Monthly Archives: March 2008

Published:
March 17, 2008 – 10:48 am
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By Dave

Using a Wiimote from your Wii to play games on N800 1

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 [...]

Categories: Hardware, N800

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Published:
March 15, 2008 – 8:45 pm
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By Dave

Installing LogMeIn Hamachi on the Nokia N800 to join your PVPN 3

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 [...]

Categories: Configurations, Linux, N800, Shell

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March 8, 2008 – 6:31 pm
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By Dave

Adding memory swap space to the N800 2

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 [...]

Categories: Hardware, Linux, N800

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March 8, 2008 – 6:05 pm
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By Dave

Using 3G/UMTS/HSDPA Network with Cingular/AT&T 8525 on the Nokia N800 1

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

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Published:
March 6, 2008 – 12:31 pm
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By Dave

Microsoft Office 2007 New Formats and your Apache server 1

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

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