Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> i ditched fedora in favor of ubuntu a few years ago, because of fedora > stability issues > Me too. I loved Fedora, but 500 MB of updates every week, and packages randomly breaking after updates, was too much. Ubuntu is much more stable. I have not had the stability issues that the OP mentioned

Re: Please Benchmark the Multi-threaded version of Freecell Solver

2009-05-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I recently created a thread-enabled version of Freecell Solver, that uses > several solver instances in separate threads. I'd like to get some indication > of the performance of the solver with different number of threads on different > machines. The instructions can be found below. > Do you sti

Join Linux Israel @ linkedIn.com

2009-05-21 Thread Constantine Shulyupin
Hi, I created group Linux Israel at linkedIn.com to promote Linux in Israel High-Tech. http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=1962511&trk=anet_ug_grppro Welcome! -- Constantine Shulyupin Embedded Linux Expert TI DaVinci Expert Tel-Aviv Israel http://www.LinuxDriver.co.il/

How to change compact flash geometry ( cfdisk, sfdisk, parted, fdisk failed)

2009-05-21 Thread Lev Olshvang
Hi , I have Compact flash whi gave wrong number of cyl/heads during install. I tried all listed utilities ( cfdisk ,sfdiskm parted ) to change geometry, but after reinserting it retaims to the invalid geometry. Help ?? ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: Please Benchmark the Multi-threaded version of Freecell Solver

2009-05-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 21 May 2009 11:42:37 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I recently created a thread-enabled version of Freecell Solver, that uses > > several solver instances in separate threads. I'd like to get some > > indication of the performance of the solver with different number of > > threads on different

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Shahar Dag
lets have fun ! which is the best distribution Shahar Saying all that, the decision of ditching ubuntu is a right one. Ubuntu sucks, and Fedora is a second-best distribution. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.a

lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue

2009-05-21 Thread Herouth Maoz
Hi everybody, I recently upgraded the Linux version on my work machine, and I noticed something odd about the Hebrew kxkb layout, which I use in the lyx variant. There was no "=" key, and there were two "]" keys. The default Hebrew layout had no such artifact. After comparing my KDE-based

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Meir Michanie
On one of the boxes I installed Fedora 10. So far so good. It seems quite stable. I used livna in order to get all kind of rpm like skype with its dependencies,... installing the latest nvidia driver required some debugging ( adding glx required to edit xorg.conf) I still like ubuntu over fedora.

Re: Dual screens / keyboard layout

2009-05-21 Thread sara fink
Which graphic card you use for the 2nd monitor. I ask because there are specific tools that deal with these resolutions for nvidia, ati etc. I couldn't find so far a script that runs when the 2nd screen is plugged. As far as I know, xorg.conf does this. My logic says that a fork should be created.

Re: lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue

2009-05-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> So, does anybody know where I can get a fully-defined Hebrew layout for > kxkb, in the lyx variant? If so, a hint on where to install it will also be > appreciated. And finally, how does one convince all the distros to include a > full layout? It's strange that both Ubuntu and Mandriva have the s

Re: lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue

2009-05-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 21 May 2009 14:20:48 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > So, does anybody know where I can get a fully-defined Hebrew layout for > > kxkb, in the lyx variant? If so, a hint on where to install it will also > > be appreciated. And finally, how does one convince all the distros to > > include a full l

[TelFOSS] Announcement: "Fring Open Source Apps" on 31-May-2009

2009-05-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! The Tel Aviv Open Source Club will host a talk by Alex Nerst and Michal Geva about "The Open-Source Fring Twitter and Last.fm Mobile Apps" - on Sunday, 31-May-2009. The meeting will take place at Tel Aviv University, at the Schreiber Maths&CS building, room 008 on 18:30. So mark your c

Help setting up xfce4 on ubuntu 8.04 - does not connect with Dbus --> Blank screen

2009-05-21 Thread Lev Olshvang
Hi All, I have stripped down ubuntu 8.04no X windows (installed with debootstrap) Now I am adding XFCE desktop XServer starts up normally (ps + Xorg.log) , but xfce gives strange errors and screen remains blank : more .xsession-errors Xsession: X session started for vbox at Thu M

SOLVED Re: Help setting up xfce4 on ubuntu 8.04 - does not connect with Dbus --> Blank screen

2009-05-21 Thread Lev Olshvang
I solved dbus connection problem by installing dbus-x11 package Still have a problem with ICE : libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error Lev Olshvang wrote: Hi All, I have stripped down ubuntu 8.04no X windows (installed with debootstrap) Now I am adding XFCE desktop XServer sta

Re: lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue

2009-05-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:28:03PM +0300, Herouth Maoz wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I recently upgraded the Linux version on my work machine, and I noticed > something odd about the Hebrew kxkb layout, which I use in the lyx > variant. There was no "=" key, and there were two "]" keys. The default

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:23:24PM +0300, Shahar Dag wrote: >Saying all that, the decision of ditching ubuntu is a right It means it has many (vocal(?) users. ;-) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Moish
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to help solving these problems? Moish ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Ditching ubuntu

2009-05-21 Thread Meir Michanie
I also own an asus eee surf 4g. I installed the 9.04 netbook remix. it made me feel nostalgic as it became slow as a 486. I cross by an article were someone explained that installing ubuntu-minimal and then installing some few gnome packages, you can speed up the box. As i do not own a usb cdrom,

Re: Dual screens / keyboard layout

2009-05-21 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Thursday 21 May 2009 03:38:38 sara fink wrote: > Which graphic card you use for the 2nd monitor. I ask because there are > specific tools that deal with these resolutions for nvidia, ati etc. I have the tool - xrandr works perfectly. Also, ubuntu resizes the screen when the new monitor is plug

Re: recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-21 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/5/13 Hetz Ben Hamo > > Amazon S3? A bit late to the party but this morning I got an announcement from Amazon about a new import/export service, which could save on initial backup upload and allow exporting of backed-up data over media. It's in limited beta in their US DC but eventually expe

strange sound problems

2009-05-21 Thread Erez D
well, after upgrading my htpc to jounty, my sound stopped working: no, i have a strange problem: under user1, aplay -Ddefault a.wav works, as well as aplay -Dhw:0,0 a.wav under user2, aplay -Ddefault a.wav doesn't work, but aplay -Dhw:0,0 a.wav does neither user1 nor user2 have an ~/.asoundrc fi