Re: .il domain names with IPv6 support

[Ori Idan]

I think like Uri, I don't see any reason to use registrar name server, use
any DNS service you like. You just need the DNS URL to register with the
registrar.
I use DigitalOcean, I have few virtual machines there and use their free
DNS service.

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‪On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 8:53 AM ‫אורי‬‎  wrote:‬

> Hi Gabor,
>
> I also use https://www.box.co.il/ and you can put any name servers you
> want, I usually don't use the same company as a registrar and for name
> servers - I use different companies. I would recommend either AWS route 53
> (not expensive) or also DigitalOcean - if you have an account then name
> servers are free, I think you don't have to have droplets with them
> (although I do) and also you can try Linode or Vultr (I never tried these
> two companies' name servers). Or use the name servers of your hosting
> provider.
>
> Thanks,
> Uri.
> אורי
> u...@speedy.net
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 8:34 AM Gabor Szabo  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been using BOX ( https://box.co.il/ ) for my .il domains and for
>> DNS. Apparently their DNS server still does not support IPv6.  So far it
>> did not bother me too much, but now that I am trying to move a domain to
>> use GitHub pages it seems that they require that configuration as well.
>>
>> So my question what do you suggest as a domain registrar for .il domains
>> that has a reasonable DNS interface that also supports IPv6. Alternatively,
>> what DNS provider do you use?
>>
>> (for my com/org names I use https://iwantmyname.com/ and I am quite
>> satisfied)
>>
>> regards
>> Gabor
>>
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Re: Weird 'free' output

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Sorry, I am not a convicted criminal.
If you believe what is written in Yediot, that is your problem.

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On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 9:21 PM Diego Iastrubni  wrote:

> Ori,
>
> You are not welcome here. Please unsubscribe.
>
> Admins - please remove this convicted criminal from this list. This man is
> a stain on our community.
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 4, 2021, 7:53 PM Ori Idan  wrote:
>
>> Note that Linux tries to use available memory for cache, that is why free
>> memory seems small.
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 2:48 PM linux.il  wrote:
>>
>>> Omer, thank you!
>>> Is it related to the "Inactive" count from /proc/meminfo?
>>> I used to think that available=free+cache+buffers...
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 1:19 PM Omer Zak  wrote:
>>>
>>>> From man free:
>>>>
>>>> available
>>>>   Estimation of how much memory is available for starting
>>>> new applications, without swapping. Unlike the data provided  by
>>>>   the  cache  or free fields, this field takes into account
>>>> page cache and also that not all reclaimable memory slabs will
>>>>   be reclaimed due to items being in use (MemAvailable in
>>>> /proc/meminfo, available on kernels 3.14,  emulated  on  kernels
>>>>   2.6.27+, otherwise the same as free)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2021-05-04 at 13:07 +0300, linux.il wrote:
>>>> > "Available" output seems weird, or I'm missing something?
>>>> > Any ideas?
>>>> >
>>>> > TIA, Vitaly
>>>> >
>>>> > free -m
>>>> >   totalusedfree  shared  buff/cache
>>>> > available
>>>> > Mem:  31654   29883 937   1 832
>>>> > 27675
>>>> > Swap: 0   0   0
>>>>
>>>>
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Re: Weird 'free' output

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Note that Linux tries to use available memory for cache, that is why free
memory seems small.

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On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 2:48 PM linux.il  wrote:

> Omer, thank you!
> Is it related to the "Inactive" count from /proc/meminfo?
> I used to think that available=free+cache+buffers...
>
> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 1:19 PM Omer Zak  wrote:
>
>> From man free:
>>
>> available
>>   Estimation of how much memory is available for starting
>> new applications, without swapping. Unlike the data provided  by
>>   the  cache  or free fields, this field takes into account
>> page cache and also that not all reclaimable memory slabs will
>>   be reclaimed due to items being in use (MemAvailable in
>> /proc/meminfo, available on kernels 3.14,  emulated  on  kernels
>>   2.6.27+, otherwise the same as free)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2021-05-04 at 13:07 +0300, linux.il wrote:
>> > "Available" output seems weird, or I'm missing something?
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> > TIA, Vitaly
>> >
>> > free -m
>> >   totalusedfree  shared  buff/cache
>> > available
>> > Mem:  31654   29883 937   1 832
>> > 27675
>> > Swap: 0   0   0
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by
>> looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it
>> possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man." - Walter E.
>> Williams
>> My own blog is at https://tddpirate.zak.co.il/
>>
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>> They do not represent the official policy of any organization with
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Re: קול קורא - מפגש אמנים / קוד פתוח בחיפה

[Ori Idan]

2015-11-05 18:30 GMT+02:00 Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il>:

> Will you consider participating in such a meet, as I suggested?
>
Of course, I'd be happy to participate.


> Amichai
> On Nov 5, 2015 6:13 PM, "Ori Idan" <o...@helicontech.co.il> wrote:
>
>>
>> 2015-11-05 14:50 GMT+02:00 Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il>:
>>
>>> שלום לכולם,
>>>
>>> חבר שלי סיים לימודי עיצוב גרפי במכללת תלתן בחיפה. כמובן שבמכללה לימדו
>>> אותם לעבוד עם מוצרי Adobe בלבד...
>>>
>>> לפני כמה ימים הוא הציב לי אתגר:
>>>
>>> נמאס לו ממערכת ההפעלה של מיקרוסופט והוא ביקש ממני למצוא דרך להעביר אותו
>>> ללינוקס אבל לוודא שהוא יכול להמשיך להשתמש במוצרי Adobe ולשחק במשחקים שלו
>>> במחשב.
>>>
>>> כיום יש לו מחשב נייד של Asus עם מעבד אינטל i7 ו-8 גיגה זיכרון - עם
>>> Windows 8.1.
>>>
>>> חשבתי להפוך להתקין לו לינוקס לשימושים היום יומיים ואת ה-Windows כמכונה
>>> וירטואלית עבור המשחקים וה-Adobe.
>>>
>>> בנוסף חשבתי אולי לקיים מפגש של אמנים שמשתמשים בהצלחה (או שלא) בתוכנות
>>> קוד פתוח עבור עיצוב גרפי וכד' (GIMP, Blender, InkSkape וכו') - כדי לקיים
>>> דיון פתוח על היתרונות והחסרונות בשימוש בקוד פתוח, דרכים להתקנה ושימוש
>>> בתוכנות קנייניות בלינוקס (VM, WINE).
>>>
>>> דעתכם?
>>>
>>> עמיחי רוטמן
>>>
>>
>> I will answer in English as there where many debates on language used in
>> linux-il mailing list...
>>
>> I think this is a great idea, add to it SCRIBUS, desktop publishing that
>> can act as a replacement to inDesign (although currently does not read
>> inDesign files).
>>
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Re: קול קורא - מפגש אמנים / קוד פתוח בחיפה

[Ori Idan]

2015-11-05 14:50 GMT+02:00 Amichai Rotman :

> שלום לכולם,
>
> חבר שלי סיים לימודי עיצוב גרפי במכללת תלתן בחיפה. כמובן שבמכללה לימדו אותם
> לעבוד עם מוצרי Adobe בלבד...
>
> לפני כמה ימים הוא הציב לי אתגר:
>
> נמאס לו ממערכת ההפעלה של מיקרוסופט והוא ביקש ממני למצוא דרך להעביר אותו
> ללינוקס אבל לוודא שהוא יכול להמשיך להשתמש במוצרי Adobe ולשחק במשחקים שלו
> במחשב.
>
> כיום יש לו מחשב נייד של Asus עם מעבד אינטל i7 ו-8 גיגה זיכרון - עם Windows
> 8.1.
>
> חשבתי להפוך להתקין לו לינוקס לשימושים היום יומיים ואת ה-Windows כמכונה
> וירטואלית עבור המשחקים וה-Adobe.
>
> בנוסף חשבתי אולי לקיים מפגש של אמנים שמשתמשים בהצלחה (או שלא) בתוכנות קוד
> פתוח עבור עיצוב גרפי וכד' (GIMP, Blender, InkSkape וכו') - כדי לקיים דיון
> פתוח על היתרונות והחסרונות בשימוש בקוד פתוח, דרכים להתקנה ושימוש בתוכנות
> קנייניות בלינוקס (VM, WINE).
>
> דעתכם?
>
> עמיחי רוטמן
>

I will answer in English as there where many debates on language used in
linux-il mailing list...

I think this is a great idea, add to it SCRIBUS, desktop publishing that
can act as a replacement to inDesign (although currently does not read
inDesign files).
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Re: OT: Biometric ID

[Ori Idan]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com
wrote:

 BTW this anecdote might interest Yonathan Klinger and other anti-bio-id
 activists since it could be pointing a fatal flaw in the system.

I guess you are right, it does point on a fatal flaw in the system. I guess
that no one wanted to risk getting into this so no one encountered it yet.
I am surprised the Gabor that is probably aware of all the risks decided to
try it :-)

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On 15 Mar 2015 9:26 pm, Gabor Szabo ga...@szabgab.com wrote:

 A few weeks ago I asked to get a biometric ID. They took my finger prints
 and asked all kinds of funny questions to make sure its me.
 Today I went to pick up my new ID and their system could not recognize my
 finger prints.

 I got a bit nervous, but they calmed me down that I have nothing to worry
 because the finger prints are only for the Interior Ministry and they are
 sure the one in the system matches the one on my finger and that I will
 only need it when dealing with Interior Ministry and they will mark in the
 system that the fingerprints did not match when I received the ID.

 So apparently they have a field in the database for this information.

 They offered to order a new biometric card - claiming that the problem is
 only in the card,
 but they can only do that if first they give the broken one to me.

 So I'd have a card that can identify me without any doubt, except that
 the fingerprint in it cannot be matched to mine.

 I asked if I could get a new non-biometric ID, but I was told I cannot
 any more. Once I signed up for biometric ID, I cannot go back.

 Madness.

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Time varying FSMs

[Ori Idan]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz
wrote:

  On 28/01/15 20:04, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:

 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il w...@zak.co.il writes:


  After a brief Google search:
 Does anyone know about any research, theory or practice of time-varying
 finite state machines?

  Short answer: I don't. ;-) I'll offer a couple of thoughts, anyway.


  I mean FSMs which might grow a new state, remove a state, add/subtract
 transitions by means of meta-rules.

  I suppose it may be possible to write a FSM in such a way that
 adding/removing the allowed states and transitions dynamically would be
 possible. This would not be enough, though: any interesting FSM would
 not just formally move from one state to another but do custom stuff as
 a part of a transition, and one would want to create and load such
 custom code dynamically.


  Didn't you just describe a Turing machine?

Turing machine is finite and has certain number of states with defined
transitions. I think what Omer meant here was more of a dynamic Turing
machine.

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Re: Adding external HDD to Raspberry Pi

[Ori Idan]

The signal is supposed to be differential, however there are some devices
that take each line  with the ground as reference and only then subtract it.

On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Alex Shnitman alext...@gmail.com wrote:

 Isn't the USB signal differential? I understand that this means that the
 signal is encoded by the difference between the two data pins (which are
 connected by a twisted cable pair) rather than by referencing to ground. If
 that's the case, the ground shouldn't matter for the signal transmission.

 On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il wrote:



 On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Alex Shnitman alext...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Power on the Raspberry Pi is a tricky business. I think on the B+
 they've made it easier to deal with but it still cannot pass through a lot
 of current. So a powered hub is necessary, as previous posters mentioned.

 It does indeed backfeed into the Pi. I used thin stripes of electrical
 tape to cover the outer two contacts within the USB connector of the cable
 that connects the Pi to the hub, and that took care of that problem. Also,
 I found out that my hub (a cheap piece bought from DX), even when
 externally powered, would draw some current from the Pi during load. So the
 electrical tape took care of that too.


 I find it strange that it actually work since if you isolated both the
 power and the ground pins, the data pins are left floated. That might work
 but cause noise problems. So if you do want to isolate, isolate only the
 power pin.


 If you have a good power supply for the hub you can power your Pi from
 the hub itself with an additional cable (i.e. the hub will be connected to
 the Pi twice, once with a USB A-B cable like any hub, and once with a USB A
 - MicroUSB B, from one of the hub's ports into the Pi's power supply port).
 This removes the need for a second power supply.

 One problem that I faced, though, was that a wifi dongle connected to
 the hub was being disconnected and reconnected every few minutes. I plugged
 it directly into the Pi itself and it works flawlessly. I still don't know
 why that problem happened; after all, they both are on the same power
 supply (the hub's). Other devices on this hub (the Pi itself as well as
 other stuff) seem to work fine. Maybe the hub's power supply is noisy and
 the Pi filters it when it passes it through. No idea.

 Alex


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Re: Adding external HDD to Raspberry Pi

[Ori Idan]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Alex Shnitman alext...@gmail.com wrote:

 Power on the Raspberry Pi is a tricky business. I think on the B+ they've
 made it easier to deal with but it still cannot pass through a lot of
 current. So a powered hub is necessary, as previous posters mentioned.

 It does indeed backfeed into the Pi. I used thin stripes of electrical
 tape to cover the outer two contacts within the USB connector of the cable
 that connects the Pi to the hub, and that took care of that problem. Also,
 I found out that my hub (a cheap piece bought from DX), even when
 externally powered, would draw some current from the Pi during load. So the
 electrical tape took care of that too.


I find it strange that it actually work since if you isolated both the
power and the ground pins, the data pins are left floated. That might work
but cause noise problems. So if you do want to isolate, isolate only the
power pin.


 If you have a good power supply for the hub you can power your Pi from the
 hub itself with an additional cable (i.e. the hub will be connected to the
 Pi twice, once with a USB A-B cable like any hub, and once with a USB A -
 MicroUSB B, from one of the hub's ports into the Pi's power supply port).
 This removes the need for a second power supply.

 One problem that I faced, though, was that a wifi dongle connected to the
 hub was being disconnected and reconnected every few minutes. I plugged it
 directly into the Pi itself and it works flawlessly. I still don't know why
 that problem happened; after all, they both are on the same power supply
 (the hub's). Other devices on this hub (the Pi itself as well as other
 stuff) seem to work fine. Maybe the hub's power supply is noisy and the Pi
 filters it when it passes it through. No idea.

 Alex


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Running a script for email received

[Ori Idan]

I am trying to run a script when an email is received on my server.
I tried what described here:
http://blog.thecodingmachine.com/content/triggering-php-script-when-your-postfix-server-receives-mail

But it invoked the script for all mails not mail to a specific user
I tried the simplest thing of /etc/alias
But got error: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias
table

Does anyone have any idea how to run a script for mail sent to a specific
user?

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Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

[Ori Idan]

Ok, I'll jump on this wagon,
I also want sponsorship, I ask for half the amount that Shlomi is asking.
I will use the money to buy a sailing yacht and sail around the world, Ok
maybe not around the world but at least in the Mediterranean.
In return to this generous sponsorship I will put the name of the company
on the sails of the yacht.
Note that sail areas is around 30 sqr. meters so there is a huge area for a
big add.
Any takers?

N.B. regard this message a humor (although I would not resist to really get
such donation) I already have my own company, however this company's
earnings at this point allow me to sponsor  a little more then Falafel dish
at a Kiosk stand, it still does not allow me to sponsor neither my own
yacht nor Shlomi's trip.

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On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Geoffrey,

 hope you had a great Shabbath by the time you're reading it.

 You're raising some interesting points which I'd like to address, and I
 apologise if I weren't clear and explicit before.



 On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:35 AM, geoffrey mendelson 
 geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote:

  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.


 Why do you feel it does not belong on this list? Many people here offer
 jobs or ask for jobs, and my offer can provide a lot of promotion and
 publicity to a company/individual/organisation who wishes to sponsor me.

 Regarding ridiculous there is
 http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=same-ideas-as-everybody-else
 :

 «

  If you have the same ideas as everybody else, but have them one week
 earlier than everyone else - then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if
 you have them five years earlier, you will be named a lunatic.

 »

 Some of the things I predicted and/or projected are:

 * http://www.advogato.org/article/361.html - world-editable screenplays
 for films back in 2001 - I was told it will likely not going to work, but
 now there are many screenplay projects which use wiki-style interfaces, and
 there quite a many successful world-editable-or-almost-world-editable wikis
 out there (e.g: the Wikimedia project, the Wikias,
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Tropes ).

 * http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/human-hacking/ - in this story I
 describe FOSS (and to a lesser extent open content/culture) geeks, and
 especially female geeks, as chic, intelligent, attractive, socially
 capable, and sexually assertive, and not only are they mainstream, but they
 are the alphas - the constant object of attraction and often jealousy of
 their peers.

 Back after I finished writing it in 2004 and publicised it for scrutiny on
 the linux-elitists mailing list -
 http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/human-hacking/conclusions/#review--modus-operandi
 - I was criticised for making it look like being a FOSS/open-culture hacker
 was a gateway to popularity, but now it is quite common all around the
 world, as exemplified by the success of
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory , and not only are
 almost all attractive female attracted to geeks, but most of them are
 geeky[Geeky] themselves, *and* yet they are not socially awkward or
 sexually inept.

 [Geeky] - see http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=401 for
 what is a geek , as well as what Paul Graham wrote about amateurs and
 hackers.



 If I were in a position to sponsor anyone for more than a felafel at a
 stand up kiosk, I would consider this so unreasonable that it's just
 laughable. As I said, IF I were going to fund someone, I might consider a
 plan that includes 2 $1,000 airplane tickets, and about $1,000 a week for
 hotel, food, transportation within each country and train fare to the next
 country, for a week in a country to give 4-5 FOSS lectures, and then move
 on. You probably could start in the Irish Republic and bounce along to the
 Russian Republic which would take around 15-20 weeks.


 My lectures are not only about FOSS - they are also about free/open
 culture/content, and mix and match other topics such as
 love/romance/relationships, action, humour, history, science, amateur
 philosophy, etc. See:

 http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/

 Anyway, you are right that I probably overestimated the cost and can
 survive on much less.

 Regarding Ireland - Russia - I'm not interested only in software
 development hubs, but in general - every centre of commerce is game for me:
 Rome, Athens, Istanbul, Berlin, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris,
 Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Vienna, Riga, Vilnius, Budapest,
 Bucharest, etc. etc.



 Or you could the same thing for about 1.5 times the money in the US,
 which would take an entire year, one week per state.


 I'm:

 1. Not going to .us any time soon.

 2. Not interested in being 100

Re: Upgrading Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04

[Ori Idan]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote:

 Hi people,

 I work at my job with Ubuntu 12.04 and we run Django 1.4.12 locally with
 Python 2.7.3 and PostgreSQL. We want to upgrade Django from 1.4 to 1.6 and
 I also thought it would be a good idea to upgrade Python to 2.7.6 and maybe
 even 3, so I tried to upgrade Ubuntu to 14.04. But after I completed the
 upgrade, Django didn't work and I couldn't even run migrations (with
 South). I had to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 and I lost all the files I had in
 my home directory (because I chose not to keep Ubuntu 14.04) except some
 files that I backed up. My questions are:

 1. What do we need to do in order for Django to work with Ubuntu 14.04?
 2. Why isn't it possible to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 after upgrading to
 14.04 and still keep all the files in my home directory, while not keeping
 all the other files (the operating system files)?

Why do you think it is not possible?  I do it all the time.
I  keep my home directory in a separate partition so when I upgrade (or
downgrade) the OS the home directory stays the same.

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Printing UTF-8 in C

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I need to print several Hebrew characters (UTF-8) to the terminal.
My locale is set to he_IL.UTF-8 so it shows Hebrew on the terminal, however
printing from C gives me Chinese characters.
My question is how to print one character such as 'א' to the terminal.

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Re: Printing UTF-8 in C

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On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Baruch Siach bar...@tkos.co.il wrote:

 Hi Dov,

 On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
  Writing hebrew to the terminal is a bad idea because terminals do not
  support BiDi reordering.
 
  That said, doing cat small-hello.utf8[1] works for me in gnome-term
  (though it is reversed). No special environment variables were defined.

 But Ori has specifically asked about sending just one character to
 terminal.
 cat treats everything like binary data.

 baruch

I don't care at this stage about bidi.
I still could not find out how to print even once character, I tried printf
and putwchar.

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   I need to print several Hebrew characters (UTF-8) to the terminal.
   My locale is set to he_IL.UTF-8 so it shows Hebrew on the terminal,
   however printing from C gives me Chinese characters.
   My question is how to print one character such as 'א' to the terminal.
  
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Re: Printing UTF-8 in C

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On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.comwrote:

 The most unixy way is to treat everything as binary UTF-8 and then forget
 about encodings. The following program works just fine:

 #include stdio.h
 int main()
 {
   printf(Hello שלום!\n);
 }

 Compile with:

 cc -o hello hello.c
 ./hello
 Hello שלום!

 (Though שלום is inversed in the terminal).


That works, but I need one character such as 'א' to be printed and to be
able to print 'ב' as 'א' + 1
Does someone have any idea how to do it?

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 On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Baruch Siach bar...@tkos.co.il wrote:

 Hi Dov,

 On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
  Writing hebrew to the terminal is a bad idea because terminals do not
  support BiDi reordering.
 
  That said, doing cat small-hello.utf8[1] works for me in gnome-term
  (though it is reversed). No special environment variables were defined.

 But Ori has specifically asked about sending just one character to
 terminal.
 cat treats everything like binary data.

 baruch

  On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il
 wrote:
   I need to print several Hebrew characters (UTF-8) to the terminal.
   My locale is set to he_IL.UTF-8 so it shows Hebrew on the terminal,
   however printing from C gives me Chinese characters.
   My question is how to print one character such as 'א' to the terminal.
  
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Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

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On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:24 PM, geoffrey mendelson 
geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote:

 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 tablet, but anything with e-ink will do! Also, as I
 had stated, I'm not interested in buying DRM books anyway...


 Not really. You can buy an active display android tablet for about the
 same money. E-ink displays are more energy efficient, but slow. You end up
 hitting the next button before you finish a page in the hope that it starts
 to refresh before you get to the last word in the page and finishes as you
 do.

 They also suck for displaying material that was originally color or
 scanned material. I have many books that were scanned and they are
 unreadable on an e-ink display,

 E-ink was an idea which came and went.


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 when it is done. It is based on
Android, will be able to read mostly EPUB but also PDF.
The same company is also developing a cellular phone with eInk touch
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Re: Does anyone use MATE (Gnome 2 fork)?

[Ori Idan]

I've just install mate and I must say it is great.
It is great to see again the good old user interface. Much better then
Unity, Gnome3 seems to be lighter then cinnamon I used before it.

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On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.ilwrote:

 I am using Unity 5.14 on Ubuntu 12.04.3 and I am *very* pleased.

 Very rare crashes, easily solve with 'unity -- replace'. Most of them
 happen when I switch between displays (Monitor via DVI and TV via HDMI).

 It took me about a week to get used to it, but now I feel it will be hard
 for me to switch to another Desktop Manager...

 Amichai.


 2013/11/15 Rami Rosen rosenr...@gmail.com

 Hi,
 I was also disappointed with Gnome 3 on recent Fedora releases. I tried
 using Gnome classic mode but still there were issues. Most disturbing was
 with the JEdit editor. I also tried using MATE, but I still had issues with
 the JEdit editor. So after years of using Gnome on various Fedora
 releases, I switched several months ago to KDE, after years of using Gnome
 3.  The issues with JEdit are solved with KDE.

 Note:
 1) it seems to me that launching an application in KDE (from the
 application menu or from a desktop shortcut) is really slower than with
 Gnome. However I did not tried to delved into it - maybe there are some KDE
 plugins which can be disabled, or other tweaks.

 2) The issues I had with JEdit might be due to that I am not using the
 latest release of JEdit (from my own/legacy reasons). I do not want to
 upgrade from my own reasons, which I can describe if anyone is interested
 to hear.

 Rami Rosen
 http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen



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 After reading Ilan Shavit's blog article about his disappointment from
 Gnome 3 (http://ilsh.info/archives/3084), I found about the Gnome 2 fork
 MATE (http://mate-desktop.org/).

 Before installing MATE on my Debian Wheezy system, I would like to know
 other people's experience with it.

 Thanks,
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Re: accounting software *free open source*

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On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 8:16 AM, E.S. Rosenberg e...@g.jct.ac.il wrote:

 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 printouts to a certified accounted
  to make a legal report. You may need to work with generic receipts in
  parallel though.
 
 
 
  As it was explained to me by my accountant, the tax authorities don't
 care
  how you keep YOUR books, they only care that the submissions to them are
  done properly.
 
  Properly means that an accepted (certified?) program is used and that
 the
  data was entered by a level 3 (starts at 1) certified bookkeeper or a
  certified public accountant (CPA).
 
  In real terms this means for small business the data is sent to your
  accountant and they (or their certified bookkeeper) enters it into their
  program on their computer and submits that to the tax authorities.
 
  At that point the responsibility for the data being entered properly and
  the program being a legal one is borne by your accountant and not you.
 
  IMHO this is preferable because my experience in being an independent
  consultant, the owner of a small consulting firm, and involved with
 startups
  over various times, is that any money spent paying a professional to
 keep
  your books and prepare your tax returns is well worth it. YMMV.
 
  Most accountants will accept data in XLS (Excel spreadsheet format), so
  you can enter the data in an Excel spreadsheet and send them the file.
 
  I assume that an Excel spreadsheet created and maintained by OpenOffice
  would be acceptable to them.
 
  Geoff.
 
 
  Tax authorities has nothing against OSS software and they already gave
  approval to OSS software twice (Drorit, my software and it's fork Linet,
  both GPL).
  The real truth is that they only ask to see several things:
  1. Invoices can not be deleted and numbered sequentially without
 repeating.
  2. No simple ability to delete transcations
  3. Output of what they call Open Format files, these are files with all
  transactions in a special format they require.
 
  That is all, no question about OSS or not.
  There was a debate last time they registered Linet and they agreed to
  register it so they have nothing against OSS.
  GNUCASH can not be registered since it can not output Open Format files.
 
  Note that I have good experience and knowledge about the subject as I
 make a
  living out of Accounting software.
  I have written several software packages and also consult business about
 the
  same.

 Both drorit and linet run server side, gnucash runs on my computer and
 the tax authority has no way of knowing whether I doctored my version
 of gnucash.
 Even with drorit and linet, will the tax authority accept it if I
 install it on my server (and as a result have full control over all
 the demands you listed) or did they only approve the version running
 on company X's servers?
 Logically it seems only the second would be the case...


Linet does not run on a server it is run locally.
The request is that you can not change or delete transactions from the
software itself or by a normal user.
There is no request to not be able to change at all. They accept that
knowledgeable user with root privileges on the system can delete
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Re: accounting software

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On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote:

  On 06/07/13 08:45, Ori Idan wrote:




  Again you did not understand me.
 It is illegal to treat proforma as if it was an invoice and thus create
 double transactions.
 Since you will issue an invoice when you get the payment.

Double accounting need be *either* cash based *or* commitment based.
 You cannot validly mix the two. That much is true. However:

1. The requirements by law to approve an invoicing system need not
include accounting at all, much less make sure it conforms to any
particular standard. It is true that that will not allow you to issue אישור
ניהול ספרים if you are required to keep double bookkeeping, but most people
who are required to do that pay someone to do it. As such, I don't think
saying illegal does this justice.
2. Performa invoices transactions have three stages, instead of the
more traditional two. There is the payment requirement stage (the performa
invoice), the formal transaction stage (the tax invoice) and the actual
payment. You are right that creating two transactions, one for the performa
and one for the tax invoices, is wrong, whether it is illegal largely
depends on the way the tax is calculated. If the VAT payment is calculated
to the right amount at the right time, I don't see how that is a problem.

 Performa invoice have two stages (the third one is the receipt). The bug
Linet had was that they would record transactions the same as invoice and
thus when issuing the invoice you had two monitarry tansactions while you
should have had only one.
So it was never balanced since if you issued an invoice on 1000 ILS,
received payment of 1000 ILS The balance is 0 which is Ok.
If you had the Performa recorded as transactions you would have a balance
of 1000.
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Re: accounting software *free open source*

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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 printouts to a certified accounted
 to make a legal report. You may need to work with generic receipts in
 parallel though.



 As it was explained to me by my accountant, the tax authorities don't care
 how you keep YOUR books, they only care that the submissions to them are
 done properly.

 Properly means that an accepted (certified?) program is used and that the
 data was entered by a level 3 (starts at 1) certified bookkeeper or a
 certified public accountant (CPA).

 In real terms this means for small business the data is sent to your
 accountant and they (or their certified bookkeeper) enters it into their
 program on their computer and submits that to the tax authorities.

 At that point the responsibility for the data being entered properly and
 the program being a legal one is borne by your accountant and not you.

 IMHO this is preferable because my experience in being an independent
 consultant, the owner of a small consulting firm, and involved with
 startups over various times, is that any money spent paying a professional
 to keep your books and prepare your tax returns is well worth it. YMMV.

 Most accountants will accept data in XLS (Excel spreadsheet format), so
 you can enter the data in an Excel spreadsheet and send them the file.

 I assume that an Excel spreadsheet created and maintained by OpenOffice
 would be acceptable to them.

 Geoff.


 Tax authorities has nothing against OSS software and they already gave
approval to OSS software twice (Drorit, my software and it's fork Linet,
both GPL).
The real truth is that they only ask to see several things:
1. Invoices can not be deleted and numbered sequentially without repeating.
2. No simple ability to delete transcations
3. Output of what they call Open Format files, these are files with all
transactions in a special format they require.

That is all, no question about OSS or not.
There was a debate last time they registered Linet and they agreed to
register it so they have nothing against OSS.
GNUCASH can not be registered since it can not output Open Format files.

Note that I have good experience and knowledge about the subject as I make
a living out of Accounting software.
I have written several software packages and also consult business about
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Re: accounting software

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ifreelance can export most of it's reports as CSV so I guess it may be
enough to connect to other software.


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:54 PM, sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks. Now the question is,  if freelance can connect to other software


 On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il wrote:

 There are several software packages I wrote that are all accepted.
 The best one I can recommend is:
 http://www.ifreelance.co.il
 Free of charge for most cases. Also has an API for use from ecommerece
 websites.
 Can send invoices by mail (not free, requires purchase of digital
 signature for 100 ILS a year)

 Linet is a fork of my Drorit software and unfortunately copied all the
 bugs I had and add more of their own. Although it is accepted by the Tax
 authorities it has few bugs that render it useless such as creating
 transactions for non tax invoice (Heshbonit Iska) I wonder How they got
 their tax certificate with this bug since it is illegal.
 However I heard that in recent version they fixed it.

 --
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 http://www.ucan2.co.il/ works with Linux.

  On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:45 PM, sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello Everyone

 I would like to know which accounting software (besides linet) is
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Re: accounting software

[Ori Idan]

You can use the API to issue the receipts from any other software.


On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 1:25 AM, sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote:

 The program has to connect to a hotel management program (hoteldroid) and
 has to provide receipts.


 On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.ilwrote:

 Sara,

 You might also consider GeeeX CRM [1]. It's based on vTiger CRM but the
 Hebrew translation was redone and an Invoice module was written in,
 authorized by the Israeli Revenue Service.

 [1] http://free.geeex.net

 Amichai.


 On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il wrote:

 ifreelance can export most of it's reports as CSV so I guess it may be
 enough to connect to other software.


 On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:54 PM, sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks. Now the question is,  if freelance can connect to other software


 On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il wrote:

 There are several software packages I wrote that are all accepted.
 The best one I can recommend is:
 http://www.ifreelance.co.il
 Free of charge for most cases. Also has an API for use from ecommerece
 websites.
 Can send invoices by mail (not free, requires purchase of digital
 signature for 100 ILS a year)

 Linet is a fork of my Drorit software and unfortunately copied all the
 bugs I had and add more of their own. Although it is accepted by the Tax
 authorities it has few bugs that render it useless such as creating
 transactions for non tax invoice (Heshbonit Iska) I wonder How they got
 their tax certificate with this bug since it is illegal.
 However I heard that in recent version they fixed it.

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 http://www.ucan2.co.il/ works with Linux.

  On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:45 PM, sara fink sara.f...@gmail.comwrote:

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Re: accounting software

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On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote:

  On 04/07/13 17:34, Ori Idan wrote:

 There are several software packages I wrote that are all accepted.
 The best one I can recommend is:
 http://www.ifreelance.co.il
 Free of charge for most cases. Also has an API for use from ecommerece
 websites.
 Can send invoices by mail (not free, requires purchase of digital
 signature for 100 ILS a year)

  Linet is a fork of my Drorit software and unfortunately copied all the
 bugs I had and add more of their own. Although it is accepted by the Tax
 authorities it has few bugs that render it useless such as creating
 transactions for non tax invoice (Heshbonit Iska) I wonder How they got
 their tax certificate with this bug since it is illegal.

 How do you figure that it is illegal?

 If it is illegal, why did the Knesset go to all this bother to pass a law
 that *requires* clients to accept a performa invoice from small
 businesses?

Proforma invoice by itself is legal.
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Re: accounting software

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On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote:

  On 06/07/13 08:33, Ori Idan wrote:




 On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.bizwrote:

  On 04/07/13 17:34, Ori Idan wrote:

 There are several software packages I wrote that are all accepted.
 The best one I can recommend is:
 http://www.ifreelance.co.il
 Free of charge for most cases. Also has an API for use from ecommerece
 websites.
 Can send invoices by mail (not free, requires purchase of digital
 signature for 100 ILS a year)

  Linet is a fork of my Drorit software and unfortunately copied all the
 bugs I had and add more of their own. Although it is accepted by the Tax
 authorities it has few bugs that render it useless such as creating
 transactions for non tax invoice (Heshbonit Iska) I wonder How they got
 their tax certificate with this bug since it is illegal.

  How do you figure that it is illegal?

 If it is illegal, why did the Knesset go to all this bother to pass a law
 that *requires* clients to accept a performa invoice from small
 businesses?

 Proforma invoice by itself is legal.
 What is illegal is creating transactions as it if was an invoice.

 Are you saying it is illegal to create an accounting program that tracks
 payment done על בסיס מזומן? If so, how is a big company that receives a
 performa invoice supposed to track it?

Again you did not understand me.
It is illegal to treat proforma as if it was an invoice and thus create
double transactions.
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Re: accounting software

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There are several software packages I wrote that are all accepted.
The best one I can recommend is:
http://www.ifreelance.co.il
Free of charge for most cases. Also has an API for use from ecommerece
websites.
Can send invoices by mail (not free, requires purchase of digital signature
for 100 ILS a year)

Linet is a fork of my Drorit software and unfortunately copied all the bugs
I had and add more of their own. Although it is accepted by the Tax
authorities it has few bugs that render it useless such as creating
transactions for non tax invoice (Heshbonit Iska) I wonder How they got
their tax certificate with this bug since it is illegal.
However I heard that in recent version they fixed it.

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On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.comwrote:

 http://www.ucan2.co.il/ works with Linux.

 On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:45 PM, sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello Everyone

 I would like to know which accounting software (besides linet) is
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Help wanted

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Hello,

One of my customers is doing Automatic Test Equipment for Electronic boards.
Currently most of the tests are written using Linux and perl.

I need someone to help me and take over my position there.
I need a freelance that is available for about 3 to 4 days a week.

Work is in Kfar Saba.

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Finding if a line contains Hebrew characters in perl

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I have a script in perl where I read lines from a UTF-8 text file.
I have to find out if a line contains at least 3 letters in Hebrew.

How can this be done in perl?

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Re: Announcing New Israeli Tech User Groups

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On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

 On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 11:21:42 +0300
 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote:

  Hi all,
 
  My series of books about mastering UNIX tools (see:
  http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/Mastering-Cat/ ) has enjoyed
  tremendous success, and now I decided to take it to the next logical
  level. As a result, I have decided to start up several special
  interest groups (SIGs) or user groups for the tools that I covered in
  the series:
 
  * TelAviv.cm - the Tel Aviv cat(1) mongers.
 
  * Haifa.ec - the Haifa echo chamberists.
 
  * Jerusalem.tb - the Jerusalem true believers.
 
  * Eilat.fh - the Eilat false hoodies.
 
  We will soon announce the upcoming meetings of these user-groups on
  our calendar.
 
  Best regards,
 
  — Shlomi Fish

 I'm sorry Shlomi, but I already have trademarks on all four of those
 groups.


 Can you provide a proof? I think Shlomi is the best authority for cat and
therefore it is only natural that Shlomi will lead the group of cat mongers

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Re: [ANN] My Transition from a Software Developer to a Writer/amateur-philosopher/entertainer/Internet celebrity

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote:

 Hi all,

 in case you missed my post on blogs.perl.org, see:

 *

 http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/03/ann-my-transition-from-software-developer-to-writerentertaineramateur-philosopherinternet-celebrity.html

 (short URL - http://xrl.us/bonezw ).

 Reading from it:

 
 I'd like to make an announcement: after some serious thought, I decided
 that
 from now on, being a software developer (which I am not too bad at) will
 only
 be the means (but the absolutely necessary ones) to me being a writer /
 entertainer / philosopher / Internet celebrity (a little bit of all those
 and
 then some) whose main pride and passion is his personal web site, which is
 full
 of a lot of material, and various pages and material is constantly added
 to it.


Nice move Shlomi, but as a writer (with 2 books published in print and 4 as
EPUBS) I can say that I prefer to keep doing it as a hobby and not as my
day job.
If I had made writing my day job (which is something I wanted few years
ago), I'd be forced to be commercial and write about what people really
want to read or the way people like to read.
These days I started to make my living connected to writing but not
directly from writing. I now make my living from digital books consulting
and services and still work as a software consultant.

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Re: IE standardization falling

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On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com wrote:

 Remember all the problems that we had (have) with sites built only for IE?
 Well, that apparently is no longer a problem!

 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/021313-internet-explorer-266698.html?hpg1=bn
 And since Israel is about 5 years behind the USA on most trends, then we
 should be OK by 2018. :D


IE does not seem to take much market share today.
In my website (http://www.heliconbooks.com) that a use get specific version
of the website depending on where he comes from, I see that IE is less then
10 percent total.
In other websites I manage which are geared towards Israeli readers, IE
market share is up to 30% and falling.
It used to be 40% about a year ago.

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Re: Hebrew (other languages) in Cinnamon?

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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:06 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.ilwrote:

 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).


Go to settings - Keyboard - Layout settings (looks like a link at the
bottom of the window).
From there, add Hebrew layout.

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Re: hacking the government, the British way

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On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote:


 Hi,

 We have elections on the horizon and a bunch of NGO members, from
 Hamakor down, up, and sideways, on this list. And we often see - and
 complained about - cluelessness in government IT, software, websites,
 etc.

 So, it looks like the UK government is trying to do something that
 sounds on the face of it, vaguely intelligent about IT projects, cf.

 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/02/cabinet_office_open_principles/

 I am not trying to say this is going to be brilliant or workable or
 not prone to subversion by Sir Humphreys[*], but given how gov.il is
 always keen to look abroad to justify doing or not doing stuff, maybe
 someone should point it out to some politicians looking for votes in
 January?

 If ths generates any heated or prolonged discussions may I suggest
 conducting them on the appropriate NGO lists and forums? I am not a
 member of any, so it was easier for me to post here in the belief that
 it is on topic. How to best influence the politicians, however,
 probably isn't, unless someone hacks up a Linux-based AI to run the
 country.

 [*] Some of the younger list members may need, e.g.,
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister to understand who Sir
 Humphrey was. The rest of us may well be reminded that the
 fictional Minister whose efforts to reform things were so often
 thwarted by Sir Humphrey was called Jim Hacker.

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The people behind gov.il think that .doc is an open standard since after
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Crossover give away

[Ori Idan]

Have you noticed the following:
http://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/press/20121029/

Did someone try it?

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Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE] Israeli Digital Rights NPO -- Zvi Devir

[Ori Idan]

The initial of the name is somewhat confusing.
We usually see DRM in the sense if Digital Rights Management which is
something that as I understand is something that this movement is against
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote:

 On Monday, October 29th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Zvi
 Devir:

Israeli Digital Rights NPO

 Abstract

 The Digital Rights Movement stands between advanced technology and people
 rights (in the broad sense). Technological advance provides us with new
 products and new means of interacting with our surrounding. It provides a
 customer more flexibility and new ways of using a given product. However,
 it can be used to control and limit the usability of the product. For
 example, a customer buys a product, a certain book. Does it matters if the
 product is a digital book or an old-fashioned printed book? The customer
 should have the same usability rights to read the book, the right to read
 in private, without anyone knowing when and where it was read, to quote a
 few lines from the book, to lend it to a friend, and to sell the book to
 someone else. However, technological measures can curb, if not to render
 useless, some of those rights.

 The Digital Rights Movement (DRM) was registered in 2010. It follows the
 steps of the Electrical Frontier Foundation (EFF), which was founded in
 1993, and is the model of most digital rights organizations in the western
 world. The main goal of the DRM is to protect people rights when are
 endangered or threatened by technology measures. Consumer rights are only
 one front. Privacy is another. Freedom of expression is a third. And there
 are many more.

 Initial thought about establishing the DRM started during the struggle
 against the biometric database law in 2009. We came to a conclusion that
 there is no NPO in Israel which exclusively focuses on these areas. The
 Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) is addressing violations of
 citizen rights of all types. The Israel Consumer Council handles only
 direct violation of customers rights. Other organizations (Hamakor, ISOC,
 Wikimedia IL) address specific aspects of the digital world.

 The DRM has only recently started to operate. It sends official stand
 letters to the Knesset and different ministries, its members are
 participating in Knesset committees. Recently, the DRM (with ACRI) had a
 successful high court petition against the biometric database law, which
 forced the state to recheck the necessity of a national-wide biometric
 database for the issuance of smart identity cards.

 Further information on the DRM can be found in its website
 http://digitalrights.org.il.

 ==**==**=

 We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see:
 http://www.haifux.org/where.**html http://www.haifux.org/where.html

 Attendance is free, and you are all invited!

 ==**==**==
 Future lectures:

 12/11/12 What more can industry learn from open source? Yael
  Vaya-Talmor


 ==**==**==

 We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to
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Re: printer

[Ori Idan]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Constantine Shulyupin 
co...@makelinux.co.il wrote:

 Which multifunctional printer for home (SOHO) would you recommend to
 purchase from available currently in Israel?
 Which store network?


I have HP OfficeJet 4500 works great with Ubuntu, I don't remember any
particular problems setting it.
I bought is from office-depot

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Re: jobnet from linux

[Ori Idan]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com wrote:

 On Thu, 31 May 2012, Aharon Schkolnik wrote:

  Well, I guess that could make sense - your browser (I am not familiar with


 Iceweasel is unbranded firefox.

 No problem here (Ubuntu 11.10 using chromium).

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Re: dog db search supported only by msie - the response

[Ori Idan]

Ask why.
Why did they choose to disregard international standards?
What are their plans for obeying standards in the future?
They should understand that this is not a matter of Microsoft vs. Firefox
or chrome this is a matter of disregarding international standards.

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2012/5/7 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com

 what should i do with the response below ? (read anat's reaction).

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: ברוך הלוי [Baruch Levi] baru...@moag.gov.il
 Date: 2012/5/7
 Subject: RE: חיפוש במאגר הכלבים
 To: ענת אלזרקי [Anat Alzraki] an...@moag.gov.il
 Cc: erez0...@gmail.com


 ** ** ** **

 שלום

 בשלב הזה כפי ככתוב באתר 

 אנחנו תומכים בסייר של מיקרוסופט בלבד

 ** **

 בברכה

 ברוך הלוי

 מרכז ארצי לרישום כלבים

 משרד החקלאות

 ** **
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 *From:* ענת אלזרקי [Anat Alzraki]
 *Sent:* Sunday, May 06, 2012 10:51 AM
 *To:* ברוך הלוי [Baruch Levi]; **בוריס יעקובסון [**Boris Yakobson**]**
 *Subject:* FW: חיפוש במאגר הכלבים

 ** **

 ** **

 תשיבו למיילל למטה

 **
  **


 *בברכה***

 *אלזרקי ענת*

 *המרכז הארצי לרישום כלבים*

 *טלפון: 03-9681610*

 *פקס: 03-9681753***

 * *

 * *

 * *

 ** **
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 *From**:* Erez D [mailto:erez0...@gmail.com]
 *Sent**:* Thursday, May 03, 2012 6:12 PM
 *To**:* **Dog** **Center**
 *Subject**:* חיפוש במאגר הכלבים

 ** **

 שלום רב

 אני מנסה לחפש במאגר הכלבים :
 http://www.vtr.moag.gov.il/vtr/DogCenter/search.asp
 אך איני מצליח- לא בפלאפון, לא בטאבלט ולא ב PC שמריץ לינוקס

 לא נראה לי סביר שאני צריך לשלם על רישיון של ווינדוז בכדי לחפש במאגר ממשלתי
 הייתי מצפה מאתר ממשלתי שיהיה לפי התקן (ואז יעבוד לא רק באקפלורר - גם
 בפלפון בטאבלט, בלינוקס, במאק וכו...)

 תודה
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Re: doesn't a gov.il site supposed to support more than just MSIE ?

[Ori Idan]

2012/5/3 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org



 On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote:


 Forget that their database only works with Microsoft Internet Explorer -
 why does it only work with dogs? Shouldn't our government also support
 cats?


 As in cat(1) or netcat(1)?  Do you seriously believe the web developers of
 gov.il know they exist? And if they do, will they allow you to script
 queries and netcat them around? ;-)

 I think they don't even have any web developers and non of those
responsible to their web site even knows they need a programmer. They think
that web sites should be done without investing neither time nor money.

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TCP/IP using perl

[Ori Idan]

I have a simple device that I need to send few lines of data in TCP
protocol.
The device should respond on each line sent.

I am using the following code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket::INET;

my ($socket,$client_socket);

$socket = new IO::Socket::INET (
PeerHost = '192.168.0.20',
PeerPort = '5086',
Proto = 'tcp',
) or die ERROR in Socket Creation : $!\n;


$socket-send(a\n);
$socket-recv($data, 128);
print Data 1: $data\n;

$socket-send(111000\n);
$socket-recv($data, 128);

It seems that the device gets the first line but not the second line.
Does anyone have an idea what am I doing wrong?

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Re: TCP/IP using perl

[Ori Idan]

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Diego Iastrubni elc...@kde.org wrote:

 On שבת 07 אפריל 2012 16:39:12 Shlomi Fish wrote:
  Otherwise, does Wireshark tell you anything suspicious?

 You may also use nc -l | hexdump -C to debug the data on the server.
 But I
 assume you already did that.

Thank you Diego for your answer.
I replaced the server with nc and it works great so it seems the problem is
in the server and not the client.
That is what I needed to know.
I hope tomorrow I will be able to try in on the real server which is a
hardware device that I did not write the software and unfortunately don't
have the time to fix it (I did not write it's software anyway).

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Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Ori Idan]

Another point to notice is that there is no such format as MS word format.
Each version has a different format and sometimes one can not open the
documents that was sent to him in this format.
I have seen many cases where OpenOffice opened files that people who had a
version of MS-word could not open.

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2012/2/5 Boaz Rymland boaz.ryml...@gmail.com

 Hi all,

 I'm about to meet my daughter's school principal on the subject of the
 formats of documents the school spreads around routinely, like the weekly
 schedule. In short - they are using .DOC MS Word format and I don't like it
 as I cannot cleanly open those documents on my computer (which runs Ubuntu).

 Although I'm quite old in the Linux world and probably heard over the
 years most of them - still I prefer having a refreshment of all the
 arguments in favor of moving to more open or at least affordable (e.g. PDF)
 document formats.

 Any pointers/text will be appreciated.

 Thanks,
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Re: Refund on preinstall Windows license in Israel [slightly OT]

[Ori Idan]

I wrote about it in 2008:
http://blog.oriidan.info/tag/%D7%AA%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%99/

Sorry for top posting, I send it from a mobile...

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On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote:

 On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:42:24 +0200
 Michael Vasiliev mycr...@infoscav.net wrote:

  On 12/21/2011 03:26 PM, Elazar Leibovich wrote:
   Have anyone tried to get a refund on a Windows license on a preinstall
   machine he bought?
  
   Is it possible in Israel? How much money will they refund? How
   complicated is it?
  
  Zvi Devir has done it and ran a Haifux lecture. I believe the slides and
  walk-through are still available.
 

 You can find them here:

 http://www.haifux.org/lectures/204/

 I can give you his email for further guidance if you E-mail me in private.

 Regards,

Shlomi Fish (whose laptop came with Windows 7 pre-installed, and he
kept it there because he believed it may prove of utility.).

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Re: Scheduling a Meeting in a Cafe or Restaurant

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On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.namewrote:

 On Thursday, November 03, 2011 6:16 PM, Shlomi Fish 
 shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote:
  I don't see why a real-life meeting of people who share similar
  interests should be disallowed.

 That's the first time you even hinted at what the meeting would be
 about.

 You might want to clarify what it would be about and why it can't be
 held over phone or instant messaging or smoke signals.


Why are you picking him.
I understood from the first place that this is Shlomi's intention and thus
don't see why people accused him of confusing jdate.co.il with linux-il.
Also why talking about smoke signals etc. when I think everyone understand
there are some advantages to face to face meetings.

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Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

[Ori Idan]

Unfortunately this is not FUD at all, it was reported by a Red-Hat employee
and was not denied by Microsoft.

See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/21/secure_boot_firmware_linux_exclusion_fears/

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On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 1:06 PM, geoffrey mendelson 
geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Oct 23, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:


 The Free Software Foundation started a campaign called “Stand up for your
 freedom to install free software!” about Microsoft's plan to enforce
 “Secure Boot” in the installations of Windows 8, which will prevent people
 from being able to boot into GNU/Linux, one of the BSD variants, or other
 operating systems. You can sign it here:

 http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/**secure-boot-vs-restricted-**boot/statementhttp://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement



 It's pure FUD.
 we are concerned that Microsoft and hardware manufacturers will implement
 these boot restrictions in a way that will prevent users from booting
 anything other than Windows.

 Not that they are, or saying they will, or even hinted they will.

 The FSF is struggling to regain some semblance of public support after
 RMS's disastrous FSF boycott of Israel and his comments about Steve Jobs. Do
 the world a favor and let the FSF die with dignity, instead of being
 remembered as a bunch of racist FUDslinging lunatics.

 Geoff.

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Re: Test.

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It seems that you can since this is the second mail I see from you.
On Jul 22, 2011 9:12 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com wrote:
 This is a test message, since I was unable to send E-mail to Linux-IL from
home.

 Regards,

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Re: MS buys Skype - will it support Linux

[Ori Idan]

 3. regulation - if MS go after the Linux version, they will probably
 face regulatory investigations all around the world. As rich as MS is,
 a billion or two in fines in several countries, may change the
 purchase to a disaster (think of the stockholders! why nobody think of
 the stockholders?!?

 What problems do you see regarding regulations?

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Re: [ Completely OT] Advice on Value Assessment

[Ori Idan]

For stamp collection you can contact: http://www.bait-tov.com

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2011/4/15 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il

 Hello,

 I turn to you because I value your input and advice...

 I have a book collection and a stamp collection, and I'd like to get an
 assessment of their value.

 I just don't know who to turn to and who to trust.

 Can any one on this list recommend someone (preferably in Haifa)?

 Thanks!

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Re: Android phones

[Ori Idan]

2011/2/23 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com

 On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:53 PM, David Suna 
 da...@davidsconsultants.comwrote:

 2. The Galaxy phone has a significantly lower SAR rating than the others.
  The information I have found online has been rather unclear whether this is
 something significant that would recommend this phone over the others.  Can
 anyone point me to reliable definitive information about this?

 HaMachon LeMechkar Garini of Israel published a survey about mobile phone
 radiation effects on the human body. Apparently this is a very well studied
 topic, since years ago people where exposed to much higher sources of
 radiation, for example, telegraph operators.
 The bottom line if I read it correctly is, that there has been extensive
 research on this topic, and no health issues were found. With the exception
 of small children, for which there haven't been enough research to give an
 solid opinion.

 In a personal note, I've no idea if it's Placebo (it happened to me ever
 since I started using mobile phone, before I learned anything about the
 health problems), or is it because of some other effect. But I'm feeling an
 headache each and every time I'm speaking on a mobile phone for more than a
 few moments. It is perfectly reproducible, and never happens to me with home
 phones, or ear phones, or when pressing a small TRANSISTOR near my ear.

 You can send them a request and they'll mail it (as in snail mail) to you.
 If I'll try to find it and I'll send it to you, please contact me privately
 if you're interested.

 As much as I understand, When they say there are no health effects, they
mean, no long term effects.
Headache during conversation is a known problem with cellular phones, the
question is does it means that you will suffer long term effects
like continuous headache or even worth, some kind of cancer.

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Remote control on Linux machine

[Ori Idan]

Is there any solution (preferably free as in free speech) for remote control
on Linux machine, similar to logmein for Windows?
Something that can work if the machine is behind NAT.

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Sending hebrew mails from PHP to Outlook

[Ori Idan]

I am sending HTML mail in Hebrew from a server running Ubuntu 10.4 and PHP
5.3.2
When sending the mail as UTF-8 with the header set to Content-type:
text/html; charset=UTF-8 the mails are read as gibrish.
When converting to windows-1255 (and changing the Content-type header) the
hebrew received Ok but it is received as plain text (seeing HTML tags)
Does anyone have any idea how to solve it? (preferably without changing
setup in outlook)

Everything works fine when sending to gmail.

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Re: Sending hebrew mails from PHP to Outlook

[Ori Idan]

When sending with charset=windows-1255 it works.
The problem was that the headers where terminated with \r\n instead of \n
only.
As for the UTF-8 problem, I am not going to solve it now. Windows-1255 is
enough for the customer.

Again spending hours of work because of Microsoft bugs.

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On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:48 PM, David Ronkin dron...@gmail.com wrote:

 Try to use charset=iso-8859-8 instead (it's more correct for hebrew i
 think).
 David


 2011/1/17 shimi linux...@shimi.net

 2011/1/17 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il

 I am sending HTML mail in Hebrew from a server running Ubuntu 10.4 and
 PHP 5.3.2
 When sending the mail as UTF-8 with the header set to Content-type:
 text/html; charset=UTF-8 the mails are read as gibrish.
 When converting to windows-1255 (and changing the Content-type header)
 the hebrew received Ok but it is received as plain text (seeing HTML tags)
 Does anyone have any idea how to solve it? (preferably without changing
 setup in outlook)

 Everything works fine when sending to gmail.



 In the HTML (between head and /head), try having also a:

 meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 /

 tag.

 If that didn't help... try sending the message as a multipart MIME
 message, one part with text (text/plain) (strip_tags() to kill the HTML),
 and the other as proper HTML.

 I think It should do the trick...

 Of course, verify that what you're sending, is, indeed, utf-8. i.e. if
 it's hard coded in some file, that this file is saved encoded as utf-8.

 HTH,

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Re: Bezeq's Dropbox imitation

[Ori Idan]

DropBox has client and a daemon. The client is open source but as much as I
know the daemon is not.

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On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.bizwrote:

 On 19/12/10 11:15, Justin wrote:

 Ubuntu has their own dropbox clone.  If I'm going to support a company...
 I'd rather it's Canonical than Bezeq.

  ֹI'll just mention that the DropBox client for Linux is open source (as
 opposed to their client for Windows and Mac).

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Re: Bezeq's Dropbox imitation

[Ori Idan]

I think you can achieve the same functionality using rsync and cron, however
what they offer is a daemon that looks for changes in a specific directory
and synchronizes the directory to the remote server. I think they also offer
the possibility of sharing a subdirectory (under that dropbox directory)
with anyone else that has a dropbox account.

I have used dropbox in the past, I am now using a similar service from
Canonical named Ubuntu one that comes default with Ubuntu desktop.

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On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:

 2010/12/19 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il:
  DropBox has client and a daemon. The client is open source but as much as
 I
  know the daemon is not.
 

 Maybe this should be a new thread, but what does DropBox offer that a
 remote SSH account, Rsync and Cron don't? No troll, I'd really like to
 know.


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Mail forwarding using postfix

[Ori Idan]

Hello,

I have a new postfix server running on a virtual host.
I would like to forward mails sent to domains on this machine to other
addresses.
for example, if domain example.com resolves to my machine, I would like to
forwared mail sent to o...@example.com to o...@helicontech.com

I wrote in /etc/postfix/virtual:
o...@example.com o...@helicontech.co.il

I also wrote in /etc/postfix/transport
example.com helicontech.co.il

I restarted postfix, sent a test (from different address, not from
o...@helicontech.co.il)
I then looked at /var/log/mail.log

I have seen connect message from google.com (I sent the mail using gmail)
I then saw a message like to=o...@helicontech.co.il with status=sent

However the mail never reached the destination.

What have I done wrong?

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Re: Mail forwarding using postfix [solved]

[Ori Idan]

I thought I tried it but decided to try again.
in main.cf I wrote: virtual_alias_domains = /etc/postfix/valiastable

I created a simple text file with one line containing the domain I would
like to receive mail to.
I then reloaded postfix (sudo postfix reload) and tested it again.

I worked.
I added another domain in this text file and added another address in
/etc/postfix/virtual and it worked to.

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On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Shimon Weinreich shi...@openu.ac.ilwrote:

I’ll check.





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*From:* Ori Idan [mailto:o...@helicontech.co.il]
*Sent:* Thursday, December 02, 2010 12:13 PM

*To:* Shimon Weinreich
*Subject:* Re: Mail forwarding using postfix



It seems to be working if I specify the doman directly in
virtual_alias_domains in main.cf

How do I tell it to take the domains from a file and not from the line
itself?



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On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Shimon Weinreich shi...@openu.ac.il
wrote:

Please send me /var/log/maillog





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*From:* Ori Idan [mailto:o...@helicontech.co.il]
*Sent:* Thursday, December 02, 2010 11:46 AM
*To:* Shimon Weinreich
*Subject:* Re: Mail forwarding using postfix



Yes I did



2010/12/2 Shimon Weinreich shi...@openu.ac.il

Hi,



Did you type postmap virtual   postmap transport ?





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*From:* linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:
linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] *On Behalf Of *Ori Idan
*Sent:* Thursday, December 02, 2010 11:35 AM
*To:* IGLU Mailing list
*Subject:* Mail forwarding using postfix



Hello,



I have a new postfix server running on a virtual host.

I would like to forward mails sent to domains on this machine to other
addresses.

for example, if domain example.com resolves to my machine, I would like to
forwared mail sent to o...@example.com to o...@helicontech.com



I wrote in /etc/postfix/virtual:

o...@example.com o...@helicontech.co.il



I also wrote in /etc/postfix/transport

example.com helicontech.co.il



I restarted postfix, sent a test (from different address, not from
o...@helicontech.co.il)

I then looked at /var/log/mail.log



I have seen connect message from google.com (I sent the mail using gmail)

I then saw a message like to=o...@helicontech.co.il with status=sent



However the mail never reached the destination.



What have I done wrong?



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[OT] Running webinar

[Ori Idan]

This is not exactly on topic but I guess people on this list might have some
ideas.
My customer would like to orgenize a webinar on a web application I wrote
for him.
Does anyone know how to do it? preferably something that can be done with
Linux.

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Using ComSign smart card

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VAT authorities will soon ask all reports to be signed using comsign digital
signature and identification should be done using their smartcard.
How can this smartcard be used under Linux?

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Re: Using ComSign smart card

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Currently only 4 millions annually but from next year all companies and from
2011 everyone including small businesses.
So we have to be ready for this.

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2010/11/14 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com

 As much as I heard, for now it's only companies who make 4 millions
 annually.

 Hetz

 2010/11/14 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il

 VAT authorities will soon ask all reports to be signed using comsign
 digital signature and identification should be done using their smartcard.
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Re: Using ComSign smart card

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Yes I did and did not get any answer yet.

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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:

 2010/11/14 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il:
  Currently only 4 millions annually but from next year all companies and
 from
  2011 everyone including small businesses.
  So we have to be ready for this.
 

 Have you directed the question to the VAT authorities?


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Re: Using ComSign smart card

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I talked with Comsign they refered me to TEHILA.
I wrote Email to TEHILA but did not get any answer yet.
From searching google it seems that the companies who manufacture the
smartcard reader have drivers to Linux, it seems however that these
are proprietary drivers.
I think that many of us have to be worried about this, I guess many people
here are freelancers or have small companies.
Currently it seems we got a delay, they wanted that from 1-1-2011 everyone
will start reporting using the new system and now they said that only
 businesses earning more then 1.6 million NIS per year will be obligated.
They still say that from 1--1-2012 Every one will have to report this way.
Look at: http://ozar.mof.gov.il/taxes/heshbonotMekuvan.htm (hebrew)

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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Ariel Biener ar...@post.tau.ac.il wrote:

  On 11/14/2010 11:46 AM, Ori Idan wrote:

 Currently only 4 millions annually but from next year all companies and
 from 2011 everyone including small businesses.
 So we have to be ready for this.

 Call Comsign (the Certificates arm of Comda). They are most helpful
 with regards to their CA operation.

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Re: Using ComSign smart card

[Ori Idan]

No, I do not think the people from Tehila will help me.
I did this only to let them know that people use other operating systems.
I hope that other people will do that too.
I did search the net and found that they use card readers by some know
manufacturers see for example:
http://www.scmmicro.com/security/view_product_en.php?PID=4

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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ori,

 You really think the people from Tehila will help you? They know well how
 to manage servers, but Linux support for smart cards? ha!

 How much does it cost to register/buy the card etc? I'll register, get the
 stuff and see if I can assist.

 Since I'm not an expert in smart cards, and assuming I'll find a way to use
 some drivers with the card, which apps should I test to mark the thing as
 passed or not?

 This will be fun :)

 Hetz

 2010/11/14 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il

 I talked with Comsign they refered me to TEHILA.
 I wrote Email to TEHILA but did not get any answer yet.
  From searching google it seems that the companies who manufacture the
 smartcard reader have drivers to Linux, it seems however that these
 are proprietary drivers.
 I think that many of us have to be worried about this, I guess many people
 here are freelancers or have small companies.
 Currently it seems we got a delay, they wanted that from 1-1-2011 everyone
 will start reporting using the new system and now they said that only
  businesses earning more then 1.6 million NIS per year will be obligated.
 They still say that from 1--1-2012 Every one will have to report this way.
 Look at: http://ozar.mof.gov.il/taxes/heshbonotMekuvan.htm (hebrew)

 --
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 On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Ariel Biener ar...@post.tau.ac.ilwrote:

  On 11/14/2010 11:46 AM, Ori Idan wrote:

 Currently only 4 millions annually but from next year all companies and
 from 2011 everyone including small businesses.
 So we have to be ready for this.

 Call Comsign (the Certificates arm of Comda). They are most helpful
 with regards to their CA operation.

 -- Ariel
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Re: Using ComSign smart card

[Ori Idan]

Which means the drivers are free?
Good to know that Fedora already has the drivers, which means that it might
be very easy to use it, even easier then in windows :-)

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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks for the link, this card reader uses the pc/sc interface which
 drivers, daemon etc are already inside standard linux distributions, my
 Fedora 13 has it already.

  I'll call comsign tommorow.

 Hetz


 2010/11/14 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il

 No, I do not think the people from Tehila will help me.
 I did this only to let them know that people use other operating systems.
 I hope that other people will do that too.
 I did search the net and found that they use card readers by some know
 manufacturers see for example:
 http://www.scmmicro.com/security/view_product_en.php?PID=4

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 On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ori,

 You really think the people from Tehila will help you? They know well how
 to manage servers, but Linux support for smart cards? ha!

 How much does it cost to register/buy the card etc? I'll register, get
 the stuff and see if I can assist.

 Since I'm not an expert in smart cards, and assuming I'll find a way to
 use some drivers with the card, which apps should I test to mark the thing
 as passed or not?

 This will be fun :)

 Hetz

 2010/11/14 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il

 I talked with Comsign they refered me to TEHILA.
 I wrote Email to TEHILA but did not get any answer yet.
  From searching google it seems that the companies who manufacture the
 smartcard reader have drivers to Linux, it seems however that these
 are proprietary drivers.
 I think that many of us have to be worried about this, I guess many
 people here are freelancers or have small companies.
 Currently it seems we got a delay, they wanted that from 1-1-2011
 everyone will start reporting using the new system and now they said that
 only  businesses earning more then 1.6 million NIS per year will be
 obligated.
 They still say that from 1--1-2012 Every one will have to report this
 way.
 Look at: http://ozar.mof.gov.il/taxes/heshbonotMekuvan.htm (hebrew)

 --
 Ori Idan


 On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Ariel Biener ar...@post.tau.ac.ilwrote:

  On 11/14/2010 11:46 AM, Ori Idan wrote:

 Currently only 4 millions annually but from next year all companies
 and from 2011 everyone including small businesses.
 So we have to be ready for this.

 Call Comsign (the Certificates arm of Comda). They are most helpful
 with regards to their CA operation.

 -- Ariel
  --
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Re: Using ComSign smart card

[Ori Idan]

From the conversation I had today with Comsign representative it seems that
it is not Comsign who is responsible for it. It is Tehila which means it is
even worse since we know Tehila can not even manage their own servers.
Comsign seems to be only the CA the issues the digital signatures. I think
this is also a problem that we must use only one CA.

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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:

 The framework is there, daemon is there, I don't know if what Comsign sells
 is supported or not and how many variants of cards + readers they sell (let
 me guess: the cheapest ones, and they make tons of money from them).

 I'll talk to them tomorrow.

 Hetz


 2010/11/14 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il

 Which means the drivers are free?
 Good to know that Fedora already has the drivers, which means that it
 might be very easy to use it, even easier then in windows :-)

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 On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks for the link, this card reader uses the pc/sc interface which
 drivers, daemon etc are already inside standard linux distributions, my
 Fedora 13 has it already.

  I'll call comsign tommorow.

 Hetz


 2010/11/14 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il

 No, I do not think the people from Tehila will help me.
 I did this only to let them know that people use other operating
 systems.
 I hope that other people will do that too.
 I did search the net and found that they use card readers by some know
 manufacturers see for example:
 http://www.scmmicro.com/security/view_product_en.php?PID=4

 --
 Ori Idan


 On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.comwrote:

 Ori,

 You really think the people from Tehila will help you? They know well
 how to manage servers, but Linux support for smart cards? ha!

 How much does it cost to register/buy the card etc? I'll register, get
 the stuff and see if I can assist.

 Since I'm not an expert in smart cards, and assuming I'll find a way to
 use some drivers with the card, which apps should I test to mark the 
 thing
 as passed or not?

 This will be fun :)

 Hetz

 2010/11/14 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il

 I talked with Comsign they refered me to TEHILA.
 I wrote Email to TEHILA but did not get any answer yet.
  From searching google it seems that the companies who manufacture the
 smartcard reader have drivers to Linux, it seems however that these
 are proprietary drivers.
 I think that many of us have to be worried about this, I guess many
 people here are freelancers or have small companies.
 Currently it seems we got a delay, they wanted that from 1-1-2011
 everyone will start reporting using the new system and now they said that
 only  businesses earning more then 1.6 million NIS per year will be
 obligated.
 They still say that from 1--1-2012 Every one will have to report this
 way.
 Look at: http://ozar.mof.gov.il/taxes/heshbonotMekuvan.htm (hebrew)

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 On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Ariel Biener 
 ar...@post.tau.ac.ilwrote:

  On 11/14/2010 11:46 AM, Ori Idan wrote:

 Currently only 4 millions annually but from next year all companies
 and from 2011 everyone including small businesses.
 So we have to be ready for this.

 Call Comsign (the Certificates arm of Comda). They are most helpful
 with regards to their CA operation.

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Re: Using ComSign smart card

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From looking at Tehila web site it seems they do support Mac OS/X but do not
support linux (yet, they say).
However from looking into some of the card readers they offer, it seems that
most card readers have Linux drivers.
For example: http://www.athena-scs.com/product.asp?pid=1
http://www.athena-scs.com/product.asp?pid=1More drivers can be found at:
http://www.linuxnet.com/sourcedrivers.html
 http://www.linuxnet.com/sourcedrivers.htmlSo it seems there is no problem
using the card readers under Linux.
I hope there aren't any other problems such as Explorer only websites etc.
We have about a year to solve these problems as all of us who report VAT
will need to report their VAT report using these methods from 1-1-2012

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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote:

 How is the market share of Apple in Israel these days? Their distrobutors
 should be interested in this issue as well.

 On 15/11/2010 7:14 AM, Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il wrote:

 No, I do not think the people from Tehila will help me.
 I did this only to let them know that people use other operating systems.
 I hope that other people will do that too.
 I did search the net and found that they use card readers by some know
 manufacturers see for example:
 http://www.scmmicro.com/security/view_product_en.php?PID=4

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Re: Using ComSign smart card

[Ori Idan]

Thank you Hetz.
From what you wrote and what I looked it really seems we should not have any
problems with the hardware.
Tehila says something regarding using Firefox in this document:
http://www.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/864BC531-DA34-4007-8EA9-39FAEA9607CE/0/Firefox.doc

From reading this document it seems we can use it under Linux although they
say Linux not yet supported.
Can someone read it and maybe point out some other problems I have
overlooked?

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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ok, finished! (at least in terms of hardware research)

 The Tehila project suggest 5 card readers which are supported by them
 (well, someone will support, maybe, Tehila doesn't know how to support
 people), you can see the list here:
 http://www.gov.il/FirstGov/smartCard/business/businessStart/

 http://www.gov.il/FirstGov/smartCard/business/businessStart/I won't look
 at the serial and PCMCIA solutions cause everyone got USB these days, so
 we're left with 3 cards:

 1. Athena ASE llle USB - this card is fully supported under Linux. You can
 download it's driver (fully open source), run configure, make, make install
 and thats it. I think it's already included on some recent distribution, but
 even if it's not, it takes 1 minute to compile  install.
 2. SCM SCR3310 - This card uses a *binary only* library (scmccid) which it
 has some hard-coded library path inside it (some developers should be
 shot!). Avoid this card if you prefer not to mess with binary only stuff.
 Please note: it's not binary only kernel driver, only user level shared
 library.
 3. GemPlus GemPC Twin - This one is the nicest. You don't need any special
 drivers. If you're distribution is pretty modern, it should have the driver
 for it inside the kernel and it would be auto recognize it when you connect
 it to your machine.

 Amos - I assume that OS X has PC/SC support inside, so you should have out
 of the box support on your Mac on 1 and 3. Funny thing: Number 2 driver got
 this on it's Info.plist file:
 !DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN 
 http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd;

 Thats - for the kernel stuff. User level stuff - that I need to research a
 bit...

 Thanks,
 Hetz

 2010/11/14 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com

 How is the market share of Apple in Israel these days? Their distrobutors
 should be interested in this issue as well.

 On 15/11/2010 7:14 AM, Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il wrote:

 No, I do not think the people from Tehila will help me.
 I did this only to let them know that people use other operating systems.
 I hope that other people will do that too.
 I did search the net and found that they use card readers by some know
 manufacturers see for example:
 http://www.scmmicro.com/security/view_product_en.php?PID=4

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[OT] Buying a new computer

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I would like to buy a new desktop computer.
Can someone recommend on what display board and sound board?
I don't need heavy graphics, it has to work fine with compiz and be able to
play video clips. I do not use it for actually watching movies.

Does anyone know of any good computer store in Herzelia or the neighbourhood
that preferably knows the answers to my questions or at least will not ask
what is Linux or why use Linux...

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Re: Amazon EC2 hosting,

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2010/10/10 Tom Rosenfeld trosenf...@gmail.com

 Hi,
 I just came across this thread from back in Aug about Amazon's cloud.

 I'd like to add that I have been a satisfied customer of Amazon for over a
 year, using their services for both consulting at at my current job where we
 use it to run our SaaS offering. The capabilities keep improving and the
 prices keep coming down. Their lowest end server is now just 2 cents an
 hour!

 There are some issues with the IO, but it is certainly adequate for all but
 high performance needs. We use 8 way stripped disks and get about 100 MBp/s
 sequential reads.

 If anyone wants more details, I'll be happy to share with you.

 -tom


I am considering using EC2 for a web application.
I am not sure how to calculate the payment per month.
Do I pay only for the time someone makes a request?
For example, I have a user who requests a certain report and it takes 1
second to load the report request form, then 20 seconds to produce the
report and print it.
I understand that I pay for 21 seconds?
So if I have 100 customers doing the same thing each day, I pay for 35
minutes (2100 seconds)?

It seems to be very cheap.

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 On 12/08/2010 00:00, Maxim Veksler wrote:
  Are you familiar with EC2  cc1.4xlarge instance type ?
 
  http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

 Not really... I did have a look around there a while back, but it just
 seemed overly complicated.  I like paying a flat rate and knowing
 exactly what I get, especially since it's more than enough power for me
 for the next little while.  Also with 16 cores can I quite easily divide
 my work into nice little VMs (xen-based), which I believe (but am not
 sure) that I could migrate to the cloud at a later stage.

 It says bandwidth is free until November... then what?

 Or more importantly... assuming you are in fact a proud owner of an
 xlarge instance, please share your use case and experiences with us :)

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Re: Children's Books about Linux?

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2010/10/8 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il

 Hi,

 Any of you aware of the existence of Linux children's books?

 I mean - those books with simple text and pretty pictures telling the story
 of Linux for 4-5 year old kids.

 I'd like to teach my children the values of the community from an early
 stage.

 I realize this thread will generate a lot of flaming - so I'll say why I am
 asking: I'd like to write such a book but I have no idea where to start, not
 even a story line

 Any of you want to team up and make it happen?


Great idea, a children book about Linux and free software.
Well, I am writing books, but I have never written a children book.
I hope other people here have more experience then me in children books, I
don't have children myself :-)



 Thanks!

 .::.

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Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

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I think dropbox.com can be used as a backup system to Linux.
It has a daemon for Linux, however the daemon itself is propriatry, the
GNOME Nautilus extension is not.

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On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote:

 On Mon, Sep 27, 2010, Michael Tewner wrote about Re: CPU  RAM in a
 storage box:
  Have you seen this?
 ...
   At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5
 per
   month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of
 ...

 Looking at their site, it appears that while their systems run on Linux,
 they don't give service to Linux machines. Is that true? Is there a similar
 online backup service which does support Linux? I'd love to use such a
 service
 for my home Linux computer.

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Re: USB speakers

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I don't know about these speakers but I guess the USB is only for power and
therefore you don't see any message.
Did you check lsusb?

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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Shlomo Solomon
shlomo.solo...@gmail.comwrote:

 I don't really know if this is a Linux problem, so I apologize if this
 turns
 out to be OT.

 I bought a pair of cheap USB speakers  - Muller M128 USB multimedia
 speakers. There are 2 wires - 1 with a USB connection and 1 with a
 regular
 3.5mm plug. When I plug in the USB connector, the speakers get power, but I
 see nothing in the logs (tail -f /var/log/messages) and get no sound. When
 I
 also connect the 3.5mm to my sound card, the speakers work.

 Is it possible that the USB plug is only for power, or do I have a Linux
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Re: WINE and Hebrew

[Ori Idan]

and while we are on this topic of Lupa, does anyone knows of a Linux
alternative that produces the same format?

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2010/9/11 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il

 Hey There,

 I am trying to install a Hebrew Win32 app (Lupa) using Wine - but the
 Hebrew letters show up as Gibberish...

 How do I add Hebrew support?

 .::.

 Amichai Rotman

 Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/]
 Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net]


 
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Re: gcc q

[Ori Idan]

avr-gcc linker, links a file named crts.o before main, this file calls
the main function in your program.
You need the sources for avr-libc to get the sources for these files.
The actual file depends on the target used (determined by the option -mmcu=)
These files are written in AVR assembly which I assume you know.

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2010/8/23 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz

  Erez D wrote:




 Okay. I'm going to assume that you are writing code that is meant to run
 directly on the hardware, no external OS. Also, I'm assuming you have a
 means to actually load that code into the CPU's address space (nor flash,
 loader, etc.)

 correct


 If those assumptions are true, and you are working with a GNU toolchain
 (or derivative), then you, most likely, have a linker control file (also
 known as a linker script). If you are not sure, search for an invocation
 of the linker phase with the -T or --script options.

 nope

 i compile with:
 avr32-g++ -O0 -g3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 -mpart=uc3l064
 -ffunction-sections -masm-addr-pseudos -oDebug\main.o main.cpp
 avr32-g++ -O0 -g3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 -mpart=uc3l064
 -ffunction-sections -masm-addr-pseudos -oDebug\uart.o uart.cpp
 avr32-g++ -mpart=uc3l064 -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--direct-data
 --rodata-writable -Wl,-Map,Debug\main.map -oDebug\proj3.elf Debug\main.o
 Debug\uart.o



 I saw on the internet that i should modify the crt0.S file to call my
 initialization function
 however i can not find the crt0.S file it uses. probably already compiled.

 s/probably/definitely/

 You have two options. The more correct way is to, indeed, change the C
 RunTime file. The file is probably available in object form, and you can
 detect which one by checking what is the command line that avr-g++ passes to
 avr-ld when it calls it. I am almost positive that there is a command line
 to see that, but I usually find it easier to use 'strace -f -e execve'.

 Then again, if, for whatever reason, you do not wish to tear apart the
 internal libraries used, you can also go by my original proposed route. The
 implicit linker script can be extracted by running avr-ld --verbose. You can
 copy it out into a file, and modify it from there.

 Personally, which way I'd go depends on how frequent this change you need
 to do is. If you are working on a custom hw platform, where you are expected
 to compile many programs for that platform, and that platform alone, I might
 prefer getting the sources to crt and making the change there. If you have
 several AVR platforms using the same toolchain, but only some of them need
 these registers, then I'd go the linker script path, as they do not require
 you to change the toolchain's files.

 Might I ask why you cannot init these hardware registers as the first thing
 that your actual program does? Does the startup code not run without this
 init?


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Re: Exporting CSV file with hebrew

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I have tested google docs with the same file translated using iconv to UTF-8
and it works great.
I still have a problem with excel, my customer claims he can not see the
hebrew in the file.
Does someone on this list has access to Excel and can tell me how to tell
excel the right encoding so it can import the hebrew?
I myself don't have access to Exccel and thus can not test it.
I can send a sample file.

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On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote:

 On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 00:20 +0300, Ori Idan wrote:
 
 
  On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote:
  My experience is limited to whatever my CPA is using (I think
  he uses
  Excel).  By experimenting with utf-8, cp862, iso_8859-8 and
  windows-1255
  encodings, we found that windows-1255 worked for him.
 
  If you find that Google Docs and Excel have contradictory
  expectations,
  then I suggest that you allow people to export the CSV file in
  either
  Google Docs compatible encoding or Excel compatible
  encoding.
 
  What is google docs compatible format?

 By trial, I found that utf-8 is the Google Docs compatible encoding:
 1. Create in Google Docs a spreadsheet with Hebrew text.
 2. Export it in CSV format to a file in your PC.
 3. Open the file in gedit and modify some cells.
 4. Import the file into Google Docs and demonstrate that it displays
 correctly the modified values.
 5. By means of xxd -g 1 (or other means), confirm that the file is in
 utf-8 encoding.

 By the way, I expect Excel to be configurable to accept also other
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Re: Exporting CSV file with hebrew

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I will ask him to do it, however my guess is that he was not aware of the
encoding and tried to use the default encoding which was probably
windows-1251 (Latin-1) and thus got the gibrish.
In open office it also happened.
Open office recognized UTF-8 by itself but could not recognize windwos-1255
and gave by default windows-1251.

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On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote:

 Hello Ori,
 I suggest that you ask your client for a screenshot of the Excel window
 displaying the sample imported *.csv file.

 How can this benefit:

 1. Clear up any miscommunication - maybe the client is viewing a view
 not containing the cells having the Hebrew text; or another equally
 ridiculous misunderstanding.

 2. From the gibberish which the client does see (and captured by the
 screenshot) you can guess which encoding did his Excel use to import the
 file.

  --- Omer


 On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 23:04 +0300, Ori Idan wrote:
  I have tested google docs with the same file translated using iconv to
  UTF-8 and it works great.
  I still have a problem with excel, my customer claims he can not see
  the hebrew in the file.
  Does someone on this list has access to Excel and can tell me how to
  tell excel the right encoding so it can import the hebrew?
  I myself don't have access to Exccel and thus can not test it.
  I can send a sample file.
 
  --
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  On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote:
 
  On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 00:20 +0300, Ori Idan wrote:
  
  
   On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il
  wrote:
   My experience is limited to whatever my CPA is using
  (I think
   he uses
   Excel).  By experimenting with utf-8, cp862,
  iso_8859-8 and
   windows-1255
   encodings, we found that windows-1255 worked for
  him.
  
   If you find that Google Docs and Excel have
  contradictory
   expectations,
   then I suggest that you allow people to export the
  CSV file in
   either
   Google Docs compatible encoding or Excel
  compatible
   encoding.
  
   What is google docs compatible format?
 
 
  By trial, I found that utf-8 is the Google Docs compatible
  encoding:
  1. Create in Google Docs a spreadsheet with Hebrew text.
  2. Export it in CSV format to a file in your PC.
  3. Open the file in gedit and modify some cells.
  4. Import the file into Google Docs and demonstrate that it
  displays
  correctly the modified values.
  5. By means of xxd -g 1 (or other means), confirm that the
  file is in
  utf-8 encoding.
 
  By the way, I expect Excel to be configurable to accept also
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Exporting CSV file with hebrew

[Ori Idan]

I am trying to export a file in CSV format that some of it's columns are
hebrew.
I would like people to be able to import it to excel, open-office and google
docs.
In open-office I had no problem importing the file in any encoding I used,
however I could not import it to google docs.
Other people with excel reported they can not see the hebrew also.
Does someone have any idea how to export the file so that the hebrew will be
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Re: Exporting CSV file with hebrew

[Ori Idan]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote:

 My experience is limited to whatever my CPA is using (I think he uses
 Excel).  By experimenting with utf-8, cp862, iso_8859-8 and windows-1255
 encodings, we found that windows-1255 worked for him.

 If you find that Google Docs and Excel have contradictory expectations,
 then I suggest that you allow people to export the CSV file in either
 Google Docs compatible encoding or Excel compatible encoding.


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Re: TAU lectures, BG Airport departures/arrivals, Kupat Holim lab results -- Linux

[Ori Idan]

‎‎These are 3 different organizations and all of them I think is not subject
to the state comptroller.

TAU lectures is one problem that I have no idea how to solve.

BG Airport departures is the only thing that might be of interest to the
state comptroller. When we approach him, we should talk about standards and
accessibility and not about Linux.

Kupat Holim, as much as I heard lately works fine with FireFox.
I myself tested Macabi web site, Omer Zak if I am not mistaken reported
lately that Clalit also works fine.
I don't know about the other health organizations in Israel.

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On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.comwrote:

 There was some discussion here not long ago about the tendency of Israeli
 website owners to ignore issues of access by users of non-Microsoft
 browsers, and there seemed then to be a feeling that something ought to
 be done about it. That feeling seems to have dissipated, although the
 problem remains (and promises to get worse).

 To challenge the indifference of web designers to the problem seems a lost
 cause, as many of them have learned (I use the term loosely) to code in
 inexpensive Microsoft-sponsored courses which exist largely for the
 purpose of indoctrinating their students in the belief that
 MS enhancements are the best or only way to code web pages; they are
 not knowledgeable enough to understand arguments to the contrary. Owners
 of websites are also not a productive target for persuasion, e.g. because
 they feel that if they are reaching 90% of their clients, they have done
 as well as they ever can do, which really is not an illogical business
 decision.

 On the other hand, all the organizations listed in the Subject line above
 are quasi-governmental agencies, and therefore have a responsibility to
 serve any member of the public who is equipped with standard apparatus,
 without regard to specific proprietary gear. They are all subject to the
 oversight of the State Comptroller, and I submit that the State
 Comptroller is the office that should be approached with the complaint
 and argument that these agencies are delinquent in their responsibility,
 given that e.g. Firefox is compliant with standards, whereas Internet
 Explorer (although universally favored by the ignoramuses who code the
 websites in question) is not.

 If this makes sense to others, and if there is still interest in
 rectifying this long-time problem, I propose that a proper complaint be
 lodged with the Comptroller, who is bound to respond within a length of
 time set by law (I think it is three months). I think that this letter
 should be be drafted by a committee representing IGLU and signed by the
 largest possible number of  members.

 The problem is not going to go away by itself.

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Re: linux beivrit

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So you decided to write in docx format and you expect people to review your
work?
I did not even looked at it because of the format.
If you write it in OpenOffice even if it does not look the best, people may
help you.
The issue of how it looks can be fixed later.
You may even work with simple text file to begin and later on transfer it to
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On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Raz razi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hey Nadav
 When i started i tried to work with open office in Hebrew, but i
 simply spent too much time
 trying to fix things, indentation, merging pictures and so on.
 also, how can ask for people to send me their comments ? I did not see
 track changes.


 On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il
 wrote:
  On Mon, Jul 05, 2010, Raz wrote about Re: linux beivrit:
   Open office would have been a much better choice (or lyx, or latex or
 a few
   others)
  I tried open format. does not look good at all.
 
  Hi,
 
  A lot of things can be said against Open Office (although I personally
  disagree with most of them), but I don't see how you can say its output
  (I assume you don't mean its UI) doesn't look good. What didn't you like?
  The fonts? The default style or layout? Or what?
 
  In my experience, you can create beautiful documents in Open Office, and
 it's
  not harder to do so than with with Microsoft Office, so I wonder whater
  problems you are referring to.
 
  Anyway, it's probably too late now for this document (converting formats
  is a harder issue), but it's something to think about for your next
  document :-)
 
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Re: linux beivrit

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Thank you very much for converting it to an open format.
I have read the first part and find it written very easy to read, I liked it
and will continue to read the rest.
However in the first paragraph you said that someone coming from Windows
will have the filling of going back in time, I don't understand why?
Any time I see a Windows machine, I have a filling of going back in time,
the graphical user interface of all popular distributions today is much more
advanced then Windows so I do not understand why this is going back in time?

As for CLI, I think it should be rephrased (I will think how later) to show
that this is a very advanced interface and people should not be afraid of
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On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Raz razi...@gmail.com wrote:

 anyone interested odt format are uploaded to site. odt ,pdf and doc.

 On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  And I totally forgot.
  It's kind of funny, but in the last OS course of the Open University
 (which
  is of course taught using Linux), the student were forced to use .doc
  format for their theoretical answers!
 
  On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  In fact I'm having difficulties to find reviewers for my .odt files!
  I'm not aware of any public service provider nor university in Israel
  which accepts open document format in principle.
  But I'll be glad to be proven wrong. (It might be that a specific grader
  at your university accepts documents at .odt format, but in general
 the
  university does not support this format, as opposed to .doc format
 which
  is officially supported).
  But OpenOffice is capable of saving documents in the propriety .doc
  format, which is the de facto standard in Israel. And you can have your
 work
  reviewed that way.
  Another option is to print it to PDF, but it's rather clumsy, because
 the
  reviewer cannot edit directly your document.
 
  2010/7/5 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il
 
  So you decided to write in docx format and you expect people to review
  your work?
  I did not even looked at it because of the format.
  If you write it in OpenOffice even if it does not look the best, people
  may help you.
  The issue of how it looks can be fixed later.
  You may even work with simple text file to begin and later on transfer
 it
  to a good word processor to do the formatting.
 
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  On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Raz razi...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Hey Nadav
  When i started i tried to work with open office in Hebrew, but i
  simply spent too much time
  trying to fix things, indentation, merging pictures and so on.
  also, how can ask for people to send me their comments ? I did not see
  track changes.
 
 
  On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il
 
  wrote:
   On Mon, Jul 05, 2010, Raz wrote about Re: linux beivrit:
Open office would have been a much better choice (or lyx, or
 latex
or a few
others)
   I tried open format. does not look good at all.
  
   Hi,
  
   A lot of things can be said against Open Office (although I
 personally
   disagree with most of them), but I don't see how you can say its
   output
   (I assume you don't mean its UI) doesn't look good. What didn't you
   like?
   The fonts? The default style or layout? Or what?
  
   In my experience, you can create beautiful documents in Open Office,
   and it's
   not harder to do so than with with Microsoft Office, so I wonder
   whater
   problems you are referring to.
  
   Anyway, it's probably too late now for this document (converting
   formats
   is a harder issue), but it's something to think about for your next
   document :-)
  
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Using Sato label printers under Linux

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Does anyone have any experience with using Sato label printers (specifically
CL412) under Linux?

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cat command with timeout

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I have to read lines from serial port, I thought to read them using 'cat'
however, since the other unit connected to the serial port, might
malfunction and not send anything, I need a timeout to stop reading after
few seconds.
Does someone know of an alternative to cat with timeout?

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Re: How do you calculate?

[Ori Idan]

I mostly use grpn which emulates a RPN calculator, I am used to the RPN
system from old HP calculators.

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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Baruch Siach bar...@tkos.co.il wrote:

 On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 02:55:23PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote:
  For years, I've been wondering: How do other Unix or Linux users do
 simple
  calculations?

 [snip]

  So I was wondering - how come there isn't more pressure on the Linux
  distributions to include a decent and convenient calculator language?
  Or do people consider what is available decent enough already?

 How about apcalc (http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/)?

 $ calc
 C-style arbitrary precision calculator (version 2.12.3.3)
 Calc is open software. For license details type:  help copyright
 [Type exit to exit, or help for help.]

 ; 2/3
~0.6667
 ;

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Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

[Ori Idan]

2010/5/12 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com

 I think you have to make a distinction between older MS software (such as
 XP) and newer ones (such as 7). For example you defenitely don't run as
 administrator in Windows 7, and you've got a built-in sudo like system.
 I, like some people who replied, had bad experience managing Windows
 machines, and it was usually viruses. However in recent versions I noticed
 that even at the hands of the inexperienced users, and without any virus
 scanner, the system stays relatively clean.

 The point about Windows complexity and background compatability is true and
 taken. It is against security, and maybe it tips the balance against MS and
 Windows related products security-wise.

 The other remark which I highly disagree is that there's no need to
 convince me. I'm discussing here in order to be convinced, and I'm usually
 glad when someone enlightens me.


 On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.ilwrote:

 On Tue, 11 May 2010 04:08:39 -0700
 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com wrote:


I do not understand how a discussion about Ubuntu as a development station
became into discussion about windows security and management.

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Re: Fwd: Ben Gurion - arrivals in Firefox

[Ori Idan]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Stan Goodman
stan.good...@hashkedim.comwrote:


 If that is not done, we stand an excellent change of finding that the new
 website again required Internet Explorer, and being fobbed off again (as
 in the case of the Maccabi  website), that the IE requirement is
 unavoidable because if is the only really secure browser.


What about Maccabi website? are you talking about Maccabi health services?
last time I had used it (couple of weeks ago) it worked perfectly with
firefox without changing the user agent name.

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Re: a good customers/ticketing solution?

[Ori Idan]

I think Vtiger has such options though I haven't checked it myself.

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2010/3/5 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com

 Hi,

 I wrote a short post in my blog about limits with customers (you can read
 it here: http://benhamo.org/wp/?p=1924)

 I was wondering if anyone has any recommendation for a good customer
 managing solution program which has:
 * Web based
 * ticketing system (that customer can register/login and submit his
 problems)
 * hebrew support (at least in the customer's front end)
 * open source
 * if possible, supports shekels, VAT, and can create  invoices

 Any recommendation for such  an app?

 Thanks,
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Re: Supporting legacy parallel-port dependent HW via USB-to-parallel and virtualization

[Ori Idan]

2010/1/18 Udi Finkelstein linux...@udif.com

 I have an old universal programmer (i.e. for programming
 Flash/PLD/Microcontroller chips) that is parallel port based.
 Since new computers with a parallel port are harder to come by (if at all),
 I'm looking for a solution that will let me use it with a USB connection.

 Is there a solution that involves a USB to parallel cable, and a
 virtualization software that traps HW parallel port accesses and emulate
 them through the USBparallel interface?

 The control program for the above programmer only runs under W2000 or DOS,
 but the virtualization solution can run under Linux.

 thanks,
 Udi


I don't think such a thing will work since in DOS, those programmers
accessed the hardware directly (no device driver) so I am not sure it such a
thing can work.
I would be happy to hear of a working solution.

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Re: Small victories, but more work to be done

[Ori Idan]

I think this is a great idea.
That was something I wanted to do while begin W3C office manager in Israel.
Unfortunately nothing of my ideas where done, because of ISOC-IL non
cooperation.

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2010/1/8 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il

 Guys,

 wouldn't it be nice to have a web site that shows the state of
 compatibility of each of the Israeli sites to standards and, consequently,
 FOSS?

 Here is what should be on that site:

 1) Top 5 or 10 Unfriendly sites right at the top of the first page -
 Companies would kill NOT to be on that list
 2) Same as 1, but the opposite - the friendliest sites.
 3) A way to report sites - good an bad ones.
 4) Compatibility Progress report - so we can all know what needs to be done
 to force the specific company to make the required changes.
 5. A contact list of all relevant departments of the commercial companies
 and the companies that provide the hosting and design (say we find out a
 specific web design company is resposable for the incompatibility by
 choice?)
 6) Come up with a reward system, similar to the Eichut Ha Sherut seal.
 7) the site should be endorsed and monitored by ISOC and the W3.
 8) the site should be in Hebrew, very simple in design but with enough eye
 candy to be attractive, by today's standards.

 I wish I knew how to make this happen. I don't mind helping out - gather
 the information, contacting companies and such...

 .::.

 Amichai Rotman

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 PLEASE READ: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html


 

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 On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 08:28, Gilad Ben-Yossef gi...@codefidence.comwrote:

  Nadav Har'El wrote:

 On Wed, Aug 27, 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote about Small victories, but more 
 work to be done:


  Today I got a letter from YNET that they are moving their videos to
 Flash from WMV to support Firefox and Linux users.


  Hi,

 I'm a bit curious - why do you consider changing from WMV to Flash important
 for Linux or Firefox users?

 Last time I checked, most Linux distributions could play neither WMV nor
 Flash movies out of the box, but software to do both is available for free.
 Software to play WMV is even available as free software (e.g., mplayer)?
 Or am I missing something?



 True, but...

 1. Adobe has released a full spec for their flash format allowing a
 complete Free implementation. They also released the scripting engine as
 open source.
 2. Adobe provides a proprietary flash player for Linux.
 3. WMV (really the associated codecs, but the affect is the same ) is
 covered by numerous patents which are activly protected in the most brutal
 way, whereas the FLV format, as so much that it is patented (I don't know it
 is but I assume it is) is not, at the moment.

 Not a case of black and white by a long shot, but I would say flash is
 brighter then WMV.

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Re: encoding hebrew text

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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote:

 On Wednesday 16 Dec 2009 01:09:29 Uri Even-Chen wrote:
  OK, I found a solution.  I opened the file with both notepad and
  notepad++, then I changed the encoding to windows-1255 in notepad++,
  then I copied all the contents to notepad and saved in utf-8.  It
  works.  I'm attaching the result.
 
  Thanks!
  Uri Even-Chen
  Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
  E-mail: u...@speedy.net
  Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/
 

 Just a note, one can use iconv or Perl's
 http://perldoc.perl.org/Encode.html
 module or something to convert an entire file from one encoding to the
 other:

 
 iconv -f windows-1255 -t utf-8  1.txt
 

 Seems to work here.

 Regards,

Shlomi Fish
 I am using iconv on linux.
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Re: [TelFOSS] What is Free and Open Source Software? on Sunday, 22-November-2009

[Ori Idan]

I asked Shlomi if he can arrange me a time machine that will take me back in
time... :-)
Unfortunately he just fixed his typo instead of taking me back in time. :-)

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On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Tomer Cohen to...@gmx.net wrote:

 I thought this is just another Chuck Norris fact.

 On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 14:16, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote:

 On Wednesday 18 Nov 2009 13:22:38 Shlomi Fish wrote:
  Hi all!
 
  The Tel Aviv Linux club will meet this Sunday on 2-November-2009 on
 18:00

 Sorry, that was a copy-and-paste error. The correct date is
 22-November-2009.



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Re: How to say in Hebrew intermittent?

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ֳN95? this is an old device that I don't think it is sold any more.
I have it for almost 2 years and very staisfied including the voice recorder
which I often use.
I am thinking about upgrading this device to N86 now.

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On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:

  Maybe tell us more about the bug and then we could help you better.
 

 Nokia N95 that I bought four months ago has an intermittent file save
 issue with the voice recorder. I record voice many notes as I have a
 broken thumb and cannot write. Often, the voice notes play fine. But
 once in a while I try to play a particular voice note, I receive a
 message that the file is corrupted and cannot play. This is not on
 every file, only on some files. Tomorrow I send the device to repair
 for the sixth time. Each time, they repair it, test one note, then
 return it to me telling me that it is fine. I try to explain that it
 is an intermittent problem, testing one note is not sufficient. They
 argue with me that the bug is fixed and a week later I have corrupted
 files.

 This has been going on for four months. I pay 70₪ monthly for a device
 that I cannot use. When I bought the device I specified that the only
 feature important to me is the voice recorder, and they recommended
 N95.

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Re: jffs2 q

[Ori Idan]

The exact size depends on the actual device being used.
Look at the device data sheet to see what is it's block size.

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2009/10/13 Gilad Ben-Yossef gi...@codefidence.com

  Hi Erez,


  Erez D wrote:

  i am compiling a new jffs2 image for an embedded device, and i get an
 error saying my erase size is wrong.
 how do i determine what is my erase size ? (so i can compare to a jffs2
 file that works)

 is there a utility that can give info on jffs2 images, like what is their
 erase size ?

 Not that I know of, but assuming you can boot that working jffs2 image you
 can ask the Linux kernel what is the erase block size.

target$ cat /proc/mtd
dev:size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 0002 0001 bootloader
mtd1: 0002 0001 params
mtd2: 0040 0001 kernel
mtd3: 00bc 0001 filesystem

 Note the erasesize column.

 Hope this helps,
 Gilad


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Desktop effects stopped working on Ubuntu 9.04

[Ori Idan]

I have an Ubuntu 9.04 laptop with Intel 945 graphics adapter.
Desktop effects worked until this morning when I connected it to an external
monitor.
After disconnecting the external monitor and restarting the laptop, desktop
effects stopped working.
Does someone have an idea how to reenable them?

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Re: Desktop effects stopped working on Ubuntu 9.04

[Ori Idan]

I get the following output:

Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Checking screen 1Comparing resolution (1024x600) to maximum 3D texture size
(2048): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: present.
Software rasterizer detected, abortingaborting and using fallback:
/usr/bin/metacity

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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Shay Ohayon s...@shayohayon.net wrote:

 what happens if you run '  compiz --replace ' from the terminal?

 2009/10/13 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il:
  I have an Ubuntu 9.04 laptop with Intel 945 graphics adapter.
  Desktop effects worked until this morning when I connected it to an
 external
  monitor.
  After disconnecting the external monitor and restarting the laptop,
 desktop
  effects stopped working.
  Does someone have an idea how to reenable them?
 
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Re: Desktop effects stopped working on Ubuntu 9.04

[Ori Idan]

Thank you very much.
I had to delete the display section and restart X

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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Ori Berger linux...@orib.net wrote:

 Ori Idan wrote:

 I have an Ubuntu 9.04 laptop with Intel 945 graphics adapter.
 Desktop effects worked until this morning when I connected it to an
 external monitor.
 After disconnecting the external monitor and restarting the laptop,
 desktop effects stopped working.
 Does someone have an idea how to reenable them?

 It's a known bug in the Intel driver: You placed the external screen to the
 left/right of the laptop screen, causing the effective screen width to be
 one that the Intel Driver does not support 3D acceleration for, thereby
 causing compiz to turn off effects.

 If effects won't turn on, check /etc/X11.conf under section Screen
 subsection Display to see it doesn't still list a too-wide screen (your
 laptop is probably 1024 or 1280 pixels wide). When this happened to me, I
 deleted the Display altogether and let Ubuntu re-figure it out itself, but
 a sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg might be helpful.

 And from now on, when you connect an external monitor, just be sure to
 place the screen above/below the laptop screen rather than to the left/right
 of it.

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Re: Digital Photo Keychains for Linux

[Ori Idan]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.ilwrote:

 On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:51:28AM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote:
  Hi,
 
  Do you know all those trendy Digital Photo Keychains?
  These cute and tiny digital frames that are sold for 49-79 NIS and are
  charged and fed by photos from a PC through USB?
 
  Well, I've always was sure that they use the standard flash disk
  protocol with the computer, like all the other players (MP3, MP4, etc.)
  and that their disk looks as a drive for your OS and you can just manage
  the files there (copy/rename/remove/etc.) just like any other directory
  or folder.
 
  I was amazed to find out that these devices require a special software
  to manage them.
 
  It means that they don't work with Linux, most of them don't work with
  MAC too, and that even the thousands software packages which were
  developed for Windows (!) can't access them (because they are not like
  drives with normal files, but just a black box which only the user
  can access and only through the special software).
 
  Since there are hundreds of models, I can't believe that all of them
  use this crazy was of working and that none uses the standard flash
  disk protocol.
 
  I'll be glad to hear models that use the standard protocol (like all of
  the MP3, MP4, disk-on-key, etc.).

 Any idea what it would take to reflash one of those with a nicer
 firmware?


To rewrite the firmware one must know the processor used there, it's memory
map, amount of memory, peripheral addresses etc.
I don't think it's easy to do.

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Re: [W2l] Welcome-to-Linux/Welcome-to-FOSS Planning - what we'd like to have

[Ori Idan]

As allways I volunteer to give the philosophy lecture.
I can also give a rerun of the living in the community lecture.

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On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote:

 Hi all!

 Well, as you may have noticed, there wasn't a general consensus on whether
 Welcome-to-Linux (= W2L) or Welcome-to-FOSS (= W2FOSS) were better.
 However, looking at the schedule at:

 http://welcome.linux.org.il/2008/timetable.html

 it seems very old-fashioned and rehearsed. We can just keep the slides and
 refer people to them. As the Telux/TelFOSS benevolent dictator[1], I
 think
 we'll do something which is kind-of in between.

 What I think is that we need at first is a two part series. The first
 installment (not necessarily the first one to be given) will be a showcase
 of
 lots of FOSS (Linux, but also portable software) awesomeness-factor:
 graphics,
 features, usability, some free games[2], Amarok, kaffeine/totem, etc. We
 should remember that using a laptop (with Linux or otherwise) and having an
 Internet there are mutually exclusive, unless we can get Eddie to somehow
 give
 us the necessary Tel Aviv Uni INET privileges.

 The second installment will be about the FOSS philosophy, ideology and its
 practical implications. The summary of it that I have so far is:

 
 Welcome-to-Linux / Welcome-to-FOSS abstract
 ---

 * Introduction:
- What is Free Software/Open Source:
- source code
- analogy to wikipedia. (?)
- Edit/View source.
- The FSF Free Software Definition
- FOSS != Public Domain
- copyleft.
- some restrictions.
- share-alike
- permissive licences (BSDL, X11L, etc.)
- do what you want with them?
- mostly
-

 * Examples of open source software:
- Firefox.
- OpenOffice.org
- Linux.
- what is an operating system.
- A free kernel.
- The GNU/Linux run-time.
- lots of names - X11 (X.Org), KDE, GNOME, OpenSSH.
- don't be alarmed.
- Other similar OSes (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD).
- Many distributions.
- all packaging the same FOSS components (with some
 modifications).
- Different glue, behaviour and features.
- Different bugs.
- Our recommended distributions:
- Fedora
- Mandriva
- Ubuntu
- links to pages with information about them
- material of previous presentations.
-

 * Advantages of open-source:
- May not cost money.
- gratis/costless/free-as-in-free-beer.
- freely distributable
- Note: it's ok to sell it!
- Story of Stallman selling tapes of GNU software to people who
could not download them from the Internet.
- Can be modified and enhanced:
- study the source to learn how the program works.
- for enlightenement.
- to compensate for lacking documentation.
-
- fix bugs.
- add new features.
- refactoring.
- fork
- Use the Internet for collaboration
- Bazaar model of development.
- Refer to the Cathedral and the Bazaar series.
- Not anti-commercial / anti-business.
- Many valid business models.
- Examples (?)
- Lots of profitable companies.
- As opposed to tangible goods (e.g: hammers, cars, food), software
once developed, can be mass-produced at zero cost.
- Many developers develop FOSS for fun
- Many developers get paid to develop it.
 

 It could use some work, but I hope you get my drift, and suggestions will
 be
 welcome.

 After these two presentation (whose order I'm still not sure about but I'm
 leaning to make the first one the first.) we can have a presentation for
 developers covering the various options for FOSS development (not only C or
 even only Java) and maybe then have some Haifux-like Staying-in-FOSS
 presentations. These seems more hip, more modern and less resource
 consuming
 than having a 5-installments long series just about Linux.

 I also see that Haifux will have a Welcome-to-Linux series this year, and
 would like to commend them for it.

 Thoughts anyone?

 Regards,

Shlomi Fish

 [1] - not for life, though. I welcome spin-offs of Telux, coups, etc.

 [2] - Yes, I know that they are not up-to-par with commercial offerings,
 (see
 the other thread) but many open-source games can still be impressive:
 PySolFC,
 Extreme Tux Racer, etc. These can provide a large glitz factor too.

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Re: [W2l] Welcome-to-Linux/Welcome-to-FOSS Planning - what we'd like to have

[Ori Idan]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote:

 On Sunday 20 Sep 2009 18:42:49 Ori Idan wrote:
  As allways I volunteer to give the philosophy lecture.

 That would be nice. I think we should also need a backup lecturer. Maybe
 Eddie
 or Lisha or someone. And if you have any comments on the summary that would
 be
 nice.

I think Eddie is a good backup unless someone else volunteer.



  I can also give a rerun of the living in the community lecture.

 I don't think it will be necessary as part of the core 2-4 parts series.


It can be and may be should be part of the extended lectures.

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Re: Idea: Welcome to Open Source instead of Welcome to Linux this year

[Ori Idan]

I think we should keep it welcome to Linux as people already know firefox
and some of them know Open Office.
We should introduce Linux.
If we make it welcome to FOSS we actually encourage people to keep on using
proprietary software (windows).

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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM, geoffrey mendelson 
geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote:


 So what do you think? Am I crazy or am I on to something? Two people I
 talked
 with liked the idea, and a different one had some doubts.


 I think as long as you present it in a positive way, i.e. the benefits of
 FOSS and the FOSS philosophy, without getting into a FOSS/non FOSS debate,
 and the benefits of using FOSS without denigrating non FOSS software, etc.

 I think you will find that people are much more familar with FOSS than you
 think. For example, it seems that all the public schools in Jerusalem use
 FireFox and many use OO, without any fanfare, articles in Ynet, etc, it
 just happened. The State of Israel paid to localize the Windows version of
 OO, and a lot of people use it without even knowing that it is FOSS, and so
 on.

 I think that anything beyond that should be a talk on its own. There is no
 reason to get the average person confused with CLI's, VMS, etc.

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Re: New Essay - FOSS Licences Wars

[Ori Idan]

 I do completely understand the attractiveness of the MIT license. It's
 simple
 and can't come back to bite you later. I'm just saying the GPL has plenty
 of
 benefits.

 I am not sure I understand.
MIT license can't come back and bite me?
Correct me if I am wrong but in MIT license someone can take my software and
make it proprietary, add some features and sell it.
If it was GPL he/she could still sell it but I had the same option since I
can see his/her additions to the software.

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Re: New Essay - FOSS Licences Wars

[Ori Idan]

I also like the article, it really shows most of the licenses and explains
them.
I would be happy if it contains more information about the clauses in BSD
licenses.

As for myself I prefer writing GPL applications as GPL license keeps the
software free so it actually defends me from people that will take my
software and make it propriatry.

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On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote:

 On Friday 21 August 2009 22:07:17 Steve Litt wrote:
  On Friday 21 August 2009 12:58:13 Shlomi Fish wrote:
   Hi all!
  
   I have published a new essay about free software licences:
  
  
 http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/foss-licences-
  wa rs/
  
   Any comments will be welcome.
 
  Excellent essay!

 Thanks!

  I like the way you immediately revealed your predjudice
  (pro- MIT) so as to get that out of the way.

 :-)

  I disagree with some of your
  conclusions, but obviously your facts are spot on.
 

 Thanks. I would be happy to hear any arguments you have against my
 conclusions. Maybe I'll change my opinions.

  I especially like this:
 
  3. Write a GPLed server for solving Freecell that the graphical game
 would
  communicate with using TCP/IP or a different IPC mechanism.
 
  That's an excellent encapsulation method not only for variables, but for
  licenses too.
 

 Yes. It's not always feasible to do that. For example, you cannot do it
 with
 the strong-copyleft Berkeley DB or the formerly GPLed Qt, without really
 killing performance *and* going through a lot of trouble. But it is often
 an
 option, as is the case for a Freecell solver.

 BTW, I do actually have some aspirations of creating a web-service for fc-
 solve in order to provide hints for
 http://cards.wikia.com/wiki/World_of_Solitaire or a similar online
 Solitaire
 game. So it seems some of the hypothetical anti-GPL measures are actually
 otherwise useful technologically.

 Best regards,

Shlomi Fish

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