OpenMoko developer hardware

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I love the idea of the OpenMoko platform, an open source mobile phone. It uses linux as the operating system built on a fairly open hardware platform. (Some of the drivers are closed source, apparently due to licensing restrictions)

You can buy a developer unit right now, although the list of currently incomplete features should (rightly) discourage all but the most enthusiastic.

http://www.openmoko.com/

I think when the software is more complete that this could be a great mobile phone. The idea of having almost total control over the operation of a mobile phone seems like a very clever idea.

Disable "You have new mail" terminal message

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

By default in linux you get a message saying something like

You have new mail in

when you log into a linux machine.

Sometimes this gets annoying because you always have new mail, or because there seems to be a delay while checking the mail or because the mail is actually stored on some kind of remote disk.

Disabling this setting is easy. Simply include

unset MAILCHECK

in your .bashrc file (for login shell) or .bash_profile (for non-login shells, i.e. ssh) and the message shouldn’t appear.

Linux on Angus Thinks

OpenMoko developer hardware

Disable "You have new mail" terminal message