Re: Question about DOCX and open office

A docx file is a gzipped collection of folders and xml files. If you're feeling adventurous you can try to extract the address information directly from there... On Sep 17, 2017 12:55 PM, "Geoffrey Mendelson" wrote: since open office can read docx files, it should

Conflicting WHOIS data

I'm getting conflicting data when querying whois.com and isoc.org.il/whois This is obviously for a site with a .il TLD. Does anybody know who I can contact about that? ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Hebrew monospace font

urrently it Anka/Code and Source Code Pro) - and use GNU Mono as my fallback font -- Rabin On 10 July 2016 at 18:22, Mord Behar <mord...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I've been looking for a good monospace font that supports Hebrew > characters (unfortunately peopl

Hebrew monospace font

Hi I've been looking for a good monospace font that supports Hebrew characters (unfortunately people tend to write comments in Hebrew and/or hardcode html elements). My monospace font of choice is Hack (http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/), but it doesn't support Hebrew.

Re: OT: Android Marshmallow and contacts

manager under settings. Actually it'll be useful for any app. Now, If your are using a proprietary Moto app, It just might be that its local storage is corrupted. In that case, make a backup before clearing data. On 24/12/2015 19:55, Mord Behar wrote: Hi I posted this to the Android list, but I

OT: Android Marshmallow and contacts

Hi I posted this to the Android list, but I don't think anybody reads it... Anyway, I got an update to Android 6.0 on my Moto X. I was really looking forward to this, but it seems that something is broken with the caller ID. After going through a few forums it turns out that there is some

Re: OT - non-HP ink

My parents have a 5600 series printer and tried to use third party cartridges. I'm not sure on the details, but my father has sworn off them and now buys original HP ink. I have a F2480 and also only buy original HP ink. Anecdotally, I have heard that while third party cartridges are cheaper, they

OT: Xiaomi phones

Has anybody on this list bought one of Xiaomi's new phones (or tablet)? Spec-wise they should be really good, and very cheap. I'm curious about use case stories, buying the device, shipping it to Israel, using it, upgrading it and so on. Also, what you did when it broke. Thanks. Mordechai

Re: Mageia Linux mirror on http://mirror.isoc.org.il/content.html

On Apr 7, 2015 3:35 PM, Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using Mageia for several years so I guess I'm interested. But on the other hand, with today's fast internet connections, does it really matter where the mirror is? :-) Yes, it does. When Bezeq screwed up our DNS

OT: ISP and infrastructure bundling

So, today is the day that Bezeq is finally starting to subcontract their ADSL infrastructure to other companies, thus allowing an ISP to provide the full service. I personally think that this is a good thing, the somewhat artificial distinction between ISP and infrastructure seemed like a good way

OT: ISP throttling

Has anybody encountered any throttling here, by any of the ISPs? I first started noticing that mobile browsing was faster (to some sites) than my home wifi. So I thought at first it was my router. But I ran a trace route to Google and got speedy responses within Bezeq's network, but lots of

Re: Linux install party @ HUJI

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:14 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: Hi everyone! Thanks very much for the great willingness to help, a survey of the students revealed that there should be at least

Re: Linux install party @ HUJI

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Good luck! 2. The last time we did an installation party, we actually did a configuration party: people find it easy to install, but they sometimes need special software, or have a problem installing it - that

Re: BYOD in schools

I don't know about students, but my mother is a teacher and she has to use some legacy software that was written for Windows XP and fails on Win 7 about 70% of the time. It's proprietary software written by the ministry for education and could not be easily ported to Linux. On Wed, Nov 19, 2014

Re: Fw: [Qt-israel] Qt talk at the next FOSS Monthly meetup

Is anybody planning on driving from Yerushalayim? On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, we are going to have a monthly meetup about open source technologies on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 in 18:30 at Google Campus Tel Aviv, Electra Tower

Re: LibraOffice and Language Switching

I recall some kind of issue like this in past Libre Office versions. There was a setting that allowed command shortcuts to be language-independent. I can't remember where it was. Obviously you looked in the LO settings. Try the global DE settings... On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Amichai Rotman

OT: Moto X 2014

I originally sent this to the Android ML, but it doesn't have the same readership as this list, and I got no answers. Apparently there is a way to buy an unlocked Moto X from Motorola, provided you have a US billing and shipping address. Looking at the specs it appears as if it would work here

OT: video capture

We have a lot of VHS tapes that we want to digitize. Anybody out there have a video capture card? What kind? Where did you buy it? How much? What sort of software do you use? Are you satisfied with the results? ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: OT: video capture

for success or failure stories. What the setup was, how easy or hard it was to use, what the final results are like. On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com wrote: We have a lot of VHS tapes that we want to digitize. Anybody out there have a video capture card? What kind

Re: sd card file system on android

I think some of the Cyanogen mods support ext4. Also I recall reading somewhere that this might be a feature in Android L, but I can't remember where... On Sep 23, 2014 10:51 AM, Rabin Yasharzadehe ra...@rabin.io wrote: It's a kernel future, and you will have to root the device to be able and

Re: (OT - but I don't know who to ask) - Android tablet charger

You not only need the proper dimensions but also the correct voltage, amperage and direction (not sure what to call that last one). Look on your charger, you'll see a plus-dot-minus sign. That tells you which part of the pin (inside or outside) is the minus and which is the plus. You don't want to

Re: (OT - but I don't know who to ask) - Android tablet charger

On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 9:31 AM, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote: On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com wrote: You not only need the proper dimensions but also the correct voltage, amperage and direction (not sure what to call that last one). s/direction/polarity/ I

Re: OT: languages in Google Maps

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Diego Iastrubni elc...@kde.org wrote: OSM is a great promise. But not usable in a real world. 1) The servers are slow. Loading maps takes for ever. 2) Using tilemaps is nice, but this maps that rotating the map will not fix the text location according to

OT: languages in Google Maps

I'm trying to embed a Google Map on a website, and since most of the target audience is non-English readers, I want the map to be in Hebrew. So I set my Google settings to be Hebrew, and got an embed code from Google. Now Google pointed out to me that each visitor will view a map appropriate for

Re: OT: Cell phone service providers

After two months on Golan, my results are as follows: About 1 in 3 calls has a problem. A problem is either garbled audio, a lack of connection or a disconnect. There seems to be no correlation between problems and the carrier at the other end. Obviously garbled audio is more common than

Re: OT: Cell phone service providers

On Apr 20, 2014 11:46 AM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/20/2014 10:29 AM, Mord Behar wrote: After two months on Golan, my results are as follows: About 1 in 3 calls has a problem. A problem is either garbled audio, a lack of connection or a disconnect

forms.gov.il toolbar

forms.gov.il requires a toolbar in order to submit online forms to (among others) Misrad Hapnim. Does anybody know what is in the toolbar? Why they need it? Do I trust them? ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

OT: wiki hosting

Does anybody have any experience with free (ad-supported) wiki hosting? Looking on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hosting_services I see that there is a large selection of possibilities. Has anybody used any of these? Heard about any of them? I know that an alternative is to buy some cheap web

Re: OT: Cell phone service providers

Thank you everybody for your input. We went with Golan. One phone the 59 NIS a month unlimited plan, the other the 10 NIS a month plan. On the 10 NIS phone I'm trying to keep track of dropped and garbled calls, as well as good calls. Not exactly scientific, since I forget a few and I don't always

OT: Cell phone service providers

Sorry for the OT, but I need to tap the hive-mind of like-minded people. It's that time of life again, and we need to rethink and renegotiate our cell phone plans. This time, there are more than just the big three. I know that Rami Levy is just subcontracting for Pelephone, HomeCellular is

Re: Chinese KitKat

I don't know specifically about the Kaya (I almost got one and am glad that I didn't, because of this). Have a look at CynogenMod http://www.cyanogenmod.org/. The Kaya tablet is not officially supported, but it is, in theory, possible to install the mod on any Android device. Their wiki

Re: Feedback about HOT as an isp

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 6:40 PM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/5/2014 6:01 PM, Michael Ben-Nes wrote: Hi, Seems like I need to replace my unstable ADSL line :( Can any one tip me how good is the Hot cables 100mb service? stability\speed I forgot to mention

OT: Cellular banking

Well, we did it. We finally got an Android phone. And of course the second thing my wife asked me was Can I use this for banking? We only use the online banking services from within our home network which is (pretty) secure. The real diference between using a mobile phone and using a laptop is

Re: OT: Cellular banking

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: http://xkcd.com/538/ Get over it - this whole discussion is a waste of bits IMHO. Either you trust your bank and the controls put in place to make it comply or pay on failure, or you don't bank with them. The rest is

Re: BiDi Mail UI plugin for Firefox 25

You can edit the rdf file in the extension to support later version (true for Thunderbird as well). A FF (and Thunderbird) extension is just a zipped folder with a wacky extension. Open the zip, locate install.rdf, open it in a text editor. It's a simple xml file. Find the version tag and change

OT: Hybrid cars

Hi I know that this is off-topic, but I really don't know who to ask. See, I need a large pool of Linux-like brains that live in Israel for this. I mean, people (like me) who track gas liters and kilometerage, wear and tear on the car, insurance and things like that. Does anybody have numbers and

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org writes: Even if your car is a plug-in there are things to consider. Take a new Prius with an extended Li-ion battery with capacity of 4.4kWh. I pay ILS0.54/kWh at home, so at

Watch out for Bezeq

Just a general heads up: I recently registered on the Bezeq site in order to be able to view my receipts and stuff. When I signed up I provided a username and a password. Which they then sent me to my email address in plaintext. So just a reminder: don't reuse passwords, and use a throw-away

Re: KDE fading icon text

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:15 AM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.ilwrote: Talk to the KDE devs/mailing list/irc? I've gotten good, swift answers on IRC in the past. But also have waited several hours for an answer. It depends a lot on the time of day, and as yet I have been unable to come

Re: KDE fading icon text

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:15 AM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.ilwrote: Talk to the KDE devs/mailing list/irc? I've gotten good, swift answers on IRC in the past. But also have waited several hours for an answer

Re: ctrl-C ctrl-V

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.comwrote: On my new Mageia3 installation I have a strange problem. Copy-Paste using Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V don't work in Kwrite or Kate. But I discovered that the problem only exists if I start the programs by clicking on a txt

Re: my move to Mageia

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.comwrote: After 14 years of using Mandrake/Mandriva I made the move to Mageia 3 on 2 boxes. So far, I'm very satisfied - I feel really at home. However, as can be expected, there are some minor problems so I guess I'll be

Re: While we are on the subject of mobiles

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Zvi Grauer zvi.gra...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to use a simulator on a computer in order to sms or chat using viber? Can I clone my cell phone's environment for that purpose? The goal is to be able to keep in touch even if I do not have the cell phone

Linux Consultant

I was approached by somebody to help out with a Linux project. The thing is, I don't know how much to charge (by the hour). I have not yet finished my bachelor's in CompSci, and have no formal Linux training. I have been using Linux for years, and am currently employed as a tech support person

Re: Linux Consultant

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/09/2013 10:37 AM, Mord Behar wrote: I was approached by somebody to help out with a Linux project. The thing is, I don't know how much to charge (by the hour). I have not yet finished my

Re: Linux Consultant

Thanks everybody for responding, I got a lot of good input. Since the job does not require much Linux skill, anybody who's been using Linux for a year or so should be competent enough to do it, we settled on 50 NIS to start with, and if the project runs longer than 10 hours we'll renegotiate.

Online collaboration

Hi I'm looking for an open source solution for collaborating on various tasks, mostly graphics related. I have access to a LAMP stack, so installing server-side software shouldn't be a problem. The problem is, I don't know what software we need. We need to have a repository of data, where people

Re: Online collaboration

PM, Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm looking for an open source solution for collaborating on various tasks, mostly graphics related. I have access to a LAMP stack, so installing server-side software shouldn't be a problem. The problem is, I don't know what software we need. We need

Re: Online collaboration

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:50 PM, vordoo vor...@yahoo.com wrote: On 2013-04-08 14:52, Mord Behar wrote: Hi I'm looking for an open source solution for collaborating on various tasks, mostly graphics related. I have access to a LAMP stack, so installing server-side software shouldn't

IE standardization falling

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.

Re: New tool for the fight against old IE

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: Here is a tool from Microsoft itself to scan for old IE-ism. http://www.modern.ie/ It might come handy when complaining about web sites incompatibility - it should take away their excuse of But it works with IE or

Re: Funny story on today's Ynet

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il wrote: Geeks don't date. They don't? http://www.gk2gk.com/ On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, Nadav Har'El wrote: Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 16:27:17 +0200 From: Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

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

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: greaskmonkey for iba site

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:45 PM, sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote: Someone knows if there is a greasemonkey script for iba.org.il site? My Greasefire says no. At least not anything useful. What, in particular, do you want a script to do? ___

Re: Home made NAS

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2012, David Suna wrote about Home made NAS: I have a bunch of old machines lying around which are currently just collecting dust.nbsp; I would like to collect the disks from all of them,

Re: Haifa University Video on Linux?

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Steve G. word...@gmail.com wrote: Tell me how to find out and I will. I have Totem and VLC installed, but that's probably not the stuff embedded in browsers. It's a wmv video. The stream itself can be found here: mms://vod4.haifa.ac.il/p/ac/2987.wmv Just