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Epoc Digest Tue, 24 Feb 2004 Volume 01 : Number 456

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In today's Epoc Digest 17 messages:

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- MC218 behaves like a 5mx!

- netBook Security

- Re: TomeRaider; Re: Merging anniversaries, Web (4 Greg); K2 Urls

- Re. Power-off mBook (2? Itamar)

- k2 thanks 2 vkv # 455 (1)

- Java and Jnote

- Psion emulator, Html & digest, trogrammars , Agendas/Web on 5MX, Power-off,

- Re: Geting old, foldable technology

- Psion emulator questions | soft keyboards

- Re: Epoc Digest V1 # 455 (1)

- Re: Psion emulator tips, Spam

- Re: Psion emulator tips

- Re: Spam

- Cheapest 256-512 SSD/MC Cards

- CronTab

- Re: Agenda's anniversaries

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 06:20:57 +0000

From: Max Ozinsky

Subject: MC218 behaves like a 5mx!

Dear Psioneers

My 5mx had its third screen cable failure in just over 4 years yesterday. This came about 3 weeks after the touch screen had failed and I was waiting for it to happen.

I was able to make a complete backup after the failure. By holding the screen slightly open, the screen still worked and I was able to switch the cable link on and start the backup. I backed up to a new directory to force a full back up of the Internal drive

Luckily I had a brand new MC218 which has been waiting for 2 years in a cupboard at home for the 5mx to fail. I did a full restore from the full backup and the MC218 is working well. (I am writing from this machine). My main concern was to ensure that I would be able to send retrieve my emails. Just before the screen failure I had written 9 emails which were in the outbox. By doing the full back up the emails were restored perfectly and I was able to send the 9 in the queue without any problems.

My question is this: because I did a full restore from the 5mx backup my MC218 now behaves like a 5mx. The applications activated by the touch screen are those of the 5mx and not the MC218, although all the MC218 applications which the 5mx does not have (My phone for instance) are accessible from the Z drive. I want to know whether I will have any problems using the MC218 as if it were a 5mx? Should I do a hard reset and rather re-install all the applications?

All help greatly appreciated

Max

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Max Ozinsky

Cape Town

South Africa

<+27 +82 414-7147

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 08:36:01 +0000

From: "Jeanny Sewell"

Subject: netBook Security

I need some help please.

I am using a netBook and am having difficulty doing operations that require security. I am able to access my bank and get all the balances but as soon as I

want to do a transaction (like paying a creditor) it freezes.

Likewise I am able to assess my stockbrokers website and get all the normal information but as soon as I want to go to my account it will not allow me to do

it.

I have Opera 5.1 installed and have tried under connections in the connection

preferences, Opera, Mozilla and Microsoft. In the security preferences I have

tried them all.

I love my netBook but I find these restrictions very constricting so much so that it may force me to look at an alternative.

Any suggestions will be welcome.

Best Regards,

Jeanny

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 08:58:01 +0000

From: Jack

Subject: Re: TomeRaider; Re: Merging anniversaries, Web (4 Greg); K2 Urls

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Subject : tr 1 and/or 2?

2 eminent digest contributors wrote :

>>...TR installs two different apps folders in the System/Apps > folder. I have deleted one with no deleterious effect. Can't remember which>>>>

>I also remember having deleted the second one, but the app wouldn't start then.<

I deleted tr"1" or equivalent; (ie I kept tr2 only) and... Tr(2) works OK.

NB I have 3 files in C/system/apps/tr2 :

tr2.fop; tr2.ini; tr2.set2 !

Just my 2¢!

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To Greg who,

>>>>...would like to ... create a 2004 file with all anniversaries from the 2001 year merged in<<<

RE Before Merging-in the 2001Ag (by File/More/Merge in.. Entries OR? Entries and preferences)

make sure, within your Agenda files that:

Tools/View preferences/Allowed types/Anniversaries

Tools/Entry preferences/Anniversary/Synchronise with other agenda...

are both Checked.

...........

>>>....Web wasn't running. It said that the file was corrupt.<<<

RE You could try :

1- delete "Web.ini" file.

2- If you reinstall Web, make sure you use the right (= for 5Mx; not for nB) sis file!

HTH!

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To: Victor E.Kviat

Thanks to you and all other Russian speakers for the K2 Urls...

but .... are they any english or "roman" files in progress?

Jack

"- You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.

- How on earth did you know that?

A study in scarlet; 1881. A C Doyle"

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 09:25:06 +0000

From: Jack

Subject: Re. Power-off mBook (2? Itamar)

Was it you Itamar? who :

>> ... left the office with a fully charged mBook, closed..... opened it some 4 hours later to find the battery on 11.5 v and Chadisk showing 3.9 hours of "use".<<

RE:

(I thought Itamar had "only" 7 & Mb ;-]

I could suggest 2 safeguards :

1- A sound Off at switch off macro (+ sound on at switch on)

2- Alarm+ installed, then Conf. Pan./Alarms/Cancel....

Psioners keep cool!

Jack

PS To Itamar : Thanks for mailing your "Emulator hints" and Wins Opx to me too.

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 09:45:55 +0000

From: vlad a

Subject: k2 thanks 2 vkv # 455 (1)

> VKV wrote on 23.2.2004 6:04 Uhr:

> I provided here links to dictionaries

Thankyou for your complete k2 list!

best,

vlad

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 11:35:47 +0000

From: Timothy H.D. Williams

Subject: Java and Jnote

I can't get jnote to run on the Netpad.

> http://www.8ung.at/abierwirth/install.htm

Java is preinstalled on the Netpad. Is there something I need to add?

It works a treat in Mac X.

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 13:23:27 +0000

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: Psion emulator, Html & digest, trogrammars , Agendas/Web on 5MX, Power-off,

Answer to: Owen

Re.: Psion emulator - You wrote "Psion never really intended the machines as standalone computers". I don't think that is true. The Psion's are certainly machines that can be used as "standalone", whenever I travel it is my only computer and does all it needs to do. Sure, some "beauty" effects like fonts and frills are missing, but for the working businessman that is not important (at least not for me). AFAIR you use it mostly as "standalone" as well ?

Answer to: Neil Thompson

Re. Html & digest - The digest is sent in plain text format from Psions only, there is no way it could arrive in HTML format.

Answer to: Vlad A

Re. trogrammars - Is that a combination of "troll" and "programmer" ... ? <BG>

Answer to: Greg Crayford

Re. Agendas/Web on 5MX - A much better way to "open" a new agenda file each year is to clean/tidy the old one and delete all entries up to the 1st of January of the new year and save these into a new file. This way all your settings, to-do's and anniversaries stay in the "new" (= old) file and the old data of the last year are saved in the new file. Did you try to delete the Web.ini file (usually in the Documents folder) ? If that does not help, uninstall the program, delete the Web.ini and try to install it again.

Answer to: Trygve Henriksen

Re. Power-off - Thanks for the idea of an alarm, but I use AlarmPlus to stop alarms from finishing my battery charge and the mBook should switch off again after an alarm (set to 3 minutes in Control Panel). Also, no one reacted to my problem that sometimes it takes 3 times to switch off my mBook, the first two times it switches off and immediately on again. No one has got this problem ? (Finally I can make a claim to be unique .... <G>).

Re. Don't forget wine... - Red whine to be exact. White wine does not keep longer than a few years.

Best regards,

Itamar Engelsman

London, UK

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 13:48:37 +0000

From: Owen H. Morgan

Subject: Re: Geting old, foldable technology

Howdy!

I wrote (>> ):

>> Can someone remember what date the original S5

>> arrived on the market?

Trygve Henriksen replied (> ):

> Late summer of 1997, with the first machines

> reaching Norway in December that year. (The second

> batch, from which mine came, arrived in January

> 1998)

So mine was probably from the first batch.

Antony wrote (>> ):

>> and now there is technology being developed to

>> create 'floppy screens'.

Trygve Henriksen replied (> ):

> I can't wait for those to hit the market.

> I wonder if it'll be possible for amateur

> 'tinkerers' to get hold of them.

> I've also heard that they're REALLY 'low power',

> too.

I just had a thought. Most of you are probably aware of metal with a memory, used amongst other things for spectacle frames that can be bent in all directions and and will return to their normal shape. This might be useful for the frame for a floppy screen.

> Unfortunately, I don't think it'll be possible to

> get flexible touch-screens for a while yet. (It'll

> take another layer of plastic. Just try to glue

> two sheets of plastic together, then roll them

> into a tight roll...)

Hmm It might not work at all. Touch sensitivity may need a hard back for something to press against.

Owen

Thought for the day:

If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed of.

Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-928°14.86'N 16°50.54'W

Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands

http://home.no.net/naomij

Phone and SMS:

In Spain: +34 620520079

In Norway: +47 92053097

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 14:34:28 +0000

From: Antony

Subject: Psion emulator questions | soft keyboards

To: Owen Morgan

>i suppose that depends on your definition of poor. It's stable, it's easy to configure and easy and intuitive to use and it doesn't allow nasty stuff to exploit the machine. In that way it's quite good. It is rather poorly featured compared to most desktop based e-mail applications, but then unlike many (most?) of us on this digest, Psion never really intended the machines as standalone computers. That's a pity because they were so near to acheiving it. With the addition of Rolf's REM and Sergio's SaveMail, the EPOC e-mail application actually becomes one of the most versatile around and thankfully, it doesn't send RTF or HTML e-mails.

What I meant by poor is the lack of features you would expect such as signatures and possibly HTML email. After all, you get a browser, why not have a feature to launch the browser and open a temporary .htm doc at least?

I also find the connectivity settings annoying. Firstly, I use my Netbook at home, at work and when mobile. At work I connect via LAN/WAN, home via LAN/ADSL and mobile via IR mobile. All 3 have different SMTP servers, but all connect to the same mailbox (POP3). For this, I have to connect to the Internet and the connect to 1 of 3 duplicate accounts with different SMTP details. It would have been far better if it was an option to determine SMTP account details from or based on the internet connection.

If I have 2 or more mail accounts, they all go into the same inbox. It would be nice if there was either a message filtering feature or part of the account credentials included the folder to put them in.

Also, the fact that I first download the subjects, choose the ones I want without reading the body, then move the email I want to keep into the inbox, takes more time during the selection process than it would to just download the lot and disconnect. This is especially annoying if you have alot of and the damn thing disconnects from your mailbox before you've had a chance to close it, because you were manually filtering, whereby you have to get all the messages again!

>With the aid of EpocSync, you can actually use the simulator as a spare Psion or even use it as your home machine with a 5(mx) or Revo/Mako as your portable. Personally, I don't bother. I'm quite happy typing on the 5mx or Rako and on a boat, the power consumption of the WindoZe notebook is always a problem so I use it as little as possible.<

I suggested possibly using it to access backed up documents without the need for a document conversion, which pretty much amounts to the same thing.

To: Itamar Engelsman

Re: email application: See above

Re: Operating system: I know they no longer own EPOC, but they never owned CE.NET either, but developed it for use on the Netbook pro. I was just trying to make the point that they could broaden their market rather than jump ship.

To: Trygve Henriksen

I suppose you're right about needing a flat surface. With a floppy screen, they could have a keyboard similar to a Nokia communicator, where the phone opens like a book, but using the space used for the screen area aswell as the floppy screen would not require the space?

Antony Booth

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 16:34:43 +0000

From: Carlos Rodriguez

Subject: Re: Epoc Digest V1 # 455 (1)

>Date: 22 Feb 2004 12:15:23 +0000

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: Emulator problems, Getting old!, ExAb, Compuserve Cologne numbers,

>Answer to: Carlos Rodriguez

>Re. Compuserve Cologne numbers - Thanks, I had that old number as well, but when I dial it I get the message that the number has not been recognised. Any info ?

I'm afraid you got me stumped. I can't try out the numbers right now, since I'm travelling in Arizona. (There were 2 numbers, but the formatting in my post got screwed up.) All I can say is that so far all the numbers in the CS software have worked, and I was sent the software October 2003. I also know that the old Frankfurt number (which is where I normally live) continued to work in spite of CS switching to a nationwide number. Speaking of which, have you tried that one? (The 019... number). It should be billed as a local call, unless the hotel disallows such Service Numbers. Other than that? Try all the numbers with a 0211-prefix. Or maybe the hotel has a free Wi-Fi installed...? Or call the CS hotline?

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Regards

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 16:49:36 +0000

From: Euan Mee

Subject: Re: Epoc Digest V1 # 455 (1)

On 23 Feb 2004, at 5:04, Epoc Digest wrote:

> After all those years, even though not in

> production anymore,

The Psion 5mx has only been out of production for about 18 months now.

Cheers,

Euan

xlucid

this).sf.(antispam.)net

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 18:50:43 +0000

From: Chris S Handley

Subject: Re: Psion emulator tips, Spam

Subject: Psion emulator tips

Peter Rand wrote:

> My notebook doesn't have a serial port, so I use a

> USB2--> serial adapter to use PsiWin with my Series 7. But I

> guess accessing a USB port is beyond what EpocSync was

> designed to do.

Actually, I think EpocSync should be able to access it quite happily. The key is that the USB serial adapter has a Windows driver which will make it appear like any other serial port - the only requirement for use with the Emulator is that the port must appeare has COM1 or COM2.

> PhoneMan Pro works on the emulator, IR and all? Thanks,

> that's a tip that's well worth chasing down.

I haven't actually tested it, but I don't expect it to work... Just tried - and no joy :(

I was mainly thinking you can at least still view the data that PhoneMan Pro stores.

(This lack of IR working really bugs me - if anyone has any hints on getting IrCOMM2k to work as advertised I would be very pleased!)

> How do I tell Windows to put my modem on COM2? I played

> around with the network settings, but couldn't see how to do

> this.

It is nothing to do with Network settings. You should go to the Control Panel, System icon, Hardware tab, Device Manager button - and then Properties for the relevant device (such as Modem or IR port).

Hidden in the advanced properties of my modem was an option to change the COM port. You can only tell it to use a port which is not already used, therefore you need to first move any device using COM1 or COM2.

My Infrared port was a different matter. I had to manually edit the registry. My problem is that I was unsure if I should set the real (hardware) IR port to COM1, or whether IrCOMM2k's software port should be set to COM1. In IrCOMM2k's case, it proved very difficult to change it's automatically allocated port number, and required un- & re-installing IrCOMM2k.

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Chris Handley

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Subject: Spam

Andy Hayes wrote:

> I am sure that Itamar's 41% spam will raise some eyebrows.

> Mostly because many are going to report higher numbers.

Errr, one spam a week!

> Not untypically I just downloaded my emails - 75 - of which 4

> were NOT spam. I expect to receive up to 200 spam messages on

> a normal day.

I honestly don't know how people cope with this level of junk.

> I am going to go against conventional wisdom

> though and change my email address.

Certainly that is a short term solution - how long is it going to last?

> My downfall was probably posting my address in the newsgroups

> ages ago.

Hmmm, I did that too some years ago (with my existing email address), and it hasn't caused me problems since I stopped advertising my address in public. Reason? Spammers probably only want to harvest new (active) addresses, not old ones that people may have abandoned.

BTW, I trust you have NOT been replying to spam, telling them you wish to "opt out" of their junk? Thats a sure way to keep your spam levels high :(

Regards,

Chris Handley

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 21:15:25 +0000

From: Owen H. Morgan

Subject: Re: Psion emulator tips

Howdy!

Peter Rand wrote (> ):

> It SHOULD be

> possible to EpocSync over a real serial cable, but

> you might find messing with cables tedious

I'm pretty sure I've done this, and it was no more problem than connecting the Psion via PsiWin. The important things to remember when connecting EpocSync on the EPOC simulator to a Psion are that PsiWin must be closed, and that goes for the Connection Server too (squiggly line) _AND_ the remote link should be switched _OFF_ on the Psion.

> I've given up on EpocSync. My notebook doesn't

> have a serial port, so I use a USB2--> serial

> adapter to use PsiWin with my Series 7. But I

> guess accessing a USB port is beyond what EpocSync

> was designed to do.

WindoZe and thus the EPOC simulator and EpocSync running on it should see the USB RS-232 as a standard COM port (0 or 1) providing you can persuade WindoZe to assign it to COM1 or COM2.

> It would be nice to figure out how to use EpocSync

> with the notebook's

> IR port, but I haven't had any luck there.

I suspect this will be much more difficult to acheive.

> how to cut&paste data between the Emulator and

> WinXP etc?

> You can't, sorry. I have been toying with the idea

> of fixing this

> myself, but I don't know when I will have the time

> (maybe this year if you are lucky!).

There is a workaround, at least for text. Cut and paste to a text editor, open the file on the other OS and cut and paste to where-ever you want it. A bit tedious, but worth the effort if you need to copy a large amount of text.

Owen

Thought for the day:

Ever stop to think and then forget to start again?

Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-928°14.86'N 16°50.54'W

Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 21:15:33 +0000

From: Owen H. Morgan

Subject: Re: Spam

Howdy!

Andy Hayes wrote (> ):

> Not untypically I just downloaded

> my emails - 75 - of which 4 were NOT spam.

Wow! I haven't received _ANY_ spam so far this year! I'm not sure if I received any last year, maybe half a dozen at most. I do receive the occasional virus, but I usually recognize them on the server and delete them without downloading. An unknown "from" address, a subject which doesn't make sense to me and a 50-70kb attachment are the surest signs.

I have an old web based iname.com address which I haven't used for a couple of years. My mother checks it for me a couple of times a month to see if someone interesting has tried to contact me that way and that address still gets some spam, maybe 15-20 messages a month.

> I am going to go against conventional

> wisdom though and change my email address.

I wouldn't say this is against conventional wisdom. Iif you haven't posted your e-mail address on the web or Usenet for a long time and it's still attracting this amount of Spam, then that's probably the only option. Did you do a Google or Search.com for your own address? It might prove illuminating!

> My downfall was probably posting my address in the

> newsgroups ages ago.

That is probably to most certain way of fishing for Spam! Placing your e-mail address on the web is almost as effective.

Philip S. Adkins Potter wrote (> ):

> An account my ISP refuses to close (never used in

> anger now)

I try not to write e-mails in anger... If I do, I try to keep it in my draft folder for 24 hours to see if I still want to send it... In many cases I end up not sending it at all, and if I do send it, it'll usually be an edited and milder version. :o)

> is getting swamped by the SWEN virus on other

> peoples machines

So, if you don't use the address and all you receive on it is viruses, why bother checking it at all? Just let it sit there and fill up. Sooner or later it'll start returning "over quota" and maybe you'll then be able to persuade the ISP to delete it when it's taking up a few mb or space on their server.

Owen

Thought for the day:

He who laughs - lasts.

Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-928°14.86'N 16°50.54'W

Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 21:59:18 +0000

From: J

Subject: Cheapest 256-512 SSD/MC Cards

Please has any one got any ideas where I can buy the cheapest Secure Digital or MMC cards?

Cheers

JADe

London, United Kingdom,

Monday 23 February 2004&nb08:20:07 AM - GMT

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Date: 23 Feb 2004 23:22:42 +0000

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: CronTab

Hi Chris,

Interesting, tonight I had a weekly alarm go off at 7.00 pm, I stopped the alarm and the mBook switched off. However, at 11.18 pm I switched on and noticed that Chadis showed 4 hours of usage on the Psion. Could it be that your correction causes the Psion to stay on power after an alarm ?

Best regards,

Itamar Engelsman

London, UK

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Date: 24 Feb 2004 02:19:21 +0000

From: Astrid Stappenbeck

Subject: Re: Agenda's anniversaries

Hi Greg,

> Over the last nine years of Psion agenda use I have created a new file for each year, merging in all anniversaries from the previous year. ... Since 2002 that hasn't worked. For some reason the anniversaries didn't show in the new file. I must say that the fact that it's only once a year doesn't help matters as I have to re-teach myself every year how to do it. What I would like to do is to create a 2004 file with all anniversaries from the 2001 year merged in. <

I only have a German OS so the following names might not be correct.

Open an Agenda file that has the 2001 entries. In the first menu is an option 'archive'.

Choose 'copy to new file' in the first field, 'all entries' in the second, 'other' in the third. The first date should be 01.01.2001, the second 31.12.2004. Select file/ folder/ disk of your choice for the new file. Then go to 'type of entries' on the right. Remove all ticks apart from 'anniversaries'. Press Enter, press it again and that should be it.

I suppose your mistake has been to choose 'last year' as period, that would have copied last year's anniversaries - to the last year. So make sure to include the present/ coming year.

And when your at it: create another anniversary towards the end of december; one that explains how to copy anniversaries into another agenda. :-)