Re: wifi adapter problem

2010-11-17 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 23:09 +0200, David Ronkin wrote: > # dhclient wlan1 > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3 > Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium. > All rights reserved. > For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ > > Listening on LPF/wlan1/00:1f:1f:c7:1

Will Nokia destroy Qt4 like they destroyed Symbian OS?

2010-11-08 Thread Omer Zak
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/11/08/guest-post-symbian-os-one-of-the-most-successful-failures-in-tech-history/ The 4th comment has a prediction that Nokia are not going to be healthy for Qt4. So if it does really happen, I suppose that there'll be a fork of Qt4, making Qt4 for KDE different from Qt

Re: Arduino in Israel

2010-10-21 Thread Omer Zak
If anyone knows the answer, please answer the mailing list, because I want to know where to buy Arduino hardware in Israel, too. --- Omer On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 15:07 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > hi, > > is there any place in Israel where one could buy hardware for Arduino > http://arduino.cc/ ?

Re: rehovot linux

2010-09-28 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 09:33 -0700, Jorge Mariano wrote: > Now do any of you know if there are any linux groups in rehovot ? be it > users/programmers/support I know only about a Perl mongers group in Rehovot, whose meetings I never attended. It was the venue of the last two August Penguin events,

Re: O'reilly Books in Israel

2010-09-24 Thread Omer Zak
תנסה: http://www.combooks.co.il/ זמן האספקה הסטנדרטי שלהם (נכון לאפריל 2008) הוא עד 14 ימי עבודה (כ-3 שבועות לוח). COM.BOOKS LTD

Re: Does anyone know whether the following can be trusted?

2010-09-19 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 07:09 +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010, Omer Zak wrote about "Does anyone know whether the > following can be trusted?": > > There is an exploit of 64-bit Linux kernel, which leaves behind a > > backdoor usable even

Does anyone know whether the following can be trusted?

2010-09-19 Thread Omer Zak
There is an exploit of 64-bit Linux kernel, which leaves behind a backdoor usable even after the kernel has been patched. To check whether your PC is infected, the diagnose-2010-3081 tool can be used (see https://www.ksplice.com/uptrack/cve-2010-3081.ssi.xhtml for links to binary and to source).

Re: Linux kernel drivers and glibc on MS-Windows? (Running Linux software under Windows)

2010-09-14 Thread Omer Zak
running system (such as CoLinux) that will be used. On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 09:08 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 02:08:06AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > > Short of a fully fledged virtual machine, what can be used to run Linux > > software, which accesses hardw

Re: Linux kernel drivers and glibc on MS-Windows? (Running Linux software under Windows)

2010-09-13 Thread Omer Zak
:45 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote: > Hi Omer, > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 02:08:06AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > > Short of a fully fledged virtual machine, what can be used to run Linux > > software, which accesses hardware such as USB devices (hence requiring > > some kerne

Linux kernel drivers and glibc on MS-Windows? (Running Linux software under Windows)

2010-09-13 Thread Omer Zak
Short of a fully fledged virtual machine, what can be used to run Linux software, which accesses hardware such as USB devices (hence requiring some kernel drivers and stuff), under Windows? In other words, is there such a thing as a "reverse Wine"?

Re: attaching mice to VM sessions

2010-09-13 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 16:34 +0300, Michael Lewinger wrote: > Dear friends, > > i wanted to use VMs in VBOX or VMWARE PLAYER as follows: > > 1) 2 PCI-E dual-head cards > 2) 4 monitors, each one connected to a different head > 3) 4 mice and keyboard 9all USB) > > And run 4 VMs in parallel, so tha

Not needed anymore (was: Re: IDE Hard Disk and IDE CD-ROM Drive for an aging PC)

2010-09-12 Thread Omer Zak
+0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 14:13 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > > Do you have a working (but unused) hard disk with IDE interface and > > whose capacity is at least 100GB? > > Do you have a working (but unused) CD-ROM drive with IDE interface? > > Do

Re: comparing two directory structures

2010-09-04 Thread Omer Zak
If you want to compare filenames, size, ownership and last update time: cd directory1 ls -alR > /tmp/dirlist.1 cd directory2 ls -alR > /tmp/dirlist.2 diff /tmp/dirlist.1 /tmp/dirlist.2 If you want to compare only sizes and filenames: cd directory1 ls -alR | cut -d\ -f 5- > /tmp/di

Re: question about a firewall

2010-09-03 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 22:40 +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi people, > As I setup my VPS/dedicated hosting here in Israel, I have been asked > by the hosting company (Netvision) to either buy and bring a firewall > or rent from them since the bandwidth I bought exceeds what is allowed > under their

IDE Hard Disk and IDE CD-ROM Drive for an aging PC

2010-09-03 Thread Omer Zak
Do you have a working (but unused) hard disk with IDE interface and whose capacity is at least 100GB? Do you have a working (but unused) CD-ROM drive with IDE interface? Do you want to get rid of both but don't like to just throw away working hardware? Do you live or come frequently to Jerusalem an

Re: Linux books, fast shipping?

2010-08-29 Thread Omer Zak
In the past, I used the services of Combooks LTD. (http://www.combooks.co.il/), who also had booths in some August Penguins. --- Omer On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 01:38 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: > Hi, > I need to buy 4 books, and would like a recommendation where I

[Fwd: Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???]

2010-08-29 Thread Omer Zak
Nadav, Did you see the following question? I saw no report of tests due to the question. --- Omer Forwarded Message From: Omer Zak To: linux-il Subject: Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux??? Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:40:26 +0300 On Sun, 20

Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???

2010-08-28 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 00:27 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Now, what happens is that while my wife's Windows computer works well with > that switch, my Linux computer does not. Sniffing the network, I see that > my Linux computer sends out DHCP broadcasts (to get an IP address from the > house's DHCP

Re: linux system that does not use the console except in TEXT mode.

2010-08-23 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 10:18 +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > When I tried to install UBUNTU 10.04, which I did because I have 2 > other UBUNTU systems and don't want to hassle with something else, > including the alternate (text installer), or server (text only) > versions, it installs fine

Scripting best practices - an article

2010-08-16 Thread Omer Zak
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180590/Scripting_best_practices I like the ideas of developing a project style guide, and of adjusting the level of commenting to whatever you'll need a month or two from now. --- Omer -- Did you shave a yak today? My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/t

Re: You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?

2010-08-16 Thread Omer Zak
Before I started my dealings with computers, I used to work in chemistry. My CV from that era consists of a dinosaur bone arrangement - I killed them and rearranged their bones to convey the message. If you wanted to employ me at that time, you'd be supposed to excavate the bones and read them. Ho

Re: You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requestedto provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?

2010-08-16 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 13:48 +0300, Shahar Dag wrote: > Hello > > You can create doc files using the online SkyDrive by Microsoft (accessed > via windows live). > > There is a plug-in for MS office that opens OO documents (I think it is a > Sun free product) but I don't have the url for it Does

Re: How did it end up (Re: You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?)

2010-08-16 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 08:03 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:49:02AM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 00:40 +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > > (Open Office can convert your CV to this format) > > > > Turns out that oowriter

How did it end up (Re: You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?)

2010-08-15 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 00:40 +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > (Open Office can convert your CV to this format) Turns out that oowriter 2.4.1 (Debian Lenny) does not have this feature (at least without installing an unknown extra package). However, I found that http://www.coolutils.com/Online-HTML-Co

Re: You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?

2010-08-15 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 00:05 +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > On יום ראשון 15 אוגוסט 2010 23:28:44 Omer Zak wrote: > > Some of those companies (both placement and project subcontract work > > outfits) look for a Linux software developer AND expect you to E-mail > > them a MS-Wor

Re: You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?

2010-08-15 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 00:13 +0300, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: > Why? Can't your OpenOffice create doc files? Actually, whenever I am due to send a .doc file, I send a .rtf, figuring that it is a more reliable way to preserve the document styling. > It you are to make a war about it, fine, but you migh

You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?

2010-08-15 Thread Omer Zak
I am now looking for work, and am undergoing the usual drill of sending E-mail messages in response to job/project ads and referrals. My mode of operation is to E-mail the URL to my CV in my Website. Light and sweet E-mail and the receipient's E-mail client has the convenient affordance of lettin

[HEBREW] Thanks to all those who helped me with WiFi on my laptop few weeks ago

2010-08-07 Thread Omer Zak
בהנגשת כנס אוגוסט פינגווין 2010 לאנשים עם מוגבלויות, זכיתי לשיתוף פעולה מאנשים רבים וכאן המקום להגיד לכולם תודה. ארגון "בקול", באמצעות דברת נוטמן, העמיד לרשותי מערכת FM עבור כבדי שמיעה. התנאים היו כאלה שאיפשרו ביטול ברגע האחרון וללא קנס במידה ולא יבו

Re: Exporting CSV file with hebrew

2010-07-31 Thread Omer Zak
it can import the hebrew? > I myself don't have access to Exccel and thus can not test it. > I can send a sample file. > > -- > Ori Idan > > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Omer Zak wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 00:20 +0300, Ori Idan w

Re: Exporting CSV file with hebrew

2010-07-30 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 00:20 +0300, Ori Idan wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Omer Zak wrote: > My experience is limited to whatever my CPA is using (I think > he uses > Excel). By experimenting with utf-8, cp862, iso_8859-8 and >

Re: Exporting CSV file with hebrew

2010-07-30 Thread Omer Zak
My experience is limited to whatever my CPA is using (I think he uses Excel). By experimenting with utf-8, cp862, iso_8859-8 and windows-1255 encodings, we found that windows-1255 worked for him. If you find that Google Docs and Excel have contradictory expectations, then I suggest that you allow

Re: Alternative for getline() function in AIX 5.3

2010-07-27 Thread Omer Zak
What I mean is to use whatever preprocessor symbol that is defined when building using gcc, but undefined on AIX; or vice versa. On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 21:53 +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Omer Zak writes: > > > #ifdef __GNUC__ > > // use getline() > > #else /* __GNU

Re: Alternative for getline() function in AIX 5.3

2010-07-27 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 14:02 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010, Israel Shikler wrote about "Alternative for getline() > function in AIX 5.3": > > I am looking for an alternative to getline(), that would be portable to both > > Linux and AIX. [... snipped ...] > The second alternativ

Re: Alternative for getline() function in AIX 5.3

2010-07-27 Thread Omer Zak
DISCLAIMER: 1. I don't have access to AIX. 2. I didn't actually test my suggestions. Alternatives: 1. Use fgets() if it is available for AIX, too. 2. According to man getline, getline() is a GNU extension, and is available only when you #define _GNU_SOURCE. So use: #ifdef __GNUC__ // use getli

Re: [4SALE] One differential SCSI cable - great sentimental value

2010-07-25 Thread Omer Zak
May I suggest that you, Marc the Terrible, hold on to the Holy Differential SCSI Cable for mere two extra weeks (less one day and a weekend); and during the Highly Esteemed August Penguin 2010 Religious Ceremonies, auction off the Holy D.SCSI.C and after deducting your thirty sinful ducats, donate

Re: Missing firmware file when installing Debian Squeeze on my laptop

2010-07-12 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 20:32 +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen writes: > > >> I know nothing about Ubuntu, > > > > But Omer asked about Debian. > > Hmm... I was still at work, so I couldn't be drunk... The only > reasonable conclusion is that I should work less... Omer - apologies.

Re: WiFi PC Card for a laptop?

2010-07-11 Thread Omer Zak
uying hardware? Thanks, --- Omer On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 16:36 +0300, sara fink wrote: > would you be interested in a usb card? > > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Omer Zak wrote: > I have a laptop without built-in WiFi adapter. > However it has a PC Card socket. >

Missing firmware file when installing Debian Squeeze on my laptop

2010-07-11 Thread Omer Zak
I am now in midst of clean install of Debian Squeeze on my old laptop, from a netinst CD. Since the laptop has a Broadcom network card, before installing the base system, the Debian Squeeze installer says that it needs the tigon/tg3_tso5.bin firmware. The installer offers to load it from a removab

WiFi PC Card for a laptop?

2010-07-10 Thread Omer Zak
withdrawn due to licensing issues, for example). Thanks, --- Omer Zak -- Never let beliefs, God or Gods incite war and hatred among human beings. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official

Top 10 Dumb Reasons Apple Beat Microsoft

2010-05-29 Thread Omer Zak
http://blogs.bnet.com/salesmachine/?p=10175&tag=col1;post-10175 (requires subscription) ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: External monitor can only "copy" laptop's built-in

2010-05-21 Thread Omer Zak
If you haven't done so, you need also to define a virtual screen size which is big enough to include both physical displays. You may want to have a look in man 1 xrandr. --- Omer On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 17:55 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 / 1505E with 1680x1050 built-in L

Re: How do you calculate?

2010-05-20 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 14:55 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Do you take out an actual physical calculator (which is of course ridiculous)? Not necessarily. I have a simple calculator, powered by photovoltaic cells. For simple additions and multiplications, I use it. It may be considered as an extra

Re: Fwd: Ben Gurion - arrivals in Firefox

2010-04-27 Thread Omer Zak
The ridiculous thing with the IAA Web site is that the landings page actively blocks non-IE browsers and prevents them from displaying the data. I am able to routinely check landing times by using View Source and searching for the flight number of interest. If you ask me, I'd look for a conspirac

Re: Modern development environment on dated RHEL

2010-04-27 Thread Omer Zak
1. Is RHEL 4.7 still being supported by RedHat, and are security patches still being made available? If yes, when is this support due to end? 2. Do you wish to use the up-to-date tools only for development, or also in software to be delivered to the customer and/or deployed in the company's opera

Re: request for help regarding a bidi patch

2010-04-14 Thread Omer Zak
In Debian Lenny, the libpango version (libpango1.0-0) is 1.20.5-5+lenny1 In this version, /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-types.h declares the functions which you need. Outputs requested by you: $ objdump --dynamic-syms /usr/lib/libpango*.so | grep base_dir 00016500 gDF .text 0130 Ba

Re: Convert Perl/Tk to Python TkInter

2010-04-02 Thread Omer Zak
Without looking at the relevant code: 1. Which version of Tk is there in Perl/Tk? And in the Python Tkinter version which you use? Maybe upgrading to a newer Tkinter version will solve your problem? 2. How is the widget implemented in Perl/Tk - is it implemented purely in Tcl (i.e. in the Tk li

Re: print a map from firefox

2010-03-06 Thread Omer Zak
I use http://maps.google.com/ and http://www.mapa.co.il/ and I don't remember problems printing from either of them using Firefox. DISCLAIMER: I didn't test them now. --- Omer On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 11:09 +0200, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > Hello, > I had

Re: [YBA] No cyclical file in Linux?

2010-03-01 Thread Omer Zak
Would the following meet your need? 1. Delete the original /var/log/syslog and create a FIFO with the same name. 2. Start a process, whose stdin is the above FIFO, and which runs a short program or a script, whose output is a disk file. The script would manage the output file as a cyclical buffer

Re: [YBA] No cyclical file in Linux?

2010-03-01 Thread Omer Zak
My guess is that for the common use cases of cyclical files, there are good userland solutions, presumably based upon use of mmap(), fseek() and/or ftell(). Can you, Jonathan, give more details about what do you expect from the ideal cyclical file?

Re: Recommendation for a reliable Color Printer (with MFP features?) supporting Linux

2010-02-27 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 20:23 +0200, shimi wrote: > * Expect it to live many years - not a throwaway product (again not > inkjet?) - and don't mind to pay more for that > * Assumed duty cycle is 200-400 pages per month > I guess my price range would be 1500 +/- 500 NIS incl. VAT or so Given this du

Semi-forced upgrade of browser - problematic when it is Iceweasel

2010-02-18 Thread Omer Zak
Today when I visited http://www.youtube.com/, I was greeted by a message that my browser will be unsupported soon, and my browser was the current Iceweasel 3 version from Debian Lenny. The earliest Firefox version to be supported is Firefox 3.6. I quickly browsed http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku

Re: toolchain's output depends on toolchain used to build the compiler?

2010-02-09 Thread Omer Zak
I'd like to second Yedidyah's suggestion and re-express it as an application of the "Lion in the desert" methodology. The "desert division into halves by fences" can proceed along at least two dimensions: 1. Reduction of the size of a module which compiles differently in the two platforms (Yedidy

Re: toolchain's output depends on toolchain used to build the compiler?

2010-02-09 Thread Omer Zak
I suggested before to check the compiler and linker flags which are actually used. Now I decided to check how to actually make the checks. According to man gcc: -v (verbose mode) reports the final form of the include path. --help -v reports extra information which can be helpful. I found that fo

Re: toolchain's output depends on toolchain used to build the compiler?

2010-02-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 12:23 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Omer Zak wrote: > > This could catch blocks created from uninitialized (or > > differently-initialized) memory areas. > > > In my software or in the compiler's? In the compiler's or the linker&#x

Re: toolchain's output depends on toolchain used to build the compiler?

2010-02-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 11:26 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > > If the absolute path is included (I think -g does that). The mount > > point in the two environments may be called differently. > > > That's why I'm using objdump -d, which does not print the source

Re: toolchain's output depends on toolchain used to build the compiler?

2010-02-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 10:52 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > ronys wrote: > > What are the differences in code? Perhaps they're related to the > > different paths? (If the lengths of the paths are different, and > > they're stored somewhere in the object code, that'll change the > > results) > Th

RE: toolchain's output depends on toolchain used to build the compiler?

2010-02-09 Thread Omer Zak
Further questions and things to eliminate: 1. Are there timestamps in the machine code files (presumably embedded by the linker, because the compile-time ones don't exist, by checking for identical post-preprocessor files)? 2. The difference in paths suggested by Rony could also be due to different

Re: Recommendations for Inexpensive PDA

2010-01-27 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 20:22 +0200, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > So, iPhone doesn't seem like a great solution for me. Any other > suggestions? What are other people using as a PDA ? Would it be too naive to assume that today's (and even yesterday's) smartphones qualify as PDAs? As for me, I use Nok

Re: need help with PHP open source class

2009-12-29 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 10:42 +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Meir Kriheli wrote: > > > > > IMO PHP developers should be aware of PEAR [1] and use it when possible. The > > repo includes a whois class called Net_Whois [2], maintained - current > > stable released last

Re: [SEMI-OFFTOPIC] eBook reader recommendations, anyone?

2009-12-17 Thread Omer Zak
ows > displaying different content side by side does not sound like > something an ebook must do in my opinion) - and thus their size and > features are appropriately set. [... snipped ...] > > 2009/12/16 geoffrey mendelson > > On Dec 16, 2009, at 9:40 PM

[SEMI-OFFTOPIC] eBook reader recommendations, anyone?

2009-12-16 Thread Omer Zak
What does the collective wisdom of the Israeli Linux users know about the current crop of eBook readers? Any recommendations? Do the following requirements make sense? 1. Ability to display PDF files. 2. Full-fledged browser for displaying locally-cached HTML files. 3. Ability to display text

Re: FW: very interesting - Sixth Sense Device

2009-12-13 Thread Omer Zak
>From the choice of words being used, I guess that it is a podcast rather than a textual page. And I assume (correctly for 99% of the cases) that there are no captions. If this is indeed the case, can anyone please write down the answer to the first question after the talk? Thanks, --- Omer On M

Does anyone know those spammers? [Fwd: בואו להיות מהנדסי לינוקס (

2009-12-10 Thread Omer Zak
Forwarded Message From: Penguin IT Training Center To: w...@zak.co.il Subject: בואו להיות מהנדסי לינוקס (פרסומת) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:01:02 GMT לפרטים נוספים וקבלת תוכנית לימודים לחץ/י כאן או התקשר/י : 054-6789954, 077-7006751 פנייה באימייל: train...@penguin-it.co.il

[SUMMARY] Re: Memory economical Linux installation?

2009-12-05 Thread Omer Zak
Yigal Asnis: Xubuntu (Ubuntu with Xfce desktop environment) - needs 192MB RAM to run the live CD, less to install. Needs 1.5GB free hard disk space. Recommended to have at least 256MB RAM at runtime. Gilboa Davara: CentOS 5.4 with 256MB RAM (slow JavaScript under Firefox 3.0). Removed most of the

Re: GUI Enviroment to ARM Linux

2009-12-04 Thread Omer Zak
You may want to look into Qt. It is cross platform and works on both X-Window and non-X-Window based systems. On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 09:50 +0200, itamar levit wrote: > Hi > I'am new in linux GUI application > > Q1. I use linux 2.6.28 run on arm CortexA8 I have LCD and keys on the > hw board. > I

Memory economical Linux installation?

2009-11-28 Thread Omer Zak
I was contacted by someone, who has an old laptop with 192MB memory, and wants to install Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) on it. I advised him to first upgrade the memory to at least 512MB. However, as an alternative to upgrading the laptop, I'd like to know if and which distributions and desktops being acti

Re: x11 window duplicator

2009-11-11 Thread Omer Zak
xdmx? On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 09:53 +0200, Erez D wrote: > I remember once there was an X utility to show copies of a window: > i could run any program, and make it appear multiple times (possibly > on different displays) > The main program is functional, the others are just real time copies of it.

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-23 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Oleg, Thanks for the link. However my purpose in asking for recommendations was to get feedback from actual people, who actually print under Linux. When buying the CX3200, I vetted it using Linux compatibility guides and it indeed proved to be compatible (both printing and scanning). Howev

Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-21 Thread Omer Zak
I got fed up with the ink-guzzling behavior of my Epson Stylus CX3200 and would like to buy a new printer. And of course, it needs to be fully supported by Linux. Which manufacturers are OK today (for example, is Lexmark X2620, currently offered in a sale by Bezeq, OK)? Which printer/s available

Making ATI 4890 work under Debian Lenny [RESEND - I forgot to credit StackOverflow answers]

2009-10-15 Thread Omer Zak
Few weeks ago I bought a new PC with a graphics card based upon ATI 4890. Debian Lenny was installed on it and everything worked using an old 17" display (1280x1024). One day I replaced the old display by a new 23" display (1920x1080) and then was dismayed to find that X-Window continued to work i

Making ATI 4890 work under Debian Lenny

2009-10-15 Thread Omer Zak
Few weeks ago I bought a new PC with a graphics card based upon ATI 4890. Debian Lenny was installed on it and everything worked using an old 17" display (1280x1024). One day I replaced the old display by a new 23" display (1920x1080) and then was dismayed to find that X-Window continued to work i

Re: AT commands and RING messages when calling out

2009-10-10 Thread Omer Zak
>From http://michaelgellis.tripod.com/modem.html: Check ATXn, ATV1 >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set (has also the above and useful external links): Check ATQn On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 16:06 +0200, Tom Marcoen wrote: > Hey all > > I asked the following problem on ##programming (c

Re: OT Electronics recycling

2009-09-30 Thread Omer Zak
Several municipalities maintain a special place for disposal of used electronic equipment for recycling. In Petah Tikva (my city), for example, there is a container in Gisin St. (I don't remember the exact house number) for this purpose. I have been using it for disposal of my old electronics dur

Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-08 Thread Omer Zak
I was primary school student in the pre-1967 Israel. And at the time our parents were required to purchase books for us each year. Books usually were good for few years, so there were used book bazaars. However, even then there were complaints that publishers issue new editions each few years. W

Re: [SOLVED?] Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-09-04 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 09:19 +0300, Boaz Rymland wrote: > WebCam: not working out of the box. Haven't really tried setting it up > yet. >From my limited experience, the gspca driver (for several Webcam models) does not work nicely with NViDia proprietary drivers. For my new desktop PC (which I a

Re: kopete and hebrew

2009-08-08 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 07:39 +0300, sara fink wrote: > Do you have the appropriate fonts installed (My Kopete has > access to > Nimbus Sans L, Culmus fonts and some others)? > I don't have the fonts that you use, but have others like aharoni > clm, david clm, miriam clm. >

Re: kopete and hebrew

2009-08-08 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 03:18 +0300, sara fink wrote: > If I try to write in hebrew from kopete it works. The problem is that > other side sees only question marks. I tried to check the settings but > I can't find anything about locale and kopete or utf-8. > > anyone has an idea how to solve it? W

Re: batch parenthesis matching

2009-08-06 Thread Omer Zak
I suggest that BeautifulSoup be used (from Python). Using it you can parse and transform your HTML file. --- Omer On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 18:45 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 09:33:43PM +0300, Erez D wrote: > > > the problem is that between and its there > > may be other

Re: [SUMMARY, 95% SUCCESS] Re: Attempt to buy a Linux-compatible Bluetooth dongle

2009-07-29 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 11:13 +0300, Rami Rosen wrote: > Hi, > > >hcid daemon was already active, with the -x -s >options. man > >hcid provided no explanation of the -x option > > -x means stand for "experimental" in hcid daemon of bluez-utils. > This is mainly for development tests. > > Just a

[SUMMARY, 95% SUCCESS] Re: Attempt to buy a Linux-compatible Bluetooth dongle

2009-07-28 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 14:19 +0300, Nitzan Brumer wrote: > I bought the LVT-010 bluetooth dongle for my acer one. I use it with > Ubuntu 8.10 and it works great out of the box. no problem there. > http://www.bug.co.il/prodtxt.asp?id=6233&perur=1&t=10 Thanks also to Geoffrey Mendelson, Noam Rathaus

Attempt to buy a Linux-compatible Bluetooth dongle

2009-07-28 Thread Omer Zak
I visited a nearby computer shop, and asked which Bluetooth dongles do they have, and whether they are compatible with Linux. They have four models, which are mostly difficult to identify (typically made in China and with no clear model number): - BT-USB-P Dynamode - GPT USB04 - HK-890/USB04B (Min

Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

2009-07-23 Thread Omer Zak
I am looking for advice about selecting motherboard and graphic card/s for a new PC which I plan to acquire; and about suppliers available to Israelis (whereas in Israel or abroad). My requirement for the new PC is that it is to render quickly graphics and data visualizations of large data sets, a

Re: debian lenny sudden restart

2009-07-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 11:15 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > 1. Are you aware of ways to switch to a different virtual console > and/or cause the X server to restart - both possible from the > keyboard? Those ways don't work for me when the keyboard and mouse both freeze. > 2. There are ways to "chec

Debian Lenny Xorg X-Server woes (was: Re: debian lenny sudden restart)

2009-07-18 Thread Omer Zak
, Shimon Panfil wrote: > Quoting Omer Zak : > > > On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 18:21 +0300, Shimon Panfil wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> today my main box running debian lenny made sudden restart. How can I > >> investigate what was the reason? What log should I inspect? I u

Re: debian lenny sudden restart

2009-07-16 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 18:21 +0300, Shimon Panfil wrote: > Hi folks, > today my main box running debian lenny made sudden restart. How can I > investigate what was the reason? What log should I inspect? I use UPS > so the reason might be more interesting that simple power failure. I have a prob

Refactoring a mailing list policy to eliminate a special case (was: Re: Second article about BiDi programming, and last announcement to this list)

2009-07-15 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 16:05 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Thank you Shachar. As you are one of the dominant list members (in a > good way) and since you exercise discretion in the announcements that > you make, I for one welcome you as our local spam overlord and > encourage you to post the announcem

Bug reports retrieval problem when updating Debian packages

2009-06-27 Thread Omer Zak
Since I upgraded my PC from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny, when I run aptitude to update packages, I get the following output: Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... 0% Fail < E: Empty stream from SOAP

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me "poof... he's gone"

2009-06-10 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 10:30 +0300, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > hello, > > >i guess i'll modify the site for a new URL and upload a new version over > >>the weekend. in fact, i think i would better buy my own domain finally >and > >move the site elsewhere. > > I believe it would be great and for the

[Fwd: DebConf11 in your city!]

2009-05-28 Thread Omer Zak
Anyone in favor of inviting DebConf11 to Mitzpe Ramon or to Tiberias? Forwarded Message From: Jimmy Kaplowitz Reply-To: debconf-t...@lists.debconf.org To: debconf-annou...@lists.debconf.org, debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org Subject: DebConf11 in your city! Date: Thu, 28 M

Re: Desktop search tools for Linux

2009-05-24 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 22:26 +0300, Dov Grobgeld wrote: > Perhaps this would suit your needs? > > http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/ > > It can be configured to look through a large variety of files. I once > thought to set it up to improve search in a mediawiki configuration, > but I never got

Locate is necessary but not sufficient (was: Re: Desktop search tools for Linux)

2009-05-24 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 14:55 +0300, Ehud Karni wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2009 02:01:43 Omer Zak wrote: > > > > What search tool would you recommend for use today? > What's wrong with `locate' (beside it is not being updated during the > day ?). You can wrap it a

Desktop search tools for Linux

2009-05-23 Thread Omer Zak
I used Beagle as my desktop search tool, and eventually removed it because I felt it does not do good job indexing my stuff (I have plenty of free disk space so I was not worried by its storage requirements). However I still need some desktop search tool. The following article from 2007 http://www

Re: switch in gawk

2009-05-10 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 22:25 +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > So, if you have access to the latest RHEL/SLES, or Debian / Ubuntu / > Gentoo / whatever, would you mind running > > $ gawk 'END {switch(NR) {default: print NR}}' /dev/null > > (or anything with switch that you fancy) and see if it barfs

[SEMI-OFFTOPIC] GNUcash users in Israel?

2009-04-14 Thread Omer Zak
1. Is there any group, mailing list or forum for GNUcash users in Israel? 2. Is there any CPA with practical experience in matching between the needs of businesses using GNUcash for their internal accounting and the legal tax requirements? --- Omer -- D

[SUCCESS] Re: IrDA dongle ceased to work when I upgraded to Debian Lenny

2009-04-13 Thread Omer Zak
nd I don't see anything on your messages that shows this loads at > all.. > > I suggest you take a look here: > http://www.linux.com/base/ldp/howto/Infrared-HOWTO/infrared-howto-s-irda-usb.html > > Thanks, > Hetz > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Omer Zak

Re: IrDA dongle ceased to work when I upgraded to Debian Lenny

2009-04-13 Thread Omer Zak
nnected. By > doing modprobe, it should do all the stuff needed (create device, show > the device name in /var/log/messages) and show some status about it. > > Hope this helps, > Hetz > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Omer Zak wrote: > > Using lsusb, the dongle in ques

IrDA dongle ceased to work when I upgraded to Debian Lenny

2009-04-13 Thread Omer Zak
Using lsusb, the dongle in question identifies itself as: ID 050f:0180 KC Technology, Inc. KC-180 IrDA Dongle When I used Debian Etch, the device /dev/irda0 was automatically created and all worked out of the box. After upgrade to Debian Lenny, the udev-created device changed, due to some mysteri

Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux

2009-04-08 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 11:52 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009, Omer Zak wrote about "Re: Recommendations for desktop > search tool under Linux": > > > - Linux command line tools like locate, grep, find, vi and probably a > > > few good ot

Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux

2009-04-05 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 08:39 +0300, Boaz Rymland wrote: > Omer Zak wrote: > > > The huge files (index and log files) were not a problem for me. I set > > aside a separate multi-GB partition for Beagle's use, directing it to > > use it by an appropriately planted symb

Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux

2009-04-04 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 21:43 +0300, Boaz Rymland wrote: > Beagle once created huge log files in its directory under my home dir, > which clogged my filesystem. It took a while to find the culprit but > afterwards it was pretty fast to purge it from my system :-) . That > incident, couple with very l

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