libhdate release announcement (version 1.6)

2012-01-15 Thread Boruch Baum
libhdate release announcement (version 1.6) === http://libhdate.sourceforge.net LibHdate is a small library for the Hebrew calendar, dates, holidays, and reading sequence. It is written in C and includes bindings for pascal, perl, python, php, ruby. hcal and hdate are

Re: Eliminating binary from a text file

2015-07-20 Thread Boruch Baum
I see that I'm late to the discussion and that your original problem has morphed a bit. Maybe the simplest and oldest solution is the `tr -d' command. See `man tr'. On 07/20/2015 04:56 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: Hello everyone, I often have damaged text files (due to a lovely storage

mutt, bidi, t-prot solution

2017-07-17 Thread Boruch Baum
This is for anyone of you who use mutt as your e-mail client, and like me until just a few minutes ago, couldn't get the `t-prot' display pre-processor to play nicely with bidi (using the command-line `bidiv' program). The trick that's working for me on the emails I currently have available to

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

2017-07-03 Thread Boruch Baum
If anyone else received a 550 error when trying to send Amichai a response, the email address that worked for me is poder.pingu...@gmail.com, as buried in the email header. @Amichai: if people tell you that they are having trouble sending you email, it may be because your outgoing configuration

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

2017-07-03 Thread Boruch Baum
files there. If libreoffice is running, it may possibly be necessary to exit and restart the program. >2017-06-27 20:14 GMT+03:00 Boruch Baum <[1]boruch_b...@gmx.com>: > > If Dov is correct and your results are superior, let me know when > you > upload yours for p

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

2017-06-27 Thread Boruch Baum
If Dov is correct and your results are superior, let me know when you upload yours for public distribution and I'll immediately delete my repository with a link to yours. On 2017-06-27 19:28, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > I converted to OpenType using Adobe FDK and the fonts work in LibreOffice. > >

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

2017-06-22 Thread Boruch Baum
On 2017-06-22 11:53, Nadav Har'El wrote: > What does it take to "convert" a Type 1 font into OpenType or TrueType? > Is it just a trivial format conversion issue, or something more > involved? Is something lost in this conversion - precision, ability to > edit, or anything else? I just did a

[LibreOffice 5.3/Ubuntu 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected

2017-06-25 Thread Boruch Baum
If just uploaded TTF versions of the fonts to: https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/culmus-fancy-ttf Please let me know if: a] This is packaged for a distribution, so I can link to it. b] The original package is updated to include TrueType fonts, so I can delete the repository. c] Some

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

2017-06-27 Thread Boruch Baum
On 2017-06-27 12:59, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: >Thanks. >Q1: can you share show did you converted the fonts (manually/script), #+BEGIN_SRC sh #!/usr/bin/fontforge -lang=ff # # # Accepts args *.pfa or *.pfb i=1 while ( i < $argc ) Open( $argv[i] ) Generate(

Emacs Hebrew footnotes [CODE SNIPPET]

2017-12-17 Thread Boruch Baum
ref: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=29759 I honestly don't remember if ever in the past I've used Hebrew footnote numbering in emacs, but the current state of affairs is that although the documentation indicates that the option is available, the file seems nowhere to be found. The

Re: ANNOUNCE: FriBidi 1.0.0

2018-02-23 Thread Boruch Baum
On 2018-02-23 17:20, Shlomi Fish wrote: >On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 9:46 AM, Dov Grobgeld ><[1]dov.grobg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >It's been a long time since in 1999 I announced the initial version of >fribidi to this list. Now, almost twenty years later, I'm proud to >present that

Re: English Hebrew dictionary.

2018-11-11 Thread Boruch Baum
On 2018-11-11 13:25, vordoo wrote: >Hi, >Looking for an English Hebrew technical-computer dictionary. Best if it >is a web site or file, with words like: mount, volume, partition, >sector, block, etc... >Any pointers appreciated, >Thanks! Hmm, can't find my favorite

Re: Memory consumption on a per user basis

2018-11-11 Thread Boruch Baum
On 2018-11-11 18:03, Meir Kriheli wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 5:48 PM Boruch Baum <[1]boruch_b...@gmx.com> > wrote: > >I have a quasi- pet-peeve against gitlab because of its needless >javascript and XHR requirements. > > Use the "raw" u

Re: Memory consumption on a per user basis

2018-11-11 Thread Boruch Baum
On 2018-11-11 16:36, Josh Roden wrote: >Hi everyone >I have a CentOS 6 machine used by around 20 to 30 students >at a time and I need to do one of two things: >1. find and kill top memory user with script You can use 'smem'[1] to ferret out the process hogging the most memory by

Re: Memory consumption on a per user basis [FOLLOW-UP]

2018-11-11 Thread Boruch Baum
. smem -U "$YOUR_REGEX" -c pid | tail -n1 On 2018-11-11 10:16, Boruch Baum wrote: > NAUGHTY="$(smem -c pid | tail -n1)" smem -U "$YOUR_REGEX" -c pid if [ -z "$NAUGHTY" ] ; then printf "The guilty party isn't one of the students...

Re: Memory consumption on a per user basis

2018-11-11 Thread Boruch Baum
On 2018-11-11 17:26, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: > I am using this bash functions for years: > https://gitlab.com/makelinux/lib/blob/master/snippets/load-watch.md AAARGH! OH NO! It's gitlab! I have a quasi- pet-peeve against gitlab because of its needless javascript and XHR requirements. Just

Re: Memory consumption on a per user basis

2018-11-11 Thread Boruch Baum
Appreciated. On 2018-11-11 18:25, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: > github mirror: > https://github.com/makelinux/lib/blob/master/snippets/load-watch.md -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0 ___ Linux-il mailing

Re: English Hebrew dictionary.

2018-11-12 Thread Boruch Baum
On 2018-11-12 10:44, Eli Marmor wrote: >אי שם לפני מיליון שנה, קיבלתי אישור ממיקרוסופט לפרסם את מילון המונחים >שלהם, והעליתי את זה לאתר הפרה-היסטורי הקודם שלי (אזהרה: הוא כתוב >בטכנולוגיות של שנות ה-90 ומאז לא נגעתי בו): >

Hebrew on virtual consoles

2018-12-22 Thread Boruch Baum
I wanted to propose an update to the Linux Hebrew HOW-TO that exists here[1], and supposedly also here[2]; however, my attempt to contact the maintainer listed there has failed. Although that documentation is quite old, it still is the principal English-language guide on the subject, so if my

Hebrew Date for the xfce4 panel

2018-12-03 Thread Boruch Baum
I just did the following for someone, so I thought I would share it. The technique can be used for any command-line output; the number of output lines displayed is a function of the height of your panel and your selected font. Enjoy. #!/bin/sh # xfce4-hdate-plugin # # This one-line script

kiwix - off-line wikipedia

2019-03-07 Thread Boruch Baum
I would normally post the core of this message to somewhere liwix-specific, but I find their project infrastructure and organization are so poor that I don't see any web-searchable resource for it. The kiwix[1] idea is great, and seems to be at least semi-officially supported by the wikimedia

newboat bidi

2019-04-08 Thread Boruch Baum
Does anyone on-list have advice for how to configure a command-line rss reader (ie. newsboat/newsbeuter) for Hebrew feeds so the bidi displays properly? -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0 ___ Linux-il mailing

Re: What's so secure about sudo?

2019-06-18 Thread Boruch Baum
In addition to Omer's answer, it used to be common on large multi-user systems to have the sudo use of each user logged, for accountability. On 2019-06-18 09:23, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > This has bothered me for years and I decided to "get it off my chest". > > For many years I used su to do

Re: newboat bidi

2019-04-09 Thread Boruch Baum
On 2019-04-09 15:27, Efraim Flashner wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 01:19:29PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote: > > Does anyone on-list have advice for how to configure a command-line rss > > reader (ie. newsboat/newsbeuter) for Hebrew feeds so the bidi displays > > properly? >

Re: newboat bidi

2019-04-09 Thread Boruch Baum
On 2019-04-09 20:17, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: > not tested, but maybe you can use a terminal with bidi support like > mlterm ? I've submitted a github 'issue' for this[1], and the developer has expressed his interest in fixing the matter internally, as it really should be. If you or anyone

Re: Lenovo ideapad 710S-13IKB bios/boot issue

2020-04-29 Thread Boruch Baum
On 2020-04-29 19:06, Gabor Szabo wrote: >ps. The camera still does not work, but it does not work in Linux >either. So maybe it was already broken when I bought >the computer second-hand. Now I'll need to find and buy a small camera >that can be attached to it. Since you say that

Re: ZFS error correction and encryption

2022-02-10 Thread Boruch Baum
Thanks, Vordoo and Micha. I was hoping someone on-list was administering ZFS at work. This is something for which I'm not comfortable making a commitment without either a confidence-inspiring authoritative answer, or my own time and effort to figure out how to test the scenario. For starters, I

ZFS error correction and encryption

2022-02-10 Thread Boruch Baum
Can anyone on-list answer two related ZFS questions? 1) block checksum data in 'sent' snapshots One of the attractive features of ZFS is that it offers a form of "error correction". My understanding is that what ZFS does actually is checksum its blocks and upon noticing that one has

Re: Hebrew anti-clockwise clock

2024-04-12 Thread Boruch Baum
Thanks, Boris. Your advice seems like the way to go. The link to UsingQuilt[1] seems like it will be particularly helpful. On 2024-04-12 12:25, Boris Shtrasman wrote: > I'm not a debian developer, however I sent some patches in the past for > the Debian project. > Open a bug on the BTS

Hebrew anti-clockwise clock

2024-04-10 Thread Boruch Baum
to the debian package? https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/xarclock-hebrew https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/xarclock-hebrew/releases/tag/v1.0 A modern QT version of this would be fun, but I don't know QT programming. -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0