Google forces a translation to Japanese

2009-09-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, One of my clients is having a weird problem, and I'm pretty much at my wit's end as for what to do about it. The site is called Tzofit (at tzofit.co.il), and is an index and publisher for Zimmers. When you search Google for צימרים the site appears on the second page, and when you

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-09-14 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, Four months later... Responding to myself :) On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 13:05, Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com wrote: For a long time I find myself looking for an open smartphone, with Linux and GPS. Initially I had high hopes for OpenMoko's platform, but now I think it is dying for

Re: Google forces a translation to Japanese

2009-09-14 Thread shimi
2009/9/14 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz Hi all, One of my clients is having a weird problem, and I'm pretty much at my wit's end as for what to do about it. The site is called Tzofit (at tzofit.co.il), and is an index and publisher for Zimmers. When you search Google for צימרים the

Re: Google forces a translation to Japanese

2009-09-14 Thread Noam Rathaus
Hi Shahacr, A bit far fetched, if you control the web server, could you verify that there is no special treatment to Google Bots in regard to the responses receives/sent to it? Also I noticed the web server doesn't specify which language it responds with, it is worth telling it via the

Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 10:37:18 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 09:47:15AM +0300, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Dov Grobgeld wrote: Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 09:40:58 +0300 From: Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com To: Jonathan Ben Avraham

Re: Google forces a translation to Japanese

2009-09-14 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/9/14 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz Hi all, One of my clients is having a weird problem, and I'm pretty much at my wit's end as for what to do about it. In addition to the other advise you got - maybe have a sniff around the Google Webmaster Tools site

ubuntu/debian package problem

2009-09-14 Thread geoffrey mendelson
Ok, I did something stupid. I have two similar ubuntu systems. Noticing that some packages I need are missing on one but not knowing which ones, I did a list of them using: dpkg --get-selections installed-software Then I used grep to weed out only the installed ones, and went to the

Re: ubuntu/debian package problem

2009-09-14 Thread Dotan Shavit
On Monday 14 September 2009, geoffrey mendelson wrote: Ok, I did something stupid. I have two similar ubuntu systems. Noticing that some packages I need are missing on one but not knowing which ones, I did a list of them using: dpkg --get-selections installed-software Then I used grep to

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-09-14 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, It should not matter much as I am not going to use the internet much because of the outrageous cellular internet prices that are in use in Israel. It is somewhat an advantage, as you can't break the internet limit easily. Does cell-com still have their 130 NIS a month (including price of

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Shiloh
Openmoko has departed the cellphone business and no longer makes the FreeRunner, although you can buy them and there is still very large community support. Arie Skliarouk wrote: Hi, Four months later... Responding to myself :) On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 13:05, Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com

Re: ubuntu/debian package problem

2009-09-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
geoffrey mendelson wrote: Ok, I did something stupid. I have two similar ubuntu systems. Noticing that some packages I need are missing on one but not knowing which ones, I did a list of them using: dpkg --get-selections installed-software Then I used grep to weed out only the installed

Need Recommendation for Israeli Rails Hosting

2009-09-14 Thread ASAF HALILI
Hi everybody, I need a recommendation for a hosting that support ruby on rails, linux hosting. I prefer shared hosting but VPS is also acceptable. I need really good response time so I prefer that the hosting will be located in Israel. Anoyone knows such a hosting? Thanks, Asaf.

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-09-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Michael Shiloh wrote: Openmoko has departed the cellphone business and no longer makes the FreeRunner, although you can buy them and there is still very large community support. Quoth the man who has worked for them and have been burned... :-( Actually, that fact matters very little, if you

Re: Need Recommendation for Israeli Rails Hosting

2009-09-14 Thread Ori Berger
ASAF HALILI wrote: Hi everybody, I need a recommendation for a hosting that support ruby on rails, linux hosting. I prefer shared hosting but VPS is also acceptable. I need really good response time so I prefer that the hosting will be located in Israel. Anoyone knows such a hosting?

Open hardware (was: Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone)

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Shiloh
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Michael Shiloh wrote: Openmoko has departed the cellphone business and no longer makes the FreeRunner, although you can buy them and there is still very large community support. Quoth the man who has worked for them and have been burned... :-( Thanks. I have no

Re: Google forces a translation to Japanese

2009-09-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Yuval Hager wrote: Trying to translate the Japanese text, using Google Translate, back to English seems to show that the text translates, but is not coherent sentences. Then again, looking at the raw encoding, this does not appear to be Hebrew interpreted with the wrong encoding (or am I missing

Re: Need Recommendation for Israeli Rails Hosting

2009-09-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 14 September 2009 20:04:16 ASAF HALILI wrote: Hi everybody, I need a recommendation for a hosting that support ruby on rails, linux hosting. I prefer shared hosting but VPS is also acceptable. I need really good response time so I prefer that the hosting will be located in

Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-14 Thread David Suna
I just bought a new Gateway laptop that comes with Windows Vista (and a free upgrade to Windows 7). I want to be able to run both Linux (Ubuntu is my preferred distribution) and Windows (Vista for now, Windows 7 in the future) using virtualization. I have not gotten into virtualization until