Re: USB and HD switching places

2008-08-07 Thread Linux-IL Moderator
. I'll paste it here when I'll have the time. -- Linux-IL moderator I have also been a huge Unix fan ever since I realized that SCO was not Unix. -- Dennis Baker = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Find process id of background ssh?

2007-12-27 Thread linux . il
Hi List. I'm writing a script to automate some system maintenance tasks, and I want to connect over SSH to several remote computers and do stuff on them. I'm using ssh -f to background ssh so I can run the same operation on multiple machines in parallel, otherwise it will be too

Re: @iglu list address no longer working

2007-08-09 Thread Linux-IL Moderator
On Thursday August 9 2007, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Boaz Rymland, from the post of Thu, 09 Aug: Hi Ira, I bumped into the same question some time ago - sending to iglu.org.il silently failed. Here's why: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg48796.html unclear

[ATTN] [MOD] Deactivation of Linux-IL aliases at linux.org.il and iglu.org.il

2007-06-03 Thread Linux-IL Moderator
Dear subscribers, First of all, I deeply apologize for bringing it up postfactum, but due to large amount of spam traffic coming through and inability to deal with it effectively we had to make an unpopular decision of deactivating linux-il aliases on linux.org.il and iglu.org.il domains

Re: General hotkeys and sending keys

2007-01-11 Thread list-linux-il+linux . org . il
Nice hack, though I really want to do this in the X11 level, not at the kernel level. I want to be able to target keypresses to specific windows. Alon On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Valery Reznic wrote: There is kbde - keyboard emulator (http://kbde.sf.net). It's allow to send keys to any application

Re: Image spam

2006-11-01 Thread Linux Il
filtering and RBL's are not enough. These mails are terrible, while my personal accounts get a few dozen each, Linux-IL posting address gets a hundred per day minimum. If we only relied on SA's checking, this list would look much worse than LKML. Most of these emails are a crazy mix of sentences

Re: RAM swap

2006-02-07 Thread linux-il-bounce
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:01:14PM +0200, Michael Ben-Nes wrote: Hi Everyone I don't get this RAM / swap relation. I have a script that feed data into PostgreSQL database. All the data is fed as one huge transaction that takes allot of memory. I noticed that one 1GB RAM machine

Re: Databases Variety [was Re: quick MySQL howto, anyone?]

2004-06-20 Thread linux-il
Shlomi Fish wrote: I am not: http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/intro/dbisnot.html OK, I stand corrected. I got a different impression from other publications about it. --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Databases Variety [was Re: quick MySQL howto, anyone?]

2004-06-18 Thread linux-il
Shlomi - I think you are confusing Berkeley DB (http://www.sleepycat.com/) which is a full-fledged SQL relational database used, among others, as the basis for SubVersion, and the plain unix DBM files (the closest refference I could find is the GNU implementation at

Re: [OT?] on-line banking, which bank ?

2004-06-18 Thread linux-il
I've said it in previous discussions but I don't see it mentioned here - I use First International Bank (fibi) and they support Mozilla on my desktop Linux at home very well, down to getting graphs if you have java plugin. Cheers, --Amos Gabor Szabo wrote: Some of the banks have been discussed

Re: quick MySQL howto, anyone?

2004-06-17 Thread linux-il
Ben-Nes Michael wrote: MySQL state ( at least 2 years ago ) that you dont need transaction becouse you can always cancel your inserts by initiatin deletes. all true if the code is perfect (...) Far from that - transactions mean that other clients outside the transaction see a consistent state as

Re: running wine using a read-only windows directory

2004-06-16 Thread linux-il
If you have a Windows on your computer then you should be able to plug its NTFS driver into linux. Forgot what's the name of the project which makes this possible but you know the drill (google). It was published a few months ago. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can read from NTFS but there are

Re: Question on making the partitions

2004-06-11 Thread linux-il
Oron Peled wrote: On a single workstation, many of these considerations may be dropped and you would be ok on a single partition box, but on any production server this is short sighted. Well, I had a desktop setup in mind. Now that I re-read the original question I see that it didn't state the

Re: Question on making the partitions

2004-06-10 Thread linux-il
Ehud Karni wrote: I fully agree. I think that the 8GB limit for /boot has been removed. I recently installed FC1 with / (including /boot) 10GB. ehud I always installed linux with one large partition ever since the limitation on the boot code disk position was removed (a few years ago) and

Re: Optimal number of mount points

2004-06-10 Thread linux-il
Shachar Shemesh wrote: /boot, only if you work with LILO and the main system is reiserfs. This way you can mount it notails, or have it a different file system (LILO won't work with kernels on reiserfs fs and tails enabled). Are you sure about that? I used LILO on my home machine (as said before

Re: ADSL recommendations

2004-06-10 Thread linux-il
David Suna wrote: I think it is finally time to move from my ISDN line to ADSL. I am looking for recommendations of which company to go with for the ADSL package. Most important is Linux support. I do not want to be stuck with the We only support Windows answer. I know that Netvision says

Re: secured uploads

2004-06-05 Thread linux-il
Ilya Konstantinov wrote: I would like to know what other solutions can you recommend me. I like the upload thru web form solution which Sagi provided. E.g. I've just opened a temporary webmin account to someone who sends me a large file. Restricted him very much to just do an upload and

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread linux-il
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Windows is (supposed to be) POSIX-compliant since NT-whatever - M$ would not be able to sell the system so successfully without some degree of standard-compliance. It has nothing to do with sales - as far as I remember the DOD (American Department of Defense) requires

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-19 Thread linux-il
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Aaron wrote: About $20 unlimited phoning. (sorry my mailer ate your original message). There are two competing companies vor VoIP to telephone service in the U.S. You are assuming people only want to call the US. But there are other countries I want to call to

Re: Security Issue in Unmatined Debian Package

2004-05-17 Thread linux-il
Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi, I wanted to consult the community regarding this issue I have: I have found a security vulnerability in one of Debian's unstable currently un-maintained package, which appears to not exist in the latest version of the product (if you compile it from the source code

Re: debian aptitude(1) un-update

2004-05-13 Thread linux-il
Shaul Karl wrote: f (for forget)? I know that you can make it Forget that some packages are appropriate for the new section. Perhaps it works in other aspects too? Thanks but nope. Forget is just a means to clean the new section. --Amos

debian aptitude(1) un-update

2004-05-12 Thread linux-il
Hello, I've marked too many packages to update (with the U key of aptitude) and would like to undo this. But I can't find a way except for holding them all. Is there a way to make aptitude forget a package marked for update and get it backed to a simple installed state? Thanks, --Amos

Re: debian aptitude(1) un-update

2004-05-12 Thread linux-il
Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], from the post of Wed, 12 May: Hello, I've marked too many packages to update (with the U key of aptitude) and would like to undo this. But I can't find a way except for holding them all. Is there a way to make aptitude forget a package marked

Re: is Overnet safe?

2004-05-12 Thread linux-il
Shlomo Solomon wrote: On Wednesday 12 May 2004 00:04, Noam L. wrote: Overnet's connection is based on P2P, which requires one of the clients to accept an incoming connection, -- snip -- Thats, ofcourse, not based on any facts relevant to overnet - thats how any P2P network works

Re: Fw: Fw: /bin/bash problem

2004-05-11 Thread linux-il
You missed the grep command: grep bwurzbur /etc/passwd | od -c (or, my suggestions): grep bwurzbur /etc/passwd | cat --show-all Amir Spivak wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:# bwurzbur /etc/passwd | od -c bash: bwurzbur: command not found 000 - Original Message - From: Yedidyah Bar-David

Re: X on the machine

2004-05-11 Thread linux-il
Well, which ssh client is he using? According to ssh on the redhat here ssh should do some trickery (generate a new magic cookie for the session) to let connections pass through. If this doesn't happen then you should be able to use xauth (n)extract/(n)merge to copy the cookie over to the remote

Re: Fw: /bin/bash problem

2004-05-10 Thread linux-il
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 07:12:36PM +0200, Amir Spivak wrote: his line from /etc/passwd: bwurzbur:x:558:100:Benjamin Wurzburger:/home/bwurzbur:/bin/bash Are you sure it has no whitespace in the end? Please send this: grep bwurzbur /etc/passwd | od -c The way I look for

Re: /bin/bash problem

2004-05-10 Thread linux-il
Could it be a symlink to a non-existing file? How about sneding us an ls -ld /bin/bash and a file /bin/bash? --Amos Amir Spivak wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with user bwurzbur on a RH9 machine i hold, when doing su bwurzbur the output is: su: /bin/bash : No such file or directory on ssh'ing

Re: umount fails. Device busy.

2004-05-10 Thread linux-il
How did you mount the CD? Manually with mount or via some automount? Which kernel version do you have? Are there any messages in the kernel log (or other related logs)? --Amos David Harel wrote: Hi, Too many times I have the error umount: /cdrom: device is busy When I do the following I gen many

Re: thanks

2004-05-06 Thread linux-il
Avraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1-Downloading automately all the new stuff requires a pretty large /var directory. It's on a separate partition, in my system. How large should that be? My apt-cache directory (/var/cache/apt) is currently about 1.2Gb. I don't clean it up very strictly but this

Governments spending on IT

2004-05-05 Thread linux-il
According to the Walla article at: http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/3/538997 The government has agreed on spending 470 Million NIS on projects Merkava and Memshal Zamin. With all the talks about OpenOffice, MS licenses vs. Linux etc. - does anyone here have thoughs on the effect of such spending on

Re: KMail and IMAP (IDLE?)

2004-05-05 Thread linux-il
Uri Sharf wrote: I'm not sure if my problems with KMail has anything to do with IMAP's IDLE (was it introduced into 1.6.2?), but after I've last upgraded from Debian Unstable it regularly disconnects from the server and it wan't sync anymore unless I kill it (just exiting does not work it

Re: Bandwidth consumption limit/measure

2004-05-05 Thread linux-il
I was looking at QoS for Linux in another context and was wondering if you could help me. I'm interested in QoS per-service rather than per-interface. For instance: 1. ssh output (what's printed on screen when I login from a remote host to my home machine) should get priority over, let's say,

Re: Bandwidth consumption limit/measure

2004-05-05 Thread linux-il
Josh Zlatin-Amishav wrote: Hi, Yes. I implemented per service QoS using the HTB queueing discipline. OK thanks. Like I said before read the Linux Advanced Routing Traffic Control HOWTO for more information and examples. I did but got the impression that it supports, for instance: on A 1.5Mb

Re: whichpkg command of wajig

2004-05-05 Thread linux-il
Well - your message just cought me after a session of apt-file/apt-cache to find if Debian has a package for Mono's VB compiler mbas and which package it is :-). So I think this is the answer to your questions - apt-file and apt-cache. I have an apt-file update and apt-get --quite update in my

Re: getting there?!

2004-05-05 Thread linux-il
Well, it's a matter of DNS administration. If blank.com is not registered on your name then you'll have to ask the admin of blank.com domain to update the A record of www.blank.com to your new IP address. If blank.com is your domain and you want to move it entirely to a new IP address,

portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread linux-il
Hello, I am looking for an easier way to program a simple UDP socket program for both Windows and Linux than using #ifdef __WIN32__ and typedefing SOCKET etc. I found SFL (http://freshmeat.net/projects/sfl/) but I am pretty sure that I saw a more specialised library which I can't find now. The

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread linux-il
Thanks for the pointer. I know ACE already and it seems to be the exact opposite of what I need: 1. C++ (not C). I would have preffered to write in C++ but it would bloat the final executable too much as far as I can tell. Also I'm not sure how well mingw32 handles cross-compiling C++ code. 2.

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread linux-il
Omer Zak wrote: If you can ask people to install Perl or Python on their computers, then why not use the thread libraries from those languages to do the actual UDP transmission/reception stuff, with your C program only creating/analyzing the actual packet data? No, I can't ask people to install

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread linux-il
Idan Sofer wrote: Perhaps SDL_net? http://jcatki.no-ip.org/SDL_net/ Oh yes. This rings a familiar sound. Any experience with using it with a cross-compiler? Thanks, --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread linux-il
Ehud Karni wrote: Compile it with Cygwin on Windoze and you are done (you may have to use different #include, but that's all). Notes. 1. You'll have to add the cygwin1.dll to your program distribution. Can I use the -static gcc flag to contain cygwin1.dll inside the single exe I want to

Re: Huge file patches

2004-05-02 Thread linux-il
Honen, Oren wrote: I'm thinking of writing an application that will create a dummy file. When this file is read the application will return a data based on the original file and a diff file. I thought of using /proc fs for that so when reading this file, a callback routine will be activated. As

Re: Huge file patches

2004-05-02 Thread linux-il
Honen, Oren wrote: As I said, this file is meant to be read by a commercial application. I can not touch this application so I need my new file to look feel as a real ascii file. This file is supplied via a parameter and not as stdin redirection. The named-pipe/unix-domain-socket solutions

Re: data structure description of /proc/net/tcp

2004-05-02 Thread linux-il
David Harel wrote: Hi, I want to find the process ID of the process that opened a socket to which I can find the record in /proc/net/tcp. Where can I get this information and what where can I get field descriptions of /proc/net/tcp?

Re: Opteron Binaries.

2004-04-30 Thread linux-il
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Now, if 64bit is anything like it, you actually can't mix them in the same process. Too much work to switch between them. Different memory addressing modes, etc. I think that's the reason - different and incompatible modes. I distinctly remember this in the context of why

Re: hebrewrec

2004-04-25 Thread linux-il
aamehl wrote: Next can someone help me translate the hebrc rpm into debian? Are you familiar with alien? --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the

Re: ups and linux?

2004-04-22 Thread linux-il
. If you don't want this option (which I think is pretty crucial) then you should just look at the peek power of the UPS. Look through the archives of linux-il. I think the subject was discussed thoroughly just a few months ago, with pointers to specific UPS's which can be found in Israel

Re: ups and linux?

2004-04-22 Thread linux-il
Aaron wrote: No idea what the driver is. Did you get the sources? Why is there a problem if its a binary only driver/daemon. For instance - does it work with kernel 2.6 (or whatever major kernel release you considered)? With difference glibc? Different architecture? --Amos

Re: Linux supported notebook in israel ?

2004-04-22 Thread linux-il
Stiven Andre wrote: Hi list. Sorry to be a bit off topic. I am about to buy myself a new notebook. I remember hearing about some Linux supported notebooks by Compaq here in Israel. Is there any till now? Compaq == HP today, and a month or two ago I checked with HP and found that HP do not support

Re: answering machine

2004-04-20 Thread linux-il
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Mind you, you need a Ministry of communication approval to connect this to the Bezeq network and I have no idea if it has one or doesn't. Are you sure this is up to date? Last time I heard (about 10 years ago) the team of three clowns in the Min. of Comm. who were

Re: SATA disks and raid controllers

2004-04-20 Thread linux-il
Ilan Finci wrote: Hi, We are considering to use SATA disks and hardware raid controller for 2 of our servers. Does anyone have experience with those kind of disks and RAIDs? Any problems with kernel 2.4.x? Recommended vendors? Just this morning I found the following:

Re: ~/.xsession-errors error log

2004-04-20 Thread linux-il
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: e.g.: if you use startx, you can create a simple $HOME/.xinitrc file that will run: ERRFILE=$HOME/.xsession-errors rm -f $ERRFILE touch $ERRFILE chmod 600 $ERRFILE exec /etc/X11/Xsession Note that if you run two X sessions simultaniously, the second file's However

Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE] Train station and end time?

2004-04-19 Thread linux-il
Orna Agmon wrote: Next Monday (19/4/2004), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once again meet to hear Erez Hadad talk about: Ingo Molnar's O(1) Scheduler in Linux Kernel 2.6 Can someone from the Haifa people tell me which train station is recommanded to get to the

Re: Apache2 lecture - at what time?

2004-04-19 Thread linux-il
Shlomi Fish wrote: I object to that. The 18:30-20:30 schedule is good as it is. I'd rather not finish up after 9 P.M. Then, I go to sleep late, and have trouble waking up early in the morning, etc. I shudder to think what will happen when I start working. Let's make the lectures in reasonable

Re: java on Mozilla 1.6 - MDK10.0

2004-04-17 Thread linux-il
How about trying Firefox? It works for me. (Debian unstable, untarred and installed 1.4.1_01-b01 from java.sun.com). --Amos Shlomo Solomon wrote: In the past, I've had trouble installing the Java plug-in, so this time I decided to do a **clean** install. I removed the previous version -

Re: KDE3.2 for Debian Sarge

2004-04-15 Thread linux-il
Shaul Karl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In addition, I believe I saw somewhere that kde 3.2 was uploaded to unstable (sid). Which might imply that it will show up in testing soon. However I am not sure I understood correctly what I skimmed. KDE 3.2.1 is a long time in unstable and though I didn't see

Re: Ken Thompson's UNIX backdoor

2004-04-14 Thread linux-il
Diego Iastrubni wrote: old... read also this: http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ , 14 2004, 08:52,Yedidyah Bar-David: Not that I undermine Thompson's point - it's a well-written article that I recommend to anyone. But this has nothing to do with FOSS or not FOSS. you said it yourself, you

Re: Ken Thompson's UNIX backdoor

2004-04-14 Thread linux-il
Shlomi Fish wrote: Just a small amount of trivia, induced by what was probably a simple typo. And a bit in-accurate. Nice try to compress it all into 4 paragprahs, but people should better read the refference you give before they relay on it. (what made me jump was that I explictly remember

Ken Thompson's UNIX backdoor

2004-04-13 Thread linux-il
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1224882570eid=-219: In a speech intended to serve us a wake-up call to anyone relying on the many eyes that look at the Linux source code to quickly find any subversions, the CEO of Green Hills Software Inc. last week reminded his audience how

Re: [OT] Israeli Daylight Saving enabled time zone for Windows

2004-04-08 Thread linux-il
If it's the list I know, it's about development and installation of NTP servers, not about timezones. The timezone files at HUJI that you point to are the original, maintained by Ephraim for over a decade by now. I've installed Shachar's registry on my workplace Windows XP but it doesn't seem

Re: xhost xauthority xauth and more ideas.

2004-04-08 Thread linux-il
David Harel wrote: Hi all, Since I was afraid my machine got infected with a worm that sends spam emails I have created a small script based mechanism that gives me Check that you don't have a public HTTP proxy on your machine. warnings whenever an smtp socket is opened (poling and parsing

Re: [OT] Israeli Daylight Saving enabled time zone for Windows

2004-04-08 Thread linux-il
Shachar Shemesh wrote: The closest I have to a source is http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/1998-1999/msg00259.html Like I said above - you use a close program to manage this. The following link seems to be a bit more complete: http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/tz-in-nt.txt I keep

Re: resend - right justified menues in kde 3.2

2004-04-07 Thread linux-il
Shlomo Solomon wrote: No - I am subscribed at that address, although it's set to VACATION in order to allow me to send but not receive messages - that's because I'm also subscribed at my old address (note the reply-to header in my posts) . In fact the e-mail you answered was sent from the same

Re: THANKS!

2004-04-06 Thread linux-il
David Howard wrote: *AFTER* the last logged-in connection is terminated? WTF do I now do with my partial d/l of the .iso? Find another source for it and use FTP's reget to continue the download? --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to

Re: Thunderbird doesn't find new messages via IMAP-SSL

2004-04-05 Thread linux-il
Shachar Shemesh wrote: At least in Mozilla, there is a problem that may be related. The problem is that mozilla doesn't handle Courier's limitation on number of simultanious connections properly. Try going to Edit/MailNewsgroup I've taken your advise and so far (for about a day) it seems to

Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-05 Thread linux-il
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: 3. Access CVS (through the Eclipse CVS plugin is the best GUI for this, so it might not be necessary to have a separate tool) a GUI still can't do scripts. Whenever scripts are necessary I have cvs as-is. But when I do a commit of new source code and want an easy way to

Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-03 Thread linux-il
guy keren wrote: (i'm responding only because i didn't see the more qualified people respond to this yet) Thanks. Anyone's experience counts. from stability point of view, you should install RH 9.0 - but it's a dead goat because of redhat's recent moves. Yes, I learned this by now. But right now

Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-03 Thread linux-il
Gil Freund wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I got a chance to install Linux on my office desktop (next to Windows XP, for now). Do you have VMware? This can be very handy to display several Linux environments side by side. No we don't have VMware. What do I need several linux environments

Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-01 Thread linux-il
Hi, I got a chance to install Linux on my office desktop (next to Windows XP, for now). I'd like to install something which will impress them the most with stability and usability, and mostly as a developer station. I expect to need it for: 1. Develop in Java (we already have an Eclipse-based

Thunderbird doesn't find new messages via IMAP-SSL

2004-04-01 Thread linux-il
Hello, My setup is the courier-imap-ssl on Debian unstable. I use Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 to read mail both on Linux (localhost) and Windows XP (at work). In the last 3-4 weeks, without changing the Thunderbird setup but after upgrading courier from 2.x to 3.x thunderbird startted to show me the

Re: permission problem on /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer

2004-03-30 Thread linux-il
David Harel wrote: Hi, I think that due to installation of KDE 3.2.1 on RH9 built from source I got this problem with kmix. When I start kmix I get an error regarding the device /dev/dsp. When looking into it I found that both /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer did not change ownership to my login-id

Re: [OT] Digital Camera

2004-03-30 Thread linux-il
Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi Guys and Gals, I am considering buying a digital stills camera. Dig deep into www.dpreview.com. Best place to learn about the technology, most comprehensive reviews of all major cameras, a huge active community of professionals but with space for newbies etc... Good

Channel 8 program taped

2004-03-27 Thread linux-il
If anyone is interested in a VCR tape of the Channel 8 program about hackers which mentions also open-source with Gilad Ben Yosef then I have it here in Givatayim. As usual with TV programs which talk about things I know about - this one mixes up and distortes facts as I know them (except for Arie

Re: Debugger/IDE for C development

2004-03-23 Thread linux-il
I've heard high prize of Anjuta, though I didn't get around to use it yet. I'd be glad to hear what you came up with. (I am going to do some C++ Linux development at work at last, and would like to take this opportunity to blow them away with a Linux C++ IDE as much as I can). --Amos Erez Doron

Re: How to search for a key in a keyserver?

2004-03-20 Thread linux-il
Shaul Karl wrote: I also don't remember where I have read that all the keyservers are eventually synced so that most, if not all, the keyservers are the same. I don't remember reading such a thing either, on the contrary - my key is available on some servers but not on the particular one someone

Re: How to search for a key in a keyserver?

2004-03-20 Thread linux-il
Shaul Karl wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:07:25PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: I also don't remember where I have read that all the keyservers are eventually synced so that most, if not all, the keyservers are the same. I don't remember reading such a thing either, on the

Re: Israeli summer time - Was Re: Runtime changing of timezones

2004-03-18 Thread linux-il
Yonah Russ wrote: Ok- mercy- I give up ntp. The point I was trying to make is that we all should get together and do it the same way. Let's try to make the script to run these updates part of standard distributions, part of the same rpm that distributes the TZ files in the first place maybe.

Re: Israeli summer time - Was Re: Runtime changing of timezones

2004-03-18 Thread linux-il
Oded Arbel wrote: You'll have major problems with that, especially the part where you assume that everyone is connected to the internet all the time. You can enable/disable this, or you can do some clever tricks with if-up/if-down. The fact is that I don't find it necessary at all - just

Re: remote bookmarks ?

2004-03-18 Thread linux-il
Michael Sternberg wrote: Does anybody know an Internet Browser with following capabilities: 1. On start it loads bookmark list from some remote web site 2. When bookmarking a page, the bookmark is automatically stored at the same remote web site (with some help from CGI?) 3. Have to be

Re: How to search for a key in a keyserver?

2004-03-18 Thread linux-il
Shaul Karl wrote: Any hints about the following: $ gpg --keyserver http://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --search-keys 517D0F0E gpg: searching for 517D0F0E from HKP server wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net gpg: key 517D0F0E not found on keyserver ? 517D0F0E is what I believe to be the key by which the

Re: Israeli summer time - Was Re: Runtime changing of timezones

2004-03-17 Thread linux-il
Yonah Russ wrote: I meant to solve the problem of israeli summer time in a way that we shouldn't have to update every individual station every year but rather that one computer be updated and let the update propogate automatically throughout israel. perhaps we could piggy back the timezone

Re: Runtime changing of timezones

2004-03-17 Thread linux-il
Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yuri Bronshtein, from the post of Wed, 17 Mar: Holocaust day shouldn't move to Tisha b'av. There's a reason for it's date - the day the Warsaw ghetto uprising began. Tisha b'av is a religious date, which most Israelies don't remember, or care about. that's sad.

Re: Tool for writing man pages

2004-03-17 Thread linux-il
Nadav Har'El wrote: 1. Manual pages are written in the nroff language. To convert a manual page file ls.1 to ascii for viewing, use groff -man -Tascii ls.1 Shachar is using debian - man -l filename should do it. Couldn't find this option on RH 8's man, though. --Amos

Re: are MDK 9.2 update mirrors up to date?

2004-03-15 Thread linux-il
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 08:54:47PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: I think that there is some truth in saying that currently, Hamakor distribution mirrors are more declaration of intents then fully usable mirrors. It could be that the reasons for that are beyond Hamakor control. Is it wise to have

HP Linux support on laptops?

2004-03-04 Thread linux-il
Hello, I've been offered an HP laptop for a good price and when I called HP Israel to ask about Linux support they told me that HP does not support Linux on ANY laptop of theirs. At least in Israel. That doesn't quite fit what I see in http://tinyurl.com/26yeb, which lists some models with

Re: HP Linux support on laptops?

2004-03-04 Thread linux-il
Gabor Szabo wrote: I have been using HP and Compaq laptops with SuSe and now Libranet/Debian for the past 4 years. It is is a shame HP does not support it officially. That's the strange thing - their web site claims that they DO support some models, but the people in Israel say they won't.

Re: bidirectional file transfer software?

2004-03-04 Thread linux-il
Shlomi Loubaton wrote: In many cases I discovered to my surprise that ssh performance were better comparing to other protocols. it seem that it uses data compression methods and it's also configurable. It's not just seems, see -C switch. On the other hand, someone at my office just noticed

apache2-friendly web mail software?

2004-03-03 Thread linux-il
Hello, Getting tired from broken Apache 1.3 packages on my debian unstable I got rid of it and installed Apache2. I'm looking for a webmail software as a backup for using Thunderbird from outside my home. Now as far as I understand PHP(4) doesn't play with Apache2, and all the good ones (e.g.

Re: apache2-friendly web mail software?

2004-03-03 Thread linux-il
Oded Arbel wrote: Wednesday 03 March 2004 18:21,[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now as far as I understand PHP(4) doesn't play with Apache2, and all the good ones (e.g. squirrelmail, imp3) seem to require PHP. I'm using squirrelmail on Apache 2.0 w/o a problem. I'm not aware of any compatability

Opinion: How to hire great open source developers

2004-03-03 Thread linux-il
I hope it's not considered too much off-topic. Here is the intro from the forwarding page: Martin Fink has written an article on the issues of hiring open source developers, and how to hire good open source developers. This comes at a time where there is a lot of discussion in the industry on

Re: Disk On Key support in Linux

2004-03-01 Thread linux-il
If you are reffering to those USB flash memory devices then I think all of them are supported. They just look like another USB mass-storage device to Linux. Many of them will even mention Linux support on their packaging. My latest experience was with a USB mp3 player bought in Bangkok - just

Re: Gnucash

2004-02-29 Thread linux-il
Alon Altman wrote: Hi, Has anyone got experience with using gnucash for Israeli financial reports? If so, what problems or things should one consider. I'm asking because I want to use gnucash for Ha'makor's books. Alon I use Gnucash once in a while. Not for tax proposes but personal

Re: Gnucash

2004-02-29 Thread linux-il
Alon Altman wrote: As we're an NPO (Ha'makor) we don't pay any taxes, and thus don't need tax reports. We do need to file incomeexpenses reports and a balance sheet. You are wrong about that one, as far as I can tell. NPO means that you are not doing things for profit yourself, but you live

Re: X toolkit that will also work with M$ recomentation

2004-02-29 Thread linux-il
The standard answer I've seen many times for such a question was FLTK (http://www.fltk.org/). Never used it myself, though. HTH. I wonder if new things have come up over the years which can supersede this. --Amos Micha Feigin wrote: Hello, I was asked to write a small program with a simple

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-25 Thread linux-il
Oded Arbel wrote: Will you tell us what the final decision was (when it taked place), please ? just the usual curiosity :-) Well, yesterday was the meeting. It turns out that we are still in the design stage - what sort of data should the application have and how will it help its

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-23 Thread linux-il
Micha Feigin wrote: Actually if they are willing to put up money for the development/running environment (whatever licences are required) you can try and push an option to pay the volunteer part of this money to do it on an open environment. This way everybody wins. That's one of the open

Can I help to Bittorrent Kinneret?

2004-02-23 Thread linux-il
Hi, I have a static IP (actcom) on an ADSL line (96Kb upload). It's not much but would it help if I downloaded Kinneret via Bittorrent and kept the Bittorrent up? Would it help if others in this forum did this? --Amos = To

Re: LINUX howto's

2004-02-23 Thread linux-il
Alon Weinstein wrote: Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yehuda Tzadik, from the post of Mon, 23 Feb: I work in Bezeq International Yehuda Zadik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yigal Shilon? is that you? LOL I noticed that too, pretty funny. I noticed that too. But childish laughs (and his mass cross-post)

Re: Attaching a Reply-To Header

2004-02-23 Thread linux-il
Itamar Ravid wrote: Is it possible for the list's owner to attach a Reply-To header to the messages coming from the list? This way all replies will be sent to the list instead of being sent privately. Please don't. People on this list are already used to replying in private unless the list was

Re: [OT] shell account recommendations

2004-02-22 Thread linux-il
Yup. That's what I was going to suggest too. I've just signed up for a lifetime account there. (40$). Gal Gur-Arie wrote: try: http://freeshell.org Boris Gorelik wrote: [Sorry for being offtopic] Hi, Recently my ISP (HUJI) has blocked the connection to IRC ports. When I talked to the guys in

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