Do up-to-date Nvidia drivers suppress output to DVI interface?

2024-05-31 Thread Omer Zak
, in version 555.42.*, their DVI support or changed its configuration options? 2. What, if any, configuration options should I check? Thanks, --- Omer Zak -- For the average human female, a cockroach is merely another name for a walking turd. My own blog is at https://tddpirate.zak.co.il/ My

Re: Debian 12 (bookworm) vs. Nvidia?

2024-03-25 Thread Omer Zak
onospace 12" in Debian 11 / GNOME Terminal 3.38.3; "Monospace Regular 12" in Debian 12 / GNOME Terminal 3.46.8 for GNOME 43). I was not successful in identifying the actual font being used by the terminal program in both installations. --- Omer Zak On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 13:58 +02

Re: Debian 12 (bookworm) vs. Nvidia?

2024-03-22 Thread Omer Zak
before full upgrade, I'd like to know how do people deal with such problems (in Debian and maybe also in Ubuntu). Thanks, --- Omer Zak (The above is less than total disaster because it happens in a laptop which is not my primary work PC. I plan to upgrade my work PC only after having successfully

Debian 12 (bookworm) vs. Nvidia?

2024-03-22 Thread Omer Zak
errors (different errors in different attempts). Is there any information about known problems of getting Nvidia software to interoperate with Debian 12 (Bookworm) working on up-to- date kernels? --- Omer Zak -- My Commodore 64 is suffering from slowness and insufficiency of memory; and its

Re: Are there any implication of using or supporting Debian now that the Project Leader shared a call for BDS on debian.social ?

2024-03-03 Thread Omer Zak
024 9:45:24 IST Omer Zak wrote: > > I looked around the links and some Debian information. > > I found no indication that the guy has any leadership role in > > Debian. > > He describes himself as "pro-Palestine, pro-Black, pro-Indigenous, > > pro- > > Quee

Re: Are there any implication of using or supporting Debian now that the Project Leader shared a call for BDS on debian.social ?

2024-03-02 Thread Omer Zak
affect our Debian related work. --- Omer Zak On Sat, 2024-03-02 at 21:21 +0200, borissh1...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > A bit clueless question , but are there any legal implication of > using or supporting Debian now that the Debian Project Leader shared > a call for BDS  ? >

Re: IPv6 routing issue with Telegram

2024-01-09 Thread Omer Zak
several months ago, and replaced the router due to this. United we shall win, --- Omer Zak On Tue, 2024-01-09 at 13:17 +0200, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: > Hi list, > > Can you please help me identify if the issue, is in my end / ISP > (Bezeq) > and not the service it self. > &g

Re: How to image a linux computer

2023-11-04 Thread Omer Zak
that old Linux versions (1.*, 2.*) are not as smart in auto- discovery of hardware configurations as more recent ones. More precise instructions depend upon the exact hardware and Linux version you have. United, we shall win, --- Omer Zak On Sat, 2023-11-04 at 11:34 +0400, Michael Shiloh wrote

Re: .il domain names with IPv6 support

2023-08-01 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Gabor, I use LiveDns and they support IPv6 for domain registration, but not for DNS serving. I configured my domain registrations to use CloudFlare (free plan), as DNS server for both IPv4 and IPv6. --- Omer Zak On Wed, 2023-08-02 at 08:33 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Hi, > > I

Solved (Re: How to get wget to fail to fetch a password-protected URL after a previous success?)

2022-12-19 Thread Omer Zak
ivately. In the big scheme of things, my effort to develop tests for the website did uncover a bug - the above mistake in the location directive. bats-core (https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core) kicks ass! --- Omer On Mon, 2022-12-19 at 10:10 +0200, guy keren wrote: > > use 'stra

How to get wget to fail to fetch a password-protected URL after a previous success?

2022-12-18 Thread Omer Zak
to fetch a password-protected web resource (HTTP 403 Forbidden) after it succeeded in fetching the same resource previously? Thanks, --- Omer Zak -- "Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to b

Some serious bugs when upgrading from Debian Buster (10) to Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-10-03 Thread Omer Zak
other packages) are currently pinned at a Buster version and whenever I start aptitude to install security upgrades, I have to manually cancel removals of the above packages and some packages upon which they depend. Thanks, --- Omer Zak -- "Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed

Re: (BDS OFFTOPIC) Re: Venue for RMS

2022-05-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2022-05-18 at 20:36 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > If you distinguish between his views and deeds, you don't know RMS. > This is the man who never uses a smartphone, or a Web browser with > JavaScript support, because that could cause him to use non-Free > software. His views and his deeds

Re: (BDS OFFTOPIC) Re: Venue for RMS

2022-05-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2022-05-18 at 18:59 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Dan Yasny > > Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 11:38:36 -0400 > > Cc: Israel Linux Mailing list > > > > Is he the same RMS who boycotted Israeli universities at 2011 > > happily > > surrendering to demands of Palestinians - without even

Re: (BDS OFFTOPIC) Re: Venue for RMS

2022-05-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2022-05-18 at 18:54 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Omer Zak > > Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 18:34:58 +0300 > > > > Is he the same RMS who boycotted Israeli universities at 2011 > > happily > > surrendering to demands of Palestinians - without even

(BDS OFFTOPIC) Re: Venue for RMS

2022-05-18 Thread Omer Zak
Is he the same RMS who boycotted Israeli universities at 2011 happily surrendering to demands of Palestinians - without even making a token effort to ask if Israelis are willing to take over his trip's finances so that Palestinians won't have to pay for his non-boycotting trip to Israel and

Re: Anyone with experience in using LSP (Language Server Protocol) with Emacs?

2022-02-19 Thread Omer Zak
I do not mind dealing with difficult set up. What I want to know is if it is worth it - whether the experience with emacs-lsp (and/or its alternatives) is good. I am targetting mostly Python, but would like to know also people's experience about using Emacs with LSP when editing code writting in

Anyone with experience in using LSP (Language Server Protocol) with Emacs?

2022-02-16 Thread Omer Zak
try to install it. Thanks, --- Omer Zak -- "Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man." - Walter E. Williams My own blog i

Re: Help in installing Linux and MySQL

2022-01-21 Thread Omer Zak
distribution? 2. Anything special with your hardware? 3. Any other OSes that need to be supported? To work with the same MySQL databases? (I suspect there are such because you mention Grub.) --- Omer Zak On Fri, 2022-01-21 at 20:20 +0200, Meir Guttman wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I am looking for s

Re: Floppy disks at 2021?!

2021-12-24 Thread Omer Zak
t/threads/pieceinfo.html > > On 22.12.2021 21:27, Omer Zak wrote: > > I have a friend who has a PC, which got stuck in the late 1990's. > > This > > Ethernet-less and Internet-less PC has old (circa 1997) RedHat > > Linux > > installed on it and it uses floppy disks (diskettes) f

Re: How to read CPM 5.25 floppy disks?

2021-12-22 Thread Omer Zak
Debian has a 'cpmtools' package which is described as allowing CP/M filesystem access. I do not know if it supports control of the floppy disk drive to read the CP/M way the iron oxide. A Google search also turned up some articles about the subject, I did not read them. On Wed, 2021-12-22 at

Floppy disks at 2021?!

2021-12-22 Thread Omer Zak
needs to temporarily connect an old hard disk (not having a modern SATA interface) to a modern PC, what solutions are there? Thanks! --- Omer Zak -- "Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it pos

Need Geek Code variant for determining expert-job fit (Re: [Job Offer] - Linux Sysadmin)

2021-10-24 Thread Omer Zak
--- Omer Zak On Sun, 2021-10-24 at 15:16 +0300, Dotan Shavit wrote: > Right; Allow me to elaborate < Looking for an expert who is > comfortable with one-liners :wq > > בברכה, > דותן שביט, > 0544-456656 > > > On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 at 14:43, Shlomi Fish wrote: > &g

Re: multiple python versions

2021-07-22 Thread Omer Zak
g parallel versions. On Thu, 2021-07-22 at 20:02 +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 19:50:46 +0300 > Omer Zak wrote: > > > Why do you want to avoid having to re-install modules for each > > version/environment? > > > The short answer: too much work &

Re: multiple python versions

2021-07-22 Thread Omer Zak
You do not tell the 3.9.6 environment to reuse 3.8 directory modules. The compiled code in 3.8 may be incompatible with your 3.9.6 interpreter. Use pyenv and then use 'pip install' (under venv, it automatically knows to use pip3 if you use any 3.x version). Do not use 'sudo' because you are

Re: multiple python versions

2021-07-22 Thread Omer Zak
version it wants to work, due to potential incompatibilities between module versions (it is no accident that pip freeze preserves installed module versions). On Thu, 2021-07-22 at 19:37 +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > Omer Zak wrote: > > The answer to your prayers is pyenv. > >

Re: multiple python versions

2021-07-22 Thread Omer Zak
The answer to your prayers is pyenv. It allows you to install multiple Python versions in parallel, and for each version you can maintain several virtualenvs. For more information: https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv https://ostechnix.com/pyenv-python-version-management-made-easier/ On Thu,

CORRECTION (Re: AGAIN, UGLY OFFTOPIC (Re: Weird 'free' output))

2021-05-09 Thread Omer Zak
or indictments, a group which ignores the possibility of people having been framed by their business/political/romantic competitors. On Sun, 2021-05-09 at 20:28 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > As far as I remember, Diego did send the request to the list. So Ori > Idan could not really ignore Die

AGAIN, UGLY OFFTOPIC (Re: Weird 'free' output)

2021-05-09 Thread Omer Zak
have shown up. Feel free to correct me in private. > > Michael: +1 agree. I believe this list should judge people based on > their behavior on or in relation to this list > > Omer: As far as I can tell, Diego didn't send the request to the list > (at least, I didn't get it on the li

SMART error each hour for a SSD, due to "unreadable (pending) sectors"

2021-05-04 Thread Omer Zak
ble how to get rid of the warnings. One more fact which may have bearing: few months ago, had the laptop's 256GB SSD replaced by a 1TB SSD. Any suggestions how can I troubleshoot it? Any additional information I should look at? Thanks, --- Omer Zak -- My Commodore 64 is suffering from slowness

UGLY OFFTOPIC (Re: Fwd: Weird 'free' output)

2021-05-04 Thread Omer Zak
May I suggest that Diego Iastrubni be removed from this mailing list due to potential future disruption of public peace by asking for removal of people, who have been framed by powerful business competitors? --- Omer Zak On Tue, 2021-05-04 at 22:06 +0300, Shay Gover wrote: > Please

Re: Weird 'free' output

2021-05-04 Thread Omer Zak
>From man free: available Estimation of how much memory is available for starting new applications, without swapping. Unlike the data provided by the cache or free fields, this field takes into account page cache and also that not all reclaimable memory slabs will

FAX Modems?

2021-01-08 Thread Omer Zak
you recommend? 3. What FAX software do you use under Linux, if any? Thanks, Keep healthy, --- Omer Zak -- "Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fello

Re: Connecting multiple external screens to Ubuntu Linux

2020-06-13 Thread Omer Zak
to Debian Buster) Regards, --- Omer Zak On Sat, 2020-06-13 at 14:31 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Thinkpad ( > https://www.lenovo.com/il/en/laptops/thinkpad/13-series/ThinkPad-13-Windows-2nd-Gen/p/22TP2TX133E > ). It has a single HDMI slot but when I run xrandr I g

Re: Fwd: debian 10-64bit fresh install - error messages

2020-04-09 Thread Omer Zak
( https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b5c0875a16039d90f4cdf6b75ae4031daae01d56 ) My own advice: Given that your system is running smoothly, just ignore this error message. It will probably go away once you buy a new computer. --- Omer Zak On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 17:04 +0300, avraham rosenberg

Re: What's so secure about sudo?

2019-06-18 Thread Omer Zak
Using /etc/sudoers and /etc/sudoers.d, it is possible to limit the operations that an user can do as a superuser. It is even possible to configure some operations as ones not requiring him to enter his password. See 'man 5 sudoers'. On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 09:23 +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: >

Copyright protection against hijackers (Re: New Nginx documentation for beginners)

2019-06-15 Thread Omer Zak
t to claim copyright in the material passing through them. --- Omer Zak On Sat, 2019-06-15 at 02:17 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 12:03:34 +0300 > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > Hi Steve, > > > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 5:41 AM Steve Litt > om> >

Re: Diagram\Flowchart desktop program with RTL support

2018-09-16 Thread Omer Zak
' was successful. According to git log, the most recent real update is from 22 Jun 2017. Conclusion: Dia is still being maintained, even if only on the translations front. --- Omer Zak On Sun, 2018-09-16 at 19:07 +0300, Shay Gover wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a diagram tool that supports RTL. Di

Patch management tools?

2018-08-28 Thread Omer Zak
pull" updates as needed. While I can reapply my patches by using 'git rebase', I am curious to know if there any specialized tools which assist in this process. Like the 'quilt' tool used by Debian package maintainers to deal with a very similar use case. --- Omer -- "Prior to

Re: SOLVED!!!! (was Re: Hebrew file names in Libreoffice)

2018-08-16 Thread Omer Zak
Did you run 'diff' on the two plasma-locale* files from before and after deletion & regeneration? If yes, can you please share the results with the curious among us? On Thu, 2018-08-16 at 13:14 +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > After searching for any file that seems related to locale, I deleted >

Re: Moving away from cron jobs to some workflow manager

2018-06-19 Thread Omer Zak
; > > > HTH > > > > 2018-06-19 12:12 GMT+03:00 Moish : > > > Try GNUbatch.  > > > > > > > > > On June 19, 2018 9:42:35 AM GMT+03:00, Omer Zak > > > wrote: > > > > For dependency management, you may want to use 'make'

Re: Moving away from cron jobs to some workflow manager

2018-06-19 Thread Omer Zak
For dependency management, you may want to use 'make' or modern equivalents ('ant', 'gradle', etc.). For controlling remote nodes, 'ansible' may be able to do the work. --- Omer Zak On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 09:06 +0300, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: > Hi all,  > > I need some advice, current

Re: "antisemitic" Linux Mint [was: Re: Distro recommendation]

2017-11-20 Thread Omer Zak
the controversy, would not find information about it in the English Wikipedia. Form your opinions about the above fact. --- Omer On Mon, 2017-11-20 at 07:27 +0200, Yehuda Deutsch wrote: > I don't see an issue in clem's views, as long that it stays off the > community's ground. > Hi

Re: Corrupt file system: Replace hard disk or not?

2017-09-22 Thread Omer Zak
boots). --- Omer Zak On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 12:11 +0300, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello all, > > TL;DR: My hard disk's filesystem was corrupt, but the SMART statistics > is perfect. Should I replace the hard disk? > > Full version: > > It seems like one of my hard

Any contacts in Dublin LUG?

2017-07-18 Thread Omer Zak
suitable contacts there? Thanks, --- Omer Zak -- No actual electrons, animals or children were harmed by writing this E-mail message. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy

Accessibility (Re: Internet recommendations)

2017-07-16 Thread Omer Zak
(English: http://www.justice.gov.il/En/Units/CommissionEqualRightsPersonsDisabilities/Pages/About-the-Commission-for-Equal-Rights-of-Persons-With-Disablities.aspx) Hopefully they'll help get the service providers to provide you with an accessible but secure router. --- Omer Zak On Sun, 2017-07-16

OpenSource Yearbook 2016

2017-05-02 Thread Omer Zak
The OpenSource Yearbook2016 is available from: https://opensource.com/node/34176/download/1c5a42d8038e539c9615e32875897eff The long PDF file has several articles, which may be of interest. -- What happens if one mixes together evolution with time travel to the past? See:

Forwarded from another mailing list [Fwd: Re: [GoLugTech] Linux Presentation Day, timing.]

2016-12-08 Thread Omer Zak
A lot of advice. Forwarded Message From: Hauke Laging via Tech Reply-to: Hauke Laging , t...@golug.org To: t...@golug.org Cc: SVLUG Subject: Re: [GoLugTech] Linux Presentation Day, timing. Date:

[Fwd: [GoLugTech] expanding Europe's Linux Presentation Day to the US]

2016-12-06 Thread Omer Zak
Forwarded from another mailing list. Forwarded Message From: Hauke Laging via Tech Reply-to: Hauke Laging , t...@golug.org To: t...@golug.org Subject: [GoLugTech] expanding Europe's Linux Presentation Day to the US Date:

Experience with USB 3.0 Port Replicators for laptops?

2016-11-08 Thread Omer Zak
, --- Omer -- What happens if one mixes together evolution with time travel to the past? See: http://www.zak.co.il/a/stuff/opinions/eng/evol_tm.html My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent

Using DVB-T on Raspberry Pi (was: Re: Up-to-date hardware recommendation (this time, USB DVB-T dongle)?)

2016-05-25 Thread Omer Zak
a problem of bad reception or another problem. --- Omer -- For the average human female, a cockroach is merely another name for a walking turd. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy

Up-to-date hardware recommendation (this time, USB DVB-T dongle)?

2016-05-03 Thread Omer Zak
I am considering the purchase of an USB DVB-T dongle which will work with Raspberry Pi (under Raspbian, of course). What is the currently recommended model and where can one buy it for a good price? Thanks, --- Omer Zak -- My Commodore 64 is suffering from slowness and insufficiency of memory

[SUMMARY] Re: How to access installation logfiles? - a failed attempt to install Debian Stretch in a virtual machine

2016-04-17 Thread Omer Zak
ian Jessie (Stable) and then upgrading to Testing and to Unstable. --- Omer On Sun, 2016-04-17 at 09:25 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > I found that there are layout problems in the Hebrew PDF file in the > debian-refcard package. > > To fix the problems, I am building a virtual mac

Re: How to access installation logfiles? - a failed attempt to install Debian Stretch in a virtual machine

2016-04-17 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2016-04-17 at 10:46 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Omer, > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote: > To fix the problems, I am building a virtual machine (using > VirtualBox) > for a Debian Stretch (Unstable) i

How to access installation logfiles? - a failed attempt to install Debian Stretch in a virtual machine

2016-04-17 Thread Omer Zak
that I can file a proper bug report? For now, I am installing Debian Jessie (Stable) with intention to update later to Debian Unstable. --- Omer Zak -- The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing. Mike Haertel (original author of GNU grep) My own blog is at http

Re: [OT] Password regex change on mybills.co.il

2016-02-27 Thread Omer Zak
ding spaces). I confirmed that the following strings match the pattern (without the doublequotes): "aA0~" (8 characters long) "aA0~." (9 characters long) "bzCY19#@---" (11 characters long) "bzCY19^9 99" (11 characters long, with space) --- Omer On S

More pieces of the IPv6 puzzle (Re: ISP with native ipv6 in isarael)

2016-01-28 Thread Omer Zak
ommunicate with the outside world via both IPv4 and IPv6 tunnel. 3. When your ISP finally starts to support IPv6, switching the home network to pure IPv6 would be piece of cake. --- Omer -- According to Jean Boutcher, I am "a baby man, whining". My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My op

E-mail hosting provider in Israel?

2016-01-12 Thread Omer Zak
I am looking for an E-mail hosting provider based in Israel, which I can use to receive and send E-mail to the entire world. With which provider/s (with the exception of the well-known Google's gmail) do you have good experience? --- Omer -- "Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed

Lenovo Y700

2016-01-11 Thread Omer Zak
ess is standard, for a laptop which has UEFI and Secure Boot. Before actually ordering it, I'd like to be sure that there are no surprises. --- Omer -- "Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it

Re: How to search Linux Kernel changelogs? (USB disconnect problem)

2015-12-25 Thread Omer Zak
x...@g.jct.ac.il> > wrote: > Unless it has dependencies that force you 'onward' there is no > reason > not to download the deb and install it manually > > 2015-12-24 20:14 GMT+02:00 Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il>: > >

Re: How to search Linux Kernel changelogs? (USB disconnect problem)

2015-12-24 Thread Omer Zak
As it turned out, it did not matter that I misunderstood tlp's name. The package tlp exists only in Debian Stretch (testing) and in Debian Sid (unstable), and my PC runs on Debian Jessie, so there is no tlp in my near future. On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 09:32 +, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Omer

Alternate docking station for the Dell Precision M3800? (Re: The Dell Precision M3800 Laptop)

2015-12-24 Thread Omer Zak
there is another model with confusingly similar name and more connections: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us=en=430-3312=bsd). Thanks, --- Omer Zak On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 00:51 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > Another problem is that according to what I found while googling it, the > d

Re: The Dell Precision M3800 Laptop

2015-12-23 Thread Omer Zak
Linux distributions). I need something to connect 2-3 additional displays to the laptop (3 displays if the laptop's own display is disabled). --- Omer On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 19:54 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > On 23/12/15 10:54, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > > > 2015-12-22 21:48 GMT+02:00

The Dell Precision M3800 Laptop

2015-12-22 Thread Omer Zak
be careful when dealing with UEFI? --- Omer -- My Commodore 64 is suffering from slowness and insufficiency of memory; and its display device is grievously short of pixels. Can anyone help? My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine

How to search Linux Kernel changelogs? (USB disconnect problem)

2015-12-21 Thread Omer Zak
is broken - I get Web searches even when I choose "This site". What do you do when you need to search Linux kernel changesets for relevant changes? --- Omer -- As long as there are families which throw their teenager sons and daughters out of home if they turn out to be gays or les

Re: How to search Linux Kernel changelogs? (USB disconnect problem)

2015-12-21 Thread Omer Zak
at 12:53, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote: > During the last several months, I was having a problem of USB > mouse > disconnecting and reconnecting very often in my Linux system > (Debian > Wheezy, kernels 3.16.0-4-amd64 and 4.2.0-0.bp

Re: Entering Shortcuts While in Hebrew Layout - LibreOffice on Ubuntu

2015-12-12 Thread Omer Zak
t probably can be fixed by binding C-ד and other Hebrew key combinations to the same actions as the corresponding English key combinations. In browsers, the problem used to exist, but it was fixed long time ago. I just confirmed that also my E-mail client software handles correctly Hebrew mode.

Summary: Which Linux distribution is stable yet up-to-date

2015-12-01 Thread Omer Zak
. --- Omer -- We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us. Golda Meir (Israeli Prime Minister between 1969-1974) My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do

Debian Testing (was: Re: Summary: Which Linux distribution is stable yet up-to-date)

2015-12-01 Thread Omer Zak
learned early in the game not to update packages on the netbook for few days before lectures and other events, for which I need notetaking. --- Omer On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 15:17 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > I tried to avoid this discussion but I'm a little surprised that > nobody mentioned

Which Linux distribution is stable yet up-to-date?

2015-11-30 Thread Omer Zak
stuff. What is the community's recommendation for a Linux distribution which provides stable yet up-to-date versions of the Linux kernel and the other basic software tools? --- Omer -- The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing. Mike Haertel (original author of GNU

Re: Up-to-date hardware (laptop) recommendations?

2015-11-29 Thread Omer Zak
r communication)? My response: Prefer not to have - might shock me by unexpected cellular phone charges. -=-=-=-=-=- (9/9) Service providers: People remarked that Dell provides good service in Israel, whereas Neupan's service is bad. -=-=-=-=-=- --- Omer On Sun, 2015-11-29 at 11:05 +0200, Omer Zak

Up-to-date hardware (laptop) recommendations?

2015-11-29 Thread Omer Zak
specs NOT to ask for and why? --- Omer -- PHP - the language of the Vogons. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WA

A nice alternative to software versions

2015-11-11 Thread Omer Zak
by declaring that it "provides" the corresponding virtual package. A package declares that it requires an implementation of a contract by "requiring" the corresponding virtual package. --- Omer -- cal 09 1752 My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expr

Where are you, kiwix?

2015-09-23 Thread Omer Zak
and can shed more light on the matter? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download [2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-edu-pkg-team/Week-of-Mon-20140922/000720.html [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=xulrunner --- Omer -- One cannot argue

A gentle introduction to OpenGL, anyone?

2015-08-25 Thread Omer Zak
Does anyone know a book, E-book or Website which contains a gentle introduction to OpenGL - a series of examples with explanations, which go gradually from the easy to sophisticated, eventually covering a large part of the OpenGL API? Preferably using the Qt5.x platform. --- Omer -- PHP

Re: A gentle introduction to OpenGL, anyone?

2015-08-25 Thread Omer Zak
am looking for materials which also teach about shader files, which I see in Qt5.5 projects demonstrating OpenGL. On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 11:10 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: Does anyone know a book, E-book or Website which contains a gentle introduction to OpenGL - a series of examples with explanations

Re: [OT] driver's license exam app?

2015-08-20 Thread Omer Zak
, and make it a library that people can take and use in their own projects. Maybe you'll be able to contribute to terminfo/ncurses projects. --- Omer [1] https://github.com/Hamakor/teuria [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heliconbooks.epub.epubreader On Fri, 2015-08-21 at 01:24

Re: Matrix inversion tool

2015-08-10 Thread Omer Zak
which can be attacked by inverting a matrix over Z2? --- Omer On Sun, 2015-08-09 at 19:50 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: On 09/08/2015 13:29, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: On Sun, 9 Aug 2015, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz writes: Hi all, I'm looking for a tool/code

Re: Matrix inversion tool

2015-08-08 Thread Omer Zak
What happens if you use the regular matrix inversion tool which works on real numbers? (after rejecting, as singular over Z2, matrices whose determinant modulo 2 is different from 1) On Sat, 2015-08-08 at 20:31 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a tool/code to invert a

Re: Extending R.E. Syntax

2015-07-21 Thread Omer Zak
an implementation. The best code is the code that does not need to be written because the proposed functionality is already implemented. --- Omer On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 20:10 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: The sages of Linux has a saying Talk is cheap, show me the code. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki

Extending R.E. Syntax (was: Re: Eliminating binary from a text file)

2015-07-20 Thread Omer Zak
to concisely express special parsing requirements. --- Omer On Mon, 2015-07-20 at 21:24 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: On 20/07/15 11:56, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: Hello everyone, I often have damaged text files (due to a lovely storage system). The files are of different formats

Re: Extending R.E. Syntax

2015-07-20 Thread Omer Zak
:38 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: On 20/07/15 21:46, Omer Zak wrote: Instead of, it would have been better to Good job! Where can I download your patch? Shachar -- There is no IGLU Cabal because My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail

Accessibility in August Penguin 2015

2015-07-08 Thread Omer Zak
attend the event. Thanks, --- Omer Zak (Accessibility Coordinator for the event) -- In civilized societies, captions are as important in movies as soundtracks, professional photography and expert editing. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail

In http://httpredir.debian.org/debian, do we use jessie-backports or jessie/backports?

2015-05-10 Thread Omer Zak
of the above. Yet a Google search in Debian documentation did not give me a clear-cut answer. --- Omer -- Feedback from one of the visitors to my http://www.zak.co.il/deaf-info/old/ Web site: I found nothing helpful at this site so go to hell. Fuckers My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My

[octave3.0-info vs. dpkg] Dirty package uninstall in Debian - how to do it?

2015-04-17 Thread Omer Zak
to work around the deadlock and allow me to install the new dpkg? Thanks, --- Omer -- cal 09 1752 My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may

[FIXED] Re: [octave3.0-info vs. dpkg] Dirty package uninstall in Debian - how to do it?

2015-04-17 Thread Omer Zak
, a directory which does not exist in my system. I commented out the install-info --remove command and re-ran aptitude. This time, octave3.0-info was removed and dpkg was upgraded. --- Omer On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 10:26 +0300, Lior Okman wrote: Hi, This is a dirty hack, but in the worst case

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Time varying FSMs

2015-01-30 Thread Omer Zak
, as those of physical neurons. It would be interesting to figure out interesting rules by which such cellular automata would form new connections, break off old connections, spawn new units, etc. --- Omer On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 10:51 +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Shachar Shemesh shac

[OFFTOPIC] Time varying FSMs

2015-01-27 Thread Omer Zak
, such FSMs could be nice models of neurons and neuron networks. --- Omer -- We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us. Golda Meir (Israeli Prime Minister between 1969-1974) My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions

Re: Copying kernel stack in a generic way

2014-12-21 Thread Omer Zak
identification would at least enable the user to call Support when he runs your code on an OS not identified as a supported OS. --- Omer On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 11:08 +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote: Thanks, On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Muli Ben-Yehuda mu...@mulix.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2014

How to sort a file by pure ASCII order?

2014-09-14 Thread Omer Zak
the result reproduced in correct.txt (attached). The problem is then what options would get GNU sort to sort like python-sort.py? Can anyone shed a light on the matter? --- Omer -- No actual electrons, animals or children were harmed by writing this E-mail message. My own blog is at http

[SOLVED] Re: How to sort a file by pure ASCII order?

2014-09-14 Thread Omer Zak
Thanks, Jonathan, 'LC_ALL=C sort' did the trick. Later I went back to 'man sort' and found there the warning to pay attention to locale when running sort. I missed the warning before... On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 17:15 +0300, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: LC_ALL=C ? On Sun, 14 Sep 2014, Omer Zak

Who is leaking memory in my Linux Jessie/KDE4 installation?

2014-08-29 Thread Omer Zak
without destabilizing the system. --- Omer -- More proof the End of the World has started. Just saw this online: I think it's beginning! Ten minutes ago there was a group of people waiting at the bus stop outside my house. Now, they're all gone! My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate

Re: Who is leaking memory in my Linux Jessie/KDE4 installation?

2014-08-29 Thread Omer Zak
(-/+ buffers/cache) again nears 90%. So I am interested in finding who is hogging memory at expense of the buffer/cache memory. Furthermore, I'd like to find out who is hogging more and more memory as time passes on. --- Omer On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 20:14 +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Omer Zak w

Re: Printing UTF-8 in C

2014-01-12 Thread Omer Zak
You may want to review the following StackOverflow item: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4607413/c-library-to-convert-unicode-code-points-to-utf8 One answer describes how to do it yourself. Another answer uses the iconv library. On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 21:29 +0200, Ori Idan wrote: On Sun,

Does anyone use MATE (Gnome 2 fork)?

2013-11-15 Thread Omer Zak
, --- Omer -- We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us. Golda Meir (Israeli Prime Minister between 1969-1974) My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do

Re: replace string foo to bar AND bar to foo in the same file

2013-09-25 Thread Omer Zak
'thirdstring' if the original one is already in use. Then you perform three sed's: sed -i 's/foo/thirdstring/g' *.txt sed -i 's/bar/foo/g' *.txt sed -k 's/thirdstring/bar/g' *.txt DISCLAIMER: I did not actually run the above code. --- Omer On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 14:24 +0300, vordoo wrote: Hi, I know

[Fwd: [SUA 36-1] Updated tzdata version]

2013-09-10 Thread Omer Zak
Forwarded Message From: Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk Reply-to: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org To: debian-stable-annou...@lists.debian.org Subject: [SUA 36-1] Updated tzdata version Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:04:39 +0100

Debian Oldstable and Ubuntu 12.04 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

2013-09-07 Thread Omer Zak
in my project. I do not have plans to upgrade the Ubuntu virtual machine. --- Omer On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 21:34 +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I just checked my Mageia 3 and found that the files are from 2013c. [solomon@shlomo1 ~]$ /usr/sbin/zdump -v Asia/Jerusalem |grep 2013 Asia/Jerusalem Thu

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Omer Zak
I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed for the better during the last two or so years. I am an happy user of the Brother MFC-490W printer-FAX-scanner-copier. --- Omer On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 10:29 +0300, ronys wrote: Greetings, My trusty HP all-in-one has

OOPS, I meant MFC-490CW (Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?)

2013-08-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 10:41 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed for the better during the last two or so years. I am an happy user of the Brother MFC-490W printer-FAX-scanner-copier. OOPS, I

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