IRC log for #neo900 on 20151020

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09:27.57DocScrutinizer05Hetzner Online Statusmeldung: Urgent security updates on vHosts 1-1493  Start:          October 20, 2015 9:30:00 AM CEST
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14:45.25DocScrutinizer05pali:  http://paste.opensuse.org/46173325  status applet shows "4%"
14:46.39DocScrutinizer05probably 3 now:    battery.charge_level.percentage = 3
14:47.23DocScrutinizer05nut what the heck is   battery.charge_level.capacity_state = 'ok'  then
14:47.26DocScrutinizer05but*
14:48.13DocScrutinizer05CSOC: 50 % RSOC: 50 %      Reported Battery Voltage: 3620 mV
14:48.18DocScrutinizer05:-S
14:48.22DocScrutinizer05BME?
14:59.13DocScrutinizer05on a sidenote: gallery also messed up, it eats 100% CPU for minutes and hours and never really finishes showing the thumbnail list. When selecting a single picture, it's black. Opening menu: black (no buttons in menu)
14:59.38DocScrutinizer05I wonder what the heck is wrong with system
15:01.34DocScrutinizer05http://paste.opensuse.org/39892106
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15:19.37DocScrutinizer05what the heck?!  http://paste.opensuse.org/82880518
15:33.13DocScrutinizer05sth's messed up with tracker/hildon-thumbnailerd:
15:33.15DocScrutinizer05IroN900:~# ll /home/user/.thumbnails/cropped/|wc -l
15:33.17DocScrutinizer056885
15:33.47bencohyou dont have 6885 pictures?
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15:59.44DocScrutinizer05I actually do. Icons and stuff. The filters are messed up, so every album cover art, every app icon and every button image gets indexed. Tracker and image-viewer aka gallery is basically unusable - though finally after 1 or 2 hours even exporting 5 pictures I tool today worked, and took 'only' ~5 minutes. One mega flaw in GUI concept: there's _no_ way whatsoever to jump to end of a *very* long scroll list like the one in gallery "show
15:59.46DocScrutinizer05all pictures" with >6000 pics. You need to wipe-scroll until you hurt your wrist
16:00.35DocScrutinizer05s/tool/took
16:02.32DocScrutinizer05I worked around the latter problem by using "filter by date range" which 'only' took 2 minutes to open the 3 menus and to re-display the filtered list of thumbnails
16:03.51DocScrutinizer05the root problem though is in tracker-config app - it doesn't really support meaningful filter settings that are compliant with any possible bugs/flaws in trackerd
16:04.32sixwheeledbeast^tracker and thumbnailer seem to cause me headaches more and more lately. As my music collection increases it can't seem to cope.
16:05.04DocScrutinizer05it *allows* maybe, but doesn't *support* in a sense of really providing help or checks
16:06.24DocScrutinizer05sixwheeledbeast^: yes, we need some expert who sets up a decent rule set in tracker.cfg (or whatsitcalled) so only forced re-indexing of particular files or dirs takes place
16:08.23DocScrutinizer05even my ridiculous maybe 500 or 1000 songs already take same 45 minutes to get indexed when I unmount and remount the uSD
16:08.30sixwheeledbeast^If I re-index the db for example on stock tracker.cfg settings the watchdog kicks in and reboots.
16:08.44DocScrutinizer05o.O
16:08.54DocScrutinizer05that's even worse. Oh my
16:08.54sixwheeledbeast^I have >6000 tracks on uSD BTW
16:09.11DocScrutinizer05damn tracker
16:10.09sixwheeledbeast^I have got the throttle just right to not cause issues but stop the watchdog kicking in.
16:10.27DocScrutinizer05:nod:
16:10.51DocScrutinizer05we need somebody with deep understanding of trackerd to create a decent config#
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16:11.46sixwheeledbeast^I mention all this as I am in search of why two newly added albums have no thumbnail, at the moment.
16:12.45DocScrutinizer05ideally kick tracker in the garbage bin and replace every app that depends on tracker by a FOSS version that uses plain posix filesystem and - if needed - a local database
16:14.00DocScrutinizer05afk, bbl
16:14.03DocScrutinizer05o/
16:14.04sixwheeledbeast^Another amusing bug is albums with a similar name confuse thumbnailer and use whichever was indexed first for all albums.
16:14.11sixwheeledbeast^o/
16:14.54sixwheeledbeast^"Greatest Hits" for example
16:19.50enycfun with battiries
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21:06.51useretailhey everyone
21:09.46useretaildo all 3g modules have same pinouts?
21:12.45DocScrutinizer51yes
21:13.38DocScrutinizer51all cinterion moduls have compatible footprint
21:14.47useretailbtw, are there any plans to exntend headset circuit to recognize trrs/trs plug automatically?
21:15.30useretailthat would be a *major* improvement
21:15.40DocScrutinizer51oplease rephrase
21:16.18useretailn900 doesn't recognize stereo headphones with mic
21:16.49DocScrutinizer51It does!
21:17.12useretailrly?
21:17.25DocScrutinizer51ys
21:18.38useretailwell i tried ones from iphone4 and they didn't worked properly: mic and controls didn't worked and only noise was heard
21:19.30useretailcheck this page: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/135967/can-i-use-non-apple-headphones-with-an-iphone
21:24.17useretailso OMTP and AHJ standards have swapped mic-ground
21:30.21sixwheeledbeast^Yep N900 is OMTP, which was the standard the others ignored following Apple's success.
21:31.12sixwheeledbeast^I have no issues with my WH-205
21:34.54OksanaWH-700 Nokia earphones work with mic  http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=56389 BH-505 nokia is working great and it is nice headphone
21:36.33OksanaFilters messed up is nasty, is it possible to properly configure them? /me does not remember how many pictures there were in the gallery of the phone which now refuses to boot up due to full rootfs - 2k or 20k - but it worked relatively nice, not-that-slow /
21:36.35Oksana>> unmount and remount the uSD << Is it possible to put tracker on hold before unmounting and resume tracking after remounting, so that it does not notice anything happening? Or, even better, put not whole tracker, but just the uSD-indexing part of tracker on hold? uSD is removable by definition, so this feature would be nifty...
21:49.56sixwheeledbeast^You could make it "not watched" automagically somehow I imagine
22:00.24OksanaWell, if there is a script somewhere "what to do before unmounting uSD" a line could be added "tell tracker to pause indexing uSD without actually throwing away uSD database". And the script "what to do when remounting uSD" could have a line "tell tracker to resume indexing uSD, using old database"
22:01.39OksanaOf course, it would only work with one uSD. If you are in a habit of switching between several different uSDs, you would need to somehow identify "which uSD is being remounted" and store several "paused tracking uSD databases"
22:02.50sixwheeledbeast^in that case i would remove tracker completely.
22:06.16sixwheeledbeast^hmm, I wonder if making */folder.jpg non watched would stop the gallery filling with album art?
22:11.30DocScrutinizer05/Yep N900 is OMTP)) Neo900 has an automatic switch between AHJ and OMTP
22:11.57enycDocScrutinizer05: are you donig well now?  i reall discussionabout you being abit overstretched to say least or so...
22:12.05enycDocScrutinizer05: i've had a very slow start getting back into college work...!
22:13.35DocScrutinizer05I'm about to announce sick-leave from 1st of nobember to mid of december. sorry for that, but otherwise you might have to continue without me all togehther
22:14.29DocScrutinizer05I'm considering impact on project and how to leverage that
22:15.01DocScrutinizer05this project is too big for one person in charge
22:15.20DocScrutinizer05I'm EE
22:15.37DocScrutinizer05not a lawyer or a clerk
22:18.53enycwho else is now helping?
22:19.29DocScrutinizer05Werner Almesberger is *the best guy* in project
22:20.38DocScrutinizer05I'm searching for help in my pool of friends
22:21.42DocScrutinizer05found a accountant yesterday (so I hope). And a Proy (Werner Haupt) a 90 minutes ago
22:21.49DocScrutinizer05proxy*
22:22.16enyci've had to take time out myself similarly for diffeent reasons... long long story
22:22.22DocScrutinizer05the latter is my oldest and best friend
22:22.25enycthese things are always complicated and hard to see sometimes whats' happening!
22:23.34DocScrutinizer05anyway I _hope_ I will be on sick_leave from end of November to x-mass
22:23.54DocScrutinizer05my gf takes care about this
22:26.18DocScrutinizer05until then, thoughts about startink a kickstarter campaign occupy my mind
22:26.27DocScrutinizer05starting*
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22:27.51enycgood luck
22:28.00DocScrutinizer05our webshop down payment campaign mostly failed thanks to PP not making CreditCard payments available to us. So we can't order risk parts
22:28.01enycDocScrutinizer05: kickstarter for neo900 ar something else?
22:28.10DocScrutinizer05Neo900
22:28.26enycoh i see hrrm
22:29.33DocScrutinizer05unless I find a way out and ahead, we're broke in 3 months
22:30.19DocScrutinizer05production of proto_v2 is not exactly cheap
22:30.38jonwilsounds like PayPal are being their usual crappy selves and seizing money for no good reason
22:31.05enyc(not) silly quesiton but is there a paypal-alternative to be used?
22:31.23DocScrutinizer05OTOH proto_v2 is better than most other kickstarter project "proof of concept" or "spec sheet"
22:32.34DocScrutinizer05jonwil: there is a good rason: Credit Card allows roll back of *any* payment for at least 180 days. For *any* credit card, and *any* payment
22:32.57DocScrutinizer05PP only forwards that to us
22:34.04DocScrutinizer05all this subject to approval, since PP doesn't provide *any* data on what and why they do
22:35.54DocScrutinizer05consideration: already start kickstarter order of final prodict, at a prise a tad higher than what our valued supporters had to pay via our webshop
22:37.07DocScrutinizer05we have a completed schematics. We will be able to produce a working prototype
22:37.25enychrrm
22:37.25DocScrutinizer05so nobody can say we are scam
22:37.34enyci think a working proto will help a lot yes indeed
22:37.46Oksanais glad to have done all payments through bank transfers... And yes, it would be fair to have kickstarter backers pay a little more than webshop backers. Also, kickstarter rewards may have several levels, like "100x small price for early birds, 100x larger price for later birds"
22:37.58DocScrutinizer05yes, that's what I want to get done now
22:38.04ds2is amazon payments any better?
22:38.18enycwhat are the blockers to  good proto_v2 ?
22:38.36OksanaEspecially with videos of the prototype as it works, boots, calls, something...
22:39.18DocScrutinizer05Oksana: suggestions welcome. I agree with you but it's complicated
22:40.06OksanaEvacuation. Hopefully, a drill, not an actual fire | Problem is, Ks will be not just down payment, it will be "final price"?
22:40.15OksanaDo not use lifts. Fire. :-( :-(
22:42.18DocScrutinizer05we have enough money to accomplish the proto_v2 layout (given I don't pay anybody for anything else. Neither Werner nor me) We might have enough (available [PP]) money to build one or two or maybe 3 proto_v2
22:44.16DocScrutinizer05ordering N900 is out of vicinity with PP freezing the down payments
22:44.40enychrrrrrrrrrrm
22:44.49enycso you have asked for help from whover yo ucan get?
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22:45.25DocScrutinizer05I'm still in panic mode
22:45.46DocScrutinizer05and close to the edge, regarding my health
22:46.05OksanaaTwo fire trucks :-( Fire, not drill
22:46.43Oksanaawishes you good health
22:46.52enycDocScrutinizer05: you'd pspoke of (somebody) caming back to the project but tied up with pyra .. .r so...
22:47.13OksanaaNicholaus ?.. /blind guess/
22:47.51DocScrutinizer05sorry you lost me. Prolly my fault, I'm tired and 90% AFK
22:51.29DocScrutinizer05"""I have a dream. A Kickstarter Project based on solid research and backed by a awesome huge (maemo) community. This kickstarter project reaching 3000 backers withing a one-digit number of weeks. Allowing the project to not obnly go ahead with R&D but also consider if making own cases and mech parts would be the economically better choise"""
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22:53.01Oksanaachoice* And do you have a good contact for prototyping and making own cases and mech parts?
22:53.13DocScrutinizer05yes
22:54.12DocScrutinizer05xiangfu, our trustworthy and valued contact into the chinese economy
22:55.56DocScrutinizer05sorry folks, I need to get some chillout (aka sleep) *now*, or I won't be able to contribute tomorrow
22:56.53wpwrakenyc: the guy coming back from pyra would be nikolaus (of goldendelicious)
22:59.01Oksanais back from sleep - closest to hibernation that I could do for safety of electrical equipment in probably-fire situation | E70 form factor for Neo900 board would be neat...
23:02.31Oksanarecalls having a huge voucher. Would making one more downpayment from this voucher help? Not in terms of finances available, I guess, but slightly lifting the numbers... /if only I could choose which modem variant I like more.../
23:04.56OksanaAlso, this one looks weird: https://neo900.org/git/?p=scans;a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=data/jpg/n900-bot-inside-nostylus-100um.jpg Aka, not-complete-picture
23:08.34DocScrutinizer05what the heck is https://neo900.org/git/?p=scans;a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=data/jpg/n900-bot-inside-nostylus-100um.jpg ?
23:09.30DocScrutinizer05anyway, sorry folks, I have to leave for an 8 hours
23:09.51Oksanawpwrak: Bottom shell, without stylus http://neo900.org/stuff/werner/scans/ https://neo900.org/git/?p=scans;a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=data/jpg/n900-bot-inside-nostylus-100um.jpg
23:10.10OksanaGood night :-)
23:10.17DocScrutinizer05tomorrow I will consider how to carry on without any (monetary) support from the project's funds
23:13.30OksanaSince anything "surplus" will be returned to customer once Neo900 is done, over-donating is possible? Bank transfer some more ;-) ?
23:19.17jonwilI wish I could help out with money but I dont have any spare
23:19.26jonwilSo I will have to help out with code instead :)
23:19.57Oksanaa:-D /opposite is true for me: no time for code, no skill-experience for RE/
23:20.06jonwiland I think my code contributions (MCE etc) have more than made up for my inability to contribute money :)
23:20.19Oksanaanods
23:23.53ds2prehaps we should go back to using IRCs if they still exists
23:25.28Oksanablinks - what is IRCs?
23:26.38ds2let me find a wikipedia; but it should be International Reply Coupons
23:27.26ds2nevermind
23:27.30ds2they are only good up to postage
23:27.41jonwilUsually when people talk about "PayPal sucks" these days, BitCoin is suggested as an alternative. Not necessarily even holding BitCoin but the person sending the money buys some bitcoins then sends it to the other guy who converts the money straight back into Euros or whatever.
23:28.01jonwilNever used BitCoin myself but a lot of people seem to like it :)
23:28.48OksanaDepends on exchange rates and fees
23:36.31OksanaSo can I still do a bank transfer to Neo900 and have it added to my cumulative voucher?
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