- RE: Asus EEE PC

- Loose keyboard

- REF: Corruption!

- Sending email

- Re: The Digest V1 # 1190 (7)

- GAROUTE program for Psion 5

- GaRoute program

- Loose keyboard,

- Corruption!,

- Advantage 7501,

Date: 10 Feb 2008 17:10:14 +0000
From: Alan R Morris <address truncated>
Subject: RE: Asus EEE PC

} From: John Morris <address truncated>

} I've recently borrowed an Asus EEE PC from work (cost from
} eBuyer.com was GBP160 + VAT).

} - a friend has loaded Windows XP onto his EEE PC and states
} that it works well and does not slow the device too much.
} This option does add lots of cost unless one uses unlicensed software.

John thanks for your comments.

I've been reading about this devise in other places.  My concern with
installing Windows is that a non-embedded version would trash the SSD
hard causing a short life.

One person has reported that the short life of a SSD due to continual
writing is no longer a problem.

Any thoughts.

Alan.

Date: 11 Feb 2008 14:50:16 +0000
From: Philip Carlisle <address truncated>
Subject: Loose keyboard

Thanks very much to Simon and Chris for their useful advice.

For anyone else who suffers from the keyboard springing out of the
slide, Simon's advice works (though his link went to a Google navigation
page), with the added direction that, once having removed the hinge pins
and brought the keyboard forward, one needs a blade to lift the edge of
the plastic 'floor' under the keyboard, and then the lip on the bottom
of the keyboard can be married with the edge of said 'floor' along which
it slides.

Kind regards
Philip Carlisle

Date: 11 Feb 2008 16:23:26 +0000
From: K.I. van der Straten <address truncated>
Subject: REF: Corruption!

Hello Melvin,

*  Start all over with a hard reset?

Yes, that's the best solution.

*    Also, the D drive has accumulated a couple of files that I cannot *  erase.  I get the message "BAD NAME" when I attempt to do so.  Does *  this mean that I should copy the other files and folders onto my PC *  and reformat D as well?

The same answer as above.

Regards
Kees.

Date: 11 Feb 2008 17:09:01 +0000
From: Ajai Khattri <address truncated>
Subject: Sending email

On 6 Feb 2008 22:14:50 +0100 Steve Pepper wrote:

> I have a Psion 7 (upgraded to Netbook) and a freeserve email account > (now Orange). I can receive emails via WiFi but not send, which is a > shame as it would be nice to do this on the move.
>
> I can't send emails via WiFi locations and only have a PC modem at home > so I can't check it out via the WiFi from my own ASDL phone line connection. >
> Does anyone know of any provider that would allow me to send emails via a remote WiFi connection? > I can't use Hotmail or my Orange Webmail to access my account as Epoc 5.1 won't handle it.

Many ISPs will block outbound SMTP (port 25) traffic unless its coming
from their mail servers (generally to combat spambot virus-infested PCs.

They should however, allow you to relay through their mail server instead (most do though some require you to have an account and use SMTP
authentication).

As someone who worked for an ISP, Im just telling you what the rationale
is behind blocking direct SMTP from a user and a possible workaround.

(In our case, we implemented SMTP authentication and added port 587 as
another port to use for sending).

--
Aj.

Date: 11 Feb 2008 17:15:52 +0000
From: Ajai Khattri <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 1190 (7)

On 8 Feb 2008 22:33:51 +0100, Bob wrote:

> I did buy Asus EEE machine.  I haven't received it yet but hope to any > day. My question is, one of the folks here on the Digest mentioned that > he or she has a 8 gb memory card in their machine.  It would be a high > capacity card and from what I can see it just says SD or MMC but doesn't > mention HC.

Generally, you WILL want to buy an SDHC card if its bigger than 2Gb. The only issue is that SD cards will work in both SD and SDHC slots/readers, but SDHC cards ONLY work in SDHC-compatible devices. Caveat emptor.

> I will look at the specs again to see if I missed something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC
--
Aj.

Date: 12 Feb 2008 11:56:30 +0000
From: John Spillett <address truncated>
Subject: GAROUTE program for Psion 5

Does anyone know the current email address of the author of this  or how to get a registration code.

Also has anyone a Street Planner program for France that they would like to sell?

Regards

John

Date: 12 Feb 2008 15:59:16 +0000
From: John Spillett <address truncated>
Subject: GaRoute program

Please ignore request for email address as I have now found it!!

Date: 12 Feb 2008 19:28:43 +0000
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Loose keyboard,

Att.: Philip Carlisle

Re.: Loose keyboard - There is no other solution for DIY than to try and push it back. You have to try and somehow angle it and try to bend the keyboard slightly upwards in the middle. Try using a small knife or similar utensil to flip it underneath into the groove. Success !

Best regards,

Itamar

Date: 12 Feb 2008 19:28:45 +0000
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Corruption!,

Att.: Melvin Woody

Re.: Corruption! - I think you will have no choice but to reformat the C drive. Don't you have a back-up of the C drive from before it got corrupt ? If not, you will have to reinstal your software. Sorry and success.

Best regards,

Itamar

Date: 12 Feb 2008 19:28:43 +0000
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Advantage 7501,

Att.: Moshe Nahir

Re.: Advantage 7501 - Hi Moshe, good to hear from you again. I have no experience with the 7501 but if you would like to continue using a Symbian / Epoc machine I would advice you to try and get a 2nd hand mBook or netBook. Although they are larger and not really a handhold machine you can carry them along and you will get a colour screen with all your "old" functions from the 5MX and software working.

Best regards,

Itamar