Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-14 Thread shimi
can't guarantee the ability to mount it...) : dd if=/dev/hdc of=myfs.iso bs=100 And then: file myfs.iso Of course, you'll need enough free space for this... -- Shimi

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-16 Thread shimi
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amos Shapira wrote: > > 2008/6/15 shimi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >>> Any s

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-16 Thread shimi
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:25 PM, shimi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Amos Shapira wrote: >> > 2008/6/15 shimi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> On Sat, Jun 14, 2

Re: switching eth4 and eth0

2008-07-07 Thread shimi
to eth0 without > success. > > Can anyone help me with that? > > There was a thread about this 4 days ago... http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg52344.html -- Shimi

Re: switching eth4 and eth0

2008-07-07 Thread shimi
ried, but I mostly meant editing files in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg* to hardcode the MAC to the interface: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg52359.html -- Shimi

Re: Israeli ISP and Blacklisting

2008-07-24 Thread shimi
s, where proper authentication and thus logging and auditing can be taken care of? Most RBLs will list all non-ISP-managed block ranges for the above reasons, regardless of their location on the globe... -- Shimi

Re: Israeli ISP and Blacklisting

2008-07-24 Thread shimi
e who do serious antispam business will not block e-mail by those RBLs - they mostly create loss for the businesses who use them... this is really not the way to solve the problem. The problem is... that no way is [1]. -- Shimi [1] http://oldwww.temp.ahbl.org/funny/response1.php

Re: Israeli ISP and Blacklisting

2008-07-24 Thread shimi
gal? But that's really OT, so let's stop here. I was just giving another example for "we deserve this for not standing for our customer rights". -- Shimi

Re: Israeli ISP and Blacklisting

2008-07-24 Thread shimi
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > shimi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Or did you just use users dial-up/DSL/cable IP ranges in your test, > > which SHOULD be blacklisted (why would a home user need to emit SMTP > &g

Re: Iglu site down?

2008-08-04 Thread shimi
nleumi (Actcom z"l). > > Confirmed from 012/Smile (via ATM) and Bezeqint via HOT. -- Shimi

Re: portable scanner.

2008-08-12 Thread shimi
than an A4 paper. It takes electricity from the USB port, no need for power supply. Works great with Xsane (I use gentoo too). -- Shimi

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread shimi
now how fun is it to have your connections sustain a carrier loss of the modem?). I have nothing but troubles since I agreed to move back from MPLS to LT2P (Why did I agree? See [1]). MPLS was ROCK SOLID - and I plan to go back ASAP. -- Shimi [1] http://shimi.net/2008/07/28/et-tu-bezeqint/

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread shimi
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Thursday 09 October 2008, shimi wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > > My assumption is that I could still use the same router after moving to > > >

Re: Apache 2 and mod_deflate

2008-10-12 Thread shimi
files to be passed through mod_deflate? > > > Check out http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_filter.html#filterprovider -- Shimi

Re: OpenOffice won't access nfs partition

2008-10-12 Thread shimi
ion?) - but I hope the pointer can help. (Of course, for starters, make sure that the nfs locking daemon is indeed running...) -- Shimi

Re: Problems inserting Hebrew text into a MySQL database.

2008-11-23 Thread shimi
ifferent encoding via HTTP headers; Apache started doing it at some version in the past, with the AddDefaultCharset directive. HTH, -- Shimi

Re: KDE4: Kate cannot open cp1255 encoded documents.

2008-11-29 Thread shimi
ackage kde-base/kate-4.1.2 under Gentoo Linux. Compiled on 18 Nov 2008 23:20:58 by me. -- Shimi On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There exists a pretty major problem for KDE users in KDE4 regarding Hebrew > text: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_b

Re: time windowed cron?

2008-12-30 Thread shimi
ht was to simply save the pid somewhere when the > job > starts, and kill it when it should end. Are there more elegant solutions? > Maybe something similar to rc initscripts start/stop scheme? > There's The Fault Tolerant Shell[1], that assumes that running for too long is 'a

Re: time windowed cron?

2008-12-30 Thread shimi
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > shimi writes: > > > There's The Fault Tolerant Shell[1], that assumes that running for > > too long is 'a fault', which you might use. > > I am not sure - the typical use case of ftsh is to keep try

Re: looking for a live distro for a damaged computer

2009-02-12 Thread shimi
by default), waiting a couple of minutes for boot to end, and typing : passwd somepass somepass /etc/init.d/sshd start - and then continued from a networked computer after taking the IP from the DHCP leases list... -- Shimi ___ Linux

Re: Linux Workstation ADSL Networking Problems at Bezeqint

2009-04-06 Thread shimi
of wget -c restarting a file transfer from the > beginning > because it could not continue it from where it ended on a halted transfer. > I know this might sound weird, but I would try to reduce the MTU to 1400 or even 1300 and see if it helps. Start with tehe Li

Re: ssh from 012 cable to server in US fail

2009-04-30 Thread shimi
fiber connection). For me, going down to 1400 sufficed in solving all the weird connectivity issues I had. I am asking you to try lower because if you're on cables, there are MORE tunnels involved... if it solves the problem, you can go up on a trial-and-error game. HTH, -- Shimi

Re: Slow GUI

2009-06-02 Thread shimi
ur user have permissions to write to the /dev/dri/card0 character device? Is the CPU level at single percents when you actually *do* something? Looking on it at idle does not count :) If not, what process occupies most CPU? -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Slow GUI

2009-06-02 Thread shimi
tensive" - like ticking a checkbox in the browser that you mentioned... the question is if DURING the slowness (waiting for response) - does the CPU use spikes. -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: OT: recommendation for a small switch?

2009-06-08 Thread shimi
gt; Hetz Define "Cheap" ? I have tens of D-Link DGS-1008D<http://www.zap.co.il/model.aspx?modelid=490633>at work, and they all work flawlessly for 1-2 years already. Of course, your mileage may vary. -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: How to count dropped connections

2009-06-09 Thread shimi
uests to port 80? Do you use efficient HTTP handlers already, e.g. Lighttpd or even better, nginx? :) -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: How to count dropped connections

2009-06-09 Thread shimi
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2009/6/9 shimi : > > At what layer do you define "dropping a request" ? Not accepting a TCP > > connection (4) ? Failure to complete the request from the reverse proxy > to > > the backend servers (HTTP

Re: How to count dropped connections

2009-06-09 Thread shimi
it up is a breeze, and very easy to test. I'll do give you a tip, though. nginx has static buffers set up for everything; And it tests them and returns an HTTP error if a request is larger than the buffers. So if your requests are bigger than very plain access (large cookies, file uploa

Re: sms via asterisk

2009-06-20 Thread shimi
ot sure why occasionally. You would think that with a digital quality line... but perhaps the problem is within *. -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: OT: Home network

2009-06-23 Thread shimi
canceled the BPL > because the comepting systems were so bad all were outlawed everywhere > except the US, they may have canceled HomePlug too. > Just FYI, there is a new product around that at least promises a bit more : http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=4950

Re: Setting NFS server on Fedora Core 9

2009-06-25 Thread shimi
resting? Of course, we assume that you checked that normal connectivity works (ping, ssh, etc). Note that FW can be on both ends. -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Service/port based routing

2009-06-28 Thread shimi
t; Thanks, Geoff. > Packet marking & additional routing table. Quick "HOWTO" here: http://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/suse-security/2005/01/msg8.html HTH, -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: CallerId in Asterisk

2009-07-16 Thread shimi
expects it; Usually it's a fully-qualified number, minus the leading zero. For example Bituach Yashir would send 3555. This is correct, by default, for Bezeq, Cellcom & Partner PRI. Don't know about others. -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing

Re: partition full (or not)

2009-08-11 Thread shimi
on the root partition when the system loads, and removed when it goes down? Typical to the OS from Redmond, but one might do that in Linux as well... -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: data loss after power failure

2009-08-13 Thread shimi
eas how to prevent this kind of thing in the future? > (short of adding lots of additional batteries) > Sample the UPS unit for "how much battery time left do you have?" and initiate automatic shutdown when the number falls below the 5 minutes threshold ? -- Shimi ___

Re: data loss after power failure

2009-08-14 Thread shimi
2009/8/14 Micha Silver > shimi wrote: > > > >> Sample the UPS unit for "how much battery time left do you have?" and >> initiate automatic shutdown when the number falls below the 5 minutes >> threshold ? >> >> Yes, that's probably best.

Re: data loss after power failure

2009-08-15 Thread shimi
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2009/8/14 Micha Silver : > > shimi wrote: > >> Sample the UPS unit for "how much battery time left do you have?" and > >> initiate automatic shutdown when the number falls below the 5 minutes > >

Re: Looking for Jerusalem DID

2009-08-17 Thread shimi
and it works. A little bit of warning though - It used to crash latest Asterisk 1.6 (due to a bug in Asterisk, not SFA), but it was resolved when I installed 1.6.1.3-rc1 (and of course trunk is ok too). -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: OT: whats wrong with the counting graphs?

2009-08-31 Thread shimi
'36' is the week number of the year 2009... - interesting version control method ;) ) -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Google forces a translation to Japanese

2009-09-14 Thread shimi
s redundant, and I would assume google likes the html definition better. - the newlines in the file appears to be dos-style. maybe you want to try to run the file through dos2unix - it could be this windows-1255 thing - maybe try putting there iso-8859-8-i - or even better, switch to u

Re: How to get new people use IRC?

2009-09-16 Thread shimi
hem involved in an open source project. > > I encounter several issues in how to get them to use IRC. > > One of them is that they don't find the IRC clients intuitive for them. > > Maybe have them use a web frontend like Mibbit [1]. -- Sh

Re: I have a rabbit in my ears ;-)

2009-09-17 Thread shimi
e original phrase was "I got some rabbit ears", referring > of course to an antenna). > > I still wonder why this page exists in the first place... And why it is > the first place on Google for somebody in Israel who wants to watch tv > on linux... It is there simply becaus

Re: Adding Wireless to Cable Connection

2009-10-08 Thread shimi
nd even if you do, HOT will have to agree to connect it to their network (they must put the MAC address on their systems for this to work...) - which I am really not sure they would agree. My 7.4 agorot, -- Shimi On 10/8/09, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > Hi. > > I am currently connected to the In

Re: Adding Wireless to Cable Connection

2009-10-12 Thread shimi
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > On Thursday 08 October 2009, shimi wrote: > > The right way to do it is not with an Access Point. Someone needs to > > "multiplex" your connection to multiple devices. Since you have just > > one extern

Re: [off] Bezeq NGN - good or bad?

2009-10-14 Thread shimi
er bandwidth should not be a problem. Can your ISP supply the demand, especially to traffic outside the borders of Israel? Good question. HTH, -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: [off] Bezeq NGN - good or bad?

2009-10-14 Thread shimi
they sell a lousy 2Mbit/s up/down E1 for thousands of shekels every month? -- Shimi [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_FiOS ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: local ntp servers?

2009-10-26 Thread shimi
n 'time.bezeqint.net' host as well, but it seems to point to their NS and is not responsive [to NTP queries, at least] from at least one Bezeqint IP I tried from. There's also ntp.ilan.net.il ... -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-i

Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread shimi
been MTU/Window Scaling issues [I use Linux with default paramters...] - which could explain the initial burst and then the connection getting stuck... -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Hebrew in the terminal revisited

2009-11-07 Thread shimi
gt;> With LANG=en_IL.utf8: > > > > There's no such locale 'en_IL' > > > > I see. Can I generate one with Hebrew character support yet English > applications? Or is there another way to do it? > > Like en_US.UTF-8, for example? -- Shimi

Re: Firefox file associations

2009-12-17 Thread shimi
ownload_actions#Managing_content_types_-_Firefox_3 File types are added to the list after first being seen by the browser and acted upon... -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Firefox file associations

2009-12-17 Thread shimi
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:40 PM, shimi wrote: > > > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions#Managing_content_types_-_Firefox_3 > > > > File types are added to the list after first bein

Re: weird WIFI route

2009-12-27 Thread shimi
xample when queried re. your internal network IP which it is not supposed to serve), the resolver will just wait for the timeout, and only then display the route line unresolved; For an 'always quick' route, try route -n... HTH, -- Shimi __

Re: Voip (SIP) switch

2009-12-28 Thread shimi
to remove the "UBUNTU" requirement, you can simply throw a Trixbox installation CD to your CDROM, hit an enter key, wait, and then have a fully installed Asterisk (on centos), with a Web UI that can easily configure anything you wish. HTH, -- Shimi __

Re: Asterisk shabbat mode?

2010-01-16 Thread shimi
e-documentation/day-night-mode-control ...or just use it, if you use FreePBX. HTH, -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Asterisk shabbat mode?

2010-01-17 Thread shimi
Or alternatively (for Asterisk >= >> 1.6.0) you can use the function DEVICE_STATE from within the dialplan. >> > > > Thanks, but that would force it into shabbat mode any time we all sit down > to dinner together. :-) > > > If you're disconnecting the phone

Re: SIP provider questions.

2010-01-19 Thread shimi
lls never are connected to my asterisk system. > I'm connected via 012 using an aDSL line and the normal BEZEQ Siemens > router. > > Check out http://209.85.135.132/search?q=cache:5zYw-6Qe3UMJ:gilpalmon.com/2008/08/25/spikko-asterisk-free

Re: SIP provider questions.

2010-01-19 Thread shimi
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:03 AM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 20, 2010, at 6:44 AM, shimi wrote: > > >> >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:30 PM, geoffrey mendelson < >> geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >

Re: secure DNS hosting?

2010-01-26 Thread shimi
he part of the world where the attack came from. [1] http://www.ultradns.com/solutions/externaldns.html HTH, -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: securing ssl certificates on web servers

2010-01-28 Thread shimi
c... I believe it would make your security much better than fiddling with a private key file that only root can read on your server... And finally, Apache is a huge bloat; The more bloat you have, the more you sacrifice on performance, and in my opinion, security. The le

Re: securing ssl certificates on web servers

2010-01-29 Thread shimi
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 29 January 2010 18:43, shimi wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Amos Shapira > wrote: > > > > Shouldn't your question be: "if someone managed to get root access to my > > machine, whi

No echo of Microphone input

2010-02-06 Thread shimi
old SB Live 5.1 sound card and override the problem altogether... Thanks in advance, -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: No echo of Microphone input

2010-02-07 Thread shimi
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Oron Peled wrote: > On Saturday, 6 בFebruary 2010 23:47:56 shimi wrote: >> options snd_hda_intel model=6stack-digout bdl_pos_adj=32 single_cmd=1 >> >> 1. How do I know I did it right and that the module actually processed >> these variabl

Re: No echo of Microphone input

2010-02-07 Thread shimi
1280x720 Planar YV12 A: 4.8 V: 4.8 A-V: 0.000 ct: 0.000 0/ 0 7% 0% 0.4% 0 0 Exiting... (Quit) > Did you configured module autoload? > etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 No, my initramfs generated by the distro autoloads the snd_hda_intel module automat

Re: Vi and UTF-8

2010-02-15 Thread shimi
ke any terminal application, the terminal itself needs to be able to display what you expect it to display, and this is especially true when you are talking about text rendered on the "wrong direction", e.g. Hebrew, Arabic, etc. -- Shimi ___ Linux

Recommendation for a reliable Color Printer (with MFP features?) supporting Linux

2010-02-27 Thread shimi
n run by the unit itself, and does not require an assisting computer). A suggestion for one without the MFP features and one without so I could make a reasonable judgment would be best :) Thanks in advance for any suggestion you may have. -- Shimi ___ L

Re: Recommendation for a reliable Color Printer (with MFP features?) supporting Linux

2010-02-27 Thread shimi
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 28 February 2010 06:32, Omer Zak wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 20:23 +0200, shimi wrote: > > > * Expect it to live many years - not a throwaway product (again not > > > inkjet?) - an

Re: OT: Bezek via netvision

2010-03-01 Thread shimi
ave it, calling tech support and saying "I want MPLS/without dialer" (you can say "my router has issues with the dialup server" in case you fall on a non-cooperative tech) - they call Hot, your cablemodem gets restarted, and no

Re: Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-15 Thread shimi
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:24 AM, sammy ominsky wrote: zefat:~ sambo$ diskutil list > /dev/disk0 > #: TYPE NAMESIZE > IDENTIFIER > 0: GUID_partition_scheme*500.1 GB disk0 > 1:EFI

Re: Ben Gurion - arrivals in Firefox

2010-03-16 Thread shimi
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > > Can't figure out at the moment where I can change browser ID in FF > 3.5.8... > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-13 Thread shimi
a day or two, according to established, well-known for a thousand years, rules...) -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: High Availability

2010-04-14 Thread shimi
ur switch/router/network connection dies for some reason, the web site will still be down, as far as the customers care. So you need multiple network connections from multiple ISPs on your own IP netblock that you can advertise to all the links that are currently up :-) HTH, -- Shimi _

Re: High Availability

2010-04-15 Thread shimi
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:32 AM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Apr 15, 2010, at 7:53 AM, shimi wrote: > >> >> Using Linux more than a decade, I can say that if you're competent enough >> as a system administrator (which yo

Re: About Multi-cores and Multi-tasking

2010-04-20 Thread shimi
a million-CPU box, sometimes you HAVE to multi-CPU ;) AMD recently announced a 12 core chip that is basically what Intel did in Pentium D - two 6 core "glued" together. Throw 4 of these on a 4 socket motherboard, and you have a 48-CPU supercomputer in one box. Nice, isn't it? :) -- Sh

Re: About Multi-cores and Multi-tasking

2010-04-21 Thread shimi
2010/4/21 Shachar Shemesh > > If, as Shimi is saying, they are re-introducing them, maybe they think that > they found reasonable solutions to the above problems. > It's not an IF, they already did ;) See the specs: http://www.intel.com/products/processor/corei7/in

Re: Serial connection?

2010-04-22 Thread shimi
t; Hetz > > I think most of those units cost like $1K for 8 ports or so. "Digi" are well known, sold by Ankor. You may also want to not use a single "big box" but instead use a single adapter per machine. Seems cheaper... http://

Re: Serial connection?

2010-04-22 Thread shimi
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > shimi wrote: > > > > 2010/4/22 Hetz Ben Hamo > >> Hi, >> I wonder if someone could recommend a cheap and simple device to connect >> 8-10 servers through serial port so I can connect them from outs

Re: How do you calculate?

2010-05-20 Thread shimi
first-time users would know that? > What posessed the person who decided to make scale=0 the default? :-) > > bc on the konsole and kcalc when in need for more 'complex' math ... works for me! :) -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: ntpdate and Israel local time

2010-05-27 Thread shimi
t NTP server, or in the lack of Internet access, something independent (i.e. a GPS receiver...) HTH, -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Wireless connection to a remote station

2010-06-04 Thread shimi
PS, this should probably NOT go through it, especially if your UPS does double-conversion... Disclaimer: Have not been using one myself; I prefer GigE cabling all over the house for 100% stability and 0 issues :-) HTH, -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: problems with syslogd

2010-06-09 Thread shimi
n Debian (unstable). > > Permission issues? chattr +i / chattr +u ? SELinux / similar ? Of course that your idea to run strace -eopen on daemon startup to see what's going on would be best... HTH, -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

2010-06-10 Thread shimi
27;re looking? Those are the famous things that crossed my mind... -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: platform for number crunching

2010-06-16 Thread shimi
//www.noctua.at/main.php?show=productview&products_id=35&lng=en The question is if all that is considered 'affordable' to you ;-) HTH, -- Shimi On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Shimon Panfil wrote: > > Hi folks, > I'm looking for affordable workstation for heavy num

Re: hebrew letters in non-unicode vfat

2010-06-18 Thread shimi
t you talk about are on some 'ls' or so...) -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: I screwed up an NFS share

2010-07-09 Thread shimi
t; > 1. Change all_squash to root_squash in /etc/exports 2. Run exportfs -a HTH, -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: I screwed up an NFS share

2010-07-09 Thread shimi
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:02 PM, shimi wrote: > > 2. Run exportfs -a > > Err, meant exportfs -r :) HTH, -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: I screwed up an NFS share

2010-07-09 Thread shimi
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > On Friday 09 July 2010, shimi wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Shlomo Solomon > > > 1. Change all_squash to root_squash in /etc/exports > > 2. Run exportfs -a > > Bingo - thanks > > I'm cu

Re: I screwed up an NFS share

2010-07-09 Thread shimi
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > On Friday 09 July 2010, shimi wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Shlomo Solomon > > > 1. Change all_squash to root_squash in /etc/exports > > 2. Run exportfs -a > > Bingo - thanks > > I'm cu

Re: acl group permissions

2010-07-11 Thread shimi
on new files, by setting the directory with the suid bit (chmod +s). If this was not done prior to creating the files, and now needs to be done, you can simply run: chgrp -R bioserv chmod -R g+rw find -type d -exec chmod g+x '{}' \; ... and I think everything would be OK... HTH,

Re: Exporting CSV file with hebrew

2010-07-31 Thread shimi
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:30 PM, shimi wrote: > > > 2010/7/31 Ori Idan > > I have tested google docs with the same file translated using iconv to >> UTF-8 and it works great. >> I still have a problem with excel, my customer claims he can not see the >> hebre

Re: Exporting CSV file with hebrew

2010-07-31 Thread shimi
ata -> From Text) [1], one the options there is to state "File origin", which is basically a list of all the encodings Windows(R) supports. If you tell the importer which encoding it is, and he selects the right option (and of course , I *think* it should

Re: You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?

2010-08-15 Thread shimi
as good as the original. I prefer you'll use the PDF, [ but if you insist - if they refused the PDF], please find the attached converted to .DOC format" If they don't like it not good looking in .DOC and would refuse you based on that... would have you even wanted a Linux

Re: linux system that does not use the console except in TEXT mode.

2010-08-23 Thread shimi
#x27;t want to spend a lot of time going through the startup maze to find > the one command that kills the system. It causes an instant reboot, so there > is no log, and no way to see it happen, by the time it has happened, the > computer is rebooting.

Re: linux system that does not use the console except in TEXT mode.

2010-08-23 Thread shimi
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:43 AM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2010, at 10:40 AM, shimi wrote: > > >> >> I think most distro's have 'nox' and/or 'nofb' or equivalent... >> >> >

Re: linux system that does not use the console except in TEXT mode.

2010-08-23 Thread shimi
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:55 AM, shimi wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:43 AM, geoffrey mendelson < > geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On Aug 23, 2010, at 10:40 AM, shimi wrote: >> >> >>> >>> I think most distr

Re: Monthly waste of time :-) Has anyone been able to buy a Digital TV USB stick in Israel and get it to work under Linux?

2010-08-25 Thread shimi
found out it's made of lots of FOSS software inside: Linux, BusyBox, gstreamer and more. He couldn't find the source code for all their GPL changes, and he is willing to attempt to get it from them. -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mai

Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???

2010-08-28 Thread shimi
t necessarily a Linux problem. Maybe a NIC problem, or an Ethernet cable problem. Of course that with a Hub that would work anyways, because a Hub broadcasts to all ports, regardless of negotiation... So, did you try a different NIC? -- Shimi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???

2010-08-29 Thread shimi
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010, shimi wrote about "Re: Can there be an Ethernet > Switch that doesn't work with Linux???": > > > It could be that there's an Ethernet negotiation problem, in such a way > that

Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???

2010-08-29 Thread shimi
the fact that it _seems_ to be working well. Start with 10mbps/HD :) And last tip - of course it's a bit too late for you - but for the next time - I - personally - have learned my lesson - I will not buy Edimax again... :) -- Shimi ___ Linux

Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???

2010-08-29 Thread shimi
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 2:00 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2010, at 11:59 AM, shimi wrote: > > >> And last tip - of course it's a bit too late for you - but for the next >> time - I - personally - have learne

Re: [Fwd: Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???]

2010-08-29 Thread shimi
ttage they take, even when idling...) - so there's ROI here. And yes, I know it's relatively expensive considering to the prices you've mentioned so far. I think there's a good reason behind that. But that's just me :) -- Shimi __

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