The wonderful world of GTK (rant)

2001-04-22 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Morning, Well, it seems that with Redhat 7.1 (and probably with Mandrake 8 - not sure) - you'll get gtk 1.2.9 and glib 1.2.9, which... umm... breaks the compatibility with all of whats related to fonts... Solution? Upgrade to GTK+ and GLIB 1.2.10. RPM's are not available yet, so compile the

Re: Problems with 40GB IDE HD & ATA 100

2001-04-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
it may by obvious, but are you using 80 pin cable that (probably) came with your board? (the connector have 40 pins, but the cable have 80 wires) Alon. Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > While I was considering to restart my old tradition to recompile X at night > (yeah, weird time, I kno

Re: Redhat Investor-relations run by Microsoft?

2001-04-22 Thread Adi Stav
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:02:30PM +0300, Yotam Rubin wrote: > Each OSS based company defines its own "Open Source business model" > Redhat's business model cannot be compared with Valinux's because > they focus on different market shares. Please note that I merely gave > an example: I tried to s

Changing the NIC speed

2001-04-22 Thread Idan Dolev
Just a double check... If I want to change my intel eepro from 100Mbps to 10Mbps I should add to its line in conf.modules: alias eth0 eepro100 options eepro100 options=0x50 Right ? Idan = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Redhat Investor-relations run by Microsoft?

2001-04-22 Thread Jonathan Ben-Avraham
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: > I was looking at Redhat's annual report to the SEC (April 19. See > http://biz.yahoo.com/e/010419/rhat.html). The "Factors Affecting Future > Results" section is amazing, and full of depressing statements (actually, > the entire report is full of depress

RedHat 7.1

2001-04-22 Thread Arieh Bibliowicz
This may be dumb (as usual), but what is the iso "seawolf-i386-DMA.iso" in the redhat distribution (the name is not very intuitive...) "I'm not trying to break the rules, I'm just testing their elasticity" Arieh "Vainolo" Bibliowicz - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mandrake 8.0 is out

2001-04-22 Thread Eli Marmor
Thanks. Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > BTW, what is the "kernel secure" mode? > > What are exactly its extra features? > > Not exactly something for a home systm, At least not the pre-compiled one. > > It is compiled with SMP and BIGMEM in, But you have the config file for it > in /usr/share/doc/ker

Re: Mandrake 8.0 is out

2001-04-22 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Thats ok, Eli ;) Redhat 7.1 got now a nicer installer, it knows how much swap it needs (it wanted me to setup 515MB swap partition!) It also got the latest GCC - 2.96-81 which fixes more inline assembly and some STL stuff which wasn't compiling well, and XFree comes with more patches from the ne

Re: Mandrake 8.0 is out

2001-04-22 Thread Eli Marmor
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > > Hetz (and everybody else too), > > > IIRC, Mandrake+KDE has been your preferred combination. > > Now, that 8.0 comes with GNOME-1.4 + Nautilus + Evolution etc., is it > > still true? > > huh?? I like KDE (and sometimes, depends how weak is the machine - Window > Maker

Re: no linux GUI in 97?

2001-04-22 Thread Sunrise Security Adminsitrator
At 10:46 PM 4/22/2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: >No, you got it all backwards, in 1991 the GUI had no Linux :) > >I think Linux started on 1991 or a little later (if I remember correctly, >I started using it around 1993). X11, which is to this day Linux's >GUI existed way before that... > >But it is pr

Re: no linux GUI in 97?

2001-04-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001, Shaul Karl wrote about "Re: no linux GUI in 97?": > > > I know that date is wrong, but one of the Captain Internet writers seems > > > to think that "when linux first showed up in 1997 it had no GUI". > > > Seems to have strange ideas on when linux showed up. > > Couldn

Re: no linux GUI in 97?

2001-04-22 Thread mulix
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Wasiuddin Rajesh wrote: > Hi list... > > well, On 5th Oct 1991 Sir, Mr. Linus, announced the first > "Official" version 0.02. of Linux.. source to which, for the historically inclined, can be found on any kernel.org mirror. > By the way, I got a problem here with my Redhat

Re: no linux GUI in 97?

2001-04-22 Thread Wasiuddin Rajesh
Hi list... well, On 5th Oct 1991 Sir, Mr. Linus, announced the first "Official" version 0.02. of Linux.. By the way, I got a problem here with my Redhat 6.0 Kernel 2.2.12-20. 1 file is missing from its http server. it is a .html file. Now is it possible to del a file as a user while browsing?

Re: Redhat Investor-relations run by Microsoft?

2001-04-22 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:02:30PM +0300, Yotam Rubin wrote: > Each OSS based company defines its own "Open Source business model" > Redhat's business model cannot be compared with Valinux's because > they focus on different market shares. Please note that I merely gave > an example: I tried to s

Re: Redhat Investor-relations run by Microsoft?

2001-04-22 Thread Yotam Rubin
Each OSS based company defines its own "Open Source business model" Redhat's business model cannot be compared with Valinux's because they focus on different market shares. Please note that I merely gave an example: I tried to show that even the OSS based company with the highest potential did

Re: Redhat Investor-relations run by Microsoft?

2001-04-22 Thread Adi Stav
I wonder if we could even come up with an agreed upon definition of "open source business model". I suspect it is no less bogus than "Internet business model". People and companies make money the way they always have, which either is by offering products and services to others who wish to pay for

trying mozilla bidi

2001-04-22 Thread Ely Levy
I tried today CVS with bidi compiled and got the following result * good detecting of hebrew encoding succeed on all sites beside haaretz * go button title is still backwards * problem with breaking hebrew lines goes down instead of up * most widgest seems to show hebrew right (all the ones I

Re: no linux GUI in 97?

2001-04-22 Thread Shaul Karl
> What? Such journalistic inaccuracy makes one wonder about the efficiency of > Microsoft's relentless FUD tactics. He can expect a letter from me, > and hopefully others will also contact him. > > Regards, Yotam Rubin > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:46:36PM +0300, Uri Bruck wrote: > > >

Re: problem with Biditext

2001-04-22 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Well, I tried both gtkbidi and biditext - both give the same error.. here is the error after recompiling both RPM's.. Gdk-ERROR **: file gdkfont.c: line 504 (gdk_char_width_wc): assertion failed: (wctomb(&c,character) == 1) aborting... Aborted (core dumped) Hetz > this is biditext and no

Re: Redhat Investor-relations run by Microsoft?

2001-04-22 Thread Yotam Rubin
Greetings Mr. Kostantantinov, I believe one one must make the distinction between this so called "Open source business model" and "Free Software" as set by Richard Stallman. Each company which produces Open Software and intends to gain revenue from it has its own "Open Source Business Model". Th

Re: Redhat Investor-relations run by Microsoft?

2001-04-22 Thread Herouth Maoz
On Sunday 22 April 2001 16:26, Nadav Har'El wrote: > << pay special attention to this > > We may not be able to generate revenue from sales of Official Red Hat > Linux if users can more quickly download it from the Internet. > Anyone can download a free copy of official Red Hat Linux from

Re: RedHat 7.1

2001-04-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, I upgraded RH 6.2 to 7.1 without any special problems. of course I had to go over all the configuration files and look into .rpmsave and .rpnew files. I also had to recompile a few programs, because incompatible glibc, but thats it. Alon. Eran Levy wrote: > > Hi, > Have anyone upgraded his

problem with Biditext

2001-04-22 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I just upgraded my RH 7.0 to RH 7.1 and everything seems to work pretty well, only 1 problem there is... I'm using Xchat + biditext to chat with hebrew. I'm using it like this: LC_CTYPE=iw_IL LANG=iw_IL biditext xchat The thing is - as long as I don't type anything in hebrew - everything

Re: Redhat Investor-relations run by Microsoft?

2001-04-22 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Hi Nadav, A friend of mine, a developer on Apache/PHP on Win2K, has numerously claimed that the open source model won't work. It's not out of bad intentions -- I'm sure he'd like to see it working out - but simple logics tell him it can't work. And then, there are the facts. 60% HTTP servers run

Re: mounted directory is empty (NFS)

2001-04-22 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Erez Doron wrote: It is mounted with root privileges ? sample exportfs on server /mntclient.hostname.here(no_root_squash) --Ariel > HI > > i have a strange problem: > > I did: 'mount server:/mnt /mnt' > If i do ls on server on /mnt or on client on /mnt i get the sa

Re: Redhat Investor-relations run by Microsoft?

2001-04-22 Thread Adi Stav
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:26:59PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > I was looking at Redhat's annual report to the SEC (April 19. See > http://biz.yahoo.com/e/010419/rhat.html). The "Factors Affecting Future > Results" section is amazing, and full of depressing statements (actually, > the entire repor

Redhat Investor-relations run by Microsoft?

2001-04-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
I was looking at Redhat's annual report to the SEC (April 19. See http://biz.yahoo.com/e/010419/rhat.html). The "Factors Affecting Future Results" section is amazing, and full of depressing statements (actually, the entire report is full of depressing statements). It might be literally true, but i

Re: no linux GUI in 97?

2001-04-22 Thread Daniel Baum
Hi all, > But I expected actual journalists to have some more weight in the paper, > Do the editors really modify articles without letting the reporter have > another look at the edited piece? If this is the case, it's a really lame > practice, especially when it appears the editor doesn't know t

Re: mounted directory is empty (NFS)

2001-04-22 Thread Erez Doron
that was strange, without no_root_squash i can ls a directory i have no permission to, and get an empty directory ... I would expect to get an error ( a 'permision denied' will do ) thanks erez. Ariel Biener wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Erez Doron wrote: > > It is mounted with root privileges

Re: no linux GUI in 97?

2001-04-22 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:46:36PM +0300, Uri Bruck wrote: > I know that date is wrong, but one of the Captain Internet writers seems > to think that "when linux first showed up in 1997 it had no GUI". > Seems to have strange ideas on when linux showed up. This can be understood as "when Lin

Re: no linux GUI in 97?

2001-04-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: no linux GUI in 97?": > The author (Ori Redler) is not as clueless as the article suggests. He > knows linux pretty well. From what he wrote to me, that article was > severly edited. The original wording was something like "in 1997 linux had > n

Supermount in Mandrake 8.0?

2001-04-22 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Hi, Speaking of kernel patches and Mandrake - they still have a Supermount-patched kernel (this thing which makes media mounted as soon as you access it, and still allowed to be ejected freely when not in use) ? For 2.4.x kernels too? Last time I tried downloading and applying the Supermount pat

mounted directory is empty (NFS)

2001-04-22 Thread Erez Doron
HI i have a strange problem: I did: 'mount server:/mnt /mnt' If i do ls on server on /mnt or on client on /mnt i get the same result if i do ls on server on /mnt/subdir i get some files, but if i do ls on client on /mnt/subdir I get an epty list any idea ? btw: both server and client are rh7.

Re: Mandrake 8.0 is out

2001-04-22 Thread Oded Arbel
- Original Message - From: "Tzafrir Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Is it 2.4.3 too or 2.2.19? (I know the standard kernel of 8.0 is 2.4.3; > > This question is about the "kernel secure" option). > > Every kernel package has the version number on it, so you can check such a > think simply

Re: no linux GUI in 97?

2001-04-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Uri Bruck wrote: > > I know that date is wrong, but one of the Captain Internet writers seems > to think that "when linux first showed up in 1997 it had no GUI". > Seems to have strange ideas on when linux showed up. > > Anyone wants to set him straight one that? The aut

Re: no linux GUI in 97?

2001-04-22 Thread Yotam Rubin
What? Such journalistic inaccuracy makes one wonder about the efficiency of Microsoft's relentless FUD tactics. He can expect a letter from me, and hopefully others will also contact him. Regards, Yotam Rubin On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:46:36PM +0300, Uri Bruck wrote: > > I know that da

no linux GUI in 97?

2001-04-22 Thread Uri Bruck
I know that date is wrong, but one of the Captain Internet writers seems to think that "when linux first showed up in 1997 it had no GUI". Seems to have strange ideas on when linux showed up. Anyone wants to set him straight one that?

Re: Before you freshly install Redhat 7.1

2001-04-22 Thread Erez Doron
Hi My computer doesn't even boot from rh7.1 disk ( it hangs after finding HDA) ... anyway, did anyone use EXT3 ? how is the performance difference between EXT2 and Reiser ? EXT2 and EXT3 ? regards erez. Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi, > > If you're installing Redhat 7.1 from scratch - you know the

RedHat 7.1

2001-04-22 Thread Eran Levy
Hi, Have anyone upgraded his RH 6.2 to 7.1? If yes, Is he announced any problems with the upgrading? Regards, Eran Levy. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WebSite: http://come.to/liloboot = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: SAMBA problem

2001-04-22 Thread Eran Levy
Hi, Its now working for me. To resolve the problem I did this: erased all the samba packages from 2.0.6 and 2.2.0 and then re-installed the samba 2.2.0 package and its now working and getting my work group and its now working perfectly. Do anyone have a good documentation about samba security?

Re: SMS Sending script now on SourceForge

2001-04-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001, Alon Altman wrote about "SMS Sending script now on SourceForge": > Hi, > The "sendsms" script is now available on SourceForge - > http://ilsendsms.sourceforge.net/ Interesting to know something I started suddenly appears (in quite modified form) on sourceforge, without tel

SMS Sending script now on SourceForge

2001-04-22 Thread Alon Altman
Hi, The "sendsms" script is now available on SourceForge - http://ilsendsms.sourceforge.net/ New features: e-mail to SMS script phonenum aliases support + import from GnomeCard Alon - if you cut here, you'll probably destroy your monitor -- This message was sent by