Yes, it’s true & great news: Facebook chat can now be used over any XMPP / Jabber client, like Pidgin and Kopete.
Go to http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php to see your settings. Here’s a screenshot of the settings:
Facebook jabber settings
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Great tips for everyone running Open Source projects!
Also do check the awesome blog post by one of the KDE project leaders: Building community around your FOSS project.
Tags: opensource, planet-fnoss, planet-vapaasuomi, video
Stuff has bugs, both hardware and software. One of the hardware bugs in Openmoko phones has been bug number #1024 causing things to happen that prevent the GSM chip to go to ‘deep sleep’ mode to save power.
Someone came up with a fix: add a capacitor.
So we did.
Wiki page with instructions to detect if you’re hit by the bug: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/1024
Bug report: http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1024
Instructions to fix the bug: http://www.neofundas.blogspot.com/
After opening the case
Small, isn't it?
One end soldered to the ground
Other end soldered to the old capacitor
Thanks Antti & open hardware!
Results
The suspend power consumption dropped to around 6000 µA from around 15-20000µA when I now allow the GSM modem (Calypso) to go to deep_sleep mode. The 1200mAh battery should now give up to 200 hours = 8 days of power. Of course this is theoretical – I also need to use the phone to make calls, let GPS show me my location etc etc – and as I move, the GSM needs to wake up ever now and then because of the changing base stations. So nowadays I recharge it every other night still being able to make calls and do other stuff with it. Nice improvement!
Tags: freerunner, hardware, mobile, opensource, planet-fnoss, planet-openmoko, planet-vapaasuomi
Openmoko Inc, the company behind the Openmoko Freerunner Linux phones released their new product, Wikireader. It’s a small device to read Wikipedia offline. The files are stored on uSD card, also the small Linux kernel is supposedly loaded from the card so this should be a nice hackable device.
It is still unknown if there will be a developer/user community around Wikireader and what will Openmoko do this time better than with Freerunner. You can try to find some answers on the Openmoko community mailing list
Tags: hardware, linux, opensource, planet-fnoss, planet-openmoko, planet-ubuntu, planet-vapaasuomi, software
proto.youloc.net
Short in English: see www.youloc.net!
Jotta kiinnostuisit hommasta, vilkaise ensin sivua proto.youloc.net. Klikkaa kartalla näkyvää vihreää pistettä niin näet nimen, nopeuden ja koordinaatit. Jep, se on joku nykyisistä youloc.net -prototyypin käyttäjistä tai simuloitu liikkuja. Klikkaamalla ‘zoom in and follow’ näet tarkemmin missä kyseinen täppä menee. Kokeile myös seuraavia:
- klikkaa kartan oikean reunan + -nappulaa, valitse sieltä ‘user tracking’. Nyt näet myös liikkujan historiaa.
- paina yläreunasta ‘USERS’ nähdäksesi muiden (ei-liikkeellä olevien) käyttäjien tietoja.
Noniin, nyt kun kiinnostus on herätetty konkreettisella esimerkillä päästään asiaan.
Tags: community, gps, mobile, opensource, planet-fnoss, planet-vapaasuomi, suomeksi
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