Fwd: ANNOUNCE: FriBidi 1.0.0

2018-02-22 Thread Dov Grobgeld
1.0.1 has been released as well.) The new home page of fribidi is at http://github.com/fribidi/fribidi . Cheers! Dov -- Forwarded message -- From: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobg...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 11:42 PM Subject: ANNOUNCE: FriBidi 1.0.0 To: FriBidi

Re: Bank spreadsheet gibberish in Libreoffice calc

2018-01-02 Thread Dov Grobgeld
gt; Hello, > > The Hebrew font look like this: > > ×ª× ×•×¢×•×ª ×ミ×—×¨×•× ×•×ª > ת×ミריך > > > Regards > > Rami > > On 01/02/2018 04:46 PM, Dov Grobgeld wrote: > > I just tested the Mizrahi transaction sheet and it looks fine in both > libreoffice 5.4.4.1 and gnumer

Re: Bank spreadsheet gibberish in Libreoffice calc

2018-01-02 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I just tested the Mizrahi transaction sheet and it looks fine in both libreoffice 5.4.4.1 and gnumeric 1.12.36 under Fedora 27. I had to manually adjust the sheet direction to RTL and adjust the column width, but that is still far from "gibberish". Please describe what didn't work. Regards, Dov

Re: Short consulting gig (programming with BISON/Flex)

2017-08-28 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Another issue is that if you today need to write a parser in lex/yacc, then you probably made a bad decision along the way. There are today lots of well supported meta formats with excellent and well tested parsers, e.g. json, xml, yaml, config/ini, and your ROI is better spent integrating one of

Re: [LibreOffice 5.3/Ubuntu 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected

2017-06-27 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Though I haven't followed the story closely, you should note that this conversion is problematic. Converting to OpenType while retaining the Type1 outlines would have been a better idea, if OpenOffice supports it. Here's a relevant link that describes the problem in Type1→TTF conversion:

Re: [LibreOffice 5.3/Ubuntu 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected

2017-06-22 Thread Dov Grobgeld
It should be quite trivial to do the conversion with the open source package FontForge. Note that converting Type1 fonts to otf is a lossless conversion, as OpenType is a superset of Type1 and TrueType. Type1 and TrueType store the font paths differently as Type1 uses Bézier curves, wheras

Re: Entering Shortcuts While in Hebrew Layout - LibreOffice on Ubuntu

2015-12-28 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I use Ctrl-Insert and Shift-Insert for copy and paste respectively, which has the advantage of working under any keyboard layout. Works in browser, emacs, terminal, etc. Of course this doesn't other bindings of emacs when in Hebrew. Dov On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Amichai Rotman

Re: קול קורא - מפגש אמנים / קוד פתוח בחיפה

2015-11-05 Thread Dov Grobgeld
If the meeting is closer to Rehovot (Tel-Aviv?) I might consider participating as well. I know Inkscape and gimp quite well, as well as svg intrinsics. It might also be fun to discuss programmatic artistic programs like https://processing.org/ or a python replacemnt like gizeh, see:

Re: Major rendering bug affecting Hebrew in pango has been fixed

2015-08-23 Thread Dov Grobgeld
in Pocket (https://getpocket.com/) on my Nexus 5 and was reminded that it still justifies the mobilized version to the left. On 23 August 2015 at 05:53, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com wrote: This might be interesting to someone on the list. A major bug affecting rendering of Hebrew

Major rendering bug affecting Hebrew in pango has been fixed

2015-08-22 Thread Dov Grobgeld
This might be interesting to someone on the list. A major bug affecting rendering of Hebrew with justification in pango has been fixed after more than 8 years. See the following animated gif showing the rendering before and after the latest pango updates.

Re: Eliminating binary from a text file

2015-07-20 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Why not do it through a short python script? Something like (not tested) import os for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('damagedfilesystem'): for fn in filenames: if fn.endswith('.txt'): new_fn = fn.replace('.txt','-fixed.txt') out_fh = open(new_fn,'w') for

Re: OT - non-HP ink

2015-05-03 Thread Dov Grobgeld
The 8610 seems to be a popular printer on this list. I also got one. I also plan to stay with the original (expensive!) ink. Note that there is a bug in printing 10x15 photos in Linux: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1393043 Regards, Dov On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 1:20 PM,

New router/modem

2015-05-02 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I need some advice regarding a new router modem. My old Linksys WRT54G finally died on me, so I need to get a new router and I thought to replace it with a combined router/modem. I looked on the cheapo Edimax ar-7186WnA and on paper it seems to support almost everything I need. Things lacking seem

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-05 Thread Dov Grobgeld
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org wrote: Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 13:57:13 +0300 From: Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com Cc: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com, Linux-IL linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Does emacs already support the relatively new UniCode isolate

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-05 Thread Dov Grobgeld
file a feature request about the idea. Regards, Dov On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org wrote: Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 11:20:41 +0300 From: Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com Cc: Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com, linux

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-05 Thread Dov Grobgeld
logic. Is this possible? Regards, Dov On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org wrote: Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 09:46:50 +0300 From: Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com Cc: Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com, linux-il linux-il

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Does emacs already support the relatively new UniCode isolate characters LRI, RLI, FSI, PDI? These are perfect for separating markup text direction (which is typically L2R) from the flowing text. Dov On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Wed, Apr 01,

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-02-01 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Please let us know your experience with it after you get it! I'm currently using the a raspberry pi with XBian as a media box and I start to get tired of both its slow speed and of the fact that the file system of the SD-card gets corrupted once every other week. Regards, Dov On Sat, Feb 1,

Re: Printing UTF-8 in C

2014-01-12 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Writing hebrew to the terminal is a bad idea because terminals do not support BiDi reordering. That said, doing cat small-hello.utf8[1] works for me in gnome-term (though it is reversed). No special environment variables were defined. Regards, Dov [1]

Re: Printing UTF-8 in C

2014-01-12 Thread Dov Grobgeld
, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Baruch Siach bar...@tkos.co.il wrote: Hi Dov, On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote: Writing hebrew to the terminal is a bad idea because terminals do not support BiDi reordering. That said, doing cat small-hello.utf8[1] works for me

Re: Printing UTF-8 in C

2014-01-12 Thread Dov Grobgeld
...@helicontech.co.il wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.comwrote: The most unixy way is to treat everything as binary UTF-8 and then forget about encodings. The following program works just fine: #include stdio.h int main() { printf(Hello שלום!\n

Re: OT: rooting vs. warranty in Israel? [Was: Linux with Android MTP]

2013-12-10 Thread Dov Grobgeld
The question is not limited to phones. E.g. you may also update the firmware of your television, see: http://openlgtv.org.ru/wiki/index.php/Wiki_index If I could rely on the fact that the manufacturer/seller would have to rescue me if I accidentally bricked my TV set, I might be more likely to

Re: Choosing a new bank

2013-06-10 Thread Dov Grobgeld
have the same site, and infrastructure) You must mean mizrahi, afaik they are a mizrahi daughter... (though they used to be related to poalim) and they have the same problem with exporting reports, (need Excel to open them) On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg

Choosing a new bank

2013-06-09 Thread Dov Grobgeld
After getting the reply we only support Windows and Mac one time too many from Bank Leumi, when reporting about problems with their internet site, I have decided to finally switch banks. (They have annoyed me in other ways as well). Do you have any experience with the other banks? Which is the

APL-like python for fun

2013-06-06 Thread Dov Grobgeld
functions ;; Author: Mark Triggs m...@dishevelled.net, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com ;; ;; This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option

Re: APL-like python for fun

2013-06-06 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Though the idea of bridging is nice, I doubt that it is as simple as just a question of providing syntactic sugar for the scientist. Any scientist worth calling himself such, can deal with a spelled out lambda as well as with λ. I think the problem is rather that some mathematicians don't care for

Re: Literature documentation software

2013-04-28 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I'm not sure how relevant it is to your question, but I'm using org-mode in emacs for all my documentation needs. Computers are so fast these days, so that there is almost impossible for a single person to generate more data in e.g. a year than may be found quickly enough by brute force search.

Re: suggestions sought for a framework for a quick, dirty, reallysimple GUI prototype

2012-07-20 Thread Dov Grobgeld
...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012, Dov Grobgeld wrote about Re: suggestions sought for a framework for a quick, dirty, reallysimple GUI prototype: very nicely reflects the beauty of the GObject system. Especially in C it is easy to miss that because of the very tedious syntax you

Re: suggestions sought for a framework for a quick, dirty, reallysimple GUI prototype

2012-07-19 Thread Dov Grobgeld
The advantage of using Qt or Gtk compared with some of the other gui toolkits mentioned (fltk, Tcl/Tk, SDL, or Matlab GUI) are that they are complete (lots of widgets, internationalization and localization support etc) if the prototype turns into something bigger than was initially envisioned. To

Re: suggestions sought for a framework for a quick, dirty, reallysimple GUI prototype

2012-07-19 Thread Dov Grobgeld
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:50 PM, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote: Vala, is a very stupid idea. it's a C# like language that is translated into C and then built a native code. I disagree. I am not familiar with C# so I can't comment on that, but Vala very nicely reflects the beauty of the GObject

Re: suggestions sought for a framework for a quick, dirty, reallysimple GUI prototype

2012-07-19 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.comwrote: The advantage of using Qt or Gtk compared with some of the other gui toolkits mentioned (fltk, Tcl/Tk, SDL, or Matlab GUI) are that they are complete (lots of widgets

Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-24 Thread Dov Grobgeld
After having suffered with terrible outllook web mail for sending email at work for a long time, the system is finally able to accept SMTP connections. So I set out looking for a mail agent that has the following properties: - Ability to send HTML mail. - Ability to set the Bidi base

Re: Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-24 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Thanks Shachar and Dotan, Thinderbird with the bidiui extension seems to work great. Dov On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.bizwrote: On 06/24/2012 05:01 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com dov.grobg

Re: Linux HTML mail agent with RTL and LTR paragraph explicit support

2012-06-24 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Actually, it would be very nice with a emacs-based mail agent that used implicit email direction for composition, but encoded the result in explicit html (based on the resolved directions) when sending the result. Perhaps it may be done through org-mode. How to deal with incoming html mail is a

Re: Emacs Hebrew

2012-06-15 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I absolutely agree with Eli, that getting reasonable Bidi display when editing source code in Emacs is feasible, for the very reason that emacs is *syntax aware*. As long as the syntax is understood, it is possible to make sure that the various syntax elements (keywords, strings, comments) are

Re: Emacs Hebrew

2012-06-10 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Sure, just do. (setq bidi-display-reordering nil) By default, it is on. I'm using org-mode extensively during the last year, and getting Hebrew support helps with writing recepies and taking care of the home financies. There are still bugs though, e.g. like the interaction between org-tables

Re: Semantic C code indexing and query tool

2012-05-14 Thread Dov Grobgeld
There was just an article on Slashdot about FreeBSD abondoning gcc in favor of clang. I hadn't encountered clang before, and have read up on it since. The big difference between gcc and clang was that clang was written from the very beginning to be reusable tool, around which various

Re: xfig+Hebrew

2012-04-18 Thread Dov Grobgeld
...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 09:25:15AM +0300, Dov Grobgeld wrote: Hi Avraham, In Linux/X11/Gnome/KDE the input method is typically application independent and there are various methods of inputting characters. If I need to input a fancy character, e.g. U+2646 Neptune ♆, I

Re: Fedora upgrade, got unbootable system

2012-04-18 Thread Dov Grobgeld
בApril 2012 21:46:57 Dov Grobgeld wrote: modprobe[133]: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.1-3.fc16.i686/modules.dep: No such file or directory mount[95]: mount: unknown filesystem type 'binfmt_misc' Checking /lib/modules/3.3* shows that it indeed does not contain any modules.dep

Re: Fedora upgrade, got unbootable system

2012-04-18 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Thanks for the links. All I needed was: chcon -t home_root_t /home/dov Dov On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 17:41, Meir Kriheli mkrih...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2012/4/18 Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com Thanks for the help last time. In the end I reinstalled Fedora 16 on a new partition. Though

Re: xfig+Hebrew

2012-04-17 Thread Dov Grobgeld
safely ignore. Regards, Dov On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 09:03, Avraham Rosenberg for.avra...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:27:32AM +0300, Dov Grobgeld wrote: Good you solved the problem, but regarding inkscape I have to disagree. Inkscape is using pango as font layout engine, which

Re: xfig+Hebrew

2012-04-15 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Good you solved the problem, but regarding inkscape I have to disagree. Inkscape is using pango as font layout engine, which is as good as any of the top font layout engines available (uniscribe, qt, OsX). It had problems in the past if you used old fonts without advanced opentype tables, but that

Fedora upgrade, got unbootable system

2012-04-11 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I need help with how to restore my home system. Preferably without doing a clean install. I did a preupdate from Fedora 15 to Fedora 16 and now have a system that only boots into rescue mode after a long timeout. The last messages before I get the rescue prompt are: Failed to start Arbitrary

Re: Fedora upgrade, got unbootable system

2012-04-11 Thread Dov Grobgeld
/lib/modules/3.3* shows that it indeed does not contain any modules.dep file. Should it? Is there perhaps a change to Linux 3.3 so it no longer uses that file? To be continued... Dov On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 21:25, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com wrote: I need help with how to restore my home

Re: Unicode in C

2012-03-12 Thread Dov Grobgeld
My suggestion is go the glib/gtk approach and use utf-8 everywhere and have the API accept char*, i.e. there is no typedef for a unicode character strings. If this is not acceptable because of speed (this is its only tradeoff), then use UCS-4 internally and provide two external interfaces for

A friend of a collegue looking for embedded Linux introduction course

2012-01-22 Thread Dov Grobgeld
The title more or less says it all. Who in Israel is offering courses in embedded Linux programming for Linux newbies? From what I understood from my colleague, her friend is working for a company that has developed a prototype for an algorithm in Matlab and they now plan to translate it into a

Video Tape encoding

2012-01-15 Thread Dov Grobgeld
As promised, here is my write-up of the steps I did to capture a video tape under Linux: http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Encode-a-Video-Tape-to-Mpeg4-%28Divx%29-Under-Linuxaction=history Feel free to edit and discuss on the wikipage. This is the first time I'm using wikihow, and I'm not

Audio capture

2012-01-13 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I decided to use this rainy Friday morning to finally convert some old videos to digital format. Here's a short checklist of what I managed and failed to do: - Managed to see video and hear video through my video capture and sound-cards. Video is composite, and audio is connected to

Re: Audio capture

2012-01-13 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I solved it. I had to run the pulse-audio mixer separately to setup the channels that I wanted to record. Shabbat shalom! Dov On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:00, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com wrote: I decided to use this rainy Friday morning to finally convert some old videos to digital

Re: Audio capture

2012-01-13 Thread Dov Grobgeld
maybe write out a slightly more detailed description of what you did? Because my parents have hundreds of VHS tapes that we've been talking about digitizing for years, but it's rather expensive to get it done professionally... 2012/1/13 Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com I solved it. I had

Re: Scheduling a Meeting in a Cafe or Restaurant

2011-11-06 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Sorry, it doesn't work on my system: prompt kill -SMOKE thread kill: unknown signal: SIGSMOKE So perhaps the smoke signals only work in the spring. Dov 2011/11/6 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com On 6 November 2011 19:24, Erez D erez0...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/11/4 Amos Shapira

Re: Delays in ssh connections between two local Linux computers

2011-09-12 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I had similar problems that were solved when I added the following to my .ssh/config: Host * GSSAPIAuthentication=no I don't remember what the significance was, but it is worth trying. Regards, Dov On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 16:37, Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, (I apologise

Re: Hebrew books entries to Calibre

2011-08-29 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Though I have very little experince in databases, it seems like MongoDB would be a capable candidate for the database. There are even some free MongoDB hosting sites out there. It would obviously need some http (or other transport layer) wrapper. Regards, Dov 2011/8/29 Amichai Rotman

Re: Hebrew Linux Recipe App?

2011-08-29 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Try: env LC_ALL=he_IL.utf8 gourmet Regards, Dov 2011/8/29 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il Hey all, Any of you know of a recipe application I can use on my Ubuntu box in Hebrew? I tried Gourmet, but the Hebrew translation isn't finished yet. Also, I don't know how to start a specific

Re: Hebrew Linux Recipe App?

2011-08-29 Thread Dov Grobgeld
...@iglu.org.il wrote: nope... Thanks, Amichai. 2011/8/29 Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com env LC_ALL=he_IL.utf8 gourmet ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: next smartphone thoughts

2011-08-29 Thread Dov Grobgeld
term. :-( Dov On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 15:33, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding fonts, see: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38541 Generally about the n900, I can only say me too. I love the phone and its posix/X11 environment, but I also realize that it is getting

Re: next smartphone thoughts

2011-08-28 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Regarding fonts, see: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38541 Generally about the n900, I can only say me too. I love the phone and its posix/X11 environment, but I also realize that it is getting rusty. The two major things that are bothering me is that it is sometimes too busy swapping or

Re: Hebrew Nikud and fribidi

2011-08-03 Thread Dov Grobgeld
FriBidi just deals with reordering. The nikud placement is the responsibility of the rendering engine. Most rendering engines already have bidi support built in, so if you first reorder your string through fribidi and then try to display it, then you are very likely to get the wrong result.

Re: www.mr.gov.il signed documents

2011-07-07 Thread Dov Grobgeld
There are three documents available on the page that Arie linked to. The whole idea of proving a signature through a closed source program is imho quite absurd. Why didn't they use GPG signatures or some other public format? Also, isn't the xml malformed in that it does not contain a pointer to

Re: Culmus fonts on WeTab (MeeGo)

2011-05-30 Thread Dov Grobgeld
The xset mechanism is obsolete during the last years and have been superseded by the concept of client side font. For Gtk and Qt this is handled by fontconfig . To see the fonts that fontconfig supports do: fc-list To add additional fonts, it is typically enough to copy the font to ~/.fonts .

cgi-script shell script wrapping question

2010-12-27 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I'm trying to write a cgi wrapper for a long running command. The command takes about 10minutes to execute and when running it from the command line it continously outputs text to stdout. A simplistic cgi-bin wrapper that tries to execute the script and then writes that it is done fails with the

Re: cgi-script shell script wrapping question

2010-12-27 Thread Dov Grobgeld
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 20:08, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/27 shimi linux...@shimi.net 2010/12/27 Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com I'm trying to write a cgi wrapper for a long running command. The command takes about 10minutes to execute and when running it from the command

Re: Try reproducing Firefox Bug No. 611511

2010-11-30 Thread Dov Grobgeld
It does *not* happen to me, using: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Fedora/3.5.8-1.fc12 Firefox/3.5.8 . On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 09:09, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: Hi all, Please try to reproduce this Firefox bug (that also happens in Opera and

Re: Linux on the Asus 1005PG

2010-11-19 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Don't know how relevant it is but Fedora 12 works almost perfectly on Asus EEEpc 1005HA which I bought about a year and a half ago. I don't remember the exact details any more (I really should keep a journal on any configuration changes I make), but I think that I had to recompile a module for

Re: [Culmus-announce] New font Shmuel CLM

2010-10-20 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Hi Yoram, First of all, is there a culmus-discuss list? I think there should be, as the kind of comments that I'm sending here should probably be discussed in the open. Meanwhile I'm CC:ing linux-il in lack of a better place. I had a look again at the Shmuel font, which I really like! But I

Re: cheap linux box ?

2010-10-11 Thread Dov Grobgeld
This guy had bad experince with the GuruPlug: http://1wt.eu/articles/guruplug-slow-heater/ On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 14:03, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: Sheevaplug/GuruPlug. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Keyboard needs to be reconnected after Linux boot

2010-10-05 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I have a new problem that is annoying though I can live with it. On my desktop, within a second after choosing my Fedora Linux kernel within Grub and booting into Linux my keyboard disconnects and e.g. the NumLock key no longer turns on the NumLock LED. The solution is to disconnect and reconnect

Re: rehovot linux

2010-09-28 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I live in Rehovot and would be happy to share of my knowledge and learn from other Gnu/Linux/free software users in town. As far as I know there is no Linux users group yet. I know some other guys who might be interested as well. Jorge, do you volunteer to organize it? Regards, Dov 2010/9/28

Re: Hebrew on Android (and other issues)

2010-09-26 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Android to replace their buggy Java implementation? Regards, Dov On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:48, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: Dov Grobgeld wrote: I'm curious. Did your Hebrew support modifications include full BiDi support? Did you write the bidi code yourself, or did you use some

Re: Hebrew on Android (and other issues)

2010-09-25 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I'm curious. Did your Hebrew support modifications include full BiDi support? Did you write the bidi code yourself, or did you use some known library? Moadim lesimcha! Dov 2010/9/3 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz Dotan Cohen wrote: I have heard that the Hebrew on Android devices is

Re: Monthly waste of time :-) Has anyone been able to buy a Digital TV USB stick in Israel and get it to work under Linux?

2010-08-26 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Note that you can only sue for infringement of works that you own the copyright for, or if the owner of the work has agreed that you can sue on her behalf. I.e. before trying to sue someone you have find someone with copyright who is willing to claim that his right have been violated. Regards,

Re: what does g++ want from my code

2010-08-25 Thread Dov Grobgeld
The following works at least in g++ 4.4.4: #include map template typename a, typename b class c { private: b defaultVal; public: std::mapa,b mymap; const b func(a idx) { *auto* it=mymap.find(idx); if (it!=mymap.end()) return it-second;

n900 scratch screen. Anyone has experience in replacing the screen.

2010-08-19 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Today I managed to scratch the touchscreen on my n900 so that it is too ugly to live with. I wonder if anyone in Israel has any experience with replacing the screen and where you can get it? Or should I just order a replacement screen on my own through the internet and hope that I won't damage

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 Dov Grobgeld
From my experience with HR companies and looking for jobs, it is not true that anything readable equals doc for them. Very often will the HR company forward an anonymized version of the CV to the company, and only after the company show the interest (and pay money?) will they give the remaining

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 Dov Grobgeld
My CV is in Cuneiform on stone tablets. If anyone is serious about hiring me, they should take the effort to decipher it! ;-) Cheers, Dov On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 13:32, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 16, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: Some of us have

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 Dov Grobgeld
: On Monday, August 16, 2010 14:01:37 Dov Grobgeld wrote: My CV is in Cuneiform on stone tablets. If anyone is serious about hiring me, they should take the effort to decipher it! ;-) Cuneiform on stone tablets is for mobility geeks ! You are invited to my cave where you can review my CV drawing

Re: Assigning keys to Copy (ctrl-x) and Paste (ctrl-v)

2010-07-19 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I prefer using xkb to define my keyboard mappings (though I still far from understand it fully). To do what you want in xkb you would lines similar to: key I166 { [XF86Copy ] }; key I167 { [XF86Past ] }; to your .xkbmap file that you can then load through: xkbcomp ~/.xkbmap :0

Re: Assigning keys to Copy (ctrl-x) and Paste (ctrl-v)

2010-07-19 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I prefer using xkb to define my keyboard mappings (though I still far from understand it fully). To do what you want in xkb you would lines similar to: key I166 { [XF86Copy ] }; key I167 { [XF86Past ] }; to your .xkbmap file that you can then load through: xkbcomp ~/.xkbmap :0

Re: What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-06-22 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Seeing the GPL discussion regarding Orange made me wonder if someone yet has tried to contact the Evrit sellers to make them confirm to the GPL requirements. Btw, their user manual sais qisda es600 in the filename, and looking for this combination turns up the following device and the following

Re: What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-05-31 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I've read *lots* of ebooks on portable devices. I started off on my PalmIIIx, which was a bit of a pain because of the low resolution and the low contrast, continued on my Palm E2, which was great, and now I'm using FBReader on my Nokia N900, which is near perfect. One of the advantages of the

What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-05-30 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Does anyone have any idea of what software is running on the new Hebrew e-ink reader evrit? Their web-page does not mention say a word about what platform it is running on, what processor it uses, whether it is firmware upgradable, etc. See: http://www.e-vrit.co.il Regards, Dov

Re: What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-05-30 Thread Dov Grobgeld
It is running Linux: http://www.e-vrit.co.il/content.aspx?cId=7 But it seems they forgot to provide sources for their GPL programs on the web page... Though of course according to the GPL their are other ways they can comply with the license. Dov On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:26, Dov Grobgeld

Re: What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-05-30 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Of course the analogue hole is simpler to utilize for an ebook than for a physical book, as the screen is flat which makes it easier to to photograph. Connect the camera to a lego mindstorms robotic arm pressing the pagedown button, and do OCR on the resulting images and you are all set. :-) I

Re: What's inside the evrit reader?

2010-05-30 Thread Dov Grobgeld
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:45, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.comwrote: At 12:18:16 on Sunday Sunday 30 May 2010, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 May 2010 09:48, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On May 30, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Dov Grobgeld wrote: Does

Re: How do you calculate?

2010-05-20 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Here are methods I've used during the years: - perldl in a shell - ipython in a shell - type in an arithmetic expression into google - Use (/ 199.0 2.0)[control u][control x][control e] in emacs - command line with perl -e 'print 199/2,\n' - created several (because I forgot

Re: How do you calculate?

2010-05-20 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Regarding doing approximate answers in the head, it doesn't always work as is told in an anecdote of the books about the late physists Richard Feynmann. It tells the story of how he used to brag that any arithmetic problem that could be stated in in ten seconds he could give an approximate answer

Re: Changing directionality of Gnumeric cells

2010-05-04 Thread Dov Grobgeld
The directionality of the cells seem to be determined by the first strong BiDi character. If that is not what you want, e.g. if you want to write in a cell dov: שלום i.e. MOLASH :dov (if your rendering messes it up) then you'll have to insert a RLM as the first character in the input, that you

Re: [YBA] Rage

2010-04-12 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Hopefully in recycled electronics trash, though these are still far too rare in Israel. See: http://www.sviva.gov.il/bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPageenDisplay=viewenDispWhat=ObjectenDispWho=Articals ^l1409enZone=recycle_material Regards, Dov On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:27, Jonathan Ben Avraham

Re: Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-15 Thread Dov Grobgeld
good knowledge of the system (which email client is installed? Should you type mutt or pine? etc.) 2010/3/14 Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 14:37, Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.ilwrote: Even a guy who just shows up with a Dvorak keyboard, no mouse and does

Re: Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-14 Thread Dov Grobgeld
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 14:37, Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il wrote: Even a guy who just shows up with a Dvorak keyboard, no mouse and does everything inside of EMACS gets an offer. This more or less describes me, so do I get the job? :-) Also reminds me of the time a number of years

Re: How to type RLE character in KDE?

2010-03-06 Thread Dov Grobgeld
For XCompose you do the following: - Make sure that you have a Multi_key declared. It is usually Right Alt or Right Win buttons. Use xev to make sure. - Copy /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose to ~/.XCompose - Add additional Multi_key combinations at the end of the file. -

Re: Hebrew search in PDFs is backwards?

2010-01-18 Thread Dov Grobgeld
You can easily do it with fribidi through the fribidi_log2vis() function. fribidi is wrapped by pango, but it does not export its API. It does export pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels() but you'll have to work a bit more to use this function. Regards, Dov On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 16:28, Gadi

Getting xy-coordinate from touch-pad?

2010-01-08 Thread Dov Grobgeld
While thinking about user interface ideas for the N900 which I'm about to buy, I thought of the idea of a double click with motion. The idea is that you while double clicking move your finger in one of eight directions. This is actually more or less the same idea as the pie-menu, see:

Re: New Contact us message - הבעת תודה!

2009-12-29 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Nice they responded, though neither flash nor their application is open source nor free software. And a flash application cannot be called based on free software. But perhaps it raises the awareness. Cheers, Dov 2009/12/29 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il FYI

Re: Perl question: array member of referenced hash

2009-10-24 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Noam beat me to it, but here's perl solution without additional variables: #!/usr/bin/perl %hash = (a=['moo','goo','woo'], foo=3, baz=5); $ref = \%hash; foreach my $elem (@{$ref-{a}}) { print $elem\n; } Regards, Dov 2009/10/24 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz Hi

Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-08 Thread Dov Grobgeld
would be an online publishing house the would sell kindle style versions of the current content offering. Regards, - yba On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Dov Grobgeld wrote: Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:22:37 +0300 From: Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com To: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com Cc: linux-il

Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-07 Thread Dov Grobgeld
This reminds me of a public service project that I have thought about for some time. It would be nice if someone created some free (as in license) books that would pass the requirements of the education ministry. These could then be downloaded as e-books or printed, copied partially, photocopied,

Re: Last Meeting (Programming Red Flags) Summary + What's Next forTelFOSS?

2009-07-06 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I have switched to scons a couple of years back and couldn't be happier. Would there be an interest in me giving a separate presentation, or would you prefer to have a shoot out. :-) Regards, Dov 2009/7/4 Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il Hi all! The Programming Red Flags meeting had a high

Re: Last Meeting (Programming Red Flags) Summary + What's Next forTelFOSS?

2009-07-06 Thread Dov Grobgeld
is resolved through a python function that is defined within the makefile. I think that scons is the only system that kind of code. Whether it is sane is a different question... Regards, Dov 2009/7/6 Offer Kaye offer.k...@gmail.com 2009/7/6 Dov Grobgeld : I have switched to scons a couple of years

Re: Vista Hebrew fonts: who has them?

2009-06-14 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I'm curious what you don't like with the Culmus fonts that are standard in Linux distributions. Or with the Hebrew glyphs of DejaVu font for that matter. Is it font shape or kerning that is bothering you? Can you give an example? Regards, Dov 2009/6/12 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com Windows

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