Re: Feedback about HOT as an isp

2014-03-08 Thread Micha Feigin
It depends on what you are doing, I've been running fine with 2mb/s. Gave up on Bezeq when they tried to tell me that I need a faster line when I called them to resolve my ssh terminal (text only) connection is responding poorly. Hot were OK in terms of performance (was also using the 2mb/s

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On 10-Oct-13 3:11, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: "Steve G." word...@gmail.com writes: The question: Is there a messaging platform that is either open source or free (I know of Viber and WhatsApp), BUT which can work on PC's AND cheap phones (either

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On 10-Oct-13 9:08, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On 10/10/2013 3:50 PM, Steve G. wrote: Suppose I wanted to change venue to a more developed country, where the income level allows people to use unlimited SMS, would that have made any

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-15 Thread Micha Feigin
Right now I'm driving a Fiat Panda. It's small and it's efficient, but it comes at a price. The engine is tiny, and so is the gas tank (but being a tiny car it's easy to park in the city). The book says that it can get 20 km/l intercity, and 12 km/l in the city. From my experience I get

Re: accounting software *free open source*

2013-07-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On 07/06/2013 05:06 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: 2013/7/6 vordoo vor...@yahoo.com: On 2013-07-04 16:45, sara fink wrote: I would like to know which accounting software (besides linet) is accepted by Israeli tax authorities? Me too, but one that is not a proprietary web site, I would like to keep

Suggestions for Hardware/driver WIFI combo that allows low level signal access

2013-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
Hi All, I'm was wondering if anyone here can recommend a hardware / driver combo for WIFI that allows access to the low level signal. I'm looking to do some non-communication related research (uni stuff) that requires sending custom signals over WIFI frequencies (to avoid FCC limitations),

Re: Google: Create A Native Linux Google Drive Application -

2013-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On 06/19/2013 07:41 AM, Julian Daich wrote: Please sign for this campaign: http://www.change.org/es/peticiones/google-create-a-native-linux-google-drive-application?share_id=ADrOjDOjXrutm_campaign=mailto_linkutm_medium=emailutm_source=share_petition

Permissions to access USB camera under debian

2013-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
Hi All, I'm trying to connect a camera (Mesa Imaging Swissranger specifically) to a Debian unstable box. I'm getting an error that the user does not have permissions to open the USB device (needs read/write access). Couldn't find any relevant group to add my user to to solve the problem. Any

Re: Permissions to access USB camera under debian

2013-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [1865748.537413] usb 4-2: Product: 3D-SR4000 [1865748.537417] usb 4-2: Manufacturer: MESA Thanks On 07/02/2013 01:14 PM, shimi wrote: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il mailto:mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: Hi All, I'm

Re: Permissions to access USB camera under debian

2013-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On 07/02/2013 01:41 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: Doesn't seem to be a camera group (there is a camera user, which may affect that), no v4l and video under the dev tree. Only thing I found that changes under dev during connection is these two files: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jul 2 13:35 /dev/char

Re: Suggestions for Hardware/driver WIFI combo that allows low level signal access

2013-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On 07/02/2013 01:05 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On 7/2/2013 7:49 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: Hi All, I'm was wondering if anyone here can recommend a hardware / driver combo for WIFI that allows access to the low level signal. I'm looking to do some non-communication related research (uni

Re: Literature documentation software

2013-04-28 Thread Micha Feigin
There is jabref which is a bibtex management program and can probably be abused for your purpose - i.e you can use the review entry for your notes I like using docear, which is a scientific oriented mindmap program with strong support for paper management.

Re: Online collaboration

2013-04-08 Thread Micha Feigin
For tracking versions with comments, either subversion or git are easy to setup, git tends to be easier I believe, but is a distributed system, so people can forget to push changes. It is good if you want to commit off-line though and it is easier to branch with git. Both have gui interfaces,

Re: XP iso for virtual machine

2013-02-07 Thread Micha Feigin
I do not know about buying XP, I believe that it is only still available for some corporate clients, not individuals. I think that there is a way to migrate an existing installation to a virtual machine, which may be a way to use your cd. https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2t=51203

Re: Current Video Card winning horse?

2012-10-09 Thread Micha Feigin
I don't have experience with ATI but they should work. I don't know how the drivers are. NVIDIA works great for me, but I use the propriety drivers, not nouveau as I need the GPU for CUDA/OpenCL. CUDA is nvidia only, OpenCL at least under windows works on ATI, NVIDIA and ivy bridge Intel GPUs

How do I install linux on a raid0?

2011-08-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I just got a new w520 with two 500GB hard drives configured in raid0 (seems to be a bios based software raid0). Windows is already installed and running on it (and I need it to stay there unfortunately) and I'm trying to install linux along side it (debian unstable). I got the installed

Re: what was the name of the app...

2011-08-14 Thread Micha Feigin
There is also http://www.kerrighed.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page I played with these a bit. Not sure of the state of affairs, but they were mostly useful at the time for dynamic load balancing single threaded applications by migrating them around to nodes that were doing little work. Support

Re: Advice on where and what to study

2010-12-03 Thread Micha Feigin
You could try looking at the open university, but the question is what do you expect to get out of these courses. University courses I know don't teach you much about actual programming. I would take at least one course about software engineering, preferably both functional and object

Re: Suggested lecture: From VxWorks to Linux

2010-12-02 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm guessing that you meant that Linux is a major player in embedded systems rather that in embedded Linux ;) Not sure if I can make it as the interesting talks always occur at times when I can't attend, but it does sound interesting indeed Rafi Gordon rafigor...@gmail.com wrote: Raz, Linux

Re: Buying a Nexus One in Israel

2010-10-22 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:58:07 +0200 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know if the Nexus one phones sold in Israel as new (i.e - from stores) are the same hardware as the development phones sold directly from Google? I want to buy such a phone, but Google

Is it possible to pull only a part of a git repository?

2010-10-22 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a growing number of projects that I'm trying to manage in my git repository. Currently they are all in the same repository to make it easier to sync it with the server (for backups / synchronization with other machines). Now, I want to be able to work on only one project at a time, or

Re: [OT?] Hebrew on Samsung Galaxy S android phone? Root'ing android?

2010-09-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:06:55 +0200 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: On 29/09/10 07:35, Micha Feigin wrote: - Scrolled lists with mixed English/Hebrew items have items disappearing when scrolled. Not really sure what 3 means. If you have a long list

Re: [OT?] Hebrew on Samsung Galaxy S android phone? Root'ing android?

2010-09-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:51:56 +0200 Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, September 27, 2010, Amos Shapira wrote: 2. root'ing and (as of last night) installing the Hebrew fonts and a soft keyboard solved 99% of the problems I had so far. I've been following this thread

Re: Problem at startup - lockup loading swap

2010-09-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:01:14 +0200 Tom Goren t...@tomgoren.com wrote: use the appropriate /dev/sdaX entry instead of the UUID - something may be messed up with the hash - especially if you have done mkswap already. It worked for swapon /dev/sda5 but I need to change the default boot process

Re: Problem at startup - lockup loading swap

2010-09-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:13:38 +0200 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 12, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Micha wrote: We tried running swapoff -a, mkswap and swapon -a. On the call to swapon the machine complained about not finding the swap's UUID (which didn't

Re: Hebrew on Android (and other issues)

2010-09-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:35:57 +0300 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 17:27, Evyatar Parker evp55...@gmail.com wrote: What Hebrew do you need? interface? fonts? keyboard? I know people with Hebrew fonts and keyboard on Android 2.1 (and non Hebrew UI), but maybe

Re: Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

2010-07-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:57:58 +0300 Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.com wrote: At 13:41:19 on Friday Friday 30 July 2010, Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:46:08 +0300 Ariel Biener ar...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: [...] I do not like prejudice. The only

Re: Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

2010-07-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:58:24 +0300 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:57:58 +0300 Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.com wrote: At 13:41:19 on Friday Friday 30 July 2010, Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:46:08 +0300 Ariel

Re: Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

2010-07-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:46:08 +0300 Ariel Biener ar...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: [...] I do not like prejudice. The only way to fix TAU issues is via the help desk. Trust me, we're not your usual Joe ISP. We are a strong Unix/Linux shop, and most of our applications, especially web apps, are

Re: Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

2010-07-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:51:45 +0300 Ariel Biener ar...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: [...] About your second point. I was always disappointed when using the official support channel for linux support. Usually the answer is we don't support linux. The linux support you get at Linux-IL, is

Re: platform for number crunching

2010-06-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:38:59 +0300 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Shimon Panfil i...@industrialphys.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for affordable

Re: platform for number crunching

2010-06-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:42:53 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: On Wednesday 16 Jun 2010 16:29:58 Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Shimon Panfil i...@industrialphys.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for affordable workstation for heavy number crunching,

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 15 May 2010 08:19:03 + Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:59:37PM +0300, mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: I do still have quite a few qualms with it though on other regards. I'm deep into GPU computing at the moment (Cuda) and what Windows vista

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:37:44 +0300 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 May 2010 10:16, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: I've never heard of that! Going through the manpage, it looks like you might be referring to get-selections. Is that it? If not, can you

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 11 May 2010 04:08:39 -0700 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com wrote: Not at all! Google for Microsoft SDL, it was not always the case, but nowadays they have excellent security awareness. For example, see evidence for the change here:

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 11 May 2010 23:50:49 +0300 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com wrote: I guess we'll stay divided, but still, for the sake of the completion I want to clarify my argument. My point is, that some security decisions (for example, the Tuesday patch you mentioned), even if they are very

Re: Kosher for Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:40:21 +0300 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: We're in the middle of Passover, and apparently observant Jews who are computer users are facing a new problem: a famous Rabbi has just declared [1] that during the week of Passover, observant Jews must only use

[OT] looking for pci graphic boards

2009-12-15 Thread Micha Feigin
Despite being off topic I was hoping that someone on this list may have a couple such cards (pci based graphic boards) lying around. I know they are ancient and useless to most but maybe someone has a couple stockpiled in some attic. We got a couple of tesla boards for our Uni lab and

openoffice and tables in imported hebrew word documents

2009-09-10 Thread Micha Feigin
Lately (at least with openoffice 3.1.1) tables in hebrew word documents that I open in oowriter are off screen. Is there any way to push them back to place? Thanks ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

[OT] do web page redirects keep google ranking?

2009-07-27 Thread Micha Feigin
Sorry for the off topic question, but I believe people here know the answer If I have a high ranked page on google and I change the domain, does leaving a redirect from the old domain to the new one preserve ranking in google (will the page start appearing at the same rank with the new domain

Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE] How Time Flies: Jiffies, Hi-Res Timers and the Tickless Kernel

2009-07-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:54:04 +0200 Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: On Monday, July 27th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Gilad Ben-Yossef's talk How Time Flies: Jiffies, Hi-Res Timers and the Tickless Kernel: This definitely calls for the Groucho Marx quote: Time flies like

Re: reshet.ynet.co.il not on Download Helper, anything else?

2009-07-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:43:55 +0300 sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote: A friend recommended Handbrake which converted no problem with MP4-H.264 (doubled the size of the files compared to .flv) but the Nokia didn't play the Video. I heard that H.264 is problematic. Proprietary

Re: Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

2009-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
As for a mother board, if you are not planning to overclock it, the intel motherboards are rather good, go with a good chipset, if things haven't changed, something like the p45 is rather good. I'm using a dragontail motherboard on a few systems in uni and they are performing well (ddr2 though)

Re: Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

2009-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
Michael Tewner wrote: ...Or maybe Nvidia Quadro Pro? http://www.nvidia.com/page/workstation.html I don't think that either quadro or tesla will do what the OP wants. Tesla is for gpgpu computations only, no video output at all and it doesn't work in sli mode to empower faster graphics.

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 05:44:33 +0300 Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This is off topic, still probably crowd here has relevant experience, so ... I'm considering bringing Sony laptop from US. My main concerns are: 1. Engraving Hebrew on keyboard Asked at some

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:31:45 +0300 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Engraving Hebrew on keyboard I actually just painted the keyboard letter keys black, so there are no English or Hebrew letters! Now my laptop is less usable to thieves, and my typing speed has increased

Re: looking for a c++ debugger

2009-04-27 Thread Micha Feigin
Personally I like insight. It's also worth while learning the command line interface as except for showing the current position in the code (which is very hard to follow) everything else is very very powerful (printing memory data in all sorts of ways, writing gdb functions, setting default

Re: [Haifux] YOM HA'SHOA ?? [HAIFUX Lecture] OpenCL Overview - Ofer Rosenberg

2009-04-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:25:34 +0300 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Interested: More specifically: Please reply if you : a. wish to come, but have a problem with the date because it is the evening of Yom Hasho'a. b. wish to come, and do not have a problem with the

Re: הנדון: העברה: תקלה ב גישה לאתרכם

2009-03-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:09:49 + Noam Rathaus no...@beyondsecurity.com wrote: I guess they won't be ready by May this year I'm probably too naive but I'm hoping that microsoft starts pushing explorer 8 on people and then they will have to improve on the sites, but they will probably still

Re: Hebrew Under crossover

2009-03-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:21:42 +0300 Aharon Schkolnik aschkol...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the response. Comments in-line. On Monday 30 March 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: Just to be clear - what I need is a way to edit MS mixed English and Hebrew word documents which will be read by

Re: Hebrew Under crossover

2009-03-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:09:56 +0300 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Very different. Math is a complete no go, hebrew and english is a mess, mixed hebrew/english documents and numbers are rarely imported properly, enumerations are messed up completely and changing the document

Re: I don't want to do it under Windows ; please help

2009-03-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:33:21 + (GMT) Moshe Brace using Yahoo mbrace...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I read with great interest the plea  for help to remain in Linux instead of  returning to Windows. One of the major concerns I have on this issue is the use of programmes like Wine and other

Re: Windows Free Laptop (one more)

2009-03-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 19:24:29 +0200 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Just FYI:   - I happened to be today at an Ivory shop  (http://www.ivory.co.il/) A friend had bought a computer from Ivory last year, fully assembled in case with PSU and it costs less than I could have built it

Re: What is the secret to using Lyx with Hebrew?

2009-03-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:23:33 +0200 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/4 Maxim Kovgan maxim@gmail.com: I used lyx by implementing the instructions from huji site about lyx. what I got to was: when I pressed F12 (IIRC), it *switched* language, both he-en and en-he, depending

Re: Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all

2009-03-03 Thread Micha Feigin
Nice to hear that there is another source for these. Ivory sells a few of their machines without windows (at least msi I think also dells, maybe more), but although buying a simple desktop from them is ok, laptops other than msi can be a hustle. At the time I found quite a few dell distributors

Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:58:33 +0200 David Harel harel...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I need your help regarding convincing the vice president of an association to shift from MS XP to Linux. What I did till now was install Ubuntu on two machines that were phasing out and failed to run

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:25:07 +0200 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 13:42 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/2/17 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: [... snip snip ...] (I actually prefer top-posting, as it saves me the need to scroll downwards when I do quick reading; but I'll

Re: Netvision: The early-disconnect fees! 40 NIS * 11 months = 800 NIS fees!

2009-02-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:18:58 +0200 Noam Rathaus no...@beyondsecurity.com wrote: Geoff, I will start with thanking you for giving the other alternative - I believe though that those are not very good alternatives, as you stated they mainly talk about phone oriented services, rather than

Re: No noobs?

2009-02-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:09:57 +0200 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: While referring a new Linux user to the Linux-il mailing list, I found this text on the page: No newbie questions (use gnubies-il instead). Can the lists be merged? This list is low enough traffic that doubling it

Re: ??????????: ??????????????

2009-02-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:17:11 +0200 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: If you have the Rotal/Seimens router that Bezeq gives out, there is a firmware upgrade for it. Thanks, but the updated firmware did not help. MY neighbor is having serious disconnect problems with her ADSL,

Re: ??????????: ??????????????

2009-02-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:49:56 +0200 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: MY neighbor is having serious disconnect problems with her ADSL, problem is that she knows very little about computers. They checked the lines, the guy tried to convince me over the phone that it's because her

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-02-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:21:07 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Big Lesson: Big lesson learned: It took us a long time to get the projector

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-02-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:52:47 +0200 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:21:07 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
Sorry, sent only privately by mistake On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:06:11 +0200 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:21:07 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800 Michael Shiloh

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-02-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I wanted to let everyone know the follow-up to this conversation, as it was an interesting exercise with a valuable lesson. Big Plus: I ended up using kuickshow, as it was the only program I could

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:54:09 +0200 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I have a HOT modem and Netvision, which when it works... It also happens to be down as I write this and has been for almost 6 hours. I just left HOT after four years of suffering their constant outages

Re: The new linux-il - a few tips to get you (re)started

2009-02-01 Thread Micha Feigin
2009 22:04:59 Micha Feigin wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:06:55 +0200 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: [...] I could understand the use for reply to list when some people would get double the emails against their wishes. This, however, is no longer an issue with most

infiniband

2009-01-31 Thread Micha Feigin
Hello, Does anyone know who deals with infiniband hardware in Israel? We are building a small cluster and the latency of ethernet is proving to be too high for hpc with mpi. Tried searching, but could find anyone that sells them. thanks ___ Linux-il

Re: The new linux-il - a few tips to get you (re)started

2009-01-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:06:55 +0200 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: [...] I could understand the use for reply to list when some people would get double the emails against their wishes. This, however, is no longer an issue with most modern mailing list managers. Well, at the

Re: The new linux-il - a few tips to get you (re)started

2009-01-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:45:33 +0200 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: The only sane and foolproof method is to have mailman set the Reply-To field to the list address. This is a fantastically appropriate moment to do it. If you want to bring THAT

Re: The new linux-il - a few tips to get you (re)started

2009-01-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:56:01 +0200 Geoffrey S. Mendelson g...@mendelson.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:00:04PM +0200, Herouth Maoz wrote: I prefer it over using reply to all because I can then easily scan my outbox and detect which messages I sent to the list. What bugs me is

Re: Israeli sites that are broken under firefox

2009-01-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:46:37 +0200 Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: On Monday, 19 בJanuary 2009, Micha Feigin wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:53:17 +0200 Oron Peled wrote: I'll bet they do it for security. Indeed, forcing people to use ActiveX is a secure way to have these people

Re: Israeli sites that are broken under firefox

2009-01-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:34:09 +0200 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/19 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il: We need to convince whomever is importing apple to lower their prices, besides the nice machines it will force these sites to be more compliant when more people yell

Re: Israeli sites that are broken under firefox

2009-01-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:59:12 +0200 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/19 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il: I write to these sites. I refuse to accept word documents from people. I've gotten quite a few people used to sending me text or pdf instead of word. I'm not sure if I'm

Re: Israeli sites that are broken under firefox

2009-01-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:53:17 +0200 Diego Iastrubni elc...@kde.org wrote: I can still remember Leumi doing this with a floppy way then. At least a USB device would last for several months/years. Floppies lick balls (the 1.44, not the 1.2, they actually kickes ass and were better, don't know

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:56:30 +0200 Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just in case you missed it, it is the lead item on The Register, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/04/dell_windows_eula_israel/ (shall we expect a slashdot item soon, too? :). It is a reasonably faithful

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:12:19 +0200 Rafi Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zvi, - First, congratulations for winning this important battle ! - Second, I myself intend to buy a laptop in the near future. And indeed, after surfing many israeli websites, I found out that all of them come

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:51:54 +0200 Rafi Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I had encountered before Asus Eee Pc with linux on some israeli sites; this is indeed a mini laptop. Talking about laptops (not UMPCs and not mini laptops) - I did not encounter any stores in israel which sell a

RE: skype and voip questions

2008-06-12 Thread Micha Feigin
There are several standards, open and closed. Skype specifically is a closed proprietary protocol that uses an idea similar to file sharing. The calls don't go through servers, the data passes over relaying clients and where the clients are is not assured. It probably depends on which providers

using only left alt-shift for language changing

2007-11-24 Thread Micha Feigin
I am currently using alt-shift to toggle the input language in X (so that others using the machine don't get confused trying to switch to hebrew). the problem is that there are some required shell and emacs commands that need both alt and shift (such as Meta-% in emacs and Alt- in bash). Is there

Changing keyboard language on a server with no administrator privilages

2007-11-08 Thread Micha Feigin
I am working on a server with remote X where xorg.conf defines only us as the keyboard language and I want to do some typing in herbrew. Seeing as changing xorg.conf is not an option I tried setxkbmap but got the message that xkb is not enabled. I don't think that gedit allows changing keymap

Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about science

2007-04-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:09:44 +0300 Uri Even-Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/25/07, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Completeness and Consistency relate to the relationship between the provability of an expression (syntax) and it's core truthfulness (semantics, or meaning). Since

Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about science

2007-04-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:27:23 +0300 Uri Even-Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, it's very easy to prove that for any specific decision problem, *there is* an algorithm who returns a correct answer in O(1). Consider these two algorithms: always return 0 and always return 1. At least

Re: avoiding the microsoft tax - laptop linux refund?

2007-04-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:40:43 +0300 Vassilii Khachaturov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] My wife actually said she probably prefers a 12 model, but can do with [snip] If, meanwhile, somebody on the list got acquainted with a place in Israel to buy a non-wide linux-friendly laptop

Re: avoiding the microsoft tax - laptop linux refund?

2007-04-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:13:13 +0300 (IDT) Vassilii Khachaturov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My wife actually said she probably prefers a 12 model, but can do with [snip] If, meanwhile, somebody on the list got acquainted with a place in Israel to buy a non-wide linux-friendly laptop

Re: Recommendation for a Laptop

2007-04-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:23:36 +0300 Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: I'm using a Dell Inspiron 6400 lappy with Fedora Core 6. At the time I bought it, one HAD to purchase Windowx XP with it, but now I think that you have a choice of Vista or

accessing a berkly db file

2007-03-30 Thread Micha Feigin
Does anyone here happen to know of a tool to access a berkly database file? I'm trying to recover some data to convert it into a mysql database. Thanks = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in

Re: Scanning program for linux

2007-03-01 Thread Micha Feigin
I only tried it on windows and it was inferior to the epson software but have a look at vuescan, it has a linux version and look ok http://www.hamrick.com/ linux version seems to be http://www.hamrick.com/files/vuesca84.tgz It's not free though but it has a free trial (I think it embeds $

RE: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Micha Feigin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 9:10 PM To: Shachar Shemesh Cc: ILUG Subject: Re: ID theft (offtipicish) On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: YTfFYyyfDDk676 (different from

RE: [Partial Resoltion] Re: PPTP issues and Barak over cable

2007-02-01 Thread Micha Feigin
automatic now for the next time. Finding the right gateway is more of a problem though. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ilya Konstantinov Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:37 PM To: Micha Feigin Cc: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: [Partial Resoltion] Re

PPTP issues and Barak over cable

2007-01-29 Thread Micha Feigin
Sorry for starting a new thread, due to connection issues I have patial net access. I connect to the internet over cable (hot) using barak with a pptp connection. Thursday night they upgraded their system (don't know more details) and since then I can't connect using linux anymore. Windows works

RE: cable connection to barak (pptp)

2007-01-27 Thread Micha Feigin
Do you have a link by chance? I can't find it I had a working connection according to all those manuals, the problem is that barak did a major upgrade on their pptp server and my current configuration no longer works. Now I need to know if it's possible to continue working with them or whether I

RE: cable connection to barak (pptp)

2007-01-27 Thread Micha Feigin
Ok, I found the scripts, they're at cables2.netvision.net.il, will report again if it works -Original Message- From: Baruch Shpirer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 9:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cable connection to barak (pptp) checkout pptp

RE: cable connection to barak (pptp)

2007-01-27 Thread Micha Feigin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Micha Feigin Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 3:21 PM To: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: RE: cable connection to barak (pptp) Ok, I found the scripts, they're at cables2.netvision.net.il

RE: OpenOffice Hebrew encoding

2006-12-29 Thread Micha Feigin
possibly the locale settings? Try in a console to see if what $LANG is set to (in bash echo $LANG) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shlomo Solomon Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 11:05 AM To: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject:

Re: Cyan is the new Blue

2006-12-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thursday 21 December 2006 13:41, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:49:24PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: I love black background for my terminals, and the default of dark blue for color-ls libraries and other elements can be very annoying. I could use a .dircolors file to

Re: Ethical question..

2006-12-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:26:46 +0200 Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They manage 1 and 2, they have a very good case for claiming that the userspace tool is not a derived work of their kernel space driver, and thus not bound by the kernel module's license. Shachar This goes into

Fw: Ethical question..

2006-12-13 Thread Micha Feigin
Sorry, sent this privately by mistake, linux-il doesn't work with the reply to list option of sylpheed ... Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:52:50 +0200 From: Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ethical question.. On Wed, 13 Dec

Re: Ethical question..

2006-12-13 Thread Micha Feigin
If you DO NOT write plain vanilla C code to Posix libc specs and expect to fully use the advanced features offered by GPL-ONLY licensed extensions to libraries, and distribute binary that links against these, then you are in trouble even if there are 24 different implementations of said

Re: Hebrew in gvim

2006-12-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:14:48 +0200 Avraham Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:48:11PM +0200, ik wrote: Hi, What is the encoding of the Hebrew text file ? On my vimrc (I do not use gvimrc) I made the following statement: set

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