Re: August Penguin 2009 Keysigning party deadline

2009-08-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
w did I come up with those odd key identifiers? I recently created a new public key, as the old one is not up to recent standards. So let's look at my keys: $ gpg --list-secret-keys /home/tzafrir/.gnupg/secring.gpg sec 1024D/437D328B 2004-11-09 uid

Re: batch parenthesis matching

2009-08-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
n vi. can i do this in sed ?) Maybe. But if the page is complex enough, you need a proper HTML parser. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 |

Re: batch parenthesis matching

2009-08-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 09:33:43PM +0300, Erez D wrote: > the problem is that between and its there > may be other and its > > that is why i wanted parenthesis matching... Also: bla -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: Perl slowness

2009-09-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
on the new one as well? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend ___ Linux-il mailing

Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
g/ http://en.wikibooks.org/ I'm not sure about the toolchain used to convert those to eBooks . A quick search only got me http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Using_Wikibooks/The_Wikibooks_Reader/Printing_A_Wikibook But I suppose that if there's some demand, a conversion should be simple to arange (if

Re: [Haifux] Idea: "Welcome to Open Source" instead of "Welcome to Linux" this year

2009-09-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:26:32PM +0300, Ohad Lutzky wrote: > I agree. "Welcome to Linux and FOSS" should be the name, and a short (no > more than 20 words) explanation of the name should preclude the event. Now try pronouncing that :-) It's not that short. -- Tzafrir

Re: Cellular company as ISP

2009-09-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
hey provide. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend ___ Linux-il maili

Re: Digital Photo Keychains for Linux

2009-09-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
as of working and that none uses the standard flash > disk protocol. > > I'll be glad to hear models that use the standard protocol (like all of > the MP3, MP4, disk-on-key, etc.). Any idea what it would take to reflash one of those with a nicer firmware?

Re: Setting LANG env on Ubuntu

2009-09-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
t; resolve this problem. > Any idea? Select the language from gdm at login time? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 ||

Re: source bash config from perl code

2009-09-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ll required to use the original configuration: http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/zaptel/tags/1.4.12.1/kernel/xpp/utils/zconf/Zaptel/Config/Defaults.pm It runs a separate sh subprocess with a controlled environment which sources the file and then prints out a pre-defined set of variables. The script then parses o

Re: source bash config from perl code

2009-10-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
he shell script: export $EXPORTED_VARS So, something along the lines of: #!/bin/sh # Allow overriding the list in the config: is this a feature or a bug? EXPORTED_VARS="foo bar baz" . config.env export $EXPORTED_VARS exec ./script.pl "$@" -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@

Re: source bash config from perl code

2009-10-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:59:37AM +0200, Noam Meltzer wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > 3. You still need to export the variables to make them available in the > > environment of the shell script: > > > > expor

Re: source bash config from perl code

2009-10-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 11:33:52AM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Noam Meltzer writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Tzafrir Cohen > > wrote: > > > >3. You still need to export the variables to make them > > available in t

Re: source bash config from perl code

2009-10-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 08:17:49PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > Tzafrir Cohen writes: > > > Having to export what you explicitly set is a strange habbit for a > > configuration format. > > Why? Doesn't your ~/.bash_profile export what it needs to? That

Re: UBUNTU JAVA problem.

2009-10-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ed > to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.16/jre/bin/java No. That's bypasing the alternatives mechanism, and may bite you the next time such a package is installed. update-alternatives --display java To select one explicitly: update-alternatives --config java -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: UBUNTU JAVA problem.

2009-10-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hotspot JIT (h If a program works well with jamvm, which only takes 628kb of disk spaces once installed, why bother with the whole big bad OpenJDK? (66,784 kb, not including dependencies. I ommited the Classpath dependency for both). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@j

Re: how to disable PolicyKit?

2009-11-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ograms, there's no NetworkManager integration. > 3. Therefore they all need to run as root (via suid/sudo/kdesu/etc) Like WhatEverCapitalKit, wicd's client connects with the daemon through dbus and does not require sudo. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Zaptel on Debian Lenny

2009-11-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
aptel package. How can I get > zaptel support in the Debian asterisk package? As suggested in README.Debian of the package zaptel: Install the package zaptel-source , and then run: m-a a-i zaptel After which which you should get the zaptel modules available. Then try: modp

Re: Zaptel on Debian Lenny

2009-11-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
oth register the same major number. lsmod | grep 'zaptel|dahdi' Try: rmmod zaptel -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 |

Re: Zaptel on Debian Lenny

2009-11-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:13:19PM -0800, eliyahu cohen wrote: > --- On Mon, 11/2/09, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > From: Tzafrir Cohen > > Subject: Re: Zaptel on Debian Lenny > > To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 2:32 PM > >

Re: Hebrew in the terminal revisited

2009-11-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 01:28:20AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I simply cannot get an English UI in terminal programs and display of > Hebrew fonts together. > > With LANG=en_IL.utf8: There's no such locale 'en_IL' -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | V

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ith a mainline Linux distribution. Which implies its display drivers work there. And imply it is supported. (I'm not affiliated with them in any way) > 2) No apparent user base - if it doesn't work or doesn't work properly, you > are in the dark Hmm... the componen

Re: Using OpenSource software in closed source componies (how ?)

2009-11-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ant: it is the copyrights holders that may actually sue you if [they think that] you violated their license. Thus violating their point of view here risks you a trial. But this does not mean that they'll win it. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.i

Re: Using OpenSource software in closed source componies (how ?)

2009-11-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, I'll start with the obvious disclaimer: IANALATINALA. On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 02:21:51PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Saturday 21 Nov 2009 13:12:42 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:44:51AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > On Friday 20 Nov 2009 0

Re: Memory economical Linux installation?

2009-11-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
on window titles, use one of openbox(?), fvwm, jwm, E17(?) or anything based on gtk. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best I

Re: Memory economical Linux installation?

2009-11-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
don't waste memory on a ramdrive if you're already short on memory. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend

Re: Fwd: Anything seem familiar?

2009-12-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 10:38:01AM +0200, Justin wrote: > http://tzafrir.org.il/~tzafrir/pinot-debian.jpg -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ#

Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE] Nested X86 virtualization by Muli Ben-Yehuda

2009-12-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
me extra non-virtual and non-x86 hardware will also be present. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 |

Re: Mobile to SIP solution (search for simple)

2009-12-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
lso tried the using kmobiletools code base for communication (heavily > changed but this is my base). Must it be the same software anywhere? You just need a SIP client, right? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: Sandisk U3 on Linux

2009-12-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ows up as a two separate devices: a C dand a USB storage device. Both are well-supported in Linux. If you want to change anything with the "CD", you'll need http://u3-tool.sourceforge.net/ . -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: Free software projects in Java or C++

2009-12-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
as changed. An extra option of LGPL (2.1). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend _

Re: Kudos to Osem

2009-12-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
nology till further notice: http://lwn.net/Articles/367878/ -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 |

Re: Potabilty of dotNet in Linux

2009-12-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
that are not covered by solid guarantees of Microsoft. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend

Re: full backup remotely?

2009-12-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
(or any other backup of files) is safer. Even there you don't get a complete snapshot of the system. But at least every file is valid. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: For sale: SheevaPlug DevKit

2010-01-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
.openplug.org/index.php/us/buy Also note that you'll probably have to wait (much) longer, IIRC. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 |

Re: callweaver/asterisk questions

2010-01-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
> a PERL program for asterisk, but the beeps keep disappearing. I ended up > writing one in extensions.conf, but it's not very accurate, and has to be > IMHO the worst abuse of a config file I have every heard of. :-) exten => 1235,1,SayUnixTime() -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Disabling the Excessive Run-time Warnings on KDE 4.4.x on Mandriva Linux Cooker

2010-01-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
rminal. How can I > completely > disable it? This sounds like a bug you should report to your distribution. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: Asterisk shabbat mode?

2010-01-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 08:05:51PM +0200, ik wrote: > You can use libhdate with some AGI and set variable to calculate shabat per > place and day. This is relatively quite expensive. Maybe a qeekly cron to update a relevant GotoIfTime line in the dialplan? -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: Asterisk shabbat mode?

2010-01-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 07:01:57AM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2010, at 2:29 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 08:05:51PM +0200, ik wrote: >>> You can use libhdate with some AGI and set variable to calculate >>> shabat per

Re: Asterisk shabbat mode?

2010-01-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
useful / comprehensable. However a search for asterisk day night mode gives a number of useful hits. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754

Re: Asterisk shabbat mode?

2010-01-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 01:17:53PM +0200, ik wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:44, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 07:01:57AM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > > > > > On Jan 17, 2010, at 2:29 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > >

Re: Asterisk shabbat mode?

2010-01-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
n all of > them. :-) You can use the simple fact that the phone is not registered as your switch. See regexten in sip.conf . Or alternatively (for Asterisk >= 1.6.0) you can use the function DEVICE_STATE from within the dialplan. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM

Re: better platform for virtualization

2010-01-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
n.org/debian-devel/2010/01/msg00056.html and onwards -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend _

Re: SEMI OT: Where to get SIP phones?

2010-01-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ce/ They don't list GPLed products there. Anybody got that CD from them? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754

Re: Question about VOIP and Faxes

2010-01-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
; through a voice codec if bandwidth is high enough; Which means I might > have problem receiving faxes, although no problem sending faxes to PSTN > numbers. Obligatory link: http://soft-switch.org/foip.html Jitter is also an issue. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.o

Re: SSH problem

2010-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:38:40PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: > try to use strace on the ssh server and see what does it do. Maybe > you'll get an idea why it rejects your client. A variant of that: /usr/sbin/sshd -p 2022 -dd and then trry connecting to port 2022 instead. -- Tz

Re: fax and asterisk

2010-01-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
#x27;s yet FFA for Asterisk 1.6.2, and in any case when it is avaialable, the interface for the fax module was changes relatively late (after the Ubuntu packages were frozen, IIRC) to move the common code of those two modules to a single module in the Asterisk tree. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabbe

Re: My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ccount, and is certainly not the cheapest. It also doubles as my OpenVPN server. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend _

Re: gandi.net vs other registrars

2010-02-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ntuitive interfaces. I personally have rather good exprience with afraid.org and with zoneedit.com . -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 |

Re: OT: gmail replacement (or: gmail pissed me off)

2010-02-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
And speaking of federation: Facebook now allow you to use XMPP (Jabber, also the same protocol used by GTalk) to connect to their chat. Sadly without the federation option: you can't chat to users of other servers through their XMPP server. You're still in their walled graden. -- Tza

Re: Vi and UTF-8

2010-02-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
pport of editing Hebrew text: no trivial multibyte issues. I have not tried editing or saving. Versions I have tried: busybox-static 1:1.14.2-2 nvi1.81.6-8.1 -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@coh

Re: Binary compatibility in kernel

2010-02-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
wnload/stable/) > It has to build a lot of modules, depending on user's choices, > so it might be a bit more complex then you need. During installation? Look into DKMS: http://linux.dell.com/dkms/ That said, maintaining driver code for different kernel versions is no fun. -- Tza

Re: How to type RLE character in KDE?

2010-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ample where you'd actually prefer to use RLE/LRE/PDF to RLM/LRM? BTW: you can always map three extra keys on the keyboard to provide RLE, LRE and PDF. Just like RLM and LRM are defined in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/il (look for 'LRM'). e.g. use finalmem, finalnun and finalkaph . -- T

Re: How to type RLE character in KDE?

2010-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:05:00PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > How can I type this in KDE, considering this KDE bug: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103788 > > Why is this a KDE bug? I forgot to remove that line from my message. I originally thought you wanted som

Re: How to type RLE character in KDE?

2010-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
בשדה TO "אל". > ‪ (That's a RLE character there) Actually you should have put a RLE at the beginning and a PDF in the end. > Because of the embedded LTR characters, the only way to get it to > display properly in an LTR environment is to wrap the whole thing in > RLE

Re: Standards vs. Innovation (was: Sending & receiving SMS in linux)

2010-03-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
All in all, as long as the market is relatively competitive, things tend > to sort themselves out. If you want to make yourself buzzword-compliant: IC: Innovation Compatible http://lwn.net/Articles/379551/ :-) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is htt

Re: Kosher for Passover software

2010-04-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
think the Bourne Shell preceeds that by a few years. So when one writes 'M$' one implies that they are UNIX copycats. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || be

Re: RPM -> סל"ד

2010-04-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
a_i386 32 ביט סל"ד (עבור Fedora/openSUSE) > linux_fedora_x86_64 64 ביט סל"ד (עבור Fedora/openSUSE That is just to show you have not read the FM: http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/RPM-HOWTO/index.html That said, I have just noticed that http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ is dedicated to Deb :-) -

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ver of them that has firefox support. A web site is also often used to save costs of providing service. If you're forced to call them due to the broken web site, do mention that. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mut

Re: Modern development environment on dated RHEL

2010-04-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
. However do you think "a completely modified (in a non-reproducable way) RHEL 4.7" is supported? I suspect a VM is the cheapest way. Is the problem only ClearCase itself, or the complete development environment? If only ClearCase: do you actually use it in the filesystem-like meth

Re: hosting in USA

2010-05-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
rs number and > physically ask someone to reboot the machine for me. I've used a number of Xen-based VPS hostings, and all of them provided similar abilities (remote console - with most, but at least the ability to order a reboot). Naturally this is something you shou

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ed from a larger set of CDs. However, installing "development tools" is trivial - just let the package manager do that. You can easily automate the installation to provide you the exact set of packages you need (in both distributions). Normally I don't need most existing "developm

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
stance, it will also cache security updates. This also allows you to easily define the set of packages you want. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
gt; > In the last two years people tend to use Ubuntu's PPAs ( > https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA ) more and more. Developers > choose to use this as their main distribution mechanism, and users love > it. For example, I use the daily chromium-browser and mercurial ppas.

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
using a tool such as procmail. It may also need to deliver files to various other places (e.g.: to the separatly managed IMAP mailboxes of cyrus-imap). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt&#

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
rolled performance and feature issues. What does that mean? Latest Linux version also manage the card's virtual memory. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf

Re: ספרי קודש

2010-05-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
any language. http://he.wikisource.org/ is also woth a shot. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|

Re: Hebrew e-mail - Mandriva 2010.0 - KDE4

2010-06-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
e an extra Hebrew letter. > > So, what's the best way to get RLM bound to a key ? The "lyx" keyboard layout variant. It will give you RLM on shift-y (shift-ט) and LRM on shift-t (shift-א). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

2010-06-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
source. It means no copyright restrictions. And you want copyright restrictions. Should have been obvious :-) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.or

Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

2010-06-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
d binaries, and thus many more people were able to test the Hebrew support even beforeit got into the OO.o tree. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.o

Re: Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
in this case the combination of ConsoleKit and PackageKit. Pros: easier to define more fine-grained policies. Cons: more points of failure. More difficult to understand[1]. /me just runs aptitude as root from a terminal. [1] See e.g.: http://lwn.net/Articles/362986/ -- Tzafrir Co

Re: Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ur key-strokes. It may also present you a false certification dialog. If you're used to click through certification dialogs, you'll easily miss that. It may also prompt you to update packages, which is quite legitimate, but then after a minute run 'sudo chmod u+s /bin/bash'

Re: Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ed binary on your Linux system. It is instealled from a signed package. Yet chmod s+u /bin/bash is not such a grand idea. Trusting any signed binaries sounds all too much like a generic sudo line. It might be a good solution, but not for this problem. Again, look into the *Kit stuff, if sudo is not g

Re: Preserving Blanks in Parameters to Shell Script

2010-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ults - the script treates file\ one as two > > parameters - file and one. > > 1. Try switching to #!/bin/bash - I think the "$@" is a bash-specific > extension which might be disabled if bash is called as "sh". It's not bash specific. Mind you, on some systems

Re: Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
> authentication scheme. > However I don't see how is it a solution for the general problem of > executing untrusted binaries in Desktop environment. It's not. Nither is sudo. It's intended to help you solve the problem of a giving a semi-trusted user partial sysadmin permi

Re: Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 06:16:11PM +0300, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 05:47:36PM +0300, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > > > > > Again, sudo is super. > > > > Surely it'

Re: Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ftware indeed comes from a well-known vendor. But it says nothing about it being safe for running under sudo. Do I want to allow my users to run all the Sun programs? (and by extension: all Java programs, through a JVM) with root privs? This is a good(?) answer to a different ques

Re: Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 09:22:23PM +0300, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:12:43PM +0300, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > But I'm not interested with extra

Re: Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

2010-06-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
l as his > various email accounts. However nothing can pollute his boot record or > system files or kernel. Unless that package installed a nice little cron script that runs as root. > However sometimes the user want to run some of his untrusted software as > root, and we want to allow h

Re: cat command with timeout

2010-06-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 04:06:51PM +0300, Raz wrote: > watch -n1 cat lala > is another possiblity What for? This re-runs cat 1 second after it has finished running. Try: watch -n1 'sleep 5; echo hi' It will refresh the display every 6 seconds. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tz

Re: X Configuration for English/LyX keyboard + Compose Key

2010-06-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
; > setxkbmap \ -option '' \ > -option "compose:ralt,grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" \ > -variant ",lyx" \ > 'us,il' > [/code] To check the actual setup that was applied: xprop -root | grep _XKB -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: How to input non-printing characters in mlterm

2010-06-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
17:35:51 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Actually answering the question in the subject line: can you try the command-line option --viaucs (or through the configuration window: "Encoding => Process received strings via unicode") ? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://

Re: How to accomodate the transformation of fribidi-config into pkg-config

2010-07-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
the following patches looks reasonable? > How would you fix the following files: Hmm... why not use the standard pkg-config macro for autoconf? See "AUTOCONF MACROS" in pkg-config(1). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: linux beivrit

2010-07-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
e consider mentioning zip / unzip. One other question: does Docbook work well for Hebrew? Anybody tried it? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: linux beivrit

2010-07-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:44:52PM +0300, Raz wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:16:38PM +0300, Raz wrote: > > > Hey linux il and others > > > In http://sos-linux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sos-linux/Li

Re: linux beivrit

2010-07-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 09:40:08PM +0300, Raz wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:44:52PM +0300, Raz wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Tzafrir Cohen > > wrote: > > > > > > > On

Re: linux beivrit

2010-07-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
y not your > crowd. If the author hopes to get any help in actual editing from others, then using MS-Word format makes it much less available for the majority of the potential contributors. If the author does not want any "patches" - the actual format is meaningless. --

Re: Missing firmware file when installing Debian Squeeze on my laptop

2010-07-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
el because they are binary, > etc.? What happens if you just put the files on your DoK? Read Omer's mail and see :-) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf

Re: Exporting CSV file with hebrew

2010-07-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ort the data as a spreadsheet? This does not require OO.o or anything similar. For instance: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Spreadsheet::WriteExcel http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: How did it end up (Re: You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?)

2010-08-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
g an unknown extra package). Huh? Your Lenny is different than mine, then. Try 'Save As' -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org

Re: Monthly waste of time :-) Has anyone been able to buy a Digital TV USB stick in Israel and get it to work under Linux?

2010-08-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
em, some extra tools needed to boot it). If you make a binary generated from a GPL source code available for download, you should provide the sources (or offer to provide them). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt

Re: Monthly waste of time :-) Has anyone been able to buy a Digital TV USB stick in Israel and get it to work under Linux?

2010-08-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
l in > Israel. So I suspect if one web site published a story in a freely available, and another website "accidentally" copied it, no harm was done, and thus no need to pay anybody. http://www.the7eye.org.il/articles/Pages/170810_one_less_hole_in_the_net.aspx -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: com port list

2010-08-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
em tell that you have nothing connected there? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|

Re: [YBA] [OT] Mazal tov to Shachar Shemesh

2010-09-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
family. >> happy new year list. > Not only is she not open source, with the human genome now under a > patent, I'm wondering whether I need to pay royalties. I heard that there's a Linux distribution that is intended to support that hardware ( http://technology.desktopnexu

Re: SFD in Day of Atonement

2010-09-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
at support if other people contact them also. http://wiki.hamakor.org.il/index.php/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A9_%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%94 -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: asterisk client dummy question

2010-09-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
lient that does it? Is this a question about Asterisk? If so: you probably need an IVR, like the 'demo' context in the example extensions.conf . -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: asterisk client dummy question

2010-09-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
l >> answered by an automate on the other side (like click 9 etc...)? >> Any other client that does it? > > Try Zoiper. The dialpad is normally not on the screen, but you can get > one. That's normally with any soft phone. It Ekiga it's a different tab, IIRC. --

Re: asterisk client dummy question

2010-09-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:27:56PM +0200, David Ronkin wrote: > i use ekiga 3.2.6 and i don't have such a tab. In the main window? > what version should i download? Works fine here (3.2.7). IIRC it has "always" been in that tab. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jab

Re: Linux kernel drivers and glibc on MS-Windows? (Running Linux software under Windows)

2010-09-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
s through specialised kernel drivers, or "directly", through libusb? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|

Re: linux games for kids

2010-09-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
linux.com/2010/09/live-linux-gamers-net/ > >> Evyatar Parker > > Is there a way to get all these games on Ubuntu, short of downloading > them one by one? > I already have Ubuntu on my desktop so don't need an entire separate > distro, just "switch user" to my boy&

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