Meta-suggestion about conduct of discussions (was: Re: The new linux-il - a few tips to get you (re)started)

2009-01-30 Thread Omer Zak
May I suggest that someone open a Web page, which will summarize the main points (both pro and con) of the discussion so far? Once such a Web page exists and is available for modifications (such as being a Wiki), we can start enforcing the netiquette of expecting people to say something only if

[OFFTOPIC] IAA Performance (was: Re: israelt TV online (again))

2009-01-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 10:08 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/1/6 Dvir Volk dvir...@gmail.com: Aren't the IAA the same bunch of losers who can't even get their job done, and got Israel's traffic safety ranking down to the level of Zimbabwe's? [citation needed] There was an article about it

Re: make question

2008-12-17 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Jason, The following is what you need: -=-=-=- SOURCES = $(wildcard ../../some/other/path/*.eps) TARGETS = $(patsubst ../../some/other/path/%.eps,%_fixed.eps) all: $(TARGETS) %_fixed.eps: ../../some/other/path/%.eps [TAB] eps2eps $ $@ -=-=-=- The above works with GNU Make (I use GNU Make

Is there a Free Software tool which already does it?

2008-12-10 Thread Omer Zak
Given: 1. A text string (for example Stop!) 2. An image which displays the above text string (for example, a screen capture of a GUI button displaying the text Stop!) Does a Free Software tool, which can get the text string as input, process the image, and determine the following, already exist?

[OFFTOPIC] date format rant (was: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Daily Maily Spam)

2008-12-10 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 16:24 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/12/10 Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Looks like maybe someone along the chain to Dotan has mixed up American date format (MM/DD/) with the sane format (DD/MM/). I hate that format! Tbird and OOo _insist_ on using that

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Daily Maily Spam

2008-12-09 Thread Omer Zak
by sending E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Omer On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 23:24 +1100, Arik Baratz wrote: 2008/12/9 Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] Omer Zak wrote: During December (since the anti-spam law came

[OFFTOPIC] Daily Maily Spam

2008-12-08 Thread Omer Zak
During December (since the anti-spam law came into force), I received so far three E-mail messages from Daily Maily, without giving them permission to continue to E-mail me. Is there anyone who is organizing a group lawsuit against them? At any case, can anyone recommend a guide exactly what

Interference with Markets (was: Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!)

2008-12-06 Thread Omer Zak
I would be very wary of any law, which interferes with operation of businesses. There can always be unforeseen consequences. One possible consequence comes to one's mind: Embedded system which is always sold with an operating system and applications which allow its safe operation. Then one has

Re: Interference with Markets (was: Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!)

2008-12-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:31 +0200, sara fink wrote: Encourage (by getting people to demand it) providers to sell PCs with Linux, in which a VM is installed and runs a MS-Windows XP image. VM anyone can install. Asking VM installed

Re: silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread Omer Zak
I checked the expressions, using 'echo $whatever' in my bash, whose version string is: GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. All behaved without extra quote marks or whatever. So, Amos - please let us know which shell and

Re: grab focus

2008-12-01 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 00:18 +0200, Erez D wrote: hi i'm looking for a command line util which lets me change x-focus. i am running two apps with no window manager, and i want to be able to switch focus between the two by command line any idea ? OK, I'll bite even though I know of

Roll your own Window Manager (was: Re: Re: grab focus)

2008-12-01 Thread Omer Zak
: Omer Zak wrote: OK, I'll bite even though I know of no such utility. I assume that you are using X-Window server, but without any window manager. 1. Find or develop an utility for simulating mouse events and delivering them to X-Window. Then use mouse events to change focus. 2. Find

Re: grab focus

2008-12-01 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 08:27 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Erez D wrote: hi i'm looking for a command line util which lets me change x-focus. i am running two apps with no window manager, and i want to be able to switch focus between the two by command line any idea ?

gspca with GeForge FX 5200 experience, anyone? (was: Re: Webcam Recommendations?)

2008-11-24 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 20:29 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 19:52 +0200, Chaim Keren-Tzion wrote: Any recommendations for a good webcam to use with linux? (Mainly for use with Skype) TIA, Chaim I'm using the (somewhat pricey) Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX and

Re: gspca with GeForge FX 5200 experience, anyone? (was: Re: Webcam Recommendations?)

2008-11-24 Thread Omer Zak
I tested it only with 'nv' - never installed 'nvidia' in my PC. On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 23:25 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi Omer, Does anyone have good experience working with the gspca driver in conjunction with the nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] video card? In my system,

Re: gspca with GeForge FX 5200 experience, anyone? (was: Re: Webcam Recommendations?)

2008-11-24 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tested it only with 'nv' - never installed 'nvidia' in my PC. On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 23:25 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi Omer, Does anyone have good experience working with the gspca driver in conjunction

Re: Directory of open source related companies in Israel

2008-11-16 Thread Omer Zak
There used to be such a directory in http://www.vaya.org.il/wiki/ but it went away when the Wiki got vandalized. The Wayback machine has the list as it existed at January 2006 in the URL:

[OFFTOPIC][JOB] Looking for the jobless PHP programmer

2008-11-11 Thread Omer Zak
Few days ago someone looked for a job for a PHP programmer, who was recently laid off. The E-mail message in question had the programmer's cellphone number. Today I was contacted by someone, who is looking for a PHP programmer. However I didn't find the aforementioned E-mail in archives -

THANKS (was Re: [OFFTOPIC][JOB] Looking for the jobless PHP programmer)

2008-11-11 Thread Omer Zak
Thanks, Shlomi Fish and Boaz Rymland, for forwarding me the sought for E-mail message! Turns out that the E-mail message was in the PHP-IL mailing list. On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 12:13 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: If anyone has a copy of the message, can he/she forward it to me personally

Re: Anyone succeeded in setting up anonymous IPv6 connectivity in Debian Etch?

2008-11-08 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Noam, Thanks for your answer. I still need more help. On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 10:09 +0200, Noam Rathaus wrote: I have been able to do it using: apt-get install tspc I installed it, too. verify tun works: ifconfig tun I do not have tun, but I have sit0 and sit1. Should tun exist as

Re: Anyone succeeded in setting up anonymous IPv6 connectivity in Debian Etch?

2008-11-08 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Noam, I may not have clarified myself. Basically, when I set wireshark to listen to sit1, it captures my ping6's Echo Request packets - but no replies. I also found that there are no ppp0 or eth1 traffic corresponding to the ping6-created sit1 traffic (my PC has two Ethernet cards, and eth1

SUCCESS (Re: Anyone succeeded in setting up anonymous IPv6 connectivity in Debian Etch?)

2008-11-08 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 07:56 +0200, Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi Omer, So now it works? :) YES, IT WORKS NOW! On Sunday 09 November 2008 01:04:10 Omer Zak wrote: 1) Your firewall is blocking This turned out to have been the case. The following iptables commands fixed the problem

Anyone succeeded in setting up anonymous IPv6 connectivity in Debian Etch?

2008-11-07 Thread Omer Zak
After installation of the tspc package (version 2.1.1-6), the tspc daemon can be started and when started, it sets up the sit1 interface (which can be viewed by /sbin/ifconfig) and ping6 to the assigned IPv6 address works. Since I am reluctant to register for a channel broker, I use the anonymous

IPv6 support by ISPs - current status? (was: Re: Links and some info about IPv6 in Linux lecture in Herzelinux yesterday)

2008-11-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 01:14 +0200, Rami Rosen wrote: Hello, As I promised, here are some links and some additional info about IPv6 in Linux lecture, which was given in Herzelinux yesterday (6.11.08) by me: [... snipped ...] Few subjects, which I understand were not covered by the lecture

How not to enter an ID number when it's irrelevant (was: Re: Problem with navigate function in Firefox)

2008-10-31 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 17:17 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Friday 31 October 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/10/31 David Ronkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The site is: http://www.bezeqint.net/JobView.aspx?cc=01040504id=1482 I wrote them - but it only helps when many people do that. I

Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

2008-10-26 Thread Omer Zak
of the source and the sink points, which today is very difficult to do. I hope to create a concept implementation one day. I'd be happy to hear comments about this idea. Regards, Dov 2008/10/7 Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Jonathan, I think I begin

Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

2008-10-07 Thread Omer Zak
From the discussion below, I understand that Shachar and me use the same definition of visual selection. You drag the mouse from column X to column Y in the same row of the display, and get whatever text which happens to be displayed between those columns (the text could have been from different

Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

2008-10-07 Thread Omer Zak
without additional processing. Hebrew and Latin, in contrast, are still somewhat readable even in reverse direction. --- Omer On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 09:36 +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Omer Zak wrote: Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:23:32

Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

2008-10-07 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:29 +0200, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: I have some contacts with Arabic experts, and I can tell you that for their market, showing unshaped (improperly connected) letters, even in proper ordering, is considered unacceptable. All the more with LTR ordering. Then a

Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

2008-10-06 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Jonathan, I think that visual caret motion with logical selection is the best approach. I do not see visual selection as an useful feature at all (at least if it means what I understand it to mean). If anything needs to be improved, then add, as a feature, a mode to turn off BiDi ordering

Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

2008-10-06 Thread Omer Zak
. --- Omer On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 19:13 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Hello Jonathan, I think that visual caret motion with logical selection is the best approach. I do not see visual selection as an useful feature at all (at least if it means what I understand

Re: Firefox chokes on YNET

2008-09-27 Thread Omer Zak
I noticed similar phenomenon with the same version of Firefox (technically, Iceweasel) on Debian Etch - but with http://news.walla.co.il/ Firefox chokes and crashes if I open more than 2 or so tabs on the above Web site. --- Omer On Sun, 2008-09-28

Re: Looking for recommendations for image processing/analysis program

2008-09-08 Thread Omer Zak
DISCLAIMER: the following is based upon my very incomplete understanding of David's needs. You may want to look into ImageMagick and netpbm. If you need/want to implement your own image processing algorithms, and if you use Debian Etch, then the source code of netpbm, with

Financing for Wine BiDi (was: Re: MSO in Wine: Hebrew backwards.)

2008-09-04 Thread Omer Zak
Shachar, On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 08:06 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: IMHO this is the kind of thing that the Chief Scientist's Office would fund. Hmm. [...snipped...] We all know that 10K is hardly enough to achieve much on Wine, and we all also know that

Re: Financing for Wine BiDi

2008-09-04 Thread Omer Zak
+0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Omer Zak wrote: How about publicizing in Linux-IL the budget needed to fix Wine BiDi in terms of money, equipment and human resources? These are rough estimates. Wine needs the following fields worked on: 1. Move the BiDI code into Uniscribe, where

Re: Financing for Wine BiDi

2008-09-04 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 14:28 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/9/4 Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Omer Zak wrote: Are there Israeli companies, which deploy Linux solutions, and for which it is worthwhile to avoid dual-booting or virtual machines yet support clients, who still have

Re: Financing for Wine BiDi

2008-09-04 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:14 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/9/4 Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: See one of my previous E-mail messages. We are looking at 60K NIS. If we can round up a group of companies with total of 600 potential Wine users, then this should be doable - with 100NIS/head

Re: ( Marked As Spam ) Re: Financing for Wine BiDi

2008-09-04 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 16:26 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Omer Zak wrote: Shachar (Lingnu CEO): can you open a PayPal account (or equivalent) to collect money from private people? Or do you have another mechanism to deal with, say, 300 small payments? PayPal is fine. The main

Debian Accessibility Presentation (forwarded from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list)

2008-09-02 Thread Omer Zak
The full link to a low resolution OGG format is: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/fosdem/ogg_theora/384x288/How_accessible_is_Debian___Samuel_Thibault.ogg NOTE: It is lacking captions (I already notified the lecturer), but according what I saw from the presentation, the

Re: Small victories, but more work to be done

2008-08-27 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Dotan, Recently, there was a long thread about this subject in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. The problematic pages is the HOT broadcasts schedule page and the page for contacting them: http://www.hot.net.il/EPG/Templates/EPGTimeline/EPGTimeline.aspx

When to boycott hardware only partially supported by Linux? (Re: Preferred video card for Linux dual-head?)

2008-08-27 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 15:07 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/8/26 Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Amos presumably needs a working solution TODAY. Promises for bright Not TODAY, YESTERDAY. [... snipped ...] You pretty much nailed it, just like

Re: Preferred video card for Linux dual-head?

2008-08-25 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 19:56 +0300, Oron Peled wrote: On Monday, 25 בAugust 2008, Amos Shapira wrote: Since there are always swings around about best linux support which I didn't follow, what's the order of the day? Should go with nVidia, AMD or maybe Intel? Any specific card

Re: Preferred video card for Linux dual-head?

2008-08-25 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 00:16 +0300, Oron Peled wrote: On Monday, 25 בAugust 2008, Omer Zak wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 19:56 +0300, Oron Peled wrote: On Monday, 25 בAugust 2008, Amos Shapira wrote: Since there are always swings around about best linux support which I didn't follow

Re: Preferred video card for Linux dual-head?

2008-08-24 Thread Omer Zak
In my PC I have two nVidia GeForce FX 5200 video cards. One with AGP form factor, and the other - with PCI form factor. This was the cheapest way to add a second display to my PC, and worked because my PC had unused PCI slots. Software: Debian Etch, with Xorg version 7.1.0-19. The driver being

Re: global interactive search-and-replace in bash?

2008-08-18 Thread Omer Zak
I sometimes encounter similar situations, and my answer to the question is that it is easier to remember the command and reconstruct it than to remember what name I gave to the script running the command with my supplied arguments. (Reminds me of Richard Feynman's approach for remembering

Linux related spam?! [Fwd: בואו להיות מומחי לינוקס]

2008-08-17 Thread Omer Zak
Does anyone know anything about the following spammer? According to whois, the penguin-it.co.il domain is owned by: descr:yaron berenholtz adv descr:12 menahem begin st' descr:ramat gan descr:52521 descr:Israel phone:+972 3 6122111 fax-no:

Re: Linux related spam?! [Fwd: בואו להיות מומחי לינוקס]

2008-08-17 Thread Omer Zak
whatsup? My goal, in proposing this, is for this to serve as a lesson for people, who might consider spamming in the future. --- Omer On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 14:18 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Omer Zak wrote: Does anyone know anything about the following

[Hebrew] Re: הסרתך מרשימת תפוצה

2008-08-17 Thread Omer Zak
unless necessary. ** Subject: Re: Linux related spam?! [Fwd: בואו להיות מומחי לינוקס] From: Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:33:39 +0300 To: linux-il linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il I

Re: Iglu site down?

2008-08-08 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 12:04 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Can't you set it up on your own home desktop for that purpose? Even absolute URL's can be tricked to point to the right content. Show me what you CAN'T do that way and I'll try to help you work around it. This will require downloading

Re: Debian Day 2008

2008-08-05 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 11:40 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Omer Zak wrote: According to Debian Project News - August 4th, 2008, the 15th anniversary of the Debian project will be celebrated on Aug. 16, 2008. That's a Saturday, unfortunately. Not necessarily

Debian Day 2008

2008-08-04 Thread Omer Zak
According to Debian Project News - August 4th, 2008, the 15th anniversary of the Debian project will be celebrated on Aug. 16, 2008. More details are supposed to be in http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay2008 but this link did not work for me. Is any Debian Day planned in Israel?

Which DNS servers did DHCP tell me to use? (was: Re: Smile 012 DNS cache (aka resolvers) servers)

2008-07-27 Thread Omer Zak
If I use DHCP, how do I determine (after the fact) which DNS servers am I actually using? This information is available in /var/log/everything/current (at least in my Debian Etch installation). However, it would be nice to know also which command/s can be used to query for all information

[SOLVED] Which DNS servers did DHCP tell me to use?

2008-07-27 Thread Omer Zak
While I still do not know if and which command allows one to retrieve all information transferred by a DHCP transaction, three people (Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Ori Idan and Micha michf at post.tau.ac.il) pointed out the file /etc/resolv.conf Meanwhile, I found that when connection starts, the

Spam handling (was: Re: Israeli ISP and Blacklisting)

2008-07-26 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 00:05 +0300, Ariel Biener wrote: 1. SPAM is here to stay, mostly due to human nature. For people who want to sell something, this is an easy and cheap way to get more clients. This is from the human psychology/sociology point of view Asking myself whether it would

RE: Spam handling (was: Re: Israeli ISP and Blacklisting)

2008-07-26 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 17:30 +0300, Imri Zvik wrote: While it is theoretically possible to setup a non-profit ISP, it is not practical. It takes A LOT of money to run an ISP - just the submarine uplinks costs a couple of hundred K's of $ per month, and even if you manage to get a serious

Article in Yediot Petah Tikva from today

2008-07-25 Thread Omer Zak
According to this article (pg. 30-31) in one of Petah Tikva's local newspapers, the municipal education department decided to switch to Linux. Congratulations to the unnamed activists who did the public relations work behind the curtains! --- Omer --

Re: Israeli ISP and Blacklisting

2008-07-24 Thread Omer Zak
I have E-mailed my ISP about this. You may want to add to your E-mail to your ISP also your concerns that since ALL Israeli ISPs are blacklisted, the entire country is in danger of being backlisted as a country. While the real reason for such an action would be political, the spam handling

Anyone with spamassassin expertise?

2008-07-07 Thread Omer Zak
it is in the body of the bounce message. Example: From: eliott feargus [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where eliott feargus could be anything except for Omer Zak case independent) My PC has spamassassin version 3.2.3 installed (as part of the Debian Etch set up), but it seems not to be trained to filter

Re: Grub weirdness

2008-07-03 Thread Omer Zak
Since no one has already suggested the following, I'm making this suggestion: 1. cp -r /boot /tmp/boot-before 2. Untar the tarfile 3. cp -r /boot /tmp/boot-after 4. diff -r /tmp/boot-before /tmp/boot-after 5. Study the differences. 6. ??? 7. Profit! On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:04 +0300, Noam Rathaus

Re: New network device causes 'jump' from eth0 to eth1

2008-07-03 Thread Omer Zak
--=-norL4QRk5t43W51udD8G Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The relevant file is /etc/network/interfaces - see man 5 interfaces. On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:27 +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi, I moved an HD from one computer to another (not related to the grub issue :D),

Gedit accelerator keys not working under KDE?

2008-07-03 Thread Omer Zak
I was not successful in using accelerator keys in Gedit, when running it under KDE desktop. Is this a known problem, or am I doing anything wrong? The relevant versions are: * Debian Etch Linux * KDE desktop, version 3.5.5 (the kdebase package version is 3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch2). * gedit 2.14.4 (the

Re: X cursor problem

2008-07-03 Thread Omer Zak
Looks like your cursor was loaded by an empty or transparent cursor image. On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 18:03 +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: My cursor dissappeared. By randomly movng the mouse, I could see that the mouse was functioning (icons, windows, etc were highlighted so I could guess where

Iceweasel/Firefox 3 for Debian Etch?

2008-06-27 Thread Omer Zak
I am looking for the Iceweasel debian package corresponding to Firefox 3. Since I would like to install it in Debian Etch system, I looked for it in the Debian backports (http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=packages) domain, but did not find such a thing there. Since there must have

Under which keywords can such systems be found?

2008-06-13 Thread Omer Zak
I am looking for a computer with small form factor (cellphone sized or even smaller) with the following features: 1. Runs Linux. 2. RAM+disk - as needed to run a Linux system without X-Window. 3. Audio input. 4. At least one USB port. 5. Ethernet port. 6. Runs on batteries. 7. A way (such as a

Re: Under which keywords can such systems be found?

2008-06-13 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 11:57 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Omer Zak wrote: I am looking for a computer with small form factor (cellphone sized or even smaller) with the following features: 1. Runs Linux. 2. RAM+disk - as needed to run a Linux system without X-Window. 3. Audio input. 4

RE: Under which keywords can such systems be found?

2008-06-13 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 15:07 +0300, ronys wrote: Hi, A friend of mine (in Israel) worked with these a couple of years ago - no idea how he bought them, though: http://www.gumstix.com/ The comment about buying Gumstix stuff is pertinent - in their Web site, Israel is not listed among the

Anti-RTL mindset is similar to anti-accessibility mindset (was: Re: Openmoko Group sale)

2008-06-02 Thread Omer Zak
Chiming in the discussion, my 7 agorot (2 cents) are as follows. The mindset of the Openmoko developers seems to me to be anti-accessibility. It stands to reason that they'll turn down requests to provide for accessibility to people with disabilities. The devices are probably inherently

Re: [OT] Fragmentation in the community

2008-05-31 Thread Omer Zak
Another possibility: The planet used to be in http://foss-il.ev-en.org/ but was moved to http://planet.linux.org.il/ yet there is no link from the original URL to the up-to-date URL. In fact, this is how I ceased (until today) to follow the planet. On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 18:20 +0300, Lior Kaplan

Re: OT:cheap and reliable web hosting anyone ?

2008-05-28 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 10:54 +0300, Erez D wrote: however, i want it to ... ... leave security and backup issues to the hosting site (so i do not put it on my pc) I would advise against this. If your stuff is static, it is enough to backup it just once. But it must be backed up nevertheless.

PGP/GPG keys impact? (was: Re: Fwd: Debian SSH vulnerability: act now!)

2008-05-16 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 11:09 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I'll try to give context to Amos's message, as I think it is important. If you are running an ssh server on a machine which is not Debian, and was never affected by the openssl key generation bug, you may be under the impression

[OFFTOPIC] Re: New Article: What Makes Software High-Quality?

2008-05-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 12:47 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! Here's a new article, fresh off the electronic press: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/high-quality-software/ It's available as HTML to read online, PDF (but please don't print it) and

Re: mknod

2008-05-05 Thread Omer Zak
Why doesn't that developer have his own PC? If the developer needs to write his own kernel modules, then he needs root privileges anyway. But if he just develops applications for an embedded system, which already has debugged modules, then the devices can be created beforehand (manually or via

Status of IPv6 deployment in Israel?

2008-05-05 Thread Omer Zak
What is the current status of IPv6 deployment in Israel? I am interested in an answer to this question because of the following projection: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MonkeyBites/~3/284126431/996-days-projec.html http://he.net/news/Hurricane_Electric_IPv6_Update_April_2008.pdf

How to deal with bounce messages spam?

2008-04-30 Thread Omer Zak
My E-mail address somehow found its way into the reservoir of E-mail addresses used by some spambots for forging the From: line in E-mail messages. The consequence is that during recent days I have been flooded with bounce messages from mailer-daemon and postmaster of various domains, which

Re: SourceForge down?

2008-04-30 Thread Omer Zak
Upon seeing the following E-mail, I tested sourceforge.net and slashdot.org. As of 15:15 I can reach neither of them, and I am connected via Golden Lines (012.net). Anyone from outside of Israel, check both sites please? On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 14:47 +0300, ronys wrote: Hi, Is it only me, or

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Omer Zak
If we are at this subject, can anyone, who has experience with using GNUCash in Israel, write an HOWTO about configuring GNUCash to meet the needs for micro-business accounting in Israel? Sample questions: 1. How to set up things so that VAT will be automatically calculated and credited to a VAT

Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel

2008-04-06 Thread Omer Zak
Geoff, While I know that there are lots of complications and non-sense things in the Israeli tax laws, I am afraid that your point of view makes things more complicated than they really are. On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 10:14 +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: 2. How to get the accounts notarized (or

Re: binary diff

2008-04-03 Thread Omer Zak
xxd's function is exactly to convert from binary into text. Try to convert your binary files using: xxd -p -c1 (works for me: xxd -v output is xxd V1.10 27oct98 by Juergen Weigert). I checked also how to do it using od. The following would work (my od --version is 5.97): od -v -w1 -ta

Re: major packet loss at hot server

2008-03-23 Thread Omer Zak
After having seen some E-mail messages about this subject, I decided to run my own tests. I found that when mtr'ing Israeli hosts, I get packet loss. When mtr'ing international hosts (www.yahoo.com, www.google.com, zak.co.il [hosted outside of Israel], I get less packet loss than when mtr'ing

Re: Kernel question - what happens when a shell script is the interpreter for another shell script?

2008-03-20 Thread Omer Zak
Did you add /tmp/file1 to the list in /etc/shells? On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 16:23 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, I tried the following experiment. /tmp/file1 (marked executable) has the following content: #!/bin/date echo $@ /tmp/file2 has the following content:

[OFFTOPIC] How to switch to IPv6? (was: Re: IPv6 support in old (2.4) kernels)

2008-03-16 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 17:43 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Let's not go into the question why 2.4 is important, OK? Can we get into the question of why IPv6 is important? Can we get into the question how can we personally switch to IPv6 right now? How to connect to

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 14:15 +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi, I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer. I'll probably go for ink printer since I don't print too much and printing color output would be useful. Avoid Epson Stylus CX3200 and similar printers. While all of its functions

Re: Connecting more than one display to the same PC

2008-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 12:14 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 23:54 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: - I need it to be a PCI card, as the AGP slot is already occupied. However if an AGP card is much better, please let me know about it as well. You can also replace your AGP card

Postmortem (Re: Connecting more than one display to the same PC)

2008-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
Now I have two working displays connected to my PC. My PC's motherboard still has one free PCI slot, which I might use for another video card and 3rd display in the future. I ended up buying 2nd GeForce FX 5200, so now I have two FX 5200 cards, one having AGP interface and the other - PCI

Connecting more than one display to the same PC

2008-03-08 Thread Omer Zak
After reading the article in http://www.linux.com/articles/113516 about this subject and seeing how simple it is to configure X-Window to handle two displays, I would like to do this in my PC. * What is your experience with driving 2-3 displays from your Linux PC? * Given the following situation,

Re: Efficient C++ XML validating parser?

2008-03-05 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 12:43 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: How about using a binary format which is compiled from XML ? In this day and age, is it really all that faster? What makes XML hard to parse, IMHO, is not the fact that it's text, it's the fact that it's

Re: RTL in plaintext mails

2008-02-25 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:14 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, איך ההודעה הזו נראית? In hebrew, but justified to the left I use Evolution (version 2.6.3, from Debian Etch) to read my E-mail, and in Evolution, the Hebrew line is right-justified, with RTL direction (the question mark is to

Subtitling/Captioning in Linux

2008-02-07 Thread Omer Zak
http://www.linux.com/feature/125978 Subtitle manipulation tools for Linux By Razvan T. Coloja on February 07, 2008 -- In civilized societies, captions are as important in movies as soundtracks, professional photography and expert editing. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My

Re: Finding porn links in hacked web pages

2008-01-28 Thread Omer Zak
:48 +0200, Shahar Dag wrote: Hi I would prefer to maintain a local copy of the web + once a day (using cron) to upload it to the web server (or even better, maintain a SVN server that hold the local copy of the web) Shahar - Original Message - From: Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Finding porn links in hacked web pages

2008-01-27 Thread Omer Zak
The method which I use is to: 1. Perform periodic backup of the entire Web site, including SQL dumps of any databases driving it. 2. Download the backup files to PC. 3. Open them (into a subdirectory and import into a new DB instance, respectively). 4. Run 'diff' between the opened files and the

Re: gcc thoughts

2008-01-26 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 09:24 +0200, Amit Aronovitch wrote: Leonid Podolny wrote: [... snipped ...] This morning, while browsing through pages of frustratingly irrelevant cscope output, I got an idea. In every kosher *nix development environment, the cross-references (i.e. jump to definition

Installing Emacs22 on Debian Etch

2007-12-29 Thread Omer Zak
When I looked for an Emacs22 package for Debian Etch, I found that the regular Debian backports Web site at http://www.backports.org/ does not include a backport of this package. (The reason I looked for this version of Emacs was because of its network connection support by means of ELISP

Re: Run out of inodes

2007-12-27 Thread Omer Zak
Few years ago a Linux system, which I used, ran out of inodes once in a while. The reason was that a directory in /var (I do not remember its name) got filled by thousands of zero-length files, due to a botched error recovery attempt by some daemon. The cure was to delete all those files. I

Does anyone maintain http://www.ivrix.org.il/ nowadays?

2007-12-27 Thread Omer Zak
Today I tried to access it, and it took long time until my Web browser reported that it has a problem. --- Omer P.S.: I am looking for a Free Hebrew-English and/or English-Hebrew dictionary file. The nearest one, which I found is

Re: Fwd: boot messages

2007-12-21 Thread Omer Zak
I compared your strace with strace in my system when running ls -la . Since my system is Debian Etch, may I suggest that you request someone, who is running Mandriva like you, to run strace and E-mail you his strace output for comparison with yours? On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 12:20 +0200, shlomo

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread Omer Zak
When checking for free disk space, check also inodes (by df -i). According to past experience, when a partition runs out of inodes, sometimes the system manages to continue to work and erratically fail (when processes need to create new files without deleting others beforehand). Another shot in

Re: Top FOSS security vulnerabilities

2007-12-15 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 02:35 +, Amos Shapira wrote: On 14/12/2007, Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.linux.com/feature/123171 explains the philosophy and reasoning of Palamida, which found those vulnerabilities. I found the article to be FUD-free. Should be very

Re: automatic dyndns client for Debian Etch?

2007-12-15 Thread Omer Zak
I use dyndns, too, and am interested in the subject. Therefore, I fired up aptitude in my Debian Etch installation and found the following: v dyndns-client and packages which implement the above: ez-ipupdate ddclient Both of them seem to meet the requirements. Does anyone from the mailing

Top FOSS security vulnerabilities

2007-12-14 Thread Omer Zak
http://www.linux.com/feature/123171 explains the philosophy and reasoning of Palamida, which found those vulnerabilities. I found the article to be FUD-free. http://www.palamida.com/node/513 lists the topmost 5 overlooked vulnerabilities for 2007 according to them. Of course, in their blog,

Re: ptrace help

2007-12-08 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 23:50 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, I need help trying to wrap my head around ptrace. I'm trying to create the most basic of programs: in the child process (right after the fork) I do: [... snipped ...] Shachar, You provided us with a description of the

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