Re: Lilo and "once"

2008-06-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
lilo -r is only good to change root directory. Hetz On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Noam Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > As far as I recall, it was "lilo -r " > Haven't used lilo for several years now (and I was a late adopter...) > > - Noam > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Noam R

Re: Lilo and "once"

2008-06-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Noam, The problem is, that (if I recall correctly) nothing there is telling lilo that it "failed". LILO just passes the parameters to the kernel, loads the kernel etc and boots them. If your kernel can load a shell and mount the /boot partition, then you can write a simple script that if somethin

RFC: Linux "evolution"

2008-06-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I was a bit board here at home and I thought about writing a "short" article about Linux evolutions. I wrote about Linux mistakes, the ups and downs and where it stands today. Naturally, I didn't do any real time-line since 1991, but more of an "overview" if you will. You can see it here: htt

Re: Where can I rent computers?

2008-06-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hello David, I don't know anyone who "rent" PC's, but if it's even for few months, it would (IMHO) be easier to buy a bunch of no-name PC's with dual-core processors, and after the job is done to either contribute or selling them (if it's quite, I'll buy one). Thanks, Hetz On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 a

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-14 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Lior, Not sure if I'm correct, but as far as I recall, ISO 9660 is the standard for CDROM, not DVD-ROM. A DVD is a UDF format, so you can use: mount -t udf /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom Hetz On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've successfully burnt a da

"mini" review - CrossOver 7 Pro

2008-06-19 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I have tested Crossover 7 pro here and specially tested the Hebrew support, as well as Office 2007, Photoshop CS2. If you're interested, you can read this review (in hebrew) here: http://benhamo.org/wp/?p=708 Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew

suggested linux distribution?

2008-06-19 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I've written a post in my blog about a thought I had for quite a long time and I would like to share it with the Linux community and ask for solutions (mainly, commercial solutions). It's a bit too complex to write it here so I invite you to read it here: http://benhamo.org/wp/?p=709 Thanks,

regarding multiple installations

2008-06-19 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Few weeks ago (IIRC) someone asked about a tool for multple installation of Linux servers. Here's a project from Red Hat's E.T. (Emerging Technologies) which fit this needs. It's pretty simple, and has some (still developing) webapp. URL: http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/index.php Hetz -- Skep

AdvFS - anyone played with it?

2008-06-23 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, HP is releasing Tru64's AdvFS source code (Under GPL V2 license) and will do the conversion to Linux.. I was wondering: has someone here played with it extensively? what are it's benefits compared to ext3, ext4, jfs, reiserfs etc? What can be done with AdvFS that can't be done today on Linux?

Re: [JOB] Junior SA at Modu Mobile

2008-06-24 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
>> knowledge of NFS+NIS a must >> support for windows users using Cvnc to use the CentOS machines >> some perl and shell scripting (sadly tcsh at the moment) >> Condor batch manager. > > Seriously? > nobody? > > Are sysadmins that hard to find these days? > I'll go search linkedin... No, it's not

Re: Kernel Driver Statement

2008-06-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I read it, and I belive that NVidia will never open source their driver, for at least 1 crucial reason: With their drivers, you can do a simple tweak and you can make a low cost Geforce 8XXX (for example) to a high end Quadro. You can do it easily today on Windows (no hardware modifications requi

installing CentOS without any monitor

2008-06-29 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I have my Dell Optiplex GX270 here with Fedora 7 and I'm thinking to upgrade to CentOS 5.2. I'm planning to format the machine. My only issue: I don't have any monitor to connect to this machine (I don't have a monitor here at all). Most of the servers today gives you the option to connect t

Re: reading Norton Ghost image on Linux?

2008-07-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Amos, If you have the GHOST installation program, there should be a program called "ghost explorer". You can copy this ghost explorer program to your windows, and use wine to run it. It should run perfectly ok (see here: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=8060&iTesting

Re: USB and HD switching places

2008-07-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Noam, You have 2 options which you can use (and you can use them either manually or through /etc/fstab) 1. You can label the partitions and mount them using the labels (or manually using mount -L) or 2. You can use the mount with UUID (mount -U). See: http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount As for

Re: USB and HD switching places

2008-07-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> An explanation on both - how to do this would be nice :) > > On Friday 18 July 2008 20:31:37 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: >> Hi Noam, >> >> You have 2 options which you can use (and you can use them either >> manually or through /etc/fstab) >> >> 1. You can l

small review: Splashtop / Asus Expressgate

2008-07-20 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I just wrote a small review about Asus ExperssGate (a.k.a SplashTop from DeviceVM). It's a tiny Linux OS which sits on your hard disk (NTFS/FAT32 only partition), which lets you boot quickly to things like FireFox and Skype. The small review is here: http://benhamo.org/wp/?p=791 Hetz -- Ske

RPMS for VNC

2008-07-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi People, Few months ago I asked if there's a way to convince VNC to work with hebrew keyboard. It wasn't possible. Now it (mostly) possible. Thanks to some good soul at Red Hat, I have RPMS which do support VNC with XKB. I wrote about it here (and provided RPMS and SRC.RPM to download): http:/

Re: Preferred video card for Linux dual-head?

2008-08-24 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I'll go with NVidia if you don't care about open source drivers. They have excellent support in dual screen support. Intel... not very good support. good drivers, but I had my share of a garbage cursor on the 2nd screen. ATI/AMD - Pretty good but PRAY that your card is supported in their lates

Re: Preferred video card for Linux dual-head?

2008-08-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, > * nVidia have: >1. The best proprietary Linux support ;-) >2. The worst FOSS support. >3. Someone else on this thread already detailed some > of the problems it brings (updates, cards with quick > End-Of-Life, etc.) Regarding your 3rd reason: Go pick Geforce 6XXX, 7X

RewriteCond with virtualhost question

2008-09-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I'm trying to create a simple rewrite conditional with Apache, and it seems not working with a virtual host settings. Here's an example WITHOUT virtual hosting: Allow from All RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME}

Re: RewriteCond with virtualhost question

2008-09-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
, Ori Idan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had similar problem I think. > Try to remove the / before somewhere/inner.php > I know it seems strange but thats' the way it worked for me. > > -- > Ori Idan > > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMA

Re: parental control - outbound firewall?

2008-09-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Gabor, Filtering everything? what if your kids using Google to search for things? Google will send them to web sites that you closed due to too-much restriction? do you really want your kids to call you to add sites so they can read what they were looking for? How about blocking sites progress

Re: el4 update

2008-09-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Erez, (Sorry for the late reply). Each CentOS version is basically compatible with RHEL version, with a twist, for example: RHEL 4 update 4 = CentOS 4.4 CentOS *should* be 100% binary compatible, but each RPM CentOS issues, goes through an Automatic "filtering" to remove Red Hat trademarks, l

Re: Remote custom issue

2008-09-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Serial access? I know that almost any serious hostings have this feature. Hetz On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Noam Rathaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The machine doesn't boot properly, so I don't have access to it, boot-cd would > be a nice thing, but its a remote unit. > > Thanks for the an

Re: Back to RedHat and RPM. How to install PHP-4.2.2

2008-09-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
David, If you want to roll PHP 4.2.2 on RHEL 5 (or CentOS), you have 2 options: 1. Either grab the SRPMS from RHEL 4 and recompile them on RHEL 5 based machines (be prepared to modify the SPEC file a bit) 2. Grab the latest 4.2.x PHP source code, recompile, play with the "configure" parameters.

Re: RedHat 7.3 compatible format

2008-10-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Shana Tova, If I'm not mistaken, you have 2 choices: 1. Format the hard drive to EXT2. 2. Upgrade to the latest 2.6.x kernel (maybe 2.4.x kernel has the same support for ext3, donno), and build e2fsprogs package (http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/). After that, format the disk to ext3. Hope this

asterisk and Cisco soundstation IP 7000

2008-10-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I got here a Polycom soundstation IP 7000 and all my tests to make it work with our network fails with the message: [Oct 5 06:34:50] NOTICE[2376]: chan_sip.c:15055 handle_request_register: Registration from '' failed for '10.X.X.X' - Username/auth name mismatch Here's the specific part in

Re: Fedora 10 will have localized installer for Hebrew

2008-10-14 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Great works, Toda :) Hetz On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > As of today we have crossed the required bar (90% translation) for > having Hebrew as an official language *during install*. > > As the title says, F10 (which is in Beta now) will

Re: contacting linmagazine editors

2008-10-23 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Amos, I'm using Opera Mini on both Nokia's that I have (6233 and E61). Linmagazine shows perfectly well, and Opera Mini supports RSS as well. I wrote a review about it, if you want to read it, it's here: http://benhamo.org/wp/?p=291 It's a very good browser for the mobile phones, although if

Re: restoring a WordPress blog

2008-10-29 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Tried this? http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup Hetz On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Uri Evenhen More <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Ori Idan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You do not need mysql dumps, you have export and import options i

Re: ssh -X woes

2008-10-30 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, You can use ssh -Y Also you might want to check the authentication on X using: xauth list You can also clean the X authentication list using xauth remove (name): man xauth is your friend. Hetz On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:08 PM, ronys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've a subcontractor

Re: installing linux on a vista-pre-installed-laptop

2008-10-30 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, You can use GParted Live CD to resize you Vista partition(s). Follow this link: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/ Hetz On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Erez D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > i have a few questions about a

Re: cellular modems

2008-11-02 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Geoff, I wrote a post in my blog about those packages, it's here: http://benhamo.org/wp/?p=626 (it's in hebrew) As for ssh, skype etc.. I really don't know. I haven't checked about it. Hetz On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone alluded to

Re: OT: memories

2008-11-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Erez, on 64 bit distribution, all your memory should be recognized without a problem. As for memory, there are many web sites such as http://kingston.com/ so you can search your laptop and specific model and it can tell you exactly which RAM to buy. Make sure you buy the EXACT memory that you nee

Looking for QA manager?

2008-11-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, A friend of mine is looking for a job as QA manager position. He has the experience both in management and in Linux/Unix fields. If you want to conact him, please send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], his name is Benyamin Parto. Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. m

looking for job

2008-11-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Funny thing: Yesterday I wrote a mail here about a colleague of mine who was fired from my work, and today I found out that I was fired too (they call it "cut backs"). So, if you know anyone who's looking for a Linux sys-admin, please contact me. Thank you, Hetz Ben-Hamo --

review: Fedora 10 (preview)

2008-11-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I wrote a preview about the up-coming Fedora 10. If anyone wants to read it, it's here: http://benhamo.org/wp/?p=1121 Thanks, Hetz = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message bo

3D Apache?

2008-11-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Few months ago I've seen some really cute application that connects to Apache server and based on the logs it shows you some "virtual city" with "people" based on their IP address, and you could do some really nice stuff there. Unfortunately, I forgot the program name. Does anyone knows the a

Re: 3D Apache?

2008-11-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
a way to do it better - find it. > | > | Gentoo'd > | http://linuxized.blogspot.com > \ > > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 19:39, Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Few months ago I've seen some really cute application tha

Re: Webcam Recommendations?

2008-11-24 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
To tell the truth, as someone who is following the linux hardware support, I can tell you that I didn't see lately any cam from the major player (Microsoft, Logitech, Creative, Philips) that is not supported. Some are supported only partially and some (specially Logitech) are fully supported. Even

Re: gspca with GeForge FX 5200 experience, anyone? (was: Re: Webcam Recommendations?)

2008-11-24 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Omer, > Does anyone have good experience working with the gspca driver in > conjunction with the nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] video > card? > > In my system, the driver causes video applications to hang up (Linux > kernel 2.6.18-6). Does the problem repeats when you're using the "

Re: gspca with GeForge FX 5200 experience, anyone? (was: Re: Webcam Recommendations?)

2008-11-24 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
ote: > I tested it only with 'nv' - never installed 'nvidia' in my PC. > > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 23:25 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: >> Hi Omer, >> >> > Does anyone have good experience working with the gspca driver in >> > conjunction with t

Re: site freezing Firefox 3.0.4 on Ubuntu

2008-11-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, seems to work fine on 3.0.4 on CentOS 5.2 Perhaps it might related to one of the plugins or extensions? Hetz On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any ide what can be done with this? > When visiting, it freezes Firefox and I had to kill -9 it. > > http:

Re: gspca with GeForge FX 5200 experience, anyone? (was: Re: Webcam Recommendations?)

2008-11-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Sorry, but I disagree with you. If someone is using the card for 2d only work without any 3d stuff, then the "nv" driver does great work, including good video support. There is also a development these days to create a driver from scratch and it's making good progress. Hetz On 11/26/08, Gilboa

Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Erez, The latest versions of Ubuntu, as well as Fedora and OpenSuSE 11.x use the latest Xorg server which *does not* need the /etc/xorg.conf file. Everything regarding the card is being done automatically (probing etc), so when you install Fedora 10 for example, you won't find this file. I assume

Re: [Linux-il] Web browser on ARM

2009-01-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, If I recall correctly, QT4 has webkit inside, and I think it already compiles well on ARM (including QTopia). How about trying that? Thanks, Hetz On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: > HI, > > I going to cross compile a web browser for ARM (TI DaVinci, MontaVista Li

Re: google searches got mad ?

2009-01-31 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Yup, just found out 2 of my blogs were "harmful". Anyway, I tried it again few seconds ago and seems to be OK now (their reporting page gets "server error", my guess that at monday, heads will be rolled :) Hetz 2009/1/31 Budilovsky Evgeny > > Is this just me or all searches in google currently

Re: QuickCam installation on Wine

2009-02-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Moshe, Wine does not support hardware, so it cannot install any drivers under wine, nor any USB devices. It can use some "wrappers" to make devices which are already have Linux drivers installed and loaded - can use the hardware with wine. IMHO, your best bet would be to install the webcam using

Re: looking for a live distro for a damaged computer

2009-02-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
You may want to check Knoppix, either CD or DVD versions. IIRC they can be customized (and burned) to operate SSHD service upon booting. If it has serial port, you can also login via serial with many live CD's. Hetz 2009/2/12 Erez D : > > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:16 PM, shimi wrote: >> >> 2

gmail manager

2009-02-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Many users here on this list use GMail Manager extension and few people might be surprised (since yesterday) to find that Firefox will give them a "redirect loop" message when they will try to open GMail from the GMail Manager. Apparently, a bug in the addon causes this issue. If you have th

Re: SanDisk Cruzer micro 8Gb and Ubuntu, GNU/Linux

2009-02-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
It seems your machine recognizes the device. Could it be that a module for the actual file system is not loaded maybe? Hetz On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > I have just bought an 8Gb SanDisk Cruzer Micro (USB 2.0) disk on key. > I plugged it in my computer, the reassuring r

Re: Weird DNS proxy issue on ECI Bfocus modem?

2009-02-22 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Ori, Since you can't replace or diagnose parts of the board, my simple suggestion would be to replace the router (if I'm not mistaken, it won't cost you). That way you'll get a new modem with newer firmware. Hetz On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Ori Berger wrote: > > The DNS proxy on my ECI ADSL

offtopic: job?

2009-02-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Still looking for a Linux sysadmin job (this damn recession makes life really miserable, for me specially for the last 3 month looking for a job) If anyone hears something, please contact me directly. Thank you very much, Hetz Ben Hamo -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default pos

Re: offtopic: job?

2009-02-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Sorry, I'm looking to be employed as a system administrator. My CV is at: http://benhamo.org/public/cv/ (doc and pdf). Thanks for your comments. Hetz On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Still looking for

Re: RAID Recovery

2009-02-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
If I'm not mistaken, this server comes with a remote console (based on VNC on ROM) so you can access the BIOS, Raid controller etc remotely using a simple client software from Dell. You could ask their support for this client. Hetz > One of the greatest problems with hardware raid is that you nee

Re: Windows Free Laptop (one more)

2009-03-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
That really depends (regarding Lenovo laptops). The make tons of models, so it really depends if it's their home models or business models (Txx, Xxxx, Wxxx, Zxxx) and it really depends on the seller. I know that Lenovo is making many models with Linux installed (Mostly SLED), and it really depends

job offer: Real time software engineer

2009-03-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Someone sent me a job offer (I'm still looking for a job), and since I suck at kernel programming, I decided to share the job description along with contact info with you people. Here is my rough english translation: Job description: Real time software engineer in digital video field. Req: *

Re: printing from ms-win to linux withough samba ?

2009-03-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Sure, You can use IPP (Internet Printing Protocol). For the Windows machines, you can read the document which is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/internetprint.mspx For the Linux side, it really depends on which solution do you use (CUPS? LPD?) and whic

Re: Exporting page N of ODT as PDF

2009-03-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
2 solutions: http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/pyodconverter http://www.oooninja.com/2008/02/batch-command-line-file-conversion-with.html Hetz On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have been googling all day, and I cannot seem to get this down. > Every day I export a di

Re: Linux installation on Lenovo 3000 N500

2009-03-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi David, Regarding Fedora, I think that it fails due to some stuff that normally it does with Anaconda when installing the distribution. I would suggest something simple: * Use some partitioning management software like GPartED live CD (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/) to make room for a Linux

Re: Linux installation on Lenovo 3000 N500

2009-03-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
David, GPartED, from my experience is VERY safe. All you have to do is simple: do a chkdsk in Vista (or as they call it "Error checking"), then boot GPartED, and then do a simple resize. I would recommend creating the backup DVD of your PDA using the Lenovo tools (there should be a tool to backup

Re: Hebrew Under crossover

2009-03-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
It still has issues. Try to mix hebrew and english in the same line and see what I mean. Hetz On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> #!/bin/bash >> LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8 ~/cxoffice/bin/winword >> wine /path/to/word >> > > Of course, that should have been: > > #!/bin/bash > LC_ALL=h

Re: Thermal Printers

2009-03-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I checked the Brother QL 550, and it's fully supported under Linux: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/es/os/linux/linux_ql500550.html It's also got a manual that you can download. You do, however, need to write your custom program to print and use the cutter though. I wrote a simp

Re: Desktop boards with HW RAID + LINUX

2009-03-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Dvir, I checked both of the boards you've mentioned.. * The GA-73PVM-S2H is very "entrey level" board. nForce 630i chipset and it supports RAID, but it's really up to the distribution you install if it will supports it or not, since it depends on drivers from nVidia. Basically if you can set it f

Re: Desktop boards with HW RAID + LINUX

2009-03-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
s I'm going to put ubuntu or fedora on this one. > > I'll buy the second one, just to be safe (not my dime anyway... ;) ) > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: >> >> Dvir, >> >> I checked both of the boards you've mentioned.. &

Re: Thermal Printers

2009-03-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
kinda hard > to operate. > > I can't find any reference to how the cutter is "made to work" for linux, any > clues ? was it some program that did it? raw command to the printer? > something? :) > > On Thursday 26 March 2009 11:27:59 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: >>

bug in date?

2009-03-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Take a look at this: # date -s "27 MAR 2009 02:54:00" date: invalid date `27 MAR 2009 02:54:00' However.. # date -s "27 MAR 2009 03:00:00" Fri Mar 27 03:00:00 IDT 2009 Why is it invalid?? Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.o

Re: European VPS hosting

2009-03-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Geoff, You forgot to mention few things: 1. What is the MAX price that you're willing to pay? 2. Should it only be VPS? not a real server? 3. Have you considered Amazon EC2? Thanks, Hetz On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi, > > Excuse if this is offtopic. > > Was wonde

Re: European VPS hosting

2009-03-29 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Actually I tried dreamhost few months ago for a streaming tests. Long story short: it might work for some mp3 streaming, but if you'll have many people stream from Israel, you might have issues with it. On 3/29/09, Danny Lieberman wrote: > Geoff > > We use slicehost.com for a project in Germany a

Re: European VPS hosting

2009-03-30 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Geoff, Could you give some more details about your project? if you want to stream live, where do you stream from, Here in Israel up to europe and then broadcast it with the VPS you want? Thanks, Hetz On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Geoff Shang wrote: > "geoffrey mendelson" wrote: > >> Have yo

Re: Hebrew Under crossover

2009-03-30 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Aharon, If you're using VMWare, I'm not sure about the fact that it doesn't support SCSI disks as a raw. After all, SATA disks appear to the system as SCSI disks and they are well supported. You can do another thing: Install VMWare and a minimal XP + Office in a virtual machine, and then use the

Re: Hebrew Under crossover

2009-03-31 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, >> or if you >> want, you can use an online solution like Zoho Office which currently >> does supports hebrew and english in a mix. I tested that. > > Interesting, but I don't want to pay. Pay? for what?? Zoho writer is free for non commercial use. Zoho writer is free (http://writer.zoho.com

Re: הנדון: העברה: תקלה בגישה לא תרכם

2009-03-31 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Sorry to disappoint you. I just tried the site with IE8 and it works fine there, but not on IE, nor Chrome, nor Safari 4, Konqueror. Hetz 2009/3/31 Micha Feigin : > On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:09:49 + > "Noam Rathaus" wrote: > >> I guess they won't be ready by May this year >> > > I'm probably to

Re: הנדון: העברה: תקלה בגישה לא תרכם

2009-03-31 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
n to Opera/Webkit/Gecko browsers...) > > 2009/3/31 Hetz Ben Hamo >> >> Sorry to disappoint you. I just tried the site with IE8 and it works >> fine there, but not on IE, nor Chrome, nor Safari 4, Konqueror. >> >> Hetz >> >> 2009/3/31 Micha Feig

Re: presentation tool

2009-04-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Is it a hebrew or english slideshow? Hetz 2009/4/1 David Ronkin : > I started to use ooimpress to make a presentation in Ubuntu 8, but i got a > lot of issues, like inserting video clips, page formatting etc. > Anyone can advice on another tool or my installation is a problem? > > Thanks! > > --

Re: Galgalatz from Linux/Firefox?

2009-04-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Yup, The moved the site, so you should do: mplayer -ao alsa mms://213.8.138.13/glz-stream Worked perfectly here, Fedora 10 and Win XP with mplayer. Hetz On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > On Friday 31 October 2008, Gilboa Davara wrote: >> mplayer http://stream.msn.co.il/g

what kind of trick is that?

2009-04-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Anyone who've installed and used webmin, probably saw this part: you're missing a part (like SSL?) and webmin compiles it for you. What I would like to know is how they did the trick that the page is constantly updating while downloading/compiling/iinstalling, all the text appears as it's pro

in case someone wants to be a beta testers

2009-04-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
arded message -- From: Andrew Bogott Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:08 PM Subject: Re: Announcing CrossOver 8.0.0alpha2 To: Hetz Ben Hamo Hetz -- We're usually happy for more beta testers, although I'm generally most interested in testers who want to use supported apps.  Feel free to

Re: IrDA dongle ceased to work when I upgraded to Debian Lenny

2009-04-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Omer, This could be from the "hotplug" script not knowing what to do with your dongle. My suggestion would be: 1. see whats your system writes to /var/log/messages 2. rmmod the module and modprobe it while the device is connected. By doing modprobe, it should do all the stuff needed (create d

Re: IrDA dongle ceased to work when I upgraded to Debian Lenny

2009-04-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
ebian Etch because IrDA worked out of the box > for me there.  When reinstating the rule for Debian Lenny, the IrDA > dongle did not work for me.  The rule which I tried was (or something > similar): > BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="IRExpress USB IrDA Controller",

Re: Editing x11 cursor.

2009-04-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi David, You might want to take a look at a tool called "Gursor maker" which lets you do just that. URL: http://gursormaker.sourceforge.net/ There's the spec (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/cursor-spec) if you want to roll you own themes, and then there's the xcursor man page if

the cost of switching to IPv6?

2009-04-30 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I know TCP/IP but I'm not an expert on this issue, so I want to ask about the following scenario: According to an article in The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/30/ipv4_depletion/), ARIN (the group that gives IP's) will make life a bit harder when companies would ask for additi

Re: Linux Friendly Netbook?

2009-05-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Amichai, All the netbooks that are in the market today will work with any modern Linux distribution (Ubuntu 8.X, 9.X, OpenSuSE 10.X and up, Fedora 9 and above, RHEL 5 and above, Debian Lenny, etc) since those netbooks all use the same Intel crappy chipset which has Linux support for few years n

Re: Linux Friendly Netbook?

2009-05-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
om processor. As I wrote in my blog about Netbook graphics chipsets (http://benhamo.org/wp/?p=1423), soon there will be some netbooks using the ION chipsets with nVidia 9400M which fully supports all it's features under any Linux distribution. Thanks, Hetz On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:23 PM,

Re: Linux Friendly Netbook?

2009-05-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, > How about the Intel GMA 950? That has become the chipset of choice on the 9 > and 10 inch netbooks. Ubuntu supports mine (MSI Wind U100) right out of the > box, but how well I've never checked. It has been supported with the "intel" driver since Xorg 6.8.1 and with kernel 2.6.22. it's 3D ca

Re: Xserver question - why VESA considers monitor Virtual size is 800x600 ???

2009-05-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Lev, Unless this is a last resort, I really recommend *NOT* to use the VESA driver. Vesa used the least of your grpahics chip capabilities, NO graphics acceleration, no nothing, Any native driver for your graphics chip would do a better job of allocating memory (and not giving you only 64MB RA

Re: Xserver question - why VESA considers monitor Virtual size is 800x600 ???

2009-05-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
t; EndSection > > Section "Screen" >     Identifier  "Default Screen" >     Device  "VIA" >     Monitor "Configured Monitor" >     DefaultDepth    24 >     Option "metamodes" "128

Re: SOLVED : Xserver question - why VESA considers monitor Virtual size is 800x600 ???

2009-05-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
) CHROME(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: > (II) CHROME(0): Searching for matching VESA mode(s): > Mode: 101 (640x480) > > II) CHROME(0): VIASwitchMode > (II) CHROME(0): [drm] Cleaning up DMA ring-buffer. > (II) CHROME(0): VIAWriteMode > (II) CHROME(0): Trying VBE Mode 1280x960 (0xc16a)

Re: SOLVED : Xserver resolution problem - NEW : gdm refuses to show up

2009-05-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I think it's related to a kernel module which is not being loaded. Please contact the forum in the link I gave you for further assistance. Thanks, Hetz On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Lev Olshvang wrote: > Hi Hetz, > > New problem I noticed after reboot  - now gdm do not show anything, it just >

Re: recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Amazon S3? You can create tarballs (either a new snapshot everyday or just diffs) and upload them to Amazon S3. There are many FUSE implementations of their protocol so you can use your own tools for copying/uploading etc.. Thanks, Hetz On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Dvir Volk wrote: > > Hi,

Re: recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
rather pay a bit more and sleep better at night. > > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: >> Amazon S3? >> You can create tarballs (either a new snapshot everyday or just diffs) >> and upload them to Amazon S3. There are many FUSE implementations of >&

Re: recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
You can always get your personal key that Amazon issues to you on their page (after login of course). Hetz On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Geoffrey Mendelson wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: >> Well, the authentication is secured. Without keys,

OT: recommendation for a small switch?

2009-06-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I'm looking to buy a *cheap* 8 port gigabit switch to my house to connect all my computers. Can someone recommend a good switch (not hub) and a price or URL/phone where to buy? Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org __

Re: php cli is trying to resolve

2009-06-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Ido, I tried the same thing here. I tried it on 2 machines (CentOS 5.3 both of them). In both cases, the first time it runs the script, it takes few seconds to "initialize" things, that takes 2-3 seconds, but after the 1st time, everything runs real fast.. Here's the result from my production

Re: Vista Hebrew fonts: who has them?

2009-06-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
the msttcorefonts package does just that: it download some fonts, place them in your distro and let you use them. So if you use ubuntu/debian/xandros, just do: apt-get install msttcorefonts Enjoy, Hetz On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Windows Vista has some very nice Hebrew

Re: Vista Hebrew fonts: who has them?

2009-06-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Oh, those fonts are unicode, and I can assure you that they do have Hebrew fonts. I use Arial from this download all the times on browser and many other applications (pidgin etc..).. You can also copy the TTF files from your Vista or XP install and use ttmkfdir so your X can recognize those fonts.

Re: Vista Hebrew fonts: who has them?

2009-06-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Sure, After you install msttcorefonts package, you can do a simple thing (I'm using KDE on Fedora 11, I don't know how to do this with GNOME): 1. Launch kfontview 2. select "Open" 3. go to /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/ 4. select arial.ttf for example 5. select to change the text and type someth

Re: reshet.ynet.co.il not on Download Helper, anything else?

2009-06-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
The FLV won't help him much since it's an SWF based player which plays WMV streams, look for strings like "mms", "castup" etc... Hetz 2009/6/27 Yuval Hager : > On Saturday 27 June 2009, Amos Shapira wrote: >> 2009/6/27 Noam Rathaus : >> > Hi Amos, >> > >> > I haven't done anything special and I a

Re: Bank Hapoalim

2009-07-08 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Weird.. I'm using Firefox 3.0.10, CentOS 5.3 and I'm surfing in my account in Bank Hapoalim for more then 10 minutes. No problem at all.. Could it be a firewall issue that ends prematurely the SSL session? Hetz 2009/7/8 Dan Bar Dov : > I just got off the phone, talking with Bank Hapoalim suppor

Re: Reading RTF files

2009-07-08 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
You can always use wine and install MS Word viewer, I think it supports hebrew and opens RTF files without any problem. If you have CrossOver, it's just a click to select it, then it will auto download and install it for you. Hetz 2009/7/8 Danny Lieberman : > Geoff, Shahar > Thanks for the tips. 

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