Re: pcmcia cardbus lan
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 07:43, Kfir Lavi wrote: is there a problem with cardbus in linux? do you have any recomendation about 16/32 bit? tnx I may be completly and utterly wrong here, but I was under the impression that cardbus == 32bit and pc card == 16 bit... Anyways, Linux supports 16 bit (pc card) pcmcia cards quite nicely and most of them are supported. Enough so that I wouldn't worry about buying a 16 bit card without checking for Linu xsupport. 32bit cardbus support is more limited and you need to check first before buying. Here is the ultimate list for both: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS In a completly unrelated note: are you an amateur radio operator and 46is1 is your call sign? if so - where can I buy a radio receiver in Israel? (obviously, I mean the kind of receiver used for amateur radio bands, not Galgaltaz...) Thanks, Gilad. -- Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://benyossef.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# grep processors /var/log/dmesg Total of 64 processors activated (76359.40 BogoMIPS). = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to activate a modem
Hi, I have RH 7.3 with kernel 2.4.18-3 running on a HP omnibook laptop with a combo adapter 3c556 which includes a 3Com Mini PCI Modem below a section from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf with the MODEM definition: What should I do in order to have modem support including a device reference /dev/modem? - class: MODEM bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: 3Com Corporation|Mini PCI 56k Winmodem vendorId: 10b7 deviceId: 1007 subVendorId: 10b7 subDeviceId: 6158 pciType: 1 -- Thanks. David Harel, == Home office +972 4 6921986 Fax:+972 4 6921986 Cellular: +972 54 534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HAM radio (was: pcmcia cardbus lan)
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: In a completly unrelated note: are you an amateur radio operator and 46is1 is your call sign? if so - where can I buy a radio receiver in Israel? (obviously, I mean the kind of receiver used for amateur radio bands, not Galgaltaz...) Thanks, Gilad. Don't you need to get a permit, and pass all sorts of tests, in order to get one? Or is a receiver only exempt from these? -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: HAM radio (was: pcmcia cardbus lan)
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
In a completly unrelated note: are you an amateur radio operator and
46is1 is your call sign? if so - where can I buy a radio receiver in
Israel? (obviously, I mean the kind of receiver used for
amateur radio
bands, not Galgaltaz...)
Thanks,
Gilad.
Don't you need to get a permit, and pass all sorts of tests,
in order to
get one? Or is a receiver only exempt from these?
Here goes.
1. Amatour radio callsigns in Israel match the following regex:
4(X|Z)[1-9][A-Z]{2,3}
My callsign is 4Z5KK, for example.
2. In order to be licensed as an amatour radio operator in Israel, you need to pass an
examination by the Ministry of Communitations. The test consists of 3 parts: Basic
electronics, Ham communication protocol, and (for some levels) morse code sending and
receiving. Yes, there are several licensing levels.
If there is interest I can write more about that, but in general you can buy a book,
spend a week studying and a license that enables you to transmit with considerable
power (more that what's allowed for commercial stations) on VHF, UHF and the 2.4GHz
bands, including data. No, you can't transmit (legally) on the bands allocated for
commercial communication, but the allocated spectrum is very very generous.
3. In order to buy a transmitter in Israell you have to have a license from the
Ministry of Communications. Even if you buy it from Motorola, you still need a license
from the MoC. Usually the vendor who sold it to you handles that. If you're a licensed
ham, you still need to apply for a license (it's an automatic procedure).
4. There is some restriction on receivers. I'm not entirely sure what it is, but if
you want to rid yourself of it, you can register as a listener ham. You don't need to
pass any test, and you get a callsign which is matched by 4X-[0-9]{1,} (for example
4X-2348). You can buy any receiver then.
5. It is illegal to smuggle anything of this sort through customs. Today's receivers
and transceivers are small and look much like cellular phones. The customs people
usually can't tell the difference if you just hang it openly on your belt, so you
should never attempt anything illegal such as this and advise them that what you are
carrying is a transceiver.
-- Arik
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Re: HAM radio (was: pcmcia cardbus lan)
Gilad asked: In a completly unrelated note: are you an amateur radio operator and 46is1 is your call sign? if so - where can I buy a radio receiver in Israel? (obviously, I mean the kind of receiver used for amateur radio bands, not Galgaltaz...) As far as I know, there are NO stores in Israel that still sell real shortwave radios. You can find a portable or occasionaly a compact stereo that has shortwave reception, but it really won't do. Shachar Shemesh wrote: Don't you need to get a permit, and pass all sorts of tests, in order to get one? Or is a receiver only exempt from these? Not for a receiver. However it will be taxed around 60%. With a license it's taxed only VAT. Try AES (www.aesham.com) or Universal Radio. AES has better prices, Universal has better service. Geoff. (4X1GM) -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson MobilEye Vision Technologies Ltd, R.M.P.E House, 10 Hartom St. Har Hotzvim Jerusalem, 91450 Israel Tel: +972-2-5417-356 Cell: +972-55-667-090 Do sysadmins count networked sheep? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: HAM radio (was: pcmcia cardbus lan)
Try AES (www.aesham.com) or Universal Radio. AES has better prices, Universal has better service. Or http://www.mct.co.il/ - They sell Kenwood equipment as a side business - the guy Meir is a ham Or iCom - http://www.stggroup.co.il/ (they don't mention it on their site for some reason) Or Yaesu - http://www.arrowmid.com/ I couldn't find Alinco's dealer on the net, but it was once (when I bought my Alinco) a company called Y.A.D. in Ramat Ha'Sharon. But they cost a *lot* less in the US. -- Arik ** This email and attachments have been scanned for potential proprietary or sensitive information leakage. Vidius, Inc. Protecting Your Information from the Inside Out. www.vidius.com ** To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to activate a modem
That is what I was afraid of. I was hoping the information you mentioned is not up-to-date. Is there a free service to send faxes using the Internet? Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 11:05, David Harel wrote: Hi, I have RH 7.3 with kernel 2.4.18-3 running on a HP omnibook laptop with a combo adapter 3c556 which includes a 3Com Mini PCI Modem below a section from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf with the MODEM definition: What should I do in order to have modem support including a device reference /dev/modem? Tough luck. It's a so called Winmode, or software based modem and guess what? 3Com didn't release drivers for Linux nor the specs required to write one so it's unusable under Linux. See here: http://www2.neweb.ne.jp/wd/fbm/3c556/modem.html Gilad. -- Thanks. David Harel, == Home office +972 4 6921986 Fax:+972 4 6921986 Cellular: +972 54 534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HAM radio (was: pcmcia cardbus lan)
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003, Arik Baratz wrote about RE: HAM radio (was: pcmcia cardbus lan): Try AES (www.aesham.com) or Universal Radio. AES has better prices, Universal has better service. This is completely off-topic (as this thread was from the start...), but I am curious: Many years ago, ham radio was a very interesting way to meet people from other countries, chat with them, and get to know the world without living your home and without having your phone bill sky-rocket. These days, what does ham radio give you that the Internet doesn't, much more conveniently and without needing any licenses or tests? -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Feb 25 2003, 23 Adar I 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Early bird gets the worm, but the second http://nadav.harel.org.il |mouse gets the cheese. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HAM radio (was: pcmcia cardbus lan)
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: This is completely off-topic (as this thread was from the start...), but I am curious: Many years ago, ham radio was a very interesting way to meet people from other countries, chat with them, and get to know the world without living your home and without having your phone bill sky-rocket. These days, what does ham radio give you that the Internet doesn't, much more conveniently and without needing any licenses or tests? This indeed is a very good question. It is my understanding that the most important social function of radio hams today is to provide alternative emergency communication network if the regular networks fail due to natural disaster or war. This function may become superfluous once protocols and infrastructure for cellular networks, which don't require central authority, are in place. Something like the WiFi technology. Using those technologies and protocols, any group of cellular phones, which are in proximity to each other, may communicate with each other without having to rely upon operational cellular operators. --- Omer My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [OT] Ham Radio
Then the Technion launched their sattelite, they have used ham radio frequencies to communicate with it. The agreement with them was that the sattelite will become a ham sattelite for data communication (9600 baud) after the Technion have their way with it. Never happened, though. Only the reason it never happened was the Satellite crashed during take off (or more accurately, the carrier missile crashed and the satellite never took off). So you can't blame them for it :-) - Aviram = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Ham Radio
Aviram Jenik wrote: Then the Technion launched their sattelite, they have used ham radio frequencies to communicate with it. The agreement with them was that the sattelite will become a ham sattelite for data communication (9600 baud) after the Technion have their way with it. Never happened, though. Only the reason it never happened was the Satellite crashed during take off (or more accurately, the carrier missile crashed and the satellite never took off). So you can't blame them for it :-) I'm sorry, but you are misinformed. There was a SECOND sattelite (named TechSat 2), it DID go up, and it is functioning perfectly to-date. The Technion, however, did not repay the ham radio community for the bandwidth that was allocated to them and the volunteer-hours that were put into it (and don't tell me they were paid - I know some were - hardly all). BTW, the problem with the Arian was that one of the phases in the rocket did not separate properly (I think it was the explosive bolts, but I'm not sure). -- Arik = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Bridges (Re: Intel compiler vs. gcc)
Quoth Oleg Goldshmidt on Tue, Feb 25, 2003: Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anything, which is original Israeli, and which is offered to gullible people to test their gullibility? The network bridge developed by an Israeli startup perfectly positioned to take over the dark fiber? *clap*clap*clap* Vadik. -- When in doubt, be yourself. And if that fails, su root. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel compiler vs. gcc
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Feb 24, 2003: yes, certainly, I'm aware of make -j 3, but two separate projects which look at different files and parts of the disk (causing lots of head skips, cache threshing etc)? The compiler run, from system resources usage point of view, is consisting of three stages: read, hog CPU, write. If two compilers are running in parallel, one can hog the CPU while the other is waiting for disk I/O. It just sounds wierd to me that someone will run two such large compilations in parallel and then say that the compiler is slow. Slow compared to what? gcc in the same situation? From what I understood, people are complaining that icc takes more time to compile the same files than gcc. Vadik. -- : yoda ( action -- true? ) \ YodaForth dup try 0=\ Try not over do dup 0= or and \ Do or do not swap try there is? 0= and ; \ There is no try = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Ham Radio
Arik Baratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sorry, but you are misinformed. There was a SECOND sattelite (named TechSat 2), it DID go up, and it is functioning perfectly to-date. The Technion, however, did not repay the ham radio community for the bandwidth that was allocated to them and the volunteer-hours that were put into it (and don't tell me they were paid - I know some were - hardly all). AFAIK the official justification for TechSats was that the satellite would serve amateur radio communications, as you mentioned. This was the only way they could start the project that they really wanted for scientific experiments and for educational purposes (students building satellites and running experiments on them). This is what I recall from what the PI, Giora Shaviv of the Technion, said at the time. Are you saying that they did not do whatever they were supposed to do for the amateur radio community? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel compiler vs. gcc
Vadim Vygonets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From what I understood, people are complaining that icc takes more time to compile the same files than gcc. It makes sense to me that a compiler that optimizes better with take more time. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Ham Radio
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Arik Baratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sorry, but you are misinformed. There was a SECOND sattelite (named TechSat 2), it DID go up, and it is functioning perfectly to-date. The Technion, however, did not repay the ham radio community for the bandwidth that was allocated to them and the volunteer-hours that were put into it (and don't tell me they were paid - I know some were - hardly all). AFAIK the official justification for TechSats was that the satellite would serve amateur radio communications, as you mentioned. This was the only way they could start the project that they really wanted for scientific experiments and for educational purposes (students building satellites and running experiments on them). This is what I recall from what the PI, Giora Shaviv of the Technion, said at the time. Are you saying that they did not do whatever they were supposed to do for the amateur radio community? You are correct, and it is exactly what I am saying. -- Arik = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel compiler vs. gcc
Quoth Oleg Goldshmidt on Tue, Feb 25, 2003: Vadim Vygonets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From what I understood, people are complaining that icc takes more time to compile the same files than gcc. It makes sense to me that a compiler that optimizes better with take more time. Yes, it's called a trade-off, and some people (probably those who compile more) prefer faster compiler with less optimizations. Vadik. -- Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. -- Ford Prefect = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [OT] Ham Radio
Only the reason it never happened was the Satellite crashed during take off I'm sorry, but you are misinformed. There was a SECOND sattelite (named TechSat 2), it DID go up, and it is functioning perfectly to-date. I stand corrected (and I just felt like the scene in the time machine where the guys lands in the 1940s and says I guess the war with Germany is still on! What a shame it's been going on for almost 30 years now). - Aviram = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to activate a modem
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:27:01PM +0200, David Harel wrote: That is what I was afraid of. I was hoping the information you mentioned is not up-to-date. Is there a free service to send faxes using the Internet? I believe that sending fax using the Internet was discussed several time on this list. I am too lazy to search the archive so conveniently I leave it to you. IIRC the last time it was mentioned was when Hetz was looking for an external modem, a few months ago. I believe that either searching for fax or external modem might narrow the results space. You might also google for free fax or query ISPs. -- Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Software design document
what is the best for complicated mathematical notations ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Oron Peled Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 7:05 PM To: Eli Segal Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Software design document On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:32:26 +0200 Eli Segal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which will include text, picture (screens capture) and tables It all should be in hebrew ofcourse, and easy transfer to html would be nice What is the best tool for such kind of a job ( a stable one) My first choice for technical documentation tool is: LyX - LaTeX - DVI - PostScript LyX - LaTeX - PDF (hebrew is Ok thanks to Dekel Tzur). You can translate to HTML via LaTeX2HTML but I don't like the quality (pure HTML isn't good enough for presentation). Another possible course is: DocBook(SGML/XML) - HTML DocBook(SGML/XML) - DVI - PostScript - PDF However LyX support for SGML is quite basic (only simple features and not the complete DocBook) and I don't know *good* SGML/XML editor (anybody). Also the output of the current available convertors from SGML/XML (jade, jadetex) isn't tailored to my likings and I'm not even close to being an expert in their definition language (DSSSL -- a Lisp like beast). Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. --Doug Gwyn = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:30:52PM +0200, kfir lavi wrote: what is the best for complicated mathematical notations ? Tex, LaTeX, LyX, no contest. MS Word equation editor if you're feeling masochist. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Software design document
is the conversion to pdf is easy, with no faults? -Original Message- From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 6:33 PM To: kfir lavi Cc: Oron Peled; Eli Segal; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Software design document On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:30:52PM +0200, kfir lavi wrote: what is the best for complicated mathematical notations ? Tex, LaTeX, LyX, no contest. MS Word equation editor if you're feeling masochist. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:00:05PM +0200, kfir lavi wrote: is the conversion to pdf is easy, with no faults? Yes. Let me know if you want to see my LaTeX makefile, which is based on Oleg's. Also, make sure to follow the advice at http://www.advogato.org/person/ladypine/diary.html?start=37 for producing a valid pdf. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to activate a modem
Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:27:01PM +0200, David Harel wrote: That is what I was afraid of. I was hoping the information you mentioned is not up-to-date. Is there a free service to send faxes using the Internet? One might try using: www.faxhozer.co.il -- a href=http://www.rootshell.be/~eg;Eliran Gonen/a = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Software design document
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, kfir lavi wrote: is the conversion to pdf is easy, with no faults? It is for English documents, but not for Hebrew documents if you wish them to be viewed correctly with Acrobat Reader. I tried running pdfelatex on documents with some Hebrew in it, and the generated PDF still looks horrible in Acrobat Reader. This is the case with Mandrake 9.0. English is fine with pdflatex. Regards, Shlomi Fish -Original Message- From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 6:33 PM To: kfir lavi Cc: Oron Peled; Eli Segal; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Software design document On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:30:52PM +0200, kfir lavi wrote: what is the best for complicated mathematical notations ? Tex, LaTeX, LyX, no contest. MS Word equation editor if you're feeling masochist. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Shlomi Fish[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ There's no point in keeping an idea to yourself since there's a 10 to 1 chance that somebody already has it and will share it before you. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:16:45PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: It is for English documents, but not for Hebrew documents if you wish them to be viewed correctly with Acrobat Reader. I tried running pdfelatex on documents with some Hebrew in it, and the generated PDF still looks horrible in Acrobat Reader. This is the case with Mandrake 9.0. I have a hebrew document sitting on the table next to me, made with LaTeX, viewed by gv and acroread and printed through acroread, and it looks absolutely fine, even the hebrew parts. If it looks bad for you, try to investigate any font problems. English is fine with pdflatex. I've never used pdflatex, but dvips - ps2pdf works. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Mozilla's Menu-Bar does not display any fonts
Hi! After I installed the Mozilla Googlebar: http://googlebar.mozdev.org/ Whenever I invoke Mozilla (as any user and profile) I get a menu-bar whose fonts are not displayed at all. The other toolbars (navigation and bookmarks) are displayed fine as is the various tabs of the sidebar, but still it is quite unusable. Galeon displays fine. How do I restore it? Regards, Shlomi Fish -- Shlomi Fish[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ There's no point in keeping an idea to yourself since there's a 10 to 1 chance that somebody already has it and will share it before you. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
I'm afraid I'll have to chill out the optimism a bit. The original post asked about writing a complicated /hebrew/ document. The situation of ivritex, the hebrew support for LaTeX, is far from perfect. Ready yourself for an odd bug oneic in a while, and using a good font is still a problem (at least for myself). Having said that, it is feasible - and even recomended (since your document is complicated and full of features, we might earn a couple of bug fixes :) ) Good luck. On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:57:48PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:00:05PM +0200, kfir lavi wrote: is the conversion to pdf is easy, with no faults? Yes. Let me know if you want to see my LaTeX makefile, which is based on Oleg's. Also, make sure to follow the advice at http://www.advogato.org/person/ladypine/diary.html?start=37 for producing a valid pdf. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mounting CDROMs - virtual and real
Two unrelated CDROM issues - the first should interest KDE users and the second should interest MDK9.0 users. 1 - I came across a really nice program to make it easy to mount an ISO image as a virtual CDROM in KDE. After installing the program, right clicking on an ISO shows a new menu item - **Mount ISO image as virtual CDROM**. Sure, the same thing can be done from the command line, but this is really convenient. http://users.skynet.be/top/eziso/ 2 - Until a few days ago, I was having **random** problems with supermount on MDK9.0. For no apparent reason, CDs would suddenly **disappear**, refuse to mount or umount and othe wierd stuff. In fact, I was going to disable supermount, but then I noticed that the Mandrake mirror has a new kernel for MDK9.0 (2.4.19-24mdk) and that it claimed to solve stability problems with supermount. Since installing it a few days ago, supermount has worked perfectly for my CD, CDRW and floppy. -- Shlomo Solomon http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Sent by KMail (KDE 3.0.5a) on LINUX Mandrake 9.0 To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:16:45PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: It is for English documents, but not for Hebrew documents if you wish them to be viewed correctly with Acrobat Reader. I tried running pdfelatex on documents with some Hebrew in it, and the generated PDF still looks horrible in Acrobat Reader. This is the case with Mandrake 9.0. I have a hebrew document sitting on the table next to me, made with LaTeX, viewed by gv and acroread and printed through acroread, and it looks absolutely fine, even the hebrew parts. If it looks bad for you, try to investigate any font problems. I use the default Hebrew font. Should I change it? English is fine with pdflatex. I've never used pdflatex, but dvips - ps2pdf works. Actually it does not (for the default English font). It creates PDFs that look very blurry and awful in acroread 4 or 5. (let me know if you need a screenshot to see what I mean). Generally my philosophy is to write the document and customize it later and _never_ do any manual final touches. With LaTeX and DocBook the output is usually so nice that I don't even bother messing with the fonts, and just leave it as is. I know someone who manually tweaks the resultant PostScript files after they are finished. Now that's what I call hubris, because you have to do that each time you release a final version. That goes against the UNIX philosophy of automating the process. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org -- Shlomi Fish[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ There's no point in keeping an idea to yourself since there's a 10 to 1 chance that somebody already has it and will share it before you. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:00:05PM +0200, kfir lavi wrote: is the conversion to pdf is easy, with no faults? Yes. Let me know if you want to see my LaTeX makefile, which is based on Oleg's. Also, make sure to follow the advice at http://www.advogato.org/person/ladypine/diary.html?start=37 for producing a valid pdf. Or try my my over-grown makefile at http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/latex_make , which is aimed at automating the work with latex as much as possible . Has some nice features, such as: pack all the sources together, mail/scp the sources/products to a destination of your choosing, etc. For the most part it is aimed at keeping all the produced copies (ps, PDF, html, etc.) in sync. BTW: is there any script that is equivalent of MikTeX's texify? It would save much of the dirtier parts of that makefile. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
BTW: is there any script that is equivalent of MikTeX's texify? It would save much of the dirtier parts of that makefile. I use latexmk, a perl script, which does the same thing (runs perl / bibtex the appropriate number of times) It can be downloaded from CTAN: ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk/ Jason --- Jason Friedman Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Home page: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~jason = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:12:02PM +0200, Jason Friedman wrote: BTW: is there any script that is equivalent of MikTeX's texify? It would save much of the dirtier parts of that makefile. I use latexmk, a perl script, which does the same thing (runs perl / bibtex the appropriate number of times) There are other similar scripts. For example, rubber, which is included in Debian unstable. I don't know which one is the best. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
On 2003-02-25, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: I'm afraid I'll have to chill out the optimism a bit. The original post asked about writing a complicated /hebrew/ document. The situation of ivritex, the hebrew support for LaTeX, is far from perfect. Ready yourself for an odd bug oneic in a while, and using a good font is still a problem (at least for myself). Having said that, it is feasible - and even recomended (since your document is complicated and full of features, we might earn a couple of bug fixes :) ) I'd like to use UTF-8 but I can't manage to get omega/lambda to show Hebrew (I just got Greek to work :). Is this a path I should continue trying or should I just fall back to normal tex and use iconv? -- Beni Cherniavsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] The mind of a good coder knows what his computer would do for any of his programs. The computer of a good hacker knows what his mind would do if it weren't for his programs. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel compiler vs. gcc
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:59, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Vadim Vygonets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From what I understood, people are complaining that icc takes more time to compile the same files than gcc. It makes sense to me that a compiler that optimizes better with take more time. But if it optimizes better then surely its own code run faster (because I assume it was compiled by itself) and so the optimization should take the same amount of time? :-) Just kidding --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about Re: Software design document: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:30:52PM +0200, kfir lavi wrote: what is the best for complicated mathematical notations ? Tex, LaTeX, LyX, no contest. There's also Texmacs, what supposedly is cross between TeX and Emacs, but in reality bears no relation to either (it's a WYSIWYG word processor, that does not actually use TeX - it only tries to look as good). Texmacs is a GNU project, or so they claim - check out http://www.texmacs.org/. Note that I never used texmacs, so I don't know how well it works in real life usage. My personal preference is using LaTeX straight, but I admit that it's not an appealing concept for someone who's already a Microsoft-Office junkie. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Feb 26 2003, 24 Adar I 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |When you handle yourself, use your head; http://nadav.harel.org.il |when you handle others, use your heart. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about Re: Software design document: is the conversion to pdf is easy, with no faults? Yes. Let me know if you want to see my LaTeX makefile, which is based on Oleg's. Also, make sure to follow the advice at http://www.advogato.org/person/ladypine/diary.html?start=37 for producing a valid pdf. Or, you might say Hey, Adobe, you got it right the first time around! and just use Postscript. Say no to helping Windows-users stay with Windows! [1] [1] http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/ -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Feb 26 2003, 24 Adar I 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |I have a great signature, but it won't http://nadav.harel.org.il |fit at the end of this message -- Fermat = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:28:44PM +0200, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: Having said that, it is feasible - and even recomended (since your document is complicated and full of features, we might earn a couple of bug fixes :) ) I'd like to use UTF-8 but I can't manage to get omega/lambda to show Hebrew (I just got Greek to work :). Is this a path I should continue trying or should I just fall back to normal tex and use iconv? It is possible to use the ucs.sty package with normal latex. You need to tweak the uni-5.def file: assuming you use recent ivritex macros, you need to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the file. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GDM .. still locks
yesterday again ! when i went out of fvwm to gdm it lock on gdm and nothing worked even SysRq didn't (and i have and tested it) this is very strange as in happens only when I'm on gdm Anyhow i moved to xdm and i'll see if it happen again. OT : I found some really nice XDM screenshots with their files http://xdm.house.cx/gallery/xdm Eli Segal Bar Technologies = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
top level project directory
Let's say that I have a complex project, using many Makefiles. In some of them, I'd like to refer to other directories of the project. So far, I've been using various combinations on ../, ../../, etc, but that's awfully brittle when you start moving directories around (not to mention potentially dangerous). Is there a way, which does NOT involve setting an environment variable, to refer to the top level project directory? Specifically, I have a Rules.make in that directory, which is included from the other Makefiles. If I could make the Rules.make contain the top level directory in a variable, it would solve most of my problems. Now that I think of it, another way would be to change the build structure from recursive builds to a centralized build - all directories are built from the top level directory. Let's say that I do want to use recrusive build, though. What trick am I missing? Thanks, Muli. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Software design document
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:33:08AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: If you send it to your boss, while telling him that, you might get fired. The first document I prepared with LaTeX (an English one) I sent to a TAU education professor in PostScript format. He told me he cannot read PS and asked for the _MS Word Original_. I ended up ps2pdf'ing it, which satisfied him. Did you send him a free clue with it? several technion professors *refuse* to accept Word documents, due to the inherent virus risk. Seriously, while PDF is not a panacea for many Windows kiddies who only know of Word, it is still much more accesible than PostScript. Sending a document to a Windows guy in PS format is like sending a document to a UNIX guy in Word format. Not a nice thing to do. I disagree. Unless PDF comes by default on windows nowday, installing a postscript viewer should be no more and no less complicated than installing a PDF viewer. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Menu fonts on LyX
How can I change my menu to display english instead of hebrew (it actually gibrish right now) thanx = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about Re: Software design document: is the conversion to pdf is easy, with no faults? Yes. Let me know if you want to see my LaTeX makefile, which is based on Oleg's. Also, make sure to follow the advice at http://www.advogato.org/person/ladypine/diary.html?start=37 for producing a valid pdf. Or, you might say Hey, Adobe, you got it right the first time around! and just use Postscript. Say no to helping Windows-users stay with Windows! [1] I hope this is a joke! If you send it to your boss, while telling him that, you might get fired. The first document I prepared with LaTeX (an English one) I sent to a TAU education professor in PostScript format. He told me he cannot read PS and asked for the _MS Word Original_. I ended up ps2pdf'ing it, which satisfied him. Seriously, while PDF is not a panacea for many Windows kiddies who only know of Word, it is still much more accesible than PostScript. Sending a document to a Windows guy in PS format is like sending a document to a UNIX guy in Word format. Not a nice thing to do. That put aside - I believe Adobe created PDF from a good reason, despite the fact that PostScript was at its time a cutting-edge achievement. You yourself said that accessing the i'th page is O(i) in PostScript while O(1) in PDF. And PDF has hyperlinks and other cute bells and whistles, which PostScript does not support. [1] http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/ Interesting link, which I completely don't agree with. If I can get the software I write to run on Windows and other non-UNIX platforms without too much overhead, I will try to do so. While the latest version of Quad-Pres can only run on UNIX (partly because I'm using WML), I believe all my other software is compatible with Windows. To quote someone I read, the issue is not Windows vs. Linux. The issue is free software vs. non-free one. Foribly preventing people from running free software on Windows just to make a point, will actually prevent them from experiencing with free software, and later on deciding that Linux may be worth a try. Luckily, a lot of open-source developers out there don't ostracize Windows in such a way. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Feb 26 2003, 24 Adar I 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Ihave a great signature, but it won't http://nadav.harel.org.il |fit at the end of this message -- Fermat = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with theword unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Shlomi Fish[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ There's no point in keeping an idea to yourself since there's a 10 to 1 chance that somebody already has it and will share it before you. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:35:02PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: I have a hebrew document sitting on the table next to me, made with LaTeX, viewed by gv and acroread and printed through acroread, and it looks absolutely fine, even the hebrew parts. If it looks bad for you, try to investigate any font problems. I use the default Hebrew font. Should I change it? The default Hebrew font come only in metafont format, which means it will be converted to bitmap when embedded in the PDF. IF you want a PDF file that looks good with Acrobat reader, you need to use either Postscript type 1 fonts (e.g. Culmus), Postscript type42 fonts, or TTF fonts (the latter can be used only with pdflatex, but it is possible to convert a TTF font to Postscript type 1 or 42). I thought type42 fonts _were_ TTF fonts. Oh well. I'll try in any case, but last time I tried to install TTF fonts by converting them to Type 1 first, it was a very long procedure (which involved some old versions of various programs) and I did not get to Hebrew yet. Can you give me a howto for it? I've never used pdflatex, but dvips - ps2pdf works. Actually it does not (for the default English font). It creates PDFs that look very blurry and awful in acroread 4 or 5. (let me know if you need a screenshot to see what I mean). It does work by default if you use tetex2.0. With earlier versions, you need to write dvips -Ppdf -G0, or add the following lines to ~/.dvipsrc Worked like a charm, thanks. Acroread sees it much better now. I'm using tetex 1.0.7. Regards, Shlomi Fish p+ bsr.map p+ bsr-interpolated.map p+ hoekwater.map = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Shlomi Fish[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ There's no point in keeping an idea to yourself since there's a 10 to 1 chance that somebody already has it and will share it before you. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
