Re: Read through the end

2004-01-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Why we better Linuxers don't have PR people or the time to write god knows... I don't know about *good* PR. The best we could come up with was a walla article quoting a death threat jokingly made by Doron, and attributing it to digitas. Still, we do have *a* PR forum (l

Re: OT - MICE: Open-Source Software: An Economic Assessment - a discussion with ESR

2004-01-29 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday 29 January 2004 17:46, dittigas wrote: > Both papers are available at: http://mice.uni-muenster.de/ (under MERS) Thanks for this link. If you'll look there, you'll find some more interesting articles (e.g: "Economic Impact Study: Microsoft and the German small and medium-sized IT-busin

Re: mounting

2004-01-29 Thread Kfir Lavi
Amir Spivak wrote: Hi all, I have a Red Had 7.0 system, when trying to mount a partition onto a mounting pointing point i've created for it, it just hangs forever, i tried mounting it as both ext2 and ext3.  when running fsck on the partition everything seems to be fine. what mi

Re: Version 0.93 of Culmus fonts released

2004-01-29 Thread Meir Kriheli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 29 January 2004 14:10, Meir Kriheli wrote: > On Thursday 29 January 2004 11:16, Maxim Iorsh wrote: > > Hello! > > > > No, I don't maintain it. Until now Meir Kriheli has been so kind as to > > create and maintain the ebuild. > > > > Regards

Re: [Haifux] encoding/decoding from mime / 1-D MR / 2-D MR / 2-D MMR formats to pdf or tiff

2004-01-29 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday 29 January 2004 12:00, David Sapir wrote: > I'm using Hylafax to receive faxes, and the machine emails the faxes as an > attachment. The OS is RH9. > My qustion is: can anyone tell my how to convert the received data to pdf > files? You can use tiff2ps (part of libtiff) to convert it

Re: Read through the end

2004-01-29 Thread Boaz Rymland
oops... really? is it a joke? that's what happens when one comments on article mostly by its title, subtitle and layout... . at least i wasn't the only one who was tricked! "TZARAT RABIM"... ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boaz Rymland wrote: Guys, dont take Mr. Lopez too seriously. I gotta

Re: Read through the end

2004-01-29 Thread David Howard
Boaz Rymland wrote: Guys, dont take Mr. Lopez too seriously. I gotta admit that I haven't really read it. Just by skimming over it raised a smile & reduced respect for the writer. He is probably a genious for getting to such a radical conclusion.In ~1.5 pages... . This article looks like spam w

Re: Read through the end

2004-01-29 Thread linux-il
Boaz Rymland wrote: Guys, dont take Mr. Lopez too seriously. I gotta admit that I haven't really read it. Just by skimming over it raised a smile & reduced respect for the writer. He is probably a genious for getting to such a radical conclusion.In ~1.5 pages... . This article looks like spam w

Re: Linux machine hangs - SOLVED ???

2004-01-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 05:41:53PM +0200, Uzi Refaeli wrote: > First 10X for all who helped... > > xmms-1.2.8 was a perfect example of getting the machine hang. > after looking around in redhat bugzilla I tried compiling xmms with CFLAGS=-O1 > instead of -O2 > works like a magic... > > I also di

Re: Read through the end

2004-01-29 Thread Boaz Rymland
Guys, dont take Mr. Lopez too seriously. I gotta admit that I haven't really read it. Just by skimming over it raised a smile & reduced respect for the writer. He is probably a genious for getting to such a radical conclusion.In ~1.5 pages... . This article looks like spam with all those paragr

Re: Who's "Alef Sherf" and can he respond in the name of "Hamakor"

2004-01-29 Thread Ely Levy
btw to whoever sent the e-mail to walla, I think it would have been a lot more effective if the translation was to hebrew and not to english. Most people would just skip that part and then won't understand what the rest is talking about Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel O

Re: Who's "Alef Sherf" and can he respond in the name of "Hamakor"

2004-01-29 Thread dittigas
Well, he did sound honestly "yellow" to me. I mean they realy just want rating and have no clew what this was all about. The "linux thingy" as he said. I guess it was important to make the linkage from OSS in Israel and HaMakor and help them know we should at least be consulted in the future. I

Re: how to reset TV card

2004-01-29 Thread Alon Altman
(replying to a 6-month-old message) > > I don't believe this is a hardware problem, but of course, I can't prove > > it. In any case, since I'm taling about a warm boot solving the problem, I > > don't think any hardware is getting reset - so it looks like a software > > problem to me. > > > I hav

Re: Who's "Alef Sherf" and can he respond in the name of "Hamakor"

2004-01-29 Thread Ely Levy
this is sort of like saying hey we don't really take you seriously and we wanted to make it more laughable no? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, dittigas wrote: > Just got off the phone with the editor. According to the him, they just > wanted to "sp

Re: mysql hebrew

2004-01-29 Thread gwizard
When typing in hebrew, you should ALWAYS use hebrew encoding. I suggest windows-1255. Oleg. On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:40:40 +0200, Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Hi all, >I am creating a mysql database which needs to have fields in hebrew and >other in english. This means that the text will be

Re: Version 0.93 of Culmus fonts released

2004-01-29 Thread Maxim Iorsh
Hello Dov! I've been thinking a while about creating a matching font for Vera family. I do intend to create sans-serif and monospace fonts in this spirit, but this would take a while... (a big while). Meanwhile, thank you for the name "Vered"! I've been looking for a good name, but made up nothing

Re: Version 0.93 of Culmus fonts released

2004-01-29 Thread dov
Hi Maxim, I put in a feature request at sourceforge for Culmus, but I don't know if you saw it so I am repeating it here: Hebrew font matching BitStream Vera One recent addition to the open source font scene is the BitStream Vera fonts. Especially I really like their monospace fo

Re: mysql hebrew

2004-01-29 Thread Aaron
Hi all, Here is what I found in the msql docs: You can change the character set with the |--default-character-set| option when you start the server. The character sets available depend on the |--with-charset=charset| and |--with-extra-charsets= list-of-charset | complex | all | none| options to

Linux machine hangs - SOLVED ???

2004-01-29 Thread Uzi Refaeli
First 10X for all who helped... xmms-1.2.8 was a perfect example of getting the machine hang. after looking around in redhat bugzilla I tried compiling xmms with CFLAGS=-O1 instead of -O2 works like a magic... I also did a mem check and it passed okay so I guess it's not a hardware but gcc issue

Re: mysql hebrew

2004-01-29 Thread Aaron
Actually when I enter data I see the hebrew the error only happens when I save. I gather I have to set something in database to use hebrew. Aaron = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the mes

OT - MICE: Open-Source Software: An Economic Assessment - a discussion with ESR

2004-01-29 Thread dittigas
FYI, I have attached a reply I received from ESR in regrads to a new paper published by the German "Muenster Institute for Computational Economics" a few weeks ago. The paper is titled "Open-Source Software: An Economic Assessment" which doubts that the idea of: exchange of “gifts for reputatio

Re: mysql hebrew

2004-01-29 Thread Aaron
I'll give a look, thanks aa do man mysqld and look for the charset settings. The mysql manual also addresses this issues. I think that in mysql 4.x you can also define charset per table, but I'm not sure. = To unsubscribe, send ma

Re: What Dist for a servers

2004-01-29 Thread Lior Kaplan
The part about hard to install isn't true. 1. The installation isn't a graphical, but still easy. 2. Woody's hardware recognition isn't as good as other distros. Don't forget its 1.5 years old. 3. Debian Sarge installer is a huge leap in hardware recognition. Sarge is now in testing to be stable i

Re: Who's "Alef Sherf" and can he respond in the name of "Hamakor"

2004-01-29 Thread dittigas
Just got off the phone with the editor. According to the him, they just wanted to "spice it up" a bit. I explained him that this is an official response of HaMakor and he can not take "creative liberty" and either publish as is or remove. He agreed to edit out Doron's intro. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: mysql hebrew

2004-01-29 Thread Uri Bruck
Once in phpMyAdmin, set the encoding to one of the Hebrew encodings, and then defining the table. On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Alon Weinstein wrote: > Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:40:40PM +0200, Aaron wrote: > > > >>Hi all, > >>I am creating a mysql database which needs

Re: Mozilla and External Mail Client

2004-01-29 Thread Alon Weinstein
Look at the mozex plugin, it'll let you do what you want to. (mozex.mozdev.org) Amichai Rotman wrote: Hey All, Any of you know how to make Mozilla use a different e-mail client than its' own? Whenever I click a mailto: link, I get the config wizard for the Mozilla Mail. I am using KMail, and

Re: mysql hebrew

2004-01-29 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
there was also a flag to compile mysql 3 with hebrew. i dont know if it still exist in mysql 4 -- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-4-6991122 Fax: 972-4-6990098 http://www.canaan.net.il -- - Origin

Re: mysql hebrew

2004-01-29 Thread linux-il
Alon Weinstein wrote: do man mysqld and look for the charset settings. The mysql manual also addresses this issues. I think that in mysql 4.x you can also define charset per table, but I'm not sure. According to the MySQL roadmap presented at LCA2004, MySQL 4.0 adds support for UTF-8 and 4.1 wi

Mozilla and External Mail Client

2004-01-29 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hey All, Any of you know how to make Mozilla use a different e-mail client than its' own? Whenever I click a mailto: link, I get the config wizard for the Mozilla Mail. I am using KMail, and all my e-mail history is in there, I would like to track the e-mails I send... Some programs (i.e.: O

Re: mysql hebrew

2004-01-29 Thread Alon Weinstein
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:40:40PM +0200, Aaron wrote: Hi all, I am creating a mysql database which needs to have fields in hebrew and other in english. This means that the text will be in hebrew. when I type hebrew in a field I get an error and I see this: *Error* SQL

OT: External Mail Service

2004-01-29 Thread Eli Marmor
Hi, For an old domain of me, I'm looking for an external mail server, with web-mail interface (like hotmail and yahoo), but with the following features: 1. Support for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED]). The domain is handled by a BIND that I have here,

Re: mysql hebrew

2004-01-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:40:40PM +0200, Aaron wrote: > Hi all, > I am creating a mysql database which needs to have fields in hebrew and > other in english. This means that the text will be in hebrew. > when I type hebrew in a field I get an error and I see this: > > *Error* > > SQL-query : >

Re: Read through the end

2004-01-29 Thread Barry R
On 29 Jan 04 8:47 am, you wrote: > Read patiently to the end... > > Yet another MCSE comparing windows to linux... :) > > http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/mcse2.htm > > --Amos > You will notice that he calls us 'fascists' in his second paragraph. > ==

mysql hebrew

2004-01-29 Thread Aaron
Hi all, I am creating a mysql database which needs to have fields in hebrew and other in english. This means that the text will be in hebrew. when I type hebrew in a field I get an error and I see this: *Error* SQL-query : ALTER TABLE `city` ADD `name_heb` ENUM( , 'סלאוויטא', 'ניקאלאיעוו',

Re: Version 0.93 of Culmus fonts released

2004-01-29 Thread Meir Kriheli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 29 January 2004 11:16, Maxim Iorsh wrote: > Hello! > > No, I don't maintain it. Until now Meir Kriheli has been so kind as to > create and maintain the ebuild. > > Regards, > Maxim. I'll commit an updated ebuild to portage's cvs (hop

Re: What Dist for a servers

2004-01-29 Thread Lior Kaplan
I know some people/companies that use Debian for servers... I don't hear complains. I think Debian is a great choice. 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: "Alon Weinstein" <[

Re: What Dist for a servers

2004-01-29 Thread Ori Idan
Yes, debian is slow in releasing updates for the stable tree (that does not include security updates as much as I know). However you can be sure that what they have in their stable tree is absolutily stable. You can use the unstable tree that in my opinion is stable enough. Ben-Nes Michael wrote

Re: What Dist for a servers

2004-01-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:50:52PM +0200, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Alon Weinstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Ben-Nes Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:33 PM > Subject: Re: What Dist for a servers > >

Re: What Dist for a servers

2004-01-29 Thread linux-il
Ben-Nes Michael wrote: I'm leaning towards Debian at the moment -- it has a wide user base, uses the great apt system (though Fedora can use it too, I guess), and generates new security updates quickly. Anyone can contradict that? Isnt debian very slow in releasing updates for her stable tre

Re: Who's "Alef Sherf" and can he respond in the name of "Hamakor"

2004-01-29 Thread linux-il
dittigas wrote: aka Uri Sharf 1. Have no idea why my name was initialized 2. The editor took my letter and combined it with some text ("the intro") that Doron Offeck wrote when he forwarded my letter to somone in Walla! 3. Walla then took the Doron's words and attached them to my letter. Which

netcache substitute

2004-01-29 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Hi I need to find a solution that netcache provides. netcache is a device that is used as a proxy and by that its reducing the load and the bandwidth use on the real servers. Squid gives a good http / ftp solution and can be substitute with netcache in this area. The one thing that netcache do

Re: What Dist for a servers

2004-01-29 Thread Ori Idan
Do you want to start a distro war? I think that everybody has his own opinion on this subject. I have tried Red-Hat 7.3, Mandrake 9.1, Red-Hat 9.0 and Debian If you install debian, you are about to have a hard time installing it but... Once you get it installed it is the easiest distribution to

Re: What Dist for a servers

2004-01-29 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
- Original Message - From: "Alon Weinstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ben-Nes Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:33 PM Subject: Re: What Dist for a servers > I'm leaning towards Debian at the moment -- it has a wide user base, > uses t

Re: What Dist for a servers

2004-01-29 Thread Alon Weinstein
Ben-Nes Michael wrote: I'm going to install a new server and as usual im asking my self what distro should I use. Until now I used Redhat and the latest version installed is 7.3, which work very well. What about Fedora ? is it suitable for a web server or any other server ? Or its better if I buy a

Re: Who's "Alef Sherf" and can he respond in the name of "Hamakor"

2004-01-29 Thread dittigas
aka Uri Sharf 1. Have no idea why my name was initialized 2. The editor took my letter and combined it with some text ("the intro") that Doron Offeck wrote when he forwarded my letter to somone in Walla! 3. Walla then took the Doron's words and attached them to my letter. Which starts off with

encoding/decoding from mime / 1-D MR / 2-D MR / 2-D MMR formats to pdf or tiff

2004-01-29 Thread David Sapir
Hi, I'm using Hylafax to receive faxes, and the machine emails the faxes as an attachment. The OS is RH9. My qustion is: can anyone tell my how to convert the received data to pdf files? Can you recommend a utility that does this uuencoding? I hope I've given all the information needed. If not, j

mounting

2004-01-29 Thread Amir Spivak
Hi all, I have a Red Had 7.0 system, when trying to mount a partition onto a mounting pointing point i've created for it, it just hangs forever, i tried mounting it as both ext2 and ext3.  when running fsck on the partition everything seems to be fine. what might have gone wrong here? what to

Who's "Alef Sherf" and can he respond in the name of "Hamakor"

2004-01-29 Thread linux-il
(This message cross-posted to linux-il and Hamakor's board list) I've just found "The Open Source Community is Furious" in Walla! about the OSS community anger about Walla's report about the Munich project. (http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/4/498523). Who's "Alef Sherf" and why does someone signing in

What Dist for a servers

2004-01-29 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
I'm going to install a new server and as usual im asking my self what distro should I use. Until now I used Redhat and the latest version installed is 7.3, which work very well. What about Fedora ? is it suitable for a web server or any other server ? Or its better if I buy a Server OS from Redha

RE: Version 0.93 of Culmus fonts released

2004-01-29 Thread Maxim Iorsh
Hello! No, I don't maintain it. Until now Meir Kriheli has been so kind as to create and maintain the ebuild. Regards, Maxim. On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Kovriga, Gregory wrote: > Hi, > do you also maintain the Gentoo ebuild? > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto

RE: Version 0.93 of Culmus fonts released

2004-01-29 Thread Kovriga, Gregory
Hi, do you also maintain the Gentoo ebuild? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maxim Iorsh Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 6:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Version 0.93 of Culmus fonts released

Re: Read through the end

2004-01-29 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Ittay Dror wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 02:22:22 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod > > just to make this clear: the site is someone's private joke, as is said at > the bottom of the main page: > All DivisionTwo content is written by Garrison Netzel. All columnists, > authors, reporters,

Re: Read through the end

2004-01-29 Thread Ittay Dror
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 02:22:22 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read patiently to the end... Yet another MCSE comparing windows to linux... :) http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/mcse2.htm --Amos Man, it's shooting to my nerves...

Re: Read through the end

2004-01-29 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Read patiently to the end... > > Yet another MCSE comparing windows to linux... :) > > http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/mcse2.htm > > --Amos Man, it's shooting to my nerves... But finally he said himself that "Users of Microsoft software have no

Read through the end

2004-01-29 Thread linux-il
Read patiently to the end... Yet another MCSE comparing windows to linux... :) http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/mcse2.htm --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e