Re: ot: looking for cheap/free sip phones

2010-01-08 Thread Amos Shapira
2010/1/8 Ohad Levy : > I use it often, usually works well... the only problem for people which have > a lot of latency is that the nokia(or wlan) adds another ~100ms). Yes I know that it works for many. But personally when I tried to connect the E71 or any soft phone either to an Australian VoIP p

Re: Beware of PayPal + request for advice

2010-01-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
>  And request for advice: do you know how I can transfer money to a > USA bank account (or PayPal account), and receive the money in Israel? >  I don't have a USA bank account.  I can't receive the money from > PayPal in US dollars - that's not an option.  I want to pay minimal > fees.  Do you hav

Re: Beware of PayPal + request for advice

2010-01-08 Thread sara fink
I read few months ago when paypal started to work with israel as well, that there is a trick to transfer money via uk. I don't remember the details. Try to check in ynet, nrg, calcalist. Other option, maybe try to ask the post bank, if they transfer via western union. There is a fee at postal ban

Re: ot: looking for cheap/free sip phones

2010-01-08 Thread Ohad Levy
I use it often, usually works well... the only problem for people which have a lot of latency is that the nokia(or wlan) adds another ~100ms). Ohad On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: > I have an E71 for over a year now and never managed to make a useful > phone call with it. >

Re: ot: looking for cheap/free sip phones

2010-01-08 Thread Amos Shapira
I have an E71 for over a year now and never managed to make a useful phone call with it. I find VoIP settings on it (and in general, VoIP terminology and jargon) to be very confusing... I tried also multiple soft phones to no avail... 2010/1/8 Ohad Levy : > If you have a Nokia E or N series, you c

Beware of PayPal + request for advice

2010-01-08 Thread Uri Even-Chen
Hi, I have a problem with PayPal - they advertise that you can withdraw money to Israeli bank accounts for free. But the catch is - they deposit to Israeli banks in Shekels, and they charge about 3.66% exchange rate fee (undocumented). I got stuck with money in PayPal, after I requested it to be

Re: Small victories, but more work to be done

2010-01-08 Thread Ori Idan
I think this is a great idea. That was something I wanted to do while begin W3C office manager in Israel. Unfortunately nothing of my ideas where done, because of ISOC-IL non cooperation. -- Ori Idan 2010/1/8 Amichai Rotman > Guys, > > wouldn't it be nice to have a web site that shows the sta

Re: ot: looking for cheap/free sip phones

2010-01-08 Thread Diego Iastrubni
...and if you craft your dialplan correctly in asterisk, you can use the internal phone's contact list (dialing 9 for outbound dialing is lame). Highly recommended. On Friday 08 January 2010 10:38:03 Ohad Levy wrote: > If you have a Nokia E or N series, you can use that instead. > > Ohad > > O

Re: Small victories, but more work to be done

2010-01-08 Thread Amichai Rotman
That is what I meant... .::. Amichai Rotman UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] --

Re: Small victories, but more work to be done

2010-01-08 Thread Amichai Rotman
Guys, wouldn't it be nice to have a web site that shows the state of compatibility of each of the Israeli sites to standards and, consequently, FOSS? Here is what should be on that site: 1) Top 5 or 10 "Unfriendly" sites right at the top of the first page - Companies would kill NOT to be on that

Re: SIP provider questions.

2010-01-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Rami! Please avoid sending HTML-only E-mails, either to Linux-IL or in general. As a result, I haven't read your message. Maybe the list administrator can block such E-mails from reaching the list at all. Regards, Shlomi Fish On Friday 08 Jan 2010 08:32:34 Rami Addady wrote: --

Re: ot: looking for cheap/free sip phones

2010-01-08 Thread Ohad Levy
If you have a Nokia E or N series, you can use that instead. Ohad On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:44 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm playing around with asterisk and am looking for some cheap or free SIP > phones. They don't have to be new, work well, etc, jus

Getting xy-coordinate from touch-pad?

2010-01-08 Thread Dov Grobgeld
While thinking about user interface ideas for the N900 which I'm about to buy, I thought of the idea of a "double click with motion". The idea is that you while double clicking move your finger in one of eight directions. This is actually more or less the same idea as the pie-menu, see: http://en.w