Re: Raspberry PI - analog sensors with Arduino
> > I have absolutely no knowledge about the Arduino, but I've seen clones > advertised on e-bay for less than $2 - link below. > > Can anyone tell me if this as actually a working solution and if the > low price is actually possible? > > > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/1PCS-Pro-Mini-atmega328-5V-16M-Replace-ATmega128-Arduino-Compatible-Nano-/152160908037?hash=item236d7f3305:g:MMcAAOSw2GlXLD~U > > Arduino is probably the easiest / cheapest way to access analog sensors. While quality of these do vary, I have had good experience with these very cheap units. Note that you need to program these devices via a USB cable and an FTDI programmer (you can also find one on ebay for a few dollars). I would recommend for someone new to Arduino that you get an Arduino uno / sparkfun redboard (or a chinese clone of one of these) - they have the programmer built into the board (so you just plug it via USB to your computer). They also have headers soldered onto the board already, so you can connect sensors, LEDs, etc without soldering, which is good for getting started. Jason > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Sent by Claws Mail 3.11.1 - KDE 4.14.5 - LINUX Mageia 5 > > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- Jason Friedman, PhD Senior Lecturer Department of Physical Therapy Tel Aviv University email: write.to.ja...@gmail.com web: http://curiousjason.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Old computer parts for pick up
Hi all, All the items on the list have been claimed - I will email the people who asked for items individually later today. Thanks, Jason On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Jason Friedman write.to.ja...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Before I put these items in the electronics recycling, I thought I'd check if anyone would like them. Pick up from Rehovot (evening / weekend) or Tel Aviv University (during the day). As far as I know everything was working last time I tested it, but many of the devices have not been turned on or checked for a few years. Not all items have power supplies XBOX (original model, requires 110V, has XBMC installed, includes 2 controllers + IR receiver + remote) Microsoft multimedia keyboard (PS/2 connector) Linksys WRTP54G router (with 2 VOIP connections) Linksys ADSL modem AM300 - Annex A Linksys NSLU2 (can run linux) D-Link DI-614+ wireless router 5 port 10/100 Ethernet mini switch Logitech USB webcam (V-UAP42) Noontec Gigasave 3.5 HDD USD enclosure (for IDE hard disk) generic PC power supply (400W) KB-gear Jam USB graphics tablet (KG-TAB1) 2*2GB DDR2 desktop RAM (240 pin DIMM) IDE DVD-R/RW drive (Toshiba SD-R5272) IDE DVD-R/RW / lightscribe (LG GH-22LP20) Digium S100I (IAxy) [originally won at a Perl conference many years ago :)] Netgear Wireless print server WGPS606 (can use it to connected wired network devices to wifi) PCI firewire card PCI-E graphics card (Gigabyte GV-N84S-512I) 1 * unlocked USB HSDPA modem (Vodafone Huawei K3520), works with Linux Vodafone HSDPA USB modem (K3571-Z), not sure if locked Please reply off-list. Jason -- Jason Friedman, PhD Senior Lecturer Department of Physical Therapy Tel Aviv University email: write.to.ja...@gmail.com web: http://curiousjason.com -- Jason Friedman, PhD Senior Lecturer Department of Physical Therapy Tel Aviv University email: write.to.ja...@gmail.com web: http://curiousjason.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Old computer parts for pick up
Hi all, Before I put these items in the electronics recycling, I thought I'd check if anyone would like them. Pick up from Rehovot (evening / weekend) or Tel Aviv University (during the day). As far as I know everything was working last time I tested it, but many of the devices have not been turned on or checked for a few years. Not all items have power supplies XBOX (original model, requires 110V, has XBMC installed, includes 2 controllers + IR receiver + remote) Microsoft multimedia keyboard (PS/2 connector) Linksys WRTP54G router (with 2 VOIP connections) Linksys ADSL modem AM300 - Annex A Linksys NSLU2 (can run linux) D-Link DI-614+ wireless router 5 port 10/100 Ethernet mini switch Logitech USB webcam (V-UAP42) Noontec Gigasave 3.5 HDD USD enclosure (for IDE hard disk) generic PC power supply (400W) KB-gear Jam USB graphics tablet (KG-TAB1) 2*2GB DDR2 desktop RAM (240 pin DIMM) IDE DVD-R/RW drive (Toshiba SD-R5272) IDE DVD-R/RW / lightscribe (LG GH-22LP20) Digium S100I (IAxy) [originally won at a Perl conference many years ago :)] Netgear Wireless print server WGPS606 (can use it to connected wired network devices to wifi) PCI firewire card PCI-E graphics card (Gigabyte GV-N84S-512I) 1 * unlocked USB HSDPA modem (Vodafone Huawei K3520), works with Linux Vodafone HSDPA USB modem (K3571-Z), not sure if locked Please reply off-list. Jason -- Jason Friedman, PhD Senior Lecturer Department of Physical Therapy Tel Aviv University email: write.to.ja...@gmail.com web: http://curiousjason.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Literature documentation software
I use and recommend Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/ , I think it meets all of your requirements. It was originally a firefox extension but now runs standalone and will interface with most browsers. It will automatically obtain the bibliographical information and save the pdf from most journal web sites, and interfaces nicely with word / openoffice to generate citations / bibliographies (and will export to bibtex if you prefer) You can attach notes to your entries (I use this to write my article summaries) You can search your articles (including the full text if you like, it extracts it using pdftotext) It is open source and runs on linux, osx and windows. It will also sync across different computers, and if you like you can share your library (but not the pdfs) online via the zotero web site. Jason On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Steve G. word...@gmail.com wrote: I am preparing to do a (scientific) literature review, in which I am going to look for articles on a topic, read them, and summarize their important content. I would like to do it electronically, in an organized fashion, so I can also search and retrieve information later on. Right now, I print the articles, read and mark important parts, and then write up the content in a text document. My ideal program would have fields for the article name, source (journal, web address, etc.), authors, link to original article (i.e. the pdf file I will save or either a link or a copy of the web page in case of an html page) and summary/comments which I will enter. There should be some searchable record keeping system, where all the articles will be listed and be searchable by field (say, all articles from Washington Post, or Lancet, etc.). If it is online, it would be nice to be able to share access to a document. Can you recommend a program that does that, on Linux or online? Thanks, Z. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Jason Friedman, PhD Department of Physical Therapy Tel Aviv University email: write.to.ja...@gmail.com web: http://curiousjason.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Zofim
https://zofim.org.il/magazin_item.asp?item_id=387787671076 but that does not show the content. Is this a browser issue, or is the site just plain broken? Its broken on Internet explorer on Windows too so it seems the site is broken. Jason -- Jason Friedman, PhD Department of Physical Therapy Tel Aviv University email: write.to.ja...@gmail.com web: http://curiousjason.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: anybody knows of a mifi i can run linux on ?
Hi Erez, Your original email was pretty vague: I am looking for a Mifi (i.e. cellular wifi) router which i can run linux on. So I'm not sure why you are surprised with the responses. I interpreted that as you wanting something relatively small that runs linux and can connect to cellular networks. You might want to be a little more specific with what you want if you want more specific responses. Here is another suggestion (again, it depends on why you want to run linux on it). Get a cheap android phone. It runs linux (sort of) and can act as a router. Hope that helps :) Jason On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Erez D erez0...@gmail.com wrote: A real story: In the Palestinian zoo, they didn't have a zebra, and they wanted one, So they took a donkey, and drew stripes on it with paint. Why am i telling this story, because i wanted a MIFI, and i got 10 replies telling me to take a wireless router and add a 3g dongle. and that reminded me about the donkey with painted stripes. no offense but, maybe this is because people are too eager to help but a wireless router is not built with small size, low battery consumption and many other consideration a mifi does. do you thing i can sell a wireless router + 3g dongle + battery as a product ? people will laugh at me and i will be out of business. so thanks for your help, but if you know of a MIFI I can put some kind of Linux on, please let me know Thanks Erez (and again, no offense meant) ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Jason Friedman, PhD Department of Physical Therapy Tel Aviv University email: write.to.ja...@gmail.com web: http://curiousjason.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: anybody knows of a mifi i can run linux on ?
You could try and build your own with a raspberry pi (which you can install linux on) and a USB cellular modem, which seems to be possible: http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/07/3g-internet-on-raspberry-pi-success/ You would need to attach a power source to the whole thing, but it would still be relatively compact. Jason On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Erez D erez0...@gmail.com wrote: there are routers, e.g. the wrt54gl which i can ran openwrt on however i am looking for a Mifi (i.e. cellular wifi) router which i can run linux on. anybody knows of such ? thanks, erez. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Jason Friedman, PhD Department of Physical Therapy Tel Aviv University email: write.to.ja...@gmail.com web: http://curiousjason.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Converting multiple html files to pdf files
Printing from Firefox to PDF works, but is a manual process. Considering I have hundreds of files, it is impractical. You could try scripting Firefox using MozRepl (https://github.com/bard/mozrepl/wiki). There is a CPAN (perl) module which may help. Jason -- Jason Friedman Postdoctoral scholar Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia email: write.to.ja...@gmail.com web: http://curiousjason.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: some help in technical solution
I think the best solution would be to use a data acquisition device, either USB or PCI. Measurement computing sell relatively cheap devices, e.g. this USB one for $99: http://www.mccdaq.com/usb-data-acquisition/USB-1024-Series.aspx http://www.mccdaq.com/usb-data-acquisition/USB-1024-Series.aspxcan measure 24 digital channels (you could get two if you need 30). Each competitor could have a small switch, which connects their input line to say a 5V power supply. You can then write a very simple program to detect when each competitor presses their switch (with sub-millisecond accuracy!). These devices apparently have linux support. Jason On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:44 PM, yosi yarchi yosi.yar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I need application that will be able to collect and process inputs from 30 (!) competitors, and will display the results very fast. The ideal solution could be to collect the inputs via SMS: each competitor send his answer, the application collect the answers (related to phone number) and process them. However, I can't assume that the competitors have mobile phones (they may be little childs...). I thought to use 30 USB numerical keyboards as input devices, connected with cables to 3 hubs, connected to the computer. However, I don't have experience with USB drivers at linux... Is it feasible? What should be the main guidelines for the solution? With best regards Yosi Yarchi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Jason Friedman Postdoctoral scholar Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia email: write.to.ja...@gmail.com web: http://curiousjason.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Open source English-Hebrew dictionary
Hi all, Is there an open source English Hebrew Dictionary? I'm interested with usable program that once you'll enter an English word, it would display the Hebrew translation. Specifically for the Android platform, but I believe that I'll be able to adapt any desktop application to a mobile device quite easily. I'm aware of the Limon project (http://www.jlc.org.il/limon/), but I'm not sure how to download the word list or the translation software. Except, the word list is not too long (6k). Is there a free dictionary in book form (ie, with no copyright holders)? I don't mind typing it. I am also interested in writing an offline android English-Hebrew dictionary. I found this site which has bilingual dictionaries, licensed under the GNU FDL, although none of them seem to be have too many words: http://dicts.info/uddl.php But I'll be happy to cooperate in preparing an application (although I have no android experience . . . ) Jason -- Jason Friedman Postdoctoral scholar Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia email: write.to.ja...@gmail.com web: http://curiousjason.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: O'reilly Books in Israel
Hi all, I think the same answers to when this question were asked a few weeks ago still stand: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg59242.html BTW, when you order from Amazon, the products do generally come from America - Deutsche Post handle most international shipping for Amazon, so your books go through Germany. Jason On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.comwrote: On Friday 24 September 2010 09:14:23 Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi all, I am looking for the fastest eay to acquire O'reilly books in Israel - I mean - where can i find them in a book store or an Israeli Online bookstore... I guess i could order from Amazon - but it will take it about a month or so to arrive, and I need it sooner... Any of you know of such a bookstore? Thanks! It won't take anything like a month, and it will be shipped from Germany, not from the US. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Jason Friedman Postdoctoral scholar Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia email: write.to.ja...@gmail.com web: http://curiousjason.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Linux books, fast shipping?
I found the book depository (www.bookdepository.co.uk) reasonably fast and cheap for computing books - they have free shipping (from England) to Israel (and worldwide) on everything. The books usually get to Israel in under a week. Jason 2010/8/30 Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com Hi, I need to buy 4 books, and would like a recommendation where I should buy them in order to get them ASAP. Amazon is the first choice, but is it fast? The books are: 1. Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition) - http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/dp/0672329468/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1282836812sr=8-1 2. Understanding Linux Network Internals - http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Network-Internals-Christian-Benvenuti/dp/0596002556/ref=pd_sim_b_4 3. Understanding the Linux Kernel, Third Edition - http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Linux-Kernel-Third-Daniel/dp/0596005652/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1282836812sr=8-2 4. Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition - http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Device-Drivers-Jonathan-Corbet/dp/0596005903/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1282846665sr=8-19 Thanks, Kfir ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Jason Friedman Postdoctoral scholar Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia email: write.to.ja...@gmail.com web: http://curiousjason.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Linux / Computer Books in Israel
I keep saying there must be a better way to get good books here in Israel. Is there a bookstore somewhere that already imports these kinds of books, or that can order them for me and deliver them to me via IL Post or where I can pick them up somewhere local in this part of the country? Hi Shlomo, I have found the site www.bookdepository.co.uk very reasonable for buying computer books. They have free worldwide shipping on all books. The two books you were looking for come to a total of $65.77. The benefit of buying from them (based in the UK) rather than the USA is that the shipping from England is much quicker (I would often receive books in under a week). Jason -- Jason Friedman Postdoctoral scholar Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia email: write.to.ja...@gmail.com web: http://curiousjason.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: bug in date?
# date -s 27 MAR 2009 02:54:00 date: invalid date `27 MAR 2009 02:54:00' However.. # date -s 27 MAR 2009 03:00:00 Fri Mar 27 03:00:00 IDT 2009 Why is it invalid?? This is the start of summer time in Israel, so this hour does not exist. From http://www.gov.il/FirstGov/NewsEng/NewsEng_DaylightSavingTime09.htm Daylight Saving Time will begin in Israel on the night between Thursday, March 26th, and Friday, March 27th, at 2:00 a.m. At that time the clock will be moved forward one hour, from 2:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. Jason ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: I don't want to do it under Windows ; please help
I need to draw some arrows in an angle and I need to add some text **parallel** to these lines. This means that the text should not be vertical or horizontal, but in an anlge (30 or 45). And it seems that this is **not** possible in dia. Does any one know a tool with which it can be done? xfig can do arrows and text at arbitrary angles, and will output to many formats (including png) It is great for this sort of thing. Jason -- Jason Friedman Postdoctoral researcher Motor Control and Biomechanics laboratories Department of Kinesiology Pennsylvania State University Phone: +1-814-863-0354 email: jason.fried...@psu.edu web: http://www.personal.psu.edu/jxf35 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?
Following on from Oleg, once you have convert the images to PDF with imagemagick
$ for i in *.jpg; do convert -resize 1024x768 $i ${i%.*}.pdf; done
you can then combine them all into one PDF file using pdftk:
pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf
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make question
Hi all, I have had this make question that has been bugging me for a long time. I want to fix some eps files using eps2eps. This is the makefile I use: figure1_fixed.eps: figure1.eps [tab] eps2eps $ $@ (replace [tab] with the tab character) This works fine, but when I have many eps files to convert, I have to repeat the command line many times. A similar problem is this one: figure2.eps: ../../some/other/path/some_long_ugly_filename.eps After lots of googling, I have not been able to find a solution. Is there a way to do this in make, if not, can you suggest another tool that can do this? I have been running into variants of this problem several times. Thanks, Jason -- Jason Friedman Postdoctoral researcher Motor Control and Biomechanics laboratories Department of Kinesiology Pennsylvania State University Phone: +1-814-863-0354 email: jason.fried...@psu.edu web: http://www.personal.psu.edu/jxf35 = To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il
OFFTOPIC: Various computer accessories for sale
Hi all, I'm leaving the country for an extended period, and have been cleaning out the old computer junk. The items can be picked up from Rehovot, or I will send it to you. Swaps will also be considered (for RAM or other interesting items). Please call or email for more details: * Avermedia AverTV Go 007 FM Plus (works with Windows XP, rumoured to work with linux but not tested) - 50 shekels * no-name 802.11b PCMCIA card (works with linux with some effort) - 10 shekels * PCI SCSI card (can connect internal + external drive) plus cables - 20 shekels * SCSI CD-ROM drive - free * Maxtor 3.5 2.1GB hard drive - 10 shekels * PCI sound card - Aztech PCI 168 - 10 shekels Thanks, Jason Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 054-8076717
Re: Cable Internet
Just a small correction I've never seen anything like it. BTW, routers purchased in the U.S. WON'T work here. The only exception is the Linksys WRTG54-L (linux version) with third party firmware. I have a D-LINK 614+ router purchased in the USA, and it works fine here with cable internet (L2TP) via actcom. The Israeli technical support staff were helpful in getting it set up. Jason = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] computer recycling
Sorry about the off-topic post, but I couldn't find this information anywhere . . . Is there anywhere in Israel where one can recycle old computers. I have several non-working and very old computers, monitors and printers that I would like to recycle rather than throw in the trash for environmental reasons. Thanks, Jason -- Jason Friedman Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Home page: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~jason
Re: set xemacs window title
We would very much like to see only the filename in the taskbar, and if possible, to keep the full path name in the title of the window. In your configuration file, put the following line: (setq frame-title-format %S:%b) or (setq frame-title-format %b) if you just want the filename and not emacs before it. What you have now I think is this: (setq frame-title-format %f) while shows the full path. Jason (another xemacs fan) -- Jason Friedman Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Home page: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~jason = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: irc client
i'm looking for an irc client to install on my linux box (rhel 4.4 x86_64) You can use xchat. I believe it is part of the rhel distribution. Jason = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Annotative attachments - Desirable feature for E-mail clientapplications
Omer Zak wrote: Today I received an E-mail message, which I wanted to save and add a note for myself about it (annotation). I found that I know of no E-mail application, which can do this. snip The notary extension for thunderbird can do some of the things that you want: https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/979/ Jason = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beautifying latex documents
I want to produce a latex document template that looks similar to professional books' templates. That is, with notes bounded by a box of different color and having a picture on the top of the box. There's a book series with ants teaching you java and C++ with many examples for such a template. there are three elements I don't know how to implement by latex 1. bounding a piece of text, that may span across more than one page, with box. I'm not sure about the spanning more than one page part. 2. Colouring a box with gradient color. Alternatively, setting a background image to the box You can make nice coloured, gradient boxes using the pgf package http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf In the manual, there are examples of placing text on such backgrounds. 3. changing a text so that it'll appear vertically instead of horizontally there is a package called rotating that does this. do a search on ctan. Jason -- Jason Friedman Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Home page: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~jason = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bookmarklet for tracking israeli mail
I just thought I'd share a bookmarklet for accessing the page to track
Israeli mail (the standard page they offer doesn't work for me in
firefox). To use, just put it as the location for a bookmark.
It will use the current selection, or pop up a window asking you for the
number.
javascript:number=document.getSelection();if(!number){void(number=prompt('Tracking
number:',''))};if(number)
location.href='http://web01.postil.com/itemtrace.nsf/trackandtrace?OpenAgentL=heitemcode='+escape(number)
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Releasing a NSLU2 from customs
I'm hoping someone here can help me with this one: After reading about it in various places, I bought a Linksys NSLU2 on ebay. It is a device with one network port and 2 USB ports intended for sharing a USB disk drive on a network, but it also runs linux and it is possible to install various other features (there are a number of community based efforts, e.g. http://www.nslu2-linux.org/) Anyhow, I received a notice in the mail today that I need to free the item from customs (meces), and to do this, I need to get approval from the ministry of communications because it is considered communications equipment (they gave me some form for this). Do I really need approval for this? Has anyone had one approved in the past and is able to save me the effort? Thanks, Jason = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inline spell checking in GNOME browsers [was Hallelujah!Hspell 1.0 is released.]
I understand (from having a quick look at the source) that they are using myspell, based on the openoffice myspell component. The relevant part of the source tree available at: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/bonecho/alpha3/source/firefox-2.0a3-source.tar.bz2 is in the mozilla/extensions/spellcheck directory. Jason On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 15:12 +0300, Jason Friedman wrote: Apparently, inline spell checking is in the firefox 2.0 alpha release. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0a2.html That would be very good. do you know which speller they are using ? -- Oded ::.. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire (1694-1778) = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
inline spell checking in GNOME browsers [was Hallelujah! Hspell 1.0 is released.]
Apparently, inline spell checking is in the firefox 2.0 alpha release. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0a2.html Jason On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 13:03 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 12:01 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: Congrats for the great work. Did you have any luck getting the GNOME people to integrate support for it? (AFAIK KDE already supports it) BTW - is there a way to make GNOME based browsers (firefox/epiphany/galeon) do online spell checking in forms like Konqueror and Safari do? No idea... I'm using vim7 to spell check forms via the View Source With extension. Ugly, but works. I saw some spell checker extensions for mozilla/firefox, but all require that you manually activate a spell checking action when you are done. Umm.. which ones? -- Oded ::.. Life's not fair, but the root password helps. -- S.Travaglia = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jason Friedman Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Home page: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~jason = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Miktex and PDFLatex
To get hyperlinks in your pdf file using latex, you just need to
include the package hyperref
(see http://www.tug.org/applications/hyperref/ for more details). It
should be included with more
latex distributions.
To generate the pdf, either use pdflatex directly on the .tex file, or
convert from ps using ps2pdf
If using the second method, you should include hyperref by:
\usepackage[ps2pdf]{hyperref}
It has many options regarding exactly what will get hyperlinks.
Jason
Hi,
I am writing my thesis in tex and I usually generate PS file.
Using Miktex.
How do I generate a pdf file that automatically also has
mouse click to jump to section/chapter and also to the figures and tables?
also, footnotes would be nice and in text references to figures/tables and
pagerefs.
10x.
Regards,
Tzahi.
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Re: printing PDF from a command line on Linux
Hi, I use the following small script to print a PDF from the command line (requires that Acrobat reader (acroread) is installed). acroread has a -toPostScript option to create a .ps file without opening the graphical interface. I believe you can do the same thing with xpdf using the -ps command line switch. #!/usr/bin/tcsh set fn = `perl -e '$_ = $ARGV[0];s/\.pdf$//;print' $1` acroread -toPostScript $fn.pdf /tmp lpr /tmp/$fn.ps rm /tmp/$fn.ps Jason Hi, Is there a way to print a PDF file to printer queue from a command line? Best Regards, Israel Shikler Softkol Software Services Phone: 972-3-5348938 Mobile :972-52-8885100 Fax : 972-3-5348967 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jason Friedman Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Home page: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~jason = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird 1.0 parties
Hi all, I saw at http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/006693.html that various people around the world are organizing parties for when Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird reach 1.0, but I notice there is nothing registered for Israel at the Mozparty 2 web tool (http://www.openforce.at/mozparty2/). Is anyone organizing something? The suggested dates for the parties are around the 19-21st November. Jason = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Fedora Mystery
Actcom host a mirror of Fedora: ftp://mirror.israel.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/ or http://mirror.israel.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/ You can see their list of mirrors at http://mirror.israel.net/ Jason I bought a new laptop, paid the MS-Tax (for Windows XP), and I want to install Linux on it. When looking for ISO images of Fedora, I found no Israeli mirror of Fedora ISO's. The most recent mirrored version in that lineage is RedHat 9. So I am downloading Fedora ISOs (slowly) from abroad. Meanwhile, the above observation leads me to asking, in a nervous way, whether there is any brown bag type problem with Fedora or with its level of Hebrew support. --- Omer My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new installation
Hi, The linux on laptops site has useful information and tutorials: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com For your particular laptop (or something very close to it), they have a tutorial for installing redhat linux 9.0: http://natura.di.uminho.pt/~jac/deliverables/htmls/redhat9oncompaq2500.html It deals with your problem of the firewire port. Jason -- Jason Friedman Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Home page: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~jason I have received my new Compaq Presario 2540EA and while Windows works on it nicely I decided I prefer to install some kind of a Linux distro. I found a set of Red Hat 9.0 CDs on my desk so I started to use them. boing: it got stuck quite at the beginning when it was trying to load the driver for 1390 (I have a built in firewire in this notebook). OK, maybe I was aiming too high. Let's try Red Hat 8.0. Luckily I have a copy of that too. The same happened there. Good, so you want to wrestle with me, eh ? I won't give in. I picked up the SuSE 8.0 CD that I am using on my older notebook. So far the installation works. I have no idea yet if it can see my hardware correctly or not. Hmmm, bad signs, it started to ask these intimate questions about my monitor suggesting it is a Samsung/unknown model. Who the hell knows what this monitor is ? Anyway I am quite sure I'll try to install Debian on this machine so while I'd be happy to get a clue on how could I convince the machine to install RH 9.0 I also would like to know if it is safe to use the network installation of Debian ? How secure is my computer during installation before I can harden it manually ? I attended Shachars presentation in August where AFAIR he suggested to pick up a Debian derivative distro. Install that and then get-apt to unstable. Is this what you recommended ? Any other recommendations ? Gabor http://www.pti.co.il/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] computer controlled power switch
I am looking for a way to turn on and off electrical appliance (220V) from a computer program. does anyone know where I can get a power switch with some interface to a computer (serial/parallel/usb/scsi/pci card/whatever) of course, I need it work under linux. There is a project at sourceforge that works with home automation, to do this sort of thing. it is called misterhouse (it runs on perl, in linux and windows). I have played around with it a little. http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/ As for the hardware side of things, there is a standard protocol called X-10, which communicates through the power lines in your house. you can then plug in switches, lights sockets, etc. it is possible to buy x-10 interfaces to the computer (usually via the serial port) to send x-10 signals at the appropriate times. I know of two companies in europe that sell 230V equipment (but I haven't ordered from either of them so have no reccomendations): http://www.intellihome.be www.laser.com and one in israel (again no experience with them): www.plonter.co.il (look for x-10) A much simpler (and cheaper) do-it-yourself solution is to build a switch from your parallel port. details at in the Home-Electrical-Control HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Home-Electrical-Control/index.html (again i haven't built one of these either but plan to) Jason = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] Public wifi access (fwd)
I am passing on this message for Tal Achituv: The Interdisciplinary Center in herzelia (www.idc.ac.il) has public Wi-Fi Internet for free around the cafeteria, __ Tal Achituv Integration Assistant tel. +972-9-961-1500 ext. 277 fax. +972-9-961-1511 mbl. +972-55-956-369 SCHEMA Optimizing the Wireless World w w w . s c h e m a . c o m = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] Public wifi access
Hi all, I bought a wifi card to take travelling and wanted to test it before I leave. Does anyone know of any public wifi access points in Israel? (Yes, the card does have an open source linux driver: http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/ :) Thanks, Jason = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.il.kernel.org
Hi, Is there a good reason why www.il.kernel.org points to iglu (http://www.iglu.org.il/IGLU/) from where you have to hunt for the link rather than to the kernel source directly (ftp://ftp.iglu.org.il/pub/linux/kernel/)? Jason Friedman = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pstopnm
I believe that pstopnm just calls ghostscript - you can call ghostscript yourself. I think a call to ghostscript something like: gs -q -sDEVICE=pnm -sOUTPUTFILE=- with quiet requested Bmay do what you want. Jason --- Jason Friedman Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Home page: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~jason On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, David Harel wrote: Hi, I am trying to run pstopnm on pipe. The command: smb2ps infile a ; pstopnm a; pnmtojpeg a000.ppm b displays some output to stdout and converts correctly. However if I try the same process using pipes: smb2ps infile | pstopnm -stdout - | pnmtojpeg file Does not work. The reason it does not work in pipe is that the [EMAIL PROTECTED]@# pstopnm command adds it's own garbage to the output file when working using stdio which is the same message you see on stdout using real files. some background. Linux machine is a RH 7.3 The input file infile is a result of w2000 client sending a print file with some garbage wrapping it. The smb2ps is a simple filter to remove the junk as recommended by one of the samba documents (I do not remember which but if anyone cares I will look for it). The whole idea is to convert a printout from a Windows client to jpeg and send it via e-mail instead of fax. Well What are your comments? -- Thanks. David Harel, == Home office +972 4 6921986 Fax:+972 4 6921986 Cellular: +972 54 534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software design document
BTW: is there any script that is equivalent of MikTeX's texify? It would save much of the dirtier parts of that makefile. I use latexmk, a perl script, which does the same thing (runs perl / bibtex the appropriate number of times) It can be downloaded from CTAN: ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk/ Jason --- Jason Friedman Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Home page: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~jason = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
