linmodems faq getting written

2002-01-16 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
Hello linmodems users I volunteered to maintain a linmodem FAQ. By now I have written a few words (offline) about h/w modems, pctel lucent and some ham/Intel. Tomorrow I will try to end ham, and conexant, and maybe Motorola. I Need help from linmodems users: Please send me the version of

Flaming newbies (was Re: Hebrew in Konqueror)

2002-01-15 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
On 2002 January 15 ,Tuesday 20:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a really WIERD question. Did you even try looking at any of thusands of Hebrew sites? If you had, you'd know the question is irrelevant. BTW - it's even easier that RTFM :-) cool we are flamming newbies! can I go too? well to

Re: intermitent keyboard problem

2001-12-31 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
on the console, i have seen that mandrake sometimes switches to hebrew with no good reason. ctrl+shift sloves this problem. (I need to say that it happens when I press some of the f's keys) On 2001 December 31 ,Monday 20:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I hate questions that begin

Re: resizing ext3.

2001-12-29 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
I am using ext3 and when I type df it shows: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda715522 2616 12105 18% /boot none 63380 0 63380 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 1226516920660305856 76%

console chars

2001-12-26 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
hello list I once wrote a program for editing 8x8 and 8x16 fonts (in good old dos). I edited some hebrew fonts (hebrew starting at 226), and run some bash script (a part of kdb program in mandrake) which generates psf files, for use with consolechars. On my dos proggy, I see that all hebrew

Re: hebrew in evolution

2001-12-24 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
On 2001 December 24 ,Monday 16:53, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Diego G. Iastrubni wrote: Hi linux users! There were a few questions about writing in hebrew under evolution. I made this, here arethe steps I made: 1) on the script that start X: LC_CTYPE=he_IL

Re: a obscure bug in X

2001-12-23 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
. it is well known to improve performance. Noam On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 22:44, Diego G. Iastrubni wrote: Hi all I started playing with my system (now I have ext3, which means i can just press the power button like I do on windows..) and decided to change lilo from a graphic boot into a menu

Re: Kernel 2.4 drivers for conexant based winmodems

2001-12-23 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
On 2001 December 22 ,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 knows why

Re: ngrep problem (?)

2001-12-23 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
On 2001 December 23 ,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 *** manuals, when

a obscure bug in X

2001-12-21 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
Hi all I started playing with my system (now I have ext3, which means i can just press the power button like I do on windows..) and decided to change lilo from a graphic boot into a menu. Which looks cool either way. When I boot from a text menu in lilo, in X I see a ugly noise or distorcion

hebrew in evolution

2001-12-20 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
Hi linux users! There were a few questions about writing in hebrew under evolution. I made this, here are the steps I made: 1) on the script that start X: LC_CTYPE=he_IL biditext gnome-session 2) on evolution I made a new charset: iso8859-8. (unrecognized) 3) please be sure that you can

Re: SM56 modems in redhat 7.2

2001-12-19 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
those drivers are RPM's from motorola site. note that their support is not longer continued since the software modem department at motorola was closed. The wrapper you mention are only for pctel, and lucent (the latest is source wrappable while the first is ... I really dont know, it makes it

Re: [offtopic]

2001-12-17 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
On 2001 December 16 ,Sunday 23:08, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: LICQ is porting to thta. he may cvs and get the code. for more reference read the licq-mailing lists (they should be somewhere online), sice they said about a open sourced project with v8 support. - diego Hi, This is an offtopic

Re: enabling ipchains/iptables

2001-12-15 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
actually I was talking in general. One I recopmiled a full kernel to support my printer. parport etc... - diego On 2001 December 15 ,Saturday 15:38, guy keren wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Diego G. Iastrubni wrote: basicly recompile the kernel with one or two new modules. Ok I did this once

Re: audio device sharing

2001-12-15 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
On 2001 December 15 ,Saturday 15:46, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2001, guy keren wrote about Re: audio device sharing: As far as i remember there was some program that could share your audio device with different programs who did IO, on the same time. under Gnome, this

Re: enabling ipchains/iptables

2001-12-14 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
hello all. basicly recompile the kernel with one or two new modules. Ok I did this once, the only thing changed was one more module. So why the new kernel (bzimage) was different, some bytes larger. - diego = To unsubscribe,

Re: Unpack/Extract a file

2001-12-13 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
On 2001 December 13 ,Thursday 11:18, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I meant for X. xterm -e mc I hope you are kidding... ;) It's like running windows commander under wine... (I did it as well). I mean native X. (I am using mc konsole right now). You can also run gmc. gmc is not a two-pane file

Re: some questions.

2001-12-13 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
On 2001 December 13 ,Thursday 11:11, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: b. Hetz or anyone else: why exactly kde is so annoyed with the charset being set to iso8859-8 that it prevents kde programs from running? it's a bug in QT, a patch was reported here. It's a unsigned int which reach -1. (a really big

Re: Unpack/Extract a file

2001-12-11 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
On 2001 December 11 ,Tuesday 04:29, you wrote: (deleted my orrors spelling... does anybody know how to configure kmail to check for spelling orrors each time I press ctrl-enter?) Well, WinCommandder is a really good program, but it is not free, so I guess you can't port it yourself. I was

Re: Making linux look harder than it is, Response

2001-12-11 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
By doing so, Microsoft has achieved an important target: The user doesn't really need to know how the program works in order to start working with it. This is the very thing that (IMHO) wasn't achieved on Linux. The stupid user approach: a program that does not work on the first run, is not

Re: Unpack/Extract a file

2001-12-10 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
risking to be off topic: windows commander on windows can do it too, and even read rpm's. Is anybody want a port of this program to linux? It was compiled in delphi should a port should not be that difficault. I can ask the author (I asked once he sais OK, but I am waiting for kylix here in

a cfdisk usage question.

2001-11-29 Thread Diego G . Iastrubni
Hi. I want to delete an NTFS partition and write a new FAT/FAT32 one. I am using cfdisk since windows fdisk does not let me delete ntfs partitions. Now, I have a primary fat32, an extended partition, and on that extended partition, I have 1 etx2, 1 linux-swap, one NTFS, one FAT32. I delete

Re: OT Re: Hebrew Linux from IBM?

2001-11-28 Thread Diego G . Iastrubni
On 2001 November? 26 ,Monday 01:24, Nadav Har'El wrote: Not true... Almost all Gnu software, except perhaps GNOME, was very much alive before Linux. Emacs, Gcc, Gdb, Bash, Groff, GNU make, bison, fileutils, just as a few examples, and non-gnu stuff like Ghostscript, Tex, X-Windows, TCL/TK and

Re: Teletext

2001-11-28 Thread Diego G . Iastrubni
yedida bar david has. I have gvanim. Yedidyah Bar-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] - diego On 2001 November? 27 ,Tuesday 20:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a good TeleText application for Linux? Also, has someone XAWTV configuration for Matav? Thanks, - Tomer Get your own FREE

Re: koffice 1.1 build error

2001-11-22 Thread Diego G . Iastrubni
On 2001 November? 21 ,Wednesday 21:26, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Did u really expected Koffice 1.1 to replace MS Word? cause it ain't. http://koffice.kde.org/install-source.phtml - get the source from here and compile it - it worked here on Redhat 6.2 so I assume it can compile and work on the

koffice 1.1 build error

2001-11-21 Thread Diego G . Iastrubni
Hi After I tried to build koffice 1.1. I got: inter.cpp -o KDChartBarPainter.-DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -c KDChartBarPa KDChartBarPainter.cpp: In method `void KDChartBarPainter::paintData(QPainter *, KDChartTableData *, bool, KDChartDataRegionList *)': KDChartBarPainter.cpp:629:

does anybody have mandrake near carmiel/technion?

2001-11-21 Thread Diego G . Iastrubni
hi all does anybody have the new mandrake near carmiel/Technion? I would go to the install party some time ago but I was on miluim. - diego -- Just because they are called 'forbidden' transitions does not mean that they are forbidden. They are less allowed than allowed transitions, if you

Re: Demos and the Demo Scene - Sounds interesting?

2001-11-21 Thread Diego G . Iastrubni
On 2001 November? 12 ,Monday 08:18, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I have anothre idea... allegro. It was originally for DJGPP but 4-betas, WIP, also called 3.9.x, are really great in multiplatform, lately also supporting directx even on mingw. http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro - diego Well,

Re: koffice 1.1 build error

2001-11-21 Thread Diego G . Iastrubni
On 2001 November? 21 ,Wednesday 20:06, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Why don't you grab the koffice RPM and install it? look at rpmfind.net If it's not available for MDK 7.2 then grab the SRPM and rebuild it on Mandrake 7.2. the orrors were from the mdk 7.2 srpm. I make install on some libs to test

gnome and gdm questions

2001-09-29 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
Hi all I am in the moving to gnome (kde is working too slow thease days). and I have few questions: 1) gdm: when I used kdm I hade a ~/.xsession file for each user which kde used to decide which enviroment to use. now gdm does not use that file (i dont see some programs that are running and

Re: sm56 Modem in Linux

2001-09-29 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
Can you be more specific? does the module load? where do you see the abnormal charachter message, on the console, in the log fileAfter the message does the module is still listed in lsmod list? does that module comes with source? no source, also no support from motorola thease days since

Re: gnome and gdm questions

2001-09-29 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
On 2001 September? 29 ,Saturday 15:38, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: First of all, you can easily run gnome from kdm and kde from gdm. It's all a matter of putting the right session (and it is really not that difficult). duh... but, I want it to run my own script per user. Anyway, check your distro's

Re: gnome and gdm questions

2001-09-29 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
On 2001 September? 29 ,Saturday 16:11, Diego G. Iastrubni wrote: you did understand. in mandrake 7.2, the order is ~/.xsession, ~/.Xclients. but only if no evniroment was asked. apparently it asks for the last enviroment everytime I log in, (which was gnome or kde depending the user