Re: Is forbidding concurrent ssh sessions a good idea?

2012-11-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/11/12 Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:51:46PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012, Elazar Leibovich wrote about Re: Is forbidding concurrent ssh sessions a good idea?: While I can certainly see what's broken with it for using a

Re: Is forbidding concurrent ssh sessions a good idea?

2012-11-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/11/12 Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 06:32:25PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: +1 for tmux, this does however imply that all the admins are using the same account to login (bad scenario) with or instead the tmux/screen line should be added at the end

Re: mysql vs mysqli vs pdo (php) Q

2012-12-02 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Personally I like PDO a lot. mysql_ should definitely be avoided, but as far as I always understood mysqli_ is the alternative to PDO for those people who don't like Object oriented stuff... PDO is afaik an official part of php and the recommended way to interact with a db so I have a hard time

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-04 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/12/4 vordoo vor...@yahoo.com: On 2012-12-04 13:37, Mord Behar wrote: So in my opinion, unless you're completely broke, and/or treating this as nothing more than an educational experience, building a NAS out of old equipment is waste of your energy. Unless you hook them up to a

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-04 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
4, 2012 8:36 AM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: 2012/12/4 vordoo vor...@yahoo.com: On 2012-12-04 13:37, Mord Behar wrote: So in my opinion, unless you're completely broke, and/or treating this as nothing more than an educational experience, building a NAS out of old

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/12/5 Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com: Hello, Nadav, Instead, I decided to buy a 2-terabyte WD My Book Live for $160. For this price, I got both the 2TB hard-disk and a tiny (ARM- based server in one package. What do you mean by ARM-based server here ? I don't sure I understand. Does

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/12/5 vordoo vor...@yahoo.com: On 2012-12-05 12:48, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: 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 Yep, I like

Re: OT: creating disk image from existing disk for VirtualBox

2012-12-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/12/6 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il: On Thu, Dec 06, 2012, Mord Behar wrote about Re: OT: creating disk image from existing disk for VirtualBox: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:26 PM, David Suna da...@davidsconsultants.comwrote: I have an old hard disk which ran Windows XP. I would

Re: [YBA] phabricator?

2012-12-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Looks cool, never tried it, but I second the question any users on this list? שבוע טוב וחנוכה שמח, Eliyahu - אליהו 2012/12/7 Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il: Hi colleagues, Any of you using this: http://phabricator.org/? Shabbat Shalom, - yba -- EE 77 7F 30 4A 64 2E C5 83 5F E7

Looking for a job in the Jerusalem area

2012-12-23 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Hi all, I hope this is not considered an unacceptable use of the list, and if it is please forgive me. Recently I sadly lost my job, so I am looking for a new employer. I am an experienced Linux sys-architect/admin (roughly 8 years experience), since I am still a student in Jerusalem I would

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
at /boot/efi and _not_ at /boot, you can have a separate /boot too though) - The disk needs to use got and not a dos partiton table etc. Basically a lot of our skills at booting a system have become obsolete... Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2012/12/26 E.S. Rosenberg e...@g.jct.ac.il: What problems did

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Generally the linux drivers cover an equally large if not larger spectrum... I have an Atheros chip from that family on my laptop, it required me to install one more package for wired communication (wireless [different chip, also atheros] worked out of the box): 03:00.0 Ethernet controller:

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/12/26 Baruch Siach bar...@tkos.co.il: Hi Eliyahu, On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 03:45:27PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: Generally the linux drivers cover an equally large if not larger spectrum... Of course. But there is no guarantee that the covered range exactly overlaps the Windows driver

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/12/26 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:45 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: Generally the linux drivers cover an equally large if not larger spectrum... I have an Atheros chip from that family on my laptop, it required me to install one more

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
? regards, Rami Rosen http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:29 AM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: Note that that is a meta-package that installs the kernel specific package, so

Re: Dictation software - Hebrew, Linux or Free

2012-12-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I also found that using a keyboard that does not have the Hebrew letter stickers on it has forced me to know the Hebrew layout by heart. 2012/12/27 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012, Steve G. wrote about Dictation software - Hebrew, Linux or Free: So, I am looking

Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Call me old fashioned but why start yet another such database instead of contributing to existing efforts? 2012/12/27 Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name: Amichai Rotman wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 15:05:58 +0200: Hello, It would've been nice to start a website where people could refer to

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
The GMA950 was very problematic in the beginning and clearly still has it's issues. Generally intel graphics are very well supported however be aware that some of the new (or about to be released) intel CPUs will feature GPUs based on the powerVR architecture which has *lousy* support on linux

Re: hebrew (or arabic) transparency to call up when i forget key location?

2012-12-30 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Have you tried to see what happens when your layout is set to Hebrew/Arabic, if the feature is to help you know where the keys are then it should show in those languages when the keyboard is set to that layout. Though it may also be meant as a touch-screen feature allowing for easy super+[key]

Re: hebrew (or arabic) transparency to call up when i forget key location?

2012-12-30 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
(Either way, ubuntu unity, gnome3 and most other DEs feature onscreen keyboards that can be set to any layout, so you can use those as your onscreen map) 2012/12/31 E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il: Have you tried to see what happens when your layout is set to Hebrew/Arabic

Re: SSD drives

2013-01-01 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
If it's encrypted with a good strength cypher and keylength then what are you worried about, they just have to return the encrypted blob to you? 2013/1/1 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Baruch Even bar...@ev-en.org wrote: A good SSD must have enough

Re: SSD drives

2013-01-03 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I don't know if Intel uses this but as I recall it VIA claims to use certain quantum effects as sources of entropy: http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/padlock/hardware.jsp 2013/1/3 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il: On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Michael Shiloh wrote about Re: SSD drives: perhaps

Re: Off topic, but only a little since it's about hardware

2013-01-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Thinkgeek carries a wide variety, some with solar cells to re-charge the battery. And I think by now it's mainstream enough that you can also find it on amazon. שבוע טוב, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/1/5 shimi linux...@shimi.net: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Steve G. word...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I think xkcd summed it up very well for all those that are afraid of secret services, you are the weakest link: http://xkcd.com/538/ 2013/1/6 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com If someone is really concerned about NSA knowing their random seed through Intel's hardware implementation - can't

Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE] Introduction to Flash Memory -- Leon Romanovsky

2013-01-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Hi all, Is anyone going by car from Jerusalem to this lecture tomorrow? And do you have room? Thanks, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/1/5 Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il: On Monday, January 7th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Leon Romanovsky: Introduction to Flash Memory Abstract

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-22 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Even though you say it is not your DNS provider, please note that unless you manually set something else the Bezeq modem are notoriously unreliable in my experience, they can be acting fine with one computer in their network and almost completely barring access from another machine.

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-22 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Could it be that you have a lot of traffic coming out of your station and you are running out of available tcp/udp ports (in bridged mode the VMs would not be using ports as their traffic is practically direct with the NIC, but in NAT mode they would be taking up TCP/UDP ports on your host

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-24 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
The TSecr value/field in the return packet from google is wrong, it should be identical to the timestamp you sent and it is not. 2013/1/24 shimi linux...@shimi.net On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.bizwrote: Hail the conquering hero! Color me dumbfounded.

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-24 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
From the RFC (http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/rfc/rfc1323.txt): TCP Timestamps Option (TSopt): Kind: 8 Length: 10 bytes +---+---+-+-+ |Kind=8 | 10 | TS Value (TSval) |TS Echo Reply (TSecr)|

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

2013-01-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
The customer/the ISP can purchase specialized firewalls to defend against DOS/DDOS attacks. The subject of the attack can try to approach the local police and in some cases they will work on taking down the botnet, see for instance Dutch police, FBI and other European forces spending time on

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

2013-01-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
the question? - yba On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, shimi wrote: Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:11:24 +0200 From: shimi linux...@shimi.net To: Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il Cc: E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il, ILUG linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: [OT somewhat] DDOS attacks, where

Re: [OT] Troubleshooting Bezeq Int'l problems

2013-01-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
That sounds 100% like an Anti-Virus Gateway messing with your traffic, did you request this service? 2013/1/27 Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com Hi, I've not experienced either the incomplete downloads or site blocking. I have noticed in recent weeks that I have a lot of trouble connecting

Re: [OT] Troubleshooting Bezeq Int'l problems

2013-01-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I know for a fact that NV use fortigate (at least last I noticed it about a month ago) and you can request it to be disabled/disabled selectively for services. On the errorpages depending on how much effort they stuck in them you may be able to determine the vendor by looking at the source.

Re: [OT] Troubleshooting Bezeq Int'l problems

2013-01-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
, 27 Jan 2013, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: That sounds 100% like an Anti-Virus Gateway messing with your traffic, did you request this service? uh no. Curious to know why you think this. I'm not saying you're wrong of course. Geoff

Re: Hebrew (other languages) in Cinnamon?

2013-01-31 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Installing the localizations and setting language to hebrew like in gnome2/3 doesn't work? system-settings language support 2013/1/31 Dan Bar Dov bar...@gmail.com I started to use Cinnamon desktop on my Ubuntu 12.04LTS. Does anyone know how to add hebrew support? (hebrew keyboard input).

languages in ubuntu

2013-01-31 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
This has been bugging me for ages: On all my ubuntu systems some form of chinese seems to be installed, but when going through the intall/remove language menu I don't find any hint of such a language being installed (and thus removable), anyone know what causes that? Thanks, Eliyahu - אליהו

Re: languages in ubuntu

2013-02-04 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
So it turns out - surprise surprise - that it's some type of minor bug, has something to do with certain conflicting configurations, locale-gen --purge Makes the chinese go away, I wonder what it is, because I always get it on my systems... Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/2/1 E.S. Rosenberg esr

Re: XP iso for virtual machine

2013-02-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
IIRC running XP inside a VM is illegal by definition (the license doesn't allow it), no-one ever cared. By now XP is not being sold at all, during win 7 sales you could purchase windows 7 professional with a downgrade option to windows XP through enterprise channels, I don't think that exists for

Re: X10 type home automation

2013-02-09 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/2/9 Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com Long ago, in a time before Linux existed, in a place far, far, away, I had a home automation system. It used X10 modules sold by a company called BSR (which was only related to the British company because at one time they sold BSR

Re: Developing custom Ubuntu live system

2013-02-17 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Unless you are not limited by the size of the CD (which your insistence on an ISO seems to suggest) you will not be able to keep a vanilla ubuntu disc anyhow since it already requieres slight overburn so if you want to add even more you are either looking at DVDs or at removing other programs, and

Re: Replacing Firmware on the Siemens Orange Netbox

2013-02-23 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
OpenWRT lists it as not fully supported yet, but their site and forums are probably some of the better sources for information on the subject: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/siemens/gigaset604il If you manage to get usable source from orange you may be able to assist th openwrt in getting the device

Re: Driver for Canon Pixma MX375 All in one

2013-03-03 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
The easiest way is to check the openprinting database or uncle google for good support of your OS before purchasing the device. http://www.canon.com.sg/personal/search?q=pixma+mx370filter=p lists drivers for Linux (deb/rpm), OS X and Windows. Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/3/3 Michael Shiloh

Re: Advice: horde, roundcube, squirrelmail

2013-03-10 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
We had an old horde install, in the end we just upgraded that, the new horde is really nice, has a good AJAX interface, good interfaces for cell phone etc. and can be installed and kept up to date using pear. I can't say I looked enough at the other solutions to tell you which one is better.

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

2013-04-01 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/4/2 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Guy Gold guy1g...@gmail.com wrote: If Dotan connects a laptop to the modem's LAN port, instead of the router, and the same issues keep happening, doesn't that clear the router from being the culprit ? Seeing

Re: Online collaboration

2013-04-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
There's tons of FOSS groupware/cms solutions out there, but I assume you already knew that and were looking for our experiences with the different solutions. Since I have only read reviews I can only refer you to articles like these: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/7289/1

Re: OT: mailbox generator

2013-04-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Not just here, also in the US, and Europe they can search computer/storage devices without a warrant when passing the border 2013/4/25 E.S. Rosenberg e...@g.jct.ac.il: Not just here, also in the US, and Europe they can search computer/storage devices without a warrant when passing

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

2013-05-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/5/8 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Disclaimer: I am definitely not an expert on the subject matter and I hardly know what I am talking about (in this case?). Creativity is no substitute for knowing what you

Re: Cloud Backup

2013-05-19 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I think Shachar is missing one point about S3 and similar amazon services. You are assuming that amazon created infrastructure specifically for S3. S3 and other products is amazon renting off it's over-capacity, as such it *pays* for amazon to have a very reliable and stable infrastructure

Jolla phone

2013-05-28 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Normally I don't do this, but I was wondering, any other people here pre-ordering? I ask because with sufficient demand they may actually officially distribute it here... Background info: Jolla are mainly people that used to work on nokia's Linux based OS (which has had different names over the

Re: Jolla phone

2013-05-28 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/5/28 Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name: E.S. Rosenberg wrote on Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:52:56 +0300: Normally I don't do this, but I was wondering, any other people here pre-ordering? I've got them earmarked on my May be a good option; review them after they have released some

Re: c/unix q

2013-06-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
re:all, forgot to change my from field. 2013/6/6 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:04 PM, E.S. Rosenberg e...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: 2013/6/6 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: On 04/06/13 15:28

Re: c/unix q

2013-06-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/6/6 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:29 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: re:all, forgot to change my from field. 2013/6/6 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:04 PM, E.S. Rosenberg e...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: 2013/6/6 Erez D

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-09 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/6/9 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: I am contemplating buying a Blu-Ray drive for connecting to a PC running Linux, and am currently clueless about the availability of desirable features at reasonable price and about Linux support. So if any of you has experience with Blu-Ray under Linux,

Re: Choosing a new bank

2013-06-09 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
As a private user I am fairly satisfied with Mizrahi, their website doesn't really give me problems except for one minor annoyance that they haven't fixed yet: - export of transaction history to excel (used to be csv, but now MS xlsx) is encoded in a way that I used to be able to fix using iconv

Re: Choosing a new bank

2013-06-10 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/6/10 Rabin Yasharzadehe ra...@rabin.io: Hi Dov, Bank Yahav, they are the same as Bank Hapoalim (they split up, but they still have the same site, and infrastructure) You must mean mizrahi, afaik they are a mizrahi daughter... (though they used to be related to poalim) and they have the

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/6/12 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: Thanks to all those who replied (both in private and to this mailing list) to my Blu-Ray questions. Turns out that for storing 1TB data, Blu-Ray is not cheaper than an external disk drive of equivalent storage capability. The only advantage of Blu-Ray

Re: Linux on Haswell

2013-06-21 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Seems phoronix ran benchmarks on haswell... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=haswell+linux 2013/6/21 Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com: Hello, I am thinking to buy a Haswell machine. Does anyone has any experience with Linux on Haswell? Can he/she describe which distro was installed? and were there any

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/6/27 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 10:14 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013, Omer Zak wrote about Re: Blu-Ray and Linux: external disk drive of equivalent storage capability. The only advantage of Blu-Ray would be immunity against EMP. Even then, I have

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

2013-07-02 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
From all the previous talk I understand I may be way out of my league but from managing campus Wifi networks I learned that Israel afaik allows channels 1 through 13, while it limits channels 1-4 iirc to indoor use only (god knows how the intended to enforce that one) 2013/7/2 Geoffrey S.

Re: Permissions to access USB camera under debian

2013-07-02 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
(re:all) 2013/7/2 Evgeniy Ginzburg nad@gmail.com: ls /dev/ before and after connecting camera let you determine which /dev/ nodes are creared. *if* device nodes are created... ls -l /dev/something gives you user and group this device node created under. id [username] gives you in which

Re: CLI Ripping (was Blu-Ray and Linux)

2013-07-03 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/7/3 vordoo vor...@yahoo.com: On 2013-06-27 10:14, Nadav Har'El wrote: I also ripped all the legally-bought CDs and DVDs I had at home (almost a 1000 of them, altogether) and now all of it is on the hard disk as well. I should be doing that too. Will appropriate CLI software

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-07-03 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/7/3 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il: On Wed, Jul 03, 2013, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about Re: Blu-Ray and Linux: Eh, I think that the problem is copying/sharing. You can record a 10 year old Dr. Who but you cannot give out copies of the recording to others. Even if they have had cable

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-07-03 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/7/3 Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il: On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 04:06:40PM +0300, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: I *don't* know if this is the case in Israel, I do know that jewish law does *not* recognize copyright and downloading is *not* considered theft, it is however definitely a moral

Re: accounting software *free open source*

2013-07-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/7/6 vordoo vor...@yahoo.com: On 2013-07-04 16:45, sara fink wrote: I would like to know which accounting software (besides linet) is accepted by Israeli tax authorities? Me too, but one that is not a proprietary web site, I would like to keep my data have the option to work

Re: accounting software *free open source*

2013-07-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
re:all 2013/7/7 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il: On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/7/2013 1:20 AM, Micha Feigin wrote: On the other hand as memory serves, you can run your books using an open source software and then submit the

Re: Canada's Start-up Visa

2013-07-23 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
What pray does this have to do with Linux in Israel? 2013/7/23 Dan Yasny dya...@gmail.com: Amazing, all this, while other people have to wait for years and years for the same citizenship On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: Mobile phone question

2013-07-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/7/27 shimi linux...@shimi.net: On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Zvi Grauer zvi.gra...@gmail.com wrote: I am a happy user of Samsung mini with android, and golan telecom service. However, my wife is looking for a better phone (we live abroad in the process of moving to Israel), and was

Re: Mobile phone question

2013-07-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/7/27 Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com: On 7/27/2013 9:59 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: I may be wrong but iirc the US like Israel established the right in law of the customer to have his/her phone unlocked/jailbroken without that affecting warranty... I don't think

Re: how to determine PSU wattage

2013-08-01 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/7/31 shimi linux...@shimi.net: On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Hi, Is there a way to determine the nominal PSU power without taking the computer apart (actually, preferably without powering it down)? Is there any vendor information that

Re: how to determine PSU wattage

2013-08-01 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/8/1 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: shimi linux...@shimi.net writes: Assuming you can indeed measure the consumption of ALL the components on your computer (which I believe you cannot) - you still need to account for energy being converted to plain heat inside the PSU itself. This

Re: how to determine PSU wattage

2013-08-01 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/8/1 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: shimi linux...@shimi.net writes: If you're looking for an equivalent PSU you must buy the exact same model - not same wattage... No, I wanted to plug in another PCIe card and I wanted to estimate roughly which models my existing PSU could

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

2013-08-04 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/8/4 Rabin Yasharzadehe ra...@rabin.io: I really don't recommend buying those cheap China's tables, because the lack of support and updates but in most cases, the Host port will allow you to mount a Flash Drive (AKA Disk-On-Key) which formatted as FAT32 (not exFAT!) in more advanced

Re: ctrl-C ctrl-V

2013-08-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/8/5 Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.com: I should have thought of that. I checked and the problem is only with 1 user. I compared all the settings in Kwrite for this user and another user and don't see any difference. BTW - I should have mentioned that this is ONLY in Kwrite and

Re: OOPS, I meant MFC-490CW (Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?)

2013-08-20 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I have to concur with Hetz, I have gone through absolute hell with non-hp printers and their support of drivers. HP at least has an officially supported OSS driver project and drivers that generally function The best is to use linuxprinting.org to check if the printer has good (preferably

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

2013-08-20 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/8/19 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com: snip beyond the blood-like ink prices /snip I'm pretty sure blood is actually cheaper then ink here in Israel (the price of one serving [a half a liter I think] of blood product for a hospital is about 178 NIS)

Re: KDE fading icon text

2013-08-22 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Talk to the KDE devs/mailing list/irc? They are smart people and when made aware of a problem I am sure they will want to solve it Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/8/22 Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.com: When the text under an icon on the KDE desktop is too long to fit, the last few

Re: KDE fading icon text

2013-08-23 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/8/23 Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:15 AM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: Talk to the KDE devs/mailing list/irc? I've gotten good, swift answers on IRC in the past. But also have waited several hours for an answer. It depends a lot on the time

Re: Watch out for Bezeq

2013-09-01 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
You don't use service specific passwords already? KeePassX makes it so easy... 2013/9/1 Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com: Just a general heads up: I recently registered on the Bezeq site in order to be able to view my receipts and stuff. When I signed up I provided a username and a password.

Re: Watch out for Bezeq

2013-09-02 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/9/2 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: Rabin Yasharzadehe ra...@rabin.io writes: On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Go sign up for Lastpass, my entire office is now using it. I lets you set up individual passwords for every site, and

Re: Debian Oldstable and Ubuntu 12.04 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

2013-09-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/9/7 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: I checked the timezone in two Linux machines. One of them is Debian Squeeze (which is now OldStable), and the other is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (12.04.3 LTS, Precise Pangolin - running in a virtual machine). I found to my horror that the timezone definitions in them

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
What puzzles me in this whole thing is that it seems to me tzdata updates should be available to all versions regardless of their production state, but it seems a lot of distros are locked to specific versions 2013/9/7 Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.com: I just checked my Mageia 3 and

Re: Debian Oldstable and Ubuntu 12.04 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

2013-09-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/9/8 guy keren guy.choo.ke...@gmail.com: On 09/07/2013 11:22 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: 2013/9/7 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: I checked the timezone in two Linux machines. One of them is Debian Squeeze (which is now OldStable), and the other is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (12.04.3 LTS, Precise

Re: [hopefully on topic] is SSH secure in default configuration?

2013-09-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/9/8 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: Hi, I am not hopeful to secure much of anything against the likes of NSA or GCHQ. However, my curiousity woke up when the latest NYT/Guardian/ProPublica pieces about NSA/GCHQ/friends compromising much of Internet encryption were accompanied by

Re: [hopefully on topic] is SSH secure in default configuration?

2013-09-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/9/8 Aviram Jenik avi...@jenik.com: I'm only taking a wild guess here. To be clear, I have no inside knowledge and my guess is probably as good as anyone else's. But if I had to bet this is where I would put my money. Either: 1. They have a 0-day against SSH (e.g. if you have ssh

Re: Booting HD without grub

2013-09-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
If I understand you correctly you want to make the system bootable again but you first want to do a dry run to make sure it works... So you take a modern livecd, a big external hdd and create a dd imagefile of the current disk and now you can play all you want even in a virtual environment

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
: Download the current tzdate file from iana and compile the file yourself e.g - http://www.borngeek.com/2009/03/16/updating-time-zone-information-in-linux/ On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:56 AM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/8/2013 12:21 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-16 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/9/16 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: guy keren guy.choo.ke...@gmail.com writes: instead of going into theories - does your car have a fuel consumption computer? Yes, it does, that's how I know that it is more efficient at higher speeds. I made a point to say that I never did

Re: replace string foo to bar AND bar to foo in the same file

2013-09-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Re:all echo foobar foo bar | sed 's/foo/@foo/g; s/bar/@bar/g; s/@foo/bar/g; s/@bar/foo/g' based on: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13991017/swap-two-strings-simultaneously found through: https://www.google.co.il/search?q=sed+swap+foo+and+bar חג שמח, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/9/25 E.S. Rosenberg

Re: Do you know a foss alternative to Lupa?

2013-09-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I don't know about specific photo-album things since I've never tried doing that, but there is also real professional publishing software on Linux: scribus http://www.scribus.net And if you just meant photo-organizer then shotwell, fspot, kphoto-album, digiKam are all nice Regards, Eliyahu

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/10/5 Steve G. word...@gmail.com: I am getting to a point that, between all the old computers I still own or use, the orphan hard drives from abandoned systems, and the dual boot laptops, I have a storage nightmare. I have photos, videos, articles, music, everywhere, and it is getting to

Re: Linux with Android MTP

2013-10-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
//I don't have this phone of a similar phone, this is mainly a stab in the dark. We have a camera at home that won't transfer/open files when it's connected to the USB 3.0 ports of the computer, it will only function properly when connected to USB 2.0 ports (and 1). So maybe that also affects

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
There are plenty of cheap low-power mainboards available... Intel Atom boards AMD E-series ARM stuff (pandaboard, beagleboard, and many more) So you can build your own low-power solution that will use in the area of 33W (though if you have lot's of disks I really don't see how you would get that

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
expect it, in self built stuff it depends 100% on you. On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: There are plenty of cheap low-power mainboards available... Intel Atom boards AMD E-series ARM stuff (pandaboard, beagleboard, and many more) So you can

Re: 3G Modem with SMS support

2013-10-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/10/8 Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il: On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 12:06:56PM +0200, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: I am interested in buying a 3G modem to connect to some for our servers, in order to get alerts by SMS, the idea is not to depend on the infrastructure of the DC. I am looking

Re: replacement for iPod

2013-10-10 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/10/10 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com: The battery died in my iPod. It's old enough to have a hard drive so it does not do anything except play music. If I can find the spare I have, I'll probably replace the battery, but before I spend any money on it, is there anything

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned XMPP yet.. Also for newer phones and the type of communication you want (one-way broadcast) there's cell broadcast if the providers/government are willing to cooperate. In the end of the day though you'd be looking at a system that mixes multiple different

Re: Distro that does not require PAE

2013-10-13 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Debian? i386/i486 Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/10/13 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com: Are there any CURRENT Linux distros that do not require PAE? Ubuntu started requiring it about 1 year ago, so now all Ubuntu and it's children will not work on older computers without it.

Re: OT: Recommended domain name registrar for il?

2013-10-21 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
CCC work as registrar? Until now I'm with Galcomm, I can't complain (except that their webinterface isn't all that intuitive) but my previous interactions with CCC made me very positive about them so I may just switch. Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/10/21 linux.il linux...@gmail.com: I'm pretty

Re: Linux with Android MTP

2013-10-23 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/10/23 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013, Shlomo Solomon wrote about Re: Linux with Android MTP: I have the same problem on Mageia3 with a new Galaxy phone. I've read that MTP is not reliably supported. When I got my Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini, I was warned that MTP

Re: Linux with Android MTP

2013-10-24 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
). 2013/10/24 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il writes: Always unmounting properly is obviously best practise but isn't the whole point of mtp that unmount isn't strictly needed since you are not interacting with the fs but rather with some daemon

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