who is list maintainer?

1999-12-29 Thread Michael Shiloh
hello, who is the maintainer of this mailing list? (the link for "Linux-IL maintainer" of the web page http://www.linux.org.il/mailing-list.html yields The requested URL /shlomif/cgi-bin/forward.cgi was not found on this server thanks very much, mich

need advice: how to cancel my parents netvision account

2008-04-29 Thread michael shiloh
Hiya, My parents are leaving the country and are trying to close their Netvision account. I tried making phone calls when I was there last month, and my mother tried just this week, and all they get is a string of people pleading with them to keep the account. Would they like to transfer it to

Re: redirecting entire script's stdin/stdout to/from a file

2008-05-30 Thread michael shiloh
I must have missed something here. Where is the script that is being run? Michael On Fri, 30 May 2008, Amos Shapira wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you run exec without giving it a parameter, it will not execute anything, but the

Re: redirecting entire script's stdin/stdout to/from a file

2008-05-30 Thread michael shiloh
i see. so the eval line is inside the script and its effect is to redirect stdin/stdout for the script. very cool. thanks. m On Fri, 30 May 2008, Amos Shapira wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:52 PM, michael shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must have missed something here. Where

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-06-02 Thread michael shiloh
In the interest of full disclosure, I should let you all know that I work for Openmoko. Also, as an Israeli living in the USA I have a strong personal interest in helping Israeli developers get access to Openmoko as much as I can. Doron and I have talked and continue to be in contact and I (and

Re: OT: some thoughts on that open cell phone. :-)

2008-06-02 Thread michael shiloh
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I just want to toss out some thoughts and see if it inspires anyone: 1. What certification do they have now? FCC Are those certifications accepted in Israel? No, but it does give a ballpark idea of whether the

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-06-02 Thread michael shiloh
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/6/2 michael shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Shachar has had a long conversation on the Openmoko mailing list regarding the state (and difficulty) of support for bidirectional languages. Hebrew is not the only RTL language, nor is it the most common

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-06-02 Thread michael shiloh
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/6/2 michael shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Shachar has had a long conversation on the Openmoko mailing list regarding the state (and difficulty) of support for bidirectional languages. Hebrew is not the only RTL language

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-06-02 Thread michael shiloh
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Ira Abramov wrote: haven't seen the discussion, but I'd imagine the most sensible reply from OpenMoko would be we provide a hardware platform and a basic UI with 3(!) different toolkits. Don't make us pick sides, do your own hacking. No, it was

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-06-03 Thread michael shiloh
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I also asked Michael, and never received an answer, if the unit will support some sort of DRM, even if only a unique serial number. While in general I am not a fan of DRM, there are some applications where it has merit [1] and there is a

Re: OpenMoko freerunner warning

2008-07-06 Thread michael shiloh
. If Orange uses 900 MHz as Shachar says, you should wait for the 900 MHz version. Sincerely, Michael Shiloh Developer Relations = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run

Re: OpenMoko freerunner warning

2008-07-06 Thread michael shiloh
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/7/7 michael shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The Neo Freerunner is tri-band available in two versions: The so-called 850 MHz version supports 850MHz, 1800MHz, and 1900MHz The so-called 900 MHz version supports 900MHz, 1800MHz, and 1900MHz

Re: OpenMoko freerunner warning

2008-07-07 Thread michael shiloh
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Arie Skliarouk wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 23:54, michael shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disclosure: I work for Openmoko On Friday OpenMoko freerunner went on sale, and by now the 900MHz band version is sold out with only 850MHz version available

Re: OpenMoko freerunner warning

2008-07-07 Thread michael shiloh
Wow! Thanks for the great information. Mind if I quote this on my blog (with proper credit)? This is good reference material. Michael KA6RCQ On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 01:54:15PM -0700, michael shiloh wrote: The Neo Freerunner is tri-band

Re: OpenMoko freerunner warning

2008-07-10 Thread michael shiloh
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Amos Shapira wrote: (Sorry Shachar, sent it to you in private by mistake) 2008/7/6 Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From memory, so please verify, but as far as I remember, the Neo is tri-band, working with 900 and 1800MHz, with some models carrying the 1900MHz as a

Re: OpenMoko freerunner warning

2008-07-10 Thread michael shiloh
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: An interesting (to me) discussion, probably not for this list, would be exactly how open a cell phone could be and still get regulatory approval. Geoff. I can answer that. I hinted at it in my previous email. The guideline we followed

Re: OpenMoko freerunner warning

2008-07-10 Thread michael shiloh
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/7/10 Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: An interesting (to me) discussion, probably not for this list, would be exactly how open a cell phone could be and still get regulatory approval. It is very relevant to this

Re: OpenMoko freerunner warning

2008-10-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Arie, (Disclosure: I work for Openmoko) Many people have purchased from Koolu with fine results. We also have vendors in Europe which might be closer for you. You are welcome to join the Openmoko community mailing list where you can ask these questions. We have many Israeli participants.

what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
i need to make a slide show from a bunch of photographs. i can use openoffice impress, but perhaps there is something more lightweight and easier to use. at the very least, i want to point it at a directory of images, and cycle through them, pausing for a couple of seconds on each picture.

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
digikam now. thanks for the tips! Oron Peled wrote: On Thursday, 22 בJanuary 2009, Michael Shiloh wrote: i need to make a slide show from a bunch of photographs. i can use openoffice impress, but perhaps there is something more lightweight and easier to use. From impress you can export

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il writes: at the very least, i want to point it at a directory of images, and cycle through them, pausing for a couple of seconds on each picture. If it's only images (no text slides), than you can simply point digikam at the directory and

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il writes: at the very least, i want to point it at a directory of images, and cycle through them, pausing for a couple of seconds on each picture. If it's only images (no text slides), than you can simply point digikam at the directory and

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-22 Thread Michael Shiloh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:20:09PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com writes: What's a good way to automatically create a pdf file from a bunch of images? Hmm... It is easy to convert each image to PDF, e.g., with $ for i in *.jpg

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-22 Thread Michael Shiloh
Amit Aronovitch wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il writes: at the very least, i want to point it at a directory of images, and cycle through them, pausing for a couple of seconds on each picture. If it's only

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-02-10 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hey, I wanted to let everyone know the follow-up to this conversation, as it was an interesting exercise with a valuable lesson. Big Plus: I ended up using kuickshow, as it was the only program I could find that would scale (for display only) every image during a show to the maximum screen

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-02-10 Thread Michael Shiloh
Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Big Lesson: Big lesson learned: It took us a long time to get the projector to display from my laptop. It took a combination of the screen resolution applet, the Thinkpad Fn

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-02-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Meir Kriheli wrote: Michael Shiloh wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:30 -0800 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Big Lesson: Big lesson learned: It took us a long time to get the projector to display from my laptop. It took a combination of the screen

Is there a way to print from the cliboard?

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Shiloh
I'm editing a file, or viewing a web page, or whatever. I'm interested in printing only a small portion of it. I'd like to be able to essentially print selection. Of course this would require that each program (gvim, firefox, thunderbird, terminal, whatever) provide such an option.

Re: Is there a way to print from the cliboard?

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Shiloh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Michael Shiloh wrote: I'm editing a file, or viewing a web page, or whatever. I'm interested in printing only a small portion of it. I'd like to be able to essentially print selection. Of course this would require that each program (gvim, firefox, thunderbird

Re: Is there a way to print from the cliboard?

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Shiloh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Alternately, I can copy to my clipboard, and then through some clever utility (I assume there are clipboard utilities?) print from clipboard. This would work with any source, regardless of whether the program supports printing selection or not. But when I searched

Re: I don't want to do it under Windows ; please help

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Shiloh
Have you looked at Inkscape? It's a rather incredible vector drawing program. I found it pretty easy to pick up, and I have no drawing program experience. You have great control over every single parameter, and there is a great online tutorial. Dan Shimshoni wrote: Hello, Please help me to

Can't view movies at HUJI archive (castup). Do they work for you?

2009-04-23 Thread Michael Shiloh
I've always assumed it's a Linux issue, but before I complain to them, does this work for anyone else? I'm running Ubuntu 9.04. http://w3.castup.net/spielberg/index.aspx?lang=enid=20 The trailer at the begining runs (duration: a couple of seconds), but then the main feature stalls. Michael

Re: [SOLVED?] Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-09-04 Thread Michael Shiloh
I'd love to know if the Arduino IDE and FTDI USB serial port drivers function properly. Do you have an Arduino, or can you borrow one from someone to test? Of course the first part (Arduino IDE) can be downloaded for free and tested. IIRC Ubuntu 9.04 includes the FTDI driver already.

Re: [SOLVED?] Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-09-04 Thread Michael Shiloh
Boaz Rymland wrote: Michael Shiloh wrote: I'd love to know if the Arduino IDE and FTDI USB serial port drivers function properly. Do you have an Arduino, or can you borrow one from someone to test? Possibly I have one - I just need to know how it looks like to figure that out :-) What's

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Shiloh
Openmoko has departed the cellphone business and no longer makes the FreeRunner, although you can buy them and there is still very large community support. Arie Skliarouk wrote: Hi, Four months later... Responding to myself :) On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 13:05, Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com

Open hardware (was: Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone)

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Shiloh
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Michael Shiloh wrote: Openmoko has departed the cellphone business and no longer makes the FreeRunner, although you can buy them and there is still very large community support. Quoth the man who has worked for them and have been burned... :-( Thanks. I have

Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread Michael Shiloh
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oron Peled wrote: The special thanks for Osem should be for not being clueless -- E.g: let's use ActiveX, or even better, SilverPlight ;-) I'll gladly thank them IF I find out it was a conscious decision - i.e. - that it was not the random choice of contractor

any israel OLPC activities?

2010-05-15 Thread Michael Shiloh
If so, can you direct me to mailing list or web page? Tnx M ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: dual nvidia problems

2010-05-24 Thread Michael Shiloh
My first check would be to make sure you can see the 8600 at all. If you remove the 8400GS, does the 8600 work properly? On 05/24/2010 10:02 PM, Erez D wrote: hi i have a computer running linux (centos 5.5), with attached two NVIDIAs display adapters, one 8400 and one 8600. (both pci-e) i

Re: linux beivrit

2010-07-05 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 07/05/2010 09:11 AM, Ori Idan wrote: Thank you very much for converting it to an open format. I have read the first part and find it written very easy to read, I liked it and will continue to read the rest. However in the first paragraph you said that someone coming from Windows will have

Re: A 12V *AC* power supply

2010-07-13 Thread Michael Shiloh
I would expect it to work with 12VDC. It's unlikely that they run it through a transformer, and probably just rectify it, in which case you'll drop a volt or so. If it doesn't work the first time you hook it up, reverse the polarity. Worst case, they run the 12VAC directly into a switching

Re: Linux users in Beer Sheva?

2010-08-09 Thread Michael Shiloh
If you start one, there's a great opportunity for a logo of Tux on the back of a camel... On 08/09/2010 04:24 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: I'm moving to Beer Sheva, it does not seem that there is a LUG there. Anyone? -- Sent from my ASR-33 ___ Linux-il

Re: Arduino in Israel

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
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Re: Arduino in Israel

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
by other Arduino vendors. Take for example Seeeduino film (An Arduino compatible board manufactured on a flexible film, like the one found in cameras and other minituarized electronics, not a regular PCB). Udi On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com

OLPC needs translation help in Arabic and Hebrew, among others

2011-01-17 Thread Michael Shiloh
-- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 6:08 PM Subject: [Localization] Calling all localizers To: OLPC Localization list localizat...@lists.laptop.org Dear Colleagues, Just about every language (besides Spanish) has

Re: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?

2011-02-25 Thread Michael Shiloh
a book if need be. Thanks! -- Michael Shiloh KA6RCQ www.teachmetomake.com teachmetomake.wordpress.com Keep informed at http://groups.google.com/group/teach-me-to-make ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman

Re: Tim O'Reilly in Tel Aviv?

2011-04-09 Thread Michael Shiloh
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can't finish update: dpkg hangs installing xulrunner

2011-05-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
apt-get update hangs at Setting up xulrunner-1.9.1 I can kill this, but then I can't finish the update because it says that dpkg was interrupted. Trying to let dpkg repair with sudo dpkg --configure -a hangs setting up xulrunner so I'm stuck. Any ideas? -- Michael Shiloh

Re: can't finish update: dpkg hangs installing xulrunner

2011-05-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 05/08/2011 08:10 PM, guy keren wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 17:04 -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote: apt-get update hangs at Setting up xulrunner-1.9.1 I can kill this, but then I can't finish the update because it says that dpkg was interrupted. Trying to let dpkg repair

Re: can't finish update: dpkg hangs installing xulrunner

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Shiloh
what command this process executes. --guy On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 21:31 -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote: On 05/08/2011 08:10 PM, guy keren wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 17:04 -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote: apt-get update hangs at Setting up xulrunner-1.9.1 I can kill this, but then I can't

Re: Finally - A RMS talk in Tel-Aviv. Including details

2011-07-17 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 07/17/2011 09:15 AM, Stan Goodman wrote: To be more general, it is unheard of for a prospective guest to set political conditions for his hosts. Aside of any other aspects, the man is a boor, and should have been ignored. I'm not sure that's true. Haven't musicians and other performers

Re: Jewish Nanny-Cam

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Shiloh
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What's the best way to sync two laptops?

2011-11-27 Thread Michael Shiloh
I now have two laptops which I'll use somewhat interchangeably. What's a good way to sync work between them? My main job is teaching, so I have many teaching notes and other documents. Dropbox might be a good way to sync these. I'm going to be doing some 3D design so I'll have inkscape and

Re: What's the best way to sync two laptops?

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Shiloh
Also a nice idea, but I like the idea of redundant backups (if one laptop gets stolen or broken) On 11/27/2011 09:38 PM, Valery Reznic wrote: Mount your /home on external hard drive and move drive from one laptop to another? Valery. *From:* Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com

Re: What's the best way to sync two laptops?

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Shiloh
at 00:47, Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: I now have two laptops which I'll use somewhat interchangeably. What's a good way to sync work between them? My main job is teaching, so I have many teaching notes and other documents. Dropbox might be a good way to sync these. I'm going

Re: [OUT?] Help with Android?

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Shiloh
Same problem here in CA. Turns out the same people who help with Linux and Electronics are the most helpful with Android... On 01/10/2012 06:10 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi all, I own an Android device and I am looking for an Israel oriented, Android related mailing list... I know this is not

python, beagle, and gmail

2012-02-23 Thread Michael Shiloh
Short version: I'm using Python on a Beagle Board xM to read gmail using imaplib, e.g. http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/imaplib/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6282976/download-parse-email-with-python However, it turns out that imaplib.IMAP4_SSL is not present in the version of

Re: python, beagle, and gmail

2012-02-24 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 02/23/2012 11:05 PM, Michael Vasiliev wrote: On 02/24/2012 12:56 AM, Michael Shiloh wrote: 2) How can I add SSL support to my version of imaplib, or is there a version of imaplib for ARM that supports SSL? Am I missing a totally obvious solution? I'm corrupted. I'm pushing my favorite

Re: python, beagle, and gmail

2012-02-24 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 02/23/2012 10:09 PM, Baruch Siach wrote: Hi Michael, On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 02:56:58PM -0800, Michael Shiloh wrote: 2) How can I add SSL support to my version of imaplib, or is there a version of imaplib for ARM that supports SSL? Am I missing a totally obvious solution? Have you

Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-07 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 03/07/2012 08:47 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: On 03/08/2012 12:21 AM, Micha wrote: I believe I pinpointed the problem tp NetworkManager being installed and enabled, which means that no network connection is actually configured before a user is logged in. No, it does not mean that at all.

How can I explore what is causing my laptop to not come out of suspend properly when the lid is opened?

2012-06-20 Thread Michael Shiloh
For years I had been hibernating my laptop (Lenova T60 and now T61) instead of shutting down, and of course opening the lid did nothing until I pressed the power button. Besides the long amount of time it would take to come out of hibernation, this SEEMED to work fine, although sometimes I was

Re: How can I explore what is causing my laptop to not come out of suspend properly when the lid is opened?

2012-06-20 Thread Michael Shiloh
I forgot to mention I'm running Xubuntu 12.04 which I keep thoroughly up to date. Michael Shiloh Artist, designer, tinkerer, teacher, geek KA6RCQ www.teachmetomake.com www.teachmetomake.com/wordpress teachmetomake.wordpress.com groups.google.com/group/teach-me-to-make michaelshiloh.pbworks.com

Re: which filesystem

2012-08-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 08/11/2012 12:28 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2012, Erez D wrote about which filesystem: hello i have and external USB hard-drive size 2TB, mounted as ext4. (ubuntu 10.10 amd64) every time there is a power failure. i need to do a manual fsck on this disk. and this takes around

Re: Wireless USB dongle

2012-10-16 Thread Michael Shiloh
do you know what the chipset and driver is? On 10/16/2012 08:52 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Mordechai Behar wrote: Hi Can anybody recommend a wireless USB dongle that will work with minimum fuss on Linux? Specifically KDE running on Mageia 2 (kernel 3.3.8). Where to buy it and how much it

Re: Wireless USB dongle

2012-10-17 Thread Michael Shiloh
excellent; thanks. that chip seems to be very well supported. On 10/17/2012 02:43 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Michael Shiloh wrote: do you know what the chipset and driver is? The Chinese one is an RTL8191S. The EdiMax RTL8187ZSE. Both work fine out of the box on Ubuntu 12.04. Geoff

Re: anybody knows of a mifi i can run linux on ?

2012-11-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
http://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-TL-WR703N-Wireless-iphone4-android/dp/B005VEJ3GM $30 on Amazon and takes openwrt directly: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n You do have to provide an external 3G modem on a USB stick but it's easy with the built in USB host port Good luck! On

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-26 Thread Michael Shiloh
Is there a chance Ivory would let you boot their computers (assuming they have an assembled computer with one of these motherboards) with a live CD? On 12/26/2012 02:35 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Baruch Siach bar...@tkos.co.il wrote: See the list of currently

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-26 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 12/26/2012 03:02 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a chance Ivory would let you boot their computers (assuming they have an assembled computer with one of these motherboards) with a live CD? I already

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-26 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 12/26/2012 03:11 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/26/2012 03:02 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a chance Ivory

Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Shiloh
Seems like a great idea to me. On 12/27/2012 05:05 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hello, It would've been nice to start a website where people could refer to to find out all the practical issues of installing / using FLOSS in Israel: * A hardware DB where they can look up a device by category

hebrew (or arabic) transparency to call up when i forget key location?

2012-12-30 Thread Michael Shiloh
i just found a nice feature in Unity (new to me at least): press and hold the special key for a semi-transparent overview of keyboard shortcuts, great for jogging the memory. such a transparency of the hebrew (and arabic) keyboard would help me learn to type in hebrew, as i have only english

Re: hebrew (or arabic) transparency to call up when i forget key location?

2012-12-31 Thread Michael Shiloh
super+[key] combinations where super is the only key on the touchscreen device, in which case it will only show English. Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2012/12/30 Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com: i just found a nice feature in Unity (new to me at least): press and hold the special key for a semi

Re: SSD drives

2013-01-03 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 01/03/2013 05:25 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: There is an additional instruction, RDSEED, that is supposedly truly random, but, as I mentioned, I have not seen an explanation of why it is or how it works. perhaps they use radioactive decay? Scroll down to Geiger Counter at:

Re: SSD drives

2013-01-03 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 01/03/2013 07:21 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Michael Shiloh wrote about Re: SSD drives: perhaps they use radioactive decay? Scroll down to Geiger Counter at: There's an inherent conflict between the number of bits of randomness you can get out of this process

Re: Off topic, but only a little since it's about hardware

2013-01-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
mAh is a measure of the capacity to deliver that voltage. You know a battery doesn't last forever. If you suck a lot of current out of it, it will empty sooner. If you suck only a little current, it will last longer. mAh is milli Amp Hours, so a 1500 mAh cell can deliver 1500 mA for one

Is Linux-IL involved in the mini maker faire in jerusalem next month?

2013-02-20 Thread Michael Shiloh
Might be an opportunity for exposure http://maker-faire.org.il/ and http://maker-faire.org.il/history ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-24 Thread Michael Shiloh
If you're not in a rush, I can bring it with me in a couple of weeks. I'm coming for the mini maker faire at jerusalem science museum. Let me know. Michael P.s. Mouser has a distributor in Israel. Do they carry the pi? On 02/24/2013 01:12 PM, Lior Okman wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:33

Re: Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-25 Thread Michael Shiloh
another local vendor: dan electric http://www.dan-e.co.il/index.php?route=product/searchfilter_name=raspberry%20pi On 02/25/2013 08:28 AM, Moish wrote: On 25/02/2013 10:58, vordoo wrote: On 2013-02-24 16:33, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Does anyone know of a company selling them here? I'm

Re: Driver for Canon Pixma MX375 All in one

2013-03-03 Thread Michael Shiloh
Have you tried the 360? Often when my printer number doesn't show up I chose the closest one, and usually that works fine. On 03/03/2013 07:48 AM, David Suna wrote: I recently purchased this printer and it is installed and connected to a Windows machine on my network. I would like to allow

Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE] Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II) -- Eli Billauer

2013-08-17 Thread Michael Shiloh
Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Michael Shiloh teachmetomake.com/wordpress KA6RCQ Educational Materials coordinator at Arduino.cc Electronics, Robotics, Digital Fabrication

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II) -- Eli Billauer

2013-08-18 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 08/18/2013 02:08 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Some of the odd corners of shell syntax are quite useful in interactive usage. For example: % (){ foo $1 bar } 24 to run a command several times (recalling it from history) and change some parameter around the middle of the command line without

password managers (was: Re: Watch out for Bezeq

2013-09-02 Thread Michael Shiloh
@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Michael Shiloh teachmetomake.com/wordpress KA6RCQ

Re: password managers

2013-09-03 Thread Michael Shiloh
September 2013 04:43, Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.comwrote: It's also important to consider smart phone access. I use password gorilla on my ubuntu laptops, passwdsafe on my android, and i sync the common database via ubuntu one. On 09/02/2013 04:49 AM, ronys wrote: plug PasswordSafe

Re: password managers

2013-09-03 Thread Michael Shiloh
it for the really sensitive stuff like financial accounts etc. For these I generate unique random passwords, memories them and back them up in lastpass with a very strong master password. On 04/09/2013 3:22 AM, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1

Fascinating story: How Munich rejected Steve Ballmer and kicked Microsoft out of the city

2013-11-22 Thread Michael Shiloh
-steve-ballmer-and-kicked-microsoft-out-of-the-city/?tag=nl.e101s_cid=e101ttag=e101ftag=TRE684d531 -- Michael Shiloh teachmetomake.com/wordpress KA6RCQ Educational Materials coordinator at Arduino.cc Electronics, Robotics, Digital

Re: Fascinating story: How Munich rejected Steve Ballmer and kicked Microsoft out of the city

2013-11-23 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 11/23/2013 03:53 PM, Michael Vasiliev wrote: On 11/22/2013 09:32 PM, Michael Shiloh wrote: [story] I would say that the hidden part of the iceberd is that the city budget money went to local service providers, mostly immediately returning into German economy as taxes and payroll, intead

Re: Lime - an open source Sublime Text clone

2013-12-01 Thread Michael Shiloh
it here - http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/65226.html . Best regards, -- Shlomi Fish ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Michael Shiloh teachmetomake.com/wordpress KA6RCQ

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

2015-11-29 Thread Michael Shiloh
After much consideration, I purchased a Thinkpad W541. The specific model was important because I make heavy use of the Trackpoint(tm) style pointer and other newer models don't have this. My version has a massive 2880 x 1620 pixel display, as I often have multiple things open. Linux install

OFFTOPIC: friends from foocamp requests help from outside North America for researching censorship; script to run on *nix

2016-07-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
Because most responses will be from North America, I thought it would be particularly valuable if people on this list might be willing to help. Details here >From their website: Active Geolocation Project This website is part of a research study

Re: OFFTOPIC: friends from foocamp requests help from outside North America for researching censorship; script to run on *nix

2016-07-09 Thread Michael Shiloh
Thanks Shlomi, I'm normally in USA but I happen to be in Israel right now visiting family so I ran the client. Very clean and easy. (By the way, I'm hoping to return to Israel and am looking for teaching work. Would it be off topic to briefly mention what I teach in the hopes that people here

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

2016-12-26 Thread Michael Shiloh
s on youtube clearly show that the T460S has at least one > SODIMM slot, the X1 does not seem to have it. > > Regards, > Eliyahu - אליהו > > 2016-12-26 23:37 GMT+02:00 Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com>: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I hope everyone i

Advice on lightweight laptops for Linux (of course)

2016-12-26 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hello everyone, I hope everyone is enjoying a very happy Chanukah. You might recall about a year ago I raised the question of a powerful laptop for Linux. I settled on a Thinkpad W541 and I am thrilled with it ... except for the weight. As I travel more and don't need the power of the W541 all

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

2016-12-27 Thread Michael Shiloh
or if you intend to use it > 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, >> >&

Re: Open Source Physical Access Control Solutions in Israel?

2017-10-03 Thread Michael Shiloh
What do you mean exactly by physical access control system? Are you referring to making access to the building easier for those with physical limitations? If so,Tikun Olam Makers might be a good starting point If you refer to physical computing, Arduino is readily available at various locations

Re: After waking from suspend, USB devices are not recognized (Ubuntu 17.10)

2017-11-23 Thread Michael Shiloh
t; On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 06:15:03PM +0400, Michael Shiloh wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I noticed that my old mouse didn't work all the time, and figured it was > > time to replace the mouse. Then I had trouble programming some Arduinos, > > and figured I had a bad Arduino.

Re: After waking from suspend, USB devices are not recognized (Ubuntu 17.10)

2017-11-24 Thread Michael Shiloh
Very interesting. After removing TLP the problem seems to have gone away. I am now able to enjoy USB peripherals again. Thanks! I'd love to understand why, though. On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Michael Shiloh < michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not powertop, but yes

After waking from suspend, USB devices are not recognized (Ubuntu 17.10)

2017-11-23 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi, I noticed that my old mouse didn't work all the time, and figured it was time to replace the mouse. Then I had trouble programming some Arduinos, and figured I had a bad Arduino. It wasn't until my system failed to see a thumb drive that I finally realized the common element here: After

Re: After waking from suspend, USB devices are not recognized (Ubuntu 17.10)

2017-11-24 Thread Michael Shiloh
Very interesting. Thanks Yuval. On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Yuval Adam <_...@yuv.al> wrote: > This might help: > > http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-configuration.html#usb > > On 11/24/2017 05:51 PM, Michael Shiloh wrote: > > Very interesting. After removing TL

Can anyone help translate the Open Source Hardware statement to Hebrew?

2020-05-09 Thread Michael Shiloh
I was just poking around the Open Source Hardware Association and was shocked to see that their definition , while available in a number of other languages, is not available in Hebrew. I say shocked because usually in technology and

Re: Can anyone help translate the Open Source Hardware statement to Hebrew?

2020-05-09 Thread Michael Shiloh
Great! I'll put you in touch with Alicia. On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 10:39 AM marc volovic wrote: > Will be glad to help. > > On 9 May 2020 09:17:56 GMT+03:00, Michael Shiloh < > michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I was just poking around the Open Source

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