Re: old hardware: suggestions for an agp video card?

2003-12-20 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an (old) 440LX sy-6kl PII board that beeps at boot time when my AGP ATI 128pro is installed, and displays nothing. It is one long beep and 3 shorts one. Googling for these beeps suggests that the mother board notifies about having some issues

Re: Christopher Hamilton Bidmead's lecture

2003-12-20 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:53:15PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: In any case, IBM had a lecture yesturday about Linux, and they brought him all the way over from the UK to give a lecture. Apparently, he is a Linux enthusiastic, and he gave a very nice lecture, which he managed to get about

Re: contact management

2003-12-20 Thread Gil Freund
Guy Teverovsky wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 23:07, Gil Freund wrote: [snip] I did that. I use LDAP now for authentication and mail routing for all 4 of my enterprise network users. I also used PHPGroupware as a front end to enter contact information so I can access it via Mozilla and such. I

[Job Offer] Lingnu is looking for a database developer

2003-12-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, Lingnu Open Consulting (temporary name) is looking for for a developer with database background for a part time job that may grow to be full time in the future. Non-freelancers are preferred, but this point is not, at this point, as important. To clarify - Wer'e looking for someone

Re: old hardware: suggestions for an agp video card?

2003-12-20 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: One comment that is *not* an answer to your question. Unless you do something *really* graphically intensive (3D games, stuff like that) AGP is an overkill performance-wise. You do not need the bandwidth for normal office work, mpegs, etc. Of course, I don't know where

Re: Christopher Hamilton Bidmead's lecture

2003-12-20 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Friday 19 December 2003 23:53, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, The guy doesn't seem to have an official homepage, so the best I can offer for you is his ImDB entry (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0081211/). In any case, IBM had a lecture yesturday about Linux, and they brought him all the way

Re: old hardware: suggestions for an agp video card?

2003-12-20 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually there is a big market these days for PCI (i.e. non AGP) video cards. Many motherboards were made with onboard AGP video, usualy Intel or SIS. They did not have AGP slots. If you want to upgrade to something better, you must buy a PCI

DocBook styles to make html documentation of kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-20 Thread Ori Idan
I have downloaded Kernel 2.6.0 and tried 'make htmldocs' but it complained that I have to install docbook styles. I have docbook installed (I think) I have downloaded the styles from the link given in /usr/linux/Documentation/Changes but found no way how to install these styles. I have searched

Re: Fwd: [linux-elitists] Fwd: [vox] Microsoft interested in our feelings

2003-12-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: A Microsoft networking division manager has been contacting LUGs (including LUGoD) regarding what appear to be focus groups concerning where you'd like to see Microsoft in five years.-6' comes to mind [read more below for details] This being

Re: Fwd: [linux-elitists] Fwd: [vox] Microsoft interested in our feelings

2003-12-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote: linux? what linux? in 5 years i would like to use the hurd! :) The hurd? (LOL secretely). Well, first of all because it's a true micro-kernel OS, it may always be slower than Linux or other monolithic kernel equivalents. Secondly, the development

Re: old hardware: suggestions for an agp video card?

2003-12-20 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: That may be true. However, if you drop by your friendly neighbourhood computer store you will be extremely lucky to find anything but ATI or nVidia AGP cards [I had to buy a video card a few weeks ago, so I am speaking from extensive experience in the field ;-). This is

Re: Fwd: [linux-elitists] Fwd: [vox] Microsoft interested in our feelings [OT]

2003-12-20 Thread Dovix
Numbering is really not an issue. See, it can always start at 3.0 as the first stable version. That practice worked quite well with NT ;) By that time Linux may still be at 2.8, and if for some reason Linus will decide to go for the magic Number 3.0, Hurd can launch as Hurd 2005 ... btw, did

Linux 2.6 -- first look into hardware handling

2003-12-20 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
A first look into handling of hardware on Linux 2.6: * Just a warning to you all -- despite DevFS being marked as OBSOLETE in the Linux 2.6.0 kernel, the replacement, udev, isn't quite there yet. udev doesn't come with a device-naming policy matching devfs' one, but with a simple proof-of-concept

Re: Linux 2.6 -- first look into hardware handling

2003-12-20 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:13:43PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: A first look into handling of hardware on Linux 2.6: * Just a warning to you all -- despite DevFS being marked as OBSOLETE in the Linux 2.6.0 kernel, the replacement, udev, isn't quite there yet. udev doesn't come with a

Re: Fwd: [linux-elitists] Fwd: [vox] Microsoft interested in our feelings

2003-12-20 Thread Ely Levy
Yea you just missing some zeros there, try 500 years;) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote: linux? what linux? in 5 years i would like to use the hurd! :) , 19 2003, 23:10,Muli Ben-Yehuda: A Microsoft networking

Re: Fwd: [linux-elitists] Fwd: [vox] Microsoft interested in our feelings

2003-12-20 Thread Meir Kriheli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 December 2003 21:10, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: A Microsoft networking division manager has been contacting LUGs (including LUGoD) regarding what appear to be focus groups concerning where you'd like to see Microsoft in five years. -6'

Re: Linux 2.6 -- first look into hardware handling

2003-12-20 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:13:43PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: * Even more frustrating is that /etc/hotplug/pci.rc relies on some 'pcimodules' utility, which is nowhere to be found. From what I've seen, on both kernel 2.4 and 2.6, you can use 'lspci' just fine. I've rewritten[1] pci.rc to

Re: [OT] Latex Q - page number appears on pg 1 with empty pagestyle

2003-12-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:03:42PM +0200, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: Quoth Micha Feigin: I am writing a document with latex using the article document class. The problem is that when setting \pagestyle{empty} either in the preamble or after the \begin{document} I still get a

Re: Fwd: [linux-elitists] Fwd: [vox] Microsoft interested in our feelings

2003-12-20 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote: linux? what linux? in 5 years i would like to use the hurd! :) What does the hypothetical hurd has promised you to do that you like to use it? Is it the name that is better than linux? IMHO forget about hurd. It's simply dead. Who's gonna write

Re: [OT] Latex Q - page number appears on pg 1 with empty pagestyle

2003-12-20 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth Micha Feigin: But the following isn't: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \title{Title} \author{Author} \maketitle Aha! Yes, that is correct - this will print \thepage on first page. Ok - three solutions: 0. use [titlepage] 1. use book or report as class 2. use

Re: DocBook styles to make html documentation of kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-20 Thread Ori Idan
Aaron wrote: What distro do you run they are included in most distros. Aaron On Saturday 20 December 2003 08:25 pm, Ori Idan wrote: I have downloaded Kernel 2.6.0 and tried 'make htmldocs' but it complained that I have to install docbook styles. I have docbook installed (I think) I have