RE: license problem with culmus fonts

2005-08-07 Thread Ely Levy
I'm not sure it's only PDF, while in PDF and ps it's easy to see how it's a devertive work I think html and the like might also be covered. It would be more of linking like connection. I looked around but I couldn't find a stright answer I did find the discussion on /. http://yro.slashdot.org/arti

RE: license problem with culmus fonts

2005-08-07 Thread Ely Levy
ok I found this http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050425novalis/view?searchterm=font Which seems to provide more info about it Ely Levy System group Computer Science Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Ely Levy wrote: > I'm not sure it's only PDF, > while in PDF and ps it

Re: OT: license problem with culmus fonts

2005-08-07 Thread Meir Kriheli
Ely Levy wrote: > Hey, > > I took a look at the license of culmus fonts and I saw > they are GPL, something felt wrong to me, what does it mean > a font is GPLed?how does that affect things like PDF or ps of the document > which might have the font inside?or latex documents. So I went to check > a

Re: OT: license problem with culmus fonts

2005-08-07 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Eli (and others), I think it is slightly inappropriate to speak the way you speak about the "author of culmus". Maxim Iorsh is not some kind of an absentee who would never read this list and cannot be approached. If you have a problem with the license of his fonts, contact him directly and reques

Re: license problem with culmus fonts

2005-08-07 Thread Nadav Har'El
> Just one in general - when a person creates something, it's their > decision how to license it, if at all. If you don't like the license - > go create your own. Right. And common courtesy requires that before asking a mailing list to discuss the flaws of a certain program's license, that you at

RE: license problem with culmus fonts

2005-08-07 Thread Omer Zak
One thing which I do not understand: Where is Maxim Yoresh, the creator of Culmus fonts, and what does he actually say about the licensing problem? I have two excuses to sit on my fat arse and yell rather than do, but some of you probably have his E-mail address and/or phone number so you can con

Re: Translating the "Battle for Wesnoth"

2005-08-07 Thread Aaron
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 09:26:36AM +0300 or thereabouts, Oron Peled wrote: > On Sunday 07 August 2005 08:14, Aaron wrote: > > Hi I went there, > > But didn't read carefully :-) nah I read that but was hoping someone had patched it and done a deb with it for me. I am not such a game player any

Re: OT: license problem with culmus fonts

2005-08-07 Thread Ely Levy
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > Eli (and others), Ely > I think it is slightly inappropriate to speak the way you speak about the > "author of culmus". Maxim Iorsh is not some kind of an absentee who would > never > read this list and cannot be approached. Why is it his problem?It'

Reminder: Telux Meeting Today: Ori Idan on "Kernel Building"

2005-08-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! Today, Ori Idan will give a presentation to Telux about "Building the Linux kernel". It will take place at 18:30 at Schreiber 007, of the Tel Aviv University. Due to the summer vacation, most of the university gates will be closed for entrance at this hour. Gates that are open are Gate

Re: live backup / mirroring

2005-08-07 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
guy keren wrote: On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Michael Ben-Nes wrote: Hi Everyone I want to backup a file constantly as it change. Is it possible at all ? please define what "backup a file constantly" means for you. Yep, having an exact _current_ copy all the time on two storage system

Advice - fastest INTEGER operations CPU

2005-08-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, I'm looking into buying a computation server for a client. They are looking for the platform that will give them optimal INTEGER performance. I'm thinking between the 64Bits - PowerPC, Itanium and the EMT64/AMD64 technologies. I am also interested in more specific knowledge ("Xeon is

Re: Advice - fastest INTEGER operations CPU

2005-08-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 02:52:31PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking into buying a computation server for a client. They are > looking for the platform that will give them optimal INTEGER > performance. I'm thinking between the 64Bits - PowerPC, Itanium and the > EMT64/AMD

Re: Advice - fastest INTEGER operations CPU

2005-08-07 Thread Marc A. Volovic
>From my experience (and, alas, I have oodles computations servers experience), Athlons give excellent integer result. I have not had my hands on Opterons, but they are worth checking. However, in combination with the advice appended below, select a nice EMT Xeon. Free advice: 1. Ask for

Re: Advice - fastest INTEGER operations CPU

2005-08-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
Shachar, There's no single answer to your question; in-order to give you better answer I'll need some further information about your software. Here's a couple of points that you might find interesting: (I mostly do kernel-level network streaming/filtering work, so YMMV) * The AMD Opteron *is*

Re: Advice - fastest INTEGER operations CPU

2005-08-07 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
Read somewhere today ( wish i remembered where ) that if the budget is limited and the option are: Dual Opteron 250 CPU OR One CPU 275 ( dual core ) You should go on the single 275. one of the reasons was the balancing between two real cpus slow the performance. Im wondering if that t

Integrating sendsms with KAddressBook / Kopete

2005-08-07 Thread Ami Chayun
Hi, I attached here my simple KDE wrapper for Nadav's sendsms using kdialog. In order to be able to send SMSs by clicking on the phone number of someone in KAddressBook set: Settings -> Configure KAddressBook -> General -> Script-Hooks in 'Phone:' enter: /path/to/ksendsms.sh %N The script suppor

Re: Advice - fastest INTEGER operations CPU

2005-08-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
Umm... it's a bit messy. When you have more then two cores (be that dual core or dual socket), you add a couple of problems namely: * Atomic operations. (#ASSERT LOCK / bt/bts/btr/etc, prevent two CPUs for accessing the same resource) * Cache coherency protocols. (CPU A updates a memory block t

[OFF-TOPIC] Buying PIII motherboard / old computer

2005-08-07 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, This is off-topic but hopefully I will help somebody get rid of his old Pentium III motherboard. :-) Hey, it's for running Linux, so there's at least *some* reason to post it here. I can also take a Pentium II motherboard + CPU -- it's for a software RAID file server, and I think even a PII sh

[Possible off-topic] Decent x86_64 book

2005-08-07 Thread Leonid Podolny
Hi, Apparently, I will be in charge of porting our (kernel-space) application from ia-32 to x86_64 (aka EM64T) which I have very little experience with. So I think I will need a good book. The Linux kernel context would be a HUGE advantage, but it is not mandatory in any way. Can someone point

Re: live backup / mirroring

2005-08-07 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Michael Ben-Nes wrote: > >>I want to backup a file constantly as it change. > >> > >>Is it possible at all ? > > > >please define what "backup a file constantly" means for you. > > Yep, having an exact _current_ copy all the time on two storage system. > Its the WAL ( Write ah

Re: [Possible off-topic] Decent x86_64 book

2005-08-07 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Leonid Podolny wrote: > Hi, > Apparently, I will be in charge of porting our (kernel-space) > application from ia-32 to x86_64 (aka EM64T) which I have very little > experience with. So I think I will need a good book. The Linux kernel > context would be a HUGE advantage, but

Urgent: Anyone driving to Haifux through Tel Aviv this Monday?

2005-08-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! There is a coordination meeting of the next Welcome-to-Linux series this Monday (tomorrow): http://www.haifux.org/ It will take place at 18:30 in the Technion. Is anyone driving there through Tel Aviv (or at most Hertzliya or whatever). How about going back? Please call me at 03-6424668 a

Re: [Possible off-topic] Decent x86_64 book

2005-08-07 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Leonid Podolny wrote: >> Hi, >> Apparently, I will be in charge of porting our (kernel-space) >> application from ia-32 to x86_64 (aka EM64T) which I have very little >> experience with. So I think I will need a good book. The Linux kernel >> context would be a HUGE advantage, but it is not mandat