OT: Invitation to help improve Israeli internet [mybroadband]
Hi Linux-il Friends One of the things that I've always felt missing since moving to Israel has been the lack of a place to discuss Israeli internet. Depending on the problem, I usually either use Google and land up on any number of local websites (usually only vaguely related to the topic at hand), or in my case and for the same reasons, I usually post an OT post here on this list, since the people here are the exactly the informed and experienced people I want to hear back from. I will explain the rationale further below, but to jump straight to the point, I am (rather ambitiously) starting a bunch of forums on my MyBroadband.co.il site, here http://mybroadband.co.il/forums/ and would love you to be a part of it. So: 1) Please let me know if something like this already exists and I am wasting my time :) 2) Please feel free to add even just links to relevant existing material on other websites. 3) Please feel free to get involved and add your own material -- go wild. 4) Please feel free to invite anyone else who you feel could contribute, but at this point, no regular users (the idea is that if there is interest, we will first build up a collection of good material before inviting regular users -- if relevant) More info: As mentioned before, my main problem is that this kind of info is dispersed all over the Israeli internet, hard to find and usually on irrelevant websites. I've never been able to find a single site that brings all these kind of discussions together, although I admit my limited Hebrew may have stopped me. The idea is based on a website of the same name and same idea in South Africa, where it has been hugely successful. Even to the extent of the ISPs offering special packages to MyBroadband users there, or responding personally on the forum to accusations, etc. This is way more power than the Israeli consumer currently has, where they are basically all tricked into paying the highest possible amount for their internet package, and generally accept many false promises and poor service from their ISP. Beyond that, I'd also love to create an environment where Israeli internet users can help each other, share experiences, etc, etc. I realize this is also very ambitious, especially since I am not a native language Hebrew speaker, but this is something I felt has been lacking for 10 years and no one else has come to address it (that I'm aware of - again, corrent me if I'm wrong). Obviously the key element is community, and hence my invitation for you to get involved. I'm been a member of this mailing list for about 12 years now I think, and many of you have helped me over the years... in case there is some interest in this project, of course members of this list are eligible to be moderators / admins with suitable investment of time and effort. I'd love to hear your thoughts... if possible on the forum itself, since this is OT, although I do think that a bunch of Linux enthusiasts spearheading this kind of project, would be a very good thing for the Israeli Linux community too :) Gadi P.S. There's a lot of old material on the Wiki part of the site (mostly from 2007) which you can ignore. You might remember the Bank W3C compliance page from back then (I guess I should add a Chrome icon to the list... :)). -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 // ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Bank Hapoalim *Business* website in Linux (or alternatives)
Hi I'm about to open a corporate bank account with Poalim, but from looking at their website, https://www.bankhapoalim.biz/, it looks like the online banking requires the use of their "Mini Key", a proprietary USB device which I guess contains an identification key, only lists various Windows versions as supported systems, and I could also guess requires Internet Explorer. I've sent their support address my thoughts on the matter, but since this mailing list usually has better info than support teams, I'd like to know if anyone knows a way around this, or has any recommendations for banks who don't tell companies what software to run if they want access to their own financial information. For the record, my personal account is at Poalim, and that website works great in both Firefox and Chrome. It's just their business website which seems problematic.l Thanks Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Accelerating a server / webapp
Hi, I'm joining this part a bit late but I'll make some comments above and beyond what Nadav mentioned; I'll deal specifically with web application performance. Also besides iostat, you can install a package called iotop, which is like top but instead of io. (But you only really need to do this if you identify a high iowait using regular top...) So assuming the server is all good, here are some things that can speed up web apps (specificaly PHP)... 1) Install an opcode cache! This makes a BIG difference, it means instead of interpretting every PHP file (including every include) on every access, it can compile a single file for each webpage and run that directly. APC is excellent and free, integrates into PHP, and will be effective on applications without any additional work. 2) Using a cache between the PHP app and the database can also speed things up, especially if your site has high load. This requires support in the app itself. APC has such a cache built in. Memcache is another popoular option, and required for a shared cache between multiple servers (it's slower than APC though...) 3) Google Chrome has some amazing speed analysis tools built in. Press ctrl-alt-j and look at for example the 'network tab'. This shows you a graph of where all the page loading is going. It's great to identify bottlenecks and offers advice on how to address the most common ones (e.g. certain pages being forced to load before others can be requested, cache use, etc.) 4) On that last note, client side cache is a big deal. Some default settings might require certain files (images, css, javascript) to be unnecessarily loaded on every page. Intelligent caching makes websites significantly faster and more responsive. Hope this helps! Gadi On 28/06/2011 18:16, Steve G. wrote: I have a server that is sometimes sluggish. While I suspect the main problem is DNS and routing issues with my provider's infrastructure, in particular responding to DNS requests and routing, I am not sure. So here are some questions to the server experts on the team: 1. How do I identify the bottleneck in server performance? Is the problem with my networking card, CPU, memory, HD I/O, or the networking infrastructure outside the home. 2. Is there a tool for monitoring or testing load and performance without disabling or slowing down the server for long periods of time? I use Linux/Apache/PHP (no MySQL at this time, since I disabled WordPress due to all the fracking comment spam I was having to manually delete), but I am also interested in tools to do the same in Windows. 3. If I had to do one thing to improve my hardware, which should it be? RAID? SD drive? Faster CPU? 32 to 64 bus? More/Faster memory? Obviously cost is a consideration. 4. Is there any general advice on improving performance by removing background programs, etc.? Thanks, Z. -- Check out my web site - www.words2u.net http://www.words2u.net ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 // ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Flashing Galaxy S devices under Linux (Was: Upgrading Android Under Linux)
On 16/06/2011 10:15, Amos Shapira wrote: Once you go through it with Heimdall the anxiety level drops...:) Haha I can relate to this! Don't have any solution for the keyboard, unfortunately. (As I mentioned, I'm using SlideIT and it works great). Glad Heimdall is getting a good response from Israel... donated to that too. Was such a pleasure not to have to load up W7 in VirtualBox, it's the only thing I've needed Windows for in a very, very long time. It looks like the Gingerbread ROM with the newer root'ed kernel and some tweaks turned via an application could sustain for about ~35 hours on one charge. Still not ideal but far better than what I had before. I'm still looking for ways to squeeze more from it, though. Dude, 35 hrs is like... ridiculously good! I hope you're not looking for 3 days like we used to get with Nokia's from a smart phone. Great battery life for me is finishing the day with above 50%. It was a massive improvement over original Galaxy S use (with stock ROM) where the battery would be dead in the middle of the day, and would have to charge at work, etc. Yeah I guess I have something similar called Juice Plotter. I judge battery life now based on how long it takes to discharge 10%. Good = 4 hrs. Bad = 1 hr. That good was on my Galaxy S II though, but sometimes it still gets bad, still working things out here. -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 // ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Flashing Galaxy S devices under Linux (Was: Upgrading Android Under Linux)
On 13/06/2011 10:49, Amos Shapira wrote: 1. I lost root after the flash. All links point to GingerBreak but multiple attempts didn't work. I now read that someone noticed it's done after leaving it for 2.5 hours so I'll try it again - I stopped it after letting it run for an hour. If you know of anything better then I'd love to hear. Yeah, you'll always lose rose if you flash back to a stock image. Did GingerBreak help you? Otherwise just flash any rooted / insecure kernel. (And then download su.apk etc...) Alternatively flash a custom ROM, which will have this all done for you. 2. Hebrew keyboard - in Froyo I used Keyboard from Gingerbread with a Hebrew language pack, both from the market. But the Hebrew language pack says it doesn't suite a real gingerbread environment. Well, I'm currently using the SlideIT keyboard (like Swype but it's Israeli, had Hebrew support long before, and I found it has better 'error correction'). The popular hebrew keyboard has always been the AnySoftKeyboard, haven't used it in ages though. 3. Battery life - what else can I do to extend it as this was my main problem with Froyo and I'm not sure how well GB does so far (but only one day of experience). Often ROMs have various tweaks to help with this. On my S1, I was using PilotX ROM and had great battery life; that was still Froyo though, but maybe there's an update by now. Don't forget, you may need to recallibrate the battery (more on this elsewhere... it involves wiping the battery stats from recovery and doing a few full full-empty-full cycles (i think from the lower level charger when you don't turn on the phone). If you use something like OSMonitor and find that kswapd is always using lots of CPU, you can change some of the vm settings with sysctl... I don't recall off hand but I can check for you if you can't find it... vm_dirty or something, and I think one other one. Good luck! -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 // ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Flashing Galaxy S devices under Linux (Was: Upgrading Android Under Linux)
On 11/05/2011 15:48, Amos Shapira wrote: I'm following the forums around it but from what I heard CM7 doesn't fully support the SGS yet though this might change soon since Samsung released the kernel sources a few weeks ago. First piece of news is this: Samsung Delivers Galaxy S II to CyanogenMod Dev, Says Get to Work http://phandroid.com/2011/06/06/samsung-delivers-galaxy-s-ii-to-cyanogenmod-dev-says-get-to-work/ If someone can point me to *detailed* instructions how to achieve that without Odin then I'd love to hear - I don't have time to mess with a dead phone if I screw things up or to sit through tons of text which assumes you already know tons of jargon TLA's etc. I tried following instructions but they all either start by assuming you know the acronyms and the basic stuff or I end up chasing explanations of the terms used in the instructions. Right, I finally overcame my fears and successfully flashed my SGS II I9100 in Linux yesterday. I'll be as detailed as I can, but ultimately exact instructions would depend on which ROM you want to flash. Basically: 1) Download and install Heimdall from here: http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/ There are debian packages (.deb) which can be installed in Ubuntu/Debian or converted to RPM. 2) Download whatever ROM you want. Unzip/unrar/etc to get the .tar.md5 file. This is just a regular tar file. Odin can read it all in one go. For Heimdall you need to untar it, and specify each file separately. 3) Get the phone into download mode. From a powered off phone, hold down vol-down, home, and power. 4) There's a Heimdall GUI which I didn't use (since it's not updated for the latest version). But the command line is very easy. Run heimdall with no arguments for a list of options. Then it's a matter of specifying what each file is. The (possibly) less obvious ones are * zImage is the kernel * Sbl.bin is the Secondary Boot Loader Then it's just (as an example): heimdall flash --factoryfs factoryfs.bin --kernel zImage Yeah, it's that simple. For a full (stock) ROM it would probably be: heimdall flash --primary-boot boot.bin --cache cache.img --factoryfs factoryfs.img --hidden hidden.img --modem modem.bin --param param.lfs --secondary-boot Sbl.bin --kernel zImage Some ROMs require you to repartition how the memory is divided, in which case you'll also need, for example, --repartition --pit 512.pit. 5) When Heimdall finishes, the phone reboots automatically with the new ROM. Note, that's the flashing part, which is easy, but ROMs in general might be a bit more complicated. e.g. especially for the Galaxy S II which is new, you might need to e.g. wipe the phone before flashing. You should definitely wipe the cache if you don't flash a new one. You can do these actions from recovery mode (power on with vol-up, home, power). Note, the SGS I is sometimes hard to get into recovery, see my previous note in a previous email about that. The point is, even if you flash successfully, other things could still go wrong. But then it's not a problem to just reflash the device. Just make sure you don't unplug or power off during the middle of a flash! Generally speaking, if you aren't trying to keep your user data between flashes, more than likely if you flash a base ROM, and then a custom ROM known to work on top of that base rom, your chances of success are very high. Let me know if anything wasn't clear, and good luck :) G -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 // ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: translate a pdf file from german to english
You can actually do this directly from Google Translate! After eventually finding a manual for my dishwasher in German, I used Google Translate to do this and finally figured out what all the beeping meant :) Gadi On 16/05/2011 14:11, sara fink wrote: Hi I have a pdf file in german (can't find in english) and I would like to translate it in english. Is there a way to do that? Any input will be appreciated ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 // ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: translate a pdf file from german to english
On 21/05/2011 16:20, Dotan Cohen wrote: In Google Translate, below the main form, is this link: Type text or a website address or translate a document. Thanks, Gadi, I did not know about that until you mentioned it! Yeah, it was a big and helpful surprise for me too... thought I'd share the love ;) After eventually finding a manual for my dishwasher in German, I used Google Translate to do this and finally figured out what all the beeping meant :) I'm still in suspense. What was all the beeping? Uhh... it needed more salt. I didn't know dishwashers used salt. My bad. For those who saw Google I/O, I'm waiting for the day when my dishwasher will have Android @ Home support and can tell me wirelessly (and in English!) what it needs :) [For those that didn't, Google are launching a project where home devices can communicate wirelessly, either via wifi or if not via Google's own wireless protocol, with a central hub running Android. As I understood it, everything will be open sourced and no licenses required to develop the hardware... which sounds fantastic to me. Although obviously the primary development platform will be at a higher level in Java (or via Dalvik VM, at least). The technology is tiny, so can, as they demonstrated, be built into an actual light bulb, as opposed to replacing your actual switches.] -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 // ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Upgrading Android Under Linux
I must admit, I just used Odin under VirtualBox with a Windows 7 guest... it worked great. But yeah it looks like you're going in the right direction. Stock Android does RTL, but it has a bug where numbers are reversed in RTL, which is a bit unbearable (think phone numbers, dates, bank balances, etc). As mentioned CyanogenMod has great RTL support (thanks to Omri Baumer), but the experimental versions for the Galaxy S are not usable for daily use. For full Hebrew support (fixes for specific apps, etc) you'll need a locally built rom. I'm using the PilotX ROM, which I'm very happy with... I have the v3, but I see v4 is out too. It's still based on 2.2.1 though (Froyo, not Gingerbread), so you might have to decide what's more important for you. http://sgsil.mobi/showthread.php?t=46 (see also www.iandroid.co.il forums) There are full instructions on the site for how to install; as was pointed out, you only need Odin to replace the bootloader, and from there it's just a matter of putting all the files you need on the internal memory and flashing them. Obviously you could use Heimdall instead of Odin for that step. A lot of ROMs are expecting to be flashed over a certain version of the flash rom; I think because the partitioning is done differently. Also ***very NB*** is to make sure that you can get to download mode (vol-up home and power-on at same time) before you start flashing things; if you have an older Galaxy S you have to get this working first. To leave recovery mode if you don't flash anything (and only then), you have to remove and replace the battery. To get to recovery mode with vol-down,home,power can be sketchy sometimes, but it's possible with some effort (usually by plugging the phone in to power with the phone off, holding that key combo in for 3 reboots (without letting go, it restarts on it's own) and then it goes in to recovery fine. The other solution was - believe it or not - heating the device up with a hairdryer, which also seemed to work according to a lot of forum reports. If you have adb working, you can also just adb reboot recovery. I realize your main question was probably about Heimdall and Gingerbread, but I hope some of the other info here will help you. Gadi On 04/05/2011 17:38, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi all, I recently switched from Nokia N97 to Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000. It came with Orange's ROM (Based on Android 2.2). It is lightning fast compared to my old N97, but still - it hangs and has a bunch of Apps I do not need or like... I'd like to upgrade it to version 2.3.3 (Gingerbread). Can any of you tell me how to do it under Linux? I am running Ubuntu 10.04. I found out that Heimdall is the equivalent to Odin, but I get a dependency error on the C Libraries when I try to install it. Thanks! Amichai. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 // ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Upgrading Android Under Linux
On 06/05/2011 15:30, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2011/5/6 Gadi Cohen dra...@wastelands.net: I must admit, I just used Odin under VirtualBox with a Windows 7 guest... it worked great. I thought that the VM could not poll the USB fast enough for this. Did you have to mod anything? Not that I recall, at least not with regard to what you're saying. I have a vague memory of not seeing the device appear in the device list straight away, but I think that might have been before I installed USB support :) What is NB? Important :) -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 // ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Amazon EC2 hosting, was: Dedicated hosting in the US
On 12/08/2010 00:00, Maxim Veksler wrote: Are you familiar with EC2 cc1.4xlarge instance type ? http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ Not really... I did have a look around there a while back, but it just seemed overly complicated. I like paying a flat rate and knowing exactly what I get, especially since it's more than enough power for me for the next little while. Also with 16 cores can I quite easily divide my work into nice little VMs (xen-based), which I believe (but am not sure) that I could migrate to the cloud at a later stage. It says bandwidth is free until November... then what? Or more importantly... assuming you are in fact a proud owner of an xlarge instance, please share your use case and experiences with us :) Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 / / ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Dedicated hosting in the US (and maybe CA/UK)
Hi My hosting provider currently has an amazing deal which I thought I'd pass on to those interested. I don't work for them and I don't get any commission, I promise -- but this topic has come up a few times before, so I thought some people might find the info useful. The deal is 50% off quad core servers. The have a regular quad core for $99/mo, but what really interested me is the Dual Xeon setup (16 cores!) for $199/mo, including 6GB RAM, 2.5 TB/mo bandwidth and 100mbit port speed. For me this was a super deal that I couldn't resist and am busy migrating my old server across. The specs inspired me to finally get into xen, and hope my next migration will be a live one :) http://www.serverbeach.com/servers/specialoffers_quad_core_dedicated_servers.php They also have datacentres in Canada and the UK, the offer might be valid for there too. Again, I have no hidden connection to ServerBeach, but I've had so much grief with hosting providers over the past decade that when I'm finally happy, I want to share the love. As a reminder, these are the guys who hosted Youtube before Google bought it. Their slogan is by geeks for geeks, never met with the incompetence I've experienced from other companies, and the response time on tickets is great (from my personal experience, at least). Also the bandwidth to Israel is great... off peak I max out my 8mbps line (at about 730K/sec). On peak NetVision do some ugly filtering, but I have a VPN for that. From my tiny VPS in Israel, I get a consistent 2MB/s to their network. Anyway, hope this helps someone. Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 / / ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: hosting in USA
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Re: Nexus One vs Samsung Galaxy S
On 17/04/2010 08:53, Shachar Shemesh wrote: These have UI improvements from the manufacturers with great features... I have only looked at the Galaxy when it first came out. At that time, I did not spot ANY differences between it and the vanilla Android. What improvements does it contain? Ok, my bad... I was writing from memory and didn't realize there were two different similar sounding phones: Old phone: Samsung i7500 Galaxy aka Samsung Galaxy New phone: Samsung i9000 Galaxy S aka Samsung Galaxy S I was actually talking about the latter. Which will only be released in the summer, I think. For that reason I haven't seen it myself of course, but in terms of UI you can see e.g. a much nicer main menu :) in the 2nd video on this link: http://androidandme.com/2010/03/phones/samsung-galaxy-s-hands-on-wrap-up/ (I should note that the HTC Evo 4G includes HTC's Sense UI, which looks fantastic, plenty videos of this around. You can find it ported to the Nexus One but then of course you're limited to updates to that ROM... some Nexus One features might not work). As for hardware, the highlights here (also from the link above): 1) Super AMOLED screen. Looks amazing, brighter, better contrast, uses less power. See video. 2) Possibly the fastest processor on the market, but it's debatable. It's also 1Gz like the N1 but can draw triangles 3 times a fast. http://androidandme.com/2010/03/news/samsung-galaxy-s-hummingbird-chip-to-have-3x-gpu-power-of-snapdragon/ 3) 8 or 16GB internal RAM. Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 / / ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Nexus One vs Galaxy S vs Evo 4G
On 17/04/2010 09:37, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I must admit that I found Sense to be underwhelming. Sense will probably be great for people who use facebook and twitter a lot, as it has very tight integration with these services. HTC's decision to make Sense plugins distinct from Android Launcher plugins is, in my view, a lame attempt to prevent people from taking the Sense plugins, and holds no technological merit. Inside Android, at least, it feels like a shallow casing around the core system, and I prefer the uniformity of having a standard interface throughout the system. No real argument from me, all valid points. But again, this seems to agree with what I said before... Stock Android (or CyanogenMod, etc) is the way to go for technical users, but more vanilla users may well prefer the eye candy of Sense (and it's social integration, although we have some of that in Android 2.1 now) without caring too much about the open source implications. 1) Super AMOLED screen. Looks amazing, brighter, better contrast, uses less power. See video. Is it reflective? Usually, the brighter colors are due to a reflective surface, which makes it more difficult to work with. From Wikipedia[1] (looks like the info came straight from Samsung): The main advantages of Samsung’s new Super AMOLED vs the first generation AMOLED: * 20% brighter screen. * 80% less sunlight reflection. * 20% more battery life. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_AMOLED Somewhere (I guess youtube) you can see the difference between the iphone and the galaxy S in direct sunlight... I remember being very imperssed. 2) Possibly the fastest processor on the market, but it's debatable. It's also 1Gz like the N1 but can draw triangles 3 times a fast. http://androidandme.com/2010/03/news/samsung-galaxy-s-hummingbird-chip-to-have-3x-gpu-power-of-snapdragon/ So I have to ask about battery time and weight. No idea about battery time... Weight (from Google): 118g, sounds good. Looks nice and slim in the video I posted before too. Oh, and I forgot to mention two of the impressive hardware specs of the Evo 4G (besides wimax): * 8 megapixel back facing and 1.3 megapixel front facing camera * hdmi out Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 / / ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Nexus One vs Galaxy S
On 17/04/2010 14:49, Amos Shapira wrote: Is this about the Galaxy Icon? Because its specs page (as far as I followed) specifies it doesn't even have WiFi, which I think is a major bummer. Nope, we're discussing the soon to be released Samsung i9000 Galaxy S. Here's a link I hadn't pasted yet: 5 reasons to wait for the Samsung Galaxy S http://androidandme.com/2010/03/news/5-reasons-to-wait-for-the-samsung-galaxy-s/ Shachar, the page also claims improved battery life, citing beyond the super amoled display, the 45nm die size (whereas according to the article most other Android phones are still on 65nm). -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Nexus One
On 12/04/2010 13:39, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: How may list list subscribers use Nexus One? I do :) What are your impressions? I absolutely love it. I had a G1 before, and am a big fan of Android. That in itself was a great upgrade, finally having the processor power and RAM to do what I really wanted. Does it worth to purchase? IMHO, definitely. It's a no brainer if you're a techie. It was amazing feeling my first time to get a terminal on the phone and move around just like regular linux, write shell scripts, etc. But even if you aren't, it's a great phone. I have a friend who doesn't know computers at all, and he got it and loves it (although I had to set up the Hebrew, custom ROM, etc for him). There are only three really annoying bugs that I can think of, but they really do happen infrequently and new firmwares (community developed) come out frequently. The Nexus One is arguable the ideal phone for developers and technically orientated people. This is the phone to get if you want to install a regularly developed custom firmware, have the latest Android updates (before they make it to a proper release, which can take a very long time as was the case with e.g. the Motorola Droid), and otherwise screw around with your phone. However, for someone who isn't interested in all these things, there are probably better options: The Samsung Galaxy (which has an AMAZING super amoled screen) and the EVO (which has wimax, but we don't have that here yet, and I could guess we'll get hsdpa+ instead; correct me if I'm wrong). These have UI improvements from the manufacturers with great features... but will get the latest Android updates slower, have less active communities around them, and may be harder to root, etc. But in short, as a technical user, nothing I've ever purchased has ever made me as happy :) Where it worth to purchase? You can buy in Israel for about NIS 3500. You can order directly from Google via mustop.co.il, and you'll end up paying about NIS 2800 I think. Even better is if you have someone coming back from the US. Tax on phones is about 34%, so you could get away with say NIS 2200... big save! Note if you order from Google you get a custom engraving on the back of the phone FOR FREE. I recommend getting the Desktop Dock too. 1) Easy charging (contact points you rest the phone on, no need to jiggle a micro usb in there) 2) Clock mode comes on with a cute bed-side clock :) 3) It has an aux-out you can connect to your hi-fi, connected to the phone via bluetooth a2dp. Ok since no one else has answered yet I'll go all out here. Other recommended accessories: 1) If you want to mount it in your car, look at the stuff at www.proclipusa.com (or wait for Google's). 2) You can get higher mAh batteries here http://www.seidioonline.com/category-s/4025.htm 3) Get a screen protector. For navigation in Israel, check out www.waze.co.il For firmware, www.cyanogenmod.com (comes with needed fonts for Hebrew). Hebrew input, search anysoftkeyboard in the market, or slideit hebrew (quite nice, google it). There is a Hebrew android forum over at www.iandroid.co.il Right, now we're on the same page! Enjoy :) -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 / / ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Browser compatability, was: Bituah Leumi site: call them!
I think ultimately what Gilboa is suggesting (below) is the way to go (especially with government agencies and subsidaries); however in the meantime I'd like to suggest something in the middle. This is where I think we've gone wrong until now and how to change it: 1) Problem: We usually complain to tech support, who are usually incompetent. If they forward our complaints on to anyone, it will be to the site developers, who use and know nothing but IE, and have no motivation to do otherwise. Solution: We must target the company directors, with strong arguments (below) that will convince them to take action, and ORDER the developers to get their act together (pay them, make them uphold their contract, or change companies). 2) Problem: Sometime we try get support for Linux, which is harder. Solution: All we need is support for W3C, or at least non-IE specific code. 3) Problem: We accept the perception that we are a minority. Solution: We're not! As of March 2010, IE has only a 52% market share!! [1] And here lies our compelling arguments: a) If they're targeting people outside of Israel (including investors!), they're excluding 900 million people :) [2] b) They're missing out on mobile phones, netbooks, tablets, tvs, etc which are all emerging markets. c) If they're only targetting Israel (where IE has higher use) they are still falling behind their competitors. d) Basically, the whole world (even Israel) is moving forwards, and they're stuck in the past, losing current customers and not in a position to attract new ones. Analogies are great too. Here's one I just thought of now. It's like telling your customers they can only do business with you if they call you from a Nokia cell phone That's something anyone can understand. Nokia was dominant. They're not anymore. Everyone knows of the Iphone, Blackberry, etc and you can remind them that none of these devices can access his/her website. So, do they really not care that their entire business image (and business potential) is affected simply because they have chosen to overpay incompetent site developers? etc, etc. Comments welcome :) References: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers [2] http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm Gadi On 16/04/2010 14:06, Gilboa Davara wrote: We're long past the talking stage. IMHO, we (as in non-Window-using-community) need the following: - Someone with (a lot? of) free time to galvanize the efforts. - A hub. (Site, facebook, linked-in, etc) - Money. (I'm willing to pledge 1K nis for the effort) - A good attorney that handles supreme court cases. In theory, (and sadly enough, without the man power to push it forward, it'll remain a theory) the following steps should be taken: - Setup a site that will be used as a hub to collect funds and volunteers. - Locate a good attorney. - Select several high profile targets (gov.il comes to mind) and sue them for say, price of Windows * 5% of all computers in IL. This should get their attention. - Speaking of attention, make a lot of noise about it in the press. News papers usually dig under-dog-vs-government type of wars. I'd do it myself, but I'm over-worked as it is :( - Gilboa ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 / / ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Hebrew search in PDFs is backwards?
Diego, thanks for taking the time to check this out. Appreciate it. I will play around and see what I can do, but I'll only have a chance after exams. I'll also take a look at the Evince/GNOME/Pango situation as well. Dotan - it's not strictly a bug. Diego has pointed out that qt (the underlying library used by KDE and hence Okular) has exactly the function we need - one that can convert logical Hebrew to visual Hebrew. The bug is that this is probably a private function (accessible only from within qt, and not from within applications that are based on qt) - although there's a chance we can still use it. If not we can file a bug report and try get the function made public in the next big qt update. In short - I will play around after exams, and file the relevant bug report when I know what's going on. Thanks guys... this has been quite productive, it will be really nice if we can have open source Hebrew searching in PDFs :)) Gadi Dotan Cohen wrote: 2010/1/19 Diego Iastrubni elc...@kde.org: This is really, really bad from qt/src/gui/painting/qpainter.cpp, inside void QPainter::drawText(const QPointF p, const QString str, int tf, int justificationPadding) I see this code: QStackTextEngine engine(str, d-state-font); engine.option.setTextDirection(d-state-layoutDirection); engine.itemize(); QScriptLine line; line.length = str.length(); engine.shapeLine(line); int nItems = engine.layoutData-items.size(); QVarLengthArrayint visualOrder(nItems); QVarLengthArrayuchar levels(nItems); for (int i = 0; i nItems; ++i) levels[i] = engine.layoutData-items[i].analysis.bidiLevel; QTextEngine::bidiReorder(nItems, levels.data(), visualOrder.data()); Now... it seems like QTextEngine::bidiReorder() does exactly what you want logical-visual. However... this class is defined inside qtextengine_p.h... which means this is not official API. But, IMHO, even if it's not marked, you can open a bug report on this at Nokia's bug tracker, and they will handle it for Qt 4.8, maybe 4.7. Meanwhile, if the header is installed - abuse it. If it's not included - hack it inside your application (*) I know that this will not be accepted at KDE's svn ... Could you file that bug, Diego? It is far above my understanding or level. Thanks! Here is the Qt bug tracker: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/secure/CreateIssue!default.jspa -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Hebrew search in PDFs is backwards?
Matitiahu Allouche wrote: PDF's objective is to reflect the exact appearance of text. For Hebrew, it means that the text is stored in visual order. If your PDF viewer accepts user input in logical order (which is the case in Windows and Linux), it should transform search arguments (captured from a user dialog) from logical to visual order before performing the search. Thanks, that was very helpful! I'm now trying to implement this in Okular (instead of studying for my exam, bad!). I've set up a KDE4 development environment, but have no prior experience with KDE or Qt at all. I've searched the 'net for anything relevant, and I see in older versions of Qt there were functions like QString::visual() and QHebrewCodec, but nothing like that exists in the latest version (4.6). Do you (or does anyone) know how to convert a string from visual to logical in qt4? Or for reference purposes, do you or does anyone know offhand how one would do this with GNOME / Pango? (Evince is next, although with any luck I won't look at any of this again until after exams). Thanks! Gadi P.S. Anyone else wondering if all this hail will crack their windows? :) -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Hebrew search in PDFs is backwards?
I'm a big fan of Fribidi... I wish it had been around when I added Hebrew support to something years ago, and I've made extensive use of the PHP wrapper for it. It crossed my mind, but by relying on just the native qt4 and pango stuff I was hoping to avoid extra dependencies and have a short and sweet patch that would be easily accepted and used by default. I'm scared that if I go the fribidi route, it will remain a compile time option disabled by default -- whereas I'd prefer to have something that is available out the box in any modern distro. If someone can fault my reasoning or suggest an alternative, please do! I'd love to use fribidi if it's feasible. Thanks Gadi Dov Grobgeld wrote: You can easily do it with fribidi through the fribidi_log2vis() function. fribidi is wrapped by pango, but it does not export its API. It does export pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels() but you'll have to work a bit more to use this function. Regards, Dov On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 16:28, Gadi Cohen dra...@wastelands.net mailto:dra...@wastelands.net wrote: Matitiahu Allouche wrote: PDF's objective is to reflect the exact appearance of text. For Hebrew, it means that the text is stored in visual order. If your PDF viewer accepts user input in logical order (which is the case in Windows and Linux), it should transform search arguments (captured from a user dialog) from logical to visual order before performing the search. Thanks, that was very helpful! I'm now trying to implement this in Okular (instead of studying for my exam, bad!). I've set up a KDE4 development environment, but have no prior experience with KDE or Qt at all. I've searched the 'net for anything relevant, and I see in older versions of Qt there were functions like QString::visual() and QHebrewCodec, but nothing like that exists in the latest version (4.6). Do you (or does anyone) know how to convert a string from visual to logical in qt4? Or for reference purposes, do you or does anyone know offhand how one would do this with GNOME / Pango? (Evince is next, although with any luck I won't look at any of this again until after exams). Thanks! Gadi P.S. Anyone else wondering if all this hail will crack their windows? :) -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net mailto:dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net http://www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il mailto:Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Hebrew search in PDFs is backwards?
Hi I've exported a PDF from OpenOffice 3.1 (with tags). I can search for Hebrew text in Evince or Okular, but it searches backwards. E.g. If I have the words SHIR and RISHON, if I start typing RI it will match the end of SHIR. I have no idea if this is a problem with OpenOffice, Evince/Okular or just the PDF standard. Any pointers? Thanks Gadi P.S. Maybe someone can save me some more headache. I see that (finally!) a PDF export won't randomly insert Hindi characters in ooMath objects. This was committed to CWS ooo32gsl09 and is targetted for 3.2. I also see that 3.2rc2 is based on OOO320_m9. Can I hope that since they both start with ooo32 and end with 9 it will have the fix? :) I find the versioning scheme quite complicated. More on the Hindi bug here: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=87669 -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: ext2 partition on G1 Android
Some things that come to mind: 1) Is your ext2 partition your 2nd partition? When loading, Android relies on the order of the partition not their type. 2) Is the partition formatted? The boot might fail if it can't mount the partition. If you have adb installed, an 'adb logcat' will probably show you what's going on even if the phone doesn't complete the boot. Gadi eliyahu cohen wrote: I'm trying to setup apps2sd on a G1. I can resize the fat32 partition without a problem, but whenever I add an ext2 partition to the SD card, the phone wont come up after a reboot. I've tried partitioning with fdisk, gparted, and sdsplit (as per http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/Fat_Ext2_Partition). Any ideas what could be wrong? -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
LinuxMCE
Ok, so this last came up in March 2008. My media PC, an old system from 2001, finally bit the dust, and I've decided to take the plunge into a proper home automation and media server, ala LinuxMCE. My custom-built HTPC will arrive next week sometime, and I'm going to try give the LinuxMCE 810 alpha a shot (because I'll need support for the newer hardware). I've also ordered (from abroad) one of the last few LinuxMCE remotes and a USB-UIRT device. I'm curious to know: 1) Who else is running LinuxMCE and what your experiences have been like? 2) What resources are available online in terms of HTPC in Israel... Yes programme guides, etc. If this is really catching on, I'm more than happy to set up a Wiki to consolidate resources. My own intentions involve a step-by-step approach. I'll first use the system just as a basic media server, then gradually get something going with Yes, VOIP, etc. If the 810 alpha is too unstable, I'll just run Ubuntu 9 on the system until this changes. Ultimately though, I'd love for us to crack the Yes CAM issue and do (legal) decoding on the HTPC :) Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer dra...@wastelands.net www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
[OT] Vacation apology
Hi All My deepest and sincere apologies to anyone who posted to the list in the last two weeks and got my vacation message; being adventurous I decided to set this up using Plesk, assuming it would have the necessary rules to ensure only relevant people got the message... besides annoying list messages, I probably replied to some 10,000 spam messages too, and for this I humbly apologize (well, to the list, not to the spammers). In future I'll stick to trusted procmail recipes. Regards Gadi P.S. To those that sent me personal messages, thanks for letting me know about the problem.. forgive the lack of personal replies, I'm simply a good few hundred emails behind still. -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: How about running Linux in your web browser?
I don't use it, but are you aware of http://g.ho.st/ ? It's a full WebOS - your own virtual desktop accessible from any web browser. IIRC it's a joint Israeli-Palestinian project. Gadi Maxim Veksler wrote: Hello list, This is surly interesting news, It seems that the folks at Mozilla are working on writing a C/C++ to Tamarin compiler (ActionScript VM running inside Adobe's Flash). This means implementing the full POSIX calls, including emulation of direct memory access... Now I ask you, is it not getting us just 1 steps closer into the concept of network OS? Just think about it, you could theoretically boot MacOSX, open your browser, browser to http://hamakor.org.il/start (which would redirect you to http://os.google.com) and bam!! You see Linux happily booting in your FireFox :) Read more about it here : http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=270thread=234365 http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=270thread=234365 -- Cheers, Maxim Veksler Free as in Freedom - Do u GNU ? -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: SIP gateway providers in Israel?
Arik, thank you for your email. You finally inspired me to join the VOIP revolution :) Arik Baratz wrote: I've been using www.didww.com successfully for a few years now as a DID in Israel. Friends and family call my Israeli number and the call gets routed to my Asterisk box in the US. The cost is very reasonable (an 077 number is $3/month) and it's a flat rate for up to two simultaneous calls. Have you ever had any problems with them? I'm only been using them now for a few days :), but yesterday all of my DIDs were unavailable at random intervals. From a tcpdump and the call log, it looks like they only tried to connect the call some 20 minutes after it was made. Anyways, today is everything is working. My termination service for the box is voipjet.com which has a very reasonable rate for Israel (2c/min LL, 10c/min cell). They say that they don't want end users to use their services, only carriers; they didn't kick me out though so I guess that as long as everything is okay they won't care. And your experiences with them? I signed up a week ago (and paid!) and my account still hasn't been activated yet... they keep posting a message on their website saying new accounts might only be activated on approximately XX and keep moving the date forward. No response from their fastsupport email, and from reports on the Internet it doesn't look like they've ever answered that email for the past few years. I must also point out that they are in violation of PayPal's terms of use (they charge a surcharge for payments) and their own TOS is incredibly dodgy. You're actually already in violation for disclosing to other people that you use their service. You also agreed never to sue them, and of course that, the customer acknowledges that the service may not be working for some, most or all of the time.. The potentially good news though is that after A LOT of searching (indeed, good rates to Israel aren't easy to come by), I did find the services of grnvoip.com. Here's a comparison of prices to Israel (in USD): Land Line Cell VoipJert.Com 0.01980.0949 GrnVoip Standard 0.0138 0.0792 GrnVoip Premium0.0166 0.0951 The premium service is meant to have better voice quality... although I've found the quality of the standard calls to be just fine on their own. I already had a technical issue which they sorted out quite quickly. I thought you and other members of the list might benefit from all the searching and this experience with them. Of course, bear in mind I've only been using their services for a few days, and I guess you need termination to the US anyways. My setup allows the following: Did you configure everything by hand? Or did you use a web manager? Downside: I get calls in the middle of the night from MILUIM... don't ask. Mmm... you could always block calls from unlisted numbers... at the very least after hours. Or you could direct unlisted numbers to some silence and they'll need to know in advance they'll have 5 seconds to press 1 after the phone stops ringing... there are a lot of creative solutions here :) Again, thanks for the inspiration. Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mandriva 2007.0 mirror
Shlomo Solomon wrote: I can't offer you names of other 2007.0 users, but I'm sure they're out there and hope some of them will add requests. Yeah actually I'm in that category... would be great to download rpms locally again :) Thanks Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Providing precompleted PDF forms in Linux
Hi Guys IN SHORT: I need to take an existing PDF file, mark it as a form (never done this before but assuming it won't be hard to do this using Adobe Acrobat; this step can be done in Windows), and ultimately have the form completed in Linux/PHP so that the end user can downloaded a precompleted form which they can simply print and sign. FULL EXPLANATION: One of the websites I develop is for a large youth movement hosting regular events for both existing and new members. At present for any event, both such groups complete a printed form which is then submitted and hand processed by the movement offices (through a intuitive web interface, of course, but it is still time consuming). The goal is that existing users will not only NOT need to re-enter their information on the form, but also preprocess the form into our database (without movement staff needing to do it by hand) and of course having a hard copy of the form and signatures for legal reasons. The goal is minimal impact on the movement and its members, such that we would like to use the existing PDF files available for download (looks the same to chaverim and staff). Doing this via COM calls to a Windows server is not an option. I want the form completion to be done exclusively in Linux unless this is absolutely impossible. Any help appreciated :) Thanks Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: Providing precompleted PDF forms in Linux
Shachar Shemesh wrote: I have to admit that I have never came across the term PDF form, and so I have little idea what that entails. It's kind of like a regular HTML form in PDF format... it's a PDF document with text input fields, select boxes, etc, that can either be printed or submitted online. Don't feel bad, I also only came across one for the first time a few months ago. How about storing the plain file as an open document text template with fields, and then using OpenOffice in automation mode to fill out the fields and generate the resulting PDF? Thought about that, but there is alot of formatting in the documents, designed usually in MS Word or CorelDraw... when they're opened in OO they split over multiple pages and generally look bad... took me long enough to convince the movement to move to PDF :) Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: You might want to look at the U.S. State Department's page for the form to renew a passort by mail. They have you fill out an online form, and them when you ok it, a PDF file is created fully filled in complete with a barcode containing everything in the form in a way that the computer can read it. It may be too sophisticated for your needs/budget, but the concepts will still apply. Yes actually that's exactly what I'm trying to do :) thanks for finding me an example online... Meir Kriheli wrote: PDF has the notion of forms, FDF[1]. Linux.com published few months ago an article about pdftk[2]. In that article, under Filling out forms, pdftk is used to fill the form fields. [1] http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/article.asp?ContentID=6623 [2] http://www.linux.com/articles/53701 Amazing... that's exactly the info I was looking for... thanks for saving me alot of unecessary searching. Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: State of the Israeli banks websites
This is another issue that seems to repeat on the list every few months. I took the courtesy to summarize the findings of this thread here: http://www.mybroadband.co.il/wiki/Banks. Hopefully we and other communities can keep the list up to date (feel free to publish the link wherever relevant). Gadi Omer Zak wrote: I mean - Firefox on Linux. Could be understood from context - my Linux distribution is Debian Etch, where Firefox is known (and identifies itself) as Iceweasel, due to trademark issues in Debian. The Web site works for me (under Linux, after I changed the useragent string by which the browser identifies itself) in those use cases in which I am interested (checking status of my investments). I did not check further, and I am rather un-surprised that some other use cases fail to work. --- Omer On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 16:00 +0300, Dan Bar Dov wrote: Oh, and when you say Discount works with firefox you mean firefox on windows. With firefox on Linux it doesn't work shit. [excuse my language] Dan On 8/16/07, Dan Bar Dov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not true. Discount mostly works with firefox, but it has some [important] features that fail to work. For example, if you have more than one account, the switch-account drop-down box does not open, so you can't even look at your other account. Dan On 8/16/07, Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Discount's web site works well with Firefox, however your browser must identify itself as Firefox and not Gecko or Iceweasel. In case you use a different browser, you get a message saying the site supports IE only, which is not true. On 8/16/07, Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not have experience with other banks, but Bank Discount's Web site blocks you unless you have Internet Explorer, version 5.5 or later. The people responsible for this state of affairs do not have a clue about the importance of supporting W3C standards - if to judge from their response to the complaint which I made about this, few weeks ago. --- Omer On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 10:58 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, I'm looking to open bank account for investing. I currently using Bank Hapoalim website and it works fine, but I don't have experience investing with this bank. From your experience, which bank will have the best Linux support in investment of stocks and mutual funds. Tnx, Kfir -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses
Nadav Har'El wrote: It doesn't make us a totalitarian state, unless the police actually (ab)uses this power, and so far, I don't think that it actually does. Exactly, but that's just the point... in any sane democracy there are structures in place to prevent such abuses taking place. Like before I gave my example of police needing to obtain a search warrant before they can break into someone's house, they need to prove that such action is necessary to someone other than themselves, and be able to back up their claim. If that wasn't the case, do you not think the ability to search people's houses would be abused? Such power needs to be monitored; its a matter of protecting our society from human nature. So, with the new law, I don't think suddenly all our rights are going to be abused... but I can see the police using this new system more and more often, each time with less and less hard reason... until such use is common place and unmonitored (unmonitored within the police, that is... seeing as they are already right now getting rid of any higher power to check up on them). And I think that process, no matter how many years it will take, will lead to a totalitarian system, and that's why I think no other democracy in the entire world is allowing such a thing. Moshe Leibovitch wrote: I'm wonder if the Israeli law allows you to encrypt your communications over public channels. I wouldn't shock me to find out the even this discussion is illegal :) Yes, discussing such policies could indeed be dangerous, especially since there is enough information in a typical email message received from this list to - with the new system in place - get your full name, address and every other detail about you. Actually by subscribing to this list and writing a simple script and letting it run for a month or so, you could have everyone's full details ready and waiting to arrest this cell which could threaten the police's reputation (and could be arrested for an illegal discussion). Yes, an extreme and hypothetical example, and I think very unlikely, but still *possible* - and that should worry you :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition, stop using your ISP's email, use either GMAIL or HOTMAIL or whatever you like. As YBA suggested, encrypt email. Use steganography. Use pigeons. Any webmail = good. Whatever you like = bad. Don't forget on usual SMTP communications, the mail server will record the sender IP address and time the email was received from it. That's enough info with the new law to get your full name, address, etc. With webmail, the webserver connects to the mail server and so the recorded address is 'localhost'... I wouldn't use webmail in Israel though :) Don't forget you'll need to use a proxy server outside of Israel for any website in Israel which records your IP address, and any website in the world which could display your IP address (e.g. a wiki if aren't registered, or forget to log in.. big mistake :)). Network security is nothing new for me, I can't imagine too many major changes to my regular routine... it will just be a shit feeling thinking that the people I'm now protecting myself against are the people who are meant to be protecting me! Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/894512.html In short: There is a law presently being passed that will give the police free access to all phone numbers, IP addresses, etc, creating the largest such database for police use in the entire Western World (i.e. Israel will set a new precedent for what is allowable in a democracy, using totalitarian policies as inspiration). This really worries me. Not that I am a terrorist or criminal warlord who is worried in a disruption of my activities, but in that I consider it a major invasion of my privacy and a very bad direction for Israel to go in. I am therefore writing for two reasons: 1) To make you know about this proposed law. 2) To find out what we do to prevent it (assuming others are as troubled as I am). In my mind, there are very good reasons why in democracies, the police need to obtain a warrant or court order for sensitive information. Privacy is a basic liberty which needs to be protected. Not only that, such a system is bound to be abused, at first a little until such abuse is common place. All in all, a very downward spiral for the State. Other thoughts are of course welcome. Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: Webmail like Gmail + encryption
Not that I've ever tried it, but I just stumbled across this: http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/ It adds GPG support to gmail via firefox... including inserting extra buttons into the gmail interface. Gadi Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, I would like to keep company emails secure and encrypted. I'm looking for a webmail program that is similar to Gmail. It don't have to own all the stuff, just to be productive. I would also want encryption. I want all the emails be encrypted automatically. What is the procedure for a user? should he take with him a usb private key? I'm looking for your comments on the idea. Tnx, Kfir -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: Shorewall/forwarding with eth0:0
Ira Abramov wrote: you know how HARD I had to press them to get MPLS?! they hate giving that away! it's WAY more stable and WAY more convenient, and you have lower latency as a bonus. pptp/pppoe and even L2TP are not my cup of tea. I take it MPLS is without a dialer ? I can't believe it's such a big deal here to change :) I must admit a week went by with nothing happening, I phoned them again and they said they'd sort it out, another week with nothing, so I decided to just stick with no dialer.. you're right, it does seem somewhat more convenient... but to be honest I never had any problems with pppoe or l2tp. you want a firewall anyway, might as well make it a masquarading one, whether it connects the world with MPLS or pppoe. well, since both my physical PCs are running Linux it's actually quite nice to not have my laptop dependent on my other PC anymore for routing, and have it's own IP. My laptop is now doing masquerading for my windows virtual pc in vmware, but I'm quite happy for both the physical linux boxes to have their own connection and handle their own firewall with masquerading. well, I think it's worth getting another 80-100 NIS card for that on the one hand, but on the other hand, it's very much doable with plain IPTABLES. I have not used shorewall yet. well, yes, that would easily solve my problems, but it's a bit annoying on principle... because aside from the firewall I already have the whole idea working great by just putting my one card on two different subnets. But I seem to recall that shorewall's lack of support is based on iptables limitations -- on dealing with aliases interfaces. how did you solve this in the end? I didn't... as I said after 3 weeks of not being moved back to with a dialer, I decided maybe it's not such a bad thing. Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: rtorrent choking my internet connection
Shlomo Solomon wrote: As I already wrote, the upload speed is under 10 Kb. So that doesn't seem to be the problem. Did you cap the upload speed at under 10 Kb? Or are you saying that you haven't defined a limit but you've noticed that it never exceeds 10 Kb on it's own? The latter is what I was talking about... it's trying to send out more data than your connection can handle, choking the connection... tcp requires two-way communications for data transfer to be effective... try cap your global upload speed at 10 Kb and you might find that it stays there consistently and that your download speed is suddenly alot faster. Don't forget, its reporting the ACTUAL data transfer... even if it's just trying to send out 16K/sec, the RESULT of this is the slow upload speed of 16K/sec. If your settings are correct and you're connecting to popular torrents, you will ALWAYS reach your maximum upload speed. If you're not it probably means you have problematic settings. Again, I'm not complaining about slow downloads - I can live with that But it's unnecessary... you could be downloading alot faster. And of course, not just your downloads are being affected... any activity on the 'net will be affected also, even something which only needs 1K/sec. Actually, I DO have an external router. It's a Siemens SL2-141 that I bought from Bezeq about a month ago. Since getting the router, I no longer use iptables or routing on my Linux box. But, I find it hard to believe that with 4 open torrents, I would be choking the router. How do I check that? Don't forget that the reason why torrents are so effective is because the files are divided into tiny pieces and exchanged with LOTS of other hosts. With 4 big and popular torrents, and depending on your settings, you could for example have 400 connections open all transfering data... and even tho each connection may only be transferring a tiny bit of data, all together its too much work for the router which is used to lots of data on just one connection (that it needs to keep track of, rewrite headers for NAT, etc...) As for checking, I just noticed when downloading torrents with my old router than even pinging the router become abnormally slow, sometimes I couldn't log in via HTTP anymore... but I guess every router will behave differently. Try ping's and traceroute's to external hosts too... as long as your upload cap settings are ok in your torrent client, you shouldn't notice a drop in speed even when you're downloading. Thanks for the recommendation, but at least for the moment, I don't plan to make any changes. I was actually quite happy with ktorrent, but my kids were complaining that sometimes the Internet was very slow and that seemed to coincide with my use of ktorrent. Someone on the list (sorry, I don't remmember who) suggested rtorrent as being less resource intensive. Did they notice that the Internet was slow or that the computer was slow? The former would be a result of overloading your connection, the latter the result of your client being resource intensive. One nice feature of Azureus which I admit I've never used, it has 'auto tuning', where it can automatically configure your upload and download caps and adjust them automatically when necessary. Gadi P.S. With popular torrents on a 1.5mbps connection, you should be able to get up to about 160K/sec or so... -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: rtorrent choking my internet connection
As long as you're not using the standard ports, you shouldn't have problems with your ISP. Probably your problem is that you're reaching your maximum upload speed and therefore choking your connection. Check the upstream bandwidth of your package (iirc with 1.5mbps it's only 128kbps), divide by 8 to get 16Kbps.. and lower a bit for tcp headers, etc... means you need to configure your client to cap your global upload speed at say 13Kbps... try that and see how you go... Obviously with torrents, the faster you upload the faster you download... so on an ADSL connection (by nature of it being Asynchronous DSL, i.e. different upload and download bandwidth) you'll never get your full donwload speed. But the bigger your package, the faster you'll download, because bigger ADSL packages have greater upstream bandwidth. So you always want to be uploading as fast as you can, but below the point where you choke your connection. Of course, if you have an external router, that could also be your problem...although I don't think that's what you described here. But alot of routers can't handle the sheer mass of connections used by torrent networks and slow down to a total crawl. That's why I started using my Linux box to do all my routing for my home network. Last thing, I really recommend the Azureus client... it's really really good. http://azureus.sf.net/ Gadi Shlomo Solomon wrote: I decided to try rtorrent (rTorrent 0.6.4 - libTorrent 0.10.1), instead of ktorrent whch seemed to be strangling my internet connection. So long as I was dealing with only 1 or 2 torrents, everything seemed OK. I should say that I didn't change anything in my firewall (i.e open any ports for rtorrent), so I'm not surprised that the downloads are very slow, but I can live with that. I tried adding 2 more torrents and started to have serious problems. With 4 torrents active, the total download and upload speeds are only about 10 Kb in each direction. I have a 1.5 ADSL connection, so rtorrent seems to be using a very insignificant part of my bandwith. But, even so, it completely locks up my internet connection. While 4 torrents are active, I can't even ping outside the LAN. Sometimes ping responds that the network is unreachable and sometimes unknown host. Stopping the torrents solves the problem immediately. I've played with various settings, mainly throttling, but with no success and I have no idea what's happening. The ony thing I could think of is that maybe my ISP (Smile - 015) does some sort of traffic shaping, but I have no idea if that's true or how to check. IF that's the case, I've read that encrypting the torrent traffic can help, but I haven't tried that yet, since as I said, I don't even know if that's the problem. Any ideas. -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: Webmail like Gmail + encryption
Never used it but there's www.hushmail.com. Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, I would like to keep company emails secure and encrypted. I'm looking for a webmail program that is similar to Gmail. It don't have to own all the stuff, just to be productive. I would also want encryption. I want all the emails be encrypted automatically. What is the procedure for a user? should he take with him a usb private key? I'm looking for your comments on the idea. Tnx, Kfir -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
www.mybroadband.co.il
Hi All There have been alot of e-mails on the list this year (from myself aswell) relating to the Internet in Israel. Every ISP promises that they are the fastest, have the best support, when often nothing can be further from the truth. An ISP / infrastructure provider will be having technical problems that affect all users, but to cover their ass they'll waste your time trying to find a non existant problem on your PC. In most other countries, you have independant sites which keep such companies in line, and I'd like your help in setting one up for Israel. I foresee a number of parts of such a site: 1) A WIKI which will include 1a) General information on each ISP, including hopefully maps showing their connections and bandwidth both locally and abroad (is this info available anywhere??) 1b) Debugging information for ADSL modems, cable, etc, to help people help themselves, and help users/us perform our own diagnostics before having to waste time on the phone with support. 1c) Of course, plenty of Linux information... both rating ISPs according to their linux support, and of course offering scripts and other info. There's already a page on using openl2tpd to connect via HOT -- this seems to the best and most actively maintained l2tp package, and the info is all from 2007 and not 2001 like other guides. 2) RATINGS OF THE ISPS and infrastructure providers 2a) Subjective ratings: users will be able to rate from 1-10 on issues such as speed, support, stability, etc. 2b) Objecting ratings: linux scripts that will run daily or even hourly performing latency, bandwidth and maybe even traceroute tests to various selected sites in Israel and abroad, and automatically submit this data to a script on the site which will show ISP aggregates, graphs, etc... 2c) In both cases, we'll a) see the real numbers and not the ISPs opinion of how good they are, and secondly we'll be able to tell objectively if an ISP is experiencing a problem instead of relying on their word. 3) Finally, I guess a forum for discussion of Israeli internet. Obviously this is quite a big endeavor and nothing I can do on my own, but I think it's something that would be really worthwhile for the community here and benefit everyone (i.e. once the ISPs have real competition to deliver on their promises). The wiki is set up, although as you can see there's not much there now (www.mybroadband.co.il). Feel free to add, edit, change, re-order, etc, anything on the site, without asking me. It's a community site, I just want to get things started. My forte is PHP, so I can handle all the rating scripts, etc... as for (2c) I can handle the server side, but it would be great if someone else could write a shell script to perform the actual tests, and I'll handle processing and maybe laying out of the submitted data. Anyway, for those who want to be more involved than just editing stuff on the wiki, you're invited to send an email with the word 'subscribe' in the subject or body of the message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List information and future archives will go here: http://lists.mybroadband.co.il/mailman/listinfo/devel. Feel free to post something, again, this is a project for all of those motivated to do it, nothing depends on me. Please also feel free to forward this message to other relevant lists you're subscribed to, especially if they're in Hebrew (which isn't my forte... although I hope most parts of the site will finally be available in atleast English and Hebrew, and maybe more). Feel free to translate this message. Kol tov Gadi --- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: [OT/2] Making IE display PNG (or GIF?) with transparency
Ariel Bar-David wrote:
From my experience with those CSS stuff, it can cause a situation in
which the text on the transparent image cannot be selected, and links
on the transparent image don't work. To solve that problem, if you're
making a transparent background that contains only one color, and that
repeats itself, you must make the background tile height not more than
1 pixel.
oh actually, I think that might have been the problem that the second
bit of code I provided fixed. I remember having this problem and I
remember getting the buttons working without needing to resize the pic.
you can see the site which used all this stuff at
http://www.habonimcampsite.co.za/ - all buttons work great :) took me a
while though, was a very frustrating experience.
I also think that this CSS code won't apply to FF (as
far as I recall), and so you'll might have to check which browser is
used by the client, and if it's FF, you'll only need to load the image
(without any extra code).
That's exactly it, only IE will use stuff marked like _this in the CSS
code... so you don't have to have to do any checks for which browser is
being used.
Gadi
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- Original Message
From: Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2007 3:10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [OT/2] Making IE display PNG (or GIF?) with transparency
On 04/08/07, Gadi Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also spent alot of
time on this issue... there are alot of solutions, but I think I
finally found the best one. Make a CSS class like this for your object:
div.transback {
background:
url('opac/black3.png'); /* and now for IE only stuff */
_background-image: none;
_filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(sizingMethod='scale',src='opac/black3.png');
}
Thanks. At last it works!
I added the lines above to the style for the main paragraph, like this:
#main {
width:20%;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 20px 40px 20px 40px;
border:solid 1px #555;
background: url('75p_white.png'); /* and now for IE only stuff */
_background-image: none;
_filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(sizingMethod='scale',src='75p_white.png');
}
And now I get the transparent background through IE 6. Unfortunately it
doesn't seem to work for IE under Linux (using Ies4Linux) so I'm stuck with
testing IE 6 on my wife's Windows XP.
of course, you'll need
to specify the png files here too... i guess instead of div
class=transback you could do div style=background: ...;
_background-image: ... etc instead. Most browsers will use the
'background' atttribute and of course can render PNG files directory.
Explorer reads _attributes (attribute names with a _ before them), in
reality I think it's probably meant to ignore it like most other
browsers, but it's a good way to put stuff for explorer only in CSS.
there are alot of other
broken things in explorer which need work arounds... can't remember
what this was for but maybe you'll need it too:
body {
overflow: hidden;
/* fix/hack for position:fixed in IE */
}
i think it was
related... vaguely recall something about scrolling properly with
transparent backgrounds, but can't remember exactly.
Thanks. At least currently with IE6, shrinking the window and scrolling the
page seems to work perfectly. I'll keep that in mind.
Cheers,
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Re: [OT/2] Making IE display PNG (or GIF?) with transparency
I also spent alot of time on this issue... there are alot of solutions,
but I think I finally found the best one. Make a CSS class like this
for your object:
div.transback {
background: url('opac/black3.png'); /* and now for IE only
stuff */
_background-image: none;
_filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(sizingMethod='scale',src='opac/black3.png');
}
of course, you'll need to specify the png files here too... i guess
instead of div class=transback you could do div style=background:
..; _background-image: ... etc instead. Most browsers will use the
'background' atttribute and of course can render PNG files directory.
Explorer reads _attributes (attribute names with a _ before them), in
reality I think it's probably meant to ignore it like most other
browsers, but it's a good way to put stuff for explorer only in CSS.
there are alot of other broken things in explorer which need work
arounds... can't remember what this was for but maybe you'll need it too:
body {
overflow: hidden; /* fix/hack for position:fixed in IE */
}
i think it was related... vaguely recall something about scrolling
properly with transparent backgrounds, but can't remember exactly.
just wait till you have to debug javascript in IE, that's the real fun
part... something that works fine on every other browser fails
wordlessly in IE... and if you install their debugger, it gives you a
column and line number which has nothing to do with anything :)
Gadi
P.S. IE should displays GIF with transparency no problem. I'm assuming
you meant PNG's with opacity settings, there are other ways to make
entire opaque images transparent all at once, but I've never used it.
Amos Shapira wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for a way to make IE 5.0/5.5/6 display a transparent
background on a web page.
Sample that works on Firefox: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2chzba
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2chzba
I tried all sorts of fixes I found on the net but none of them works
with IE.
Does anyone here have experience with solving this problem?
I know IE sucks but it's a business web site that needs to reach the
widest audience possible.
Thanks,
--Amos
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Shorewall/forwarding with eth0:0
Ok, so my new ISP set me up without a dialer without asking me, and although I've asked them to change it back, the request takes around 3 business days and in the meantime I'm going crazy not being able to use my other PCs at home. Shorewall works great when my internet connection is on ppp0, but I'm really struggling to get my routing working when the internet is on eth0 and local network on eth0:0. I'm guessing the reason is because right now eth0 and eth0:0 are in the same zone, and you can't use ethx:x style aliases in the /etc/shorewall/interfaces file. My current non working setup looks like this: In /etc/shorewall/masq: ppp+192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 eth0192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 In /etc/shorewall/interfaces: net ppp+detect loc ppp0detect loc eth0detect But I can't reach the 'net from other systems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gadi]# traceroute www.google.com traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using xx.xx.xx.xx traceroute to www.l.google.com (64.233.183.99), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 zion (192.168.0.8) 7.584 ms 9.141 ms 6.562 ms 2 zion (192.168.0.8) 7.955 ms 8.005 ms 1.155 ms [EMAIL PROTECTED] gadi]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] www]$ ping www.google.com PING www.l.google.com (64.233.183.147) 56(84) bytes of data. From zion (192.168.0.8) icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable With zion of course being the Linux system connected to the Internet. It's running Mandriva 2006 (a red-hat derivative). For the record, the internet *has* to be on eth0 because dhclient can't handle eth0:0 type addresses (or atleast not when called from ifcfg- scripts). And yes, I've read all the relevant shorewall FAQs and documentation, nothing describes my case exactly, and the I haven't been able to apply anything I read there successfully. $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 1 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also once I'm back to using a dialer, I started writing a guide to using openl2tpd to connect via cable here... unlike the other year old guides I found describing antiquated software that is no longer maintained, open2ltpd is updated regularly, uses the kernel for its datapath making it much faster (but I guess for small networks you won't notice the difference) and the kernel module will be included in future kernel releases. Thanks guys Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: Fwd: ADSL connection problem
Ok I think Geoffrey answered most of your questions... so just a few comments from my experience: 1) Bezeq saying everything is ok doesn't mean everything is ok. It means the very obvious things are ok. Also in my experience (as someone who is experienced and knows how to configure and diagnose via a linux box) EVERY time there's been a problem, and they've said it was on my side, in the end it would be an issue on their side. Just so you know :) 2) For this and other reasons (which could be ISP issues, but there's only one way to find out) I have HOT doing an installation here on Monday. Another big advantage of course is that with Bezeq in my area, I can only go up to 2.5mbps/250kbps... with HOT I just ordered 6mbps/600kbps :). I'll be happy to let you know how it goes it you want some feedback before making your own decision. Of course, a true opinion requires long testing... I used to be very happy with Bezeq actually. 3) PPPoe on Linux is super easy.. with pptp (yes yes, I had an Alcatel too, those were the days :)) I remember having to patch the source for Bezeq, etc... PPPoe works out the box. As was suggested download all the packages while you still have internet (I don't recall off hand what you'll need but I'm sure there are some good HOW-TO's online - for starters download any packages matching *pppoe* and their dependencies). 4) Yeah, a router handles everything for you, essentially taking the role of your PC doing the routing for your network now... it has a firewall, everything. This might get you some slack from support, but amazingly they still asked me to do stuff through Windows on one of my calls. From my experience with the routers I've used until now, none of them handled high load so well (high load being bittorrent, so probably loads of connections) so I still do my routing through Linux, but you can try find reviews on the net, I'm sure newer routers are better equipped for modern day reality... actually I think my newish ADSL router/modem is running Linux, but I never took the time to test it's routing. Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: Fwd: ADSL connection problem
the same as on my regular partition. I should mention that I don't have Windows, so I can't say if this problem is Linux only. As I mentioned before, please CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. TIA -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: OT: Hosting
Rami Addady wrote: Shouldn't VPS give you isolated environment with grantee resources? There are a lot of VPS solotion: Virtuozzo, Xen , openvz etc. None off them give you performance isolation? I have good experience (or luck?) using Virtuozzo or some US hosting company. I've been mostly happy with unixshell.com which uses free, open-source Xen, but there have been problems and the performance isolation is definitely not perfect. The staff recommend that those of us running production servers migrate to their sister company tektonic.net, which uses the commercial Virtuozzo, and I believe people there are pretty happy. My plan was to migrate my VPS there quite soon, but this thread really inspired me; I didn't realize server rental prices had dropped so much. After much searching I opened an account today with server4you.com; my considerations were hardware, (burstable) bandwidth and network, and price. I'm pretty happy with what I found and I'm busy setting it up now, which is quite exciting seeing as I've never used Fedora Core before, nor Plex. There are some other options too but that's what I chose. Anyway I'll be able to give an update in a few months if people are interested and remind me. In short: if you pay annually, the package I chose gives you for $99/mo: Intel P4 3.4 Ghz, 1024MB RAM, 160GB HDD, 1500GB bandwidth and includes Plesk (100 domains) for free. It's on a Tier-1 network, speeds so far are great - X seen with VNC over an ssh tunnel is pretty responsive (of course I'm using a limited colour palette, compression, etc..). Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: OT: Hosting
Gadi Cohen wrote: After much searching I opened an account today with server4you.com; my considerations were hardware, (burstable) bandwidth and network, and price. Oh I forgot to mention, the other deciding factor was their recovery system... it sounds like if your box dies they can do a network boot for you on your system with their recovery installation... so you'll get to do repartitioning, repair broken file systems, install other linux distributions, etc. I thought that was pretty neat seeing as I don't intend to ever fly to the US if things break down. Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: PHP, MySQL, Hebrew question
Your input and stored data need to agree in character set. Make sure
either that you are displaying the page to the user in a hebrew
character set (so that input will be sent back in same charset) or as
was already suggested, switch everything over to utf8.
You can do this either by using
*header*('Content-Type: text/html; *charset*=utf-8'); [or iso8859-8
or iso8859-9-i]
(anywhere in your script before output starts)
or by likewise including the following in your page head section
*meta http*-equiv=Content-Type
content=text/html;*charset*=utf-8 / [or iso8859-8 or iso8859-9-i]
You can also try something like: (look these up in the manual for more
details)
SET CHARACTER SET hebrew (or utf8)
SET NAMES hebrew (or utf8)
as you log in to the database, or use the CONVERT function in your
individual statements.
Gadi
David Suna wrote:
While this is not directly linux related it is FOSS related.
I have a MySQL 5 database that has fields with Hebrew values. The
fields are defined as varchar with a hebrew_general_ci collation. I
have a PHP page that takes values specified in a form field and runs a
query against the table. For example, it takes the values specified
by the user for first name and last name and queries the table for
rows that match the first_name and last_name columns. When I run the
query on the PHP page the result is that no rows are found. When I
print out the SQL that was run and copy and paste it into a query on
phpMyAdmin against the same database it does return rows in the result
set.
Does someone know the magic necessary to make the query work when it
is run via PHP? Alternatively, how can I debug this problem where the
printed SQL works when run through phpMyAdmin but not when run directly?
Thanks,
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Re: VMWare and native Windows XP
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws32_disks8.html Have fun :) Valery Reznic wrote: Good day. I have dual-boot computer with Linux on one partition (sda1) and WinXP on the other (sda2). Linux has VMware installed. (VMware-server-1.0.2-39867) Now, I want boot into Linux, and from VMware run windows, installed in the sda2. VMware-server allows specify whole disk or partition to be disk for virtual machine. I specify it. And try to but VM. To my surprise I got grub boot loader, select windows, and windows began to boot and the fail. Windows was installed on (native) SATA drive, and VMware make Windows think drive is LSI, which was not installed in the first place. In linux adding modules mptbase.ko mptscsih.ko mptspi.ko to the initrd can solve the problem. Is it a way to achive same on Windows, i.e boot windows, which was installed native under VMWare ? Valery Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
[OT] List/forum for discussing internet in Israel
Where's the right place to do this? * Where can I find updates on which ISPS have how much bandwidth to where? * Where can I ask if anyone else is having speed problems internationally lately? * Where can I find comparitive bandwidth/latency tests from different ISPS at different times? etc, etc. Thanks Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: D-Link DWL-G650 PCMCIA under linux.
I must admit, both in Linux and out, I've had nothing but bad experiences with D-link products. I'm have the DWL-G520+ PCI running with Ndiswrapper (obviously acx and madwifi are native and so less likely to cause problems).. it constantly disconnects, the only way to fix is to unload and reload the driver. I have a script checking the connection every minute and doing this as required, hardly ideal. I also have the DI-624 router. it constantly disconnects, even worse is that under high load it slows down to a crawl... and remains so even after the load is lifted. you have to reset it to get back to normal speeds. Of course, there are plenty of people who've had good experience with particular d-link models, but, you asked.. :) Gadi Michael Ben-Nes wrote: This helped me http://sourceforge.net/projects/acx100 good luck :) Shlomi Shalem wrote: Hey all, I am about to purchase a new wireless adapter (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=11), and I would like to know whether any of you guys have any good/bad experience with it. According to http://madwifi.org this card suppose to work fine under linux. Thank you all, have a nice day. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: slightly OT: MySQL importing UTF-8 inconsistantly
I can't remember exactly which versions but there was definitely a problem with PhpMyAdmin's dump of UTF-8 text. Hebrew for example came out IIRC as s. If you have command line access, the fix is easy. Use mysqldump and the unicode text is exported correctly, and imports perfectly from the command line. Gadi Ira Abramov wrote: is there a DBA in the house? I got a dump out of a working site via phpMyAdmin, it's a MySQL 4.1 server, the text fields with Hebrew strings are all marked "collate utf8_unicode_ci" in the schema, and indeed when browsing the tables via phpmyadmin with UTF-8 as the page encoding I read the Hebrew perfectly. The developer imported that dump to a mysql 4.1 he has running on a windows machine and it worked great for him. However, when I import it to a MySQL 5.0 server, the text is read in as though it was ASCII. when I browse a table in phphMyAdmin I do get the page marked UTF-8, but the text is broken down to double-bytes as if I was watching it as a simple 8859-1 (i.e. if I switch FF to real 8859-1 some of the characters get broken down to even more characters) I tried iconv tricks on the dump, running the daemon and CLI under different LANG settings, no change. Is this an bug in MySQL 5 or is it something else I missed during the import? Is the dump coming out of phpMyAdmin somehow incompatible with my attempts to import it on the commandline? Helllp :-( -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelandsnet Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Linux/firefox friendly credit card acceptance
Ok so this came up a while ago except then it was for credit card holders. Now on the flip-side I'm looking for info on how to accept credit card payments on an Israeli website. I'm familiar with alot of services internationally for this, but obviously they don't accept local isracard payments. So the requirements are: * Accept local isracard payments + international cards * If they offer a front end, it should work flawlessly with firefox * If they offer an API, it should run on Linux. PHP is preferable. Any help? Thanks Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: wireless card 2200GB doesn't start.
There are two things you can try: 1) echo 100 /sys/class/firmware/timeout to increase the default timeout value. 2) try removing the packages installing the driver/firmware from sourceforge Take a look at http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/#downloads... It mentions the timeout problem just under the file list. Good luck. Gadi David Harel wrote: Hi all, I did as in: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Gentoo_on_Fujitsu-Siemens_S7020#Onboard_Wireless and when I do: modprobe ipw2200 I get the following message in dmesg: ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2 ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2 ipw2200: failed to register network device ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :06:05.0 disabled ipw2200: probe of :06:05.0 failed with error -5 Any idea? -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
bezeqint weirdness with international speeds
This has happened to me a few times. - I notice that I'm getting shocking international speeds, about 40k/sec. - Check on speedtest.fresh.co.il and I'm rated at 200k/sec (I have a 2.5mbps connection) - I disconnect from bezeqint and reconnect - International speeds are back to normal. Does this make sense to anyone? Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: Looking for another ISP (a bit off topic)
Nadav Har'El wrote: what's really wrong with that? How is that any different than what happens in any other utility like phone, cellphone, electricity, water, and so on? I think the great thing about the internet is specifically that we're *not* billed for volume. That's separates the internet from everything else on this planet. I'm fine with different packages for different users, but I always want a decently priced 'unlimited' option. Consider these uses: 1) smallest scale: skype works because its free and you don't pay per minute 2) medium scale: i can't leave my internet radio playing anymore? 2) large scale: i pay a content provider for online movies... now i have to pay my ISP aswell?? The thing that sets the internet apart is that you're paying a flat-rate fee for a connection to the network. From there it's up to you if you pay separate content providers for their services. In South Africa (where I'm from), users are capped after 3GB. In this case capped means they are put in a pool with every other user in the country who has exceeded the cap, and get unusable below modem-speeds. The only way around it is to buy another account with another 3GB cap. It's enforced by our monopolistic telephone company. The result? No better speeds, our IT industry is cripped, all that's happening is they are getting more money instead of investing in more bandwidth. Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: Portable MP3 player?
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: The only problem I see with those numbersis that AFIK, the only "cheap" MP3 player that plays AAC files is the Apple iPOD shuffle which is ridiculously priced. In the U.S. a 512meg one sells for a competitive $69, here it is about twice that, yet they are only taxed VAT. I don't know if any of the following players answer your original specs, but Rockbox (www.rockbox.org) has AAC support on the iriver iHP1x0, H1x0, H3x0 series, and on the iPod 4G, Color/Photo, Nano and Video. I've only used rockbox on Archos hardware but it is great, open-source and feature filled jukebox software and is fully Hebrew-enabled. Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: Linux Debian sarge VPS Hosting
I didn't realize there was Linux VPS hosting in Israel.. is there? I have an account at www.unixshell.com. I'm running Mandriva but they have a number of Debian images available. For the most part I have had pretty good experience with them, and the packages are pricing and great. Also they are running Xen which is must faster than user-mode Linux and scores very close to native Linux on most benchmarks. This is the most similar to what you were looking for: "The 64", free setup, 64MB ram, 128MB swap, 64 units CPU, 3GB disk space, 64GB traffic, 1 IP address. USD $7.99/month. It's important to note that they offer no support for anything "inside" your VPS. You can email them for network problems, etc, but the service is intended for advanced users and thats why are the prices are so low. Some security knowledge is essential, it looks like their entire IP range is a regular target for all sorts of scans - but this really is no big deal if you know what you're doing. In terms of connectivity to/from Israel... I have a 2mbps ADSL package and when downloading from my server I get around 240 K/sec (i.e. pretty close to the maximum theoretical speed). Latency is about 190ms. When accessing a vnc X display over ssh, things are are definitely "usable" but hardly ideal. Good luck. Gadi P.S. If you're only looking at web hosting, there are probably much better options available in terms of price and especially not having to worry about security. I have a friend who has an account with www.ixwebhosting.com and he seems pretty happy, the prices are decent and they have mysql/php and alot of the other usual things. ik wrote: Hello, I'm looking for hosting company for VPS that gives you the ability to use Debian Sarge, without all of the web manager and other tools (only ssh access). I do not need more then 20G (including the OS), a 512 mega of RAM, and if I have more then 5 people connected at the same time, I do not want to hear that someone makes DoS on the router (don't ask). Can you recommend me any good company (preferred in Israel) that gives such services ? Thanks Ido -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: Skype or MSN massenger and webcam under VMware?
Hi There's only an unstable alpha driver for my webcam in Linux, which is mostly unusable. Since VMware version 5, there is support for isochronous USB devices, and since then, my webcam works flawlessly on Messenger under Windows XP. I'm running Mandriva Linux but I can't see you having any problems at all on Debian. And yes that was with NAT (and possible UPNP). Good luck. Gadi Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, Does anyone here had positive experience running Windows version of Skype or MSN massenger under Windows-XP/VMware/Linux(debian)? Skype is the only VoIP for Linux I managed to use throught my ADSL router NAT and MSN Massenger on Win98 is the only application I managed to use for webcam conversation. I'm aware that the latest version of Kopete supports MSN video conf but I haven't managed to make it connect through my NAT, not even with port forwarding. Thanks, --Amos -- "I was being prosecuted for my beliefs I believed people wouldn't notice I'd sold them camels with plaster teeth until I was well out of town." - Terry Pratchett, "Pyramids" To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
Re: OT: electronics in Israel / brainwave entrainment
Hi All Ok so this is from a while ago and it's still OT, but I do think its info that could benefit people on this list. I got a few replies privately and I'm going to summarize all that info. Incidentally I didn't mention where I lived because I was looking for a chain... but I got back all the info I needed anyway. So no, there's nothing like Radio Shack in Israel :) TEL AVIV REGION The consensus here is the central bus station area. A dozen or so shops in Har-Tzion, Wolfson and Matalon streets: - Siman Tov Electronics - Avi Even Electronics, 22 Hartzion St, http://www.even-elect.co.il/HTMLs/Home.aspx (IE site) - A shop inside the old bus station. and in Ramat Gan / Givataim: - "Shamsi Electronics", 153 Katzanelson St JERUSALEM - "Kashayof" HAIFA - Leon electronics (לאון אלקטרוניקה) - There's a shop on or near Gedera street. Thanks to Leonid Podolny, Jason Friedman, Arik Baratz, Shahar Dag, Ilya Konstantinov and Aaron Aamehl for contributing. Gadi P.S. A friend of mine from South Africa with a degree in electrical engineering has offered to build me the EEG unit, so maybe I'll have something interesting to post in a few months. Gadi Cohen wrote: Sorry for two OT posts in one day, but I'm an oleh chadash with no friends so go easy on me :) Actually this post has a loose connection to Linux (see below). Where can I buy electronic parts in Israel? Like an equivalent of Radio Shack? Amongst other things I'm interested in building the home-made EEG (the device used to measure brainwave activity) found at http://openeeg.sf.net/ - and most the analyzation software is built in Linux. For those of you interested in brainwave entrainment, there are some great linux utilities for binaural beats here: http://sbagen.sourceforge.net/ (Say you put 100 Hz in your left ear, and 108 Hz in your right ear, the difference, the frequency of 8 Hz forms inside your brain, and your dominant brainwave frequency tends towards it (FFR) - in this case 8 Hz is in the alpha range, so after hearing this for a few minutes you start feeling alot more relaxed). By progressively lowering the binaural beat frequency you can entrain to the same states achieved by experienced meditators, as measured by EEG devices. I'll make this even more interesting to make up for the double OT post. Craniel Electro Stimulation (CES) involves attaching ear clips to both your ear lobes and sending a low current straight through your brain. There is a device called the Voodoo Magick Box which does this at a frequency of 0.5 Hz and while it's on you feel like you're high :) More info at http://ces.wastelands.net/ One of the reasons I'd like to build an EEG is I'm working on a project to use your PC's own soundcard to generate the current and want to test its effectiveness. Gadi P.S. If anyone has experience in building in electronic devices and is interested in assembling some of these things for me in exchange for payment, please contact me privately. -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
OT: Babylon scare tactics
Ok, so this has nothing to do with Linux but I figure if anyone can
answer this question about computer software in Israel, its all of you :)
I am a legal user of Babylon Translator. My license is close to
expiration. Today I received an e-mail from their sales department
saying that my license is being illegally used on several computers. If
I renew my license in the next week, they'll forget about it, and if I
don't, they will take the necessary action.
I'm no legal expert, but I'm pretty sure that in the US atleast,
collecting personally identifiable information without express consent
is illegal. Making legal threats that can't be backed up (i.e. if the
means used to collect the info is illegal), is illegal. Both of these
are adequate grounds for a class action suit against the company
involved. In any event, trying to get your users to renew their
licenses by threatening them is dubious at best.
I had a look at the EULA of the version I installed, and at the privacy
statement on their website. Both have very loosely defined clauses
which could legitimize what they are doing. I don't think it would hold
up in a US court but I have no idea how Israel works. I do know that
false threats in Israel are illegal (like when the IBA forced people to
pay their TV licenses by threatening to impound their cars, were sued
and had to return all the money plus damages).
Is my best bet to simply renew my license? I was going to do this
anyway, but i DO NOT appreciate threatening emails bullying me into
making a purchase.
Or is this worth pursuing? not that I have spare cash for legal
battles, but... you know.
Thank you!
Gadi
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OT: electronics in Israel / brainwave entrainment
Sorry for two OT posts in one day, but I'm an oleh chadash with no friends so go easy on me :) Actually this post has a loose connection to Linux (see below). Where can I buy electronic parts in Israel? Like an equivalent of Radio Shack? Amongst other things I'm interested in building the home-made EEG (the device used to measure brainwave activity) found at http://openeeg.sf.net/ - and most the analyzation software is built in Linux. For those of you interested in brainwave entrainment, there are some great linux utilities for binaural beats here: http://sbagen.sourceforge.net/ (Say you put 100 Hz in your left ear, and 108 Hz in your right ear, the difference, the frequency of 8 Hz forms inside your brain, and your dominant brainwave frequency tends towards it (FFR) - in this case 8 Hz is in the alpha range, so after hearing this for a few minutes you start feeling alot more relaxed). By progressively lowering the binaural beat frequency you can entrain to the same states achieved by experienced meditators, as measured by EEG devices. I'll make this even more interesting to make up for the double OT post. Craniel Electro Stimulation (CES) involves attaching ear clips to both your ear lobes and sending a low current straight through your brain. There is a device called the Voodoo Magick Box which does this at a frequency of 0.5 Hz and while it's on you feel like you're high :) More info at http://ces.wastelands.net/ One of the reasons I'd like to build an EEG is I'm working on a project to use your PC's own soundcard to generate the current and want to test its effectiveness. Gadi P.S. If anyone has experience in building in electronic devices and is interested in assembling some of these things for me in exchange for payment, please contact me privately. -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook
Hi Gabor, Ok it's been a while since I've researched all this so I'm going to mention some stuff from memory, I hope it's all accurate :) Yes, traditionally the Prism chipset enjoyed the best support on Linux because as far as I recall the manufacturers made critical information available to the Linux community. This is the most developed driver out there and should definiately be a top preference. Atheros chipsets are also very popular. IIRC the manufacturers weren't very co-operative but after alot of progress was made on the open source driver began to offer some limited assistance. As far as I know this is probably the 2nd most developed driver out there... http://madwifi.sf.net . I've got an Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 in my Laptop, and there's a driver for it at http://ipw2200.sf.net/ . It works great :) Of course, you you can probably get almost any network or wireless network card to work with the NDIS Wrapper driver - http://ndiswrapper.sf.net/ . MS Windows has a common API for network drivers (called NDIS), and this wrapper let's you use them on Linux. Very cool! HOWEVER -- 1) you'll be supporting manufacturers who refuse to publish their specs (bad!!!), and 2) you'll lose out on any special features not supported by the NDIS API, such as signal strength indicators and turbo mode. (Double check if it supports CardBus cards I'm not 100% sure). There is a driver for Texas Instruments ACX100/ACX111 cards at http://acx100.sf.net/ . Make sure to read the comments for your card on the supported devices list, I didn't heed a warning not to buy my card and ended up using ndiswrapper. Once again, you shouldn't (IMHO) buy cards from manufacturers who refuse to co-operate with the Linux open source community or refuse to offer their own closed source drivers (also a contentious issue for some :)). What chipset was in your Level-One card? And what Laptop do you have just for general interest? (For the unknowing, 'lspci' and 'lsusb' is a good way to help identify your card (I'm not sure about CardBus) -- you can also search for the : vendor/product code on google). Good luck. Gadi On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 09:21 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: As you might guess from a previous message I sent to the list I am now in the getting 802.11g wireless card into a Linux Notebook business. I bought a Level One WPC-0301 card for 205 NIS but it was not recognized by Fedora3 and from the help I got here and from the searches II made it seems it will be hard to get a stable driver for it. Then I did some research and from the various sites I found I understand that basically only cards with Prism54 chip set are well supported. (Am I correct here ?) See this link http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php In this shop there are a few others listed that should work as well: http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/store/index.php/cPath/45_66 Now the supplier offered me a replacement card called 3CRWE154G72(A 3Com card) for 368 NIS. (one of the cards listed on the Prism site). I am not sure I want to pay an extra 163 NIS for this card if there is a cheaper but working solution. So I would like to ask you ppl. do you have experience with any PCMCIA WiFi card (11g) that works well under Linux ? Where did you buy it ? How much did it cost ? Thanks Gabor = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
intermittent ADSL problems, router or bezeqint?
Hi all, I have a problem where sometimes I'll try to open a web page and it just sticks trying to load the page. I can wait for ages and nothing will happen. But if I re-load the page it might come up instantly (except for sometimes when I get caught in a 'gap' of not being able to get anywhere). I originally thought my problem was my D-Link router, especially because when using BitTorrent intensively I had to reboot it every day for the 'net to be usable. Traceroute times were ridiculously slow and fixed immediately after a reboot, and also I saw alot of bad feedback for my model (DI-624) on the 'net. I replaced it with a Level-One router (WBR-3405TX) which was highly recommended from where I bought it. BitTorrent doesnt affect accumulative latency anymore, but I'm still having the same problem. So could it still be my router? Or is anyone else having a similar problem on bezeqint? FWIW I'm running wirelessly from my laptop, but I have no problem reaching the router itself. I'm not 100% but I don't seem to recall the IP address changing before and after these gaps of connectivity indicating a disconnect. Anyone? Gadi = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BiDi coming to GtkHTML / Evolution
Last I heard they're planning on having it in the 2.1 release. Don't have the reference, but this was from one of the developers on the mailing list. Does the composer use gtkhtml for layout? Gadi On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 23:21 +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: Just thought of letting you guys know, Don't hold you breath yet, but BiDi support may be coming to Evolution and GtkHTML: http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000427.html Obviously, it'll come quicker if anyone of us who trully understands the BiDi issues will step in and help. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does https://b2b.btl.gov.il/b2b/pay.asp expected to work with non IE?
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 20:32 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: IF Len(Trim(document.all(textSisma).value))=5 or Len(Trim(document.all(textSisma).value))=8 THEN formLogin.textFormPassword.value = textSisma.value formLogin.submit else Now, if anyone can help me. Are they saying that the password can be 5 or 8 characters, but not 6? My Basic is somewhat rusty, but yeah, it does seem to look like a password can onlhy be 5 or 8 characters. However, it's checking the trimmed length (which I'm assuming as in PHP is with newlines and whitespaces trimmed from either side), and, saving the untrimmed length. So even if they had a similar script on the server side, if you sent a password with let's say, oh, five thousand spaces spaces followed by 5 legit characters, it would be accepted :) and who knows what kind of problems that could cause :) (Of course, there's a good chance of no problems... any generated password hash would be an acceptable amount of characters, and something like MySQL would only save whats in the column definition... guess sometimes people are just lucky :)). Gadi = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multiple PPPOE connects to BezeqInt ADSL
Hey, I have a small network running at home (including two virtual windows machines) and at the moment, this is all being routed through a NAT router. I'd like to change this setup, because 1) i'd like each PC (or atleast the linux ones) to have its own IP and not fixed port ranges for each protocol on each PC, and 2) my D-Link DI-624 router takes alot of strain with bittorrent, and slows to a crawl and eventually needs to be rebooted pretty often. I have no experience with other ISPs in Israel, but the ISP I used to use in South Africa would let every PC on the network open up its on PPPOE connection and get its own IP address. (Quite surprising actually considering its other restrictions... like a 3GB cap on international traffic :)). So my question is... is there any way I can do this Bezeq-int? When I try I can't seem to establish a second connection, it just times out. Do any other ISPs support this? Is it worth taking this up with bezeq-int? Thanks alot, Gadi = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multiple PPPOE connects to BezeqInt ADSL
Hey, I have a small network running at home (including two virtual windows machines) and at the moment, this is all being routed through a NAT router. I'd like to change this setup, because 1) i'd like each PC (or atleast the linux ones) to have its own IP and not fixed port ranges for each protocol on each PC, and 2) my D-Link DI-624 router takes alot of strain with bittorrent, and slows to a crawl and eventually needs to be rebooted pretty often. I have no experience with other ISPs in Israel, but the ISP I used to use in South Africa would let every PC on the network open up its on PPPOE connection and get its own IP address. (Quite surprising actually considering its other restrictions... like a 3GB cap on international traffic :)). So my question is... is there any way I can do this Bezeq-int? When I try I can't seem to establish a second connection, it just times out. Do any other ISPs support this? Is it worth taking this up with bezeq-int? Thanks alot, Gadi = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
