Re: Nostalgia is not what it used to be (was: Petition to ask MainConcept)

2007-10-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
. When I started working on Hspell, it was obvious that nobody really cared about how much memory it would take. When it ended up taking 100 KB of disk space and 4 MB of memory, everyone thought it was perfectly acceptable (and even small if you compare it, for example, to aspell). -- Nadav Har'El

Re: getting the current stack size of a given thread on linux

2007-10-07 Thread Nadav Har'El
, -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Oct 7 2007, 25 Tishri 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |All those who believe in psychokinesis, http://nadav.harel.org.il |raise my hand

Re: Realtek 8139 network card installation

2007-10-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
was my old (PATA) disk (this machine has both PATA and SATA), and this last problem was solved a few days ago when Linux 2.6.23 came out (and Fedora shipped it a couple of days later), with support for the off-chipset PATA controller on my motherboard. Viva Linux. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Realtek 8139 network card installation

2007-10-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007, Leonid Podolny wrote about Re: Realtek 8139 network card installation: Nadav Har'El wrote: [snip] and this last problem was solved a few days ago when Linux 2.6.23 came out (and Fedora shipped it a couple of days later), with support for the off-chipset PATA

Re: openstreetmap

2007-10-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Oct 25 2007, 13 Heshvan 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Only dead fish go with the flow. http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: You ain't paranoid if people really are out to get you!

2007-10-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
as reporting the whole truth. For example, a journalist might report that Nadav Har'El was not found guilty of a murder, which is technically true (I really haven't been found guilty of any murder), but incorrectly implies that I have been suspected of some murder, and might cause readers to wrongly

Re: Linux 2.6 Vs Solaris 10

2007-11-09 Thread Nadav Har'El
by dozens of Non-Idiots - is the one that will turn out worse on every parameter. -- Nadav Har'El| Friday, Nov 9 2007, 28 Heshvan 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If you notice

Re: Weird chroot/su/setreuid issue

2007-11-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
another example of why free software is better than commercial software, even if you are willing to pay. I'm writing this mail in vi, which I have been using for 23 years now. Thanks to free software, I don't need to keep a VAX with Seventh Edition Unix just for running vi ;-) -- Nadav Har'El

Re: FTP problem

2007-11-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
these days. -- Nadav Har'El| Saturday, Nov 17 2007, 8 Kislev 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |The path of least resistance is what http://nadav.harel.org.il |makes rivers

Re: Linux reference

2007-11-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
system. Ok, not really MSDN like. It will be more useful to allow the user to limit the search to a specific subsection of the site. Indeed. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Nov 26 2007, 16 Kislev 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Capturing Google and Youtube videos with one command

2007-11-30 Thread Nadav Har'El
(again, the last file you see in /tmp after you finish to load the entire movie in the browser) with mplayer. So if you use mplayer to play videos, there is no need to convert these files to anything - you can play them directly. -- Nadav Har'El| Friday, Nov 30 2007

Re: ssh timout

2007-12-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
, something like ServerAliveInterface 120 should be made the default... -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Dec 12 2007, 3 Tevet 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |You do not need a parachute to skydive

Re: Does anyone maintain http://www.ivrix.org.il/ nowadays?

2007-12-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
haven't had the time to make it work again :( :( P.S.: I am looking for a Free Hebrew-English and/or English-Hebrew dictionary file. The nearest one, which I found is Sorry, there wasn't such a thing on the Ivrix site. -- Nadav Har'El| Friday, Dec 28 2007, 19

Re: webmail client, NG?

2008-01-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
. If you get an encrypted mail to gmail, there is no way for Google to read it, even though they have the encrypted content. A secret site would be using SSL, prevent nasties like your ISP, phone compnay, or Google from sniffing the connection. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday

Re: [Job Offer and a byte more] PHP programmer and CTO

2008-01-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
. The venture capitalist will give you four million dollars. 5. In 18 (12? 6? 3?) months, go public. 6. After you receive your check, go back to Menlo Park. Find a tree. 7. Climb it. Wait. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Jan 13 2008, 6 Shevat 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Job Offer and a byte more] PHP programmer and CTO

2008-01-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
the initial decisions were made (which I thought is what you meant, but if I misunderstood, sorry). -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Jan 13 2008, 7 Shevat 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191

Re: Finding porn links in hacked web pages

2008-01-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
can't recall now the company's name. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Jan 28 2008, 21 Shevat 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A messy desk is a sign of a messy mind. http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: Finding porn links in hacked web pages

2008-01-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
to figure out which changes were legitimate and which were done by crackers. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Jan 28 2008, 21 Shevat 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |How long a minute depends

Re: UPS

2008-01-30 Thread Nadav Har'El
is how much energy this UPS can store, and the relevant unit is Watt*Hour, or Volt*Ampere*Hour, or (like battery manufactures like) Ampere*Hour. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Jan 30 2008, 23 Shevat 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [0-0-0-0-1-2-3-] my idea of speedy communication....

2008-04-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
you're describing a system where you can change your mail hoster *after* the mail has already arrived. I don't see how this could ever happen without cooperation between mail hosters (which you don't trust in the first place). -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Apr 27 2008, 22

Re: How to deal with bounce messages spam?

2008-04-30 Thread Nadav Har'El
you never sent - even without needing to record the specific message ids you actually sent. For example, here is the procmail rule I use: :0 BH: *^from +MAILER-DAEMON[ @] * !^Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] spambounces -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Apr 30 2008, 25 Nisan

Re: [OT] Fragmentation in the community

2008-06-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
this planet.linux.org.il solves any fragmentation issue. If I continue with the newspaper analogy, this is simply yet another newspaper, which, frankly, looks to me a bit like a school newspaper ;-) It doesn't reduce fragmentation - it just adds yet another fragment. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: [OT] Fragmentation in the community

2008-06-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
this thread was definitely successfull in spreading the word about the existence of this planet. I agree - I also never heard of it before, and it's nice to hear about it now. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Jun 1 2008, 28 Iyyar 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Anti-RTL mindset is similar to anti-accessibility mindset

2008-06-08 Thread Nadav Har'El
it won't be practical to modify them anyway. -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Jun 8 2008, 5 Sivan 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Linux *is* user-friendly. Not http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: Anti-RTL mindset is similar to anti-accessibility mindset

2008-06-08 Thread Nadav Har'El
GTK because it's too bloated - then please place blame where blame is due, i.e., on GTK, not on OpenMoku. (Sorry for being harsh, and you can always refer to my signature below :-). -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Jun 8 2008, 5 Sivan 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Ubuntu is Dead - Stay Away

2008-06-08 Thread Nadav Har'El
it obvious to you that the way that Ubuntu's mailing lists and IRC channels are run have almost *NOTHING* to do with the quality of the OS they produce? If Microsoft Windows's forum had been very friendly, would you switch to that OS instead? -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Anti-RTL mindset is similar to anti-accessibility mindset

2008-06-08 Thread Nadav Har'El
Windows, Linux will save you!. Is this still true??? Lucky that with free software I still have a choice, and can avoid using KDE and GNOME. But this is because I'm eccentric. Hardly anyone else I know uses Linux without relying on KDE or GNOME. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Help with printf

2008-06-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
coreutils, that already does its own backslash transformations. For example: $ printf 1+1=%5d\n 2 1+1=2 By the way, you can look at coreutil's printf code to see how it does the backslash transformations (isn't free software great?) -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Help with printf

2008-06-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
aware of. As I said, I suggest that you take a look at the source of GNU's printf utility (not the C library function), and see what they do. If \n is the only one that interests you, then writing a function to do this replacement yourself is trivial. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: SIP gateway providers in Israel?

2008-06-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
plain-old telephone costs 10 agorot a minute - almost the same as it costs me to call inside Israel, and 3 times cheaper than to call an Israeli cellphone! So what's the point of these services? -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Jun 16 2008, 13 Sivan 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: open phone (is openmoko the only option ?)

2008-08-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
software that plays mp3, for example). -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Aug 18 2008, 17 Av 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Cats aren't clean, they're just covered http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: Small victories, but more work to be done

2008-08-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
, much, bigger problem with sites (the most notorious are the banks) which instead of using ordinary links and (if they must) standard Javascript, use IE-specific tricks. You can't get around these problems by installing any additional software... -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Curses Problem in Detecting Backspace

2008-09-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
the character it expects). The least likely problem is that somehow your underlying X-Window system is sending a delete character when you're pressing the backspace key - you can check this with the xev tool (X event viewer). -- Nadav Har'El|Tuesday, Sep 2 2008

Re: Curses Problem in Detecting Backspace

2008-09-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
:( -- Nadav Har'El|Tuesday, Sep 2 2008, 2 Elul 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Entropy: Not just a fad, it's the future! http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: Curses Problem in Detecting Backspace

2008-09-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
expected to use ^? in their jokes as well? :-) -- Nadav Har'El|Tuesday, Sep 2 2008, 2 Elul 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A mathematician is a device for turning http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: parental control - outbound firewall?

2008-09-09 Thread Nadav Har'El
, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. Khalil Gibran, The Prophet (1923), Chapter 4 (Children) [1] http://leb.net/~mira/works/prophet/prophet4.html -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Sep 9 2008, 10 Elul

Re: Fwd: Fedora 8 and 9 updates re-enabled

2008-09-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
our old repo locations to new locations that have all our updates re-signed with a new set of keys. ... More than a day has passed, and yum update still does nothing on my Fedora 9. Does anyone know what is going on? -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Sep 11 2008, 11 Elul

Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

2008-10-07 Thread Nadav Har'El
the time or energy to set it up again. I still pay for the domain though ;-) If there's anything you need that used to be on the ivrix site, please let me know and I can send it to you. Sorry, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Oct 7 2008, 8 Tishri 5769 [EMAIL

Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

2008-10-07 Thread Nadav Har'El
were the same as Doug's: http://www.m17n.org/conference/m17n2000_all_but_registration/proceedings/zaretskii/m17n2000.ps.gz -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Oct 7 2008, 9 Tishri 5769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523

Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

2008-10-07 Thread Nadav Har'El
on screen is not. This is my definitions, and also Doug Felt's in the presentation I pointed to: http://www.m17n.org/conference/m17n2000_all_but_registration/proceedings/felt/sld024.htm -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Oct 7 2008, 9 Tishri 5769 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Kernel bug? Reading from master PTY when no slaves are open

2008-10-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
)? Am I missing something here? Good question :-) I'm also hearing a better answer from someone. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Oct 19 2008, 20 Tishri 5769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Guests

Re: The new linux-il - a few tips to get you (re)started

2009-01-31 Thread Nadav Har'El
silly person accidentally replies to everyone instead of the announcer). Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Saturday, Jan 31 2009, 7 Shevat 5769 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If marriage

Re: The new linux-il - a few tips to get you (re)started

2009-01-31 Thread Nadav Har'El
used reply to all as usual in a case where he shouldn't... -- Nadav Har'El| Saturday, Jan 31 2009, 7 Shevat 5769 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |The 3 stages of sex: Tri-weekly, try

Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-09 Thread Nadav Har'El
a court case like this? -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Feb 9 2009, 15 Shevat 5769 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Vote, n.: A person's right to make a fool http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: Bank Leumi site finally works from Linux

2009-02-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
place). It really seems like the people who designed this site tried to make it compatible with Firefox, although they probably did not test it as rigourously as they tested on IE. I never thought this day would come - I've been waiting for it for around a decade! -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux

2009-04-08 Thread Nadav Har'El
, and then moved to Amazon and finally to Google (the black whole which apparently nobody leaves ;-)). -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Apr 8 2009, 14 Nisan 5769 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Did you

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-05-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
they will, once there are more Android phones from more well-known (in Israel) makers. But I don't know of any concrete plans. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, May 28 2009, 5 Sivan 5769 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523

Re: Why is GNU/Linux so Bloated?

2009-06-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
library into your shared library). -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Jun 14 2009, 22 Sivan 5769 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Sign in pool: Welcome to our OOL. Notice http://nadav.harel.org.il

I have a rabbit in my ears ;-)

2009-09-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
to an antenna). I still wonder why this page exists in the first place... And why it is the first place on Google for somebody in Israel who wants to watch tv on linux... -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Sep 17 2009, 28 Elul 5769 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: hebrew text to speech

2009-11-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
classes of subjects and objects, to further reduce ambiguities. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Nov 2 2009, 15 Heshvan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I am the world's greatest

Re: hebrew text to speech

2009-11-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
project. It is unlikely that anything Rav-Milim did will ever be freed (although I'd be very happy to be proved wrong on this). Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Nov 2 2009, 16 Heshvan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: firefox and Bank Leumi web site

2009-12-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Dec 15 2009, 28 Kislev 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Always go to other people's funerals, http://nadav.harel.org.il |otherwise they won't come

Announce: Hspell 1.1

2009-12-31 Thread Nadav Har'El
are expected this year ;-) Nadav Har'El and Dan Kenigsberg. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Dec 31 2009, 14 Tevet 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Computers are useless. They can only http

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.1

2009-12-31 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009, E L wrote about Re: Announce: Hspell 1.1: Cool:) Any news on grammar checking/nikud checking? Not really... Do you (or anyone else) want to volunteer to help us work on it? Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Dec 31 2009, 14 Tevet 5770 n

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.1

2009-12-31 Thread Nadav Har'El
. If anyone is interested in taking a shot at it, I'd love to advise - please contact me and/or Dan privately. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Dec 31 2009, 14 Tevet 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.1

2010-01-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
that. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Jan 3 2010, 18 Tevet 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I used to work in a pickle factory, until http://nadav.harel.org.il |I got

Re: Recommendations for Inexpensive PDA

2010-01-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
? -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Jan 27 2010, 12 Shevat 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Live as if you were to die tomorrow, http://nadav.harel.org.il |learn as if you were

Re: SSH problem

2010-01-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
permission). If this is NOT the problem, go to the server and look at its logs to see if they give you any hints on what is not working. This log may be on /var/log/secure - but this location can change depending on your distribution. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Jan 27 2010

Re: Request for help with mail spoofing

2010-02-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
through any known socks proxies or similar open machines. Numerous blacklists exist to this effect (e.g., http://www.us.sorbs.net/) and scripts to process each mail and filter out the suspicious ones. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Feb 17 2010, 3 Adar 5770 n

Re: XMoveWindow()

2010-03-04 Thread Nadav Har'El
you're doing (after all, it's *its* job to move around windows, not any arbitrary client should do such things), but I believe it should work. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Mar 4 2010, 18 Adar 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: XWindows - how capture window ?

2010-03-07 Thread Nadav Har'El
://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XDamage -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Mar 7 2010, 21 Adar 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Business jargon is the art of saying http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
good at both and like both, it is natural that you'll choose the one with the most money... -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Mar 17 2010, 2 Nisan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Why do

Kosher for Passover software

2010-03-31 Thread Nadav Har'El
Passover! Happy holiday! Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Apr 1 2010, 17 Nisan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |This box was intentionally left blank. http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: faster rsync of huge directories

2010-04-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
the second problem, then maybe rsync improvements are due - i.e., to use rsync's delta protocol not only on the individual files, but also on the file list. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Apr 12 2010, 28 Nisan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: faster rsync of huge directories

2010-04-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
is shorter and easier to remember than find | cpio -p. But please note I didn't test this command, so don't use it on your important data without thinking first! -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Apr 12 2010, 28 Nisan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
if() in the algorithm. There wasn't any change (as far as I know) since, and hopefully there won't be further changes in the forseable future. I hope this was helpful, or at least interesting ;-) Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Apr 13 2010, 29 Nisan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
, not a single year. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Apr 13 2010, 29 Nisan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |As far as we know, our computer has never http://nadav.harel.org.il |had

Re: faster rsync of huge directories

2010-04-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
correctly), but nowadays they are more often confusing than useful - at least in my opinion. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Apr 13 2010, 30 Nisan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |You do

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-04-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
it. After all, what do you do in December when you want to plan your Pesach vacation, and mistakenly find the date of last year's Pesach? Finally, I'm at a loss - what is this file good for anyway? Which applications use it? -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Apr 14 2010, 30 Nisan

Re: Showing that low cost hardware with opensource software can be be both effective and cost friendly

2010-04-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
doing pro-bono work for the firm. So don't buy broken products - isn't that a simple enough criterion? If more people didn't buy server products that only work on IE (and don't work on Firefox, Iphone, and who knows what else) maybe these companies will finally fix up their act. Nadav. -- Nadav

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
for mobile users who use iPhone or android or opera or whatever, not IE. But I assume that these sort of sites already check that they work on their intended client machines... -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Apr 25 2010, 11 Iyyar 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
for quickly getting packages they want but weren't installed by default. Instead of answering a zillion questions during installation (do you want eclipse? do you want netbeans? etc.), it's often easier just to install whatever you want, whenever your want it. -- Nadav Har'El

How do you calculate?

2010-05-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
I was wondering - how come there isn't more pressure on the Linux distributions to include a decent and convenient calculator language? Or do people consider what is available decent enough already? Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, May 20 2010, 7 Sivan 5770 n

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-05-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
? (which would make it the rarest-running cron-job in history ;-)). Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, May 25 2010, 13 Sivan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |The two most common elements

Re: Hebrew calendar software creators: can you notify this list when updating the calendar?

2010-05-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
of these places don't look all that subtle. see http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/docs/reading.pdf for a brief but complete overview of calculating the parashot. -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, May 26 2010, 13 Sivan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Fedora - o for thirteen

2010-05-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
to the last question is no, because I really love Fedora. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, May 26 2010, 13 Sivan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |All those who believe

Re: Fedora - o for thirteen

2010-05-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
. -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, May 26 2010, 13 Sivan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at http://nadav.harel.org.il |math

Re: Fedora - o for thirteen

2010-05-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, May 26, 2010, Nadav Har'El wrote about Re: Fedora - o for thirteen: For example, the problem this time was that after all the new packages were installed, the installer was finishing the upgrade (probably running post- install scripts) and then suddely popped up a message saying

Re: What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-05-30 Thread Nadav Har'El
), a 50% discount is ridiculous. I'd rather buy the physical book, which I or my children will be able to read again in 10 or 20 years (or, if I want, I can resell or even donate or whatever). Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, May 30 2010, 17 Sivan 5770 n

Re: What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-05-30 Thread Nadav Har'El
the much lower book-rental prices on the market (last time I checked, this was known as a library, and didn't cost 44 shekels every time you checked out a book.) -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, May 30 2010, 17 Sivan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-05-30 Thread Nadav Har'El
, CDs, DVDs, games, etc., considers to be the owner of this physical media, and wouldn't care if the license say they cannot be resold. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, May 30 2010, 17 Sivan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: cat command with timeout

2010-06-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
if a line appeared after just 1 second). -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Jun 10 2010, 28 Sivan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately http

Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

2010-06-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
? Yes, and the Unix license (above) is the best example I can think of. At the time, it was called a source license, if I remember correctly. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Jun 10 2010, 28 Sivan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

2010-06-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom: On 6/10/10, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: I am guessing that Stallman *wanted* there to be four freedoms, as a reference to the Roosevelt's four freedoms (http

Re: platform for number crunching

2010-06-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
end up using, they will produce heat, and you will need to take care of it. -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Jun 16 2010, 4 Tammuz 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |The meek shall inherit

Re: platform for number crunching---resume

2010-06-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
significant different to the point of making a difference between a perfectly functioning 8-CPU machine and the heat-death of a 2-CPU machine... -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Jun 20 2010, 9 Tammuz 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: linux beivrit

2010-07-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
, so I wonder whater problems you are referring to. Anyway, it's probably too late now for this document (converting formats is a harder issue), but it's something to think about for your next document :-) -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Jul 5 2010, 23 Tammuz 5770 n

Re: A 12V *AC* power supply

2010-07-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
to the current that you can draw out of the power supply. But I may be wrong... -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Jul 14 2010, 3 Av 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Lottery: A tax

Re: New Freecell Solver gcc-4.5.0 vs. LLVM+clang Benchmark

2010-07-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
one of them again? 2. Do you really think that your measurements are accurate down to the individual picosecond? :-) Anyway, I guess that in any case it shows that gcc has nothing to be ashamed of. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Jul 18 2010, 7 Av 5770 n

Re: New Freecell Solver gcc-4.5.0 vs. LLVM+clang Benchmark

2010-07-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
in the background taking up the CPU or disk. The minimum run time, 18.0, is the most interesting one - it is the time a run would take every time, if things were perfect. If you average the above numbers, or find the standard deviation, etc., the numbers would not be very interesting... -- Nadav

Re: Alternative for getline() function in AIX 5.3

2010-07-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
that getline() is more than a couple of dozen lines - it's not that complicated... In fact, you can probably easily write one yourself... Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Jul 27 2010, 16 Av 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Alternative for getline() function in AIX 5.3

2010-07-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
to compile on AIX. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Jul 28 2010, 17 Av 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Does replacing myself with a shell-script http://nadav.harel.org.il |make me

Re: Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

2010-08-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
doesn't work on Linux. You didn't claim it changed (i.e., works on Linux) either. So I don't understand your argument. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Aug 2 2010, 22 Av 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523

Re: You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?

2010-08-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
the practices of the whole company - but on the other hand they might not. The fact some HR person never heard of Linux might not mean that there aren't interesting Linux-related (or just Linux-friendly) jobs in that company. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Aug 16 2010, 6 Elul 5770

Re: You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?

2010-08-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
, nee Star Office, was even conceived :-) As they say, if it ain't broken, don't fix it... -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Aug 16 2010, 6 Elul 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Long

Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???

2010-08-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
computer doesn't? Has anyone ever seen such a problem? Thanks for any ideas, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Aug 29 2010, 19 Elul 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I don't eat

Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???

2010-08-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
does work...) is 10 years old. -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Aug 29 2010, 19 Elul 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A thing is not necessarily true because a http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???

2010-08-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
lying around, but not NICS. This is a 3 year old NIC that I doubt should have any problems working with modern switches, and it doesn't have any problems without them. -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Aug 29 2010, 19 Elul 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???

2010-08-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
(running Linux) doesn't. -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Aug 29 2010, 19 Elul 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Life is what happens to you while you're http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: [Fwd: Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???]

2010-08-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
on that? -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Aug 29 2010, 19 Elul 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |When everything's coming your way, you're http://nadav.harel.org.il |in the wrong lane

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