Re: FAX Modems?

2021-01-10 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
I did some research. USB modems use the Conexant (now owned by Rockwell) chipset. The drivers are propietary. There used to be freeware reverse engineered drivers and the other option was to use Dell windows drivers using the windows driver compatability package. They may not be compatible with

Re: FAX Modems?

2021-01-09 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
win modems are (were) PCI hardware. Standalone modems are not winmodems. There is a USB modem standard. They dont include linux compatability in their specs because as far as they are concerned no one uses linux. Geoff -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel

Re: FAX Modems?

2021-01-09 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
Around 2002 when I first got a cable modem, I set up a pentium 133 running linux as a mail server, dns server, dhcp server, etc for my local network. I attached a modem to it and set up a hylafax server. I just looked at the current system that runs the same things, and I dont think I have a

Re: FAX Modems?

2021-01-08 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
This is a frequent topic of discussion on Anglo facebook groups because olim arrive here and can not understand that faxes are still used here. The most common answer is to use an app on a smartphone or a web site. Both upload your document to a central server and fax from there. I wont even

Re: Coral TPU in Israel

2020-07-15 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
US is less than $60 > > > On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 at 08:30, Geoffrey Mendelson > > wrote: > > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/254370802145 > > > > > > Geoff > > > > > > -- > > > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerus

Re: Coral TPU in Israel

2020-07-14 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
https://www.ebay.com/itm/254370802145 Geoff -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel On Jul 15, 2020, 7:55 AM +0300, Meir Michanie , wrote: > Hi Linux-Il, > I am trying to get a TPU coral USB device but it seems that it doesn't ship > to Israel,...,North Korea.

Re: Connecting multiple external screens to Ubuntu Linux

2020-06-13 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
I answered a similar question by finding this: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/X380-USB-C-Dock-2-external-monitors/td-p/4309124 I hope it at least points you in the right direction. Geoff -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel On Jun

Re: Ubuntu

2020-06-10 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
I am running ubuntu lts 10.something on a server I am afraid will break. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel On Jun 10, 2020, 5:30 PM +0300, אורי , wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sorry for posting twice in the same day to the same mailing list. But I > have a

Re: New Modem Router Recommendations?

2020-05-21 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
I have a tp-link archer 600 router, I got from my ISP, and it does not reliably pass packets to and from the wifi and wired networks. Eventually, I will get around to replacing it. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel On May 21, 2020, 7:41 PM +0300,

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

2020-05-13 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
-- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel On May 13, 2020, 10:48 AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen , wrote: > > At the time IBM really wanted to continue developing its own fork of > OpenOffice and for that they did not want OpenOffice to continue with > the LibreOffice

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

2020-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
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. > > > > > > > > > > > > &g

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

2020-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
ipedia.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

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

2020-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
butions > > > > > 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 Jerusal

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

2020-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
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, > > > > > >

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. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379

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

how to copy an ubuntu system disk containing a logical volume.

2018-11-18 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
ies. Geoffrey Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ Jerusalem Israel ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

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

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:

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

2017-10-10 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
Bug and a few local shops they didn't sell that. > > If anyone is aware of SDR groups around please share :) > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- >From my

Re: Question about DOCX and open office

2017-09-17 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
ne : 972-77-5354006 > Mobile : 972-50-2885100 > Fax : 153-77-5348967 > www.softkol.com > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- >From my tabl

Re: Internet recommendations

2017-07-27 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
TH, > 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. > >> &g

Re: Internet recommendations

2017-07-23 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
ast), so >>>> will definitely look at this. >>>> >>>> Thanks again, >>>> >>>> Geoff. >>>> >>>> >>>> ___ >>>> Linux-il mailing list >>>> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >>>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >>>> >>> >>> >>> ___ >>> Linux-il mailing list >>> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >>> >>> >> >> ___ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- >From my tablet please pardon mistakes and lack of replies. Geoffrey Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ Jerusalem Israel ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Building a Linux-based Game Machine

2017-06-14 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
p me out with making it work. > >> > >> > >> Specific issues? > >> > >> > >>> I live in Haifa. > >>> Any thoughts / pointers / ideas / constructive criticism will be > appreciated. > >>> Am

Re: Building a Linux-based Game Machine

2017-06-13 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
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 ins

Re: Building a Linux-based Game Machine

2017-06-13 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
t; > Amichai Rotman. > > > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- >From my tablet please pardon mistakes and lack of replies. Geoffrey Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ Jerusalem Israel ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

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 Cohe

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,

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,

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

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

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. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ Jerusalem Israel. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

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

Re: LPI Certification

2015-06-10 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
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Re: LPI Certification

2015-06-10 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
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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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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. Geoff. --

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. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ Jerusalem Israel.

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. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ Jerusalem

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ Jerusalem Israel. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

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

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

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

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

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). Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ

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

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

Fwd: Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
Forgot to send to the list, with some additional information. Original Message 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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson
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,

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson
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

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson
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)

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson
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

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson
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

Re: Feedback about HOT as an isp

2014-01-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
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

Re: Feedback about HOT as an isp

2014-01-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
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

Re: Feedback about HOT as an isp

2014-01-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
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

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
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

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
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

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 1/6/2014 6:37 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: IIRC Android 3 was a tablet only version and the various sub-versions of 2 were/are for phones. That's probably the reason 3 has disappeared, since all the tablet specific stuff was merged into 4. Thanks, that explains it. I was wondering what

Chinese KitKat

2014-01-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
I have a Chinese Android tablet. It is a Kaya 10.1 inch tablet purchased from Office Depot. I can't find a website for Kaya, and Office Depot has closed, so tech support is as far as I can tell nonexistent. It's running Android 4.1, which just upgraded itself (no details on what was

Re: [YBA] High-end DSL modem

2013-12-08 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 12/8/2013 9:18 AM, Michael Tewner wrote: This may not be in the spirit of Linux-IL, but I was able to solve a lot of DSL annoyances by moving our small office to a Cisco 800-series ADSL+WiFi (provided as part of their BizNet service). The router performs rock-solid with uptime measure in

Re: OT: Cellular banking

2013-12-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 12/6/2013 11:00 AM, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: I do not trust the cellular companies ROM's - so I always switch to an open source one (like CM) There was a time no long ago where each ROM (even iPhone's) came with a rootkit to monitor ALL your activities on your phone. The real question,

Fwd: Re: Fwd: DVB-T and Linux updated.

2013-11-27 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 11/25/2013 4:16 PM, Erez D wrote: you can get the r820T version. on eithed dx.com http://dx.com or ebay for around 13 usd. Is it possible to install the kernel module from 3.11 on an older kernel (say 3.8)? If so how, the last time I compiled a kernel module, I had to compile the

Fwd: DVB-T and Linux updated.

2013-11-23 Thread geoffrey mendelson
This has been a long standing question and I have an answer. It may not be the only answer, but here is one that worked for me with a minimum of effort. I have spent more time, and here is more (hopefully useable) information. I am using Zorin 7 x86 version. (It's an UBUNTU derivative)

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