- Re: Buffalo - answer to Tom Robertson

- Re: Nokia 9500 battery/Keyboard, new Email Reply macro

- Subjects: Nokia 9500 and info service from Sony Ericsson

- Buffalo,

- Beginning of the end?

- No 675 Re: Netbook and psion gold card

- Goodbye RevoPlus, hello MC 218

- (slightly OT) Word Processor

- Psion 5mx migration.

- Battery netbook. Rich/Plain text

- Re: new Email Reply (indenting) macro

- Re: Phonesecure for UIQ

Date: 14 Jan 2005 00:13:43 +0000
From: Julie A Campbell <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Buffalo - answer to Tom Robertson

Tom

I see two immediate problems with regard to your potential netBook WiFi connection.

Firstly, the Buffalo adaptor you quote is a 32-bit Cardbus device, so not compatible with our netBooks.  Secondly you will need OS version 158 to endow your netBook with WiFi support.

The OS upgrade shoudl be no problem - it's a free download - so the only cost would be for a compatible card.  The Buffalo WLI-PCM-L11GP that you mentioned is ideal, and one of the least expensive too.

Julie

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Date: 14 Jan 2005 08:32:03 +0000
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: Re: Nokia 9500 battery/Keyboard, new Email Reply macro

Subject: Re: Nokia 9500 battery/Keyboard
Dick Chatjaval wrote:
> Someone asked about battery life of the Nokia 9500. I bought
> the 9500 solely as a replacement for my Revo/5mx.

> Battery usage with mobile phone turned off- recharge every 5 days

> Heavy use of pda (agenda, contacts,rmrtasks), sheet, database
> program (smallbase), mobipocket for ebooks/dictionary, daily
> alarm clock.

The battery life sounds pretty good (i.e. nearly one week) for such usage, so I'd count this as a thumbs-up for non-phone usage of the 9500.


> Battery use with mobile phone switched on- recharge every 2
> to 3 days

> I used a bluetooth headset while driving, approx 2 hours of
> use per day. Lots of text messages, some retrieval of email
> and web news with gprs for testing. About 10 to 20 calls per
> day, approx 3 mins each.

(So about 45 mins on the phone per day)

Again, the battery life sounds pretty good (i.e. not reduced too much) for such usage - particularly with the long usage of bluetooth, which *might*(?) tax the batteries.  So I'd count this as another thumbs-up for the 9500.


Dick, thanks a lot for your info.

Now the only question is how does the 9300 compare against the 9500; it is known to have a somewhat reduced battery size/life (due to it's Revo-like size), but then again it won't have WiFi to drain it.  Although I think Steve Litchfield reported that WiFi didn't seem to affect the battery surprisingly little on the 9500...

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Subject: Re: new Email Reply (indenting) macro
Alan Morris wrote:
> I've been using Chris Handley's Email_Indent.opo (now version
> 17-01-2004) for a long time, as it's easy and quick to use.

> I would like to be able to just highlite (<Shift> + cursor
> down) part of the text at times, as I like to insert my reply
> comments between quoted text, which I edit by replacing some
> words by .... to make for better reading.

I'm not quite sure what you mean, but the new version of my macro will indent ONLY the highlighted text - if you have actually highlighted some before using it.


> But much more important would be the ability to limit the
> line length of _my_ new text

> When I see my postings, the quoted text is still aligned, but
> my new text overflows onto a next partial line - very untidy
> and not so easy to read.

> Could this feature be added by one of the existing
> programmers?

I think it would be trivial to modify my macro do to this, as one would only need to prevent it from putting ">" before each line, and hence only use it's word-wrapping system.

I can do this and email you it if you want?  Probably I'd rename the macro as Email_Wrap .

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Date: 14 Jan 2005 11:16:03 +0000
From: Franco Cozzani <address truncated>
Subject: Subjects: Nokia 9500 and info service from Sony Ericsson

Question to Joseph Hamwee:

you played with the Nokia 9500 and did not like it. I am thinking seriously about getting one. What did you find that you did not like? In particular how did you find the keyboard in respect to that of a Psion 5MX and/or Revo? Thanks for sharing your experience.

Answer to Itamar:
yes, at the time Ericsson (alone) did not shine for customer service acume either. I contacted them in SE with a software question/problem with my MC 218 (that was before I subscribed to our digest) and a young lady mostly kindly e-mailed to me to "bring my phone to an authorised repair center". Have you thought to look into the Symbian sites (all about Symbian, mySimbian etc. - you recommend a few to me actually, thanks again) or into the Sony Ericsson club and put a line question?

PS: did anyone reply to my "disappeared sounds" cry for help?

Regards,
Franco COZZANI
Brussels

Date: 14 Jan 2005 13:32:11 +0000
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Buffalo,

Answer to: Tom Robertson

Re.: Buffalo - Yes, you certainly can. I have a D-Link wireless network at home and my Cisco card just found it without having to change any settings. If you use security, you might have to set the system to accept your Wifi card and you will find the necessary ID number on the back of the card (at least with my Cisco card).

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 14 Jan 2005 14:22:42 +0000
From: Keith Clarke <address truncated>
Subject: Beginning of the end?

My 5mx silk buttons have started going haywire, working at random, and using the stylus is a bit touch and go, too. Soft reset had no effect. Is it the beginning of the end? Should I try a hard reset?


Keith Clarke

Date: 14 Jan 2005 16:51:49 +0000
From: Mike Isaacs <address truncated>
Subject: No 675 Re: Netbook and psion gold card

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>- Re: Netbook and psion gold card
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>Date: 13 Jan 2005 07:28:14 +0000
>From: Marcus von Cube <address truncated>
>Subject: Re: Netbook and psion gold card
>
>Mike,
>
>>I've just bought a Psion 7 with a Psion gold Card 56k + fax...
>
>>I then got a Netbook rom via eBay to upgrade the 7 to a Netbook...
>
>>I have transferred the email settings used by the Psion 7 over to the >>Netbook...
>
>How did you perform the latter? You *must* delete the
>c:\system\data\commsdb.dat file on the netBook and type in the settings >manually, you cannot copy it over from a previous EPOC release. This >has to do with the additions to the TCP/IP stack to support network >cards. The file format has changed.
>
I originally copied all of my C drive on the Series 7 to a CF card, and re-installed everything after changing the ROM and installing the
Netbook OS.

I have now deleted the commsdb.dat file and re-setup my ISP with the login name and password.


>As for the settings, try the entry "Psion Gold Card Modem":
>
>115200 Baud, PC-Card, Faxclass Auto, Initstring: AT&F, Hardware Handshake. >
>If you create the directories C:\LOGS\Email, C:\LOGS\Etel, C:\LOGS\Fax, >C:\LOGS\Netdial, you will find a bunch of logfiles there which may help >you to diagnose your connection problems.
>
>Marcus
>
I tried these, but had to alter the baud-rate to 57600, and now all
seems to work OK.

Marcus, many thanks for your help.

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Mike

Date: 14 Jan 2005 17:17:11 +0000
From: Peter Rand
Subject: Goodbye RevoPlus, hello MC 218

After 4 years of flawless service, my RevoPlus suddenly passed away following a brief bout of battery problems. I quickly replaced it with a "new" Ericsson MC 218 which a friend of mine still had, unopened, in the original box.

While the screen is not (nearly!) as good as the Revo, nor is the machine as easy to carry, this is far outweighed by the fact that I can now backup data to a CF card, and, most importantly, use standard off-the-shelf AA batteries.

I'm surprised how pleased I am to be back to a machine that uses standard batteries. While quick-charge built-in batteries are great when you're hanging out at home with a charger conveniently at hand, nothing beats replaceable AA's when you're on the road.

It took a couple of hours to shift all my RevoPlus data to the MC 218 (re-entering software reg-codes is a bit of a pain), and everything now works perfectly. The keyboard will take some getting used to, since  I still have Revo-shaped fingers after 4 years of using the smaller Revo keyboard.

I'd be grateful for any suggestions about good protective cases or suitable CF cards for the MC 218. For example, will a 1GB CF card work?

Regards,

Peter

Date: 14 Jan 2005 18:00:54 +0000
From: Ealasaid and Simon <address truncated>
Subject: (slightly OT) Word Processor

Dear Psionistas,

My mother in law uses Windows 98 and was recently complaining about the complexity and unpleasantness of MS Word. I just wondered if any of you folks knew of a word procesing app for Win98 that looked and behaved more like our old friend EPOC Word, i.e. easy to use, simple interface, but powerful and stable behind the scenes?

Many thanks,

Simon (& Ealasaid)

PS If you read this Owen, best wishes for your voyage, and we will miss your messages on the digest!

Date: 14 Jan 2005 18:30:25 +0000
From: Charles Davies <address truncated>
Subject: Psion 5mx migration.

As I am about to migrate from a 5mx to an Ipaq h5550 has any body any
ideas on how to transfer my contacts file over to a Microsoft Pocket
PC 2003 system ?
TIA
CDavies

Date: 14 Jan 2005 21:25:26 +0000
From: Stéphane Sage <address truncated>
Subject: Battery netbook. Rich/Plain text

Hello all!

Thanks to Marcus, Itamar and Christoph for the required info: I am now able to
decide with all due elements before going for a new toy (Netbook...).

Best regards.


Stephane (Grenoble, France)

P.S. Can one now send a mail to TheDigest with rich format (euro sign not appearing in plain text, for inst.), foll recent Team's modifications?

Date: 14 Jan 2005 21:56:17 +0000
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: Re: new Email Reply (indenting) macro

Armin Podtschaske <address truncated> wrote:-

>> more important would be the ability to limit
>> the line length of _my_ new text, just as I
>> can control the line length of quoted text
>> with Email_Indent.opo.

Hi Armin,

I've not repeated all of your good reply which I agree with, but.....

I've always called this 'long ASCII' text lines or 'short ASCII' text lines for too many years.  I even wrote a DOS program to convert a short .txt file into a long .txt file, as I worked with floppy disks full of such text.  I even wrote a program to convert short text files, into full DOS wordprocessor files complete with all indenting and title formatting etc. including tables.  But here I was working with an almost consistent style.

The problem is that there is no standard for e-mail lines.  Some programs send all short (ie with CR/LF at the end of every line) lines and some send long (ie with CR/LF and the end of a paragraph or every 253-6 chars.)

As you know the standard method for most is to add '> ' at the beginning of every quoted line.  And this throws a word or two to start another line.

When that lot is quoted again and again, it becomes very difficult to read.  I'm on many Yahoo lists that do this and it's a real mess.

OK I've used both of the following:-

<<quoted text>>

or

>>>>>>
quoted text
<<<<<<

The problem is that most programs force short lines.

Now an intelligent reading/reply program, would remove all '> ' and reformat quoted lines, so that they wont wrap, but the chance of getting a standard are much like the odds for getting M$ software to not automatically pass on a virus.

Now a good e-mail reading program, would format all incoming text, to remove short lines and replace with long lines.  That could solve the problem but fine tuning the 'rules' for formatting would be rather complex.  And what does it do with quoted text that has no marks like '> '?

I think there is no practical solution that works in all situations.

I've just installed RepEvMail.SIS V-3.33
I've just installed Email_Reply.opo V-05

Now for some testing!

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Alan R Morris, G4ENS.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Using a Psion netBook & Nokia 6210e.

Date: 14 Jan 2005 21:56:31 +0000
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Phonesecure for UIQ

Itamar Engelsman <address truncated> wrote:-

> Now this is a kute little program.

Is a P910 UIQ?

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Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Using a Psion netBook & Nokia 6210e.