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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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Fwd: Re: [alug social] M$
by Ricardo Campos 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

>From: David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> >Reply-To: David_freeman(a)rocketmail.com >To: ricardo(a)corez23.com, socail(a)lists.alug.org.uk >Subject: Re: [alug social] M$ >Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 05:56:14 -0700 (PDT) > > >--- Ricardo Campos <corez23(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > When will people learn? I just had to spend £12000 on behalf of my > > company > > to buy 70 licenses for Office XP when our computers can't handle it > > so we're > > on Office 97. But they won't let us buy '97 licenses. > > GREED, anyone? > >At college we had a challenge to give a design for a computer room and >to see who could do it cheapest, I beat everyone else by over 33000ukp >just by using linux, I spent more on hw! > > > I have 2 words for this; OPEN SOURCE. > > Products such as word processors just don't improve that greatly from > > > > release to release. For most office purposes all they are is a > > glorified > > typewriter. Why spend the cash? >:| > >For most people they spend to much time fiddling with presentation in >word, using LaTeX speeds up the work no end as you type the text in and >simply mark it up as to how it should be, saved me hours on my college >work! > >Thanks > >D > >PS can you forward this to the list if it doesn't get to the list >properly? > > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Alug Social mailing list > > To post: Social(a)lists.alug.org.uk > > To change your subscription options, visit:- > > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/social > > >===== >-------------------- >"We all know Linux is great... > it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." >Linus Torvalds > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. >http://phone.yahoo.com > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Re: Fwd: Re: [alug social] M$
by MJ Ray 03 Oct '01

03 Oct '01

This week, I am mostly fiddling with texmacs for my desktop publishing enjoyment. -- MJR I work for this clever Internet developer ==> http://www.luminas.co.uk/

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M$
by Ricardo Campos 03 Oct '01

03 Oct '01

When will people learn? I just had to spend £12000 on behalf of my company to buy 70 licenses for Office XP when our computers can't handle it so we're on Office 97. But they won't let us buy '97 licenses. GREED, anyone? I have 2 words for this; OPEN SOURCE. Products such as word processors just don't improve that greatly from release to release. For most office purposes all they are is a glorified typewriter. Why spend the cash? >:| 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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Off topic 2.5 GHz Microwave ovens and computers
by oms101＠freeuk.com 30 Sep '01

30 Sep '01

I have been getting increasingly concerned at the speed of modern computers, they seem to be approaching that of microwave ovens and so with my long turm exposire becomes worrying I looked up the freequancy of a microwave oven, only 2.5 GHz now does this mean that we will be getting cooked slowly with when we upgrade computers. Regards Owen Synge <quote ref="http://www.howstuffworks.com/microwave.htm"> The microwave oven is one of the great inventions of the 20th century - millions of homes in America have one. Microwave ovens are popular because they cook food incredibly quickly. They are also extremely efficient in their use of electricity because a microwave oven heats only the food - nothing else. A microwave oven uses microwaves to heat food. Microwaves are <A href="http://www.howstuffworks.com/radio-spectrum.htm">radio waves</A>. In the case of microwave ovens, the commonly used radio wave frequency is roughly 2,500 megahertz (2.5 gigahertz). Radio waves in this frequency range have an interesting property: they are absorbed by water, fats and sugars. When they are absorbed they are converted directly into atomic motion - heat. Microwaves in this frequency range have another interesting property: they are not absorbed by most plastics, glass or ceramics. Metal reflects microwaves, which is why metal pans do not work well in a microwave oven. How Microwave Ovens Cook Food You often hear that microwave ovens cook food "From the inside out." What does that mean? Here's an explanation to help make sense of microwave cooking. Let's say you want to bake a cake in a conventional oven. Normally you would bake a cake at 350 degrees F or so, but let's say you accidentally set the oven at 600 degrees instead of 350. What is going to happen is that the outside of the cake will burn before the inside even gets warm. In a conventional oven, the heat has to migrate (by conduction) from the outside of the food toward the middle <snip/> In microwave cooking, the radio waves penetrate the food and excite water and fat molecules pretty much evenly throughout the food. There is no "heat having to migrate toward the interior by conduction". There is heat everywhere all at once because the molecules are all excited together. There are limits of course. Radio waves penetrate unevenly in thick pieces of food (they don't make it all the way to the middle), and there are also "hot spots" caused by wave interference, but you get the idea. The whole heating process is different because you are "exciting atoms" rather than "conducting heat". In a microwave oven, the air in the oven is at room temperture, so there is no way to form a crust. That is why foods like "Hot Pockets" come with a little cardboard/foil sleeve. You put the food in the sleeve and then microwave it. The sleeve reacts to microwave evergy by becoming very hot. This exterior heat lets the crust become crispy as it would in a conventional oven. Microwave ovens are described by several interesting links on the web. Try these: For an excellent discussion of the different parts of a microwave oven and how they work together, http://www.gallawa.com/microtech/how_work.html For a great collection of in-depth questions and answers about microwaves, http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW//microwave_ovens.html </quote> Date: 30-Sep-01 Time: 13:33:54

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Shocking happenings!!!
by Adam Bower 28 Sep '01

28 Sep '01

Hmmm, I just got back online yesterday since going offline on Tuesday evening, when lightning struck about ~200m away from my house, it affected a telegraph pole which of course was the telecoms to my house. The lightning also thought it would be a good idea to ground itself through *MY* modem which was rather interesting :-) as when I came and sat down near the computer I noticed that it was in two rather distinctive parts, and all the magic smoke that made it work had escaped! Anyway after counting the cost (luckily I am insured) It cost me 2 modems, two motherboards (it blew a serial port and parallel port in both!), two telephone handsets and a fan heater! (I don't knowhow it got the last but it appeared to jump through a powered phone and back into the electric supply in the house). Anyway when I get the photos developed I will put them online, all the phone sockets in the house were blown and the wet string that connected us to the telegraph pole was also hosed as the cable had burst in 3 seperate places! BTW the BT engineer also told me that you can now use the BT diagnosis phone no. to work out how far away you are from the exchange, so you can work out if you will be able to get ADSL. You will get warned that you have to be authorised to do this but it never gets checked so don't worry. To get this info dial 17070 then (dial) 3 (you have to listen to this message) then dial 1 and finally 2 Adam -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam

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1 free cinema ticket to see Enigma tomorrow evening in Norwich
by Adam Bower 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

Hi people, I just managed to get hold of two tickets for the preview screening of the film Enigma tomorrow evening in Norwich. As it is such short notice I can't find anyone to go with! (or maybe I am just unpopular ;-)) anyway if you want to come (and maybe go for beers after?) then drop me a mail. Adam PS the film starts at 6:30 Riverside, -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam

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