RE: Where can I get a SCSI card in the South

1999-04-18 Thread Iftach Hyams
1. Through the internet (try Walla for Israeli distributors). 2. It should work under Linux. I've had a problem - Linux didn't recognize at all my SCSI (ISA), but when specifying (expert mode if it is during installation of R.H.) DMA=5,IRQ=11,... it work just fine. You should try it first before s

Re: HOWTO or FAQ in Russian ?

1999-04-18 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
BNM>> Are there Russian Howtos or FAQ for beginners ?? Surely. First of all, take look on fido7.ru.linux and their FAQ's (available on WWW). Then: http://www.tyumen.ru/~mc/linux/soft.shtml http://xtalk.price.ru/linux/ http://kulichki.rambler.ru/moshkow/ - look for UNIX http://www.chat.ru/~mosk/

Re: Latest Gates FUD wrt Linux: Gates shoots his own company in the foot

1999-04-18 Thread Isaac Aaron
Amos Shapira wrote: > On Fri, April 16 1999, "Peter L. Peres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | imho this is a brilliant shot in the foot of Microsoft by its own > |chairman because it is well-known that one of the few killer applications > |that have advanced MS Windows have been integrated office

[Fwd: PCI Modems and Linux]

1999-04-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Just got this email few days ago... -- Linux - The STABLE and FUN way to operate Hello, 1) The modem isn't officially released yet, be looking for it around late May to June. 2) I didn't have to use any drivers, I simply did a cat /proc/pci found the I/O a

Modem question - another option?

1999-04-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Dunno if Bezeq supports the required features, but still it's an interesting story from LinuxToday: http://linuxtoday.com/stories/5093.html --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen J

just few notes

1999-04-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi All, 1. Well, I got some emails from Redhat engineers and it appears that the latest gnome (I think it's 1.0.8) got support for KDE menu's so (as much as I understand - I'm not using Gnome) you'll be able to use and convert on the fly your KDE menus so they can appear on the Gnome menus.. 2.

Re: Upcoming Linux Events

1999-04-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On Sun, April 18 1999, Yoni Elhanani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |Eli Marmor wrote: |> According to rumors, RedHat sponsors the port of KDE-1.1 to Qt 2.0 |> (!!!) and its integration into RedHat-6.0, so KDE will be offered |> as an alternative desktop environment (although GNOME will be the |> defa

Re: Can your car run linux?

1999-04-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On Sun, April 18 1999, Boaz Rymland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |Slightly off topic but refreshing indeed! | |http://www.empeg.com I'm already on their waiting list for about 6 months by now (number 816) - have you seen anything new? Their site is not totally up-to-date. I finally called them la

Re: Linux page sizes (memory)

1999-04-18 Thread Peter L. Peres
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Udi Finkelstein wrote: >> I seem to remember 4k pages set at kernel boot time to save space or >>something like that. >You are right. > >There *is*, however, a newer mode (available in pentium's and up) that use >either 2M or 4M page size, which can reduce the page size tab

Re: A printer for a linux desk top.

1999-04-18 Thread Peter L. Peres
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, shaul wrote: >I am considering buying a small cheap postscript printer with Hebrew >capabilities. Can you recommend one ? >Have you any opinions on the around $400 Lexamark printers ? If you find a postscipt capable printer for $400 (NIS 1600) please do let up know. Other

Re: Modems under Linux

1999-04-18 Thread Peter L. Peres
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Ben Nes Michael wrote: >Boca is good choice imho a cheap Apache modem will do fine. Has fax and voice mail built in, both work under Linux (Rockwell chipset) bye, Peter

Re: Upcoming Linux Events

1999-04-18 Thread Eli Marmor
> If I'm not mistaking, > there is a linux-il-announce-list, > and you can send these kind of messages to there. I didn't announce anything; I only wrote some rumors and predictions. I am not the right person to announce SuSE 6.1, or RH6, or VMware 110 or Qt 2.0 ;-) -- Eli Marmor

Re: Can your car run linux?

1999-04-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Boaz Rymland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Slightly off topic but refreshing indeed! > > http://www.empeg.com 1) This was refreshing when http://www.cryton.demon.co.uk/mp3mobile/ (now http://utter.chaos.org.uk/~altman/mp3mobile/) was posted here. 2) Cars running Linux are fun, but Linux run

Re: Upcoming Linux Events

1999-04-18 Thread Yoni Elhanani
Eli Marmor wrote: > > > SuSE 6.1 to be released tomorrow. The international version will be > reeased on May 3. > > Caldera 2.2 to begin shipping this week. > Yay, More 2.2 distro's on their way! > The official release of Qt 2.0 is expected very soon. Does anyone know about it's unicode-bi

HOWTO or FAQ in Russian ?

1999-04-18 Thread Ben Nes Michael
Hi All I installed Linux in my friend comps but guess what he is too lazy to read in english. Are there Russian Howtos or FAQ for beginners ?? -- -- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-6-6925757 Fax: 972-6-6925858 http://www.

Upcoming Linux Events

1999-04-18 Thread Eli Marmor
Hi everybody! (Please no flames! I don't express here any opinion, and I don't say anything positive or negative about anything here, but only what is going to happen; Decide yourself what is the good, what is the bad, and what is the ugly). Rumors and expected events: =

Can your car run linux?

1999-04-18 Thread Boaz Rymland
Slightly off topic but refreshing indeed! http://www.empeg.com

Re: Modems under Linux

1999-04-18 Thread Leonid Igolnik - LiM
Try zoltrix - but not the PCI one ... On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Ben Nes Michael wrote: |Boca is good choice | |Eli Marmor wrote: | |> > I recommand a USR/3COM soprtster modem (33.6k or 56k) i had both 33.6 and 56 |> > and they work just great with linux... DIP, MINICOM, CHAT. all works just |> > fin

An Israeli Survey about Linux

1999-04-18 Thread Eli Marmor
An Israeli survey about Linux is at the following URL: http://www.doran.co.il/ikar.htm -- Eli Marmor

Re: Debian 2.1 - sound, lilo, gnome etc... questions

1999-04-18 Thread Alex Shnitman
Amos Shapira writes: > | > I try to follow it (the "stable" staging area) but last time I tried apt > | > didn't get the Packages file. I tried to use the sources.list stanza's > | > from the Gnome FAQ - could you send me the ones that work for you? > | > |I don't use it. I keep a local mir

Where can I get a SCSI card in the South

1999-04-18 Thread Malcolm Kavalsky
I bought a UMAX scsi scanner with a proprietary SCSI card that only works under Windows. Could someone recommend a good computer shop in the Rehovot/Ashdod area where I could get a replacement (also what card would you recommend). Thanks, Malcolm

Re: Modems under Linux

1999-04-18 Thread Ben Nes Michael
Boca is good choice Eli Marmor wrote: > > I recommand a USR/3COM soprtster modem (33.6k or 56k) i had both 33.6 and 56 > > and they work just great with linux... DIP, MINICOM, CHAT. all works just > > fine w/o even specifing any serial ports or whatever. > > Most Sportsters don't work well with

Re: Modems under Linux

1999-04-18 Thread Eli Marmor
> I recommand a USR/3COM soprtster modem (33.6k or 56k) i had both 33.6 and 56 > and they work just great with linux... DIP, MINICOM, CHAT. all works just > fine w/o even specifing any serial ports or whatever. Most Sportsters don't work well with mgetty, so if you are going to use mgetty, prefer

Re: Modems under Linux

1999-04-18 Thread Yarin Benado
Basicly, He can buy any modem that has all the features built "HARDWARELY" because windmodems are using software to work wich is not compatible with linux. I recommand a USR/3COM soprtster modem (33.6k or 56k) i had both 33.6 and 56 and they work just great with linux... DIP, MINICOM, CHAT. all wo

Modems under Linux

1999-04-18 Thread Guest User
A friend of mine has a question: Which modem should he buy, which will work under Linux. Now, he has a WinModem (bummer, uh?). Noam Meltzer

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-18 Thread Ury Segal
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > "Peter L. Peres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At the hw level: The addressable memory on an Intel proecssor is divided > > into pages (currently 4k each ?). This is the minimum size of any > > allocated memory, file, program etc. > > Are you saying that "malloc(siz

Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

1999-04-18 Thread Ury Segal
> A segment violation is an access violation on a page of memory, commited > by the program or by the kernel. A sigsegv done by a user program causes > a special piece of code in the kernel to trigger and to stop the user's > task, by delivering a SIGSEGV to it. To be more accurate, it ONLY sends