Re: Kernel Modules Legal Status (was: Re: [REOPENED TOPIC] Re: [OT???]...

2003-11-17 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday 17 November 2003 05:54, Micha Feigin wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 09:11:08PM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: If you are warried about hardware support for Linux -- than try to accept only OSS drivers and wait for critical mass to force the vendors. but I also want my hardware to work,

Re: Kernel Modules Legal Status (was: Re: [REOPENED TOPIC] Re: [OT???]...

2003-11-17 Thread Idan Sofer
On Monday 17 November 2003 05:54, you wrote: solutions, but I also want my hardware to work, and to have some proffessional quallity software that there is no chance will ever hit the opensource. Although drifting off again, peer pressure wont solve all the opensource problems. Lets see peer

Re: [OT???]Re: protecting one's IP [CLOSED TOPIC]

2003-11-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote about Re: [OT???]Re: protecting one's IP [CLOSED TOPIC]: Check out your favorite dictionary or encyclopedia what a patent means, or at least what it was supposed to mean before unscrupulous companies started using it to destroy the free market. ...

Re: [OT] OSS lint-type static checker?

2003-11-17 Thread linux-il
I've found it too yesterday. It appears that they are concentrating on security rather than correctness - maybe that's why their warnings were meaningless in your case, and since they don't support C++ (at least according to the site) I'd expect they wouldn't catch many C++ language-related

Re: Kernel Modules Legal Status (was: Re: [REOPENED TOPIC] Re: [OT???]...

2003-11-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:01:37AM +0200, Idan Sofer wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 05:54, you wrote: solutions, but I also want my hardware to work, and to have some professional quality software that there is no chance will ever hit the opensource. Although drifting off again, peer

Re: Kernel Modules Legal Status (was: Re: [REOPENED TOPIC] Re: [OT???]...

2003-11-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:02:05AM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 05:54, Micha Feigin wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 09:11:08PM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: If you are warried about hardware support for Linux -- than try to accept only OSS drivers and wait for critical

Re: Kernel Modules Legal Status (was: Re: [REOPENED TOPIC] Re: [OT???]...

2003-11-17 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday 17 November 2003 15:29, Micha Feigin wrote: The problem is with older hardware I pick up from people that no longer use it (which is most of my hardware). This is right to the point. Having hardware with binary drivers is like having an expiration date built into the hardware (Pag

Re: KDE 3 screen server files.

2003-11-17 Thread Noam Meltzer
David Harel wrote: Hi, Does anyone knows how the screen saver mechanism is arranged in KDE 3 on RH 9? That is where the files are and what they do? if you're a sysadmin who want to restrict or define defaults for his users (not only in the screensaver), you can try looking in this dir:

Re: Fw: What's wrong with this code?

2003-11-17 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Monday 17 November 2003 08:41, Tal, Shachar wrote: It makes it harder, as diffs are examined (by a single person or two people) before introducing code to the main branch. It's possible to obfuscate a backdoor, of course, but harder than when no one is watching. Or to put it shorty: Bad

RE: Fw: What's wrong with this code?

2003-11-17 Thread Arik Baratz
-Original Message- From: Gilad Ben-Yossef [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] Bad closed source company: no one watches the code. Good closed source comapny: one or two person watches the code. Open Source: ~10k of the world best programmer watch the code. I think you should rather say:

crossover office, external program instellation directory

2003-11-17 Thread Micha Feigin
I am testing out crossover office and I tried to intall some programs. I want to install the programs globaly so all users can use them (actually only me but I want them centralized). When install using the normal interface the programs are installed into a local wine directort in the user's dir.

Re: Fw: What's wrong with this code?

2003-11-17 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:21:21PM +0200, Arik Baratz wrote: Abandoned open source: No one watches the code. Ever. No one knows where to find it. Only binaries are left, and only on ftp.funet.fi and only in some obscure folder. If no sources are left, it's not open source, is it? Cheers,

X Forwarding via SSH

2003-11-17 Thread Leonid Podolny
Hi, I have some weird ssh (X?) configuration issue I'm unable to resolve. Pretty standard scenario: I want to connect to the box A from the box B and run there X-based programs having the output forwarded to the box B via ssh tunnel. The /etc/ssh/sshd_config has X11Forwarding yes line in it.

Re: bugzilla reports

2003-11-17 Thread Tomer Cohen
I'm trying to look for a prorgam which connects to bugzilla and can create reports based on the bugs in the bugzilla.. Bugzilla 2.16.x has a very basic 'report' scheme which is not sufficient... Recent versions of bugzilla allow CSV access to any page. You can run a query on the web, than ask

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2003-11-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Leonid Podolny wrote: Hi, I have some weird ssh (X?) configuration issue I'm unable to resolve. Pretty standard scenario: I want to connect to the box A from the box B and run there X-based programs having the output forwarded to the box B via ssh tunnel. The /etc/ssh/sshd_config has

Re: bugzilla reports

2003-11-17 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Try the Red Hat version of bugzilla, available from bugzilla.redhat.com. It works with a PostgreSQL backend too. b On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Tomer Cohen wrote: I'm trying to look for a prorgam which connects to bugzilla and can create reports based on the bugs in the bugzilla.. Bugzilla

Re: MDK 9.2

2003-11-17 Thread Diego Iastrubni
There are some other problems: 1) sometimes if you update the kernel (to 2.4.22-21mdk for example) ext3 root partitions cannot be mounted 2) if you press the magic button, and then reboot, it will ask you to run fsck, even if you have an ext3 partition. do not press y, since it's done without

RE: X Forwarding via SSH

2003-11-17 Thread Arik Baratz
-Original Message- From: Leonid Podolny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] _X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed for tcp _X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for tcp _X11TransOpen: transport open failed for tcp/localhost:10 Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0

RE: Fw: What's wrong with this code?

2003-11-17 Thread Arik Baratz
-Original Message- From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] Abandoned open source: No one watches the code. Ever. No one knows where to find it. Only binaries are left, and only on ftp.funet.fi and only in some obscure folder. If no sources are left, it's not open

Re: Fw: What's wrong with this code?

2003-11-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Tal, Shachar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Shachar Shemesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Lets separate what the app can do, with the way it is being typically deployed. I am yet to see a deployment of clearcase where developers were given commit access to certain parts of a program,

Re: crossover office, external program instellation directory

2003-11-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:35:13PM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: install cxofffice as root, and install app's as root as well. administrator menu like in real windows. I installed it as root which installed it into /usr/local/cxoffice. When I installed a program as root a link in /usr/bin was

Re: crossover office, external program instellation directory

2003-11-17 Thread Gil Freund
Micha Feigin wrote: I am testing out crossover office and I tried to intall some programs. I want to install the programs globaly so all users can use them (actually only me but I want them centralized). When install using the normal interface the programs are installed into a local wine

Re: KDE 3 screen server files.

2003-11-17 Thread David Harel
Where is the directory $KDEDIR typically located and how do I check this variable assignment? Noam Meltzer wrote: David Harel wrote: Hi, Does anyone knows how the screen saver mechanism is arranged in KDE 3 on RH 9? That is where the files are and what they do? if you're a sysadmin who want

strange URL behaviour

2003-11-17 Thread Shlomo Solomon
Hi, My network consists of my Mandrake 9.1 box and 3 Win98 machines. All 4 machines and my Alcatel ADSL modem are connected to a hub and I run iptables with masquerading to allow the Win98 machines access to the internet. Until recently, all machines could reach any URL. But recently, the

Re: strange URL behaviour

2003-11-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Shlomo Solomon wrote: Hi, My network consists of my Mandrake 9.1 box and 3 Win98 machines. All 4 machines and my Alcatel ADSL modem are connected to a hub and I run iptables with masquerading to allow the Win98 machines access to the internet. Until ... reached by Mozilla on the Mandrake

Re: MDK 9.2

2003-11-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:24:39PM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Tzafrir, no it's the SAME thing I got last month. the funniest thing is that they freezed cooker for 2-3 week for bug hunting. nothing was committed to cooker in those weeks, and 1.5 week after 9.2 was released to club

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-17 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Shlomi Fish wrote on 2003-11-03: Now, for the choice of language: Perl - my favourite language (;-)). There's more than one way to do it. Very flexible. A lot of different ways to accomplish the same thing. Some people love it. Some people hate it. You can't know until you've tried. Python

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2003-11-17 Thread Leonid Podolny
When you connect via ssh, and you do echo $DISPLAY, what is the output? Shachar localhost:10.0 (It also appears at the error message I have previously sent) L. = To unsubscribe, send mail to

RE: X Forwarding via SSH

2003-11-17 Thread Leonid Podolny
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Arik Baratz wrote: Can you plese post the result of: ssh -v -n -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] xlogo Type the password if necessary. If the window opens, close it. Cut and paste the results and post here. -- Arik kk -- Attached file included as plaintext by Listar --

Re: KDE 3 screen server files.

2003-11-17 Thread Noam Meltzer
$KDEDIR is an environment variable that I believe every user should have. If it does not exist, common places might be: /usr/share/ (ugly, but mandrake9.1 use this one) /usr/kde/ver./share/ (much prettier, this how it works on my gentoo) I believe that RedHat might use the first one, as

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2003-11-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Leonid Podolny wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Arik Baratz wrote: Can you plese post the result of: ssh -v -n -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] xlogo Type the password if necessary. If the window opens, close it. Cut and paste the results and post here. -- Arik kk -- Attached file included as

SUSE: free or not-free ? [opinion]

2003-11-17 Thread Dovix
Occasionally, discussions erupt in various forums as to whether SUSE is free or not free. Two such examples were argued lately in Whatsup and Tapuz. It looks like different people have different opinions as to how to define free. Since I am not a lawyer, I usually turn to GNU to check whether

Re: strange URL behaviour

2003-11-17 Thread Guy Teverovsky
Do you have --clamp-mss-to-pmtu in your iptables script ? Something like: $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS \ --clamp-mss-to-pmtu Guy On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 22:45, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Hi, My network consists of my Mandrake 9.1 box and 3 Win98 machines. All 4

Re: strange URL behaviour

2003-11-17 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I do, but I admit to not knowing what that means - is this what you meant? [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# iptables -L|grep clamp TCPMSS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp flags:SYN,RST/SYN TCPMSS clamp to PMTU On Tuesday 18 November 2003 04:36, Guy Teverovsky wrote: Do you

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2003-11-17 Thread Oleg Kobets
And one more thing to add to Shahar's, does your .Xauthority has the correct permissions for your user ? If user (leonid in your case) cannot read and write the file, then you will get permission denied error. Oleg. - Original Message - From: Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Leonid

Re: strange URL behaviour

2003-11-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MTU. The MTU of your windows boxes is too big. Set it to about 1400. Why would that affect only specific URLs consistently? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe,

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote on 2003-11-03: Now, for the choice of language: Perl - my favourite language (;-)). There's more than one way to do it. Very flexible. A lot of different ways to accomplish the same thing. Some people love it. Some people