Re: problem with bulgarian fonts

2009-03-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:41:46PM +0200, David Ronkin wrote: Sbdy asked me to translate from russian to hebrew, But he used for this Bulgarian fonts (don't ask why), here's an example: *Óêðàèíñêî-ðóññêèé ñëîâàðü*, I don't read Bulgarian, but does the following make sense?

Re: printing from ms-win to linux withough samba ?

2009-03-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 02:49:33PM +0200, Erez D wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM, geoffrey mendelson ipp://computername:631/printers/printername Doesn't work for me (xp) If I type: ipp://computername:631/printers/printername it hangs. If I use http instead of ipp, i get the

Re: printing from ms-win to linux withough samba ?

2009-03-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:37:12PM +0200, Erez D wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, You can use IPP (Internet Printing Protocol). For the Windows machines, you can read the document which is available here:

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:11:07PM +0200, Yuval Hager wrote: I find the lyx variant to be most intuitive. As I don't have time to look for the documentation when I need to add diacritics, it makes much sense for פתח to be on פ, for קמץ to be on ק, for חיריק to be on ח, and so on. If I don't

OT: Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:28:21PM +0200, Yotam Rubin wrote: Don't get me wrong, OS X also sucks, only to a lesser extent. Borrowing your plabeic style, I am basically saying this: 1. Windows sucks like a throng of brazillian adult-industry workers 2. Linux sucks like a relatively large

Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:35:19PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have started getting Hebrew spam again, even now that the new anti-spam law is in place. Sure, I _could_ just filter it, but I would prefer to make life miserable for the spammers, even at my own expense. What legal tools do I

Re: Ubuntu Dok

2009-02-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:06:58AM +0200, Ori Idan wrote: It seems that the DoK solution is not good for me. The computer I am trying to install on is IBM ThinkPad X31 and it seems that it can't boot from DoK so although I have a working Ubuntu DoK I can not use it for my computer. Does

Re: VIM removal of Unicode ('bomb')

2009-02-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 04:53:26PM +0200, Noam Rathaus wrote: I am using: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Jan 15 2003 08:05:27) And I have a few unicode characters (unicode encoding 'bomb'/marker) at the beginning of the file that I want to remove. 000 bbef 3cbf 4421 434f

Re: ptrace in production systems

2009-02-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 05:36:43PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I think there are a couple of points that did not come across. The first is that this is an embedded system. It runs an ARM CPU, has 32MB of RAM and 4MB of flash. If we pass the 2MB of (somewhat compressed) filesystem usage

Re: time windowed cron?

2008-12-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 09:20:05AM +0200, Yuval Hager wrote: On Tuesday 30 December 2008, shimi wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: shimi linux...@shimi.net writes: There's The Fault Tolerant Shell[1], that assumes that running for

Re: Public key authentication from QEMU

2008-12-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 05:14:33AM -0800, Valery Reznic wrote: I have Linux box and it hosts another Linux in VMware and yet another one in QEMU I want to be able to login from both VMWare and QEMU to host computer without being asked password. So I took usual route - generated

Re: Public key authentication from QEMU

2008-12-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 07:00:53AM -0800, Valery Reznic wrote: [snip] val...@debian:~/.ssh$ diff qemu.log vmware.log [snip] OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9, OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006 debug1: Reading configuration data /home/valery/.ssh/config --- OpenSSH_4.5p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006 [snip]

Re: Public key authentication from QEMU

2008-12-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 07:35:34AM -0800, Valery Reznic wrote: Why not run ssh-keygen on each machine separately? I tried that and it doesn't work too. You mean you created a keypair on the host, and ssh to itself does not work? I'd start with debugging this, before playing with qemu. Care to

Re: Many bidi- and Hebrew-related Wine bugs being closed (but not fixed)

2008-12-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:41:29AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/12/10 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/12/9 Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Every file? As someone using OpenOffice.org since before 1.x days it looks a bit overestimated. I exaggerated. But my professors still

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Daily Maily Spam

2008-12-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 09:28:42AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: During December (since the anti-spam law came into force), I received so far three E-mail messages from Daily Maily, without giving them permission to continue to E-mail me. Is there anyone who is organizing a group lawsuit against

Re: Roll your own Window Manager (was: Re: Re: grab focus)

2008-12-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 08:43:39AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: I googled for the above and came up with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmonad - a tiling window manager for X-Window, written in Haskell. Makes it possible to manage windows without using a mouse.

Re: grab focus

2008-12-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:18:24AM +0200, Erez D wrote: hi i'm looking for a command line util which lets me change x-focus. i am running two apps with no window manager, and i want to be able to switch focus between the two by command line xwit Not sure it will work well without a

Re: grab focus

2008-12-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 08:56:55AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: I quickly wrote something. http://www.lingnu.com/files/xfocus-0.01.tar.gz Let me know if this works for you. At impulse, I downloaded and compiled it. The 'Usage:' path works for me. From usability point of view, the

Re: Video and presentations over the web

2008-11-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:11:21PM +0200, Arie Skliarouk wrote: Hi, However, they are heavily microsoft-oriented, meaning the output is Windows/IE/MediaPlayer only. You mean the resulting html+javascript+video combination? Yes. Do you have public demonstration somewhere? Here

Video and presentations over the web

2008-11-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, At my workplace we sometimes (once a year, perhaps a bit more) have conferences, of the usual kind - a few lecturers, give presentations, talk, etc. We want to record (video) these lectures and put them on the web for the public. We already do this, with a company that gives us a rather

Re: Video and presentations over the web

2008-11-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:17:36PM +0200, Arie Skliarouk wrote: Hi, If I understand correctly, you are looking for something similar to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZDybXl212Q Am I right? Not exactly - I'd like to have links to the different slides, and be able to jump to them. E.g. a

Re: OT: memories

2008-11-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:00:34PM +0200, Erez D wrote: hi i want to upgrade memory for my laptop. looking for memories on zap i found the same memory from diferrent manufactures kreton , kingston, samsung etc. i was wondering does it matter which i take ? they all have the same MHz

Re: GCC precompiled headers not working

2008-10-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:58:15PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Here's what I do: $ gcc -x c -o precomp.h.gch -c precomp.h -g -Wall -O2 Uncomment the error line $ gcc -x c -o hello.o -c hello.c -g -Wall -O2 In file included from hello.c:1: precomp.h:4:2: error: #error Include twice Never

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 10:20:22PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2008, shimi wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: My assumption is that I could still use the same router after moving to HOT. I would just have to unplug the ADSL line and

Re: Connecting two Linux Desktops simultaneously to the Internet

2008-10-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 01:30:42PM +0300, Noam Meltzer wrote: 2- You want *real* control over every parameter in your router and the black box supplied by ECI does not provide that. I'd use this thread to raise another issue (although it might have been nicer to start a new thread). This ECI

Re: Connecting two Linux Desktops simultaneously to the Internet

2008-10-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 12:16:04AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 11:47:57PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: I'd use this thread to raise another issue (although it might have been nicer to start a new thread). This ECI 312+ is rather old - it's not sold

Re: Where to find modules for pre-compiled debian kernel

2008-09-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 07:56:13AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:34:11PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: To add? Or to build? The problem is that it does not exist in the vitrual machine. Can you modprobe a module from a openvz guest? There are no

Re: lighthttpd on custom ubuntu livecd

2008-09-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:05:19AM +0300, Ishay wrote: Hi I created custom Ubuntu livecd using remastersys. The customization includes lighthttpd installation. When trying to use the lighthttpd from the livecd, I get the following errors: 2008-09-10 07:16:29:

Re: Color highlighting of arbitrary tail -F'ed text ?

2008-09-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:30:39PM +0300, Maxim Veksler wrote: Hi, Someone has a good recommendation for a log syntax highlighter ? Debian has some packages that seem relevant, I never tried any of them: ccze loco lwatch multitail -- Didi

Re: Curses Problem in Detecting Backspace

2008-09-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 08:59:41AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: The first thing you need to check is whether your terminal emulator (xterm, or whatever you use) sends a backspace (^H, or ASCII 8) when you press the backspace key. From your post it appears it doesn't, and you need to check why.

Re: Curses Problem in Detecting Backspace

2008-09-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:51:16AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2008, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about Re: Curses Problem in Detecting Backspace: Not intending to start a flame war, but this is against the Debian policy, which is also assumed by the Linux Backspace/Delete mini

Re: Curses Problem in Detecting Backspace

2008-09-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 12:45:50PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Monday 01 September 2008, Valery Reznic wrote: It's looks like your BACKSPACE mapped to delete. OK, but what should I do about it? There are many resources about this on the net. I thought backspace/delete problems are a

Re: PCI IRQ conflict

2008-08-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:44:13AM +0300, Geoff Shang wrote: Hello, Apologies if this is something easily solved, but I wasn't able to tur up any helpful pages on Google. I just started getting the folowing when I try to load up one of my soundcards: PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device

Re: Grub weirdness

2008-07-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 01:26:48PM +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi, We encountered a grub weirdness and I can't find any reference to this issue on the Internet. Recipe: 1) Install debian via debian-installer (testing version) 2) Get a standard desktop running 3) Download a tar.gz of

Re: Grub weirdness

2008-07-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 02:03:13PM +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi, The blue menu doesn't appear, only the prompt. Everything is identical the only different between before and after is that the tar.gz is based on stable kernel, while the installer was based on a testing kernel. But

Re: Grub weirdness

2008-07-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 03:48:15PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: Since no one has already suggested the following, I'm making this suggestion: 1. cp -r /boot /tmp/boot-before 2. Untar the tarfile 3. cp -r /boot /tmp/boot-after 4. diff -r /tmp/boot-before /tmp/boot-after 5. Study the differences.

Re: Grub weirdness

2008-07-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 03:04:05PM +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi, My aim is to take a dump of one server (tar.gz) and put it on a new server, effectively duplicating the computer. OK, so I repeat my suggestion below: Do not duplicate the files that belong to grub, only the rest of the

Re: installing CentOS without any monitor

2008-06-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:35:15PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, I have my Dell Optiplex GX270 here with Fedora 7 and I'm thinking to upgrade to CentOS 5.2. I'm planning to format the machine. My only issue: I don't have any monitor to connect to this machine (I don't have a monitor

Re: Monitor activation of a process (by process name) - is it possible ?

2008-06-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 02:14:49PM +0300, Dan Shimshoni wrote: Hello, Is there a way to write an application/a kernel module which will notice when a process named xyz starts ? For example, I want to be able to notice when a user statrs a process named calc (by running calc, or whatever

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:44:29AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Lior Kaplan wrote: $ file myfs.iso myfs.iso: , 44.1 kHz, Stereo any ideas ? Yesterday I got that very same reply for the first 10KB of an ext-2 image that someone changed its magic number. Viewed from khexedit, the

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:49:54PM +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote: Hi, I've successfully burnt a data DVD with k3b with file system unix/linux + windows. I tried to mount the DVD in linux (debian unstable) and got this: # mount /dev/hdc /media/cdrom -t autofs mount: wrong fs type, bad

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:21:02PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi Lior, Not sure if I'm correct, but as far as I recall, ISO 9660 is the standard for CDROM, not DVD-ROM. IIRC that's true, but in practice almost all DVDs I saw so far were iso9660, with video DVDs being udf a notable

Re: Help with printf

2008-06-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:11:07AM +0300, Dan Bar Dov wrote: Usually we use printf with a string literal for the format, e.g. printf(%d flowers\n,count); But if I put the format in a variable (as opposed to a string literal), I find that escape processing does not occur. so using the

Re: Debian still generated bad ssh keys (was: Re: SSH vulnerable key package?

2008-06-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 09:49:34PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: Why dist-upgrade? It's a security fix for the same distro (Debian Etch). Contrary to common wisdom (and intuition), dist-upgrade is not related to upgrading between distros. The difference between it and upgrade is that upgrade will

Re: Debian still generated bad ssh keys

2008-06-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 09:00:11PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, it's better to have the security repository after the isoc one. This way, if both have the same package, you will get it from the geographically

Re: redirecting entire script's stdin/stdout to/from a file

2008-05-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:36:30AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, I though I remember long time ago some trick that would allow a script to redirect its stdin/stdout from/to a file without having to enclose the entire script inside a sub-shell. I mean, something like: #!/bin/sh

Re: OT:cheap and reliable web hosting anyone ?

2008-05-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 07:44:28AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any provider of VPS (Virtual Private Servers) based in Israel (with Israeli-allocated IP's)? Make sure that whatever Israeli VPS provider

Re: LVM2 and other snapshots to emulate Netapp Filer's?

2008-05-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 02:41:59PM +0300, Ehud Karni wrote: If you have enough disk space you can create pseudo snapshots by using hardlinks between the snapshots so only changed file takes space. It really depends on the file size distribution - few large files that change constantly will

Re: Need advice LFS or buildroot - the maturity of tools ?

2008-04-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 08:43:24PM +0300, Lev Olshvang wrote: Hi friends, I need to make customized and small linux installation for i686 processor but with only 64M disk available. I tried some automated tools from LFS site ( Linux from scratch) then buildroot and was stuck with errors

Re: Ubuntu upgrade problem

2008-04-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:45:29AM +0300, David Suna wrote: On my kids' computer I did a network upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04. Unfortunately, during the upgrade process the machine was rebooted. The machine boots now but when I log in under X the desktop doesn't come up at all. I

Re: Request to mirror: Ubuntu installation media

2008-04-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 07:35:28AM +0300, Arie Skliarouk wrote: Hi, http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/ is missing installation media. Can these be added? Especially Hardy (8.04) that is going to be released later today? They are here: http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu-releases/ --

Re: Why can't I connect to a local service ?

2008-04-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:30:18AM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: I have a really weird problem - maybe it was always like that or it only happened since I upgraded, I'm not sure - Works for me (on CentOS 5.1). I have a CentOS 5.1 box and for some weird reason I can't connect using TCP to a

Re: Text size in console window

2008-04-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:53:49AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I have a computer running KnoppMyth (Debian Etch). It is connected to my (CRT) TV using a composite video cable from an Nvidia card. In TV mode it works fine. However I would like to be able to pop over to console mode

Re: Replacing kernel 2.4 - 2.6

2008-04-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
I once did such a thing, and IIRC the main problem was with modutils, which was replaced by module-init-tools. I'd try installing 7.3 on a test machine, then use a kernel with all needed drivers compiled in - I think it will work. If that's not good enough, I'd then compile module-init-tools and

Re: SMS via bluetooth?

2008-03-31 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:53:04PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: To me the best choice is via a Bluetooth phone. Then you send your message directly over your cellular phone network which reduces the number of hands in the process and your SP is legally bound to some confidentiality.

Re: RPM erasing old packages?

2008-03-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:03:42PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I made a mistake using YUM to upgrade a Fedora Core 5 system to Fedora 8. Instead of logging on as root from the console, I ssh'ed into it from my user (which mounts its home directory via NFS) and did it using sudo. I do

Re: Kernel question - what happens when a shell script is the interpreter for another shell script?

2008-03-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 07:25:19PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: And now to a slightly related subject - does anyone know how I can change the command line that appears in ps for a program after it has been run? I know it should be possible, because I vaguely remember programs that receive

Re: Checking from a kernel module the existence of a device file - is it possible ?

2008-02-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:13:38AM +0200, Dan Shimshoni wrote: Hi, Is there a way I can test, from a kernel module, the existence of a device file ? A kernel module I write is a character device module, which depends on getting ioctls. In order that it will work, mknod ... /dev/myDev

Re: LVM2 snapshots questions missing from their FAQ :)

2008-02-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:26:24AM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: After much searching on Google, a few questions remain open: a. Assuming I can take multiple snapshots of the same volume (I think this was not possible in LVM1), won't it slow down the disks like crazy? If I have a weekly, nightly

Re: Using SSH keys without havint to type a passphrase

2008-02-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 06:05:54PM +0200, Henry Ficher wrote: Geoff Shang wrote: First, thanks to everyone who made suggestions re incremental backups. I've not looked into every suggestion, but have so far decided to go with duplicity as it appears to take care of all the physical backup

Re: Text editor recommendation

2008-01-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:38:05AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: Hi List. My favorite console text editor is mcedit - I don't subscribe to the vi/emacs debate. But occasionally I need to edit rather large files, and mcedit borks at a few megabytes. When this happens I turn to vi (only because

Re: OT: Translate Gibberish to Hebrew

2008-01-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:45:40PM +0200, Oren Held wrote: On Sunday 20 January 2008 16:15, Dotan Cohen wrote: Sorry, I didn't realise it's a web thingie (I thought it's a Linux util). Very nice. I'll try to read better next time :) Actually, Oren, I did not realize that there are Linux

Re: gcc thoughts

2008-01-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:57:36PM +0200, Leonid Podolny wrote: Hi, list, This letter is probably better suited to hackers-il, but I need help from people that are better acquainted with a development process of gcc. This morning, while browsing through pages of frustratingly irrelevant

Re: Mounting a DD'd ReiserFS image?

2008-01-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 01:52:57PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I saw this question on another mailing list, not related to Linux. Someone has a DD dump of a ReiserFS partition. Can it be mounted as a file and read? Under Linux, I would try mounting it as a loopback device, but will

Re: growisofs Makes the System Less Responsive on MDV-Cooker and kernel 2.6.24-rc6

2008-01-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 07:59:18PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! I often used to burn CDs and DVDs on my Mandriva Cooker system without any problems. I used the combination of the command line tools mkisofs and growisofs to burn a DVD. Today I noticed that when running growisofs to

Re: Processing time spent in IRQ handling and what to do about it

2007-12-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:49:29AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: Running some static benchmarks that should mimic the behavior on real load, on identical hardware at the office, I see very little hard-IRQ time if at all. The main difference between the static benchmark and real usage is that the

Re: Something weird is happening

2007-12-06 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:30:42AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: Hi people. I have here a real conundrum for you: I'm operating an IBM server (an X306, I think ? not sure). Anyway it has a weird setup which is mostly my fault - I wanted to run Fedora on it but the driver for the Adaptec controler

Re: HTML email question

2007-11-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:36:56PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write a very simple shell script which creates a simple hebrew text file, which is then being sent by email using sendmail. Here's the script, pretty basic one.. #!/bin/bash echo From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HTML email question

2007-11-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:40:33PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, On Nov 28, 2007 4:53 PM, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 15:36 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I'm trying to write a very simple shell script which creates a simple hebrew text file, which is

Re: Backup to DVD's

2007-11-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 08:32:11AM -0500, Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, I need to backup large volume to DVD media. I want to be able to put recovery data and to split it to volumes. I prefer to work with regular linux commands. The most important thing is that, if the DVD media will have bad sectors,

Re: wine and hebrew input

2007-11-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 12:53:16PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Following the thread from a few months ago, I now tried the proposed solution and it did not work. Debian etch, wine 0.9.25-2.1, all LC* and LANG are he_IL.utf8. what is the output of locale

wine and hebrew input

2007-11-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Following the thread from a few months ago, I now tried the proposed solution and it did not work. Debian etch, wine 0.9.25-2.1, all LC* and LANG are he_IL.utf8. When I type a Hebrew key, I get in wine's console: err:keyboard:X11DRV_ToUnicodeEx Please report: no char for keysym 0CE3

OT: Dell GX-260

2007-10-31 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, Sorry for posting Off-Topic. I am considering purchasing a Dell GX-260 SFF box. Does anyone have any experience with it? Does it run Linux well? I see it sold on several Israeli sites for around 1400 NIS, many of them with a dealer named ORGANIX, which I have a hard time finding

Re: PC router distro?

2007-10-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:28:27PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I there any distro of Linux specifically to turn a PC into a router? What I am looking for is something that runs on a PC, either from a floppy, hard drive, USB memory stick, etc, that turns a PC into a full function

Re: Realtek 8139 network card installation

2007-10-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 08:32:55PM +0200, Eran Levy wrote: Hi, I'm having some problems with my current network card and my friend gave me a Realtek 8139 card to install until I'm buying a new one. Anyway...before I'm installing the Realtek card, I've 2 questions (it's urgent): 1. Do you know

Re: Wierd problem - PHP downloads the source

2007-09-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/9/10, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I have a strange problem with Apache on a new server installation. I installed apache2, phpmyadmin and mod-php5 from debs on Debian Etch (AMD64 version, if it matters). When I browse to http://machine/phpmyadmin/index.php, everything

Re: NTP configuration

2007-09-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/9/1, Geoff Shang [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Those of you who are paying attention will remember that I moved here from Australia 4 months ago. Again, thanks to those who have answered questions for me in that time (don't worry, there will be more). I've finally decided that it's time to

Re: resizing partition problem

2007-08-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
I didn't do any research about how sparse files are allocated, but I can tell Using lseek(2) with an offset past the end of the file and then writing something. To try it without writing C (or perl etc.) code, you can do something like dd if=/dev/zero of=f bs=1024k seek=10 count=1 du -h f ls

Re: resizing partition problem

2007-08-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/8/24, Shlomo Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually, there was a reason. That particular partition has some partially downloaded torrents. When rtorrent creates directories and files, it apparently only allocates space, but doesn't actually use any disc space until the relevant chunk is

Re: How to detect if grub is installed ?

2007-08-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/8/24, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi list. I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 devel on two computers, and on both of them I dist-upgraded yesterday. After doing that, both computers suggested I reboot, which I did only on the desktop computer. After reboot the system wouldn't want to start as it

Re: Printing Photos in Israel

2007-08-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, Does anybody know of a site in Israel in which you can upload your photos and get them printed? It should I never used them myself, but my sister is a routine user of tzamtzam.co.il . 1. Work with a non-IE browser I think she only uses it with FF 2. Have decent prices I do not

Re: Printing Photos in Israel

2007-08-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/8/9, Yuval Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Does anybody know of a site in Israel in which you can upload your photos and get them printed? It should I never used them myself, but my sister is a routine user of tzamtzam.co.il . 1. Work with a non-IE browser I think it works with FF 2.

Re: Printing Photos in Israel

2007-08-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Are you sure? I got to a page where they tell me to accept the ActiveX installation and remove the pop-up blocker... Seems you are right. I guess my sister actually brings the camera/memory card and prints there. Sorry :-) -- Didi

Re: Stupid question about Fedora mirrors

2007-08-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On 8/1/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist There are no public mirrors of Fedora in Israel. Is that true? http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/fedora/ -- Didi

Re: Stupid question about Fedora mirrors

2007-08-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On 8/1/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist There are no public mirrors of Fedora in Israel. Is that true? http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/fedora/ -- Didi

Re: Fwd: ADSL connection problem

2007-07-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi Shlomo and everyone, On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:18:48PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Thanks for all the detailed replies. I'm actually left with only one question, before I buy a router (as everyone has agreed). I understand that the Linksys WRT54G-L is Linux friendly, but aside from

Re: Fwd: ADSL connection problem

2007-07-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:18:01AM +0200, shlomo solomon wrote: [snip] I contacted 015 and after being instructed to telnet into one of their servers and succeeding (telnet 192.114.186.54 110) they said they had no idea what to do (we don't support Linux). The only thing they suggested was to

Re: 32Gb servers?

2007-06-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:32:15PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, Where would you go if you had to get a 32Gb RAM server, much preferably rack-mounted. Don't care so much about CPU or very fast disks, just needs lots of RAM. Can run either Windows (possibly developer's preference) or

Re: OT: Hosting

2007-06-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:41:05PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, Are these prices in Israel? Last time I checked (a couple of years ago), prices were twice that in Israel, when you bought your own server (i.e. the price doesn't include the hardware). Can you

Re: OT: Hosting

2007-06-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:41:05PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, Are these prices in Israel? Last time I checked (a couple of years ago), prices were twice that in Israel, when you bought your own server (i.e. the price doesn't include the hardware). Can you

OT: Hosting

2007-06-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi everyone, Sorry for being Offtopic, but I think the subject is interesting for many here. I used to rent a server hosted at Actcom, but as many here probably know, things are changing, and I won't be able to continue hosting this server, and I am looking at other options. My current needs

Re: OT: Hosting

2007-06-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:42:31PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: So how does it work for you without physical access? If you have very good backups, and reinstalling the OS on a new disk is part of their service, you can get by. Note that most of the US ones do not sell or lease the server to you -

Re: debian netinst q

2007-04-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:03:15PM +0300, Maxim Veksler wrote: On 4/27/07, Yedidyah Bar-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Try something like apt-get install xorg I did not check what exactly it installs - you might want to install some more stuff even if you do not want gnome/kde

Re: debian netinst q

2007-04-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 06:05:27PM +0300, Shimon Panfil wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 03:59:40PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote: * Shimon Panfil [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070427 14:32]: Hi Folks, I've just made instalation of debian 4.0 using netinst CD. All is fine safe a couple of minor things:

producing video + presentations

2007-04-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, Sorry for being somewhat off-topic. I am looking, for my workplace, for a company that can come to a lecture arranged by us, with a presentation pre-prepared by the lecturer and with his cooperation, video it, and produce content for a web site that will have both, with some kind of

Re: Time Drifting Back Forth on SMP

2007-04-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:26:25AM +0300, shimi wrote: This is a server box. Windows never touched it since it went out of its' package... (nor do I see a reason for it to do that :)). I am also unsure if Windows would see this problem, because I think their timekeeping is different (live

Re: Ripping Hebrew CDs

2007-04-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:41:51PM +0300, Ehud Karni wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:24:54 Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:38:35AM Hadar wrote: I'm encoding audio CDs into FLAC files using Sound Juicer. The albums are automatically recognized and the songs names

Re: nfs permissions

2007-04-22 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 07:04:13PM +0300, Yahav Biran wrote: Hi all, My application is running on one host(local) and integrate with another application that runs on another host(remote). during its work the two applications are using the a NFS shared folder from my application, doing some

Re: Samba on Linux redhat

2007-04-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:47:35PM +0300, Israel Shikler wrote: Hi All, I have a need of setting a Samba server ON A Linux RH or HP/UNIX in order to maintain windows printers drivers in one central repository which should NOT be a windows server. What should such a task take in

Re: find -mtime and wrong data return

2007-03-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:38:30PM +0200, ik wrote: Hello, I wish to use the find command in order to find all the files that were created prior to specific file. So I tried to use the following command: find -type f -mtime -7 Try find -type f -mtime +7 -- Didi

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