RE: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Dvir Volk
Richard Stallman of GNU just published an interesting article on newsforge on the subject, titled We can put an end to Word attachments. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/10/1711238mode=thread and by the way, KWord can edit hebrew MSWord documents rather decently. Dvir Volk

RE: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Dvir Volk
is unstable and inconvenient. Dvir Volk Editor in Chief Nana by NetVision _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: 03-5652585 | Fax:03-6241952 | http://www.netvision.net.il http://www.nana.co.il NetVision LTD. Omega Center

RE: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Dvir Volk
- i know it kinda sucks, but it's better than nothing. hope netfun will provide us with a new version soon. i'll notify this list when he does... cheers, Dvir Volk Editor in Chief Nana by NetVision _ [EMAIL

RE: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Dvir Volk
-Original Message- From: guy keren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 12:11 AM they have programmers working on wine locally, and they don't sync everything back to the official wine tree. they don't write that on their web site, but it is implied.

RE: nice article - good for pushng linux :)

2002-01-29 Thread Dvir Volk
thanks :-) we'll be doing a big don't be afraid of Linux story soon. but i think it might better to wait until KDE3.0 is released and hebrew support will be optimal. btw, does KDE3.0 really deliver in the hebrew field as promised? Dvir Volk Editor in Chief Nana by NetVision

RE: nice article - good for pushng linux :)

2002-01-29 Thread Dvir Volk
I'll be keeping my fingers crossed. editing complex texts with kde2.2 and biditext is very uncomfortable. if KDE would be able to provide a bidi level that even will enable me to edit long hebrew articles on it, i swear i'll format my XP partition on the release day. Dvir Volk Editor in Chief

RE: nice article - good for pushng linux :)

2002-01-29 Thread Dvir Volk
And that (IMHO) would be a very foolish step (again, IMHO) ... So as for your formatting XP - allow me to suggest to you - stay with your XP for now - and only when you see that all your needs can be fulfilled with Linux - then switch to Linux, and even then - I suggest you leave

RE: Building kde-3.0-beta1

2002-02-04 Thread Dvir Volk
btw, beta2 is scheduled for relaese today, any news if it's going to be on time? so far there's nothing on their site, besiedes the planned schedule. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the

Hebrew on KDE3.0b2

2002-02-18 Thread Dvir Volk
Hi I've compiled the lond awaited KDE3.0 beta 2, and it works ok, more or less. The hebrew support is also excellent, except for one strange thing: I can write herbew in kedit very well (RTL and all), but once i save the document, and open it again, i get just ??? ?? ?. also, hebrew

RE: Hebrew on KDE3.0b2

2002-02-18 Thread Dvir Volk
What's relevant is the text encoding selected in KEdit when saving. You can select a text encoding in the Save As dialog. Nope, that option doesn't exist in kedit, only in kate. would be nice to have it, though. The question isn't which font you select in Notepad but how you save it in

RE: Exchange in Linux

2002-03-25 Thread Dvir Volk
What do you know, Ximian announced today the release of Connector, which will allow you to connect to an Excahnge server using Evolution. Which is good news for people with paranoid corporate sysadmins that don't allow IMAP access to their Exchange servers (that would be me) :) Sadly, it's

RE: Exchange in Linux

2002-03-26 Thread Dvir Volk
(as iff MS wants you to use an exchange server instead of the standard). hmmm... i can believe that :) Mozilla is still problematic with respect to Hebrew, though, I believe (some small issues: like: how do you set the main direction of a message to be RTL) I haven't tried working with

RE: The cursor when writing Hebrew in KDE 3.0

2002-04-09 Thread Dvir Volk
(or non hebrew, for that matter) RTF files with Kword. is there a filter available? this release is simply asskicking. i hope Gnome 2.0 will be as good as this - it's a real challenge! I'll be publishing a story about KDE as a free option for israeli desktop users in Nana in the next few days. Dvir

RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Dvir Volk
- why seperate it to millions of tiny rpms? they are good to have as seperate components, but along side a big super-rpm. Dvir Volk Editor in Chief Nana by NetVision _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: 03-5652585 | Fax:03

RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Dvir Volk
I liked the zillion packages. You see, sometimes I jsut want one component, not the entire warehouse. I didn't say that there shouldn't be seperate packages, of course that IS GOOD. but you i would also like to see a bundled package with all the necessary files and libs inside. i mean,

RE: KDE3

2002-04-21 Thread Dvir Volk
problem with that, i can read hebrew, but how do write in hebrew chars? add the hebrew keybord layout in Kcontrol, and use alt+ctrl+k to switch between the layouts that you want to use... which reminds me - is there any way to define the switch combination to be alt+shift? the key

RE: Wondering about free software.

2002-04-22 Thread Dvir Volk
I am now thinking to develop a program that will offer a good alternative to these programs... But what will I get from it? The only reason for someone to develop such programs is to sale them... No small office will pay a programmer to write special programs for it's use... but

RE: Wondering about free software.

2002-04-23 Thread Dvir Volk
If I were him and I wanted to write some open source applications for living, then I would have been in a big problem. What makes you sure that if he writes for a company an open source program and sells it - that I (or anyone else) will take the sources and sell it to their

RE: linux forums in Israerl [was: Re: Nana Linux forum]

2002-05-17 Thread Dvir Volk
. and aout browser compatibilty - nana's forums work fairly ok on mozilla on konqi, and are W3C compliant since we use XML/XSL, but if you find any problems let me know. ***and on this opportunity, thanks a bunch and good luck to Hetz in running the forum!*** Dvir Volk Editor

RE: chat problems ..

2002-05-22 Thread Dvir Volk
We've asked NetFun to fix it, but so far they haven't issued a new version, but as mentioned before, our Advanced chat works (not perfectly, i admit) on linux. Dvir Volk Editor in Chief Nana by NetVision _ [EMAIL

RE: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Dvir Volk
Get some money from the goverment, get some funding for Hebrew applications development on Linux - stuff like that.. this might be a good time to do that - as you've probably read, the government is considering funding hebrew open source projects.

RE: PHP/Apache strange problem

2002-07-03 Thread Dvir Volk
. but as i said, that configuration was ok even when it didn't work. -Original Message- From: Ilya Konstantinov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 7/3/2002 7:15 PM To: Dvir Volk Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: PHP/Apache strange problem On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 05

RE: [August Penguin] It's all about the money

2002-07-30 Thread Dvir Volk
Do you expect 50 shekels to be too much? If so, I suggest you take a lower charge from people who might not come because of the price (kids, soldiers, muvtalim, etc.), say 20 shekels. Soldiers in uniform free? Kids under 16 at half price? Well, it's up to the organizers... how about

RE: Key signing party results

2002-08-04 Thread Dvir Volk
Those of you who did not participate, fret not - we'll have another key signing party in the next IGLU event. Which will be.? Fscked if I know. I know that at least gby and I are thinking about it. If you (or anyone else) have a suggestion, fire away... first of all, kudos on

RE: Key signing party results

2002-08-04 Thread Dvir Volk
well, i'm willing to help if others want to organize it too. plus - if it becomes serious - i might (just might) also be able to get some sponsorship to such an event from Nana (ethics schmethics :) ). Dvir Volk Editor in Chief Nana by NetVision

RE: nana's chat working

2002-08-18 Thread Dvir Volk
are you sure it's the basic chat and not the advanced one? the advanced chat worked since day 1 (well, if you ignore the fact that you the letter tav doesn't work) on linux, but i've never managed to run tour basic (netfun) chat on linux. Dvir Volk Editor in Chief Nana by NetVision

RE: kab + dbms?

2002-09-03 Thread Dvir Volk
-Original Message- From: Arie Folger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 5:23 PM To: Linux-IL mailing list Subject: kab + dbms? Hi, I have a set of flat files which once upon a time were an access database. Once I migrated to Linux, I slowly

old Yahoo! Messenger, anyone?

2002-09-05 Thread Dvir Volk
with GTK2, and i've lost the old version's RPM, sadly. i also tried the KYIM client, but it wasn't good enough. so, if anyone still has the old version (RedHat i386), it would be much appreciated. thanks Dvir Volk Editor in Chief Nana by NetVision

RE: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Dvir Volk
encryption technologies. 3. clearing the subject of a state back door by law (which pretty much means no more of this rubbish, if it does exist) Dvir Volk Editor in Chief Nana by NetVision _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel

RE: Microsoft to Cross the Borders

2002-09-10 Thread Dvir Volk
://money.cnn.com/2002/09/05/technology/microsoft/index.htm which does not mention an mslinux at all ;) Dvir Volk Editor in Chief Nana by NetVision _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: 03-5652585 | Fax:03-6241952 | http

RE: Against Soddomite Beds (was: Re: redhat's new desktop policy)

2002-09-18 Thread Dvir Volk
it seems to me like so much double work on parallel KDE/Gnome components is being done on one hand, while the differences between the K and the G become smaller and smaller on the other hand, it's just absurd. Curious to notice that no one speaks about the horrible, criminal and

RE: Qtext

2002-09-24 Thread Dvir Volk
windows code to linux, or if that won't mean rewriting the whole thing from scratch, practically. btw, the name, at least, is already linux-ready: it QText sounds perfect for a QT app :) Dvir Volk Editor in Chief Nana by NetVision

RH8.0 is out

2002-09-30 Thread Dvir Volk
it looks like the Redhat ftp is not standing the pressure, though. when is the iglu mirror supposed to be synchronized? Dvir Volk Editor in Chief Nana by NetVision _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: 03-5652585 | Fax

RE: RH8.0 is out

2002-09-30 Thread Dvir Volk
the netvision mirror now has an empty en dir, which implies it's currently synchronizing as we speak... Dvir Volk Editor in Chief Nana by NetVision _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: 03-5652585 | Fax:03-6241952

RE: xmms rh8

2002-10-06 Thread Dvir Volk
I highly doubt it's legal. I've looked in fraunhofer's site, which refered me to an mp3 licensing site, that said: Do you license mp3/mp3PRO software to end users? No. We license mp3/mp3PRO software and patents to developers and manufacturers of software applications and hardware devices. Many

Compiling Qt 3.1 with Xft support under RedHat 8.0?

2002-11-04 Thread Dvir Volk
Hi Has anyone managed to compile Qt-copy (3.1, used for kde 3.1) with Xft support under RedHat 8.0? No matter what I've tried, I keep getting errors. Without Xft, of course, it compiles smoothly. Dvir Volk Editor in Chief Nana by Netvision [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: 03-5652585 | Fax:03-6241952

RE: I have 2 spare CPU's (maybe not)

2002-11-10 Thread Dvir Volk
I think it's because Xeon processors use hyperthreading, which is sort of like a dual processor inside one processor (not really, but a bit like it). that allows instructions from separate threads to be processed at once by the same CPU in one cycle. You can read more about it here:

RE: I have 2 spare CPU's (maybe not)

2002-11-10 Thread Dvir Volk
AFAIK, the more you run multithreaded apps, the more performance gain you get, isn't it? On which linux apps should one see more imporvement? I guess servers like apache and mysql can gain a lot - relatively - from hyperthreading, for example. -Original Message- From: Hetz Ben-Hamo

RE: Bidi support in Gtk

2002-11-10 Thread Dvir Volk
Which reminds me - I'm using Gimp on RH8.0, and for some reason I can't seem to be able to write hebrew in it. As far as I remember, when I used gtk 1.x, there was no such problem - I only needed to use biditext and the correct locale. But with the new gtk it seems even that doesn't help (neither

RE: Bidi support in Gtk

2002-11-11 Thread Dvir Volk
: Re: Bidi support in Gtk On Sunday 10 November 2002 12:11, Dvir Volk wrote: Which reminds me - I'm using Gimp on RH8.0, and for some reason I can't seem to be able to write hebrew in it. As far as I remember, when I used gtk 1.x, there was no such problem - I only needed to use

RE: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)

2002-11-12 Thread Dvir Volk
Btw, just checked it on my workplace machine (win2k, PIII500, 256MB RAM. Why oh why don't they let me install linux here? :) ). It took 27 seconds (!) to start swriter and 2.5 seconds to start msword XP. -Original Message- From: Hetz Ben Hamo [mailto:hetz;witch.dyndns.org] Sent:

RE: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)

2002-11-12 Thread Dvir Volk
Ben Hamo [mailto:hetz;witch.dyndns.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:25 PM To: Dvir Volk; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance) On Tuesday 12 November 2002 14:24, Dvir Volk wrote: Btw, just checked it on my workplace machine (win2k, PIII500, 256MB

RE: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-13 Thread Dvir Volk
AFAIK, this is the main goal of KDE 3.2 - increasing interface responsiveness and launch speed, rather than bloating KDE with more features. KDE 3.1 offers some improvements in that field, too. I have to tell you, though, that on a reasonable machine KDE runs almost as fast as winXP, and in some

RE: Stallman article in Nana

2002-11-19 Thread Dvir Volk
Cheers. (it's just that ynet didn't want him :-P ) Btw, we're giving back the translation to GNU, that's the only thing he asked in return. -Original Message- From: Gilad Ben-Yossef [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: OpenOffice Hebrew issues - your help, please

2002-12-01 Thread Dvir Volk
Has anyone else encountered the disappearing of the rtl and ltr buttons from the toolbar in swriter, after you've added them, once you catually try to use them? -Original Message- From: Shachar Shemesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 4:56 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: IBM Workshop with RMS and T'so in Tel-Aviv and Haifa

2002-12-18 Thread Dvir Volk
Actually, if you read RMS's columns on his website, you'll see that he does not dislike Israel at all. His opinions are more or less equivalent to mainstream Israeli leftist opinions, he's definitely not anti Israeli. (read here for example: http://www.stallman.org/good-fences.html)

RE: IBM Workshop with RMS and T'so in Tel-Aviv and Haifa

2002-12-18 Thread Dvir Volk
RMS is Jewish or at least his mother is. Hmm... At least we can now be sure that they won't give him any trouble entering israel, huh? http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=240135contra ssID=2subContrassID=13sbSubContrassID=0

RE: Questions to RMS (was: Re: RMS, T'so and the LUG)

2002-12-23 Thread Dvir Volk
the RMS visit is getting closer and closer. As well, it appears, as the war in Iraq. I just hope the whole event won't be canceled. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body,

RE: article in nana

2003-01-12 Thread Dvir Volk
We'll fix that to png, just for you :) -Original Message- From: Eli Marmor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: article in nana Doron Ofek wrote: Hi all New article in nana

RE: Academia LeLashon / hacker jargon

2003-01-15 Thread Dvir Volk
-Original Message- From: Beni Cherniavsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Academia LeLashon / hacker jargon Hi [new to the list, just read some archives for last ~month], I had some thoughts on the

RE: hebrew sugestion for hacker (was: Re: Academia LeLashon / hacker jargon )

2003-01-15 Thread Dvir Volk
The only two reasons I see not to adopt the actual word hacker are: A. the confusion with cracker (although it exists in English too). B. the inability to adjust it to any hebrew mishkal in order to make nice sounding verb for to hack (Mehacker, Hicker, Hickarti - no way) -Original

pdf to html/text conversion with hebrew support?

2004-06-30 Thread Dvir Volk
Hello. Is there any command line tool to convert pdf's to html or text, that supports hebrew? I've tried pdftohtml and pdftotext, which are based on xpdf, and couldn't read the result, although xpdf and ggv had no problem displaying the document i tried to convert. I've installed xpdf's hebrew

Re: what it would cost to develop the Linux kernel from scratch?

2004-10-15 Thread Dvir Volk
actually, it's a very interesing question - how much did it actually cost to develop the kernel since day 1? what should be counted as cost? Diego Iastrubni wrote: 15 years and a revolution regarding the way the industry thinks about developing software? Kfir Lavi wrote:

Re: Why not using global variables considered thread-safe ?

2004-11-02 Thread Dvir Volk
Amit Aronovitch wrote: Maxim Vexler wrote: Doesn't the kernel allocate each thread his own memory space (including for var's which are global for that thread)? No. In fact, common memory is the major benefit of threads (when compared to e.g. forking a new process). Global variables which don't

Re: File size limit?

2005-01-15 Thread Dvir Volk
I'm using large files with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 as a compiler flag, and that's it. i'm using open without any special flag, and without all the lseek64 calls, etc, even the sizeof off_t is 64bit automatically. guy keren wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I'm trying to make

Re: Yahoo Instant Messenger problem

2005-03-05 Thread Dvir Volk
i'm using Yahoo! on Gaim, and i have no problem. did you try that? btw, does their client currently support hebrew properly? in the past it didn't, and gaim did, so about a year ago i stopped checking. Shlomo Dubrowin wrote: I have been using Yahoo Instant Messenger on linux for a while, and a

libxml2 thread safety?

2005-03-10 Thread Dvir Volk
Hi everyone. I'm finding contradicting (and quite outdated) info on the net about the subject: how thread-safe is libxml2? does anyone have any experience with that? I'm using it for creating xml documents, but not parsing them, using the tree module. only one thread can access a specific

Re: MySQL will defend you

2005-03-31 Thread Dvir Volk
Speaking of MySQL, version 5.0 has just gone beta, with long wished features like stored procedures, triggers and views. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39192964,00.htm Has anyone tried this new version yet? AFAIK, most ditros have hardly switched to MySQL 4.x Danny

Re: PHP based Blog with Hebrew support?

2005-05-30 Thread Dvir Volk
take a look at this blog http://mp3enema.weblogs.us/ besides the fact that it's a kickass music blog, it's based on wordPress with semi-decent hebrew and rtl support. i'm sure someone with basic php knowhow can complete the giur in a heartbeat. Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi People, I'm looking

Re: [Fwd: Re: Fedora Core 4 DVD version]

2005-06-21 Thread Dvir Volk
I've had this problem too (i think it has something to do with certain SATA controllers), and the solution is profoundly bizarre and dumb, but it worked for me, and for many others: 1. load the CD/DVD 2. when the first boot menu appears, DO NOT press Enter or type any valid kernel name (like

Re: Parsing a hebrew website and maintaining the encoding to something readable

2005-07-05 Thread Dvir Volk
I'm not a python expert, but you can use libiconv to convert the text to utf-8. I use it with C and PHP, it probably has pyhton bindings, and it also has a small app called iconv, which you can pipe to get what you need. if you're not sure what your source encoding will be in all cases, i'd

How can i tell if another process is writing to a file?

2005-09-28 Thread Dvir Volk
here's the situation: i have a file, and i want to open it only when no other process is writing to it. but i don't have control over the possibly writing process, so i can't do advisory or mandatory locking. basically, i want to treat a file received by scp only after the download is

Re: How can i tell if another process is writing to a file?

2005-09-28 Thread Dvir Volk
the simplest way. Amos Shapira wrote: On 9/29/05, Dvir Volk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's the situation: i have a file, and i want to open it only when no other process is writing to it. but i don't have control over the possibly writing process, so i can't do advisory or mandatory locking. basically

Spam: [Job Offer] Looking for a freelance Linux Web developer

2006-02-02 Thread Dvir Volk
: PHP, MySQL, XML/DOM, AJAX JS in general, XSL, preferably good system knowledge, and of course HTML/CSS and standards. Feel free to pass this around. Cheers, Dvir Volk http://www.ilcu.com = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Recovering a deleted file still opened by a running process

2006-03-19 Thread Dvir Volk
to recover the file and link it to another filename, so it won't be deleted when the process exits? -- Dvir Volk [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g

Re: Recovering a deleted file still opened by a running process

2006-03-19 Thread Dvir Volk
thanks, worked like a charm. i didn't know the fd's were accessible files. silly me... ah, that's 4 days of processing (65GB!) rescued! On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:04:02 +0200, Maxim Vexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 3/19/06, Dvir Volk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I made a very stupid mistake

Re: the great jerusalem firewall

2007-03-03 Thread Dvir Volk
] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dvir Volk CTO, ilcu.com http://www.ilcu.com

tv capture card recommendations anyone?

2007-03-31 Thread Dvir Volk
hi guys i want to install a tv capture card under linux. can anyone recommend an affordable card with a good driver sold in israel? cheers, dvirsk

Re: tv capture card recommendations anyone?

2007-04-01 Thread Dvir Volk
On 4/1/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, I found that MythTV and VLC no longer work with them. Since I'm writing my own little piece of software to work with the card, alsa support will be in it then :)

Re: Streaming Video Server

2007-04-11 Thread Dvir Volk
Red5 is an open Flash streaming server that is widely used in production environments. Since flash has become the de-facto standard, if you have a way to convert the content to FLV (ffmpeg does an excellent job at that), it's a great solution. http://osflash.org/red5 On 4/11/07, Arieh Skliarouk

Re: Configuring Hebrew keyboard in KDE desktop

2007-05-23 Thread Dvir Volk
I simpy don't use KDE's configuration because of that, and use this combo: a. install kkbswitch, an alternative kde keyboard switcher http://kkbswitch.sourceforge.net/ b. simply add to .bashrc on my account: setxkbmap us,il -option grp:alt_shift_toggle kkbswitch On 5/22/07, Omer Zak [EMAIL

Re: Player similar in function to Winamp.

2007-07-15 Thread Dvir Volk
Amarok is a very very good media player and indexer. http://amarok.kde.org/ On 7/15/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been using WinAmp for almost 10 years. On Linux, I've always played MP3's using mpg123 or mpg321. However I want something closer to Winamp in

Re: Walla in Firefox

2007-07-18 Thread Dvir Volk
I saw that new UI version, it is fashionably (late) AJAX based, and it does support FireFox. On 7/18/07, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/07/07, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/07/07, Tomer Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got their promise for working version that

Re: Someone is picking on my sshd

2007-08-02 Thread Dvir Volk
this is very common, those stupid bots do it on every open ssh port they find around. given proper usernames and passwords, they are pretty benign imho, but they flood the logs so much... personally, changing the ssh port on my home machine eliminated the problem completely. On 8/2/07, Ravid

Re: Webmail like Gmail + encryption

2007-08-09 Thread Dvir Volk
I know that Zimbra did a gmail clone skin to their webmail recently called Zmail. http://www.zimbra.com/blog/archives/2007/06/we_call_it_zmail.html but I haven't tried it, and I don't know how well the search works for example. also it doesn't AFAIK have the conversation mode of gmail, which is

Re: Video codecs under debian

2007-08-23 Thread Dvir Volk
try VLC, it has all the codecs built in. On 8/23/07, Ori Idan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a debian machine with GNOME with w32codecs installed. I am trying to view .WMV files and get errors that I don't have the right codecs. I tried also viewing several AVI files and got an error that

Re: Commercial/FOSS C++ dev env for Linux?

2007-09-01 Thread Dvir Volk
Kdevelop is a really nice IDE and has great gdb integration, I prefer it over eclipse. On 9/1/07, Yotam Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the main issue? Is it that it's impossible to work with GDB because it crashes, or is it gdb's command line interface? If the problem is the latter,

getting another process id from within a c/cpp program?

2007-09-05 Thread Dvir Volk
hi i want to get another process' pid(s) from withing a program by process name, without executing a ps or pidof command. Is there another way of doing this other than iterating over /proc and reading all the process names? thanks,

Re: Web hosting services with servers in Israel or well-connected to IIX?

2007-09-11 Thread Dvir Volk
On 9/11/07, Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My client is looking for companies, which specialize in Web hosting, and whose servers have good connections to Israeli ISPs. Try sweethome.co.il. I use them for shared hosting, but they also offer dedicated and VPS. If I recall correctly, they are

Re: BARAK's DNS - Please read on

2007-09-19 Thread Dvir Volk
Is there any free (as in beer) good alternative DNS server in the country? This is starting to really piss me off as one of their clients. I used to hog another ISP's DNS server a couple of years back but they rightfully blocked it to outside users. On 9/19/07, Michael Lewinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Audio development and /dev/dsp

2007-09-28 Thread Dvir Volk
i've worked with oss a bit a few months ago and didn't have your problem as far as i can remember. i don't see in my code anything unusual... did you open the device with O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK ? that's the only slightly relevant thing that comes to mind... i based my code (simple audio capture) on

FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-11 Thread Dvir Volk
Hi list, My company, a rapidly growing startup (right now about 15 employees, probably around 50 within a year), is looking to upgrade our current mail server to a full fledged Exchange or similar solution. Before we're surrendering to M$, I'd like to know if anyone knows of a full FOSS solution

Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

2007-10-11 Thread Dvir Volk
had no need for this, so I didn't bother with it last time I looked around for an exchange replacement. Open-Xchange - http://www.open-xchange.com/header/community_area.html OpenGroupware.org - http://opengroupware.org/ Scalix - http://www.scalix.com/ Hope this helps, Lior Dvir

Re: Realtek 8139 network card installation

2007-10-15 Thread Dvir Volk
they *should* work out of the box without any driver related issues. just configure the network options and that's it. if you're using the fedora gui, it's really easy, if not, use system-config-network On 10/15/07, Eran Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having some problems with my current

Re: Browser usage statistics

2007-11-03 Thread Dvir Volk
i wouldn't treat w3schools' stats as representing anything but the trends among web developers, most of whom probably have 3 browsers installed anyway. you can take a look at this stat from thecounter.com, which is embedded in all sorts of sites:

Re: recommended web development environment?

2007-11-12 Thread Dvir Volk
.. Can anyone recommend another convenient editor for HTML and CSS files? KDE has Quanta or Kate. It's the same editor essentially if you're just looking for highlighting, but quanta has a lot features for web developers. I keep trying more serious web IDEs but keep returning to quanta in the

Source visualization program

2007-11-24 Thread Dvir Volk
Hi, Can anyone recommend a good source visualization program for C++ (and Linux of course)? Output format doesn't really matter, but it needs to read a very complex project and display classes, members, hierarchy, dependencies, etc. KDevelop has something very primitive for hierarchy, but I need

Re: wmv in linux

2007-12-15 Thread Dvir Volk
i managed to play this live video feed http://video.tau.ac.il/Lectures/INSS/2007/30_07_07/30_07_07.asx with VLC 0.8.6a without any problem, including audio perhaps you should build VLC from scratch or update it? On Dec 15, 2007 5:17 PM, Erez D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i am a TAU student and

good python IDE for linux?

2008-11-02 Thread Dvir Volk
hi all i'm starting a python project, and need a good IDE with debugging and all (GUI based) eclipse pydev seems a bit too heavy for my taste and CPU, kdevelop doesn't have debugging (at least by default). any personal recommendations?

Re: site freezing - probably java related

2008-11-27 Thread Dvir Volk
I had a similar problem with flash after installing flash for corssover office. some sites with flash would just crash or freeze FF. it seems that cxoffice had replaced the linux flash plugin,and that caused it. removing the cxoffice plugin from the firefox directory solved it. On Thu, Nov 27,

Re: backing up mysql database (mysqldump)

2008-11-30 Thread Dvir Volk
1. phpMyAdmin can do dumps, but not automatically IIRC. 2. you can put a dump command in your crontab, and then another one that uploads the resulting file by ftp somewhere. but then you'll also have to set a .netrc and i don't know if you can do that on your server. 3. easiest thing - just

Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard Layout Switching in KDE 3.5.x

2008-12-06 Thread Dvir Volk
i did it for years using xkb settings. anyway, you'll be glad to know that in kde 4.1 this finally works the way it should. although kde 4 has made me switch to gnome and i don't see myself coming back anytime soon (cue flame wars. oh, it's not /. nevermind) On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM,

Re: few questions

2008-12-17 Thread Dvir Volk
1.as root run: yum groupinstall Development Tools Development Libraries should take care of all the things you need to compile stuff. 2. try using screen to run you program, and then you can access it from anywhere via ssh. btw, it's not FC10, but F10. they removed the Core from the name. On

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Dvir Volk
does receiving digital broadcast actually work with Yes? I was under the impression that it's all encrypted. how do you get past that? On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Ohad Levy ohadl...@gmail.com wrote: if you are talking about SDTV, I would recommend the PVR series (MPEG2 in Hardware), and

Re: digital TV cards

2008-12-27 Thread Dvir Volk
why not plug them to the A/V out of the yes box? that's how i watch TV on my machine. since you won't be able to tune anyway (apart from setting an IR device to control the yes box), why waste money on new cards? I doubt the quality difference is worth it. On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Shlomo

Re: israelt TV online (again)

2009-01-02 Thread Dvir Volk
a bit off topic, but just saw it and it's great news for desktop linux users in israel: ynet have switched to flash based videos on the site, that actually work in FF. example: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3643274,00.html On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Amos Shapira

Re: israelt TV online (again)

2009-01-05 Thread Dvir Volk
from personal knowledge about the way stuff works there, I doubt this will change anything. On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/5 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com: In addition to finding workaround, take the time and write to mako.co.il. They will

Re: israelt TV online (again)

2009-01-06 Thread Dvir Volk
Aren't the IAA the same bunch of losers who can't even get their job done, and got Israel's traffic safety ranking down to the level of Zimbabwe's? I highly doubt getting their site done right is possible as well. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:41 AM, sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan

Re: israelt TV online (again)

2009-01-06 Thread Dvir Volk
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/6 Dvir Volk dvir...@gmail.com: Aren't the IAA the same bunch of losers who can't even get their job done, and got Israel's traffic safety ranking down to the level of Zimbabwe's? [citation needed] citation: http

Re: Qt to become LGPLed

2009-01-15 Thread Dvir Volk
Great news. Now if they could only make it more lightweight... You don't feel it in Linux, but having distributed Qt with a commercial Windows app, It's quite a pain to have your app weighing in at over 7M for just the GUI module. That's not a lot in today's world, but it's still heavy. don't know

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