Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
i ditched fedora in favor of ubuntu a few years ago, because of fedora stability issues Me too. I loved Fedora, but 500 MB of updates every week, and packages randomly breaking after updates, was too much. Ubuntu is much more stable. I have not had the stability issues that the OP mentioned,

Re: Please Benchmark the Multi-threaded version of Freecell Solver

2009-05-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
I recently created a thread-enabled version of Freecell Solver, that uses several solver instances in separate threads. I'd like to get some indication of the performance of the solver with different number of threads on different machines. The instructions can be found below. Do you still

Join Linux Israel @ linkedIn.com

2009-05-21 Thread Constantine Shulyupin
Hi, I created group Linux Israel at linkedIn.com to promote Linux in Israel High-Tech. http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=gid=1962511trk=anet_ug_grppro Welcome! -- Constantine Shulyupin Embedded Linux Expert TI DaVinci Expert Tel-Aviv Israel http://www.LinuxDriver.co.il/

How to change compact flash geometry ( cfdisk, sfdisk, parted, fdisk failed)

2009-05-21 Thread Lev Olshvang
Hi , I have Compact flash whi gave wrong number of cyl/heads during install. I tried all listed utilities ( cfdisk ,sfdiskm parted ) to change geometry, but after reinserting it retaims to the invalid geometry. Help ?? ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: Please Benchmark the Multi-threaded version of Freecell Solver

2009-05-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 21 May 2009 11:42:37 Dotan Cohen wrote: I recently created a thread-enabled version of Freecell Solver, that uses several solver instances in separate threads. I'd like to get some indication of the performance of the solver with different number of threads on different

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Shahar Dag
lets have fun ! which is the best distribution Shahar flamebait Saying all that, the decision of ditching ubuntu is a right one. Ubuntu sucks, and Fedora is a second-best distribution. /flamebait ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue

2009-05-21 Thread Herouth Maoz
Hi everybody, I recently upgraded the Linux version on my work machine, and I noticed something odd about the Hebrew kxkb layout, which I use in the lyx variant. There was no = key, and there were two ] keys. The default Hebrew layout had no such artifact. After comparing my KDE-based

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Meir Michanie
On one of the boxes I installed Fedora 10. So far so good. It seems quite stable. I used livna in order to get all kind of rpm like skype with its dependencies,... installing the latest nvidia driver required some debugging ( adding glx required to edit xorg.conf) I still like ubuntu over

Re: Dual screens / keyboard layout

2009-05-21 Thread sara fink
Which graphic card you use for the 2nd monitor. I ask because there are specific tools that deal with these resolutions for nvidia, ati etc. I couldn't find so far a script that runs when the 2nd screen is plugged. As far as I know, xorg.conf does this. My logic says that a fork should be

Re: lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue

2009-05-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
So, does anybody know where I can get a fully-defined Hebrew layout for kxkb, in the lyx variant? If so, a hint on where to install it will also be appreciated. And finally, how does one convince all the distros to include a full layout? It's strange that both Ubuntu and Mandriva have the same

Re: lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue

2009-05-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 21 May 2009 14:20:48 Dotan Cohen wrote: So, does anybody know where I can get a fully-defined Hebrew layout for kxkb, in the lyx variant? If so, a hint on where to install it will also be appreciated. And finally, how does one convince all the distros to include a full layout?

[TelFOSS] Announcement: Fring Open Source Apps on 31-May-2009

2009-05-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! The Tel Aviv Open Source Club will host a talk by Alex Nerst and Michal Geva about The Open-Source Fring Twitter and Last.fm Mobile Apps - on Sunday, 31-May-2009. The meeting will take place at Tel Aviv University, at the Schreiber MathsCS building, room 008 on 18:30. So mark your

Help setting up xfce4 on ubuntu 8.04 - does not connect with Dbus -- Blank screen

2009-05-21 Thread Lev Olshvang
Hi All, I have stripped down ubuntu 8.04no X windows (installed with debootstrap) Now I am adding XFCE desktop XServer starts up normally (ps + Xorg.log) , but xfce gives strange errors and screen remains blank : more .xsession-errors Xsession: X session started for vbox at Thu

SOLVED Re: Help setting up xfce4 on ubuntu 8.04 - does not connect with Dbus -- Blank screen

2009-05-21 Thread Lev Olshvang
I solved dbus connection problem by installing dbus-x11 package Still have a problem with ICE : libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error Lev Olshvang wrote: Hi All, I have stripped down ubuntu 8.04no X windows (installed with debootstrap) Now I am adding XFCE desktop XServer

Re: lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue

2009-05-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:28:03PM +0300, Herouth Maoz wrote: Hi everybody, I recently upgraded the Linux version on my work machine, and I noticed something odd about the Hebrew kxkb layout, which I use in the lyx variant. There was no = key, and there were two ] keys. The default Hebrew

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:23:24PM +0300, Shahar Dag wrote: flamebait Saying all that, the decision of ditching ubuntu is a right It means it has many (vocal(?) users. ;-) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Moish
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to help solving these problems? Moish ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Meir Michanie
I also own an asus eee surf 4g. I installed the 9.04 netbook remix. it made me feel nostalgic as it became slow as a 486. I cross by an article were someone explained that installing ubuntu-minimal and then installing some few gnome packages, you can speed up the box. As i do not own a usb cdrom,

Re: Dual screens / keyboard layout

2009-05-21 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Thursday 21 May 2009 03:38:38 sara fink wrote: Which graphic card you use for the 2nd monitor. I ask because there are specific tools that deal with these resolutions for nvidia, ati etc. I have the tool - xrandr works perfectly. Also, ubuntu resizes the screen when the new monitor is

Re: recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-21 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/5/13 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com Amazon S3? A bit late to the party but this morning I got an announcement from Amazon about a new import/export service, which could save on initial backup upload and allow exporting of backed-up data over media. It's in limited beta in their US DC but