Re: undeterministic zip?

2005-05-09 Thread Christoph Bugel
Ira Abramov wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar zcf - directory |md5sum 484497aa0d7e1bb391a73cc8b42acce2 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar zcf - directory |md5sum 552bbc02b0b2b5b142a425d476f0d5c0 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar zcf - directory |md5sum 792afdaf2be839dfccc1c91dfd4f726b - what the fsck is

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Christoph Bugel
Ira Abramov wrote: maybe I have a general problem with memory management? it sometimes also takes 5-6 seconds for vim to allocate and run when forked (usually from within mutt...) I once had a slow loading vim, and fixed it by with vim -X. Didn't have anything to do with memory though.

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread Christoph Bugel
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: That's not entirely accurate. fork() is several things, including a POSIX API (specification) and a system call implementation. There's nothing that says you can't implement a fork() wrapper on windows that will conform to the fork API while being implemented using windows

Re: Offline folders

2004-04-29 Thread Christoph Bugel
Tal Achituv wrote: I once saw a GNU program that synced directories, and I recall it was quite powerful (I read about it somewhere, never used it before). How do you guys keep the same folder both on your laptop and on your desktop? (Preferably cross-platform solutions... and conflict resolution

Re: [OT] Digital Camera

2004-03-31 Thread Christoph Bugel
Dan Kenigsberg wrote: BTW: I am running Mandrake 9.2 (Kernel 2.4.22-28) on a Compaq Presario 2540 EA Laptop. $ gphoto2 --list-cameras |grep Canon |grep A70 Canon PowerShot A70 Canon PowerShot A70 (PTP) So you would be able to read your photos from Linux. [OFFTOPIC:] I

Re: bidirectional file transfer software?

2004-03-04 Thread Christoph Bugel
guy keren wrote: i am looking for a file-transfer program (for linux), which can run one upload and one download simultaneously, on a _single_ TCP connection (sort of the TCP equivalent of the BModem protocol used on BBS-es years ago). i assume this will need to be a client+server application

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Christoph Bugel
Alex Gontmakher wrote: Hi everybody, If anybody of you have tried to access the Discountbank.net web site (for online account access), you would surely notice that it accepts connections originated from Internet Explorer only. That's quite a problem for Linux users - it wouldn't even try to

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-25 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-09-25 Ittay Dror wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 16:27, Alon Barzilai wrote: hi, try emap ( http://www.emap.co.il ) It works for me with mozilla 1.4. upgraded to the latest mozilla and emap (still) doesn't work for me. afaik there's a problem in flash-javascript interaction in

Re: Disk errors.

2003-09-21 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-09-21 David Harel wrote: All errors were of the type: { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } What is your estimation on the severeness of those errors, what is your recommendation to treat them and which tools do you recommend to fix the problems. My uneducated opinion is that it's a

Re: partially OT: linux vcr

2003-09-02 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-09-02 Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:05, Erez Doron wrote: hey I'm looking into building a linux vcr (i will probably use it also as a server/router/desktop). the software right now is not the issue, the hardware is. the hardware should be: 1.

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2003-08-31 Thread Christoph Bugel
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Re: Script refresh

2003-08-15 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-08-15 Tzahi Fadida wrote: i use an when calling these scripts from the main script. i don't know, maybe they are refreshed and there is some other problem: could it be that if i open a file for reading and don't close it and even if this subscript is finished, because it was run in

Re: something to print

2003-07-24 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-07-24 Nadav Har'El wrote: Believe it or not, but wearing sandals *with* socks is actually quite common in the US... Also in the Netherlands.. (at least I did, as a kid ;) = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: disk on key

2003-07-06 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-07-06 Meir Michanie wrote: I have a 8mg diskonkey. It came with several partitions, the one for storage was /dev/sda4 run fdisk -l /dev/sda to see the partitions structure. then try mounting /dev/sda[1,2,3,4,...] My 64MB memory bar came with several partitions, but nothing seemed

Re: API for reading M$ word documents on Linux???

2003-07-06 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-07-06 Ron Gidron wrote: Is there an API out there, ideally I would like to call it from Perl, that can help me grep for keywords on Microsoft word documents? Maybe try 'antiword'. It's a commandline utility that reads a m$word file as input, and creates a nice ascii text file as

Re: Cross platform code

2003-07-03 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-07-03 Voguemaster wrote: The problem is very basic: Linux and Win32 have different include files for some things and placing #include directives inside #ifdef doesn't do the trick (it nullifies the #ifdef possibly ?). What exactly is not working? For me it always worked just fine

Re: Maximum file size on IA32

2003-06-25 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-06-25 Honen, Oren wrote: Hi, I'm using a graphical application on 32bit RH Linux. The user saved files are getting larger and larger. Currently the largest file is at about 2GB . The vendor of the application says that larger files will require the 64bit version which he doesn't

Re: OT: Captain Learns Linux

2003-06-23 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-06-22 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: - I use xterm -fn 8x13. (well actually, I added XTerm*font1: heb8x13 to my .Xresources, and now when I choose the xterm 'Unreadable' font from the xterm menu, I get the hebrew font :) XTerm*fontMenu*font1*Label: ReadableHebrew Ah, thanks, that is

Re: OT: Captain Learns Linux

2003-06-23 Thread Christoph Bugel
- I added LESSCHARSET=latin1 to my environment (otherwise less refused to show the non-ascii characters) Because you refuse to let your environment include Hebrew characters. Ok, I get your point now. When I do export LC_ALL=he_IL, less works fine without needing the LESSCHARSET

Re: OT: Captain Learns Linux

2003-06-22 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-06-19 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:57:52AM +0300, Christoph Bugel wrote: Naturally, I wanted to write my email in *hebrew*. I must admit that I didn't know how to do this in my favorite email client: xterm+mutt+vim, Need help? (If so: in what

linux laptop / windows refund?

2003-06-22 Thread Christoph Bugel
Hi, I am planning to buy a laptop soon, and I will install linux on it. Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to buy a brand-name laptop that doesn't come with windows. This means that I am being forced, more or less, to pay a sum of money to microsoft. rant I feel very strong against paying

Re: OT: Captain Learns Linux

2003-06-19 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-06-19 Aviram Jenik wrote: Did you respond, support or protest? We want to know about it! Please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that we can supply accurate statistics and help you amplify your voice. I just did! Naturally, I wanted to write my email in *hebrew*. I must admit that I

Re: In what ways maildir is probably better then mbox?

2003-04-06 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-04-06 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 10:43:31AM +0300, Christoph Bugel wrote: On 2003-04-05 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I've heard of mbx, but mutt doesn't seem to support it :(. The coed is there. There is a library (by default: statically linked. Debian has

Re: In what ways maildir is probably better then mbox?

2003-04-06 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-04-06 Ira Abramov wrote: the problems with maildirs are two: the files are tiny and waste too much allocation space, and the directories are usually not tree-indexed so you have a hash but the keys are again in a linked list rather than a tree. Reiser (AFAIK) is the only FS that

Re: In what ways maildir is probably better then mbox?

2003-04-05 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-04-05 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: mbox has two major problems: * All the data is in one file (locking problems) * there is no index to that file. Thus operations are highly inefficient. . mbx is wu's attempt to create a more efficient mailbox format. Although they are now working on

Re: win2k/xp offline contence and linux

2003-02-27 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-02-26 Eran Mann wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote: I think the default compilation option of NTFS is read-only and that read-write is experimental. To enable it, you need to recompile this module. I think. [...] It is marked as DANGEROUS, not EXPERIMENTAL. And IIRC in 2.4.x it's actually

Re: win2k/xp offline contence and linux

2003-02-27 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-02-27 Christoph Bugel wrote: FWIW, read-write is dangerous, but only if the write action *modifies* the structure of the filesystem, not when it just modifies the content of an existing file. to emphasize: I meant modifying the content, without also changing the size. (because

Re: open /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2003-01-31 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello there ... im running MDK ver 9 , and while trying to run an app i got this error msg : open /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy /dev/dsp is the sound device driver. If some application uses it, another cannot use it at the same time, as far as

Re: which TV card?

2003-01-23 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-19 Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: you can try the '-remote' option of xawtv and see if it works better (but much slower, unless on a fast machine). Thanks for drawing my attention to that option. My card worked just fine, but with -remote I can now watch 100% fullscreen, instead of just

Re: Booting with something else instead of /sbin/init

2003-01-22 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-22 Michael Sternberg wrote: Hello I'm trying to make kernel to start a different application instead of /sbin/init. So, I passing init=/bin/sh in kernel command line. I actually can see this setting in messages emitted by kernel. But from some reason the kernel starts a real

Re: Seeking for a program identical to Exceed

2003-01-19 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-19 Grinberg, Hari wrote: Hi, I am seeking for a program work like Exceed on Win2k for RedHat Linux shareware or free. Exceed is an X server. In unix, graphics are based on X anyway, so you already have the X server installed! You just need to know how it works. I don't know what

Re: which TV card?

2003-01-18 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-18 Shaul Karl wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:33:04AM +0200, Christoph Bugel wrote: I bought a Pinnacle TV card (at Kosmos URL please? Just interested to know where to look for staff. www.[kc]osmos.co.il doesn't seem fit since it is about optical equipment

Re: Rename to GNU/Linux

2003-01-17 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-17 Dan Armak wrote: On Friday 17 January 2003 14:46, you wrote: in no place I've seen RMS saying that it should be called GNU/linux cause of idles, I might be wrong but I'm preety sure that his most used argument is that a lot of gnu programers worked on the system and calling

Re: proftpd and file unseen

2003-01-15 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-15 Ben-Nes Michael wrote: I tared two different file to directory. one file size was 75 MB and the second 2.4 GB I don't understand, what exactly is supposed to be in your tar file? try tar -tf your_file.tar and tell us what it prints I guess ftp works just fine, but you create

Re: proftpd and file unseen

2003-01-15 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-15 FW Admin wrote: ext2 2Gb file size limitation ? oops, I didn't notice that detail. sorry for my previous mail.. This may hint to the root of the problem. I once tried to use cygwin tools to create large files, and most of the tools (ls, cat, dd) broke above 2GB or 4GB. (and I

Re: proftpd and file unseen

2003-01-15 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-15 Ben-Nes Michael wrote: Hi tar tfzv 20030115-sites.tar.gz work just fine :) By the way to go around it just downloaded the file using SMB and got it ( from samba to win98 ). hmm, ok, I tried to ftp a 3GB file but already my ftp commandline client stops me: ftp put bigfile

Re: which TV card?

2003-01-15 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-15 shlomo solomon wrote: Hi, After not succeeding in getting the FlyVideo2000 (saa7134) to work, I've decided to get a bt8** card - in the hope that it'll be more straightforward to set-up. I bought a Pinnacle TV card (at Kosmos, 360 NIS, but out of stock now) It's a bt8**

Re: Survey (was: article on ynet)

2003-01-14 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-14 Eli Marmor wrote: My desktop environment management is: - 1. Only KDE. 2. I prefer KDE. 3. Both. 4. I prefer Gnome. 5. Only Gnome. 0. None. Wait! As an fvwm2 user (at home) I feel this survey is 'offensive' There is no right answer for

Re: Survey (was: article on ynet)

2003-01-14 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-14 Eli Marmor wrote: Just to clarify: The meaning of the answer None included other. OK :) See below for my survey answers 1 my home machine: My desktop environment management is: 0: None/Other (fvwm2) Reasons (please check all that apply): G2: I've got used to this

Re: 99.6% idle 5.16 load

2003-01-13 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-13 Gabor Szabo wrote: Now why does the machine not responding sometimes ? I guess at this point I have to go back to man ps. Since NFS was mentioned in this thread, and since I can only guess, I will say that I once experienced delays when typing commands into my shell, and it

Re: 99.6% idle 5.16 load

2003-01-13 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-13 Christoph Bugel wrote: On 2003-01-13 Gabor Szabo wrote: Now why does the machine not responding sometimes ? I guess at this point I have to go back to man ps. Since NFS was mentioned in this thread, and since I can only guess, I will say that I once experienced delays

Re: Dealing with low disk space

2003-01-12 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-12 Shoshannah Forbes wrote: A newbie question: when attempting to install a large application (OpenOffice) it refused due to low disk space. Is there any utility out there that can help me figure out what is using all my HD space and what can be removed safely, without making a

Re: Dealing with low disk space

2003-01-12 Thread Christoph Bugel
du -sk * | sort -n And you also probably want to use 'df -k' [1] to see how much free space you have, listed per partition. If your partitoin is too small to begin with, you can tell OpenOffice to install itself into a different location. [1] or df -H, as I just learnt from Oded's post :)

Re: Make files and environment

2003-01-12 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-12 Oded Arbel wrote: Hi list. not really alinux question, but if you please - I'm writing a Makefile to build some project, and it needs to get some data from environment variables. specificly some variables that are initialized from a profile.d bash file. now I know that I

Re: RMS Lecture : Cab Ride

2003-01-12 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-12 Shachar Shemesh wrote: I have semi official information that reveals that bus number 49 from Ramata Aviv to Petach Tikva should cost about 8 NIS. The IBM building is also some 10 or 15 minutes walk from the Jabotinski / Geha junction. And getting there is quite easy with public

Re: RMS Lecture : Cab Ride

2003-01-12 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-12 I wrote: The IBM building is also some 10 or 15 minutes walk from the On second thought, make that 20 minutes. Your mileage may vary :) = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in

Re: Dealing with low disk space

2003-01-12 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-12 Oded Arbel wrote: Side note to Amir Tal: Isn't this what IGLU is all about - getting into heated discussions over simple issues ? ;-) ok, here goes :) du -sk * will ignore files/directories that start with a dot.. and these can sometimes be large too. (for example .ccache)

Re: Ha'aretz article regarding RMS

2003-01-12 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-12 Arik Baratz wrote: Terminology: I use f/b for Free as in free beer or the Hebrew HINAM and f/s for Free as in free speech or HOFSHI in Hebrew. The word HOFSHI seems to be popular as the hebrew translation of 'free as in speech', but I think when people hear TOCHNA HOFSHIT they

Re: On Linux, cp new_version old_version while old is running is harmless

2003-01-01 Thread Christoph Bugel
Time for testing: [oron@mercury test]$ cp /bin/sleep mysleep [oron@mercury test]$ ./mysleep 100 [1] 7150 [oron@mercury test]$ cp /bin/sleep mysleep cp: cannot create regular file `mysleep': Text file busy Just as any sane Unix system (of course you can

Re: On Linux, cp new_version old_version while old is running is harmless

2003-01-01 Thread Christoph Bugel
open(mysleep, O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 and if mysleep is still running: open(mysleep, O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ETXTBSY (Text file busy) = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe

Re: On Linux, cp new_version old_version while old is running is harmless

2003-01-01 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-01-01, Ehud Karni wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 10:10:35 +0200, Christoph Bugel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: interesting.. I didn't know that cp overwrites the existing inode. but indeed it does, it simply *truncates* the target file: $ strace cp /bin/sleep mysleep 21 | grep open

Re: calendar

2002-12-24 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-24, kfir lavi wrote: 2. i have used outlook calendar, and i'm searching for a tool that works in windows and linux, that will get my calendar from outlook. recommendations ? I don't know about your situation, but my employer uses M$exchange, so I am forced to connect to that.

Re: IBM Workshop with RMS and T'so in Tel-Aviv and Haifa

2002-12-18 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-17, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: IBM is organizing a GNU/Linux Free Software and Open Source event, to take place on January 8th at Tel Aviv University and January 9th at IBM's Haifa Research Labs[1]. Speaking will be RMS (yesm, yes, *that* Stallman) and Theodore T'so, one of the

Re: Ale Yarok and Open Source????

2002-12-16 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-16, Uzi Refaeli wrote: Indeed this is not a political list but its a political country! I think its important to raise the issue of open source!!! Well done Gili well, on-topic or off-topic, the original mail doesn't even contain a url. it has some vague .url attachement which

.url attachements (was Ale Yarok and Open Source????)

2002-12-16 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-16, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Christoph Bugel, from the post of Mon, 16 Dec: well, on-topic or off-topic, the original mail doesn't even contain a url. it has some vague .url attachement which is, I guess, a microsoft innovation to make thinkgs easier %*^%*@#$. (a text file

Re: Compaq Evo N1015v

2002-12-14 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-14, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: I'm having trouble getting RedHat 8.0 to install on my brother new shiny $SUBJECT. The installation seems to proceed fine up till the phase were it seems to be trying to access the CDROM at which point it halts with no error message - just a blank

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-13, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: hehe... a signature I caught the other day on some random mailing list: Emacs is a fine OS, but what it lacks to be able to hold it's own against Linux and Windows is a good text editor. ;-) I've heard it in a shorter version: (even better IMO :)

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-13, Shachar Shemesh wrote: (anyone still seriously using GNUStep? fvwm?) For the record, yes: at home my main wm currently is fvwm2. And a collegue of me at work is actually using twm.. = To unsubscribe, send mail to

Re: Tar+BZip2

2002-12-11 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-11, Christoph Bugel wrote: If you get hundreds of files you are probably lucky. from the manpage I think these are (uncorrupted) blocks. you can simply cat * x.tar and you have a chance that it works.. correction -- they may or may not be corrupted, first check with bzip2 -t. (I

Re: ftp in user-mode.

2002-12-11 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-09, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Where can i find a a very simple ftp program to run inside a shell account in user-mode. features seeked: different port then 23,21 whatever so it won't run into the existing ftp daemon. home directory as the restricted public dir. simple username/password.

Re: IP and computer name

2002-12-11 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-11, mail Admin wrote: Hi how can i konw the computer name that take my IP ADDRESS suppose that your IP address is 10.20.30.40, try: host 10.20.30.40 or (if you use YP): ypcat hosts | grep 10.20.30.40 = To

OT: ClearCase (was: installing Redhat kernel on Mandrake?)

2002-12-10 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-09, Noam Meltzer wrote: We have a similar issue in my company, and I would be glad to hear if you had any success with the ClearCase. Basically I believe that copying the kernel should be enough. Take to mind that clearcase now supports redhat7.3, thus you can use redhats kernel

Re: Tar+BZip2

2002-12-10 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-11, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi Clan, I had to re-install my computer, so I tar.bz2 my e-mail dir (about 700MB+). Now, when I try to open it, I get CRC errors... I tried bzip2recover, but it creates a hundreds of small file and it is impossible to manage... Out of interest, do

Re: installing Redhat kernel on Mandrake?

2002-12-09 Thread Christoph Bugel
Problem solved. - copy kernel and /lib/modules/2.4.2-2 from the binary rpm into place - edit /etc/fstab: s/ext2/ext3/ (indeed kernel 2.4.2 did not support ext3 yet, as someone mentioned). note: this step must be done before the mkinitrd command! - create new initrd with mkinitrd - edited

installing Redhat kernel on Mandrake?

2002-12-08 Thread Christoph Bugel
Does anyone know if is possible to install a 'redhat kernel' on mandrake? I want to install kernel-2.4.2-2.i586.rpm, which is a redhat-specific kernel. (lotsa patches, it's not on kernel.org) I need this (old, dangerous, I guess) kernel because a friend has mandrake and wants to install ClearCase

Re: ccache pitfall discovered

2002-10-29 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-10-29, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: We've had a thread recently about ccache and potential pitfalls. johnm on advogato has discovered one such pitfall. The details: http://www.advogato.org/person/johnm/diary.html?start=23 IIRC, ccache promises to produce the same results as the real

Re: ccache pitfall discovered

2002-10-29 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-10-29, Christoph Bugel wrote: On 2002-10-29, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: We've had a thread recently about ccache and potential pitfalls. johnm on advogato has discovered one such pitfall. The details: http://www.advogato.org/person/johnm/diary.html?start=23 IIRC, ccache promises

Re: ccache pitfall discovered

2002-10-29 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-10-29, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:11:50AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: We've had a thread recently about ccache and potential pitfalls. johnm on advogato has discovered one such pitfall. The details: http://www.advogato.org/person/johnm/diary.html?start=23

Re: resizing /

2002-10-27 Thread Christoph Bugel
I want to grow the / partition. [...] This is obviously inappropriate for /, because I can't unmount /. I tried to use ext2fsadm, but it wants a file created by vgscan. I read the docs, and they require me to create logical volumes with vgcreate. At this point I am slowly getting lost, I

Re: fetchmail like programs

2002-10-22 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-10-21, Arie Folger wrote: Hi, I use Kmail for my email browsing, and rather like it. However, I would like to be able to download my email without firing up X, and would like the email Here's my setup: - fetchmail connects periodically to various POP3 hosts and collects my mail.

Re: A random computer shop in Vienna

2002-10-10 Thread Christoph Bugel
I especially liked the 'Linux users parking ONLY. All others will be reformatted' sign on the side... :-) It's cool :-) But I'm puzzled about that 'Visual Basic 6' book just below it.. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Technical Question

2002-10-07 Thread Christoph Bugel
I don't think there is a freeware that does that. The place to look is in the ntfs for linux project http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/. There is a (Free Software, not just freeware) program called GNU parted. It can resize many types of partitions/filesystems. Unfortunately, ntfs doesn't

Re: ccache

2002-09-28 Thread Christoph Bugel
ccache is a compiler cache. It acts as a caching pre-processor to C/C++ compilers, using the -E compiler switch and a hash to detect when a compilation can be satisfied from cache. This often results in a 5 to 10 times speedup in common compilations. I've been using ccache for quite some

Re: Zone info

2002-08-01 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-08-01, Michael Sternberg wrote: I'm looking for updated files that contain zones info (zones, cities, daylight savings etc) that can be used as input file for /usr/sbin/zic. http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm = To

Re: unsubscribe ;)

2002-07-17 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-07-16, Iftach Hyams wrote: Is there a request for vacation ? mesa3d has a site where you can choose to freeze your account, set digest mode etc. You can talk to the daemon an [EMAIL PROTECTED] and send it commands. for example the command help or stats linux-il. there is also a

yet another *cluefull* ynet article

2002-07-17 Thread Christoph Bugel
The article http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2004313,00.html is about yet another boring virus. But scrolling down the page it says, in bold: 'only windows users are affected'. Exactly the sentence that goes through my head whenever I read that type of articles! Thanks ynet!

Re: Slightly OT: New Version of MSIE for Solaris and HP-UX

2002-07-10 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-07-11, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: [...] This lead to some very funny things, including early Linux system that had some text files (I don't remmeber if they were keymaps, or shell scripts or something like that) that actually had (C) Microsoft Corporation in their head because their were

Re: [gnubies-il] The Knesset will discuss Open Source! (fwd)

2002-07-07 Thread Christoph Bugel
I will be extremely thankful if you could direct me to any scientific or non-biased research and news regarding the following issues: The adoption of Open Source Systems in other western countries. The qualities of Open Source Systems as far as data security is concerned. There is the

Re: dirent structure and fwrite

2002-06-30 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-06-30, Eliran wrote: Hello ! I'm trying to use the command *fwrite()* (not write()) to write the content of de-d_name (de is the structure name,) to a file, I have tried many ways but it always get scrambled and I hear beeps (like trying to cat a binary file). I'm using the a

In-Reply-To header mystery

2002-06-13 Thread Christoph Bugel
Is there someone on this list that receives his mail from **netvision** ? If yes, could you please grep your linux-il mailbox and see if it contains this string: In-reply-to: from If you use a unix mbox, just do grep 'In-reply-to:\ from' your-mbox and see if you get results. Why am I asking?

Re: atomically opening and deleting a file

2002-06-11 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-06-11, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Is there a way to open a file (get an fd) and then delete it, in one atomic operation? I need to open a temporary file (but with a fixed name, so mkstemp() and friends are not an option) and then make sure it doesn't remain behind if the program

Mutt Threading (was: Re: atomically opening and deleting a file)

2002-06-11 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-06-11, Christoph Bugel wrote: On 2002-06-11, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: open(foo, ...); unlink(foo, ...); is obviously unsafe, since foo might be pointing to something else by the time I unlink it. Suggestions? You know that you can do the unlink *immediately* after the open

Re: Mutt Threading (was: Re: atomically opening and deleting a file)

2002-06-11 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-06-11, Michael Rozhavsky wrote: [snip] Sorry, seems like I missed most of the discussions on this thread, because mutt was thinking that these messages belong to another random thread. This seems to happens with other threads too. Either bug in mutt (I upgraded to 1.4 a few

Re: [Job Offer] Qlusters is looking for a few good main()

2002-06-10 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-06-10, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Ok, a quick look shows what I expected it to show, c++ code that looks like c in first and second glance. No templates, in inheritance, no overloading, none of the things that make c++ c++. In the kernel, I don't care if the struct is called 'class', and

Re: job control in shell

2002-06-09 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-06-09, Henry Ficher wrote: Arie Folger wrote: Hi, Ordinarily jobs are managed with commands such as fg bg and jobs. Howvever, once a terminal session is closed, the job is no longer associated with a particular terminal. How can I, when opening another terminal session

Re: GCC-2.9.5, './configure --program-suffix' not working

2002-06-07 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-06-06, Shay Elkin wrote: I ran the configuration script with the '--program-suffix=-2.95.3' option, but the binaries are named without that suffix. Anybody got a clue to why? (I checked, and the argument is saved in config.status). No clue.. I guess you should give some more

Re: Some C++ Questions

2002-06-06 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-06-06, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Jun 06, 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote about Some C++ Questions: 2. I want to destroy a dynamically allocated object without knowing its exact class in advance. I can declare a virtual destroy method that will call (delete this;), but I'll have to do it

Re: Some C++ Questions

2002-06-06 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-06-06, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Jun 06, 2002, Christoph Bugel wrote about Re: Some C++ Questions: And never do something like delete this! I guess never is not the correct word. There *are* legitimate uses of delete this, For example in the RCProxy design pattern. I'm

Re: Some C++ Questions

2002-06-06 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-06-06, Christoph Bugel wrote: On 2002-06-06, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Jun 06, 2002, Christoph Bugel wrote about Re: Some C++ Questions: And never do something like delete this! I guess never is not the correct word. There *are* legitimate uses of delete

Re: Q: Linux alternatives to group scheduler (Scheduler Server) ?

2002-06-05 Thread Christoph Bugel
Also, if for some strange reason you want to use Exchange (altough I would highly recommend aginst it) you can buy from Ximian, makers of Evolutuion, (evolution is free in both beer and speech sense) a connector that let's Evolution be used in client/server mode with Exchange. Other

Re: RMS is back again

2002-05-31 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-05-31, Eliran wrote: Well, here is another response of Richard M. Stallman the FSF founder. Now he condemns the UnitedLinux (Suse, Turbo Linux, Mandrake and others joined forces). What next ? Maybe you should explain *why* you disagree with RMS. I think RMS is right. BTW,

Re: Re:israrail's xls-only schedules

2002-05-31 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-05-31, Corwin wrote: On Thu, 23 May 2002, Christoph Bugel wrote: But which spreadsheet format should we ask them to use? I think, if at the moment we can't find suitable opensrc spreadsheet format, it would be nice to have *at least* PDF or HTML version of their schedules

Re: israrail's xls-only schedules

2002-05-24 Thread Christoph Bugel
funny, using kde3 i can open hebrew filenames. This particular doc can be opened using kspread (1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2 beta1, the first two with biditext). BTW -- either unzip or jar have a bug :-) (I'm not using any hebrew settings, LC_ALL=POSIX) $ unzip schedules_eng.zip $ jar xf

Re: israrail's xls-only schedules

2002-05-23 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-05-23, Barak Kaufman wrote: As far as i remember u can open xls files with no problems in gnumeric and in OO. hebrew might be a bit of a problem ( i didnt try openning hebrew docs in gnome 2beta anybody has an experience to share ? ) Hello ppl. Anybody want to help me encourage

Re: israrail's xls-only schedules

2002-05-23 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-05-23, Tzahi Fadida wrote: I think you are missing the point here. Ever since I read the Peruvian government minister, I realized that there is a good chance that the government is breaking its/non comliant with the law of freedom of information. Meaning, any document or processes of

Re: Nicknames for my Hostname

2002-05-07 Thread Christoph Bugel
The effect of the hostname command will only last until the next reboot, where the init scripts will set the name localhost for him - I assume that's not what he wants. This will happen at least in RedHat, and I would guess in most other distributions. Correct! from slackware /etc/rc.d/rc.M:

Re: 2 versions of glibc living in peace together

2002-03-26 Thread Christoph Bugel
libraries and stubs on the link line, including -llibc, -lm and the obligatory /usr/lib/crt1.o or /usr/lib/gcrt1.o - stracing a regular compiler will show you which libraries and stubs it links applications with, by default. or use gcc -v ;)

ulimit -c

2002-03-21 Thread Christoph Bugel
For some reason, by default, my ulimit -c is 0, It means no corefiles are generated. I think I'll add ulimit -c unlimited to my .bash_login Or would it be a bad idea? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Re: X problems

2002-03-18 Thread Christoph Bugel
On Mon 2002-03-18, Shai Bentin wrote: Hi list, Lately I've been having X freeze problems. what happens is during work, suddenly the mouse events are not captured, soon after that the keyboard events are gone, and although I know that the machine still functions there is nothing I can do.

Re: pthreads question

2002-03-14 Thread Christoph Bugel
This is my example of pthread not releasing memory resources when the thread function exits (I would REALLY like to have that memory back). I have written (copied and modified...) a small program that creates 200 threads which exit after 10 seconds. The main function then sleeps for 20

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