Re: Question about DOCX and open office

2017-09-17 Thread Mord Behar
A docx file is a gzipped collection of folders and xml files. If you're feeling adventurous you can try to extract the address information directly from there... On Sep 17, 2017 12:55 PM, "Geoffrey Mendelson" wrote: since open office can read docx files, it should be possible convert them to asc

Re: Question about DOCX and open office

2017-09-17 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
since open office can read docx files, it should be possible convert them to ascii text. once you have done that, you scan for an address. it will be easier imho to look for the end of the address, e.g. Israel or or the other way around and work your way up. you just have to be careful to keep

Question about DOCX and open office

2017-09-17 Thread Israel Shikler
Hi all, I am looking for solving the following: Getting a bunch of docx documents on Linux machine. stripping the name and address from each word document in order to print an envelope on one tray and print the document itself on another tray . Any idea will be appreciated. Best Regards,

Re: Question about Linux installation and selecting a language

2015-01-12 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Dan Shimshoni writes: > There is no "American English" there! Since the installation was with  > British English! what should I do so that "American English" will be > available there ?  Are you saying you have an English (UK)[*] layout but no English (US) layout - when you click on the "Add" bu

Re: Question about Linux installation and selecting a language

2015-01-12 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
US International. Etzion On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > Thanks , Oleg > > > > use a somewhat older Fedora, so YMMV, but in KDE open System Settings > >-> Input Devices -> Keyboard Settings -> Layouts and select what suits > >you (I assume American + Israeli?). > > There

Re: Question about Linux installation and selecting a language

2015-01-12 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Thanks , Oleg > use a somewhat older Fedora, so YMMV, but in KDE open System Settings >-> Input Devices -> Keyboard Settings -> Layouts and select what suits >you (I assume American + Israeli?). There is no "American English" there! Since the installation was with British English! what should I

Re: Linux on Android related question

2015-01-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-12-26 16:29 GMT+02:00 Diego Iastrubni : > Hi David, > > On יום שישי, 26 בדצמבר 2014 15:54:12 David Harel wrote: > > My son purchased an Android phone in China (against my recommendation). > > It's a phone by Coolpad the module is 7620l > You should have a talk to your son ;-) > > > Apparently

Re: Question about Linux installation and selecting a language

2015-01-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Dan Shimshoni writes: > I had installed Fedora 21 on x86_64 (server, and with kde). When > installation started, I selected the language as "british english" and > not "American English". I am guessing the installation chose a British keyboard for you. This is a bit surprising because Red Hat, u

Question about Linux installation and selecting a language

2015-01-05 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, Linux-IL, I had installed Fedora 21 on x86_64 (server, and with kde). When installation started, I selected the language as "british english" and not "American English". Now when I log in and press some keys, I get unwanted results. For example, when pressing @ I get the " character. Now wit

Re: Linux on Android related question

2014-12-26 Thread Amos Shapira
; I have an Android/Linux related question here. I hope I am not out of line > in this request for help. > > My son purchased an Android phone in China (against my recommendation). > It's a phone by Coolpad the module is 7620l > Apparently the Android installation for Chinese is d

Re: Linux on Android related question

2014-12-26 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Hi David, On יום שישי, 26 בדצמבר 2014 15:54:12 David Harel wrote: > My son purchased an Android phone in China (against my recommendation). > It's a phone by Coolpad the module is 7620l You should have a talk to your son ;-) > Apparently the Android installation for Chinese is different than what

Linux on Android related question

2014-12-26 Thread David Harel
Greetings' I have an Android/Linux related question here. I hope I am not out of line in this request for help. My son purchased an Android phone in China (against my recommendation). It's a phone by Coolpad the module is 7620l Apparently the Android installation for Chinese is diff

Re: Fw: Question about how to make a living from open source

2014-09-28 Thread tzahi ml
Hi Shlomi, As always, thanks for the comprehensive tips. A big question that troubles me is if you have to always incorporate for a cloud/on premise business. The last incorporation (i am now closing) was costly but the lawyers keep pushing you to incorporate (hopefully not from a self serving

Fwd: Fw: Question about how to make a living from open source

2014-09-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
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Re: Question about how to make a living from open source

2014-09-18 Thread tzahi ml
>> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 09/18/2014 02:56 PM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, tzahi ml wrote: >>>> >>>> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:15:40 +0300 >>>>> From: tzahi ml >>>>

Re: Question about how to make a living from open source

2014-09-18 Thread Aviram Jenik
> >> On 09/18/2014 02:56 PM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, tzahi ml wrote: >>> >>> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:15:40 +0300 >>>> From: tzahi ml >>>> To: "linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il" >>>> Sub

Re: Question about how to make a living from open source

2014-09-18 Thread tzahi ml
ml >>> To: "linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il" >>> Subject: Question about how to make a living from open source >>> >>> Hi All,I am in need of assistance. >>> >>> I am currently working as a freelancer coding stuff in a company. >>>

Re: Question about how to make a living from open source

2014-09-18 Thread David Suna
On 09/18/2014 02:56 PM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, tzahi ml wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:15:40 +0300 From: tzahi ml To: "linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il" Subject: Question about how to make a living from open source Hi All,I am in need of assistance. I am

Re: Question about how to make a living from open source

2014-09-18 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, tzahi ml wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:15:40 +0300 From: tzahi ml To: "linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il" Subject: Question about how to make a living from open source Hi All,I am in need of assistance. I am currently working as a freelancer coding stuff in a compan

Question about how to make a living from open source

2014-09-18 Thread tzahi ml
Hi All, I am in need of assistance. I am currently working as a freelancer coding stuff in a company. However, although I am making good living, this does not scale much (and promotion is out of the question :) ). Anyway, I am looking for ways to scale. One of the ideas that were given to me is

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-10 Thread shimi
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:54 AM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/10/2013 9:48 AM, shimi wrote: > >> >> Flashback from the past: Problems in sector 0 on floppies :) >> > > I guess Peter Norton isn't Jewish. Or as a less obscure reference, the > Norton Utilities to r

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 10/10/2013 9:48 AM, shimi wrote: Flashback from the past: Problems in sector 0 on floppies :) I guess Peter Norton isn't Jewish. Or as a less obscure reference, the Norton Utilities to read the SECOND FAT did not make it to Israel. Like a backup superblock, DOS has a backup FAT. Geoff.

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread shimi
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:35 AM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10/10/2013 8:50 AM, Ira Abramov wrote: > >> I also thought splitting the card into two 32G partitions could save me >> from loosing more than one partition at once, if anything bad happens. >> > > Unle

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 10/10/2013 8:50 AM, Ira Abramov wrote: I also thought splitting the card into two 32G partitions could save me from loosing more than one partition at once, if anything bad happens. Unless it is a software error, it is unlikely that if one partition goes on the card, the other will survive.

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread Ira Abramov
some say it's OK to keep ExFat (it came > >>> formatted) since it's pretty stable in FUSE and the Cyanogenmod supports > >>> it. others say one should partition it down to two 32GB parts of Fat32 > >>> for compatibility with older OS in case you need to rese

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
nmod supports >>> it. others say one should partition it down to two 32GB parts of Fat32 >>> for compatibility with older OS in case you need to reset (also I found >>> my version of CWM does not read ExFAT). Others say ext2 is the way to >>> go, or ext3 (Windows m

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread Udi Finkelstein
need to reset (also I found >> my version of CWM does not read ExFAT). Others say ext2 is the way to >> go, or ext3 (Windows machines won't support that easily, but I don't >> care since I don't run one). >> >> Basically it's a question of w

Re: Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> for compatibility with older OS in case you need to reset (also I found > my version of CWM does not read ExFAT). Others say ext2 is the way to > go, or ext3 (Windows machines won't support that easily, but I don't > care since I don't run one). > > Basically it'

Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

2013-10-09 Thread Ira Abramov
Fat32 for compatibility with older OS in case you need to reset (also I found my version of CWM does not read ExFAT). Others say ext2 is the way to go, or ext3 (Windows machines won't support that easily, but I don't care since I don't run one). Basically it's a question of what FS

Re: Mobile phone question

2013-07-29 Thread Steve G.
Not really my decision, or even my phone - I am only the messenger. I would not buy a phone that costs like 2 netbooks - I own a Galaxy mini (the one with the slightly larger screen), which does all I need, and cost me 599 shekels. True, if I forget my magnifying glass the screen is tough to read,

Re: Mobile phone question

2013-07-29 Thread Amichai Rotman
Why complicate things? You can get a dirt cheep smartphone here in Israel and then go to any of the netwrks and buy the SIM with the plan that suits you... I wouldn't go into buying refurbished phone at all - to many things can go wrong : a friend of mine bought a Samsung Galaxy S II at one of th

Re: Mobile phone question

2013-07-28 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On 7/28/2013 12:29 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: So I looked it up, jailbreaking is legal but if you hand the phone in in it's jailborken state they will claim your warranty is void, if you restore the phone to factory before handing it in you should be fine (at least according to the people on the

Re: Mobile phone question

2013-07-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/7/27 Geoffrey S. Mendelson : > On 7/27/2013 9:59 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > >> I may be wrong but iirc the US like Israel established the right in >> law of the customer to have his/her phone unlocked/jailbroken without >> that affecting warranty... > > > I don't think that would apply. The c

Re: Mobile phone question

2013-07-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On 7/27/2013 9:59 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: I may be wrong but iirc the US like Israel established the right in law of the customer to have his/her phone unlocked/jailbroken without that affecting warranty... I don't think that would apply. The correct way to unlock an iPhone is to have Apple

Re: Mobile phone question

2013-07-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/7/27 shimi : > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Zvi Grauer wrote: >> >> I am a happy user of Samsung mini with android, and golan telecom service. >> However, my wife is looking for a better phone (we live abroad in the >> process of moving to Israel), and was told to look for refurbished old

Re: Mobile phone question

2013-07-27 Thread shimi
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Zvi Grauer wrote: > I am a happy user of Samsung mini with android, and golan telecom service. > However, my wife is looking for a better phone (we live abroad in the > process of moving to Israel), and was told to look for refurbished older > models of Apple's iP

Mobile phone question

2013-07-27 Thread Zvi Grauer
I am a happy user of Samsung mini with android, and golan telecom service. However, my wife is looking for a better phone (we live abroad in the process of moving to Israel), and was told to look for refurbished older models of Apple's iPhone - without a SIM (chip) in the US for the best prices. A

Re: Question about process states, ps and GDB

2012-12-02 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Dan, On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 02:57:30PM +0200, Dan Shimshoni wrote: [...] > Starting program: /work/dev/t/sec/hello > > Breakpoint 1, main () at hello.c:7 > 7 for(i=0; i < 10; i++) > Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install glibc-2.15-58.fc17.x86_64 > (gdb) > > Now with "ps a

Question about process states, ps and GDB

2012-12-02 Thread Dan Shimshoni
hello, I have a question about process states: I have this simplified code which I run under gdb. #include int main() { int i; for(i=0; i < 10; i++) printf("Hello, world!\n"); pause(); return 0; } I build on x86_64 (fedora 17) with gcc -g hello.c -o hello. And then:

Re: Android phone question

2012-12-01 Thread Diego Iastrubni
On יום שני, 26 בנובמבר 2012 16:38:30 Steve G. wrote: > Got myself a Galaxy Mini (was going to get Pocket, but Mini was discounted > in Bug for Black Monday, Cyber Friday, or some such holiday). > > Does all I need, more, quite well. Screen not ideal size, but frankly, the > latest iPhones and Gal

Re: Android phone question

2012-11-26 Thread Steve G.
Got myself a Galaxy Mini (was going to get Pocket, but Mini was discounted in Bug for Black Monday, Cyber Friday, or some such holiday). Does all I need, more, quite well. Screen not ideal size, but frankly, the latest iPhones and Galaxy models are getting too big to be used as phones, and are too

Re: Android phone question

2012-11-15 Thread Steve G.
Glad to hear your experience. Can't bring myself to spend on the phone twice as much and then some of my netbook... The screen is small, but I hope it won't affect the sound quality. If your daughter likes it, it probably has nice texting features, which might be good, as a lot of times I can't t

Re: Android phone question

2012-11-15 Thread ronys
Bought this for my daughter a few weeks ago, when the spec I had was "the cheapest phone possible that can run whatsapp". She's* **very* happy with it (also installed some other apps, of course, but no hacking - yet). To my old eyes, the screen's a bit small, but hey, that's just me. R. On Thu,

Re: Android phone question

2012-11-15 Thread Steve G.
Checked out prices, and the Galaxy 2 (2300 shekel) is a bit much. What is the consensus regarding Galaxy S5300 Pocket? Runs Gingerbread (Android 2.3) according to the specs ( http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_pocket_s5300-4612.php), seems to have a GPS, and priced somewhere between 1/3 and 1/

Re: Android phone question

2012-11-12 Thread shimi
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Steve G. wrote: > > If I want to play with programming the phone - installing an app, not > changing the OS - do I risk bricking the phone, or is there a sandbox for > dummies to play with? Do I need a special toolkit? > > You can create your own APK with whatever

Re: Android phone question

2012-11-12 Thread Steve G.
Thanks, all! It definitely helped. Now you mention it, I do remember a couple of years ago changing the law was in the news, but then the visit ended and I forgot the consequences... So where do I get a good deal on a (new?) Galaxy II phone? Do I look for it at the provider's, or is it better to

Re: Android phone question

2012-11-12 Thread shimi
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Steve G. wrote: > > I hear Samsung Galaxy 2 is good, but I don't know if it has a GPS or > whether programming for it is the same as for the later models (can it take > the latest dessert-OS from Google?) - any better suggestions? > > SGS2 is upgraded by the manu

Android phone question

2012-11-12 Thread Steve G.
Only marginally Linux related. I recently returned for a long stay and quickly realized my phone does not speak Hebrew - SMS is reduced to numbers, commas and periods. Well, it was not a smart phone to begin with, and the culture shock just killed it. So I am thinking switching my Orange number t

Re: question about lshw

2012-10-11 Thread sara fink
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Doron Shikmoni wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:08 PM, sara fink wrote: > >> Finally got to this issue. Here is the output of dmidecode regarding the >> battery. It shows 4 times portable battery >> (...) >> >> Looks like pretty much the same. Now how do I che

Re: question about lshw

2012-10-10 Thread Doron Shikmoni
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:08 PM, sara fink wrote: > Finally got to this issue. Here is the output of dmidecode regarding the > battery. It shows 4 times portable battery > (...) > Looks like pretty much the same. Now how do I check if this is indeed a 6 > cell battery or less? > Yeah, they read

Re: question about lshw

2012-10-10 Thread sara fink
Finally got to this issue. Here is the output of dmidecode regarding the battery. It shows 4 times portable battery Handle 0x0024, DMI type 22, 26 bytes Portable Battery Location: Location of the battery Manufacturer: Battery Manufacturer Manufacture Date: 01/01/2012

Re: tablets, readers and E ink - a question

2012-10-08 Thread yochai
You are right, the Nook Color doesn't use E-Ink. I can only assume that some PDFs were slow due to the weak CPU as PDFs that contained only text were readable. It was tested using CM7 which I'm using instead of the limiting original software. Yochai On 10/08/12 16:08, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > On

Re: tablets, readers and E ink - a question

2012-10-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 10/08/2012 12:20 PM, yochai wrote: > The biggest issue I found with the Nook Color for reading was that with > some PDFs it was to slow to read (more then two second to load the > content into the screen) but I think it won't be an issue with a newer > tablet. > The Nook Color is not e-ink, righ

Re: tablets, readers and E ink - a question

2012-10-08 Thread Amichai Rotman
e screen) but I think it won't be an issue with a newer > tablet. > > If you go for E-Ink make sure that you have a light-source. > > Yochai > > On 10/08/12 11:06, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Question: > > I think of buying some tablet d

Re: tablets, readers and E ink - a question

2012-10-08 Thread yochai
chai On 10/08/12 11:06, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > Hi all, > > Question: > I think of buying some tablet device which its main purpose is reading > (pdf, documents in word format, books, and for a real less degree xchm files). > I intend to use if also for Internet browsing (

Re: question about lshw

2012-09-12 Thread sara fink
Thanks. I will check dmidecode and report back. On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Doron Shikmoni wrote: > Hello Sara, > > A couple comments: > > 1. lshw takes (most of) its data out of DMI, and interprets some of it > based on hardcoded constants. This might translate into incorrect > interpretat

Re: question about lshw

2012-09-11 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Hello Sara, A couple comments: 1. lshw takes (most of) its data out of DMI, and interprets some of it based on hardcoded constants. This might translate into incorrect interpretation for some of the info, in this case, the battery's chemistry or the number of batteries. Another possibility is tha

question about lshw

2012-09-09 Thread sara fink
I ran lshw and found out about the battery of the laptop that it has 4 cells. It appears as battery 0, battery 1, battery 2, battery 3. However, based on the model of the battery it is supposed to be 6 cells. I was wondering which one is correct. The model of the battery is Samsung AA-PB9NC6B 11.

Re: I/O performance/tweaking question

2012-09-05 Thread guy keren
did you try to break it down to sub-components? i.e. on the source machine copy from the USB to a ramdisk - what's the sthroughput? then try to write on the USB on the other machine from a ramdisk - what's the throughput? then use netperf to check the throughput of the network between the

I/O performance/tweaking question

2012-09-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hi, I noticed something strange after upgrading two relatively aged computers from Fedora 14 to Fedora 17. Both 'puters are a few years old, one is a desktop, another a laptop. Both are connected to a vanilla home 802.11g wireless router, the desktop by cable, the laptop wirelessly. Each has an e

Re: LaTeX and math question

2012-07-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012, Lior Kaplan wrote about "LaTeX and math question": > Hi, > > Could someone look the question here: > http://www.gadial.net/2012/07/11/help_me_latex_people/ > (an open request for help) > > Gadi is also CCed to this mail, so you can answer her

LaTeX and math question

2012-07-11 Thread Lior Kaplan
Hi, Could someone look the question here: http://www.gadial.net/2012/07/11/help_me_latex_people/ (an open request for help) Gadi is also CCed to this mail, so you can answer here. Kaplan ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

2012-07-03 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Nadav, On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 05:02:50PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: Python question - first > call is slower?": > > My example program actually *forked* right before that first call. > > >

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

2012-07-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: Python question - first call is slower?": > My example program actually *forked* right before that first call. > > It turns out that (at least, this is my understanding now) memory allocation - > in Python but a

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

2012-06-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Python question - first call is slower?": > Hi, I have run across a puzzling issue in Python, and I wonder if anyone > on the list can explain it. >... > But strangely, it doesn't - the first call takes 14 millisec

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

2012-06-20 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:20:04AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012, Meir Kriheli wrote about "Re: Python question - first > call is slower?": > > > I considered, and discredited, the following attempted "explanations": > >... >

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

2012-06-20 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Nadav Har'El wrote on Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:20:04 +0300: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012, Meir Kriheli wrote about "Re: Python question - first > call is slower?": > > Is it a generator ? > > What does this mean? Sorry, but my level of knowledge of Python is well >

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

2012-06-20 Thread Amos Shapira
On 20 June 2012 16:46, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: Python question - > first call is slower?": > > I would - naively! - think that "stuff (not only, or necessarily, the > > python code stuff, but also what

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

2012-06-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: Python question - first call is slower?": > I would - naively! - think that "stuff (not only, or necessarily, the > python code stuff, but also what it needs from the system) would indeed be > loaded dynamically wh

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

2012-06-19 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Hi, I have run across a puzzling issue in Python, and I wonder if anyone > on the list can explain it. > > I have a python function which takes some input and produces some > output - it doesn't keep permanent state, and presumably running it

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

2012-06-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012, Meir Kriheli wrote about "Re: Python question - first call is slower?": > > I considered, and discredited, the following attempted "explanations": >... > > its code gets done in 6 milliseconds; It's not a 12 millisecond pause

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

2012-06-19 Thread Meir Kriheli
Hi. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Hi, I have run across a puzzling issue in Python, and I wonder if anyone > on the list can explain it. > > I have a python function which takes some input and produces some > output - it doesn't keep permanent state, and presumably runni

Python question - first call is slower?

2012-06-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
Hi, I have run across a puzzling issue in Python, and I wonder if anyone on the list can explain it. I have a python function which takes some input and produces some output - it doesn't keep permanent state, and presumably running it twice would do exactly the same thing twice, and take exactly t

Re: Scientific computing and a tangentially related question

2012-06-12 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Steve G." writes: > 1. Is there any coordinated development of statistical analysis >tools that are OSS and run on Linux? What do you mean by "coordinated development"? You yourself mentioned R - it is OSS, runs on Linux, has a very developed community, sports companies that provide Enterpr

Re: Scientific computing and a tangentially related question

2012-06-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:07:59AM -0600, Steve G. wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I have two questions for members of the group. > > 1. Is there any coordinated development of statistical analysis tools that > are OSS and run on Linux? For example, the R programming language and its > application to a

Scientific computing and a tangentially related question

2012-06-12 Thread Steve G.
Hi everyone. I have two questions for members of the group. 1. Is there any coordinated development of statistical analysis tools that are OSS and run on Linux? For example, the R programming language and its application to applied fields such as social statistics or epidemiology? I am looking fo

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 03:54:17PM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > On Jun 11, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>> Even in Israel, all of the modems sold are 2 or 3 generations ahead >>> of >>> the software and google has not been helpful with information about >>> backwards compatibi

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 11, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Huh? The modem Golan sent me worked just fine with my N900: voice calls, SMS and data connections (also as a "modem"). You are confusing SIM and netstick. A SIM (subscriber ID module) is a smart card (serial ROM) with user information for

Fwd: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 11, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: The extra hardware required for it is on the order of magnitude of price / complication / etc. of what is required for a cellular "line", I believe. That said, I suspect this may be a simpler way to send SMSes. I don't know. Since you ca

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 11, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Why would you need a data link from them? You could use their data link, but the jitter is not really optimal. I suppose your office already has a decent ADSL or whatever data link. Why bother? I would not. What I was interested in, which

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 07:16:06AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > On Jun 11, 2012, at 1:41 AM, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: > >> Sorry. Should have been "reply all". >> >> Not to mention that Hot sells phone lines with unlimited plan at 69 >> ILS/month, if I'm not mistaken, which leaves you with a

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 07:34:07AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > On Jun 11, 2012, at 2:50 AM, Guy Gold wrote: > >>> If you're on a GSM network, can you get a dual SIM ? And, buy a >> cellar modem, and from that point use one of Asterisk's chan_ >> drivers ? Why would you need a data link f

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-10 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 11, 2012, at 2:50 AM, Guy Gold wrote: If you're on a GSM network, can you get a dual SIM ? And, buy a cellar modem, and from that point use one of Asterisk's chan_ drivers ? Someone else also suggested it. Thanks to both of you. I have a problem with figuring out how to get a cell

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-10 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 11, 2012, at 1:41 AM, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: Sorry. Should have been "reply all". Not to mention that Hot sells phone lines with unlimited plan at 69 ILS/month, if I'm not mistaken, which leaves you with a simpler solution. Way simpler and cheaper than connecting cellular line...

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-10 Thread Guy Gold
On Mon,Jun 11 01:41:AM, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: >Sorry. Should have been "reply all". In a perfect world, it would have been "reply list" , :) Guy ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-i

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-10 Thread Guy Gold
On Sun,Jun 10 01:22:PM, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > Now that I can get a cell phone plan that gives me unlimited minutes > and unlimited SMS's, does anyone know of a cell phone that can be > connected to an asterisk system and used for outgoing (and possibly > incoming) calls? > If you're on a

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-10 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
av Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012, shimi wrote about "Re: Astrerisk question, anyone > sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?": > > Be advised that this probably qualifies as "non fair-use usage", which is > > forbidden in a clause in every unl

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012, shimi wrote about "Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?": > Be advised that this probably qualifies as "non fair-use usage", which is > forbidden in a clause in every unlimited contract I've seen to

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-10 Thread shimi
Be advised that this probably qualifies as "non fair-use usage", which is forbidden in a clause in every unlimited contract I've seen to date (with Golan and Hot, I admit I haven't checked the more expensive "deals" of אפ"ס), and as such, may be grounds for termination of your subscription --

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:22:51PM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > Now that I can get a cell phone plan that gives me unlimited minutes and > unlimited SMS's, does anyone know of a cell phone that can be connected > to an asterisk system and used for outgoing (and possibly incoming) > calls?

Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-10 Thread geoffrey mendelson
Now that I can get a cell phone plan that gives me unlimited minutes and unlimited SMS's, does anyone know of a cell phone that can be connected to an asterisk system and used for outgoing (and possibly incoming) calls? Just to be clear, I don't want to run asterisk on a cell phone, I want

Re: question: discount bank web site - linux+firefox friendly?

2012-01-21 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
To my knowledge this bank uses the international bank backbend systems, and it works with linux quite well. Etzion On Jan 19, 2012 10:51 AM, "Nadav Har'El" wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012, guy keren wrote about "question: discount bank web > site - linux+firef

Re: question: discount bank web site - linux+firefox friendly?

2012-01-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012, guy keren wrote about "question: discount bank web site - linux+firefox friendly?": > > i'm considering switching to Discount bank (www.discountbank.co.il) - > and i want to make sure that their online banking works with firefox on > linux for

Re: question: discount bank web site - linux+firefox friendly?

2012-01-19 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 19 בJanuary 2012 10:01:20 guy keren wrote: > > i'm considering switching to Discount bank (www.discountbank.co.il) - > and i want to make sure that their online banking works with firefox on > linux for these operations: > > 1. viewing the balance. Works, as well as other "tabs" on

question: discount bank web site - linux+firefox friendly?

2012-01-19 Thread guy keren
i'm considering switching to Discount bank (www.discountbank.co.il) - and i want to make sure that their online banking works with firefox on linux for these operations: 1. viewing the balance. 2. viewing the stock-market portfolio. 3. performing stock/bonds buy/sell operations (including settin

Re: Silly Debian E-mail question

2011-12-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 07:06:32AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > I did not find the way to do it - it's whatever mutt is doing after > having prefixed its stdin's contents with the header (recipient, > subject, date, etc.). Ahem: mutt -H ? Though I never used it for MIME-encoded messages. That said,

Re: Silly Debian E-mail question

2011-12-25 Thread Omer Zak
gt; > to my message, Debian BTS does not accept it. > > I have also mutt and bsd-mailx installed but I don't know if and how > > to > > use them to send the file. > > Greetings, Omer , I probably misunderstood your question, but just in > case I didn't :) -

Re: Silly Debian E-mail question

2011-12-25 Thread Guy Tetruashvyly
mutt and bsd-mailx installed but I don't know if and how to use them to send the file. Greetings, Omer , I probably misunderstood your question, but just in case I didn't :) - and all you're looking for is to paste the contents of a txt file

Re: Silly Debian E-mail question

2011-12-20 Thread Moish
On 19/12/2011 23:20, Omer Zak wrote: I have two PCs in a LAN. One PC has Debian Squeeze installed on it, and the other - Debian Wheezy. The Debian Squeeze PC has regular Internet access. The Debian Wheezy PC is blocked from sending E-mail to the Internet. I need to report a bug in Debian Wheezy

Re: Silly Debian E-mail question

2011-12-19 Thread Daniel Shahaf
In Mutt, ':set edit_headers' may be relevant. Perhaps ask this on the Debian lists too? Omer Zak wrote on Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 23:20:10 +0200: > I have two PCs in a LAN. One PC has Debian Squeeze installed on it, and > the other - Debian Wheezy. > The Debian Squeeze PC has regular Internet acce

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