Hallelujah! Hspell 1.0 is released.

2006-05-16 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
We are proud to present a new version of Hspell, the free Hebrew spell-checker. As usual, you can find the new release in the project's homepage, at: http://ivrix.org.il/projects/spell-checker/ In this release, as many as 1,500 missing base words were added, bringing Hspell one step

Telux: Perl for Newbies - Part 2 on 21 May

2006-05-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
[Sorry for the wrong subject line in the previous message.] The Tel Aviv Linux Club (Telux - http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/ ) will gather again to hear the second part of the Perl for Newbies series as given by Shlomi Fish. The presentation will take place on Sunday, 21 May 2006, at 18:30, in

Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Ira Abramov
You know how it is you're planning for months to play with something new in case a client ever steps up and asks for it and then one day BOOM, it's being asked for and yuou barely have time to install a pilot? Well, I talked a client into consolidating their collection of odd Linux porting

Re: Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:23:42AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: also, if I'm completely wrong and Xen is not the way (yet) because of all the backports of Xen patches and kernel recompiles, I would consider the VMWare option for such an odd setup. Less headache for the setup stage and maybe a

Re: Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:23:42AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: it means I have to patch old redhats' kernels to support boothing off Xen, right? Either that or upgrade your CPUs to Intel's or AMD's CPUs with virtualization support. Is that a good course of action or would you suggest a more

Re: Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Either that or upgrade your CPUs to Intel's or AMD's CPUs with virtualization support. Hmm, considering that Intel doesn't have anything out for people to buy yet (current Core Duo offering from Intel have the VT Disabled, AMD Pacificia is still not available for the public), mind giving me a

Re: Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:11:57PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Either that or upgrade your CPUs to Intel's or AMD's CPUs with virtualization support. Hmm, considering that Intel doesn't have anything out for people to buy yet (current Core Duo offering from Intel have the VT Disabled, AMD

Re: Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:23 +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: You know how it is you're planning for months to play with something new in case a client ever steps up and asks for it and then one day BOOM, it's being asked for and yuou barely have time to install a pilot? Well, I talked a client into

Re: Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Gil Freund
On 5/16/06, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know how it is you're planning for months to play with something new in case a client ever steps up and asks for it and then one day BOOM, it's being asked for and yuou barely have time to install a pilot? This is the fun of freelance

RE: [YBA] Job Opening

2006-05-16 Thread Imri Zvik
This militarism is not even amusing anymore. As far as I know, OpenOffice can read .doc. Grow up. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oron Peled Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:58 PM To: Jonathan Ben Avraham Cc: ILUG Subject: Re: [YBA] Job

Re: File formats for sending resumes (Was: [YBA] Job Opening)

2006-05-16 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
In fact, an MS Word document would be much more open than a PDF file (whose specs were released and which is regarded as a standard document exchange format). If anything, PDF is a compiled, opaque form of a document, while Word is perfectly editable. Case in point - A few months ago, while I

Re: [YBA] Job Opening

2006-05-16 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Reading doc files in OpenOffice is not a one-to-one mapping with the layout as it was authored in M$-office. Actually it is not even a one-to-one mapping between different versions of M$-office. Trying to piece together the broken lines and sentences of MS-documents that were written without the

Re: File formats for sending resumes (Was: [YBA] Job Opening)

2006-05-16 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:20:30PM +0300, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: Case in point - A few months ago, while I was looking for a job, I was sending my resume around as a PDF. Then, I found out many places re-edit your resume to fit into their template and my PDF (produced with OO.org Writer)

Re: [YBA] Job Opening

2006-05-16 Thread marc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Imri Zvik wrote: This militarism is not even amusing anymore. As far as I know, OpenOffice can read .doc. Grow up. I say, Imri - you off the hip is as militaristic as his preference to a given set of formats. And you know - since he is the one

Re: File formats for sending resumes (Was: [YBA] Job Opening)

2006-05-16 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5/17/06, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When it comes to your resume, other people not being able to edit it is a Good Thing. Reasons why left as an exercise to the reader, but My personal experience with recruiting companies is that they need the MS format in order to integrate

Re: Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5/16/06, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/IntelVT Thanks for the pointer. Right now I still don't see any mention of availability of the AMD equivalent, only to be revealed at beginning of 2006. Is AMD Pacifica available TODAY anywere in the world?

Re: Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Well, it WAS supposed to be available in Q1/06, but it's now slated to Q3 or Q4/06, so all Core Duo have VT disabled right now (I confirmed it with Intel today). Thanks, Hetz On 5/17/06, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/16/06, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5/17/06, Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it WAS supposed to be available in Q1/06, but it's now slated to Q3 or Q4/06, so all Core Duo have VT disabled right now (I confirmed it with Intel today). What do AMD's plans has to do with Intel's? Are you saying that Intel disables VT

RE: Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Tzahi Fadida
From what I read in ynet, AMD's pacifica (they spelled it wrong in the article as facifica) is about to be announce in the next few days on some new dual core processors. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3251604,00.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Sorry for being misunderstood. I was tlking about Intel and only now I see that you mentioned AMD.. AMD Pacificia will be available at Q3 or Q4 this year. Thanks, Hetz What do AMD's plans has to do with Intel's? Are you saying that Intel disables VT in all their CPU's now simply because AMD

Re: Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5/17/06, Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for being misunderstood. I was tlking about Intel and only now I see that you mentioned AMD.. AMD Pacificia will be available at Q3 or Q4 this year. Thanks. --Amos -- (God) is my favourite fictional character. - Homer Simpson

Re: File formats for sending resumes (Was: [YBA] Job Opening)

2006-05-16 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:15:43AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: you'll have plenty of time to ponder them while waiting for a completely irrelevant job interview you got because someone who can't You'll have planty of time to ponder lots of things while waiting for ANY job offer simply

Re: Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:41:05AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Well, it WAS supposed to be available in Q1/06, but it's now slated to Q3 or Q4/06, so all Core Duo have VT disabled right now (I confirmed it with Intel today). Core Duo's with VT have been seen in the wild - e.g.,

Re: Xen installation, Go #1

2006-05-16 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:28:07AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: On 5/16/06, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/IntelVT Thanks for the pointer. Right now I still don't see any mention of availability of the AMD equivalent, only to be revealed at

Re: File formats for sending resumes (Was: [YBA] Job Opening)

2006-05-16 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5/17/06, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:15:43AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: You'll have planty of time to ponder lots of things while waiting for ANY job offer simply because many of these places will just drop your CV if it doesn't just works for them

Manageable core files

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Sternberg
How can I manage core dump files ? I'm looking for some way to name them differently, so next one will not be written over the previous and maybe to give some information in core dump file name (version of application, date of core dump creation, etc..). It can be from crashing application