1. Memory issue like everyone else. I called Palm and requested the "free" 128Meg SD card but they can't even say that they'll be shipping it to me automagicaly.
2. Phone sucks. I'm having issues with the BT 250 like everyone else. When I called Jabra, they said it's is a BT 1.0 (on the headset) and BT 1.1 (on the phone) issue, but when I called PalmOne they said it's the individual headset and are shipping out another one.
3. Sync issues with my desktop. Calendar won't sync. Palm tech support said it was due to low memory (although only after I worked in a compliant about the memory issue, not through trouble shooting the problem to that conclusion). Memo/Tasks/Contacts sync just not calendar. (Yes, I tried the custom settings, and set them to sync calendar).
4. Phone application is slow to respond to input. I get delays of 2-4 seconds. just long enough for me to think the click didn't work, so I click again and fowl up the call I'm making.
5. No Voice dial.
6. The Multi-Connector for power slips out too easily.
I'm all for this effort, but as a pragmatist, I don't think that it's going to be very successful.
Check out these stats from a "similar" project [paraphrased from the website...]
The RC5-64 project was able to brute force a key in 1757 days using 58,747,597,657 work units tested the winning key was found!
They completed 86,950,894 workunits on the best day. This is 0.12% of the total keyspace meaning that at the peak rate they could expect to exhaust the keyspace in 790 days.
The peak rate of 270,147,024 kkeys/sec is equivalent to 32,504 800MHz Apple PowerBook G4 laptops or 45,998 2GHz AMD Athlon XP machines or (to use some rc5-56 numbers) nearly a half million Pentium Pro 200s.
Over the course of the RC5-64 project, 331,252 individuals participated. They tested a toal of 15,769,938,165,961,326,592 keys.
So the real question is did MS make the key length long enough? Given the example of approx 5 years, seems like it's close.
I took a college course called "Intelligent life in the universe" (god I loved college). Where we learned basically:
1. What we know it takes to support life 2. What living objects are typically made of (carbon based compounds) 3. What percentage of stars have planets around them, what percentage of those planets are the proper distance away from the star the orbit (which changes based on the size of the star) 4. a bunch of biology, and some other related stuff
It boiled down to the idea that the universe is soo huge that IF we're the only intelligent life in the universe, that there must some type of "god" and if we're not, well then the evolutionary theories are probably fundamentally correct (doesn't mean there isn't "god", but not in the literal old testament sense).
see, no real hard conclusiions only questions, cause there is always another level deeper to go.
I understand the concern, but I'm not certain the facts support the position. Classic IPsec client VPN's seem to provide adequate security for traversing the Internet back to a corporate data network, why is the wireless environment any different?
How many currently unsecured home networks are going to be significantly more at risk if they deploy wireless? (they already are connected to the Internet!)
Now, I'm the first to agree that some platforms (like PDA's, wireless inventory control, and other systems) present challenges to deploying VPN's but it seems like a clear oppurtunity to leverage exsisting investments in "security technology".
How many companies with the need for 54Mbit 802.11g networks don't already have remote access VPN's?
While there is actually some logic to that position, there is some history that shows this is a bad approach for MS to take. Way back when, in 1997 Ian Goldberg presented a talk on (amoung other things) how in Europe incremental changes to the security of GSM networks lead to a whole "generation" of well trained hackers. I don't think MS is really looking to do that for the community.
No, you Dolt! This is not bad because it costs tax payer dollars. This is bad because it put lives in jeopardy. It delay's service to people in real need.
My first law of computer security:
The biggest difference between a wireless and wired solution in this type of scenerio is that the costs are shifted from the infrastructure provider, to the user.
In a wired scenerio, the infrastructure provider must outlay a significant amount of cash, upfront to provide service. In a wireless scenerio, the user must outlay the cash.
Personally, I'd rather over pay of the total amount is under $100.00 if I can get the service right away, vs. paying less and waiting.
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I'm having a number of issues with my 650:
1. Memory issue like everyone else. I called Palm and requested the "free" 128Meg SD card but they can't even say that they'll be shipping it to me automagicaly.
2. Phone sucks. I'm having issues with the BT 250 like everyone else. When I called Jabra, they said it's is a BT 1.0 (on the headset) and BT 1.1 (on the phone) issue, but when I called PalmOne they said it's the individual headset and are shipping out another one.
3. Sync issues with my desktop. Calendar won't sync. Palm tech support said it was due to low memory (although only after I worked in a compliant about the memory issue, not through trouble shooting the problem to that conclusion). Memo/Tasks/Contacts sync just not calendar. (Yes, I tried the custom settings, and set them to sync calendar).
4. Phone application is slow to respond to input. I get delays of 2-4 seconds. just long enough for me to think the click didn't work, so I click again and fowl up the call I'm making.
5. No Voice dial.
6. The Multi-Connector for power slips out too easily.
I'm all for this effort, but as a pragmatist, I don't think that it's going to be very successful.
Check out these stats from a "similar" project
[paraphrased from the website...]
The RC5-64 project was able to brute force a key in 1757 days using 58,747,597,657 work units tested the winning key was found!
They completed 86,950,894 workunits on the best day. This is 0.12% of the total keyspace meaning that at the peak rate they could expect to exhaust the keyspace in 790 days.
The peak rate of 270,147,024 kkeys/sec is equivalent to 32,504 800MHz Apple PowerBook G4 laptops or 45,998 2GHz AMD Athlon XP machines or (to use some rc5-56 numbers) nearly a half million Pentium Pro 200s.
Over the course of the RC5-64 project, 331,252 individuals participated. They tested a toal of 15,769,938,165,961,326,592 keys.
So the real question is did MS make the key length long enough? Given the example of approx 5 years, seems like it's close.
later...
chad
I took a college course called "Intelligent life in the universe" (god I loved college). Where we learned basically:
1. What we know it takes to support life
2. What living objects are typically made of (carbon based compounds)
3. What percentage of stars have planets around them, what percentage of those planets are the proper distance away from the star the orbit (which changes based on the size of the star)
4. a bunch of biology, and some other related stuff
It boiled down to the idea that the universe is soo huge that IF we're the only intelligent life in the universe, that there must some type of "god" and if we're not, well then the evolutionary theories are probably fundamentally correct (doesn't mean there isn't "god", but not in the literal old testament sense).
see, no real hard conclusiions only questions, cause there is always another level deeper to go.
I understand the concern, but I'm not certain the facts support the position. Classic IPsec client VPN's seem to provide adequate security for traversing the Internet back to a corporate data network, why is the wireless environment any different?
How many currently unsecured home networks are going to be significantly more at risk if they deploy wireless? (they already are connected to the Internet!)
Now, I'm the first to agree that some platforms (like PDA's, wireless inventory control, and other systems) present challenges to deploying VPN's but it seems like a clear oppurtunity to leverage exsisting investments in "security technology".
How many companies with the need for 54Mbit 802.11g networks don't already have remote access VPN's?
While there is actually some logic to that position, there is some history that shows this is a bad approach for MS to take. Way back when, in 1997 Ian Goldberg presented a talk on (amoung other things) how in Europe incremental changes to the security of GSM networks lead to a whole "generation" of well trained hackers. I don't think MS is really looking to do that for the community.
People come first!
The biggest difference between a wireless and wired solution in this type of scenerio is that the costs are shifted from the infrastructure provider, to the user.
In a wired scenerio, the infrastructure provider must outlay a significant amount of cash, upfront to provide service. In a wireless scenerio, the user must outlay the cash.
Personally, I'd rather over pay of the total amount is under $100.00 if I can get the service right away, vs. paying less and waiting.
later...
chad