Re: Samsung Galaxy S, Big Brother, and an unsolicited review [Was: Advice Needed - Bye Bye Nokia!]
On 25/02/11 23:28, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I hope synchronization can be disabled on all Android phones, but I don't know that and I could not find out. "My Calendar" was a major reason for choosing Galaxy S. Calendar and contacts use a "provider" (technical term) in order to perform the synchronization. Calendar cannot be used without at least one such provider. Samsung must have created a "local only" provider to make calendar usable without connecting your phone to Google. This is not Android's default. Standard Android does support, at least for the Google provider, to tell it what to sync and what not. I routinely (because my phones get reinstalled a lot due to work) tell it to not sync the contacts, but you are right that this is not the default. The contacts situation is a little more complicated on stock Android. The contacts application is useable even before logging in to Google, but it uses a temporary local provider that is no longer available once the Google provider is present. This means that any contact you create after logging in to google will automatically be synced unless you told the provider not to sync the contacts. This includes contacts imported from vcard or the sim card. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Samsung Galaxy S, Big Brother, and an unsolicited review [Was: Advice Needed - Bye Bye Nokia!]
On 2/25/11, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: >Configuring email accounts with incoming (POP) and outgoing (SMTP) >gmail.com servers This is a bit of a goof: Gmail only supports IMAP with Android clients, but not POP. I usually use POP but I had to configure IMAP for the phone, and it didn't register... -- Oleg Goldshmidt | o...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?
mivreshet is a new word invented by eliezer Ben Yehuda, based on the English brush, in a Hebrew form. Bialik prefered the word mis'eret (from hair), but it did not catch. On other times, Bialik won: his matos won over the aviron, invented by Ben Yehuda, which also resembles the French word avoin. The BenYehuda dictionary, available through Bialik institution, and an on-going work of putting it online via the benyehuda.org project, would have told you that, probably. The problem is that it is only updated till a bit after Ben Yehuda's time. On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Geeks, help me here! Where can I find the etymology (word root) for > non-Biblical Hebrew words? Words such as "petria", or "mivreshet"? An > online source would be great, but I'm willing to buy a book if need > be. > > Thanks! > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: MCTIP computer technician course
These certifications by themselves are only an advantage if you plan to work as technical support/helpdesk when you are done with the army. That is to say, you won't _learn_ much from the courses themselves, real-workplaces environment is entirely different than what is required for you to memorize to pass these tests and does not imply any explicit knowledge dealing with complex computer networking. The level of these courses is way beneath what is really important for a techie-person to know. Real knowledge is experience and you tinkering with stuff on your own free time, developing a sense for what's really going on behind things. These can show up in formal interviews not the ones you usually get to through human-resources. 2011/2/20 amichay p. k. : > I prefer to choose this course, at least now, because it will give me a > useful profession, and I finish it before the beginning of my military > service. > > In addition, after the military service I can work as a computer technician, > and to finance my studies in CS > > Course on Linux can be a gift to me, if I sign up computer technician > course. > > amichay > > בתאריך 20 בפברואר 2011 09:36, מאת Lior Kaplan : >> >> I can't comment on the MCTIP course, but I think there're cheaper Linux >> courses. >> >> Kaplan >> >> 2011/2/20 amichay p. k. >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I consider these days to start learning computer technician course. >>> This course is MCTIP by Microsoft, + free Linux course. >>> Total of 252 + 64 hours, + Microsoft >>> and LPIC 1 + 2 exams. >>> The price is 11,700, including everything. >>> >>> Do you have any idea whether I should study the course? >>> You know what the price range for similar courses? >>> Any advice? >>> >>> Thanks, Amichay >>> -- >>> >>> >>> "the debate isn't security versus privacy. It's liberty versus control" >>> Bruce Schneier >>> >>> >>> ___ >>> Linux-il mailing list >>> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >>> >> > > > -- > > "the debate isn't security versus privacy. It's liberty versus control" > Bruce Schneier > > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
ot: job postings
These came to me from a friend in the US, the jobs are in Israel. I know nothing about them, so don't contact me for more info. http://www.ceva-dsp.com/about/career_vacancies.php Geoff -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to misquote it. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 06:29, Michael Shiloh wrote: > alkeli comes to mind, but i don't have one handy i can check. > Thanks, what is this alkeli? I've googled "alkeli dictionary" but I see nothing relevant. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?
Hi Stan! On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:52, Stan Goodman wrote: > Dotan... > > Can you be more specific about the problem; can you give a concrete > example of a problem you would have to solve, and what you would expect > from "the book"? Is it to trace words from foreign-language origins > (like Nanas from Greek, for example)? Or something else? > There are some Hebrew words that I'd like to know where they come from. Such as Petria - is this related to the Petri dish and the biologist for whom it was named? Is this just a coincidence that the words sound so similar? There are tens of other examples of curious words. > I'm sure you have googled and found the lots of hits from etymology> to be inadequate for your purpose. I have googled "Hebrew etymology" but of all the hits I find the etymology of words that have Hebrew as their root language. No dictionaries for Hebrew words' etymologies. > If that's the case, my own > reaction would be to write to the Hebrew Language Academy and ask for a > list of books. Or perhaps to walk into the University in Be'er-Sheva and > find which professor can point you to the right place. Or maybe to go > into their library and talk to the librarian. > I should in fact probably head into the university. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 16:13, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > mivreshet is a new word invented by eliezer Ben Yehuda, based on the English > brush, in a Hebrew form. Bialik prefered the word mis'eret (from hair), but > it did not catch. On other times, Bialik won: his matos won over the aviron, > invented by Ben Yehuda, which also resembles the French word avoin. > The BenYehuda dictionary, available through Bialik institution, and an > on-going work of putting it online via the benyehuda.org project, would have > told you that, probably. The problem is that it is only updated till a bit > after Ben Yehuda's time. > Thanks, Orna. Actually, I did hear that "brush" was the origin for mivreshet, which is why I went looking for an authoritive source. How about "pitria"? I took a brief look at the benyehuda.org website, but upon a quick eying did not see a relevant link. Searching in the google-search in the corner didn't help, either. I will spend some time with the site later this week, surely there must be something relevant there. Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?
Hi, I've also been looking for years for a good Hebrew etymology book, but have yet to find one. There are plenty of books with stories about the origin of a few dozen words, but this is not the same as a book with the origin of every word in the language. I've looked at many dictionaries, and found none of them to have satisfactory etymology... I'd be glad if someone in the list can find one. Case in point - I've been curious for years about the word "Chatul". Is it a coincidence that this word in Hebrew is so similar to the name of this animal in other languages - e.g., French "chat", English "Cat", Spanish "Gato"? Did Hebrew get this word from some foreign language (which? when?), or did some foreign language get it from Hebrew (how?) or perhaps all languages get it from a common language? I haven't found anything conclusive about this question, but as far as I understand all these European languages get their word for cat from the Latin "cattus", a synonym from the more usual word for cat "feles", and Latin supposedly got this word from a similar Egyptian word, and supposedly the Egyptians, who domesticated this word are the origin of this word. So, when did Hebrew get this word, and from which Language? Did Hebrew also get it from the Egyptians? Or from the Romans? Or even later? On Sat, Feb 26, 2011, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?": > There are some Hebrew words that I'd like to know where they come > from. Such as Petria - is this related to the Petri dish and the > biologist for whom it was named? Is this just a coincidence that the > words sound so similar? There are tens of other examples of curious > words. I don't know anything specific about the word pitria, but I found it implausable that it was named after a German biologist that lived in the 20th century... If I had to guess (and this is just a guess!) pitria is after the Hebrew word "peter", a biblical word meaning first-born, and mushrooms are the first to sprout after a rain? Again, just a guess :-) > I should in fact probably head into the university. Thanks. Let us know what you find! -- Nadav Har'El|Saturday, Feb 26 2011, 23 Adar I 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Ways to Relieve Stress #10: Make up a http://nadav.harel.org.il |language and ask people for directions. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?
> > Thanks, Orna. Actually, I did hear that "brush" was the origin for > mivreshet, which is why I went looking for an authoritive source. How > about "pitria"? If "pitria" is what you're looking for (you originally wrote 'petria' - doesn't really mean anything in Hebrew) then a simple google search: מקור השם פטריה Gives this as the 5th entry: http://he.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94 It's a biblical name. - Aviram ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?
On Saturday 26 February 2011 at 22:07:16, Stan Goodman Stan Goodman wrote: > Hi Stan! > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:52, Stan Goodman wrote: > > Dotan... > > > > Can you be more specific about the problem; can you give a concrete > > example of a problem you would have to solve, and what you would > > expect from "the book"? Is it to trace words from foreign-language > > origins (like Nanas from Greek, for example)? Or something else? > > There are some Hebrew words that I'd like to know where they come > from. Such as Petria - is this related to the Petri dish and the > biologist for whom it was named? Is this just a coincidence that the > words sound so similar? There are tens of other examples of curious > words. You mean Pitriya, mushroom, fungus? I would be enormously surprised if this was a word so modern that it had to be invented by, or named for, a 19 - 20th century biologist. Pitriyot have surely been eaten here for millenia. I don't think Ben-Yehuda had to invent it. It's a proper Hebrew word. > > I'm sure you have googled and found the lots of hits from > etymology> to be inadequate for your purpose. > > I have googled "Hebrew etymology" but of all the hits I find the > etymology of words that have Hebrew as their root language. No > dictionaries for Hebrew words' etymologies. Etymology isn't necessaily associated with borrowing words from other languages, so I suppose at least some of those hits include examples of borrows. Hebrew is like most other languages, in that it borrows words when it hasn't got native ones -- and sometimes even if it does. For example, salmon is almost always called "salmon" now in the supermarket (and everybody pronounces the "L", which is not done at all in English); I'm sure lots of people don't know what "Iltit" means or what sort of animal it is. The Talmud has borrows from Greek, because that was what people were exposed to; for example, "Baskilos" (slightly distorted from Greek "Basilikos") is sometimes used for "king", although "Melekh" was certainly available. > > If that's the case, my own > > reaction would be to write to the Hebrew Language Academy and ask > > for a list of books. Or perhaps to walk into the University in > > Be'er-Sheva and find which professor can point you to the right > > place. Or maybe to go into their library and talk to the > > librarian. > > I should in fact probably head into the university. Thanks. What, after all, are universities for? =;-/8 On the other hand, it may be a mistake not to inqure also at the Academy. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Samsung Galaxy S, Big Brother, and an unsolicited review [Was: Advice Needed - Bye Bye Nokia!]
On 26/02/2011, at 03:24, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > The contacts situation is a little more complicated on stock Android. The > contacts application is useable even before logging in to Google, but it uses > a temporary local provider that is no longer available once the Google > provider is present. On my (U.S.) Galaxy S, when I create a new contact, the phone asks me where I want to create it, 1) on the phone, 2) on the SIM, or 3) in Google. --sambo ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?
Thanks, Orna. Actually, I did hear that "brush" was the origin for mivreshet, which is why I went looking for an authoritive source. How about "pitria"? If "pitria" is what you're looking for (you originally wrote 'petria' - doesn't really mean anything in Hebrew) then a simple google search: מקור השם פטריה Gives this as the 5th entry: http://he.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94 It's a biblical name. Was Julius Richard Petri named after the biblical (actually, your source says Talmud, not Bible) name? How did his parents know? Or maybe his name is what inspired him to become a biologist? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?
>>> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:01:17 +0200 From: Dotan Cohen To: "linux-il." Subject: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Geeks, help me here! Where can I find the etymology (word root) for non-Biblical Hebrew words? Words such as "petria", or "mivreshet"? An online source would be great, but I'm willing to buy a book if need be. Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen >>> Ben-Yehuda's dictionary. Saba Moshe ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?
The on-line version of the Ben Yehuda dictionary is still work in progress - early progress, and volunteers are needed. They are still in Aleph. On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 16:13, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda > wrote: > > mivreshet is a new word invented by eliezer Ben Yehuda, based on the > English > > brush, in a Hebrew form. Bialik prefered the word mis'eret (from hair), > but > > it did not catch. On other times, Bialik won: his matos won over the > aviron, > > invented by Ben Yehuda, which also resembles the French word avoin. > > The BenYehuda dictionary, available through Bialik institution, and an > > on-going work of putting it online via the benyehuda.org project, would > have > > told you that, probably. The problem is that it is only updated till a > bit > > after Ben Yehuda's time. > > > > Thanks, Orna. Actually, I did hear that "brush" was the origin for > mivreshet, which is why I went looking for an authoritive source. How > about "pitria"? > > I took a brief look at the benyehuda.org website, but upon a quick > eying did not see a relevant link. Searching in the google-search in > the corner didn't help, either. I will spend some time with the site > later this week, surely there must be something relevant there. > > Thanks! > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com > -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
