- Re: gmail to Earthlink blues

- Route66,

- Fund raising for sunk ship Naomi J. # 940_1

- Owen's fund.

- Re: Backups, Nokia 9500,

- Information about Owen

Date: 13 Jun 2006 12:25:29 +0700
From: Jakfish <address truncated>
Subject: Re: gmail to Earthlink blues

I am US  based, and wonder if anyone can still access Prodigy/sbcglobal or another  ISP  who is still basic enough to be received by a 5MX.

You could try to get a Compuserve CLASSIC account (not Compuserve 2000;  your email address should end in @compuserve.com).

Its Psion login is beaucoup complicated, but I have the log and did  get it to work on both my Series 5 and Mako.  The rub with Compuserve, and  why I just canceled it (to switch to Earthlink), is that it won't work with  GPRS.  On
the other hand, it's almost spam-free, and was a forerunner of  POP mail, so it knows its business (lousy tech support, but aren't they  all)

Another rub is that you have to dial Compuserve numbers directly to  send. 
Its smtp is not authenticated, but uses proprietary phone  numbers--hence, the lack of spam.

It depends on how much you like to tinker with this stuff.  On the  good
side, Compuserve numbers are readily available around the world.  I  once dialed out a CompuServe number and sent email LOCALLY in Maribor,  Slovenia.  Not a place you'd figure for a local call. :)

Jake

Date: 13 Jun 2006 12:57:00 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Route66,

Answer to: Ian Chapple

Re.: Route66 - I just now updated my TMC while sitting in the office and it only gave me details of the UK. I don't know why you get a different result. Maybe it got to do with your settings on your phone ?
With me the route disappeared from the program while I was between Birmingham and Manchester on the M6, there were no instructions to disobey. Just all of a sudden it said something like "your route cannot be traced anymore" and bang, gone.
Well, between countries is a problem for most modern packages. With Routeplanner on the mBook I have got a Western Europe map. True, it does not give me streetlevel details, but it does give me the possibility to plan a route from London to Germany. It just shows again how good the EPOC machines with such programs really are !
As to new versions, did you notice that all versions of the program but the UIQ one were updated one time or another ?


Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 13 Jun 2006 13:52:08 +0700
From: Vlad A <address truncated>
Subject: Fund raising for sunk ship Naomi J. # 940_1

> U Hornstein wrote on 13.06.2006 3:57 Uhr:

> Compared to him, we all are very rich at the moment. I wouldn't bet on it but I certainly hope so, so that he gets sailing again and we can wonder from time to time where he might be... :-)

Pls would you send me the Digest #938, just noticed I must've deleted it without reading (just did so online on a hunch, sort of missing info...)

Thankyou!

best,

vlad a

Date: 13 Jun 2006 17:26:04 +0700
From: Trygve Henriksen <address truncated>
Subject: Owen's fund.

Greetings!

U Hornstein wrote:
> So I want to start the collection by sending 50 Euros on his account. > Don't take this as an upper or lower limit for you - any amount will > help.

Well, my donation has been sent, at least. (And as I'm in Norway, the money should be in his account tomorrow, fingers crossed)

Heard anything else from his mother?
What Owen is planning to do, will he return to Norway, will there be an inquest and so on? (I haven't tried to get in touch with his mother.)

:-)
Trygve

Date: 13 Jun 2006 22:24:05 +0700
From: U Hornstein <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Backups, Nokia 9500,

Reference is made to the mail in the The Digest V1 # 940_1 : Itamar Engelsman <address truncated> wrote on 12 Jun 2006 13:46:54 (> ):
> Answer to: U Hornstein

> Re.: Backups - Why not backing up the internal disk with
> Psiwin and
> the CF card with a card reader ?  It will certainly be a
> lot faster
> and would there be a huge difference in the back up ?

Oh yes. This one backup would be much faster, but the subsequent backups not. I like the Psiwin style of backups in that way that it does only transfer the changes since the last backup, which is usually done within a few minutes. But you have to have the big entire backup as a base. We know that Psiwin does this entire backup wrongly at the event of time change to/from summer time. It is said that it can be avoided if these time changes are not made automatically by the windows and Psion machines. I do it by hand. But the last entire 1000 minute backup that I have reported on was due to a complete restore that I had to make on my Windoze machine.. It had obvioulsy the wrong time type stored, so I had to make the long entire Psiwin backup in order to be able to use the subsequent incremental backups. I am doing these usually every sunday evening, and I would hate to swap CF cards between Psion, PC and back every week.

Does anybody know: can Psiwin be fooled by copying a card-reader-copied-backup over the Psiwin backup location? If this would work, that would be a real time saver.
--
With greetings from Germany
Ulrich Hornstein
http://psion.uh-lab.de
For spam protection: Please NEVER type my mail address into a www page ("send to a friend" or similar).
Sent by MC218 (EPOC palmtop)

Date: 14 Jun 2006 07:20:07 +0700
From: U Hornstein <address truncated>
Subject: Information about Owen

Hello digest,

from Owen's mother I got some information about Owen that I want to share with you:

"The reason why Owen hasn't been submitting anything to the list for a while, is that his mobile phone gave up shortly before he left the Canary Islands for Cape Verde, so his access to the internet has been limited. He had an amateur radio on board and a Pactor modem for communication, but the modem is so slow that he could only send and receive short messages.
He is still in England. He has an appointment with the passpost office on Wednesday, and then there will be a waiting period of a week before he can get his new passport and come home."
--
With greetings from Germany
Ulrich Hornstein
http://psion.uh-lab.de
For spam protection: Please NEVER type my mail address into a www page ("send to a friend" or similar).
Sent by MC218 (EPOC palmtop)