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Hi Francois,

seriously ... they may have progress but offering OOo 1.1.3 is a bit late,

all other distro give 1.1.4 and the version2 is almost ready ...

Yes, OOo 1.1.4 is available. However Linspire 5.0 was finalized when it was not ready yet, AFAIK. With a focus on stability you sometimes do not take the very latest version. And then, Updates might be available, as usual.

imho..I know Linux enough to say try something else before to go on to linspire for a try ...

I'm a fraid that this version is not finalized as the previous one, so if you're not a geek ... good luck after the install .. drivers ... compatibility ...

This previous version was not there yet, you are absolutely right.

A lot of money had been invested by Michael Robertson to address exactly this problem. I think it is much better now. Still may be not as good as SuSE, but then again only a direct comparison would show.

please don't advert for a distro that began with copying codes

thanks

I'm not aware of that.

But isn't Linux GPL and similar, and you can copy it and make your own distro, like so many are doing?

seriously, linspire is one of the last distro to come out and seriously talking,

we all have enough distro and ne need for another try ...

Well, Linspire has some unique features, such as their CNR "click and run" software delivery service. This is a concept with a great potential. I wish SuSE would have that!

Then they do make Linux real easy for windows users, and they do much much more here than the established distros (the ones for you and me) which cannot do that, all their users would run away screaming loudly.

stick to well known and well supported distro, better

"Stick to" yes, meaning there is no need for an experienced Linux user to switch from SuSE etc. to Linspire.

However Linspire is a good option for the non geek windows user who wants to change, if not the easiest option of all.

ps;anyway beginning with such a name as lindows was pretty stupid.

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Actually, it was great to do some pro Linux marketing. And didn't Michael Robertson got some money from Microsoft to stop using the name Lindows, wasn't it 20 Million USD or so?

All this money plus 5 million USD of his own private Money did go into the Linspire 5.0 development. And that shows, it is a good distro now.

I think there is a good place for Linspire, and it can help a lot of Windows users daring to switch over to Linux, without a geek holding their hand.

And the CNR "click and run" software delivery service with thousands of sotware titles ready to download and run is a boon for all the ones not able to compile, or to install it using rpm. This is one of the big highlights of Linspire, and in my eyes a killer feature.

Having such an easy "click and run" software delivery service for SuSE would help me a lot in my support of some non geek and half geek Linux users ...

The desktop is clean and attractively designed, with a look and feel similar to Windows.

I missed this one ... this is one thing linux user don't want!

their box looking like any windoze and surely working nearly same

linux users are not all geeks but they all want to have the right to the difference!

francois

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Yes, Francois, this is one thing you don't want.

And again yes, this is one thing I don't want.

And again yes, this is one thing many many Linux users don't want.

But there is also a no.

Because this is exactly the thing many windows users want and need. These Windows users, who would like to try Linux, but are scared that it might be too different, and that they get lost in the different look.

These users will have a much easier start with Linux if they can switch it on and start working right away. The differences will get obvious step by step anyway, but it will not be too much at once.

Once they are familiar with it and and feeling good with it, they can go on exploring the real Linux behind the windows facade.

However for someone who was not trained on Windows, there is no need for Linspire. Going directly to SuSE will be fine.

As for a Linux mp3 player, I used XMMS with success. However, I still prefer iTunes (on a Mac)...but Crossover Office now supports Windows iTunes quite well under Linux. It may seem like a step backward using Windows programs in Linux, but Crossover is a good bridge...especially with Photoshop.

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XMMS is very nice, and available for a long time.

Now there is also Linspire's Lsongs, which comes with Linspire, but the source is freely available.

And now there is AMAROK, which is a KDE application, but it should run with Gnome also.

And Amarok, well, it rocks!

http://amarok.kde.org/

It is a fresh and new concept, and very userfriendly. It made me forget XMMS. And it is under heavy development, getting even better every month.

It usually comes your distribution, if it contains KDE. But it makes a lot of sense to update to the latest version.

"Easily the best media-player for Linux at the moment. Install it now!"

AMAROK FEATURES

* Quick and simple drag and drop playlist creation

* Music library (built-in sqlite, MySQL or PostgreSQL)

* Multiple backends supported (GStreamer, xine, NMM, MAS, Helix and aRts)

* 10 band equalizer

* Automatic cover art download using Amazon services

* The unique and powerful context browser

* Automatic play-statistics generation (iRate style)

* Full lyrics download

* Full Audioscrobbler support

* Integrated Wikipedia support

* Visualisations with libvisual

* Streaming from any KIO source

* Crossfading

* Fully configurable OSD for track changes

* K3B (CD-burning) integration

* KDE integration

hi'

you see in fact, some customers ask me about linux, my answer never vary ...

if you want to try it here is a live cd, try it booting from it, if you like I will help you for the install and for your first steps

but, if I have to do so, it's always Mandriva or Red-Hat that comes first

if they really like it after a few month then I direct them to Suse, as we all know it's the most stable and efficient one(Linus uses it).

francois

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keep cool, Francois

I did not know that Linus is using SuSE.

Well, that is what I'm using too

As for a Linux mp3 player, I used XMMS with success. However, I still prefer iTunes (on a Mac)...but Crossover Office now supports Windows iTunes quite well under Linux. It may seem like a step backward using Windows programs in Linux, but Crossover is a good bridge...especially with Photoshop.

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hi

crossover, another type of wine or winex?

can you give details, and/or and address for further info

thanks

francois

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I went to visit this site and disapointed the home version isn't free

whatever the version you choose you have to pay for, not very in line with GNU

Wine seems to be the only free prog that make win-applications works under X.

francois

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Crossover and Wine are a family. Wine is the basis, the free part of it. The Crossover guys are guys from the wine developers, which responded to the demand of having wine customized to get certain apps running or running better with Wine.

They did develop Crossover office, which lets you quite comfortably install MS Office and a few other Windows apps on Linux, based on the wine technology.

So these guys are helping the Linux users in need of certain apps, and they did not look that out as a clever business opportunity, but they responded to a demand, and this demand was more than they imagined, keeping them quite busy.

The better news is that all what they add to Wine to make Crossover products working is given back to the wine project. So these guys do help the wine development a lot.

On top of that corporations which want to use wine but demand also some kind of support commitment do get helped here as well.

So it is a win win for everybody involved. And there is a free version of crossover, it is wine!

For you that means that you can get almost all what crossover offers by using wine, but you might have to manually configure often, which crossover would do all for you automatically.

I used crossover and I used/use wine, and yes, crossover was nice and easy to use for the supported apps.

NewsFactor Top Tech News

Linspire Puts a Friendly Face on Linux

Many people who want to jump on the Linux bandwagon have been reluctant to do so because they don't want to learn a whole new operating system with an admittedly unintuitive set of names for utilities. Reiserfs? Gaim? XOrg?

Still, there are good reasons to consider the Linux operating system for desktop computers. It is inherently stable. It is sometimes free, and when it's not, it's usually inexpensive, as are the applications that go with it.

For nongeeks wanting to give Linux a try, we strongly recommend the latest version, 5.0, of Linspire (http://www.linspire.com/), a product formerly known as Lindows. No secret handshakes here.

The applications and utilities are all intuitively labeled and the interface is simple and easy to navigate, making the product easy to learn for any refugee from Microsoft's Windows or Apple Computer's Macintosh operating systems.

Installation couldn't be easier. The user is only required to respond to a couple of easy-to-understand prompts. The entire process takes about 10 minutes.

That might not seem so incredible until you consider that it is not only an operating system that is being installed but also the KDE desktop environment, the Reiser4 file system -- though Reiserfs is provided as the default -- the OpenOffice 1.1.3 productivity suite, the Mozilla Web browser, e-mail, spell checker, an instant messaging program and dozens of other applications.

The desktop is clean and attractively designed, with a look and feel similar to Windows.

One of the smaller features Windows users will appreciate is Linspire's global spell checker. No matter what application you are using, you will find that suspected misspellings are underlined and suggested corrections are only a click away.

Another unique feature is MailMinder, a utility that allows you to set alerts to be triggered by e-mail messages. You might, for example, have the utility send you an e-mail at a specified time to remind you of an upcoming appointment.

Although most of the applications installed with Linspire are existing Linux applications, Linspire's own Lphoto and Lsongs are two well- designed applications for tracking and managing your digital photo and music collections.

And Version 5.0 offers hundreds of other new and improved features. At the top of the list is built-in 802.1Ig wireless support and virtual private network support.

Again, for nongeeks wanting to give Linux a try, we strongly recommend the latest version, 5.0, of Linspire (http://www.linspire.com/), a product formerly known as Lindows.

Life in LOS would be a lot less fun, without the dying water-buffalo, sick mother-in-law, dented brother-in-law's car, and so on.

Relax & enjoy the joke  

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You are referring to sob stories.

The scams mentioned in this thread where you could be forced to pay by intimidation or by the police are no joke!

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yes, absolutely no joke. If a group of people stand around you and try to intimidate you, and the usual boy in brown joins them, to get his part too, this is not a joke, not at all.

I had a similar story once in Pukhet, with a rented motorbike, and it took me 2 hours and a simulated "getting money with my credit card" show to eventually grab my passport again, and then use a determined and angry physical look to scare the last 2 helpers of the intimidators away. It was interesting, the people in the local dive shop there (farangs) had been scared, they did not want to help...

I learned my lesson, nobody ever gets my passport again. And I look at the people carefully from whom I rent a motorbike. Surely not on a beach road anywhere.

Cutting the prices would be good eventhough I find them reasonable now.

Only thing I would love to see is a serious increase in allowed data traffic!

The 750 mb included in the basic packages (both iptv and ipstar) is really insufficient.

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Exactly! 750 Mb is a not enough.

According to CS-Loxinfo who sells the IPstar service in Thailand they will cut the prices later this year.

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This will be necessary to get more users. I did run away quickly from the current IPstar offers because it includes just a few Megabytes of downloads in the basic price, and then you pay a lot for each additional MB.

There is no use to have a fast connection, if you cannot use it, because the few free MBs you had are used up in three days already, just by doing your email and basic browsing.

I really wish that we get a good offer soon. However Shin is usually not the one lowering the prices without pressure from price competion, as we see at AIS / 1-2-call, which are still much more expensive than DTAC, Orange, Hutch...

Is there a way to get nice looking fonts in a Linux browser? I've got Mandrake 10 and Firefox. I find it very difficult to read - they look like there's no antialiasing or something.

Thanks.

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Well, I have excellent fonts in Firefox, Konqueror and Opera, on all SuSE versions. And mandrake should do the same.

Now, do you have this font problem in all applications, or just in Firefox?

I assume you run KDE with mandrake. So if it is in firefox but not in other KDE applications this is a good pointer to where to look for the problem. Browse to the same page with konqueror, and see if the fonts look different.

Then check also other non kde applications, such as Open Office, or the Gimp. How do the fonts look there?

This info will help us to see where the problem could be.

...A number of people also offer a "card" for your computer, which allows you to program/record TV on your HDD. ...

Sony and a few others also offer computers which include TV record capabilities utilizing Microsoft's WindowsXP Media Edition operating system.

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If you have a computer and want to watch or record television, i highly recommend the El Gato EyeTV approach. (This is for the Mac, but I imagine you DOS, I mean Windows, folks have something similar.) www.elgato.com

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Just to make it complete, of course SuSE Linix does include - and of course free - a Digital Video Recorder software, called "VDR" (http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/ ) , which is supporting the Siemens DVB-S card and compatible devices. I haven't used it myself (no time for looking TV ) but others are happy with it. It is quite mature, they just had their five year anniversary.

BTW. most, if not all of the commercially available Digital Video Recorder have Linux inside

... and for large scale enterprise applications you will find MS to be the cheaper option too.

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Cheaper than free? Yeah, that is what Microsoft tries to prove. However so far the studies they paid for are not very convincing, and do not show what is happening in the real world.

Especially in large scale applications the trend is towards Linux. Usually larger Unix installations are replaced by Linux, and not by MS.

Do you REALLY want a Thai credit card??

There is no purchase protection like you are used to in the West, if someone copies your card and runs up a huge bill, tough, your problem.

In a word, avoid.

Just my 2 Satang of course.

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Never I will accept such a credit card... You just shop one time in the wrong place, and it is copied

thats a nice price for the 6630 yuyi , I bought one for my girlfriend back in january and it was 21k.

well, i asked in about 20 shops and the prices had been between 15999 and 19xxx. Then one shop, almost at closing time, obviously needed some cash, so they offeres it first for 16900, and then, when I did not look impressed, for 14900

they are a nice phone ( WCDMA too ) but the memory cards are DVRS-MMC's ( dual voltage reduced size MMC ) which are supposed to be power saving , how much power can you save on flash ram (?) , but are quite expensive.

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So far it seems that it does not use too much battery in standby mode.

These DVRS-MMC's have the huge advantage that they can be read in any regular card reader which has a SD / MMC slot. And they can get hot swapped in the phone, no need to switch it off.

So an upload or download of any file - sound, image, application - to the 6630 is easy, just take the card out and plug it in the card reader, and then back again. No need for a cable connection, no need for a bluetooth connection setup. This way your "Fexplorer" was installed in a few seconds.

The phone connected with the USB cable,which comes with it, works out of the box as a modem even on my Linux system. AT standard, no driver needed. Now I have a nice backup solution for EDGE surfing

hi'

I undestand your point, I'm in fact very close to this, but reality for me is a bit different ...

when I am asked to get a PC for a customer, 3 choices, I build it and the customer choose with me every single part of it, here I can say try Linux with pleasure, except if the customer wants windows(90%) ...

if I order already built, choice again but 90% of the people choose windows coz of previous use and not ready to change

if I order a brand name(mainly Dell), I can't ask for Linux

they just told me: NO! .

Well, that's life. Not much more you can do. HP is getting more open to Linux though.

I try to offer a try, as I said using a live cd, many are pleased

but many say it's nice but why change, I'm so used to windows ...

it's not easy to convince people who already bought an expensive license for their OS.

Yeah, and then they come asking for help because another crash, or virus is causing them data loss, and they need help. And their virus infected PC is becoming a zombie and is sending out 1000s of spam emails every night, and they don't understand who is at the remote control for their box.

After they get burned already, they are usually more open to look for an improvement.

It is a difference with the people close to me, the ones I care about. Here I make an extra effort to show them how their life could be more easy, and less money loss for the computer stuff as a bonus.

you're right, linux users are happy, and it could be for anyone, newbies and geeks, what I wanted to mean is it's not ready commercialy, the communication is poor, and the spreading slow ...

Well, I think it is ready commercially, but there is not the huge installed base, and there is not the big marketing money promoting it.

Companies like Novell / SuSE, Red Hat, or Linspire, and many more, do offer the product and the service the corporate customers need, and the growth is there. Despite the efforts of MS to stop it

but! Linux users have an absolute advantage ... time vs money

francois

ps: btw , running Suse 9.3, and happy

    tested mandriva 2005, very nice

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You know as much as I do that Linux is NOT a desktop platform despite numerous tries. And it's also not pratical to operate a business without MS Windows. I love Linux and that's all we have for our servers, but MS has an edge in terms of design, usability and efficiency for the Windows Interface.

Sorry, I have to disagree.

Linux developed into a fine desktop platform. Being mostly free, it does not have the marketing to reach you, but that does not change the fact that it is very practical to use.

"design, usability and efficiency"? Well, exactly that is the reason why the Linux desktops are better!

Design? The object oriented architecture of KDE (francois, forgive me), developed in C++, is far superior to the windows hack, and every programmer who ever did write a KDE application knows that, and gets excited about that.

Usability? Aaah, you did not here me cursing when I had to use windows again, after learning Linux... "Why does all the basic stuff not work in windows, grrr "

Efficiency? Well, getting the work done, quickly, without crashes, without virus problems, without data loss, that is quite efficient, isn't it? And that's how it is with Linux on your Desktop!

If you ever tried KDesktop, all the X11 window manager, they are crap and take as much resources as any Windows versions. Not pratical either in a business environment

"KDesktop"? Hmmm, it seems to be a long long time that you had a look around here. There is KDE, there is Gnome, and both are getting better every day. I do not think they are "crap", and I do not think they "take as much resources as any Windows version". And most of all I know that they are quite practical in a business environment. Why I know that? I see it working, every day!

Windows for desktop : GOOD

Linux for desktop : BAD

Small correction:

Linux for desktop: EXCELLENT

Windows for server : BAD

Linux for server : EXCELLENT

Here I do agree 1000 % :D

I think we need to learn how to live with Windows Betas on the desktop because we have no choice.

Strongly disagree.

You have Apple, and you have Linux. Both are very good choices.

If you need the commercial video and graphics applications, such as the Adobe apps, they are all available for apple.

If you need to get office work done, you find all you need in Linux, and most of it for free.

And yes I have tried dozens of "Plug and Play" Linux desktop out there. They are all very pretty but they suck and are not pratical.

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dozens of "Plug and Play" Linux desktops ? Wow! That many?!? I have just tried 2 of them, Gnome and KDE. Gnome was already very practical. I do prefer KDE though, because it is for me even more practical, as it is nice for the user and very friendly for the application developper.

I think you need to update your jugdement, by having a look at the currently available software.

Did you try a recent SuSE version, such as 9.2 or 9.3? Did you try Linspire 5.0? They are very practical, indeed!

I purchased a nokia 6230i from MBK yesterday for 12k baht.

its a nice phone , it has bluetooth included and you can explore the MMC via your BT software on your comp.

I have yet to check out the EDGE capabilities .

the main thing that I don't like is its use of the symbian 40 OS rather than symbian 60 , many exceptional programs I use on my symbian 60 phone I cannot use on this one. I have been doing a bit of searching but have yet to find a file explorer such as Fexplorer , which is a wonderful free program.

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symbian 60, FP2, that's why I did just get the Nokia 6630 for 15k baht. EDGE works, it's funny to surf the web with such a small screen.

Even python runs on these phones, allowing to quickly hack a script together, without the time overhead to make a c++ or Java app for the phone.

What I like is that everything reacts fast. There are not these annoying long waiting times after selecting something, which you see with older phones or with windows phones.

Bugger off, stop compaining and use Linux then if it suits you better.

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hmm,

quite true, but not everyone have the skills to enter the linux world, just to be a bit realistic

francois, do not make it more complicated as it is. Linux is very well suitable for > 90 % of the current windose users, except a few which use special apps or exotic hardware. I have some really computer illiterate people running on Linux, they do their email (kmail), their web browsing (konqueror / Firefox), and their writing (Open office) with it. Works fine. Now they start to laugh about their friends paying loads of money for Windose software, and running to get their Virus software updated every week. And these are "less than average" users!

Of course I did not give them a more difficult Linux such as Fedora or Gentoo or another Linux which is more for the geeks, but a more complete distro such as SuSE.

And then there is also Linspire, the former Lindows. Now this is easier than Windose, no question. This you can give grandma and grandpa!

At the same time there is room for the ones playing with it, like you and me, compiling and tuning kernels etc.

But it is simply not true anymore that Linux needs more skills than windows. Linux with KDE and / or Gnome did go a long long way in the last years. It is different, and it will stay different, in the meaning of better, and you can have all flavors now, the easy one for grandma and the geeky one for, well, you and me

I run linux from 1995 but windows too and for longer than linux..

I need it for the compatibility with my customers ... and Linux is like a lab for me, it's on a second machine and I will never try to push anyone before they ask for ... "can we have a look?"

most of the time, I give a live-cd for them to discover and then they choose by themselves, I'm aways here to give a hand

Linux users have to stop to bash windows users ...

most of them don't even know they have a choice ... and windoze is a reference for them, don't blame them for this ... it's only marketing

linux users are still in minority and this for still very long ...

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It does not matter at all if there are many or very many, or even the majority using Linux. There are enough already to keep it alive and booming, and the Linux users happy.

I had previously ignored the CDMA phone as I did not realise until yuyi spoke up that there was a good WCDMA network available.

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Stumonster, please be aware that Hutch CDMA is not WCDMA .

WCDMA / UMTS would be nice to have.

Hutch CDMA is giving you theoretically a little slower speed than EDGE. I download with Hutch CDMA with 16 kB/sec. EDGE gives me in good moments around 20 kB/sec. But that does last a few seconds only, then it drops to half of it or less. However Hutch CDMA can be quite stable, staying a long time around 14 - 16 kB/sec .

WCDMA stands for "wide-band CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access), a 3G technology that increases data transmission rates in GSM systems by using the CDMA air interface instead of TDMA. WCDMA is based on CDMA and is the technology used in UMTS, offering excellent voice capacity and a peak data rate of 384 kbps".

384 kbps would be really nice. EDGE and Hutch CDMA (~150 kbps) have about half of that today.

...Papers have been sent to the Governor of Chonburi who may decide to close this venue on a permanent or temporary basis.

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BTW, this is the guy having hundreds of farang passports on his desk for work permit approval (the initial approval, not the extensions), isn't it?

If you go there to ask for it, after waiting for many months, you get asked: "You want it now?". And you can get it now, but only after some colorful printed paper makes a short journey to him under his office table.

Without that traveling paper it is not uncommon that after 6 months waiting you get the permit refused, for ridiculous reasons.

The same process is done in BKK or Chiang Mai in a very short time, no need for any paper traveling under the table of the ones signing the work permits.

Now this is the guy deciding to close this "heaven" or not? I guess he just won the lottery, some busy days under his table are coming, so much printed paper traveling...

I have just recently switched to Gentoo Linux. It took me quite a while to install everything and put all things in order but I finally got to use it right now. It seems faster and more reliable than Ubuntu.

Does anybody use it now? If so any recomms?

Thanks.

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I'm not using Ubuntu or gentoo, but I'm curious about the reasons which made you want to change away from Ubuntu? And then why Gentoo, and not Mepis, Fedora, Mandriva, Linspire, SuSE etc.?

Do you run Gentoo on the HP notebook you offered for sale? If yes, how is the touchpad and powersave support after installing "out of the box"?

some nice posts here yuyi , thanks for sharing the hard work you have done with us.

you're welcome

for the Hutch CDMA internet access , do you recieve a sim card?

The Sierra Wireless PCMCIA CDMA card does not have a sim, or the cdma equivalent of it. But as far as I know the Hutch Airplus USB modem does have such a card. (I did not buy the airplus, because when i bought they offered the Sierra Wireless PCMCIA CDMA card, which was fine for me).

I was wondering if you could use a 900/1800/1900, EDGE and WCDMA phone if the device you wish to use does not have a USB host? My pocketPC has bluetooth but no USB host.

I am just about to buy a new phone and was looking at the nokia 6230i , but there are some new phones out which do both EDGE and WCDMA so if it would work I would think it was worth paying an extra couple of thousand. the nokia 6680 supports both gsm and cdma.

http://www.slashphone.com/72/1418.html

edit - there seems to be a few phones out there with WCDMA and EDGE capability , am having a look around now - I had previously ignored the CDMA phone as I did not realise until yuyi spoke up that there was a good WCDMA network available.

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I have tried GPRS once with a GPRS phone and a datacable. It did work, but it was even worse than GPRS with the Sierra Wireless PCMCIA GPRS card or the Axen PCMCIA GPRS card. The phone I tested seemed to add to the latency problem.

For Hutch, they sell a datacable and the cdma Internet subscription for 2 of their sanyo phones. That is supposed to work as well as the PCMCIA cards, but I have not tested it yet. They told me though that if you use the phone with the datacable for Internet access then the battery of the phone would be empty after about one hour already. So you would need to connect the charger plus the datacable when using the internet.

Do these phones have a Sim card, or the cdma equivalent of it? I do not know, I haven't bought one yet. I almost did, but then they extended my contract for the Sierra Wireless PCMCIA CDMA card and unlimited Internet access, so I did not need it.

.... No one really has much experience with this new AMD Thurion xp64 chip....Although it was the official Acer dealership I went to  [/b]

yes, they do not know what they are selling

At least Acer offers it, the others do not even offer their amd64 notebooks in LOS.

I think for the problem here it is not the CPU, but the 64 bit architecture on the mainboard. The CPU itself is not involved, it does not matter if it is the Thurion 64 or the Opteron or another 64 bit AMD.

The PCMCIA cards do talk with the motherboard using I/O ports and memory ranges. These are different in a 64 bit architechture than in a 32 bit architecture. 64 bit has much wider ranges. Then there are the chips controlling these ports and memory ranges, and the communication using them. These chips would be the critical part here, not the cpu itself.

In my Linux I have to add these wider ranges in the pcmcia configuration file. In windows you usually install the vendor's driver, and if that does not know / use / accept these wider ranges, it will not work.

I could test the sony ericsson edge / gprs card on my HP amd64 notebook in windows, but then I would have to boot in windows, which I haven't done for a very long time

Might have to try Linux then....Thanks for the update 

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Please be aware that there are many Linux distributions, and the notebook support and also the 64 bit support is quite different. For a notebook, especially with 64 bit, i strongly recommend to take SuSE Linux 9.3.

Yuyi,

Thanks again for this information and for your quick reply to my PM.

I will plan a trip to Sri Racha toward the end of the month.  Would you send the number of the Lady manager who speaks English...I will go with my Thai wife so this should help in communicating.

How much money will this entail?  The USB modem is probably what I will use. 

Again thanks for your help....

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Fujitsu shop Sriracha

khun Sirintra (May)

038310863

016868112

As said, she speaks some English.

They will do all Hutch paperwork, but bring your wife's housepaper plus ID card plus a recent utility bill, plus copies.

They had the Hutch airplus on stock some time ago, but you might want to check first.

I forgot the price for the airplus USB modem. It is the same as at Hutch directly.

Monthly costs < 1000 baht for the subscription.

Good luck!

Xp 64 problem I think....

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I have the sony ericson gprs edge pcmcia card and a few of the sierra wireless cards and a axen gprs card all running on a HP notebook with amd64 cpu. Especially the hutch cdma with the sierra wireless card is great. But also the GPRS cards work.

However I do not run windows, i run Linux, to be exact "SuSE 9.3 64 bit".

There was a little manual configuration needed, obviously none of the vendors did supply a linux driver. But the standard Linux stuff can handle it.

So if it works fine with Linux, but not with Windows, what does that tell you?

Yes, dump windows

BTW, In general this is not a 64 bit issue, but an issue of incompetence at the installing guys or of a lousy driver from the vendor. Others having the acer ferrari do report working PCMCIA cards, even on windows.

On Linux, to get it working, I can check the success on each phase of the hardware and software configuration. I guess that could be similar with windows. But if the guys just install and do not understand what is happening, of course they cannot see where it is stuck, and of course also not fix it.