Re: ftp in user-mode.

2002-12-12 Thread Cedar Cox
FWIW, I find hose and faucet useful. I commonly use two scripts to do simple file transfer. 'tar' is the protocol.. ;) wwserve.sh: --- #!/bin/bash if [ $1 == ]; then echo Usage: `basename $0` [tar options] files else echo -e Starting faucet...\n faucet 12345 --verbose --out --once tar

interoperable data formats (was: Re: sizeof(bool))

2002-12-12 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: And if you can, use XDR (External Data Representation). Standard is always good. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1014.html. the problem with this specification is it is wasteful in network resources, because it uses a lot of padding for small data

Re: openoffice.org.il is up

2002-12-12 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
I think it would be a good idea to put up a page with The current state of events, specifying what is currently supported, what known problems exist and what's being worked on... Alexander Maryanovsky. At 23:21 11.12.2002 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: http://www.openoffice.org.il The site

solved - (was iptables - Mandrake 9.0)

2002-12-12 Thread solomon
Hi, I'm answering my own post, since the solution may help someone else. I discovered that iptables refuses to run when ipchains is also active. Disableing ipchains solved the problem. The error messages from iptables were really not helpful. :-( And I didn't find any mention of this in the

Mozilla problem

2002-12-12 Thread solomon
I don't know if these are Mozilla or Mandrake problems. After installing MDK9.0, I decided to try Mozilla 1.1 - **out of the box**. 1 - I can reach any site I want, and so long as I click on links, everything works. But if I enter any info (for instance a search string in GOOGLE), nothing

Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic

2002-12-12 Thread solomon
I don't want to start a distro war, but as a satisfied Mandrake user since 7.0, I have to say that MDK 9.0 is really greatly improved. The installation and hardware identification is much better and almost everything has been improved in some way. The Conrol panel is easier to use. My scanner was

Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-12 Thread Eli Marmor
snip religious stuff Chazal said: Kin'at Sofrim Tarbe Hochma. /snip What I really miss in Open Source? What does it lack? Open Source offers almost everything we need. Actually, much more than we need: - You need a text editor? - No problem; We have emacs for you, we have vi, etc. Just take

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Eli Marmor wrote: The real thing that is missing, is the opposite one. We have a problem of rich men: too many choices. Isn't that what Free Market means? The usual sequence of events is that when you have 10 options for a library, 7-8 of them die out, and you are left with two. That's