Re: Help compiling mpeglib_divxplugin

2002-01-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Erez Boym wrote: Hi, I'm trying to view DivX files on my Linux box (Mandrake 8.0, KDE 2.1.1, Nuaton 1.0.1). Try mplayer, instead. plays a lot more files, though it won't play VCD's. Geoff. Yes, but it took me half a morning to compile it. Every single plugin

Re: Help compiling mpeglib_divxplugin

2002-01-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Not more paranoid than the mplayer documentation. It says something along the lines of run this under root at your own risk. we assume it's a gaping security hole. Shachar Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Can't this be

Re: Help compiling mpeglib_divxplugin

2002-01-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: What are you talking about? I had to do 4 things in order to compile it: 1. grab the codecs and put them on the /usr/lib/win32 2. untar the tarball 3. ./configure --disable-gcc-checking 4. make ; su -c make install Thats it - mplayer worked perfectly ok. For those who

Re: a debian-newbie question.

2002-02-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
What's under ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-arm/base-images-current? In any case, it may well turn out that woody on ARM is not yet available. Shachar Erez Doron wrote: hi i'm looking for the base package for the latest debian (for arm) I couldn't find a

Re: Caller ID

2002-02-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
A better way will be to find out what syslog category these logs come out as, and direct them to a named pipe. Have the other program read from that pipe. RTFM syslog.conf Shachar Omer Zak wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Amichai Rotman wrote: I have a an AVM Fritz ISDN card

Re: Question about DOSEMU graphics

2002-02-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: As you may know, there are DOS based programs which uses special fonts and extended graphics modes to give a mouse pointer and some windows on a text mode (something like Magic is doing under DOS).. So, my questions are: 1. Does anyone knows if DOSEMU can run

Re: Linux filenames with definite encoding (Was: FTP server with intl support)

2002-02-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Sorry for retreating in the thread, but an important note struck me from my past. Nadav Har'El wrote: No, UNIX traditionally operates on strings of chars (bytes/octets). No special treatment is ever given by system calls to any byte except null (and / in pathnames) Ok, what if the locale

Re: Internet connection in Virtual PC

2002-02-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Peleg Wasserman wrote: BTW: I may be mistaking, mut I believe that Bezeq's ADSL equipment is [badly] configured by default to use the whole 10.x.x.x network, and thus placing your virtual PC on such an address is probably not a good idea, and you

Re: Internet connection in Virtual PC

2002-02-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: 214.0.0.0/8 568 (US Military) WOW! They managed to land themselves with enough consecutive Class Cs to make a whole class A??? I have to say I am impressed. It's usually the other way around (see netvision's 62.90.x.x networks). Shachar

Re: [was: sendmail relay problem]

2002-02-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tzahi Fadida wrote: Aviram, keep thinking like that and I pity the organization u work for. You should. Aviram is the CEO ;-) = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body,

Re: mtu problems?

2002-03-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Try reducing the MTU on the internal machine to 1452, and see if the problem goes away. If it does, you need to set a rule on iptables of the outgoing filter to change the MSS on outgoing SYNs. I don't remeber what it was. If you want to understand why it happens, I, as well as a few other

Re: Run Level 5

2002-03-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shlomi Fish wrote: 1. Using vlock -a on one of the virtual consoles. This renders the computer useless except for telnetting/sshing into. 2. Using screen to run startx in the background. This will require to hack a simple shell alias to do in style. However, I noticed that using it my sound

Re: GPL in hebrew

2002-03-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Why? English written legal documents are binding in Israel (as are Arabic). Shachar Amir Tal wrote: All, I am looking for a Hebrew translated copy of the GPL license. Is there such thing ? If yes, does anyone know where I might find it ? Thanks. --

Of URL format (was: [Humour] This is hilarious... ;-)

2002-03-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
the meaning of the url: IP - 3573468885 (212.254.206.213) Address inside the URL - original.html it also mentions that you should login. The user is www.microsoft.com. I am not sure what the item=linux part is all about. I think it is considered part of the username. IIRC, password is

Re: Hillarious

2002-03-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
This is a call to everyone on this list. I, personally, got very sick of getting the same battered jokes again and again and again and again. I did not subscribe to this mailing list to receive jokes, particularily not jokes that their own text identify them as being 4 years old. This is not

Re: Hillarious

2002-03-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-4-6991122 http://sites.canaan.co.il -- - Original Message - From: Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gil Elad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: IGLU [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 10:05 AM Subject: Re

Re: [Protest at introduction of politics into technical mailing lists]I AM ANGRY AT YUVAL KOJMAN! (was: Re: A petition for the withdrawal of israel)

2002-03-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
It is astounding to me that you protest introduction of political content to a technical mailing list, while cross posting it to other technical mailing lists, thus introducing politics to them as well. Yuval Kojman only did that to one list, you did that to a whole bunch more. Please stop.

Re: c question

2002-04-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Just wanted to quote an amuzing experience I had in the single haifux club meeting I attended. I made a comment about something only working on Linux, and having to use X in order to make it Unix compatible, and got bemused looks from everyone around me saying This is a Linux meeting. Sigh.

Re: DMCA, SSSCA/CBDTPA related laws in Israel?

2002-04-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Omer Zak wrote: 1. Is there anyone with legal background and familiarity with the lawmaking work in the Knesset, who can tell us if there is any risk that laws like the DMCA or SSSCA/CBDTPA will be enacted in Israel? 2. Are there any international treaties, to which Israel is signatory,

Re: DMCA, SSSCA/CBDTPA related laws in Israel?

2002-04-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Omer Zak wrote: Followups - please only to Hackers-IL mailing list, no need to CC: me personally or to cross-post to the Linux-IL mailing list (anyone subscribed to Linux-IL and not to Hackers-IL, and who is interested in the subject - please subscribe to Hackers-IL). On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Shachar

Re: DMCA, SSSCA/CBDTPA related laws in Israel?

2002-04-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
erez Doron wrote: a new, dedicated, mailing list. To subscribe, send an empy email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suggest taking all of this discussion there, so as not to litter both lists with off topic issues. why ? there are a lot of threads not of any intreset to me, i do not ask to open a

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Eli Marmor wrote: (of course, reverse proxies are a different issue, have many advantages, and almost no disadvantage). Great. What are they? Shachar = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I'll leach this thread to reiterate an amusing problem I've had (actually, a friend of mine at work) with transparent proxies. I'll give you the rundown after investigation. We both read the Userfriendly comic strip (http://www.userfriendly.org/static). Their site uses Apache with mod_gzip

Re: recursive chmod

2002-04-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Your sig, which bears striking resemblance to ESR's sigs, is not RFC compliant. a href=http://eg-site.tripod.com;Eliran/a The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will

IGLU etiquete (was: recursive chmod)

2002-04-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote about Re: recursive chmod: you keep forgetting that not all of us have continues internet connection (isdn, adsl, cable etc). most of us have analog modems, and (like me) d/l their email, read it offline and then replay offline.

Re: mozilla's recent hole

2002-05-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
From what I understood about this bug, it was irrelevant for Mozilla RC-1 because the exploited feature was not working at all there (i.e. - the bug was there, but another bug prevented exploiting the first one). I am using debian sid, and they carry nightly mozilla builds (mine is from

Re: 3com 3c905cx unknown device

2002-05-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: The word-wide EEPROM checksum is . Saved EEPROM settings of a 3Com Vortex/Boomerang: 3Com Node Address FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF (used as a unique ID only). OEM Station address ff:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF (used as the ethernet address). Device ID , Manufacturer ID .

Re: Bidi updates for OpenOffice word processor Rel 641D

2002-05-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I'm willing to do it, but I will only have the HW to do it in a few days (buying a new computer). Plus - I will be compiling on Debian, and I'm not sure how adapt Debian is at compiling RPMs. If anyone else with shorter timelines wants to volunteer, please do. Shachar Tzafrir

Re: M$ $oftware audit pushes schools toward Linux

2002-05-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
You missed out on how the BSA works. They will tell you that We will be happy to perform the audit for you. Of course, if a single illegal software is found, all audit costs will be payed by you. I am not sure what the legal basis of such a claim is, but that seems to be the claim they are

Re: Modem 56k which works on linux

2002-05-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shaul Karl wrote: Have you tried the Modems section (21) of the LDP's Hardware-HOWTO? And a word (question?) about 56k connectivity: * You might be unrealistic about how much available bandwidth is on your modem line. Lets do the math for a typical 56k modem connection: 1.

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Yes, but he needs to send someone the file I will put it there if he sends it to me. Shachar Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Yotam Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If a bandwidth oriented person is willing to host the packages, I'll create RPM's[0] for OO and its dependencies.

Re: OpenOffice/bidi fonts problems

2002-05-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I've had the same problem, and for the same reasons, I suspect. How do I change this configuration? Shachar Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, 14 May 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I could see a list of Type1 fonts in the fonts menu (helvetica, times, bookman, etc.). What do I need to

Re: Remote Red hat upgrade

2002-05-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Eran Tromer wrote: Hi, Whatever method you use, doing a full upgrade using the installer has a very high chance of failing in *some* way, so if you don't have low-level remote control facilities you'd better be prepared to come over anyway. If you can't do that, you may be better

Re: USR 56K modems

2002-05-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Is ISA ok? Ely Levy wrote: hehe join me in my unending quest to find a cheap modem that works on linux. check the thread from few days ago to get some ideas about how to get one Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 19 May 2002, Eliran wrote: Hello ! Anyone

Re: USR 56K modems

2002-05-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
. Shachar Ely Levy wrote: asking me or eliran? I'm looking for pci one Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 19 May 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Is ISA ok? Ely Levy wrote: hehe join me in my unending quest to find a cheap modem that works on linux

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Moshe Zadka wrote: On Sun, 19 May 2002, Uri Bruck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Hebrew alphabet also remained pretty much constant for the last 2K years, and is flexible enough to serve well three languages Unless you believe there is something holy about it, I don't see the point

Re: ADSL problems with redhat 7.3

2002-05-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
You have a default route that points to the internal network. Remove that route (configure eth0 to not include a default route), and let the default route come from ppp (i.e. - there will be no default route unless you are connected). Shachar e-tie wrote: Hi all, just installed

Re: Illegal Micro~1 licenses

2002-05-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
A. It's micros~1, not micro~1. B. It can backfire on them, just like it did in the US in the education market. The more people pay retail price for each and every license, the less attractive basing MS solution is compared to alternatives, the less solid their Monopoly becomes, the less money

Re: some questions

2002-06-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Barak Kaufman wrote: as to the telnet i personally do not know of a method to restrict logins to ip. If telnet is being run from inetd (normally the case), you can update your hosts.allow and hosts.deny to do that. Again, RTFM on tcpd. what i could suggest is use ssh (more secure) and use

Re: How many Linux-IL members are needed to replace a light bulb?(was: Re: small and extremely annoying question)

2002-06-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
6. Kernel module that implements /proc/devname and /proc/pathname, by performing mount none /usr/local/bin/gcc -t fsfileparse -o ro (not applicable to this case, as the guy specifically asked for a userland solution) 7. Use the following code taken from glibc.. Port it to your favourite

Re: small and extremely annoying question

2002-06-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
The nice thing about Marc's sarcasm is that it is so subtle, as to be almost undetectable. Had you knot no own him, you wood have fought that he really clod not spill. But I no the sick rest! I spell cheque! Sahara Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: Quoth Iftach Hyams: A

Re: CrossOver and hebrew MS office

2002-06-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Arie Folger wrote: On Saturday 08 June 2002 17:34, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: This message is NOT posted to encourage buying the CrossOver Office package (it's commercial - costs $54.95), but just to answer some people questions about crossover office and hebrew MS office. How well would

Re: [Job Offer] Qlusters is looking for a few good main()

2002-06-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: #endif // __KERNEL__ Using C++ style comments in kernel code? That tends to greatly limit the compilers you can use to compile your code (assuming you are not writing C++ kernel modules, that is). Shachar

Re: [Job Offer] Qlusters is looking for a few good main()

2002-06-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: As for implying that we might write kernel modules in C++, sir, such a comment would cause me (as a Qlusters kernel hacker) to demand satisfaction at dawn, sir. I'll settle for a beer after the revolution OS event, though ;) Do NOT open for discussion things which

Re: atomically opening and deleting a file

2002-06-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: I have a patch implementing this already written. However, it doesn't protect us from the synlink attack. Sure it does. Just make sure noone but you have write permissions on the directory. No write permissions - no rename capabilities, no ability to symlink. We

Re: Firewall Hacking

2002-06-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
TH4 UBER KEWL JAN 1SSU3 1N Y00R F4C3 Tha???!!! Shouldn't it have been TH3 UB3R K3WL J4N 1SSU3 1N Y00R F4C3? Yotam Rubin wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: Hi All I just finished configuring my first firewall server with many goods inside :) and im

Call for arms

2002-06-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, This email is aimed at the Hebrew and Arabic speaking Linux users, who still have Windows only programs that pull them back from switching over completely. Some time ago I have started working on bidirectional text rendering for WINE. I have now submitted the first patch with

Re: Call for arms

2002-06-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I still don't understand why do u need the Unicode 1.0 book and rewriting bidi from scratch while you already GOT from several places bidi implementation, and in QT/GTK-2 case - full unicode implementation - it would be much easier for you to port it to Wine then rewrite

Re: Call for arms

2002-06-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I still don't understand why do u need the Unicode 1.0 book and rewriting bidi from scratch while you already GOT from several places bidi implementation, and in QT/GTK-2 case

Re: Call for arms

2002-06-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Not according to the character types it announces, and not according to some people's (Mati from IBM, for one) experience. I have positive confirmation that the character types they are publishing are 2.0 complient

Dynamically linking with a Unix library - or not

2002-06-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi WINE-devel list (cross posted to Linux-IL), After a lively discussion in the Israeli Linux users mailing list, it appears that the best solution will be to give a command line (or config) option to use an external library (fribidi) for the RTL rendering. I would still implement this

Re: OT: rackmount case

2002-06-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote: Hello, Does anyone know of a local manufacturer of 1u/2u rackmount cases suitable for ATX motherboards? Regards, - yba Ligad are selling 1u and 2u non-server (in other words - normal priced) PCs. I am sure that they can also sell you the chasis itself.

Re: OT: rackmount case

2002-06-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Do you REALLY think you can just throw your ATX board into 1U and thats it? Physically you can do it of course, but that means you'll have to sacrifice all your AGP PCI slots (minus 1 which can be used with a converter to put the card horizontal), and you'll have some

Re: run dhcpcd in the background, even when disconnected?

2002-07-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I think windows uses 192.168.x.x That a RFC 1918 unassigned address range. Shachar Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On 7 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 15:43, Michael Sternberg wrote: Is it advisable in case of such failure to start computer with a random

Re: [off Topic]RE: run dhcpcd in the background, even when disconnected?

2002-07-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
But it's the wrong side of LA from the good sushi. Shachar Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 15:16, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: $ whois 169.254.0.0 IANA (NETBLK-LINKLOCAL) Internet Assigned Numbers Authority 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 Marina del Rey, CA

Re: Find out about hard links :

2002-07-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 10:59:05AM +0200, Iftach Hyams wrote: I am looking for the highest lavel call to indicate if a file is hard linked (and later where are the over links in a given subdirectory). Currently the file system is ext2 but I prefer to do it general.

Re: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset meeting on opensource)

2002-07-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
The point seems to be that ideas are not copyrightable, for a good reason. Otherwise, copying anything from anyone would be illegal, such as copying to mechanical form such inventions as the turtoise's shell and the bird's wings. This is, after all, only reimplementations of existing ideas.

Re: Mozilla mailer bug ? (was Re: Machba and Hebrew)

2002-07-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Works for me - Mozilla on Windows. I pulled it via POP3, though. Guy Baruch wrote: I cannot view E. Tromers mail using mozilla's mailer (blank page) (this is mozilla 1.0.0 client pulling from an IMAP server) does anyone else have this problem (so I'll report a mozilla bug) or should I

Re: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset meeting on opensource)

2002-07-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
There was, about that time, a ruling of Check Point vs. RadGuard (or was that the other way around? Being as it is that I was interviewing for both companies at the time the ruling was made, I tend not to remember). I don't recall that case including customer lists, though.

Re: [OT] Dedicated web hosting or colocation - providers, partners

2002-07-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi Eran, I belong to a group that does that (http://www.fiasco.org.il). We are paying Actcom 120$/mo for colocating a rack mountable server. As far as I know, they are the cheapest in Israel (you can try accessing fiasco for speed benchmarks). Iglu is, of course, also at actcom's, but they

Re: [OT] Dedicated web hosting or colocation - providers, partners

2002-07-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Worked with Bezeq Intl in the past. They were a MESS. When the mess results in them forgetting to bill you (would happen every other month or so), that is one thing. When the mess results in them losing your phone number (was written on the machine), having power failures, losing your account

Re: Desktop Linux -- Linux lost

2002-07-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I will iterate my view of his point: Games are judged by many factors, two of which are playability and game experience. Playability will be roughly defined here as how well does the game capture the player's attention, and how long can they keep his/her interest, focusing his/her attention

Re: Mailing list users (fwd)

2002-08-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Why aren't bouncing users automatically removed? If the users don't work for the company any more, their email addresses should bounce. If it does, the mailing list software should have some handling of that (ezmlm sends another probe after a week, and if that bounces, removes from the list).

Re: Key signing party results

2002-08-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
conference, missing the opertunity to have my key singed by Elias Levy (aka Aleph1) and Jeff Moss. Oh well, next year, I guess. Shachar Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 11:37:43AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Those of you who did

Re: Internet sharing

2002-08-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: C. As a general rule, I wish people would stop looking at NAT as a security device. NAT IS NOT A SECURITY DEVICE!! NAT is just a way to get more IPs in this tough no-ips world of IPv4. Specifically: A NAT router has

Re: Raanaa Instalation Party

2002-08-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: Quoth Gilad Ben-Yossef: 1. Pepole who are willing and able to help install Linux on other peoples machines. 2. More ideas. Ok, to sum the discussion and resources so far: 1. Assaf Flato - Machine with CDR (Windows ONLY) 2. Amir

Re: Raanaa Instalation Party

2002-08-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:17:49PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Assuming the date turns out ok, I'm willing to help with the actual installations. I have experience with Debian and RedHat. Likewise, assuming a suitable date. My specialty is weird installation

Re: Raanaa Instalation Party

2002-08-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Amir Tal wrote: On Thursday 15 August 2002 19:23, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:17:49PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Assuming the date turns out ok, I'm willing to help with the actual installations. I have experience with Debian and RedHat. Likewise

Re: Idea for winmodems ?

2002-08-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Eliran wrote: Hey ! Does loadlin also loads device's drivers that doesn't work on linux? I mean if I am connected to the internet and I use loadlin to load my RH7.3 box will the modem work ? Thanks It may, IF The modem has all the number crunching power on board (i.e. - of the higher end

Re: OT: Looking for old UNIXes

2002-08-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
And sometimes, as I suspect was the intent of the original poster, you just want to be able to check various stuff against a Solaris sparc machine. It doesn't have to be the latest, but it has to be a sparc, and it has to run solaris. Shachar Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader

Re: nana's chat working

2002-08-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Have you checked other Israeli chats? So far Tapuz and IOL didn't work for me in Mozilla, only in Konqueror with IBM's JRE.. How about giving credit where credit is due? Nana's chat apparently didn't start working because something changed on our end. It started

KDE3 on Debian

2002-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, A while back someone mentioned that there was an unofficial kde3 package for Debian. Can anyone please point me to the right place again? I can't seem to find a working explanation in the archives (you can understand from this last sentance that I did search the archives, found an

Re: OT: free backup mail server ?

2002-08-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi Ishay, I know of no free backup server, but I am running a mail server, and I am willing to back you up if you back me up (which is almost free). Shachar Ishai Parasol wrote: Hi Does anyone know about a free backup mail server service somewhere over the net ? Thanks,

Re: BiDi directionality control for Mozilla

2002-08-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ilya Konstantinov wrote: Hi, I've coded up some simple key bindings for Mozilla to allow switching the direction of the input box, just like (Left/Right)Ctrl-Shift does in Windows / Qt. Get it from: http://toast.unwind.co.il/hacks/mozBidiBindings.tar.gz (installation instructions inside)

Re: BiDi directionality control for Mozilla

2002-08-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: What about text messages? Is it possible to force directionality by beggning a document/paragraph with RLM/LRM ? Is it wise? Probably not work. This works only with editors that use the BiDi algorithm to select direction. Usually what would happen, though, is that

Re: BiDi directionality control for Mozilla

2002-09-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: What about text messages? Is it possible to force directionality by beggning a document/paragraph with RLM/LRM ? Is it wise? Probably not work. This works only with editors that use

Re: BiDi directionality control for Mozilla

2002-09-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Hi, I don't like the idea of RLE..PDF to force paragraph direction, and it is WRONG, Yes, it is. I think that, at this stage, people are more interested in WORKING than in RIGHT. the Unicode BiDi Algorithm is so that puttinjg a RLE at the beginning does not set

Re: CLOSE_WAIT

2002-09-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Actually, that is not correct Replies to the original questions and to the replies are in the body. Lord Soth wrote: On Sunday 01 September 2002 14:03, Michael Sternberg wrote: Sorry if I'm starting a long thread with this letter :) I digged through the Google and did not find anything

Re: CLOSE_WAIT

2002-09-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
My mistake. I rechecked, and lordsoth's reply is the correct one. Sorry about the unnecessary noise. Shachar Shachar Shemesh wrote: Actually, that is not correct Replies to the original questions and to the replies are in the body. Lord Soth wrote: On Sunday 01

Re: [OT] Looking for jobs

2002-09-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: [1] If I remember correctly, it was Rebinu Gershom around the year 1000 who declared it forbidden to read other people's mail without permission. This argument is flawed because of a perhaps unexpected point Nadav has forgotten. While it is true that Gershom forbade read

Re: CLOSE_WAIT

2002-09-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I think you missed my later email stating that my first one was a mistake. I confused CLOSE_WAIT and TIME_WAIT. The later is unavoidable, the former is. When you ask an application to shut down a socket, it sends a FIN out, and enters FIN_WAIT1. When that FIN is acknoledged, the socket

Re: CLOSE_WAIT

2002-09-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On the client, do everything as usual, using close to shut down the socket. On the server, when read returns zero, go back to handling the next connection. Don't call close or shutdown on the socket. If you call shutdown but not close, you should get the same behaviour with CLOSED instead of

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
http://www.mod.gov.il/modh1/encryption/index.html Orr Dunkelman wrote: A) It is Tzav Hatzofen (it is a Tzav which Minsiter of Diffence (Sar Habitachun) is authorized to change. B) It was changed several yearsr ago, and you can use encryption as much as you like (I think up to 128-bit secret

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Aviram Jenik wrote: But no, there are no exceptions to the law (such as small key size, domestic use only, etc). Theoretically you must get a license for your ROT13 feature in Mozilla. Practically they will not come after you unless you are a big fish. Ok, I'll bite. Anyone ever heard of

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Aviram Jenik wrote: I totally disagree. The law is bad - it is badly phrased and makes no practical sense. By some sheer luck, it is implemented correctly and logically by the people who are currently responsible. But that's a mutation - a freak of nature. Don't count on it to survive the

Re: InstaParty [pages

2002-09-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: The InstaParty web pages are now on IGLU at: http://www.iglu.org.il/instaparty/raanana-2002/ Thanks for Mulix who actually rememberd his password (as opposed to me :-) Gilad. A. Send to LinuxAnnounce. B. Do we have any way of publishing this to non-current linux

Re: InstaParty [pages

2002-09-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tel Aviv Univ and Bar Ilan? Unfortunetly, this party is still during the universities summer break, so not so many people will see them. I do think these are probably the most important audiance. Shachar Tal Achituv wrote: Shachar Shemesh wrote: B. Do we have any way

Re: Netvision, or I need a new ISP

2002-09-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I heard many times that one big company with a reputation for truly excellent tech support is Cisco. Is there anything written on how they do it? They pay good salaries to their support personell, and they have a corporate culture of support. Providing good

Re: Netvision, or I need a new ISP

2002-09-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: You all brought here stories where this was necessary, but nobody bothered telling a story where the support person (acting methodically with a checklist) got to a point which they ignored. fine. My parents, after refurbshing their house, returned and tried to get

Re: Go to hell

2002-09-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Especially since result #2 seems so much more relevant. Tal Achituv wrote: WOW! That seems intentional. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Adir Abraham Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 11:46 PM To: Haifa's Linux Club; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Qtext

2002-09-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you like, and if you think this is ok, I think I can reresent both the body who may eventually shell out the money, and understand how much it is WORTH for the community. Before we start, however, is there anyone here who will vulenteer to do

Re: Qtext

2002-09-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: About portability: The demo (you can (could?) download from www.qtext.com) works quite well with recent versions of wine. This might (or might not, I am not an expert) mean porting to libwine might be much easier, even though less portable (e.g. to other Unices), than

Re: mandrake 9 update source

2002-10-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I'm currently D/L it from IGLU at 150K/s Shachar Amir Tal wrote: so I've decided to give MDK 9 a try. ;) can anyone recommend a good and fast one ? everything in the default list is either very slow or dead. tal. ===

Re: job wanted also - NOT - YES!

2002-10-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Will the people on this list who want to shamelessly leach it for their own personal job-searching agenda PLEASE at least give a URL with their resume? I don't think that, given the times, I want to flame the job seekers, but there is really nothing to show my HR department unless you also

Re: job wanted also - NOT - YES!

2002-10-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote about Re: job wanted also - NOT - YES!: Will the people on this list who want to shamelessly leach it for their Again, I don't think the phrase shamelessly leach is appropriate here. http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin

Linux insta-party juggling picture wanted

2002-10-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi, In the insta-party in Ra'anana, someone took a picture of me juggling two pinguins and a juggling ball. Can that someone please either publish it or send it to me private? Many thanks, Shachar = To

A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi list, After a recent partition table oops, I had to reinstall my entire HD :-(. I chose mandrake, partly to see what all the fuss is about, and mostly because my previous distro (debian) didn't carry KDE 3 in any conceivably convinent manner. Follows is my impressions from the

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Oded Arbel wrote: The switch back to the RPM system is a bit traumatic for me. I MISS APT-GET! I managed to find a tool that will let me install a package by name if it's on the Mandrake CDs, and that's fine as far as it gets. Like my

Re: why not reiserfs

2002-10-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Guy Baruch wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Just a comment: You create a special partition for this, and it is supposed to have large directories with lots of small files. Did you consider use reiserfs? yes, I know ext2/3 is not a good choice, (quadratic behaviour on copy). reiserfs

Re: Upgrade to RH 8.0 fails - /dev/sda15 doesn't exist !

2002-10-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
What happens if you mknod sda15? Shachar Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Hi. I'm trying to upgrade from RH 7.3 to 8.0. My root partition is on sda15. The installation fails because the installation doesn't have a /dev/sda15 - just up to sda14. Any ideas how to work around this

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