RE: cdrom stopped making noise

2000-02-02 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Isaac Aaron wrote: On the other hand, MY 24x toshiba couldn't grab audio in a satisfying speed, couldn't read some of the CD-Rs and broke down 3 times within the warrany period. I have a second drive (which is a 12x CyberDrive) which still works to this very day.

Re: Why I should not use DHTML ?

2000-02-02 Thread Ely Levy
or in another words cause DHTML is ms standart which isn't supposted by non ms platforms/programs. sadly I must admit there is no normal web browser for unix and that sorry excuse for web browser (netscape:) doesn't realy support DHTML. btw you don't need to write DHTML to make netscape crash on

Re: Why I should not use DHTML ?

2000-02-02 Thread Eitan Shefer
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Uri Bruck wrote: DHTML is definitely not an MS standard. See www.w3.org Yup, afaik, in this case MS is actually more complient with W3 standards then Netscape. And the really bizzar thing is that Mozilla is NOT backward compatible with Netscrape 4.0, but it is compatible

Re: Why I should not use DHTML ?

2000-02-02 Thread Eli Marmor
Ely Levy wrote: or in another words cause DHTML is ms standart which isn't supposted by non ms platforms/programs. Mozilla? Actually, the only proprietary "standard" is the way Netscape 4 is working. IE5 and Mozilla adopted the open standard. btw you don't need to write DHTML to make

Re: Why I should not use DHTML ?

2000-02-02 Thread Ely Levy
It might not be now but I'm preety sure it started as one and then like some other HTML things were insert into the "official" standart. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Uri Bruck wrote: | | DHTML is definitely not an MS standard. | See

Re: Why I should not use DHTML ?

2000-02-02 Thread Yuval El-Hanany
Actually Netscape attempted to follow up the standard, but it was a moving target as far as I know. The release of 4.0 was compliant with what they figured was gonna be the standard at the time, under the constraint that they were there before the standard. They plan to support the standard in

RE: cdrom stopped making noise

2000-02-02 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Ariel Biener wrote: I have 3 Toshibas, one x32, one x40, and one x16. All work for a long time. Also. Matshita panasonic drives work flawlessly. Also, and regardless ... scsi cd drives work better :) defenitely. I have a x32 Plextor (rips audio at x24) and my trusty x20x8

Re: IGLU meeting - Feb. 4th

2000-02-02 Thread Ira Abramov
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Ira Abramov wrote: - Hetz Ben-Hemo will show and tell about the latest Beta 2.0 of VMWare for Linux, the product that enables you to run a linux or a windows machine under a host Linux system. sadly, Hetz had to cancel, but we still have a loaded program! the room has

Re: rides to IGLU meeting - Feb. 4th

2000-02-02 Thread Eitan Shefer
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Ira Abramov wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Ira Abramov wrote: I still have more trempistim than car seats from and to Jerusalem. anyone else coming in a car? I just figured out something. Jerusalem-Herzlia isn't trivial, but Jerusalm-Rakevet north is. any tel-avivis

Re: Why I should not use DHTML ?

2000-02-02 Thread Aviram Jenik
Just to set the record straight: First, A standard can't be 'a moving target' (that's the whole idea of making a standard). It can have different versions, but once HTML 2.0 was announced, it was 'frozen'. Sure, the work on HTML 3.0 began, but HTML 2.0 is a standard and HTML 3.0 had to be

RE: Why I should not use DHTML ?

2000-02-02 Thread Chen Shapira
2. For all you young M$ bashers, please open your history books. It was Netscape who broke the HTML standard and used a 'de-facto' standard of their own. Back in those days it was pretty cool for a company to actually breaking a standard is what started graphical browsers/graphical web.

RE: Why I should not use DHTML ?

2000-02-02 Thread Eitan Shefer
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Chen Shapira wrote: back then (when men were real men and wrote their own standards) a committee were debating on how to embed non-text into the html standard. a small company jumped forward - against all standards added its own img tag. the rest is history. And then

RE: Why I should not use DHTML ?

2000-02-02 Thread Chen Shapira
And then they rueined it all by introducing the blink tag.. ;-) The HTML5.0 standard will introduce the annoy tag. The tag will immediatly remove all usefull content from the page, double the download time, add annoying colors, backgrounds, fonts and animation. Also it will add no less than

Re: cdrom stopped making noise

2000-02-02 Thread Udi Finkelstein
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000 14:18:56 +0200 (IST), Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Ariel Biener wrote: I have 3 Toshibas, one x32, one x40, and one x16. All work for a long time. Also. Matshita panasonic drives work flawlessly. Also, and regardless ... scsi cd drives work

Re: Why I should not use DHTML ?

2000-02-02 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
ES Yup, afaik, in this case MS is actually more complient with W3 standards ES then Netscape. And the really bizzar thing is that Mozilla is NOT backward Really much, much more. Though no browser yet has full support of even CSS1, IE5 is much closer. Same with JS - I was biten by it only 2-3

Re: rides to IGLU meeting - Feb. 4th

2000-02-02 Thread Omer Efraim
If someone needs a ride from 'Rakevet Tzafon' (or from Givatayim) I can pick that someone up (2 people at most). Mail me. Ira Abramov wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Ira Abramov wrote: I just figured out something. Jerusalem-Herzlia isn't trivial, but Jerusalm-Rakevet north is. any tel-avivis

Re: Why I should not use DHTML ?

2000-02-02 Thread Erez Boym
Hi,   or in another words cause DHTML is ms standart which isn't supposted by non ms platforms/programs. What you refer to as DHTML are actually ACTIVE PAGES or the ability of MS browsers to accept activeX controls in side HTML pages. It's not only annoying it's also dangerous, It can

Re: ARP aging time

2000-02-02 Thread Shimon Lisyansky
Hi Arie, Berkley-derived implementations normally have a timeout of 20 minutes for a completed entry and 3 minutes for an incomplete entry. Entries added by arp -s are made permanent unless the keyword temp appears at the end of the command line. W.Richard Stevens "TCP/IP Illustrated,

Re: Linux-il-announce [was: Double posting to iglu and linux-il?]

2000-02-02 Thread Ely Levy
nope. I don't really see the point why not though.. alex?:) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On 31 Jan 2000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: | Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | - master lists that spread to two or more ohers without dups | - announcement lists

arp

2000-02-02 Thread Rubashov Zeev (Mri)
If arp -s issued with pub parameter ,or if it entered to /etc/ethers file it will be permanent - untill next reboot. If arp -s issued without parameters it's depend. Before some days I saw that arp -s has been deleted from arp buffer over some minutes, but it was with nlb-lb0 network interface.

Re: LINUX and MATLAB

2000-02-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
UCGTechnologies wrote: Hi, Does anybody have experience with MATLAB working under version 6.1 of Red-Hat ? Officially the current MATLAB version does not support Red Hat 6.1. We had it running under 6.0. Look at SCILAB a freeware system that does much of the same things. Geoff. --

Re: FTP Q.

2000-02-02 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Hi I never new I can mount existing directory on other one. I tried to do mount /org_dir /empty_new_dir but its not working Tried the man but I didn't sow solution, is it possible ? Shahar Dag wrote: Hi If you can't find another solution try to solve it from a different direction Create

Re: FTP Q.

2000-02-02 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
If I do chroot to directory the 'ln -s' will not work, unless ln have other option that im not aware of. Will hard link work ? I tried to ln -F /dir1 /dir2 and got operation not premited (as root). Avishay Dinar wrote: Hi, You can link directories with 'ln' just like you create shortcuts

Re: FTP Q.

2000-02-02 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: You cannot mount a directory over another. You can mount a device over an already mounted device (called supermount). For example, if you have /dev/hda1 mounted on / , you can mount /dev/hda2 on /var. You cannot do mount /directory /directory2

Re: FTP Q.

2000-02-02 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: Hardlinks do not usually cross devices. --Ariel If I do chroot to directory the 'ln -s' will not work, unless ln have other option that im not aware of. Will hard link work ? I tried to ln -F /dir1 /dir2 and got operation not premited (as root).

Re: FTP Q.

2000-02-02 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Ariel! On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 07:06:14PM +0200, you wrote the following: You cannot mount a directory over another. You can mount a device over an already mounted device (called supermount). For example, if you have /dev/hda1 mounted on / , you can mount /dev/hda2 on /var. A nice

Re: FTP Q.

2000-02-02 Thread Gavrie Philipson
Alex Shnitman wrote: Hi, Ariel! On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 07:06:14PM +0200, you wrote the following: You cannot mount a directory over another. You can mount a device over an already mounted device (called supermount). For example, if you have /dev/hda1 mounted on / , you can mount

USR 56K disconnecting

2000-02-02 Thread Aviram Jenik
Hi. Has anyone experienced any problems with USR 56K modem? I have a nice internal PnP 56K modem from US robotics (not winmodem), which Linux was happy enough to find, and set the plug-n-play parameters. I can connect with it, but after a certain amount of time (ranging from minutes to hours) it

Maximum Linux security

2000-02-02 Thread Yosi
Hi List, I heard about a new books (that is supposed to be rather worth reading) called "Maximum Linux security" by Anonymous. Has anyone on the list read it, and care to give his/her useful comments? Yosi __ Get Your Private, Free Email at