Subtitling/Captioning in Linux

2008-02-07 Thread Omer Zak
http://www.linux.com/feature/125978 Subtitle manipulation tools for Linux By Razvan T. Coloja on February 07, 2008 -- In civilized societies, captions are as important in movies as soundtracks, professional photography and expert editing. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opi

Re: Xsecurity - how do I turn on MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and .Xauthority support?

2008-02-03 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 14:40 +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: > (and as I said - "xhost > +" works but is too permissive) Did you look into the options which xhost provides (man xhost)? Maybe there is an option which provides you with the right security limitations?

Re: Finding porn links in hacked web pages

2008-01-28 Thread Omer Zak
1-28 at 09:48 +0200, Shahar Dag wrote: > Hi > > I would prefer to maintain a local copy of the web + once a day (using cron) > to upload it to the web server > (or even better, maintain a SVN server that hold the local copy of the web) > > Shahar > - Original Message

Re: Finding porn links in hacked web pages

2008-01-27 Thread Omer Zak
The method which I use is to: 1. Perform periodic backup of the entire Web site, including SQL dumps of any databases driving it. 2. Download the backup files to PC. 3. Open them (into a subdirectory and import into a new DB instance, respectively). 4. Run 'diff' between the opened files and the pr

Re: gcc thoughts

2008-01-26 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 09:24 +0200, Amit Aronovitch wrote: > Leonid Podolny wrote: [... snipped ...] > > This morning, while browsing through pages of frustratingly irrelevant > > cscope output, I got an idea. In every kosher *nix development > > environment, the cross-references (i.e. "jump to defi

Installing Emacs22 on Debian Etch

2007-12-29 Thread Omer Zak
When I looked for an Emacs22 package for Debian Etch, I found that the regular Debian backports Web site at http://www.backports.org/ does not include a backport of this package. (The reason I looked for this version of Emacs was because of its network connection support by means of ELISP function

Does anyone maintain http://www.ivrix.org.il/ nowadays?

2007-12-27 Thread Omer Zak
Today I tried to access it, and it took long time until my Web browser reported that it has a problem. --- Omer P.S.: I am looking for a Free Hebrew-English and/or English-Hebrew dictionary file. The nearest one, which I found is http://www.freelang

Re: Run out of inodes

2007-12-27 Thread Omer Zak
Few years ago a Linux system, which I used, ran out of inodes once in a while. The reason was that a directory in /var (I do not remember its name) got filled by thousands of zero-length files, due to a botched error recovery attempt by some daemon. The cure was to delete all those files. I woul

Re: Fwd: boot messages

2007-12-21 Thread Omer Zak
I compared your strace with strace in my system when running ls -la . Since my system is Debian Etch, may I suggest that you request someone, who is running Mandriva like you, to run strace and E-mail you his strace output for comparison with yours? On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 12:20 +0200, shlomo solom

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread Omer Zak
When checking for free disk space, check also inodes (by df -i). According to past experience, when a partition runs out of inodes, sometimes the system manages to continue to work and erratically fail (when processes need to create new files without deleting others beforehand). Another shot in th

Re: automatic dyndns client for Debian Etch?

2007-12-15 Thread Omer Zak
I use dyndns, too, and am interested in the subject. Therefore, I fired up aptitude in my Debian Etch installation and found the following: v dyndns-client and packages which implement the above: ez-ipupdate ddclient Both of them seem to meet the requirements. Does anyone from the mailing li

Re: Top FOSS security vulnerabilities

2007-12-15 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 02:35 +, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 14/12/2007, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.linux.com/feature/123171 explains the philosophy and > > reasoning of Palamida, which found those vulnerabilities. I found the > > article to be FU

Top FOSS security vulnerabilities

2007-12-14 Thread Omer Zak
http://www.linux.com/feature/123171 explains the philosophy and reasoning of Palamida, which found those vulnerabilities. I found the article to be FUD-free. http://www.palamida.com/node/513 lists the topmost 5 overlooked vulnerabilities for 2007 according to them. Of course, in their blog, they

Re: ptrace help

2007-12-08 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 23:50 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > > I need help trying to wrap my head around ptrace. I'm trying to create > the most basic of programs: > > > in the child process (right after the fork) I do: [... snipped ...] Shachar, You provided us with a description

Re: Request for UPS info

2007-12-03 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 19:31 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: > 1. I'm guessing that there are two issues when it comes to UPSs - power > output and how long that power can be delivered before draining the > bateries. How much power will I need and is there a target length of time > I should aim for?

Invoking my own DLL from Emacs

2007-11-22 Thread Omer Zak
I use GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (stock Debian Etch installation). Using it you can load all kinds of libraries written in ELISP (*.el) and/or compiled into byte code (*.elc). However, I need to run a DLL (for example, to interface to special system services; or to run highly optimized text processing code)

Re: recommended web development environment?

2007-11-12 Thread Omer Zak
How about people who design themes and write plugins for their CMS of choice? They do have a need to work directly with CSS and HTML and even with (*shudder*) PHP. --- Omer On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:10 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Amos Shapira wro

Browser usage statistics

2007-11-03 Thread Omer Zak
Can those among you, who have Web sites, check browser usage statistics in their Web sites during the last few days? The reason for this question is that my Web site (which has international audience) statistics report has it that less than 50% of its visitors since beginning of November use Inter

ipconfig.py implementation (was: Re: Indirect reward)

2007-10-31 Thread Omer Zak
--Boundary_(ID_UNQQJY8oii47gg641dqzoQ) Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hello Meir, Attached please find my implementation of ipconfig.py (inside a gzipped tar file). The script is released under GPLv3. --- Omer On Tue, 200

Re: PC router distro?

2007-10-17 Thread Omer Zak
How about using OpenBSD for this purpose? Is there an OpenBSD based distribution suitable for working as a router? On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 14:28 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > I there any distro of Linux specifically to turn a PC into a router? > > What I am looking for is something that ru

Re: Which is the best ISP in Israel when accessing US server using ssh

2007-10-15 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Miki, I routinely ssh to a server in USA using 012.net.il, and the performance is much better than the one reported by you even when it is worse than usual. HOWEVER: 012.net.il cannot be that much different from Netvision and Bezeqint, so you may want to look for configuration problems in yo

Re: With and Without gcc OMP

2007-09-24 Thread Omer Zak
Think out of the box! Assumptions: 1. You use a Makefile to build the stuff. 2. There is a different target for each compiler/option combination. Then, in the non-gomp compilations, pass the source code files through your own pre-processor, before compiling them. You'll probably want to set the o

Re: Development Environment Setting Up

2007-09-16 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 17:03 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Omer Zak wrote: > > > > Thanks for the tip. > > So, the problem is solved in the special use case of rebuilding the > > version which is in Debian main archive, for the purpose of making a > > small change

Re: Development Environment Setting Up

2007-09-16 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 16:26 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Omer Zak wrote: > > In the following excerpt, Amir E. Aharoni pointed out a problem several > > people have in joining some of the more successful big Free Software > > projects (OpenOffice is especially g

Development Environment Setting Up (was: Re: [Israel.pm] errors and warnings in Perl)

2007-09-16 Thread Omer Zak
In the following excerpt, Amir E. Aharoni pointed out a problem several people have in joining some of the more successful big Free Software projects (OpenOffice is especially guilty in this respect). The problem of setting up is not only due to the need to download and install extra packages, but

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

2007-09-11 Thread Omer Zak
Dov wrote: > I thought all the Israeli ISPs provide web hosting services. Bezeqnet, > Netvisiom, Barak etc. > > On 9/11/07, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A client of mine is building a Web site for serving the > Israeli market. > He is loo

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

2007-09-11 Thread Omer Zak
A client of mine is building a Web site for serving the Israeli market. He is looking for a Web hosting service, which has servers located in Israel and/or have low-latency links to all major Israeli ISPs. Any idea which Web hosting companies meeting the above requirement exist, any recommendation

Re: Career advice needed

2007-09-02 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 13:32 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > This advice was true 20 years ago, but I'd advise against this today (unless, > of course, you want to "see the world"). There are plenty of computer jobs in > Israel - in large companies, medium companies, and startups. True, a resource for

Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

2007-08-21 Thread Omer Zak
The following movie of the day is pertinent to the discussion, and is even a bit on-topic (there is a penguin, if you look carefully!): http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=386 -- In civilized societies, captions are as important in movies as soundtracks, professional photography and expert editing. My

Re: State of the Israeli banks websites

2007-08-16 Thread Omer Zak
" and not "Gecko" or > "Iceweasel". In case > you use a different browser, you get a message saying > the site > supports IE only, which is not true. > > On 8

Re: State of the Israeli banks websites

2007-08-16 Thread Omer Zak
n wrote: > Discount's web site works well with Firefox, however your browser must > identify itself as "Firefox" and not "Gecko" or "Iceweasel". In case > you use a different browser, you get a message saying the site > supports IE only, which is not true. &g

Re: State of the Israeli banks websites

2007-08-16 Thread Omer Zak
I do not have experience with other banks, but Bank Discount's Web site blocks you unless you have Internet Explorer, version 5.5 or later. The people responsible for this state of affairs do not have a clue about the importance of supporting W3C standards - if to judge from their response to the c

Re: www.mybroadband.co.il

2007-08-08 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 23:01 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 08/08/07, Gadi Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > > There have been alot of e-mails on the list this year (from > myself aswell) relating to the Internet in Israel. Every ISP >

Re: [SUMMARY] Current status of Israeli ISPs

2007-07-08 Thread Omer Zak
Given that the main function of Actcom during the last few years was to buy bandwidth from Bezeq Beinleumi and resell it to its customers, adding improved support to the package - Ori's suggestion makes the most sense. The following could be done to implement the idea: 1. Collaborate with one (or

[SUMMARY] Current status of Israeli ISPs

2007-06-19 Thread Omer Zak
Dotan Cohen: - Actcom. - Last time I called them with a problem was few weeks ago, and at the time all seemed normal. - If there is no Linux support anymore at Actcom, what must one do to connect via a Jordanian ISP? Asaf Halili and Geoffrey S. Mendelson: - Actcom was sold to Bezeq

Current status of Israeli ISPs

2007-06-10 Thread Omer Zak
What is the current status of Linux support by Israeli ISPs? I need to choose an ISP through which I'll connect to the Internet from my ADSL connection. My criteria: 1. Good support (including support by FAX) when there is a problem in connecting to the Internet. 2. Linux-cluefulness of the suppo

RESEND: SOLVED: Re: Printer problem after upgrade from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch

2007-06-03 Thread Omer Zak
?) While searching for a solution to the problem, I found that it affects several people who upgraded from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch, so I found it advisable to report my solution for greater public benefit. --- Omer On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 22:00 +03

Configuring Hebrew keyboard in KDE desktop

2007-05-22 Thread Omer Zak
System: a PC with vanilla Debian Etch installation, with Gnome 2.14.3.6 and KDE 3.5.5 (package version 5:47). In Gnome, the Hebrew keyboard is properly configured, including LED to indicate which keyboard is active (Latin or Hebrew). However, I was not successful in doing the same in KDE. When

SOLVED: Iceweasel YouTube/flash problem (was: Re: After upgrading my PC from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch)

2007-05-12 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 10:23 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > 2. YouTube works erratically for me. After upgrade, YouTube did not > work. I re-installed Maromedia flash player version 9 (the .tar.gz file > was unchanged since previous update). YouTube worked. But today > YouTube again d

After upgrading my PC from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch

2007-05-12 Thread Omer Zak
I have at last upgraded my desktop PC from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch. At one stage, the aptitude package was removed. But I used dselect to re-install it and so could proceed with installation. Moral: avoid marking packages as automatic in aptitude, unless you really need them only when another

Multiculture in a single company? (was: Re: Linux firewall failover)

2007-05-03 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 07:51 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Omer Zak wrote: > > Why are you unifying all the Linux servers in one distribution? > > Won't this expose your organization's computers to the dangers of > > monoculture? > > > I cannot talk

Re: Linux firewall failover

2007-05-03 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 09:48 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 02/05/07, Imri Zvik ( Smile ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you do not limit yourself to Linux, you can easily use PF > (pf+pfsync+CARP) to do the job. > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html > > Thanks for the

Any Linux application which knows to import Freehand 9 files?

2007-05-01 Thread Omer Zak
I am asking, after a Google search failed to turn up anything suitable. I am looking for an application, which is capable of importing Freehand 9 drawings and making them available (as image files or, if possible, as vector files) for standard Linux image/vector editing applications. Is there suc

One man writes Linux drivers for 352 USB webcams

2007-04-30 Thread Omer Zak
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39291 -- In civilized societies, captions are as important in movies as soundtracks, professional photography and expert editing. My own blog is at http://tddpirate.livejournal.com/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone.

Re: Recommendation for software/hardware for virtualization

2007-04-16 Thread Omer Zak
I think that your best bet would be to use virtual machines (VMware or competitor). You can (EULA permitting) save copies of images at various stages of installation and operation. Then, when something goes wrong (as it invariably would), you can restore an older image, with cost only of copying 4

Re: How to read inbox converted by mistake into RMAIL format?

2007-03-30 Thread Omer Zak
Bar'yudin wrote: > Wasn't it easier to read it through Emacs or XEmacs? > > Omer Zak wrote: > > Once upon a time, I had an E-mail mbox converted by mistake into emacs's > > RMAIL format. > > I was stuck for a long time, for want of a method to convert it back >

How to read inbox converted by mistake into RMAIL format?

2007-03-30 Thread Omer Zak
Once upon a time, I had an E-mail mbox converted by mistake into emacs's RMAIL format. I was stuck for a long time, for want of a method to convert it back into mbox format, and the usual sources of information have not been helpful. Today I searched again, and found the following savior: http://w

RE: New Israeli Debian mirror: archive & CD images

2007-03-22 Thread Omer Zak
>From whois database, debian.org.il is owned by Alex Shnitman, a name which I remember from Free Software mailing lists. The Web site itself also has information about Debian, and links to the http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-image/ (inactive mirror site). So it should be possible to cooperat

Blooming Filters (was: Re: [Job] MySQL consultation)

2007-03-21 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 00:20 +0200, Peter wrote: > You also > probably want to read up on more advanced indexing methods (like Bloom > and Blooming filters and such) than what's available with ordinary off > the shelf databases. I searched for information about Blooming filters. Google gave me

Transferring Linux installation from 40GB hard disk to 250GB hard disk

2007-02-09 Thread Omer Zak
I performed the operation hinted at at the Subject line. At the moment the 40GB and the 250GB disks are clones, but the divergence has already started, as I am using the 250GB hard disk and the 40GB hard disk is not benefitting from the new memories and experiences that the 250GB one is beginning t

Re: Freshening packages under Debian? (was: Re: my /usr partition has gone south)

2007-01-28 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 21:02 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 28/01/07, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did not find such a menu entry, but when hitting L, aptitude > displayed > a list of packages to be reinstalled. In my case, the only >

Re: Freshening packages under Debian? (was: Re: my /usr partition has gone south)

2007-01-27 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 16:05 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 28/01/07, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 03:48 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 01:49 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > > I could write a sma

Freshening packages under Debian? (was: Re: my /usr partition has gone south)

2007-01-27 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 03:48 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 01:49 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > I could write a small shell script which grabs the content of "rpm > > -qa" and run an "rpm -Uvh --force $name*" for each line, but then I'll > > have a nightmare with dependencies

RE: cable connection to barak (pptp)

2007-01-27 Thread Omer Zak
>From the connection script, it looks to me like the remote side disconnects from you after the connection has been established. The log of pptp is not complete. There are supposed to be some messages by pptp before starting pppd. There is something strange with the numbers of sent and received

Re: Syntax highlighting of makefiles in OpenOffice (solved)

2007-01-27 Thread Omer Zak
Wow, nowadays, enscript seems to support a long list of languages. And it uses states to process the text. I wonder how I missed states previously. It seems to be an interesting tool of its own. On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 13:33 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Can anyone off

Meaning of "emergency upgrade" (was: Re: Distribution mechanism)

2007-01-10 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:24PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > > I had the experience of having been forced to perform an emergency upgrade > > of my PC's motherboard. > > Microsoft made a marketing decision to requi

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Omer Zak
As it happens, Linux is very good at adapting itself for different hardware. It is not MS-Windows XP. I had the experience of having been forced to perform an emergency upgrade of my PC's motherboard. At the time I had both MS-Windows and Linux partitions on my hard disk. Microsoft's software d

Re: Installation problems

2006-10-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 08:55 +0200, David Suna wrote: > I just purchased a new machine and I have been having a very frustrating > time installing linux on it. I have tried installing ubuntu > workstation, ubuntu server and debian etch all without success but with > different failures. The mach

Whereabouts of kat and beagle

2006-10-11 Thread Omer Zak
I have decided to look at what Debian Etch has now to offer in the area of desktop information retrieval. 1. For KDE desktop, there is the kat application. Does anyone know the story behind http://kat.mandriva.org/ project page being closed? 2. For Gnome, there is beagle. What do people use - ka

Unexpected ld behavior - a short war story

2006-09-09 Thread Omer Zak
I wrote a small application, and I wanted to use MD5 hash in it. I used the MD5 function. According to man 3 md5, the include statement to be used is: #include However, MD5() really exists in: #include The manpage, of course, does not tell which library implements the function, but I found libm

[OFFTOPIC] How to reply to Israeli paranoids (was: Re: Freedom of speech online)

2006-09-08 Thread Omer Zak
If I ever bothered to be serious in replying to such accusations, I'd be more worried about Uri Even-Chen's own reputation than Israeli reputation. Every country has its own dark periods (Soviet Union's Stalin, USA's McCarthy and Bush Jr. periods, etc. etc. even if I refrain from mentioning the wo

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Paranoia expels boredom (was: Re: Freedom of speech online)

2006-09-08 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 19:13 +0300, Levy, Chen wrote: > ביום שישי 08 ספטמבר 2006, 18:23, נכתב על ידי Omer Zak: > > AND, YES, THE BORG INVASION IS PLANNED TO START ABOUT TWO YEARS FROM > > NOW. > > Ah, so Vista got delayed again? Yes. If Vista weren't delayed, then t

[OFFTOPIC] Paranoia expels boredom (was: Re: Freedom of speech online)

2006-09-08 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 17:46 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Aviram Jenik wrote: > > Common, being paranoid is fine, but you don't have to do it in a public > > Linux > > mailing list. People reading the archives might take you seriously. > > > Aw, come on. What's the fun in being paranoid insi

Practical importance of Firewire? (was: Re: Selecting a DVD burner with USB interface)

2006-09-03 Thread Omer Zak
with Linux compatibility? My computers do not have Firewire interfaces. Is it recommended to invest in buying Firewire plugin card (for desktop PC) and Firewire PC CARD interface (for laptop)? --- Omer On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 22:08 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: >

Selecting a DVD burner with USB interface

2006-09-03 Thread Omer Zak
My specs: - USB interface - Ability to burn dual layer DVD (8.5GB per medium) - Not too slow - Intended usage - as backup device for my files After some mental agony I zeroed on LG GSA 2164D (other alternatives being LG GSA 5163D, LG GSA 5169D, LG GSA 2166D) as the DVD burner with USB interface to

Looking for "Guide for the Perplexed"

2006-09-03 Thread Omer Zak
I thought that the following is a clueless newbie level question, until a certain high level hacker, whom I asked it in private E-mail, pronounced it to be fit for mailing lists like Linux-IL. Well, the story is that there is an American company, which wants to introduce into Israel videophones, w

[SOLVED] Re: Oh, how much I miss you, si1452!

2006-08-25 Thread Omer Zak
l from xlibs package (sarge) > > I ran diff on the two files, and it seems that si1452 content is now > merged into the basic il layout. See attached diff. On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 08:27 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > The gnome keyboard configuration utility > (Desktop/Preferences/Keyboard/Layou

Re: Oh, how much I miss you, si1452!

2006-08-25 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:27:01AM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > > My problem:I was not successful in locating the file which exists in > >Debian Sarge and is missing in the newest Debian Etch, and which defines > > the il(si1452) keybo

Re: Oh, how much I miss you, si1452!

2006-08-24 Thread Omer Zak
However the dialog now provides me only with the il(lyx) and il(phonetic) possibilities. Hence, my previous E-mail message. Did you check in Debian Etch, recently updated? --- Omer On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 08:41 +0300, ruby berezovsky wrote: > To be a

Oh, how much I miss you, si1452!

2006-08-24 Thread Omer Zak
I have a laptop with Debian Etch installed on it. Yesterday I updated it from the regular sources, after not having done so for few weeks. Before the update, the X-Window system (with Gnome desktop on top of it) was configured to use us,il(si1452) keyboard layouts. After the update, the il(si1452

Building the new Kopete 0.12.2 in Debian Sarge

2006-08-24 Thread Omer Zak
Motivation: MSN Messenger, which supports video chats, is the killer application among Deaf persons, which keeps them loyal to MS-Windows. To have them switch to Linux, an alternative is needed. The version of Kopete installed in Debian Sarge (version 0.9.2, compiled under Qt 3.3.4 and KDE 3.3.2)

Re: Annotative attachments - Desirable feature for E-mail client applications

2006-08-19 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 12:04 +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > בשבת, 19 באוגוסט 2006, 09:32, נכתב על ידי Omer Zak: > > Today I received an E-mail message, which I wanted to save and add a > > note for myself about it (annotation). > > I found that I know of no E-mail applicati

Annotative attachments - Desirable feature for E-mail client applications

2006-08-18 Thread Omer Zak
Today I received an E-mail message, which I wanted to save and add a note for myself about it (annotation). I found that I know of no E-mail application, which can do this. Proposed feature specs: Terminology: - External attachment - today's attachment - is received from external E-mail sources a

Re: Why does the "Wayback Machine" not like http://www.shlomifish.org/ ?

2006-08-08 Thread Omer Zak
A more plausible explanation, based from checking the "Wayback Machine" on my own Web site [shameless promotion: http://www.zak.co.il/deaf-info/old/], which has relatively high traffic, and which had its pages modified during 2006: The Wayback Machine does not display any modifications whatsoever

[SUMMARY] Israeli map Web sites which work with FireFox

2006-08-02 Thread Omer Zak
Last month, there was a thread about this subject in Linux-IL. The following is its summary. 1. Kfir Lavi had a problem with http://www.emap.co.il/ and other Israeli map Web sites, when browsing with FireFox. 2. Micha Silver recommended http://www.freemap.co.il/ - works with FireFox and runs FOSS

UPDATE: The problem was worked around (was: Re: Mysterious gpdf freeze up)

2006-07-31 Thread Omer Zak
I do not have apt-source in my Debian Sarge installation, and aptitude did not list any package with a similar name. So the advice was not useful. :-( I did run debsums gpdf to see whether any file got corrupted. Everything was OK. I logged off and logged on back. Did not help. After rebooting

Mysterious gpdf freeze up

2006-07-31 Thread Omer Zak
Today gpdf acted on me. I do not know what caused this and how to fix it. I am enclosing below details about the problem, with the hope that someone can help me diagnose and fix it. Description of the problem: --- There is a PDF file which I have been viewing several times

Re: Results of search for list of Fedora Core packages

2006-07-24 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 22:32 +0300, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 02:48:13PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > > I faced the need to find a list of packages of Fedora Core. > > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/extras/5/i386/repodata/ > > Do note that this

Results of search for list of Fedora Core packages

2006-07-24 Thread Omer Zak
I faced the need to find a list of packages of Fedora Core. Such a list is available for Debian (for example, at http://packages.debian.org/stable/) and even FSF has a list of software packages (at http://directory.fsf.org/). However, it was surprisingly difficult to find such a list. For future

Re: recomendation for editor to edit hebrew latex files (non-kde)

2006-07-22 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 21:29 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am looking for an editor that can handle hebrew latex files (I want syntax > highlighting, don't care about compiling from within it). > > I prefer something that is not gnome or kde (no problem with qt or gtk2) since > I don't run those d

Re: RTFM pointers for minimum Samba setup

2006-07-13 Thread Omer Zak
Another step, which may prove to be necessary is, after step (1) below, to find and read the document: /usr/share/doc/samba/diagnosis.html (Debian Sarge) or /usr/share/doc/samba-2.2.5/docs/textdocs/DIAGNOSIS.txt (RedHat 8.0) and follow instructions to bring up and test the Samba connection.

Re: diff regexps

2006-07-11 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Gilad, You are doing a big jump here. Let's try to walk a small step at a time. 1. Start with diffing two files i.e. don't use the -X options or the -pBbNaur which requires several searches through man diff to verify. After the two-file compare works, try to add back those options. 2.

[OFFTOPIC] Re: Moving

2006-07-05 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 16:20 +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Marc A. Volovic, from the post of Tue, 04 Jul: > > No - seriously, I do NOT realy expect any of this. Just engage my > > interest. Truth be told, had I not been moving house, I'd be delighted to > > get Dawn Sun's working Amiga. > > I

Re: convert Microsoft Excel xls To CSV

2006-07-04 Thread Omer Zak
gnumeric in batch mode? (DISCLAIMER: I did not actually try it for this purpose or read its man file.) On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 16:16 +0300, yahav Biran wrote: > It's nightmare to process an xls file. An external system is generating it > and I need to process it. > Is there any way to convert Micro

Re: SMS Hebrew encoding

2006-07-03 Thread Omer Zak
My ideas: 1. Use a modern ICQ client (I use Kopete, but never tried to send SMS messages via ICQ). vicq is unsupported since 2002 or so. Or use the sendsms script. 2. To send legally-formatted Hebrew SMS message, certain flags in the system parts of the message need to be correctly set for it to h

Re: converting date to utc

2006-06-29 Thread Omer Zak
Look up the appropriate date conversion function in Perl or Python. Use a regular expression to extract the date's parts from the access log line, and invoke the above function using those parts as arguments. Another alternative (also amenable to a script - in AWK, Perl or Python): 1. Assume that

Re: optimization guidelines required for C.

2006-06-29 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 16:50 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can any one send me the optimizing guidelines in C language for coding ? > > Thanking you > Sankar My Latin and Russian are regrettably woefully inadequate for a proper treatment of your question (according to Marc's principles), so

[OFFTOPIC] Re: Turning OFF hardware TCP checksum offloading

2006-06-28 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 17:14 +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:00:46PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > As usual, you have all been a great help > > Careful, we might start charging you the going consultancy rate :-) and deprive the object of the above sentence of the

Re: How to meter disk I/O ?

2006-06-28 Thread Omer Zak
vmstat -d 1 #(at least version 3.2.1, available in Debian Sarge)? On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 17:07 +0300, Michael Sternberg wrote: > Hello, I have written a small application that performs stress load of > filesystem. Which external tool I can use to meter disk I/O generated by > this application ? I

[OFFTOPIC JAB] Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-25 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 11:53 +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: > Quoth Muli Ben-Yehuda: > > > The theory behind disabling entropy gathering from network sources is > > that those can be affected (controlled?) by an attacker. There was a > > long thread about this recently on lkml, see thread starting a

[OFFTOPIC] RE: Why Unix is important

2006-06-21 Thread Omer Zak
Yes. Also hard curses, usually encoded in heavy Latin and light Russian. This mailing list is targetted at legally adult audience having mature personalities. Anyone below age 18 subscribed to this list does so at the risk of his guardian. --- Om

Re: Updating Debian

2006-06-19 Thread Omer Zak
--=-ZcjCYESjRaKVhkw8tw2r Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >From my experience, updating Debian is piece of cake. I am attaching the /etc/apt/sources.list which I use (Debian Sarge being used there). After copying it to your /etc/apt, activate aptitude (if you didn't alread

Re: Subversion-friendly Shell hacking?

2006-06-19 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 23:57 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006, Baruch Even wrote about "Re: Subversion-friendly Shell > hacking?": > > What you can do is create a shell function called mv that will check if > > the file is in a subversion directory and do svn move on it. The > > fu

Subversion-friendly Shell hacking?

2006-06-19 Thread Omer Zak
I am now reading about Subversion. Turns out that in order to get Subversion to properly manage and keep track of history of files even when they are copied or renamed, one should use 'svn copy' instead of 'cp' and 'svn move' instead of 'mv'. I wonder whether shells (such as bash) have a facility

Re: In defence of Ire [was: Re: VMware guest net problems?]

2006-06-13 Thread Omer Zak
Suppose your eyesight is failing you and you are going to a clinic to have your eyes fixed by laser. If they find that you have retinal degradation in your eyes, you deny this and insist upon getting laser - what should an ethical clinic do? Should this answer be any different if the clinic are don

Re: Google AdSense XHTML Compliancy [was Re: [YBA] Job Opening]

2006-05-26 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 23:14 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Thursday 18 May 2006 10:32, Omer Zak wrote: > > Several of my Web site files are valid HTML 4.01 Transitional, because > > Google AdSense for Search code is not XHTML valid (I notified Google > > about this probl

Re: email web security

2006-05-25 Thread Omer Zak
Your Web browser's cache? On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 17:11 +0300, Ghiora Drori wrote: > Hi, > I hope this is not to much of topic but does anyone know if web mail for > example yahoo mail gets somehow stored on the local disk while reading > or writing it (specifically if you did not save to the disk

Re: Directories names with spaces inside

2006-05-25 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 10:01 +0300, Michael Sternberg wrote: > I need to perform some task on specific files recusrsively. Problem is > that directories names can contain spaces. Something like that (in > /bin/sh) does not works: > > for f in `find . -name '*.c*'`; do file $f; done > > it choks

Re: hd dopy with dd

2006-05-23 Thread Omer Zak
; i do not recall the exact partition table, it was somthing like: > > hda1 - fat32 (30G) > hda2 - linux (ext3 10G) > hda3 - swap > hda4 - extended (hda5) > hda5 - fat32 > > thanks, > erez. > > > On 5/23/06, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: hd dopy with dd

2006-05-23 Thread Omer Zak
1. Wild guess: in spite of your options, dd finished in middle of hda1. 2. How many blocks were actually copied (dd reports this when it finishes its work)? 3. Exactly what do you get when listing partitions using fdisk on the old and new disks? I do not think that this is due to the difference i

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