AbiWord (fwd)

1999-03-21 Thread Ira Abramov
AbiOffice is in its diapers, but other than sit around and wait for GTK+ to do RTL text, is there anything we can ask from the nice people at AbiSource to do to make Hebrew and Arabic more easely supported later in their products? this is the best stage in the product's life to stick those hooks

JOB: programmers for Xpresso Linux (fwd)

1999-03-30 Thread Ira Abramov
anyone with free time? -- Forwarded message -- From: Marc MERLIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got contacted by Stephen Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] because he is looking for programmers to work on a new distribution that uses windows to get all the settings

VMware available for download

1999-03-16 Thread Ira Abramov
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Ira Abramov wrote: http://www.vmware.com I just tried their WEB site, and the httpd just said it's choked. I'm guessing trying the FTP is a lost cause, eh? :-) well, I finally got to download and configure it. booted my C: drive win98 installation in a window... still

Re: After installing redhat6.1

1999-11-27 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Adir Abraham wrote: We had few similar problems in the Linux Installation Party -- we couldn't make LILO finding the Linux partition, or the Windows 98 partition on a very few computers, so it simply just skipped them away going directly into Windows 98, or Linux, so the

how appropriate...

1999-11-27 Thread Ira Abramov
. /reg.asp, line 78 -- -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run t

Re: home sweet home

1999-11-28 Thread Ira Abramov
k on that mirror server, In California? no, Rosh Ha'ayin. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast /usr/share/games/fortunes/C/linux: No such file or directory /usr/share/games/fortunes/C/linux: No such file or directory The nice thing about Windows is - It does not

Re: home sweet home

1999-11-28 Thread Ira Abramov
dual-boot. will be on the case tommorow. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Running Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche but only be able to drive backwards with the handbrake on. (Unkn

Re: home sweet home

1999-11-28 Thread Ira Abramov
, web and FTP sites, CPAN, popular tools, GNU everything. the entire rpmfind archives if I see I can. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Linux is obsolete (Andrew Tanenbaum) = To unsubscribe

Re: A colorful text

1999-11-29 Thread Ira Abramov
"vi". try the demo .vimrc that comes with the package to see how to turn on coloring. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "The move was on to 'Free the Lizard'" -- Jim Hamerly and Tom Paquin (Open Sources

Jon Hall's lecture

1999-11-30 Thread Ira Abramov
ok, I see noone is really interested in important guest lecturers and all, I was going to try and reach Jon Hall today and ask him to come, but... I'm a bit depressed about the lack of enthusiasm this LUG is showing but, TOUGH, it's my problem alone I suppose. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58

Re: Jon Hall's lecture

1999-11-30 Thread Ira Abramov
to the above Email. Eli Marmor: If you have the connections to the organizers and know how to contact MadDog, please tell me, I don't have your phone number. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast fortune: too many tries

Re: A colorful text

1999-11-30 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Vadim Vygonets wrote: Quoth Ira Abramov on Tue, Nov 30, 1999: vi has many syntax coloring formats defined and you can add more. you can use just "view" or edit with "vi". Only if your 'vi' is vim. I don't think any other versions or

Re: Jon Hall's lecture

1999-11-30 Thread Ira Abramov
are: * LI's activities * on OpenSource in the academic worls (afterall, I hope to drag students and teachers to this lecture too!) * any offers from the audience? -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux (Unknown source

Re: Logical Hebrew Under Netscape

1999-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
it also mean Linux? I know a Beta of Opera for linux is soon to be released and it will have perliminary support for Logical Heb. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "...[Linux's] capacity to talk via any medium except smoke signals." (By Dr. Greg

Re: A lecture about the Linux kernel. (fwd)

1999-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Ury Segal wrote: Friday, December 11 ? Friday December 10 or Saturday December 11? Friday. Sat would be unfair for the religious. I have a lecture hall for Friday at 1pm here at the IDC. if I can't get Maddog, I still think we should have a lecture. Me and my dean

about getting to the lectures (physicly and conceptually)

1999-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
ise not to bite your heads off :-) on this positive note, I hit ctrl-x on this letter now, hoping this letter pulls the right attention and consideration. Volunteers accepted. please remember to vote for the days and times at this address: http://ren.scso.com/linuxpoll.html -- Ira Abramov ; whois:I

Re: Jon Hall's lecture

1999-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
:-) Vote, people! http://ren.scso.com/linuxpoll.html -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody. It doesn't generate revenue. (Dave '-ddt-` Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux

Re: Jon Hall's lecture

1999-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
me reaches 12 hours. that should get rid of all those pesky zombie processes blocking your nasal paths. oh man, I need to sleep :-) -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded i

site. 2) http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/support/Linux/LDP/

1999-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Shaul Karl wrote: 1) How can I tell whether I am better of using mirror instead of the master site? if it loads faster, it's better for you, then use it. that's what a mirror is for. More specifically, how can I tell if I am better of using

Invitation to a lecture - Jon maddog Hall

1999-12-02 Thread Ira Abramov
it's official! :-) The Israeli Linux Users Group Is proud to invite you to a meeting with Maddog Hall, director of Linux International. the meeting will take place at the IDC in Herzlia: http://www.idc.ac.il/main/Content/Bigmap.html Tommorow, Friday, December 3rd, 1pm, lecture hall 5 (cross

will be at Jerusalem...

1999-12-02 Thread Ira Abramov
I have one room in my car to take someone (Geoff?) with us to Herzlia. Me and Jon will be returning from a meeting in HUJI with the MOSIX team at around 11:30-12pm. to set a time and place call me at 054-731-963. However this is a one way ride, I will not be returning to Jerusalem. -- Ira

Re: Linux.org.il site

1999-12-02 Thread Ira Abramov
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Ury Segal wrote: linux.org.il site is broken. Who is responsible for it ? Are there any plans on fixing it ? well www.linux.org.il exists, without the www is misdirected. Jonathan, can you fix it please? -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux

Re: Putting Windows Boot Loader instead of LILO

1999-12-02 Thread Ira Abramov
(or the Red Hat CDROM) and mount your root fs, run lilo -u to uninstall it from the boot sector. it should do the trick. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast = To unsubscribe, send mail

Re: HUJI

1999-12-03 Thread Ira Abramov
on... this could mean a little headache at the beginning but the benefits in the log runs are great. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast fortune: too many tries = To unsubscribe, send mail to [

Re: HUJI

1999-12-03 Thread Ira Abramov
On 3 Dec 1999, Andre E. Bar'yudin wrote: other places). A lot of people are aware of Linux, use it on regular basis, even curse Microsoft occasionally, but do not actually regard Linux as an important part of their life, don't think much about it and simply use it - thus no participation in

Re: pop3 passwords.

1999-12-03 Thread Ira Abramov
allow himself to implement this by default to everybody, as it will break compatabilities. but perhaps some of them offer it as a special service. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "Problem solving under linux has never been the circus that it is unde

Re: HUJI

1999-12-04 Thread Ira Abramov
in two days, and I was pleased people came, even though it was a 1-2 day notice. Next time I hope more will come and we WILL be more prepared! -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast = To unsubscribe

Re: HUJI

1999-12-04 Thread Ira Abramov
5.asp?forum_id=1289 http://forums.nana.co.il/forum.asp?id=16 WHY are they not linked from the website?! I guess we need a new webmaster (for the traditional 2 weeks :) volunteers? -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "World domination. Fast" (By

Re: A lecture about the Linux kernel?

1999-12-04 Thread Ira Abramov
rse accepted, but we will love to hear about other OSs (even, or especially, ones from Redmond :) -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast .you could spend *all day* customizing the title bar. Believe me. I speak fr

Re: HUJI

1999-12-04 Thread Ira Abramov
t banner ads circulated and letters to software and hardware companies as the next stage. you think I'm crazy now, but if you join and help, it will actually be possible. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast fortune: too many tries ===

linux.org vs. linux.com

1999-12-04 Thread Ira Abramov
to remove links to his site (it was also the general air in Slashdot). and now to give my car tipul 10k. have a nice day! -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c

Re: nir's question

1999-12-04 Thread Ira Abramov
, or what. it all depends on what you try to do. CGIs are forked processes from Apache (which I -assume- for now is your choice server) and from there on you can write them in any computer language whatsoever, all depending on what you are trying to do, what loads you expect, etc. -- Ira Abramov

Re: HUJI

1999-12-04 Thread Ira Abramov
representative! check this out: http://www.svlug.org/ -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast But what can you do with it? -- ubiquitous cry from Linux-user partner. (Submitted by Andy Pearce, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ZDnet

1999-12-05 Thread Ira Abramov
on this list? write positive things once in a while... http://www.zdnet.co.il/html/article_view.asp?EditId=419 -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast We are MicroSoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. (Attributed to B.G., Gill Bates

Re: ZDnet

1999-12-06 Thread Ira Abramov
don't need ZDnet for getting information. I have all the information I'll ever need and probably much much more - I exactly my point. end of thread. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows] System - Repartitioning Disk for Linux...

me gone for a few days

1999-12-06 Thread Ira Abramov
if anyone wants me I'll be in Jordan till Sunday, out of cell and Email reach. I'll spread penguins if I get the chance :-) -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c

Re: SSLPop

1999-12-06 Thread Ira Abramov
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Aviram Jenik wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ira, you mentioned SSLpop a few days ago. What is it? Where can I find it? I looked all over the place and all I could find is a reference to a wish list (something like: "some day we would like to implement

meeting times poll

1999-12-11 Thread Ira Abramov
/linuxpoll.html http://www.misterpoll.com/poll.wga?id=4044407044 -- Ira Abramov ; Linux enthusiast ; www.scso.com ; whois: IA58 save the trees ; criticize the system ; cloth the hungry recycle ; feed the cat ; take out the garbage ; get a haircut dream ; dare to speak ; have fun ; use

Re: A question regarding Solaris courses [OFF TOPIC]

1999-12-11 Thread Ira Abramov
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, guy keren wrote: I'm looking for a course to learn Solaris administration. So far I found only Interbit teaches... you should remember that interbit is a daughter company of A.M.T , which are sun's representatives in israel (sales-wise). in any event, someone also,

MAHAPAKH!!!

1999-12-14 Thread Ira Abramov
How I survived Y2K" horror stories (if any?) and a possible lecture on the open() call by Ury Segal if there's time left. Live long and process! -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste ([EMAIL PROT

meeting 7/1/2000

1999-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
the best times I could reserve a classroom for us is 11am and on (we can stay there until we get kicked out again) the classroom has a projector and whiteboard. I'll try to get an earlier room reserved for the month after. hope you all come! -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all

RE: I want to learn Programing for linux can some one help

1999-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
course into programming is better than any book. once you have the basics books anf free docs online will teach you the rest. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux (Unknown source

Re: Printing through remote machine

1999-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
r directly? it should be a simple pipe I never use rsh around here, but this works with ssh (should be similar) [ira@rain ~]# cat file.ps | ssh shine "lpr" the pipe sends it into the standard input of the lpr command on the remote side. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all aro

Re: Joke: no surprise

1999-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
was a good analysis of this on Slashdot (everything gets to /. sooner or later...) with more examples of easter eggs, some time ago. also evil satan... http://www.searchenginewatch.com/sereport/99/11-google.html -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast for

RE: Printing through remote machine

1999-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Iftach Hyams wrote: It worked fine. Is the fact that Postscript file is a simple text file helped ? I think not. What happen if the file contain unprintable characters ? (It is not needed here, just to enhance my knowledge). I think lpr expects an out-of-band EOF

Re: RSH settings.

1999-12-17 Thread Ira Abramov
the people on your LAN (no students?) and that you are behind a firewall. otherwise remove all rCommands from your servers and use ssh. that's what I always do EVEN if I trust the system. good common practice. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Fatal Error

Re:

1999-12-18 Thread Ira Abramov
interested, send me your CD at: Ira Abramov Eliezer Yaffe 13/5 Ra'anana 43451 -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Sigh. I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on the "leading edge" so bad they walk right off the precipice. (Craig E.

Re: dont know mucch.

1999-12-18 Thread Ira Abramov
different ways to solve that (Masquarading, Proxy, SOCKS, port redirectors), it's all in the HOWTOs. if you promiss to read some about IPCHAINS and a masquarading howto or two, I'll give you the script I use, which makes my machine both a masquarader and a firewall. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58

Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-19 Thread Ira Abramov
y haven't implemented that yet). if you want to do it real good: remove in.telnetd, rshd, talkd and whatever from the machine. in fact I don't run inetd at all on any machine anymore. and for remote terminal I only use ssh. BTW, it all makes me wonder - is there a "home networking HOWTO&quo

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-19 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: Ira Abramov wrote: http://www.scso.com/linux/firewall.init.html First of all, Four-Oh-Four there :) And second, add .png as image/png in the mimetypes list. Otherwise, this tea-party image (in /linux, whatever it is :) loads as plaintext

Re: swap over 1 GB

1999-12-19 Thread Ira Abramov
' creators achieved. if you have a home machine which is a gateway to only 2 other machines, the swapping version is fine. for any other setup, use lots of RAM and use the NOVM, so squid manages better. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast fortune: too

Re: SCO COURSES

1999-12-20 Thread Ira Abramov
to topic :-) -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast if (argc 1 strcmp(argv[1], "-advice") == 0) { printf("Don't Panic!\n"); exit(42); } (Arnold Robbins in the LJ of February

Re: Filtering the list

1999-12-20 Thread Ira Abramov
quot;right" way to detect this. I am aware that some of you out there may be using a slightly older mail reader that allows only a closed set of headers to filter by, but there is an easy way to circumvent this shortcome, move to Pine or Mutt :-)) -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com

Re: Filtering the list

1999-12-21 Thread Ira Abramov
t; address). most of you know my "main" address, and chen knows my work address, they are all different but all used automaticly by contents through the same pine config. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all aro

Re: Which Flavor of Linux?

1999-12-21 Thread Ira Abramov
ast :-) welcome to the family! -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." (By [EMAIL PROTECTED]) =

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-21 Thread Ira Abramov
onciseness and accuracy but also for clarity (well, everything should be written like that, shouldn't it? :) due to it's "digesty nature". I don't have time to write one now, but I'll gladly check for coherency and accuracy and send you a diff file if you do :-) -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ;

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Ira Abramov
it has with FTP and HTTP is that they all use TCP underneath. the good part is your conversation (and passwords) can't be tapped. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste ([EMAIL PROTECTED] put this on Tshirts

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Ira Abramov
, my remote activities spied upon, and let's me log in as remote root. Telnet is so passe it should be taken out and shot in our day and age. the client is still great for debugging though, by connecting to random TCP ports and typing directly. that's a different issue. -- Ira Abramov

Re: Amanda backup. - a little offtopic

1999-12-22 Thread Ira Abramov
enough? looks like maybe you're out of room there. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs." (By Denn

Re: What is the AltGr key?

1999-12-24 Thread Ira Abramov
believe only on IBM keyboards. I _think_ it reffers to the left alt specificly but I'm not sure. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs." (By Denn

Re: problems with su

1999-12-24 Thread Ira Abramov
1 root root14888 Aug 16 04:45 /bin/su* (well, except maybe the size...) -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Why use Windows, since there is a door? (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andre Fachat

Re: Which Flavor of Linux?

1999-12-25 Thread Ira Abramov
Ayal Sharon: I tried to reply to you but hotmail kicked the message back. in the meantime, I'm posting it to the entire list, since it is still on-topic. On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Ayal Sharon wrote: They all run the same applications (Emacs, Apache, Gimp, etc). They all run the same Shells - at

Linux meeting again: please RSVP

1999-12-26 Thread Ira Abramov
thon for prototyping (Chen Shapira), possibly even fit both if time permits. A month later I thought I'll give a talk myself about IPchains, proxies and building basic firewalls with free software. More sugestions can be dropped in the mail address I gave above. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.sc

Re: PHP or C/C++

1999-12-28 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Avi Boots wrote: hi list, for a big (very big) site what is the best (or, efficient) language to use with linux and apache PHP Tool or C/C++ ? I think we already had that kind of a question not long ago... what's the application? what are the planned loads? etc, etc.

Re: who is list maintainer?

1999-12-29 Thread Ira Abramov
sugest we give up on MHONArc and start using Egroups? it's good enough for SVLUG, it should be good enough for us. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast We are using Linux daily to UP our productivity - so UP yours! (Adapted from Pat Paulsen by Joe Sloan

Re: bind-8.2.2_P3-1i - no S files in rc.d tree

1999-12-29 Thread Ira Abramov
should I notify ? not a bug. I'd be pissed if every package I install automaticly sets itself to start w/o asking me! (and some of them do...) nothing to panic about... cd /etc/rc.d mv rc5.d/K45named rc5.d/S25named mv rc3.d/K45named rc3.d/S25named et voila... -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58

Re: who is list maintainer?

1999-12-30 Thread Ira Abramov
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: IA can I sugest we give up on MHONArc and start using Egroups? it's good IA enough for SVLUG, it should be good enough for us. Isn't you the one who hates getting spammed? Egroups spams you with every letter - big nice

Re: bind-8.2.2_P3-1i - no S files in rc.d tree

1999-12-30 Thread Ira Abramov
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Constantin Eizner wrote: I thing the right way to do it: /sbin/chkconfig --add named cool... live and learn a new thing every day! = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Spam gathiring techniques (getting rather off-topic)

1999-12-30 Thread Ira Abramov
filters, I'm still getting 5-6 spams a day, and I am not amused. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste ([EMAIL PROTECTED] put this on Tshirts in '93

Re: Proxy And Firewall

1999-12-30 Thread Ira Abramov
get tired and give up, face the truth and read the howto, because that's why it's there. anything specific you are having troubles with? I published my firewall script a few days ago here and will give a lecture about proxy firewalls at one of the next meetings. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58

Reverse Engineering (was: Legal stuf, GPL, ...)

2000-01-04 Thread Ira Abramov
in a court) But since you enjoy other free GPL product why being egoist and not releasing the source in the first place? because that's how Israelis work (not Alex probably, but his boss) -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Be warned that typing \fBkillall

RE: customizing e-mail

2000-01-05 Thread Ira Abramov
of reading a file, so I have a tiny shell script that prints a line then runs fortune with linux fortunes requested, et voila... -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Not me, guy. I read the Bash man page each day like a Jehovah's Witness reads the Bible

Re: RedHat 6.1 - StarOffice

2000-01-05 Thread Ira Abramov
by then. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "So right now the only vendor that does such a stupid thing is Microsoft." -- Linus Torvalds on bad file system interface design. (Open Sources , 1999 O'Reilly and

Re: is there newgroup for linux-il ?

2000-01-05 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Moran wrote: hi, is there linux-il news group ? no, but it should not be too tricky to construct an Email-to-nn gateway at home on a local news server. that's what linux is for :-) -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast fortune: too

Re: Qpopper and NIS/NFS

2000-01-05 Thread Ira Abramov
is too high? linux uses 16 bit UIDs, could it be you are using a Solaris NIS server with UIDs over 2^16, i.e. 65,000 or so and up? -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt." -- Ch

Re: Linux-IL meeting on Friday?

2000-01-06 Thread Ira Abramov
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: Hello, I hope I am sending this to Ira Abramov personal email box. The only email address of his that I have is [EMAIL PROTECTED] The lists here makes me suspect that it is being sent to some mailing list as well. it is directed only to me

IPchains' replacement

2000-01-06 Thread Ira Abramov
to be replaced by something else ? yap, it's called netfilter, but I haven't tested it yet. http://antarctica.penguincomputing.com/~netfilter/netfilter-HOWTO.html -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "It is a relief and a joy when I see a reg

Y2K bug! I found a Y2K bug!

2000-01-06 Thread Ira Abramov
enscript with pretty-header, look at the time it gives you.. the date seems right but the actual hours are totally screwy. any ideas? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message

Re: Y2K bug! I found a Y2K bug!

2000-01-07 Thread Ira Abramov
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: enscript with pretty-header, look at the time it gives you.. the date seems right but the actual hours are totally screwy. any ideas? The following seems ok. It was produced by enscript -GE -o "Y2K bug.ps" "Y2K bug.txt" Am I missing

IGLU@eGroups (was: is there newsgroup for linux-il ?)

2000-01-08 Thread Ira Abramov
ji's but I think it will prevent us from using all the creative management features. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "[In 'Doctor' mode], I spent a good ten minutes telling Emacs what I thought of it. (The response was, 'Perhaps you could try to

Re: IGLU@eGroups

2000-01-08 Thread Ira Abramov
for my own 35 person tech news list, which works like a charm. so, once more, please visit the site, try to subscribe and play with the features. if no one objects, or maybe even decides it's the coolest thing since modular monolithic kernels, we can make the move in a week or two. -- Ira

Re: PRINTER

2000-01-08 Thread Ira Abramov
, otherwise for color Epson or HP DJ (each has drawbacks, see price of ink change, speed, etc.) -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)." (By

RE: Linux-IL meeting on Friday?

2000-01-09 Thread Ira Abramov
see what I mean? this message took 3 days to get through the huji mail server! (and the headers don't mention listar, they mention majordomo, what's going on?) On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Chen Shapira wrote: Hi all, 'bout the meeting tomorrow -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com

Re: IDC meeting remarks

2000-01-09 Thread Ira Abramov
cial. Alex: please put it on the webpage. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "Are [Linux users] lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software?&

Re: IGLU@eGroups

2000-01-09 Thread Ira Abramov
ers follow: http://egroups.com/group/GeekStockTalk/ -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system."

Re: IGLU@eGroups

2000-01-09 Thread Ira Abramov
be most happy to be proved wrong on every count ;-) well, at least on the speed we can't argue.. your reply got to me direct 12 minutes before it got here from huji... :-) -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Now I know someone out there is going to claim

Re: eGroups moderated?

2000-01-09 Thread Ira Abramov
to post w/o subscribing first, obviously we can't allow non-subscribers post, now can we? -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast 'Mounten' wird fuer drei Dinge benutzt: 'Aufsitzen' auf Pferde, 'einklinken' von Festplatten in Dateisysteme, und, nun, 'besteigen' beim

Re: Re[2]: IGLU@eGroups

2000-01-09 Thread Ira Abramov
? their policy guarantees that. the day they break it, thy will pay dearly by having 90% of their users walk out... -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "Even more amazing was the realization that God has Internet access. I wonder if He has a full newsfeed?"

Re: IGLU@eGroups

2000-01-09 Thread Ira Abramov
excellent experiance with them so far. they do it for a living and letting spam in would be a shot in the foot. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Who wants to remember that escape-x-alt-control-left shift-b puts you into super-edit-debug-compi

Re: Remote X windows

2000-01-09 Thread Ira Abramov
h solution will be very slow. you have been warned. So far I have found Starnet Xwin Hummingbird exceed .. yap... Anyone here with experiment with one of those programs? are they easy to configure? other alternatives? XFree on a Linux box? :-) -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ;

Re: Linux Demo Day 17.2

2000-01-10 Thread Ira Abramov
find a way to get us arrested! nope, and it's been done before... here's one such "tea party" I attended in person: http://www.scso.com/linux/tea-party-1998/ (your choice of PNG or the cursed monopolitic GIF format :) -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all ar

Re: Linux Demo Day 17.2

2000-01-10 Thread Ira Abramov
expect the Spanish inquisition! -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Why use Windows, since there is a door? (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andre Fachat) = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Linux Demo Day 17.2

2000-01-10 Thread Ira Abramov
for the W2K server for now then, ofcourse we can't match the features of the Winslows98 or the (does)NT Work-station, Hebrew-Enabled GUI. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I mean who hasn't

Re: Linux Demo Day 17.2

2000-01-10 Thread Ira Abramov
Spanish inquisition! Yes, "nobody expects the spanish inquisition" :) Our weapon is source! source and mindshare... nono... our TWO weapons are source and mindshare and a fanatical devotion to the Tux... no, our THREE oh hell, I'll come in again... -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58

Re: Linux Demo Day 17.2

2000-01-11 Thread Ira Abramov
40% busy with an English banner in a flickering screen saver otherwise. the 21st century commences. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix

caldera settles law suit with MS (and file a S1).

2000-01-11 Thread Ira Abramov
this is the stuff you miss when you don't subscribe to my news list :-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Eitan Shefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: technology list v2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] A lot of news coming out from Utah. The settlement with Microsoft, which is not fully disclosed,

Re: Reiserfs

2000-01-11 Thread Ira Abramov
it is not ready to serve as a root partition yet. I intend to test it soon and probably give a report at one of the IGLU meetings. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box

Re: Linux Demo Day 17.2

2000-01-10 Thread Ira Abramov
some hotel or Ganey Hataarukha, THAT's where we should arrive. armed with a few dozen laptops and folding tables outside the confference, greeting the people coming in :-) -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast "...and scantily clad females, of cou

Re: sendmail user masquerading

2000-01-11 Thread Ira Abramov
reply to - or worse, someone else will get the answer. it is not the job of the MTA to fix the MUA's overlooks. fix the client and you should be fine. do not attempt to fix the sendmail.cf unless you have a 10 day vacation from work coming. -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all

Re: Linux-IL meeting

2000-01-12 Thread Ira Abramov
write SuSE now... -- Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast fortune: too many tries = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g.,

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