Pocket Hosts for your Pocket PC

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://www.zimac.de/cestuff.htm">http://www.zimac.de/cestuff.htm</a><br /><br />This is a great little freeware application that does one thing and does it well. "[It] allows you to edit the static host name to IP address mappings on a Pocket PC. This is the handheld equivalent of writing a HOSTS file on your desktop PC."<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2002/20020912-pockethosts.gif" /><br /><br />It is 39K in size, free and works on all Pocket PC and Handheld PC devices. It's author, Marc Zimmermann is a Microsoft MVP for mobile devices. You have probably seen him in the various Pocket PC newsgroups. This little app has saved my bacon recently. For some reason, I cannot get my Pocket PC to see my Exchange server using the machine name when logged into the network via VPN. Connection Manager on the Pocket PC won't let me VPN in with an IP address in Inbox either - it thinks that is Internet. No doubt something in the DNS or WINS or other TCP/IP thingy I have misconfigured on the Win2K network, but the WinXP/2K machines can do it and I'm sick of fooling with it. Well, with Pocket Hosts, I put in the machine name in Inbox, tell Pocket Hosts to map it to the internal IP address, VPN connects and boom! Email. Now I don't have to RAS in to check my email with my Pocket PC.

[Foo Fighter]

You named your hosts after spacecraft from Alien?

[Ed Hansberry]

You named your hosts after spacecraft from Alien?
LOL! I saw the names and recognized them but didn't catch the double meaning. :lol:

[Foo Fighter]

Speaking of Alien, here's a good trivia question:

What was the name of the musical score played at the end-credits of the original movie? Name the score, and the composer.

[Ed Hansberry]

Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik

[Marc Zimmermann]

You named your hosts after spacecraft from Alien?

I wondered if someone would ever take note... ;-)

My PCs are Nostromo, Sulaco, LV426, Fury and a notebook is named Outland.

And the workgroup name? Most appropriately "Alien".

[Foo Fighter]

Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Nope, try again. I'll give you a hint; his last name starts with an H.

[QYV]

30 seconds on Google suggests James Horner of "Titanic" fame.

[Ed Hansberry]

Howard Hanson - SYmphony #2.

[Foo Fighter]

Howard Hanson - SYmphony #2.

Very good. You didn't by any chance rummage around Google for the answer, did you? :wink:

[Foo Fighter]

30 seconds on Google suggests James Horner of "Titanic" fame.

No, Horner did the sequal...Aliens, not the original movie. That was done by John Williams.

[Ed Hansberry]

Very good. You didn't by any chance rummage around Google for the answer, did you? :wink:
Nope. Imdb.com. Why is this good trivia? I guess I need to listen to it. Amazon has it via Real Audio but I don't have their spamware. Anyone know a Windows Media link?

[johnm]

Sorry to sway the conversation back to this util...


I'm pretty happy about this. I don't know if anyone else has been having the same problem as me, but this will really help. I have not been able to get my Ipaq to sync wirelessly (802.11) to a second partnership machine without putting in static routes in both the machine and the ipaq. You have to edit the registry on the ipaq to do this. I don't know why it doesn't work. No one out there seemed to be able to help. Recently I reset my ipaq from scratch, and moved my partnership over to my new laptop and I had the same problem. It either connects only as guest or it says connected but it really isn't you can't browse files etc. I've never had any problems with my primary partnership and wireless so I'm at a loss.

At any rate this app will save me from hacking the registry at least.

[Foo Fighter]

Why is this good trivia?

Because it's not an easy question to answer...when you aren't using IMDB or Google.

Amazon has it via Real Audio but I don't have their spamware.

Amazon doesn't have the actual audio clip from the soundtrack. And the bits and pieces from Symphony #2 on the site don't contain the segment from the end-credits.