Re: Last Meeting ("Programming Red Flags") Summary + What's Next forTelFOSS?

2009-07-06 Thread Offer Kaye
into it more deeply they ran into trouble - apparently it was not mature enough and lacked all the features required for a project of the size and complexity of KDE4. Still it's probably good enough for less complex projects :) -- Offer Kaye ___

Re: Minimizing apps to desktop

2007-10-01 Thread Offer Kaye
, I'll give it a try. -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Minimizing apps to desktop

2007-09-30 Thread Offer Kaye
only to run an application or open a folder and all apps minimize to the taskbar. So my question is, can you emulate CDE behaviour with Gnome? Can you minimize applications to the desktop instead of to the taskbar? Thanks, -- Offer Kaye

Re: [off topic] A new project - automatic translation

2005-11-14 Thread Offer Kaye
g. > Enter the Perl module Lingua::Translate - http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-Translate/ It uses SYSTRAN by default, which is the same backend used by Google (AFAIK): http://www.systransoft.com/index.html Go ahead, make fun of it :) Che

Re: [off topic] A new project - automatic translation

2005-11-14 Thread Offer Kaye
ntioned Wikipedia, here are some useful links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_translation See especially the section on "Free (open source) software" for existing efforts where you might be able to help. A more general article regardin

Re: Connect to barak 013 through cable (PPTP)

2005-08-17 Thread Offer Kaye
ost importantly for us, it comes with pptpconfig pre-installed and working "out-of-the-box". [1] http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-suse-92.phtml BTW I also live in Haifa so if you want a copy of

Re: State of ATI driver support for Linux

2005-04-12 Thread Offer Kaye
st to close the gap. Is this based on anything specific, or is this just a general feeling you have? -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run

State of ATI driver support for Linux

2005-04-12 Thread Offer Kaye
ooking for more uptodate stuff, especially with regards to their newer GPUs, such as the XT850. Thanks in advance, -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message bo

Re: distro with best USB device support

2005-04-06 Thread Offer Kaye
On Apr 6, 2005 10:16 AM, Amit Aronovitch wrote: > I'm not sure this is exact and it's certainly not complete (I use > none of the above). For the latest, most exact data, I recommend distrowatch.com . Specifically, use the search page: http://distrowatch.com/search.php HTH

Re: cp from-to

2005-03-31 Thread Offer Kaye
ach smaller file starts and ends with the same line, or is the second "r1*4/4 |" line a header for a new file that you don't show? 5. Do you want the "r1*4/4 |" line inside the template also, or should it be removed?

Connection problems

2005-03-07 Thread Offer Kaye
ould be most grateful. I don't understand: 1. What is a Gateway? What is it used for? 2. What is 172.27.0.1? Where does this number come from? 3. What are 172.23.96.0 and 172.23.96.1? Why did they suddenly show up? Why is 172.23.96.1 the gateway now? Thanks in advance, -- Offer Kaye

Israel.pm March 2005 Meeting Announcement

2005-02-28 Thread Offer Kaye
incouraged to come, learn and participate. Regular mongers of course are also welcome, but please note the new start time for the regular technical lecture - 19:15 (instead of 19:00 as in the past). Regards, -- Offer Kaye, Israel.pm PR =

Israel.pm February Meeting Announcement

2005-01-29 Thread Offer Kaye
illel St., Ramat Gan. Attendance is free, but a 10 NIS donation to help buy the bourekas will be welcome. -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., ru

Jerusalem.pm January 2005 Meeting Announcement

2005-01-29 Thread Offer Kaye
5 -- Eitan Schuler: 'How to make regular expressions more efficient' The event will take place in the Exlibris offices, Malcha Technology Park, Building 9, 4th floor. Attendence is free. For more information, see http://jerusalem.perl.org.

Re: rant: changing color depth

2005-01-24 Thread Offer Kaye
d and reviled just for asking questions by someone like you in some mailing list. Thankfully, as the rest of the emails in this thread show, there is another breed of Linux users in this community, and I intend to continue learning f

Re: rant: changing color depth

2005-01-23 Thread Offer Kaye
and-line tool, and anyway its man page says that it is used to "generate an XF86Config file". I wanted to edit an existing one, not generate a new one. I guess there is no GUI tool for this on Mepis, at least non that I could find. -- Offer Kaye =

Re: rant: changing color depth

2005-01-23 Thread Offer Kaye
's the fault of the distribution! Now I just have to find a good distribution... ;-) Regards, -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rant: changing color depth

2005-01-23 Thread Offer Kaye
day's > commercial software for linux only comes in RPM format). I'm not really into commercial software, but being able to use both RPM and DEB sounds appealing to me. I'll give Yoper a look - thanks. -- Offer Kaye ===

Re: rant: changing color depth

2005-01-23 Thread Offer Kaye
27;re free to stop reading at any time. As for "gaining disrespect", based on your abusive, overbearing and arrogant reply, I'm not sure I want your respect. Sincerely, -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rant: changing color depth

2005-01-23 Thread Offer Kaye
As a desktop user, I shouldn't care that there's something called "X" behind me desktop. Regards, -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rant: changing color depth

2005-01-23 Thread Offer Kaye
their configuration tools are the best, I'd hate going back to an RPM based distribution. Ever since moving to apt-get + Synaptic I'm in heaven :-) Do you (or anyone else) have a suggestion for a good .deb based distribution which is not "sucky"? -- Offer Kaye =

Re: rant: changing color depth

2005-01-23 Thread Offer Kaye
t; > This is not a real problem of Linux... So you > configure it once and then don't touch it later. > Configure it *how*!? That's exactly my problem - I couldn't find an easy way to configure the color depth. -- Offer Kaye ===

Re: rant: changing color depth

2005-01-23 Thread Offer Kaye
always have a simpler workaround, you know: start a second X server > with different settings. Hi Tzafrir, You have a very strange definition of "simpler"... :-) See my item (1), above. -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send m

rant: changing color depth

2005-01-21 Thread Offer Kaye
ak! Please tell me I'm wrong and there is a simply, user friendly way to do this... Please tell me Google search has let me down this once... Can't some developer save this frustrated user? :-) -- Offer Kaye = To unsu

Re: login shell

2005-01-06 Thread Offer Kaye
t works, Perhaps one of the commands in ~/.bash_profile caused the problem. Regards, -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

YAPC::Israel::2005 registration

2005-01-05 Thread Offer Kaye
now pay by credit card online! Just go to: http://www.litrom.com/YAPC (You can of course still pay by check or cash directly to Gabor) Remember, the early registration fee is 90NIS, but goes up to 150NIS after Jan. 13th, so hurry up and pay now! On behalf of the YAPC organizers,

Israel.pm January 2005 Meeting Announcement

2005-01-04 Thread Offer Kaye
23 Abba Hillel St., Ramat Gan. Attendance is free, but a 10 NIS donation to help buy the bourekas will be welcome. -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the

"Perl Beginners" track at YAPC::Israel::2005

2005-01-02 Thread Offer Kaye
ata types 2. Regular Expressions 3. Sorting (More to come...) The only question that now remains - If We Build It, Will They Come? Please let me know, on or off the list, if you plan to come to hear the "Perl Beginners" track. My email is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] http://www.perl.org.il/YA

Jerusalem.pm December 2004 Meeting Announcement

2004-12-26 Thread Offer Kaye
5 -- Issac Goldstand: 'Online Payments' * 19:15-19:30 -- Raffles The event will take place in the Exlibris offices, Malcha Technology Park, Building 9, 4th floor. Attendence is free. For more information, see http://jerusalem.perl.org

Re: All test page (printer) is black

2004-12-09 Thread Offer Kaye
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 16:02:18 -0500, Offer Kaye wrote: > like brightness, contrast etc., all with values between 0-1. The > problem is, I don't know what I should choose as settings, so I won't > get a black page. Okay, found the answer at: http://www-eleves-isia.cma.fr/Doc/gi

All test page (printer) is black

2004-12-09 Thread Offer Kaye
x27;t know what I should choose as settings, so I won't get a black page. Anyone have any idea? The printer is recognized correctly, incuding brand+model. Thanks in advance, -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: linkedin linux-il group followup...

2004-12-07 Thread Offer Kaye
. Usually "which language is better" debates are silly, but who knows, we might learn something interesting this time :-) Regards, -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "u

Israel.pm December 2004 Meeting Announcement

2004-11-30 Thread Offer Kaye
On Thursday, December 2nd, the Israeli Perl Mongers will hold their regular monthly meeting. The program: * 19:00-19:30 -- Offer Kaye will lecture about "Syntax Highlighting for Fun and Profit" - How to add colored code to your presentations and live through the ordeal (hint -

Re: faster du?

2004-11-30 Thread Offer Kaye
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:53:14 +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > I did not look at du's sources, but I do not think there is a lot of > place for optimizations. Did you try different filesystems? > -- > Didi > Not an option, but thanks for the suggestion.

Re: faster du?

2004-11-30 Thread Offer Kaye
du? 2. Where can I get the sources? 3. Is there a home page or any other sources of info for this software? (I Googled it but came up mostly empty) Thanks, -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Re: faster du?

2004-11-30 Thread Offer Kaye
t to be faster than plain old "du". Thanks anyway, -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: faster du?

2004-11-30 Thread Offer Kaye
only reports on disk usage, it doen't help me. Thank anyway! -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

faster du?

2004-11-29 Thread Offer Kaye
Hi, Is there any way to get a breakdown of disk usage which is faster than "du"? -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the comm

Jerusalem.pm November Meeting Announcement

2004-11-22 Thread Offer Kaye
shet: 'Invoking External Functions (Unknown at Compile Time)' * 19:00-19:15 -- Motke Keshet: 'Towers of Hanoi - Again' The event will take place in the Exlibris offices, Malcha Technology Park, Building 9, 4th floor. Attendence is free. For more information, see http://jerusale

mouse freezes when printer turned off

2004-11-20 Thread Offer Kaye
Mouse Explorer USB mouse. Any advice regarding why this happens and how to prevent it or un-freeze the mouse if it does happen? Thanks in advance, -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "u

YAPC::Israel::2005 Announcement and Call for Participation

2004-11-17 Thread Offer Kaye
bo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional details and registration, please see the conference website: http://www.perl.org.il/YAPC/2005/ Regards, -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsu

firefox os-tan girl

2004-11-07 Thread Offer Kaye
I got to this picture: http://flickr.com/photos/ihorner/327263/ from this page: http://forevergeek.com/anime/ostan_or_an_anime_girl_for_your_os.php I think Firefox-tan should be the new firefox mascot :-) -- Offer Kaye = To

Israel-PM September 2004 Meeting Announcement

2004-11-02 Thread Offer Kaye
ace in the Dapey Zahav building, 23 Abba Hillel St., Ramat Gan. Attendence is free, but a 10 NIS donation to help buy the bourekas will be welcome. [1] http://www.perl.org.il/ [2] http://staf.sourceforge.net/ Regards, -- Offer Kaye ==

Jerusalem.pm October Meeting Announcement

2004-10-21 Thread Offer Kaye
ts * 19:00-20:00 -- Zach Kessin: 'An introduction to Web Services' (in English) The event will take place in the Exlibris offices, Malcha Technology Park, Building 9, 4th floor. Attendence is free. For more information, see http://jerusalem.perl.org.il/ or contact "eit

Jerusalem.pm Call For Speakers

2004-10-20 Thread Offer Kaye
s and 90 minutes is worth three entries! You don't need to give a talk before the raffle to participate, you need only to commit to a set lecture on a set date. Good luck to everyone! For more information, contact Eitan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS - Non-Jerusalemites are welcome to participate too

Re: Free linux-related books

2004-10-15 Thread Offer Kaye
sing Firefox 0.9 running on Linux, if that helps. -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Israel.pm October Meeting

2004-10-10 Thread Offer Kaye
usual after the meeting we will go out to a nearby pub/coffee-shop/etc. for a post-meeting social gathering. The event will take place in the Dapey Zahav building, 23 Abba Hillel St., Ramat Gan. Attendence is free, but a 10 NIS donation to help buy the bourekas will be welcome. Regards, -- Offer

QNext - Advanced IM

2004-10-04 Thread Offer Kaye
s not include spyware. Sounds too good to be true :-) Anyone? -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New Israel.pm website look

2004-10-04 Thread Offer Kaye
feel otherwise, please send a patch... :-) -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Jerusalem.pm Meeting Announcement

2004-09-26 Thread Offer Kaye
9:10-19:25 -- Eitan Schuler will lecture about "Date and Time Calculations". The event will take place in the Exlibris offices, Malcha Technology Park, Building 9, 4th floor. Attendence is free. For more information, see http://jerusalem.perl.org.il/ or contact eitan at perl dot org dot

Re: Dominating the world of screen savers?

2004-09-24 Thread Offer Kaye
rs > than MS-Windows. > By default, yes, but there are many companies providing screen-savers and backgrounds for free and for pay only for Windows, so alas it is ahead there. One such site is webshots.com, which is about the only thing apart from games that I miss from my Windows partitio

Re: which Distro does your company use ?

2004-09-08 Thread Offer Kaye
big three EDA companies - Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor, have all ported their tools from the Unix OS's to RedHat. This means ALL hardware companies which use tools from the big three (which means pretty much all HW companies, not just in Israel but in the world) must use

Re: Old Redhat ISOs

2004-08-29 Thread Offer Kaye
* friend ;-) -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Check for missing attachment (was: Re: Colour changes wierdly in mozilla-*)

2004-08-25 Thread Offer Kaye
quot; (i.e. text from a message being replied to). -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Meta] Smart People "Leaving" Linux-IL

2004-08-16 Thread Offer Kaye
Aaron wrote: After reading the above, If you're going to write "the above", at least have the decency to bottom-post rather than top-post! Yeah, yet another bottom-vs-top post flame :-) -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscrib

[OT] Israeli PM looing for speakers

2004-07-21 Thread Offer Kaye
eeting details there. To submit a lecture please send your name, a topic, lecture length (time) and if possible a one-line description including any relevant links. For Israel.pm meetings, send the above to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . For Jerusalem.pm meetings, send

Re: Problems With Old Slashdot Issues ?

2004-07-19 Thread Offer Kaye
Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Hi. Anyone else having trouble getting slashdot issues other than the last one ? They must be in the process of upgrading their HW, since I'm now getting a 503 (service unavailable) error. You'll just have to wait a little for your next "/. fix"

mouse cursor color+size

2004-07-17 Thread Offer Kaye
Hi, My default mouse is small and red, making it difficult to see on the background of Konsole, which is black (just an example, there are other apps where it is difficult to see). Where do I change the mouse pointer color+size? I'm using KDE on Mandrake 10.0 . Thanks, -- Offer

Re: Thunderbird marking mails as read

2004-06-29 Thread Offer Kaye
ove bug, otherwise open a new bug report. I would also try upgrading to 0.7... Regards, -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cp -a

2004-06-27 Thread Offer Kaye
rst has to remove the target files before copying the source files. At least, that is the way I think it works. But if something prevents cp from copying (say permissions for example), it would say "unable to remove". I don't know what "Success" means either. -- Offer K

Israel.pm July 2004 Meeting Announcement

2004-06-27 Thread Offer Kaye
help buy the bourekas will be welcome. [1] http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shlomo/hebrew_and_perl/slides/index.html [2] http://maypole.simon-cozens.org/ -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubs

Jm.pm Meeting Announcement

2004-05-17 Thread Offer Kaye
The next meeting of Jerusalem Perl Mongers (Jm.PM) will take place on the 23/05/2004 (Sunday) at 18:00. The location: ExLibris ltd. Malcha Technology Park, Building 9, 4th floor., "big conference room". The schedule is as follows: We will open with a lightning talk by Motke Keshet on "An example of

RE: answering machine

2004-04-19 Thread Offer Kaye
as a learning project I can understand, or you _must_ have some features that you can't get from Bezeq, but otherwise, seems like a waste of your time... Just my 4.23 NIS worth... :-) -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [E

New mailing list for Perl Beginners

2004-04-14 Thread Offer Kaye
arter All beginner level questions as well as any materials (links, books, tutorials etc.) which might interest Perl beginners are welcome. The list language is strictly English, so the list is *not* restricted to persons living in Israel! -- Offer

RE: hebrew regex (perl?)

2004-03-25 Thread Offer Kaye
; > Thanks > You can use Perl, sure, just make sure to use 5.8.0 or higher. For specific help, I suggest emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe&

RE: fetchyahoo and non-iso8859-1 texts (perl and internalization)]

2004-01-07 Thread Offer Kaye
Take a look at these 2 emails, for a problem with using the HTML::TokeParser module, and a solution: http://www.perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2004-January/003825.html http://www.perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2004-January/003828.html Regards, Offer Kaye =

RE: fetchyahoo and non-iso8859-1 texts (perl and internalization)]

2004-01-05 Thread Offer Kaye
w of suggestions: 1. Try sending yourself (and then fetching) an email with the Hebrew in an attached HTML page. Did it arrive correctly? 2. Make sure you are running Perl 5.8.0. 3. Contact the developer of the script and ask him (nicely). 4. Email this question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . So

RE: Preapering a uml kernel the Debian way (?): rootstrap gets stuck

2003-12-14 Thread Offer Kaye
instead of /dev/ubd/0 Maybe relevent... Hope this helps, anyway. Regards, Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Connecting Fedora Core to Cable Internet

2003-12-14 Thread Offer Kaye
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 08:56:13PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > > route add default $GATEWAY >/dev/null 2>&1 > > Whoops, that should've been: > > route add default gw $GATEWAY >/dev/null 2>&1 &g

RE: Connecting Fedora Core to Cable Internet

2003-12-13 Thread Offer Kaye
back "network is unreachable". I did "ifdown netvision" and again ping worked, but when I did "ifup netvision" again it was again unreachable. I'm very sad :-( Hope you can help me solve what is still wrong. Thanks, Offer Kaye ===

RE: Internet connection using cable modem

2003-12-13 Thread Offer Kaye
em- after doing "ifup eth0" all my apps refuse to work- they refuse to open, looks like a display problem. I have to logout/reboot to solve. What could be the problem? Thanks, Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL P

RE: Internet connection using cable modem

2003-12-13 Thread Offer Kaye
27;s the p doing in phtml? > It's PHP. See: http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/9546/fid/51 Regards, Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in

RE: Internet connection using cable modem

2003-12-13 Thread Offer Kaye
mentioned in: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/package-list/ Perhaps the rpm is called something else? > > Of course. You'll be online in no time. > Thanks, I hope so :-) Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Internet connection using cable modem

2003-12-13 Thread Offer Kaye
re I see a line complaining that ppp-compress 21 can't be found, or something like that. Has anyone with my setup (Netvision/Matav) been able to connect to the Net? What am I doing wrong? Should I be using a different pptp binary? Hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance, -----