Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-19 Thread Micha Silver
Yuval Hager wrote: On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Dave Stav wrote: Dear list members, We are looking for a webmail application that has good support in Hebrew messages (encoding and ltr/rtl). So far, it seems to me that roundcube-webmail is the best candidate, but also considering:

Re: data loss after power failure

2009-08-15 Thread Micha Silver
shimi wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com mailto:amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/14 Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il mailto:mi...@arava.co.il: shimi wrote: Well, that's how UPS's are supposed to be used. In addition to Wake

Re: data loss after power failure

2009-08-14 Thread Micha Silver
shimi wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il mailto:mi...@arava.co.il wrote: We suffered some annoying file and directory corruption on a CentOS 5.3 64 bit server two days ago after a long power failure - long enough to drain the UPS battery

data loss after power failure

2009-08-13 Thread Micha Silver
We suffered some annoying file and directory corruption on a CentOS 5.3 64 bit server two days ago after a long power failure - long enough to drain the UPS battery, with several short spurts of power until it finally stabilized. Files appeared as directories, directories turned into files,

Re: Fwd: Flash based games not working

2009-08-11 Thread Micha Silver
of wejew.com http://wejew.com and they said that they use firefox 3.5 (on windows) and don't see any problems. Micha, can you post direct URL to the problematic sheshbesh game on the walla.co.il http://walla.co.il site please? -- Arie On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 08:33, Micha Silver mi

Re: Flash based games not working

2009-08-10 Thread Micha Silver
security problems: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/403825 Arie: Thanks for the tip, but it didn't help. Cheers, Micha -- Arie On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 08:33, Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il mailto:mi...@arava.co.il wrote: Some of the younger members

Flash based games not working

2009-08-09 Thread Micha Silver
Some of the younger members of the family play flash games (sheshbesh) on Walla's site. On Ubuntu 8.10 and 8.04 this worked well (flashplugin-nonfree). The 8.10 machine was upgraded to 9.04 and still the site worked OK. But recently, after some other upgrades, the game no longer loads- just

Re: Reading RTF files

2009-07-10 Thread Micha Silver
Ehud Karni wrote: I use `catdoc' which works quiet good (for both *doc and *rtf). `catdoc' is available as a package for Centos and Debian. Here is a script I use: catdoc -d8859-8 $1 | \ fribidi --charset ISO8859-8 --width 90 --rtl ${1}_h_txt nohup xmessage \ -background yellow

Re: Reading RTF files

2009-07-09 Thread Micha Silver
Danny Lieberman wrote: Hetz It's not just the economic illogic of buying Cross Over 8 to support a free Microsoft product - which is an amazing idea in it's own right. I personally think it's pathetic to have to install an emulator to read an RTF file which is about as simple as it

Re: Reading RTF files

2009-07-08 Thread Micha Silver
Geoff Shang wrote: 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

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-20 Thread Micha Silver
Noam Rathaus wrote: I have X11 crashing when viewing DVD movies, beside that nothing special. (We have 6 Ubuntu installations, 1 Kubuntu) On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Meir Michanie me...@riunx.com mailto:me...@riunx.com wrote: Hi List, I decided to move to fedora after using

Re: Linux Video Contest

2009-04-13 Thread Micha Silver
Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi, Of course I meant "won first place" and not "one" Thank you for spotting that. In any case, Amitay deserves to be #1. The clip is outstanding. -- Micha On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: one first place.

Re: DWG Drawings

2009-03-08 Thread Micha Silver
Dotan Cohen wrote: I am trying to open DWG drawings on my Ubuntu, but the online solutions are problematic to say the least, either to run it under Wine which doesn't work for me - the drawings don't show up (they do show up on Windows) Anyone knows a native solution to open DWG? I

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

2009-02-17 Thread Micha Silver
Shlomi Fish wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2009 14:23:23 Dotan Cohen wrote: Compiling a Kernel was a new thing in 1995, when I started doing it. Now it's usually not necessary for the average user to do, and IMHO saying that you had to do it to access a device would scare

Re: israelt TV online (again)

2009-01-05 Thread Micha Silver
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/1/5 Dvir Volk dvir...@gmail.com: from personal knowledge about the way stuff works there, I doubt this will change anything. Really? Walla Mail is now usable in firefox, and a few others. If you know of Israeli websites that do not work in Firefox, please

Re: Firestarter firewall problem

2008-12-12 Thread Micha Silver
    0.0.0.0/0 Thanks David 2008/12/11 Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il David Ronkin wrote: This is second message - no suggestions on the below problem, pls help... Can you post the results of : $ sudo iptables -t filter --line-numbers

Re: Firestarter firewall problem

2008-12-11 Thread Micha Silver
David Ronkin wrote: This is second message - no suggestions on the below problem, pls help... Can you post the results of : $ sudo iptables -t filter --line-numbers -nvL OUTPUT and $ sudo iptables -t filter --line-numbers -nvL OUTBOUND (firestarter creates this chain) Especially the lines

RTL issue in OOo 3.0

2008-11-05 Thread Micha Silver
It seems that an RTL problem has crept back into OpenOffice.org 3.0. The opening and closing parentheses around hebrew text get reversed in some situations: when importing a Word doc, and when displaying an Impress slide. There are reports of spaces between hebrew and english text getting

Re: Using SSH keys without havint to type a passphrase

2008-02-17 Thread Micha Silver
the user you're connecting as. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ll .ssh/authorized_keys -rw-r- 1 mike mike 3424 Aug 6 2007 .ssh/authorized_keys erez. -- Micha Silver Arava Development Co, Sapir, Israel tel: +972(8)6592270 cell: +972(52)3665918

RE: Recommendations for incremental backups

2008-02-13 Thread Micha Silver
-Original Message- From: Geoff Shang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Shang Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:07 PM To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Recommendations for incremental backups Hi, I'd like some suggestions on how to handle incremental backups. I manage

Re: exporting mounted DVD iso?

2007-11-25 Thread Micha Silver
PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This mail was sent via Kinneret Mail-SeCure System. -- Micha Silver Arava Development Co +972-8-6592270

Re: openstreetmap

2007-10-25 Thread Micha Silver
Amos Shapira wrote: On 25/10/2007, *Meir Michanie* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I uploaded some tracks to openstreetmap and I having dificulties to use its interface. If anyone can contact me it would help me to load some tracks and hopefully help

Re: Israeli anti-spam services?

2007-08-23 Thread Micha Silver
? kinneret http://www.kinneret.co.il They use PineApp. Works well, and their support is very Linux friendly. -- Micha -- Micha Silver Arava Development Co +972-8-6592270 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Re: help with DNS?

2007-08-03 Thread Micha Silver
Dan Bar Dov wrote: Well, seems like setting the ISP DNS in resolv.conf did the trick, however, the dhcp-client script changes resolv.conf on boot. In ubuntu there's a way to configure static entries that the dhcp-client uses, I cannot find anything similar in FC6, Ideas? Try putting in

Re: [SUMMARY] Current status of Israeli ISPs

2007-07-09 Thread Micha Silver
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:34:17AM +0300, Mike Tewner wrote: ISP'ing, at least in the US *can* be done on a smallish scale - on the order of a few hundred customers. But not in Israel. Things are much different here. Geoff. It's done in Israel

Re: Keeping iptables rules across reboots on Debian (lenny) ?

2007-07-03 Thread Micha Silver
Oded Arbel wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 21:16 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: I think this is really bad. The only good thing in the above document is that one of the tools suggested in the first section is shorewall which is a brilliant firewall management script and ever since I started

FOSS in Canadian schools

2007-06-06 Thread Micha Silver
Some school districts in British Columbia, CA have made a full switch to LTSP. http://applications.linux.com/applications/07/05/25/1536219.shtml = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the

Re: OpenVPN server in a mixed (windows unix) enviroment

2007-05-02 Thread Micha Silver
Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi, I am having difficulties getting both my UNIX VPN clients and my Windows VPN clients to use the same server.conf file, is this even possible or do I need two separate VPN servers one using TAP while the other uses TUN? We use a single server.conf file with the

Re: strange behaviour of montage (imageMagick)?

2007-04-29 Thread Micha Silver
Maxim Veksler wrote: On 4/29/07, Avraham Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, Answering my own question: The use of the construct for i in .., when the order of execution is important is the mistake. I'll have to rewrite the script. Nothing like a good night's sleep, to discover

Recent Hebrew Live CD

2007-03-11 Thread Micha Silver
As part of the Safe Internet Day we'd like to hand out to school kids a live CD with hebrew support built in. Does anyone know if the efforts with the Kinneret live CD, or Hebuntu are being updated? What's our best option today for a LiveCD with a hebrew interface out of the box? Is anyone

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Micha Silver
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Peter, I've noticed these problems also. Seems to come and go. We are also using Actcom. - yba Actcom was purchased by Bezeq Ben-leumi. Maybe this is the result?? = To unsubscribe, send

Moodle in hebrew

2007-01-16 Thread Micha Silver
Just installed moodle with the hebrew language pack (from the moodle site). I see that the RTL is not perfect and some strings are not translated yet. Is anyone still working on this? (I seem to remember improving the translation was a candidate for the Hamakor prize some years ago).

Re: Picture spams - again.

2006-11-27 Thread Micha Silver
spam from some trojan or whatever... I don't know how long this improvement will hold out, but so far I'm pleased. Cheers, Micha -- Micha Silver Arava Development Co +972-8-6592270 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

ktouch in hebrew

2006-11-06 Thread Micha Silver
Everyone's familiar with the excellent touch typing program, ktouch. In earlier versions (1.4.x), bidi worked fine: You could choose a hebrew keyboard, and load a hebrew 'lesson' (I got a good one from Asaf Gordon), and type away. In recent versions - 1.5.x -the bidi part got broken: the

Re: disabling ipv6 on debian

2006-08-10 Thread Micha Silver
Baruch Even wrote: Diego Iastrubni wrote: The first work around, is to set the DNS server of the clients, not to the modem but to the DNS servers of the ISP. Since the DHCP lease of the clients ends after X time, the clients get once again the DNS of the modem, and the problem comes back.

Re: Israel map site that work with firefox?

2006-07-26 Thread Micha Silver
Shlomi Loubaton wrote: Atlasct is very good. 2006/7/25, Micha Silver [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.freemap.co.il/ Works with firefox, and what's more, it runs FOSS web mapping software. It might run FOSS and it's even community powered, but the map

Re: Israel map site that work with firefox?

2006-07-26 Thread Micha Silver
Shlomi Loubaton wrote: 2006/7/26, Micha Silver [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mapping software is easy, the problem is that creating map information is VERY expensive Seems to me like a legitimate economic model employing open source software. I didn't say what he's doing is not legit, but I

Re: Israel map site that work with firefox?

2006-07-26 Thread Micha Silver
hate to see Hizballah choosing its targets from our free map... If arutz 2 can user Google Earth to show Bint Jbel, then Hizballah can surely do the same to find Haifa. -- Micha Silver Arava Development Co +972-8-6592270

RE: Israel map site that work with firefox?

2006-07-25 Thread Micha Silver
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kfir Lavi Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:14 PM To: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Israel map site that work with firefox? Hi, I have problems viewing map sites in Israel like www.emap.co.il. Is there a

ktouch in hebrew

2006-06-30 Thread Micha Silver
We've been using ktouch (on FC3) for a while with a hebrew typing lesson I cobbled together. As soon as the hebrew lesson was loaded the cursor in the typing row shifted to the right. I did a yum update (I have kde-redhat in my yum.conf list, in addition to the regular stuff), and after that

Re: ktouch in hebrew

2006-06-30 Thread Micha Silver
Diego Iastrubni wrote: ביום שישי, 30 ביוני 2006, 17:25, כתבת: We've been using ktouch (on FC3) for a while with a hebrew typing lesson I cobbled together. As soon as the hebrew lesson was loaded the cursor in the typing row shifted to the right. I did a yum update (I have kde-redhat in my

Linus Torvalds on CNN

2006-05-22 Thread Micha Silver
Anyone see the broadcasted interview? http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/05/18/global.office.linustorvalds/index.html From the posted transcript of the interview, nothing new was said, but the fact that CNN is again addressing the question of open source, and its business model is surely

DMCA

2006-04-12 Thread Micha Silver
Here's an interesting, scary new twist resulting form the Digital Millennium Copyright Act http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/396 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message

File upload application

2005-12-04 Thread Micha Silver
Does anyone know of an opensource web-based file upload/download application (similar to http://www.yoursendit.com)? To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command

Re: OOo hebrew UI in Debian (was Re: culmus 0.10 on Debian Sarge?)

2005-04-26 Thread Micha Silver
Diego Iastrubni wrote: While we at this... I am using OpenOffice Hebrew UI and I am having relly ugly redrawing issues, I opend a menu, and it does not get cleard, I need to minimize OOo and restore it to get a clean view of my document. I can only reproduce it on Hebrew UI, not in English. It

[Fwd: Re: [CentOS] Manual Paritioning with fdisk]

2005-04-12 Thread Micha Silver
On the CentOS mailing list, a poster suggested spliting swap space into two separate partitions on two drives. Next someone else commented that such a scheme would cause a crash if one of the disks with part of the swap space died. A third poster answered that it would, and that swap space

MS Exchange replacement

2005-01-23 Thread Micha Silver
access. Clients are all windows, using Outlook. But if a reasonable web-based replacement in hebrew was available, I think we'd consider it. Thanks, -- Micha -- Micha Silver Arava Development Co tel: (972) 08-6592270 cell: 052-3665918

RE: rant: changing color depth

2005-01-23 Thread Micha Silver
This is not a real problem of Linux... So you configure it once and then don't touch it later. Configure it *how*!? That's exactly my problem - I couldn't find an easy way to configure the color depth. On Fedora systems run: redhat-config-xfree86 (or system-config-xfree86 on

Re: Setting up a Router (I tthink!)

2005-01-02 Thread Micha Silver
Omer Zak wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Daniel Feiglin wrote: Hi! I need to do the following: Internet - ADSL (10.0.0.138) - LAN Card (10.0.0.100) - Linux Box (= router?)- LAN Card (192.168.1.100) - Hub - Win 2K, Win98, and Linux clients with fixed addresses like 192.168.1.101 etc. I would like the

Re: ARGG!!!!

2004-10-21 Thread Micha Silver
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:05:18PM +0200, Ely Levy wrote: Just when things started to look good Just when I thought someone in the goverment finally has some brain I get to rid a story like that: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2992659,00.html Tell me it doesn't get

RE: Network problems with FC2 [Solved?]

2004-10-18 Thread Micha Silver
-Original Message- From: Andre Baryudin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 11:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Network problems with FC2 [Solved?] On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:47:48PM +0100, Andre Baryudin wrote: Looks like my problem was

Re: DNS Q

2004-08-13 Thread Micha Silver
Canaan Surfing Admin section wrote: This sound great, though i need to upgrade to bind 9 for this Yes, but bind, with its security problems should be kept updated anyway. --Micha = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS Q

2004-08-12 Thread Micha Silver
Ben-Nes Michael wrote: Hi All I want to resolv a host, for example host.domain.com twice When im part of internal Network ( 192.168.0.0/24) host.domain.com will resolv to a local address ( 192.168.0.10 ) When im on the internet host.domain.com will resolv to a real IP What is the easiest way