Re: Status of Software Patents in Europe

2004-12-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:05:07PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > I carried an obnoxious "Stop Software Patents in Europe" top frame on my > homepage, and a "No e-Patents" side-icon for all the pages of my home-site: > > http://www.shlomifish.org/ Have you looked at the News section of the linke

Re: OT: Re: Status of Software Patents in Europe

2004-12-20 Thread William Sherwin
Ira Abramov wrote: > I would ask such a question, because I want to know if Europe is a > better, more sensible place to emigrate to than the US, a place that > respects citizen freedoms and where I could start a business to promote > my lifestyle and ideals. Huh? Perhaps I'm a naive American, b

Re: OT: Re: Status of Software Patents in Europe

2004-12-20 Thread Omer Zak
Ira, I don't think you need to be that hard on Shlomi's reasons. He may not have given a weighty reason for his question. But this does not detract from the legitimacy of the question. The only problem I have with his question is that he didn't demonstrate having read (and getting royally confuse

Re: Initrd entry in grub.conf and loading initrd in the kernel code

2004-12-20 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Dan Kaspi wrote: > >The bootloader loads the initrd file from disk to memory so it knows > >exactly where it starts and it knows the end of it which is the start > >address + size of file. The boot loader puts this information into PARAM > >block which is a block > >of memory

OT: Re: Status of Software Patents in Europe

2004-12-20 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Mon, 20 Dec: > > I'm asking, because I would like to remove this features in case they are no > longer relevant. I would ask such a question, because I want to know if Europe is a better, more sensible place to emigrate to than the US, a place that respects

Re: Digital signature for PDF file

2004-12-20 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting softkol, from the post of Mon, 20 Dec: > Hi, > > What would be the most efficient mean to add digital signature to pdf files > on Linux. > > (Performance wise). I am not aware of a PDF spec for digisigs so you can use any method you want, such as GPG. if the GPG performance is not

Telux: Call for Presentations

2004-12-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
The Tel-Aviv Linux Club: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/lin-club/ calls upon interested members of the Linux community to schedule a time for them giving presentations as part of the club's activities. We have finished the Welcome-to-Linux (W2L) Series, which arrived just when we were out of presenta

Re: [OFFTOPIC] P&C ID Numbers (was: Re: sign up for go-linux)

2004-12-20 Thread Omer Zak
How about asking people to enter their ID number and having JavaScript code which does MD5 encryption on it before transmission to the Web server (with enough visual assurance and feedback to reassure the paranoid among us [me] that this is what they are doing)? I find it hard to believe that they

Status of Software Patents in Europe

2004-12-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
I carried an obnoxious "Stop Software Patents in Europe" top frame on my homepage, and a "No e-Patents" side-icon for all the pages of my home-site: http://www.shlomifish.org/ However, I heard that Poland has cancelled its support of the software patents, and something happened that was good i

Re: [OFFTOPIC] P&C ID Numbers (was: Re: sign up for go-linux)

2004-12-20 Thread Eli Marmor
Omer Zak wrote: > > I see. > > I think there are alternatives, which are less dangerous to people's > privacy. > > For example, when you sign up, P&C will issue you a serial number (perhaps > combination of name+number, like hotmail did) which you are requested to > use in your future dealings w

Digital signature for PDF file

2004-12-20 Thread softkol
Hi, What would be the most efficient mean to add digital signature to pdf files on Linux. (Performance wise). Best Regards, Israel Shikler Softkol Software Services Phone : 972-3-5348938 Mobile : 972-52-8885100 Fax: 972-3-5348967 =

[OFFTOPIC] P&C ID Numbers (was: Re: sign up for go-linux)

2004-12-20 Thread Omer Zak
I see. I think there are alternatives, which are less dangerous to people's privacy. For example, when you sign up, P&C will issue you a serial number (perhaps combination of name+number, like hotmail did) which you are requested to use in your future dealings with P&C. And you'll want to use th

Re: sign up for go-linux

2004-12-20 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have just visited the signup page. I whanted to know out why > my ID number is needed in order to sign up ? I saw the same signup page. However, instead of using it to sign up, I sent E-mail and explained that I am not willing to divulge my ID num

Re: sign up for go-linux

2004-12-20 Thread Eli Marmor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have just visited the signup page. I whanted to know out why > my ID number is needed in order to sign up ? I'm not the spokesman of People&Computers, but if I was asked to guess why they need it, I could guess easily: This is the only UNIQUE number, that EACH of us

sign up for go-linux

2004-12-20 Thread shtirlitz
Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi list, > > The (more or less) final schedule for Go-Linux is at > http://pc.co.il/go-linux. This is also where you can register, if you > want to come. > > To all those who sent me suggestions - I'm sorry I didn't get back to > you. My life have been fairly hectic in the

Re: Go Linux - final (more or less) schedule is available

2004-12-20 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:14:20PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi list, > > The (more or less) final schedule for Go-Linux is at > http://pc.co.il/go-linux. This is also where you can register, if you > want to come. Thanks for posting this. So... who's going? :-) > To all those who sent m

Re: Go Linux - final (more or less) schedule is available

2004-12-20 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi list, The (more or less) final schedule for Go-Linux is at http://pc.co.il/go-linux. This is also where you can register, if you want to come. To all those who sent me suggestions - I'm sorry I didn't get back to you. My life have been fairly hectic in the past few day

Go Linux - final (more or less) schedule is available

2004-12-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi list, The (more or less) final schedule for Go-Linux is at http://pc.co.il/go-linux. This is also where you can register, if you want to come. To all those who sent me suggestions - I'm sorry I didn't get back to you. My life have been fairly hectic in the past few days. All suggestions wer

Re: Stacks

2004-12-20 Thread Danny Lieberman
Meir good call. XAMPP is cool but it isnt production ready (by self admission not secure) , it places the files in a bunch of non-std places and doesnt have any centralized configuration capability it seems Danny Lieberman www.software.co.il +972-8-970-1485(voice) +972-54-447-1114(Cell) - Orig

Re: smb hebrew file names in konqueror (fwd)

2004-12-20 Thread Naomi Schor
Yesh! Ilya - this works! Now I can see in konqui's smb:/ the hebrew file names of both win98 and XP shares. Although I stopped samba, the file /etc/samba/smb.conf DID make a difference. I've put there: unix charset = utf-8 display charset = utf-8 dos charset = 862 Thanks for all your suggestio

Re: Initrd entry in grub.conf and loading initrd in the kernel code

2004-12-20 Thread Dan Kaspi
Hello, First. Thanks fo Ori Idan and Guy Keren (which answered as a mulix replacement); Second: Idan said: The bootloader loads the initrd file from disk to memory so it knows exactly where it starts and it knows the end of it which is the start address + size of file. The boot loader puts this inf

Re: smb hebrew file names in konqueror (fwd)

2004-12-20 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:25:45AM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > Why does this happen? I do not know. Either smbclient Or Windows > wrongly think this is cp850, and converts to iso8859-1. You can try > and sniff (or some other such low-level debugging) if you are > interested, or simply put th

Re: smb hebrew file names in konqueror (fwd)

2004-12-20 Thread Oded Arbel
On Monday 20 December 2004 10:25, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:10:33PM +0200, Naomi Schor wrote: > > > > > 0001120 3234 3220 3030 0a34 2020 e2c6 2ee0 7874 > > > > > > > > All plain ASCII except those three characters here. > > > > > > > > Appears to be cp1255: Gimel, Seg

Re: ReiserFS over MD?

2004-12-20 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Liran Cohen, from the post of Mon, 20 Dec: > I agree with EZ, on a production system, I wouldn't use JBOD to hold > data, nor back it up, hard disks these days are not that expensive, what they ARE expensive. I have limited room in my 1U. Maybe one day I WILL add another disk (no raid at

Re: smb hebrew file names in konqueror (fwd)

2004-12-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:10:33PM +0200, Naomi Schor wrote: > > > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:29:47 +0200 > From: Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Naomi Schor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: smb hebrew file names in konqueror > > Hi >

Re: ReiserFS over MD?

2004-12-20 Thread Liran Cohen
I agree with EZ, on a production system, I wouldn't use JBOD to hold data, nor back it up, hard disks these days are not that expensive, what more, on the suggested deployment, should a disk fail you will loose the content of both disks, whereas using any sort of redundant array, you will usual