Re: The bright future of VMware

2002-12-03 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: > > My conclusion led me quicly to the investor relationship page in their > > Web site, where I was informed that the company is privately held, so > > I can't buy their shares. No wonder. The smart venture capitalists > > dump on the public worthles

The bright future of VMware

2002-12-02 Thread Omer Zak
As those who follow the questions which I have recently posted to Linux-IL could predict, I have recently experimented with VMware's wares. My conclusion led me quicly to the investor relationship page in their Web site, where I was informed that the company is privately held, so I can't buy their

[SOLVED] Re: The PS1 puzzle in RH7.3/Gnome

2002-12-02 Thread Omer Zak
On 1 Dec 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > I would be very surprized if ~/.bash_profile got executed for every > xterm. It should not be: ~/.bash_profile is only sourced for login > shells, cf. "man bash". From your description, I think your system > behaves properly and according to documentation.

The PS1 puzzle in RH7.3/Gnome

2002-12-01 Thread Omer Zak
In a stock RedHat 7.3 installation, I am trying to customize the prompt. I edited ~/.bash_profile so that it'll have also the command: PS1='[\!][\u@\h:\w]\$ ' Inside an xterm, if I source .bash_profile, then the prompt changes to what I want it to be. However if I log out and log back into Gnome,

SOLVED: Windows 2000 - Linux/Samba interoperability

2002-12-01 Thread Omer Zak
Few days ago I asked for help in solving a mysterious problem which prevented a PC with Windows 2000 from accessing Samba shares on a Linux PC. The problem was mysterious, because the diagnostic procedure spelled out in the DIAGNOSIS.txt document pointed at badly-installed client software as the c

How to export Linux/Samba shares to Windows 2000?

2002-11-27 Thread Omer Zak
There is a PC with RedHat 7.3 and the Samba version which comes with it (I don't remember if it's 2.2.3 or 2.3). It needs to share data with a PC with MS-Windows 2000. I was successful in having the Linux PC access files in shared folders in the Win PC. However, the Win PC was denied access to

Re: ALSA Configuration

2002-11-16 Thread Omer Zak
To ask the obvious questions: 1. Are the rear speakers connected to the computer? 2. If you have also MS-Windows on your computer, do those speakers work when you play something under MS-Windows? On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Barak Kaufman wrote: > Hello list i realise that the question i am going to a

Re: postfix causing very high load average

2002-11-14 Thread Omer Zak
I/O bound? Being killed by the journalling overhead of ext3? Insufficient RAM to cache the files being accessed in the disk (improbable)? My first guess is that this has to do with interaction of postfix with ext3 journalling. Things to check/try: - Is the system actually I/O bound? - What happens

General means for backups (was: Re: Backup tapes recommendation)

2002-11-06 Thread Omer Zak
In spite of Aviram's request to keep the subject off list, I would like to generalize the discussion. Since the discussion is not specific to Linux, I am cross-posting it to the Hackers-IL mailing list and urge people who want to contribute to it - to post only to Hackers-IL, and people who want

Re: Who's the Open Source Guru in ....

2002-10-28 Thread Omer Zak
> General question: Do we keep this discussion going on the list, or go > private? I'll accept a majority vote on the first 10 responses! My vote: keep this discussion going on this list. Getting the government to use software with Open Interfaces(TM) will allow Linux users to communicate with

Re: [long] asking for help properly [Was: pptp kernel freeze]

2002-10-19 Thread Omer Zak
On 19 Oct 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > http://www.iglu.org.il/mailing-lists/linux-il.html > > If none exist, I am willing to write (and maintain) one in my copious > spare time [NB: the usual meaning of this is "never", cf. the Jargon > File; here I really mean I am willing to do it if it is n

Boot log files (was: RE: Kernel compile problem)

2002-10-14 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Martin Polley wrote: > BTW, what is the boot log file called? I know how to view it with dmesg, > but that doesn't help me here... /var/log/messages and other recent files in /var/log (try ls -alt /var/log) --- Omer Simplify, si

RH concept of the distro (was: Re: buttons on KDE panel...)

2002-10-13 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, sert tres wrote: > THE CATCH - > One needs to agree to RH concept of the distro. As far > as I understand it, RH expects that all products be installed by > their tools and once you bypass them, you are on your own. It stinks! Several comments: 1. The concept of Free Softwa

Season for "Alehoom" on bad employers? (was: Re: JOB WANTED)

2002-10-08 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: > Are we starting an "Alehoom"? Before starting, or before continuing, bad-mouthing bad employers, may I suggest that the disgruntled employees/former employees think two steps ahead, and consider their own reputation. Unless there was a violation of the

Re: job wanted also - NOT - YES!

2002-10-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Guy Cohen wrote: > I don't see how. consider having 200 people fired from "whateverbigcompany" > in a day, now since most of them are linux/unix professionals they are surly > subscribe to linux-il. what if 30% of them decide to post a short message > to the list saying they

The New BitKeeper License Controversy

2002-10-06 Thread Omer Zak
Some time ago, Shlomi Fish raised some stench about the BitKeeper license. Now it seems that there is a big new controversy about it. See Slashdot or http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-devel-announce-200210/msg2.html McVoy does not want to grant free BitKeeper license

Summary (was: VMWare alternatives)

2002-10-05 Thread Omer Zak
The alternatives being mentioned are: SWsoft - the subject of the article. Their offering currently works only with Linux. They don't create actual virtual machines, but only "pretend" to do so. While they run a single Linux machine, they let the users feel as if each one got his own machi

Re: Options (Re: VMware and competing products)

2002-10-01 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Nadav, On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002, Omer Zak wrote about "Options (Re: VMware and competing >products)": > > And, are there any other options, which I overlooked? > > If I understand correctly, you're interested in

Options (Re: VMware and competing products)

2002-10-01 Thread Omer Zak
Thanks to Marc de'Terrible, Shimon Panfil, Martin Polley, Yedidyah Bar-David and Aviram Jenik for their answers to my previous E-mail message. According to a brief Web surfing session, the options are: Bochs - a Free emulator - not suitable for my needs, because it is emulator and not vir

VMware and competing products

2002-10-01 Thread Omer Zak
I work in an environment, in which I edit and pre-process various source code files under Linux, and compile them using several SDKs, which work with Microsoft Visual Studio. Each SDK expects to be the only one installed in a PC, because those SDKs were not designed to coexist in peace. In order

Re: BitKeeper Cont. [was Re: My projects are gone (fwd)]

2002-09-26 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Oded Arbel wrote: > You are talking about taking control of another person's creation w/o > that persons agreement (!!) most people would call that outright theft - Ayn Rand, too. --- Omer the null contributor t

Deaf and LUG meetings (was: Re: Women and Linux)

2002-09-23 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Orna Agmon wrote: > Once they do get to a LUG meeting, it is not easy to stick around. > > As for me, it took quite some time to dare to come to Linux meetings on > my own (i.e., not as sombody's date ), and to dare to express in > public. In addition to women, there are al

[OFFTOPIC about women] Re: Weman and Linux

2002-09-23 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Ma'ayan Eshed wrote: > Ho, and another thing, make woman RTFM. Won't do if you install linux on her > machine, configure and maintain it. They won't learn to use the system, and > you'llget a headache. This is true also for replacing lightbolbs btw. I suppose that both side

Re: Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-22 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Amir Tal wrote: > On Sunday 22 September 2002 11:20, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: [... snipped ...] > > Regardless of what waivers people sign, is it responsible to install > > beta software on newbies' computers? My understanding is that experts > > will not bring their boxes to

RE: Against Soddomite Beds (was: Re: redhat's new desktop policy)

2002-09-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Dvir Volk wrote: > but the unifying of the GUIs is something that should come from the > _desktop developers themselves_. both Gnome and KDE, and especially us > as users, could benefit from unified themes, widgets, styles, and > interface consistency. > > it seems to me lik

Against Soddomite Beds (was: Re: redhat's new desktop policy)

2002-09-16 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Oleg Kobets wrote: > One of the lines say, that it's the best thing happened to linux, and I > agree. Having unified desktop is much more organized, makes support much > easier and besides, if linux was organized enough it just might beat MS to > the masses. We do want that

The Succot Ra'anana InstaParty?

2002-09-09 Thread Omer Zak
Since I volunteered to do some things related to this, I need to know if it is going to be held at all, and if yes - what day and exact location. Does anyone have authoritative information about this? Thanks, ---

Re: Mailing list trouble

2002-08-26 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Oded Arbel wrote: > I'm having some problems with the list recently : sometimes (very often, > let's say - about third of the time) I get a response to a question some > one asked, before the mail with the question itself. I was wandering if > other people have the same prob

Re: Linux Installation Party

2002-08-19 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Tal, > regarding the date issue - can anybody help with the dilemma: > would it be good to hold it over 2-3 days? or would one be enough? > > Let me know if you have any ideas / thoughts. 1. I don't know any installation party which lasted more than one day. 2. Who will be responsible for

Re: Serial loopback

2002-08-08 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Michael Sternberg wrote: > Now I want to able to recognize four situations: > 1. Regular loopback is attached to serial port. > 2."Special" loopback is attached to serial port. > 3. Modem is attached to serial port (use AT -> OK ) in previous chat script > 4. Nothing is attac

[hackers-il] Hypothetical sensitivity of compiler to legal status of source code? (was: Re: gcc question)

2002-08-08 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > The code is closed under some legal agreements, so I cannot release it, > neither send gcc a bug-report. The possibility that gcc is somehow sensitive to the legal status of the code in question does not have to be ruled out. How this might happen

Re: [August Penguin] It's all about the money

2002-07-29 Thread Omer Zak
My opinion: By all means, go the (1) approach. Let's decide to donate any leftover money 50% to FSF and 50% to the Debian project. (I dislike the idea of donating everything to a single NPO.) Or, if those NPOs are approved by the Israeli Income Tax (or there are relevant approved NPOs), then yo

Re: Automake: generating a script from a source file

2002-07-29 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: > I have a problem with GNU Automake. I have a file: Makefile.win32 which is > generated from gen_makefile.pl. I want Makefile.win32 to be automatically > re-generated by the Automake/Autoconf/Make process whenever > gen_makefile.pl changes. > > How can I

Less competition outside of MS-Windows (was: Re: Desktop Linux -- Linux lost)

2002-07-22 Thread Omer Zak
On 22 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > As for the 'Linux Lost' hugwash, I see where all my Windows-centric > *programers* friends ended up working (if at all) and I see where I and > other Linux people work and I know that *we* have won and will continue > to win. All the rest is just interti

Why do we need uninterruptible sleep? (was: Re: killing "uninterruptiblesleep" process)

2002-07-22 Thread Omer Zak
Why then there is such a thing as "uninterruptible sleep" in Unix/Linux? What useful purpose (besides full Posix conformance) does this serve? On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, guy keren wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Sagi Bashari wrote: [... snipped ...] > > > > Their parent- pid 1532 is already dead. > >

A registry editing tool running under Linux?

2002-07-01 Thread Omer Zak
I have a hard disk, on which both Windows 2000 and Linux were installed. The Windows 2000 installation suffers from the "MISSING_BOOT_DEVICE" problem (which manifests itself as a BSOD at boot time), due to emergency hardware upgrade (the motherboard died and was replaced by a much more modern one

Re: Efficient protocol writing :

2002-06-18 Thread Omer Zak
Look for scatter/gather buffering. In particular, see: man sendmsg and the declarations of struct msghdr, struct iovec. On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Iftach Hyams wrote: > When writing a porotocol based on UDP/IP, a header is needed. This cause a > duplicate copy > of the data : > ... > (user code) > s

Rube Goldberg (was: Re: small and extremely annoying question)

2002-06-03 Thread Omer Zak
ks/elephants as character carriers instead of conveyor belts. The possibilities are endless! And when you attack the problem of writing a device driver using Rube Goldberg's technology, it will be pure bliss!!! On 3 Jun 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Omer Zak <[EMAIL

How many Linux-IL members are needed to replace a light bulb? (was:Re: small and extremely annoying question)

2002-06-03 Thread Omer Zak
Let's see how many approaches are there to answering the question: 1. Dedicated command (dirname) 2. expr (known also as the S&M method) 3. pipe rev pipe pipe rev (known also as the differential SCSI cable method) 4. PTP (Perl/Tcl/Python) 5. Custom COBOL-85 program 6.,7.,8.,... any more bright

Re: {KDE,GNOME} iso images for MS env? Distributed by IGLU? CDsout of those images?

2002-06-01 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > > If yes, > > > > Should IGLU have such images available? (No: this is not for Linux and > > > > beside there is not enough disk space. Yes: having a similar desk top > > > > environment is likely to pr

TANSAAFL (was: RE: YOM IYOON: call for participants)

2002-05-30 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Dvir Volk wrote: > hey, and what's a geekfest without free (as in free beer ;-) ) beer? > if enough people want it, maybe the fee can be raised a bit (10 NIS?) > to include a free bar. But... if the admission fee is raised to cover the cost of the beer, then the beer is no

Re: Elections

2002-05-28 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: > All those in favour of doing ANYTHING AT ALL, please raise their > left, right or middle appendage. > > http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html = To unsubscr

Adhocracies and pissing contests (was: Re: Elections)

2002-05-28 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > And another thing - if we do it "my way", the right people to be handed > > the jobs you describedwill become obvious because they will be the ones > > doing the stuff anyway... right now elections will be nothing more then > > a pissing contest. > >

Hebrew in Linux-IL (was: Re: slightly of: kde-klingon)

2002-05-17 Thread Omer Zak
This is the perfect solution to the language problem of the Linux-IL mailing list! Let's mandate that starting from May 23th, 2002, time 20:30:40, all E-mail going via the Linux-IL mailing list must be written in Klingon, using Canaanite (old Hebrew) letters. :-)

M$ $oftware audit pushes schools toward Linux

2002-05-10 Thread Omer Zak
http://www.seul.org/edu/acpe2002.html speaks about the events after schools districts in Oregon and Washington received software audit demands from Microsoft. This caused sudden need for a lot of Linux support. I wonder whether there is enough Linux support in Israel to help Israeli schools and

Re: Compiling a single kernel module

2002-05-10 Thread Omer Zak
Basically, you have to have already compiled the entire kernel sometime in the past, and then to be using the compiled kernel on your machine. Then, to compile a module, all you need is to touch one of its dependencies, and re-do make on the entire kernel. In principle, only the desired module w

Re: Heap corruptions problems

2002-04-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > I have a problem where a quite heavy multi-threaded application's heap gets > corrupt (my code's fault) - probbably cuz some variable I accidentally > forgot to initialize points there, or something similar. > Due to this the whole app cras

[Shameful plug warning] Re: open source - is it that good..???

2002-04-10 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Herouth Maoz wrote: > In the mailing lists that I manage myself, I have a rule: no plugging > your own website (maybe not even plugging your own article in > somebody else's website). The exceptions are very few. This way, we > know people will share *interesting* informatio

Re: Meta-Post: Emacs/Vim/Perl/Python/other utils usage questions

2002-04-09 Thread Omer Zak
For Perl and Python, there are already other dedicated mailing lists. For XEmacs/Vim usage, the following question is an interesting one, and puts me in a dilemma. On one hand, I too could use some guidance, which will help me become power user of both editors. On the other hand, I am not intere

Re: DMCA, SSSCA/CBDTPA related laws in Israel?

2002-04-04 Thread Omer Zak
lly or to cross-post to the Linux-IL mailing list (anyone subscribed to Linux-IL and not to Hackers-IL, and who is interested in the subject - please subscribe to Hackers-IL). On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Omer Zak wrote: > > >1. Is there anyone with legal bac

DMCA, SSSCA/CBDTPA related laws in Israel?

2002-04-04 Thread Omer Zak
1. Is there anyone with legal background and familiarity with the lawmaking work in the Knesset, who can tell us if there is any risk that laws like the DMCA or SSSCA/CBDTPA will be enacted in Israel? 2. Are there any international treaties, to which Israel is signatory, which require it

[Protest at introduction of politics into technical mailing lists] I AM ANGRY AT YUVAL KOJMAN! (was: Re: A petition for the withdrawal of israel)

2002-03-31 Thread Omer Zak
Yuval, What you are doing is reprehensible, horrible and totally uncalled for. The israel-pm-list mailing list, via which I received the following message, is a technical mailing list. Any discussion of the Mideast politics is completely off-topic for this list. If politics were to be added to t

Cool Internet Server Scout (was: Re: Hillarious)

2002-03-27 Thread Omer Zak
I agree with Shachar. If you MUST MUST MUST forward jokes via the Internet and earn their "Cool Internet Server Scout" merit badge points, like some people new to the Internet seem to need to earn, please do so by forwarding the jokes to personal friends (like some of my friends do, until they gr

Transplatform Pingpong Builds, anyone?

2002-03-26 Thread Omer Zak
I develop software for a target, whose build tools are hosted on MS-Windows NT 4.0. During my development process, I also develop various auxiliary scripts and makefiles, and I prefer to run them on a Linux system. As a result, the process of building the software ping-pongs between the two envir

RE: Whatsup - Important updates

2002-03-19 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Amir Tal wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Shai Bentin > > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 3:09 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: Whatsup - Important updates > > > > > > OK, so what is i

Re: "Telnet by any other time smells like shit just the same"

2002-03-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002, Omer Zak wrote about ""Telnet by any other time smells like >shit just the same"": > > Apparently, it is possible to effectively telnet to a remote Unix box by > > anonymous XDMCP UDP

"Telnet by any other time smells like shit just the same"

2002-03-18 Thread Omer Zak
See: http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24447.html Title: Back Orifice for Unix flaw emerges from obscurity Apparently, it is possible to effectively telnet to a remote Unix box by anonymous XDMCP UDP connections. Analysis for hype, commercial exploitation potentials and exposure of clueless

Re: make running 'rm'

2002-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
This is a case of chained implicit rules. GNU Make automatically deletes intermediate files, which participate in those chains. You can read more about this in GNU Make info page: emacs C-H i C-S for: GNU make C-S for: Implicit Rules C-S for: Chained Rules To prevent deletion of the intermediate

Re: Slightly OT: Corel Students' Policy

2002-03-04 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: > I am very fond of Corel-Draw. The first version I used was Corel-Draw 2.0, > after which I switched to Corel-Draw 4.0, which I received free with a > printer my family bought. Corel-Draw 4.0 is very good and almost > entirely bug-free, but it still a Win3

Surprise Attack from the west! (was: Re: Religous War Bait (sic)(was: Re: Perl Meeting))

2002-02-27 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Eli Marmor wrote: > Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: > > > > Would that be Catholics or Protestants? > > > > Yes. > No. Greek Orthodox are the best choice! > The following joke requires some Hebrew knowledge: > > a "Mefaked Toran" slept in a room with a computer wh

Religous War Bait (sic) (was: Re: Perl Meeting)

2002-02-26 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Gabor Szabo wrote: [... after one silly argument about Gabor's sinister plans ...] > We will go to a Kosher place. and contribute to support of the kashrut supervisors, which the poor food-dispensing outfit has to worship in order to be allowed to stay in business?! Not t

Netiquette (was: Re: fonts in AbiWord 0.99.2)

2002-02-24 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Itai Arad wrote: [... complete and clear description of what he did - was snipped ...] > P.S.: I am a semi-newbie. Please try to be as clear and as unambiguous as > possible. No, Itai is not a semi-newbie, as far as Linux-IL netiquette is concerned. His question fully qual

On-topic? (was: Re: read problem when having both DVD and CDRW driveson same ide)

2002-02-14 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Guy Baruch wrote: > Hello, I don't think this is a newbie question, as I've already RTFM'ed > and STFW'ed. > my appology to anyone who does. [... snipped ...] > then , when I try to read a disk from my DVD drive, I can see the > contents (both in win98 explorer and with linu

Re: Caller ID

2002-02-10 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Amichai Rotman wrote: > I have a an AVM Fritz ISDN card installed. The software that came on the disk > is only for that other OS. > > One of the features on said software is a little window popping up every time > there's an incoming call stating the name (if presentin addr

Re: Patch Penguin - Big Kernel Mutiny in other clothes

2002-01-29 Thread Omer Zak
his kernel fork, even though he'll listen a lot to what Linus has to say. On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Omer Zak wrote: > > > http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-29-010-20-NW-KN-DV > > > > and Linus' response: &

Patch Penguin - Big Kernel Mutiny in other clothes

2002-01-28 Thread Omer Zak
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-29-010-20-NW-KN-DV and Linus' response: http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-29-010-20-IN-KN-DV --- Omer There is no IGLU Cabal. Ask again after We finish restructuring our Caba

Foul! Stand in the corner! (was: Re: IGLU mirrors?)

2002-01-27 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, guy keren wrote: > > > how do people generally deal with these RPMs issues, i.e. RPMs for older > > distributions not being updated, and yet you want the bug fixes? and > > please don't say "upgrade to the latest distribution". > > "

Re: [RESEND] NETjet PCI ISDN card under Mandrake 8.1/RedHat 7.2

2002-01-21 Thread Omer Zak
I already obtained the error message, and it is the one which Shaul Karl shows in the following (or substantially equivalent thereof). The error message is self-explanatory. So it seems that I have to either replace my ISDN card or wait for a certified version of the driver to come along. On M

ISDN card problem under RedHat 7.2 (was: Re: RPM Upgrading/Versioning Hell)

2002-01-21 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Boris Kreitchman wrote: > My suggestion is to upgrade - 5.1 is way too old and stabilizing won't > take more that couple of days. Recompiling autoconf from source may > save you this time but you will encounter same problem with almost every > new application you'll try to i

[RESEND] NETjet PCI ISDN card under Mandrake 8.1/RedHat 7.2

2002-01-21 Thread Omer Zak
oblem. Thanks, --- Omer -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 23:55:47 +0200 (EET) From: Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux ISDN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NETjet PCI ISDN card under Mandrake 8.1/RedHat

RPM Upgrading/Versioning Hell

2002-01-21 Thread Omer Zak
I am now working on a software package from SourceForge. In order to compile the most recent CVS version, I need first to run autoconf on it. Unfortunately, the current version requires autoconf 2.13, and I have version 2.12 (my stable Linux system is relatively old, and based upon RedHat 5.1; an

Re: Backing Up Windows Files With Hebrew Names Using Tar Under Linux

2002-01-20 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Omer Zak wrote: [... snipped ...] > > I would recommend the uni_xlate option when mounting vfat filesystems. > > This will ensure that your backup preserves the filename even if it > > contains Unicode ch

Re: slow disk...

2002-01-20 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, tal amir wrote: > > 2. Overload of your computer's power supply, causing it to > > supply reduced voltages to some peripherals, which causes > > them to make too many soft errors? > > if so, why is it the only device affected ? Random manufacturing variations, which

Re: slow disk...

2002-01-20 Thread Omer Zak
Ideas: 1. Fragmented files? 2. Overload of your computer's power supply, causing it to supply reduced voltages to some peripherals, which causes them to make too many soft errors? 3. Somewhat defective ribbon, which causes the same result? Do you have a disk testing program suitable for you

Re: Backing Up Windows Files With Hebrew Names Using Tar Under Linux

2002-01-20 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On 17 Jan 2002, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > > > > > Hi. > > > > I have a machine with Windows 95 and Linux installed on it. > > I have the W95 (FAT) partitions mounted under linux. I would like to > > back up the W95 partitions using tar under Linux. Se

[OFFTOPIC] Sending CVs in "other formats" (was: Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew)

2002-01-19 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi Dvir, > > I respect MR. Stallman opinion, but I still say he's lunatic and I really > don't care how much flames I'll get. I'm looking at the real world here in > Israel for example - I'm unmployeed and whenever I'm trying to send my CV as > a t

Some re-thoughts (was: Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny)

2002-01-19 Thread Omer Zak
After writing my previous message about the subject, I have other thoughts. The problem, which triggered the mutiny discussions, is the fact that Linus was not always prompt in accepting bugfix patches. So some subsystems remained buggy (even if there was no dispute which bugfix patch to accept)

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-01-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote about the need for a Great Kernel CVS Mutiny and since then things never were the same...: [... details were snipped ...] This is a classical problem of wanting to eat a cake and have it, too. We all want Linus to continue to lead the kernel development ef

Re: Preparing a LILO-based boot diskette

2001-12-29 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Shlomi, 1. How did you invoke lilo (the program) to create the boot diskette? 2. In my PC, disabling an hard disk from the BIOS does not prevent Linux from working with it, once it has already booted. YMMV (with other computer brands), however.

Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Omer Zak
A comment about the thread of people advising someone who mistakenly erased critical files in his Linux installation: Can someone archive the thread, and show this to future whining clueless newbies (together with Marc's Differential SCSI Cable), when they complain that they get flames instead of

Re: Volunteer administrators (was: Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism)

2001-12-24 Thread Omer Zak
The following E-mail message supports my claim that information needs to be publicly available in order for volunteers to come forth and offer help. On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Ehud Karni wrote: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 12:53:46 +0200 (EET), guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > someone need to wr

Charter (was: Re: Volunteer administrators)

2001-12-24 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Ely Levy wrote: > I agree with most of the e-mail but I don't think it should be so > aggressive. I had a long talk with Nadav harel last night, > about the purpose of iglu and the ways to accomplish that. > the diffrance is between what guy think the purpose is to what Omer

Re: Volunteer administrators (was: Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism)

2001-12-24 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, guy keren wrote: > > Would it save Guy's time (and the time of other busy volunteers) if newbie > > volunteer/s join and perform more routine tasks (if necessary,under the > > supervision of the oldtimers)? > > great. so now i'll have to: > > 1. explain to people who to do s

Volunteer administrators (was: Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism)

2001-12-23 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, Omer Zak wrote about "Guy's Rants about volunteerism": > > Recently someone posted and asked for suggestions how to get Linux > > experience.He was open to offers to volunteer his time. I

Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants

2001-12-22 Thread Omer Zak
like. On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Omer Zak wrote: > > > 1. I didn't find link for sending a message to the webmaster. > > Fixed. > > > 2. Nothing happened in Linux world according to Guides.co.il since 16 Oct. > > I c

http://www.linux.org.il/ rants

2001-12-22 Thread Omer Zak
1. I didn't find link for sending a message to the webmaster. 2. Nothing happened in Linux world according to Guides.co.il since 16 Oct. 3. The latest Linux kernels are 2.4.12 and 2.2.19. There Aint No Such A Thing As a 2.5.*. --- Omer There is no I

NETjet PCI ISDN card under Mandrake 8.1/RedHat 7.2

2001-12-22 Thread Omer Zak
Problem: The hisax driver causes the system to get locked up when it tries to initialize the card (at boot time). Details: Card - NETjet PCI, vendor e159, id 1 It is recognized as HiSax type=20, and I use it with protocol=2. The card works well under an old version of Linux (2.0.36, with correspon

Uncertified Linux experts (was: Re: OT: Education info request)

2001-12-13 Thread Omer Zak
I think that Stiven's letter is actually on-topic. According to his description, he and his friends are using the best approach to learn to manage Linux networks. I think that the only solution to their problem is what he has just done - post their story to the Linux-IL mailing list and hope to

Re: strange free output

2001-12-11 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Schlomo Schapiro wrote: > Hi, > > I just now got my new AMD Athlon 1600+ w/ 512MB RAM and free gives this > output: > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem:514032 208576 305456 0 48824 178956 > -/+

Poorman's Linux Antivirus (was: Re: making a non-GPLed module)

2001-12-06 Thread Omer Zak
OK, since people don't see the tongue in my cheek, I decided to review the recent postings for violation of obscure rules. Since I determined that rule R74212.36(e)[f]{g.1} has been violated, I decided to notify the list about the violation of this rule. The rule is that the Subject line must re

This was "offtopic" (was: Re: making a non-GPLed module)

2001-12-05 Thread Omer Zak
This message was rather appropriate for the Hackers-IL mailing list. On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > So, Nadav, if I want to post something at linux-il, without you knowing about > it, should I simply add the following lines to my message? > > 1 > 0 > Z0gS ... mutilated to make the m

[FLAME] Sodom and Gomorrah! (was: Re: Explanation for how to edit/etc/fstab)

2001-12-03 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Salih, On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Salih Bicakci wrote: > All it is good to get flamed the list. But sorry for the inconvinence > because of justa simple (!) question, which is ostensibly under your > level. There is another mailing list for newbie questions. > Yes, I learnt that you are not pat

[SOLVED] Re: Mandrake 8.1 Installation

2001-12-03 Thread Omer Zak
process are you encounter this > problem (immediately after boot, when trying to actually install the > selected packages etc)? From: Dani Arbel > Omer, > We had such problems and it was resolved by using high grade cd media > Dani > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Omer Zak wrote

[SOLVED] Re: Mandrake 8.1 Installation

2001-12-03 Thread Omer Zak
process are you encounter this > problem (immediately after boot, when trying to actually install the > selected packages etc)? From: Dani Arbel > Omer, > We had such problems and it was resolved by using high grade cd media > Dani > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Omer Zak wrote

Mandrake 8.1 Installation

2001-12-01 Thread Omer Zak
When trying to install Mandrake 8.1, the installer got stuck at the step at which it displays the "Trying to access a CDROM disc" message. The strange thing is that the installer was successfully booted from the CDROM. Any hints where to look for the problem? How to work around it? System confi

[OFFTOPIC wisecrack] The meaning of 'brif' (was: Re: CPU Control)

2001-11-30 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:15:40AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > P.S. > > phew - to be flamed by Marc, and still have all my teeth in my mouth > > after reading it aloud. > > This is defamation. Im my brif professional life, ne

Limiting FTP connections (was: Re: ftp://iglu.actcom.co.il)

2001-11-29 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:44:37AM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > > On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 16:08, Erez Doron wrote: > > > hi > > > > > > who is maintaining ftp://iglu.actcom.co.il ? > > > > > > it allows only 2 connectsions from the same IP. > > > th

[FLAME] Very off-topic! (was: Re: Of-topic: Saving a vector to a disk file.)

2001-11-28 Thread Omer Zak
I urge everyone to refer this criminal offtopicer to comp.lang.c or similar mailing lists/Usenet newsgroups, rather than actually feeding him the answer by spoon. On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Refael Ackermann wrote: > I see this is a very livly list and full of pepole who know what they're > doing, so

Re: making a non-GPLed module

2001-11-28 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Finally some interesting words in the boring what-does-the-GPL-*really*-means > saga (this whole thread almost convinced me to eschew the GPL and start using > some sort of BSD or X license... People seem to be forgetting that free > software was meant

Stallman's Printer Driver Test (was: RE: making a non-GPLed module)

2001-11-28 Thread Omer Zak
There is a discussion about GPL related issues in the Linux-IL mailing list, and since my point is not Linux-specific, I suggest to move the discussion (if any) to Hackers-IL. Everyone, who read the history of FSP, knows that Stallman started the free software idea after having encountered a prob

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