From shlomif at shlomifish.org  Thu Feb 12 18:04:01 2015
From: shlomif at shlomifish.org (Shlomi Fish)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 18:04:01 +0200
Subject: Seeking Recommendations for Open Source Projects with Prospects for
 Potentially Earning Money
Message-ID: <20150212180401.4421aaa1@telaviv1.shlomifish.org>

Hi all,

I am seeking recommendations for open source projects that by contributing them
there will be a potential to earn some money for the time and effort spent.
This may include a full-time job, a part-time job, bug bounties, or whatever.

Note: I do not expect to be paid right away without proving myself, but still
am seeking the prospects of earning money. You can find a list of my
qualifications and experience on my homepage:

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Regards,

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From mordbe0 at gmail.com  Tue Feb 17 22:27:23 2015
From: mordbe0 at gmail.com (Mord Behar)
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:27:23 +0200
Subject: OT: ISP and infrastructure bundling
Message-ID: <CAJzkJxHXsV0=_LEp7KoCsAPYPy9wO_U+pbV1gFci_VsoA14oLw@mail.gmail.com>

So, today is the day that Bezeq is finally starting to subcontract their
ADSL infrastructure to other companies, thus allowing an ISP to provide the
full service.
I personally think that this is a good thing, the somewhat artificial
distinction between ISP and infrastructure seemed like a good way to make
rich people richer, without actually benefitting anybody else. I am
thoroughly sick and tired of having to deal with two separate tech support
systems, each one blaming the other for their own faults.
Anyway, it looks like right now the only sensible option to bundle the two
services is with 018 Xfone. (018.co.il)
Looking around, I found very little information about the company that
doesn't look like it came from the company's own press team.
Does anybody use their services? How is it? Do they deliver on their
promised up/down speeds? (Bezeq and Bezeqint don't, at least for me) How is
their tech support? How is their customer support?
Has anybody heard any rumors about other companies bundling service and
infrastructure?
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From esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il  Wed Feb 18 00:27:05 2015
From: esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il (E.S. Rosenberg)
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:27:05 +0200
Subject: OT: ISP and infrastructure bundling
In-Reply-To: <CAJzkJxHXsV0=_LEp7KoCsAPYPy9wO_U+pbV1gFci_VsoA14oLw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJzkJxHXsV0=_LEp7KoCsAPYPy9wO_U+pbV1gFci_VsoA14oLw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAHTx_BMBJGnA7DvWCGL0=eZaq3X5NHgq4OMp5mMNDRnmJiK1rg@mail.gmail.com>

Hasn't this been possible for several years now?

2015-02-17 22:27 GMT+02:00 Mord Behar <mordbe0 at gmail.com>:

> So, today is the day that Bezeq is finally starting to subcontract their
> ADSL infrastructure to other companies, thus allowing an ISP to provide the
> full service.
> I personally think that this is a good thing, the somewhat artificial
> distinction between ISP and infrastructure seemed like a good way to make
> rich people richer, without actually benefitting anybody else. I am
> thoroughly sick and tired of having to deal with two separate tech support
> systems, each one blaming the other for their own faults.
> Anyway, it looks like right now the only sensible option to bundle the two
> services is with 018 Xfone. (018.co.il)
> Looking around, I found very little information about the company that
> doesn't look like it came from the company's own press team.
> Does anybody use their services? How is it? Do they deliver on their
> promised up/down speeds? (Bezeq and Bezeqint don't, at least for me) How is
> their tech support? How is their customer support?
> Has anybody heard any rumors about other companies bundling service and
> infrastructure?
>
> _______________________________________________
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From linux-il at shimi.net  Wed Feb 18 00:39:26 2015
From: linux-il at shimi.net (shimi)
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:39:26 +0200
Subject: OT: ISP and infrastructure bundling
In-Reply-To: <CAJzkJxHXsV0=_LEp7KoCsAPYPy9wO_U+pbV1gFci_VsoA14oLw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJzkJxHXsV0=_LEp7KoCsAPYPy9wO_U+pbV1gFci_VsoA14oLw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKnt4U9gE5d-LJ_8mDwx=uHuvBLPF7u9duTZDbuQc+tQNe3oAg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Mord Behar <mordbe0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, today is the day that Bezeq is finally starting to subcontract their
> ADSL infrastructure to other companies, thus allowing an ISP to provide the
> full service.
> I personally think that this is a good thing, the somewhat artificial
> distinction between ISP and infrastructure seemed like a good way to make
> rich people richer, without actually benefitting anybody else. I am
> thoroughly sick and tired of having to deal with two separate tech support
> systems, each one blaming the other for their own faults.
> Anyway, it looks like right now the only sensible option to bundle the two
> services is with 018 Xfone. (018.co.il)
> Looking around, I found very little information about the company that
> doesn't look like it came from the company's own press team.
> Does anybody use their services? How is it? Do they deliver on their
> promised up/down speeds? (Bezeq and Bezeqint don't, at least for me) How is
> their tech support? How is their customer support?
> Has anybody heard any rumors about other companies bundling service and
> infrastructure?
>
>
I use 018 (30Mbps), but not through DSL... I would say they're quite
stable... by far most of my issues are from the infra and not from them.

Downloads are reasonable (but who doesn't have a CDN with an Israeli
endpoint nowdays? so you're likely downloading from Israel which is fast
for everybody...)

I've seen traffic to abroad go through gtt.net, sometimes through bezeqint
(!!!)...

If you d/l with multiple (like, 30) TCP connections (e.g. from an NNTP that
allows you), you usually get your full speed even in busy hours.

If you want me to download a specific resource at a specific time of the
day to check performance, let me know....

As for tech support - rarely do I call them, but I remember one time I did
and the person on the other side (equivalent to the regular
checklist-reading-representative, not an escalation in any way) was
actually knowledgable. He figured out what was wrong (I have to use their
L2TP as IP and not a hostname due to a limitation of my router - and the IP
I used became oversubscribed). We discussed their L2TP servers load
balancing algorithm... I think the regular techsupport guy doesn't know
what load balancing means. So, surprising. But really, it's just an
anecdote and perhaps a corner case...

-- Shimi
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From nyh at math.technion.ac.il  Wed Feb 25 00:32:14 2015
From: nyh at math.technion.ac.il (Nadav Har'El)
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:32:14 +0200
Subject: Announce: Hspell 1.3
Message-ID: <20150224223214.GA12928@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>

Dan Kenigsberg and I are proud to present version 1.3 of Hspell,
the free Hebrew spell-checker and morphological analyzer.

As usual, you can find the new release in the project's homepage:

        http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/

Hspell's vocabulary is already fairly mature, but this release continues
to enlarge it with more than 400 additional base words, and continues to
improve Hspell's compliance with the guidelines of the Academy of the
Hebrew Language.

We also continued to expand our detailed documentation of Hspell's spelling
standard. This document, now spanning more than 100 pages, is included in
Hspell's source distribution, and also available in PDF format here:

	http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/niqqudless.pdf

Not only people who download Hspell from our site will benefit from this
release. For several years now, only a minority of Hspell's users downloaded
it from our site. Hspell has become the de-facto standard Hebrew spell-checker
in the free software world and beyond; It is available in Linux distributions,
in Aspell's and Hunspell's dictionary collections, as OpenOffice and Firefox
plugins, and more. We expect that the new Hspell release will soon propagate
to all these distributions and applications, so that their users will also be
able to enjoy the improvements in Hspell 1.3.

We hope that you will enjoy Hspell 1.3.

Nadav Har'El and Dan Kenigsberg.
February 25, 2015.

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From esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il  Wed Feb 25 17:26:25 2015
From: esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il (E.S. Rosenberg)
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:26:25 +0200
Subject: Announce: Hspell 1.3
In-Reply-To: <CAHTx_BNvU2iA_dpTnvH06aZVSGi6Nse3B3K-X_m65-S9T75ONA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20150224223214.GA12928@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>
 <CAHTx_BNvU2iA_dpTnvH06aZVSGi6Nse3B3K-X_m65-S9T75ONA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAHTx_BPA1afdOXLPjYRGumgjpJy5qmhRcjPanZ1nT6SkHdfKqw@mail.gmail.com>

re:all

2015-02-25 17:22 GMT+02:00 E.S. Rosenberg <esr at g.jct.ac.il>:
> 2015-02-25 0:32 GMT+02:00 Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>:
>> Dan Kenigsberg and I are proud to present version 1.3 of Hspell,
>> the free Hebrew spell-checker and morphological analyzer.
>>
>> As usual, you can find the new release in the project's homepage:
>>
>>         http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/
>>
>> Hspell's vocabulary is already fairly mature, but this release continues
>> to enlarge it with more than 400 additional base words, and continues to
>> improve Hspell's compliance with the guidelines of the Academy of the
>> Hebrew Language.
>>
>> We also continued to expand our detailed documentation of Hspell's spelling
>> standard. This document, now spanning more than 100 pages, is included in
>> Hspell's source distribution, and also available in PDF format here:
>>
>>         http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/niqqudless.pdf
>>
>> Not only people who download Hspell from our site will benefit from this
>> release. For several years now, only a minority of Hspell's users downloaded
>> it from our site. Hspell has become the de-facto standard Hebrew spell-checker
>> in the free software world and beyond; It is available in Linux distributions,
>> in Aspell's and Hunspell's dictionary collections, as OpenOffice and Firefox
>> plugins, and more. We expect that the new Hspell release will soon propagate
>> to all these distributions and applications, so that their users will also be
>> able to enjoy the improvements in Hspell 1.3.
>>
>> We hope that you will enjoy Hspell 1.3.
>>
>> Nadav Har'El and Dan Kenigsberg.
>> February 25, 2015.
Thanks for your great work!

While we're on the topic of writing Hebrew on OSS (and even non-oss),
I have always wondered how people type with niqqud and never succeeded
in finding a nice guide (for linux/libreoffice)...

Eliyahu - ?????
?? ???????? ?????
>>
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>>
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From nyh at math.technion.ac.il  Wed Feb 25 17:42:43 2015
From: nyh at math.technion.ac.il (Nadav Har'El)
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:42:43 +0200
Subject: Announce: Hspell 1.3
In-Reply-To: <CAHTx_BNvU2iA_dpTnvH06aZVSGi6Nse3B3K-X_m65-S9T75ONA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20150224223214.GA12928@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>
 <CAHTx_BNvU2iA_dpTnvH06aZVSGi6Nse3B3K-X_m65-S9T75ONA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20150225154243.GA27757@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015, E.S. Rosenberg wrote about "Re: Announce: Hspell 1.3":
> Thanks for your great work!
> 
> While we're on the topic of writing Hebrew on OSS (and even non-oss),
> I have always wondered how people type with niqqud and never succeeded
> in finding a nice guide (for linux/libreoffice)...

First, you need to make sure you use a font which has niqqud. Many of
the excellent Culmus fonts do support niqqud, so hopefully you're
using one that supports niqqud (if not, switch).

Second, you need a keyboard mapping which allows you to type niqqud.
The single-handedly best for that is the so-called "he-lyx" mapping.
How to enable it depends on your "desktop environment", but in my own
no-frills environment I actually set the keyboard mapping directly
with the command:

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il ,lyx

At that point, when you're in Hebrew mode (with the above command's
"shift_toggle", switching to Hebrew involves pressing the two shifts),
if you press shift and one of the hebrew letters, you get one of the
niqqud. Most of them have easy to remember mnemonics - e.g., to get a
kamats on the previous letter, type shift-quf (in other words, "E").
You can experiment to find all the other niqqudim. Shift-minus also
gives you a maqqaf (higher than the hyphen) - don't forget to use it ;-)

Finally, you'll need to learn the rules of correct niqqud ;-) There's
nothing worse than making an effort to add niqqud - but then using
the wrong niqqud. This is a completely separate topic. Maybe one day,
when my kids grow up, I'll write a spell-checker / helper for niqqud...
It's not *that* hard.

Good luck!

BTW, if you look in my document, you can see in addition to niqqud, it
also contains words in Russian, Arabic, Greek, Turkish not to mention
the latin alphabet. The beauty of unicode, and cut-and-paste from the
Internet :-)

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From tzafrir at cohens.org.il  Wed Feb 25 17:56:03 2015
From: tzafrir at cohens.org.il (Tzafrir Cohen)
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:56:03 +0100
Subject: Announce: Hspell 1.3
In-Reply-To: <20150225154243.GA27757@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>
References: <20150224223214.GA12928@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>
 <CAHTx_BNvU2iA_dpTnvH06aZVSGi6Nse3B3K-X_m65-S9T75ONA@mail.gmail.com>
 <20150225154243.GA27757@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>
Message-ID: <20150225155602.GI20529@lemon.cohens.org.il>

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 05:42:43PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015, E.S. Rosenberg wrote about "Re: Announce: Hspell 1.3":
> > Thanks for your great work!
> > 
> > While we're on the topic of writing Hebrew on OSS (and even non-oss),
> > I have always wondered how people type with niqqud and never succeeded
> > in finding a nice guide (for linux/libreoffice)...
> 
> First, you need to make sure you use a font which has niqqud. Many of
> the excellent Culmus fonts do support niqqud, so hopefully you're
> using one that supports niqqud (if not, switch).
> 
> Second, you need a keyboard mapping which allows you to type niqqud.
> The single-handedly best for that is the so-called "he-lyx" mapping.
> How to enable it depends on your "desktop environment", but in my own
> no-frills environment I actually set the keyboard mapping directly
> with the command:
> 
> setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il ,lyx

setxkbmap's -option needs resetting. If you follow this, try:

  setxkbmap -option '' -option grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il ,lyx

Note that in the latest versions, the keyboard mapping includes the
latest version of SI1452:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/he-standard-2012-extonly/he

For this you should use something along the lines of:

setxkbmap -option '' -option \
        "grp:shift_toggle,grp:switch,lv3:ralt_switch"
\
        us,il

Like the above, but the right alt is used to switch (temporarily) to
third shift level, where most Nikkud signs are.

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From nyh at math.technion.ac.il  Thu Feb 26 08:32:08 2015
From: nyh at math.technion.ac.il (Nadav Har'El)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:32:08 +0200
Subject: Announce: Hspell 1.3
In-Reply-To: <20150225155602.GI20529@lemon.cohens.org.il>
References: <20150224223214.GA12928@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>
 <CAHTx_BNvU2iA_dpTnvH06aZVSGi6Nse3B3K-X_m65-S9T75ONA@mail.gmail.com>
 <20150225154243.GA27757@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>
 <20150225155602.GI20529@lemon.cohens.org.il>
Message-ID: <20150226063208.GA2907@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: Announce: Hspell 1.3":
> latest version of SI1452:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/he-standard-2012-extonly/he
> 
> For this you should use something along the lines of:
> 
> setxkbmap -option '' -option \
>         "grp:shift_toggle,grp:switch,lv3:ralt_switch"
> \
>         us,il
> 
> Like the above, but the right alt is used to switch (temporarily) to
> third shift level, where most Nikkud signs are.

Do you know why decided to go with that "third level", with that alt,
instead of just using the shift as in the lyx mapping?

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From tzafrir at cohens.org.il  Thu Feb 26 10:43:21 2015
From: tzafrir at cohens.org.il (Tzafrir Cohen)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:43:21 +0100
Subject: Announce: Hspell 1.3
In-Reply-To: <20150226063208.GA2907@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>
References: <20150224223214.GA12928@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>
 <CAHTx_BNvU2iA_dpTnvH06aZVSGi6Nse3B3K-X_m65-S9T75ONA@mail.gmail.com>
 <20150225154243.GA27757@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>
 <20150225155602.GI20529@lemon.cohens.org.il>
 <20150226063208.GA2907@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>
Message-ID: <20150226084321.GJ20529@lemon.cohens.org.il>

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 08:32:08AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: Announce: Hspell 1.3":
> > latest version of SI1452:
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/he-standard-2012-extonly/he
> > 
> > For this you should use something along the lines of:
> > 
> > setxkbmap -option '' -option \
> >         "grp:shift_toggle,grp:switch,lv3:ralt_switch"
> > \
> >         us,il
> > 
> > Like the above, but the right alt is used to switch (temporarily) to
> > third shift level, where most Nikkud signs are.
> 
> Do you know why decided to go with that "third level", with that alt,
> instead of just using the shift as in the lyx mapping?

To maintain compatibility with the existing standard (the part that
people actually use). Too many people actually use shift-Hebrew as
capital English. It's broken, but breaking it would upset too many
people.

I suppose you weren't in AP11, so maybe watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTtBmNxSohM

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http://tzafrir.org.il |                    | a Mutt's
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From shlomif at shlomifish.org  Sat Feb 28 14:30:29 2015
From: shlomif at shlomifish.org (Shlomi Fish)
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 14:30:29 +0200
Subject: Tech Tip: How to Prevent Single Clicks from Playing/Activating a
 File in the Qt5-based VLC-2.2.0 on KDE 4 (and allow for other Qt 5
 customisations).
Message-ID: <20150228143029.1265444f@telaviv1.shlomifish.org>

Hi all,

today I blogged about how to customise the Qt 5 behaviour under KDE 4:

http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/69991.html

This is important because now the Qt 5 based VLC-2.2.0 (on Mageia Linux
5/Cauldron) behaves inconsistently with the rest of KDE. Finding a solution for
this involved some web searching and reading some code and I have no idea how
someone who isn't very tech-savvy could figure it out.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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