Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
) and if you give them a fixed IP address they work fine. Windows also supports printing over HTTP, so you can easily connect your windows system to CUPS. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 ___ Linux-il mailing list

Did anyone buy a Kaya 10 inch table from Office Depot?

2013-08-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
development kit. Anyone know exactly what the USB ports are for, and how to use them? It's running Android 4.1 Thanks in advance, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: Mobile phone question

2013-07-28 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Pelephone is still operating it's old network (EV-DO/CDMA2000) but aren't accepting new customers with that technology... Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: Mobile phone question

2013-07-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
our service, buy a 3g phone, while Golan is actively pushing customers to 2g phones. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: While we are on the subject of mobiles

2013-07-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
cable range of my asterisk system there is no reliable cell phone coverage. I bought a $15 antenna from China which is now out the window and on a railing, and it works perfectly. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379

Re: Canada's Start-up Visa

2013-07-22 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
wife is now a citizen. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: accounting software *free open source*

2013-07-07 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
be a CPA or a have a level 3 bookkeeper certificate in order to be legally able to enter the data into you approved (Open source or not) program. Has that restriction been lifted? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245

Re: accounting software *free open source*

2013-07-06 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
would be acceptable to them. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Suggestions for Hardware/driver WIFI combo that allows low level signal access

2013-07-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
, that would be covered by region 2 IARC rules and be aware that the FCC has a very active enforcement division and would be glad to slap you with a $10,000 fine for each violation they detect. Sorry. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379

Re: Suggestions for Hardware/driver WIFI combo that allows low level signal access

2013-07-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
but that is a completely different discussion that involves people that are allowed to do it and very custom (expensive) hardware. Way beyond this discussion. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il

Re: c/unix q

2013-06-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
not addressed. Of course I'm an old assembly language programmer, where everything is declared, nothing is left to default, and anything allocated or opened is explicitly freed or closed when you are done with it. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 It's Spring

Re: Linux Consultant

2013-05-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
implications, you have to pay taxes based on the income being above your current income. You should also look at your current contract, you may have agreed not to work for anyone else. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 It's Spring here in Jerusalem

Re: filesystem capable of deduping tar.gz's content

2013-05-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 It's Spring here in Jerusalem!!! ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

2013-04-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
problems, the people that support the routers have actual training in data communications and access to test equipment. The windows dialer support people are basically reading from a script. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 It's Spring here in Jerusalem

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

2013-04-01 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
connection is 100mBit and gets split at the corner to DSL lines. So your actual DSL connection is a most a few hundred meters, and often a lot less. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 It's Spring here in Jerusalem

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

2013-04-01 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
failures, and they are not mutually exclusive. Or in plain English, if your felafel tastes bad, it may be the felafel, it may be the pita, it may be the salads, or it may be a combination of any or all of them. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 It's Spring here

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

2013-04-01 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
or resistor's electrical value will result in major tuning changes, causing signals to degrade. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 It's Spring here in Jerusalem!!! ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: DID/SIP provider in Israel

2013-02-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 It's Spring here in Jerusalem!!! ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-26 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
in the process of porting it to DD-WRT routers and the Raspberry Pi. They are having problems because the single USB port does not provide enough bandwidth In my case it may be possible as I only want to go one direction, they were going two. Thanks again to everyone. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S

Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-24 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
ports, or one USB port spilt with an on board hub? Thanks in advance, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Gung Hay Fat Choy! (May the new year be prosperous). ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

X10 type home automation

2013-02-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
more if I have to. Thanks in advance, for any information. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Gung Hay Fat Choy! (May the new year be prosperous). ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: [OT somewhat] DDOS attacks, where to report?

2013-01-26 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Netvision to 012 to access anything. I have lines to both and switch between them as I need performance. Usually I don't have to switch my DNS servers but this time I did. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Gung Hay Fat Choy! (May the new year be prosperous

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-22 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
, sometimes, especially with Facebook, it just gets stuck. Clicking refresh brings the page up quickly. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 If it's farther than groundwave, it's DX. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play chopsticks on the piano as a child and thinking you're a musician. (sent to me by a friend) ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
with lots of features of UBUNTU, until last night it never failed to run. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play chopsticks on the piano as a child and thinking you're a musician. (sent to me by a friend

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
always worked (as far a graphics are concerned) perfectly on all three systems. As soon as I restored the Friday afternoon backup, it worked perfectly. It was from UBUNTU 12.10 installed Thursday. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Owning a smartphone: Technology's

A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-29 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
removing my gnome setting directory and it did not help. The old options of a failsafe session or a lower res or 2d session are gone. I'm trying plan B, which is to install KDE and see if it works. Luckily I have a fast internet connection, it download around 500 packages. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
to promise not to use the 5gHz and the ones sold here will have it removed, or it's ok to use the 5gHz. Geoff. * You are limited to 100m EIRP (radiated power) here by law, so those high power (200mw) wifi cards or external gain antennas are illegal to use. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM

Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
a distro with a low res slow display or no mouse, but I can't work without networking. On the other hand, I am still looking for a $10 USB DVB-T tuner dongle with Liunux support. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-26 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
with them. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play chopsticks on the piano as a child and thinking you're a musician. (sent to me by a friend) ___ Linux-il mailing

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-25 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
they are long gone. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play chopsticks on the piano as a child and thinking you're a musician. (sent to me by a friend) ___ Linux

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-25 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Dotan Cohen wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand. I'm looking for a place to buy a computer. That part I did understand. What I did NOT understand is how can a retail vendor of computers warranty

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
for long term failure statistics, I would be careful using the old ones. BTW, in an unrelated discussion somewhere else two days ago, several professional sysadmins I know recommended OpenIndiana (an open source fork of Solaris) and ZFS for home NAS's. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ

Re: Looking for recommendations: sending SMSs from linux

2012-10-29 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
of the connection, and load and unload the module with asterisk commands. Only slightly related, I found that my unlimited SMS plan only covers SMSs to Israeli phones. It's about 1/2 a shequel to SMS overseas, even to numbers that include unlimited calls. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ

Re: Wireless USB dongle

2012-10-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Michael Shiloh wrote: do you know what the chipset and driver is? The Chinese one is an RTL8191S. The EdiMax RTL8187ZSE. Both work fine out of the box on Ubuntu 12.04. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning

Re: Wireless USB dongle

2012-10-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
including postage. They include a 6dbi antenna, which extends the range, and gives you more flexibility in positioning it. If you are: http://www.bug.co.il/prodtxt.asp?id=11235 Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent

Re: “In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword” - New York Times Feature

2012-10-11 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Shlomi Fish wrote: “Pearl” was chosen after the Parable of the Pearl from the Gospel of Matthews: If we are being pedantic, it's The Gospel of Matthew, or Matthew's Gospel. There was only one of them. (Matthew or gospel). Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379

Re: “In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword” - New York Times Feature

2012-10-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
applications because the cost of software development plummeted. It even went farther down as cheap markets, e.g. Israel, India and China opened up. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play chopsticks

Re: ???In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature

2012-10-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
sum when you consider that they bought more than 17,000 active and 7,500 pending patents. Google calculator tells me that's $265,000 for each patent, which is pretty cheap considering it supposed to cover the costs of the developers, patent fees, lawyers, etc. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson

Bphone Asterisk Hack?

2012-09-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
were well over $100. :-( TIA. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: mobile service providers updates

2012-08-07 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
, it was never updated. I have not used a username nor password. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: sms via icq with the new mobile companies

2012-08-06 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On 8/6/12 10:39 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Aug 05, 2012, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about Re: sms via icq with the new mobile companies: So not only check your bill carefully, but before you start sending lots of free SMSs, make sure it does not cost you to receive them. In Israel, you

Re: sms via icq with the new mobile companies

2012-08-05 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
for some models of Nokia phones, connected via USB or Bluetooth. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: alcatel X220

2012-07-29 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Chromebook 3G in Israel.

2012-07-25 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
does and has for almost 4 years, but Google may have left the drivers out. Is there a way to find out? Thanks in advance, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: Cell net use at home

2009-02-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
not. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Cell net use at home

2009-02-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:20:39PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I just bought a D-Link DIR-320: 300 NIS, Wifi, USB printer server, runs all the Linux firmware. I'm so happy that I made it a cake. What kind? More importantly, where did you buy it? Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson

Re: Cell net use at home

2009-02-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
to find is a way of playing live streaming Animal Planet and Discovery SCIENCE now that YES has dropped them. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: Cell net use at home

2009-02-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:36:10PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: But for streaming video you have to be sitting at the computer! I have files I can put on a USB key and plug into the DVD player connected tot he TV in the public areas of the house instead of inviting everyone into my

Re: Cell net use at home

2009-02-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
the firmware yet (still D-Link original) as it fits my needs. I'd go for it but I'm in Jerusalem. Anyone on the list willing to deliver it? Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing

Re: Sattelite TV and linux (not neccesarily YES)

2009-02-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
the Internet (signal piracy). Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: SanDisk Cruzer micro 8Gb and Ubuntu, GNU/Linux

2009-02-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
as well. Much recommended. Can you just mount the raw device and reformat it? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
scare away the average new user. As for writing a driver, it's not a noob thing, it's not even an expert thing. I expect that the number of people who have even read a driver's source code on this list could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g

Re: Sattelite TV and linux (not neccesarily YES)

2009-02-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Netvision: The early-disconnect fees! 40 NIS * 11 months = 800 NIS fees!

2009-02-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
a month) and no commitment on the service (60 NIS a month). Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Netvision: The early-disconnect fees! 40 NIS * 11 months = 800 NIS fees!

2009-02-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
into effect Jan 1, you may have new legal rights. IMHO you should call/fax/email the CEO of Netvision. Stop dealing with flunkies. Maybe the new government will have a communications minister who cares about such things, until then a complaint to them still may do something. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S

Re: Netvision: The early-disconnect fees! 40 NIS * 11 months = 800 NIS fees!

2009-02-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. Remmeber the whole thread on redundant multiple connections via different ISP and infrastructure providers? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: No noobs?

2009-02-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
subscribe to that list and help out. I don't, I prefer to spend my online time helping new and prospective olim, so I don't. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
that explaining that to a new user is really going to inspire confidence, no matter who nicely it is put. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: Rotal Seimens Router Firmware.

2009-02-14 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 01:39:04PM +, Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote: Where do we find this upgrade? I'm on the Israel Mac user's list. Someone there found it, and put it the files section. I think he got it from BEZEQ. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com

Re: Rotal Seimens Router Firmware.

2009-02-14 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
it and then have to send someone out with a new router. Note that when I did it, I found my WIFI password changed. :-( I don't actually have an aDSL line, so I can't tell you if it affected things. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM

Re: ??????????: ??????????????

2009-02-13 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 01:06:56PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Thanks, Moshe, but my problem is not low speeds, but rather disconnects. If you have the Rotal/Seimens router that Bezeq gives out, there is a firmware upgrade for it. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g

Re: Setting up a PBX for Israel-US communication

2009-02-12 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: how to MD5 sum a DVD without copying it.

2009-02-12 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. So I was able to tell that the copies I burned were identical. but not that they matched the original. For those that don't know, some CD and DVD drives have trouble writting a few specific bit patterns. Look up weak sectors for more information. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g

how to MD5 sum a DVD without copying it.

2009-02-11 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hi, I want to make an MD5 checksum of a DVD ROM to verify that it was burned properly. Is there a way to do this without making an ISO file from it? While I obivously have to read it, I don't want to do anything with the data other than calculate the checksum. Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S

Re: Setting up a PBX for Israel-US communication

2009-02-11 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Overzealous RBL blocks entire bezeqint range.

2009-02-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
postings a day, to around 100 postings a month. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Identifying linux-il messages

2009-02-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
tradition of the Internet, me too. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-07 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
from outside of Israeli? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-06 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
to the neighbor's wireless! My only neighbor with a wireless network has the poor taste to use WPA. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-05 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
momement from the proper routing, it's more just keeping things going when a failure occurs. They used to be short, now they are several hours or more. Geoff, -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing

Re: Ubuntu Dok

2009-02-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
, and an external USB DVD drive. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
could not get a decent upload speed without it when I upgraded last. I expect by now you can get better download and upload speeds with the regular service. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il

Orange as a landline ISP

2009-02-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
traffic shaping, or limits. The Orange deal is a good one based soley on reducing my cell phone bill. If I can get decent Internet access on top of it, it's a big saving. It also happens to be down as I write this and has been for almost 6 hours. Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem

Re: The new linux-il - a few tips to get you (re)started

2009-01-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
, mail.app, outlook, outlook excess or anything else. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: The new linux-il - a few tips to get you (re)started

2009-01-28 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
a reply to the sender directly and one to the list, I get 3 or 4 bounce messages because I don't subscribe to those extra lists. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
support 16:9, but if you want HD, you have to rent another decoder (at 40 NIS a month). I looked at that almost 3 years ago and decided that a YES MAX was a better deal, augmented now with bit torrent and streaming video. YMMV. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
in April. I say may because when the Kenesset wanted to include channel 9 (Russian language Israeli commerical channel), both HOT and YES said they would go out of business if they did, they dropped it. Expect there to be legal challenges. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:23:06PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Are you saying that I'm wrong in assuming that my existing analogue cards won't work with YES? YES. Well, actually probably. It depends upon the outputs the decoder box has the inputs the card has. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 07:13:15AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:23:06PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Are you saying that I'm wrong in assuming that my existing analogue cards won't work with YES? YES. Well, actually probably. It depends upon the outputs

MSI Wind 100

2008-12-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
I'm thinking of getting an MSI Wind 100. Does anyone one the list have one running Linux? I've done some research and found that Ubuntu runs on it. Any advice? Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Daily Maily Spam

2008-12-10 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail

Re: [OFFTOPIC] date format rant (was: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Daily Maily Spam)

2008-12-10 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
the coronation of the current emperor. For all I know they still use it. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe

Re: looking for job

2008-11-10 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ISPs

2008-11-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
/v228529bsahSjBA Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL

Strange cups problem

2008-11-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
the CUPS forums and done general web searches, and found nothing. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

cellular modems

2008-11-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
? And of course, which cellular modems are supported by Linux and at what speeds? Thanks in advance, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cellular modems

2008-11-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Galgalatz from Linux/Firefox?

2008-10-31 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Is there a Galalatz stream that can be heard from Linux? I'd prefer just a url I can feed into mplayer, but a URL that works with FireFox would be ok? Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM

Re: Free Crossover

2008-10-28 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 06:54:22AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Codeweavers is for today only, giving away a version of Crossover for free. They changed the procedure. It looks like to me that if you asked for a serial number before or downloaded the trial verson, you have to ask

Re: ISPs

2008-10-28 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
month. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
ethernet port on the LAN side, not 4. It is connected to an internal 5 port hub, so you get 4 LAN ports to plug things into, but the router part only sees one port. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
keep track of ping times from your computer to the gateway host versus something on the other side of the tunnel, e.g. DNS, you can track where the problem lies. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM

Re: router compatibility (was Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable))

2008-10-10 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
want to get creative, run Tomato on it. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
not VoIP. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 11:03:25AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: As for reliability, service and speed, the best thing to do is to call HOT and ask for their business internet sales office. They offer higher speeds, better reliabilty and they will come and fix problems a lot better

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
a business class connection with basic cable and a voice line for a cheap price. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Re: Connecting two Linux Desktops simultaneously to the Internet

2008-10-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
the demand, supplying spare parts or support for them, etc. As a cheap router, there are lots of them sold new in the 250 NIS range if you shop around, can any of them be opened up? Do any of them have a direct aDSL connection, or are they all ethernet on the WAN side? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson

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