Re: Grayscale charts

2005-07-08 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 02:18 +0300, Eran Tromer wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/07/05 21:27, Omer Zak wrote: > > Did you check also R and Gnumeric? > > Gnumeric doesn't have it. > What's "R"? Can't Google that, for obvious reasons... http://directo

Re: Grayscale charts

2005-07-08 Thread Omer Zak
Did you check also R and Gnumeric? On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 21:02 +0300, Eran Tromer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for free software to render a 2D dataset as grayscale chart, > i.e., as a matrix whose cell colors are determined by the corresponding > dataset elements. It should include the usual aid

Re: threads in 2.6

2005-07-07 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 17:32 +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: [... war story about debugging kernel's innards was snipped ...] > > I hope I do not bother most people too much - I know it's offtopic, I > know there are people here that might be interested in solving this, > or at least that it's sol

MF vs. LAMP - orthogonal to closed vs. Free (was: Re: Off topic - open vs. closed sources Re: compiling expect sources or easy to use c++ engine?)

2005-06-29 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 13:14 -0700, Nzer Zaidenberg wrote: > thanks for the support ;-) though it seems like i started a troll. Now it does feel to me like a troll. However, I have some left-over food for you trolls, welcome to it. > Yes I mennt that if you give the source you cannot charge when t

Re: Off topic - open vs. closed sources Re: compiling expect sources or easy to use c++ engine?

2005-06-29 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 23:34 +0300, Oron Peled wrote: > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 19:17, Omer Zak wrote: > > This looks to me like Oron is not recognizing the full value of his > > services. > > Bzzzt, Omer you mixed me up with Nzer Zaidenberg to whom me (and > Nadav

Re: Fixing curraptd partition afther power failure

2005-06-29 Thread Omer Zak
Boot your PC from a rescue CD. Back up all your data files to another disk (or CD). Run fsck on your original root partition. Then try to recover from a corrupted Debian installation. Since I never had to try this so far (knock wood three times), I'd look for an HOWTO about this subject, check whi

Re: Off topic - open vs. closed sources Re: compiling expect sources or easy to use c++ engine?

2005-06-29 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 18:44 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005, Oron Peled wrote about "Re: Off topic - open vs. closed > sources Re: compiling expect sources or easy to use c++ engine?": > > Good. Than the binary/source issue (as a "protection" measure) is moot. > >... > > Not like

Re: EV1 and SCO (was: Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS)

2005-06-25 Thread Omer Zak
ernels already. Nothing in their TOS says > anything about it. > > Hetz > > On 6/26/05, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I remember EV1, and have googled them to confirm that they are the ISP, > > which purchased from SCO a license to use Linux. > >

EV1 and SCO (was: Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS)

2005-06-25 Thread Omer Zak
I remember EV1, and have googled them to confirm that they are the ISP, which purchased from SCO a license to use Linux. The license terms (unless they got a deal with terms not publicly disclosed) allow them and their customers to run only specific binary kernel versions and forbid them and their

Re: Directing kernel messages to file

2005-06-22 Thread Omer Zak
When the kernel starts to boot, it does not have yet support for any filesystem. So you have to write to a raw disk partition (whose sector address is set ahead of time by a means similar to that of LILO), or allocate a RAM area (immediately after memory test) to serve as a buffer for kernel messa

Operating a computer using a single button (with accessibility software)

2005-06-17 Thread Omer Zak
In http://www.rideforlife.com/archives/001014.html a Free Software package, which was developed for Stephen Hawking, is written about. By the way, one more advantage of Free Software is being pointed out - source code is not lost (reminds of Linus Torvalds' method of backing up his Linux code - by

Re: Hebrew in Evolution 2.0.4

2005-06-16 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005, Omer Zak wrote about "Hebrew in Evolution 2.0.4": > > Please notice that for some of my receipients, UTF-8 is not an option. > > Can you please eleborate? As far as I know, all "modern" ema

Re: Hebrew in Evolution 2.0.4

2005-06-15 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 21:46 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > The question is how to configure evolution to allow me to select > > iso-8859-8-i. I tried to check for configuration files in ~/.evolution > > and in /etc/gconf - but of no avail. > > Look for CP1255, or Code Page 1255 or Windows 1255 -

Hebrew in Evolution 2.0.4

2005-06-15 Thread Omer Zak
; On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:36, Omer Zak wrote: [... Hebrew message was snipped ...] -- 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 E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the officia

Re: doubt Shared memory problem

2005-06-07 Thread Omer Zak
More details are needed: 1. In which programming language and for which environment was your application developed? 2. If it was developed in C/C++, Java or something similar, what data types are being used by it and what are their sizes? 3. Are there any built-in arbitrary limits on sizes of data

Re: Lightweight graphical environment for Linux

2005-06-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 12:03 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Omer Zak wrote: > > >What about CURSES? > > > > > As far as I know, curses is a text-only library. I'd love to see counter > examples, of course. Yes, it is based upon ASCII. But it does do windo

Re: Lightweight graphical environment for Linux

2005-06-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 10:05 +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm looking for a light weight graphical environment to write a Linux > > program in. I'm currently aware of X (free, org), and that they have a > > light weight version (though I don't rememb

How would the tipping point (critical mass) of Linux adoption look like?

2005-06-04 Thread Omer Zak
There is a discussion in Ask Slashdot (http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/03/2137254&tid=163&tid=201&tid=4) about a company, which has deployed Linux in 250 workstations. The company is now considering converting those workstations into MS-Windows in order to run a specific applicat

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

Hole in Linux-based E-mail software (was: Re: The trojan horse scandal)

2005-05-30 Thread Omer Zak
Nothing to be sorry about, Alexy and Tzafrir. Great work! Even if we are not happy with the implications of your findings. I use Evolution in the Gnome desktop. Evolution presumably has a similar hole, as well, because it allows the user to view an attachment using software chosen according to

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 eas

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

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 a

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

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

Re: Job offer

2005-05-05 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

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

2005-05-05 Thread Omer Zak
y to this email address, or to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Best Regards, > Oz, > Metacafe > > > On 5/5/05, 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 harves

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 to

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

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 an

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

2005-04-08 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 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 i

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

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. >

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, uninst

DoS attack by LAND

2005-03-08 Thread Omer Zak
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5604579.html?type=pt&part=inv&tag=feed&subj=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 recommen

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 case

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 rat

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 t

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 s

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 giv

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 > > di

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 (r

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 fdisk.

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 d

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, who

Re: [OT] Python code is not Pseudocode [was Re: [OT] CS Languages for Teaching ]

2005-02-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:14 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > I once talked about it with people in the IRC, and someone mentioned he has > written a 200-lines Python program and had to make only 20 changes to get it > to compile and run. I told him they were 20 changes too many, because in > Pseudoc

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 TCO-affect

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

[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 f

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

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

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 wr

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

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, >

Re: login shell

2005-01-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:37 +0200, Kfir Lavi wrote: > when i'm loging to my account or start new terminal, it don't execute > ~/.bash_profile. > > How can i fix this? Use .bashrc for anything which you need to execute for each new terminal. Sprinkle echo > ~/some_logfile statements to monitor

[TYPO CORRECTION] Re: Setting up a Router (I tthink!)

2005-01-02 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Micha Silver wrote: > Omer Zak wrote: > > If you prefer not to use DHCP, you need to manually configure, for each > > Ethernet interface in each of the PCs connected to the network, the > > following: > > 1. Default route - the Linuxbox (192.168.0.1

Re: Setting up a Router (I tthink!)

2005-01-02 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Daniel Feiglin wrote: > Hi! > > I need to do the following: > > Internet <-> ADSL (10.0.0.138) <-> LAN Card (10.0.0.100) <-> Linux Box > (= router?)<-> LAN Card (192.168.1.100) <-> Hub <-> Win 2K, Win98, and > Linux clients with fixed addresses like 192.168.1.101 etc. > I wou

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 wor

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 th

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

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 a

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 l

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 gener

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 t

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

2004-12-20 Thread Omer Zak
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 si

[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: 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 wrote:

[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 compute

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 printe

Re: Stacks

2004-12-09 Thread Omer Zak
would 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, O

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
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 s

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) fo

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 was

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 prospe

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

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 c

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

Re: Geting xf86cfg.

2004-12-02 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Amit Roseberger wrote: > Thx Guys. > Well, I've updated XF86Config my self with the below options. > All is working now but not 100% efficiently (there is still a blur strap > that runs up and down my screen and hurt my eyes). > I guess what I need to know is what is the conne

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

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 locku

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

2004-12-01 Thread Omer Zak
debian packages using aptitude. On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 02:18, Omer Zak wrote: > 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. > &

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 xfree864.3.0.dfs

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 form

Re: SourceForge CVS Password

2004-11-23 Thread Omer Zak
t 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 mor

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 e

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 surprisin

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 abo

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

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 plug

[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 determine

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 agai

[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 with

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, so

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

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