Re: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone

2007-01-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 13/01/07, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 16:25 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Amarok is an excellent KDE-based audio player and now it has a Gtk+-based clone called Exaile. People who are using GNOME, Xfce, etc. may wish to check out Exaile. From looking at the

Re: scoping bug in bash?

2007-01-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Peter wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Oron Peled wrote: So for an application an end-of-file is not a character, just a condition. That's what I meant with ^D. I did not imply it's a character. Assuming you did not mean ^ (carrot) followed by a D, ^D usually refers to Ctrl-D. That one (open

Re: scoping bug in bash?

2007-01-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007, Peter wrote about Re: scoping bug in bash?: Piping 'nothing' into cat in a non-interactive environment (like a subshell in {}) should yield ^D but there is no place that says so. Imho this is a bug (a loose end). ^D is meaningless in this context - it's just a character

How Can We Help to Make this Happen?

2007-01-14 Thread Amichai Rotman
http://netmag.nana.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=420657 -- ::. Amichai Rotman UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/]

Re: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone

2007-01-14 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 23:32 +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Do you really think copying is that bad? The conecpt of an amarok like application is a very popular one. It seems like a good applicaion, and I really miss it when no KDE is available. I think that copying for copying sake is bad.

Re: scoping bug in bash?

2007-01-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: Well, the designers of the shells disagreed with you: a=foo is a command, so it can be used in a pipe. The a=foo cmd .. is a special syntax, which is irrelevant here (here, a=foo is not followed by a command). I'll just add to what Nadav said. a=foo and a=foo echo hello

Re: scoping bug in bash?

2007-01-14 Thread Peter
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Peter wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Oron Peled wrote: So for an application an end-of-file is not a character, just a condition. That's what I meant with ^D. I did not imply it's a character. Assuming you did not mean ^ (carrot) followed by a D,

Re: scoping bug in bash?

2007-01-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007, Peter wrote about Re: scoping bug in bash?: It's 'caret' (from carriage return) not 'carrot' At the risk of splitting hairs further, the word caret for the circumlex symbol (which you are right, is indeed the correct spelling) is is not short for carriage return. Rather,

Re: scoping bug in bash?

2007-01-14 Thread Peter
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Nadav Har'El wrote: : | cat Try |cat or ;|cat . ':' has the explicit meaning of empty (nop) command. Note that assignments are NOT listed under Commands in the shell manual, as opposed to let and set which are (and with good reason, since they can generate

Re: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone

2007-01-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14/01/07, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 10:30 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Also, the wonderful program F-Spot has me installing half of Gnome. KDE has no photo-manager that is so good as F-Spot, and I would very much like to see someone port it to KDE and Qt.

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2007-01-14 Thread Alan Rubin
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Bar Ilan Respnsa or Judaic Library CD

2007-01-14 Thread Alan Rubin
Is anyone familiar with the Bar Ilan Responsa or Judaic Library CDs? These contain a library of Hebrew Texts. There is strong copywright control and the software only runs if the original CD is inserted in the drive. I have got the CD running in a virtual Windows XP environment under vmware

Re: Bar Ilan Respnsa or Judaic Library CD

2007-01-14 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I'm affraid you can't and here's why: From your description, the software requires the CD to be always in your drive. Most of the time it means that the program is using some sort of copy-protection stuff and using some low level I/O checking to make sure it's the original CD, something that

Re: Bar Ilan Respnsa or Judaic Library CD

2007-01-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I'm affraid you can't and here's why: From your description, the software requires the CD to be always in your drive. Most of the time it means that the program is using some sort of copy-protection stuff and using some low level I/O checking to make sure it's the

what beeps when email comes in ?

2007-01-14 Thread Peter
I finally have a question: What makes beep when new email comes in. I believe it is the user's shell when there is no notifier or biff running. Is this correct ? Btw, I have MAIL, MAILCHECK and MAILPATH all disabled. Yet it beeps ... So I think it's the LMTA (postfix here). thx, Peter

Re: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone

2007-01-14 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 14 בJanuary 2007 10:30, Dotan Cohen wrote: ...[ many valid observations about KDE/Gnome, snipped ] ... Also, the wonderful program F-Spot has me installing half of Gnome. KDE has no photo-manager that is so good as F-Spot, You must be kidding. F-Spot is really nice, but has a way to

Re: Binding a process to a certain memory bank. (NUMA)

2007-01-14 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 19:48 +0200, Adam Morrison wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 03:32:08PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: I know that I can bind an application to certain CPU set (in this case core0,1) using taskset. How can I make sure the same process only (as far as possible) allocates

Re: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone

2007-01-14 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 14 בJanuary 2007 14:15, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have. I don't like Digikam because: ... [ valid personal preferences...] - Digikam will not store metadata in the photos themselves. Of course it does (it's a configuration option). I think it's not default because digikam (rightfully IMO)

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 09:17:00AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: On 11/01/07, Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You also get all the other benefits without extra work: - Repeatability + traceability of the install/update. - rpmverify (who moved my cheese?) - Package signing (not only for

Convince me to switch to Digikam (Was: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone)

2007-01-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 15/01/07, Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, 14 בJanuary 2007 10:30, Dotan Cohen wrote: ...[ many valid observations about KDE/Gnome, snipped ] ... Also, the wonderful program F-Spot has me installing half of Gnome. KDE has no photo-manager that is so good as F-Spot, You must

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-14 Thread Gil Freund
I found Cooperative Linux (http://www.colinux.org/) fast and with small overhead. On 1/15/07, Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Windows Machine I would like to install Linux over that. What are my options? Does VMware have a free (and unlimited in time) version that I can use to

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-14 Thread doron
Gabor Szabo wrote: I have a Windows Machine I would like to install Linux over that. What are my options? Does VMware have a free (and unlimited in time) version that I can use to install Linux on it? Yes, VNware server (was VMware GSX) it's free of charge but not free as a free software. Is

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-14 Thread Oded Arbel
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 08:51 +0200, doron wrote: Gabor Szabo wrote: I have a Windows Machine I would like to install Linux over that. What are my options? Does VMware have a free (and unlimited in time) version that I can use to install Linux on it? Yes, VNware server (was VMware