Hebrew stemming

2009-02-04 Thread Yuval Hager
Hi all, Does anybody know of a stemming library for Hebrew? Google can find several discussions on it, but I could not figure out if something came out of it yet or not. What other things one should consider when looking at a Hebrew search module? It seems that Google does very basic stemming

Re: Hebrew stemming

2009-02-04 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Start with hspell. - yba -- EE 77 7F 30 4A 64 2E C5 83 5F E7 49 A6 82 29 BA~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}ooO--U--Ooo{= - y...@tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il -Hi all, Does anybody know of a stemm

Re: Hebrew stemming

2009-02-04 Thread Yuval Hager
On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > Start with hspell. > >- yba Thanks, I didn't know it does that. I can't seem to find the sources though. All links point to ivrix.org.il, which seems to be down. --yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mess

Re: Hebrew stemming

2009-02-04 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Try contacting Nadav Har'El . - yba On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Yuval Hager wrote: Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:53:03 +0200 From: Yuval Hager To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Cc: Jonathan Ben Avraham Subject: Re: Hebrew stemming On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Start with hspell.

data security

2009-02-04 Thread Erez D
hi one day this week, i started my computer, it behaved very strange - i had a blank screen for about 2 minutes before i got the boot screen, then it continued to boot from ... network the reason was that the hard drive has died. it wasn't even recognized by the bios. the computer was 2 months old

Re: Hebrew stemming

2009-02-04 Thread Eran Levy
it would be helpful if you will continue your discussion here, thx alot! On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > Try contacting Nadav Har'El . > > - yba > > > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Yuval Hager wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:53:03 +0200 >> From: Yuval Hager >> To: linu

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/2/4 Shachar Shemesh > Erez D wrote: > >> >> so i though of a solution - use a crypto FS. >> but there are many problems with it. >> the practical problems are at least: >> 1. i do not know of a major linux distibution (i.e. redhat/ubuntu etc... ) >> that fully support crypto-fs out of the bo

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Meir Michanie
What about /etc/shadow and other sensitive files? so no encrypting your root filesystem is also an issue. What if you put the hard drive under a very strong magnetic field? > - Original Message - > Subject: Re: data security > From: Shachar Shemesh > To: "Orr Dunkelman" > CC: "linux-

Re: Hebrew stemming

2009-02-04 Thread Dvir Volk
I wrote a crude stemming library using hspell's dictionary a few years back. I didn't put it to use eventually, but i still have the code, i can look it up if anyone wants. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Eran Levy wrote: > it would be helpful if you will continue your discussion here, thx alot

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Erez D
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Meir Michanie wrote: > What about /etc/shadow and other sensitive files? so no encrypting your > root filesystem is also an issue. > > What if you put the hard drive under a very strong magnetic field? and what if your laptop is stolen ... > > > > - Origi

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Orr Dunkelman wrote: The question is whether your swap partition is encrypted or not. In case it is not - you are probably writing too many secrets to the hard disk. If it is - well, then I can understand why the machine is slow. It is encrypted, but swap is hardly used on my machine. An

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Moish
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Orr Dunkelman wrote: The question is whether your swap partition is encrypted or not. In case it is not - you are probably writing too many secrets to the hard disk. If it is - well, then I can understand why the machine is slow. It is encrypted, but swap is hard

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Meir Michanie
He asked about what to do with his broken harddisk. > - Original Message - > Subject: Re: data security > From: Erez D > To: "Meir Michanie" > CC: "linux-il" > Date: 04-02-2009 13:47 > > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Meir Michanie wrote: > > > What about /etc/shadow and other

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Erez D wrote: so i though of a solution - use a crypto FS. but there are many problems with it. the practical problems are at least: 1. i do not know of a major linux distibution (i.e. redhat/ubuntu etc... ) that fully support crypto-fs out of the box, so if i use it, i will need to do manual

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Orr Dunkelman wrote: I guess that the configuration may still reveal some secrets (like which hosts are important enough to be in /etc/hosts), but it's better than nothing... On my laptop, "most" of the data is not encrypted. I discovered that compiling inside an encrypted partition is hor

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Moish
Meir Michanie wrote: He asked about what to do with his broken harddisk. - Original Message - Subject: Re: data security From: Erez D To: "Meir Michanie" CC: "linux-il" Date: 04-02-2009 13:47 On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Meir Michanie wrote: What about /etc/shadow and other

VIM removal of Unicode ('bomb')

2009-02-04 Thread Noam Rathaus
I am using: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Jan 15 2003 08:05:27) And I have a few unicode characters (unicode encoding 'bomb'/marker) at the beginning of the file that I want to remove. 000 bbef 3cbf 4421 434f 5954 4550 6820 6d74 I m referring to 0xbb, 0xef, 0x3c, 0xbf I would

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Orr Dunkelman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Also, keep in mind that some things are automatically generated but still > sensitive. The most important examples are my bash history file ( > .bash_history under your home directory) and the database for the "locate" > command (/var/cach

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Yuval Hager
This whole encryption thread reminded me of a recent xkcd: http://xkcd.com/538/ :-) --y On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Moish wrote: > Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Orr Dunkelman wrote: > >> The question is whether your swap partition is encrypted or not. > >> > >> In case it is not - you are proba

Re: VIM removal of Unicode ('bomb')

2009-02-04 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Noam Rathaus wrote: > I am using: > VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Jan 15 2003 08:05:27) > > And I have a few unicode characters (unicode encoding 'bomb'/marker) at the > beginning of the file that I want to remove. > 000 bbef 3cbf 4421 434f 5954 4

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Orr Dunkelman
2009/2/4 Erez D : > > when a hard drive dies and it is under warrenty, we need give the old one > when we want it replaced. > usuallyon the hard drive we have some personal things - pictures, documents, > or confidential data if it belonged to a company etc... > assuming the data is backed up (back

Re: VIM removal of Unicode ('bomb')

2009-02-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 04:53:26PM +0200, Noam Rathaus wrote: > I am using: > VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Jan 15 2003 08:05:27) > > And I have a few unicode characters (unicode encoding 'bomb'/marker) at the > beginning of the file that I want to remove. > 000 bbef 3cbf 4421

Re: VIM removal of Unicode ('bomb')

2009-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Noam Rathaus wrote: I am using: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Jan 15 2003 08:05:27) And I have a few unicode characters (unicode encoding 'bomb'/marker) at the beginning of the file that I want to remove. 000 bbef 3cbf 4421 434f 5954 4550 6820 6d74 I m referring to 0xbb, 0x

Re: VIM removal of Unicode ('bomb')

2009-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Noam Rathaus wrote: I am using: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Jan 15 2003 08:05:27) And I have a few unicode characters (unicode encoding 'bomb'/marker) at the beginning of the file that I want to remove. 000 bbef 3cbf 4421 434f 5954 4550 6820 6d74 I m referring to 0xbb, 0x

Re: VIM removal of Unicode ('bomb')

2009-02-04 Thread Noam Rathaus
Shachar, Not my invention :) do under vim :help bomb It states as you said that the name is BOM On Wednesday 04 February 2009 19:21:41 Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Noam Rathaus wrote: > > I am using: > > VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Jan 15 2003 08:05:27) > > > > And I have a few un

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 4 בFebruary 2009, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2009/2/4 Shachar Shemesh > > Erez D wrote: > >> 1. i do not know of a major linux distibution (i.e. redhat/ubuntu etc... > > Debian does. The installer even offers to install it for you. > And so does Ubuntu. And Fedora also of course ;-) --

HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Right now I have a HOT modem and Netvision, which when it works... > It also happens to be down as I write this and has been for almost 6 hours. I just left HOT after four years of suffering their constant outages (I had both internet and VOIP telephone). I went to, of all places, Bezeq and I'v

Re: Ubuntu Dok

2009-02-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
> By the way: did anybody have any experience with UNetbootin? > It is not needed for Ori (because the built-in solution of Ubuntu is > enough for him), but I ask this question for generic cases, where there > is no built-in solution. > I have used it but the install failed due to a bug in Ubuntu,

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:54:09 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Right now I have a HOT modem and Netvision, which when it works... > > > It also happens to be down as I write this and has been for almost 6 hours. > > I just left HOT after four years of suffering their constant outages > (I had both in

Bogofilter on a "shared" folder

2009-02-04 Thread Noam Rathaus
Hi, We have a few "shared" folders in our Cyrus mail server. These "shared" folders do not have a real user behind them, rather more than one opens them (via Other Users option). As such no one filters their incoming emails for spam. Some background our setup, we use: 1) Postfix for SMTP 2) Pr

Re: Israeli sites that are broken under firefox

2009-02-04 Thread Noam Rathaus
Another site for the list: http://e-services.clalit.org.il You can login, but basically anything from the menu doesn't work as it references document.frames which is an IE only feature. On Monday 05 January 2009 15:27:09 you wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 14:04, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >

Re: Ubuntu Dok

2009-02-04 Thread Ori Idan
It seems that the DoK solution is not good for me. The computer I am trying to install on is IBM ThinkPad X31 and it seems that it can't boot from DoK so although I have a working Ubuntu DoK I can not use it for my computer. Does anyone have any idea how can I install Ubuntu on this computer withou

Re: Ubuntu Dok

2009-02-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:06:58AM +0200, Ori Idan wrote: It seems that the DoK solution is not good for me. The computer I am trying to install on is IBM ThinkPad X31 and it seems that it can't boot from DoK so although I have a working Ubuntu DoK I can not use it for my computer. Does anyone ha

Re: HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

2009-02-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 03:54:09AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I just left HOT after four years of suffering their constant outages (I had both internet and VOIP telephone). I went to, of all places, Bezeq and I've discovered that Bezeq has improved in the past few years. It is a few (less than te

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-02-04 Thread Amichai Rotman
LinkedIn Amichai Rotman requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Baruch, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Amichai View invitation from Amichai Rotman http://www.linkedin.com/e/hPHQ5pBITDV0c2nfyoJb6QEo