Re: found on another list

2005-05-30 Thread Omer Zak
Yikes! No captions! :-( :-( :-( On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 18:48 +0300, Peter wrote: http://www.novell.com/linux/windowstolinux/publicservice/ Peter -- MS-Windows is the Pal-Kal of the PC world. My own blog is at http://www.livejournal.com/users/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this

What are those two must-have features? (was: Re: Lilo boots slow...)

2005-05-21 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 10:04 +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Sat, 21 May: GRUB is so much better than what I remember from LILO. I have two must-have features in LILO that grub doesn't do at the moment. with all its glorified feature set, it's not easy to

Re: hebrew in vim's commands+unprintable chars

2005-05-20 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 11:51 +0300, avraham wrote: In all these cases I had to retype the line. Apparenly there were some unprintable characters that did not agree with LaTeX. 1-I was not able to detect these characters with :set list in vim. I tried cat -A of the commented-out lines, but as

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-20 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 16:07 +0300, Ori Idan wrote: I installed debian on an IBM thinkpad with LILO as it's boot loader, when LILO starts is says: Loading Linux and then draws dots for few seconds and then says BIOS check successfull and start to actualy load the kernel. Is there a way to

33GB/127GB Limits (was: Re: upgraading a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT hark disk)

2005-05-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 16:33 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: On 5/18/05, Kfir Lavi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux can handle large hard drives, because it don't depend on the bios. Thats why i was able to put 200GB on P100 ;) But isn't it dependend on the BIOS to recognize the disk and load

Re: Is open source more secure? [was Re: Moving to Linux]

2005-05-13 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 10:18 +0300, Ori Idan wrote: I think this is an academic debate if GNU/Linux is more secured or not. For the simple people, let us look at the facts: 1. When was the last time any of this list members has seen a virus in his GNU/Linux desktop? (I guess the answer is

Re: Job offer

2005-05-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 08:29 +0300, Orna Agmon wrote: On Thu, 5 May 2005, Vasiliev Michael wrote: Looks like it's time for me to put my $0.02 in. Instead of wasting his time flaming and then apologising, one could develop some job offer guidelines as well as the job offer template/form

SUSPECTED SPAM HARVESTER (was: Re: Job offer)

2005-05-05 Thread Omer Zak
While job ads are on-topic in this mailing list, I suspect that the enclosed message was written by a spam harvester. There are absolutely no details about the company, what specific expertise it requires, where will the working place be. Even the E-mail address is strangely bland. If you reply

Cleared (was: Re: SUSPECTED SPAM HARVESTER (was: Re: Job offer))

2005-05-05 Thread Omer Zak
, Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While job ads are on-topic in this mailing list, I suspect that the enclosed message was written by a spam harvester. There are absolutely no details about the company, what specific expertise it requires, where will the working place be.Even the E-mail

Moderators' Scheduling Software (was: Re: [OT] Moderator's rant)

2005-05-04 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Vasiliev Michael wrote: [... snipped ...] This will make the adding of moderators something that can ease the burden on current moderators. It will also bring the support users get back to the one they get from a single moderator, more or less. [... snipped ...] If

Re: A Brief History of Linux in Israel

2005-04-24 Thread Omer Zak
On 23/04/05, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did the best to get the facts right, and do justice to the history. I'm not aware of any other one who documented the Israeli open-source history this way. Note that the page is world-editable so feel free to correct typos and stuff.

Re: bug in imagemagick_6%3a6.0.6.2-2.2_i386.deb ?

2005-04-09 Thread Omer Zak
Which directory is $PWD (depends upon how you activate pstoedit or imagemagick)? What are its permissions? To create a file, the directory needs to be writable. --- Omer On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 08:19 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This morning I

I have a crush on backslash, help me find her! (was: Re: searching for a char in vim)

2005-03-24 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Aaron wrote: I am trying to make a script to run within vim, I need a way to search for \notes yank it delete the line it is on and then put it back. I can't quite figure out how to search for \ in vim I tried /^\notes^ but it didn't work I then tried/^\^notes but it

Configuration files (was: Re: I must be missing something)

2005-03-23 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 23:28 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:46:24PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: There is no other explanation. Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in /etc. They all fairly much carry the same

Re: Math optimizations in... Java?

2005-03-16 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 13:03 +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: ... highly optimized math app in Java Looks to me like oxymoron. I'll be generous and give credit to the guy for neglecting to tell you that he uses JNI and a native math library for his inner loops. If he moved the math library as it is

Re: how to do mv ---123.jpg 123.jpg

2005-03-15 Thread Omer Zak
mv ./---123.jpg 123.jpg worked for me (for 123.jpg==xxx.y). On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:50 +0200, Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, Here is the problem: mv ---123.jpg 123.jpg mv: unrecognized option `---123.jpg' Try `mv --help' for more information. I have tried a lot of things but to no avail. kfir

Re: automake depends on automake

2005-03-11 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 09:22 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I'm managing a project with automake. Currently installed on my machine is automake 1.7.9. In some regards, this is just great. At close to zero cost I get out of tree builds, total dependency tracking, install + DESTDIR, uninstall,

DoS attack by LAND

2005-03-08 Thread Omer Zak
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5604579.html?type=ptpart=invtag=feedsubj=news The attack consists of sending a packet having the same address for source and destination to a machine. This causes MS-Windows to enter into infinite loop, which denies part of the computer's services. The

Re: [OT, but so often discussed] www.iaa.gov.il wants IE

2005-03-06 Thread Omer Zak
I have visited the links using Mozilla 1.7.5 under Debian Testing, not configured to masquerade its own identity AFAIK. All those links worked for me OK. The only irregularity seen by me was that the logical bottom of the OnlineFlights (luach tisot zman emet) Web page was in middle of the table

Re: [OT, but so often discussed] www.iaa.gov.il wants IE

2005-03-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 00:00 +0200, Oron Peled wrote: Ok, solved. Good work! The answer is that the site tries to set a cookie -- if it get refused -- you get the stupid error message instead of one that ask for enabled cookies. The Web site QA people probably did not cover all error cases.

Re: [OT, but so often discussed] www.iaa.gov.il wants IE

2005-03-05 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 21:53 +, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: No longer. The domain does not seem to be resolvable. A Google later I discovered http://www.ben-gurion-airport.co.il that redirects to www.iaa.gov.il and renders just fine with Mozilla. There are prominent links to real-time flight

RE: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Omer Zak
I suggest that someone also try to access Bank Discount's Web site using a text browser (such as lynx), and if there are problems there too - make a complaint to the appropriate bodies concerned with Web site accessibility to people with disabilities. The issue at stake is not only accessibility

STOP! (was: Re: Looking for an experienced Linux system administrator)

2005-02-24 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 02:05 +0200, $%*^$*$^ wrote: Tell the world that you were kicked out after !@(*!([EMAIL PROTECTED] months... Let's put immediate stop to the smear campaign. If the campaign continues to run any more time, we'll be left wondering why our sources of jobs and projects

MySQL root != Linux root (was: Re: mp3ogg2db)

2005-02-17 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 19:28 +0200, Aaron wrote: 2. There are a bunch of applications which are a frontend to mysql. I installed them but when I tried running all of them I meet a brick wall. Create a new database asks me for information which I give and which it rejects: Hostname: (I give

Re: Virtual fdisk?

2005-02-14 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 14:38 +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:28:48PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: When the partition table is destroyed (fully or partially) in hard disk, it needs to be reconstructed using patterns in the rest of the hard disk, documentation and shrewd

Virtual fdisk?

2005-02-13 Thread Omer Zak
When the partition table is destroyed (fully or partially) in hard disk, it needs to be reconstructed using patterns in the rest of the hard disk, documentation and shrewd guesses. After a guess is made about the extents of the partitions, the partition table can be edited and updated using

Re: Virtual fdisk?

2005-02-13 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 22:11 +0200, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Omer Zak wrote: Therefore, it is desirable to have a way to instruct the OS to mount the hard disk in RO mode, and access its contents as if the partition table is such-and-such (rather than the partition table

Looking for more LUGs to brainwash

2005-02-12 Thread Omer Zak
In addition to the well-known LUGs in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, are there LUGs in other Israeli cities? The purpose of my question is to locate more opportunities to brainwash^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Heducate people about the subject of computer (and Linux in particular) accessibility to people with

For those who would like to subscribe to Hackers-IL

2005-02-10 Thread Omer Zak
Several billions of nano-eons ago, Hackers-IL was split off Linux-IL. The members of Linux-IL at the time knew where, what, why and how to join (or not to join) Hackers-IL. Meanwhile, several processing cycles have been burned by the server hosting Linux-IL and there are newcomers to Linux-IL,

PC with MS-Windows XP chaper than PC with no OS or with Linux?!

2005-02-05 Thread Omer Zak
Yes, according to http://osdir.com/slash3992.html Tier 1 suppliers in USA charge lower prices for PC with MS-Windows XP pre-installed than for PC with no OS or with Linux. However, in spite of his claim to be Linux supporter, the writer of the article fails to mention the most important

CD problems (was: Re: so strange)

2005-02-03 Thread Omer Zak
1. Does your friend's CD work with CDs from other sources? His CD drive may be defective. 2. Are your CDs readable in other people's computers? Your CD burner may be partially defective. --- Omer On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 21:56 +0200, Aaron wrote: Hi

Re: Convert perl to C.

2005-02-01 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:58 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: There is a Perl to C compiler called a programmer. But that's a proprietary solution. Prices and availability varies and so does the quality of the translation. They are usually not sold, but rented,

[DIVERGED TO OFFTOPIC HUMOR] Re: Convert perl to C.

2005-02-01 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 12:36 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Omer Zak wrote: Why is it proprietary solution of the worst kind? Ooops! Forgot to put in my explicit humor disclaimer. My bad. I too omitted the explicit humor disclaimer. The code is free, your programmer isn't

Re: ls doesn't return on /var/www/html

2005-01-30 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 17:37 +0200, David Suna wrote: I have a RedHat 9 system. Everything seems to be working fine. I tried to do an ls /var/www/html and the command hangs. Doing the same on other directories is fine. I assume that some process has the directory open which is why the ls

Re: C++ problem

2005-01-29 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, Here is a small program for your viewing pleasure: class a { public: explicit a(int param); What is the meaning of 'explicit' declaration? Is this a C++ keyword which was added since I learned C++? a operator= ( a that );

Sorry, I forgot about copy constructor (was: Re: C++ problem)

2005-01-29 Thread Omer Zak
Replying to myself, because I forgot one more point: From what I remember about C++, you need also a copy constructor in this case, because you strive to copy a value to a variable (and in this special case, the value is a constant instance of a class). On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Omer Zak wrote

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 17:21 +0200, Arik Baratz wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:30:25 +0200, Shoshannah Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I have complied a list of the most important of these bugs, and I would be glad if people take the time, sign up to the bug tracking system, and

Re: (maybe??) hardware problem

2004-12-31 Thread Omer Zak
Seems that your BIOS never recognized your IDE drives (or it stopped recognizing them due to some reason). Check your BIOS setup settings. When Linux starts up, it carries its own hardware recognition procedure, independently of what the BIOS recognized or not. So it is possible for Linux to

Re: Managing a Linux based cluster.

2004-12-26 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Amit Roseberger wrote: Hi All. I am trying to build a Linux based (haven't yet decided on the exact distro/s) cluster for testing a complicated server side application. Building the cluster is not my problem though... What I need is an idea/software (open source or

Re: Did upgrade from Evolution 1.4 to Evolution 2.0.3 costed me RSS following capability?

2004-12-26 Thread Omer Zak
This part of the Evolution upgrade prcess was, surprisingly enough, a non-problem for me. I adhered religiously to aptitude. When Evolution 2.0.3 started up for the first time, it imported my Evolution 1.4 files (except for the RSS feed definitions *sob*). It then asked me if I want to delete

Did upgrade from Evolution 1.4 to Evolution 2.0.3 costed me RSS following capability?

2004-12-25 Thread Omer Zak
In the previous version of Evolution, I had a nice Summary view, in which could register and keep track of several RSS streams. Today Debian Testing upgraded me to Evolution 2.0.3. All data appears to have migrated properly, and I was nicely asked if I want to delete Evolution 1.4 data (which I

Re: Activating a different Web browser from Evolution

2004-12-22 Thread Omer Zak
. --- Omer On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 08:59, Baruch Even wrote: Omer Zak wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 07:34, Lior Kesos wrote: How do I change 'gnome-default-applications-properties'? gnome-control-center from the command line. -- My own blog is at http

Activating a different Web browser from Evolution

2004-12-21 Thread Omer Zak
OS version: Debian Testing (Sarge), last update was performed yesterday by aptitude. Software versions: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (Debian package version 1.4.6-5) Epiphany 1.4.5 Web browser (Debian package version 1.4.5-2) Problem: Epiphany crashes too frequently. Apparently it is sensitive

Re: Activating a different Web browser from Evolution

2004-12-21 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 07:34, Lior Kesos wrote: I didn't check but it should respect Gnome's global settings of preferred application which you can set with ``gnome-default-applications-properties``. I think I did (although a while ago) . That's also where the settings generic to gtk

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

[OFFTOPIC] PC 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, PC 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 PC. And you'll want to use the

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

2004-12-20 Thread Omer Zak
that they have already tried this method. On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 19:35, Eli Marmor wrote: Omer Zak wrote: I see. I think there are alternatives, which are less dangerous to people's privacy. For example, when you sign up, PC will issue you a serial number (perhaps combination of name

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

Re: clean unused packages in debian

2004-12-18 Thread Omer Zak
If you install packages using aptitude, aptitude knows to mark which packages were installed only because of dependencies. If you didn't use aptitude to install the packages, then I don't know the answer. --- Omer On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 12:17, Kfir Lavi

[CRAZY SUGGESTION] Re: Detecting bad ethernet card

2004-12-13 Thread Omer Zak
I have a crazy and expensive suggestion: Buy an hub and add 3rd computer to the network. Then install, on the three computers, scripts, which ping each other (say once a day). When a network card fails, two computers will still communicate with each other, and it'll be easy to find which

RE: linkedin linux-il group followup...

2004-12-09 Thread Omer Zak
I think that Tzahi's idea is excellent. LinkedIn (in which I am registered, too) is meant to help people do business by making it easier for them to find each other. On the other hand, people become members of Linux-IL due to various reasons, and several of them are far from being business

Re: network/iptables? problem - Solved

2004-12-09 Thread Omer Zak
Not that strange. I had an hub, which had two ports burned out after having been continuously connected to NICs. (those who attended the Ra'anana installation party [the /dev/null picture] few years may remember an hub, which had two ports marked as bad but other ports were not good, too. It

Re: Stacks

2004-12-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Danny Lieberman wrote: open question to the list: I'm considering starting a community project that would create ready-to-install stacks for Lamp, LamJ and Webapp clustering the idea is a stack for end user customers which : 1. is certified (and/or bundled) for a

Re: Stacks

2004-12-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:59:13PM +0200, Danny Lieberman wrote: open question to the list: I'm considering starting a community project that would create ready-to-install stacks for Lamp, LamJ and Webapp clustering the idea is a stack forend

Re: linkedin linux-il group followup...

2004-12-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Lior Kesos wrote: I'm happy the initial idea evolves (as it tends to in open environments) to find a new home. There are still several stages we need to resolve if we want to associate the linux-biz group to linked-in .. Can it stilled be called IGLU? or do we need a

Re: Stacks

2004-12-09 Thread Omer Zak
the default configuration look like? What frequently-occurring configuration modifications are likely to be and which will be supported out of the box? Not to mention all the certification testing, which Danny Lieberman wants to accomplish. On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:45:06PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote

Re: All test page (printer) is black

2004-12-09 Thread Omer Zak
1. Which printer, driver, CUPS package version? 2. When you print from an app, what does Print Review show? 3. Did you try to change the page color (if your printer is color printer)? 4. How does the printer behave when connected to another PC and/or printed to from another OS or a different

Any problems in linux support of new motherboards?

2004-12-05 Thread Omer Zak
I am now in the market for a replacement processor + motherboard for my PC. One of my concerns is 100% Linux support (). Are there still s+l (i.e. integrated sound and LAN, but no integrated video) motherboards, which have peripherals and/or features not supported by Linux? What is the general

Re: Computer lockup problem - cont'd

2004-12-04 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Evgeny, I see you have alarms on two things: 1. Fan2 speed - should be 5120RPM, is 4772RPM. The fan might be dirty, so its motor cannot rotate it as fast as it should be. 2. VCore - the limits are 0.00V to 0.00V, and you have normal VCore. Here you should fix the limits. I do not have a

Re: Frequent lock-ups of Debian Testing Linux when connected to the Internet

2004-12-02 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 05:01, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Thu, 02 Dec: Any clues? Is it a known problem of kernel 2.6.8 (after having been patched by Debian)? What can I do to trap the failure which causes the kernel to lockup? no problems at this end... does

Re: Geting xf86cfg.

2004-12-02 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Amit, Did you try to fetch the SRPM of xf86cfg? Should be available from where you can get the RPM. Once you have SRPM, you can use rpmbuild to build your own RPM, which works with your own installed libraries. --- Omer On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Amit

Computer lockup problem - cont'd

2004-12-02 Thread Omer Zak
Synopsis: My Debian Testing PC suffers from lockup at random times, and recently it has been occuring more and more frequently. I booted the computer into RedHat 8.0, my previous OS, and it locked up also there after short time. So the problem is not due to OS. Then, I opened up the computer's

Frequent lock-ups of Debian Testing Linux when connected to the Internet

2004-12-01 Thread Omer Zak
Recently I have been experiencing very frequent lock-ups of my PC. I had to press the RESET button to release the lockup. When the lockup occurs, neither the keyboard nor the mouse respond. My software configuration: Kernel: 2.6.8-1-686 pptp-linux 1.5.0-4 pptpd 1.2.1-2 xfree86

Moving out of emacs RMAIL format

2004-11-28 Thread Omer Zak
I have few hundred E-mail messages imported into emacs and saved in RMAIL file, in emacs' own peculiar format (BABYL?). I was not successful in importing RMAIL into other E-mail programs. A Google search was not helpful. Does anyone know about a tool which can be used to convert from RMAIL's

SourceForge CVS Password

2004-11-23 Thread Omer Zak
Recently I became more active in a project in SourceForge. So I need to frequently issue CVS commands. The CVS connections are via ssh (:ext:), so I have to enter a password each time I run a CVS command (including update, commit, status). This is annoying. Is there a way to have functionality

Re: SourceForge CVS Password

2004-11-23 Thread Omer Zak
as the host name. About using ssh-agent: in Debian Testing, sshd is activated in default installation, so I needed only to issue the ssh-add command. On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 11:18, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:57:09AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Recently I became more active

Re: vixie cron forgets to run certain scripts

2004-11-22 Thread Omer Zak
Look for resource starvation. For example: If the user tasks utilize a partition different from the one/s used by the system tasks, and if the users' partition runs out of inodes, then you may be having problems. I have experienced inode starvation in /var once in a while, and it caused

Re: OT: persistent remote display

2004-11-21 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 23:54, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hi all, Please excuse the somewhat-offtopic subject. I think it concerns and interests quite many people here. [... snipped ...] I might have a few mistakes in the above (e.g. maybe VNC is smarter than I thought, I read only little of

Re: emacs no text wrapping at all

2004-11-21 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Aaron, The following works in the version of emacs which I have (GNU Emacs 21.3.1 of 2004-10-16, modified by Debian): Options/Truncate Long Lines in this Buffer (4th menu item from top) The lines are not really truncated, they are just displayed without wraparound. If you don't have the

Re: mouse freezes when printer turned off

2004-11-20 Thread Omer Zak
Check for hardware problems with your USB subsystem. 1. Are the printer and mouse connected via the same USB hub? 2. If yes, does the hub get power from its own power supply? 3. What happens if you unplug and replug the mouse? 4. If your PC has more than one USB connector, what happens if you

[OFFTOPIC] Theoretical Israeli Tie (was: RE: Electronic elections)

2004-11-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 00:13, William Sherwin wrote: So, please tell me, though this is off-topic: if elections were to be held in Israel in which two parties split the vote evenly - 60 Knesset seats for each - and the sides were unwilling to cooperate, how would the government be determined?

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 22:38, Ira Abramov wrote: I surf in tabs. when I middle-click a link, there's a pretty long freeze while the mozilla allocates the memory for the new tab, draws the tab, starts twirling the download graphic, and finally the window is responsive to the mouse cursor again.

[SUCCESS] Activating KC-180 IrDA USB device under Debian Unstable

2004-11-12 Thread Omer Zak
After RRTFMing (RRTFM = Religious RTFM) man irattach, I was successful in activating the aforementioned device under Linux and transferring picture files from a Nokia 7650 to my PC via infrared. First of all, to my surprise, man irattach explicitly mentions the KC-180 as a device, which works

Trying to use USB IrDA device

2004-11-11 Thread Omer Zak
I have been struggling in vain to use my USB IrDA device under Linux. All my attempts to get it to connect with a cellular phone with IrDA (and which worked with the same hardware under MS-Windows 2000) failed. The IrDA device is recognized and identified by the USB system. My system is Debian

Re: xml help

2004-11-11 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Aaron, I think that you need a script or an application, which reads the XML file and parses it. Once you get the text of tags from the XML parser, you'll have to parse it yourself and create the output file from the information in it. There are standard XML parsers in several programming

Re: spam (was: Looking for a Good Web-Forum Implementation)

2004-11-11 Thread Omer Zak
Another potentially cruel tactic to deal with personal acquaintances, who turned into spammers - is to call their bank and tell them that they may be having business and/or financial difficulties. This is based upon the heuristic that respectable businesses sometimes become spammers when they run

The NOP xchg mystery (was: Re: 80x86 Assembly)

2004-11-11 Thread Omer Zak
To solve the puzzle, you need to review the actual binary machine language instructions. It happens that the XCHG instruction for exchanging a register with accumulator is one byte long instruction, with the following contents (Disclaimer: my source of information is an old 8086 user's manual,

General problems with udev in Debian Unstable?

2004-11-08 Thread Omer Zak
I am experiencing bad out-of-the-box experience with udev under Debian Unstable (kernel 2.6.8). Non-intuitive mount handling for flash memory devices, IrDA not properly configured, need special tricks to access CD-ROM, etc. All the above point at some configuration work, which I was supposed to

Status Update (was: Re: General problems with udev in Debian Unstable?)

2004-11-08 Thread Omer Zak
not helpful for the USB scanner/USB IrDA wars): http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimer.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/suriya/kernel_2.6_migration.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 12:14, Omer Zak wrote: I am

Hebrew handling in Evolution in Debian

2004-11-07 Thread Omer Zak
System configuration: Debian Testing, fairly recent (today I upgraded packages). Evolution version: installed from evolution_1.4.6-5_i386.deb Problems: 1. Incoming Hebrew E-mail messages are always displayed with LTR major direction. I had to copy and paste them to gedit in order to be able to

Is Debian Testing too old? (was: Re: Hebrew handling in Evolution in Debian)

2004-11-07 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 23:58, Diego Iastrubni wrote: , 7 2004, 23:41,Omer Zak: System configuration: Debian Testing, fairly recent (today I upgraded packages). He... testing is old you know :) Even so, it is a bit too unstable for my needs. Once in a while I have to reject package

Re: Why not using global variables considered thread-safe ?

2004-11-03 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Nadav Har'El wrote: When a single-CPU machine does a context switch, it doesn't do it in the middle of a machine instruction, it does it afterwards. This sentance is not universally true, though I don't have details of contradicting examples on

[OT] Re: IDE ZIP drive (100MB) for free

2004-10-27 Thread Omer Zak
Add to the package a 512MB flash RAM drive (DiskOnKey), and I'll agree to pick up the IDE ZIP drive. On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Hyams Iftach wrote: Impress your friends : * First hand from a doctor. * Including media. * IDE cable included (work both as master and as slave). * No need for drivers.

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread Omer Zak
do not know how to fix the problem. Is it a driver issue or merely a setup issue I did not do correctly? Omer Zak wrote: Of course, the printer driver is having a serious problem.You'll need to found a big organization to have the world get rid of the problem. You have precedents

The mystery of X-Window server in Debian Testing vs. RH8.0

2004-10-25 Thread Omer Zak
My Sony SCM-HS73 LCD display does not let me work with X-Window in Debian Testing installation. When I purchased the display, I was successful in getting X-Window to work under it without problems, when the OS was RedHat8.0 and the X-Server was XFreee86 4.2.0 (RedHat Linux release 4.2.0-72).

[FOLLOW-UP] The mystery of X-Window server in Debian Testing vs. RH8.0

2004-10-25 Thread Omer Zak
The mystery is still there, but the X-Window in my Debian Testing installation is now operational. What were my changes? 1. The video card driver was changed from 'vesa' to 'nv' (my video card is GeForce FX 5200). In RedHat8.0, 'vesa' worked. 2. I deleted the 1280x960 mode. In RedHat8.0, this

Embedding a browser widget inside a Tk (or Tkinter) application

2004-10-24 Thread Omer Zak
In Tk or its extensions, is there any widget, which can act like a top-level window for another application yet be child of a Frame widget in my own application? Example to clarify my question: I have an application, which inspects files. I would like to have its GUI include also a Frame, whose

[ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-24 Thread Omer Zak
Of course, the printer driver is having a serious problem. You'll need to found a big organization to have the world get rid of the problem. You have precedents in the form of the FSF and RMS (who had his own printer driver troubles). (I just could not resist saying this, as the GNU and GPL

[Python][MySQL] MySQLdb API changes?

2004-10-19 Thread Omer Zak
I encountered the following incompatibility problem. I developed some Python scripts, which access a MySQL database using the MySQLdb module. The environment was RedHat 8.0, and the MySQLdb RPM version was 0.9.1-4. Now, I am trying to run the same scripts in Debian Sarge environment, and the

Compressed filesystems under Kernel 2.4.18?

2004-10-14 Thread Omer Zak
I am planning to do a full disk backup of my desktop PC before installing Debian distribution on it. The total volume of data to be backed up is 13GB. I do not have a DVD burner, and don't plan to buy one because I need to backup this quantity of data only once. I am considering backing up to

The Microsoft JPEG Vulnerability - are Linux libraries immune?

2004-09-30 Thread Omer Zak
Since Linux systems support also the JPEG format, it is reasonable to be concerned about libraries which implement it. So I ask if anyone knows whether there is a buffer overrun vulnerability also in the Linux implementations of JPEG code. --- Omer My

Re: Confused about Debian Testing CD images

2004-09-24 Thread Omer Zak
Haggai Eran wrote: I'm not sure, but it's certainly possible that debian would take 14 discs. If you want a really minimal cd, download the netboot installer cd, which contains only the base system. then you can download just the packages you want. Otherwise, the first cd is a good choice

Re: Confused about Debian Testing CD images

2004-09-24 Thread Omer Zak
in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html Shachar Shemesh wrote: Omer Zak wrote: This is confusing to me. I thought that Debian

Dominating the world of screen savers?

2004-09-23 Thread Omer Zak
During the last few months, I noticed that the first thing, which people notice about my Linux installations, is the screensaver. Turns out that Linux provides much richer repertoire of screensavers than MS-Windows. So even now, in the coolness factor, Linux vs. MS-Windows score is 1:0. On the

Confused about Debian Testing CD images

2004-09-23 Thread Omer Zak
I would like to prepare an installation CD with up-to-date Debian Testing packages, for installation on PCs. So, I found http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ which referred me to http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/cd/jigdo-area/ for official jigdo images for CD Then I see at

No /dev/cdrom in Debian testing?!

2004-09-19 Thread Omer Zak
I have found, the hard way, that there are neither /dev/hdc* nor /dev/cdrom in my ThinkPad R40e laptop Debian/testing/non-US/main installation. The kernel is 2.6.8 unchanged from the Debian testing package which installed it. I did find that there is something called udev, which was supposed

Re: No /dev/cdrom in Debian testing?!

2004-09-19 Thread Omer Zak
create it manually, and /etc/fstab already mentions /dev/cdrom). ik wrote: On Monday 20 September 2004 01:18, Omer Zak wrote: I have found, the hard way, that there are neither /dev/hdc* nor /dev/cdrom in my ThinkPad R40e laptop Debian/testing/non-US/main installation. The kernel is 2.6.8

Re: No /dev/cdrom in Debian testing?!

2004-09-19 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Haggai, My laptop is now turned off and I'm going to sleep in a moment, so I'm asking a theoretical question without actually trying your advice. Suppose I find the mysterious CD-ROM file somewhere3 in /sys/bus/ide. Should /dev/cdrom link to it? And is there any script which is supposed

[UPDATE] No /dev/cdrom in Debian testing?!

2004-09-19 Thread Omer Zak
create the /dev/cdrom symbolic link. Omer Zak wrote: I have found, the hard way, that there are neither /dev/hdc* nor /dev/cdrom in my ThinkPad R40e laptop Debian/testing/non-US/main installation. The kernel is 2.6.8 unchanged from the Debian testing package which installed it. I did find

Re: Number of Threads per process in Java

2004-09-14 Thread Omer Zak
One thing which I do not understand: Why use Java at all in a system, which needs to handle hundreds or thousands of concurrent HTTP calls, and therefore can justify the effort to be invested in optimizing thread handling by using C/C++ implementation? Oded Arbel wrote: On Tuesday 14 September

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