Re: Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.

2007-03-09 Thread dubrowin . 35432245
Tzahi, When I first started looking for work, I was interested in networking and Linux. I had been out of the workforce for 5 years (since coming to Israel, making Aliyah and spending some time in Yeshivah). I was able to prove to an employer that I could do the networking or at least I knew

Command-line tools for text processing in Hebrew

2007-03-09 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, I use very often the traditional Unix tools (mainly sed and tr) for text processing from the command line. They work very well as long as the input is plain text in English. Question: Are there ways (please pointers) to use such tools with Hebrew text, html English text and maybe mixed

Reminder: Telux: Elizabeth Sterling on Emacs on 11-March-2007

2007-03-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! Elizabeth gave a very successful presentation (about Apache) to the Tel Aviv Linux Club last time, and I believe I can speak for most attendees that we enjoyed it very much. Now, she has kindly agreed to give another presentation, this time about Emacs. For this, we'll meet on

Re: Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.

2007-03-09 Thread Shamir Udi
try IBM labs, they got big offices in Haifa. On 3/8/07, Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I contemplated whether to send this email to this list and i usually would not be so public about this kind of thing, however, i am a bit at a loss and in need of some tips so i hope you'd bear

Re: Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.

2007-03-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:46:06AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Funny you should mention him. I've never met the guy, but have had the occasion of talking to one active client of his and another ex-client. They both agreed on one thing: The guy is expensive! When I filed patent

Re: Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.

2007-03-09 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Friday 09 March 2007 10:58, Shamir Udi wrote: try IBM labs, they got big offices in Haifa. Since you brought it up, that was the position that did not say no, but rather that the position was filled a day before my second interview. Also, this is the only company that bothered me in the

Re: Command-line tools for text processing in Hebrew

2007-03-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 09 March 2007, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi, I use very often the traditional Unix tools (mainly sed and tr) for text processing from the command line. They work very well as long as the input is plain text in English. Question: Are there ways (please pointers) to use such tools with

Re: Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.

2007-03-09 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Friday 09 March 2007 08:43, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: BTW, after reading some of your other emails, what exactly is your degree in? Not the title, but what do you know? Well, you are correct, it is not clear. The title goes like this: Faculty: Industrial Engineering. Area: Information

Re: Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.

2007-03-09 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:58:21AM +0200, Shamir Udi wrote: try IBM labs, they got big offices in Haifa. .. and we're hiring - http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/careers.html I'm looking for a very good student to work with me on IO virtualization in Linux, Xen, KVM, your favorite open source

Re: Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.

2007-03-09 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:09:12PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 10:58, Shamir Udi wrote: try IBM labs, they got big offices in Haifa. Since you brought it up, that was the position that did not say no, but rather that the position was filled a day before my second

Re: Command-line tools for text processing in Hebrew

2007-03-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:34:42AM +0200, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: As you may guess, the friend which I am trying to help uses Microsoft Windows, and will, in the end build an excell file, but the MS tools we know are not adequate to deal with such a task. Maybe he will realize that Linux

Re: Command-line tools for text processing in Hebrew

2007-03-09 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:46:56PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Actually it can be done easily in WordBasic. If you really wanted to be spiffy, you could use WordBasic to propigate an Access database and then use Access to format the letters and email them with Outlook. WordBasic is

Re: Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.

2007-03-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:34:12PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: You are probably right, thing is, most don't know what FOSS is about so it is less of a problem :). If I were a headhunter marketing your resume, I would restructure it to show that you were a database wizzard and push it to

Re: Command-line tools for text processing in Hebrew

2007-03-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:16:44PM +0200, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi Geoff, Thanks for the tip ! Slight correction: I am a slave of my ignorance, which is bad as well, but can (sometimes) be more easily corrected. The general problem still stands. I'd appreciate any input. I usually try to

Re: Command-line tools for text processing in Hebrew

2007-03-09 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:18:27PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi, I use very often the traditional Unix tools (mainly sed and tr) for text processing from the command line. They work very well as long as the input is plain text in English.

Re: Command-line tools for text processing in Hebrew

2007-03-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 09 March 2007, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:18:27PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi, I use very often the traditional Unix tools (mainly sed and tr) for text processing from the command line. They work very

Re: Adding hooks to user actions in linux shells

2007-03-09 Thread Maxim Veksler
On 3/8/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can overload PS1 with any code you want. It will run every time a PS1 prompt is displayed. Good tip, thank you. The answer of curse is PROMPT_COMMAND. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x264.html Peter -- Cheers, Maxim Veksler Free

Re: Adding hooks to user actions in linux shells

2007-03-09 Thread Peter
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Maxim Veksler wrote: On 3/8/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can overload PS1 with any code you want. It will run every time a PS1 prompt is displayed. Good tip, thank you. The answer of curse is PROMPT_COMMAND. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x264.html

Working on a FOSS project (was: Finding a linux related job)

2007-03-09 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Friday 09 March 2007 01:43, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Personaly I would not waste any time on a FOSS project. Most managers won't care, it has no relevance to their world, and many startup managers will take it that you are more interested in the work than the money and if they do hire

Re: Working on a FOSS project (was: Finding a linux related job)

2007-03-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:48:56AM -0500, Aviram Jenik wrote: I call double bullsh*t. You called it all right Talented developers look to hire developers that have a passion. This is what separates a dot-net-john-bryce-graduate programmer from a real programmer. It's not the degree,

Re: Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.

2007-03-09 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007, Tzahi Fadida wrote about Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.: Can someone throw some tips as to how i should proceed? Let me give you my 2 cents. Since so many people have replied already, with so many ideas, I'll try to go against the flow for a moment (only dead

Re: Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.

2007-03-09 Thread guy keren
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007, Tzahi Fadida wrote about Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.: Can someone throw some tips as to how i should proceed? Let me give you my 2 cents. Since so many people have replied already, with so many ideas, I'll try to go against the flow

Re: Working on a FOSS project (was: Finding a linux related job)

2007-03-09 Thread michael
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:48:56AM -0500, Aviram Jenik wrote: I call double bullsh*t. You called it all right Talented developers look to hire developers that have a passion. This is what separates a dot-net-john-bryce-graduate

FOSS job

2007-03-09 Thread Shamir Udi
FOSS no FOSS, go and contribute in your spare time, join open source project , it will do the trick(you still nedds to be good):) -- Udi Shamir, Linux System Developer. http://sf.net/projects/em-module http://www.linkedin/in/udishamir +972-2-8544839