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Epoc Digest Thu, 26 Jun 2003 Volume 01 : Number 290

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In today's Epoc Digest 14 messages:

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- Epoc News

- Re: Revo not closing

- Various

- RE: NetPad keyboard (EPOC DIGEST V1 # 289)

- Osaris, Rant about Symbian...

- Charging in the USA

- RE: MailArc download not working

- Re: MailArc download not working

- Re: mysterious codes

- OT: signatures

- Us Mains Adaptor

- Re: Einstein & Light

- Just a freindly observation to the team

- Re: Just a freindly observation to the team

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Date: 26 Jun 2003 13:24:06 +0100

From: Michael Degn

Subject: Epoc News

Message to: Wong Koi Hin

Since Digest #287 your email address returns "limit exceeded" and we had no other option but to unsubscribe you for 1 week. We hope you will read this from another source and get your address fixed.

Best regards,

Michael Degn

The Epoc Digest Team

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Date: 25 Jun 2003 15:51:46 +0100

From: Rick Grant

Subject: Re: Revo not closing

Epoc Digest wrote

>Melvin Woody asked: "My Diamon Mako (= Psion Revo) will not close all the >way. ..."

I had this happen not too long ago. It turned out that one of the two springs used to pull the machine closed had come off its moorings and had jammed in the hinge mechanism.

You can get the mechanism open to shake the spring loose if you don't mind some do-it-yourself, although minor, Psion surgery.

The Mako has a silver casing at the rear. This rides on top of a gray rear casing that slides on three grooves cut into the sides of the front (keyboard) casing.

If you use two flat and slim screwdrivers, knives, or strips of metal, it is possible to prise the gray rear casing from the tracks on the front casing. What you want to do is derail the two casings. (Leave the silver portions alone, it is the gray casing underneath the silver that you want

to be working on.) When you have done this the entire rear portion of the Mako will pull away a bit and can be lifted so that you can have a peek inside and find the errant spring. I have read that this is also an alternative way of replacing the batteries but I have not tried that.

If you are lucky you may be able to put the spring back on its moorings but in my case either one of the anchor spots had broken away or my micro surgical techniques weren't up to the challenge. It works fine with just one spring.

Getting the casing back onto the grooves is fiddly but not desperately so and there is enough flexibility in the plastic that you don't have to worry about breaking anything, within reasonable force limits of course.

Rick Grant

International Strategic Communications and Media Relations

Calgary Alberta

www.rickgrant.com

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Date: 25 Jun 2003 16:52:45 +0100

From: Antony

Subject: Various

To: niC bLaKe who wrote: >first time this digest has made me laugh! thank you, mr antony booth.<

You're welcome ;-)

To: Trygve Henriksen who wrote: -

>No! It's a fun movie, but doesn't really contain the answer...

Besides, we know the answer; it's 42, it's the QUESTION that's difficult to find... (Or so you would have known if you ever read Douglas Adam's books)<

What is 41 + 1? There, relief is at hand.

and also wrote: >I know of one on this list, are there more?<

Maybe, if you have friends on the list ;-)

Regards,

Antony Booth

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Date: 25 Jun 2003 17:40:14 +0100

From: David Steer $Plus$

Subject: RE: NetPad keyboard (EPOC DIGEST V1 # 289)

To Itamar,

The netPad has a software keyboard that can be tapped on screen. Of course all ER5 gesture programs will work.

It is also possible to write software keyboards for the netPad, you can then create a keyboard with larger keys and even such that the size of the keys allows for direct on screen finder typing.

Regards

David

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Date: 25 Jun 2003 19:28:02 +0100

From: Trygve Henriksen

Subject: Osaris, Rant about Symbian...

Greetings!

Arent Kits van Heijningen wrote:

>> Now, if I could only get hold of an Osaris...

> I have a non-working one (died from irrecoverable hardware

> crash last December ,replaced it on Jun 24th with a dutch 5mx

> for EUR 299 )Contact me off-list for details )

I thought you used a WinCE machine...

Thanks for the offer, but completely dead machines are not interesting.

(I have enough broken computers that I'm trying to fix already; Husky Hunter, Compaq Portable III, Casio FP 200 and a few others)

Links to webshops selling new ones won't help, either, since I'm on a budget.

>> Answer to: Gianluca GallinoRe.: Symbian OS on nB - Well, I wish the

>> petition and yourself lot's of success and - although sceptical indeed -

>> do hope you will be succesfull.<<

> Unfortunately , chances are slim , Symbian is now passing through

> its zenith as a non-embedded operating environment and from next

> year it will be MicroSoft and Intel wich will call the shots in the

> smartphone business Both Ericsson and Nokia will bring-together

> with the incumbent telcos-

Have you been sniffing the PR brochures from M$ again?

Nokia have no plans to change to any M$ OS, which I believe they told the M$ people who took the trip to Finland recently...

As for Ericsson, you never can tell.

One of my colleagues used to work in one of Ericsson's research and development facilities, and even with his inside knowledge he can't guess either...

I must agree, though, that there's not much chance that Symbian OS V7 (or V6) will show up on a netBook, but that is because the V7 has been geared towards smaller 'smart devices' like phones.

Not only must the OS be adapted to each new platform it is to reside on, but in the case of the netBook, all applications will need to be updated, too.

(How much depends on whether or not the UI is changed)

:-)

Trygve

Now going back to playing Lemmings on my CD-i player...

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Date: 25 Jun 2003 20:26:20 +0100

From: Andrew Lea

Subject: Charging in the USA

Itamar asked

> Question to ALL

> Re. USA mains power - When traveling in the USA what is the best way to charge a mobile phone and my S7 ? Where does > one buy a transformer in the UK for this purpose ?

For an S7 all you need is a travel plug adaptor (easy to buy at Heathrow

on your way out). No transformer is required, because the S7's own UK

power supply works just fine on 110V and 60 Hz. Not sure that this

applies to all mobile phone chargers - maybe it does for some - look

carefully at the fine print on the specification plate!

Andrew Lea

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Date: 25 Jun 2003 21:12:08 +0100

From: Johan Lindahl

Subject: RE: MailArc download not working

Thanks to all that sent me the file!

Johan Lindahl

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Date: 25 Jun 2003 21:58:29 +0100

From: Rolf Vonau

Subject: Re: MailArc download not working

Reference is made to the mail in the EPOC DIGEST V1 # 289 (8) :

Johan Lindahl wrote at 24.06 2003 (> ):

> The download at

> http://www.kudata.freeserve.co.uk/MailArc.html is

> not working.

> Do anyone of you have the file locally?

Hi Johan,

open first the main page http://www.kudata.freeserve.co.uk and follow the link MailArc. It works. I downloaded the file just now.

Best Regards

Rolf

Munich

http://home.arcor.de/rhvonau/index.htm

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Date: 25 Jun 2003 22:58:28 +0100

From: Anthony Napier

Subject: Re: mysterious codes

Can anyone explain how to decode messages such as:-

Programme AppArcServerThread

Reason code KERN Exec

reason number 3

I seem to get these disconcerting messages after removing discs or formatting them. Is there any dictionary of what these mean, I get the impression that my netbook does not like discs to be removed too quickly after turning off the machine. Has anyone else noticed this?

Tony Napier

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Date: 26 Jun 2003 00:54:38 +0100

From: Timothy H.D. Williams

Subject: OT: signatures

Anthony wrote:

> If I wanted to read pointless anecdotes I'm sure I could find a > website full of them as I am sure Owen did.

Let's hope this futile OT will at least allow Anthony to discover the meaning of 'anecdote'.

A balanced diet is a Mars bar in each hand.

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Date: 26 Jun 2003 07:39:19 +0100

From: Jim Cooke

Subject: Us Mains Adaptor

> Re. USA mains power - When traveling in the USA what is the

> best way to charge a mobile phone and my S7 ? Where does one

> buy a transformer in the UK for this purpose ?

> Best regards,

> Itamar Engelsman

> London, UK

Itamar,

You'll need a step-down transformer and a plug adaptor. I don't know if they

have Radio Shack across the pond but, if not, there should be some similar

type of electronics store. I bought an international adaptor kit from Radio

Shack that includes a step-up/step-down transformer and seven different plug

adaptors that cover most of the world's electrical systems. It comes in a

neat carrying bag and costs about $30. You can also find the same type of

thing in stores that specialize in travel items but the prices are usually

much higher, at least over here.

I don't know where you're going in the US but it was 102 degrees F (39

degrees C) here just 40 miles north of San Francisco so bring your shorts!

Regards, Jim

P.S. I know nothing about either gravity or Einstein. <g>

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Date: 26 Jun 2003 07:42:16 +0100

From: Chris S Handley

Subject: Re: Einstein & Light

Antony wrote:

> If this is a Psion digest and off-topic items are unwelcome,

> maybe 'Thoughts for the day' should be included in this

> category.

> If I wanted to read pointless anecdotes I'm sure I could find

> a website full of them as I am sure Owen did.

> I'm not actually stating that anyone should stop appending

> these to emails, I am merely expressing my opinion as I

> oppose any moderating or censorship whatsoever.

Basically I agree.

I don't mind 'Thoughts for the day' as long as they are short, and don't start generating their own threads (which has sadly happened here).

Ideally what people post would be interesting enough that they wouldn't need to attached "funny" things to the end of every email...

Regards,

Chris Handle

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Date: 26 Jun 2003 07:55:10 +0100

From: Shlomo

Subject: Just a freindly observation to the team

From my personal experience, in your warnings please do not put the email address of the person who's mail is bouncing as a link. First because he does not see the warning any how and second most important is that in the archive such links are blanked. So, please mention the subscriber either by his name or put his email address as normal text.

Shlomo Almo

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Date: 26 Jun 2003 13:31:40 +0100

From: Michael Degn

Subject: Re: Just a freindly observation to the team

Dear Shlomo,

Thanks for your suggestion. However it is not that simple because not all subscribers do provide a name along with their subscription. So how do we know who for examp(fictional address but there are similar ones) are?

If a name is provided we will of course use it - otherwise we use the email address as we think that is the best solution. In the Digest it will show the full address and in the HTML version on the web it will show the part to the left- e.g. 1375 in the above address. That way we don't compromise their address on the web and they should still be able to recognise it as part of their own address.