Re: Converting to UTF-8 encoding

2007-02-18 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 09:15 +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On 2/18/07, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use the following command to convert a single file: iconv -f WINDOWS-1255 -t UTF-8 oldfile newfile Thanks! It works! Anyone knows about good UTF-8 text editors?

Re: Converting to UTF-8 encoding

2007-02-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Uri Even-Chen wrote: Thanks! It works! Anyone knows about good UTF-8 text editors? On Linux - any of them. Just set LC_CTYPE to something which is UTF-8. On Windows, any browser can display UTF-8, but notepad is the only editor that can actually edit it, as far as I know. I'm not sure you can

Re: recvmsg on dgram socketpair blocks on open socket?

2007-02-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Baruch Even wrote: You want to avoid another case of race condition. I think Amos intended to simply call exit from the signal handler, so that problem would not be an issue. However: Without a select you will have code like: handle_sigchld() { dead_child=1; wait(); } dorecv() {

MySQL vs. Microsoft Access

2007-02-18 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On 2/18/07, Arieh Skliarouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see only-tables conversion as good first step. There is howto on access-mysql conversion: http://www.kitebird.com/articles/access-migrate.html There is a great feature we use with the tables stored in Microsoft Access. I defined

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-18 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Sunday 18 February 2007 01:57, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On 2/17/07, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it a requirement that it be Access, or should it be a database server? It has to be Access - it's not only a database, but a whole program written in Access, with at least 50

Re: Converting to UTF-8 encoding

2007-02-18 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Uri Even-Chen, from the post of Sun, 18 Feb: Thanks! It works! Anyone knows about good UTF-8 text editors? I use VIM... -- Playboy photographer Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ = To unsubscribe, send mail

Re: Converting to UTF-8 encoding

2007-02-18 Thread Uri Even-Chen
I wrote: Anyone knows about good UTF-8 text editors? Let me explain: I have to use it on Windows, and I need a search replace feature on many files simultaneously. Currently I use Crimson Editor, but it doesn't support Hebrew, doesn't display UTF-8 text properly, and doesn't have an undo

Re: MySQL vs. Microsoft Access

2007-02-18 Thread Uri Bruck
Uri Even-Chen wrote: On 2/18/07, Arieh Skliarouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see only-tables conversion as good first step. There is howto on access-mysql conversion: http://www.kitebird.com/articles/access-migrate.html There is a great feature we use with the tables stored in Microsoft

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-18 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On 2/18/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without SQL server you don't get record locking, etc. If you try to use Access to update a database on a SAMBA share, you will end up with corrupt data. Are you sure? I heard different opinions here. Will the Access database data get

Re: MySQL vs. Microsoft Access

2007-02-18 Thread Uri Even-Chen
There is another feature I forgot to tell you - you can define Access to update connected tables automatically, and/or delete records in connected tables automatically. Then if you update one table, a few tables are updated at once. Can MySQL do that? Uri.

Re: MySQL vs. Microsoft Access

2007-02-18 Thread Arieh Skliarouk
Hello, On 2/18/07, Uri Even-Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/18/07, Arieh Skliarouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see only-tables conversion as good first step. There is howto on access-mysql conversion: http://www.kitebird.com/articles/access-migrate.html There is a great feature we use

Re: recvmsg on dgram socketpair blocks on open socket?

2007-02-18 Thread Peter
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Amos Shapira wrote: That's why you must use both a reaper and select() with timeout. What's the point of select(2) with a timeout? How long should the timeout be set and what should be checked when it's reached? Why wouldn't a child reaper be enough in the situation

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 10:49:10AM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Are you sure? I heard different opinions here. Will the Access database data get corrupted if the server is not Windows? Can Samba handle record table locking in Access? Or can it not? Unfortunately all I can find by STFW'ing

Re: MySQL vs. Microsoft Access

2007-02-18 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On 2/18/07, Arieh Skliarouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/ansi-diff-foreign-keys.html Thanks! I didn't know about InnoDB and Foreign Keys. Is it possible to define Primary Keys and Foreign Keys with more than one field? I used Access to define keys with up

Re: Converting to UTF-8 encoding

2007-02-18 Thread Peter
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Uri Even-Chen wrote: I wrote: Anyone knows about good UTF-8 text editors? Let me explain: I have to use it on Windows, and I need a search replace feature on many files simultaneously. Emacs ? Peter

Re: MySQL vs. Microsoft Access

2007-02-18 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Sunday 18 February 2007 11:24, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On 2/18/07, Arieh Skliarouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/ansi-diff-foreign-keys.html Thanks! I didn't know about InnoDB and Foreign Keys. Is it possible to define Primary Keys and Foreign Keys with

Re: MySQL vs. Microsoft Access

2007-02-18 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Sunday 18 February 2007 10:28, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On 2/18/07, Arieh Skliarouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see only-tables conversion as good first step. There is howto on access-mysql conversion: http://www.kitebird.com/articles/access-migrate.html There is a great feature we use with

Environment variable when running OOo from menus

2007-02-18 Thread Alan Yaniger
Hi everyone, When OpenOffice saves a file with Hebrew in the filename, it checks the system locale to see which encoding it should use. This causes problems if OpenOffice is run with a shell using an en_US locale. If a user saves a file with Hebrew in the filename, closes the file, and then

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-18 Thread Uri Even-Chen
Hi Peter, On 2/18/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, it is you who impressed the TCO of the current system on your father's firm. OK, I admit it's partly my fault. But it was not only my decision. It was about 10 years ago, my father consulted an expert and he recommended using

Re: MySQL vs. Microsoft Access

2007-02-18 Thread Arieh Skliarouk
Hello Uri, Is it possible to define Primary Keys and Foreign Keys with more than one field? I used Access to define keys with up to 5 fields. You will get most reliable answer by trying the migration. The Access visual interface is very convenient. Does MySQL have a similar interface?

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 11:54:37AM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote: By the way, 10 years ago there was no PHP, no MySQL as far as I know, and no alternatives to Access. There was something called Magic, this might have been the only alternative. Even today, I don't know any application which has

Re: Converting to UTF-8 encoding

2007-02-18 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On 2/18/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emacs ? Does it support UTF-8? Does it support search replace on many files simultaneously? Which version of Emacs (for Windows XP) do you recommend? And where do I download it? Uri.

Re: Environment variable when running OOo from menus

2007-02-18 Thread Moshe Gorohovsky
Hi Alan, You should modify /usr/share/applications/ooo-*.desktop files, or equivalent files in the OOo sources: Set up environment variables as you wish, before running the actual programs inside those *.desktop files. Another possibility is to call shell scripts from *.desktop files, do not

Re: Converting to UTF-8 encoding

2007-02-18 Thread Moshe Gorohovsky
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On 2/18/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emacs ? Does it support UTF-8? Does it support search replace on many files simultaneously? Which version of Emacs (for Windows XP) do you recommend? And where do I download it? Hi Uri, Try VIM for

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-18 Thread Peter
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Hi Peter, On 2/18/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, it is you who impressed the TCO of the current system on your father's firm. OK, I admit it's partly my fault. But it was not only my decision. It was about 10 years ago, my father

Re: Converting to UTF-8 encoding

2007-02-18 Thread Peter
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On 2/18/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emacs ? Does it support UTF-8? Does it support search replace on many files simultaneously? Which version of Emacs (for Windows XP) do you recommend? And where do I download it? Uri.

Re: Converting to UTF-8 encoding

2007-02-18 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Uri Even-Chen, from the post of Sun, 18 Feb: I know notepad, but I agree it's not a good text editor, because it doesn't support search replace (and you can open only one file each time). But on the other hand, it does support Hebrew and UTF-8 encoding (but only if the first

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet

2007-02-18 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi All, I own a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet (A.K.A. N770). I wonder - any of own / know of someone who owns one too? I'd like to discuss Hebrew related issues regarding the device, but I don't feel it's On Topic enough to bother all the list... So please, contact me off-list if you answered yes

Re: Nokia 770 Internet Tablet

2007-02-18 Thread Arieh Skliarouk
Hi, I'd like to discuss Hebrew related issues regarding the device, but I don't feel it's On Topic enough to bother all the list... IMHO, hebrew issues on Linux-based PDA is very well on-topic on the list. Even if only two peoples participate, the emails will remain searchable in archives.

Re: Converting to UTF-8 encoding

2007-02-18 Thread Uri Even-Chen
Thanks for all your suggestions. I tried VIM, XEmacs, EditPlus and Notepad++. I didn't like the Linux GUI of VIM and XEmacs and gave them up. EditPlus and Notepad++ are OK, but they have a few flaws in them: 1. EditPlus has a feature of replace in all open files, but it doesn't have a feature

avoiding the microsoft tax - laptop linux refund?

2007-02-18 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
(There was a thread with a similar question on the matter back in 2003: http://search.gmane.org/?query=linux+laptop+windows+refundgroup=gmane.linux.region.israel yet there was no answer in it. The thread includes an interesting pointer to http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/toshiba.html about a

Spam in Wordpress

2007-02-18 Thread Uri Even-Chen
Hi people, I have a Wordpress blog [http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/] and I get lots of spam as responses. I don't have time to read all the spam and delete it. Is there a way to eliminate this spam? Or at least block the option of responding altogether? There are hundreds of spam responses

Re: Spam in Wordpress

2007-02-18 Thread Peter
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Hi people, I have a Wordpress blog [http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/] and I get lots of spam as responses. I don't have time to read all the spam and delete it. Is there a way to eliminate this spam? Or at least block the option of responding

Re: Spam in Wordpress

2007-02-18 Thread Yehoshua (Shay) O'Hayon Suchar
Uri Even-Chen wrote: Hi people, I have a Wordpress blog [http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/] and I get lots of spam as responses. I don't have time to read all the spam and delete it. Is there a way to eliminate this spam? Or at least block the option of responding altogether? There are

Re: Environment variable when running OOo from menus

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18/02/07, Moshe Gorohovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alan, You should modify /usr/share/applications/ooo-*.desktop files, or equivalent files in the OOo sources: I'd recommend avoiding changing these files because they usually belong to the package and will either confuse it when you

Re: recvmsg on dgram socketpair blocks on open socket?

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18/02/07, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Baruch Even wrote: You want to avoid another case of race condition. I think Amos intended to simply call exit from the signal handler, so that problem would not be an issue. However: Indeed. Without a select you will have code like:

Re: recvmsg on dgram socketpair blocks on open socket?

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18/02/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Amos Shapira wrote: That's why you must use both a reaper and select() with timeout. What's the point of select(2) with a timeout? How long should the timeout be set and what should be checked when it's reached? Why wouldn't

PostgresQL database on raw partition (and something about Access conversion)

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Is it possible to configure PostgresQL to use raw disk partition, like Oracle does? If not - is there any recommendation for favourite filesystem type to use? So far google'ing around haven't revealed anything about the subject. And BTW - I found the following link which also mentions

Re: Spam in Wordpress

2007-02-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Uri Even-Chen wrote: Hi people, I have a Wordpress blog [http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/] and I get lots of spam as responses. I don't have time to read all the spam and delete it. Is there a way to eliminate this spam? Or at least block the option of responding altogether? There are