from:"geoffrey mendelson"

i went to the trouble of signing into one of my linux servers and reading the 
link.

It was your telling me not to talk about how RMS said as president of the FSF 
that he was going to honor the Palestinian boycott of Israel. It had nothing to 
do with linux mint.

Totally irrelevant.

Geoff.

As a side note, RMS jeapordized the FSF, project GNU, and pissed off Larry 
Ellison, who instead of giving Open Office to the FSF gave it to the Apache 
Foundation.

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On May 12, 2020, 10:23 AM +0300, Shlomi Fish , wrote:
> I have now tested all three links using chromium-browser and the "lynx" 
> browser on fedora and they all open fine in both browsers (as well as 
> firefox). Something is broken on your end, and I have no control on 
> proprietary browsers.
>
> > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:16 AM Shlomi Fish  wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:05 AM Geoffrey Mendelson 
> > > >  wrote:
> > > > > The link wont open. I tried chrome and safari.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Which link? There were several in my original email. For the record, 
> > > > they all open fine in firefox on fedora 32 x64.
> > > >
> > > > Regarding Safari, see 
> > > > https://apple.slashdot.org/story/15/06/30/2251253/is-safari-the-new-internet-explorer/
> > > >  . Chrome is proprietary too (as opposed to chromium). Are you on an 
> > > > Apple iDevice?
> > > >
> > > > > Why not do some actual reasearch and look up the request that no one 
> > > > > affiliated with the IDF use Linux Mint due to their trearment of the 
> > > > > palestinians? Or his sorry, I pissed of the people that rule the 
> > > > > world appology?
> > > > >
> > > > > Dont take my word for it, you can find them in the internet archive.
> > > > >
> > > > > Geoff
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel
> > > > > On May 12, 2020, 9:44 AM +0300, Shlomi Fish , 
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > Hi Geoffrey!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Please see 
> > > > > > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg66441.html 
> > > > > > and let's drop the "antisemitism" argument once and for all.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > That put aside there are other distributions that should hopefully 
> > > > > > be able to recognise and utilise most commodity hardware:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > * https://distrowatch.com/
> > > > > >
> > > > > > * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 9:00 AM Geoffrey Mendelson 
> > > > > > >  wrote:
> > > > > > > > Support antisemitism. Use Linux Mint.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Geoff
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, 
> > > > > > > > Israel
> > > > > > > > On May 12, 2020, 3:09 AM +0300, Shay Gover 
> > > > > > > > , wrote:
> > > > > > > > > Why not install yourself? use mint distro.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > On Mon, May 11, 2020, 22:49 Dimid Duchovny 
> > > > > > > > > >  wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > I'm looking to buy a desktop computer with Linux 
> > > > > > > > > > > pre-installed for a couple of senior citizens. I'd 
> > > > > > > > > > > usually buy a generic PC and install myself, but now due 
> > > > > > > > > > > to the coronavirus that's not an option.
> > > > > > > > > > > The main uses are web browsing and skype/zoom. Looking 
> > > > > > > > > > > for a stable distro and long term support (e.g. the 
> > > > > > &g

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

Here is a good place to start.

https://abriefhistory.org/?p=774

Geoff

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On May 12, 2020, 9:44 AM +0300, Shlomi Fish , wrote:
> Hi Geoffrey!
>
> Please see https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg66441.html 
> and let's drop the "antisemitism" argument once and for all.
>
> That put aside there are other distributions that should hopefully be able to 
> recognise and utilise most commodity hardware:
>
> * https://distrowatch.com/
>
> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions
>
>
>
> > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 9:00 AM Geoffrey Mendelson 
> >  wrote:
> > > Support antisemitism. Use Linux Mint.
> > >
> > > Geoff
> > >
> > > --
> > > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel
> > > On May 12, 2020, 3:09 AM +0300, Shay Gover , wrote:
> > > > Why not install yourself? use mint distro.
> > > >
> > > > > On Mon, May 11, 2020, 22:49 Dimid Duchovny  wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm looking to buy a desktop computer with Linux pre-installed for 
> > > > > > a couple of senior citizens. I'd usually buy a generic PC and 
> > > > > > install myself, but now due to the coronavirus that's not an option.
> > > > > > The main uses are web browsing and skype/zoom. Looking for a stable 
> > > > > > distro and long term support (e.g. the latest Ubuntu LTS). The 
> > > > > > hardware needs to work out-of-the-box.
> > > > > > Specification wish list:
> > > > > > 512GB SSD
> > > > > > 16GB RAM
> > > > > > A high-quality case and PSU (preferably 80+ gold)
> > > > > > Webcam
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The budget is around 2k shekels.
> > > > > > Are there any Israeli retailers that sell such configurations?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > TIA
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Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

The link wont open. I tried chrome and safari.

Why not do some actual reasearch and look up the request that no one affiliated 
with the IDF use Linux Mint due to their trearment of the palestinians? Or his 
sorry, I pissed of the people that rule the world appology?

Dont take my word for it, you can find them in the internet archive.

Geoff


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On May 12, 2020, 9:44 AM +0300, Shlomi Fish , wrote:
> Hi Geoffrey!
>
> Please see https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg66441.html 
> and let's drop the "antisemitism" argument once and for all.
>
> That put aside there are other distributions that should hopefully be able to 
> recognise and utilise most commodity hardware:
>
> * https://distrowatch.com/
>
> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions
>
>
>
> > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 9:00 AM Geoffrey Mendelson 
> >  wrote:
> > > Support antisemitism. Use Linux Mint.
> > >
> > > Geoff
> > >
> > > --
> > > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel
> > > On May 12, 2020, 3:09 AM +0300, Shay Gover , wrote:
> > > > Why not install yourself? use mint distro.
> > > >
> > > > > On Mon, May 11, 2020, 22:49 Dimid Duchovny  wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm looking to buy a desktop computer with Linux pre-installed for 
> > > > > > a couple of senior citizens. I'd usually buy a generic PC and 
> > > > > > install myself, but now due to the coronavirus that's not an option.
> > > > > > The main uses are web browsing and skype/zoom. Looking for a stable 
> > > > > > distro and long term support (e.g. the latest Ubuntu LTS). The 
> > > > > > hardware needs to work out-of-the-box.
> > > > > > Specification wish list:
> > > > > > 512GB SSD
> > > > > > 16GB RAM
> > > > > > A high-quality case and PSU (preferably 80+ gold)
> > > > > > Webcam
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The budget is around 2k shekels.
> > > > > > Are there any Israeli retailers that sell such configurations?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > TIA
> > > > > > ___
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Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

Support antisemitism. Use Linux Mint.

Geoff

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On May 12, 2020, 3:09 AM +0300, Shay Gover , wrote:
> Why not install yourself? use mint distro.
>
> > On Mon, May 11, 2020, 22:49 Dimid Duchovny  wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm looking to buy a desktop computer with Linux pre-installed for a 
> > > couple of senior citizens. I'd usually buy a generic PC and install 
> > > myself, but now due to the coronavirus that's not an option.
> > > The main uses are web browsing and skype/zoom. Looking for a stable 
> > > distro and long term support (e.g. the latest Ubuntu LTS). The hardware 
> > > needs to work out-of-the-box.
> > > Specification wish list:
> > > 512GB SSD
> > > 16GB RAM
> > > A high-quality case and PSU (preferably 80+ gold)
> > > Webcam
> > >
> > > The budget is around 2k shekels.
> > > Are there any Israeli retailers that sell such configurations?
> > >
> > > TIA
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sipura sp3000 caller id

2019-07-03 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

I have a sipura sp3000 connected to a BEZEQ line. Customer support says I have 
caller ID on the line, but I cant get the ID to be passed to asterisk.

Does anyone have setup instructions specific to BEZEQ?

Thanks in advance

Geoff.

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Re: moving Kubuntu to a new drive

2019-04-30 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

I tried clonzilla to move an lvm partitioned disk to a new one. it used various 
forms of dd copying.
The copy went sucessfully, but it did not boot. Fsck failed with hundreds if 
not thousands of bad files, duplicate inodes, etc.
In the end I just did a fresh install from the original distribution with no 
updates and no lvm, It booted properly, I rebooted from the install media, and 
then I copied using rsync all of the files off the old drive onto the new. i 
ran grub just to be sure.

Worked fine.

Geoff

Jerusalem, Israel
On May 1, 2019, 7:30 AM +0300, Shlomo Solomon , wrote:
> The subject says it all. But a few more details. My 1Tb drive is
> about to die and I'm moving to a new 3Tb drive. The drive
> (/dev/sda) includes 5 partitions - / , /home , /boot/efi , /data ,
> swap. Most of the bad blocks seem to be in the /data partition.
> Needless to say, I have good backups of everything on an external
> drive.
>
> There are many ways to do this and I'm not looking for instructions,
> but "opinions" about what would be most efficient. I've considered a
> few options - but each seem to have advantages and dis-advantages:
>
> 1 - A fresh install and then update configurations and copy whatever
> else I need from the old drive or from my backup drive. (Advantage - get
> rid of old junk, Dis-advantage - seems like a lot of work)
>
> 2 - dd - and then, of course enlarge the partitions and/or add new
> partitions to use the added 2Tb. (Advantage - safe, Dis-advantage -
> there are many bad blocks on the old drive so ...)
>
> 3 - ddrescue (Advantage - may be better at handling the bad
> blocks, Dis-advantage - how safe is this?)
>
> 4 - Clonezilla (I never used this so I don't know)
>
> I'm assuming that after solutions #2, #3 and #4 I would only need
> to switch the sda cable so the new drive would become /dev/sda and
> of course edit fstab to correct all the UUID= lines.
>
>
> I'd like to hear opinions about which of these solutions (or any other
> solution) is best.
>
>
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how to copy an ubuntu system disk containing a logical volume.

2018-11-18 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

I have an Ubuntu 15.10 system. When I installed it, it defaulted to a
regular ext(something) boot partition, and an lvm partition with everything
else on it.

There now is a bad spot in the lvm partition. fsck with a read check does
not find it. I have moved enough data off of it, so it wont show up in a
file copy.

I will have a new drive tomorrow, intended to replace the old one. The old
one is 300 gig, the new one is 1tb.

Normally, I would just partition it, make both file systems ext4, copy the
files and run grub.

The lvm volume is something I dont understand.

If there a diskcopy type utility that would do all the work for me?

Is there a howto?

Can I just make the root an ext4 partition on the new disk and skip the lvm?

What would I have to change? I assume grub.conf and /etc/fstab. Anything
else?

TIA

Geoff
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Re: "antisemitic" Linux Mint [was: Re: Distro recommendation]

2017-11-20 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson


On 11/20/2017 11:20 AM, Vladimir Vainer wrote:
Can you provide more information on  Israel-Palestine controversy as 
it applies to Open Office?


Time Line:

Arab League passes a boycott of Israel. (this will become important later)

Oslo accords create Palestinian Authority.  The PA sends workers and 
medical patients to Israel, gets most of its water, electricity, food, 
cooking gas, building supplies, etc from Israel (no boycott).


Palestinians bombard Sderot with rockets and mortars.

Sderot builds underground kindergarden (gan)

Larry Ellison (CEO of Oracle) donates money to extend kindergarden with 
underground playground, one of many things in Israel he funded.


Palestinain businessman invites (and I assume pays) RMS to speak on 
FOSS. He requires that RMS does not speak in Israel or meet with 
israelis on that trip. Note that RMS could have flown to Aman, taken a 
taxi to the Alenby Bridge and a Palestinian taxi to where he wanted to 
in the P.A. without ever entering Israel.


RMS chooses to fly to Ben Gurion and enter the PA via Israel.

RMS announces, using his email account as President of the FSF that he 
will honor the (nonexistent (see above)) boycott of Israel.


Oracle was going to divest its interest in Open Office. The original 
plan was to donate it to the FSF.


Ellison (obviously upset by RMS's boycott) donates Open Office to the 
Apache Foundation.


almost irrelevant notes, but provide context:

There is no PA boycott of Israel. The Palestinian BDS movement was 
created and is run by a graduate student at Tel Aviv University.


RMS did in fact meet with Israelis (and I don't remember if there were 
formal speeches) on that trip.


Geoff.




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Re: "antisemitic" Linux Mint [was: Re: Distro recommendation]

2017-11-20 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson


On 11/20/2017 10:08 AM, Omer Zak wrote:

I searched the English Wikipedia and found in its articles no mention of
the Israel-Palestine controversy as it pertains to Linux Mint.

There is neither mention of it in the Linux Mint article nor as a
separate article.

According to my findings:

 People, who would like to read about the controversy,
 would not find information about it in the English
 Wikipedia.

Form your opinions about the above fact.
The English Wikipedia does not mention the Israel-Palestine controversy 
as it applies to Open Office either.


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Re: "antisemitic" Linux Mint [was: Re: Distro recommendation]

2017-11-19 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson


On 11/19/2017 4:15 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:


just wanted to note that I agree in principle. Not every criticism of 
certain Israeli policies is anti-Semitic. I've written about it in the 
past here - 
http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/politics/define-zionism/ .


so do I, in fact, I think it is reasonable to assume that no Israeli 
completely agrees with the government on all things.


However if you can find his original "apology", there is no doubt that 
he was (is) an antisemite. I am paraphrasing here, but it was an apology 
for upsetting the Jews that rule the world (I think powers that be was 
the exact wording). He was very bitter about being censured.


As for moving on, I have, on to another less political distro.

Geoff.

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Re: Distro recommendation

2017-11-19 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson


On 11/19/2017 11:15 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:

  + *buntu has the LTS long-release cycles and the standard 6 month
cycle, updating from version to version tends to be painless


The problem with Ubuntu's LTS, is as it gets older, they only do 
security updates, so it really is no longer useful. Eventually it gets 
to the point that the particular package you want to install manually 
won't go because it depends upon many libraries that are newer than what 
you have.


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Re: Distro recommendation

2017-11-19 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson


On 11/19/2017 9:54 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote:

I don't want to start a Distro war, but ...

I've been on Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia for over 17 years, but from
what I've read, there are quite a few problems with Mageia 6 (I'm
still on 5), and it's really strange that it's been 2 years in the
making.


Mageia is maintained by Shlomi Fish and others. You probably should talk 
to him. I don't use it because I only have servers, and they don't have 
a oriented server distro.



I definitely want to stay with KDE (never liked Gnome) and I really
like how configurable Mageia is.

I don't think this should be an issue, but my computer is fairly old (a
4 year old i5 Haswell CPU with 8 Gb).
Does it run 64 bit code? Some of the distros dropped x86, I know Ubuntu 
did, but it came back with a "user group" provided sub distro.




I've been thinking about Mint, Kubuntu or Fedora - any thoughts (or
additional options)?


Linux Mint was developed and maintained by a raving lunatic anti-semite. 
He demanded that his work had nothing to do with the IDF because it 
violently oppresses the Palestinian people. That is impossible, because 
many of the maintainers of all distros use code from Israel, and most of 
the people here serve milluim.


He was eventually chastised to the point he claims he apologized, but if 
you can find his apologies, it was for setting off the Jews who control 
the world.  You probably can't find them, as when he was called out on 
his slap in the face apologies,  he deleted all the relevant blog postings.


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Re: איך לשלוח מסות של דואר

2017-11-09 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

On 11/8/2017 4:49 PM, Shahar Dag wrote:

שלום

אני מנסה לעזור לחבר בעל עסק קטן.
הוא רוצה לשלוח דואר אלקטרוני לכמה מאות לקוחות פוטנציאלים לפי כתובות
דוא"ל שאסף מהרשת.

הוא ניסה לשלוח דרך כמה שירותים חינמיים, אבל נחסם כי חלק מהכתובות לא
היו בתוקף.

הוא לא רוצה להשתמש בשרות הדואר היוצא של העסק מחשש שהוא יחסם בגלל משלוח
של כמויות דואר גדולות.

האם יש למי שהוא רעיון שיכול לעזור לו?

הפתרון לא חייב להיות חינמי, גם פתרון בסגנון של לקנות שרת באמזון ולשלוח
משם את התכתובת תקף.

אין הכוונה להתחיל ולהציף את הנמענים בכמויות דואר גדולות אלה לשלוח פעם
אחת מכתב המציג את המוצרים שלו ומזמין ליצור קשר ולא עוד

תודה

שחר

If he is not willing to use his company's email, it borders on SPAM.
Most SPAM filters will block it, especially if the reply-to address is
not the same as the sender.

IMHO he would be much better off using one of the may advertising direct
mail companies, e.g. Mail Chimp, etc. If people do not want mailings
from them, they have long ago put them in their block lists, so you are
only advertising to the willing. Since the reply address is filtered
through them, it does not appear as mismatched SPAM.

Geoff.
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Re: Anyone know a place to get a linux friendly SDR ?

2017-10-10 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

this works. for an additional 43 nis, they will deliver it to your door:
USB2.0 R820T 2832u DVB-T FM TV Receiver Tuner Stick
https://gearbest.app.link/iLPEzEMn8G

Geoff

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017, 19:18 Geoffrey Mendelson <geoffreymendel...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> this looks like the one I have.
>
> http://grafpc.co.il/pl_product~1589~21~8.htm
>
>
> They dont say the chipset. I expect it is the newer r820t which is not
> very sensitive.
>
>
> If it works on a desktop/laptop it also can be used on android.
>
> If you need one right away and are in Jerusalem, I can lend you one until
> a mail order one arrives.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017, 18:43 <borissh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone know a place to get a linux friendly SDR that allow pay and take ?
>>
>> I need to get my hand on a RTL 2832U (or any other linux friendly SDR). I
>> need
>> to pay in cash and get a tax receipt and allow me to take the device from
>> the
>> store.
>>
>> Unfortunately getting stuff over the mail is not an option for me now (the
>> post office is as reliable as a candidate  promise before the elections).
>>
>> Checked with KSP , Ivory , Bug and a few local shops they didn't sell
>> that.
>>
>> If anyone is aware of SDR groups around please share :)
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Re: Anyone know a place to get a linux friendly SDR ?

2017-10-10 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

this looks like the one I have.

http://grafpc.co.il/pl_product~1589~21~8.htm


They dont say the chipset. I expect it is the newer r820t which is not very
sensitive.


If it works on a desktop/laptop it also can be used on android.

If you need one right away and are in Jerusalem, I can lend you one until a
mail order one arrives.

Geoff.


On Tue, Oct 10, 2017, 18:43 <borissh1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone know a place to get a linux friendly SDR that allow pay and take ?
>
> I need to get my hand on a RTL 2832U (or any other linux friendly SDR). I
> need
> to pay in cash and get a tax receipt and allow me to take the device from
> the
> store.
>
> Unfortunately getting stuff over the mail is not an option for me now (the
> post office is as reliable as a candidate  promise before the elections).
>
> Checked with KSP , Ivory , Bug and a few local shops they didn't sell that.
>
> If anyone is aware of SDR groups around please share :)
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Re: Question about DOCX and open office

2017-09-17 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

since open office can read docx files, it should be possible convert them
to ascii text.

once you have done that, you scan for an address.

it will be easier imho to look for the end of the address, e.g. Israel or
  or the other way around and work your way up.

you just have to be careful to keep the original file name in the address
list to keep them in sync.

geoff.

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> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for solving the following:
>
> Getting a  bunch of docx documents on Linux machine.
> stripping the name and address from each word document in order to print
> an envelope on one tray and print the document itself on another tray .
>
> Any idea will be appreciated.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Israel Shikler
> General Manager
> Softkol Software Services LTD.
> Phone : 972-77-5354006
> Mobile : 972-50-2885100
> Fax : 153-77-5348967
> www.softkol.com
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Re: Internet recommendations

2017-07-27 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

I can lend you either a 3g or 3g/lte usb modem if that would help.

SIM card not included.

Geoff.

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 00:36 E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote:

> My experience with CCC in the past was very positive
>
> Currently not connected to anyone due to vandalism to infrastructure
> where I live :/
>
> Using your own modem is I believe much better since you don't have
> Bezeq/ISP potentially playing around with your equipment, at the
> moment I have a Bezeq modem at friends and even though it is a WiFi
> Router I always turn off the wireless and connect it to the WAN port
> of a router that I have exclusive control over (running OpenWRT/LEDE).
>
> (Not so long ago the modem 'decided' to reset itself after which I
> could not get in using any default password or password I previously
> set, only after using some Bezeq auto-configure site did I regain
> access to MY equipment, sub-ideal if you ask me)
>
> Sadly usually the routers that contain a modem too don't have good OSS
> support so I'm not 100% sure I would put them on the trusted network
> even if they were mine
>
> HTH,
> Eliyahu - אליהו
>
> 2017-07-24 18:58 GMT+03:00 Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name>:
> > Geoffrey Mendelson wrote on Sun, 23 Jul 2017 22:07 +:
> >> Tonight from around midnight until 0:50 both DSL lines and cellular data
> >> went out.
> >>
> >> My son thinks something happened we will read about tomorrow on the
> news.
> >>
> >> I think the timing indicates a shift change at BEZEQ and the night shift
> >> did some maintainence.
> >
> > In my experience, short (< 5 min) outages during the night are not
> unusual
> > with bezeq.
> >
> > I haven't set up a monitoring ping from my home LAN to the outside world
> > to gather hard data, but it'd be an interesting experiment.
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Re: Internet recommendations

2017-07-23 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

Tonight from around midnight until 0:50 both DSL lines and cellular data
went out.

My son thinks something happened we will read about tomorrow on the news.

I think the timing indicates a shift change at BEZEQ and the night shift
did some maintainence.

Geoff.

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017, 14:47 Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il> wrote:

> I am very happy with Triple C's Triple @ 40Mb.
>
> Their Internet is fast and stable and their service is quick and
> professional.
>
> I bought my own VDSL2 MODEM/Router (A TP-Link 9970WD I think).
>
> Amichai.
>
> 2017-07-20 0:48 GMT+03:00 Rabin Yasharzadehe <ra...@rabin.io>:
>
>> I can't recommend XPhone, I tried them just after the "רפורמה הסיטונאית"
>> started, and my VPN connections  were dropping constantly, I retuned to BBL
>> after 2 days, and I'm with them ever since. over the past 5 years i think i
>> had one issue with them, it was seems they were hijacking DNS traffic, my
>> router is configured to use Google Public DNS servers (8.8.8.8) and so all
>> my machines in the LAN, but some direct query's were failing (or not
>> returning a consistent result), so eventually after having a long
>> conversation with the LEVEL1 and then LEVEL2 support I find out that they
>> enabled some "CyberWall" service on my account, so I requested to removed
>> it, and I have no problems ever since.
>>
>> my 2c.
>>
>> --
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>>
>> On 19 July 2017 at 11:18, sara fink <sara.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Geoff,
>>>
>>> I am connected to xphone and bought myself a modem-router with vectoring
>>> support for faster speeds. I bought from yad2 tp-link
>>> TD-W9970
>>> <http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-15_TD-W9970.html>
>>>
>>> xphone are ok. I pay 69nis/month
>>>
>>> just pay attention  to whom you pay the money, because there is a
>>> difference between the payment even for the same deal. If you pay to bezeq
>>> it's more expensive. If you pay to xphone it's 69.  Now I think they have a
>>> deal of 89 nis with free installation.
>>> If the installation in the apartment is done and you don't need a visit
>>> from the bezeq technician then start directly with xphone. If you need the
>>> installation the visit of bezeq technician will cost you something (or just
>>> even opening something in the box outside the house). So in this case if
>>> you want to free technician/installation you should first start paying to
>>> bezeq for a month or 2 (depends on the deal) and then switch paying to
>>> xphone or other ISP that you prefer. Nasty game unfortunately.
>>> .
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Geoff Shang <ge...@quitelikely.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks everyone for your recommendations, both on list and off.  I
>>>> really appreciate them all.
>>>>
>>>> Firstly, it seems Unlimited is not available in our area, so that's no
>>>> longer a consideration.
>>>>
>>>> We contacted Bezeq today about their offerings, and they mentioned a
>>>> new business-class service called Secure Internet (in Hebrew).  It's 50/5
>>>> mbps as opposed to the regular 100/3 mbps, and is a good deal more
>>>> expensive, but comes with certain service guarantees (this is a business
>>>> service).
>>>>
>>>> You can use it with any ISP, but they recommend Bezeqint, Tripple C or
>>>> Xphone.
>>>>
>>>> I recall hearing good things about Tripple C, possibly from here, and I
>>>> also got a recommendation about them just now from a lister.
>>>>
>>>> We are tempted to go with this Secure Internet and Tripple C.  I
>>>> haven't been able to find anything about this secure thing online, and
>>>> would be interested to know if anyone here knows anything about the
>>>> service, particularly its technical aspects (you can't ask sales reps this
>>>> sort of thing).
>>>>
>>>> Apparently this service uses different equipment (they said something
>>>> about Checkpoint).
>>>>
>>>> Also thanks for the info re third-party modems/routers.  I wasn't aware
>>>> this was an option (I've had no luck finding VDSL modems in the past), so
>>>> will definitely look at this.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again,
>>>>
>>>> Geoff.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _

Re: Building a Linux-based Game Machine

2017-06-14 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

I spoke to my sons who are gamers and both said the choice of steam games
under linux is very limited and many are buggy.

The both suggested that you should buy the games they want, not the ones
that fit your politics.

As someone who uses Windows, Linux (ubuntu x64 and android) and iOS daily,
I agree with them.

Geoff.

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 17:45 E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote:

> 2017-06-14 17:42 GMT+03:00 E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il>:
> > As has been said a bunch of times already get a decent GPU without
> > that SteamOS is a no-go, also use the proprietary drivers otherwise
> > you won't get performance.
> Should really have said: SteamOS and/or up-to-date gaming.
> >
> > These days there are actually quite a lot of nice and even very good
> > top-tier titles available for Linux through either Steam, GOG, or
> > Humblebundle.
> >
> > I am running Steam on Ubuntu 17.04 on a i7-9xx [1st gen] with an
> > nVidia GT5xx IIRC with 8G RAM and a 1920x1200 [16:10] screen some
> > games require more juice (this is an older box in the end of the day)
> > some don't.
> >
> > As far as games that leverage the Steam controllers go your best bet
> > is probably Steam with a caveat most reviewers say that the
> > steam-controller is best for allowing couch based playing of games
> > that were meant to be played with a keyboard and mouse while other
> > controllers (PS-style like Logitech F310 which is pretty cheap or
> > X-Box controllers) are much more comfortable for doing 'console' style
> > gaming.
> > Myself I only own Logitech Rumblepads (precursor of the F310), I have
> > been intending to get a Steamcontroller to try it out but not high
> > enough priority, please let us know what you think of said
> > controllers.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Eliyahu - אליהו
> >
> > 2017-06-14 12:29 GMT+03:00 Gilboa Davara <gilb...@gmail.com>:
> >> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hey All,
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to build my own Linux-based Game Machine, for the kids.
> >>> Their original request was a Console Machine (Sony PS4) but I thought
> I'd educate them with the Libre Software values...
> >>> I didn't realize how hard it will be!
> >>> They saved up their allowance and bought the following:
> >>>
> >>> Asus H10 Mini ATX Motherboard/
> >>> Intel i5 CPU w/integrated GPU
> >>> 2X8 GB DDR4 RAM
> >>> 256GB SSD
> >>> 2X SteamControllers
> >>
> >>
> >> I'd add a decent, preferably nVidia based graphics card.
> >> Depending on the games you want to play, anything above GTX 950 will
> >> do just fine.
> >>
> >> That said, you didn't mention what type of display is being used, E.g.
> >> FHD T.V or LCD.
> >> (E.g. a 4K display will require 1070 or above).
> >>
> >>
> >>> My original idea was to install SteamOS on it. It wouldn't install -
> got a black screen after the first boot.
> >>> I ended up installing regular Ubuntu 16.04 and Steam client.
> >>
> >> I'm running normal steam on home workstation (Fedora 25, Xeons,
> >> GTX1080, 4K) and my laptop (Fedora 25, i7, GTX 1080, 4K).
> >> Can't say that I had any issues getting everything up and running.
> >>
> >>
> >>> I am not a Gamer, so I find it hard to configure the Steam Controllers
> and finding games - and make them work.
> >>
> >> Sadly enough, I don't use the Stream controller, so I have zero
> >> experience with it.
> >>
> >>
> >>> My kids are 11 and 12 years old, and don't have the skills necessary -
> yet...
> >>> A friend from work told me to cut my losses and buy them the PS4 with
> a couple of controllers and thus get rid of the head ache...
> >>> I am kinda tired of this - the whole thing started last September.
> Almost a year ago!
> >>> I am writing to you with hope that one of you out there will be
> willing to come over and help me out with making it work.
> >>
> >>
> >> Specific issues?
> >>
> >>
> >>> I live in Haifa.
> >>> Any thoughts / pointers / ideas / constructive criticism will be
> appreciated.
> >>> Amichai Rotman.
> >>
> >>
> >> PS4 / XBOX should be (far) easier, but far less useful if you want to
> >> the do anything else with the machine, beyond gaming.
> Don't forget PS4 actually runs some form of *BSD so that wouldn't be a
> total abandonment of principles ;)
>
> HTH,
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> >>
> >> - Gilboa
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Re: Building a Linux-based Game Machine

2017-06-13 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

It may be more fun, but 99% of the ROM images are bootleg.

You could try MineCraft it will run.

It is a modern game with guy 1980 graphics.

Geoff.

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017, 15:44 Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il> wrote:

> Thank you, Geoffery,
>
> Would it be better to make it a MAME Machine?
>
> Amichai
>
> 2017-06-13 15:25 GMT+03:00 Geoffrey Mendelson <geoffreymendel...@gmail.com
> >:
>
>> Get an actual graphics card. Nvidia are the best. Make sure your power
>> supply can handle it.
>>
>> You probably will have to install Windows on it. There are not of games
>> that actually run on Linux.
>>
>> Tip. Go to the Micrsoft Windows download page on your phone. It will give
>> you a link to download an iso file. The link can be used anywhere and is
>> good for 24 hours.
>>
>> When you install windows, you will be asked for an activation code. Hit
>> enter with no code. You then have 30 days to delete windows or buy a code.
>> Buy a real code from a reputable vendor, not an oem code from eBay or an
>> online vendor.
>>
>> Geoff.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017, 14:44 Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey All,
>>>
>>> I'd like to build my own Linux-based Game Machine, for the kids.
>>>
>>> Their original request was a Console Machine (Sony PS4) but I thought
>>> I'd educate them with the Libre Software values...
>>>
>>> I didn't realize how hard it will be!
>>>
>>> They saved up their allowance and bought the following:
>>>
>>> Asus H10 Mini ATX Motherboard/
>>> Intel i5 CPU w/integrated GPU
>>> 2X8 GB DDR4 RAM
>>> 256GB SSD
>>> 2X SteamControllers
>>>
>>> My original idea was to install SteamOS on it. It wouldn't install - got
>>> a black screen after the first boot.
>>>
>>> I ended up installing regular Ubuntu 16.04 and Steam client.
>>>
>>> I am not a Gamer, so I find it hard to configure the Steam Controllers
>>> and finding games - and make them work.
>>>
>>> My kids are 11 and 12 years old, and don't have the skills necessary -
>>> yet...
>>>
>>> A friend from work told me to cut my losses and buy them the PS4 with a
>>> couple of controllers and thus get rid of the head ache...
>>>
>>> I am kinda tired of this - the whole thing started last September.
>>> Almost a year ago!
>>>
>>> I am writing to you with hope that one of you out there will be willing
>>> to come over and help me out with making it work.
>>>
>>> I live in Haifa.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts / pointers / ideas / constructive criticism will be
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> Amichai Rotman.
>>>
>>>
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Re: Building a Linux-based Game Machine

2017-06-13 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

Get an actual graphics card. Nvidia are the best. Make sure your power
supply can handle it.

You probably will have to install Windows on it. There are not of games
that actually run on Linux.

Tip. Go to the Micrsoft Windows download page on your phone. It will give
you a link to download an iso file. The link can be used anywhere and is
good for 24 hours.

When you install windows, you will be asked for an activation code. Hit
enter with no code. You then have 30 days to delete windows or buy a code.
Buy a real code from a reputable vendor, not an oem code from eBay or an
online vendor.

Geoff.

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017, 14:44 Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il> wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> I'd like to build my own Linux-based Game Machine, for the kids.
>
> Their original request was a Console Machine (Sony PS4) but I thought I'd
> educate them with the Libre Software values...
>
> I didn't realize how hard it will be!
>
> They saved up their allowance and bought the following:
>
> Asus H10 Mini ATX Motherboard/
> Intel i5 CPU w/integrated GPU
> 2X8 GB DDR4 RAM
> 256GB SSD
> 2X SteamControllers
>
> My original idea was to install SteamOS on it. It wouldn't install - got a
> black screen after the first boot.
>
> I ended up installing regular Ubuntu 16.04 and Steam client.
>
> I am not a Gamer, so I find it hard to configure the Steam Controllers and
> finding games - and make them work.
>
> My kids are 11 and 12 years old, and don't have the skills necessary -
> yet...
>
> A friend from work told me to cut my losses and buy them the PS4 with a
> couple of controllers and thus get rid of the head ache...
>
> I am kinda tired of this - the whole thing started last September. Almost
> a year ago!
>
> I am writing to you with hope that one of you out there will be willing to
> come over and help me out with making it work.
>
> I live in Haifa.
>
> Any thoughts / pointers / ideas / constructive criticism will be
> appreciated.
>
> Amichai Rotman.
>
>
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Re: iba.org.il programs

2016-12-11 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

Luckily, I can't read Hebrew. :-)

The other option is a $10 on eBay, 100 NIS here DVB-T USB dongle.

Geoff.

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 11:34 <borissh1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, 11 December 2016 8:56:46 IST Geoffrey Mendelson wrote:
>
> > On 12/11/2016 8:23 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
> > > I have failed to find any combination of Firefox/Chromium and plugin to
>
> > > make the site work. I'm not really sure where the problem lies.
>
> > >
>
> > > Anyway, for now I use https://tzafrir.org.il/~tzafrir/play_iba .
>
> > >
>
> > > On initial tests the live stream gives me 403, but I decided to include
>
> > > it just in case.
>
> > >
>
> > > In KDE you can also include it as a klipper action, with the regex to
>
> > >
>
> > > match the URLs:
>
> > > http://www\.iba\.org\.il/(program|liveProgram)\.aspx?scode=[0-9]+
>
> > >
>
> > > Not perfect, but works for now.
>
> >
>
> > There are Kodi addons that are updated often. You can get Channel 1, 2
>
> > and 10 live streams.
>
>
>
> I do not think you are allowed to use Mako resources over kodi (
> i...@mako.co.il ) :
>
>
> >>רציתי לדעת איך חברת מקו רואה את אלו שצורכים את תכני האתר דרך תוכנות
> הזרמה כגון KODI.
>
> >>אני לא מתכוון שאדם מקליט שידור או מפיץ אלא מתחבר וצופה בשידורים שניתן
> לקבל דרך האתר.
>
>
>
> >>האם לדעתכם זה שימוש מקובל או לחילופין הפרת זכויות יוצרים או שימוש אסור ?
>
>
>
>
>
> >שלום,
>
> >מדובר בהפרת זכויות יוצרים.
>
> >בברכה,
>
> >Info mako
>
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Re: iba.org.il programs

2016-12-10 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson


On 12/11/2016 8:23 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:


I have failed to find any combination of Firefox/Chromium and plugin to
make the site work. I'm not really sure where the problem lies.

Anyway, for now I use https://tzafrir.org.il/~tzafrir/play_iba .

On initial tests the live stream gives me 403, but I decided to include
it just in case.

In KDE you can also include it as a klipper action, with the regex to
match the URLs:

   http://www\.iba\.org\.il/(program|liveProgram)\.aspx?scode=[0-9]+

Not perfect, but works for now.

There are Kodi addons that are updated often. You can get Channel 1, 2 
and 10 live streams.


You can also if you care to watch them, most of the UK channels (the 
ones on the HOTBIRD cluster), and the major US TV networks, all legally, 
and all free (as in beer).


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Re: Up-to-date hardware recommendation (this time, USB DVB-T dongle)?

2016-05-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 5/4/2016 10:00 AM, Yuval Adam wrote:


All the RTL2832-based dongles are well supported on Linux via the
dvb_usb_rtl28xxu driver.
Due to extremely popular demand, pretty much all the dongles on eBay are
R820T/RTL2832-based (former is the tuner chip, latter is the hardware
decoder chip)


BTW, the R stands for Rafael, a division of IAI, which is  owned by the 
Israeli government.



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Re: Does anyone know how to solve "Too many login attempts" with smtp.gmail.com?

2016-04-18 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 4/18/2016 5:54 PM, Boris shtrasman wrote:

not at all, the next person to hit this issue will check that. :)
With a free account you are limited to the number of emails you can send 
a day. I hit it once, I think it was 50, but it may have been 100.


The only thing to do is to turn off outgoing mail for 24 hours.

The permanent solution is to buy a paid account.

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Re: How to install several kernels on Debian

2015-12-15 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 12/15/2015 3:12 PM, Boris Shtrasman wrote:


I  did a minor test on a amd64 arch again , setting up only wheezy and 
stable/updates


I recently install Ubuntu 15.10 on a system amd64 arch,  and it 
installed vmlinuz-4.2.0-16-generic as the kernel. I later ran software 
update and it installed vmlinuz-4.2.0-19-generic, but kept the older 
kernel.



I will admit Ubuntu is not debian, but the package tools provided by 
debian are used by it.



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cisco 26xx or 28xx router

2015-09-28 Thread geoffrey mendelson

Anyone have a spare cisco 26xx or 28xx router they would be willing to 
give me, or sell for a small fee?


TIA.

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GRE tunnel

2015-09-27 Thread geoffrey mendelson


I need to communicate over a GRE tunnel.

The easiest thing seems to me to buy a cheap router that runs DD-WRT (or 
whatever the latest thing is called) and use that.


I only need a WAN port and a LAN port, I don't need more than one of 
each, WiFi or a lot of other features, e.g. USB.


Does anyone know what the cheapest router that is available in Israel 
that will accomplish this is? I'd be ok with WiFi and or USB if it 
lowered the price.


TIA,

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Re: LPI Certification

2015-06-10 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

I think you should consider your audience more than yourself.
If you are an employee ask your boss to pay for it. If they refuse ask them
what they will pay for.
If they won't pay for anything, ask them what certifications would make you
 more valuable to them if you got them at your own expense.

If you are a contractor/consultant, ask your clients. If you work through
an agency or marketing person, ask them what would get you better jobs.

My guess is that Microsoft and Cisco certifications will be worth more as
it shows that you know how to play well with others and (almost) no one
has a 100% linux shop.

Geoff.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:53 PM Dan Yasny dya...@gmail.com wrote:

 It's more a matter of prestige than anything else. LPI is about knowing
 trivia, RH** is about knowing how to do real work.
 On Jun 10, 2015 9:49 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote:

 Have you revisited the certifications recently?

 I'll look into RHCE and RHCA too.

 I'd like to get certified for something valid in Europe and the US as
 well as in Israel to do freelance jobs.

 Thanks!

 2015-06-10 16:37 GMT+03:00 Dan Yasny dya...@gmail.com:

 I took LPI 1 and 2, and CompTIA L+ back in 2007-2008, it wasn't really
 worth much and the level was basic. If you want a meaningful certification,
 aim for RHCE and the courses that compose the RHCA


 On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il
 wrote:

 Hi all,

 I am thinking of getting an LPI certification [1].

 Wanted your 2 cents about it:

 Is it worth it?

 Which is the best to start with?

 and so on...

 Thanks,

 Amichai

 [1] https://www.lpi.org/

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Re: LPI Certification

2015-06-10 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson

You should not be working toward a certificate when you are looking for
work. You should do it when things are good so that you can concentrate on
it.
There are times when the tide has changed and no one is interested in
what you do, or not in hiring someone new. Then you have no choice.

Geoff.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015, 18:47 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote:

 Thank you.

 I am not looking for work right now, but I hear what you're saying...

 Maybe I'll do them all ;-)

 Amichai.

 2015-06-10 18:23 GMT+03:00 Dan Yasny dya...@gmail.com:

 The problem with trivia based certification is that it's so easy to get
 without actually knowing anything. Download braindumps, go over them a few
 dozen times, and you can pass any exam that is based on standard questions.
 In Europe and the US, high-end IT shops know this full well, and they would
 only look at certifications that are more implementational than trivial, or
 at actual experience, especially because there's a huge, dirt-cheap
 workforce out there with MCSEs and CCNAs, and no real world experience.
 None of those guys would pass an RHCE exam, because there, you'd have to
 actually sit down in front of a machine and do real actions, instead of
 memorizing braindumps and redumping them.

 So if the goal is to find a job in high-end IT companies, banks and so
 on, you have to keep in mind that a trivia based cert with no experience to
 back it up will take you nowhere.


 On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Geoffrey Mendelson 
 geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote:

 I think you should consider your audience more than yourself.
 If you are an employee ask your boss to pay for it. If they refuse ask
 them what they will pay for.
 If they won't pay for anything, ask them what certifications would make
 you  more valuable to them if you got them at your own expense.

 If you are a contractor/consultant, ask your clients. If you work through
 an agency or marketing person, ask them what would get you better jobs.

 My guess is that Microsoft and Cisco certifications will be worth more as
 it shows that you know how to play well with others and (almost) no one
 has a 100% linux shop.

 Geoff.

 On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:53 PM Dan Yasny dya...@gmail.com wrote:

 It's more a matter of prestige than anything else. LPI is about knowing
 trivia, RH** is about knowing how to do real work.
 On Jun 10, 2015 9:49 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote:

 Have you revisited the certifications recently?

 I'll look into RHCE and RHCA too.

 I'd like to get certified for something valid in Europe and the US as
 well as in Israel to do freelance jobs.

 Thanks!

 2015-06-10 16:37 GMT+03:00 Dan Yasny dya...@gmail.com:

 I took LPI 1 and 2, and CompTIA L+ back in 2007-2008, it wasn't really
 worth much and the level was basic. If you want a meaningful 
 certification,
 aim for RHCE and the courses that compose the RHCA


 On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il
 wrote:

 Hi all,

 I am thinking of getting an LPI certification [1].

 Wanted your 2 cents about it:

 Is it worth it?

 Which is the best to start with?

 and so on...

 Thanks,

 Amichai

 [1] https://www.lpi.org/

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Easy to use hex editor?

2015-05-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson


Hi,

I have a DOS program I need to modify. I need to be able to load an DOS 
EXE file, and hopefully using a gui, search for ascii text and 8 byte 
floating point numbers in INTEL format and modify them. Then when I 
write the file it still needs to be be executable.


If it has a patch mode, where I can compare the patched version to the 
original and get a diff type output, I would really be happy.


I had a great one on my MAC, but I no longer have the MAC and would 
prefer to do it on a Linux system.


TIA for any suggestions.

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Re: OT - non-HP ink

2015-05-03 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 5/3/2015 10:28 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote:

Sorry for the OT post, but the list is the only dependable forum I
could think of for this question.

I just bought an inkjet printer - HP 8610 - after years of using a
laser. I'm debating with myself about using original (i.e expensive)
or non-original ink.


I bought a similar printer about a year and a half ago. I bought several 
sets of third party ink from a company I found on zap.


The ink worked great, but since I did not pay by paypal, and I did not 
get an email confirmation of the order, I have no idea of from whom I 
bought it.


The boxes and cartridges themselves are just plain generic refills.

I have since looked on eBay and found that due to the depressed Euro, I 
could get 4 sets of 4 cartridges (extra large black, magenta, cyan and 
yellow) for 200 NIS including registered mail from Germany.


In short I would do it again if the cartridges are just plain ink, but 
not if each cartridge includes a print head.



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Re: New router/modem

2015-05-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 5/2/2015 11:55 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:


The listed support of the device is indeed ADSL 2/2+ which Bezeq tends
to call NGN, though they also call their 100M NGN which is definitely
not provided with ADSL2

ALL NGN is connected via vDSL hardware, with anything less than 15 
megabits and by request 15 megabits, in aDSL2 emulation mode. The 
emulation mode works poorly, if at all, and many people complain their 
router slows down or loses the connection in 24 to 48 hours and needs to 
be rebooted.


While they are required to provide the old support, they never tell 
people that is the problem and suggest that they upgrade their 
connection and router. If they don't it NEVER will work properly, and if 
they do, it works fine.


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Re: OT: ISP throttling

2015-01-30 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 1/30/2015 10:37 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
All networks throttle, the only question is do they do it well enough 
that you don't notice or not
I have friends who had throttling removed after complaining (they were 
put on 'gamer' plans).




My kids are on netvision (now cellcom). They have a gamer's plan and 
don't see any throttling. Things got slow for a day or two when they 
started their IP-TV service, but it seems to be back to normal now.


 I use CCC and don't see any either. I do  a lot of bit torrent and 
http downloads.


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Re: Adding external HDD to Raspberry Pi

2014-12-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 12/17/2014 4:03 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote:

I've got this one:
http://www.dynamode.com/english/pages/product/Datacom%20Products/USB%20Products/USB-H40-A2-0.html

Is it plugged into the wall? If you don't use an external power source, 
it is in passive mode, which means the overhead of the hub, and all of 
the devices plugged into it can not be more than what the port supplies. 
I don't know what the Pi supplies, but the official standard is 500ma 
for USB 1 and 2.


If you plug it in, it will support the full 500ma (possibly more) to 
each device.


Since it is a 4 port hub, you want a 2000ma (2 ampere) supply.

Personally, I prefer the Apple 12 watt chargers as they really do supply 
slightly more than 2 amps without burning up. They are expensive, but 
IMHO worth it.


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Re: Mageia 4 - update delay

2014-12-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 12/7/2014 9:29 AM, shimi wrote:


So it seems that the process is indeed not launched for the 4 minutes. 
My next suggestion would be to run 'ps auxf' (or pstree?) after the 
package manager has launched, and hopefully you'll see *which* process 
runs your update processes (the parent); At this point I would assume 
the issue is there. First, check which package it belongs to and 
verify you're running latest update for this package (you don't want 
to mess with already-fixed-bugs). Then, assuming you're up-to-date and 
the issue remains, strace -f this process, and only then click 
whatever you click there - to see which system calls it does between 
the time you click what you click, and the package manager going up. 
Perhaps this process waits on something before it starts the actual 
update manager...


DNS problems?

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Re: better antenna for a USB DVB-T dongle?

2014-07-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 7/26/2014 10:25 PM, Evgeniy Ginzburg wrote:

TV dongles use MCX connector.
Truy one of those to connect to wal plug
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=mcx+to+Belling-Lee
There is can be impedance mismach but
with one of such connectors you also can buy bigger antennae that 
connect to standart jack if roof antenna won't work good.


And when you tired of TV use oyur dongle as SDR it's uch more fun.



While they are officially called Belling-Lee connectors, they are called 
PAL connectors outside of the UK. In the UK they are called Aerial 
connectors. Probably the same thing in OZ.


They got that name because PAL TVs used them, in comparison to F 
connectors used by US TVs.


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Re: reverse ssh

2014-07-20 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 7/20/2014 12:03 PM, Erez D wrote:

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Lior Kaplan kaplanl...@gmail.com wrote:

ssh itself ?

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2013/11/reverse-ssh-tunnel/

nice, however this requires me to give access to my server, which i do
not want ...
(or, can i give people permission to ssh to my server only for reverse
tunnels and no shell ?)
What I did is to run a second SSH server listening on a port that no one 
would expect SSH connections and ONLY allow connections with key 
exchanges. So someone could connect to that port randomly or with a 
scan, but would be unable to do anything with it.


The regular SSH server, which ran on port 22, allowed much looser 
connections, root connections, etc, but port 22 was NOT forwarded out 
the firewall. This allowed me to do RSYNC, etc locally as root or a user 
with no restrictions.

Once the SSH connection is established, it can be used to tunnel anything.

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Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 7/6/2014 10:50 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Anyway, the GPLv3 or whatever licence the GNU sub-projects have does 
not prevent me from using GNU software, so that's it.
The interesting point is that outside of a relatively small group of 
developers project GNU has no bearing on anything. Free (as in beer) 
software existed long before RMS, open source software, including 
operating systems, existed long before Linux, or even BSD. And it 
continues to exist long after.


I doubt that anyone one this list, or any other list for that matter, 
runs 100% GPL licensed software on their computers. They may be running 
only free and open source software, but I am sure some of it has a BSD 
type, or other license.


So to answer the question someone posed, would we be running the same 
thing as we are now if RMS never existed? Probably not. Something very 
close, YES. Would LINUX have existed? Maybe. Maybe Linus would have 
spent his time improving the free. open source, BSD instead. We actually 
may have been doing better because a lot of time and effort was spent in 
the 1990's producing GPL'ed version of BSD utilites that could have been 
spent elsewhere.


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Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 7/7/2014 11:57 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
There wasn't that much good BSD code out there when the GNU project 
started. BSD started provided a complete system at the beginning of 
the 1990-s. And shortly thereafter it got into a trial with ATT. Also 
shortly after development was halted and much of it moved to 
proprietary forks. By then the basic system for Linux to use (sans 
kernel) was GNU. 


All I know is that in 1990 I bought an ATT UNIX system which included 
the ATT KERNEL, a lot of closed source software and a lot of open 
source BSD utilities. There was lots of open source programs for UNIX, 
many of them were public domain (similar to the BSD license). It did 
have X windows on it, but with my 2 meg of RAM 386SX, it would not run.


By 1995, I was purchasing CD ROMs, with BSD (scrubbed after the 
lawsuit), which came with a large library of UNIX code, and LINUX 
distros (more than one), which came with the BSD libraries.


GCC did not come into general use (or at all AFAIK) until SUN started 
selling Solaris, because SUNOS required you to compile and link modules 
to change KERNEL parameters, so it came with a C compiler and linker.


System 5 UNIX did not, you had to have a linker, but not a compiler, so 
the C compiler was not included and cost a lot of money. GCC was 
popularized so that people could compile things on their SUNS without 
spending a lot of money for a compiler.


So from my point of view, based on the early 1990's BSD was it, not 
Linux, and the GPL was not really important then. You could happily run 
an open source BSD system without any GPL'ed code, and except for the 
Linux KERNEL. happily run a Linux system without any.  Not counting all 
of those SUN computers that had come one the surplus market when they 
went to SPARC and then went to the pizzabox systems.


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Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson



But your, Geoff, incendiary remarks re RMS, are quite out of place. 
RMS' laudable stance on BDS is quite irrelevant to this list, in my 
opinion.




Incendiary or not, his actions did have an effect upon the FOSS community.

Besides any direct effect in relation to RMS , the FSS and project GNU, 
which is debatable, it caused Larry Ellison, who is a big supporter of 
Israel in general and Sderot in particular to look elsewhere for his 
open source aspirations.


By the time Oracle bought SUN, Solaris had become almost another Linux 
distro. It included the SUN UNIX Kernel, and a lot of SUN proprietary 
stuff, but more than half of it was project GNU software. You could see 
that the intention was to replace the UNIX code with the GNU 
alternatives. SUN also released a copy of their UNIX code as open 
source, but not under GNU for legal reasons (most of it was already 
under BSD license).


So Oracle dropped the open source Solaris version, it still exists, but 
there is very little interest or support for it, and the GNU code is 
slowly being replaced with non open source UNIX code or BSD code.


BUT the biggest effect was that Open Office, which was supposed to be 
given to the FSF to help them replace their editor with something 
useful, never happened.


Instead it went to the Apache Foundation and has been released under 
their BSDish license.


So Marc, his actions may have been laudable or not, and my comments may 
have been incendiary or not, but in the end it means that we are even 
more so stuck with that f'ing editor. :-(


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Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson

On 7/4/2014 8:56 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:

Hi all,

I wish to go on a Summer trip to Europe (flight to Istanbul and then
taking trains) where I:

ROTFL.

Not only do I not think this belongs on this list, but it's ridiculous.

If I were in a position to sponsor anyone for more than a felafel at a
stand up kiosk, I would consider this so unreasonable that it's just
laughable. As I said, IF I were going to fund someone, I might consider
a plan that includes 2 $1,000 airplane tickets, and about $1,000 a week
for hotel, food, transportation within each country and train fare to
the next country, for a week in a country to give 4-5 FOSS lectures, and
then move one. You probably could start in the Irish Republic and bounce
along to the Russian Republic which would take around 15-20 weeks.

Or you could the same thing for about 1.5 times the money in the US,
which would take an entire year, one week per state.

But not just for a vacation, or for sponsorship opportunity, you would
have to show off your operating system that lots of people use, or your
office suite, Nobel Prize, or Olympic Medal.

No use writing an editor, no one is interested in paying RMS to speak,
especially since he, as president of the FSF, ex ex*/officio/*
https://www.google.co.il/search?es_sm=122q=ex+officiospell=1sa=Xei=yFi2U4mZIIK00wXM_IDQDgved=0CBkQvwUoAA,
announced he was supporting the Palestinian Boycott of Israel.

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Re: advanced dhcpd.conf

2014-06-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 6/9/2014 10:14 AM, Erez D wrote:

i'm trying to match ip to macs


e.g.:
mac 00:11:22:33:44:01 - 10.0.5.1
mac 00:11:22:33:44:02 - 10.0.5.2
mac 00:11:22:33:44:03 - 10.0.5.3
mac 00:11:22:33:44:04 - 10.0.5.4



it does not seem to work
is it possible to do that ?


highlights of dhcpd.conf:

class vm {
match if binary-to-ascii (16,8,:,substring(hardware, 1, 5)) = 0:11:22:33:44;
set lastMacByte=binary-to-ascii (10,8,:,substring(hardware, 6, 1);
set vmName=concat(VM-,lastMacByte);
set vmIp=concat(10.0.5.,lastMacByte);
}




Is this what you want?

host danny3
{
fixed-address danny3;
hardware ethernet  00:11:95:8e:8d:80;
 option host-name danny3;
}

dann3 resolves to the IP address I want.

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Re: self mail hosting

2014-06-08 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 6/8/2014 12:27 PM, Efraim Flashner wrote:

I've registered a domain and set up my raspberry pi to recieve and send
emails.  Everything seems to be working fine, except that emails that I
send to gmail get rejected by google.  I've been told that google
rejects email where the reverse-dns doesn't match the dns record, and
because I don't have a static IP address there's not much I can do.

Has anyone had success getting a static IP address without too much
hassle? Currently I'm getting my internet through netvision, but we
were planning on switching to 018 for their cheaper prices.

Getting a static IP address seems like it would be the easiest option,
followed by reconfiguring postfix to use a SMTP relay to send mail
through another server, but I'd need to make sure that the header isn't
changed (too much) if I do that.  Also I've found keeping my sanity
involves interacting with Israeli beaurocracy as little as possible, so
I'd rather not call netvision for a static IP since I'm planning on
leaving them anyway.

If anyone has any experience doing their own mail and want to share,
I'd love to hear about it.





Gmail has a pro option where for a small fee they will act as your mail 
server. It may be worth it.


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Re: NTP

2014-05-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson



Unless you already have an old smartphone that you want to keep for 
this use, look for a simple USB GPS receiver - between $20-$40 (I can 
see it now for $35 in Amazon 
http://www.amazon.com/GlobalSat-BU-353-S4-USB-Receiver-Black/dp/B008200LHW/ref=sr_1_1 
). Supported natively by ntpd 
http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.4/drivers/driver20.html, uses less power, 
does not cook your brain, and slightly less useful for the NSA to spy 
on you with :)


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They only ship to the  US.

Since the software we found runs on Android 2.1 up, it should be pretty 
easy to find a used phone for less than that or free.


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Re: NTP

2014-05-08 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 5/8/2014 10:49 AM, Amos Shapira wrote:
Yeah I'm with you about taking advantage of the phone's GPS signal to 
get a good clock, and I thought that this is what this time-server 
thing does. What does it do if not that?


The one I saw was just an Android port of the standard NTP server, which 
syncs to other NTP servers.


It's weird that nothing does it yet. Any takers?



My opinion too.

I'd settle for an RS232 serial emulation over USB of the old GPSs. :-)

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Re: NTP

2014-05-08 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 5/8/2014 3:39 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:

Doesn't make sense to me:

1. The NTP server only needs the time signal, not the location (which 
requires 4 satellites to be accurate), so even a signal from a single 
satellite should be sufficient.
2. getting a signal lock is mostly a matter of having an up to date 
satellite position almanac and recent location (within hundreds of 
kilometers) in order to find the 4 required satellites. Finding the 
first satellite is usually very quick.
3. Once the phone knows where it is, it's capable of keeping track of 
a car moving at over 100 km/h for hours in order to update Google Maps 
and friends. So the keeping up part is a solved problem, even if it 
was an issue for the context of this thread.


Besides - the information should be there (the accurate time is a 
crucial part of the positioning process). The main question from where 
I stand now is how does Android provide access to the information 
(which API and was it added to the multitude of reference clocks that 
the standard NTP software comes with).




Don't forget that most of the people using this (if not all), just want 
to timesync a LAN, and can stick said cellphone up against a window and 
leave it there.



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Re: NTP

2014-05-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 5/5/2014 8:13 AM, Amos Shapira wrote:

Please update here with the respons.


It does not.

This is in reference to an NTP server Android App being able to access 
the GPS hardware for time sync. Since most (all?) Android phones have 
GPS chips and Wifi, run Linux, etc, it would be a cheap way to get a 
stratum 1 time server without spending a lot of money.


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Re: NTP

2014-05-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 5/4/2014 2:11 PM, Geoff Shang wrote:

Joining this late, but does anyone know if there is an NTP device driver 
for an android phone? You can get a new Android 4 phone for 500 NIS, and 
used ones range in price from that to nothing (especially ones with 
cracked screens).


TIA.

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Re: NTP

2014-05-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 5/4/2014 5:17 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:


You mean you want to use the Android phone as an ntp server?




Yes. It has GPS hardware, runs linux and has wifi. Should be enough to 
make your own GPS derived stratum 1 server.


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Re: NTP

2014-05-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 5/5/2014 7:41 AM, Amos Shapira wrote:

Umm. Nice idea. Perhaps this? http://time-server.android.informer.com/


Thanks, I saw that and asked them if it will use sync to the GPS in the 
phone as a source. I'm waiting for an answer.


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Re: OT: Cell phone service providers

2014-04-20 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 4/20/2014 10:29 AM, Mord Behar wrote:


After two months on Golan, my results are as follows:
About 1 in 3 calls has a problem. A problem is either garbled audio, 
a lack of connection or a disconnect. There seems to be no correlation 
between problems and the carrier at the other end. Obviously garbled 
audio is more common than disconnects. The ratio is approximately 1:7.


Sounds to me like your phone. Several people with really cheap phones 
have had much better luck with new ones. For example, the really cheap 
samsung phones replaced with cheap (250 NIS or less) Nokia, or in one 
case a used Crackberry. I do get an occasional disconnect.


I have lost communication completely about 4 times in the last 2 or 3 
months. I rebooted my candy bar type phone and it was fine.


Text messages are unreliable. I receive them 3-4 minutes before they 
are sent (the timestamp from the server) and they often (unfortunately 
I have no numbers for this) take several hours to arrive.




I have my computer which has a USB dongle connected to Asterisk send me 
an SMS at 6:59 every morning (except shabbat). You can set your watch to 
it,  it arrives at about 6:59:05. everyday. (both computer and phone on 
Golan).



The cellular internet is noticeably slower than our previous provider 
(Pelephone) and coverage is worse.


No idea. My family and friends with it have no noticable problems, 
except in the corner of our apartment which has no radio coverage at 
all. It's hidden behind a mountain, and even a cell-com cell, less than 
100m away is spotty. My sons use it on their android phones all over 
Jerusalem, and my wife with an iPad. Except for my candy bar phone, 
which I carry as a medic alert button, all of our phones are 3g capable.


I have a friend who lives in a dungeon, a one room apartment below 
ground with a small window. The kind where there was some empty space 
next to the miklat, so the owner put in pumbling, lights, and a small 
kitchen and calls it a studio apartment. Almost no cellular coverage 
and no land line, so I bought her a Huwai USB modem stick with an 
antenna socket, and she has a cellular antenna out her window for data 
use. For voice, her phone works ok near the window. When she is not home 
she leaves the antenna but takes the modem along with her computer.



The network time does not work. At all. Not even a little bit. Neither 
my Nokia candybar nor my wife's Samsung II s2 updated the DST.




Funny (as in strange). Not only did I get a note about the time change 
via SMS from Golan, it works fine. My Nokia candybar updated 
automatically. If I take the battery out it will default to some very 
old time, and then in about a minute come up to the correct time.



In summary: you get what you pay for. The 10 NIS a month plan is great 
for me, since my phone doesn't really do internet. For that price I'm 
willing to accept service problems. The 60 NIS plan for my wife is 
borderline okay. If the service gets a little bit worse we'll need to 
reevaluate.




Note that I am in Jerusalem and we are always within two kilometers of a 
Golan cell. My candybar phone is 2g only and connects via cell-com.


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Re: OT: Cell phone service providers

2014-04-20 Thread geoffrey mendelson



On 4/20/2014 12:08 PM, Mord Behar wrote:


I set my watch (cell phone clock) by the Linux internet time on my
laptop. And that is several minutes ahead of Golan's clock.



My windows desktop, which syncs its time off of an ntp daemon on a linux
system, the clock on my asterisk system (which syncs its time off of its
own ntp daemon from a different ISP), my Nokia X1 candy bar phone (syncs
from Golan 2g via cellcom) and my Google Nexus 4, which syncs from Golan
3g, all have the same time.




Some of my wife's apps updated the time properly, those with hardcoded
time settings. The Android OS which was set to network time did not
update.




I think the update was included in KitKat, not anything older. The
android phones run the UNIX standard, a UTC clock and display according
to a time zone file.

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Re: Feedback about HOT as an isp

2014-04-08 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 4/8/2014 4:14 PM, Amichai Rotman wrote:

On the same subject:

I am using Bezeq as infrastructure @ 15Mb and 014 as the provider at 
the same speed. Somehow I get a high latency when accessing sites, 
both in Israel and abroad.


How can I check for the exact cause?

As a guess, your latency is high because you are NOT paying for a better 
service package. The cheapest is the gamer's which will cut things 
down considerably. Last summer I changed my line from 012 with a gamer's 
package to CCC without. Latency is much lower.


IMHO the program which is most affected by latency is BitTorrent.


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Android external keyboard HEBREW??

2014-03-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson

My son has a cheap Chinese android tablet. It has a regular USB port on 
it, no bluetooth. We plug a keyboard in and it works. BUT it only works 
in English.


Is there a way to get it into Hebrew mode?

If not, does anyone know of a cheap tablet with Hebrew external keyboard 
support?


TIA.

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Re: [YBA] Sane supported document scanners with feeder in Israel

2014-03-10 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 3/10/2014 11:06 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:

Dear colleagues,
I am looking for suppliers of sane-supported document scanners with 
page feeders in Israel and info on what works, doesn't work.

TIA and Best regards,
I have had several different low end HP multifunction machines, the 
latest being a J4580 replaced by a J4500 and a 7500 and none of them are 
what I would call a good sheet feeder. They load one page at a time and 
it is easier than lifting the lid, but they always seem to misfeed, skew 
the paper or jam. 20 years ago I supervised the scanning of over a 
million pages using Fujitsu scanners, I'd love to see something like them.


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OT, but often discussed here, change to Golan cellular plan.

2014-02-27 Thread geoffrey mendelson


The Hebrew announcement  is up, but not an English one yet.

Golan has added the option to change your regular plan, currently 59 NIS 
a month for this year, to include 6 gigabytes of data.


Currently when you go above 3 gigabytes it slows down.

If you go to the settings page for each of your lines, at the bottom of 
actions  (right side in English, left side in Hebrew) is the HEBREW 
option to switch to a 6 gigabyte limit. Same terms as the 3, your 
connection may slow down if you go over.


There is no charge to make the switch and no additional monthly charge.

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Re: OT: Cell phone service providers

2014-02-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 2/11/2014 5:15 PM, Ari Becker wrote:


As far as I'm concerned, Golan should be the default. I call and am 
called by relatives in the US so their price and features are 
unbeatable. Their service is great and so is the online control panel.


I haven't had problems with SMS with Golan, but honestly, these days 
everyone uses Whatsapp anyways. I do sometimes suffer from dropped 
calls, but it's not that big a deal.


The only carrier I could imagine switching to is Orange, since they're 
going to put up their LTE network soon enough, but without a true 
unlimited option under Orange, what's the point?


The only thing I could really ask from Golan is to stay competitive 
with LTE and allow me to pay more for a true unlimited plan.





I agree 100%. It so happens that there is a Cellcom cell about 200 
meters from my home and a Golan one about 1km away. My 2g phone connects 
to the Cellcom cell, my 3g phones and iPads connect to the Golan one.


Ari, I'm not sure what you mean by a true unlimited plan. Golan's 3g of 
data is small compared to a landline, and I'd love to see more, but 
their fair use limit of 3,000 minutes a month (100 minutes a day, 
every day) is a brain cooker.



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Re: OT: Cell phone service providers

2014-02-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 2/11/2014 7:50 PM, Ari Becker wrote:


Yeah, by true unlimited I was talking about Internet, not voice. I 
meant unlimited data without throttling for going over an arbitrary 3G 
limit.


Because of the nature of my job, I only have access to a landline on 
weekends so I have to watch my usage very carefully not to go over the 
limit and have my main source of Internet access slow to a crawl. I 
currently pay 100 shekels a month, I could easily be persuaded to up 
that to 200 or 300 shekels a month for a never-throttle plan so that I 
can watch YouTube and listen to Internet radio in peace.



Back when I was using USB sticks for cellular internet, I got an Orange 
pay as you go SIM with it. 149 NIS a month gave me 20gig. I don't know 
if they still offer it or another similar plan.


The competition from Cell-Com was truely unlimted, BUT if you went over 
what 80% of their users used that month, the next month you were in 
cellular data hell, around 56k bits per second. Pelephone had a similar 
plan. The way around that was buy two SIMs, and when one was limited, 
use the other.  I had a friend who dropped her landline in favor of a 
Cell-Com unlimited data plan. No one told her about the limit and she 
was back to a landline in a month.


BTW, if you are using Golan, it's only 59 NIS a month. They are having a 
sale for 2014, and the price will hold until the end of the year.


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Re: galgallatz without flash

2014-02-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 2/7/2014 12:24 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
The flash player is most likely just playing a mp3 or some other form 
of stream, if you analyze the traffic/code/links you may be able to 
gat a link out of that


Stuff like flashgot may be useful



It's not. It's an MP3 stream alright, but it's a FLASH ONLY MP3 stream.

:-(

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galgallatz without flash

2014-02-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson

Does anyone know of a current Galgalatz mp3 stream? I want to listen to 
it over the internet without having a flash player.


TIA.

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Re: EPROM burner

2014-02-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 2/4/2014 1:54 PM, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote:

you can try and build one yourself - http://usbpicprog.org/



Thanks, I doubt that I will be building anything myself anymore.

This would not do anyway, it is for programming PIC chips, I want 
EPROMS. PIC chips are processors with read only memory on the chip. 
EPROMS are 1970's technology, read only memory chips that can be 
programmed with a high enough voltage, and then erased with ultra-violet 
light. They were a big step above PROMs which were programed one time 
only by literally burning the silicon away.


EPROMs are still made today, in fact while you can buy them for about $1 
each pulled from old equipment in China, you can buy electronically 
identical  current production ones in modern packages, they are about 
$40 each.


The generic burners are cheap enough, under $50 including postage on 
eBay, but none of them have software that actually works under 64 bit 
Windows.  Since I also have a computer running linux on my desktop, I 
thought I would look there.


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Re: EPROM burner

2014-02-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 2/4/2014 2:21 PM, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote:

The last time i programmed a EPROM was over 10 years ago (8051),
and even then we did it with a DOS application,
a year/2 after that we switched to EEPROM's which were much easier to 
manage.


I had a large range of programmers,
which they all suffer from the same problem you having right now,
which forced me to keep old computer/laptop for specific programmers.

Which chip are you trying to program ?



I want to program the 27 series chips, e.g. 2732, 2764, 27128, 27256 and 
27512. Also the CMOS versions 27c128, 27c256 and 27c512.  All that have 
have done this century are 27c256's but that could change.


The chips are in old radios, which do not support EEPROMS.

Thanks.

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EPROM burner

2014-02-03 Thread geoffrey mendelson


Anyone know of an EPROM burner whose actual software runs under Linux?

I know there are plenty of EPROM utilities, but I am looking for a 
burner which I can connect to a computer running Linux, (USB preferred, 
RS232 or parallel ok)  and use it. I am just fed up with burners that 
use lousy software which only runs under 32 bit windows, even when 
advertised as supporting 64 bit.


Nothing fancy, I just need to program DIP package 27/27c chips. I need 
the basic functions,  read, write, verify, check if erased.


TIA.

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Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-14 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 1/13/2014 3:00 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:


The attraction I see in Cubox is the ability to run standard Linux on 
it. Isn't it better than android-only on some hardware from China?


The Cubox seems to be the same general hardware with less ports. What I 
don't understand is why they are pushing the $100 unit, when for $30 
more you get twice the cores and twice the RAM.


I don't know what the other units run, the one  I pointed to did not 
officially support Linux, it does not mean it won't run on it.


I was a victim of feature creep, I started out with a direct from China 
Chromecast (without the brand name) and ended up with an Arm based PC.


As for Android, what bothers me about it is that unless you root the 
device you can't add device drivers (which may not be an issue to you, 
it turns out not to be one to me), and the UI for some things sucks. If 
you look back to the how to play videos link  I posted, it works, but my 
wife would never use such a thing. A simple App which would list files 
on a file server, where you could tap to play them, with all the setup 
hidden would be right for her. I also have not found a player that can 
fast forward within MP4 files. :-(


Or in plain English, I would be a lot happier if XMBC worked on my 
tablet, or someone copied the Apple TV player as an Android App.


As far as running bit torrent, the thing that I have found that affects 
download rates the most is latency. If you have a fast multicore X86 (or 
X64) processor, a wired ethernet connection and a fast upload speed, you 
get a lot faster downloads, even if your slower CPU is not heavily loaded.


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Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-14 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 1/14/2014 7:23 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:


x86-64 (amd64) and x64 (ia-64) aren't the same...




I guess that's a hazzard of using Windows. It's commonly referred to as 
X86 (32 bit) and X64 (64 bit for the amd64 and compatible Intel processors).


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Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 1/13/2014 1:45 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:


So what's the advantage of this Chinese Tablet? It's limited to old 
Android (I found them on eBay too now, they all list Android 4.2 or 
4.0), can it run a Bittorent client properly? No HDMI cable etc. So why?





It's not really a tablet, it has no screen. The screen is your 
monitor/TV connected via an HDMI port (obviously you looked at a 
different device than I did). It identifies as a tablet, so that's why I 
called it that.


A link would help:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Android-4-2-SATA-HDD-Media-Player-HD-TV-Quad-Core-Bluetooth-DLNA-WiFi-Streamer-5-/151207460031?pt=US_Internet_Media_Streamershash=item2334aabcbf

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.utorrent.clienthl=en

The main reasons is that it cost $100 (US) for the unit, and it includes 
a quad core ARM chip. This will give you enough CPU power to run 
BitTorrent, watch TV shows, etc and not run up the electrical bill that 
a real computer would. If you download to a USB memory stick instead of 
a disk drive, it will be silent.


As for Android being old, the current divide is Android 4 (any version). 
Older versions than 4 won't run modern Apps.



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Fwd: Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson





It will not  be EPUB only, it will be Android with e-Ink display, so it 
can do almost anything that an Android tablet can. Battery life is 
expected to be 3 weeks. This is what we got in the preliminary models.


If that's the case, it will be very interesting. My android devices, a 
10 Chinese no name tablet, and a cell phone need daily charging. The 
rest of the family has gets similar results.




As for eVrit, it is now an iOS and Android app. However they hardly sell 
any books and have relatively few titles available.
There are today many EPUB reading applications that support Hebrew, and 
also more and more Hebrew books available in new and old store.

Look at: http://www.booxilla.com or http://www.indiebook.com

Thanks, my wife is looking for a source of easy Hebrew children's 
ebooks. My sons who are fluent, have not quite caught on to them.



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Fwd: Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson

Forgot to send to the list, with some additional information.

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Subject:Re: Any experience with cubox-i?
Date:   Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:50:47 +0200
From:   geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com
To: Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com

On 1/12/2014 12:59 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:

Hi,

After moving to a new rented unit I found that it's going to be a bit
(or very) tricky to get my aging desktop (which I mainly use for
Bittorent and storage server these days) connected to the ADSL modem
using wired Ethernet.

Instead, I though that I might get myself some media-centre computer -
it'll be either so small that I can still keep it close to the
modem/router/wifi point or it'll suport wifi so I can put it somewhere
else in the unit. It'll also hopefully be power efficient so I could
afford to keep it turned on 24x7 (both for economic and environmental
concerns).

But I don't feel like running around designing my own hardware, order
it then build it myself, so I searched a bit for linux media center
hardware and the top results all point to http://cubox-i.com/, which
after reading a couple of reviews turned out to be based in Israel.

I'm considering getting myself the CuBox-i4Pro, and perhaps do it
while I visit Israel next Passovah (not sure yet).

Everything I read about this unit so far is just 100% positive. Does
anyone here have experience with it, the service? hardware quality?
Cost of shipping in Israel? Is pick-up from their offices an option etc?

What about one of those Chinese Android tablets without a screen? Google
sells one dedicated to streaming videos using various US based services,
and there are many of them on eBay. Google calls theirs the Chromecast.
I don't know if it would be worth buying one for use outside of the US,
but as I said, there are plenty of them out there. I read an article
from one of the US financial websites complaining that they sell for
very little money in China and come preloaded with so many pirate movies
that they have become the latest media in video purchase and rental.

You plug them into your HDMI port (which powers it) and it connects to
the outside world via wifi. I don't remember how they connect to remote
controls, but they do.

added:

I was looking around eBay and found some nice looking devices. They run a fixed 
version of Android
(no updates promised) so I guess they are good for a year or two. For around 
$100 US, you can get
a quad core CPU, HDMI output, wifi, USB, ethernet and even a place to insert a 
laptop SATA drive
directly.

It also comes with a remote control.

I also found this page: 
http://apcmag.com/how-to-stream-video-to-an-android-device.htm

Following the instructions I was able to watch videos on my various computers 
(e.g. Linux file servers,
Windows workstations) on my Chinese android tablet. It has an annoying Android 
interface, not a smooth UI,
like AppleTV or XBMC, but it worked. I lack the HDMI mini or micro cable to 
connect my tablet to my TV, but
it should work there too.

XBMC does not run on my tablet as it lacks the necessary video hardware, but if 
it did, it would be a lot easier
to use than my WD LIVE streamer.

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Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 1/11/2014 11:21 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
I suppose that even if there is nothing to connect to on a particular 
frequency a device may still emit, e.g., scanning a frequency range, 
and thus be a source of interference. 


Ad Hoc networks.

As I mentioned in a post about using TV sticks as software defined 
radios, you need a license to monitor VHF or UHF communications 
frequencies. I don't know what you could use a wifi device to monitor, 
but the 5.8gHz band was used by the IDF before April 2012.


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Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 1/11/2014 8:43 AM, Ori Idan wrote:


Not true at all. e-Ink continues to be developed and now is much 
quicker then it used to be. Many vendors are developing new e-ink 
platforms.
I can reveal that I am working with one company on a better version of 
their system that will be sold in Israel when it is done. It is based 
on Android, will be able to read mostly EPUB but also PDF.


That, IMHO is going to be a tough sell. If you search for Android on 
Zap, reduce the list to tablets and then under 1000 NIS, you get 135 
different ones for sale, several under 300 NIS. Not surprising, the 
under 300 NIS tablets were sold under another name by Wal-Mart in the US 
last fall on the run up to Christmas for $59.


Since a generic Android tablet can read many formats of eBooks, 
including ones with DRM, just an ePub reader is again, IMHO a hard sell. 
BTW, when I wrote about PDF files, I was writing about SCANNED images 
encapsulated in a PDF file. In order to read them, you need a wide range 
of grey scale or color, and the ability to slide sideways, up or down, 
and zoom. I was not writing about text files.


I don't know what happened to the eVrit, an Israeli version of a Chinese 
ebook reader that had its own customized software which included Hebrew 
fonts and DRM from NDS for Steimatzky. Last I looked, it had morphed 
into  an iOS App, I don't know if it made it to Android, and if books 
are still sold for it.


It will be interesting to me to see how much it does sell for and what 
realistic battery life is.





The same company is also developing a cellular phone with eInk touch 
display.


Interesting, Nokia's dumb phone with an eInk display bombed in India, 
which may have been the only place they sold it.  Again, price and 
battery life will mater. Though an interesting niche would be a cheap 
cellphone with a 7 inch display and full Android, or as they are called 
a phablet.


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Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 1/9/2014 12:31 PM, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:

Can anyone recommend an ebook reader? I need one that
1) allows me to read my own PDFs and taking notes under Linux;


Any Android tablet.  Though these days a used iPad 2 16gb Wifi sells for 
around 1200 NIS. Not Linux, and old, but still current as far as iOS and 
really nice hardware.



2) is sold and (well) supported in Israel;


There are plenty of those. The 600 NIS ones are probably one time 
devices, you use them until you can no longer get apps to run on them. 
If you did not follow it, look at the thread I started recently about 
Chinese tablets and Android 4.4 (subject was Chinese KitKat).


3) doesn't require me to have a non-Linux machine to flash the updates;


That's because the people who built the mods use Windows. Actual 
supported devices will download the updates via WiFi and install them.My 
android phone did that, but my Chinese android tablet (sold by the now 
defunct Office Depot) has no update option.



4) doesn't require me to go online to download my own content to it;
Just about all of them use SD cards for storage, and the USB port to 
connect to a computer. You can move files via an SD card reader, or when 
connected via USB as if it were a disk drive. My Chinese tablet also 
supports OTG (on the go) storage, It has a type A USB port, and you can 
plug in memory sticks or hard disk drives.





5) isn't illegal to have in Israel because of its wireless 
capabilities (in fact, I'd like to be able to disable any wireless 
technology and not to use it anyway).


You can turn WiFi off on them, and there are no illegal tablets due to 
wifi. US CDMA devices simply won't work here (although AFAIK, they are 
only iPads). 5.8gHz WiFi became legal here 1 April 2012. Someone posted 
a link to the document from the MOC stating that, you can look in the 
archives.




Something for which I don't have a desktop sync app in Linux as 
opposed to Mac/Win and have to mount the reader as a usb storage 
device is fine.



http://calibre-ebook.com/




For a global picture, there is a cool master list over at


It's pretty much obsolete. Probably 99% of ebook reading is done on 
iPads and Android tablets. In the real world where people buy their 
eBooks, the iPad and Android tablet offer the ability to buy books from 
several sources, while the dedicated readers don't.



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Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 1/9/2014 12:31 PM, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:


5) isn't illegal to have in Israel because of its wireless 
capabilities (in fact, I'd like to be able to disable any wireless 
technology and not to use it anyway).


BTW, that was only the original iPad, and it was blocked in an attempt 
to satisfy the cellular companies and iDigital that people would not 
smuggle them in and avoid paying their markup and VAT.


In the end it turned out that they only used 2.4gHz WiFi and passed CE 
certification, which was enough to make them legal here.


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Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On 1/9/2014 3:08 PM, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:
Thanks for your answer. When I posted a link to a matrix of all the 
current eink-based readers, I assumed it is obvious I want an e-ink 
based one. I'd think dedicated reader would be more 
energy/weight/price efficient than a general purpose tablet, but 
anything with e-ink will do! Also, as I had stated, I'm not interested 
in buying DRM books anyway...


Not really. You can buy an active display android tablet for about the 
same money. E-ink displays are more energy efficient, but slow. You end 
up hitting the next button before you finish a page in the hope that it 
starts to refresh before you get to the last word in the page and 
finishes as you do.


They also suck for displaying material that was originally color or 
scanned material. I have many books that were scanned and they are 
unreadable on an e-ink display,


E-ink was an idea which came and went.

I also found that battery life was exaggerated by the vendors, being a 
fast reader, I got about 6-8 hours of reading out of a charge. This was 
both on an original Kindle (with a new battery and cellular turned off) 
and an original nook with wifi turned off. They list some enormous 
number of page flips which does not mean a lot, your average paperback 
book needs 3-4 flips to cover one page of paper. An A4 page of 10 
point type takes a lot of them.


As for DRM books, I figured that out, but they do drive the market. 
People are no longer satisfied with only one vendor and want the ability 
to buy them from many vendors which means a tablet, not a reader.


Just for the heck of it I looked up original iPads on Yad2. They go for 
about 600 NIS, which makes it not worth buying a dedicated reader, 
especially if you have to pay postage from the US and VAT.


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Re: Chinese KitKat


On 1/6/2014 9:44 AM, Eli Marmor wrote:
I want to overwrite the OS of Sony U by a MOD version of Android, 
without the garbage of Sony, but I am afraid to destroy the phone 
because of lack of experience in such upgrades; what do you recommend 
to do?


And regarding the specific phone:
Actually, it is not in the list of Cyanogen Mod; I understand that you 
don't recommend to use another distribution, but to give up; is that 
what you meant to say?



Is this of any help? I found it with google, which unfortunately means 
that you may have too, or may never have seen it.


http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/526939/20131203/update-sony-xperia-u-android-4-kitkat.htm#.UspjcFsW0zI

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Re: Chinese KitKat


On 1/6/2014 10:39 AM, Eli Marmor wrote:

Wow!  Thank you very very much!


You are welcome.


Last time I checked was before Dec. 3, so I didn't see it.
It helps a lot!
But now I'm more afraid:
15 steps, badly written, some of them ambiguous, when any small 
mistake or misunderstanding, damages the phone...

I'll have to re-consider it.

At least now that you know it can be done safely, you can look for 
proper instructions.  :-)


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Re: Chinese KitKat


On 1/6/2014 11:14 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:


Depends on the OS and it's support but yes... (my n900 still has great
support and if it wasn't falling apart as a result of severe abuse
would still be using it, but that's also a much more open system,
we'll see what happens with the Jolla now)

Software age is IMHO far more relevant than you might think. For 
example, my 2000 vintage Motorola Timeport phone, with a new battery 
from eBay, still does what it was designed to do, which is be a 
telephone. But a smartphone is not designed to be a telephone, it is 
designed to be a handheld computer first, a cellular data terminal 
second and almost as an afterthought a telephone.


It used to be that the leading edge of hardware and software development 
was fueled by gamers. They wanted more power, more facilities, and more 
efficiency, and were willing to pay for it to play their ever evolving 
games.


These days, the leading edge (although currently it is a smaller blade) 
of software and hardware development is apps. People want more and 
better apps and they want them on more and better devices.


Don't think just because they failed miserably to provide the same apps 
on phones and desktops that we have heard the last of Microsoft or their 
concept. Maybe they will figure out how to do it right, or someone else 
will. Eventually they will all merge and until they do, the need to 
constantly improve your hardware and software will keep pushing the 
leading edge farther and farther away.


Bear in mind that users in the US, which is currently the largest 
smartphone market, do not actually buy cellphones. They buy a year or 
two year service contract which includes the hardware. When the contract 
is done, they move on to a new phone.  So in order to attract customers 
to upgrade, the phones have to upgrade their apps and capabilities.




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Re: Chinese KitKat


On 1/6/2014 12:02 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
We are not discussing past-EOL versions here, so the implicit 
assumption is that critical security updates are provided, without 
downgrading functionality. 


But they are not. While very few companies are providing Android 4 
upgrades for Android two phones, are any still upgrading Android 2? When 
was the last time your phone had an operating system patch or fix?


Any problems or vulnerabilities that were there two years ago, are still 
there and are going to stay there.


To comment on another post, do you know if those upgrades offered for 
apps would actually work on your phone, or the upgrade checker just sees 
a new version and offers it to you?


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Re: Chinese KitKat


On 1/6/2014 12:56 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
AFAIK, there is no indication (not that I check obsessively) that 
Gingerbread went the way of XP [chuckle]. You said yourself that you 
see 2.x devices being sold today. Personally, I know I am behind on 
the patchlevel, but upgrading is a MUCH bigger risk than any security 
concerns, given my experience and my usage pattern. To explain, when 
you look you find that many existing vulnerabilities (not all) exist 
assuming you install and run applications that exploit them. This is 
simply not very likely for me. Stuff where opening a specially crafted 
SMS pwns your phone is very rare indeed.


From what I can tell, they are all gone today. There were some 
available in June when I first looked at a phone, and BUG had only one 
model for sale at chanuka, when I looked again.


You may find one using ZAP, but I doubt it is anything except NOS (new, 
old stock).


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Re: Feedback about HOT as an isp


On 1/5/2014 6:01 PM, Michael Ben-Nes wrote:

Hi,

Seems like I need to replace my unstable ADSL line :(

Can any one tip me how good is the Hot cables 100mb service? 
stability\speed


If it's 15 megabit or below, you've probably been upgraded to NGN. NGN 
uses vDSL equipment which can run (poorly) in aDSL-2 emulation mode. 
Instead of informing people of the problem, they just wait for them to 
call and sell them a faster line in vDSL mode with a vDSL modem.


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Re: Feedback about HOT as an isp


On 1/5/2014 6:01 PM, Michael Ben-Nes wrote:

Hi,

Seems like I need to replace my unstable ADSL line :(

Can any one tip me how good is the Hot cables 100mb service? 
stability\speed


I forgot to mention that HOT is both an infrastructure provider AND an 
ISP. You can get one or the other, or both.


The fine print on the 100 NIS a month deal advertised in Friday's Yediot 
was 100megabit download internet, a telephone and cable TV, but it DID 
NOT INLCUDE THE ISP fees.


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Re: Feedback about HOT as an isp


On 1/5/2014 10:06 PM, Mord Behar wrote:



Also remember that HOT uses co-ax cable and not DSL lines, so they 
really can't give you any kind of assurances as to upload/download 
speed. It depends on how man people in your area are connected to the 
cable and how much they are using the internet at any given time.
That's both untrue and not true. HOT (actually 4 cable companies that 
merged to become HOT) got into the game so late that there 
infrastructure is fiber optic cable, not coax. Their fiber optic cable 
is leased from BEZEQ.


They use fiber optic cable to connect to their local distribution point 
(aka on your block) and then coax to connect to your home.


BEZEQ, now that NGN has been deployed throught (most of) the country, 
uses fiber optic cable to your block and then copper to your home. In 
some places where there is lots of existing copper wire to switching 
offices, they run copper all the way to switch for VOICE and overlay 
vDSL on your block.


aDSL is dead here, it has been replaced with vDSL equipment which can 
run at 15 megabits or below in aDSL-2 compatibility mode, although poorly.


Personally I don't know how long that the overlay is going to last, 
there is more than enough scrap value in the copper wire to make it 
worth replacing it all with fiber end to end.


Since they are primarily a TV service, they use DOCISS to emulate IP. 
BEZEQ uses ATM and emulates ethernet. Both are switched packet networks, 
and neither bear any resemblance to IP.


As for upload/download speed, BEZEQ and HOT both overcommit their 
bandwidth. The most BEZEQ will guarantee, is 20mbit download/1.5mbit 
upload. If you buy a vDSL line with higher bandwith, you are competing 
with your neighbors.


Then of course, your ISP does not have 20megabits per second of incoming 
or outgoing bandwidth reserved for you. When things get busy, your 
available bandwidth goes down.


You can of course buy real fiber to your home, and get real bandwidth to 
your ISP, and dedicated bandwidth to anywhere in the world you want to 
pay for it. It's not cheap. It used to be about $1000/month per megabyte 
to the US, I hope by now it has gotten cheaper.


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Re: Chinese KitKat


On 1/6/2014 2:26 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:

Sounds a bit harsh. A device cannot possibly become less useful with
time than it was when you bought it (barring a HW malfunction). If it
did then what it says on the tin it will still do it now, won't it?
Without any new software...


Eventually apps stop working.  Android is based on the idea that you buy 
an app from someone, and it automatically updates when new versions come 
out. Even apps that cost $0.00 (free).  So an app developer can be 
reasonably sure that if he changes the protocol in version 1.3 that by 
version 1.5 he can drop the old protocol.


Since most apps connect to a server for something, whether it be 
authentication, information shared or received or both, and so on, they 
just start to die of old age. The answer is to update them. And there 
lies the rub.


For example, the big releases of Android were 2 and 4. Android 3, does 
not seem to exist in the wild as it were. I am sure it did at one time, 
and there were major changes between Android 2 and 3. So all Android 2 
devices, almost all 2 year old cell phones, can no longer buy or update 
an app.


I laugh every time I see someone selling an Android 2 phone. The price 
they are asking will get you a similar set of hardware running Android 4 
brand new. It also comes with a brand new battery, and since these 
phones need to be charged daily, a two year old phone has a battery with 
about 700 charge cycles on it, which means it may need to be replaced or 
if not now, soon.


No manufacturer is updating their Android 2 phones to Android 4, however 
most Android 4.1/4.2 phones (Jellybean) are giving their owns the option 
to update to 4.4 (KitKat).


So yes, the phones become less useful, and eventually no use at all.


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Re: Chinese KitKat


On 1/6/2014 6:45 AM, shimi wrote:



That is an interesting claim; Given that my Galaxy S2, originally 
running 2.3.4 (Gingerbread), now runs 4.1.2 (Jellybean) with a *stock* 
ROM from the manufacturer...
There are exceptions to every rule, and anyone, myself included who does 
not say almost, or many, etc, will on occasion be proved wrong.


So more properly said MOST manufacturers are not going to provide an 
upgrade from Android 2 to Android 4 for their phones.


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Re: Chinese KitKat