Re: mandrake su curiousity

2005-05-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 02:57:40AM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote: On a Mandrake machine I've been using, I noticed .xauth{randomtext} files on my home directory (actually I'd noticed them long time ago, but never bothered to take a second look before), containing X authenticators. It seems

re: nezeq overcharge for internet calls

2005-05-20 Thread Peter
Hi all, I have a problem. I switched from modem to dsl and nezeq sent me the last bill for modem use. They claim I made almost twice the number of calls I made. I have confirmed calls duration and count using my system logs and the isp's system logs, and it comes out the same (within 1 call or

Re: nezeq overcharge for internet calls

2005-05-20 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Few years ago, Bezeq was forced by the Knesset to give special rates to people who make few calls per month. This came after Bezeq raised the basic phone line charge and lowered the per-second charge - a step that is good for large companies and rich teenagers and bad for poor old people with few

Re: nezeq overcharge for internet calls

2005-05-20 Thread Peter
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: Few years ago, Bezeq was forced by the Knesset to give special rates to people who make few calls per month. This came after Bezeq raised the basic phone line charge and lowered the per-second charge - a step that is good for large companies and rich

ms on the offensive again

2005-05-20 Thread Peter
Found via slashdot http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/18/AR2005051801770.html ms is preparing a w95/98 replacement 'light' xp that can run on older machines. It is aimed directly at preventing linux from making inroads where the hardware upgrades are not welcome. Peter

hebrew in vim's commands+unprintable chars

2005-05-20 Thread avraham
Hi, I am in the process of translating some very old files into LaTeX. One of these is a list of cake recipes, written initially with an early version of Einstein, the transferred to WordPerfect 5.2 for DOS, where some more recipes were added. Most of it is in Hebrew, whith some recipes in

HPOJ slowness

2005-05-20 Thread Itay Duvdevani
Hello y'all, Got a printing question... Lately I've purchased a new USB OfficeJet 5510 printer (one of those all-in-one thingies). I got it running under my Debian unstable server, using CUPS and HPOJ without a hitch. It's a printing server (a weak PII with about 133MHz), and since I've

Re: hebrew in vim's commands+unprintable chars

2005-05-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:51:41AM +0300, avraham wrote: Hi, I am in the process of translating some very old files into LaTeX. One of these is a list of cake recipes, written initially with an early version of Einstein, the transferred to WordPerfect 5.2 for DOS, where some more recipes

Re: hebrew in vim's commands+unprintable chars

2005-05-20 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 11:51 +0300, avraham wrote: In all these cases I had to retype the line. Apparenly there were some unprintable characters that did not agree with LaTeX. 1-I was not able to detect these characters with :set list in vim. I tried cat -A of the commented-out lines, but as

Re: HPOJ slowness

2005-05-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:13:13PM +0300, Itay Duvdevani wrote: Hello y'all, Got a printing question... Lately I've purchased a new USB OfficeJet 5510 printer (one of those all-in-one thingies). I got it running under my Debian unstable server, using CUPS and HPOJ without a hitch.

Re: ms on the offensive again

2005-05-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:17:50AM +0300, Peter wrote: Found via slashdot http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/18/AR2005051801770.html ms is preparing a w95/98 replacement 'light' xp that can run on older machines. It is aimed directly at preventing linux from

Re: Calling all Israeli Pythoneers

2005-05-20 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Shlomi Fish wrote: What's an IPIGgie? Sorry for inventing acronyms on you without giving enough clues. PIGgies is a nickname for (one) common name convention for local Python-Interest-Groups. It's generally *PIG* with extra letters added to refer to your locality. * python_mod-enabled Apache

Re: ms on the offensive again

2005-05-20 Thread Arik Baratz
On 20/05/05, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] For the record: what are the limitations of such XP/cheapo? IIRC it is not intended to be a real independent workstation but rather a thin client mostly. It won't run on a modern machine - only celerons and PIIIs and Durons. Checked by

Re: Calling all Israeli Pythoneers

2005-05-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 20 May 2005 13:19, you wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote: What's an IPIGgie? Sorry for inventing acronyms on you without giving enough clues. PIGgies is a nickname for (one) common name convention for local Python-Interest-Groups. It's generally *PIG* with extra letters added to refer to

Re: Calling all Israeli Pythoneers

2005-05-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 03:11:10PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: If you don't need comments, a web-interface to modify the content, or other changes that users of your site can do, then static HTML is definetely an option. It's faster and safer than server-side generated HTML, and sometimes is

Re: HPOJ slowness

2005-05-20 Thread Itay Duvdevani
On 5/20/05, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:13:13PM +0300, Itay Duvdevani wrote: Hello y'all, Got a printing question... Lately I've purchased a new USB OfficeJet 5510 printer (one of those all-in-one thingies). I got it running under my Debian

Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-20 Thread Ori Idan
I installed debian on an IBM thinkpad with LILO as it's boot loader, when LILO starts is says: Loading Linux and then draws dots for few seconds and then says BIOS check successfull and start to actualy load the kernel. Is there a way to shorten the time it draws these dots? What is this stage

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-20 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 16:07 +0300, Ori Idan wrote: I installed debian on an IBM thinkpad with LILO as it's boot loader, when LILO starts is says: Loading Linux and then draws dots for few seconds and then says BIOS check successfull and start to actualy load the kernel. Is there a way to

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-20 Thread shimi
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 16:07 +0300, Ori Idan wrote: I installed debian on an IBM thinkpad with LILO as it's boot loader, when LILO starts is says: Loading Linux and then draws dots for few seconds and then says BIOS check successfull and start to actualy load the kernel. Is there a way to

Re: How do you remotley manage a Win2k3 standalone box from linux ?

2005-05-20 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Try http://www.rdesktop.org/ It worked nice for me. On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 05:36:24PM +0300, Maxim Vexler wrote I do have remote Admin access to the server. -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901

Re: How do you remotley manage a Win2k3 standalone box from linux ?

2005-05-20 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Maxim Vexler, from the post of Fri, 20 May: So I guess the question is 2 parted : 1. How to open RDP connection from linux box (gentoo) to the server. there's a free (GPL IIRC) rdp client. you can see what encryption it uses. 2. What would you recommend installing on the server for

Re: How do you remotley manage a Win2k3 standalone box from linux ?

2005-05-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 05:36:24PM +0300, Maxim Vexler wrote: Hello list, I have a windows server that operates as standalone web server mysql db. The only remote access that currently possible to the server is using ms-RDP protocol (Remote Desktop). I think that this is insecure (I am not

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-20 Thread Ori Idan
shimi wrote: On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 16:07 +0300, Ori Idan wrote: I installed debian on an IBM thinkpad with LILO as it's boot loader, when LILO starts is says: Loading Linux and then draws dots for few seconds and then says BIOS check successfull and start to actualy load the kernel. Is there

Re: How do you remotley manage a Win2k3 standalone box from linux ?

2005-05-20 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 5/20/05, Dan Kenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try http://www.rdesktop.org/ It worked nice for me. I remembered something like this. It was my favorite hang X after 2 min game, this was on fedora2 a year ago (don't remember the version I was using though). Guess I'll give it another

Re: ms on the offensive again

2005-05-20 Thread Peter
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:17:50AM +0300, Peter wrote: Found via slashdot http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/18/AR2005051801770.html ms is preparing a w95/98 replacement 'light' xp that can run on older machines. It is aimed

Re: How do you remotley manage a Win2k3 standalone box from linux ?

2005-05-20 Thread Peter
(you DID ask the linux-il list about w2k3 access or was my mind playing tricks?) Guilty as charged. I was asking linux-il for a method to administar win-srv from a linux box, I that a crime ? It's ok, it was taken as a reqest for flogging with the SCSI cable. Granted. Peter

Re: nezeq overcharge for internet calls

2005-05-20 Thread Arik Baratz
On 20/05/05, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had this problem or similar and how did you solve it. Complaining and asking for a recheck sometimes help. It's called the system - eyther they succeed or they don't. In my company we have an always-on 128k ISDN line for backup (when the

Re: How do you remotley manage a Win2k3 standalone box from linux ?

2005-05-20 Thread Tomer Cohen
Maxim Vexler wrote: On 5/20/05, Dan Kenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try http://www.rdesktop.org/ It worked nice for me. I remembered something like this. It was my favorite hang X after 2 min game, this was on fedora2 a year ago (don't remember the version I was using though). Guess

Re: HPOJ slowness

2005-05-20 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:13:13PM +0300, Itay Duvdevani wrote: Hello y'all, Got a printing question... Lately I've purchased a new USB OfficeJet 5510 printer (one of those all-in-one thingies). I got it running under my Debian unstable server, using CUPS and HPOJ without a hitch.

Re: nezeq overcharge for internet calls

2005-05-20 Thread Peter
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Arik Baratz wrote: Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 21:08:40 +0300 From: Arik Baratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: nezeq overcharge for internet calls [Error: Formatting error: Internal base64 decoder error] Sorry Arik, can't read your reply. Peter

Re: nezeq overcharge for internet calls

2005-05-20 Thread Arik Baratz
On 20/05/05, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 May 2005, Arik Baratz wrote: Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 21:08:40 +0300 From: Arik Baratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: nezeq overcharge for internet calls [Error: Formatting error: Internal base64

Left-handed mouse pointers

2005-05-20 Thread Michael Vasiliev
Hello List, I am looking for a way to make my left-handed mouse cursor point in the right direction(from bottom left to upper right corner). Am I missing a setting somewhere? After reading the documentation, source-diving into Xcursor somehow does not look all that appealing to me...

Re: How do you remotley manage a Win2k3 standalone box from linux ?

2005-05-20 Thread guy keren
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Maxim Vexler wrote: No option for trusted subnet, the server is sitting in bezeq server farm. Could I tunnle RDP through ssh? (How?) rdp uses a tcp connection - so basically you sohuld be able to tunnel it, unless its authentication does not like seing the wrong IP

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-20 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5/21/05, Ori Idan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is this stage of dots anyway? I just downloaded the sources to take a look at the manual: compact Tries to merge read requests for adjacent sectors into a single read request. This drastically reduces load