October 2001 - Social

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Re: [alug social] My Palm Vx has a problem with its screen :-( pleasehelp
by MJ Ray 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > An Ipaq with the PCMCIA jacket with a cisco aironet card is the dogs > dangly's. Get it with linux on it and desable one of the cisco antenna > and you have a tricorder for finding wireless lans! Free surfing! Where's the howto for it, David? ;-) -- MJR Do you need advice about the Internet or particular net services? Why not talk to my employers? See http://www.luminas.co.uk/ for details.

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Re: [alug social] My Palm Vx has a problem with its screen :-( pleasehelp
by MJ Ray 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> writes: > Yeah, but both of my palm devices say on the back 3com, also the Palm > office is less than a stones throw from the 3com hq. I am seriously > thinking about an Ipaq now (there is a new model coming out v.soon) as > they have full multimedia and support compact flash cards. Well, I thought my Palm III was one of the last 3com units. Maybe I was wrong. YMMV, but when I last saw an Ipaq running its native software, the user interface was very poor compared to the palm, the writing seemed a bit skittish and it was over-priced for what it was. Have they improved much? Do they improve more if nuxed? > It seems that the Palm is a little dated now, as I can't see any real > innovation with the latest models (at least nothing thats worth my money), > they still have slow dragonball processors and have a new type of expansion > interface. Yes, most of the innovations seem to be coming from 3rd parties instead of Palm themselves just now. (Can you say "Psion"?) I think there's probably some life in the design yet, though. Slower CPU means more battery life... -- MJR Do you need advice about the Internet or particular net services? Why not talk to my employers? See http://www.luminas.co.uk/ for details.

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Re: [alug social] My Palm Vx has a problem with its screen :-( pleasehelp
by MJ Ray 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> writes: > My bruv, has a handspring, complete crap. [...] It looks like you're expecting more from a palmtop than most people. I don't use IR modems and haven't run into a bug with PalmOS severe enough to warrant a full upgrade yet. What do you do to yours? > 1st is a bit of a dumb question. Its monday Oh whoops. It's Monday. > [...] anyway my less than 2 month old 3Com pcmcia network card > broke tonight so I guess maybe quality is lacking somewhere in the > production line at those ppl. Palm != 3com. Not for some time now. > I am on IRC, just in a different channel, why aren't you on #alug. or if > you are then I am nearly there as far as drinking goes ;-) but I just > caught you anyway. Damn. It's Monday. -- MJR

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Re: [alug social] My Palm Vx has a problem with its screen :-( pleasehelp
by MJ Ray 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> writes: > What gets me is that this one is a replacement for one of the ones with > the memory problem bug that was reported about a year ago :-( kind of a > bit gaulling that it is my second palm in less than a year and it is now > hosed. Well, if Palm kit is giving you trouble, why not try a Palm-compat? You can find very good reports about some of them on the groups, especially the HandSprings. > [...] Also my opinion is that if M$ get my > money if I buy a palm and I nuke the OS it is better than PalmOS taking > the money and being stuck with PalmOS and not having a choice of linux. Have you been drinking again? I just gave you the name of a Palm Linux, LinuxDA, but there are others, I think. Yes, the ipaq has more features than the low-end palms, but you pay (and pay and pay) for that. > hmmm, all to difficult, want another lightning strike to kill all of my > kit so I can start again... /me dreams Yep, drinking again. Why aren't you on IRC? -- MJR Do you need advice about the Internet or particular net services? Why not talk to my employers? See http://www.luminas.co.uk/ for details.

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Re: [alug social] My Palm Vx has a problem with its screen :-( pleasehelp
by MJ Ray 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> writes: > Does anyone have any good suggestions for a replacement? ISTR posting asking for opinions on a cheaper palm-compat which came preinstalled with LinuxDA to uk.comp.sys.palmtops. Maybe you feel like cutting some edges? ;-) I think you've just had a rogue bad palm and shouldn't judge the whole field of palm-compats on one bad experience. I also wouldn't buy an ipaq as MS get your money even if you nux it, but that's a more personal choice, I guess.

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My Palm Vx has a problem with its screen :-( please help
by Adam Bower 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

Argghh, my Palm has done something nasty to me and I have tried looking all over google and can't find any help, if you know of any good mailing lists let me know!! Anyway the screen on my Palm Vx has got badly out of calibration so bad I had to back the thing up and do a hard reset. After the reset and re-calibration it worked fine so I restored my backup and the problem resurfaced :-( after playing around with the various .prc files that are installed and not restoring things like the saved preferences it still will screw up after I restore all of my data which I need. If anyone knows of some software that can help me out of my predicament or a good newsgroup/website or anything that will help please let me know, I don't want to have to go and buy a Palm M505. Adam -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam

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Re: [alug social] hacked/DDOS??
by MJ Ray 05 Oct '01

05 Oct '01

"Ricardo Campos" <corez23(a)hotmail.com> writes: > (And I'm sure you were wondering why I'm posting more tech-support style > questions to the main list!- they have a great newbie/help!!! Forum) Ahhhh, so that's why your system sounds so totally hacked-over and frazzled? ;-) -- MJR Do you need advice about the Internet or particular net services? Why not talk to my employers? See http://www.luminas.co.uk/ for details.

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hacked/DDOS??
by Ricardo Campos 05 Oct '01

05 Oct '01

(Probably the former) I was wondering why this was down for so long... http://www.linuxformat.co.uk (And I'm sure you were wondering why I'm posting more tech-support style questions to the main list!- they have a great newbie/help!!! Forum) Love Ricardo, "Surely this monstrous hybrid comes not from a mother's womb but from an Ephialtes, an Incubus, or some other horrendous demon, as though spawned in a putrid and venemous fungus, son of Fauns and Nymphs, more Devil than man." -Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subtarraneus, Amsterdam, 1665, pp.279-280 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Re: [alug social] My Palm Vx has a problem with its screen :-( please help
by MJ Ray 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

You can try uk.comp.sys.palmtops or comp.sys.handhelds.palm (I think), but you might be a lone voice in the wilderness. If that's the case, I guess you've got to put things back one at a time until you find whatever's doing it. First things to avoid installing are preferences extensions, hacks and anything which does anything major at boot. Unfortunately, all apps are allowed to do stuff at boot, so there's your next problem... :-/ -- MJR Do you need advice about the Internet or particular net services? Why not talk to my employers? See http://www.luminas.co.uk/ for details.

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