Re: can't save data on disk-on-key

2003-11-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:39:11AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 22:55, Oron Peled wrote: > > On Saturday 29 November 2003 20:17, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > > I then went to the **extreme** of re-booting and spoiling my uptime ;-) > > > a few times with and without the

Re: can't save data on disk-on-key

2003-11-29 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Saturday 29 November 2003 22:55, Oron Peled wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 20:17, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > I then went to the **extreme** of re-booting and spoiling my uptime ;-) > > a few times with and without the device in the USB plug. What I > > discovered is that the device seems

Re: adding windows hebrew fonts??

2003-11-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:17:42PM +0200, Aaron wrote: > Hi all, > I once had Mandrake and its font utility let me install all my windows > fonts on linux including the hebrew ones. > > Anyone know how to do the same thing on Redhat??? > thanks > Aaron Most of the programs use Xfs/fontconfig. Fur

adding windows hebrew fonts??

2003-11-29 Thread Aaron
Hi all, I once had Mandrake and its font utility let me install all my windows fonts on linux including the hebrew ones. Anyone know how to do the same thing on Redhat??? thanks Aaron = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't save data on disk-on-key

2003-11-29 Thread Oron Peled
On Saturday 29 November 2003 20:17, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I then went to the **extreme** of re-booting and spoiling my uptime ;-) > a few times with and without the device in the USB plug. What I discovered > is that the device seems to work as expected **out-of-the-box** the first > time only,

Re: can't save data on disk-on-key

2003-11-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 08:17:41PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > Unfortunately, I discovered that the change from auto to vfat was not the > solution to the problem. I don't like **magic** or things that seem to happen > for no reason. There's always a reason - we just have to find it. > > Afte

Re: can't save data on disk-on-key

2003-11-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Few other ideas: 1. Try to write to an existing file. Create a file an a "stable" way (e.g. after reboot - you said that works), then 'cat >' into it and see if it stays there or returning to original content. When you do, do umount and sync yourself before unplugging it. This should eliminate FS-s

Re: [OT?] SPAM

2003-11-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: [OT?] SPAM": The problem is not that spammers subscribe to this list. The problem are the web archives. You might be surprised, but in addition to what you said, spammers actually *do* try to subscribe to mailing l

Re: extended Israeli keyboard layout

2003-11-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 06:28:37PM +0200, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > yTzafrir Cohen wrote on 2003-11-26: > > > Hi > > > > http://iglu.org.il/cgi-bin/fom?file=86 has been updated regarding > > keyboard configuration. I also put there more information about the > > avilable extended variants of the I

Re: [OT?] SPAM

2003-11-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: [OT?] SPAM": > The problem is not that spammers subscribe to this list. The problem are > the web archives. You might be surprised, but in addition to what you said, spammers actually *do* try to subscribe to mailing list and find addresses o

Re: can't save data on disk-on-key

2003-11-29 Thread Shlomo Solomon
In my post 2 minutes ago, I forgot to add that after the first time, re-plugging the donggle doesn't create a desktop icon automatically. But mount /dev/sda1 creates the icon and mounts the device. On Saturday 29 November 2003 20:31, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 20:17, Shlomo

Re: can't save data on disk-on-key

2003-11-29 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Saturday 29 November 2003 20:31, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 20:17, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > was gone. I can only guess that kudzu periodically checks and updates > > fstab (maybe a cron job - I didn't check). > > Please note that when you plug the dongle while running, wha

Re: can't save data on disk-on-key

2003-11-29 Thread Oded Arbel
On Saturday 29 November 2003 20:17, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > was gone. I can only guess that kudzu periodically checks and updates fstab > (maybe a cron job - I didn't check). Please note that when you plug the dongle while running, what is responsible for mounting the driver (and putting an icon

Re: can't save data on disk-on-key

2003-11-29 Thread Shlomo Solomon
Unfortunately, I discovered that the change from auto to vfat was not the solution to the problem. I don't like **magic** or things that seem to happen for no reason. There's always a reason - we just have to find it. After my previous message (about an hour ago), I decided to play with the dev

Loss of Hebrew KB Input after SuSE 9.0 Upgrade

2003-11-29 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hello folks! I just upgraded my SuSE 8.1 system yo SuSE 9.0. Everything worked fine (for a change) - except I no longer get Hebrew keyboard input, just question marks, "dominos" or nothing. This applies to native Linux apps as well as Win stuff running under Crossover Office. Things done: 1. C

Re: extended Israeli keyboard layout

2003-11-29 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
yTzafrir Cohen wrote on 2003-11-26: > Hi > > http://iglu.org.il/cgi-bin/fom?file=86 has been updated regarding > keyboard configuration. I also put there more information about the > avilable extended variants of the Israeli layout in XFree 4.3 . > Small correction: AFAIK, when you use ``us,il`` y

Re: can't save data on disk-on-key

2003-11-29 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Saturday 29 November 2003 01:39, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2003 20:49, you wrote: > > xfs, xiafs are supported). If this probe fails, > > mount will try to read the file /etc/filesystems, > > or, if that does not exist, /proc/filesy