Re: Choosing a new bank
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013, Dov Grobgeld wrote about Re: Choosing a new bank: Thanks for all the replies. It sounds like all banks are better than Leumi. While this statement might be true ( ;-) ), I am surprised you reached this conclusion based on their Internet site. I've been using their site for many years, and it seems to be working will with Firefox on Linux. I heard reports that some business-related features don't work without Microsoft Window's silverlight (namely, electronic signing), but every personal-banking feature I tried, including buying stocks, etc., seems to be working fine in Firefox. -- Nadav Har'El|Thursday, Jun 27 2013, 19 Tammuz 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above http://nadav.harel.org.il |are not my own. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Blu-Ray and Linux
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013, Omer Zak wrote about Re: Blu-Ray and Linux: 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 Until a few years ago, I had hundreds of DVDs laying around with backups, movies, and all sorts of stuff. I had to spend a lot of my time buying empty DVDs, burning them, buying new DVD drives (the damn things don't last very long...), etc. Then a couple of years ago, I through away all this crap, and replaced it with a single 2TB hard-disk which can hold the content of 500 (!) DVDs. Not only did I stop burning DVDs, 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. Now I can listen to any of my CDs, or watch any of my movies, without bothering with those flimsy plastic disks. So CDs, DVDs, and Bluerays are dead - unless they come up with some major breakthrough which makes them more economical or more convenient than hard disks and USB drives. external disk drive of equivalent storage capability. The only advantage of Blu-Ray would be immunity against EMP. Even then, I have Have you considered a second backup disk, in a faraday cage? :-) Or with the advent of the cloud, just back up on the cloud and hope the EMP doesn't hit both Israel and the remote site (e.g., the U.S.) at the same time. I have now 150 GB of remote cloud storage (from Google and Rsync.Net) and pay only $70 a year for this quota. I can't fit everything I own in 150 GB, but you know what - if EMP hits Israel, the last thing I have to worry about is what happens to my movie collection or that I'll need to re-rip several hundred CDs. no way to ensure that the Blu-Ray media I would buy are certified to be immune against EMP. This explains why the Blu-Ray format has not caught on. I don't think the EMP threat is what explains why it hasn't caught on. Maybe it's just that large hard disks, streamers, VOD, bittorrent, netflix, and the similar ecosystem, are all so much more convenient than buying physical plastic disks? So the only reason to buy a Blu-Ray drive would be to view Blu-Ray movies and TV series (such as Dr. Who). Or look those up in bittorrent ;-) It also appears that region locking in Blu-Ray world is not as serious problem as that in DVD world. As usual, it's not a problem to the pirates, only to people who pay... :-) Which makes you think they don't want you to pay for movies. Talk about cutting the branch they are sitting on :( -- Nadav Har'El|Thursday, Jun 27 2013, 19 Tammuz 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Luck is when preparation meets http://nadav.harel.org.il |opportunity. - Richard Sherman ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Choosing a new bank
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com wrote: After getting the reply we only support Windows and Mac one time too many from Bank Leumi, when reporting about problems with their internet site, I have decided to finally switch banks. (They have annoyed me in other ways as well). Do you have any experience with the other banks? Which is the most Linux (or rather standards) friendly bank in Israel? I switched from Discount to Poalim exactly for the same reason. I am so happy with Poalim branch 702 in Haifa that when I moved to Beersheba I kept my branch in Haifa. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Choosing a new bank
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com wrote: After getting the reply we only support Windows and Mac one time too many from Bank Leumi, when reporting about problems with their internet site, I have decided to finally switch banks. (They have annoyed me in other ways as well). Do you have any experience with the other banks? Which is the most Linux (or rather standards) friendly bank in Israel? Thanks! Dov Followup question: Anyone has good / bad experience with Union (איגוד) Bank? - Gilboa ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Blu-Ray and Linux
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 Have you considered a second backup disk, in a faraday cage? :-) I have two 2T backup disks and routinely back up my PC's hard disk using a script which is based upon 'rsync -avH --link-dest'. To back up about 550GB data (most of it is unchanged) takes, in my case, about 1:30 hours. YMMV. Does anyone know where to buy (or how to make) a Faraday cage suitable for protecting a hard disk against EMP from an A-bomb exploding at distance of say 10Km? (The use case being my home city getting attacked while I am elsewhere. For the moment, let's ignore any other disruptions which would prevent me from actually using the data in the preserved hard disk.) So the only reason to buy a Blu-Ray drive would be to view Blu-Ray movies and TV series (such as Dr. Who). Or look those up in bittorrent ;-) Are there any legal means, available to oxymoron_alertfrayer Israelis/oxymoron_alert, who wish to buy such content and download it via Internet, without bothering with physical media? --- Omer -- As long as there are families which throw their teenager sons and daughters out of home if they turn out to be gays or lesbians, Gay Pride Parade events are needed. As long as the most common cause of suicide by teenagers is their finding out that they are gays or lesbians, Gay Pride Parade events are needed. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Fwd: Fw: [Qt-israel] Location details for meetup next week
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org Date: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:14 AM Subject: Fw: [Qt-israel] Location details for meetup next week To: Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:47:23 +0300 From: ynon perek ynonpe...@gmail.com To: Local Qt community qt-isr...@hamakor.org.il Subject: [Qt-israel] Location details for meetup next week Hi All, We're meeting next week July 2nd on Shenkar College room 407 (it's the old building at Anna Frank st.). Please RSVP to the event on the meetup page here so we'll know you're coming: http://www.meetup.com/QtEverywhere/Tel-Aviv-Yafo-IL/974462/ Cheers, Ynon -- כותב הרצאות ? מדבר מול קהל ? הבלוג שלי לומד לדברhttp://publicspeakr.blogspot.com/כתוב במיוחד בשבילך. -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Beginners Site for the Vim text editor - http://vim.begin-site.org/ Learn Perl from “Learning Perl in 24 Minutes Unleashed, in a Nutshell for Dummies.” — based on Shlomi Fish and f00li5h on #perl Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ Qt-israel mailing list qt-isr...@hamakor.org.il http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qt-israel -- -- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Electrical Engineering studies. In the Technion. Been there. Done that. Forgot a lot. Remember too much. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . Hi All,Were meeting next week July 2nd on Shenkar College room 407 (its the old building at Anna Frank st.).Please RSVP to the event on the meetup page here so well know youre coming: http://www.meetup.com/QtEverywhere/Tel-Aviv-Yafo-IL/974462/Cheers, Ynon -- כותב הרצאות ? מדבר מול קהל ? הבלוג שלי לומד לדבר כתוב במיוחד בשבילך. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Blu-Ray and Linux
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 Have you considered a second backup disk, in a faraday cage? :-) I have two 2T backup disks and routinely back up my PC's hard disk using a script which is based upon 'rsync -avH --link-dest'. To back up about 550GB data (most of it is unchanged) takes, in my case, about 1:30 hours. YMMV. Does anyone know where to buy (or how to make) a Faraday cage suitable for protecting a hard disk against EMP from an A-bomb exploding at distance of say 10Km? (The use case being my home city getting attacked while I am elsewhere. For the moment, let's ignore any other disruptions which would prevent me from actually using the data in the preserved hard disk.) Build one yourself and stick it in the local shelter, the shelter should to some extent act as a cage, as should the harddisk housing itself, though both insufficient, if you encase it, it may work, it may also not work, they have bombs these days that are specifically aimed at creating EMP that penetrate faraday cages, however they is Israel and US not Syria, Iran etc. To be honest I think if you are that worried about your data, make sure it is hosted on a server on a different continent and that will be a lot safer then a faraday cage that may or may not succeed in protecting your hard-disk. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=faraday+cage+for+harddisk I think result #2 should help you reflect on whether you really need this. So the only reason to buy a Blu-Ray drive would be to view Blu-Ray movies and TV series (such as Dr. Who). Or look those up in bittorrent ;-) Are there any legal means, available to oxymoron_alertfrayer Israelis/oxymoron_alert, who wish to buy such content and download it via Internet, without bothering with physical media? Downloading is legal (at least in a lot of countries), uploading is generally considered problematic. But if you insist on overpaying (I am all for paying for content you like to support the artist but generally the prices asked are way to high, though with digital media it is improving) I am pretty sure every cell provider/ISP has online stores these days have online stores, amazon, itunes all do business here. Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו --- Omer -- As long as there are families which throw their teenager sons and daughters out of home if they turn out to be gays or lesbians, Gay Pride Parade events are needed. As long as the most common cause of suicide by teenagers is their finding out that they are gays or lesbians, Gay Pride Parade events are needed. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ___ 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
Re: Choosing a new bank
Hope you are all lucky to choose your bank for it's linux compatibility / friendliness :( ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Raspberry PI questions
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know of a company selling them here? I'm looking for them with a reasonable price, e.g. board, cheap shipping and VAT, as opposed to board and expensive shipping from out of the country. Second question, which I can't quite find an answer, does the model B have 2 separate USB ports, or one USB port spilt with an on board hub? Thanks in advance, Geoff. Hi Geoff! I just got a Raspberry Pi B as a gift. If you want to play around, I can set up an account on it and give you shell access. It is running on my home network. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
