Re: OT: radio streaming urls
On Tuesday 02 March 2010, Erez D wrote:
thanks
btw, all the following links below works, except gglz.
Right. I have not listened to that recently :)
It's mms://213.8.138.13/gglz.
I put that file in /usr/local/etc/medias, and to listen to a station, I
simply run the following script with the name as an argument:
--
#!/bin/sh
mpc clear
awk /^$1/ {print \$2} /usr/local/etc/medias | mpc add
mpc play
--
--y
erez.
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On Tuesday 02 March 2010, Erez D wrote:
HI
I want to listen to israeli radio station via streaming (so i will
not need to put headphones as antenna).
my phone (n900) is linux based, and i was wandering, if someone knows
of the urls for israeli radios, which will work in linux.
it has a built in media player. but also mplayer, so i guess anything
that works with mplayer will do.
Try these:
glz mms://213.8.138.13/glz-stream
gglz mms://stream.msn.co.il/gglz
88fm http://stream.msn.co.il/gglz%0A88fm mms://
s67wm.castup.net/990310006-52.wmv
103fm http://s67wm.castup.net/990310006-52.wmv%0A103fm mms://
s18wm.castup.net/995460001-52.wmv
aleph mms://s4bwm.castup.net/990310002-52.wmv
bet mms://s4awm.castup.net/990310001-52.wmv
gimel mms://s4awm.castup.net/990310004-52.wmv
thanks,
erez.
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Re: OT: Bezek via netvision
On Sunday 28 February 2010, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Feb 25, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Yuval Hager wrote: According to their support guy (who sound very knowledgable), since I have HOT infrastructure, no dialer, and a router, they simply connect their box to *my* router, as an additional client. This means that no port blocking, nor QoS is possible on their box. QOS is not all that useful. It only works in the router for outgoing packets, and if you are sending lots of big packets upstream, e.g. filesharing, then you are going to have problems anyway. Latency is the killer of VoIP and it goes up quickly if your send connection is saturated. By QoS I mean traffic shaping too. If you do use P2P throttle your total upload to about 1/30th bytes per second of your speed in bits per second, e.g. a 256k connection should be no more than 10k bytes per second, and may need to be less, try 7.5 or 5 if you get too much jitter. I am not much of a file-sharer, so I don't know. my router does not know how to QoS, so I am not shaping anything at moment. Having no dialer as it were, means you are using MPLS, which some people have problems with. If it does cause problems, then it will be pretty obvious. People have complianed on this list that HOT only guarentees port 80 (HTTP), but I think they have since gotten better about it. not sure what you mean about port 80 - all ports are working fine. I had issues with a couple of ports a year ago (CVS was one, can't remember the other) - but it was related to Bezeq-int, and not HOT. If you have a router, are you sure it's not doing tunneling (the equivalent of a dialer) already? If it is using DHCP then you really are using MPLS and do not have any tunneling, if you are using an L2TP, PPTP, PPoE, etc connection you are. It's not dialing anything, just DHCP. I insist on this way of connection for the last 5 years, and it works flawlessly. Dialer is only trouble for me. This is only based on what they told me, I will know more tomorrow, and if there is something to update, I will. Update the list either way please. Someone will ask the same question again in a few months and at least they can find a response if they search the archives. It is working now, connected to my own router, as a client. it started working right after plugging in, without any port forwarding (not sure how - permanent connection to the base station?). Then he forwarded UDP port 5060 to the box (I asked why if it worked before, he said just to be on the safe side. Everything still works without it though). Then he wanted port 443 too - for managing the box from outside - but since I am using port 443 to my own machine, he gave up and asked to forward it if they ask me in support. I nmap'ed the box, and it's only open port is 4567, which seems like an HTTP server listening, with htaccess protection. I don't know the user/pw for the box. The box is an AudioCodes MP-202B (http://www.audiocodes.com/products/mediapack-20x). --yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: What to do with a constant flow of attempts to login to my compuet?
On Sunday 03 January 2010, Gabor Szabo wrote: I just noticed someone bombarding my machine trying to login via ssh. From auth.log Jan 3 06:31:48 s6 sshd[22774]: Failed password for invalid user amavisd from 202.138.142.216 port 35172 ssh2 In addition to moving away from port 22, you can run a script such as denyhosts - http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: full backup remotely?
On Thursday 31 December 2009, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi Tom, Sammy Both CloneZilla and Partimage require that I unmount the partition before doing the backup. dd is nice, but that will copy also the empty space (although it won't have impact on the size of the backup, it will have an impact on the time it takes). I need something like Partimage, but without unmounting the partitions. IIRC you have to choose - unmount and partition backup or keep mounted and backup the files. You can't keep the mount and use dd or similar. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Printing photos in Israel
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Hebrew in urxvt
I've recently switched from Konsole to urxvt. Konsole has great bidi support, which allows one to switch from logical to visual text representation at the click of a button. I was missing bidi support in urxvt (and virtually every other terminal I tried. I was told to try mlterm, but I never got to it, as it does not look so exciting. I just found a way to view Hebrew characters correctly in urxvt, and wanted to share. urxvt supports perl extensions, so here's what you need to do: 0) you do have the culmus fonts installed, don't you? 1) install Text::Bidi. run 'cpan' and then 'install Text::Bidi'. 2) install the perl bidi extension by Moshe Kamensky from http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2006q3/000321.html. It appears at the end of his email, copy that to a file and place it under '/usr/lib/urxvt/perl'. Name it 'bidi'. 3) run urxvt as folllows: $ urxvt -fn 'xft:terminus-12,xft:comix no2 clm' -pe bidi this works beautifully, without even the need to click needed in Konsole. I am not editing files in Hebrew, just need to see an occasional Hebrew file name, or Hebrew logs. Cheers, --yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Hebrew in urxvt
On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Diego Iastrubni wrote: whats wrong with piping text trough fribidi ? This is exactly what this perl extension is doing. It just saves you the trouble. what do you do when you need to edit text? the text cursor gets crazy under all those tests. Right. I usually just fire up kedit for these (rare) cases. --y On Wednesday 04 November 2009 17:51:05 Yuval Hager wrote: I've recently switched from Konsole to urxvt. Konsole has great bidi support, which allows one to switch from logical to visual text representation at the click of a button. I was missing bidi support in urxvt (and virtually every other terminal I tried. I was told to try mlterm, but I never got to it, as it does not look so exciting. I just found a way to view Hebrew characters correctly in urxvt, and wanted to share. urxvt supports perl extensions, so here's what you need to do: 0) you do have the culmus fonts installed, don't you? 1) install Text::Bidi. run 'cpan' and then 'install Text::Bidi'. 2) install the perl bidi extension by Moshe Kamensky from http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2006q3/000321.html. It appears at the end of his email, copy that to a file and place it under '/usr/lib/urxvt/perl'. Name it 'bidi'. 3) run urxvt as folllows: $ urxvt -fn 'xft:terminus-12,xft:comix no2 clm' -pe bidi this works beautifully, without even the need to click needed in Konsole. I am not editing files in Hebrew, just need to see an occasional Hebrew file name, or Hebrew logs. Cheers, --yuval ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Yuval Hager [T] +972-77-341-4255 [...@] yha...@yhager.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support
On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Dave Stav wrote: Dear list members, We are looking for a webmail application that has good support in Hebrew messages (encoding and ltr/rtl). So far, it seems to me that roundcube-webmail is the best candidate, but also considering: Open WebMail IMP SquirrelMail roundcube Any suggestions? Thanks, Dave I'm curious to see what experience do other people in the list has. roundcube is indeed very nice, and close to zero configuration, but it is a bit buggy, and know for vulnerabilities. I am now trying IMP (+DIMP/MIMP), it looks good too, but much more difficult to configure, and much less shiny. There are no problems with encoding (I found some in IMP, but I think they are configuration, not bugs), and none has good RTL support like I have on my kmail-3.5. -- yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support
On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Danny Lieberman wrote:
Google Applications. It's free and it's great
Don't even think about hosting your own Webmail -
Don't forget that Google is a public company and will do whatever is in the
best interest of its stock holders, regardless of your interest as their
user.
Relying on a commercial company giving you free service with your
business/personal critical data is your decision. Just make sure you
understand what you are giving up (freedom) by using this service.
Yes, I am hosting my own webmail service. No, I do not know how secure is a
Google web app, as I don't know how secure is any other closed source
application. Anything you assume about their security is based on your
assumption only.
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Dave Stav d...@tkos.co.il wrote:
Dear list members,
We are looking for a webmail application that has good support in
Hebrew messages (encoding and ltr/rtl).
So far, it seems to me that roundcube-webmail is the best candidate,
but also considering:
Open WebMail
IMP
SquirrelMail
roundcube
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dave
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preg_match and Hebrew?
Let's try some regex matching in PHP.
,
| php echo preg_match('/\w/', 'a');
| 1
`
ok, so the basic stuff works in English. Let's go on.
,
| php echo preg_match(/\w/, 'א');
| 0
| php echo preg_match('/\w/u', 'א');
| 0
`
Oops.. maybe some kind of encoding issue? My whole system is UTF8, so this
should not be a problem I guess..
,
| php var_dump('א');
| string(2) א
`
So I revert to the soon-to-be-deprecated mb_ereg:
,
| php mb_regex_encoding('UTF-8');
| php echo mb_ereg('\w', 'א');
| 1
`
and now it works..
maybe I was wrong expecting preg_match would know hebrew alphanumeric
characters in the first place? I understand it will for PHP6, but until
then, beware of sophisticated Hebrew string parsing.
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Re: CDDB Hebrew encoding
On Friday 17 July 2009, Levy, Chen wrote: OK, I found a better way to do it, that also gives a hint to the questions below: cat cddbread.2 | iconv -f utf8 -t latin1 | iconv -f hebrew -t utf8 My guess is that the data somehow along the way was encoded as windows-cp1255, and then interpreted as latin-1. From there the convention to utf8 is trivial. So the line above simply reverse that process, and I left with the question, who should I blame, and where to report the bug? I am running the exact same line. I think the bug lies somewhere in Windows applications that people use to add the cddb data, but I have never looked exactly where. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
watch hebrew?
if I try to run $ watch echo שלום123 I just get the '123' on the page, Hebrew characters stripped. man watch says: Non-printing characters are stripped from program output. Use cat -v as part of the command pipeline if you want to see them. but if I try $ watch echo שלום123|cat -v I get something like: M-WM-)M-WM-^\M-WM-^UM-WM-^]123 Any way to idea Hebrew characters under watch? -- yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: reshet.ynet.co.il not on Download Helper, anything else?
On Saturday 27 June 2009, Amos Shapira wrote: 2009/6/27 Noam Rathaus no...@beyondsecurity.com: Hi Amos, I haven't done anything special and I am able to see all the movies :) I can view the video just fine on FF3/Ubuntu 8.10/9.04. But I want to be able to download it to a file on disk and view it later. DownloadHelper can do this for many sites, but it didn't provide the pop-up menu for reshet.ynet.co.il. Don't know about download helper, but you can use tcpdump, while the movie starts, and watch for 'GET' messages for flv files. something like this: , | $ tcpdump -i eth0 -s 512 -l -A port http | egrep Host:|GET.*flv.*HTTP ` Then use wget on the URL you find. Not a one-click-your-mother-proof solution, but works most of the time. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance
On Tuesday 16 June 2009, Gal Goldschmidt wrote: Hi Oleg, We tried to get a direct connection without a dialer, when we opened the account for her. Netvision although a few months after the merge with Barak, refused to give a Barak account with no dialer. I have a Barak account, no dialer, but they are not giving it any more ( the last time I checked) Usually they refuse at the beginning, but when I say the magic word Linux, they sigh and give me the non-dialer account. This worked for the past 7 years or so. -y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Internet Customer Service
This is a HUGE change from a few years ago, when I had to call and explain to the customer service rep what I wanted to do, who couldn't imagine why anyone would need an account without a dialer. Then I had to wait a week for HOT to set up MPLS, and spend hours and hours on the phone with level after level of customer support and technicians to make sure it actually got done. I also spent around 10 hours on the phone with HOT and barak, separately and together, about 3 years ago to get a dialer-less connection. I think their internal integration system simply sucked. Last year, moving to bezeqint, it only took 3 days, and a couple of hours on the phone. Good to know they continued to improve since then :) --y ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me
On Wednesday 20 May 2009, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On May 20, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: Does anyone know /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not seem to change when I change the configuration via the GUI. So how can I reconfigure the X ? I've had good and bad luck configuring X via editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf It either works or the whole system hangs, needs to be rebooted and sometimes goes into X is up but you can't do anything, or switch terminals, cntl-alt-backspace. With the new xorg-server (1.5), you might be better off without a xorg.conf at all. I'm a proud non-owner of an xorg.conf file :) --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Linux Friendly Netbook?
בSunday 03 May 2009, נכתב על ידי Amichai Rotman: Hi all, I am writing to both lists because I think the problem of bouncing mails on the Linux-IL list still persists - at least for me... I want to buy a Linux friendly netbbok, preferably Ubuntu 8.04 friendly. My requirements: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, comfortable keyboard. I'll use it mainly for on the go Media Player and some basic browsing. I want the Bluetooth support to be able to connect my stereo Bluetooth headset and transfer files via OBEX to my Nokia E71 smart phone. HP 2133 (1.6GHz VIA CPU, 2GB RAM, 70GB HD) works perfectly, and has a great keyboard. It is running Gentoo here, but I'm sure Ubuntu will give you a similar experience. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Backup encryption key
בThursday 23 April 2009, נכתב על ידי Yuval Hager: On Thursday 23 April 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I should point out one huge disadvantage of storing binary diffs when using encrypted systems. There is no (practical) way to erase old backups. Your backup storage size is bound to be ever increasing. This is because the only way to create a new complete snapshot (i.e. - a non-incremental backup) is to retransmit the entire backup data. Because the remote side is encrypted, you cannot use it to expand the image remotely. I have not given as much thought as you to the details here, but if I read the man page correctly, duplicity does allow to --remove-older-than. I am not sure how that works though. I've continued to read on that - as long as you have at least one full backup, you can deleted earlier backups (which is quite obvious). The main reason I am using rdiff-backup is that I can delete backups older than a certain time, as much as I like, without ever running a full backup besides the initial backup. The only limitation is that the data is not compressed nor encrypted on the destination. -- yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Backup encryption key
Hi, I've been considering encrypting my backups (e.g. using duplicity), but I am always afraid to lose the backup key when I lose the data I need to restore. This has the unfortunate implications of practically having no backups at all. I'd like to ask the list, when you backup your data (and you do, don't you?) - do you use encryption? If so, what measures do you take to ensure the key is safer than the data itself? Cheers, -- yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Backup encryption key
On Thursday 23 April 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: I've been considering encrypting my backups (e.g. using duplicity), but I am always afraid to lose the backup key when I lose the data I need to restore. This has the unfortunate implications of practically having no backups at all. I'd like to ask the list, when you backup your data (and you do, don't you?) - do you use encryption? If so, what measures do you take to ensure the key is safer than the data itself? My backups are merely encrypted tarballs of my $HOME directory, with a password. Like you, I fear not having access to whatever data that I need to open my backups, but do not want to leave them unencrypted. How do you use the password in an automated backup then? -- yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Backup encryption key
On Thursday 23 April 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: How do you use the password in an automated backup then? Actually, I do not automate it. This is the command that I use to make the tarball: $ tar -zcvf - /home/user/ | openssl des3 -salt -k PASSWORD | dd of=DATE.tbz And this one to decrypt it: $ dd if=DATE.tbz | openssl des3 -d -k PASSWORD | tar zvxf - Well, I was looking for a more streamlined solution. Something that is: 1) automatic 2) offsite (e.g. online) 3) bandwidth and space efficient (due to (2) above) 4) (opt.) encrypted 5) incremental I currently use rdiff-backup, but it does not abide to (3) above. I started looking into duplicity (from the same author), and then thought about description, hence the original post. -- yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Backup encryption key
On Thursday 23 April 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Yuval Hager wrote: On Thursday 23 April 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: How do you use the password in an automated backup then? Actually, I do not automate it. This is the command that I use to make the tarball: $ tar -zcvf - /home/user/ | openssl des3 -salt -k PASSWORD | dd of=DATE.tbz And this one to decrypt it: $ dd if=DATE.tbz | openssl des3 -d -k PASSWORD | tar zvxf - Well, I was looking for a more streamlined solution. Something that is: 1) automatic 2) offsite (e.g. online) 3) bandwidth and space efficient (due to (2) above) 4) (opt.) encrypted 5) incremental I currently use rdiff-backup, but it does not abide to (3) above. I started looking into duplicity (from the same author), and then thought about description, hence the original post. http://rsyncrypto.lingnu.com + rsync Provides 1-5. Shachar Thanks. I probably wasn't clear on (5). I would like to be able to go back in time when I restore. AFAIK, rsync* solutions are mirroring the current state only, where rdiff-backup and duplicity does allow time travel. There is still the original question about the key handling, I just wanted to give a little more context.. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Backup encryption key
On Thursday 23 April 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I should point out one huge disadvantage of storing binary diffs when using encrypted systems. There is no (practical) way to erase old backups. Your backup storage size is bound to be ever increasing. This is because the only way to create a new complete snapshot (i.e. - a non-incremental backup) is to retransmit the entire backup data. Because the remote side is encrypted, you cannot use it to expand the image remotely. I have not given as much thought as you to the details here, but if I read the man page correctly, duplicity does allow to --remove-older-than. I am not sure how that works though. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Backup encryption key
On Thursday 23 April 2009, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Yuval Hager yu...@avramzon.net writes: Well, I was looking for a more streamlined solution. Something that is: 1) automatic 2) offsite (e.g. online) 3) bandwidth and space efficient (due to (2) above) 4) (opt.) encrypted 5) incremental A combination of tar (that can do incremental backups) and scp or similar will do 2, 3, and 5. 1 can be handled by cron. 4 probably has to be delegated to openssl like was suggested, encrypting with a public key, etc. It should be possible with a simple script. I used to have one that did everything but encryption, I don't know if I can dig it out (of backups)... ;-) This is so common, that although possible, I don't believe writing your own is the most cost-effective way for a backup system. Of course, YMMV. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux
בSaturday 04 April 2009, נכתב על ידי Omer Zak: So I am asking: 1. Which desktop search tool are you using under Linux? Beagle. I dumped it once for the same reasons you described, but recently I went for the hunt again, and found that beagle has the most index plugins, and it indexes almost everything I have. 2. What are its good and bad points? It's not as a hog as it was, it integrates nicely with KDE (kerry). I'm not too impress with its search capabilities, but it does a fairly good job. On occasion I am getting angry with it and closing it until I need it again. 3. How happy are you with it? Pretty happy. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Migrating from Windows to Linux: missing hebrew-english dictionary
בWednesday 01 April 2009, נכתב על ידי Arie Skliarouk:
Hi,
An immigrant from Windows asked me about hebrew-english and
english-hebrew dictionary for Linux. Quick google search haven't produced
anything meaningful.
For now they are using http://milon.morfix.co.il/
but it is relatively slow, requires internet connection, and is not
integrated into desktop (they want to highligh a word, right-click and
get a translation).
What are people using?
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Not so good on the UI side, but I use this script to connect to google
translation service. I am not sure if it is valid to use it like this, so
use at your own risk.
Use it like this:
$ translate from lang code to lang code
for example, 'translate en he' to translate from english to hebrew
It should be rather simple to write a graphic interface for this.
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#!/usr/bin/php
?php
/**
* Google translate PHP script
*
* Written by Yuval Hager yu...@avramzon.net
* License: GPL
*/
/**
* Usage:
* $ translate [slan [tlan]]
* will translate STDIN from slan (default en) to tlan (default he)
* You can use this for files too:
* $ translate he fr heb.txt
*
* Report bugs to yu...@avramzon.net
*/
function wget($url) {
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
function translate ($text, $from, $to) {
$text = urlencode($text);
$langs = urlencode($from|$to);
$url=http://www.google.com/translate_t?text=$textlangpair=$langsie=utf8oe=utf8;;
//print $url . \n;
$data = wget($url);
//print $data . \n;
preg_match('@div id=result_box dir=(ltr|rtl)(.*?)/div@', $data,
$matches);
$result = $matches[2];
return str_replace('br', \n, $result) . \n;
//var_dump($matches);
}
$from = $argv[1] ? $argv[1] : 'en';
$to = $argv[2] ? $argv[2] : 'he';
print Type $from text, to translate to $to:\n;
//$text = urlencode($argv[1]);
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Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout
On Thursday 05 March 2009, Baruch Siach wrote:
Hi Yonatan,
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:45:17AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
What is standard Hebrew keyboard layout (disregarding aleph-tav)?
How about SI1452?
http://www.qsm.co.il/NewHebrew/Key1452e.htm
Is there something similar for the Lyx variant?
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On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:13:24 +0200
From: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com
To: linux-il. linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
Subject: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout
Where is the RLM (right to left mark) on the standard Hebrew keyboard
layout? I have googled and found that I can configure the Lyx layout
and then the RTM character is at Ctrl-Y, but can I make it Ctrl-{ like
in another popular OS?
Also, where is a list of the Shift characters in Lyx? I have found
some images that show where the nikud are, but none of them show the
RTM and LTM marks, and I suspect that they may be otherwise incomplete
as well. Thanks.
Suggestions for other alternative Hebrew layouts welcome!
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Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout
On Thursday 05 March 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/3/5 Yuval Hager yu...@avramzon.net: On Thursday 05 March 2009, Baruch Siach wrote: Hi Yonatan, On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:45:17AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: What is standard Hebrew keyboard layout (disregarding aleph-tav)? How about SI1452? http://www.qsm.co.il/NewHebrew/Key1452e.htm Is there something similar for the Lyx variant? If by something similar youmean a page that describes the character placements, try this: http://www.echoofeden.com/digest/slaveofone/2007/02/14/writing-hebrew-in-op enoffice-under-linux/ Yes, thanks. It is strange that the only page that clearly shows this visually is in English :) I find the lyx variant to be most intuitive. As I don't have time to look for the documentation when I need to add diacritics, it makes much sense for פתח to be on פ, for קמץ to be on ק, for חיריק to be on ח, and so on. If I don't remember the exact position of something, I do not have to err much before I find the right one. Compare that to the shift-number method... It is missing some characters, though, notably RLM and LRM. Yup, these always confuse me. It would be great if someone writes up a simple page, in Hebrew, that explains that and shows it visually (both RLM/LRM and diacritics). It will also help non-technical people who use Linux desktops (for me this means - my wife, my kids, and my sister. I guess every second subscriber on this list has a couple of those installations too). --yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Bank Leumi site finally works from Linux
I spent a couple of hours calling Leumi and being transferred from one person to another. Some of them knew nothing about the upgrade. Some said everyone was using the same site. One tried to convince me that Here's the info as published by the bank itself: http://www.leumi.co.il/Leumi/ExternalArticle/1,6069,171561,00.html --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Emacs Hebrew
On Sunday 22 February 2009, Dov Grobgeld wrote: I agree that I don't believe chances are big of finding funding. And even if there was funding I think there are more urgent BiDi issues like fixing bugs in OpenOffice, Gtk, or KDE. So unless I sit at home rolling my thumbs for too long, I'm afraid that I won't have time looking into it. I guess you are right. Anyway, if you ever get to work on this sometime, call me up, maybe I can join the effort. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Emacs Hebrew
On Friday 20 February 2009, Omer Zak wrote: I thought about this about 1 1/2 years ago but did not get around to implementing it. XEmacs has support for loading external modules, however I use emacs. Me too. In Emacs version 22, it is possible to use IPC to communicate with another process. Then one needs to write a module which invokes FriBidi functions and have an emacs mode, which communicates with the module when the buffer's contents need to be rendered. I saw this: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/poor-mans-bidi.el But I'd rather have a rich mans bidi. What about Mule? Can it be used with the standard Emacs? --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Emacs Hebrew
Hi, As I my Emacs usage increased recently following the discovery of the amazing org-mode (highly recommended), I began wondering about Bidi in Emacs. Searching for info on the web only got me confused - it seems there have been a number of attempts, but it is not clear to me if I can get bidi working (for example in gnus) and how simple/hacky is that. Can anybody update on the latest emacs bidi status, or simply provide a pointer I missed? Thanks, --yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Bank Leumi site finally works from Linux
On Wednesday 18 February 2009, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2009, Yuval Hager wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2009, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Yuval Hager wrote: I was happily amazed to find out that the new revamped site of Bank Leumi fully works using Opera on Linux. I also tested FF, and it seems to work fine too (including viewing cheques images, graphs etc.). Definately does NOT work for me. What URL are you using to login ? To what URL are you sent when you try to view your account information ? Could it have anything to do with the fact that my account is in HaYashir HaRishon ? I have no idea. I am not sure everyone got the new site. The simplest thing is to call them and ask them to upgrade you. You will notice the upgrade, as it looks much better and there's a 'we've upgraded the site' welcome message. --y I spent a couple of hours calling Leumi and being transferred from one person to another. Some of them knew nothing about the upgrade. Some said everyone was using the same site. One tried to convince me that the upgrade was for employees only. The closest I came was with one who said not everyone has been upgraded, but that I'd just have to wait my turn - they couldn't upgrade me before my turn. They were supposed to check and call me back, but 24 hours have passed, and I haven't heard from them. I guess I'll just have to wait. :-( If your branch is anywhere between Hadera and Gedera, call them (not the main call center) and ask them to be moved to a Premium account. I am guessing that should do the trick. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Bank Leumi site finally works from Linux
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 01:07 +0200, guy keren wrote: Gilboa Davara wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 13:27 +0200, Yuval Hager wrote: I was happily amazed to find out that the new revamped site of Bank Leumi fully works using Opera on Linux. I also tested FF, and it seems to work fine too (including viewing cheques images, graphs etc.). So long IE in Crossover, and thanks for all the sites :) --yuval Yey! I must have asked them about 10,000 times and almost gave up hope. Now I can finally remove ies4linux! Thanks for the update. - Gilboa don't be so excited. the only part that i cared about was the online trading of stocks, bonds and friends - and this part still does not work. I'm not that excited. But it's a start. Leumi-card site still doesn't work. (Though they do detect that you are using Firefox and send you to download IE-Tab plugin) Have you tried getting card usage reports from the leumi site? IIRC, It worked well enough (using Opera though). --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Bank Leumi site finally works from Linux
On Thursday 12 February 2009, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Yuval Hager wrote: I was happily amazed to find out that the new revamped site of Bank Leumi fully works using Opera on Linux. I also tested FF, and it seems to work fine too (including viewing cheques images, graphs etc.). Definately does NOT work for me. What URL are you using to login ? To what URL are you sent when you try to view your account information ? Could it have anything to do with the fact that my account is in HaYashir HaRishon ? I have no idea. I am not sure everyone got the new site. The simplest thing is to call them and ask them to upgrade you. You will notice the upgrade, as it looks much better and there's a 'we've upgraded the site' welcome message. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Bank Leumi site finally works from Linux
On Thursday 12 February 2009, Ira Abramov wrote: I think we should send them a really fancy letter with a few dozen signatures, saying thanks for finally fixing it. I'm not cynical. they got nags and negative rap from us all the years, they need to get appreciation too I'm all for it. This can help moving the discussion to positive grounds. I believe that things happen better on positive incentives rather negative. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Bank Leumi site finally works from Linux
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Hebrew stemming
Hi all, Does anybody know of a stemming library for Hebrew? Google can find several discussions on it, but I could not figure out if something came out of it yet or not. What other things one should consider when looking at a Hebrew search module? It seems that Google does very basic stemming + partial words match. Is there some form of public work on the subject? Thanks, -- Yuval Hager signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Hebrew stemming
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Re: data security
This whole encryption thread reminded me of a recent xkcd: http://xkcd.com/538/ :-) --y On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Moish wrote: Shachar Shemesh wrote: Orr Dunkelman wrote: The question is whether your swap partition is encrypted or not. In case it is not - you are probably writing too many secrets to the hard disk. If it is - well, then I can understand why the machine is slow. It is encrypted, but swap is hardly used on my machine. And I didn't say my machine was slow. I said that having my entire home dir encrypted made compilations slow. Besides that, knowing about speeds of encryption and hard drives, it seems that if you use good ciphers, there should be no real performance lose (I know that there is such, but I never figured out why). Maybe because both compilation and encryption are CPU bound? Shachar If you are really into that, work with VM and encrypt/decrypt the directory containing its files. ( Just an example, YMMV ) VM is pretty fast by now, even on desktop machines. Moish ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Yuval Hager [T] +972-77-341-4155 [...@] yu...@avramzon.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
time windowed cron?
Hi, cron gives me a great way to start jobs at a given time. I am looking for a way to stop jobs in a similar manner. My use case is an rsync job I would like to run during the night (midnight-6am). My thought was to simply save the pid somewhere when the job starts, and kill it when it should end. Are there more elegant solutions? Maybe something similar to rc initscripts start/stop scheme? Thanks, --yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: time windowed cron?
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, shimi wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: shimi linux...@shimi.net writes: There's The Fault Tolerant Shell[1], that assumes that running for too long is 'a fault', which you might use. I am not sure - the typical use case of ftsh is to keep trying for so many times or for such and such time interval if your task keeps failing. I understood the OP requirements as to be able to kill a perfectly running application after a specified time interval. I am not sure ftsh handles this case. I know what the typical use is, but... if you define try one attempt and a failure is when the task is running more than 4 hours, essentially you build something that runs whatever you want, and assumes a failure after 4 hours, cleans it up gracefully, and that's it, no? Yes, I can confirm it works for me, albeit it is a bit strange that a successful 6 hours rsync session ends with an error script failed. I also wish ftsh project would look a bit more alive (and packaged for my distro would be awesome). Thanks, --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: time windowed cron?
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Yuval Hager wrote: On Tuesday 30 December 2008, shimi wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: shimi linux...@shimi.net writes: There's The Fault Tolerant Shell[1], that assumes that running for too long is 'a fault', which you might use. I am not sure - the typical use case of ftsh is to keep trying for so many times or for such and such time interval if your task keeps failing. I understood the OP requirements as to be able to kill a perfectly running application after a specified time interval. I am not sure ftsh handles this case. I know what the typical use is, but... if you define try one attempt and a failure is when the task is running more than 4 hours, essentially you build something that runs whatever you want, and assumes a failure after 4 hours, cleans it up gracefully, and that's it, no? Yes, I can confirm it works for me, albeit it is a bit strange that a successful 6 hours rsync session ends with an error script failed. I also wish ftsh project would look a bit more alive (and packaged for my distro would be awesome). Another (petty) issue with using ftsh for this is that I cannot control start and stop times externally. I can start it using cron, but the script itself decides when the stop. So if instead midnight-6am I would like to change to 1am-5am, I need to change both cron and the script itself. Having the script run for a different amounts of time on different times is impossible to achieve this way. Script arguments might be the solution here, but again, I would love to have a uniform way to control start/stop times of the script. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Galgalatz from Linux/Firefox?
On Friday 31 October 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Is there a Galalatz stream that can be heard from Linux?
I'd prefer just a url I can feed into mplayer, but a URL that works with
FireFox would be ok?
Thanks, Geoff.
Here's my list:
$ cat /usr/local/etc/medias
glz mms://stream.msn.co.il/glz-stream
gglz mms://stream.msn.co.il/gglz
nostalgie mms://vipnrj.yacast.net/encodernostalgie
88fm mms://s67wm.castup.net/990310006-52.wmv
103fm mms://s18wm.castup.net/995460001-52.wmv
fip http://mp3.live.tv-radio.com/fip/all/fiphautdebit.mp3
channel2
http://www.keshet-tv.com/Common/Castup.aspx?SourceID=34CampaignID=0Url=http%3a%2f%2fswitch3.castup.net%2fcunet%2fgm.asp%3fai%3d385%26ar%3dLiveTV%26dr%3d00%3a00%3a00MediaID=5460
channel10 mms://sn2wm.castup.net/993860003-52.wmv
channel1 http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=31ar=Channel_1
aleph mms://s4bwm.castup.net/990310002-52.wmv
bet mms://s4awm.castup.net/990310001-52.wmv
gimel mms://s4awm.castup.net/990310004-52.wmv
And I have in my .bashrc:
myplay() { mplayer `awk '/^'$1' / {print $2}' /usr/local/etc/medias`;}
so I just need to run:
$ myplay gglz
The other streams in the list should also work, but could be that some are not
up to date.
(fip and nostalgie are french radios - for the francophiles between you)
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Re: Re, more readable?: Email Hosting (POP+SMTP) Recommendation
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Boaz Rymland wrote: As usual, unfortunately, the biggest amount of time I needed to invest in setting this configuration with my ISP was explaining to support people what I'm talking about and trying to get as quickly as possible their business technical support, which where the only ones to understand what I'm talking about and hence to provide it :-) I have found that (on bezeqint), if you send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask them to call back, they will do that rather quickly, and it will be a competent supporter. For better results, you can write in the email that you use Linux :) About a year ago I sent a similar email to barak's support email. I'm still waiting for an answer. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: postil.com not working in FF or Konqueror
On Thursday 14 August 2008, Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi, The Israeli Post web site used to work with FF and Konqueror, but now it doesn't anyone knows how you can reach them and complain? Their מוקד is clueless Of course under IE it works. What do you need from this site? Just call them and ask the info from their human response team. Flooding the support team with (justified) calls to get information that exists on the site is the only effective way I can think of to make them think something is wrong with their site. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Spamassassin is gragging my server down to its knees
On Monday 28 July 2008, Henry Ficher wrote: 4. See this link: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FasterPerformance Thanks for this link. I didn't know about 'sa-compile' before. Do I need to re-run it every time I change the ruleset? local.cf? -- Yuval Hager [T] +972-77-341-4155 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Downloading flash video from reshet.tv
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:40:08PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: can't remember what streaming technology it was, but way back I managed to capture and save to the disk the UDP broadcasts of Galatz using mplayer. can't remember how I did it, it was a rewrite of a script by Amos Shapira that let me record Sha'a Historit via a cron job. at some point though they changed technologies or something, but I remember I used the same trick somehow (redirect the stream to the disk instead of a decoder) to save a video stream or two in the past as well. Thanks for the pointer, I've done it in the past, and use Mplayer to play streaming audio, but AFAIK castup is different and is specificaly designed (it's an Israeli company BTW) to not leave anything to be captured. Geoff. Anything you can play using mplayer can be dumped, including castup streams. It's just a matter of finding the correct URL for it. For galatz stream, just use: $ mplayer -dumpstream mms://stream.msn.co.il/glz-stream When your done the file is named stream.dump, and is the same format as the stream: $ file stream.dump stream.dump: Microsoft ASF They do seem to make life hard tracking streams sometimes (it seems like Keshet, Reshet and channel10 are in some kind of competition here, but Keshet wins bigtime). So after a bit of hacking, the file you are interested is actually at http://s3cdl.castup.net/server12/25188434-95.flv, so no need to use mplayer at all.. :) --y -- Yuval Hager [T] +972-77-341-4155 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Gnucash annual reports for Israel
Hi list, It's that time of year again (for submitting fiscal reports). This year I have everything under gnucash though! I was wondering what is the best way to file the reports to the accountant. Assuming he does not know or care about the software - What reports should I create and send to him? I know Gnucash reports are US oriented, and have no idea which ones apply to Israel. Thanks, -- Yuval Hager [T] +972-77-341-4155 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel
On Sunday 06 April 2008, Omer Zak wrote: If we are at this subject, can anyone, who has experience with using GNUCash in Israel, write an HOWTO about configuring GNUCash to meet the needs for micro-business accounting in Israel? Sample questions: 1. How to set up things so that VAT will be automatically calculated and credited to a VAT account? I have asked and searched the manuals and FAQs but could not find a way to conveniently automatically calculate VAT. However, since it is quite convenient to make calculations for each cell, I do it manually every time. I split VAT to Liabilities:VAT Payments and Expenses:VAT. I use the Liability Account for VAT payments, crediting it when I am liable, and debit it when I pay to VAT authorities. The manual method also lets me decide which portion of the VAT I move to Liabilities:VAT payments and which to Expenses:VAT. 2. How to get the accounts notarized (or whatever) by a CPA? I just would like to know *which* reports should I send to the accountant. I don't expect him to use Gnucash or accept QIF/whatnot format files. --y --- Omer On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 09:07 +0300, Yuval Hager wrote: Hi list, It's that time of year again (for submitting fiscal reports). This year I have everything under gnucash though! I was wondering what is the best way to file the reports to the accountant. Assuming he does not know or care about the software - What reports should I create and send to him? I know Gnucash reports are US oriented, and have no idea which ones apply to Israel. -- Yuval Hager [T] +972-77-341-4155 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel
On Sunday 06 April 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:24:00PM +0300, Yuval Hager wrote: I am not trying to formally submit those reports to the authorities. I just wanted to know which Gnucash reports are relevant for an Israeli accountant. I plan to print them (or send PDF) and hand them over for him to submit to authorities. I don't think he can. From what I was told, the only acceptable reports were those from approved programs entered by properly certified people. If you provide him with PDF files or printouts, he still has to enter them into the appropriate program. If he is given the data in an Excel compatible spreadsheet, he does not have to retype the data, he just has to verify it. Geoff. Do you have experience with exporting data from Gnucash to Excel spreadsheet that makes accountants happy? --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel
On Sunday 06 April 2008, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I'm not a laywer, but what I was told is that all business tax reports must be submitted from an approved program, with the data entered by a level 3 certified bookkeeper. Approved program, yes. Data entered by a level 3 certified bookkeeper - no. All the data in Codefidence is entered by a non certified bookkeeper (but into an approved program) and Ernest Young, our auditors, found no fault in this procedure. May I ask which program you use? Is it available for Linux? --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: binary diff
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Ely Levy wrote: There are a few of them, take a look for example at xdelta and bsdiff It really depends on what files you are planning to use the diff on. The more you know about the files, the better tool you can choose. I've had good experience with xdelta. IIRC, it works very similar to the way rsync transfers files, with an advantage to xdelta, since it works locally. Also, xdelta is available both for Windows and Linux, if that matters to you. --yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: mail server and gmail SPAM
On Monday 25 February 2008, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: 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 clicking the message and clicking not spam, but the 2 servers do need to send registration mail to users, and if they'll get the mail in the spam it will cause tons of problems. I have checked the RDNS, sent mail not from root, SPF record is OK. (mail server is sendmail). Have I missed something? I checked all the servers and they have the same config. It's hard to tell how gmail filters its spam. I bet it's an Intellectual Property of theirs. However, you might get a clue if you run the problematic email through spamassassin (use 'spamc -R your_email') and see which spam tests are being hit. If you don't have a working spamassassin configuration, send the file to me, I'll do it for you. --yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: AD Integration/Replacement?
of standalone XPs and a Samba server, or could I use the Samba as a PDC and build a second one as BDC? I know Samba is capable of that, but I have never heard about a real world case where that works, and if it works well. I was told back in 2000 by huji sysadmin that they have NT machines authenticate against a samba server running as a PDC. However, I don't know how much of hackery that took to do, but then again, it was 7 years ago.. --yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: running 64 bit linux on the desktop
On Monday 24 December 2007, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: Hi, I recently started working at a new firm that is using CentOS 4.5 64 bit on the desktop. We were having trouble with some standard programs and we just realized that they are related to the 64 vs. 32 bit issues. For example the flash plugin to firefox installed fine, but would not work. The best workaround I have found is to install the 32 bit firefox instead and then all the plugins work fine. We are also having trouble running some other apps like open office. Running as a local user works fine, but running as a user from found in the LDAP dir causes a startup error about permissions. Is anyone out there having the same troubles? Any suggestions? Thanks, -tom Same like with firefox. Compile openoffice from source (http://go-oo.org), or use a 32bit openoffice package. I have used openoffice-bin in the past and am now using a the go-oo.org version. Both work fine, with slight preference to the latter. --yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: using a wireless adsl modem/router as an access-point only?
On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Dan Shimshoni wrote: Suppose I have WRT54G-L route at home and it runs indeed LInux (because I heard there are versions of this router which do not run Liux). the 'L' in the model name is for Linux. The latest (v8 I believe it is called) is running vxWorks. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Israir flight search
On Saturday 03 November 2007, Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, I have tried to search for a flight at Israir site. Here is a link to the page: http://www.israir.co.il/cat_flights_europe.asp?type=6 Now, as you guessed, the search button don't work. Sometimes in sites that don't work, I just open the code and try to run 'javascript:whatEverFunctionToSubmit();' from the url line, but here it don't work, also with Konqueror. At the source there is the function submit: document.frmSearch.submit(); This line don't work from the url line. Is there a way to run this search from firefox? The search works fine with Opera. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: linux in 1911
On Friday 26 October 2007, Shlomo Solomon wrote: this is wierd try this in Google -linux view:timeline Kernel 2.6.11 = February 6th, 1911 :) --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Recommending a good printer.
On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I'm also looking for a laser printer. My current favourite is the Xerox 3117, but I haven't bought it yet. It's under 300 shekels on ZAP and gets great reccomendations. As I understand, it works in Linux (although it seems CUPS recognizes it as a Samsung ml-1210). Here's a link: www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Xerox-Phaser_3117 And here are a couple of links about using it in Ubuntu and Debian. I run Mandriva, but that shouldn't matter. loliboli.hu/node/8 forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-561293.html As far as ink is concerned, they claim it has a 1000 page first cartridge and full ones are good for 3500 pages. I found refilled ink for 130 shekels so that seems to be a good deal (original ink is about 300 shekels). Can anyone confirm or refute the above - preferably before I buy :-) I have the Phaser 3117 running smoothly on Gentoo. IIRC, I needed to install the driver from the CD, but after that it works fine. I am still with the original cartridge, so I can't tell anything about the ink levels. --yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Israel approved Accounting software on Linux
Does anyone have any experience in running some accounting software (one that is approved by the authorities to print invoices) on a Linux? I guess that they all require Windows, so this would be under wine, but still - does anyone have it working? Thanks, -- Yuval Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Israel approved Accounting software on Linux
ביום רביעי, 5 בספטמבר 2007, נכתב על ידי Ori Idan: Drorit software will soon be approved (I hope) and it runs under Linux. It is written in PHP and can actually be run on any operating system supporting PHP. I tested it only on Linux. Thanks! It's great to know we have a FOSS solution :) Thanks for the work you put in. I am also interested to know if there are other software that work on Linux in this domain. I would like to install Linux in an office, and they might not take my advice for accounting software, so I would like to make sure they have the choice. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Printing Photos in Israel
Hi, Does anybody know of a site in Israel in which you can upload your photos and get them printed? It should 1. Work with a non-IE browser 2. Have decent prices 3. Good service level and attitude. I am looking for standard printing, in standard sizes, nothing special. Thanks, --yuval pgpBZ9s4Hrktd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Printing Photos in Israel
ביום שישי 10 אוגוסט 2007, 00:04, נכתב על ידי Yedidyah Bar-David: 2007/8/9, Yuval Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Does anybody know of a site in Israel in which you can upload your photos and get them printed? It should I never used them myself, but my sister is a routine user of tzamtzam.co.il . 1. Work with a non-IE browser I think it works with FF Are you sure? I got to a page where they tell me to accept the ActiveX installation and remove the pop-up blocker... --y pgpNTD4NZ3clX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT/2] Making IE display PNG (or GIF?) with transparency
ביום שלישי 07 אוגוסט 2007, 10:20, נכתב על ידי Amos Shapira: On 07/08/07, Yuval Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to avoid PNG transparency if you can, but if not, this one worked for me for a couple of sites: http://koivi.com/ie-png-transparency/ Thanks. Gadi's suggestion seems to work for me (on a real Windows XP with IE 6). (you can try the URL I gave in my original post: http://tinyurl.com/2chzba) No, I can't :) What do you suggest to use instead of transparent PNG? Give up on transparency altogether or can you suggest something else? The problem is with alpha transparency, not PNG transparency. GIF does not support alpha transparency, but binary transparency, which is widely supported by all modern browsers (yes, IE too..). Transparent GIF might or might not work for you. If it doesn't work, and you still need transparency, go for PNG alpha transparency with your favorite hack for IE.. --yuval pgpj0CnqAlPmE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT/2] Making IE display PNG (or GIF?) with transparency
בשבת 04 אוגוסט 2007, 14:47, נכתב על ידי Amos Shapira: Hello, I'm looking for a way to make IE 5.0/5.5/6 display a transparent background on a web page. Sample that works on Firefox: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2chzba I tried all sorts of fixes I found on the net but none of them works with IE. Does anyone here have experience with solving this problem? I know IE sucks but it's a business web site that needs to reach the widest audience possible. Try to avoid PNG transparency if you can, but if not, this one worked for me for a couple of sites: http://koivi.com/ie-png-transparency/ --yuval pgpyfuJP2w05j.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gnucash VAT
ביום שני 30 יולי 2007, 14:41, נכתב על ידי Michael Ben-Nes: Hi, Access GNU cash IRC channel and ask GNUCash developers. t takes time to get an answer but in the end you always get a response. Please let me know if you have found a solution. I've already sent the question to Gnucash mailing list: http://www.nabble.com/VAT-calculation-tf3983182.html#a11308358 After scanning all the docs and relevant mailing list messages I could find, you have two options: 1) Use the business features, by entering invoices and bills to automatically calculate taxes. 2) Manually split each transaction to the relevant tax accounts. I find option (1) being too cumbersome to use, so I am using option (2). It's not the best to divide each amount by 1.155, and then filling out the rest in the second part of the split, but it's the best I got with Gnucash. Luckily, you can do calculations on the fields themselves, so this add somewhat convenience to the task.. --yuval Kind regards, Miki On 6/19/07, Yuval Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am using Gnucash as a personal finance manager, and was wondering how to approach VAT/IRS liabilities for a small business (Osek Murshe). Looking at the FAQ I could not find a simple method to handle VAT related payments and refunds. Has anyone succeeded in creating such a scheme for Israeli tax definitions? I don't mind managing the paper-work as well, as required by law, I just want to be able to view reports and analyze my finances - both personal and business. I chose gnucash over Kmymoney as it seemed more mature and feature-rich, however, according to the FAQ, Kmymoney contains a simple method for handing VAT while gnucash does not.. :( I also read the excellent slides by Oron Peled's about Gnucash - http://www.haifux.org/lectures/119-sil/, but there is nothing there regarding VAT. Regards, -- Yuval Hager = 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] -- Yuval Hager [H] +972-77-3414155 [M] +972-50-850-0813 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp9UAWFn7rNB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Gnucash VAT
Hi all, I am using Gnucash as a personal finance manager, and was wondering how to approach VAT/IRS liabilities for a small business (Osek Murshe). Looking at the FAQ I could not find a simple method to handle VAT related payments and refunds. Has anyone succeeded in creating such a scheme for Israeli tax definitions? I don't mind managing the paper-work as well, as required by law, I just want to be able to view reports and analyze my finances - both personal and business. I chose gnucash over Kmymoney as it seemed more mature and feature-rich, however, according to the FAQ, Kmymoney contains a simple method for handing VAT while gnucash does not.. :( I also read the excellent slides by Oron Peled's about Gnucash - http://www.haifux.org/lectures/119-sil/, but there is nothing there regarding VAT. Regards, -- Yuval Hager = 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: Ripping Hebrew CDs
ביום רביעי 25 אפריל 2007, 15:09, נכתב על ידי Ehud Karni: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:56:38 +0300, יובל האגר wrote: Ehud Karni: נכתב על ידי ,�15:46 ,2007 אפריל �23 ביום שני: You have to re-encode the file name to Hebrew UTF-8 like this: NEWNM=`echo $NM | iconv -futf8 -tlatin1 | iconv -fhebrew -tutf8` Thanks! I've been looking for some time how to do this.. I didn't think there could even be a latin1/hebrew in a UTF-8 encoding.. Anyway, that solves my problem too with file names, but how should I handle ID3 tags? You can use the id3lib package ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/id3lib/ ) to extract the should be Hebrew names, try to convert it using something like the command above, and, if successful, replace the original names. You can then write a script that will do it to all your songs. Exactly! It works flawlessly. I'm sure you can get this package for any Linux distribution. But also read this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/id3lib3.8.3/+bug/54136 Luckily, my distribution (Gentoo) includes this patch by default on the latest id3lib version. Anyway, using easytag v2.0 proved to be painless even in Hebrew and it does a great work retagging, where my ripping program doesn't get it right.. Easytag is so kind, it even checks if id3lib is broken with regards to UTF8 tags and notifies about it. Thanks! --yuval -- yuval 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: Project management
ביום שישי 20 אפריל 2007, 21:00, כתבת: Hello guys, What software would you recommend for project management under Linux? Currently I need to keep track of time spent on each project. It has to be web-based. Look in the archives for a thread titled Just another project management question. --y -- yuval 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]
Using culmus fonts within Inkscape
Hi, I am having this strange problem with Inkscape, couldn't find anything on the net about it. Using culmus fonts, certain fonts just insist on staying bold style. When I choose medium style and click apply in the font selection dialog - they just become bold. This goes for ComixNo2 CLM and David CLM (maybe some more, I didn't check them all). Checking other apps, like OpenOffice, Gimp, I do get the thinner version of the font, but not within Inkscape. Has anyone seen anything similar? Thanks, --yuval
In OWA, hebrew characters are converted to '?' at the server?
Hi, I'm using Firefox on Linux to access OWA server. Apparently, the OWA server converts the hebrew characters in the subject line to question marks. Of course that no encoding changes can fix that. The messages themselves are viewed correctly, the only problem is in the subjects. Does anyone has a resolution for this? I canno access the OWA server itself. Thanks, --yuval
Re: In OWA, hebrew characters are converted to '?' at the server?
On 10/8/05, Ilya Konstantinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On ש', 2005-10-08 at 15:47 +0300, Yuval Hager wrote: Hi, I'm using Firefox on Linux to access OWA server. Apparently, the OWA server converts the hebrew characters in the subject line to question marks. Of course that no encoding changes can fix that.Outlook, till version 2003, could not handle subjects with charactersout of the current ANSI codepage (Regional Settings - Language fornon-Unicode applications). Maybe it's part of the same problem. I'm just guessing that you might want to ensure this is set to Hebrew on theserver (contact your sysadmin if necessary). Thanks for the quick response. IE works fine with the same server. Why is this related to outlook? This is the web access portion.. --yuval
Re: In OWA, hebrew characters are converted to '?' at the server?
Does IE perhaps send a different list of supported Languages (Tools | Options | Languages in IE, Edit | Preferences | Advanced | General |Edit Languages in Firefox)? (Yes, this doesn't affect the browser'sdisplay in any way, but OWA might be interpreting this header in some strange fashion.) That did the trick. I added 'hebrew' and put it in the top of the list, and it worked (Firefox). Thanks! --yuval
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Title: System Administrator Company: DiskSites Job Description: * Assume total responsibility for IT management in the company. * Define and implement security infrastructure. * Redefine and implement mail infrastructure. * Manage all (RD related, non RD related) servers (Windows and Linux). * Handle IT requirements of QA lab. * Handle backups. * Manage suppliers. * Consult RD and product management with various system-related matters. * Potentially provide customer support. * Potentially manage software configuration and source control systems. Requirements: * Vast experience in Unix/Linux system administration. * Fluent in scripting languages, and various other sysadmin aids (shell, awk, perl, python, etc.) * Experience in Windows administration - Domains management, user management, Exchange etc. * Good understanding of OS's infrastructure, communication protocols, security principles and tools. * Good understanding of various hardware components, their interactions and differences. * Experience with programming. Source control - advantage. * Fluent in English and Hebrew. * Good awareness of the open-source world - its pros and cons. Address: Azrieli Center, Tel Aviv Phone: 03-691-1160 Fax: 03-691-2282 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Person Name: Yuval Hager = 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]
