Re: Disk usage question

2001-03-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
You are right, Guy - I had it backwards from memory. It is du that will give the "ls -l minus holes" result, and a copy will be larger. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs." ===

Re: Searching For TV Player

2001-03-26 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:41:16AM +0200, Yedidya Bar-david wrote: > BTW, I only use xawtv, which works fine for me, and I worked quite hard > to get all of the channels, and only in the freqtab 'us-cable-hrc', which, > unfortunately, does not allow pretty round numbers :-). Other freqtabs > do no

Re: Searching For TV Player

2001-03-26 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi BTW, I only use xawtv, which works fine for me, and I worked quite hard to get all of the channels, and only in the freqtab 'us-cable-hrc', which, unfortunately, does not allow pretty round numbers :-). Other freqtabs do not allow all of the channels. (I have a Pinaccle (formerly Miro) STUDIO

Re: Disk usage question

2001-03-26 Thread guy keren
On 26 Mar 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > not holes. if it were holes, they the COPY would be larger then the > > original. > > Why? It can be both ways, but more likely the copy would be smaller. not realy. do you know what 'holes' in files mean? when a program writes to a file, it may seek()

Re: Searching For TV Player

2001-03-26 Thread Arieh Bibliowicz
I have an AverMedia TV capture. I think my system (Mandrake 7.2) did a good work detecting it. I use xawtv, which works fine for me, it even works better than the original program for Windows. I remember that I had to change a line in my modules.conf file for the bttv module, but it probably depen

Re: Searching For TV Player

2001-03-26 Thread dgi_il
KWInTV, has some proglems, (I used 8.5 or something). Comething about QCollection (not very good programmed). Maybe a newer version will help... You may also try, xawtv, which (as far as TV player) is the best. Ugly UI. I also saw a GNOMEVISION program. Could not find a binary RPM. If you cant

Kde 2 hebrew problems

2001-03-26 Thread ynon perek
Hi List I am trying to use Kde 2 web browser, and got some hebrew problems with it. The first thig is, that whenever I try to write hebrew characters, I get question marks instead of the letters. Another problem, is when I try to add a TrueType font from windows (such as David or Arial) I get em

Re: IGLU and jobs database

2001-03-26 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > As most of you already know, aduva had fired 19 people (including me) due to > > the well known reasons (I'm talking about the economic situation in Israel > > and in the rest of the

Re: Searching For TV Player

2001-03-26 Thread Oded Arbel
I would like to suggest KWinTV - at the time that I had a TV card it was pretty nice. But to make it work you need to install the bttv driver that came in your kernel. to do that you'll need to first know what tuner and sound chip your TV card features. read the bttv docs, these are not very elab

Searching For TV Player

2001-03-26 Thread Stiven Andre
Hi My Name Is Stiven Andre And I Am New To This E-Mailing List, So Sorry If I Will Break Any Rules. I Have A FlyVideo 98FM Tv Card And I Can't Find Any Tv Viewer For Linux I Am Using Red Hat 7 (With 2.4.16-22 Kernel). I Think That My TV Card Is Identified As "bttv". I Checked The Kernel Configu

Re: IGLU and jobs database

2001-03-26 Thread benavrhm
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi All, > > As most of you already know, aduva had fired 19 people (including me) due to > the well known reasons (I'm talking about the economic situation in Israel > and in the rest of the world). I would like to say that I really liked the > work

IGLU and jobs database

2001-03-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi All, As most of you already know, aduva had fired 19 people (including me) due to the well known reasons (I'm talking about the economic situation in Israel and in the rest of the world). I would like to say that I really liked the work there and they're great...Thanks Aduva. So now, I've

Re: Writing multi-lingual terminal applications

2001-03-26 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:54:50PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > I don't have a good experince with konsole. I could never get it to > display: > > konsole --help > > properly :( > > (from within bash in konsole) > > (I have iso10646-1 fonts which I successfuly used for the user interface >

Re: Writing multi-lingual terminal applications

2001-03-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:39:39AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > A friend of mine wishes to do such a thing. AFAIK, all he needs to do is > > to adapt the output to the various codepages of the languages. But is > > there another catch? > > Yes, an

RE: Bloatware (OT)

2001-03-26 Thread Chen Shapira
> actually, a few month back i had a discussion with my (now > ex) flatmate > about what does 'pipes' mean in GUI programming. we tried setting some > groups for defining a mechanism that will allow piping data between > different GUI components in some manner that will be useful. > after an h

Re: Writing multi-lingual terminal applications

2001-03-26 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:39:39AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > A friend of mine wishes to do such a thing. AFAIK, all he needs to do is > to adapt the output to the various codepages of the languages. But is > there another catch? Yes, and expect the user to configure their terminal to the font o

Re: Disk usage question

2001-03-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > not holes. if it were holes, they the COPY would be larger then the > original. Why? It can be both ways, but more likely the copy would be smaller. Whichever system has more holes would show larger size in du, caeteris paribus, and the original is more l

Re: Disk usage question

2001-03-26 Thread guy keren
On 26 Mar 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > I think that the 30% difference is accounted for by holes on one of > the systems. Use "ls -l" to check that. For normal files "wc -c" and > "cat file > file.copy" would clarify the situation as well. not holes. if it were holes, they the COPY would be l

Re: Disk usage question

2001-03-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what what? are you joking? block size is a singular value per file system, > not something you can modify with an environment variable, but rather with > a re-formatting of the file system. i don't assume that UFS works > differently, does it ? No, it does

Peace, Love and Linux

2001-03-26 Thread AB
IBM will hold a "LINUX and IBM" seminar on Wednesday, 18/4/2001 (08:30-14:00), at the Tel Aviv Hilton. Guest speakers include: - Mr. Richard Michos, Vice President, World-wide LINUX Sales, IBM - Mr. Frederico Musto, Vice President, Europe South Region, Red Hat Inc. who will discuss current trends

Re: Disk usage question

2001-03-26 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Ely Levy wrote: > try checking what the default bocksize on solaris > try doing setenv BLOCKSIZE 1024 (on tcsh) > or export BLOCKSIZE=1024 what what? are you joking? block size is a singular value per file system, not something you can modify with an environment variable, b

Re: spring and time zone

2001-03-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> > recurent zionist spring question : > I updated my timezone files according to ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ > > can someone confirm me that thos time changes are correct at least for > last Oct 5 2000 and future Sun Apr 8 ? > Those times are correct, at least for last O

Re: Disk usage question

2001-03-26 Thread Ely Levy
try checking what the default bocksize on solaris try doing setenv BLOCKSIZE 1024 (on tcsh) or export BLOCKSIZE=1024 Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, yevgeny wrote: | | | | We have a user with Solaris FTP account, and according to du -sk (

spring and time zone

2001-03-26 Thread Jean-Daniel PAUGET
recurent zionist spring question : I updated my timezone files according to ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ can someone confirm me that thos time changes are correct at least for last Oct 5 2000 and future Sun Apr 8 ? and I now got this : jd@mymachine> zdump -v Asia/Jerusa

Disk usage question

2001-03-26 Thread yevgeny
We have a user with Solaris FTP account, and according to du -sk ( on Solaris ) he has 9552k. But if i dl through ftp all his files to my RH62 box, du -s gives me 7408k. The same result he has on his Win machine. There are a lot of small files on Solaris, but it does not seem to me that the pro

Re: Bloatware (OT)

2001-03-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Chen Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Modern software engneering is built around this concept, and all modern OS > are trying to be a bunch of small building blocks, But not the really innovative ones... ;-) -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather write programs to write progr

Re: Bloatware (OT)

2001-03-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Herouth Maoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Take Netscape as a feature-bloated program. Good example. I use Navigator only - at least there is that. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs." =

[OT]: to the maintainer of the list

2001-03-26 Thread Boaz Rymland
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