Re: mozilla 0.9.2

2001-07-06 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
IK See this bug for more info: IK http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63054 Well, I guess people that want it should vote for this bug... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +972-3-9316425/\

Re: mozilla 0.9.2

2001-07-05 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
EL Actualy we don't owe them anything mozilla might has been a nice project EL but seriously. EL konqurer and opera are doing much better job Very debatable claim. EL opera might not be complitly free but it's the best linux browser I saw so EL far it doesn't crash at all it's VERY fast and

Re: mozilla 0.9.2

2001-07-05 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
EL If asked I'm sure they would add that feature. Yeah, somewhere in this millennium. Thanks a lot, by this time my grandchildren will read it for me, so I would not care then. EL how about instead of saying opera lacking some features get EL people who would but it (yea paying it's not that

Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as development tools?

2001-06-30 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
MT the Windows MSIE used to suck bigtime as well. theyv'e got the corporate MT funding and manpower to improve it. and they will. I do not believe that. Solaris MSIE was proof of concept product. It had played it's purpose, there's no slightest reason to spend on it any more - it will never be

Re: SSH

2001-06-29 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
EL Hi, Is there any alternative program for SSH-win? and a free EL program? There's SecureCRT (not free) and there's some plugins to TeraTerm (don't remember if it's free). I saw once a free command-line client, but not a GUI one. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken

Re: Re: MS prohibits licensees using open source as developmenttools?

2001-06-28 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
I remember I saw it one, somehere... it's not a linux specific but There's a version of MSIE for Solaris - that's what they call MSIE for UNIX. I have yet to see one person that saw it (MSIE for Solaris) and doesn't think it sucks big time. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels

Re: Vgames

2001-05-13 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OA True. also - a lot of scripts (which of course don't check for OA browser support other then document.all vs. document.layers) use OA document.all and no other IE specific extensions which isn't in OA the DOM. Well, these scripts are antic and will die out, as soon as Netscape 4 dies out.

Re: Vgames

2001-05-11 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
IK As to KHTML (used by Konq), it's much more forgiving than Mozilla. IK Heck, it implements a 'document.all' object (for IE compatibility)! If it implements full MSIE DOM (including all properties and methods ans stuff) it's cool. But somehow I doubt it. But if it does not, this only means they

Re: Vgames

2001-05-10 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
TC Actually the latest news is that the newest nightly builds of mozilla TC /should/ contain bidi support compiled in (haven't tried it yet. just read TC a message in a newgroup). Does this mean there's a chance 0.9.[12] will have BiDi in? Can I already order wine and candies to celebrate? :)

Re: Vgames

2001-05-10 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
MR Unfortunately their site is rendered wrong in konqueror, but I'm MR not sure which side is buggy. I fear it's Konq. I saw a number of sites rendered OK with Mozilla but bad with Konq. Or Mozilla is very forgiving (which rises aquestion why Konq isn't), or Konq is buggy. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another Semaphore question.

2001-05-06 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
gk not terribly good portability, according to gk /usr/src/linux/Documentatino/mandatory.txt , for mandatory locks? gk advisory locks can be used, but then you only have a single such lock gk available per file. if you need to use several locks, you need to keep What? You sure should use

Re: Another Semaphore question.

2001-05-06 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OA I don't think its an option I have for the current OA implementation - it's file IO, and should be much slower, right OA ? Wrong. Record locking has nothing to do with file I/O - it is done entirely in memory. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev

Re: Another Semaphore question.

2001-05-06 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OA I'll think about, but I don't think I'll change from semaphores just yet. OA I don't like the idea of creating temp files for locks, and I can't lock Actually, cleaning temp file is by far easier than cleaning semaphore. Especially if your app can be killed any moment. OA against an existing

Re: virtual pc for pc

2001-05-05 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
ML cares ?) each in its own VEnv on top of ME or 2000. Although the ML price on macs is 70 $ for a PC DOS version, VPC for PCs will ML cost... 299 $. I suppose the price tag will fall by the day. VMWare WS costs exactly $299. Coincidence? :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be

Re: Another Semaphore question.

2001-05-04 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
This is not a PROBLEM but a FEATURE. All Sys-V IPC (semaphores, message queues, shared memory) outlive their creators. Wrong. Shared memory can be pre-deleted, so that it is removed when last process is detached. Just like files. Semaphores can not. In fact, there's no good way to insure that

Re: Another Semaphore question.

2001-05-03 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OA One more semaphore question if you please - if I create a semaphoer set, OA and then leave it lying around and exit the process - will it stay in the OA system when no current process uses it ? Yes. This is one of the problems with semaphores. BTW, why not using file locking instead of it? It

Re: Public NTP servers in Israel

2001-04-29 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OG Can anyone point me to a list of public NTP servers in Israel. A There's ntp.ac.il, and there are ntp.tau.ac.il, ntp.technion.ac.il and I guess more, most of them uses ntp.ac.il. I'm not sure about others, but ntp.ac.il is public. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken

Re: Public NTP servers in Israel

2001-04-29 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AB timeserver.iix.net.il | ntp.iix.net.il| stratum 2 | public AB ntp.ilan.net.il| ntp.ac.il | stratum 0/1 | only stratum 2 AB servers Seems that ntp.ac.il still allows connection to everybody. But then it's

Re: bezeqint customers should now be able to access ftp.cs.huji.il

2001-04-28 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
ABThis thread is a bit moot. TAU's policy stands, and that is AB what we require for the free service we provide. That's what I thought it is, right? We do it because we can, not because it has any reason behind it... Well, you in are your own right, and nobody will sue you because he's

Re: bezeqint customers should now be able to access ftp.cs.huji.il

2001-04-27 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
YR I believe you're missing a crucial point. I believe that YR wu-ftpd does not only verify that a certain IP address has a PTR YR record, but it also ensures that the PTR's respective A record YR is identical to the original IP address. The previous statement So? That's why I wrote If I also

Re: bezeqint customers should now be able to access ftp.cs.huji.il

2001-04-26 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
SK 530- It seems your IP address isn't properly registered in SK 530-the DNS - You must allow reverse DNS lookups. What I can't get in this story - what is the meaning of this restriction? Like, what for do you need reverse DNS? What it gives to you? Just to show that you are security-tough guy

Re: bezeqint customers should now be able to access ftp.cs.huji.il

2001-04-26 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
YR It provides a better audit trail. It is trivial to setup PTR records, and Just how better? Why PTR (which can be easily faked) is better than IP, which determines uniquely the offending host? As for triviality, many things are trivial to do and yet it is not the reason to require people to

Re: Zope programmer STILL needed.

2001-04-21 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
NSC On one hand you're holding the flag of open source and free NSC code. And on the other hand, you're saying that uithout 300 NSC shekels an hour, you're not gonna get off your ass. You sound NSC alot more like a Microsoft developer than a Linux developer. That's bull. If you ask somebody to

Re: Where is Marc's differential SCSI cable? (was: Re: Counterproductive posts.)

2001-04-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OZ There is a separate mailing list for newbie questions, and the regular OZ Linux-IL subscribers' time is too precious for clueless newbie questions. Franskly speaking, I'm freaking stunned such a topic is discussed on the list at such length, and with such an arguments. First, is this Linux-IL

Re: php IDE.

2001-03-10 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
EB Just started to write PHP and I cant find an IDE which EB will give me good debugging capabilities (step, break EB points ). EB EB Anybody can recommend one to me ? Zend IDE, but it's not free. There's also a free one, which claims to support debugging (nexus?), but I don't know how good

Re: SUSE 7.1

2001-02-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
NM It's wrong because that's not the idea of linux, it ment to be a free NM software. Let's get it straight. Let's compare - how many hours of work did you invest in Linux (as OS, trademark, concept, etc.) and how many SuSE people did? After you make the balance, think again if you have any

Re: SUSE 7.1

2001-02-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OH The wrong thing is that they are getting money for programs that OH volunteers did _FOR FREE_, on their own time. instead of giving OH the money for the volunteers I'm giving it to the company who OH packed this and made some nice setup program ? no thanks. they OH should release the d/l

Re: SUSE 7.1

2001-02-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OH SuSE employees are programming a bunch of software. What I said is, that OH there are people such as Koshelev Maxim (Downloader for X's author) OH who build programs at least as big as all the suse programs (yast + some OH bash scripts. It's not a 'bunch' of software imo), and get _NOTHING_.

Re: SUSE 7.1

2001-02-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OH I heard from some people that the yast license is pretty 'sly' and some OH bad things about it. I prefer GPL not because I want to see its source or OH modify it (Although maybe it could be nice), but because I want to be free OH to use it. GPL has nothing to do with usage, and can not,

Re: SUSE 7.1

2001-02-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AS Your opinions are yours, of course, but I think you are AS misrepresenting RMS here. He has always objected to limiting the use AS of software. Consider his recent review of the new APSL (Apple Public Well, so he's a hypocrite here. Because when it is regarding his software (specifically

Re: Stupid Bezeq

2001-02-11 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
SS Well, now you know why it is better to pick 192.168.*.* for SS private networks, even if you get to type more numbers :-) Guess which address space will the second provider take? Bingo! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than

Re: A question about a small makaf

2001-02-11 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
TC I'm not satisfied with this behaveiour. Can anybody think of a better TC workaround? A space there is also not a good idea, because the hyphen here TC is supposed to connected two words to one word. That's like you would say "I want to use character '0' to mean both 0 and 1 and I still want

Re: A question about a small makaf

2001-02-05 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
HBH Unfortunately, seems the BiDi standard doesn't treat the HBH "makaf" properly, and Konqueror shows exactly as Mozilla the HBH Makaf problem, which gives numbers as negative, and the same HBH shows with fribidi and gedit.. There's no good solution to this problem, because this is not a bug -

Re: hebrew in napster

2001-01-29 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
EL which reminds me did anyone got galeon ( the gnome based EL mozilla) to work better than the reqular mozilla? I tried it, but found it's not worth the trouble. It has the same gecko renderer from mozilla, so you earn nothing here. It's not so drastically faster, and it lacks a lot of

Re: Debian mirror

2001-01-26 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AS Marc was offering you in his mail the use of his local Debian AS mirror. You don't have to use it if you don't want, but AS attacking him for this mail seems to me like an inappropriate AS response. We must recognise here that Marc was playing a deal of post-spinal aperture in his messages,

Re: Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Linux ?

2001-01-13 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
MZ On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, "Stanislav Malyshev" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MZ This what amazes me most in the thing. Being unable to port Unix GUI, MZ written on Motif (which is now even Open Source) MZ MZ Motif is not open source. Ah. Open Motif is not Open Source (TM). But if you read

Re: Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Linux ?

2001-01-13 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AS Ah. Open Motif is not Open Source (TM). But if you read explanations why AS it isn't (http://www.opennc.org/openmotif/faq.html) you see that it's AS irrelevant for Linux. So from what I gather, Open Motif on Linux meets the AS Open Source criteria. AS AS It doesn't, because it can't be

Re: Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Linux ?

2001-01-10 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
NSRS 6. There is currently NO GUI for linux. Bare in mind that even on Solaris NSRSthe advanced GUI uses Motif and the normal GUI is absolutely SHITTY. This what amazes me most in the thing. Being unable to port Unix GUI, written on Motif (which is now even Open Source), for years. Shows

Re: bidi mozilla again

2001-01-04 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
TC BTW: the source was full of files with CR chars, which annoyed cpp on many TC occasions, and thus had to be removed. TC TC crlf from fixDos ( http://e.co.za/marius/downloads/misc/ ) proved to be TC very handy for the job. Actually, I guess perl -npi.bak -e 's/\r\n$/\n/g' would do the trick

Re: ipchains

2000-12-30 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
MZ For GPL, RMS is the copyright law. MZ MZ No it isn't. RMS has his legal counsel (a professor of law) issue his MZ opinions. If you think you opinions of law are worth more, you're MZ welcome to do whatever you want. I just think RMS's legal counsel MZ is pretty sound. Is that a problem for

Re: ipchains

2000-12-30 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AS That is necessary for copyleft. If you could take Linux and release it Sure. So be aware that any time you read "proprietary" in FSF texts, you should read "non-GPL", since GPL restricts not only more strict licenses, but also less strict. I understand why it's done, but let's be honest -

Re: ipchains

2000-12-29 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
NH What kind of judge is going to make a decision against a company NH when in a 100,000 line code, 50 lines "somehow distantly NH resemble" code from a GPLed program? If the developer only looks NH at the code, that's what going to happen - he won't suddenly NH have 10,000 lines identical to a

Re: ipchains

2000-12-28 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AS The same copyright system that disallows you to copy ripped MP3s AS disallows companies to make proprietary products out of GPLed AS software. Our copyright system is just fine. With our GPLed software the matter is pretty complicated. Generally, GPLed software is referred to as a "free

Re: ipchains

2000-12-28 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AS That's a common misconception. It should have been obvious, but AS somehow never is, that no amount of licensing trickery can make one AS program be considered a derivative work of an unrelated program. And See, this is an official position of RMS. I have quotes from him personally saying

Re: spoofing DNS..

2000-12-27 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AB I can't even believe we're really discussing this lame subject AB here. These lamo hacker wannabe kids questions don't belong on AB this list. You can discuss attack methods for two reasons - or you want to attack someone, or you want to protect yourself. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/

Re: ipchains

2000-12-26 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AO 1. the computer on 192.168.1.78(example) is up Nice. Most computers tend to be up when people are working. AO 2. It can receive connection to the ICQ port Wrong. Firewall won't let incoming connection in. It would only allow to receive UDP packets inside "virtual circuit" created by

Re: ipchains

2000-12-26 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AO Even if the CEO does. Seen any company that the users don't hold mp3s AO on their computers? It's illegal in the US and most startups are AO registered in the US. MP3 format is illegal in US? News for me. Is WAV going to be banned too? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels

Re: spoofing DNS..

2000-12-26 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
T lets say i want to connect to an irc server with a spoofed ip, can In most cases, you can't. Most cases of "IP spoofing on IRC" is really DNS spoofing. Real IP spoofing over TCP is pretty hard to do, and if you want to spoof more than one packet (i.e., maintain a real session), you need to be

RE: spoofing DNS..

2000-12-26 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
SB Those are I-lines.. not spoofing - hybrid has option to add an SB I-line for spoofing. I don't know about I-lines, etc. but I know pretty well DNS spoofing via cache poisoning is possible - have done that myself. If you are interested, just search "DNS cache poisoning" - there was a lot of

Re: ipchains

2000-12-25 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
NH So what? Unless you have a completely-proxy-firewall (block NH everything and allow only application proxies), whatever packets NH you let through (be they http, ftp, or icq) carry the IP address NH of the machine behind the firewall. But so what? If you use I give you address of a machine

Re: ipchains

2000-12-25 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AO The ICQ protocol reveals the real IP of the computer running the client, AO so even if you use GNU replacements it doesn't matter. AO This "feature" opens a window for "crackers" to use various firewall AO penetrating/piercing techniques. If the computer is behind the firewall, most chances

RE: ipchains

2000-12-25 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
S using ICQ remote attacker is able to make full port scan on networks behind S the firewall. How exactly one does that? Can you elaborate? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +972-3-9316425/\

Re: ipchains

2000-12-25 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AO But if icq.com(example) got my packet and know my "secret" intranet AO addresses Oh, yeah, those defined in top-secret RFC1918? 10.1.1.1? 10.10.1.1? 192.168.1.1? 172.16.1.1? Am I l33t haxx0r already? Guess how many pings is it going to take me to know each internet-accessible address on your

Re: bidi mozilla again

2000-12-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
IK there in the US. I wonder if we should start a major Bugzilla issue IK and make everyone vote for it, or maybe just flood Bugzilla with IK bugs such as "msn.co.il displays reversed" ? I'm ready to vote for it twice a day :) That's realy _only_ thing why I can't say "Mozilla is an usable

Re: MS internal network compromised

2000-10-29 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
SF According to this kind of logic, MS would actually want their code to be SF stolen. Let's get serious: if an open-source code implements something No. The loss would be much greater than the benefit. But if it's _already_ stolen anyway, why not to use it? SF a copyrighted code and use it for

Re: MS internal network compromised

2000-10-27 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AJ Apparantely, the Windows and MS Office source code was stolen (I'm not AJ joking here). AJ AJ Take a look at MSNBC: AJ http://www.msnbc.com/news/481927.asp Actually, this is very bad news. Now nothing stops Microsoft lawyers from twarting any compatibility effort not driven by Microsoft with

Re: MS internal network compromised

2000-10-27 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
HBH Since most of Linux applications are open source - they cannot HBH say it's stolen, cause if they'll say that - then they'll have HBH to show their code and prove that it's the same... Not at all. They will claim their IP was stolen and their code, obtained by illegal means, was used in the

Re: M$ ad

2000-10-21 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OH That's a new M$ advertisement in german, first one against Linux. OH http://www.koehntopp.de/kris/msad.jpg Anybody cares to translate what's actually written there? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone

Re: LGPL question

2000-10-18 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OZ While IANAL, my understanding of the situation is that LGPL was designed OZ exactly for such a situation. More interesting question. Let's say we have some open source non-GPL application, which uses LGPL-library. 1. Is such application legal? 2. Can LGPL library source be distibuted

Re: RH 7.0 infested with bugs?

2000-10-03 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
SB No. slackware does not use rpm by default nor redhat scripts. slackware SB uses simple .tgz packages, and simple BSD scripts. thats how linux should SB be ;) That's bull. Linux should have no packages and no scripts and no slackware. If you need some software, you code it yourself or download

Re: Logical - Visual Hebrew in Python

2000-09-14 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
IS Lingua::IW::Logical. Actually more like semi-broken - in some IS cases it works fine. Actually, it worked fine in most cases, but since there's more comprehensive implemntations, like FriBidi, I did not really find time to fix it to be 100% good. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall

RE: SuSE 7.0

2000-09-04 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
MS Some people may say Im wrong on this, but RH is getting awfully MS M$ftish. The dumb-user-approach saying "you don't really need to That's true. You don't _need_ to know. Information hiding is good, look at your software design guides. You still _can_ know, if you care. But average user is

Re: internel base64 decoder error

2000-09-03 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
TC And here I see: TC [Formatting error: Internal base64 decoder error] TC TC I'm using pine 4.21. Marc is using netscape 4.75. This is not the first TC time I can' read his messages sent to this list (although sometimes I TC can). That's because all Marc's mails get out in Base64, and mailing

Re: MySQL question

2000-08-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AJ According to the docs, MySQL listens for outside connections. AJ I'm going to use MySQL from the localhost, and I don't want it AJ to bind to the eth interface. Is there a way to restrict it to AJ the loopback interface? In /etc/my.cnf: [mysqld] skip-networking Prevents mysql from listening

Re: [RELIGIOUS OFFTOPIC] Re: Organizing a Linux Dinner

2000-08-22 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OZ The real issue is not Shabbat/non-Shabbat, but Yom Kippur vs. Shabbat vs. OZ non-Shabbat. Now that you said that I know at least two people that would insist on doing it on Yom Kippur because doing it any other day hurts their feelings... OZ There is no IGLU cabal. All former cabal members

Re: Organizing a Linux Dinner

2000-08-21 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OD I'm terribly sorry I had to interfer. I do not see why the code of OD behivour of religious people is less "davka" than of a secular person. I Because you and you comerades raiser a flamewar on the list (well, it really was a flamefest, since observant people just said one short phrase each),

Re: Organizing a Linux Dinner

2000-08-20 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
MZ I'm happy you agree my preferences not to eat kosher should be respected. This reminds me a history about two hilonim. One says to the second: "I go to the restaurant N this evening" - "But this is a glatt kosher restaurant!" - "Doesn't matter, I will eat only boiled eggs". Sorry for the

Re: A story about our Internet connection

2000-08-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
HBH http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12572.html Quote: Apparently, the fastest Internet connection you can currently find in Israel is ISDN, "a measly 128 Kbps". That's a lie. FR is available, and you can order FR more than 128K. And no, Bezeq isn't to blame. Why didn't I hear a word

Re: A story about our Internet connection

2000-08-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
BM Because no one can supply high speed internet now, because of legal BM problems. I don't believe if the cables have started it back in 90's the issue won't be resolved by now. But they started it when they felt satellites gonna eat their market and they need to stop being oligopoly and start

Re: Root Remote Login

2000-08-10 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
GSM So how can I allow the remote login as root to those GSM systems anyway? GSM Why? To allow remote logon of root is to ask for trouble. Why not just GSM su when needed. Or if you want to "do it right" install sudo. Install ssh. Do ssh -l root myremotehost. Be happy secure. -- [EMAIL

Re: what the fuck..... ?!?!?!?!

2000-08-01 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OM Yes, this is new distribution of Linux. OM ESR had succeded in pursuading MS that Linux is popular Intel OS. In OM addition to OM features listed on site, MS-Linux will feature: You forgot about Vigor - vi with Office paperclip. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
SS Suppose C++ has a great feature, which makes writing easily SS maintainable code a brease, but is not in the "official" OO SS specification. Obviously, C++ is not an OO language in that SS respect, but who cares? We can also suppose C++ hasn't some of features that are in "official" OO

Re: : Backup Solutions

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
n I wonder you didn't mention NetWorker product from Legato - n www.legato.com , that has the biggest installed base Worldwide, as n well as above 250 installations in Israel. The distributer of this Was I looking very bad or Legato solutions doesn't support Linux? At least, Networker has no

Re: C++ today (was Re: GTK 1.3.1)

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
VV Something that is widely implemented and followed, perhaps? You must mean Microsoft Office *ducks* *runs* *hides* VV No, sadly. You? ITYM "no, luckily". It isn't real flamewar unless it is over One True Standard. VV For some reason, I haven't saved the addresses of FUCKING VV

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
IA I was once told that in Scheme (and IANASP) an "if" statement is an IA object in itself. I'll be learning scheme next year and be able to tell Well, I don't know what for, but OK - I can imagine language where sytax constructs are objects. Even makes me curious. Good book on Scheme, anyone?

Re: C++ today (was Re: GTK 1.3.1)

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
IA Given enough time and resource - definitely. Having made entire DB IA solution in pure Javascript (no, it wasn't fun), I'm firm in this. IA IA now THAT sounds impressive. does it parse XML too? do publish it in IA OpenSource :-) No, it didn't (though I guess I might do that too, in limited

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
MZ Let me clarify the muddy waters: in no language I'm aware of, is "if" an MZ object. In most sane languages (Scheme, Python, Smalltalk), a boolean is MZ an object. In smalltalk, a boolean has a method called ifTrue which Ahh... that's boring. Just another way to write the same. -- [EMAIL

Re: OO no... here we gOO again...

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
IA OmerM started something... IA IA http://iglu.org.il:8080/Zen/SchemeBook IA No, I mean dead-tree book. The thing you can read while... let's say stuck in traffic jam on Jabotinsky street. Something like the Camel (or maybe the Llama) book. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be

Re: : : Backup Solutions

2000-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
n 2. Quick Link - Compatability Guides - Software Compatability Guide. Well, not too obvious path... Also, word "client" hints that server on Linux is non-existant? Then, it's not support. It's half-support. If I have Linux server, I want to backup it on Linux, not install another NT server. n

Re: OT: Who is Linus Torvalds named after?

2000-07-19 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
SF From what I read in an article some time ago, Linux Torvalds was named SF after the American Chemist Linus Pauling. But I heard from a different SF source that he was named after the character Linus from the cartoon strip SF "The Peanuts". Why not after second Pope Linus then? -- [EMAIL

Re: VPN's and linux...

2000-06-18 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
BS I'm trying to find out if anyone actually uses linux as a company's VPN... BS does it have the same functionality as Firewall-1 with VPN-1? (Checkpoint) In fact, I'm interested in the thing too. Our needs are simple: 1. Firewall opening some set of ports to reach from outside and as

Re: Consider banning KDE?

2000-06-17 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
NM Took me two days to realize GNOME is not nearly as stable as KDE1 is. NM While mostly, it works, various components (e.g., the help application) NM crash repeatedly and sometimes restarting X seems like the only NM option... Seems you have bugs in your X installation. Never saw GNOME lock X,

Re: The Myth of Open Source Security

2000-06-13 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AM Because they fixed so MANY holes, it isn't practical. What isn't practical, sending CC of CVS diff fixing the hole to maintainer of the tool? Or to bugtrack? Or publishing it on some page? Gimme break. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\

RE: The Myth of Open Source Security

2000-06-10 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
RS Try out OpenBSD http://openbsd.org/security.html for size RS (they claim Three years without a remote hole in the default install! Two RS years without a localhost hole in the default install!) What I don't like in OpenBSD is when someone discovers security hole they pop up and say "we've

Re: IGLU's uptime

2000-06-06 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AJ What is it with these UPS failures in ISPs? How come American ISPs offer AJ 99.9% uptime in hosting, while Israeli ISPs have a UPS failure evey few Actually, 99.9% uptime means 8 hours down per year, or 1 hour down every other month and then 2 hours to spare. And if UPS failure is corrected

Re: IGLU's uptime

2000-06-06 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AJ Such service that I could only wish for (or keep on dreaming)... AJ AJ [Just to make things clear: The price for a colocation in the US AJ is the same if not lower than the cost here. It's just the AJ service that's different]. In fact, I have a lot of positive experience with US services

Re: Should it scare us ?

2000-06-04 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
GY Should it scare us? I don't know. Although they profess to have ported GY "over 300 utilities and tools which behave exactly as they would on GY other UNIX-based systems", I doubt they included that feature that GY prevents the system from crashing every two hours. If you run exactly the same

Re: The Myth of Open Source Security

2000-06-01 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
SR For the sake of discussion, here is an interesting article on SR Open source security. Well, I guess all those articles just say one thing people should know from start: "There's no silver bullet". Like, no, Open Source is not silver bullet either. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall

Re: need 4 RH-6.2

2000-06-01 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
SHM NIS 30 is not too much if we were talking about a computer game, MS windows, SHM or anything else. SHM BUT, we are talking about linux, and teh most important thing in linux is SHM the fact that it shouldn't cost money. Oh, yeah? And then you would be insulted when someone says "Linux is for

Re: My distro is better ( was RE: need 4 RH-6.2)

2000-06-01 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
IA As the people in Aduva, and possibly all Debian addicts will tell you, IA "Kakha lo bonim khoma". Red Hat is a mishmash of packages which are too Yeah. And if you ask Hapoel fans about how good Maccabi plays, you'd get best opinion available :) IA often badly coordinated with suboptimal

Re: add and copy a partition

2000-05-29 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
MZ Any real language (as opposed to glorified assemblers (C++) or macro MZ processors (Tcl/bash)) has a built-in serialize and deserialize mechanism: MZ Java (implements serializable) MZ Python (pickle) MZ Perl (Data::Dumper) MZ Scheme (write) BTW, there are language-independent serialization

Re: Q: Interesting memory usage stat's

2000-05-29 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
IK Now, how my Linux manages to go into 2MB swap, with 160MB physical RAM, IK 70MB of them in buffers is still a mystery to me ... yet another IK optimization consideration? :) Very simple. Unused processes are better in swap. Look how many mgetty's you have? How ofter you use them? What about

Re: Q: Interesting memory usage stat's

2000-05-28 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
NF 1) Why is memory usage so high when it shouldn't be? NF Note: looking at the process that are running (most httpd), they don't NF amount to much more that 30mb. Actually, in ideal case memory usage should be 100%. Why you need memory that isn't used? If it isn't used by the processes, OS

Re: Q: Interesting memory usage stat's

2000-05-28 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
IA the problem is that many times the netscape process leaks over 200Meg of IA swap, but it remains "used" once I kill the process. the RAM is freed, IA but the machine is heavy as hell because it won't free up the swap and IA swap back in all the other apps. IA any idea how I force the machine

Re: ANNOUNCE: fribidi-0.1.12

2000-05-21 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
ST http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/1255.htm ST ST It's not for iso8859-8, which I don't think has LRM and RLM, but On my Unicode CD, there's no LRM and RLM in 8859-8. But that was 2.0 CD, maybe there were changes since then... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels

Re: ANNOUNCE: fribidi-0.1.12

2000-05-21 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
EM Unicode and ISO-8859-8 are "competing" standards, so I wouldn't expect EM Unicode to include 8859-8... Er? So what that 8859-8.txt file on my Unicode CD really is? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone

Re: KRUD

2000-05-19 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
EM Does anybody have any experience with this distro? Is it better/safer EM to install and use the latest version of it in comparison with the EM original RH6.2? I Installed 6.0 from KRUD, IIRC. The same as RH only some RPMS are updated (from RH updates, I guess) and some are added (don't

Re: Motif is now Open Source

2000-05-17 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
DM http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/ Ah, I know. They decided to copy glaring success of Mozilla project. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +972-3-9316425/\ JRRT LotR.

Re: Not so IGLU related question 2

2000-05-06 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
VV Mount a filesystem via NFS and patch the kernel on the NFS server VV to serve different signatures on that inode. signaturefs anyone? With hierarchical signature namespace (you do want different signatures for different outgoing lists?), signature attributes, etc., etc. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE and GNOME - some reality check..

2000-05-06 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
gk 2. from my experience, KDE works more stable then gnome does (it is too gkcommon for gnome applets to get the gnome panel stuck). since gkenlightenment also didn't manage to work on my PC - i gave up on gnome. Never saw both effects. I've seen occasionally GNOME apps crash (ohmygawd,

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