Re: Looking for a viable alternative to MS access.

2005-01-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:59:15PM +0200, Danny Lieberman wrote: muli Lisp is the language of Autocad - Scheme is the language of the TAU CS dept. Acad has a bigger install base. ;-) LISP is a family of languages, not one language. If one is to learn LISP today they will probably learn

Re: Hebrew/English dictionary

2005-01-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:24:53PM +0200, Ivor Terret wrote: HI Is anyone aware of a good Hebrew/English dictionary for Linux? I have milon idan for Windows, but am trying to completely migrate to Linux and hence am searching for an equivalent.. wordtrans can read the Eng-Heb data

Re: large hebrew fonts needed

2005-01-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:04:07PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using a lot of graphics, and therefore, I set my X term at the hiibhest resolution afforded by my hardware. As a result, unless I use a large font, the text in xterm is very small. In English, am pretty happy with fn

Re: this may sound somewhat off-topic, but please read

2004-12-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:15:23AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: [snip] For instance: I would check 'nmh' or even 'mail' for mailing, as it is You can also look at 'nail', a 'mail' replacement, with many new features. -- Didi = To

Re: this may sound somewhat off-topic, but please read

2004-12-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi Rafi, No need to defend. This is on-topic as it can be. On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 10:02:29PM +0200, Rafi Cohen wrote: Hello, I'm a software engineer and have some years of experience developping in the Unix/Linux environment, both as an employee and a freelancer. Since I always had a

Re: smb hebrew file names in konqueror (fwd)

2004-12-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:10:33PM +0200, Naomi Schor wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:29:47 +0200 From: Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Naomi Schor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: smb hebrew file names in konqueror Hi Please

Re: OT: SunOS BSD (was: Re: core file debug.)

2004-12-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:35:32AM +0200, guy keren wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:04:29AM +0200, guy keren wrote: A. there is no BSD SunOS. there is BSD, and there is SunOS. i assume you're refering to SunOS No need to be harsh

OT: SunOS BSD (was: Re: core file debug.)

2004-12-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:04:29AM +0200, guy keren wrote: A. there is no BSD SunOS. there is BSD, and there is SunOS. i assume you're refering to SunOS No need to be harsh. SunOS 4 was based on BSD, and SunOS 5+, aka Solaris 2+, is based on SysV. And I am pretty sure you know this. I find it

Re: smb hebrew file names in konqueror

2004-12-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 05:53:36PM +0200, Naomi Schor wrote: So what do you suggest? I know I didn't really help you ... As I said, I know how to mount and see Hebrew file names of Win98 in a kde konsole or in konqueror by doing mount -t smbfs -o codepage=cp862,iocharset=utf8

Re: smb hebrew file names in konqueror

2004-12-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:53:44AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:26:27PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:11:01PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 07:00:28PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: hi Noami, Windows 9X

Re: smb hebrew file names in konqueror

2004-12-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 01:44:16PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: I think old samba had a way to configure the charset. I'm not sure about new version. Both do, but she wasn't interested in samba server, but smb client - specifically the one of conqueror. -- Didi

Re: smb hebrew file names in konqueror

2004-12-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:01:24PM +0200, Naomi Schor wrote: As I said, in a terminal (konsole or uxterm) I see local Hebrew file names ok, except for directionality, and in konqueror I see local Hebrew file names ok, no problem with directionality. The problem is when trying to see win898

Re: eci 312+ adsl router

2004-12-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 10:53:15AM +0200, Erez Doron wrote: hi i have just got a new adsl router from bezeq. it is the eci b-focus 312+ adsl2 router and of course: it runs linux !!! Incidentally, my sister got one a week ago, and just now I found time to look at it. it is a 150Mhz

Re: smb hebrew file names in konqueror

2004-12-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:11:01PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 07:00:28PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: hi Noami, Windows 9X doesn't support Unicode, so you must somehow tell Konqi to use iso-8859-8 encoding. Maybe even saying it in the samba settings. vfat / fat32

Re: network/iptables? problem - Solved

2004-12-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:12:52PM +0200, Alon Barzilai wrote: Hi, I plugged the cable to another port in the switch and that solved the problem. very strange. I have at home a cheapo Edimax 8port switch that looses few of its ports every few weeks. Rebooting it solves this. A newer one

Re: Frequent lock-ups of Debian Testing Linux when connected to the Internet

2004-12-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:30:11AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Where can I find that little CPU burn-in proggie? There is a live CD called stresslinux. I played with it very little. My purpose in asking the mailing list was mainly to find if anyone knows about any issue with 2.6.8, which could

Re: Almost right...

2004-12-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:04:44PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Shachar Shemesh wrote: Next, I tried both lilo and grub: Under lilo, I set boot to /dev/raid (didn't work with /dev/hda either), and root=/dev/raid1. It says I doesn't know how to handle device 0xfe01 Under grub, it

Re: PS to PCL CONVERTER on LINUX

2004-12-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:43:16PM +0200, softkol wrote: Is there a way to do the above on LINUX. There some utilities on MS but I need one on Linux. gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE=pcl3 -sOutputFile=- - -c quit (mostly copied from /etc/magicfilter/pcl3-filter). -- Didi

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:08:50AM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Mon, 29 Nov: I have a bzImage. It was built with 2.6.* kernel. I do not know the configuarion ( More rpecisely :I'm not sure I have the .config file it was built

Re: faster du?

2004-11-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 09:26:45AM +0200, Offer Kaye wrote: Hi, Is there any way to get a breakdown of disk usage which is faster than du? I run here a cron job that runs du regularly on the entire disk(s), so I can simply grep/awk the output. -- Didi

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:36:47AM +0200, Dan Kaspi wrote: Hello, Maybe it is more accurate to term the problem not so common instead of theoretical. Second, you suggested Look at /proc/filesystems. Do this right after boot Well , this as you said, shows filesystems supported at

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:46:20AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: I think you're thinking about it the wrong way. RH kernels require you to have an initrd if you want to use the default root=LABEL=XXX syntax in lilo/grub, since the work of identifying the root partition is done in in the

Re: faster du?

2004-11-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:26:10PM +0200, Offer Kaye wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:39:36 +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: I run here a cron job that runs du regularly on the entire disk(s), so I can simply grep/awk the output. -- Didi I need a solution that I can run live

Re: Samba and hebrew file names problems

2004-11-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi Greg, On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:08:47AM +0200, Greg Pendler wrote: Hi, As Yedidyah suggested i'm currently testing convmv. I think i'm in big trouble: SMB.CONF from OLD samba shows: character set = ISO8859-5 Which is RUSSIAN - how it happened i've got no clue. When running

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:26:33PM +0200, Dan Kaspi wrote: Hello, This is a question which may be less practical and more theoretical, I think it's very practical. ,but it interests me though: I have a bzImage. It was built with 2.6.* kernel. I do not know the configuarion ( More

Re: Samba and hebrew file names problems

2004-11-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 03:36:38PM +0200, Greg Pendler wrote: Hi, My problems is not exactly on Linux but on Solaris, but Samba AND Hebrew problems are common for both systems, so i hope it won't be considered OT. We had working environment with Samba 2.2.8 on Solaris 9 connected as

Re: OT: persistent remote display

2004-11-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 09:00:37AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: I believe the subject to be on-topic for Linux-IL. While I do not remember the exact buzzword for it, a solution exists for Linux, I think. Maybe the relevant buzzword is related to 'screen' and 'NOHUP'? No. screen is for text-session

Re: OT: persistent remote display

2004-11-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 09:20:36AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Is xdmcp a must? No, not as a protocol. But yes, as in the user experience. That is, I'd rather not have the user do e.g. ssh from a text console, then start a session through this. IIRC there were some efforts into integrating ssh

Re: OT: persistent remote display

2004-11-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 09:43:50AM +0200, Lior Kesos wrote: Trying to figure our if NX is only a proprietary solution (at least couldn't find anything immediately in http://www.nomachine.com which provides it) It's not. Look e.g. here:

Re: OT: persistent remote display

2004-11-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:03:57AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2004, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about OT: persistent remote display: 1. The usuall stuff one finds in gdm/kdm/xdm/wdm/*dm 2. An option for a persistent session. I'm not sure if it's what you want, but Fedora

Re: Launching a shell script from a remote Windows machine.

2004-11-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 08:41:48PM +0200, Amir Hardon wrote: I'm looking for a way to create a simple click-n'-forget icon on a Windows(98) machine, that will invoke a shell script on a Linux server. The only solution I can think of that doesn't involve writing a client-server application

OT: persistent remote display

2004-11-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, Please excuse the somewhat-offtopic subject. I think it concerns and interests quite many people here. I want something like the following (no real, thought out design, just a sketch): A client machine (think about a thin, maybe netbooting diskless PC one, but doesn't have to be)

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:52:22AM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Sat, 13 Nov: I surf in tabs. when I middle-click a link, there's a pretty long freeze while the mozilla allocates the memory for the new tab, draws the tab, starts twirling

Re: Optimal way to check harddisk for bad blocks

2004-11-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:05:45AM +0200, Skliarouk Arieh wrote: Hello, What is the time and quality wise optimal way to check (and remap where possible) harddisk for bad blocks (with no useful data on it)? In addition to what you wrote, SCSI has some other tools. Do something like

Re: Maximum memory reported by /proc/meminfo in vanilla 2.4.26

2004-11-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 03:22:20PM +0200, Kobi Cohen-Arazi wrote: Hi all, Given an 8 GB RAM, what is the maximum of the memory I should expect reported from /proc/meminfo ? I'm using 2.4.26 Vanilla Right now I can see ~3.3GB when cat-ing /proc/meminfo on that specific machine. It

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:18:21PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Howdie people... Three months ago I changed my dual-P2/350 to an Athlon K7/900. apperently this was a bad move since I can see absolutely no improvement in speed (probably since I cut the L2 cache in half). That's weird. I

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:16:46PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Sat, 13 Nov: Although I must say no improvement is a bit weird. Do you mean in general, day-to-day, non-timed work, or in specific CPU-intensive things you do? The first

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 03:33:17PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: Maybe this will help you: http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html Note that this page talks about the pure (64bit only) version. It also mentions the multiarch project, which is the future (their

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 10:38:22PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Sat, 13 Nov: The things you do currently depend a lot on other things, like disk speed etc. I intended to add, in the previous mail, that the new things you intend to do, video-related

Re: Looking for a Good Web-Forum Implementation

2004-11-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:53:48AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: [snip] Let me get this straight. You are adding, of your own accord, people to your list. You leave them an opt out option. In my book, that's called spam, but I'll let the good people of the list decide for their own. It is

Re: killing a defunct process

2004-11-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:26:41PM +0200, Dan Kaspi wrote: Hello, This happened to me in gnomemeeting (but rarely also in other apps): I ran gnomemeeting , and after it started and showed video , I pressesed the Ctrl/C button. The application terminated and it's window disappeared.

Re: pam question

2004-11-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:05:01AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: A fact that seems little known, despite being clearly documented. OpenSSH is compiled with TCPD into it. Just define your rules in hosts.allow or hosts.deny (which includes support for usernames), and viola. As far as I

Re: Application performance when running it from nfs mounted folder

2004-11-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 02:56:28PM +0200, Dan Kaspi wrote: Hello, I am developing an app for that board on a Fedora Desktop ; There is no way to put the app I develop by ftp on that board. (at the end it will be burned on a Flash) So for the debugging cycle I use nfs mount, and tha app

Re: messages disappearing from hamakor linux-il archives

2004-11-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 03:25:17PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Herouth Maoz wrote: Wrong. What I wrote, I meant in the context of a mailing list. An example of messages which are relevant today but will not be tomorrow: job offers. They are allowed on the list, but there is no reason

Re: max user processes

2004-11-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 01:43:46PM +0300, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: On 02 Nov 2004 11:06:12 +, Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben-Nes Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All how do i raise the parameter of max user processes ? # ulimit -a max user

Re: Why not using global variables considered thread-safe ?

2004-11-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 07:00:06AM +0200, Dvir Volk wrote: Amit Aronovitch wrote: [snip] On a 1-CPU machine, when you have global variables such as ints or floats, isn't reading and writing them atomic, and needs no locking? what are the general rules this issue? This isn't the problem - the

Re: Older versions of Mozilla.

2004-11-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 02:06:23PM +0200, Amit Roseberger wrote: Hi. I am desperately (:)) looking for an older version of Mozilla (1.6) since one of the tolls I am working with (QEngine - for Web Pages Automated Testing) requires it. Unfortunately, it's unavailabe on Mozilla.org or source

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:11:30PM +0200, Daniel Feiglin wrote: I don't understand the sarcasm either. Sarcasm is the cheapest form of wit. Omer did not intend to be saracastic, he only refered to Richard Stallman, who quit MIT after getting a printer with no source for the printer driver, being

Re: record radio

2004-10-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:56:49AM +0200, Cyril Scetbon wrote: Has someone a link to use with realplay to listen to reshetbet (or other radio in hebrew but if you got this one :-) ? My link is dead (rtsp://media3.netvision.net.il:554/live/reshetbet.rm) I have to use realplay or mplayer to

Re: fedora core support plan

2004-10-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 04:10:46PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: P.S. Fedora Core 3 was due to have been finished a few days ago, and officially released to the general public on November 8. On first read I thought you took Eli's last message seriously, and phrased your idea such that it would

Re: sweet!

2004-10-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:12:09PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Lior Kaplan, from the post of Wed, 20 Oct: is it your home computer or a server? a server of a client. It's been running Sarge for almost two months btw (Evil grin :-) as someone said, I spoke too soon. it's not

Re: remove license stuff from ES3

2004-10-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:34:09AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm working on creating a RH ES3 license less distribution. Any reason not to use one of the existing projects that do this (some mentioned here a few months ago, don't remember names)? -- Didi

Re: remove license stuff from ES3

2004-10-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:04:52PM +0200, Noam Meltzer wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 11:11 +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Any reason not to use one of the existing projects that do this (some mentioned here a few months ago, don't remember names)? You probably refer to centos, try

Re: ARGG!!!!

2004-10-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 05:37:50PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:05:18PM +0200, Ely Levy wrote: Just when things started to look good Just when I thought someone in the goverment finally has some brain I get to rid a story like that:

Re: late ignition... Hebrew in mutt

2004-10-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 08:32:20PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: that is the most annoying solution ever, and you listed why. I'm left without options for saving the message, bouncing it, getting alerts on new mail or doing ANY other mutt command without first exiting the pager. So what I do now,

Re: sendsms - redirected input

2004-10-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 06:21:47AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's wrong. If /tmp/tmp-sms contains multiple lines then sendsms would be invoked separatly for each one of them. Where did you get this from? xargs(1): --max-chars=max-chars, -s max-chars Use at most max-chars

Re: sendsms - redirected input

2004-10-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
19 October 2004 09:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: That's wrong. If /tmp/tmp-sms contains multiple lines then sendsms would be invoked separatly for each one of them. You are right - multiple lines will result in multiple command line arguments, not necessarily

Re: sendsms - redirected input

2004-10-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:13:21PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: First of all, thanks to both Oren and Yosef. Both solutions worked. But, now I'm confused. Isn't the whole point of redirection that you can use a file to get input or accept output even if the program was originally desiged

Re: Apache startup with SSL keys

2004-10-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:41:33AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VK wrote: Of course, storing key in plain text is less secure. Of course. So what do people of the real world do? I don't suppose they expect to have I do not know, never been there :-) to attend every server restart

Re: lilo.conf root=/dev/ram0

2004-10-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:33:10PM +0200, David Harel wrote: Hi, Trying to configure kernel 2.4.26-r9 Gentoo version I screwed up the configuration and then the lilo.conf directive: root=/dev/ram0 stopped working. What do you mean by 'stopped working'? What happens when you try? What

Re: getting vim to type hebrew in vim

2004-10-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 04:01:49PM +0200, Aaron wrote: Well I tried cat on a utf-8 file and couldn't read hebrew. So I guess I must go back to the drawing board... Well, let's start from the beginning. Start a 'uxterm'. Get http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt. This site

Re: PAM help

2004-10-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 06:37:10PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: In any case, what I'm looking for is more fundamental. One of the PAM modules is failing the login. Doesn't any of them issue logs saying why? Could it be that it's not even PAM, but me compiling login without PAM support?

Re: getting vim to type hebrew in vim

2004-10-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:47:15PM +0200, Aaron wrote: Yes I see it! Great. Now run this: xterm -fn heb8x13 it should start an xterm (not Unicode one, if your locale isn't UTF-8) with a iso8859-8 Hebrew font. To test it, do e.g. :|awk 'END {for (i=224; i=233; i++) printf(%d %c\n, i, i)}' which

Re: getting vim to type hebrew in vim

2004-10-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:28:29PM +0200, Aaron wrote: H?? all, I tried running uxterm with the font Yedidya recommended and in the resulting uxterm I get no hebrew text at all. What do you do that you expect to get Hebrew text? Maybe try something simple, like catting this file:

Re: Network problems with FC2

2004-10-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 07:33:41PM +0100, Andre Baryudin wrote: [snip] 4. [The strangest part] When I start my computer, it comes up in text-mode (mode 3). If I try to access one of the bad sites at that point (with wget or elinks), it works fine - I get the very fast response I'm used to.

Re: HOT Freq Table for XawTV?

2004-10-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:43:29AM +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi All, Any of you succeeded in creating /configuring XawTV to work with an analogue broadcast from HOT (cable)? I have the Freq Table, but I am not sure how to create the file and I noticed Israel isn't listed in the

Re: ext2[3] options - sparse_super

2004-10-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 03:25:03AM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: The target system is PCLinusOS (Mandrake). Some 2.4.2(something) kernel. The host is Debian (testing). The partition is not marked as bootable (who cares about it?) The kernel loads, and when it shuold remount the rootfs it

Re: elementary C question (maybe OT)

2004-10-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 12:02:28PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It may well be that this question is too elemntary for this forum, and as such OT. I do not think it's ontopic, but it still might interest enough people here to not be considered rude. These are the current unwritten

Re: ext2[3] options - sparse_super

2004-09-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:43:14PM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Hi all, I have been playing with the FS, and I wanted to duplicate an installation. I formatted some device as ext3, mounted it, and copied into it kernel, bash, and some other goodies. I fixed the target /etc/fstab and

Re: USB Mouse problems

2004-09-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:12:28PM +0300, ik wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Ido - can you post your complete gpm configuration? The exact details are distro-dependent, but you can simply run it (using the distro's way - probably '/etc/init.d/gpm start') and see with 'ps' what the final

Re: USB Mouse problems

2004-09-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:46:34PM +0300, ik wrote: Hi, I changed the device in XF86Config-4, since your last replay and until now no problem what so ever regarding to the mouse. Thank you for the help, Thanks for reporting. Actually, your reply makes me a bit disappointed. I like gpm

Re: when a linux station has 2 net interfaces

2004-09-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:55:40AM +0300, haim [howard] roman wrote: The addresses used below are fictictious. But we really have a class B address that is subnetted into class C subnets. My station's main IP is 130.130.1.66 (subnet 1). That interface is always up. Sometimes, I bring up

Re: new computer - Linux compatibility

2004-09-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:07:33PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ez-Aton wrote: I would go for the 64 bit versions, and stick with them. Anything missing, I would recompile (which should take no time), or just use the 32bit version of it. Should work. The above (being able to run

Re: USB Mouse problems

2004-09-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:41:06AM +0300, ik wrote: Yes It happned evey hour over and over again untill the reboot time has come... But I can't find any /etc/cron.hourly entry of any kind... It doesn't have to be cron - any running program can do things once an hour. When everything else

Re: USB Mouse problems

2004-09-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 05:13:31PM +0300, ik wrote: Hello list, I have a problem with my Mouse: Logitech Marble USB. The mouse connected into my screen: LG Flatron 795 FT Plus, that connected to the motherboard itself (I receive this way more USB ports - for people that are going to ask

Re: Determining text encoding

2004-09-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:41:02AM +0300, Amir Hardon wrote: After Didi gave me the solution for the encoding problem with unzip I decided to write a script for converting the filenames (Maybe I'll patch unzip in the future but that's my temporary solution). The script I wrote just change

Re: Magic? Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:56:10PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of dead programs - does anyone know of a reasonably priced way to extract the program source of old Magic programs? Is it that hard to find a copy of an old Magic? Some version of it used to acompany some books sold for

Re: Magic? Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:31:37AM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: The whole discussion is theoretic in my opinion, but just to correct things: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Also, Magic keeps the sources as data inside its DB, which is called btrieve. You might try to find something that can read

Re: Magic? Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:38:24AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Also, harder to find but more on-topic, Magic 5.x for SCO unix ran perfectly well on Linux with ibcs. Wasn't using ibcs the reason SCO filed suite against Chrysler? IIRC, it I don't know

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:57:33AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004, ik wrote about Reviving and old program to Open-Source: I'm interesting in knowing what do you think of reviving QText Word-Processor from the dead. ... 2. Alternative programming language then the C\++

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:47:35PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source: As much as I like pluralism, trying to revive a Pascal program on Linux is going to give you major headaches... Are you

Re: abcde and hebrew

2004-08-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:41:59AM +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:57:27PM +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, i'm using abcde to rip cd's. When it retrives hebrew songs, i cann't see the fonts in xterm and in uxterm i see . What do you

Re: abcde and hebrew

2004-08-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:27:03AM +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: ls -1|od -tx1 200 ? _ ? ? ? ? - ? ? ? _ ? ? ? ? \n ls -1|od -c 200 e4 5f e4 e9 ec e3 2d e6 ee ef 5f f1 e5 eb f8 0a I think you switched the commands and their outputs - the first is '-c' and

Re: flashing bios from linux?

2004-08-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:32:20AM +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: Is there a way to flash a bios from linux? There is a project called devbios, which I did not manage to use. -- Didi = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: abcde and hebrew

2004-08-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:57:27PM +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, i'm using abcde to rip cd's. When it retrives hebrew songs, i cann't see the fonts in xterm and in uxterm i see . What do you see if you do ls -l --show-control-chars | less ? If you see anything other than '' you can

Re: How to organize a small network?

2004-08-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:01:25PM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: On Tuesday 24 August 2004 22:32, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: I know about pxes, and it's indeed cool, if it fulfills your needs, that is, if you want thin clients. But from reading about it (I didn't try it) it's not a solution

Re: How to organize a small network?

2004-08-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:10:54PM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: On Wednesday 25 August 2004 14:21, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: This is exactly what I understood. But you do share the server. Would you recommend to David to give 10 people, that used to work on 10 machines, with 10 CPUs and 10*nMB

Re: Hebrew filenames from a Windows(XP) zip file.

2004-08-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:57:43AM +0300, Amir Hardon wrote: I'm trying to extract a zip file with Hebrew file names that was created with winzip on a Windows XP machine. It looks like there is an encoding problem, but a weird one. This also troubled me for some time. Incidentally, just

Re: GPL and commercial application

2004-08-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:41:33AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have read somewhere that in order to use GPL application from a commercial application a LGPL API library could be assembled that will be linked to GPL code. Then in a commersial appliation could be used that LGPL

Re: How to organize a small network?

2004-08-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 05:37:32AM -0700, David D wrote: Hi, I need the group's help with organizing a small network in my office. The office is a part of a big corporation. We have about 10 various computers (couple of Pentium 4, Xeons etc) all of them have Mandrake linux installed.

Re: How to organize a small network?

2004-08-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:32:19PM +0200, Danny Lieberman (Barak) wrote: David, Didi Guys - unless thre is a compelling need for Mosix - e.g. compute-intensive applications; there is no reason to go that way. Care to tell why? David specifically talked about better performance and load

Re: remote backup and bandwidth oddities

2004-08-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 01:15:00AM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 17:16, Ira Abramov wrote: oh, I didn't know I had to switch that on, I thought it was on by default... this option is not listed in the gzip manpage, neither on my woody not my sid! odd... Looked at

Re: hebrew Xfonts

2004-08-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:50:17PM -0300, Alfredo Daniel Rezinovsky wrote: I´m looking for some hebrew Xfonts. Y need one hand script font to make my ulpan notes. You can try culmus, it has various fonts, script included IIRC. There used to be collections of bdf/pcf hebrew fonts, but they seem

Re: Dist question.

2004-08-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, I can also add that you should buy Opteron, and not Athlon-64. It's intended for servers - both in some performance issues (IIRC it has more and/or faster caches, it's SMP-capable, etc.) and I hope also in manufacturing/testing. I can also say that I saw Cray has a new line of supercomputers

Re: VNC as a logon server

2004-08-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:06:51PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi list, I'm trying to run a lighter-than-X login server. VNC seems like a pretty obvious choice here. The question is whether there's an option to run VNC in such a way that it will come up and display the KDM/GDM/XDM login

Re: custom initrd question

2004-08-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 12:31:54AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 12:16:09AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Meir Kriheli wrote: [snip] But that means that you cannot override the init= to specify another init. Then use something like: exec ${myinit:-/sbin/init}

Re: custom initrd question

2004-08-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:28:18PM +, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: [snip] Are you using pivot_root(8) - what linuxrc normally does - or something else? For a very nice background article, see this: http://www.almesberger.net/cv/papers/ols2k-9.ps. 1 bonus point to anyone that finds a decent

Re: Software RAID advise

2004-07-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, I waited 2 hours (during linux-il's prime time) and no useful answer arrived, so I will share my little experience. On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:35:22PM +0300, Eran Tromer wrote: Ahoy, I'd appreciate advise on the following. My main workstation currently has two 80GB ATA drives. One is

Re: Problem patching a kernel

2004-07-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 07:17:28PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 06:54:23PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: [snip] Elaborate? is it not feasible to get make-kpkg to not compile the docs? Should be. I did not try, but it does accept targets. I think the one you want is

Re: loop device

2004-07-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:41:00PM +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, i need to have more loop devices in the system. mknod doesn't solve the problem. I think it have to be compiled in the kernel. How do i do it? Add 'max_loop=num' to the kernel command line (if compiled into it) or to insmod. --

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