Craig Pricewrote:
> Does anyone know of a similar app? I could reluctantly pass up the today > view if I had to, but the CTRL + Spacebar task manager is something just > can't live without.
Have you tried iDesk? It has task-switching capabilities (which I don't use but maybe I should!). It is free from Freepoc: http://www.freepoc.org/viewapp.php?id=79
Regards,
Chris Handley
Ajai Khattri wrote:
>> Running ubuntu, it is not an "instant on" 5mx/phone type device taking >> 45 > secs to boot up the the Username/Password, and 45 secs to shut
>> down.
>
> Just to clarify:
>
> Psions have instant on because they dont actually shutdown - they sleep > (if you recall, the first time you switch on a Psion it takes 2 minutes > to boot the OS, after which you have instant off and on because you are merely > putting it to sleep). You can also do the same with Ubuntu - my laptop
> takes 5 seconds to put to sleep and about 10 seconds to wake up.
Yes, but "sleep" on a laptop will cause the battery to run-out in a matter of hours, where Psion's "sleep" (aka "off") will run on battery for WEEKS (or even MONTHS)! Guess which is more useful for a PDA/organiser? :)
This is a combination of the Psion OS being very carefully crafted to minimise battery use, and the hardware being very carefully crafted to switch most stuff off & use as little as possible power for the remaining stuff.
Chris Handley
- where do I find a brand new stock of 1 GB CF cards ? (Please remind me: what is the actual limit of a CF in a netBook if not partitioned ? 1 or 2 GB
?).
Thomas,
I sent you a link in privet of a Dutch store.
You can put a 2 GB card into your netBook without partition.
Regards,
Kees.
I am still regularly using my Psion Revo as my PDA (I always have it with me). I am also using an HP laptop under Windows Vista (I bring it with me as a transportable desktop ) and a desktop PC under Windows XP (I have to go there to use it for heavier stuff). I would like to add a remark to the Instant on theme. It is not only a matter of hardware and OS functionality. What is amazing with my Psion is that it has been running over the years without ever having a dead-lock, never having had to be restarted, never having been restored (though I keep taking backups). My PC:s (I have had many over the years) seem to have a mean time between failure of hours. My XP left ON with IE, Outlook and a few other apps, but idle, will screw up by itself in hours and have to be untangled with surgical help of the Task Manager (killing of dumprep.exe, not the least !). The laptop I would not dare to hybernate - my experience with laptops is that they finally go to Big Sleep and the batteries have to be removed. Necessary updates pour in all the time. So, Windows is a distributed software laboratory, in which I am invited to participate in the ever ongoing development of a decent working environment. Psion does not have the pretentions of Windows of course, but it deliveres what is promised. So, it is also a matter of attitudes among the developers. Thus I do not believe in a Windows based Instant on PDA till I have seen one, small wonder be it !
Lars-Olov
On 18 Dec 2009, Bob Rudolph <address truncated> wrote:
> When I used my disk with 9.10 I didn't have any other Ubuntu on my machine. I just put it in the optical device and it came up and asked me if I wanted to install it and I clicked yes and it just took care of it. >
> Do you think you need to take off the earlier edition and try again???
It should not make any difference if there's an existing install or not.
For netbooks, I prefer booting off a USB stick. To make a bootable USB
stick, boot the Ubuntu install CD on a regular PC; when the desktop
appears use the USB disk utility (might be in the menu under System).
You might need to go into the BIOS on the netbook, to tell it to boot off
your USB stick.
Aj.
On 18 Dec 2009, Thomas F. van der Zijden <address truncated> wrote:
> What did actually start the problems ? I stored the netBook in my backpack Wednesday evening for a 15 min ride on my bike. It probably did not like the sub-zero temperatures.
Oddly enough, most electronic devices dont like cold or heat too much :-)
The best thing to do in that situation is to switch off the device and put
it somewhere for a few hours where it can slowly get back to room
temperature.
> Meanwhile I ask myself two things:
> - apparently the live of a CF is indeed only 10 years (I bought the Hitachi in 2000)
Actually, its the number of writes (and not the age) that is finite. I
forgot the exact numbers (its many thousands of writes and Im sure it
depends on brand and usage).
Also, bear in mind, that writing to a flash card requires more power than
reading.
> - where do I find a brand new stock of 1 GB CF cards ?
CF cards can be bought anywhere.
> (Please remind me: what is the actual limit of a CF in a netBook if not
> partitioned ? 1 or 2 GB ?).
Most cards come preformatted but its VFAT that has a limit. I would stick
to 1Gb since they're readily available and prettty cheap too.
> As I mentioned before: I will probably not stop using a netBook, because
> of better equipment arriving. I will probably have to stop using a
> netBook, because the hardware components start to fail.
I think that's true for a lot of people.
Aj.
On 18 Dec 2009, Harold Fuchs <address truncated> wrote:
> I think Psions etc. use something between #2 and #3. They can do this > because memory is non-volatile on these systems so there is no need to > save data to disk.
Another technical point: I believe the Psions utilize XIP (execute-in-place) where ROM storage is mapped into a specific part of the memory map i.e. it's already 'loaded' into memory when the CPU is initialized so its a very fast boot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execute_in_place
Aj.
> - where do I find a brand new stock of 1 GB CF cards ? (Please remind me: > what is the actual limit of a CF in a netBook if not partitioned ? 1 or 2 > GB ?).
The maximum capacity is 2Gb on Psions 5mx and Netbook, but you can also try to partition a 8Gb CF card into 4 parts, each maximum 2Gb, and that is readable in a Netbook, then you get D:, E:, F:, G: -drives with each 2 Gb. But that is the absolute maximum, and it is somewhat tricky to do the partition. But if You have a Linux desktop machine, it should work.
There is a step-by-step guide for this (at least in German) at psionwelt.de here:
http://www.psionwelt.de/workshop/ws_cfpart/cfpart.htm
and here for Ubuntu:
http://www.psionwelt.de/workshop/partitionieren.htm
But again, it does not work with every CF card, and I don´t know why, I already messed up a 1Gb card by trying to partition it :))
Good luck: Balazs (Austria)
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Wong Koi Hin wrote:
* 2. Standby. Nothing is saved to disk but the power is reduced to a * minimum. Currently open programs are left open. If you unplug (or * remove the battery from) a Windows computer while it is in this state, * all in-memory data will be lost and, when you switch the machine on
* again, no programs (other than those started at boot-time) will be
* open. Unplugging a machine while it is in Standby is equivalent to
* turning it "off" (#1 above).
* 3. Hibernate. In-memory data are saved to disk as is the state of all * currently open programs. The current "view" (what you see on screen)
* is also saved. Power is turned off completely. If you unplug (or
* remove the battery from) a machine while it is in this state nothing
* will be lost and, when you switch it on again it will be in the same
* state as it was before it "hibernated".
* I think Psions etc. use something between #2 and #3.
When I read your explanation I think it's more #2.
When I use BackUp or Crontab and I have "shutdown" the Psion, my nB comes alive on the time I agreed with both program's.
Regards,
Kees.
Hi there.
I previously had the email programme running successfully on my 5MX, but since doing a hard reset and reinstall of everything (to clear up space on the c:// drive) I've not been able to use Email in the same way as before.
I am able to log in to my mailbox and view emails but, when I try to copy them to the 5MX, the progress bar gets about 25% of the way along and then stays there for as long as I am prepared to wait. NB it isn't that the whole system locks up - I can do other things whilst I am waiting, including access commands within Email itself.
I am connecting to the internet via DSLink on my PC and have installed the TCP/IP updates and the Sink application. I use SMTPAuth to send emails (which hasn't been working well since the clear-out either).
If anyone has an idea of what I might be doing wrong then I'd be very grateful. I have been subscribing to The Digest for a while now and am heartened by all of the good advice that I've seen exchanged here.
Best wishes.
Robert
London, Uk
From: Thomas F. van der Zijden <address truncated>
> - I then took the 1 GB card, inserted it into my PC to put the newest OS.IMG on it. This was a very bad mistake, as Window$ put a lot of mess on it as well.
> Meanwhile I ask myself two things:
> - apparently the live of a CF is indeed only 10 years (I bought the Hitachi in 2000)
Thomas, my understanding is that CF cards, or any similar, do not have
a life span of 10 years.
However opinion is that memory cells have a finite number of times
they can be changed from 'on' to 'off' and to 'on'.
So writing to the same cell regularly will wear out that particular
cell. One could relate this to metal fatigue - bend it too often and
eventually it will crack. Just reading should not reduce it's life
span.
On floppy and hard disks a bad cell is marked as bad when a format
takes place. I don't know if the Psion OS format does this.
Regarding Windows: I never use Windows to write to a CF or SD that is
used in other devices. I always format cards in a Psion or camera,
then never write to them with Windows.
I use a separate card to write anything needed from Windows to a
Psion. Then copy those file(s) in a Psion to another card (on a
single card Psion, copy to C: and replace the original card, they copy
back to D:).
This has always worked for me.
Alan
> Date: 18 Dec 2009 01:33:08 +0000
> From: Bob Rudolph <address truncated>
> Subject: RE: Ubunu
>
> Hi Jim,
> When I used my disk with 9.10 I didn't have any other Ubuntu on my machine. I just put it in the optical device and it came up and asked me if I wanted to install it and I clicked yes and it just took care of it. >
> Do you think you need to take off the earlier edition and try again???
>
> Like you I am not an expert I have done a lot of trial and error, but I seem to get there in the end.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
> Steilacoom, Washington
Bob,
I guess I miscommunicated. I tried run Ubuntu from the disk on my
desktop Windows machine. No earlier Ubuntu on the machine. Tried it
on a 8.10 disk, and again from a version 9.10 disk. Neither would
load past the first screen.
The plan is to get eeebuntu up on the eee machine, then get Ubuntu up
and running (dual booting mode) on the desktop. I tried to look at it
on the desktop first to make sure it would load from the drive.
> Date: 18 Dec 2009 17:36:00 +0000
> From: Ajai Khattri <address truncated>
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu Question
>
> What kind of Ubuntu disk are they? I think for EEEPC I made a bootable USB stick and booted off that. Did you try eeebuntu?
>
> Aj.
>
Aj.
I plan to download eeebuntu from the eeebuntu website. I assume it
will be a zipped file so I plan to unzip it on my desktop, then copy
and paste it on to a 512 MB USB memory chip (same as a memory stick?)
making sure it's in the root of the chip. Then try to figure it out
from there (I imagine the file or the eeebuntu website will have
instructions on booting from the USB memory chip and replacing the OS
after successful running from the chip.
Am I on target so far (steps 1 and 2.)?
jim - port townsend, wa, usa