Here is something cool. I am posting this entry from my T-Moble G1 phone. How cool is that?
The Android app that makes this possible is called wpToGo, and can be downloaded for free from the Marketplace.
The closest thig to a homepage I could find was http://danroundhill.com/wptogo. The guys at AndroidTapp gave a great review, so I won’t bother. Check it out.
I’ve been burned too many times by Gentoo updating my x11 system and then I reboot and I can’t start X. It seems to happen just far enough apart that I don’t remember how I fixed it last time. So, of course, last time it happened I made notes. Only trouble is that I can’t remember where I put the notes from last time. This problem is especially hard because I can’t seem to Google any sort of solution. Maybe I am the only one to have this problem. Well, anyways, I’m going to document it here, so hopefully I can find the solution next time, and maybe, in the process, I can help someone else.
The symptoms are that X fails to start. The log, (or just typing X at a terminal), reveals that the following modules fail to load: dri, extmod, record, and fb. Nvidia and possibly wacom, evdev, mouse and keyboard may also be listed.
The first thing that should be done is to un-install and re-install xorg-server. Note that simpy re-installing xorg-server won’t do the trick.
#emerge –unmerge xorg-server
#emerge xorg-server
This should take care of the complaints about dri, extmod, record, and fb. If further problems remain, re-install the following modules (no need to un-install).
#emerge xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse nvidia-drivers linuxwacom
Hopefully, that fixes it. Hope this can help someone. If not, I at least hope it helps me in the future.
About six months ago, my wife started complaining that her Palm TX was acting wierd. Battery sometimes would die very quickly and other strange things. My Palm TX was still working fine although compared to my friends iPhone, it was really showing its age. This all got me thinkning, we probably would only get another year at best with our Palm TXs and what would we replace them with?
We are avid Linux users, (even my 8 year old son prefers Linux to Windows), and we really didn’t like the idea of how closed the iPhone was. I suggested that we consider iPhones but my wife freaked out. She was not going to use an Apple product. I figured if I could get her to Best Buy and have her hold an iPhone in her hands she would come around. In the meantime, I started researching what it would take to use an iPhone in an all-Linux household. The results were not encouraging. It seemed that everytime someone made some progress using an iPhone with Linux, Apple came along and ‘corrected’ the ‘mistake’. My enthusiasm for the iPhone was quickly waning.
Well, last week, my wife handed me her Palm TX and asked me if I could get the sound to work. The audio played out of the headphones ok , but she was not getting any audio out of the built in speaker. Since she used the built in alarm clock as her bedside alarm clock to wake her up, she had been oversleeping all week. I played around with it for a while and then sadly announced that I thought it was not a setting but that it was physically broken. I explained that I could set her up some computer speakers that would work, since she could still get sound out of the headphones, but what concerned her more was that the TX was breaking and she didn’t know what we would use after it broke. My wife uses her Palm TX for everything and was rather dejected.
I thought, “Now is my chance!” and suggested that we go by Best Buy and let her play with an iPhone. She reluctantly consented and we were off. Boy was I wrong. After about three minutes of holding an iPhone in her hand and playing with it, she exclaimed “I hate it!”. She couldn’t put her finger on exactly what she didn’t like, she just didn’t like the iPhone.
I had also been looking off and on at the T-Mobile G1 and Google Android, but I wasn’t sure. I loved that it ran on Linux, and that, as opposed to the iPhone, was an open platform. I just wasn’t sure whether I would like it. I suggested we swing by the T-Mobile store at the mall and take a look. She agreed and we were, once again, off.
Once she had the G1 in her hands it was amazing. Her whole face lit up and her eyes were sparkling. She was in another world the whole time she held it, surfing the web, reading her blog, and exploring Android. As for me, I like it every bit as much as the iPhone, probably even more. We each got one and have had a week so far to play with them. They are great. My wife is even installing her own applications, something she has never really done before.
I hope to post some reviews of the applications and the phone in the future.