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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
Categories: Configurations,Linux
Tagged: apache, Apache server, content types, microsoft, mime, mime.types, office, web browser, web server, XML
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