Re: Kernel user address space

2004-06-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:48:48AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:19:42PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: If choosing off gives each process a 3GB usable address space, why should I want to turn it on if my machine only has 2GB?

recomendations linux address book that supports hebrew

2004-06-16 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking for a linux based address book that will support hebrew (main requirement), and if it can integrate into mutt or emacs (I am thinking of trying out gnus more extensively) it would also be nice. I would rather avoid anything that requires gnome/kde libraries such as using the whole

[OT] Glass Screen (Digitizer) for Palm (IIIxe)

2004-06-16 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
Hi. Well, it finally happened. I dropped my trusty Palm Pilot once too many times, and busted the glass screen. Anyone out there have one to sell or know where I can get one cheap and fast ? TIA. -- The day is short, and the work is great, | Aharon Schkolnik and the laborers are lazy,

Convert Hebrew Text Between Codesets

2004-06-16 Thread Ilan Aisic
Anyone aware of a utility/program to convert hebrew text between the different codesets and representations? In particular, I'm interested in changing mutlibyte Hebrew to and from HTML characters. where: AlefBeit...Taf would be: Mulitbye hebrew in hex (e0 is Alef, 2e is '.'): e0e12e2e2efa The

Re: Kernel user address space

2004-06-16 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:48:48AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Is it one of the options in himem support? I have there off, 4GB, and 64GB. No, it's an external patch, by mingo of redhat. The RH kernels probably have it as an option, and so do -mm. Let's see what I understand. I get 3GB

cellular usb modem for pelephone

2004-06-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi I want to be able to connect to the internet from my laptop when away from home/office . It seems that this is best done using a cellular modem. My current cellular phone is a samsun 811. I'm quite happy with it. However it seems that the best connection I can get through it is 9600bps .

Re: [WEB Site] The First Maps Site on Linux?

2004-06-16 Thread Idan Sofer
Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:36:09PM +0300, Amichai Rotman wrote: http://www.eyeonisrael.com/ -- Looks like a tourist thing more then something useful at the moment, but its nice that there is finally a map that works under linux. The only problem is that the whole

Re: Kernel user address space

2004-06-16 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:52:18AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: There was just a thread about this in kernel newbies, but I don't remember the exact details. IIRC the kernel address the first 896M of memory directly, not as virtual memory No, the kernel maps the first 896M into its virtual

Re: Convert Hebrew Text Between Codesets

2004-06-16 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Ilan, Check out the fibidi package. It has some converters that might help you. - yba On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Ilan Aisic wrote: Anyone aware of a utility/program to convert hebrew text between the different codesets and representations? In particular, I'm interested in changing mutlibyte

quick MySQL howto, anyone?

2004-06-16 Thread Ira Abramov
I'm trying to find a simple a-b-c cookbook for Unix admins that are not fluent in DB administration (i.e. myself dor instance). methods for backup or replication and their pros and cons, how to dump and restore the DB for backup and migration, and basic debugging and user management. those

Re: cellular usb modem for pelephone

2004-06-16 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I want to be able to connect to the internet from my laptop when away from home/office . It seems that this is best done using a cellular modem. Newer phones seem to offer faster connection (around 64kbps), but only through some USB interface. I

Re: Convert Hebrew Text Between Codesets

2004-06-16 Thread meorero
I’m letting myself join the question. Since the new version academic library catalogues (aleph 500), has a problem with Hebrew display at Mozilla and Konqi. [See my announce: http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/06-2004/10386.html ] So - I’m looking too for a program doing such

Re: [WEB Site] The First Maps Site on Linux?

2004-06-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:17:51AM +0300, Idan Sofer wrote: [snip] The only problem is that the whole thing relies on a flash player. last time I've checked, flash player is non-free stuff. Yes, but AFAIK swf is an open format, and there are few FOSS readers and writers in various stages of

Re: quick MySQL howto, anyone?

2004-06-16 Thread Baruch Even
* Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040616 12:02]: I'm trying to find a simple a-b-c cookbook for Unix admins that are not fluent in DB administration (i.e. myself dor instance). methods for backup or replication and their pros and cons, how to dump and restore the DB for backup and migration,

Re: quick MySQL howto, anyone?

2004-06-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:47:49AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: I'm trying to find a simple a-b-c cookbook for Unix admins that are not fluent in DB administration (i.e. myself dor instance). methods for backup or replication and their pros and cons, how to dump and restore the DB for backup and

Re: running wine using a read-only windows directory

2004-06-16 Thread meorero
You can read from NTFS but there are still problems writing ti it. Look at : http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/status.html#ntfsdriver I wanted to do that myself in my dual-boot machine (that has WinXP) but then I've read the following warning at Wine User Guide [

Re: Convert Hebrew Text Between Codesets

2004-06-16 Thread Eitan Isaacson
maybe i didn't understand the question, but for character set conversions i use iconv. eitan. Ilan Aisic wrote: Anyone aware of a utility/program to convert hebrew text between the different codesets and representations? In particular, I'm interested in changing mutlibyte Hebrew to and from

Help getting rid of M$

2004-06-16 Thread Ben Hornedo
Hello All: I am a Linux enthusiast currently living in Israel (moved from New York City). For the past year or so I've been helping a small factory in my Kibbutz get their technology in order. Also trying to wean them off Micro$oft products. The factory has about 20 users and they use an

Re: Convert Hebrew Text Between Codesets

2004-06-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:58:34AM +0200, Ilan Aisic wrote: Anyone aware of a utility/program to convert hebrew text between the different codesets and representations? iconv(1) is a general-purpose charset convertor. recode is aanother one. More tolerant of its input. In particular, I'm

Re: Convert Hebrew Text Between Codesets

2004-06-16 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
Is not that a typical job for sed? Shalom (Regards), Mati [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16/06/2004 11:49 To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: Convert Hebrew Text Between Codesets Im letting myself join the question. Since the new version academic library catalogues

Re: quick MySQL howto, anyone?

2004-06-16 Thread Eli Marmor
Ira Abramov wrote: I'm trying to find a simple a-b-c cookbook for Unix admins that are not fluent in DB administration (i.e. myself dor instance). methods for backup or replication and their pros and cons, how to dump and restore the DB for backup and migration, and basic debugging and user

PAM problem - login with putty

2004-06-16 Thread Oded Arbel
Hi list. I have the weirdest problem - my system is set to allow login to accounts defined in MySQL using pam_mysql. normally I don't have any problems loging in using either ssh,ftp,imap,pop3 or smtp (the services I have mysqlized). But I've just now noticed that I cannot login to one of

Re: running wine using a read-only windows directory

2004-06-16 Thread linux-il
If you have a Windows on your computer then you should be able to plug its NTFS driver into linux. Forgot what's the name of the project which makes this possible but you know the drill (google). It was published a few months ago. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can read from NTFS but there are

Re: Has anyone got experience with adsl to 013 (Barak)?

2004-06-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone here can comment about adsl connectivity to 013 (Barak)? I am not sure I understand what you mean by connectivity. I can only recall being connected with Barak's ADSL a couple or more years ago, and their (business grade) support *sucked*.

Re: running wine using a read-only windows directory

2004-06-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:16:20PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have a Windows on your computer then you should be able to plug its NTFS driver into linux. Forgot what's the name of the project which makes this possible but you know the drill (google). It was published a few months

Re: [Israel.pm] Sorting By MySQL DATETIME Fields?

2004-06-16 Thread Omer Zak
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 12:14, Yuval Yaari wrote: Hi, I had a query that used JOIN and took too much time (4 seconds). I figured Perl could handle it much faster, and so it did. While Perl may be doing it faster, I'd suggest that you check why your JOIN took excessively long time.

Re: Kernel user address space

2004-06-16 Thread guy keren
to sum it all up - we're back to the days of himem.sys and emm386.sys on good old MSDOS, except that 896MB replaces the old 640KB on msdos (which himem.sys lifted to a 1MB limit), and 'ZONE_HIGHMEM' comes instead of the memory swapping performed by EMM386.sys . now, who was the linux geek that

What if we licensed cars the way non-Free software is licensed?

2004-06-16 Thread Omer Zak
Remember the pieces about the rate of technological change of computers and software versus that of cars? Remember the comparison of reliability of software to that of cars? Greet the new kid in the block: what if cars were licensed like software?

Re: Kernel user address space

2004-06-16 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:58:36PM +0300, guy keren wrote: to sum it all up - we're back to the days of himem.sys and emm386.sys on good old MSDOS, except that 896MB replaces the old 640KB on msdos (which himem.sys lifted to a 1MB limit), and 'ZONE_HIGHMEM' comes instead of the memory

Re: Kernel user address space

2004-06-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:58:36PM +0300, guy keren wrote: to sum it all up - we're back to the days of himem.sys and emm386.sys on good old MSDOS, except that 896MB replaces the old 640KB on msdos (which himem.sys lifted to a 1MB limit), and 'ZONE_HIGHMEM' comes instead of the memory

Re: Kernel user address space

2004-06-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:10:17PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:58:36PM +0300, guy keren wrote: to sum it all up - we're back to the days of himem.sys and emm386.sys on good old MSDOS, except that 896MB replaces the old 640KB on msdos (which himem.sys lifted to

mySql logs

2004-06-16 Thread Tal Achituv
Hi all! a few questions: Someone deleted one of my databases, and I would like to find out who... (which user and what time is enough) I refer to mysql users, and notOS users... Where are the logs hiding? How can i know whatare the startup parameters of my current mysql installation?

Re: Convert Hebrew Text Between Codesets

2004-06-16 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 11:58, Ilan Aisic wrote: In particular, I'm interested in changing mutlibyte Hebrew to and from HTML characters. where: The same in HTML (#1488; is Alef, '.' is '.'): Ok, for this part of the question (nobody answered yet), why not use sed? Write the following