Re: X Server for windows

2004-01-04 Thread Aaron
I guess I must of missed something, What can an xserver be used for on windoze?? Why might someone want one? Thanks Aaron = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the c

Re: X Server for windows

2004-01-04 Thread Dan Fruehauf
On Sunday 04 January 2004 21:34, Lior Kaplan wrote: > Hi All, > > Any recommendations on X server for windows? > I'd like to set some X forwarding. > > I saw some commercial solutions, but I need something free (as in beer...). > > Thanks, > > Lior Kaplan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.Guides.co.

Re: X Server for windows

2004-01-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:07:44PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Lior Kaplan wrote: > > >It seems that cygwin is a unanimous answer... thanks. > > > >Regards, > > > > > Cygwin is the best free (either one) option. It does suffer from one > fundemental problem - it must use a "virtual screen" m

Re: X Server for windows

2004-01-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:34:05PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: > Hi All, > > Any recommendations on X server for windows? > I'd like to set some X forwarding. > > I saw some commercial solutions, but I need something free (as in beer...). > > Thanks, > I had some good experience with the X serve

Re: The Proliferation of Linux and its Effect on Programmers

2004-01-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 05:19:05PM +0200, Aviram Jenik wrote: > > > On Thursday 01 January 2004 21:01, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > Now, some arguments were made that because a business gets a software > > > > for free, he will expect the hackers who have to make it work, to work > > > > very cheaply

fetchyahoo and non-iso8859-1 texts (perl and internalization)]

2004-01-04 Thread Micha Feigin
I am using fetchyahoo to fetch my mail of yahoo to a local machine. The problem is that I am currently suspecting it of failing to download hebrew emails properly. All such emails I get are all ??? and other people receiving the same mail when its a group mail don't have the same problems (some of

Re: Complaining and Solving Problems of the Nvidia Drivers

2004-01-04 Thread Gil Freund
How about Matrox, S3, SiS and Intel? Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: No, I'm afraid I haven't done any research into this problem yet and thus cannot point you to such a card, although I should, soon. I think Oleg did recently, though. Oleg? Well, I tried to

Re: X Server for windows

2004-01-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:07:44PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Cygwin is the best free (either one) option. It does suffer from one > fundemental problem - it must use a "virtual screen" mode. This means > that xfree opens a Windows window, and all X-Windows live inside that space. Recent v

Re: X Server for windows

2004-01-04 Thread Gil Freund
Cygwin is probably the most popular (cygwin.com) Weirdx is a java x-server (www.jcraft.com/weirdx), and is appropriately nnamed. If you need speed, VNC is a better solution, although not an X-server Gil Lior Kaplan wrote: Hi All, Any recommendations on X server for windows? I'd like to set so

kde themes on gtk appilcatons

2004-01-04 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Hi, Some nerd got GTK applicaitons use KDE themes. Read all about it... it even works here... :) http://kdelook.org/content/show.php?content=9714&PHPSESSID=96b99fa9c2904835b8a77c9c2d49e034 and rpm for mandrake 9.2: http://web.ticino.com/Sagittarius/gtk-qt-engine-0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm and my post on

Re: X Server for windows

2004-01-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Lior Kaplan wrote: It seems that cygwin is a unanimous answer... thanks. Regards, Cygwin is the best free (either one) option. It does suffer from one fundemental problem - it must use a "virtual screen" mode. This means that xfree opens a Windows window, and all X-Windows live inside that s

Re: Mailing List and DB

2004-01-04 Thread Eli Marmor
Eli Marmor wrote: > > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > ... > > ... > Oops... Had to be direct to Tzafrir, not through the list... -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __ Tel.: +972-9-766-1

Re: Mailing List and DB

2004-01-04 Thread Eli Marmor
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > There is one resonable mailing list archiver that uses XML files for > storage. No DB is used, AFAIK. > > http://lurker.sourceforge.net/ Thanks. Well, "sort of" uses XML: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/lurker/lurker/FAQ?rev=1.10&view=auto (see the question befor

Re: X Server for windows

2004-01-04 Thread Lior Kaplan
It seems that cygwin is a unanimous answer... thanks. Regards, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Guides.co.il Come to write at the forums: http://www.guides.co.il/forums - Original Message - From: "Tzafrir Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 0

Re: X Server for windows

2004-01-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:34:05PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: > Hi All, > > Any recommendations on X server for windows? > I'd like to set some X forwarding. > > I saw some commercial solutions, but I need something free (as in beer...). XFree is part of cygwin (http://cygwin.com/ , a.k.a. http:/

Re: X Server for windows

2004-01-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:34:05PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: > >Hi All, > > > >Any recommendations on X server for windows? > >I'd like to set some X forwarding. > > > >I saw some commercial solutions, but I need something free (as in >beer...). The Xserver of cygw

Re: X Server for windows

2004-01-04 Thread Eli Marmor
CYGWIN. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44

X Server for windows

2004-01-04 Thread Lior Kaplan
Hi All,   Any recommendations on X server for windows? I'd like to set some X forwarding.   I saw some commercial solutions, but I need something free (as in beer...).   Thanks,   Lior Kaplan[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.Guides.co.il   Come to write at the forums: http://www.guides.co.il/forums

Re: rpm and mandrake

2004-01-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:47:23PM +0200, Aaron wrote: > Hi all, > I just installed rpmbuild on mandrake 9.2, but the SOURCE RPM BUILD etc > directories don't exist. I tried adding them manually but rpmbuild won't > recognize them. > How do I set up rpmbuild so I can create an rpm from a tar? > T

Re: Mailing List and DB

2004-01-04 Thread Eli Marmor
Ben-Nes Michael wrote: > > Hi All > > Im looking for a good mailing list / newsletter server that support DB ( > MySQL or even better Postgresql ). > > Currently I use mailman but I don't like its admin tools, I want the Admin > to easily manipulate the list using HTML Interface against DB ( ill

Re: rpm and mandrake

2004-01-04 Thread Diego Iastrubni
read this, http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmHowTo and dont build rpms as root. I tell you this from experience ביום ראשון, 4 בינואר 2004, 19:47, נכתב על ידי Aaron: > Hi all, > I just installed rpmbuild on mandrake 9.2, but the SOURCE RPM BUILD etc > directories don't exist. I tr

Re: The Proliferation of Linux and its Effect on Programmers

2004-01-04 Thread Oded Arbel
× 04 × 2004, 18:56, ×× ××× Oleg Goldshmidt: > A more realistic example: if I am BMW and my iDrive system in the 700 > series runs on Windows and keeps crashing then I have to factor the > cost of crashes (in fixes, recalls, returns, lost customers, lost > reputation, etc) when I c

Re: The Proliferation of Linux and its Effect on Programmers

2004-01-04 Thread Yishay Mor
Does this help? http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=375875&contrassID=2&subContrassID=6&sbSubContrassID=0 Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I don't think Izik Cohen has suddenly become an FOSS fanatic. Also, I *know* he doesn't think open office comes with no cost. However, he made t

Re: Fwd: Re: convmv

2004-01-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:13:59PM +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote: > Chaim, > > Did you check the encoding bits on in the /etc/fstab file? > > What if you change it from MDKs default cp850 (for mounted Windows > partitions) to iso8859-8 or iso8859-8-I, not UTF8. I think you onfuse here two things.

Debian support from HP

2004-01-04 Thread Lior Kaplan
Hi,   A short while ago there was news from HP about upgrading their support in Debian. Did anyone experienced it in Israel?     I know HP handout RH to people which think Linux for enterprise and Mandrake for others (saw a post on whatsup I think). But I didn't hear about Debian I'm very

rpm and mandrake

2004-01-04 Thread Aaron
Hi all, I just installed rpmbuild on mandrake 9.2, but the SOURCE RPM BUILD etc directories don't exist. I tried adding them manually but rpmbuild won't recognize them. How do I set up rpmbuild so I can create an rpm from a tar? Thanks Aaron ==

Re: Mailing List and DB

2004-01-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:14:34PM +0200, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: > Hi All > > Im looking for a good mailing list / newsletter server that support DB ( > MySQL or even better Postgresql ). > > Currently I use mailman but I don't like its admin tools, I want the Admin > to easily manipulate the lis

Re: The Proliferation of Linux and its Effect on Programmers

2004-01-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Most of the reports I've seen make an unattributed (editorial?) statement that our Treasury is after Thai-style discounts on MSOffice more than after FLOSS or open standards. Can anyone in the know confirm or deny this? I am somewhat in the know. I can confirm or deny it,

Re: Mailing List and DB

2004-01-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ben-Nes Michael wrote: Hi All Im looking for a good mailing list / newsletter server that support DB ( MySQL or even better Postgresql ). Currently I use mailman but I don't like its admin tools, I want the Admin to easily manipulate the list using HTML Interface against DB ( ill do it differentl

Re: The Proliferation of Linux and its Effect on Programmers

2004-01-04 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
OG>> Most of the reports I've seen make an unattributed (editorial?) OG>> statement that our Treasury is after Thai-style discounts on MSOffice OG>> more than after FLOSS or open standards. Can anyone in the know OG>> confirm or deny this? I cannot do either, but, logically thinking, I would not b

Mailing List and DB

2004-01-04 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Hi All Im looking for a good mailing list / newsletter server that support DB ( MySQL or even better Postgresql ). Currently I use mailman but I don't like its admin tools, I want the Admin to easily manipulate the list using HTML Interface against DB ( ill do it differently on each project ) whi

OO.org 1.1 in Hebrew - when?

2004-01-04 Thread Lior Kaplan
Hi all,   Does someone knows what the status of the project. For a long time there's a feeling that it would be out in the next couple of days. But the days past by and OO.org isn't released.   I know "our" guys work hard on it (talk with few of them). But what's keeping the release? Anybody

Re: The Proliferation of Linux and its Effect on Programmers

2004-01-04 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Aviram Jenik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For example, if I am Honda, and my options are using WinCE or Linux > for my car computer, I assume I will save a lot by not paying per-seat > license for the software. A more realistic example: if I am BMW and my iDrive system in the 700 series runs o

Re: The Proliferation of Linux and its Effect on Programmers

2004-01-04 Thread Aviram Jenik
> > On Thursday 01 January 2004 21:01, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > Now, some arguments were made that because a business gets a software > > > for free, he will expect the hackers who have to make it work, to work > > > very cheaply as well. > > > > Let me give an example from another field. > > (snip

Re: Lyx and HTML output

2004-01-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:59:01AM +0200, Voguemaster wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone have any experience with exporting HTML from Lyx ? > > I'm trying to export an article I wrote that contains some math expressions > and none of them show up in the output HTML. > > Am I missing something here

Re: Barak Cables over PPTP

2004-01-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:02:06AM +0200, Ittay Dror wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to setup a dialer to Barak over PPTP (and Ethernet). Does > someone have a ready-made script (for Mandrake 9.1) so that I don't have > to mess with it myself? Also, instructions for how to make a connection

Re: The Proliferation of Linux and its Effect on Programmers

2004-01-04 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Re: The Proliferation of Linux and its Effect on Programmers": > On Thursday 01 January 2004 21:01, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > Now, some arguments were made that because a business gets a software for > > free, he will expect the hackers who have

Re: The Proliferation of Linux and its Effect on Programmers

2004-01-04 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Thursday 01 January 2004 21:01, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Now, some arguments were made that because a business gets a software for > free, he will expect the hackers who have to make it work, to work very > cheaply as well. No they don't. Businesses are happy to pay to get gurantees, results, ha

Re: Fwd: Re: convmv

2004-01-04 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
I have no encoding set in fstab and it is not a mounted windows partition but an ext2 that had some files stored on it from windows/samba2.x and some other files that were moved over from a win system using sftp. I want everything in UTF8 now that Samba3 supports it well. Anyway the problem is solv

Re: Fwd: Re: convmv

2004-01-04 Thread Amichai Rotman
Chaim, Did you check the encoding bits on in the /etc/fstab file? What if you change it from MDKs default cp850 (for mounted Windows partitions) to iso8859-8 or iso8859-8-I, not UTF8. Amichai. On Sunday 04 January 2004 13:53, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > Here is the responce that I got from the

Fwd: Re: convmv

2004-01-04 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Here is the responce that I got from the creator of convmv regarding the inability of the utility to autodetect encoding types. Didi, Maybe you want to contact him directly if you know how he can implement some auto detection, or otherwise improve the utility. -- Chaim Keren Tzion | [EMA

Re: convmv

2004-01-04 Thread Bjoern JACKE
On 2003-12-31 at 17:14 +0200 Chaim Keren Tzion sent off: It was suggested that I send you this report of my experience with convmv. Thanks for a great tool! I tried 'convmv' and it worked great. One point to be aware of: I had two directory structures and it seems that one was in cp862 and one was

Lyx and HTML output

2004-01-04 Thread Voguemaster
Hi all, Does anyone have any experience with exporting HTML from Lyx ? I'm trying to export an article I wrote that contains some math expressions and none of them show up in the output HTML. Am I missing something here ? Am I missing some component that I am not aware of ? After all, I've seen H

Re: Barak Cables over PPTP

2004-01-04 Thread Ez-Aton
You could find something you can work with (it's written to RH9, but will work with Mandrake too, as far as I know) at http://www.iarc.org/~ezaton/cables There are instructions, and a script, adjusted to Actcom, but you could adjust it easilly to any ISP you want. Ez. On Sunday 04 January 2004

Re: Nvidia Conclusion

2004-01-04 Thread Oded Arbel
On Saturday 03 January 2004 11:10, Herouth Maoz wrote: > On Saturday, Jan 3, 2004, at 10:09 Asia/Jerusalem, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > 1. I need to explictly download and build it whenever I upgrade the > > kernel > > (and possibly X as well). Mandrake does not ship it with their distro > > so > > they

Re: Barak Cables over PPTP

2004-01-04 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sunday 04 January 2004 07:02, Ittay Dror wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to setup a dialer to Barak over PPTP (and Ethernet). Does > someone have a ready-made script (for Mandrake 9.1) so that I don't have > to mess with it myself? Also, instructions for how to make a connection > sharing (

RE: Complaining and Solving Problems of the Nvidia Drivers

2004-01-04 Thread Iftach Hyams
Intel chipsets (like 855) include 3D enabled chip and the documentation can be found in their site. It is low-end as far as 3D OpenGL (and things like lighting aren't implemented in hardware). They will have a new chip in couple of months with better architecture, but still, it leaves you with the