community Digest, Vol 125, Issue 16

Wed Apr 1 12:25:11 CEST 2009

I did this command
y011pc99:/# bunzip2 openmoko-*-arm-linux-gnueabi-toolchain.tar.bz2
but I obtained:
bunzip2: Can't open input file
openmoko-*-arm-linux-gnueabi-toolchain.tar.bz2: No such file or
directory.
what I have to do

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>   1. Re: Learning with flashcards - granule (Pander)
>   2. Re: Google Summer of Code (Daniel Willmann)
>   3. Re: Google Summer of Code (Daniel Willmann)
>   4. using toolchain (Anas Alzouhbi)
>   5. Re: qt-extended-improved unpredictive keyboard
>      (Franky Van Liedekerke)
>   6. Re: using toolchain (arne anka)
>   7. help for development in 5 minutes (Anas Alzouhbi)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net>
> To: List for Openmoko community discussion <community at lists.openmoko.org>
> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:55:50 +0200
> Subject: Re: Learning with flashcards - granule
> Ezuall,
>
> Thanks, don't worry about the prettiness. I'll fix it up and package it.
>
> Regards and thanks in advance,
>
> Pander
>
> ezuall wrote:
>> Pander,
>>
>> I'll have to have a dig for the code, it won't be pretty, as I stitched it
>> together for a quick overview of Italian before a trip last year.  I don't
>> know if the Japanese character set is supported.
>>
>> I'll send it through as soon as I find it, may be 24 hours though
>> ezuall
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Pander-2 (via Nabble) <
>> ml-user+35848-1247512972 at n2.nabble.com<ml-user%2B35848-1247512972 at n2.nabble.com>
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ezuall,
>>>
>>> Do you still have the code or the changes you applied? Could you send
>>> them to me?
>>>
>>> By the way, which language was it? If it is Japanese, I'm also
>>> interested in the data files.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Pander
>>>
>>> ezuall wrote:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> Last year I used PyFlash, but I'm not sure which distribution I was
>>> running at that time.  I know it was easy to get it running, only a few
>>> chages were necesarry.  I was using it for learning language at the time, so
>>> I added a line for pronunciation as well, which worked better in landscape
>>> mode for learning phrases.
>>>> Cheers
>>>> ezuall
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Daniel Willmann <daniel at totalueberwachung.de>
> To: community at lists.openmoko.org
> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:00:20 +0200
> Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:42:47 +0100
> Sam Kuper <sam.kuper at uclmail.net> wrote:
>
>> 2009/3/31 Daniel Willmann <daniel at totalueberwachung.de>
>>
>> > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:22:55 +0100
>> > Yorick Moko <yorickmoko at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > i think there is none
>> > > shr (or fso?) got rejected
>> >
>> > Both actually. We joined forces with our application and were
>> > rejected.
>>
>>
>> Out of interest, did the rejection have anything to do with Android
>> being a Google product and a competitor to SHR/FSO?
>
> I don't know, the mail didn't say and I don't think it would if it were
> the case.
> Apart from that I don't think they view us as a competitor. At most I
> guess they see us as a redundant effort. Even more of a reason to prove
> them wrong. :-)
>
> Regards,
> Daniel Willmann
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Daniel Willmann <daniel at totalueberwachung.de>
> To: community at lists.openmoko.org
> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:04:26 +0200
> Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:10:32 +0100
> Arigead <captain.deadly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Daniel Willmann wrote:
>> > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:22:55 +0100
>> > Yorick Moko <yorickmoko at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> i think there is none
>> >> shr (or fso?) got rejected
>> >
>> > Both actually. We joined forces with our application and were
>> > rejected. Everybody is still welcome to work on cool projects,
>> > though. :-)
>> >
>> Are you mentoring ? ;-)
>
> Depends. What do you have in mind? :-)
>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel Willmann
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Anas Alzouhbi <anas.lbn at gmail.com>
> To: community at lists.openmoko.org
> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:27:07 +0200
> Subject: using toolchain
> Hello!
> I read the document of toolchain on:http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Toolchain
> I arrived until this command:
> "    *  Extract it directly as root, so use command "su" first (or
> prefix the tar command with "sudo" when you are using Debian/Ubuntu):
>
>  cd /
>  tar -xjvf ~/sources/openmoko-XYZ-arm-linux-gnueabi-toolchain.tar.bz2
> "
> I don't understand what I have to write in command exactly, I'm
> working on Debian
> but I runned this command: sudo tar -xjvf
> ~/sources/openmoko-XYZ-arm-linux-gnueabi-toolchain.tar.bz2
>  but I obtained this error:
> tar: /root/sources/openmoko-XYZ-arm-linux-gnueabi-toolchain.tar.bz2 :
> la fonction open a échoué: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
> tar: Erreur non récupérable : arrêt du traitement
> tar: Child returned status 2
> tar: Des erreurs ont provoqué l'arrêt du programme
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Franky Van Liedekerke <liedekef at telenet.be>
> To: List for Openmoko community discussion <community at lists.openmoko.org>
> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:45:41 +0200
> Subject: Re: qt-extended-improved unpredictive keyboard
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:44 AM, leonardo at lilik.it <leonardo at lilik.it> wrote:
>>
>> hi all,
>>
>> As I did for Qtopia, I’ve recompiled my un-predictive keyboard for
>> qt-extended-improved. It is a patched version of the matchbox keyboard
>> that comes with Qt made usable without a stylus.I’ve changed the layout
>> from last time I touched it :
>>
>>    * I found out how to suppress the hints bar, that never had any real
>> use for me
>>    * I used wider picks to help people that do not play guitar and have
>> regular size nails :-)
>>    * In the sourcecode you can find an attempt to use screen rotation
>> (disabled now) to automatically switch to wide mode when sending sms. I
>> didn’t have time to make it work.
>>
>> then you have to chose at each boot, the default one can not be changed.
>>
>> if you want screenshots explain me how to have them with qtextended :-)
>>
>> code&bin here:
>> http://leonardo.lilik.it/wordpress/2009/04/01/qt-extended-un-predictive-keyboard/
>>
>> I put the whole keyboard source dir in the zip but i think I have only
>> touched keyboardframe.cpp. I will send a patch for the git soon.
>>
>> ciao,
>> leonardo.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm very interested in testing this, but the source isn't in the zipfile ...
> For the screenshots, maybe you can try http://qtextended.org/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=18 ?
>
> Franky
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "arne anka" <openmoko at ginguppin.de>
> To: "List for Openmoko community discussion" <community at lists.openmoko.org>
> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:46:29 +0200
> Subject: Re: using toolchain
>>
>> I don't understand what I have to write in command exactly, I'm
>> working on Debian
>> but I runned this command: sudo tar -xjvf
>> ~/sources/openmoko-XYZ-arm-linux-gnueabi-toolchain.tar.bz2
>
> i don't know how good sudo is supported nowadays in debian, but i prefer to _be_ root instead:
> su -
> and then do it again without sudo.
>
>>  but I obtained this error:
>> tar: /root/sources/openmoko-XYZ-arm-linux-gnueabi-toolchain.tar.bz2 :
>> la fonction open a échoué: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
>> tar: Erreur non récupérable : arrêt du traitement
>> tar: Child returned status 2
>> tar: Des erreurs ont provoqué l'arrêt du programme
>
> my french is rather rusty, but it might mean that you either don't have bzip2 installed or that the archive is corrupt.
>
> i strongly urge you to use the second attempt suggested:
>
>  bunzip2 openmoko-*-arm-linux-gnueabi-toolchain.tar.bz2
>  gzip openmoko-*-arm-linux-gnueabi-toolchain.tar
>  fakeroot alien -d openmoko-*-arm-linux-gnueabi-toolchain.tar.gz
>  sudo dpkg -i openmoko_*-arm-linux-gnueabi-toolchain*.deb
>
> thus you have far more control over the files installed and you could remove them easily. additionally, the chances to break your system are significantly smaller.
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Anas Alzouhbi <anas.lbn at gmail.com>
> To: community at lists.openmoko.org
> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:48:57 +0200
> Subject: help for development in 5 minutes
> Hello!
> I read this document
> "http://andreasdalsgaard.blogspot.com/2008/07/openmoko-development-in-5-minutes.html"
> in order to build a simple helloworld porgram on my openmoko
> I'm going to start with this command:
> wget http://smartere.dk/openmoko/openmoko-toolchain_0.20080521-ubuntu6_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i openmoko-toolchain_0.20080521-ubuntu6_i386.deb
> what I have to write instead of ubuntu6, if I'm working on Debian,
> and is not necessary to work as root user??
>
>
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