Suse CD

2000-07-11 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
Hello. This is a message on behalf of Nimrod Carmi (who sent a message to this list about two weeks ago). He wants to know whether one or more of the following hold (with a proof...): 1. A Suse distribution is being sold in Israel, in a reasonable price. 2. One of you is willing to burn him,

Re: FW: GRUB 0.5.95 is released

2000-07-04 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
Hello. On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 09:23:26PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: Just wondering if someone here uses GRUB and if so what are his motives and other options? Yes, I'm using grub for a long time now. I'm using a boot-floppy to boot into Linux (because my hdd is portable, but isn't the

Re: Interface status detection

1999-12-21 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 04:17:17PM +0200, Muli B.Y. wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, Nimrod, I have implemented the online/offline thing this way. Shame on me for not having read the FAQ (where this stuff is mentioned) for quite some time. Nevertheless, it was a good excersize and my

Re: Is Linux on the way of getting too complicated?

1999-11-09 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 04:57:06PM +0200, Adam Morrison wrote: This figure is misleading anyway. Pure Unix has 5 system calls - open(), read(), write(), close() and fcntl(). And fcntl() hides 700 different things. Uh, no. (Btw, what's ``pure Unix''?) 'Pure Unix' - the Unix you read

Re: Is Linux on the way of getting too complicated?

1999-11-08 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 02:26:03AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: Linux 2.0 1998229 The Windows platform with 3433 API calls (up to NT4 SP3) belongs to a different league; the associated problems are documented elsewhere [2]. Is it fair to count all the Windows API calls and

Re: Newsreader

1999-11-08 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 08:56:30AM +, Yosi wrote: I am looking for a newsreader for Linux, and I would be more than grateful if you can recommend me of one. These are the things that I need in a newsreader (from the most important to the least): . . . I used to use slrn. Later, I

Re: Samba, vfat, Hebrew and Windows 98

1999-09-05 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 07:49:42AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: I guess Hetz meant the following: valid chars = 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 253 254 I couldn't find it in the archive, so I took it from my "Sent"

Samba, vfat, Hebrew and Windows 98

1999-09-04 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
Hello. I've recently installed a Samba server in the office here, for use by several Windows 98 clients. Due to various constraints, I'm currently forced not to put the data files on an ext2 filesystem, which means I have to settle with vfat. The problem is that vfat doesn't like Hebrew

Re: PERL programs running as root ?

1999-07-05 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 02:46:43PM +, Oded Arbel wrote: but to my question - is there anyway to make a PERL program run (or preform actions) as if it was root (I mean a script run by web server) ? and please dont hammer me about security, I know what I'm doing , and it's either that or

Re: anti virus (please read)

1999-06-11 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 04:38:14PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I'm plannning to install a Linux machine which will be our mail server at my work. My question: since there are so many viruses around for windows, and many users simply don't follow any instructions you give them - is there an

Re: NT vs Linux

1999-05-24 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 10:29:04PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: [clustering, fault-tolerance] Does NT have these things, though? NT4 sure doesn't (unless there's something major I'm not aware of). Sure they promise for it to be in Windows 2000 but until 2004 we can add those things too, so...

Re: Linux limitations

1999-05-24 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 02:08:33AM +0300, Liran Zvibel wrote: File size, not partition size. File size is limited by the size of the "file size" field in the kernel structures. If it's "integer", than on 32bit machine it's 2G. It is not set to integer. It is set in BITS: /* * Structure

Re: Linux limitations

1999-05-22 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:25:08AM +0300, Oren Shomron wrote: I read an article which points out two limitations of Linux - 2GB of RAM and 2GB file sizes. My question is, are these numbers accurate (for 2.2?) and if not what are the true limitations and where can I read about them. I

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-15 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:02:43AM +0300, Erez Doron wrote: 'segmentation fault' means that the program you were running tried to access (read/write) a memory which is not it's own. the diference between that and a MS blue screen, is that in linux the 'segmentation fault' of one program,

Re: NT vs. Linux Apache

1999-04-14 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 07:32:45PM +0300, Yuval Elhanany wrote: No flames please. I'm sending this for info about the opposition. I just got this from our sys-admin (NT) with whom we conduct a lot of heated discussions about why we shouldn't use NT. These are the results of a study by