Re: Dream Distribution

2003-10-31 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 31 October 2003 01:18, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Culmus Koffice 1.2.1 KDE 1.3.4 Pine Has a license issue. Thus it is not exactly part of debian. I believe that it is in a process of being dropped-of from other distros: Is it in recent RedHats? Can you elaborate what those issues

RE: brief naps

2003-10-31 Thread Iftach Hyams
Hi, I have a question regarding short sleeps (under 10 millisec). 1. Busy wait : It is like the story about Abed (in Yalkut Hakzavim) - Abed could throw a grenade to 80 meters. Once he needed to throw to 50 meters he stepped back 30 ... 2. You can't do idle wait less then 10mSec. The

Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it? Constraints: * I use Linux, so NTFS is not an option. * The friends in

Kernel Panic

2003-10-31 Thread Eran Levy
Hi, I have RH 7.2 and I have compiled 2.4.22 kernel. When Im starting up my new kernel image Im getting this kernel panic message: hda: read_intr: status=0x51 hda: read_intr: error=0x10 hda: cannot handle device with more than 16 heads - giving up end request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hard disk),

Re: Kernel Panic

2003-10-31 Thread Henry Ficher
Eran Levy wrote: Hi, I have RH 7.2 and I have compiled 2.4.22 kernel. When Im starting up my new kernel image Im getting this kernel panic message: hda: read_intr: status=0x51 hda: read_intr: error=0x10 hda: cannot handle device with more than 16 heads - giving up end request: I/O error, dev

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread Oleg Kobets
Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it? Constraints: They have a 250 Gees HD in Iran ? WOW :-) * I use

Re: Dream Distribution

2003-10-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:31:17AM +0200, Gal Goldschmidt wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2003 21:12, you wrote: Gentoo. Lean and mean. I approached it just for curiosity and I think that I fell for it. I installed it on Compoaq Presario 900 (a very hard case) with almost no problems and

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:03:01AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it?

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: * First, how should I setup that under Linux? It's a Maxtor one. Both windows and linux detect it as 33GB. Which drivers should be loaded, ...? Some old award bios (old as in intel 440LX era and earlier) would hang the boot process if they saw

Re: Dream Distribution

2003-10-31 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Behdad Esfahbod wrote on 2003-10-30: Fedora Core 1 would be released November 3rd. Fedora is the Red Hat renamed. http://fedora.redhat.com/ Can be updated by both yum and apt-rpm. Which one is better? I'd like to update my 3 computers at home, so I want to setup some kind of local mirror

Re: Dream Distribution

2003-10-31 Thread Oleg Kobets
One option is to set up a proxy, make the update on one machine and then all the others will use the proxy cached files. - Original Message - From: Beni Cherniavsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 1:28 PM

Re: Dream Distribution

2003-10-31 Thread Diego Iastrubni
, 31 2003, 02:18,Tzafrir Cohen: Vim Xmms + mp3 Has a minor legal issue for any distro that wants to be available in the US. i was under the impression the the only limitations to mp3 is for t=encoding not decoding. that means that xmp3 players (which are free) have no limitations.

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread linux-il
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it? Constraints: * I use Linux, so NTFS is not an

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread Diego Iastrubni
, 31 2003, 10:03,Behdad Esfahbod: Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it? Constraints: * I use Linux,

Re: Dream Distribution

2003-10-31 Thread Dan Armak
On Friday 31 October 2003 4:31, Gal Goldschmidt wrote: I am writing this E-mail on Gentoo, with Kmail compiled from source, it took me 4 days to install all the staff, but I finally have exactly what I want. The problem is: I am new to gentoo and I don't know how to manage ~30 machines with

Re: Dream Distribution

2003-10-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 13:28, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: Behdad Esfahbod wrote on 2003-10-30: Fedora Core 1 would be released November 3rd. Fedora is the Red Hat renamed. http://fedora.redhat.com/ Can be updated by both yum and apt-rpm. Which one is better? I'd like to update my 3

Re: brief naps

2003-10-31 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Friday 31 October 2003 10:01, Iftach Hyams wrote: Hi, I have a question regarding short sleeps (under 10 millisec). 1. Busy wait : It is like the story about Abed (in Yalkut Hakzavim) - Abed could throw a grenade to 80 meters. Once he needed to throw to 50 meters he stepped back 30 ...

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oleg Kobets wrote: Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it? Constraints: They have a 250 Gees HD in Iran ? WOW

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread Diego Iastrubni
please shahar, no politics. , 31 2003, 21:24,Shachar Shemesh: Oleg Kobets wrote: Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how

Handy script for pptp on Cables (the 'default route' problem)

2003-10-31 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Hi, Those of you, who use Cable Internet, are probably aware of the fact that you need to create a static route (with the 'route' or 'ip' utility) to your ISP's PPTP server. This Perl script wraps 'pptp' and creates/removes this static route for you. Simply replace your existing 'pptp' command

users from domain NT4 can't login samba 3

2003-10-31 Thread RedBar0n
Hi List,I installed Samba 3.0.0beta3 on RH 8.I'm trying to make a shared directory so I can access from M$ machines using NT users ( from my PDC ).I got to join the Domain and I can see the users from my domain (in the Linux), I can even login as one...I used the RTFM