Ok great it does sync with Exchange well, lets look at some of the 'features' though.
If your battery runs low the blackberry will disable wireless. Now thats great because I get extra life out of the device and can use all the PIM functions for a while without wireless. Now if you plug it into a charger guess what it doesnt do? It never re-enables the wireless, so if you're not paying attention and dont "enable wireless" you'll be wondering why you're not receiving any phone calls or emails.
The desktop software for windows includes a "Automatic Backup" feature, its not very automatic though because it asks you if you want to back it up, what you want to name the backup, etc. How about a "scheduled backup" and a "automatic backup" the difference being that the scheduled backup asks you these stupid questions and the automatic backup will just backup whatever you select when configuring it and use a naming scheme like 'backupMMDDYYYY'.
Another neat thing is there are *two* internet browsers on the BB. You have "blackberry browser" and "internet browser", I can't really see much difference between them, but its annoying that there are two programs that do what seems to be the same thing.
Also, this may be related to my network/outlook setup, but typically my email gets to my BB long before it hits my Outlook client, which is somewhat fun because I'll feel the thing vibrate and look at outlook but see no email.
And the keyboard on this thing (BB 7250) really does make your hands hurt quick. I used to have a Danger Sidekick and I could type extremely fast with my thumb and never feel like a. I was going to drop it while typing and b. my thumbs were going to fall off.
Overall I'm not really very impressed with the blackberry, but atleast the Exchange stuff works as advertised.
Even better, if a company has Copyrighted material on their website but doesn't want it indexed, they should put it behind a HTTP Auth barrier, and use robots.txt.
robots.txt is handy for preventing indexing, but it's also a way that nosey people can find things on your site that you generally don't want them to know about.
Yea, These will be just as popular as the corn based bags and foam replacements.. I've received *one* package that used corn foam and scared the hell out of my boss when I started eating it. I've only seen the corn bags when a teacher brought some in to school, and that was 13 years ago.
Maybe when the costs of producing bio-degradable plastic replacments go down we'll see more of this, but until then companies will continue to say 'long live plastic'.
OTOH, the RIAA might like this, as they can go back to saying it costs alot of money to produce cd's and drive the price up even higher.
Actually, there are also a ton of cool emulators that run on the dreamcast. You can now run your NES, SNES, Mame, c64 etc stuff on your DC. Check out http://www.dcemulation.com.
Come on people. Please quit writing security articles to get your sites hits. If you are going to take time to write an article atleast write a good one. This latest example gives a user new to security almost no useable information to improve security on their box. The Linux community needs to get a clue when it comes to security. They also need to quit writing bad documentation on the subject.
I am sick of seeing 100 different netfilter documents explaining how to setup NAT. How about taking some time and documenting something that isn't documented so well. Or better yet, actually getting a clue when it comes to security before you go around writing security articles.
On another note, draper loves to goto raves and give kids E so that hey can show them "how to release their enegry". If you don't belive me, goto just about any rave in CA and watch what he does.
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Ok great it does sync with Exchange well, lets look at some of the 'features' though.
If your battery runs low the blackberry will disable wireless. Now thats great because I get extra life out of the device and can use all the PIM functions for a while without wireless. Now if you plug it into a charger guess what it doesnt do? It never re-enables the wireless, so if you're not paying attention and dont "enable wireless" you'll be wondering why you're not receiving any phone calls or emails.
The desktop software for windows includes a "Automatic Backup" feature, its not very automatic though because it asks you if you want to back it up, what you want to name the backup, etc. How about a "scheduled backup" and a "automatic backup" the difference being that the scheduled backup asks you these stupid questions and the automatic backup will just backup whatever you select when configuring it and use a naming scheme like 'backupMMDDYYYY'.
Another neat thing is there are *two* internet browsers on the BB. You have "blackberry browser" and "internet browser", I can't really see much difference between them, but its annoying that there are two programs that do what seems to be the same thing.
Also, this may be related to my network/outlook setup, but typically my email gets to my BB long before it hits my Outlook client, which is somewhat fun because I'll feel the thing vibrate and look at outlook but see no email.
And the keyboard on this thing (BB 7250) really does make your hands hurt quick. I used to have a Danger Sidekick and I could type extremely fast with my thumb and never feel like a. I was going to drop it while typing and b. my thumbs were going to fall off.
Overall I'm not really very impressed with the blackberry, but atleast the Exchange stuff works as advertised.
Even better, if a company has Copyrighted material on their website but doesn't want it indexed, they should put it behind a HTTP Auth barrier, and use robots.txt.
robots.txt is handy for preventing indexing, but it's also a way that nosey people can find things on your site that you generally don't want them to know about.
Postfix can certainly filter, and other tools exist that do the same thing mimedefang does.
Anomy-Sanitizer is just one of them:
http://mailtools.anomy.net/
Yea, These will be just as popular as the corn based bags and foam replacements.. I've received *one* package that used corn foam and scared the hell out of my boss when I started eating it. I've only seen the corn bags when a teacher brought some in to school, and that was 13 years ago.
Maybe when the costs of producing bio-degradable plastic replacments go down we'll see more of this, but until then companies will continue to say 'long live plastic'.
OTOH, the RIAA might like this, as they can go back to saying it costs alot of money to produce cd's and drive the price up even higher.
Doesn't Anubis do this already? Why would anybody implement something like this, when a free alternative exists.
http://www.gnu.org/software/anubis/
Not to mention it has many more features than this, and no NSA Backdoors =)
Actually, there are also a ton of cool emulators that run on the dreamcast. You can now run your NES, SNES, Mame, c64 etc stuff on your DC. Check out http://www.dcemulation.com.
Come on people. Please quit writing security articles to get your sites hits. If you are going to take time to write an article atleast write a good one. This latest example gives a user new to security almost no useable information to improve security on their box. The Linux community needs to get a clue when it comes to security. They also need to quit writing bad documentation on the subject.
I am sick of seeing 100 different netfilter documents explaining how to setup NAT. How about taking some time and documenting something that isn't documented so well. Or better yet, actually getting a clue when it comes to security before you go around writing security articles.
On another note, draper loves to goto raves and give kids E so that hey can show them "how to release their enegry". If you don't belive me, goto just about any rave in CA and watch what he does.
Sick man.
-miah
All Linux Hardware vendors provide support. ie Penguin Computing and VA Linux. I really don't see what the issue is here.
-miah
SCO uses lxrun to run linux binaries as well, but I have yet to see it actually work.