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Epoc Digest Sun, 29 Jun 2003 Volume 01 : Number 292

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In today's Epoc Digest 15 messages:

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- Epoc News

- Free WiFi Spots in NYC (for Itamar)

- information request

- Re: Mysterious Codes

- Re: GPS usage from multiple apps

- Email from pc to s5

- GPRS idle

- More Colour Icons & other stuff

- Compact Flash

- NetBook CF not found

- Re: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 291 (7)

- nB PRO petition

- Dictionaries in TR via BitTorrent

- Re: Charging in the USA - continuation

- Adaptor for USA

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Date: 29 Jun 2003 10:28:20 +0100

From: Michael Degn

Subject: Epoc News

Message to: Brian Gouldsmith

Since Digest #289 your email address returns "account is temporarily over quota" 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: 27 Jun 2003 14:34:40 +0100

From: Manuel Campos Galvan

Subject: Free WiFi Spots in NYC (for Itamar)

Itamar:

Further to the issue of free high speed access for your S7 while in NYC, try the following pages:

http://www.wififreespot.com/ny.html

http://www.nycwireless.net/

Hope they help

Best Regards,

Manuel

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Date: 27 Jun 2003 14:46:33 +0100

From: DUFAY

Subject: information request

I have a Psion S7 with a psion dacom gold global wan modem.

I have no trouble with emails (init string ATZ) but cannot fine the correct data string for fax. (AT&F doesn't work nor any other published fax strings I've so far come across)

Advice please

D.D.White

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Date: 27 Jun 2003 16:56:08 +0100

From: Keith Giles

Subject: Re: Mysterious Codes

Thanks, Andrew, for your easily-understood-by-a-novice explanation. Since my 5mx and netBook D drives contain a large amount of data, it takes ages to back them up via PsiWin. My procedure is to use PsiWin to backup the C drives; then put the CF cards into a card reader; run a backup program I have which copies any changes into the normal D drive backup folder on the PC.

I frequently would get that message when I returned the CF card to the Psion and turned it on. To stop it, I would change the Psion's drive to C before removing the CF card, then change it back to the D after reinserting the card.

On the basis of your posting, I'll be moving my Recogs folder to the C drives and hopefully not have to bother changing drives

Just the other day I bought a USB v2.0 card and a USB v2.0 multi-media card reader - really fast.

Happy Cycling,

Keith

Sunnyvale, CA

http://home.attbi.com/~ohsix827/

Thought For The Day: Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake.

All my outgoing e-mails have been checked by Norton Anti-virus.

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Date: 27 Jun 2003 19:16:46 +0100

From: Victor Marchand

Subject: Re: GPS usage from multiple apps

I use my GPS with my Series 7. I run both Routeplanner and Streetplanner at

the same time and switch at will between the two.

I think that in a year time I´ve experienced one crash doing this. Actually

it was a freeze of the machine, right in the middle of NYC, bwah...

For the rest it works fine. The only thing happening is that sometimes the

GPS does not see enough sattelites immediatly. I then just reset the GPS

(pull the power plug) and it al starts to work on its own again. And in fact

I think the cause here is hardware, since my serial plug into my Psion is

not that good anymore.

The only difference I can notice between Routeplanner and Streetplanner is

the version of the GPS interface. Street has 1.6 Route has 1.5.

Victor

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Date: 27 Jun 2003 20:11:34 +0100

From: Mike McConnell

Subject: Email from pc to s5

To: John Bowden

<<Is there a way of connecting my mc218 orS5 through my pc which is networked and connected to the net through a cable modem, so I can download my email onto the mc218 / S5.>>

Yes full details, including the application you need, are in the "Mocha PPP" file on the General Info page of my website.

Regards,

Mike [Dundee, Scotland] __________________________________________

Mobile Phone & SMS: +44 (0)7870 236984

Mobile Fax: +44 (0)7977 156138

Web: http://www.mikemcc.org.uk __________________________________________

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Date: 27 Jun 2003 20:20:15 +0100

From: Mike McConnell

Subject: GPRS idle

To: Itamar Engelsman

<<It could also be actual phone related or maybe the program you use ? I was disconnected after 2 minutes "standing" in the email program, not Web or Opera. I use Vodaphone.>>

The problem certainly isn't GPRS related - I've had a GPRS connection running for several hours with my 6310i via cable to a laptop and most of that is idle time. However, with the Psion and IR, I have had the connection drop as Auto switch off does its thing even with internet access running.

Regards,

Mike [Dundee, Scotland] __________________________________________

Mobile Phone & SMS: +44 (0)7870 236984

Mobile Fax: +44 (0)7977 156138

Web: http://www.mikemcc.org.uk __________________________________________

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Date: 27 Jun 2003 21:04:43 +0100

From: Martin Guthrie

Subject: More Colour Icons & other stuff

Hi All,

I've added some 8 new colour icons plus 6 colour patches to my website. This now brings the total up to something like 194 replacement colour icons (aif files) and 58 colour patches for programs.

I've also uploaded some new patches (courtesy of Lewis Barton) for colouring the synchronised Emails on your Psion - something that might be of interest to all the power Email users on the Digest!

All available at www.pscience5.net

Best regards,

Martin Guthrie

www.pscience5.net

www.freepoc.org

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Date: 28 Jun 2003 03:43:10 +0100

From: Darryl Kempster

Subject: Compact Flash

Just seen a 40x speed 1GB Compact Flash card by PQI for sale on ebay for £133 buy it now price. However found this from a previous posting :-

"The CF card standard defines some parameters, a long with the permitted tolerances. I think, that brands such as Dane Elek or PQI use the complete tolerance band width, whereas Sandisk and Lexar stay as close to the specified value as possible. Camera's are also designed according to the CF card standard, so they don't mind the tolerances. Here comes the annoying part: Psion claims that its devices are designed according to the standard, but this is not true! Psions can deal with Sandisk, but not with Dane Elek, because they cannot stand the wide tolerance definitions of the CF standard! This also shows why both DE cards show different (but still annoying) behaviour on my 5mx. The PQI card shows it in a different way: it's annoyingly slow!"

Anyone care to comment? I have a netBook so wonder if this 'problem' was solved by Psion or if they kept repeating their "We only sell and support CFs up to 20MB."

Whole point of buying it is for the speed so it won't take an age for the built-in Psion directory tree to display. But would I be better off with a Lexar Pro 40x ($229 for a 512 MB in Oregon. 1Gb Pro was only 24x for some reason) SanDisk are reported as using slow controllers though - even their Ultra line is meant to be relatively slow. And the guy in the shop said the Lexar was faster than the new Sandisk Professional 40x. So does any of this make any difference at all? Seems too good a bargain so looking for the catch! The PQI is from a seller in Hong Kong - I think they're the same as Hitachi CFs.

Darryl

In Evreux, France with Soulfly

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Date: 28 Jun 2003 05:50:44 +0100

From: Eric Lindsay

Subject: NetBook CF not found

>Epoc Digest Fri, 27 Jun 2003 Volume 01 : Number 291

>From: Andrew Gregory

>I can't comment on removal of CF cards, I just don't do that. Sometimes, though, my netBook won't recognise the CF card when I turn the netBook on. It basically says "Disk not present", even though I haven't even opened or closed the CF door at any time, even when it was off! Turning the netBook off then on brings the disk back. It seems like some sort of a dodgy >timeout issue.

I found that the physical switch that detects a CF in a NetBook is actuated by a springy piece of the tray of the slide into which you put your CF. In my Psion 7, this sometimes must have been too weak to actuate the switch.

I bent the metal very, very slightly, and have had no problems with the CF disappearing since then.

Eric Lind www.avalook.com

Box 640 Airlie Beach Qld Australia ph +61 7 4948 0435

http://www.ericlindsay.com NEW Airlie-SF-Psion-Epoc

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Date: 28 Jun 2003 07:41:38 +0100

From: Carlos Rodriguez

Subject: Re: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 291 (7)

>Date: 26 Jun 2003 22:15:12 +0100

From: Darryl Kempster Subject: Compuserve

>With the kind assistance of Itamar I have recently signed up for a CompuServe Classic Account. (Can only do this using a PC ) But despite following all the fields in as directed on Mike McConnel's website I am still unable to connect with my NetBook.

It says connecting to mailbox but then I get the timed out error. If I look in Logs it seems to fail on the ATO command - No Carrier.

I can however open the mailbox when connected to the net via my other ISP. >Anyone offer any suggestions?

>Darryl

>In France with Soulfly

Hi - I don't know what you have already done in terms of setup, but have you made sure you got the right CompuServe Script installed to log on? On my Revo, it used to be in ControlPanel / Internet / Login "Use Login Script". Ciao

Carlos

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Date: 28 Jun 2003 08:13:08 +0100

From: Gianluca Gallino

Subject: nB PRO petition

Hello Everybody,

I was browsing on the internet when I got to a Benelux Symbian Forum, where some words were spent about the petition

http://www.symbian.info/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4929

Would anybody summarize the meaning in English, so to understand the points discussed there?

they mentioned also a link to geek.com with an article about the petition itself...

www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?11718654

thanks in advance

cheers

Gianluca Gallino AKA Cangiante

(this mail was written on the email app on his netBook and sent via the cheapest mobile ISP thanks to SMTPauth java program)

NB: please keep on supporting the petition for an EPOC/Symbian new netBook PRO on

http://www.petitiononline.com/nbookpro/petition.html

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Date: 28 Jun 2003 22:30:39 +0100

From: Timothy H.D. Williams

Subject: Dictionaries in TR via BitTorrent

From the following site,

http://www.bytemonsoon.com/details.php?id=3038

you can download via BitTottent various TR encyclopaedias:

Encarta Encyclopaedia

Grollier Encyclopaedia

Websters Encyclopaedia

Movie Encyclopaedia

Tolkein Encyclopaedia

Mythas and Legends Encyclopaedia

Star Wars Encyclopaedia

Computing Encyclopaedia

Oxford English Dictionary

Rogets Dictionary

Unfortunately, once I am connected to the site via BitTorrent for MacOS, nothing downloads. Is my Mac firewall preventing a connection?

Why is there no download?

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Date: 28 Jun 2003 22:32:45 +0100

From: Alan Morris

Subject: Re: Charging in the USA - continuation

Itamar Engelsman wrote:-

<< Looking at my adaptor now .... >>

My Psion 7 came with a PSU that had Psion moulded in the plastic and is 110-240. My David supplied nB came with a Sunpower PSU.

My guess is that original Psion PSUs are all universal, whereas David's where bought elsewhere as the nBs did not have a PSU when obtained by David.

Alan R Morris, G4ENS.

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.

Using a Psion 7 & Nokia 6210e

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Date: 28 Jun 2003 22:56:48 +0100

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: Adaptor for USA

From the last digest I understand that with my mains adaptor being 200-240 V. I will need an adaptor in the USA after all. Has anyone got a spare mains adaptor for the S7 with 100 - 240 V. for sale ?