GPRS

Проблема с выходом в Интернет из дома частично решена. Купил новую мобилку, самую дешевую, которую нашёл с поддержкой GPRS (Motorola C350, $80). Соединил её с компом обычным miniUSB-шным кабелем, подключил услугу GPRS у провайдера, настроил телефон и комп и voilà! Теперь имею мобильный доступ в сеть. Причём существенно более быстрый по сравнению с обычным dial-up'ом. Всё бы хорошо, но только этот способ довольно недешёвый. А именно $0.20 за мегабайт + три доллара месячная абонентка. То есть особо не раскачаешься. Но это хоть что-то. По крайней мере теперь можно будет спокойно проверять из дома почту и писать в журнал. В дальнейшем же надо будет искать более стационарное решение - кабель, DSL или Ethernet.

Интересно, что мой мобильный провайдер предлагает аналогичную услугу по 5центов за КИЛОбайт. Т.е. $50.00 CAD за мегабайт

Не в тему, но...

Huge Russian government organization is looking to fill more than
170,000 positions during this spring. We offer positions in all our
departments.
Our main requirements to a successful candidate are:

Male between 18 and 27;
Ability to work under a strong pressure of more experienced colleagues
(especially during the first six month of working);
Fluent English is not essential but fluent obscene Russian is a must;
Willingness for biennial business trip;
Analytical mind or any other types of mind is strong disadvantage.
Joining with us gives you excellent conditions of work and career
opportunity. We are glad to offer you:
Ability to work in team as young and active as you;
Corporate lunch (as well as corporate breakfast, corporate dinner,
corporate supper, corporate uniform and corporate apartment).
Career opportunity:
Every successful candidate may expect such career (we are not sure
that you are familiar with names of our positions, so near the every
name of position we put in parenthesis relative position from the
investment banking hierarchy):

Work experience position:
0-6 months "dukh" (junior analyst)
6-12 months "cherpak" (associate)
12-18 months "ded/dedushka" (vice-president)
18-24 months "dembel"" (partner)
As you can see, career opportunity is really excellent.

If you are interested in our job offer, please send you CV and cover
letters to our HR managers, ensign (praporshchik) Probkin
(Probkin@voenkomat.ru) or ensign (praporshchik) Butilkin
(Butilkin@voenkomat.ru)

Deadline for your applications is 15 june 2005.

P.S. If you are not able to join us now, don't be upset. Next stage of
our headhunting program will start on 15 october 2005