Re: HP OfficeJet Pro 8023

2023-12-26 Thread Oron Peled
on has an open specification. * So if your distribution is modern (Debian-12 "bookworm", cough, cough) -- it works out of the box. * A nice bonus is that people can print directly from many Cellphone (not only iPhones, also Android) Bye, -- Oron Peled

Re: single threaded web servers

2016-06-28 Thread Oron Peled
the cgi is in c++ ? By definition, CGI can be written in anything you like. You can write server extensions (in C/C++) -- not especially hard. Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "There a

[JOB-OFFER] Linux devops people for embedded

2014-11-16 Thread Oron Peled
) – advantage For more information about Harmonic: http://www.harmonicinc.com/content/your-career-here -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Linux lasts longer! -- Kim J. Brand k

Re: console widgets without X

2014-06-17 Thread Oron Peled
), but: * Looks very nice: http://www.tutok.sk/fastgl/screens.htm * Can be compiled for: - Linux VGA-framebuffer (several resolutions) - X11 - Windows * Support OpenGL (on all these targets) Fork it for maintenance? -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o

Re: detecting what does a reboot

2014-06-08 Thread Oron Peled
from software... -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. --Isaac Newton

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Oron Peled
. Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Software is like Entropy: it's hard to grasp, weighs nothing and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics, i.e. it always increases -- Norman

Re: linking problems with several static libraries

2013-07-10 Thread Oron Peled
of code to different libraries. Enjoy, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are. ___ Linux-il

Two job proposals: Linux developer and Linux tech-support

2013-05-20 Thread Oron Peled
projects is an advantage. cut-here-cut-here- Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Your fair use of this book is restricted You may only read this book once

Re: Two job proposals: Linux developer and Linux tech-support

2013-05-20 Thread Oron Peled
mail alias, so now both addresses can be used. Thanks, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Normally the saying is: 'Fast, Reliable, Cheap. Pick any two.' But with Linux you can pick all three

Re: Using git on / for configuration files

2012-06-08 Thread Oron Peled
/blockquote pre wrap= [ Replying to HTML mail... thanks, Eli you deserve it :-( ] If you only want to follow a couple of directories/files you can bind-mount them to something under /etc and solve the problem. Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o

Re: Using git on / for configuration files

2012-06-06 Thread Oron Peled
an older version of specific file, cannot change (by mistake), other managed files. I was also thinking about moving to etckeeper (or similar) solution, but didn't do anything about it yet... -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: LDAP (Active Directory) and user statuses

2012-06-01 Thread Oron Peled
the login scripts), you can monitor access to that share. Now, don't ask me how this can be done on Windows machines, but samba let you read client connection status and even kill them (look in the status page of samba swat) Enjoy, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4

Re: Fedora upgrade, got unbootable system

2012-04-18 Thread Oron Peled
(very-slow) by: touch /.autorelabel - You after restorecon, the security label is still wrong, than you can 'chcon' it as a workaround, and file a bug against the SELinux policy (Fedora SELinux team is very responsive, including on IRC) Hope it helps, -- Oron

Re: Fedora upgrade, got unbootable system

2012-04-11 Thread Oron Peled
modules.dep file. Should it? Is there perhaps a change to Linux 3.3 so it no longer uses that file? Use 'depmod' to re-generate it: depmod -a Then reboot, and see what other failures you have. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: [YBA] kernel compile errors with GCC = 4.6

2012-04-05 Thread Oron Peled
the specific warning. Happy Pesach, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron The speed of light really is too slow nowdays. -- Alan Cox ___ Linux-il mailing

Re: [YBA] kernel compile errors with GCC = 4.6

2012-04-05 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 5 בApril 2012 14:28:42 Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2012, Oron Peled wrote: Many FOSS projects (and the kernel in particular) are very distributed, so there are potentially hundreds of Linus Torvalds's out there. Let's say that I'm developing a particular driver. Do I

Re: /usr/opt instead of /opt?

2012-03-10 Thread Oron Peled
party. (OK, so there are proprietary applications for Linux and it's common to put them under /opt, and rightfully so because they really behave like the bad old 3'rd party software of the 80's... :-) Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-09 Thread Oron Peled
://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801735 -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Free software: each person contributes a brick, but ultimately each person receives a house in return. -- Brendan Scott

Re: gmail over POP3 - anyone else experiencing problems?

2012-03-05 Thread Oron Peled
/IMAP4 setup was commented out for a while. Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Windows - How do you want to be exploited today. ___ Linux-il mailing

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

2012-02-21 Thread Oron Peled
be feasible. ...The true author can remain anonymous if he wishes. Again, this isn't too practical these days (with BB anywhere). -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron God is real... unless declared

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

2012-02-20 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 19 בFebruary 2012 23:00:11 Dotan Cohen wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 20:22, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: So either supporting a public documented ISO standard isn't harder than supporting many variants of proprietary and undocumented file file format, or... draw your own

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

2012-02-20 Thread Oron Peled
secrets and then sue you is some new documentation format ;-) -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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

2012-02-20 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 20 בFebruary 2012 22:30:54 Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012, Oron Peled wrote about Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats: Undocumented? Which file format is that? All the .doc and .docx formats are documented, even the older binary

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

2012-02-18 Thread Oron Peled
and undocumented file file format, or... draw your own conclusion. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Complaining that [Linux] doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, say, evaluating

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

2012-02-16 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 15 בFebruary 2012 21:47:02 Diego Iastrubni wrote: On Monday, February 06, 2012 02:43:16 AM Oron Peled wrote: You can find an example of this (refering to ODS): http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05 Really? WTF? Linking to a document from 3 years ago? So, the wold

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

2012-02-05 Thread Oron Peled
in this space. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron MCSE: Must Consult Someone Experienced ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

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

2012-02-05 Thread Oron Peled
interoperability paper, but: * It needed some registration to use (so I didn't test it) * I'm not sure if still exists after Oracle bought Sun. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron The wonderful thing

Re: Cat on (RAM) steroids

2012-02-04 Thread Oron Peled
limited in RAM allocation than the utility you want? After all, RAM is RAM if you have enough for the application to use (you asked for non-pageable memory), than why can't the kernel driver allocate it just the same and be done with it? Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972

Re: Israeli website on Linux: beer-sheva.muni.il

2012-01-25 Thread Oron Peled
ms 71.301 ms 81.081 ms 10 172.20.236.253 (172.20.236.253) 91.385 ms 101.423 ms 111.221 ms 11 * * * continues the same So? -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Don't worry about what

Re: question: discount bank web site - linux+firefox friendly?

2012-01-19 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 19 בJanuary 2012 10:01:20 guy keren wrote: i'm considering switching to Discount bank (www.discountbank.co.il) - and i want to make sure that their online banking works with firefox on linux for these operations: 1. viewing the balance. Works, as well as other tabs on the

Re: NFS + NIS madness

2011-11-28 Thread Oron Peled
of these work? -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron If it's there and you can see it, it's REAL If it's there and you can't see it, it's TRANSPARENT If it's not there and you can see it, it's VIRTUAL If it's

Re: NFS + NIS madness

2011-11-27 Thread Oron Peled
# Obviously + # Everybody (except badguy -- line order affect results) - This means that a passwd: files nis in /etc/nsswitch.conf is equivalent to passwd: compat with a '+' in the end of /etc/passwd. Hope it helps, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972

Re: A good Linux kernel vintage?

2011-11-16 Thread Oron Peled
to build/debug this stuff manually). Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron She sells cshs by the cshore. - Rob Malda ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE - CANCELLED] Today's lecture is cancelled

2011-05-30 Thread Oron Peled
should raise a car-maintenance fund to prevent this academic boycot? :-) -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron A billion flies _can_ be wrong - I'd rather eat lamb chops than shit. -- Linus

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck? [OT]

2011-05-10 Thread Oron Peled
years ago) - They are SSI (single system image), not clusters. If Solaris was so much better in multicore handling, I'll bet you would be able to point to similar Solaris systems, now can you? -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: The STREAMS non-inclusion in Linux

2011-04-20 Thread Oron Peled
dead body but I cannot find a reference to that now. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. -- A. Einstein

Re: some help in technical solution

2011-04-06 Thread Oron Peled
(there were some bugs circa 2.6.8 which we never observed since 2.6.12) my 2c. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Windows is NOT a virus: a virus is small and efficient

Re: How to say reference implementation?

2011-03-14 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 14 בMarch 2011 10:56:59 Robert Wallner wrote: I'm not a linguist either, but what about מימוש סמך לא רע, מה לגבי מימוש יחוס. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron If it's not source

Re: IE6 Countdown

2011-03-06 Thread Oron Peled
IE8 (MS said they're not going to have IE9 for XP) People, please avoid pointing to this outright propaganda. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron If your Windows box is dead, it is doing what

Re: mail issues questions

2011-02-28 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 28 בFebruary 2011 02:34:32 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Any tips what can be done about these 2? (hotmail and yahoo) Ignore them. They are dead beef... -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron

Re: [Haifux] MCTIP computer technician course

2011-02-20 Thread Oron Peled
and expensive training at this stage is investing a lot of resource with verry little benefit (unless you somehow practise this knowledge during army service) -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron write

Re: Linux Bridging of Tagged-VLAN (802.1q) Ethernet Traffic

2011-01-24 Thread Oron Peled
interface to a specific vlan. I didn't test any of this personally... Enjoy, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk

Multiple software copies (was Re: Die GNU autotools)

2011-01-16 Thread Oron Peled
://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries] Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron #define NULL 0 /* silly thing is, we don't even use

Re: Die GNU autotools

2011-01-12 Thread Oron Peled
want a minimum version: AM_PATH_SDL([1.2]) And than in your Makefile.in (or Makefile.am if you want automake) simply add $(SDL_CFLAGS) to compile commands and $(SDL_LIBS) to link commands. Night' -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: Problems in getting new drivers into Linux distributions

2011-01-04 Thread Oron Peled
that backports or EPEL would push big architectural changes (as opposed to one driver update) into a stable distro is very low, and for a good reason. Also, this is why most people using Linux desktops, choose some fast-pacing distribution. Don't worry, be happy ;-) -- Oron

Fwd: Participating to google code in

2010-10-24 Thread Oron Peled
תתפרסם רשימה מלאה של הפרוייקטים והנושאים הזמינים.‏ חשוב להדגיש כי יש מגוון אפשרויות רחב להשתתפות ולא רק כתיבת קוד.‏ -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron First we take Manhattan , then we take Berlin

Re: firewall with real IP's

2010-10-17 Thread Oron Peled
-config-firewall -- it has GUI and is piece of cake for common use cases (internal/extranl, no dmz, etc.) It also generates an iptables script that is run when interface goes up. Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: tidy IP/IF table report tool

2010-10-16 Thread Oron Peled
to modify. Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan

Re: [OT] Buying a new computer

2010-10-11 Thread Oron Peled
the design from 3'rd party -- these drivers are proprietary, horrible, buggy etc. All other Intel graphic chipsets (X3xxx, X4xxx) are best choice for Linux desktop use -- FOSS drivers, updated regularly upstream, etc. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Oron Peled
was empty (e.g: during installation) without requiring a striped logical volume (it's not the default). Good luck, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron ... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman

Wanted: FOSS IT service provider in the north

2010-10-03 Thread Oron Peled
gives an alternative client for calendaring etc. * Some proven field experience (clients). The idea is to save our time not make us clean up after the mess some rookie left behind. Please mail me and I'll forward relevant responses, TIA, -- Oron Peled Voice

Re: com port list

2010-08-31 Thread Oron Peled
there for a while (at least with respect to legacy hardware like serial ports). -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe

Re: Monthly waste of time :-) Has anyone been able to buy a Digital TV USB stick in Israel and get it to work under Linux?

2010-08-26 Thread Oron Peled
easily as you just did for Free Software projects... Let's be more carefull next time. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron There are only 10 types of people in the world- Those who understand binary

Re: Monthly waste of time :-) Has anyone been able to buy a Digital TV USB stick in Israel and get it to work under Linux?

2010-08-26 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 26 בAugust 2010 13:52:23 geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Aug 26, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Oron Peled wrote: Now try to convince a judge that publishing in some manufacturer's web-site is equivalent to this. That's an interesting point. What exactly would you sue

Re: linux beivrit

2010-07-11 Thread Oron Peled
to be compatible to) is a *losing game*. Thanks, but no thanks, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron It's almost like we're doing Windows users a favor by charging them money for something they could get

Re: Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-15 Thread Oron Peled
repo Now *if* the (authorized) user already installed the software (i.e: trusted the distro repository), why should each user on the same system be asked if the program is trusted? What security layer is really added here? (hint: none) On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Oron Peled o

Re: Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-14 Thread Oron Peled
Allowing a desktop user to execute priviledged operations was tried over the years with different (wrong) approaches. First, let's summarize the old technical solutions and than explain their faults. Finally, we'll see what better approaches are being developed or deployed nowdays. All legacy

Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

2010-06-12 Thread Oron Peled
On Saturday, 12 בJune 2010 19:59:56 Shlomi Fish wrote: On Friday 11 Jun 2010 01:24:40 Oron Peled wrote: Well, that's the ideal. In practice, deployed FOSS code (which can always be modified in-house, according to the free software definition), sometimes tends to divert from the mainline code

Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

2010-06-10 Thread Oron Peled
) the crucial difference between his story and FOSS. In FOSS the modifications (or rather the good modifications) are propagated upstream. This result in sharing of the maintenance costs among all the conributing parties. That's all for tonight folks... -- Oron Peled

Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

2010-06-10 Thread Oron Peled
On Friday, 11 בJune 2010 01:34:24 Geoff Shang wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Oron Peled wrote: - Or, you've read the file, but it's ARJ compressed and nobody can read them any longer. http://arj.sourceforge.net It's even easier: yum install arj However, here's a true story

Re: problems with syslogd

2010-06-09 Thread Oron Peled
,daemon.none;\ mail,news.none-/var/log/messages Maybe the filename is separated from the selector by spaces instead of tabs? It is important (at least in legacy syslogd), because spaces are allow withing the selector expression. -- Oron Peled Voice

Re: ntpdate and Israel local time

2010-05-27 Thread Oron Peled
reason: /usr may be on a separate partition, in which case /etc/localtime is a dangling link during early boot phases until /usr is mounted. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Copyright protects Software

Re: Client recovery of NFS mount

2010-05-23 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 23 בMay 2010 21:57:22 Tom Rosenfeld wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: ... Move to NFS4 (both server and clients of course). I have done it some 2 years ago and it pays big time in reliability (also performance, but that's less

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-14 Thread Oron Peled
that have developers that need constant hand-holding even for the simplest tasks. If this is the case, I would be giving them Centos/Debian-stable because I know me/someone would have to constantly support them. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: Client recovery of NFS mount

2010-05-12 Thread Oron Peled
valid and good advice Ehud just gave, let me add another one. Move to NFS4 (both server and clients of course). I have done it some 2 years ago and it pays big time in reliability (also performance, but that's less noticable in my (low-volume) case). -- Oron Peled

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-23 Thread Oron Peled
ethernet port). Since I am not sure I would be able to attend, someone may coordinate with me privately to pick it up beforehand (e.g: Sat or Sun -- I live ~150m from the Technion main gate). -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http

Debian package - config files handling

2010-04-23 Thread Oron Peled
in the bucket during this week until I get more sleep and find something better... Solution? Ideas? Pointers? -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron ...there are two types of command interfaces

Re: mendele.co.il and linux

2010-04-14 Thread Oron Peled
://mendele.co.il/?page_id=99 Cheers for them. Even more important, it is a free software (GPL) which means that not only we are not locked out of this market, we are also not locked-in to specific vendors. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread Oron Peled
as exposing the others on the wall of shame. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron You know, someone once told me that New York has more lawyers than people. -- Warren

Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread Oron Peled
of the CLR environment is its cross platform support due to Mono. Believing and quoting Microsoft propaganda, is naive at best. Some testing and reading would show you the bitter truth. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http

Re: OOo presenter in Hebrew

2009-12-26 Thread Oron Peled
: MS-office 2010 trial version is 791MB -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron __ / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f

Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

2009-12-25 Thread Oron Peled
own Windows, IE, MS-Office and Access -- problem solved. Why seek for imitations if you have the original? Uri, it looks like microsoft-il or no-money-windows mailing lists would provide better answers to your needs. Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o

Re: Free software projects in Java or C++

2009-12-25 Thread Oron Peled
), it looks like python would provide easier learning curve for you. Good luck, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead

Re: combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-23 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 23 בDecember 2009 17:26:09 Michael Vasiliev wrote: Not all HP MFT's are born equal. Mine is not partially supported in linux (no scanning support by sane and no duplexing support by hplip) Care to elaborate? (exact model, so others can avoid it). -- Oron Peled

Heads up: Israel software patents

2009-12-12 Thread Oron Peled
-- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-11 Thread Oron Peled
pushed to rpmfusion.org (for Fedora) So anyone looking for graphics hardware -- buy Intel or ATI, but not the GMA500 Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Q: What does FAQ stand for? A: We

Re: Zaptel on Debian Lenny

2009-11-01 Thread Oron Peled
mistakes in the process than the Debian maintainers. You should try to build your own, only AFTER you have gained experience with a WORKING asterisk/DAHDI for some time. Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il

Re: how to disable PolicyKit?

2009-10-31 Thread Oron Peled
On Saturday, 31 בOctober 2009 16:40:47 Diego Iastrubni wrote: On Friday 30 October 2009 01:40:07 Oron Peled wrote: I rather hate NetworkManager, too ;-). However, from the system point of view, I'd naively expect hal, udev, dbus, network, etc. to work without a policy kit developed

Re: how to disable PolicyKit?

2009-10-29 Thread Oron Peled
. Too late, it already escaped the cage some years ago ;-) -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron First we take Manhattan , then we take Berlin...(Leonard Cohen). Linux and Open Source - The Revolution

Re: how to disable PolicyKit?

2009-10-29 Thread Oron Peled
from the manpage of PolicyKit.conf (OK, you changed the user name ;-) I did this yesterday, but I have not had enough time to check that the annoying popups have disappeared. If not: - Either a bug in PolicyKit -- please report - Or a pop up from something else. -- Oron Peled

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-23 Thread Oron Peled
it, but I don't see this option here. Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron A billion flies _can_ be wrong - I'd rather eat lamb chops than shit. -- Linus Torvalds on lkml

Re: Desktop effects stopped working on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-10-13 Thread Oron Peled
the Display altogether and let Ubuntu re-figure it out itself, but a sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg might be helpful. And from now on, when you connect an external monitor, just be sure to place the screen above/below the laptop screen rather than to the left/right of it. -- Oron

Re: Adding Wireless to Cable Connection

2009-10-08 Thread Oron Peled
embedded vendors complying with free software licenses... [looks like gpl-violations.org is doing a nice job, both Edimax and D-Link needed some help to remember their legal obligations. It looks like both are more careful now.] Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4

Re: New Essay - FOSS Licences Wars

2009-10-03 Thread Oron Peled
trolling -- maybe that's why you keep cross posting (trying to maximize impact). -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron I just found out that the brain is like a computer. If that's true

Re: attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?

2009-09-30 Thread Oron Peled
for several years, maintained by the company itself, including free software user space tools and with simple and accessible protocol definition -- I wish all hardware vendors were as open. Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: OT Electronics recycling

2009-09-30 Thread Oron Peled
. There's a snunit collection spot in the Technion: http://green-asat.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post.html It's in a bit obscure location but I managed to find it and used it a couple of times. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: sendmail smart host auth

2009-09-22 Thread Oron Peled
. Sendmail is bad for some people. Switch the people ;-) -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried

Re: [Haifux] Open Source Games or the Lack of Them

2009-09-19 Thread Oron Peled
are the ultimate obstacle. No chance to tackle it. We are doomed :-O Shana Tova and may the source be with you. P.S: Shlomi, you've started debating by cross-posting to 3-4 large mailing lists. Cut it out! If you cannot choose the right mailing list for a post, just skip it until you do. -- Oron

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-16 Thread Oron Peled
-manager which is layered over libvirt and provide a GUI for the same management features and also secure console support (VNC encrypted over SSL or SSH) (http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com) Don't fall in the freebies trap -- חופשי זה יותר מחינם -- Oron Peled

Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-09-05 Thread Oron Peled
On Friday, 4 בSeptember 2009 20:43:22 Diego Iastrubni wrote: On יום ראשון 30 אוגוסט 2009 11:36:03 Oron Peled wrote: I also make sure that the people who sell stuff will know *why* I chose their hardware While I do tend to agree with what you say... who are those people? Is it the poor

Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-08-30 Thread Oron Peled
with Ubuntu your install/upgrade options are very restricted. This is an example of really bad move from Intel who otherwise has excellent free software support for its hardware. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http

Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-08-30 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 30 בAugust 2009 10:15:51 Boaz Rymland wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:06:43 +0300, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: Just a general warning (don't know if it applies to this specific model). Many devices on the market with Linux pre-installed have some binary components that make

Re: PAE question

2009-08-02 Thread Oron Peled
reasoning/info: http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-11-kernel-pae-and-what-it- means.html https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ArchitectureSupport -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron

Re: 0AD - A real-time strategy game, now in open source.

2009-07-28 Thread Oron Peled
/usr/include and not in a js/ subdirectory. I didn't have time to investigate who is right/more-up-to-date etc. As a workaround I simply created a symlink as root: ln -s . /usr/include/js Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: inet_ntoa and segmentation fault

2009-07-15 Thread Oron Peled
the build because of missing prototypes. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Linux lasts longer! -- Kim J. Brand k...@kimbrand.com

Re: voip problems

2009-06-27 Thread Oron Peled
. The first suspect in this case is the ADSL splitter . -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the USA and other countries

Re: Fwd: XenServer is enterprise-ready and free.

2009-06-26 Thread Oron Peled
On 26.06.2009 Amos Shapira wrote: I just received a promotion for Free XenServer through חופשי זה יותר מחינם And to the Hebrew-challenged -- Libre is more than gratis. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http

Re: Setting NFS server on Fedora Core 9

2009-06-25 Thread Oron Peled
upgraded all my hosts to F11) Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron The speed of light really is too slow nowdays. -- Alan Cox ___ Linux-il mailing list

OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-09 Thread Oron Peled
(navigating through Bezeqint support structure) revealed the unbelievable THE FREAKING BASTARDS PULLED THE PLUG ON THE DOMAINS WITHOUT EVEN TELLING ANYBODY. I'm now in damage control mode (formal faxes to customer support, etc.) Anybody else? -- Oron Peled Voice

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-09 Thread Oron Peled
On 09.06.2009 Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oron Peled wrote: ... Few days ago I accidentally discovered that my hosted homepage wasn't accessible -- further tests + ~1 hour on the phone (navigating through Bezeqint support structure) revealed the unbelievable THE FREAKING BASTARDS

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