This must be a recent policy, or you're misinformed. I had a contract with Cingular for 2 years on an Ericsson T68m. At the end of the contract, I got the unlock code. True, it took about an hour on the phone, after a month of having been promised an unlock code but never receiving it - nonetheless, I was given the unlock code in the end.
You're right, DAV is easier to tunnel... but that's one of the reasons why it's performance, in general, is going to be problematic. Doing all of your work over one-off TCP connections can introduce a lot of lag, if you're doing a lot of file manipulation. I would never want to mount my environment's home directory that way, for instance. The pure number of.config files that get loaded would choke the system.
This is just one more reason why IPv6 is a good idea. Simplified routing tables, lots of addresses, and a much less gross topology. Of course, it's only a (short) matter of time until someone starts selling IPv6 NAT tools to end users.
Surprisingly, even though they had a pretty big hand in publishing the WebDAV standard, Microsoft's implementations are pretty poor. Depending on whether or not certain other packages are installed (mostly anything that talks Frontpage), and service release levels, there are several different sets of behaviors/bugs you can encounter with the Web Folders implementation.
In one project I was working on, the DLL driving Web Folders would freeze up Explorer, on a couple of different XP boxes. Frozen. You had to log out to clear it up.
You might want to consider a hybrid approach anyway. WebDAV isn't really a stellar performer, nor is it really designed to be. Why not do Samba, WebDAV, Netatalk, and NFS?
It isn't clear from the article, but Popout Prism is a technology demonstration of a research concept. It isn't intended to be a general purpose browser. It is intended to be a way of allowing those interested in the technology to try it out, and get a feel for how it works.
And, yes, there are some problems with the installer. If you're having trouble, write to popoutprism-support@parc.com, and we'll see what we can do to help.
I'm familiar with the details of the development of this project.
So, a couple of points: 1) It's a research demo. Unfortunately, that means it won't work well on all platforms. But, it's available primarily so that you, the public, can see how the technology works.
2) It's written in Java, but it embeds Internet Explorer. So, the installer is a Windows installer, because it wouldn't run anywhere else anyway.
3) The installer is, unfortunately, not very robust. It's hard to find Java reliabily on a Windows system, and, because of bugs in an external library at the time Popout Prism was written, Popout Prism only runs in Java 1.3. If you have trouble installing it, you should uninstall any Java versions above 1.3, run the installer, point the.bat file at your Java 1.3 java.exe file, and then reinstall any newer versions of Java.
The download and Internet Explorer sometimes don't get along. Rename the file you downloaded to end in.exe, and it should work. Mozilla-based browsers do not have this problem.
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This must be a recent policy, or you're misinformed. I had a contract with Cingular for 2 years on an Ericsson T68m. At the end of the contract, I got the unlock code. True, it took about an hour on the phone, after a month of having been promised an unlock code but never receiving it - nonetheless, I was given the unlock code in the end.
You're right, DAV is easier to tunnel... but that's one of the reasons why it's performance, in general, is going to be problematic. Doing all of your work over one-off TCP connections can introduce a lot of lag, if you're doing a lot of file manipulation. I would never want to mount my environment's home directory that way, for instance. The pure number of .config files that get loaded would choke the system.
This is just one more reason why IPv6 is a good idea. Simplified routing tables, lots of addresses, and a much less gross topology. Of course, it's only a (short) matter of time until someone starts selling IPv6 NAT tools to end users.
Surprisingly, even though they had a pretty big hand in publishing the WebDAV standard, Microsoft's implementations are pretty poor. Depending on whether or not certain other packages are installed (mostly anything that talks Frontpage), and service release levels, there are several different sets of behaviors/bugs you can encounter with the Web Folders implementation.
In one project I was working on, the DLL driving Web Folders would freeze up Explorer, on a couple of different XP boxes. Frozen. You had to log out to clear it up.
You might want to consider a hybrid approach anyway. WebDAV isn't really a stellar performer, nor is it really designed to be. Why not do Samba, WebDAV, Netatalk, and NFS?
And, yes, there are some problems with the installer. If you're having trouble, write to popoutprism-support@parc.com, and we'll see what we can do to help.
I'm familiar with the details of the development of this project.
.bat file at your Java 1.3 java.exe file, and then reinstall any newer versions of Java.
So, a couple of points:
1) It's a research demo. Unfortunately, that means it won't work well on all platforms. But, it's available primarily so that you, the public, can see how the technology works.
2) It's written in Java, but it embeds Internet Explorer. So, the installer is a Windows installer, because it wouldn't run anywhere else anyway.
3) The installer is, unfortunately, not very robust. It's hard to find Java reliabily on a Windows system, and, because of bugs in an external library at the time Popout Prism was written, Popout Prism only runs in Java 1.3. If you have trouble installing it, you should uninstall any Java versions above 1.3, run the installer, point the
The download and Internet Explorer sometimes don't get along. Rename the file you downloaded to end in .exe, and it should work. Mozilla-based browsers do not have this problem.