Re: TUX image location

2000-03-09 Thread Eitan Shefer
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Adi Stav wrote: http://linux.org.il/graphics/Penguin.gif (that file was actually created from Ewing's Tux even before he got his name, hence the undescriptive filename :-) I wonder if that's the same Ewing in Red Hat, btw? Nope. A differant Ewing. He's working at

Re: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread matan
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Why?? Either join your work to Koffice (or Goffice which is LONG from coming) - but doing this whole work, for a single purpose - I really don't think it will be usable, because: 1. You'll need to write everything from SCRATCH. So? I want a

Re: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
This is a classical example of the plight of people who actually move their asses and do something. They invariably draw fire, no matter which way they move. We don't have enough volunteers for Linux-related stuff in Israel (the proof is that no adequate Hebrew support exists, few years after

RE: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Chen Shapira
requires loading about 60MB of programs and libraries until it works. I checked my options, and I think it is easier to write from scratch. You can easily prove me wrong - add hebrew support to maxwell, abiword or whatever, and do it before my program is usefull enough. I don't recommend

Re: IW2K

2000-03-09 Thread Ury Segal
Shaul Karl wrote: I believe it will help. Is this acceptable by LinuxQA? Generaly, yes Assuming it is acceptable, can LinuxQA wrote their exact address, including the floor in which their offices are found? How can I pass the building security ("I have come to mr. Segal from LinuxQA,

Re: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
At 11:05 09/03/2000 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: This is a classical example of the plight of people who actually move their asses and do something. They invariably draw fire, no matter which way they move. I would object to that! We don't have enough volunteers for Linux-related stuff in Israel

RE: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Chen Shapira
2. Support the use of a scripting language (such as Tcl, Perl or Python) interpreted by an embedded interpreter. This will allow other people to turn your word processor into a sophisticated and complicated and feature-rich one by adding their own commands (implemented as

RE: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Chen Shapira wrote: I was always wondering how does one go about adding scripting capabilites to a program. Does anyone know of any resources about the subject? You already know my biases, and there is very good documentaation on www.python.org about that (look for the

Re: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread matan
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: 1. Make as clean separation as possible between the SVGAlib based display engine and the rest of the word processor. This will allow someone else to replace the SVGAlib by whatever engines needed for plain X-Window, KDE or Gnome. This is planned. The

RE: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Chen Shapira
2. Support the use of a scripting language (such as Tcl, Perl or Python) interpreted by an embedded interpreter. This will allow other people to turn your word processor into a sophisticated and complicated and feature-rich one by adding their own commands (implemented as

Re: Mounting floppy.

2000-03-09 Thread mulix
Boltyansky Boris wrote: [b@localhost /dev]$ mount /dev/fd1 /diskette001 I've got a message that told me to specify the file system, how will I do that? (how should the command line look like?) mount /dev/fd1 /diskette001 -t msdos or use the mtools package: mcopy a:/* /diskette001

Linux in Intel

2000-03-09 Thread Ury Segal
Hi I remember someone said there is Linux in Intel in Haifa, and they are using it to test chips. Does someone have some contact with the people of the lab there ? --ury = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Mounting floppy.

2000-03-09 Thread Boltyansky Boris
Hi! My ISP doesn't support internet connection using linux so I have to download Linux software in Windows. Recently I've downloaded 6 MB and I wanted to copy them to my Linux partition. I don't have VMware, and I don't have a CD-Writer so I have to use floppy (3.5"). I've zipped those 6 MB

Re: Mounting floppy.

2000-03-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
You should look for a program called: explore2fs or something like that (I don't remember the name exactly), which lets you read/write to ext2fs.. Hetz At 15:13 09/03/2000 +0200, Boltyansky Boris wrote: Hi! My ISP doesn't support internet connection using linux so I have to download Linux

Re: Mounting floppy.

2000-03-09 Thread Boltyansky Boris
Hi there! Chen Shapira wrote: Recently I've downloaded 6 MB and I wanted to copy them to my Linux partition. I don't have VMware, and I don't have a CD-Writer so I have to use floppy (3.5"). I've zipped those 6 MB into 5 floppys, and then restarted the computer and booted Linux.

ISP doesn't support Linux ?! (RE: Mounting floppy.)

2000-03-09 Thread Alex Rier
Hi, Linux supports the same PPP PAP like Windowz. So please, explain to "bur and am haaretz kamoni" how some ISP can prevent Linux from connecting to him?! Sincerely, Alex Rier| System Administrator | Tel: +972-52-442549 Breakthrough Ltd.| FAX:

CDRW

2000-03-09 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I still have two problems (one serious and one just a minor inconvenience) that I haven't been able to solve. I've read any HOWTOs and man pages that seemed relevant, and I've written to the list before but .. I'm really getting desperate. Can someone PLEASE help ??!!! I apologize for

Re: Linux by numbers

2000-03-09 Thread Ely Levy
sure, with that logic we can just run windows:) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Ira Abramov wrote: | On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Ely Levy wrote: | | | 2. Linux is fast becoming the most popular UNIX | |Is already and has been for some time. | |

RE: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Chen Shapira wrote: 2. Support the use of a scripting language (such as Tcl, Perl or Python) interpreted by an embedded interpreter. This will allow other people to turn your word processor into a sophisticated and complicated and feature-rich one by

Argument in favor of scripting (was: Re: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor)

2000-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: 1. Make as clean separation as possible between the SVGAlib based display engine and the rest of the word processor. This will allow someone else to replace the SVGAlib by whatever engines needed for

Re: Mounting floppy.

2000-03-09 Thread Ira Abramov
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Boltyansky Boris wrote: My ISP doesn't support internet connection using linux so I have to download Linux software in Windows. you're the sysadmin at your company, demand your boss to pay your internet bills and get a standard PPP account. Recently I've downloaded 6 MB

Mandrake 7.0 to 7.02

2000-03-09 Thread Benado
I downloaded Mandrake ISO when it came out... (version 7.0) and few weeks later, the ISO fix came out... i cant afford to download the whole ISO again and i would like to know how i can tweak my current CD so it fixes all the installation bugs. i downloaded the new darkx RPM. what now? Thanks,

Unable to create EXEC

2000-03-09 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hi. I recently started getting this error from time to time in my /var/log/messages when attempting connection via pppd and chat: Mar 9 21:34:24 fortinbras chat[2313]: %% Unable to create EXEC - no memory or too many processes^M .and naturally, the connection fails. If I let the system "sit"

Jerusalug - just a small note

2000-03-09 Thread Nathan Fain
Someone on the Jerusalug list suggested coming to next Thursdays (march 16) meeting/lecture even if the topics don't interest you to asks Q's that might *stump* me. To encourage this I'll have 30+ snickers bars to give to those that DO asks Q's (related to the topics) that "stump" me. I hope 30

Re: Argument in favor of scripting (was: Re: A wysiwyg hebrew wordprocessor)

2000-03-09 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: This is planned. The next release will include separation of the drawing functions, so it will be easy to replace them with ones for Xlib, fbdev or something else. Good! OK, I just uploaded (in the same place,

Asynchronic Disks

2000-03-09 Thread Mike
Hi list. I like to know where i can find info (and if it possible) to access my HD in Asynchronous way. I know that FreeBSD support that future and that it fasten things up if you do not really care about the integrity of the data. I now run Squid Cache Server on linux and want to fasten things

Re: 2.2 kernels on slink

2000-03-09 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 01:01:40AM +0200, Gaal Yahas wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:16:03AM +0200, Omer wrote: right. but do not use dselect, use apt instead. Huh? I thought dselect was calling apt for me. Wasn't it? bias It does, but dselect is an ugly monstrosity. I find apt-get's CLI

No Subject

2000-03-09 Thread albert
WITH THE HELP OF GOD!! I'm writing a work on os'es and I need to find the formula that sets the priorety of jobs to the cpu as it well known it have to do with : nice and aging. I've looked all-msot every where and didnt able to find s I'm greatfool as advanced albert

Re: Preferred Linux Distribution ?

2000-03-09 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 04:19:03AM +0200, Omer wrote: On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, "Orit Vardi\\" wrote: Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:24:22 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Orit Vardi\\" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Preferred Linux Distribution ? I would like to change or upgrade the Red

Call for Vulonteers (part 2)

2000-03-09 Thread Orr Dunkelman
Hi everybody, I'm terribelly sorry, but I have only 4 lectures with lecturer (one of them is Hebrew, but ...), and lack several backup persons. We now have more knowledge, as we are sure it will be Tuesday 18:30 in the Technion's CS department new building (Taub 6) from the 28/3 any Tue. with

Re: Mounting floppy.

2000-03-09 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:58:22PM +, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: You should look for a program called: explore2fs or something like that (I don't remember the name exactly), which lets you read/write to ext2fs.. When I last tried it, it was buggy enough to make it almost impossible to use

Re: your mail

2000-03-09 Thread Adi Stav
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 12:14:24AM +, albert wrote: WITH THE HELP OF GOD!! I'm writing a work on os'es and I need to find the formula that sets the priorety of jobs to the cpu as it well known it have to do with : nice and aging. I've looked all-msot every where and didnt able

Re: ISP doesn't support Linux ?! (RE: Mounting floppy.)

2000-03-09 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:58:32PM +, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: The man has decided to use SurFree (the free payment ISP) - and in order to connect - you must use THEIR dialer program and NOT something else. Their program will give you after connecting - a window with advertisement and you

Re: Linux by numbers

2000-03-09 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:40:10AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: 1. The statistics didn't count *users*, but boxes. Each typical UNIX has more users connected to, *in average*, than a typical Linux box. It will not be a too far gamble to guess that there are more non-Linux users than

Re: Mounting floppy.

2000-03-09 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 06:08:21PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: OUCH. I'd love to know if you can connect to surfree from linux with windows running in a VMWare window :-) If MS-Windows was the kind of operating system that includes out-of-the-box IP forwarding just so that its users are happy,

Re: your mail

2000-03-09 Thread Orr Dunkelman
Try the Technion's Computer Science Dept. Course on Operating Systems (Operating Systems Structure) http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/Courses/Operating-Systems-Structure/ Look at the Tirgulim paragraph. Also you can try to look at the code of sched.c /usr/src/linux/kernel/sched.c I just found the

Re:

2000-03-09 Thread Shaul Karl
WITH THE HELP OF GOD!! I'm writing a work on os'es and I need to find the formula that sets the priorety of jobs to the cpu as it well known it have to do with : nice and aging. I've looked all-msot every where and didnt able to find s I'm greatfool as advanced 1 I do not know

Re: Argument in favor of scripting (was: Re: A wysiwyg hebrew wordprocessor)

2000-03-09 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: I think this is the first thing you should support. Especially as it is not that hard and I believe that you'll get cooperation from Chen Shapira. And, if he chooses either Tcl or Python, some support from me. (Ducking and hiding from those Perl addicts)

Job opportunity: Linux / Unix Lecturer

2000-03-09 Thread Mark Hanji
Hello. Mediatek Networking (The place I work in :-) ) is looking for Linux/Unix Lecturer. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or fax 04-8401211 for YARIV. The work area is in Haifa Rishon-Letzion. More Jobs at: http://www.ctec.co.il/jobs/default.htm

Argument in favor of lightweight (was: Re: Argument...)

2000-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Moshe Zadka wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: I think this is the first thing you should support. Especially as it is not that hard and I believe that you'll get cooperation from Chen Shapira. And, if he chooses either Tcl or Python, some support from

Re: Argument in favor of lightweight (was: Re: Argument...)

2000-03-09 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: However one of Mathan's highest priorities is a lightweight word processor. Exactly! And C is much more heavyweight then Python wink. Overhead of Python's library: 567K on my system (including everything one has to distribute with embedded Python. This

Re: Linux by numbers

2000-03-09 Thread Eli Marmor
Adi Stav wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:40:10AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: 1. The statistics didn't count *users*, but boxes. Each typical UNIX has more users connected to, *in average*, than a typical Linux box. It will not be a too far gamble to guess that there are more