Re: local SMB/IPX network browser

1999-05-24 Thread Alex Shnitman
Dmitry Fink (aka FINiK) writes: > Does KDE/GNOME or whatever have any windows-like local network browser? Check out LinNeighborhood at http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/. -- Alex Shnitman| http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--

BiDi text widget

1999-05-24 Thread Dov Grobgeld
It is a bit too early to call it an announcement, but I have been working lately on creating a bidi text widget prototype. I still haven't uploaded the code for the widget, but meanwhile you can look at the home page at http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/Hebrew/protobidi/ The animation at

RE: tcsh limits

1999-05-24 Thread Ariel Biener
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote: Because a user can change them. For example, if you can setrlimit() RSIZE_CPU to infinity (depends on the include files), you can change it. You cannot limit -h a resource as user. This can only be done as root, and when you login, your shell runs

RE: tcsh limits

1999-05-24 Thread Evgeny Stambulchik
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 12:24:21 +0300 (IDDT) From: Ariel Biener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: tcsh limits > This is a bit unrelated. I want to restrict cputime on tcsh to a > certain value, both hard and soft limits. I want users not to be able to > mess with it. Is it possible (without

Re: FS Q.

1999-05-24 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Erez & Hadas Boym wrote: > In that article the writer said that "Linux lacks journaling file > system", > Can anyone explain to me what that is ? as far as i understand, a journaling file system writes each operation to disk in two steps. first, it appends a log entry to a

local SMB/IPX network browser

1999-05-24 Thread Dmitry Fink (aka FINiK)
Does KDE/GNOME or whatever have any windows-like local network browser? Thanks in advance, Dmitry Fink ..Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors :)

Re: procmail problem

1999-05-24 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 24 May 1999, David Resnick wrote: > > > Suspicious rcfile "x" The owner of the rcfile was not the > > > recipient or root, the file was > > > world writable, or the directory > > > tha

Technion Linux Installation Party - A Retrospective

1999-05-24 Thread Nir Simionovich \(Rin Solo\)
Hi All, Well, the time now is 00:30, and the installation party was officialy finished at around 22:00. To say a funny thing, someone just walked in asking if the installation party is still taking place. In any case, here is a short sum up of the facts of today: 1. Total number of systems i

file-size limits

1999-05-24 Thread Itamar S.-T.
I came across an email which talks about NetBSD filesize limits. They have code for up to 256TB files. That's 8.5 years of MP3 compressed sound. -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o-o Whole Pop Magazine Online| The only good mor

Re: Adding parallel ports

1999-05-24 Thread Isaac Aaron
Iftach Hyams wrote: > Does any one have an experience with those ISA-cards with parallel ports > (some of them have serial port also). > Do I need a "driver" ? What device will it be mapped for ? Eventually I ^ Actially not For parallel ports, all you need to do is conf

Re: lot of user

1999-05-24 Thread Omer
tamas gervai wrote: > > On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 01:14:23AM +0300, Omer wrote: > > > Maybe you should reconsider. 2000 users on a machine with > > one partition? You're dead before lift-off. > > Why? Size of partition? CPU usage? H.D. usage? Users not necessarly > telnetting there. Main task o

Anather interesting news buleting by CNet - Microsoft forms group =?x-user-defined?q?to=A0?= counter Linux

1999-05-24 Thread Erez & Hadas Boym
Hi all, It's another article about MS fighting Linux. I think you'll find it interesting. Microsoft forms group to  counter Linux     By Stephen Shankland     Staff Writer, CNET News.com

FS Q.

1999-05-24 Thread Erez & Hadas Boym
Hi, I gust visited netcenter and found an article about SGI and Linux. In that article the writer said that "Linux lacks journaling file system", Can anyone explain to me what that is ? Thanks Erez -- /'^'\ ( o o ) -oOOO--(_)--OOOo-

Re: GPLed Hebrew Wordprocessor - Help needed

1999-05-24 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
I also got a message from Mark de Does, and will send him a more detailed reply, but here are my general comments: First, the messages from de Does are in reply to offers made in the free software bazaar, http://visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/bazaar.html, for those who do not know of this site yet. G

Linux and SGI - a proposed workshop (fwd)

1999-05-24 Thread Shachar Tal
quite interesting... At 18:42 24/05/99 +0300, Moshe Barak wrote: >Shalom, >I am trying to find out how many people will be interested in a Linux workshop >presented by SGI, to take place at the Technion during the week starting 6th >June. (exact date and location not established yet). If interest

Re: procmail problem

1999-05-24 Thread David Resnick
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 08:06:19PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > David Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > I just upgraded to RH6 (from RH5.2), and now procmail refuses to process > > my mail. > > > > maillog has: > > May 22 15:01:26 hoi procmail[2895]: Suspicious rcfile

Re: procmail problem

1999-05-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
David Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I just upgraded to RH6 (from RH5.2), and now procmail refuses to process > my mail. > > maillog has: > May 22 15:01:26 hoi procmail[2895]: Suspicious rcfile > "/home/dmr/.procmailrc" > > The procmail man page says: > Suspicious rcfi

procmail problem

1999-05-24 Thread David Resnick
Hi all, I just upgraded to RH6 (from RH5.2), and now procmail refuses to process my mail. maillog has: May 22 15:01:26 hoi procmail[2895]: Suspicious rcfile "/home/dmr/.procmailrc" The procmail man page says: Suspicious rcfile "x" The owner of the rcfile was not the

Whoops

1999-05-24 Thread Gady Kozma
My previous message is not very useful without Mark's e-mail. Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Ted word processor has also got a home page. The address is: http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted Sorry about that. Gady

Gigabit ethernet

1999-05-24 Thread Gaal Yahas
Ho. Has anyone got practical experience with Gigabit Ethernet on linux? I found drivers for several NICs in the [kernel] source, but would like to hear stories from people who actually did this. (especially what NIC you were using and how well did it go) While we're at it - can anyone recommend

GPLed Hebrew Wordprocessor - Help needed

1999-05-24 Thread Gady Kozma
Hi all Mark de Does, the maintainer of the "Ted rich text processor" for Linux has volunteered to add Hebrew support to Ted. He doesn't speak any Hebrew so HE NEEDS OUR HELP! More specifically, he asked me for the following: Help from someone with experience in working with Hebrew on X. I DON'T

Re: A newbie questions???

1999-05-24 Thread Oded Arbel
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Oded Arbel wrote: > all ESS modems (that are recent - I don't know about old ones, I don't > think they made any at that time) are controllor-less modems, usually > refered to as 'Host Controled' or 'winmodems' don't buy any of those if > you plan to use linux. generally sp

Re: lot of user

1999-05-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 24 May 1999, tamas gervai wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 01:14:23AM +0300, Omer wrote: > > > - is anybody have a winXX client to Linux's sshd? > > > SecureCRT - very useful but costs money. There are some free ones > > as well, IIRC. There is also that program from DataFell

Re: A newbie questions???

1999-05-24 Thread Oded Arbel
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Yoni Elhanani wrote: > > It run on Com4 in windows, and it's ess 56kbps I've heard it CAN'T be > > defined. > > however - > notice that most 56Kbps modems ARE winmodems, > thus you can't use them with linux... all ESS modems (that are recent - I don't know about old ones,

multicast routing

1999-05-24 Thread Emil Solomon
Hi to all. Can anyone help me to configure a multicast routing between 2 ethernet networks ? I am using a 2.2.7 kernel. I can see multicast packets (tcpdump) on eth0. I have igmp requests on eth1, but the multicast packets are not pathing to eth1. Thanks, -- Emil Solomon Combox Ltd. We i

Re: Linux and Socialism: a summary

1999-05-24 Thread Gady Kozma
>KG>> The main topic was the discussion of Linux as a contra-hegemonic >KG>> movement in the field of Producer-Consumer relations. Hegemony >KG>> is a popular concept in Neo- Marxist thinking, you can read >KG>> about it, e.g. in Raymond Williams'es "Marxism and Literature", >KG>> chapters 6-8.

OT: Zachi Greenzvaig?

1999-05-24 Thread Alex Shnitman
The above persion (if I read the scripting on the envelope right) has sent me a check, probably for Debian CDs, but I don't have his e-mail address. Zachi, please send me e-mail, I need to know what CDs you want, you didn't provide me with that information. -- Alex Shnitman

Re: Vector Graphics Program for Linux

1999-05-24 Thread Boaz Rymland
Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Does anybody know of an open-source vector graphics program for Linux? I'm > talking about something like Corel-Draw or Adobe Illustrator. > > TIA, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > Shlomi Fish[EM

Re: A newbie questions???

1999-05-24 Thread Yoni Elhanani
> Barid Bel Medar wrote: > > I've trouble mounting my HD on linux. It's fat32 partition and it's > goes as my D drive on windows (extended partition) when ever I'm > trying to mount it on linux, it tell me > (are you trying to mount an extended partion instead of a logical > one?) > I'm typing: >

Microsoft forms group to counter Linux

1999-05-24 Thread Erez Boym
Hi, I think you'll find it interesting ! Erez <> http://technews.netscape.com/computing/technews/newsitem/0%2C290%2C36913%2C0 0.html?pt.netscape.fd.hl.ne Microsoft forms group to counter Linux.url

A File system Q.

1999-05-24 Thread Erez Boym
Hi, I gust visited netcenter and found an article about SGI and Linux. In that article the writer said that "Linux lacks journaling file system", Can anyone explain to me what that is ? Thanks Erez /'^'\ ( o o ) -oOOO--(_)--OOOo--

Re: lot of user

1999-05-24 Thread tamas gervai
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 01:14:23AM +0300, Omer wrote: > Maybe you should reconsider. 2000 users on a machine with > one partition? You're dead before lift-off. Why? Size of partition? CPU usage? H.D. usage? Users not necessarly telnetting there. Main task of the server is web servering, and ftp.

tcsh limits

1999-05-24 Thread Ariel Biener
Hi, This is a bit unrelated. I want to restrict cputime on tcsh to a certain value, both hard and soft limits. I want users not to be able to mess with it. Is it possible (without changing the code significantly, this I can do myself) with the current code to use a cof file for tcsh fro

Adding parallel ports

1999-05-24 Thread Iftach Hyams
Does any one have an experience with those ISA-cards with parallel ports (some of them have serial port also). Do I need a "driver" ? What device will it be mapped for ? Eventually I want to connect a ZIP drive, scanner and so on to one of those. Thank you

Linux and Socialism: a summary

1999-05-24 Thread Kozma Gady
Hi all. Yuval asked me to make a short summary of my talk "Linux: Socialism in the software sphere?" that was given under the auspices of Khadash/Kampus (this is a leftist students' group in TAU) a few weeks ago. This is more of an appetizer than a real summary, but here goes anyway: The main to

Re: Linux limitations

1999-05-24 Thread Nimrod Zimerman
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 02:08:33AM +0300, Liran Zvibel wrote: > > File size, not partition size. File size is limited by the size of the > > "file size" field in the kernel structures. If it's "integer", than on > > 32bit machine it's 2G. > It is not set to integer. It is set in BITS: > /* > * S