tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254508968605196832012-01-25T23:39:56.055+02:00If you compile it - "they" will come.shlomilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371161450223332971noreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-425450896860519683.post-70997983282914882812011-12-24T02:20:00.001+02:002011-12-24T02:20:29.973+02:00

 So you are writing RTL text (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi ..) and sometimes you tend to mix some English words in it. In Windows and QT (after enabling in qtconfig) you have to press both Ctrl and Shift keys (both left or right) if you want to change direction for a single line/paragraph/selected text. In GNOME you have the fabulous Auto Detection - the direction of your paragraph is set by the first

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Seems that Ubuntu Hebrew Translation Administrators feel harshly about my membership in Ubuntu translators regarding my expressed opinion in a debate regarding gender in translation. In a private mail they "agreed" to renew my membership in Ubuntu Translators team "although I am a trouble maker" as they put it. Well, I didn't mean to become a trouble maker - I just wanted to talk about a

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It feels good to see a bug you fixed get mentioned in a review (original in Hebrew) on a big news site..... OTOH it doesn't feel so good when you see the one bug that slipped away get mentioned as well as the only thing stopping the Hebrew installation from being perfect.Please vote for this bug by clicking "This bug affects me".(I think it required a Launchpad account)Maybe we'll manage to get

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I first encountered this video on Linmagazine(Hebrew):Sometimes, we Linux enthusiasts lack the ability of self-observation. We live in our utopia thinking everything is OK and that soon everybody will use Linux on their desktops. Well, it's freakin 2010 and we're still waiting...If we want the change to come we must keep these flaws in mind and try to resolve them one by one.If you fix it they

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What is it? Oh, it's the simple things in life like ... writing a multi-threaded quick-sort implementation in Google's new GO! programming language ....Amazingly, it even works. Ahhh .. Oh well , had too much fun , time to sleep now.good night.

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If, like myself, you are tired of political posts on the FOSS-IL planet, copy the following banner and post it in your blog:Graphics by Gimp, Tuxpaint, Culmus-fancy fonts, AP online lectures and .. Bibi :)

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I have been planning to port the Ubuntu Hebrew Remix remastering scripts to 9.04 for a long while now and I even started some related tasks but it seems to me more and more like this is not the right time. Ubuntu 9.04 is a shameful mess - with intel/nvidia, sound and other hardware devices having severe issues which, no doubt, will scare off new users and already made some Ubuntu users switch

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In Mark Shuttleworth's own words:We need to make a success of our own platform on our own terms. If Linux is just another way to run Windows apps, we can't win.link/. linkI was trying to say similar(Hebrew-2004) things(Hebrew-2008) in the past but Shuttleworth did it better. Translation of my words to a user trying to run ICQ, Winamp and MSN Messenger on WINE:.. You may not like the alternatives(

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It seems that the war has begun - the same war that everybody said is happening only in my imagination. Microsoft sued TomTom over using the Linux kernel which implements, as MS claimed before(2007), some of MS's patents.I really hate to be right this time.Quoting Shahar's comment in my anti-mono post:The "patent war" is fought by MS by making threats. MS is not, and will not be any time soon, be

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I installed 8.10 last week and lost my theme settings (some packages mostly).The installation went pretty well and so far I'm happy with it. Don't know why so many people are whining about it. Sure, Debian-stable is fine but Ubuntu gave my wife and my brother a great entrance into the Linux world.I did get sick of the brown/Orange human theme thought, so I decided to modify it and this is how:

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I already wrote too much on this but if your following the issue it's worth to read the Debian-related follow-ups. As published this week on DPN, the debate on whether to accept Moonlight into the Linux world has reached the Debian mailing lists.Seeing DDs thoughts and fears regarding this issue validates some my own thoughts.have fun.

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With the release of the version 2.0 of Mono I want to share with you my recent thoughts.Right after my previous post here I had some chats with friends who claimed the following points (hope I didn't miss/forget anything):We already have Microsoft propriety technologies integrated deeply in the Linux distributions - like SAMBA for example. It seems that in the past MS people helped SAMBA and they

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Previously on "FOSS Holly Wars":Last month a big Linux/FOSS conference was held in Israel. You know, the usual stuff - some interesting sessions and geeky activities but this year was a little different. This year Microsoft was one of the sponsors (this is somewhat not surprising if you monitor recent MS activities).Some Israeli community people made a big fuss about it and did their best to

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That's what happens when you do just that.My advise to you: stick with Tapuz and whatsup.BTW: I may not be able to reply in the following days - I'm in milueem.

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As promised in the previous post, Ubuntu Hebrew Remix 8.04.1-1 (base on Ubuntu 8.04.1) is available for download from the usual place.Changes that were made to the Origial Ubuntu 8.04.1:LiveCD ISOLinux boot screen translated to Hebrew.Created a "translated" usplash package.EDIT:Since Ubuntu-il forums got wiped out, I'll publish the links directly:Source Packagex86 packagex86-64 packageISOLinux

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For now you can find the remastering scripts here.The remastering process is fully automatic.It should be very easy to use. Read the README.it looks like this:The Ubuntu Hebrew Remix 8.04.1 ISO image will be available during the weekend.

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In his lecture Amir Shevet (MS representative in AP2008) talked about interoperability (with other OSes) and it's importance to Microsoft.I asked two questions:1. If it's so important for them then why don't they actively and officially support Mono.2. Do they grantee that if I use Mono and .Net implementation for Mono, I won't get sued by MS later.Some guy from the crowd (probably MS person)

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The youngest participant in August Penguin .. My son :)

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Is today a good day to for an 'apt-get upgrade'?This site will tell you if you should expect a rain of broken packages or enjoy the warmth of the Apt.Cool idea :)

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I was playing with Fyre and Gimp and created this Israel flag wallpaper( .. at least that's what I was aiming for):Oh well, I should probably keep my day job .. :)Download: 1024x768 , 1600x1200Source : tarball

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My brother got a new iPod Classic 80G(black) for his birthday.He's been using Ubuntu for a little less than a year now and wanted to load some videos into his iPod.Needless to say: Using an XP/Vista/OSX machine with iTunes installed was not an valid option for us. So we sat down and googled for solutions.I'm Just documenting this for future use:We followed the instructions in Ubuntu's iPod Video

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My wife has just finished installing Ubuntu 8.04 on her T61.A few years ago I decided that I should not try to persuade friends/family to use Linux but I will tell them about the benefits if they show any interest. I think it should come from them - people should install it whenever (if) they are ready to do it.My wife insisted to do it on her own. She's a pretty technical person and when it

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Edit : Please notice the date of the post :PYeah , You heard it. I was hired by the great Open Source company - Microsoft.As you probably already know, Microsoft has changed it's evil ways by announcing the acquisition of the Open Source Community and started working with Open Source ... and I for one, welcome our new Monopolistic overlords.As a result, a position for Open Source spokesman and

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In the past two weeks I have been working (on and off) on a script to remaster Ubuntu Live CD to make it include essential packages, fonts and configuration for Hebrew speaking users.A big portion of the work was kindly sponsored and supported by Lingnu, the company that hired me last April.For more details about the project go to:http://lingnu.com/ubuntu-hebrew-remix/ (Hebrew)IMO the script I

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The bug report in pidgin.Screenshot:

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Yep , now it's official. The RTL patch was accepted and will be part of the next Pidgin release. For the next few months we'll probably still have to compile from MTN or use unofficial packages built by the kind people of the Israeli Linux Community, but as soon as Pidgin hits the popular distros - The itch was scratched - problem solved :)

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It has been 2 years since I reported bug #1121620 to the Gaim Bug Tracker. I expected that someone will resolve it for Gaim 2.0 but the issue was ignored. A friend told me last week that he doesn't like Gaim because of it's bad Hebrew support in MSN Messenger protocol. I decided that this itch just got too itchy to ignore. So, I looked into it during the weekend and realized I know how to fix it,

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It's almost funny to read that some people from Tehran think that Israel will be first one to attack Iran when they live in the only country in the world who has an elected president who constantly calls for the destruction of another country while insisting on their undisputable right to develop Nuclear energy for peaceful needs (..... can you do 1 plus 1 ?). In addition Hezbollah, who brought

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I saw this movie last week. It's a documentary about Daniel Johnston.It had a huge impact on me, I think because it had a lot of videotaped content in it. This guy is so real, and a genius.

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I was finally reunited with my luggage. Things got a little better but still didn't get the chance to visit the local Frys store (which was recommended by everyone).List of the sessions I liked the most:Improving Performance of PHP Applications - by Ilia Alshanetsky (slides). A very interesting session - a must for PHP programmers. Later I missed Ilia's session about Securing PHP Apps and my

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I'm attending the zendcon this year. After 17 hours of flying (total) I got to San Jose but my luggage was lost. Joy! ... Lets hope that the rest of the week wouldn't go in the same path as the first day.=|

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Few monthes ago I started developing my first PHP extension. I decided to wrap libCairo which is a very cool 2d vector graphics API used by GNOME and other major projects. When I started working on it I did some research on the net to see that no one else had started doing the same thing. I came across Pierre, a very known and respected person in the PHP community, who told me that he started

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I switched to Blogger Beta because I want to be able to finally tag my posts.I couldn't find a nice way to import my old blogger posts into blogger beta so I started a new blog. The old blog is available here. The old one wasn't very interesting to read anyway (and most probably neither will this new one:P).

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