[Haifux] amd64

2013-12-15 Thread yakoub abaya
i do not understand the difficulty for developers to release amd64 version of their software . i don't have good understand of architecture from software point of view, but i imagine the problem varies according to the type of the software . so if low level library software are released in

Re: [Haifux] mailing list to facebook

2013-07-11 Thread yakoub abaya
To: haifux@haifux.org Message-ID: 20130710171056.go14...@lemon.cohens.org.il Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 05:25:04PM +0300, yakoub abaya wrote: maybe write code to hook into the mail daemon ? Doesn't really matter. Any list subscriber can do whatever

Re: [Haifux] mailing list to facebook

2013-07-10 Thread yakoub abaya
maybe write code to hook into the mail daemon ? what mail daemon are you using, can i view the application source handling the mailing list ? On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:00 AM, haifux-requ...@haifux.org wrote: Send Haifux mailing list submissions to haifux@haifux.org To subscribe or

[Haifux] postgresql hebrew

2012-06-08 Thread yakoub abaya
i am studying postgresql free text search and don't understand how to configure hebrew support if someone tried this before then please write me an outline of the procedure defining an index requires language parameter :

Re: [Haifux] OT: Open CVS/SVN servers

2012-05-02 Thread yakoub abaya
theoretically distributed version control like git doesn't require a centralized repository i never tested this but you can use email with git-am and git-format-patch ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org

Re: [Haifux] advanced of programming in Linux

2009-11-03 Thread yakoub abaya
i agree with the quote of Joel Spolsky that Vadim posted . it is the cultural difference which results in technological differences and not the other way around . my experience with Microsoft programmers is that they are all busyness oriented rather than programing and most of the time the

Re: [Haifux] Linux VPN Connection to the Technion

2009-03-04 Thread yakoub abaya
, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote: Hi Yakoub, I saw a post by you from a while back to the Haifux mailing list regarding the settings needed to connect to the Technion's network via VPN under Linux. I am helping out to the SSDL, and I would like to put together

Re: [Haifux] Technion VPN

2008-01-04 Thread yakoub abaya
there are two layers , first the lan then vpn verify your lan is healthy by running : /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart then run ifconfig and check the eth0 entry to establish vpn i don't use pptp-command , i use pppd create file /etc/ppp/peers/tech-vpn , then run pppd call tech-vpn this is an

Re: [Haifux] A question on Ubuntu 6.0.6 - Edimax EW-7108 hangs network service

2006-07-16 Thread yakoub abaya
Asaf Cohen wrote: Hi all, I hope I am not troubling the readers of this mailing list, but after a few nights of trying all kinds of work-arounds I was told this is the place to ask for help. After a lot of searching, I bought the Edimax EW-7108PCg wireless card. It should have worked

Re: [Haifux] Disappointing Linux Day

2006-06-25 Thread yakoub abaya
Alon Altman wrote: The linux day should not be about installing linux anymore. Installing linux is trivial, and anyone with a basic background in computers can manage this on her own. The problem most people have is with configuration. The #1 problem is connecting to the Internet, a

Re: [Haifux] T2 vim configuration

2006-05-30 Thread yakoub abaya
use vi from a local terminal using your account at cs labs or at your home pc , then after you learn using it you can distinguish whether your problem is vi related or telnet/ssh settings . Michael Bar David wrote: hi all I'v some problems with vim on my T2 account, may somwone can help:

[Haifux] iso distribution

2006-05-12 Thread yakoub abaya
i want to install fedora , what iso images should i download P( {disc1,disc2,disc3,disc4} )? download={ Discs:P{disc1,disc2,disc3,disc4} ) | min( |Discs| ) Process(anaconda)==successful } i look at linux distribution mirror sites and i see directories of iso images with no information

Re: [Haifux] Honey, I shrunk the club

2006-03-14 Thread yakoub abaya
why not do the lecture thing online ? most computer people will be far more encouraged to participate in an online event while not leaving their rooms , lets face it : public transportation is not fun at all .. i mean i would love if there was *only* public transportation and all those

[Haifux] text editors

2005-12-01 Thread yakoub abaya
sometimes i open text files in vi that was not written originally in vi and i see ^M on every end of line . how do i remove them and what are they ? -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an

Re: [Haifux] wine ie installation

2005-10-06 Thread yakoub abaya
yakoub abaya wrote: i installed wine binary package for slackware (Wine-20050930-i486-S10.2.tgz) i don't understand what configuration i should be doing in ~/.wine/config simply running wine will create ~/.wine directory but without a config file $ls .wine { dosdevices drive_c

[Haifux] wine

2005-10-05 Thread yakoub abaya
i installed wine binary package for slackware (Wine-20050930-i486-S10.2.tgz) i don't understand what configuration i should be doing in ~/.wine/config simply running wine will create ~/.wine directory but without a config file $ls .wine { dosdevices drive_c system.reg user.reg userdef.reg

[Haifux] wine

2005-10-04 Thread yakoub abaya
i installed wine binary package for slackware (Wine-20050930-i486-S10.2.tgz) i don't understand what configuration i should be doing in ~/.wine/config simply running wine will create ~/.wine directory but without a config file $ls .wine { dosdevices drive_c system.reg user.reg userdef.reg

Re: [Haifux] C++ STL object

2005-07-08 Thread yakoub
, because hash_map is not part of STL, according to the C++ standard, so it seems that you are using a different implemtation of STL. So my questions are: 1) What STL implementation are you using? 2) Can you post a minimal code snippet which exposes the problem? Emil On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, yakoub

[Haifux] C++ STL object

2005-07-06 Thread yakoub abaya
i want to write an STL object to a file using binary stream i have ( hash_map H,S ; ) i initielizing H using class interfase . then write H to file , read from the same file into S after this , S and H have the same data and H.size==S.size but at the end of the program i get assertion faillure:

Re: [Haifux] please help

2005-04-09 Thread yakoub
for ready failed before probe ! Probing IDE interface ide5... ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe ! yakoub wrote: yakoub wrote: i have problems with linux2.6 that i 've been trying long to solve , but failed i attached dmesg logs i have failure errors about ide drives , sometimes

Re: [Haifux] please help

2005-04-07 Thread yakoub
yakoub wrote: i have problems with linux2.6 that i 've been trying long to solve , but failed i attached dmesg logs i have failure errors about ide drives , sometimes it is so critical that dma is disabled Linux version 2.4.29 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.4

Re: [Haifux] please help

2005-04-07 Thread yakoub
come on people , why do you ignore me ? mulix ..anybody , i really need your help yakoub wrote: i have problems with linux2.6 that i 've been trying long to solve , but failed i attached dmesg logs i have failure errors about ide drives , sometimes it is so critical that dma is disabled

[Haifux] please help

2005-04-06 Thread yakoub
i have problems with linux2.6 that i 've been trying long to solve , but failed i attached dmesg logs i have failure errors about ide drives , sometimes it is so critical that dma is disabled Linux version 2.4.29 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.4) #8 Thu Jan 20 16:36:28 PST 2005

Re: [Haifux] system stuck after moving to kernel2.6.11

2005-03-29 Thread yakoub
gnome is heavy software , when your system is in critical state you should boot into console login without bringing up X and gnome . edit /etc/inittab and change the Default runlevel (how well is inittab documented is depending on your distribution) when you're logged to a console you can use

Re: [Haifux] system stuck after moving to kernel2.6.11

2005-03-29 Thread yakoub
gnome is heavy software , when your system is in critical state you should boot into console login without bringing up X and gnome . edit /etc/inittab and change the Default runlevel (how well is inittab documented is depending on your distribution) when you're logged to a console you can use

[Haifux] isolinux

2005-03-13 Thread yakoub
all linux distribution i know has an /isolinux directory what is it ? i added to lilo.conf : image = /boot/vmlinuz label = install initrd = /slackware/isolinux/initrd.img read-only and lilo booted the slackware installation program . is there anything wrong with what i did ?

[Haifux] boot errors

2005-03-13 Thread yakoub
i have this in dmesg : pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5 pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5 what does it mean ? -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send

[Haifux] x server

2005-02-19 Thread yakoub
sometimes X freezes and the Ctrl + Alt + Backspace sequence don't have an affect ( or any other keyboard strokes ) , what could be causing Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to fail killing X ? i got nvidia driver installed the more difficult situation , is /var/log/Xorg.0.config offers little clues , only

Re: [Haifux] Desktop Google for Wined Linux?

2005-02-13 Thread yakoub
Eli Billauer wrote: Hello all, Some of you have surely heard about Google's desktop searcher (http://desktop.google.com/). It's a downloadable application, which scans your own computer, and sets up your own little Google site. So you search your own computer like you search Google. It's

[Haifux] device driver

2005-01-30 Thread yakoub abaya
struct file repesents a proccess operating on a struct inode. each file has a private_data , as i've read this field will containe the struct we declare in the module code 1) but what if we declared two structs ? what about other static variables we might declare ? 2) is it possible for all

[Haifux] ipc

2005-01-18 Thread yakoub abaya
You can't write to a named pipe in the kernel in Linux. You can write to a userspace helper (have a userspace program communicate over a device file with the kernel module) and then have the userspace helper use the named pipe. how can i learn more about this form of communication ? what is it

Re: [Haifux] linux ipc

2005-01-16 Thread yakoub abaya
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:40:28PM +0200, yakoub abaya wrote: Is there a special interface for communication between : device driver - daemon , other than conventional ipc ? ( i know of pipes , signal kill ) read and write on a device file, a new file system

[Haifux] ipc

2005-01-12 Thread yakoub abaya
what is the difference between two processes communicating through a normal file discriptor and a fifo pipe discriptor ? p0: mkfifo(myfifo,) int fd=open(myfifo,O_RDONLY..) read(myfifo,buff...) p1: int fd=open(myfifo,O_WRONLY..) write(myfifo,buff)

[Haifux] man

2005-01-12 Thread yakoub abaya
when doing man read (for example ) i get in that last line , the usual see also comment where it says :close(2), ...,write(2)...,lseek(2) Q: what is the number following in the parentheses ? (-- 2 in write(2) ) if i do man write it doesn't show info about c language write command so i suppose

[Haifux] man

2005-01-12 Thread yakoub abaya
when doing man read (for example ) i get in that last line , the usual see also comment where it says :close(2), ...,write(2)...,lseek(2) Q: what is the number following in the parentheses ? (-- 2 in write(2) ) if i do man write it doesn't show info about c language write function so i suppose

[Haifux] module directives ?

2005-01-12 Thread yakoub abaya
i've been reading about driver porting to kerne2.6 the section about block device . they write : static int __init sbd_init(void); __init static void __exit sbd_exit(void); __exit module_init(sbd_init); module_exit(sbd_exit); Q: what is __init and __exit ? are they

[Haifux] signal

2005-01-12 Thread yakoub abaya
when doing man signal : there is : typdef void (*sighandler_t)(int); Q:what is this typdef ?, i don't understand it { i know that i can provide interrupt handler function with signal(...,...) } -- Haifa Linux

[Haifux] biulding drivers on linux2.6

2005-01-01 Thread yakoub abaya
i don't understand how to build a simple driver i wrote i looked into linux/Documentation/kbuild and read about makefile rules but what make command do i issue ? i tried : make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=$pwd modules that is what is explained in the docs , but this command started

[Haifux] need help

2004-09-19 Thread yakoub
i have a couple of problems that i couldn't find a solution to by google . 1) when starting the window manager gdb , and logging to gnome i get no sound output from any media software , BUT if logging to kde the sound works ok , and after that if i relog to gnome i get media sounds by

Re: [Haifux] need help

2004-09-19 Thread yakoub
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a couple of problems that i couldn't find a solution to by google . 1) when starting the window manager gdb , and logging to gnome i get no sound output from any media software , BUT if logging to kde the sound works ok , and after

[Haifux] /etc/fstab

2004-09-19 Thread yakoub
i added the line : /dev/hda5/mnt/boxvfatrw,auto,users1 0 to /etc/fstab so that normal user can mount /dev/hda5 and use it without beeing root but still when trying mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/xbox i get mount : only root can do that though i can still

[Haifux] /etc/fstab

2004-09-19 Thread yakoub
i added the line : /dev/hda5/mnt/boxvfatrw,auto,users1 0 to /etc/fstab so that normal user can mount /dev/hda5 and use it without beeing root but still when trying mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/xbox i get mount : only root can do that though i can still

[Haifux] pptp

2004-08-28 Thread yakoub
i really need your help in connecting to internet by vpn. i attached info wich is a text file cotaining some releavant info , please check it out here is what i know : /etc/ppp/pap-secrects === login information /etc/ppp/options.pptp options for pptp /etc/ppp/peers/