Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 18 בDecember 2008, Erez D wrote: i have recently bought a new computer. my old one had nvidia , and my new has ati 4550 passive. ... [rest of horror story omitted] This is a typical usage scenario for binary add-on drivers (just google for e.g: ubuntu madwifi) What is more

Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Erez, The latest versions of Ubuntu, as well as Fedora and OpenSuSE 11.x use the latest Xorg server which *does not* need the /etc/xorg.conf file. Everything regarding the card is being done automatically (probing etc), so when you install Fedora 10 for example, you won't find this file. I

Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Erez D
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: On Thursday, 18 בDecember 2008, Erez D wrote: i have recently bought a new computer. my old one had nvidia , and my new has ati 4550 passive. ... [rest of horror story omitted] This is a typical usage scenario for

Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Erez D
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: Erez, The latest versions of Ubuntu, as well as Fedora and OpenSuSE 11.x use the latest Xorg server which *does not* need the /etc/xorg.conf file. Everything regarding the card is being done automatically (probing etc),

Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 18 December 2008, Erez D wrote: If you arg thinking of buying a new graphic card, and want to choose ati i wouldn't recommend that. [Snipped] so i say again. i wouldn't recomend buying from ATI. from now on. no ati neither amd for me. (with nvidia i used twinview and

is openmoko (hardware) really the solution ?

2008-12-18 Thread Erez D
first, i refer to the idea of using a special hardware - the freerunner. when i first heard of openmoko - the first open phone, i was very happy. once and for all i can do whatever i like with my phone, not what nokia/orange/whatever wants me to do ... however, i never got to get one

RE: Samba: convert shadow to smbpasswd.

2008-12-18 Thread Josh Roden
Thanks for the replies. I was hoping. HAPPY HANUKA! -Original Message- From: Shachar Shemesh [mailto:shac...@shemesh.biz] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:15 AM To: Dotan Shavit Cc: Josh Roden; linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: Samba: convert shadow to smbpasswd. Dotan Shavit

Re: make question

2008-12-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Jason Friedman write.to.ja...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, I have had this make question that has been bugging me for a long time. I want to fix some eps files using eps2eps. This is the makefile I use: figure1_fixed.eps: figure1.eps [tab] eps2eps $ $@ (replace [tab] with the tab