As announced a few minutes ago on the maemo-developers list, the source for the N800 wireless lan drivers have just been released. Find them at
WLAN Drivers for N800 Released
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Monthly Archives: February 2007
The scammers are at it again…
It’s been a while since I’ve had one of these 
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 From Victorine Omah.Avenue 5 Lot 172 Cocody
 Quarters Abidjan Cote d’ Ivoire
 West Africa.
Dear One,
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  I am writing this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously.
I am  Victorine Omah and I have inherited fund from my late father Chief Koffi Omah who died in recent crisis in Cote d’Ivoire. I wish to request for your assistance in investing this sum in lucrative venture or manufacturing and real estate management in your country. I have Six million,Five hundred thousand United State Dollars. USD($6.500,000) to invest and I will require your assistance in receiving the fund into your account. I will be glad to give you some reasonable percent from the total sum for your assistance.Before the death of my father on September 14/9/2005, he gave me all the necessary legal documentation concerning the deposit of the fund in the bank, I am 21 years old and a university undergraduate and really don’t know what to do. Now I want an account overseas where I can transfer this funds and after the transaction I will come and reside permanently in your country till such a time that it will be convinient for me to return back home if I so desire. This is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis here in Ivory coast. The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life. I also want to invest the fund under your care because I am ignorant of business world.I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards. Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded. Now permit me to ask these few questions:
1. Can you honestly help me from your heart?
2. Can I completely trust you?
3. What percentage of the total money will be appreciateable by you?Please, consider this and get back to me as soon as possible. Immedaitely I confirm your willingness, I will send to you my picture and also give you more details about myself and the bank where my late father deposited the fund, so that you can reach the bank and confirm the existence of the fund as well, because seeing is believing.
IÂ am waiting for your immediate response.(vicky4me400@yahoo.fr)ÂBest Regards
Victorine Omah
Nokia N800 And Memory Cards
While trying to convince a corrupt memory card to work I discovered something interesting about the N800.
It’s got a small magnet on the back of the battery cover which pokes into the square hole next to the internal memory card. Opening the cover causes a kernel log message and the memory card to be unmounted.
There’s also a small switch in the flap that shuts off the other memory card slot when you open it. This one is quite obvious as the N800 only recognises new cards when you close the flap.
I did wonder how they made it so we could just remove memory cards without having to unmount them…
The 2012 UK Analogue TV Switchoff
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/openhdtv/
Quote:
In 2012, analogue television services will be switched off. It is likely that Ofcom (the regulator) will sell the radio frequencies (parts of the radio spectrum) that the analogue channels used to mobile phone companies. We believe that Britain still needs to be the world leader in broadcasting. As a result of allocating these frequencies to HDTV (High-definition television) broadcasts we think that Britain can continue to lead the world in television in the same way that John Logie Baird did in the 1930s. Countries such as America and Australia are already rolling out this technology but Britain has been left behind because of the lack of spectrum space.
Recycle your old CPUs
Rather than the traditional past time of bending the legs off, turning them into keyrings or leaving them on the floor pin-side up why not do something more creative with all your old chips?
Most people who’ve had a PC for more than six months will somewhere in their house have a box of junk. Amongst the millions of miles of IEC power leads and IDE cables there are probably some old CPUs that were once cutting edge.
Dig them out and do something useful with them, like make a trivet
Visit the Evil Mad Scientist Lab to find out how.