Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about science

2007-04-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007, Uri Even-Chen wrote about Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about science: sure how well they can be defined. I came to the conclusion that there is no proof that there are more real numbers than rational numbers, or more generally speaking, that an infinity more

Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about science

2007-04-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Uri Even-Chen wrote: On 4/24/07, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uri Even-Chen wrote: Hi people, Recently I checked some problems in mathematics, computer science and physics. For a long time I had the intuition that the P vs NP Problem is an undecidable problem. I think the

Re: Find the usb device pragmatically

2007-04-25 Thread Maxim Veksler
On 4/24/07, ik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a serial usb device, that from time to time disconnect according to the kernel (dmesg): usb 1-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB1 ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0 And

Transcoding video for net friendly size

2007-04-25 Thread Maxim Veksler
Hi list, I have a video I captured using my Fuji cam, the only problem is it's 580MB for 8min video. The info from mplayer is as follows: Playing DSCF3012.AVI. AVI file format detected. VIDEO: [MJPG] 640x480 24bpp 30.000 fps 9215.4 kbps (1124.9 kbyte/s)

Re: Transcoding video for net friendly size

2007-04-25 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:04:45PM +0300, Maxim Veksler wrote: Playing DSCF3012.AVI. AVI file format detected. VIDEO: [MJPG] 640x480 24bpp 30.000 fps 9215.4 kbps (1124.9 kbyte/s) == Opening audio decoder: [pcm]

Re: Transcoding video for net friendly size

2007-04-25 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 13:04:45 Maxim Veksler wrote: Hi list, I have a video I captured using my Fuji cam, the only problem is it's 580MB for 8min video. I would like to transcode it to something under 100mb, so that I can upload it to UT. Could some one please share a tip or more. I

Re: Transcoding video for net friendly size

2007-04-25 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:26:55PM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: I don't think that is needed, and even if so - why 22 ? standard framerates are 29.997 [supposedly 30] for NTSC, 25 for PAL. Standard frame rates are: 23.997 (24/1001) forNTSC film. 24 PAL

Re: Ripping Hebrew CDs

2007-04-25 Thread Ehud Karni
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:24:17 Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:41:51PM +0300, Ehud Karni wrote: I prefer the file name to be in ISO-8859-8 (8 bits) and not UTF-8. Then I can see the Hebrew in Emacs and xterm, but not in Gnome or KDE Any reason not to use utf-8 with

Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about science

2007-04-25 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On 4/25/07, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uri, this is becoming (or was always) extremely off-topic. Well, it is off topic. Georg Cantor's beautiful proof that there are more real numbers than natural numbers (involving the diagonal of the real number's list) is one of the most

Re: Ripping Hebrew CDs

2007-04-25 Thread Ehud Karni
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:56:38 +0300, יובל האגר wrote: Ehud Karni: נכתב על ידי ,‎15:46 ,2007 אפריל ‎23 ביום שני: You have to re-encode the file name to Hebrew UTF-8 like this: NEWNM=`echo $NM | iconv -futf8 -tlatin1 | iconv -fhebrew -tutf8` Thanks! I've been looking for some time how to

Re: Transcoding video for net friendly size

2007-04-25 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 13:52:27 Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: The problem with NTSC was supposed to be 24 and 30 FPS, but someone made a rounding error. It did not matter with TV signals, but when video tape came out and it did matter, it was too late. Its been a while since I actually

Private Hebrew Web Site Template

2007-04-25 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
I am looking for templates for a private web site that I want to set up. It is for a group of guys that get together once or twice a year and in between we would like to keep in contact. We would like it to include: Picture sharing/viewing Contact info management Calendar Bulletin board Blog

Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about science

2007-04-25 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On 4/25/07, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Completeness and Consistency relate to the relationship between the provability of an expression (syntax) and it's core truthfulness (semantics, or meaning). Since I was not talking about those, these hardly seem relevant. A theory cannot be

Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about science

2007-04-25 Thread Uri Even-Chen
By the way, it's very easy to prove that for any specific decision problem, *there is* an algorithm who returns a correct answer in O(1). Consider these two algorithms: always return 0 and always return 1. At least one of them returns a correct answer for *any input*. But if a general problem is

Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about science

2007-04-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Uri Even-Chen wrote: On 4/25/07, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Completeness and Consistency relate to the relationship between the provability of an expression (syntax) and it's core truthfulness (semantics, or meaning). Since I was not talking about those, these hardly seem

Re: Ripping Hebrew CDs

2007-04-25 Thread Yuval Hager
ביום רביעי 25 אפריל 2007, 15:09, נכתב על ידי Ehud Karni: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:56:38 +0300, יובל האגר wrote: Ehud Karni: נכתב על ידי ,�15:46 ,2007 אפריל �23 ביום שני: You have to re-encode the file name to Hebrew UTF-8 like this: NEWNM=`echo $NM | iconv -futf8 -tlatin1 | iconv

Re: Find the usb device pragmatically

2007-04-25 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 20:37 +0300, ik wrote: Hello, I have a serial usb device, that from time to time disconnect according to the kernel (dmesg): usb 1-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB1 ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now disconnected from

Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about science

2007-04-25 Thread Uri Even-Chen
Out of curiosity, if natural numbers don't continue to infinity, there must be a maximal natural number, right? Assuming we call it m, what is the result of m+1? Let's define a few numbers: google= 10^100 googleplex= 10^google googleplexplex= 10^googleplex googleplexplexplex= 10^googleplexplex

Re: Find the usb device pragmatically

2007-04-25 Thread Ehud Karni
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:37:12 ik wrote: I have a serial usb device, that from time to time disconnect according to the kernel (dmesg): usb 1-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB1 ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0 And

Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about science

2007-04-25 Thread guy keren
please stop feeding the troll. --guy On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:52:11 +0300 From: Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Uri Even-Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-il [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about

Re: Groupware hosting

2007-04-25 Thread Danny Lieberman
Gil You must be kidding. Why in the world would you want a local ISP Run (do not walk) to Google Applications at www.google.com/a You have your own email, calendar and web site for free up to 50 users. I am running two businesses with it and I think it's outstanding. The mail is the

Re: Private Hebrew Web Site Template

2007-04-25 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 15:20:20 Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: I am looking for templates for a private web site that I want to set up. It is for a group of guys that get together once or twice a year and in between we would like to keep in contact. We would like it to include: Picture

Re: Private Hebrew Web Site Template

2007-04-25 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Thanks Oded, (I had earlier tried to respond to my own posting with the additional comments below but it was blocked because I sent it from the wrong account.) A bit more searching has pointed me in the direction of: Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, Wordpress, Xoops, typo2, dotnetnuke, PHPnuke, plone,

Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about science

2007-04-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
guy keren wrote: please stop feeding the troll. Sorry about that. I was wondering where it will go. I think we have a definite answer now. I'll stop right now. --guy Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work?

Re: Private Hebrew Web Site Template

2007-04-25 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 20:52 +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: (I had earlier tried to respond to my own posting with the additional comments below but it was blocked because I sent it from the wrong account.) A bit more searching has pointed me in the direction of: Joomla, Mambo, Drupal,

Re: Private Hebrew Web Site Template

2007-04-25 Thread Danny Lieberman
http://www.joomla.co.il/ Joomla seems to be the #1 FOSS content mgr these days and rightly so in my experience - we have 2 sites of our own and have done about a dozen for customers. hebrew is not a problem danny On 4/26/07, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 20:52