- Psion Computer Mag.

- fluctuating contrast and backlight

- WiFi and NetBook - British Library

- Wi-fi at BL (addendum)

- Re: Pls. HELP (S5mx & XP)

- re: Windows

- Re: Cannot Start After Hard Reset

- Re: to Itamar re broadband & e mail

- Connecting EPOC hardware with ADSL

- broadband & e mail, WIN XP SP2,

- Pls. HELP (S5mx & XP),

Date: 2 Oct 2004 07:54:03 -0500
From: Mike Dyer
Subject: Psion Computer Mag.

Hi all,

am pleased to report that issue 2 of the psion computer mag finally dropped
through my letterbox this morning.

it's not the leap in physical quality i.e. no binding or higher quality
pages, probably to cut costs.

However, there is plenty to read and the promise of a symbian supplement next
time which looks intriguing.

Regards,
Mike Dyer
on a Sony Ericsson p800.

Date: 2 Oct 2004 14:09:17 -0500
From: Tom Robertson
Subject: fluctuating contrast and backlight

my psion 7 is behaving very strangely. every now and again, on switch on the
screen is very dim, then if appears to pulse slightly, getting brighter with
each pulse. However I still have to manually change the backlight level and
contrast to fully return to the norm. Any ideas?

regards,

Tom

Date: 2 Oct 2004 14:44:59 -0500
From: Bruce A.Knox
Subject: WiFi and NetBook - British Library

Has anyone used the British Library's wi-fi access points, with a NetBook and
Cisco 420 (as supplied by SitaShop)?  I can raise nothing, and the BL's
telephone support service says (after what appeared to be due searching) that
EPOC cannot be supported.  I suppose that should settle the matter - but I
can't help hoping!  (And I can't help wondering whether the supporters really
understood what I said to them, as it took quite a bit of repetition to
convey "EPOC" to them.)

Regards to all ----------- Bruce Knox

Date: 2 Oct 2004 14:47:10 -0500
From: Bruce A.Knox
Subject: Wi-fi at BL (addendum)

Oops - Cisco 340 is what I meant.

Bruce Knox

Date: 2 Oct 2004 15:03:10 -0500
From: Christopher Holly
Subject: Re: Pls. HELP (S5mx & XP)

Rolf, please share with the list anything you get on sharing your computers
ADSL internet connection with your 5mx. Thanks.

--
Chris Holly
830 S. Fess Ave.
Bloomington, IN  47401-4946
812-339-0938

Date: 2 Oct 2004 17:35:40 -0500
From: Antony Booth
Subject: re: Windows

To: Itamar
>You try and find a PC without Windows for an attractive price<

You probably can, but I'm not going to do the research. The fact is, however,
anyone buying a PC that comes with Windows, deludes themselves if they think
Windows came free. They simply purchased an OEM version without the choice of
having the PC without it.

>Fact is that most users, like me, don't have the knowledge or don't want to
be bothered with getting a machine without an OS and installing one
ourselves.<

Installing Windows or Linux is very easy.
You could however, buy a PC with Linux pre-installed. You may have to go
somewhere other than a high street store like PC World, but companies like
Dell certainly do this.

>I would not endeavour to install Linux on my Psion, what for ?<

How about cost? Instead of buying MS Office for a couple of hundred pounds,
you can get OpenOffice.org completely free. This along with Ximian evolution
(Outlook equivalent), also free, provide a full Office suite without the M$
cost. For every product on a Windows PC, there's often an equivalent product
on Linux. In fact, products like Mp3 software was available on Linux before
Windows and available as a 3rd party (shareware) product on Windows before
Microsoft integrated it into its Media player. Also, the stability and
performance of Linux XWindows is considerably better than any windows product
on the same box.
You don't lose 2GB of disk space because that's how much space is taken up by
the OS. The footprint of a Linux install is much smaller than a Windows
install.

>"cannot be controlled by a single organisation" - But who cares ?<
How about all those features you never got because M$ wasn't able to control
the technology, so made efforts to prevent its use on their OS (remember
Netscape)? How about those people who lost documents because their machine
blue screened as a result of a Microsoft product, crashing their Microsoft
operating system? There are many reasons why people would want to install
Linux in ther machines to replace Windows. Unfortunately, you have to realise
what you don't have with Windows, before you can appreciate what you do get
with Linux.

Antony Booth

Date: 2 Oct 2004 21:13:06 -0500
From: Owen H. Morgan
Subject: Re: Cannot Start After Hard Reset

Howdy!

Neville Smith wrote (> ):

> The first reset was using the two Shift keys, plus
> Escape, plus the button near the backup battery.
> It restarted, but I wasn't sure I had the Shift
> keys pressed so I did it again, and it has been
> dead as a dodo ever since.

If you really wanted a HARD reset, i.e. EVERYTHING wiped from the C disk and
the machine returned to factory fresh newborn baby status, then simply remove
all batteries (penlights and backup battery) for a couple of minutes and
re-insert and the machine should start up unless it's otherwise damaged.

If what you really wanted was a SOFT reset, i.e the OS rebooted, but all
files on C retained, you've probably gone too far by now, and it may just be
that the only way of getting the machine to work again is removing and
re-inserting the batteries as above.

I find the easiest way of performing a SOFT reset is a program called ReStart
which sits on the Control Panel. There is only one small niggle, and that is
that if your backlight is on when you run ReStart, the backlight will not
work after the reset and the only way of getting it working is a second
reboot. I don't know why this happens, probably a quirk in the EPOC OS. It
would be easy enough for the authors of ReStart to solve this simply by
making the program switch the backlight off before rebooting the Psion.
Unfortunately, I can't remember where I got ReStart from, but I'm sure
someone with better Internet access than me can find out easily enough.

Owen

Thought for the day:
If your aim in life is nothing; you can't miss.
--
Owen Morgan
Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-9311 / LA7QZ-MM
Anchored @ 27°46.28'N 15°41.65'W
Anfi Del Mar de Gran Canaria

http://home.no.net/naomij
Phone and SMS:
Spain +34 620520079
Norway +47 92053097

Date: 2 Oct 2004 21:13:19 -0500
From: Owen H. Morgan
Subject: Re: to Itamar re broadband & e mail

Howdy!

Tony Napier wrote (> ):

> I can
> still pick up mail through the Psion e mail and
> Cisco card but I get a failed message when I try
> to send. I either have to go to web based mail or
> I have to revert to the dial up connection to do
> that. I have of couse retained the incoming and
> outgoing SMPT servers which are unchanged from the
> old conventional connection.

That is where you've gone wrong. You must of course retain the POP3 server,
because that is where your mail is. Normally, you can collect e-mail from any
POP3 account in the world as long as you have the username, password and are
connected to the internet. It does not matter how or where you're actually
connected to the net. However, most SMTP servers will not allow you to send
mail unless you're connected to the internet through the actual ISP that owns
the SMTP server.

After leaving Norway, I have spent time in several European countries. In all
these locations (except Isle of Man where nothing worked) I have connected my
Psion to the Internet via a local PAYG card in my GSM phone. I have always
collected my inbound mail from frisurf's POP3 server in Norway, but I have
changed the SMTP server setting as I have moved from place to place.

Thus, here in Spanish territory, I have a PAYG card from Movistar Spain in my
phone, so I connect to Movistar's GSM data dialup number (551), collect my
inbound mail from frisurf's POP3 server (pop.frisurf.no), but use Movistar's
SMTP server (smtp.movistar.com) to send my outbound mail. You must find out
what the name of the SMTP server is for whatever ISP you're actually
connecting to the net through and use that in the settings of your e-mail
program.

If I'm barking up the wrong tree here and you've already input the correct
SMTP server, you could use the DNS number of the SMTP server instead. This
sometime helps if the connection problem is due to timeout. This is how I got
my Sony Ericsson Z600 phone to send and receive e-mails. When I used
smtp.movistar.com it would not send e-mails, but when I substituted the DNS
address of the server (194.224.100.132) it worked fine in this case I had to
do the same for the POP3 server too. If you tell the list what the name of
the SMTP server is, I'm sure someone can find it's DNS number.

Owen and Tita the ship's cat

Thought for the day:
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
--
Owen Morgan
Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-9311 / LA7QZ-MM
Anchored @ 27°46.28'N 15°41.65'W
Anfi Del Mar de Gran Canaria

http://home.no.net/naomij
Phone and SMS:
Spain +34 620520079
Norway +47 92053097

Date: 2 Oct 2004 21:55:21 -0500
From: Kevin Thorne
Subject: Connecting EPOC hardware with ADSL

Rolf Vonau wrote:

<I want to connect my S5mxPro with the Internet, using a laptop with XP home
and an highspeed ADSL connection (Ethernet, PPPoE).
I tried MochaPPP and DSlink, but without success. 8o((
Please give me any advise by private mail, what I have to do.>

Please post any answers to this openly on the Digest as I too (and possibly
others) would like to know how to do this with my S7 :-)

Regards
Kevin Thorne

Date: 3 Oct 2004 01:01:53 -0500
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: broadband & e mail, WIN XP SP2,

Answer to: Tony Napier

Re.: broadband & e mail - Yes, you are missing something. I use an email
account with Freeserve to receive my emails (via an intermidiate account with
www.mail.com). When using GPRS or a direct modem I use the SMTP server of
Freeserve. However, my broadband connection is with Eclipse and when I use my
broadband to connect I use their SMTP server. You have to change the SMTP
server to the one of your broadband connection in order to send out emails.

Answer to: Philip Carlisle

Re.: WIN XP SP2 - Thanks for the warning. I installed it at home and it asked
me whether I wanted to use XP as my firewall or Northon. I answered Northon
and no problems at all to report.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 3 Oct 2004 01:01:54 -0500
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: Pls. HELP (S5mx & XP),

Answer to: Rolf Vonau

Re.: Pls. HELP (S5mx & XP) - Strange, I use MochaPPP without any problems. My
settings are for the serial port COM1, for the palm choice WindowsCE, baud
rate 115200 and that's it. Of course you have to de-activate Psiwin by
closing it as otherwise it will occupy the COM port. What is the error you
get with this program ?

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK