Re: Are there any implication of using or supporting Debian now that the Project Leader shared a call for BDS on debian.social ?

2024-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 09:21:37PM +0200, borissh1...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > A bit clueless question , but are there any legal implication of using > or supporting Debian now that the Debian Project Leader shared a call > for BDS ? Debian does not support (or oppose, or whatever) BDS.

Re: Visidata with RTL text

2022-06-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 09:53:36AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > On 09/06/2022 19:10, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > If anybody doesn't yet use Visidata, then give it a look. It is > > ostensibly a tool for looking at tabular data, like CSV files, but it > > works with so many formats t

Re: recover ssh-agent socket

2022-01-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 01:24:18PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > You can probably find it under /proc/$SSH_AGENT_PID/fd. I see there: lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Jan 8 15:00 0 -> /dev/null lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Jan 8 15:00 1 -> /dev/null lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Jan 8 15:00 2 -> /dev/

recover ssh-agent socket

2022-01-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, I accidentally deleted my ssh-agent's socket from /tmp. The agent is still running and I have $SSH_AGENT_PID and $SSH_AUTH_SOCK set in various processes, so I know where it should have been. Is there any way to recover the socket? Short of restarting the X session, of course. -- mail / xmpp

Re: Hebrew with putty

2021-09-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:43:37AM +0300, אורי wrote: > Hi, > > I realized it is probably a bug in putty, so I wrote to > pu...@projects.tartarus.org and got a reply. > > https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/feedback.html > > However the putty developers might need help to fix it a

Re: sound problem on Kubuntu 20.04

2020-12-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 10/12/2020 9:02, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I think you're right, but I have no idea how to fix it, or why it was not setup automatically. As I wrote earlier, in the LiveDVD I had sound. Have you tried pavucontrol? (from package pavucontrol) It can help clarify Pulseaudio's view of things. B

Re: sound problem on Kubuntu 20.04

2020-12-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, On 10/12/2020 7:56, Shlomo Solomon wrote: New computer - new install of Kubuntu 20.04 - no sound. I thought it might be a hardware problem since it's a new computer, but when I boot to a LiveDVD of the same distro, everything is fine. Just to check one obvious thing: can you play direct

Re: Ubuntu

2020-06-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 11/06/2020 6:29, אורי wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your suggestion, I decided to upgrade to 18.04.4 and I ran a > few times the following commands (from root): > > sudo apt autoremove > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get upgrade > sudo apt update > sudo apt upgrade apt is basically a wrapper a

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, Pardon me for straying a bit off the topic of the recent sub-thread, On 14/05/2020 23:08, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 14 May 2020 14:39:02 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > >> That's perfectly reasonable, although I'll personally never use or >> recommend Mint again. > > I'm going to bow out

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, On 13/05/2020 6:17, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2020 09:44:34 +0300 > Shlomi Fish wrote: > >> Hi Geoffrey! >> >> Please see >> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg66441.html and >> let's drop the "antisemitism" argument once and for all. > > Well, speaking only for

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Geoff, On 12/05/2020 22:16, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi Geoffrey, > > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 5:51 PM Geoffrey Mendelson > mailto:geoffreymendel...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > i went to the trouble of signing into one of my linux servers and > reading the link. > > It was your telling me

Re: dependency hell OR it should not be this hard

2019-08-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 11/08/2019 4:42, Ari Becker wrote: > No, it doesn't have to be that hard. Plugging NixOS: > https://nixos.org/nixos/about.html which solves this issue by making > safe rollbacks as easy as rebooting and choosing the previous immutable > system configuration. Nixos and the similar Guix indeed di

Re: how to copy an ubuntu system disk containing a logical volume.

2018-11-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 18/11/2018 20:13, Geoffrey Mendelson wrote: I have an Ubuntu 15.10 system. When I installed it, it defaulted to a regular ext(something) boot partition, and an lvm partition with everything else on it. There now is

Re: ifdown/ifup and friends

2018-04-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
I check > it again and it is *always* up... Again, this is on both Debian wheezy > (old, kernel 3.2.0) and Fedora 27 (fully updated, kernel 4.15.17)... > > It also does not depend on whether the interface is designated as "auto" > (on Debian) or anything else I could

Re: raspberry PI - no X11

2018-02-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
t: how are the two related? In (2) you try to authorize X11 programs on the pi to connect to an X server running on your PC. In (3) you run an X server on the pi (and X11 clients running on the pi that should connect to it). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM

Re: "antisemitic" Linux Mint [was: Re: Distro recommendation]

2017-11-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
eck-is-happening-with-openoffice-update/ > > Ellison (obviously upset by RMS's boycott) donates Open Office to the Apache > Foundation. This is not so clear to me. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

"antisemitic" Linux Mint [was: Re: Distro recommendation]

2017-11-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
;mintBox") with an Israeli flag. [1] https://www.linuxmint.com/partners.php Please don't continue spreading this mis-information. Clem made a mistake long ago. Let's move on. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: Systemd error messages for custom service

2017-09-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
priority to distinguish between error messages and > debug messages. However, all of my messages seem to be showing as > info messages. How can I format my messages so that they will fit > into the different log levels? Not a direct answer, but have you tried filtering using --uni

Re: mapping usb disks to devices

2017-08-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ot;add", ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}=="backup-boole-*", \ SYMLINK+="backup" And in fstab: /dev/backup /mnt/backup ext4rw,noauto 0 0 There are several backup disks with different labels. The backup disk that is connected is mounted by the backup script

Re: sendmail or ssmtp or ??

2017-01-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ied using ssmtp for some servers. It lacked too many basic features. Nullmailer came closer. I don't recall the specific issues now, though. But I ended up using either postfix. Or even exim4 in some cases where I didn't bother. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is

Re: iba.org.il programs

2016-12-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
d to include it just in case. In KDE you can also include it as a klipper action, with the regex to match the URLs: http://www\.iba\.org\.il/(program|liveProgram)\.aspx?scode=[0-9]+ Not perfect, but works for now. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.or

iba.org.il programs

2016-06-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, Lately I'm no longer able to view programs from iba.org.il even with a flash plug-in. Any way to download them without using the flash plugin? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@coh

Re: Thunderbird + Fribidi

2016-02-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
a library called ICU which serves a somewhat similar role to Fribidi. However, from what I know of Thunderbird, it is basically written on top of Gecko, and thus works with HTML, CSS and such. It should already provide good bidirectionality support (and if not: it's a bug that should be fixed)

IPv6 tunnels [was: Re: ISP with native ipv6 in isarael]

2016-01-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
formation. Looking further I noticed that I installed the package miredo and forgot about it. Perhaps I should set up a server somewhere and link my clients to it. Some of my requests to gmail go through it. And on the same note: SoftLayer still doesn't provide IPV6 addresses. --

Re: How to install several kernels on Debian

2015-12-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Ubuntu bumps the kernel revision (and hence change the name of the kernel packagee) on practically every kernel upgrade. Debian does its best to maintain the same kernel revision (and try to guarantee a stable ABI to kernel modules). Thus same tools but different policy. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: How to install several kernels on Debian

2015-12-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
my 3.2 keep working? I have no confidence in that. Again, I do not > want to "upgrade" anything - I want to switch between several kernels at > will. I also do not want to compile - I want stock Debian kernels. Thus you can keep your 3.2 kernel. It's a different package. --

Re: where to buy a raspberry Pi?

2015-12-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
also be other useful hardware addons. For instance, a breadboard, some LEDs, switches and resistors (which, again, you could find in a local electronics shop. Hopefully. I did find one in the not so central place I reside. Well, except the breadboard). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.

Re: Which Linux distribution is stable yet up-to-date?

2015-12-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
, Void etc. In a rolling release you have to upgrade if you want to apply fixes. [snip. Various rolling releases discussed. Void was one of them] > From what I hear second hand, Void is the one of these rolling releases > *least* likely to bork your system on an update. I guess the problem i

Re: Debian mirror problem

2015-05-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
bian... > > > > > > (Yes, I'm biased (: ) > > > > mirror.isoc.org.il doesn't have armhf packages, but debian.co.il does > > > Good to know. I think no one asked for these packages. /me asks. > > (Maybe because others provided them). I switched to ftp.de

Re: Samba on Raspberry PI

2015-03-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
d) doesn't help. Your question is misphrased. You should have asked: "I have Debian Stable (Raspbian[*]) installed on a server (Raspberry Pi 2), how do I use it as a file server?" [*] My guess based on a different reply of yours. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org |

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-03-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 03:16:42PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 13:39:08 +0100 > > From: Tzafrir Cohen > > > > On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 02:21:06PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > > > > You also leave the overall

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-03-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
a command line convertor. For instance: cat Makefile all test.html %.html: %.md markdown $< >$@ -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.o

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-03-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Thanks for your answer, On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 11:14:39AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 02:42:48 +0100 > > From: Tzafrir Cohen > > > > I'd like to write a Heberw document, get a nice result HTML and still be > > able to save t

Hebrew in markup

2015-03-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
#x27;t yet check all the various reSt and markdown implementations. Any better alternatives? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.3

2015-02-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 08:32:08AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: Announce: Hspell 1.3": > > latest version of SI1452: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_metho

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.3

2015-02-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
es of: setxkbmap -option '' -option \ "grp:shift_toggle,grp:switch,lv3:ralt_switch" \ us,il Like the above, but the right alt is used to switch (temporarily) to third shift level, where most Nikkud signs are. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tz

Re: Epoch Init System Howto

2014-12-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
-line comment and ">>-s left from unsuccessful merges. I intuitively consider them error characters. In short: a toy init system. At least for now. It's good enough for your own home system if you spend the time configuring it, or for a custom embedded system. It'

Re: OT: languages in Google Maps

2014-08-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
to change: https://toolserver.org/~osm/locale/he.html If there's a specific area that s still not properly translated, let me know and I'll try to help translating it. I try to keep to Hebrew Wikipedia translations of names as they are normally sane and consistent. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

2014-07-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
n the GNU project started. BSD started provided a complete system at the beginning of the 1990-s. And shortly thereafter it got into a trial with AT&T. Also shortly after development was halted and much of it moved to proprietary forks. By then the basic system for Linux to use (sans ke

Re: qemu and chroot

2014-05-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
. Specifically: $ cat /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/qemu-arm enabled interpreter /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static flags: offset 0 magic 7f454c460101010002002800 mask ff00feff -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: CPU Overheating Problem When Running 4 CPU Intensive Threads with Latest Untained Kernel

2014-05-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ility to throttle long running processes beyond what can be achieved by nice(1), by repeatedly suspending and resuming the process." -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: NTP

2014-05-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:45:45PM +0300, Geoff Shang wrote: > 2. Has anyone found a server that works? Have you tried il.pool.ntp.org ? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohen

Re: svn on debian chroot android

2014-02-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
is there a way to tell svn to create files with regular user ownership > but run as root Your kernel is paranoid: It has CONFIG_ANDROID_PARANOID_NETWORK set. To get network access, add your user to group 3003 (inet). See http://elinux.org/Android_Security#Paranoid_network-

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
GPU). > > As for Android being old, the current divide is Android 4 (any > version). Older versions than 4 won't run modern Apps. I have no idea about newer versions, but from an initial glance over the wiki, there's at least some work done to get newer versions working. I guess

Re: Any experience with cubox-i?

2014-01-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:38:13PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > How did you get the hardware around the rPi? And software: you need to pay extra for a codec license. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt

Re: Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

2014-01-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
7;s a > way to make apt-get completely non-interactive. Could you please be more specific? What specific package[s]? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || b

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
system, > we'll see what happens with the Jolla now) The N900 is not really supported by its vendor. But there's a great community around it which has kept it supported. And if you've been living under a rock: see also http://neo900.org/ . Get a phone you can trust. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
d. At least for some of those. Some of them (AllInWonder, though not MediaTek) have been hitting mainline recently. > > As for USB OTG and other devices, you probably will need to compile the > modules (or find them online) and push then to the device manually, and > then use the termin

Re: Is there a reason to use `top` over `perf top`?

2013-11-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
A. Apples are better than oranges. B. perf top cannot be run by a non-root user. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|| f

Re: Distro that does not require PAE

2013-10-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
left of most of the mobile pentium chips including a few > dual core ones. So this means that what are IMHO perfectly good > Linux laptops are out of luck. Debian has two i386 kernels: "486" and "686-pae". Use the former. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tza

Re: 3G Modem with SMS support

2013-10-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
alternatives. > > A nice feature but not required, is to be able to restart/initialize the > modem remotely if it get stuck. We had this issue with one system of ours. It turned out that nothing would do. Even when the box was off, it still provided power to USB and the modem was

Re: Winter clock issues in linux

2013-09-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ager) usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jerusalem . -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|| friend __

Re: Retooling my mail server

2013-07-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
FOSDEM this year: https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/younohost/ and the code: http://yunohost.org/ -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-07-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
essible. (Regardless of any other considerations) More on attribution: http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/06/27/credit-is-due/ -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: vimdiff q

2013-07-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
rameteers to pass to diff, which may include -w . But I agree that agreeing on a common standard is the best. Both vim and eclipse should be configurable. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: help with conserver

2013-05-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
> saying that being dependent on the network makes the whole idea > pointless. thanks for clarifying things for me! 'screen /dev/ttyS0 115200' on the remote side? (ttyS0? ttyUSB0? serial/by-id/whatever?) RTFM screen to make it detach on startup, add logging and whatever. -- Tzafrir

Re: filesystem capable of deduping tar.gz's content

2013-05-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 09:27:28AM +0300, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > Git stores files. It should do handle such deduping by design. But this > > is in Git's storage, and not in the actual filesystem: >

Re: filesystem capable of deduping tar.gz's content

2013-05-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ery easy to set-up and known deployment > mechanism (binary repository with a known protocol to keep binary build > products, known API for how to get a build product, etc). It's good to keep > your work environment as standard as you reasonably can. And use a custom file system as part o

Re: filesystem capable of deduping tar.gz's content

2013-05-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
t;rand1" [master a4d084f] rand1 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 rand1 tzafrir@pungenday:/tmp/git-test(master)$ du -s .git . 1188.git 2052. tzafrir@pungenday:/tmp/git-test(master)$ git ls-tree HEAD 100644 blob e5ad63a5eb4a806ae572e977742cdce9e9f

OT: mailbox generator

2013-04-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
wants a casual look at my mailbox, I don't have to provide any real email credentials? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|

Re: Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ingle > USB port does not provide enough bandwidth I'm a bit surprised that the USB bandwidth is the bottle neck here. Do you actually get that much of network traffic and USB traffic? > > In my case it may be possible as I only want to go one direction, > they were going two. -

Re: Developing custom Ubuntu live system

2013-02-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
s). But using it or similar methods save you from reinventing the wheel. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org

Re: Developing custom Ubuntu live system

2013-02-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:45:58AM +0200, Amichay P. K. wrote: > On Feb 17, 2013 10:54 AM, "Tzafrir Cohen" wrote: > I don't want to build Ubuntu from scratch - I want to keep most of Ubuntu > programs and drivers as it is, I would mostly add features. What's the

Re: Developing custom Ubuntu live system

2013-02-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
html#529 That said, why not just install an Ubuntu system on a USB stick? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|| friend

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
device around. http://linux-sunxi.org/Mele_A1000 Includes a SATA adapter and a disk enclosure (you'll have to provide your own disk). It does cost a bit more than a Pi, and the code is not in mainline yet, but it's easier to work with than

Re: anybody knows of a mifi i can run linux on ?

2012-11-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ajor drivers issue. Go for a USB-connected one with a "standard" openwrt router? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@

Re: Is forbidding concurrent ssh sessions a good idea?

2012-11-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
h a setup as th default, IIRC. They made the extra stuff added on top of screen in a separate package called byobu. It still seems to be under active maintinance. Under Debian and Ubuntu just install that package. I figure the scriptology there may provide useful inspiration on other distrib

Re: Is forbidding concurrent ssh sessions a good idea?

2012-11-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
the other > running shell before logging in. This would have badly broken my personal use case. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org

Re: ???In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature

2012-10-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 07:23:51PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >> | >> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/google-closes-12-5-billion-deal-to-buy-motorola-mobility/ >> | (last visited May 24, 2012). Google has since said that of t

Re: ???In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature

2012-10-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
lars blackmail to patent trolls - I've yet to see > a patent troll on the list of the world's richest people. Patent Trolls are a indeed managable parasites. But, as the article states, the damage is a tax. And those who can least aford to pay it are small companies. The article be

Re: Geresh

2012-09-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ncy=low > > * Fix FTBFS with GCC 4.3 with help by Martin Michlmayr (Closes: #455189) > > -- Lior Kaplan Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:40:08 +0200 > > geresh (0.6.3-8) unstable; urgency=low > > * Fix FTBFS with GCC 4.3 with a patch from Martin Michlmayr (Closes: > #417

Geresh

2012-09-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
build and work: https://gitorious.org/geresh If you want to take it from there, feel free. If you want me to give the permissions in that repository to you, let me know. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's

Re: mobile service providers updates

2012-08-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Thanks for all the fixes, On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 12:06:08PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Hi > > I figured I'd submit an update to the service providers database[1]. > >From a quick search (using e.g. [2] and [3]) I got the following. Any > comments and fixes befo

mobile service providers updates

2012-08-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
[2] http://wiki.apnchanger.org/Israel [3] http://www.iopanel.net/forum/thread46469.html -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|

Re: SIM Card reading using a USB modem?

2012-06-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
e a shot to e.g. gnokii. http://wiki.gnokii.org/index.php/Atgen_driver Just for fun: my phone (N900, in "PC Suite" mode) using AT commands. # screen /dev/ttyACM0 115200 (in screen) AT+CPBS="ME" ERROR AT+CPBS+ ERROR AT+CPBS? ERROR I guess it's not that standard. -- T

Re: Scientific computing and a tangentially related question

2012-06-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
thematician of CS > major) and train him at a reasonable cost, I will be the happiest man alive > for about 5 minutes. > > If you know where, how, when, how much, etc., let me know, via my email or > the group. Yesterday: http://hamakor.org.il/pipermail/discussions/2012-June/003

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 03:54:17PM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > On Jun 11, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>> Even in Israel, all of the modems sold are 2 or 3 generations ahead >>> of >>> the software and google has not been helpful wit

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
f what is required for a cellular "line", I believe. That said, I suspect this may be a simpler way to send SMSes. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
my N900: voice calls, SMS and data connections (also as a "modem"). > > Even in Israel, all of the modems sold are 2 or 3 generations ahead of > the software and google has not been helpful with information about > backwards compatibility. I normally have had good

Re: Emacs & Hebrew

2012-06-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
; class implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA). Buffers with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before. ... *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial. Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't automatically select i

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
her channel drivers that allow you to connect mobile phones. There are also various dedicated adapters (PCI cards, stand-alone devices) that can connect you to a GSM device for voice calls and GSM calls. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: Using git on / for configuration files

2012-06-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
umber of other version control systems (though only distributed ones). It also has hooks to package managers. Thus it documents the changes created by apt / yum / whatever. IIRC there's something similar for configuration files in the home directory, but I did not get to look at it. -- Tzafr

Re: a game to publicise [was Re: משחק להפיץ]

2012-05-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
s especially critical here in Israel where as a Linux > user with no access to IE I cannot use many government websites. We > need to get a critical mass off of IE. The real reason is to make people abandon any brwser other than Chrome/uim. Which gives me all a good reason not to use it.

Re: compare software

2012-05-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
are essentially passed along to diff (-x, -I, respectively). Not sure about comments, though. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Resumed maintenance of libmikmod and mikmod.

2012-04-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
copy of some specific instrument may be tricky. Something which is potentially less tricky is getting them to produce a reproducable sound: Being able to produce exactly the same sound from your sound system. A while ago I saw (but never tried to use) a project aiming at creating such a reproduca

Re: oVirt, FLOSS Weekly, Itamar Heim talks about oVirt

2012-03-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:54:20AM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > On יום חמישי 15 מרץ 2012 22:38:11 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > What do you base that statement on exactly? > > > > Listening to that episode and previous some 50 or so previous ones. > > "This

Re: oVirt, FLOSS Weekly, Itamar Heim talks about oVirt

2012-03-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:27:43PM +0200, dyasny wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:07:00PM +0200, Tom Balazs wrote: > > > On Floss Weekly #203 with Randall Schwartz > > > http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/2

Re: oVirt, FLOSS Weekly, Itamar Heim talks about oVirt

2012-03-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
r, and more." Though sadly that episode was dominated by a RedHat Marketing guy. Floss Weekly are normally more technical and less cloudy. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
to autemate generating a config. Shouldn't be complicated, though. Reference: http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/api/09/ref-settings.html Sadly I did not see any progress in http://bugs.debian.org/637769 . -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org |

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
all of its proprietary OO.o-based products and OO.o was relicensed as Apache for IBM and one or two other small vendors with most of the comunity moved to LibreOffice. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf.

Re: Migrating a Linux (Debian Squeeze) system from one HD to another HD

2012-02-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 09:22:37PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > Hello Tzafrir, > Thanks for your war story. > > On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 18:34 +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > update-initramfs -u > > The twist is that I need to boot some kernel to run it. > What I did

Re: Migrating a Linux (Debian Squeeze) system from one HD to another HD

2012-02-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
hough I regenerated the initramfs. After much digging in the scripts, in the extracted initrd (gunzip it and extract the cpio with cpio -id), I realized that if I really want to boot from a RAID I better install mdadm (and regenerate initramfs). * Still one of those two disks crashed this mo

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
.2 files", right? Options: Load/Save => General => ODF Format version Anyway, isn't ODF 1.2 backward-compatible with older version of ODF by design? Also note that the major incompatibility mentioned in that article was in the spreadsheet format. -- Tzafrir C

Re: vim mappings for Hebrew

2012-02-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
shift-alt, or whatever). > > BTW, I also have > set guifont=heb8x13 > set guifont=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-8 Is this still needed? iso8859-8? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: Unlock dialog does not appear occasionally in Ubuntu

2012-02-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
-breaking-grabs-cve-2012-0064.html It's a matter of simple xkb configuration. As for the security implications: well, it's your foot. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
gOffice was probably never a real contender and has only managed to gain some popularity because nothing else was available. On the other hand, Applixware and CorelOffice have fallen on the wayside (for Corel: the Linux port). There are still rumoured to be one or two reasonable proprietary offic

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 09:44:21AM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: > > > > > Google docs is a good but not the best alternative. Google is > >

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
PDF file, which is, AFAIK, supported only by the Adobe reader, is not a good idea. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|

Re: [OUT?] Help with Android?

2012-01-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
cessible by standard Usenet infrastructure. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|

Re: Free Software on Android

2011-12-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ramming language which you can use to program the Android, on the > Android itself, and run applications? Applications written in that > language could be downloaded in source code form and run, and modified > by the user, without needing any cross-compiler setup or an additional > comp

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