Re: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements

2003-08-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Re: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements": > On Sunday 24 August 2003 23:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As far as GUI's are concerned, I'm still trying to recover > > from seeing the Mac OS-X on a 17" Powerbook :-). > > > > When will KDE/Gnome/Any

Re: kernel compiling error

2003-08-24 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Sunday 24 August 2003 19:45, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hope this explains things, > > Yes, G, thanks for the enlightenment. My point stands though: all > other sins aside the compiled portion of the code should not assume a > particular path to wha

Re: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements

2003-08-24 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Sunday 24 August 2003 23:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As far as GUI's are concerned, I'm still trying to recover > from seeing the Mac OS-X on a 17" Powerbook :-). > > When will KDE/Gnome/Anything-opensource-on-linux will > match that interface? Simple - the moment you'll be able to render po

Re: Mysterious Disconnects with Cable Internet

2003-08-24 Thread linux-il
We've been through a similar discussion and people back then also suggested the "ping method". I wonder what's wrong with "maxfail 0"+"persist"? It works for me for a few months now (not that my line is flaky, but I noticed that if and when it fails the line gets recovered without my intervention.

Re: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements

2003-08-24 Thread linux-il
As far as GUI's are concerned, I'm still trying to recover from seeing the Mac OS-X on a 17" Powerbook :-). When will KDE/Gnome/Anything-opensource-on-linux will match that interface? Aviram Jenik wrote: have an as-you-type spell checker which will (IMO) set a new UI standard. Eat your heart out

[HAIFUX] Meeting + IMPORTANT ANNOUNCMENT

2003-08-24 Thread Alon Altman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Tomorrow (Monday 25/8) we will have a Haifux meeting in order to prepare the W2L(Welcome to Linux) lecture series and installation party. The meeting will take place, as usual, in Technion CS faculty room 6. VERY IMPORTANT: Our main server

Re: kernel compiling error

2003-08-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hope this explains things, Yes, G, thanks for the enlightenment. My point stands though: all other sins aside the compiled portion of the code should not assume a particular path to what it needs. I can only surmise that they had technical reasons t

Re: kernel compiling error

2003-08-24 Thread Meir Kriheli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 August 2003 14:43, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Alex Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thats not always true, for example in Gentoo if you choose to > > compile a NPTL enabled glibc /usr/src/linux MUST point to a recent > > 2.6 kernel tree

Re: kernel compiling error

2003-08-24 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I don't follow the point about binary drivers compiled against headers in /usr/src/linux. I must admit I have avoided binary-only drivers for now, but what do they care if I have the right directory if they are binary already? As long as I am using exactly the same kernel as

why are some pdfs by OOo not readable by adobe acrobat?

2003-08-24 Thread Arie Folger
I produced a landscape document with OOo Draw, and although gv will display the document, kghostview and acroread won't. A pdf that non Linuxers can't read kind of defeats the purpose of creating the pdf in the first place, does it?;-) Why is that pdf considered corrupted by acroread and kghost

Re: kernel compiling error

2003-08-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Alex Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thats not always true, for example in Gentoo if you choose to > compile a NPTL enabled glibc /usr/src/linux MUST point to a recent > 2.6 kernel tree, also the nvidia binary driver compiles against > headers from /usr/src/linux, basically this done so you ca

Re: kernel compiling error

2003-08-24 Thread Erez Doron
well, mrproper fixed it, thanks. btw, there was no /usr/src/linux to begin with, and /usr/src/linux-2.4 was created by the kernel-source rpm thanks, erez. Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:36:30PM +0300, Erez Doron wrote: i

Re: kernel compiling error

2003-08-24 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 04:56:39PM +, Alex Veber wrote: > > > /usr/src/linux should point to the headers glibc was compiled > > > against. You shouldn't touch it unless you really know what you're > > > doing. > > > > Muli, I think you are confusing it with /usr/include/linux. Linux > > stoppe

Re: kernel compiling error

2003-08-24 Thread Alex Veber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 August 2003 12:18, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:36:30PM +0300, Erez Doron wrote: > > > i installed kernel-source-2.4.20-20.9-i686.rpm > > > i linked the main dir to /us

Lectures at IDC

2003-08-24 Thread Ori idan
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Re: kernel compiling error

2003-08-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:36:30PM +0300, Erez Doron wrote: > > > i installed kernel-source-2.4.20-20.9-i686.rpm > > i linked the main dir to /usr/src/linux ( was already linked to > > /usr/src/linux-2.4) And what is /usr/src/linux-2.4? Maybe that w

Re: [OT] crossed/non-crossed cables and hubs

2003-08-24 Thread Erez Doron
hi we have designed a board that amnog other things included such an 8 port switch. the good news is that the 'feature' can be disabled. the bad news, is that you need either make a physical change on the board, or if you are lucky and have a serial port on it, it is possible to configure throug

Re: kernel compiling error

2003-08-24 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:36:30PM +0300, Erez Doron wrote: > i installed kernel-source-2.4.20-20.9-i686.rpm > i linked the main dir to /usr/src/linux ( was already linked to > /usr/src/linux-2.4) /usr/src/linux should point to the headers glibc was compiled against. You shouldn't touch it unles

REMINDER IDC lectures today at 18:00

2003-08-24 Thread Tal Achituv
What: Lectures about: .net and MONO By Eran Sandler about 'The Cathedral & The Bazaar' by Shlomi Fish Where: IDC, Herzelia, OFER-04 hall. When: 18:00 How to get there: Train / Bus (501 and similars), anything that gets close to 7star mall... Call tal or someone else for poss

kernel compiling error

2003-08-24 Thread Erez Doron
hi system: redhat 9.0 fully upgraded. the kernel source i downloaded should cleanly compile as it is used in the redhat binary rpm, but it is not (see below): i installed kernel-source-2.4.20-20.9-i686.rpm i linked the main dir to /usr/src/linux ( was already linked to /usr/src/linux-2.4) i did

Re: [OT] crossed/non-crossed cables and hubs

2003-08-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:53:45PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > If the old switch was a 10mb switch then that could explain it. It's not - it even has leds that lit when a 100Mb card is connected. The throughput changes a lot according to whether the strong machine is the server or client, BTW - t