Re: The IGLU Cabal

2000-07-24 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Chen Shapira wrote: N§²æìr¸zǧvf¢-Ú%S{±SZު笶X§»+')pSØm...ì(­Û§²æìr¸z)í...éz²Æ yºÉè+º{ayÊ(tm)©ÝyÈhº{.nÇ+?·¦j)eS{±SZު笶X§»+ I give up. What language is that? APL? This is proof positive the Chen Shapira is _not_ a member of the cabal. On the other hand, her denying

Re: Really? no cabal?

2000-07-24 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Nadav Har'El wrote: Ok, this thread has gone for some time now, but PLEASE, if you plan on continuing, at least do us a favor and explain what the f*** you're talking about? What on earth is a "cabal"? I'm assuming you're not talking about a capacitor :) A cabal is a capacitor.

Re: The IGLU Cabal

2000-07-24 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Marc A. Volovic wrote: This is proof positive the Chen Shapira is _not_ a member of the cabal. There is no IGLU cabal. On the other hand, her denying recognition of the secret handshake signal is likely proof positive that she is well aware of the cabal, is on the

Re: SSH and Debian

2000-07-24 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Gaal! On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 08:56:22AM +0300, you wrote the following: But another question: I don't have grep-available on my system. What package provides it? grep-dctrl Okay, thanks! Any idea why this thing isn't installed by default? It's 28k of download and takes

OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Ury Segal wrote: C++ is an object-oriented programming language? Gimme a break. YOU do not define what is an OO language. The world aroud you, which you obviously Ignore, defined, long time ago, that C++ is an OO language. I don't think one can decide whether C++

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Ira Abramov wrote: b. a symposium we could organize with Vadik, Ury, Zadka, Chen, Gaal and other illuminaries (pun intended) of this list giving their definitions of OO. we may not agree but we will ALL be wiser, and it's better than this stupid flamewar. and before

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Moshe Zadka wrote: Ok, if people really want this (please answer to me personally) I can organize a "what is OO?" symposium. Ira, can you send me the contact info for the guys at SGI? One more note: I'll argue any way other people don't, so I'll have to have your views

GeneOriented.com (OO)

2000-07-24 Thread Avi Boots
Hi List, I buy a domain named: GeneOriented.com Why not to take our minds and make a new Open OO Language, OR Open GeneO... Think about This, :-) avi boots. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Re: The IGLU Cabal - the real facts

2000-07-24 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Omer Zak wrote: 3. The IGLU Cabal was founded by Harvey J. Stein and the mysterious Asker Of The First Question Which Started It All (the First Question was: "are there Linux users in Israel?" and it was posted to one of the Israeli Usenet groups sometime at 1994). Note that

Re: The IGLU Cabal - the real facts

2000-07-24 Thread Ira Abramov
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Note that Harvey is no longer in Israel. He is alive and well in New York. that does not disqualifying him from joining in, we have people from all over the world in here and more joining each week (Hi Robin!), IGLU is geographicly bound,

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Who cares? OO is a programming design method, which attempts to make the process of writing software and maintaing it easier than it's predecessor (structured programming? Procedural programming? whatever). These are goals, and the principles behind OO, in my humble opinion, are just means to an

C is standartizied - In your dreams!

2000-07-24 Thread Ury Segal
I got the feeling hat some people here think that C has a standard that is commonly followed, (more that C++ in any case.) This is SO FAR from the truth. C has profound standartzation problem, some of them built-in in the language. Let me give you some examples. 1) The "standard" IO library

Re: C is standartizied - In your dreams!

2000-07-24 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Ury Segal wrote: b. If you ar not familiar with sscanf, how about fopen(), eh ? Old timer, mentioned in KR. Even THIS has no standard. On most Windows/DOS compilers, if you does not use the letter "b" in the 2nd argument to open, it will

RFC: Backup Solutions

2000-07-24 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
Hi list, I would like to hear comments about commercial Linux Backup Solutions (for a mixed Linux/Windows network). After a quick search of the web I found three main candidates: - Arkeia (by Know) www.arkeia.com - Backup Professional (by Unitrends) www.unitrends.com - NovaNet 8 (by NovaStor)

Re: C is standartizied - In your dreams!

2000-07-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000, Ury Segal wrote about ""C" is standartizied - In your dreams!": I got the feeling hat some people here think that C has a standard that is commonly followed, (more that C++ in any case.) This is SO FAR from the truth. C has profound standartzation problem, some of them

Re: SSH and Debian

2000-07-24 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 05:40:52PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: I need ssh1 functionality. Have you seen the following debs: [17:39:20 /tmp]$ grep-available -P ssh | grep Package Package: ssh2 [...] Thanks, Shaul, and everybody else who replied by email. Indeed I had to use a

Re: All hail Eris! (Was: Re: IGLU Cabal)

2000-07-24 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Quoth Moshe Zadka on Sun, Jul 23, 2000: Maybe we can stop this irresponsible spread of rumours? Someone might just take this seriously, and think Linux is some kind of weird cult. Thats it. There is no IGLU cabal. C'est la Vie. Of course there is no IGLU Cabal, Moshe! Vadik. -- The reader

Re: Really? no cabal?

2000-07-24 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Quoth Marc A. Volovic on Mon, Jul 24, 2000: A cabal is a capacitor. Just a capacitor. Nothing but a simple, humble capacitor. It cannot and wil not, under any circumstances, alter weather, divert aircraft, cause localized thunderclaps or influence the wheeling and dealing among the nations

Re: SSH and Debian

2000-07-24 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:51:05AM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: But another question: I don't have grep-available on my system. What package provides it? grep-dctrl Okay, thanks! Any idea why this thing isn't installed by default? It's 28k of download and takes 127k of space. (If

Re: Really? no cabal?

2000-07-24 Thread Omer Musaev
Vadim Vygonets wrote: Quoth Marc A. Volovic on Mon, Jul 24, 2000: A cabal is a capacitor. Just a capacitor. Nothing but a simple, humble capacitor. It cannot and wil not, under any circumstances, alter weather, divert aircraft, cause localized thunderclaps or influence the wheeling

Re: C++ today (was Re: GTK 1.3.1)

2000-07-24 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Quoth Adam Morrison on Sun, Jul 23, 2000: I haven't sene many programmers who go and fiddle with struct __jmp_buf instead of using setjmp/longjmp. You don't have to look very far, actually. http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/course/os/Ex3/demo.c I know. I did this exercise too. But my point

áòðééï: Backup Solutions

2000-07-24 Thread netvision
Hi Schlomo, I wonder you didn't mention NetWorker product from Legato - www.legato.com , that has the biggest installed base Worldwide, as well as above 250 installations in Israel. The distributer of this product is "MBI, Advanced Computer solutions" and we are located at Ramat-Hasharon. You

Re: bot for retreiving info from secured sites

2000-07-24 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 03:43:31PM +, Asaf Koren wrote: hi, does anyone has a knowledge of an available tool or method to automaticaly retreive information from secured internet sites (SSL ?) , e.g. from tau ims site (grades: www.ims.tau.ac.il) or hapoalim site ? curl can also be

Re: C is standartizied - In your dreams!

2000-07-24 Thread Vadim Vygonets
I mostly agree with Moshe Zadka and Nadav Har'el on the matter, but would still like to add something. Quoth Nadav Har'El on Mon, Jul 24, 2000: On Mon, Jul 24, 2000, Ury Segal wrote about ""C" is standartizied - In your dreams!": Let me give you some examples. 1) The "standard" IO

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Re: bot for retreiving info from secured sites

2000-07-24 Thread Ira Abramov
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Asaf Koren wrote: does anyone has a knowledge of an available tool or method to automaticaly retreive information from secured internet sites (SSL ?) , e.g. from tau ims site (grades: www.ims.tau.ac.il) or hapoalim site ? lynx-ssl in batch mode? -- Ira

Re: C++ today (was Re: GTK 1.3.1)

2000-07-24 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Quoth Ury Segal on Sun, Jul 23, 2000: Yes. Do you know what is a standard ? Something that is widely implemented and followed, perhaps? Have you EVER been involved in standatrizing effort ? No, sadly. You? Did you ever READ a standard? Do RFCs or ISO standards qualify? In this case,

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
SS Suppose C++ has a great feature, which makes writing easily SS maintainable code a brease, but is not in the "official" OO SS specification. Obviously, C++ is not an OO language in that SS respect, but who cares? We can also suppose C++ hasn't some of features that are in "official" OO

Re: : Backup Solutions

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
n I wonder you didn't mention NetWorker product from Legato - n www.legato.com , that has the biggest installed base Worldwide, as n well as above 250 installations in Israel. The distributer of this Was I looking very bad or Legato solutions doesn't support Linux? At least, Networker has no

Re: Really? no cabal?

2000-07-24 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Vadim Vygonets wrote: Quoth Marc A. Volovic on Mon, Jul 24, 2000: A cabal is a capacitor. Just a capacitor. Nothing but a simple, humble capacitor. It cannot and wil not, under any circumstances, alter weather, divert aircraft, cause localized thunderclaps or

Re: C++ today (was Re: GTK 1.3.1)

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
VV Something that is widely implemented and followed, perhaps? You must mean Microsoft Office *ducks* *runs* *hides* VV No, sadly. You? ITYM "no, luckily". It isn't real flamewar unless it is over One True Standard. VV For some reason, I haven't saved the addresses of FUCKING VV

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Ira Abramov
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: IA what OO is, and that is a rather personal view. I heard some people say IA Java (which Sun dubs "pure OO") is not OO at all, since "if" statements IA are not objects and there are primitive types, others said that even Erm? Why

Re: C++ today (was Re: GTK 1.3.1)

2000-07-24 Thread Ira Abramov
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: VV Something that is widely implemented and followed, perhaps? You must mean Microsoft Office *ducks* *runs* *hides* for that matter, YES. M$office is a DE FACTO standard. question is are we discussing de-facto or de-jure

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
IA I was once told that in Scheme (and IANASP) an "if" statement is an IA object in itself. I'll be learning scheme next year and be able to tell Well, I don't know what for, but OK - I can imagine language where sytax constructs are objects. Even makes me curious. Good book on Scheme, anyone?

Re: bot for retreiving info from secured sites

2000-07-24 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Asaf Koren wrote: hi, does anyone has a knowledge of an available tool or method to automaticaly retreive information from secured internet sites (SSL ?) , e.g. from tau ims site (grades: www.ims.tau.ac.il) or hapoalim site ? The next version of Python (you can try

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Ira Abramov
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: IA I was once told that in Scheme (and IANASP) an "if" statement is an IA object in itself. I'll be learning scheme next year and be able to tell Well, I don't know what for, but OK - I can imagine language where sytax constructs

Re: áòðééï: Backup Solutions

2000-07-24 Thread Henry Ficher
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, netvision wrote: Hi list, I would like to hear comments about commercial Linux Backup Solutions (for a mixed Linux/Windows network). After a quick search of the web I found three main candidates: - Arkeia (by Know) www.arkeia.com - Backup Professional (by Unitrends)

Re: C++ today (was Re: GTK 1.3.1)

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
IA Given enough time and resource - definitely. Having made entire DB IA solution in pure Javascript (no, it wasn't fun), I'm firm in this. IA IA now THAT sounds impressive. does it parse XML too? do publish it in IA OpenSource :-) No, it didn't (though I guess I might do that too, in limited

áòðééï: áòðééï: Backup Solutions

2000-07-24 Thread netvision
Hi, Yes you missed! From the home page www.legato.com you can do the following: 1. Sitemap - Related links - Current Products - NetWorker for Linux Client 2. Quick Link - Compatability Guides - Software Compatability Guide. Version 5.2.1 of NetWorker for Linux Client is bundled in

Re: C++ today (was Re: GTK 1.3.1)

2000-07-24 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Quoth Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo on Mon, Jul 24, 2000: [standard] VV Something that is widely implemented and followed, perhaps? You must mean Microsoft Office *ducks* *runs* *hides* Now, Frodo, this is MEAN. Vadik. -- Spelling is a lossed art.

Re: C is standartizied - In your dreams!

2000-07-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000, Vadim Vygonets wrote about "Re: "C" is standartizied - In your dreams!": Register is only a recommendation to the compiler, and is a leftover from the times when the optimizer wasn't smart enough to do that on its own. Consider it as a finetuning to the optimizer,

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: IA what OO is, and that is a rather personal view. I heard some people say IA Java (which Sun dubs "pure OO", is not OO at all, since "if" statements IA are not objects and there are primitive types, others said that even Erm? Why

Re: C is standartizied - In your dreams!

2000-07-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Ury Segal" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I got the feeling hat some people here think that C has a standard that is commonly followed, (more that C++ in any case.) I have a feeling that you are mixing up the existence of a standard that people writing code are "supposed" to follow, and the

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Ira Abramov wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: IA what OO is, and that is a rather personal view. I heard some people say IA Java (which Sun dubs "pure OO") is not OO at all, since "if" statements IA are not objects and there are

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: IA I was once told that in Scheme (and IANASP) an "if" statement is an IA object in itself. I'll be learning scheme next year and be able to tell Well, I don't know what for, but OK - I can imagine language where sytax constructs

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
MZ Let me clarify the muddy waters: in no language I'm aware of, is "if" an MZ object. In most sane languages (Scheme, Python, Smalltalk), a boolean is MZ an object. In smalltalk, a boolean has a method called ifTrue which Ahh... that's boring. Just another way to write the same. -- [EMAIL

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
IA OmerM started something... IA IA http://iglu.org.il:8080/Zen/SchemeBook IA No, I mean dead-tree book. The thing you can read while... let's say stuck in traffic jam on Jabotinsky street. Something like the Camel (or maybe the Llama) book. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be

you language zealots...

2000-07-24 Thread guy keren
folks, you're re-arguing an argument much like text editor wars... i say "program in what you like, and let others use what they wish". as for OO languages, moshe was right with bringing up smalltalk - i _think_ that was one of the first OO languages (developed at around 1980(?)). and in

Re: Backup Solutions

2000-07-24 Thread Ira Abramov
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, netvision wrote: 1. Sitemap - Related links - Current Products - NetWorker for Linux Client 2. Quick Link - Compatability Guides - Software Compatability Guide. what happend to good old URLs? 3. In the upper left corner of the home page, use the 'search' option for

Re: : : Backup Solutions

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
n 2. Quick Link - Compatability Guides - Software Compatability Guide. Well, not too obvious path... Also, word "client" hints that server on Linux is non-existant? Then, it's not support. It's half-support. If I have Linux server, I want to backup it on Linux, not install another NT server. n

Re: C is standartizied - In your dreams!

2000-07-24 Thread Ury Segal
Are you serious? DO you read what you are writing? It doesn;t matter if a standard exist, if not 99% of the implemetations follows it. I didn't give you examples where a standard lacks, I give you an example when IT IS NOT FOLLOWED. And , as in C++, IT IS ALSO NOT FOLLOWED. Dig it: C AND C++

Re: C is standartizied - In your dreams!

2000-07-24 Thread Ury Segal
I am saying, again and again., and again and again: I don;t mean that C doesn't HAVE a standard. The standard is not followed. That's all. It is Like C++. C, like C++, has several standard, but no one folows them. C is like C++ in that matter. - Original Message - From: Nadav Har'El

sprintf, not sscanf, incompability

2000-07-24 Thread Ury Segal
Sorry Everyone! I ment sprintf isn't standartized. Here is the BSD definition, from Sun's site, you can see it returns the pointer to the string: http://docs.sun.com/ab2/coll.40.5/REFMAN3/@Ab2PageView/1370136?DwebQuery=ssc anfAb2Lang=CAb2Enc=iso-8859-1 char * sprintf( s, format, va_list);

áòðééï: áòðééï: áòðééï: Backup Solutions

2000-07-24 Thread netvision
Hi, Legato's official CD is issued every three months, and it includes the versions VALIDATED for that time. As any other software products in a very intensively changing period, until the next release there are temporary solutions, for not validated versions. I hope the next Client Kit release

Re: C is standartizied - In your dreams!

2000-07-24 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Ury Segal wrote: Umm..."b" is always supported, and the default mode is *always* text. It just so happens that on UNIX, things happen to work even if you forget the "b". So what you are saying that there is no standard meaning for "b" and "t". Exactly my point: No

Re: RFC for Backup Solutions / Legato Linux

2000-07-24 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
Hi, I feel I should clarify my original posting a little bit in light of the Legato discussion. I (and the others) was asking about a Backup Solution that runs on a *Linux* server !!! Legato does NOT run on Linux (AFAIK). Besides that Legato is quite pricey, too (at least last time I asked).

Re: RFC: Backup Solutions

2000-07-24 Thread Jonathan Ben-Avraham
I have used Arkeia successfully at a number of sites and unsuccessfully once with the evaluation version. The problem with Arkeia IMHO is that when it doesn't work it is very difficult to debug. However *when* it works it works very well. It's compression and remote backup facilities are

áòðééï: Backup Solutions

2000-07-24 Thread netvision
Hi, Logato's home page have been modified lastly and I agree it might be improverd, including more URLs. The focus on Linux just started... Some of the customers that I know about, who are using Linux as NetWorker clients: Hebrew University, Weizmann Institute, Mellanox and lastly Sphera.

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: MZ Let me clarify the muddy waters: in no language I'm aware of, is "if" an MZ object. In most sane languages (Scheme, Python, Smalltalk), a boolean is MZ an object. In smalltalk, a boolean has a method called ifTrue which Ahh...

7/25 Salon Linux Link (fwd)

2000-07-24 Thread Ira Abramov
Eazel does it: With its nifty Nautilus file manager, Eazel might make Linux safe for the desktop. By Andrew Leonard http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/07/25/eazel/index.html?CP=SALDN=110 Everybody! wish Chen happy B-day! :-) =