Re: What do we REALLY want? (Re: Captain Internet Responds)

2003-06-25 Thread Lior Kesos
Gilboa Davara wrote: But the percentage is getting lower and lower. My guess it that in general close to 80% of the programmers getting out to the workforce today, will 'do' java/C#/VB most of their professional life... and with design (YUCK!) tools getting better and better, most developers are

Re: kde

2003-06-25 Thread Ely Levy
is it like for dyslective people?change alef with aien kaf with kof and so on? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Oron Peled wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:48:01 +0300 Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hspell's current correction algorithm is

Re: Problems with PASV ftp

2003-06-25 Thread Herouth Maoz
To the lengthening list of files on my server, I have added the output of strace -o strace.out -e trace=network ftp -u -n ftp.iglu.org.il Upon an off-list suggestion. In this session, IGLU's reply to PASV has been 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,117,122,34,46,28) Which indicates port

Re: Hebrew on Evolution (was: kde)

2003-06-25 Thread Diego Iastrubni
If I am not mistaking Evo uses gtkhtml to render the message + the message editor. If I recall gtkhtml does not support logical hebrew/bidi. They refuse using Gecko for some reason. I don't think that gtkhtml will be able to support bidi in the future, so I think the best option we have is

Maximum file size on IA32

2003-06-25 Thread Honen, Oren
Hi, Im using a graphical application on 32bit RH Linux. The user saved files are getting larger and larger. Currently the largest file is at about 2GB . The vendor of the application says that larger files will require the 64bit version which he doesnt have on Linux. The files are saved

Re: kde

2003-06-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003, Oron Peled wrote about Re: kde: Is there an soundex algorithm for hebrew? If there is than we can precompute soundex values for all dictionary words and store them in some sorted data structure (say, a dbm file). Than we can present all words with same soundex. Think for

Re: Maximum file size on IA32

2003-06-25 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:09:47PM +0300, Honen, Oren wrote: 1. Does 32bit systems force files =2GB ? No. See http://themes.freshmeat.net/articles/view/709/ for a discussion, which also links to http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html 2. Does NFS has that limit ? I highly doubt it, but I do

Re: Maximum file size on IA32

2003-06-25 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-06-25 Honen, Oren wrote: Hi, I'm using a graphical application on 32bit RH Linux. The user saved files are getting larger and larger. Currently the largest file is at about 2GB . The vendor of the application says that larger files will require the 64bit version which he doesn't

garbage in man pages

2003-06-25 Thread Guy Cohen
I have a problem with reading man pages on redhat8. some chars are missing and instead I see garbage. The garbage chars replace mostly the - chars infront of options. Any one knows what's the problem? Thanks -- http://www.uadm.com | Local and Remote Unix/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: garbage in man pages

2003-06-25 Thread Gilboa Davara
Set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n Gilboa On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 15:18, Guy Cohen wrote: I have a problem with reading man pages on redhat8. some chars are missing and instead I see garbage. The garbage chars replace mostly the - chars infront of options. Any one knows what's the

Re: garbage in man pages

2003-06-25 Thread Alon Altman
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Guy Cohen wrote: I have a problem with reading man pages on redhat8. some chars are missing and instead I see garbage. The garbage chars replace mostly the - chars infront of options. Any one knows what's the problem? Thanks You are using man pages in a UTF-8 encoding

Re: garbage in man pages

2003-06-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003, Guy Cohen wrote about garbage in man pages: I have a problem with reading man pages on redhat8. some chars are missing and instead I see garbage. The garbage chars replace mostly the - chars infront of options. Any one knows what's the problem? Perhaps Redhat thinks

Re: garbage in man pages

2003-06-25 Thread Herouth Maoz
Quoting Guy Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a problem with reading man pages on redhat8. some chars are missing and instead I see garbage. The garbage chars replace mostly the - chars infront of options. LC_CTYPE=en_US solves it. I have a similar problem on Mandrake. I basically aliased man

Re: garbage in man pages

2003-06-25 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Guy Cohen wrote on 2003-06-25: I have a problem with reading man pages on redhat8. some chars are missing and instead I see garbage. The garbage chars replace mostly the - chars infront of options. Any one knows what's the problem? Assuming you use a utf8 locale, man outputs unicode dashes

RE: Maximum file size on IA32

2003-06-25 Thread Honen, Oren
See the below article for the relations between block size and maximum file size. http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9906_01/msg1.html Oren. -Original Message- From: Christoph Bugel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 4:05 PM To: Honen, Oren Cc:

Hebrew client for AS400

2003-06-25 Thread Henry Ficher
Hi People! I'm looking for a way to use Linux terminals to telnet to an AS400 and be able to use Hebrew. Anybody's done this before? Cheers, Henry = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the

Re: garbage in man pages

2003-06-25 Thread Guy Cohen
Thanks for all the replies. Here's the solution I chosed to make: edit /etc/man.conf and change NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc to NROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc Regards Guy On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:18:17PM +0300, Guy Cohen wrote: I have a problem with reading man

Re: Maximum file size on IA32

2003-06-25 Thread Idan Sofer
On 2003-06-25 Honen, Oren wrote: I have a 5.4G file on an ext2 filesystem, no special block size was needed. If I recall correctly(This was stated in PostgresSQL docs somewhere), such large files are possible, but will also result in degraded performance(sounds reasonable, considering 64-bit

Hebrew client for AS400

2003-06-25 Thread dittigas
Ericom's InterConnect (AKA PowerTerm) is shipped with Xandros and probably stand alone ase well. See here: http://www.whatsup.org.il/article.php?sid=345 Have no idea about hebrew support though. dittigas = To unsubscribe, send

Re: Hebrew client for AS400

2003-06-25 Thread dittigas
Sory. Should be Lycoris not Xandros. On 2003.06.25 17:28, dittigas wrote: Ericom's InterConnect (AKA PowerTerm) is shipped with Xandros and probably stand alone ase well. See here: http://www.whatsup.org.il/article.php?sid=345 Have no idea about hebrew support though. dittigas

Re: kde

2003-06-25 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Ely Levy wrote on 2003-06-25: is it like for dyslective people? change alef with aien kaf with kof and so on? Don't forget immigrants. I'm here 12 years already and have generally fluent Hebrew but I still make these mistakes several times more frequently than native speakers... -- Beni

[SOLVED] Re: Problems with PASV ftp

2003-06-25 Thread Herouth Maoz
Well, it was solved very simply by installing the alternative kernel that comes with Mandrake PPC (it's supposed to be a vanilla PPC tree kernel). Now ftp works - in both PASV and PORT modes, with the firewall up, and from both the gateway and the NAT. I suspect a problem in the RELATED state

Re: kde

2003-06-25 Thread Ely Levy
I ment is it for mistakes like dyslective people do. as in changing alef with aien, a lot of native speakers do that mistakes as well. especialy kids. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: Ely Levy wrote on 2003-06-25: is it

Re: What do we REALLY want? (Re: Captain Internet Responds)

2003-06-25 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 15:45, Eli Billauer wrote: You have a point there. This could be solved with Internet Explorer under wine, though, as Shachar demonstrated partially at Haifux yesterday. Yes, I would be happier too if it was all Mozilla, but if the Explorer was available for Linux (ran

In defense of C# and Java

2003-06-25 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 16:18, Gilboa Davara wrote: But the percentage is getting lower and lower. My guess it that in general close to 80% of the programmers getting out to the workforce today, will 'do' java/C#/VB most of their professional life... and with design (YUCK!) tools getting

Ignorance, FUD or trolling? (Was: What do we REALLY want?)

2003-06-25 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 14:15, Gilboa Davara wrote: Here's a couple. A. Development tools and workplaces: Low adaptation gives MS power to dictate *bad* (non)standards. MS-Word is not the real problem here; MFC, DirectX, Visual Basic, C#, etc are! As developers we are forced to use non

Re: Other Truetype fonts in RH9

2003-06-25 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 16:32, Arie Folger wrote: Thanks. It worked, but I do wonder why ussuch a relatively complex system. I find the old plaintext so much more attractive. If we must have XML, shouldn't it come with a handy documentation and a tool to make editing easy AND A BIG FAT

Re: Hebrew on Evolution (was: kde)

2003-06-25 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 14:46, Diego Iastrubni wrote: If I am not mistaking Evo uses gtkhtml to render the message + the message editor. If I recall gtkhtml does not support logical hebrew/bidi. They refuse using Gecko for some reason. They consider gtkhtml to be less featurefull (but just

Re: In defense of C# and Java

2003-06-25 Thread Gilboa Davara
I general I try to avoid the C vs C++ and the C++ vs world arguments. But let me make a brief comment: My first PC (I had a couple of commodores before that... but that beside the point) was an IBM XT 4.77Mhz with 64KB which was capable of doing (peak performance) around 50-100,000 simple integer

Re: C#

2003-06-25 Thread Gilboa Davara
STL is one of the worst pieces of code I ever saw in my life. It's a good example to what happens if you decide to take OO design a couple of steps too far. Gilboa On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 23:43, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Tuesday 24 June 2003 21:26, Gilboa Davara wrote: Funny enough... I know

Re: In defense of C# and Java

2003-06-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:06:21AM +0300, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: What is it that you people find so evil about Java and .NET? Slightly off-topic: One very practical issue: Both are controlled by companies that limit their usage. Thus none would simply install on my box, as opposed to a

Re: In defense of C# and Java

2003-06-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:31:55AM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: I general I try to avoid the C vs C++ and the C++ vs world arguments. But let me make a brief comment: My first PC (I had a couple of commodores before that... but that beside the point) was an IBM XT 4.77Mhz with 64KB which was

Re: In defense of C# and Java

2003-06-25 Thread Gilboa Davara
Aaahm. I use Abiword extensively (1.9.something beta) and I love it, but while faster then anything else (Especially OO...) it's unacceptably slow on my laptop. (P366/256/icewm) Gilboa On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 00:52, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:31:55AM +0300, Gilboa Davara

Re: C#

2003-06-25 Thread Gilboa Davara
.. But two wrongs don't make a right. STL sucks doesn't mean that sun's JRE (not the same I know) doesn't. Same goes for .net, MFC, and ATL. Gilboa On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 00:39, Gilboa Davara wrote: STL is one of the worst pieces of code I ever saw in my life. It's a good example to what

Re: Maximum file size on IA32

2003-06-25 Thread Shaul Karl
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:23:39PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: . For virtual memory, I've never heard of a 2 GB limitation (4, definitly, 3 or 3.5, or even 2.9, fine[0]). References? There is also an option to make the kernel use 2G out of the available 4G. I remember seeing it

Re: C#

2003-06-25 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:39:19AM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: STL is one of the worst pieces of code I ever saw in my life. It's a good example to what happens if you decide to take OO design a couple of steps too far. Your quote above is 100% content free. Could you please back the above

Re: Maximum file size on IA32

2003-06-25 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:21:24AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:23:39PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: . For virtual memory, I've never heard of a 2 GB limitation (4, definitly, 3 or 3.5, or even 2.9, fine[0]). References? There is also an option to make the

Re: C#

2003-06-25 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:09:51AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: This message brought the you by the coalition against content free misinformed ramblings on linux-il. How do you have time to sleep, then? procmail. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org

Re: Ignorance, FUD or trolling? (Was: What do we REALLY want?)

2003-06-25 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ilya Konstantinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure how you get to code plain C and POSIX-clean code all day Easy, I always compile with -pedantic and lots of warnings on, and my personal template for C and C++ code includes #define _POSIX_SOURCE 1 This way the compiler tells me

Re: C#

2003-06-25 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 01:21, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:39:19AM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: STL is one of the worst pieces of code I ever saw in my life. It's a good example to what happens if you decide to take OO design a couple of steps too far. Your quote above

Re: C#

2003-06-25 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:39:19AM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: STL is one of the worst pieces of code I ever saw in my life. It's a good example to what happens if you decide to take OO design a couple of steps too far. What experience have you got with STL? What has it got to do with OOP?

Re: C#

2003-06-25 Thread Gilboa Davara
Sadly enough my company has used (past tense) STL (No, I don't do C++, I don't touch it), and I was forced, times and times again to debug deep into the damn thing. (Helping other coworkers locate crashes within the library). It's over-designed, bloated, fairly slow, unreadable, impossible to

Re: C#

2003-06-25 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:58:59AM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 01:21, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:39:19AM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: STL is one of the worst pieces of code I ever saw in my life. It's a good example to what happens if you decide