Here comes some photos of the new flat we occupy with Maki, after a Ikea triathlon (1 day shopping, 1 day building, 1 day enjoying), on the same building of the office, just 3 floors below:
Wifi connection needed a small boost, Pringles cans reflectors are doing a great job.
We’ve got now a repeater bridge at home, and just in case, you can download the nvram config backup (WPA mode, password is xxxxxx).
The great thing about an open-source phone, like openmoko, is that when there’s a problem, all the community can gather to find a solution.
At the beginning of the week, some people complained that they couldn’t get their phone GPS working: Time To First Fix signal (the initial signal that tell the phone where in the world it is) was taking infinite time when a SD card was inserted.
Then some people joined the thread on the community mailing list to confirm the problem (other people joined just to complain, not helping much), and after a bunch of test, the source of the problem was confined on the SD card reader.
After 24h, the OpenMoko team released a software solution to the problem, stopping the SD card reader internal clock just the time to get the TTFF signal, about 40 seconds, then everything would be back to normal.
The patch has been directly available on the project git repository, allowing the mos furious to recompile and reflash their phone in hours, the others waited for the daily build. Imagine that, you get everyday a new build for your phone, without waiting for the infamous version 2.0 vaporware that might come out one day.
People have tested it, it works for many, but there’s still some phones that don’t have it.
This morning, the OpenMoko hardware team published their hardware solution:
« Soldering a 10pF capacitor between PIN5 and PIN6 at SD card slot without taking off the case as the below picture showed. »
That might be a bit difficult for anyone to get access to a pico-capacitor and solder it at this tiny place, but at least it’s accessible for most of the soldering geeks.
So at the end, you’ve got a phone that’s so open that you’ve got a software and hardware solution of a production problem in a week. Of course, it’s not a consumer-ready phone, it would have been a complete disaster to recall all the phones, that’s just a bunch of geeks today that can touch this phone, but someday, you’ll have it in your hand, and you’ll just have to imagine all the open-source work that float inside.
Last week, Mininova has released a bookmark system for its users, it would allow remote downloading, but information are missing to configure Azureus/Vuze properly, here is a mini tutorial.
You can imagine the reation of channels on Mininova, give your feed to your friends, and all start to download the same torrents at the same time to improve your speed and share the good content!
Be sure to have the last version of Azureus
Open Azureus, and go in menu: File -> Plugins -> Installation Wizard…
Select « By list from Sourceforge.net« , and select the plugin RSS Feed Scanner in the list, click Next and Install
Go in menu: File -> Plugins -> RSSFeed Scanner, select « Options » tab
Click on the « + » next to the top box
Click on the « + » next to the bottom box
Go inside tab « Status », and you’ll see your bookmarks there, starting to download.
Thanks to Pablo Ruiz Múzquiz, there is actually an OpenMoko GroupSale occuring in Madrid, and 10 people will soon receive an OpenMoko FreeRunner for the joy of hacking it!
I’ve spend some time on the OpenMoko wiki, and here is a list of the wonderful stuff I’ve discovered:
More to see when the phone arrive in hands.
After few months of wordpress-mu customization for BBVAblogs, we’re currently opening the code so you all can play with it.
Here are the links to follow the dev of this platform:
Project page: manual, feature requests and bugs
Source code: version control with git, clone it, fork it, enjoy it!
It includes wordpress-mu with various plugins, and some homemade templates to manage a blog community, feel free to leave your comments and feature requests and the project page.
Final version should be ready for the Campus Party at Valencia on the 28th of July.