This is not a post of original content, I'm simply linking to interesting things I've read recently.
- Israel: Linux-IL mailing list is inspecting some weird phenomenon. Looks like 012 ISP is blocking SSH packets which are sent abroad.
- Hebrew: this feature is too hidden.. Diego explains that how to enable left/right alignment switching by ctrl+shift. (Useful for RTL languages). The "trick" works for QT, KDE (3+4) apps.
This ISP didn't heard of net neutrality, and does those sorts of things all the time. I wrote about its traffic shaping:
http://technomosh.blogspot.com/2009/03/isp-traffic-shaping.html
http://technomosh.blogspot.com/2009/04/isp-traffic-shaping-cont.html
Interesting to read they've been blocking more ports.
Your link about 012/ssh links to a discussion about 013 blocking smtp... the right link is http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/pipermail/linux-il/2009-April/001351.html