Re: terminal emulator

2014-09-04 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
konsole advanced option have a checkmark (that used to be OFF by default in early UTF-8 adoption days, and is nowadays ON by default) that triggers RTL rendering of Hebrew. On 28.08.2014 18:23, Yedidyah Bar David wrote: 2014-08-28 18:06 GMT+03:00 Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com

Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-03-10 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
On 09.01.2014 12:31, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Can anyone recommend an ebook reader? I need one that 1) allows me to read my own PDFs and taking notes under Linux; 2) is sold and (well) supported in Israel; 3) doesn't require me to have a non-Linux machine to flash the updates; 4) doesn't

Re: Printing UTF-8 in C

2014-01-12 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
On 12.01.2014 20:34, Ori Idan wrote: I need to print several Hebrew characters (UTF-8) to the terminal. My locale is set to he_IL.UTF-8 so it shows Hebrew on the terminal, however printing from C gives me Chinese characters. My question is how to print one character such as 'א' to the

Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-10 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
On 09.01.2014 16:24, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On 1/9/2014 3:08 PM, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Thanks for your answer. When I posted a link to a matrix of all the current eink-based readers, I assumed it is obvious I want an e-ink based one. I'd think dedicated reader would be more energy

linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-09 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Can anyone recommend an ebook reader? I need one that 1) allows me to read my own PDFs and taking notes under Linux; 2) is sold and (well) supported in Israel; 3) doesn't require me to have a non-Linux machine to flash the updates; 4) doesn't require me to go online to download my own content to

Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-09 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
will do! Also, as I had stated, I'm not interested in buying DRM books anyway... On 09.01.2014 14:18, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On 1/9/2014 12:31 PM, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: 5) isn't illegal to have in Israel because of its wireless capabilities (in fact, I'd like to be able to disable any

Re: getting another process id from within a c/cpp program?

2007-09-14 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Is there another way of doing this other than iterating over /proc and reading all the process names? Probably not. There is no system call, or even C library function, to do this sort of query. So your most portable choice is indeed to run an external ps program. The not-portable way

Re: Keeping iptables rules across reboots on Debian (lenny) ?

2007-07-03 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Let me try explaining what is it that I find missing in Debian's iptables setup: The most basic use case is for a sysadmin to configure rules and expect them to survive reboot. This is the behavior he is familiar with from nearly every enterprise FW device. Here, on Debian OTOH he's

Re: UPS and Linux

2007-07-02 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Is it for a server room or an (home?) office location? In that case, make sure you can live with the dB the UPS will put up. And listen to it yourself --- lower dB at some freqs sounds nastier than higher dB on others. VKh = To

Re: Fwd: spontaneous umount

2007-05-23 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Did you try disabling supermount to see if the problem goes away? Vassilii = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL

Re: New Israeli Debian mirror: archive CD images

2007-04-26 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:35:35PM +0200, Dmitry Sherman wrote: New Israeli Debian mirror: archive CD images Thanks a lot! http://www.debian.co.il/debian - Archive http://www.debian.co.il/debian-cd CD-IMAGES Make sure you publish it in the Debian's mirror list, with all the crypto

Re: fall back locale

2007-04-24 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Maybe an example will be more clear: I want to have the UI in Amharic, and I'll use am_ET.UTF-8, but since there are only a few strings translated, I wish the untranslated strings to be shown in Hebrew (he_IL.UTF-8) instead of English (C or en_US.UTF-8). Will the standard LANGUAGE environment

Re: New dumb question: how to USB

2007-04-18 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
I inserted a USB flash drive to the USB slot. man -k usb told me about lsusb, and the device is recognized. How do I access it (mount it)? [I don't think hotplugging is set up, but I want to do it manually, so please, don't teach me how to set up hotplugging]. Once you have the device

Re: avoiding the microsoft tax - laptop linux refund?

2007-04-15 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: If, meanwhile, somebody on the list got acquainted with a place in Israel to buy a non-wide linux-friendly laptop WITHOUT MS TAX, please tell us. So far it looks that the MS marketing successfully forced all the dealers to pre-brand all

Re: avoiding the microsoft tax - laptop linux refund?

2007-04-14 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
My wife actually said she probably prefers a 12 model, but can do with [snip] If, meanwhile, somebody on the list got acquainted with a place in Israel to buy a non-wide linux-friendly laptop WITHOUT MS TAX, please tell us. So far it looks that the MS marketing successfully forced all

Re: avoiding the microsoft tax - laptop linux refund?

2007-04-12 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Just following this up for other poor souls researching such a thing in Israel. Or, as an alternative, does anybody have a specific supplier recommendation for either T43 or a comparable linux-friendly laptop, somebody in Israel that would be prepared to work with the University and be willing

Re: Visual diff tool for patches.

2007-03-05 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Did not see you mentioned meld specifically. Anyway I could sugest the following procedure. You could prepare two copies of the source tree: pristine and modified, where modified is pristine with patch applied. Very true. It's also a good idea to do the copy with the cp -la option so that

Re: [resend] xkbd language switching

2007-03-04 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
I've learned that the following commands do the switching: setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout il so I can use them as input actions to select english/hebrew. However, turns out the commands do not update the icon. Is there a better way to switching

Re: enough (was Re: the great jerusalem firewall)

2007-03-03 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
This completely off-topic thread has gone on far too long. Aside from two or three posts about possible LINUX issues, I fail to see why we are having this completely irrelevant discussion about porn, censorship, religion and who knows what else. I disagree. If an MS-based solution is mandated

Re: Scanning program for linux

2007-03-01 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
For scanning in linux, I had used the Xsane frontend (http://www.xsane.org) for the SANE scanner interface. [snip] I was wondering: does anybody have an experience with scanning in linux ? Did he get good results ? Can he recommend a different scanning program ? I'm using

Re: g++ compilation problem

2007-02-26 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Peter wrote: Hi all, I have a compilation problem: when compiling opal-2.2.5 , g++ reports: 'g++: Internal error: Killed (program cc1plus)'. g++ is 'g++ (GCC) 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-8)'. I would like to solve this without updating g++. I suggest to talk to the debian

Re: g++ compilation problem

2007-02-26 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Peter wrote: I suggest to talk to the debian gcc team. If what they say is that you need to update, do it :) note that it is possible to have 1 gcc on the same machine, i.e., you can still have 3.3.6 as your default compiler, and only use 4.x.x as a non-default one by

Re: avoiding the microsoft tax - laptop linux refund?

2007-02-19 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Or, as an alternative, does anybody have a specific supplier recommendation for either T43 or a comparable linux-friendly laptop, somebody in Israel that would be prepared to work with the University and be willing to sell w/o Windows? [SNIP] I know that HP sells systems with SUSE 9.2

Re: looking for a drawing application

2007-02-19 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Is there some free linux app similar to Visio or McDraw? I'd like to draw some block diagrams and save as GIF/JPEG so I can display it in a web browser. Check out dia. It is reasonably Hebrew-friendly as well. Vassilii = To

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