Kernel news source

2004-08-17 Thread Leonid Podolny
Hi, list, I'm a newbie in the linux kernel programming. I can see that things constantly undergo pretty drastic changes. Is there a single source of information where I can recieve news like 2.6.x is out, this API and that API are changed, you should now use that function instead of this

Re: Kernel news source

2004-08-17 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:16:24PM +0300, Leonid Podolny wrote: I'm a newbie in the linux kernel programming. I can see that things constantly undergo pretty drastic changes. Is there a single source of information where I can recieve news like 2.6.x is out, this API and that API are

Re: Kernel news source

2004-08-17 Thread Alex Behar
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 14:16, you wrote: | Hi, list, | I'm a newbie in the linux kernel programming. I can see that things | constantly undergo pretty drastic changes. Is there a single source of | information where I can recieve news like 2.6.x is out, this API and that | API are changed, you

Re: Kernel news source

2004-08-17 Thread Leonid Podolny
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: http://lwn.net/ The weekly news require subscription (for a period of 10 days) but they are well worth it. Includes a Kernel coulumn. I have an account there since that image editors issue you recommended me. As far as I understand, the

Re: Kernel news source

2004-08-17 Thread Leonid Podolny
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Firstly, no. Can you please elaborate? Reading 3,000 messages a month mailing list seems not too useful for me (as a beginning drivers developer), but I'd be happy to hear your opinion about it. Secondly: - kerneltrap.org covers the important

Re: Kernel news source

2004-08-17 Thread Lior Kesos
Leonid Podolny wrote: One more thing, is #kernelnewbies project dead? There mailing list page is inaccessible, wiki gives error 404, and the issues archive stops somewhere deep in 2.5 series. I'm not sure about how up2date their website is bit the last mail I got from the list was at 10:57

Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?

2004-08-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?: just this week we discussed how to have alt-shin be mapped to alt-A, and the answer was very simple, just fix the xmodmap. I always freak out when I'm writing in English in one window and some szlob in an ICQ

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL: That only works in civilized countries. This is Israel and Jews like to argue (it's in our genes) No we don't! (sorry, couldn't pass up a Monty Python reference ;)). -- Nadav Har'El

Re: Kfar-Saba Site Incompatibility with Non-MSIE Browsers

2004-08-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
Replying to myself, I must say that I was referred to an NRG feature about web-sites incompatibility with Mozilla and the webmasters' lack of willingness to remedy this. Here it is: http://www.nrg.co.il/online/10/ART/767/995.html (Hebrew, sorry) At the bottom, the author (Dvir Volek) links to

Re: Kernel news source

2004-08-17 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 03:45:55PM +0300, Leonid Podolny wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Firstly, no. Can you please elaborate? Reading 3,000 messages a month mailing list seems not too useful for me (as a beginning drivers developer), but I'd be happy to hear

Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?

2004-08-17 Thread Haggai Eran
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 13:24, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2004, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?: just this week we discussed how to have alt-shin be mapped to alt-A, and the answer was very simple, just fix the xmodmap. I always freak out when I'm

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-17 Thread Alfredo Daniel Rezinovsky
El mar, 17-08-2004 a las 01:43, Ira Abramov escribi: Quoting Alfredo Daniel Rezinovsky, from the post of Mon, 16 Aug: In Mendoza, Argentina, we have succesufully reduced the SNR by creating a list that allows ANY discussion. When a flame is started in the lug list We just continue the

Diagnosing a hardware problem.

2004-08-17 Thread Haggai Eran
Hi There's this old computer that I've tried to pub debian on. It's a pentium 75 with 40 MB RAM. The problem is that every once in a while, programs just give a Segmentation Fault for no good reason. Sometimes I even get an Oops saying that the kernel couldn't handle a NULL pointer. I tried

Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?

2004-08-17 Thread rlinuz
There's an option in KDE to set the layout switching policy to Global/Application/Window. -S. On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:13, Haggai Eran wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2004 13:24, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2004, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?: just

Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?

2004-08-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004, rlinuz wrote about Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?: There's an option in KDE to set the layout switching policy to Global/Application/Window. Ok, so now we heard that both KDE and Gnome have this feature. Can somebody point us to any document about it, or perhaps

Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?

2004-08-17 Thread rlinuz
KDE has this option available to users in its Control Center | Regional | Keyboard Layout | Switching Options. By watching some of the side-effects, it *seems* that KDE dynamically loads the keyboard layout based on focus events of frame widgets. -S. On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:52, Nadav Har'El

Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?

2004-08-17 Thread Haggai Eran
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 15:52, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2004, rlinuz wrote about Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?: There's an option in KDE to set the layout switching policy to Global/Application/Window. Ok, so now we heard that both KDE and Gnome have this feature. Can

Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?

2004-08-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 01:24:48PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2004, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?: just this week we discussed how to have alt-shin be mapped to alt-A, and the answer was very simple, just fix the xmodmap. I always freak out

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-17 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Alfredo Daniel Rezinovsky, from the post of Tue, 17 Aug: In Mendoza, Argentina, we have succesufully reduced the SNR That only works in civilized countries. I'm from Argentina, I know. Irony is like lego, and you gave me a wonderful block to build on :) did you saw any

Re: Diagnosing a hardware problem.

2004-08-17 Thread Daniel Feiglin
I presume it is a Pentium I of some sort. How big is your disk and how is it partitioned? Is /boot completely below the 1023 track limit? (A parted or Partition Magic summary would help.) Haggai Eran wrote: Hi There's this old computer that I've tried to pub debian on. It's a pentium 75 with

Re: Diagnosing a hardware problem.

2004-08-17 Thread Daniel Feiglin
That looks OK. I asked about the /boot location because it must be completely below the 1023 track limit (about 8.4Gb). With only 6Gb you're OK. (BTW, I also have an ancient system with a 6Gb drive which checks out OK but plays up similar to what you describe, but under Win.) My technician pal

Re: Diagnosing a hardware problem.

2004-08-17 Thread Haggai Eran
Have you ascertained it's a hardware problem? Do the kernel stacks you receive seem completely random? Does the kernel always oops on the same EIP or at least related EIP's? Have you examined the cores generated from the segfaults? In any event, if it is indeed a hardware issue, the problem

Re: Diagnosing a hardware problem.

2004-08-17 Thread Shaul Karl
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 03:32:44PM +0300, Haggai Eran wrote: Hi There's this old computer that I've tried to pub debian on. It's a pentium 75 with 40 MB RAM. The problem is that every once in a while, programs just give a Segmentation Fault for no good reason. Sometimes I even get an Oops

[95% Solved] Accelerator keys independent of keyboard layer

2004-08-17 Thread Sharon Dagan
--=-I9GmaSLZiDg+q4YNwf0t Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All, After much tweaking, I have an almost perfect solution for this annoying problem. I was able to get all the accelerators keys to work anywhere in KDE, OOo, Mozilla and the console window. Since the