Re: Hamakor's Debian mirror doesn't get updated once again?

2003-11-02 Thread Oleg Kobets
No, actually it's working fine :-) - Original Message - From: Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 11:20 AM Subject: Hamakor's Debian mirror doesn't get updated once again? I believe that

Re: Linux and Laptops

2003-11-02 Thread Oleg Kobets
No, actually even P200 MMX will work. It's all about the player and how you can utilize the hardware best. I remember I used mplayer with mtrr on and being root :-) For some reason when I wasn't root it complained it couldn't obtain mtrr. - Original Message - From: Boris Ratner [EMAIL

working directory

2003-11-02 Thread Shai Bentin
I need to setup a script that will create a working directory for an application. Here's the whole story. I have a java application which needs to start from the directory where it is as a working directory. The problem is that this application can be installed by the user anywhere on his

Next meeting of Israel.pm: 6th of November

2003-11-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
Linuxers, The next monthly meeting of the Israeli Perl Mongers will take place on this Thursday, 6th of November, in the usual place, in the offices of Dappey Zahav http://www.d.co.il/ in Ramat Gan. We'll meet at 18:00 as usual. On the plate: Avraham Bernstein: Foreign Languages: Native in

VMWare+DGA

2003-11-02 Thread Shai Bentin
I can't work with vmware in full screen mode. It complains its missing DGA extensions on my XServer. Is this a setup issue on my X? do I have to compile a new XServer with DGA extensions? What is DGA anyway? Any ideas? -- shai

Re: working directory

2003-11-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 09:01:55AM +0200, Shai Bentin wrote: Here's the whole story. I have a java application which needs to start from the directory where it is as a working directory. The problem is that this application can be installed by the user anywhere on his system. So I need a

RE: brief naps

2003-11-02 Thread Iftach Hyams
There is no problem whatsoever to set the clock to other speeds. , it's jsut a #define in the kernel sources (look for HZ) In kernel 2.6.x this #define is configurable via the regular make *config facility. For 2.4.x there's a patch that accomplish the same and I've used it for several

Re: working directory

2003-11-02 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 09:01:55AM +0200, Shai Bentin wrote: Here's the whole story. I have a java application which needs to start from the directory where it is as a working directory. The problem is that this application can be installed by

Re: working directory

2003-11-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:50:25AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: APP=`which app` DIR=`dirname $APP` cd $DIR echo $DIR $APP Unfortunately fails almost all the time, unless APP is something like X or Java or some huge other thing that has its own share in $PATH. Huh? if app is a

Re: VMWare+DGA

2003-11-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Sunday 02 November 2003 09:05, Shai Bentin wrote: I can't work with vmware in full screen mode. It complains its missing DGA extensions on my XServer. Is this a setup issue on my X? do I have to compile a new XServer with DGA extensions? What is DGA anyway? Any ideas? Direct Graphics

OT: Einstein file layout - Thanks

2003-11-02 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Thanks to all the folk who replied to my request. For information: 1. I received several versions by email or on 5.25 diskette. 2. I also received one original official distribution kit, also on a 5.25 diskettes. 3. All this stuff in now backed up to 3.5 diskettes and tape, should anyone else

Filesystem question

2003-11-02 Thread sdmj kjh
Hi All, I need to develop a (network-)distributed file system, for Linux. How do I go about doing that? I know I need to write: 1. kernel code (preferably as a module) to register as a VFS provider (is wording accurate?) 2. user-space daemons (much like NFS) to handle all that which doesn't

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-11-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Windows is already not allowed to be exported to Iran, so no native NTFS... BTW, I miss the computer shops in Tehran. It's really hard to find any specific hardware here. I simply buy online. I don't get it. If Windows is not allowed in Iran, how come the Linux

Re: Filesystem question

2003-11-02 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth sdmj kjh: I need to develop a (network-)distributed file system, for Linux. How do I go about doing that? Yerk, you're climbing a high mountain. I know I need to write: 1. kernel code (preferably as a module) to register as a VFS provider (is wording accurate?) 2. user-space daemons

Re: working directory

2003-11-02 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:50:25AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: APP=`which app` DIR=`dirname $APP` cd $DIR echo $DIR $APP Unfortunately fails almost all the time, unless APP is something like X or Java or some huge other thing that

Samba in Israel

2003-11-02 Thread Linux Israel Net
Hi all, Linux Israel Net is happy to announce on another great corporation with big open source project. From now, Samba is in Israel too and it's in Hebrew. The URL is: http://linux.israel.net/samba Thanks, Miki (Moshe) Barzilay Linux Israel Net Team

Re: working directory

2003-11-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:27:14AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: An standalone executable works, but I can't see why would you want to set your CWD to /usr/bin. It happens many times to me to That's what the original poster wanted. Don't ask me why, I'm a big proponent of letting people shoot

Re: Filesystem question

2003-11-02 Thread sdmj kjh
I was hoping for some pointers about writing filesystems under Linux (preferably under 2.6). General purpose, as in all-round good performance. small/big files, heterogenous network, etc. I want both: dd if=/mnt/myFS/mybigfile of=/myext2/b bs=10M count=200 and cd /mnt/myFS/src/linux make

Linux on Laptops - contd.

2003-11-02 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi All, I found an Elite Group iBuddy A928 at Cosmos megastore. It seems to be a no-name brand. I got a Web site to check: http://www.ecs.uk.com/ecstw/products/a928.htm The SiS 650 and 961 chpset seems to be Linux unfriendly... (according to my Google/linux search. Any ideas? Any one of

Re: working directory

2003-11-02 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:27:14AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: An standalone executable works, but I can't see why would you want to set your CWD to /usr/bin. It happens many times to me to That's what the original poster wanted. Don't ask me

Re: working directory

2003-11-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:17:35AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Not quite happy. I hope if you had comments on my last note, about hard-wiring paths in configure time. It's really a big question for me, where to hard wire paths? I'm to write a suite If you can, don't hardwire them at all.

Re: Linux on Laptops - contd.

2003-11-02 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
For a moment I was suprised to find that... Which parts are not supported? SiS 650? fully supported - http://driver.sis.com/linux/ Audio is supported as much as I know - I don't remember which sound chipset is it these days. SiS 961 (IDE) - fully supported (Pavel from SuSE did the work), and

Re: working directory

2003-11-02 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:17:35AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Not quite happy. I hope if you had comments on my last note, about hard-wiring paths in configure time. It's really a big question for me, where to hard wire paths? I'm to write

Re: Linux on Laptops - contd.

2003-11-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:29:52PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: For a moment I was suprised to find that... Which parts are not supported? SiS 650? fully supported - http://driver.sis.com/linux/ You call a binary only module fully supported?! (looking at http://driver.sis.com/linux/650/) --

Re: working directory

2003-11-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:38:55AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: I'm pretty new to Python. Do you have another line about this last piece? I don't know much about it, just used it to build and install some python modules. More info (hopefully relevant) here:

RE: RE: VMWare+DGA

2003-11-02 Thread Shai Bentin
On Sunday 02 November 2003 09:05, Shai Bentin wrote: I can't work with vmware in full screen mode. It complains its missing DGA extensions on my XServer. Is this a setup issue on my X? do I have to compile a new XServer with DGA extensions? What is DGA anyway? Any ideas? Direct Graphics

Re: Hebrew, OpenOffice XKB and Wmaker

2003-11-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:30:25PM +0200, Gil Freund wrote: I have set up XKB as per the IGLU FAQ: http://iglu.org.il/faq/cache/86.html, but I seem to have missed something. Both OO 1.1 and Word (under cxoffice) will switch direction, but will not type hebrew unless I also use the two

Re: Linux on Laptops - contd.

2003-11-02 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
You call a binary only module fully supported?! (looking at http://driver.sis.com/linux/650/) Nope, Look here: http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml So it's pretty much supported (even with an application to set things up) Hetz

Re: Linux and Laptops

2003-11-02 Thread Gil Freund
Look for the following Resolution better then 1024x786 (unless you are using an external monitor most of the time. Most notebooks use the ATI mobility chipset. Make sure it at least M3 (Rage128) or M6 (radeon). Look for three buttons on the pad/pointer. Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi All, I

TUDix: Knoppix for Developers

2003-11-02 Thread dittigas
Thought you might find this useful, TUDix features Eclipse natievly compiled (gcj) and many other tools developed under GPL for LinuxInfoTag. The main differences between Knoppix 3.2 and TUDix are: ** More development tools: Hugs (Haskell), SWI Prolog, Jikes, GCJ, Kaffe, Eclipse (compiled

he-en dictionaries...

2003-11-02 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, I've been searching, without success, for free (DFSG-sense) he-en and en-he dictionaries for use with my Debian testing install (though I imagine POSIX compliance would enable them to work on any *nix). Specifically, I'm interested in learning Hebrew and wanted to make use of LaTrine

Re: he-en dictionaries...

2003-11-02 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hi, Sadly, as much as I can tell, there is no free hebrew dictionary. I search for one for quite a while in order to use it for a basis of the hspell word list. Since Nadav and myself failed to find such a word list, we sat down to write it from scratch. It would be very nice if somebody would

RE: he-en dictionaries...

2003-11-02 Thread Arik Baratz
-Original Message- From: Dan Kenigsberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It would be very nice if somebody would add english description to each of the words that are available in the hspell distribution ( http://www.ivrix.org.il/spell-checker ). I do not plan to start doing it anytime

Re: working directory

2003-11-02 Thread linux-il
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: untested, but should work, modulu error handling: APP=`which app` DIR=`dirname $APP` cd $DIR echo $DIR $APP etc I thoough the standard way to get APP in the context of the snippet above is to use $0, which as far as I remember is what Sun's java startup scripts use (no

Re: Hebrew, OpenOffice XKB and Wmaker

2003-11-02 Thread Gil Freund
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:30:25PM +0200, Gil Freund wrote: I have set up XKB as per the IGLU FAQ: http://iglu.org.il/faq/cache/86.html, but I seem to have missed something. Both OO 1.1 and Word (under cxoffice) will switch direction, but will not type hebrew unless I also

Re: working directory

2003-11-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:40:54PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: untested, but should work, modulu error handling: APP=`which app` DIR=`dirname $APP` cd $DIR echo $DIR $APP etc I thoough the standard way to get APP in the context of the snippet above is

Re: Filesystem question

2003-11-02 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth sdmj kjh: I was hoping for some pointers about writing filesystems under Linux (preferably under 2.6). I suggest you read what filesystem design books you can find. Filesystem design, in general, is not a science - it is an art. If you're working on a distributed filesystem in

GUI language for beginners

2003-11-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi Aviad, I've decided that a lot of voices make for a more interesting conversation. I'm therefor forwarding your email to a mailing list I read (and occasionally even write to). I'm sure the good people here will have plenty to say. You may want to clarify what sending parameters mean,

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-02 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Here is my opinion: any one of this 3 sounds cool. I put here only the downsides of each approach. gtk: * not object oriented (looks un-natural to build gui's in no oop language) * looks funkey on win32 qt: * not free in win32 * does not compile with mingw or friends on win32 java: * funky

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-02 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: A good begginer's GUI tool for a univ. project. Which would be best? tcl/tk probably. --Ariel Shachar aviad wrote: i wonder if you could help me choose between several languages to develop gui based application i gotlost between

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-02 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Heh, you programmers, never pragmatical, always aiming at the overkill. --Ariel Here is my opinion: any one of this 3 sounds cool. I put here only the downsides of each approach. gtk: * not object oriented (looks un-natural to build gui's in no

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-02 Thread Diego Iastrubni
you can always claim i was aiming for language... :) , 2 2003, 23:45,Ariel Biener: On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Heh, you programmers, never pragmatical, always aiming at the overkill. --Ariel Here is my opinion: any one of this 3 sounds cool. I put here only the

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-02 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, On Sun, Nov 02, 2003, Ariel Biener wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: A good begginer's GUI tool for a univ. project. Which would be best? tcl/tk probably. personal bias Ugghh. Tcl/Tk's sorta dying, IMHO.../personal bias How about Ruby? Fully OO. Now with Gui hooks

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-02 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth Shachar Shemesh: aviad wrote: Python,perl,tcl/tk,qt,gtk+ SNOBOL/TK! -- ---OFCNL This is MY list. This list belongs to ME! I will flame anyone I want. Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-02 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
aviad wrote: i wonder if you could help me choose between several languages to develop gui based application i got lost between : Python,perl,tcl/tk,qt,gtk+ i need a language that will help me to develop a small gui that will communicate with a non gui linux program (send parameters via

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-02 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth Ariel Biener: On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Heh, you programmers, never pragmatical, always aiming at the overkill. Note, also, that these are NOT languages ;-)... gtk: * not object oriented (looks un-natural to build gui's in no oop language) * looks funkey on

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-02 Thread Oleg Kobets
Kylix rulez ! :-))) - Original Message - From: Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-IL mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: aviad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 11:18 PM Subject: GUI language for beginners Hi Aviad, I've decided that a lot of voices make

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-02 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Was waiting for someone else to mention that, but no one did. Perhaps PyGTK (Python + GTK bindings) is the best to go these days. There are thousands of small and large examples out there to copy from ;-). Ruby + GTK seems good too, but Ruby is not a language I bother myself learning, when I

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 07:07:05PM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Was waiting for someone else to mention that, but no one did. Perhaps PyGTK (Python + GTK bindings) is the best to go these days. There are thousands of small and large examples out there to copy from ;-). Ruby + GTK seems