Re: What would be an easy way for me to learn Vim9script?

2024-12-25 Thread Mark E. Fuller
Hi Steve! On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:20:58 -0500 Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, What would be an easy way for me to learn to use Vim9script? I have a lot of things to do so this would need to be relatively quick. can you tell us which programming languages / technologies you already know , and

Re: What would be an easy way for me to learn Vim9script?

2024-12-17 Thread Steve Litt
Shlomi Fish said on Sun, 15 Dec 2024 04:57:30 +0200 >Hi Steve! > >On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:20:58 -0500 >Steve Litt wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> What would be an easy way for me to learn to use Vim9script? I have a >> lot of things to do so this would need t

All your old computers are belong to me?

2021-12-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
This is as good a time as any to post this: As part of my YouTube channel, I need to put my hands on 70's and 80's era computers, preferably in working condition. If you have any hardware of the era lying around, please give me a note. And I d

Re: Riddle me this: unsolicited orderly shutdown

2021-03-13 Thread Steve Litt
On 12/03/2021 14:08, Shachar Shemesh wrote: >I've cracked it!!! > >The problem was that my USB-C docking station was incapable of >providing enough power to run the computer. It should not have been a >problem, as I'm guessing the problem was momentary and the computer's >battery would have also

Re: Riddle me this: unsolicited orderly shutdown

2021-03-12 Thread Michael Shiloh
That's a great story Shachar, thanks for sharing. Hopefully I will remember this if it ever happens to me. On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 4:47 PM Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > On 12/03/2021 14:08, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > On 12/03/2021 12:34, borissh1...@gmail.com wrote: >

Re: Riddle me this: unsolicited orderly shutdown

2021-03-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 12/03/2021 14:08, Shachar Shemesh wrote: On 12/03/2021 12:34, borissh1...@gmail.com wrote:   Would it be possible to monitor both dbus messages (system and user) A

Re: Riddle me this: unsolicited orderly shutdown

2021-03-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 12/03/2021 12:34, borissh1...@gmail.com wrote:   Would it be possible to monitor both dbus messages (system and user) AND Xsession errors while you do so ? Yes, that provided some progress. At least I can tell t

Re: Riddle me this: unsolicited orderly shutdown

2021-03-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 12/03/2021 12:27, Dotan Shavit wrote: Nice indeed. Have you tried starting this app from a different desktop environment? What syslog says at the shutdown time? Nothing that seems relevant. kerne

Re: Riddle me this: unsolicited orderly shutdown

2021-03-12 Thread Noam Meltzer
This takes me back ~15 years. We had Sun x86_64 servers, which randomly decided to shutdown. After investigation it appeared that the problem was that the computer wrongly decided it's too hot and sent ACPI command to shutdown. Long story short - firmware update solved it. Bottom line, hav

Re: Riddle me this: unsolicited orderly shutdown

2021-03-12 Thread borissh1983
On Friday, 12 March 2021 12:17:26 IST Shachar Shemesh wrote: Allow me, if I may, to set up the stage for you. I don't know the precise scenario that causes this to happen, but one thing that triggers it reliably is starting up X-Plane 11 and taking off. A few second and up to a minute

Re: Riddle me this: unsolicited orderly shutdown

2021-03-12 Thread Dotan Shavit
Nice indeed. Have you tried starting this app from a different desktop environment? What syslog says at the shutdown time? בברכה, דותן שביט, 0544-456656 On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 12:18, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Allow me, if I may, to set up the stage for you. > > I don't kn

Riddle me this: unsolicited orderly shutdown

2021-03-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Allow me, if I may, to set up the stage for you. I don't know the precise scenario that causes this to happen, but one thing that triggers it reliably is starting up X-Plane 11 and taking off. A few second and up to a minute into the flight, my KDE "shu

Re: Can someone chat with me in mixed Hebrew/Latin using Pidgin over XMPP/Jabber?

2016-03-30 Thread Shlomi Fish
o: > > 1. Can type in Hebrew and Latin/English. > > 2. Uses Pidgin versioon 2.10.x > > 3. Can talk with me at my shlomif...@jabber.org account (and that > excludes GMail/GTalk/GChat/GoogleHangouts which only support a client-side > XMPP bridge). > > Best regards, > > -

Can someone chat with me in mixed Hebrew/Latin using Pidgin over XMPP/Jabber?

2016-03-30 Thread Shlomi Fish
pe in Hebrew and Latin/English. 2. Uses Pidgin versioon 2.10.x 3. Can talk with me at my shlomif...@jabber.org account (and that excludes GMail/GTalk/GChat/GoogleHangouts which only support a client-side XMPP bridge). Best regards, -- Shlomi Fish -- -- Shlomi

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-08-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014, geoffrey mendelson wrote about "Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?": > All I know is that in 1990 I bought an AT&T UNIX system which > included the AT&T KERNEL, a lot of closed source software and a lot > o

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Orna, I'm thinking of renting a room for Stand-up philosophy sessions where people can donate money at any time. Thanks for letting me reply to the list . I opted for that. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > Shlomi, > >

Fwd: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
Silly spam stuff. -- Forwarded message -- From: Shlomi Fish Date: Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 11:30 PM Subject: Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe? To: Ori Idan Cc: Shlomi Fish , Linux-IL Hi Ori, On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 06:49:06 +0300 Ori Idan

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 7/7/2014 11:57 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: There wasn't that much good BSD code out there when the GNU project started. BSD started provided a complete system at the beginning of the 1990-s. And shortly thereafter it got into a trial with AT&T. Also shortly after development was halted and much

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:51:35AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > On 7/6/2014 10:50 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > >Anyway, the GPLv3 or whatever licence the GNU sub-projects have > >does not prevent me from using GNU software, so that's it. > The interesting point is that

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 7/6/2014 10:50 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Anyway, the GPLv3 or whatever licence the GNU sub-projects have does not prevent me from using GNU software, so that's it. The interesting point is that outside of a relatively small group of developers project GNU has no bearing on anything. Free (

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Re:all //Taking flamebait... after a crazy topic lets have a crazy flamewar on Israeli politics because we have nothing better to do with our lives. 2014-07-06 7:48 GMT+03:00 geoffrey mendelson : > > But your, Geoff, incendiary remarks re RMS, are quite out of place. RMS' > laudable stance on B

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
But your, Geoff, incendiary remarks re RMS, are quite out of place. RMS' laudable stance on BDS is quite irrelevant to this list, in my opinion. Incendiary or not, his actions did have an effect upon the FOSS community. Besides any direct effect in relation to RMS , the FSS and project GNU

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-05 Thread Ori Idan
arnings at this point allow me to sponsor a little more then Falafel dish at a Kiosk stand, it still does not allow me to sponsor neither my own yacht nor Shlomi's trip. -- Ori Idan On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Geoffrey, > > hope you had a great Sha

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
27;s ridiculous. > Why do you feel it does not belong on this list? Many people here offer jobs or ask for jobs, and my offer can provide a lot of promotion and publicity to a company/individual/organisation who wishes to sponsor me. Regarding "ridiculous" there is http://www.shlomifish

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 7/4/2014 8:56 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all, I wish to go on a Summer trip to Europe (flight to Istanbul and then taking trains) where I: ROTFL. Not only do I not think this belongs on this list, but it's ridiculous. If I were in a position to sponsor anyone for more than a felafel at

Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
g a paid escort/guide. It's also first-come-first-served. If you or your company can do that, please contact me via E-mail at shlo...@shlomifish.org or GChat/GTalk/GoogleHangouts at shlo...@gmail.com . For more information, see my essay and links: https://plus.google.com/+ShlomiFish/posts/i5Z8X

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 01/27/2013 10:56 AM, Noam Meltzer wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Shachar Shemesh <mailto:shac...@shemesh.biz>> wrote: > > Hail the conquering hero! > > Color me dumbfounded. Disabling TCP timestamps actually allows me > to conn

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-27 Thread Noam Meltzer
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hail the conquering hero! > > Color me dumbfounded. Disabling TCP timestamps actually allows me to > connect to Google. Reenabling them re-introduces the problem. > Shachar, have you disabled the TCP timestamps on your &

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-26 Thread shimi
you want to know it all, I never did manage to penetrate the first-line representative ("What's MTR? send me Windows traceroute so I can't see the instability over time!"). Arguing with customer service is like fighting the Borg. Resistance is futile... So I solved it the w

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 01/24/2013 02:44 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > > > When you enable timestamps they don't match so the packet is discarded, this > could be due to the ISP fiddling with the packets on the way. I know what timestamp is, and what it is used for. I have not, yet, rebooted to see whether this does not

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-24 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
e due to the ISP fiddling with the packets on the way. Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/1/24 Shachar Shemesh > On 01/24/2013 10:04 AM, shimi wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > >> Hail the conquering hero! >> >> Co

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 01/24/2013 10:04 AM, shimi wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Shachar Shemesh <mailto:shac...@shemesh.biz>> wrote: > > Hail the conquering hero! > > Color me dumbfounded. Disabling TCP timestamps actually allows me > to connect to Goog

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-24 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
The TSecr value/field in the return packet from google is wrong, it should be identical to the timestamp you sent and it is not. 2013/1/24 shimi > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > >> Hail the conquering hero! >> >> Color me dumbfou

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-24 Thread shimi
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hail the conquering hero! > > Color me dumbfounded. Disabling TCP timestamps actually allows me to > connect to Google. Reenabling them re-introduces the problem. > > The only question still remaining is "why"

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hail the conquering hero! Color me dumbfounded. Disabling TCP timestamps actually allows me to connect to Google. Reenabling them re-introduces the problem. The only question still remaining is "why"? I have up on the site two captures. One of the working session, and one of the n

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-23 Thread Amos Shapira
Another thing to verify is whether your packets get tweaked by anything on the way - when you see the three-way handshake you just described - was the packet size, number, serial numbers and flags received exactly as they were sent or can you identify packets being sent more times than received, or

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 01/20/2013 10:59 PM, shimi wrote: > > > Does ping work when the internet is 'down'? If so, I would go for: > > TCP Timestamps, TCP SYN Cookies, Selective ACKs, Window Scaling SYN cookies are irrelevant here, as my machine is the one initiating the connection. I am not sure what the question is r

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-22 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Could it be that you have a lot of traffic coming out of your station and you are running out of available tcp/udp ports (in bridged mode the VMs would not be using ports as their traffic is practically direct with the NIC, but in NAT mode they would be taking up TCP/UDP ports on your host machine)

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 01/22/2013 04:22 PM, Baruch Shpirer wrote: > > Are all vms running same os? > My host machine is Debian Squeeze with kernel from backports. My VM is an Ubuntu server 12.10 (kernel 3.4, IIRC). Also, I have some more orderly collected information. All attempts are for connecting to my own server

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-22 Thread Baruch Shpirer
ving. There, too, the only way > I found of resetting the problem was to reset the machine. I am beginning > to suspect this is a kernel bug. It strikes me as weird, however, that it > would happen to me on two distinct machines, and yet not show up on Google. > > Actually, that is not ent

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-22 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
E.S. Rosenberg wrote: Even though you say it is not your DNS provider, please note that unless you manually set something else the Bezeq modem are notoriously unreliable in my experience, they can be acting fine with one computer in their network and almost completely barring access from anothe

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-22 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
ches, both seem > totally irrelevant). There the symptoms were similar, but there the TCP/IP > stack would not receive any responses at all. DHCP would also fail. Running > tcpdump, however, would show the packets arriving. There, too, the only way > I found of resetting the problem was to re

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
CP would also fail. Running tcpdump, however, would show the packets arriving. There, too, the only way I found of resetting the problem was to reset the machine. I am beginning to suspect this is a kernel bug. It strikes me as weird, however, that it would happen to me on two distinct machines, and y

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-21 Thread Steve G.
I sometimes observe something similar, and my feeling it has to do with the DNS of my provider. I try to reach a place and it hangs. Then if I run a terminal program that gets me the ip address, there is no problem. Ditto if I reload the page. I think - no proof - that my provider's DNS i

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-21 Thread Baruch Shpirer
Nothing in dmesg? Which nic hw and fw and driver version + kernel? Stats on nic Using nm? On Jan 20, 2013 2:49 PM, "Shachar Shemesh" wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a really strange problem. On one of the computers in my house, > parts of the internet keep on disappearing. Sometimes half the interne

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-20 Thread shimi
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a really strange problem. On one of the computers in my house, > parts of the internet keep on disappearing. Sometimes half the internet is > inaccessible, and sometimes it's just a couple of sites (google is a > favorit

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-20 Thread Omer Zak
More stupid questions: * Did you check maximum packet size and fragmenting? * Does the problematic machine have a "strange" network card (in "strange" I mean a rarely used network card, whose driver has higher probability of having bugs)? * Do firewalls between the problematic machine and the Inter

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-20 Thread Josh Amishav-Zlatin
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > On 01/20/2013 09:55 PM, yochai wrote: > > I know it's a basic question, but did you check that you have no issue > with resolving domains while the computer doesn't work properly ? > > The problems happen even if name resolution succeede

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 01/20/2013 09:55 PM, yochai wrote: > I know it's a basic question, but did you check that you have no issue > with resolving domains while the computer doesn't work properly ? The problems happen even if name resolution succeeded. As far as I can tell, the name resolution problems, when they hap

Re: Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-20 Thread yochai
I know it's a basic question, but did you check that you have no issue with resolving domains while the computer doesn't work properly ? On 01/20/2013 09:49 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a really strange problem. On one of the computers in my house, > parts of the internet keep

Parts of the internet keep on disappearing on me

2013-01-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, I have a really strange problem. On one of the computers in my house, parts of the internet keep on disappearing. Sometimes half the internet is inaccessible, and sometimes it's just a couple of sites (google is a favorite for this problem). This is, most definitely, NOT a router or ISP p

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play chopsticks on the piano as a child and thinking you're a musician." (sent to me by a friend) ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Since I no longer have that system, I >> restored to a Friday backup, I can't look for anything. >> > > I hope that you at lest clicked the Launchpad.net button for "Also > affects me" as I do know that Canonical takes that seriously. > > >>> I don'

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
ted. I don't > think I can document it with any useful information except that it worked on > Wednesday and was dead on Saturday. Since I no longer have that system, I > restored to a Friday backup, I can't look for anything. > I hope that you at lest clicked the Launchpad.net bu

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
and was dead on Saturday. Since I no longer have that system, I restored to a Friday backup, I can't look for anything. I don't see how it is relevant. I didn't ask anyone to sell me a computer running Linux that will never have any userspace software issues. I asked a company which s

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug/?no-redirect > This, Dotan, is the reason why I said NO ONE can warranty that Linux, > especially UBUNTU will run on a computer. > I don't see how it is relevant. I didn't ask anyone to sell me a computer running Linux that will never

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
and or a big headache. :-( Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 "Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play chopsticks on the piano as a child and thinking you're a musician." (sent to me by a friend) ___

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "A funny thing happend to me tonight.": > run fine, so tonight I did a software update on the Ubuntu system. > > It boots, I get a login screen and when I log in I get a blank > screen. Totally black with a white cur

A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-29 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 "Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play chopsticks on the piano as a child and thinking you're a musician." (sent to me by a friend) ___ Linux-il

Re: [JOB] DevoOps and software engineers, lend me your brains!

2012-02-23 Thread Michael Vasiliev
ecially if you're the kind of guy/gal who wears a CAP and mixes SQL with NoSQL juice for breakfast. Send me your resume at ira(at)fewbytes.com. Thanks, Ira. Awww, just signed a contract... :( It would be exciting to work with you. It's been a while since we've met personal

[JOB] DevoOps and software engineers, lend me your brains!

2012-02-22 Thread Ira Abramov
who wears a CAP and mixes SQL with NoSQL juice for breakfast. Send me your resume at ira(at)fewbytes.com. Thanks, Ira. -- I did it for my people! Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailma

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Uri Even-Chen
his opinions against the Israeli occupation, with which I agree, and he has the right to boycott Israeli institutions if he wants to. I don't think it's a reason for anyone not to use Linux, in the same sense that Mark Zuckerberg's decision to kill animals for meat is not a reason for me no

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 01:17:06PM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > This, BTW is why I dislike the GPL, it has some baggage attached, which > now includes BDS. I much prefer BSD's "do what you want, but don't do it > here"* license. BSD is bad because: A. It's all to much like BDS (which can

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Meir Michanie
invite him. Do you want to discuss and chat over FOSS? meet with any of your peers. Proprietary software has a father. FOSS doesn't, it belongs to RS as it belongs to me and you. Do you think that the guy is using the movement for his own personal agenda and it doesn't fit yours? try

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
omething I have not heard of yet[1]. I still think it is very off-topic for Linux-IL. It is up to the moderators, not to me or anyone else, to pass a ruling. [1] I checked the FSF site and didn't find anything related. I checked the organization's 990 financial form (the latest available - fo

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Barry.R
> On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: > > That is a very brief list of some of the things that go over Mr > > Stallman's head. I think they amount to gross hypocrisy. Giving him a > > pass for his hypocrisy is also hypocritical. > > Stan (and others), > > This is Israel, and he is al

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: How do all these things of what the Palestinians are doing wrong, invalidate Stallman's criticism against Israel? Shouldn't Israel behave properly regardless of whatever the other side is doing? Yes, Israel should. The question of what is pr

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: That is a very brief list of some of the things that go over Mr Stallman's head. I think they amount to gross hypocrisy. Giving him a pass for his hypocrisy is also hypocritical. Stan (and others), This is Israel, and he is allowed to be a hy

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 07 Jun 2011 12:43:51 Stan Goodman wrote: > On Tuesday 07 June 2011 at 12:23:27 (GMT+2) "Uri Even-Chen" > > wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 08:13, Omer Zak wrote: > > > The issue here is not opposing the Israeli occupation but about the > > > academic boycott. > > > > > > Would you

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread Stan Goodman
On Tuesday 07 June 2011 at 12:23:27 (GMT+2) "Uri Even-Chen" wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 08:13, Omer Zak wrote: > > The issue here is not opposing the Israeli occupation but about the > > academic boycott. > > > > Would you find it to be acceptable for the Palestinians to use ABC > > (atomi

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 7, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote: I agree with Richard Stallman's views about the Israeli occupation. The point is Uri, I could say all sorts of things about your level of understanding, IQ, several Freudian and Jungian (bullshit) comments, either positive or negative and

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-07 Thread michf
t is why I never go into political arguments because they always end in the same stale mate that they began with no movement in between. I never commented about you opinions, rather about the way they were stated. For the record, I have never seen myself as a "right winger", n

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-06 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 08:13, Omer Zak wrote: > The issue here is not opposing the Israeli occupation but about the > academic boycott. > > Would you find it to be acceptable for the Palestinians to use ABC > (atomic/biological/chemical) weapons to fight the Israeli occupation > "because they are

[OFFTOPIC] Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 07:40 +0300, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > > I agree with Richard Stallman's views about the Israeli occupation. The issue here is not opposing the Israeli occupation but about the academic boycott. Would you find it to be acceptable for the Palestinians to use ABC (atomic/biolo

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-06 Thread Uri Even-Chen
2011/6/6 Hetz Ben Hamo > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Richard Stallman > Date: 2011/6/6 > Subject: Re: regarding your (cancelled) Israel visit > To: Hetz Ben Hamo ‫het...@gmail.com‬ > > > I don't advocate a blanket boycott of Israeli universities, but I am > not going to campa

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-06 Thread Stan Goodman
e never until now heard anyone claiming that the expression of opinions is a defect. > Right wing people claim that left wing ideas are foolish and > destructive and left wing people claim that right wing ideas are > foolish and destructive. You can't use one or the other to clai

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-06 Thread michf
Quoting "Stan Goodman" : On Monday 06 June 2011 at 09:58:36 (GMT+2) Shachar Shemesh wrote: On 06/06/11 03:05, Stan Goodman wrote: > Since they themselves are students or faculty in universities, > it occurs to them to boycott other universities, never considering > that universities are preci

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-06 Thread Stan Goodman
ted, facts what makes you say that the FSF itself should be > > boycotted? > > I disagree. RMS has opinions that some of us (me) see as anti-Israel. > That's IMHO fine. He can have anti-Israel opinions, and as RMS post, > discuss, write op-eds, etc. It's his right. >

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-06 Thread Stan Goodman
On Monday 06 June 2011 at 09:58:36 (GMT+2) Shachar Shemesh wrote: > On 06/06/11 03:05, Stan Goodman wrote: > > Since they themselves are students or faculty in universities, > > it occurs to them to boycott other universities, never considering > > that universities are precisely where they are

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
opinions that some of us (me) see as anti-Israel. That's IMHO fine. He can have anti-Israel opinions, and as RMS post, discuss, write op-eds, etc. It's his right. However, he has crossed a line, RMS as head of the FSF has stated those opinions. Therefore they are now part of the FSF m

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 06/06/11 07:47, geoffrey mendelson wrote: The problem, IMHO is that he has used his position as the head of the FSF to espouse anti-Israel propaganda. So now, in effect, if you "buy GNU" you are supporting the spread of it. This dilutes the entire purpose of the FSF. It has now become the

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Omer Zak wrote: Given the circumstances, I think that the most honorable thing that can be done is to have the organizers of the non-university talk - cancel it and explain to him the evilness of academic boycotts of universities which do not themselves practice

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 06/06/11 03:05, Stan Goodman wrote: Since they themselves are students or faculty in universities, it occurs to them to boycott other universities, never considering that universities are precisely where they are most likely to find their soul-mates. I think the fact that the Universities, and

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-05 Thread Omer Zak
Given the circumstances, I think that the most honorable thing that can be done is to have the organizers of the non-university talk - cancel it and explain to him the evilness of academic boycotts of universities which do not themselves practice discrimination or censorship of the opinions which h

Re: Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-05 Thread Stan Goodman
On Monday 06 June 2011 at 02:54:12 (GMT+2) Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi People, > > I just got this answer from Richard Stallman. > > Apparently, he *does* plan to give a talk in Israel, but not in any > Israeli university. > I actually find this pretty weird, considering that most of the > unive

Richard Stallman answer to me

2011-06-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi People, I just got this answer from Richard Stallman. Apparently, he *does* plan to give a talk in Israel, but not in any Israeli university. I actually find this pretty weird, considering that most of the universities in Israel are full of staff from the left-side of the political map (TAU fo

Re: Help me understand connection to internet: Infrastructure and ISP

2011-01-30 Thread Kfir Lavi
o understand this. > > After two weeks of my mother-in-law not having internet access, during > which 012 blamed Hot and Hot blamed 012, I get there to take care of > the issue. At Hot they tell me that since the modem lights are fine (4 > lit, one flashing) the problem must be with 012.

Re: Help me understand connection to internet: Infrastructure and ISP

2011-01-29 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
omes to support personnel, given you understand the actions required. BezeqInt were OK, regarding the waste of my time, as I had explained what I was doing, and gave the (true) impression I know what I'm doing. Hot, on the other side, had a great service. They had spent hours with me. It'

RE: Help me understand connection to internet: Infrastructure and ISP

2011-01-29 Thread Ron Varburg
http://www.thecom.co.il/article.php?id=11477 has somewhat more information. > Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:33:46 +0200 > Subject: Help me understand connection to internet: Infrastructure and ISP > From: dotanco...@gmail.com > To: linux-il@c

Re: Help me understand connection to internet: Infrastructure and ISP

2011-01-29 Thread shimi
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:28 PM, shimi wrote: > after I disconnected from their TV service (in favor of Hot, which is why > it is so ridiculous that they did...). During those troubles, their modem > completely lost the ability to catch signal from the network, and the lights > were still all on,

Re: Help me understand connection to internet: Infrastructure and ISP

2011-01-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ave never used a dialer with a broadband connection, and I have never heard a support person saying anything along the lines of "since you do not use a dialer we cannot help you". > 012 "sees" the modem, so they say the problem must be with Hot. They have a point, see belo

Re: Help me understand connection to internet: Infrastructure and ISP

2011-01-29 Thread shimi
o understand this. > > After two weeks of my mother-in-law not having internet access, during > which 012 blamed Hot and Hot blamed 012, I get there to take care of > the issue. At Hot they tell me that since the modem lights are fine (4 > lit, one flashing) the problem must be with 012.

Re: Help me understand connection to internet: Infrastructure and ISP

2011-01-29 Thread Dotan Shavit
On Saturday, January 29, 2011 13:33:46 Dotan Cohen wrote: > Furthermore, the next time that there is a problem how can I check if > the issue is with the infrastructure or with the ISP? traceroute ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://m

Re: Help me understand connection to internet: Infrastructure and ISP

2011-01-29 Thread Uri Even-Chen
erstand this. > > After two weeks of my mother-in-law not having internet access, during > which 012 blamed Hot and Hot blamed 012, I get there to take care of > the issue. At Hot they tell me that since the modem lights are fine (4 > lit, one flashing) the problem must be with 012.

Help me understand connection to internet: Infrastructure and ISP

2011-01-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
access, during which 012 blamed Hot and Hot blamed 012, I get there to take care of the issue. At Hot they tell me that since the modem lights are fine (4 lit, one flashing) the problem must be with 012. At 012 they tell me that because she connects without a Dialer (as all Linux customers do) they

someone sent it to me, I'm publishing it here

2010-09-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I just got this from an HR agent, and thought it would be useful for some people: שלום, לחברה באזור תל אביב דרוש Linux System Administrator: At least 3 years of experience in: ·Linux ·Compiling open sources ·Apache ·PHP ·Mysql ·Scripting with pe

[HEBREW] Thanks to all those who helped me with WiFi on my laptop few weeks ago

2010-08-07 Thread Omer Zak
בהנגשת כנס אוגוסט פינגווין 2010 לאנשים עם מוגבלויות, זכיתי לשיתוף פעולה מאנשים רבים וכאן המקום להגיד לכולם תודה. ארגון "בקול", באמצעות דברת נוטמן, העמיד לרשותי מערכת FM עבור כבדי שמיעה. התנאים היו כאלה שאיפשרו ביטול ברגע האחרון וללא קנס במידה ולא יבו

Re: OT: gmail replacement (or: gmail pissed me off)

2010-02-15 Thread Yuval Hager
On Sunday 14 February 2010, Erez D wrote: > I know that the one of the best solution (in the privacy aspect) would be > to have my own mail server. but practically speaking, it is not such a > good idea regarding backup, and internet security ... > > so i am looking for somthing in the middle. >

Re: OT: gmail replacement (or: gmail pissed me off)

2010-02-15 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I don't know if this is related (I also use Gmail only with my own domain), but around the same time Google started this BUZZ nonsense, my use of Gmail to send mail from KMail (using SMTP) became really unreliable. At least half of the time, I get an error message from KMail saying: "smtp.gmail.

Re: OT: gmail replacement (or: gmail pissed me off)

2010-02-14 Thread ik
k that the company will add it at the end. Personally I use gmail for things that are not that important for me, like malling lists (90% of my usage in gmail), I recommend all people that do care about privacy etc, not to use gmail for more personal usage. Ido http://ik.homelinux.org/ 2010/2/1

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