Re: Ubuntu

2020-06-10 Thread Micha Bailey
Regarding the upgrade to Focal (20.04): There’s no reason to rush. Bionic (18.04) is supported, if I’m not mistaken, until 2023. In fact, Bionic (LTS) users aren’t even offered the upgrade (i.e. you need to go out of your way to get it) until 20.04.1 is out in a few months. Regarding the upgrade

Re: RavKav Online

2017-10-12 Thread Micha Bailey
(in reply to this thread: http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/pipermail/linux-il/2017-March/012522.html ) The reason a physical hardware reader (either an Android phone with NFC or a USB card reader) is necessary is that Rav Kav is based on the Calypso standard, and the card is a full microprocessor

Re: Feedback about HOT as an isp

2014-03-08 Thread Micha Feigin
It depends on what you are doing, I've been running fine with 2mb/s. Gave up on Bezeq when they tried to tell me that I need a faster line when I called them to resolve my ssh terminal (text only) connection is responding poorly. Hot were OK in terms of performance (was also using the 2mb/s

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On 10-Oct-13 3:11, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: "Steve G." word...@gmail.com writes: The question: Is there a messaging platform that is either open source or free (I know of Viber and WhatsApp), BUT which can work on PC's AND cheap phones (either

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On 10-Oct-13 9:08, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On 10/10/2013 3:50 PM, Steve G. wrote: Suppose I wanted to change venue to a more developed country, where the income level allows people to use unlimited SMS, would that have made any

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-15 Thread Micha Feigin
Right now I'm driving a Fiat Panda. It's small and it's efficient, but it comes at a price. The engine is tiny, and so is the gas tank (but being a tiny car it's easy to park in the city). The book says that it can get 20 km/l intercity, and 12 km/l in the city. From my experience I get

Re: accounting software *free open source*

2013-07-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On 07/06/2013 05:06 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: 2013/7/6 vordoo vor...@yahoo.com: On 2013-07-04 16:45, sara fink wrote: I would like to know which accounting software (besides linet) is accepted by Israeli tax authorities? Me too, but one that is not a proprietary web site, I would like to keep

Suggestions for Hardware/driver WIFI combo that allows low level signal access

2013-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
Hi All, I'm was wondering if anyone here can recommend a hardware / driver combo for WIFI that allows access to the low level signal. I'm looking to do some non-communication related research (uni stuff) that requires sending custom signals over WIFI frequencies (to avoid FCC limitations),

Re: Google: Create A Native Linux Google Drive Application -

2013-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On 06/19/2013 07:41 AM, Julian Daich wrote: Please sign for this campaign: http://www.change.org/es/peticiones/google-create-a-native-linux-google-drive-application?share_id=ADrOjDOjXrutm_campaign=mailto_linkutm_medium=emailutm_source=share_petition

Permissions to access USB camera under debian

2013-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
Hi All, I'm trying to connect a camera (Mesa Imaging Swissranger specifically) to a Debian unstable box. I'm getting an error that the user does not have permissions to open the USB device (needs read/write access). Couldn't find any relevant group to add my user to to solve the problem. Any

Re: Permissions to access USB camera under debian

2013-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [1865748.537413] usb 4-2: Product: 3D-SR4000 [1865748.537417] usb 4-2: Manufacturer: MESA Thanks On 07/02/2013 01:14 PM, shimi wrote: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il mailto:mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: Hi All, I'm

Re: Permissions to access USB camera under debian

2013-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On 07/02/2013 01:41 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: Doesn't seem to be a camera group (there is a camera user, which may affect that), no v4l and video under the dev tree. Only thing I found that changes under dev during connection is these two files: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jul 2 13:35 /dev/char

Re: Suggestions for Hardware/driver WIFI combo that allows low level signal access

2013-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On 07/02/2013 01:05 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On 7/2/2013 7:49 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: Hi All, I'm was wondering if anyone here can recommend a hardware / driver combo for WIFI that allows access to the low level signal. I'm looking to do some non-communication related research (uni

Re: Literature documentation software

2013-04-28 Thread Micha Feigin
There is jabref which is a bibtex management program and can probably be abused for your purpose - i.e you can use the review entry for your notes I like using docear, which is a scientific oriented mindmap program with strong support for paper management.

Re: Online collaboration

2013-04-08 Thread Micha Feigin
For tracking versions with comments, either subversion or git are easy to setup, git tends to be easier I believe, but is a distributed system, so people can forget to push changes. It is good if you want to commit off-line though and it is easier to branch with git. Both have gui interfaces,

Re: XP iso for virtual machine

2013-02-07 Thread Micha Feigin
I do not know about buying XP, I believe that it is only still available for some corporate clients, not individuals. I think that there is a way to migrate an existing installation to a virtual machine, which may be a way to use your cd. https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2t=51203

Re: Current Video Card winning horse?

2012-10-10 Thread Micha
It is implemented, but last time I checked Linux support was useless. I could fire it up in vesa mode, but not along with another monitor or have it connect dynamically. Development doesn't seem to move anywhere at the moment as well Ira Abramov lists-linux...@ira.abramov.org wrote: Quoting

Re: Current Video Card winning horse?

2012-10-10 Thread Micha
On 10/10/2012 05:43, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 16:10:27 +0200 Ira Abramov lists-linux...@ira.abramov.org wrote: Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Tue, 09 Oct: If you care about FOSS drivers, then you should definitely

Re: Current Video Card winning horse?

2012-10-09 Thread Micha Feigin
I don't have experience with ATI but they should work. I don't know how the drivers are. NVIDIA works great for me, but I use the propriety drivers, not nouveau as I need the GPU for CUDA/OpenCL. CUDA is nvidia only, OpenCL at least under windows works on ATI, NVIDIA and ivy bridge Intel GPUs

Re: Current Video Card winning horse?

2012-10-09 Thread Micha
-1800 nis). On 09/10/2012 12:56, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il writes: If the CUDA code is older, you may be better getting the older 5xx series NVIDIAs, as NVIDIA did some hardware changes that makes writing code for kepler

Re: I need help with my Android phone, connecting to my wireless router

2012-03-15 Thread Micha
Maybe something here will help you http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-general-discussions/35598-wifi-wont-connect-using-wpa-wpa2-3.html It's for the droid x, but people report similar problems. Never had your problem with my phone, so it's hard to comment from personal experience. On

Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-08 Thread Micha
Shemesh wrote: On 03/08/2012 12:21 AM, Micha wrote: I believe I pinpointed the problem tp NetworkManager being installed and enabled, which means that no network connection is actually configured before a user is logged in. No, it does not mean

How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-07 Thread Micha
I have a redhat 6 desktop based system that exhibits a behavior where sshd fails to start on startup despite being enabled and requires manual startup after user login. I want to enable remote access before there is actual user login on the system I believe I pinpointed the problem tp

Re: How do I start a blank x-server?

2012-03-04 Thread Micha
absolutely have to do it on a real display? On 02/27/2012 09:05 PM, Micha wrote: For a project I'm working on at the moment, I need to be able to log in remotely to a machine (via ssh) and start a blank x-server. That is, to just initialize the display, with not cursor or window manager

Re: How do I start a blank x-server?

2012-02-28 Thread Micha
On 28/02/12 09:51, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012, Micha wrote about How do I start a blank x-server?: pFor a project I'm working on at the moment, I need to be able to log in remotely to a machine (via ssh) and start a blank x-server. ... I seem to recall that just

How do I start a blank x-server?

2012-02-27 Thread Micha
For a project I'm working on at the moment, I need to be able to log in remotely to a machine (via ssh) and start a blank x-server. That is, to just initialize the display, with not cursor or window manager, to allow for creating a single full screen window for

Re: How do I start a blank x-server?

2012-02-27 Thread Micha
09:05 PM, Micha wrote: For a project I'm working on at the moment, I need to be able to log in remotely to a machine (via ssh) and start a blank x-server. That is, to just initialize the display, with not cursor or window manager

Re: How do I start a blank x-server?

2012-02-27 Thread Micha
card, but I'm not sure if we have a free slot. On 27/02/12 22:52, Shachar Shemesh wrote: On 02/27/2012 10:21 PM, Micha wrote: I would have preferred to be able to do this as a user as the machine is supposed to run headless

how do I setup a red hat yum repository

2012-02-23 Thread Micha
I was just given a red hat enterprise 6 system to setup for a project, only there is no repository setup on in and for this project I need pretty bleeding edge software and software that is not installed. Unfortunately for this project I come from a debian

Re: how do I setup a red hat yum repository

2012-02-23 Thread Micha
itory" gave me enough hints when I had to do that. You're looking at some maintainer work (editing specfiles and recompiling the source package) every time the dependencies for your packages change, however. On 02/24/2012 12:44 AM, M

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Micha
I wouldn't say Linux as it confused people (worked in university, don't think that it would work at school). But you can to with tablet (iPad/android). Those cost money to open word and still have a lot of issues if they do. PDF works but is not editable. Not sure if there is an editable

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Micha
On 05/02/2012 12:14, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Feb 5, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Why? Forget Linux. Do Macs come with Word pre-installed (today)? How much does an Office license cost (e.g., if one runs it in WINE)? It's almost irrelevant. Most Macs come with an Apple

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Micha
On 05/02/2012 12:45, Mordechai Behar wrote: I had a similar experience. I recently switched to a different college in a renewed attempt to gain my undergraduate in Compsci. Much to my chagrin I discovered that this college, which bills itself as being a technological college, is firmly

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Micha
On 05/02/2012 13:57, Nadav Har'El wrote: Hi, On Sun, Feb 05, 2012, geoffrey mendelson wrote about Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats: It depends. I can't speak to it directly, my Hebrew level is such that a crayon would be enough, but my son who is in

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Micha
On 05/02/2012 14:14, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Feb 05, 2012, geoffrey mendelson wrote about Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats: student/home version of office (Word and Execel but no Outlook (scheduling/email) and Access (database)) which can be found on

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Micha
On 05/02/2012 16:20, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Micha wrote: That is not so true any more with today's kids. I don't have a kid at that age yet, but good friends of ours do and I think that about half their class are using macs (and iPods and ipads). Their child

Re: umount and data is lost?

2011-11-05 Thread Micha
On 06/11/2011 02:03, Ori Berger wrote: On 11/05/2011 05:12 PM, Diego wrote: Hi list, I am trying to debug this problem in a system I am developing: at some point I need to write a number to a file, and then

Re: New (First!) smart phone (OT_

2011-10-04 Thread Micha
The keyboard tried to guess what key you intended to press to compensate for the small keys. Once you learn how to aim it gets more tolerable. In most screens you can rotate the device to type in landscape mode which gives you a bigger keyboard. There is also a spell

How do I install linux on a raid0?

2011-08-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I just got a new w520 with two 500GB hard drives configured in raid0 (seems to be a bios based software raid0). Windows is already installed and running on it (and I need it to stay there unfortunately) and I'm trying to install linux along side it (debian unstable). I got the installed

Re: How do I install linux on a raid0?

2011-08-18 Thread Micha
setup: #1 (primary) is windows 7 boot partition (1.17GB) #2 (primary) Windows 7 (600GB) free space for linux (will probably need to be logical) #3 (primary) lenovo recovery (15.6 GB) On 18-Aug-11 17:39, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il

Re: what was the name of the app...

2011-08-14 Thread Micha Feigin
There is also http://www.kerrighed.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page I played with these a bit. Not sure of the state of affairs, but they were mostly useful at the time for dynamic load balancing single threaded applications by migrating them around to nodes that were doing little work. Support

adding fonts for a x-server-less machine

2011-03-23 Thread Micha
I have a headless server that doesn't run X (I don't want it to run X), but I do want to run apps remotely on it with ssh X tunneling. I'm trying to run rxvt at the moment but it refuses to start because it can't find any fonts. I tried installing the font packages but it does seem to help and

Re: Android phones

2011-02-23 Thread Micha
On 23/02/11 12:53, David Suna wrote: Hopefully this is not to off topic. My daughter is interested in getting a new phone (specifically a touch phone). We have narrowed down the choice to Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung Wave S8500, and LG Optimus One. 1. Does anyone have recommendations for or

Re: Did anyone ever bought smart phone in ebay?

2011-01-14 Thread Micha
Sorry Hetz, reply initially sent off list by mistake. Note sure how much it costs on ebay and don't remember the details for the htc. I got a nexus one on ebay. You can put cyanogenmod or similar on it (I believe also on the htc) to get the latest version. things to watch out on ebay are mainly

Re: Did anyone ever bought smart phone in ebay?

2011-01-14 Thread Micha
with a bike). Luckily I got that one to work under I put it in the laundry by mistake ... On 14/01/2011 17:58, Raz wrote: even with 30% tax much much cheaper. as for warrnanty they give only one year in israel. thank you for the info though On 14/01/2011 17:52, Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il mailto:mi

Re: Advice on where and what to study

2010-12-03 Thread Micha Feigin
You could try looking at the open university, but the question is what do you expect to get out of these courses. University courses I know don't teach you much about actual programming. I would take at least one course about software engineering, preferably both functional and object

Re: Suggested lecture: From VxWorks to Linux

2010-12-02 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm guessing that you meant that Linux is a major player in embedded systems rather that in embedded Linux ;) Not sure if I can make it as the interesting talks always occur at times when I can't attend, but it does sound interesting indeed Rafi Gordon rafigor...@gmail.com wrote: Raz, Linux

Re: Buying a Nexus One in Israel

2010-10-22 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:58:07 +0200 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know if the Nexus one phones sold in Israel as new (i.e - from stores) are the same hardware as the development phones sold directly from Google? I want to buy such a phone, but Google

Is it possible to pull only a part of a git repository?

2010-10-22 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a growing number of projects that I'm trying to manage in my git repository. Currently they are all in the same repository to make it easier to sync it with the server (for backups / synchronization with other machines). Now, I want to be able to work on only one project at a time, or

Linux Exchange compatible clients (Was Re: [OT?] Hebrew on Samsung Galaxy S android phone? Root'ing android?)

2010-09-30 Thread Micha
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:57:02 +1000 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 September 2010 10:05, Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: I'd be happy if you have some pointers to were I can get more info as it's really annoying me at the moment. If there is any way to sync

Re: [OT?] Hebrew on Samsung Galaxy S android phone? Root'ing android?

2010-09-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:06:55 +0200 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: On 29/09/10 07:35, Micha Feigin wrote: - Scrolled lists with mixed English/Hebrew items have items disappearing when scrolled. Not really sure what 3 means. If you have a long list

Re: [OT?] Hebrew on Samsung Galaxy S android phone? Root'ing android?

2010-09-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:51:56 +0200 Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, September 27, 2010, Amos Shapira wrote: 2. root'ing and (as of last night) installing the Hebrew fonts and a soft keyboard solved 99% of the problems I had so far. I've been following this thread

Problem at startup - lockup loading swap

2010-09-12 Thread Micha
I'm trying to help a friend over the phone, so I don't have all the details, but I would be happy for some pointers if anyone has them The machine with mostly up to date debian unstable on occasion decides to lock up for several minutes after or at the point of mounting the swap partition.

Re: Problem at startup - lockup loading swap

2010-09-12 Thread Micha Feigin
to use that as well. On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: I'm trying to help a friend over the phone, so I don't have all the details, but I would be happy for some pointers if anyone has them The machine with mostly up to date debian unstable

Re: Problem at startup - lockup loading swap

2010-09-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:13:38 +0200 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 12, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Micha wrote: We tried running swapoff -a, mkswap and swapon -a. On the call to swapon the machine complained about not finding the swap's UUID (which didn't

Re: Hebrew on Android (and other issues)

2010-09-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:35:57 +0300 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 17:27, Evyatar Parker evp55...@gmail.com wrote: What Hebrew do you need? interface? fonts? keyboard? I know people with Hebrew fonts and keyboard on Android 2.1 (and non Hebrew UI), but maybe

Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???

2010-08-29 Thread Micha
I had a problem actually with a realtek nic on a laptop I had. Everything seemed to negotiate ok, the link was up, but the nic wouldn't talk unless I forced in to 10Mb/s half duplex. It kept dropping the connection and renegotiating. I also had a problem with a network cable that was mostly

Re: Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

2010-07-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:57:58 +0300 Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.com wrote: At 13:41:19 on Friday Friday 30 July 2010, Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:46:08 +0300 Ariel Biener ar...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: [...] I do not like prejudice. The only

Re: Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

2010-07-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:58:24 +0300 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:57:58 +0300 Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.com wrote: At 13:41:19 on Friday Friday 30 July 2010, Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:46:08 +0300 Ariel

Re: Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

2010-07-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:46:08 +0300 Ariel Biener ar...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: [...] I do not like prejudice. The only way to fix TAU issues is via the help desk. Trust me, we're not your usual Joe ISP. We are a strong Unix/Linux shop, and most of our applications, especially web apps, are

Re: Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

2010-07-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:51:45 +0300 Ariel Biener ar...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: [...] About your second point. I was always disappointed when using the official support channel for linux support. Usually the answer is we don't support linux. The linux support you get at Linux-IL, is

Re: linux beivrit

2010-07-05 Thread Micha
On 05/07/2010 15:16, Raz wrote: Hey linux il and others In http://sos-linux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sos-linux/LinuxHebrew/ you'll find a small book for linux beginners in pdf format and doc format. anyone willing to send his reviews and remarks please send it to me to this email. please edit

Re: linux beivrit

2010-07-05 Thread Micha
On 05/07/2010 15:52, Amos Shapira wrote: On 5 July 2010 22:34, Michami...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: Word format for a linux group? A somewhat unfortunate choice considering group members will have access to word only if dual booting into windows ... I beg to differ on this tiny point -

Re: linux beivrit

2010-07-05 Thread Micha
On 05/07/2010 18:18, Elazar Leibovich wrote: In fact I'm having difficulties to find reviewers for my .odt files! I'm not aware of any public service provider nor university in Israel which accepts open document format in principle. But I'll be glad to be proven wrong. (It might be that a

Re: linux beivrit

2010-07-05 Thread Micha
On 06/07/2010 00:15, Elazar Leibovich wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il mailto:mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On 05/07/2010 18:18, Elazar Leibovich wrote: [snipped] Another option is to print it to PDF, but it's rather clumsy, because

Re: platform for number crunching

2010-06-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:38:59 +0300 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Shimon Panfil i...@industrialphys.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for affordable

Re: platform for number crunching

2010-06-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:42:53 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: On Wednesday 16 Jun 2010 16:29:58 Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Shimon Panfil i...@industrialphys.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for affordable workstation for heavy number crunching,

Re: How do you calculate?

2010-05-21 Thread Micha
On 20/05/10 17:24, Dov Grobgeld wrote: Regarding doing approximate answers in the head, it doesn't always work as is told in an anecdote of the books about the late physists Richard Feynmann. It tells the story of how he used to brag that any arithmetic problem that could be stated in in ten

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 15 May 2010 08:19:03 + Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:59:37PM +0300, mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: I do still have quite a few qualms with it though on other regards. I'm deep into GPU computing at the moment (Cuda) and what Windows vista

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:37:44 +0300 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 May 2010 10:16, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: I've never heard of that! Going through the manpage, it looks like you might be referring to get-selections. Is that it? If not, can you

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 11 May 2010 04:08:39 -0700 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com wrote: Not at all! Google for Microsoft SDL, it was not always the case, but nowadays they have excellent security awareness. For example, see evidence for the change here:

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 11 May 2010 23:50:49 +0300 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com wrote: I guess we'll stay divided, but still, for the sake of the completion I want to clarify my argument. My point is, that some security decisions (for example, the Tuesday patch you mentioned), even if they are very

Re: recomendation for an Israely registrar and web hosting

2010-04-25 Thread Micha
On 25/04/10 08:59, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, (Disclosure: I work at Hostdime) Micha, as for registrar, all of them are more or less the same here in Israel, they all dealing with ISOC and the differences is the price you pay. Thanks, I just recalled someone talking about checking availability

recomendation for an Israely registrar and web hosting

2010-04-24 Thread Micha
I remember some talk here some time ago about problematic registrars and options for web hosting. I hope that this is not too off topic and flammable, but I was hoping for some recommendations for an Israeli domain name registrar (.co.il and .org.il) and basic web hosting (html, possibly php,

Re: Kosher for Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:40:21 +0300 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: We're in the middle of Passover, and apparently observant Jews who are computer users are facing a new problem: a famous Rabbi has just declared [1] that during the week of Passover, observant Jews must only use

Re: XWindows - how capture window ?

2010-03-13 Thread Micha
ב-13/03/2010, בשעה 13:03, Valery Reznic valery_rez...@yahoo.com כתב/ה: OK, I found something interesting. It's turn out that for some reason on-screen rendering is a problem too. Greatly oversimplified description of my application: There is a mai windows with 2 buttons ('A', and

Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

2009-12-27 Thread Micha
On 27/12/2009 19:21, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Dotan Cohendotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I don't know how to do that. I'm stuck with the default. But I think the programmers themselves (of Google Chrome and Firefox) should have taken care of this issue. The

Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

2009-12-26 Thread Micha
On 26/12/2009 13:51, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Saturday 26 Dec 2009 02:02:15 Micha wrote: On 25/12/2009 23:29, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Dotan Cohendotanco...@gmail.com wrote: I tested all 3 browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer) with Gmail

Re: Free software projects in Java or C++

2009-12-26 Thread Micha
On 26/12/2009 10:05, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Oron Peledo...@actcom.co.il wrote: On Friday, 25 בDecember 2009 23:38:38 Uri Even-Chen wrote: A friend of mine suggested me to join a free software (open source) project in Java or C++, to gain experience in these

Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

2009-12-25 Thread Micha
On 25/12/2009 23:29, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Dotan Cohendotanco...@gmail.com wrote: I tested all 3 browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer) with Gmail, and the fonts look best with Internet Explorer! The fonts in Google Chrome and Firefox don't

Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

2009-12-25 Thread Micha
On 26/12/2009 02:48, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Michami...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On 25/12/2009 23:29, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Dotan Cohendotanco...@gmail.comwrote: I tested all 3 browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet

Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

2009-12-20 Thread Micha
On 20/12/2009 02:44, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Hetz Ben Hamohet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I don't know which issues you have with Explorer that don't show pictures. Perhaps security settings? (you can disable security checking on site like GMail, for example). I'll

[OT] looking for pci graphic boards

2009-12-15 Thread Micha Feigin
Despite being off topic I was hoping that someone on this list may have a couple such cards (pci based graphic boards) lying around. I know they are ancient and useless to most but maybe someone has a couple stockpiled in some attic. We got a couple of tesla boards for our Uni lab and

Re: atomic operations under linux

2009-12-09 Thread Micha
On 09/12/2009 18:49, guy keren wrote: Erez D wrote: hi hi do i do atomic operations in linux (userspace) ? i need somthing like testAndSet32() thanks, erez. you need to use inline assembly to do this. it looks like glib has support for atomic operation (thought i've never used it).

Re: Using OpenSource software in closed source componies (how ?)

2009-11-22 Thread Micha
On 22/11/2009 21:30, Raz wrote: GPL version 1 asserts that any software as a whole combined with GPLv1 software has to be released under the terms of GPL v1. I have to admit I don't know GPL v1 too much 2009/11/22 Gilad Ben-Yossef gi...@codefidence.com mailto:gi...@codefidence.com

openoffice and tables in imported hebrew word documents

2009-09-10 Thread Micha Feigin
Lately (at least with openoffice 3.1.1) tables in hebrew word documents that I open in oowriter are off screen. Is there any way to push them back to place? Thanks ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: [OT] Power over radio is it a true thing or just a myth ?

2009-08-24 Thread Micha
On 8/23/2009 3:03 PM, Boris shtrasman wrote: Sorry for the OT , But i guess using systems in other ways then they had been designed is a bug that not only i posses. I heard a lot about wireless power transition , while I heard about products that provide close distant power transmitting (1)

Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

2009-08-19 Thread Micha Silver
Yuval Hager wrote: On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Dave Stav wrote: Dear list members, We are looking for a webmail application that has good support in Hebrew messages (encoding and ltr/rtl). So far, it seems to me that roundcube-webmail is the best candidate, but also considering:

Re: data loss after power failure

2009-08-15 Thread Micha Silver
shimi wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com mailto:amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/14 Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il mailto:mi...@arava.co.il: shimi wrote: Well, that's how UPS's are supposed to be used. In addition to Wake

Re: data loss after power failure

2009-08-14 Thread Micha Silver
shimi wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il mailto:mi...@arava.co.il wrote: We suffered some annoying file and directory corruption on a CentOS 5.3 64 bit server two days ago after a long power failure - long enough to drain the UPS battery

data loss after power failure

2009-08-13 Thread Micha Silver
thru the event with no problems. And other, older servers with SCSI disks also showed no ill effects. Does anyone have any ideas how to prevent this kind of thing in the future? (short of adding lots of additional batteries) Thanks, Micha

Re: Fwd: Flash based games not working

2009-08-11 Thread Micha Silver
of players in the central window. (The same problem appears with damka, chess, etc. on this site) Thanks, Micha -- Arie -- Forwarded message -- From: *Robert Wallner* kodi...@gmail.com mailto:kodi...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:44 Subject: Re: Flash based games not working

Re: Flash based games not working

2009-08-10 Thread Micha Silver
security problems: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/403825 Arie: Thanks for the tip, but it didn't help. Cheers, Micha -- Arie On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 08:33, Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il mailto:mi...@arava.co.il wrote: Some of the younger members

Flash based games not working

2009-08-09 Thread Micha Silver
the sha-on hol. (Meanwhile on 8.04 it still works). We asked Walla's support and they haven't changed anything. Any ideas how to work around this? Thanks, Micha ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman

[OT] do web page redirects keep google ranking?

2009-07-27 Thread Micha Feigin
Sorry for the off topic question, but I believe people here know the answer If I have a high ranked page on google and I change the domain, does leaving a redirect from the old domain to the new one preserve ranking in google (will the page start appearing at the same rank with the new domain

Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE] How Time Flies: Jiffies, Hi-Res Timers and the Tickless Kernel

2009-07-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:54:04 +0200 Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: On Monday, July 27th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Gilad Ben-Yossef's talk How Time Flies: Jiffies, Hi-Res Timers and the Tickless Kernel: This definitely calls for the Groucho Marx quote: Time flies like

Re: reshet.ynet.co.il not on Download Helper, anything else?

2009-07-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:43:55 +0300 sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote: A friend recommended Handbrake which converted no problem with MP4-H.264 (doubled the size of the files compared to .flv) but the Nokia didn't play the Video. I heard that H.264 is problematic. Proprietary

Re: Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

2009-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
As for a mother board, if you are not planning to overclock it, the intel motherboards are rather good, go with a good chipset, if things haven't changed, something like the p45 is rather good. I'm using a dragontail motherboard on a few systems in uni and they are performing well (ddr2 though)

Re: Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

2009-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
Michael Tewner wrote: ...Or maybe Nvidia Quadro Pro? http://www.nvidia.com/page/workstation.html I don't think that either quadro or tesla will do what the OP wants. Tesla is for gpgpu computations only, no video output at all and it doesn't work in sli mode to empower faster graphics.

Re: Reading RTF files

2009-07-10 Thread Micha Silver
# remove if not used Ehud. Ehud: Thanks for the tip, but I can't get any sensible output. I ran: catdoc -a -d8859-8 invoice150711.rtf | fribidi --charset ISO8859-8 --width=80 --rtl and I get 188 empty lines. :-( Am I missing something? Regards, Micha -- Ehud Karni

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