Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism

2001-12-23 Thread mulix
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Omer Zak wrote: > I suggest that the existing www.iglu.org.il volunteer maintainers make > information available, to make it easier for other people to volunteer as > follows: > 1. Manage it like a Free Software project - make the various scripts, and >documentation of th

biditext

2001-12-23 Thread Erez Doron
how do i get biditext to switch from visual to logical and vice-versa ? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: biditext

2001-12-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 23 Dec 2001, Erez Doron wrote: > > > how do i get biditext to switch from visual to logical and vice-versa ? What do you mean? biditext program_with_args runs program_with_args with biditext. This means that any string that this program (or subprocess of it) will draw on the screen will b

Re: biditext

2001-12-23 Thread mulix
On 23 Dec 2001, Erez Doron wrote: > how do i get biditext to switch from visual to logical and vice-versa ? [i'm assuming you mean from rtl to ltr here?] that would depend on which version of biditext you're using. if you're using the old biditext, i really dont know. if you're using the lates

Re: biditext

2001-12-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, mulix wrote: > tzafrir, where is the canonical distribution site for everything else? http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/R2L/r2l-tarball -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir

Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism

2001-12-23 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
mulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > better have a mailing list, a-la iglu-web for these things, to keep > everyone in the loop. someone should have the final deciding power, > though. omerm? guy? Why a-la? IGLU-web is there, just dormant, isn't it? Or does the sourceforge model mandate a sourcef

Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism

2001-12-23 Thread mulix
On 23 Dec 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > mulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > better have a mailing list, a-la iglu-web for these things, to keep > > everyone in the loop. someone should have the final deciding power, > > though. omerm? guy? > > Why a-la? IGLU-web is there, just dormant, isn't

How to use an External mouse on a lap top in adition to the integrated mouse ?

2001-12-23 Thread Amir Barenholtz
Hi   I installed RedHat 7.2 on a brand new IBM ThinkPad A30p.   Every thing seems to work ok .   I want to connect an External Serial mouse in addition to the integrated mouse since it is not convinient to use the integrated mouse for doing real work . (Win2000 is running on the same machine

Re: New Linux Project

2001-12-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi Long ago, On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Igor Tertishny wrote: > Hi! > > We inform that the firm " Aluf Computers " begins realization of the plan > popularization of operational system Linux in Israel, as systems capable to > replace products of the well-known firm for work in offices and home. At > p

Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants

2001-12-23 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:42:48AM +0200, mulix wrote: > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > Actually, I'm going over BugTraq daily anyways. What system is Iglu > > running anyway? RedHat? > > redhat 6.2. > > that would mean the initial update to bring it up to date will be rather

Re: a obscure bug in X

2001-12-23 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
could be but I am not booting a frame buffer kernel! (lilo has built in frame buffer which activeates something good on my card?) - diego On 2001 December 22 &bet;,Saturday 03:42, Noam Meltzer wrote: > it's not the lilo. it's the kernel... it's the framebuffer driver you > use to get graphics m

Re: Kernel 2.4 drivers for conexant based winmodems

2001-12-23 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
On 2001 December 22 &bet;,Saturday 01:36, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi all, > > I've seen that many people started spreading the Conexant winmodem drivers > for linux (for kernel 2.2.x and 2.4.x) > > All the details are at my little web site: > http://witch.dyndns.org/article.php?sid=3 does anybody

Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants

2001-12-23 Thread Ely Levy
not that massive,kernel login and few more Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, mulix wrote: > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > Actually, I'm going over BugTraq daily anyways. What system is Iglu > > running anyway? RedHat? > > redh

Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants

2001-12-23 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Yotam Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:42:48AM +0200, mulix wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > > > Actually, I'm going over BugTraq daily anyways. What system is Iglu > > > running anyway? RedHat? > > > > redhat 6.2. > > > > that would me

Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism

2001-12-23 Thread Ely Levy
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, mulix wrote: > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Omer Zak wrote: > > > I suggest that the existing www.iglu.org.il volunteer maintainers make > > information available, to make it easier for other people to volunteer as > > follows: > > 1. Manage it like a Free Software project - make t

ADSL modems

2001-12-23 Thread Cedar Cox
Hi. I've been using bezeq's adsl now for about 6 months. Last week bezeq changed the redback I'm connected to and from then on I've had problems (not to mention, a different IP address.. I'm with Actcom / static IP). Ping time to the remote side of the ppp link is often over 500ms, but sometim

RE: ADSL modems

2001-12-23 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Hi Cedar, I had problems like you described when I installed my adsl 6 months ago. It seems to me that you have a pure line quality, though there can be many other problems. Disconnections like you describe usually have to do with pure line quality. What you need to do, is to call 166 and ask for

Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants

2001-12-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Difference between RedHat and Debian update systems are not really technological. At least not the important details. I think redhat's system is a bit better technologically wise, BTW. The problem is that you cannot leave your system to automatically run up2date, and be sure everything is ok.

Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism

2001-12-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, Omer Zak wrote about "Guy's Rants about volunteerism": > Recently someone posted and asked for suggestions how to get Linux > experience. He was open to offers to volunteer his time. I am sure there > are several other youngsters in similar situation (before the army, and >

Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants

2001-12-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote about "Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants": > Once crucially important update is ssh, whose version on iglu.org.il appears > to be vulnerable to the CRC compensation bug, which may grant arbitrary > access to attackers. You can try and convert that Redhat b

Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants

2001-12-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, mulix wrote about "Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants": > > Actually, I'm going over BugTraq daily anyways. What system is Iglu > > running anyway? RedHat? > > redhat 6.2. > > that would mean the initial update to bring it up to date will be rather > massive, unless someone

Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants

2001-12-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, mulix wrote about "Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants": > > > Actually, I'm going over BugTraq daily anyways. What system is Iglu > > > running anyway? RedHat? > > > > redhat 6.2. > > > > that would mean the initial update to bring

Re: maintaining http://www.linux.org.il/

2001-12-23 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 02:00:36PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote about "Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants": > > One crucially important update is ssh, whose version on iglu.org.il appears > > to be vulnerable to the CRC compensation bug, which may grant arbi

ngrep problem (?)

2001-12-23 Thread Maxim Kryachko
Hi list. I try to use ngrep to catch packets sent from me to some host, to port 8080 and redirect them to some file. ngrep without switches just sends all the contents of all the packets to stdout, but when I give it "dst port 8080" it just prints as many "#" signs as number of packets it capt

Volunteer administrators (was: Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism)

2001-12-23 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, Omer Zak wrote about "Guy's Rants about volunteerism": > > Recently someone posted and asked for suggestions how to get Linux > > experience.He was open to offers to volunteer his time. I am sure there > > are several other youngs

Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants

2001-12-23 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On the other hand, I have a system running Debian Potato, and doing > apt-get dist-upgrade to keep it up to date, and while updates are > very scarce, I have yet to see a security problem go unpatched for > more than a few days, and no noticable ill e

Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants

2001-12-23 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 02:53:33PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am not arguingn against this - I don't have experience with it. > I only objected to "ssh on the IGLU server is out of date - you must > switch to Debian" statement. That's an ove

Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants

2001-12-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Will verify PGP keys (though I have heard of a problem with the verification). Will report to you what was done. that's it, more or less. On the other hand - Will not let you choose where to get the updates from (+3rd party packages not supported) Will send the entire config to redhat. Requires

Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism

2001-12-23 Thread mulix
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Ely Levy wrote: > I think it's a great idea also but I think sourceforge project is really > not it. > we don't need any sf project just a little todo list running on iglu web > site CVS. offsite backup. no more disappearing mirror scripts or mysteriously changed configurati

Re: Hebrew Under gbiff

2001-12-23 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
Well, now that this thread had died out ... First of all, thank to everyone who contributed - I learned a few things. Second, does anyone have a solution to my overall problem - I have a POP account (on an Exchange server) which receives messages with Quoted-Printable encoded headers (Did I get

RE: ngrep problem (?)

2001-12-23 Thread Tzahi Fadida
try something like this: ngrep -d ppp0 port 8080 and RTFM (man ngrep, its very simple actually). * - * - * Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax (+1 Outside the US) 240-597-3213 * - * - * - * - * - * -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Maxim

haifux syscalltrack lecture this monday

2001-12-23 Thread mulix
hi guys, haifux will be having a lecture about the design and implementation of hte syscalltrack open source project (http://syscalltrack.sf.net). lecturing will be guy and i. the lecture slides will be available later from the club's site, but for now they can be found here: http://vipe.technio

Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants

2001-12-23 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:42:28AM +0200, Adi Stav wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 04:00:09PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Will verify PGP keys (though I have heard of a problem with the > > verification). > > PGP is not an APT or up2date feature, it's a basic packaging format > feature t

Re: ngrep problem (?)

2001-12-23 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
On 2001 December 23&bet; ,Sunday 19:02, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > try something like this: > ngrep -d ppp0 port 8080 > > and RTFM (man ngrep, its very simple actually). but he did read the manual: > man ngrep didn't cleared anything. the man asked for some advice after he did try to read the *** manu

Re: C++: a gdb problem when debugging multiple files source program.

2001-12-23 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > My overall impression so far is that the the ability to run substantial > > code before main get started is quite problematic. However I am > > as well it should be! > > you are aware, i hope, of the static initializer problem? > http://www.codegur

Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism

2001-12-23 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Ely Levy wrote: > linux-il-maintainers@cs would be created if no one objects there is already [EMAIL PROTECTED] . it works - leave it there. you didn't yet answer my question - are you volunteering for the task at hand (maintaining the mirrors on iglu)? -- guy "For world

Re: Volunteer administrators (was: Re: Guy's Rants about volunteerism)

2001-12-23 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Omer Zak wrote: > > While this is true, the person who is given the duty of high-level > > administration and security policy (rather than short-term work like "just > > write a script that does ''") will have to come with a considerable > > amount of Linux/Unix experienc

Guides.co.il News Web-Box temporarily disabled

2001-12-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
I temporarily disabled the guides.co.il News web-box. It will be restored in the future. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- Shlomi Fish[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Home E-mail: