Re: OT (or maybe not) - what happened to lxer.com?

2022-02-18 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 18 Feb 2022, Shlomo Solomon wrote: lxer.com is (was) a great site with links to recent articles about Linux. In the past 2 days, all I see is a page with menu items such as Linux News, Linux programming, etc. But clicking on any menu item just gives me a page with some advertisements.

Re: certbot version conflict

2020-06-16 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, אורי wrote: raise VersionConflict(dist, req).with_context(dependent_req) pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (certbot 0.31.0 (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages), Requirement.parse('certbot>=1.1.0')) My guess is that you installed Certbot both from the Python Package

Re: Ubuntu - apache is not working

2020-06-11 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020, אורי wrote: Err:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/python-3.6/ubuntu bionic InRelease 403 Forbidden [IP: 91.189.95.83 80] E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/python-3.6/ubuntu/dists/bionic/InRelease 403 Forbidden [IP: 91.189.95.83 80] E: The

Re: OT: Non-Israeli domain name registration.

2019-07-31 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, vordoo wrote: Regarding .com, .org, domains. What are the best registrars? Which are to be avoided (beside Godaddy). I've been a happy gandi customer for 15 years. https://www.gandi.net/en Not sure how their prices compare but I've had no reason to look elsewhere.

Re: scanning with a Pantum M6600

2019-06-13 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I have a Pantum M6600 multifunction printer - USB only - no WiFi. Printing works fine on my Kubuntu box (after installing a driver). I can also scan using xsane or gscantopdf. But when I press the physical scan button on the printer, I get a message

Re: VDSL modem recommendation

2018-06-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 7 Jun 2018, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: About TD-W9980, I have it, and I was happy with at first, but not so much any more, TP-LINK dose not publish any fimware updates for it, and the WRT support is defiantly not for common users. good to know. Are these the only reasons why you're

Re: VDSL modem recommendation

2018-06-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 7 Jun 2018, ik wrote: I just bought a router actually named VR600 of TP-LINK, and it works great even on vectoring for example. The VR600 seems to have the Broadcom chips, like the 9970/9977. https://www.tp-link.com/au/products/details/cat-15_Archer-VR600.html I think that if I were

VDSL modem recommendation

2018-06-07 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi everyone, I'm in the market for a VDSL modem, and after looking at various options, I'm unsure which I should buy. So I thought I'd ask here for help/recommendations. Last year, I posted to the list about ISP recommendations. As part of that discussion, I was sent a link to a site

Re: Internet recommendations

2017-07-18 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Thanks everyone for your recommendations, both on list and off. I really appreciate them all. Firstly, it seems Unlimited is not available in our area, so that's no longer a consideration. We contacted Bezeq today about their offerings, and they mentioned a new business-class service

Internet recommendations

2017-07-16 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, This could get a bit lengthy, so please bare with me. Also, there is a direct connection to Linux if you read far enough. We are moving house in two weeks and have the opportunity to change ISP and infrastructure providers. I'm hoping you all can help us decide who to go with.

Re: router randomly dropping connections

2016-06-09 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Anything in the router's logs? Geoff. > On 9 Jun 2016, at 1:22 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > > Hi there, > > Yesterday my Level One router started to drop connections and regaining its > sanity after > a few seconds, then dropping everything again: > > A ping to a machine

Re: More pieces of the IPv6 puzzle (Re: ISP with native ipv6 in isarael)

2016-01-29 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Amos Shapira wrote: Does anyone here have experience with public IPv6 in the cloud (AWS/DigitalOcean/Google, in decreasing order of preference)? Regarding AWS, the word seems to be that the only way you can make an EC2 instance available via IPv6 is to put a loadbalancer

Re: where to buy a raspberry Pi?

2015-12-08 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Two years ago, I bought mine from lion.co.il. I can't read the site (my Hebrew is extremely poor), but they appear to still sell it. When I bought it, I got everything I needed - board, case, power supply, memory card, etc. I do remember writing my own image, but I needed one that

Re: Problems getting PCTV 292E working

2015-09-20 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, Geoff Shang wrote: I do note that it doesn't appear to have loaded firmware from either the a20, a30 or b40 firmware files. Not sure how to make this happen. I tried what appear to be three different versions of the b40 firmware. https://github.com/OpenELEC/dvb-firmware

Problems getting PCTV 292E working

2015-09-20 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Thought I'd post here as I know a number of you have played with DVB devices. I'm currently in Scotland. I bought a PCTV Tripplestick 292E (http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCTV_Systems_tripleStick_T2_(292e)) to watch local free-to-air TV (aka Freeview). I'm running Debian

Re: Bezeq Ruter

2015-04-12 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: Personally I always insist on Bezeq giving me their simple modem and use a decent router of my choosing (obviously vetted for OpenWRT support and specs) for WiFi etc (the modem ends up being a bridge device about whose fw etc I don't care as much).

OT: Invoice sites in English

2015-01-14 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Please forgive the offtopic post, but I figure someone here would know. I was recently told by my new accountant that I need to provide invoices ina form the Israeli government will approve, and not as text files as I've been doing so far (hey I'm a traditionalist). They pointed me to

Recommendations for drive recovery

2014-12-21 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, We have a 500 GB external USB drive that's about 5 or so years old (can't remember exactly when we got it). It's now not spinning up propperly and we figure its days are numbered. Much of what is on it has not been backed up anywhere else (yes, I know). Is there somewhere I can

Re: How do I debug this (mailman)?

2014-10-13 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 10 Oct 2014, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I'm trying to set up mailman on a new host (transferring my VPS to a new machine). This is running Debian. Mailman is set up, shows up in the web interface. I transferred the mailing list. I'm trying to send myself a password reminder, and

Re: Running a script for email received

2014-08-12 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, Ori Idan wrote: I am trying to run a script when an email is received on my server. I tried what described here: http://blog.thecodingmachine.com/content/triggering-php-script-when-your-postfix-server-receives-mail But it invoked the script for all mails not mail to a

Re: self mail hosting

2014-06-08 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, We use a VPS for this. This is much easier than trying to do it on an ISP-hosted IP address/setup and is likely to remain so. It is worth checking that the IP address you get for a VPS isn't on any DNSBLs before you set it up. Geoff. ___

Re: self mail hosting

2014-06-08 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: Slightly OT, but if I went for a VPS for my mail I'd probably want them to be outside of US jurisdition, are these? US jurisdiction is something that is likely to change with the wind and also probably is yet to be fully tested in court. But

Re: NTP

2014-05-04 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Thanks everyone for your responses. On Fri, 2 May 2014, Shlomi Fish wrote: I've had a similar problem on my laptop and I solved it by running ntpdate -u (Where -u tells it to use the unprivileged port which is also used by the -d flag which worked) instead of a regular ntpdate. I'm

NTP

2014-05-01 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, We have an array of devices and computers. Two Linux machines, a win7 box, an iMac, a Macbook Pro, an iPad, an iPad Mini, two iPods, three iPhones and two Nexus 7s. We have Internet service from Bezeqint via Bezeq DSL. We got a new router in February, which will become relevant

Re: galgallatz without flash

2014-02-07 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 7 Feb 2014, geoffrey mendelson wrote: It's not. It's an MP3 stream alright, but it's a FLASH ONLY MP3 stream. Mplayer2 says: Detected file format: Apple HTTP Live Streaming format (libavformat) and further down says that it's an AAC codec. Geoff.

Re: Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

2014-01-06 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Shlomi Fish wrote: P.S: another thing that annoys me about Debian is the fact that apt-get -y dist-upgrade still sometimes halts the installation process to ask me questions and prompts. This is a big misfeature and I wonder if there's a way to make apt-get completely

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-07 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Apologies for not reading the rest of my mail but I wanted to answer this. On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Amichay P. K. wrote: Will the Israeli winter clock changes have any effect in linux? Do you consider it safer to change the location to Greece? http://www.themarker.com/technation/1.2111316

Re: Debian Oldstable and Ubuntu 12.04 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

2013-09-07 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Omer Zak wrote: I checked the timezone in two Linux machines. One of them is Debian Squeeze (which is now OldStable), and the other is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (12.04.3 LTS, Precise Pangolin - running in a virtual machine). I found to my horror that the timezone definitions in them

Re: AUTO: Joel Nider is out of the office (returning 01/09/2013)

2013-08-16 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, Omer Zak wrote: Can someone please remind everyone to exclude mailing lists from their GONE scripts, Or tell them to ignore messages with the Precedence: list header included, which any self-respecting vacation implementation should already do? Geoff.

Re: [OT] Troubleshooting Bezeq Int'l problems

2013-01-27 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: That sounds 100% like an Anti-Virus Gateway messing with your traffic, did you request this service? uh no. Curious to know why you think this. I'm not saying you're wrong of course. Geoff. ___

Re: A bad idea? Daisy-chaining modem and router with the same ip numbers

2013-01-26 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Steve G. wrote: if I take a modem that runs the LAN as 192.168.1.1, and plug into one of its ports a wireless router ALSO running as 192.168.1.1, would I bring down the Internet or cause other types of horrible harm? The Internet at large wouldn't be affected, but you'd

OT: Bezeq's wireless sharing scheme

2012-09-06 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Please excuse the off-topic post but I figured someone here would probably know. We have a Bezeq NGN router. Bezeq now has a scheme (the name of which I can't remember) where you can sacrifice a meg of your bandwidth for use by other Bezeq customers in exchange for said access to other

Pay and Taxes

2012-08-16 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Sorry for posting this here. I've seen people post about work matters before, but if it's felt to be too far off-topic, feel free to reply privately. A friend of mine is working for a US-based start-up and wants to employ me. Simply put, they need more hands. I would be doing various

Re: how to redirect in bash+crontab

2012-07-24 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I would be curious to know how recent versions of SuSE/debian/ubuntu/*BSD/Mac OS X/whatever implement /dev/stderr. Debian 6.0 (current stable): lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 18 16:37 /dev/stderr - /proc/self/fd/2 lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Jul 24

Re: jobnet from linux

2012-05-31 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Well, I guess that could make sense - your browser (I am not familiar with Iceweasel is unbranded firefox. Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Israeli website on Linux: beer-sheva.muni.il

2012-01-25 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Dotan Cohen wrote: I note that the Linux machine is connecting with Bezeq Beinleumi and the Windows machine with Hot (neighbour's wifi, with permission). Those who can connect, which ISP (not infrastructure) are you using? Those who cannot connect, which ISP are you using?

Re: email alias issue

2011-07-19 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, ik wrote: 2011/7/19 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com Hi, I have a weird issue with /etc/aliases I've setup the root to send emails to my email (h...@benhamo.org) and ran the newaliases command to rebuild the aliases db file. I've restarted sendmail. And yet, sendmail

Re: email alias issue

2011-07-19 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, ik wrote: Yes, DON'T work with sendmail rant I really *hate* these sorts of non-answers. They don't help at all with the immediate problem and only really serve to annoy the person asking the question. Yes, I realise that in this case the questioner ended up taking

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Oracle's alternative to Skype is? Apple's is? Apple's is Facetime, but they've got a *long* way to go before they match Skype for features IMHO. Oh and the whole not running on anything other than an Apple OS thing. Geoff.

Can't find uploaded files

2011-05-13 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, This one has me *really* stumped. A user uploaded some files via FTP to a server running ProFTPd. Now if one logs into the FTP server, one can see the files that have been uploaded. But nothing else can. I can't see them at the shell and I also tried writing a PHP code fragment to

Re: Can't find uploaded files

2011-05-13 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, OK, I discovered the problem. It was a problem with chroot and a symlink. Don't know why I didn't see the files in the wrong place before but I've found them now. Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

SYN flooding

2011-05-11 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I last week set up a VPS that we're using to run a little Internet radio station using Icecast and a handful of other stuff. I've done this before and have even done so professionally, and I've never had to deal with this. Yesterday and today at specific times, I found myself unable to

Re: SYN flooding

2011-05-11 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 11 May 2011, Shachar Shemesh wrote: This might not be SYN attack at all. This might be just packets arriving too fast to be handled. Could it be that during those times that the attack is arriving on something particularly interesting is on, and the number of listeners spikes up, and

Re: Linux has won!

2011-04-03 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Steve G. wrote: FWIW, I have machines running dual win7/ubuntu. I use windows for one thing only - managing podcasts on iPads with iTunes (seems that Apple has Windows software, but not Linux (maybe this is how they repay Windows for the investment when Apple was going down

Re: .htaccess files on apache2 + MySQL

2011-03-04 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Uri Even-Chen wrote: OK, I setup file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default , but it's still not working. I can't log into /admin , and http://www.speedy2000.net/uri/en is Not Found / The requested URL /uri/en was not found on this server.. I used

Re: mail issues questions

2011-03-01 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Most people don't complain on spam. If some people complain, most likely that it is spam and nobody wants to receive it. True, but you shouldn't blacklist an entire server's mail on the basis of one person's complaint without any human intervention.

Re: mail issues questions

2011-02-28 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Yahoo and Hotmail are very important. Why did you set up SPF and DKIM? SPF and DKIM are technologies which should make it more likely that your mail will be accepted, not less. SPF seeks to define which servers are authorised to send Email for a

Networking: How to add another router

2011-02-13 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I find myself with the need to connect 5 ethernet devices to 4 available ports. I'm running an ADSL modem/router with a 192.168.2.x network (for historical reasons) and have allocated static addresses to all of the static devices, and a pool of DHCP addresses for devices which ask for

Re: Networking: How to add another router

2011-02-13 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Thanks to everyone for your answers. On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, shimi wrote: Take the un-used router; Go into its configuration; Disable the Internal DHCP server; Verify that the router does not have an IP address which already belongs to any other device in your LAN (if it does, change it to

Re: Networking: How to add another router

2011-02-13 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Gabor Szabo wrote: I probably misunderstand the whole problem, wouldn't a HUB or a switch solve that? It would. However, I only have a router and it seems like a bit of a waste to buy a 4/8/16 port switch to accommodate only one more device. Geoff.

Re: Networking: How to add another router

2011-02-13 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Michael Tewner wrote: Shimi's solution will work - use a cross-over cable, though, in order to connect the switches together. hmm. Is there an easy way to tell a crossover cable from a straight one? I've never really had to worry about it before except in one specific

Re: Networking: How to add another router

2011-02-13 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Michael Tewner wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Michael Tewner tew...@gmail.com wrote: Hypothetically, you should be able to connect multiple computers to the same network cable - that is, wire 2 connectors, in series, at one end. This would give you a hub on that

Re: IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Thanks for the links, I listened to the entire lecture. I understand that Google and Facebook still haven't enabled IPv6 on their main websites. This appears to be the case. http://ipv6.google.com/ doesn't work for me. Well it only has an IPv6

Re: IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, geoffrey mendelson wrote: Possibly never, but at least for a long time. The current DNS system is IPv4 only, but serves both IPv4 and IPv6. If you have your DNS set up to include IPv6, the information will be available, but the client needs to be able to interpet it.

Re: IPV6?

2011-02-03 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Not sure about the status for Israeli ISPs, but at least one is registered at ISOC-IL's IIX as peering also IPv6: http://isoc.org.il/iix/2x_list.html Very interesting on a number of levels. I don't recall seeing anything about IPv6 in either of

Re: The ADM user/group

2011-01-24 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Nadav Har'El wrote: That being said, on my system (Fedora 14), I don't see any file with group adm, or any real user with this group, so it appears it isn't used at all. Interesting. On my systems, one Debian Lenny and one Debian Squeeze, I see numerous files in

Moving mail

2010-09-23 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Thought I'd tap into the collective whisdom to help solve this one. A few friends and I run a Linode VPS running Debian stable. We're using Postfix for our MTA, with virtual mailboxes in Maildir format. We offer Squirrelmail as one of our webmail platforms. Another friend has a

Re: Moving mail

2010-09-23 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Moish wrote: Connect to the old mail system, download the messages to local storage, connect to the new system using imap and then move the mail from local folders to remote folders. I've done it with Thunderbird but any decent client would do it. I recall that there were

Re: linux games for kids

2010-09-20 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, sara fink wrote: I have a friend which has a windows machine. She wants some games for her 4 years old child. Since I don't know anything about games but being aware that her pc could become filled with viruses, adware, and other malware, I thought to put for her virtual

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 Geoff Shang
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Lior Kaplan wrote: http://www.doom.co.il/blog/?p=333 Any chance of a quick executive summary for us Hebrew impaired? Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

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 Geoff Shang
Hi, Thanks for the translations. Interesting and worthwhile, though I agree that it doesn't exactly answer Geoffrey's question. Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

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

2010-06-10 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Oron Peled wrote: - Or, you've read the file, but it's ARJ compressed and nobody can read them any longer. http://arj.sourceforge.net Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Which Xawtv frequencty table to use

2010-05-29 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I have an SAA7134-based analogue TV capture card that I'd like to try to use with over-the-air TV signals. Searching hasn't revealed to me which frequency table one should use here, so I thought I'd ask. A .xawtv file with frequencies would be even better (I'm in Raanana), but I'll

Re: ntpdate and Israel local time

2010-05-28 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, As has been said before, the Debian/Ubuntu/etc way to do this is to use tzselect. Copying/linking the desired zone file to /etc/localtime will make it change for the timebeing, but you also need to make sure that /etc/timezone contains the correct timezone specification otherwise your

Re: How do you calculate?

2010-05-20 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Nadav Har'El wrote: For years, I've been wondering: How do other Unix or Linux users do simple calculations? I use `bc -l`. I've been using it for so long now that I can't remember exactly what clued me into needing `-l`, though I have a vague recollection of a friend

Redirecting mail

2010-04-08 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, I've got an interesting problem. I have been forced to stop hosting services for a few people. One of them transferred their DNS and hosting away from me, but stopped checking for new mail on my host long before it stopped arriving. So I now have 203 messages in Maildir format that

Working with Sentos packages

2010-01-26 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I need to do a job on a Sentos system. I'm not used to dealing with RPM-based systems, I'm a Debian man myself, so am wondering what the equivalents of apt-cache search and apt-get install are? This assumes there's an online repository where packages can be installed from.

Re: Working with Sentos packages

2010-01-26 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Ori Berger wrote: rpm == dpkg yum == apt apt-cache search = yum list / yum list | grep apt-get install = yum install thanks to everyone who wrote me about this. I should have remembered yum. When I run something like: yum list |grep -i vorbis I get the

CentOS - libxml and libxslt missmatch

2010-01-26 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, First, apologies for misspelling CentOS. I'm doing some work for a client who wants Icecast installed. The closest thing I could find was an official srpm on icecast.org, but I've hit a problem. I'm getting the following error when trying to build the rpm: /usr/lib/libxslt.so:

Re: CentOS - libxml and libxslt missmatch

2010-01-26 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Did you install the rpmfusion repo? if not, go to http://rpmfusion.org/ - follow the instructions to add that repo. Then do: yum install -y icecast. hmmm. That does look appealing. Do you think this is safe enough to do on a client's system? I see

Re: Looking for a cheap (and relatively reliable) .us/.ca-based SSH/rsync/PHP/Perl 5 web hosting

2010-01-26 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Shlomi Fish wrote: 5. Cheap. Define cheap. Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Strange problem

2010-01-15 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the following which happened to a virtual server that's being used for a project I'm involved with. Geoff. -- Forwarded message -- This isn't the usual sort of crash that we were experiencing with VPSLink; it doesn't seem

Re: Strange problem

2010-01-15 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Amos Shapira wrote: I have no idea how much this is related but we maintain a virtual host with VPSLink and received an e-mail from them about the hosting server being rebooted for maintenance about 13 hours ago. We actually moved off VPSLink, the mention of it there was

Re: Voip (SIP) switch

2010-01-01 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, geoffrey mendelson wrote: What I have is several SIP accounts which I want to integrate into one soft phone. The soft phone will run on MacOS ( I already have it) and the switch will run on UBUNTU, I have a choice of a system running 9.04 and another running 9.10. I can

Re: UltraEdit for Linux: who wants a license discount?

2009-11-07 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: To help support Linux development of commercial apps, I took part in the UltraEdit for Linux beta program. uh. Isn't this trying to sell ice to Eskimos? If I were wanting to write and market a commercial program for LInux, the last thing I'd try is a

Re: hebrew text to speech

2009-11-02 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Itay Donenhirsch wrote: i know of espeak, is there any option to make it talk in hebrew? Not yet. I wrote to the developer of Espeak to ask him about the possibility. The problem is of course that written Hebrew does not include many of the vowel sounds, which means

Re: OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs

2009-10-29 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, I'd like to thank everyone's input on this subject. It has been most educational. The situation was that I was being approached by someone who knew me and knew my work, so was presumably approaching me directly on purpose. The reason why I asked is because I guessed that he had

OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs

2009-10-25 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I've been offered work on a (presumably) one-off project, writing some PHP code to collect data from devices out in the field and store it in a MySQL database, to provide information/updates (as yet not fully specified) back to these devices, and web pages to allow users to track the

The Smith Project and Cold Fusion

2009-10-21 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I might well be in the position of having to administer a site which is written in cold fusion. I've never had to deal with it before. I've been looking around for ways to set it up, and the only thing I've found short of buying Cold Fusion (which I obviously don't want to do) is the

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

2009-10-14 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Ira Abramov wrote: my fellow sysadmins - Nezeq just called one of my client offering an upgrade from 5000/500 to NGN 1/800. They say it only takes a sec as their router is compatible. Is it stable and safe by now? should one make the switch? We recently upgraded from

Re: Adding Wireless to Cable Connection

2009-10-08 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: OK, looks like I can get a Edimax BR6204WG for NIS 160, or a TP-Link TL- WR641G for NIS 130. Anyone want to recommend for against either of these, or suggest something else ? For what it's worth, I've had an Edimax router (can't remember the model

Administering Drupal

2009-09-17 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, I find myself in the position of overseeing a Drupal installation on Ubuntu Server. We're running the 8.04LTS version of Ubuntu with the intention of staying with it until the next LTS release (next year?). The problem I have is that Drupal 6 is not packaged for 8.04. I got around

Looking for Jerusalem DID

2009-08-17 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, I realise this might be off-topic for this list. If it is, feel free to send private replies. I'm in need of an Israeli DID. OUr strong preference is for it to be in Jerusalem. A person in the territories needs to be able to call it and they tell us at a 02 number is a lot cheaper

Re: Looking for Jerusalem DID

2009-08-17 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: I'm in need of an Israeli DID.  OUr strong preference is for it to be in Jerusalem.  A person in the territories needs to be able to call it and they tell us at a 02 number is a lot cheaper for them to call than a 03 number. Have them verify this. I do

Re: Looking for Jerusalem DID

2009-08-17 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Can't help you with the DID, but do note that Skype issued a beta of Skype Asterisk integration and it is free till the end of the month. I have no idea what the taarif would be after that. Oh it's available now? Last time I looked into this (a

Re: Web sites that display ONLY the client IP.

2009-08-08 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, diksbcseanbcsa wrote: Are there web sites that display ONLY the user IP? http://www.showmyip.com/simple/ Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Anti-spam recommendations

2009-07-28 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, I administer a server for a non-profit project. I need to implement an anti-spam solution to cut down on the spam. It is showing signs of getting out of hand and I'd like to put something in place before it does. I'd like something that doesn't take too much maintaining and

Re: Reading RTF files

2009-07-08 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Danny Lieberman wrote: How do I read a Windows RTF file in Hebrew? I don't use the GUI so there may be better solutions, but I use unrtf to convert RTF files to HTML or plain text. Don't know if it supports Hebrew but I guess it'd be easy enough to find out. I don't

Re: where are now ubuntu gutsy repositories ?

2009-04-26 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Lev Olshvang wrote: I need to install kernel headres for Ubuntu gutsy, but gutsy is no more on Canonical servers. Where it goes ? http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list

Urgent: Need help with hardware

2009-04-06 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, I have an important hard drive that may or may not be working, and two computers which I can't get to boot. I need to get this all resolved as it's affecting my ability to work. I'm happy to consider paid assistance at this point. The short version: I've got a drive that has my home

Re: European VPS hosting

2009-04-06 Thread Geoff Shang
also plan to broadcast some live events, most of which will probably ben in Europe to begin with but who knows what will come along. Geoff. - Original Message - From: Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com To: Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com Cc: geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel

Re: European VPS hosting

2009-03-30 Thread Geoff Shang
geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: Have you thought about Miro? It's a product of the Partipatory Culture Foundation and is really intended for Internet TV, but works with Internet Radio. You set up a channel and publish shows. The Miro software automaticly downloads them

Re: European VPS hosting

2009-03-29 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Hope this quoting is clear, I'm not using my regular Email client. Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Geoff, You forgot to mention few things: 1. What is the MAX price that you're willing to pay? hmmm. Wel not a fortune. I think we can probably get what we want for no more than

Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Geoff Shang
Shlomi Fish wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2009 17:45:11 Yotam Rubin wrote: 2. Linux distributions don't work. Even Ubuntu and other mainstream distributions simply do not work. Package testing is poor, and various programs do not integrate with one another. I often find myself having to fix

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was: Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-18 Thread Geoff Shang
Omer Zak wrote: My proposed solution to the problem is to have the Linux-IL old timers volunteer to field gnubies-il questions, according to a schedule. IMHO, this is really overkill. Unless I've fallen of the list recently or some mail is being caught up somewhere, the newbie list seems to

Re: how to MD5 sum a DVD without copying it.

2009-02-11 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, You could make an ISO image to stdout and pipe it to md5sum. This still makes the image of course but it won't take up disc space. I've not actually tried this but it should be possible. Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: Setting up a PBX for Israel-US communication

2009-02-11 Thread Geoff Shang
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: Is 200ms ping time too much for SIP, or is it irrelevant. Very relevant. Callers usually notice roundtrip voice delays of 250ms or more.The recommendation for VoIP is a one way delay of less then 150ms. Anything more will become very noticeable

Re: Setting up a PBX for Israel-US communication

2009-01-31 Thread Geoff Shang
sammy ominsky wrote: Worse than that, asterisk will not work in an OpenVZ VE unless you have access to the underlying host to install the zaptel kernel modules. Is this the case now? I know is used to be the case that you only needed zaptel if you were going to use a device that needed it

ISPs

2008-10-28 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I've only been in Israel for 18 months. My wife and I once again find ourselves in the market for an ISP. I work in Internet radio and have to have decent throughput to the US on non-standard ports. 012 and Bezeqint Standard seem to prioritise standard ports and cripple others, 012

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread Geoff Shang
Shlomo Solomon wrote: My assumption is that I could still use the same router after moving to HOT. I would just have to unplug the ADSL line and plug the HOT modem into one of the ethernet ports on the router. Am I correct? well if you want to still use the router as a router, I'd think that

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