Re: Bank spreadsheet gibberish in Libreoffice calc

2018-01-02 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
What platform are you on? 2018-01-02 21:00 GMT+02:00 Rami Addady <r...@active.co.il>: > Hi, > > Selecting Automatic or Hebrew give me gibberish > > The hebrew look like this: > > ת×ミריך > > Rami > > On 01/02/2018 08:50 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: &g

Re: Bank spreadsheet gibberish in Libreoffice calc

2018-01-02 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
When you open the file you should get an encoding picker in the past I had to set it to Hebrew these days "Automatic" works for me (LO 5.3) HTH, Eliyahu - אליהו 2018-01-02 17:43 GMT+02:00 Rabin Yasharzadehe : > you can try the latest LO using flatpak and see if still a

Re: Distro recommendation

2017-11-19 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I'm more of a Gnome user and haven't really played with KDE since the days of KDE4 (I always felt it was very 'crowded'/'not calm' as opposed to gnome 2 back then, though when I just started Linux that was what I liked about KDE3 all the distractions) but: - Are you sure what you heard about the

Re: security/firewall on Linux desktop at home - connection to the Intenet

2017-08-01 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Hi Dan, 2017-07-31 20:12 GMT+03:00 Dan Shimshoni : > Hi, Linux-il, > My question is about securing the Internet access from a Linux Desktop(at > home) to the Internet via ISP ; my setup is quite old: > Dlink BR-6504N (IEEE802.11b/g/n) wireless router which is connected to

Re: Internet recommendations

2017-07-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
My experience with CCC in the past was very positive Currently not connected to anyone due to vandalism to infrastructure where I live :/ Using your own modem is I believe much better since you don't have Bezeq/ISP potentially playing around with your equipment, at the moment I have a Bezeq

Re: [LibreOffice 5.3/Ubuntu 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected

2017-06-22 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2017-06-22 11:53 GMT+03:00 Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il>: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2017, E.S. Rosenberg wrote about "Re: [LibreOffice 5.3/Ubuntu > 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected": >> For those of you who are interested: >> As of 5.3 LO no longer

Re: Building a Linux-based Game Machine

2017-06-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
As someone who uses Windows, Linux (ubuntu x64 and android) and iOS daily, I > agree with them. > > Geoff. > > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 17:45 E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote: >> >> 2017-06-14 17:42 GMT+03:00 E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il

Re: Building a Linux-based Game Machine

2017-06-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2017-06-14 17:42 GMT+03:00 E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il>: > As has been said a bunch of times already get a decent GPU without > that SteamOS is a no-go, also use the proprietary drivers otherwise > you won't get performance. Should really have said: SteamOS and/or up

Re: Building a Linux-based Game Machine

2017-06-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
As has been said a bunch of times already get a decent GPU without that SteamOS is a no-go, also use the proprietary drivers otherwise you won't get performance. These days there are actually quite a lot of nice and even very good top-tier titles available for Linux through either Steam, GOG, or

Re: Help configuring Multiboot from ISOs

2017-06-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2017-06-08 11:44 GMT+03:00 E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il>: > 2017-06-08 9:35 GMT+03:00 Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il>: >> Hello all, >> >> I am trying to set up a desktop kiosk-style computer at my local Library, >> based on Ubuntu. >

Re: Help configuring Multiboot from ISOs

2017-06-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2017-06-08 9:35 GMT+03:00 Amichai Rotman : > Hello all, > > I am trying to set up a desktop kiosk-style computer at my local Library, > based on Ubuntu. > > My idea is to have a regular desktop mainly for browsing the Web, but I > would also like it to be able to reboot into

Re: [OT] Any Cellphone providers have a non-NAT option

2017-06-03 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
v6 traffic. Will be looking into my options. Thanks, Eliyahu - אליהו > > - Noam > > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017, 01:13 E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I was told by Bezeq that they currently don't have infrastructure >> where I am livi

Re: [LibreOffice 5.3/Ubuntu 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected

2017-06-01 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
For those of you who are interested: As of 5.3 LO no longer supports Type1 fonts which is how the culmus-fancy font set ships. The best solution is to convert them to OpenType or TrueType fonts. HTH, Eliyahu - אליהו 2017-05-26 2:36 GMT+03:00 E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il>

[OT] Any Cellphone providers have a non-NAT option

2017-06-01 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Hi all, I was told by Bezeq that they currently don't have infrastructure where I am living so I'm looking at using a cellular modem instead. Ideally I'd like to have some remote access to home but if the Cellular network is Carrier Grade NAT I can forget about that (unless I create a reverse SSH

[LibreOffice 5.3/Ubuntu 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected

2017-05-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Hi everyone, I just noticed that LibreOffice on Ubuntu 17.04 seems to be ignoring/not detecting fonts that are part of the culmus- packages. Abiword does detect the fonts. Has anyone else had issues like this? Know how to solve this? Thanks, Eliyahu - אליהו

Re: Smart home/electricity open standard

2017-05-23 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
For lighting you have DMX, X10 and zigbee as last mile protocols, artnet and ACN as open ethernet protocols, all of which can be controlled using the openlightingarchitecture. Note that controlling every aspect of your house requires a very large amount of wires, controllers etc. using control

Re: Open source gmail alternative

2017-02-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Hi Rami, Currently I use horde in one location and SOGo3 in another, as far as looks/responsiveness goes SOGo3 is a definite winner. As far as search goes I haven't been putting either through the paces on that yet. Thunderbird has pretty strong search as far as I recall, mailpile is something

Re: sendmail or ssmtp or ??

2017-01-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
In the debian world a machine used to ship with exim4, Ubuntu Server prefers postfix afaik but sendmail is also available through apt. Basically there's a ton of SMTP servers out there and you'll have to do that very hard thing: choose ;) A lot has been written comparing them and all of them are

Re: Advice on lightweight laptops for Linux (of course)

2016-12-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
longer than the warranty period - stay away. It's expensive enough to be >> > expected to last, but it's quite flimsy. >> > >> > On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Michael Shiloh >> > <michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Thanks Eli, &g

Re: Advice on lightweight laptops for Linux (of course)

2016-12-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Ever since getting my current laptop that weighs ~1.5kg I said I will never get anything heavier again, it's something you can't return from. Thin and light devices (like the X1 and the T460S) tend to not be very upgradeable, it's a price you pay for thin & light... the SSD is most likely

device/service specific passwords

2016-12-16 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Hi all, Does anyone have experience/pointers on how to implement passwords for specific services/devices, ie. have a different password that only works for imap/webmail and can be stored in a device without worrying about compromise going any further then what the password gives access to?

Re: This Programmer Hacked His Coffee Machine To Brew Coffee Using Command Line

2016-10-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Please don't be offended but my first reaction to the title was "hasn't this been done years ago?" And after quickly reading I understand that some guy reverse engineered a network protocol or just listened to the traffic and wrote a CLI program that 'talks' the same 'language' which is kind of

Re: How can the total memory consumption rise without top/htop displaying increasing processes' use?

2016-08-03 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
This is just a hunch but I think filesystem caching is not counted towards a process' memory usage, so if you are playing a large movie a large chunk (or the whole file) may be kept in memory by the filesystem driver while being memory that is 'available' for immediate freeing it is counted as

Re: Entering Shortcuts While in Hebrew Layout - LibreOffice on Ubuntu

2016-04-18 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
For libreoffice (other applications differently) Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Languages, check the Ignore system input language option https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1246583/comments/63 2016-04-17 13:08 GMT+03:00 Shlomi Fish : > Hi all,

Re: How to access installation logfiles? - a failed attempt to install Debian Stretch in a virtual machine

2016-04-17 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2016-04-17 10:46 GMT+03:00 Shlomi Fish : > Hi Omer, > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Omer Zak wrote: >> >> I found that there are layout problems in the Hebrew PDF file in the >> debian-refcard package. >> >> To fix the problems, I am building a virtual

Re: vdsl2 router

2016-03-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2016-03-08 12:27 GMT+02:00 geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendel...@gmail.com>: > On 3/8/2016 12:01 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: >> >> >> >> >> Let us know if you find something in a few month OpenWRT should be >> releasing 16.x (Designated Driver, if

Re: vdsl2 router

2016-03-08 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
eone) working on it If you want something really powerful with a very powerful OS have a look at this: http://routerboard.com/RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו > > > On 8 March 2016 at 10:07, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote: > >> Personally I don

Re: vdsl2 router

2016-03-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
re:all 2016-03-08 2:36 GMT+02:00 E.S. Rosenberg <e...@g.jct.ac.il>: > 2016-03-08 1:45 GMT+02:00 geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendel...@gmail.com>: >> On 3/8/2016 1:07 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: >>> >>> Personally I don't bother with the modem/router supporti

Re: vdsl2 router

2016-03-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Personally I don't bother with the modem/router supporting OpenWRT, I bought a nice TP-Link router which functions as the router of my networks and runs OpenWRT then the provider router/bridge/whatever box is just used as a bridge device and nothing more. There are far less xDSL devices that

Re: [OT] Password regex change on mybills.co.il

2016-02-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
(And you can also use Hebrew, Chinese, emoji or any other chars as long as there are 2 latins, 1 number and no less then 8 and no more then 10 characters all in all) 2016-02-28 0:02 GMT+02:00 E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il>: > The active regex (in the file you sent) is

Re: [OT] Password regex change on mybills.co.il

2016-02-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
The active regex (in the file you sent) is: var passREGEX = /^(?=.{8,10}$)(?=(.*[0-9]){1,})(?=(.*[a-zA-Z]){2,})(?=(.*[~!@#$%^&*()+-_=])).*/i; Which says: 8-10 chars at least 1 number at least 2 latin chars any number of special chars. Note that there is no demand for capitals and no demand for

Re: ביצוע תיאום מס באתר המיסים

2016-02-22 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Did you try firefox? Different render engine may do the trick... And IE is an option through wine (though of course it should not be needed) 2016-02-21 20:46 GMT+02:00 Amichai Rotman : > שלום חברים, > > צר לי שאני כותב בעברית, אך אין לי מושג איך להתייחס לנושא באנגלית

Re: python pygame keyboard input

2016-02-16 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
doesn't have multiple keyboard layouts available? Or maybe even a clean X session with just xterm if you want to be really extreme, but probably a clean user will be enough? Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו > > On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 14:04:09 +0200 > "E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux...@g.jct

Re: python pygame keyboard input

2016-02-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I think your question shouldn't be what distro but rather: - what version of python - what localization was set when running the program (LC_* env vars) 2016-02-14 11:17 GMT+02:00 Shlomo Solomon : > Meir - thanks. What distro are you running? > > I can now add that the

Re: python pygame keyboard input

2016-02-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > > > > > > On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 11:28:52 +0200 > "E.S

Re: More pieces of the IPv6 puzzle (Re: ISP with native ipv6 in isarael)

2016-01-28 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
It is of course highly recommended to figure out a way to use the firewall in the router in IPv6 mode too Changing your setup to local fws only makes you both more vulnerable to attack and the total setup much harder to manage In a worst (or best depends on how you look at it) case

Re: More pieces of the IPv6 puzzle (Re: ISP with native ipv6 in isarael)

2016-01-28 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2016-01-28 20:37 GMT+02:00 Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin : > Due to bezeq's modem's wifi unreliability, I'm mostly connecting to my > own wifi router anyway. > I'd have switched to it completely and use a firewall there, except > it's old and doesn't support IPv6 at all, and

Re: Configuring Wifi on Centos/7

2016-01-13 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Most likely you're missing the firmware for your wifi-adapter, by using lspci/lsusb like Rabin mentioned you can find its' make & model and then find out exactly what piece of software wasn't installed. I also join in Rabins' question why use CentOS on a personal device (though 7 is fairly up to

Re: Python for Kids

2016-01-13 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Not quite python but for the (really) young kids there's Linda Luikas' Hello Ruby... 2016-01-13 13:43 GMT+02:00 Shlomo Solomon : > These are in English, but may interest you: > > https://inventwithpython.com/inventwithpython_3rd.pdf >

Re: New List of Databases' Implementations.

2016-01-13 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Nice summary, thanks :) 2016-01-11 13:52 GMT+02:00 Shlomi Fish : > Hi all! > > I've prepared a new list of databases' implementations over on my home site: > > http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/resources/databases-list/ > > Many of them are open source and most of them can

Re: ISP with native ipv6 in isarael

2016-01-13 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Triple C may also support IPv6, when they started I used them, my experience with them was very positive. Very knowledgeable support people etc. The only reason I'm not with them still is that the other people who use the link demanded Rimon for their filtering prowess. HTH, Eliyahu - אליהו

Re: How to search Linux Kernel changelogs? (USB disconnect problem)

2015-12-24 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Unless it has dependencies that force you 'onward' there is no reason not to download the deb and install it manually 2015-12-24 20:14 GMT+02:00 Omer Zak : > As it turned out, it did not matter that I misunderstood tlp's name. > The package tlp exists only in Debian Stretch

Re: The Dell Precision M3800 Laptop

2015-12-23 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2015-12-22 21:48 GMT+02:00 Omer Zak : > As I said few weeks ago, I am considering the purchase of a new laptop > to replace my current desktop PC and also serve me on the road. > > It was suggested to me to consider purchasing the Dell Precision M3800 > laptop. > > Before ordering

Re: Entering Shortcuts While in Hebrew Layout - LibreOffice on Ubuntu

2015-12-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
IIRC You need the DE/toolkit integration installed (ie. libreoffice-gnome, libreoffice-gtk etc.) 2015-12-12 13:39 GMT+02:00 Amichai Rotman : > Sorry, > > Tried your solution: > > Check the "Ignore System Language Input" in the Language settings. > > No cigar... > > I also

Re: Code Monkey by Matach - Outrageous!

2015-12-11 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I'm pretty sure it's the design It would be cool if you offered multiple 'shells' ;) 2015-12-11 1:11 GMT+02:00 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda : > Amichai, > > Actually, I have no idea why you were disgusted. The Ofek website usually > supports Linux with Chrome or Firefox rather

Re: Up-to-date hardware (laptop) recommendations?

2015-12-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I am not going to tell you which laptops to get since my interest goes to a very different class (you are looking for DTR/Mobile Workstation, I want Ultra mobile with touch), the only thing that I think does need to be mentioned is the docking station. You mentioned above you were considering to

Re: Installing gtk2 version 2.18 or above in Centos 5.11 i386

2015-11-30 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/21708468/dir/centos_5/com/gtk2-2.18.9-45.1.x86_64.rpm.html 2015-11-01 1:57 GMT+02:00 Josh Roden : > Hi All > If possible, how could I install gtk2 version 2.18 on Centos 5.11 without > breaking all kinds of dependencies? > I have

Re: persistent private browsing ?

2015-11-17 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
to have different profiles with some common settings, on >>>> different tabs on same window ... >>>> >>>> btw, i found that even 'private browsing' is not so private as if you >>>> open multiple tabs or windows of private browsing, they all share the sam

Re: Converting from a program from win to Mac /so

2015-11-13 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Wine (winehq.org) 2015-11-13 11:58 GMT+02:00 Softkol : > Can anyone recommend a good method for moving a MS exe to Mac/is 10 and > above. > Not an emulation solution please but rather a native Mac/OS solution > > Israel Shikler > >

Re: HP All-in-one scanner problem

2015-08-30 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
You may have to set a scan mode on the device too, friends of mine have a Canon all-in-one which needs to be 'told' that a remote device will be in charge of scanning whenever they want to scan (Since apparently on windows you can just press the scan button on the scanner and it will open the

Re: LibreOffice Shortcuts Bug

2015-06-16 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
http://askubuntu.com/questions/363526/libreoffice-cant-use-keyboard-shortcuts-while-typing-in-any-language-but-englis http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/24338/keyboard-shortcuts-on-libreoffice-41-wont-act-when-i-change-the-language/ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41169

Re: Accessing / Controling ProvisionISR DVR from Linux

2015-05-10 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Re:all I have no experience with these things, but if you can't get around the IE/ActiveX requirement (firmware upgrade maybe?) and decide to capitulate you could try installing IE using winetricks... HTH, Eliyahu - אליהו 2015-05-10 19:58 GMT+03:00 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il: Hi all,

Re: New router/modem

2015-05-02 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
There was a recent discussion on the list on the subject where the general consensus was to use a good router of your choosing and a simple Bezeq modem, like that you can quicly and easily get new technology supported (whether new DSL/cable by switching the modem or new WiFi/LAN technologies by

Re: [octave3.0-info vs. dpkg] Dirty package uninstall in Debian - how to do it?

2015-04-17 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
BTW unless you are tied to Octave 3.0 debian et. al moved on to octave-* which by now are at octave 3.8.x... 2015-04-17 11:57 GMT+03:00 E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il: I assume you are using apt or some other 'high level' tool, I have found that when stuck like that removing

Re: [octave3.0-info vs. dpkg] Dirty package uninstall in Debian - how to do it?

2015-04-17 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I assume you are using apt or some other 'high level' tool, I have found that when stuck like that removing with the dpkg command generally works... (dpkg -P or dpkg -r depending on what you need). HTH, שבת שלום, Eliyahu - אליהו 2015-04-17 10:26 GMT+03:00 Lior Okman l...@okman.name: Hi, This

Re: Mageia and NTFS disk

2015-04-16 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2015-04-16 22:20 GMT+03:00 Constantine Shulyupin co...@makelinux.co.il: Don't use fdisk, it doesn’t recognize GPT/UFI partitions. Just to add to that MBR partitions don't go over 2T. When using GPT most systems still write some basic form of MBR just in case you plug your disk into an old

Re: Linux Kernel 4.0 is Out + Debian Jessie Planned Upcoming Release

2015-04-15 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2015-04-15 14:49 GMT+03:00 Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com: Hi all! Linux kernel 4.0 is out: * https://www.kernel.org/ * http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/04/13/0249208/linux-40-kernel-released * http://lwn.net/Articles/640082/ It's actually kernel 3.20 in disguise. And 3.20 is really

Re: formatting a disk for a home NAS

2015-04-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Of course you're going to reformat, after all the technicalities of the local fs will be hidden from the clients by nfs/smb/(web)dav. As far as which FS goes, ext4 is a safe bet, it seems the big server players are recently opting for XFS. And if you feel adventurous and want the power of ZFS

Re: formatting a disk for a home NAS

2015-04-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
weren't mature and I lost all my data. *MY* take-away from this - stick to mainstream if you want things to just work, and without knowing more about your context I'd expect 99% that ext4 will do just fine for the job. Good luck, --Amos On 14 April 2015 at 17:17, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux

Re: Bezeq Ruter

2015-04-13 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
(though that takes some real effort), but that seems like a major overkill and a waste of money. HTH, Eliyahu - אליהו 2015-04-12 23:15 GMT+03:00 Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com: On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: Personally I always insist on Bezeq giving me their simple modem and use

Re: Bezeq Ruter

2015-04-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Have you tried here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/dgn2200 2015-04-12 22:17 GMT+03:00 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il: Hello all, I have a Netgear 2200v2_64 router I got from Bezeq about two years ago. I finished paying for it and I don't like the idea it uns Bezeq's firmware. I

Re: Bezeq Ruter

2015-04-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
+03:00 E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il: Have you tried here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/dgn2200 2015-04-12 22:17 GMT+03:00 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il: Hello all, I have a Netgear 2200v2_64 router I got from Bezeq about two years ago. I finished paying for it and I

Re: Mageia Linux mirror on http://mirror.isoc.org.il/content.html

2015-04-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
While we're on the subject the Israeli ubuntu mirror has been so finicky recently that I switched to overseas mirrors, who if anyone does one report these issues to? (Rabin?) 2015-04-07 20:48 GMT+03:00 E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il: 2015-04-07 15:35 GMT+03:00 Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo

Re: Mageia Linux mirror on http://mirror.isoc.org.il/content.html

2015-04-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2015-04-07 15:35 GMT+03:00 Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.com: I've been using Mageia for several years so I guess I'm interested. But on the other hand, with today's fast internet connections, does it really matter where the mirror is? :-) The main benificiary is your ISP who has to deal

Re: Server stopped DNS name resolution

2015-03-22 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
They basically told you use google dns servers instead/in addition to ours, could be they were suffering problems with their DNS or they changed IPs... 2015-03-22 13:13 GMT+02:00 Gabor Szabo ga...@szabgab.com: I tried that, and although I am not sure what should I look for in there it seems to

Re: Something is injecting malware into my HTTP traffic

2015-03-21 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Depending on the version of windows and it's network environment you freshly installed rootkits could be likely, but that is OT here. Note that different ISP in Israel is a fairly relative statement since there are basically just a few major players who own a bunch of the smaller ISPs and could

Re: permission problem - disk on key on PI

2015-03-17 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Last time I checked vfat doesn't do linux permissions well, instead you need to mount it with user permissions (though I have to say I haven't dealt with vfat in years). If you can't change the contents of the flash drive it could also be a pointer to the memory failing... HTH, Eliyahu - אליהו

Re: OT: Biometric ID

2015-03-16 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
The Interior ministry is what is called in the gemara a shor muad as far as their inability to safeguard their databases and our private data as long as I have the choice I would not trust them and when they try to force it I would definitely join whatever lawsuit to the highest court. In that

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.3

2015-02-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
re:all 2015-02-25 17:22 GMT+02:00 E.S. Rosenberg e...@g.jct.ac.il: 2015-02-25 0:32 GMT+02:00 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il: Dan Kenigsberg and I are proud to present version 1.3 of Hspell, the free Hebrew spell-checker and morphological analyzer. As usual, you can find the new

Re: OT: ISP and infrastructure bundling

2015-02-17 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Hasn't this been possible for several years now? 2015-02-17 22:27 GMT+02:00 Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com: So, today is the day that Bezeq is finally starting to subcontract their ADSL infrastructure to other companies, thus allowing an ISP to provide the full service. I personally think that

Re: OT: ISP throttling

2015-01-30 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
All networks throttle, the only question is do they do it well enough that you don't notice or not I have friends who had throttling removed after complaining (they were put on 'gamer' plans). 2015-01-30 10:30 GMT+02:00 OrenTet oren...@gmail.com: Ive experienced bittorent throttling by 012

Re: OT: ISP throttling

2015-01-30 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
GMT+02:00 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com: On 1/30/2015 10:37 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: All networks throttle, the only question is do they do it well enough that you don't notice or not I have friends who had throttling removed after complaining (they were put on 'gamer

Re: Linux on Android related question

2015-01-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-12-26 16:29 GMT+02:00 Diego Iastrubni elc...@kde.org: Hi David, On יום שישי, 26 בדצמבר 2014 15:54:12 David Harel wrote: My son purchased an Android phone in China (against my recommendation). It's a phone by Coolpad the module is 7620l You should have a talk to your son ;-)

Re: DNAT and MASQUERADE

2015-01-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Alternatively you could also have a local dns/local hosts entries that point computerN at computer_1 when they are looking up whatever hostname is resolving to ext_ip If they are on the same LAN all normal (sane) security policy will cause the drop of their packets when they are trying to

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I don't know what type of load JIRA presents but for low load private stuff a raspberrypi or something similar (for heavier but still fairly 'light' stuff maybe an Intel NUC system or a mini-itx system) at home + noip/dyndns or some other form of locating it by yourself can be more then enough

Re: Recommendations for drive recovery

2014-12-23 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I have used the same trick with success at least once, it working does depend on the type of failure but yours sounds like the type that would work, in my case I think I even mounted the partitions and just copied the data. (rsync iirc) 2014-12-22 12:26 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira

Re: Copying kernel stack in a generic way

2014-12-22 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Don't new security features like memory location randomization etc. kind of get in the way of what you want to do on any modern OS? (The way I understand it you are trying to copy the stack from outside the running/frozen OS). Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2014-12-21 21:22 GMT+02:00 Elazar Leibovich

Re: Adding external HDD to Raspberry Pi

2014-12-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Are you providing the external HDD with sufficient electricity? The Raspberry is most likely not capable of providing enough current... 2014-12-14 19:30 GMT+02:00 Gabor Szabo ga...@szabgab.com: So finally I install the Raspberry Pi I bought a few weeks ago and wanted to add an external HDD. I

Re: Adding external HDD to Raspberry Pi

2014-12-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
is it possible that it needs more power after later on? How can I check? If the problem is lack of current, how can I solve that? Can I put one of these usb hubs that also provide power between the two? Gabor On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 8:43 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: Are you

Re: Image (ddrescue / dd) windows phone 8X?

2014-12-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I think you're on the wrong mailing list ;) XDA may be able to help you In general the phones try to protect their memory from direct access so that the whole 2 OS accessing the same FS at the same time and stepping on each other is avoided (back in the symbian days it used to unmount the

Re: Linux install party @ HUJI

2014-12-02 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
:) Guy Sheffer On Nov 24, 2014 9:58 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: There is currently some low key talk of arranging a linux install party for new students (and others interested) at Givat Ram. Nothing specific as yet, the TA still needs to get back to us whether

Re: Recommended Router w/ADSL Modem

2014-12-02 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I recently installed OpenWRT on a TP-Link WR-841ND (after I noticed tp-link hadn't provided that particular revision with an update in a few years) and it's running excellently (in a far past I bricked an 841 like that this time it all was excellent). Most TP-Link devices are well supported and

Linux install party @ HUJI

2014-11-24 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
There is currently some low key talk of arranging a linux install party for new students (and others interested) at Givat Ram. Nothing specific as yet, the TA still needs to get back to us whether or not there is enough interest. But I want to ask already if there is is enough interest are there

Re: Backdoor?

2014-11-23 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Bezeq can replace the firmware without talking to you without being onsite, so yes they have a backdoor in your router. Personally I prefer using a decent wireless router of my own (running openwrt preferably) and having a simple bezeq box connected to it's WAN port, like that bezeq stays outside

Re: LibraOffice and Language Switching

2014-11-13 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
IIRC this behavior doesn't happen on a machine I use xfce on instead of gnome3/unity so it may very well be DE dependent Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2014-11-13 16:49 GMT+02:00 Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com: I recall some kind of issue like this in past Libre Office versions. There was a

OT: Jolla phone

2014-11-10 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Mords' mail reminded me that I should have sent this earlier: If there is anyone on the list interested in getting the Jolla phone ('grandson' of the nokia n900/'son' of the n9) I have a 100E discount code that is valid until midnight today (I assume midnight Finland time, but it's not specified).

Re: Should I switch my home to IPv6?

2014-10-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-10-20 10:23 GMT+03:00 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz: I am shopping around for a new ISP. Exaphone are offering a reasonable deal, with an option to connect using IPv6. Sadly, their fixed IP costs are astronomical even with IPv6, without any justification I can see. Because we can

OT: looking for someone going back and forth to Finland from Israel

2014-10-09 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Maybe someone on the list works for Nokia or something? Or someone is going to SLUSH? I have a phone that only gets fixed there... מועדים לשמחה, Eliyahu - אליהו ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Boot sequence on Ubuntu 14.04

2014-10-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
DId you verify that everything had finished installing w/o error? For interrupted installs: dpkg --configure -a and then: apt-get update apt-get autoclean apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get autoremove Would make sure that everything was installed properly, what you decribe to me sounds like a

Re: Running multiple versions of PHP under Apache

2014-08-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-08-26 15:27 GMT+03:00 David Suna da...@davidsconsultants.com: Thanks for the response. On 08/26/2014 01:43 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: 2014-08-25 23:24 GMT+03:00 David Suna da...@davidsconsultants.com: I have a Debian Wheezy machine two virtual hosts configured on a single machine

Re: GRUB after clonezilla

2014-08-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Are you sure that: a. the error you get isn't coming from winload.exe b. vista may not be capable from booting from an area beyond X MB from the beginning of a disk 2014-08-24 20:47 GMT+03:00 Aharon Schkolnik aschkol...@gmail.com: Hi. I used clonezilla to copy a NTFS (Vista) partition

Re: Running multiple versions of PHP under Apache

2014-08-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-08-25 23:24 GMT+03:00 David Suna da...@davidsconsultants.com: I have a Debian Wheezy machine two virtual hosts configured on a single machine. One requires PHP 5.3 and the other requires PHP 5.4+. I am trying to set up the machine to allow both to run. So far I have added php-fpm

Re: Running a script for email received

2014-08-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
re:all procmail and/or sieve seem to be the natural candidates With /etc/alias you could also pipe the mail into a script which would trigger the script... 2014-08-12 12:45 GMT+03:00 E.S. Rosenberg e...@g.jct.ac.il: procmail and/or sieve seem to be the natural candidates With /etc

Re: OT: languages in Google Maps

2014-08-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
If this is for Israel I don't know if they fixed it yet but in the past I noticed often that embedded maps had nothing inside the borders of Israel (which may have been a copyright issue). Also don't forget the users' browser will send the users' language preference in the GET request for the

Re: Looking for a recommendation for Triple LCD Stand Desk

2014-07-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
If you know market traders they usually use 3-6 monitors they probably can tell you a bit about it. 2014-07-22 23:30 GMT+03:00 Rabin Yasharzadehe ra...@rabin.io: I have a small desk in a small room :) *-- Rabin* On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:24 PM, ASAF HALILI asaf.hal...@gmail.com

Re: reverse ssh

2014-07-21 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Any decent port scanner (nmap for instance) will find the SSH service regardless of the port its' on, while the likelihood of a firewall blocking access to random non-standard ports is very high. I use fail2ban to prevent brute forcing and generally also try to have some form of port knocking

Re: reverse ssh

2014-07-20 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Re:all You can have something running on the machine you want to SSH to that updates the machine with a fixed IP what its' IP is and have a firewall rule or some other way to redirect specific traffic like for instance traffic to TCP:2 from that machine to the IP that it was updated to be

Re: reverse ssh

2014-07-20 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
related to that scenario I think. So please clear up for us what your exact goal is. Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2014-07-20 18:46 GMT+03:00 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 3:36 PM, E.S. Rosenberg e...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: You can have something running on the machine you want

Re: Backing up to encrypted Blu-rays

2014-07-16 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
sites for subtitles and all media players I use (currently almost exclusively XBMC) will automatically use the subtitles files if they find it next to the movie file (if it's somewhere else then you can tell it where it is). On 16 Jul 2014 07:31, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote

Re: Backing up to encrypted Blu-rays

2014-07-15 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I more recently stopped ripping my DVDs in favor of just downloading movies other people already encoded and only ripping the Hebrew dubs/subs and then joining the lot with mkvtoolnix. Saves hours of encoding work. 2014-07-15 4:22 GMT+03:00 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com: Hi all, I just

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