Re: Ditching ubuntu
i ditched fedora in favor of ubuntu a few years ago, because of fedora stability issues Me too. I loved Fedora, but 500 MB of updates every week, and packages randomly breaking after updates, was too much. Ubuntu is much more stable. I have not had the stability issues that the OP mentioned, however, both my machines are ATI video. -- 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: Please Benchmark the Multi-threaded version of Freecell Solver
I recently created a thread-enabled version of Freecell Solver, that uses several solver instances in separate threads. I'd like to get some indication of the performance of the solver with different number of threads on different machines. The instructions can be found below. Do you still need this benchmarked? -- 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
Join Linux Israel @ linkedIn.com
Hi, I created group Linux Israel at linkedIn.com to promote Linux in Israel High-Tech. http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=gid=1962511trk=anet_ug_grppro Welcome! -- Constantine Shulyupin Embedded Linux Expert TI DaVinci Expert Tel-Aviv Israel http://www.LinuxDriver.co.il/ ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
How to change compact flash geometry ( cfdisk, sfdisk, parted, fdisk failed)
Hi , I have Compact flash whi gave wrong number of cyl/heads during install. I tried all listed utilities ( cfdisk ,sfdiskm parted ) to change geometry, but after reinserting it retaims to the invalid geometry. Help ?? ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Please Benchmark the Multi-threaded version of Freecell Solver
On Thursday 21 May 2009 11:42:37 Dotan Cohen wrote: I recently created a thread-enabled version of Freecell Solver, that uses several solver instances in separate threads. I'd like to get some indication of the performance of the solver with different number of threads on different machines. The instructions can be found below. Do you still need this benchmarked? The more people test and benchmark it - the better. Just use freecell-solver-2.28.1.tar.bz from here: http://fc-solve.berlios.de/download.html I already got some useful input: 1. The Ubuntu CMake problem. 2. The fact that running strip (without /dev/null) emitted too much confusing output. 3. A problem loading the run-time configuration presets (now handled in the script). 4. A crash when running it on x86-64 machines. (Due to a bug). So this call-for-volunteers was worth it. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin.org/ 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: Ditching ubuntu
lets have fun ! which is the best distribution Shahar flamebait Saying all that, the decision of ditching ubuntu is a right one. Ubuntu sucks, and Fedora is a second-best distribution. /flamebait ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue
Hi everybody, I recently upgraded the Linux version on my work machine, and I noticed something odd about the Hebrew kxkb layout, which I use in the lyx variant. There was no = key, and there were two ] keys. The default Hebrew layout had no such artifact. After comparing my KDE-based Mandriva setup with my sysadmin's Ubuntu (Gnome), it turned out that we had the same layout, and the thing about it is that it's not completely defined. The number keys and symbol keys which are supposedly common to the Hebrew and US layouts are not defined. The default variant defines all the keys. Where is the problem? In English, I don't use the US layout, but rather the Dvorak layout, which places the ] where = is supposed to be. So, does anybody know where I can get a fully-defined Hebrew layout for kxkb, in the lyx variant? If so, a hint on where to install it will also be appreciated. And finally, how does one convince all the distros to include a full layout? It's strange that both Ubuntu and Mandriva have the same faulty layout. As far as I remember, the layout did not give me trouble in Mandriva 2007.1 from which I upgraded. So there used to be a good layout out there. Thanks, Herouth ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Ditching ubuntu
On one of the boxes I installed Fedora 10. So far so good. It seems quite stable. I used livna in order to get all kind of rpm like skype with its dependencies,... installing the latest nvidia driver required some debugging ( adding glx required to edit xorg.conf) I still like ubuntu over fedora. I jumped to ubuntu when Debian screwed it up with the release with kernel 2.6.8 - Original Message - Subject: Re: Ditching ubuntu From: Ehud Karni e...@unix.mvs.co.il To: me...@mail.riunx.com CC: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Date: 20-05-2009 22:25 On Wed, 20 May 2009 18:21:01 Meir Michanie wrote: What do you think about using CENTOS with livna as a home desktop? I want to install it and forget about it. For Grandma, I need skype, im, flash, video camera. It depends on your needs. If you want just some very common tasks - like browsing, spreadsheet etc, then you can use CentOS (I do). Beware that many media application won't work, or you won't be able to install them with yum. Just last week I needed to rip a DVD, to my surprise there was a package for CentOS: DVDRIP-0.98.10-6.el5, I installed it just to find out it does not work. Googling around, I found it is a known problem but without a solution (the same package works on Fedora 10). CentOS is very stable OS when used as server, not as media center. For desktop use, I'll stick with Fedora, not necessarily the last one. You have about 1.5 years maintenance from the distribution of a new version. Fedora 11 will be available sometime in June. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D http://www.keyserver.net/Better Safe Than Sorry ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Dual screens / keyboard layout
Which graphic card you use for the 2nd monitor. I ask because there are specific tools that deal with these resolutions for nvidia, ati etc. I couldn't find so far a script that runs when the 2nd screen is plugged. As far as I know, xorg.conf does this. My logic says that a fork should be created. you can check with the command pstree. http://www.linfo.org/pstree.html Other way to check if there is a script that runs is to use the following command when you are at / grep -ri expression * This will look recursively through all the file system and find if there is such a script. On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Aviram Jenik avi...@jenik.com wrote: On Wednesday 20 May 2009 17:16:20 sara fink wrote: Now any clues on setting the right video resolution automagically? do you still want to work with xorg.conf or without? Neither; I want to find the script that runs when the 2nd screen is plugged in. Once that happens I'll run xrandr myself. - Aviram ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue
So, does anybody know where I can get a fully-defined Hebrew layout for kxkb, in the lyx variant? If so, a hint on where to install it will also be appreciated. And finally, how does one convince all the distros to include a full layout? It's strange that both Ubuntu and Mandriva have the same faulty layout. I would suggest filing issues on both distros' bug trackers. As far as I remember, the layout did not give me trouble in Mandriva 2007.1 from which I upgraded. So there used to be a good layout out there. That is the place where you will find the layout that you ask for, then. You could probably install in a VM to get the appropriate files. -- 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: lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue
On Thursday 21 May 2009 14:20:48 Dotan Cohen wrote: So, does anybody know where I can get a fully-defined Hebrew layout for kxkb, in the lyx variant? If so, a hint on where to install it will also be appreciated. And finally, how does one convince all the distros to include a full layout? It's strange that both Ubuntu and Mandriva have the same faulty layout. I would suggest filing issues on both distros' bug trackers. I should note that on my system (Mandriva Cooker, I noticed that my Xkb configuration does not work properly when X starts and I have to use a script to make it better. I'm not using dvorak on English, but I am using the lyx configuration in Hebrew. I reported it as an X.Org bug here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19718 Regards, Shlomi Fish As far as I remember, the layout did not give me trouble in Mandriva 2007.1 from which I upgraded. So there used to be a good layout out there. That is the place where you will find the layout that you ask for, then. You could probably install in a VM to get the appropriate files. -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Aphorisms - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour.html 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
[TelFOSS] Announcement: Fring Open Source Apps on 31-May-2009
Hi all! The Tel Aviv Open Source Club will host a talk by Alex Nerst and Michal Geva about The Open-Source Fring Twitter and Last.fm Mobile Apps - on Sunday, 31-May-2009. The meeting will take place at Tel Aviv University, at the Schreiber MathsCS building, room 008 on 18:30. So mark your calendars. More information can be found at: * http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/ * http://wiki.osdc.org.il/index.php/Tel_Aviv_Meeting_on_31_May_2009 Attendance is free and everyone are welcome. With any other problems, feel free to contact me: http://www.shlomifish.org/me/contact-me/ Abstract: - Join this session to learn about the next generation of mobile application development. fring, a mobile application and a community with millions of users around the world, enables developers to build mobile applications using their web development skills (PHP, .Net, Java, XML etc). fring includes VoIP, chat and integration with other networks such as: Skype, Facebook, MSN Twitter. The fring API provides access to fring’s features and integration with the handset’s core features Camera, GPS, Security etc. You build your application on your own web server, by using any web development technology and communicate with fring via XML. The demonstration will focus on two mobile apps: Twitter Last.fm, which were developed using the fring API and are available as open source. https://www.fring.com/ -- We are always looking for presentations on interesting topics. If you have an interesting idea for a talk, feel free to contact us and we'll co-ordinate a date. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Understand what Open Source is - http://xrl.us/bjn82 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
Help setting up xfce4 on ubuntu 8.04 - does not connect with Dbus -- Blank screen
Hi All, I have stripped down ubuntu 8.04no X windows (installed with debootstrap) Now I am adding XFCE desktop XServer starts up normally (ps + Xorg.log) , but xfce gives strange errors and screen remains blank : more .xsession-errors Xsession: X session started for vbox at Thu May 21 20:41:42 UTC 2009 ** (xfdesktop:6742): WARNING **: Unable to initialise D-Bus. Some xfdesktop features may be unavailable. ** (xfdesktop:6742): WARNING **: Unable to initialise D-Bus. Some xfdesktop features may be unavailable. ** (xfdesktop:6742): WARNING **: Unable to initialise D-Bus. Some xfdesktop features may be unavailable. ** (xfdesktop:6742): WARNING **: Unable to initialise D-Bus. Some xfdesktop features may be unavailable. ** (xfdesktop:6742): WARNING **: Unable to initialise D-Bus. Some xfdesktop features may be unavailable. (xfwm4:6733): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error (xfwm4:6733): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session manager. (xfdesktop:6742): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error (xfdesktop:6742): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session manager. xfce-mcs-manager: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0. xfwm4: Fatal IO error 2 (No such file or directory) on X server :0.0. ** Message: Xfce Menu: screen changed: 0 ** Message: No valid plug window. (xfce4-panel:6735): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_socket_get_id: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_ANCHORED (socket)' failed ** (xfce4-panel:6735): CRITICAL **: An item was unexpectedly removed: Xfce Menu. (xfce4-panel:6735): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error (xfce4-panel:6735): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session manager. xfce4-panel: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0. xfdesktop: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0. (xfce4-menu-plugin:6765): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 Xsession: X session started for vbox at Thu May 21 20:49:42 UTC 2009 r...@lev:~# ps -ef |grep dbus 105 2262 1 0 20:46 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
SOLVED Re: Help setting up xfce4 on ubuntu 8.04 - does not connect with Dbus -- Blank screen
I solved dbus connection problem by installing dbus-x11 package Still have a problem with ICE : libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error Lev Olshvang wrote: Hi All, I have stripped down ubuntu 8.04no X windows (installed with debootstrap) Now I am adding XFCE desktop XServer starts up normally (ps + Xorg.log) , but xfce gives strange errors and screen remains blank : more .xsession-errors Xsession: X session started for vbox at Thu May 21 20:41:42 UTC 2009 ** (xfdesktop:6742): WARNING **: Unable to initialise D-Bus. Some xfdesktop features may be unavailable. ** (xfdesktop:6742): WARNING **: Unable to initialise D-Bus. Some xfdesktop features may be unavailable. ** (xfdesktop:6742): WARNING **: Unable to initialise D-Bus. Some xfdesktop features may be unavailable. ** (xfdesktop:6742): WARNING **: Unable to initialise D-Bus. Some xfdesktop features may be unavailable. ** (xfdesktop:6742): WARNING **: Unable to initialise D-Bus. Some xfdesktop features may be unavailable. (xfwm4:6733): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error (xfwm4:6733): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session manager. (xfdesktop:6742): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error (xfdesktop:6742): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session manager. xfce-mcs-manager: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0. xfwm4: Fatal IO error 2 (No such file or directory) on X server :0.0. ** Message: Xfce Menu: screen changed: 0 ** Message: No valid plug window. (xfce4-panel:6735): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_socket_get_id: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_ANCHORED (socket)' failed ** (xfce4-panel:6735): CRITICAL **: An item was unexpectedly removed: Xfce Menu. (xfce4-panel:6735): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error (xfce4-panel:6735): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session manager. xfce4-panel: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0. xfdesktop: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0. (xfce4-menu-plugin:6765): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 Xsession: X session started for vbox at Thu May 21 20:49:42 UTC 2009 r...@lev:~# ps -ef |grep dbus 105 2262 1 0 20:46 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system ___ 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: lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:28:03PM +0300, Herouth Maoz wrote:
Hi everybody,
I recently upgraded the Linux version on my work machine, and I noticed
something odd about the Hebrew kxkb layout, which I use in the lyx
variant. There was no = key, and there were two ] keys. The default
Hebrew layout had no such artifact.
After comparing my KDE-based Mandriva setup with my sysadmin's Ubuntu
(Gnome), it turned out that we had the same layout, and the thing about
it is that it's not completely defined. The number keys and symbol keys
which are supposedly common to the Hebrew and US layouts are not
defined. The default variant defines all the keys.
This is by design. The lyx layout only touches the second group. Someone
may want to use the British pound sign for shift-3, for instance.
See /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/il
// Mirrored:
key AD11 { [ bracketright, braceright, 0x10005bf ]}; // Rafe
key AD12 { [ bracketleft, braceleft, 0x10005bd ]}; // Meteg
One way out of this is to use the X11 keycodes as a translation layer
between dvorak keys and qwerty keys. In this case, map AD11 and AD12 to
different keys. This is done in files under /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/
Where is the problem? In English, I don't use the US layout, but rather
the Dvorak layout, which places the ] where = is supposed to be.
What layout do you use, exactly? What's you current XKB configuration?
xprop -root | grep _XKB
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Re: Ditching ubuntu
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:23:24PM +0300, Shahar Dag wrote: flamebait Saying all that, the decision of ditching ubuntu is a right It means it has many (vocal(?) users. ;-) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Ditching ubuntu
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to help solving these problems? Moish ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Ditching ubuntu
I also own an asus eee surf 4g. I installed the 9.04 netbook remix. it made me feel nostalgic as it became slow as a 486. I cross by an article were someone explained that installing ubuntu-minimal and then installing some few gnome packages, you can speed up the box. As i do not own a usb cdrom, i had to create a usb drive capable of botting the minimal install. i am writing this from the eee which got faster by large, Meir - Original Message - Subject: Re: Ditching ubuntu From: Moish mo...@mln.co.il To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Date: 21-05-2009 21:28 Wouldn't it be more appropriate to help solving these problems? Moish ___ 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: Dual screens / keyboard layout
On Thursday 21 May 2009 03:38:38 sara fink wrote: Which graphic card you use for the 2nd monitor. I ask because there are specific tools that deal with these resolutions for nvidia, ati etc. I have the tool - xrandr works perfectly. Also, ubuntu resizes the screen when the new monitor is plugged/unplugged, I just don't know what it runs. I couldn't find so far a script that runs when the 2nd screen is plugged. As far as I know, xorg.conf does this. My logic says that a fork should be created. you can check with the command pstree. http://www.linfo.org/pstree.html Other way to check if there is a script that runs is to use the following command when you are at / grep -ri expression * This will look recursively through all the file system and find if there is such a script. Good idea, I'll try and report back. - Aviram ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: recommended remote backup service?
2009/5/13 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com Amazon S3? A bit late to the party but this morning I got an announcement from Amazon about a new import/export service, which could save on initial backup upload and allow exporting of backed-up data over media. It's in limited beta in their US DC but eventually expected to be available also in Europe. http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/ Cheers, --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
