Re: Firefox file associations

2010-03-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hi, Quoted below is the original post from a thread I started back in December. I have just found if not a solution then a workaround, so I am posting it here in the hope that it will useful at least to diagnose the problem if it ever happens to anyone. On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Oleg

Sending receiving SMS in linux

2010-03-18 Thread Elazar Leibovich
Is there a standard way to send SMS from a computer in Israel? I'm writing a program, and I want it to be able to send and recieve SMS in Israel. Shallow searching for the topic reveals sites such as this one http://www.goldman.co.il/SMS2USite/ which gives many, seemingly nonstandard, way to send

Re: Sending receiving SMS in linux

2010-03-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
2010/3/18 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com: Is there a standard way to send SMS from a computer in Israel? I'm writing a program, and I want it to be able to send and recieve SMS in Israel. Shallow searching for the topic reveals sites such as this one http://www.goldman.co.il/SMS2USite/ 

Re: Sending receiving SMS in linux

2010-03-18 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Mar 18, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Python runs on Symbian phones, maybe you could use the actual phone to send SMS. Gnokii (I think that's the name) also will let you interface with a Nokia phone and send from it SMS messages. I was thinking of something similar, and decided

Re: Sending receiving SMS in linux

2010-03-18 Thread Elazar Leibovich
Oh boy! That's what just I feared would happen. I thought we would know better than that now. One more question please. Is what you said relevant to receiving SMS? Is this usually done also through HTTP POST? (And thanks alot! that's just the answer I sought.) On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:48 PM,

Re: Sending receiving SMS in linux

2010-03-18 Thread Herouth Maoz
There is a standard protocol called SMPP. However, fewer and fewer major vendors support it, as it doesn't support billing very well, and is GSM-biased. Most SMS providers - whether they are actual cellular providers or VARs - support some sort of HTTP based protocol - using standard POST

Re: Sending receiving SMS in linux

2010-03-18 Thread Herouth Maoz
On 18/03/2010, at 21:54, Elazar Leibovich wrote: Oh boy! That's what just I feared would happen. I thought we would know better than that now. Not sure who we are exactly. Anyway, standardisation sometimes suppresses innovation. For example, if you standardise on a document format for