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Epoc Digest Tue, 11 Mar 2003 Volume 01 : Number 197
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In today's Epoc Digest 19 messages:
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- EnoteM problem
- Re: series 7 peeling up
- Re: How do I find out what USB version my Laptop has? (OT)
- Re: To connect or not to connect?
- re: Help! On switch suddenly doesn't work!
- Re: Monopoly colour icon
- PsiNMEA 2¢ , parallel/serial 2¢, false representation 70 £;-)
- Re: Help! On switch suddenly doesn't work!
- netBook Power
- Re Roaming
- Re: Sony Laptops
- Re: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 196
- Whoops . . .
- CeBIT
- Alternate NetBook Power supply
- Re: Alternative NetBook PSU/AC Adapter?
- Re: series 7 peeling up
- Web and Google
- Netbook Dial-up/Connection Problem
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Date: 10 Mar 2003 22:25:48 +0100
From: Kevin Thorne
Subject: EnoteM problem
Reply to Martin Guthrie:
Subject: Re: EnoteM problem
<Sound like you've accidentally deleted one of the support files (or another poorly behaving program has deleted it when, say, being removed from the machine). Try a re-install.>
Martin, I've tried a reinstall but I still get the same problem. Could it be anything else?
Regards
Kevin Thorne
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 00:25:32 +0100
From: Saj Jumaani
Subject: Re: series 7 peeling up
hi sheryl...
same thing happened to me a week after i got my nB... forgot what kind of glue i used... but what i did was i placed the glue inside a syringe (use the smallest available - it's called insulin or tuberculin syringe it has a very tiny needle tip) and "injected" it underneath the leather where the gap is. you normally have to press for a few minutes the area where you have applied glue. goodluck.
to roy maidment...
thanks a lot for the advice!
hi everyone...
called proporta according to the guy i spoke to their usb-serial converter will work with nb and a laptop running win xp (btw the cable comes with a cd-rom containing the driver)... am awaiting delivery will let you know if this will work.
regards,
saj
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 00:26:17 +0100
From: Owen Morgan
Subject: Re: How do I find out what USB version my Laptop has? (OT)
Howdy!
Andrew Longdon wrote (> ):
> Firstly, USB2 peripherals should be backward
> compatible
Ah yes, but one of the functions of this thing is a DVD player. Someone told me that USB 1.1 is too slow for playing back DVD movies on a PC.
> both are listed as having a USB speed of 12Mbits/s
Thanks. It appears that I do have USB 1.1 then. Can anyone recommend a PCMCIA to USB 2.0 adapter?
The item I'm interested in buying is the new Philips Jackrabbit combined DVD player, MP3 CD-player, DVD-ROM and CD writer. It can be used standalone with a TV or with just phones or a stereo system for music or be connected by USB to the PC to use as a DVD-ROM and CD writer.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/1193910/ref%3Dbr%5Fdp%5Fbl/202-9550595-2516615
The JackRabbit does have Video Out, so I suppose that if my USB is too slow for playing back movies on the PC, I may be able to use the Video In connector on my USB TV tuner to get the movies onto the PC screen? Not sure if that makes sense as looks to me like a detour for the same signal, but the TV tuner works fine on my USB port (except that the sound is a fraction of a second ahead of the picture which makes politicians and TV presenters look even more stupid than usual...)
Owen
Thought for the day:
You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time,
but you can make a fool of yourself anytime.
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Dublin City Moorings
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 00:26:40 +0100
From: Owen Morgan
Subject: Re: To connect or not to connect?
Howdy!
Philip S. Adkins Potter wrote (> ):
> Owen said "I'm actually using the cable from a POD
> docking station. I also got cable that supplies
> power through the RS-232 with my MC218. You can
> use either of these cables without connecting to a
> PC."
> Trouble is I ain't got a PC! What shouldn't I
> connect to instead?
Nothing!
These cables have the Honda connector that fits into the RS232 on your Psion on one end and a 9-pin female D connector to fit a PC _PLUS_ a socket for the power supply at the other end.
You connect your Psion power supply to the socket on the PC end of the cable instead of to the side of the Psion. The power still comes from the power supply, so it doesn't need to be connected to a PC. Just leave the 9pin plug dangling.
Owen
Thought for the day:
Express an opinion, but send advice by freight.
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Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-53°20.87'N 6°14.83'W
Dublin City Moorings
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 02:37:55 +0100
From: Jim Watson~Gove
Subject: re: Help! On switch suddenly doesn't work!
Julie Wills,
<<If I have to try a hard reset I will, but I'd rather try anything else first, as it's a week since I last backed up >>
I had a similar problem recently. My 5mx just went dead. I tried soft reset and a hard reset and no good. So I sent it in for repair. They sent it back saying they had reset the machine and put new batteries in it. All of this for $150. I was not a happy camper and will probably let that outfit in Canada do my repair work from now on (they are currently upgrading the batteries on my two Makos).
The moral of my story (for me) is, the next time I feel I have to do a hard reset, all batteries come out overnight after trying a hard reset before I give up.
jim - port townsend
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 03:09:51 +0100
From: Martin Guthrie
Subject: Re: Monopoly colour icon
Reply to: "Michael Degn"
Subject: Monopoly colour icon
Hi Michael,
>>>>
The Monopoly icon will of course be in colour in the large zoom level, but will the revert to monochrome in the middle and small zoom level.
Now Martin, isn't that a job for you? <BG>
<<<<
Heh, heh - well, I've avoided doing it for three reasons so far:-
1) Because I needed to prioritise what I want to do and I figured it'd be best to provide colour for existing icons as they are before worrying about other issues.
2) Because as a rule I don't really want to interfere any more than I have to with the authors' 'artwork'. Adding extra bitmaps to their original might perhaps arguably be construed as copyright interference (of course, adding colour to their bitmaps might perhaps be construed as the same - but let's not complicate things!).
3) Because it's hard. ;-) Well, in some cases anyway. Some icons are generated by intelligent bitmap scaling from a large image. Colouring these is usually hard enough as it is. Generating smaller versions without the original artwork is nigh near impossible! And as for colouring these smaller versions...
Best regards,
Martin Guthrie
—————————
www.pscience5.net
www.freepoc.org
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 04:16:48 +0100
From: vlad arghir
Subject: PsiNMEA 2¢ , parallel/serial 2¢, false representation 70 £;-)
> Epoc Digest wrote:
> waypoints from the GPS. On the menu the "send" and "receive" options are > greyed out, and yield "not available"
I guess this might mean the GPS cannot receive data from PSiNMEA. Try to look whether you can switch the interface of the GPS from NMEA to Data or to both. Look under Program>settings and see if you can add your GPSs communication-protocol to, or select it from, the list. I have an eTrex and it functions, It's just that I couldn't find any use for PsiNMEA so far... :-)
>> I have never heard of using the serial-parallel cable
>> as two-way data transfer device other than for datsa being sent to a printer
> ....Problem is that Psion's parallel printer cable isn't bi-directional so that parallel port transfer tools don't work.
I don't know whether this makes sense, but might a *complete* null-modem (ie, not leaving any pins out) adapter in the middle be the solution?
> You really have to demonstrate that (a) the screen cable isn't up to the job > (b) that Psion has been actively suppressing
- well, I've seen where they break: imho it *is* a (rather trivial, I'd say) design fault, so for the user it may well be irrelevant whether Psion
covered it up "proactively" (I don't think they would) or just didn't come round to thinking of it - afterv all it's not a crime, it's just an error.
Otoh, why are you beating that dead horse? A technical expertise might find that such a cable, with those holes (instead of, say, better protected and without perforation) is likely to break as and where it in fact does. The repair-shop in Germany *has* what they hold to be a better design, based on
any number of dead originals they've seen. Assuming their guess to be at
least as good as yours, the difference is: they offer a solution while you
seem to be trying to say there's no (proof of) a problem... Why?
Anyhow, I hope the rumored new Psion won't have it... I would greatly appreciate it if any number of affected but still affectionate 5MX users got the opportunity to offer their 2c for the new design...
;-)
best,
vlad a
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 04:21:03 +0100
From: Mike Alexander
Subject: Re: Help! On switch suddenly doesn't work!
--On Sunday, 9 Mar 2003 23:32:44 -0500 Julie Wills wrote:
> I've just switched my Psion 5mx off, taken the CF card out, (read a file > off the card on my PC,) put the card back in, and now the On (Esc) button > has no effect. I haven't dropped it or anything - there doesn't seem to > be any reason for this that I can see.
I had almost exactly the same problem in the same circumstances on my 5mx recently. It worked fine one moment and wouldn't turn on the next moment after removing and reinserting the CF card. After discussing things with the Psion support people in Kentucky I sent the machine in for repair (it was still under warranty) and they replaced the mother board. Not what you wanted to hear, I'm sure, but that was my experience.
Mike Alexander &nbAnn Arbor, MI +1-734-663-1759
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 07:36:01 +0100
From: "Marcus von Cube"
Subject: netBook Power
David,
>The manual says it needs 15.5V DC ± 10%, 1.5A
My (European) adaptor says "15V DC, 1.3A" so the specs can be slightly streched. Since
almost all new laptops have a LiOn battery they should have similar power requirements (with
more Amps). My Thinkpad runs on 16 V, the power supply delivers 3.3A. With a different (or
additional) plug, this should even be able to drive both machines at the same time.
You need to know where the hot end of a soldering iron is...
Marcus
http://www.mvcsys.de
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 08:46:10 +0100
From: MartinYirrell
Subject: Re Roaming
Itamar
>In the case of Freeserve I am not sure you are right, as I regularly connect to my Freeserve account from 3 different phone number, home landline, office landline and mobile phone.<
The ISP does not actually care what the phone number is as long as there is one there.
Incidently this could be the cause of international calls being rejected sometimes as routing can vary on a call by call basis and not all carriers will forward caller ID.
Martin Yirrell
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 09:05:28 +0100
From: michael robins
Subject: Re: Sony Laptops
Saj
I bought a laptop last year and from an intensive study of specs etc I came to the conclusion that Sony laptops are excellent multimedia devices - often with WiFi built in but all the ones I looked at no longer had a Serial port or an Infra Red port. (in fact quite a number of new laptops no longer have serial ports or infra red - including the one I bought- an Acer). For my purposes I also included in by budget a Belkin (overpriced) USB to serial adaptor and a USB to Infra red dongle (from Maplin). The USB to serial adaptor worked fine - but only after I had downloaded the latest WIN XP drivers from Belkin (so worth the money after all), the Infra Red dongle works OK but is quite slow.
Ian
I to am thinking of going WiFi so will be intrested to see how things go for you. Don't forget to change the default encoding so that you don't have 'interlopers' using your bandwith.
regards
MikeR
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 09:29:25 +0100
From: Derek Clark
Subject: Re: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 196
What is in a name?
Digestives amuses me,but if you are not mid 50's and English it might not. :^)
Series 7 Mains Supply.
I can't remeber who asked about this but I think it was a Canadian mail address.
Brand new ones come up on ebay very regularly. I bought one and it is in a genuine, or excellent forgery, Psion box.
Hope this helps.
Derek
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 10:51:43 +0100
From: Philip S. Adkins Potter
Subject: Whoops . . .
Hi Itamar,
I should have put a <G> on that post about PSUs and eMail!
Actually I use the POD cable (and docking station) to connect to my modem and my Mac but occasionally to nothing but the PSU. The modem is mains powered and I have 2 Psion PSUs (and two 5mxs along with 2 docking stations and 2 Proporta cases). As the modem is mains powered and plugged in by the Psion PSU the Psion is *always* on mains power when connected to the 'Net.
I totally agree that if battery power is used then the Mail folder should be on C:.
But although I usually use Sergio's SaveMail so the Mail folder rarely has much in it sometimes I am sent large eMails (once a 4 MB one) so putting the Mail folder on C: is not really practical.
Saj Jumaani wondered if we qualify as an endangered species. I don't think so yet. Psion 3(a/c/mx) users aren't quite and I suspect there are enough 3 users too. Even earlier Psions are still used professionally (i.e. not by blinkered enthusiasts like me).
So far each generation of Psion seems the best pocket computer of it's time, though some need very big pockets.
Take care,
Phil.
"We are all in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars."
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 11:22:04 +0100
From: Norbert Fernkorn
Subject: CeBIT
What about a Epoc-user meeting at the CeBIT in Hannover? I'm in Hannover on Thursday 13. - Is anyone other there?
Best regards
Norbert
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 11:41:51 +0100
From: Eric Lindsay
Subject: Alternate NetBook Power supply
Re: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 196
>From: David Lir
>Subject: Alternative NetBook PSU/AC Adapter?
>
>I've got a Malaysian netBook on the way and I'm wondering if anybody here
knows of anywhere in Toronto that I can purchase a suitable power supply
for it. The manual says it needs 15.5V DC ± 10%, 1.5A - and I've been told
that the Radio Shack Adaptaplug size 'c' fits the netBook, but alas, Radio
Shack doesn't have any 15v 1.5a AC adapters available. Any ideas?
Many laptop computers use 15 volt adaptors, so look for a second hand
laptop adaptor with the right voltage. These will be a higher amperage,
but apart from being a bit larger physically this doesn't matter. You may
need to change the DC plug at the end of the cable, since laptops tend to
use a larger DC plug.
Eric Lind www.avalook.com
Airlie Beach, Nth Qld, Australia ph +61 7 4948 0450
http://www.ericlindsay.com NEW Airlie-SF-Psion-Epoc
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 12:29:30 +0100
From: Daniele Squarci
Subject: Re: Alternative NetBook PSU/AC Adapter?
David Lir wrote:
>> I may order the Psion UK 7/nB Mains Adapter (100-240) from Clove or Expansys, and use that with a suitable plug adapter - but so far neither has responded to my email inquiries.<<
David,
I also have two M-netBooks on the way. I ordered a CF card, PsiWin cable and power supply from Expansys last week. The cable and power supply were listed at 2-3 days lead time. I checked with them again yesterday and they still had 2-3 days delivery - they said they "had problems with the supplier...."
Ciao
Daniele Squarci
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 13:54:08 +0100
From: Owen Morgan
Subject: Re: series 7 peeling up
Howdy!
Sheryl E. Coleman wrote (> ):
> I've recently gone back to my series 7 (after an
> absence of about six months) and I find that on
> the top part of the shell, the dark gray leather
> is peeling up slightly at the front corners. Has
> anyone else experienced this? If so, did you ever
> try to glue it back down? Any suggestions on the
> type of glue one might use?
I'd try a good quality cyanocrylat superglue. Don't use the expensive shit you buy in those tiny tubes at gas stations. This is not a good quality superglue. Shops that cater to model aircraft builders are a good source. Not only will you get a lot more for your money, but it'll actually work. Be very careful when applying the glue, as this really is a case where a little can go a very long way and remember that this stuff is perfectly capable of making the Psion a permanent part of your body or glueing your eyes shut, so keep away from children. The only thing cyanocrylate glue won't glue is fatty plastics like polypropylene or polyethylene which is what the bottle is made of.
The model aircraft bilders variety of superglue usually comes in three varieties, very runny, medium and thick. I've never found a use for the very runny stuff as it seems to go everywhere except where needed. The medium has some gap filling properties, sets in around 15 - 30 seconds and is a good all round glue for most applications. The model aircraft shop will probably also stock an accellerator, often referred to as "kicker" in a small spray can. Apply a drop of glue, assemble the bits and giver it a spray of kicker. You'll hear a crackle, and the glue sets instantly. Last, but not least, you can buy a product to dissolve cyano glue in case you glue something you shouldn't have.
Several years ago I accidentally rammed a quay when berthing my yacht in a gale. The first thing to hit was the roller furling drum at the end of the bowsprit and part of the flange was broken off. Luckily, I was able to retreive the broken part and glue it back on with superglue. It's held up just fine in spite of being outdoors for 6-7 years and frequently kicked by people boarding over the bowsprit.
Remember that cyanocrylate glue has a shelf life of between 6 and 18 months depending on quality. This partly explains why the stuff you get at the gas stations is useless. It's usually out of date.
Owen
Thought for the day:
A fool and his honey are soon parted.
--
Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-53°20.87'N 6°14.83'W
Dublin City Moorings
http://home.no.net/naomij
Phone and SMS:
In Ireland: +353 (0)87 7474173
In Norway: +47 92053097
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 16:49:54 +0100
From: Kevin Collins
Subject: Web and Google
Hi folks..
Something I noticed just today: I went to www.google.com, using Web as the browser, and entered a searchword, only to receive a 404 not found error. This applied to any searchword, and the result was the same on both Revo and S7.
Using Opera on the S7, I had no difficulty. All of which begs the question, does Web not support Google searches, or is just that some tweaking is required (and if so, what, please)?
I next tried www.yahoo.com, to find that my search was "not supported", while yahoo.co.uk *did* carry out the search! Again, searches on both of these worked fine using Opera. Anyone else experience this problem, I
wonder?
Regards,
Kevin [Cork, Ireland]
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Date: 11 Mar 2003 15:12:03 +0100
From: "Wong Koi Hin"
Subject: Netbook Dial-up/Connection Problem
Hope someone can help!
I recently obtained a Netbook and have been dialing up to the internet through the Psion Gold Card modem with no problems, until today.
When I tried to open my mailbox through the Email app, it pops up the connect dialog as normal. However after I click OK, the following dialog and message is displayed:
Problem connecting to Mailbox
Already Exist
When I try to start Opera and go to google.com the message was
Network Problem (although I suspect this is expected, having read somewhere Opera cant connect to 'Net independently)
My Netbook did not even attempt to dial the modem. I have tested the modem seperately and it is working fine.
The last time I was successful in dialing up to the 'Net was yesterday, my last attempt failed (not as above error) because I tried to connect by GPRS through my T68i but I apparently forgot to install the GPRSUPdate.
Does anyone have any suggestions to the solution? Starting and restarting Email does not seem to have effect. I have closed all programs and shut down and start up my Netbook several times to no avail.
I am also thinking of trying a soft reset, however I do not know how to do this on a Netbook.
Any suggestions will be most appreciated.
Thank you and regards,
Koi Hin
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