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Epoc Digest Thu, 26 Feb 2004 Volume 01 : Number 459
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In today's Epoc Digest 16 messages:
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- Re : 2 macros for Email
- TCP/IP MaylayBook
- Wanted for The Psion Journal - SIBO Junkie.
- Re opera 3.6
- Re : Owen's 450kb e-mail
- Re : mails one button reading
- Re: Xp Documents
- EPOC Email, .SCR file...
- Re:[Not] Thougt for the day
- Psion sale of Symbian
- wireless cards and netbook
- RE: OT: Windoze Executable
- Re: netBook switch problem
- Psion as a standalone computer, Mailboxes, A Table Application, Older ver. Opera
- Saving emails, On/Off problem 2x, Windoze executable, , Nokia 9500
- David Lir
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 18:17:46 -0500
From: Jack
Subject: Re : 2 macros for Email
To : Owen H. Morgan
>>> I also find the connectivity settings annoying.<<<
>I remember a macro (or maybe it was an application) which ran on the 5ive Classic and could easily change the Internet and e-mail settings chosing between several sets of settings. I expect there is probably a version for the 5mx too. Anyone know? <
Re
I suggest the 2 nice mail friendly macros from Thorsten Lührs to be found on The Unique Pascal Nicolas Site (thanks forever Pascal!!)
1- IPswitch v1.01
quote from this .opl :
""If you quickly need to change your Internet provider because
the line is always busy or for other reasons, IPswitch v1.01
is the solution. IPswitch v1.01 allows you to switch between
all your providers without having to go to the control panel.
It all happens in the background""
2- Open Remote Mailbox v1.01
performs automatically what its name suggest
HTH
Jack
Forget nasties, viruses, worms, horses, spies, adspyblasters, antiviruses, firewalls, security updates, warnings & patches... use only EPOC Email!
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 18:26:58 -0500
From: Jim Watson-Gove
Subject: TCP/IP MaylayBook
Some kind soul (thank you - I lost your name) sent me the update zip for the TCP/IP fix (to stop hangups in email) and the Web Browser for the MaylayBook.
I'm trying to upgrade the TCP/IP to stop the lockups and what happens is:
1. I moved the TCPIP_UP.SIS file into System/Install.
2. I click on it and receive:.
"About to Install: Comms Component (TCP/IP) 2.01
3. I hit OK, then receive:
"Get Information: In Use"
and it drops out.
What am I doing wrong?
Second question. My intent once I have this TCP/IP problem solved (one thing at a time), I plan to load up Web into the MaylayBook. When I do so, it is my plan to move my Opera folder onto the D drive, renaming it and some files in the folder (just in case), and then install Web onto C drive. Once I have Web up and running, I will move Opera onto my Dell in case I want to go back to Opera anytime in the future. Is my plan sound?
And thank you all who responded to the switching £ to $. Simple and obvious once it's pointed out. But lots of things "I don't know" are like
that.
TIA,
jim - Port Townsend, Washington State, USA
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 19:21:49 -0500
From: Will Green
Subject: Wanted for The Psion Journal - SIBO Junkie.
Dear Digest Members,
I'm looking for a SIBO enthusiast to join our merry team.
A passion for the SIBO Operating System is all the qualification needed!
Em
Kind Regards,
Will.
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 19:47:51 -0500
From: Jack
Subject: Re opera 3.6
To: Boudewijn
>>>Having read the postings about the older version of Opera, ..... where I can find it? I tried Opera's own website but did not succeed so far..<<<
Yes it's on Opera site :
http://arc.opera.com/pub/opera/symbian/360/
at best ;-) use each opera with DualOpera from .psionwelt.net/
All the best...
Jack
Don't forget to use Epoc Email to stay free from blue windows.
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 20:00:14 -0500
From: Jack
Subject: Re : Owen's 450kb e-mail
>>>>there's a 450kb e-mail sitting in my mailbox right now, and I'm letting it sit there until I have a chance to get to an Internet café to download it.<<<<
Hi Owen,
No need to leave your bunk... jTelnet or Hermes manage every rogue msg from your psion alone
Jack
Free yourself from any nasties.... use Epoc Email ONLY
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 20:09:43 -0500
From: Jack
Subject: Re : mails one button reading
To Rick Gillyon
>> .... no one button reading...<<<
Use Scroller 1.11 macro
... Space => read further... "n" => next msg
Could U do anything similar X Windon't.
Jack
Free yourself from nasties, viruses, worms, horses, spies, adspyblasters, antiviruses, firewalls, security updates, warnings, patches, blue windows... use EPOC only!
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 21:12:40 -0500
From: Steve Hodgson
Subject: Re: Xp Documents
Edfcu> It's generally a good idea not to fight XP, it knows what it's doing... :) Edfcu> There is no need to rename My Documents, the different
Edfcu> users folders are quite separate and named differently,
Edfcu> e.g. under C:\Documents and Settings\Alan\My Documents.
Edfcu> The fact that you see a folder "My Docs" and so does your
Edfcu> better half doesn't imply a conflict, just that you are
Edfcu> seeing a view of a different folder.
Edfcu> You can't just rename My Documents - if you right-click
Edfcu> on it and look at Properties you will see where it
Edfcu> resides, changing its name will not affect this.
Edfcu> For backups, basically backing up the Docs and Settings
Edfcu> folder or user subfolders will get most of what you need.
Edfcu> You should still be able to see each other's Documents
Edfcu> in Explorer if the are not marked Private (e.g. as "Alan's
Edfcu> Documents").
My experience with XP is very limited as I only go up to 2000 at the
moment. I do have enough xperience to add a couple of points to this
thread.
You can change the location pointed to by 'My Documents' by
right-clicking and changing the target. This allows you to move it
wherever you like. In my case, the D: partition for user data.
This may have changed with XP but backups with Windows have never been particularly straightforward in my experience (I've avoided that awful
pun this time). Windows tends to be very sloppy about where user data
is stored in that while most documents are located in users' areas,
other files such as mail (Outlook Express), Schedule data (Outlook)
and Favorites tend to congregate under the user profile somewhere like
C:\WINNT\Profiles\shodgson\appdata. Then there is all that useful user
data stored in the registry...
Of course Epoc adopts a similar strategy but the pain of a backup is
considerably less due to the smaller file sizes, neater system and
backup type.
This is one of the reasons I tend towards *nix world such as OS X or
FreeBSD where generally settings are text based and stored more
logically under each users' home folder.
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Regards,
Steve
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 21:23:23 -0500
From: Trygve Henriksen
Subject: EPOC Email, .SCR file...
Greetings!
Owen wrote:
> You can check several accounts and you can have several POP3
> mailboxes open in the same session. You can even send e-mails
> with different "from" addresses in the same session.
I have 3 different mailboxes I check regularly, and the only problem I have is when I forget to set the 'from' address with [Shift]+[Ctrl]+[A] and a mail is sent with a more 'embarrassing' addy...
>> no ability to download automatically,
> For which I am very grateful. I would be in deep shit if the Psion
> always grabbed everything in my mailbox without giving me the
> option to choose. In fact, there's a 450kb e-mail sitting in my mailbox
> right now,
I second that.
I have a 230KB mail waiting for me which I'll probably download at the office, even though I have a 'slightly' faster connection(GPRS) than Owen...
(It's a list of magazines for sale which is sent about once a month. Yes I also collect magazines :-)
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Antony wrote:
>> ... (You can only shrink the keys so far before they become unusable ... <
> This is why I suggested the Nokia communicator. It is by no means
> a small phone and if folded out to contain simply a keyboard rather
> than screen and keyboard could have a large enough keyboard for
> most uses.
I haven't really tried the keyboard on a 9210 as no one trusts me for long enough... (They know I'd swipe it if I got half a chance) so I can only speak with any accuracy about the 9000 which I have managed to get hold of...
(Legally, even :-)
And it's... not wery good...
Hopefully the 9210 have a somewhat better keyboard.
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Philip S. Adkins Potter wrote:
> I received an eMail today from li.garland_yz (at) arturipr.co.uk asking
> me if I sent a file final.txt.scr (22016 bytes, I think). It is a Windoze
> executable and I don't have a Windoze machine, though I wouldn't
> run it anyway. This (and the fact that I haven't sent anything to that
> address) makes me suspect that the file may harbour a virus.
Yes, that's a virus, or rather, it's a worm.
The problem is that the worm, when spreading, fakes the 'from' address to stop being detected and neutralised.
What to do depends on the format of the mail you got.
If it looks like it was an automatically generated message, you can either delete it and forget, or you could email support or abuse at the ISP and complain about their annoying anti-virus software.
If the message seems like it was written by a person, it should be OK to explain it to him, and possibly tell him to invest in a decent anti-virus package which would have told him what the file was....
You may even ask him if he saved the header of the mail to help tracking the worm back to the infected machine...
(You'll find his IP address at the moment he sent it, and possibly a login-name if he's on dial-up.)
It may be that you might recognise the owner of the infected machine as it must be someone you've once had email contact with.
:-)
Trygve
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 21:25:57 -0500
From: Steve Hodgson
Subject: Re:[Not] Thougt for the day
Edfcu> Thought for the day:
Edfcu> Sex causes cancer. We'd wipe out cancer in one Edfcu> generation if no one had sex.
And a unusually appropriate one it is too. I know we swore we would move away from TFTD but it seemed that Owen has genrated just the right random number for today. Readers of New Scientist magazine in the UK may already be aware of some new research that has just suggested that this is in fact the case. Apparently the risk is associated with one particular activity but I won't go down into too much detail for fear of giving offence.
Anyway as we are probably geekier that the average population we should also be less at risk!
--
Regards,
Steve
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 21:38:37 -0500
From: Steve Hodgson
Subject: Psion sale of Symbian
I came home tonight to find that, as a Psion shareholder (don't laugh) I get a vote on whether I agree that they should dispose of their interest in Symbian.
Best point was the idea that this would maximise return on investment! Basically I bought shares more for sentimental reasons than anything else although I was hopeful at the time and I knew they could go down. I've seen the monetary value plummet over the last few years which is disappointing but not too earth shattering. More significant is that my attachment to the brand has also evaporated with he more from consumer PDAs, the move to CE.Net and now (at least barring a miracle) the move to be just a hardware house.
I was looking at a demo of a rugged CE.Net handheld by Dolch today. This is clearly the sort of product that will be going head to head with Teklogix and was clearly an attractive piece of chunky kit. The Windows OS felt completely uninspiring in use though, particularly compared to EPOC and PalmOS. I do appreciate that they are aimed at a different user base but I would have expected something better from such a pricey piece of kit.
Off to mull over how to vote...
Cheers,
Steve
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 22:10:35 -0500
From: George Nash
Subject: wireless cards and netbook
Hi, I am new here, please refrain from flaming me till I know the ropes:-)
I have just bought a netbook, drool drool. I am off to Denmark soon and I need to get wireless networking going, I have bought an orinoco silver 5V 16Bit pcmcia card from someone in the USA. It
has a FCCID of IMRWLPCE2411R which google gives me as all of
the good lucent chipset cards. I am not having a great deal of fun connecting to my Adaptec Ultra wireless point yet, have any of you had similar fun with similar kit or am I just dim?
I have made sure that all the IP addresses and subnet masks are correct, I am a little unsure of the different settings for the netbook. All help gratefully accepted.
Thank you.
George Nash
01207 500414
07751 763283
Fax: 0870 7052
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 22:39:17 -0500
From: Wong Koi Hin
Subject: RE: OT: Windoze Executable
Reply to: Philip S. Adkins Potter
Dear Philip,
>>I am loth to ignore this eMail. The sender may be legit. and honestly worried. But replying may validate *my* eAddress for all sorts of nasties. If my eAddress is being used to distribute nasties I want it stopped. I know my ISP will say (if asked) that it's not their place to even help, it's entirely my own responsibility and fault if someone is using my eAddress and/or their services (!). This has always been their response.
My suggestion is to ignore the mail. A genuine individual would take non-reply as negative. However should you still wish to contact said person, you could always do so from a webmail address that is *Not* your primary email address.
Recent digests have seen a lot of posts on spamming. I am fortunately not plagued by the same problem, or at least not to the degree that some have reported. In my daily mails, easily less than 1% is spam, on most days, I receive maybe 1 unsolicited email. (Which comes in through my company email address) This has not always been so, until the recent year.
My method may not be palatable to most people. I actually have several email accounts. I have 2 work emails, 2 webmails (from Yahoo and Hotmail respectively) and 3 personal non web-based email accounts. I surf the WWW alot and frequently sign up for various websites etc. I typically use my webmail accounts for those. Both Yahoo and Hotmail have filtering for junkmail and you can set to exclusive, where only known addresses can get to you. I adopt different settings on each but as an example say you set to exclusive on Hotmail, should you sign up for a particular site, frequently an automated mail is sent to you. Should the mail contain information you require, you can always see it in the junk mail folder, which is only flushed every week or so. If you expect to receive further mail from this address simply add it to your address book.
The bulk of my mail comes in from my work emails and personal emails (these tend to be the more important ones), since I almost never use them for web-surfing, I receive very little spam over the years from them. The exception ironically is my work email and there is not much I can do about that (apart from complain to the sysadmin) and even that has dropped tremendously. What these actually means is that mails that I would have a chance of downloading to my MnetBook is remarkably free of spam, exactly the way I want it as my MnetBook is my away machine and the less unwanted mails, the better. Coupled with the fact that I only download mails that I want I never get to see any mails that I dont want to, including some mails from pesky bosses.
I notice that many a times an unsolicited mail that I do receive gives you choice of opting out of the mailings. Which I always do. This helps to reduce further spam as well. Spam while generally unwelcome is not always bad. Its good to know once in a while that you can actually be of service to certain individuals in third-world countries and make a little money on the side, or that there is help available should you feel yourself inadequate in certain areas. ;)
Warm regards,
Koi Hin
P.S. To Owen Morgan: I like your Thoughts of the Day, although to be truthful, my eyes usually skip those few lines, along with your current location on Earth. :)
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 23:43:32 -0500
From: Alan Morris
Subject: Re: netBook switch problem
Christopher Holly wrote:-
> Itamar, I find my mBook switch very touchy. Usually if I
> try to switch off that way, it just comes back on right
> away. So I use the Fn-Esc method or just close the thing.
> That obviously is not working for you. I don't have ChaDis
> on my netBook so maybe it is running out the battery and I
> don't know it. I have 3 of them, and one in particular
> seems to run down sooner that I would think when it is not
> being used at all. (Actually one for me, one for my wife,
> and one intended for my stepdaughter -- misguidedly)
I've never had this problem with my 7 but it often happens with the nB. It's unlikely that ChaDis is causing the battery run down.
I suspect a problem with the power on/off switch. Maybe while the lid is being closed, the switch touches and switches the nB back on again. Or even while closed, vibration may trip the switch.
> BTW, there are a bunch of these battery gauge programs. Is
> there any reason to choose one over another? Also do any
> work well on the 5mx. Sometimes I am surprised that my
> battery is run down when the Psion gauge shows a charge
> still left.
I use ChaDis on my 5mx, 7, nB and Revo+ (different versions) and I've had no problems over all the years. In fact I install two apps on every new EPOC Psion. They are ChaDis and Macro5.
--
Alan R Morris, G4ENS.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Using a Psion netBook & Nokia 6210e.
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 00:36:48 -0500
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: Psion as a standalone computer, Mailboxes, A Table Application, Older ver. Opera
Answer to: Owen H. Morgan
Re.: Psion as a standalone computer - Yes, I do back-up the Psion to PC, but when traveling I easily enough back up the internal drive to the D drive CF-card and carry a spare CF-card with the details of the CD card I use on it. With the S7 and nB / mB you can easily do it without a PC when you buy a CF-card adaptor for the E slot and copy from CF-card to CF-card. Anyhow, the chances that both the internal drive and CF-card will fail together are remote, or not ? I have got DATA on the internal drive and programs on the CF-card, together with some backed up data and just data in storage (databases) so I don't write much to the CF-card.
Answer to: Philip S. Adkins Potter
Re. Mailboxes - Well, services like Spamache really do work. I subscribed and they now clean up two mailboxes I use every 10 minutes of SPAM messages and I only get one occasionally now, probably when I open my mailbox betwee those 10 minutes. It really is a delight to sometimes ahve an empty mailbox again <G>.
Answer to: Paula1323
Re.: A Table Application - I don't understand your remark about sheet. Open an object from within the WORD file and fill in the number of fields you require. If you fill in only 1 field, it will copy only the 1 field in the word file.
Answer to: Boudewijn
Re. Older version of Opera - Have a look at "http://pda.tucows.com/epoc/preview/55827.html". I don't know whether you can still register this version and whether or not it will work after the trial period.
Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 00:36:50 -0500
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: Saving emails, On/Off problem 2x, Windoze executable, , Nokia 9500
Answer to: Owen
Re.: Saving emails - WOW !! You keep ALL your emails from the last 6 years ? How many bytes of files that is ? Personally I keep very few emails, only ones with vital information or details I need to keep.
Re. On/Off problem - Interestingly enough after a soft reset the other day suddenly everything is behaving, the mBook switches off the first time I try and the battery keeps it charge while the mBook is closed. No idea what caused it and can't be sure it will not suddenly start again either.
Answer to: Philip S. Adkins Potter
Re.: OT: Windoze executable - i am afraid you will not be able to do much about it. Your eAddress most probably is present in the address book of someone else who has got a virus on his/her machine. It will send out virus emails from their machine with your address as the sender. You could try and search in the header whether you can find the email address from the person with the virus or their ISP (if it is unique to them or you recognise it). It happened to me as well but than I suppose the person did find out (s)he had a virus and it stopped again.
Answer to: Philip Carlisle
Re.: Nbook switch off/on - If you want to stop this "thrill" you could of course leave it connected to the mains when leaving it alone for longer than a day or so.
Answer to: Ray Upton
Re.: Nokia 9500 - I typed in Nokia 9500 in Yahoo and got to the www.forum.nokia.com. It looks like a noce machine, integral camera as well, colour display 640x200 pixels, it has got MMS, SMIL, instant messaging and email. Connectivity options include EDGE and WLAN, bluetooth wireless technology, USB 2.0 and infrared. Among the security features are SSL/TLS, VPN, IPv6 and IPsec (don't know what they all mean <G>), file encryption and MultiMedia Card software locks. It has got Opera 6.x for browser, it's size is 148x56x23.6 mm and it weighs 222 grams. It says to contain WORD, EXCEL and Powerpoint compatibillity. It has got a handsfree speaker too. It has got video and imae viewers (MPEG-4, 3GPP, RealMedia formats). It is also a triband device.
Well girls and guys, this looks like quite a machine, properly updated to the latest technology and ... still with Symbian OS. Any takers ?
Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 00:48:14 -0500
From: Owen H. Morgan
Subject: David Lir
Hi
Has anyone heard from David Lir lately? I haven't heard from him on or off list since early January. I know his health is not good, so I'm a bit worried.
Owen
Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands
Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-9311
http://home.no.net/naomij
Phone and SMS:
In Spain: +34 620520079
In Norway: +47 92053097
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