Re: I have McGeyver question

2005-03-02 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 08:57, Alon Altman wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Kfir Lavi wrote: I have laptop with no cdrom or floppy, and it cann't boot from lan. Now i want to install windows 98 on one partition. So i coppied all the install directory from the cd to the partition. Now i have

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Kfir Lavi
Gabor, please look at this link. Its a page on wireless drivers. http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ kfir pgp6GibWrKr5b.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] The obligations of the employer-employee relationship

2005-03-02 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Shahar, Spoken like a true lawyer (if that's a compliment or not I don't know). You are correct about the tests. The intent of my posting was to say that despite the agreement between the parties, the labor courts look at things their own way. In any event, we started this discussion by

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Aviram Jenik
I've used several 802.11g cards under Linux and never had any problems. The worse-case scenario is using ndiswrapper (which some people may object using for ideological reasons, but it works fine for me and I didn't see lightbolts sent from the sky to fry me). What I don't understand is what

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Gabor Szabo wrote: As you might guess from a previous message I sent to the list I am now in the getting 802.11g wireless card into a Linux Notebook business. Then I did some research and from the various sites I found I understand that basically only cards with Prism54 chip

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:18:19 +0200, Aviram Jenik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I don't understand is what do you mean by it is hard to get a stable driver?! AFAIK getting a driver is an action with a binary result - you either get one or you don't... After reading several posts on various

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Gadi Cohen
Hi Gabor, Ok it's been a while since I've researched all this so I'm going to mention some stuff from memory, I hope it's all accurate :) Yes, traditionally the Prism chipset enjoyed the best support on Linux because as far as I recall the manufacturers made critical information available to the

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:33, Gabor Szabo wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:18:19 +0200, Aviram Jenik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I don't understand is what do you mean by it is hard to get a stable driver?! AFAIK getting a driver is an action with a binary result - you either get one or

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:21:03 +0200, Aviram Jenik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that case, here is my little contribution to the list of success stories: I did a quick check, and my PCMCIA 802.11g cards are prism chipset based (the installation was indeed 'plug-n-play') while the USB wifi cards use

Re: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Kovriga, Gregory wrote: Should we start bombing their customer support with this issue simultaneously? No, that will likely not help. What we CAN do, however, is hurt them where they'll feel it. Let's decide on a date, say - April 1st. During that day, all Discount bank Linux users are to

RE: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Kovriga, Gregory
Would it be legal? -Original Message- From: Shachar Shemesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 11:28 AM To: Kovriga, Gregory Cc: Rony Shapiro; Shlomi Fish; Linux-IL Subject: Re: 28/02/2005 Kovriga, Gregory wrote: Should we start bombing their customer

intermittent ADSL problems, router or bezeqint?

2005-03-02 Thread Gadi Cohen
Hi all, I have a problem where sometimes I'll try to open a web page and it just sticks trying to load the page. I can wait for ages and nothing will happen. But if I re-load the page it might come up instantly (except for sometimes when I get caught in a 'gap' of not being able to get

[OT] junior linux enthusiast job offer

2005-03-02 Thread Lior Kesos
Hello List - Aduva is an 5 year old Israeli Linux company providing Server Provisioning and management solutions to diverse Linux environments. We're currently seeking someone that _loves_ Linux - has a fetish for penguins and is looking for a young, dynamic, fun work environment while taking

Re: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Kovriga, Gregory wrote: Would it be legal? Is skipping school legal? (no, unless you're over 8th grade). I don't know. I can ask a lawyer. This is called consumer revolt, and is an acceptable form of fight, in principle. Also, we are only exercising the services given to us by the bank, and

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:29, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: Edimax 7108 - uses ralink rt2500, has free driver (but it's not part of the distributions yet). About a month ago I discovered (announced Dec-2004): http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page AFAIK this is the only 11g

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:38:52PM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: AFAIK this is the only 11g chipset with full spec and fully GPL'ed driver. This is important as binary only drivers (e.g: nVidia) create tough dilemmas (e.g: apply a kernel security patch and stay with non-working driver or

Fwd: RE: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: RE: 28/02/2005 Date: Wednesday 02 March 2005 08:56 From: Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kovriga, Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Rony Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linux-IL linux-il@linux.org.il On Wed, 2 Mar

Re: Fwd: RE: ???????????? ???????? ?????????????? ???????????? 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:18:21AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: As I see it, the only way they'd understand it is if enough people move their accounts elsewhere. I have already moved my account to another bank. If enough people do so (citing the same reason) they might have enough incentive to

Re: intermittent ADSL problems, router or bezeqint?

2005-03-02 Thread shimi
--=-pQkzOkHSV9xTpmdI8Vcf Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am experiencing that exact problem lately, and I am a bezeqint user too. My explanation: bezeqint's darn transparent proxies suck. I think there's a load balancing between them, and one of the proxies is just

Re: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote about Re: 28/02/2005: What we CAN do, however, is hurt them where they'll feel it. Let's decide on a date, say - April 1st. During that day, all Discount bank Linux users are to call in, once every half an hour or so, and ask what their

Re: bad sectors on a logical storage device?

2005-03-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:49:53PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Howdie people, [snip] so as you can see, I can understand and forgive FS errors (afterall the snapshot is taken while the main LUN is mounted) but I can't explain the I/O errors. My guesses are: * these are FS errors

web browser statistics

2005-03-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
With all the discussion about banks and web browsers, does anyone know a reliable web browser statistics for Israel ? I know this one but it is inernational: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp According to this site less than 70% using IE compared to 88% in March 2003 and 84%

RE: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Kovriga, Gregory
Is such a case there are probably better ways to act. Such as sending the letters to: 1. moatsa le tsarhanut 2. there is also government supervision over banks, there should be an address for mails there too... Thanks, Gregory. -Original Message- From: Nadav Har'El [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: several messages

2005-03-02 Thread Alon Altman
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:18:21AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: As I see it, the only way they'd understand it is if enough people move their accounts elsewhere. I have already moved my account to another bank. If enough people do so (citing

Re: web browser statistics

2005-03-02 Thread shimi
--=-75HYs+80k3Et1niZkjn3 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I don't think you can count Web Browsers in general, because it depends on the orientation of the sites. I can tell you that on my site, around 90% use IE, and the rest are using Mozilla/Firefox. I have around 2

Re: bad sectors on a logical storage device?

2005-03-02 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Wed, 02 Mar: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:49:53PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Howdie people, [snip] so as you can see, I can understand and forgive FS errors (afterall the snapshot is taken while the main LUN is mounted) but I can't explain

Re: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Uri Bruck
Kovriga, Gregory wrote: Is such a case there are probably better ways to act. Such as sending the letters to: 1. moatsa le tsarhanut 2. there is also government supervision over banks, there should be an address for mails there too... It's done through ha-mefakeakh al ha-bankim the contact info

Discount bank

2005-03-02 Thread ronira
Greetings all! 1. Don't ever be that patetic to belive a small group will dothat change on Discount Bank (it's not the USA and the press will not help you). the damn webmaster service they recive probably does not know wnything else than Windows so u'll fight a ghost. 2. I've closed my

Re: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Barry.R
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:34, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Kovriga, Gregory wrote: Would it be legal? Is skipping school legal? (no, unless you're over 8th grade). skip So, while I'll certainly ask a lawyer, I don't think it's going to be a problem. Shachar Maybe it would be

RE: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Omer Zak
I suggest that someone also try to access Bank Discount's Web site using a text browser (such as lynx), and if there are problems there too - make a complaint to the appropriate bodies concerned with Web site accessibility to people with disabilities. The issue at stake is not only accessibility

USB Keydisk Configuration

2005-03-02 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hello folks! I just got a 256MB USB keydisk. After poking arount fstab(5) aand mount(8), with attention to the tmpfs and usbfs entries, I got exactly nowhere. After a bit more nosing around the manuals and the 'net, I added the following line to fstab, (One line) /dev/sda /media/usb vfat

RE: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Rony Shapiro
Hi, Interesting discussion. Here's my take on the points raised: - The intersection of Mozilla/Firefox/FOSS advocates and Bank Discount customers is probably too small to make a real difference in the bank's bottom line. - The subject is, IMHO, too esoteric for the mass media (e.g., Bulldozer)

Re: USB Keydisk Configuration

2005-03-02 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Maxim Kovgan wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Daniel Feiglin wrote: Hello folks! I just got a 256MB USB keydisk. After poking arount fstab(5) aand mount(8), with attention to the tmpfs and usbfs entries, I got exactly nowhere. After a bit more nosing around the manualsand the 'net, I added the

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 12:57, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: I think you are mistaken - intel ipw2200, TI acx111 and Prism54 are also supported by fully GPL'ed drivers. They all have binary firmware that needs to be loaded to the card, but this is not different from having the firmware on a ROM on

Re: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Moish
I wonder what were the terms and conditions assumed by the Bank of Israel regarding access, availability, security etc. Since this issue is about freedom - choose the tools YOU want to use - may I suggest a formal inquiry by Hamakor to: Supervisor of Banks, Mr. Yoav Lehman, member of Management

ImageMagic TIFF images manipulation.

2005-03-02 Thread David Harel
Hi all, You are my last resort but knowing this group I have high expectations. trying to manipulate tiff images from my code I was advised to use ImageMagic libraries but even the display command gave me an error message: display: no decode delegate for this image format `spl492.tif'. I posted

Re: ImageMagic TIFF images manipulation.

2005-03-02 Thread Diego Iastrubni
David Harel wrote: Hi all, You are my last resort but knowing this group I have high expectations. trying to manipulate tiff images from my code I was advised to use ImageMagic libraries but even the display command gave me an error message: display: no decode delegate for this image format

Re: bad sectors on a logical storage device?

2005-03-02 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Ira Abramov wrote: it's a SAN, the snapshots are mounted RO since they are only there to be used as netapp-style snapshots, they should show an image of how the system was when the snapshot was taken, and not enable writing of new changes, but obviously show and allow to

Re: I have McGeyver question

2005-03-02 Thread Alon Altman
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Kfir Lavi wrote: I have laptop with no cdrom or floppy, and it cann't boot from lan. Now i want to install windows 98 on one partition. So i coppied all the install directory from the cd to the partition. Now i have to fill the 512bytes of the partition start with a lilo or

RE: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Alon Altman
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Kovriga, Gregory wrote: Should we start bombing their customer support with this issue simultaneously? I've had similar non-constructive reply more than a year ago. Nothing changed since then... Considering the amount of money we all together have in this bank I would say

RE: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Kovriga, Gregory
I considered this question, but eventually didn't leave the bank, mostly because of the pain it would cause me and because I do have my wife's computer with Windows to access the site... I also hope that this war can be won. Thanks, Gregory. -Original Message- From: Alon Altman

Re: ImageMagic TIFF images manipulation.

2005-03-02 Thread Baruch Even
David Harel wrote: trying to manipulate tiff images from my code I was advised to use ImageMagic libraries but even the display command gave me an error message: display: no decode delegate for this image format `spl492.tif'. Can you tell me where I should look for information regarding how to: