Re: disk on key

2003-07-05 Thread Meir Michanie
I have a 8mg diskonkey. It came with several partitions, the one for storage was /dev/sda4 run fdisk -l /dev/sda to see the partitions structure. then try mounting /dev/sda[1,2,3,4,...] > Micha Feigin wrote: >> I borrowed an 8 MB diskonkey from someone and I just can't seem to >> mount it. >> W

Re: disk on key

2003-07-05 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Micha Feigin wrote: I borrowed an 8 MB diskonkey from someone and I just can't seem to mount it. What modules would it need? DOn't knwo about additional modules, but there's one thing that bit me in the past - for some reasons, some USB disk on key are paritioned in such a way that you need to mo

Re: kernel 2.5.69 problem

2003-07-05 Thread Idan Sofer
> I tried to compile kernel 2.5.69 on debian unstable using gcc ver. 3.3 > on a sony vaio with amd athlon xp 1500+ (1.3 GH) I'm currently running 2.5.73, compiled with gcc 3.3, without much trouble, on I815e based motherboard and PIII, so far runs as solid as rock(tfu tfu) I actually had troubles

Re: Making linux behave as a real multiuser multitask os.

2003-07-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 12:30:56AM +0300, Meir Michanie wrote: > I use UML at home, but to give UML in a public place like the > university? > > They would hack you from the inside. That is to much power. I am not sure I understand what you say. UML runs as normal user, not root. Any user can run

Re: disk on key

2003-07-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 04:25:57AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > I borrowed an 8 MB diskonkey from someone and I just can't seem to mount > it. > What modules would it need? [snip] You also need sd_mod. It would also help (if it doesn't work) that you send the relevant parts of dmesg. -- Didi ==

disk on key

2003-07-05 Thread Micha Feigin
I borrowed an 8 MB diskonkey from someone and I just can't seem to mount it. What modules would it need? It appears under /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/1 with data: Host scsi1: usb-storage Vendor: M-Systems Product: DiskOnKey Serial Number: 01046215100195F0 Protocol: Transparent S

kernel 2.5.69 problem

2003-07-05 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried to compile kernel 2.5.69 on debian unstable using gcc ver. 3.3 on a sony vaio with amd athlon xp 1500+ (1.3 GH) However I tried to strip the kernel of anything that looked unecessary, it keeps crashing on startup. something like a couple of line after the line for choosing the console resol

Re: external protocol in galeon/nautilus (toc: etc...)

2003-07-05 Thread dittigas
GUIwize try Applications | Dekstop Prefrences | Advanced | File Types and Programs. Go all the way down to: Internet Services and add whatever protocol you need. e.g. Extension: man, Program: gnome-help "%s" On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 14:42, Micha Feigin wrote: > I don't seem to be able to start any e

Re: Linus: 2.6 Beta next week?

2003-07-05 Thread Mark Veltzer
On Saturday 05 July 2003 23:37, you wrote: > בשבת, 5 ביולי 2003, 17:04, Muli Ben-Yehuda כתב: > Muli, you are talking from a kernel programmer point of view. I am talking > about a user point of view. > So what? I have to stay behind because I use a "non standard h/w"? Or > should I "upgrade" my h/w

Re: apt-get

2003-07-05 Thread Moshe Shemesh
Hi Alex, Assuming you are running bash - define the following: export http_proxy='http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port' Where user and password is the user name and password to get authenticated by the proxy (assuming it needs authentication), proxy-server is the name of the proxy and

Re: apt-get

2003-07-05 Thread Andre E. Bar'yudin
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:51:47PM -0700, alex rait wrote: > I cannot make it work with my redhat 8.0. The message I get is that it cannot > connect to some host. I am behind a proxy, but I don't know how to specify it in the > console. > Is there a way to do that? I believe it is some kind of en

Re: Linus: 2.6 Beta next week?

2003-07-05 Thread Diego Iastrubni
בשבת, 5 ביולי 2003, 17:04, Muli Ben-Yehuda כתב: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:54:17PM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > Binary drivers somtimes workd on 2.4.x, and did not work in 2.4.x+1, do > > you expect them to work in 2.6.y? > > Unlikely. > > > Is 2.6 "binary compatile" with 2.4? > > For kernel

apt-get

2003-07-05 Thread alex rait
I cannot make it work with my redhat 8.0. The message I get is that it cannot connect to some host. I am behind a proxy, but I don't know how to specify it in the console. Is there a way to do that? I believe it is some kind of environment variable, but which one and where can I find it? thank yo

Re: ATTN: DMA problem in 2.4.21.

2003-07-05 Thread Amichai Rotman
On Saturday, June 28, 2003 13:19, you wrote: > Latest ac patches from Alan should fix some (or most) of those problems. > > Hetz Can you instruct me on how to apply those patches? I have tried to upgrade my MDK 8.2 box to MDK 9.1 and had to go back because random freezes. No I know why. I have a

Re: Linus: 2.6 Beta next week?

2003-07-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
2.6 isn't binary compatible with 2.4. However, the Intel Modem drivers are part binary (core) and part code (the kernel glue if you will). They should work. Plus, as Intel has contributed greatly to the 2.5 release cycle (check the change-logs) in the past, you can trust them to release 2.6 drivers

Re: Cross platform code

2003-07-05 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Quoth Oleg Goldshmidt on Sat, Jul 05, 2003: > Vadim Vygonets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Quoth Oleg Goldshmidt on Fri, Jul 04, 2003: > > [snip snip] > > > So "portable" in the Java/Python/etc sense means *portable across a > > > limited, albeit maybe wide enough, range of platforms*. This is

Re: Linus: 2.6 Beta next week?

2003-07-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:54:17PM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > Binary drivers somtimes workd on 2.4.x, and did not work in 2.4.x+1, do you > expect them to work in 2.6.y? Unlikely. > Is 2.6 "binary compatile" with 2.4? For kernel modules, for all practical purposes, no. For user space app

Re: Linus: 2.6 Beta next week?

2003-07-05 Thread Diego Iastrubni
בשבת, 5 ביולי 2003, 15:45, Gilboa Davara כתב: > Two things... > A. The Intel modem drivers should work. You'll just have re-link them > with the new kernel. > B. We are talking about Beta. You won't see any major distro being > released with 2.6 kernel before Q1/04. I was talking about the future.

Re: hebrew files names under xterm

2003-07-05 Thread Micha Feigin
Micha Feigin wrote on 2003-06-30: > > How do I get xterm to show hebrew file names ? > > > First, what does ``locale`` show you? And what's the encoding of the > file names. locale returns: LANG=C LC_CTYPE="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_PAPER="C

external protocol in galeon/nautilus (toc: etc...)

2003-07-05 Thread Micha Feigin
I don't seem to be able to start any external procols in either galeon or nautilus. For example trying toc:man I get: toc is not a registered protocol. Same in nautilus for the netmd:/// or burn:/// I am using debian unstable with galeon 1.3.5 and nautilus 2.2.4 any ideas? [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

Re: Linus: 2.6 Beta next week?

2003-07-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
Two things... A. The Intel modem drivers should work. You'll just have re-link them with the new kernel. B. We are talking about Beta. You won't see any major distro being released with 2.6 kernel before Q1/04. Gilboa On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 14:33, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > בשבת, 5 ביולי 2003, 11:48

Re: Cross platform code

2003-07-05 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Quoth Shlomi Fish on Sat, Jul 05, 2003: > The PalmOS SDK is based on gcc. I don't know if it supports all the ANSI C > functions, but I think it does. I don't think hello.c will work on PalmOS as is. Vadik. -- Of course [nobody reads the docs that come with the OS] -- that would be too easy and

Re: X keyboard handling

2003-07-05 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Saturday 05 July 2003 11:59, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I have also found the sources for xkbprint, which does just that. The > problem I'm currently facing is of documentation. Where are the Xkb > extensions documented? Google for "xkb specification": http://www.x-docs.org/XKB/XKBlib.pdf As to

RE: The Internet Tool needs your help!

2003-07-05 Thread Yasha Harari
shalom :) may i receive this list as a daily digest? :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shlomi Fish > Sent: Fri, July 04, 2003 10:34 AM > To: Itay 'z9u2K' Duvdevani > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: The Internet

Re: X keyboard handling

2003-07-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ilya Konstantinov wrote: With the Xkb specs and some patience, it's pretty easy. I've implemented something similar on top of Qt -- something which recognizes when the keyboard is in an RTL language (to allow switching the cursor direction and treating input smarter) by checking if the current

Linus: 2.6 Beta next week?

2003-07-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1023130.html?tag=fd_top Interesting. -- Take care, Gilboa Davara mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 972 - 054 968 909 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the mes

Re: Cross platform code

2003-07-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Vadim Vygonets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoth Oleg Goldshmidt on Fri, Jul 04, 2003: > [snip snip] > > So "portable" in the Java/Python/etc sense means *portable across a > > limited, albeit maybe wide enough, range of platforms*. This is a very > > different notion of portability than that of

Re: Cross platform code

2003-07-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Vadim Vygonets wrote: > Quoth Oleg Goldshmidt on Fri, Jul 04, 2003: > [snip snip] > > So "portable" in the Java/Python/etc sense means *portable across a > > limited, albeit maybe wide enough, range of platforms*. This is a very > > different notion of portability than that of,