I think there is little doubt that theses devices bring some improvement in our lives, but after using the Palm Pilot and the Nokia 9110 Communicator, I do prefer the communicator. First of all it combines a mobile phone *and* a PDA, which makes me carry only one device at a time, and as such I won't be lazy to open/start when I need it (something I had with the palm). Secondly, it's IP capabilities are much better, given a neat browser, telnet client, ftp client, POP3/IMAP4 mail reader. It uses, in my opinion, a more stable version of the Intellysinc software (the palm sync sessions *do* time out, given optimal settings for both devices). And then you have all the other stuff you do not use on either device, that is : the communicator had the games, voice recorder, IR port, printer drivers, and so forth.
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Dat dacht je maar...
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Mmhhh.. What about:
;-)
1. planting Inspection Modules (Checkpoint FW-1 speak) at ISP and controlling them centrally using a Management Station/GUI client?
2. sniffing lines at the bit-level and stripping on bit-patterns (e.g. encoded IP addresses in IP packets)?
3. using a Beowulf cluster of Linux based S/390's ?
Scollie.
I think there is little doubt that theses devices bring some improvement in our lives, but after using the Palm Pilot and the Nokia 9110 Communicator, I do prefer the communicator. First of all it combines a mobile phone *and* a PDA, which makes me carry only one device at a time, and as such I won't be lazy to open/start when I need it (something I had with the palm). Secondly, it's IP capabilities are much better, given a neat browser, telnet client, ftp client, POP3/IMAP4 mail reader. It uses, in my opinion, a more stable version of the Intellysinc software (the palm sync sessions *do* time out, given optimal settings for both devices). And then you have all the other stuff you do not use on either device, that is : the communicator had the games, voice recorder, IR port, printer drivers, and so forth.
;-)
feedback is welcome
Scollie