Some clarifications - Linux Day (Haifux instaparty) - Information for installers candidates

2003-11-03 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi again, I just wanted to add that: 1) Gurus do not have to arrive to the installers meeting. It is only for installers candidates only (Gurus will solve specific problems, answer questions and won't necessarily install Linuxes). 2) Any candidate who can't arrive to the installers meeting, shoul

Re: ???: Re: ???: http://www.orange.co.il/catalog/ is unviewable in Mozilla {ID:36786727} (fwd)

2003-11-03 Thread Gil Freund
I am not an Orange client, but it seems to me you should direct your e-mail to marketing and make the following notes: The orange site is payed for by your money (as a client) and as part of the service you are entitled to. You find it troubling that Orange is paying (or so they claim) large su

Re: ???: Re: ???: http://www.orange.co.il/catalog/ is unviewable in Mozilla {ID:36786727} (fwd)

2003-11-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! Attached is a discussion I had with the webmaster of the site of Orange, of which I recently became a customer of. Notice what I claim to be some inconsistencies in his approach. The final E-mail he sent me (after which I said that I'll just agree to disagree) is: <<< Dear Mr. Fish. I w

Re: Red Hat Linux end-of-life

2003-11-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:56:46PM +0200, Oleg Kobets wrote: > Most disturbing indeed. > Is this mean that RH will become closed-source ? By what stretch of the imagination? > I mean, if they dropping the personal edition becouse (just a guess) too few > buy it, then there will be no point in le

Re: Red Hat Linux end-of-life

2003-11-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:56:46PM +0200, Oleg Kobets wrote: > Most disturbing indeed. > Is this mean that RH will become closed-source ? > I mean, if they dropping the personal edition becouse (just a guess) too few > buy it, then there will be no point in leaving the Enterprise edition > availabl

Re: Red Hat Linux end-of-life

2003-11-03 Thread Oleg Kobets
Well, it seems I was too hasty to draw conclusions :-) Apparently they are intending the Fedora project to be the successor of RH series. https://rhn.redhat.com/help/rhlmigrationfaq/ - Original Message - From: "Oleg Kobets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, Novem

Re: Red Hat Linux end-of-life

2003-11-03 Thread Oleg Kobets
Most disturbing indeed. Is this mean that RH will become closed-source ? I mean, if they dropping the personal edition becouse (just a guess) too few buy it, then there will be no point in leaving the Enterprise edition available for free downloads. And that means closed-source. What do you think

Red Hat Linux end-of-life

2003-11-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
I am sure most of you are aware of the basics of it, but just as a newsflash and maybe some details, here is what I found in my mailbox today (I removed my identification and most headers from the email as irrelevant). -- Attached file included as plaintext by Listar -- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003

Re: Linux Day (Haifux instaparty) - Information for installers candidates

2003-11-03 Thread Diego Iastrubni
I will probable be there. I will not bring my box, but I am looking for someone to chat about debian. He who brings disks (+updates for all thingies like kde, oo and all other goodies) will get my blessing. I am sure we can find a burner there. :) If I am asked, I may bring Mandrake 9.1 + updat

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > Here is my opinion: any one of this 3 sounds cool. I put here only the > downsides of each approach. > > gtk: > * not object oriented (looks un-natural to build gui's in no oop language) I beg your pardon? Gtk+ is Object-Oriented. And you can do OOP in

Re: GUI language for beginners

2003-11-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi Aviad, > > I've decided that a lot of voices make for a more interesting > conversation. I'm therefor forwarding your email to a mailing list I > read (and occasionally even write to). I'm sure the good people here > will have plenty to say. You may

Linux Day (Haifux instaparty) - Information for installers candidates

2003-11-03 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi all, As you know - the Linux Day arrives and we have to choose installers for the instaparty. Among all those who wish to arrive and wish to install, and for the sake of order - we have to know in advance, who are going to be the installers. Among those who who plan to become an installer - onl

Re: Qt runs much slower on rh9.

2003-11-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Josh Roden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We're in the process of changing over to Red Hat 9 from Red Hat 7.2. > So far we have found one problem with Red Hat 9. The problem is that > Qt runs a lot slower on Red Hat 9. Any advice on the subject would > be appreciated. I can only confirm with an e

Re: Qt runs much slower on rh9.

2003-11-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Monday 03 November 2003 14:44, Oleg Kobets wrote: > Hetz, > > What's the difference between native rh9 qt and these that you provided ? > And why native rh9 qt is slower ? If I recall correctly, there were some issues that I have seen before with the RH 9 QT RPMS - I don't remember exactly the

Re: Red Hat 9 installation problem.

2003-11-03 Thread Omer Zak
The first things I'd check: 1. BIOS setup - does it look for an hard disk at the interface where the actual disk is connected? 2. Does the disk's LED turn on briefly when the computer is turned on (indicating that the disk gets power)? On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Josh Roden wrote: > One of our stud

Re: Qt runs much slower on rh9.

2003-11-03 Thread Oleg Kobets
Hetz, What's the difference between native rh9 qt and these that you provided ? And why native rh9 qt is slower ? - Original Message - From: "Hetz Ben Hamo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Josh Roden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Linux-Il (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003

Re: Qt runs much slower on rh9.

2003-11-03 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Red Hat 7.2 has QT 2.x, and 9 has QT 3.x. The main difference between QT 2 and 3 is Unicode support, which can slow things down a bit. Can you give some numbers or so then? behdad On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Josh Roden wrote: > We're in the process of changing over to Red Hat 9 from Red Hat 7.2. > S

Re: Qt runs much slower on rh9.

2003-11-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Yup, As usual, when it comes to redhat and QT/KDE - shit hit the fans... Use these RPMS instead: http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/9/RPMS.stable/ Hetz On Monday 03 November 2003 13:20, Josh Roden wrote: > We're in the process of changing over to Red Hat 9 from Red Hat 7.2. > So far we ha

Qt runs much slower on rh9.

2003-11-03 Thread Josh Roden
Title: Qt runs much slower on rh9. We're in the process of changing over to Red Hat 9 from Red Hat 7.2. So far we have found one problem with Red Hat 9. The problem is that Qt runs a lot slower on Red Hat 9. Any advice on the subject would be appreciated. I noticed that running Qt doesn't affe

RE: brief naps (aftermath)

2003-11-03 Thread Ami Chayun
Hi all, First of all, I'd like to thank everyone that have answered, I never expected so many solutions :) A couple of results: 1) The rdtscll Pentium instruction (Eran's answer) is very useful. It's super accurate and right now I decided to use it mostly to benchmark other solutions, and to esti

Re: Red Hat 9 installation problem.

2003-11-03 Thread Alon Weinstein
I have a system with an on-board VIA SATA. 2.6.0test5 and beyond have good support for this chipset, and by manually patching a rawhide 2.4.22 kernel using this thread as reference -- http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg202339.html -- I got the SATA running on 2.4.x. The author of libata tol

Sharing my problem solving experience.

2003-11-03 Thread Josh Roden
Title: Sharing my problem solving experience. On an ugly morning I received the following message when booting my NIS server: mounting proc filesystem [ ERROR ] dup2: bad file descriptor My Nis server (TUX) would not boot any further and therefore the rest of my servers that are

Re: Red Hat 9 installation problem.

2003-11-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Yup, VIA SATA support in kernel 2.4.x is minimal - at best. The 2.6.0-testx got more stuff (until someone will backport it).. My suggestion - set the BIOS SATA stuff to ATA emulation (depending on your BIOS)... Hetz On Monday 03 November 2003 11:25, Josh Roden wrote: > One of our students tri

Re: Red Hat 9 installation problem.

2003-11-03 Thread Ez-Aton
SATA is not yet supported "Out-of-the-box" One needs to install using either some special new and patched kernel, or using an HDD connected to the std. IDE, and then, after upgrade to the kernel, to move the system to the new disks. Ez. On Monday 03 November 2003 11:25, Josh Roden wrote: > One

RE: Red Hat 9 installation problem.

2003-11-03 Thread Arik Baratz
-Original Message- From: Josh Roden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > One of our students tried to install RH9 on a computer with the following: > > Mother board: ABIT > Chipset: VIA > Hard disk: Seagate SATA > > When he got to the disk formatting part of the installation he got an > error sta

Red Hat 9 installation problem.

2003-11-03 Thread Josh Roden
One of our students tried to install RH9 on a computer with the following:   Mother board: ABIT Chipset: VIA Hard disk: Seagate SATA   When he got to the disk formatting part of the installation he got an error stating that no hard disk was found. Does anybody have any idea what can be t

Re: Haifa University site browser competablity issues

2003-11-03 Thread Boaz Rymland
In addition to what I wrote you in private, I can add that this issue is bigger than this "virtual" system. A few sites in the TAU internet site will require you to use IE, and I don't like this either. Actually, I think this is rude. I've contacted my faculty administration, from the Dean to th

Re: Bank Hapoalim - was: Re: Mozilla, Internet Banking and Bank Otsar Ha-Hayal: summary

2003-11-03 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:04:29AM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > It won't heart me to learn a trick or two. And neither to spell. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g

Haifa University site browser competablity issues

2003-11-03 Thread Ez-Aton
Hi People. To cut to the bone, parts of a site used by many (and more to be) courses in Haifa University, called Virtual Haifa (virtualnew.haifa.ac.il) does not function under any browser except IE. A similar site, used for content menagement, used in TAU functions flawlessly. I believe that the

Re: he-en dictionaries...

2003-11-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003, Arik Baratz wrote about "RE: he-en dictionaries...": > If you create a nice web interface for the entry of translations, and open it up on > the web, and let people subscribe to a 'daily translation' mailing list and > translate a word a day, and announce it in linux-il, I b

Re: Bank Hapoalim - was: Re: Mozilla, Internet Banking and Bank Otsar Ha-Hayal: summary

2003-11-03 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I hereby request. It won't heart me to learn a trick or two. On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:18:16PM +0200, Baruch Even wrote: > For anyone interested I've modified Dan's script to extract the data to > CSV files, I've also made use of HTML Table extraction to hopefully > make the script a bit more rob