Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

2009-03-04 Thread Ira Abramov
I want to make life easy for two clients of mine who want to go virtual, but are set against MS as host (Not my work, I swear! :) Citrix XenServer is free, in case you missed it: http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1686939 ESXi has been free for a while as well: https

Cheap VM cluster (software, storage) ideas

2009-03-04 Thread Ira Abramov
related to the Citrix-vs-VMware question, in the spirit of the times... I want to create a way to host a cheap HA solution for a web hosting outfit. they are running a few pretty busy asymetric servers and want to start improving that infrastructure. each machine holds several dozens of virtual ho

Re: What is the secret to using Lyx with Hebrew?

2009-03-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/3/4 Maxim Kovgan : > I used lyx by implementing the instructions from huji site about lyx. > what I got to was: > when I pressed F12 (IIRC), it *switched* language, both he->en and > en->he, depending on the current state. > I don't remember having to worry about anything else. > > I don't und

Re: What is the secret to using Lyx with Hebrew?

2009-03-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 07:23:33PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/3/4 Maxim Kovgan : > > I used lyx by implementing the instructions from huji site about lyx. > > what I got to was: > > when I pressed F12 (IIRC), it *switched* language, both he->en and > > en->he, depending on the current state.

Mandriva Israel is very supportive!

2009-03-04 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
As a Newbie I saw that it was geared up for Right to Left typing for עברית. After reading up that Gnome appears easier to use I chose Mandriva. I contacted by mail www.mandriva.co.il and requested their free Mandriva 2008.One Spring disk. After installation I found that I couldn't connect to t

Re: Cheap VM cluster (software, storage) ideas

2009-03-04 Thread Ghiora Drori
Hi, Amazon EC2 instances plus their EBS disks. Scalable, available, reliable (from my experience) and you can experiment for a few $'s a day. On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Ira Abramov wrote: > related to the Citrix-vs-VMware question, in the spirit of the times... > > I want to create a way

Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

2009-03-04 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 4 בMarch 2009, Ira Abramov wrote: > This is what I need for the clients. Both are good at windows, only > starting out in Linux. Both need something that's not too techie and CLI to > manage. ESXi has been the automatic no-brainer choice, but with > XenServer being free I'll need to a

RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
Where is the RLM (right to left mark) on the standard Hebrew keyboard layout? I have googled and found that I can configure the Lyx layout and then the RTM character is at Ctrl-Y, but can I make it Ctrl-{ like in another popular OS? Also, where is a list of the Shift characters in Lyx? I have foun

Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

2009-03-04 Thread Lior Okman
Ira Abramov wrote: I want to make life easy for two clients of mine who want to go virtual, but are set against MS as host (Not my work, I swear! :) Citrix XenServer is free, in case you missed it: http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1686939 ESXi has been free for

Re: Cheap VM cluster (software, storage) ideas

2009-03-04 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Ghiora Drori, from the post of Wed, 04 Mar: > Hi, > Amazon EC2 instances plus their EBS disks. > Scalable, available, reliable (from my experience) and you can experiment > for a few $'s a day. I tried to calculate the hosting costs, but was lost when I could not find the full explanation

Re: What is the secret to using Lyx with Hebrew?

2009-03-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:23:33 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/3/4 Maxim Kovgan : > > I used lyx by implementing the instructions from huji site about lyx. > > what I got to was: > > when I pressed F12 (IIRC), it *switched* language, both he->en and > > en->he, depending on the current state. > > I

xfone 018 phone service and Linux

2009-03-04 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, Recently I discovered an VoIP phone service by company xfone: http://www.018.co.il/mpa.asp >From what I understood, they provide you with hardware phone that is connected to regular internet line (preferably with them as the ISP). They also provide an PC client for windows that supposedly all

Re: Cheap VM cluster (software, storage) ideas

2009-03-04 Thread Ghiora Drori
Hi, Why would s3 bother you ? Its there it does not cost money if you do not use it it cost fairly little when you do and it works ok. The only thing you will need s3 for is to store images of systems you want to launch, you could use public images but the cost of keeping private onse in s3 is negl

Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

2009-03-04 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Lior Okman, from the post of Wed, 04 Mar: > Ira Abramov wrote: > >> This is what I need for the clients. Both are good at windows, only >> starting out in Linux. Both need something that's not too techie and CLI to >> manage. ESXi has been the automatic no-brainer choice, but with >> XenSer

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-04 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
What is "standard Hebrew keyboard layout" (disregarding aleph-tav)? - yba On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:13:24 +0200 From: Dotan Cohen To: linux-il. Subject: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout Where is the RLM (right to left mark) on the standar

Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

2009-03-04 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 06:12, Ira Abramov wrote: > None give KVM/Qumranet, OpenVZ and the rest even the tiniest mention. > > know anyone using it in production at least, and are they professionally > happy with it? We use both KVM and OpenVZ. We are happy with OpenVZ but not so much with KV

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-04 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Yonatan, On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:45:17AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > What is "standard Hebrew keyboard layout" (disregarding aleph-tav)? How about SI1452? http://www.qsm.co.il/NewHebrew/Key1452e.htm baruch > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:13

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-04 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Guess that answers the question about RLM/LRM. - yba On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Baruch Siach wrote: Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:04:16 +0200 From: Baruch Siach To: Jonathan Ben Avraham Cc: Dotan Cohen , linux-il. Subject: Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout Hi Yonatan, On Thu, Mar 05,

Fax Modems?

2009-03-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
I'll like to set up a hylafax server to SEND faxes from my computer. I'm runnning Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS. I have several HAM type modems, but from what I can see there are no drivers in a 2.6 kernel for them. What do people use? Is there a source of fax modems that work with Hylafax in Israel?