N810 – Day 3 and Counting

creeva · Posted on

So last night was a work in progress/real-world scenario time. I was going to be out with a few hours to kill, and I didn’t take my Mac Book with me. During my hour commute to work, I listened to a couple of episodes of “Cranky Geeks” with John Dvorak. In the afternoon I had to go to the lab and do some testing with users. While waiting for the users to show up I decided to take my N810 onto the guest wifi. While doing that I installed Vim and the GPE suite. I’m going to be working on getting the GPE calendar to sync with Google Calendar. I should have realized that vim was a command line-only utility since it was a port. I don’t think I’m going to stay using it though, I know vim is the more friendly vi, but I have a severe hatred of vi. I think it’s the difference of growing up with the extremely easy-to-use Microsoft Edit in DOS that vi seems so hackneyed to me.

One thing that was an issue for me yesterday was I installed the “Camera” application from the repositories. I installed and saw how a picture would look, then I clicked the folderesque button on the lower right-hand side and that locked up my N810. I tried to hold the power button down that didn’t do anything, after about 5 minutes of waiting I yanked the battery. In that 5 minutes, I went from 75% of my battery to 25%, so whatever happened taxed the hell out of the CPU and storage space. Needless to say that application is not staying around.

I then went up to Vermilion and met with my sisters and had some pizza, after that, I wandered to the local library and decided I was going to attempt to get some work done. I managed to log in to my work’s exchange webmail, I wrote a full blog using maemo-wordpy, and used it happily as an MP3 player listening to my podcasts. Writing a longer-length blog post took some time compared to what it would take with a normal keyboard. However, I managed to get it done and my typing skills are definitely improving on the N810 keyboard as a whole.

The annoying things I found out yesterday.

  • The Vermilion Public Library’s Public Wifi doesn’t allow IMAP – grrrr no Gmail via Claws for me at that time
  • Canola won’t “save” songs to scrobble at a later time, if it doesn’t have a network connection you are SOL – grrrr – does anyone know if Maemo scrobbler will save before submission?