Re: Ubuntu terminal and colors
Not necessarily possible but ssh -X could let you achieve that. On 5/19/09, Noam Rathaus no...@beyondsecurity.com wrote: Issue with meld is that I need to run this diff on a remote X-less machine. On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com wrote: Noam, I rely on meld X window utility for diffs, patches, etc. Integrates nicely with svn and probably with other version control systems. Might be a worth a look. ~baum On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Noam Rathaus no...@beyondsecurity.com wrote: Hi, I used to use vimdiff quite a lot, but it has become impossible to use with Ubuntu's terminal (gnome I presume) color selection. The colors used by the gnome terminal simply make it impossible to compare (too dark, or too light). I tried several profile colors offered, but it aint doing it ... Any suggestions? (I use Ubuntu GTK/Gnome based, not Kubuntu) And the terminal I use is the one found under Application-Accessories- Terminal -- Regards, Noam Rathaus CTO Beyond Security ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Sent from my mobile device ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me
On May 19, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Erez D wrote: hi too much of ubuntu needs human interventions, some configurations are only possible under interactive gui is ubuntu getting more and more similiar to microsoft ? Wait. things that make me unhappy with Ubuntu: (9.04) My DVD drive stopped reading disks, any DVD/CD, anything at all. After 3 days of running it can not make a connection to the outisde world. I have to reboot to get it to work. Other computers runing Ubuntu have the same problem, 3 days after they were booted, but ones running other operating systems don't. The Gnome GUI only works with a few X servers, OSX's not being one of them. There used to be a hack to get it to work, but with the OSX 10.5.7 upgrade that no longer works. KDE, etc work fine. While it's nice to be GPL software only, and I can agree with not playing encrypted DVDs, OSX 10.5 won't work with netatalk unless the BSD licensed encryption routines are included in the build. So why include Netatalk at all? The same with SENDMAIL. 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: Ubuntu terminal and colors
You can do it using scp/sftp in your own machine, and if you are able to use vim coloring, then vim support it, so you do not need to scp things and then open them. Ido http://ik.homelinux.org/ On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Noam Rathaus no...@beyondsecurity.comwrote: Issue with meld is that I need to run this diff on a remote X-less machine. On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com wrote: Noam, I rely on meld X window utility for diffs, patches, etc. Integrates nicely with svn and probably with other version control systems. Might be a worth a look. ~baum On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Noam Rathaus no...@beyondsecurity.com wrote: Hi, I used to use vimdiff quite a lot, but it has become impossible to use with Ubuntu's terminal (gnome I presume) color selection. The colors used by the gnome terminal simply make it impossible to compare (too dark, or too light). I tried several profile colors offered, but it aint doing it ... Any suggestions? (I use Ubuntu GTK/Gnome based, not Kubuntu) And the terminal I use is the one found under Application-Accessories- Terminal -- Regards, Noam Rathaus CTO Beyond Security ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Israeli spam! Who do I contact?
This is as much a note to myself for record keeping as to inform the list. Just now a woman named Ayelet from I-Limudim called, she was interested in knowing to which address the Israeli spam (email advertising a paid service, from a company that I had never subscribed to it's services or given my email address to voluntarily or consciously). I let her know to which address the spam was sent, and I requested that she send to me the date and IP address of the alleged subscription. Ayelet refused to send the information via email as she did not want to take the risk of me being in her Outlook and getting future unwanted mails. I suppose that is understandable considering the circumstances, so I will wait 1-2 days for her reply. I must also note that she asked why I did not unsubscribe from previous mailings from the company. I stated that I did not unsubscribe from previous mailings because I had no interest in ever establishing communications with the company. As the previous mailings were not illegal in nature (did not advertise paid services) I simply deleted them along with the thousands of other spam mail that I receive. Ayalet also offered me alternative compensation in the form of two tickets to some event. I stressed that my intention is not compensation, therefore the tickets do not interest me. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me
On May 19, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Erez D wrote: i didn't even mension the other problems i had sound stopped working. X is not listening to TCP connections. There is no config option to enable it - to change that i had to edit a ubuntu script. this script is overridden on update ... That's just a quick change to the KDM or GDM (whichever you are running) control file. /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc [XDMCP] Enable=true /etc/gdm/gdm.conf [xdmcp] Enable=true Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendel...@gmail.com -- 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
ubuntu is starting to annoy me
hi i bought a new hardware (dvb-s2 sat card) that needs kernel at least 2.6.28 so i thought my best solution was to upgrade my ubuntu to jaunty after upgrading, i find out that some of my automatic scripts didn't do their jobs anymore after spending a lot of time, i found out that 'screen' doesn't just work, but asks questions (i.e. asks me to choose a profile) and my scripts does not expect these questions ... good that bash doesn't ask interactive questions. otherwise the system will not boot... too much of ubuntu needs human interventions, some configurations are only possible under interactive gui is ubuntu getting more and more similiar to microsoft ? ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:52 PM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On May 19, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Erez D wrote: i didn't even mension the other problems i had sound stopped working. X is not listening to TCP connections. There is no config option to enable it - to change that i had to edit a ubuntu script. this script is overridden on update ... That's just a quick change to the KDM or GDM (whichever you are running) control file. /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc [XDMCP] Enable=true /etc/gdm/gdm.conf [xdmcp] Enable=true Geoff. my solution was to change in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf DisallowTCP=true to DisallowTCP=false however, it is overriden whenever i upgrade ... -- geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendel...@gmail.com -- 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: ubuntu is starting to annoy me
Why not try the new Mandriva 2009.1 Gnome. It isn't bad at all once you get the hang of it. I let Mandriva upgrade me from their server from the 2009.0. I think that this is the Kernel used in the new version. The edition has the webcamera drivers that I need installed for Logitech chat. With Skype I do the following: # LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype and then checking if the sound is set correctly. I did see that it tells me their is an overlapping of Hard Drive Partitions on the HD that Mandriva is installed on. This I never had with the 2009.0 This doesn't stop me from giving Write Read to all Hard Disk Partitions. Moshe --- On Tue, 19/5/09, Erez D erez0...@gmail.com wrote: From: Erez D erez0...@gmail.com Subject: ubuntu is starting to annoy me To: linux-il linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Date: Tuesday, 19 May, 2009, 12:22 PM hi i bought a new hardware (dvb-s2 sat card) that needs kernel at least 2.6.28 so i thought my best solution was to upgrade my ubuntu to jaunty after upgrading, i find out that some of my automatic scripts didn't do their jobs anymore after spending a lot of time, i found out that 'screen' doesn't just work, but asks questions (i.e. asks me to choose a profile) and my scripts does not expect these questions ... good that bash doesn't ask interactive questions. otherwise the system will not boot... too much of ubuntu needs human interventions, some configurations are only possible under interactive gui is ubuntu getting more and more similiar to microsoft ? -Inline Attachment Follows- ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Cross-platform website design
A friend and associate needs a website designed. Considering the sad state of Israeli websites (IE dependence, encoding issues), I prefer to solicit a designer here. Can anyone recommend a web designer to make a real cross-platform website? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Cross-platform website design
Hi Dotan! On Tuesday 19 May 2009 19:26:59 Dotan Cohen wrote: A friend and associate needs a website designed. Considering the sad state of Israeli websites (IE dependence, encoding issues), I prefer to solicit a designer here. Can anyone recommend a web designer to make a real cross-platform website? Well, we're missing a lot of important information: 1. Will the web-site require server-side-scripting of some sort (Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, etc.) or will it be entirely or mostly static data? 2. If #1 - does he have any preference for a technology? 3. Will the web-site be in English, Hebrew or both? 4. What should the web-designer know how to do: styling (CSS+images, etc.), server-side scripting, converting pure image layouts to CSS, Flash, etc. Some people I can recommend who know some of all of this are me ( http://www.shlomifish.org/ ) and other people whom I can give you their details off-list. But you should tell us more about what the job will entail. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Interview with Ben Collins-Sussman - http://xrl.us/bjn8s God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as we read. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: ubuntu is starting to annoy me
geoffrey mendelson wrote: After 3 days of running it can not make a connection to the outisde world. I have to reboot to get it to work. Other computers runing Ubuntu have the same problem, 3 days after they were booted, but ones running other operating systems don't. I had a similar issue that was resolved when I switched to a PCI ethernet adapter with different chipset. In my case it seemed as if the network total loss was related to long periods of idle time - overnight and such. I suspected that whatever power management or other idle-time related mechanism wasn't functioning ok. Replacing the NIC resolved it. Ubuntu is not perfect. I hope the descriptions here are not a sign of a major issue with this release. To the good or worse, its (arguably) one of the best Linux distros out there and most likely the first recommended by many to be your grandma's Windows replacement. I also get irritated by it at times, but I also got irritated by Gentoo (eventually it took me took much time to simply maintain it) and you can find similar problems in any distro - even if you a true Linux zealot :-) Boaz. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
