Hi,
Related to the Welcome to Linux series, I'd like to draw your attention
to the following issue:
It's quite hard to be a Linux-only student, at least at TAU (and at least
on the exact sciences faculty, although the issue is probably much worse
at other faculties).
A few years ago, when
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:29:29 +0200, Yosef Meller
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OpenOffice Impress and writer usually do a wonderful job showing the
presentations and .doc files with homework.
Homework, interestingly, is not a problem for me. Since homework is
written by TAs, it's usually available
Hello,
I'm trying to raise the hard limit for core files for users logging in via
ssh. I found this article:
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1161/sam0009a/0009a.htm and added the
line session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so to /etc/pam.d/sshd and
also the line * hard core unlimited
Hi,
How can I have LyX to *never* break a formula written in math-mode into
two lines?
Thanks,
Alexander (aka Sasha) Maryanovsky.
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Hi.
It seems that the MD5 sum for the 1st ISO of RedHat 9 on both the TAU and
Technion ftp sites don't match the one advertised by RedHat or
linuxiso.org. The MD5 sum for this file at the TAU ftp site is:
400c7fb292c73b793fb722532abd09ad
(This file I personally downloaded. This is also what
At 21:40 03.10.2003 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
Hi everyone,
Just wanted to pass my thanks (in the hope they're listening) to anyone and
everyone involved with OpenOffice's new BiDi support. It's absolutely
perfect as far as I can see
Hi everyone,
Just wanted to pass my thanks (in the hope they're listening) to anyone and
everyone involved with OpenOffice's new BiDi support. It's absolutely
perfect as far as I can see. Brackets, mixed RTL and LTR, mixed RTL and
numbers, dashes etc. etc. - all work exactly as expected. Just
is that it's not a free service, but the maps are worth every penny
:-). I've put a screenshot of the map and the UI at
http://www.jinchess.com/tmp/map.png just so you can appreciate the quality.
And yes, I implemented all that antialiasing and hebrew text by myself from
scratch :-).
Alexander
...).
Well, even the main page won't load for me in Mozilla/Firebird.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 14:50 24.09.2003 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a long time subscriber (at least three years now) of Mapa and
miss a lot the fact that not only their maps work only with IE
but also that it requires
willing to
pay for all these. I remember an article on ynet about half a year ago that
Mapa was already making money from this service. It was barely in the black
at the time, but it's probably more nowadays.
Alexander Maryanovsky
to stress it again, though, that I didn't work for Mapa, I worked
for Telmap, who wrote the map applet itself, not the rest of Mapa's
website. Also, I'm not a web developer, so I wouldn't know to identify the
places that need changes - perhaps someone who does can talk to them.
Alexander Maryanovsky
, on the other hand, is working on exactly
that - mobile (in car) navigation. I don't know exactly when an actual
product will be available, but I understand they should have something
fairly soon - you can contact them and ask about it at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alexander Maryanovsky
At 02:06 04.09.2003 +0300, Vasiliev Michael wrote:
Out of sheer curiosity, has anyone but me noticed that the new linux version
of Opera browser (7.20b7) for linux now has a long-awaited support for
Hebrew BiDi? Though it isn't an open-source application but quite a nice
browser anyway.
You're
Hi everyone,
I just saw someone on the road with a Hofshi ze yoter me hinam hamakor
bumper sticker (at least it had the logo) in an SGI car. I tried to catch
him and ask on one of the intersections, but all the lights were green and
so we eventually parted on the Rishon interchange. So who was
At 00:48 03.09.2003 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
I just saw someone on the road with a Hofshi ze yoter me hinam hamakor
bumper sticker (at least it had the logo) in an SGI car. I tried to catch
him and ask on one of the intersections, but all the lights were green
and so we eventually parted
At 17:54 31.08.2003 +0300, Aviram Jenik wrote:
Hi,
We are currently debating on what GUI infrastructure to use for one of our
products, and the main downside of qt seems to be its constraining license.
Can anyone shed more light on this subject? How much does the qt license cost
to develop a
they map each window as a texture map over
a rectangular 3D object using the graphic's hardware 3D acceleration mode.
I have a (perhaps offtopic, but I changed the topic :-)) question - why is
it that hardware acceleration for 3D operations so much better than for 2D
operations (which are
/binaryComp.doc.html
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 12:57 15.08.2003 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote:
On Thursday 14 August 2003 15:15, Aviram Jenik wrote:
in C I would put the new .obj (compiled code) instead of the old one, and
try to link...
Again, unless I'm not following you, you cannot do that in C++ either
I'm going to jump into the middle of this discussion not having read it
from the beginning so I apologize upfront if I say something stupid or
unrelated because of this.
The birdhouse principle says that if one is trying to put n+1 birds in n
bird-houses, then you must put 2 birds in at least
to do.
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Alexander Maryanovsky.
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At 20:58 06.07.2003 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote:
I was told that Tel-Aviv University is giving an interesting workshop
this summer: a workshop on writing free software. See:
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~eddiea/workshop-summer-2003.html
can only imagine how slow it's going to be :-) Does that make it a bad OS
project?
Alexander Maryanovsky, a first year TAU student, btw :-)
Maybe you should join that workshop - it looks like you already have
an idea for free software!
I'll probably fail on account of the the organizational
(most interpreted languages,
including Java, aren't really interpreted nowadays). On today's hardware,
most applications are network, disk and user bound, which a compiled
language isn't going to improve.
Alexander Maryanovsky
At 10:20 08.06.2003 +0300, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
HM Last time that I heard, in Ben-Gurion university, the first programming
HM language was Java. That's a swell idea in my opinion. Java is
HM feature-complete, you can't argue with that. It also means that students
I can. Too many times I have
At 13:16 08.06.2003 +0200, Eran Tromer wrote:
On 2003/06/08 12:01, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
Java itself, the language, hasn't changed since JDK 1.1 (released in 97
if I'm not mistaken).
Nearly so.
JDK 1.1 added the strictfp keyword, and JDK 1.4 added the assert
keyword.
True, yes
Hi everyone,
A friend of mine had her windows (98) die a horrible death and she asked me
to reinstall it. I told her that I could install a better operating system
called Linux instead. Now, this would be fine and dandy, as she doesn't
need anything special that Linux doesn't support, but her
Apologies, I'm a moron :-)
The reply wasn't from an intermediate server (outblaze is the mail server
of my email provider), but my email was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Again, apologies,
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 15:06 02.05.2003 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
I think you
Same from Internet Zahav
Dunno, works fine here (Internet Zahav as well).
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 23:06 30.01.2003 +0200, Daniel Feiglin wrote:
Meir Michanie wrote:
while trying to access one of the projects hosted at your domain:
http://drip.sourceforge.net/
I got redirected
I found the lectures today rather unimpressive, although the event itself
was quite nice and well organized.
Some specific notes:
1. The Ila guy seemed to misunderstand the whole use Linux in govt.
proposition. This has been discussed a lot, but worth repeating:
His argument was that if Linux
Therefore it can be argued that the government should require software to be
auditable by some means, but not to force Linux specifically, or even free
software in general. For example, assume that MSFT gives the government a peek
at their source code, subject to NDA and a license written by the
...
Alexander Maryanovsky.
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enough), all bugs are trivial mistakes. So I'm with Tzahi on this one.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 13:39 03.01.2003 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Tzahi Fadida wrote:
lets get the facts straight.
pascal was designed for students and for learning purposes, since C is
DIFFICULT
();
}
The only thing that is hard to debug in Java (and in any other language) is
multithreading, with or without a debugger. I avoid multithreading bugs by
being 5 times as careful about multithreaded code as I am about single
threaded code.
Alexander Maryanovsky
not in the
original sense) and in the latter, linking can be avoided via said mechanism.
I solve this problem by going by the spirit of the GPL and not its letter,
but the original poster seems to be more interested in the legal
repercussions of his actions, no?
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 00:09
I think it would be a good idea to put up a page with The current state of
events, specifying what is currently supported, what known problems exist
and what's being worked on...
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 23:21 11.12.2002 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
http://www.openoffice.org.il
The site
feasible for anybody in the private sector. If it was moved even a half hour
forward it would be more reasonable - allows one to get out of work and get to
TAU, if one is in TA/RG.
A full hour forward is even better, so that I don't have to miss my
Discrete Math lecture :-)
Alexander (aka
Linux is enough for them.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 13:13 03.12.2002 +0200, Ira Abramov wrote:
Quoting Boris Gorelik, from the post of Tue, 03 Dec:
Just thinking: How come none asks for why isn't VMware an open source
program
1. license for the industry standard BIOS and firmware of the various
When do you know you're talking to an open source supporter?
When he's looking for alternatives to *Mozilla* :-)
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 12:38 28.11.2002 +0200, Baruch Even wrote:
I'm using Galeon regularly, it's plenty fast for me, but my machine is
not a 300MHz one, on a Athlon 700MHz
If anyone knows how to build a custom RedHat install CD set with
add/replaced packages kindly contact me in person.
Why not share it with the list? I for one would love to get my hands on a
distro specifically customized for Hebrew speaking users and/or Israeli
residents.
Alexander
understand... Hetz says he got it working on his computer, and I
don't see him spreading (starting) hoaxes...
Also, like I said, it seems to work fine for a minute, but then just stops...
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 19:06 13.11.2002 +0200, Michael Stolovitzsky wrote:
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 15:11
No, sorry, I'm still waiting for Hetz to perhaps fix this
problem...
At 15:04 13.11.2002 +0200, you wrote:
Hi
Alex
I was reading the linux-il mailing list and found
your posts there...
I'm having the exact same problem with the Rotal USB
ADSL modem - I'm able to connect but it dies after 1
Hi,
I saw a note on the luach modaot in the Schreiber building this morning
about an InstaParty at 18:00 today at TAU...
Did I miss something? When was this announced? Was this announced? Will
there be only installations or lectures too?
Alexander Maryanovsky
Currently installations only. We might respond to a demand for lectures,
in case there is such a demand.
On the fly, or at some later date? Because I don't need anything installed,
but would love to hear lectures :-)
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 15:39 07.11.2002 +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David
Delivered-To: msasha:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Michael Stolovitzsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Rotal USB ADSL *almost* success
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 17:12:21 +0200
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To: Alexander Maryanovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just in case you are interested, we have discovered
By the way, the same thing happens with my Evo N160 laptop...
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 23:38 27.10.2002 +0200, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
2. Seems like you missed some modules to compile. Please look at the
TROUBLESHOOTING document which is in the tar.gz file.
Ahh, how didn't I think
): Inappropriate ioctl for device
It is my suggestion to get it working first. There is a possibility
that it will not happen once the modem will work in a satisfactory
manner.
What will not happen? The breakage or me needing to dual boot? :-)
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 17:58 27.10.2002 +0200, [EMAIL
In short, take it or leave it.
I'll certainly take it, as I don't have any other choice... Just that I
have an Entomology quiz tomorrow to prepare for :-)
And maybe in the meanwhile, Hetz will have a piece of advice for me after
all...
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 20:48 27.10.2002 +0200, you
ppp monitor next to the CPU monitor continued to be
displayed), nothing was printed to /var/log/messages, but I couldn't
connect anywhere anymore, couldn't ping anything and couldn't resolve any
hostnames. I tried it again several times, with the same result.
Almost there,
Alexander Maryanovsky
., but I'm more likely to just screw
it up.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 07:55 26.10.2002 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:20:01PM +0200, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
Ok, I think I've finally located the offending command:
modprobe usb-ohci
makes the system hang about one
after 5 seconds. If I add strace, it obviously
takes it *longer* to execute and it hangs later. So it doesn't hang after a
constant amount of time.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 09:05 25.10.2002 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
Ok, here are the (mighty
after displaying the line:
+ initlog -c 'depmod -A'
Also, I've tried tailing both /var/log/kernel/info and /varlog/syslog and
neither of them displays anything after I plug the modem in. The system
hangs right away.
Puzzled as ever,
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 13:08 25.10.2002 +0200, Alexander
Please post /sbin/lsmod output please.
One more trick - if you see a module called dabusb - then do:
/sbin/rmmod -r
dabusb - and try to see if it helps.
Attached. I didn't see a module called dabusb there.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 17:24 25.10.2002 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote
booting.
It prints two lines (about loading module and then about mounting USB
filesystem), ends successfully and then my system hangs.
Any ideas how to fix it?
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 17:49 25.10.2002 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
On Friday 25 October 2002 17:39, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote
it freezes, i think u need to recompile the kernel from a
vanilla kernel. and try module/static compilations
and see if it helps.
See my last post... It doesn't seem like the problem is in the code that
does Finding module dependencies, but instead in /etc/init.d/usb
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 18:09
.
I have no idea whether I can login remotely with another machine, seeing as
this computer is not connected to anything when booting Linux (the problem
is with the USB *modem*, remember?)
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 20:28 25.10.2002 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:31
As expected, when I ran startmodem, it hung when doing Loading OHCI
support.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 23:00 23.10.2002 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Hi,
This is a micro version of how-to to use the Rotal ADSL modem - it's quite
simple:
1. Download the CVS snapshot (the driver is ECI ADSL
, since it's quite a difficult and lengthy
procedure, I'd like to wait a bit - maybe someone will come up with
something better/easier to try first.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 00:21 26.10.2002 +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote:
well, u r not alone search google for modprobe usb-ohci and you will
find many
Maryanovsky.
At 22:47 23.10.2002 +0200, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
reboot mandrake 9, open konsole and do tail -f /var/log/messages (as
root) -
then plug the modem and see what it's writing on the log.
As soon as I plug the modem in, Linux hangs.
I will try what you suggested though - maybe
Linux' or `USB Linux hang'?
Posting to the equivalent of debian-user?
The first thing I did when encountering this problem. The only relevant
piece is some bug report against RedHat 6.0 or so, and it says it's been fixed.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 19:18 24.10.2002 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
with lilo?
At 17:24 24.10.2002 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
reboot mandrake 9, open konsole and do tail -f /var/log/messages (as
root) -
then plug the modem and see what it's writing on the log.
As soon as I plug the modem in, Linux hangs.
I
, and no, I'm not having any such problems with it.
Also, note that it's not crashing - it's hanging.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 23:20 24.10.2002 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
On Thursday 24 October 2002 21:06, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
Indeed, what were the results of appending init=/bin/sh
lines I added strace
before depmod (after uncommenting of course), the Finding module
dependencies operation finished (with a lot of text flying by) and then
booting got hung at Enabling swap space.
Puzzled as ever,
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 23:39 24.10.2002 +0200, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote
of the weird strace issue?
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 00:36 25.10.2002 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
On Friday 25 October 2002 00:32, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
Ok, here are the (mighty weird) results:
1. When booting with linux init=/bin/bash, typing lspci | grep USB
gives the following:
pcilib
at boot.
although I heard from people that in some cases the modem mistakenly is
recognized as a device which needs the dabusb module, which is clearly a
false thing.
How would I figure out whether that is the case and fix it if it is?
Thanks,
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 16:24 23.10.2002
reboot mandrake 9, open konsole and do tail -f /var/log/messages (as
root) -
then plug the modem and see what it's writing on the log.
As soon as I plug the modem in, Linux hangs.
I will try what you suggested though - maybe it will print something before
hanging.
Alexander Maryanovsky
Dependencies).
Will your software also fix this problem, or is mine a different problem?
Again, many, many thanks - I was about to go out and buy myself a new modem
that connects via a NIC (which I would also need to buy).
Eagerly awaiting the software and the documentation,
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 23
I'm cross posting here, since gnubies-il seems to be silent... Hopefully
nobody will mind.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
An update and a new problem:
I booted into single user mode with the CD using linux rescue. I then ran:
depmode -a --show /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/modules.dep
because running just
However, IMHO, it should be clear now from the OO 643 build that Sun's
solution is the correct way to go and that the IBM patch is now totally
obsolete.
Why, what's wrong with IBM's patch?
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 10:40 08.10.2002 +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002
aware that OpenOffice and AbiWord
support (to an extent) the Word doc format, but neither currently displays
Hebrew properly. Perhaps the latest OO build will - I haven't tried it yet.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 22:09 08.10.2002 +0200, Ariel Biener wrote:
Hi Alexander, see the response
,
Alexander Maryanovsky.
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Hmm, openoffice, koffice, abiword, staroffice etc... Also try to ask them
if they got HTML versions..
I can ask them, but if they had HTML (or PDF) versions, surely they would
put them up on the website... no?
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 15:50 27.09.2002 +0200, Eliran wrote:
Alexander
access to the computer lab
in the University, I'll be able to do that there...
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 16:51 27.09.2002 +0200, Eliran wrote:
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
Email who? The guys who make the website? They're not likely to care,
having designed and put up such horror.
University
Aren't afraid of sticking their hands in to a working
computer(PC/UNIX Hardware experience)
Wouldn't that be a little dangerous... You should turn it off first :-)
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 18:34 8/20/2002 +0300, Lior Kesos wrote:
Job Offer
We're looking for people who
in the first place and sell it at reasonable prices. That or write
software that 10th graders can't implement. If you intended to make money
on such software in the first place, you were clearly kidding yourself.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 11:44 7/15/2002 +0300, Eli Marmor wrote:
Moshe Zadka wrote
completely choking innovation anyway.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 14:48 7/15/2002 +0300, Guy Baruch wrote:
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
The solution to your problem is of course to release your software under
the GPL in the first place and sell it at reasonable prices. That or
write software
Disclaimer: I'm not a linux expert, but I'm definitely a Java one :-)
Perhaps the Java programs leak X resources? Perhaps someone familiar with X
knows whether X automatically recovers all resources when a process using
them just dies (without explicitly freeing them)?
Alexander Maryanovsky
I have the exact same problem on my compaq laptop. I've seen various
reports about it on the web, but I have no idea why it occurs, sorry.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
At 18:25 5/20/2002 -0400, Arie Folger wrote:
Hi,
My beloved laptop is afflicted with a new disease (bug), never noticed before
, sounds like the idea I suggested might be a simple addition to this proxy...
Alexander Maryanovsky.
- Original Message -
From: Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 Apr 2002 11:46:27 +0300
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: X server crashes
Another good piece of software that is worth
Hi!
I'm not sure they're not just using what you are, but www.tuxgames.com sell UT for
Linux... So you probably should have just bought that instead of the windows version.
Oh well, next time :-)
In the meanwhile, I'm waiting for my copy to arrive :-)
Alexander Maryanovsky.
- Original
said, I thought the applications were supposed to keep all the state, not
the X-server.
Alexander Maryanovsky.
- Original Message -
From: Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:04:32 +0300
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: X server crashes
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:50:10
can't one put up a proxy between the processes and the X server which would
delegate everything to it, make X server crashes transparent to the processes and
allow restarting the X server (again transparently to the processes) when it goes
down? It seems like a fairly simple thing to do...
Alexander
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