OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-14 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Hi, A friend of mine is looking for basic Linux support at the Safed area. It is hard for me to drive there for personal reasons. She has a Linux laptop fully functional with Kbuntu 9.04. It is connected via Ethernet to a cable modem. The cable modem is working and the computer receives a cable I

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-15 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Hi Oleg, We tried to get a direct connection without a dialer, when we opened the account for her. Netvision although a few months after the merge with Barak, refused to give a "Barak" account with no dialer. I have a "Barak" account, no dialer, but they are not giving it any more ( the last ti

Re: problem with MD5 based authentication for postfix SMTP AUTH

2003-09-14 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Hi, Both DIGEST-MD5 and CRAM-MD5 require the password to be stored on the server in clear text(!). The password is used as the key for authentication. On one side you have plain and login with encrypted store on the server but the password is sent unencrypted over the network and then you have

Re: problem with MD5 based authentication for postfix SMTP AUTH

2003-09-14 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Sunday 14 September 2003 16:23, Oded Arbel wrote: > As I understand, this is only required so that the authentication agent (be it > sasl, pam or whatever) can encode the password in MD5. is it possible to > store the password on the server already encoded in MD5 ? that would be the > best

Re: Samba server related question.

2003-10-03 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
ביום שישי, 3 באוקטובר 2003, 22:39, David Harel כתב: > Hi, > > My Linux machine is a file server for other windows machines using > samba. Some times I want to post remote control commands to the windows > machines like turn them off or logout the user. What is the way to do that? Samba3 has a new

Re: Converting to the new samba

2003-10-26 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Hi, The solution is very simple, you need to convert the Hebrew file names on the server to UTF-8 encoded. Here is a script adopted from the SAMBA docs: find /path/to/share -type f -exec bash -c 'CP="{}"; ISO=`echo -n "$CP" | \ iconv -f cp862 -t UTF-8`; if [ "$CP" != "$ISO" ]; then mv "$CP" \

Dream Distribution

2003-10-30 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Hi, I search for a dream distribution Software: OO1.1 Moz1.5+FB0.7 ( Support for Xprint) Xprint Culmus Koffice 1.2.1 KDE 1.3.4 Pine Latex+Hebrew Lynx XEmacs/Emacs Vim Xmms + mp3 Xpdf gv Kdevelop Eclipse All the POSIX utils No ADware. Management: APT based, so I can upgrade just about everythi

Re: Dream Distribution

2003-10-30 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Thursday 30 October 2003 17:46, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > ביום חמישי, 30 באוקטובר 2003, 17:33, נכתב על ידי Gal Goldschmidt: > most of the s/w comes in mdk9.2. other can be easily installed So, it's compiling source rpms, right? Finding all the source RPM dependencies etc. Ins

Re: Dream Distribution

2003-10-30 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Thursday 30 October 2003 21:55, you wrote: > 1.donload kazit or knoppix3.3 > 2.read manual about remanstering knoppix: >http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/KnoppixRemasteringHowto > 3. add Eclipse, Moz1.5 (remove FireBird) , Latex, pine (these are the > packages missing in kazit from the

Re: Dream Distribution

2003-10-30 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Thursday 30 October 2003 21:12, you wrote: > Gentoo. > Lean and mean. I approached it just for curiosity and I think that I > fell for it. > I installed it on Compoaq Presario 900 (a very hard case) with almost > no problems and use it as playground. > Google for Gentoo and read about typical i

Re: Linux upgrades

2004-03-28 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Sunday 28 March 2004 08:22, Michael Sternberg wrote: > > 1. Is it means that if I want to continue to use Mandrake >on desktop and to install a new updates I have to upgrade >OS version each year ? Yes. > > 2. How painful the upgrade is ? I remember that they always >recommend to "

Re: Two ADSL modems & PPOE

2004-06-09 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 09:53, Noam Rathaus wrote: > On Tuesday 08 June 2004 00:32, Noam L. wrote: > > I dont think you can put two PPPoE on the same LAN. > > > > However, most Alcatel do use PPTP, if you can get yours to talk PPTP > > then you can use PPPoE for the ECI and PPTP for the Alc

PVR/DVR Issues

2004-07-15 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Hi, I am in a straggle to build a PVR. The Open issues I have: Hardware: Shuttle with VIA MK400 and a Genius TV card ( SAA7134). Open Issues TV Out: I have a working Xfree 4.4 with Unichrome support and Kernel 2.6.7 with all the Unichrome patches, it has a working XV support and even some gl

Re: PVR/DVR Issues

2004-07-15 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Thursday 15 July 2004 21:13, you wrote: > google for mythtv and freevo Thank's but I already did my sweep there. The most common video card is the Nvidia and PVR-250. I did not pick the Nvidia based Shuttle because of the binary drivers issue, binary network, binary video card etc... I am sure

Re: PVR/DVR Issues

2004-07-15 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Thursday 15 July 2004 22:02, Tal Achituv wrote: > Gal, > > I need to understand something - Why do you need a CAM if you will build an > IR transmitter to control the cable-box?! > > In addition - can you send some pointers as to how you intend to build it > (hardware) and control it (software)?

Re: PVR/DVR Issues

2004-07-16 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Friday 16 July 2004 14:02, you wrote: > Hold on. The DVB-C/S set-top box provided by the TV company isn't > customized for NDS, is it? Yes it is, it is a licensed technology from NDS and the CAM is built into the mother board and can't be removed, you can put any smart card in ( it will fit)

Re: PVR/DVR Issues - CI/CAM

2004-07-18 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Hi, On Sunday 18 July 2004 15:39, Noam Rathaus wrote: > > Try VBox comunication products. > > Hi, > > And where do you see the string VBox? This is as far as I got in my search: http://www.usa-x.org DVB cards with CAM and Linux support ( but no NDS support, I asked the nice support sale team at

Re: Rdesktop 1.3.1 hebrew support doesnt

2004-08-23 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Hi, I have it too, I run rdesktop with keyboard debug and also X keyboard debug ( I don't remember the program name), finally what I discovered: Alt+Shift or Shift+Alt is translated by X to Meta ( common on must UNIX systems but not very useful on Linux/PC ). Anyway rdesktop translate Meta to Al

Re: AMD (was re: Dist question.)

2004-08-23 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Hi, My AMD views are mixed: 1. Shuttle X-PC AMD based on KM400, the CPU stay cool, the FAN is at low speed, but the Motherboard north bridge get hot I get RAM errors, I had to install 2 more little Fans to make it reliable on Israel's Summer. 2. We bought one of the first Asus dual Athlon

Re: [rdesktop-users] Re: ALT vs META

2004-08-23 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Monday 23 August 2004 13:49, Peter Åstrand wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > > I've been having a problem for sometime where my ALT key would appear to > > be "stuck".After building a version of RDesktop with some debug > > flags, I've figured out what's going on. SHIFT+ALT = META. That is, i

Re: OT: changing banks and customer service (was: Bank Leumi's old site - works (again) with mozilla)

2004-09-02 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 11:39, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004, Ira Abramov wrote about "OT: changing banks and customer service (was: Bank Leumi's old site - works (again) with mozilla)": > > I think I actually PREFFER a bank with no online access these days... > > Why? Especially wh

Re: PVR in Israel

2005-01-09 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Sunday 09 January 2005 15:29, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:43:13PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > So what you need is an CAM with the right card (the one that Yes gave > > you) to decrypt the stream. I've heared some unclear rumour that the Yes > > STB has a prop

Re: LinModem

2001-03-21 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Nadav Har'El wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "LinModem": > > Hi, > > > > I need my linux box to connect to the net. Which is the best software modem > > with linux support arroungd? Real modem are dead as you know.. (also that > > thread)... > > I just got a US-Rob

Re: LinModem

2001-03-22 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Nadav Har'El wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001, Jeremy wrote about "RE: LinModem": > > 1. Be prepared to add over 20% of the price of the product you order for Maam >and "amilut meches" and stuff like that. They will always pass your package >through customs and charge you this. > > 2. I

Mandrake 8 problems

2001-04-29 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Hi, I upgraded from 7.2 using a clean install ( I formated everything but /home ) I have 3dfx3000 & BP6 ( Dual Celeron). The problem is palying MPEG1, The only way I can play those is in double mode with xmms,gtv xmovie just crash. When I tried full screen or changing of the resulotion (Ctral+Al

Re: XFree from latest rawhide

2001-06-25 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Uri Shohet wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone tried to install the XFree86 RPMS from RedHat's rawhide? > I'm getting errors about unresolved symbols in > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a when I start the new X. I tried and gave up very fast. It's compiled with glibc2.2.3. R

Re: virus-scanners for mail servers

2001-06-26 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Installation turned out to be not as easy as I thought, I had some additional problems beside amavis poor documentation one. When CPAN/perl install creates directories it uses the umask I use (700) so no one could use my installed modules, don't forget

Re: Linux-friendly CDR

2001-06-27 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > I would like to buy a Linux-friendly CDR. > > What would you recommend? I can tell you what not to buy: HP USB. If it's IDE or SCSI ( internal or external), it's probably Linux friendly. With IDE you might need a bit of a kernel recompile for SCSI-IDE

Re: Linux-friendly CDR

2001-06-28 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 22:05, Gal Goldschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > > > I would like to buy a Linux-friendly CDR. > > > > > > What would you recommend? > > > > I c

Re: BRU is out ?

2001-07-04 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Ehud Karni wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 12:27:31 +0300, Ury Segal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The sad truth is that the above fact is correct. The last I heard, they > were searching for a buyer. The rumors are that the buyer will one of > EST competitors that will pay to

Re: BRU is out ?

2001-07-06 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Oded Arbel wrote: > www.arkeia.com If I spend a few $K I want more then E-mail/Phone support. BRU is being sold by TIM, I have no idea about ARKEIA. I think I will go with Amanda after all I found this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32/ It's on the 3th(!) page, of

Re: BRU is out ?

2001-07-08 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Gal Goldschmidt wrote: > I just googeled afbackup, it looks nice but no Win32 support. I want some win32 support. Amanda has win32 client at beta2 stage. Security seems better with afbackup on the other hand. The Amand

Re: Linux compatible modem

2001-11-30 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Hi, I did a major research about this topic: Hardware: External 3Com(USR) Modem Serial or USB you might be able to get some dealer to order it for you. They also have a hardware PCI, but no one bring it to Israel ( as far as I know). Zoom USB and Zoom PCI hardware, both can be ordered fr

Re: Modem 56k which works on linux

2002-05-13 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On 13 May 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 07:26, Orna Agmon wrote: > > I can't promise you it will work, but according to the web (and I ordered > > one myself on Friday), U.S.Robotics has an external 56K fax-modem which is > > supposed to work with Linux. > > (99$ on atid

Re: OT: Looking for old UNIXes

2002-08-17 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Hi, > Just wonder, will old UNIX ( for example the UltraSparcs ) will give better > performance then new P4/AMD ? > Does Linux support such hardware well ? As a rule of a thumb, from a pure performance point of view, a one year old Workstation ( originally $15K+ worth) will roughly have a perfo

Re: OT: Looking for old UNIXes

2002-08-17 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
> And sometimes, as I suspect was the intent of the original poster, you > just want to be able to check various stuff against a Solaris sparc > machine. It doesn't have to be the latest, but it has to be a sparc, and > it has to run solaris. I agree. I answered the question of comparing Intel/

Re: hibernation in linux ?

2002-08-19 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Monday 19 August 2002 10:35 am, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > suspend/hibernation used to work fine on my Thinkpad T20. On my > Thinkpad R30, they are somewhat flaky. I'll look into it one day when > I'll find the time. Hi, To use the BIOS supported Hibernation to disk on the T30 you need to create

Re: DHCP+DDNS

2002-09-12 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 23:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > need to configure it somewhere on client side? If so, where? On *BSD, > there is dhclient.conf, where I define options of hdcp client - and it > works too - but I cannot find such options for linux (setting client name > just sets it,

Re: [Re: Linux on SunSparc]

1999-08-24 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Gavrie Philipson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote: > > Look for Ultra-Penguin. It's linux ported to the ultra sparc. IMHO a > > waste of a good system. Why not run solaris 7 on it? > > > > Geoff. > > Well, it's the same waste of a good system as millions of people are >

Job Offer: Linux System Administrator

1999-09-16 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
University of Haifa - Faculty of Social Sciences is looking for Unix / Linux System Administrator, (full time job) for more information please call: Nadav Azoulay 04-8249594. (CV can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). ^^^ May The Source be with

Re: Win98 cannot see 2nd fat32 partition after mandrake 7.1 install(fwd)

2000-06-27 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Sadly I can say being there done that or in more detail: Mandrake just introduced me to a new partition type: id:85 name:Linux extended It changed the usual (this days) number 2 extended partition from id: f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) to the above. WinXX did not like it and of course ignored it's FA

Re: [Re: ftpd and hebrew]

1999-06-15 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
> > > I'm no big hebrew-on-unix specialist, but a healthy guess is that the> windows smb client translates the gibberish into something that a win32> ftp client later understands. or maybe the samba? I installed the latest> samba as well, and that didnt solve it either. umm... can anyone shed some