Re: OT: Israeli domain names

[Uri Even-Chen]

ISOC also called me a few years ago when I transfered a domain name to
another person.


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On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Gabor Szabo  wrote:

> Thanks for all the replies.
>
> In the end I went with http://box.co.il for 49 NIS / year.
> They were fully automated, but I had to print a form, fill it, scan it
> and send it by email to ISOC in order to get their approval.
> They (ISOC) even called me to verify that it is indeed me who asked
> for the domain transfer.
>
> regards
>Gabor
>
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Gabor Szabo  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a bit late bird, but as my domains start to expire I have to move
> > them away from ISOC. I thought to give a try to BezeqInt (VirtualNest)
> > as I don't know any of the others either.
> >
> > Apparently I cannot do the transfer online. I need to fill out some
> > paper(!) forms.
> > I talked to a representative. She told me I will also need to call
> > them for renewals as that cannot be done via the website either.
> >
> > Finally she told me the cost is 100 NIS for the transfer and 250 NIS /
> > 2 years for the domain name. I have not seen any of these prices on
> > their site (I saw there 69 NIS / year) so I was rather shocked.
> >
> > What is your recommended registrar for Israeli domain names?
> >
> > regards
> >Gabor
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Re: OT: Israeli domain names

[Uri Even-Chen]

There is more competition in the TLD such as .com registrars.



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On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Shlomo Solomon 
wrote:

> Also OT, but can anyone explain why Israeli domain names are so
> expensive?  A .com or .net domain on (for example) GoDaddy costs $1 for
> the first year and then about $10 per year.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:11:40 +0300
> Amichai Rotman  wrote:
>
> > I am happy with DomainTheNet.
> >
> > I have one .co.il domain. I pay 80 NIS /Year and manage everything via
> > their Web Site. No papers and no phone calls
> >
> > Amichai Rotman
> >
> > 2017-07-31 10:34 GMT+03:00 Efraim Flashner :
> >
> > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 09:42:52AM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am a bit late bird, but as my domains start to expire I have to
> > > > move them away from ISOC. I thought to give a try to BezeqInt
> > > > (VirtualNest) as I don't know any of the others either.
> > > >
> > > > Apparently I cannot do the transfer online. I need to fill out
> > > > some paper(!) forms.
> > > > I talked to a representative. She told me I will also need to call
> > > > them for renewals as that cannot be done via the website either.
> > > >
> > > > Finally she told me the cost is 100 NIS for the transfer and 250
> > > > NIS / 2 years for the domain name. I have not seen any of these
> > > > prices on their site (I saw there 69 NIS / year) so I was rather
> > > > shocked.
> > > >
> > > > What is your recommended registrar for Israeli domain names?
> > > >
> > > > regards
> > > >Gabor
> > > >
> > >
> > > I've been using peligon and hosting my site and DNS at digital
> > > ocean, I haven't tried migrating my domain. I've been able to renew
> > > my domain several times online without a problem.
> > >
> > > --
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Re: OT: Israeli domain names

[Uri Even-Chen]

I'm using LiveDns and no problems yet.

Uri.


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On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Gabor Szabo  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a bit late bird, but as my domains start to expire I have to move
> them away from ISOC. I thought to give a try to BezeqInt (VirtualNest)
> as I don't know any of the others either.
>
> Apparently I cannot do the transfer online. I need to fill out some
> paper(!) forms.
> I talked to a representative. She told me I will also need to call
> them for renewals as that cannot be done via the website either.
>
> Finally she told me the cost is 100 NIS for the transfer and 250 NIS /
> 2 years for the domain name. I have not seen any of these prices on
> their site (I saw there 69 NIS / year) so I was rather shocked.
>
> What is your recommended registrar for Israeli domain names?
>
> regards
>Gabor
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Re: CentOS yum install problem

[Uri Even-Chen]

I don't know, there are many. Try a service that has 4 DNS servers. I'm
using https://zrh.cloudsigma.com/ and https://www.digitalocean.com/, also
Rackspace are good, and of course Google and Amazon. I'm using Amazon's DNS
servers (Route 53) for my domain names, at least those that I want to be
always online. If your hosting provider provides less than 3 DNS servers,
consider using Amazon for DNS.


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On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 7:19 PM, David Suna <da...@davidsconsultants.com>
wrote:

> While I agree, this is a project I inherited and I am not yet in a
> position to move off of GoDaddy yet.
>
> Just as an aside, what hosting service would you recommend?
>
>
> On 08/12/16 19:08, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
>
> I don't recommend hosting servers or websites at GoDaddy. Had a bad
> experience with them.
>
>
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> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 6:57 PM, David Suna <da...@davidsconsultants.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I am using CentOS for the first time on a GoDaddy Virtual Private Server.
>> Yesterday I was able to install packages without a problem. Today, for some
>> reason, any package I try to search for I get a No Matches found error. And
>> any package I try to install I get No package  available.
>>
>> I am a Debian / Ubuntu user so I am a little lost in the CentOS - yum
>> world. GoDaddy support is completely worthless. I have tried searching on
>> Google but have not found what I am looking for.
>>
>> Can anyone give me a pointer to how I can solve this problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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Re: CentOS yum install problem

[Uri Even-Chen]

I don't recommend hosting servers or websites at GoDaddy. Had a bad
experience with them.


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On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 6:57 PM, David Suna <da...@davidsconsultants.com>
wrote:

> I am using CentOS for the first time on a GoDaddy Virtual Private Server.
> Yesterday I was able to install packages without a problem. Today, for some
> reason, any package I try to search for I get a No Matches found error. And
> any package I try to install I get No package  available.
>
> I am a Debian / Ubuntu user so I am a little lost in the CentOS - yum
> world. GoDaddy support is completely worthless. I have tried searching on
> Google but have not found what I am looking for.
>
> Can anyone give me a pointer to how I can solve this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
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Re: Experience with USB 3.0 Port Replicators for laptops?

[Uri Even-Chen]

I would only recommend not to buy anything made in China, because of human
rights, Tibet, and also quality. Isn't Lenovo a Chinese company? Is it made
in China? But I also have stuff made in China because sometimes all the
alternatives are made there. Personally I like South Korea and Samsung,
give it a try (although they are not perfect).


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On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote:

> I am again planning to buy hardware, and am looking again for the
> collective experience of the community with the hardware being
> considered for purchase.
>
> I have a Lenovo Y700 laptop, which was purchased less than a year ago.
> It runs Linux (Debian Jessie) with backported kernel 4.7.8
> (linux-image-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64, version 4.7.8-1~bpo8+1).
>
> I would like to select an USB 3.0 Port Replicator for it and connect two
> additional monitors (to have total of three monitors - laptop's own
> monitor + two extra ones).
>
> It was suggested that I'll buy ThinkPad Basic USB 3.0 Dock
> (http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/
> LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?hide_
> menu_area=true=460=4X10A06687).
> It uses DisplayLink chips, which have Linux support for a while (see:
> https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian).
>
>
> This port replicator can drive only one external monitor in addition to
> the laptop's own monitor.
>
> However, the ThinkPad USB 3.0 Dock
> (https://support.lenovo.com/il/en/documents/pd023761) supports two
> external monitors.
>
> Does anyone have experience with any of the above?
> Are there other non-Lenovo USB 3.0 Port Replicators, which work with
> Lenovo Y700?
>
> Thanks,
> --- Omer
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Re: Replacing ISOC as my domain registrar

[Uri Even-Chen]

I worked with LiveDNS <http://www.livedns.co.il/>, no problems so far. I
don't like Interspace. All the others I don't know.


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On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Moish <mo...@mln.co.il> wrote:

> ISOC announced that they will cease to mainatain my domain's regisration.
> My dns records are maintained by Google and Netvision.
>
> How do I select a new registrar?
> Whats should I look for?
>
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[Off Topic]: Speedy Mail 2.0 - a new webmail platform in Python and Django

[Uri Even-Chen]

To Linux-IL people,

I'm interested in creating a new webmail platform based on Python and
Django, which will be free software  open source - Speedy Mail 2.0 (Speedy
Mail 1.0 and 1.1 were based on a Perl software - Endymion MailMan web-mail,
from 2000 to 2005). I want Speedy Mail 2.0's features to be as similar as
possible to Gmail - with labels (a message can have several labels, or
none), filters (to apply labels automatically, skip the inbox, mark as read
etc.), 12 different stars, composing more than one mail at a time, etc. I
would like to know if there is any free software in Python and Django we
can base Speedy Mail on, or maybe something in another language (such as
PHP) which we can convert to Python and Django? And are you interested in
helping me develop Speedy Mail, or do you know where I can find developers
who may be interested?

By the way, is there a simple way to convert PHP software to Python, or do
we have to rewrite it again line by line? I found some free software
packages for webmail, some of them are in Python (Mailpile, Modoboa) and
some in PHP (Roundcube, AfterLogic), and there are others not listed here.

Which protocols we should use to connect to the mail server? I understand
that IMAP has folders but not labels/tags, does it mean we can't use it? Is
it better to use POP3?

Which license do you recommend using? I'm thinking about using the GNU
Affero General Public License (Affero GPL), you can read about it on the
GNU website - it's like the GPL but also requires to publish the source
code if you use it on a server. I think I prefer this license to ensure
that if people or companies use my software, they will publish their source
code (of course this will have to be enforced).

Thanks,
Uri.

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Re: [Off Topic]: Speedy Mail 2.0 - a new webmail platform in Python and Django

[Uri Even-Chen]

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/urievenchen  http://twitter.com/urievenchen
 Speedypedia in Hebrew and English
http://www.speedysoftware.com/uri/blog/speedypedia-in-hebrew-and-english/

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name
wrote:

 Uri Even-Chen wrote on Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 16:24:57 +0300:
  Which protocols we should use to connect to the mail server? I understand
  that IMAP has folders but not labels/tags, does it mean we can't use it?
 Is
  it better to use POP3?

 IMAP does have labels, via the FLAGS command.  (There are system flags
 like \Seen and keyword flags which are probably what you want.)  The
 question of client support is another matter, but if you're writing
 a webmail, you can write it to exploit the feature as much as you want
 (and as the underlying imapd permits).

 Cheers,

 Daniel


OK, thank you. Let me know if you want to participate in this project.

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Re: Upgrading Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04

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Yes, we use virtualenv. Thank you.

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On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.comwrote:

 I'd urge you to consider using virtualenv to manage python dependencies.

 The only OS dependency you'd have, is python. You shouldn't care about
 dependencies beyond that.

 This is even more correct when deploying your application.


 On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:

 Hi people,

 I work at my job with Ubuntu 12.04 and we run Django 1.4.12 locally with
 Python 2.7.3 and PostgreSQL. We want to upgrade Django from 1.4 to 1.6 and
 I also thought it would be a good idea to upgrade Python to 2.7.6 and maybe
 even 3, so I tried to upgrade Ubuntu to 14.04. But after I completed the
 upgrade, Django didn't work and I couldn't even run migrations (with
 South). I had to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 and I lost all the files I had in
 my home directory (because I chose not to keep Ubuntu 14.04) except some
 files that I backed up. My questions are:

 1. What do we need to do in order for Django to work with Ubuntu 14.04?
 2. Why isn't it possible to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 after upgrading to
 14.04 and still keep all the files in my home directory, while not keeping
 all the other files (the operating system files)?

 Thanks,
 Uri Even-Chen
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Upgrading Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04

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Hi people,

I work at my job with Ubuntu 12.04 and we run Django 1.4.12 locally with
Python 2.7.3 and PostgreSQL. We want to upgrade Django from 1.4 to 1.6 and
I also thought it would be a good idea to upgrade Python to 2.7.6 and maybe
even 3, so I tried to upgrade Ubuntu to 14.04. But after I completed the
upgrade, Django didn't work and I couldn't even run migrations (with
South). I had to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 and I lost all the files I had in
my home directory (because I chose not to keep Ubuntu 14.04) except some
files that I backed up. My questions are:

1. What do we need to do in order for Django to work with Ubuntu 14.04?
2. Why isn't it possible to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 after upgrading to 14.04
and still keep all the files in my home directory, while not keeping all
the other files (the operating system files)?

Thanks,
Uri Even-Chen
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Re: Upgrading Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04

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Thank you, it's a good idea. At work my home directory is not in a separate
partition so it's not kept if I reinstall Ubuntu. Do you know how I can
create a partition and move it to a separate partition?

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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il wrote:


 On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:

 Hi people,

 I work at my job with Ubuntu 12.04 and we run Django 1.4.12 locally with
 Python 2.7.3 and PostgreSQL. We want to upgrade Django from 1.4 to 1.6 and
 I also thought it would be a good idea to upgrade Python to 2.7.6 and maybe
 even 3, so I tried to upgrade Ubuntu to 14.04. But after I completed the
 upgrade, Django didn't work and I couldn't even run migrations (with
 South). I had to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 and I lost all the files I had in
 my home directory (because I chose not to keep Ubuntu 14.04) except some
 files that I backed up. My questions are:

 1. What do we need to do in order for Django to work with Ubuntu 14.04?
 2. Why isn't it possible to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 after upgrading to
 14.04 and still keep all the files in my home directory, while not keeping
 all the other files (the operating system files)?

 Why do you think it is not possible?  I do it all the time.
 I  keep my home directory in a separate partition so when I upgrade (or
 downgrade) the OS the home directory stays the same.

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Re: OT: Recommended domain registrar

[Uri Even-Chen]

I like http://www.domain.com/ and http://www.voxdomains.com/ for .com
domains. I don't like Go Daddy although they are the most popular.

Uri Even-Chen



On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Antony Gelberg
antony.gelb...@gmail.comwrote:

 Thanks Tomer and others who responded.  I'm (slightly embarrassedly) only
 looking for a .com domain - should that have any bearing on my choice of
 registrar?  I'll widen the discussion as well - any recommendations for
 privacy services from a whois perspective?  I seem to remember a service
 called Domains By Proxy a while ago but don't know what their reputation
 / legalities are.


 On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Tomer Cohen to...@gmx.net wrote:

 The price of co.il/org.il is between 49₪ to 115₪ depending of where you
 register your domain. Of course that all of the registrars are doing a fair
 play, so you can always switch to another registrar of you doesn't like
 their service.

 The cheapest one at the moment is box.co.il. I don't think that most
 users really care the quality of their domain registrar, as the first thing
 they do is to configure hosting for the domain and configure the domain
 nameserver record to point to their hosting DNS. I've recently moved a
 domain I own to box, and beside their lame UI which charged me for two
 years instead of one probably because I clicked the submit button twice,
 they are the cheapest.

 I have made a quick prices comparison table. I hope it could be helpful
 to you. http://tomer.github.io/IsraeliDomains/


 On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Antony Gelberg antony.gelb...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 After a couple of years in the enterprise world, I'm looking for a more
 engaging challenge, including building a startup on the side.  Obviously it
 all starts with a domain ;) , I've never bought one in Israel - any
 recommendations of registrars (not) to use?  I don't mind if they're
 international or Israeli companies, as long as they accept an Israeli
 credit card.

 Antony

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Re: internet provider problems

[Uri Even-Chen]

Which ISP? I suggest you switch ISP. I'm working with Bezeq and Bezeq
International.

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2011/11/27 David Ronkin dron...@gmail.com

 Hi all
 Sorry - not related straightly to linux but networking - it bothers me for
 a while..

 Did anyone have *constant *issues with NW provider (because of Lashon
 ara i'm not saying which one) so that instead of 5Mb i get 600-700k??
 Every time i call them - they fix a problem for a day or two and than it
 continues..  I have almost a year left for the contract, the thing didn't
 happen before??


 tnx!

 David
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 דוד רונקין
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Re: Thunderbird mailer

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With all the respect to Thuderbird, I moved to Gmail and Google Apps years
ago. I recommend using Gmail or Google Apps for email. Then you can use any
computer to read and write mail, not just at home or your laptop.

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On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 15:17, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.comwrote:

 So far, I have not found a way to write a Hebrew message with lines
 beginning at the right side of the window. With Kmail it was obvious ---
 there were buttons for right, left, and center positioning. Where is
 something equivalent in Thunderbird?
 --
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 Qiryat Tiv'on
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Re: DNS question

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Why not use existing servers such as easyDNS? You can use them as secondary
servers as well as primary server if you want to.

Anyway, all your name servers should answer queries - otherwise what do you
need them for? You want your domain to resolve.

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2011/6/17 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com

 Hi,

 After big frustration from some DNS providers, I've decided to roll my own
 with servers here in Israel, Ireland, and 2 US servers.
 I've configured the Master in Israel and the rest are slaves.

 I threw some domains, and the sync works great.

 My problem is simple: The server in Israel answer queries from the world,
 but should the slaves answer too?
 If not, what happens when the master goes down?

 I checked some big names servers (like Yahoo) - their servers don't answer
 any queries.

 So should the slave server be configured not to answer any query from
 outside?

 (I know it's a non issue in corporates where you can configure both master
 and slave answer from internal IP's, but here there are no internal IP's).

 Thanks,
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Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 09:45, geoffrey mendelson 
geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Marc Volovic wrote:

 People, RMS (as well as any other person) is entitled to support, adhere,
 acquiesce or abhor, deny, etc any and all BDS activities.

 The man is entitled to his opinion and choice. It is his right as a man
 and as a public figure.



 Marc, it has to do with US corporate law and practice. In the US, officers
 of a corporation are limited in liability for their actions as corporate
 officers. What they do as private citizens is different than what they do as
 officers of the corporation.

 This is different than Israeli corporate law, where there is much less of a
 corporate veil.

 When they do something as an officer of the corporation, it takes on a
 whole new meaning. It is the stated policy of the corportation.

 If RMS as RMS states what he does, as a private citizen, it is free speech.
 He is entitled to his opionions and limited by US laws as to what he can say
 and where, but those limits are awfully wide (compared to Israeli ones for
 example).

 However, once he signs an email as an officer of the FSF, or states it
 publicly that he, as representing the FSF is going to support a boycott (or
 not) and so on, it is FSF policy. So like it or not, the FSF has now
 incorporated the BDS movement into their message. It's not just FREE
 Software, it's also support the Palestinians and boycott Israel.

 If RMS wants to vacation in Ramalah, or sun himself on the beaches of Gaza,
 he is welcome to. If he does not want to stay in, vist or even pass through
 Israel, (He could enter Gaza from Egypt, or the PA from Jordan), he is
 welcome to. However as the President of the FSF his perceived boycott of
 Israeli institutions is unacceptable, and dilutes the FSF and it's message.

 Depending upon exactly what he does and does not do, and who provides the
 money for his visit, he (and therefore the FSF as he spoke and speaks for
 them) may be in volation of US law, and therefore subject to investigation,
 tax audits, etc. Quite simply this will not end well for the FSF.

 Geoff.


I don't agree with you, Geoff. What Richard Stallman does as a private
person does not mean the FSF in involved. As a private person Richard
Stallman has the right to boycott Israeli institutions and universities. It
does not mean that the FSF is boycotting Israel.

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Re: An alternative to Skype

[Uri Even-Chen]

2011/6/12 Udi Finkelstein linux...@udif.com

 The number of free software packages where RMS is involved, or even was
 ever involved, is very small compared to the whole open software universe.
 Even if you decide to boycott the entire GNU projectyou stll have tons of
 free software that is not FSF-related.


I disagree. Richard Stallman in the founder of the GNU project and the GPL.
About half of all open source software is licenses as GPL. The Linux
operating system with all its distributions, GCC complier and many other
open source software exist because of Richard Stallman's contributions. I
don't recommend anyone to boycott GNU or the FSF.

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Re: An alternative to Skype

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Ha ha ha! After writing Skype three times, they agreed to manually
reactivate my credits. It's only 2.14 euro, but it's better to have them
back in my account. Now I will write them again and ask for a refund.

Thanks for the advice!

Uri Even-Chen
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E-mail: u...@speedy.net
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 23:27, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:

 On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 17:07, Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.ilwrote:

 By logging in to their site, you can reactivate your credits.


 I tried, but they are thieves. I can't reactivate my credits:

 Reactivate Skype Credit
   *Your Balance*
 €0,00

 You do not have any Skype Credit to reactivate.
  Back https://secure.skype.com/account/
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Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

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On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 22:35, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.comwrote:

 My guess is that the anti-boycott law has nothing to do with FSF or any
 other voluntary organization (like what is called amutah in Hebrew),
 which is what I understand FSF to be.


As far as I know, there is a law in the USA that prevents people and
organizations from boycotting Israel. They are not allowed to refuse to do
business with Israel or Israeli organizations or individuals
(orgranizations means all kinds of organizations). If the FSF refuses to
do business with Israelis, this may be illegal. But Richard Stallman doesn't
have to speak in Israeli universities - it is his right to choose where to
speak and where not to speak. If they refuse to do business - for example,
sell software - with Israelis then it may be illegal according to USA laws.

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An alternative to Skype

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi people,

I saw Richard Stallman's signature:
 Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
  Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/

I'm using Skype to communicate with my friends. I mostly use it for instant
messaging (not phone calls). I did use it for phone calls in the past, but I
don't have a microphone attached to my computer - so today I use regular
phone (018). When I used Skype for phone calls, I paid Skype for Skype out
credit, but Skype zeroed my credit after a few months of not using their
service - which I consider stealing money from me. For all that reasons, I
don't want to use Skype. But Skype is a monopoly - all my friends use it.
Even my grandmother wants to start using it. What free alternatives are
there to Skype? (free as in freedom of course).

By the way, what do you think about Google talk? I use Google talk from my
Gmail account (I didn't download the software).

I'm using Windows XP on PC. And Google Chrome as my browser.

Thanks,
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Re: An alternative to Skype

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On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 17:07, Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.ilwrote:

 By logging in to their site, you can reactivate your credits.


I tried, but they are thieves. I can't reactivate my credits:

Reactivate Skype Credit
*Your Balance*
€0,00

You do not have any Skype Credit to reactivate.
Back https://secure.skype.com/account/
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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 08:13, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote:

 The issue here is not opposing the Israeli occupation but about the
 academic boycott.

 Would you find it to be acceptable for the Palestinians to use ABC
 (atomic/biological/chemical) weapons to fight the Israeli occupation
 because they are too weak to fight using conventional means?
 Academic boycott is as illegitimate (even if it does not immediately
 cause people to die).


I can understand why people boycott Israeli universities. The Israeli
universities are strongly related to the Israeli government and are funded
by the Israeli government. They are also related to the Israeli military.
When people want to express their opinions against the Israeli occupation,
one of the ways to do it is boycott Israeli universities. But I understand
that Richard Stallman is not completely boycotting Israel, only
universities. Therefore his views are not extreme against Israel but only
against Israeli occupation. By boycotting the Israeli universities he
expresses his views against the Israeli occupation.

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 13:17, geoffrey mendelson 
geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote:

 In case you don't know what I am talking about:

 http://www.bdsmovement.net/

 Thanks for the link. My opinion is that Richard Stallman has the right to
express his opinions against the Israeli occupation, with which I agree, and
he has the right to boycott Israeli institutions if he wants to. I don't
think it's a reason for anyone not to use Linux, in the same sense that Mark
Zuckerberg's decision to kill animals for meat is not a reason for me not to
use Facebook (although I object to killing animals). But if you want to
boycott Linux or Facebook, you have the right. You don't have to use any of
them.

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Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

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2011/6/6 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org
 Date: 2011/6/6
 Subject: Re: regarding your (cancelled) Israel visit
 To: Hetz Ben Hamo ‫het...@gmail.com‬


 I don't advocate a blanket boycott of Israeli universities, but I am
 not going to campaign against it either.  I see where they are coming
 from: Israel's occupation policies are horrible.  Nonviolent protests
 are crushed with persistent brutality.  (See
 http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=221897.)

 Palestinians who are against violence are looking desperately for
 some method of nonviolent resistance.  I can't blame them for it
 even if I don't agree entirely with the details.  Thus, I decided
 to follow their policies in the trip they organized.

 I wish I had discussed the issue in advance and avoided
 having to cancel a plan I had agreed to.

 I will give at least one talk in Israel, at a non-university venue,
 and I am hoping more can be arranged.


 --
 Dr Richard Stallman
 President, Free Software Foundation
 51 Franklin St
 Boston MA 02110
 USA
 www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org
 Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
  Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/



I agree with Richard Stallman's views about the Israeli occupation.

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Tax authorities in Israel

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Hi people,

I recently had to pay taxes to the tax authorities in Israel (income tax). I
think it's amazing that the tax authorities website supports only MSIE. I
called their support and asked, they said they don't support Google Chrome
or Firefox - only MSIE. I'm using Google Chrome and Firefox with all other
websites, including my bank, but only with the tax authorities website I
have to use MSIE. I have a bug/virus in MSIE and it took me more than an
hour and I tried at least 6 times with 2 computers and 3 people on their
support until I could pay my taxes. Shame on them! Maybe the Israeli
Internet association should do something about it (revoke their .gov
domain!)...

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Re: Tax authorities in Israel

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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 21:28, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:

 2011/5/26 Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net:
  Hi people,
  I recently had to pay taxes to the tax authorities in Israel (income
 tax). I
  think it's amazing that the tax authorities website supports only MSIE. I
  called their support and asked, they said they don't support Google
 Chrome
  or Firefox - only MSIE. I'm using Google Chrome and Firefox with all
 other
  websites, including my bank, but only with the tax authorities website I
  have to use MSIE. I have a bug/virus in MSIE and it took me more than an
  hour and I tried at least 6 times with 2 computers and 3 people on their
  support until I could pay my taxes. Shame on them! Maybe the Israeli
  Internet association should do something about it (revoke their .gov
  domain!)...

 I encourage you to write to them and ask. If the site requires any
 particular proprietary software to work then it certainly is not a
 website. Simply tranfering information via tcp/ip on port 80 does not
 make the communication a website.

 I don't have the energy for this fighting windmills. What are the chances
that they change it because of me? I already said it verbally to their
support team, but I don't have the energy to write them a letter. And also
the Israeli Internet association. They know how to be active about issues
that matter to them. I guess this issue doesn't matter to them. I think it's
a shame on the government, and if I had more energy I might have refused to
pay taxes until this issue is fixed. But I use Windows (we actually have two
computers with Windows at home), and I can use MSIE if I want to, and
eventually it worked. So I paid my taxes.

By the way, I don't know what kind of spyware/virus I have, that my MSIE
opens with new websites all the time, although I'm using Google Chrome. I
think I will try NOD anti virus to check if I have a virus (currently I'm
using the free and open source Clamwin). Any suggestion for free software to
eliminate this virus?

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Re: Can't find uploaded files

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On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 15:48, Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com wrote:

 Hi,

 This one has me *really* stumped.

 A user uploaded some files via FTP to a server running ProFTPd.  Now if one
 logs into the FTP server, one can see the files that have been uploaded.
  But nothing else can.  I can't see them at the shell and I also tried
 writing a PHP code fragment to list the directory and it can't see them
 either.

 The FTP server listings even survived a restart of ProFTPd.

 Any thoughts?  Are these files really there or not?


If you see the files with ProFTPd then they are there. You can't see them if
they are not there.

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Re: flash killer extension for firefox 4

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 13:54, Udi Finkelstein
udi.finkelst...@gmail.com wrote:
 Firefox does not upgrade without your permission.

 Check under Tools/Options/Advanced/Update, and set Ask me what I want to
 do instead of Automatically download and install the update.

Thank you. I changed the settings of my Firefox. But if set to
Automatically download and install the update (which is probably the
default), then Firefox does upgrade without your permission.

By the way, I'm using Google Chrome as my main browser, and Google
Chrome also upgrades without your permission. I don't know if it's
possible to prevent Google Chrome from upgrading without your
permission.

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Re: From the Bottom of My Heart

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2011/3/11 Ilya Roitburg ilya.roitb...@gmail.com

 Check this http://quantumsolace007.com/info.html It might be useful for u.


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Re: IE6 Countdown

[Uri Even-Chen]

2011/3/6 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com


 A simple google shows that it's just ~6% in Israel who use IE6:

 http://getclicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/#/marketshare/il/web-browsers/internet-explorer/,
 about twice the global average of ~3%.


Interesting website. I checked Israeli and global statistics for web
browsers, operating systems and search engines. Microsoft and Google are
monopolies in those categories. I always think about Microsoft software as
dirty, while open source software is clean. It looks like more than 90%
of users use dirty software... In Israel 96% use Windows, and only 0.62% use
all versions of Linux. I suppose dirty software sells much much better than
clean software...

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.htaccess files on apache2 + MySQL

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Hi everyone,

1. I installed a new cloud server on www.speedy2000.net , it uses Ubuntu
10.04 LTS with apache2, PHP and MySQL. The problem is, currently apache
ignores .htaccess files. I have 2 .htaccess files, one to protect a
directory with username  password and one to redirect to another domain.
Here are the contents of the .htaccess files:

root@www:/var/www/admin# cd /var/www/admin/
root@www:/var/www/admin# cat .htaccess
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/users/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName Protected Area
AuthType Basic

LIMIT GET POST
require admin
/LIMIT

root@www:/var/www/admin# cd /var/www/uri/
root@www:/var/www/uri# cat .htaccess
IfModule mod_rewrite.c
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /uri/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /uri/index.php [L]
/IfModule

--
currently both .htaccess files are ignored, for example
http://www.speedy2000.net/uri/en/ is not working and
http://www.speedy2000.net/admin/ is visible to everyone. How do I fix it?

root@www:/var/www/uri# /usr/sbin/apache2 -v
Server version: Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)
Server built:   Apr 13 2010 20:21:26

2. *I also had a bug with MySQL* - http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=60331 -
I understand I need to upgrade MySQL. What is the best stable version of
MySQL, and how do I upgrade?

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Re: .htaccess files on apache2 + MySQL

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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 17:03, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote:

 You should use AllowOverride option in the directory settings to be All
 rather then none on not existed at all.

 Thank you. Actually I saw
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html , and found out that
it's not recommended to use .htaccess at all. Since I have root access, I
will try to change it to using server configuration without .htaccess .

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Re: .htaccess files on apache2 + MySQL

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OK, I setup file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default , but it's still
not working. I can't log into /admin , and
http://www.speedy2000.net/uri/en is Not Found / The requested URL
/uri/en was not found on this server.. I used
http://www.htmlite.com/HTA006a.php to create admin password (without
salt), what is the problem? And why does
http://www.speedy2000.net/uri/en not redirect to
http://www.speedy2000.net/uri/ ? here are the contents of
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default :

-- begin --
VirtualHost *:80
ServerAdmin webmas...@speedy.net

DocumentRoot /var/www
Directory /
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
/Directory
Directory /var/www/
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
/Directory
Directory /var/www/admin/
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/users/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName Protected Area
AuthType Basic

LIMIT GET POST
require admin
/LIMIT
/Directory
Directory /var/www/uri/
IfModule mod_rewrite.c
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /uri/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /uri/index.php [L]
/IfModule
/Directory
Directory /var/www/composer/
IfModule mod_rewrite.c
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /composer/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /composer/index.php [L]
/IfModule
/Directory

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

/VirtualHost
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Re: .htaccess files on apache2 + MySQL

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Oops. I found a bug and fixed it. I replaced require admin with require
user admin and it works now. I still have a problem with the second problem
- http://www.speedy2000.net/uri/en not working.

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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 18:40, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:

 OK, I setup file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default , but it's still
 not working. I can't log into /admin , and
 http://www.speedy2000.net/uri/en is Not Found / The requested URL
 /uri/en was not found on this server.. I used
 http://www.htmlite.com/HTA006a.php to create admin password (without
 salt), what is the problem? And why does
 http://www.speedy2000.net/uri/en not redirect to
 http://www.speedy2000.net/uri/ ? here are the contents of
 /etc/apache2/sites-available/default :

 -- begin --
 VirtualHost *:80
ServerAdmin webmas...@speedy.net

DocumentRoot /var/www
Directory /
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
/Directory
Directory /var/www/
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
/Directory
Directory /var/www/admin/
 AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/users/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName Protected Area
AuthType Basic

LIMIT GET POST
require admin
/LIMIT
 /Directory
Directory /var/www/uri/
 IfModule mod_rewrite.c
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /uri/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /uri/index.php [L]
/IfModule
 /Directory
Directory /var/www/composer/
 IfModule mod_rewrite.c
RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /composer/
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule . /composer/index.php [L]
/IfModule
/Directory

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

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Re: .htaccess files on apache2 + MySQL

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There is another problem - we installed phpmyadmin under /admin
directory, and now it requires 2 usernames and passwords - one for
/admin and one for phpmyadmin. Even if I enter both usernames and
passwords - it doesn't work. Any solution?

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Re: .htaccess files on apache2 + MySQL

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 21:55, Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com wrote:

 On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Uri Even-Chen wrote:

  OK, I setup file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default , but it's still
 not working. I can't log into /admin , and
 http://www.speedy2000.net/uri/en is Not Found / The requested URL
 /uri/en was not found on this server.. I used
 http://www.htmlite.com/HTA006a.php to create admin password (without
 salt), what is the problem? And why does
 http://www.speedy2000.net/uri/en not redirect to
 http://www.speedy2000.net/uri/ ? here are the contents of
 /etc/apache2/sites-available/default :


 I'll be the first to admit I'm not big on this stuff, particularly regular
 expressions, but I didn't see anything whhich would catch /uri/en


I want to catch any URL that starts with /uri/ or /composer/ , for example
/uri/en or /uri/blog or anything more specific (for example 
http://www.speedy2000.net/uri/blog/2011/02/facebook-hacker-cup-2/;). The PHP
file redirects the URL to another domain:

?php
header('Location: http://www.speedysoft.net' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
?

(currently it's not working. only /uri/ and /composer/ are redirected).


 Directory /var/www/admin/
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/users/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null


 I'd think it just better not to specify AuthGroupFile at all, rather than
 use /dev/null.  I've never had occasion to use it.

 Maybe. but it works with AuthGroupFile /dev/null as well.



 AuthName Protected Area
AuthType Basic

LIMIT GET POST
require admin
/LIMIT


 As you later posted, the require line is not correct here.  If you want to
 be able to support multiple usernames/passwords, you may want to use:

 require valid-user

 instead.

 Geoff.


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Re: .htaccess files on apache2 + MySQL

[Uri Even-Chen]

OK, I fixed phpmyadmin by changing to 'cookie' authentication mode. It
worked. But I got this message: Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please
check your PHP configuration.. I installed mcrypt with apt-get
install php5-mcrypt and /etc/init.d/apache2 restart, but now I get
the phpmyadmin login page every time even after I successfully login.
Without mcrypt it worked. What is the problem now?

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E-mail: u...@speedy.net
Website: http://www.speedy.net/



On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 19:04, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:

 There is another problem - we installed phpmyadmin under /admin
 directory, and now it requires 2 usernames and passwords - one for
 /admin and one for phpmyadmin. Even if I enter both usernames and
 passwords - it doesn't work. Any solution?

 Uri Even-Chen
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Re: mail issues questions

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On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 13:10, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote:
 This, and similar, anecdotes are examples of flawed spam filtering techniques.
 The whole point of spam is that *a lot* of people get it. If just one person
 complains, it most likely *isn't* spam.

Most people don't complain on spam. If some people complain, most
likely that it is spam and nobody wants to receive it. It's very
important to include an easy unsubscribe link on the bottom of every
message sent to a mailing list, so people can unsubscribe from the
list. For example, just today I received an unwanted spam message
without unsubscribe. I had to add another filter to Gmail to
archive and mark as read messages from this domain (which is not a
forged sender address). It is possible that some people want to get
these messages, but if they don't include an unsubscribe link then
it is spam.

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Re: mail issues questions

[Uri Even-Chen]

Yahoo and Hotmail are very important. Why did you set up SPF and DKIM?
what are they anyway? try removing SPF and DKIM for your domain and
then send again.

By the way, I'm using Google Apps. You might want to consider Google
Apps (free account) instead of setting up your own mail server.

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2011/2/28 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com:
 If it was only for me, I could do that, but what would you tell a paying
 customer? here's a mail box, but you cannot send emails to Yahoo and
 Hotmail? :)
 Hetz

 On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote:

 On Monday, 28 בFebruary 2011 02:34:32 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
  Any tips what can be done about these 2? (hotmail and yahoo)

 Ignore them. They are dead beef...

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Re: wiping files

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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 21:30, Michael Tewner tew...@gmail.com wrote:
 2011/2/9 shimi linux...@shimi.net


 On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:

 Thank you.

 Wiping files is part of pretty good privacy (PGP) - if you want
 privacy you need to wipe your deleted files.



 I would trust having them all at encrypted-state at all times (and avoiding 
 using swap) to be a must better approach.

 I couldn't care less if someone takes my random data which he has no key 
 for, and read it for fun... I suspect this is not too different than reading 
 /dev/random.

 -- Shimi


 That's the concept for ZFS secure deletion. As per
 http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5793-Secure-Deletion-with-ZFS.html :
 snip
  Use encryption and when you want to delete the data throw away the
 matching key.
 snip
 And this is exactly the way, secure deletion will be done with ZFS.
 It´s done by encryption. You will be able to define an encryption key
 by dataset and when you want to delete a dataset securely just throw a
 way the key. Remember that creating a dataset is as easy as creating a
 directory in ZFS. ZFS Crypto will be the solution for the secure
 delete challenge.

Secure deletion is different than encryption! Remember that no
encryption is 100% safe. With encryption it's still possible to read
your data, if somebody finds your key; it's possible that in the
future they will be able to decrypt those encryptions; and you might
even give the key. With secure deletion it's not possible. Once you
delete files they are gone! If somebody is able to read them then it's
not secure deletion. And if you have a file you want to encrypt, you
should securely delete the original file after encryption, otherwise
you didn't do anything. If you just encrypt the file and delete the
original file (not securely), then it's still on your hard disk!
Secure deletion is very important.

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wiping files

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a free software to wipe files (permanently delete
files) on Windows. In the past I used PGP, but I prefer a free
software. I'm using TrueCrypt, but I didn't find any way to wipe files
with TrueCrypt. I tried Google but I can't find this software.

Thanks,
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Re: wiping files

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On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:51, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote:
 On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:

 Hi everyone,

 I'm looking for a free software to wipe files (permanently delete
 files) on Windows. In the past I used PGP, but I prefer a free
 software. I'm using TrueCrypt, but I didn't find any way to wipe files
 with TrueCrypt. I tried Google but I can't find this software.


 You are aware that both the programs you specified are for encryption and
 not for wiping files, right?

PGP can be used to wipe files. I use TrueCrypt for encryption.

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Re: wiping files

[Uri Even-Chen]

Thank you.

Wiping files is part of pretty good privacy (PGP) - if you want
privacy you need to wipe your deleted files.

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E-mail: u...@speedy.net
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On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 13:07, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote:


 On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:

 On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:51, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote:
  On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:
 
  Hi everyone,
 
  I'm looking for a free software to wipe files (permanently delete
  files) on Windows. In the past I used PGP, but I prefer a free
  software. I'm using TrueCrypt, but I didn't find any way to wipe files
  with TrueCrypt. I tried Google but I can't find this software.
 
 
  You are aware that both the programs you specified are for encryption
  and
  not for wiping files, right?

 PGP can be used to wipe files. I use TrueCrypt for encryption.


 It's just a file shredder (similar to Linux's 'shred'), it has nothing to do
 with PGP's [encryption] functionality...

 You're looking for a free shredding tool for Windows?

 http://www.google.com/search?q=shred+utility+for+windows 's first result:
 http://www.fileshredder.org/

 -- Shimi


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IPv6

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi everyone,

I read Google's tweet IPv6 marks the next chapter in the history of
the Internet 
[http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/ipv6-marks-next-chapter-in-history-of.html],
and I would like to know what are the consequences of IPv6. I have
websites and domain names, but currently I think they work with IPv4
and not IPv6. Will they change them to IPv6? Will I have to change DNS
settings for my domain names? And when will this happen?

What happens to people whos systems don't support IPv6? Will they not
be able to view IPv6 websites or send/receive email from IPv6 users?
Or is it backwards compatible with IPv4? Will the DNS system all
change to IPv6?

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Re: IPv6

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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:15, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote:

 You should see this lecture:

 [1/4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2clTKh2vFAE
 [2/4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3i4RRubCvI
 [3/4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L_9aehQQig
 [4/4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shmt9U4-rTI

Thanks for the links, I listened to the entire lecture. I understand
that Google and Facebook still haven't enabled IPv6 on their main
websites. http://ipv6.google.com/ doesn't work for me. So I guess it's
too early to enable my websites with IPv6.

By the way, I wonder what Wikipedia will do with IPv6 addresses? Will
they do the same they are doing with IPv4 (save the IP of the user who
edited pages)?

Will an IPv6 address be permanent for end users, or will it change
every day? (I think my IP address at home is not permanent).

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Re: IPv6

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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:48, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote:


 On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:

 On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:15, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote:
 
  You should see this lecture:
 
  [1/4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2clTKh2vFAE
  [2/4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3i4RRubCvI
  [3/4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L_9aehQQig
  [4/4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shmt9U4-rTI

 Thanks for the links, I listened to the entire lecture. I understand
 that Google and Facebook still haven't enabled IPv6 on their main
 websites. http://ipv6.google.com/ doesn't work for me. So I guess it's
 too early to enable my websites with IPv6.


 Do you have IPv6 connectivity on your machine? If not, how do you expect to
 open a session between you and them? (this was explained in the lecture...)

 (Do you want IPv6 connectivity and don't want to wait until Israeli ISPs
 wake up? See http://ipv6.he.net )

Actually I don't care. I get the default IPv4 address from my ISP
(bezeqint.net). As long as I can see the entire Internet, I don't care
to use IPv4. My websites also work with IPv4. I think I will wait for
my ISP and web hosting companies to switch to IPv6 when they want to
(if they ever decide to do so). As long as Google, Twitter, Facebook
and Wikipedia are not using IPv6, I don't see any reason to use it.

 By the way, I wonder what Wikipedia will do with IPv6 addresses? Will
 they do the same they are doing with IPv4 (save the IP of the user who
 edited pages)?


 Why not? An IP is an IP...


 Will an IPv6 address be permanent for end users, or will it change
 every day? (I think my IP address at home is not permanent).


 I believe it will still be the choice of the providers. There's no technical
 reason not to assign any customer a static prefix with many IPs... as there
 would be enough for everybody, and they won't have an excuse on that one
 anymore. Of course, there's always the monetary reason (why not make money
 off our customers, selling them a $0/mo. worth service at $10/mo. price?)

I don't like permament IP addresses. Sometimes I prefer to remain
anonymous, and with a permanent IP address a website can recognize me
with previous actions (without cookies). For example Wikipedia. I also
don't want people to recognize my IP address and actions on Wikipedia
(when I didn't use an account). I guess that with IPv6 it will be
easier to remain anonymous.

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Re: IPv6

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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 15:13, Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com wrote:
 On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Uri Even-Chen wrote:

 Thanks for the links, I listened to the entire lecture. I understand
 that Google and Facebook still haven't enabled IPv6 on their main
 websites.

 This appears to be the case.

 http://ipv6.google.com/ doesn't work for me.

 Well it only has an IPv6 address, so it won't if you don't have IPv6
 capability.

 $ host ipv6.google.com
 ipv6.google.com is an alias for ipv6.l.google.com.
 ipv6.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1450:8006::63


 So I guess it's too early to enable my websites with IPv6.

 It's not an either/or thing.  You can have both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses on
 the same host.

 $ host ipv6.he.net
 ipv6.he.net has address 66.220.2.75
 ipv6.he.net has IPv6 address 2001:470:0:64::2

 Anyway, your hosting provider would need to support IPv6 to some extent
 before you could do this.

I will wait until Google, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia will do it,
and then I will start worrying about it. Or when my web hosting
providers and ISPs will do it for me (I have more than one hosting
provider and ISP - for more than one website; connecting at home, work
etc.)


 By the way, I wonder what Wikipedia will do with IPv6 addresses? Will
 they do the same they are doing with IPv4 (save the IP of the user who
 edited pages)?

 I don't see why this would change.

 Will an IPv6 address be permanent for end users, or will it change
 every day? (I think my IP address at home is not permanent).

 This would be up to yoru ISP, though it would be easier for them to allocate
 static addresses and even blocks of addresses so that internal hosts can
 have their own address.

 But relying on a dynamic IP address for anonymity is not the best strategy.
  ISPs can be forced to reveal the identity of a person using a particular IP
 address at a given time.  There are other methods like anonymous proxies etc
 which can more effectively help you hide your identity, though if you've got
 nothing to hide then I wouldn't bother.

 Geoff.




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Re: IPv6

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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 15:31, Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com wrote:
 On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, geoffrey mendelson wrote:

 Possibly never, but at least for a long time. The current DNS system is
 IPv4 only, but serves both IPv4 and IPv6. If you have your DNS set up to
 include IPv6, the information will be available, but the client needs to be
 able to interpet it.

 Some root-servers now have IPv6 addresses.  Until I started writing this, I
 was under the impression that all did, but according to
 ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root (which is the authoritative source
 for the root-servers list), only A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET,
 H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET,
 K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET and M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET have IPv6
 addresses.

Only 2 out of the 13 .net and .com main name servers have IPv6
addresses, although I guess for today that's enough. I checked and all
.org and .info name servers have IPv6 addresses. For .il only 2 name
servers have IPv6 addresses. For .eg only 1 (out of 3) name server has
an IPv6 address.

http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/
http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/net.html
http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/com.html
http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/org.html
http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/info.html

All the major ISPs in Israel's name servers don't have IPv6 addresses.
Some of my hosting provider (servage.net)'s name servers have IPv6
addresses.

I think they don't define IPv6 addresses to all the name servers,
because some users will not work when IPv6 addresses are defined - and
they can query only servers who don't have any IPv6 address defined.

 Since BIND is open source software, nothing is preventing you or anyone
 else from adding IPv6 support to it. Eventually someone will do it, and 100%
 IPv6 networks will become possible.

 Are you saying that Bind cannot connect to DNS root-servers over IPv6? What
 other functionality is it missing?  Certainly we run a virtual server on an
 IPv6 connection that also runs an authoritative DNS server for those domains
 and we've experienced no problems.

I think BIND comes with a default root servers list, and this list is
IPv4. Then if you work only with IPv4, you will not have any root
server defined. But I'm not sure, last time I checked was a long time
ago.

By the way, I noticed a problem with one of the .il name servers -
ns-il.ripe.net [193.0.12.108] returns the other .il name servers and
not the domain's name servers - for example
[http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/legacy/?formaction=DNSLOOKUPToolFormName=customlookupname=walla.co.ilr=235660detail=0type=MX]
(press Click Here). Do you know why they added this name server to
the list of .il name servers?

 DNS server handling your query: ns-il.ripe.net.
 DNS server's address:  193.0.12.108#53

 Non-authoritative answer:
 *** Can't find walla.co.il: No answer

 Authoritative answers can be found from:
 co.il  nameserver = nsb.ns.il.
 co.il  nameserver = nse.ns.il.
 co.il  nameserver = sns-pb.isc.org.
 co.il  nameserver = nsd.ns.il.
 co.il  nameserver = dns8.denic.de.
 co.il  nameserver = ildns.huji.ac.il.
 co.il  nameserver = lookup.iucc.ac.il.
 nsb.ns.il  internet address = 192.115.210.60
 nsd.ns.il  internet address = 149.20.56.132
 nsd.ns.il  has  address 2001:4f8:3:37::11
 nse.ns.il  internet address = 192.115.141.253
 ildns.huji.ac.il   internet address = 128.139.6.66
 lookup.iucc.ac.il  internet address = 128.139.34.240

By the way, why do 012 smile (Internet Zahav) and Netvision have only
2 name servers? Is it enough? Do their DNS servers never fail?

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Re: Help me understand connection to internet: Infrastructure and ISP

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On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 13:33, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
 Several times I have been caught in the situation in which the
 Infrastructure (Hot in this particular case) and the ISP (012 in this
 particular case) blame each other for the customer not having internet
 access. I need to understand this.

 After two weeks of my mother-in-law not having internet access, during
 which 012 blamed Hot and Hot blamed 012, I get there to take care of
 the issue. At Hot they tell me that since the modem lights are fine (4
 lit, one flashing) the problem must be with 012. At 012 they tell me
 that because she connects without a Dialer (as all Linux customers do)
 they cannot trace the problem any further than a superficial check
 which checks out OK. 012 sees the modem, so they say the problem
 must be with Hot.

 Apparently, the ability to trace problems is the reason that Windows
 users must use a Dialer. Furthermore, at 012 they inform me that it is
 Hot, not 012, that is providing the internet outside because there is
 no dialer. They say that they gave Hot permission to connect me
 directly to the internet this way. So if Hot can provide connections
 out, then why do we need ISPs at all? I notice that no other nation in
 Europe has this Infrastructure/ISP dichotomy.

 Furthermore, the next time that there is a problem how can I check if
 the issue is with the infrastructure or with the ISP?

1. I used both Bezeq and Hot and I prefer Bezeq. Hot's service is
really terrible. I'm currently connected with Bezeq and Bezeq
International, and I use Gmail + Google Apps as my email provider (not
Bezeq International).

2. The law in Israel forbids Bezeq and Hot from connecting people to
the Internet without using ISP, since they are both monopolies. You
need to have two companies - either Bezeq or Hot + an ISP. But you can
make a deal with an ISP to pay for Bezeq or Hot - that's what I am
doing with Bezeq International.

3. I'm using Windows with a dialer to connect to the Internet. If you
use a router you can configure the router to dial up for you. I really
don't know how you can connect without a dialer.

4. When you use a dialer, if you can't connect you get an error
message. Tech support people can understand this error message to see
where is the problem. You also have lights in your modem, they are
also used to track problems. You can contact either your ISP tech
support or your infrastructure - I usually call ISP first.

5. I know Bezeq had once options to connect with an ISP without
opening an account - you pay per minute but it's very expensive and I
don't recommend doing it. Even then when I had technical problems and
called Bezeq, they told me to call the tech support of my ISP.

6. Maybe Hevrat Hashmal will start competing with Bezeq and Hot, then
we will have 3 companies which means more competition - prices will go
down and speed  service will improve.

7. An ideal state will be that a company will not need permission from
the government (ministry of communications) to connect people to the
Internet (or to phone  fax). Then we can have hundreds of companies
with competition - prices will go down and speed  service will
improve a lot. But if you live far away from the center you will have
less options. Still I think this is the best solution. Anyone wants to
change the law?...

8. Next time don't wait two weeks. Switch to Bezeq.

9. By the way, by giving Hot permission to connect you to the
Internet, I think you must have an account with an ISP, pay the ISP
and you are using the ISP - but directly without a dialer. If you
check your IP address you will probably see that you are connected via
ISP (012.net).

Good luck!

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Re: [r...@gnu.org: Speeches in Israel?]

[Uri Even-Chen]

2011/1/17 Mordecha Behar mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il:
 Remember, he is a GNU founder, not a Linux founder. There is a difference.

Actually RMS doesn't like the name Linux, and he wants the operating
system to be called GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux and not Linux.  I
attended an open source conference in 2002 when he attended, and he
spoke about it.  Personally I think it's a lost battle, and Linux is a
good name for the operating system.  Especially when there are
operating systems such as Red Hat Linux, Debian and Ubuntu, adding the
name GNU/Linux to them would be too long and confusing.

P.S. I searched linux in Google and found out that the title on
www.debian.org is Debian GNU/Linux.  RMS' battle for GNU/Linux is
not completely in vain.

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Re: [Haifux] [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote:
 Clarification: even though I forwarded this to the list as part of my
 role as co-webmaster of haifux, and as a service to the community, I
 strongly join guy's view, and more:

 Please do not embarrass Haifux/Linux-il by declaring yourselves as
 members, when taking part in a stereotypic low-denominator TV program.

I suppose you don't expect pretty young girls to use Linux. So I guess
you think the men who use Linux are all geeks?

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Re: [r...@gnu.org: Speeches in Israel?]

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:50, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote:
 On 17/01/11 10:45, Uri Even-Chen wrote:

 Actually RMS doesn't like the name Linux, and he wants the operating
 system to be called GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux and not Linux.

 How about Linux+GNU? I know, let's try to merge them together. How about
 Linuxgnu? Maybe make it shorter...

 Lingnu?

Ask RMS if he likes this name for the operating system...

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Re: [Haifux] [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:

 On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Clarification: even though I forwarded this to the list as part of my
  role as co-webmaster of haifux, and as a service to the community, I
  strongly join guy's view, and more:
 
  Please do not embarrass Haifux/Linux-il by declaring yourselves as
  members, when taking part in a stereotypic low-denominator TV program.

 I suppose you don't expect pretty young girls to use Linux. So I guess
 you think the men who use Linux are all geeks?

 I think there are many geeks (and I do not mean hnoonim=socially
 challenged , but people who are autodidact, keen on technology/science, have
 a lot of enthusiasm and proud of it) in the FOSS community, both male and
 female. I doubt the production was looking for the females, though, when
 they asked me to forward this.

I think this list is at least 90% men.  And the Hebrew word for geeks
is חנונים...

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Re: What to tell 13 year old kids about Linux and Open Source?

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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 09:48, Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il wrote:
 These kids are used to these four freedoms, illegal, but works fir them.

If software is not open source, such as Windows and Microsoft Office,
they don't have the freedom to modify it and redistribute it to
friends.  This is a basic freedom in free software.  Of course one can
also speak about the legal issues related to software - copying and
redistributing software legally and illegally.  By the way you can
also speak about copying other files, such as music and videos -
legally and illegally. Speak about eMule and Bit torrent (I use
utorrent) - how you can use them do download music and films, and the
fact that in many cases this is illegal in most countries.  But also
that one can use them to distribute original files legally, without
having to pay for bandwidth and servers.

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Re: What to tell 13 year old kids about Linux and Open Source?

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 08:35, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote:
 hi,

 in the school of my son they are interested in getting some 1 hour long
 presentations from parents about various interesting subject.

 I could talk hours and days about Linux and Open Source in general
 but I wonder what do you think. What would be interesting to 13 year
 old kids?

 I am not sure free speech is interesting to them and unfortunately
 they are probably used to that every software is free beer.
 Given the cheats and cracks.

 So what do you think?

I would recommend speaking about the free as in freedom concept of
Linux and open source software - the 4 freedoms a software user should
have, and that copying a software and giving a copy to your friend,
modifying software etc. are basic freedoms anyone should have. Then
speak about how Linux evolved, history of Linux and the status of
Linux today.

When I first started to learn programming, in 1983, I didn't know
nothing about free software, open source software etc. Only after
participating in open source conferences in 2001 and 2002 and reading
the book free as in freedom (about Richard Stallman) I realized the
free as in freedom concept and its advantages.  Even today I'm still
using non-free software such as Windows and Microsoft Office, but
today I understand more about it than 10 years ago.

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Re: What to tell 13 year old kids about Linux and Open Source?

[Uri Even-Chen]

Thank you.

Uri Even-Chen
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 09:42, amichay p. k. am1chay@gmail.com wrote:
 i wish there was a like in email...
 very good idea.

 2011/1/10 Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net

 On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 08:35, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote:
  hi,
 
  in the school of my son they are interested in getting some 1 hour long
  presentations from parents about various interesting subject.
 
  I could talk hours and days about Linux and Open Source in general
  but I wonder what do you think. What would be interesting to 13 year
  old kids?
 
  I am not sure free speech is interesting to them and unfortunately
  they are probably used to that every software is free beer.
  Given the cheats and cracks.
 
  So what do you think?

 I would recommend speaking about the free as in freedom concept of
 Linux and open source software - the 4 freedoms a software user should
 have, and that copying a software and giving a copy to your friend,
 modifying software etc. are basic freedoms anyone should have. Then
 speak about how Linux evolved, history of Linux and the status of
 Linux today.

 When I first started to learn programming, in 1983, I didn't know
 nothing about free software, open source software etc. Only after
 participating in open source conferences in 2001 and 2002 and reading
 the book free as in freedom (about Richard Stallman) I realized the
 free as in freedom concept and its advantages.  Even today I'm still
 using non-free software such as Windows and Microsoft Office, but
 today I understand more about it than 10 years ago.

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Re: OT: PHP 32 bit numbers security issue

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 00:31, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote:
 It is pointless to make such generalizations, that speed of numeric
 calculation is no longer important. Many applications, including video
 encoding/decoding, games, and much more, basically do calculations in a
 tight loop, and they simply don't need 1024 bits (let alone unlimited)
 precision. They want to have a certain precision, and perform calculations
 fast and with low energy requirements.

 What I do agree with you, though, is that there is no longer a reason why
 modern languages should not have built-in unlimited precision integers
 (bigints) as an *option* in addition to the regular faster types like
 int, long, etc. Once upon a time, adding a bigint library to a
 language meant that the compiler was bigger, the library was bigger, and
 the book was thicker. With todays gigantic software, nobody cares about
 these things any more.

 The question of unlimited precision real numbers (aka floating point)
 is more complicated - how will you represent simple fractions (like 1/3)
 whose base-10 expansion is infinite? What will you do about results of
 math functions (e.g., log(), sin(), sqrt() etc.) that are irrational?
 Will your number system also start supporting simple fractions and symbolic
 formulas to retain the perfect precision for as long as possible? Pretty
 soon you'll end up with Matematica 
 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica)..
 I think a more sensible approach for real numbers is something like what
 bc does, i.e., support an arbitrary, but pre-determined, precision.

I think letting the user define the number of bits used for accuracy
and exponent is a good start.  If I need 256 bits for accuracy it
would be fine, but defining 1,000,000 for accuracy should work too
(even if slower).  By the way, I read somebody calculated the first
trillion (1,000,000,000,000) decimal digits of the number e!
[http://www.numberworld.org/digits/E/] and 5 trillion digits of pi!
[http://www.numberworld.org/misc_runs/pi-5t/details.html]

If there is special need for 100% accuracy, rational numbers can be
represented by the fraction of two integers, for example 1/3 will be
represented as 1/3 and 0.1 will be represented as 1/10.  All the main
operations and comparisons can be done with this rational
representation.

If you need to calculate an irrational function, there is no choice
but to specify the accuracy you need.  In this case you can use
floating point, or the rational representation - but the result will
not be 100% accurate.  But even when using floating point, there are
ways to prevent results such as 2.1 from appearing,
this happened to me for example in Java (using eclipse) when I
calculated addition of decimal numbers, such as 0.01, which don't have
a finite binary representation in floating point.  A good compiler can
prevent this, by rounding numbers to less digits than the accuracy
they are represented.

By the way, although I know hardware can be used to calculate floating
point operations, I would prefer to use software - because of the
ability to be flexible and let the user or programmer define the
number of bits necessary for accuracy and the exponent.  I think
calculating integer operations is enough for hardware - the rest can
be done by software.

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Re: OT: PHP 32 bit numbers security issue

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I hate floating point. if you search Google for 2^1023, you get this result:

2^1023 = 8.98846567 × 10^307

However if you search for 2^1024, you don't get a number at all.

Even if you search for 1.999*2^1023 you get a number, but
if you search for 1.*2^1023 you don't get a number at
all.

googol^3 returns a number; googol^4 doesn't return a number at all.
Even sqrt(googol^4) doesn't return a number at all.

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2011/1/5 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com:
 Hi,
 I just found something related to PHP and handling 32 bit numbers, I wrote
 about it here: http://goo.gl/xqQZd
 Thanks,
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Re: OT: PHP 32 bit numbers security issue

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 13:07, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote:
 On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:40:14PM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
 I hate floating point. if you search Google for 2^1023,



 you get this result:

 2^1023 = 8.98846567 × 10^307

 However if you search for 2^1024, you don't get a number at all.

 Do you prefer to do that in fixed-point?

 It's actually neat to be able to use a relatively low number of bits and
 still say something meaningfull about 2^1023 .

Actually since long time ago I am thinking about better representation
of numbers. I think numbers should be 100% accurate, at least with
rational numbers. Using many bits is not a problem now, and also the
time it takes to calculate mathematical expressions is much much less
than the time it takes to run graphical software, so I think a
rational number can be represented by a division of two integers;
integers can be represented in binary form and if floating point is
used - there should not be any limit to both the accuracy and the
exponent. for example if a number needs 1024 bits for accuracy, I
think it's not too much, and the exponent should be at least 32 bits
long. Many times I want to calculate specific expressions, such as the
square root of googolplex, and I think we should move to represent
numbers in a way that such calculations will be possible.  Anyway I
think googol^4 and even googol^1 should always return a result in
any calculator.  For example ln(googol^1) is a small number, I
don't think I have to switch to 1*ln(googol) if I want to
calculate it (of course with irrational numbers, we need to define the
precision. this should also be user-defined parameter and not fixed).


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Re: OT: PHP 32 bit numbers security issue

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2011/1/5 Michael Tewner tew...@gmail.com:


 2011/1/5 shimi linux...@shimi.net

 On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:52 PM, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote:

 It has something to do with the precision attempting algorithm of
 floating point numbers, and the way it is done on fpu87 in 32bit processors.
 It tries to get close to the number below a certain point which is
 impossible, and the algorithm does not check to see if it is not actually
 progressing in getting closer to the minimal precision error. Hence it's an
 infinite loop.

 Compiling with -mfpmath=sse will also solve the problem.


 And a more thorough explanation:

 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=323#c109

  -- Shimi


 Hi all -
 A really great paper concerning floating point representation can be found
 at http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html -

 What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

 -Mike

It's a little too long for me to read.  Also, isn't there anything new
since March 1991?

Speaking about numbers, I noticed that when programming in Java, I
don't get any exception when the expression I want to calculate
overflows the number representation.  For example if I calculate 1
* 1 * 1, then I get some strange number without any exception.
 This is of course a serious bug.  Of course I can do 1L * 1L
* 1L, or 1.0 * 1.0 * 1.0, but I would expect the
compiler at least to throw an exception, or better - to use long
integers in this case.  This is related to what I previously wrote
about numbers - I think compliers and calculators should do their best
to represent numbers as accurate as possible and as big (or small) as
possible, without bothering the user or programmer with the bit-to-bit
details of the number representation.  The size of the number (in
bits) or speed are less important, what's more important is the
accuracy and size of the number.  At least there should be an option,
when calculating real numbers, to use better accuracy than the
floating point double, which is only 64 bits long.  One should be
able to select the number of bits used for accuracy, and the number of
bits of the exponent.  For example - 1024 bits for accuracy + 32 bits
for the exponent.

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Re: OT: PHP 32 bit numbers security issue

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 21:35, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote:
 Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net writes:

 A really great paper concerning floating point representation can
 be found at http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html -

 What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point
 Arithmetic

 It's a little too long for me to read.  Also, isn't there anything new
 since March 1991?

 Actually, not very much if you seek understanding. Representing
 numbers inside computers is a pretty basic thing that does not change
 significantly that often.

 Having said that, the latest incarnation of IEEE754 standard was
 published in 2008 (want to read an IEEE standard instead of a
 paper?). AFAIK, IBM has HW support for denormalized decimals (see
 Goldberg's paper) in recent z and Power processors
 (http://speleotrove.com/decimal/). You can find papers describing
 implementation.

 Speaking about numbers, I noticed that when programming in Java, I
 don't get any exception when the expression I want to calculate
 overflows the number representation.  For example if I calculate 1
 * 1 * 1, then I get some strange number without any exception.
  This is of course a serious bug.  Of course I can do 1L * 1L
 * 1L, or 1.0 * 1.0 * 1.0, but I would expect the
 compiler at least to throw an exception, or better - to use long
 integers in this case.  This is related to what I previously wrote
 about numbers - I think compliers and calculators should do their best
 to represent numbers as accurate as possible and as big (or small) as
 possible, without bothering the user or programmer with the bit-to-bit
 details of the number representation.

 This is why recent versions of Java (and C#... oops, sorry) have
 BigDecimal - arbitrary precision decimal numbers. If you read
 Goldberg's paper you'll get a good idea what they are. Of course, it
 is implemented as a user class and not a basic type, and Java does not
 allow operator overloading, so even simple arithmetic expressions in
 your code look ugly and unwieldy[1]. In a more powerful language like
 C++ you can overload arithmetic (and other) operators and arbitrary
 precision numbers will look natural in your code.

Thank you.  I used quite a few programming languages, including C,
PHP, Java and MATLAB.  I know one can overcome such difficulties, by
defining your own class or array.  But I think programming languages
should be more friendly, and always convert numbers to the best
representation, or report overflow cases. In the past, speed and
memory were more important than today. Today, graphics and video take
a lot of resources, so mathematical calculations can be slower and
more accurate - multiplying two numbers with 1024 bits each is much
faster than what is used to be 20 or 30 years ago.  If one can
calculate the first million digits of e
[http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/gifcity/e.1mil], then I don't
see any reason why not to use more accurate representation of numbers,
and compilers should do this automatically.  For example in PHP, every
number should be represented to 100% accuracy, at least when
representing rational numbers.  Only when calculating irrational
numbers one has to specify the accuracy of the calculation.


 If you know what you are doing, it is not terribly difficult
 (cf. http://www.docjar.com/html/api/java/math/BigDecimal.java.html).
 Others have done it though. E.g., AFAIK IBM's decNumber++
 (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/decnumberplusplus) is a reference
 implementation of the proposed addition to the C++ standard (for C
 look for decNumber, http://speleotrove.com/decimal/decnumber.html,
 there is a link to code). You need to register to download the code, I
 think.

 The size of the number (in bits) or speed are less important, what's
 more important is the accuracy and size of the number.  At least
 there should be an option, when calculating real numbers, to use
 better accuracy than the floating point double, which is only 64
 bits long.  One should be able to select the number of bits used for
 accuracy, and the number of bits of the exponent.  For example -
 1024 bits for accuracy + 32 bits for the exponent.

 You are on the right track, good thinking!

 [1] I have to deal with Java code using a custom implementation dating
    from before BigDecimal was introduced in Java 5. The interface is
    the same as the standard BigDecimal, so I can't blame the authors,
    but boy, is it a pain to read!

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System admin for Speedy Net (LAMP)

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi,

I want to build a new social networking website called Speedy Net. It
will use PHP, Javascript, MySQL and maybe also the Yii framework
(LAMP). I need a system admin of this website. If you are interested,
I would like to know how much will you charge, or if you prefer some
sort of partnership in the website. I received contacts from a few
developers, you can see the discussions on the open discussion forum
on sourceforge.net
[https://sourceforge.net/projects/speedynet/forums/forum/1321736]. If
you want I can send you the System Requirements Specification for
Speedy Net, and I also posted it on the forum (updated). I need to
select a hosting provider, and for this also I would need advice from
a LAMP expert. I am considering cloud servers, but I want to know that
it will work and I will not lose all the files when I want to upgrade
/ downgrade the server.

If you want to be system admin and have experience with LAMP, please contact me.

Best Regards,
Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
Website: http://www.speedy.net/

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Re: Linux web hosting / LAMP

[Uri Even-Chen]

Thank you all for your advice. I read your blog about rackspace cloud,
Hetz. You don't like them too much, do you? I think I will prefer not
to use shared hosting, but it's a good idea to test the software in
shared hosting while in development, and only later move to cloud web
hosting. Currently www.speedy.net is hosted on Servage (a shared
hosting). It works fine, for example you can check Speedy Whois and my
blog.

Shahar, is the Zend Server free as in FOSS? or just free of charge? at
this stage I tend to use only FOSS, I don't know the advantages of
Zend Server and I never used it before. I just read an article about
Zend on Calcalist yesterday
[http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3450861,00.html],
I receive their newsletter.  I think Zeev Suraski should not complain
about facebook not paying Zend.  Free software is free software, and
they received a lot of money from Microsoft.  Facebook is paying its
employees, which many of them are developers, and they also support
open source software.  I don't think they have to pay Zend for using
PHP.

By the way, I heard facebook created a PHP compiler to C++. Does it
mean they will release it as FOSS? It might speed up websites without
having to change anything, just install it and it would speed up your
website.

Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
Website: http://www.speedy.net/




On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:
 Hi,

 I want to build a new social networking website called Speedy Net. I
 want to use PHP, Javascript and MySQL (LAMP). I am considering where
 to host this website, where one of the options is using Rackspace
 Cloud [http://www.rackspacecloud.com]. If I use Rackspace Cloud, I
 will need to select what type of hosting I want - cloud servers
 (managed or not), cloud sites or cloud files
 [https://signup.rackspacecloud.com/signup?id=1238]. I also need to
 select what Linux distribution to use
 [http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers/technology/index.php#os_apps].
 The available options are:

 Arch 2010.05
 CentOS 5.5
 CentOS 5.4
 Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
 Fedora 14 (Laughlin)
 Fedora 13 (Goddard)
 Fedora 12 (Constantine)
 Gentoo 10.1
 Oracle EL R5U4
 Oracle EL R5U3 JEOS
 Red Hat EL 5.4
 Red Hat EL 5.3
 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
 Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
 Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
 Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS (Hardy Heron)

 I don't know which distribution to choose! I only used Red Hat Linux,
 about 10 years ago, and even if I select Red Hat - I don't know which
 one. I don't know the difference between distributions, I just know I
 need LAMP.

 What do you recommend?

 Also, I understand if I choose an unmanaged server, I will need to
 install everything myself - including Apache, PHP and MySQL? Or are
 they installed in the distributions?

 How do I backup the database and files? Do I need to select a managed server?

 I also received a list of PHP Web Hosting
 [http://www.webhostingreport.com/best-php-hosting.html], but I'm quite
 suspicious of unlimited web hosting, for around $3.50 per month. How
 can web hosting be unlimited? Do I really get an unlimited website for
 $3.50 per month?!?

 Thanks,
 Uri Even-Chen
 Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
 E-mail: u...@speedy.net
 Website: http://www.speedy.net/


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Linux web hosting / LAMP

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi,

I want to build a new social networking website called Speedy Net. I
want to use PHP, Javascript and MySQL (LAMP). I am considering where
to host this website, where one of the options is using Rackspace
Cloud [http://www.rackspacecloud.com]. If I use Rackspace Cloud, I
will need to select what type of hosting I want - cloud servers
(managed or not), cloud sites or cloud files
[https://signup.rackspacecloud.com/signup?id=1238]. I also need to
select what Linux distribution to use
[http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers/technology/index.php#os_apps].
The available options are:

Arch 2010.05
CentOS 5.5
CentOS 5.4
Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
Fedora 14 (Laughlin)
Fedora 13 (Goddard)
Fedora 12 (Constantine)
Gentoo 10.1
Oracle EL R5U4
Oracle EL R5U3 JEOS
Red Hat EL 5.4
Red Hat EL 5.3
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS (Hardy Heron)

I don't know which distribution to choose! I only used Red Hat Linux,
about 10 years ago, and even if I select Red Hat - I don't know which
one. I don't know the difference between distributions, I just know I
need LAMP.

What do you recommend?

Also, I understand if I choose an unmanaged server, I will need to
install everything myself - including Apache, PHP and MySQL? Or are
they installed in the distributions?

How do I backup the database and files? Do I need to select a managed server?

I also received a list of PHP Web Hosting
[http://www.webhostingreport.com/best-php-hosting.html], but I'm quite
suspicious of unlimited web hosting, for around $3.50 per month. How
can web hosting be unlimited? Do I really get an unlimited website for
$3.50 per month?!?

Thanks,
Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
Website: http://www.speedy.net/

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Re: FOSS alternatives to an MS-Access-based organizational software solution

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi Eyal,

1. I'm a programmer with about 10 years experience in MS Access and
Visual Basic, and also some experience with MySQL.  If you are looking
for a programmer I might be able to do the job for you.

2. I think MySQL is usually the preferred open source database, if you
don't like Access you might want to switch to MySQL.

3. From my experience, programming in Access is easy and many things
can be done quickly, with much more effort to do the same things in
other programming languages.

4. MySQL is commonly used with PHP.  However you can also consider
using Java, maybe also GWT.  There are other programming options, I'm
new to Java so I don't know a lot about them.  But I know someone who
knows, you might want to hire him as a consultor. If you want his
name, write to me and I will send it to you.

Good luck!

Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
Website: http://www.speedy.net/




On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Eyal Rozenberg eyal...@technion.ac.il wrote:

 (Carrying over a question I asked on Haifux)

 I would like some advice regarding a possible upgrade of an organizational
 software application we use at the Technion Graduate Student Organization.

 In fact, while initially what I need is advice and directions, we may soon
 be interested in contracting a single developer or a (small?) development
 company to entirely replace our existing system with something nice and
 FOSSy.

 To describe things briefly, our system:

 - Keeps grad student personal data.
 - Records payments and debts.
 - Communicates directly or via imported/exported data files with some
 Technion and non-Technion systems: The listserv, ANAM, the student tuition
 people etc.
 - Records non-financial operations such as collecting a gift,
 joining/leaving the organization etc.
 - Is used simultaneously by more than one person on a network (although it
 is extremely rare for two people to try to add or modify db records at the
 same time)

 The number of people handled by the system at any given time can range upto
 5,000 (let's make it 10,000 to be on the safe side), and if we keep info
 about people active in the past and don't only maintain a snapshot of the
 present, then we need to be able to handle, say, 10,000 as a real estimate
 for the next several years and 30,000 to be on the safe side. There isn't
 any heavy calculation going on, it's all pretty routine and mundane.

 Before talking about our currently operating solution, here are some
 questions:

 Q1: What software platforms/toolkits/etc. would you recommend for this kind
 of a system? Please be specific, not do something LAMP-based.
 Q2: Do you know of specific software apps, already written, which cover this
 functionality and may be easily adapted to our needs (or would not need any
 adapting)?
 Q3: Do you know people/organizations who run such systems with FOSS
 solutions, and would be willing to share their experiences?

 Our system as you may probably have guessed is based on MS Access, with a
 front-end-back-end split to ease multi-user use. While it is working well
 enough today, it is an endless patch-work, not well documented, without
 proper specs for anything, and showing signs of aging with every operation
 becoming slower as features are added and the number of people grows. There
 are also some foundational architectural assumptions which we want to change
 (e.g. the present snapshot vs. full history I mentioned above).

 Q4: Not a list-relevant question, but are more recent versions of Access, or
 Access + a full-blown SQL server, options which allow better scaling?
 Perhaps with careful coding?
 Q5: Does any of you know people we could consult regarding migrating away
 from MS-Access to a more capable platform which is both FOSS and is easy to
 extend in the way Access-based apps are?
 Q6: Is it or is it not worth thinking in the direction of web-based
 front-ends to databases, rather than plain vanilla apps?


 Any other thoughts/comments are welcome.

 Eyal

 PS 1 - We're an organization of mostly non-Technically-oriented people, bear
 that in mind. I personally am not in a technical in my organization capacity
 despite my background, and it would be difficult to do-it-myself.


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Re: OT: web fonts

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 22:06, Tomer Cohen to...@gmx.net wrote:
 I would suggest not to mess with fonts, as for most usages it already has
 good choices for every operating system and browser. You can instead specify
 font-family:sans-serif, as serif fonts are never looking good on screens
 (but ideal for prints).


 That's what I do for English-language sites, let the browser handle
 it. But this Hebrew site looks terrible, apparently IE default
 settings for fonts have ugly Hebrew glyphs.


 If you are very geeky, you can load fonts fronts from the stylesheet itself,
 so you can show culmus fonts for Windows, as well as any other chosen font.


 I understand that is not very portable, rather I would prefer to use
 the system's fonts, I just need to know what are good system fonts in
 Windows / IE.

I use Arial, I think this font looks good in Hebrew and English.  When
printing I use David, but on screen Arial is good.

Uri.



 On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 21:46, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:

 Not a Linux question, but probably relevant for some people here.

 I'm working on a Hebrew website [1] and although it looks great in
 Firefox, Opera and Chrome on Linux, IE on Windows diplays terrible,
 terrible fonts. Which fonts should I specify in the CSS, ones that I
 can trust look decent and are installed on default Windows
 installations? I could probably just look at the code for Walla or
 TheMarker, but I figure that I would get a better answer here. Thanks.

 [1] http://tikun-mekarerim.co.il



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Looking for a programmer for a web project - Speedy Composer

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi all,

I hope it's OK to write to this list.  I'm looking for a programmer
for an open source web project called Speedy Composer - a program that
will automatically compose music.  This is a project I did a few years
ago, which can compose melodies using MATLAB - using artificial neural
networks.  I need a programmer who can convert this MATLAB code into
web interface, allowing users to create accounts, then compose their
own melodies according to specific musical chords, and saving the
composed melodies in MIDI format to the user's account on the server,
letting the users play the music or download it in MIDI format.  The
programming language is open, can be PHP and/or C/C++ or Java, or any
other open programming language.  I want to create a website using
this program (with English interface), and also release it as an open
source project.

You can find more details and examples of melodies composed by this
project on this website:
http://www.speedy.net/composer/

There is also a project on SourceForge, where you can download the
MATLAB source files  project files:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/speedycomposer/

There are two options of working with me:
1. Partnership.  We can share the profits from this project.  Let me
know if you are willing to work as a partner.
2. Freelancer.  If you want to work as a freelancer, let me know how
much you will charge per this project, or per hour and how many hours
are estimated.

If you are interested, please send me a short resume and programming
skills, how many hours you estimate to complete this work, whether you
prefer partnership or freelancer, and how much you will charge
(including all taxes).  Please send all this information to my e-mail
(u...@speedy.net), and don't forget to write Programmer - Speedy
Composer as the title.

Also, if you have advice on ways to find a programmer (where to
advertise), please let me know.

Best Regards,
Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
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Re: Domain Registrars .co.il

[Uri Even-Chen]

I registered my domain names directly with www.isoc.org.il

If there is a dispute, I don't think it matters which registrar you
are using.  I think www.isoc.org.il handles the disputes.

Uri Even-Chen
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E-mail: u...@speedy.net
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2010/7/6 Justin thelonecabb...@gmail.com:
 Which one of these would you trust more to register your domain in Israel?
 https://secure.communigal.net/
 or
 http://www.internic.co.il/isoc.html
 Specifically which one is less likely to suspend a domain entry for trivial
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Beware of PayPal + request for advice

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi,

I have a problem with PayPal - they advertise that you can withdraw
money to Israeli bank accounts for free.  But the catch is - they
deposit to Israeli banks in Shekels, and they charge about 3.66%
exchange rate fee (undocumented).  I got stuck with money in PayPal,
after I requested it to be sent there, and then I discovered the
exaggerated exchange rate fee.  Be careful! [
http://illuminea.com/israel/withdraw-paypal-to-israeli-bank-accounts/
].  And request for advice: do you know how I can transfer money to a
USA bank account (or PayPal account), and receive the money in Israel?
 I don't have a USA bank account.  I can't receive the money from
PayPal in US dollars - that's not an option.  I want to pay minimal
fees.  Do you have an idea?

Thanks,
Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
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Re: need help with PHP open source class

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi,

Eventually they released a new version of PHPwhois, and I used it to
upgrade Speedy Whois and released a new version.  The bugs are fixed,
I checked many domain names and it works fine.

Thanks,
Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/




On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:
 Hi,

 I am using the PHPwhois class (
 https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwhois/ ) on my Speedy Whois
 website ( http://www.speedywhois.net/ ).  My version of the class is 4
 years old.  I checked and there are many bugs, some of them I reported
 ( https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browsegroup_id=31207atid=401654
 ), and they also didn't release PHPwhois for more than a year.  I am
 now looking for someone to help me fix the bugs and release the
 PHPwhois class, and add it to my Speedy Whois release on sourceforge (
 https://sourceforge.net/projects/speedywhois/ ).  The code has to be
 rewritten, for example to avoid notices and warnings when using
 undefined variables etc.  If one of you has some time, it would help
 if you can download the files from the CVS on PHPwhois (they don't
 release new tar.gz files), then check which bugs are not fixed and fix
 them.  Then release PHPwhois - if they don't accept the release we can
 fork the project.  And then release Speedy Whois with the bugs fixed.
 My estimate of the work is up to 3 days, maybe even one day of work if
 you're very good in programming.  I can help test and generate bugs,
 but I'm not that good in object oriented programming.  I also don't
 know how to download the files from CVS, if you let me know it can
 help (I use Windows XP).

 If you can help, please contact me.

 by the way, there is also a problem with domain names registered at
 godaddy - they don't return full whois results to my IP address.  Do
 you have an idea how to overcome this?

 Thanks,
 Uri Even-Chen
 Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
 E-mail: u...@speedy.net
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Re: sms via icq to cellcom

[Uri Even-Chen]

I read on the media that the agreement between ICQ and Cellcom has
ended today.  Cellcom decided not to allow free SMS messages from ICQ
any more, and also from Google.  Here are the articles:

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3828098,00.html
http://it.themarker.com/tmit/article/9293

Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/



2009/12/31 sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com

 I tried today to send sms to cellcom via icq (done in this case from a 
 windows machine) and it said
 SMS in Israel can only be sent to Orange and Pelephone.For more details see 
 http://www.icq.com/sms

 It worked until yesterday just fine.

 I haven't tried with linux yet, because I am not near the computer with the 
 vicq script.

 Can anyone confirm if the problem persists in linux and/or windows?

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Re: need help with PHP open source class

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Meir Kriheli m...@mksoft.co.il wrote:
 On 12/29/2009 03:45 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote:

 Hi,

 I am using the PHPwhois class (
 https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwhois/ ) on my Speedy Whois
 website ( http://www.speedywhois.net/ ).  My version of the class is 4
 years old.  I checked and there are many bugs, some of them I reported
 ( https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browsegroup_id=31207atid=401654
 ), and they also didn't release PHPwhois for more than a year.  I am
 now looking for someone to help me fix the bugs and release the
 PHPwhois class, and add it to my Speedy Whois release on sourceforge (
 https://sourceforge.net/projects/speedywhois/ ).  The code has to be
 rewritten, for example to avoid notices and warnings when using
 undefined variables etc.  If one of you has some time, it would help
 if you can download the files from the CVS on PHPwhois (they don't
 release new tar.gz files), then check which bugs are not fixed and fix
 them.  Then release PHPwhois - if they don't accept the release we can
 fork the project.  And then release Speedy Whois with the bugs fixed.
 My estimate of the work is up to 3 days, maybe even one day of work if
 you're very good in programming.  I can help test and generate bugs,
 but I'm not that good in object oriented programming.  I also don't
 know how to download the files from CVS, if you let me know it can
 help (I use Windows XP).

 If you can help, please contact me.

 by the way, there is also a problem with domain names registered at
 godaddy - they don't return full whois results to my IP address.  Do
 you have an idea how to overcome this?

 IMO PHP developers should be aware of PEAR [1] and use it when possible. The
 repo includes a whois class called Net_Whois [2],  maintained - current
 stable released last month (feature request).

 [1] http://pear.php.net/
 [2] http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Whois

Sorry, I'm not using PEAR.  If you can implement the same
functionality using Net_Whois - I don't mind, but I don't want to
install it myself.  The PHPwhois class is good, and returns good
results for most domain names.

Uri.

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Re: need help with PHP open source class

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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote:
 On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 10:42 +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
 On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Meir Kriheli m...@mksoft.co.il wrote:
  
  IMO PHP developers should be aware of PEAR [1] and use it when possible. 
  The
  repo includes a whois class called Net_Whois [2],  maintained - current
  stable released last month (feature request).
 
  [1] http://pear.php.net/
  [2] http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Whois

 Sorry, I'm not using PEAR.  If you can implement the same
 functionality using Net_Whois - I don't mind, but I don't want to
 install it myself.  The PHPwhois class is good, and returns good
 results for most domain names.

 What are the reasons against using PEAR (besides, of course, having to
 install additional packages in your development and deployment systems)?

It's too complicated, I'm not familar with PEAR.  As I said, if one of
you wants to do it, I don't mind using PEAR, but I don't want to do it
alone.  Also, my program uses the PHPwhois class already, so I might
have to change the program itself.  I prefer using PHPwhois and
improving it.

Uri.

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need help with PHP open source class

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi,

I am using the PHPwhois class (
https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwhois/ ) on my Speedy Whois
website ( http://www.speedywhois.net/ ).  My version of the class is 4
years old.  I checked and there are many bugs, some of them I reported
( https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browsegroup_id=31207atid=401654
), and they also didn't release PHPwhois for more than a year.  I am
now looking for someone to help me fix the bugs and release the
PHPwhois class, and add it to my Speedy Whois release on sourceforge (
https://sourceforge.net/projects/speedywhois/ ).  The code has to be
rewritten, for example to avoid notices and warnings when using
undefined variables etc.  If one of you has some time, it would help
if you can download the files from the CVS on PHPwhois (they don't
release new tar.gz files), then check which bugs are not fixed and fix
them.  Then release PHPwhois - if they don't accept the release we can
fork the project.  And then release Speedy Whois with the bugs fixed.
My estimate of the work is up to 3 days, maybe even one day of work if
you're very good in programming.  I can help test and generate bugs,
but I'm not that good in object oriented programming.  I also don't
know how to download the files from CVS, if you let me know it can
help (I use Windows XP).

If you can help, please contact me.

by the way, there is also a problem with domain names registered at
godaddy - they don't return full whois results to my IP address.  Do
you have an idea how to overcome this?

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Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

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On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
 Sorry, I don't know how to do that.  I'm stuck with the default.  But
 I think the programmers themselves (of Google Chrome and Firefox)
 should have taken care of this issue.


 The OOo and Firefox programmers will not change your Windows settings.
 That is a slippery slope and would lead to all sorts of bad karma.

 Start → Settings → Control Panel → Display → Appearance → Effects →
 Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts → ClearType

I tried, but the screen became blurred (מטושטש) so I switched back to
standard.  I don't like the blurred effect so much.

 My bank (hapoalim) website does not look good in Firefox and Google
 Chrome.  Other websites as well. IE is installed automatically on any
 computer with Windows, this helps when you get used to it and it's
 installed on public computers around the world.  If I use a public
 computer when travelling, chances are I'm using IE.  I tried Firefox
 and Google Chrome, for example with Gmail, and I think they are less
 good than IE.


 I won't argue about which browser is better, but I would love to hear
 why you feel that IE is better. No argument, just tell me what you
 like about it, or what you dislike about Firefox.

The fonts look better with IE.  In Gmail, there is a small sign (»)
when the mail is sent directly to my address.  It looks better in IE
than in Firefox and Chrome.  I also like the sound when pressing
links, in Firefox and Chrome it's like being deaf - no sounds.  I also
entered my website Speedy Composer ( http://www.speedy.net/composer/
).  In IE the website plays music.  In Firefox and Chrome I need to
install a plugin - Apple Quicktime - and I never install plugins.  I
hate plugins.  And also, Bank Hapoalim website has problems with
Firefox and Chrome.  So in general I think IE is better.

 Sorry, I can't.  I have files in Excel and Word, they never look the
 same with Open Office, and I'm using them.

 If you have non-confidential files that look different in OOo, please
 send them to me so that I could file a bug and improve OOo. Thanks.

 Sorry, my files are confidential.  But I'm not using Open Office, I
 have a version of Microsoft Office on my computer and I'm used to it.


 No problem. MS Office really is good software (I don't like MS's web
 browser or operating system, but their office suite is great) and if
 you feel that the price is justified (which in my opinion it is) then
 use it!


 I suppose I can convert my Word and Excel files to Open Office if I
 want to, but my Access software will have to keep running on Microsoft
 Access  Windows.  I wrote this software for the company I work for,
 Pazgal, since 1996 and until now.  It has about 80 forms, 40 reports
 and more than 200 queries, 80 tables and a lot of Visual Basic code.
 If I were to write this program again in a new platform, it would take
 me years!  And I don't know which platform can replace Microsoft
 Access.


 Nothing can directly replace Access. OOo Base is not even close.


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Re: Free software projects in Java or C++

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On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote:
 On Friday, 25 בDecember 2009 23:38:38 Uri Even-Chen wrote:
 A friend of mine suggested me to join a free software (open source)
 project in Java or C++, to gain experience in these languages.

 Your friend gave you a good advice. However, please note that usually
 there is no *immediate* reward. It's not like a (free software) newbie
 joins a project and three months later he is swamped with job requests.

 Working on a free software project tend to increase your capabilities
 by exposing you to different technologies and working styles. On the
 long run (years), this can bring you not only fun, but work as well.

Thanks for your advice.

 Do you have an idea how to find a good project I can join, in Java or
 C++ or maybe Python?

 There are many sites hosting free software projects. Some of them:
  www.sourceforge.net
  savannah.gnu.org
  gna.org
  github.com

 Since you used some scripting languages in the past (PHP), it looks
 like python would provide easier learning curve for you.

I personally prefer compiled programming languages than scripting
ones.  I have experience with both, Pascal and C vs. Basic and PHP and
Perl.  I want to learn Python, but I think there are less jobs with
Python, so it's better I learn Java or C++.  I think there are many
jobs in Java and C++.  There are also jobs in C# and .NET, but I
prefer not to be stuck with Microsoft technologies.  I don't like
Microsoft, although I have been using their products for many years.
Also, thanks for the websites you sent me.  I know sourceforge, the
others I will check later.

Uri.

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Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote:
 On 26/12/2009 13:51, Shlomi Fish wrote:

 On Saturday 26 Dec 2009 02:02:15 Micha wrote:

 On 25/12/2009 23:29, Uri Even-Chen wrote:

 On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Dotan Cohendotanco...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 I tested all 3 browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer)
 with Gmail, and the fonts look best with Internet Explorer!  The fonts
 in Google Chrome and Firefox don't look good, I can't explain it but
 the fonts in Internet Explorer look better!

 Turn on anti-aliasing for all programs. This is a known issue in
 Windows.

 Sorry, I don't know how to do that.  I'm stuck with the default.  But
 I think the programmers themselves (of Google Chrome and Firefox)
 should have taken care of this issue.

 It's not something that the programmers can control in this case. Its a
  fuck with the shitty piece of software called windows.


 Well, they could offer to toggle this option in Windows on in the
 installer.

 They could but I guess that they don't want to update their installer.



 ...


 As for IE around the world, I ran into more and more computers running
  linux. I also always traver with a portable version of firefox and
  thunderbird on a usb disk (Actually also skype for those windows
 computers
  that don't have it installed). Greatly reduces the risk of password
 theft
  (those computers around the world are usually set to store passwords and
  such).

 So you're using the Firefox password manager for that? I'm just interested
 to
 know how you overcome the keyloggers / password sniffers.


 1. A lot of places just enable saving passwords without asking, so your
 passwords, even if not directly readable, are saved locally. They also
 enable automatic form filling so they get both the username and the password
 (all they need is the first letter of the username to fill the entire form).
 Using my own firefox with password manager and ssl login avoids that
 (although take note that it is possible to sniff the contents of password
 fields on the same computer so it's not completely fool proof)

 2. I configured thunderbird to use ssl login for all sites and remember
 passwords so I never actually type the password and it's never sent clear
 text so it's very hard for keyloggers/password sniffers to catch those
 passwords

 3. At least some of your sites are saved in the cache so you're surfing
 details can be seen later on. Portable firefox avoids that as well (although
 remember to purge the temp folder when you finish, some things go there).

 4. I always keep track of all passwords I use during travel and change them
 once I get home

 5. I always leave my bank accesses to someone I trust at home to do my
 transactions for me (my parents have power of attorney at the bank ...).
 Actually my parents used the same approach on their last big trip.

 6. skype also saves all usernames used and possibly the last password so
 using a portable version avoids that as well.




 ...


 I suppose I can convert my Word and Excel files to Open Office if I
 want to, but my Access software will have to keep running on Microsoft
 Access   Windows.  I wrote this software for the company I work for,
 Pazgal, since 1996 and until now.  It has about 80 forms, 40 reports
 and more than 200 queries, 80 tables and a lot of Visual Basic code.
 If I were to write this program again in a new platform, it would take
 me years!  And I don't know which platform can replace Microsoft
 Access.

 Access is one of the worst databases around. sql is a much better choice,
 although I'm not a database person so I can't recomend environments.
 Visual
 basic is also pure crap in my opinion, but I guess I'm as biased against
 Microsoft as you are for it.



 I'll start with the fact that I'm not a database programmer, I actually
 rather despise doing anything database related. It's way out of my domain of
 expertise. I did get to work with mysql and firebird via php, perl and c.
 Also did some work with access but hated that the most. Could be due to me
 being more of a hacker so I'm more comfortable with programing languages
 than GUIs.

Access has some advantages for the programmer.  It's very good in
saving programming time, for example its visual query generator is
very good - much easier than writing the SQL code yourself.  Its forms
and reports are good, and you can connect to tables from other
databases too.  We use it at Pazgal for an internal program, the
disadvantages are that we are stuck with Windows and Microsoft Office
(although it can work on computers without Microsoft Office installed)
and that we can't export the program to anything but Access.  We are
using Office XP (2002), we didn't upgrade to office 2007 due to
several compatibility problems.  Actually Office 2007 is not
compatible with previous versions of office - Microsoft does this
every few years to force users upgrade and pay.  I hate the Microsoft
concept, but again I must

Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
 I tested all 3 browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer)
 with Gmail, and the fonts look best with Internet Explorer!  The fonts
 in Google Chrome and Firefox don't look good, I can't explain it but
 the fonts in Internet Explorer look better!

 Turn on anti-aliasing for all programs. This is a known issue in Windows.

Sorry, I don't know how to do that.  I'm stuck with the default.  But
I think the programmers themselves (of Google Chrome and Firefox)
should have taken care of this issue.

 I think they should
 improve Google Chrome and Firefox, I have problems with other websites
 and not only my bank.  It's bad, websites should work well with all
 browsers but the web developers don't bother to test them!  It's much
 cheaper to test only with Internet Explorer and ignore the rest.  But
 I prefer Internet Explorer, I will not switch to another browser if
 the fonts don't look good, I don't hear anything when clicking links
 etc.  I'm not the usual end user who doesn't know how to install new
 browsers, I tested 3 browsers and chose Internet Explorer!  Maybe in 5
 years I will change my mind, maybe not.  Today I think Internet
 Explorer is the best browser.  I wouldn't recommend anything else to
 others!


 Other than the fonts (which you can fix by turning on anti-aliasing)
 and the clicking sound (which an addon fixes), what other advantages
 does IE have? I personally like IE 8 when I use Windows, but I find
 Firefox even better. This is a serious question.

My bank (hapoalim) website does not look good in Firefox and Google
Chrome.  Other websites as well. IE is installed automatically on any
computer with Windows, this helps when you get used to it and it's
installed on public computers around the world.  If I use a public
computer when travelling, chances are I'm using IE.  I tried Firefox
and Google Chrome, for example with Gmail, and I think they are less
good than IE.

 Sorry, I can't.  I have files in Excel and Word, they never look the
 same with Open Office, and I'm using them.

 If you have non-confidential files that look different in OOo, please
 send them to me so that I could file a bug and improve OOo. Thanks.

Sorry, my files are confidential.  But I'm not using Open Office, I
have a version of Microsoft Office on my computer and I'm used to it.

I suppose I can convert my Word and Excel files to Open Office if I
want to, but my Access software will have to keep running on Microsoft
Access  Windows.  I wrote this software for the company I work for,
Pazgal, since 1996 and until now.  It has about 80 forms, 40 reports
and more than 200 queries, 80 tables and a lot of Visual Basic code.
If I were to write this program again in a new platform, it would take
me years!  And I don't know which platform can replace Microsoft
Access.

 And Access - I don't know
 about any alternative to Access.  I'm stuck with Windows.


 There is none. OOo Base is nowhere near the level that Access is, even
 for simple home users.

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Free software projects in Java or C++

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi people,

I am looking for a new job right now, and I want to work in
programming Java or C++, or maybe Python.  I know PHP and C and Visual
Basic and Access, but I don't have experience with Java or C++.  A
friend of mine suggested me to join a free software (open source)
project in Java or C++, to gain experience in these languages.  But I
don't know how to find such a project.  Do you have an idea how to
find a good project I can join, in Java or C++ or maybe Python?  I
want to gain experience so I will be able to find a job.  Without
experience, chances are low to find a job in Java or C++ - companies
want programmers with experience in the programming language they
need.  I have more than 15 years of experience programming, even 20,
but not in object oriented languages.  There are many jobs in Java and
C++ and they don't want to interview me, because of my lack of
experience in those languages.  How do I gain the experience I need?

Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
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Re: OOo presenter in Hebrew

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On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
 I never used Open Office Presenter. A user sent me a slideshow that
 she created in Windows OOo 3.1. She claims that in the design view it
 shows fine, but in the display view the Hebrew is reversed. When
 viewing the slideshow on my Kubuntu system with OOo 3.1 it looks fine.
 Does anyone have experience with this? What could be her problem?

If you want, send me the file with instructions where to download the
latest version of Open Office, and I will check it.  I'm not using
Open Office, but I don't mind to download it to test the file.

Uri.


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Re: OOo presenter in Hebrew

[Uri Even-Chen]

OK, I'm trying to download Open Office now (version 3.11).  The file
size is 150MB - it's huge!  Comparing to about 8MB of Firefox.  I
think end users will not bother to download such a big file.  Although
I have fast connection (1.5Mb download), it would take about 15
minutes to download such a file.  I will then test my Word  Excel
files with Open Office and let you know what I think.

Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/




On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
 I never used Open Office Presenter. A user sent me a slideshow that
 she created in Windows OOo 3.1. She claims that in the design view it
 shows fine, but in the display view the Hebrew is reversed. When
 viewing the slideshow on my Kubuntu system with OOo 3.1 it looks fine.
 Does anyone have experience with this? What could be her problem?

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Sandisk U3 on Linux

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi People,

I have been using Sandisk U3 disk on key (flash disk) since 3 years
now, and I know U3 does not support Linux.  I was thinking, is it
possible to convert U3 to Linux?  Maybe we can find volunteers to
write the source code for Linux, or (maybe) the company (Sandisk) will
agree to cooperate with us?  I think it's a main problem that the
files are not accessible from Linux (and by the way Mac), how
difficult it is to convert them to Linux?  I don't think the source
code for U3 is free, maybe the company will not cooperate and it might
be difficult to do it without them.  But this is a main problem -
hardware (with software) that is not accessible to Linux users.  I
know you can use the disk on key without U3, but if you buy U3 you
would probably use it.  Why don't they support Linux?  Is it just to
save time on their programmers salaries?  Or maybe they have their
reasons?

Anyway, I am thinking, if the company does not cooperate - why not
write a new program (I mean - an encryption program for disks on key)
which will support all platforms, maybe using existing open source
programs, and distribute this program for free?  Maybe we can make a
profit somehow?  What do you think?

Uri Even-Chen
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Re: firefox and Bank Leumi web site

[Uri Even-Chen]

Just to let you know, there are problems with Bank Hapoalim and
Firefox too.  The bank uses Visual Hebrew, which makes it hard to copy
 paste text.  For example: ךרע תוריינב הקסע עוציב is after I copy 
paste to Gmail.  Most pages are viewable, but there are some problems
with some of the pages.

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Re: Free software projects in Java or C++

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By the way, I am thinking... since long ago I wanted to develop a free
software (open source) project to automatically compose music.  About
10 years ago I worked on a project called Speedy Composer
(http://www.speedy.net/composer/), which is automatic composition of
music.  I developed it using Matlab, but there is currently no user
interface.  Maybe I will develop it using Java?  What do you think?  I
will need to convert the Matlab files to Java, which might be
difficult, but maybe after a few month's work I will be able to do it?
 What do you think?  Then I will need to create a user interface
program for composing music, or maybe using the web.  10 years ago I
developed user interface using Visual Basic, but it was not complete.
I might need help from another programmer, it would be difficult to do
it alone.  But I want to develop this program.  If you want, you can
listen to melodies composed on the website (Speedy Composer).  Or
write me and I will send you melodies off list.

Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/




On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:
 Hi people,

 I am looking for a new job right now, and I want to work in
 programming Java or C++, or maybe Python.  I know PHP and C and Visual
 Basic and Access, but I don't have experience with Java or C++.  A
 friend of mine suggested me to join a free software (open source)
 project in Java or C++, to gain experience in these languages.  But I
 don't know how to find such a project.  Do you have an idea how to
 find a good project I can join, in Java or C++ or maybe Python?  I
 want to gain experience so I will be able to find a job.  Without
 experience, chances are low to find a job in Java or C++ - companies
 want programmers with experience in the programming language they
 need.  I have more than 15 years of experience programming, even 20,
 but not in object oriented languages.  There are many jobs in Java and
 C++ and they don't want to interview me, because of my lack of
 experience in those languages.  How do I gain the experience I need?

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Re: Sandisk U3 on Linux

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On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote:
 On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:03:08AM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
 Hi People,

 I have been using Sandisk U3 disk on key (flash disk) since 3 years
 now, and I know U3 does not support Linux.  I was thinking, is it
 possible to convert U3 to Linux?

 What do you mean? It shows up as a two separate devices: a C dand a USB
 storage device. Both are well-supported in Linux.

Are you sure U3 is supported on Linux?  Can you access your
password-encrypted files?  I read U3 does not support Linux.  For
example on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3

 If you want to change anything with the CD, you'll need
 http://u3-tool.sourceforge.net/ .

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Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote:
 On 25/12/2009 23:29, Uri Even-Chen wrote:

 On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Dotan Cohendotanco...@gmail.com  wrote:

 I tested all 3 browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer)
 with Gmail, and the fonts look best with Internet Explorer!  The fonts
 in Google Chrome and Firefox don't look good, I can't explain it but
 the fonts in Internet Explorer look better!

 Turn on anti-aliasing for all programs. This is a known issue in Windows.

 Sorry, I don't know how to do that.  I'm stuck with the default.  But
 I think the programmers themselves (of Google Chrome and Firefox)
 should have taken care of this issue.


 It's not something that the programmers can control in this case. Its a fuck
 with the shitty piece of software called windows.

Why?  I don't think there is anything a good programmer can't do.  If
they want they can do it.

  I think they should
 improve Google Chrome and Firefox, I have problems with other websites
 and not only my bank.  It's bad, websites should work well with all
 browsers but the web developers don't bother to test them!  It's much
 cheaper to test only with Internet Explorer and ignore the rest.  But
 I prefer Internet Explorer, I will not switch to another browser if
 the fonts don't look good, I don't hear anything when clicking links
 etc.  I'm not the usual end user who doesn't know how to install new
 browsers, I tested 3 browsers and chose Internet Explorer!  Maybe in 5
 years I will change my mind, maybe not.  Today I think Internet
 Explorer is the best browser.  I wouldn't recommend anything else to
 others!


 Other than the fonts (which you can fix by turning on anti-aliasing)
 and the clicking sound (which an addon fixes), what other advantages
 does IE have? I personally like IE 8 when I use Windows, but I find
 Firefox even better. This is a serious question.

 My bank (hapoalim) website does not look good in Firefox and Google
 Chrome.  Other websites as well. IE is installed automatically on any
 computer with Windows, this helps when you get used to it and it's
 installed on public computers around the world.  If I use a public
 computer when travelling, chances are I'm using IE.  I tried Firefox
 and Google Chrome, for example with Gmail, and I think they are less
 good than IE.


 Israely banks are notorious for horrible site design practices.

 As for IE around the world, I ran into more and more computers running
 linux. I also always traver with a portable version of firefox and
 thunderbird on a usb disk (Actually also skype for those windows computers
 that don't have it installed). Greatly reduces the risk of password theft
 (those computers around the world are usually set to store passwords and
 such).

 Personally, I introduced my wife to firefox and since then she refuses to
 touch Microsoft, she just stopped using any sites that don't support it.

 And now that Leumi has a iphone app we don't need explorer even for that.

 Sorry, I can't.  I have files in Excel and Word, they never look the
 same with Open Office, and I'm using them.

 If you have non-confidential files that look different in OOo, please
 send them to me so that I could file a bug and improve OOo. Thanks.

 Sorry, my files are confidential.  But I'm not using Open Office, I
 have a version of Microsoft Office on my computer and I'm used to it.


 My condolences

 I suppose I can convert my Word and Excel files to Open Office if I
 want to, but my Access software will have to keep running on Microsoft
 Access  Windows.  I wrote this software for the company I work for,
 Pazgal, since 1996 and until now.  It has about 80 forms, 40 reports
 and more than 200 queries, 80 tables and a lot of Visual Basic code.
 If I were to write this program again in a new platform, it would take
 me years!  And I don't know which platform can replace Microsoft
 Access.


 Access is one of the worst databases around. sql is a much better choice,
 although I'm not a database person so I can't recomend environments. Visual
 basic is also pure crap in my opinion, but I guess I'm as biased against
 Microsoft as you are for it.

Yes, I hate Visual Basic, and I worked years in Visual Basic and
access.  I want to start working in other programming languages, such
as Java or C++ or Python.  But the problem is I can't find work in
Java or C++ where I don't have experience.  I hate Microsoft, I hate
their software, but I admit some of their software is better than
their competition.  I tried Open Office and I don't like it, I prefer
Microsoft Office instead.  Maybe we should start a new open source
project for office, Open Office is 150MB which is far too much to
download.  I wish Microsoft will go bankrupt, I hate monopolies and I
hate Microsoft.  Maybe Google will come up with better solutions,
until then I'm stuck with Microsoft!

 Each time I touch word (usually to change one equation in an exercise file
 or solution) I

Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote:
 On 26/12/2009 02:48, Uri Even-Chen wrote:

 On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Michami...@post.tau.ac.il  wrote:

 On 25/12/2009 23:29, Uri Even-Chen wrote:

 On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Dotan Cohendotanco...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 I tested all 3 browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer)
 with Gmail, and the fonts look best with Internet Explorer!  The fonts
 in Google Chrome and Firefox don't look good, I can't explain it but
 the fonts in Internet Explorer look better!

 Turn on anti-aliasing for all programs. This is a known issue in
 Windows.

 Sorry, I don't know how to do that.  I'm stuck with the default.  But
 I think the programmers themselves (of Google Chrome and Firefox)
 should have taken care of this issue.


 It's not something that the programmers can control in this case. Its a
 fuck
 with the shitty piece of software called windows.

 Why?  I don't think there is anything a good programmer can't do.  If
 they want they can do it.


 A good programmer can do almost anything. The question is how much resources
 are needed (re implementing anti aliasing in firefox is not smart), how long
 does it take to come up with the information (is reverse engineering needed
 ...) and whether someone else should have done it already (microsoft should
 enable anti aliasing but xp came out at an age of crt monitors so a lot of
 times it's not enabled by default).

 Look for cleartype on google to see how to play with anti aliasing under
 windows.

  I think they should
 improve Google Chrome and Firefox, I have problems with other websites
 and not only my bank.  It's bad, websites should work well with all
 browsers but the web developers don't bother to test them!  It's much
 cheaper to test only with Internet Explorer and ignore the rest.  But
 I prefer Internet Explorer, I will not switch to another browser if
 the fonts don't look good, I don't hear anything when clicking links
 etc.  I'm not the usual end user who doesn't know how to install new
 browsers, I tested 3 browsers and chose Internet Explorer!  Maybe in 5
 years I will change my mind, maybe not.  Today I think Internet
 Explorer is the best browser.  I wouldn't recommend anything else to
 others!


 Other than the fonts (which you can fix by turning on anti-aliasing)
 and the clicking sound (which an addon fixes), what other advantages
 does IE have? I personally like IE 8 when I use Windows, but I find
 Firefox even better. This is a serious question.

 My bank (hapoalim) website does not look good in Firefox and Google
 Chrome.  Other websites as well. IE is installed automatically on any
 computer with Windows, this helps when you get used to it and it's
 installed on public computers around the world.  If I use a public
 computer when travelling, chances are I'm using IE.  I tried Firefox
 and Google Chrome, for example with Gmail, and I think they are less
 good than IE.


 Israely banks are notorious for horrible site design practices.

 As for IE around the world, I ran into more and more computers running
 linux. I also always traver with a portable version of firefox and
 thunderbird on a usb disk (Actually also skype for those windows
 computers
 that don't have it installed). Greatly reduces the risk of password theft
 (those computers around the world are usually set to store passwords and
 such).

 Personally, I introduced my wife to firefox and since then she refuses to
 touch Microsoft, she just stopped using any sites that don't support it.

 And now that Leumi has a iphone app we don't need explorer even for that.

 Sorry, I can't.  I have files in Excel and Word, they never look the
 same with Open Office, and I'm using them.

 If you have non-confidential files that look different in OOo, please
 send them to me so that I could file a bug and improve OOo. Thanks.

 Sorry, my files are confidential.  But I'm not using Open Office, I
 have a version of Microsoft Office on my computer and I'm used to it.


 My condolences

 I suppose I can convert my Word and Excel files to Open Office if I
 want to, but my Access software will have to keep running on Microsoft
 Access    Windows.  I wrote this software for the company I work for,
 Pazgal, since 1996 and until now.  It has about 80 forms, 40 reports
 and more than 200 queries, 80 tables and a lot of Visual Basic code.
 If I were to write this program again in a new platform, it would take
 me years!  And I don't know which platform can replace Microsoft
 Access.


 Access is one of the worst databases around. sql is a much better choice,
 although I'm not a database person so I can't recomend environments.
 Visual
 basic is also pure crap in my opinion, but I guess I'm as biased against
 Microsoft as you are for it.

 Yes, I hate Visual Basic, and I worked years in Visual Basic and
 access.  I want to start working in other programming languages, such
 as Java or C++ or Python

Free version of NoteWorthy Composer

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi People,

When working on my automatic melody composing project 10 years ago, I
used a program called NoteWorthy Composer (
http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/composer/ ).  It's a good program,
it lets you save melodies in a readable format and then you can play
them, convert them to MIDI etc.  I paid for the program about $39 10
years ago, but I didn't keep the program on my computer (I bought new
computers twice since then).  I checked their website now, and it is
possible to download only an evaluation version - if I want the full
version then I have to pay $49 (after I already paid once).  I was
thinking, is there a free software which is recommended and does
something similar?  Of course I will also have to convert my .nwc
files, or maybe the free program can read it?  Also, NoteWorthy
Composer works on Microsoft Windows - I don't think there are versions
for Linux and Mac.  This is another problem with Linux - many
softwares don't run on Linux.  Do you know any alternative?

Thanks,
Uri Even-Chen
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Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote:
 On Friday, 25 בDecember 2009 23:29:08 Uri Even-Chen wrote:
 But I prefer Internet Explorer, I will not switch to another browser
 ...
 But I'm not using Open Office, I have a version of Microsoft Office
 on my computer and I'm used to it.
 ...
 And I don't know which platform can replace Microsoft Access.

 In your last mails you started a quest for:
  - A Firefox that would behave like your beloved IE.
  - An OpenOffice.org that would be like your MS-Office.
  - something that would replace your MS-Access.
  - Linux that would behave like Windows(TM).

 From your posts I understand you already own Windows, IE, MS-Office
 and Access -- problem solved. Why seek for imitations if you have
 the original?

I don't think Firefox, Open Office and Linux are imitations.  But
there are still some advantages I see in the Microsoft products, and
that's why I'm using them.  Of course, I also don't like paying for
software, at least not that much, so a free version is always welcome.

 Uri, it looks like microsoft-il or no-money-windows mailing lists
 would provide better answers to your needs.

Thanks for your advice.

Uri.

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Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
 I also have a problem with Bank Hapoalim on Firefox.  The numbers are
 switched, instead of (1) דואר נכנס I get דואר נכנס )1( (the number
 is on the right) and instead of (25) סל מיחזור I get רוזחימ לס
 )52( - I get 52 instead of 25.

 It sounds like they are using visual encoding, which makes them
 idiots. You will find that leads to problems in IE, too, like
 searching in the browser or copying text.

They save time and money by not checking browsers such as Google
Chrome and Firefox.  I worked once in a web developing company, and
they told me their contract with the customer is that the website
works with Internet Explorer only.  They told me not to check the
website with Firefox!  They don't care, the customer doesn't pay for
checking with Firefox and they don't check it at all.  Most web
developing companies work like that.  Banks too, they hire web
developers (sometimes outsourcing) and they pay them to make the site
look fine with Internet Explorer.  They don't bother to check with
Google Chrome, Opera, Firefox, although it's only about 10% more of
the developing time.  They save money!

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Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote:
 On Sunday 20 Dec 2009 02:32:02 Uri Even-Chen wrote:
 Hi people,

 I am seriously thinking about switching to Google Chrome or Firefox.
 I use Internet Explorer 8, and I tested all 3 of them recently.  The
 fonts look better on good old Internet Explorer, and I'm also used to
 it, after switching from Netscape about 10 years ago.  But, the
 problem is I can't see pictures on my newsletters on Gmail.  I checked
 Google Chrome and Firefox, to my surprise both of them show the
 pictures without problems, only with Internet Explorer I can't see
 pictures, which is very frustrating.  I'm thinking maybe this is
 because I'm using HTTPS and not HTTP.  I don't know why I can't see
 the pictures on Internet Explorer, but it looks much better with
 pictures.  The problem is that I prefer the fonts of Internet
 Explorer, and I also use other websites, such as my bank, and I didn't
 check them with Google Chrome and Firefox.  It's much easier for me to
 use Internet Explorer, if I can just solve the pictures issue, or
 maybe use Google Chrome only to view my newsletters.  I'm in a
 dilemma.  I hate Microsoft, I like open source, but I don't like to
 use inferior software.  What do you think?


 I've listed several major reasons to avoid using Internet Explorer and have
 collected many anti-MSIE links here:

 http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/

 Namely, Internet Explorer tends to be insecure, non-standards compliant, has
 lesser usability (though that has greatly improved in MSIE 7 and especially
 MSIE 8) and is not open-source or portable.

 If you have problems with the fonts, you can easily change them in Firefox
 using Edit - Preferences. But please stop using Internet Explorer.

 Internet Explorer may be old but it's certainly not good.

I tested all 3 browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer)
with Gmail, and the fonts look best with Internet Explorer!  The fonts
in Google Chrome and Firefox don't look good, I can't explain it but
the fonts in Internet Explorer look better!  I think they should
improve Google Chrome and Firefox, I have problems with other websites
and not only my bank.  It's bad, websites should work well with all
browsers but the web developers don't bother to test them!  It's much
cheaper to test only with Internet Explorer and ignore the rest.  But
I prefer Internet Explorer, I will not switch to another browser if
the fonts don't look good, I don't hear anything when clicking links
etc.  I'm not the usual end user who doesn't know how to install new
browsers, I tested 3 browsers and chose Internet Explorer!  Maybe in 5
years I will change my mind, maybe not.  Today I think Internet
Explorer is the best browser.  I wouldn't recommend anything else to
others!

Uri.


 My operating system is Windows XP.  Sorry - no open source OS for me
 yet.  I'm waiting for Google OS - maybe I'll switch in a few years.

 Google Chrome OS is a stripped-down version of Linux that only gives you a
 browser. I don't know how any power-user can use it. You should use plain
 Linux instead.

 I
 can't use ubuntu etc. - too complicated for me, not compatible with
 other computers etc.

 Linux is not Ubuntu! There are plenty of distributions besides Ubuntu, and one
 of them may be better for you. I'm personally using Mandriva, and am happy
 with it (though I'm a computer power-user/guru, so your experience will
 vary). In any case, desktop Linux is not less complicated than Windows XP, and
 WinXP tends to do a lot of stuff you don't want, don't understand, or don't
 know how to fix behind your back.

 Regarding compatibility with other computers, you can always use VirtualBox (
 http://www.virtualbox.org/ ) to run Microsoft Windows in a virtual machine, or
 to use software that can import or export Windows formats such as
 OpenOffice.org, etc.

U3 is another example of companies not bothering to test other
operating systems beside Windows.  It's a good tool which enable you
to protect your files with a password, but it works only on Windows.
If I insert my disk on key on a Linux machine, I will not be able to
access my files (the encrypted files).  Sandisk and M-Systems decided
that supporting Windows is good enough.  By the way, I think they only
support newer versions of Windows, such as Windows XP, and not Windows
98 etc.  Not like regular disk on keys, which support all operating
systems.


 I'm also using MS Word, Excel and Access - I
 can't stop using them right now.

 Why not?

Sorry, I can't.  I have files in Excel and Word, they never look the
same with Open Office, and I'm using them.  And Access - I don't know
about any alternative to Access.  I'm stuck with Windows.

Uri.

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Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote:
 On Sunday 20 Dec 2009 13:13:01 Uri Even-Chen wrote:
 On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
  I also have a problem with Bank Hapoalim on Firefox.  The numbers are
  switched, instead of (1) דואר נכנס I get דואר נכנס )1( (the number
  is on the right) and instead of (25) סל מיחזור I get רוזחימ לס
  )52( - I get 52 instead of 25.
 
  It sounds like they are using visual encoding, which makes them
  idiots. You will find that leads to problems in IE, too, like
  searching in the browser or copying text.

 They save time and money by not checking browsers such as Google
 Chrome and Firefox. I worked once in a web developing company, and
 they told me their contract with the customer is that the website
 works with Internet Explorer only.  They told me not to check the
 website with Firefox!  They don't care, the customer doesn't pay for
 checking with Firefox and they don't check it at all.  Most web
 developing companies work like that.  Banks too, they hire web
 developers (sometimes outsourcing) and they pay them to make the site
 look fine with Internet Explorer.  They don't bother to check with
 Google Chrome, Opera, Firefox, although it's only about 10% more of
 the developing time.  They save money!

 You're describing a situation that may have been true (and I'm putting
 true in quotes) a few years ago. But right now, you must be either very
 clueless or out-of-your-mind or both to not support Firefox and other more
 standards-compliant browsers. While it is true that MSIE still has an 80%
 market share (possibly less by now - it keeps losing it), as someone noted to
 me on IRC, this is the bottom 80% of the web surfers. By all means, you do
 wish to cater to the more clueful people who are using Firefox and other
 alternative browsers.

 Furthermore, there are other factors:

 1. Web designers who test their pages in Firefox and design according to web
 standards tend to be more clueful than their FrontPage weenies counterparts,
 and as a result produce better, more sustainable and safer code.

 2. You are likely to lose customers who will refuse to switch to MSIE to
 browse your site, or have to handle many complaints from people that your web-
 site does not work for them.

 3. Your pages may easily break with newer versions of MSIE, which will require
 update.

 4. There are other advantages:

 http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/by-others/mashhoor--10-reasons--
 hebrew.html

 (short URL - http://xrl.us/bgpzhg )

 -

 So they are not saving money in the long run or even not in the short run.

If they were not saving money, they wouldn't do it at all!  Money is
the reason why they do it, like I said they save maybe 10% or 15% of
the total web developing time, and I agree they save money only in
short terms, but that's how businesses work!  They don't care about
20% of the users, I told you the website of Bank Hapoalim, the biggest
bank in the country, has problems with Firefox and Google Chrome.
With Firefox it's minor problems, but still there are problems which
they could solve!  And with Google Chrome it's a more annoying
problem.  They don't care about standards, if they don't pay web
developers to test other browsers then they don't test at all!  I
prefer Internet Explorer as an end user, as a developer I always test
at least Firefox, for example you can check www.speedywhois.net and
see for yourself.  But if I work as an employee, and my boss tells me
not to test Firefox - I don't have a choice.  I can't do things
against my boss!

By the way, I tried to report to the bank, they gave me a captcha, (I
hate captchas), I made a mistake and they deleted my feedback.  I
didn't have time to type it again... the banks such, they are really
bad when it comes to supporting computer technologies, and their
business depends on computers!

Uri.

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Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi people,

I am seriously thinking about switching to Google Chrome or Firefox.
I use Internet Explorer 8, and I tested all 3 of them recently.  The
fonts look better on good old Internet Explorer, and I'm also used to
it, after switching from Netscape about 10 years ago.  But, the
problem is I can't see pictures on my newsletters on Gmail.  I checked
Google Chrome and Firefox, to my surprise both of them show the
pictures without problems, only with Internet Explorer I can't see
pictures, which is very frustrating.  I'm thinking maybe this is
because I'm using HTTPS and not HTTP.  I don't know why I can't see
the pictures on Internet Explorer, but it looks much better with
pictures.  The problem is that I prefer the fonts of Internet
Explorer, and I also use other websites, such as my bank, and I didn't
check them with Google Chrome and Firefox.  It's much easier for me to
use Internet Explorer, if I can just solve the pictures issue, or
maybe use Google Chrome only to view my newsletters.  I'm in a
dilemma.  I hate Microsoft, I like open source, but I don't like to
use inferior software.  What do you think?

My operating system is Windows XP.  Sorry - no open source OS for me
yet.  I'm waiting for Google OS - maybe I'll switch in a few years.  I
can't use ubuntu etc. - too complicated for me, not compatible with
other computers etc.  I'm also using MS Word, Excel and Access - I
can't stop using them right now.

Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/

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Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

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On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,
 I don't know which issues you have with Explorer that don't show pictures.
 Perhaps security settings? (you can disable security checking on site like
 GMail, for example).

I'll check.  I didn't change anything in security settings, I left
everything at default.

 Chrome is OK and Firefox is OK. Most of the sites in Israel (the big ones)
 both work pretty well with both Chrome and Firefox.
 Since you're using Windows, you can install on both Chrome and Firefox the
 ie tab extension which will add a button to let you switch rendering
 engine (or actually to open an IE window inside firefox or chrome) so bad
 sites will still look good in Firefox or Chrome.

I prefer using IE.  Also, with IE there is a sound I'm hearing, every
time I click a link.  I'm used to hearing this sound.  In Google
Chrome and Firefox I'm deaf - no sounds.

 Good luck,

Thanks!  By the way, I'm also using Sandisk U3 disk on key (flash
disk), and I don't think it works on any free operating system - only
on Windows.  I need it to access my files.  Another reason not to use
Linux

Uri.

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Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

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On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
 2009/12/20 Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net:
 Hi people,

 I am seriously thinking about switching to Google Chrome or Firefox.
 I use Internet Explorer 8, and I tested all 3 of them recently.  The
 fonts look better on good old Internet Explorer, and I'm also used to
 it, after switching from Netscape about 10 years ago.  But, the
 problem is I can't see pictures on my newsletters on Gmail.  I checked
 Google Chrome and Firefox, to my surprise both of them show the
 pictures without problems, only with Internet Explorer I can't see
 pictures, which is very frustrating.  I'm thinking maybe this is
 because I'm using HTTPS and not HTTP.  I don't know why I can't see
 the pictures on Internet Explorer, but it looks much better with
 pictures.  The problem is that I prefer the fonts of Internet
 Explorer, and I also use other websites, such as my bank, and I didn't
 check them with Google Chrome and Firefox.  It's much easier for me to
 use Internet Explorer, if I can just solve the pictures issue, or
 maybe use Google Chrome only to view my newsletters.  I'm in a
 dilemma.  I hate Microsoft, I like open source, but I don't like to
 use inferior software.  What do you think?

 My operating system is Windows XP.  Sorry - no open source OS for me
 yet.  I'm waiting for Google OS - maybe I'll switch in a few years.  I
 can't use ubuntu etc. - too complicated for me, not compatible with
 other computers etc.  I'm also using MS Word, Excel and Access - I
 can't stop using them right now.


 Hi Uri. You will probably find that most sites will work the same in
 both Firefox and Chrome, and that may be different than what IE shows.
 Israeli sites are terribly IE dependant, so when you come across such
 a site please write to me off-list (or on-list, but CC me) and tell
 which site it is and what does not work.

OK, If I find such a site I will let you know.  Currently I know about
2 problems:

1. In Bank Hapoalim website, using IE, when pressing a stock the
images of קנייה  מכירה are half transparent, which is a bug.  I
didn't check Google Chrome and Firefox.
2. In Gmail, when using advanced search in IE, when pressing Enter, I
get a message please specify who you wish to invite but I'm
searching, not inviting!  I checked Google Chrome and the bug doesn't
appear there.

 Have a great week!

Thanks!
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Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

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OK, I changed security settings and now I can view the images in
Internet Explorer.  I added mail.google.com as a trusted website, and
also selected no as my answer if to view only the secure pages, then
I can see images in my newsletters.  Now, since this problem is
solved, I think I will keep using IE.  But I will check with Google
Chrome and Firefox every while, maybe I'll change my mind later.

Uri.


On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,
 I don't know which issues you have with Explorer that don't show pictures.
 Perhaps security settings? (you can disable security checking on site like
 GMail, for example).
 Chrome is OK and Firefox is OK. Most of the sites in Israel (the big ones)
 both work pretty well with both Chrome and Firefox.
 Since you're using Windows, you can install on both Chrome and Firefox the
 ie tab extension which will add a button to let you switch rendering
 engine (or actually to open an IE window inside firefox or chrome) so bad
 sites will still look good in Firefox or Chrome.
 Good luck,
 Hetz

 On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:

 Hi people,

 I am seriously thinking about switching to Google Chrome or Firefox.
 I use Internet Explorer 8, and I tested all 3 of them recently.  The
 fonts look better on good old Internet Explorer, and I'm also used to
 it, after switching from Netscape about 10 years ago.  But, the
 problem is I can't see pictures on my newsletters on Gmail.  I checked
 Google Chrome and Firefox, to my surprise both of them show the
 pictures without problems, only with Internet Explorer I can't see
 pictures, which is very frustrating.  I'm thinking maybe this is
 because I'm using HTTPS and not HTTP.  I don't know why I can't see
 the pictures on Internet Explorer, but it looks much better with
 pictures.  The problem is that I prefer the fonts of Internet
 Explorer, and I also use other websites, such as my bank, and I didn't
 check them with Google Chrome and Firefox.  It's much easier for me to
 use Internet Explorer, if I can just solve the pictures issue, or
 maybe use Google Chrome only to view my newsletters.  I'm in a
 dilemma.  I hate Microsoft, I like open source, but I don't like to
 use inferior software.  What do you think?

 My operating system is Windows XP.  Sorry - no open source OS for me
 yet.  I'm waiting for Google OS - maybe I'll switch in a few years.  I
 can't use ubuntu etc. - too complicated for me, not compatible with
 other computers etc.  I'm also using MS Word, Excel and Access - I
 can't stop using them right now.

 Uri Even-Chen
 Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
 E-mail: u...@speedy.net
 Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/

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Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

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OK, I checked Bank Hapoalim with Google Chrome:  The fonts look
terrible!  And every page I get an alert undefined.  I guess I will
have to keep using IE.  At least for the next decade or so.  Will
check again in 2020, maybe then

Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/




On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
 2009/12/20 Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net:
 Hi people,

 I am seriously thinking about switching to Google Chrome or Firefox.
 I use Internet Explorer 8, and I tested all 3 of them recently.  The
 fonts look better on good old Internet Explorer, and I'm also used to
 it, after switching from Netscape about 10 years ago.  But, the
 problem is I can't see pictures on my newsletters on Gmail.  I checked
 Google Chrome and Firefox, to my surprise both of them show the
 pictures without problems, only with Internet Explorer I can't see
 pictures, which is very frustrating.  I'm thinking maybe this is
 because I'm using HTTPS and not HTTP.  I don't know why I can't see
 the pictures on Internet Explorer, but it looks much better with
 pictures.  The problem is that I prefer the fonts of Internet
 Explorer, and I also use other websites, such as my bank, and I didn't
 check them with Google Chrome and Firefox.  It's much easier for me to
 use Internet Explorer, if I can just solve the pictures issue, or
 maybe use Google Chrome only to view my newsletters.  I'm in a
 dilemma.  I hate Microsoft, I like open source, but I don't like to
 use inferior software.  What do you think?

 My operating system is Windows XP.  Sorry - no open source OS for me
 yet.  I'm waiting for Google OS - maybe I'll switch in a few years.  I
 can't use ubuntu etc. - too complicated for me, not compatible with
 other computers etc.  I'm also using MS Word, Excel and Access - I
 can't stop using them right now.


 Hi Uri. You will probably find that most sites will work the same in
 both Firefox and Chrome, and that may be different than what IE shows.
 Israeli sites are terribly IE dependant, so when you come across such
 a site please write to me off-list (or on-list, but CC me) and tell
 which site it is and what does not work.

 Have a great week!

 --
 Dotan Cohen

 http://what-is-what.com
 http://gibberish.co.il


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Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

[Uri Even-Chen]

I also have a problem with Bank Hapoalim on Firefox.  The numbers are
switched, instead of (1) דואר נכנס I get דואר נכנס )1( (the number
is on the right) and instead of (25) סל מיחזור I get רוזחימ לס
)52( - I get 52 instead of 25.

Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/




On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:
 OK, I checked Bank Hapoalim with Google Chrome:  The fonts look
 terrible!  And every page I get an alert undefined.  I guess I will
 have to keep using IE.  At least for the next decade or so.  Will
 check again in 2020, maybe then

 Uri Even-Chen
 Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
 E-mail: u...@speedy.net
 Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/




 On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
 2009/12/20 Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net:
 Hi people,

 I am seriously thinking about switching to Google Chrome or Firefox.
 I use Internet Explorer 8, and I tested all 3 of them recently.  The
 fonts look better on good old Internet Explorer, and I'm also used to
 it, after switching from Netscape about 10 years ago.  But, the
 problem is I can't see pictures on my newsletters on Gmail.  I checked
 Google Chrome and Firefox, to my surprise both of them show the
 pictures without problems, only with Internet Explorer I can't see
 pictures, which is very frustrating.  I'm thinking maybe this is
 because I'm using HTTPS and not HTTP.  I don't know why I can't see
 the pictures on Internet Explorer, but it looks much better with
 pictures.  The problem is that I prefer the fonts of Internet
 Explorer, and I also use other websites, such as my bank, and I didn't
 check them with Google Chrome and Firefox.  It's much easier for me to
 use Internet Explorer, if I can just solve the pictures issue, or
 maybe use Google Chrome only to view my newsletters.  I'm in a
 dilemma.  I hate Microsoft, I like open source, but I don't like to
 use inferior software.  What do you think?

 My operating system is Windows XP.  Sorry - no open source OS for me
 yet.  I'm waiting for Google OS - maybe I'll switch in a few years.  I
 can't use ubuntu etc. - too complicated for me, not compatible with
 other computers etc.  I'm also using MS Word, Excel and Access - I
 can't stop using them right now.


 Hi Uri. You will probably find that most sites will work the same in
 both Firefox and Chrome, and that may be different than what IE shows.
 Israeli sites are terribly IE dependant, so when you come across such
 a site please write to me off-list (or on-list, but CC me) and tell
 which site it is and what does not work.

 Have a great week!

 --
 Dotan Cohen

 http://what-is-what.com
 http://gibberish.co.il



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encoding hebrew text

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi people,

I have a problem with encoding hebrew text files on windows.  I used
notepad to edit these files, now I'm using notepad++ (by the way, I
highly recommend notepad++ on windows).  the problem is, hebrew text
appears as gibberish (ëøèéñ etc.).  I tried different encodings,
eventually with using windows-1255 as the character set, I can read
the hebrew in notepad++, but I can't convert it to utf-8.  Also, one
of my files I can't read the hebrew at all, even with windows-1255
encoding.  I need help to fix the hebrew encoding and convert the
files to utf-8.  Am I right that utf-8 is the best solution for
hebrew?

Thanks,
Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: u...@speedy.net
Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/

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