Re: Monoprice 60/250x USB microscope

2015-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
megapixel, 500x magnification model? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/

Re: Monoprice 60/250x USB microscope

2015-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
t might work. > Can't you sand it down, or possibly file it? I can't imagine that it could be much worse than the "robot arms" with alligator clips used to hold wires for soldering, the base seems to be right from that parts bin. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http:/

Re: Monoprice 60/250x USB microscope

2015-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
then I'll contact then directly > to ask. > > This microscope is more expensive, but it does work with Linux: > http://www.adafruit.com/products/636 > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com -- Dotan Cohen h

Re: Monoprice 60/250x USB microscope

2015-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
but it does work with Linux: http://www.adafruit.com/products/636 -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of

Re: Is Gnome becoming a Microsoft project?

2012-07-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > On 21 July 2012 10:51, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Even disregarding recompiling (and rewriting in a cross-platform way) >> C++ code, is there even a JVM or Mono interpreter for ARM? > > Unless Debian is lying to me: >

Re: Is Gnome becoming a Microsoft project?

2012-07-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
is happening. Even disregarding recompiling (and rewriting in a cross-platform way) C++ code, is there even a JVM or Mono interpreter for ARM? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscrip

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
er complaint about the latest ASUS boards: no boot from USB! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http:

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
e board you buy has a PCI slot. The stupid Asus board in question didn't even have a PCI slot for me to install a replacement LAN card into! I'll never make that mistake again! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@l

Re: Googlecl

2012-02-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
er "How to I sync to Google's services". You then sync your phone to Google's services as well. According to this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711058 You need the package "akonadi-googledata". -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish

Re: Googlecl

2012-02-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
any new contacts in my Google account. > > I don't know if you read my original query, > but my problem is that my Android phone does not seem to be sync-ing > with my Google account, although it says it is. > This has nothing at all to do with my laptop, > whose health you s

Re: Buy an SSD now, or wait?

2011-12-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
ut, not a single injury or death can be ascribed to the failures at the 40 year old nuclear power plant that was one month from retirement. However, the anti-nuke crowd do ignore that fact and the 20,000 dead due to the tsunami and earthquake. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is

Re: Is Fedora good for Java developers?

2011-12-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
ommunity. I think that they are terrific. I have received much help on the CentOS mailing lists, from all levels from this-is-way-over-my-head to Dotan-should-have-known-better. They are very friendly, and very helpful. I see not a single drawback in regards to the community. What have I missed? -

Re: Is Fedora good for Java developers?

2011-12-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
recommend CentOS 6.1 for a desktop that you need to support, on which you can install the latest Java and Eclipse. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.

Re: Problem seeing PDF files with firefox

2011-11-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
lugger work would be kind of nice... > Are you sure that the plugin is not disabled (maybe being disabled sometime after the first is opened)? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscr

Re: Problem seeing PDF files with firefox

2011-11-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
suggestions gratefully received. > Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Applications and remove the associations for PDF. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://ad

Can keys off the numpad be configured for different functions based on NumLock?

2011-08-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
(keysym 0xffb1, KP_1), same_screen YES, state 0x0, keycode 87 (keysym 0xff9c, KP_End), same_screen YES, Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: So how is F15 (KDE) ?

2011-08-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
it's airfields only, no carriers. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Today's GNOME3 funny

2011-05-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
" so clearly they > don't imagine everyone will drop all their software and retrain all their > users > overnight. > Just like KDE 3.5 was supported by the distros for years to come? And don't mention Trinity, save us both some time. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.

Re: Accidentally setting home

2011-05-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
g about the . and .. files. I didn't think about those either until you made it explicit, and now I understand what the issue it. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription o

Accidentally setting home

2011-05-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
ch another commenter verifies. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraprojec

Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
ster kill, avoiding any waiting for > responses.  And doesn't cause problems when you do have a webserver > running on the localhost. > Clever, especially as I do have a server on localhost. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list

Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
#x27;s a wildcard "no answer" for the domain, and any > subdomain. > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.  I > read messages from the public lists. > Is tha

Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
at firewall level or stuck > in /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1 > Works better in what sense? Faster page load times? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://ad

Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
ng Helper) can be > used to block counters, ads designed to show up in your face and other crap > like pocker games, etc. > > The "Do Not Track Me" option is a gag. > 100% correct. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users maili

Re: security in firefox4

2011-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
probably historical. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Anti-Evolution rant.

2011-03-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
v or *cal files. 2) Sync with open-source applications such as KDE PIM, Lightning and possibly Evolution. 3) Sync with almost any cellphone (specifically my Symbian-powered N86). 4) Access the data from any internet-connected web browser. I fail to see the downside in it not being open source seeing

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
else. > And the reason for that should be obvious. > Really, Yum should no longer handle dependency resolution? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 13:00, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:07:35AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I cannot reproduce that: > > That's because you forgot to call setlocale (LC_ALL, ""); > first.  Without that the comparison is done in C locale

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:39, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/11/2011 07:28 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Please point to any RPM package that uses non-ASCII characters in the >> package name, from any repo. > You hardly will find any, because probably all rpm-based distros apply

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
hanks, Mike. I cannot confirm that on the only Red-hat based machine I have available at the moment, CentOS 5.5. Can you check if those are actually the same package? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
quot; LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= ✈ganymede:~$ cat test.c #include #include int main () { printf("%d\n", wcscasecmp (L"hijkl", L"HIJKL"

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 21:01, Alan Cox wrote: >> Do you say package names change with each language?. > > No but the question is "abcde" the same as "ABCDE" except for case does > In what locale is lowerCase("abcde")!=lowerCase("AB

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
In fact, I don't know of any implementations at all. The issue under discussion is the ASCII character set. No locale treats case sensitivity for the ASCII-compatible first 128 codepoints differently than the C locale. The feature requested would be restricted to those codepoints. -- Dotan Cohe

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
ase insensitive > comparisons may break those scripts. > The scripts won't break if the case-insensitivity is optional, say with the -ci flag. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
on that is not dependant upon anything else. Case is a > concept that doesn't have that property. > No one is arguing that RPM name A should be treated as RPM name B. What is being argued is that yum should offer the option of accepting RPM name B under the following conditions: 1) RPM nam

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
ckages and > tweak them a bit sometimes because they otherwise blow up on what every > other distro considers a valid RPM version character of '~' > The ~ character is fine, it would not be affected by case insensitivity. Please point to any RPM package that uses non-ASCII cha

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
imply ASCII uppercase and ASCII lowercase character case insensitivity for installing packages via Yum. There is no need to generalise the issue to filenames, other operating systems, non-ASCII languages, or anything else. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- use

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
ds' languages don't work in 7 bit ASCII), and UTF makes this vastly > more complicated (including rules that change based on the current > locale). > Which fedora packages use non-ascii UTF-8 characters? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 23:07, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 13:35 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> > The question then reduces to: should the yum interface be designed to >> > be comfortable for a com

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
e is quite > different to internal case sensitivity. > I agree that a "did you mean" option would be nice, as would a case-insensitivity flag. It does not have to be the default behaviour. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
t versions of the same character. However, humans treat the two cases as two forms of the same character. The question then reduces to: should the yum interface be designed to be comfortable for a computer to interface with, or should the yum interface be comfortable for a human to interface with. --

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
long as two packages with the same name save for case do not exist. That said, a matter of case can in fact be life or death: http://gizmodo.com/#!382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailin

Re: How to get scancodes from mouse buttons?

2011-02-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:52, JB wrote: > Dotan Cohen gmail.com> writes: > >> ... >> Thanks. I just spent a good hour going through there, but even with >> xinput I could not switch those keys' positions, and getscancodes did >> not help, either. I figured

Re: How to get scancodes from mouse buttons?

2011-02-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: How to get scancodes from mouse buttons?

2011-02-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
oing through there, but even with xinput I could not switch those keys' positions, and getscancodes did not help, either. I figured maybe the scancodes were above 255 [1] but I'm not sure. [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11227 -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http:

Re: How to get scancodes from mouse buttons?

2011-02-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
h this mouse but won't recognise it. I wrote to the company to request support for this device. In any case, I still need to find a solution to getting the hardware scancodes of the buttons. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: How to get scancodes from mouse buttons?

2011-02-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 00:17, JB wrote: > Dotan Cohen gmail.com> writes: > >> ... > > Is that a USB device ? > $ lsusb > Yes, I think that this is it: Bus 006 Device 003: ID 04fc:0538 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd Googling it I find it listed in some Polish and

Re: How to get scancodes from mouse buttons?

2011-02-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 21:32, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/14/2011 11:04 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Other than Xev, Xbindkeys, and Showkey, what tools can I use? I >> specifically bought this mouse because of the location of the two >> extra keys, as I have a manual disabili

How to get scancodes from mouse buttons?

2011-02-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
that I suppose are activated by a Windows driver on the OS that the package states that it "supports". Thanks in advance for any advice on how to continue! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: How to get better looking fonts

2011-02-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
mmendations? > I use this on my Ubuntu box, it has been a while since I've been on Fedora and I don't remember if it was different then: ✈ganymede:~$ cat .fonts.conf true none true hintslight true ~/.fonts --

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
someone says the quote was attributed to some original author, clearly > that's not what attribution means in this context). > Yes, that is hijacking. It is asking a question / making a statement that has little or nothing to do with the OP. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http:

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
not reviewed the code. I remind you that it is from the EFF, so for "eyeballs on the code" I think that you are covered (but I make no promises). The addon does slow down browsing some, and some internal Wikipedia links get broken, but I think that it is a worthy tradeoff. -- Dotan Cohe

Re: Cannot mount JFS partitions in Fedora 13 install

2010-10-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 14:29, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > Well i is now known by me, and I am the chief SELinux maintainer. > Got it. I'll file a bug this evening when I get home and post the link. Thanks Daniel. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- us

Re: Cannot mount JFS partitions in Fedora 13 install

2010-10-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 15:16, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > Please open a bug report. > It turns out to be a known issue and limitation of SELinux. It's no showstopper for me now that ext4 is (well, almost) mature. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.co

Re: Warning KDE Users

2010-10-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
are setup differs from yours, and that in his setup the bug does not manifest. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Warning KDE Users

2010-10-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 14:53, Anoop wrote: > KDE-4.5 works very well on my Fedora-13 (32 bit). So don't worry. > Good to know. Two questions: 1) From which repo did you install 4.5? 2) Which plasmoids do you have running? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-

Re: Warning KDE Users

2010-10-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
ids. Those were KDE 4.5 installs. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Cannot mount JFS partitions in Fedora 13 install

2010-10-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
Thanks. I don't want to mess with fstab after the fact, I am backing up the /home drive now and will convert it to ext4. If does appear that one can run Fedora with JFS but he must disable SELinux for that. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing

Cannot mount JFS partitions in Fedora 13 install

2010-10-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
I am installing Fedora 13 on a Dell laptop that currently has Kubuntu installed. I keep /home on a separate partition, but the Fedora installer will not let me set it as a mount point unless I format it. Why? How can I get around this now,at install time? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http