Re: Olympia AP1000 (Skype/DECT) and Linux

2009-08-13 Thread Boris shtrasman
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi, > I just bought the above mentioned phone. Does anyone knows a good > software which replaces it's "2 in 1" software so the phone can sync > with Skype the contacts? > > Thanks, > Hetz > > Could you elaborate on it ? (lsusb). You might take a look on usbph module (pro

Olympia AP1000 (Skype/DECT) and Linux

2009-08-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I just bought the above mentioned phone. Does anyone knows a good software which replaces it's "2 in 1" software so the phone can sync with Skype the contacts? Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org _

http://no2bio.org/home/ unsupported compression?

2009-08-13 Thread Noam Rathaus
Hi, I am trying to access http://no2bio.org/home/ via FF 3.5 under Ubuntu and I get: Content Encoding Error The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.     *   Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. The

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 13 August 2009 14:35:43 geoffrey mendelson wrote: > >> The cost == cost of writing, issuing, enforcing > > > > and licensing! Don't forget that one. > > > >> The benefit == increased revenue to the company > > Shachar, licensing is a cost, but it's also a benefit. If you happen > to be

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Shachar, "Without knowing the details..." You don't need any more details, you hit the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such a project? Actually, that's an easy one. Assuming the penalties are capped by the amount you ar

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote: Geoff IBM booked(s) custom software development as patent and IP revenue.By that definition Ness would have about 1BN revenue of revenue from IP but as we both know - Ness doesn't have any IP Now you are confusing US accountin

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread Danny Lieberman
Geoff IBM booked(s) custom software development as patent and IP revenue.By that definition Ness would have about 1BN revenue of revenue from IP but as we both know - Ness doesn't have any IP Buy the book on Amazon. Re your IBM friend, look up post-hoc error on Wikipedia d On Thu,

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote: IBM lumping project/custom development revenue with patent licensing revenue is misrepresentation of patent value by 2.5 orders of magnitude. So you say, I'll bet their auditors, the IRS and the SEC say differently. If you disagree

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote: For example - IBM began listing IP and licensing royalties in their annual financial reports beginning in 2000 - about $1.5billion +/- per year. The majority of the $1.5BN is value of IP sold off by IBM including IP held by divisions t

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread Danny Lieberman
Geoff IBM lumping project/custom development revenue with patent licensing revenue is misrepresentation of patent value by 2.5 orders of magnitude. Buy the book on Amazon. d On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:06 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:49 P

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote: They later wrote a full length 323 page book - which I got after reading the paper (which was a teaser I guess...) Ok, the GROKLAW article said they were in the process of writing. I'd love to see that book. The book deals with fundam

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread Danny Lieberman
Geoff Indeed the paper from Groklaw talks about the problems with the US Federal Circuit court. They later wrote a full length 323 page book - which I got after reading the paper (which was a teaser I guess...) The book deals with fundamental problems of patents - fuzzy, unpredictable boundaries

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
The cost == cost of writing, issuing, enforcing and licensing! Don't forget that one. The benefit == increased revenue to the company Shachar, licensing is a cost, but it's also a benefit. If you happen to be the person using someone else's work for profit it's a cost. If you happen t

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Danny Lieberman wrote: Geoff Let's not mix the FOSS movement, politics, emotion or opinion with economics. The simple economics are that for the entire software industry - the cost of software patents far outweighs the economic benefit unlike the pharmaceutical industry. The cost == cost

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote: Geoff I'm sorry. Did you actually read Besson and Meurer? I did and I think they did an excellent job of making their case that software patents do not have economic benefit for the industry I did. You can download the paper from GROKLA

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread Danny Lieberman
Geoff I'm sorry. Did you actually read Besson and Meurer? I did and I think they did an excellent job of making their case that software patents do not have economic benefit for the industry d On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:53 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote: The simple economics are that for the entire software industry - the cost of software patents far outweighs the economic benefit unlike the pharmaceutical industry. The cost == cost of writing, issuing, enforcing The benefit == increased

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote: Shachar Read Patent Failure by Besson and Meuer - software patents are a net economic negative - ie the cost to write, issue and enforce is greater than the economic benefit. This is in comparison with pharma and chemical industries whe

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread Danny Lieberman
Geoff Let's not mix the FOSS movement, politics, emotion or opinion with economics. The simple economics are that for the entire software industry - the cost of software patents far outweighs the economic benefit unlike the pharmaceutical industry. The cost == cost of writing, issuing, enforcin

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Where has Microsoft's junk patents given them any money? Unless they are using extortion (possible) to quietly threaten potential FOSS defecties away, that is. They are not selling those, and they have never sued anyone (well, one). It al

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread Danny Lieberman
Shachar Read Patent Failure by Besson and Meuer - software patents are a net economic negative - ie the cost to write, issue and enforce is greater than the economic benefit. This is in comparison with pharma and chemical industries where patents have a net economic positive balance - ie profit f

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: And yet, we cannot seem to draft Microsoft to the anti-software patents camp. Despite the fact that their loses to silly patents over the years far outweight their gains from them. Amazing With all due respec

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: And yet, we cannot seem to draft Microsoft to the anti-software patents camp. Despite the fact that their loses to silly patents over the years far outweight their gains from them. Amazing With all due respect what amazes me is that

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Danny Lieberman wrote: the judge wants to forbid MSFT from selling Word in the US on grounds of a patent-infringement that cannot be proved to protect a company that relies on Word to sell it's product. I think the injunction is really ludicrous. The rule of late was that preventing a softwa

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread Danny Lieberman
Yonatan It appeared to me at first that i4i was a patent troll so I promptly ignored the fracas. but they appear to be a legit software house. OTOH - Their injunction came shortly after Microsoft was awarded a patent related to using XML in Word - which suggests to me that they are trying to make

Re: [YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: My dearest fellow list members, Can someone explain to me what the i4i-MS tiff is about? Do i4i's patent claims regarding their XML technology affect other uses of XML besides MS Office? That is, on this issue should we be backing MS? I have not gone into the details

[YBA] i4i vs MS?

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
My dearest fellow list members, Can someone explain to me what the i4i-MS tiff is about? Do i4i's patent claims regarding their XML technology affect other uses of XML besides MS Office? That is, on this issue should we be backing MS? Many thanks, - yba -- EE 77 7F 30 4A 64 2E C5 83 5F E7

Re: [OT] PDF signing using PHP script

2009-08-13 Thread Robert Wallner
Are willing to invest money into porting the signing functionality of portablesigner from java to php (and maybe adding it to the fpdf library) ? 2009/8/13 Ori Idan : > I have found commercial solutions. > I would like to stay open source as possible. > I am willing to pay if it is a free software

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread Danny Lieberman
Shachar Shakoof. Well put.I personally would tell the customer hasta la vista danny -- Danny Lieberman - http://www.software.co.il/wordpress - Danny on data security Twitter: http://twitter.com/o

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Marc Volovic wrote: On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Shachar, "Without knowing the details..." You don't need any more details, you hit the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such a project? A kamikaze pilot.

Re: [OT] PDF signing using PHP script

2009-08-13 Thread Ori Idan
I have found commercial solutions. I would like to stay open source as possible. I am willing to pay if it is a free software. -- Ori Idan On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Noam Rathaus wrote: > Are you willing to pay money? > > There are commercial solutions > > 2009/8/12 Ori Idan : > > Thank

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread Marc Volovic
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Shachar, "Without knowing the details..." You don't need any more details, you hit the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such a project? A kamikaze pilot. Five weeks for an unproven hardware platform is scien

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Shachar, "Without knowing the details..." You don't need any more details, you hit the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such a project? Actually, that's an easy one. Assuming the penalties are capped by the amount you are supposed to receive (i.

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: The client is surprised. They usually don't understand that it was their penalty requirements that drove the price up. After all, this is supposed to be a simple project, merely performing adaptations to an already brought up platform,

Re: data loss after power failure

2009-08-13 Thread shimi
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Micha Silver wrote: > We suffered some annoying file and directory corruption on a CentOS 5.3 64 > bit server two days ago after a long power failure - long enough to drain > the UPS battery, with several short "spurts" of power until it finally > stabilized. File

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Shachar, "Without knowing the details..." You don't need any more details, you hit the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such a project? - yba On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:18:34 +0300 From: Shachar Shemesh To: sammy ominsky Cc:

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
sammy ominsky wrote: On 13/08/2009, at 09:04, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: The customer is looking for someone who can a commit to doing the board bring-up process, write the BSP and set up a BusyBox distribution with Qt libraries within five weeks, with significant penalties for late delivery