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The Digest Thu, 28 Apr 2005 Volume 02 : Number 737
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In today's The Digest 23 messages
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- Re: The Digest V1 # 736 (5) (via bigfoot)
- 9500 - is there a Calc app outthere?
- Re: Tomtom CityMaps Europe - MC218 help please!
- Re. Nokia 9300/9500 = Psion replacement?
- Freeware, Comment, Fashionable Morality, Discussions of "ethical"matters in th
- GMT, Tomtom CityMaps Europe, Evolution,
Date: 26 Apr 2005 11:10:33 +0100
From: Nicole Carbonara <address truncated>
Subject: GMT
Reply to: Jim Watson-Gove
Subject: GMT
>> What is the relationship between GMT and local (Winter to keep daylight savings time out of it) time in London <<
In winter: local time in London = GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Greenwich is a Borough South East of London where the Meridian 0 passes.
In summer: local time in London = GMT + 1.
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/
nic
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Date: 26 Apr 2005 11:12:16 +0100
From: Upton, Ray J <address truncated>
Subject: RE: Evolution
I'm sorry but I think I must have missed something here. Why is
Evolution being discussed on a Psion digest? Evolution of the Psion is
okay, but otherwise, please take it elsewhere.
Cheers,
Ray Upton
Date: 26 Apr 2005 11:16:51 +0100
From: Ian Chapple <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Copyright
Dear Rolf,
>>You can take additional provisions by keeping a record of the work in progress. I trust many software authors divide the development of an application into phases complete with a prototype version number (0.1, 0.2, etc.). When you keep copies of these versions (source code, libraries, compiled version, user documentation) you can demonstrate how development progressed.
...
You can expand on this by adding version numbers and dates to individual code modules, etc. Still, what I've mentioned above will be sufficient. When you add it to the finished product that's deposited at a solicitor or a bank you not only have a record of the finished product but also a record of how you came to the finished product. And the only thing you have to do is to take a slightly more formalised approach to your existing practices.<<
This is all true. As I said to Franco, I'm not sure of the legal status of purely electronic copies (ie. recordable CDs/DVDs). Also, you may well
have to pay much more to get a bank to take receipt of a package for you than just to send yourself a registered parcel containing a print-out.
John,
>>Can I make a request that the Digest is divided into two parts - one on technical matters relating to Psion/Symbian etc and one on the "ethical" discussions regarding copyrights and freeware etc? The latter I find uninteresting, overlong & repetitive; by dividing the Digest into two it would be easier to avoid this element.<<
I agree that the morality thread has gone on too long, and I shall certainly not be saying any more on the matter.
I'm sorry that you find the stuff about coypright uninteresting. I put this in, as I thought that it would be interesting to those freeware authors who are Digest subscribers. Perhaps you are the rare Psion user
who never uses freeware?!
Cheers, Ian.
Date: 26 Apr 2005 11:50:38 +0100
From: Lord Kimberley <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 736 (5) (via bigfoot)
OK - I did buy a 9500 and these are my thoughts below:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, The Digest wrote:
>
> Date: 24 Apr 2005 05:08:37 +0100
> From: Andy Beale <address truncated>
> Subject: Nokia 9300/9500 = Psion replacement?
>
> I have to agree I'm with Franco on this one.
>
> Like many of the people on this digest, I suspect, I waited and hoped > that the new Nokias would turn out to be the kind of 5mx/7
> replacements we'd all been looking for.
Always a risk / chlenge. So far I have owned:
Agenda Microwriter v1 and the larger memory v2
Psion 3a
Psion 3c
Psion 5
3 Psion 5mx
> Sadly, from the coverage/reviews generously given here, that doesn't > appear to be the case. As much as we *want* to believe that the new
> machines do everything the old 5mx did, the fact is they don't.
Well you win some and lose some. What I do now is also differnt from all those years ago. I am happy to happy a contact list, diary with alarms, word processor, spreadsheet (trivial usage), something fo odd notes. The 9500 gives me that plus a phone and mp3 player i one device. I used to think that this was not a good idea, but only carrying one thing around uas good news. The camera is handy and the connectivity great.
> Yes, you get the phone and the better connectivity, but I'm personally > not interested in that unless it can do everything the 5mx did, which > hardly seems an unreasonable request given that we're talking about 8 > year old machines!
>
> I love the idea of a bright clear colour screen, but what about its
> small size? Same goes for the new keyboard.
Goodness so do I with my poor sight. I can actually read the 9500, whereas the 5mx jad screens of very variable readability. After a short time, I really don't miss the touch screen - I never really liked it. Actually I always liked the the 3a/c for typing with my thumbs. No desk needed. the 5 needed a solid place to sit it. The 9500 again is a hold it in your hands for me. It does not matter how large the screen, if you can't read it. The keyboard takes time to get used too, but if someone would build me a Microwriter chording keyboard, I could type as fast as anyone in the dark with just one hand. Sadly no one has followed up that idea.
> So for me, personally, the new Nokias were contenders that didn't
> quite make it, and I'm sticking with the Psions for the foreseeable
> future.
Yes and at some time there will be a better version, or something that helps encourage you and others to move. Hopegfully this will be before repairing the 5mx becomes more expensive than buying a 9500! :-)
> Meanwhile, I'm happy for those whose needs changed and were
> subsequently met by moving over to the new Nokias!
What matters is that whatever PDA/phone/whatever you use works for you. There are thos who still prefer a paper diary/address book and some of us still "write" letters!
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Yours John.
Tel: +44 1763 289 732 e-mail: mailto<address truncated>BR>
Date: 26 Apr 2005 12:02:15 +0100
From: Bernard Hill <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 736 (6)
In message <K3pkjpJlJfrG.2nlgvGHm@smtp.mail.dk>, The Digest <address truncated> writes
>
To Phil Aypee:
>I've recently got an old laptop PC (backing up is a lot easier now!) >running Windoze 98. It has two PCMCIA slots so I got two CF/PCMCIA >adapters and I partitioned an old 4 MB CF card to two 2MB logical disks >(and formatted them) to see if my 5mx could see both partitions. It >couldn't.
>
>Windoze sees them and can read from or write to them - but my 5mx can >only see the first partition. Does anyone know why?
Any hard drive (or CF card, the interfaces are the same) has a "boot sector" which contains information about the arrangement of volumes (logical disks) on it. Basically W98 can read the boot partition information about primary partition and the extended partition in which the 2nd drive lives. The software in your 5mx hasn't been told that there even are such things as extended partitions so it can't see them. It reads only information it knows about, ie the primary partition.
The same would be true of a digital camera (with possible exceptions for very recent models). Both devices make use of DOS formatting but are not running DOS and haven't been told about multiple partitions.
So your 5mx and digital camera are limited to 2Gb per CF card.
(PS did you mean 4Mb disks or 4Gb disks? Both are fairly rare!)
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Bernard Hill
Selkirk, Scotland
Date: 26 Apr 2005 13:33:54 +0100
From: Max Ozinsky <address truncated>
Subject: TP500
Dear Psioneers
Thanks to Ian Chapple and Steve Litchfield for responding to my post on the Nokia 9500. Also thanks to those who responded to my post in March and apologies for not responding then. I went to Brazil the day after my post appeared and had hoped to be able to use the 9500 there to respond, but was not able to connect there and I thought that my responses were a bit old by the time I had returned to South Africa 2 weeks later.
To Ian Chapple re Freedom BT Keyboard:
Thanks for the info on the Freedom BT keyboard. I have checked their website and it seems to be a third cheaper than the Think Outside model. I must now find a way of buying one and getting it to South Africa. Any ideas on a dealer who may be able to help with this?
To Steve Litchfield:
Re Think Outside keyboard
I think that Think Outside are working on a driver for the 9300/9500 as this has now appeared as an option on their website, but it says it is not available as yet. When I asked them this question they asked if I would like to be part of their testing program. But if the Freedom keyboard already has one, and is so much cheaper I am thinking of getting one of those.
Re Loosing Contacts in Synchronisation
I don't seem to be the only one who has had this problem – someone else wrote about it about 10 days ago but I have lost that copy of the digest so I cannot remember their name. I will try using Outlook Express as you suggest.
Re Vcards
How is possible that the 9500 can send Vcards, but not receive them? Even my old Ericsson T39m was able to do this. (Unfortunately it is on the bottom of the South Atlantic after a capsize in my sailing boat earlier this month. Luckily I left the 9500 at home that day, but the T39m is really missed for its small size and reliability).
Thanks again for all the help
Max (in a sunny but cool Cape Town between cold fronts)
Date: 26 Apr 2005 13:50:37 +0100
From: Lord Kimberley <address truncated>
Subject: 9500 - is there a Calc app outthere?
Before diving into Google and the like, does anyone know a good Calc app for the 9500?
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Yours John.
Tel: +44 1763 289 732 e-mail: mailto<address truncated>BR>
Date: 26 Apr 2005 14:57:19 +0100
From: Keith Giles <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Tomtom CityMaps Europe - MC218 help please!
Ed Kaneen wrote:
> 1) By default, the maps are installed into a directory called > CityMaps. However, the application is in a directory called Street. > In order to get it working, the maps need to be moved into the
> "Street" directory.
Don't know if this'll help or not. I had the same problem when I had Street Planner loaded and started loading individual CityMaps cities. I solved the problem by removing StreetPlanner and loading the CityMaps app.
Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA
http://ohsix827.home.comcast.net
Thought For The Day:
Date: 26 Apr 2005 15:13:52 +0100
From: ian chapple <address truncated>
Subject: Re. Nokia 9300/9500 = Psion replacement?
Andy,
>>I have to agree I'm with Franco on this one.
Like many of the people on this digest, I suspect, I waited and hoped that the new Nokias would turn out to be the kind of 5mx/7 replacements we'd all been looking for.
Sadly, from the coverage/reviews generously given here, that doesn't appear to be the case. As much as we *want* to believe that the new machines do everything the old 5mx did, the fact is they don't.
Yes, you get the phone and the better connectivity, but I'm personally not interested in that unless it can do everything the 5mx did, which hardly seems an unreasonable request given that we're talking about 8 year old machines!
I love the idea of a bright clear colour screen, but what about its small size? Same goes for the new keyboard.
So for me, personally, the new Nokias were contenders that didn't quite make it, and I'm sticking with the Psions for the foreseeable future.
Meanwhile, I'm happy for those whose needs changed and were subsequently met by moving over to the new Nokias!<<
My feeling on this matter is that there never will be such a thing as a true Psion replacement. I think that the likelihood of anyone bringing out a PDA or smartphone with all of the advantages of a 5 (ie. superb keyboard, large screen) is all but nil. For most peoples' use, the Series 5 is or was overkill; a large, expensive device for carrying around your contacts, agenda etc., which is partly why Psion stopped making them.
I am absolutely certain that it was never Nokia's aim to come up with a Psion replacement; the Psion market was and is too small for this to be their concern. As Psion aficionados, we are aware that the 9300/9500 are Psion's spiritual successors; many, if not most, 9300/9500 owners/users will not be aware of this fact, and would probably not care even if they were.
I recently had to change my mobile phone, and decided to use the "opportunity" to upgrade to a smartphone. I obviously had a preference for Symbian, which restricted my choice to a P800/900/910 or a 9300/9500. One thing that I felt was a serious omission on the 9300/9500 is the lack of vibrating alert; this was one of the reasons why I chose the P910.
So far, I am very pleased with my choice, though the lack of a keyboard does take some getting used to, after more or less 8 years of Psion ownership. I have bought a Bluetooth keyboard for those occasions where a keyboard is necessary, but do not have to use it very often. The fact is, with a bit of 3rd party software, my P910 does more or less everything that my 5mx did, and the advantage of having my contacts and agenda with me all (or most) of the time more than makes up for any deficiencies. Others would obviously disagree.
One of my friends has a 9300, and is also very pleased with his choice. Yes, the keyboard and screen are small, but they are also pretty well designed, and the package as a whole is very usable. Let's be honest; if Nokia had released a 5mx-sized smartphone, they would have been ridiculed in the press and would probably not have sold many of them. At the moment, no-one but Nokia is making any effort to sell any kind of PDA/smartphone with anything like a usable keyboard.
I think that anyone waiting for a Psion replacement is in for a long wait. There are devices around which *can* replace a Psion, and many of us have these already, but none of them can be considered true replacements.
Just my 2 cents worth,
Cheers, Ian.
PS: this was written on my netbook, which I am a long way from looking to replace. Now, if only someone would come up with a netbook replacement with a higher-resolution screen, built in wireless comms, USB etc....
Date: 26 Apr 2005 16:01:43 +0100
From: Max Ozinsky <address truncated>
Subject: Nokia 9500 responses
Dear Psioneers
Thanks to Ian Chapple and Steve Litchfield for responding to my post on the Nokia 9500. Also thanks to those who responded to my post in March and apologies for not responding then. I went to Brazil the day after my post appeared and had hoped to be able to use the 9500 there to respond, but was not able to connect there and I thought that my responses were a bit old by the time I had returned to South Africa 2 weeks later.
To Ian Chapple re Freedom BT Keyboard:
Thanks for the info on the Freedom BT keyboard. I have checked their website and it seems to be a third cheaper than the Think Outside model. However it is not clear whether it will work with the Nokia 9500. Does anyone know?
To Steve Litchfield:
Re Think Outside keyboard
I think that Think Outside are working on a driver for the 9300/9500 as this has now appeared as an option on their website, but it says it is not available as yet. When I asked them this question they asked if I would
like to be part of their testing program. But if the Freedom keyboard already has one, and is so much cheaper I am thinking of getting one of those.
Re Loosing Contacts in Synchronisation
I don't seem to be the only one who has had this problem * someone else wrote about it about 10 days ago but I have lost that copy of the digest so I cannot remember their name. I will try using Outlook Express as you suggest.
Re Vcards
How is possible that the 9500 can send Vcards, but not receive them? Even my old Ericsson T39m was able to do this. (Unfortunately it is on the
bottom of the South Atlantic after a capsize in my sailing boat earlier this month. Luckily I left the 9500 at home that day, but the T39m is
really missed for its small size and reliability).
Thanks again for all the help
Max (in a sunny but cool Cape Town between cold fronts)
***************
Max Ozinsky
+27 82 4 147 147
Date: 26 Apr 2005 16:59:08 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Freeware, Comment, Fashionable Morality, Discussions of "ethical"matters in th
Answer to: Ian Chapple
Re.: Freeware - I think there is no obligation for translation even in shareware or commercial programs. I can decide to publish a program, shareware or commercial, in The Netherlands only and in the Dutch language. If someone in England or Germany would like to use such a program, I would not have any obligation to translate the program or the help files. In fact, many programs for the Psions only exist in German.
Answer to: Cyril Catt
Re.: Comment - I for one have now used my mBook for quite some time (and the S7 before that) and would never return to a 5MX without colour. In emailing or WORD I don't need it much, but specially in spreadsheets, ABP and Money the colour contributes a lot to making the screen more readeable. And of course also for those that surf the web on their PDA.
Answer to: Phil Aypee
Re.: Fashionable Morality - These words imply themselves the problem with morality. It is subjective and differs for different parts of the world as well as for groups and part of populations within countries. It is even more subjective when one part of the world starts to judge morality in other parts of the world, most of the time without delving deep enough into the situation of that other part. The highest morality in Nazi Germany was to be arian and to behave like good Germans, the results of which we all know. Was it really moral that the West entered Iraq and got rid of Sadam Hussein ? Today I think many more doubt this than when it all started. Is it moral for lecturers at universities to start boycotting lecturers from other countries on the ground of their political affiliation or situation in their countries ? Or is the freedom of the academic world beyond politics the more moral principle ? Surely the world can't be ruled on morality, there will have to be laws that put down the principles of society.
Answer to: John Morris
Re.: Discussions of "ethical" matters in the Digest - Unfortunately that is not possible John. It would mean running two digests instead of one as the software we use is unable to separate between the two, and how would any program know which one is which ? The easiest way for you would be to subscribe to the HTML version where you can jump to a specific subject, read the message, jump back to the list of subjects and jump again to another subject that does interest you.
Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
Date: 26 Apr 2005 16:59:09 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: GMT, Tomtom CityMaps Europe, Evolution,
Answer to: Jim Watson-Gove
Re.: GMT - English winter time is GMT (Greenwich Mean Time I believe) while summer time is one hour ahead of GMT.
Answer to: Ed Kaneen
Re.: Tomtom CityMaps Europe - Just move the maps from one folder to the other, it is not a problem. As to the speed at which it works, it does need a lot of memory so try to close all other programs and see if that helps. I remember from my 5MX times that it did work fast enough. There is a setting in Routeplanner that you can see the outlines of the city maps on your country map, and than you have the choice once inside that map to jump to the city map, but otherwise they do not interact and you can't use them both at the same time (AFAIK) as only one program can access the COM port.
Answer to: Chris & Rolf
Re. Evolution - I would like to add two points. First of all, talking about the Big Bang theory also in scientific terms is extremely difficult as clearly the physical laws by which our universe is measured were non-existant during that same Big Bang and as such cannot be measured (repeated) by science, it can only measure the result of that Big Bang. As to Chimpanzees and Bobobos being self-conscious, there is still a huge gap between any state of self-conscious these animals might have and the development of the human mind and social structure (for good or for worse) over the last 5 to 6,000 years or so, clearly a very small minute part of the total existence of the world. I think experiments amongst the animals has proven that, as much self-conscious as they might have, it is still an instict as opposed to human beings having intelligence.
Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
Date: 26 Apr 2005 18:21:56 +0100
From: Phil Aypee <address truncated>
Subject: Boring but short!
Hi Folks,
John (Morris), I appreciate your annoyance at the Digest posts you find uninteresting but the issues concerned may well affect you. These particular issues have affected me and my Psions - directly. I doubt I'm alone.
Therefore to me it seems reasonable to discuss these matters, tedious and repetitive though they may be (I get particularly bored with the repetition myself).
Happy days,
Phil.
"We are all in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars."
http://www.philaypee.co.uk/index.html
Date: 26 Apr 2005 22:03:42 +0100
From: David Steer \(Plus\) <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Legallity and Morality
Legality & Morality
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I have been following the debate on the issue of freeware registration and its Legality and the Morality of software that has a bug or two in. Can we for a moment consider the Windows world. I have ZoneAlam running on my PC and I registered this! I did not purchase the Pro version so I have definitely registered the freeware version, I run a freeware FTP client called AceFtp and this has a nagscreen (several actually) one of these was removed by registering AceFtp. I bet some of you out there are running the free virus system AVG (hope that is right), did you register that? I believe the process of registering freeware is not unique.
Now, lets consider bugs in software. There are two types of bugs in software, those that are known and those that are not known. Microsoft releases software (especially OS software) with both types of bugs, it is perhaps considered impossible to have several million lines of code and no bugs, it is not even possible to completely test that many lines of code in any reasonable timescale. How many litigations against Microsoft are there because their code has bugs? It is very different if you send out an electrical appliance with bugs, there are standards in place that govern these types of consumer items. I don't know of any such standards that govern software, though I am sure someone out there will be able to quote a few.
On the question of morality, we could talk about the morality of withholding software! I for one would jump at freeware bluetooth drivers that worked on my netBook, even if I know that they had a bug. How would you feel if you knew such a thing existed and it was not available? Users of Monopoly on the Series 7/netBook may feel a bit like this as we know there is a full-screen colour version that has been produced!
By the way, I also write EPOC shareware and freeware. My first freeware program was as a result of writing a program for myself and decided to make it available to everybody! It had bugs in it because it was written for a specific reason on a specific machine, for example, it did not run initially on French machines. So was this illegal? Now if I had knowingly written software that damaged a machine (this is often known as a virus!) then that is a different matter. Also, some freeware says something like you use this software at your own risk and any damage caused through the use of this software is not the responsibility of the author. Remember, you can choose to use the software or not. If you buy an electrical appliance, you don't expect to get an electric shock! I think here we are trying to compare chalk and cheese here.
Longevity of Epoc
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The other day I saw a Revo user and then a 5MX user on the train, still nice to see EPOC machines out there and in daily use. I also, still read articles that talk about world processing software to Palm machines and refer to them as not as good as EPOC Word! EPOC word is now about 6 years old, in computing terms that is about 25 years! To think that even today, our old EPOC machines still have what it takes! Also, I have seen EPOC described as the most stable operating system ever. I for one am still waiting for the perfect replacemant, the Nokia 9500 is almost there but still lacking the Touch screen makes it more a 3 Series replacement then a 5/7 series replacement.
Date: 26 Apr 2005 22:12:47 +0100
From: Colin Messer <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Presentation Maker
Mark Franklin wrote on: 19 Apr 2005
> Is there an official/unofficial update to Presentation Maker that
> allows for a colour background?
There was only one release of Presentation Maker, and that version is quite capable of giving you a coloured background. I wish I could point you to the Presentation Maker articles at the old FoxPop site, that gave step by step guides to coloured backgrounds and clip art, and presentation techniques; but I can't find them now - if anyone knows where they can be found I would be most grateful.
To add a coloured background create either a sketch or mbm picture of the size that you need, and import it using Menu > Insert > Other Object and Insert Object from Sketch. Place the cross-hairs and press Enter. This fires up Sketch. Import the mbm picture into sketch using Menu > File > Other > Merge In and select File Type of EPOC picture.
Arrange the imported picture in Presentation Maker and you now have a coloured background.
> ... once I saved my PowerPoint file as image files and/or used nConvert
> to get the slides in .pcx format. It worked but I still could not revise the
> slides while on the road with my Series 7.
Yes that's right. If you want to maintain your slides using Presentation Maker then don't go beyond 480x640. Moving slides between PC and Psion is a once-off process. The conversion looses quality and colour.
> Does anyone have Sketch app templates for slides?
Yes, but as these are company specific they won't be much use.
> Any information you have would be appreciated. I would be willing
> to work developing something that would truly be usable.
What did you have in mind?
Regards
Colin
Date: 26 Apr 2005 22:41:57 +0100
From: Chris Cooper
Subject: RE: Evolution
Please, please please, ... no more evolution!
I don't think I'm fit enough to survive that.
Best,
Chris
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Date: 26 Apr 2005 23:39:00 +0100
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: re: GMT
Sorry - guess I had an attack of the "dumbs". I pulled down my ARRL handbook and proved out my suspition. Baring savings time, GMT (and UTC) is the same as London local time. The prime meridian shown on my map passing through London means something.
After a month with my Tungston C, I am a convert to Palm. With the faster processor, the larger thumboard (compared to my Trio 90), and the 64 meg memory, it is an awesome machine for under $400 US.
jim pt wa usa
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Date: 27 Apr 2005 12:46:13 +0100
From: Philip Carlisle <address truncated>
Subject: GMT
For Jim Watson-Gove
No doubt others will have answered by now, but just in case............local time is the same as GMT in London (UK) in the winter. It becomes GMT +1 hour(BST = British Summertime)in summertime. The change to summertime is overnight Sat-Sun in late March and back to wintertime (GMT) in late October.
Regards
Philip Carlisle
London
Date: 27 Apr 2005 14:25:13 +0100
From: Phil Aypee <address truncated>
Subject: "Broken" freeware
Hi Folks,
Rolf (Brunsting), you asked, rhetorically, "Question then is : Broken in what way?" (and decided that the UK law I referred to is, effectively, "the EC Consumer Protection Directive").
First, the software is broken because there is no longer any way to 'register' it though it is, and always was, free. It doesn't work so it is broken (the UK law I referred to may be encompassed in that EC directive but it predates the EC itself by a great many years; most countries have such a law, even those not in the EC).
As for there being no effective difference between shareware and freeware requiring registration, you're wrong. If you buy a licence for shareware you are *entitled* to working software - you've bought that right. It may be limited if the writer/vendor says so, but it must work as they say it will.
And the same applies to freeware but with no charge - you're *entitled* to working software. If you don't buy a licence for shareware then you are *not* entitled to a fully working program. That's the difference.
Happy days,
Phil.
"All original ideas are dangerous
to the existing order of things."
http://www.philaypee.co.uk/index.html
Date: 27 Apr 2005 22:33:04 +0100
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: Re: GMT
Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated> wrote:-
>What is the relationship between GMT and local (Winter to keep daylight savings time out of it) time in London. I want to set up my PDA to track GMT in my ham shack.
Jim at the moment local London (and all of the UK) time is one hour ahead of GMT as we are now in BST (British Stupid Time!).
In the winter local time is GMT.
I use my 3mx for my Agenda and have two repeating events set.
On the last Sunday of March at 01:00 I have, "CLOCKS CHANGE FORWARDS".
On the last Sunday of October at 02:00 I have, "CLOCKS CHANGE BACK".
I did use the Summer Times feature on all my working (as in, being used and not in store waiting to replace a failed Psion) Psions - 3mx, 5mx,7, nB and Revo+ - but this causes havoc with PsiWin backups as windows screws up the file dates. So I now just change the times twice a year, by one hour.
The clock in my car stays at GMT, even when I'm in mainland Europe, which is one hour ahead of the UK. Until recently the changeover dates varied throughout the whole of Europe (that includes the UK), but a few years ago it was decided to standardise the changeover dates and fix the actual Sundays used. Before that even in the UK, the actual Sunday (ie last in Mar/Oct) changed from year to year.
Most confusing.
--
Alan R Morris, G4ENS.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Using a Psion netBook.
Date: 27 Apr 2005 22:33:07 +0100
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Nokia 9300/9500 = Psion replacement?
Andy Beale <address truncated> wrote:-
> I have to agree I'm with Franco on this one.
> Like many of the people on this digest .....
Andy you could not have said it any better
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Alan R Morris, G4ENS.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Using a Psion netBook.
Date: 28 Apr 2005 07:41:35 +0100
From: Ian Chapple <address truncated>
Subject: UIQ task switcher
I recently came across a great piece of UIQ software at My-Symbian, Magic Launcher. The slightly dodgy name aside, it is extremely useful, and provides what I feel is something sorely lacking in the UIQ interface; a proper task switcher.
Once Magic Launcher is installed, it adds an extra menu card in most applications; this contains a list of running apps, and also includes a Close item, meaning that any application can be closed, even the built-in apps that normally don't have a close/exit option. I've been using it for about a week now, and have not come across any problems. It's also reasonably priced; $9.95. I know that SMan is free, but it is not as tightly integrated as Magic Launcher. To use SMan easily as a task switcher, you have to allocate it one of the five application icons at the top of the screen, which is not ideal.
Cheers, Ian.
Date: 28 Apr 2005 10:53:28 +0100
From: Ian Chapple <address truncated>
Subject: Re: CF Formatting
Phil,
>>I've recently got an old laptop PC (backing up is a lot easier now!) running Windoze 98. It has two PCMCIA slots so I got two CF/PCMCIA adapters and I partitioned an old 4 MB CF card to two 2MB logical disks (and formatted them) to see if my 5mx could see both partitions. It couldn't.
Windoze sees them and can read from or write to them - but my 5mx can only see the first partition. Does anyone know why?
I'd like this to work as I'd like to put a B-I-G card in there with two usable partitions.<<
Someone did post something about using partitioned CF cards a while ago, but I couldn't get the Digest archive search facility to work, so I can't find the relevent issue of the Digest. The problem may lie with the type
of partitions that you've created, but I don't know enough about this to tell you for sure. I have tried to use Partition Magic to partition a CF card in the past, but it only works on hard disks for some reason.
Cheers, Ian.