that whenever you pass an instance to another context (another thread or a callback) that you simply must add a reference. If you do this consistently you’ll have far less problems with one context finalizing while another context is still using it.
It’s a wiki page, I’m subscribed. You can just change the content if you disagree. Being subscribed I’ll notice your changes and I’ll review them that way.
http://live.gnome.org/ReferenceCounting
It’s not the first such item that I wrote down. Here are a few others:
After reviewing this document José Dapena promised me he’s going to make a page about reference count debugging in gdb, like adding watches on the ref_count field of instances. To make sure he keeps to his promise I decided to put a note about that here. <g>
20 ]]>The reason I made it was because as I browsed and contributed to GNOME’s code, I noticed that a lot of developers seem to either ignore reference counting or they use it incorrectly all over their code.
I even saw people removing their valid reference usage because they had a memory leak they wanted to solve. As if introducing a race condition is the right fix for a memory leak! Some people have rather strange ways of fixing bugs.
What people who don’t want to care about it should do, and I agree with them, is to use Vala instead.(Or D, or Python, or C#, or Java, before I get hordes of language fans in my comments again. Oh! Or C++ with smartpointers too! - oeps, I almost forgot about the poor céé plus plus guys -)
Anyway, I’m sure my guidelines are not correct according to some people, as there are probably a lot of opinions on reference counting. In general I do think that whenever you pass an instance to another context (another thread or a callback) that you simply must add a reference. If you do this consistently you’ll have far less problems with one context finalizing while another context is still using it.
It’s a wiki page, I’m subscribed. You can just change the content if you disagree. Being subscribed I’ll notice your changes and I’ll review them that way.
http://live.gnome.org/ReferenceCounting
It’s not the first such item that I wrote down. Here are a few others:
After reviewing this document José Dapena promised me he’s going to make a page about reference count debugging in gdb, like adding watches on the ref_count field of instances. To make sure he keeps to his promise I decided to put a note about that here. <g>
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Now that we have the autobuilder in place for Diablo, it is a good time to talk about how to get your package from Extras-Devel into the Maemo Extras repository.0 ]]>Now that we have the autobuilder in place for Diablo, it is a good time to talk about how to get your package from Extras-Devel into the Maemo Extras repository.0 ]]>0 ]]>0 ]]>Picture this:
Answer: You Fall.
Not much.
You can only not fall before you run off the edge of the cliff, not after.
Sometimes, we have users who ask us why we can't just "fix" a crash by changing the crashing function.
In the example from the bug, the crashing function, js_GetScriptLineExtent, has bad data and can't really do anything useful with it, other than simply crashing.
Report the crash (you know, what goes up, must come down... somewhere).
If you're lucky, the path to the crash will be obvious, such as when Wile E Coyote takes a wrong turn.
If you're unlucky, then the report won't have enough information, but at least someone will know to be on the lookout for something which could cause your crash.
Reprinted from a bug
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Answer: You Fall.
Not much.
You can only not fall before you run off the edge of the cliff, not after.
Sometimes, we have users who ask us why we can't just "fix" a crash by changing the crashing function.
In the example from the bug, the crashing function, js_GetScriptLineExtent, has bad data and can't really do anything useful with it, other than simply crashing.
Report the crash (you know, what goes up, must come down... somewhere).
If you're lucky, the path to the crash will be obvious, such as when Wile E Coyote takes a wrong turn.
If you're unlucky, then the report won't have enough information, but at least someone will know to be on the lookout for something which could cause your crash.
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See you in Istanbul !!
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See you in Istanbul !!
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Here’s the mandatory screenshot:
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Here’s the mandatory screenshot:
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Nokia will have strong participation in aKademy 2008. Nokia is the platinum sponsor for the event. We have had a strong particiarion in GTK/Gnome community and now we would like to create similar position in Qt/KDE Open Source community and catalyst many Opeopen Source Qt projects for our Internet tablets. There will be multiple maemo related presentations. Kate Alhola and Antonio Aloiso will have a presentation "Adapting Qt for maemo hildon". We try arrange also other presentations like how to develop Qt applications to devices running maemo and how to design mobile UI to Qt/KDE applications, maemo devroom/workshop etc. If you have good ideas or have already made Qt applications for internet tablets, please let us know.
The aKademy will be also a launch event for maemo/hildon Qt port. The port is developed in open source fashion. You can download current snapshot from qt4 maemo garage page.
The Akademy will be a good place to meet maemo/Qt/KDE developers and to start developing your application for internet tablets.
Nokia will be also hiring Qt specialists, please look http://www.nokia.com/imaginemaemo or contact Jakub Pavelek or Carlos Guerreiro to addresses which are in format forename.surnane@nokia.com.
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Nokia will have strong participation in aKademy 2008. Nokia is the platinum sponsor for the event. We have had a strong particiarion in GTK/Gnome community and now we would like to create similar position in Qt/KDE Open Source community and catalyst many Opeopen Source Qt projects for our Internet tablets. There will be multiple maemo related presentations. Kate Alhola and Antonio Aloiso will have a presentation "Adapting Qt for maemo hildon". We try arrange also other presentations like how to develop Qt applications to devices running maemo and how to design mobile UI to Qt/KDE applications, maemo devroom/workshop etc. If you have good ideas or have already made Qt applications for internet tablets, please let us know.
The aKademy will be also a launch event for maemo/hildon Qt port. The port is developed in open source fashion. You can download current snapshot from qt4 maemo garage page.
The Akademy will be a good place to meet maemo/Qt/KDE developers and to start developing your application for internet tablets.
Nokia will be also hiring Qt specialists, please look http://www.nokia.com/imaginemaemo or contact Jakub Pavelek or Carlos Guerreiro to addresses which are in format forename.surnane@nokia.com.
80 ]]>Resumés shall be sent to the e-mail: rh_seleciona 'at' indt.org, with “DesLinux” in the subject field.
*DO NOT* send me CV's.
If you want information about what it is like working in Manaus or what to expect if you are selected (from a foreigners perspective) I will help with that, no problem.
Linux Developer
Academic Background:
Bachelor in Computer Science
Computer Engineering or
Data Processing
Language skills:
Intermediate English.
Solid knowledge in:
- GNU/Linux (Use and development)
- C/C++
- Python
1 ]]>Resumés shall be sent to the e-mail: rh_seleciona 'at' indt.org, with “DesLinux” in the subject field.
*DO NOT* send me CV's.
If you want information about what it is like working in Manaus or what to expect if you are selected (from a foreigners perspective) I will help with that, no problem.
Linux Developer
Academic Background:
Bachelor in Computer Science
Computer Engineering or
Data Processing
Language skills:
Intermediate English.
Solid knowledge in:
- GNU/Linux (Use and development)
- C/C++
- Python
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