This great post over at Internet Tablet Talk describes how to pair the Nintento Wii control (wiimote) to the Maemo OS2008 using Bluetooth. Functionality is pretty limited at the moment, but I was able to play lxdoom using the wii remote. That is pretty damn cool and opens up a lot of gaming possibilites with the N800, since a bunch of emulators have already been ported to it! Old NES games, here I come!
Tagged: Bluetooth, gaming, Internet Tablet Talk, N800, OS2008, wii, wiimote
In case you were wondering, I just invented the phrase PVPN – Personal Virtual Private Network. I use Hamachi to connect my work, home and laptop PCs and I’ve found it invaluable over the past few years for a number of reasons. Music over VPN, Remote Desktop/VNC over VPN, and more. So now, I’d like to join my N800 to this growing network to make easy and secure access and file transfer wherever I am connected. Fortunately the folks at Logmein have compiled a client for the N770, and this also works on OS2008 on the N800 (Let me know on the N810). This is an alternate take on the wiki article at Logmeinwiki. Note: For the commands below I will have assumed that you have already installed the openssh server so you can access the N800 via an SSH client with root access. You can also use the built….
Categories: Configurations,Linux,N800,Shell
Tagged: hamachi, hamachi go-online, internet tablet, Linux, little device, N800, openssh server, tablet, VPN
Adding swap space is pretty easy. This will add more, but slower ram; helping you when dealing with large files. In general, linux likes to have twice the amount of swap space as RAM. Since the N800 has 128M memory, I’m adding 256M. We’ll see how this perform in the long run. Before, no swap in use: 12345Nokia-N800-51-3:~# free total used free shared buffers Mem: 126828 87248 39580 0 1012 Swap: 0 0 0 Total: 126828 87248 39580 Performing commands to add swap file and use it….
Categories: Hardware,Linux,N800
Tagged: Linux, mmcblk0p1 /media/mmc1 vfat rw, ram
When I bought the Nokia N800 a key feature is not only the ability to surf the internet with Wifi but also to pair it with your phone via bluetooth and access the internet anywhere. have a Cingular 8525 (I guess now an AT&T 8525) which has 3G internet available, but it did not work out of the box with the N800. To begin with some definitions, there are 2 ways that you typically connect to a phone for internet. Bluetooth DUN (Dial Up Networking) and Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network). Bluetooth DUN is the “old” way to connect, and some of the updates Microsoft is pushing out to their Windows Mobile devices are disabling it. Unfortunately, this is the way that the N800 uses to connect to the internet. To fix this problem, some maemo hackers put together a package called “maemo-pan“. This package enables the ability to connect….
Categories: 8525 / Hermes,Cell Phones,Hardware,Linux,N800,Software,Windows Mobile
Tagged: 3G, 3G internet, AT&T, Bluetooth, DSP, internet connection sharing, Internet Sharing, internet tablet, microsoft, Nokia N800, shared internet, Start internet sharing
If you upload those new fancy-shmancy file formats to your web server – namely .docx, .pptx and .xlsx – and you are running Apache; chances are that your web server doesn’t know how to serve those files because they are unknown file formats. Your browser may try to download them as a .zip file (IE) or just display the binary format (Firefox) which ends up looking like jibberish with some XML data. It’s relatively easy to fix this problem, you just need to tell apache how to handle those files. Find the file mime.types, this may be in /etc/ or in /etc/httpd/conf/. Add the following line to this file: 1application/vnd.openxmlformats docx pptx xlsx In one line: 1echo "application/vnd.openxmlformats docx pptx xlsx" >> /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types Restart both Apache and your web browser. Clearing the cache doesn’t work (I learned the hard way :)) Your file should….
Categories: Configurations,Linux
Tagged: apache, Apache server, content types, microsoft, mime, mime.types, office, web browser, web server, XML
What I’m Up To