Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

On Wednesday January 31 2007, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Quoting Jonathan Ben Avraham, from the post of Tue, 30 Jan:
> > Hi RP,
> > What reason do you have to believe that your identity is worth stealing?
>
> identity thievs give as much care to whose identity they abuse as much
> as an attack script cares if it's carpet-scanning machines that are
> Linux or windows. every day snort reports 14k-20K attack packets on my
> server, even though there is nothing interesting in it other than
> potential abuse of bandwidth if they DO break in.
>
> same with ID theft, they will use it to forge bank activity or
> something, or buy stolen cars on his name or who cares what.
>
> the question is, why does he think that calling himself "Random Penguin"
> is any protection 

So, a man decides to call himself Random Penguin, rather than, say, Daniel 
Johnson or the less original John Smith, while posting to Linux-IL. Whatever 
his intention was, I don't have a problem with that. There are groups that 
don't allow nicknames, this is not one of them. This has nothing to do with 
law and order in this forum. There were no rule to post under your real name 
last time I checked, and even if it were, how would you enforce that? I don't 
see any nice way to do that other than asking people to sign their mail, and 
that would be a not very popular idea. Besides, I enjoy seeing a cleverly 
crafted "bulletproof" virtual identity. Call me whatever you want, but I 
believe that sometimes these virtuals allow a person to express her/him-self 
better than under the real name. There are topics some people would like to 
discuss while staying incognito. Now, his decision that Linux in Israel is 
one of these topics is none of my business. I like to see who is who in this 

Re: Fwd: SendSMS Error

On Thursday 01 February 2007 01:16, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote:
> On Monday 08 January 2007 12:07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:28:07AM +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> > > I am trying to use the SendSMS script by Nadav Harel. I get an error
> > > while sending to an Orange  contact. I sent it to Nadav - but got no
> > > answer - anyone knows if he is still supporting SendSMS?
> >
> > I've had good luck with a PERL program that I downloaded that uses
> > ICQ. It sends messages all around the world, and costs nothing to use.
>
> Geoff,
> Could you point us in the direction of this "PERL program"? Where? What?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chaim

I think I found it. Were you referring here to the script you wrote and posted 
to the thread "Orange SMS" on 19/11/06?

> > I have no idea if it supports Hebrew or not.
> >
> > Geoff.
>
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Re: ID theft (offtipicish)

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 02:03 +0200, Michael Vasiliev wrote:
> > Quoting Jonathan Ben Avraham, from the post of Tue, 30 Jan:
> > > Hi RP,
> > > What reason do you have to believe that your identity is worth stealing?

> So, a man decides to call himself Random Penguin, rather than, say, Daniel 
> Johnson [...] Call me whatever you want, but I 
> believe that sometimes these virtuals allow a person to express her/him-self 
> better than under the real name. There are topics some people would like to 
> discuss while staying incognito. Now, his decision that Linux in Israel is 
> one of these topics is none of my business.

I agree completely and I don't think that Daniel Johnson (or whatever)
must identify himself legally to us when discussing Linux in Israel or
any other topic. But I also think that when one conducts political
activity - such as organizing a petition - it looks very suspicious if
one does not identify oneself using a real name. I personally am very
loath to subscribe to political activities organized by anonymous
people.

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Re: archiving parts in linux.

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:19, Yehoshua (Shay) O'Hayon Suchar wrote:
> Tzahi Fadida said:
> > I tried 7z but after about 12% of archiving it gives a weird error:
> > "Error:
> >
> >
> > System error:
> > Too many open files "
> > (and this file was never opened :).
> >
> > What can i do?
>
> Could be that the error has something to do with the limit of file
> descriptors in the system?

Sorry for not responding earlier. My system crashed and i had to restore from 
backups. 
I did not really understand this. Are you saying there is a limit on the 
number of files i can tar gz?
I also make backups of my emails and there can be as much as a million files, 
pherhaps more because of the mbox style(i think) of holding mails.

>
> Check out this: http://bcr2.uwaterloo.ca/~brecht/servers/openfiles.html
>
>
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Re: archiving parts in linux.

On 01/02/07, Tzahi Fadida <Tzahi.ML@...> wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:19, Yehoshua (Shay) O'Hayon Suchar wrote:
> > Tzahi Fadida said:
> > > I tried 7z but after about 12% of archiving it gives a weird error:
> > > "Error:
> > >
> > >
> > > System error:
> > > Too many open files "
> > > (and this file was never opened :).
> > >
> > > What can i do?
> >
> > Could be that the error has something to do with the limit of file
> > descriptors in the system?
>
> Sorry for not responding earlier. My system crashed and i had to restore from
> backups.
> I did not really understand this. Are you saying there is a limit on the
> number of files i can tar gz?
> I also make backups of my emails and there can be as much as a million files,
> pherhaps more because of the mbox style(i think) of holding mails.
>

Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but so far as I know mbox
saves all the emails of a particular folder in one big file. So if you
have 200 emails in 5 folders, then you will have 5 mbox files.

Kmail has another two or three files per mbox folder, so you really
will have 5*n folders, but you get the idea. It's not 200*n.

Re: [Partial Resoltion] Re: PPTP issues and Barak over cable

Re: archiving parts in linux.

On Thursday 01 February 2007 14:55, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 01/02/07, Tzahi Fadida <Tzahi.ML@...> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:19, Yehoshua (Shay) O'Hayon Suchar wrote:
> > > Tzahi Fadida said:
> > > > I tried 7z but after about 12% of archiving it gives a weird error:
> > > > "Error:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > System error:
> > > > Too many open files "
> > > > (and this file was never opened :).
> > > >
> > > > What can i do?
> > >
> > > Could be that the error has something to do with the limit of file
> > > descriptors in the system?
> >
> > Sorry for not responding earlier. My system crashed and i had to restore
> > from backups.
> > I did not really understand this. Are you saying there is a limit on the
> > number of files i can tar gz?
> > I also make backups of my emails and there can be as much as a million
> > files, pherhaps more because of the mbox style(i think) of holding mails.
>
> Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but so far as I know mbox
> saves all the emails of a particular folder in one big file. So if you
> have 200 emails in 5 folders, then you will have 5 mbox files.
>
> Kmail has another two or three files per mbox folder, so you really
> will have 5*n folders, but you get the idea. It's not 200*n.

Sorry, of course maildir.

>
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://what-is-what.com/what_is/firefox.html
> http://technology-sleuth.com/question/what_is_a_firewall.html

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RE: [Partial Resoltion] Re: PPTP issues and Barak over cable

Double quotation marks in Unicode Hebrew

Shalom BIDI gurus!

To distinguish, in Hebrew Unicode text,  between quotation marks (מרכאות) and
gershayim (גרשיים), I have been using for the opening quotation marks the
unicode DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK U+201E (Windows-1255 0x84) and closing
quotation marks the unicode LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK U+201C (Windows-1255:
0x93). For geshayim I used of course the unicode HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERSHAYIM
U+05F4 (Windows-1255 0xD8). 

This arrangement looks best for me, although most modern books use (I think
because of sheer laziness) the same glyph for all three (gershayim). However,
I just noticed that Firefox 2.0.0.1 mirrors the LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK and
displays instead the RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK U+201D (Windows-1255: 0x94).
Firefox 1.5.0.9, Opera 9.10, and MSIE (sic) 6.0 All do not do it. Is this the
correct behaviour  under the UNICODE BIDI algorithm? Should I replace all my
U+201C with U+201D so that they will look OK after mirroring? You can view my
Web pages at http://JV.Gilead.org.il/hebrew/ and
http://JV.Gilead.org.il/FAQ/index.he.html for examples of usage of these
punctuation marks.

Kol tuv,

Zvi.

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Hebrew Wiki

Hi,

Just for making sure: MediaWiki is the most mature/"full-of-features" 
*hebrew-supporting* free wiki product?
Anyone knows something better?

(I hope this post won't make a holy war...)

10x

 - Oren

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