Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements)

2003-08-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:41:39PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:13:03AM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: > > On Monday 25 August 2003 10:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The things I think are the most useful in the OS-X interface are: > > > > > > 1. The ability to sort of "zo

Re: OS-X rules, X sucks

2003-08-29 Thread Oded Arbel
On Friday 29 August 2003 23:55, Meir Kriheli wrote: > > X is a piece of software most in need of a redesign if I ever saw one. > > Shouldn't the toolkit handle it instead of X ? No - the X server encapsualtes low level hardware interfaces into high level API. for the tool kit to go around it is c

Re: OS-X rules, X sucks

2003-08-29 Thread Oded Arbel
On Friday 29 August 2003 14:41, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > And totally off-topic: anybody managed to get tdwm ("3dwm") to do something > useful? Yes, its a good benchmark tool for your 3D hardware and drivers - if its only excruciatingly slow then you have pretty damn good setup ;-) Try 3Ddesktop -

Re: 2D vs. 3D (was OS-X rules, X sucks)

2003-08-29 Thread Oded Arbel
On Friday 29 August 2003 13:33, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > >they map each window as a texture map over > >a rectangular 3D object using the graphic's hardware 3D acceleration mode. > > I have a (perhaps offtopic, but I changed the topic :-)) question - why is > it that hardware acceleration for

Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements)

2003-08-29 Thread Oded Arbel
On Friday 29 August 2003 12:02, Idan Sofer wrote: > On יום שישי, 29 באוגוסט 2003, 11:30, you wrote: > > opaque window moving, or even simple > > redraws take way to much on my not-so-antique Duron 700Mhz. every single > > non X solution I tried can do any graphics faster then X. > > If I can rememb

Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements)

2003-08-29 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Friday 29 August 2003 07:13, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2003 10:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The things I think are the most useful in the OS-X interface are: > > > > 1. The ability to sort of "zoom out" where all the application windows > > are resized to be small enough so the

Re: problem with sound card / mouse

2003-08-29 Thread Boris Ratner
Yehuda Berlinger wrote: I have problems configuring my sound card and mouse simultaneously. When I start up, my mouse (logitech mouseman) fails if I have configured my sound card (crystal something). By removing the entries from /etc/modules.conf, I can start up, and by reconfiguring sound sup

Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements)

2003-08-29 Thread Boris Ratner
Oded Arbel wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 11:00, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2003, Oded Arbel wrote about "OS-X rules, X sucks ... X and pursue greener pastures. IMO - X is the single reason why Linux and other free OSs do not have the same desktop market share as they do for s

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Random Number Generators, by Oleg Goldshmidt

2003-08-29 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Next Monday (01/09/2003), at 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once again meet to hear Oleg Goldshmidt talk about: Pseudo-, Quasi-, and Real Random Numbers You are all invited! More info on how to get to the meeting etc. at the haifux website: http://www.haifux.org (temporarily down,

Re: Hebrew support in fvwm

2003-08-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote about "Re: Hebrew support in fvwm": > ביום שישי 29 אוגוסט 2003, 14:58, Tzafrir Cohen כתב: > > I also started playing with fvwm-themes (http://fvwm-themes.sf.net) > > which is a theme-engine for fvwm that basically works by seperating the > > configuration

Re: Hebrew support in fvwm

2003-08-29 Thread Diego Iastrubni
ביום שישי 29 אוגוסט 2003, 14:58, Tzafrir Cohen כתב: > I also started playing with fvwm-themes (http://fvwm-themes.sf.net) > which is a theme-engine for fvwm that basically works by seperating the > configuration to "components" and allows overriding different components > seperately. This protest i

Re: Hebrew support in fvwm

2003-08-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
A small update On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:28:00PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > I still have not figured how to make Xft support work: I built fvwm > with Xft support. I have a RedHat 7.3 system, and it has Xft1. I have > no idea it is supposed to work, and so far I failed to make it work. >

Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements)

2003-08-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:13:03AM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2003 10:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The things I think are the most useful in the OS-X interface are: > > > > 1. The ability to sort of "zoom out" where all the application windows > > are resized to be small eno

Adding pptp'ed connections to standard networking startup (Was: pptp into rc file)

2003-08-29 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Friday 29 August 2003 12:04, Yehuda Berlinger wrote: > I would like to set up my working pptp command to automatically run when > I start up by putting it into an rc file. I'm using redhat 9.0. Instead of hacking your startup scripts, you can simply add the following option to your PPP options

Re: pptp into rc file

2003-08-29 Thread Oleg Kobets
Hi. I would guess, just enter your command in the appropriate place in one of the RC files. Or do what I did, take the skeleton file from /etc/init.d, change it to include your command and all the relevant info and make links so it would be executed on startup. Under debian there is a command to

2D vs. 3D (was OS-X rules, X sucks)

2003-08-29 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
they map each window as a texture map over a rectangular 3D object using the graphic's hardware 3D acceleration mode. I have a (perhaps offtopic, but I changed the topic :-)) question - why is it that hardware acceleration for 3D operations so much better than for 2D operations (which are pres

problem with sound card / mouse

2003-08-29 Thread Yehuda Berlinger
I have problems configuring my sound card and mouse simultaneously. When I start up, my mouse (logitech mouseman) fails if I have configured my sound card (crystal something). By removing the entries from /etc/modules.conf, I can start up, and by reconfiguring sound support (or just copyign the

Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements)

2003-08-29 Thread Idan Sofer
My reply was mistakenly sent only to Oded... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements) Date: יום שישי, 29 באוגוסט 2003, 12:02 From: Idan Sofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On יום שישי, 29 באוגו

pptp into rc file

2003-08-29 Thread Yehuda Berlinger
I would like to set up my working pptp command to automatically run when I start up by putting it into an rc file. I'm using redhat 9.0. Has anyone done this already who can send me a file illustrating how to do it (minus my specific account info, of course)? Yehuda ===

Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements)

2003-08-29 Thread Oded Arbel
On Friday 29 August 2003 11:00, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003, Oded Arbel wrote about "OS-X rules, X sucks > >... > > X and pursue greener pastures. IMO - X is the single reason why Linux and > > other free OSs do not have the same desktop market share as they do for > > server instal

Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements)

2003-08-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003, Oded Arbel wrote about "OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements)": > after you do that, you can manipulate the window in hardware - resize it, > make it translucent, swipe it here and there, etc' all in hardware and as >.. > Only problem is : you can'

OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements)

2003-08-29 Thread Oded Arbel
On Monday 25 August 2003 10:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The things I think are the most useful in the OS-X interface are: > > 1. The ability to sort of "zoom out" where all the application windows > are resized to be small enough so they don't overlap, in that state you > can pick the window you

Hello people,I sell my computer...

2003-08-29 Thread Ivan Vanney
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