Re: Argument in favor of lightweight (was: Re: Argument...)

2000-03-09 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: > However one of Mathan's highest priorities is a lightweight word > processor. Exactly! And C is much more heavyweight then Python . Overhead of Python's library: 567K on my system (including everything one has to distribute with embedded Python. This proba

Re: Linux by numbers

2000-03-09 Thread Eli Marmor
Adi Stav wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:40:10AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: > > 1. The statistics didn't count *users*, but boxes. Each typical UNIX > >has more users connected to, *in average*, than a typical Linux > >box. It will not be a too far gamble to guess that there are more

Argument in favor of lightweight (was: Re: Argument...)

2000-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: > > > I think this is the first thing you should support. Especially as it is > > not that hard and I believe that you'll get cooperation from Chen Shapira. > > And, if he chooses either Tcl or Python, some support

Job opportunity: Linux / Unix Lecturer

2000-03-09 Thread Mark Hanji
Hello. Mediatek Networking (The place I work in :-) ) is looking for Linux/Unix Lecturer. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or fax 04-8401211 for YARIV. The work area is in Haifa & Rishon-Letzion. More Jobs at: http://www.ctec.co.il/jobs/default.htm

Re: Argument in favor of scripting (was: Re: A wysiwyg hebrew wordprocessor)

2000-03-09 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: > I think this is the first thing you should support. Especially as it is > not that hard and I believe that you'll get cooperation from Chen Shapira. And, if he chooses either Tcl or Python, some support from me. (Ducking and hiding from those Perl addicts)

Re:

2000-03-09 Thread Shaul Karl
> > WITH THE HELP OF GOD!! > > I'm writing a work on os'es and I need to find > > the formula that sets the priorety of jobs to the cpu > as it well known it have to do with : > nice and aging. > > I've looked all-msot every where and didnt able > to find s I'm greatfool as advanced > 1 I

Call for Vulonteers (part 2)

2000-03-09 Thread Orr Dunkelman
Hi everybody, I'm terribelly sorry, but I have only 4 lectures with lecturer (one of them is Hebrew, but ...), and lack several backup persons. We now have more knowledge, as we are sure it will be Tuesday 18:30 in the Technion's CS department new building (Taub 6) from the 28/3 any Tue. with st

Re: your mail

2000-03-09 Thread Orr Dunkelman
Try the Technion's Computer Science Dept. Course on Operating Systems (Operating Systems Structure) http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/Courses/Operating-Systems-Structure/ Look at the Tirgulim paragraph. Also you can try to look at the code of sched.c /usr/src/linux/kernel/sched.c I just found the file,

Re: Mounting floppy.

2000-03-09 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 06:08:21PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: > OUCH. I'd love to know if you can connect to surfree from linux with > windows running in a VMWare window :-) If MS-Windows was the kind of operating system that includes out-of-the-box IP forwarding just so that its users are happy,

Re: Preferred Linux Distribution ?

2000-03-09 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 04:19:03AM +0200, Omer wrote: > > > > On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, "Orit Vardi\\" wrote: > > Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:24:22 +0200 > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: "Orit Vardi\\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Preferred Linux Distribution ? > > > > I would like to change o

Re: ISP doesn't support Linux ?! (RE: Mounting floppy.)

2000-03-09 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:58:32PM +, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > The man has decided to use SurFree (the free payment ISP) - and in order to > connect - you must use THEIR dialer program and NOT something else. Their > program will give you after connecting - a window with advertisement and > y

Re: Linux by numbers

2000-03-09 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:40:10AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: > 1. The statistics didn't count *users*, but boxes. Each typical UNIX >has more users connected to, *in average*, than a typical Linux >box. It will not be a too far gamble to guess that there are more >non-Linux users than L

Re: your mail

2000-03-09 Thread Adi Stav
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 12:14:24AM +, albert wrote: > > WITH THE HELP OF GOD!! > > I'm writing a work on os'es and I need to find > > the formula that sets the priorety of jobs to the cpu > as it well known it have to do with : > nice and aging. > > I've looked all-msot every where and d

Re: Mounting floppy.

2000-03-09 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:58:22PM +, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > You should look for a program called: explore2fs or something like that (I > don't remember the name exactly), which lets you read/write to ext2fs.. When I last tried it, it was buggy enough to make it almost impossible to use (rea

Re: 2.2 kernels on slink

2000-03-09 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 01:01:40AM +0200, Gaal Yahas wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:16:03AM +0200, Omer wrote: > > right. but do not use dselect, use apt instead. > > Huh? I thought dselect was calling apt for me. Wasn't it? It does, but dselect is an ugly monstrosity. I find apt-get's CLI

No Subject

2000-03-09 Thread albert
WITH THE HELP OF GOD!! I'm writing a work on os'es and I need to find the formula that sets the priorety of jobs to the cpu as it well known it have to do with : nice and aging. I've looked all-msot every where and didnt able to find s I'm greatfool as advanced albert ___

Re: Argument in favor of scripting (was: Re: A wysiwyg hebrew wordprocessor)

2000-03-09 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: > > This is planned. The next release will include separation of the drawing > > functions, so it will be easy to replace them with ones for Xlib, fbdev or > > something else. > Good! OK, I just uploaded (in the same place, http://www.arava.co.il/matan/hebre

Re: Mandrake 7.0 to 7.02

2000-03-09 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Benado! On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:04:59PM +0200, you wrote the following: > I downloaded Mandrake ISO when it came out... (version 7.0) and few weeks > later, the ISO fix came out... i cant afford to download the whole ISO again > and i would like to know how i can tweak my current CD so it

Asynchronic Disks

2000-03-09 Thread Mike
Hi list. I like to know where i can find info (and if it possible) to access my HD in Asynchronous way. I know that FreeBSD support that future and that it fasten things up if you do not really care about the integrity of the data. I now run Squid Cache Server on linux and want to fasten things

Jerusalug - just a small note

2000-03-09 Thread Nathan Fain
Someone on the Jerusalug list suggested coming to next Thursdays (march 16) meeting/lecture even if the topics don't interest you to asks Q's that might *stump* me. To encourage this I'll have 30+ snickers bars to give to those that DO asks Q's (related to the topics) that "stump" me. I hope 30

Unable to create EXEC

2000-03-09 Thread Gaal Yahas
Hi. I recently started getting this error from time to time in my /var/log/messages when attempting connection via pppd and chat: Mar 9 21:34:24 fortinbras chat[2313]: %% Unable to create EXEC - no memory or too many processes^M .and naturally, the connection fails. If I let the system "sit"

Mandrake 7.0 to 7.02

2000-03-09 Thread Benado
I downloaded Mandrake ISO when it came out... (version 7.0) and few weeks later, the ISO fix came out... i cant afford to download the whole ISO again and i would like to know how i can tweak my current CD so it fixes all the installation bugs. i downloaded the new darkx RPM. what now? Thanks, Y

Argument in favor of scripting (was: Re: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor)

2000-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: > > > 1. Make as clean separation as possible between the SVGAlib based display > > engine and the rest of the word processor. This will allow someone > > else to replace the SVGAlib by whatever engines need

RE: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Chen Shapira wrote: > > 2. Support the use of a scripting language (such as Tcl, Perl > > or Python) > >interpreted by an embedded interpreter. > >This will allow other people to turn your word processor into a > >sophisticated and complicated and feature-rich on

CDRW

2000-03-09 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I still have two problems (one serious and one just a minor inconvenience) that I haven't been able to solve. I've read any HOWTOs and man pages that seemed relevant, and I've written to the list before but .. I'm really getting desperate. Can someone PLEASE help ??!!! I apologize for writing

Re: Mounting floppy.

2000-03-09 Thread Ira Abramov
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Boltyansky Boris wrote: > My ISP doesn't support internet connection using linux so I have to > download Linux software in Windows. you're the sysadmin at your company, demand your boss to pay your internet bills and get a standard PPP account. > Recently I've downloaded 6 M

Re: Linux by numbers

2000-03-09 Thread Ely Levy
sure, with that logic we can just run windows:) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Ira Abramov wrote: | On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Ely Levy wrote: | | > |> 2. Linux is fast becoming the most popular UNIX | > |Is already and has been for some time. |

Re: ISP doesn't support Linux ?! (RE: Mounting floppy.)

2000-03-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Well, You don't like to check things before you post, do u Alex?? The man has decided to use SurFree (the free payment ISP) - and in order to connect - you must use THEIR dialer program and NOT something else. Their program will give you after connecting - a window with advertisement and you c

ISP doesn't support Linux ?! (RE: Mounting floppy.)

2000-03-09 Thread Alex Rier
Hi, Linux supports the same PPP & PAP like Windowz. So please, explain to "bur and am haaretz kamoni" how some ISP can prevent Linux from connecting to him?! Sincerely, Alex Rier| System Administrator | Tel: +972-52-442549 Breakthrough Ltd.| FAX: +972-3-536

Re: Mounting floppy.

2000-03-09 Thread mulix
Boltyansky Boris wrote: > > > [b@localhost /dev]$ mount /dev/fd1 /diskette001 > > I've got a message that told me to specify the file system, how will I > do that? (how should the command line look like?) mount /dev/fd1 /diskette001 -t msdos or use the mtools package: mcopy a:/* /diskette001

Re: Mounting floppy.

2000-03-09 Thread Boltyansky Boris
Hi there! Chen Shapira wrote: > > > Recently I've downloaded 6 MB and I wanted to copy them to my Linux > > partition. > > I don't have VMware, and I don't have a CD-Writer so I have to use > > floppy (3.5"). > > I've zipped those 6 MB into 5 floppys, and then restarted the computer > > and boot

Re: Mounting floppy.

2000-03-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
You should look for a program called: explore2fs or something like that (I don't remember the name exactly), which lets you read/write to ext2fs.. Hetz At 15:13 09/03/2000 +0200, Boltyansky Boris wrote: >Hi! > >My ISP doesn't support internet connection using linux so I have to >download Linux

Mounting floppy.

2000-03-09 Thread Boltyansky Boris
Hi! My ISP doesn't support internet connection using linux so I have to download Linux software in Windows. Recently I've downloaded 6 MB and I wanted to copy them to my Linux partition. I don't have VMware, and I don't have a CD-Writer so I have to use floppy (3.5"). I've zipped those 6 MB into

Linux in Intel

2000-03-09 Thread Ury Segal
Hi I remember someone said there is Linux in Intel in Haifa, and they are using it to test chips. Does someone have some contact with the people of the lab there ? --ury = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the w

RE: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Chen Shapira
> > 2. Support the use of a scripting language (such as Tcl, > Perl or Python) > > interpreted by an embedded interpreter. > > This will allow other people to turn your word processor into a > > sophisticated and complicated and feature-rich one by > adding their own > > commands (implement

Re: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread matan
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote: > 1. Make as clean separation as possible between the SVGAlib based display > engine and the rest of the word processor. This will allow someone > else to replace the SVGAlib by whatever engines needed for plain > X-Window, KDE or Gnome. This is planned.

RE: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Chen Shapira wrote: > I was always wondering how does one go about adding scripting capabilites to > a program. > Does anyone know of any resources about the subject? You already know my biases, and there is very good documentaation on www.python.org about that (look for the

RE: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Chen Shapira
> 2. Support the use of a scripting language (such as Tcl, Perl > or Python) >interpreted by an embedded interpreter. >This will allow other people to turn your word processor into a >sophisticated and complicated and feature-rich one by > adding their own >commands (implemented

Re: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
At 11:05 09/03/2000 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: >This is a classical example of the plight of people who actually move >their asses and do something. They invariably draw fire, no matter which >way they move. I would object to that! >We don't have enough volunteers for Linux-related stuff in Israel

Re: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Omer Zak
This is a classical example of the plight of people who actually move their asses and do something. They invariably draw fire, no matter which way they move. We don't have enough volunteers for Linux-related stuff in Israel (the proof is that no adequate Hebrew support exists, few years after th

Re: Preferred Linux Distribution ?

2000-03-09 Thread Ira Abramov
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Eli Marmor wrote: > But when we are asked what OS is recommended to install now, there is no > reason to use historical versions. A side from new bugs (-:, new versions > always have less vulnerabilities, more support for new hardware, better > performance (but more memory usa

Re: IW2K

2000-03-09 Thread Ury Segal
Shaul Karl wrote: > I believe it will help. Is this acceptable by LinuxQA? Generaly, yes > > Assuming it is acceptable, can LinuxQA wrote their exact address, including > the floor in which their offices are found? How can I pass the building > security ("I have come to mr. Segal from LinuxQA,

RE: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Chen Shapira
> requires loading about 60MB of programs and libraries until it works. > I checked my options, and I think it is easier to write from scratch. > You can easily prove me wrong - add hebrew support to > maxwell, abiword or > whatever, and do it before my program is usefull enough. I don't recomme

Re: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread matan
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Why?? > > Either join your work to Koffice (or Goffice which is LONG from coming) > - but doing this whole work, for a single purpose - I really don't think > it will be usable, because: > > 1. You'll need to write everything from SCRATCH. So? I want

Re: TUX image location

2000-03-09 Thread Eitan Shefer
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Adi Stav wrote: > > http://linux.org.il/graphics/Penguin.gif > > > > (that file was actually created from Ewing's Tux even before he got his > > name, hence the undescriptive filename :-) > > I wonder if that's the same Ewing in Red Hat, btw? Nope. A differant Ewing. He's w

Re: A wysiwyg hebrew word processor

2000-03-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Why?? > > Either join your work to Koffice (or Goffice which is LONG from coming) > - but doing this whole work, for a single purpose - I really don't think > it will be usable, because: > > 1. You'll need to write everything from SCRATCH. > 2. I see y