Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread nyh
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Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread nyh
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Re: Hto can I fix th journal in a ext3 partition (was: Re: RedHat don't load)

2003-07-07 Thread 46is1
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Re: A 2 hosts Ethernet network with a 255.255.255.254 netmask.

2003-07-07 Thread Eran Mann
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: Am I right that in theory one can construct a 2 interfaces Ethernet network with a netmask of 255.255.255.254? No. Are there reasons to skip such an Ethernet network and keep the smallest network with a minimum of 4 hosts and a netmask of 255.255.

Re: A 2 hosts Ethernet network with a 255.255.255.254 netmask.

2003-07-07 Thread Oron Peled
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 04:01:25 +0300 Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I right that in theory one can construct a 2 interfaces Ethernet > network with a netmask of 255.255.255.254? No. You gave only 1 bit for the "host" part. This is not enough as in any subnet there are two addresses th

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:15:08PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > >Here are my ideas: > > > >1. Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) - plenty of work here. > >Either bug-squashing or developing a new feature (like svn "blame" a la > >cvs annoatate) > > > >2. Syscalltr

Re: A 2 hosts Ethernet network with a 255.255.255.254 netmask.

2003-07-07 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Shaul Karl wrote: Am I right that in theory one can construct a 2 interfaces Ethernet network with a netmask of 255.255.255.254? No. Are there reasons to skip such an Ethernet network and keep the smallest network with a minimum of 4 hosts and a netmask of 255.255.255.252? You need a network

A 2 hosts Ethernet network with a 255.255.255.254 netmask.

2003-07-07 Thread Shaul Karl
Am I right that in theory one can construct a 2 interfaces Ethernet network with a netmask of 255.255.255.254? Will this setup work under Linux? Should ifconfig for such a setup be run with the pointopoint (point-to-point) flag? Considering for example [ 192.168.0.10 ] <-> [ 192.1

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
- Original Message - From: Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 01:10:30 +0300 To: Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:15:08PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > > As a fallback for stu

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:15:08PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > As a fallback for students who don't want to join an existing project, > the current scheme may be chosen. The "objectives", "goals", and > "design" stages, however, will be waved for those students who choose to > join an exi

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
I think a much better format would have been to recruite people from Israel with intimate knowledge of running open source projects. Me for Wine, Muli for the kernel, Nadav for hspell, Shlomi for freecel solver, etc. Agree with those people that they will be tutors for the students for the summ

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Oron Peled
On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 18:35:39 +0300 Lior Kesos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>How would you do it, if you had to contend with > >>thousands of CVs? > Ask for txt file format cv's and ... GOOD! just asking for txt file format would definitely cut the clueless replies by 50% (those who can only writ

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Meir Michanie
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 19:48, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Meir Michanie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I quit univeristy twice and I am partialy proud of it. I have to quit the first time at 3th year and second time for monetary reasons.At 4th year. Now married and bussy working I do not have the t

Re: PPPoE and Alcatel Home

2003-07-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:29:09PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way for me to connect to ADSL using Alcatel Speed Touch > Home? I would rather, if I can at all avoid it, to not change it's > firmware, at least not to the pro version. > > Alternatively, is there any way t

Re: PPPoE and Alcatel Home

2003-07-07 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Shachar Shemesh wrote on 2003-07-07: > Alternatively, is there any way to configure redhat to use pptp without > reinstalling 2/3 of the system? > I just call pptp from custom script:: /usr/sbin/pptp 10.0.0.138 --quirks=BEZEQ_ISRAEL I currently have pptp 1.1.0 from http://pptpclient.sourcefo

Re: PPPoE and Alcatel Home

2003-07-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
Ummm... I'm using RedHat with pptp. Maybe I didn't understand the question... my firewalls use pptp-1.1 to connect to ADSL (Alcatel @work, RH7.3) or cable (Motorola @home RH9). Just download the source and compile it. You add the passwords to the chap/pap-secrets, and use the pptp binary to establ

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread dovix
On Monday 07 July 2003 10:52, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > One possibility (not necessarily applicable for this one) is that the > > job involves work abroad. There are countries that do not give work > > permits unless you have a degree (as a proof of special expertise that > > can not be repl

PPPoE and Alcatel Home

2003-07-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi, Is there any way for me to connect to ADSL using Alcatel Speed Touch Home? I would rather, if I can at all avoid it, to not change it's firmware, at least not to the pro version. Alternatively, is there any way to configure redhat to use pptp without reinstalling 2/3 of the system?

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shlomi Fish wrote: Here are my ideas: 1. Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) - plenty of work here. Either bug-squashing or developing a new feature (like svn "blame" a la cvs annoatate) 2. Syscalltrack - port to 2.5.x/2.6.x. (http://syscalltrack.sf.net/) Hmm, yes. Take a project whose

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Alon Altman
What about Mozilla? There are many outstanding Hebrew-related bugs, that are waiting for fixes. I guess most of the semester will be spent getting "in" the code, and the rest on producing a fix. The list of outstanding BiDi bugs is the depenancies of this meta-bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Beni Cherniavsky wrote on 2003-07-07: > Nadav Har'El wrote on 2003-07-06: > > > I'm sure the teacher of the workshop will give them ideas, but I thought it > > would be nice if people on this list could also raise ideas for project, > > and I'll pass them on to the students (I know one of them). >

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Tzafrir Cohen wrote on 2003-07-07: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 06:09:23PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > > - Design and implement an extension to ncursesw to support bidi in the > > most conveninet way for the application writer, so that there is > > real chance people would use it. This migh

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 06:09:23PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > - Design and implement an extension to ncursesw to support bidi in the > most conveninet way for the application writer, so that there is > real chance people would use it. This might involve new escape > sequences (or defin

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote on 2003-07-07: > For the record, I do *not* have a CS degree, so I probably would not > qualify. > And while we attack the "B.Sc." part, the "CS" part is also problematic. I will soon have an EE degree, yet I learnt almost only programming courses (to the degree possible, pu

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Tzafrir Cohen wrote on 2003-07-07: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 06:09:23PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > > - Define and implement a preprocessor from implicit to explicit bidi > > for LaTeX and/or HTML (HTML already does most of it, you just need > > to derive dir attributes; LaTeX is non-triv

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Meir Michanie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I quit univeristy twice and I am partialy proud of it. While this has no direct relevance to the B.Sc. dilemma, I suggest you don't mention that to your next potential employer. A question that jumps to my head immediately is, will you be equally proud

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 06:09:23PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > - Define and implement a preprocessor from implicit to explicit bidi > for LaTeX and/or HTML (HTML already does most of it, you just need > to derive dir attributes; LaTeX is non-trivial). Actually, the basic algorithm is pret

Re: An idea (was: Looking for ideas for free-software projects)

2003-07-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:19:23AM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello Nadav + list, > > This is something I thought of while preparing my lecture about iptables > at Haifux. > > You are all welcome, of course, to tell me that a project like this > already exist, or that it's otherwise useless.

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote on 2003-07-06: > That's not what I meant and I disagree - you can teach (and grade) the > spirit of mathematics, computer science, physics, biology etc. etc. > A good project in one of the above fields is one that achieves some > objective goals (proving a theorem, solv

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Herouth Maoz wrote: So, how do you hire people? Well, in the days when programmers were worth their weight in gold, you had to somehow test all the four applicants that sent you Programmers today are indeed not worth their weight in gold - but *excellent* programmers are. In fact, I claim that e

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Ely Levy
I can also offer tetrinet,adjuta as a nice projects who needs help and also I've heard someone needed to add hspell interface to make it work with openoffice which might be a good very usefull idea;) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote

Re: Hebrew Printing (Sorry about the bad Subject the 1st time around)

2003-07-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:14:38AM +0300, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > > Very wonderful... except my RH8.0 with KDE3.1 does not include this > font installer. Is it a separate package? Can it be called from the > command line? Can't KDE use any fonrt available to Xft? -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Lior Kesos
How would you do it, if you had to contend with thousands of CVs? Ask for txt file format cv's and use regex with you're favorite scripting language ?:) -- Lior Kesos - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content Development Team Leader == "Everything should be made as simple as pos

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Lior Kesos
Herouth Maoz wrote: So, how do you hire people? Why - post in linux-il of course. Seriously I've hired and interviewed people from the list (all of my peers have been drafted through the list). But currently the policies have changed and I know I could have never hired someone like me(4 years

Re: hebrew files names under xterm

2003-07-07 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Monday 07 July 2003 17:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:24:58PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > > He said debian unstable. Don't they have 4.3 yet? > > Nope. 4.2.1. > This depends on who "they" are. 4.3 is available by putting the following in your sources.list: deb h

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Diego Iastrubni
ביום שני, 7 ביולי 2003, 17:59, Herouth Maoz כתב: > So, how do you hire people? Well, in the days when programmers were worth > their weight in gold, you had to somehow test all the four applicants that > sent you CVs. But these days, that you have 4000 applicants for every job, > including ones th

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Alon Altman wrote: > Are you sure it was a CS degree and not a CS education degree? > -=[ Random Fortune ]=- > The program isn't debugged until the last user is dead. I always thought it was good code if I could understand code I wrote on Friday on Monday morning. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S.

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Nadav Har'El wrote on 2003-07-06: > I'm sure the teacher of the workshop will give them ideas, but I thought it > would be nice if people on this list could also raise ideas for project, > and I'll pass them on to the students (I know one of them). > - Go over GNU textutils and make sure they all

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Herouth Maoz
Quoting Lior Kesos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've heard many people being more happy with these technical school > graduates for missions that don't require the scaling of the engineers > to be a GUI programmer or a database programmer (whoops just covered 50% > of the market if not more) one does n

Re: hebrew files names under xterm

2003-07-07 Thread linux_il
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:24:58PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > He said debian unstable. Don't they have 4.3 yet? Nope. 4.2.1. --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message b

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Alon Altman
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Idan Sofer wrote: > > She was in no way a clueless person, and she had a CS degree, yet she > couldn't understand what's the hell I was trying to do. Are you sure it was a CS degree and not a CS education degree? Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Lior Kesos wrote on 2003-07-07: > The one things I believe you're missing out on is the ability of the > individual to teach himself. > I have learned out of - > trial and error , > google, > My Peers source, > My Peers advice, > Articles in various developer sites, > plain curiosity and intrest t

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Idan Sofer
> As I said in the example itself, you don't necessarily have to have a BSc > to > have the necessary clue. However, when someone has a BSc, you can be sure > that > he *was* exposed to the required concepts and actually marked for them. So > it > gives you that much certainty. My 2 cents to the t

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Lior Kesos
Herouth Maoz wrote: Quoting Lior Kesos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The way I see it 90% of the jobs people actualy do in CS are not so mathimatically/alogorithmic wise complex that a simple administrator that can code like me can't deal with. Well, in my rich work experience, I've had to maintai

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Herouth Maoz wrote: Well, in my rich work experience, I've had to maintain a lot of other people's code. Let me tell you one thing - code written by someone clueful about algorithms and efficiency and data structures is *miles* away from code written by the "I learned by studying the Java book" o

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
Actually I didn't mean that you were uneducated (I don't know you well enough...) I meant that I was uneducated... (actually, not_so_proud_but_doing_OK_kind_of_an_uneducated_fool...) Ummm... If only I had four years to indulge myself in going to the University and, well, learning how to write real

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Lior Kesos
Gilboa Davara wrote: +5 Word! :-) Gilboa * * Yet another uneducated fool, that managed to stay employed during the years by using the KISS factor. shuks pa I may be uneducated but if I can stick my wrench into that Menuconfig and patch kernels that can pick eggs from the farm for me I guess I'

RE: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Arik Baratz
> -Original Message- > From: Herouth Maoz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] > Like that famous program from my military days, which was > always a nightmare. > They set it to run, and came back two days later for the > results. Then one of > the more clueful programmers (who didn't actua

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Herouth Maoz
Quoting Lior Kesos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The way I see it 90% of the jobs people actualy do in CS are not so > mathimatically/alogorithmic wise complex that a simple administrator > that can code like me can't deal with. Well, in my rich work experience, I've had to maintain a lot of other peopl

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
+5 Word! :-) Gilboa * * Yet another uneducated fool, that managed to stay employed during the years by using the KISS factor. [Kudos for the new word!]. On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 15:03, Lior Kesos wrote: > Small disclaimer due to the fact I was asked to post the job and that a > healthy thread e

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Lior Kesos
Small disclaimer due to the fact I was asked to post the job and that a healthy thread emerged - I have no degree whatsoever and am extremely happy that the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) axiom applies very well to the CS field. The way I see it 90% of the jobs people actualy do in CS are not so m

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
> One possibility (not necessarily applicable for this one) is that the > job involves work abroad. There are countries that do not give work > permits unless you have a degree (as a proof of special expertise that > can not be replaced with locals). But that only applies to PhD's or the equival

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Dovix
One possibility (not necessarily applicable for this one) is that the job involves work abroad. There are countries that do not give work permits unless you have a degree (as a proof of special expertise that can not be replaced with locals). A second possibility is that somebody is paying

Re: Hebrew printing with abiword.

2003-07-07 Thread Eliran Gonen
Amir Hardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How can I make abiword print Hebrew? > I installed Hebrew fonts for it (And also installed them for ghostscript), I > can create and edit Hebrew files, but when printing(either to a ps file or to > the printer), I get gibrish or empty characters instead of Hebr

Stas Bekman talks about mod_perl 2.0

2003-07-07 Thread Gabor Szabo
On the next meting of the Israeli Perl Mongers, on 17th July, 2003 Stas Bekman http://stason.org/ - one of the leading personalities in the Apache/Perl/mod_perl world is going to give his tutorial about mod_perl 2.0. mod_perl http://perl.apache.org brings together the full power of the Perl progra

RE: An idea (was: Looking for ideas for free-software projects)

2003-07-07 Thread Arik Baratz
> -Original Message- > From: Eli Billauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] > Problem: Setting up (static) routing tables and/or firewall rules is > rather counterintuitive (at least to me). I find it rather > uncomfortable > to read the routing table, and when it comes to firewall rule

Re: Looking for ideas for free-software projects

2003-07-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
Here are my ideas: 1. Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) - plenty of work here. Either bug-squashing or developing a new feature (like svn "blame" a la cvs annoatate) 2. Syscalltrack - port to 2.5.x/2.6.x. (http://syscalltrack.sf.net/) 3. Freecell Solver - take a look at: http://vipe.t

Re: Hebrew Printing (Sorry about the bad Subject the 1st time around)

2003-07-07 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
> "Shachar" == Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shachar> Aharon Schkolnik wrote: >> >> A while back I finally decided to take the plunge and set up >> Hebrew on my Linux box. >> >> Actually, it went pretty smoothly, and I now have Hebrew fonts >> and a