Posts by JohnnyG

S60 knows where you're at

Location based alarms

I wrote anorak: http://anorak.sourceforge.net/ to solve the train problem -- on dark nights knowing when you are close to your station. anorak just uses cell tower ids for this purpose, so you don't even need GPS, but locations are only as good as the cell tower density.

I moved house and started to commute by bike and found anorak less useful (entering details for new cell towers as you pedal along is likely to get you a Darwin award).

So, I moved on to GPS based stuff: http://launchpad.net/johnjohn

johnjohn needs more work + there are some neat things that could be done to combine ideas from anorak.

N95 struggles to find itself

Shameless plug: JohnJohn

I could do with some help with this python clone of maema mapper.

I'm running it on a nokia 6600 and using a separate bluetooth GPS unit, but it shouldn't be much work to have it work with the N95's on board GPS.

Code is here: https://launchpad.net/johnjohn

Dell moves 40,000 Ubuntu PCs

The poll was worldwide, the laptops are only available in a handful of countries

Another factor in 130K voting and only 40K buying is that whilst you could vote wherever you lived in the world, the laptops are only available in a handful of countries.

For example, I voted, but live in Ireland, where these things are not available.

I did actually buy one for my sister in the UK (though had to order by phone).. working very nicely too. Bizarrely, the machine itself was built in Ireland.

Other factors to consider are that only one laptop model and one desktop model are available -- so many may not have wanted that model and decided to pay the Microsoft tax on another machine.

Add to this the fact that the availability of these machines is not exactly displayed in banner headlines on Dell's site.

Overall, not too bad a response.