stealing domain names by Israeli registrar
Hi all, Consultation needed: A friend of mine and myself are volunteering to launch a charity web site. My friend is not proficient in web technologies so when he went to check for registration of the domain, he followed the instructions recommended on one of the Israeli registrars - internic.co.il and check through their website the vacancy of the domain we wanted, with .co.il . It was as vacant as it can be. The following day, he went to actually register the domain and guess what? The domain was already registered(!)... . This smelled very fishy: the domain name was very unlikely to be requested by coincidence at that exact timing; the person holding the domain was some Israeli name with a very unreadable email address ending in some .info domain (cannot quote the email address here - see PS section below). Now I have another friend who's deep into the hosting business and he immediately told me that the owners of Internic.co.il are know to be doing this very ugly move on whois queries running through their web site. *My questions*: * is that business method illegal? * what can be done here in order to react? (be the internic method legal or not). Thanks! Boaz. *P.S.* * luckily for us, after I talked to my friend we made it clear that the needed domain should finish with a .org, not .co.il, so we actually weren't hit by Internic sting. The incident was and still is, very irritating. * the .co.il domain was hijacked on March 24 (IIRC) but its now free - no registration records exists for it so I cannot quote the snatcher details. But, since Internic (or the people they're affiliated with) are making a living in the described method, it should be rather easy to prove how they work - its a little matter of persistence... . ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: stealing domain names by Israeli registrar
Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi all, Consultation needed: A friend of mine and myself are volunteering to launch a charity web site. My friend is not proficient in web technologies so when he went to check for registration of the domain, he followed the instructions recommended on one of the Israeli registrars - internic.co.il and check through their website the vacancy of the domain we wanted, with .co.il . It was as vacant as it can be. The following day, he went to actually register the domain and guess what? The domain was already registered(!)... . This smelled very fishy: the domain name was very unlikely to be requested by coincidence at that exact timing; the person holding the domain was some Israeli name with a very unreadable email address ending in some .info domain (cannot quote the email address here - see PS section below). Now I have another friend who's deep into the hosting business and he immediately told me that the owners of Internic.co.il are know to be doing this very ugly move on whois queries running through their web site. *My questions*: * is that business method illegal? * what can be done here in order to react? (be the internic method legal or not). Thanks! Boaz. *P.S.* * luckily for us, after I talked to my friend we made it clear that the needed domain should finish with a .org, not .co.il, so we actually weren't hit by Internic sting. The incident was and still is, very irritating. * the .co.il domain was hijacked on March 24 (IIRC) but its now free - no registration records exists for it so I cannot quote the snatcher details. But, since Internic (or the people they're affiliated with) are making a living in the described method, it should be rather easy to prove how they work - its a little matter of persistence... . Complain to ISOC. info-doma...@isoc.org.il Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
DavkaWriter or Dagesh With Wine or Crossover
Anybody got this to work with Crossover or Wine? I am looking for an alternative if one exits other than Open Office for Hebrew Texting. Any suggestions? Recently I tried Office 2003 and found that in Tables Hebrew came up as Left to Right I presume this is the fault of Crossover. Does Abbyword behave any better? Moshe ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: DavkaWriter or Dagesh With Wine or Crossover
Hello Moshe, On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:38:00AM +, Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote: Anybody got this to work with Crossover or Wine? I am looking for an alternative if one exits other than Open Office for Hebrew Texting. Any suggestions? Recently I tried Office 2003 and found that in Tables Hebrew came up as Left to Right I presume this is the fault of Crossover. Does Abbyword behave any better? You might want to try lyx. It's very different from what you are used to in any other word processor, and does take time to get used to, but for some kinds of uses, such as writing long, structured documents (e.g. a book), many people find it much better than normal word processors. Regards, -- Didi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Editing x11 cursor.
Greetings, I thought this should be trivial but apparently it isn't. I am looking for a tool to edit X11 cursor theme. All tools I found in: http://www.usinglinux.org/x11/ that had to do with editing X11 cursors were not available (decurs http://www.usinglinux.org/x11/decurs.html, xfedor http://www.usinglinux.org/x11/xfedor.html, xcurs http://www.usinglinux.org/x11/xcurs.html). At this point I will be happy to have at least viewer from which I will eventually will make the png images and convert them to X11 cursors. Thanks. -- Regards. David Harel, == Home office +972 77 7657645 Cellular: +972 54 4534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: harel...@ergolight-sw.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: DavkaWriter or Dagesh With Wine or Crossover
It's a matter of curiosity of trying new things. I remember reading within the linux-il lists that some people thought that Open Office didn't cover all their needs like MS Office. This brought me to try to see why this is so.. Then I found that altogether although MS Office showed the Right-to Left and Left to Right Buttons with Crossover it doesn't behave correctly as Open Office. For example I found that at the cursor it behaved as though it was typing in English. For example, בא instead of אב eventhough the paragraph mark was correctly placed. I do not know whether it is the Mandriva playing games with the programme or Crossover, but if Open Office works correctly it must be that Crossover has difficulty with Hebrew, or some Chametz got into the Keyboard. On checking Properties for the Setup.exe for Davka I saw that it showed as root is the owner. Probably this is correct. Installation does not complete in Crossover or Wine. I have a feeling that this programme needs a version of .net to be installed first. As I mention this is a matter of curiosity and not of great importance as I find Open Office an excellent programme. I doubt that for Linux there's anything to compare with it. Regarding Tables I noticed that if you paste Hebrew from Word into Open Office you get all the formatting details in the margin free area outside the cells; I am not so sure why Open Office needs to behave this way, but it does. What I had done in Word was paste into the right column some Hebrew text and English in the left column of the table. Then copy out to of it to paste into Open Office. I think the reason for this was being unable to paste directly into Open Office without an inbetween programme. Some programmes do not let you paste from certain sources.. Diversing a little: One of the things that they could have perfected in Open Office which is left to an Add in is the picture cropping option. This is more of a hit and miss regarding getting that right when cropping. But that is as I have written above digressing from the subject. Shabbat Shalom Moshe --- On Fri, 17/4/09, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail..com wrote: From: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com Subject: Re: DavkaWriter or Dagesh With Wine or Crossover To: Moshe Brace using Yahoo mbrace...@yahoo.co.uk Date: Friday, 17 April, 2009, 5:05 PM 2009/4/17 Moshe Brace using Yahoo mbrace...@yahoo.co.uk: Anybody got this to work with Crossover or Wine? I am looking for an alternative if one exits other than Open Office for Hebrew Texting. Any suggestions? Recently I tried Office 2003 and found that in Tables Hebrew came up as Left to Right I presume this is the fault of Crossover. Does Abbyword behave any better? Moshe, off list.. I'd like to know what you find problematic with OOo. Better yet, start a thread on the list on the subject and CC me, so that other people can help as well. I find OOo to work just fine for Hebrew, I use it regularly. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Editing x11 cursor.
Hi David, You might want to take a look at a tool called Gursor maker which lets you do just that. URL: http://gursormaker.sourceforge.net/ There's the spec (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/cursor-spec) if you want to roll you own themes, and then there's the xcursor man page if you want to read. Good luck, Hetz 2009/4/17 David Harel harel...@gmail.com: Greetings, I thought this should be trivial but apparently it isn't. I am looking for a tool to edit X11 cursor theme. All tools I found in: http://www.usinglinux.org/x11/ that had to do with editing X11 cursors were not available (decurs, xfedor, xcurs). At this point I will be happy to have at least viewer from which I will eventually will make the png images and convert them to X11 cursors. Thanks. -- Regards. David Harel, == Home office +972 77 7657645 Cellular: +972 54 4534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: harel...@ergolight-sw.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Editing x11 cursor.
Hetz, Thanks for your reply, Unfortunately the package braked: $ gursormaker Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/gursormaker, line 23, in module import GursorMaker ImportError: No module named GursorMaker Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi David, You might want to take a look at a tool called Gursor maker which lets you do just that. URL: http://gursormaker.sourceforge.net/ There's the spec (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/cursor-spec) if you want to roll you own themes, and then there's the xcursor man page if you want to read. Good luck, Hetz 2009/4/17 David Harel harel...@gmail.com: Greetings, I thought this should be trivial but apparently it isn't. I am looking for a tool to edit X11 cursor theme. All tools I found in: http://www.usinglinux.org/x11/ that had to do with editing X11 cursors were not available (decurs, xfedor, xcurs). At this point I will be happy to have at least viewer from which I will eventually will make the png images and convert them to X11 cursors. Thanks. -- Regards. David Harel, == Home office +972 77 7657645 Cellular: +972 54 4534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: harel...@ergolight-sw.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Regards. David Harel, == Home office +972 77 7657645 Cellular: +972 54 4534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: harel...@ergolight-sw.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
