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Epoc Digest Fri, 14 May 2004 Volume 01 : Number 522

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Sent to: 772 subscribers

In today's Epoc Digest 10 messages:

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- Re: Epoc Digest V1 # 521

- Mac virus

- Re: fermetout2closeall (4 Andy)

- chopped off Digest, Non-Window CE Netbook, Cleaning of keyboard,

- Problems with Digest

- MBoot Screen Brightness Variation

- Re: chopped-off Digest

- dead 5mx

- RE: Epoc Digest V1 # 519

- Charging Mbook battery/Buffalo WiFi card

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Date: 12 May 2004 03:49:15 -0500

From: Martin Maxwell

Subject: Re: Epoc Digest V1 # 521

Answer to: Itamar Engelsman Subject: Psion's stake in Symbian

>>Re.: Psion's stake in Symbian - I don't think that many consumers choose the Symbian OS by choice, I don't think they know the name Symbian at all. People choose phones because of their looks and for what they can do for them.. I wouldn't even know which phone actually uses Symbian and which one not.<<

That is only true for first buyers, and increasingly less true for repeated buyers.

The concept to brand the device much higher than the OS is a Symbian strategic decision. It's completely intentional, and partially a counter-strategy to Microsoft, who always have excelled in litterally marginalising the device manufacturers.

However, the concept is much older than Symbian. It was inherited from Psion before it. Psion in its day did exactly the same thing. How many people purchased their first Psion because of EPOC? Not many. When I got my first Series 5 I did not have a clue about EPOC.

But repeated buyers increasingly choose their phones because of familiarity and portability of information and applications stored on the phone. When doing so, they become interested in the underlying fundamentals why some phones have more commonality than others. And this is where Symbian brand awareness emerges from having lurked in the background.

cheers

Martin Maxwell

Singapore

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Date: 12 May 2004 10:00:07 -0500

From: Timothy H.D. Williams

Subject: Mac virus

Andy mentions a mate who found Macs infected with a virus. I forwarded his remarks to a mac list and asked what were if any the viruses threatening the mac. I got the immediately reply:

> Not since the autostart worm around 8 years ago. Often a Mac will act > as

> a carrier for PC viruses. These have no effect on the Mac but can be

> passed on to a PC, for example by people sharing Word docs. My guess > is

> that's what these were.

of course the threat of mac viruses supplies a nice little earner to Norton.

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Date: 12 May 2004 10:55:01 -0500

From: Jack

Subject: Re: fermetout2closeall (4 Andy)

To: Andy Hayes

>>>I have not been able to get KillTask or Ferme Tout macros working. Ferme Tout seems to need something added into it to work. Here is the code: -

REM FERME TOUS LES FICHIERS

Include "Macro.oph"

PROC Macro:

BgSystem:

SendKeyCode:(Ctl%+%q,Shift%+Ctrl%,1)

FgCurrent:

ENDP<<<<

Hi Andy,

To get a "CloseAll.opl"

Replace "q" with an "e"

Jack

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Date: 12 May 2004 22:21:38 -0500

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: chopped off Digest, Non-Window CE Netbook, Cleaning of keyboard,

Answer to: Kevin Thorne

Re.: chopped off Digest - As mentioned in the last digest there is a problem with the digest sent to Freeserve email addresses. I noticed it as the one to my office arrived fine but the one to my freeserve address arrived truncated. I am trying to sort it out with Wanadon't but they are not very helpful. After 2 messages to them with full details I just got a message to give them my mobile phone number, my age, and I don't know what and a phone number to call them if I have any further trouble .... it definitely started since the take-over by Wanadoo started. I hope we can eventually solve th eproblem, but in the meantime try and use a second email address for the digest.

Answer to: Franco Cozzani

Re.: Non-Window CE Netbook - Does anyone know how the nBook Pro has been received by the market and whether or not it is succesfull ? If not, that might be the problem that it is not discussed anymore ? Did any of the digest subscribers actually buy one ? Any experiences to share ?

To All:

Re. Cleaning of keyboard - This has been discussed many many moons ago. How do you clean your keyboard from all the fetty finger marks ?

Best regards,

Itamar Engelsman

London, UK

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Date: 12 May 2004 23:12:28 -0500

From: Kevin Thorne

Subject: Problems with Digest

Reply to Digest administrator

Subject: Problems with Digest

Hopefully it can be sorted soon but why would subscribing with a different email address make any difference unless it involved a different ISP altogether? This could quickly become a major problem e.g. on the last Digest I received (number 520) the last 5 postings were completely lost so that means no replies for them - in addition, replies to other problems or queries could possibly be lost too if they happened to be due to appear towards the end of the list of postings. Unless Freeserve can resolve this quickly I can imagine receiving or sending any information traffic on our beloved Digest is going to be a very hit and miss affair.

Regards

Kevin Thorne

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Date: 13 May 2004 01:08:23 -0500

From: Jim Watson-Gove

Subject: MBoot Screen Brightness Variation

From the first use of my MBook, I noticed how dim the screen seem to be periodically. I checked it off to being location etc.

Then I noticed that the dimness was a function of time - it would be dim when I first turned it on and then would brighten.

I am quite hard of hearing (working around jet engines without ear protection when young and stupid) and have a device on my TV that amplifiers the audio and sends it via IR to a set of earphones, much like those hard of hearing of hearing patrons are sometimes offered in movie theaters. The system maintains peace in the family (watching TV unaugmented at a volume where I can understand it drives everyone else out of the house).

Recently I noticed that if I try to dual process - watch TV with the headphones on while working on the MBook - the MBook screen generates audio trash on my earphone system.

Even more recently, I realized that if I'm patient, the trash essentially goes away.

I now have correlated that the noise is there primarily as the screen system "warms up" (goes from dim to bright).

I offer up this information for those who may find meaning it it.

jim - port townsend, wa, usa

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Date: 13 May 2004 07:19:22 -0500

From: Daniele Squarci

Subject: Re: chopped-off Digest

I read the posts regarding the chopped-off digests. I never experienced these, but I occasionally suffer from another problem when downloading the Digests directly to my netBook - I have no text at all, but instead have an attachment labelled "Epoc_Digest___v1_520_0.txt.cab". I cannot open it. Saving the attachement as a file and then renaming it with a .txt extension does not help either.

The same Digests downloaded to a PC can be read without any problems.

Does anyone know what is going on here?

Ciao

Daniele Squarci - currently in Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Date: 13 May 2004 08:28:31 -0500

From: "hbf"

Subject: dead 5mx

Hi Folks

I have a dead 5MX.

I managed to backup to a PC, therefore it must be the famous ribbon.

I seem to remember that somebody posted instructions to to take the 5MX apart, but I cannot find it back in the Digests.

Can anybody help pls.

Thanks

H.B.Folkerts.

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Date: 13 May 2004 17:14:23 -0500

From: Moshe Nahir

Subject: RE: Epoc Digest V1 # 519

To Vlad and Jack,

Thank you for your help and suggestions re a safe backup method. Your ideas have been very useful.

Jack, you also said, "I use incremental, automatised, registered "Backup" every day or so,

and back up C(41Mo) & D(256Mo) to "2" CFs (1 & 2Go in E drive); no bum note for years."

Is "backup" a program? If so, do you know where it is available from? And can it still be registered?

Since you mention E Drive, I guess you have a Netbook. I have a 5mx (I like its mobility and pocketability). Would you have a suggestion for backing up the CF on a 5mx? By the way, what is 'incremental' backup?

You asked "what is Drive A?" Perhaps I should have written Drive C? I referred to the 5mx's internal drive.

Thanks again

Best, Moshe N.

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Date: 13 May 2004 22:08:27 -0500

From: Fotograf Anders Henriksen

Subject: Charging Mbook battery/Buffalo WiFi card

The documentation delivered with my new Mbook treats charging of the powerpack in only brief words.

I feel somewhat uncertain about charging times/overcharging/using the mbook on external power.

Is it possible to overcharge, or is the system "intelligent", switching to trickle carging when the battery is full?

I use the Cisco 342 card. It worked right out of the box. However it is not WEP-compatible. In my studio (in Oslo) I'll not take the risk of disabeling the WEP-encryption. Thus I intend to buy a Buffalo WLI-PCM-L11GP-3 card that is said to be mbook/WEP-compatible.