Re: Reducing the number of CDs required for an installation party?

2002-11-09 Thread Oleg Kobets
Maybe we can sell a pre-burned set's of cd's per order. I am willing to host and organize such a thing if people here will show their support on the matter. I have the means and a little time and money can be contributed to further promote Linux and sponsor parties and other Linux related

Re: Reducing the number of CDs required for an installation party?

2002-11-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, I started to write, mainly for myself, some notes about the instaparty we had on Thursday. Basically, I think the whole notion should be very different from today, and that the usuall installers (well, at least RH) are too general to be close-to-optimal for our (tau's) audience (and

Re: Reducing the number of CDs required for an installation party?

2002-11-09 Thread Oleg Kobets
Well, after seeing that Guides.co.il already provides nearly everything there is and it's cheap too (10 nis / per cd) I decided that doing such a thing by myself would not be very practical. Still, if there is people that want's Linux, it can be arranged by sending me e-mail :-) - Original

Re: InstaParty at TAU?

2002-11-09 Thread Ariel Biener
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, voguemaster wrote: It is also a great and better idea to coordinate InstaParty at TAU with the TAU/CC, for much improved facilities and possiblities (network and otherwise). --Ariel Although I was present for a brief period of time (about 40 minutes) I saw that there was

Re: compile problem

2002-11-09 Thread solomon
On 08-Nov-2002 Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Run the command grep EXTRAVERSION = /usr/src/linux/Makefile It will tell you sources to what version you really have. I'm pretty sure you'll discover you don't have the sources for the right version. [root@shlomo1 root]# grep EXTRAVERSION =

Re: Reducing the number of CDs required for an installation party?

2002-11-09 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 03:35:51PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hi all, I started to write, mainly for myself, some notes about the instaparty we had on Thursday. Basically, I think the whole notion should be very different from today, and that the usuall installers (well, at least RH)

Re: InstaParty at TAU?

2002-11-09 Thread voguemaster
Hi, By CC you mean Computational Center ? Do they do Linux or just SGI and Win/Netware ? In any case, I thought about investing time in helping an instaparty if I can, I just donno who to talk to about this. Eli 09/11/02 16:24:33, Ariel Biener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Nov 2002,

Re: InstaParty at TAU?

2002-11-09 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, voguemaster wrote: Do they do Linux or just SGI and Win/Netware ? We do Linux (PC and sparc and we are playing with a dual Itanium too), Solaris (PC and Sparc), SGI/IRIX, IBM PPC/AIX, Digital-Compaq/Digital Unix, PC/FreeBSD (hi Yaron :), Win2k, VMS, and also IBM

Re: InstaParty at TAU?

2002-11-09 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ariel Biener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We've been doing Linux since I can't remember but at least the 7.5 years I've been there (Yaron is better suited to answer that). Just a bit of history: The Astrophysics Department at TAU started using Linux in 1994, IIRC. I remember the astonishment

Re: InstaParty at TAU?

2002-11-09 Thread Ariel Biener
On 9 Nov 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: The CC could not have been much behind in adopting Linux. I joined the CC in 1995. Lets wait for Yaron to read the thread, he has been there long before that. --Ariel -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reducing the number of CDs required for an installation party?

2002-11-09 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:20:01PM +0200, Michael Stolovitzsky wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2002 18:39, Shaul Karl wrote: On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 03:35:51PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hi all, Guys, when we were in Ra'ananim, I brought 25 packs of cheap CDs from a sponsor. No

Re: Reducing the number of CDs required for an installation party?

2002-11-09 Thread Sagi Bashari
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:20:01PM +0200, Michael Stolovitzsky wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2002 18:39, Shaul Karl wrote: On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 03:35:51PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hi all, Guys, when we were in Ra'ananim, I brought 25 packs of cheap CDs from a

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-09 Thread Arie Folger
On Friday 08 November 2002 18:51, guy keren wrote: mplayer has an option that specifies how it will send images (the '-vo' option). you can run it and tell it to use something other then 'xv', and see if the problem goes away. I tried that at first. BTW, mplayer is the only one that had a

RE: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-09 Thread Martin Polley
I have Hebrew working OK in Gentoo except for printing (which I couldn't do in RH 7.3 either). The only things you have to do is to correctly specify the keymap to be used in XF86Config, emerge the Hebrew versions of KDE and KOffice, and enable the relevant options in KDE. BTW, I also only have