Re: ls doesn't return on /var/www/html

2005-01-30 Thread William Sherwin
wed by # apt-get upgrade It might be wise to create a shell script and turn it into a weekly cron job... B'hatzlacha! William Sherwin = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" i

Re: OT: Re: Status of Software Patents in Europe

2004-12-20 Thread William Sherwin
Ira Abramov wrote: > I would ask such a question, because I want to know if Europe is a > better, more sensible place to emigrate to than the US, a place that > respects citizen freedoms and where I could start a business to promote > my lifestyle and ideals. Huh? Perhaps I'm a naive American, b

[Fwd: Re: scanned form processing]

2004-12-03 Thread William Sherwin
When replying to a message on the List, please make sure to change the To: address to the List... Thanks. Original Message Subject: Re: scanned form processing Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 20:15:51 +0200 (IST) From: Maxim Kovgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: William Sherwin &

Re: scanned form processing

2004-12-03 Thread William Sherwin
Yosef Leibovich wrote: > Hi, > A school wants to automatically process hand filled forms of grades > (that is there'll be, say, 5 squares/circles for each student, and the > teacher will blacken the corrrect grade, the paper will be scanned and > the computer should automatically detect which squar

RE: Electronic elections

2004-11-18 Thread William Sherwin
Quite a bit earlier in the day (at least, in the U.S. EST; probably yesterday for those of you in Israel), the following text was sent, and I want to clarify what really happens in American elections: > Consider the Electorals method in the US. What > if it was a one vote difference. On a tie, the

Re: Students on Linux woes

2004-10-31 Thread William Sherwin
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > Once you start your studies, however, the main problem becomes that a lot of classes are given with PowerPoint presentations, which are then available at the course website. I often ask the prof. about availability of the lectures in a more open format (pdf for

Re: C locale problems

2004-10-25 Thread William Sherwin
Yury Chursa wrote: And this string [en_US.UTF-8] also present in output of [locale -a] ? If not you must use locale-def(part of libc utilities) for generating locale specific data. It is not present and, when I tried to add it, and add the keymap that I use, I got the following errors: Yoni:/hom

Re: C locale problems

2004-10-25 Thread William Sherwin
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -0400, William Sherwin wrote: Ever since I reconfigured my console to work with Hebrew (which it does, at least in vim, except that the kuf does not display: it displays as a blank space), What vim: vim in a terminal? (what terminal

C locale problems

2004-10-24 Thread William Sherwin
Ever since I reconfigured my console to work with Hebrew (which it does, at least in vim, except that the kuf does not display: it displays as a blank space), I have often gotten the following error: Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. Does a

Re: ARGG!!!!

2004-10-20 Thread William Sherwin
Haverim, (Friends) Would you be willing to translate that article for me? My Hebrew isn't that great - and, since I can't seem to find an English version, and since I do have a strong interest in Israeli politics, I'd appreciate it... Todah rabbah. (Thank you.) William ik wrote: On Wednesday 2

Re: Good office suite with powerful formulas?

2004-06-29 Thread William Sherwin
Yosef Meller wrote: > I'm currently using Open-Office whenever I can, but I am still stuck > with QText on Windows for my homework, and the headache is because my > powerfull formula editor (MathType 5.0 - big brother of Equation Editor > 3.0) does not have a good replacement in Open Office. Truth

Re: upgrading a red-hat 6.2 system in place ?

2004-06-29 Thread William Sherwin
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > You can do a clean install . But first: is there any existing data > outside of /home ? Any simple way of backing it up and restoring? If you have something like PartitionMagic, you can create a new partition called /backup and store tarballs of user accounts and other neede

Re: upgrading a red-hat 6.2 system in place ?

2004-06-29 Thread William Sherwin
Oron Peled wrote: > 100Mb should be more than enough for many kernels + their initrd and > symtabs. Why would anyone ever need 100 MB for a /boot partition? Mine is 16 MB - and only 3.5 MB of it is used... Also, I don't see why the root partition would need to be so large, as root doesn't usual

Re: Hebrew in Linux Console

2004-06-22 Thread William Sherwin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually my letter concerns another of your questions : about > the function of alt-D etc in the xterm, but I cannot find your > initial letter. > I had this problem some time ago, and as X is built of so many > layers and I did not know where to look for the culprit, I >

Re: Hebrew in Linux Console

2004-06-21 Thread William Sherwin
Micha Feigin wrote: > At least in debian, the kbd package 1.12 contains setfont. On the iglu > page the command line seems to be > > setfont -m none -u none iso08.16 # or iso08.f16 > loadunimap /usr/lib/kbd/unimaps/8859-8.a0-ff.uni > > Although there were also some other options there for debian

Re: Hebrew in Linux Console

2004-06-20 Thread William Sherwin
Kfir Lavi wrote: > In order to see hebrew fonts in xterm, you should run uxterm. > This will set the local and then you will see your heberew chars when > you write. OK, but what about in the Linux console itself, meaning in the tty? (One can switch to a tty from X by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1. Most

Hebrew in Linux Console

2004-06-20 Thread William Sherwin
Shalom! While I was recently helped to get Hebrew fonts working in X (specifically, in OpenOffice 1.1.1), I have been unable to get them to work in the Linux console. For example, when I run vim -H, I get the proper cursor moving in the proper direction, but either no characters or blank characte