Re: OT: Dell GX-260

2007-10-31 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Didi, I bought mine (GX 270) from alltrade (alltrade.co.il) for 1400 NIS (Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz, 80GB disk, 512MB RAM, CDROM, Floppy). This is one of the most quite machine I have here (although I run VMWare Server on it with VM, LAMP for my blog). There are basically 2 issues, one is minor and o

Re: linux supported usb soundcard ?

2007-11-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
All those cheap-o (sub 100 NIS) are supported by snd-usb-audio kernel module (from ALSA), including the USB cards from Creative. However, not all the "advanced" features are supported (enhanced mixers, AC-3, full MIDI, etc), so it really depends per card. Thanks, Hetz On 11/1/07, Erez D <[EMAIL

Now there's a bad colocation..

2007-11-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I just at thregister.com about C I Co-locations data center: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/02/chicaco_datacenter_breaches/ This could happend, and things have been done before, but at C I - it happend 4 times since 2005. Not only that, they lied to their customers (problems with "the route

OT: Netvision and the damn routing

2007-11-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Here's an issue I hope someone could help me with a solution: I bought some space in bluehost.com (yeah, their $7 for 300GB disk space, 3TB bandwidth, yada yada yada) and I planned to put some of my video clips (FLV format) at bluehost while my blog stays here at my house.. All went well, with 1

Re: OT: Netvision and the damn routing

2007-11-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Send files up to 10 MB in size > > for free. > > and have other plans with a reasonable price. > > As an alternative, you can try to use 012 as isp and take a higher > upload, and set a http server on your computer. Their prices are > better than netvision and speed is always

Re: OT: Netvision and the damn routing

2007-11-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, > Have you considered using Amazon's S3 ? > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16427261 Not suitable for http video stream. Thanks, Hetz = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in t

Re: OT: Netvision and the damn routing

2007-11-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Ariel, > As for video, the most important factor is jitter, rather than RTT. I > am not saying that a link with 20ms delay vs. a link with 1500ms delay are > the same, > however, the universities run video conferences with multiple users in > different > countries, both europe and US, and it

Re: OT: Netvision and the damn routing

2007-11-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Geoff, > Since you've paid for it already, perhaps try and see if you actually have > a problem. Or do you actually *have* a problem and you're trying to find a > cause? I do have a problem already and I found the cause (damn ALTER.NET switch), I'm now looking for a solution. Thanks, Hetz =

Re: OT: Netvision and the damn routing

2007-11-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, On Nov 12, 2007 6:33 PM, sara fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Put a video on your web site and I will try to view it. My ISP is 012. > Sure, just make sure you test the video that is embedded and not the video link which I provided in the post (which is not mine). http://witch.dyndns.org/w

Re: OT: Netvision and the damn routing

2007-11-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, On Nov 13, 2007 9:02 AM, sara fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Hetz > > I entered the page. I can't find the video links. Am I missing something? It should be there, below my signature, and it requires flash (at least version 8). Thanks, Hetz

Asus EEE and hebrew

2007-11-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi people, This is not a job offer, but just an idea that if someone to pick it up.. maybe he could make few shekels :) As many of you know, Asus is selling a very low cost notebook EEE PC for around $399 and it's quite a hit everywhere. The Israeli representative is RonLight (www.ronlight.co.il

HTML email question

2007-11-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I'm trying to write a very simple shell script which creates a simple hebrew text file, which is then being sent by email using sendmail. Here's the script, pretty basic one.. #!/bin/bash echo "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> mail.txt echo "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> mail.txt echo "Subject: =?UTF

Re: HTML email question

2007-11-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, On Nov 28, 2007 4:53 PM, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 15:36 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > I'm trying to write a very simple shell script which creates a simple > > hebrew text file, which is then being sent by email using

Re: HTML email question

2007-11-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, > > Oh boy, I love those RFC's (specially when they mention 1 thing, and > > the real world has other things) :) > > That's not true. A very small and inaccurate test I did with various > clients showed that all common ones can be configured to obey these RFCs > and they behave correctly when

2 questions regarding hebrew

2007-11-30 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I have 2 questions: 1. Does anyone have any good recommendation for a good text editor that supports HTML highlighting, Auto completion and *Good* Hebrew support? I have tried few already, but when it comes to Hebrew text embedding inside a file (like writing Hebrew paragraphs in PHP or HTML)

Re: ES 1000 and fonts

2007-12-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Leonid, ES 1000 SUCKS, including it's DAC abilities, etc... It's great for showing text and some graphics, but as a workstation, I would recommend to put any PCI/AGP/PCI-E graphics card inside the machine and use it instead. I had lots of problems when it comes to display with ES-1000. Up to 1024

Re: results for benchmark for Maildir filesystem

2007-12-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, > indeed, my jaw dropped. I had no idea ReiserFS was so far behind EXT3 > :-( > > time to reconsidder XFS I guess? I never used it before. Is is better at > recovering from crashes than ext3? journaling and all, I had it > sometimes come up in a bad, barely recoverable state after a crash. I

Re: help with fonts

2007-12-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, You can try to install either culmus RPM package or use the MS core fonts (http://corefonts.sf.net) Thanks, Hetz On 12/4/07, Dan Bar Dov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, I alreadey tried to install ie4linux with HE locale, then I got all the > IE menus in gibberish, and walla > still opened

Re: forcing forms to the left in Firefx/Tapuz?

2007-12-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, There is CTRL SHIFT X but that only works when editing text and it doesn't push any special chars to force it RTL or LTR.. Thanks, Hetz On Dec 6, 2007 4:11 AM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I think I've seen before some keyboard sequence to force the direction > of the

perl IDE recommendation?

2007-12-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I was wondering if someone could recommend a good IDE program with perl support. I need an IDE will full support for debugging perl, breakpoints, step by step, showing values at any time etc, and if possible, to have an auto complete functionality, etc... I've seen "epic" which runs using Ecl

Re: Redhat archive

2007-12-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Leonid, You should add this also: http://pub.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=15 Many commercial software companies today issue some minimum requirements and they require either RHEL/RHES/RHAS 2,3,4 or a variant. Since Red Hat don't put these binaries for free download, the CentOS r

Re: forcing forms to the left in Firefx/Tapuz?

2007-12-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
ROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/12/2007, Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There is CTRL SHIFT X but that only works when editing text and it > > doesn't push any special chars to force it RTL or LTR.. > > Thanks - it indeed aligns the i

Re: automatic dyndns client for Debian Etch?

2007-12-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I'm using ddclient. My blog is sitting at one my "servers" at home and ddclient works like a charm by updating my dyndns account. I moved few months ago to another city and the DSL service here is worse then Tel Aviv so every few days the DSL disconnects and reconnects, and ddclient saved my d

Re: wmv in linux

2007-12-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Erez, You'll need the codec package to install on your machine (I think it should sit in /usr/lib/codecs or something), and then you could play the stream. If I'm not mistaken, both Xine and VLC works with WMV 9 files without a problem and have MMS support. Thanks, Hetz On Dec 15, 2007 5:17

Re: wmv in linux

2007-12-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, It really comes to behavior of the streaming server, if it tells the client what the file size is. If it is, then mplayer/xine should cope well and you can run forward and backward. If not, well, maybe the -idx switch in mplayer could help, but thats only works if you download the complete st

Re: WebServer on a standalone home router

2007-12-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi David, The idea that you mention could be done, although I don't recommend using the Apache on Linksys since it's pretty "huge" compared to the miminal amount of storage that you have on Linksys router. I suggest using some other tiny web servers and I'm sure the OpenWRT or Tomato have some pac

Re: wmv in linux

2007-12-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hmm, and Xine? Xine is using the codecs exactly as mplayer uses, but I don't think there's an issue of "xine 64" or "xine 32", but I'm not sure about this. Thanks, Hetz On Dec 15, 2007 8:07 PM, Erez D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, it was a 64bit problem ... > > w64codecs are a joke, it doesnt

Re: how to avoid google analytics

2007-12-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I read his post, and I'm sorry to say, it's LAME excuse, specially when it comes from someone who calls himself "an internet entrepreneur". Since it's off topic, I wrote a detailed answer to this guy in my blog here: http://witch.dyndns.org/wp/?p=332 - all are welcome to read and have discuss

Re: [job offer] SysAdmin

2007-12-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Gil, On Dec 18, 2007 11:19 PM, Gil Freund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > EPIX Pharmaceutical is looking for a system administrator for the > computational chemistry department. Send CV to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, you do need someone which has some miminal DNS configuration skills.. Check this ou

Re: Extra Features of MP3 Drivers

2007-12-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Eli, haven't seen you here for quite a long time Most of the cheap MP3 players here in Israel, their software is in ROM without being able to upgrade or program them to something different. The more expensive ones (iRiver, Archos, SanDisk, Apple, etc) do have the ability to be upgraded and rep

Re: Fonts problem on Centos.

2007-12-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Yaron, I'm not sure, it's just a shot in the dark, but could you check the DPI settings on a machine that shows the font well? If you don't have such a machine, try to play with the DPI settings to see if you get better results.. Also, you might want to check if antialiasing is on or off and i

ban IP from ssh after X numbr of times of bad login

2007-12-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I'm looking at my daily logwatch mail and I find something like this: sshd: Authentication Failures: unknown (200.110.185.21): 129 Time(s) Of course, I can move the SSH port to something else, but I'm looking for a more elegant solution. I want to have my Linux machine an ability t

Re: ban IP from ssh after X numbr of times of bad login

2007-12-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
; baruch > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 11:46:07AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking at my daily logwatch mail and I find something like this: > > > > sshd: > >Authentication Failures: > > unknown (200.110.185.2

Re: Using only left alt+left shift key combination as a shortcut for switching between hebrew and english - is it possible ?

2007-12-31 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Dan, I always skipped both GNOME and KDE's language keyboard binding and did it directly on xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us,il" Option "XkbOptions" "g

Re: Using only left alt+left shift key combination as a shortcut for switching between hebrew and english - is it possible ?

2007-12-31 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
ard preferences->Layouts. > And than restarted the X-server. > Still, when pressing "alt-shift" nothing happens. It stays English, > and scroll lock > led stays unlighted. > > I do not see any errors in Xorg.0.log in both cases. > > Any ideas ? Am I missing someth

Re: copy boot image

2008-01-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Why opening the box? You can do it with ghost (and other tools which you can find in freshmeat.net), but you don't need to open the machine for that. Thanks, Hetz On Jan 6, 2008 4:58 PM, Tom Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the recommended method to distributing linux images? > > I

Re: vnc in window mode ?

2008-01-08 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Not sure I'm understand you well... You can open a VNC window on machine A, kill the VNC on the remote machine and open it on another machine and it won't kill the VNC session that is running on the VNC Server. You can do it either with a command line or manually.. Thanks, Hetz On Jan 8, 2

Re: FLOSS Services Directory

2008-01-08 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Chaim, If I'm not mistaken, http://whatsup.org.il already has this covered. Look at the bottom section of the page. Thanks, Hetz On Jan 8, 2008 5:26 PM, Chaim Keren-Tzion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings fellow list members, > > There are often calls seeking FLOSS services on this list.

Re: [Fwd: Windows Server 2008 Application Compatability Lab Invitation]

2008-01-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
It's really not unusual that Microsoft invites other open source companies to try their products/projects on their new OS prior to release it. Example: Microsoft invited the mozilla team to test Firefox on Vista prior releasing vista to the public. Thanks, Hetz On Jan 10, 2008 9:22 AM, Eli Marmo

Re: [Fwd: Windows Server 2008 Application Compatability Lab Invitation]

2008-01-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Me? I'm not representing any open source project, nor have I been invited to redmond :) Thanks, Hetz On Jan 10, 2008 1:48 PM, Danny Lieberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good deal > Are you going? > > Danny > > > > On 1/10/08, Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The forwarded message w

Re: [Job Offer and a byte more] PHP programmer and CTO

2008-01-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, On Jan 13, 2008 12:41 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:11:20AM +0200, aviv sher wrote: > > > > a young startup company with a very interesting web 2.0 platform is seeking > > for a > > PHP programmer with knowledge in AJAX HTML or any other 3-4

Re: Can't browse to some sites.

2008-01-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I had that issue before with another router (EDIMAX) and then I switched to Linksys. I would suggest to set the MTU to 1452 and see if that works. Thanks, Hetz On Jan 15, 2008 10:40 AM, David Harel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks > > Noam Rathaus wrote: > > Hi, > > I would guess MTU

Re: Recommended filesystem for 6TB storage

2008-01-22 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Oren, As far as I know, all the popular file-systems do support the sizes EXT3 supports. However, it really depends what are you going to store in your storage. if it's tiny files (few K's each file), and many other parameters do need to be considered before deciding what FS to use. Also, mak

Re: Arch Linux xorg and old thinkpad A21p laptop

2008-01-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I'm not sure if Arch Linux is the best choice (I had tons of problems with their packaging few months ago). You can try to use vesa driver in the xorg.conf and it should let you have X although non accelerated. It really depends which chipset is inside this machine (in the IBM World, "A21p" i

Re: Yum cache for a cluster of clients

2008-01-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Tom, My suggestion would be something like this: 1. On one of your machines, set-up a YUM server with all the packages. See here how to do this: http://sial.org/howto/yum/ 2. Point your workstations (instructions on the same page URL) to that server 3. Make sure that "server" download the pack

upgrade to Centos 5 question

2008-01-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, It's always "fun" to play with a distribution that on one side has the latest tech, but on the other side, ditches you on the side after few months (and only giving you choice to upgrade, or be left without updates) I'm using Fedora Core 6 on my main web server, and today I found out that the

Re: Recommendations for incremental backups

2008-02-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Dupicity is nice, but it really sucks due to 2 issues: 1. With S3, you cannot select folder as a destination INSIDE the bucket. You can add a bucket name and thats it. It might be useful for a simple backup, but when you want to create several backups where each backup sits at a specific directory

Re: using ffmpeg to create AVI files for Windows

2008-02-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Shlomo, You're coding Video with XVid and Audio with AAC, and unless the Windows user has both of those codecs installed, he won't be able to watch the video. I assume that he got XVID/DIVX codec installed (if he played movies from the net), but I'm not sure he got AAC codec installed (most of

Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, You can't use RTL in plain text mode because of a simple issue: what would tell the text to be in RTL? If's there's no HTML/CSS decleration about RTL, why should the mail be in RTL? I know that kmail for example is smart enough to detect that if a paragraph begins in hebrew text, then it shoul

Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, > איך ההודעה הזו נראית? In hebrew, but justified to the left -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org

Re: Sound not working in flash (e.g. youtube)

2008-02-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
it's ugly, but I had the same issue, and what I did is to change the permissions to 0666 for /dev/dsp chmod a+rw /dev/dsp Hetz On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Tom Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Constantine Shulyupin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

mail server and gmail SPAM

2008-02-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I have here 4 Linux machines, which will be running some forums, db etc... 2 of the machines, when testing to send mail to gmail, send it and I recieve it correctly. However, 2 other servers when they send mail, the mail goes directly to the SPAM folder in gmail. I can do the simple trick of

Re: mail server and gmail SPAM

2008-02-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
; - goes directly to spam. Thanks, Hetz On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Yuval Hager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 25 February 2008, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have here 4 Linux machines, which will be running some forums, db etc... > &g

OFFTOPIC: Asus EEE in Israel

2008-02-29 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I know that several people who I talked to and are subscribed to this list are really excited about Asus EEE and want to buy it. As you may know, Bezeq went out with a campaign that if you upgrade your ADSL to 4MBit, you can buy from them exclusivly the EEE for 39.90 a month (for 36 months).

Re: OFFTOPIC: Asus EEE in Israel

2008-03-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
ite Linux distribution and use it. For 300-400$ I think it's worth it. As for the mouse, with the 8G EEE, Asus supplies the purchases with a nice case and a USB mouse :) Thanks, Hetz On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:13

Re: Changing text direction in KDE apps

2008-03-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
in your ~/.qt/ there is a file called qtrc In this file, there's a line: useRtlExtensions=false Change it to: true restart your application, and use CTRL RIGHT-SHIFT to change dir to RTL and CTRL LEFT SHIFT to ltr. Hetz 2008/3/6 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does anyone know how to change

Re: Changing text direction in KDE apps

2008-03-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Sure, it's attached. Hetz PS: Make sure you're using at least QT 3.x, and not using it with VNC On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/03/2008, Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in your ~/.qt/ there is a file

Re: Changing text direction in KDE apps

2008-03-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
rpm -qi qt (in RPM based distributions) Thanks, Hetz 2008/3/7 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 07/03/2008, Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sure, it's attached. > > > > > > Hetz > > > > > > PS:

Re: Centralized Linux Authentication With CentOS

2008-03-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
The screen shots looks from the Mac Camino browser (which is Gecko based browser) Hetz On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Chaim Keren-Tzion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:56 PM, dima bros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > you can use MUCLM > > > > http://sourcef

Re: k3b hangs system - must hard reset

2008-03-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, One sad thing about HAL, hotplug and other "automation" scripts is that if your CDROM/DVD-R drive has issues, your machine is going to halt or "freeze", which seems like same thing happend to you.. My guess is that it's something wrong with your drive, which "freezes" the OS... I suggest you

Paper digital archiving solutions for Linux?

2008-03-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I have here a small "mountain" of documents - contracts, bills, etc.. Due to my 2 cats here, the "mountain" looks now like a total mess, so I thought to take the chance, scan everything and move to digital completely. I have talked to few lawyers and a representative from the Income Tax ("mas

Re: printer recommendations, CISS

2008-03-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Michael, > I agree with the observation that HP is the best of the major printer > manufacturers with respect to Linux. I recently purchased a Canon iP4300 and > had to make do, at first, with using one third party driver for monochrome > printing and another for color. Only lately has Ca

Re: "all-in-one" ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, > - HP drivers for Windows can indeed be a pain. I've heard feedback from > someone I work for that their HP printer (not sure which model) drivers > needed 300MB(!) of free disk space to install. That's what I call > abusing, but hey - Windows users should not be surprised too much, I >

Re: "all-in-one" ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> That's not really true. The 300mb package includes all sorts of extras > including scanning programs, web publishing, OCR, etc. > > AFAIK, you can't seperate them from just the printer drivers. Actually you have basically 2 options: 1. You can download the "basic package" driver from HP's w

samba, CUPS and Windows

2008-03-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I'm looking for a configuration to print from Windows to my new Office Jet which is connected to my Linux box. I can use the CUPS driver, but I prefer to use the native HP drivers. Only thing is that I didn't find any explanation of WHAT to put in /etc/samba/drivers, why do i need to work with

Re: samba, CUPS and Windows

2008-03-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:04:12PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > I'm looking for a configuration to print from Windows to my new Office > > Jet which is connected to my Linux box. I can use the CUPS dr

Re: samba, CUPS and Windows

2008-03-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> Hi, > > What worked for me was actually tell Windows to use "Microsoft" RAW driver > (listed under Microsoft as the vendor). > > CUPS is smart enough to know how to use it. > > > > On Monday 17 March 2008 14:21:16 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > Geoff,

Re: major packet loss at hot server

2008-03-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I use ADSL (5Mbit). My ISP: Netvision. It seems that they also have some serious packet drops even from my machine to Netvision! check this out: (problems are marked with arrows) /mtr -c 10 -r netvision.net.il HOST: witch.dyndns.orgLoss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. 192.1

Re: major packet loss at hot server

2008-03-23 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, > Not at all. Remember that the packets have to go through gateways. So I wonder, are those ISP's using Cisco's 1XXX/2XXX routers which makes those packet loss? An ISP should have a very fast equipment which shouldn't loose packet like nuts. Thats unacceptable these days, specially when it c

Re: [YBA] SYN dropped from Netvision "timsoret"

2008-03-23 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
The Unix team in Netvision (I think it's called "Mahleket ha-system"). I don't have their phone or email unfortunately. Hetz On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Jonathan Ben Avraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi fellow list members, > A client of mine recently moved from H-DSL to "timsoret" (frac

installing CentOS/RHEL without CD using PXE?

2008-03-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I just got an thinkpad X31 without the ultrabase, which means - no CDROM/DVD. I don't have an external CDROM/DVD (I have 6 internal DVD drives on my other machines already). So I was wondering if someone knows a way to install CentOS/RHEL (or any other Linux distribution) without using any ex

Re: installing CentOS/RHEL without CD using PXE?

2008-03-29 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Thanks all for the help. I've created some "PXE server" (tftpboot, dhcp etc..) and installed the CentOS. Everything works perfectly except the wifi, but thats another issue. Thanks all for your help. Hetz = To unsubscribe, send mail

Problems with Cisco 350 Mini PCI (Thinkpad X31)

2008-03-31 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I have bought a 2nd hand Thinkpad X31 and it has the Cisco 350 MiniPCI card inside. I used the airo driver with the latest firmware (5.60.22), but no matter how hard I tried, WPA (personal) authentication does not work. Here's the configuration file: ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ne

Re: [ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues

2008-04-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, 2008/4/5 Uri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear linux-il friends, > > 1. I'm very concerned with freedom of speech online, especially today > when the www and Internet has become so commercial. When the big > corporations control the Internet, or at least to some extent are > controlling the Interne

Re: choice of provisioning server?

2008-04-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Beware of Tivoli Provisioning stuff.. I spend few days with it, and with CentOS 5 (and 4.x). It sucks. really bad. (I haven't tried the latest version which came 3 months ago though). It craps the network config files, xorg.conf files etc.. Thanks, Hetz On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Noam Meltz

Re: [ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues

2008-04-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> Dear Hetz, Hi Marc, > > 2. As a person who previously "matched" between companies and > > developers, I would say to any developer who wants to join you, that > > you are a "Red Risk", which means that developers should ask for cash > > (and not Shotef+30 or anything like that) or bank's c

Re: [ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues

2008-04-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Geoff, > I expect that it was something quite different. Much more likely is that > they either had money troubles, or they had staffing problems and wanted > to hire someone who wanted the extra money. > > They figured you would take the cut, and if you did not, they would live > with who

Re: Bluetooth support under linux.

2008-04-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Geoff, There are few howto's for installing and using bluetooth devices under Linux. There is some GUI support both in KDE and in gnome. I don't know about GNOME gui parts, but in KDE there's KDE Blue tooth (http://bluetooth.kmobiletools.org/), so it really depends if your distribution has some

Re: things left out of RHEL5 - and where to get them from

2008-04-08 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Ira, On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after kickstart gave me a hard (and weird) time, I finally have CENTOS-5 > installed automagically over the LAN with PXE. Since it's the target > platform of the product, it only makes sense the R&D do the building

Re: things left out of RHEL5 - and where to get them from

2008-04-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Amos, > Isn't rpmforge supposed to be a "one stop shop" for all the large RPM > repositories? > Supposed - yes, but different groups see themselves as "special" so they don't join (I won't name names). The same issue was with Fedora's RPMS, but now there's Livna. One repository to add, and t

Re: Downloading flash video from reshet.tv

2008-04-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Ira, The trick you're mentioning is by using the "-dump" feature in mplayer, which saves the stream. As much as I recall, the only way to play it back is only using mplayer. Hetz On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Geoffrey S. Mendelson, from the pos

Re: Downloading flash video from reshet.tv

2008-04-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Geoff, It does play on firefox on Windows, if you have the Windows media plugin for firefox installed (http://port25.technet.com/pages/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download.aspx), but the buttons on many web pages are javascript crap which is not understood by Firefox. On my Thinkpad wi

Re: Downloading flash video from reshet.tv

2008-04-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, There's an extension called "VideoDownloader" for firefox. It should reveal the URL for the SWF/FLV file, and once you have it, you can use CURL or WGET to download the file (you may need to use some user-agent strings to fool the server though). thanks, Hetz On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:16 AM,

"official way" to load wifi in Red Hat/Fedora?

2008-04-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, After 2 weeks of struggling with my wifi (Cisco Aironet 350) I finally gave up and bought a cheap Belkin PCMCIA WIFI card and finally I managed to make it work with my WiFi and WPA-PSK. What I'm looking for is some "official" way to load and configure it. I could write a script which detect i

Re: "official way" to load wifi in Red Hat/Fedora?

2008-04-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, > No need for custom scripts anymore... I wish :) > > if so, load the kernel module (if required), > > This should happen automatically on any 2.6.x kernel based distro (i.e: > in the last 4 years). Depends if your WIFI device kernel module is in your distribution's kernel tree. Luckily

Re: "official way" to load wifi in Red Hat/Fedora?

2008-04-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> That documentation is highly out dated. NetworkManager is doing WPA for > a long time now (I've been using it more then a year and it had > supported WPA all along). I just managed to make it run. I must say, even if in version 0.7.0 (I'm using Fedora 8), it's not the most stable application

so Israeli ISP's DO throttle bittorent traffic

2008-04-24 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I haven't seen any news about this issue in the main news web sites today, so I thought I'll post it here. According to a new report from Vuze (the creators of Azureues bittorrent client), there are many many ISP's who use the RST trick to slow down/halt bittorrent download. We all heard abou

3G connection through Bluetooth

2008-04-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Does anyone knows a good way to connect using bluetooth and Nokia 3G phone to the net? I have a Nokia E61 and bluetooth dongle. I can connect using GPRS but I'm looking for using UTMS connection (Orange). Anyone? Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (he

Re: 3G connection through Bluetooth

2008-04-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> Are you sure there is a difference? As far as I understand, connection is > exactly the same as far as the computer is concerned, and the details are > handled by the modem/phone. Interesting. I'll check this. Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew)

Re: rdesktop hebrew keyboard question

2008-04-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Nope, both the "." and the "/" gives me "ץ" and on top of that, the Q gives me "," and the "W" gives me "." - like the ancient old hebrew keyboard.. The "fun" part is that if I restart the rdpclient again (not always), the keyboard behavior is going back to normal.. weird.. Thanks, Hetz > Acco

rdesktop hebrew keyboard question

2008-04-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I'm using rdesktop 1.5.0 (latest) and I found a weird behavior: when using the standard en-us keyboard layout, it works ok, but trying to press the hebrew DOT ("nekuda") gives "ץ". When trying the comma, I'm getting "ת". the he keyboard layout works nice, but I cannot switch back to english

Re: rdesktop hebrew keyboard question

2008-04-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I thought about this solution. My problem is that I want to use on both the ALT shift combination to change language. I wish rdesktop had some "raw" keyboard support.. Thanks, Hetz On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Tomer Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hetz Ben Hamo wro

3G connection, Bluetooth, Fedora 8

2008-04-29 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, After spending few hours with tons of docs, I found the following info: 1. 3G connection is different from WAP connection, as it requires different APN (Access Point Number). For WAP/GPRS, it's "internet" while for 3G/UMTS it's "uinternet" (with Orange, I don't know about Cellcom). 2. Those w

Re: real hardware access for a virtual/Paravirtual machine?

2008-05-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Yes, I would like to hear about ANY virtualized solution which lets you "lock" specific PCI device for use directly (and only) by a VM. You can do it with USB / firewire devices. To make it work with VM, it is required (at least according to the qemu mailing list) that the bios shouldn't map t

Re: real hardware access for a virtual/Paravirtual machine?

2008-05-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Ok, Would someone show me any VM solution that can "lock" a PCI/AGP/PCIe device (such as graphics card), so it can be used with any VM exclusivly? Hetz On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Armak wrote: >> >> It does work without an IOMMU, it just does

Re: RHEL-family dev environment

2008-05-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Ira, which repository did you use for the KDE RPMS? what centos shipped with or from kde-redhat.sf.net? The ones that comes with Centos are crappy as hell. Thanks, Hetz On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you may remember a few weeks ago, I was asking about K

Re: mknod

2008-05-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
What about udev? On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Ohad Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > Is there any risk to give a user sudo rights of mknod? > as far as I understand it now, it can only create new devices, therefor the > risk for a running system is minimal. > > Thanks, > Ohad >

a bit OT: cellular companies and new packages

2008-05-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Since today (yesterday was the announcement), Cellcom, Orange and Pelephone are offering a more "human" packages for internet connection through your cellular phone/modem. I have done some digging in Cellcom and Orange packages, and I talked to representatives of both companies. My findings,

Re: Automating Installation Process

2008-05-14 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Well, a bit-complex shell script could do what you're looking for (the script should be smart enough for multi-level stages though), but there are other solutions (although I don't know if they are using PXE): * System Imager - http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/Main_Page * FAI (Fully Aut

Re: Fedora 9 download problems

2008-05-14 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Geoff, I'm downloading the DVD torrent version. I started 2 minutes ago and the average speed here is 250-350Kbyte per second, so at least according to my Azureus, it will take ~3 hours 20 minutes to download the 3.33GB DVD ISO. Why don't you just use the torrent and by morning you'll have your DV

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