- Re VNC on a netBook,

- Psion Replacements?

- RE: Questions

- Reflowing Psion text

- Re: Reflowing Psion text

Date: 11 Jun 2007 12:32:17 +0100
From: David Steer \(Plus\) <address truncated>
Subject: Re VNC on a netBook,

To Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: VNC on a netBook,

>Re.: VNC on a netBook - But even if somehow this would be possible,
>how would you view a full PC screen on your nBook and use all the
>various functions like a mouse click when you don't have a mouse ?
>Furthermore, how would you connect in a hotel room to the broadband
>connection of the hotel ?  Practically I don't think this will work,
>even if theoretically you could get the connection.
>David Steer writes that he did it but as said above to me it is
>unclear how in practice this will work. Can you explain, David ?

Itamar,

VNC produces a window onto the PC screen and you can scroll the window.  I have a 20" wide screen set up and I can view that on my netBook, though the colours are mutes to 256 so can look a little strange.

Mouse clicks are done by tapping the screen: Left click - just tap, Right click - Fn+tap.

Tight VNC is actually very fast and, if properly optimised on the PC (i.e. speed and not quality) it is very usable.  The smaller the resolution of the target PC or server, the better the experience as there will be less scrolling.  For me, I used to manage the servers through it, so checking if a backup has run, looking at event logs and restarting the server.  There was sometimes a problem in that the VNC service on the PC did not always work properly and I had to restart it to get it to work - not much good if you are not next to the PC!  I used to test it locally first!

You are right about the connection though.  VNC and Tight VNC are not encrypted, they do have a password for connection but that is it.  You really do want to ensure that only you can get on to the service!  I configured the firewall such that only a selection of IP address sources could get through on the VNC port.  This means that the IP address need to be a known range or static - that rules out public hot spots!  I used the mobile phone but only the dial up as my ISP (Thanks Julia for recommending them) has a back-up dial number that gives me the same static IP address I get at home on my broadband.  This meant I could reasonably securely pass through the firewall from anywhere.

This means that, it can be useful but you need an extensive amount of control over the network to make it safe.  Of course you can elect to open up the port for any IP address then you would be able to access from an broadband connection such as a hotel, but any Security Manager worth his salt would not allow this.

Another option might be 'Go-To-My-PC' but I have no experience with this.  Also, the netBook has a Citrix client that may work with Citrix infrastructure.

I hope this explains it a little further for you.

Regards
David

Date: 12 Jun 2007 01:53:36 +0100
From: g y reyes <address truncated>
Subject: Psion Replacements?

At 07:45 PM 6/11/2007 +0800, you wrote:
>Date: 9 Jun 2007 20:09:58 +0700
>From: Mike Dyer <address truncated>
>Subject: Re: Palm Foleo



>Hi all,

>news emerged last week of some competition for the Foleo:

>http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/06/nanobook.html>I like the idea of the Foleo, and it's automatic synchronisation with my Treo,
>I think the price could be the biggest hurdle though.

>£199 would be about right, I expect it will be rather more ~ time will tell.

>It does now seem that finally potential Psion replacements are on the horizon.

>Mike Dyer.

Hi All,

Read just this weekend about Asus launching a
US$200.00 laptop in August or Sept with 7-10"
screen.  And this will, it appears, be a
full-featured laptop but with a much smaller footprint.

Gary

"Seek no rewards, only the promised wage of a worker in the vineyard."

Date: 12 Jun 2007 23:24:00 +0100
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: RE: Questions

From: emai7s <address truncated>

} Is there a way to reflow the text in in PsionWord doc or in a
} text file? I frequently get large texts in this format:
}
}    "Government statistics released Thursday showed that
} applications for
}    unemployment benefits declined last week, further evidence that the

I guess this is probably because Psion Word was written to be similar to
M$ Word.

I also find this very annoying.  I am a member of a few Yahoo lists and
when there is useful info to keep, have this problem.

My solution is the use the search & replace feature <Ctrl + H>.  Here's
how:-

Place cursor on the first line and hit <Fn + Cur right> to go to the
line end.  Sometimes there will be a space at the end and often not.

Reposition the cursor before any space, then holding down <shift>, use
<Cur right> to position after the last space at the beginning of the
next line.

Use <Ctrl + H> and insert the highlight into the first field, then put a
<space> in the second field.

Complete the feature once or twice to check all is OK and then for all.

A bit slow, but as there are so many different possibilities to search
for, not so easy to use a macro.

Alan

Date: 12 Jun 2007 23:46:02 +0100
From: Chris Cooper
Subject: Reflowing Psion text

Hi, Peter

I'm sending this directly to you and copying it to the Digest.

I'm attaching a macro that can help with the reflow problem. (This won't appear in the Digest, of course.) It's to be used
with Macro5 - I'm assuming you already use this. If you don't, I strongly
recommend downloading it - from pscience5.net? (It takes a bit of learning!)

The macro is called TildeChangeToReturn.opo - I can't remember where I got it from.

You use it like this:

1) To make things clearer, display the carriage-return control characters in
your text by pressing Control-K and selecting "Show paragraph ends". (This
step is not essential.) You'll see single carriage-return characters at the
end of each line, and multiple carriage-return characters between one
paragraph and the next.

2) Search your text and replace the multiple carriage returns with a tilde
("~"). Do this thus:
- Go to the beginning of the second paragraph, hold down Shift and press
Left-arrow repeatedly, until you've highlighted the two or more
carriage-return control characters between the first and second paragraphs.
- Press Control-H. The carriage-return control characters are In the "Search
for" field - only they're  invisible!
- Enter a tilde in the "Replace with" field. Then Replace-all in the usual
way.  You now have single tildes separating the paragraphs.

3) Search your text and replace the carriage returns at the ends of lines
with spaces. Do this thus:
- Go to the beginning of the second line, hold down Shift and press
Left-arrow once, so that you highlight the single carriage-return control
character at the end of the first line.
- Press Control-H. The carriage-return control character is now In the
"Search for" field - invisible again.
- Enter a space in the "Replace with" field. Then Replace-all in the usual
way.  All carriage returns have now disappeared - you have to restore the
ones that have been replaced by tildes.

4) Using Macro5, run TildeChangeToReturn.opo.  The tildes should disappear
and be replaced by two or more carriage returns to break the text into
paragraphs.

5) You may have some surplus spaces at the former line ends. If so, remove
them by search-and-replace.

I give the corresponding TildeChangeToReturn.opl procedure below. It's easy
to replace the tilde by some other character if you want to for any reason.

Best,

Chris

- - -

PROC Macro:
LOCAL S$(1)
WHILE 1
SendKey:("Ctrl+f")
SendKey:("~")
SendKey:("Enter")
S$=""
S$=Copy$:
IF S$<>"~"
BREAK
ENDIF
SendKey:("Enter")
SendKey:("Enter")
ENDWH
ENDP

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Date: 13 Jun 2007 10:58:21 +0100
From: emai7s <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Reflowing Psion text

Hi Chris,

> I'm attaching a macro that can help with the reflow problem.  It's to be used with Macro5 - I'm assuming you already use this.

Thanks so much - yes, I make extensive use of Macro5, and the tilde macro you so kindly sent solves the reflow problem.

It's odd that Psion makes it so difficult to search & replace carriage returns.

Thanks again for the macro and the clear instructions for use.

Best regards,

Peter