Bezeq's Dropbox imitation

[Daniel Feiglin]

On 12/19/2010 10:47 AM, Daniel Feiglin wrote:
> Hello folks!
>
> Bezeq is offering a "Dropbox" imitation for very reasonable fees: NIS 1
> /Gb for oa 10 or 20 Gb package. The first two Gb are free (like
> Dropbox). Of course their technicians only support Windows and have
> (officially) never heard of Linux.     Apart from the cost, there is the
> very important security attraction - the Bezeq servers for this are
> located in Israel.
>
> Has anyone on the list succeeded in using Linux opposite this service,
> perhaps by hacking kdropbox or something similar?
>
> What parameters should I request to "concoct" something myself (Oy vay!
> I haven't done socket programming since 2000)?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
>   
Further to all this .... from the point of view of a "user" (Read:
chimpanzee with two left thumbs) there does not appear to be a way to
use the Bezeq service with Linux.

In the meantime I've done a bit of other checking: On an annual basis,
the cost per Gb using Drobbox as against Bezeq is considerably lower.
Dropbox is about 60% of Bezeq ... but of course, your data is really "in
the cloud". If Obama or some other international twit decides he doesn't
like us, we could find ourselves with a messy outage. Does anyone
remember the Internet problems around 11/09/2001? (Incidentally I could
level the same objection to international web based mail accounts like
gmail, But that's another story.)

For the time being ... I dunno.

Daniel

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