Re: mplayer 0.90 is around the corner

2003-02-11 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Diego Iastrubni, from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > I have compiled the rh rpm in my mandrake 9 and found no problems with the > gui. What are you talking about? I wish I could say the same about my own complation. the fact the GUI sucked had nothing to do with the distro, I suspect. it's ba

Re: hebrew display in java problem with linux

2003-02-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Shai Bentin wrote: > > > Hi all, I hope any of you can help... > > > > I use mandrake. I'm programming something in java that needs to get input in > > hebrew.What happens is strange: > > > > Say I use, for example, a JtextFie

Re: xkb and kde

2003-02-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Shai Bentin wrote: > I'm using mandrake 9.0 with kde3. > There is a keymap changing utility that comes with kde. Can someone > explain to me what this small applet actually does and where it gets all > the keyboard maps it uses? When you "change a keymap" with this applet, is

Re: xkb handling in upcoming 4.3.0

2003-02-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Dekel Tsur wrote: > I still don't understand why some people claim that mirroring characters in > the keymap is wrong. > The alternative is that every Bidi toolkit (or an application that > has its own bidi implementation like OpenOffice) should have a code for > mirroring the

Re: xkb handling in upcoming 4.3.0

2003-02-11 Thread Dekel Tsur
> > Then we agree: it's a bug in X. > > > > Who shall report? > > Please do so. I'm currently rather busy with some other problems (mainly > getting everything ready for Qt-3.2) and preparing my visit to Israel > beginning of March :) I still don't understand why some people claim that mirroring

Re: xkb handling in upcoming 4.3.0

2003-02-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oron Peled wrote: Engravings...display engine What? I do believe I was not properly understood. I'll try again. I was talking about the engravings on the plastic keycaps on the keyboard ("Hacharita al gabey hamakashim"). So was I. It has no $&#$^#$ display engine (yet). Dure you do.

xkb and kde

2003-02-11 Thread Shai Bentin
I'm using mandrake 9.0 with kde3. There is a keymap changing utility that comes with kde. Can someone explain to me what this small applet actually does and where it gets all the keyboard maps it uses?   I looked in /etc/X11/xkb/keymaps/xfree86 and other files I found there and couldn't

Re: xkb handling in upcoming 4.3.0

2003-02-11 Thread Oron Peled
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:06:46 +0200 Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as the engravings go, it is up to the display engine to display Engravings...display engine What? I was talking about the engravings on the plastic keycaps on the keyboard ("Hacharita al gabey hamakashim"

Re: mplayer 0.90 is around the corner

2003-02-11 Thread Diego Iastrubni
I have compiled the rh rpm in my mandrake 9 and found no problems with the gui. What are you talking about? - diego áéåí ùìéùé, 11 áôáøåàø 2003, 14:43, Ira Abramov ëúá: > Quoting Ely Levy, from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > > what was the end in the argument between mplayer's dev > > and debian abou

RE: Time zone in syslog

2003-02-11 Thread Arik Baratz
Arik wrote: > The only problem that this setup has in this respect is > syslog. For the life of me I can't make syslog dump its log > files in GMT. Since this is a firewall, I want to have > accurate GMT logs that I can use for security violation reports. > > Is there any way to have syslog us

Time zone in syslog

2003-02-11 Thread Arik Baratz
Hello folks It may be picky or stupid, but here goes. I have setup a new system, and set it up to use the IST timezone. Hardware clock is set to GMT, and date returns the IST time properly. I've also set up ntpd to query the IIX timeserver. The only problem that this setup has in this respect

Re: Transparent proxy for local PC

2003-02-11 Thread Alon Altman
> > I've already successfully configured such a proxy for remote hosts, > > however I had a problem with setting it up for a local host, as the proxy's > > attempt to connect out are redirected back to the proxy. > > One trivial (but rather silly) workaround is to use a second proxy; If you > cap

Re: Transparent proxy for local PC

2003-02-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003, Alon Altman wrote about "Transparent proxy for local PC": > I've already successfully configured such a proxy for remote hosts, > however I had a problem with setting it up for a local host, as the proxy's > attempt to connect out are redirected back to the proxy. One trivi

How to pick your fights

2003-02-11 Thread Ira Abramov
New topic = new thread :) Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > > > list, but what about the bigger goal of helping a linux win? > > > > I see that as a moot issue. Linux has already won. what I > > Ever heard of "be paranoid"? nope. Paranoia, per the DSM-IV, is a serious

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Alon Altman wrote: > > Can anyone remind me why Linux-IL was set up to receive messages from > > non-subscribers (subject to human moderator's approval) in the first > > place? > > > > If there is no good reason, how about reconfiguring the list to reject all > > messages fro

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 17:43, Omer Zak wrote: > Can anyone remind me why Linux-IL was set up to receive messages from > non-subscribers (subject to human moderator's approval) in the first > place? Because some desired messages do come from non-subscribers, such as event notifications or job offer

Transparent proxy for local PC

2003-02-11 Thread Alon Altman
Hi, I'm trying to configure a transparent HTTP proxy that will affect the local host in system or application level. I've already successfully configured such a proxy for remote hosts, however I had a problem with setting it up for a local host, as the proxy's attempt to connect out are redirec

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Alon Altman
> Can anyone remind me why Linux-IL was set up to receive messages from > non-subscribers (subject to human moderator's approval) in the first > place? > > If there is no good reason, how about reconfiguring the list to reject all > messages from non-subscribers? Then Alex Shnitman will not have t

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Alex Shnitman, from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > > > > If it's desired, and enough people are willing to take on the job, I > > guess we can set this list up as a moderated list, but I don't think > > that everybody will agree to do this. > > did I

RE: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread linux_il
> > Not to defend the practice of asking a question without being on the > > list, but what about the bigger goal of helping a linux win? > > I see that as a moot issue. Linux has already won. what I Ever heard of "be paranoid"? I wouldn't say that "Linux has won" any time soon, there is a lot

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Alex Shnitman, from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > > If it's desired, and enough people are willing to take on the job, I > guess we can set this list up as a moderated list, but I don't think > that everybody will agree to do this. did I say we should moderate EVERY post? I just think that o

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 16:09, Ira Abramov wrote: > > This is because Eyal won't find the time to follow the Linux-IL mailing > > list and help other Linux-IL subscribers with their problems, in exchange > > for the help which he is asking for now. > > well, you can also mention the fact that the p

RE: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't mind questions from offlist people, but questions about > > proprietery products with no intereset for the Free Software community > > (nor even, sigh, for OpenSource people), should be filtered out. > > Not to defend the practice of asking

Re: hebrew display in java problem with linux

2003-02-11 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Shai Bentin wrote: > Say I use, for example, a JtextField or JTextArea. I set the font, the default > locale... everything supports hebrew. more over, I also do "setText" and put > in unicode ("\u05d1\u05d2\u202c..."). When running I see the text in hebrew > displayed in the

Re: hebrew display in java problem with linux

2003-02-11 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Shai, This is a keyboard mapping problem. You need a keymap that maps to Unicode Hebrew. Otherwise you need to translate the keycodes inside your Java app. The squares are the fonts way to indicate that you entered keymap value outside of the range of the font. If I am not mistaken we use the

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Eyal Shani wrote: > > > Thanks in advance, and please reply to me direct too as im not in the list. > > ^^^^ > > I urge anyone who spends his valuable time replyin

RE: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread linux_il
> I don't mind questions from offlist people, but questions about > proprietery products with no intereset for the Free Software community > (nor even, sigh, for OpenSource people), should be filtered out. Not to defend the practice of asking a question without being on the list, but what about t

Re: backup utility

2003-02-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Eyal Shani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A customer want to install Oracle Real Application Cluster on Red Had > Advanced server. Have you tried asking Red Hat? You *do* work for Oracle, don't you? Then you have partnership relations with RH. I suppose if Oracle approach them and say, it's eit

Re: "Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > > Thanks in advance, and please reply to me direct too as im not in the list. > > ^^^^ > > I urge anyone who spends his valuable time replying to Eyal (an Oracle > employee, i

Re: backup utility

2003-02-11 Thread Skliarouk Arie
Hello Eyal, > A customer want to install Oracle Real Application Cluster on Red Had > Advanced server. > We have a backup problem because the customer uses a windows version of > veritas and dont want to spend money on another backup software. we need to > backup raw device to tapes on another ser

Re: backup utility

2003-02-11 Thread Ira Abramov
As it looks like you are not a subscriber to the list, I've CC:ed you. sorry if you get this twice. Quoting Eyal Shani, from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > hi all, > > A customer want to install Oracle Real Application Cluster on Red Had > Advanced server. I know a good psychiatrist I can refer him

RE: backup utility

2003-02-11 Thread Arik Baratz
> -Original Message- > From: Eyal Shani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > A customer want to install Oracle Real Application Cluster on Red Had > Advanced server. > We have a backup problem because the customer uses a windows > version of > veritas and dont want to spend money on another backu

hebrew display in java problem with linux

2003-02-11 Thread Shai Bentin
Hi all, I hope any of you can help... I use mandrake. I'm programming something in java that needs to get input in hebrew.What happens is strange: Say I use, for example, a JtextField or JTextArea. I set the font, the default locale... everything supports hebrew. more over, I also do "setText"

"Please reply to me direct" (was: Re: backup utility)

2003-02-11 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Eyal Shani wrote: > Thanks in advance, and please reply to me direct too as im not in the list. ^^^^ I urge anyone who spends his valuable time replying to Eyal (an Oracle employee, if to judge from his

Re: KDE 3.1 in Debian unstable

2003-02-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Hetz Ben-Hamo, from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > > For RH 7.3 and 8.0 - go to: http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ - note that > > you'll need to install apt4rpm to use the APT system to download and install > > those RPMS.. > > quick note for the imp

backup utility

2003-02-11 Thread Eyal Shani
hi all, A customer want to install Oracle Real Application Cluster on Red Had Advanced server. We have a backup problem because the customer uses a windows version of veritas and dont want to spend money on another backup software. we need to backup raw device to tapes on another server. do you k

Re: mplayer 0.90 is around the corner

2003-02-11 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Ely Levy, from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > what was the end in the argument between mplayer's dev > and debian about the license thing? I stopped reading the thread after some point, because everyone were shouting and flaming and not listening to eachother. rough summery: deb-dev: your cod

KDE 3.1 (and 3.0.5a) RPMS for Red Hat& Mandrake

2003-02-11 Thread Hetz Ben-Hamo
Hi, Few people have asked about those RPMS in the $subject.. For RH 7.3 and 8.0 - go to: http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ - note that you'll need to install apt4rpm to use the APT system to download and install those RPMS.. Mandrake 9 users - go to: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribution

Re: burning bin+cue?

2003-02-11 Thread Ely Levy
k3b new version should support it as well, personaly I really like k3b Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > On Monday 03 February 2003 00:54 am, Ira Abramov wrote: > > I usually burn ISO images, but a friend copied me a cue+bin pai

Re: root fs mount options

2003-02-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:00:32AM +0200, Michael Sternberg wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Michael Sternberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > How can I tell kernel what mount options to use when mount root fs ("/") ? > > I have in kernel command line "root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw" a

Re: xkb handling in upcoming 4.3.0

2003-02-11 Thread Lars Knoll
> Then we agree: it's a bug in X. > > Who shall report? Please do so. I'm currently rather busy with some other problems (mainly getting everything ready for Qt-3.2) and preparing my visit to Israel beginning of March :) Cheers, Lars ==

RE: xkb handling in upcoming 4.3.0

2003-02-11 Thread linux_il
> -Original Message- > From: Shachar Shemesh > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:07 AM > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: xkb handling in upcoming 4.3.0 > > > Well, I beg to differ. I suspect the bottom line is the same result, only it sounds like you

Re: xkb handling in upcoming 4.3.0

2003-02-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Well, I beg to differ. I'm not sure what 4.3.0 did, but the correct behaviour should be that shift-9 produces "open brackets" in left to right languages, and "close brackets" on right to left languages. shift-0 should produce the other one. As far as the engravings go, it is up to the display e