Re: Sun Spark - Linux isoue

2002-06-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SUN did it correctly, INTEL did not. Geoff. Could you elaborate why Intel did it wrong? Take your pick: 1) Geoff is a big Sun fan. 2) If everybody did it the right way (i.e. the Sun way) we wouldn't need hton{s,l}, ntoh{s,l}. -- Oleg

Re: GPL Nuances [was Re: RMS is back again]

2002-06-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The linux kernel is licensed under a license that is not exactly the GPL. It is the GPL with an extra clause that allows binary modules (to allow support of certain kinds of hardware, and with certain limitations, but this is really *not* the place to

Re: {KDE,GNOME} iso images for MS env? Distributed by IGLU? CDsout of those images?

2002-06-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: They currently have a beta of KDE 2.2.2 .It requires an X server. They seem to have long-term plans for porting KDE to native win32, but even if they will get to that, it will take a while. the moment that they'll start implementing QT API they'll

Re: music with linux ?

2002-06-02 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Can you stop sending HTML mail please??? If you want Music based applications for Linux, look at http://freshmeat.net and search there.. Hetz On Sunday 02 June 2002 06:53, Eli Segal wrote: Can you guys tell me where can i find information on music production with linux ?? i'm a musician

bidi OO problem- rendering fonts

2002-06-02 Thread Shai Bentin
I managed to install the new bidi OO, I also installed ttf fonts with hebrew: arial, david, tahoma, narkisim... which I took from my licensed windows XP. The left right (bidi) is working fine. The only thing is that when writing hebrew letters the rendering is off. What I see is that the space

Re: music with linux ?

2002-06-02 Thread Lior Kesos
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Can you stop sending HTML mail please??? If you want Music based applications for Linux, look at http://freshmeat.net and search there.. Hetz The next link is a great resource to the leading music projects in linux . Linux Music Computer Survey

Re: Old RH distros CDs

2002-06-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Boris Gorelik wrote: Hi, I have the following distros: RH 6.0, 7.1, 7.2. I don't know what to do with them (don't want to throw them to the garbage). So if anyone wants them, please send me postal stamps and I'll send them to you. (I live and work in Jerusalem, a personal meeting is

Re: music with linux ?

2002-06-02 Thread Oron Peled
On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 08:53:28 +0200 Eli Segal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you guys tell me where can i find information on music production with linux ?? Just few links from my wwwoffle cache (btw: excelent non-music app): Some Interesting Sound MIDI Software For Linux:

Re: music with linux ?

2002-06-02 Thread Corwin
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Eli Segal wrote: Can you guys tell me where can i find information on music production with linux ?? My best linuxaudio bookmarks - http://linux-sound.org/ http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/quicktoots/ =

Re: bidi OO problem- rendering fonts

2002-06-02 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
Shai, Does that happen with all Hebrew fonts that you installed? Please be more specific about which fonts cause problem, and which, if any, are displayed correctly. Shalom (Regards), Mati Bidi Architect Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts

Correction to the welcome message (fwd)

2002-06-02 Thread Ely Levy
if you guys change the address of the faq do tell me.. what is the now address? notice that in the intro there is only ILUG and not IGLU should it be changed? is the sky blue?is the sea red? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel -- Forwarded message --

Re: Correction to the welcome message (fwd)

2002-06-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Ely Levy wrote: if you guys change the address of the faq do tell me.. what is the new address? notice that in the intro there is only ILUG and not IGLU should it be changed? The list's URL is http://linux.org.il/mailing-lists/linux-il.html BTW: do other mailing

some questions

2002-06-02 Thread Alon Kadury
hi, i'm not a sysadmin, but worked a bit on linux during my first degree, so please be kind (and rewind) and try to answer my questions as simple as you can. 1. i have a lan with a linux and windows 2000. can i access the windows file system from the linux? if so how? 2. can i allow logins

Re: some questions

2002-06-02 Thread Barak Kaufman
to share filesystems u should read the samba how-to (a system that allows accessing windows shared folders/printers) as to the telnet i personally do not know of a method to restrict logins to ip. what i could suggest is use ssh (more secure) and use the authentication keys (that way u can

Re: some questions

2002-06-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 12:53:18PM +, Alon Kadury wrote: hi, i'm not a sysadmin, but worked a bit on linux during my first degree, so please be kind (and rewind) and try to answer my questions as simple as you can. 1. i have a lan with a linux and windows 2000. can i access the

Re: some questions

2002-06-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002, Alon Kadury wrote about some questions: 1. i have a lan with a linux and windows 2000. can i access the windows file system from the linux? if so how? The thing to search for is samba. It is already included in most Linux distributions, so you can simply mount a Windows

Re: some questions

2002-06-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Barak Kaufman wrote: as to the telnet i personally do not know of a method to restrict logins to ip. If telnet is being run from inetd (normally the case), you can update your hosts.allow and hosts.deny to do that. Again, RTFM on tcpd. what i could suggest is use ssh (more secure) and use

Re: some questions

2002-06-02 Thread David Suna
2. can i allow logins (telnet logins) only from know ip's, without installing a firewall? Yes, by editing the /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow file. Check out the hosts_access(5) manual. Of course you should know that telnet's security is really crappy, because it passes passwords

Re: some questions

2002-06-02 Thread levo
On Sunday 02 June 2002 15:53, you wrote: hi, i'm not a sysadmin, but worked a bit on linux during my first degree, so please be kind (and rewind) and try to answer my questions as simple as you can. 1. i have a lan with a linux and windows 2000. can i access the windows file system from the

Re: bidi OO problem- rendering fonts

2002-06-02 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
The attached conversation may interest people on the list. Shalom (Regards), Mati Bidi Architect Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts IBM Israel Phone: +972 2 5870999 ext. 1202Fax: +972 2 5870333 Mobile: +972 52 554160

Another bidi OO prob

2002-06-02 Thread Itai Arad
Hi. I'm using bidi OO from the binaries at ILUG on MDK 8.2. Overall it runs great (though, very heavy on resources). However, I've encountered one disturbing prob: in hebrew mode, the double quotes () always appear in the wrong order - i.e., as if I was writing in english. Is that a problem in