Re: HP OfficeJet Pro 8023

2023-12-26 Thread Oron Peled
rietary implementation has an open specification. * So if your distribution is modern (Debian-12 "bookworm", cough, cough) -- it works out of the box. * A nice bonus is that people can print directly from many Cellphone (not only iPhones, also Android) Bye, -- Oron Peled

Re: single threaded web servers

2016-06-28 Thread Oron Peled
is in c++ ? By definition, CGI can be written in anything you like. You can write server extensions (in C/C++) -- not especially hard. Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "There are li

[JOB-OFFER] Linux devops people for embedded

2014-11-16 Thread Oron Peled
Python) – advantage For more information about Harmonic: http://www.harmonicinc.com/content/your-career-here -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Linux lasts longer! -- "K

Re: console widgets without X

2014-06-17 Thread Oron Peled
ase in 2007), but: * Looks very nice: http://www.tutok.sk/fastgl/screens.htm * Can be compiled for: - Linux VGA-framebuffer (several resolutions) - X11 - Windows * Support OpenGL (on all these targets) Fork it for maintenance? -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8

Re: detecting what does a reboot

2014-06-08 Thread Oron Peled
s somebody doesn't run "reboot" but do an equivalent operation from software... -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron “If I have seen a little fur

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Oron Peled
es? (not hidden behind click-walls) -- this is the only interesting question. Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "Software is like Entropy: it's hard to grasp, weighs nothing and obeys

Re: linking problems with several static libraries

2013-07-10 Thread Oron Peled
anize the code in the libraries -- after all a library should contain related and well defined functionality -- the cycles just shows that somebody just threw pieces of code to different libraries. Enjoy, -- Oron Peled Voice

Re: Two job proposals: Linux developer and Linux tech-support

2013-05-20 Thread Oron Peled
they've just setup new mail alias, so now both addresses can be used. Thanks, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "Normally the saying is: 'Fast, Reliable, Cheap. Pic

Two job proposals: Linux developer and Linux tech-support

2013-05-20 Thread Oron Peled
FOSS projects is an advantage. cut-here-cut-here- Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "Your fair use of this book is restricted" "You may

Re: Using git on / for configuration files

2012-06-08 Thread Oron Peled
; > [ Replying to HTML mail... thanks, Eli you deserve it :-( ] If you only want to follow a couple of directories/files you can bind-mount them to something under /etc and solve the problem. Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.c

Re: Using git on / for configuration files

2012-06-06 Thread Oron Peled
RCS is handling only single files. This means that checking out an older version of specific file, cannot change (by mistake), other managed files. I was also thinking about moving to etckeeper (or similar) solution, but didn't do anything about it yet... -- Oron Peled

Re: LDAP (Active Directory) and user statuses

2012-06-01 Thread Oron Peled
.g: the one holding the login scripts), you can monitor access to that share. Now, don't ask me how this can be done on Windows machines, but samba let you read client connection status and even kill them (look in the status page of samba swat) Enjoy, -- Oron Peled

Re: Fedora upgrade, got unbootable system

2012-04-18 Thread Oron Peled
'chcon' it as a workaround, and file a bug against the SELinux policy (Fedora SELinux team is very responsive, including on IRC) Hope it helps, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il ht

Re: Fedora upgrade, got unbootable system

2012-04-11 Thread Oron Peled
t indeed does not contain any > modules.dep file. Should it? Is there perhaps a change to Linux 3.3 so it > no longer uses that file? Use 'depmod' to re-generate it: depmod -a Then reboot, and see what other failures you have. -- Oron Peled

Re: [YBA] kernel compile errors with GCC >= 4.6

2012-04-05 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 5 בApril 2012 14:28:42 Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2012, Oron Peled wrote: > > Many FOSS projects (and the kernel in particular) are very distributed, > > so there are potentially hundreds of "Linus Torvalds's" out there. > > L

Re: [YBA] kernel compile errors with GCC >= 4.6

2012-04-05 Thread Oron Peled
umer" of your source code actually help the project as another test-case (maybe on a different platform, maybe different compiler, etc.) -- Yes, some of these test-cases are just noise, but you don't know this before evaluating the specific warning. Happy Pe

Re: /usr/opt instead of /opt?

2012-03-10 Thread Oron Peled
driven world. When we speek of free software there is no 3'rd parties -- we are all 1'st party. (OK, so there are proprietary applications for Linux and it's common to put them under /opt, and rightfully so because they really behave like the bad old 3'rd party software

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

2012-03-09 Thread Oron Peled
it take: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801735 -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Free software: each person contributes a brick, but ultimately each person receives a house in return.

Re: gmail over POP3 - anyone else experiencing problems?

2012-03-05 Thread Oron Peled
mode), so this fetchmail/IMAP4 setup was commented out for a while. Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Windows - How do you want to be exploited today. _

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

2012-02-21 Thread Oron Peled
. That's why I'm really sorry to hit your inovative bussiness model. I wish it would be feasible. > ...The true author can remain anonymous if he wishes. Again, this isn't too practical these days (with BB anywhere). -- Oron Peled Voice:

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

2012-02-20 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 20 בFebruary 2012 22:30:54 Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012, Oron Peled wrote about "Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats": > > > Undocumented? Which file format is that? All the .doc and .docx > > > fo

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

2012-02-20 Thread Oron Peled
e..." > So, I guess there's no reason to say any more that these formats are > undocumented. Not really, unless "I'll tell you my secrets and then sue you" is some new documentation format ;-) -- Oron Peled

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

2012-02-20 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 19 בFebruary 2012 23:00:11 Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 20:22, Oron Peled wrote: > > So either supporting a public documented ISO standard isn't harder > > than supporting many variants of proprietary and undocumented file > > file format, or..

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

2012-02-18 Thread Oron Peled
variants of proprietary and undocumented file file format, or... draw your own conclusion. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "Complaining that [Linux] doesn't work well with Windows is like ... o

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

2012-02-16 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 15 בFebruary 2012 21:47:02 Diego Iastrubni wrote: > On Monday, February 06, 2012 02:43:16 AM Oron Peled wrote: > > You can find an example of this (refering to ODS): > > http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05 > > Really? WTF? Linking to a document from 3 years

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

2012-02-05 Thread Oron Peled
gin, which was covered in the above interoperability paper, but: * It needed some registration to use (so I didn't test it) * I'm not sure if still exists after Oracle bought Sun. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il h

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

2012-02-05 Thread Oron Peled
f they closed the gap in this space. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron MCSE: Must Consult Someone Experienced ___ Linux-il mailing list Lin

Re: Cat on (RAM) steroids

2012-02-04 Thread Oron Peled
r would be more limited in RAM allocation than the utility you want? After all, RAM is RAM if you have enough for the application to use (you asked for non-pageable memory), than why can't the kernel driver allocate it just the same and be done with it? Bye, -- Oron Peled

Re: Israeli website on Linux: beer-sheva.muni.il

2012-01-25 Thread Oron Peled
.net.il (192.117.10.138) 61.989 ms 71.301 ms 81.081 ms 10 172.20.236.253 (172.20.236.253) 91.385 ms 101.423 ms 111.221 ms 11 * * * .... continues the same So? -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il

Re: question: discount bank web site - linux+firefox friendly?

2012-01-19 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 19 בJanuary 2012 10:01:20 guy keren wrote: > > i'm considering switching to Discount bank (www.discountbank.co.il) - > and i want to make sure that their online banking works with firefox on > linux for these operations: > > 1. viewing the balance. Works, as well as other "tabs" on

Re: NFS + NIS madness

2011-11-28 Thread Oron Peled
d * Match: ypmatch 500 passwd.byuid 2. If 1. is OK, test at the NSS level: getent passwd 500 Both of these work? -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron If it's the

Re: NFS + NIS madness

2011-11-27 Thread Oron Peled
+oron # include only oron's record from NIS +@foobar # include everybody from netgroup (NOT group) foobar -badguy # Obviously + # Everybody (except badguy -- line order affect results) - This means that a "passwd: files nis&qu

Re: A good Linux kernel vintage?

2011-11-16 Thread Oron Peled
2 is before the "dracut" transition, you may have integration problems (need to build/debug this stuff manually). Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron She sells cshs by the cshore. - Rob

Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE - CANCELLED] Today's lecture is cancelled

2011-05-30 Thread Oron Peled
ink Hamakor should raise a car-maintenance fund to prevent this academic boycot? :-) -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "A billion flies _can_ be wrong - I'd rather eat lamb chops than sh

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck? [OT]

2011-05-10 Thread Oron Peled
hese systems are from ~2006 (5 years ago) - They are SSI (single system image), not clusters. If Solaris was so much better in multicore handling, I'll bet you would be able to point to similar Solaris systems, now can you? -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-82

Re: The STREAMS non-inclusion in Linux

2011-04-19 Thread Oron Peled
TREAMS would enter the kernel over his dead body but I cannot find a reference to that now. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that create

Re: some help in technical solution

2011-04-06 Thread Oron Peled
work with and is rock solid (there were some bugs circa 2.6.8 which we never observed since 2.6.12) my 2c. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "Windows is NOT a viru

Re: How to say "reference implementation"?

2011-03-14 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 14 בMarch 2011 10:56:59 Robert Wallner wrote: > I'm not a linguist either, but what about > מימוש סמך לא רע, מה לגבי מימוש יחוס. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "If

Re: IE6 Countdown

2011-03-06 Thread Oron Peled
at best for the old and cranky IE8 (MS said they're not going to have IE9 for XP) People, please avoid pointing to this outright propaganda. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron If your Windows

Re: mail issues questions

2011-02-28 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 28 בFebruary 2011 02:34:32 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Any tips what can be done about these 2? (hotmail and yahoo) Ignore them. They are dead beef... -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron

Re: [Haifux] MCTIP computer technician course

2011-02-20 Thread Oron Peled
quot; type of knowledge). So a very focused and expensive training at this stage is investing a lot of resource with verry little benefit (unless you somehow practise this knowledge during army service) -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: Linux Bridging of Tagged-VLAN (802.1q) Ethernet Traffic

2011-01-24 Thread Oron Peled
physical non-vlan capable interface to a specific vlan. I didn't test any of this personally... Enjoy, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "We spend the first twelve months of our childr

Multiple software copies (was Re: Die GNU autotools)

2011-01-16 Thread Oron Peled
much frowns upon static libraries (even special cases requires separate packaging) [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries] Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il

Re: Die GNU autotools

2011-01-12 Thread Oron Peled
example from autoconf (for libsdl): AM_PATH_SDL or if you want a minimum version: AM_PATH_SDL([1.2]) And than in your Makefile.in (or Makefile.am if you want automake) simply add $(SDL_CFLAGS) to compile commands and $(SDL_LIBS) to link commands. Night' -- O

Re: Problems in getting new drivers into Linux distributions

2011-01-04 Thread Oron Peled
le using Linux desktops, choose some fast-pacing distribution. Don't worry, be happy ;-) -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "The future is here, it's just not evenly distribu

Fwd: Participating to google code in

2010-10-24 Thread Oron Peled
ועיים תתפרסם רשימה מלאה של הפרוייקטים והנושאים הזמינים.‏ חשוב להדגיש כי יש מגוון אפשרויות רחב להשתתפות ולא רק כתיבת קוד.‏ -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron First we take Manhattan , then we take B

Re: firewall with real IP's

2010-10-17 Thread Oron Peled
simple firewalls on single hosts (Fedora) I use system-config-firewall -- it has GUI and is piece of cake for common use cases (internal/extranl, no dmz, etc.) It also generates an iptables script that is run when interface goes up. Bye, -- Oron Peled

Re: tidy IP/IF table report tool

2010-10-16 Thread Oron Peled
short and easy to modify. Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-11 Thread Oron Peled
our partition is sequencial, especially if you created the volume group and the logical volumes when the disk was empty (e.g: during installation) without requiring a striped logical volume (it's not the default). Good luck, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-822

Re: [OT] Buying a new computer

2010-10-11 Thread Oron Peled
mistake of buying the design from 3'rd party -- these drivers are proprietary, horrible, buggy etc. All other Intel graphic chipsets (X3xxx, X4xxx) are best choice for Linux desktop use -- FOSS drivers, updated regularly upstream, etc. -- Oron Peled

Wanted: FOSS IT service provider in the north

2010-10-03 Thread Oron Peled
the provider gives an alternative client for calendaring etc. * Some proven field experience (clients). The idea is to save our time not make us clean up after the mess some rookie left behind. Please mail me and I'll forward relevant responses, TIA, -- Oron Peled

Re: com port list

2010-08-31 Thread Oron Peled
re for a while (at least with respect to legacy hardware like serial ports). -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineer

Re: Monthly waste of time :-) Has anyone been able to buy a Digital TV USB stick in Israel and get it to work under Linux?

2010-08-26 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 26 בAugust 2010 13:52:23 geoffrey mendelson wrote: > On Aug 26, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Oron Peled wrote: > > Now try to convince a judge that publishing in some > > manufacturer's web-site is equivalent to this. > That's an interesting point. Wh

Re: Monthly waste of time :-) Has anyone been able to buy a Digital TV USB stick in Israel and get it to work under Linux?

2010-08-26 Thread Oron Peled
is equivalent to this. I haven't seen a company waive its rights away so easily as you just did for Free Software projects... Let's be more carefull next time. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.c

Re: linux beivrit

2010-07-11 Thread Oron Peled
-- trying to adopt MS-Office awfull formats (which even MS fail to be compatible to) is a *losing game*. Thanks, but no thanks, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "It's almost like we&#

Re: Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-15 Thread Oron Peled
distro repository), why should each user on the same system be asked if the program is trusted? What security layer is really added here? (hint: none) > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Oron Peled wrote: > > > Allowing a desktop user to execute priviledged operations was trie

Re: Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-14 Thread Oron Peled
Allowing a desktop user to execute priviledged operations was tried over the years with different (wrong) approaches. First, let's summarize the old technical solutions and than explain their faults. Finally, we'll see what better approaches are being developed or deployed nowdays. All legacy solu

Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

2010-06-12 Thread Oron Peled
On Saturday, 12 בJune 2010 19:59:56 Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Friday 11 Jun 2010 01:24:40 Oron Peled wrote: > Well, that's the ideal. In practice, deployed FOSS code (which can always be > modified in-house, according to the free software definition), sometimes > tends to divert

Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

2010-06-10 Thread Oron Peled
On Friday, 11 בJune 2010 01:34:24 Geoff Shang wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Oron Peled wrote: > > > - Or, you've read the file, but it's ARJ compressed and nobody > >can read them any longer. > > http://arj.sourceforge.net It's even easier:

Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

2010-06-10 Thread Oron Peled
source code. Which mean it's crapware, but you get extra maintenance costs as a bonus ;-) Obviously, Scope didn't see (or didn't wanted his audience to see) the crucial difference between his story and FOSS. In FOSS the modifications (or rather the good modificatio

Re: problems with syslogd

2010-06-09 Thread Oron Peled
gt; auth,authpriv.none;\ > cron,daemon.none;\ > mail,news.none-/var/log/messages Maybe the filename is separated from the selector by spaces instead of tabs? It is important (at least in legacy syslogd), because spaces are allow withing the sele

Re: ntpdate and Israel local time

2010-05-27 Thread Oron Peled
instead of symlink. RedHat/Centos/Fedora also create a copy and for a good reason: /usr may be on a separate partition, in which case /etc/localtime is a dangling link during early boot phases until /usr is mounted. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@a

Re: Client recovery of NFS mount

2010-05-23 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 23 בMay 2010 21:57:22 Tom Rosenfeld wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Oron Peled wrote: > > ... > > Move to NFS4 (both server and clients of course). I have done it some 2 > > years ago and it pays big time in reliability (also performance, but > >

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-14 Thread Oron Peled
use Fedora (I could have chosen Debian-testing and have a similar experience). However, there are many places that have "developers" that need constant hand-holding even for the simplest tasks. If this is the case, I would be giving them Centos/Debian-stable because I know me/someone wo

Re: Client recovery of NFS mount

2010-05-12 Thread Oron Peled
it) option for NFS mounts: > ... Beside the very valid and good advice Ehud just gave, let me add another one. Move to NFS4 (both server and clients of course). I have done it some 2 years ago and it pays big time in reliability (also performance, but that's less no

Debian package - config files handling

2010-04-23 Thread Oron Peled
ersion* of the old package. * Obviously, this isn't a maintainable solution but it holds the water in the bucket during this week until I get more sleep and find something better... Solution? Ideas? Pointers? -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-23 Thread Oron Peled
nt (not a router, only a single ethernet port). Since I am not sure I would be able to attend, someone may coordinate with me privately to pick it up beforehand (e.g: Sat or Sun -- I live ~150m from the Technion main gate). -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8

Re: mendele.co.il and linux

2010-04-14 Thread Oron Peled
Ubuntu: > > http://mendele.co.il/?page_id=99 > > Cheers for them. Even more important, it is a free software (GPL) which means that not only we are not locked out of this market, we are also not locked-in to specific vendors. -- Oron Peled Voice: +97

Re: driver of poliview pt725a

2010-03-02 Thread Oron Peled
27;s no special driver for the screen. You should check the VGA chipset (the output of lspci), and see if this chipset has a driver with 3D support. 2. My first (seemingly wrong) suspition, was that it's one of the new fangled screens that have *only* digital con

Re: Good places for Hebrew fonts

2010-02-22 Thread Oron Peled
to licensing decisions and the impact they have -- Culmus is bundled by any Linux distribution on the planet... another oportunity to thank Maxim Ioresh for his work again. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom

Re: XWindows - how capture window ?

2010-02-20 Thread Oron Peled
size, so it will be refreshed) [hopefully, should be tested] 3. Grab it. If it works, you'll still have to find a way so the end user won't pan the physical display across the virtual space -- maybe this can be done with some window-manager configuration/ke

Re: No echo of Microphone input

2010-02-06 Thread Oron Peled
essed by reading the module source, etc. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate s

Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread Oron Peled
ajor benefit of the CLR environment is its cross platform > support due to Mono. Believing and quoting Microsoft propaganda, is naive at best. Some testing and reading would show you the bitter truth. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread Oron Peled
o take the right path (from our point of view) is just as important as exposing the others on the wall of shame. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron You know, someon

Re: OOo presenter in Hebrew

2009-12-26 Thread Oron Peled
7;s compare oranges with oranges: MS-office 2010 trial version is 791MB -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron __ / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h

Re: Free software projects in Java or C++

2009-12-25 Thread Oron Peled
uages in the past (PHP), it looks like python would provide easier learning curve for you. Good luck, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_M

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

2009-12-25 Thread Oron Peled
dows(TM). From your posts I understand you already own Windows, IE, MS-Office and Access -- problem solved. Why seek for imitations if you have the original? Uri, it looks like "microsoft-il" or "no-money-windows" mailing lists would provide better answers to your needs. Cheers

Re: "combined" printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-23 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 23 בDecember 2009 17:26:09 Michael Vasiliev wrote: > Not all HP MFT's are born equal. Mine is not partially supported in > linux (no scanning support by sane and no duplexing support by hplip) Care to elaborate? (exact model, so others can avoid it). --

Heads up: Israel software patents

2009-12-12 Thread Oron Peled
iki/Israel -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doin

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-11 Thread Oron Peled
ct details) * Adam finally managed to compose an unofficial rpm which he pushed to rpmfusion.org (for Fedora) So anyone looking for graphics hardware -- buy Intel or ATI, but not the GMA500 Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: Zaptel on Debian Lenny

2009-11-01 Thread Oron Peled
self. You are new to this subject and so you are bound to make many more mistakes in the process than the Debian maintainers. You should try to build your own, only AFTER you have gained experience with a WORKING asterisk/DAHDI for some time. Bye, -- Oron Peled

Re: how to disable PolicyKit?

2009-10-31 Thread Oron Peled
On Saturday, 31 בOctober 2009 16:40:47 Diego Iastrubni wrote: > On Friday 30 October 2009 01:40:07 Oron Peled wrote: > > > I rather hate NetworkManager, too ;-). However, from > > > the system point of view, I'd naively expect hal, udev, dbus, network, > > >

Re: how to disable PolicyKit?

2009-10-29 Thread Oron Peled
Yes, this is verbatim example from the manpage of PolicyKit.conf (OK, you changed the user name ;-) > I did this yesterday, but I have not had enough time > to check that the annoying popups have disappeared. If not: - Either a bug in PolicyKit -- please report - Or a pop up from someth

Re: how to disable PolicyKit?

2009-10-29 Thread Oron Peled
It also provides a central control mechanism for administrators. > What I really want to do is to kill the beast once and for all. Too late, it already escaped the cage some years ago ;-) -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-23 Thread Oron Peled
sed) I could mount it, but I don't see this option here. Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "A billion flies _can_ be wrong - I'd rather eat lamb chops than shit

Re: Desktop effects stopped working on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-10-13 Thread Oron Peled
"sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" might be helpful. > > > > And from now on, when you connect an external monitor, just be sure to > > place the screen above/below the laptop screen rather than to the left/right > > of it. > > > -- Oron Peled

Re: Adding Wireless to Cable Connection

2009-10-08 Thread Oron Peled
several embedded vendors complying with free software licenses... [looks like gpl-violations.org is doing a nice job, both Edimax and D-Link needed some help to remember their legal obligations. It looks like both are more careful now.] Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice

Re: New Essay - "FOSS Licences Wars"

2009-10-03 Thread Oron Peled
nux mailing list they are obviously trolling -- maybe that's why you keep cross posting (trying to maximize impact). -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron I just found out that the brain is like a

Re: OT Electronics recycling

2009-09-30 Thread Oron Peled
ng. There's a snunit collection spot in the Technion: http://green-asat.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post.html It's in a bit obscure location but I managed to find it and used it a couple of times. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@act

Re: attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?

2009-09-30 Thread Oron Peled
driver, in upstream kernel for several years, maintained by the company itself, including free software user space tools and with simple and accessible protocol definition -- I wish all hardware vendors were as open. Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492

Re: sendmail smart host auth

2009-09-22 Thread Oron Peled
t reply "sendmail is bad, or switch to other MTA". Sendmail is bad for some people. Switch the people ;-) -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "Beware of bugs in the abo

Re: [Haifux] Open Source Games or the Lack of Them

2009-09-19 Thread Oron Peled
ust skip it until you do. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "A billion flies _can_ be wrong - I'd rather eat lamb chops than shit." -- Linus Torvalds on lkml _

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-16 Thread Oron Peled
ent and migration (no need to change tools). * There's also virt-manager which is layered over libvirt and provide a GUI for the same management features and also secure console support (VNC encrypted over SSL or SSH) (http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com) D

Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-09-05 Thread Oron Peled
On Friday, 4 בSeptember 2009 20:43:22 Diego Iastrubni wrote: > On יום ראשון 30 אוגוסט 2009 11:36:03 Oron Peled wrote: > > I also make sure that the people who sell stuff will know *why* I > > chose their hardware > > While I do tend to agree with what you say... who are

Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-08-30 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 30 בAugust 2009 10:15:51 Boaz Rymland wrote: > On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:06:43 +0300, Oron Peled wrote: > > Just a general warning (don't know if it applies to this specific model). > > Many devices on the market with Linux pre-installed have some binary > >

Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-08-30 Thread Oron Peled
are pre-installed with Ubuntu your install/upgrade options are very restricted. This is an example of really bad move from Intel who otherwise has excellent free software support for its hardware. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.i

Re: PAE question

2009-08-02 Thread Oron Peled
ion? Two links with some more reasoning/info: http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-11-kernel-pae-and-what-it- means.html https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ArchitectureSupport -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http:/

Re: 0AD - A real-time strategy game, now in open source.

2009-07-28 Thread Oron Peled
headers as #include , while the Fedora js-devel package install them directly under /usr/include and not in a js/ subdirectory. I didn't have time to investigate who is right/more-up-to-date etc. As a workaround I simply created a symlink as root: ln -s . /usr/include/js Cheers, -

Re: inet_ntoa and segmentation fault

2009-07-15 Thread Oron Peled
GS='-Wall -Werror' This would fail the build because of missing prototypes. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Linux lasts longer! -- "Kim J. Brand" __

Re: voip problems

2009-06-27 Thread Oron Peled
seems that although the adsl works, the voice line is dead. The first suspect in this case is the ADSL splitter . -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Linux is a trademark of

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