Re: png to pdf

2004-07-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 02:58:27PM +0300, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: Try ImageMagick's convert. Also imgtops, which most of the time will create smaller and faster files. I did not try it myself, nor did I try to filter the output through ps2pdf. -- Didi

Re: Good office suite with powerful formulas?

2004-06-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:11:15PM +0300, Yosef Meller wrote: I'm currently using Open-Office whenever I can, but I am still stuck with QText on Windows for my homework, and the headache is because my powerfull formula editor (MathType 5.0 - big brother of Equation Editor 3.0) does not have

Re: A Segmentation fault in many programs on debian unstable

2004-06-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 06:19:31PM +0300, ik wrote: Hi list and shabat shalom I keep on reaciving from most of the programs i have a segment fault mostly on the begining of the executions. The main programs that keep on getting it are: Mozilla + Mozilla FireBird ddd xpdf yudit Kbabel

Re: A Segmentation fault in many programs on debian unstable

2004-06-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 07:58:08PM +0300, ik wrote: On Saturday 26 June 2004 19:10, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Did you try knoppix or something like that? If it crashes too you can be pretty sure it's the hardware, otherwise I'll start checking other stuff by using a known-good replacement

Re: Upgrade tool

2004-06-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:15:15AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:04:41PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: I think the easiest would be to download their binary tar.gz (what they call 'Linux downloads', the first option in their download page). I know our DBA

Re: Upgrade tool

2004-06-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 08:52:43PM +0200, David Suna wrote: I have a RedHat 9 system. It came with mysql 3.23.54 without InnoDB table support. I would like to upgrade to 4.0.20 (to match a production environment). I downloaded the 4.0.20 rpms but I bumped into a whole bunch of dependency

Re: Capturing screen into video?

2004-06-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:03:57PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:26:26PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: There is a bug in AbiWord handling of mixed Hebrew+English text. To demonstrate it, I need to capture the behavior of a window for a time interval. Standard methods

grub boot once [okuji@enbug.org: making your system robust]

2004-06-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, This was on bug-grub today. Since there was here a long discussion about this recently, I thought some of you might want to know. -- Didi - Forwarded message from Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun,

Re: [WEB Site] The First Maps Site on Linux?

2004-06-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:17:51AM +0300, Idan Sofer wrote: [snip] The only problem is that the whole thing relies on a flash player. last time I've checked, flash player is non-free stuff. Yes, but AFAIK swf is an open format, and there are few FOSS readers and writers in various stages of

Re: quick MySQL howto, anyone?

2004-06-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:47:49AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: I'm trying to find a simple a-b-c cookbook for Unix admins that are not fluent in DB administration (i.e. myself dor instance). methods for backup or replication and their pros and cons, how to dump and restore the DB for backup and

Re: simulate dial-up connection speed ?

2004-06-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:47:38PM +0300, Gal Gur-Arie wrote: hello, Does anyone know if there is a way to simulate a dial-up connection speed ? I want to find out how a web site performs on dial-up connection. The common answer in the corporate world is a set of products from a company

Re: OT: nut and Advice e-COM 500

2004-06-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:58:17AM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: On Monday 14 June 2004 08:08, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:22:38AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: Have you tried asking Advice? I do not really see a point in this. Since they give the upsmon.tar thing

Re: OT: nut and Advice e-Pro 500

2004-06-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi again, For whomever it might be interesting: Among the protocols in networkupstools.org/protocols, it's most similar to megatec. Particularly, it reports almost whatever that's there, it can Test, and can be programmed to schedule a shutdown and resume (of the UPS, of course - which is cool. I

Re: nut and Advice e-COM 500

2004-06-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:18:46AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:08:46AM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Have you tried asking Advice? I do not really see a point in this. Since they give the upsmon.tar thing, why should they care about nut

OT: nut and Advice e-Pro 500

2004-06-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, I recently bought an Advice e-Pro 500. I downloaded from their site upsmon.tar which seems to work, but I'd rather use nut. nut does not seem to work with it. strace on their's shows that after some ioctls it writes to the UPS Q1\r many times, each time reading after writing, some of the

Re: OT: nut and Advice e-COM 500

2004-06-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:22:38AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: I use the nut with an older Advice ups. It looks like your ups uses another communication protocol then what the powercom driver is designed Yes, that's also what I thought. for. The command Q1\r might be a hint to a completely

Re: RAID Q

2004-06-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 02:08:29PM -0700, Erez Boym wrote: 2. If you are going to have 4x200G, why not do one Raid-5 (resulting in 600G useable space), rather than 2xRAID-0+RAID1 (resulting in 400G)? What about redundancy, isn't RAID 1 more redundant then RAID 5 ? Yes - but not

Re: [OT]DB structure efficiency

2004-06-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
No it's not. What you can do is called a subquery. That is, do a 'select' on the output of another select, interpreted as data, not as a table name. Look carefully at the mentioned URL. -- Didi On Wednesday 09 June 2004 21:40, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Wednesday 09 June 2004 16:50, Amir Hardon

Re: Problem in activating Ethernet cards

2004-06-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
I have a machine with an on-board sis900 and two PCI 8139's and all three work well with 2.4.25. Older versions did complain more (e.g. Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 1. at insmod, many Media Link Off), but worked quite well nonetheless. It's an ECS K7SOM, BTW, which replaced a K7SEM

Re: secured uploads

2004-06-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:27:59PM +, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Hi all, I have a problem I think some people here will be able to help me with. I want some users to be able to upload files to some site.The solution used right now, is getting the private ssh keys from the users, and

ps skips some procs (was: Re: security increasment)

2004-06-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
I also saw this, and would like to find some docs. I am pretty sure I am not hacked. It's RH9 with vanilla 2.4.24. Maybe it's a confusion between RH's NPTL and a kernel which isn't? I now checked which procs aren't shown in ps. They are: The 3 children of ypbind (the father _is_ shown in ps) Some

Re: Hardware swap site?

2004-06-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:30:00AM +0300, Lior Kesos wrote: I remember that several hardware swap threads where run in the past and various ideas about mailing lists and sights containing them have risen. Is there anything around beyond the forum in whatsup. I have 1GB (4x256MB) 800ghz

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:39:51PM +, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: ik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tzafrir, the problem is that fork() is a kernel command (well taken from posix, but still a kernel thingy), mingw etc.. will not have it, you will need to use the ms-windows way for threading..

summary - e100 vs eepro100

2004-05-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi again, 1. The problem is not with all of the d815eea's (we have around 40), only with some of them. I guess they do not have the exact same e100 chip, although bought together. The rest is about those that did have the problem. 2. As I said, with 2.4.26 eepro100 works fine, e100 looses

Re: OT: e100 vs eepro100

2004-05-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:10:41AM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: FYI, A LOT of the problems people report to have with eepro100 chipset cards is due to a bug in the hardware that causes the PCI bus to hang when the sleep mode feature is enabled in the card's EEPROM. Newer versions

Re: Fw: Fw: /bin/bash problem

2004-05-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:19:51AM +0200, Amir Spivak wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:# bwurzbur /etc/passwd | od -c bash: bwurzbur: command not found 000 You forgot the grep in the beginning. -- Didi = To unsubscribe, send mail

OT: e100 vs eepro100

2004-05-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, Please excuse the offtopicness. On an Intel d815eea with an onboard e100 NIC, using the e100 driver sometimes looses packets and causes retransmissions, whereas eepro100 works fine. This is on 2.4.26. Up until 2.4.24 I used eepro100, which was fine, and in 2.4.25 I moved to e100, which

Re: OT: e100 vs eepro100

2004-05-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 05:02:58PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:34:53PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: 1. Does anyone have any experience with them? Which one is recommended? I prefer e100 for personal use - the code is much cleaner. Haven't given either any

Re: Fw: /bin/bash problem

2004-05-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 07:12:36PM +0200, Amir Spivak wrote: his line from /etc/passwd: bwurzbur:x:558:100:Benjamin Wurzburger:/home/bwurzbur:/bin/bash Are you sure it has no whitespace in the end? Please send this: grep bwurzbur /etc/passwd | od -c What makes it even more suspicious is that in

bezeq new 135 dialer

2004-05-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, For the last few weeks, Bezeq has a new dialer for 135 users. You can no longer choose a provider through 'chat'. Entering the site bezeqnet.com, as suggested in the chat conversation, leads to a very small page that only lets you download a windows binary. I do not recall its name and

Re: DHCP question

2004-05-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 02:14:51PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, I don't know if people have seen this case, but here goes.. I have 1 Active Directory server (testing) which is also serves as a DNS and DHCP server, and 2 linux clients. The linux clients are getting IP's without any

Re: portly port

2004-05-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 11:08:04PM +0300, Aaron wrote: Hi, I am trying to run zope but it complains that a process is using port 8081 how do I determine what is using that port so I can disable it? netstat -anpl | grep -w 8081 -- Didi Thanks Aaron

Re: Huge file patches

2004-05-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 02:11:27PM +0300, Honen, Oren wrote: Thanks, but... [snip] As I said, this file is meant to be read by a commercial application. I can not touch this application so I need my new file to look feel as a real ascii file. This file is supplied via a parameter and not as

Re: Huge file patches

2004-05-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 03:43:25PM +0300, Honen, Oren wrote: [snip] Let me try to be more clear: I'm running an application which I can't touch it's code. This app. is reading a data file I'm giving it via a command line option ( -i file name ). The file I'm giving is the huge data file of

Re: reboot on panic

2004-05-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
bootparam(7) mentiones both 'panic=N' on the command line and /proc/sys/kernel/panic. I never used this myself. -- Didi On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 12:56:47PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of a mechanism that will allow me to have a kernel automatically reboot on

Re: reboot on panic

2004-05-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 03:06:34PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 01:23:35PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: bootparam(7) mentiones both 'panic=N' on the command line and /proc/sys/kernel/panic. I never used this myself. -- Didi Nice. Does grub has an equivalent

Re: samba valid char cfg

2004-04-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:34:21AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Lately I've upgraded to smb ver3. In order to get Hebrew support In version 2 I had to configure the valid char line as Valid chars =224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243

Re: www.pmo.gov.il

2004-04-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 07:00:53PM +0300, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Linux-il members, When you access http://www.pmo.gov.il using Mozilla, you get a download of a file, o31o1k6g.bin, but no html page. the file o31o1k6g.bin is in fact HTML. What's going on? The server says 'Content-Type:

Re: [OT] Old hardware

2004-04-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 01:45:55PM -0400, Martha H Greenberg wrote: My new job has huge piles of old hardware (mostly pc) which I need to evaulate and then dispose of what we don't want. Can anyone recommend: 1) A company that buys old PCs and monitors? Or a tzedakah that would take

Re: Linux supported notebook in israel ?

2004-04-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:26:07AM +0200, Stiven Andre wrote: Hi list. Sorry to be a bit off topic. I am about to buy myself a new notebook. I I do not think this is off-topic. I heard a rumor that IBM intends to provide full support for linux on its thinkpads, and move a significant amount of

Re: Manipulating bootable ISO image

2004-04-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:07:55AM +0200, Iftach Hyams wrote: To whom ever it might concern, This is an interesting question. As far as I know, there is no general answer (something like 'dumpisofs' or similar). Given a bootable ISO9660 image (rescue Linux in my case), I want to compose

Re: Ken Thompson's UNIX backdoor

2004-04-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
think Linux is good even for people who do not use it for being a competition and forcing others to be better and cheaper, I think a free cpu will cause Intel and AMD good things. -- Didi On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:26:55AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: The only way

Re: Linux distribution for black-box type firewall/router

2004-04-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 05:18:32PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Omer Zak wrote: By the way, how come that no Debian installer had itch, which can be scratched by an user-friendly GUI installer? Says who? At this stage the installer is focusing on the user-friendly part, rather

Solved: unicode in xterm/vim/iconv

2004-03-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
. when you type 't' it emits 224), which in this font is shown as Aleph, but is actually a different letter in UTF-8. Thanks and sorry, -- Didi On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:12:41AM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hi all, I know this sounds weird, but I now try to learn about utf-8 in order to move

Re: Tool for writing man pages

2004-03-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:29:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nadav Har'El wrote: 1. Manual pages are written in the nroff language. To convert a manual page file ls.1 to ascii for viewing, use groff -man -Tascii ls.1 Shachar is using debian - man -l filename should do

Re: kernel compilation

2004-03-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:20:37AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:01:55AM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:14:31PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: [snip] You are asking 'make menuconfig' to do something

Re: kernel compilation

2004-03-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, I want to point out a question, and might even get an answer. Even if not, whoever regularly compile their own kernels and try different configs, pay attention. I noticed this a few days ago, on Fedora Core 1. Since I currently do not have access to such a machine, I did not try it on

Re: Kernel .config differences? (was: Re: kernel compilation)

2004-03-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:07:33PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Are there still 2241 changes even after you use the options -iEbB, and ignore changes in comment lines and trailing comments? My diff doesn't know about 'E'. % diff -ibB configs/kernel-2.4.22-i686.config .config | grep -v '#' | grep

Re: kernel compilation

2004-03-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:14:31PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: I copied configs/kernel-2.4.22-i686.config to .config, ran 'make menuconfig', immediately selected exit, yes for save. diff between the original conf and the new .config is 2241 lines. Bad enough, you

Re: wireless keyboard and mouse

2004-03-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:40:48PM +0200, Eran Tromer wrote: In regard to Linux compatibility, I don't think you can expect any compatibility problems (except, possibly, for weird nonstandard keyboard or mouse buttons). For mice, go with Logitech. The wireless optical model (cheaper

Re: X toolkit that will also work with M$ recomentation

2004-03-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:26:23PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: 02 2004, 13:54,Micha Feigin: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:09:49AM +0200, Ori Idan wrote: 2. Qt very easy to use if you use C++ however not free if final application is not free My main issue with it is that its not

Re: Making ISO available for browsing

2004-03-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:26:35PM +0200, Iftach Hyams wrote: Question 1 : --- Having 3 iso files (Fedora) mounted (-o loop...), I would like to have them all in one directory - each has Fedora/RPMS/ and the result should be one tree which symbolic link of all files from 3 of

OT: pxelinux+busybox weird problem

2004-03-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, Sorry again for posting off-topic. I have two machines: one with an Intel eepro100 and another with tg3 (don't know the exact cards, these are the linux drivers that work with them). I want both to boot with: PXE - something - linux Up until now, something was pxegrub, which worked very

Re: Making ISO available for browsing

2004-03-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:13:01PM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:06:04 +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:26:35PM +0200, Iftach Hyams wrote: Question 1

Re: NFS, AFS or is there something else?

2004-03-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
One might have noticed that linux 2.4.25 got support for Unix extensions for cifs, something invented by HP and integrated info samba (server) around a year ago. Note that I never tried it myself, and I guess you won't find a client for Solaris. -- Didi On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 06:14:46PM +0200,

Re: Making ISO available for browsing

2004-03-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:12:06AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: [snip] Alternatively, you can build a symlinks directory manually. It would help you if you need to preserve the original structure: [snip] If you want to make that availble to network clients, then there is the question of

Re: Making ISO available for browsing

2004-03-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:48:36AM +0200, Iftach Hyams wrote: Thank you Oron, I roughly knew the idea but I deeded the details. My problems is with the DHCPD part - I am not the sys admin and it is not a good idea to create my own, just because I can. Maybe creating 'weakend' version that

Re: lstat, fstat and lstat64 problems

2004-02-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, I recommend this page for info on Large File Support: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html -- Didi On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:05:17PM -0800, David D wrote: Hi, I'm desperate! I was trying to write a program that uses one of the above syscall, but nothing seems to work right for me,

Re: RH Enterprise images?

2004-02-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:05:03PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: anyone has an idea where one can get the ISO images of RHAS3? I could only find the Taroon images (beta 2.95) mirrored ll over the place. Did anyone try centos? From their homepage: CentOS-3 is a freely distributable OS built from

Re: Bogofilter instead of SpamAssasin?

2004-02-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 02:58:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just heard about BogoFilter and see that people on that other forum think it's better than SpamAssasin (based on their personal experience). http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/ Has anyone here tried it or know of

Re: Powerful and Stable PC Configuration for Linux]

2004-02-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, I won't comment on your specific questions. Few other points: 1. Most of my own problems were with X. I suggest you either do some good testing with the video card and X, or, better, not run on it X at all (but on a less-sensitive machine). 2. There are some issues with HT. Not stability, but

Re: The Fedora Mystery

2004-02-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:03:23PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: I bought a new laptop, paid the MS-Tax (for Windows XP), and I want to install Linux on it. When looking for ISO images of Fedora, I found no Israeli mirror of Fedora ISO's. ftp.tau.ac.il:/pub/OS/RedHat/Fedora-core-iso The most

Re: burning Mandrake 9.2 ISO

2004-02-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:06:11AM +0200, Efraim Yawitz wrote: Hi, I just downloaded the second iso image for Mandrake 9.2, and it is 731 MB. No it's not. It's 731797504 bytes, which are 698MiB, less than the maximum of 700MiB which is the maximum of modern burners/media. Are you sure

Re: forums managemenet server needed

2004-02-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:45:20PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: Would you recommend to me about a server-side manager of users/news/formus that supports hebrew well? scaliong is not a real issue here (20 expected users), but it better be simple to operate. We work here with phpbb and are

Re: What Dist for a servers

2004-01-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:50:52PM +0200, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: - Original Message - From: Alon Weinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ben-Nes Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:33 PM Subject: Re: What Dist for a servers I'm leaning

Re: mysql hebrew

2004-01-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
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* SQL-query : ALTER

Re: Linux machine hangs - SOLVED ???

2004-01-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 05:41:53PM +0200, Uzi Refaeli wrote: First 10X for all who helped... xmms-1.2.8 was a perfect example of getting the machine hang. after looking around in redhat bugzilla I tried compiling xmms with CFLAGS=-O1 instead of -O2 works like a magic... I also did a mem

Re: cp: omitting directory

2004-01-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 03:20:43PM +0200, David Howard wrote: Hi all. I'm having problems setting up a cron job to back up Thunderbird mail. This is Thunderbird 0.4. When testing the command syntax I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cp /home/david/.mozilla-thunderbird/default/ejlqdp1x.slt/Mail

Re: Unique identification of a computer

2004-01-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:10:51PM +0200, Oren Amit wrote: What wrong with gethostid() ? That it returns your IP address, which isn't too unique. -- Didi Rony Shapiro wrote: In commercial systems, the MAC address of the Ethernet NIC is considered a unique identifier of the computer.

Re: Please answer me!!! [was Re: MP3 in Fedora Core 1]

2004-01-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
I know this is way offtopic, but I must add that while Shlomi is perfectly correct, in most cases it is even better to use im (instead of bemida ve, bemikreh ve) and ki (instead of mea'har ve). And, Shlomi, I don't think you need to take this whole subject so seriously. People are making many more

Re: Filesystem for dual boot sharing

2004-01-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:39:16AM +0200, Michael Sternberg wrote: Hello What are my options for sharing data between Linux and Win2K on dual boot computer ? I need read/write access from both OS to a shared partition, until now I used FAT. Do we have something better ? Not really. There

Re: Filesystem for dual boot sharing

2004-01-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 03:45:07PM +, dittigas wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 06:39, Michael Sternberg wrote: Hello What are my options for sharing data between Linux and Win2K on dual boot computer ? I need read/write access from both OS to a shared partition, until now I used FAT. Do

Re: [OT] ADSL Router

2004-01-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:58:41PM +0200, Leonid Podolny wrote: Good evening, I've decided to replace the box I use as an ADSL router -- too much space, too much noise. I want to buy the dedicated ADSL router and I would like to recieve recommendations for the specific brand/model. The

Re: solved (was Re: lost my X server)

2004-01-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:44:09PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I promised to let the list know how I solved the problem (in case it's ever of some use to someone). After a lot of trial and error, I discovered that /usr/X11R6/lib/modules was an empty directory. I checked on my other

Re: X Server for windows

2004-01-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:23:05AM +0200, Aaron wrote: I guess I must of missed something, What can an xserver be used for on windoze?? Why might someone want one? In order to run X clients on a remote machine and see them on your local Windows machine. -- Didi Thanks Aaron

Re: X Server for windows

2004-01-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:06:42PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:00:18AM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:23:05AM +0200, Aaron wrote: I guess I must of missed something, What can an xserver be used for on windoze?? Why might someone

Re: X Server for windows

2004-01-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:34:05PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: Hi All, Any recommendations on X server for windows? I'd like to set some X forwarding. I saw some commercial solutions, but I need something free (as in beer...). The Xserver of cygwin works

Re: Converting to the new samba Attn:Yedidyah Bar-David

2003-12-31 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: Didi, Could you post the script you mention that you use for converting cp862 and iso8859-8 filed and directories to UTF-8? I don't mind to, but I recently saw on freshmeat something called 'convmv' which is probably better.

Re: Converting to the new samba Attn:Yedidyah Bar-David

2003-12-31 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 04:38:02PM +0200, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: I tried 'convmv' and it worked great. One point to be aware of: I had two directory structures and it seems that one was in cp862 and one was in iso- 8859-8. At first I ran the same command on both directories: convmv -r -f

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

2003-12-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:45:01AM +0200, Lior Kesos wrote: 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 to see what X warning if any exist and a slight sense of

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

2003-12-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 01:26:27PM +0200, 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

Re: looking for Visual2Logical converter

2003-12-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:59:13PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Shai Bentin wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a hebrew visual 2 logical and logical 2 visual, that will run on linux or other unix machines... If anybody knows of such code I'll be happy for a pointer. Thanks, The

Re: Various performance problems

2003-12-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:21:27AM +0200, Alon Weinstein wrote: [snip] And another question, for the uninitiated (that's me) -- when I try to output $LD_LIBRARY_PATH I get nothing. How can I find out what are the default libraries used by the system? RTFM - man ld.so . Basically

Re: OT: ECI 270PR as router

2003-12-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:28:23AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Guy Teverovsky wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 22:51, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: http://www.netguru.co.il/files/manuals/eci/ECI_ROUTER_ADSL_270_400.pdf The document has been contributed by ECI. Bezeq officially support

OT: ECI 270PR as router

2003-12-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hello all, Sorry for being a bit off-topic by I think this interests many and someone might have an answer. I got an ECI 270PR (the modem/router Bezeq offers for ADSL users), and while it's being advertized as a router, specifically one that allows Internet connection sharing, the documentation

Re: mirror

2003-12-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:18:19PM +0200, Erez Doron wrote: hi i am trying to do the following: there is a samba server in the university. i have ftp access to it (no smb access) the hebrew file names are of course wrong (as their samba does not have the hebrew patch) i solved it by

Re: mirror

2003-12-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:11:33PM +0200, Erez Doron wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: [snip] It's not clear what is a good and what is a bad solution for you, but if you want there are scripts that convert filenames between charsets. I have my own, there were a few others in linux-il

Re: two network cards q

2003-12-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 07:48:53PM +0200, Shimon Panfil wrote: Hi folks, on my machine with 2 ethernet cards different kernels see these two cards in different order. How can I appoint specific device for specific interface? Kernel parameters? With a small program called nameif. -- Didi

Re: can't save data on disk-on-key

2003-11-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Few other ideas: 1. Try to write to an existing file. Create a file an a stable way (e.g. after reboot - you said that works), then 'cat ' into it and see if it stays there or returning to original content. When you do, do umount and sync yourself before unplugging it. This should eliminate

Re: can't save data on disk-on-key

2003-11-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 08:43:14AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 02:36, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Don't trust any app ;). Change 'auto' to 'vfat' in fstab and give it a try. Thanks - that did it . You have no idea what a relief this is for me :-) BTW, it's

Re: can't save data on disk-on-key

2003-11-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:06:26PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: On Thursday 27 November 2003 21:42, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Shlomo Solomon wrote: On Thursday 27 November 2003 20:48, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Most of those devices have write protect latch/switch on them,

Re: can't save data on disk-on-key

2003-11-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:18:16PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: On Thursday 27 November 2003 22:30, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: What does dmesg say? when I mount I get the following in dmesg: MSDOS FS: IO charset utf8 and this is in syslog: Nov 27 23:12:54 shlomo1 kernel: MSDOS FS: IO

Re: ocr hebrew anyone

2003-11-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:05:23AM +0200, Aaron wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 06:22, Eli Marmor wrote: Eli Marmor wrote: [snip] Oops. I didn't see the need for Hebrew. I think that at least in (1) and (2), Hebrew is not built in. Although not builtin, people reported some degree of

Re: ocr hebrew anyone

2003-11-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:49:47PM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:05:23AM +0200, Aaron wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 06:22, Eli Marmor wrote: 2. To make some minor patches so right-to-left will be supported instead of right

Re: ocr hebrew anyone

2003-11-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Aaron wrote: So the bottom line it seems is windoze and a commercial app?? For most uses, yes. shameless plug I think my program will be better if you need nikud, which might be true for songs. It will probably require much more work until you get

Re: ocr hebrew anyone

2003-11-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:21:48PM +0200, Aaron wrote: well nikud would be nice and I have over 300 songs. Is your app resonalbly easy to compile??? No. I wrote it 4 years ago, against the then-current netpbm library, which changed its api since then. I managed to make it compile against the

Re: NIS problem!!!

2003-11-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:23:03PM +0200, Lesha wrote: Hi, Although ypbind running, NIS users can't be authenticated. The response I get is: user doesn't exit It would be nice if you give some more information. For now, check these: 1. /etc/nsswitch.conf - the passwd

Re: problems with partrition table

2003-11-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:28:36PM +0200, b g wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 17:49, Oron Peled wrote: Sorry for the lame question, but what are magic numbers? Before working on the raw device, I though it would be a good idea to know what I'm doing. Googling for [magic numbers ext3

Re: EULA on free software?

2003-11-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:25:28AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 06:39:07PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I downloaded Fedora, and tried to install it on a box of mine (well - VMWare to be precise). The problem with installing it was not

Re: Meeting with Gadi Gilon

2003-11-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, First, I want to say that this is one of the most interesting emails I read recently. On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:47:43AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi list, Just came back from a meeting with Gadi Gilon. For those who don't remeber, he is the CIO of Kupat Cholim Klalit. He stumbled

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