2011/10/30 Steve G. word...@gmail.com
Happy Halloween!
I have a large number of .htm files (text in English, Spanish or Hebrew
with punctuation marks) which I want to convert to .pdf or PDF files, so I
can read them on the Kindle.
I know how to do it manually - I open them in a browser,
Please find (here, whatsup, or any other public option) people who would
also request or need such a mirror. There are too many distributions to
mirror, and they keep forking (:
Kaplan
I too am a Mageia user, and I would like to see the repos mirrored on ISOC.
I am fully aware that there
2011/10/24 Raz razi...@gmail.com
wow
you really love beer ...
Um, because it's free as in...
2011/10/24 sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com
Where is the sale? Hours?
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Meir Michanie meirgotr...@gmail.comwrote:
So... is anybody planning a party? Will there be cake?
2011/9/2 Tom Balazs tom123onl...@gmail.com
In fifteen days it will be Software Freedom Day.
http://softwarefreedomday.org/
Software Freedom Day (SFD) was initiated by a group of FOSS believers, *Matt
Oquist*, *Henrik Omma* and *Phil
Apparently Rob Weir is the ODF director at IBM.
I just encountered that in an article on FossForce.com.
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Here's the article:
http://fossforce.com/2011/07/ibm-backs-ooo-evil-empire-in-decline-apple-bakes-patent-pie/
And my pre-coffee brain translated architect into director for some
reason.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Mordecha Behar
mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Apparently Rob Weir
2011/7/17 Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Orr Dunkelman orr.dunkel...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Michael Shiloh
michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com To be more general, it is unheard of
for a prospective guest to set
political conditions
-- Forwarded message --
From: Mordecha Behar mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il
Date: Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: Finally - A RMS talk in Tel-Aviv. Including details
To: Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf
You should send an email to RMS asking his opinion about it.
Make sure he replies as president of the FSF so people can argue about his
views in the future.
Although, a level-headed email to the SMF dev team requesting clarification
might be a lot more useful, and save us all from pointless
It's pretty obvious that the people who added that inflammatory,
false language did it for a reason and it would be silly to think they
would be open to discussion.
Yes, it's obvious. They couldn't have possibly done it out of ignorance.
(See Nadav's rather lengthy and better-informed email)
I just got another digest email from Hamakor, and once again it is full of
question marks.
This usually means that a different encoding is being used.
However, my browser (and hence email client) is using Unicode (UTF 8). When
I tried viewing in various encodings (Hebrew IBM 862, Hebrew Windows
to have this problem.
--- Omer
On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 21:45 +0300, Mordecha Behar wrote:
I just got another digest email from Hamakor, and once again it is
full of question marks.
This usually means that a different encoding is being used.
However, my browser (and hence email client
Well, seeing as how most workers' strikes here only punish those who are
striking, that would be completely in character :P
But more seriously, the main advantage that I see to using Skype is that
everybody else does. It's like the Myspace/Facebook war of a few years ago.
Facebook won because
I've encountered the opposite problem.
Files I create in a Linux text editor (Kwrite) don't open properly in
Windows Notepad. I get the entire file on one line.
Maybe there's something strange going on behind the scenes in KDE?
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Shlomo Solomon
'\n' isn't a newline everywhere?
Or even '\r'?
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:22 AM, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote:
2011/6/1 Mordecha Behar mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il
I've encountered the opposite problem.
Files I create in a Linux text editor (Kwrite) don't open properly in
Windows Notepad
Well, thanks for clearing that up :)
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:33 AM, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote:
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Mordecha Behar
mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
'\n' isn't a newline everywhere?
Or even '\r'?
Windows != Everywhere :)
http://en.wikipedia.org
I think it's just your run-of-the-mill Israeli stubbornness. (And I mean
that in a good way).
MY website is good enough! Why should I change it?
This was actually the excuse I heard from more than one IT person when I
suggested that they modify their pages a little bit so that they will be
One day I was poking around my desktop and found that Ekiga had come
preinstalled. I fired it up and was dutifully impressed with all the new
and exciting features they promoted. (This was about 3 versions ago).
I liked that it loaded up the first time quickly and seamlessly, and walked
me through
According to http://www.godigital.co.il/ it looks like we really will be
making the transition this time to all digital TV on March 30.
This is the perfect opportunity to upgrade our home entertainment system to
something from this century.
My plan is to set up a Linux computer in a cabinet with a
I saw this on Slashdot.
Does this mean that all of the crappy web pages designed by delinquent
morons in Israel are now going to conform to standards and render properly
in normal browsers?
2011/3/5 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com
Not directly Linux related but a source of a lot of pain for
That actually depends.
The last time I bought a laptop with Windows installed on it I made sure to
get installation discs as well. I've never tried installing it anywhere else
(it's Vista) but I don't see why it won't be possible and legal.
And I never compared prices, but I think computers with
not a lawyer either, but I think that that's the general gist of
the rules.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Mordecha Behar
mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
That actually depends.
The last time I bought a laptop
I am not a script wizard, but I think I may know of a way to cut down a lot
of the work.
Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) is a FOSS library tool. It allows the
user to import books in many formats, including plain text and html.
Another FOSS program called Sigil
http://ksp.co.il and http://www.ivory.co.il both have English interfaces for
their sites, and are comparatively cheap. Also, KSP has an Arabic site as
well.
The only problem is that ksp looks like it was designed by a 16 year old boy
during the flashy gif Myspace era. It's awful.
And Ivory's
I think your best bet is BN Nook Color.
The 7 inch screen is not as small as you think. I have a 7 tablet from
China, and the screen size is just right. It's the size of an English
paperback. (I know that Hebrew ones are larger, for some reason...)
The main advantages I see are functionality.
FYI, Cheese http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/ is a GNOME webcam
application without hellish dependencies.
It works perfectly fine in my KDE environment.
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 23:54, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il
Well, I was going to try, but then I remembered the sharks...
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Stan Goodman
stan.good...@hashkedim.com wrote:
On Monday 10 January 2011 13:44:11 Justin wrote:
13yr old? I'd emphasize that
He does like it when commercial companies sponsor him, but he is still
careful about who he is seen with.
Remember, he is a GNU founder, not a Linux founder. There is a difference.
I think the best body to sponsor his talks here would be Hamakor, after all,
they are the largest (and official) FOSS
חנונים are nerds, there's a difference.
http://www.nerdist.com/2010/03/geeknerddorkdweeb-venn-diagram/
I think what people object to here (or at least what I object to) is the
entire premise of the whole show.
There are a few base assumptions here which are, imo, not necessarily true:
1. All
I think that the people reading this list are the only ones in the world who
would benefit from this program.
You how you're typing in English (or Hebrew) and then look at the screen
only to realize that you hadn't switched your keyboard? Frustrating.
I got fed up with having to retype it all, so
Wow. This looks like a fascinating talk.
But unfortunately I can't be there. Are the Haifux talks regularly recorded?
If so, where can I find them, if not, can you make an exception this time?
Thanks.
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote:
On Monday, January
to play with for a while, but it eventually dies
its final death and we just move on.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote:
On Monday 10 Jan 2011 17:18:22 Mordecha Behar wrote:
1) Most hardware elements are pretty idiot-proof. There's only one way to
plug
Another thing I just thought of.
As has been correctly pointed out, kids this age are nearly always
end-users.
So why not point out the end user experience of Linux? Lots of eye-candy,
stability, not needing to reboot every time you install a program, the
simplicity of finding and installing
of years but I wonder if it isn't too bloated for
old and under-powered computers? Maybe I should try to install
DSL http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ ?
regards
Gabor
2011/1/10 Mordecha Behar mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il:
Another thing I just thought of.
As has been correctly pointed out
Oddly enough this reminds me of one of my favorite comics:
http://xkcd.com/456/
Justin has hit on the most powerful point, i.e. being different from
adults like their fuddy-duddy parents. Hey, kids! Be the first on your
block to have a good reason to talk down to your old man! It's
I'd say maybe to stress the idea of customization.
Since the source is open, you can make it do whatever you want.
Kids (especially teenagers) are really into stamping their own personal mark
on the world around them. With open source software (and the skills) they
can do that.
Then of course
Hi all.
As you may or may not know Mandriva recently forked. The new fork, Mageia,
got most of the devels and a large chunk of the community.
It looks like they are really getting this thing off the ground.
http://www.mageia.org/en/
I found Mandriva to be an excellent distribution, with a good
I don't know much about remote desktopping across platforms, but this sounds
like a much simpler problem.
Have you tried disabling the screen saver or sleep program on the Windows
desktop?
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, linux-il,
This question
I tried sending this before, when I wasn't a member and it bounced, or the
moderator didn't let it in or something.
Anyway, if this has been posted already, please forgive me.
Does anybody have any experience getting any of the USB 3G modems provided
by any one of the cell carriers here to work
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