Line diff

2002-04-08 Thread Iftach Hyams
Is there a utility that diff single line, something like : This is line 1, This is Line 2 ! will result with This is line 1 RR++ L2 ! Comments - 1. The syntax of the output is just something I invented right now. 2. Fixed fonts are needed to understand it.

Linux is Not legal ??

2002-04-08 Thread Amir Tal
IGLU's Turns out that most Linux distro's are you not actually legal ? It seems that most of the distro's are including also some non open-source Software in their installation CD's, which makes Linux - not so legal...? You be the judge of that. http://www.whatsup.org.il/article.php?sid=143

Re: Line diff

2002-04-08 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002, Iftach Hyams wrote about Line diff: Is there a utility that diff single line, something like : This is line 1, This is Line 2 ! will result with This is line 1 RR++ L2 ! Emacs's (or Xemacs's) ediff does something similar to this (among all

OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Eli Marmor
Recently, with the ADSL (and now also CATV) connections in Israel, the ISP's found themselves in a strange status: The ratio between the total bandwidth of their users, and the bandwidths of the ISP's to abroad (and even between themselves), is higher than ever. Upgrading the connections,

Re: Linux is Not legal ??

2002-04-08 Thread Ely Levy
nothing to judge it's simply not true why would it be? nothing say you have to put only opensource or free software on linux. even GNU is not THAT demanding. I find it sad that some distributions chose to to make things opensource. though I never actualy saw something not opensourced made by

RE: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
If you know a source for this information, or know about an existing table, or have an automatic robot to check the use of transparent proxies, please let me know. It's very easy to find out: if you suspect your ISP uses transparent proxy, simply telnet to port 80 of some machine abroad

Re: Linux is Not legal ??

2002-04-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ely Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I find it sad that some distributions chose to to make things opensource. though I never actualy saw something not opensourced made by linux dist... Some distros put proprietary software on their boxed CD's, by contract with software producers. This software

Re: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Eli Marmor
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: If you know a source for this information, or know about an existing table, or have an automatic robot to check the use of transparent proxies, please let me know. It's very easy to find out: if you suspect your ISP uses transparent proxy, simply telnet to port

Re: Astra Linux Scanner

2002-04-08 Thread eg_2002
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:40:32PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Bad luck, my friend... If you can replace it - HP3300/3400/3400c scanners (and other HP scanners) are supported (although preliminary but the driver author still working on it).. Hetz Hmm thanks alot, I also heard Epson ones

Re: Astra Linux Scanner

2002-04-08 Thread eg_2002
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:40:32PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Bad luck, my friend... If you can replace it - HP3300/3400/3400c scanners (and other HP scanners) are supported (although preliminary but the driver author still working on it).. Hetz Thanks ! I also heard Epson ones are

Re: Linux Astra Scanner

2002-04-08 Thread eg_2002
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:40:32PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Bad luck, my friend... If you can replace it - HP3300/3400/3400c scanners (and other HP scanners) are supported (although preliminary but the driver author still working on it).. Hetz Thanks ! I also heard Epson

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Alon Altman
The best way to check transparent proxying is to make a webserver that serves dynamic content (such as a counter) but without the Pragma: No-Cache header, thus asking to be cached. This should be made both on IIX and abroad. Then the robot should to the following: 1. Request the page and

Re: Floppy based router to share ADSL/Cable

2002-04-08 Thread Eli Marmor
Skliarouk Arieh wrote: Is anyone using Floppy based distribution to share ADSL/Cable in Israel? There is a lot of them on http://lwn.net/Distributions/, but I decided to ask in the list before trying. I, as well as many others, use something similar to the architecture that you mentioned.

Re: Astra Linux Scanner

2002-04-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm thanks alot, I also heard Epson ones are supported too am I correct ? Why don't you check the appropriate HOWTO? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Lisp] is the only computer language that is beautiful. - Neal Stephenson

Re: Linux Astra Scanner

2002-04-08 Thread eg_2002
Oh and hetz, your e-mail address seems to be dead... On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:43:28PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:40:32PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Bad luck, my friend... If you can replace it - HP3300/3400/3400c scanners (and other HP scanners)

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Eli Marmor wrote: The solution of some ISP's was simple: They route all your traffic through transparent caching proxies. Is this a real problem or just FUD. When I was at Hebrew U (CS institute) (96-98) and since I have been here, we have always run web proxies. AFIK Netvision has run one

CapsLock-Ctrl Switch ?!

2002-04-08 Thread eg_2002
Hello ! I have heard about a strange thing that old UNIX keyboard(s) (including the 'Happy Hacking Keyboard' variants) have something like 60 keys and instead of the Caps Lock key the Ctrl key is there (which seems to be much more convenient for emacs :-)) the CapsLock is not there... (I read it

Re: Linux is Not legal ??

2002-04-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Some distros put proprietary software on their boxed CD's, by contract with software producers. This software is not available on the ISO images you can download, only in the boxed sets you buy. This is a good reason to BUY the distro instead of downloading it, or

Re: Linux is Not legal ??

2002-04-08 Thread Amir Tal
On Monday 08 April 2002 18:10, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Amir, FLAME IGLU's [ Some FUD Amir copied from some article on Sourceforge removed ] You be the judge of that. http://www.whatsup.org.il/article.php?sid=143 I'm usually a very easy going person and I usually try to keep away

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eli Marmor wrote: The solution of some ISP's was simple: They route all your traffic through transparent caching proxies. it never caused any complaints. Hi Geoff, If I understood Eli correctly, it causes problems when you need to

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Eli Marmor
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: ... As a DEVELOPER of proxies, I'm aware of the advantages of proxies, and you don't have to convince me. But as a developer of proxies, I also know quite well their disadvantages, especially when they are transparent, without giving any choice to the user, and

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: If I understood Eli correctly, it causes problems when you need to upload to a remote site and are routed to your ISP's transparent proxy instead. That definately would cause a problem. But I have never heard of it being done, I've only heard of upgrading web pages,

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Eli Marmor
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: If I understood Eli correctly, it causes problems when you need to upload to a remote site and are routed to your ISP's transparent proxy instead. That definately would cause a problem. But I have never heard of it being done,

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Eli Marmor wrote: But you can't test them, because your browser keeps showing the old content. Sometimes you can prevent caching by HTTP headers. This sounds like a local cache setting problem. Make sure you set local cache to check every time. Try SHIFT-RELOAD (hold down shift and click

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Eli Marmor wrote: (of course, reverse proxies are a different issue, have many advantages, and almost no disadvantage). Great. What are they? Shachar = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: Astra Linux Scanner

2002-04-08 Thread eg_2002
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:56:38PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm thanks alot, I also heard Epson ones are supported too am I correct ? Why don't you check the appropriate HOWTO? Hmm, I have read it before i even thought about posting to here... anyway, i

Re: Linux is Not legal ??

2002-04-08 Thread Oleg Kobets
Hi, All. Guys, you really acting like kiddies here. As I understand it(maybe I wrong), this list is intented for everyone to discuss linux subjects. Well, if this is true, so Amir did nothing out of order by posting a linux related, translated story. This is my opinion of course and you can

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Eli Marmor
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Eli Marmor wrote: But you can't test them, because your browser keeps showing the old content. Sometimes you can prevent caching by HTTP headers. This sounds like a local cache setting problem. Make sure you set local cache to check every time. Try

RE: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Arie Vayner
Hi I would like to point you to: http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/ Arie -Original Message- From: Eli Marmor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 8:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

Re: Line diff

2002-04-08 Thread Daniel Pearson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002, Iftach Hyams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: Is there a utility that diff single line, something like : This is line 1, This is Line 2 ! will result with This is line 1 RR++ L2 ! You might be interested in wdiff.

Re: updating from MDK 8.1 to MDK 8.2

2002-04-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My previous updates to new versions of Mandrake have always been problematical or even diasasterous. The MDK installation is great, but for some reason, at least in 7.2, 8.0 and 8.1, the upgrade has always caused me problems - loss of

icq + linux netfilter + kernel 2.4.4 timeout

2002-04-08 Thread Tzahi Fadida
I have a problem with icq, when there is a disconnection sometimes it does not realize something which causes it to try to reconnect over and over without success. When I stop this loop by, clicking offline and then online it connects fine (until the next time). The deal is, that icq 2001b,

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002, Eli Marmor wrote about Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel: As I wrote in a previous message, I not only reload, but also clean all the cache any time to ensure that nothing survived in the local browser since the previous time. With all the honor to proxies, there

Re: CapsLock-Ctrl Switch ?!

2002-04-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ! I have heard about a strange thing that old UNIX keyboard(s) (including the 'Happy Hacking Keyboard' variants) have something like 60 keys and instead of the Caps Lock key the Ctrl key is there (which seems to be much more convenient for

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Eli Marmor
Nadav Har'El wrote: What if you use HTTP headers, like Pragma: no-cache (the simplest) or If-Modified-Since: ? I don't know how to tell a browser like Mozilla to use such a header (I would have thought they'd do it when you hit shift-reload...), but you can easily do it with wget or curl

Re: Slightly OT: yellow pages blocks our browsers

2002-04-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Sagi Bashari wrote: From: Herouth Maoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems that the Yellow Pages site (www.yp.co.il) blocks all non-MSIE browsers from entering. Has anybody found out a way around it, or perhaps, found out what exactly it is looking for? Itried changing the

Re: Sony Vaio

2002-04-08 Thread Arie Folger
On Saturday 06 April 2002 20:56, Aviram Jenik wrote: Anybody tried Linux on a Sony Vaio? (specifically Sony Vaio R505). Two main things that not working: Video card and modem. Things that I'd very much like to see as well: baterry management and APM support (e.g. hibernation). - Aviram I

The cursor when writing Hebrew in KDE 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Arie Folger
I installed KDE 3.0, and it rocks! I don't know how they did it, but the programs are faster, without noticeable increase of loading time (it may even take less time to load initially). The unicode support is great. Now one problem: When writing in Hebrew, the cursor doesn't realize that

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Eli Marmor wrote: But as a developer of proxies, I also know quite well their disadvantages, especially when they are transparent, without giving any choice to the user, and when any type of site must pass them, no matter if it uses things that are problematic for a

Re: Linux is Not legal ??

2002-04-08 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Amir Tal wrote: well, the people who posted their responces on NewsForge had their chance to say what they had in mind. i, personaly, think that its a load of crup to, and what i did was just bring the story in hebrew to readers here. whats the point of starting some