Re: Netscape 6

2000-04-27 Thread Marc A. Volovic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it worth the download - or still unstable ??? It is about as stable as a drunk Irishman after a year-long binge on An Cnoc 18-year old special reserve. Marc = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Hebrew with TTF server

2000-04-27 Thread Boaz Rymland
Noam Meltzer wrote: A couple of weeks ago Boaz Rymland sent an instruction page through this list how to install the TTF server for X. (xfstt) I worked as his orders explained but nothing works. I have a Suse 6.3, kernel 2.2.13, KDE 1.1.2, XFree 3.3.5 I followed all of the instruction but

Re: Netscape 6

2000-04-27 Thread Boaz Rymland
"Marc A. Volovic" wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it worth the download - or still unstable ??? It is about as stable as a drunk Irishman after a year-long binge on An Cnoc 18-year old special reserve. Marc HE'S BACK ! HE'S BACK ! RING THE BELLS ! SOUND THE ALARM !

Re: Buffer Overflows (was Re: (no subject))

2000-04-27 Thread Moshe Zadka
On 27 Apr 2000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: If you must code in C, at least use the safe routines in glib (for example g_strdup_sprintf) rather then using unsafe functions such as sprintf. This might be not feasible if you need to write portable code (nor will be snprintf(), which is

Mozilla M15

2000-04-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi all, Well, if you check this email headers - you'll see I'm writing this email from the Mozilla M15 Linux build.. For those who asked in email regarding Netscape 6 PR 1 - Its built on Mozilla M14 (which built in march!) - and its very unstable (think Linux kernel 2.3.24 with the ext2 big

Re: Buffer Overflows (was Re: (no subject))

2000-04-27 Thread Moshe Zadka
On 27 Apr 2000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: To reiterate my point: use glib instead of libc. Glib is *very* portable. What do you mean? What if your target platform does not have glibc? This might be outside of your control... Come to think of it, it usually *is* outside of your control.

Re: Display Adapter

2000-04-27 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
While we are on the subject of ATI cards, has anyone had any experience with Xpert 2000 ATI 16 MB? It is not mentioned in http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/ati.html -- Oleg Goldshmidt | BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "... We work by wit, and not by witchcraft; And wit depends on

Re: Display Adapter

2000-04-27 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While we are on the subject of ATI cards, has anyone had any experience with Xpert 2000 ATI 16 MB? It is not mentioned in http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/ati.html For completeness: both http://www.xfree86.org/4.0/r1284.html#4

Re: Buffer Overflows (was Re: (no subject))

2000-04-27 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Moshe Zadka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 27 Apr 2000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: To reiterate my point: use glib instead of libc. Glib is *very* portable. What do you mean? What if your target platform does not have glibc? This might be outside of your control... Come to think of it, it

Re: Buffer Overflows (was Re: (no subject))

2000-04-27 Thread Moshe Zadka
On 27 Apr 2000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Moshe Zadka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 27 Apr 2000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: To reiterate my point: use glib instead of libc. Glib is *very* portable. What do you mean? What if your target platform does not have glibc? This might be

Mandrake 7.1 beta

2000-04-27 Thread Pavel Bibergal
a beta version of Mandrake 7.1 is available to download.. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape 6

2000-04-27 Thread David Tabachnikov (NetHunter)
"Marc A. Volovic" wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it worth the download - or still unstable ??? It is about as stable as a drunk Irishman after a year-long binge on An Cnoc 18-year old special reserve. Marc = To

Re: Netscape 6

2000-04-27 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Quoth Marc A. Volovic on Thu, Apr 27, 2000: It is about as stable as a drunk Irishman after a year-long binge on An Cnoc 18-year old special reserve. For some reason I suspect that you haven't seen Mozilla M15 on BSDI 4.0.1, have you? Last time I saw it there was sone drunk Irishman nearby

Re: Netscape 6

2000-04-27 Thread Ely Levy
Very unstable... (unless they released a new version I didn't check yet) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is it worth the download - or still unstable ??? | | | -- | E-Mail: [EMAIL

new Xfree4 drivers for nvida

2000-04-27 Thread Ely Levy
Finally... lets see windows match that one.. (OpenGL 1.2 ofcourse) http://www.nvidia.com/drivers/xfree86_40.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the

Re: Mandrake 7.1 beta

2000-04-27 Thread David Tabachnikov (NetHunter)
Pavel Bibergal wrote: a beta version of Mandrake 7.1 is available to download.. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail

Re: Buffer Overflows (was Re: (no subject))

2000-04-27 Thread Omer Mussaev
"David Tabachnikov (NetHunter)" wrote: Nobody was talking about GLIBC, Moshe was talking about GLIB, the library that is under GTK+, which provides safe and portable alternatives to the libc5/6(aka glibc) and everything else. GLib (iirc) runs on IRIX, AIX, Windows, Linux, *BSD, DOS, BeOS,

Re: Mandrake 7.1 beta

2000-04-27 Thread Andre E. Bar'yudin
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, David Tabachnikov (NetHunter) wrote: Pavel Bibergal wrote: a beta version of Mandrake 7.1 is available to download.. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Mandrake 7.1 beta

2000-04-27 Thread Boltyansky Boris
Hi there! Anybody who reads Slashdot knows that already. Now you better download it and tell us what you think! Why do you think that everyone reads "/." ? -- Boltyansky Boris. "Press any key to continue or any other key to abort" -- Computer using Windows. http://www.linux.org.il --

Tel-Aviv University Seeking Linux Expert

2000-04-27 Thread Sivan Toledo
The School of Computer Science in Tel-Aviv University is seeking a Linux Expert. Other qualifications (Windows, Solaris, IRIX, Networking) would be appreciated and rewarded. The University can pay competitive salaries depending on personal ability. The primary responsibility in this job is

Re: Buffer Overflows (was Re: (no subject))

2000-04-27 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Omer Mussaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, ppl , but IMHO Oleg had pointed out a very strong point. Imagine you are to distribute small utility, which takes, say, 300 kb. But, instead of using libc and debugging your code to death, you decided to rely on glib to provide it to you. As a

NFS support

2000-04-27 Thread Yosi
Hi, I am trying to compile nfs (client) support into my kernel (2.2.14). However, when I am trying to do "depmod -a", this is what I get: [root@yosi linux-2.2.14]# depmod -ae depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.14/fs/lockd.o depmod: do_lockdctl For the time being, I just

Re: display adapter

2000-04-27 Thread Lior Kesos
Erez. After I identified your card, I tried installing X-servers on a identical card we have in our lab. I tried it with XFree86-Mach64-3.3.6-11 and XFree86-Mach64-3.3.6-20 and it works perfectly with simple configuration through (Red-Hat's) Xconfigurator or with the Aduvizor (our own

Re: Buffer Overflows (was Re: (no subject))

2000-04-27 Thread Yosi
If you must code in C, at least use the safe routines in glib (for example g_strdup_sprintf) rather then using unsafe functions such as sprintf. This might be not feasible if you need to write portable code (nor will be snprintf(), which is non-standard, IIRC). You need to get

OT: job opening for sysadmin.

2000-04-27 Thread erez
HI We are looking for a full time job system administrator which is fimiliar with UNIX (mostly Solaris 2.5.1 ) and NT ( i.e. win95/98 and NT4 ) please do not reply to the list but to me directry thanks Erez. ( mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Hebrew In Gnome ...

2000-04-27 Thread Yoav Bornstein
There is hebrew in GNOME ? Thanks, Yoav = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hebrew In Gnome ...

2000-04-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Until gtk 1.4 will hit the streets, the closetst thing to hebrew support in gnome is the gtkbiditext hack (gtkbd, for short). This is a library, with a script. The script loads the library in a way that it will replace the existing gtktext widgetof gtk with one that has bidi support. It is far

Re(2): cdrom + mandrake 7 problem

2000-04-27 Thread solomon
On 27-Apr-2000 Omer Mussaev wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is already done for you. But apparently there's a bug in the installation routine or the kernel or both since this does not work. What you have to do is to re-compile the kernel after **removing** ide cdrom support. And thats

try cfengine (was: Re: back-up advice - slightly off topic)

2000-04-27 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a stupid mistake on my part :-( I ended up reinstalling Mandrake 7.0. I thought it wouldn't be a problem since I'm very **religious** about backing up on CD-RW, so I didn't think I'd have any problems restoring my settings. The bad news is

Re: Buffer Overflows (was Re: (no subject))

2000-04-27 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, David Tabachnikov (NetHunter) wrote: Nobody was talking about GLIBC, Moshe was talking about GLIB, the library that is under GTK+, which provides safe and portable alternatives to the libc5/6(aka glibc) and everything else. it looks like there is a quarel here between