Re: is the swap being used ?

2000-10-04 Thread Dani Arbel
Hi! There is no question about RAM being superior over swap, BUT when you run out of memory (RAM + swap ) the system starts to kill processes and you don't want this to hapen. So have enough available swap, and count on the system to use it wisely (i.e. place the running processes in RAM and

Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Shimon C. Constante
Can anybody tell me why Linux's symbol is a penguin? begin:vcard n:Constante;Shimon Cocay tel;fax:(1)(212) 208-2621 tel;home:ICQ: 12101222 tel;work:(972)(03) 753-4423 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Aduva;Intelligence adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Intelligence Team

RE: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Mevorach, Assaf
All the story http://www.linux.org/info/penguin.html -Original Message- From: Shimon C. Constante [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 9:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why penguin? Can anybody tell me why Linux's symbol is a penguin? why a Penguin -.url

Re: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Izar Tarandach
Dde. Ask us first. We are supposed to be experts, remember ? "Shimon C. Constante" wrote: Can anybody tell me why Linux's symbol is a penguin? -- Aduva/LinuxQA Inc. Izar Tarandach, Daemon Exorcist, Research Director "The box said, Windows 95

Re: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Izar Tarandach
Sorry for the switchology mistake. This was supposed to be a personal message. Memo to self: reply != reply-to-all. --izar Izar Tarandach wrote: Dde. Ask us first. We are supposed to be experts, remember ? "Shimon C. Constante" wrote: Can anybody tell me why Linux's symbol is

Re: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Ask me next time :) http://www.linux.org/info/penguin.html Hetz "Shimon C. Constante" wrote: Can anybody tell me why Linux's symbol is a penguin? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in

Davicom modem drivers

2000-10-04 Thread Yoav Grosswirth
Hi, I have a Davicom 33.6 modem and a redhat 7 installed I've tried to fined a driver for the modem (I don't think it's a win-modem) but with out success. where can I search for the driver or what can I do if There's not one available. TNX, Yoav Grosswirth Linux / Unix Courses Coordinator.

RE: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Mevorach, Assaf
sorry to disappoint you but that's the explanation you can see it all over: http://gate.crashing.org/penguin.html http://www.penguinpower.com/PenguinPower/whyapenguin http://www.stones.demon.co.uk/why-penguin.html http://andromeda.campbellsvil.edu/~don/ascue/penguin.html

Re: Davicom modem drivers

2000-10-04 Thread Boaz Rymland
Yoav Grosswirth wrote: Hi, I have a Davicom 33.6 modem and a redhat 7 installed I've tried to fined a driver for the modem (I don't think it's a win-modem) but with out success. where can I search for the driver or what can I do if There's not one available. TNX, Yoav Grosswirth

Re: Davicom modem drivers

2000-10-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
OK, some info is needed here.. 1. Is this a PCI based modem? ISA? 2. What chip the modem have? 3. Do (as root) lspci -vv and post the results here.. 4. Linux doesn't need any special drivers for modems (unless it's a winmodem) Hetz Yoav Grosswirth wrote: Hi, I have a Davicom 33.6 modem

Re: Davicom modem drivers

2000-10-04 Thread Alex Dubrovsky
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Boaz Rymland wrote: Yoav Grosswirth wrote: Hi, I have a Davicom 33.6 modem and a redhat 7 installed Are you sure you need drivers ? if it's not a winmodem then you probably need no drivers. on the system with it installed, try minicom. just run minicom, and

Re: Davicom modem drivers

2000-10-04 Thread Boaz Rymland
Alex Dubrovsky wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Boaz Rymland wrote: Its /dev/ttyS0...3 AFAIK cua (not cau) are obsolete right. I didn't want to clobber him with terms and acronyms. Also, I meant to sent that message personally, but checked that too late... :-) I guess its something in Aduva

Re: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000, Mevorach, Assaf wrote about "RE: Why penguin?": sorry to disappoint you but that's the explanation you can see it all over: http://gate.crashing.org/penguin.html http://www.penguinpower.com/PenguinPower/whyapenguin http://www.stones.demon.co.uk/why-penguin.html

RE: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Chen Shapira
Most of the pages you now quote have the same text, except http://www.penguinpower.com/PenguinPower/whyapenguin Which has a more meaningful explanation. According to this explanation, when Linus wanted a mascot for Linux (if I remember correctly, for Linux 2.0 - the 1.* kernels had a

Re: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
ok, so why Tux? Chen Shapira wrote: Most of the pages you now quote have the same text, except http://www.penguinpower.com/PenguinPower/whyapenguin Which has a more meaningful explanation. According to this explanation, when Linus wanted a mascot for Linux (if I remember correctly,

Re: Why penguin?

2000-10-04 Thread Herouth Maoz
Shachar Shemesh wrote: ok, so why Tux? Short for "Tuxedo" which is what penguins wear. Herouth = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo

Browser's hebrew status

2000-10-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi All, As some of you people know, Netscape 6 PR3 came out yesterday, so I took it for a small test in some Israeli sites (in hebrew: Sivoov be-eretz hakodesh) :) Well, it seems that most of the sites can accept it - if it's visual hebrew... On logical hebrew - the hebrew is backward - and

less problem...

2000-10-04 Thread Doron Barzilay
Hello. I'm using tcsh 6.08.00 (Astron) 1998-10-02 (i586-intel-linux) options 8b,nls,dl,al,rh,color While executing:less ~/.bashrc Getting error :There is no -= option ("less --help" for help) Why do I get this error ?

Re: less problem...

2000-10-04 Thread mulix
Hi Doron, Check whether your 'less' is aliased or symlinked to something else. [mulix@alhambra ~]$ alias | grep less [mulix@alhambra ~]$ if this returns anything, try to remove the alias: unalias less otherwise, check symlinks and whether less is a binary or script. [mulix@alhambra ~]$ which

Re: less problem...

2000-10-04 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
Check whether your 'less' is aliased or symlinked to something else. [mulix@alhambra ~]$ alias | grep less [mulix@alhambra ~]$ if this returns anything, try to remove the alias: unalias less otherwise, check symlinks and whether lessis a binary or script. [mulix@alhambra ~]$ which

Re: less problem...

2000-10-04 Thread Doron Barzilay
Thnx. I've solved it. The only thing was setting the LESS* environment variables. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail