FW: NTP Time Synchronization

2003-09-11 Thread landau_alex
Hi, For some strange reason my kernel clock goes (much) faster than the hardware clock (about a second every minute), so I decided to run ntpd. I configured it to a specific NTP server and now it synchronizes with the server when the offset is about 10sec. How can I change the default to say 1sec

Re: Postfix e-mail filter - looking for information

2003-09-11 Thread Boaz Rymland
I also recommend securitysage guide, although from my experience, their body/header checks are rejecting legitimate messages yet denying very little true spam. Further more, the files on which this filtering is based are being updated at most once in a few days, so I don't see them as very

Perl^W Tcl Meeting today

2003-09-11 Thread Gabor Szabo
Dear Linux user, I'd like to remind you that the Israeli Perl Mongers are having their regular monthly meeting today. Agenda: Mikhael Goikhman: perl threads (15-20 minutes) Gabor Szabo: Foreign languages: Tcl for Perl programmers (40 minutes) We meet at 18:00 as usual in the bomb shelter of

Keeping connection with FTP client

2003-09-11 Thread Ori Idan
I connect to a remote server using the command line FTP client. The server is set that after a certain time of inactivity it closes the connection. Is there a way that the FTP client will send a keep alive message so that if I live the client opened for few minutes and then issue another command,

Re: Keeping connection with FTP client

2003-09-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ori Idan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I connect to a remote server using the command line FTP client. The server is set that after a certain time of inactivity it closes the connection. Is there a way that the FTP client will send a keep alive message so that if I live the client opened for

Flash support stopped working

2003-09-11 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I can't figure out what I did wrong, but I can no longer see Flash in Konq or Mozilla 1.3.1. It used to work, and I don't know when it stopped working. According to about:plugins, the latest Flash plugin in installed - see below. Any ideas? TIA Here's partial otput from about:plugins:

Re: Emulating third button using the keyboard

2003-09-11 Thread dovix
Alternative solution: http://www.compass.com/synaptics/ This makes the touchpad a really useful device. For example: you can tap with two fingers for middle click, three fingers for right click, and moving a finger up or down on the right edge of touchpad scrolls up or down. For a sample

[OT] Digital Cameras and Linux

2003-09-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hi, I am considering getting a digital camera (for amateur, not professional, use), with the obvious requirement that it will interact flawlessly with my Linux computers (desktops and laptop). I've searched TFW, found some general info etc, not much about specific models. Could not try

Extra mouse buttons and keyboard in X

2003-09-11 Thread Oded Arbel
Hi list. I remember vaguely that this was discussed in the list in the past, but can't find anything in the archives - When using a mouse with more then 5 buttons, can the extra buttons be mapped to do something useful (besides another scroll axis which I don't find all that useful) ? I was

Re: Keeping connection with FTP client

2003-09-11 Thread Ori Idan
Ori Idan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I connect to a remote server using the command line FTP client. The server is set that after a certain time of inactivity it closes the connection. Is there a way that the FTP client will send a keep alive message so that if I live the client opened

Re: [OT] Digital Cameras and Linux

2003-09-11 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Oleg, I am considering getting a digital camera (for amateur, not professional, use), with the obvious requirement that it will interact flawlessly with my Linux computers (desktops and laptop). I found that the best way to use a digital camera is to treat the memory cards as film. You buy

Re: [OT] Digital Cameras and Linux

2003-09-11 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, Just my two cents: forget about serial and stick to USB. Many cameras I have heard people use with linux look just like a USB storage to the OS. So what you need is to load usb-storage module and mount. be On 11 Sep 2003, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Hi, I am considering getting a

Re: [OT] Digital Cameras and Linux

2003-09-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found that the best way to use a digital camera is to treat the memory cards as film. You buy several of them acording to your needs and replace one when it gets full. What's wrong with dumping files onto a hard disk from time to time? You

Re: [OT] Digital Cameras and Linux

2003-09-11 Thread guy keren
On 11 Sep 2003, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found that the best way to use a digital camera is to treat the memory cards as film. You buy several of them acording to your needs and replace one when it gets full. What's wrong withdumping

Re: [OT] Digital Cameras and Linux

2003-09-11 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Thursday 11 September 2003 19:35, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I'm not much of a photographer, but I own a digital camera and connected quite a few of them to Linux. I have yet to find a single camera that works as a USB storage device that *doesn't* connect to Linux. I'm sure there such variants

Re: [OT] Digital Cameras and Linux

2003-09-11 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth Geoffrey S. Mendelson: GIMP is an excelent photo editor. Photoshop is better because there are more features, more commercial plug-ins and better documentation. For home use, I doubt the $700 for Photoshop (plus a Windows PC or Mac) is worth it. I agree about Photoshop, but the

Re: [OT] Digital Cameras and Linux

2003-09-11 Thread Boaz Rymland
Might I join this OT frenzy? I've purchased a digital camera lately too. Below is the little I've found regarding local tutorials on purchasing such a camera:

Re: [OT] Digital Cameras and Linux

2003-09-11 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: What's wrong with dumping files onto a hard disk from time to time? You can re-use the memory, can't you? Sorry, I meant as you were shooting the pictures. It does not make sense to stop and dump them to a laptop in the middle of a trip, birthday party, etc. After the

Re: Preempt Kernel and Nice

2003-09-11 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 10:03:12AM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: BEGIN AKPM QUOTE Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it is quite sad that the scheduler in 2.6 is sitting there doing nothing but waiting to be obsoleted, while Con's good (and begnin) scheduler patches are

Re: Emulating third button using the keyboard

2003-09-11 Thread Meir Kriheli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 September 2003 00:37, dovix wrote: Alternative solution: http://www.compass.com/synaptics/ This makes the touchpad a really useful device. Remember that if you're using 2.6 kernel you'll need an updated synaptics driver. Get it at: