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    What ha--ened t6 0y 2eyb6ard

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by Lady in Red, Mar 9, 2010.

  1. Lady in Red

    Lady in Red Notebook Enthusiast

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    I don´t understand, suddenly the Fn button is on all the time. I have to press the button to get letters instead of numbers when typing.

    Anyone have an idea about what happened,
     
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  2. furtherontheroad

    furtherontheroad Notebook Guru

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    You pressed Numlock probably...
     
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  3. Lady in Red

    Lady in Red Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ha, thanx, that little button must be new. I haven´t seen it before.
    Now its working again.

    Btw How is that thuraya, expensive?
    I´w been thinking of that, going to Sierra Leone.
     
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  4. Rob

    Rob Toughbook Aficionado

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    Haha, Fail! :D
     
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    mnementh Crusty Ol' TinkerDwagon

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    *Hands Lady in Red a can of RAID for the Typo Faeries*

    mnem<<<~~~POINK! PING! GOAL! RAAAAAHHHH!!!
     
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  6. furtherontheroad

    furtherontheroad Notebook Guru

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    About Thuraya, check thuraya.com . Better than roaming, but expensive anyway.
    Now, all "african" carriers offer prepaid voice and data enabled contracts usualy it's on EDGE. Get an unlocked phone/3G modem and buy a SIM localy, They usualy have coverage along the main roads. Sat phone is necessary in very large countries with no cell phone coverage.
     
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  7. Lady in Red

    Lady in Red Notebook Enthusiast

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    I already have an aircard but I doubt it will work in the countryside.

    I´m trying to compare thuraya to a HF radio sollution. The investment is about the same but running is a big difference.


    Thanks for the RAID mnementh, but I´m not sure it got all the Typo Faeries as the swedish ones are very hard to get rid of.
     
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  8. furtherontheroad

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    HF radio and sat phones cant be compared, it only depends on your needs, where you go and what you plan to do !
    For safety purpose, get a sat phone with $100 credit loaded on your account.
    SMS are easy to use and rather cheap with Thuraya, it can be a reliable solution to communicate position between 2 teams or vehicles. On the other side, data through Thuraya is slow and expensive.
    HF means difficult communication in forest or mountain areas, large antennas, high power consumption, and your car looks like a military command car, people in the country realy dont like that !!!
    Check the Cellcom coverage in Liberia.
     
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  9. Rob

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    If you have Sprint or Verizon it should work FINE in the country here in the US... it's ATT that you have to worry about because the CDMA footprint in the US is WAAAAY better than the GSM footprint. (Europe is a completely different story however with GSM being the ONLY thing available)
     
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    LIR, Sorry , you talk about Sierra Leone and I answer Liberia....but same advice: chek Cellcom coverage in SIERRA LEONE !!!

    Rob, in Western Africa it's GSM, just like video is PAL not NTSC. Sorry, European market !!!! Will probably be 100% Chinese soon ;-))))
     
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  11. mnementh

    mnementh Crusty Ol' TinkerDwagon

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    Ahh, yes... I quite understand. But if you hold a lighter up as you spray, I promise even the peskiest Typo-Faeries WILL fall... now, those Typo-Daemons... well, they just FEED on the flame. :wink:

    mnem
    *SIZZLE*
     
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  12. Lady in Red

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    Hm, cellcom cover Liberia and guinea and Sierra Leone is between. There is plenty of others, but I guess mostly in freetown. I´ll check it out.

    furtherontheroad, I´ll take your advice and concider the radio thing, You seem to be experienced.
     
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    Azrial Notebook Deity

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    Of course, HF Radio has no politically related technical problems, which was what I liked about old INMARSAT.
     
    Azrial, Mar 10, 2010
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