Re: problem with xls files to read in open office

2009-05-13 Thread sara fink
Regarding the xls files, I just found out that orange xls files where you
have the details of the conversations aren't readable in open office calc.
However it work in microsoft excel. In OpenOffice Calc, it appears in the
begining as xml tags and the rest is something unordered. So those who do
care, please write or talk to orange DATA *663. Otherwise, getting details
of the conversations, are charged. There is  an workaround to solve this
problem. The workaround is to open the file in microsoft excel, save as xls
and then open it in open office.

Here is how it looks like in OpenOffice calc without the converted file:

  ?xml version=1.0?


 ss:Workbook xmlns:ss=urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet


  ss:Styles


  ss:Style ss:ID=1


  ss:Font ss:Bold=1 ss:Color=White ss:FontName=Ariel /


  ss:Interior ss:Color=Orange ss:Pattern=Solid /


  /ss:Style


  /ss:Styles


 ss:Worksheet ss:Name=Sheet1


  ss:Table


  ss:Row ss:StyleID=1


  ss:Cell ss:MergeAcross=1


  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringפירוט שיחות/ss:Data


  /ss:Cell


  /ss:Row





  ss:Row ss:StyleID=1


  ss:Cell


  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringתאריך שיחה/ss:Data


 /ss:Cell ss:Cell


  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringשעת שיחה/ss:Data


 /ss:Cell ss:Cell


  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringמספר שחויג/ss:Data


 /ss:Cell ss:Cell


  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringשם מחויג/ss:Data


 /ss:Cell ss:Cell


  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringשם המפעיל/ss:Data


 /ss:Cell ss:Cell


  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringמשך שיחה לחיוב/ss:Data


 /ss:Cell ss:Cell


  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringמשך שיחה בפועל/ss:Data


 /ss:Cell ss:Cell


  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringתעריף זמן אויר orange/ss:Data


 /ss:Cell ss:Cell


  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringתעריף שימוש ברשתות תקשורת אחרות/ss:Data


 /ss:Cell ss:Cell


  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringסהכ לחיוב/ss:Data


 /ss:Cell ss:Cell


  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringהערות/ss:Data


 /ss:Cell


 /ss:Row


 ss:Row



I am definitely going to complain about it.
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Re: problem with xls files to read in open office

2009-05-13 Thread sara fink
Indeed it looks like xml file. but on the web site they publish excel xls
file and it is saved on the hd as xls.

I have open office 3.0 at home and it couldn't read it normally. The
portable openoffice that I use now is 3.0.0 and it doesn't read it normally
unless i use the workaround mentioned above.I will definitely check the
wiki. I wonder if the new version of 3.1 does solve the problem. Yet, I do
believe that at least they should create real xls so that sorting and all
other calculation can be done properly.

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Uri Bruck br...@actcom.net.il wrote:

 This document appears to be in SpreadsheetML
 The openoffice wiki has a document on this:
 http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SpreadsheetML

 From a cursory look it looks like OpenOffice 3 is supposed to be able to
 handle this.

 sara fink wrote:
  Regarding the xls files, I just found out that orange xls files where
  you have the details of the conversations aren't readable in open
  office calc. However it work in microsoft excel. In OpenOffice Calc,
  it appears in the begining as xml tags and the rest is something
  unordered. So those who do care, please write or talk to orange DATA
  *663. Otherwise, getting details of the conversations, are charged.
  There is  an workaround to solve this problem. The workaround is to
  open the file in microsoft excel, save as xls and then open it in open
  office.
 
  Here is how it looks like in OpenOffice calc without the converted file:
 
  ?xml version=1.0?
 
 
  ss:Workbook xmlns:ss=urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet
 
 
  ss:Styles
 
 
  ss:Style ss:ID=1
 
 
  ss:Font ss:Bold=1 ss:Color=White ss:FontName=Ariel /
 
 
  ss:Interior ss:Color=Orange ss:Pattern=Solid /
 
 
  /ss:Style
 
 
  /ss:Styles
 
 
  ss:Worksheet ss:Name=Sheet1
 
 
  ss:Table
 
 
  ss:Row ss:StyleID=1
 
 
  ss:Cell ss:MergeAcross=1
 
 
  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringפירוט שיחות/ss:Data
 
 
  /ss:Cell
 
 
  /ss:Row
 
 
 
 
 
 
  ss:Row ss:StyleID=1
 
 
  ss:Cell
 
 
  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringתאריך שיחה/ss:Data
 
 
  /ss:Cell ss:Cell
 
 
  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringשעת שיחה/ss:Data
 
 
  /ss:Cell ss:Cell
 
 
  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringמספר שחויג/ss:Data
 
 
  /ss:Cell ss:Cell
 
 
  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringשם מחויג/ss:Data
 
 
  /ss:Cell ss:Cell
 
 
  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringשם המפעיל/ss:Data
 
 
  /ss:Cell ss:Cell
 
 
  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringמשך שיחה לחיוב/ss:Data
 
 
  /ss:Cell ss:Cell
 
 
  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringמשך שיחה בפועל/ss:Data
 
 
  /ss:Cell ss:Cell
 
 
  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringתעריף זמן אויר orange/ss:Data
 
 
  /ss:Cell ss:Cell
 
 
  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringתעריף שימוש ברשתות תקשורת אחרות/ss:Data
 
 
  /ss:Cell ss:Cell
 
 
  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringסהכ לחיוב/ss:Data
 
 
  /ss:Cell ss:Cell
 
 
  ss:Data ss:Type=Stringהערות/ss:Data
 
 
  /ss:Cell
 
 
  /ss:Row
 
 
  ss:Row
 
 
 
 
  I am definitely going to complain about it.
  
 
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recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-13 Thread Dvir Volk
Hi,
I need to find a new, secure and very reliable remote backup service
for my employer's office server.
This will be used to backup mainly stuff like SVN dumps, TRAC database, etc.
10-20 gigs should be more than enough, and ssh/rsync/sftp etc.
scriptable access is a must.
any recommendations?

Thanks,
Dvir

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Re: recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Amazon S3?
You can create tarballs (either a new snapshot everyday or just diffs)
and upload them to Amazon S3. There are many FUSE implementations of
their protocol so you can use your own tools for copying/uploading
etc..

Thanks,
Hetz


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Dvir Volk dvir...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 I need to find a new, secure and very reliable remote backup service
 for my employer's office server.
 This will be used to backup mainly stuff like SVN dumps, TRAC database, etc.
 10-20 gigs should be more than enough, and ssh/rsync/sftp etc.
 scriptable access is a must.
 any recommendations?

 Thanks,
 Dvir

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Re: recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-13 Thread Dvir Volk
Do they give you any kind of guarantee regarding security/encryption
and data redundancy?
This is the company's core IP, all documentation and code.
They'd rather pay a bit more and sleep better at night.

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:
 Amazon S3?
 You can create tarballs (either a new snapshot everyday or just diffs)
 and upload them to Amazon S3. There are many FUSE implementations of
 their protocol so you can use your own tools for copying/uploading
 etc..

 Thanks,
 Hetz


 On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Dvir Volk dvir...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 I need to find a new, secure and very reliable remote backup service
 for my employer's office server.
 This will be used to backup mainly stuff like SVN dumps, TRAC database, etc.
 10-20 gigs should be more than enough, and ssh/rsync/sftp etc.
 scriptable access is a must.
 any recommendations?

 Thanks,
 Dvir

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Re: recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Well, the authentication is secured. Without keys, no access...

If you really want go crazy, then go ahead, and create an EC2 instance
with your favorite distro installed, connect either EBS storage or S3
storage to this virtual machine, and then you can do whatever you want
regarding encryption, security etc. The storage is backed up IIRC.

Thanks,
Hetz

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Dvir Volk dvir...@gmail.com wrote:
 Do they give you any kind of guarantee regarding security/encryption
 and data redundancy?
 This is the company's core IP, all documentation and code.
 They'd rather pay a bit more and sleep better at night.

 On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:
 Amazon S3?
 You can create tarballs (either a new snapshot everyday or just diffs)
 and upload them to Amazon S3. There are many FUSE implementations of
 their protocol so you can use your own tools for copying/uploading
 etc..

 Thanks,
 Hetz


 On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Dvir Volk dvir...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 I need to find a new, secure and very reliable remote backup service
 for my employer's office server.
 This will be used to backup mainly stuff like SVN dumps, TRAC database, etc.
 10-20 gigs should be more than enough, and ssh/rsync/sftp etc.
 scriptable access is a must.
 any recommendations?

 Thanks,
 Dvir

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Re: recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-13 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:
 Well, the authentication is secured. Without keys, no access...

In that case you had better be good at keeping backup copies of the
keys and depending upon whose data it is making sure they know exactly
where to get them if they need to.

I occasionally see postings from people who have encrypted data
belonging to long dead family members that they have no way of
retrieving.

You also don't want to be disturbed on vacation when a file gets
corrupted and no one has the key to the backup, or if they do have it,
knows that they do.

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Re: recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
You can always get your personal key that Amazon issues to you on
their page (after login of course).

Hetz

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Geoffrey Mendelson
geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:
 Well, the authentication is secured. Without keys, no access...

 In that case you had better be good at keeping backup copies of the
 keys and depending upon whose data it is making sure they know exactly
 where to get them if they need to.

 I occasionally see postings from people who have encrypted data
 belonging to long dead family members that they have no way of
 retrieving.

 You also don't want to be disturbed on vacation when a file gets
 corrupted and no one has the key to the backup, or if they do have it,
 knows that they do.

 Geoff.
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 Jerusalem, Israel




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RE: recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-13 Thread ronys
Hi,

No direct experience, but I've heard good things about these guys:
http://www.lingnu.com/en/backups.html
as well as these
http://www.rsync.net/ 

YMMV, of course.

Rony

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On Behalf Of Dvir Volk
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 2:24 PM
To: linux-il
Subject: recommended remote backup service?

Hi,
I need to find a new, secure and very reliable remote backup service
for my employer's office server.
This will be used to backup mainly stuff like SVN dumps, TRAC database, etc.
10-20 gigs should be more than enough, and ssh/rsync/sftp etc.
scriptable access is a must.
any recommendations?

Thanks,
Dvir

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Re: recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-13 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef

Dvir Volk wrote:


Hi,
I need to find a new, secure and very reliable remote backup service
for my employer's office server.
This will be used to backup mainly stuff like SVN dumps, TRAC database, etc.
10-20 gigs should be more than enough, and ssh/rsync/sftp etc.
scriptable access is a must.
any recommendations?

  


We use duplicity to backup similar stuff to Amazon S3. Duplicity does 
all the heavy lifting of compression, delta, encryption with GPG. Amazon 
S3 just needs to be there for you to grab the file (even if someone 
grabs the files they are GPG encrypted).


If you trust Amazon S3 to be there when you need the files, I highly 
recommend it.


Gilad

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Re: recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh

Dvir Volk wrote:

Hi,
I need to find a new, secure and very reliable remote backup service
for my employer's office server.
This will be used to backup mainly stuff like SVN dumps, TRAC database, etc.
10-20 gigs should be more than enough, and ssh/rsync/sftp etc.
scriptable access is a must.
any recommendations?

Thanks,
Dvir

  
Full disclosure - I have a personal AND business interest in this 
matter. Details later on. Feel free to question my objectivity.


Depending on the size of the individual files you are going to encrypt 
and your upstream bandwidth, I suggest you be wary of using duplicity. 
It offers quite good security (unless you intend to lose your encryption 
key, in which case don't bother backing up), but they do the delta 
calculation on the client side, and push an encrypted version of the 
delta. A restore operation involves restoring the last full backup you 
made, and then restoring all incremental backups done since then. They 
must ALL be available, or data will be lost.


With 10-20GB of data to back up, a full image upload may well be an 
impossible task to perform on a regular basis. Over a 1.5/150 ADSL link 
pushing 1GB of data will take you about 18 hours, which means that a 
20GB backup will take you a whole week or more (depending on how well 
the data compresses) to upload if you dedicate your line to it. It 
follows that having a weekly snapshot is pretty much out of the question.


I have not looked into duplicity much, yet, but it stands to reason it 
needs a copy of your entire data locally in order for it to have 
something to compare against. Deleting this data means that you cannot 
perform the incremental data.


plug

Or you can use rsyncrypto (http://rsyncrypto.lingnu.com). It's open 
source, it's fairly mature technology, and it is entirely scriptable. It 
encrypts the entire file locally, but in a rsync friendly way, so that 
you can use the standard rsync in order to push the file remotely. This 
means that any snapshot is a full snapshot, in that they can be 
deleted in arbitrary order without jeopardizing your data. A local copy, 
in this case, is also saved between runs, but it can be recreated from 
the session keys, so it should be seen as more of a cache than a 
functional aspect of the program. The session keys are 68 bytes per 
file, and take no space at all (and they can be recovered from the 
actual encrypted data, of course)


This tool was created specifically for your use scenario, so if you find 
it lacking, I would really like to know in what way, so I can make it 
better.


double plug

My company, Lingnu open source consulting, is running a backup service 
that uses the technologies you mention as their technology. Our end user 
nice gui option is not as mature as we'd like, but for your intended 
use (scriptable working) the service is available today, and you would 
not be the first customer to use it.


Being as it is that the technology is open source, you are, of course, 
free to use it with any other service that supports rsync. rsync.net and 
Amazon's S3 were mentioned, and I have heard good things about both. 
They are, both, also likely to be cheaper than our service. What we 
offer is a service that specifically aims at your precise use scenario 
(small businesses, fully encrypted data with a key that is not shared 
with us, using rsyncrypto as the base technology). This may not amount 
to much today, but we have plans for the future :-).


If you decide that these are not compelling enough reasons to go with 
us, but would like to know more about the future plans when they are 
no longer future, drop me an email and I'll keep you posted (I promise 
- no spam).


/double plug

/plug

Whatever you do, I whole heartily join the recommendation to keep your 
encryption key safe. I have some clients that chose to allow me to keep 
their key for them, and others that chose to keep the key themselves. 
The later group almost invariably had trouble getting to their key (in 
some cases - twice!). With rsyncrypto, if you did not lose your session 
keys, you can still recover without pushing the entire backup over the 
net from scratch, but this is still not a nice situation to be in.


Shachar

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Re: problem with xls files to read in open office

2009-05-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
I will download the file from Orange next week, I just cannot get to
it in the next few days.

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