lindi - Slashdot User

Comment Re:world's largest??? (Score 1) 128

by lindi on Thursday December 29, 2011 @03:20PM (#38529472) Attached to: Russia Building World's Largest Li-Ion Battery Plant

How much energy can the iPad battery hold? The article talks about 200 Ah (3.7*V*200*A*3600*s = 2.6 MJ?).

Comment Re:Arch + Various (Score 1) 357

by lindi on Thursday December 22, 2011 @06:47PM (#38465820) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts?

A while ago I had to explain how USB flash drives are mounted on desktop systems so I made a screencast that shows how you can use systemtap to figure that out: http://lindi.iki.fi/lindi/screencast/what-happens-when-you-mount-usb-stick1.ogv

Comment Re:You don't!! (Score 1) 357

by lindi on Thursday December 22, 2011 @06:44PM (#38465794) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts?

If you run gnome programs from icewm you may experience odd problems. For example epiphany opens PDF files in GIMP http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526958 since icewm-session does not set XDG_DATA_DIRS or know much about freedesktop.org standards.

Comment Re:KDE. (Score 1) 357

by lindi on Thursday December 22, 2011 @06:29PM (#38465656) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts?

Isn't D-BUS an example of how the mechanism can be separated from the GUI?

Comment Re:Do you even need a DE? (Score 1) 357

by lindi on Thursday December 22, 2011 @06:17PM (#38465508) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts?

How do you copy files to/from USB flash drives? fstab with user option, limited sudo, pmount or mcopy?

Comment Re:A panel/launcher does not a desktop make (Score 1) 357

by lindi on Thursday December 22, 2011 @02:23PM (#38461728) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts?

If you open d-feet you can see some of the d-bus services that are offered. Here are some examples: org.freedesktop.Notifications implementing http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/index.html org.freedesktop.secrets implementing http://code.confuego.org/secrets-xdg-specs/ org.gnome.ScreenSaver

Comment Re:Spinrite, for crying our loud (Score 1) 445

by lindi on Monday December 19, 2011 @05:25PM (#38427028) Attached to: Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties

If it works for USB hard drives I'd like to get a pcap capture of the USB traffic.

Comment Re:Spinrite, for crying our loud (Score 1) 445

by lindi on Monday December 19, 2011 @01:31PM (#38424312) Attached to: Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties

How does it actually repair the drive? I googled around but found no clear explanation.

Comment Re:Why PCMCIA? (Score 1) 161

by lindi on Saturday December 17, 2011 @10:26PM (#38413058) Attached to: PCMCIA Computer Project Aims Even Higher (and Cheaper) Than Raspberry Pi

For this reason I often use a cable-style USB hub with my laptop. It means I don't need to worry about the connector nearly as much.

Comment Re:Working on it (Score 2) 277

by lindi on Sunday December 11, 2011 @09:13AM (#38334168) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet For Running a Real GNU/Linux Distribution?

Where do you get this 1.5 GB requirement? 3.4.4 seems to have an RSS of 80 MB immediately after startup.

Comment Re:Maybe (Score 1) 133

by lindi on Friday December 02, 2011 @09:23AM (#38236298) Attached to: OpenMoko's FreeRunner Rises From the Ashes

I tried to do this with the meego calendar but then noticed that it doesn't come with source code. That kind of makes it impossible to port it to debian.

Comment Re:open radio? (Score 1) 133

by lindi on Friday December 02, 2011 @08:22AM (#38236054) Attached to: OpenMoko's FreeRunner Rises From the Ashes

Trust isn't black and white. I can trust that if I turn the GSM part off it will stay off. I can also trust that it won't be able to record samples from the microphone when I am not making a call.

Comment Re:Free Software Baseband Please. (Score 1) 133

by lindi on Thursday December 01, 2011 @11:33PM (#38234334) Attached to: OpenMoko's FreeRunner Rises From the Ashes

Yep, "free phone" is always relative. There's non-free software running in the GPS and Wifi parts too.

Comment Re:we need more touchscreen friendly FOSS apps (Score 1) 133

by lindi on Thursday December 01, 2011 @11:23PM (#38234288) Attached to: OpenMoko's FreeRunner Rises From the Ashes

It has some bugs that I'd like to fix and I'd also like to distribute it as part of debian. Need a permission from the author to do that.

Comment Re:open radio? (Score 2) 133

by lindi on Thursday December 01, 2011 @07:58PM (#38232936) Attached to: OpenMoko's FreeRunner Rises From the Ashes

gta02 radio firmware was not open either.

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