Re: Monoprice 60/250x USB microscope

2015-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
/636 -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines

Re: Monoprice 60/250x USB microscope

2015-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
This may or may not be the same device as I posted above, but at half the price: http://www.amazon.com/Magnification-Microscope-Industrial-Biological-Inspection/dp/B00J9PBTLG/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronicsie=UTF8qid=1422297231sr=1-5keywords=5mp+microscope On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Dotan Cohen

Re: Monoprice 60/250x USB microscope

2015-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
megapixel, 500x magnification model? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: Monoprice 60/250x USB microscope

2015-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
not slippery it might work. Can't you sand it down, or possibly file it? I can't imagine that it could be much worse than the robot arms with alligator clips used to hold wires for soldering, the base seems to be right from that parts bin. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com

Re: Is Gnome becoming a Microsoft project?

2012-07-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
. Even disregarding recompiling (and rewriting in a cross-platform way) C++ code, is there even a JVM or Mono interpreter for ARM? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Is Gnome becoming a Microsoft project?

2012-07-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Hakan Koseoglu ha...@koseoglu.org wrote: On 21 July 2012 10:51, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Even disregarding recompiling (and rewriting in a cross-platform way) C++ code, is there even a JVM or Mono interpreter for ARM? Unless Debian is lying

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
USB! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
didn't even have a PCI slot for me to install a replacement LAN card into! I'll never make that mistake again! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Googlecl

2012-02-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
to be sync-ing with my Google account, although it says it is. This has nothing at all to do with my laptop, whose health you seem to be concerned about. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Googlecl

2012-02-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
to Google's services. You then sync your phone to Google's services as well. According to this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711058 You need the package akonadi-googledata. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users

Re: Buy an SSD now, or wait?

2011-12-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
out, not a single injury or death can be ascribed to the failures at the 40 year old nuclear power plant that was one month from retirement. However, the anti-nuke crowd do ignore that fact and the 20,000 dead due to the tsunami and earthquake. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what

Re: Is Fedora good for Java developers?

2011-12-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
. What have I missed? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Is Fedora good for Java developers?

2011-12-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
recommend CentOS 6.1 for a desktop that you need to support, on which you can install the latest Java and Eclipse. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Problem seeing PDF files with firefox

2011-11-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
that the plugin is not disabled (maybe being disabled sometime after the first is opened)? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Problem seeing PDF files with firefox

2011-11-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
the associations for PDF. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Can keys off the numpad be configured for different functions based on NumLock?

2011-08-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
(keysym 0xffb1, KP_1), same_screen YES, state 0x0, keycode 87 (keysym 0xff9c, KP_End), same_screen YES, Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: So how is F15 (KDE) ?

2011-08-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
airfields only, no carriers. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Accidentally setting home

2011-05-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
commenter verifies. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Accidentally setting home

2011-05-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
what the issue it. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
a webserver running on the localhost. Clever, especially as I do have a server on localhost. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
that is, probably historical. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
designed to show up in your face and other crap like pocker games, etc. The Do Not Track Me option is a gag. 100% correct. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
as 127.0.0.1 Works better in what sense? Faster page load times? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
, the mailbox is ignored.  I read messages from the public lists. Is that for your entire network, or just one computer? If it's just for the one machine, you might find it easier to maintain a simple hosts file. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users

Re: Anti-Evolution rant.

2011-03-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
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Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 13:00, Jakub Jelinek ja...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:07:35AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I cannot reproduce that: That's because you forgot to call setlocale (LC_ALL, ); first.  Without that the comparison is done in C locale always. I thought that I

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
should no longer handle dependency resolution? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:39, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 03/11/2011 07:28 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Please point to any RPM package that uses non-ASCII characters in the package name, from any repo. You hardly will find any, because probably all rpm-based distros apply rules

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
be nice, as would a case-insensitivity flag. It does not have to be the default behaviour. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 23:07, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 13:35 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: The question then reduces to: should the yum interface be designed to be comfortable

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
don't work in 7 bit ASCII), and UTF makes this vastly more complicated (including rules that change based on the current locale). Which fedora packages use non-ascii UTF-8 characters? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
ASCII uppercase and ASCII lowercase character case insensitivity for installing packages via Yum. There is no need to generalise the issue to filenames, other operating systems, non-ASCII languages, or anything else. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
sometimes because they otherwise blow up on what every other distro considers a valid RPM version character of '~' The ~ character is fine, it would not be affected by case insensitivity. Please point to any RPM package that uses non-ASCII characters in the package name, from any repo. -- Dotan Cohen

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
the following conditions: 1) RPM name B does not exist in any configured repos. 2) RPM name A contains characters such that, given the C locale, lowerCase(nameA)==lowerCase(nameB). -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
insensitive comparisons may break those scripts. The scripts won't break if the case-insensitivity is optional, say with the -ci flag. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
treats case sensitivity for the ASCII-compatible first 128 codepoints differently than the C locale. The feature requested would be restricted to those codepoints. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 21:01, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: Do you say package names change with each language?. No but the question is abcde the same as ABCDE except for case does In what locale is lowerCase(abcde)!=lowerCase(ABCDE) for ASCII characters? -- Dotan Cohen http

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
() { printf(%d\n, wcscasecmp (Lhijkl, LHIJKL)); } ✈ganymede:~$ gcc test.c -o test ✈ganymede:~$ ./test 0 ✈ganymede:~$ export LANG=tr_TR.UTF-8 ✈ganymede:~$ ./test 0 ✈ganymede:~$ export LANG=tr_TR.UTF-8 ✈ganymede:~$ ./test 0 ✈ganymede:~$ -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
based machine I have available at the moment, CentOS 5.5. Can you check if those are actually the same package? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
long as two packages with the same name save for case do not exist. That said, a matter of case can in fact be life or death: http://gizmodo.com/#!382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
. However, humans treat the two cases as two forms of the same character. The question then reduces to: should the yum interface be designed to be comfortable for a computer to interface with, or should the yum interface be comfortable for a human to interface with. -- Dotan Cohen http

Re: How to get scancodes from mouse buttons?

2011-02-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
with this mouse but won't recognise it. I wrote to the company to request support for this device. In any case, I still need to find a solution to getting the hardware scancodes of the buttons. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users

Re: How to get scancodes from mouse buttons?

2011-02-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
through there, but even with xinput I could not switch those keys' positions, and getscancodes did not help, either. I figured maybe the scancodes were above 255 [1] but I'm not sure. [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11227 -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what

Re: How to get scancodes from mouse buttons?

2011-02-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
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How to get scancodes from mouse buttons?

2011-02-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
for any advice on how to continue! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: How to get scancodes from mouse buttons?

2011-02-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 21:32, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 02/14/2011 11:04 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Other than Xev, Xbindkeys, and Showkey, what tools can I use? I specifically bought this mouse because of the location of the two extra keys, as I have a manual disability and cannot use

Re: How to get scancodes from mouse buttons?

2011-02-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 00:17, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com writes: ... Is that a USB device ? $ lsusb Yes, I think that this is it: Bus 006 Device 003: ID 04fc:0538 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd Googling it I find it listed in some Polish and Italian

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
/edit /match dir~/.fonts/dir /fontconfig -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
someone says the quote was attributed to some original author, clearly that's not what attribution means in this context). Yes, that is hijacking. It is asking a question / making a statement that has little or nothing to do with the OP. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
think that you are covered (but I make no promises). The addon does slow down browsing some, and some internal Wikipedia links get broken, but I think that it is a worthy tradeoff. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Cannot mount JFS partitions in Fedora 13 install

2010-10-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 15:16, Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com wrote: Please open a bug report. It turns out to be a known issue and limitation of SELinux. It's no showstopper for me now that ext4 is (well, almost) mature. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what

Cannot mount JFS partitions in Fedora 13 install

2010-10-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
I am installing Fedora 13 on a Dell laptop that currently has Kubuntu installed. I keep /home on a separate partition, but the Fedora installer will not let me set it as a mount point unless I format it. Why? How can I get around this now,at install time? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http

Re: Cannot mount JFS partitions in Fedora 13 install

2010-10-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
Thanks. I don't want to mess with fstab after the fact, I am backing up the /home drive now and will convert it to ext4. If does appear that one can run Fedora with JFS but he must disable SELinux for that. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list

Re: Warning KDE Users

2010-10-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
installs. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Warning KDE Users

2010-10-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 14:53, Anoop anoop.chargo...@gmail.com wrote: KDE-4.5 works very well on my Fedora-13 (32 bit). So don't worry. Good to know. Two questions: 1) From which repo did you install 4.5? 2) Which plasmoids do you have running? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http

Re: Warning KDE Users

2010-10-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
yours, and that in his setup the bug does not manifest. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http