Re: interruptible_sleep_on_timeout

2005-05-03 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 07:31:23AM -0700, Gil Paz wrote: Hi, Does any one knows of limitations of using interruptible_sleep_on_timeout in 2.4 Not sure what you mean? it's a kernel API, meant to be called in certain ways and contexts. It's also a pretty lousy API

Re: HTML to PDF

2005-05-03 Thread Oron Peled
Haven't used it myself, but: http://www.htmldoc.org/ Looks like it does what you need. -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 Linux: like the air you breathe, ubiquitous and free

Re: interruptible_sleep_on_timeout

2005-05-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:49:54AM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: It's still usefull if you want to block for a certain time period, uncondtionality. For everything else there is wait_event_interruptiple. if you want to block unconditionally, wouldn't msleep()/ssleep()/usleep() and friends be

Linux get stronger ( Hebrew article )

2005-05-03 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
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Re: interruptible_sleep_on_timeout

2005-05-03 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:49:54AM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: It's still usefull if you want to block for a certain time period, uncondtionality. For everything else there is wait_event_interruptiple. if you want to block unconditionally, wouldn't

Re: Linux get stronger ( Hebrew article )

2005-05-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5/3/05, Michael Ben-Nes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.oracle.com/global/il/ww_reference/linuxtestlab.html Might worth forwarding this link to our friendly contacts in the media? (some people on hamakor PR should have developed such contacts). I wonder if this means that Oracle Israel

Re: Linux get stronger ( Hebrew article )

2005-05-03 Thread Uri Sharf
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 09:02, Amos Shapira wrote: Might worth forwarding this link to our friendly contacts in the media? (some people on hamakor PR should have developed such contacts). IT's a PR paper that was sent to all the media allready some weeks a go.

RE: Linux get stronger ( Hebrew article )

2005-05-03 Thread Jobs - MainStream
I can't say about Oracle Israel, but Oracle in the U.S. has been working hard for quite a while to make sure that Oracle is optimized on Linux. They worked particularly hard to ensure that Oracle works optimally on Linux on the Mainframe (Linux/VM) to let it compete with DB2 on that platform.

Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
Hi. I am using OpenOffice 1.1.4. I am attempting to create a Hebrew document. When I change over to Hebrew keyboard and type I get nothing. Hebrew works in konsole. I have the following RPMs installed: openoffice.org-libs-1.1.4-0.4.3.kde openoffice.org-1.1.4-0.4.3.kde

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Gilboa Davara
Aharon, Did you add Hebrew support to your X configuration? If you didn't, just replace the line: Option XkbLayout us With Option XkbLayout us,il Option XkbOptions grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll Once you done, restart the X (init 3; init 5;) When you want to switch to Hebrew or back

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 12:16 pm, Gilboa Davara wrote: Aharon, Did you add Hebrew support to your X configuration? I have Hebrew support under X. As I stated in my original message, Hebrew works under Konsole. On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 11:52 +0300, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Hi. I am using

Re: interruptible_sleep_on_timeout

2005-05-03 Thread Peter
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: if you want to block unconditionally, wouldn't msleep()/ssleep()/usleep() and friends be a better idea? Of course they are - if you're using a kernel version that has them, such as 2.6, while the question was specifically for 2.4. Yes, those functions

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Peter
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 11:52:40 +0300 From: Aharon Schkolnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-il@linux.org.il linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Hebrew in OpenOffice Make sure that you switch the keyboard into *unicode* hebrew. That is not necessarily what the

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:52:40AM +0300, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Hi. I am using OpenOffice 1.1.4. I am attempting to create a Hebrew document. When I change over to Hebrew keyboard and type I get nothing. Hebrew works in konsole. I have the following RPMs installed:

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 01:00 pm, Peter wrote: On Tue, 3 May 2005, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 11:52:40 +0300 From: Aharon Schkolnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-il@linux.org.il linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Hebrew in OpenOffice Make sure that you switch the keyboard

Re: interruptible_sleep_on_timeout

2005-05-03 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Peter wrote: if you want to block unconditionally, wouldn't msleep()/ssleep()/usleep() and friends be a better idea? Of course they are - if you're using a kernel version that has them, such as 2.6, while the question was specifically for 2.4. Yes, those functions has been back-ported to 2.4,

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Hillel
Aharon Schkolnik wrote: I suspect the problem may be that OpenOffice is not using a font with Hebrew. The list of fonts available under OpenOffice is very short. On the other hand, xfontsel shows over 2000 fonts. Perhaps I just need to tell OpenOffice about all the fonts I have installed,

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:00:44PM +0300, Peter wrote: On Tue, 3 May 2005, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 11:52:40 +0300 From: Aharon Schkolnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-il@linux.org.il linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Hebrew in OpenOffice Make sure that you switch

The return of pwc drivers to linux

2005-05-03 Thread rami rosen
Hello, I last August there was a thread in this forum regarding that the linux kernel will not include anymore pwc drivers (for Philips and many other USB webcams). see for example : August Bad news for philips webcam users in http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg35857.html The

Re: The return of pwc drivers to linux

2005-05-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5/3/05, rami rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can be really various opinions on this ; Just wanted to let you know. Thanks. Apparently you just lost track as it unfolded. The return of the driver happened very soon after it was pulled, and nobody questioned the legality of what has happened

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 01:02 pm, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:52:40AM +0300, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Hi. I am using OpenOffice 1.1.4. I am attempting to create a Hebrew document. When I change over to Hebrew keyboard and type I get nothing. Hebrew works in

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 04:46 pm, Hillel wrote: Aharon Schkolnik wrote: I suspect the problem may be that OpenOffice is not using a font with Hebrew. The list of fonts available under OpenOffice is very short. On the other hand, xfontsel shows over 2000 fonts. Perhaps I just need to tell

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:46:07PM +0300, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: On Tuesday 03 May 2005 01:02 pm, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:52:40AM +0300, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Hi. I am using OpenOffice 1.1.4. I am attempting to create a Hebrew document. When I change

Re: The return of pwc drivers to linux

2005-05-03 Thread rami rosen
Hello, A little after it Nemosoft declared halting the support for the PWC driver,somebody named Luc Saillard became a new maintainer for the PWC driver; and later Alan Cox made a limited version of the PWC as a patch. But as far as I know, the PWC did came back to the official kernel tree only

Re: HTML to PDF

2005-05-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Dan Kenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: More importantly, does mozilla -remote saveAS(google.ps,PostScript) work? No. I didn't even know it existed... Because this key step fails here (FC1), and if my memory does not fail me, this is what failed almost 3 years ago when I remarked

Re: interruptible_sleep_on_timeout

2005-05-03 Thread Peter
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: 2.4.26 has usleep and nanosleep. I am using both. 2.4.26 is one of the Debian unstable kernels (also used by Knoppix 3.4). We are talking about kernel API's, not system calls. And you cannot use the existing mechanism that underlies the syscall,

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Peter
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Make sure that you switch the keyboard into *unicode* hebrew. That is not necessarily what the console needs. If you load the existing il xkb keymap and don't try to build one on your own, you won't have problems. Actually, X has its own internal characters

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Vasiliev Michael
On Tuesday May 3 2005 11:52, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Hi. I am using OpenOffice 1.1.4. I am attempting to create a Hebrew document. When I change over to Hebrew keyboard and type I get nothing. Hebrew works in konsole. I have the following RPMs installed:

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:25:06PM +0300, Peter wrote: On Tue, 3 May 2005, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Make sure that you switch the keyboard into *unicode* hebrew. That is not necessarily what the console needs. If you load the existing il xkb keymap and don't try to build one on your own,

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:32:15PM +0300, Vasiliev Michael wrote: If you have the hebrew fonts, make sure OO knows about them. To do that, run OO Print Administration tool, oopadmin, Fonts - Add. It creates the nessesary symlinks from ~/.openoffice/1.1.4/user/fonts/fontfilename to your

Re: The return of pwc drivers to linux

2005-05-03 Thread Cyril Scetbon
rami rosen wrote: Hello, I last August there was a thread in this forum regarding that the linux kernel will not include anymore pwc drivers (for Philips and many other USB webcams). Yes, I've starting this thread. see for example : August Bad news for philips webcam users in

Re: The return of pwc drivers to linux

2005-05-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5/3/05, rami rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But as far as I know, the PWC did came back to the official kernel tree only lately, starting 2.6.12-rc1. ; I am not talking about ( limited?) patches to the tree. OK, I stand corected. Thanks for the update. Express yourself instantly with MSN

[OT] Moderator's rant

2005-05-03 Thread Vasiliev Michael
A friend of mine brought my attention to following links and I thought Why wait another 11 months? ;) http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1465973,00.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/22/email_destroys_iq/ So, given the fact that a trained rat is more than able to choose

Re: [OT] Moderator's rant

2005-05-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5/4/05, Vasiliev Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I consider my effective IQ to be 20 during the daily moderation email queue check. Thus, reading spam effectively halves my intelligence level, bringing it to one of a broccoli. Now to the point. I demand to have my current salary doubled