Re: Linux distro for new user with Hebrew support and open office

2005-11-07 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:09:44PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: On Sunday, 6 בNovember 2005 09:32, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 08:05:03AM +0200, Aaron wrote: would I gain something from ubuntu? I'd like to amplify Marc's answer. Ubuntu is sort of the Windows of Linux.

Re: A Conundrum: weird load average

2005-11-07 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 01:05:39PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: Another weird thing is that a quick calculation would have the VIRT usage of the system very close to the total memory available (1GB physical + 1GB swap), yet the top output above shows more then half of memory to be available(!).

Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
Check: http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html for a petition I set up for Nvidia to release open-source drivers. Please sign it, and help spread the word. Regards, Shlomi Fish - Shlomi Fish [EMAIL

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
nVidia already contributes to the open source nv driver. A couple of months ago I spoke to the lead nVidia Linux driver developer about opening their driver, and he claims that even if nVidia wanted to, it is bound by a number of NDAs that prevents it from releasing a full open source driver.

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:19:46PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: With a little bit of luck, the FOSS community may persuade nVidia to release bigger chunks of their driver. (Currently only a small part of the drivers, the kernel glue is semi-open and can be modified) Not intending to start a

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:49:51AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Check: http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html for a petition I set up for Nvidia to release open-source drivers. Please sign it, and help spread the word. How many people read it and commented before spreading it?

Re: pppd and EMC clariion cx300

2005-11-07 Thread Noam Meltzer
Hi Edward, The connection speed is 115200. I use a standard serial cable (which works perfectly when I use windows to the clariion). I tried many commands according to the various PPP howtos/faqs. Basically what I tried to run is something like: pppd -detach crtscts lock defaultroute

[OT] editaste, a social bookmarking site: Call for editors

2005-11-07 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, Imagine that you have a site, which you enter, and immediately get of links to the latest *interesting* threads in some high-volume newsgroup, a *relevant* security alert, some *funny* cartoons and a really *nice* blog entry. That's what editaste tries to create. Impossible, you

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
I understand your point. But as it stands, I rather have half open driver that works and gives me Windows-like OpenGL performance then have a fully-open driver that doesn't support acceleration (nv) or worse, nothing at all. Gilboa On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:40 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On ב', 2005-11-07 at 11:49 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Check: http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html for a petition I set up for Nvidia to release open-source drivers. Please sign it, and help spread the word. This puts it better than plain words:

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:20:56PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: I understand your point. But as it stands, I rather have half open driver that works and gives me Windows-like OpenGL performance then have a fully-open driver that doesn't support acceleration (nv) or worse, nothing at all. That

Fwd: Microsoft says Linux is cutting edge

2005-11-07 Thread Amos Shapira
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id%3B754084996%3Bfp%3B2%3Bfpid%3B1 quote Sunjeev Pandey, senior director of Microsoft IT, said the company is pleased to be partnering with Aruba in the upgrade of Microsoft's next-generation wireless LAN. This partnership will allow Microsoft to

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 07 November 2005 12:40, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:19:46PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: With a little bit of luck, the FOSS community may persuade nVidia to release bigger chunks of their driver. (Currently only a small part of the drivers, the kernel glue is

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
Before we go into an all out war, may I suggest what I suggested to the said nVidia dev? Open -all- the generic code (AKA kernel interfaces, etc) creating a fully open driver and push all the NDA'ed stuff into a closed source pluggable module. (Which they already have - the nVidia libGL library)

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:52:43PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: Before we go into an all out war, may I suggest what I suggested to the said nVidia dev? Open -all- the generic code (AKA kernel interfaces, etc) creating a fully open driver and push all the NDA'ed stuff into a closed source

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 15:12 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:52:43PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: Before we go into an all out war, may I suggest what I suggested to the said nVidia dev? Open -all- the generic code (AKA kernel interfaces, etc) creating a fully

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:07:13PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: In short, in my view, hopefully someone, somehow will find a way in- between * without starting yet another holly war (against nVidia) which we have no hope to win. (It's much easier for them to stop supporting Linux/BSD

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
I'm not saying that nVidia is perfect. Far from it. I am saying that we should try to get the get a better closed source driver with a bigger open source glue, so you can use attach the GF256 capable 4 year old driver working with a newer kernel, simply by modifying the open-source part of the

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 07 November 2005 12:38, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:49:51AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Check: http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html for a petition I set up for Nvidia to release open-source drivers. Please sign it, and help spread the

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 07 November 2005 13:18, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On ב', 2005-11-07 at 11:49 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Check: http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html for a petition I set up for Nvidia to release open-source drivers. Please sign it, and help spread the word.

Re: Linux distro for new user with Hebrew support and open office

2005-11-07 Thread Oded Arbel
On Monday 07 November 2005 10:46, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: KDE is IMHO inappropriate for the title of good desktop for Unixy OS for another set of reasons; the worst is that they refuse to integrate with the rest of the Unixy OS; for example, in matters around internationalisation, which

errors reading CD image on DVD burner

2005-11-07 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, My setup: Debian Sarge on AMD Athlon (32bit). DVD burner: LG GSA-4163B CD Burner: LG GCE-8520B I use KDE and K3B to manage the burners. In order to verify that the copying is correct, I did it in multiple steps - 1. create an image on the disk. 2. mount image and cd, run diff -r 3. umount

midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-07 Thread David Harel
Hi all, I am trying to set midi no my laptop using midi howtos. It has an ESS Maestro 3 ES1983s sound card. I can here music. I tried to check if this card is supported in http://www.4front-tech.com/osshw.html It seems in general that the card is supported but I didn't find ES1093s

Re: Linux distro for new user with Hebrew support and open office

2005-11-07 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:46:11PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: On Monday 07 November 2005 10:46, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: KDE is IMHO inappropriate for the title of good desktop for Unixy OS for another set of reasons; the worst is that they refuse to integrate with the rest of the Unixy OS;

Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-07 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On ב', 2005-11-07 at 20:48 +0200, David Harel wrote: It seems in general that the card is supported but I didn't find ES1093s specifically. I configured the kernel to have oss and midi loopback (modules sound.o and v_midi.o) and I get kmid to start (before that it said it can't open

Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-07 Thread Aaron
Did you check alsa? What distro are you running? oss is lame I have much joy from alsa. Also if it is supported in alsa there will be good docs on how to get it running. That said for rpm based systems read the information on planet CCRMA at home for debian based systems read the above but use

Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-07 Thread Maxim Kovgan
On ב', 2005-11-07 at 20:48 +0200, David Harel wrote: Hi all, I am trying to set midi no my laptop using midi howtos. It has an ESS What exactly are you willing to do ? is it for controlling a MIDI device ? just to play midi files ? to use internal MIDI device ? Maestro 3 ES1983s

Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-07 Thread David Harel
Thanks for your reply. Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On ב', 2005-11-07 at 20:48 +0200, David Harel wrote: It seems in general that the card is supported but I didn't find ES1093s Can you play regular sound files? Yep. If your card doesn't have an internal MIDI synthesizer, you'd have to

Re: midi on kernel 2.4.

2005-11-07 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On ב', 2005-11-07 at 21:51 +0200, David Harel wrote: If your card doesn't have an internal MIDI synthesizer, you'd have to use a software synthesizer. For this, I've successfully used Timidity in its 'ALSA sequencer client' configuration. I never checked but timidity might also have an

Re: [hackers-il] Need Personal Loans so I can Collect Online Donations

2005-11-07 Thread Orna Agmon
DEAR SHLOMI, MY NAME IS MS ORNA AGMON. I wanted to inform you that the Nigerian scam already has a special folder in my spam folder, and that my spam filter claims that you got your text a bit wrong. You are cross posting in order to publically ask the public to create a fraud of the bank?

HosAPd and ZyDAS?

2005-11-07 Thread Ira Abramov
I just got a wireless laptop and since I already had a Zydas usb wifi dongle, I thought I'd run an AP for myself on my Linux. I apt-got the drivers, said goodbye to my 62 day uptime and rebooted to 2.6.14. the zd1211 module is installed, but now I see that the hostapd config suggests it's not

Re: HosAPd and ZyDAS?

2005-11-07 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On ג', 2005-11-08 at 02:22 +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: I just got a wireless laptop and since I already had a Zydas usb wifi dongle, I thought I'd run an AP for myself on my Linux. I apt-got the drivers, said goodbye to my 62 day uptime and rebooted to 2.6.14. the zd1211 module is installed, but

Re: [hackers-il] Need Personal Loans so I can Collect Online Donations

2005-11-07 Thread Marc A. Volovic
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 22:52 +0200, Orna Agmon wrote: DEAR SHLOMI, MY NAME IS MS ORNA AGMON. [snip] Orna. Dear Mz. Agmon, What a horrid and nasty post you made. You absolutely lack ANY sense of humour, human and human feelings as well as even an inkling of the rediculous. Can you not get it

Need Personal Loans so I can Collect Online Donations

2005-11-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi good people! Throughout the years I have created (and still am creating) many useful and free-as-in-speech digital resources: open source software, a home site with many resources, presentations about various topics (including Perl for Perl Newbies), essays, articles and fictitious stories.

Re: [hackers-il] Need Personal Loans so I can Collect Online Donations

2005-11-07 Thread Gadi Evron
Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi good people! Throughout the years I have created (and still am creating) many useful and free-as-in-speech digital resources: open source software, a home site with many resources, presentations about various topics (including Perl for Perl Newbies), essays, articles