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== Random N900/MAEMO Tips ==
I'm going to be using this page to jot down some notes about doing stuff on the N900 that I've just gotten. Maybe someone else will find this useful.

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=== Speed up the Application Manager ===

The application manager uses apt-get, and the default network-related timeouts are rather long. Add this to the end of your /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00maemo to speed things up when servers are unreachable:
<pre>
// Be more aggressive in timing out stuck network connection attempts.          
//                                                                              
Acquire::Retries "1";                                                           
Acquire::http::Timeout "3";                                                     
Acquire::https::Timeout "3";                                                    
Acquire::ftp::Timeout "3";                                                      
</pre>

=== Set up mDNS (aka Bonjour, aka Rendezvous) ===

As described [http://thpmaemo.blogspot.com/2008/11/get-avahi-working-on-maemo.html here], you can install [http://avahi.org/ avahi], an open-source mDNS client.

Since the N900 uses upstart, the information [http://thpmaemo.blogspot.com/2008/11/get-avahi-working-on-maemo.html here] about changing the service startup order is no longer relevant. Instead, you need to create two files for upstart as follows:

==== /etc/event.d/avahi-daemon ====
<pre>
start on started dbus
console output
respawn
exec /usr/sbin/avahi-daemon -D
</pre>

==== /etc/event.d/avahi-dnsconfd ====
<pre>
start on started dbus
console output
respawn
exec /usr/sbin/avahi-dnsconfd -D
</pre>

If you're running an SSH service on the N900, you can announce it via mDNS by creating the following file:

==== /etc/avahi/services/ssh.service ====
<pre>
<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?>
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
  <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>
  <service>
    <type>_ssh._tcp</type>
    <port>22</port>
  </service>
</service-group>
</pre>

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 === Speed up the Application Manager ===
-The application manager uses apt-get, and the default network-related timeouts are rather long. Add this to the end of your <tt>/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00maemo</tt> file to speed things up when servers are unreachable:
+The application manager uses apt-get, and the default network-related timeouts are rather long. Add this to the end of your /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00maemo to speed things up when servers are unreachable:
 <pre>
 // Be more aggressive in timing out stuck network connection attempts.