Re: [Call-for-Action] Indigogo Campaign for Putting Emma Watson Getting Interviewed for a Tech Job under CC-by

2014-07-11 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Shlomi, I really don't want to flame you or anyone else, I am a more junior member of this list. However I am on this list to see things about *nix related technology in Israel and during some periods also looking for jobs (be it for myself or for friends). Your e-mail is not Slightly OT it's

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Re:all //Taking flamebait... after a crazy topic lets have a crazy flamewar on Israeli politics because we have nothing better to do with our lives. 2014-07-06 7:48 GMT+03:00 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com: But your, Geoff, incendiary remarks re RMS, are quite out of place.

Re: bugzilla+postfix+email_in.pl

2014-06-22 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-06-22 15:22 GMT+03:00 Rabin Yasharzadehe ra...@rabin.io: you can run postfix in debug mode for a specific IP to get a more verbose logs, maybe you'll find something there debug_peer_list = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx *--Rabin* On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt

Re: bugzilla+postfix+email_in.pl

2014-06-22 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
enables listing the content and if you aren't interested in that a system should work just fine with only execute permissions. 2014-06-22 19:03 GMT+03:00 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 6:46 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: ​ # ls -l /var

Re: Looking for a performance/health monitoring and alerting solution

2014-06-16 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Zabbix, nagios (which focuses more on alerts/checks but can be extended to graph) or cacti (which focuses more on graphing but can be extended to do alerts) are all excellent solutions. Amos - can you add a TL;DR about your mail? Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2014-06-16 11:44 GMT+03:00 Rabin

Re: self mail hosting

2014-06-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
If you use your ISPs' smart host you should also be OK... 2014-06-08 12:45 GMT+03:00 Vitaly li...@karasik.org: You can get static IP for just about 15NIS/month, I have one from 012. Regards Vitaly On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com wrote: I've

Re: self mail hosting

2014-06-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Do those static IPs include setting the PTR record to whatever you want it to be? Otherwise there is really no point since a part (though not all) of the security is is the PTR and the claimed hostname.domain.tld the same? Since the IP is theirs you have no control over the PTR unless they give

Re: self mail hosting

2014-06-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
that though you can get a fixed IP at home the IP may still be flagged in anti-spam databases as non-server space and therefor suspicious/no-accept. Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו On 2014-06-08 13:55, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: Do those static IPs include setting the PTR record to whatever you want

Re: self mail hosting

2014-06-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
is generally completely blocked). Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 13:31:24 +0300 E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: If you use your ISPs' smart host you should also be OK... 2014-06-08 12:45 GMT+03:00 Vitaly li...@karasik.org: You can get static IP for just

Re: self mail hosting

2014-06-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-06-08 17:58 GMT+03:00 Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com: On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 17:47:18 +0300 E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: 2014-06-08 14:22 GMT+03:00 Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com: using netvision's smart host shouldn't change my from or reply

Re: self mail hosting

2014-06-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Slightly OT, but if I went for a VPS for my mail I'd probably want them to be outside of US jurisdition, are these? 2014-06-08 19:00 GMT+03:00 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz: On 08/06/14 14:39, Gabor Szabo wrote: Instead of getting a static IP and doing this at home, have you

Re: self mail hosting

2014-06-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
The physical location of a server is afaik irrelevant if you are dealing with a US company, an EU company which is subject to the more strict EU privacy laws would seem to be better in this case... 2014-06-08 22:23 GMT+03:00 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz: On 08/06/14 21:04, Efraim

Re: Fw: [‎לינוקס‎] ‎‫עמותת המקור קיימת קצת יותר מעשור, ומטרותיה...‬‎

2014-06-02 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Anyone care to summarize? 2014-05-20 15:33 GMT+03:00 Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com: -- Forwarded message -- From: Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org Date: 2014-05-20 14:31 GMT+03:00 Subject: Fw: [‎לינוקס‎] ‎‫עמותת המקור קיימת קצת יותר מעשור, ומטרותיה...‬‎ To:

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
If you want a captive portal then as suggested above chillispot or coovachilli seem to be your answer (though both projects seem to be fairly dead). The wikipedia article on captive portals lists a few distros that may be useful to you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal 2014-05-27

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
re:all You may not do anything but your system (whether it is android or a desktop os) tries to ascertain whether or not it has internet connectivity or just LAN, if it tries to say GET google.com:80 it will get a HTTP/30x from the wireless gateway redirecting it to a payment/gateway-rules page,

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-05-27 2:25 GMT+03:00 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: Yes I think we got this. I'm not the OP bit I wonder what can an AP admin do to configure it in a way which triggers this OS smarts on the client. Make sure you aren't whitelisting the pages/domains used to verify the connectivity

Re: Googlebot searching for .../bin/en.jsp

2014-05-20 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Re:all - didn't notice it was linux-il host 66.249.79.57 57.79.249.66.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer crawl-66-249-79-57.googlebot.com. This suggests that it is indeed googlebot, why should they put GCE on googlebot hosts, way too high a risk of resulting in blocked bots. I would guess that

Re: CPU Overheating Problem When Running 4 CPU Intensive Threads with Latest Untained Kernel

2014-05-19 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Afaik all modern CPUs are fitted with mechanism that will slow them down or turn them off when they get too got, those mechanisms are on die and I'm pretty sure you can't disable them from the OS. 2014-05-19 8:07 GMT+03:00 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com

Re: CPU Overheating Problem When Running 4 CPU Intensive Threads with Latest Untained Kernel

2014-05-19 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-05-19 12:55 GMT+03:00 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org: Hi Efraim, On Mon, 19 May 2014 10:19:23 +0300 Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com wrote: Also, nice -19 is higher priority than nice 19. No, it's not. When you run the nice -19 it sets it to the lowest possible

Re: NTP

2014-05-09 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
eBay - less then 150 NIS and free int. shipping http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=GlobalSat+BU-353-S4+USB שבת שלום, Eliyahu - אליהו 2014-05-09 13:21 GMT+03:00 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: Which software? Smart Tome Sync? On 9 May 2014 18:02, geoffrey mendelson

Re: NTP

2014-05-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
One possible explanation may be that due to the very hard time cellphones have to get and maintain GPS locks (which is the reason we have technologies like AGPS) makes it impractical 2014-05-08 14:43 GMT+03:00 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: I posted a question in

Re: NTP

2014-05-02 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I've never had trouble with NTP... my guess is your ISP is blocking or interfering, get a level 2 or better rep. they should be able to unblock it if you make enough noise... שבת שלום 2014-05-02 9:24 GMT+03:00 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: 1. If you are running ntp daemons on your linux

Re: LaTeX on Ubuntu

2014-04-18 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-04-12 9:25 GMT+03:00 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org writes: What does not work is that no cls or sty files are found. The first thing that throws an error is ! LaTeX Error: File `article.cls' not found. FWIW, it looks like the specific

Re: geolocation in firefox

2014-04-16 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
If you have access to a US server you can tunnel through it... Or paid/free VPN services... 2014-04-16 14:03 GMT+03:00 sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com: I checked the languages settings in firefox. It has only english. The OS has english and hebrew. On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:42 AM, E.S

Re: geolocation in firefox

2014-04-15 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Don't forget the site has two ways of guessing where you're from/what language you want regardless of geolocation: 1. IP as mentioned by Tomer 2. Your browser sends a list of preferred languages to the webserver, generally the OS locale is the first on the list unless you change it, you can

Re: Who's counting jiffies when all CPUs idle in NO_HZ mode?

2014-04-10 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Don't we rely heavily on network time these days too? Your cellphone would also not be a real example since: 1. It is always a bit active polling the antennae in it's range and possibly doing scheduled tasks like polling a mailserver/calendar server etc. 2. The cellphone definitely has network

Re: Feedback about HOT as an isp

2014-04-03 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
-- Michael Ben-Nes - Linux Web Environment Expert. http://www.epoch.co.il - LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbennes Cellular: +972-54-4848113 -- On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:50 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux

Re: forms.gov.il toolbar

2014-03-11 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-03-11 9:37 GMT+02:00 Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com: forms.gov.il requires a toolbar in order to submit online forms to (among others) Misrad Hapnim. Does anybody know what is in the toolbar? Supposedly it cryptographically signs activities on your side, it only worked on windows last time

Re: Feedback about HOT as an isp

2014-03-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-03-08 12:20 GMT+02:00 Michael Ben-Nes m...@epoch.co.il: Oops, seems I missed the replies a bit. Any way. I used to have 50mb but after the storm something got wrong and now Bezeq can supply only 15mb. I checked with peers and it seems the HOT infrastracure in Rosh Pina is excellent.

Re: Feedback about HOT as an isp

2014-03-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
the provider (forget who it was, sorry), while getting very nice performance when using the TAU proxy. On 08-Mar-14 13:50, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: 2014-03-08 12:20 GMT+02:00 Michael Ben-Nes m...@epoch.co.il mailto: m...@epoch.co.il: Oops, seems I missed the replies a bit. Any way

Re: KVM + VirtualBox co-existing on same server?

2014-03-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
to keep VirtualBox up all the time and insmod/rmmod kvm as needed, but we need it the other way around. I think that using vagrant-kvm has the best potential for us. Cheers, --Amos On 7 March 2014 11:59, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: Here's an article from last year

Re: KVM + VirtualBox co-existing on same server?

2014-03-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Here's an article from last year that says the same: http://swaeku.github.io/blog/2013/04/04/run-kvm-and-virtualbox-together/ And this suggests (like the articles do too to some extent) that boot order may (have) matter(ed):

Re: OT: Cell phone service providers

2014-02-11 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Subcontracting another network doesn't mean you shouldn't consider them I've been with Orange, Ramy Levi, Hot (MIRS) and am now with Golan. Other then Orange being thieves no big complaints, switched away from Ramy Levi because of International calling, switched from Hot because my phone was

railsgirls

2014-02-11 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
http://railsgirls.co.il/ Pretty cool initiative, how was that never mentioned on this list, or have I been sleeping? (I found it through this kickstarter which I think also sounds very cool for anyone who would like their kids to know programming:

Re: ITA approved accounting software that runs on linux

2014-02-10 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
in a virtual machine, it maybe even better then the present setup, as you can access it from other PCs in the network. *** you may need to make sure more then one concoction is not aloud, depending on the original software design ***. HTH, :-) On 2014-02-10 00:16, E.S. Rosenberg wrote

Re: ITA approved accounting software that runs on linux

2014-02-10 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Anyone know if moneydance is approved? (I remember I looked at it years ago for someone else as an alternative to QuickBooks but that never worked out because something went wrong with the import) Thanks, Eliyahu - אליהו 2014-02-10 18:44 GMT+02:00 vordoo vor...@yahoo.com: On 2014-02-10

ITA approved accounting software that runs on linux

2014-02-09 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Hi all, I know this subject has been dealt with in the past but since the field is fluid I'm bringing it up again. A friend of mine manages the books for several zedaka funds, currently he still does this on an old DOS machine running chashavshevet, but the machine is starting to display some

Re: galgallatz without flash

2014-02-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
The flash player is most likely just playing a mp3 or some other form of stream, if you analyze the traffic/code/links you may be able to gat a link out of that Stuff like flashgot may be useful 2014-02-07 Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com: Hi Geoffrey, On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:29 AM,

Re: galgallatz without flash

2014-02-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
No such thing, if it's streaming you just need to get a hold of how to tap into the stream, unless there's some kind of DRM on the stream it should work. 2014-02-07 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com: On 2/7/2014 12:24 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: The flash player is most likely

Re: [JOB OFFER] Android application

2014-02-02 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Careful the main cost of medical applications is liability insurance! 2014-02-02 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com: Hi Ely, There is no reason for the outcome not to be open source. It is paid work because someone (Itamar) cares a lot about it - it will affect his BAGRUT grade, and

Re: Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

2014-01-09 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
re:all +additions 2014/1/7 Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com: Hi Geoff, On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Shlomi Fish wrote: P.S: another thing that annoys me about Debian is the fact that apt-get -y dist-upgrade still sometimes

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014/1/6 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com: On 1/6/2014 2:26 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Sounds a bit harsh. A device cannot possibly become less useful with time than it was when you bought it (barring a HW malfunction). If it did then what it says on the tin it will still do it

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014/1/6 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com writes: So all Android 2 devices, almost all 2 year old cell phones, can no longer buy or update an app. snip So yes, the phones become less useful, and eventually no use at all. I discern two

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014/1/6 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il writes: On 1/6/2014 2:26 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Sounds a bit harsh. A device cannot possibly become less useful with time than it was when you bought it (barring a HW malfunction). If it did then what

Re: Feedback about HOT as an isp

2014-01-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Veering even further off-topic (sorry) The whole phone-over the internet thing is fairly risky business when you think about it, Bezeq (or for that matter most line providers in most countries) has to by law keep it's lines as available as possible, it provides enough electricity on your phone

Re: [YBA] High-end DSL modem

2013-12-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Use a simple 1-port ethernet modem with a decent router attached to it, for instance a TP-Link which is sold in most computer stores here and most models have support ranging from decent to excellent of openwrt. Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/12/7 Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il: Dear

Re: [YBA] High-end DSL modem

2013-12-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
dd-wrt was close to dead last time I checked (not having released new builds in more then a year), if you already go with an alternative firmware openwrt though a bit more hassle is the better bet since it is actively updated. (Also the OP requested openwrt support) 2013/12/8 Rabin Yasharzadehe

Re: [YBA] High-end DSL modem

2013-12-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il: Hi Eliyahu, Do you have a model number? The only one I could find was the TD-W8970 with in-progress OpenWRT support. Thanks, - yba On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 00:02:14 +0200 From: E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il

Re: OT: Cellular banking

2013-12-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Re:all Again, if the two endpoints are trusted and the communication method is trusted what's in between them (the provider) is irrelevant. Do I trust android? Depends who's phone, a phone constantly in my control that I know all software came from trusted sources and has some level of security

Re: OT: Cellular banking

2013-12-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
MITM is (as far as currently known) only possible if they have a CA you trust, as far as the lower layer encryption goes: GSM (2G/GPRS) has been hacked and for all intents and purposes is unencrypted these days if the person has the right reception equipment/hack phone. UMTS (3G/HSPA) has much

Re: OT: Cellular banking

2013-12-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/12/6 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il writes: UMTS (3G/HSPA) has much stronger encryption which afaik has not yet been cracked, I would expect newer generations (4G/LTE) to be even more secure It is reportedly possible to jam the 3G/4G signal

Gutman Yad

2013-11-19 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Hi all, Today I noticed that my clean Ubuntu install doesn't feature the Gutmann Yad font (and undoubtedly many other nice Hebrew fonts), but I can't for the life of me figure out what package I am missing. I have the following font packages installed which one of them iirc always provided me

Re: BiDi Mail UI plugin for Firefox 25

2013-11-18 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
IIRC if version compatibility is higher then 4 (or maybe a bit higher, let's say 10 to be safe), it allows install on all versions and may run some check routines. Basically at some point after they switched to the much faster release cycles they realized that the extensions weren't keeping up so

Re: mysql q

2013-11-17 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I don't know about triggers, but you could have a caching mechanism server side, which queries for last update to determine whether a new page needs to be rendered and serves the cached page. You could also make sure that the auto refreshes cause only the relevant queries and not all the queries

Re: Does anyone use MATE (Gnome 2 fork)?

2013-11-16 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I am puzzled how is a Java based program influenced in the slightest bit by what DE you're using? 2013/11/15 Rami Rosen rosenr...@gmail.com: Hi, I was also disappointed with Gnome 3 on recent Fedora releases. I tried using Gnome classic mode but still there were issues. Most disturbing was

Re: Does anyone use MATE (Gnome 2 fork)?

2013-11-15 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
HUJI uses it, personally I am fine with gnome3 so use that (90% of time is anyhow spent between terminal and browser so DEs aren't that interesting anymore) 2013/11/15 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: After reading Ilan Shavit's blog article about his disappointment from Gnome 3

Re: c/unix q

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/6/6 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: On 04/06/13 15:28, Erez D wrote: thanks, so i guess if i use unidirectional connection, and the reader does not expect to get an EOF() thank i'm safe. Why are you so keen on

Re: Off topic - technology use survey

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Google docs form with the survey of your questions and analyse the results? 2013/10/23 Steve G. word...@gmail.com: Hi Everyone, I am looking for a survey (research instrument) that I can use to ask people about their digital communication habits and preferences. I need access to the content

Re: Is forbidding concurrent ssh sessions a good idea?

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/11/12 Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 06:32:25PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: +1 for tmux, this does however imply that all the admins are using the same account to login (bad scenario) with or instead the tmux/screen line should be added at the end

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/6/30 Baruch Siach bar...@tkos.co.il: Hi Eliyahu, On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 04:11:57PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: 2012/12/26 Baruch Siach bar...@tkos.co.il: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 03:45:27PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: What is the output of 'lspci -n'? 1969:1090 The weird thing

Re: anybody knows of a mifi i can run linux on ?

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/11/20 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Jason Friedman write.to.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Erez, Your original email was pretty vague: I am looking for a Mifi (i.e. cellular wifi) router which i can run linux on. So I'm not sure why you are surprised

Re: Is forbidding concurrent ssh sessions a good idea?

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/11/12 Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:51:46PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012, Elazar Leibovich wrote about Re: Is forbidding concurrent ssh sessions a good idea?: While I can certainly see what's broken with it for using a

Re: replace string foo to bar AND bar to foo in the same file

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
echo foobar foo bar | sed 's/foo/@foo/g; s/bar/@bar/g; s/@foo/bar/g; s/@bar/foo/g' based on: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13991017/swap-two-strings-simultaneously found through: https://www.google.co.il/search?q=sed+swap+foo+and+bar חג שמח, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/9/25 vordoo

Re: OT: mailbox generator

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Not just here, also in the US, and Europe they can search computer/storage devices without a warrant when passing the border 2013/4/25 Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il: Off topic, but may be interesting: I heard recently that it is now legal for the security checks in the Ben Gurion

Re: filesystem capable of deduping tar.gz's content

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/5/8 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Disclaimer: I am definitely not an expert on the subject matter and I hardly know what I am talking about (in this case?). Creativity is no substitute for knowing what you

Re: [YBA] Linux on Intel R1000GZ

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/2/25 Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il Hi Linux-IL colleagues, Last night I installed CentOS 6.3 on an Intel R1000GZ server. My intent at first was to install Debian Wheezy, but I was unable to find information on drivers for Debian that support either the RSTe or ESRT2 (LSI)

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/6/27 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 10:14 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013, Omer Zak wrote about Re: Blu-Ray and Linux: external disk drive of equivalent storage capability. The only advantage of Blu-Ray would be immunity against EMP. Even then, I have

Re: c/unix q

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/6/6 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:04 PM, E.S. Rosenberg e...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: 2013/6/6 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: On 04/06/13 15:28, Erez D wrote: thanks, so i guess

Re: Permissions to access USB camera under debian

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/7/2 Evgeniy Ginzburg nad@gmail.com: ls /dev/ before and after connecting camera let you determine which /dev/ nodes are creared. *if* device nodes are created... ls -l /dev/something gives you user and group this device node created under. id [username] gives you in which groups this

Re: Home made NAS

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/12/5 Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com: Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: All of the above is probably negligible compared to two important arguments that have already been mentioned: 1) as a home appliance there are better, more economical, and - most importantly! - quieter

Re: accounting software *free open source*

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/7/7 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il: On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/7/2013 1:20 AM, Micha Feigin wrote: On the other hand as memory serves, you can run your books using an open source software and then submit the

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2013-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
What problems did you have with recent motherboards? I have generally had very little to no problems with recent stuff, although it obviously depends on what technologies are being used. On my new laptop the installation was less fun but this was/is mainly due to UEFI, the way it boots things (it

Re: Linux with Android MTP

2013-10-24 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
). 2013/10/24 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il writes: Always unmounting properly is obviously best practise but isn't the whole point of mtp that unmount isn't strictly needed since you are not interacting with the fs but rather with some daemon

Re: replacement for iPod

2013-10-24 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/10/23 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com: On 10/23/2013 6:09 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: Just note that this device has only a 3 display, smaller than the original ipod touch (3.5) or the Samsung Galaxy Player (4), and lower resolution. So it probably won't be an ideal device

Re: Linux with Android MTP

2013-10-23 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/10/23 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013, Shlomo Solomon wrote about Re: Linux with Android MTP: I have the same problem on Mageia3 with a new Galaxy phone. I've read that MTP is not reliably supported. When I got my Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini, I was warned that MTP

Re: OT: Recommended domain name registrar for il?

2013-10-21 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
CCC work as registrar? Until now I'm with Galcomm, I can't complain (except that their webinterface isn't all that intuitive) but my previous interactions with CCC made me very positive about them so I may just switch. Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/10/21 linux.il linux...@gmail.com: I'm pretty

Re: Distro that does not require PAE

2013-10-13 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Debian? i386/i486 Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/10/13 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com: Are there any CURRENT Linux distros that do not require PAE? Ubuntu started requiring it about 1 year ago, so now all Ubuntu and it's children will not work on older computers without it.

Re: replacement for iPod

2013-10-10 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/10/10 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com: The battery died in my iPod. It's old enough to have a hard drive so it does not do anything except play music. If I can find the spare I have, I'll probably replace the battery, but before I spend any money on it, is there anything

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned XMPP yet.. Also for newer phones and the type of communication you want (one-way broadcast) there's cell broadcast if the providers/government are willing to cooperate. In the end of the day though you'd be looking at a system that mixes multiple different

Re: 3G Modem with SMS support

2013-10-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/10/8 Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il: On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 12:06:56PM +0200, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: I am interested in buying a 3G modem to connect to some for our servers, in order to get alerts by SMS, the idea is not to depend on the infrastructure of the DC. I am looking

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
There are plenty of cheap low-power mainboards available... Intel Atom boards AMD E-series ARM stuff (pandaboard, beagleboard, and many more) So you can build your own low-power solution that will use in the area of 33W (though if you have lot's of disks I really don't see how you would get that

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
expect it, in self built stuff it depends 100% on you. On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: There are plenty of cheap low-power mainboards available... Intel Atom boards AMD E-series ARM stuff (pandaboard, beagleboard, and many more) So you can

Re: Linux with Android MTP

2013-10-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
//I don't have this phone of a similar phone, this is mainly a stab in the dark. We have a camera at home that won't transfer/open files when it's connected to the USB 3.0 ports of the computer, it will only function properly when connected to USB 2.0 ports (and 1). So maybe that also affects

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/10/5 Steve G. word...@gmail.com: I am getting to a point that, between all the old computers I still own or use, the orphan hard drives from abandoned systems, and the dual boot laptops, I have a storage nightmare. I have photos, videos, articles, music, everywhere, and it is getting to

Re: Do you know a foss alternative to Lupa?

2013-09-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I don't know about specific photo-album things since I've never tried doing that, but there is also real professional publishing software on Linux: scribus http://www.scribus.net And if you just meant photo-organizer then shotwell, fspot, kphoto-album, digiKam are all nice Regards, Eliyahu

Re: replace string foo to bar AND bar to foo in the same file

2013-09-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Re:all echo foobar foo bar | sed 's/foo/@foo/g; s/bar/@bar/g; s/@foo/bar/g; s/@bar/foo/g' based on: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13991017/swap-two-strings-simultaneously found through: https://www.google.co.il/search?q=sed+swap+foo+and+bar חג שמח, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/9/25 E.S. Rosenberg

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-16 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/9/16 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: guy keren guy.choo.ke...@gmail.com writes: instead of going into theories - does your car have a fuel consumption computer? Yes, it does, that's how I know that it is more efficient at higher speeds. I made a point to say that I never did

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
: Download the current tzdate file from iana and compile the file yourself e.g - http://www.borngeek.com/2009/03/16/updating-time-zone-information-in-linux/ On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:56 AM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/8/2013 12:21 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote

Re: Booting HD without grub

2013-09-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
If I understand you correctly you want to make the system bootable again but you first want to do a dry run to make sure it works... So you take a modern livecd, a big external hdd and create a dd imagefile of the current disk and now you can play all you want even in a virtual environment

Re: [hopefully on topic] is SSH secure in default configuration?

2013-09-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/9/8 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: Hi, I am not hopeful to secure much of anything against the likes of NSA or GCHQ. However, my curiousity woke up when the latest NYT/Guardian/ProPublica pieces about NSA/GCHQ/friends compromising much of Internet encryption were accompanied by

Re: [hopefully on topic] is SSH secure in default configuration?

2013-09-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/9/8 Aviram Jenik avi...@jenik.com: I'm only taking a wild guess here. To be clear, I have no inside knowledge and my guess is probably as good as anyone else's. But if I had to bet this is where I would put my money. Either: 1. They have a 0-day against SSH (e.g. if you have ssh

Re: Debian Oldstable and Ubuntu 12.04 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

2013-09-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/9/7 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: I checked the timezone in two Linux machines. One of them is Debian Squeeze (which is now OldStable), and the other is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (12.04.3 LTS, Precise Pangolin - running in a virtual machine). I found to my horror that the timezone definitions in them

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
What puzzles me in this whole thing is that it seems to me tzdata updates should be available to all versions regardless of their production state, but it seems a lot of distros are locked to specific versions 2013/9/7 Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.com: I just checked my Mageia 3 and

Re: Debian Oldstable and Ubuntu 12.04 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

2013-09-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/9/8 guy keren guy.choo.ke...@gmail.com: On 09/07/2013 11:22 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: 2013/9/7 Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il: I checked the timezone in two Linux machines. One of them is Debian Squeeze (which is now OldStable), and the other is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (12.04.3 LTS, Precise

Re: Watch out for Bezeq

2013-09-02 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/9/2 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: Rabin Yasharzadehe ra...@rabin.io writes: On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Go sign up for Lastpass, my entire office is now using it. I lets you set up individual passwords for every site, and

Re: Watch out for Bezeq

2013-09-01 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
You don't use service specific passwords already? KeePassX makes it so easy... 2013/9/1 Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com: Just a general heads up: I recently registered on the Bezeq site in order to be able to view my receipts and stuff. When I signed up I provided a username and a password.

Re: KDE fading icon text

2013-08-23 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/8/23 Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:15 AM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: Talk to the KDE devs/mailing list/irc? I've gotten good, swift answers on IRC in the past. But also have waited several hours for an answer. It depends a lot on the time

Re: KDE fading icon text

2013-08-22 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Talk to the KDE devs/mailing list/irc? They are smart people and when made aware of a problem I am sure they will want to solve it Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/8/22 Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.com: When the text under an icon on the KDE desktop is too long to fit, the last few

Re: OOPS, I meant MFC-490CW (Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?)

2013-08-20 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I have to concur with Hetz, I have gone through absolute hell with non-hp printers and their support of drivers. HP at least has an officially supported OSS driver project and drivers that generally function The best is to use linuxprinting.org to check if the printer has good (preferably

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-20 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/8/19 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com: snip beyond the blood-like ink prices /snip I'm pretty sure blood is actually cheaper then ink here in Israel (the price of one serving [a half a liter I think] of blood product for a hospital is about 178 NIS)

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