OT: clean out your junkpile (suff wanted)

2012-06-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
I need the following things, if you have any to give away or sell cheaply, please contact me off list. I'm in Jerusalem and would prefer drop off as I don't leave the house, but may be able to arrange someone to pick them up if you are not. 2 or 3 rack mount computers, speed and memory not

Re: SIM Card reading using a USB modem?

2012-06-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 14, 2012, at 2:20 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: As nobody gave a better answer: Thanks. AFAIK, there are standard AT commands for that. Thus you should give a shot to e.g. gnokii. Yes, that helped immensely. Looking for generic AT command software, I found gammu, which does the job I

Re: Emacs & Hebrew

2012-06-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012, Eli Zaretskii wrote about "Re: Emacs & Hebrew": > > I think you must agree that the unicode bidi algorithm was never designed >... > We are talking about Emacs, not about the UBA. Emacs already uses the > "high-level protocols" fire escape provided by the UBA to redefine > wh

Re: Emacs & Hebrew

2012-06-13 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:33:27 +0300 > From: Nadav Har'El > Cc: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > As an example of the confusion that bidi might cause me when editing the > Hspell source code, conside what it might to do a regular expression: > Imagine that I wrote s/א/ב/ with the intension of switch

Re: Emacs & Hebrew

2012-06-13 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Omer Zak > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:41:30 +0300 > > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:22 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > And since the bidirectional display for Emacs was developed in almost > > complete isolation from this community -- not a single input or > > response to several design discuss

Re: Emacs & Hebrew

2012-06-13 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Omer Zak > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:33:29 +0300 > > > > So when one wants to view BiDi text in visual order (the usual case), > > > one opens the file in Gedit. And when one wants to see it in logical > > > order (e.g. to figure out how the visual order turned out to be so > > > messed

Re: SIM Card reading using a USB modem?

2012-06-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:33:17PM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > I have a ZTE netstick that is supported by Linux. > > Is there any program(s) that would let me read the phone directory off > of the SIM in the netstick, edit it and write it back? > > What I am really interested in is copying

Re: Emacs & Hebrew

2012-06-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012, Eli Zaretskii wrote about "Re: Emacs & Hebrew": > You mean, disappointing? Yes, it is. To hear such questions from > Nadav Har'El, of all the people. Sorry to disappoint you... One of my random signatures go "better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove

Re: Emacs & Hebrew

2012-06-13 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:22 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > And since the bidirectional display for Emacs was developed in almost > complete isolation from this community -- not a single input or > response to several design discussions I posted -- why would anyone > assume that an essentially one-ma

Re: Emacs & Hebrew

2012-06-13 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:15 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: w...@zak.co.il (Omer Zak) > > It is a question of control. > > If you use Emacs, you know that giving the user control is one of > Emacs's main design principles. Great! > > So when one wants to view BiDi text in visual order (the

Re: Emacs & Hebrew

2012-06-13 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: n...@math.technion.ac.il (Nadav Har'El) > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:50:25 +0300 > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012, Omer Zak wrote about "Re: Emacs & Hebrew": > > On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 19:05 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > You know, it is quite ironic that, having heard about a major Free > > > So

Re: Emacs & Hebrew

2012-06-13 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: w...@zak.co.il (Omer Zak) > Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:57:06 +0300 > > On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 19:05 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > You know, it is quite ironic that, having heard about a major Free > > Software project which now fully supports bidirectional scripts > > including Hebrew, the

SIM Card reading using a USB modem?

2012-06-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
I have a ZTE netstick that is supported by Linux. Is there any program(s) that would let me read the phone directory off of the SIM in the netstick, edit it and write it back? What I am really interested in is copying my SIM card directory to a different SIM. I am not in a position to buy