Fwd: Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report 2008

2008-04-06 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Forwarded below is the announcement of the "Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report 2008". Makes a very interesting reading (so far, I'm still reading it). I wonder what would a parallel survey for Israel come up with... I'd forward this to Hamakor but I'm not on its mailing lis

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Yuval Hager
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 ent

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
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

Re: Bluetooth support under linux.

2008-04-06 Thread Micha
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:57:12 +0300 "Hetz Ben Hamo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Geoff, > > There are few howto's for installing and using bluetooth devices under > Linux. There is some GUI support both in KDE and in gnome. I don't > know about GNOME gui parts, but in KDE there's KDE Blue tooth

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Yuval Hager
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 t

Re: Bluetooth support under linux.

2008-04-06 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 09:43 +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > I have a cheap bluetooth USB dongle. It was made by ISSC and is > called an ISSCBTM. Under Windows I get a nice bluetooth icon in > my system tray, and a GUI to use it to discover nearby devices. > > Under Linux, I can't see a thin

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Ori Idan
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:24:15PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > Just for the record, to the best of my knowledge, this is not so. You > > only need to certify your program with the tax authorities if you inte

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Moish
Yuval Hager wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2008, Ori Idan wrote: In order to submit reports you must use a software authorized by the Israeli Tax authorities. GNUCash is not authorized as much as I know therefore no CPA will get reports from it. True. I am not trying to formally submit

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Yuval Hager
On Sunday 06 April 2008, Ori Idan wrote: > In order to submit reports you must use a software authorized by the > Israeli Tax authorities. > GNUCash is not authorized as much as I know therefore no CPA will get > reports from it. > True. I am not trying to formally submit those reports to the aut

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:24:15PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Just for the record, to the best of my knowledge, this is not so. You > only need to certify your program with the tax authorities if you intend > to *sell* it. Otherwise, a piece of paper works just as well. I'm not a laywer, b

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ori Idan wrote: In order to submit reports you must use a software authorized by the Israeli Tax authorities. Just for the record, to the best of my knowledge, this is not so. You only need to certify your program with the tax authorities if you intend to *sell* it. Otherwise, a piece of paper

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Ori Idan
In order to submit reports you must use a software authorized by the Israeli Tax authorities. GNUCash is not authorized as much as I know therefore no CPA will get reports from it. Sorry for the self advertising, however the only open source software I know that has Tax authorities is drorit (http

Re: major packet loss at hot server

2008-04-06 Thread Michael Tewner
I'm in conversation with Netvision about this issue - sending diagnostic information. On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Michael Tewner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow - > A post from December 2006 in a gaming forum shows major packet loss > from the same router: > http://forums.guru3d.com/showth

Re: Replacing kernel 2.4 -> 2.6

2008-04-06 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Sunday 06 April 2008 12:15:26 Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Aviram Jenik wrote: > > Even the latest 2.4 kernel doesn't seem to support our SATA hard drive. > > Did you consider back-porting the driver for your SATA driver? Not even for a brief nanosecond. > > It not as insane as it sounds. We do t

Re: choice of provisioning server?

2008-04-06 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Tomer Perry, from the post of Sat, 05 Apr: > Ira, > > xcat now went through major changes, and its now under EPL and hosted > at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/ > Though, xcat1.3 ( based on the old version) is still there. Hey, TomP! good to hear from you... yeah, I forgotto menti

[JOB-OFFER] Linux Administration course (about 40 hours) in the north

2008-04-06 Thread Shlomi Loubaton
I was asked by a friend to FWD this to the list. Shlomil. -- Forwarded message -- A guide/lecturer needed for a Linux Administration course in the north (Tiberias, AKA TVERIA) for a small class. No syllabus yet. One should be suggested. The target : make the participants be able

Re: Replacing kernel 2.4 -> 2.6

2008-04-06 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Aviram Jenik wrote: Even the latest 2.4 kernel doesn't seem to support our SATA hard drive. Did you consider back-porting the driver for your SATA driver? It not as insane as it sounds. We do these things on a routine basis for various companies to support "legacy" software that needs to

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Yuval Hager
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

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Original message Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:13:26 +0300 From: Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel To: linux-il >Geoff, >While I know that there are lots of complications and non-sense things >in the Israeli tax laws, I am afraid

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Omer Zak
Geoff, While I know that there are lots of complications and non-sense things in the Israeli tax laws, I am afraid that your point of view makes things more complicated than they really are. On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 10:14 +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > 2. How to get the accounts notarized (o

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:42:01AM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: Omer, > 2. How to get the accounts notarized (or whatever) by a CPA? I don't think you would want to. In order for YOU to enter the data into an apporoved accounting program, you must be a level 3 (as in 1 is the lowest) certified bookkee

Fedora translations

2008-04-06 Thread Oron Peled
Hi everybody, I decided to do something to improve the Hebrew translation state in Fedora. I hope you'll like the beginning of this work: http://fedoraproject.org/ (set the language to Hebrew if your browser does not request Hebrew before English). BTW: last night after a long IRC session

Re: Bluetooth support under linux.

2008-04-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Geoff, There are few howto's for installing and using bluetooth devices under Linux. There is some GUI support both in KDE and in gnome. I don't know about GNOME gui parts, but in KDE there's KDE Blue tooth (http://bluetooth.kmobiletools.org/), so it really depends if your distribution has some