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Navigation by Maps on Smartphones with GpsMid

Submitted by h2b on
System
GpsMid 0.6
Java ME/MIDP 2.0
(getestet auf LG KP500)
Symptom

GpsMid including map data shall be installed on a Java smartphone. Under circumstances the resulting JAR file exceeds a limit set by the operating system.

GpsMid is an excellent navigation software for Java smartphones. It is not only free and open-source by itself, but also uses the free map data from OpenStreetMap. Software and map data – packed in a JAR file as MIDlet – can be uploaded from the PC to the mobile phone; as long as one doesn't reload further data from there, no charge for mobile connections will accrue.

Sound problems after updating KDE

Submitted by h2b on
System
KDE 4.3.1
openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64)
Symptom

KDE sound ringing out only sporadic, although working with non-KDE programs.

After updating from openSUSE 11.1 to version 11.2 and the incorporated transition from KDE 3.5 to 4.3 on one PC the sound generated by KDE applications (including system notifications) only worked every once in a while: when logging in it was there or it was not until the end of the session, where this behaviour appeared to be arbitrary and non-reproducible. At the same time, non-KDE programs did not show such bugs, their sound happened to perform faultless.

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