Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Adir Abraham
Congratulations. You rock :) On 12/3/08, Zvi Devir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > News Flash: The first Windows refund in Israel! > > Check it up: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3632367,00.html > > > > ___ > Haifux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECT

Haifux Linux Day - here it comes

2006-05-18 Thread Adir Abraham
) and email me off-list. Thanks! Adir. -- Adir Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscrib

Re: [Fwd: Re: Fedora Core 4 DVD version]

2005-06-22 Thread Adir Abraham
Search for FC4-i386-DVD in Google. You'll find it :) Adir. On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Amir Binyamini wrote: > Hi, > amazing! > I am also thinking about installing fedora core 4 from a DVD. > I looked at fedora site and according to it there should be FC4-i386-DVD.iso > somewhere. > But I fol

Re: article: Linux makes its first(?) steps into schools in Israel

2005-06-10 Thread Adir Abraham
I can tell you personally that this is not the first project in schools in Israel. Very few schools did that (I was involved with one of them, 2 years ago), and it was very successful. Hopefully now when it's published and has a PR, it will be more widespreaded. -- Adir Abraham [

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel (thread ending)

2005-05-27 Thread Adir Abraham
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Ely Levy wrote: This thread is full of personal insults is completly off topic for this list to this list as far as I can see. Can you guys please keep it on hamakor discussion list? No.. This thread is not welcome in Hamakor's discussion list as well :) I suggest people

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-25 Thread Adir Abraham
Dear all, I don't mind becoming a SCSI cable at the moment, if that's what it takes to stop the argument and flames. I believe that we all raised our points here, and this discussion is not going anywhere. Orr summarized the discussion pretty well, in my opinion. Please, if anybody feels like ans

Sysmask security challenge

2005-05-14 Thread Adir Abraham
http://wims.unice.fr/wims/wims.cgi?session=SSF913912E.2&+lang=en&+module=adm%2Funice%2Fchallenge Has anybody tried to crack this page? Comments? It reminds me the last cracking challenge of APIII. Regards, Adir. = To unsubscrib

Re: Moving to Linux

2005-05-09 Thread Adir Abraham
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Dan Kaspi wrote: this can be easiy changed; moreover, he claimed that since Linux is an open source, maybe it is even easier to develop viruses/spyware to it. In this point I did not know what to answer him. I am not a security expert; it could be that he is right in this point

Re: ot: amd and intel

2004-12-12 Thread Adir Abraham
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Erez Doron wrote: hi i do not want to start a flame war, i am just asking: Oh, you just opened one (just kidding ;). what amd chip is eqivalent to an intel 3Ghz HT ? It depends on the mission which you want to use. In general, it varies from Athlon 64 3000+ to Athlon 64 3400+ R

Re: [OT] buying a domain name

2004-12-12 Thread Adir Abraham
I bought my domain (adir.biz) from active-domains.com. It was as cheap as 7.5$/year. Now they sale domains from 4.95$/year up to 9.95$ a year. I am very satisfied with them, and I haven't heard a single word from them since then. They also supply some bonuses for free, such as free parking, URL

Re: Letter "Tet" Missing (FC3) !

2004-11-19 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi Aharon, I got this problem too. As weird as it sounds, you have to "rechoose" Nachlieli font (or any other font), and the problem will be solved (try to choose another font size, for instance). Adir. On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > Hi. > > I just upgraded to FC3, and t

Microsoft registered a patent for switching between links via the 'Tab' key

2004-09-18 Thread Adir Abraham
The name of the patent - "Discoverability and navigation of hyperlinks via tabs" Suggested patents: pressing an X box to close a window, pressing the enter key to start a new line, and even - pressing ctrl-alt-del to manually restart (if possible) after a BSOD :) The article about this is found h

Re: new computer - Linux compatibility

2004-09-07 Thread Adir Abraham
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would go for the 64 bit versions, and stick with them. Anything > > missing, I would recompile (which should take no time), or just use > > the 32bit version of it. Should work. > > The above (being able to run 32bit applications on 64bit system) i

Re: Conclusion (was: Re: Memory upgrade question for hardware gurus)

2004-09-03 Thread Adir Abraham
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Omer Zak wrote: > Unfortunately, a bay for swapping hard disks prevents installation of > memory module in two of the three memory sockets in the motherboard, so > I could not try to use the PC-2100 256MB memory module. So the question > whether they would have cooperated with

Re: Memory upgrade question for hardware gurus

2004-08-31 Thread Adir Abraham
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Omer Zak wrote: > The motherboard is of 2002 vintage (478 socket, P-4 1.7GHz) and the > memory is a single PC-2100 256MB DDRAM module (PC-2100 is rated at 266MHz). My not-so-wild guess is that you have a i845 chipset, or VIA-compatible chipsets. > I would like to know whethe

Re: motherboard identification

2004-08-22 Thread Adir Abraham
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Efraim Yawitz wrote: > Isn't there any way to get the motherboard ID from Linux? I've searched > around the web and only find DOS or Windows utilities. Are you talking about the chipset? If so, you can either do "lspci -v" (lspcidrake if you are using Mandrake), or "cat /pro

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX ROTATED LECTURE] Orr Dunkleman on TCPA (II)

2004-07-04 Thread Adir Abraham
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Orna Agmon wrote: > Next Monday (28/6/2004), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once > again meet to hear ronen Abravanel talk about: You probably mean - Next Monday (5/7/2004), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once again meet to hear Orr Dunkelman talk about: > > > The Truste

Re: Kernel Architecture Confusion

2004-06-07 Thread Adir Abraham
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > I received the error message: > > package kernel-ntfs-2.6.5-1.358 is intended for a i686 architecture > > Now, I'm pretty sure my machine is a 686 - it is a Celeron 1.3 GHz. Celeron 1.3GHz is a i686 (actually, every Pentium 2 or Athlon and up

Re: Fedora Core 1 slowness?

2004-06-02 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi Omer, On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Omer Zak wrote: > The system configuration is: > 128MB memory > 256MB swap > 1.7GHz Intel Mobile Celeron (stepping 07) processor (3381.65 BogoMIPS) > Gnome desktop > > What should I check in order to speed up the system? Although you might not like to hear this, you

Lecture slides of today's Haifux lecture are updated

2004-05-03 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi, An updated version of the slides is available in Haifux's site (it's the final version for the lecture, at least). Best regards, Adir. On Sun, 2 May 2004, Adir Abraham wrote: > Hi all, > > The topic of Monday's (3/5) lecture is: > > How to pr

[HAIFUX LECTURE][SiL] Using IPTables and building a firewall - background, motivation and concepts

2004-05-02 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi all, The topic of Monday's (3/5) lecture is: How to protect your home/office network? Using IPTables and building a firewall - background, motivation and concepts Lecture slides are available at http://www.haifux.org/lectures/98-sil/IPTablesPresentation.pdf and in a sxi (OpenOffice) format: h

Re: Opteron Binaries.

2004-05-01 Thread Adir Abraham
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Ira Abramov wrote: > Someone just asked me and I didn't know what to tell him... > > an Opteron machine, how x86 is it? I understand it's supposed to be > fully backwards compatible. does it mean I can just take an x86 regular > 32 bit kernel and binaries and run on it? is 64b

Re: [Haifux] A new mirror for Kinneret

2004-02-23 Thread Adir Abraham
the least. > > > Please let us know if you encounter any problems (ftp.haifux.org might > > > work soon, as well. At the moment it does not. Please use the links as > > > they are originally written). > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Adir.

A new mirror for Kinneret

2004-02-23 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi all, As you probably heard (or read here), Kinneret and other based-on-Knoppix distributions have made a lot of voice lately because of the article written in Maariv (http://www.maariv.co.il/channels/13/ART/652/944.html). As a result, people wanted to try the Knoppix and especially Kinneret at

Redhat Linux with XFS support

2003-12-02 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi all, Anybody knows where can I get the original ISO of SGI, regarding Redhat Linux with the XFS filesystem? The link from linuxiso.org doesn't work, and I don't seem to get any working link from Google. The ISO should be around 350MB, and its version is 1.3 for Redhat 9.0, or 1.3.1 for Redhat 9

Re: Suggestion (was: Re: Instaparty - Thanks)

2003-11-15 Thread Adir Abraham
o not represent the official policy of any organization with which > I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Adir Abraham wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to thank all the

Instaparty - Thanks

2003-11-13 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi all, I would like to thank all the people who organized the instaparty. I believe that it was a great success and without you it wouldn't happen. I would also like to thank all the people who came to see what it is all about, and got impressed from the event. This time, we had been much more or

RE: Linux Day - Car Access

2003-11-12 Thread Adir Abraham
is poison. > > > 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] > > -- _

Some clarifications - Linux Day (Haifux instaparty) - Information for installers candidates

2003-11-03 Thread Adir Abraham
rs meeting, should tell me about it in the first place, and if we need more installers after the installation meeting - he will know about it once the meeting is over. Once again - feel free to reply and send your comments to me. Best regards. On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Adir Abraham wrote: > Hi all, &g

Linux Day (Haifux instaparty) - Information for installers candidates

2003-11-03 Thread Adir Abraham
, flames, etc. about this email (if you have) - should be sent to ME only, as a reply. If you read it all that far... :) I wish you all good luck, and I hope to see you as an installer. Best regards. -- Adir Abraham

Haifux Instaparty - the discussion and (much) more

2003-08-19 Thread Adir Abraham
If you have any interesting idea to share - the interesting ideas will be discussed during the meeting and also afterwards. The people who organize these activities this year is Meir Maor, Alon Altman, Etzion Bar-Noy, Orna Agmon and me (Adir Abraham). I wish you all a pleasent instaparty and a Welco

RE: [OT?] New Computer

2003-08-14 Thread Adir Abraham
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Baruch Shpirer wrote: > Did anyone else hear the rumor about this Hyper Threading going already > in beta production state to > Laptops ? I talked this week already to 2 people who claim to know > people who test this at home As much as I know, Dothan (Banias (Pentium-M) 2nd e

Re: IDE PCI controller supported in Linux?

2003-07-11 Thread Adir Abraham
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Tim Tsahayev wrote: > Is there any chance for buying Linux supported IDE controller for less than > 250 NIS? > Is there an IDE controller which is not Linux supported? :) I would like to hear about that one. And how critic the speed which is supported? You can buy SATA ones w

Yes, I know that this is April Fool's date..

2003-04-01 Thread Adir Abraham
But it made feel shocked for a second :) http://news.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=item&path=4&id=369584 Gates cooperates with Torvals on creating Linux XP, after Gates "paying well" to him - Too bad to dream about it :) = To unsubs

Re: Insta Party!

2003-03-10 Thread Adir Abraham
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > I want to help installing rather than get installed :-) - do I > register in the same form? Should I bring anything? Just give us your details, send an email to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and orr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and tell us when you can arrive (Wedn

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Adir Abraham
be happy for them too. After all, you did succeed to spread the word, and people did listen to you). Those are only general ideas ofcourse. The real question is when (the right timing) and how (attitude) to do it. Best regards, Adir. > > Eddie > > > -Origi

Re: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Adir Abraham
And how will that help us to achieve anything, if at all? "Black listing" a site will most likely publish it (wait until your list is found in some newspaper..), and will not help with reducing the problem. The opposite is the truth - it may increase hateness, and mind-blocking. Do you think that

Re: BSOD T-shirts

2002-11-25 Thread Adir Abraham
2002 at 02:51:02AM +0200, Adir Abraham wrote: > > Now for sale, in http://www.errorwear.com/picmonth-february.html > > Enjoy :-) > > I hate to rant about OT posts, but: > > * Your post is absolutely irrelevant to Linux discussions. > * Some people may consider it offen

BSOD T-shirts

2002-11-25 Thread Adir Abraham
Now for sale, in http://www.errorwear.com/picmonth-february.html Enjoy :-) = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Linux + Internet by Kvalim

2002-10-09 Thread Adir Abraham
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What do you mean by that? Everything is a resource consumer, doesn't it? > Or are you saying that a USB connection is as much unwanted as, > for example, a winModem since both makes the software do things that > were used to be done by hardware? USB

Re: Linux + Internet by Kvalim

2002-10-07 Thread Adir Abraham
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Boulgakov Andrei wrote: > Hi! > What is the way to connect Linux to Inet by Kvalim? Is it the same as ADSL? Naturally, you will get a cable modem which will let you be connected via a USB slot or via a network card. The USB way is problematic and not recommended in general. N

Re: mandrake 9 update source

2002-10-06 Thread Adir Abraham
I believe that you're referring to the links. In this case - ftp.tux.org and ftp.stealth.net are very good ones (once they are not fulfilled :). On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Amir Tal wrote: > so I've decided to give MDK 9 a try. ;) > > can anyone recommend a good and fast one ? everything in the default

RE: what's going on with the list ?

2002-10-03 Thread Adir Abraham
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, guy keren wrote: > there that could point towards any bosmat servers. indeed, i have no idea > where nadav came with that email address from - i erased all the redundant > copies (and i see the bouncing has stopped by now) so i might have missed > something. Nadav showed me t

RE: what's going on with the list ?

2002-10-03 Thread Adir Abraham
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Aviram Jenik wrote: > OMG. > > I apologize for implying you were intentionally unhelpful - apparently > you are clueless and completely ignorant. I can only hope for the I sure am ignorant. couldn't reach your level though, sorry. > Technion that you indeed have nothing to d

RE: what's going on with the list ?

2002-10-03 Thread Adir Abraham
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Aviram Jenik wrote: > If instead of arguing you would have actually tried to find the cause of > the problem, you would have seen that both emails that continually > bounce are sent via the technion's mail gateway mailgw2.technion.ac.il. Oh. That's an interesting "fact". I wo

RE: what's going on with the list ?

2002-10-02 Thread Adir Abraham
. > > > * - * - * > Tzahi Fadida > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Technion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My Cool Site: HTTP://WWW.My2Nis.Com > * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * > > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at > http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html > > > --

RE: what's going on with the list ?

2002-10-02 Thread Adir Abraham
at > http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html > > > -Original Message- > > From: Adir Abraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 1:04 AM > > To: Nadav Har'El > > Cc: Tzahi Fadida; Linux Mailing-List > > Su

RE: what's going on with the list ?

2002-10-02 Thread Adir Abraham
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Adir Abraham wrote: > Have you got some base facts now, are you just trying to find black or are you And btw, aladdin is not a student, neither an active account. > sheeps? > > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > &g

Re: what's going on with the list ?

2002-10-02 Thread Adir Abraham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ?!?!? How did you get into THAT email address..? (it's a machine I'm in charge on) On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote about "RE: what's going on with the list ?": > > yeah, enough is enough! stop bombing my mailbox. > > calmly: as

RE: Mandrake Linux "Dolphin" 9.0 is released, and ready to downl

2002-09-27 Thread Adir Abraham
Check your CDs. Do you hold some 700MB CDs at home? If you don't, you should. There's no need to buy 650MB ones anymore. Cdrecord works great with 700MB CDs, and even has an overburn option, if you hold 800MB (90 minutes) CDs. On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm downloading MKK-9.

Mandrake Linux "Dolphin" 9.0 is released, and ready to download!

2002-09-26 Thread Adir Abraham
Starting to download from... now ;) Enjoy, Adir. = 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: the insta party on nana

2002-09-24 Thread Adir Abraham
Ahem Who IS responsible on the article in Walla? it says there that "the event, which occurs every year in the Technion (which is not correct, because it usually happens every semester), will be THIS TIME in the Renanim mall in Kfar Saba". What the heck? The Renanim installation party has nothing

Go to hell

2002-09-22 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi! I don't know if this "joke" is new (so please forgive me if I don't renew anything to some of you), but if you want to see something good: 1) Go to google's site. 2) Write there: "Go to hell" (with the quotes!) 3) Press on "I'm feeling lucky" Enjoy... :) Adir.

RE: CDRW error

2002-09-22 Thread Adir Abraham
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Adir wrote: > >Did you try a simple "eject" command, and/or to read CDs from it? SCSI > >emulation wouldn't just "stop" working. Probably it is a hardware error. > I included the error messages from the "eject" command in my previous post. I > didn't

Re: CDRW error

2002-09-22 Thread Adir Abraham
Did you try a simple "eject" command, and/or to read CDs from it? SCSI emulation wouldn't just "stop" working. Probably it is a hardware error. On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've been having a problem with my CDRW recently. Today is the second time it > happened - last t

Re: USB Cable Modem?

2002-09-19 Thread Adir Abraham
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Eliran wrote: > I have to go and buy this network card ? Why don't they give it ? > Is there anything wrong with USB ??? You don't have to, but it will improve performances dramatically. It should (and will) work with USB, but expect resources problems that may appear. And i

Re: USB Cable Modem?

2002-09-19 Thread Adir Abraham
soever, as much as I know. With ADSL modems, there are many stories (and that's why all the HOWTOs for them arrived :), and I don't know specifically which modem works well and which doesn't (I know that Alcatel works well, if you meant ADSL modems...). On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Elira

Re: USB Cable Modem?

2002-09-18 Thread Adir Abraham
I don't think that you will have too much of choice (it depends on Matav's wish and what they have in their stock). Whatever you get - Ambit or Motorola, will be as good as for home use. And they both "operate under Linux" (I don't see where Linux or any other OS stands as a limit?). Just attach i

Re: USB Cable Modem?

2002-09-17 Thread Adir Abraham
The latest beta of Mandrake 9.0 contains some USB cable modem drivers, and they work really good (at least for my AMBIT modem). If you ask me though - it would be better to connect your modem to an Ethernet adapter. It works better, and all you need is a recognized (...) network card. 3COM in my c

Windows Gaming In Linux With WineX 2.0

2002-06-01 Thread Adir Abraham
e is the link: http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/index.html Enjoy reading! -- ________ Adir Abraham Technion's Advisors Group and Public PC Farms Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Haifa, Isra

RE: Walla's Comments

2002-05-21 Thread Adir Abraham
The people who don't succeed to get into the link, probably do have a problem. The link is working just fine. Try to use the last version of Mozilla (it works well for me with v1.0 RC2). I believe that any v0.9.9 and above will work well for you. Don't use konqueror with walla's site.. it tends to

Linux's Kernel

2001-01-05 Thread Adir Abraham
The final version of Kernel v2.4.0 is out since yesterday! Finally :) Adir Abraham In charge of the Technion's PC farms advisors group [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Haifa, Israel ICQ# 18

Re: nir's question

1999-12-02 Thread Adir Abraham
I didn't see him "considering to adopt Linux" as you mentioned. He considered to ask for the "preferred OS", which for this list it would be Linux, otherwise it wouldn't be called ILUG - correct me if I am wrong. Well, go and recommend him about Windows 98 ;) but I'm not sure that it is for this l

Re: A lecture about the Linux kernel. (fwd)

1999-12-01 Thread Adir Abraham
The IDC is the Interdisciplinary Center Herzlyia - "Hamerkaz Habentchumi Herzlia", where he studies, I think. If I'm not wrong. On 1 Dec 1999, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a lecture hall for Friday at 1pm here at the IDC. > > Can you explain wh

Re: After installing redhat6.1

1999-11-27 Thread Adir Abraham
ch comes with slackware and added on this a little editing in the > "/etc/lilo.conf" and everything worked just fine with the same system, and > disk partitioning. > Maybe if someone with SlackWare could send me the "liloconf" program it might > help. > > No

Re: After installing redhat6.1

1999-11-27 Thread Adir Abraham
We had few similar problems in the Linux Installation Party -- we couldn't make LILO finding the Linux partition, or the Windows 98 partition on a very few computers, so it simply just skipped them away going directly into Windows 98, or Linux, so the (temporary) solution was to give him a LILO di