- Re: uninstalling Alarm+

- Re Alarm+2C (4 Richard)

- Dilbert

- Sharp Slc -700 on sale now atPulster.de :)

- Alarm+ / Spam

- Serial Port Tranfer rates ( 4Rolf )

- 5mx for sale or swap

- P800 verses 9210

- Synchronising Agenda / Rebuilding the Mail Index file

- Re: Where to install apps?

- Re: Phone for a Series 7

*++++++++++&

Date: 30 Apr 2003 07:40:52 -0600

From: "Daniele Squarci"

Subject: RE: Reliable battery info/condition apps

Alan Morris wrote:

>> Richard have a look at Chadis7 .....  It's also used on my 7 and was the first app I installed on my new netBook.  Here it displays a chart of the battery voltage with time and an indicator which is a big improvement on the built in one.  There is also an hour counter for the total time used on battery and another for mains.  Using this chart it is possible to get a very close indication of time before a recharge is required. <<

I also use Chadis on my Mako and netBook. There's one thing that puzzles me on the Chadis7 version - what is "dT= xxxx Hrs" supposed to mean? I found no explanation on Kevin Millican's website.

Ciao,

Daniele Squarci

Italy

*++++++++++&

Date: 30 Apr 2003 08:09:28 -0600

From: "John Wetton"

Subject: 5mx for sale or swap

Hi Folks,

I am starting to use my Psion 5mx less and less now - and I may be coming down with "new gadget fever".

So I am open to offers on my 16 MB 5mx. It's a couple of years old and has had the hinge replaced. It has a Palmtec Hardcase, a couple of extra styli, the mains adaptor and a Psion to Garmin GPS lead.

It has just about all the Psion to Garmin GPS software there is - I wrote an article reviewing the software while working for Garmin, plus Compactor, RMR Zip, MBM View, Street and Route from Palmtop, and lots of other software installed on 64 MB card.

I'm interested in sensible cash offers, or a swap for Treo 180 ( must be SIM free and unlocked) - just seen them on the net at Dabs.com for around £150. I reckon this would give me a back up phone, with email and a chance to play with another O/S. Most of my computing these days is at work on a PC, with a laptop at home due for upgrade later this year ( on that note if anyone is interested in a Vaio F305 with DVD and FDD - which works fine on mains, but not on battery, and has serial mouse as the track pad has died - please drop me a line off Digest).

All the best,

John

PS to Owen - sorry haven't been in touch for a while, running the sea school has been very hectic these last couple of months.

*++++++++++&

Date: 30 Apr 2003 09:09:40 -0600

From: "Ralf Eichler"

Subject:

Spam from Yahoo

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:22:04 -0600, Epoc Digest wrote:

> I also heavily suspect Yahoo. I am only subscribed on one public Yahoo list, a good one!) and its language is French.

>For the rest this e-mail address is only used for English and Dutch

>(also rarely in public) and for private communications. Guess what?

>I now receive *French* spam!

>Lest one of my French friends did something stupid I can safely blame Yahoogroupes.

Hello, Thomas,

since I am Moderator for several (German) Yahoo groups I can tell you

that this depends on the setting of the Yahoo Group. The

Founder/Moderator of the group can decide if the E-Mail-addresses of

the members are visible to all or if they are only visible to

moderators. If this setting is wrong, a possible spammer could simply

join the group, "harvest" the E-Mail-Addresses and leave. But this

cannot be blamed on Yahoo. Please ask the founder of your group about

this. Maybe he does not know about this option.

--

R/\LF

*++++++++++&

Date: 30 Apr 2003 13:40:43 -0600

From: "Astrid  Stappenbeck"

Subject: Re: uninstalling Alarm+

Richard wrote:

>The annoyingly useful AlarmPlus is on my D disk, and I want to reinstall to C. However, Alarm+ isn't mentioned in the Add/Remove Programs. Any ideas

how I can safely uninstall it?<

Go to AlarmPlus in the system panel and deactivate it, then open the System/Apps-folder on D and transfer the Alarm+ folder to C/system/apps. Reactivate.

I haven't tried this so it might be that the transfer doesn't work and some other opl/ opx files might have to be moved as well (check with OPX-Scan) or that the .ini file should be deleted before you can start it again.

If the transfer doesn't work at all just delete the Alarm+ folder and install the program again on c. (Then you'll probably find out anyway which additional files are/ were installed) However, any leftovers on D won't hurt or take up that much diskspace that a reformatting hassle would be justified.

Good luck,

Astrid

*++++++++++&

Date: 30 Apr 2003 14:49:23 -0600

From: "J."

Subject: Re Alarm+2C (4 Richard)

To Richard Subject: OPXs on D

>>>>.....AlarmPlus is on my D disk, and I want to reinstall to C,.........

...However, Alarm+ isn't mentioned in the Add/Remove Programs.  Any ideas how I can safely uninstall it? .......<<<<

RE

As specified for safely uninstal or upgrading one first must DISABLE Alarm+

Then you may try move your D/sys/apps/alarm+ to C:/ or rinstall it there.

Don't forget: an initial "pinhole" RESET is needed after install!

Jack

"The end of labour is to gain leisure. Aristocles"

*++++++++++&

Date: 30 Apr 2003 16:56:48 -0600

From: "Hoffman, Susan"

Subject: Dilbert

To Tom van der Zijden -- I posted on the 29th, but I referenced the Dilbert of 27/4 -- you got the connection, obviously.  I laughed out loud and immediately thought of this group.

Susan Katz Hoffman

Pepper Hamilton LLP--------------

e-mail: hoffmans

*++++++++++&

Date: 30 Apr 2003 17:53:37 -0600

From: "Arent Kits van Heijningen[106016.3614]"

Subject: Re: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 235 : Re: Sharp Slc -700 on sale now atPulster.de :)

On 22 Apr 2003 17:29:00 -0500

wr(Christoph Pulster) about: Re: Sharp Slc -700 on sale now at Pulster.de :)

>>I already sell the C700 at http://www.pulster.de New units directly imported from Japan. Before shipping them out to our  customers, we do convertion to English language. Price is 749 EUR. Not cheap, but please mind the Serie 5mx does hit the  market with a similar price... <<

Here are some good links :

www.handhelds.org

www.zaurus.com

www.newbreedsoftware.com

www.netwinder.org

In Germany :

www.killefiz.de

www.opie.info , www.opie.us

www.alternate.de ( gute Preise fuer Speicherkarten )

www.trisoft.de ( Large Capacity Batterypacks , good prices on storage cards )

www.tuxmobil.de

www.kernelconcepts.de

BTW Can you make your site accesible from handheld browsers ( requires Mozilla 2 compatibility i.e Netscape/Explorer below v 3.0 ) ? thnx

And how is that rumored project about restarting the production of the S5MX/S5MX Pro ?

k

*++++++++++&

Date: 30 Apr 2003 18:07:49 -0600

From: "Rick Gillyon"

Subject: Alarm+ / Spam

Hi,

> From: "***"

> No macro as much as I  know but Robin Hood' Alarm+1.46  gives

> choices for cancelling alarms (&Mmore)

But beware if you snooze your alarms - snooze is totally screwed up by this app.  Plus I suspect it sometimes prevented auto-switchoff from working.  Good little app otherwise though.

> Messaging X Email2.00 liberates from virii

Virii?  Why on earth would the plural of virus be virii?  Makes no sense.  And yes, I do know that it's a *very* common mistake...   :)

> From: "Thomas F. VAN DER ZIJDEN"

> I also heavily suspect Yahoo. I am only subscribed on one

> public Yahoo l, a good one!)

> and its language is French. For the rest this e-mail address

> is only used for English and Dutch (also rarely in public)

> and for private communications. Guess what? I now receive

> *French* spam!

:) Well, I tried and successfully Googled your email address, so no doubt spiders could too.  And do you not think the fact that you get French spam is because of the FR suffix on the address?  Spammers will specifically buy batches of emails for certain nationalities.

Au Revoir,

Rick

http://www.gillyon.com/

*++++++++++&

Date: 30 Apr 2003 18:26:16 -0600

From: "Arent Kits van Heijningen[106016.3614]"

Subject: Re: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 237 (3) : Serial Port Tranfer rates ( 4Rolf )

On 26 Apr 2003 15:02:21 -0600

Rolf Brunsting wrote about : SonyEricsson P800 - Second Report

>>Communication speed between PC and P800 is an oddball 460800 bps, the maximum the P800 supports. Backups and file transfers are thus performed much quicker than with PsiWin.<<

460800 BPS is a standard rate for RS-232 ports with recent UARTS , ZyXEL offered this for years on their ISDN modems

Here's a brief table :

   300 ( the good old days )

   600

  1200

  2400

  4800

  9600 ( v32 ,GSM Data , Fax over both landline and GSM

14400 ( v32 bis , single- circuit HSCSD )

19200 ( v32 terbo )

38400

57600

115200

230400

460800 ( highest rate currently available over serial leads )

921600 ( that is the curent limit , only available over Bluetooth or high-speed IR links )

These are nominal speeds , actual speeds depend on system architecture/load , protocols used , tasks running in the bacground , whether compression/error correction is performed in hardware , etc , so your mileage may vary k

*++++++++++&

Date: 30 Apr 2003 18:48:50 -0600

From: "Mike Dyer"

Subject: P800 verses 9210

Date: 29 Apr 2003 23:22:14 -0600

From: Kevin Thorne Said: I found Rolf Brunting's review of his P800 very interesting to read. I'm very pleased to hear it doesn't suffer from the 9210's problem of handling large emails, such as the Digest itself.

Surely you are not saying that the 9210 is incapable of handling emails the size of the digest?. I appreciate that memory is tight on the 9210 but if you keep as many applications as possible on the memory card and shut everything else down with a task manager surely it would work okay?.

Regards,

Mike Dyer. (window shopping for a colour Revo+ replacement!)

*++++++++++&

Date: 30 Apr 2003 21:16:58 -0600

From: Owen Morgan

Subject: Synchronising Agenda / Rebuilding the Mail Index file

Howdy!

Tom Robertson wrote (> ):

> Is there any method of synchronising the agenda

> and data files on a p7 and revo via infrared?

I use EpocSync. However, remember that this only updates both computers to the latest version of the complete Agenda file. That is, the last one that was closed and saved to disk, even if all your important changes were made to the other one. That means you cannot make changes to the same file on both machines between synching. As long as you can live with this limitation, it works just fine and is a very useful tool.

> I have a garmin 12xl. Is there any way to get the

> gps to record waypoints and draw the route on a

> map? Does any epoc software exist to do this?

I use PsiNMEA. RealMaps is another. Both of these can use charts in bitmap format obtained either by scanning a paper chart or taking a screendump from a mapping application on another computer, but I've never been able to get the chart indexing in RealMaps to work properly.

Somebody menetioned that you can rebuild your e-mail index file by deleting the old one and creating a new file named "\System\Mail\Index" from any application. I tried this with a Word file, but it didn't work. The Email application just sat there "opening" forever. I then created a text file named "Index" by exporting an empty document to text from Word, and Email opened up and recreated the index beautifully.

This had the added bonus of indexing several old "lost" e-mails that had been left behind when I'd made the mistake of synching E-mails with EpocSync without renaming the Mail folder on the machine that was being updated.

BTW, I would suggest renaming rather than deleting the old Index file. Then delete it when you see that everything is OK. The same with synching e-mails with EpocSync. Rename the Mail folder on the machine that's being updated, then delete the old (renamed) one when you have confirmed that all is OK. In fact, I've made myself a small program that renames the mail folder to "MailX and closes all open applications ready for synching. Once EpocSync has done its job successfully, I delete the renamed MailX folder.

Owen

Thought for the day:

Poetry, like chastity, can be carried to far.

- Mark Twain

--

Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-953°27.22'N 6°09.05'W

Malahide, Ireland

*++++++++++&

Date: 30 Apr 2003 23:41:36 -0600

From: Kevin Collins

Subject: Re: Where to install apps?

Hi folks...

In EPOC DIGEST V1 # 235 , Richard wrote (> ):

> I got a 128Mb D drive so I could install loads of > unnecessary crap on my (Malay) NetBook.  Are there any > programs that shouldn't be installed on D:?

> Is it better to install OPXs on C?

> Any thoughts?

Hi Richard,

From the replies you have received to date, I seem to be swimming against the tide here <g>, but IMHO, yes, it *is* better to install OPXs on C: (a) in my experience, the apps in D will work a little faster if the relevant .opx files are in C (I discovered this with my first, particulary slow, CF card, when transferring the OPX files to C speeded up many programs quite a bit; but (b) even more importantly, again IMHO, if your .opx files are only on D, and if you happen to test a shareware app, say, and install and then uninstall it, the installation may superimpose an .opx file over an existing one in D, and then on uninstallation remove it altogether, leaving some other app(s) without any .opx file(s) and therefore unworkable... that has certainly happened to me on a number of occasions! As a result, I now leave my OPX folder on C, but backup the folder to D: then if the above happens, I simply recopy the D OPX folder back to C...

Also, I would advise placing your System\Recogs folder on C: if you let it in D, it is quite likely to cause problems (even hard resets) on removing and repacing the CF card.

Hope this helps :-)

And more recently, Richard wrote (>):

>The annoyingly useful AlarmPlus is on my D disk, and I >want to reinstall to C, (then I won't get the message when >D disappears).  However, Alarm+ isn't mentioned in the >Add/Remove Programs.  Any ideas how I can safely >uninstall it? 

That's strange, I also have it on D, but it *does* show in my Add/Remove (AlarmPlus 1.44?)!  Maybe, delete folder D:\System\Apps\Alarm+ (and C:ditto), also the Alarm+ files (two) in D:\System\Controls and one in C:\Sytem\Libs - these are all I can find :-) - and install it again, perhaps even after a soft reset if necessary?

--

Regards,

Kevin  [Cork, Ireland]

*++++++++++&

Date:  1 May 2003 00:22:41 -0600

From: Derek Clark

Subject: Re: Phone for a Series 7

Thanks for the help Rolf.

I had looked at the old digests and come up with the Siemens ME45 but

only found one place actually selling it sims free for £140.

T Mobile are offering me a Siemens S45 at £100. What do digest members

think?

As I said before I don't need anything fancy. I had my Ericcson PF 768

so long that the kids I work with thought it was a new model, and  I am

only giving it up because it has been in the sea.

The main requirement is that the phone works with my Psion 7.

Cheers....Derek

*++++++++++&

To reply or to send your own messages,

subscribe by sending an email to

with SUBSCRIBE in the subject.