Any chance of ever unsubscribing from this list? :)

2004-03-04 Thread Alon Weinstein
I'm trying hopelessly to unsubscribe myself from the list (moving to new mailbox), but no matter what I do it doesn't work. I tried following the instructions on the list's web page, tried emailing the administrator, nothing helped. Is there some special way to do it? Alon.

Re: LINUX howto's

2004-02-23 Thread Alon Weinstein
Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yehuda Tzadik, from the post of Mon, 23 Feb: I work in Bezeq International Yehuda Zadik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yigal Shilon? is that you? LOL I noticed that too, pretty funny. = To unsubscribe, send

Re: LINUX howto's

2004-02-23 Thread Alon Weinstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alon Weinstein wrote: Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yehuda Tzadik, from the post of Mon, 23 Feb: I work in Bezeq International Yehuda Zadik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yigal Shilon? is that you? LOL I noticed that too, pretty funny. I noticed that too. But childish

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread Alon Weinstein
How about meeting them half-way -- first thing to suggest using mysql/postgresql as the database instead of access -- they're free, and at least I know mysql can run on Windows without a problem. Access has no advantages over mysql in this kind of setup, and mysql by far surpasses Access as a

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread Alon Weinstein
Unfortunetly, at the moment Postgres only has a cygwin version for Windows. There is no native Win32 version at this stage. Also, due to name folding differences, you may find that some tweaking of the SQL statements is required. I have started a project in the past to allow easy translation

Re: The Dale Carnegie way of avoiding MS-PowerPoint attachments

2004-02-11 Thread Alon Weinstein
Perhaps an in-between approach would do best -- read the document using available tools (i.e OOo Impress), and send back an explanation about why you would prefer *not* to receive documents in proprietary, closed formats and also provide links to OSS solutions that the sender can use -- in

Re: What Dist for a servers

2004-01-29 Thread Alon Weinstein
Ben-Nes Michael wrote: I'm going to install a new server and as usual im asking my self what distro should I use. Until now I used Redhat and the latest version installed is 7.3, which work very well. What about Fedora ? is it suitable for a web server or any other server ? Or its better if I buy

Re: mysql hebrew

2004-01-29 Thread Alon Weinstein
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:40:40PM +0200, Aaron wrote: Hi all, I am creating a mysql database which needs to have fields in hebrew and other in english. This means that the text will be in hebrew. when I type hebrew in a field I get an error and I see this: *Error*

Re: Mozilla and External Mail Client

2004-01-29 Thread Alon Weinstein
Look at the mozex plugin, it'll let you do what you want to. (mozex.mozdev.org) Amichai Rotman wrote: Hey All, Any of you know how to make Mozilla use a different e-mail client than its' own? Whenever I click a mailto: link, I get the config wizard for the Mozilla Mail. I am using KMail,

Re: power button to shutdown linux

2004-01-20 Thread Alon Weinstein
Erez Doron wrote: hi i'm looking for a way to shutdown linux via the power button. if i press it while it is running windows, it shuts down all apps, then turns of if i press it while running linux, it will turn of immidiatly. i want it to shut down as if i press 'ctrl-alt-del' in a VT (but i

Re: [JOB OFFER] Adwise Seeking - PHP Professional

2004-01-18 Thread Alon Weinstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Ori Idan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think I would like to do this job. However there is one small thing that is stopping me from sending my resume. For moral reasons I DO NOT USE MS-Word nor MS-Word formats!!! If you remove this requirement, not only that you get my

Re: SATA and AMD64 questions

2004-01-08 Thread Alon Weinstein
Arie Folger wrote: There was some talk about Mandrake (even in 2.4 kernels) already supporting SATA and about 2.6 supporting SATA. Anybody has experience with this? Is all SATA supported or only some chipsets? Mandrake had support for some SATA controllers since 9 or 9.1, but it usually

Re: Complaining and Solving Problems of the Nvidia Drivers

2004-01-02 Thread Alon Weinstein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego Iastrubni wrote: | so what were those rumours saying that 3D games on linux have more frame rate | then on windows? | | BTW, | is there TV out support on their drivers? | The drivers on the site are for 8500 and 9x000, how abut the 7x000 family?

Re: problem with booting mandrake 9.1

2003-12-30 Thread Alon Weinstein
Assaf Flatto wrote: Hello I'm trying to boot my laptop to my Linux partition (dual boot with w2k ). I start the boot process and I encounter a problem in the fstab file trying to access a USB disconnected hard drive . I try and fix the problem only to get the message that the ext2 file system

Re: Frighting possibilities (gnome-2.4 + fedora oddity)

2003-12-29 Thread Alon Weinstein
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2003, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about Re: Frighting possibilities (gnome-2.4 + fedora oddity): It all started because of Ilya. I tried to get the notification thingy running and could not see the mail notification icon - Naturally I CTRL-ALT-F1'nd

Re: Mozilla 1.4.7 and jre1.3.1.01 plug-in strange behavior

2003-12-24 Thread Alon Weinstein
Assaf Flatto wrote: Hi For my work I need the jre1.3.1.01 plug-in for connecting to several application. I've downloaded the RPM from the Sun site and installed it as the manual in the site specifies . I made the symbolic link and placed all the files in the respective locations , but when I try

Re: Various performance problems

2003-12-16 Thread Alon Weinstein
guy keren wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I have a (couple of) client(s) that have performance problems across linux distirbutions. That is - they try an operation on a given platform with a given (redhat both cases) distribution, and get a certain performance. Then they try

Re: Various performance problems

2003-12-16 Thread Alon Weinstein
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:21:27AM +0200, Alon Weinstein wrote: cat /etc/ld.so.conf, assuming it hasn't been changed since the last time someone ran ldconfig. Looking at /etc/ld.so.conf: /usr/kerberos/lib /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib /opt/opengroupware.org

Re: [Solved] Re: thunderbird links - the saga continues...

2003-12-10 Thread Alon Weinstein
Lior Kesos wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you reportted to Bugzilla that the bug is not resolved? No, but I contacted darin fisher which wrote the script. He/She(?) told me that using Firebird 0.7 isn't enough and that I need to a 0.7 nightly build. So I went and downloaded the

Re: thunderbird links

2003-12-03 Thread Alon Weinstein
Nice if you prefer Konqi, I don't. I don't use KDE at all actually. What should really happen is Thunderbird running (IMO) htmlview -- which can be configured to run whatever browser you'd like -- I now have Gaim open links in Firebird by changing /usr/bin/htmlview. Lior Kesos wrote: The whole

Re: Solution -- Open links in Firebird from Thunderbird

2003-12-01 Thread Alon Weinstein
there's no instance to do that. Sucks. I registered to some Mozilla mailing lists in hope to find answers to this problem. Alon. Lior Kesos wrote: Alon Weinstein wrote: Works for me. What needs to be improved is to make Firebird open a new tab/window if it's already loaded and not try to open

Re: Red Hat 9 installation problem.

2003-11-03 Thread Alon Weinstein
I have a system with an on-board VIA SATA. 2.6.0test5 and beyond have good support for this chipset, and by manually patching a rawhide 2.4.22 kernel using this thread as reference -- http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg202339.html -- I got the SATA running on 2.4.x. The author of libata

Problem with ide-scsi under 2.6.0-test8

2003-10-20 Thread Alon Weinstein
(sorry for the lengthy post, but I thought adding as much relevant output could help solving this problem) I've compiled kernel 2.6.0-test8. Everything works great except my CD-RW. I have a KT-600 based motherboard, with a S-ATA drive (hda, using ide=reverse kernel parameter), an IDE drive

Hercules 3D Prophet 7000 dual-head VGA / Radeon 7000 dual-head VGA

2003-09-21 Thread Alon Weinstein
Hello all. I'm trying to set up a dual-head configuration on RH9 with a Hercules 3D Prophet 7000 Dual-head (that's two VGA connectors) card, which is a Radeon 7000 with two VGA connectors. (I've posted a similar question in the xfree86 users mailing list, alas, no answers so far.) I've

Samba 3.0.0RC1 RPM

2003-08-19 Thread Alon Weinstein
I built a RPM package (under RH9) from the Samba 3.0.0 RC1 sources (using the spec file from the 3rd beta). Is there a place I can upload the file to for the general public to use? it's aprox. 16mb. Alon = To unsubscribe, send mail

RE: Samba 3.0.0RC1 RPM

2003-08-19 Thread Alon Weinstein
, Alon Weinstein wrote: I built a RPM package (under RH9) from the Samba 3.0.0 RC1 sources (using the spec file from the 3rd beta). Is there a place I can upload the file to for the general public to use? it's aprox. 16mb. Alon

RE: [Fwd: BSA Accuses OpenOffice ftp sites of piracy]

2003-03-04 Thread Alon Weinstein
Because if you open KWord, you can't take it as anything else but a clone of MS-Word. It looks the same, it feels the same, and it has a very related name. Every little item on the window's outline just happen to be exactly where MS-Word put it. This can't be mistaken. So... don't open

RE: 2nd_MORE [was: Equipment - anyone?]

2003-02-23 Thread Alon Weinstein
Since this is becoming a main-stream thing to post the list of junk, here's what I have: Adaptec PCI SCSI controller (with internal external connector) Adaptec ISA SCSI controller (only external connector) 16 port 10Mbit Hub 8 port 10Mbit Hub (w/ one additional BNC port) 1 3Com Etherlink III

RE: Problem installing not generic network card

2003-02-17 Thread Alon Weinstein
Hi, I got some ISA SMC card on redhat 8.0 The chip on this card is 8416BT , I was able to download a driver from the scylid tulip project site I got some smc-ultra.c file , what do I do with it ? I see a smc-ultra.c file in the kernel sources (drivers/net/) -- I think you could simply compile

RE: Linux supported laptop anyone?

2003-02-03 Thread Alon Weinstein
I'm looking to buy a laptop that supports Linux. I'm not so picky about the bundled Windows XP problem, as I'm going to need a MS O$ on it If you have positive experience, please let me know. I'm looking for something mid-low end (read - cheap). I own an IBM Thinkpad T21. I installed Red Hat

RE: recursive grep with hidden files and directories

2003-01-24 Thread Alon Weinstein
The subject says it all. The -R switch is recursive, but ignores hidden directories. And grep also ignores hidden files. Is there a way around this? I think the simplest solution is to supply grep with the filenames using a pipe from ls -a

RE: on web learning(high learning) help request

2003-01-24 Thread Alon Weinstein
I couldn't get the importance of the problem from your post. Is it something that is already widely implemented or is it some buzz words system that someone is trying to sell? I know that TAU also uses this system, so I think it's safe to say it's gaining momentum.

Still having problems with HP OfficeJet CUPS.

2003-01-23 Thread Alon Weinstein
I've posted a message a few days ago about problems with installing an HP OfficeJet G85 (via USB) to use with CUPS. I've made some progress since then, but I can't make it work fully. I use Redhat 7.3, I have foomatic, hpijs (HP InkJet driver), hpoj (HP OfficeJet driver) cups installed. The

RE: Still having problems with HP OfficeJet CUPS.

2003-01-23 Thread Alon Weinstein
I've posted a message a few days ago about problems with installing an HP OfficeJet G85 (via USB) to use with CUPS. I've made some progress since then, but I can't make it work fully. I use Redhat 7.3, I have foomatic, hpijs (HP InkJet driver), hpoj (HP OfficeJet driver) cups

RE: Still having problems with HP OfficeJet CUPS.

2003-01-23 Thread Alon Weinstein
If you're using CUPS, what does its web status tells you? is it in idle mode? did you try to send a test print from the CUPS web interface? It shows idle, and I tried to send the test print from the CUPS web interface - the print job was automatically aborted. I found I can do lpr

RE: Still having problems with HP OfficeJet CUPS.

2003-01-23 Thread Alon Weinstein
Let's try to check hardware configuration: 1. How is the Parallel Port configured in your BIOS? 2. Does the printer cable support bidirectional communication? 3. According to HP's printer diagnostics software, is there bidirectional communication between the computer and the printer?

RE: Still having problems with HP OfficeJet CUPS.

2003-01-23 Thread Alon Weinstein
hmmm don't know why Alon thinks CUPS sucks, I love it, easy to install configure and work very well with samba. I'm Alon, and I agree -- I installed a Lexmark E322 with no problems. I started the thread, not Geoffrey, which mentioned he dislikes CUPS. can you show us tail of CUPS logs ?

RE: upcoming RH 8.1 and packages removal

2003-01-23 Thread Alon Weinstein
- WindowMaker - Resource constraints - wmapm - Part of Windowmaker removal - wmclock - Part of Windowmaker removal - wmix - Part of Windowmaker removal What do you mean by resource constraints? I happen to use WindowMaker all the time :-) does that mean its not shipped with RH81?

RE: Still having problems with HP OfficeJet CUPS.

2003-01-23 Thread Alon Weinstein
can you show us tail of CUPS logs ? Here's a more detailed tail of the error log (Log Level = debug), right after trying to do: lpr ps file D [23/Jan/2003:14:44:39 +0200] [Job 17] /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic: inserted option PS code: D [23/Jan/2003:14:44:39 +0200] [Job 17] ptal-connect:

RE: Still having problems with HP OfficeJet CUPS.

2003-01-23 Thread Alon Weinstein
I noticed that cups refer to 'DESKJET 930' and not G85 check the following link: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=421906 I've been to linuxprinting (that's where I got the PPD file from, before trying to generate it using foomatic-datafile). It says that the preferred

RE: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Alon Weinstein
Indeed good news though they have long way till they match with postgres. and postgres still has a long way till they match with oracle. My choice and recommendation: PostgreSQL. I might choose mysql for building really simple sites with simple queries Does PostgreSQL match up

More printing problems -- HP OfficeJet G85

2003-01-22 Thread Alon Weinstein
Hello. I'm having trouble installing an HP OfficeJet G85 printer (I don't need its fax/scan capabilities to work for now). I followed the installation instructions in hpoj.sf.net -- the HP OfficeJet linux driver project, and the installation went OK according to the tests. I'm using CUPS -- I

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Alon Weinstein
Where can I read about those standards? the Web Standards Project could be a good place -- http://www.webstandards.org/ AFAIK, NS4 and NS6 has different DOM (I do not mention about DOM of other browsers;-), what standards say about it? IMO if you're developing a new site you should

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Alon Weinstein
Very interesting. Did you try to enter to w3c with IE, M1.x and NS4x? Tell me about ONE customer, that publish else than My home page, that will pay for such inconsistency of UI. Again -- NS4 is not standards compliant. I went to w3c's site with IE5.0, Netscape 7 Netscape 4.7. It looks the same

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Alon Weinstein
I'm agree with you. all my question were to bring an opinion as yours ( and as mine); most of complains are: Site doesn't support Linux (it is not correct, anyway. Site can not support browser) are the complains of NS4 users. I never seen sites using VbScript client-side, bandwith of today

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-21 Thread Alon Weinstein
It should even need to check for the browser's maker. You mean that a standards-compliant site should NOT check the browser maker. Oops, the 'nt slipped away from the should :-) ofcourse that's what I was trying to say. Checking for browser maker is problematic -- you can never be

RE: Samba server share won't do Hebrew [SOLVED]

2003-01-20 Thread Alon Weinstein
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Yedidyah Bar-David Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 11:31 PM To: Alon Weinstein Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Samba server share won't do Hebrew On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:16:12PM +0200, Alon Weinstein wrote: From

Installing a Lexmark printer for sharing

2003-01-20 Thread Alon Weinstein
Hello. I'm having trouble understanding what I need to do to install a printer and share it via Samba. I'm trying to install a Lexmark E322 using a parallel cable. This printer has drivers provided by Lexmark. I installed the RPMs, ran the configuration utility, created a virtual device and a

RE: Installing a Lexmark printer for sharing

2003-01-20 Thread Alon Weinstein
From: Hetz Ben Hamo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 4:26 PM To: Alon Weinstein; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing a Lexmark printer for sharing I'm having trouble understanding what I need to do to install a printer and share it via Samba. I'm

RE: Installing a Lexmark printer for sharing

2003-01-20 Thread Alon Weinstein
My problem is more basic - I don't even know how to test the printer from the Linux box -- how can I send a print job to the spool from the command line? The test I did just sends a raw PS to the LPT port -- it don't think it validates the printer installation is correct. And I

RE: Seeking for a program identical to Exceed

2003-01-19 Thread Alon Weinstein
You can select which libraries to download install during setup. Make sure gcc is marked. Read the cygwin installation manual. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of barak yaish Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 12:38 PM To: Tzafrir Cohen

Samba server share won't do Hebrew

2003-01-19 Thread Alon Weinstein
, it gets renamed to the first X letters in New Text Document (i.e -- ??? becomes New). My client is Windows 2K Pro. What could be the cause of this? Is it a problem with my Samba configuration, my codepages (is there a place I can download them from?), my Win2K configuration? Thanks. Alon Weinstein

RE: Samba server share won't do Hebrew

2003-01-19 Thread Alon Weinstein
I've setup Samba as a PDC for my network. Everything works OK except for Hebrew file names -- I just can't make it work. I tried following the instructions in the Samba manual in Iglu.org.il. What could be the cause of this? Is it a problem with my Samba configuration, my

RE: Samba server share won't do Hebrew

2003-01-19 Thread Alon Weinstein
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Yedidyah Bar-David Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 5:49 PM To: Alon Weinstein Cc: 'Yedidyah Bar-David'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Samba server share won't do Hebrew On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 03:34:53PM +0200, Alon

RE: Samba server share won't do Hebrew

2003-01-19 Thread Alon Weinstein
Hi.. I'm using Samba as a PDC at my work place with win98 workstations ( one day it will be upgraded to Linux.. :-) and here is my smb.conf ( the main issues ): [global] workgroup = blabbla netbios name = BLABLABLA server string = Samba Server %v

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Alon Weinstein
IMO, the first role Linux can take in schools is as a server. Many schools have small to medium sized networks which either don't have a central server or rely on a Windows server running on a too-slow machine. Using Linux as the server can reduce costs by both eliminating the need for

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Alon Weinstein
I think this is going too far. If children will use Linux from early grades, they might install it at their homes. In today's problematic economy, parents will be happy to pay 0$ for software, although I'm sure most children don't really pay for their Windows -Original Message- From:

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Alon Weinstein
-Original Message- Ben Avraham Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 2:54 PM Subject: Re: Edu in linux Hi Shoshannah, The reason is that the teacher wants all the kids in the class to submit material in the same format. The teacher does not have time or patience to convert

RE: JAVA and other dangers

2002-12-30 Thread Alon Weinstein
which said mechanism? I am looking for one. I know interpreted languages are problematic, and in fact if memory serves, the bare fact that the GPL code depends on the non-GPL libraries on the JVM seems to make it a questionably GPL-unfriendly environment altogether. Perhaps using GNU