- PsiXpda

- Re: Netbook Repair

- Nokia 9500 and GPS

- Re: E mail with broadband

- Clamshell design

Date: 2 Oct 2005 15:27:14 +0000
From: Timothy H.D. Williams <address truncated>
Subject: PsiXpda

On 2 Oct 2005, at 13:05, The Digest wrote:

> The PsiXpda project seems not to have made that improvement.

What are the improvements of the PsiXpda ?

T

Date: 2 Oct 2005 17:56:00 +0000
From: Chris Pulster <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Netbook Repair

> Finally, I recently has to send my Netbook away to be fixed (loose > power connector). I opted for a guy called Costas

Costas is a kind person. May I add that I provide a Netbook repair 
service as well in my Psion shop Pulster.de - link:
http://www.pulster.de/index.htm?netbook_reparatur.htm

We fix any small fault (strips on display, pen stuck, power plug / 
batterie not working) for a flat 89 EUR fee.
Mayor faults which involve exchange of parts (broken LCD, defective 
mainboard, broken case) are a 189 EUR flat-fee.
Prices including material, work, taxes and postage.

We are trading with the Netbook since many years and have a lot of know- how and any service spare parts in stock.

Thanks,
Christoph

Date: 2 Oct 2005 21:11:10 +0000
From: Bramley, Charlie <address truncated>
Subject: Nokia 9500 and GPS

I'm thinking of experimenting with my Nokia 9500 and GPS software. Has anyone else had experience using TomTom 5 and the nokia 9500 ?

Any recommendations for a suitable car phone holder for the Nokia 9500 ? Is the Nokia 9500 screen clear/big enough for in-car naviagation ???

TIA

Charlie Bramley
Leeds/UK

Date: 2 Oct 2005 22:44:15 +0000
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: Re: E mail with broadband

Hi Carl,

Carl von Einem wrote in reply to Rolf B:
>>> They do it perhaps but it is not technically neccessary, that's >>> what I wanted to point out
>>
>> I'm very sorry, but you clearly wrote that "... a SMTP server is 
>> *always*/_ technically independent from the physical connection of the 
>> client to the internet" [My emphasis on the word always : RB]. Given 
>> schemes no. 1 and 2 above we can say that an SMTP server is a 
>> separate system but not always a truly independent system.

> I give up on this, this is something I just cannot describe good enough > in English. I feel misunderstood at this point.

Don't worry, I think that most other people understood what you were trying to say, and I would suggest that Rolf is being overly pedantic here (if not actually wrong, assuming that you subscribe to a blank-and-white view of the world).

I would say that an SMTP server *is* always technically independant of the physical connection, since it uses TCP/IP to send & recieve data.  What the ISP may do is add some additional protection, separate from the original SMTP protocol itself, which checks that the client originates on the ISP's network.  Most likely that check is based upon the sender's IP address.

As theoretical proof of independance from physical connection, if one was using another ISP, but chose to spoof one's IP address (so that it appeared to originate on the original ISP's network), then most likely you could circumvent this check.  However, IP spoofing is an extremely tricky thing to do, when you need to recieve much data as part of the protocol, so I doubt if anyone would go to the bother in practice.

But most probably it isn't worth arguing sematics over who is right!  :-)

Regards,
Chris Handley

Date: 3 Oct 2005 01:00:09 +0000
From: Cyril Catt <address truncated>
Subject: Clamshell design

> Just so Itamar. Most people appear to be happy to carry a device to > get information from at the touch of a button, and are less concerned > with putting information in. And I suspect that there is a proportion > of those who carry such devices largely on a me-too basis, simply as 
> bling accessories, and seldom access or enter data. However, the
> emergence of the Treo and Blackberry in recent years does imply that a > significant number of people want a keyboard, and must be doing more
> than the minimal of data entry. But I suspect the thumbboard design
> and square screen format are not as suited to data entry as the
> clamshell design, with landscape screen and keyboard - which also
> provides protection for screen and keyboard.

> Itamar wrote  You wrote "Why so many clamshell designs were abandoned > in favour of the limited Palm format in a me-too stampede defeats me". > Maybe it is because we are in a minority in this world and the vast
> majority of people want smartphones without keyboards instead of the
> clamshell design ?