PPTP issues and Barak over cable

2007-01-29 Thread Micha Feigin
Sorry for starting a new thread, due to connection issues I have patial net access. I connect to the internet over cable (hot) using barak with a pptp connection. Thursday night they upgraded their system (don't know more details) and since then I can't connect using linux anymore. Windows works

message frequency ?

2007-01-29 Thread Peter
Does this list have an archive ? What is the approximate message frequency ? thanks, Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe |

Re: list message filtering / censorship

2007-01-29 Thread Peter
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, E L wrote: well, we had people registering the list for sending spam, we also have people who accidently send messages from the wrong address and have thier message lost in a sea of spam. Anyhow the fact you haven't known it's there until now, means that it does a generally

Re: list message filtering / censorship

2007-01-29 Thread Ely Levy
well, we had people registering the list for sending spam, we also have people who accidently send messages from the wrong address and have thier message lost in a sea of spam. Anyhow the fact you haven't known it's there until now, means that it does a generally good work. Ely On 1/29/07, Pete

Re: OT discussion on MS vs. the world [Was: booting into linux from windows98]

2007-01-29 Thread Peter
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Oded Arbel wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:28 +0200, Peter wrote: For every corporate user there must be 1000 individual users out there. Even if only 10% of them are paying promptly they outnumber the corporate users 10:1. Making sure that something simple and inexpensive

Re: list message filtering / censorship

2007-01-29 Thread Peter
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, E L wrote: The spam filter ate them:) and actually with pretty high precentage. spam is becoming a bit overwhelming so please try to use less spammy langauge:) WHY is there a spam filter on a closed access list ?! There is no such filter on any other list I'm on. And g*d

Re: list message filtering / censorship

2007-01-29 Thread Ely Levy
The spam filter ate them:) and actually with pretty high precentage. spam is becoming a bit overwhelming so please try to use less spammy langauge:) Ely On 1/29/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have tried to send a message three times to the linux-il list today. All three messages did n

list message filtering / censorship

2007-01-29 Thread Peter
I have tried to send a message three times to the linux-il list today. All three messages did not arrive. Some minor explicit language was used in the messages. I hereby ask whether this list has ANY kind of content filtering operating, or indulges in ANY kind of content censorship, automated

Re: archiving parts in linux.

2007-01-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/1/29, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 29/01/07, Yedidyah Bar-David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also have a feeling (did not check) that dd is much faster. > -- > Didi > You're probably partial to dd because it's your name! Obviously :-) You can guess I heard by now many jokes reg

Re: archiving parts in linux.

2007-01-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 29/01/07, Yedidyah Bar-David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I also have a feeling (did not check) that dd is much faster. -- Didi You're probably partial to dd because it's your name! Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/computer.html http://slashedot.com =

Hosting Recommendations

2007-01-29 Thread David Suna
Can anyone recommend a shared hosting service located in Israel with reasonable prices for a decent hosting package. Requirements for the hosting package include: > 25 GB storage space PHP / MySQL support Good connection speed Excellent uptime Outstanding support ASP support is an advanta

Re: [OT] - The dangers of using windows

2007-01-29 Thread Arieh Skliarouk
Hello Jonathan, So the solution to the content problem on the client side has to be to put the browser in some kind of sandbox and have a mechanism for cleaning the sandbox every X minutes. There is sandbox app for windows: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/09/sandbox-for-windows-applicat

Re: [OT] - The dangers of using windows

2007-01-29 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Josh, Ok, there is apparently no solution that prevents the attacks because it is the server that is in fact attacked. So the solution to the content problem on the client side has to be to put the browser in some kind of sandbox and have a mechanism for cleaning the sandbox every X minutes.

Re: [OT] - The dangers of using windows

2007-01-29 Thread Josh Zlatin-Amishav
Hi Josh, Are these precautions are sufficient to prevent the CSRF attack that you described? Hi Yonatan, Turning off client side scripting will go a long way in securing your browser, but is it a realistic approach for securing a "regular" user's PC? From my experience, about 80% of the web appl

Re: [OT] - The dangers of using windows

2007-01-29 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Josh, Are these precautions are sufficient to prevent the CSRF attack that you described? - yba On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Amos Shapira wrote: Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:29:40 +1100 From: Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux-IL Subject: Re: [OT] - The dangers of using windows On 29/01/

OT discussion on MS vs. the world [Was: booting into linux from windows98]

2007-01-29 Thread Oded Arbel
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:28 +0200, Peter wrote: > For every corporate user there must be 1000 individual users out there. > Even if only 10% of them are paying promptly they outnumber the > corporate users 10:1. Making sure that something simple and inexpensive > will keep the MoshePartitions go

Re: [OT] - The dangers of using windows

2007-01-29 Thread Amos Shapira
On 29/01/07, Jonathan Ben Avraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Amos, Assuming that Linux is less susceptible to "spyware", and it was "spyware" that downloaded the incriminating content, then using Linux alone would have prevented the problem, unless maybe the user was using IE over wine. 1.

Re: [OT] - The dangers of using windows

2007-01-29 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Amos, Assuming that Linux is less susceptible to "spyware", and it was "spyware" that downloaded the incriminating content, then using Linux alone would have prevented the problem, unless maybe the user was using IE over wine. Regarding FireFox, what configuration would help? - yba On M

Re: [OT] - The dangers of using windows

2007-01-29 Thread Josh Zlatin
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Amos Shapira wrote: On 29/01/07, Jonathan Ben Avraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Yuval, Ok, another example. So what difference would using Linux or FOSS have made? I'm not Yuval, and maybe I'm naive, but it seems pretty obvious to me that the chances of this happeni

Re: [OT] - Somee dangers of living under the United States of American law system[ was The dangers of using windows]

2007-01-29 Thread Julian Daich
El lun, 29-01-2007 a las 11:55 +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham escribió: > Hi Yuval, > Ok, another example. So what difference would using Linux or FOSS have > made? The difference is that security flaws in FOSS, which are easier to be noticed about and therefore to fix them, were not extensively expl

Re: booting into linux from windows98

2007-01-29 Thread Peter
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: The paranoid survive. Yes, but they feel like they're being watched all the time for some reason. McAfree, PartitionMagic and Norton are already in bed with MS. Keeping big business afloat while drowning the little guy is something that MS has done

Re: [OT] - The dangers of using windows

2007-01-29 Thread Amos Shapira
On 29/01/07, Jonathan Ben Avraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Yuval, Ok, another example. So what difference would using Linux or FOSS have made? I'm not Yuval, and maybe I'm naive, but it seems pretty obvious to me that the chances of this happening to him on a recent Linux distro or an OS

Re: [OT] - The dangers of using windows

2007-01-29 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Yuval, Ok, another example. So what difference would using Linux or FOSS have made? - yba On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Yuval Langer wrote: Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:33:58 +0200 From: Yuval Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux-IL Subject: Re: [OT] - The dangers of using windows On Monday 29 Ja

Re: archiving parts in linux.

2007-01-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Tzahi Fadida wrote: > Hi, > I wish to archive a 50mb file into several parts of 5mb files in linux. > I also need to be able to open the files in windows. > For some unknown reason, i can't find a way (other than using a non-free rar) > to do this. The "canonical" way (although maybe not the

Re: [OT] - The dangers of using windows

2007-01-29 Thread Yuval Langer
On Monday 29 January 2007 04:29:17 Amos Shapira wrote: > Have to read it to believe it... > > Substitute Teacher Faces Jail Time Over Spyware > > A 40-year-old former substitute teacher from Connecticut is facing prison > time following her conviction for endangering students by exposing them to >

Re: archiving parts in linux.

2007-01-29 Thread Oren Held
try DAR (Disk ARchiver), should be a good one although doesn't ship standardly with Linux. http://dar.sf.net or just apt-get install dar. The term for splitting files is called 'slice'. - Oren Tzahi Fadida wrote: Hi, I wish to archive a 50mb file into several parts of 5mb files in linux. I al

Slavic parsing

2007-01-29 Thread Danny Lieberman
Guys I am looking for Slavic language parser + maintainer. Slavic as in Polish and Russian. Computer language as in C, Perl, Ruby or Python. Reply to me offlist at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks -- Danny Lieberman Software Security Specialists ---