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

2012-12-06 Thread Doron Shikmoni
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:26 PM, David Suna da...@davidsconsultants.comwrote: This is somewhat off topic as it does not directly address Linux but it does have some relevance to free software. I have an old hard disk which ran Windows XP. I would like to turn that into something that I can

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-04 Thread Doron Shikmoni
David, FreeNAS works rather well in an environment like yours, however (a) as of version 8 it needs considerable amounts of RAM to work reasonably well (v7 could get along well with half a gig) and (b) you need either all HDDs to be of the same size or at least to have a few groups of similar

Re: question about lshw

2012-10-10 Thread Doron Shikmoni
PM, Doron Shikmoni do...@isoc.org.ilwrote: Hello Sara, A couple comments: 1. lshw takes (most of) its data out of DMI, and interprets some of it based on hardcoded constants. This might translate into incorrect interpretation for some of the info, in this case, the battery's chemistry

Re: question about lshw

2012-09-11 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Hello Sara, A couple comments: 1. lshw takes (most of) its data out of DMI, and interprets some of it based on hardcoded constants. This might translate into incorrect interpretation for some of the info, in this case, the battery's chemistry or the number of batteries. Another possibility is

Re: 4G phones in Israel

2012-04-16 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Try Perfect keyboard from the market. Has free version and premium. Doron On 17/04/2012 01:08, sara fink wrote: Does it requires rooting before? She doesn't know linux. Hers is android 4. Upgraded already. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Unused WesternDigital Passport 320GB USB exterrnal HD for sale

2011-03-21 Thread Doron Shikmoni
On 21/03/2011 13:49, Ehud Karni wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:30:35 Stan Goodman wrote: The manual has a chapter about converting the drive to use with Mac boxes, how to reformat, and how to opt out of the smart software. What it says one cannot do is avoid the need for a password. I am

Re: major packet loss at hot server

2008-03-24 Thread Doron Shikmoni
From a recent posting: At one time all packets between ISPs went via the IIX, which tends to become overloaded in the afternoon. Not exactly. Let's call this Misconception #1. I don't know if that has changed, and if it has for all packets, or just ones that the ISPs want to have

Re: Configuring BIND - DNS server

2007-03-08 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Uri Even-Chen wrote: I'm running a DNS server using BIND, and I downloaded the list of the root servers from [http://www.internic.net/zones/named.root]. I found out that there is one root server, F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, which is located in Tel-Aviv [http://www.root-servers.org/]. Actually, there

Re: MySQL conversion question

2006-12-20 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:30:39 +0200 From: Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-il linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: MySQL conversion question Hi, A friend of mine has a MySQL server for a web site and his whole DB is

Re: HTML to PDF

2005-05-04 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Oron Peled wrote: Haven't used it myself, but: http://www.htmldoc.org/ Looks like it does what you need. It does, if you don't need Hebrew. If you do, you're toast. Thanks for all the responses! I sadly conclude that common wisdom has it that short of firing up a VFB, starting a browser of sorts

Re: OT: Windows time zones with daylight saving support

2005-05-01 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Apologies for reviving an ancient and OT thread, but just for completeness, see the various TZ solutions at: ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz It carries many Israel TZ solutions for many platforms (thanks Ephraim Silverberg for maintaining this for many years!). The Windows solution given there

HTML to PDF

2005-05-01 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Hi all, There was a thread here about two years ago regarding conversion of HTML to PDF with Hebrew charset. Apparently, htmldoc still isn't capable of doing that (although it's on its version roadmap); Is there an open-source solution for this, today? Thanks, Doron

Re: HTML to PDF

2005-05-01 Thread Doron Shikmoni
like htmldoc -t pdf). Thanks, Doron On 5/1/05, Doron Shikmoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, There was a thread here about two years ago regarding conversion of HTML to PDF with Hebrew charset. Apparently, htmldoc still isn't capable of doing that (although it's on its version roadmap

Research: Windows more secure than Linux

2005-02-17 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Haven't read this yet, but I figured the title is interesting and provocative enough for this list... http://www.vnunet.com/news/1161323 A Linux enthusiast at the RSA Conference in San Francisco has reluctantly concluded that Microsoft produces more secure code than its open source rivals.

Re: charset iso-8859-8-i

2004-08-22 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Folks, ISO-8859-8-i exists only in the realm of the charset directive of MIME (and HTTP). It is *not* a character set. It's a charset value. Yes, I know it's confusing. When either ISO-8859-8 or ISO-8859-8-i is specified in charset, the character set is that of ISO 8859-8. As added semantics,

Re: extended Israeli keyboard layout

2003-11-28 Thread Doron Shikmoni
SI1452 is in the process of being revised now (read: improved). You may follow this revision process. Regards, Doron Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi http://iglu.org.il/cgi-bin/fom?file=86 has been updated regarding keyboard configuration. I also put there more information about the avilable extended

Re: ADSL - What is the current recommendation?

2003-10-21 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Shachar Shemesh wrote: While in no way a Jess replacement, I can confirm this. I even have the instructions somewhere as to how to make an Alcatel Home modem talk PPPoE instead of PPTP. It does NOT require making it into a Pro. It does not require new firmware. It does NOT require a technician

Re: PPPoE on Linux - timeout waiting for PADO/PADS packets

2003-06-21 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Stepping in a bit late on this thread, just a point of clarification: Bezeq does not turn off PPTP, or turn on PPPoE for that matter, at any time. Nor do they need to support these protocols in any way. PPTP is spoken between your PC (or router) and the modem. Bezeq (or the ISP) do not see PPTP

Re: ADSL/Cable in Israel

2003-02-06 Thread Doron Shikmoni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already have an ADSL Alcatel HomeConnect(?) modem I bought from Bezeq working fine with PPTP. Is there ANY reason for me to consider bothering with PPPoE (except that it sounds like it's more standard). Is it more relayable or anything like that? If I remember

Re: ADSL/Cable in Israel

2003-02-05 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: 3. There is no ISP in Israel that supports PPPoE connections (for appliances like routers,etc..) ISP support for PPPoE is not needed. In fact, as Doron Shikmoni pointed out on this list in the past you can even set the Bezeq supplied Alcatel modems to workj

Re: ISOC lecturer?

2002-12-29 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 15:13, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: Hi, I was just wondering - did anyone submit papers to the upcoming ISOC kinus about Open Source? (it will be held in the Kfar Hamaccabiah, Feb. 17-18).. Well, sort of ;-) I *might* be giving there a lecture

Re: regarding samsung modem

2002-12-05 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Amazing as it may sound, it looks as if Samsung has made a variant of this ADSL modem especially for Bezeq. The AHT-E300 is actually a full featured modem/router, with all the cool things usually available on today's home routers. The special version made for Bezeq(!) apparently has all of these

Re: Hack sought

2002-12-03 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 00:52, Doron Shikmoni wrote: Ideally, what I'd like is to have an iptables mangle rule, which will just insert 0 into the CS field of any UDP packet that satisfies some criteria (zero is legit UDP). Can this be done without writing iptables

Re: Hack sought

2002-12-03 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Doron Shikmoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Second, the quickest hack I can think of (save of writing a kernel module or patching the kernel) is to write a small program that captures the packet in user space (opens a raw promiscious socket and listens for it, perhaps

Hack sought

2002-12-02 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Hi all, I'm having this small but nagging problem and I thought I might find some enlightment here. The essential part of the problem description (you don't want to hear the whole story...) is this: I have a client machine which sends UDP datagrams to a Linux based server. Under some specific

PPPoE instead of PPTP on Bezeq ADSL - howto

2002-11-23 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Hi all, Bezeq's installation instructions for ADSL user require setting up a PPTP VPN (tunnel). It seems as if many people believe that this is a firm requirement, and that it would not be possible to use different schemes - case in point, PPPoE - to connect to ADSL, because Bezeq does not

Re: Hebrew standards for Email?

1999-08-18 Thread Doron Shikmoni
S mail clients: There are some plans to do stuff (stay tuned), but: can we see a show of hands? Who would be willing to help (i.e., code - not whine) such an effort? My previous attempts to gather help for converting Mozilla 5 were a complete

Re: Encryption law in Israel

1999-08-17 Thread Doron Shikmoni
n of them, with a license) 4. To say ABANIBI. (yes!). The 1998 change was pretty well described in a previous post. It's a bit of "reality check" to the written law. There is still a long way to go, though. Doron Shikmoni =

XISP 2.6

1999-08-17 Thread Doron Shikmoni
I have recently mentioned XISP ; Here's LSM for a new version. Doorn Shikmoni Begin3 Title: X-ISP, an X11 visual interface to pppd/chat, ISP and phone company database manager; source and ix86-glibc2 binary distribution. Version:August 17 1999

Re: OT: Routing problem

1999-08-08 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Ariel Biener wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Gavrie Philipson wrote: Hi, I hope Doron Shikmoni will also share his opinion on this one. Since you dragged me into this :-) Load balancing on two lines, is possible. It's quite easy if both your lines end at the same router at your provider's

Re: Connecting with callback under Linux

1999-08-03 Thread Doron Shikmoni
in session with the RAS. Hope this helps Doron Shikmoni = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OFFTOPIC] good old Biper [was: SMS messages from Linux]

1999-06-21 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Qpage to send out Hebrew messages right now? I do it all the time, for years now. All you need is a translation from Hebrew to lowercase ("old code"). Sincerely, Doron Shikmoni = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Hebrew on linux-il

1999-04-04 Thread Doron Shikmoni
kage that is already supporting it is (flame-resistent underwear on...) MS Outlook Express 5 (not 4!). Having said that, my personal feeling, for what it's worth, is that a Hebrew-based Linux mailing list will be of little value. Hag Sameach! Doron Shikmoni