Re: mouse problems continued - even weirder

2002-01-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I have seen different thinkpads react radically different to the idea of an external PS/2 mouse. With some, I had to manully disable the built-in thing (for lack of a better word - mouse). There is sometimes a setting called Disable thing if extrenal mouse is connected during boot. That's the

Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Sunday 27 January 2002 10:03, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Hi Hetz, I am no expert, but i think that if you only want to check the viruses that goes thru your email, you don't need any vxd to simply check the mail like avx does. what do you think? Morning Tzahi, This is really depends - the

Re: sound - Mandrake 8.1

2002-01-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Sunday 27 January 2002 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess my Mandrake upgrade (8.0 -- 8.1) problems are not over yet. Ever since upgrading, I have no sound. It didn't really bother me since I rarely play music on the computer and sound is not a high priority, but since I'm home sick

Re: sound - Mandrake 8.1

2002-01-27 Thread solomon
On 27-Jan-2002 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2002 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess my Mandrake upgrade (8.0 -- 8.1) problems are not over yet. Ever since upgrading, I have no sound. It didn't really bother me since I rarely play music on the computer and sound is not a high

Re: E-mail client for Linux

2002-01-27 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 26 Jan 2002, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 18:15, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Evolution cannot authenticate me via Secure IMAP too :-(, the IMP web client works fine, but evolution and the imap instance on the remote machine both hang and I have to kill them manually.

RE: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread ishaybas
Now - just like in standard windows - if I have a good Anti virus here running on wine - then I'm free from troubles - but as it is today - I cannot install any anti virus (that I know) under Wine - so it's a huge risk. Maybe I am missing something, but what about running a linux

Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Won't help.. Outlook gets the emails, not a Linux Email client. Hetz On Sunday 27 January 2002 11:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now - just like in standard windows - if I have a good Anti virus here running on wine - then I'm free from troubles - but as it is today - I cannot install

Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Ely Levy
why do we need them for running wine on debian? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi People, Well, I just finished 3 hours busting a hard disk here to install Lindows preview here.. What can I say - lots of people will

Re: SMTP AUTH setup.

2002-01-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
The Rabbit of Vugluskr wrote: intention is to make it possible to users who have usernames in our server to send mail through our server from wherever they are. IMHO it would be easier to use the POP3 extensions to send mail. Many mailers support it, many pop servers support it (if

Re: kde3 hebrew bugs (hebrew only)

2002-01-27 Thread Ely Levy
Great, so now I won't get only win encoded mail which I can't read but KDE encoded email which I can't read with nothing by kmail. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: ד×ך

RE: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Dvir Volk
-Original Message- From: guy keren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 12:11 AM they have programmers working on wine locally, and they don't sync everything back to the official wine tree. they don't write that on their web site, but it is implied.

Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Wine is NOT GPL'd - you can take wine sources, modify them a lot and you don't have to give anything back, nada,zilch... Most companies which do work on wine (Transgaming, Codeweavers) DO give back, however. Just few moments ago Transgaming had contributed an SDL driver for Wine which (to me)

Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Sunday 27 January 2002 12:17, Ely Levy wrote: why do we need them for running wine on debian? You don't need them for their distribution - it's a simple debian woody + some Xandros stuff (smart file browser, connection wizard, etc) - but you do need Lindows for their special version of

Re: E-mail client for Linux

2002-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 26 Jan 2002, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 18:15, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Evolution cannot authenticate me via Secure IMAP too :-(, the IMP web client works fine, but evolution and the imap instance on the remote

lindows, how does one get it?

2002-01-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Can you downlaod lindows? If so where from? Is there and israeli mirror? Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson Bloomberg L.P., BFM (Israel) 2 hours ahead of London, 7 hours ahead of New York. Tel: 972-(0)3-754-1158 Fax 972-(0)3-754-1236 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2002 10:03, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Hi Hetz, I am no expert, but i think that if you only want to check the viruses that goes thru your email, you don't need any vxd to simply check the mail like avx does. what do you think?

Re: sound - Mandrake 8.1

2002-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [root@shlomo1 root]# artsd Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device) Do you use /devfs ? If not, then the file /dev/dsp is there whether or not a devicereally exists. Check /proc/devices etc. 6

Re: Mandrake update mirror...

2002-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Amir Tal wrote: Hi, I am trying to make all the updates my system need's manually. I like to see what I am doing, instead of counting on a wizard to do it for me. But today I decided to check out may mandrake 8.1 auto update util (from the mandrake control center). Its

Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew: I still can't follow their logic: why would you buy a dedicated lindows ... In short: I don't see who is their target audience. Maybe it's die-hard Linuxers (like many people on this list) whose

Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Sunday 27 January 2002 14:09, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I still can't follow their logic: why would you buy a dedicated lindows box if their linux side is bad and their windows side is bad. Seems to me it will be useful for either: I still don't get it why do u think their lindows is bad? the

IGLU mirrors?

2002-01-27 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: What about IGLU? Is it up-to-date? BTW: what about the debian mirror? umm... in my apt/sources.list I have 3 sites from the fastest (iglu) to the most up-to-date (mirrors.kernel.org). if I try at 10-11pm, the fresh stuff comes from the last, if I

Re: lindows, how does one get it?

2002-01-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Lindows is a commercial only distribution, costs $99 - so you cannot download it unless you bought it. Hetz On Sunday 27 January 2002 14:04, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Can you downlaod lindows? If so where from? Is there and israeli mirror? Thanks, Geoff.

Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2002 14:09, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I still can't follow their logic: why would you buy a dedicated lindows box if their linux side is bad and their windows side is bad. Seems to me it will be useful for either: I still don't

Re: lindows, how does one get it?

2002-01-27 Thread Ely Levy
Doesn't that break GPL for the kernel and the rest of the GPLed things in the dist?or is it because you can download all of them from somewhere else? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Lindows is a commercial only

Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Eli Marmor
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: 1. install a virus scanner on the server I don't want to be redundant, but in a thread called forwarding mails from mailbox to another address.. (initiated by somebody else), I wrote: By the way: I want to use milter (or another plug-in interface of sendmail) to strip

Re: E-mail client for Linux

2002-01-27 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 26 Jan 2002, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: I'm using IMAP over SSL at this moment (the server side is running Washington University IMAP daemon and stunnel) without any problems in Evolution. The

Re: lindows, how does one get it?

2002-01-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Lindows is a commercial only distribution, costs $99 - so you cannot download it unless you bought it. I'vew since looked at their web site and found out: 1. The $100 is a membership fee not a license fee. 2. You have to sign an NDA, just as any Lindows.com employee

Re: lindows, how does one get it?

2002-01-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
What do we ask of you? A $99 fee for a one year membership in the ^^^ Lindows.com Insiders program and your commitment to take time to share your feedback about our plans, our products and our future direction. Pardon my

Re: lindows, how does one get it?

2002-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I'vew since looked at their web site and found out: 1. The $100 is a membership fee not a license fee. 2. Youhave to sign an NDA, just as any Lindows.com employee would. This rings lots of alarum bells to me. First, I can't see sending

Re: lindows, how does one get it?

2002-01-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I'vew since looked at their web site and found out: 1. The $100 is a membership fee not a license fee. Nop, it's a licensing fee. What do we ask of you? A $99 fee for a one year membership in the ^^^

Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
deb is not a magic bullet for packaging. dpkg and apt-get are easy to break. What makes debian's distro work great is that they follow their policy and try to avoid breaking stuff. I had some bad experince with storm linux (2.0.6), which was (the company is now out of business) a

Re: lindows, how does one get it?

2002-01-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
They don't want to charge you for a license fee (read: they may charge you later for a license fee). Do they mention anywhere the expected license cost? I talked specifically about this with Michael Robertson on the phone about it - the price is final - $99 for a single license, and discount

Re: sound - Mandrake 8.1

2002-01-27 Thread solomon
On 27-Jan-2002 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Do you use /devfs ? no If not, then the file /dev/dsp is there whether or not a devicereally exists. Check /proc/devices etc. I have no idea what I'm looking for. There's no mention of dsp, but there is a line like this: 14 sound 6 - I then checked

Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Eli Marmor wrote: By the way: I want to use milter(or another plug-in interface of sendmail) to strip executable attachments from incoming messages (EXE, COM, PIF, LNK, BAT, SCR, etc.), save them in a server archive, and send an automatic response to the sender,

Re: IGLU mirrors?

2002-01-27 Thread Ely Levy
I remember something about mirror script.. am still waiting for the what to write file. or did someone do it already? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: What about IGLU? Is it

Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Tzafrir, I don't consider myself an expert in Debian stuff - Adi, Ira, Marc and some others are way better then me on this - but I'm sure you can mix and match from potato and woddy. I don't see your point here. I managed to compile gtk application

RE: syncing iPAQ, Nokia 6210 with Linux

2002-01-27 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Does anyone know if it is possibly to sync iPAQ or Nokia 6210 cell phone with a Linux desktop computer? I need at least to back them up and to be able to transfer files. Synchronizing calendar, contacts, and tasks would be great... For the Nokia phone you have gnokii that does all that you

Re: syncing iPAQ, Nokia 6210 with Linux

2002-01-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: For the Nokia phone you have gnokii that does all that you need: http://www.gnokii.org Thanks. Does anyone on this list know where in Israel to get the cables needed (for a 5110). TIA, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson Bloomberg L.P., BFM (Israel) 2 hours ahead of

Re: Linux, Office2000, Lindows - and Hebrew

2002-01-27 Thread Eli Marmor
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Eli Marmor wrote: By the way: I want to use milter(or another plug-in interface of sendmail) to strip executable attachments from incoming messages (EXE, COM, PIF, LNK, BAT, SCR, etc.), save them in a server archive, and send an automatic

Re: lindows, how does one get it?

2002-01-27 Thread Ely Levy
I wasn't talking about wine but about their distrubtion in general, they sell all of it not only the wine part and they don't give sources with it. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Adi Stav wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:50:08PM +0200, Ely

Re: IGLU mirrors?

2002-01-27 Thread Ely Levy
This rsync getting stuck in the middle is a known bug which got fixed a version and a half ago. just my 2 euro Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, guy keren wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Ely Levy wrote: I remember something about mirror

Re: IGLU mirrors?

2002-01-27 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Ely Levy wrote: This rsync getting stuck in the middle is a known bug which got fixed a version and a half ago. *shrug* ofcourse, there's no rsync RPM in the 'updates' dir of redhat 6.2 :) oh, well. we'll see how to fix that. how do people generally deal with these RPMs

Re: IGLU mirrors?

2002-01-27 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Ely Levy wrote: I remember something about mirror script.. am still waiting for the what to write file. or did someone do it already? eventually, while we were arguing about who'll do it, ilya snack back home from the army base one weekend, and wrote the script, and

Re: IGLU mirrors?

2002-01-27 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, guy keren wrote: how do people generally deal with these RPMs issues, i.e. RPMs for older distributions not being updated, and yet you want the bug fixes? and please don't say upgrade to the latest distribution. move to debian -- Kinky little bastard Ira Abramov

Re: IGLU mirrors?

2002-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, guy keren wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Ely Levy wrote: This rsync getting stuck in the middle is a known bug which got fixed a version and a half ago. *shrug* ofcourse, there's no rsync RPM in the 'updates' dir of redhat 6.2 :) oh, well. we'll see how to fixthat.

Compiling mpeglib_divxplugin

2002-01-27 Thread Erez Boym
Hi, I'm trying to view DivX files on my Linux box (Mandrake 8.0, KDE 2.1.1, Nuaton 1.0.1). I have installed KDE Media Player (From Nuatom.kde.org) which states in it's site that a DivX plugin exists and directed me to sourceforge (mpeglib.sourceforge.net) to download it. I downloaded the

Re: sound - Mandrake 8.1

2002-01-27 Thread Diego Iastrubni
On Sunday 27 January 2002 18:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [root@shlomo1 root]# insmod snd-card-es1938 Have you tried 'modprobe' instead? I tried it - no error messages, but it didn't solve the problem either try sending back to us the list of lsmod, after modprobe snd-card-es-1938. I

Foul! Stand in the corner! (was: Re: IGLU mirrors?)

2002-01-27 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, guy keren wrote: how do people generally deal with these RPMs issues, i.e. RPMs for older distributions not being updated, and yet you want the bug fixes? and please don't say upgrade to the latest distribution. moveto

Re: Foul! Stand in the corner! (was: Re: IGLU mirrors?)

2002-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Omer Zak wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, guy keren wrote: how do people generally deal with these RPMs issues, i.e. RPMs for older distributions not being updated, and yet you want the bug fixes? and please don't say

Re: syncing iPAQ, Nokia 6210 with Linux

2002-01-27 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For the Nokia phone you have gnokii that does all that you need: http://www.gnokii.org Thanks! Downloading it now. Unfortunately, it says that support for 6210 is limited, but we'll see... iPAQ, anyone? I forgot to mention that I meant iPAQ with

Re: IGLU mirrors?

2002-01-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, guy keren wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Ely Levy wrote: This rsync getting stuck in the middle is a known bug which got fixed a version and a half ago. *shrug* ofcourse, there's no rsync RPM in the 'updates' dir of redhat 6.2 :) oh, well. we'll see how to fix that.