Re: bash wget script problem

2012-05-07 Thread Nadav Har'El
to disable this behavior: $ set +H $ password=hi!hello $ echo $password hi!hello -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, May 7 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Outlook not so good

Re: dog db search supported only by msie - the response

2012-05-07 Thread Nadav Har'El
, are presumed to have Windows). Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, May 7 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Why do doctors call what they do http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: dog db search supported only by msie - the response

2012-05-07 Thread Nadav Har'El
should have known that you would see the whole thread, because statistically, idiots top-post), or it was an honest typo that the spell-checker accepted as correct. BTW, on a dog site, calling you meyalel isn't just an insult - it's almost a license to kill you ;-) -- Nadav Har'El

Re: bash wget script problem

2012-05-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
the shell, as in wget -q -O - http://$router_username:$router_pass@192.168.1.1/Status_Router.asp; What shell are you running this in, by the way? Bash? Something else? -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, May 6 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: doesn't a gov.il site supposed to support more than just MSIE ?

2012-05-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
also support cats? An angry tax-paying cat owner :-) -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, May 3 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |This '|' is not a pipe. http

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Resumed maintenance of libmikmod and mikmod.

2012-04-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
the real thing (e.g., for special effects). And on another note (pun intended): do you really get these random signatures at random? Usually, yes. In some rare cases (like the message you refer to) I choose a specific one which I think is relevant :-) -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Fedora upgrade, got unbootable system

2012-04-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
initially get a permission denied, but when cd'ing it doesn't affect me. Could it be a SELinux issue? Yes, maybe this will help: http://kangry.com/topics/viewcomment.php?index=18540 -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Apr 18 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Resumed maintenance of libmikmod and mikmod.

2012-04-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote about Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Resumed maintenance of libmikmod and mikmod.: hard disk. I think, though, that today mod files still have value, as open source music :-) I've been wondering, how far are we, technologically, from being able to produce free

Re: 4G phones in Israel

2012-04-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
the Galaxy S2? Or Droid Charge, a.k.a Galaxy S Aviator? -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Apr 16 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |In Fortran, God is real unless declared http

Re: 4G phones in Israel

2012-04-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
anyone can install. I'm using it, and it works well. And it's free (as in open source) software :-) -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Apr 16 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191

Re: 4G phones in Israel

2012-04-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
, knowing Linux :-) Hers is android 4. Upgraded already. The specific app I mentioned worked on my Android 2.3.5. I have no idea if it works with Android 4 - it might. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Apr 17 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: xfig+Hebrew

2012-04-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
of this myself. -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Apr 15 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Bigamy: Having one wife too many. http://nadav.harel.org.il |Monogamy: The same

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Resumed maintenance of libmikmod and mikmod.

2012-04-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
, listening to them, etc.? Is there a good site you recommend for downloading MODs from? I have to admit its been (many) years since I last listened to one. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Apr 11 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Resumed maintenance of libmikmod and mikmod.

2012-04-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
, and is the only MOD file I have created up to now. Very nice :-) -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Apr 11 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Christopher Robin Hood steals from

Re: [YBA] kernel compile errors with GCC = 4.6

2012-04-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postel%27s_law If -Werror is used in a big-enough project, there is a very high probability that compilation will always fail when a new version of the compiler is first tried. I fail to see why this is a good thing. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: [YBA] kernel compile errors with GCC = 4.6

2012-04-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
used, I think it's stupid for the user's compilation to abort when the compiler discovers such issues Down with -Wall -Werror! -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Apr 5 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone

Re: [YBA] kernel compile errors with GCC = 4.6

2012-04-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
by the developers for the release. Then why distribute then -Werror at all? Let the developers use -Wall -Werror as part of their tests, and let users compile normally, without -Werror... Just my view... -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Apr 5 2012, n

Re: [YBA] kernel compile errors with GCC = 4.6

2012-04-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
works with a specific version of the compiler. I routinely compile the latest kernel with a 3 year old compiler (gcc 4.4), and don't have any problems. Other people may be compiling a 3 year old kernel with the latest snapshot of gcc, and they shouldn't have problems either. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: [YBA] kernel compile errors with GCC = 4.6

2012-04-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
that it should work on any GCC 3.2, and if it doesn't, it needs to be fixed. And preferably not in a way that will cause a new breakages every time a new GCC is released. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Apr 5 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: [YBA] kernel compile errors with GCC = 4.6

2012-04-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012, Oron Peled wrote about Re: [YBA] kernel compile errors with GCC = 4.6: On Thursday, 5 בApril 2012 11:33:51 Nadav Har'El wrote: When you == Linus Torvalds, I agree. When you == kernel user or even developer working on one particular part of the kernel, I don't

Re: More RAM than MemTotal

2012-03-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
of the above in the MemTotal calculation. I don't know if they did - or what they wanted MemTotal to signify. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Mar 28 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ

Re: More RAM than MemTotal

2012-03-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_hole -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Mar 28 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Communism is the equal distribution of http

Re: More RAM than MemTotal

2012-03-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
, and who knows what else. I'm way outside my expertise area here. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E820 In any case, my mail had two other suspects to consider ;-) -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Mar 28 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: what happens if

2012-03-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
for the section starting in The addition of the forkall() function to the standard was considered and rejected.) All this makes fork() more or less useless for multithreaded applications except for one idiom: fork() followed by exec(). -- Nadav Har'El

Re: what happens if

2012-03-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
programming language, I frankly have no idea what its fork() does. Maybe you need to write some C code that does fork()/exec() in one function call, and avoid this risk. Did actually notice any problem with your code, or is this question just theoretical? -- Nadav Har'El

Re: what happens if

2012-03-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
. But don't sue me if I'm wrong ;-) -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Mar 19 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: HTTP IP spoofing detection

2012-03-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
remote machines, you should probably not do this based on their IP address, and rely on more secure methods (e.g., SSL). Or at least don't allow the first packet (an HTTP request) to do any damage. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Mar 14 2012, n

Re: Unicode in C

2012-03-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
, and a choice has to be made. Continuing to use all of these approaches is not a good thing, as I see it. Even if in practice, I can write all these APIs with not too much effort, I think it's ugly. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Mar 13 2012, n

Re: Unicode in C

2012-03-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Mar 13 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |And now for some feedback: http://nadav.harel.org.il |EEE

Re: Unicode in C

2012-03-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
strings. Qt appears to use internally UTF-16. What major free software C library actually prefer UTF-8? -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Mar 13 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ

Re: Unicode in C

2012-03-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
, and other junk. Why do these exit? This is sad. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Mar 13 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |War doesn't determine who's right

Unicode in C

2012-03-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
it be? UTF-8? Wide chars (UTF-16 or UTF-32)? Thanks, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Mar 12 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |We could wipe out world hunger if we knew http

Re: Unicode in C

2012-03-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
the 15 MB libicu. -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Mar 12 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |War doesn't determine who's right but http://nadav.harel.org.il |who's

Re: vim mappings for Hebrew

2012-03-07 Thread Nadav Har'El
niqqud, I'm missing that also in vim... Anybody set up such a keymap? Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Mar 7 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Bigamy: Having one wife

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-04 Thread Nadav Har'El
, my random signature below, or any permutations of it, may be relevant ;-) -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Mar 4 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |The road to good

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
continuing to support GPL under similar circumstances. I wonder, therefore, if using AGPL helps or hurts promoting the licensed software in SaaS deployments. What do I, Hspell, or the world, have to gain from promoting Hspell's use in proprietary SaaS deployments? Thanks, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
' freedom to know what they are using, which is one of the most basic freedoms of free software. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Saturday, Mar 3 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
, and who to complain to in case of problems. Frankly, I never understood why OpenOffice not just GPL. Why the insistance to allow Sun and IBM to create proprietary versions of it? Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Saturday, Mar 3 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: shared object from object files not compiled with -fPIC - 32 vs. 64 bit

2012-03-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
, is sometimes desirable even when you have the source code) impossible under 64bit. Perhaps this can help: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/11/11/position-independent-code-pic-in-shared-libraries-on-x64/ -- Nadav Har'El| Saturday, Mar 3 2012, n

Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-02-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
, as OpenOffice and Firefox plugins, and more. We expect that the new Hspell release will soon propagate to all these distributions and applications, so that their users will also be able to enjoy the improvements in Hspell 1.2. We hope that you enjoy Hspell 1.2. Nadav Har'El and Dan Kenigsberg. February

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-02-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
can re-license ;-) -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Feb 29 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Outlook not so good. Wow! That magic 8- http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: How do I start a blank x-server?

2012-02-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
question, looking at the rest of your discussion, I'm not sure this is what you actually wanted to do. Perhaps what you wanted is simply to run vncserver and get a blank X server which you can view with vncviewer. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Feb 28 2012, n

Re: libreoffice+hebrew nikud

2012-02-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
a solution - is how to type them. What I usually do is to cut-and-paste words with niqqud from other texts (or an online dictionary). I never figured out how to set up a keyboard mapping or something to conveniently type niqqud. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: libreoffice+hebrew nikud

2012-02-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
working well. -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Feb 26 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Quotation, n.: The act of repeating http://nadav.harel.org.il |erroneously

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
to extract the text in MS Office files (for a search engine). It was a really annoying reverse-engineering-like trial-and-error process, and I could hardly find any documentation. The PowerPoint format (.ppt) was particularly odd. What documentation do you refer to? -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
are undocumented. -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Feb 20 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Happiness isn't getting what you want, http://nadav.harel.org.il |it's

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
at) say that your are free to copy and redistiribute them. Perhaps even more amazingly, they are in PDF format, not any of Microsoft's own format. Very nice (though I still prefer OpenOffice ;-)). -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Feb 20 2012, n

Re: PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION, expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM

2012-02-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
plural form... Just like he said Paamayim, not Paamimayim If you don't believe me, check out for example http://blog.ravmilim.co.il/index/colon/ -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Feb 15 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: vim mappings for Hebrew

2012-02-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
also have set guifont=heb8x13 set guifont=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-8 -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Feb 14 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523

Re: vim mappings for Hebrew

2012-02-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
esc:set invhk invrlcra map F12 :set invhk invrlcr Thanks. Indeed looks less baroque. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Feb 15 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191

Re: vim mappings for Hebrew

2012-02-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
I start using it too :-) -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Feb 15 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A perfect design is when nothing can be http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: linux mapi server

2012-02-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
this by, in the Contacts application, pressing the menu button, then More and then Settings, and there you have a Save new contacts to option. if i understand correctly, this means mapi server. On this, I don't know. Maybe other people can answer this direction. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
with the lousy (but unfortunately) common situation where poor people pay more than rich people for the same service. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Feb 5 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
-sucking margin around the page. But hey, at least it was an open format :-) -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Feb 5 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Boat: A hole in the water

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
look exactly like they were meant to. But almost always it didn't really matter. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Feb 5 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I saw a book

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
, and connect to the Internet), we should be thankful that they do whatever they can. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Feb 5 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I want to be a human

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
or their families. So the teachers find it very convenient (and cheap) to use MS, and who cares that the kids' families need to buy all this expensive software, or alternatively break the law. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Feb 5 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-04 Thread Nadav Har'El
, and it was kind of visible, I guess, but it was quite far from what the document was intended to look like :( -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Feb 5 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-04 Thread Nadav Har'El
stranglehold on the word processor document seems to be coming to an end. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Feb 5 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |It's fortunate I have bad luck

Re: Israeli website on Linux: beer-sheva.muni.il

2012-01-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
to a search engine and enter that as a search word). -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Jan 25 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Communism is the equal distribution of http

Re: Israeli website on Linux: beer-sheva.muni.il

2012-01-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
-sheva.muni.il responds with NXDOMAIN (this is the normal behaviour when there is no A record on the domain), it simply hangs and doesn't respond. This is strange, and doesn't look like deliberate configuration. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Jan 25 2012, n

Re: Israeli website on Linux: beer-sheva.muni.il

2012-01-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
.asp?RedirectTo=%2Fopenning%2Easp%3FLang%3D1 And then it follows a string of silly redirections, until I end up seeing http://www.beer-sheva.muni.il/openning.asp?Lang=1 -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Jan 25 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Israeli website on Linux: beer-sheva.muni.il

2012-01-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
Authorities Data Processing Center Ltd.) so should have had the same routing problems, theoretically. Weird. But definitely not a Linux-specific problem. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Jan 25 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Israeli website on Linux: beer-sheva.muni.il

2012-01-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
. But not because of Linux, rather because it appears the domain doesn't respond to an A request for itself. Weird. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Jan 25 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ

Getting rid of proprietary fonts

2012-01-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
where this information has to exist - but before I do that, I wonder if someone knows an easier OpenOffice option, or tool, exists. Thanks, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Jan 22 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Getting rid of proprietary fonts

2012-01-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
, but it actually works and I finally was able to find and remove all the references to those nasty non-free fonts. I still wonder if there isn't a much easier way. Some search font form in OpenOffice, or a utility to turn all text in some font to pink ;-) Thanks, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Getting rid of proprietary fonts

2012-01-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012, Matan Ziv-Av wrote about Re: Getting rid of proprietary fonts: On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote: I wonder if anybody knows how I can use OpenOffice, or some other tool, to find *where* in the document a certain font is being used? Did you try OO's find

Re: Virtual Server - Consult...

2012-01-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
for you - it's an expensive piece of software, and only runs on a limited set of hardware. Perhaps you meant VMware Server. -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Jan 22 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972

Re: Virtual Server - Consult...

2012-01-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
already. Using qemu *only*, without KVM (or Xen) is not a sensible option on today's hardware. It is very slow, and KVM significantly speeds it up by using hardware virtualization (Intel VMX or AMD SVM) which is present on all x86 PCs manufactured in the last 5 or so years. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: question: discount bank web site - linux+firefox friendly?

2012-01-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
operations starting with viewing the balance and ending with buying and selling stocks. Thanks, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Jan 19 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191

Re: [OUT?] Help with Android?

2012-01-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
in English, and Linux-il doesn't (mostly) deal with Hebrew-specific questions, so why did people choose to join linux-il? I think there is also value in having a small, familiar, local, community, even if you could have held most of the same discussions in a huge worldwide mailing list. -- Nadav

Re: [OUT?] Help with Android?

2012-01-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
feel that I waste time reading these discussions. We could have a poll, of course. If I remember correctly, linux-il was founded in 1994. At the time, Linux's ubiquity was also yet to be seen ;-) -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Jan 16 2012, n

Re: [OUT?] Help with Android?

2012-01-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
think there's enough members or list traffic to justify such a division, yet. -- Nadav Har'El| Saturday, Jan 14 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A facility

Re: [OUT?] Help with Android?

2012-01-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
-specific questions (hadware sold in Israel, Hebrew-related questions, etc.). But for all other intents and purposes, non-Israelis are just as welcome. In fact I hesitate if/how we should even mention that this is an Israeli list. Any other thoughts? -- Nadav Har'El

Free Software on Android

2011-12-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
thoughts? Thanks, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Dec 28 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Those are my principles. If you don't http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: Free Software on Android

2011-12-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
that isn't free software, but could have been. It took me a lot of effort to find an example free-software widget that I can build on - most of the fairly trivial widgets on the market are free, but their source is not available. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday

Re: Free Software on Android

2011-12-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
myself searching for open source :( -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Dec 28 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Ms Piggy's last words: I'm pink, http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: Free Software on Android

2011-12-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
:-) http://www.bestbuy.com/site/AudioQuest+-+Diamond+3.3%27+High-Speed+HDMI+Cable+-+Dark+Gray/Black/2383276.p;jsessionid=310CCC6FDFA4F4B48027114FF363F3FC.bbolsp-app04-32?id=1218324437192skuId=2383276#BVRRWidgetID -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Dec 28 2011, n

Re: Free Software on Android

2011-12-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
author will find the result an improvement over his version. But if I ever do publish my version, I'll definitely link to his, don't worry. I don't view this widget as my magnum opus... it's just something I started with to learn the basics of Android development. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Unix History: Why does hexdump default to word alignment?

2011-12-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
to see hex for each byte: od -c didn't show hex, od -x showed hex for each two bytes, and od -b (for bytes) showed each byte but octal (which evidentally was more popular than hex in the old days). Gnu's od can do what you want with od -t x1. As you saw, so can hexdump with the -C flag. -- Nadav

Re: Unix History: Why does hexdump default to word alignment?

2011-12-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
or shell-script is not something I ended up doing in recent years. I don't think I even noticed the new hexdump sibling of od cropped up in Linux ;-) -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Dec 1 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Detecting runaway process

2011-11-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
that someone else wrote... There is no magic bullet, just sweat. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Nov 17 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Isn't Disney World a people trap

Re: A good Linux kernel vintage?

2011-11-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
follows LKML pretty closely could point at a kernel which has become renowned for not having a lot of bug reports about crucial issues. One that actually got it right. What's wrong with 3.1.1? It's the latest version, AND fixes the bugs found in 3.1. Sounds like the best of both worlds? -- Nadav

Re: Goodbye, Lingnu

2011-11-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
actually try to run a company like this, and didn't put my money where my mouth is. So maybe I'm all wrong here. -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Nov 14 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Finding the next lucrative niche (was: Re: Goodbye, Lingnu)

2011-11-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
? So how is the price per hour a meaningful variable when comparing two consultants? -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Nov 14 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Cats aren't clean

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Finding the next lucrative niche

2011-11-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
a hunch here - again, I have no experience in this) this is exactly the kind of problems a consultant may want to avoid? -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Nov 14 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523

Re: make_ext3fs?

2011-11-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
tmpmount rmdir tmpmount /sbin/losetup -d $LOOPDEV -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Nov 15 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I don't eat snails. I prefer fast food. http

Re: umount and data is lost?

2011-11-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
writing, while still having a few sectors cached - and the physical poweroff is causing it to loose its data. Does hdparm -F perhaps help? (after the umount, before the reboot) * again the workaround is a sleep(5) Is sleep(5) the minimum that works? Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: umount and data is lost?

2011-11-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
you're confusing reboot(2) with reboot(8), the shell utility, which does reboot the machine slowly, after stopping all applications, flushing all filesystems, and so on? -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Nov 6 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

2011-10-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
saints, they should at least be commended for chosing this path, and not one of the other two. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Oct 25 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

2011-10-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
those end of openness years. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Oct 25 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Debugging: the art of removing bugs. http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

2011-10-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
intended query appear to be Israeli or Jewish sources. It doesn't appear like the whole world had any interest in this affair... I wonder if most free software activists are even aware of it. -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Oct 24 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

2011-10-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
. -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Oct 24 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Seen on a box of animal crackers: Do not http://nadav.harel.org.il |eat if seal is broken

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

2011-10-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
the joke, you haven't seen the movie Life of Brian :-)). -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Oct 24 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |We don't see things as they are, we see http

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
with traditional wires-over-the-surface communication technology. :-) -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Oct 23 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |An apple a day keeps

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
, Cassandra is very reliable - it just gives you answers that you didn't want to hear... :-) -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Oct 23 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A computer

Re: Newer gcc swallow version control keywords

2011-10-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
report, to make it known that people still care. Apparently, you're the last user (!?) of ident(1), so make your voice heard :-) -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Oct 18 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone

Re: Newer gcc swallow version control keywords

2011-10-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
in their right mind still uses SCCS today, but what(1) still works, if you wish to use strings of this format in your executables to mark them. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Oct 18 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Newer gcc swallow version control keywords

2011-10-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
what you're doing) or you won't. Typically coding conventions will specify that you use it - correctly - on every source file. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Oct 18 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone

Re: Newer gcc swallow version control keywords

2011-10-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
original question was about C, not C++. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Oct 18 2011, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I'm experiencing both amnesia and deja http

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