Re: xfone 018 phone service and Linux

2009-05-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson
of your calls to landlines, it's very cheap. It's not VoIP so you would have to put an FXO card in your switch. :-( Has anyone written a SKYPE to Asterisk bridge? SkypeOUT is cheap if you can stand the quality of service (I can't) Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM Je

dpkg problems

2009-05-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
not run the scripts any more? I don't want to delete anything, and I have set up the automatic package updates to ignore them. I just want dpkg to not run its scripts. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 if it matters. Thanks, Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM Jerusalem Israel geof

Re: Linux Friendly Netbook?

2009-05-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
t now. http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Linux Friendly Netbook?

2009-05-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
well. How about the Intel GMA 950? That has become the chipset of choice on the 9 and 10 inch netbooks. Ubuntu supports mine (MSI Wind U100) right out of the box, but how well I've never checked. Thanks, Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendel...

Re: Linux Friendly Netbook?

2009-05-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
d choice, but if you do anything out of the ordinary, you can see it suffers from the same disease Red Hat Linux suffered from 10 years ago. (get it out the door, worry about the bugs later) Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM Jerusalem Israel ge

Re: the cost of switching to IPv6?

2009-04-30 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi, > > I know TCP/IP but I'm not an expert on this issue, so I want to ask > about the following scenario: Neither am I, but here goes. > According to an article in The Register > (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/30/ipv4_depletion

Re: "stealing" domain names by Israeli registrar

2009-04-30 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
2009/4/30 Boaz Rymland : > Well well. Its seems like we are not even breaking grounds here. The trick's > has been around for some time now. > > Thanks for the links. Informative indeed. Around 2000, an investment banker, burned out from the market, started a company called "Golden Names" in Jerus

Re: ssh from 012 cable to server in US fail

2009-04-29 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
2009/4/29 ronys : > FWIW, Netvision, although they've started blocking outgoing SMTP (port 25), > still allow SSH with no problems, both locally and to the US. > > I doubt that it's a Big Brother type of issue (yet). Who was it that said > not to attribute to malice that which can be attributed to

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-23 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:34 PM, nir grinberg wrote: >  The current issue with the > providers are the fact that their data network coverage is not similar > to their GSM coverage.  in many locations you will be able to talk via > GSM, but receive a very poor data connection. That's because there

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread geoffrey mendelson
. IMHO the ISP involved would not want you to complain to the MOC as the MOC might extend their decision and force them to do more. Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list

: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
2009/4/21 Erez D : > hi > > i want a new Internet connection for my home. > > first i thought of trying the cellular companies. any experience with them ? > are they good ? Going back to your original question, Orange has a 5g a month limit, which IMHO is worthless. I don't think they have an "all

Re: what's the least expensive way to call israel from the usa?

2009-04-10 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:01 AM, sara fink wrote: > > First, Orange isn't trustable. They will say you a price and in fact charge > you other prices, etc. People who were abroad were charged for calls they > didn't do, etc. A quick look at tluna web site about orange will reveal the > real truth.

Re: Israeli ISP blocking outgoing SMTP

2009-04-06 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:55 PM, ronys wrote: > Hi, > > For the last few days, an ISP who shall remain nameless (but who's name in > octal is equal to 11) has decided to block outgoing SMTP connections to > servers abroad. They've done this unilaterally, without notifying customers, > and, for t

Fwd: what's the least expensive way to call israel from the usa?

2009-04-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
re and you have to buy an 800 NIS box over 36 payments (included in the monthly price). I forgot to mention that this includes an 054 incoming number, so if you don't mind making people call you at a high price, you're set. Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffre

Re: what's the least expensive way to call israel from the usa?

2009-04-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
us geek points for about 340 NIS a month + electricity. Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: European VPS hosting

2009-03-30 Thread geoffrey mendelson
vie theater days, if not weeks, later. Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: time zone problems

2009-03-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
ose years I was programming in binary and assembly languange and I could have been programing in C. :-) Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: European VPS hosting

2009-03-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
s programs here in Israel. When he wakes up in the morning, the evening news is on his computer. There are other text oriented tools for podcasting, that don't require a gui. The advantage of Miro is that it uses bit torrent as its transport mechanism to reduce bandwidth costs of dist

Re: Thermal Printers

2009-03-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson
page. (obviously make sure RAW printing is turned on). Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Fax Modems?

2009-03-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
the fax will have to answer any call (potentially after a pre-set number of rings), right? Only if no one else answers. Most people use it with an answering machine, I don' t want one. So if no one is home, or we are all too busy to answer, the fax machine would answer after 10 rin

Fax Modems?

2009-03-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
tely a hardware problem, Hylafax will support it if the modem does, and this one does not. Thanks, Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: printing from ms-win to linux withough samba ?

2009-03-16 Thread geoffrey mendelson
change it later if you use postscript and decide to switch to RAW later. Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: printing from ms-win to linux withough samba ?

2009-03-16 Thread geoffrey mendelson
web page. Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: printing from ms-win to linux withough samba ?

2009-03-15 Thread geoffrey mendelson
rn it on or off using the Windows printing dialog, you have to install the Windows print driver and turn on RAW printing. Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.

Re: printing from ms-win to linux withough samba ?

2009-03-15 Thread geoffrey mendelson
d you can set it up NOT to do file sharing. Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Fax Modems?

2009-03-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson
n 2.4 kernels, but not all chipsets and not all kernels. When mine died, I found that I had two that were supported, but the driver would not compile with my kernel. Serial modems are still supported, if you can find one and have a serial port. Are USB modems supported? Geoff. -- geoffrey mend

Re: Fax Modems?

2009-03-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson
her FAX modem. Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: xfone 018 phone service and Linux

2009-03-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
ice, but it is SKYPE, which is something some people love and others hate (I'm on the hate side) for $6 a month ($13 for a lot of countries). My wife is in Amsterdam for 4 days, and I seriously thought about spending the $6 for one month of an incoming Dutch number via SKYPE, but she h

Fwd: Windows Free Laptop (one more)

2009-03-07 Thread geoffrey mendelson
t available for either Linux or BSD, and once it is loaded they will work with the device. Before I got the device, I booted Windows once every 3 weeks or so. Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailin

Fax Modems?

2009-03-04 Thread geoffrey mendelson
in Israel? Thanks, Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Keyboard problem with Ubuntu and gnome on remote X

2009-03-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
If I ssh in and set my display variable to the correct session and then start an Xterm, or a Konsole, again, they work fine if I have FVWM or KDE up and do not work with gnome. Any ideas? Thanks, Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___

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