Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

open standards (ODT in this case) is in the right direction, and it happens that Sun is pushing in that direction as well. On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:26 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 5, 2012, at 10:02 PM, Boaz Rymland wrote: > > yuck! >&g

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

!... - a little over 200nis. That's right! About a magnitude of the real market price. On that note its worth mentioning that its been said on Microsoft that "its a marketing company that happens to sell software". yuck! Boaz. > > -- > Nadav Har'El

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

is not a fight. Fighting will not achieve anything. Achieving something with arm power is my last resort and I think I wont get there. At worst, I'll try again sometime in the near future or re-think again (don't forget - fighting is always possible and should be avoided as much as possible). Boaz ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

Even if true my point is different: my computer cannot be installed with that claimed free software from MS. My laptop runs linux and that's not somthing that is going to change, even if offered free windoze and office. Sent from my mobile phone > > I didn't check it and don't know how it applies

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 09:44:21AM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: > > > Google docs is a good but not the best alternative. Google is > > yet-another-corporate that even if more "public friendly", not a fully >

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > > 2012/2/5 Boaz Rymland > >> >> of course the whole reason to this thread and me contacting the principal >> is the fsck'ed up document. The document appears badly in LibreOffice >> and Google do

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

I fully agree. Having *whatever* percentage of distributed material requiring *whatever* percentage of students to spend hundreds (or even tens) of NIS on HW/SW in order to cooperate is *totally unacceptable*especially in light of no-cost alternatives (SW only of course. HW will still be needed).

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2012, Boaz Rymland wrote about "Re: Preparing to convince > to shift to non-propriety documents formats": > > I bet it cannot read my teacher's document! > > Before you go and complain

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > I believe my Android can read Microsoft Office documents out of the > box :( But it's true, with all these non-Microsoft devices around, > Microsoft's stranglehold on the word processor document seems to be > coming to an end. > I bet it can

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

Ori, While technically you might be correct - I'll take your word for it - this argument is hardly a relevant or helping to convince her. If I say that to her, in the best case she'll reply "what the hell are you talking about Boaz? The system currently works, everyone are getti

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

Hi, thanks for the answer (and allow me to thank following commenters to whom I reply soon as well). Please see some comment below. 2012/2/5 Jonathan Ben Avraham > Hi Boaz, > The time is not ripe. Don't waste your energy. Your school principal will > not know what you are tal

Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

ter (which runs Ubuntu). Although I'm quite old in the Linux world and probably heard over the years most of them - still I prefer having a refreshment of all the arguments in favor of moving to more open or at least affordable (e.g. PDF) document formats. Any pointers/text will be apprec

High Availability

I guess this is more a theological question. Would you build a web site infrastructure that needs to be highly available using a single machine where the front end servers are virtual servers? Is this even considered highly available or might it be what's some may call "partially highly avail

RE: faster rsync of huge directories

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PostgreSQL Replication substancial

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[JOB POST] - Senior system administrator (Ramat Gan)

I hope I'm not breaking any list rule by posting this here but I was told this is the right place for it. Job Description Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, monitoring, documentation and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrast

Re: What to do with a constant flow of attempts to login to my compuet?

application that was not used. The bug was two weeks old at the time. Both of the break in cases I described were of my 24/7 home machine I had running for years (but not anymore), not some high traffic IP address so this is rather common these days. Boaz. On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:51:05 -0500, Boaz

Re: What to do with a constant flow of attempts to login to my compuet?

check your configured users) as that can fail you. In other words - don't presume anything. Check it, to evaluate your status. Boaz. On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:34:29 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > I just noticed someone bombarding my machine trying to login via ssh. >>From auth.log >

Re: need help with PHP open source class

-israel.org/ Boaz. On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:37:20 +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Omer Zak wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 10:42 +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Meir Kriheli wrote: >>> > > >>> >

Re: Shekem Electric selling desktops with Linux

ted on it, to a workable degree) and they (we) all live(d) happily ever after. Boaz. Gabor Szabo wrote: I usually don't think much of the big electronic networks when it comes to buying a computer but yesterday why flipping through the week-end papers I pleasantly surprised that Shekem Elec

Re: ISP Suggestion

an tell this is a standard procedure that is probably available with all ISPs). Boaz. > > Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: OT: Where does it count?

book that talked about this. The name is Malcolm Gladwell and the following link is about the book that talks about that idea: (hebrew) http://simania.co.il/bookdetails.php?item_id=688839 his web site: http://www.gladwell.com/index.html Boaz. Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: M

Re: OT: Digital TV decoder USB sticks

oops. was supposed to be sent privately. sorry. Boaz Rymland wrote: trying to answer your mail below i noticed that indeed my reply has little relevance to linux-il so i'll add my words below... geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Sep 27, 2009, at 12:17 AM, Boaz Rymland wrote: Just want

Re: OT: Digital TV decoder USB sticks

trying to answer your mail below i noticed that indeed my reply has little relevance to linux-il so i'll add my words below... geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Sep 27, 2009, at 12:17 AM, Boaz Rymland wrote: Just wanted to update that although the dongle supposed to be working, it fai

Re: OT: Digital TV decoder USB sticks

optimistic about the prospect interoperability of the Apex 328 dongle with Linux (Ubuntu 9.04), I wasn't successful in making them sing together. Any pointers, tips, etc would be appreciated. Thanks, Boaz. geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Boaz Rymland wrote:

Re: OT: Digital TV decoder USB sticks

on Windows too :-( . If you need more info let me know. I'll try it soon on my laptop in another location - I'm anxious to see how it works. Boaz. geoffrey mendelson wrote: My son just brought home a flyer from BUG, they are selling a USB digital TV decoder stick for 99 NIS

Re: touchpad can't be re-enabled after disabled

No matter what I do the output is always "TouchpadOff = 0". Running that command didn't induce any change in behavior. Boaz. Mark Bloch wrote: what's the output of : synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff if it's 1, you can try this:

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

his?: http://www.arduino.cc/ . If so, then I don't have one. If you have that thing and want me to plug it into the USB, mail me privately to see if its possible. Boaz. Of course the first part (Arduino IDE) can be downloaded for free and tested. IIRC Ubuntu 9.04 includes the FTDI driver a

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

Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 04 September 2009 02:19:23 Boaz Rymland wrote: [clip] *Maker + Model:* Acer 5738ZG. That's a little upgraded in comparison to the original model suggested - with 4GB RAM and NVIDIA GPU. The rest of the specs are the same. *Distro Installed: *Ubuntu 9.04,

touchpad can't be re-enabled after disabled

on the web. When I run hal-device or lspci (-v) I find nothing like "touchpad" or "synaptic". Any tip? Thanks, Boaz. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

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

IMHO, that should be the standard practice for open source minded people (and in general - non-commercial mindset people), even if not zealously practiced. Boaz. Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 04 September 2009 02:19:23 Boaz Rymland wrote: [clip] *Maker + Model:* Acer 5738ZG. That

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

rking out of the box. Haven't really tried setting it up yet. *Sound:* worked out of the box. *Anything else? *mail me for questions... . Boaz. Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi all, Can anyone provide feedback on the following Acer laptop, or any other Acer Linux based laptops? (Interestingly, s

Re: Please recommend a web host in Israel

ot using any other Israeli hosting services their servers are very responsive, in comparison to big foreign hosting services. The service is very responsive as well (even when considering the fact that I know the owner personally - I know how he treats the clients). Boaz. __

Re: Drupal or Joomla for Heb-Eng Site?

o and there are many many more... Boaz. Chaim Keren-Tzion wrote: Which is preferred for building a Hebrew-English site, Drupal or Joomla? The management interface can be in English. I will need content and menus in He and En though. Thanks

Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:06:43 +0300, Oron Peled wrote: > On Sunday, 30 בAugust 2009 07:52:18 Boaz Rymland wrote: >> ... or, go "for sure" on the Linux pre-installed ones. > > Just a general warning (don't know if it applies to this specific model). > Many dev

Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

model, which offers several goodies over the somewhat older Linux ones (like HDMI, DDR-III RAM, LED display) and hope all would work, or, go "for sure" on the Linux pre-installed ones. The two options cost very similar here. Boaz. Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 29 August 2009 16:

Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

ord=linux). In specific - how well all hardware goodies work in linux - power management/scaling, wifi, bluetooth, card reader, X, etc etc... The model is *Acer Aspire AS5738Z-422G25MN*. It comes with Intel Dual Core T4200 and Intel GMA 4500.

Re: php cli is trying to resolve

ik wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Tzafrir Cohen > wrote: What addresses? Machine local names, but when I changed the DNS addresses to faster addresses it takes no more then few MS to have a result. probably php itself populating its predefined g

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:33:15 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: > > 1) the dual screen stopped working correctly, and actually I cannot > set the screen resolution to high enough. > > Does anyone know /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not seem to change when I > change the configuration via the > GUI. So how can I

Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me

r grandma's Windows replacement. I also get irritated by it at times, but I also got irritated by Gentoo (eventually it took me took much time to simply maintain it) and you can find similar problems in any distro - even if you a true Linux zealot :-) Boaz. ___

Re: "stealing" domain names by Israeli registrar

Well well. Its seems like we are not even breaking grounds here. The trick's has been around for some time now. Thanks for the links. Informative indeed. Boaz. Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/4/17 Boaz Rymland : Hi all, Consultation needed: A friend of mine and myself are volunteeri

Re: ot: isps

a few days and now direct connection without those issues). * I am unable to use Bitorrent these days. This is new thing for me - maybe a week or two and very annoying. AFAIK, and unfortunately, this also almost common practice for Israeli ISPs these days: http://shimi.net/2008/07/28/et-tu-be

"stealing" domain names by Israeli registrar

d legal or not). Thanks! Boaz. *P.S.* * luckily for us, after I talked to my friend we made it clear that the needed domain should finish with a .org, not .co.il, so we actually weren't hit by Internic sting. The incident was and still is, very irritating. * the .co.il domain was

Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux

GB or even 5TB could just as well be filled up rather quickly by nonchalant bug in beagle or any other indexing tool. After that, it is a matter of choice and any decision of acceptable. Boaz. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman

Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux

Therefore I need a search tool which I would expect to index the information for easier subsequent retrieval. Right, searching over large subtrees of your FS can be quite slow. There are probably even more downsides to command line tools. Well, nob

Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux

h a tool as you describe. Yes, the downside is considerable as well - they are hard to use to the point that probably the new Linux user (=my mother, if she would have ever considered using Linux...) will never use them. I just mention these tools for the sake of the record :-) Boaz. but ye

Re: No noobs?

No. Trolls should die (noobs or not). Boaz. On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:47:32 +0200, Jacob Broido wrote: noobs should die. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: While referring a new Linux user to the Linux-il mailing list, I found this text on the page: "No n

Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

"Not so fast"... On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 21:18:13 -0800, Aviram Jenik wrote: > Tal Kaplan, from pczlaw, was kind enough to give me a detailed > explanation(*) > about this matter. > > First, to answer both Dotan and Boaz, it should be a relatively simple > process

OFFTOPIC: Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

the glove please reply privately. Boaz. Dotan Cohen wrote: I have started getting Hebrew spam again, even now that the new anti-spam law is in place. Sure, I _could_ just filter it, but I would prefer to make life miserable for the spammers, even at my own expense. What legal tools

Re: backing up mysql database (mysqldump)

Uri Evenhen More wrote: Hi Friends, I am hosting my website on Servage.net, where I don't get SSH access. I need to run mysqldump in order to backup my mysql database to SQL format (I need the backup in SQL format). Is there a way to run mysqldump without using SSH access? Does phpmyadmin sup

Re: Penetration testing tools?

s not that kind of person. So, I can understand his reaction. Unless you have a calculated desire to raise such bad waves in the list I suggest you refrain from such mails in the future. Boaz. Aviram Jenik wrote: > On Thursday 16 October 2008 Ariel Biener wrote: > &g

Re: Re, more readable?: Email Hosting (POP+SMTP) Recommendation

needed to invest in setting this configuration with my ISP was explaining to support people what I'm talking about and trying to get as quickly as possible their business technical support, which where the only ones to understand what I'm talking about and hence to provide it :-) Boaz.

Re: Firefox chokes on YNET

To the best of my knowledge its not the flash objects on the page but rather the JS they use there. I was told once its the scrolling news thingy they use which eats the CPU. Ori Idan wrote: I think it is because of the the many flash adds they have. Use adblock to block these adds and it sho

Re: 64-bit linux

Same with me - flash worked out of the box inc. its sound. I don't even remember any special packages that I needed to install for (this doesn't mean that they weren't any but I don't have bad memories of it). Noam Meltzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: 64-bit linux

guess bad experiences from the past are becoming more and more - a thing of the past (like Linux usage in general, which is becoming more convenient, skipping the need to be a rocket scientist to get a common and useful functionality out of it). Boaz. Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/7/5 Boaz Rymla

Re: 64-bit linux

and some other propriety or closed source applications/libraries (perhaps skype client as well, for sound device usage, not sure). In any case, I don't think there's any harm from installing those libraries so I guess that either way is safe and ok to go. Boaz. Eran Levy wrote: Hi All

Re: controlling CPU's fan speed

oldness" for tougher times. I think). Boaz. > On my old HP nc8000 the fan speed was inaccessible through the OS. It would > power up (and make a lot of noise) only on really high loads and the laptop > would still get pretty hot. I had to use the powersaved daemon to > (automati

controlling CPU's fan speed

I'm not sure it'll help. In /proc/acpi/fan/FAN I have only "state" which when "cat"ing, prints: "status: on". Anyone knows how to hasten the CPU speed on such a system? TIA, Boaz.

Re: "all-in-one" ink printer : looking for recommendations

the knowledge level of the sales person was embarrassing. Most of the times they know not much more than to repeat the specs printed on the carton boxes, and sometimes not even that. - The models I'll look into are: (all HP): 6313, 5783, 7580 (not sorted in any particular order).

"all-in-one" ink printer : looking for recommendations

(enough) to install and maintain. - under 1000nis (will this be a problem?... at least not much more than this limit). If you can share some of your experience that would be great! Thanks, Boaz. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Changing text direction in KDE apps

ages written in right-to-left". Check it, log out of X, login back, and check again... . Boaz. Dotan Cohen wrote: Does anyone know how to change the direction of text in KDE applications from LTR to RTL and back? In Mozilla apps Ctrl-Shift-X switched direction, for those who did no

OpenOffice in educational institutes in Israel?

way to start the morning :-) Boaz. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OFFTOPIC: Asus EEE in Israel

ket since it could run more than remote SSH client, email client and could actually run some software usefully. Web developers could run for example their favorite IDE (if they use one...) which can be a Java application. Boaz. These were the 7" screens with Xendros on them (at least one

Re: Asus EEE and hebrew

l?contrassID=11&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0&itemNo=926090 Boaz. Oded Arbel wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 16:38 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > >> As many of you know, Asus is selling a very low cost notebook EEE PC >> for around $399 and it's quite a h

Re: using only left alt-shift for language changing

ave KDE setting for layout switching on Ctrl+Alt+k. Now logout of KD to your console. Edit $HOME/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals and edit the line "Switch to Next Keyboard Layout" to something like "Alt+Shift_L" (no quotes), if only Left shift specification is enough for you. Never tr

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are being shared & discussed. This group has a web presence as well: http://www.php-israel.org/ where it has info that answers probably most of your questions about it. "All invited!"... . Shana Tova! Boaz. = To uns

Re: Career advice needed

x27;ve been offered, mostly QA programming or other automated stuff (not what I preferred). Good luck with it! (I do believe you can find something good for you with less difficulty than estimated). Boaz. Amos Shapira wrote: > On 31/08/2007, *Herouth Maoz* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mai

Problem with SATA disk

the problem? BTW, In the BIOS I can’t find anything regarding the SATA dirve. Thanks, Boaz Dagan. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.8/941 - Release Date: 8/7/2007 4:06 PM

Re: Memory undectable on Intel server board S5000VCL

Hi Ira, I bumped into the same question some time ago - sending to iglu.org.il silently failed. Here's why: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg48796.html Boaz. Ira Abramov wrote: > annoying! I just figured out why my posts to the list have disappeared >

[SOLVED] Re: Getting illuminated keyboard to work

C keyboard sold in Office Depot. Pretty comfortable too, IMHO, other than the light feature. Boaz. Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > On 8/5/07, *Boaz Rymland* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > I have this new keyboard which has a nice blue backligh

Getting illuminated keyboard to work

input/output freezes...). - I've also grepped and scanned the kernel sources trying to find where I could "play" with some settings. I thought the direction would be to to "disconnect" the relationship between the Scroll lock key and the console freezing.

Re: Someone is picking on my sshd

collect such info. 7. Open SSH port to the needed IP(s) only: If you _don't_ need to SSH in from "the world", you can limit access to the needed port based on the IP address, or a range of IPs. E.g: iptables -A INPUT -s $ALLOWED_IP_SSH -p TCP --dport $SSH_PORT -j ACCEPT Boaz. > > That's all folks, > > --Amos >

Re: What Perl packages are supplied in distribution X?

For Debian I use http://packages.debian.org/ For Gentoo there is: http://packages.gentoo.org/ I'd bet that for other distro's you'd have the same URL convention, but I haven't checked it. Boaz. Gabor Szabo wrote: Hi, I would like to setup a database where I could p

Re: external DNS service

www.dnsexit.com was good for a few years now. In case you have dynamic IPs then their updating client is open source (perl based). I'm not sure about their limitations but for 3 domains (TLDs) its free (as beer). Boaz. Gabor Szabo wrote: Hi, (re also hacked server) I would like to

Re: Hacked server

ro (every distro has such) but I wouldn't settle for this only but subscribe also to mailing lists about the services on your system (again, system level services and more granular services like web applications and other stuff you have on this server). Boaz. Ori Idan wrote: A server

Re: apache behind firewall

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:52:51PM -0700, Valery Reznic wrote: > > --- Boaz Rymland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > > Thank you, it did thet trick. > > > I just don't realized before, that 'ssh -R' create > > > prot forwardi

Re: apache behind firewall

f. Port forwarding simply does... "port forwarding" :-) , regardless of protocol used (above TCP level), HTTP in our case. A very powerful tool in your disposal, that's for sure. You can do magic or raise havoc(...) with it. Boaz. Valery. Try with caution - I'm not 100

Re: apache behind firewall

wing incoming connections. Another option, done solely from A is (better suits your requirements, I think): - On A, do ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -R80:localhost:80 -Nf Try with caution - I'm not 100% sure of the above. Boaz. > > Firewall allow only outgoing connection from A. >

Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?

e "new features" list). Boaz. Uri Even-Chen wrote: Hi people, I wrote a PHP program that sends E-mail to 121 E-mail addresses at once [http://www.speedy.net/knesset/]. The problem is, it takes many seconds until the program completes sending all the E-mails. I want to give the user

article: Linux makes its first(?) steps into schools in Israel

Hi all, an optimistic story for the weekend: http://net.nana.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=188270&sid=10 Kudos for everyone involved! boaz. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Mozilla mail filters stopped working automatically

Hmm... this problem seems to be present on my debian too. In this case I can pin point the scenario - I've upgraded a couple of days ago only mozilla (mozilla virtual package, it includes a few dependencies). The new version on my machine is 1.7.5-1 I'm not sure the filtering missed not all mess

Re: cvs import fails on the /dev directory

Levy, Chen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 31 August 2004 20:52, Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi, I want to manage a special machine's tree with cvs, but when trying to import the tree with cvs import(... ), cvs aborts soon with this message: cvs [import ab

cvs import fails on the /dev directory

t can ignore only filenames patterns, not complete directories/directory regexp's. My current solution is keeping the /dev directory out of the tree, moving it back into the tree only when necessary. This works, but it's ugly... . Anyone knows how to do this nicel

Re: CTRL keys not functioning in X/KDE w/Hebrew keyboard layout

s my .xmodmap. Good luck, Boaz. rlinuz wrote: Hi, When the keyboard layer is set to Hebrew, the CTRL keys (i.e. CTRL+A...CTRL+Z) will not function. Fedora Core 2, KDE Any idea? -S. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: ADSL - What is the current recommendation?

#x27;s some answer: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/dsl4.htm In a nutshell - there are two standard ADSL (naturally...:-) ANSI (aka DMT) and CAP. seems like one must make sure his purchase-of-the-year ADSL modem is of the "right" ADSL standard. does anyone knows which

Re: [OT] ISPs and fixed IP

w customers DO get a free static IP. So maybe it's a matter of pressure on them and/or flexebility of the customer to switch ISPs or at least prepare for such moves until you get the "real" sales guy who (hopefully) offers you to stay, with your fixed IP. Donno. What else can b

Re: ping....

Hmm... maybe related, maybe not: on tuesday, IIRC, my postfix configuration, which utilize anti UCE checks through proxies.relays.monkeys.com started rejecting mails from _anywhere_. As I saw no information about this in the media (although I searched) and since I don't have much time to debug

Re: Read through the end

oops... really? is it a joke? that's what happens when one comments on article mostly by its title, subtitle and layout... . at least i wasn't the only one who was tricked! "TZARAT RABIM"... ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boaz Rymland wrote: Guys, dont take Mr. Lop

Re: Read through the end

Guys, dont take Mr. Lopez too seriously. I gotta admit that I haven't really read it. Just by skimming over it raised a smile & reduced respect for the writer. He is probably a genious for getting to such a radical conclusion.In ~1.5 pages... . This article looks like spam with all those paragr

TV show about Hackers & WWII Station X

Hi! Just noticed that on this weekend channel 23 ("Educational TV") continuosly broadcasts shows about "hackers world" and on the WWII "Station X" (one of the biggest secrets as well successes of the allied forces). Thought this might int

Re: Suggentions for server side spam control

fo it's domain. Boaz. Baruch Birnbaum wrote: Hi linux-il, What is the best server side solution for spam control? A short search in freshmeat got me the following list: 1. ASSP - Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (http://assp.sourceforge.net) 2. DSPAM (http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/) 3

Re: Suggestions for open source backup program

;hand work", this is actually not too complicated. dump "interactive mode" helps your life as a sysadmin a lot when that user comes a long with a shy smile on his face... :-) Boaz. Baruch Birnbaum wrote: Hi linux-il, I need a backup software for linux that should: 0. Be open sou

Re: Debian.org Hacked

the CNet article summarizing it: http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5112427.html?tag=nefd_top Shaul Karl wrote: For those who missed it, the Debian machines were hacked because of a combination of a sniffed password and a local root exploit. The hole is believed to be only locally exploitable, not

Re: Win XP cannot browse intranet web site on a Linux server

? ) win XP and linux are on 192.168.2.x network. the windows has only one NIC and is being NAT'd by the linux to gain internet access, which it does successfully. the linux has a few network NICs, one is for that network. any contrediction between the linux FW and the XP's NAT ? cheers

Win XP cannot browse intranet web site on a Linux server

able IP network) is defined in /etc/hosts (reverse DNS issues). The linux machine is being firewalled, if it makes a difference. anyone has a clue? thnaks, boaz. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "un

OO to be installed on some government computers starting next week

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2821155,00.html Sounds exciting to me. Is this a good start? (Is OO ready for it, or is it going to be a dissapointment?) Boaz. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Re: Version control

I tend to agree - in the real world there is no magic. The advertisements might promise so but when the worker (not the manager) gets to actually do the work - he will need the time to learn the "promising" new system. This investment time is what the ads try to deceive us that can be saved - b

Re: Version control (was: Re: What's wrong with this code?)

at usage. Well, this trade off can be phrased in many ways, but the point mentioned in the mesasge I'm replying to is, IMHO, talks exactly on that trade off. Your preference might vary. boaz. Tal, Shachar wrote: If only the small integratable single-minded tools were *easily* integratable,

Re: Fw: What's wrong with this code?

mpressed by the publicity it gets - you just dont hear of such cases in closed source organizations. My point of view, at least. Boaz. Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Interesting message I got. Isn't that a demonstration of the *real* (no FUD) open source model security break points? Actu

Re: Fw: What's wrong with this code?

Stanislav Malyshev wrote: BR>> Isn't that a demonstration of the *real* (no FUD) open source model BR>> security break points? Well, that looks like open source _strong_ point. If the same code was closed, what chance someone - except, of course, for original programmer and probably his associat

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