Re: BitKeeper Cont. [was Re: My projects are gone (fwd)]

2002-09-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Re: BitKeeper Cont. [was Re: My >projects are gone (fwd)]": > > I am not going to _force_ Larry to free BitKeeper. I have no intention of > > doing that. I am going to give Larry no choice but to free it. T

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27/09/02 18:22]: [snip] > > Browsers that support it: > > * Explorer, as of ~4.0 or 5.0 in a more decent manner > * mozilla, as of around 0.9.1 (Netscape 6.1 ?, galeon, chmera, k-meleon, > etc.) > * konqueror, as of ~2.0 > * the upcoming opera 7? > > Brows

Re: Qtext

2002-09-27 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Uri Bruck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27/09/02 23:11]: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > > > Matitiahu Allouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27/09/02 13:29]: > > > The main problem in a Bidi word processor is not how to transform logical > > > to visual format. As Tzafrir Cohen mentioned, the

Re: ccache

2002-09-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 02:07:38AM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:42:46PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > > > You guys got me curious. What is that ccache? What does it cache? Is it > > > free software? > > > > compi

Re: ccache

2002-09-27 Thread Mark Veltzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 September 2002 02:07, you wrote: > Basically, it competes with make for > dependency tracking. It seems to try to do it in a smart way, but > having two tools trying to outsmart each other seeds doubt in my mind. > This doubt may have n

Re: ccache

2002-09-27 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:42:46PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > You guys got me curious. What is that ccache? What does it cache? Is it > > free software? > > compiler cache. It caches intermediate object files, so that they > don't need to be r

Re: BitKeeper Cont. [was Re: My projects are gone (fwd)]

2002-09-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: BitKeeper Cont. [was Re: My projects are gone (fwd)]": > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:39:46PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > Besides, for years the Linux kernel did not use any source-control > > system at all, so you can go on pretending that

Re: Qtext

2002-09-27 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > Matitiahu Allouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27/09/02 13:29]: > > The main problem in a Bidi word processor is not how to transform logical > > to visual format. As Tzafrir Cohen mentioned, there are a number of > > libraries available for this purpose

Re: BitKeeper Cont. [was Re: My projects are gone (fwd)]

2002-09-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:39:46PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > The only reason BitKeeper's license is a problem to the community is because > Linus decided to use it for source-control of the kernel. This issue has been > discussed to death in the Linux-Kernel mailing list. But why should you >

Re: RE: Mandrake Linux "Dolphin" 9.0 is released, and ready to downl

2002-09-27 Thread voguemaster
Just use 700mb CDs, they cost just as much nowadays :) Besides, the feature you were referring to about burning larger images on 650 CDs is called "Overburning" (just in case you didn't know..). You can usually set the maximum length to burn (in Nero for example) and specify a 700Mb CD or so... (

Re: linux 2.4.20-pre?-ac? kernels

2002-09-27 Thread voguemaster
>The problems started after upgrading to 1GB memory, I assume because the >pattern of operation changed (less swapping). The problem occurs in >kjournaled in a reproductivable manner, but I do not think kjournald is >the problem, but that something else gets stuck, which causes kjournald to >fail,

Re: ccache

2002-09-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:42:46PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > You guys got me curious. What is that ccache? What does it cache? Is it > free software? compiler cache. It caches intermediate object files, so that they don't need to be recompiled if you do the equivalent of 'make mrproper && mak

Re: linux 2.4.20-pre?-ac? kernels

2002-09-27 Thread voguemaster
> and by telling >ariel "you are talking bullshit because it works for us" - you are not >making a good case. fact is, that it didn't work. and as far as i know >ariel, i don't think he would go saying something did not work without >doing some proper testing, and without realy seeing it not t

Re: ccache

2002-09-27 Thread Amir Tal
On Friday 27 September 2002 19:42, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: ccache": > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 03:52:31PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: > > > recently, i saw something about ccache. i've read the documentation, > > > and downloaded the latest ccache (

Re: ccache

2002-09-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: ccache": > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 03:52:31PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: > > recently, i saw something about ccache. i've read the documentation, and > > downloaded the latest ccache (1.9). its installed, but before i'll try using > > it, i was

Re: BitKeeper Cont. [was Re: My projects are gone (fwd)]

2002-09-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Re: BitKeeper Cont. [was Re: My projects are gone (fwd)]": > I am not going to _force_ Larry to free BitKeeper. I have no intention of > doing that. I am going to give Larry no choice but to free it. This is > called outcompeting. No, this sounds mo

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Ariel Biener
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Eliran wrote: I have forwarded the original post to our webmaster. --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP(6.5.8) public key http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html = To unsubscribe, send mail t

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 27 Sep 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > I checked the Life Sciences yedion this morning, when I saw the > OP. There are little PDF icons next to Word icons, but some of them > are disabled (no PDF version, I presume?), and others complain about > fonts and refuse to render. I didn't spend too mu

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > > >>2. Is there an alternative I can offer? Is there at all such a thing as > >>HTML compliant Hebrew webpage which is displayed properly by all > >>browsers? Is there a format which can contain Hebrew and is supported by > >>various application

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Eliran wrote: > > > > 4. What options do I personally have? I *do* need access to that > > > information but I do not have MS Office and have no intention of > > > either pirating or buying it (or installing it on my computer, even

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
>>Email who? The guys who make the website? They're not likely to care, >>having designed and put up such horror. >>University officials? Do you know anyone specific who might care and have >>the power to do something about it? > >Yes the guys who make the site. Check with other students if the

RE: Mandrake Linux "Dolphin" 9.0 is released, and ready to downl

2002-09-27 Thread Adir Abraham
Check your CDs. Do you hold some 700MB CDs at home? If you don't, you should. There's no need to buy 650MB ones anymore. Cdrecord works great with 700MB CDs, and even has an overburn option, if you hold 800MB (90 minutes) CDs. On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm downloading MKK-9.

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Eliran
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > Email who? The guys who make the website? They're not likely to care, > having designed and put up such horror. > University officials? Do you know anyone specific who might care and > have the power to do something about it? Yes the guys who make the site. Check

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
>Hmm, openoffice, koffice, abiword, staroffice etc... Also try to ask them >if they got HTML versions.. I can ask them, but if they had HTML (or PDF) versions, surely they would put them up on the website... no? Alexander Maryanovsky. At 15:50 27.09.2002 +0200, Eliran wrote: >Alexander Mary

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
>>My questions are: >>1. Is there any point in trying to fight this? If so, how? > >Email perhaps ? Email who? The guys who make the website? They're not likely to care, having designed and put up such horror. University officials? Do you know anyone specific who might care and have the power

Re: Qtext

2002-09-27 Thread Shay Elkin
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:17:41 +0300, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > I talked with Itzhak Mintz yesterday. He told me several things: > > 2. He would like to be in contact with someone who is willing to take >responsibility for the porting project. If there is someone who is >willing to do this,

Re: Mandrake Linux "Dolphin" 9.0 is released, and ready to downl

2002-09-27 Thread Eli Marmor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm downloading MKK-9.0 and I noticed that two of the three CDs are 700 Mega > each (the third is 450 Mega). I don't know why they did this, but my question > is - will I have problems burning these with cdrecord? In the past, when I > accidently created an image greate

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Eliran wrote: > > 4. What options do I personally have? I *do* need access to that > > information but I do not have MS Office and have no intention of > > either pirating or buying it (or installing it on my computer, even if > > I had a license). I'm also planning to move c

Re: ccache

2002-09-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 03:52:31PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: > hi, > > i am not a developer. > actualy, i cant code at all. Well, what are you waiting for? :) > recently, i saw something about ccache. i've read the documentation, and > downloaded the latest ccache (1.9). its installed, but befor

Re: TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Eliran
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > My questions are: > 1. Is there any point in trying to fight this? If so, how? Email perhaps ? > > 2. Is there an alternative I can offer? Is there at all such a thing > as HTML compliant Hebrew webpage which is displayed properly by all > browsers? Is there a f

ccache

2002-09-27 Thread Amir Tal
hi, i am not a developer. actualy, i cant code at all. the only thing i am doing as far as compilation, is to compile some of my own applications, and rebuild kde from cvs every few days. i am building kde on a P4, 1.5Ghz, 780MB of ram, and since i am updating most of the modules, it takes a lo

A hack to get logging information from Alcatel ADSL Modem/router

2002-09-27 Thread Dan Aloni
(I know this is mostly-Linux unrelated, but some people here who use Alcatel moedm as a router, with Linux, can find it useful) While doing a routine telnet to my modem, I've discovered that you can get a remarkable amount of information regarding the activity of your modem, on the fly. This i

Re: BitKeeper Cont. [was Re: My projects are gone (fwd)]

2002-09-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 02:58:59PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > In any case, you have been warned about Larry's attitude. Since he started > with BitKeeper, he pulled the public repository holding the source code > off, made the license worse, and has grown entirely grumpy and unhappy > about ever

Re: BitKeeper Cont. [was Re: My projects are gone (fwd)]

2002-09-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Omer Zak wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Oded Arbel wrote: > > > You are talking about taking control of another person's creation w/o > > that persons agreement (!!) most people would call that outright theft - > > Ayn Rand, too. > I am not going to _force_ Larry to free Bi

Re: Qtext

2002-09-27 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Matitiahu Allouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27/09/02 13:29]: > The main problem in a Bidi word processor is not how to transform logical > to visual format. As Tzafrir Cohen mentioned, there are a number of > libraries available for this purpose, which all generally produce the same > results, t

Re: Qtext

2002-09-27 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
The main problem in a Bidi word processor is not how to transform logical to visual format. As Tzafrir Cohen mentioned, there are a number of libraries available for this purpose, which all generally produce the same results, the exceptions being for rather off-beat cases. The main problem is

RE: Mandrake Linux "Dolphin" 9.0 is released, and ready to downl

2002-09-27 Thread solomon
I'm downloading MKK-9.0 and I noticed that two of the three CDs are 700 Mega each (the third is 450 Mega). I don't know why they did this, but my question is - will I have problems burning these with cdrecord? In the past, when I accidently created an image greater than 650 Mega, I wasn't able to

Re: Qtext

2002-09-27 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Hi, I talked with Itzhak Mintz yesterday. He told me several things: 1. The only windows specific bit in Qtext is that certain classes inherit from a class for a generic window (something called hwindow). Everything else (including buttons, menus, fonts ...) is their own. I guess this s

TAU website and information

2002-09-27 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
Hi, I'm starting my first year at TAU (Tel Aviv University) this year. I recently got mail regarding my faculty's website, that it contains vital information etc. etc. I was not particularly surprised to see that the website is: A. Horrible - Has a weird green border around the page (what happen