Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004, ik wrote about Reviving and old program to Open-Source: I'm interesting in knowing what do you think of reviving QText Word-Processor from the dead. ... 2. Alternative programming language then the C\++ family (QText is written in Pascal) :). As much as I like

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread ik
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 11:57, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004, ik wrote about Reviving and old program to Open-Source: I'm interesting in knowing what do you think of reviving QText Word-Processor from the dead. ... 2. Alternative programming language then the C\++

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread Daniel Feiglin
I think that it is a great idea, but not for the reasons you gave. I couldn't care less about MS. The open source politics are also interesting but secondary. As a satisfied user, I couldn't care less whether it was written in Pascal, C or IBM 360 assembler to be used with an emulator like

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread Uri Bruck
ik wrote: But exactly this advantage is also a disadvantage: Qtext was already beaten once by Microsoft. Maybe this had something to do with it being not as good as Microsoft Word? Remember that when Microsoft announced Word in Hebrew it did not yet have a monopoly. Microsoft Word was simply

Re: Memory upgrade question for hardware gurus

2004-09-01 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Tue, 31 Aug: Thus, if the PC-2700 cannot work with my motherboard (with or without PC-2100), I'll lose. This is why I asked in this mailing list. well, I have ran together 66Mhz and 100 in the same board and 100 with 133 and it was just fine. 133Mhz dimms

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:26:46AM +0300, ik wrote: Hello, I'm interesting in knowing what do you think of reviving QText Word-Processor from the dead. But I wish to know what is the community thinks on that first. There are existing files in QText format, and no decent converter except

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting ik, from the post of Wed, 01 Sep: Hello, I'm interesting in knowing what do you think of reviving QText Word-Processor from the dead. But I wish to know what is the community thinks on that first. sounds like a wonderful idea. I say go for it. let us know when you get Kibutz Dvir

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread ik
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 13:02, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:26:46AM +0300, ik wrote: Hello, I'm interesting in knowing what do you think of reviving QText Word-Processor from the dead. But I wish to know what is the community thinks on that first. There

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:57:33AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004, ik wrote about Reviving and old program to Open-Source: I'm interesting in knowing what do you think of reviving QText Word-Processor from the dead. ... 2. Alternative programming language then the C\++

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread Daniel Feiglin
About converting QText 5.x files: I had the same problem. The trick was first to import them to QText 8, and then after some general checking and fixing, to save them as rtf files. The latter are easily imported to Word or OO, although some attributes will get screwed up. In particular all of

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: When I asked him about this then, he said this isn't going to be an easy task, as the file format is basically a dump of an instance of a complex OO hierarchy, not something intended for parsing. Ooh, that's wonderful news. It usually means that you can change numbers

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread ik
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 13:27, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:57:33AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004, ik wrote about Reviving and old program to Open-Source: I'm interesting in knowing what do you think of reviving QText Word-Processor from

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source: As much as I like pluralism, trying to revive a Pascal program on Linux is going to give you major headaches... Are you talking from experience? No, I'm talking after doing apropos pascal on

Magic? Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread amos
Speaking of dead programs - does anyone know of a reasonably priced way to extract the program source of old Magic programs? Background: my gliding club (Megido Soaring Center) has an ancient Magic-based program to run the club. The program of course lacks many features but we can't update it

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread ik
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 13:47, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source: As much as I like pluralism, trying to revive a Pascal program on Linux is going to give you major headaches... Are you talking

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:47:35PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source: As much as I like pluralism, trying to revive a Pascal program on Linux is going to give you major headaches... Are you

Re: cvs import fails on the /dev directory

2004-09-01 Thread Levy, Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 31 August 2004 20:52, Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi, I want to manage a special machine's tree with cvs, but when trying to import the tree with cvs import(... ), cvs aborts soon with this message: cvs [import aborted]: reading dev/eda: No

Re: Bank Leumi's old site - works (again) with mozilla

2004-09-01 Thread Meir Kriheli
Ofir Avni wrote: snip/ After logging in, I needed to refresh to see the site. Then I was only able to see the summary and future movements. The buttons in the right didn't work. Also using firefox 0.9.3 (under FC2). Is that what you get too? Just for the record, if someone doesn't know,

KDE Apps under CVS

2004-09-01 Thread Noam Rathaus
Hi, We are trying to put a KDE based application (written using KDevelop) under the CVS, but it appears that some files shouldn't be placed in it (examples: Makefile.in, Makefile.am, etc) as they create conflicts after you locally run ./configure and make... Does anyone knows where I can find

Re: cvs import fails on the /dev directory

2004-09-01 Thread Boaz Rymland
Levy, Chen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 31 August 2004 20:52, Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi, I want to manage a special machine's tree with cvs, but when trying to import the tree with cvs import(... ), cvs aborts soon with this message: cvs [import aborted]:

Re: KDE Apps under CVS

2004-09-01 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 17:35, Noam Rathaus wrote: the CVS, but it appears that some files shouldn't be placed in it (examples: Makefile.in, Makefile.am, etc) as they create conflicts after you locally run ./configure and make... You don't need to keep the Makefile, Makefile.in,

Re: Bank Leumi's old site - works (again) with mozilla

2004-09-01 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 04:51 pm, Meir Kriheli wrote: Ofir Avni wrote: snip/ After logging in, I needed to refresh to see the site. Then I was only able to see the summary and future movements. The buttons in the right didn't work. Also using firefox 0.9.3 (under FC2).

Multiple sound cards in linux

2004-09-01 Thread meh
hi, I'd like to create a machine that will be a ``listenning centre'', that is it'll contain tons of lectures MP3s, 5 sound cards, and a small script I'll write to redirect the desired lecture to the desired /dev/sndXX. Is it possible with linux, this http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/877

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Reference Card Hebrew translation]

2004-09-01 Thread Shaul Karl
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 12:40:34AM +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote: Hi Guys, Could you help in answering? LaTeX isn't my field of expertise. What does he try to accomplish? If it is a matter of taking your translation and processing it, perhaps he should start with installing the Hebrew tools

Re: Multiple sound cards in linux

2004-09-01 Thread meh
Alfredo Daniel Rezinovsky wrote: I'd like to create a machine that will be a ``listenning centre'', that is it'll contain tons of lectures MP3s, 5 sound cards, and a small script I'll write to redirect the desired lecture to the desired /dev/sndXX. Is it possible with linux, this

Re: Multiple sound cards in linux

2004-09-01 Thread Alfredo Daniel Rezinovsky
I'd like to create a machine that will be a ``listenning centre'', that is it'll contain tons of lectures MP3s, 5 sound cards, and a small script I'll write to redirect the desired lecture to the desired /dev/sndXX. why not ? with mpg123 you can specify the /dev/dsp to use. Will

Re: Multiple sound cards in linux

2004-09-01 Thread meh
Alfredo Daniel Rezinovsky wrote: I'd like to create a machine that will be a ``listenning centre'', that is it'll contain tons of lectures MP3s, 5 sound cards, and a small script I'll write to redirect the desired lecture to the desired /dev/sndXX. why not ? with mpg123 you can

Re: Multiple sound cards in linux

2004-09-01 Thread meh
Eran Tromer wrote: Hi, You might reduce costs (and increase the maximum number of channels per PC) by using 5.1 surround cards as 3 stereo or 6 mono channels. This will probably require some programming, though. Thanks, that's a good idea. It should require kernel space programming though, and

Conclusion (was: Re: Memory upgrade question for hardware gurus)

2004-09-01 Thread Omer Zak
Hello everyone, The end of the story: I bought a PC-2700 512MB memory module, ran memtest version 3.1a (thanks to Ira for the tip) before and after swapping the memory modules. Tests 1-7 passed, and now I am working with 512MB memory. I plan to run the full memtest test suite later tonight.