Re: PocketPC
On Friday, 24 בMarch 2006 09:11, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: If you travel around rural Asia I would imagine that either wireless or Ethernet connections will be few and far between. In a pinch one can use the solution that we adopted on business trips in the years when iPAQs were around but WiFi or broadband weren't (5 years ago or so): we used to travel with an iPAQ and a cell phone - anywhere you are, place the cell phone opposite the iPAQ's IR, dial in (you need to know the right numbers, you can dial in directly to you ISP in Israel, assuming you have the service, e.g., as a backup to your broadband at home), and use your cell phone as a modem. The IR link serves as a serial connection. Download your mail, compose the replies at your leisure, another call will send the mail on its way. I suspect it will still work today. Today we're using bluetooth to connect the cellular to the laptop/pda - its slightly faster and you don't need to align the receivers - you can even keep the cellular in your pocket :-) -- Oded Arbel m-Wise mobile solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-9-9611212 (204) +972-54-7340014 ::.. AA - American Association Against Acronym Abuse Anonymous To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PocketPC
Before you get a PocketPC instead of an dedicated music player you should check the sound quality. I got a Palm Tungsten E2 last summer and though its audio output has an annoying background noise that is immediately audiable when the handheld is turned on. My iRiver mp3-player doesn't have any such noise at all. Regards, Dov On 3/24/06, Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:09:49AM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote: How much is a pocket PC? I was thinking to buy a portable MP3 player myself, buy your E-mail reminded me that it might be better to have something that can read E-mail too. I really don't know, good ones are about 3500 NIS, but the definition of good is very fluid. You can get cheap ones for about 1800 NIS. If that's too limited for depends upon what you want to do. I have not checked the prices in Israel lately. I got my iPAQ 4155 in the States for $350 a couple of years ago, with built-in WiFi, BlueTooth, IR, e-book reader, etc. I have sent and received emails with it, although on my latest travels I have had some problems configuring email in such a way that I could send it without registering one way or another with some local ISP (servers on the way didn't relay, unsurprisingly). I am fairly sure it was a configuration problem that I had no patience to track down (preferred the touristy bits). The problem with pocket PCs is more a question of how do you answer an email? If you are good with a tiny keyboard then you can do it. The handwriting recognition software on iPAQs is really good, and has been for quite a few years. I've written fairly long emails on it, taken notes during meetings, etc. I played with a pocket PC/cell phone combo with a full keyboard, but I was unable to use it. The keys were just too small. Other people had no trouble. There are folding full-size keyboards, too - I used to have such a keyboard, courtesy of one of my previous employers. The small screen was the biggest trouble in that case, typing was easy. This time I decided not to buy a keyboard - they are fairly expensive and the handwriting recognizer answers my needs. The 4155 does not have a keyboard at all, and it does not bother me in the least. Not every hotel has WiFi, my son stayed in a top of the line hotel in Seoul which had relativly fast internet via ethernet. I don't know of a pocket PC that supports ethernet. The older ones had PCMCIA slots where you could stick an Ethernet adapter. The newer ones went for a smaller, slimmer form factor and come with built-in WiFi. The solution for this problem does not seem to me very difficult. If you travel to big cities like Seoul and stay at top hotels, you can find out in advance which ones provide WiFi and which stick to regular Ethernet. Even if your hotel is not if the wireless type, it should not be a big problem to find a coffee shop or another public place with wireless. If you travel around rural Asia I would imagine that either wireless or Ethernet connections will be few and far between. In a pinch one can use the solution that we adopted on business trips in the years when iPAQs were around but WiFi or broadband weren't (5 years ago or so): we used to travel with an iPAQ and a cell phone - anywhere you are, place the cell phone opposite the iPAQ's IR, dial in (you need to know the right numbers, you can dial in directly to you ISP in Israel, assuming you have the service, e.g., as a backup to your broadband at home), and use your cell phone as a modem. The IR link serves as a serial connection. Download your mail, compose the replies at your leisure, another call will send the mail on its way. I suspect it will still work today. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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please enlighten me
I just read the news that Checkpoint has cancelled their aquiring of SourceFire (the company who makes Snort. You can see the article (in hebrew) here: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3231753,00.html I have played a bit with Snort few years ago, and I think it's a good tool. What I don't understand is why the U.S is so affraid to sell it to a company like Check point? it was open source in their previous version so there's not many top secret stuff inside.. Could someone explain to me the issue? Thanks a lot, Hetz -- Visit my blog (hebrew) for things that (sometimes) matter: http://wp.dad-answers.com
Re: please enlighten me
On Friday, 24 בMarch 2006 20:03, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I just read the news that Checkpoint has cancelled their aquiring of SourceFire (the company who makes Snort. You can see the article (in hebrew) here: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3231753,00.html I have played a bit with Snort few years ago, and I think it's a good tool. What I don't understand is why the U.S is so affraid to sell it to a company like Check point? it was open source in their previous version so there's not many top secret stuff inside.. Americans, specifically of the U.S. type (Canadians are OK and south americans I can deal with), are - generally - very stupid. (I'm talking about the populace in general, and many of their decision makers - when examined on a case to case basis, a surprisingly large number of them are very well versed). This snort business was often compared to the sell of six major U.S. sea ports to a Dubai state-owned firm, which was approved w/o too much considerations. The same department is the one that forbade the Israeli Checkpoint from purchasing SourceFire, all this while the U.S. is in arms against almost all arab countries. Makes you wonder, doesn't it ? -- Oded ::.. Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: please enlighten me
As always, it's a combination of several things. There's a very good write-up about it on eWeek that explains the situation: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1934909,00.asp - Aviram On Friday 24 March 2006 20:03, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I just read the news that Checkpoint has cancelled their aquiring of SourceFire (the company who makes Snort. You can see the article (in hebrew) here: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3231753,00.html I have played a bit with Snort few years ago, and I think it's a good tool. What I don't understand is why the U.S is so affraid to sell it to a company like Check point? it was open source in their previous version so there's not many top secret stuff inside.. Could someone explain to me the issue? Thanks a lot, Hetz -- Visit my blog (hebrew) for things that (sometimes) matter: http://wp.dad-answers.com = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: please enlighten me
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:03:24 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I just read the news that Checkpoint has cancelled their aquiring of SourceFire (the company who makes Snort. You can see the article (in hebrew) here: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3231753,00.html I have played a bit with Snort few years ago, and I think it's a good tool. What I don't understand is why the U.S is so affraid to sell it to a company like Check point? it was open source in their previous version so there's not many top secret stuff inside.. It is not about the software, it is about support. Some defense departments are using this software with SourceFire support and they are afraid that Israel might spy on them (remember Polard ?). Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D http://www.keyserver.net/Better Safe Than Sorry = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: please enlighten me
On 3/25/06, Aviram Jenik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As always, it's a combination of several things. There's a very good write-up about it on eWeek that explains the situation: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1934909,00.asp It doesn't reveal any new facts about the subject (except mentioning that he wrote about your company previously). I'm still baffled about why the US government should care - it's a widely-spread rumor that they use Check Point's firewall to protect their highest network assets, for instance. --Amos To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: please enlighten me [NB: Off-topic]
Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This snort business was often compared to the sell of six major U.S. sea ports to a Dubai state-owned firm, which was approved w/o too much considerations. The same department is the one that forbade the Israeli Checkpoint from purchasing SourceFire, all this while the U.S. is in arms against almost all arab countries. Makes you wonder, doesn't it ? Not really. To be fair to the US, as far as I understand, this was not about snort at all, but about other products made by the company and used by sensitive agencies of the US government. CheckPoint agreed to certain restrictions as a part of the deal but that was not enough, so they backed out. And as for DP World, that is not so simple, either. They got into that mess almost accidentally, because they bought a British company called PO that had been running several US port terminals for a long time. DP World bought PO to get their Asian operations, actually, the US part was not the focus. IIRC the port deal was killed by the House Appropriations Committee. It actually stands to reason that the same agency that effectively got a serious slap on the wrist over the ports decided to play it extra safe the next time around. Oh, and while the US is not terribly friendly with some Arab countries these days, I suspect the relations with Dubai (or UAE) are actually quite good. Americans do actually take these things seriously. You may sneer, but I work for an American multinational, and there are detailed rules and regulations and special offices and personnel dealing with the question of what can or cannot be done outside of the US or with involvement of foreigners (not American nationals), even within the same company. This is with or without defense-related sensitivity, just due to commercial export restrictions. They will not just look at how American the company is, but who the particular people involved are. I know of cases where very senior people central to a huge project were denied entry to client facilities (where the product they were developing was being installed) because they were not American citizens. By the way, if you suspect that these export restrictions are somehow anti-Israeli, consider this: a part of these restrictions is an absolute prohibition to do any business with any party that supports boycott of Israel. It is the law. The law, of course, says boycott in general, but there is an immediate explicit comment that the primary concern is the boycott of Israel by Arab or other countries. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OFFTOPIC] Boycott Peculiarities (was: Re: please enlighten me)
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 01:38 +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: By the way, if you suspect that these export restrictions are somehow anti-Israeli, consider this: a part of these restrictions is an absolute prohibition to do any business with any party that supports boycott of Israel. It is the law. The law, of course, says boycott in general, but there is an immediate explicit comment that the primary concern is the boycott of Israel by Arab or other countries. Reminds me of a certain hotel where I stayed when I was in Prague few years ago. Its name escaped my memory at the moment. Since I planned to meet a Czech software developer there, I informed him ahead of time, by E-mail, in which hotel I'll be. He checked the hotel out by the Internet. Turns out that American nationals were not allowed to do business with that hotel, because it was owned by some company partially owned by Gaddafi (yes, that Gaddafi). But this particular hotel was popular among Israeli tourists going to Prague, and in spite of its ownership, the hotel made no problems to its Israeli guests. --- Omer -- Every good master plan involves building a time machine. Moshe Zadka My own blog is at http://tddpirate.livejournal.com/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: please enlighten me [NB: Off-topic]
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: To be fair to the US, as far as I understand, this was not about snort at all, but about other products made by the company and used by sensitive agencies of the US government. Well, that's not what every single quote I've seen to date states. It states that their concern was over the fact that a lot of sensitive agencies use *SNORT*. This has nothing to do with the question of whether Check Point is Israeli or Arab, or whether it is government owned or not. As far as I can see it, it is Al-Quedia that could make the buy offer, and the US government should not have had any reason to object. This is what Open Source is all about. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
