Re: Is open source more secure? [was Re: Moving to Linux]

2005-05-14 Thread Michael Vasiliev
of having your hook caught in someone else's fishing net. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev ...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head. Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED

[ATTN] Re: was something wrong with the list?

2005-05-17 Thread Michael Vasiliev
for later use) All subscribers whose mails was lost, if any, please repost them. May you accept our apologies for the inconvenience. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Linux-IL moderator I have also been a huge Unix fan ever since I realized that SCO was not Unix

Re: [OT] nitpicking [was Re: Is open source more secure?]

2005-05-17 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Monday May 16 2005 00:41, Amit Aronovitch wrote: Michael Vasiliev wrote: 1) Majority of windows users are bereft of gorm. They don't have anything to protect them. They don't patch up vulnerabilities on regular basis. Thus, Sorry for the noise, but curiousity overcame the fear

Left-handed mouse pointers

2005-05-20 Thread Michael Vasiliev
from GLS_BINARY_LSB_FIRST? -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g

Re: An amusing story

2005-05-30 Thread Michael Vasiliev
it and not mailing the list owner directly puzzles me. I will, however, relay your request if you wish. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev The following statement is not true. The previous statement is true. = To unsubscribe, send mail

Re: burning mp3 as data

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Vasiliev
enabled. This seems to be the problem with your filenames. You can enable/disable the extension in your data CD project options, filesystems tab. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev A person who is more than casually interested in computers should be well schooled in machine language, since

Re: Mozilla firefox 1.0.4 and Flash issues

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Vasiliev
, Michael Vasiliev as appealing as it might seem, it is impossible to patch or upgrade users Security Warrior = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run

[Job Offer] PHP Programmers for Neo

2005-06-25 Thread Michael Vasiliev
I am forwarding a message from Shlomi Loubaton manually to the list, because the list software refuses to forward it for some reason. -- Mycroft ---BeginMessage--- From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 20 18:35:03 2005 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from iglu.org.il ([192.117.122.34]

Re: Keyboard shortcut to switching languages in Fedora 4 - is it possible?

2005-06-25 Thread Michael Vasiliev
switch. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Quark! Quark! Beware the quantum duck! = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-24 Thread Michael Vasiliev
immediately as they grow. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Linux-IL moderator In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Why most people prefer Windows

2005-10-02 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Sunday October 2 2005 22:05, Uri Even-Chen wrote: I hope I'm not stepping on open wounds here, but I want to raise this Ouch! Oi! Aiieee! -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people

Re: Go-Linux 2005

2005-10-19 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Wednesday October 19 2005 19:41, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:23:31PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: Hi, I saw at http://www.pc.co.il/linux2005 that there is a logo for Israel Linux User Group (IGLU ?!). No, ILUG, Israeli Linux User Group. No relation to IGLU or

Re: skype router

2005-12-31 Thread Michael Vasiliev
quality was acceptable. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure. -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra = To unsubscribe, send mail

Re: timidity stopped after upgrade.

2006-01-21 Thread Michael Vasiliev
set for timidity to use. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. -- J.R.R. Tolkien = To unsubscribe, send

Re: Hebrew printing from OOo 2.0.1

2006-01-26 Thread Michael Vasiliev
replacement - Uncheck Enable font replacement Enjoy. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind

Re: Hebrew printing from OOo 2.0.1

2006-01-27 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Friday January 27 2006 11:09, Shlomo Solomon wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 00:35, Michael Vasiliev wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 20:45, Shlomo Solomon wrote: When I print from OOo 2.0.1, in the page preview mode, everything looks good, but on paper some fonts get printed

Re: Hebrew printing from OOo 2.0.1

2006-01-31 Thread Michael Vasiliev
(this creates the symlinks in your home directory in OO config directory under fonts). One of them should work, and that will be the one you should use. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate

Re: OpenOffice 2 and Hebrew

2006-02-06 Thread Michael Vasiliev
. One of the OpenDocument files I created with a previous version had some words reversed. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev There are many different styles of composition. I characterize them always as Mozart versus Beethoven. When Mozart began to write at that time he had the composition

Re: OpenOffice 2 and Hebrew

2006-02-07 Thread Michael Vasiliev
. Can You, Nadav and Michael, and everyone else on this list can confirm this Yes. Contrary to what I wrote earlier, it is the Type and Replace sequence checking that is messing the layout. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Tomorrow, this will be part of the unchangeable past but fortunately

Re: Kernel compilation oddities

2006-03-04 Thread Michael Vasiliev
while still having an old kernel source tree. Looks like Debian SID users have already stepped on that rake. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice

[ATTN] please enlighten me

2006-03-25 Thread Michael Vasiliev
). Oded, there are some things that I will certainly not tolerate on this list and xenophobia is one of them. Consider yourself officially warned. In case you decide to continue pursuing that topic, I'll arrange you a personal vacation with less reading and writing. Have a nice day. -- Michael

Re: please enlighten me

2006-03-25 Thread Michael Vasiliev
on the achievement. The very fact that that remark was made, does not imply that you should retort immediately. Please keep the flames down. Thank you. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Linux-IL moderator If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people

Re: [ATTN] please enlighten me

2006-03-26 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Sunday March 26 2006 09:31, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Michael Vasiliev wrote: Oded, there are some things that I will certainly not tolerate on this list and xenophobia is one of them. Consider yourself officially warned. In case you decide to continue pursuing that topic, I'll arrange you

Re: Shared Object, ID yourself

2006-04-08 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Saturday April 8 2006 13:01, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: [information which I found very useful] This has to be the most educational thread for me that I saw on the list in years. Orna, Oleg, if you are going to discuss this further, don't forget to CC yours truly ;) -- Sincerely Yours, Michael

[MOD] We are experiencing technical difficulties....

2006-05-27 Thread Michael Vasiliev
90 hours to do the weekly review. So, if you mail gets stuck for more than 24 hours, please mail me and I will sort it out as soon as possible. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Linux-IL moderator ...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way

Re: OT: Unsubscribe from linux-il

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Thursday May 25 2006 18:38, Uri Sharf wrote: Apologies for the OT, but I can't unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] from this list even after following the instructions provided by Listar. Would appreciate help with manual removal. Removed manually by list owner. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Vasiliev
, Michael Vasiliev The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-25 Thread Michael Vasiliev
physics fan, but isn't thermal noise much, much cheaper? And BTW, it's what was used for our favorite onboard RNG we all miss so much -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-25 Thread Michael Vasiliev
:) -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke

Re: optimization guidelines required for C.

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Vasiliev
what OS in a virtual machine to test and dissect the latest virus you got in your mail. I recommend to dig the most ancient version you have to go and surprise the little wormy. Hours of fun. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev .. Any resemblance between the above views and those of my

Re: How do I change my subscribed email address ?

2006-07-15 Thread Michael Vasiliev
from your old account (looks like you can :) you mail Ely Levy, the list owner. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Linux-IL moderator Tomorrow, this will be part of the unchangeable past but fortunately, it can still be changed today

OLS 2006 recordings

2006-07-27 Thread Michael Vasiliev
Hello all, I believe these might interest some of you. OLS 2006 recordings, courtesy of Shawn Starr. http://christian-leber.de/~ijuz/ols2006.torrent -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev This door is baroquen, please wiggle Handel. (If I wiggle Handel, will it wiggle Bach

Re: OLS 2006 recordings

2006-07-27 Thread Michael Vasiliev
either. My patience is running out, another week and I'll start mailing the relevant presenters :) P.S. I really recommend ham radio or another harmless hobby for all these returning from the shelters. Keeps you calm. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev ...this does not mean that some of us

Gentoo is about to drop hspell support

2006-08-26 Thread Michael Vasiliev
^Wrunning things, and Debian seems more and more appealing every day. Let's establish how many Gentoo users are there that hspell is important to them. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Linux-IL moderator I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly

Re: Gentoo is about to drop hspell support

2006-08-27 Thread Michael Vasiliev
packages to remove and the power to actually remove them. Whatever their decision will be, it will be final. Or at least it's what it says. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. -- Wm. Shakespeare

Re: paying 'Bituach Leumi' using Firefox

2006-09-15 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Friday September 15 2006 20:06, Moshe Leibovitch wrote to Guy Keren: [skipped] Guys, guys, as long as you exchange Hebrew one-liners in private, I don't care, but why CC linux-il? This is an English-speaking list, after all. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Linux-IL moderator I'd crawl

Re: Login problem

2006-09-22 Thread Michael Vasiliev
patches that restrict you from doing that. As usial when it comes to battle of the minds, human factor plays the most important role. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent

Re: Login problem

2006-09-22 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Saturday September 23 2006 03:31, Amos Shapira wrote: On 23/09/06, Michael Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not entirely correct, if you have some privileges, namely if you are still a root user inside a chroot padded cell, you can easily break out by moving up a root user can just

Re: Login problem

2006-09-23 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Saturday September 23 2006 19:18, guy keren wrote: On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 06:25 +0300, Michael Vasiliev wrote: On Saturday September 23 2006 03:31, Amos Shapira wrote: On 23/09/06, Michael Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not entirely correct, if you have some privileges, namely

Re: ScsiSata Inquiry tool for linux

2006-10-13 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Friday October 13 2006 15:59, guy keren wrote: [since you're a top-poster, i'll top-post too ;)] Ugh :[ -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You

Nvidia closed-source driver root exploit available

2006-10-17 Thread Michael Vasiliev
/r7-0025/ A beta of the next version of nvidia drivers is available from Nvidia website, that supposedly fixes that bug, they somehow failed to properly release the release notes. ;) -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Real Programmers don't play tennis, or any other sport that requires you

Re: Nvidia closed-source driver root exploit available

2006-10-17 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Tuesday October 17 2006 12:52, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Michael Vasiliev, from the post of Tue, 17 Oct: A beta of the next version of nvidia drivers is available from Nvidia website, that supposedly fixes that bug, they somehow failed to properly release the release notes

Re: 2 ssh servers on 1 ip

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Vasiliev
, but it should work. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev unfair competition, n.: Selling cheaper than we do. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo

Re: Image spam

2006-10-24 Thread Michael Vasiliev
installation. Isn't that very, very slow and very, very inaccurate? Spamassasin is notorious for being a memory and CPU hog, adding another extension to fight a lost battle will make it even worse. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Linux-IL Moderator Let me have men about me that are fat Sleek

Re: Image spam

2006-11-01 Thread Michael Vasiliev
their spam status, or they are shadowed by my own spam filters when I fetch them with POP3. If they don't, how do you filter your mail and check for false positives? -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev If you don't have time to do it right, where are you going to find the time to do it over

Re: [OT] Contact number of Uri Even Chen?

2006-11-03 Thread Michael Vasiliev
this your first warning. P.S. He seems to send some to linux-il posting address, but I am putting it on hold for now. Not enough of a violation to punish. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Linux-IL moderator Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation

Re: [OT] Contact number of Uri Even Chen?

2006-11-03 Thread Michael Vasiliev
and archived. Don't force me to post a netiquette letter on monthly basis. First warning, don't push it. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Linux-IL moderator We must not put mistakes into programs because of sloppiness, we have to do it systematically and with care

Re: [OT] Contact number of Uri Even Chen?

2006-11-03 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Friday November 3 2006 22:39, Amos Shapira wrote: [reply sent off-list] -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Linux-IL moderator Real Programmers don't play tennis, or any other sport that requires you to change clothes. Mountain climbing is OK, and real programmers wear their climbing

Re: problems with tetex 3.0

2006-11-22 Thread Michael Vasiliev
requested, and let them figure it out. They are much more helpful if you do what they tell you -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev ... the question of whether Machines Can Think ... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim. -- Edsger Wybe

Re: Can this be possible (or BIOS api)

2007-01-22 Thread Michael Vasiliev
CD). I mean the boot sequence which the BIOS saves in CMOS. Why not leave it to the bootloader to take care of El-Torito bootable CD-ROMs? There are bin files that take care of that both for lilo and grub, last time I checked, and a Gentoo howto on the topic. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-01-31 Thread Michael Vasiliev
not to project it on others. Not to mention that we all agree that withholding one's identity online is a right worth exercising. The question of how to do it efficiently is left as an exercise to the reader. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev .. Any resemblance between the above views and those

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Sunday February 4 2007, Peter wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Michael Vasiliev, from the post of Thu, 01 Feb: What reason do you have to believe that your identity is worth stealing? If you are truly paranoid I suggest two things: Ok, I am, after all, only human

Re: fetchmail and DNS

2007-02-19 Thread Michael Vasiliev
with exim rules for example ( I don't do much sendmail so I don't know if you can do it from sendmail MTA). -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't make

Re: [resend] xkbd language switching

2007-03-04 Thread Michael Vasiliev
/FC5 using the keyboard? KDE keyboard switching uses xmodmap rather than xkb, so if you change the layout with xkb, the KDE keymap switcher, obviously, isn't aware of the changes. Use Leonid Zeitlin's excellent kkbswitch instead. kkbswitch.sourceforge.net -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev

Re: [resend] xkbd language switching

2007-03-04 Thread Michael Vasiliev
to this action makes sense. Moreover, it is only possible to switch keymaps in one direction in KDE. I still hang to my opinion that KDE keyboard switching is a mess between xkb and modmap, thus, I use xkb and ignore KDE keymap switching altogether. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev

Re: [resend] xkbd language switching

2007-03-06 Thread Michael Vasiliev
to change the behavior easily. This is, after all, an open source software. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: System stopped wotking with firefox

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Vasiliev
% (פרט ליפן) ובאירופה אף מתחת ל 80% ובירידה. Got that out my insults file :) He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination. - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev as appealing as it might seem, it is impossible to patch

Re: linux-il moderation and spam filtering

2007-03-25 Thread Michael Vasiliev
readily attributes to malice is simply a malfunction and lack of redundancy/communication in the admin team. It appears that both me and Ely got sick over the weekend and weren't able to deal with what seems to be a misconfiguration. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev We must not put mistakes

Re: Biometric pornography law -- the real story.

2007-04-15 Thread Michael Vasiliev
. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Cynic, n.: Experienced. = 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: Configuring Hebrew keyboard in KDE desktop

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Vasiliev
getting KDE to support Hebrew as well as Gnome? I believe we had this question answered here, by Yours truly, at least twice, with configs and everything. Search the archives, and mail me if you want. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev If in physics there's something you don't understand, you

Re: Configuring Hebrew keyboard in KDE desktop

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Vasiliev
kkbswitch Omer could use: -option grp:shifts_toggle -compat default+ledscroll or simply write a section in the xorg.conf. Note that there are some pecular differences in configuration between X.org and XFree86, like for example, ledscroll changed a section. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev

Re: [ATTN] [MOD] Deactivation of Linux-IL aliases at linux.org.il and iglu.org.il

2007-07-10 Thread Michael Vasiliev
. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev We must not put mistakes into programs because of sloppiness, we have to do it systematically and with care. -- Attributed to Edsger Wybe Dijkstra = To unsubscribe, send mail

Re: @iglu list address no longer working

2007-08-11 Thread Michael Vasiliev
a bounce that the address either does not exist or that it has moved to huji. I'm not blaiming you for the latter, this is of course directed to whoever is in charge of the iglu machine. whois iglu.org.il gives, err ;)) -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Hardware met Software

Re: @iglu list address no longer working

2007-08-12 Thread Michael Vasiliev
with @linux.org.il? Is it still used? No, just like the @iglu address, it got the axe and is ignored on Huji, so anything you send to it gets lost. Huji has nothing to do with iglu.org.il dropping incoming mail. What are your sources? -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Cynic, n

Re: @iglu list address no longer working

2007-08-12 Thread Michael Vasiliev
? Totally missing the point, see above. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you. (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power

Re: application localization in Linux

2007-11-04 Thread Michael Vasiliev
and generate a smaller diff. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe

Re: using only left alt-shift for language changing

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Vasiliev
, and comment out the relevant side. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev as appealing as it might seem, it is impossible to patch or upgrade users Security Warrior = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Why let people know about your intimate life? beery

2008-01-01 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Monday December 31 2007, :) luxuriance wrote: [spam] Ugh, sorry for that, people, pressed the approve button twice accidentially. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake Stepped on the gas instead of the brake

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-03-04 Thread Michael Vasiliev
of that toolbar, Danny. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run

Re: how to MD5 sum a DVD without copying it.

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Vasiliev
MD5 on the device file won't work. But this works: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm On 11/02/2009 11:41, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Hi, I want to make an MD5 checksum of a DVD ROM to verify that it was burned properly. Is there a way to do this without making an ISO file

Re: [HAIFUX Lecture] Progreamming NXT using Open Source platforms - Yaniv Aknin

2009-02-26 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 25/02/2009 16:12, Orr Dunkelman wrote: Next Monday, March 2nd at 18:30, Haifux will gather to enjoy Yaniv Aknin's talk about Progreamming NXT using Open Source platforms Spell-checker to the rescue! Abstract Presenting the NXT platform, one of the (many) open source

Re: A simple question about hebrew in terminal

2009-06-25 Thread Michael Vasiliev
patches to MC for UTF-8 support and better looks. -- Sincerely yours, Michael Vasiliev ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: [OT] Power over radio is it a true thing or just a myth ?

2009-08-24 Thread Michael Vasiliev
any one have links to this kind of devices ? (1) http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13174387 (2) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3336114/Over-to-you-Mythical-electricity.html 10x in advance. -- Sincerely yours, Michael Vasiliev

Re: [OT] Power over radio is it a true thing or just a myth ?

2009-08-24 Thread Michael Vasiliev
Good, now put back the context you've omitted, take your antenna specs and prove it with numbers. Solutions that will make the fly-by birds go poof or yourself arrested and your equipment seized do not count. Shachar Shemesh wrote: Michael Vasiliev wrote: The power of the signal is inversely

Re: n900 preorder

2009-10-10 Thread Michael Vasiliev
@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Sincerely yours, Michael Vasiliev

Re: Hebrew support on Android

2009-10-30 Thread Michael Vasiliev
! For example, I can install Haaretz News Widget but it does not include hebrew support, so it's totally useless :( thanks -- Sincerely yours, Michael Vasiliev ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman

Re: UltraEdit for Linux: who wants a license discount?

2009-11-08 Thread Michael Vasiliev
technically correct header-wise, that list would not see much traffic. -- Sincerely yours, Michael Vasiliev ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-23 Thread Michael Vasiliev
___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Sincerely yours, Michael Vasiliev ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman

Re: combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-26 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 23/12/2009 21:01, Oron Peled wrote: On Wednesday, 23 בDecember 2009 17:26:09 Michael Vasiliev wrote: Not all HP MFT's are born equal. Mine is not partially supported in linux (no scanning support by sane and no duplexing support by hplip) Care to elaborate? (exact model, so

Re: gitolite vs. gitosis

2010-12-09 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 12/09/2010 07:45 AM, Omer Zak wrote: Several weeks ago I asked for opinions about using git vs. Mercurial for version-controlling a Website (http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/ Hebrew translation, to be specific; I want to allow the project participants to modify and upload the Hebrew

Re: Handy Program

2011-01-16 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 01/16/2011 10:30 AM, Mordecha Behar wrote: I think that the people reading this list are the only ones in the world who would benefit from this program. You how you're typing in English (or Hebrew) and then look at the screen only to realize that you hadn't switched your keyboard?

Re: looking for a way to tell gcc not to remove some code he thinks is unreachable.

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 03/07/2011 12:11 PM, Erez D wrote: I have a function which is not called in a regular way, so gcc thinks it is dead code. however it is not, and i am looking for a way to tell the linker not to remove it. i can call it from some place with a flag that tells it to do nothing, but this is

Re: sponsorship?

2011-05-29 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 05/29/2011 12:39 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, I just read this morning that Richard Stallman will not come to Israel due to pressure from the Palestinians who sponsor his visit. You can read it here: http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3519167,00.html?dcRef=ynet I'd

Re: How do I install linux on a raid0?

2011-08-21 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 08/18/2011 04:23 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: I just got a new w520 with two 500GB hard drives configured in raid0 (seems to be a bios based software raid0). Windows is already installed and running on it (and I need it to stay there unfortunately) and I'm trying to install linux along side it

Arig project(was: [HAIFUX LECTURE] Mesh Neworks | Hacking the T3lc0 Model - Amir Sagie)

2011-08-24 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 08/18/2011 02:27 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: Hello all, This is a pre-announcement for the next Haifux talk on Monday, August 29th, which is NOT this coming Monday, when we will gather to hear Amir Sagie of the Arig project ( אמיר שגיא מפרוייקט אריג) Abstract: Want to build your

Re: 802.11N

2011-08-24 Thread Michael Vasiliev
. I have a WRT350N v2 (European, not US) with OpenWRT on it. If you're curious, could you assist me in checking whether it supports monitor mode or not? [snip] -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: next smartphone thoughts

2011-08-26 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 08/26/2011 02:10 PM, Erez D wrote: It is time to get a new smartphone. so i have to choose one. [snip] and wanted a gnu/linux one. My options: 1. iphone - not gnu/linux nor open. actually this is the closest as can be in terms of free as speech. What. 2. symbian - deprecated. should be

Re: next smartphone thoughts

2011-08-27 Thread Michael Vasiliev
. But then, the OS usually comes from another company that fits the OS development bill and expects something in return. Something that's more than one-time fraction of the device's price. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Mesh Networks:Hacking the T3lc0 Model by Amir Sagie

2011-08-31 Thread Michael Vasiliev
configuration. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: custom baud usb serial anyone ?

2011-08-31 Thread Michael Vasiliev
from FTDI Chip, for mere 15 quid + SH. Make sure you buy the one you need. Mine was TTL-232R-3V3. It works flawlessly with minicom on linux. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il

Re: custom baud usb serial anyone ?

2011-09-01 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 09/01/2011 10:32 AM, Erez D wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Michael Vasiliev mycr...@yandex.ru mailto:mycr...@yandex.ru wrote: On 08/30/2011 11:22 AM, Erez D wrote: hi i am looking for a usb-serial which supports custom baud rates and works on linux

nginx n/t Was: Re: apache as HTTP load balancer

2011-09-14 Thread Michael Vasiliev
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Re: Refund on preinstall Windows license in Israel [slightly OT]

2011-12-21 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 12/21/2011 03:26 PM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: Have anyone tried to get a refund on a Windows license on a preinstall machine he bought? Is it possible in Israel? How much money will they refund? How complicated is it? Zvi Devir has done it and ran a Haifux lecture. I believe the slides and

Re: Refund on preinstall Windows license in Israel [slightly OT]

2011-12-21 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 12/21/2011 03:57 PM, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Dec 21, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Raz wrote: I did not get a refund , i just bought a machine with freedos instead and got a discount of 200 shekels. I'm not sure that's going to happen much longer. With Windows 7 (and now XP too) Microsoft no

Re: [OUT?] Help with Android?

2012-01-15 Thread Michael Vasiliev
. Android related questions here? Yes. -- Michael Vasiliev Linux-IL Moderator ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: [OUT?] Help with Android?

2012-01-15 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 01/14/2012 01:08 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2012, Amichai Rotman wrote about Re: [OUT?] Help with Android?: Can we host it on HUJI servers? Eli? (or is someone else running the list now?) That would be me. If for some reason that doesn't work, there are also Hamakor's

Re: [OUT?] Help with Android?

2012-01-16 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 01/16/2012 02:21 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:22:16PM +0200, Michael Vasiliev wrote: Wait, Google Groups are not Usenet in disguise? :) Yes, and no. Google Groups also serve as an interface to the Usenet. But when you open a group of your own there, it's a provate

Re: Getting rid of proprietary fonts

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Vasiliev
://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/TestFonts -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Getting rid of proprietary fonts

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 01/23/2012 02:31 AM, Michael Vasiliev wrote: On 01/22/2012 04:34 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: I wonder if anybody knows how I can use OpenOffice, or some other tool, to find *where* in the document a certain font is being used? Not directly an answer to the question asked, but what the heck

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-08 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 02/05/2012 10:26 PM, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Feb 5, 2012, at 10:02 PM, Boaz Rymland wrote: yuck! So it was ok for SUN to buy StarOffice and give it away in order to reduce MS/Office sales? OpenOffice's free price and open source was a marketing tool too. Bad because it's dumping, a

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