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Epoc Digest Mon, 09 Feb 2004 Volume 01 : Number 443
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In today's Epoc Digest 13 messages:
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- RE: Epoc Digest V1 # 442
- Re: Scandinavian characters
- SD/MMC cards
- Powerbase Question
- 3rd pin
- Where to buy the netPad online?
- RE: TimeLog vs. 5Time
- RE : AntiVirus certification (TXS 2 Andy)
- CronTab, Macro5 and Pascal Nicolas
- Start5
- RE: Viruses on EPOC - Not yet!
- internet control panel
- Re: Epoc Digest V1 Scandinavian characters # 442
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Date: 08.02.2004 09:52:07
From: Gianluca Gallino
Subject: RE: Epoc Digest V1 # 442
Date: 6 Feb 2004 13:54:32 +0000
From: Jack
Subject: Re: Vodafone in nB?
Re: Vodafone in nB? (Jack)
>>>Did any of the dear old psion fellows succeed in using a
Vodafone GPRS (air)card in a (even old) nB?<<<
Ciao Jack,
I have been successfully using a GPRS vodafone connect card in my netBook
for 4 months now. it is actually a rebranded Option Globetrotter and I am
using it with "ispwriter.opo", which I downloaded from PT site.
I am quite happy about the thing with a few exceptions:
1) GPRS signal must be stable and strong to allow for connecting with the
nB... my T68i happen to succeed whereas the VCC fails. Option sells an external
antenna but I have not considered it yet.
2) the rate of successful SMS sending via phoneman pro is about 50% (I believe
there is something which I am not doing very properly)
3) until now I could not either send/receive faxes or make a voice call
despite using what seemed a compatible earplug with microphone.
Just in case you are evaluating the purchase (or getting it with your vodafone
fidelity points, which is actually what I did), bear in mind that we are
on the eve of a launch of a couple of new products:
the option globetrotter combo (gprs+wlan)
the vodafone UMTS connect card
If on one hand the two above-mentioned products may not necessairily work
on the nB, there are reasons to believe that the standard price of a V.C.C.
/ O.G. may fall in the near future...
HTH
cheers
gianluca
PS: a good piece of advice for me was also the article called "Wirelessly
connect your Psion S7 to Internet via GPRS 2002-12-29" found at http://www.portal-pda.com/main.php3:
>>>Wireless Option on Series 7 in Epoc Word format can be download at the
latest uploads. An article showing S7 users how to connect using GPRS solution
via Option GlobeTrotter PCMCIA card.<<<
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Date: 08.02.2004 10:20:52
From: Owen H. Morgan
Subject: Re: Scandinavian characters
Howdy!
Axel Moberg wrote (> ):
> My immediate concern is of course the Swedish åäö
> (oh, yes, I agree there should have been a
> European standard for them.)
> Fn+key as suggested by Andrew is one possibility,
> which I use on my MC218. But it is a bit
> cumbersome if you have to use it in every second
> word, so I would like to avoid as far as possible.
That is what I have set up with Key Mapper on my Revo and 5mx. I fact, as I bought the 5mx to replace a dying MC218, I have moved the keys from the MC218 over and thanks to Key Mapper, I am using the MC218 keyboard layout on my 5mx.
With Key Mapper, it is possible to create just about any keyboard layout you like. However, I have come to the conclusion that if you try to have the Norwegian characters (Æ,Ø,Å) on direct key presses without the use of Fn and Fn+Shift combinations, you'll run out of keys for the rest of the alphabet. It takes a little getting used to, but I find that pressing Fn+j for "æ" on my Revo has become second nature and doesn't hamper my typing speed.
Of course you already have your Swedish ä and ö available on the keyboard by pressing Fn+z followed by a or o, but pressing Fn+j,k and l (for example) without having to follow it by a second keystroke would be faster.
> Or maybe macros is a way forward? If they are not
> too slow. (BTW are macros possible on MC 218? I
> haven't found anything about it in the manual
> yet.)
There's nothing about macros in any Psion or MC218 manual. The Macro5 macro language (an extension to the OPL programming language) was created by Nicolas Pascal and is to me one of the most important software developments for the EPOC Operating System. To use macros, you need a macro launcher. The original one was Macro5, which AFAIK is the only one that allows you to record keystrokes to create your own macros. My favourite macro launcher is Merlin, but I would suggest starting off with Macro5 and then trying out the others once you've become more confident.
As an ertra function seperate from the macros, Macro5 also lets you redefine your keyboard. However, this isn't its primary function, and in my opinion, Key Mapper does a much better job.
There is one small caveat which you have to beware of if you redifine your keyboard. If you have redifined the unshifted values of some of your keys and chosen to use your alternate layout on startup, you may find it impossible to enter your password, and the only way to regain access to your Psion may be a hard reset!
I remember long ago that someone had come up with a way of circumventing the password by installing something on the D: (CF) drive and I also remember that someone had come up with a way of preventing this from happening. I can't remember the details though.
> The only remaining problem then is å, which
> preferably should be were the Germans have put ü.
> And y and z should change places.
If the keys are otherwise identical, you migh be able to simply swap them around and redefine with Key Mapper. If youn do, don't use Y or Z in your password!
Owen
Thought for the day:
Gumperson's Law:
The probability of anything happening is inversely proportional to its desirability.
--
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Los Gigantes, Tenerife, Canary Islands
http://home.no.net/naomij
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In Spain: +34 620520079
In Norway: +47 92053097
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Date: 08.004 13:14:24
From: Marcus von Cube
Subject: 3rd pin
Antony,
>Some countries have 3 pin plugs and others 2. What would the 3rd pin connect to? If nothing, then why force countries to change their sockets for a 3rd pin that isn't used.
I can explain what the matter is here in Germany (and I suppose in other European countries as well).
The third plug is called "Schutzkontakt" (protective ground). It is connected to the outer casing of any appliance. This pin is mandatory for devices which are not completely insulated, i. e. don't
have a plastic housing without metal parts that can be touched be the user.
In older houses with only two leads per socket, the third pin is directly wired to neutral. That must be done in the socket. When the appliance has a short circuit of live against a metal part of the case, this leads to a short circuit live/neutral which blows the fuse directly.
In newer houses, the three wires (live, neutral, ground) are wired to the central fuse box. Each fuse
(actually interruptor of 16A) is wired to a group of rooms or a single room (kitchen, bathroom), sometimes even a single socket (e. g. the washing machine). The ground wires can be wired directly
to neutral or to a special protective circuit, called "FI-Schutz" (FI = "Fehlerstrom", erronous current(?)). This interruptor cuts of the supply if any voltage is detected between neutral and ground. The current
to trigger this is only a few mA. When an appliance has a short cuircuit between live and protective
ground, a current flows through the FI switch which triggers. Since the trigger current is so low, this
even works if the short cuircit is not direct but via some conductive bridge (humidity). This is the
reason why the latter can be found in the suppliy for the kitchen and the bathroom.
Marcus
http://www.mvcsys.de
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Date: 08.02.2004 14:31:34
From: Klaus Stahl
Subject: Where to buy the netPad online?
Somebody on this list told that netPad prices have droped. Where can I buy a "cheap" netPad 5000 WiFi online? I need a German OS (if the language can not be selectetd).
Regards
Klaus Stahl
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Date: 08.02.2004 17:16:49
From: Ing. Michael Asteriou
Subject: RE: TimeLog vs. 5Time
Hi All!
I just tried to tell Andy Hayes about another time-logging-software which I use since I had my first Psion 3a ...Log-It!
Unfortunately the web-site where it used to be available www.pelicansoft.com is now some kind of "telling-the-future-by-interpreting-the-bible-and-by-the-way-the-end-of-days -is-coming"-site
Does anybody know, if LogIt is available somewhere else?
Thanks
Michael
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Date: 08.02.2004 18:54:14
From: Jack
Subject: RE : AntiVirus certification (TXS 2 Andy)
To : Andy Hayes
>>>> I must admit to have jumped to the assumption that the free version automatically included the certification text at the end of each message and there would be no way to change it. A quick look through the settings soon revealed the ticks that could be removed, so my messages should no longer contain the certification. <<<<
Re :
Thanks Andy, I was the one who grumbled again such unwitting signature %-)
AVG free is good as it allows what you gently did via its "Email scanner" / uncheck both "certify".
Nevertheless, as Rick and Philip confirmed, Email2 liberates psionners from viruses, worms and may be horses.
Jack
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Date: 08.02.2004 20:45:08
From: Philip S. Adkins Potter
Subject: CronTab, Macro5 and Pascal Nicolas
Hi Folks,
I have tried the few addresses for (a few) Pascal Nicolas' excluding the obvious and so far have drawn a blank. But I live in hope.
The EPOC 32 world owes this man a great debt, as the EPOC 16 (SIBO) world owes Tom Dolbylin a great debt (I think he pioneered macros on our PDAs). He seems incommunicado too. But both he and Pascal Nicolas released their Macro systems as freeware. Both he and Pascal Nicolas effectively perfected their macro systems before they effectively disappeared.
In this respect the difference is that EPOC 32 has progressed beyond the facilities Pascal Nicolas provided for. If Chris releases a 'patched' version of CronTab but acknowledges, as he has has here (and loudly here too), that the program originated with Pascal Nicolas then I really don't see a problem. If FreEPOC are amenable *under_these_circumstances* then surely there can be no problem there unless (and until) Pascal Nicolas asks them to stop.
But Pascal Nicolas has been so extraordinarily generous to us that I rather doubt he will stop being so now, and especially if he knows how worried about it some people have been (and rightly so). Maybe even a new version of Macro5 will result!
The true value of honesty is the generosity that is the greatest part of it. And it promotes such honesty and generosity in abundance too.
Happy days,
Phil.
"The difference between Science and the fuzzy
subjects is that Science requires reasoning,
while the other subjects merely require scholarship."
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