Re: Competitor to VMWare?

2004-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Dan Kenigsberg wrote: Layman's question: would I be able to run my other-partition's WinXP with it? Well, there's a script to convert VMWare images to full hard drive image, but it's not stable yet to replace VMWare. Trust me on that ;) Also the network stuff is using SLiRP (or TUN, depends how

Re: Competitor to VMWare?

2004-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
One exception: You need a modified kernel for the simulated system. Wrong. I've used standard redhat 9 as guest and it worked out of the box without any kernel compilation, not in guest side nor in the host side. Only thing you do need is the ne2k module (which is compiled by default on most

Re: Competitor to VMWare?

2004-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hetz, How hard is to install XP or 2000? special kernel? special modules? I installed XP at work with it without much problems, but there are some emulation problems with QEMU, so remember - it's not finished product. How hard is to run knoppixes from this beast? Runs excellent. Put the CD in

Re: Competitor to VMWare?

2004-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
how about network? was it out of the box? how much setup did you need? Network is seperated into 2 - you can use the TUN support (which frankly, I didn't yet manage to use it) or the SLiRP support (compile QEMU with --enable-slirp and user -user-net when you launch QEMU) With SLiRP, QEMU will

forum program

2004-07-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I'm looking for a forum manager program for a site that I'm planning to design. It should have: 1. Full hebrew support (localization isn't an issue, I'll convert it myself) 2. folding comments - which means that a reply shouldn't load a new web page. Some examples are: Nana, Ynet (although

Re: Kernel with hugemem support - redhat 7.2

2004-08-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Shany, Basically, you can do this.. I would suggest you take Redhat's SRPM of their kernel and see which dependencies you need to solve (if I'm not mistaken, you might need to upgrade some other core libraries) and then you'll need to recompile your kernel.. Thanks, Hetz Shany Pozin wrote:

Re: Bad news for philips webcam users :-(

2004-08-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
This is a sad news (although I doubt that many distributions will release their kernel with Greg's hook removal of pwcx module).. I think the cam driver author should have follow the same route that the emu10k1 (Sound Blaster Live card driver) did - a simple driver which was compiled without

test message

2004-11-13 Thread hetz ben-hamo
Just a test. Please ignore... Hetz = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Open Office - external dependencies.

2004-11-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hello Amit, Looking at the screenshot you attached, I think you have some fonts problem (it could also be regarding to page size). I would suggest the following issues to be looked at: 1. Make sure you have the same set of fonts in both machines (OO does replace fonts when it cannot finds some,

Re: OT: prices for ISPs

2004-11-22 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hmm? I used dyndns.org services up to few months ago and have installed exim as my mail server at home with a friend as an MX backup server. I didn't miss even a single email, and I didn't pay a single cent to dyndns.org (although later I donated some money for them due to their excellent

Re: Banks, Mozilla and life on a stick.

2004-11-24 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Doing a quick check I can see that (tested with firefox 1.0, Win XP, under QEMU) * www.bankleumi.co.il (Bank Leumi) - works with firefox * www.bankhapoalim.co.il - (Bank Hapoalim) works with firefox (although after login you'll need to do a refresh once or else the menus will be in reverse

grub question

2004-12-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi people, I have here a machine that I'm using with Fedora core 2 and GRUB, and it works great. There's only 1 hard drive in this machine (/dev/hda).. Lately I had to move a hard drive from an old machine with Windows XP (it's now /dev/hdb) and I tried to add it to GRUB. I added the following

Re: Wireless advice

2005-01-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Shachar, I want to set up a wireless network. A few questions: 1. Do I need a wireless HUB, or can two wireless cards communicate with one another directly? You mean working in Ad Hoc mode? I never tried it myself and wi-fi routers are pretty cheap these days, specially if you have a

Re: guest windows OS

2005-02-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Amit, I'll try to answer your questions: At this stage, QEMU is pretty slow, even with the latest kernel module (kqemu), but things are changing quite often. At this stage, the hardware emulation level is quite basic, and I have seen lots of weird things when running Windows 2k/XP as guest,

Re: Linux AP at a good price in Israel?

2005-03-14 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I have one right here.. it's pretty good unless you want to use stuff like UPnP (for apps like Azureus which uses the UPnP protocol extensively if you download multiple bit-torrent stuff).. Buying the WRT54G from US doesn't make much sense these days for 2 reasons: 1. No warranty. 2. Although it

Re: Linux AP at a good price in Israel?

2005-03-14 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Oh, it does UPnP, but the router seems to forget the UPnP ports assignments many times (the problem also appear with their latest firmware).. Thanks, Hetz On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:54:28 +0200, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Hetz Ben Hamo, from the post of Mon, 14 Mar: I have one

resizing /dev/shm

2005-04-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi people, In most cases, when I'm doing df -h, I find that /dev/shm (shared memory) can use up to about half of the RAM my machine has (in my case - 506MB). Does anyone knows a way to increase this size? I tried few tricks with /etc/fstab and it doesn't seem to be helpful.. Any suggestions -

book store recommendation

2005-04-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I'm looking for the book Learning the bash Shell, 2nd Edition (or 3rd Edition) to buy / borrow.. Does anyone knows a good store here in Tel Aviv area where to buy this book? Also, does anyone knows if this book is available to download? (E-Book, PDF, whatever) Thanks, Hetz

Re: Looking for Hebrew Apps

2005-04-19 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Amichai, As long as the applications that you'll find are using either GTK-2.x or QT (3.x and above), then you shouldn't have any problem typing and reading in hebrew. As for household managment - as long as you're not requiring advanced features (conntectivity from the app to your bank, tax

Re: HTML to PDF

2005-05-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Doron, Well, there is a sort-of solution. I used Konqueror to display the text, and then print the text into PDF. Thanks, Hetz On 5/1/05, Doron Shikmoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, There was a thread here about two years ago regarding conversion of HTML to PDF with Hebrew charset.

Re: booting from Sis (ASUS) SATA drive

2005-05-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Neither one of them does support SATA out of the box (surely not Redhat 9!). Best solution - use a distribution which does (doesn't SARGE have some sort of bootable ISO which does support it?), like Fedora Core 3, RHEL 4, SuSE 9.3, Mandrake 10.1. Thanks, Hetz On 5/4/05, Ilan Cohen [EMAIL

Re: Why does this not compile?

2005-05-08 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
What Compiler version? Hetz On 5/8/05, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm encountering a strange problem, and would like to hear the list's ideas on why that would be. The following C++ program: #include stdarg.h class test { public: virtual ~test(); }; void

thunderbird composing with hebrew

2005-05-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi People, I don't know if anyone knows, but I have this problem which I cannot solve, and thought maybe someone else thought about a solution/workaround. I'm using the latest thunderbird both for Windows and Linux, and I'm using the bidi extension to write emails in hebrew (with HTML support).

Re: thunderbird composing with hebrew

2005-05-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
It's been a long while since I last used thunderbird but it worked very well for me with hebmailpack installed. Do you have it? Yes, thats what I use for writing hebrew emails. As for gmail - are you aware that they provide RTL in Rich Formatting? It's far from perfect but pretty usable for

Re: thunderbird composing with hebrew

2005-05-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
, Hetz On 5/13/05, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know *what* you use Hetz, but imho change it soon. This is what I see (pine very recent): Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 03:26:40 +0200 From: Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux-IL linux-il

Re: Connecting Nokia 6230

2005-05-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On this list, you might want to write in English, not everyone here reads hebrew.. THanks, Hetz On 5/18/05, Gal Gur-Arie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: / 6230 ? Gnokii gnokiifs. dku2 -: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.gammu/2261

Re: Connecting Nokia 6230

2005-05-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
In general, you can't find the serial DKU-2 in Israel (at least I couldn't) and the USB-to-serial DKU-5 cable (the one being sold in Israel) isn't support by Linux (Nokia doesn't share the USB-serial chip specs). Check this: http://www.zap.co.il/models.asp?keyword=DKU-2image1.x=0image1.y=0 I

Re: Prive mail-server issues (or: I am not a spammer!)

2005-05-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Itay, If I were you I would do 2 things: 1. Leave the default address as you registered it (example: abcd.dyndns.org) so people could send you emails back directly to your machine. 2. I see that you have a GMAIL account, so I would suggest you to use it's SMTP capabilities instead of your

PHP based Blog with Hebrew support?

2005-05-30 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi People, I'm looking for a blog software which is written with PHP and has BiDi support. So far, all I found were several dozens of BLOG software packages without any RTL support at all. Any suggestions? Thanks, Hetz To

Re: Linux on Motherboards with the Intel 915P Chipset

2005-06-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Yuval, First, you might want to take a look here: http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/linux/ - you'll find most of the info and drivers for Linux there. I don't know about Debian (I personally prefer Fedora CentOS 4), but most other distributions should support most of the chip's

Re: Lightweight graphical environment for Linux

2005-06-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Shachar, Well, few details are missing: * is it running on X86? * Which programming language would you rather use? * is it going to be in a window or full screen? * With or without hebrew support? Based on what you have published here (and my assumption that you're looking for full screen

Re: windows XP, Linux double boot on IBM Thinkpad T30

2005-06-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I had T30 with Linux installed. It worked very well, although IRDA had few issues that needed manual configurations. I used Fedora Core 2. Thanks and good luck, Hetz On 6/9/05, Shimon Panfil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, I've got IBM Thinkpad T30 from my employer with windows XP Pro

Re: windows XP, Linux double boot on IBM Thinkpad T30

2005-06-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I forgot 1 thing.. There's a hidden partition which includes IBM rescue with XP and everything, so if you want to erase it, please set things accordinly in the BIOS first. Hetz On 6/9/05, Shimon Panfil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, I've got IBM Thinkpad T30 from my employer with windows

Re: Hebrew in Evolution 2.0.4

2005-06-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
The question is how to configure evolution to allow me to select iso-8859-8-i. I tried to check for configuration files in ~/.evolution and in /etc/gconf - but of no avail. Look for CP1255, or Code Page 1255 or Windows 1255 - they are exactly as ISO8859-8-i Thanks, Hetz

Re: Hebrew in Evolution 2.0.4

2005-06-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I just checked with Evolution and Outlook 2003 Outlook uses this string: windows-1255 For logical mail, and I see that you can add it in Evolution. Thanks, Hetz On 6/15/05, Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is how to configure evolution to allow me to select iso-8859-8-i

Re: USB Frame grabber

2005-06-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I really WISH there was ANY USB frame grabber with Linux driver support. I searched this issue up and down when I was working at softier. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything yet. Hetz On 6/15/05, Aviram Jenik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just got a USB frame grabber (ADS tech Instant

Re: USB Frame grabber

2005-06-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
That's what I was afraid of... At least now I have a more definite answer. Hetz - any idea why USB frame grabbers have such poor support? I think it's just like the Winmodem scenario - your machine does most of the job, so they cannot release the source code due to secrets algoritms.. What

offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
This is a story about renting a Linux Virtual Private server that I rented. There was a company called ExecutiveASP that sold VPS at a very competitve price. For $39 you would get: * Xeon 3 Ghz machine (well, not the entire processor, but it was very fast) * 256MB RAM * 10 GB hard drive * 2 IP's

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
While we're on this topic: EV1servers.net are offerring a really cool offer: * Celeron 1.7 Ghz * 512MB RAM * 1000GB Transfer (soft) limit * 60GB hard drive (IDE) No virtualization, no nothing - simply a machine (Intel 845 chipset it seems, at least from the lspci output), for $99 a month with

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
This sounds like a good deal, although they don't specify in their web page: * number of servers they are already hosting * detailed info about their incoming/outgoing lines (their pipe) * availability of remote console - whats the cost * reboot service (if needed) - whats the cost * detailed

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Ok.. 1. genuian are only providing shared host solutions, for someone who only host a small web sites and want to put his video/pictures, some mail accounts, small stuff like that. Their biggest offering is 1.2GB space. tell me again what can I really do with it? host my /tmp? :) I did the

Re: Webcam

2005-07-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Logitech Quickcam pro 4000. Works great with Linux, excellent image quality, and quite popular among Linux developers. Price.. well, it's not a dirt cheap (like those you can buy in the supermarket for 70 NIS). Here's a Link to Zap where you can find it at a price starting from 450 NIS:

Re: FC3 Question

2005-07-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Sorry about the question, but from what version did you upgrade? You can also use the first CD Rescue mode, use ldd on the affected applications and see what you can install (using rpm -qf problematic application) in order to fix this issue. Thanks, Hetz On 7/1/05, Orr Dunkelman [EMAIL

Re: Webcam

2005-07-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
ביולי 2005, 18:57, נכתב על ידי Hetz Ben Hamo: Logitech Quickcam pro 4000. Works great with Linux, excellent image quality, and quite popular among Linux developers. Price.. well, it's not a dirt cheap (like those you can buy in the supermarket for 70 NIS). Here's a Link to Zap where you

Re: Webcam

2005-07-02 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Didi, I'm not sure, but I think the compression which is used with your qcam is being used in the QuickCam 4000, so if anyone wants to tinker with the driver and add the compression support that the 4000 has, would might have a nice quality of picture.. Just a thought.. Hetz On 7/2/05,

Re: a server for fun and profit

2005-07-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Gadi, If you want people to join you, you might want to publish some info: * What server is it (processors, disks, RAM, RAID, etc..) * What bandwidth limit (if any) ? * Why FreeBSD? Which version of FreeBSD? By publishing this info, you'll cut yourself many of those emails who will ask you the

Re: third generation modem

2005-07-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Gadi, Mind giving some details about this modem? model name, number, if you know which chipset etc.. the more, the better. Thanks, Hetz On 7/6/05, Gadi Evron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Does anyone have any experience with installing an Orange third generation modem on linux?

Re: Hebrew Support in Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, 1. Hebrew in a popular general-purpose Linux distribution I think that Hebrew support in Linux is quite good these days. There are some issues (ahhm, Thunderbird/Mozilla/Firefox hebrew text composition has some issues, and I wish the guys from IBM who wrote it will take care of it..), but

connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Here's a scenario I have: On one side of the globe, I have a Linux server (RHEL 3) in a hosting firm. On the other side of the globe - I have a Windows 2003 server which is hosted also. What I'm trying to do - is to make a permanent connection between the 2 servers. I can go ahead and use

Re: connectivity question

2005-07-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, What I am trying to understand, Hetz, is WHAT kind of a permanent link do you want between the two machines? Replication? DRP? Failover? Quite simple... I need to do some video streaming for an audience who have no clue about Quicktime, Real Player, or even downloading/installing plugins.

Re: Bluetooth

2005-07-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, 1 - Is it worth trying? No. And thats because ... ? 2 - Does anyone have hands-on experience? No. There are three bands that bluetooth uses. The first is for local communication such as between your headset and a phone on your belt. Range is about one meter. This band is

Re: Bluetooth

2005-07-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On 7/17/05, Shlomo Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 17 July 2005 13:27, Ez-Aton wrote: The problem was not with the distance, but with the frequencies. BT used frequencies previously used by IDF, so it was illegal (and distance). Now these freqs are open for BT devices, which, in

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

2005-08-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
It really depends if you care about binary compatibility for your binaries. (specially if you spread binaries). I belive that people who use Fedora Core 4 could tell you about their experience with GCC 4 (I'm using QEMU and GCC 4 cannot compile it). Thanks, Hetz On 8/18/05, Amos Shapira [EMAIL

STOP A for Linux?

2005-09-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, As every solaris Admin knows, there's the combination of pressing stop a to freeze the machine, the ability to do sync, a bit of monitoring, and safe rebooting/halting if needed. I know that in SPARC based machine, the stop a function is built from the ground up in their firmware. I was

Re: OT: how do i get an ulta-small PC?

2005-09-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Sorry but: 2.9 pounds = 1.31541787 kilograms Regarding PS/2 entries - I bought from the local Cosmos supermarket a USB small cable which has 2 PS/2 female connectors (mouse, keyboard). Cost: 31.90 NIS it does, however, remind me that i'll need an ethernet controller (this also solves the

Re: Monitor Problems

2005-09-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
How about using Fedora's own Xorg configuration utility instead of Xorg's own utility? it seems that Xorg doesn't know anything from the DDC probe it tried to retrieve. Use: system-config-display --reconfig Thanks, Hetz On 9/15/05, Aharon Schkolnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. We have a

Re: Linux-based Windows rescue/cleanup cd?

2005-09-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I belive in: use the best tool for your job. What I would recommend is not a Linux solution, but sort of mini windows solution. It's called: bartPE, it's GPL'd, and it creates an ISO image from your current Windows XP installation. Prior to making the ISO, you can add few programs (antivirus,

Re: kdevelop doesn't integrate with kde libraries and help system .

2005-09-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
How about upgrading first to the latest KDE and KDevelop? (KDE now is 3.4.2 and KDevelop is now at version 3.2.2). Unfortunately, I had learn in the hard-way that Redhat's own packaging of KDE leaves a lot to be desired, so I would suggest using APT and upgrade to the latest packages from this

regarding Zimbra

2005-09-30 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Few days ago there was a feature in slashdot regarding the new Zimbra mail server - which is an Exchange replacement. I got few remarks: 1. Although there's an RPM - it usually doesn't work even if you follow the instructions. 2. If you decide to install it for whatever reason - PLEASE make

Re: regarding Zimbra

2005-10-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
not mentioned anywhere! From my experience - it's pre pre pre beta! try to remember the Nautilus file manager circa 2001 :) Thanks, Hetz On 10/1/05, Ilya Konstantinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On ו', 2005-09-30 at 19:29 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Few days ago there was a feature in slashdot regarding

VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation)

2005-10-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Actually, I don't understand why don't you select a virtual server, and allow me to highlight some points: 1. With Virtual Server, you're not locked to any version of component (imagine that you want to use some feature from Perl 5.8 or Apache 2, but your host machine only has prior version. go

Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation)

2005-10-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
like rackspace.com - but be prepared to mortgage your first-born. The latency in Israel is ok, but in the US, it is outstanding. danny Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Actually, I don't understand why don't you select a virtual server, and allow me to highlight some points: 1. With Virtual Server

Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation)

2005-10-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
just because company A is friendlier to Linux? Hetz On 10/7/05, Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, 7 בOctober 2005 12:18, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I found that EV1 are much cheaper, Just a reminder: These were the people that jumped on the SCO bandwagon and bought SCO licenses to use

Re: EV1 and SCO (was: Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation))

2005-10-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
voided their license. --- Omer On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 12:38 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Some managers are fools. I've been working with quite few stupid managers in various jobs and places :) Does this means EV1 service is bad? does this means

Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation)

2005-10-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, They bought SCOSource licenses for their Linux systems. That license allows them to only use certain blessed versions of the Linux kernel (binary only). Quite a severe limitation, IMHO. And they cancelled the license deal with SCO. The press seems to forget to publish such small things

Re: EV1 and SCO (was: Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation))

2005-10-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I asked for a formal note from EV1. As soon as it hits my email box, I'll publish it here. Thanks, Hetz On 10/7/05, Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 14:36 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Well, allow me to update you :) They made a mistake (actually their CEO did

Fwd: regarding EV1 and SCO

2005-10-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Here's the mail. their AUP and TOS don't mention any SCO btw. Thanks, Hetz -- Forwarded message -- From: 01 - Headsurfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 7, 2005 5:15 PM Subject: RE: regarding EV1 and SCO To: Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Hetz Ben Hamo, There is not really

Fwd: regarding EV1 and SCO

2005-10-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
And after a bit pushing - I got this: -- Forwarded message -- From: 01 - Headsurfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 7, 2005 5:24 PM Subject: RE: regarding EV1 and SCO To: Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are no license issues between EV1 and SCO. However, as I said, you

Re: Xen vs. VMware (was: Re: VMware Internals Expert)

2005-10-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Well, at the moment, you still cannot install Windows as guest under Xen (unless you have the source code for windows - Hi Mainsoft people ;)) As for prices for the processors with the VM stuff built in - I expect them to be priced a bit higher, but not that much. It won't appear so fast in the

Re: OS X

2005-10-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
X86 emulation under PPC is SLOW, DOG slow! heck, when I played it on a fast G4, I came to a conclusion that it would be simply faster and cheaper to buy a non brand PC and use it rather then using Virtual PC. As for OS X/86 (OS for X86) - they use an Infenion chip to protect being running OS X/86

Re: VMware Internals Expert

2005-10-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Dear Eli, It might be wise to post the problem somewhere (for example -a page in your web server) , since there are almost none internal experts in VMWare (well, there is one, but not in Israel but in poland, he's the guy who releases VMWare patches for the newer kernels).. Which product do u

Re: ot: OS X

2005-10-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Shlomi, You're right about the fact that they are not going to allow MacOS to run on non-Apple hardware. However, they neither confirmed nor denied trying to use DRM hardware. They may or may not do that. In any case, Mac OS X for Pentiums will only support the particular hardware present

Re: ot: OS X

2005-10-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Apple have adamantly stated that they're not going to allow MacOS to run on non-Apple computers, and they're apparently going to use some kind of DRM hardware to try to enforce it. Given the history of DRM in the computer industry, though, I don't see how it will hold out for more than

Re: ot: OS X

2005-10-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Not true. I have a friend that is writing a book with Office 2004 on his Mac. He mixes Hebrew, Arabic, English and several other languages in his text. Oh? At least according to several places I read, Mac Office 2004 does not support hebrew RTL well. Here's a snippet from ThinkSecret web

Re: [Semi-OT] Hardware questions

2005-10-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
1. for Wifi - Belkin or any RealTek based card should do the trick and its supported under any recent distro with full open source drivers. Multifunction Device (Printer, Scanner Fax): CUPS and SANE Preferably a Laser I didn't see many multifunction devices with Laser. 99% of them are inkjet.

Re: [Semi-OT] Hardware questions

2005-10-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I suspect you can thank Bdale Garbee - HP's Linux CTO (and former Debian project leader). Just one question - how is the ink price compared to other brands? Well, the original cartidges are expensive just as others (Epson, Brother, IBM, Canon, you name it) - for mine, it's at about 300

Re: [Semi-OT] Hardware questions

2005-10-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, On 10/14/05, O.K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree. Canon technology is much better cartridge-wise. I use PIXMA IP-4000 and I have 5 carts 60NIS/each. Total it's the same 300 as you pay, but when you use all your red ink you have to buy the whole cart, while I only change 1 for 60

recommendation for a forum program?

2005-10-19 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I operate few forums, and so far, so good.. One thing that I found the hard way, that lots of Israeli users simply hate or getting confused with forums which are based on PHPBB2. One of the big disadvantages on PHPBB2 is that if you're not registered to a forum, you simply don't see whats

Re: Most recommanded webcam for Linux?

2005-10-24 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
It really depends which quickcam you got.. I have Logitech Quickcam 4000 - and it's one of the best, and fully supported under Linux (although the face tracking feature is not supported). If you want more then 640x480 resolution with good frame rate, it will cost you - a lot more. Go search for

Re: Most recommanded webcam for Linux?

2005-10-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Amos, Oops you are right. I forgot to mention this but I'm not near the camera to give its exact details - it's one of the cheapo cams which were available already three years ago. I think it's just called quickcam pro. On your USB cable there's a sticker (if it's still there) - the full

Re: can't wget http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/perlnut/ch18_01.htm

2005-10-30 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I had that few months ago. they do a simple check if you're using wget to grab pages. If you do, then they block you. If you add to your parameters: -U Lynx then you'll get the pages just fine. Thanks, Hetz On 10/30/05, David Harel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, When I browse

Re: Does this look like a hardware problem?

2005-11-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Yes, it seems like hardware failure. I suggest replacing your card with something else and see if this goes away (it will probably will). Thanks, Hetz On 11/10/05, Shlomo Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The subject says it all. For the past 2 days I've been losing my ADSL connection and

Re: USB Headphones and Microphone

2005-12-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Chaim, On 12/26/05, Chaim Keren Tzion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone explain how USB headphones and microphones are implemented in Linux? If you're using ALSA sound modules, then it should appear to you as: alsa_usb_audio module (it does load other modules which required). I assume

skype router

2005-12-31 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi people, I was wondering if anyone have heard about a router box that also has skype capabilities (I'm not talking about a router which can forward traffic). If not, has anyone tried Skype for Linux under a really low end hardware? what are the results? Thanks, Hetz

Re: [OT] Fair registrar?

2006-01-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Not sure, but I think Hostway has this kind of service. Not sure though, but you can call their support team and ask.. Thanks, Hetz On 1/4/06, Levy, Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's that time of the year, time to renew my domain. As I walk through the steps of doing that, I am required to

Re: [OT] Fair registrar?

2006-01-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
business like this on the Internet anymore? On Thursday 05 January 2006 00:21, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Not sure, but I think Hostway has this kind of service. Not sure though, but you can call their support team and ask.. Thanks, Hetz On 1/4/06, Levy, Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: vmware player images and gpl

2006-01-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Diego, How to make new images for this tool...? (evaluating other vmware products...?) Quite simple. Use QEMU to create those images. I use it all the times: creating images with QEMU and using them with the player (or with commercial VMWare) and vice versa. The VMWare settings files are

Re: Open source One Sided Accountisting Management program

2006-01-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
It would be nice if there were any demo version or at least some screenshots at the project's home page. Thanks, Hetz On 1/16/06, Ori Idan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it is not approved yet. Which means you can not send a report generated by this software to the IRS, however if you use this

Re: Microsoft propaganda

2006-01-20 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Not any more biased than Red Hat's White Papers which showed the total cost of ownership for Linux was far less than Windows because the sysadmins were pimply faced kids who would work for next to nothing if you did not mind giving them the morning off to attend high school. I hardly

off-topic: Linux job search for a friend

2006-01-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi People, A friend of mine is looking for a job as a Linux sysadmin (or Linux+windows) in Gush dan area. He has pretty good scripting knowledge and knows Linux pretty well. If you know anything, please contact me directly. Thank you, Hetz

Writely and Hebrew news

2006-01-23 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi People, Since this AJAX buzzword had started, companies had jumped and started writing some web apps that uses those technologies to create some really nice stuff.. One of those famous applications is called Writely and it's a web based word-processor. It's in beta stage now, although it

Re: Looking for USB video capture device.

2006-02-02 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Oy vey, here's where linux solutions are almost zero... On 2/2/06, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a USB video capture device. I need the following features: You can find plenty of them - be at Grabeex, Hippogauge, etc, but most of those USB grabbers are not

VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, VMWare next week plans to give away VMWare (GSX version, not the WS or ESX). Link: http://news.com.com/VMware+to+make+server+product+free/2100-1012_3-6034615.html?tag=nefd.top Thanks, Hetz To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I read a bit more. They won't release the GSX product as a freeware, but actually will release something which will be called VMWare Server which is something quite similar to GSX. So? free is not open. Xen is both (and yes, it can run Windows). I wish VMWare would open up the code under

Re: Linux machine with 5 Lan cards + Wireless for 460 NIS :-)

2006-02-11 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Geoffrey, I have WRT54G which was sent to me from the states by my friend. 1. The stock firmware will not connect via a cable modem to all ISPs and some via aDSL. I have tested the Version 3 of firmware to connect both to cables and ADSL with at least 3 ISP's (total: 6 tests). All the

Mazal Tov Aduva

2006-02-22 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I just found out the news: http://news.com.com/Sun+to+acquire+software+patch+specialist/2100-1010_3-6042188.html?tag=nefd.top Sun planning to acquire Aduva. Congratulations to the Aduva people :) Thanks, Hetz To unsubscribe, send

Re: Playing a DVD with 4 audio channels

2006-02-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Geoffrey, In both cases, you can set the stuff using alsamixer command (or with it's gui). You'll also need to use a player which knows how to output the channels (2.1, 4, 5.1, DTS etc). I recommend using Xine for this. Thanks, Hetz On 2/27/06, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: failover DHCP

2006-02-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Be careful. I had my share doing this tricks, and from my experience, NT's/2K/2003 DHCP server implementation simply sucks, specially when it comes to Linux machines receving IP's from NT machines. My suggestion: Install any other DHCP server on your Windows machines that works well with Linux.

Re: failover DHCP

2006-02-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Yup, forgot the name! ISC it is :) Thanks, Hetz On 2/27/06, Yaron Zabary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TAU runs with two ISC version 3.0.2 on Linux RH3. Over 10,000 hosts, most of them are assigned static addresses, but we also have a small number of dynamic hosts. Works with no problems.

any lecture on shell scripting soon?

2006-03-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I was wondering if anyone plan to lecture soon in Tel Aviv area about shell scripting. The reason I'm asking is because I would like to video record this lecture and publish it on the web (either as a ZIP file or through streaming). Many people want to learn shell scripting and I think this

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