forums managemenet server needed

2004-02-03 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Would you recommend to me about a server-side manager of users/news/formus that supports hebrew well? scaliong is not a real issue here (20 expected users), but it better be simple to operate. -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901

Re: [OT]nesws regarding vigros chicks

2004-01-26 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:56:57PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: This is just wonderful! An article in this line has appeared in NYTimes (reg req) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/weekinreview/25john.html?hp -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ

Online demo for Hspell 0.7 (and newer builds, when available)

2003-12-22 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
(liver), adjective (heavy), imperative verb (respect!), and imagery (fabric-like), will show. This is the initial step in the long march for Hebrew automatic translation or text-to-speech application or intelligent text-searches. Enjoy. -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken

[OT] domain names in China ??

2003-12-21 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
registrar do? When it comes to DNS, the market is so wild that I don't know to whom should I believe. -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mozilla Printing

2003-12-19 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
://www.geocities.com/pratiksolanki/ . I learned there a lot. And I prefer the easily uninstall-able RPM. However, my about:buildconfig has --disable-xprint, so I'll have to dump my binary. Damn. -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901

Re: Mozilla Printing

2003-12-19 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
the line user_pref(print.print_method, 1); in mozilla preferences file (you can do it prefs.js, but it is recommended to do it in user.js - I also have the definions to enable trutype fonts), and -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901

Re: Pixelated output when exporting from Lyx to PDF

2003-12-14 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
default fonts. -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe

Re: Seeking a perl module

2003-12-09 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
use MIME::Parser; my $parser = new MIME::Parser; $parser-decode_headers(1); my $entity = $parser-parse(\*STDIN); $entity-dump_skeleton; -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901

Re: Top

2003-11-30 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
according to $ rpm -qf =top procps-2.0.11-6 ftp://ftp.iglu.org.il/pub/distributions/RedHat/linux/9/en/os/i386/SRPMS/procps-2.0.11-6.src.rpm would be a good place to start looking. (haven't checked it myself, but I had to tell the world how usefull is RPM) -- Dan Kenigsberg

Re: silly gnome-panel question

2003-11-24 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Cool! Thanks. Just what I was looking for. On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:20:01AM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:06:59PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: I see that my question wasn't clear. I'll restate it. When a window opens, gnome adds it automatically to its task

local override for javascript functions?

2003-11-24 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
you please run the function doGood() {} instead of it whenever requested? Now to my question: is there a mozilla extension that does just that? -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901

silly gnome-panel question

2003-11-18 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I know it is totally uncool to admit using such a vulgar application, but I have a question about it: How can I run a certain X app, let's say xeyes, without having its related icon in gnome-panel? -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901

Re: silly gnome-panel question

2003-11-18 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I see that my question wasn't clear. I'll restate it. When a window opens, gnome adds it automatically to its task bar, where it shows as a rectangular button. I would like to avoid this for xeys. How can this be done? -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ

Re: Bank Hapoalim - was: Re: Mozilla, Internet Banking and Bank Otsar Ha-Hayal: summary

2003-11-03 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
robust. I can provide the script upon request. -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run

Re: Bank Hapoalim - was: Re: Mozilla, Internet Banking and Bank Otsar Ha-Hayal: summary

2003-11-03 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:04:29AM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: It won't heart me to learn a trick or two. And neither to spell. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g

Re: he-en dictionaries...

2003-11-02 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
that someone (Didi?) converted the gratis dictionary of Babylon to a unix-compatible format, so this would be a more practical alley to walk by. Good luck! If you manage to find a good (and free) list of hebrew words (with, or without translations), I'll be happy to learn about it. -- Dan Kenigsberg

Re: Bank Hapoalim - was: Re: Mozilla, Internet Banking and Bank Otsar Ha-Hayal: summary

2003-10-30 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
. As written inside, it is GPLed (see exception!) and comes with absolutely no warranty. In fact, if you use it, don't be surprised if your life savings have been transferred to a swiss numbered bank account. http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken/poalim -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il

Re: Alcatel PRO firewall - is it good?

2003-06-12 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
/self-help/alcatel/alcatel-bugs.html -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run

SCO vs IBM on yesterday's HaAretz

2003-06-04 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
If you would like to read about it from a Microsoft- and Bush- bashing article, take a look at (reg. req.) http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtSR.jhtml?itemNo=299720objNo=10045returnParam=Y -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901

silly mozilla question

2003-06-02 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
How can I tell mozilla to open .ps.gz files with /usr/X11R6/bin/gv ? I hope one-liners don't insult you. Should I rephrase my question and a more elaborate way? -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901

Re: silly mozilla question

2003-06-02 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
you. I guess I should have been more elaborate afterall - this is exactly what bothered me, since I would have liked mozilla to peal the gzip and then continue with its MIME tricks. and I still does. -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901

Re: Announce: Hspell 0.4

2003-03-10 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:15:04PM +0200, Matan Ninio wrote: I'm very happy to here this. I would be even happier if I would understand what I need to do to get this to work with my bidi-emacs. Have you looked into the possibility of interfacing with emacs ispell like? being the center of

Announce: Hspell 0.4

2003-03-09 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
not perish from the earth. Dan Kenigsberg. P.S. I seldom go to the theater, so don't get any ideas. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail

Re: [Fwd: BSA Accuses OpenOffice ftp sites of piracy]

2003-03-04 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003, Eli Billauer wrote about Re: [Fwd: BSA Accuses OpenOffice ftp sites of piracy]: But the problem is not that some people want a WYSIWYG word processor, or spreadsheets. Micro$oft doesn't have any rights on the WYSIWYG concept. But if you call an application KWord

Re: Software design document

2003-02-26 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
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

Re: Software design document

2003-02-25 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
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

Re: Looking for a WM that will...

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
What about a directory with soft links? ;- On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:25:33PM +0200, Shoshannah Forbes wrote: .. allow me to group different documents from different applications into a single object, which I would be able then to manipulate directly, (a little like using a virtual paper

Stallman interviewed in Haaretz Friday Magazine

2003-01-02 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
You may find it interesting to follow the following link (reg req unless jscript disabled [*]): http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=247510contrassID=2subContrassID=13sbSubContrassID=0 And if you wondered, it does feature the Xerox printer anecdote. -- [*] archiving this

Re: questions for RMS

2002-12-23 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
furthermore, I don't think IBM's laptop modems are any of his concern either. IBM has dropped support and pre-installation of Linux on workstations and laptop and are only selling it on server platforms. sad, but true. if they officially don't support it, you can't complain about their

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 01:47:52AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: Can you please expand on the reasons you chose not to incorporate the generated word lists as a language package to some existing spell checker (such as myspell or aspell) and thus making it immidietly useful for end users ? I

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 09:25:54PM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: Did you look at the work of Erel Segal (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erelsgl) and his morphologial analyzer? Yes, I did notice his work. But he does not publish anywhere where he got his word lists (and what are their

Re: where did my mouse go?

2002-12-07 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:14:58PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002, Dan Kenigsberg wrote about Re: where did my mouse go?: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:41:05PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: The /dev/mouse symlink is fine, but `ls /dev/psaux' gives me ls: /dev/psaux: Input

where did my mouse go?

2002-12-05 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Suddenly and without prior warning[*], my thinkpad's internel mouse became unavailable to Linux. I'm running RH8, and kudzu fails to detect the mouse. Sadly, I see nothing interesting in the logs. Any idea why did this happen? I keep a standanlone mouse detection program on my laptop (it's

Re: where did my mouse go?

2002-12-05 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:41:05PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: The /dev/mouse symlink is fine, but `ls /dev/psaux' gives me ls: /dev/psaux: Input/output error yet 10 misc appears in my /proc/devices. How could it be that I suddenly don't have mouse support in my kernel? I booted with RH's

Re: Rootless Cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-06 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:47:43AM +0200, Eran Tromer wrote: Some time ago I consulted this list about good X servers for Windows (it's easier and far cheaper to access Linux from Windows than the reverse; I need both). This what happens when you're open - people pay the competetion in order

converting doc files in mozilla

2002-11-06 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hi I would like to send application/msword files to antiword, and from there, back to mozilla's window. You may call it a caveperson's plugin, if you please. Anyone knows how this should be done? Dan. = To unsubscribe, send mail

compiling the latest rh kernel

2002-10-22 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I'm trying to compile rh kernel 2.4.18-17.8.0 with my gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7). I'm using configs/kernel-2.4.18-i686.config as my .config. Compiling vmlinuz works fine, but modules fails with funny error message. any idea why is that? Dan. make -r -f

Re: compiling the latest rh kernel

2002-10-22 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
:35:53PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: I'm trying to compile rh kernel 2.4.18-17.8.0 with my gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7). I'm using configs/kernel-2.4.18-i686.config as my .config. Compiling vmlinuz works fine, but modules fails with funny error message. any idea why

[Slightly OT] Itanium CPU time for rent?

2002-10-12 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I wonder - is there anywhere a machine running the already-not-so-new Itanium processor, where I can have (rent?) login access? I would like to do some benchmarking. Thanks, Dan. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: xmms rh8

2002-10-04 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Patented technologies are doomed to dissapear. Indeed, but only because every patent has its expiration date... = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command

Re: Qtext

2002-09-24 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:50:07PM +0300, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: I guess a relevant bit of information here is that this program is written in Delphi, which is some variant of Pascal. In this case I guess porting is quite a big project. Unless you use Borland's lovely Kylix (Delphi's spin

[OT] What and Where: ethernet cables for home networking

2002-09-19 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I recall that a while ago, there has been a discussion in the subject. I'm afraid I failed to find the thread, and anyways - maybe things have changed. So - I consider to wire-up a home for ethernet and telephony. * Where should I buy the cabels and sockets? (Tel Aviv, Haifa, and between) * How

Re: HTML to jpg/gif in Linux

2002-07-25 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
It is extremely impolite to quote myself, and furthermore say almost the same, but for the sake of the archive, I have to state that the following works just fine (though long ps file should be broken, I suppose): $ Xvfb :1 $ DISPLAY=:1 netscape $ DISPLAY=:1

Re: HTML to jpg/gif in Linux

2002-07-24 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
For some reason I fail to use netscape -remote, but if it wasn't deprecated you could: netscape netscape -remote openURL(http://your.url) netscape -remote SaveAs(site.ps, PostScript) gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -dBATCH -sOutputFile=site.jpg site.ps I know people are doing similar things on top of a

run dhcpcd in the background, even when disconnected?

2002-07-07 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
When I boot my RH73, it runs dhcpcd that tries to find a dhcp server around and aquire an IP address for me. However, if I fail to connect to the LAN on time, dhcpcd fails and does not try again ever (unless I run it manually). I read from the dhcpcd manual that: dhcpcd

Re: run dhcpcd in the background, even when disconnected?

2002-07-07 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 02:30:13PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 13:15, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: I read from the dhcpcd manual that: dhcpcd will not fork into background until it gets a valid IP address in which case dhcpcd

Re: run dhcpcd in the background, even when disconnected?

2002-07-07 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 03:16:28PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On 7 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 15:43, Michael Sternberg wrote: Is it advisable in case of such failure to start computer with a random static IP and continue to look for DHCP server in

apmd revival script

2002-07-04 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hi, I know I should have found the answer in some fine manual, but I did not: I would like to write a script to be run whenevr my laptop wakes up, to tidy-up some ugly behaviors (a usb module going buzzerk, kbdrate fixup) I think it has something to do with

hp usb keyboard

2002-06-13 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I'm trying to connect the abovementioned keyboard to my rh73. from what I read in Documentation/input/input.txt, since I have hid and keybdev automatically loaded, I should be seeing characters flowing happiely into my kernel. However, I do not. Electricly, the keyboard (which serves as a hub

Re: Sun Spark - Linux isoue

2002-05-30 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
and the endianess of the data. SUN did it correctly, INTEL did not. Could you elaborate why Intel did it wrong? Since this question is probably more ancient and more heatedly debated than the Temple Mount / Kharam-a-Sharif dispute, I suggest to cut it out before it begins. Dan.

running a user-defined script with hotplug

2002-05-29 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hi List, I have RH73 that uses hotplug to monitor the usb and load modules when needed, and it works fine. However, I would like to run a script whenever I insert my DiskOnKey to the usb socket, and another one (well, it could be the smae one but with another arg) when I unplug it. man hotplug

Re: mounting iso9660 as rw

2002-05-28 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I think I could copy all the files from the iso, and my own, and rebuild the whole bunch, but I just don't like the idea. But this seems to me to be the only clean way. Of course, it might won't work for you at all (e.g. if the image is of a bootable CD which you can't create

mounting iso9660 as rw

2002-05-27 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
This may sound odd at first, and useless later, but I would like to add some files to a iso9660 filesystem. To be more exact, I have an iso of a CD and would like to update it with my own stuff. I tried to loop-mount it with rw option and even have /c/redhat/valhalla-i386-disc3.iso on /rh73/d3

Re: Silly question: who stole my locale information

2002-05-21 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
~$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/locale/he_IL glibc-common-2.2.5-34 ~$ ls /usr/lib/locale/he_IL ls: /usr/lib/locale/he_IL: No such file or directory ~$ rpm -V glibc-common .?. /usr/libexec/pt_chown Looks like corrupted rpm database... weird indeed. Just reinstall that

Silly question: who stole my locale information

2002-05-20 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I would swear that I had he_IL locale information installed under /usr/share/locale in my former RH72. Now that I upgraded to RH73, it is missing, and I (quite shamefully) cannot find the rpm that contains it. Any idea? Dan. = To

Re: Silly question: who stole my locale information

2002-05-20 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On my Redhat 7.3, $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/locale/he_IL/ glibc-common-2.2.5-34 $ ls /usr/lib/locale/he_IL LC_ADDRESS LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_MONETARY LC_PAPER LC_COLLATE LC_MEASUREMENT LC_NAME LC_TELEPHONE LC_CTYPELC_MESSAGESLC_NUMERIC LC_TIME I don't see how you

Re: Silly question: who stole my locale information

2002-05-20 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
From: Dan Kenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please tell me what do you make of this - it seems beyond my grasp: ~$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/locale/he_IL glibc-common-2.2.5-34 ~$ ls /usr/lib/locale/he_IL ls: /usr/lib/locale/he_IL: No such file or directory ~$ rpm -V glibc-common

Re: OT: procmail rule to discard viruses

2002-05-07 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
See http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Linux/maillists/01/12/msg00183.html for Nadav Har'el's half-a-year-old virus rule. I would guess you should add a klez-representing line to it, and hope that it is not prone to mutations. Dan.

Re: OT: a short Perl question

2002-04-28 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Thanks to everyone who answered me on and off the list. print standalone\n if (!caller); seems just what I've been looking for. (comparing $0 to the script's name would also work most of the times.) Dan. = To

Re: Screen saver password problem

2002-04-23 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
the problem is that you dont remember what language you are locked on to before you get up to grub some coffee and lock your screen ;) . if you keep a LOT of applications running all the time, then killing X becomes a big problem... (Yes, I once made that mistake too -- even killed

Re: Screen saver password problem

2002-04-23 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002, Dan Kenigsberg wrote about Re: Screen saver password problem: Just a (very) simple trick that once helped me out: if you have root privileges, you may change the passwd to something you *can* type, unlock KDE, and revert to the original password. No need to murder X

Re: Slightly OT: yellow pages blocks our browsers

2002-04-04 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:02:13AM +0300, Herouth Maoz wrote: [...] I intend to sent the complaint not just to YP themselves, but also to some newspapers. I don't know, Captain Internet, y-net, whatever. FWIW, I intend to protest against this braindead restriction, do you have a

Re: OT:automating html's using mozilla api

2002-04-01 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hello list. Im looking for a way to automate html submisiion (input and such.) What i mean is,writing a program that will type for me some key words in a site and replay me the response. I thought maybe using mozilla`s api and if so does any one have a good idea where to start?

Re: [Humour] This is hilarious... ;-)

2002-03-11 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
http://www.microsoft.comitem=linux@3573468885/original.html My web connectivity is awful today, so I couldn't check this link, however, this is known to be a HOAX: the prefix of a URL before the @ sign is passed to the site right after it as useename/password. In the aforementioned URL

Re: Sendsms to Orange

2002-02-21 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I asked: I downloaded and installed the sendsms scripts. They work fine for pele-phone, but only work about 30% of the time for Orange. I get the message Sent successfully. in the log, but nothing happens on the phone. I found the answer. Walla will accept a message with

how to measure process memory usage?

2002-02-17 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hi I bet it is a stupid question with a simple answer, but I failed to find it, so: Is there a utility to measure memory usage of a process, preferably proken into static/stack/heap? The man page of GNU `time' suggests that it should do the trick, but running /usr/bin/time myprog always

Re: how to measure process memory usage?

2002-02-17 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Thanks people, but I am looking for a shellscript-oriented tool, to measure the maximum memory used by a process. I believe this *is* an interesting and useful measure. I am afraid top and even ps are not usefull for me. Should I run ps continuously and return the maxmum vsize? Dan. use

Re: [newbie] Renaming Files

2002-02-17 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hi All, I have 1444 files I've recovered using the undelfs in Midnight Commander. The file names are in inode format, something like: 123456:1. I would like to rename them all at once and just remove the :x part, i.e.: 123456. Any util available? Thanks. Amichai. if you

MMX with gcc

2002-02-13 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Did anyone around try running Pentium MMX code? I failed miserably trying to find a working demo code. For example, the one from http://min.ecn.purdue.edu/~rfisher/Research/Libmmx/libmmx-990416.tgz does not compile on gcc version 2.95.2 or gcc version 3.0.3. At first it complains about

Minor correction and no real help - Re: Hebrew Under Kshowmail

2002-02-10 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Sorry I cannot help you with your question. =?WINDOWS-1255?Q?=E0=E4=F8 It was explained to me that the header in question is encoded in BASE64 MIME format. So, I dropped the issue, and went back to using Kshowmail to watch the mailbox. (Minor correction: the Q up there stands for for

Re: Why USB disk on key is write protected

2002-02-05 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hi I brought in and connect USB disk on key 32Mb device to Mandrake 8.1 machine. (kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk) I mount the disk in the following way mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usb but found it write protected. I think that Linux believes too much to the information

resolver and named questions

2002-01-30 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hi all, I am connected to the net by a slow dialup, and running a local named in order to speed-up repeated connection (my main dns is quite slow, too). If I ping google.com, the local named forwards a dns query, whose answer is kept in its cache for futuer attempts. However, I noticed that

automatic script to access your own first international bank to israel account

2002-01-06 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Due to popular demand and great success of my Bank Poalim script (frankly, I have reasons to believe that no one but me uses it), here is a similar one to access FIBI. You may obtain it from http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken/fibi Please let me know if it is useful/working for you.

Re: automatic script to access your own bank poalim account

2001-12-27 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I agree that accessing your account every hour is excessive. However, I do not consider checking on your account automatically every morning as an abuse. In fact, it keeps the customer more up-to-date, triggers him/her to take action more frequently, which in the end earns more money for the

automatic script to access your own bank poalim account

2001-12-26 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Is your computer connected continuesly to the net? Do you have an account in Bank Poalim, with internet access? If so, you may take interest in the script I wrote: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken/poalim One can arange for it to check your bank account hourly and tell you if

Re: Hebrew Under gbiff

2001-12-18 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Ignoring silly things like startup latency, I thing Perl is better for this job: #!/usr/bin/perl -w print tostring($ARGV[0]), \n; sub tostring { my $s = shift; my @spl = split('\?', $s); return $s if ($#spl != 3 || $spl[0] ne '='); ($_, $charset, $enc, $str) = @spl; #TODO:

Re: [Slightly Off Topic] processor speed

2001-12-05 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
. Returning to my problem, I can use /proc/cpuinfo (in fact, I am). However, on Sun/Alpha the best I can do is run psrinfo, but it is problematic since those systems are in some cases assymetric - and I cannot tell on which cpu my proccess is running. Any other ideas? Dan. On Tue, Dec 04, 2001, Dan

Re: making a non-GPLed module

2001-12-05 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
So, Nadav, if I want to post something at linux-il, without you knowing about it, should I simply add the following lines to my message? 1 0 Z0gSPTNEI2YAPiu7YYJW5q94cmMWly6hsWNpffE (oops. if it works, you won't answer... this smells like Godel.)

[Slightly Off Topic] processor speed

2001-12-04 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I would like to tell the speed of the processor I'm using, via a system call, on various unices (linux, solaris and alpha). any idea? Please assume I cannot open the computer or afraid of screwdrivers, and cannot parse the lovely Linux /proc/cpuinfo, nor parse the output of Sun's and alpha's

[Really Off Topic and Annoying] (was how to edit /etc/fstab)

2001-12-03 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
No matter how right and busy you are, you just CANNOT laugh at someone's gender, religion or nationality. Since a person's name is usually the product of these, you MUST NEVER ridicule it. Excuse me for publishing this remark. I just cannot go down in history as participant in a list with this

Re: PnP problem

2001-11-27 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
If anyone care (I guess not too many), I figured out my modem problem: for some reason, setserial /dev/ttyS2 autoconfig decided to configure irq 10 for that device. Forcing setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 4 cured the symptoms. Dan. = To

PnP problem

2001-11-26 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hello. Almost three years have past since I broke my teeths and managed to configure my ISA PnP modem with Linux. A couple of days ago I upgraded from RedHat7.0+ to 7.2, and among various annoyences, the modem stopped working. It seems that it is found by the system (see /proc/isapnp: Card 1

[OFF TOPIC] https with Perl

2001-11-20 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hi List (excluding three of you whom I already asked personally). I would like to mechanize my accesss to the internet site of my bank, using a Perl script. It took me a while, but I finally got the perl modules that are required to do https. If I'm not mistake these are Crypt-SSLeay

Another make question

2001-11-19 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Is there a makefile variable carrying the name of the current/initial makefile? I mean something like cat foo.mk all: echo $(MAKEFILE_NAME_FICTITIOUS_VAR) ^D $ make -f foo.mk /home/moshe/foo.mk = To unsubscribe, send

Re: C++: Problem with overloading a constructor when splitting a

2001-11-18 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: you have put an inline function inside a '.cc' file. since it is inline, it will NOT be included in the object file 'base.cc', and thus, during link, there base constructor will be undefined. this is your bug - not g++'s. fixes:

how can I eject my cdrom?

2001-10-13 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hi. I just received a (probably badly burnt) cdrom that I wanted to check out. After a mount /mnt/cdrom I got mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, instead of some

Re: how can I eject my cdrom?

2001-10-13 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
(according to mtab) So, anyone knows of an unlock cdrom command line? Thanks, Dan. On Sat, Oct 13, 2001, Dan Kenigsberg wrote about how can I eject my cdrom?: which might be true indeed, but since then I cannot eject the disk - not by eject /mnt/cdrom, not by hand

Re: LaTeX

2001-10-10 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Thanks, Oleg Nadav. I'm embarrassed to admit I should have RTFMITLSACM (i.e. including the last section about common mistakes) Dan. On Wed, Oct 10, 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about Re: LaTeX: Dan Kenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let's say I want to replace the 'Hell' string

LaTeX

2001-10-09 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Is anyone around familiar with LaTeX's psfrag package? I thought I followed all the rules, yet it does not seem to work. test.eps is: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 100 20 %%EndComments /Times-Roman findfont 24 scalefont setfont 0 0 moveto (Hello) show showpage Let's say I want to

Linux-friendly CDR

2001-06-27 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I would like to buy a Linux-friendly CDR. What would you recommend? = 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: antiword

2001-04-16 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I would like to thank both you and your unix guru. I downloaded and compiled antiword on a Solaris box without any problem. It indeed seems cool. I feel obliged to tell here that Nadav's bidiv is much better than rev for viewing mixed English/Logical-Hebrew text files. Check

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