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
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
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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
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
US is less than $60
>
> > On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 at 08:30, Geoffrey Mendelson
> > wrote:
> > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/254370802145
> > >
> > > Geoff
> > >
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/254370802145
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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.
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.
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On Jun
I am running ubuntu lts 10.something on a server I am afraid will break.
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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
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.
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On May 21, 2020, 7:41 PM +0300,
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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
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
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
> > >
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butions
>
>
>
> > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 9:00 AM Geoffrey Mendelson
> > wrote:
> > > Support antisemitism. Use Linux Mint.
> > >
> > > Geoff
> > >
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Support antisemitism. Use Linux Mint.
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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 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
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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
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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
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:
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
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.
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
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
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.
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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>
> 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
ast), so
>>>> will definitely look at this.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again,
>>>>
>>>> Geoff.
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p me out with making it work.
> >>
> >>
> >> Specific issues?
> >>
> >>
> >>> I live in Haifa.
> >>> Any thoughts / pointers / ideas / constructive criticism will be
> appreciated.
> >>> Am
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
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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
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,
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,
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
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
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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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
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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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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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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.
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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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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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