Re: UDP packets loss at Israeli ISPs during peak hours

2011-07-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jul 3, 2011, at 6:11 AM, Arie Skliarouk wrote: Hi, The company I work at uses openvpn extensively. We settled on UDP- based protocol as it is more effective than TCP based. Inter-Israeli VPN connection works perfectly all of the time, whereas international VPN has erratic behavior on

Re: UDP packets loss at Israeli ISPs during peak hours

2011-07-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jul 3, 2011, at 8:02 AM, shimi wrote: There's a very good reason of using UDP and not TCP for tunneling. http://sites.inka.de/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html That's 10 years old. Even then it was questionable, UDP packets were dropped by ISPs all over the world when congested. That's why I

Re: UDP packets loss at Israeli ISPs during peak hours

2011-07-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jul 3, 2011, at 8:28 AM, Arie Skliarouk wrote: I think that would not work as I observe frequent name server errors at exactly same periods (I am using Google's free DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). Hmm, need to switch to the local DNS servers... UDP is UDP. Google needs to have

Re: Hebrew fonts on digital readers

2011-06-25 Thread geoffrey mendelson
Didn't we this discussion a couple of months ago? From what I can see nothing has changed. I think in the end the person asking bought an eVrit, which is really a PanDigital Memo with Hebrew support and Steimatzky DRM built in. Are they still 900 NIS? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson,

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-15 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 15, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Ira Abramov wrote: you know, there IS a logical falacy of guilt by association. There may be, but there is a clear case here, RMS as president of the FSF has, ex officio (from his office, meaning as the president, not his desk) said that he was boycotting.

Re: USB I/O draining my userspace (Ubuntu Natty 64b)

2011-06-15 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 15, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Ira Abramov wrote: Second, here's my problem: I have here a workstation running an Athlon 3700+, and part of my job is to occasionally write out an image file to USB universal card reader, testing the product of my builds. The writing takes forever (since I

Re: [job] C++ development in a Linux environment

2011-06-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 13, 2011, at 7:09 PM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: [1] I wonder if there's a company who's advertising jobs mediocre developers needed. 1. When you get to 1,000 programmers, you need to have average ones, stars just get resented and cause trouble by their presence. 2. Companies with

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Marc Volovic wrote: People, RMS (as well as any other person) is entitled to support, adhere, acquiesce or abhor, deny, etc any and all BDS activities. The man is entitled to his opinion and choice. It is his right as a man and as a public figure. Marc, it

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote: I don't agree with you, Geoff. What Richard Stallman does as a private person does not mean the FSF in involved. As a private person Richard Stallman has the right to boycott Israeli institutions and universities. It does not mean that

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Mordecha Behar wrote: That means that at some point there will be FOSS alternatives that will be able to connect to the Skype network. There is and has been for some time. It just costs you money. Skype offically supports SIP. You have to pay for each SIP

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: My guess is that the anti-boycott law has nothing to do with FSF or any other voluntary organization (like what is called amutah in Hebrew), which is what I understand FSF to be. They are a 501 c 3 corporation, which limits prevents them

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 10, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Uri Even-Chen wrote: When I used Skype for phone calls, I paid Skype for Skype out credit, but Skype zeroed my credit after a few months of not using their service - which I consider stealing money from me. It's six months, which is a fairly long time. That

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Steve G. wrote: To make phone calls, other than skype there is ekiga and probably some other things, as well as gmail, but these are not free. Free as in beer, you can get a free SIP number at sip2sip.info. Once you have that, you can get a free incoming

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 7, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote: I agree with Richard Stallman's views about the Israeli occupation. The point is Uri, I could say all sorts of things about your level of understanding, IQ, several Freudian and Jungian (bullshit) comments, either positive or negative and

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: That is a very brief list of some of the things that go over Mr Stallman's head. I think they amount to gross hypocrisy. Giving him a pass for his hypocrisy is also hypocritical. Stan (and others), This is Israel, and he is allowed to be a

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: How do all these things of what the Palestinians are doing wrong, invalidate Stallman's criticism against Israel? Shouldn't Israel behave properly regardless of whatever the other side is doing? Yes, Israel should. The question of what is

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 6, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: RMS has bought on, and is spreading, anti-Israeli propaganda. RMS is also the head of the FSF. Aside from these two, in themselves unrelated, facts what makes you say that the FSF itself should be boycotted? I disagree. RMS has

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Omer Zak wrote: Given the circumstances, I think that the most honorable thing that can be done is to have the organizers of the non-university talk - cancel it and explain to him the evilness of academic boycotts of universities which do not themselves practice

Re: sponsorship?

2011-05-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 29, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Demanding that he will not talk to the Palestinians? umm, with the political situation today, I hardly belive he will agree to that. I think that the whole situation is a bad one, and we should just drop it, let him come, let him go, let

Re: sponsorship?

2011-05-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 29, 2011, at 1:54 PM, amichay p. k. wrote: Why do you think everyone shouldn't be able follow? Actually, I think it's the other way around. I am not on the hamakor list, nor do I plan to join, and I expect that since most of the people on this list are more interested in FOSS and

Re: sponsorship?

2011-05-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 29, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: You're contradicting yourself: You're saying hamakor-discussions isn't interesting because it's discussions about FOSS rather than FOSS, but now that we have a discussion, which is even less FOSS-specific than usual, you don't think it

Fwd: sponsorship?

2011-05-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 29, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: But seriously, many of us (including me) already posted their opinion on this matter in hamakor-discussions, and I for one don't want to repeat myself on a second list. I think we should move this to a SKYPE conference call. I'll even

Re: sponsorship?

2011-05-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 29, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: What twisted reasoning! Not really, if you go back to his writings, he's been anti-Israel and pro-Palestinain since the days of Ariel Sharon. If you google him, you find that he espouses those views even now. Unfortunately he has gone

Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 29, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Ira Abramov wrote: I see no one else mentioned it on the list, so here it is, fresh from the kernel liׁ•t - Linus is considering a switch from 2.6.X to 3.X soon. No technical reason I can see, only that the kernel is going to be entering its third decade of life

Re: sponsorship?

2011-05-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 29, 2011, at 7:45 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: I am sure you will now reply with a lits of links to his posts, otherwise people might think you are just making empty accusations. Nope. You can't use google, it's not my problem. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM Making your

Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 29, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: I know you said this as a joke, but to rain on your parade, BSD is not GNU- free. As far as I know *BSD distributions typically use quite a number of GNU packages, such as gcc, groff, bc, and probably a bunch of others. They also include,

Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 29, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: That's old news. That switch was over 5 years ago. Since then Linux (the kernel) has avoided that long development cycles. It may have been, but it took a long time to finally die. I will say I was dumbstruck when I finally upgraded my

Re: Cell phone to send SMSs?

2011-05-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 17, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Meir Kriheli wrote: We've used for a project that sends/receives SMS simple Sony Ericsson phones. You could go over the supported db for gammu/wammu and find the ones you like: Thanks, that's what I was looking for. http://wammu.eu/phones/ Of course sms

Re: MS buys Skype - will it support Linux

2011-05-16 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 16, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: Even before that - I've tried some of these SIP-based voice programs on and off for a few years now and they *never* just work (let alone work) where as Skype is just a plug a play and voice clear as a whistle from the first time I used it

Re: MS buys Skype - will it support Linux

2011-05-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 11, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: I am not aware of *any* Microsoft product that is officially supported on Linux. So I don't think there's any chance that a Linux version of Skype will continue to exist. I don't agree. For two reasons. My experience with the Mac Version

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-08 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 8, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: I am considering, for my next laptop, and taking into account the fact that most laptops do not have space for two disks but do have some kind of flash memory slot (card reader) - usually SD-something, to have the OS on a (e.g.) SD

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-08 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On The rated MTBF of my specific drive is 2 million hours. If I still know my math, that's some 228 years Which is meaningless. The life expectency of a drive is closer to the length of the warranty period. Warranties are decided based upon projected return rates. The manufacturers

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-08 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 8, 2011, at 7:19 PM, guy keren wrote: when you say system Z - do you refer to what IBM formerly called MVS? IBM's had a lot of time to perfect it, their first multiprocessor machine was delivered in 1969. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM Occam's Razor does not apply

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 8, 2011, at 7:54 AM, is...@zahav.net.il wrote: I don't agree with this setup. Regular consumer drives setup with RAID to stripe are going to be much, much faster and have less problems in the long run than single SSDs at this point as well as being a better value until prices

Hardware questions

2011-05-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
1. I understand you can now buy a USB digital tv receiver stick that is supported by Linux. I'm looking for one that is supported in Ubuntu 11.04 and can be bought easily by specifing the exact store or item (I need to send a non technical person to do it) or ordered by phone or via eBay.

Re: Hardware questions

2011-05-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 5, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Ram-on Agmon wrote: http://blog.k1789.org/?p=1791 Thanks, it's just a shame IMHO that you got the 260 NIS one working instead of the 55 NIS one. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to misquote

Re: Automatic crop and rotate scans?

2011-05-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 3, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: Hi, I have a flatbed scanner (by HP) attached to my Linux machine, and I often need to scan rectangular items such as photographs, CD inserts, and the occasional piece of paper. unpaper? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM

Re: The STREAMS non-inclusion in Linux

2011-04-19 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Apr 20, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Omer Zak wrote: None of them has details about the reasons, which led Linux Kernel developers to reject STREAMS. STREAMS was only vaguely described as poorly-designed and resource-consuming. There were two competing implemtations of TCP/IP. UCB created sockets,

Re: DVB-T and MythTV

2011-04-15 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hello all, Can any of you direct me to a HOWTO / Guide for setting up my DVB-T adapter to work with MythTV? Is it really supported under Linux? Most of them use them DSP chip with different tuner chips. The symptom of the tuner not

OT: Einstein Writer under QEMU

2011-03-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
I'm trying to help someone run Einstein Writer under QEMU. I set up a virtual machine and installed FreeDos on it. I found a demo of Einstein which is supposed to be a running version of it. When I start it up, I get a few English words and a lot of junk on the screen. I assume I am

Re: OT: Einstein Writer under QEMU

2011-03-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Mar 29, 2011, at 8:45 AM, geoffrey mendelson wrote: I'm trying to help someone run Einstein Writer under QEMU. I set up a virtual machine and installed FreeDos on it. I found a demo of Einstein which is supposed to be a running version of it. When I start it up, I get a few English

Re: weird issue with ftp client on windows and Linux

2011-03-22 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:49 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: In his work, when he's trying to connect to an ftp server with Filezilla and other clients on Windows to download some work related data, everything seems to work: he's been asked for user/pass, then he gets the 220 status message with

Re: Netbook without windows

2011-03-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Mar 2, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: The fact you got installation discs, doesn't mean its legal/ permitted by MS to install them on any computer you want. It depends. From what I understand of the EULA (which you can easily find on their site if you want to read it) if

Re: Netbook without windows

2011-03-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
All very interesting. I suspect that a cometent lawyer could make a case that the combination of the limitations described in this thread (which seem to me reasonable in themselves) coupled with MS policies enforced to punish or discourage vendors that wish to sell computers sans

ot: job postings

2011-02-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson
These came to me from a friend in the US, the jobs are in Israel. I know nothing about them, so don't contact me for more info. http://www.ceva-dsp.com/about/career_vacancies.php Geoff -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to misquote it.

Re: Samba print server ** Urgent help needed **

2011-02-23 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 23, 2011, at 12:49 PM, Israel Shikler wrote: Hi List, Our goal is to use SAMBA on Redhat Linux as a print server. The server should allow users to browse the printers list, and to download printer drivers. Users should be authenticated against Active Directory Services . How do

OT: Re: Recommendation for an Israeli Computers/Computer Parts Store with a Web Interface in English or Arabic

2011-02-23 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 23, 2011, at 2:57 PM, shimi wrote: http://www.logicpc.co.il/ At those prices he could hire a translator for a day, buy from Ivory or KSP and still save money. KSP has a site in English, which I have never been able to compeletely understand, and Ivory's is simple ennough to

Re: Samba print server ** Urgent help needed ** 2nd try

2011-02-23 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 23, 2011, at 5:00 PM, Israel Shikler wrote: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba__Active_Directory Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to misquote it. ___ Linux-il mailing

Re: [SOLVED] eVrit - Weird FS Problem

2011-02-21 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 21, 2011, at 9:46 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote: So I found out the reason the internal FS was corrupt, and that was the reason it was mounting read only. Running fsck.vfat on it did not work, so I had to format it - that solved the problem: I copied all files to the memory card,

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-21 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 21, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: I am not a lawyer and haven't paid attention to every little detail in the GPL, so maybe I'm asking a stupid question: does the GPL really say that you must give the source, or offer the source from your own site? What I mean is, if

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-21 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 21, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Omer Zak wrote: It is my understanding that that someone must archive his own copy of the relevant source files and make them available to people who use the device. Is that necessary with an Android device? I'm not sure if the eVrit is one or not. Some

Re: MCTIP computer technician course

2011-02-20 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 20, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: There are video courses for MCITP which would cost you a lot less and you can learn at home at your free time. Those MCITP certificates aren't worth anything anyway - when someone wants to hire you, he would like to check your experience,

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi all, Terrible for photos / pictures. Too dark, no colors and slow. The books' covers and in-book diagrams and line art look great! User Experience: As I mentioned, I am very happy with the device. It is very light and under the

Re: Is it a legit CA or is it an MITM attack on a gateway level ?

2011-02-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Boris shtrasman wrote: Hi , Is it a legit CA or is it an MITM attack on a gateway level ? Tested - no arp poisoning. Getting incorrect CA from google imap servers (but correct for https) I belive that this some one on the infrastructure level. Gmail

Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

2011-02-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: On Thursday 17 February 2011 11:57:38 Amichai Rotman wrote: I downloaded a sample book from the Barns Noble site (what they call a 'NookBook) and transfered it to the device directly (an .epub file) From its name, I was sure that the

Re: Amazon Kindel

2011-02-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 3, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Mordecha Behar wrote: I think your best bet is BN Nook Color. The nook color is very attractive, but IMHO, it's not quite ready to be a general purpose tablet. Not because the hardware is lacking, but because its sold as an eBook reader by BN, and nothing

Re: IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote: I have websites and domain names, but currently I think they work with IPv4 and not IPv6. Will they change them to IPv6? Will I have to change DNS settings for my domain names? And when will this happen? Possibly never, but at least for a

Re: Amazon Kindel

2011-02-03 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hello all, Any of you got the Amazon Kindel? I have a nook. I got it because my wife is on several librarians lists, and everyone on them said they were buying the Kindle for the school because of some deal, but were buying nooks for

Re: Script to create an image from text?

2011-02-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Amichai Rotman wrote: I am looking for a script to be used at a web site that will accept certain details as input (say: Name, Phone, etc.) and then convert it to a jpeg image file that will include a template (say: A diploma graphic) and the text entered

Re: TV card

2011-01-23 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 23, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: I am considering installing a TV card in my desktop machine, to enable me to view programming of terrestrial digital TV stations. I would be grateful for any remarks from users of such cards about reliability, ease of installation, ease of

Re: TV card

2011-01-23 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 23, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: If the ability to record is secondary, I'd go with the simplest cards. I have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card, which is excellent for recording (I was actually too lazy to set up a full DVR - we record using a glorified cat /dev/video0

Re: instructions how to use BPhone on Linux

2011-01-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Few weeks ago I mentioned on this list Bezeq's new service, the BPhone (you can use your number on their VOIP solution), which is available for Windows, Nokia S60 V3, S60 V5 and iPhone. I published a post on my blog (in Hebrew) how to

OT: Re: JOBSEEK- Adopt a Programmer

2011-01-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Justin wrote: Do you have room in your software company to adopt a good programmer? We found this hacker wandering around without tags in large enterprise company. He had been abused for some time but is still able to produce code, and quite lovable. ..

Re: asterisk and bezeq

2011-01-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Erez D wrote: Did you get any answers ? Sorry, I never persued it. I'm hoping someone who actually speaks Hebrew will. :-) Geoff -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to misquote it.

Re: consistent device name

2011-01-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 5, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: They are identical? How can you tell the difference? (any automated way?) lsusb -v and look for iSerial. If they have the same internal serial number then you NEVER will be able to tell the apart, you will have to buy another one with a

Re: Bezeq's Dropbox imitation

2010-12-21 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Dec 21, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Daniel Feiglin wrote: Does anyone remember the Internet problems around 11/09/2001? (Incidentally I could level the same objection to international web based mail accounts like gmail, But that's another story.) I'd worry more about the internet outages when

Re: Electronic Junk in Haifa

2010-12-19 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Dec 19, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: Years ago, there was a junk shop in Haifa, near the wholesale vegetable market and not far from the old Turkish railway station. I know that it isn't there anymore; is there such a place anywhere in the vicinity where disused and unneeded

Re: HW compatibility research: are intel i5 graphics and realtek net/audio hassle-free?

2010-12-15 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Dec 15, 2010, at 5:29 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: An old desktop computer of mine is croaking - it still breathes, but with difficulty. A quick check concluded that there are problems with the MoBo, and some with the graphics card, too. Basically, it looks like I need a new MoBo, and

Re: cable to copy VCR to DVD

2010-12-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Dec 12, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I'm including a link. The product comes with a Windows only program (ULEAD VIDEO STUDIO). Does anyone know if or how it could be used in Linux? The connections are from the RCA output of the VCR (or any other source) to USB on the

Re: cable to copy VCR to DVD

2010-12-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Dec 12, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Interesting, but I'm not sure that's really true. Personally, I'm connected to YES and use an ancient analogue TV card connected to the RCA output on the MEMIR (works fine in Linux and Windows). So by the same logic, I'd expect old TVs

Video streamers with 5000 channels of TV

2010-12-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
This is not really a linux question, but it might be. Friday's Yediot had an ad from Macsani Chasmal for a video streamer (make and model not listed). The ad said that it used SAMBA, so I assume it is Linux based. The ad also said that it was able to show 5,000 channels of TV for free.

Re: OT: Suggestion for good KVM Over IP?

2010-11-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Nov 29, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, I was wondering if someone could recommend a good KVM switch which I can connect to servers and control them through the net. I have seen few KVM's which gave some crappy display results, others which have some issues that when you

Re: DHCP internet connection - HOT+BEZEQINT - Not getting IP

2010-11-23 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Nov 23, 2010, at 4:21 PM, sara fink wrote: Unfortunately, that's how HOT work. They always blame the costumer. Either virus or the magic sentence something is blocking your internet. They will never admit they have a problem on their side. I believe you have to open your mouth.

Re: 3G USB Modems

2010-11-21 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Nov 21, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Boris shtrasman wrote: But you need to be aware other this is involed - the sim card and network support. While the modem itself works bugs happen all the time. The speed presented on the modem isn't the speed you will get from the net - as there is only

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

2010-11-15 Thread geoffrey mendelson
Subject says it all, except that it's been longer than a month. Has anyone been able to buy a DVD-T (digital TV receiver) USB stick IN ISRAEL and get it to work under Linux? You can guess what I think of the likelyhood of it happening. :-( With less than three months left it may be a

Re: looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Nov 2, 2010, at 5:03 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Why don't you take Atom processors? more horse power (IIRC), and there are solutions (from Intel) which can give you a big box with few dozens boards and hard disks. Didn't we have this discussion a couple of weeks ago? Geoff. --

Re: looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Nov 2, 2010, at 8:17 PM, Baruch Siach wrote: Then you should go for the Coretx-A8/A9 based chips. You can have a Beagleboard (TI OMAP based) for about $150. I don't know who sells them in Israel though. For that price (500 NIS) you can get a dual core ATOM (2x aprox 1.6gHz cores),

Re: Small debian based server distribution

2010-10-27 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: Hmmm you actually did a BadThing(tm) -- totally bypassing the package management mechanisms: I think his idea was not to have the APT/RPM packages in this

Re: Small debian based server distribution

2010-10-27 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Steve G. wrote: And why or how is Ubuntu server different from any other linux server to make it that way? I use ubuntu on the desktop and am quite satisfied with it. I used to use RedHat/Fedora and Suse/OpenSuse, until I ran into some unresolvable cyclical

Re: Small debian based server distribution

2010-10-27 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 27, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: That's my general impression from Ubuntu - I switched to it for my desktops for convenience, and use CentOS for the servers at work. I never saw them actually back-porting important patches, for instance, not even to the alleged Long Term

Re: Amazon free to new customers!

2010-10-24 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 24, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: If you haven't already tried cloud computing, this is your chance to use free for a year! -tom Does this have to be a web server? Can one use it for an Asterisk or other SIP relay or a private HTTP or SOCKS proxy? Geoff -- Geoffrey

Re: Awful Bandwidth from Most Sites on Bezeqint - What can I do about it?

2010-10-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 13, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Can anyone help me shed any light on this problem? Traffic shaping? Did you try it at 6am or 1am? Geoff -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM To help restaurants, as part of the stimulus package, everyone must order dessert. As part of

Re: Awful Bandwidth from Most Sites on Bezeqint - What can I do about it?

2010-10-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 14, 2010, at 12:03 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2010 23:04:55 geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Oct 13, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Can anyone help me shed any light on this problem? Traffic shaping? Did you try it at 6am or 1am? No, I did not. I'm usually

Re: cheap linux box ?

2010-10-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 11, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Erez D wrote: I am actually looking for a cheap linux box, with usb2 and lan, which I can install a general purpose linux distribution on (e.g. debian and such. not openwrt which is good for routers, but not for other things like hosting a mail server etc

Re: [OT] Buying a new computer

2010-10-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 11, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: I did not have any experience with the Intel graphics cards and their drivers (which are always built-in-on-the-board). Their Linux drivers have been open- source from the start, and Intel also released specifications, but someone told me

Re: cheap linux box ?

2010-10-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 11, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Gilboa Davara wrote: Of the top of my head, two options: 1. A dual core ATOM combo box can be found at under 800nis. Add a case, PSU and you can stay under 1100nis. KSP has one for 800 NIS including 1gb RAM, 250gb HD. Ivory's cheapest is 945 NIS, but it has

Re: asterisk and bezeq

2010-10-03 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 3, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Amichai Rotman wrote: The service is called Bphone. It seems to be a VOB line that you can access by installing an app called Phone Dialer on your cellular phone. I couldn't find what's the software for the PC... You could call 199 and ask for an English

Re: asterisk and bezeq

2010-10-03 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 3, 2010, at 7:28 PM, Baruch Shpirer wrote: They have a voip service for home (076) in which they give you an MP202 adapter with 2 FXS ports And also a hardcoded softphone but both need port 5060 UDP redirected inside to used computer/mp202 lan interface Thanks. That is

asterisk and bezeq

2010-10-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
I've been seeing ads from BEZEQ about using your laptop to access your BEZEQ line. Since my Hebrew is not good enough to understand the ads, nor call and get marketing advice, I am asking here. If I understand the ads correctly you can get access (I assume SIP) to your regular BEZEQ DID.

Re: asterisk and bezeq

2010-10-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 2, 2010, at 9:21 PM, ik wrote: Bezeq started to offer SIP trunks (calling it ipri, at least in the PRI equivalent). I can only guess that they offer also similar but to FXO. I do not know if it will work with Asterisk, but I'll be glad to hear if it does. Thanks. This was an add

Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-28 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Sep 28, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: so in theory I could back up a terabyte of movies for the same price (of course, it would probably take a year to upload a terabyte ;-)). If my arithmetic and assumptions are correct, you can upload a megabyte in 8 seconds with an 800k

Re: asterisk client dummy question

2010-09-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Sep 13, 2010, at 12:54 PM, David Ronkin wrote: Hi all I'm using Ekiga as a client in my ubuntu. The problem is i can't find a way to dial an extension when the call answered by an automate on the other side (like click 9 etc...)? Any other client that does it? Try Zoiper. The dialpad

Re: Old debian (Lenny) unable to get speed higher then 300kbps.

2010-09-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Sep 12, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Boris shtrasman wrote: Hi, I got an old 10/100 switch with some new cables. When I transfer using cross cable the speed is normal (1.5 mbps and up). When I use the switch with two 5mr cables the speeds are around 150-300 kbps: rsync/ssh/scp 250-300. smb

Re: Problem at startup - lockup loading swap

2010-09-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
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 match the value reported by mkswap). The only information in /etc/fstab regarding UUID is commented

Re: Problem at startup - lockup loading swap

2010-09-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Sep 12, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: I think I killed it when I installed his machine a long time ago, I don't like uswsusp, but I'll check. How is it related to swapon complaining about UUID though? It's not. Uswsusp will complain about the swap file not having the

Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Sep 9, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I'm planning to add some big storage solution to my VPS business. I did some checking and calculated the costs, and figured out that if I want to have a decent 12TB solution NAS box, it would be best if I would roll my own. (12 TB before

Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???

2010-08-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 29, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: Like I said on a previous mail, the speed negotiation works. The guess that the switch has a bug and forgets my computer's MAC address makes sense, but how come it forgets the Linux computer's and remembers the Windows one? :( Now

Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???

2010-08-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 29, 2010, at 11:59 AM, shimi wrote: And last tip - of course it's a bit too late for you - but for the next time - I - personally - have learned my lesson - I will not buy Edimax again... :) I disagree with that. I have over the years had 3 different Edimax routers an access

Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???

2010-08-28 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 29, 2010, at 12:27 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: While I have quite a bit of networking experience, I have found myself stumped by a frustrating problem in my home network - which surprisingly appears Linux-specific - and I wonder if anyone ever saw such a thing. My guess is that it's

Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???

2010-08-28 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 29, 2010, at 1:06 AM, shimi wrote: It could be that there's an Ethernet negotiation problem, in such a way that your MAC doesn't get registered on the switch (?). Not necessarily a Linux problem. Maybe a NIC problem, or an Ethernet cable problem. Of course that with a Hub that

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