RE: Waaay Offtopic - Mobile Phones

From: <Steve>
Date: Thu Nov 11 2004 - 03:29:00 EST

Hi Paul

I lost my data (outlook files - real bad losing these as they were my original notes, spreadsheets, a few downloaded programs and, dammit, some music).
Am wondering if some keys got pressed thru the soft case that erased my stuff by a reset. The "on" switch is in a really dumb place, and the PDA can be inadvertently activated while still in its case. Its an HP4350 ipaq. Assumed the memory would be nonvolatile. Maybe it is and something else went wrong. In any case it failed. The concept of frequent backing up is what I want to avoid. My paper and pencil work just fine in terms of permanence. Is it too much to expect a modern device to have a similar level of reliability?

When are you moving to Google?

Cheers

Steve

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From: Paul Bowers [mailto:pbowers@pipingdesign.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 2:11 PM To: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=9d2wJwYDTxbtS3yW6KoUi6ath0T2pLTAMEPlHEMWX6EM4ZBv2QQ2fI0xuAdOlnubDzElPejFyfIc6l8G2kLo4xOsdegw">PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com</a> Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] Waaay Offtopic - Mobile Phones

Steve McKenzie wrote:

> You may recall I asked about PDAs some months back. Well I bought one
> and it works well. Problem is it has flash memory, and I am a little
> irregular about remembering to charge it up. After spending 2 weeks
> in the bush (sorting out pipe routes, Paul), I found I had lost the
> lot by the time I returned to civilisation. As of yet, nobody seems
> to have thought of pinching the hard drive out of an iPod and putting
> it in a PDA.

I'm assuming that you mean that you lost the whole PDA and therefore all

the data, as I was unaware that data cards lose their memory if left to discharge. This is supposed to be solid state memory, the kind used in digital cameras.

Or are you saying that your PDA did not have removeable memory cards and

was basically a RAM-based device?

If it were possible, I'd recommend emailing collected data ASAP to two different places (this is where GMail is nice if you don't have your own

domain).

Paul

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