Pssst....: Meditate not agitate!

Oom.

p.s.: I have to admit that my "Hey that's cool attitude did also change to a I don't really care any longer attitude...

They pay my device cause i ordered it for evaluation.

Is this true or just the standard trick to get attention of a B2B based company as iRex?

I mean, I am interested to hear about projects based on eink devices.

I think your tracking numbers could arrive later...I'm not sure...my UPS tracking status was always way behind the actual delivery...
Let#s wait a little longer...^^

MMmmm, sort of defeats the purpose of a tracking number, doesn't it?

Then again, Europeans always do have their own way of doing things :wink:

He belongs to the chosen ones with manual treatment.
Hmm. I understand the guys with number <300 (Sisha is #270 or so) are a bit enerved then.

Pssst....: Meditate not agitate!

Oom.

p.s.: I have to admit that my "Hey that's cool attitude did also change to a I don't really care any longer attitude...

When you go into "I don't really care about attitude neither", you are nearing Nirvana. :huh:

When you go into "I don't really care about attitude neither", you are nearing Nirvana. :huh:

At the moment meditation seems to be disturbed by middle east trouble. Crazyness everywhere. Argh!

Is this true or just the standard trick to get attention of a B2B based company as iRex?

I mean, I am interested to hear about projects based on eink devices.

It _was_ true ... and that is what makes me very mad at iRex. :(

But i am sure i'll bring it up again when more different devices are on the market and there is more time then in the middle of the summer ...

And iRex is never ever a B2B based company. Sorry but thats just some other excuse for them for not knowing how to act on the market. "Hey look at us we are not able to answer emails, bring up CRM, communicate with our costumers, etc. but we are so damn deep into B2B ..." ... sure - of course. ;)

Think that is as true as our devices were shipped last monday :rolleyes:

i hope they don't cite the near east trouble as the next shipping delay.

I doubt they would be that obvious. However I'm sure there is an eclipse coming soon, I'm sure that will screw something up.

And iRex is never ever a B2B based company.

Hmm, just because you are working for a business doesnt qualify for what iRex is targeting as B2B partners. Their main targets are contentproviders who can use hundreds or even thousands of devices for their customers. I would say thats a diiferent scale than what you need, isnt it? So i can understand, that they focus on that part. Lucily, they noticed the potential in normal customers and businesses that want the iLiad for other uses. That doesnt mean that this is their main business though. So cut them some slack. They are just too jung to see all potential of their device just yet.

Ah you seem to be "the believer" - i hope we can push this thread in 6 month or so to see all the companies using round about 500 Euro devices for their thousands of costumers ...

They better should realize that most of the "geeks" here are their real first costumers and multiplier which will maybe lead to real b2b or how do you think blackberry was brought to such a big business sucess.

But thats the difference between optimist and pessimist - i think i lefr the positive path lately and now the positive just look naiv to me ... *maybe needs more meditation*

How do you think i got such positive thinking?

*moves to meditation thread*

*givingyouthumbsup"

Ohmmmmm

omg now i got my tracking number but in the iRex document i got from them they left out the company name and just have my real name with my job adress inside.

Yeah think the UPS driver has to know every name of the employees in an 100+ company he drives by ... maybe in iRex fantasy. I think that is all i have to say about their so called "b2b orientation" :-)

Hope at least they labeled the package correct or i see more problems incoming ...

P.S. by the way anyone else thought "just another tojan spam mail" when this strange mail with attached pdf file came in? *g*

@Sischa

Same problem here. If I get anywhere regarding this tomorrow I will let you know.

They address on my invoice was wrong too. The street name is half missing. - Hopefully the postcode will be enough. This is UPS after all they are in the address business :)

got an ORIGIN SCAN of yesterday 23:something - now i have just to meditate my companys name onto the parcel ... think thats meditation guru level 2 ... *ohm*

At least in my experience, not having the company name on the parcel isn't really important, I manage the IT purchases in my company and we get LOADS of stuff sent with a personal name instead of the company. Messenger walks in, asks "so and so?" and I say "yup, right here" or "nope, that's the other door, Marketing". Not really a problem, as long as the street address is ok. :)

Ohmmmmmmm,
Click,

Still no tracking number.

@Riocaz I think somebody doesn't like you...did you get status shipped yet?

Still no tracking number.

Did you check your junk. mine was marked spam.
Mail should be from: prealert@ms-wismo.com
Trackingnumber is in pdf called output.pdf

Well. I didn't get a UPS tracking number till now. Now i can spend another weekend preparing for my exams instead of playing with my iliad.

Thanks, iRex.

Btw: I hate freemail providers which don't allow you to poll for new mails more often then every 15 minutes. I'm really considering to upgrade. I guess that's their intention. :)

Back to the topic: Ooooommm.

But it's great that things are moving now so smoothly.

At least in my experience, not having the company name on the parcel isn't really important, I manage the IT purchases in my company and we get LOADS of stuff sent with a personal name instead of the company. Messenger walks in, asks "so and so?" and I say "yup, right here" or "nope, that's the other door, Marketing". Not really a problem, as long as the street address is ok. :)

Its just cause we also have 2 other companys in this building complex using the same house number ... but i was lucky this morning and everything went well ...

@Riocaz I think somebody doesn't like you...did you get status shipped yet?
I'm starting to feel that way too.

Has anyone yet? seriously, from what was said last night, they were receiving the tracking numbers but no change to their order through the shop.

Did you check your junk. mine was marked spam.
Mail should be from: prealert@ms-wismo.com
Trackingnumber is in pdf called output.pdf

I don't have any spam-filtering on the address I gave iRex (it's my private address which I only use for friends, and things I want to know about quickly)

As the time for the first Iliad deliveries is coming nearer, the danger of people totally freaking out is also becoming bigger.

It's therefore necessary to give my follow e-Ink-enthusiasts a proper place to calm down and relax.

Just say:
I'm impatiently waiting for my Iliad to be shipped.
My previousn caree as a psychiatrist and my own personal experience has taught me that an adequate intake of chocolate and fudge is the best way of alleviating feelings of frustration and impatience reulting from having to deal with delayed self-gratification.

I thought this feeling of frustration and impatience is an elemental part of this process to increase the joy when (if?) it finally takes place.

But, well, you are the psychiatrist.

I think I experience an adrenalin shoot everytime I receive a new e-mail... ah wait, that was just the daily Dilbert.

I don't need a psychatrist, I need a neurologist!

ooooooommmmm
Oh, iRex - please do not wait to long to ship my iLiad. :cool:
ooooooommmmm
I try to calm down, it's hard.

ooooooooooommmmm.

the browser seems to run with root privilegues.

and my iliad is still paid not shipped.

oooooooooooommmmm.

My keyboerd hes beem om the brimk of totel shutdowm beceuse of the chocolete emd fudge imteke.
Thenk you very much, EmgusMcp!! :(

:)

Ohm

I will get my iLiad on Monday

Ohm

I will get my iLiad on Monday

Ohm

I will get my iLiad on Monday

Ohm

I will get my iLiad on Monday

Ohm

I will get my iLiad on Monday

(I hope)

OOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

OOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Uh ... what? Problems with the iLiad? Already?

*lol*

No...I just got addicted to meditation...:-)

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OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!

Still no tracking number but...


Dear Mr Donovan,

Since last week Thursday the shipments have started from our stock point
in Dueren.
Once the orders are picked up there by UPS you will be forwarded
automatically a tracking number.
However I just contacted our stock point to enquire about your order and
I received a confirmationthat it has been shipped on Friday.


Ohmmmmm, it will be delivered today.
Ohmmmmm, it will be delivered today.
Ohmmmmm, it will be delivered today.
Ohmmmmm, it will be delivered today.

Ohmmmmm, it will be delivered today.

I dont want to spoil your fun, but do you think standard UPS will deliver to london from friday to monday (i sure hope they do, for your and the meditation threads sake :D )

No, but I'm hoping.

I still don't have a tracking number remember.

No, but I'm hoping.

I still don't have a tracking number remember.

Tracking numbers are an illusion anyway. UPS has a reputation for beein a bit sloppy with standard tracking numbers, but you should have received this very obscure email with that output.pdf attached, which includes your tracking number. (plain text email with trackingnumber would have been alot better, even better if irex or ups had been the sender)

And this is for you:
OOOhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Any news about the next bunch of iLiads?. Ohhmmmmmmm

Any news about the next bunch of iLiads?. Ohhmmmmmmm

According our wiki (http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/ILiad:owners), the highest shipped number is still 463, and the highest paid is #590. No moves during the last days.

Not quite, I am also "paid not shipped", and I recall some higher numbers than me commenting the same. :)

Ooooommm.

Playing around with an Iliad in blind flight is no fun.

Please send me a shipping started message, anonymous iRex guy reading this forum.

Ooooommm.

:( According to UPS my iliad is stuck in somewhere called 'HERNE-BOERNIG'

I guess there's no word on US shipping yet?

Does anybody know how long that normally takes, shipping from Europe to the US via UPS?

Pleasepleaseplease - I want to spend my upcoming vacation sitting on the shore of Lake Michigan and reading e-books on a cutting-edge device.... pleasepleaseplease....

http://wwwapps.ups.com/calTimeCost?loc=de_DE

btw: Just got mine! :-)

I sent an inquiry email to iRex regarding my purchase/shipping status as not much has changed after making the initial order. I am a US order, #615.

Here is the response I got from iRex this morning:

"Dear Customer,

The iLiad ships on average in 4-6 weeks. You may expect to see changes in the order status soon.
Regards,
iRex Shop"

Bummer. Intriguingly enough, this "4-6 weeks" was not noted prior to my ordering. I guess the only thing that I can do at this point in time is to exercise patience and restraint, after all they do have my money. I am still hoping to see this thing before I go out on my next trip in August but somehow I think that once again I will be disappointed. Maybe I will be wrong.

:( According to UPS my iliad is stuck in somewhere called 'HERNE-BOERNIG'

That would be here then:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herne%2C_Germany

(Börnig being an area with Herne apparently)

I'm guessing (assuming that mine is there too) they won't be here today then...

Mine's been there since Friday night :).

I want mine, Ooooooooohmmmmm.
I want mine, Ooooooooohmmmmm.
I want mine, Ooooooooohmmmmm.
I want the captain of the ship, now sailing from the Philipines to whip the stokers, burn all the wood and throw overboard all useless (not Iliads) cargo.
I want mine, Ooooooooohmmmmm.
I want mine, Ooooooooohmmmmm.
I want mine, Ooooooooohmmmmm.

Hear, hear, high 5!
Boom, boom, boom, boom... rooooowwww it over!!
Ooooooohmmmmmm.

R O F L

I just sent an email to get a forecast for the "paid not shipped" orders.

Maybe they'll respond.

I just sent an email to get a forecast for the "paid not shipped" orders.

Maybe they'll respond.

Please let us know if they do. I asked them last week, on Wednesday, if they knew when they would ship my iLiad (#508) . They replied the following on Thursday:

"Dear Customer,

At the current pace of dealing with orders, most likely next week.
You will be informed as soon as shipment begins.
Regards,
iRex Shop"

http://wwwapps.ups.com/calTimeCost?loc=de_DE
Postleitzahl is postal code. One postal code for Dueren is 52349.

A standard shipment to WC1 London should arrive at ca. 1800 in the afternoon, assuming that it was picked up on Friday, and assuming UPS delivers that late.

No response yet.

Oooommm.

Why did i order so late? :(

Ohm,

It's on status: "export scan"

(Guess who got a tracking number!)

...



congratulations, nonetheless.

Mine was in Barking last night, in Cardiff this morning and is now OFD :).

news for all the "paid not shipped" users.

-------------------------snip----------------------------

Dear Customer,

We expect to ship paid not shipped orders end of this week.
Regards,
iRex shop

Great, thanks! :D

Good news for all those poor, sad and Illiadless people who are biting knuckles, taking Prozac and who try not to fall prey to those intense, deep depressions that come from reading LCD e-book devices.

Yep, that's us! :)

Ah, I almost forgot: "Oooooooooohmmmmmmmmmm".

We expect to ship paid not shipped orders end of this week.

Oooooooooohmmmmmmmmmm
This statement will come true!
Oooooooooohmmmmmmmmmm :scholar:

My Iliad has bee stuck in HERNE-BOERNIG since the 14th :angry:

oooooooohhhhmmmmmmmmmm

Is yours in import scan or export scan Pitchfork?

@Riocaz
Mine is in Export scan. Has been like that since Friday 12:03 AM

*sobs* looks like I won't see it tomorrow then.

On another point.

The email I got from iRex explictly stated that my iLiad was shipped on Friday...

The UPS tracking data indicated they did not ship it until Monday morning.

Another instance of iRex lying to a paying customer or UPS being crap?

On another point.

The email I got from iRex explictly stated that my iLiad was shipped on Friday...

The UPS tracking data indicated they did not ship it until Monday morning.

Another instance of iRex lying to a paying customer or UPS being crap?

I would say, they got the info on friday of it beeing shipped, and that weird company (bertelsmann daughter) packagedit and had it picked up on monday. So i would think its neither iRex nor UPS :)

ARRRGGGHHH!!! When are the US shipments going to start?

It's so frustrating just sitting at "Order Confirmed - Processing"

I am getting envious of all the pix of shiny new iLiads!

I am not the computer expert that some people are here, but I still want my iLiad by the time I get home from my trip (27 July), at this point it probably won't get to the house before I leave on the next trip. With no useful information coming forthwith from iRex it just seems like it is not going to happen any time soon.

Oh, I don't think this "mediation" thread is working!

Oh, I don't think this "mediation" thread is working!

You haven't been ooohmmmming properly. ;)

No, I am out on the road and I don't have my kitty kat to hug & squeeze!

ohmmmmm

(no update)

just realised the times are EST (6 hours behind europe) too.

So it got export scanned at 6:19 this morning.

Ah... cats ARE better than Ohms! :D

Ah... cats ARE better than Ohms! :D

Well ... cats are certainly more resistant than Ohms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm) anyway. :p

I was wondering if you'd catch that one. :p

I was wondering if you'd catch that one. :p

"degree in electronics engineering" + "love of puns" = "Oh yes, I caught that!" :D

It's in Barking....

Ohmmmmm

Good luck, Riocaz. :)

I would say, they got the info on friday of it beeing shipped, and that weird company (bertelsmann daughter) packagedit and had it picked up on monday. So i would think its neither iRex nor UPS :)
It's rather obvious why they do not bring the ILiad fast ;)

The funny thing about arvato is that they are in the print business also. Here an exerpt from their website:

Today arvato printing plants produce books, magazines and catalogs, advertising products, calendars and telephone books, both in huge print runs or mini-batches.
So if you get your ILIad you are one potential customer less for traditional books, so a threat to their market ...

And I would't say their weird - they have about 42000 employees (worldwide). I have worked with one of their consultants (they also have a consulting branch) and he was not weird in any way.

Greetings,
Frank

FYI

I just asked iRex when my Device (Order #505) will ship: They answered end of this week or begin of next week.

that's baaaad.

last week it was "next week".
yesterday it was "end of this week"
now it's "begin of next week"

friday it will be "next week" again...

Nope, it'll be this week.
As a matter of fact, its going to be tomorrow for the lower and middle 500's I think.
This just in:

Order Number: 518
Detailed Invoice: https://www.irexshop.[etcetera]
Date Ordered: Tuesday 04 July, 2006

The comments for your order are
Your order will be shipped on July 20th.
UPS will send you a tracking number in a separate email in the coming days.

Your order has been updated to the following status.
New status: Shipping started

Now I'm off to put my head in a bucket of cold water.
Woooohooooo!!

I almost forgot: Ooooooohmmmmbrrbbrrrllrrlblrrlllllllllblub.

iRex Shop
------------------------------------------------------
Order Number: 505
Detailed Invoice: https://www.irexshop.com/account_history_info.php?order_id=505
Date Ordered: Tuesday 04 July, 2006

The comments for your order are

Your order will be shipped on July 20th.
UPS will send you a tracking number in a separate email in the coming days.



Your order has been updated to the following status.

New status: Shipping started

Please reply to this email if you have any questions.

Got my tracking number this evening in an attachment pdf-file from prealert(at)ms-wismo.com, buried deep in my spamfilter.
The delivery date is the day after tomorrow.

OOooooooooooohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Me too! Thanks to you, I went to check my work email, and I'd received it, around 8pm. How did you get a delivery date? I just know it's in Dusseldorf now. :D

I was being humdrum and thinking of Monday being the day... and I might well get it on Friday!

Order#592 In transit 19th July

How did you get a delivery date? I just know it's in Dusseldorf now. :D

Congratulations!!

It says so in the PDf attachment, right under the "delivery note" on the right side of "UB UPS standard CPT", above the article description.

Woohoo!!

pdf says
UB UPS Standard CPT Date of delivery: 25.07.2006

25th :<

#512, UK

pdf says
UB UPS Standard CPT Date of delivery: 25.07.2006

25th :<

#512, UK

Aaarrrgh.
That's the bad part about geography they never tell you about... :p

Hmmm... mine says 25th too, but I can't believe it... it'd take that long by normal post! Well, we'll see...

Ejem... ooooohhhmmmmmm

Hey! Already left Dusseldorf! :D

Location Date Local Time Activity
DUSSELDORF, DE 19/07/2006 22:03 DEPARTURE SCAN
19/07/2006 19:08 ORIGIN SCAN

the medatation is working obviously.

I used that calculation form at UPS site. With standard delivery it should arrive the 25th. But of course it could take less.

It probably will.
Mine is due today already!

O, O, O, Oooooooohhm!!

Lucky you, High 5! I'm pleased for you, mine is in "exception" (?!?!) in Paris... what's it doing in Paris??? Taking the scenic route? Hehehehe. My cat needs its book. :p

Ooohhhhmmmmmmmm.

OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Ort Datum Ortszeit Aktivität
FRANKFURT, DE 20.07.2006 1:02 DEPARTURE SCAN
FRANKFURT, DE 19.07.2006 23:21 ARRIVAL SCAN
DUSSELDORF, DE 19.07.2006 20:08 DEPARTURE SCAN
19.07.2006 18:49 ORIGIN SCAN
DE 19.07.2006 21:22 BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED



OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

mine is in "exception" (?!?!) in Paris... what's it doing in Paris??? Taking the scenic route?

Thank you.
UPS seems to kick all Iliads around to a few major distribution centers before getting them to the customers.
So your Iliad visiting Paris is just a stop underway to you.
The 'exception" could be -but I am not sure- that it is not distributed 'locally' but waiting to be sent on to the next distribution center.
I do hope you get your Iliad soon!!

edit: Give the cat some extra milk today. :happy2:

Lucky you, High 5! I'm pleased for you, mine is in "exception" (?!?!) in Paris... what's it doing in Paris??? Taking the scenic route? Hehehehe. My cat needs its book. :p

Ooohhhhmmmmmmmm.

Mine is in Paris too (good!) but that damn UPS guy didn't stop at my office!

Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmm

UPS seems to kick all Iliads around to a few major distribution centers before getting them to the customers.
So your Iliad visiting Paris is just a stop underway to you.

You should've seen a package I got sent from the U.S., it was so quick, each time you refreshed the tracking page, it was someplace else! (AND we only paid 15€ for shipping!) :D

Thanks for the good wishes, if it's here tomorrow I'll be really pleased, but I think it will be Monday.

Oh, I HATE when the courier just goes by... that sounds like tomorrow then, Herve, but not any longer than that. :)

It should be here within the next few hours :)

OBERTRAUBLING, DE 20.07.2006 6:30 OUT FOR DELIVERY
20.07.2006 6:00 ARRIVAL SCAN
FRANKFURT, DE 20.07.2006 1:02 DEPARTURE SCAN
FRANKFURT, DE 19.07.2006 23:21 ARRIVAL SCAN
DUSSELDORF, DE 19.07.2006 20:08 DEPARTURE SCAN
19.07.2006 18:49 ORIGIN SCAN
DE 19.07.2006 21:22 BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED

Ooooohhhhhhhhm worked - iLiad @ UPS. Little UPS car come to me please.
Wow - this will my first weekend with my brand-new iLiad.

The eagle has landed.
It's a small Iliad for mankind but a giant leap for High 5.
Ich bin ein Iliadder.
We shall read on the seas, we shall read on the beaches....
Veni vidi Iliadi

Or to put it simply "It has arrived"!!
Sorry, must be off... :crowngrin

:D @ High 5... may you soar with the eagle/iLiad.

Mine is still visiting the Louvre, hopefully to tell me all about it later (are you taking pictures, you dumb iLiad? It's SOUTH to Spain, not west!).

Congrats High 5!
It's a small Iliad for mankind but a giant leap for High 5.
For me, too. :cool:

The eagle has landed.
It's a small Iliad for mankind but a giant leap for High 5.
Ich bin ein Iliadder.
We shall read on the seas, we shall read on the beaches....
Veni vidi Iliadi

Or to put it simply "It has arrived"!!
Sorry, must be off... :crowngrin


So, Read on Baby :) ....

Have fun High5!

yeah.

Mine will take till tomorrow, i'm afraid. It left Duesseldorf today in 1:37 but i have no idea where it is heading at the moment.

Have a lot of fun with it, High5.

yeah.

Mine will take till tomorrow, i'm afraid. It left Duesseldorf today in 1:37 but i have no idea where it is heading at the moment.

Have a lot of fun with it, High5.
Do you just press Refresh in your browser? Then thats the problem. The page only refreshes if you go back and enter the number again.

Thank you all very much, ladies and gentlemen!

After receiving the Iliad I registered through the website.
Connecting to both wired and lan-networks was a breeze, absolutely no problems with the help of the wizard.
Had to copy the note-taking files manually through the USB connection, ofcourse but also no problems there, it worked the first time.
Put in a 64 CF card and it read the second time -had to re-insert- perfectly.

Rather long loading times when starting a large PDF file but nothing too fancy. :)
In the PDF files you can change the height of the font and that takes a bit of time also.
Ofcourse for now you lose the point where you were reading, every time you switch the Iliad off and starting up may take as long as 40 secs.

Well, thats about it really for now.
Fortunately I bought a new Canon camera this morning that I can try on the Iliad.
I shall try and post a couple of pictures on the forum.

*OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHM*

That helped. To get rid of my frustration.

It's always good to have a meditation thread. LOL

Ohmmmmm

My email server is down so I can't see if they have replied to my support ticket yet.

Omming didnt work for me... trying yoga instead *putting my legs behind my head* In this position i'll wait for the UPS guy to bring my iLiad

LOL, Naah, I was too angry to meditate properly.

ooooohhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm
My iLiad will accept my 2 GB CF card again to create & update manifest.xml on it again. *
ooooohhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm

* on my small CF card the manifest.xml get's updated.

[Edit]: I formated CF card, it works now again. :happy2:

let me be the first today to say:

oooooohhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

sorry for the thread necromancing.

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GlassGiant.com


Where is iiiiitttt????

Man, this is incredible! They have delayed v2.7 but not happy with that they have split the release in the improvements they already have done (about 2 weeks of delay) and the long waited PDF functions (who knows when). But wait, they do to prevent further delays... and tell us the last day.
As time passes I'm becoming more and more disappointed with the ability Irex has to do good software for their high breed device.
I hope they release the SDK soon so you guys with coding skills speed up the development.

sorry for the thread necromancing.

No problem, somehow it's cute that it is still alive. ROFL

Ohmmmmmm

Oooooohhhmmmm....
My Iliad is one month in repair now.
No news, no update, no Iliad.
No service whatsoever.
OOoooooOooOoohhHhhHhMmmMmMmmmm.

ooooooohhhhhhhhmmmmmmm
Irex's promises (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7891) which were published this week are at a high level, let this come true.
ooooooohhhhhhhhmmmmmmm

@ High 5: 1 month repair time is too long!

Irex's promises (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7891) which were published this week are at a high level, let this come true.
For this I om with you. ;) Ooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Amen, brother.

OOOOOOOOOoooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Oooooohhhmmmm....
My Iliad is one month in repair now.
No news, no update, no Iliad.
No service whatsoever.
OOoooooOooOoohhHhhHhMmmMmMmmmm.
High 5,

I love your way (http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=506) of getting people's attention ;)

Good luck on your iLiad quest!

Alexander:
Maybe you should start a BETA tester subforum and immediately lock it so that we cannot breach the NDA. Haha.

Just making stupid jokes while waiting to be finally able to pan and zoom PDF...

Oom.

Alexander:
Maybe you should start a BETA tester subforum and immediately lock it so that we cannot breach the NDA. Haha.
Heh. We could do that, but then we'd be also forced to repair all the broken iLiad units, and I don't think we want to this :D

yeah, although it seems irex can't even fix units themselves in a timely manner.

I finally caved in and I'm trying to order an iLiad since two days. All I get is an error message.

Now I'm not only here to meditate until delivery but until iRex answers to my mail and lets me order :-)

#!chris

061009 13:55 Still no connection to payment gateway :-( On one try the raw order-data that should have been sent to the payment service provider was sent to my browser.

061009 14:26 I just checked my iRex account to find 3 individual non-confirmed orders of an iLiad - but I still didn't have the chance to enter my creditcard data.

As it turned out the iLiad Shop didn't like the German Character "ß" in my address.
I finally placed my order!

As it turned out the iLiad Shop didn't like the German Character "ß" in my address.
I finally placed my order!
Go figure ;) Keep us updated when you get your device!

As it turned out the iLiad Shop didn't like the German Character "ß" in my address.
I finally placed my order!
tss. guess what happende with the "ö" in my first name.

Well my address has a ß in it's name [... Straße], too. I haven't got your error message months ago. Are you sure, that this was the crux?
If yes, iRex changed something worse.

But UPS had problems delivering my packet, because the ö in "Dörflistrasse" was completely wrecked and they could not read the street-name anymore, so I had to call up UPS to let them know the right address (it was almost a horror-story, as I tracked the shipping status and suddenly I see: "destination-address non-existant check with sender..." :-)

Just make sure no Umlaute are in the address field, it will save you some troubles...

What is the highest order number nowadays?

@yokos, kusmi:
That's interesting. When did you order, what was your order number?

@mambo:
Sorry, but I will make my order number public when the iLiad is delivered. Just the usual paranoia, you understand :-)

#!chris

@yokos, kusmi:
That's interesting. When did you order, what was your order number?
#501
Uuh, I had a look at my order information again. I have used the abbreviation "Str."! So i didn't use any ß. :rolleyes5 Well, so I can be happy that i didn't encounter this bug.

As it turned out the iLiad Shop didn't like the German Character "ß" in my address.
So you must be the first german customer who didn't abbreviate Straße. (Meaning "street", so most germans have a ß in their address)

@ali
They figured out after the second mail what the problem was, so somebody might have run into this before.
Not that I'd feel bad about being the first to crash some system, I'm used to it :-)
(Luckily the first Iliad that was bricked wasn't mine...)

Btw:
10/09/2006 Order not comfirmed
10/09/2006 Order comfirmed, processing
10/13/2006 Shipping started

Please make them deliver on saturdays,
Did I mention that I live less than an hour away (by motorbike) from their stockpoint?

#!chris

Ooooom.
Another fresh week's shrink-wrap is opened, hissing as the vacuum is filled with air smelling of freshly brewed coffee.
Another day that might be the first one with an electronic device readable in sunlight has begun.
I'm wondering what "Shipping started" means. Did my parcel leave the headquarters of the paper based books nightmares yet?
Or was friday the day where the powers that be decided on which device to send to me by the end of this week?
Will "they" send me a tracking number by email to check every other minute?
Will my customers take "I was waiting for my Iliad" as a plausible excuse?
Is the world really in need for another Iliad-unwrapping-porn?
Are there people who cannot read this thread anymore because some censorware eats it after I mentioned "porn" twice?

061017 10:30
The Iliad arrived. I had to run after the UPS-guy because he only waited for about 2 Seconds at the door.
The device is great, the UI/Navigation is cumbersome (Why doesn't Cupertino buy iRex) but usable, I haven't installed the update yet.
I can read the text I bought the Iliad for _very_ easily.
The rendering of the pages is (already, I'm on
2.6.1) not too slow.
I'm very happy and going to spend the rest of my day reading in the sun...

061017 10:30
The rendering of the pages is (already, I'm on 2.6.1) not too slow.

Upgrade to 2.7, its very worth it...! Good to here there's another Illiad user out there..! Check out Tribbles map (see the sig on his posts) and update it...!

I'm very happy and going to spend the rest of my day reading in the sun...

You had to say that didn't you... Here its 14C and cloudy...!

The new update really is worth it...but why are we talking about this in the Official Meditation thread?
In my time we used to come here when the Iliad delivery was delayed again...^^

The new update really is worth it...but why are we talking about this in the Official Meditation thread?
In my time we used to come here when the Iliad delivery was delayed again...^^

Because k2r just got his Illiad after weeks of anticipation...! :D

OK...I agree...^^

OOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

In the meantime I installed the update, it's really worth it.
The Iliad completely destroyed my productivity today :-)
I tried a lot of stuff and might write it down within the next days - I'm even going to have my calendar in it for the remaining months. It woks very very good for me.
I started writing some scripts to automatically convert stuff and move it to the Iliad (ical, addressbook, mail) and will spend a day "on the road" without powerbook.

to myself in the cozy meditation thread.

Here I am still stuck with 2.7.1 though the promised patch of freedom was shining at the horizon and I'd have had a whole weekend to spend on tinkering. Eg: I'd sooo love having Ruby on the iLiad.

Irex didn't send me the skeleton key for the dungeon my iLiad is locked in within 24 hours. That's kind of okay for a manual process, and things go wrong (as I already learned when trying to order an iLiad for the first times), but still...

Well, however, divine plans seldomly work out as mere mortals expect them to. I'm somewhat dissappointed that I'm going to have to clean out the basement and fix the garden for winter :-(

Ooooooooooom...
#!chris

12/05/2006 Order comfirmed, processing

I've begun organizing all of my documents and ebooks, preparing them for the iliad. Hopefully I can achieve my life long dream of riding hard copy from my life.

O o m.

OOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(It doesn't seem to help....)

Ooommmm....
Ooommmm....

Doesn't help for me either. I feel a bit unfulfilled and still iLiad-less

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... ........
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... ........
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... ........
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... ........


Hmm, doesn't really work, MySQL still sucks...

12/05/2006 Order not comfirmed
12/05/2006 Order comfirmed, processing

Status still unchanged. Pity, I was hoping to recieve it before christmas...

Edit:

Your package is on time with a scheduled delivery date of 12/26/2006.

Woot! One day later than I had hoped, but good enough.

KOELN (COLOGNE),
DE 12/22/2006 5:39 A.M. THE PACKAGE WAS LEFT IN A UPS FACILITY CAUSING THIS DELAY

Who leaves an iLiad at a UPS facility? Honestly..

I order a $64 case from iRex, pay $40 for shipping and I was silly enough to think they might ship it to arrive sooner than 30 days after placing the order?????

ooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmooooooooooooooooooommmm mmmmmm

Well I got my PDF stating that my order was shipped and so the wait begins. However I am not sure where I should be looking for the UPS tracking number. I have tried the Delivery Note No but UPS do not seem to like that. Any suggestions.

Mine has shipped as well :) The tracking number is the one listed in the reference column in the delivery note pdf.

just to fill this thread with some life again

Shipping does not seem to be a problem anymore. It took only three (!) work days for my iliad to arrive after placing the order.

I guess this is a new record.

OOOMMMMMM

However, on the shop site it still says "order confirmed, processing" .....

OOOMMMMMM

a miracle?

kris, did you find a way to bend time? ;)

it seems so

OOOOMMMMMM

i always knew that meditation breaks all barriers ....

OOOOOMMMMMM

even firmware 2.9 was already installed .... (just kidding)

OOOOMMMMMM
We get 2.9 this month.
OOOOMMMMMM
Well, tomorrow is the last day of February. :rolleyes5
Maybe, some more OOOOMMMMMM is needed.

For the more pessimistic of us:
OOOOMMMMMM
We get 2.9 in 1st week/1st half of March or 1st half of the year 2007 :rolleyes5
OOOOMMMMMM

Well, Irex is ALWAYS late with everything they announce...so who is really surprised that 2.9 is delayed? ;)

I wish I could meditate. This waiting drives me crazy...........

for all the new guys: End of $MONTH means some friday afternoon in ($MONTH+1) you'll get the information that the update is delayed.

How to proceed, then: start whining in this thread, start telling iRex that they are violating the GPL and/or that you want to return your iliad, then glee with joy if they are finally releasing the update, enjoy the new features for, like 5 minutes, start a new thread called "Version 3.0???"

lather. rinse. repeat.


OOOOOOOOOOOooooooooommmmmmmmmmm...

enjoy the new features for, like 5 minutes, start a new thread called "Version 3.0???"

You are such a pessimist, Dher!
Everyone knows it will take at least 10 minutes for that new thread.

Ooooohm mane padme hum, ooooooohmmm
(this really does work better with Tibettan prayer wheels)

OOOOMMMMMM
Oh, iRex, please publish 2.9 next week.
Because I want to calm down a bit, after hearing the bad news "iLiad v1.0 will never have a runtime of 21 hs".
OOOOMMMMMM

Yamp! In some minutes starts the weekend -> some more time to read books on my lovely iLiad. :cool:

Ooooohm mane padme hum, ooooooohmmm
(this really does work better with Tibettan prayer wheels)

His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, has said that having the mantra on your computer works the same as a traditional Mani wheel. As the digital image spins around on your hard drive, it sends the peaceful prayer of compassion to all directions and purifies the area.

http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/digital-wheels.htm

;-)

I'm not done being angry yet. Give me an hour or two.

I'm not done being angry yet. Give me an hour or two.
You like Twin Peaks? A hot, good coffee and some cherry pie would be fabulous.

Just relax. I already give up. If you don't have any expectation, you won't be disappointed!!!
To be honest, I have IRex at the very beginning. Now, I only use it when I need make note on my articles; most of the time; I use another ereader for book's reading in which I don't have to recharge the battery for weeks instead of few hours.

Just relax.....Good for you

IC

Ok then, who am I to disagree with the Dalai Lama?
Back to basics, here goes:

10 cls
20 print "Ohm mane padme um"
30 goto 10
run

This absolutely rocks, man do I feel relaxed an o wow, the colours man, the colours...!!

You had the mushrooms for dinner didn't you *kidding*

No, not at all.
But let me tell you this, licking toads gives you a bad taste in the mouth the next morning.
Also I seem to remember falling down with some kind of barn on top of this old lady whose toes curled up to her armpits, something about a yellow brick road and then some guy with a mustache shouting "There's no place like OOooooohhhhmmmm!!!".
After that things became a bit hazy and I woke up in bed with a traffic cone, a policemans hat and a headache.

Harrumph. "There's no place like OOooooohhhhmmmm," indeed. I wish I'd thought of that one. :laugh4:

This thread reminds me of the song "Zen Gospel Singing" by Brian Bowers.

Being more a child of Darkness than a child of Zen, if I chant will they give us the mobipocket sw?

I'd really love to insert a witty comment about the delay of mobipocket-support. But there are none left...

OOOooooommmmmmmmmmm.

Ooooommmmmygod... the thread is still alive. :-)

My iLiad lives now @ iRex' HQ in Eindhoven, NL.
OOOooooommmmmmmmmmm.
I miss my iLiad. The sands of waiting are running out.
OOOooooommmmmmmmmmm.

Mine is travelling now....They said that after I give them the tracking number they will send me a new one. I sent them the tracking number 2 days ago.....still waiting for reply....

Ommmmmmm .... I finally ended up here too ..... Iliad is on the plane back to Germany for a reflash .... ommmmmmmmmm .... must be patient .... ommmmm .... try not to think about stylus calibration, RSS feeds and Mobipocket ........ ommmmm ....

Ommmmmmm .... I finally ended up here too ..... Iliad is on the plane back to Germany for a reflash .... ommmmmmmmmm
Oh NO, not again!
ommmmm .... try not to think about stylus calibration, RSS feeds and Mobipocket ........ ommmmm ....
Hey, I got your brain waves, I have opened this thread to write something like this.
oooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I try not to think about missing my iLiad.
But this is so hard, the stuff I want/have to read get's more & more every day, I don't want to print it, these days are over I thought.
oooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

It got to the Repair Center this morning; anybody know what the turnaround is these days, I lost track - one week? Less? More? Shorter for a reflash than, say, a screen replacement? Anyone?

YAY! My new iLiad is back....love the white(r) screen!

GreatGonzo: My replacement got here in 12 days.

As we mourned with your loss, we rejoice with your reunion. :nice:

Thanks Natch.

One question though: What does your avatar simbolyze?

It doesn't really symbolize all that much, per se, vranghel, I think of it as a stylized phoenix, it grew out of a persistent doodle during my first college class (history, which explains why I was persistently doodling ;)).

Hello dear friend!

I know, we have neglected you for quite some time, but you do know, that this has nothing to do with you personally, i hope. In fact, most of us are quite happy not to be needing you in quite some time. But Alex made me think about you again, and i felt sad to have neglected you for so long where you stood by my side in times af grief and anger.

I hope you are well and i also hope you will be visited by friends now, who visit you with positive kama and spiritual relief.

Be safe my friend. I promise to be back sooner this time.

oooommmmm...


I guess we will see more action here again when the Iliad v2 arrives sometime in 2008... ;)


oooommmmm...

oooommmmm...


I guess we will see more action here again when the Iliad v2 arrives sometime in 2008... ;)


oooommmmm...

You probably mean 2009... :D

I thought we did not want to spread negative karma again. Poor old meditation thread. ;)

You probably mean 2009...;)

Didn't he mean 2010?


Oom.
Oom.

;-)

Aargh! 2 hours till UPS gets here. I'm going through withdrawal.... I need my iLiad!

:laughboom:

Update: UPS came, and left, leaving me nothing. Looks like my iLiad is on the slow plane from Germany....

I have a horizontal black line from time to time on my screen. On booting screen, too. But every time it goes away by itself.

ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
This behaviour started today. Let it be a 1day bad mood.
ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

The first V2 iLiads arrived here today :D

OOOHHHHHMMMmmmmmmm

The first V2 iLiads arrived here today :D

OOOHHHHHMMMmmmmmmm

Oh, cool

Today all is normal again, no black bar. Odd. :rolleyes:

In honor of the Battery Replacement Waiting for UPS Program I sincerely hereby revive the meditation thread:

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooohm.

Ooooohmmm,
let us all hope that R2 achieves enlightenment soon and stops spamming the forum with links to this thread...
Ooooohmmm....
:p

Om. om