What's "short read error"?

2003-03-02 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Yesterday my linux hang so that I had to reset it, then fsck failed and hang and then the partiotion table got broken :-(. It seems that there is a physical problem with the drive, it's giving "short read error"s. Couldn't find any better area to fail than around the boot record of the second par

ADSL report

2003-03-02 Thread Eli Segal
Well ... the bad news are that kobi from bezeqint tech support no longer work there .. no more linux support :(( the good news are that i've installed finally my adsl connection through new installation and here are the details for future reference keywords adsl pppoe debian ip

cp -a hangs (wait_on_buffer)

2003-03-02 Thread Elie
Hope someone can help Model Maxtor 13 gig 93160U4 I am having problems transfering my file system from disk 1 (hdb) to disk 2 (hdc). cp -a hangs under apparently random conditions. A look at ps shows that cp in waiting_on_buffer and other processes such as kupdated are also waiting for data. T

Bookmarks Galeon -> Mozilla

2003-03-02 Thread David Howard
Hi to all. I realize that since Galeon depends on Mozilla, it's more likely that people will want to convert/import from Mozilla to Galeon, rather than the opposite. I use Galeon (1.27) predominantly, and have built up a large bookmarks list which I'd like to import into Mozilla (1.21). I saved Ga

Re: top level project directory

2003-03-02 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
On 2003-03-02, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:02:33PM +0200, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > > > OK. Then have a relative path to the top in every makefile and let > > `make dist' in the top directory fix these pathes in all makefiles in > > subdirs, before creating the archives. >

Re: ADSL problems .... Please help ...

2003-03-02 Thread Eli Segal
well ... it just now hit me that i puted the wrong user name !!! (damn @) :((( well, i'll try it tonight hope thats it - Original Message - From: "Eli Segal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 2:09 PM Subject: Re: ADSL problems Plea

Re: Gentoo live on cyrix 300

2003-03-02 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 15:52, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > If you're going to install Linux on it, use one of those variant Linux > distributions and NOT Red Hat 8.x or Mandrake 9.x ! You cannot even boot them > since they're optimized for i586 - and your Cyrix barely passes the 486 > (although it's o

Re: Equipment

2003-03-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003, Voguemaster wrote about "Re: Equipment": > Damn, I could use an ISA soundblaster... hehe > Couldn't find one anywhere! So now all you need are three camels! Then you could make the following series of crazy trades, paraphrasing on various emails people sent here recently:

Re: Gentoo live on cyrix 300

2003-03-02 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Saturday 01 March 2003 10:47 am, Assaf Flatto wrote: > Hi > > I tired to install the gentoo /unreal 1.4.1 live on a cyrix 300 machine > with 256MB RAM and a 8GB HDD . Now WHY would a sane person tries to install a distribution which needs to compile itself in order to optimize? do you know how

Re: Equipment

2003-03-02 Thread Voguemaster
Damn, I could use an ISA soundblaster... hehe Couldn't find one anywhere! Eli On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 12:20:23 +0200, Aviram Jenik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My contribution to the junk pile: - Several 10Mb combo network cards (ISA) - 10b2 (yes, with a BNC connector only) net card (ISA) - Buslogic

Gentoo live on cyrix 300

2003-03-02 Thread Assaf Flatto
Hi I tired to install the gentoo /unreal 1.4.1 live on a cyrix 300 machine with 256MB RAM and a 8GB HDD . it went well until i got to the second tar ball and tried to bootstrap the system. I've been working with the install file that comes with the CD . i thought at fist that the problem is tha

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 02:39:11PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Apparently there was a very recent revision, so maybe it causes less > headache now. In any case, it is IMHO not a very good idea to share > your LaTeX source with someone if it depends on a non-standard > package This is just ano

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Re rcs LaTeX package: Apparently there was a very recent revision, so maybe it causes less headache now. In any case, it is IMHO not a very good idea to share your LaTeX source with someone if it depends on a non-standard package -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

Re: ADSL problems .... Please help ...

2003-03-02 Thread Eli Segal
- Original Message - From: "Eli Segal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:35 AM Subject: Re: ADSL problems > More details ... > kernel 2.4.19 > > and with lsmod there is a kmodule mii that sits on my ethernet card ... > > > ---

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:59:28PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There is no need for such dirty tricks. You can use the rcs or > > rcsinfo packages. > > I remember trying those once. I ended up pulling all sorts of > dependencies and could never ma

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:46:42PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 10:31:17AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > $ $Id$ $ > > There is no need for such dirty tricks. > You can use the rcs or rcsinfo packages. Neither of which is installed with tetex by default. Nonetheless, I

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is no need for such dirty tricks. You can use the rcs or > rcsinfo packages. I remember trying those once. I ended up pulling all sorts of dependencies and could never make it work right. Besides, IIRC they are not standard, and thus are not appropr

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:01:19PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > So, any other cool latex tricks? Or do I have to open latex-il first? > > ;-) > > I remember seeing a Hebrew TeX mailing list somewhere. I don't know if > general TeX and LaTeX questions are accepted there. Sure they are - if Marc

HTB(QoS) Question

2003-03-02 Thread Isaac Aaron
This is a re-send. The original message was encoded in base-64. Dear List Below is an example taken from the Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOTWO. My question is just below that. tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: htb default 30 tc class add dev eth0 parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate 6

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 10:31:17AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > I was looking for a way to do this for quite sometime. The problem is > that LaTeX interprets the '$' in $Id$ as "enter math mode" and thus > doesn't render the CVS Id string appropriately. A nice hack is to do: > > $ $Id$ $ > > W

Re: SAMBA and netbios

2003-03-02 Thread Boris Ratner
Eli , It depends on what you are trying to do. If you have a WINS server on your network just enter "wins server = " in smb.conf In any case there are several parameters you can set up to propogate your computer's nebios name "master browser = yes" is one of them (if i recall right). anyway ch

Equipment

2003-03-02 Thread Aviram Jenik
My contribution to the junk pile: - Several 10Mb combo network cards (ISA) - 10b2 (yes, with a BNC connector only) net card (ISA) - Buslogic SCSI adapter (ISA) - 33.6k modem/sound card combo (ISA) - ~10 EDO RAM chips (in sizes from 1MB to 8MB) - several soundblaster sound cards (ISA) - 22.8k mode

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > So, any other cool latex tricks? Or do I have to open latex-il first? > > ;-) > > I remember seeing a Hebrew TeX mailing list somewhere. I don't know if > general TeX and LaTeX questions are accepted there. IvriTeX: http://listserv.tau.ac.il/cgi-bin/wa

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in > LaTeX documents": > > I also suppose you don't need spaces: $$Id$$ will work... > > Actually, "$$" is TeX for "start an equation on a seperate line", so it > won't work

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in > LaTeX documents": > > > \verb$Id$ > > True. However, \verb apparently can't be used as a command > > argument. See http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/users/notz/latex-cvs.html. >

Re: GDM .. still locks

2003-03-02 Thread Cedar Cox
One trick I use when a console locks is to log in via the network and just run chvt. On Slackware, for example, X runs on VT2, and a spare console on VT6. Usually I only need to 'chvt 6; sleep 5; chvt 2' and I regain control. (Only 'chvt 6' is needed, but why not change it back?) One thing I h

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doesn't \protect fix that? E.g., try > > \chapter{\protect\verb+$Id$+} > > (again, I didn't try it). I don't think it will work. Nor would defining a \newcommand work. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:40:25AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX > > documents": > > > I was looking for a way to do this for quite sometime. The problem is > > > that

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents": > I also suppose you don't need spaces: $$Id$$ will work... Actually, "$$" is TeX for "start an equation on a seperate line", so it won't work as you expect. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:53:14AM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was looking for a way to do this for quite sometime. The problem is > > that LaTeX interprets the '$' in $Id$ as "enter math mode" and thus > > doesn't render the CVS Id string ap

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was looking for a way to do this for quite sometime. The problem is > that LaTeX interprets the '$' in $Id$ as "enter math mode" and thus > doesn't render the CVS Id string appropriately. A nice hack is to do: > > $ $Id$ $ > > Works like a charm!

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents": > > \verb$Id$ > True. However, \verb apparently can't be used as a command > argument. See http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/users/notz/latex-cvs.html. > > So, any other cool latex tricks? Or do I have

Re: small problem with alias

2003-03-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm probably too tired today and I cannot see any problem with this alias > stored in my .bashrc: > > alias mcm="make -f Makefile.cvs ; ./configure > --with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl ; make" (it's all in 1 line) > > Problem is simple - when

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:40:25AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX > documents": > > I was looking for a way to do this for quite sometime. The problem is > > that LaTeX interprets the '$' in $Id$ as "enter math mode"

Re: TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents": > I was looking for a way to do this for quite sometime. The problem is > that LaTeX interprets the '$' in $Id$ as "enter math mode" and thus > doesn't render the CVS Id string appropriately. A nice hack

Re: small problem with alias

2003-03-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi, > > I'm probably too tired today and I cannot see any problem with this alias > stored in my .bashrc: > Hetz, I think a function would be better than an alias in this case. mcm() { make -f Makefile.cvs ./configure --with-openssl-dir=

SAMBA and netbios

2003-03-02 Thread Eli Segal
I've installed samba last friday and everywhere i read they tell you to name the netbios but when i named it i couldnt see the server what am i missing ?? Eli = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubs

Re: ADSL problems ....

2003-03-02 Thread Eli Segal
More details ... kernel 2.4.19 and with lsmod there is a kmodule mii that sits on my ethernet card ... - Original Message - From: "Eli Segal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:21 AM Subject: ADSL problems > well ... > I starte

linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

2003-03-02 Thread Eli Marmor
Hi all, All of you have probably heard a lot about the planned Linux conference of People and Computers, with Oracle/Sun/others. If anybody still doesn't know, the original date (March 6) is not relevant anymore (several weeks ago, some people thought that the war would start on March 3, so March

TIP: using CVS keyword in LaTeX documents

2003-03-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
I was looking for a way to do this for quite sometime. The problem is that LaTeX interprets the '$' in $Id$ as "enter math mode" and thus doesn't render the CVS Id string appropriately. A nice hack is to do: $ $Id$ $ Works like a charm! -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org pgp0.pgp De

ADSL problems ....

2003-03-02 Thread Eli Segal
well ... I started to install a new woody system on my computer but I'm having problems start my adsl connection when pppoeconf try to activate the connection I get ... ppp0: error fetching interface information I think I should do a route command, but I don't remmember what pls help :( Eli