Re: [Haifux] Tab space on Emacs/XEmacs

2004-04-21 Thread Maor Meir
Hi, Instead of just giving a short answer here is how one would figure it out for himself: type 'M-x apropos' and enter tab a whole list of things related to tab will show up, you want to change the default value of 'tab space' show search for default. you will find the variable default-tab-width

[Haifux] rpm segfault

2004-04-04 Thread Maor Meir
Hi, I am running mandrake 8.1, and practicly anything I do with rpm ends in a segmentation fault. I have managed installing a few packages with urpmi successfully but when I try installing external packages with rpm I get a segmentation fault. also when trying to remove packages rpm -e I get a

Re: [Haifux] rpm segfault

2004-04-04 Thread Maor Meir
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:45:07PM +0200, Maor Meir wrote: Hi, I am running mandrake 8.1, and practicly anything I do with rpm ends in a segmentation fault. I have managed installing a few packages with urpmi successfully but when I try

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-28 Thread Maor Meir
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Orna Agmon wrote: Thanks to Alon altman, I went to http://creativecommons.org/license/ and created licenses according to people's requests. The lectures by the people who already replied carry links to the appropriate licenses. As you can see there, they give the

Re: [Haifux] The Haifux logo

2004-02-21 Thread Maor Meir
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Orna Agmon wrote: BTW, it seems like we can only make up our minds about the English spelling. Some people pronounce and write Haifux with HE, and other with HET. Many words are basicly the same in Hebreww and English but are still pronounced slightly diffrently when

Re: [Haifux] Why is Haifux a Linux and not a GNU/Linux club?

2004-02-07 Thread Maor Meir
I think ideology is important and we shold try to say something about it I also have noticed that by looking over past lectures they fit the title Free Software much better than the title Linux (Linux is also GPL'ed) even though I believe ther aren't many club members running BSD as theier

[Haifux] glibc and initscrits RPM conflict on MDK9.0

2004-02-07 Thread Maor Meir
Hi, I hava a Mandrake 9.0 system installed and I wish to upgrade to glibc2.3 I thought the best way would be to use a Mandrake rpm package, (was I wrong?) after downloading rpm packages and solving a few minor dependencies problems I ended up with the following sets of rpms to install:

Re: [Haifux] int a=1.6;

2004-01-02 Thread Maor Meir
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Orna Agmon wrote: Hello all, As you may have guessed I have a C question. I have searched the gcc warning options http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3.2/gcc/Warning-Options.html#Warning%20Options but failed to find a way to make the compiler warn about implicitcasts

Re: [Haifux] Home network setup help

2003-12-13 Thread Maor Meir
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Amir Yalon wrote: Hello haifuxers, I'm currently migrating my windows machine to dual boot with gentoo (the final goal is to abandon windows). The machine has two network cards: one for local network (eth0 in linux) and one for Internet (eth1). Currently the machine

Re: [Haifux] CD logos

2003-11-10 Thread Maor Meir
Regarding the first 3 CDs they are truely Redhat CDs. The last CD contains redhat updates and a few more things which are by no means redhat. I do think we should add an inner cover(at least for the updates CD) making it abundantly clear, that this CD was not compiled by RedHat but does contain

RE: [Haifux] CD logos

2003-11-10 Thread Maor Meir
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Orna Agmon wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Haim Ravia wrote: Read the Red Hat FAQs. /me is reading the FAQ. There is nothing unclear about this: The updates CD is not the problem: it is the three RH cds. We, in this case hamakor, which is the legal body, is

Re: [Haifux] [Fwd: [Haifux] Windows Services For UNIX 3.0]

2003-11-06 Thread Maor Meir
I found a download link easily: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/howtobuy/default.asp on the side: Download via FTP ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/Interix/sfu30 there appear to be tgz files with originial source(I didn't actually download them to see.) Meir On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Sivan

Re: [Haifux] Welcome to Linux! please show up.

2003-10-26 Thread Maor Meir
Hi, It is important that Haifux members will show up to this lecture(and others) even if they probably won't learn much. begore and after the lecture we expect to be swamped with linux questions, many of them very basic(You don't have to be a GURU to help). So please show up. If you can't make it

Re: [Haifux] Announcement about the new lectures in web forums

2003-10-21 Thread Maor Meir
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote: I now have to announce the upcoming lectures (Intro to Linux and Software Development in Linux) in the various web forums. Here's the text of the English announcement in IGLU. I'll later translate it to Hebrew. Please voice your opinion. Regards,

Re: [Haifux] In the Nick of Time: Networking Lecture (take 2) is Prepared

2003-10-19 Thread Maor Meir
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Raindel Shachar wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, guy keren wrote: 4. in the 'dial-up modems' slide, don't use the word baud - this is incorrect. for example, 14.4Kbps modems still communicated in 2400 bauds. they achieved a higher speed then 2400Kbps modems by using

Re: [Haifux] Slides for the Networking Lecture

2003-10-18 Thread Maor Meir
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote: The slides for the networking lecture can be found here: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/lecture/W2L/Network/slides/ in layer1.html IEE standard 802.11 should be: IEEE... I think the lecture as a whole does not fit very well as a practical

Re: [Haifux] Re: Please recommend linux sites

2003-10-12 Thread Maor Meir
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Yehuda Drori wrote: , 12 2003, 15:13, Alon Altman : Hi, We are building the branding for the Haifux distro based on RH9. We are looking for Hebrew linux sites and useful English sites to include in the bookmarks of the installed system. We currently have the

Re: [Haifux] Installing RH 9.0 -- my impressions

2003-10-11 Thread Maor Meir
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Eli Billauer wrote: Hello All. I'm in the middle of setting up Red Hat 9.0 on my new Compaq Presario Try out the update CD we are trying to make for the insta-part, we could really use some feed-back. ftp.rifkin/pub/Haifux/HaifuxUpdates-test2.iso There was an email by

Re: [Haifux] Resizing NTFS problem

2003-10-08 Thread Maor Meir
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Slava Shklyar wrote: Try Partition Magic ... Also, if you are going to install Linux, some distributions have own partition tools with NTFS support ... To the best of my knowledge there is only one free software ntfs resize tool, and their are various frontends for it,

Re: [Haifux] Resizing NTFS problem

2003-10-08 Thread Maor Meir
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Eli Billauer wrote: Google to the rescue! punching in: 'ntfs defrag' into google gave intresting results, mainly: http://www.storageadmin.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13714 which lists a few defrag tools, some of which have a trial version downloadeable free. I did not

[Haifux] Using make to boot linux faster

2003-10-07 Thread Maor Meir
Those of who read slashdot regularly probably read the same article I read, about ibm researches suggesting booting linux services in peralal and use make to solve dependencies. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html Well I gave it a shot: I based my own scripts very

Re: [Haifux] NFS shows different time stamps on different PC

2003-09-17 Thread Maor Meir
On 17 Sep 2003, Mark Silberstein wrote: HI all Today I was lucky to observe one strange thing: PC1 and PC2 have /home mounted from PC3. I found that few _SAME_ files, created yesterday, have different timestamps ( both ls and stat output), depending on which PC I invoke stat. PC1 and PC3

Re: [Haifux] W2L0 Makefile basics, draft

2003-09-15 Thread Maor Meir
A revised draft. spelling errors corrected, shlomi's explanation on syntax was fit in, a note on info was added at the end. As for being too terse, I think the slides should be brief and to the point. These are to be lecture slides not a tutorial. They will be acompanied with explanations and a

Re: [Haifux] W2L0, second thoughts about kdevelop

2003-09-14 Thread Maor Meir
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Oron Peled wrote: However, Kdevelop may be used as a show off stuff if it would be shown together with other tools. Examples: - Anjuta - Eclipse (the free software one...) - If there's an Emacs guru I would ask him to demo it

[Haifux] W2L0 Makefile basics, draft

2003-09-14 Thread Maor Meir
As promissed: attached is the text I wrote for basic Makefile use to add to W2L0 look it over, comment, I'll fix as necessary and than shlomi could HTMLize it to fit with the rest of the beautyfied lecture slides. Meir. Makefiles are a way to define how your project is to be built. The make tool