Re: PDA + Cell Phone

2004-04-14 Thread Martin Norland
you somewhere... I've got a bluetooth cf card on order from amazon (ambicom) that I'll be trying out the pda game with. I'll let you know how well it works if you're interested. Sincerely, -Martin Norland On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, James wrote: > Hello all, > > Has anyone a

Re: PDA + Cell Phone

2004-04-14 Thread Martin Norland
you somewhere... I've got a bluetooth cf card on order from amazon (ambicom) that I'll be trying out the pda game with. I'll let you know how well it works if you're interested. Sincerely, -Martin Norland On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, James wrote: > Hello all, > > Has anyone a

Re: Not so good pcmcia lan performance

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Norland
just between the two? Were you reading everything through nload, etc lots of factors need to be known overall, but my first guess would be either hd bottleneck (laptop hds are slower - insanely so if you haven't done some hdparm tweaking) and interrupts, with the possibility of driver imperfection. -Martin Norland

Re: Not so good pcmcia lan performance

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Norland
just between the two? Were you reading everything through nload, etc lots of factors need to be known overall, but my first guess would be either hd bottleneck (laptop hds are slower - insanely so if you haven't done some hdparm tweaking) and interrupts, with the possibility of driver imperfect

Re: Multimedia Keys

2003-09-23 Thread Martin Norland
other than that, perhaps trying it on your friends computer? Offhand I can't think of anything beyond that being your problem, unless it's some magic that hotplug is doing for me... -Martin Norland

RE: [OT] Virusses (many!) via list?

2003-09-23 Thread Martin Norland
mails until you're comfortable - but that may not be an option for all. But, procmail will definitely give you the regex power you want for your mails, whether they stay on the server or just to cut down on unwanted 'subscriptions' and spam before downloading. -Martin Norland

Re: Multimedia Keys

2003-09-23 Thread Martin Norland
other than that, perhaps trying it on your friends computer? Offhand I can't think of anything beyond that being your problem, unless it's some magic that hotplug is doing for me... -Martin Norland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [OT] Virusses (many!) via list?

2003-09-23 Thread Martin Norland
mails until you're comfortable - but that may not be an option for all. But, procmail will definitely give you the regex power you want for your mails, whether they stay on the server or just to cut down on unwanted 'subscriptions' and spam before downloading. -Martin Norland

Re: Multimedia Keys

2003-09-22 Thread Martin Norland
o event), and the buttons on the right are 222, 227, 112, etc. - so, they're definitely visible events, but the keysym is often (0x0, NoSymbol) which is just related to looking up and comparing to the keymap. Other than the option key, they all seem to send different keycodes - so have at it! xev is your friend (albiet *very* spammy, especially if you use focus follows mouse/etc.) -Martin Norland

Re: Multimedia Keys

2003-09-22 Thread Martin Norland
o event), and the buttons on the right are 222, 227, 112, etc. - so, they're definitely visible events, but the keysym is often (0x0, NoSymbol) which is just related to looking up and comparing to the keymap. Other than the option key, they all seem to send different keycodes - so have at it!

Re: mobile phone & linux

2003-07-28 Thread Martin Norland
You can do what I've done - I own a sonyericsson t68i cellphone, and just yesterday broke down and used gprs over irda to my pda to download affix for my laptop so I could use a usb-bluetooth adapter to use gprs over my cellphone (through, of course, the laptop). It was a painful experience (mainl

Re: mobile phone & linux

2003-07-28 Thread Martin Norland
You can do what I've done - I own a sonyericsson t68i cellphone, and just yesterday broke down and used gprs over irda to my pda to download affix for my laptop so I could use a usb-bluetooth adapter to use gprs over my cellphone (through, of course, the laptop). It was a painful experience (mainl

Re: ide CD Bruner

2003-07-11 Thread Martin Norland
Unfortunately you can't just use any old cdrom with a laptop and expect it to boot. The bios must support talking to that device, and pcmcia cdroms vary greatly in the methods in which they are initialized/etc. - so essentially, your bios needs to be able to see it. For monetary (aka buy our driv

Re: ide CD Bruner

2003-07-11 Thread Martin Norland
Unfortunately you can't just use any old cdrom with a laptop and expect it to boot. The bios must support talking to that device, and pcmcia cdroms vary greatly in the methods in which they are initialized/etc. - so essentially, your bios needs to be able to see it. For monetary (aka buy our driv

Re: Portable Laptop-Friendly Keyboards

2003-06-13 Thread Martin Norland
batteries). good luck in your search. Sincerely, Martin Norland On 12 Jun 2003, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 21:46, Dan Rasmussen wrote: > > I think I might be in a fairly uncommon situation here. I have a rather > > old laptop, and one of the problems with this l

Re: Portable Laptop-Friendly Keyboards

2003-06-13 Thread Martin Norland
batteries). good luck in your search. Sincerely, Martin Norland On 12 Jun 2003, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 21:46, Dan Rasmussen wrote: > > I think I might be in a fairly uncommon situation here. I have a rather > > old laptop, and one of the problems with this l