Re: terminal emulator

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

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

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) do

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.

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

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 e

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

hing with e-ink 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

linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

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 i

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

> > 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-po

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

> 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

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 unsub

Re: Fwd: "spontaneous" umount

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 PROTECT

Re: New Israeli Debian mirror: archive & CD images

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

> 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" enviro

Re: New "dumb" question: how to USB

> 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 reco

Re: avoiding the "microsoft tax" - laptop linux refund?

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 forc

Re: avoiding the "microsoft tax" - laptop linux refund?

> > 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 successful

Re: avoiding the "microsoft tax" - laptop linux refund?

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.

> 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 opti

Re: [resend] xkbd language switching

> 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 switch

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

> 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 manda

Re: Scanning program for linux

> > > 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 ?

Re: g++ compilation problem

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-defaul

Re: g++ compilation problem

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 debi

Re: looking for a drawing application

> 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

Re: avoiding the "microsoft tax" - laptop linux refund?

> > 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 SU

avoiding the "microsoft tax" - laptop linux refund?

(There was a thread with a similar question on the matter back in 2003: http://search.gmane.org/?query=linux+laptop+windows+refund&group=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