- Orange Squash

- Hard & SSDs + Toughbooks

- Malay book image netbook module

- Re: Asus eee

- Log file

- Advantage 7501 > x7510

- New square Pocket Computer

Date: 22 Feb 2008 10:42:14 +0000
From: Timothy H.D. Williams <address truncated>
Subject: Orange Squash

On 21 Feb 2008, at 20:50, Martin wrote:

> In the log program:
> 1. Go to print
> 2. Select Options (CBA button 3)
> 3. Change type to File
> 4. Change Printer to General
> 5. Select Done
> 6. Select Print to print the log to a text file
> 7. Transfer the text file to your PC

Martin

Thanks a lot. This is of course how we did things in the old days on 
the Psion. Because the print interface is so spartan on the Nokia, I 
never went looking for the 'file' option.

Thanks again.

I look forward to hearing from Orange. Yesterday Orange informed me 
that if with my account I wanted a detailled billing, I would have to 
pay a euro per person called or calling. Which could mean €100 for the 
billing.

Orange put happy, smiling people on their adverts. I can only assume 
that in their avarice, Orange is missing the plot. Smiling over the 
way Orange treats us ?

That said, Orange gives better coverage than the other two telephone 
companies here in the French Caribbean.

Best

Tim

Date: 22 Feb 2008 15:24:46 +0000
From: Alan R Morris <address truncated>
Subject: Hard & SSDs + Toughbooks

From: Chris Handley

} I doubt it is more robust than a normal laptop
} (excluding the solid-state Hard Disk of course)

I have had the idea since using my first 3MB hard disk, that hard disks
were fragile.  (yes 3MB not a typo)

But recently on a list for folk that take their computers in 4x4s in
rough places, I read that things have improved over recent years.

} touch-screen version - although having recently bought a rather more
} expensive Panasonic Toughbook CF-T5, I am unlikely to buy one
} myself...

Chris I own a Toughbook CF-71, because of my concern for the hard disk -
I don't have a habit of poring glasses of water over the k'brd !

Folk have reported using their normal laptops in 4x4s in the Oz outback
etc. for years being bounced about, without failures.

However I expect my next laptop to be an other Toughbook but one with a
touch screen like my Psion collection.

I bought a Toshiba Tablet PC only to discover that it needs a special
expensive 'pen' on it's screen.  I only hope that I don't loose it.
Still I've still got 6 Psion 'pens' plus the old Revo+ one.  None of
them have been lost.  Yet!

Alan

Date: 22 Feb 2008 15:55:19 +0000
From: "Daniel Leche" <address truncated>
Subject: Malay book image netbook module

Has anyone advice as to obtaining an mbook image for use in converting an S7 to an Mbook.

Am looking for a Netbook module to use in upgrading an S7

Thanks to all for a very informative site.

Daniel:  judysmailg at gmail.com

Date: 22 Feb 2008 16:23:00 +0000
From: Terry Gordon <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Asus eee

Chris, all your comparison thoughts are true but the ASUS eee is still pretty nice (simpler wifi, webcam, better speakers).  I still want to touch the screen by habit!  As for rugged, some video on the internet shows some guy dropping his Asus off a chair, off a railing in his house, off a table at work - different landing surfaces and the Asus was tested both open and closed - survived every test.

TG

Date: 22 Feb 2008 17:12:39 +0000
From: K.I. van der Straten <address truncated>
Subject: Log file

*  I came across a free program to export my E90 log as a CSV file, which *  I converted to Excel; I burnt this onto a CD.

Hello Ian,

Can you tell us the name of that program and the place where you find it? Is there also a S80 version?

Regards,
Kees.

Date: 22 Feb 2008 18:30:27 +0000
From: Moshe Nahir <address truncated>
Subject: Advantage 7501 > x7510

To Itamar:

>I have got a DELL XPS that weighs only 1.8 kg and I take it on all my business trips and holidays. But, it is not a handheld like the Psions.

Thanks again. What I am after is a handheld, one roughly the size of the 5mx, in addition to my laptop (which I also use as my desktop). So if you had an opportunity to see an Advantage 7501 or 7510 I wonder what you think of it. 

It's interesting that for a (light) laptop you suggest a Dell, which I just decided to order the other day (Dell XPS M1330). If you have any advice re its purchase (components, etc.) and/or use I would greatly appreciate hearing about it.

Good Day,       Moshe

Date: 23 Feb 2008 17:28:00 +0000
From: Alan R Morris <address truncated>
Subject: New square Pocket Computer

What is this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPl9c198KHY&feature=related#
It's a thin square box being removed from a pocket.  Placed on a desk.
Like a Psion the screen opens, then the keyboard is opened up.  A hinge
is on the right and it folds up and over, and keeps going until flat on
the desk to reveal a full size k'brd.

Alan.