Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 09:25:51AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Slightly off-topic: I got annoyed by political spam that was sent to my work address (at least 4 messages, with a considerable size) Result: blacklisted mailing list messages from their provider (and notified them as well).

RE: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-08 Thread ronys
Indeed it's legal. When the anti-spam law was passed, a special exemption was put in to allow politicians to send spam. IIRC, this was Leiberman's initiative. Rony -Original Message- From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of Dotan

Re: kgdb usage errors on strictly following kgdb authorss guide

2009-02-08 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Lev Olshvang wrote: Hello all, I am looking for explanation of the kgdb errors and usage advice. I am running Linux 2.6.15.5 system with a kgdb patches from the kgfb.linsyssoft.com. I built a kernel with ethernet driver included (not module) and KGDB remote debug enable over Ethernet.

Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
It needs to be commercial to be illegal. Really? If I have a website that I don't make money off of, like gibberish.co.il then can I send spam? I'll do it too, not in order to promote the site but in order to get the law changed. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il

Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 07:11:59AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Shachar seems to suggest that this might be used for a small claims court case in which the spammer may be sued for up to 1000 NIS per email. Does this only cover email from Israel, or can it be SPAM

[Telux] Next Meeting: Zvi Devir about Windows Refund HOWTO on 15-Feb-2009

2009-02-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! The Tel Aviv Open Source Club will host a talk by Zvi Devir about Windows Refund HOWTO - how to get a refund for a copy of Microsoft Windows that ships as part of a new computer - on 15-February-2009. The meeting will take place at Tel Aviv University, at the Schreiber MathsCS

Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-08 Thread Herouth Maoz
Quoting Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com: It needs to be commercial to be illegal. Really? If I have a website that I don't make money off of, like gibberish.co.il then can I send spam? I'll do it too, not in order to promote the site but in order to get the law changed. ‎There is no

Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:25:53AM +0200, ronys wrote: Indeed it's legal. When the anti-spam law was passed, a special exemption was put in to allow politicians to send spam. Not only politicians. Here's a conspiracy theory for you: We all know that ISOC is an NPO, and as such in a good

Re: Hebew in Fedora 10.

2009-02-08 Thread Dvir Volk
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: On Saturday, 7 בFebruary 2009, Dvir Volk wrote: The Fedora KDE team is heavily testing and bug-fixing KDE-4.2 for the release. In about a week it should land in the official repositories (which means you would get it if you

Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
The way the current law defines spam is as a message that induces you to spend money. So spam calling for donations is also illegal. Promoting causes, such as asking for signatures for Gilad Shalit, or banning silicon from dairy products, is legal. So a spam campaign abnout getting the spam

USB gadget linux connection

2009-02-08 Thread Moshe Gorohovsky
Hi all, How to detect USB gadget linux connection to another host? Are there /sys or /proc files that I can see from them, if the system is connected to another host, via a USB cable? - Moshe ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Fw: Webcam driver Can someone make me .rpm auto install file?

2009-02-08 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
No answer to you I saw this file on a website. Strange how Webcam in Skype worked on Mandriva 2008.1 OK and  doesn't on 2009.0 I would change distros and leave Mandriva however I would need a Gnome desktop and be able to type in Hebrew. Can anyone suggest a distro that is easy to install

Re: USB gadget linux connection

2009-02-08 Thread Dvir Volk
try lsusb On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Moshe Gorohovsky mo...@tkos.co.il wrote: Hi all, How to detect USB gadget linux connection to another host? Are there /sys or /proc files that I can see from them, if the system is connected to another host, via a USB cable? - Moshe

Re: USB gadget linux connection

2009-02-08 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Moshe Gorohovsky wrote: Hi all, How to detect USB gadget linux connection to another host? Are there /sys or /proc files that I can see from them, if the system is connected to another host, via a USB cable? - Moshe You get a hotplug event when a new USB host is connected. See:

Re: Fw: Webcam driver Can someone make me .rpm auto install file?

2009-02-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 08 February 2009 14:21:48 Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote: No answer to you I saw this file on a website. I see. Searching for sn9c1xx, I see that this driver is now part of the kernel. You can load it by typing as root: {{{ modprobe sn9c102 }}} No need to prepare an outdated

Standards compliance in Doar Israel

2009-02-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have to send a document to Doar Israel. I plan on sending it in .odt format. Is there a law in Israel, such as there is in many European countries, that states that Israeli agencies must accept standards-compliant formats such as odf? Am I being a menuval by sending in this format? -- Dotan

Re: Identifying linux-il messages

2009-02-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 08 February 2009 17:21:53 Moshe Gorohovsky wrote: Hi All, How do I identify linux-il messages? Use the List-Id: header: {{{ List-Id: The linux Israeli users list linux-il.cs.huji.ac.il List-Post: mailto:linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il }}} Some mail user agents (such as KDE's KMail)

Re: Identifying linux-il messages

2009-02-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Moshe Gorohovsky wrote: Hi All, How do I identify linux-il messages? That depends on why you want to identify them. If it's because you want them to go to a different folder, then you will need to disable an option on the mailing list server. The option is called nodups. If you disable

Re: Identifying linux-il messages

2009-02-08 Thread Moshe Gorohovsky
Hi, Herouth Maoz wrote: That's not a message from linux-il. That's a message to which linux-il was CCed. The powers in charge of this mailing list encourage people to use Reply-to-all when answering messages to the list. As a result, you get a direct message from the person who is writing (if

Re: Identifying linux-il messages

2009-02-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Herouth Maoz wrote: I consider it to be very annoying, but I have no say in the matter... No, that's not true. The last time the matter was seriously discussed (i.e. - before this time) the matter was put to a vote, and this (the current settings) came out as the preferred solution by the

Re: Identifying linux-il messages

2009-02-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 05:55:09PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: The last time the matter was seriously discussed (i.e. - before this time) the matter was put to a vote, and this (the current settings) came out as the preferred solution by the list members. How long ago was that? After all

Re: Standards compliance in Doar Israel

2009-02-08 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
No laws here. Not even standards. You aren't being a menuval, just being a silly. - yba On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:44:26 +0200 From: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com To: linux-il. linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Standards compliance in Doar Israel I

Re: Hebew in Fedora 10.

2009-02-08 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 13:24 +0200, Dvir Volk wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: On Saturday, 7 בFebruary 2009, Dvir Volk wrote: The Fedora KDE team is heavily testing and bug-fixing KDE-4.2 for the release. In about a week it should land in the

[OFFTOPIC] RE: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-08 Thread Omer Zak
From the contents of a relatively unfiltered mailbox (which fortunately is not widely advertised and I check it only once each few weeks), Leiberman indeed uses very much the political exemption. I got in that mailbox a lot of spam from: * Israel Beitanu (Leiberman's party) - sends tons of spam.

OFFTOPIC: Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-08 Thread Boaz Rymland
Similarly, due to time constraints I'm not currently performing any active steps with the several spam emails that I have received lately, all from some coaching/spiritual spammer. If there's a lawyer or someone with enough spare time on his hands in the crowd who wishes to raise the glove

Re: Hebew in Fedora 10.

2009-02-08 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 8 בFebruary 2009, Dvir Volk wrote: btw, are you sure someone with FC10 will just get kde 4.2 if they update their system? As the links I sent you show, it is in the process (for both F10 and F9). isn't this against the usual distro version policy? or is kde 4.1 so bad they're

Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-08 Thread Aviram Jenik
Tal Kaplan, from pczlaw, was kind enough to give me a detailed explanation(*) about this matter. First, to answer both Dotan and Boaz, it should be a relatively simple process to get 1,000 NIS for every incoming hebrew spam. Think about it as a gift from a stranger. The process is documented