Raskas’ blog

I’m going to buy a TomTom Go 300, or a TomTom One. I still haven’t decided which one. During my search for more information about those devices, I found some very interesting sites and facts.

The First and most important fact:
Some parts of the TomTom GO software falls under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is running a linux kernel and several other open-source software. You can find the list of all components on www.tomtom.com/gpl. It even has a freshmeat page.

From the www.opentom.org website you can start gathering information about the linux on that device. For example the opentom mp3 player or the Event Logger.

If you have question or want to meet some people owning a tomtom you can browse to www.mytomtomgo.com or for the dutch people tomtomone.jouwsites.nl.

After installing this wordpress blog, I noticed that the loading of the “Dashboard” page takes ages. Reading the code showed me that it wants to fetch some rss-feeds. Because this server is behind a proxy this is normal, I just have to define a proxy somewhere.
Google pointed me to this wordpress forum.

This is what you need to edit in wp-includes/class-snoopy.php:

var $proxy_host = "";
// proxy host to use
var $proxy_port = "";
// proxy port to use

This is the first of many posts in my new wordpress blog.
I will try to write my impressions of many things, solutions to problems I’ve countered and many many more.