Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 18 בDecember 2008, Erez D wrote: > i have recently bought a new computer. my old one had nvidia , and my new > has ati 4550 passive. > ... [rest of horror story omitted] This is a typical usage scenario for binary "add-on" drivers (just google for e.g: ubuntu madwifi) What is more in

Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Erez, The latest versions of Ubuntu, as well as Fedora and OpenSuSE 11.x use the latest Xorg server which *does not* need the /etc/xorg.conf file. Everything regarding the card is being done automatically (probing etc), so when you install Fedora 10 for example, you won't find this file. I assume

Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Erez D
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Oron Peled wrote: > On Thursday, 18 בDecember 2008, Erez D wrote: > > i have recently bought a new computer. my old one had nvidia , and my new > > has ati 4550 passive. > > ... [rest of horror story omitted] > > This is a typical usage scenario for binary "add-o

Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Erez D
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Erez, > > The latest versions of Ubuntu, as well as Fedora and OpenSuSE 11.x use > the latest Xorg server which *does not* need the /etc/xorg.conf file. > Everything regarding the card is being done automatically (probing > etc), so when yo

Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 18 December 2008, Erez D wrote: > If you arg thinking of buying a new graphic card, and want to choose > ati i wouldn't recommend that. > > [Snipped] > so i say again. i wouldn't recomend buying from ATI. > from now on. no ati neither amd for me. > > (with nvidia i used twinview a

is openmoko (hardware) really the solution ?

2008-12-18 Thread Erez D
first, i refer to the idea of using a special hardware - the freerunner. when i first heard of openmoko - the first open phone, i was very happy. once and for all i can do whatever i like with my phone, not what nokia/orange/whatever wants me to do ... however, i never got to get one (1972/freer

RE: Samba: convert shadow to smbpasswd.

2008-12-18 Thread Josh Roden
Thanks for the replies. I was hoping. HAPPY HANUKA! -Original Message- From: Shachar Shemesh [mailto:shac...@shemesh.biz] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:15 AM To: Dotan Shavit Cc: Josh Roden; linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: Samba: convert shadow to smbpasswd. Dotan Shavit wrote:

Re: make question

2008-12-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Jason Friedman" writes: > Hi all, > > I have had this make question that has been bugging me for a long time. > > I want to fix some eps files using eps2eps. This is the makefile I use: > > figure1_fixed.eps: figure1.eps > [tab] eps2eps $< $@ > > (replace [tab] with the tab character) > > This w