Fwd: Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?
It will not be EPUB only, it will be Android with e-Ink display, so it can do almost anything that an Android tablet can. Battery life is expected to be 3 weeks. This is what we got in the preliminary models. If that's the case, it will be very interesting. My android devices, a 10" Chinese no name tablet, and a cell phone need daily charging. The rest of the family has gets similar results. As for eVrit, it is now an iOS and Android app. However they hardly sell any books and have relatively few titles available. There are today many EPUB reading applications that support Hebrew, and also more and more Hebrew books available in new and old store. Look at: http://www.booxilla.com or http://www.indiebook.com Thanks, my wife is looking for a source of easy Hebrew children's ebooks. My sons who are fluent, have not quite caught on to them. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ Jerusalem Israel. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Any experience with cubox-i?
Hi, After moving to a new rented unit I found that it's going to be a bit (or very) tricky to get my aging desktop (which I mainly use for Bittorent and "storage server" these days) connected to the ADSL modem using wired Ethernet. Instead, I though that I might get myself some media-centre computer - it'll be either so small that I can still keep it close to the modem/router/wifi point or it'll suport wifi so I can put it somewhere else in the unit. It'll also hopefully be power efficient so I could afford to keep it turned on 24x7 (both for economic and environmental concerns). But I don't feel like running around designing my own hardware, order it then build it myself, so I searched a bit for "linux media center hardware" and the top results all point to http://cubox-i.com/, which after reading a couple of reviews turned out to be based in Israel. I'm considering getting myself the CuBox-i4Pro, and perhaps do it while I visit Israel next Passovah (not sure yet). Everything I read about this unit so far is just 100% positive. Does anyone here have experience with it, the service? hardware quality? Cost of shipping in Israel? Is pick-up from their offices an option etc? Cheers, --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
time report tool
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Re: Any experience with cubox-i?
On 12/01/2014 12:59, Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, After moving to a new rented unit I found that it's going to be a bit (or very) tricky to get my aging desktop (which I mainly use for Bittorent and "storage server" these days) connected to the ADSL modem using wired Ethernet. Instead, I though that I might get myself some media-centre computer - it'll be either so small that I can still keep it close to the modem/router/wifi point or it'll suport wifi so I can put it somewhere else in the unit. It'll also hopefully be power efficient so I could afford to keep it turned on 24x7 (both for economic and environmental concerns). But I don't feel like running around designing my own hardware, order it then build it myself, so I searched a bit for "linux media center hardware" and the top results all point to http://cubox-i.com/, which after reading a couple of reviews turned out to be based in Israel. I'm considering getting myself the CuBox-i4Pro, and perhaps do it while I visit Israel next Passovah (not sure yet). Everything I read about this unit so far is just 100% positive. Does anyone here have experience with it, the service? hardware quality? Cost of shipping in Israel? Is pick-up from their offices an option etc? Cheers, --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il Their product seems solid. Have you considered Apple TV? It's only 109 AUD down under :) Currently works for ios 6.1. rPi? I have 2 jb atv almost 2 years now, currently running xbmc v12.3 without a hiccup. Software selection is a bit scant I'll use rPI as servers for other apps. -- Moish ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Fwd: Re: Any experience with cubox-i?
Forgot to send to the list, with some additional information. Original Message Subject:Re: Any experience with cubox-i? Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:50:47 +0200 From: geoffrey mendelson To: Amos Shapira On 1/12/2014 12:59 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, After moving to a new rented unit I found that it's going to be a bit (or very) tricky to get my aging desktop (which I mainly use for Bittorent and "storage server" these days) connected to the ADSL modem using wired Ethernet. Instead, I though that I might get myself some media-centre computer - it'll be either so small that I can still keep it close to the modem/router/wifi point or it'll suport wifi so I can put it somewhere else in the unit. It'll also hopefully be power efficient so I could afford to keep it turned on 24x7 (both for economic and environmental concerns). But I don't feel like running around designing my own hardware, order it then build it myself, so I searched a bit for "linux media center hardware" and the top results all point to http://cubox-i.com/, which after reading a couple of reviews turned out to be based in Israel. I'm considering getting myself the CuBox-i4Pro, and perhaps do it while I visit Israel next Passovah (not sure yet). Everything I read about this unit so far is just 100% positive. Does anyone here have experience with it, the service? hardware quality? Cost of shipping in Israel? Is pick-up from their offices an option etc? What about one of those Chinese Android tablets without a screen? Google sells one dedicated to streaming videos using various US based services, and there are many of them on eBay. Google calls theirs the Chromecast. I don't know if it would be worth buying one for use outside of the US, but as I said, there are plenty of them out there. I read an article from one of the US financial websites complaining that they sell for very little money in China and come preloaded with so many pirate movies that they have become the latest media in video purchase and rental. You plug them into your HDMI port (which powers it) and it connects to the outside world via wifi. I don't remember how they connect to remote controls, but they do. added: I was looking around eBay and found some nice looking devices. They run a fixed version of Android (no updates promised) so I guess they are good for a year or two. For around $100 US, you can get a quad core CPU, HDMI output, wifi, USB, ethernet and even a place to insert a laptop SATA drive directly. It also comes with a remote control. I also found this page: http://apcmag.com/how-to-stream-video-to-an-android-device.htm Following the instructions I was able to watch videos on my various computers (e.g. Linux file servers, Windows workstations) on my Chinese android tablet. It has an annoying Android interface, not a smooth UI, like AppleTV or XBMC, but it worked. I lack the HDMI mini or micro cable to connect my tablet to my TV, but it should work there too. XBMC does not run on my tablet as it lacks the necessary video hardware, but if it did, it would be a lot easier to use than my WD LIVE streamer. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ Jerusalem Israel. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Printing UTF-8 in C
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 terminal. -- Ori Idan ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Printing UTF-8 in C
> From: Ori Idan > Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:34:07 +0200 > > 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 terminal. Is the C source stored on disk in UTF-8 encoding? ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Printing UTF-8 in C
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 terminal. Where does the character come from, is it a verbatim literal in the source? Unfortunately, this is not portable, even though gcc would support it. See the docs for GNU CPP, section "Implementation details", "Implementation-defined behavior". If you want portable solution, you must escape the chars, best done with something like #define ALEPH "\x..." to concatenate into a larger literal string. Here is a nice stackoverflow thread with sample code that reads and outputs utf-8 from C, w/o any literals in it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1373463/handling-special-characters-in-c-utf-8-encoding . V. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Printing UTF-8 in C
Writing hebrew to the terminal is a bad idea because terminals do not support BiDi reordering. That said, doing "cat small-hello.utf8"[1] works for me in gnome-term (though it is reversed). No special environment variables were defined. Regards, Dov [1] http://paps.sourceforge.net/small-hello.utf8 On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:34 PM, 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 terminal. > > -- > Ori Idan > > > ___ > 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
Re: Printing UTF-8 in C
Hi Dov,
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> Writing hebrew to the terminal is a bad idea because terminals do not
> support BiDi reordering.
>
> That said, doing "cat small-hello.utf8"[1] works for me in gnome-term
> (though it is reversed). No special environment variables were defined.
But Ori has specifically asked about sending just one character to terminal.
cat treats everything like binary data.
baruch
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:34 PM, 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 terminal.
> >
> > --
> > Ori Idan
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Re: time report tool
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:08:13 +0200 Erez D wrote: > hello > > i'm looking for an open source tool, prefferebly web based tool, that > employees can report what they have worked on (i.e. this and this > time on that task etc ...) > > i need this so i can extract information for reporting to the mad'an > > > thanks > erez Hi Erez, I made a very simple one: http://www.troubleshooters.com/projects/tslips/ Pros: * GPL/v2 * Command interface, simple * Time file simple to parse and report * Can be front ended by UMENU or other menu software * Software is simple: Easily changed to your own needs * Survives reboots Cons: * Command interface, difficult for some users * Reports must be written in software, no specific reporting facility * Cannot track concurrent tasks (but for one person, wouldn't that be cheating anyway?) HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Printing UTF-8 in C
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Dov,
>
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> > Writing hebrew to the terminal is a bad idea because terminals do not
> > support BiDi reordering.
> >
> > That said, doing "cat small-hello.utf8"[1] works for me in gnome-term
> > (though it is reversed). No special environment variables were defined.
>
> But Ori has specifically asked about sending just one character to
> terminal.
> cat treats everything like binary data.
>
> baruch
>
I don't care at this stage about bidi.
I still could not find out how to print even once character, I tried printf
and putwchar.
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>
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:34 PM, 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 terminal.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ori Idan
>
> --
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Re: Printing UTF-8 in C
The most unixy way is to treat everything as binary UTF-8 and then forget
about encodings. The following program works just fine:
#include
int main()
{
printf("Hello שלום!\n");
}
Compile with:
cc -o hello hello.c
./hello
Hello שלום!
(Though שלום is inversed in the terminal).
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Dov,
>
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> > Writing hebrew to the terminal is a bad idea because terminals do not
> > support BiDi reordering.
> >
> > That said, doing "cat small-hello.utf8"[1] works for me in gnome-term
> > (though it is reversed). No special environment variables were defined.
>
> But Ori has specifically asked about sending just one character to
> terminal.
> cat treats everything like binary data.
>
> baruch
>
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:34 PM, 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 terminal.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ori Idan
>
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Re: Printing UTF-8 in C
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> The most unixy way is to treat everything as binary UTF-8 and then forget
> about encodings. The following program works just fine:
>
> #include
> int main()
> {
> printf("Hello שלום!\n");
> }
>
> Compile with:
>
> cc -o hello hello.c
> ./hello
> Hello שלום!
>
> (Though שלום is inversed in the terminal).
>
That works, but I need one character such as 'א' to be printed and to be
able to print 'ב' as 'א' + 1
Does someone have any idea how to do it?
--
Ori Idan
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
>
>> Hi Dov,
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
>> > Writing hebrew to the terminal is a bad idea because terminals do not
>> > support BiDi reordering.
>> >
>> > That said, doing "cat small-hello.utf8"[1] works for me in gnome-term
>> > (though it is reversed). No special environment variables were defined.
>>
>> But Ori has specifically asked about sending just one character to
>> terminal.
>> cat treats everything like binary data.
>>
>> baruch
>>
>> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:34 PM, 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 terminal.
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Ori Idan
>>
>> --
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>> Systems
>>
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>>
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Re: Printing UTF-8 in C
Create a list of all hebrew characters and dereference the list according
to the index of the character.
const char **alefbet = {
"\327\220",
"\327\221",
:
}
printf("%s\n", alefbet[index]); // For index in 0..26
Am I missing something?
Dov
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Ori Idan wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
>
>> The most unixy way is to treat everything as binary UTF-8 and then forget
>> about encodings. The following program works just fine:
>>
>> #include
>> int main()
>> {
>> printf("Hello שלום!\n");
>> }
>>
>> Compile with:
>>
>> cc -o hello hello.c
>> ./hello
>> Hello שלום!
>>
>> (Though שלום is inversed in the terminal).
>>
>
> That works, but I need one character such as 'א' to be printed and to be
> able to print 'ב' as 'א' + 1
> Does someone have any idea how to do it?
>
> --
> Ori Idan
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dov,
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
>>> > Writing hebrew to the terminal is a bad idea because terminals do not
>>> > support BiDi reordering.
>>> >
>>> > That said, doing "cat small-hello.utf8"[1] works for me in gnome-term
>>> > (though it is reversed). No special environment variables were defined.
>>>
>>> But Ori has specifically asked about sending just one character to
>>> terminal.
>>> cat treats everything like binary data.
>>>
>>> baruch
>>>
>>> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:34 PM, 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
>>> terminal.
>>> > >
>>> > > --
>>> > > Ori Idan
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Systems
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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Re: Printing UTF-8 in C
You may want to review the following StackOverflow item:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4607413/c-library-to-convert-unicode-code-points-to-utf8
One answer describes how to do it yourself.
Another answer uses the iconv library.
On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 21:29 +0200, Ori Idan wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Dov Grobgeld
> wrote:
> The most unixy way is to treat everything as binary UTF-8 and
> then forget about encodings. The following program works just
> fine:
>
> #include
>
> int main()
> {
> printf("Hello שלום!\n");
> }
>
> Compile with:
>
> cc -o hello hello.c
> ./hello
> Hello שלום!
>
> (Though שלום is inversed in the terminal).
>
>
>
> That works, but I need one character such as 'א' to be printed and to
> be able to print 'ב' as 'א' + 1
> Does someone have any idea how to do it?
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Re: Printing UTF-8 in C
> From: Ori Idan > Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:46:50 +0200 > > > Is the C source stored on disk in UTF-8 encoding? > > > Yes but what's the difference? latin characters in UTF-8 are the same in > latin1 encoding and UTF-8 No, Latin-1 and UTF-8 encodings for Latin characters are different. You are mixing UTF-8 encoding with Unicode codepoints that UTF-8 encodes. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
