Clié LiveJournal Updates
I managed to make another entry in my LiveJournal Weblog from my handheld machine, a Sony Clié T615C, which is apparently no longer being sold (I saw none in Fry's yesterday). That makes two consecutive entries that have gotten through, and I think I have finally figured out why.
As the handheld unit synchronized the last few times, I've been watching the status messages. When my entries go through, I see a message about a connection being established to port 80, a message I don't remember seeing when the messages have vanished into limbo. Port 80 is the pathway used by browsers to communicate with the Internet for display of requested information; sometimes they'll use port 8080 as an alternative. If something else is using port 80, my handheld doesn't make the connection but is too dumb to refrain from trying to transmit the information and from deleting the file.
But I wasn't running a browser. There is a program, Semagic, that comes up automatically at startup that allows me to sign on to update my LiveJournal. Apparently it grabs port 80 even though I haven't signed on. Shutting down that program before synchronizing is what allows the handheld to get the data through.
With any luck, I should be doing LiveJournal entries on the Clié regularly from now on.
Comments (1)
Congrats on solving your problem. It would be completely beyond me. I would just be cussing at the hand held!