- Nokia 9xxx and "standard " screen, keyboard..., Nokia 9500,

- Re: Chris. Handley's eMail macro

- Re: Looking for software

- Re: number of root records

- Compact Flash 1GB for Psion 5mx

- Fwd: Avoiding "Spam" (junk email)

- Essential Disk Utilities

Date: 23 Jan 2005 02:08:12 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Nokia 9xxx and "standard " screen, keyboard..., Nokia 9500,

Answer to: St?phane Sage

Re.: Nokia 9xxx and "standard " screen, keyboard... - Thanks for the link.
It could be interesting for at work where my phone is basically in the
stand and connected to the PC. However, I don't really see the need to
connect a 5MX to the PC as you could just as well use the PC itself. The
idea of the Psions's is_not_ to use the PC.
As to working at home, I appreciate that but at home you can just as well
use your larger machines or the PC. It is out of the home where these
machines come into their own right.

Answer to: J. Hamwee

Re.: Nokia 9500 - You currently use 3 machines while you could easily
incorporate the PDA and phone into one,  bringing it down to your notebook
and one more. You could do this with a Symbian phone or with a palm or
PocketPC.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 23 Jan 2005 08:40:00 +0700
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: Re: Chris. Handley's eMail macro

On 20 Jan 2005, Phil Aypee wrote:
> Would it be a good idea to have an option to just save and
> indent the highlighted text? Replying to a Digest post would
> usually mean only keeping the relevant post in the draft
> reply. I just copy the relevant text into this pre-prepared
> eMail from a SaveMail data file but I can see that there
> might be value in using your macro modified this way.

I don't quite understand your explanation, but I think my macro would
already work for you, as it doesn't need to be used from Email.

---

Chris Handley

Visit the web page email.cshandley.co.uk for my address

Date: 23 Jan 2005 10:22:28 +0700
From: Martin Guthrie <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Looking for software

Reply to: myself

> I'm on the hunt for a specific couple of pieces of software
> to add to the 'Lost & Found' pages on my website that people
> have specifically asked for:
>
> 1) Birthday Manager. A freeware utility by 'Lord Lucan' (and
> indeed anything else by him).  His website is long gone.
>
> 2) Optimise Update.  A free update to Optimise (part of
> Essential Disk Utilities) that was made available by Atelier
> before they stopped making/selling EPOC software.
>
> And of course any other software that people feel might be
> appropriate on the site.  :?)  All inputs greatfully received
> by email please to: lostATpscience5DOTnet

Thanks to everyone who kindly sent me a copy of the Optimise update - it'll
go up on the site on Tuesday probably (I've already scheduled something
else for Monday).  I'm still looking for Birthday Manager - and anything
else appropriate that anyone cares to send!  :?)

Thanks,
Martin
—————————
www.pscience5.net
www.freepoc.org
www.foxpop.co.uk

Date: 23 Jan 2005 22:34:23 +0700
From: U Hornstein <address truncated>
Subject: Re: number of root records

> >Have a look at the page on my website about Compact
> Flash cards: >http://www.pscience5.net/compactflash.htm.
>  The number of root entries >is a formatting option.

A list member wanted to know the number of root records of *his particular* CF.
If you have the EDU programs, you can find out how many root entries your
particular CF has by using the DiskEditor, look in Boot sector.

In any case, the CF article on Martin's site is good reading.

To Martin Guthrie:
you might correct one little error: DiskBench writes files of 1 MB size,
not 1 kB as stated - 5 seconds for a 1 kB write would be kind of slow ...


--

With greetings from Germany
Ulrich Hornstein
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: 23 Jan 2005 22:34:36 +0700
From: U Hornstein <address truncated>
Subject: Compact Flash 1GB for Psion 5mx

Hello fellow Psionists,
just recently I bought a Compact Flash Card 1 GB Type Xs from Dane-Elec
with a nice free additional feature - 10 year warranty with worldwide
exchange service - for 90€. Thanks to Herbert Heuberger for the tip. The
card is rated 22x or 3.3MB/sec Write  and  44x or 6.6MB/sec Read.
WIth the help of Martin's CF pages I tried to find the best way to format
it - in terms of space usage and speed.

First a word about my old card, a 128MB (123MB free) CF from Simple
Technology. It was filled with 1769 files, which used 121.8 MB of space.
From these, 1492 files are under 32kB. This "old file set" was used to
test the new CF.

Format (1):
The 1 GB CF came formatted on a Win machine: FAT 16, 512 bytes/sector, 32
sectors/cluster (the minimum value to address 1 GB), 512 root entries.
Disk-Info on the new disk showed strange things: the disk had -240kB of
used space, and CheckDisk revealed invalid entries in the root folder,
which I removed.

I made speed measurements of the 1 GB disk as empty and partly filled with
the "old file set":
empty CF DiskBench write 8.16 sec  / read 0,74 sec
partly filled               write 8.25 sec  / read 0,74 sec

I did not like the 8 sec write time, being used to medium-long 4 sec on my
old 128 MB CF, so I did format the 1 GB CF with new values:

Format (2):
128 root entries, 64 sectors/cluster, 512 bytes/sector.
This means to waste 31kB space when storing a 1kB file due to the
formatting - strange thought, but let's check the facts.

BTW, the formatting took 5,5 hours (!!). Checkdisk showed 1 lost cluster
after this, which I cleared.


Again, I made speed measurements with the empty and partly filled (same
1769 files as above) disk:
empty CF DiskBench write 3.06 sec  / read 0,75 sec
partly filled               write 3.11 sec  / read 0,75 sec

Write-speed-wise, a very nice gain of 8,25/3,11=2,65 .

What did it cost space-wise?
Format (1) used 134368kB
Format (2) used 161920kB
Space-wise, a loss of 161,9/134,4=1,2046

In the moment, I have lots of space free, so I decided to stay with Format
(2) and barter the speed gain against the space loss. Should my
MC218+spares (=Psion 5mx) live long enough to fill the 1GB up to the rim
like I did with the 45 MB and the 128 MB CFs before, I may think about
going back to Format (1) again - but that will not happen too soon.

A nice side-effect: when pressing Tab in System, the old 128MB took 16 secs
to display all folders, the 1GB with Format (2) only (sigh) 14 secs. This
will rise when more files accumulate.

If anyone has questions to the above, no problem. But please read the
article http://www.pscience5.net/compactflash.htm *before* as some sort of
a FAQ to this matter.

Martin, if you wish, then complete your CF article with data from this mail
as you wish. If you want to add me to the list of contributors, do so and
add my URL http://psion.uh-lab.de instead of an email address.
  --

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: 24 Jan 2005 09:56:05 +0700
From: Rolf Vonau <address truncated>
Subject: Fwd: Avoiding "Spam" (junk email)

Hi there,
our well known Owen sent me his following contribution and asked me to
published here.

BR
Rolf

> snip

I just came across the following in the help file for the Airmail (HAM
radio) e-mail software. It is very close to the advice I have been giving
myself for years and which has worked perfectly for me.

Owen


----------------------------------------



Avoiding "Spam" (junk email)

Unsolicited commercial email, or "Spam: for short, is a growing problem
with internet email and radio users are not immune. Spam is not a difficult
problem to manage if you keep a few simple facts in mind:
1. "Spammers" do not create email addresses at random, they get them from
commercially-available lists of known email addresses.
2.  Your radio email address includes your callsign, which is unique. Prior
to your use of this address, it never appeared anywhere and no one ever
sent email to it.

So when you first began to use your email address, it never appeared on any
"Spam" lists and you never received any junk email. Once your address
begins to appear on the Spam-lists, it is over- there is nothing you can
do. The Spammers are not interested in taking you off their list, and in
fact if you respond in any way, even to ask to be removed, it is likely
that your address will wind up on a "Grade-A" list of known, working email
addresses.
So it is essential to never get onto the Spam lists in the first place. How
do you do that? First, understand where those lists come from: The internet
is a public place, and any email address which is exposed on a web page or
a public archive (like newsgroups or on-line forums) is going to wind up on
a Spam-list. The Spammers use automated programs which crawl the internet,
link to link, gathering up email addresses. Sending and receiving ordinary
email is private and not a problem.

1. If you have a website, or contribute to a website, NEVER post your radio
email address to the website (or allow someone else to be post it).
2. Never send anything to an internet newsgroup or web-based "forum" of any
sort which includes your radio email address.
3. Never use your radio email address when filling out an on-line form or
ordering anything on-line. Get a free Hotmail or Yahoo email address and
use that instead. (The problem here is not getting on a spam-list, but
those companies want to send you unsolicited email themselves. Most include
a box to check or un-check to indicate that you do not want unsolicited mail).

Sending and receiving normal private email is safe, and your address is not
publically visible.

Periodically do an internet search for your radio email address(es), using
seach engines such as Google (www.google.com) or Metcrawler
(www.metcrawler.com). If you find your address posted somewhere, get if
off. There is no assurance that you will find it before the Spammers, so
this is hardly foolproof.

> snap

Date: 24 Jan 2005 14:00:40 +0700
From: Powell, David T <address truncated>
Subject: Essential Disk Utilities

Hi

I downloaded the 'Essential Disk Utilities' application today to my 5mx in
the hope that it could remove the junk file / folder names my iBook seemed
to have left on my CF disk, it worked like a charm! 270 entries deleted!
Flushed with success I then decided to optimise the disk using the same
app, I started with the internal drive which seemed to work fine so I
repeated the exercise on my 128k CF. Again the process completed OK.
However ther does seem to be one small drawback, and I am trying to stay
calm here, nothing works except login, menu, control panel etc.

All files and apps show correctly in the appropriate folders etc. If I
select an app from the silk screen or Extras I get "Information - Not
found" and a continue button. If I select a file or app directly I get
"'selection'" does not exist"

Before I do any further damage I thought I would seek some expert advice. I
have a recent backup but am a little shy of applying it without knowing
what has happened.

Is there an app which puts the words "Don't Panic" on the display!

Thanks

Dave Powell