Re: Enabling powersave for an lcd screen

2007-02-04 Thread Tzahi Fadida
The problem is not to turn the screen blank but to get it to go to standby (powersave). I tried: xset +dpms xset dpms force off xset dpms force standby xset dpms force suspend and they only blank the screen. This is why i think acpi/apm are required to enable the lcd screen LG flatron l1910s to

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Peter
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Michael Vasiliev, from the post of Thu, 01 Feb: What reason do you have to believe that your identity is worth stealing? If you are truly paranoid I suggest two things: 1. Change your online id to single-letter strings of just one letter,

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sunday 04 February 2007 08:07, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Michael Vasiliev, from the post of Thu, 01 Feb: What reason do you have to believe that your identity is worth stealing? Ira, some people are paranoid, don't look for logic, it is a mental thing. --Ariel -- Ariel Biener

Re: Enabling powersave for an lcd screen

2007-02-04 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Cancel my last. Adding Option DPMS to my monitor in xorg did the trick. Section Monitor identifier L1910S Option DPMS ... It seems that xorg and kde are not fully synced with their settings. The same thing happened, for example, when i wanted to switch keyboard maps between english

Re: Double quotation marks in Unicode Hebrew

2007-02-04 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
According to the Unicode standard (see http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/BidiMirroring.txt ), the 2 characters at 201C and 201D are mirroring mates, meaning that within a right-to-left context, 201C should be displayed as Right Double Quotation Mark and 201D should be displayed as Left Double

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Peter wrote: 3. Digitally sign your email. Not like the peasants do by adding four lines of gpg crud, put it in a custom header instead. Do NOT, under any circumstances, adopt a policy involving digitally signing each and every outgoing email. According to the law in Israel (and in other

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Ariel, That quote should be attributed to *me* not Ira. Ira was quoting and replying to me. More to the point - I know that some people are paranoid. I do not think that Random Penguin is paranoid, just silly. - yba On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Ariel Biener wrote: Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007

Re: crappy audio

2007-02-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/02/07, Diego Iastrubni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system is Kubuntu 6.10 running a 2.6.17 kernel, the system in a Lenovo 3000 N100. I'd try to concentrate on the exact sound card version and lookup alsa-project.org for its entry. Also the alsa users mailing list is a VERY friendly

Hosting Recommendations - Take 2

2007-02-04 Thread David Suna
I sent this to the list once but only got one response for a service that is very expensive. Using hosting services outside of Israel I can find shared hosting packages as described below for $5 - $10 per month. Does anyone know of Israel based hosting services that can compete with that? I

Re: crappy audio

2007-02-04 Thread Oded Arbel
--=-wkGA1l+GZW+h4eHZNhSD Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 22:45 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: On 03/02/07, Diego Iastrubni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system is Kubuntu 6.10 running a 2.6.17 kernel, the system in a Lenovo

Re: Hosting Recommendations - Take 2

2007-02-04 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 14:20 +0200, David Suna wrote: I sent this to the list once but only got one response for a service that is very expensive. Using hosting services outside of Israel I can find shared hosting packages as described below for $5 - $10 per month. Does anyone know of

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Peter
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Peter wrote: 3. Digitally sign your email. Not like the peasants do by adding four lines of gpg crud, put it in a custom header instead. Do NOT, under any circumstances, adopt a policy involving digitally signing each and every outgoing email.

Re: Hosting Recommendations - Take 2

2007-02-04 Thread David Suna
One hosting service that I have started using recently that provides way more storage and bandwidth than I listed below is http://www.eboundhost.com/ (see http://www.eboundhost.com/hosting/shared/linux.php). They got very good customer reviews in the sites that I checked. I have been

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
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Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Peter wrote: You mean *gasp* m$ mail agents which produce a message id that uniquely identifies the sender, the machine, the time, and the message are ok, but not a signature ? Yes. That's what I mean. According to the law in Israel (and in other countries too), digitally signing an email is

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Sunday February 4 2007, Peter wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Michael Vasiliev, from the post of Thu, 01 Feb: What reason do you have to believe that your identity is worth stealing? If you are truly paranoid I suggest two things: Ok, I am, after all, only human.

Re: crappy audio

2007-02-04 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Hi Oded, I can confirm the unpligging issue you describe. It's a known fact (Hetz already mentioned it on this list a few weeks ago). According to this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/Lenovo3000N100_0768 There is a patch which fixes it. I cannot confirm if it works, and not say

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Peter
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: find fun stuff. You underestimate them. You are just wasting bandwidth. Actually I hope 'they' will bother to break the 'code'. Because the plaintext tag says 'fuzz=...' (and it used to say 'pigbait'). Sorry I have fun memories from other

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Peter
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: YTfFYyyfDDk676 (different from time to time of course). And this will help how? If there is a harnivore system somewhere triggering on nontext codes it will start wasing serious time and producing huger reports for its masters if 5% of email

Fwd: Mandriva 2007 mirror is not up to date

2007-02-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 4, 2007 2:48 PM Subject: Re: Mandriva 2007 mirror is not up to date To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2/4/07, Shlomo Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess the subject says it all Hi Shlomo! The best way to

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 05/02/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not underestimating anybody but the current rules seem to indicate that all mail is read and sifted through for 'clues'. This is technically feasible. Pumping large amounts of random numbers and nondeterministic behavior into these channels is a

RE: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Micha Feigin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 9:10 PM To: Shachar Shemesh Cc: ILUG Subject: Re: ID theft (offtipicish) On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: YTfFYyyfDDk676 (different from

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Peter wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: YTfFYyyfDDk676 (different from time to time of course). And this will help how? If there is a harnivore system somewhere triggering on nontext codes it will start wasing serious time and producing huger reports for its masters if

Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Peter
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Amos Shapira wrote: On 05/02/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not underestimating anybody but the current rules seem to indicate that all mail is read and sifted through for 'clues'. This is technically feasible. Pumping large amounts of random numbers and

RE: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Peter
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Micha Feigin wrote: If you think that this is going to bother any semi intelligent system then you are not only paranoid, you are a very naïve paranoid. It won't spend an extra millisecond or produce an extra line in the report for whatever master it has. I can build a

RE: ID theft (offtipicish)

2007-02-04 Thread Peter
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Micha Feigin wrote: It's a very useless countermeasure I love it when several list members chip in to say how 'useless' a measure is. Thanks for the feedback. Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL