| dholbach | good morning | 06:37 |
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| demon012 | hey all | 09:54 |
| demon012 | can anyone recommend a PDA / Smartphone for use and development of ubuntu mobile? I have read about the Samsung Q1 but that is a little out of my price bracket heh | 09:55 |
| demon012 | anyone able to help? | 10:25 |
| persia | demon012: There's really nothing inexpensive available at the current time. I've seen some products that may be available for as little as ~600 USD plus airtime contract announced for June, but not much else. | 10:33 |
| demon012 | thanks persia | 10:46 |
| demon012 | i was hoping that i may be able to find a compatible smartphone or pda for less than £400 | 10:46 |
| persia | demon012: That said, while some of the software may not support the hardware ideally, nearly any of the 7" subnotebooks might be a decent test environment, assuming a touch screen. | 10:46 |
| demon012 | what are the current requirements of the kernel? architecture wise? | 10:47 |
| demon012 | just x86 instruction set? | 10:47 |
| persia | I use a Kohjinsha SR8, but I think the SH6 would be around £450. | 10:47 |
| persia | Most x86 ought work. McCaslin or Menlow is supported. | 10:48 |
| demon012 | mmm i will see if i can find something smaller using a compatible processor | 10:49 |
| demon012 | need something that will fit in a pocket ideally | 10:49 |
| persia | Good luck. Also try to get something with the Intel video hardware. For fitting in a pocket, you likely want to look at something from everrun, or the sharp D4, but these may be difficult to find retail. | 10:50 |
| demon012 | ok tyvm for your help persia | 10:51 |
| persia | Things like the small Acer, the Sony slidable, and the Fujitsu convertible tend to be just over pocket size, and at 550-600 grams would strain the seams. | 10:51 |
| demon012 | im gonna go have a look around | 10:51 |
| demon012 | yeh i had contemplated the asus eee pc | 10:51 |
| persia | That's definitely too big for a pocket (but so is the Q1). | 10:52 |
| demon012 | but that was not the ideal thing because the battery life would not last a whole day lol | 10:52 |
| persia | Also, it doesn't have a touchscreen. | 10:52 |
| demon012 | ye | 10:52 |
| persia | Nothing available retail today has the battery life. The D4 in June is the only product I've seen announced that was designed for a mostly-on use case. | 10:53 |
| demon012 | mmm darn i may have to just see if i can get hold of a zaurus or something then | 10:53 |
| demon012 | i think i will have to hold off for a while until something more suitable for me comes along and in the mean time get a zaurus (i am in serious need of something to keep me organised) | 10:55 |
| persia | Speaking from experience, the Zaurus won't help with organisation. It's a pocket computer (as some of the other devices listed). While it can do PDA stuff, it's not optimised that way. | 10:57 |
| persia | Also, it's out of production. Unless you're in Japan and can get one used, you'd do better with one of the Nokia devices. | 10:58 |
| demon012 | mmm have you got any recommendations then? i need something able to receive email, has a calendar that can sync to an ical calendar and is able to wake up to remind me | 10:58 |
| demon012 | so a n800 or the like? | 10:58 |
| persia | A modern phone-type thing ought be able to do all that. | 10:59 |
| demon012 | mmm i think i may go for a N800 then as I had seen it mentioned on the moblin pages so there may be hope in the linux dept | 11:00 |
| persia | On the other hand, if you want web browsing, music, reasonable note-taking, ability to handle documents, light processing (spreadsheets, small math models), etc. The Nokia or any of the pocket devices I listed above might be more suitable. | 11:00 |
| demon012 | yeh i think i will take your advice and go for a nokia | 11:01 |
| demon012 | thankyou persia you have been a great help =) | 11:02 |
| persia | demon012: If you do, and you want to play with Ubuntu Mobile, http://mojo.handhelds.org/ may be an interesting resource (although I don't know how well it works) | 11:04 |
| demon012 | excellent and yes i would most certainly like to play with ubuntu mobile | 11:04 |
| demon012 | i am overdue to do some contributing | 11:04 |
| demon012 | all i have done up until now is reporting bugs and testing i need to get my hands dirty and start doing some coding | 11:05 |
| demon012 | brb | 11:07 |
| jerry_compal | hello | 15:21 |
| agoliveira | jerry_compal: Hi. | 15:27 |
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| lool | Do you people have a technique to reset an USB key to an empty partition table after MIC wrote on it? | 17:25 |
| lool | Currently, I fdisk /dev/sdX and "d" each partition which it has erroneously detected | 17:26 |
| lool | I could save a partition table for each USB key I have, but I would imagine some command line utility can do it all | 17:26 |
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| agoliveira | lool: First thing that came to my mind: mpartition -I | 17:48 |
| lool | Interesting, thanks | 17:54 |
| agoliveira | lool: Don't know if it's the best solution but it used to work and it was the first thing I could think of :) | 18:01 |
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| Raseel | Still can't get ume-xrphyr-start to work | 19:31 |
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