The November winner of the great PPCW.Net Raffle - powered by Socket was drawn yesterday:

Yen is the lucky winner who is pretty interested in wireless communication and currently wrestling with her Audiovox GSM/GPRS card. Congratulations Yen!

The next round is starting on Sunday. Every registered user (see more information here) have the chance to win every month one of the finest Pocket PC communication cards from Socket! So don't miss to register

Just a short reminder for all the PPCW.Net visitors and registered Forum members: the drawing of the first lucky winner who will get a Socket 10/100 Ethernet CF Card, 56K CF Modem Card, Bluetooth CF Connection Kit, Digital Phone Card, Low Power LAN CF Card or Ruggedized Low Power Ethernet CF Card comes closer!

The first winner will be drawn end of this week!

If you haven't done so far, register to become a member of the PPCW.Net Forum and confirm with an E-Mail, that you want to participate the Socket Raffle. Please include your Forum user name to the E-Mail.

Get all information about the raffle

After the server change to the dedicated server, the Forum is back in place and works as before now… :-)
I’ve finalized migration of all your valuable postings and user accounts and just from now, PPCW.Net Forum is back. :-)

Beside this news I have some additional good news for you: The great PPCW.Net Hardware Raffle – powered by Socket Communications - started this month and all registered Forum members are part of it automatically (if they replied my E-Mail)!
If you are still not a PPCW.Net Forum member, hurry up and sign in! After you've signed in, just write me an E-Mail with your Login Name to participate also. Sorry for this bloody workaround but I'm working on a database for this!

Q: What is the PPCW.Net Hardware Raffle?
A: Socket Communications supports a handful Pocket PC community sites and PPCW.Net is one of them. In fact it means that you - as a registered Forum member - can win every month one of the coolest Pocket PC accessories available out there.

Q: Which prizes I can win?
A: Socket gives away one of the following CF cards ever month and you decide which you want to get if you are the lucky winner:

• 10/100 Ethernet CF Card
• 56K CF Modem Card
• Bluetooth CF Connection Kit
• Digital Phone Card
• Low Power WLAN CF Card
• Ruggedized Low Power Ethernet CF Card

Q: How to participate on the PPCW.Net Hardware Raffle?
A: For participating in November you have to do nothing else than signing in as a Forum member and send me an E-Mail, just to confirm that you want to participate - in case you want.

If you can read this, you came here through any other URL than "PPCW.Net". Maybe you've used the former one "Unwired-I.Net" or "PocketPCWriter.Net" - right? ;-)
Well, the good stuff is that PPCW.Net is still reachable through this URLs, the bad news is that PPCW.Net isn't reachable through its main domain PPCW.Net. :-(

The reason here fore is pretty easy and hope to get it fixed soon:

Wow, what a week. First I had to upgrade my whole web presence with the move to the new (dedicated) server and now my Desktop PC (my main PC) required an update. Okay, it was necessary as the system configuration was more than one year old and wasn't in best condition anymore.
One year ago I've upgraded the system from Windows ME (yes, I was running ME not 2000 ;-) to Windows XP Beta 1. Than I've installed RC2 and when Windows XP became public, I've installed the final version without removing the first 3 Windows version. :-(
Now I've decided to install Office 11 Beta 1 and I thought to myself that it might be a good idea to refresh the system in general. So far so good - going to www.bootdisk.com and downloaded a DOS based boot disk for my PC to perform the legendary:

format c: