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

2012-02-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
the principal, and not from the parents either, both groups being generally clueless. I agree with your comment about adopters or better technology. Not surprising :-) Boaz. - yba On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, Boaz Rymland wrote: Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 07:20:39 +0200 From: Boaz Rymland

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

2012-02-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
-word could not open. -- Ori Idan 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

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

2012-02-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: I believe my Android can read Microsoft Office documents out of the box :( But it's true, with all these non-Microsoft devices around, Microsoft's stranglehold on the word processor document seems to be coming to an

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

2012-02-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: On Sun, Feb 05, 2012, Boaz Rymland wrote about Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats: I bet it cannot read my teacher's document! Before you go and complain about some supposed

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

2012-02-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
I fully agree. Having *whatever* percentage of distributed material requiring *whatever* percentage of students to spend hundreds (or even tens) of NIS on HW/SW in order to cooperate is *totally unacceptable*especially in light of no-cost alternatives (SW only of course. HW will still be needed).

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

2012-02-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: 2012/2/5 Boaz Rymland boaz.ryml...@gmail.com of course the whole reason to this thread and me contacting the principal is the fsck'ed up document. The document appears badly in LibreOffice and Google docs (imported

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

2012-02-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 09:44:21AM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: Google docs is a good but not the best alternative. Google is yet-another-corporate that even if more public friendly, not a fully M$-Office substitute

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

2012-02-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
Even if true my point is different: my computer cannot be installed with that claimed free software from MS. My laptop runs linux and that's not somthing that is going to change, even if offered free windoze and office. Sent from my mobile phone I didn't check it and don't know how it applies

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

2012-02-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: right, but don't forget that to in order to read only a document, you don't need a google account - just a publicly readable document who's link you've got, AFAIK. That's of course hardly a full solution but I'm

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

2012-02-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: On Sun, Feb 05, 2012, Micha wrote about Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats: I didn't check it and don't know how it applies to school children, but I was told that as a student

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

2012-02-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
standards (ODT in this case) is in the right direction, and it happens that Sun is pushing in that direction as well. On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:26 PM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 5, 2012, at 10:02 PM, Boaz Rymland wrote: yuck! So it was ok for SUN to buy

Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-04 Thread Boaz Rymland
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

Re: What to do with a constant flow of attempts to login to my compuet?

2010-01-03 Thread Boaz Rymland
This is so common these days I heard years ago people filtering out such messages. Just check your machine carefully - I once had a break-in that was caused from a stupid chain of mistakes: i switched sshd to listen on its default port (22) for some time (instead of some arbitrary port as it was

Re: What to do with a constant flow of attempts to login to my compuet?

2010-01-03 Thread Boaz Rymland
application that was not used. The bug was two weeks old at the time. Both of the break in cases I described were of my 24/7 home machine I had running for years (but not anymore), not some high traffic IP address so this is rather common these days. Boaz. On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:51:05 -0500, Boaz

Re: need help with PHP open source class

2009-12-29 Thread Boaz Rymland
Not all PEAR classes require depending classes on the machine. For example, Log class. I think that it all depends on your exact needs. Also, not all classes were born equal, in terms of quality. Consider that as well. I recommend you consult also on php-israel mailing list:

Re: Shekem Electric selling desktops with Linux

2009-10-31 Thread Boaz Rymland
I can add that when searching for Linux powered laptops here I found that several stores (not the big elec. chains stores IIRC) sell linux powered Acer laptops. These laptops, and I suspect that the desktop as well, have Linpus on them. They also, probably, contain some binary drivers from

Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:45:25 +0200, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 26, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Justin wrote: I've been with Interal until now. But they are merging with Bezeq Ben Liumi. I hate BBL, and more than that their quality sucks. Does anyone have a

Re: OT: Where does it count?

2009-10-24 Thread Boaz Rymland
That's a bit off topic cause indeed you refer to greatness in one's profession/occupation/hobby but in any case, i remember the article you mentioned and the whole thesis it talks about. There was at least one Israeli weekend newspapers article, probably about the relevant translated book that

Re: OT: Digital TV decoder USB sticks

2009-09-27 Thread Boaz Rymland
trying to answer your mail below i noticed that indeed my reply has little relevance to linux-il so i'll add my words below... geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Sep 27, 2009, at 12:17 AM, Boaz Rymland wrote: Just wanted to update that although the dongle supposed to be working, it fails

Re: OT: Digital TV decoder USB sticks

2009-09-27 Thread Boaz Rymland
oops. was supposed to be sent privately. sorry. Boaz Rymland wrote: trying to answer your mail below i noticed that indeed my reply has little relevance to linux-il so i'll add my words below... geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Sep 27, 2009, at 12:17 AM, Boaz Rymland wrote: Just wanted

Re: OT: Digital TV decoder USB sticks

2009-09-26 Thread Boaz Rymland
the prospect interoperability of the Apex 328 dongle with Linux (Ubuntu 9.04), I wasn't successful in making them sing together. Any pointers, tips, etc would be appreciated. Thanks, Boaz. geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi, I bought

Re: OT: Digital TV decoder USB sticks

2009-09-17 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, I bought this toy today. I'm glad to say that it worked out of the box in Ubuntu 9.04 - or at least it appears so: Kaffeine is happy with it, I do have /dev/dvb/ devices and dmesg seems to report that the drivers are ok. I bet the following kernel drivers are related: dvb_usb_af9015,

Re: touchpad can't be re-enabled after disabled

2009-09-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
No matter what I do the output is always TouchpadOff = 0. Running that command didn't induce any change in behavior. Boaz. Mark Bloch wrote: what's the output of : synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff if it's 1, you can try this: synclient TouchpadOff=0

[SOLVED?] Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-09-04 Thread Boaz Rymland
. Haven't really tried setting it up yet. *Sound:* worked out of the box. *Anything else? *mail me for questions... . Boaz. Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi all, Can anyone provide feedback on the following Acer laptop, or any other Acer Linux based laptops? (Interestingly, searching for linux word

Re: [SOLVED?] Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-09-04 Thread Boaz Rymland
IMHO, that should be the standard practice for open source minded people (and in general - non-commercial mindset people), even if not zealously practiced. Boaz. Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 04 September 2009 02:19:23 Boaz Rymland wrote: [clip] *Maker + Model:* Acer 5738ZG. That's

touchpad can't be re-enabled after disabled

2009-09-04 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, I have a new laptop (Acer 5738 mentioned in a different thread) which I have a nagging problem with: I have this nice and useful button right next to the touchpad, for disabling it (when working with mouse and using the keyboard and prefer not having pointer distracted by occasional

Re: [SOLVED?] Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-09-04 Thread Boaz Rymland
Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 04 September 2009 02:19:23 Boaz Rymland wrote: [clip] *Maker + Model:* Acer 5738ZG. That's a little upgraded in comparison to the original model suggested - with 4GB RAM and NVIDIA GPU. The rest of the specs are the same. *Distro Installed: *Ubuntu 9.04, amd64

Re: [SOLVED?] Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-09-04 Thread Boaz Rymland
! Michael Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi all, So I made the move and bought it. Here are my findings: *Maker + Model:* Acer 5738ZG. That's a little upgraded in comparison to the original model suggested - with 4GB RAM and NVIDIA GPU. The rest of the specs are the same. *Distro Installed: *Ubuntu

Re: Please recommend a web host in Israel

2009-08-31 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:54:46 +0300, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: A friend needs a web host for a small project. He will need a catchall email address, mysql, and PHP. He needs just a few MB of storage and not much transfer, but there should be options to increase should the project

Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-08-30 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:06:43 +0300, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: On Sunday, 30 בAugust 2009 07:52:18 Boaz Rymland wrote: ... or, go for sure on the Linux pre-installed ones. Just a general warning (don't know if it applies to this specific model). Many devices on the market with Linux

Re: Drupal or Joomla for Heb-Eng Site?

2009-08-30 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, * The specified requirements list was much too slim to judge (how much does a suite for an orphan cost? Is there such a sentence in English? :-) * This is a hot debate between enthusiasts from both camps. * Here are some links that try to address this issue: o

Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-08-29 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi all, Can anyone provide feedback on the following Acer laptop, or any other Acer Linux based laptops? (Interestingly, searching for linux word in laptop section in zap.co.il shows almost exclusively only Acer results: http://zap.co.il/models.aspx?sog=C-PCLaptopkeyword=linux). In specific

Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-08-29 Thread Boaz Rymland
model, which offers several goodies over the somewhat older Linux ones (like HDMI, DDR-III RAM, LED display) and hope all would work, or, go for sure on the Linux pre-installed ones. The two options cost very similar here. Boaz. Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 29 August 2009 16:52:49 Boaz

Re: php cli is trying to resolve

2009-06-13 Thread Boaz Rymland
ik wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il mailto:tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: What addresses? Machine local names, but when I changed the DNS addresses to faster addresses it takes no more then few MS to have a result. probably php itself

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-20 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:33:15 +0300, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: 1) the dual screen stopped working correctly, and actually I cannot set the screen resolution to high enough. Does anyone know /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not seem to change when I change the configuration via the GUI.

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

2009-05-19 Thread Boaz Rymland
geoffrey mendelson wrote: After 3 days of running it can not make a connection to the outisde world. I have to reboot to get it to work. Other computers runing Ubuntu have the same problem, 3 days after they were booted, but ones running other operating systems don't. I had a similar issue

Re: stealing domain names by Israeli registrar

2009-04-30 Thread Boaz Rymland
Well well. Its seems like we are not even breaking grounds here. The trick's has been around for some time now. Thanks for the links. Informative indeed. Boaz. Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/4/17 Boaz Rymland b...@rymland.com: Hi all, Consultation needed: A friend of mine and myself

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Boaz Rymland
I'm using Nezeq-Intl + Hot with no such issues. But: * I'm connecting via a router that manages the connection for me (I guess I would have still felt it - and I'm not). * maybe talk to them and try to change the connection type - pptp/ppoe/direct/etc. (I was using pptp until a few days and

stealing domain names by Israeli registrar

2009-04-17 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi all, Consultation needed: A friend of mine and myself are volunteering to launch a charity web site. My friend is not proficient in web technologies so when he went to check for registration of the domain, he followed the instructions recommended on one of the Israeli registrars -

Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux

2009-04-04 Thread Boaz Rymland
Beagle once created huge log files in its directory under my home dir, which clogged my filesystem. It took a while to find the culprit but afterwards it was pretty fast to purge it from my system :-) . That incident, couple with very little use I had for it, convinced me to drop it

Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux

2009-04-04 Thread Boaz Rymland
Omer Zak wrote: The huge files (index and log files) were not a problem for me. I set aside a separate multi-GB partition for Beagle's use, directing it to use it by an appropriately planted symbolic link. Even if I had lots of diskspace I still wouldn't have liked the fact that beagle

Re: No noobs?

2009-02-17 Thread Boaz Rymland
No. Trolls should die (noobs or not). Boaz. On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:47:32 +0200, Jacob Broido wrote: noobs should die. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: While referring a new Linux user to the Linux-il mailing list, I found this text on the page: No newbie questions

OFFTOPIC: Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-08 Thread Boaz Rymland
Similarly, due to time constraints I'm not currently performing any active steps with the several spam emails that I have received lately, all from some coaching/spiritual spammer. If there's a lawyer or someone with enough spare time on his hands in the crowd who wishes to raise the glove

Re: backing up mysql database (mysqldump)

2008-12-01 Thread Boaz Rymland
Uri Evenhen More wrote: Hi Friends, I am hosting my website on Servage.net, where I don't get SSH access. I need to run mysqldump in order to backup my mysql database to SQL format (I need the backup in SQL format). Is there a way to run mysqldump without using SSH access? Does phpmyadmin

Re: Re, more readable?: Email Hosting (POP+SMTP) Recommendation

2008-10-11 Thread Boaz Rymland
Having reverse DNS point to your fixed IP is not that difficult at all (if I got the thread's idea right). Been there done that a year+ ago and Bezeq int and 013 Barak agreed on providing this entry in their DNS servers for free, when I already had a fixed IP. The whole thing is really

Re: Firefox chokes on YNET

2008-09-28 Thread Boaz Rymland
To the best of my knowledge its not the flash objects on the page but rather the JS they use there. I was told once its the scrolling news thingy they use which eats the CPU. Ori Idan wrote: I think it is because of the the many flash adds they have. Use adblock to block these adds and it

Re: 64-bit linux

2008-07-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
experiences from the past are becoming more and more - a thing of the past (like Linux usage in general, which is becoming more convenient, skipping the need to be a rocket scientist to get a common and useful functionality out of it). Boaz. Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/7/5 Boaz Rymland [EMAIL

Re: 64-bit linux

2008-07-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
Same with me - flash worked out of the box inc. its sound. I don't even remember any special packages that I needed to install for (this doesn't mean that they weren't any but I don't have bad memories of it). Noam Meltzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Amos Shapira [EMAIL

Re: 64-bit linux

2008-07-04 Thread Boaz Rymland
Usually you'll come quite quickly on a need for the 32bit libraries, be it for (I'm not sure I'm correct or updated with all my examples) Flash plug-in for your browser (or other browser issues, like firebug extension, although I think in FF3 this is solved), Sun Java JRE and some other

Re: controlling CPU's fan speed

2008-05-21 Thread Boaz Rymland
. This resulted in extremely high temps (even the keyboard was burning). Don't forget to check yours for dust and dirt! Alex On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Boaz Rymland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've recently discovered that on my HP Pavillion 6010a the CPU fan is most likely

controlling CPU's fan speed

2008-05-20 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, I've recently discovered that on my HP Pavillion 6010a the CPU fan is most likely always running at its lowest CPU fan speed. This results in relatively high CPU temperatures - when machine is loaded (and since its running Gentoo its loaded quite a few times ;-), its reaching 70 degrees

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-16 Thread Boaz Rymland
was embarrassing. Most of the times they know not much more than to repeat the specs printed on the carton boxes, and sometimes not even that. - The models I'll look into are: (all HP): 6313, 5783, 7580 (not sorted in any particular order). Thanks again for all the input! Boaz. Boaz

all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer. I'll probably go for ink printer since I don't print too much and printing color output would be useful. The required/preferred specs are: - having good printer drivers under Linux. - working scanner functionality under Linux is highly

Re: Changing text direction in KDE apps

2008-03-07 Thread Boaz Rymland
Adding that what already suggested, you can fire up a qt configuration utility (GUI). In Gentoo at least, its called qtconfig (and it appears that its part of the QT libraries I have on the machine. Under tab interface you can find a check box named enhanced support for languages written in

OpenOffice in educational institutes in Israel?

2008-03-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
This might interest a few people here: http://it.themarker.com/tmit/article/2992 Could it *be it*, finally? There have been such plays in the past, usually to attract attention and get lower prices from M$. Seems like it is a real first step, and a considerable one(?). If so, its a nice

Re: OFFTOPIC: Asus EEE in Israel

2008-03-01 Thread Boaz Rymland
Amos Shapira wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip]... The other machine mentioned on this thread (forgot its name) which comes also with a small hard drive, might be a little more attractive for some users. One of them

Re: using only left alt-shift for language changing

2007-11-26 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, I'm not sure about the second criteria (without any other key presses) but I use the following configuration in KDE to have switching to hebrew on Alt+ *LEFT* shift : In xorg.conf I have: Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option

Re: Asus EEE and hebrew

2007-11-26 Thread Boaz Rymland
The following (Hebrew) article adds more interesting info about this cool gadget, indeed, and doesn't hint that the localization will be made with M$. I sure hope that'll be the final direction they'll choose as well:

[ANNOUNCE] PHP-Israel users group launched

2007-09-12 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi all, This might be of relevance to people on this list. PHP-Israel has recently formed up to create a local community for gathering and sharing information about PHP development and usage. It is on its early stages of enrollment but an active mailing list has already kicked off, where ideas

Re: Career advice needed

2007-09-01 Thread Boaz Rymland
As someone who worked in Zend up to recently and got a good sense of the market searching for opportunities that suits my somewhat similar needs, I can add the following bits of information: - Demand for PHP programmers in Israel has grown nicely recently. From very little some two years ago

Re: Memory undectable on Intel server board S5000VCL

2007-08-09 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi Ira, I bumped into the same question some time ago - sending to iglu.org.il silently failed. Here's why: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg48796.html Boaz. Ira Abramov wrote: annoying! I just figured out why my posts to the list have disappeared in the last couple

Getting illuminated keyboard to work

2007-08-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, I have this new keyboard which has a nice blue backlight. To operate it, one is supposed to press the useless Scroll lock key. It works, but as I press this key, the light turns on, but the console locks up, until I press it again, turning off the light. As you can imagine, this render this

[SOLVED] Re: Getting illuminated keyboard to work

2007-08-05 Thread Boaz Rymland
, other than the light feature. Boaz. Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On 8/5/07, *Boaz Rymland* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this new keyboard which has a nice blue backlight. To operate it, one is supposed to press the useless Scroll lock key. It works

Re: Someone is picking on my sshd

2007-08-03 Thread Boaz Rymland
Amos Shapira wrote: Possible ways to handle: 1. Change port as others suggested - works great for me. 2. Make sure you can only authenticate using public/private keys. 3. Install denyhosts, which adds attacking IP's to /etc/hosts.deny based on the sshd logs, also can synchronize info with

Re: What Perl packages are supplied in distribution X?

2007-04-14 Thread Boaz Rymland
For Debian I use http://packages.debian.org/ For Gentoo there is: http://packages.gentoo.org/ I'd bet that for other distro's you'd have the same URL convention, but I haven't checked it. Boaz. Gabor Szabo wrote: Hi, I would like to setup a database where I could pick one or more Perl

Re: external DNS service

2007-04-09 Thread Boaz Rymland
www.dnsexit.com was good for a few years now. In case you have dynamic IPs then their updating client is open source (perl based). I'm not sure about their limitations but for 3 domains (TLDs) its free (as beer). Boaz. Gabor Szabo wrote: Hi, (re also hacked server) I would like to move

Re: Hacked server

2007-04-07 Thread Boaz Rymland
Adding to what's been said so far (and if repeating please consider it as double emphasis :-) I'd recommend: 1. Do not run anything not needed on the server. Make sure to look not only in system services level but in the service level itself. E.g: run on the web server only what you need on

Re: apache behind firewall

2007-03-13 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:52:51PM -0700, Valery Reznic wrote: --- Boaz Rymland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you, it did thet trick. I just don't realized before, that 'ssh -R' create prot forwardind for everything, I was thinking it can be used just for ssh itself

Re: apache behind firewall

2007-03-12 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:47:33AM -0700, Valery Reznic wrote: --- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Valery Reznic wrote: Good day. I have apache server behind firewall, which block all incoming connection and allow all outgoing and I'd like to access

Re: apache behind firewall

2007-03-12 Thread Boaz Rymland
Valery Reznic wrote: [ snip ] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/forwarders.html I saw this link before. Or I don't understand how can I use this HOWTO or I don't explain myself plain :( . Let me try again. There is computer A, Firewall F, and another linux

Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?

2007-03-07 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, What you are referring to is off-line execution of PHP. I know there are ways to do it in other web-targeted scripting languages. In PHP I'm not aware of free implementation of this functionality. I am familiar with commercial solution for that. Zend (which is where your truly works for)

Re: Mozilla mail filters stopped working automatically

2005-02-01 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hmm... this problem seems to be present on my debian too. In this case I can pin point the scenario - I've upgraded a couple of days ago only mozilla (mozilla virtual package, it includes a few dependencies). The new version on my machine is 1.7.5-1 I'm not sure the filtering missed not all

Re: cvs import fails on the /dev directory

2004-09-01 Thread Boaz Rymland
Levy, Chen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 31 August 2004 20:52, Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi, I want to manage a special machine's tree with cvs, but when trying to import the tree with cvs import(... ), cvs aborts soon with this message: cvs [import aborted

cvs import fails on the /dev directory

2004-08-31 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, I want to manage a special machine's tree with cvs, but when trying to import the tree with cvs import(... ), cvs aborts soon with this message: cvs [import aborted]: reading dev/eda: No such device or address :-( How do I bypass this? I know of the cvsignore facility but AFAIK it can

Re: CTRL keys not functioning in X/KDE w/Hebrew keyboard layout

2004-08-15 Thread Boaz Rymland
Oh, setting up hebrew was, and still is, a pain. It seems like only Tzafrir Cohen really knows how to do things right ;-) ... Anyhow, I've recently managed to set up hebrew keyboard on my KDE, while retaining the Alt, Meta, whatever... . I used this guide -

Re: ADSL - What is the current recommendation?

2004-07-01 Thread Boaz Rymland
combing the linux-il archive the internet for ADSL information I came accross this information which answers the question raised in a busy thread back in Oct. 2003. One of the questions there was how standard is the ADSL standard?. AFAIK, i wasn't answered. here's some answer:

Re: [OT] ISPs and fixed IP

2004-05-04 Thread Boaz Rymland
I've followed this thread since it matters me for the same reason it does to you. Why did they gave it for no charge earlier ? maybe they still had free static's to give but all other ISPs did charge. In comparison to them they could have charge without any doubts. I called them to learn of

Re: ping....

2004-03-19 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hmm... maybe related, maybe not: on tuesday, IIRC, my postfix configuration, which utilize anti UCE checks through proxies.relays.monkeys.com started rejecting mails from _anywhere_. As I saw no information about this in the media (although I searched) and since I don't have much time to debug

Re: Read through the end

2004-01-29 Thread Boaz Rymland
Guys, dont take Mr. Lopez too seriously. I gotta admit that I haven't really read it. Just by skimming over it raised a smile reduced respect for the writer. He is probably a genious for getting to such a radical conclusion.In ~1.5 pages... . This article looks like spam with all those

Re: Read through the end

2004-01-29 Thread Boaz Rymland
blushing oops... really? is it a joke? /blushing that's what happens when one comments on article mostly by its title, subtitle and layout... . at least i wasn't the only one who was tricked! TZARAT RABIM... ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boaz Rymland wrote: Guys, dont take Mr. Lopez too

TV show about Hackers WWII Station X

2004-01-02 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi! Just noticed that on this weekend channel 23 (Educational TV) continuosly broadcasts shows about hackers world and on the WWII Station X (one of the biggest secrets as well successes of the allied forces). Thought this might interest some on this list. Boaz.

Re: Suggentions for server side spam control

2003-12-31 Thread Boaz Rymland
not directly answering your question, but on topic, mail administrators might be interested in the following: http://spf.pobox.com/ It is a suggested method for cutting spam from it's root - disabling froging email and verifying sender IP as permitted for sending emails fo it's domain. Boaz.

Re: Suggestions for open source backup program

2003-12-28 Thread Boaz Rymland
Not sure about (5) (but one can devise himself a solution for that), I think dump should be able to do it http://dump.sourceforge.net/ || http://sourceforge.net/projects/dump/ You can use rsh (or more secure alternatives) combinations for remote backup. Although this sounds too much of a hand

Re: Win XP cannot browse intranet web site on a Linux server

2003-12-02 Thread Boaz Rymland
and linux are on 192.168.2.x network. the windows has only one NIC and is being NAT'd by the linux to gain internet access, which it does successfully. the linux has a few network NICs, one is for that network. any contrediction between the linux FW and the XP's NAT ? cheers, erez. Boaz Rymland

Re: Debian.org Hacked

2003-12-02 Thread Boaz Rymland
the CNet article summarizing it: http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5112427.html?tag=nefd_top Shaul Karl wrote: For those who missed it, the Debian machines were hacked because of a combination of a sniffed password and a local root exploit. The hole is believed to be only locally exploitable,

Win XP cannot browse intranet web site on a Linux server

2003-12-01 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, I'm trying to set up a Win XP machine to view an intranet site on a Linux machine. This win XP machine is being masq'd o.k. and it has internet access fine, but somehow, it cannot talk to the local linux webserver (apache), or any other service on the Linux machine. this is a strange

OO to be installed on some government computers starting next week

2003-11-22 Thread Boaz Rymland
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2821155,00.html Sounds exciting to me. Is this a good start? (Is OO ready for it, or is it going to be a dissapointment?) Boaz. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Re: Version control (was: Re: What's wrong with this code?)

2003-11-18 Thread Boaz Rymland
I think this is exactly the price you pay when choosing these kind of tools, or more generally, doing in the unix way: You just take some overhead explicitly onto *your* head but you are left with very flexible, hence powerfull, set of tools, which can be combined in numerous ways to do just

Re: Version control

2003-11-18 Thread Boaz Rymland
I tend to agree - in the real world there is no magic. The advertisements might promise so but when the worker (not the manager) gets to actually do the work - he will need the time to learn the promising new system. This investment time is what the ads try to deceive us that can be saved -

Re: Fw: What's wrong with this code?

2003-11-13 Thread Boaz Rymland
Well, you certainly got a point there. One could claim that such source compromises are possible with closed source SW too and in such a case, indeed logical to assume, it is more difficulty finding, verifying and correcting the code AND, closing the security hole through which the intruder

Fw: What's wrong with this code?

2003-11-12 Thread Boaz Rymland
Interesting message I got. Isn't that a demonstration of the *real* (no FUD) open source model security break points? It seems to me that unfortunately, theoretically, there could be many exploits of this vulnerability (or am I wrong here?). Boaz. *START READING FROM THE END!* -Original

Re: Fw: What's wrong with this code?

2003-11-12 Thread Boaz Rymland
Stanislav Malyshev wrote: BR Isn't that a demonstration of the *real* (no FUD) open source model BR security break points? Well, that looks like open source _strong_ point. If the same code was closed, what chance someone - except, of course, for original programmer and probably his associates

Re: Haifa University site browser competablity issues

2003-11-03 Thread Boaz Rymland
In addition to what I wrote you in private, I can add that this issue is bigger than this virtual system. A few sites in the TAU internet site will require you to use IE, and I don't like this either. Actually, I think this is rude. I've contacted my faculty administration, from the Dean to the

Re: Mozilla and internet banking

2003-10-02 Thread Boaz Rymland
matters. Further more, it made me thinking that sometimes encouraging non-IE support is better (more productive) than criticizing this lack of support. SELF TOUGHT Hmm.. Maybe it's worth writing them about that. /SELF THOUGHT Night, Boaz. Gabor Szabo wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Boaz Rymland

Re: Mozilla and internet banking

2003-10-01 Thread Boaz Rymland
As already cliamed, bank hapoalim indeed supports mozilla. I can add that this support is not by chance. Up to some point in the past (not too long ago, but don't have exact date) their site wasn't (fully?) supported. At some point, they intentially started supporting mozilla/netscape

Re: Shana Tova :)

2003-09-22 Thread Boaz Rymland
and may the described prophecy come true: check out the paragraph before the end - a prophecy that within 1-1.5 years M$ will bring forth their products (that are silently being ported these days...) to the Linux OS. http://computers.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=itempath=4id=443163 A VERY shana

Re: X won't give high-res with high colors

2003-09-18 Thread Boaz Rymland
I don't know if this could help but if you are in a need for some non-standard modelines for X, trying to bypass some limitations, the following might help calculating such modelines: http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/calc.html http://zaph.com/Modeline/

Latest article on Linux + Open Source in local media

2003-09-14 Thread Boaz Rymland
On topic article from Haaretz that discusses the state of OSS adoption in Israel (mainly in commercial organizations) No registration requried: http://computers.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=itempath=4id=440127 Boaz. = To

Re: Latest article on Linux + Open Source in local media

2003-09-14 Thread Boaz Rymland
my test results!! so much for security!). persoanly I feel safer if my health would be depended on linux servers... Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Boaz Rymland wrote: On topic article from Haaretz that discusses the state of OSS adoption in Israel

Re: [OT] Digital Cameras and Linux

2003-09-12 Thread Boaz Rymland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's going to be an ad, but they earned it - Go to Jugend Brothers (pronounced Yugend) at 5 Hayarkon St. in Tel-Aviv. They are a pro shop and their prices are fair and their advice is good (I could have bought my camera there for almost the same price as abroad, only

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