Re: dd of=/dev/port.

2004-08-11 Thread amos
Ez-Aton wrote: dd is meant to be used with block devices, not with character devices. To hijack character devices, you can simply cat them to somewhere. But dd has the relatively singular option (apart from perl, I guess) of letting its user to control an lseek(2) call from command line, which is

Re: The "wait for penguines lists" song lyrics

2004-08-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Beni Cherniavsky wrote: I'd like to use this opportunity to express my feelings about that song. I felt it was ugly and entirely out of place in AP. The event represents the people that came to it. I came to an event about FOSS, proud to be part of this comunity - but when that song was played, I f

Firefox, and multiple windows

2004-08-11 Thread Ez-Aton
Hi all. When running Mozilla Firefox (as I do), some might discover that trying to run another instance of it (for example, for your favorite mail client) will pop-up the "profile selection" window. After some googling, I came up with a script, attached here. It is based on the assumption firefox

Re: dd of=/dev/port.

2004-08-11 Thread Ez-Aton
dd is meant to be used with block devices, not with character devices. To hijack character devices, you can simply cat them to somewhere. Ez. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: Is the following expected? # printf "\xa2" | dd of=/dev/port bs=1 count=1 skip=675 0+0 records in 0+0

Re: The "wait for penguines lists" song lyrics

2004-08-11 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you who adored the song Gilad played while we all waited for the lists of penguine types at the trivia contest - here are the lyrics. http://www.nerve.com/screeningroom/tv/avenueq/ I'd like to use this opportunity to express my feelings about that song. I felt

Re: Hebrew in mutt

2004-08-11 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], from the post of Wed, 11 Aug: > but when I receive a message encoded in iso-8859-8, instead of > the hebrew chars I see their ascii codes. If some other encoding (for > example iso-8859-1) is used, I only see question marks. > My locale is C (and I would prefer to l

Hebrew in mutt

2004-08-11 Thread mavram
I understand that it is possible to see hebrew text in mutt, and I wonder how. I am speaking about console. I am able to read hebrew text in the console aftyer enabling hebrew fonts with: setmetamode metabit > /dev/null echo -n -e "\033(K" consolechars -f iso08.f16.psf.gz (maybe not all these comma

Re: Is there a problem using OpenOffice.org 1.1.1/2 and Culmus 0.100?

2004-08-11 Thread Alan Yaniger
Hi Dovix, I tried doing the following in OOo 1.1.1 with Culmus 0.100: Typed Hebrew text in LucidaSans. Selected some of the text. Changed the font of the selected text to AharoniCLM. The font changed fine. While the text was still selected, typed new text (in RTL mode) to replace the selected