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Epoc Digest Sun, 13 Apr 2003 Volume 01 : Number 228
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In today's Epoc Digest 10 messages:
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- NYTimes Article
- RE: SonyEricsson P800 - First impressions
- Re: Jpeg HW decomp, Phraseology, Easter Break
- Upgrading 5mx to Pro bi switching boards?
- Two questions
- Previous digests
- netBook Installation Problem
- netBook headphone jack
- Networking a NetBook
- Digest management, CF cards, Moderate Forum?,
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Date: 11 Apr 2003 22:24:16 +0100
From: Manuel Campos Galvan
Subject: NYTimes Article
Fellow Psionistas:
Seems as if the "techies" at the New York Times are just catching up with us and predicting a "trend" that palmtops have recently been used to replace some of the laptop functions, something we have been doing for many years.
Because of the size of the article, I am only including an abstract and a link to the article itself. The New York Times website is graphics intensive so if anybody wants, e-mail me off list and I will send you the text of the article.
Best Regards,
Forsaking the Laptop for a Can-Do Palmtop
April 10, 2003
By IAN AUSTEN
Hand-held computers are an increasingly attractive
alternative to laptops for business travelers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/technology/circuits/10basi.html?ex=1051098229&ei=1&en=8f603fbdbe379285
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Date: 12 Apr 2003 04:01:25 +0100
From: "Wong Koi Hin"
Subject: RE: SonyEricsson P800 - First impressions
Dear Rolf,
Thank you for your sharing your impressions on the P800, as far as I can recall it is the first review of the P800 that I have seen from the perspective of an active EPOC device user and your comments are most useful. I look forward to your next update.
As someone who is considering along the same lines, I am interested in knowing if you see the P800 as being capable of and replacing your Revo?
Kind regards,
Koi Hin
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Date: 12 Apr 2003 07:04:09 +0100
From: Andrew Gregory
Subject: Re: Jpeg HW decomp, Phraseology, Easter Break
Hi Rolf,
>> If the 'new 5mx' were to have a ~200MHz CPU like the netBook, that's >> *plenty* fast enough for JPEG and MP3 decompression
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> How many of the devices with 200 MHz StrongARM processors are powered by > two AA batteries? <G>
You must have missed my earlier message regarding the "dream 5mx" where I wanted Lion batteries rather than AAs. I wouldn't want to power a colour screen off AAs anyway.
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To group in general:
In my previous message I talked about the viewing of movies simply being marketing departments playing a "my d*cks bigger than yours" comparison. I must apologise for that. It wasn't the phrase I was thinking of, but I couldn't remember the one I wanted at the time. I really meant to imply that such a PDA feature was a p*ssing contest between marketing departments. I'm sorry if this triggers mail filters, but as it's been shown time and time again that content based email filters are about as useful as fridges in the arctic, I'm not going to worry about such concerns.
Well, that's that. I'm just about to leave on a two-and-a-bit week holiday and I'm already looking forward to all the email and spams that will fill my inbox in the meantime (NOT!). I hope everybody here enjoys *their* Easter break :-)
Cheers,
--
Andrew Gregory,
<URL:http://www.scsoftware.com.au/family/andrew/>
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Date: 12 Apr 2003 08:07:24 +0100
From: vlad arghir
Subject: Upgrading 5mx to Pro bi switching boards?
> Epoc Digest wrote:
> using the motherboard to upgrade my standard 5mx to Pro specification
I suppose if you didn't get any reply it may mean either noone knows, or the specialists were too busy with the frog-pro-con ;-)
Try some of these links: they are take-apart instructions. Even if boards were repleaceable, there are differences in the screen (and screen-cable?) and number of silkscreen-buttons. Also the difference is oc that the pro is all-RAM. I also just vaguely remember on of the sites /perhaps (http://psion.by.ru/english/indexe.htm)/ might have a direct answer to your q.
http://www.portal-pda.com/guides/5boards/5boards.html
http://www.chaos.to/psion/psion-kanto/5mx-kbm/index-en.html
http://www.portal-pda.com/guides/openings5/openings5.html
http://psion.by.ru/english/indexe.htm
http://www.marukusu.de/netbook/netbook.htm
http://home.t-online.de/home/u.hornstein/ps.htm
http://www.h-wessel.de/psion_main.html
It's not much, but I hope this helps
best,
vlad a
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Date: 12 Apr 2003 15:41:12 +0100
From: Tim Williams
Subject: Two questions
On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 08:13 PM, vlad a wrote:
***Censored***
Question: does ER6 have translators for Word and Excel files?
Question: Why does my 5mx pro refuse to copy files to the D volume on the grounds that the batteries are to weak, even when it's plugged into the mains?
T
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
-- Thomas Edison
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Date: 12 Apr 2003 17:56:13 +0100
From: "Richard"
Subject: Previous digests
Hi everyone,
I'm fairly new to this digest lark and it is mighty interesting - many, many thanks Itamar (and anyone else similarly responsible).
Five days after ordering my Malay netBook from Sitashop I got an email saying that their promotional price (258 USD) had stopped. Phew!
Anyway - my first question (one of many - heh heh...) is:
Is there an archive of these posts put together in one glorious chunk?
***Censored***
Cheers,
Richard - London
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook
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Date: 12 Apr 2003 17:58:27 +0100
From: Keith Giles
Subject: netBook Installation Problem
I've finally gotten my netBook up and running again - did not install NoMore which solved the "flashing" problem.
Now I have another problem. Before the "flashing" problem I had EpocSync working on the netBook. Now I'm unable to install it. I keep getting a message - A problem occurred while copying
D:\System\Apps\Epocsync\Epocsync.aif.
I've tried deleting the partial installation and also doing a soft reset. Neither helped. Can anyone help? *Please* don't suggest a hard reset. :-(
Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA
http://home.attbi.com/~ohsix827/
Thought For The Day: Education is the process of moving from cocksure to thoughtful uncertainty.
All my outgoing e-mails have been checked by Norton Anti-virus.
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Date: 12 Apr 2003 18:19:41 +0100
From: mark wills
Subject: netBook headphone jack
Hello all,
After discovering a small windows application which can capture streaming audio (eg off BBC playing via realplayer) and save it as .wav file and then use music jukebox to convert this to mp3, I can listen to listen again content with just my netBook and EplayM. The but is thats fine as long as Im not in a train etc etc as no headphone socket.
The question is if you look on the right hand side of a netbook or S7 there is a blanking plate which may have been for a modem connection that was not implemented. So could a headphone jack be installed here and wired across the inbuit speaker?? If so how do you get inside a netbook? anyone taken one apart? anyone done this ?
all the best,
MW
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Date: 12 Apr 2003 21:53:49 +0100
From: Crookes
(Philip Crookes)
Subject: Networking a NetBook
Appeal for Help
I've been trying to get my netBook to talk to my, or anyone else's network. It won't. I've meticulously followed the advice I've had from fellow Psion users, both in the EPOC Digest and the comp.sys.psion.misc usenet group.
It still doesn't work, and now it's time for desperate measures.
I live and work in both Berlin Germany and Wolverhampton, England. Does anyone here know of any organisation or person in either country to whom I can send the machine and receive it back in such a condition that it is working with a wireless network, without requiring any further adjustment from me. I no longer have time to spend fiddling with control entries I don't understand, and if it can't be made to work then I will reluctantly have to ditch it and get something that can.
It would be nice to be able to take the machine personally, but as I don't have a car and am really rather busy in both countries, I expect I'll have to post it off and trust to luck.
Naturally I will pay for this service, including the cost of another wireless card if it turns out that the one I have doesn't work with Psion.
The netBook is running the latest version of the German OS, and has an Avaya Gold wireless networking card. NetStatRF reports that it is 'connected to ESS' and reads of the MAC address at the access point. But it won't access the network or do anything useful.
A Sony VAIO laptop connects to the same wireless network without any problem.
I hope there's someone out there that can help,
Philip
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Date: 13 Apr 2003 02:18:15 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: Digest management, CF cards, Moderate Forum?,
Answer to: Antony & others
Re.: Digest management - Just to make it clear, we do reserve the right as owners of the digest to censor any messages and/or to unsubscribe people from the digest. This is clearly stated in the conditions you all received when you subscribed. One of the reasons we decided to run the digest on our Psions and not in a Yahoo or similar program is that we have total control. If we don't want someone to subscribe, we can simply not subscribe him/her. Having said all that, we have never taken anyone off the list, and hope we will never have to either. We have never censored messages before, but did decide to stop this discussion and will enforce this. Let's get back to Epoc matters.
Answer to: Rick Gillyon
Re. CF cards - I just bought 2 1Gb CF cards for my photography for 400 pounds together, that is just slightly more than a 1Gb Microdrive. In a test report I read that these new 1Gb disks are only slightly slower than the 512 Mb ULTRA ones.
Answer to: Jim Watson~Gove
Re. Moderate Forum? - For sake of good order, as far as I remember the member you referred to decided himself to unsubscribe from the list, and returned later and AFAIK is still a subscriber.
Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
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