Re: European VPS hosting
Geoff Shang wrote: Hi, Excuse if this is offtopic. Was wondering if anyone had any recommendations pro or con any European or UK based VPS hosters. I'm helping to start a project and am shopping around for somewhere to host it. I'm wanting a hoster who offers Debian and who can handle sales and support in English. Desirable is an SSH console rather than a web interface for controling the host in the event of trouble, and the ability to purchase extra capacity if required. I've had an superb experience with MiroHosting. We currently host a VPS at their London data center (they also cover Austrlia & both coasts of the US) and the service is excellent. They support VPS console over SSH (but also have a web interface) and at least Ubuntu, but from what I know of their customer support they will support Debian even if it is not a standard option. To explain what kind of company I'm talking about I called them up to query about storage expansion costs and was promptly notified that since they updated their pricing list since I've signed up to lower price I will get the upgrade for free *and* pay 2$ less... (it did required migrating the VPS to a different data center). Highly recommended. Gilad -- Gilad Ben-Yossef Chief Coffee Drinker Codefidence Ltd. The code is free, your time isn't.(TM) Web:http://codefidence.com Email: gi...@codefidence.com Office: +972-8-9316883 ext. 201 Fax:+972-8-9316885 Mobile: +972-52-8260388 The Doctor: Don't worry, Reinette, just a nightmare. Everyone has nightmares. Even monsters from under the bed have nightmares, don't you, monster? Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about? The Doctor: Me! ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: time zone problems
thanks
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Oron Peled wrote:
> (oops, the mailing list wasn't addressed in previous copy).
>
> Erez:
> > struct tm time_str;
> > ...
> > int d=timegm(&time_str)-timelocal(&time_str);
> > printf("%d\n",d);
> >
> >
> > prints 7200 (which is 2*3600 -> two hours).
> >
> >
> > any idea ?
> > or in in other words, how the f...@#k i get the offset from GMT c-code ?
>
> glibc-specific solution is easy:
>
>struct tm *tm;
>time_t t;
>
>t = time(NULL);
>tm = localtime(&t);
>printf("OFF=%ld\n", tm->tm_gmtoff);
>
> My system output:
>OFF=10800 # this is 3 hours
>
>
> --
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> o...@actcom.co.il
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>-- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
>
>
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Re: http://www.moin.gov.il/
Noam Rathaus writes: > Hi, > > Has anyone been able to get this site to work with FF? > > I cannot work with it as everything is limited to 100px height - so > everything is unreadable. Heh-heh, I see what you mean... Looks much better in konqueror, so you might try that. I only looked at the front page, didn't try to navigate though. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: European VPS hosting
"geoffrey mendelson" wrote: Have you thought about Miro? It's a product of the Partipatory Culture Foundation and is really intended for Internet TV, but works with Internet Radio. You set up a channel and publish shows. The Miro software automaticly downloads them with bit torrent and gives you a nice gui for it. A friend of mine uses to watch the US network's news programs here in Israel. When he wakes up in the morning, the evening news is on his computer. Thanks for the pointer. However, this seems to just be for on-demand content (i.e. no live broadcasts). Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: http://www.moin.gov.il/
This is the content of their פניות הציבור page. Write or call to them so that they will know to fix it. Seriously, if we don't let them know that there is a problem why should they fix it? פניות בנושאים הקשורים למינהל האוכלוסין מרכז שרות ומידע ארצי מתן מידע בנושאים הקשורים למינהל האוכלוסין: מיקום לשכות מינהל האוכלוסין, שעות קבלת קהל, מתן תיעוד שלא כרוך בתשלום אגרה, ברורים על תעוד שלא הגיע ליעדו ועוד... שעות הפעילות: ימים א', ג' ,ה' - בין השעות 8:00 - 16:00, ימים ב', ד' - בין השעות 8:00 - 18:00 מכל טלפון: 3450* או 12223450 פקס: 02-6294755 דואר אלקטרוני: i...@moin.gov.il המחלקה לפניות הציבור במינהל האוכלוסין פניות הציבור בנושאים שאינם קבלת מידע או הנפקת תיעוד טלפון: 02-6294701/2 בין השעות 13:00 - 15:00 בלבד פקס: 02-6294750 כתובת: המחלקה לפניות הציבור מינהל האוכלוסין, משרד הפנים, מסילת ישרים 6, ירושלים, מיקוד 94584 פניות בנושאים הקשורים לרשויות המקומיות המחלקה לפניות הציבור ברשויות המקומיות מטפלת בפניות המגיעות מהתושבים וכן מחברי מועצה המעבירים תלונות והשגות על מחדלים ומפגעים שונים בתחום הרשות. כעיקרון מטופלות פניות רק לאחר שהמתלונן מיצה את הליכי התלונה הן ברשות והן במחוז והתשובות אשר קבל לא השביעו את רצונו. טלפון: 07 / 6293310 - 02 פקס: 6293336 - 02 כתובת: האגף לביקורת ברשויות המקומיות, משרד הפנים, רחוב שלומציון המלכה 1, ירושלים, ת.ד. 1091, מיקוד 94146 בקשות לקבלת מידע על פי חוק חופש המידע כל פניה עפ"י חוק חופש המידע כרוכה בתשלום אגרה עפ"י חוק . הפניה תבוצע באמצעות מכתב, בצרוף תשלום. ניתן לשלם באמצעות המחאה, לפקודת חשב משרד הפנים. טלפון: 6701501 - 02 פקס: 6701572 - 02 כתובת: יחידת ממונה חוק חופש המידע, משרד הפנים, רחוב קפלן 2, ירושלים, ת.ד. 6158, מיקוד 91061 פנייה בדואר אלקטרוני: - astrat...@moin.gov.il המחלקה לפניות הציבור לפניות בנושאים כלליים הקשורים למשרד הפנים טלפון: 02-6293350 פקס: 02-6293323 כתובת: ת.ד. 1333 ירושלים, מיקוד 91012 דואר אלקטרוני: pn...@moin.gov.il פניות שאינן בתחום אחריות משרד הפנים בפניות לתעודת נישואין - יש לפנות לרבנות המקומית שם נישאו בני הזוג - ולא למשרד הפנים בפניות לתעודת אזרח ותיק - יש לפנות למשרד לעניני גימלאים טל: 02-6547025 , פקס: 02-6547034 ayala.a...@it.pmo.gov.il -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: http://www.moin.gov.il/
Oren, I appreciate your effort, update us if anything changes - I will look at it during June to see if something has changed :) On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Oren Held wrote: > See my latest article, http://israeliweb.blogli.co.il/archives/25 > > On Monday 30 March 2009 11:43:33 Noam Rathaus wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Has anyone been able to get this site to work with FF? >> >> I cannot work with it as everything is limited to 100px height - so >> everything is unreadable. >> >> ___ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@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
Re: Hebrew Under crossover
On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > > I have managed to get MS word to work under crossover. > > I see that if I do : > > > > > > LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8 ~/cxoffice/bin/winword > > > > > > I can insert Hebrew. > > I'm afraid I'm somewhat to blame for that. I started having Wine > understand all of the different LC_* environment settings correctly > (several years ago), but ran out of free time for wine several years ago. > > I know of two common settings for people who want a Hebrew "enabled" > machine with an English interface. The one you should officially use is > to set LANG to he_IL (or he_IL.UTF-8), and to set LC_MESSAGES to en_US. > This has the effect of setting everything to Hebrew (dates, measurements > etc.) but the actual language. > > The second mode (only relevant if you do not work in UTF-8) is to set > LANG to en_US and LC_CTYPE to he_IL. This means the system is > essentially speaking English, but with an encoding that has Hebrew support. > > Despite the fact that the first one is the more correct approach, the > second one is (or, at least, used to be) the more common one. The > problem is that not all programs correctly parse all relevant LC_* > variables, and as a result, not all combinations work as well for all > programs. > > Last I checked, Wine only supported the LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=he_IL > combination. In other words, it did not take LC_MESSAGES into account. > > > Is there a "right" way to set things up so I don't have to set LC_ALL > > and then run winword ? > > Not exactly "right", but setting LANG should be "enough". > > > Ideally, I would just like to choose crossover from the KDE menu, and > > then choose winword from as the windows command, or even better, > > create an item on the KDE menu which will just run winword and have it > > work properly. > > Use Dotan's solution. > > Take to heart, however, that Wine also has poor keyboard language > reporting. The upshot of this is that switching keyboard when typing in > Word will likely produce reasonable Hebrew *or* reasonable English > outputs, but not both in the same run. Changing keyboard effectively > requires changing the LANG variable. > > Shachar I see that mixed Hebrew and English really does NOT work. Very sad ;-( -- The day is short, and the work is great,| Aharon Schkolnik and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | is great, and the Master of the house is| aschkol...@gmail.com impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2| 054 3344135 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: European VPS hosting
On Mar 30, 2009, at 1:13 AM, Geoff Shang wrote:
Thanks for the pointer. However, this seems to just be for on-demand
content (i.e. no live broadcasts).
Since you did not say what it was for, I wanted to point it out. Most
live broadcasts are not live
anyway, they are pre-recorded and made to seem live. Obviously a call
in show, or a sporting
event needs to be live, but a lecture, concert and so on can be pre-
recorded.
Miro is designed for background delivered content, not on demand. You
subscribe to a
"channel", but the people who publish the content control when it is
made available, and
when you receive it.
So if for example, you were going to do a show on your favorite kernel
pointers, and allowed people to call up and ask for ones, you would
have to do it live. But if the show were prepared, or you took
requests via email, this would do as well.
Note that sporting events don't need to be live either, as long as you
have not heard the score,
every moment is a surprise, wether it's real time or 30 years old. The
famous Hindenburg crash
("oh the humanity") was not carried live, most people saw the film in
a movie theater days, if not weeks, later.
Geoff.
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Re: Hebrew Under crossover
> Just to be clear - what I need is a way to edit MS mixed English and Hebrew > word documents which will be read by Windows users. At the monent the only > way I can do that is by booting into XP ;-( > If you are creating the documents and others are reading, then there are two solutions: 1) Open Office 3.0 handles MS Office documents <= 2003 in a reasonable manner. If you are producing the documents for distribution, then expect no problems (but don't be mad at me if there are). Sometime receiving documents for MS Office users is not ideal, but creating them is fine. 2) Again, use OOo 3.0 but instead of distributing DOC files, distribute PDF files. DOC files are not meant for distributing, their viewer application is buggy and rarely used (users will likely open the documents in an editor, ie, MS Word) and has other problems. If you need to recieve and colaborate with MS Windows users, you have two options: 1) Buy MS Windows and MS Office and use them. I actually like Microsoft's office suit, but I hate their operating systems! 2) Convince your collaborators to use Open Office. This is suprisingly easy, many people are willing to get rid of MS Office. Although I personally prefer MS Office and use OOo out of necessity (Linux user), I find that most people prefer OOo for some reason, once they see it. Go figure. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: http://www.moin.gov.il/
ok I sent them an email, I won't be calling them as waiting on the line for some secretary to answer will be a waste of time On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/3/30 Noam Rathaus : > > Oren, > > > > I appreciate your effort, update us if anything changes - I will look > > at it during June to see if something has changed :) > > > > > Noam, do not wait until June! Write to them today! have you no > experience with Israeli bureaucracy? Only many people complaining will > change anything. Use this address: > pn...@moin.gov.il > > And call them too: > 02-6293350 > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > > ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: European VPS hosting
Geoff, Could you give some more details about your project? if you want to stream live, where do you stream from, Here in Israel up to europe and then broadcast it with the VPS you want? Thanks, Hetz On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Geoff Shang wrote: > "geoffrey mendelson" wrote: > >> Have you thought about Miro? It's a product of the Partipatory Culture >> Foundation and >> is really intended for Internet TV, but works with Internet Radio. You set >> up a channel >> and publish shows. The Miro software automaticly downloads them with bit >> torrent and >> gives you a nice gui for it. A friend of mine uses to watch the US >> network's news programs >> here in Israel. When he wakes up in the morning, the evening news is on >> his computer. > > Thanks for the pointer. However, this seems to just be for on-demand content > (i.e. no live broadcasts). > > Geoff. > > > -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Hebrew Under crossover
Dotan your right as the Americans say I'll buy that, especially using .pdf. This type of file covers a multitude of sins and if there's no reason for the recipient to alter the wording great! Moshe --- On Mon, 30/3/09, Dotan Cohen wrote: From: Dotan Cohen Subject: Re: Hebrew Under crossover To: "Aharon Schkolnik" Cc: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Date: Monday, 30 March, 2009, 2:02 PM > Just to be clear - what I need is a way to edit MS mixed English and Hebrew > word documents which will be read by Windows users. At the monent the only > way I can do that is by booting into XP ;-( > If you are creating the documents and others are reading, then there are two solutions: 1) Open Office 3.0 handles MS Office documents <= 2003 in a reasonable manner. If you are producing the documents for distribution, then expect no problems (but don't be mad at me if there are). Sometime receiving documents for MS Office users is not ideal, but creating them is fine. 2) Again, use OOo 3.0 but instead of distributing DOC files, distribute PDF files. DOC files are not meant for distributing, their viewer application is buggy and rarely used (users will likely open the documents in an editor, ie, MS Word) and has other problems. If you need to recieve and colaborate with MS Windows users, you have two options: 1) Buy MS Windows and MS Office and use them. I actually like Microsoft's office suit, but I hate their operating systems! 2) Convince your collaborators to use Open Office. This is suprisingly easy, many people are willing to get rid of MS Office. Although I personally prefer MS Office and use OOo out of necessity (Linux user), I find that most people prefer OOo for some reason, once they see it. Go figure. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@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
Re: http://www.moin.gov.il/
Hi, Let me know if someone here want to help us and contribute more records for our not standards compliance sites list at http://mozilla.org.il/evangel.shtml. Thanks to Oren Held and others, our list is now more up-to-date than few months ago. Tomer. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 13:21, Noam Rathaus wrote: > > Oren, > > I appreciate your effort, update us if anything changes - I will look > at it during June to see if something has changed :) > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Oren Held wrote: > > See my latest article, http://israeliweb.blogli.co.il/archives/25 > > > > On Monday 30 March 2009 11:43:33 Noam Rathaus wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Has anyone been able to get this site to work with FF? > >> > >> I cannot work with it as everything is limited to 100px height - so > >> everything is unreadable. -- Tomer Cohen http://tomercohen.com Sent from: Givatayim TA Israel. Fran Lebowitz - "Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep." ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: http://www.moin.gov.il/
See my latest article, http://israeliweb.blogli.co.il/archives/25 On Monday 30 March 2009 11:43:33 Noam Rathaus wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone been able to get this site to work with FF? > > I cannot work with it as everything is limited to 100px height - so > everything is unreadable. > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@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
Re: http://www.moin.gov.il/
2009/3/30 Noam Rathaus : > Oren, > > I appreciate your effort, update us if anything changes - I will look > at it during June to see if something has changed :) > Noam, do not wait until June! Write to them today! have you no experience with Israeli bureaucracy? Only many people complaining will change anything. Use this address: pn...@moin.gov.il And call them too: 02-6293350 -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Hebrew Under crossover
Aharon, If you're using VMWare, I'm not sure about the fact that it doesn't support SCSI disks as a raw. After all, SATA disks appear to the system as SCSI disks and they are well supported. You can do another thing: Install VMWare and a minimal XP + Office in a virtual machine, and then use the "shared drives" option in VMWare so you can access your SCSI disks. You can also use Open Office 3.0 to edit those documents or if you want, you can use an online solution like Zoho Office which currently does supports hebrew and english in a mix. I tested that. Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Hebrew Under crossover
On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/3/25 Aharon Schkolnik : > > I have managed to get MS word to work under crossover. > > I see that if I do : > > > > LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8 ~/cxoffice/bin/winword > > > > I can insert Hebrew. > > > > Is there a "right" way to set things up so I don't have to set LC_ALL and > > then run winword ? > > > > Ideally, I would just like to choose crossover from the KDE menu, and > > then choose winword from as the windows command, or even better, create > > an item on the KDE menu which will just run winword and have it work > > properly. > > > > If I set up my locale globally to be he_IL.UTF-8, will it screw up other > > things ? > > > > TIA. > > Write a script that sets the local then opens the app. > > #!/bin/bash > LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8 ~/cxoffice/bin/winword > wine /path/to/word > > Are you implying that you have MS Word working with full Hebrew > document support (I don't care about interface language) in Crossover? > Which version of Crossover, with which version of MS Office? Have you > verified that Hebrew displays RTL and that you can type in Hebrew? > This has been a problem for as long as I remember, and the last > Crossover that I tried (v5) did not have full Hebrew document support. I see that I spoke too soon. I can enter Hebrew text, but mixed Hebrew and English is screwy ! Darn - I really need a solution for this. I was going to use vmware to access my XP partition and run MS word under XP under vmware under Linux, but my disks are SCSI, and as far as I can tell vmware doesn't support raw SCSI disks. Just to be clear - what I need is a way to edit MS mixed English and Hebrew word documents which will be read by Windows users. At the monent the only way I can do that is by booting into XP ;-( Any ideas will be greatly appreciated ! TIA Aharon -- The day is short, and the work is great,| Aharon Schkolnik and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | is great, and the Master of the house is| aschkol...@gmail.com impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2| 054 3344135 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Hebrew Under crossover
On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > It still has issues. Try to mix hebrew and english in the same line > and see what I mean. Yep, I see what you mean ! > > Hetz > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> #!/bin/bash > >> LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8 ~/cxoffice/bin/winword > >> wine /path/to/word > > > > Of course, that should have been: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8 > > $HOME/cxoffice/bin/winword > > > > > > -- > > Dotan Cohen > > > > http://what-is-what.com > > http://gibberish.co.il > > > > ___ > > Linux-il mailing list > > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- The day is short, and the work is great,| Aharon Schkolnik and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | is great, and the Master of the house is| aschkol...@gmail.com impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2| 054 3344135 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
