OT: looking for Alex Shnitman

2004-03-28 Thread Yehuda Drori
Hi list.. I know it's quite unorthodox to use the list to find some one but I really need to find Alex Shnitman on an urgent matter and I know he is listed ( or were listed ) here in the past. If any one knows how to get in touch with him ( I've tried by e-mail but he didn't repiled.. ) this i

Re: NFS, AFS or is there something else?

2004-03-28 Thread Ez-Aton
I wonder. As far as I know, AFS is no longer supported by IBM, hence, you could use OpenAFS, for better and worse, or you could search for another alternative. Not reading this whole thread, I could suggest, that as far as I know, you can find / install CodaFS clients/servers for almost any OS y

Re: Linux upgrades

2004-03-28 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Oded Arbel, from the post of Sun, 28 Mar: > > > A Mandrake URPMI tip: update on sundays. > > > > Why? an errata release cyle? or availability of mirrors? > > Good karma :-) > Sunday is Mandrake's developers' day off (saturday would probably work as > well, but the web is always very busy

urpmi search [was: Re: Linux upgrades]

2004-03-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 11:49:33PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Sunday 28 March 2004 20:38, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > BTW: what's the urpmi equivalent of 'apt-cache search' ? > > urpmi -y ? > it does a case insensitive lookup for package names and "provides" through the > hdlists. Is there any

Re: dmix (Re: wine issues)

2004-03-28 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sunday 28 March 2004 22:04, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > I have dmix working allright, happily mixing all sound which's played > thru libasound on my machine. Keep in mind this is not kernel-level > mixing, so it depends on all apps playing along and using ALSA's libasound. Oh - then that was pro

Re: Linux upgrades

2004-03-28 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sunday 28 March 2004 20:38, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > P.S. > > A Mandrake URPMI tip: update on sundays. > > Why? an errata release cyle? or availability of mirrors? Good karma :-) Sunday is Mandrake's developers' day off (saturday would probably work as well, but the web is always very busy on

Re: NFS, AFS or is there something else?

2004-03-28 Thread Noam Meltzer
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 12:03:10AM +0200, Noam Meltzer wrote: As I understood from the AFS faq, users need to login to the local machine, and then they need to login to the AFS, get a "ticket" for their current session, and then they're process (and its childs) will ha

dmix (Re: wine issues)

2004-03-28 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:29:38PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > ultimatly I'd like to get the aRts driver to work as all my applications > currently use it. alternativly I'd either get it to work with NAS which arts > can play with or ALSA if I can get dmix to work (not much chance of that). I hav

Re: looking for webmail software

2004-03-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:17:21PM +0100, Noam Meltzer wrote: > Hi, > I am using Courier-mail (http://www.courier-mta.org) for two monthes > now, and i'm very satisfied. > It provides: > webmail, imap, pop3, smtp - and most important supports SSL. I believe that SSL support is quite common. E.g:

Re: Linux upgrades

2004-03-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Warning: long post. On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 11:40:45AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > ביום ראשון 28 מרץ 2004, 10:04, נכתב על ידי Gal Goldschmidt: > > From my past experience it's a pain. > > I had to format and reinstall, since the upgrade left the system in an > > unstable state. > > Maybe the upgrad

wine issues

2004-03-28 Thread Oded Arbel
Hi list. I'm having a few problems with getting wine to play nice with my sound card. specifically I want to run a SIP phone using wine. It works great using the OSS driver but then I can't play anything else. most importantly I can't listen to music and wait for an incoming call at the same

Re: Linux upgrades

2004-03-28 Thread Oded Arbel
× 28 ××× 2004, 18:26, ×× ××× Micha Feigin: > > If you really are considering Gentoo with constant updates or Debian > > unstable, then why not use Mandrake that way ? > > URPMI is as easy to use as apt or emerge in order to completly upgrade > > your machine to the current Mandrake de

Re: Linux upgrades

2004-03-28 Thread Maxim Kovgan
I have given my Slack 9.1 disks to somebody, and wanted to install a system, having 9.0 at my side. after the installation i have added swaret package [some perl/bash scripts collection] I typed: swaret --update swaret --upgrade [as u see just like with debian] and after about 2 hours i have re

Re: Linux upgrades

2004-03-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 11:40:45AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > × 28 ××× 2004, 10:04, ×× ××× Gal Goldschmidt: > > From my past experience it's a pain. > > I had to format and reinstall, since the upgrade left the system in an > > unstable state. > > Maybe the upgrade is smother on the n

wmv3

2004-03-28 Thread Erez Doron
hi i am looking for a way to watch media player 9 (wmv3) on vlc. i was able to download a dll which made it possible to se it under mplayer, but i am using vlc to stream and watch it so it is not good enough. i prefer to use vlc on win32 (so i do not have to switch OS for mi customers) but linux

[Job offer] Linux Software Engineer

2004-03-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
I got a call from a company in Netanya looking for a Linux SW Engineer with at least 2 years experience in Linux and C++. I told them that I already have a job, but I'll pass the job offer to this list. If you're interested, please contact them directly: Hila Bikhman Trinity Comp

Israeli Gentoo mirror

2004-03-28 Thread Leonid Podolny
Hi, list, Today I've paid attention there is an israeli download mirror for Gentoo at http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo/. Thought it will be useful to all the gentooers out there. L. = To unsubscribe, send ma

Re: Linux upgrades

2004-03-28 Thread Oded Arbel
ביום ראשון 28 מרץ 2004, 10:04, נכתב על ידי Gal Goldschmidt: > From my past experience it's a pain. > I had to format and reinstall, since the upgrade left the system in an > unstable state. > Maybe the upgrade is smother on the new version, My last Mandrake > installation was around the 9.1. My ex

Re: Linux upgrades

2004-03-28 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
On Sunday 28 March 2004 08:22, Michael Sternberg wrote: > > 1. Is it means that if I want to continue to use Mandrake >on desktop and to install a new updates I have to upgrade >OS version each year ? Yes. > > 2. How painful the upgrade is ? I remember that they always >recommend to "