Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #1300

From:	"Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: OT Bluetooth
Date:	Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:09:34 -0400
To:	OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

On 09/08/06 06:47 am, Dave Saville thus wrote : On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 01:57:37 -0700 (PDT), Rick R. wrote: At least on my PDA and my GPS device. That was why I was asking really - I am looking at a new GPS which has USB & BT. However the USB is very restricted, but people have found that BT connectivity gets you into the GPS file system. Configured correctly, BT is quite "private" (though not encrypted). Devices must be "paired" to each other, and it is up to the user to tell a device to make its presence known to other devices. The original BT devices didn't have much flexibility in the realm of privacy, and were indeed quite chatty. Nowadays, though, these limitations have been somewhat overcome. I don't worry that people will be hacking into my Sony Ericsson P910i phone, just because I leave the BT on. And insofar as power consumption is concerned, this depends greatly upon the BT device itself. My phone is rather stingy on power when the BT is enabled, and I find that my battery takes a bigger hit from letting my email app "idle" (not even checking for mail every so often, but just running in the background!) than from leaving my BT enabled. In short, for PANs (Personal Area Networks), Bluetooth is just great. For headsets, headphones, and file transfers between PDAs, BT excels far beyond 802.11 in ease of use and compatibility (try sending data from your sound card via 802.11...huh????) :-) The right (sized) tool for the right (sized) job! Anyway, we still need a working stack, and for that, I would probably lean toward a port of BlueZ: http://www.bluez.org/ . IBM has its own *nix BT stack, called BlueDrekar, but this is not OpenSource AFAIK. I have no idea what it would take to port BlueZ to OS/2, but as it's the most popular *nix BT stack, I figure that's the best place to start (unless we start from scratch). -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------

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