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Epoc Digest Thu, 27 Feb 2003 Volume 01 : Number 185
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In today's Epoc Digest 35 messages:
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- What to put on C and what on D
- Contacts & Email
- Re: TR code (4 David)
- Screen Cable Problems
- OS/2
- Monopoly
- Itamar re. Monopoly
- Re: Speed cameras
- Application Design Guidelines
- Mobile Phones
- more about that full screen mOnOpOlY patch thing
- EPOC or not EPOC
- Police cameras, nConvert, False Representation?, Police cameras, PDF v. PDF+,
- Psion meets Mac
- Font Machine Backup
- Eric Lindsay system knowledge; vlad a. to Vlad K. ; Rolf B.'scomment on Itamar's statistic
- EPOC Emulator
- Mourad. SHoffmann. Peter`s Siemens: Internet Configuration Wizard
- no subject
- Re: Police Cameras
- Home of the Ribbon Cable
- Re: .pps files
- Re: mbm view: again
- Re: Let's steer clear (4 Rolf B.)
- Re: False Representation?
- Re: Repair of a broken display
- Colour Icons on website
- Spare Psion. "Improving" Data.
- PDF for viewing images / Screen cable
- GPS!
- Re: False Representation?
- Soft reset without a paper clip # 171 (1)
- pens and Mouse prophylactics
- Renee Hard-reset? 184
- no subject
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 07:49:28 -0500
From: "Marcus von Cube"
Subject: What to put on C and what on D
Hi,
just a few words about EPOC memory management with regard to putting programs on C or D.
The main difference between the two is that C (and Z, the ROM, too) is part of the working memory of the processor while a flash card's contents must be copied to working memory to be accessed. For documents and OPL applications there is no big difference but for executable code there is!
ROM based APP, DLL and EXE files can often be executed without any relocation directly in place. (The exceptions are Java or OPL programs which are interpreted and not directly executed.) All the fixups a program loader normally has to do are already incorporated into the image in ROM. This is the reason why ROM based apps can't be run from C or D, the file format is different!
RAM (C) based APP, DLL and EXE files still have to be relocated but that can be done without copying the whole file to free memory but by overlaying parts of it with help of the MMU (memory management unit). This way, large chuncks of a program or library aren't moved from C to internal memory, thus conserving precious RAM. This is also a speed advantage.
Programms, whatever type they are, stored on CF have to be copied to RAM as a whole, then relocated (fixups resolved) before they can be run. This takes both time and memory.
My advice: store apps and libs of programs you will be running most of the time on C. I do install most of the OCX files on C. Big OPL apps do not profit from beeing installed on C, put them on
D.
Marcus
http://www.mvcsys.de
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 08:37:19 -0500
From: "Michael Degn"
Subject: Contacts & Email
Answer to Renee Ford
> Forgive me if this has been discussed ad nauseum, but is there any way
to import Contacts to D drive? What am I doing wrong? <
Hi Renee,
You don't import Contacts to the D drive, but actually move them. Open
you Contacts app and select ToolsPreferences... <Ctrl+K>. In the last
field "Disk for contacts store" you can choose whatever drive is
available.
> Also if I store emails to D, (be kind, ok?) and this 5mx decides to
do yet another hard reset next time I change the batteries, will the
emails be unreadable anyway? I've taken to taping the plug on with
heavy duty postal tape, especially when changing batteries - sorry, but
duct tape simply won't do ;-) Best..... <
Your emails will be just fine and readable. However, all your Modem +
Internet settings will be lost so you can't send or receive any emails
before you restore them from a backup or create some new settings.
Best regards,
Michael Degn
Esbjerg, Denmark
www.degn.esenet.dk
www.pdanmark.dk
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 08:49:05 -0500
From: "J."
Subject: Re: TR code (4 David)
To David Lir
"TR has that kind of B#£¤1§! share RegCode which is machine Unique ID specific >G<
Jack"
>>>Proporta provides extra codes (for replacement, secondary, or backup machines, etc.) - at no charge to registered TR users. I received the code for my backup machine just by calling their toll-free number. ......<<<.
RE
Cannot find this "toll-free" phone of theirs;
Only wrote twice to their About support-email AD ... without any answer <GGG>
In this time when most of us have to change their machine or use backup ones It a pity to have to search and phone; begging for what you paid. Jack
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 09:00:00 -0500
From: "Mike Woodward"
Subject: Screen Cable Problems
Hi everyone
The digest has lots of posts about screen cables so its difficult to avoid
them, one thing that struck me was that Psion users appear to fall into 2
groups, those that appear to have multiple screen cable failures & those like
me that have never had a problem. Is there a design, environmental or user
problem, or perhaps are some users implying multiple cable problems when they
are re-iterating a single fault.
I use a Netbook for many hours each day & provide direct support for about 20
Psion PDA users at work & all my old Psions (3a, 5 & 5mx) are still in regular
use with family & friends & I'm still waiting for my first cable fault.
I have sent a few Psions back for repair over the years usually when they have
been accidently dropped.
I believe the Psion is more reliable than the average portable PC based on my
experience of managing IT support services for 6,000 people, we also have a
few large form factor Windows CE PDAs with 12" screen which must be the most
unreliable kit ever made, mostly down to software.
Mike Woodward
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 09:08:50 -0500
From: "Ian Chapple"
Subject: OS/2
Andy,
>> OS2 - That's a blast from the past! <<
Tell me about it. My office is probably the world's biggest user of OS/2; we have approximately 6000 employees, all of whom have a PC, most of them running OS/2. Due to IBM stopping support of OS/2, we are currently in the throes of migrating all of our applications to Windows 2000/Java. As one of the early testers for the new Windows PCs, I was surprised at how old-hat OS/2 felt whenever I had to go back to using my old PC.
Cheers, Ian.
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 09:17:31 -0500
From: "Michael Degn"
Subject: Monopoly
Answer to all
Itamar Engelsman wrote (> ):
> Re. monopoly - I never heard about such a patch, but if you find it
please do let us know as well. <
Simon Wolf wrote (> ):
> Steve Godfrey (Zenobyte) has indeed written a patch for Monopoly to
make it use the full screen on a 7/netBook and to fix a couple of other
problems. Unfortunately he is legally not allowed to release it and I
don't think that it has ever escaped into the wild. If I am wrong about
this and someone does have a copy then please do feel free to email it
to me! <
Owen H. Morgan wrote (> ):
> Why not e-mail the author and ask? Monopoly was written by the same
guy who wrote PhoneHis name escapes me at the
moment, but he's a nice guy. You'll find his name on the About screen in
Monopoly. It's disappeared from the later copies of PhoneMan. <
Hi Itamar, Owen, Nic, Jack, Simon and Kevin,
Simon is absolutely correct in his statement. Steve has written a patch
a long time ago, but Psion will not allow him to release it. I've
extracted a correspondence with Steve from my SaveMail database. At that
time the company was named SG Software. Now it's Zenobyte.
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Subject: RE: Update for Monopoly
Date: 2000/05/23 16:15:30
From: Steve Godfrey
To: Michael Degn
Hi Michael
Unfortuneately I cannot release any updates/patches without permission
from Psion Computers. I will be seeing some people from Psion Computers
later this week or next week and will pursue this myself and make sure
they know the software doesn't work properly on ER5
cheers
Steve
SGSoftware.com Limited
http://www.sgsoftware.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael D> Sent: 21 May 2000 17:27
> To: Steve Godfrey
> Subject: Update for Monopoly
>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Sorry for the intrusion, but you're probably the only one who can help
me. >
> Among a variety of applications I have Monopoly. I play it with
> great pleasure on my 5mx, and recently I bought a Series 7 too.
> As you know Monopoly was originally designed for ER3 (after all
> it was you who designed it), hence it's not suitable on the
> S7/netBook. (It plays all right, but only a half screen).
>
> Fortunately I've heard you've made an update, ready to roll out
> whenever Psion says the magic word - but they aren't really
> interested at all :-(
>
> So, please tell me if I can get this update at all, and how/where.
>
> When I bought Monopoly I paid DDK 499,00 ~£45 so I guess that
> should entitle me for an update. I'm sick and tired of waiting on
Psion. >
> Can you help me, please
>
> Regards,
> Michael Degn
> Esbjerg, Denmark
>
Best regards,
Michael Degn
Esbjerg, Denmark
www.degn.esenet.dk
www.pdanmark.dk
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 10:03:14 -0500
From: "Simon Wolf"
Subject: Itamar re. Monopoly
Itamar,
I'm not 100% sure of the legalities (this is based on my memory of emails that went between me and Steve Godfrey and Peter Bancroft of Psion over a year ago) but I seem to remember that Steve wrote Monopoly with Tonka's permission (based on the note in the about screen). Psion then sold Monopoly through their software store and this was on an exclusivity basis whereby Steve could not release new versions or patches without their permission. A couple of years back I started to hassle Steve about releasing the patch (which was written and ready to go) but he could not get permission from Psion to do so. Just over a year ago I finally contacted Peter Bancroft (is he still with Psion?) who came back from consulting Psion's legal gurus to say that Steve would have to sign a new agreement signing all rights over to Psion for the game and the patch. Steve cannot do this since he does not own the rights to the game, Tonka does. At this point everything seemed to grind to a halt.
I have no idea why Steve Litchfield and co. were able to release patches for the Games Arcade applications (unless they either signed new agreements with Psion or their original agreement with Psion had expired) but it looks as if red tape is preventing Steve from releasing the much wanted patch. Maybe if a few other people emailed him (or posted in the Zenobyte forums then something might we sorted out or maybe if we knew someone at Psion who we could contact then they would allow Steve to release it.
Kind regards.
Simon Wolf
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 10:03:28 -0500
From: Alan Chambers
Subject: Re: Speed cameras
John Morris wrote:
>I'm sure that Tim would acknowledge that many speed cameras (at least the UK) are positioned to maximise Government revenue from >speeding fines rather than to reduce speed at known accident blackspots. We've all seen examples of drivers who are not competent >or physically fit enough to drive on a public road who never even reach speed limits, and who present far mor danger to other road >users than the fast motorist. There are other occasions (e.g. clear, open roads) when a competent driver can safely exceed the >arbitrary legal speed limit. If more effort was spent on training and testing incompetent drivers, and on testing of drivers' >eyesight, reactions and general fitness to drive, then we might have more faith in the Government's "war on speeding". Until that >time, let's have the location of the cameras in the public domain.
This is way off topic of course but you've put the point very well. The fact that there are still too many deaths and injuries on our roads (i.e. any at all) is not in itself a justification for speed cameras. To justify them, you have to show that they improve the situation. Although there is some evidence that accidents are reduced at the site of a camera, it's not obvious that they necessarily reduce accidents overall and I'm not aware of any evidence that shows this.
From memory, I would say speed cameras became widespread in the UK in the mid-90s, so, if they work, one might expect tp see a noticeable decrease in deaths since then.
Now, according to DfT statistics, deaths on British roads were about 7500 in 1970, averaged 5600 from 1981-85, were 5200 in 1990 and continued to fall steadily to around 3600 by 1994. Since then they've been largely level - in fact in the last 4 years they've hardly changed and 2001's figures were actually the worst (slightly) for four years. So, it's not obvious that the cameras have made the difference they were supposed to. It almost looks as though they may have halted an improvement that was already happening - I doubt that really, but superficially it does look that way.
I strongly agree with John's view that the key to improving road safety is driver skill, resulting from improved driver training and testing. I'm sure that defensive driver training for all drivers every five years would make a huge difference. Speed limits that can't take account of current conditions are far too blunt a weapon, no matter how zealously they are enforced.
Got that off my chest!
Alan Chambers
(All views expressed here are my personal views, of course)
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 10:13:27 -0500
From: "Simon Wolf"
Subject: Application Design Guidelines
Apologies to all if this has been covered but I've only been keeping a quarter of an eye on this issue about good application design and a standard set of guidelines. The EPOC SDKs include a copy of Symbian's own design guidelines (which are very comprehensive) ... Look for a file called styleguide.html in the [SDK Directory]\sysdoc\techpaper\styleguide directory. If anyone would like a copy by email then please let me know and I will zip it and it's graphics up (55k) and send it over. I can also provide it as a PDF document (263k uncompressed, 239k zipped).
Kind regards.
Simon Wolf
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 13:12:42 -0500
From: michael robins
Subject: Mobile Phones
I know it is off topic, but the digest is read and contributed to by so many helpful folks that I thought I would ask for some brief advice: ... having lost my nice Nokia 6310i whilst abroad, I am now out to buy a replacement mobile phone and would value any recommendations: Criteria are:
1) Must be Triband (to work everywhere I might go)
2) Must have Bluetooth (to work with my Palm Tungsten T (sorry - I'll wash my mouth out :-)
Infrared would be good and GPRS a nice upgrade option
I'll be buying an O2 pay as you go SIM card because O2 reception works where I live.
Thanks for any suggestions about what to go with . (...and yes I am tempted to get another 6310i)
MikeR
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 13:15:24 -0500
From: niC b.
Subject: more about that full screen mOnOpOlY patch thing
dear all,
owen wrote:
<<<<<<Why not e-mail the author and ask? Monopoly was written by the same guy who wrote PhoneHis name escapes me at the moment, but he's a nice guy. You'll find his name on the About screen in Monopoly. It's disappeared from the later copies of PhoneMan.>>>>>>
to let owen & that guy in the digest before last & j. & kevin & all those others who replied/commented on this, especially simon who wote:
<<<<<<Subject: Monopoly Patch. Nic, Steve Godfrey (Zenobyte) has indeed written a patch for Monopoly to make it use the full screen on a 7/netBook and to fix a couple of other problems. Unfortunately he is legally not allowed to release it and I don't think that it has ever escaped into the wild. If I am wrong about this and someone does have
a copy then please do feel free to email it to me! >>>>>>
last week i wrote in a veeeeery polite way to zenobyte quoting some recent comments from all you guys & here's the reply:
From: "Zenobyte Support"
Date: Mon Feb 24, 2003 7:54:49 pm Asia/Tokyo
To: "niC b."
Subject: RE: monopoly for colour epoc machines.
Hi niC,
Simon's right. There is some early code for a Netbook/Series 7 version. However, we don't have the rights to distribute it. I'm sorry, but we really can't send a copy to you as we don't have the legal right to do so.
Regards
Steve Waddicor
Senior Software Engineer
Zenobyte (C.I.) Limited
http://www.zenobyte.com
so thanks simon & owen, but looks like we're all buggered. can anybody else help? is anybody a friend of a friend of a drinking buddy of a guy who once artexed (god, are they still doing that?) the kitchen ceiling of the guy who wrote the patch (but who kevin implied has now left zenobloodybyte)?? am i making sod all sense?
goodnight,
nic.
A A
_ (=^o^)= ((_(m m)
p.s. apart from the postings on the pda street board thingie about the netbook 2 which is apparently coming this summer, does anybody here
know anything that's not idle back-end-of-a-horse-talk speculation. & how about we all chip in here with some cuckoo dream thoughts on what features we'd like it to have. it's always a good laugh to read people dream-talking about bluetooth & usb 2 & all that stuff because secretly & deep down we all know that psion tecwhateverthey'recallednow are now little more than a bunch of small time gutless suits. still i live in hope.
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 13:56:52 -0500
From: Tim Williams
Subject: EPOC or not EPOC
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 01:37 AM, Epoc Digest wrote:
> I wouldn't use Palm, and never wince....
After flirting with both, I was absolutely delighted to return to my
Revo, just repaired by POS.
I have come to the policy decision that I will stick with Psion because
it does all that I want it to do and that on my visits Kingdomside I
will look out for bargain machines.
My new 5mx pro is great - but above all, it makes me realise how much I
like the Revo. Two new things I can do with the 5mx:
add Tomeraider files
see what Macro5 is supposed to look like.
T
Imagine a world without men. No crime, and lots of happy fat women.
Nicole Hollander
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 14:03:39 -0500
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: Police cameras, nConvert, False Representation?, Police cameras, PDF v. PDF+,
Answer to: Jim Cooke
Re.: Police cameras - Yes, you are right, and that is why in the UK they decided to clearly mark the cameras on front and back with yellow strips. The more visible the better deterent they are
Answer to: ,\ndy.
Re. nConvert - I suppose you did not register your program, as my registered copy is not out of date and functions fully. I never tried to delete the program, so can't help you there.
Answer to: Rolf Brunsting
Re. False Representation? - I should have known this was on the way from you I suppose <BG>. Scientifically you are probably right, although any research is done in general on a fraction of the total users in a market. In general this is done to represent the total group, but in the end one cannot be sure and therefore calculate the mistake factor. I don't make any "claims", but only say that even if we are all diehard S5(MX) users with many machines in the cupboards, a failing rate of well over 50% amongst diehard users is still far too much. If 50% of a car model amongst diehard users would fail, the carmaker would probably be out of business, and so is Psion today concerning the PDA market .... ah, another comparison I can't prove, you are right <G>.
Re. Police cameras - Sorry, I was not clear. My files _are_ .ovr files for using in Route- and Streetplanner.
To All
Re. PDF v. PDF+ - I know this was discussed before but can't find it. What is the difference between these two programs and when is it necessary to get the PDF+ and when not ?
Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 15:14:50 -0500
From: Tim Williams
Subject: Psion meets Mac
seen in The Register today:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/29475.html
>
> Mac relief
> My fellow Macintosh users should be particularly pleased with the > Sony/Ericsson P800, as it feels exactly like the kind of phone you > could expect Apple to make itself.
>
> And unlike Microsoft, which regards these devices as a mortal threat ( > literally ), Apple appears to welcome them. And that means good
> support for Bluetooth.
>
T
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 15:15:57 -0500
From: "Philip Carlisle"
Subject: Font Machine Backup
Thanks to those who tried to help me with my problem with repeated backups of the fonts loaded via Font Machine. I got the following response from mBrain within 2 hours of e-mailing them. It does not help, but it showed great customer response_
"> I am running Font Machine on a Psion 5mx.
>
> It works perfectly, except that every time I back up to my PC
> via PsiWin 2.3 it backs up the 4 extra fonts I have installed
> as if they had not been backed up before. They are, however,
> present in the back up folder on the PC.
>
> It is merely an irritant, but I wonder whether you can
> suggest a reason and/or solution?
Thank you for letting me know.
I am afraid that there is nothing I can do about this. The backup
process is completely separate from FontMachine itself.
Best regards
Sander van der Wal
www.mBrainSoftware.com"
I guess that closes the matter. Resetting has made no difference, and I should mention that there is a copy of each font in each of my archived backups. The details only show a last modification date in the 1990s - i.e., when MS created the fonts I am using.
Thanks again to all
Regards
Philip Carlisle
London
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 15:22:56 -0500
From: vlad arghir
Subject: Eric Lindsay system knowledge; vlad a. to Vlad K. ; Rolf B.'scomment on Itamar's statistic
> Eric Lindsay wrote:
> I'm not sure how much sense...the Psion extensions have no meaning > ... start adding that...to...my web site, and will start in a few days.
8-}
Looking forward! The opx list Rolf Vonau indicated is a good ref. too! Thankyou both!
Rolf Brunsting said:
> Why don't you visit Symbian's web site to get information on the operating > system files and those of the standard applications?
I did. But I am not a programmer. I couldn't extract the knowledge from there, and I did not see a simple list telling me what is what. Can you help/point me to a source?
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> From: Vlad Kuzba
> Subject: Re: S5TV
>> http://www.geocities.com/jpollock_2000/infrared.htm ?
>> There is an updated version (Mar 5,2002)
> It works just fine, you can define the functions you need, only the angle is > not open enough and the distance to operate from could be longer.
> Vlad
Hi, Vlad K,
could you help with setup? I understand nothing from the instructions on
that page - I am a graphic designer (and a bit underemployed right now, so I have time to play a bit :-)
thanks,
vlad a. :::::::::::::::::::::::::
> Rolf Brunsting said:
> Enthusiasm and being a die-hard tends to go hand in hand with a (well) above > average daily use.
... if this is not an "assumption", Rolf... ;-)
> 24 people responded to is presented as "research
One "assumption" Itamar did *not* make (afa I'm aware) is scientific
validity. I certainly did take the word "research" in the current rather
than academic meaning. He wonders - like many of us I *presume* - how come what *looks* like a trivial failure (it's hardly a hidden defect...) wasn't catered to in the project stage. . As for heavy users this is of course the more unfortunate, he *presumed* (I presume) that we should all like to know each other's mileage. After all, the Psion is not a gameboy! Some /used to//hoped to be able to/ rely on these machines to navigate boats, small planes, keep customer-data bases etc.: their life/livelyhood hangs on a
cable, even if they have not - unfortunately understandably so - become "die-hard users".
> 'shared experience multiplier'
> ...The step to "There's something wrong with this device" is then easily made.
... then in a slightly different context, Rolf said:
> The way they count problem reports on a discussion forum is equivalent
> to the way toddlers count : 1 - 2 - 3 - Many...
>...
> In case the problem is health and safety related it will result in a recall.
> Thing is that you need to know that you're dealing with a real problem.
<g> I understand what you mean, I guess. While it may apply in general, I
should guess that this group's technical literacy is beyond this.
I remember having read quite a while ago that a Polar research team tested Palms, Psions and others for heavy-duty usabilty. They didn't ask too much:
in collaboration with the producers they looked for possible improvement of casing etc. Psion lost, although it was, emmm, "computationally" the better. Isn't that a pity?
I also have the experience from the other pov. I worked for a while with an Apple-Warranty repair-center. The strangest failures, production-flaws, DOAs
and otoh queerest usage-patterns heaped up. All in all an impressive number
of (half)dead Macs and whistles. I also saw the replacement-programmes - not public info, usually, just internal channels. I didn't come to the
conclusion though that the Mac is bad (I do believe they have some strange policies). Compared to other machines it "seems" better built. "Subjectively speaking"... how else?
1, 2, 3 - Mac! - despite fi poor design of iBook AC-outlet etc. ! :-)
Dito Psion, with some loving worry ;-)
I had asked what the practical consequence for us would then be, you said:
> The practical situation is that we're dealing with a component that's subject > to wear an tear and will be worn out at some point in time.
... we of course knew beforehand the screen-cable is a weak design point.
But now we have more input: heavy users' mileages differ, so some might have more luck - and ain't this good to know :-)
So while you may be right (I am not qualified to judge) in pointing out that
the statistic is lopsided, the info is imho nevertheless *more* than, emmmm, merely psychologically relevant. Btw: can this sort of "research" be done
better with available means?
A note: this screen cable has a longer psychological (and probably
technical) tail than a heating coil. Hard-disks are *one* piece of hardware
I have seen suprisingly few demises of... The LCD-screen is "inherently" a fragile part, as you point out, and, ahemmm, obviously cannot be done better (although a little more protective casing would've made many a Psionaut happier...). Car suspensions are very heavily dependent on usage conditions. Etc. I guess this sort of analogies may well be invalid, even empirically.
> I hope that this message doesn't make you anxious about the fate of your
> coffee maker or PC.
:-)
We are all average users of cofee-makers but biased, occasionally
temperamental heavy-users of Psions! ;-)
Rolf, your detailed posts always seem very substantial to me, and
Itamar, I would like to know you *won't* be discouraged by his critique!
Thank you all for your time and willingness to share!
best,
vlad
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 15:23:09 -0500
From: "Philip Carlisle"
Subject: EPOC Emulator
Hi All
Forgive a second posting to the digest within an hour, but it is a different subject so will assist those using search engines.
Some time ago I read here about a URL for an EPOC emulator. I found the page unobtainable, and left it. I then read about registering as a developer with Teklogix to get the relevant SDK.
I have done that, but I can see nothing that obviously contains an emulator. Under netbook I can find SDKs, but they all appear to be for loading onto the netbook itself.
I am probably being extremely thick and/or lazy, but if some kind person can point me to the appropriate place, or give me a clue as to what I am looking for under, perhaps, a more technical description, I would be grateful.
Regards
Philip Carlisle
London
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 15:26:04 -0500
From: vlad arghir
Subject: Mourad. SHoffmann. Peter`s Siemens: Internet Configuration Wizard
> Epoc Digest wrote:
> From: "Ramez Mourad"
> Subject: netBook GPS and ISDN Global.
> Also i would like to use my netbook for GPS...in Washington D.C
http://celia.mehaffey.com/david/psion.htm
Here you have pretty long link-list that might help... enjoy!
> "Hoffman, Susan"wrote: Answer to Vlad re Blackberry
Thankyou!
> Peter Andersson....trying to use a Siemens S55 as GPRS modem for my 5mx
Try Mike's site
http://home.clara.net/m-mcconnell/
The following in German (modem settings):
http://www.psionwelt.de/cgi-bin/modemdb/modemdb.cgi
This is nice - it puts together (!) a small application that will automatically update your settings when you run it on your Psion! :-) http://www.psion-gmbh.com/support/icw/index.html
You only have to select a Psion/phone/and ISP.
In the latter list try: "Benutzerdefiniert" ("user defined", I suppose you need the usual DNS etc. numbers, whatever you get from your provider).
I couldn't find this site on the psion.com support sites...
Another one (you'll see some settings)
http://www.gensicke-online.de/psion/index.htm
Best,
vlad
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 16:01:52 -0500
From: Trygve Henriksen
Subject: no subject
Greetings!
Andy Hayes wrote:
> OS2 - That's a blast from the past! I was once given an OS2 CD.
> At the time I didn't have much use for it so I foolishly used it as a
> coaster for my coffee cup in a previous job.
Spank you!
(I've been watching the Ace Ventura movies recently :-)
> There is only so much I can do on Linux and I am beginning to wish
> that I had treated the OS2 CD a little better and even kept hold of it.
> I don't suppose that you can get hold of the CDs any more.
Why not do as I did, surf by www.mensys.nl and order the eCS edition there?
It's the latest 4.0 version with all the fixpacks and other goodies included, making it v4.5...
Goodies are:
JFS - Journalling File System, ported from IBM's AIX servers.
Really robust stuff. I deliberately reset my computer while it was transferring a large file to test it... The Checkdisk took 2 seconds...
LVM - Logical volume Manager, a new partitioning scheme, allowing you to lump drives together with one drive letter, or just add a bit here and there...
(Unlike the 'mount' command in Linux, this doesn't add it as subdirectories, but transparently)
Proxy - Included in the IBM TCP/IP stack v4.3 is a proxy server. Completely undocumented from IBM, but seems to work the same way as the one in their AIX servers...
Oldies but goldies includes:
REXX - A translated batch script with more than 30 commands dedicated to parsing text.... (It translates the first time you run the file)
USB drivers - they've been available sin 95 or 96...
Laser disk remote control via the serial port...
Chess and Mahjongg - OS/2 users need somewhat more challenging games than the minesweeper...
There's a lot of small stuff that has been changed, too, so check out either the Mensys site, or www.ecomstation.com
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Eric Lindsay wrote:
> Special thanks also for the detailed description of how to repair the
> Psion 7 and NetBook power connector.
*Takes a bow*
> My own repair worked just fine, although I wish I had bought a
> magnifier before starting.
I'll add that to the page when I finally write it...
Probably a note about aligning the screen cable properly, too...
:-)
Trygve
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 20:41:22 -0500
From: Keith Giles
Subject: Re: Police Cameras
Jim Cooke wrote:
> We haven't quite reached the draconian measures of police cameras > here in the US
We do here in the SF Bay Area at many intersections. But I don't see it stopping those bastards who run red lights! I never start pedaling my bike when a light goes green. Best to wait a few moments.
Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA
http://home.attbi.com/~ohsix827/
Thought For The Day: Behind every successful man is a surprised father-in-law.
All my outgoing e-mails have been checked by Norton Anti-virus.
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 21:09:15 -0500
From: "Hoffman, Susan"
Subject: Home of the Ribbon Cable
Jim said: "I use canned compressed air to blow the junk out from the keyboard but I also do the same thing in the open slot where the ribbon cable lives."
Pardon my ignorance, but where does the ribbon cable live? Is this the slot where the PC cable plugs in? Or is it where the battery is, or where the CF card goes? Or someplace else I haven't thought of? I haven't cleaned my keys ever. And I've never had a screen cable failure either (although I live in constant fear of one just because I read too many of these digests).
Susan Katz Hoffman
Pepper Hamilton LLP--------------
e-mail: hoffmans
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 21:23:13 -0500
From: Rolf Brunsting
Subject: Re: .pps files
Dear Trygve,
<< I believe that is an M$ PowerPoint file. or 'slideshow' to be more accurate. Didn't Psion once sell a package that allowed you to work with them and display them via a PCMCIA VGA card? >>
The package was called Presentation Maker and came with a PsiWin plug-in to convert Powerpoint '95 files into Presentation Maker format and vice versa.
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Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 21:23:15 -0500
From: Rolf Brunsting
Subject: Re: mbm view: again
Dear niC,
<< , anybody else unable to register this app, mail me (4 or 5 of you already have) & i'll pass on the details of my registered user name & passcode, no problem >>
I do have a problem with it, niC.
People from the Digest have contacted the family of the late Lieuwe de Vries via members of the Lieuwe's scouting group. The family is thus aware of our interest in keeping MBMView alive. Whether this will result in MBMView being taken over by another person or that it becomes freeware is something I don't know. The affairs surrounding the winding up of a deceased's estate can take some time. Besides, MBMView may not be as high on the attention list of Lieuwe's family at this moment as it is on ours. I therefore don't think it's right for you to start dishing out registration codes at this point in time.
I don't like to write this but I can't escape the thought that you're acting like a graverobber.
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Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 21:23:18 -0500
From: Rolf Brunsting
Subject: Re: Let's steer clear (4 Rolf B.)
Dear David,
<< I ask, without having any way of enforcing the request, that you no longer reply to my Digest messages >>
Well ... I've sent a message for your attention the same time that I downloaded Digest no. 180 in which I find the above. You're free to ignore it, but the message does contain the answer to a question you've asked on the Digest. As there's a high chance you're going to skip this message, as well as the one I'm writing now, it's probably best that my message on apezlib.dll is reposted by somebody whose messages you don't skip, so that you do get your answer.
Which triggers the thought that I'll have to subscribe to the Digest using a pseudonym and new e-mail address for those situations in which I know the answer to a question or can supply the information you're after.
<< Regardless of what you choose to do - I will no longer be replying to *any* of your messages. Life is too short as it is, and I don't have the requisite time or energy to waste on responding to your childish outbursts >>
Shows that I'm not the only person who has his 'short fuse days'.
Funny thing is that I write a message regarding the card reader and Windows versions I'm using. In a follow-on message you refer to my Windows versions, to which I reply with a message that my situation has since changed - new (second-hand) PC, new card reader and new Windows version. And I specifically start the message with a "What you couldn't know ..." as I don't expect you to follow what's happening in the Brunsting household computer wise. What I get as a response is a very grumpy and accusatory message with a "No, I couldn't know ...", a "... you said and repeated that ..." plus a "You also don't mention *now* ...". I'm suddenly the bad guy - either for having the temerity to change computer gear or for mentioning that I've changed.
Whether it was wise to write a grumpy message in reply is a 'with hindsight' question. Still, the David versus Rolf grumpiness score is 1 - 1 at this moment. Unless you want the above to be acknowledged, making it 2 - 1, meaning that you've won.
--
Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 21:23:20 -0500
From: Rolf Brunsting
Subject: Re: False Representation?
Dear Alan,
<< With the exception of MS Windows over a much shorter time! >>
The Hewlett Packard 620LX had a fault in the memory management unit to the effect that memory access was slowed down and the 620LX wasn't as responsive as it should be. HP acknowledged the MMU fault but never rectified it. Meaning that each and every 620LX never performed you'd expect it to perform when looking at its specs.
--
Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 21:23:24 -0500
From: Rolf Brunsting
Subject: Re: Repair of a broken display
Dear Vlad,
<< It is definitely not a broken screen cable as the liquid crystals are evident, moreover cracks starting approx. 2 cm from the top right corner of the screen are visible >>
That's fatal - the whole panel will need to be replaced.
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Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 21:41:01 -0500
From: "Martin Guthrie"
Subject: Colour Icons on website
As Marcus von Cube kindly pointed out to me, I got the URL wrong in my last posting on the colour icons (I'd used back slashes instead of forward slashes all the way through the URL - it'd been a long day!). Anyway, I'm pleased to say that I've finally got a quick'n'dirty web page cobbled together on my web site for them all now.
I'll post updates as and when I do them here (assuming that's what people want) but now everything's easier to find...
Best regards,
Martin Guthrie
www.pscience5.net
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 22:06:27 -0500
From: "Stephane Sage"
Subject: Spare Psion. "Improving" Data.
Hello to all
Re: Spare Psion: I just got hold of a brand new 5mx from someone who could not find any use in it...So now I am on the safe side, whatever happens. But I should like to ask Rolf B. not to be so sarcastic in his "pleas for Psion", even though he is right when arguing that, after all, anything can break without prel. notice.
Re: "Improving" Data. A while ago I was told by the Psion techies that it was possible to modify some functions on any standard, inboard Epoc software. As I am no programmer, I would like to know whether anyone could help on 2 things, which could dramatically improve Data (and not forcing me to invest a lot of time and a few quids into another database), i.e. :
- how to modify the type and size of a field after it has been duly implemented (without erasing all data within this particular field) and
- how to launch a query on more than 1 criterium (for example: I wish to get all people, at the same time living in Grenoble (crit. nr 1), owning a 5mx (crit. nr 2) and going skiing (crit. nr 3)...
Thanks for any help.
Stephane (Grenoble, France).
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 22:35:23 -0500
From: Oscar Fuentes
Subject: PDF for viewing images / Screen cable
> Date: 24 Feb 2003 21:57:22 -0500
> From: Rolf Brunsting
> Subject: Re: Image viewer for S5mx
>
> The Acrobat application allows you to scan documents which are > turned into PDF document files. I do this for magazine articles on > handheld computers and mobile phones, for example. Once transferred > to CF disk they're perfectly readable by Pdf+. I can send you an
> example by e-mail when you're interested.
Hi, Rolf.
I'm aware of that possibility. However, Pdf (I've not tried with Pdf+) takes ages to disply each page, and the quality is not very
good. Moreover, the files grow larger than the sum of the equivalent gif/jpeg images. I'll experiment with other options. Thanks for your offer.
I've read your commentaries about the screen cable issue. 13 months after my purchase of the S5mx I had the problem. I complained to the Spanish Psion (Paresa) dealer and they responded with this statistics:
From January 1 2000 to January 10 2002 :
Sold items: 3128
Repaired items: 287
Of the above, changed screens: 125
They doesn't detail how many screen changes were due to the cable.
The Paresa representative concludes that there is no evidence of a defect.
My personal (limited, subjetive) experience shows this:
1. Most S5mx owners doesn't use it at all. They got the machine as a
gift or bought it and later forgot about it.
2. A significant percentage of users doesn't repair the machine when a
serious problem arises. Much less for the expensive cable/screen
repair. They simply switch to other machine.
3. Apart from crashes, watering and other misuse, almost every
hardware problem reported by S5mx users on the electronic forums is
about the screen cable.
I conclude that either the S5mx is extremely reliable or the screen cable is inordinately weak. This is just a personal impression, but I will not repair my S5mx screen cable next time it breaks (and hence Paresa's statistics will look better because of this :-)
Thanks again for your attention.
--
Oscar
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 22:36:49 -0500
From: vlad arghir
Subject: GPS!
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Orchard/5730/ just noticed that GaRoute (Ruud Rademaker) got updated in early February...
best,
vlad
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 22:46:18 -0500
From: Stephen.Murgan
Subject: Re: False Representation?
<The same can be said for a range of other products that also contain parts that wear out and have a finite lifetime. You use the example of the car later in your message which also has such components - the drive belts of the engine, the suspension bushes, etc.>
Rolf, that is not a fair analogy...
1) It is KNOWN that car parts will wear out, and their expected lifetime is also known through a combination of testing-to-destruction and experience (did Psion do that? From the evidence, I think not). Because of this, vehicles are supposed to have most wear-and-tear-parts replaced before failure according to the manufacturer's schedule.
2) Cars, hard disks, etc. are mechanical devices and some wear-and-tear is expected. Wear-and-tear-parts often give some warning of impending failure or fail gracefully.
3) There was no expectation of failure. If the transmission of your car blew up after fifteen months I think you would be put out, and understandably so... you would not expect it to fail catastrophically after such a short period of time, and the law would probably agree with you.
4) Though I have no statistics to prove it, I believe that a vast majority of 5mx repairs are for the screen cable. If a gearbox on a vehicle routinely went after 100,000 miles, it would be a serious reliability issue, and questions would be asked - warranty or no.
5) Most importantly, the car industry has plenty of repair shops where your car can be repair while you wait. Psion UK used to offer such a service; I doubt that they still do. If it breaks you are out of luck for about a week. For a device that is supposed to be an integral part of one's lifestyle this is intolerable.
<< A Psion palmtop is an expensive piece of kit. For that kind of money I expect better MTBF than two years! >>
Well Said, Owen, though if I could get a two-year MTBF I would be pleased. So far I have had three 5mx ribbon cable failures in about three years, two of which were replaced under warranty. I work in an office and the machine is not subjected to abuse or shocks... but that has not prevented the screen cable from wearing out.
Based on my _personal_ experience the 5mx screen cable is a weak point at best, a design flaw at worst. Psion will not admit that, of course, as that would leave them liable. The next time the screen cable fails I will be getting a Clie, and it's Goodbye Psion.
No more "Cars vs. Computers" comparisons please! Now if you'll excuse me I have to change the oil on my wife's Mako...
Stephen (Finally coming out of the Lurker's closet)
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Date: 27 Feb 2003 00:15:08 -0500
From: Mark DEPPE
Subject: Soft reset without a paper clip # 171 (1)
<<<Kate wrote: Luckily a soft reset (why is it that you can never find a paper clip when you need one?)
Hi kate, Ditch the paper clip and use ResetPlus by Robin Hood www.mypsion.ru also check out alarm plus for a great program
kind regards
Mark
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Date: 27 Feb 2003 00:15:24 -0500
From: Mark DEPPE
Subject: pens and Mouse prophylactics
Keith Wrote
<<<I didn't know mice used rubbers.>>> ROFL thanks for that, made my night - what can I say, I have sad nights ;-)
<<<Re: Replacement Pens. The pen I like the most is the one I use at home with my 5ive and 5mx. Its the aluminum "Point 5" pen.>>> Hmmm I guess this is different to the Chromeplated brass (I think it was made from) one I used to have from Tantronics £15 I think it was - I guess I'm a fashion victim, or gadget accessory addict, or a psion crazed sado seeking the ideal netbook compliment to enhance the experience - which weighed a ton but felt nice and real solid but after dropping it a couple of times on me netbook keyboard and finding it tiring with long use and not so good for holding in the mouth while typing or for chewing on and fearing great damage let it go with a netbook sale I made. I use now the original psion stylus and am very happy with it
Kind regards
Mark
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 15:26:04 -0500
From: vlad arghir
Subject: Renee Hard-reset? 184
> renee wrote:
> 5mx decides to do yet another hard reset next time I change the batteries, It shouldn't. This might help: Check info on, and replace the buffer-cell (CR 2032) if necessary (but have fresh cells in the battery compartment when you do!). Clean contacts w. isopropylic alc or somesuch. Always close down all apps when switching CFs and batteries.
best,
vlad
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Date: 26 Feb 2003 16:01:52 -0500
From: Trygve Henriksen
Subject: no subject
Greetings!
Andy Hayes wrote:
> OS2 - That's a blast from the past! I was once given an OS2 CD.
> At the time I didn't have much use for it so I foolishly used it as a
> coaster for my coffee cup in a previous job.
Spank you!
(I've been watching the Ace Ventura movies recently :-)
> There is only so much I can do on Linux and I am beginning to wish
> that I had treated the OS2 CD a little better and even kept hold of it.
> I don't suppose that you can get hold of the CDs any more.
Why not do as I did, surf by www.mensys.nl and order the eCS edition there?
It's the latest 4.0 version with all the fixpacks and other goodies included, making it v4.5...
Goodies are:
JFS - Journalling File System, ported from IBM's AIX servers.
Really robust stuff. I deliberately reset my computer while it was transferring a large file to test it... The Checkdisk took 2 seconds...
LVM - Logical volume Manager, a new partitioning scheme, allowing you to lump drives together with one drive letter, or just add a bit here and there...
(Unlike the 'mount' command in Linux, this doesn't add it as subdirectories, but transparently)
Proxy - Included in the IBM TCP/IP stack v4.3 is a proxy server. Completely undocumented from IBM, but seems to work the same way as the one in their AIX servers...
Oldies but goldies includes:
REXX - A translated batch script with more than 30 commands dedicated to parsing text.... (It translates the first time you run the file)
USB drivers - they've been available sin 95 or 96...
Laser disk remote control via the serial port...
Chess and Mahjongg - OS/2 users need somewhat more challenging games than the minesweeper...
There's a lot of small stuff that has been changed, too, so check out either the Mensys site, or www.ecomstation.com
---
Eric Lindsay wrote:
> Special thanks also for the detailed description of how to repair the
> Psion 7 and NetBook power connector.
*Takes a bow*
> My own repair worked just fine, although I wish I had bought a
> magnifier before starting.
I'll add that to the page when I finally write it...
Probably a note about aligning the screen cable properly, too...
:-)
Trygve
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