downgrading a package - thanks

2005-06-25 Thread avraham
Hi, Lior and Tzafrir, thanks very much for the answers. For the time being, I went to http://snapshot.debian.net/, downloaded the old woody version and installed it. I hope that by the time I might need the newest features of sarge's imagemagick, I shall, have probably changed to sarge

Re: irq collisions

2005-06-25 Thread Yosef Meller
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:43:12PM +0300, Aviv Goll wrote: Hi, On windows I had the option to check if a device was experiencing an IRQ collision at the device manager. How do I do that in linux? I don't think the concept exists in Linux. What exactly does IRQ

Re: irq collisions

2005-06-25 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 06:34:16PM +0300, Yosef Meller wrote: I remmember that with (really) old hardware you needed to set the IRQ using a jumper on a card, thus allowing to allocate the same IRQ to two cards who can't handle it. That was back in the ISA days, though. Are you saying that

Re: irq collisions

2005-06-25 Thread Yosef Meller
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 06:34:16PM +0300, Yosef Meller wrote: I remmember that with (really) old hardware you needed to set the IRQ using a jumper on a card, thus allowing to allocate the same IRQ to two cards who can't handle it. That was back in the ISA days, though.

Cryptographic keys, and the Free Software

2005-06-25 Thread Itay Duvdevani
Hello, list. Recently I was wondering about applications like Mozilla's Password Manager, KWalletManager and applications of this sort. I assume these applications use encryption to store my passwords on the disk. Unfortunately, the code is open, and I find this sort of protection pretty weak

offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
This is a story about renting a Linux Virtual Private server that I rented. There was a company called ExecutiveASP that sold VPS at a very competitve price. For $39 you would get: * Xeon 3 Ghz machine (well, not the entire processor, but it was very fast) * 256MB RAM * 10 GB hard drive * 2 IP's

Re: Cryptographic keys, and the Free Software

2005-06-25 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Itay Duvdevani wrote: Since the source code is available to everyone, I conclude my passwords can be easily deciphered by anyone who has access to the code. As any experienced software cracker will tell you, not having the code doesn't make it all that harder to figure out the ciphering

Re: Cryptographic keys, and the Free Software

2005-06-25 Thread Orr Dunkelman
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Itay Duvdevani wrote: Hello, list. Recently I was wondering about applications like Mozilla's Password Manager, KWalletManager and applications of this sort. I assume these applications use encryption to store my passwords on the disk. Unfortunately, the code is open, and

Re: Cryptographic keys, and the Free Software

2005-06-25 Thread Oron Peled
On Saturday 25 June 2005 15:33, Itay Duvdevani wrote: Encryption method is known, and so is the encryption key (whether in the source code or anywhere on my hard drive). No. If you ever used any of these applications, you must have noted that they interactively ask you a master password for

Re: Cryptographic keys, and the Free Software

2005-06-25 Thread Itay Duvdevani
On 6/25/05, Orr Dunkelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Itay Duvdevani wrote: Hello, list. Recently I was wondering about applications like Mozilla's Password Manager, KWalletManager and applications of this sort. I assume these applications use encryption to store

Re: Cryptographic keys, and the Free Software

2005-06-25 Thread Itay Duvdevani
I'm getting a few replies to my question, and I'd like to clarify it a bit: 1. I'm not interested in a master-key. The idea is that everything decrypts automatically. 2. My question was more FS oriented, less cryptographic oriented, and could be rephrased as: Can I use a different constant for my

Re: MDK10.1 update_source on Hamakor is not up to date

2005-06-25 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I don't think we're talking about the same thing. I agree that Hamakor has (and should only have) the latest version of the distribution (in this case 10.2) since I can't see the advantage of installing an older version (and if it is needed, it can surely be found elsware). But, at least as

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-25 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Hetz Ben Hamo, from the post of Fri, 24 Jun: Lesson to be learned - check really really well before signing up! it always worth paying a bit more and to find that you can have a serious company behind the offer... I doubt there are any checks you can make about legal status of the

Re: Cryptographic keys, and the Free Software

2005-06-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 08:30:24PM +0300, Itay Duvdevani wrote: On 6/25/05, Orr Dunkelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Itay Duvdevani wrote: Hello, list. Recently I was wondering about applications like Mozilla's Password Manager, KWalletManager and applications

Re: Cryptographic keys, and the Free Software

2005-06-25 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Saturday 25 June 2005 20:30, Itay Duvdevani wrote: Recently I was wondering about applications like Mozilla's Password Manager, KWalletManager and applications of this sort. I assume these applications use encryption to store my passwords on the disk. Unfortunately, the code

[Job Offer] PHP Programmers for Neo

2005-06-25 Thread Michael Vasiliev
I am forwarding a message from Shlomi Loubaton manually to the list, because the list software refuses to forward it for some reason. -- Mycroft ---BeginMessage--- From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 20 18:35:03 2005 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from iglu.org.il ([192.117.122.34]

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote: But the number 1 lesson - backup daily. I have a very active server, the main site on it is a photographers' forum and on a good weekend some 150 megs of pictures might be uploaded, about a gig of JPEGs are uploaded each month, and still with a smart usage of the disk space,

Keyboard shortcut to switching languages in Fedora 4 - is it possible?

2005-06-25 Thread Amir Binyamini
Hello, First , Fedora 4 bittornet download + installation went smooth. I am using the Panel keyboard indicator to switch between english and hebrew. (I had added Israeli (hebrew language , in fact) in keyboard preferences-layouts-Add). The keyboard indicator is a toggle: A mouse click on

Re: MDK10.1 update_source on Hamakor is not up to date

2005-06-25 Thread Lior Kaplan
Updated. Enjoy. Shlomo Solomon wrote: I don't think we're talking about the same thing. I agree that Hamakor has (and should only have) the latest version of the distribution (in this case 10.2) since I can't see the advantage of installing an older version (and if it is needed, it can

Re: Keyboard shortcut to switching languages in Fedora 4 - is it possible?

2005-06-25 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Saturday June 25 2005 22:29, Amir Binyamini wrote: Hello, First , Fedora 4 bittornet download + installation went smooth. I am using the Panel keyboard indicator to switch between english and hebrew. (I had added Israeli (hebrew language , in fact) in keyboard preferences-layouts-Add).

Re: MDK10.1 update_source on Hamakor is not up to date

2005-06-25 Thread Shlomo Solomon
1 - thanks - seems OK now 2 - just curious, but shouldn't the update have been automatic - or did something go wrong? On Saturday 25 June 2005 23:08, Lior Kaplan wrote: Updated. Enjoy. -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.7.1 (KDE 3.2.3) on LINUX Mandrake 10.1

What is all my memory doing up there ?

2005-06-25 Thread Oded Arbel
Hi list. I have this weird problem - attached is a top dump showing my Mandrake 10.2 (kernel 2.6.11) box in run level 1. As you can see there aren't many processes, which do not take a lot of memory - less then 10MB if I can count properly, but I would like to point your attention to the line

Re: Keyboard shortcut to switching languages in Fedora 4 - is it possible?

2005-06-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 11:24:07PM +0300, Michael Vasiliev wrote: Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us,il Option XkbCompat default+group_led Option XkbOptions grp:alt_shift_toggle EndSection If you use

Re: What is all my memory doing up there ?

2005-06-25 Thread shimi
On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 00:08 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: Hi list. I have this weird problem - attached is a top dump showing my Mandrake 10.2 (kernel 2.6.11) box in run level 1. As you can see there aren't many processes, which do not take a lot of memory - less then 10MB if I can count

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
While we're on this topic: EV1servers.net are offerring a really cool offer: * Celeron 1.7 Ghz * 512MB RAM * 1000GB Transfer (soft) limit * 60GB hard drive (IDE) No virtualization, no nothing - simply a machine (Intel 845 chipset it seems, at least from the lspci output), for $99 a month with

Re: Cryptographic keys, and the Free Software

2005-06-25 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Itay Duvdevani wrote: 2. My question was more FS oriented, less cryptographic oriented, and could be rephrased as: Can I use a different constant for my key in the code I release to the public, and not be in violation of the FS principles? The GPL is perfectly okay with using a modified

Re: What is all my memory doing up there ?

2005-06-25 Thread Oded Arbel
shimi wrote: On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 00:08 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: Hi list. I have this weird problem - attached is a top dump showing my Mandrake 10.2 (kernel 2.6.11) box in run level 1. As you can see there aren't many processes, which do not take a lot of memory - less then 10MB if I can

Re: Cryptographic keys, and the Free Software

2005-06-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:40:29 +0300 Itay Duvdevani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting a few replies to my question, and I'd like to clarify it a bit: 1. I'm not interested in a master-key. The idea is that everything decrypts automatically. Storing your key in the binary is not safe,

Re: What is all my memory doing up there ?

2005-06-25 Thread shimi
On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 01:29 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: Is there a way to turn off swap caching or at least to tune it down a lot ? I have enough memory to ran all my apps (I rarely see any significant cache usage), but I don't have a lot of CPU power to spare and I rather not waste it on

Re: What is all my memory doing up there ?

2005-06-25 Thread Oded Arbel
shimi wrote: On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 01:29 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: Is there a way to turn off swap caching or at least to tune it down a lot ? I have enough memory to ran all my apps (I rarely see any significant cache usage), but I don't have a lot of CPU power to spare and I rather not

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-25 Thread shtirlitz
Quoting Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While we're on this topic: EV1servers.net are offerring a really cool offer: * Celeron 1.7 Ghz * 512MB RAM * 1000GB Transfer (soft) limit * 60GB hard drive (IDE) It is a bit expensive deal. I have a dedicated server in zanadoo.com Their support