Re: Forthcoming Blitz of Announcements

2003-08-24 Thread linux-il
As far as GUI's are concerned, I'm still trying to recover from seeing the Mac OS-X on a 17 Powerbook :-). When will KDE/Gnome/Anything-opensource-on-linux will match that interface? Aviram Jenik wrote: have an as-you-type spell checker which will (IMO) set a new UI standard. Eat your heart out

Re: Mysterious Disconnects with Cable Internet

2003-08-24 Thread linux-il
We've been through a similar discussion and people back then also suggested the ping method. I wonder what's wrong with maxfail 0+persist? It works for me for a few months now (not that my line is flaky, but I noticed that if and when it fails the line gets recovered without my intervention. I

Re:

2003-08-26 Thread linux-il
Hi Harmeet, I'd recommand you to start at http://www.tldp.org/ (The Linux Documentation Project) and dig from there. You are also likely to find good books about the internals of the Linux kernel both on-line and off-line (e.g. Amazon). And last but not least, google.com is your friend here too,

Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming Blitz of Announcements)

2003-08-30 Thread linux-il
I have multiple desktops on my Linux machine and found this feature to be much more convenient - don't have to keep jumping from one desktop to another, can find and switch among windows in the same desktop quickly, can overview my desktop easely, the shrinking and the reverse operation keep the

Re: Hebrew support in fvwm

2003-09-02 Thread linux-il
Nadav Har'El wrote: Actually, the protest *is* working. Yesterday my officemate saw one of those protest sites, and asked me what it was. It turned out that he didn't know Good on you! You have just described what I consider to be one of the best end results I would expect from this protest -

Re: Cost of qt development license

2003-09-03 Thread linux-il
guy keren wrote: that into account. assuming the GUI library is not thread-safe, you'll need to make sure you perform all GUI operations from within one thread only - this requires some 'thread-to-thread' delegation mechanism - not hard to implement, but requires _some_ time. Why is

Re: Cost of qt development license

2003-09-03 Thread linux-il
Thanks. Reminds me how long it was since I last played with this stuff (Motif on IRIX circa 1996-7). guy keren wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: guy keren wrote: that into account. assuming the GUI library is not thread-safe, you'll need to make sure you perform all GUI

Re: Hamakor bumper stickers

2003-09-04 Thread linux-il
Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: Yez! I've finally used linguistics on this list ;-). Next step - write a program to do this for you :). --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in

Re: http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian/dists/testing

2003-09-05 Thread linux-il
Why not? You are talking about debian Testing, which as far as I know goes through a little more filtering, and if nothing has changed then there is no point in re-building Packages.gz Also, as far as I can tell, the date you quote actually reflects the date at the original site (so the mirror

Re: The captain is a saint when compared to the vice president of finance Meir Shitrit ...

2003-09-07 Thread linux-il
Has it occurred to anyone that such a state of secrecy about Oded's Forum (whatever that is) could indicate that it's actually some sort of a Fifth Column sponsored by Microsoft in order to smear its opponent's standing? (OK, OK, OK, so it sounds paranoid, but I can't manage to stop wondering

Re: `date' and `hwclock'

2003-09-08 Thread linux-il
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: retrieve it with `date' and not with `hwclock' (I'm using NTP and syncronizing the time with NTP, then updating the hardware clock can be a pain). Do you use ntpdate once in a while or do you run the ntp daemon all the time? If you have an NTP daemon running and connected

Re: Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE)

2003-09-09 Thread linux-il
Rony Shapiro wrote: What about cvs -qn up -r bugfix16? Exactly my point - you have to define a label bugfix16, and adhere to that naming convention. What if someone creates a label BugFix18? The system does not enforce any policy - you need the discipline to adhere to naming conventions,

Re: Debian rsync problems

2003-09-09 Thread linux-il
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: My true suggestion is to raise the problem on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll probably do that. That's actually the information I was really looking for. I'm not sure it's the right forum, but there is a debian-mirrors moderated mailing list

Call for votes - vote for your favourite OpenOffice issue

2003-09-10 Thread linux-il
Hello, I've just noticed that it's possible to vote for your favourite issues at the OpenOffice.org issues database and wanted to point this option out to others, so issues we are more concerned with might get ahead in the queue. (I'm writing this because only today I noticed that voting is

Re: [OT] Digital Cameras and Linux

2003-09-12 Thread linux-il
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found that the best way to use a digital camera is to treat the memory cards as film. You buy several of them acording to your needs and replace one when it gets full. What's wrong with dumping files onto a hard

snmp agent for linux sought (was: Re: )

2003-09-17 Thread linux-il
The first thing that comes up to mind when SNMP+Free is mentioned is the CMU snmp package. I think the following is a good startting point about it: http://www.net.cmu.edu/groups/netdev/software.html Looking up the UCD SNMP project I found the following: http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/ In short -

Re: Protocol Stack writing

2003-09-17 Thread linux-il
There was a mentioning of a mailing list about programming called Israel Hackers or Hacker IL or something like this. Try looking it up, maybe start with the archives of linux-il because this is were I heard about this list. Harmeet Uppal wrote: Howdy All, I have an urgent need to make a three

Re: linux support companies in Israel

2003-09-18 Thread linux-il
Gil Freund wrote: Gabor Szabo wrote: Freedom ? Not in the Israeli business vocabulary... Before one hails and advocates OSS one has to educated for better IT thinking: Find out what the business requirement are. Strip out MS-talk (mail and scheduling instead of exchange...). List the true

Re: Running rhn_register

2003-09-18 Thread linux-il
110 is the errno number (/usr/include/asm/errno.h): #define ETIMEDOUT 110 /* Connection timed out */ Ori Idan wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 10:28 pm, Lior Kaplan wrote: Sound likes the FW. Port 110??? (yes, I know that's pop3 port). That's what I thought but since this

Re: Running rhn_register

2003-09-18 Thread linux-il
Are you aware of the requirement to download manually the up2date package, as described in a light-blue box at the top of https://rhn.redhat.com/? --Amos Ori Idan wrote: I try to run rhn_register on a remote machine. I get the following error: A socket error occured: (110, 'Connection timed

Re: Running rhn_register

2003-09-20 Thread linux-il
I've seen somewere in up2date or rhn configs that there are both http and https (or secure and non-secure) options, maybe you can try telling rhn to use the http protocol? I haven't found how to tell rhn to do this, but I guess it can be done. Ori Idan wrote: RHN uses port 443 (https). I

Re: risk-aversion and the IT market

2003-09-22 Thread linux-il
Gabor Szabo wrote: In relation to our previous discussion about the use of FOSS[1] in Israel, why not approach it from the basic assumption that IT managers are risk averters. Just a few days ago there was a quote of a guy from CA(?) saying that Israelis are pragmatists and will usually adopt new

Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-22 Thread linux-il
I have the great pleasure to help someone try Linux and am not sure which distro will demo to him Linux capabilities for his needs better. That guy is a native English speaker (so I suppose an English interface would suite hime better) but his job is technical writing and journalism in Hebrew, so

Re: Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-22 Thread linux-il
What are its advantages over Kinneret or Knoppix? As far as I know it, it's just a Knoppix with Israel as a default locale, which is not an advantage over the base Knoppix (as I said, the guy is a native English speaker, so an English interface might be actually better for him) Cheers, --Amos

Re: Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-22 Thread linux-il
Thanks for all the replies and descriptions. I think I'll recommand Knoppix: 1. It's based on KDE, which already has good Hebrew support as it is today (as opposed to Gnoppix, which I dunno how's its Hebrew support). 2. Its edges are smoother than what was said about Kazit and friends. 3. Its

Re: which ISO?

2003-09-23 Thread linux-il
Shlomo Yona wrote: What does NONUS stand for? None U.S. - code which cannot be exported from the US and therefore has to reside on servers outside the U.S. What about the other ISO files there? These are files which can be exported from the U.S. You shouldn't have to pre-download them if you can

Re: Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-23 Thread linux-il
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Oops, I left out one important factor regarding Hebrew support: fonts. Does knoppix include culmus? In the default (font)config? Yeh right - I was wondering about this too but forgot to ask - are there good Hebrew fonts on Knoppix? --Amos

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread linux-il
Nadav Har'El wrote: :) It appears you have better connections with them - you might have better luck. Javascript is powerful enough as it is, there's no need to use IE- specific stuff... I'd second that. And yet, Mapa chose to charge 204 shekels per year for an online subscription. Compare that

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread linux-il
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: Actually, the map (applet) works in any JVM - the issue is that the So could I try to just find the files downloaded with IE and run them with AppletRunner (or whatever it's called)? --Amos = To

Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread linux-il
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: Mapa do have a mapa2go service for Palms, although I don't believe it features the actual maps. Telmap, on the other hand, is working on exactly that - mobile (in car) navigation. I don't know exactly when an I just remembered - Mapa used to have Destinator years

Re: [OT] Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread linux-il
Nadav Har'El wrote: All they needed to do when they opened the online version is to do some format conversions, build a server farm, create some customer-tracking mechanism (passwords, credit cards, whatever) and create some scripts to display those maps online. Perhaps they also needed to buy

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-25 Thread linux-il
Dan Fruehauf wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2003 02:42, Sagi Bashari wrote: Hello, I have a sollution which confronts the problem in a totally different way. Given the time and resources, what you can do is connect both servers to a NAS switch, mapping them the same storage. It's a possible

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-25 Thread linux-il
Sagi Bashari wrote: It's a possible solution, but: 1. The NAS is still a single point of failure. 2. They are talking about having a server at a different location, so they'll need to replicate the NAS as well. We would like to do this with our current hardware at this stage, we already have

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-25 Thread linux-il
Dan Fruehauf wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it was probably my mistake, i said NAS, but i meant SAN (Storage Area Network). But still, wouldn't that keep the NAS as a single point of failure? Or is the NAS implemented by some HA cluster of servers? Also,

Re: Israeli NTP server with support for Day Light Savings

2003-09-25 Thread linux-il
Vadim Vygonets wrote: Quoth Shachar Shemesh on Thu, Sep 25, 2003: NTP gives out the time in UTC/GMT/Zulu/whatever they call it now. To be precise, timezone is irrelevant in context of NTP. To be even more precise - *LOCAL* timezone is irrelevant, but NTP must keep the time in SOME

Re: mail origin verification

2003-09-26 Thread linux-il
Alon Altman wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Maxim K. wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: maybe Welcome to Life? : I don't understand what is the problem making this with a regular mail. you can always write the source address whatever you want, but the stamps will discover which post

Re: pppoe + ppp's asyncmap 0, RFC 2516, Debian, Actcom.

2003-09-26 Thread linux-il
I am connected from Debian through Actcom (PPPoE, Samsung's blue iron ethernet ADSL modem) and don't have asyncmap 0 in my dsl-provider file. The closest I get to mention asyncmap is a comment-out of default-asyncmap. Besides, according to the pppd manual multiple asyncmap's are OR'ed, so there

Video-In/Video-out cards for Linux - is it for real?

2003-09-26 Thread linux-il
I've just bought a Gigabyte Radeon 9000 Pro AGP card for my new Linux box. It supports only video-out which I didn't expect to bother me but now that I see that there are several packages for debian to handle Video-In as well I suspect I might miss it. (apt-cache search vdr gives (pruned list):

Re: Video-In/Video-out cards for Linux - is it for real?

2003-09-28 Thread linux-il
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 03:59:44AM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: You can't go wrong with a BT powered card, but also check USB frame grabbers - Ah! I like the USB framegrabber idea. I like modular options. Thanks. --Amos = To

Re: mail origin verification

2003-09-28 Thread linux-il
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 04:33:11PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: (I don't recall touching mod_proxy, can anyone show me what a virgin apache config file looks like?) apache installed from a deb? Does downloading the deb and extracting the default config files out of it don't work? Nope.

Re: A virgin apache config file.

2003-09-29 Thread linux-il
Shaul Karl wrote: What about /usr/share/doc/apache/examples ? It's just an example. Not necessarily the original config file. Perhaps you have /etc/apache/*.dpkg-dist ? I sometimes do a find /etc -name *.dpkg-* and handle the redundant files. No such file. Thanks, --Amos

Re: linux.org.il - help wanted

2003-09-30 Thread linux-il
guy keren wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: the only question to ask is - are we (iglu) letting go of the linux.org.il domain in favor of such a neutral entry page? this is the question that should have been asked - lets not do this change like thieves in the night. and my vote

Re: Mozilla and internet banking

2003-10-01 Thread linux-il
Hi, I use FIBI (First International Bank) with Mozilla 1.4. Try looking up the archives of linux-il, the subject was already discussed a few months ago, though things might have changed since. Sorry I cant remember the subject of the discussion, I think it was about Israeli sites standard

Re: Hebrew Keyboard in Knoppix

2003-10-02 Thread linux-il
shlomi wrote: I couldn't find it anywhere in the web so i had to build it myself. i guess i'll use if for next Kazit since it's less buggy than the usual KDE switcher. Why not stick to the X level? Isn't it the rightest way to go? --Amos

Re: Search engine for http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il ?

2003-10-08 Thread linux-il
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 19:45, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: It seems Evgeny's archives are HTML only, and are therefor totally non-portable. Oh! Com'on, this is Open Source we are talking about! Nothing is impossible. Evgeny - would you send me a sample HTML file and I'll try

Re: OpenVPN, from the 1st of October supports Win32

2003-10-09 Thread linux-il
Oded Arbel wrote: I'm using OpenVPN to create a tunnel from my workstation to my home computer so I can get in the office network from home (because I couldn't get the RH only linux SecureRemote client to work, and that's what my company uses), and Hmm, that's exactly the situation I have to

Re: Please recommend linux sites

2003-10-12 Thread linux-il
Alon Altman wrote: Hi, We are building the branding for the Haifux distro based on RH9. We are looking for Hebrew linux sites and useful English sites to include in the bookmarks of the installed system. We currently have the following sites (including sponsors): [...]

Re: A story from ynet has been sent to you

2003-10-14 Thread linux-il
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 17:43, Oded Arbel wrote: The only valid point here (except for the general concept which is also very valid) is that maybe by buying MS products the government supports an agresive monopol which counters accepted goals of compatability and striving for an open market

Israel to join the Madrid Protocol of the World Intellectual Property Organization

2003-10-15 Thread linux-il
According to the following item in Globes: http://www.globes.co.il/serve/globes/docView.asp?did=731854 Israel is about to join the Madrid Protocol of the World Intellectual Property Organization. The item talks only about registration of trade marks (which sounds fair to me - the trademark owner

Re: RTL page layout in OOo calc?

2003-10-15 Thread linux-il
Are you aware that the latest for Sid is 1.1.0-1? (no need for that beta site at ftp.freenet.de if that's were you got yours). As far as I can remember from the excel files I opened lately the issue is still not addressed in 1.1.0 final. You should really look it up in the IssueZilla and vote for

Re: ADSL - What is the current recommendation?

2003-10-19 Thread linux-il
Out of curiousity, what about the US Robitics aDSL router? Excelnet sells them for about 900 NIS, which is a lot of money for one's home, but not much for a business. Out of curiosity too - how reliable is it to buy any ADSL modem abroad in order to use it in Israel? What should be looked for?

Re: ADSL - What is the current recommendation?

2003-10-19 Thread linux-il
Tal, Shachar wrote: There are many xDSL standards: ADSL (Asymmetric DSL), SDSL (Symmetric DSL), DSL Lite, DSLAM, G.Lite, HDSL, IDSL, RADSL, UDSL, VDSL and more. However, AFAIK, each standard is exactly that - a standard. Yes, I'm aware of all the others. I was talking only about ADSL. --Amos

Re: ADSL - What is the current recommendation?

2003-10-19 Thread linux-il
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention that while ADSL may be a standard, that doesn't mean much - to really use it you still need to know what your tunneling protocol is, authentication scheme, etc, etc, etc. And all this before we even begin to talk about different implementations of that

Re: filesystem for database box

2003-10-19 Thread linux-il
Can the RDBMS engine you chose handle raw partitions? If so, how would that compare to a filesystem? (and which RDBMS do you intend to use?) (and what type of application is it? Online transaction processing (a.k.a. OLTP) or batch processing a-la data warehouse?) Maxim K. wrote: Hello, Linux

Re: ADSL - What is the current recommendation?

2003-10-19 Thread linux-il
Aviram Jenik wrote: AFAIK if your MERKAZYIA supports pppoe (most of them do now), you should be ok As far as I learned about this - PPPoE vs. PPTP has nothing to do with the telco's exchange. PPPoE and PPTP are used only between the computer and the modem, once the data reaches the modem it (the

Help making Radeon 9000 work with XFree 4.3.0

2003-10-19 Thread linux-il
with this driver than without it (about 500 fps). I've put some relevant files and program outputs at: http://192.117.105.145/xfree-linux-il-question-031019 Any help or hints would be greatly appreciated, Thanks, --Amos = To unsubscribe, send

Re: ADSL - What is the current recommendation?

2003-10-19 Thread linux-il
On Monday 20 October 2003 02:02, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:13:43PM +0200, Oleg Kobets wrote: So maybe it's a good option to open an account at www.mastop.co.il and create US address. I used this service myself and it is quite good, considering that many

Re: Help making Radeon 9000 work with XFree 4.3.0

2003-10-20 Thread linux-il
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: I don't like to give consultation on non free software, but I'll try to help Thanks. What are other options if I want to get the most out of my hardware? I did a lot of googling over the last month since I bought this hardware and am still confused. If I get it right

Re: ADSL - What is the current recommendation?

2003-10-20 Thread linux-il
Dov Grobgeld wrote: Thanks for this and all the other recommendations. In the end I decided to upgrade to 750kBaud ADSL and take the Bezeq provided ECI 270PR router. I let them now my discontent about having to buy a faster connection (and paying more) than I need only because I am using Linux,

Re: Resoulotion mandating the use of Open Standarts in government communications proposed by ISOC, Hamakor and Microsoft

2003-10-20 Thread linux-il
I concur. Is there any road map in that area and if so - what's the next goal? --Amos Rony Shapiro wrote: Total agreement - Arguably, the most important thing the Amuta has done this year (so far...). Bravo! Rony = To

Re: AOL doesn't accept mail - free relaying of email

2003-10-21 Thread linux-il
Arik Baratz wrote: -Original Message- From: Herouth Maoz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Great. I don't know which ISPs AOL blocks, but I assume based on my own past spams that these include Internet Zahav, Netvision, 012, Actcom, and if I'm not mistaken, Barak. Now tell me which viable option

Re: ADSL - What is the current recommendation?

2003-10-22 Thread linux-il
Gil Freund wrote: Oleg Kobets wrote: Yeah, I did it once (turning Alcatel to PPPoE). It worked great until I discovered that it has some issues with redialing. I mean, after (for some reason) the connection drops, it has some bug with reconnecting. At least that's my experience. More likely a

Success - Re: Help making Radeon 9000 work with XFree 4.3.0

2003-10-22 Thread linux-il
Thanks for everyone for their pointers and help. Boris Ratner wrote: 0. Radeon 9000 (imho) IS supported by http://dri.sf.net check it out - they have a whole XFree86-dri server tree for debian sid with all of the drivers inside. (you don't have to recompile your kernel at all if this works)

Re: mount --bind, idebus questions

2003-10-22 Thread linux-il
Matan Ziv-Av wrote: This is wrong. The reason it appears to work is either: 1. The driver ignores this option. 1. It only affects PIO modes, and you probably use UDMA mode. 2. The driver only accepts reasonable values. The actual meaning of this paramater is the clock of the bus the IDE

Re: mount --bind, idebus questions (fwd)

2003-10-22 Thread linux-il
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 19:02, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: I know the feeling. :-) The way to check (and set) IDE parameters is with hdparm: 18:58:09:~# hdparm -v /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on)

Re: Help making Radeon 9000 work with XFree 4.3.0

2003-10-23 Thread linux-il
On Thursday 23 October 2003 02:02, Boris Ratner wrote: IMHO you should compile DRM and RADEON as modules so you will be able to load fglrx(ati proprietry module) instead of kernels RADEON drm module In that way you will be able to compare the two drivers. Just don't forget to make the

Re: Cable Internet Disconnects - The Saga Continues...

2003-10-23 Thread linux-il
Hmm, interesting. What do your routing table look like? Do you see anything in the system logs? Are you running stuff which manipulates them dynamically? What's connecting your Linux to the modem? Ethernet? --Amos Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi All, My Cable Internet continues to disconnect

ALSA on nVidia board

2003-10-23 Thread linux-il
Hello, I am trying to make ALSA (kernel 2.4.22) work on my Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1 AMD motherboard and am running out of ideas of what next to do. I've been following various FAQ's, HOWTO's, most successfully (in terms of not failing, and programs claim that they succeed playing audio) the ones at:

Re: ALSA on nVidia board

2003-10-24 Thread linux-il
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, If you have read the ALSA instructions - you really don't need to compile all the drivers - just PCI, and your driver that is needed.. I did this after getting tired from trying to guess which card I need, I wasn't sure that it's the i810. Could you supply please the

Bank Hapoalim - was: Re: Mozilla, Internet Banking and Bank Otsar Ha-Hayal: summary

2003-10-30 Thread linux-il
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:21:46PM -0500, Guy Baruch wrote: Several people mentioned that Otsar Ha-Hayal is subsidiary of Hapoalim, and the URL is the same. Speaking of Bank Hapoalim, last night I tried to enter it with Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 and managed to login but the menu bars on the

Re: Partitioning a big drive

2003-10-31 Thread linux-il
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it? Constraints: * I use Linux, so NTFS is not an

Re: working directory

2003-11-02 Thread linux-il
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: untested, but should work, modulu error handling: APP=`which app` DIR=`dirname $APP` cd $DIR echo $DIR $APP etc I thoough the standard way to get APP in the context of the snippet above is to use $0, which as far as I remember is what Sun's java startup scripts use (no

Opening links in Thunderbird mail

2003-11-14 Thread linux-il
Hi, I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 (20031105) on Debian unstable as my mail client. When clicking on URL's with HTTP method nothing happens. I have to copy the link and paste it manually to an open window of Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1. What I'd like to happen is pretty trivial - when I click on a

Re: [OT] OSS lint-type static checker?

2003-11-16 Thread linux-il
Me and a friend have looked such a thing up and down the net for quite a while but so far haven't found anything. The only thing we found that gives such a funcionality is PC-Lint for windows, which is proprietary (and saved my previous workplace its money's worth tenfold in amount of work time).

Re: [OT] OSS lint-type static checker?

2003-11-16 Thread linux-il
Hmm, thanks for the pointer. Still costs a fortune, but at least there is something available if we'll really need it. The valgrind stuff seems to address a completly different set of programming errors, I don't think it can completly replace static source code analysis. Oded Arbel wrote: 16

Re: [OT] OSS lint-type static checker?

2003-11-17 Thread linux-il
I've found it too yesterday. It appears that they are concentrating on security rather than correctness - maybe that's why their warnings were meaningless in your case, and since they don't support C++ (at least according to the site) I'd expect they wouldn't catch many C++ language-related

Re: REPOST: OOo and niqud

2003-11-19 Thread linux-il
Arie Folger wrote: I posted the following a few weeks ago, with no response. Searching on OOo's site produced no results. Do list members have any info? I use OOo 1.1rc3. It is great, except niqud isn't displayed properly, with the vowel points being displayed as separate letters, and I can't

Re: Mail and Hebrew

2003-11-21 Thread linux-il
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: BTW: mozilla does not support reading from a local spool, which makes using a fetchmail/procmail/spamassasin combination problematic. My recomendation is in my signature. I use IMAP (to be precise - courier imap daemon over ssl), so I can switch between a local thunderbird,

Re: Mail and Hebrew

2003-11-21 Thread linux-il
Kfir Lavi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use IMAP (to be precise - courier imap daemon over ssl), so I can switch between a local thunderbird, remote thunderbird from Windows XP at work, sometimes mutt over ssh. I use fetechmail/procmail to fetch the mail from my ISP. --Amos

Re: Mail and Hebrew

2003-11-23 Thread linux-il
Gil Freund wrote: The only problem in this setup is that address books are not shared. I plan to use LDAP for this. I'd be glad to hear about your experience with this. I'm planning to do this too, for quite the same reasons (pressure increased since my bag was stolen with my Palm V in it,

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-23 Thread linux-il
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: The debian advisory was very explicit that the archive was never compromised. I haven't heard any more details, but I'd love to hear how the break in occured and what where there trust relationships between the broken-into machines and the archive machines. And how are they

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-23 Thread linux-il
Shachar Shemesh wrote: So far for the theory. In practice, I'm not sure whether the mechanism for checking these signatures is easilly installable. As such, it is likely that many, if not most, Debian installations do not, in fact, verify signatures against the debian-keyring. I was wondering

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-24 Thread linux-il
Maxim Kovgan wrote: how often do you dissassemble your compiled code ? According to the following, even dissassemling your compiled code won't be trusty because how can you trust your dissassembler that it wasn't trojan'ed to hide the melicious code? http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ Excellent

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-24 Thread linux-il
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:49:43AM +0200, Maxim Kovgan wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Noam Rathaus wrote: hi Noam! it is great you've brought up the subject, and if u find more info on what exactly was there, please post it on here. This link has surfaced lately:

Re: Solution -- Open links in Firebird from Thunderbird

2003-12-01 Thread linux-il
Lior Kesos wrote: Now you're script doesn't work giving me a stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device each time I click a URL in thunderbird. Any ideas? Are you sure you don't try to run some stty or other interactive commands from your .cshrc/.bashrc? Are you sure that .bashrc is

Re: MSN messanger for linux and linux compatible webcam

2003-12-02 Thread linux-il
PROTECTED], Linux-IL mailing list linux- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 00:52:54 +0200 Subject: Re: MSN messanger for linux and linux compatible webcam On Monday 01 December 2003 22:52, Shachar Shemesh wrote: 1. Where can I find a linux compatible webcam? How much is one expected

Re: MSN messanger for linux and linux compatible webcam

2003-12-02 Thread linux-il
Shachar Shemesh wrote: On the other hand, when I use MSN messenger on Windows, I get bidirectional video (but problematic Audio, though that may be due to a different reason). You mean that you manage to connect a Windows machine through NAT on your Linux and get NetMeeting video working? I'd

Re: Linux Server and Timezones ( cross topic )

2003-12-02 Thread linux-il
Stay out of the timezone mess altogether. 1. Keep times in UTC. 2. Let the manager's preferences have a local time zone for himself, and when he enters a time you translate from his local timezone to gmt. 3. Maybe add a system configuration parameter to display the timezone in which the times

RedHat equivalent of make-kpkg?

2003-12-02 Thread linux-il
Is there any red-hat equivalent for Debian's make-kpkg? For those who don't know what it is - make-kpkg allows one to take a vanilla kernel source and build .deb files for the kernel image, modules etc. It just looks a bit wierd to me that such an important part of the system like the kernel

Re: RedHat equivalent of make-kpkg?

2003-12-03 Thread linux-il
Oops. Wasn't aware of that. I see it now. Will try it. Thanks. Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Maybe I don't parse the question right: Looking at the Makefile of a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel I have lying around I see a target to build an rpm. Have you tried it?

Re: RedHat equivalent of make-kpkg?

2003-12-03 Thread linux-il
That wouldn't cut it because then I depend on having a kernel source RPM for the particular version I want. Oded Arbel wrote: On Wednesday 03 December 2003 08:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any red-hat equivalent for Debian's make-kpkg? For those who don't know what it is - make-kpkg

Re: RedHat equivalent of make-kpkg?

2003-12-03 Thread linux-il
Oded Arbel wrote: And that being different from your situation where you need a kernel source tree of the version you want, in what way ? In the way that it would make me dependent on finding a .srpm file for the kernel I want to compile. But anyway - the point is apparently mute since, as Olge

Re: RedHat equivalent of make-kpkg?

2003-12-03 Thread linux-il
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: A number of other issues: usually when you install a new kernel that you built you keep the old one for a while. At least until you see it boot. Thus it might be useful to think about installing a number of them side-by-side. That's another reason why make-kpkg is nice -

Re: document organization system

2003-12-05 Thread linux-il
Just a couple of days ago Magnolia 1.0 was announced. It's still not there, but they list WebDAV first in their roadmap. (which was just what I would look at to get what you want) http://www.obinary.com/en/magnolia.html It's LGPL'ed standard-compliant J2EE application. Developed on SourceForge.

Sun Linuxday on December 15th?

2003-12-06 Thread linux-il
Has anyone noticed that there's supposed to be a Linux day at Sun on December 15th? Any details? I got the hint to this from http://www.ikarnews.com/ --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe

Re: document organization system

2003-12-06 Thread linux-il
Arie Folger wrote: On Friday 05 December 2003 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a couple of days ago Magnolia 1.0 was announced. It's still not there, but they list WebDAV first in their roadmap. (which was just what I would look at to get what you want) http://www.obinary.com/en/magnolia.html

Compiling 2.4.23 for ASUS P4P800 motherboard (Intel 865PE chipset)

2003-12-07 Thread linux-il
Hello, I'm trying to help our sysadmin compile a 2.4.23 kernel for an ASUS P4P800 motherboard (http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4p800/overview.htm). and we are not sure which chipset we should configure for it. The chipset listed is the Intel 865PE. Can anyone tell me what we need to

Re: Compiling 2.4.23 for ASUS P4P800 motherboard (Intel 865PE chipset)

2003-12-07 Thread linux-il
Thanks. Well, I know that for my Gigabyte motherboard at home, there was a huge difference in IDE performance once I compiled the AMD IDE controller support into the kernel, and was wondering if the same could be true for this MoBo as well. --Amos Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Maybe I'm missing

Re: Compiling 2.4.23 for ASUS P4P800 motherboard (Intel 865PE chipset)

2003-12-07 Thread linux-il
I'll spare you the longer lspci -v (unless you'll tell me it's critical): 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2570 (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2571 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24d2 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel

Re: thunderbird links - the saga continues...

2003-12-07 Thread linux-il
Lior Kesos wrote: 5. Finally found the source of all evil - the bugzillas drumroll ... Bug 216252 - http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216252 and bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226071 that they claim is resolved but that's where they introduce the litlle scriptie

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