RE: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Karasik, Vitaly
On Comdex will short presentation about UNIX/LINUX from Hi-Tech College : http://www.hi-tech.co.il/computax/ . And generally IBM, HP Compaq run LINUX Yom Iyoon once a year. HP last one was 19.12.2001 and Compaq's 26.12.2001. Vitaly

mounting iso9660 as rw

2002-05-27 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
This may sound odd at first, and useless later, but I would like to add some files to a iso9660 filesystem. To be more exact, I have an iso of a CD and would like to update it with my own stuff. I tried to loop-mount it with rw option and even have /c/redhat/valhalla-i386-disc3.iso on /rh73/d3

Re: mounting iso9660 as rw

2002-05-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, May 27, 2002, Dan Kenigsberg wrote about mounting iso9660 as rw: This may sound odd at first, and useless later, but I would like to add some files to a iso9660 filesystem. .. I think I could copy all the files from the iso, and my own, and rebuild the whole bunch, but I just don't

RE: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 09:19, Karasik, Vitaly wrote: I would like to ask if someone knows about up-coming YOM IYOON regarding Linux, and specially Linux in Israel, Linux in desktop, etc... [ rant about hostile media deleted ] So, is there? if not - is there some company who think it can

RE: mounting iso9660 as rw

2002-05-27 Thread Tzahi Fadida
here are some leads, maybe you should try using a burning software to do 3 possible things: a) try to just treat it as .iso file and add files to it with it (of course you will need a software that support iso9660 image files). b) here is some crazy idea, try to burn a session onto it as if it

RE: mounting iso9660 as rw

2002-05-27 Thread Tzahi Fadida
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tzahi Fadida Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 1:30 PM To: Dan Kenigsberg Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mounting iso9660 as rw here are some leads, maybe you should try using a burning software

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Monday 27 May 2002 10:03, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 09:19, Karasik, Vitaly wrote: I would like to ask if someone knows about up-coming YOM IYOON regarding Linux, and specially Linux in Israel, Linux in desktop, etc... [ rant about hostile media deleted ] So, is

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 18:39, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: The Yom Iyoon that I was thinking was more toward the non-Linux people - companies who runs most of their servers under Windows - to ask their sys admins/IT directors/menahel maarchot meida - to come and hear and see whats its all about,

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:03:17PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 09:19, Karasik, Vitaly wrote: I would like to ask if someone knows about up-coming YOM IYOON regarding Linux, and specially Linux in Israel, Linux in desktop, etc... [ rant about hostile media

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Peleg Wasserman
Looks like I forgot to CC this to the list and it went to Hetz alone :) Here we go again: Yes, that's what I want to see too. If we'll organize a Linux day then it shouldn't be a bunch of Linux users talking to a bunch of Linux users. We should use it to promote Linux between the people that

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Why wait for a company? Let's do it ourselves. Remember that film about Linux (Revoloution OS) we discussed the other day? Wheee! excellent idea! a chance to meet in person, discuss cool stuff and watch a documentary on penguins and penguin afficiandos. I volunteer to speak about

Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
People, I think it's time to do some elections... We need an IGLU president, a finance officer, and an official representitive/spokeman who can talk to the media... I'm not putting all the details here in this email since I myself don't have experience in maintaining such a thing like this -

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 18:28, Peleg Wasserman wrote: Yes, that's what I want to see too. If we'll organize a Linux day then it shouldn't be a bunch of Linux users talking to a bunch of Linux users. We OK. I can agree that an event such as we are talking about is not needed for this alone, but

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 20:41, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I think it's time to do some elections... We need an IGLU president, a finance officer, and an official representitive/spokeman who can talk to the media... I hereby nominate Marc Volovic for spokeperson! I think only He can take Buzzword

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hmm, do we have any nominees for such a thing? Do *you* want to be the IGLU president? And what does being the IGLU president actually means? Do you get an increased quota on the linux.org.il machine and get to decide which distribution gets deleted when the mirror disk gets full? finance

OO: rpm libc error

2002-05-27 Thread Eliran
-- a href=http://www.rootshell.be/~eg;Eliran/a The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Monday 27 May 2002 15:53, Ely Levy wrote: what with you latly? we got along just fine so far and now you want to make it some sucky official thing? Whats with me lately? Nothing much, just thinking that Linux movement in Israel should get a step further - with things like: Get some

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Read the Amuta documentation - you need to tell them which people are which (manager, financial officer, address - those are the minimum) - and thats why I asked about elections... Hetz On Monday 27 May 2002 15:56, Ely Levy wrote: as Bar-Yosef said..lets so things and then argue about

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 27 May 2002 15:45, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Search TFA(rchives) - some of the amuta discussions were online, and some people with experience in running amutot voiced their thoughts and arguments pro and contra. What gives you the against?

RE: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Dvir Volk
Get some money from the goverment, get some funding for Hebrew applications development on Linux - stuff like that.. this might be a good time to do that - as you've probably read, the government is considering funding hebrew open source projects.

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Well, Hetz, will you please try and search that archives for both the against and the for? There were enough points against for a group of fairly intelligent people (unless we all got significantly smarter with the years) to reject the idea repeatedly. I will look later (my machine is half

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth Hetz Ben Hamo: Centimeters close actually - in Aduva) I think Marc can (if he wants) help IGLU formality a lot. Think about an interview with Marc on Globes I am willing, as I said. I am NOT sure what I am willing to do (or, indeed, can - I am old and fat). Let's? People are

RH7.3 HOWTOs

2002-05-27 Thread Arie Folger
Am I the only one who is upset at RH7.3 doc. iso image missing the HOWTOs? Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable.

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth Peleg Wasserman: Linux is used in the IDF, perhaps we can get someone to talk about that too (non classified uses) . I am significantly AGAINST this particular aspect. Assisting a military organisation is non-productive and, worse, anti-moral. However, everything else - I am for.

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader: enum { ANYTHING_AT_ALL=cooking; }; enum { ANYTHING_AT_ALL=cooking; SOMETHING_ELSE_AT_ALL=contribute_house_to_meeting_just_once; }; = To unsubscribe, send mail to

KDE RPMS for RH7.3

2002-05-27 Thread Arie Folger
I noticed that RH did not compile KDE 3.0.1 rpms. Is it possible to upgrade from RH7.3 KDE3.0.0 rpms to Madrake KDE 3.0.1 rpms without problems? Arie Folger -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth Nadav Har'El: Regarding government funds - not only does this idea disturbs me personally (now is the time for our government to spend LESS, not MORE money), but I don't see what exactly we're trying to achieve. Yes! I am in favour of this! Getting money out of our crooked government

Re: OO: rpm libc error

2002-05-27 Thread Eliran
Hello group, I have finally managed to get Open Office. I got both debs and rpms + the libstlport4.5.gcc3-4.5.3-5.i386.rpm. When tried to install the package (rpm -ivh) I got a dependencies message about GCC_3 and stuff, so I inserted my RH7.2 CD and installed the appropriate rpms from both

Re: KDE RPMS for RH7.3

2002-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
No, they're totally different... Give me a week (god, looking for a job and doing shit shmira job reduces willingness a lot) and I'll try to rebuild 3.0.1 for RH 7.3 Hetz On Monday 27 May 2002 16:45, Arie Folger wrote: I noticed that RH did not compile KDE 3.0.1 rpms. Is it possible to

RE: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Tzahi Fadida
I guess you missed this: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-1904994,00.html Were talking about a cool 1 mil. * - * - * Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax (+1 Outside the US) 240-597-3213 My Cool Site: HTTP://WWW.My2Nis.Com * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * -

RE: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Tzahi Fadida
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 6:44 PM To: Peleg Wasserman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: YOM IYOON? Quoth Peleg Wasserman: Linux is used in the IDF,

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Oleg Kobets
Hi, ppl! I know I am mostly a lurker and that's why I don't write much, but nevertheless here are my 2 nis: Hetz, I understand what you are trying to do, maybe it will work, maybe not. In general I think that IF it will work, it will take a LOT of time to convince someone that Linux-IL is a

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Monday 27 May 2002 18:24, Tzahi Fadida wrote: I guess you missed this: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-1904994,00.html Were talking about a cool 1 mil. And that, my friend, requires an Amuta - the goverment wants to know who to turn to, and prefferable - someone objective...

RE: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Tzahi Fadida
I am all for it, in fact that you have to seize these moments! They rarely come back. If you don't seize oppertunities you never grow. * - * - * Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax (+1 Outside the US) 240-597-3213 My Cool Site: HTTP://WWW.My2Nis.Com * - * - * - *

RE: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Tzahi Fadida
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Moshe Zadka Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 5:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Elections On Mon, 27 May 2002, Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's wrong with continuing to run IGLU

RE: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As usual you are trying to twist things and trying to pick a fight as obvious from your previous flame wars. so i don't think you deserve an answer. Then why did you answer? Truly, you are a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Good, now

RE: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Orna Agmon
I think it is a great idea, and an event I would like to take part in. In my opinion, if we take the trouble to organize an event, let it be an event we want to take part in, before we organize something for hypothetical others who will need to be tempted to come for promotion reasons. In other

Re: pasting from a KDE app into a non Unicode app (LyX)

2002-05-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Arie Folger wrote: Hi, I am trying to paste a Hebrew text from KEdit into LyX, but get question marks only. I guess because KDE uses Unicode internally, whereas LyX uses iso-whatever-you-choose (in my case iso-8859-8 - kudos to Dekel for supporting Hebrew in LyX).

Re: pasting from a KDE app into a non Unicode app (LyX)

2002-05-27 Thread Arie Folger
On Monday 27 May 2002 14:32, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Ony workaround I can think of is to save text to a text file (I think you can save it to an ISO-8859-8 file, but I'm not sure), This i what I am doing for now. Dvir suggested setting locale to Hebrew_IL. and import it into LyX. Quite ugly.

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Monday 27 May 2002 18:38, Orna Agmon wrote: The referred we, which are supposed to vote, is a body yet to be defined. Who gets the right to vote? linux users? sysadmins? people who paid their taxes to the amuta? for that, we need to set taxes. Linux-IL who are subscribed to this list, as

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, May 27, 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote about RE: Elections: As usual you are trying to twist things and trying to pick a fight as obvious from your previous flame wars. so i don't think you deserve an answer. .. ...except violating the DMCA and the cellular companies ToS daily...

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Second, I don't understand where you got the idea that the goverment is planning on giving the whole jackpot to a newly founded amuta of people that linuxam omanutam. According to that article, the committee (linux-il is NOT that committee) is going to give money to programming-groups in

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Orna Agmon wrote: Currently, I am proud to be a linux user, and a Haifux member. I do missionary work on every occasion, like I am sure most of you do. But if being an Israeli Linux user (=amuta member) would mean that I am a part of an official shnor organization, then

Re: mouse suddenly off center

2002-05-27 Thread Arie Folger
I wrote: Sometimes, as I am working and X is on, the mouse pointer suddenly ceases to represent the actual coordinates of this critter (actually, it's a touchpad), and is about 1.5 cm to the left of it's actual, invisible location. On Tuesday 21 May 2002 04:48, Shaul Karl wrote: Are you

Re: mounting iso9660 as rw

2002-05-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:46:46AM +0300, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: This may sound odd at first, and useless later, but I would like to add some files to a iso9660 filesystem. To be more exact, I have an iso of a CD and would like to update it with my own stuff. I tried to loop-mount it

Re: pasting from a KDE app into a non Unicode app (LyX)

2002-05-27 Thread Amir Hardon
Opps, I haven't CCed it. -Amir. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: pasting from a KDE app into a non Unicode app (LyX) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 23:16:49 +0300 From: Amir Hardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arie Folger [EMAIL PROTECTED] I found that setting LC_ALL and LANG

Re: mouse suddenly off center

2002-05-27 Thread Shay Elkin
On 2002.05.27 22:20 Arie Folger wrote: Sometimes, as I am working and X is on, the mouse pointer suddenly ceases to represent the actual coordinates of this critter (actually, it's a touchpad), and is about 1.5 cm to the left of it's actual, invisible location. My next guess,

Re: mouse suddenly off center

2002-05-27 Thread Arie Folger
On Monday 27 May 2002 16:16, Shay Elkin wrote: I know that for me, this happens when I use APM: ACPI solves this (And some other bug in the ThinkPad i1200 BIOS). Makes a lot of sense. APM does not fully work with my laptop, which wants ACPI. Matters got worse in RH7.3 over the RH7.2 updates

Strange 3com 3c905b card problem

2002-05-27 Thread Ohad . Levy
Hi List, I'm trying to use a 3com 3c905b card with an old 10m hub. It seems that no matter what I do(force Half+10mb) that card still prints out that he think that there is an duplex mismatch, and simply unable to transmit anything. Any other machine connected to that hub

Re: pasting from a KDE app into a non Unicode app (LyX)

2002-05-27 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 23:18, Amir Hardon wrote: I found that setting LC_ALL and LANG to he_IL fixes this problem. I'm not sure why(Does it make QT3 applications use iso charset?), but it works. Qt offers two flavors of data in the clipboard simultaneously (via QTextDrag, if you care): PLAIN

RE: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Tzahi Fadida
-Original Message- From: Nadav Har'El [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 8:51 PM To: Tzahi Fadida Cc: Dvir Volk; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Elections On Mon, May 27, 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote about RE: Elections: I guess you missed

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 19:43, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: I am significantly AGAINST this particular aspect. Assisting a military organisation is non-productive and, worse, anti-moral. Can't help but remember the Milkhama Kolelet sign on your door back in Aduva :) (worry not, I know

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
That's a bit unfortunate, given NaN, makers of Blender, went out of business some months ago. Nor does The GIMP have anything to demonstrate over tools like Adobe Photoshop (well, maybe GIMP's Film version has something...). There's still no viable drawing program (to stand against FreeHand,

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The DMCA is not a law in Israel, so whether or not any of us are breaking it is totally irrelevant. Until the president of the amuta goes to give a lecture in the US, I presume. I am not violating any cellular company's ToS. I

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-27 Thread Amir Tal
On Monday 27 May 2002 20:36, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Why wait for a company? Let's do it ourselves. Remember that film about Linux (Revoloution OS) we discussed the other day? Wheee! excellent idea! a chance to meet in person, discuss cool stuff and watch a documentary on penguins and

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Nathan Orenstein
The DMCA is not a law in Israel, so whether or not any of us are breaking it is totally irrelevant. Until the president of the amuta goes to give a lecture in the US, presume. I am not violating any cellular company's ToS. I don't do it myself, and my sendsms's license clearly prohibits its

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Amir Tal
On Monday 27 May 2002 20:24, Dvir Volk wrote: Get some money from the goverment, get some funding for Hebrew applications development on Linux - stuff like that.. this might be a good time to do that - as you've probably read, the government is considering funding hebrew open source

RE: Strange 3com 3c905b card problem

2002-05-27 Thread Ohad . Levy
And if I use network boot ? :( -Original Message- From: Jonathan Ben-Avraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 6:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Strange 3com 3c905b card problem On Tue, 28 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I'm trying

Re: Elections

2002-05-27 Thread Amir Tal
On Monday 27 May 2002 22:02, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: On Monday 27 May 2002 15:53, Ely Levy wrote: what with you latly? we got along just fine so far and now you want to make it some sucky official thing? Whats with me lately? Nothing much, just thinking that Linux movement in Israel should