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The fuel gauge I can understand, it's presumably trying to show how much juice is left in the battery and that'll be mostly guesswork, taking into account voltage as just one of the factors. And presumably the algorithm could even be changed by software (you may have mentioned something about...

On Linux you'll put that RAM to use simply by reading, writing, or executing files. All file access go through RAM. So, the next time an application reads a file which has been read before, or even just written after last reboot, it'll get that data directly from RAM and the disk won't be...

I scrolled back for a number of posts, but I couldn't find where you mentioned two different voltage readings by different chip. So I'm unsure. Of course, the internal resistance which forces a voltage drop as load increases is always there, but the magnitude of it will differ and may or may not...

Yep, with Linux you should use less swap the more RAM you have. Quite different from e.g. some older Unix systems out there, where the opposite would be the way to go.

Note that the battery has internal resistance, it's like if it had a virtual resistor between a virtual internal 'battery' and the external connectors. In practice this means that the more current you draw the more the voltage drops at the connectors. Lower-capacity batteries act as if the...

On my oldest system (1992) I had only 16MB RAM, so yes, I added swap. Not too much though. When (some years later) Mozilla was open-sourced I added 128MB swap so that i could compile it. Worked fine. I also used to optimize Linux installations in the mid-90s for a company in a country where...

In any case, the iPad CPU isn't an omap3 Cortex-A8, it's a different CPU. It makes little sense to compare frequencies.

Yes you can. Don't trust third party sellers. Amazon UK sold me a fake Nokia battery via a third party seller. And SD cards are much worse. If you can't get it through know shops, don't buy. Period. (Amazon itself, and Play.com itself should be OK, just stay off their 3party sellers for such items.)

Could someone with access please fix the 'a software' description, please? It's just "software", you can't count software more than you can count water.

Maemo 5 may have some built-in support for kinetic scrolling. I'm not certain though. But a large number of applications in Maemo 5 have kinetic scrolling, while it was almost absent from applications for earlier versions.

Some of us have worked many weeks over the years.. or decades.

I could be interested and wouldn't have a problem with the size of the investment. However, I'm a 100% techie (programmer, engineer) and have zero talent in handling anything else. The things Neko listed, I would have no idea. So, for example, I'm in Europe but not in the UK. Is it even...

There's shouldn't be anything preventing you from setting $HOME/.mozilla -> path-to-sd-card/your-mozilla-dir though? That's what I do for my .map directory on my N800, for example (Maemo Mapper map data).

On all boxes with zoneinfo support (that's most *nix except IRIX and some other sysv-based ones) I always do: cd /etc rm localtime ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/MET localtime and all's fine. Change MET to whatever is your right local timezeone.

That depends on what you mean by 'use'. I didn't plan to turn off my Pandora (when I get it). After all, I don't ever turn off my N800. I ordered the Pandora as an upgrade to the N800 - they're quite similar in many ways. I had many months of uptime on my N800 until the other day when the old...

The TI demo is based on version 10.1, the N900 uses version 9 (9.0.159.0 at the moment). They are very different as far as I understand. 10.1 has the possibility to be accelerated, and one such version was demonstrated by Adobe a year ago or more, on the N900, so it's not like it's not possible...

Could it be caused by an MMC power management problem maybe? E.g. like a problem occurring with a kernel upgrade for the N800 back in 2007 (description of problem and fix below). https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204#c120

As macsimus said. The only problem is battery life (limited by the size of battery it's actually possible to squeeze in) and Nokia's continued tendency to skip ahead to the next great thing instead of going incremental. With the jump to Meego I'm basically out of it, I don't want to follow...

This is supposed to work with some phones. You may need some particular software to achieve this though. Then again, GPS chips in phones are often more troublesome than stand-alone receivers. The one in the Nokia N900, among others, is an 'AGPS' chip, "assisted GPS". What's terribly annoying...

The N900 is very cumbersome to use when stretched out on the couch though.. :) (there's simply no comfortable way of holding it in that position)