Re: [LibreOffice 5.3/Ubuntu 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected

2017-06-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
correct): " ... PS Type 1 font conversion is trivial, and most Adobe PS Type 1 was converted years ago and is distributed as TTF/OTF already." Maxim, are you still on this list? It's been ages since I've been here myself. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Jun 22 20

Announce: ScyllaDB - a 10-times faster rewrite of Cassandra

2015-09-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
system (http://osv.io/) and the Seastar library (http://www.seastar-project.org/). ScyllaDB is also open-source, released under the AGPL license - check out http://scylladb.co/ for more information. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Sep 23 2015, 11 Tishri 5776 n

Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
with zero runtime overhead, allowing us to write complex code which still performs like hand-crafted assembly code. For more information about the meetup (please register if you intend to come - it's free, but I guess space is limited): http://www.meetup.com/saylambda/events/221522808/ -- Nadav

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
...). Alternatively, (or additionally,) special markdown conventions could be added to control directionality. Unicode also has the LRM, RLM characters, but I *don't* recommend those - I hate invisible characters in my documents. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Apr 1 2015, 12 Nisan 5775

Re: Is Beersheva really becoming a high-tech powerhouse?

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
. There can be *a* high-tech center in Beersheva (and there is one in Haifa), but it will never become *the* high-tech center, or *the* security center, or anything like the papers are trying to suggest. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Apr 1 2015, 12 Nisan 5775 n

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
incantation on every Hebrew paragraph. 2. The paragraph is not right-justified (I guess there's a separate incantation to do that). 3. Github's editor makes it really difficult to type and edit these kind of paragraphs. I wish things could have been much simpler - as in bidiv. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about Re: Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar: Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il writes: Seastar is an open source (http://www.seastar-project.org/) library. It is based on the concept of futures (like in Node.js, just implemented

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.3

2015-02-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
the latin alphabet. The beauty of unicode, and cut-and-paste from the Internet :-) -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Feb 25 2015, 6 Adar 5775 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Classical music: music

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.3

2015-02-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
the shift as in the lyx mapping? -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Feb 26 2015, 7 Adar 5775 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A cat has claws ending its paws. A http://nadav.harel.org.il

Announce: Hspell 1.3

2015-02-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
to all these distributions and applications, so that their users will also be able to enjoy the improvements in Hspell 1.3. We hope that you will enjoy Hspell 1.3. Nadav Har'El and Dan Kenigsberg. February 25, 2015. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Feb 25 2015, 6 Adar 5775 n

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-08-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
, but gcc was simply *better*, and got better every day, while the SVr4 C compiler was buggy, outdated, and never improved. Another great thing going for the GNU project stuff was excellent documentation - which sadly didn't inspire GNU's followers :( -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Announce: OSv, a new open-source operating system for virtual machines

2014-05-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013, Nadav Har'El wrote about Announce: OSv, a new open-source operating system for virtual machines: Hi, today we've made the first release of OSv, a new operating system for running applications on virtual machines. OSv is free software, released under the BSD license

Re: Linux with Android MTP

2013-10-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
stuff (it is a filesystem mount, not a block devices, so you can actually continue to use your phone normally while it is mounted!). To unmount the above mount use fusermount -u /mnt/android -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Oct 23 2013, 19 Heshvan 5774 n

Re: replacement for iPod

2013-10-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
will not be fun to watch movies or play games on. There are also other devices from many other manufacturers, not just Samsung. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Oct 23 2013, 19 Heshvan 5774 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone

Re: replacement for iPod

2013-10-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
to also watch movies, going the extra mile^H^H^Hinch for 4 would be a good investment. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Oct 23 2013, 19 Heshvan 5774 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Always go

Re: Announce: OSv, a new open-source operating system for virtual machines

2013-09-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
., not to fork()). But we will be happy if you try, and tell us what you've found out! Good luck, Nadav. Cheers, --Amos On 17 September 2013 06:36, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: Hi, today we've made the first release of OSv, a new operating system for running

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
:-) -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Sep 17 2013, 13 Tishri 5774 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Unix is user friendly - it's just picky http://nadav.harel.org.il |about its friends

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
because it uses up the battery, and then use more fuel over the next 5 minutes, because it recharges the battery. There's no way you can tell this is happening unless you average over longer periods. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Sep 17 2013, 13 Tishri 5774 n

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
than the Micra. Of course, the Yaris is better than the Micra in almost every other thing (most importantly, in crash-test scores). -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Sep 16 2013, 12 Tishri 5774 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone

Announce: OSv, a new open-source operating system for virtual machines

2013-09-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
/#!topic/osv-dev/enqdqN2A0as -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Sep 16 2013, 13 Tishri 5774 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A computer once beat me at chess, but it http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: Watch out for Bezeq

2013-09-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
account. See http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3921182,00.html -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Sep 2 2013, 27 Elul 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Luck is when preparation

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-07-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
not just a legal theory (with emphasis on theory) - it's also a moral one, as you *are* paying the artists for their creations, because you are paying for cable TV's content. -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Jul 3 2013, 25 Tammuz 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: CLI Ripping (was Blu-Ray and Linux)

2013-07-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
other people can suggest more 21st century tools :-) -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Jul 3 2013, 25 Tammuz 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Bank, n: a place that will lend you money

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-07-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
(for a flimsy definition of works) only if you pay for cable TV service. If you use bittorrent just because you want to skimp out on paying the cable TV bill (leaving the artists and movie studios with no income), then you're a pirate :-) -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Jul 3 2013, 25

Re: Choosing a new bank

2013-06-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
in Firefox. -- Nadav Har'El|Thursday, Jun 27 2013, 19 Tammuz 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-06-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
as that in DVD world. As usual, it's not a problem to the pirates, only to people who pay... :-) Which makes you think they don't want you to pay for movies. Talk about cutting the branch they are sitting on :( -- Nadav Har'El|Thursday, Jun 27 2013, 19 Tammuz 5773 n

Re: Cloud Backup

2013-05-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
it), so what makes it safer? 2) You get your data about an hour _after_ you request it. Data transfer in is free and data transfer out has a free tier per month. Data storage is the absolute cheapest on the internet. Indeed :-) -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, May 16 2013

Re: Cloud Backup

2013-05-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
/month is pretty steep. They promised the 10 cent per gigabyte per month will stay forever, if you just *enroll* in May. Until this month, I've been paying them just 40 cents/gigabyte/month and thought I was getting a good deal (50% discount), because I'm a free software author :-) -- Nadav

Re: Cloud Backup

2013-05-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013, Nadav Har'El wrote about Cloud Backup: Hi, I'm looking for a cloud backup solution for Linux, where I'll be able to use rsync, sftp (and similar utilities) to a remote server to back up by files, and when needed, look at individual files (e.g., using sshfs) or restore all

Re: OT: mailbox generator

2013-04-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
their business (terrorism) related emails? -- Nadav Har'El| Friday, Apr 26 2013, 17 Iyyar 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if http

Re: OT: mailbox generator

2013-04-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
your mail, do a cavity search, take off your belt and shoes, throw your water to the garbage - just so they'll let you continue? -- Nadav Har'El| Friday, Apr 26 2013, 17 Iyyar 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone

Re: bash q

2013-04-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
, but before evaluation. In some cases both set -v and set -x can come in handy. -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Apr 24 2013, 15 Iyyar 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I want to be a human

Cloud Backup

2013-02-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
a cheap, convenient backup solution for Linux diehards like myself, and I wonder if anyone has done this before and then I won't need to code this myself? Thanks, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Saturday, Feb 23 2013, 13 Adar 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Cloud Backup

2013-02-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
than an hour to send, this amounts to 60 cents a month, which is perfectly acceptable. - You can use several scripts that you can find on Google to rsync with Dropbox. I wonder how this can work without rsync support on the server side, but thanks, I'll look. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Cloud Backup

2013-02-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
) and not much compared to the usual monthly cost. The situation would be different, of course, for people who generate gigabytes of new data every month. I'm not one of these people. Thanks, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Saturday, Feb 23 2013, 14 Adar 5773 n

Funny story on today's Ynet

2013-01-07 Thread Nadav Har'El
In http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4329473,00.html It's a silly story about weird reasons why guys dumped with their dates. Reason #5: The girl insisted on using Internet Explorer. Somebody on this list was interviewed for this article? :-) -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Funny story on today's Ynet

2013-01-07 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013, Nadav Har'El wrote about Funny story on today's Ynet: It's a silly story about weird reasons why guys dumped with their dates. Of course I meant dumped their dates, without that superflous with :-) -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, Jan 7 2013, 25

Re: SSD drives

2013-01-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
to the NSA (or Intel), and there is no way to verify that this is not the case. In any case, I think what a normal user should do is to use /dev/urandom - and that should (but I don't know if it does) use both the hardware and software sources of randomness, as available. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
-duper super-secure generators in the kernel or the CPU... -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Jan 3 2013, 21 Tevet 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Early bird gets the worm, but the second

Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives)

2013-01-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Elazar Leibovich wrote about Re: RNG (was: Re: SSD drives): If you're a gateway that does SSL (and thus need to do many kex)? Like F5 This doesn't (I think) explain why you would need to do 100 million each second. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday

Re: SSD drives

2013-01-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013, Michael Shiloh wrote about Re: SSD drives: perhaps they use radioactive decay? Scroll down to Geiger Counter at: There's an inherent conflict between the number of bits of randomness you can get out of this process, and the safety of the operator ;-) -- Nadav Har'El

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
hints of what's wrong. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Dec 30 2012, 17 Tevet 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Diplomat: one who tells you to go to hell http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: Dictation software - Hebrew, Linux or Free

2012-12-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
in Hebrew - not as quickly as English, but quick enough. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Dec 27 2012, 14 Tevet 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If I were two-faced, would I be wearing http

Re: Fw: Announcement : http://vim.begin-site.org/ - The Vim Beginners' Site

2012-12-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
editors which emphasise mouse gestures and menus, and in rare occasion, control sequences. Don't get me wrong - vi (and specifically, vim) is still my favorite editor. I just wonder how I can justify passing on my love for vim to the next generation of beginners. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
to buy 4 computers, why not buy one, test it, and then buy the 3 more? -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Dec 26 2012, 13 Tevet 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Martin Luther King said I have

Re: Disappointed by IBA, again

2012-12-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
on the computer :-) -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Dec 10 2012, 26 Kislev 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Boat: A hole in the water surrounded by http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: Disappointed by IBA, again

2012-12-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
(and theoretically can watch TV that way) does NOT need to pay agra. But this can easily be changed by changing the law - which I'm sure they will once the Internet becomes common enough (as if it's not common enough already...). -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Dec 10 2012, 26 Kislev 5773

Re: OT: creating disk image from existing disk for VirtualBox

2012-12-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
disk. Also, With piracy-obsessed MS-Windows, you may also have trouble because Windows thinks you copied it to a different computer. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Dec 6 2012, 23 Kislev 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
it for as low as $160 (last week on BH...). You can also get a two-disk version (with RAID support), with 4-8 TB versions (the 8 TB one was released yesterday, and contains WD's newly announced 4 TB disks). -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Dec 5 2012, 21 Kislev 5773 n

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-04 Thread Nadav Har'El
, but you don't have direct access to it). So in my opinion, unless you're completely broke, and/or treating this as nothing more than an educational experience, building a NAS out of old equipment is waste of your energy. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Dec 4 2012, 20 Kislev

Re: Is forbidding concurrent ssh sessions a good idea?

2012-11-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
appreciate screen anyway. If you don't know screen(1), I suggest you learn it - it is an absolutely wonderful tool. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Nov 12 2012, 27 Heshvan 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466

Re: monitor hours

2012-11-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
. -- Nadav Har'El|Thursday, Nov 1 2012, 16 Heshvan 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |The space between my ears was http://nadav.harel.org.il |intentionally left blank

Re: כריכים

2012-10-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
accidentally sent to everybody on facebook resulting on 30,000 (!) people coming to the party, starting riots and ending with 20 people being arrested for vandalism and looting. Hope this doesn't happen at your tuna-less party ;-) -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Oct 29 2012, 13

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Israeli Digital Rights NPO -- Zvi Devir

2012-10-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
had the right to force you to watch advertisements, or a right to prevent you from brining videos you bought in the U.S. into Israel. No, they wanted to be able to impose new restrictions on the buyers on the way they use (*not* copy) the content, so they invented DRM. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
.). It will be easier for the Technion to set such a thing up, and it will not need to use Amazon and the likes. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Oct 23 2012, 7 Heshvan 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ

Re: Fwd: Carmen Camille News: IDGAF Now on iTunes

2012-10-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
alone is a not very wise business move. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Oct 22 2012, 6 Heshvan 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If God is watching us, the least we can http

Re: Fwd: Carmen Camille News: IDGAF Now on iTunes

2012-10-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
redistribute it. But since I'm using Linux, and would rather not support Apple with my wallet, I don't have that privilege. You can do the same via Amazon. And in Israel, you cannot use them both, just the same. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Oct 22 2012, 6 Heshvan 5773 n

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
, why come study in the Technion? :( Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Oct 21 2012, 5 Heshvan 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Anyone is entitled to their own opinions. http

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
students choose to experiment with illegal things, let them be caught - but don't ban all experimentation. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Oct 21 2012, 5 Heshvan 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
to external companies to do this. How does this make any educational sense? -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Oct 21 2012, 5 Heshvan 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |This box was intentionally left

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote about Re: where to host web server: The smallest example would be my very own almost complete guide to the Israeli Internet, which some of you may remember as my index of Israeli web sites in the early 1990s, which I created as a student and I learned

Re: ???In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature

2012-10-09 Thread Nadav Har'El
the same game, you don't get any edge by playing it, but you at least get to stay in business (which you won't if you refuse to play the game). Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Oct 9 2012, 23 Tishri 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Possible Solution for Frequent Keyboard Hangups in KDE.

2012-09-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
-seconds-and-your-keyboard-is-toast feature. I run this xkbset -a as part of the session startup, and haven't had a keyboard hang since. -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Sep 16 2012, 29 Elul 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone

Re: Possible Solution for Frequent Keyboard Hangups in KDE.

2012-09-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
care if this bug exists). Anyway, like I said, while GDM was the cause of the bug for me, I understood that other people see a similar bug caused by other sources. -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Sep 16 2012, 29 Elul 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Possible Solution for Frequent Keyboard Hangups in KDE.

2012-09-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
I could have even guessed that a 10 second shift would solve this problem. It took me several months (!) to even figure out that the hangs I experienced were caused by pressing the shift for 10 seconds. -- Nadav Har'El|Sunday, Sep 16 2012, 29 Elul 5772 n

Re: which filesystem

2012-08-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
count can very well be -1 and check interval 0). -- Nadav Har'El|Saturday, Aug 11 2012, 24 Av 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |This signature was intentionally left http

Re: sms via icq with the new mobile companies

2012-08-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
in this manner. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Aug 6 2012, 18 Av 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Warning: Dates on the calendar are closer http://nadav.harel.org.il |than

Re: sms via icq with the new mobile companies

2012-08-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
at the pretext of being a free service. Unless you're really sure you had this terrible plan, the only plan in Israel which also charged for incoming SMSs... -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Aug 6 2012, 19 Av 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: What's the practical use of the error close() returns?

2012-07-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
this bug, you can't really count on the EBADF - because it's quite possible you'll close another opened fd, not a non-opened one, and not get any error -- Nadav Har'El| Friday, Jul 27 2012, 9 Av 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: What's the practical use of the error close() returns?

2012-07-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
to defer its error reporting. If this is what you want, use the O_SYNC or O_DIRECT options to open(2). Normally, you don't want this because it hurts performance. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Jul 26 2012, 8 Av 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il

High-resolution user/system times?

2012-07-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
measures CPU usage in the whole machine instead of just one specific process would also be fine. Any ideas would be valued. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Jul 25 2012, 6 Av 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: High-resolution user/system times?

2012-07-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote about High-resolution user/system times?: I'm now trying to measure a process running around 3 milliseconds, less than one jiffy, and I still want to understand how much of it is spent in user space, and how much of it is spent in kernel space (e.g

Re: High-resolution user/system times?

2012-07-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
believe that it does have microsecond resolution? I think we're starting to build here a long list of manual-page bugs... -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Jul 25 2012, 6 Av 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523

Re: High-resolution user/system times?

2012-07-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
to understand what's taking the time. One of the thing we suspected is a lot of time in the kernel, and we want to verify this suspicion. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Jul 25 2012, 6 Av 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: High-resolution user/system times?

2012-07-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
, but starting the same process over and over would incur exactly the same overheads over and over - all the same minor page faults (note: *minor* page faults means we don't need to fetch pages from disk), and other things I suspect are happening. -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday

Re: High-resolution user/system times?

2012-07-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
timer interrupts at regular intervals - not 250 Hz and not 1000 Hz. In that case, I'm not even sure how times() works, and what resolution it really has, in this case, and if the number 250 and 1000 have any effect on this resolution... -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Jul

Re: how to redirect in bash+crontab

2012-07-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
the very first entry in http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ ) -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Jul 24 2012, 6 Av 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Don't accept your

Re: how to redirect in bash+crontab

2012-07-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
! I just noticed that bash(1) claims that /dev/stderr doesn't actually open a file called /dev/stderr - but just does dup(2). Either this is not true, or you simply weren't using Bash - perhaps your crontab uses dash or something else. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: how to redirect in bash+crontab

2012-07-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
have access to any non-Linux Unix-like operating system, so I can't check now. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Jul 24 2012, 6 Av 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |God is dead

Re: how to redirect in bash+crontab

2012-07-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
/messages or something instead of a pipe :-) -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Jul 25 2012, 6 Av 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately http

Re: suggestions sought for a framework for a quick, dirty, reallysimple GUI prototype

2012-07-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
TCL did? Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Jul 19 2012, 1 Av 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |error compiling committee.c: too many http://nadav.harel.org.il

Re: suggestions sought for a framework for a quick, dirty, reallysimple GUI prototype

2012-07-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
it makes for an interesting discussion :-) I'm sure Oleg is capable of picking what he needs from this discussion. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Jul 19 2012, 1 Av 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466

Re: LaTeX and math question

2012-07-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
LaTeX 2.09 improvements, here: http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~nyh/pub/report.ps.gz -- Nadav Har'El|Thursday, Jul 12 2012, 22 Tammuz 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If you notice

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

2012-07-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote about Re: Python question - first call is slower?: My example program actually *forked* right before that first call. It turns out that (at least, this is my understanding now) memory allocation - in Python but also in C - is significantly slower

Re: [OT] Server share opportunity

2012-06-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
of running the server completely by yourself, and have time to take care of *everything* yourself. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Jun 28 2012, 9 Tammuz 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ

Re: Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
this what works in his platform, and his application, it is possible that in the receiver's application or platform, this won't be recognized as a paragraph break. -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Jun 27 2012, 7 Tammuz 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
, but it has nothing to do with Hebrew. I equally hate HTML email in English ;-) -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Jun 25 2012, 6 Tammuz 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Long periods

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

2012-06-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote about Python question - first call is slower?: Hi, I have run across a puzzling issue in Python, and I wonder if anyone on the list can explain it. ... But strangely, it doesn't - the first call takes 14 milliseconds, while the second and all

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

2012-06-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Jun 20 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If marriage was illegal, only outlaws http://nadav.harel.org.il |would have in-laws

Re: Digikam image re-compression - is it reliable?

2012-06-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
notice a difference (though I don't presume to be an expert on the subject). I wouldn't go down to 75% unless you're really short on space- remember that in 10 years, you'd be laughing at these sizes which you once thought were large ;-) Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

2012-06-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
software is slower today because it is depressed ;-) -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Jun 20 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Spelling mistakes left in for people who http

Python question - first call is slower?

2012-06-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
would read the whole class hierarchy into memory. Right? Any ideas? Thanks, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Jun 20 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I am

Re: Memory swap when there's apparently plenty of free RAM

2012-06-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
(it's a 70 MB wopper of an executable) and parts of the 71 (!!!) shared libraries that Chrome depends on, and so on. Since all of this isn't likely to be contiguous on disk, it can cause a huge number of seeks, and be very slow. Just a guess -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Emacs Hebrew

2012-06-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012, Eli Zaretskii wrote about Re: Emacs Hebrew: You mean, disappointing? Yes, it is. To hear such questions from Nadav Har'El, of all the people. Sorry to disappoint you... One of my random signatures go better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all

Re: Emacs Hebrew

2012-06-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
there is a workaround in this case, and you can educate me? Thanks, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Jun 14 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Guests, like fish, begin to smell

Re: Emacs Hebrew

2012-06-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Jun 13 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |There are 2 ways to do it - my way and http://nadav.harel.org.il |the right way

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
their outgoing cellphone calls through physical cellular phones, and similar tricks. But today - the cost of calling a cellphone is down to (I believe) 6 agorot a minute - about the same as calling a regular landline. So why do you need to make calls through actual cellphones? Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Emacs Hebrew

2012-06-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about Re: Emacs Hebrew: The Bidi has landed! Quoting https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/NEWS.24.1 : Do you know if there's an option to NOT do Bidi, and just show everything left-to-right as previously? -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Walla mail from Linux - Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): The connection was reset.

2012-05-31 Thread Nadav Har'El
when you go through a proxy which gets the same error. I believe it's the other way around? -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, May 31 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191

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

2012-05-08 Thread Nadav Har'El
just an insult - it's almost a license to kill you ;-) or a compliment ;-) meyalel is a code-name for the mortal enemy of the dog - the cat. They implied that you were a cat-sympathizer, an enemy of the loyal dog supporters running the site. -- Nadav Har'El

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