Re: OT: persistent remote display

2004-11-21 Thread Lior Kesos
Trying to figure our if NX is only a proprietary solution (at least couldn't find anything immediately in http://www.nomachine.com which provides it) >From my tests it works great the only problem is that I'd like to use a free as in beer application. I've stumbled upon a great thread summarizing

Re: OT: persistent remote display

2004-11-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:54:43PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > Hi all, > > Please excuse the somewhat-offtopic subject. I think it concerns and > interests quite many people here. > > I want something like the following (no real, thought out design, > just a sketch): > > A client machine

Re: emacs no text wrapping at all

2004-11-21 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Aaron, The following works in the version of emacs which I have (GNU Emacs 21.3.1 of 2004-10-16, modified by Debian): Options/Truncate Long Lines in this Buffer (4th menu item from top) The lines are not really truncated, they are just displayed without wraparound. If you don't have the abo

Re: OT: persistent remote display

2004-11-21 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 23:54, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > Hi all, > > Please excuse the somewhat-offtopic subject. I think it concerns and > interests quite many people here. [... snipped ...] > I might have a few mistakes in the above (e.g. maybe VNC is smarter > than I thought, I read only little

Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Fatal error

2004-11-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Eran Levy wrote: Yes we must have a new compiled initrd using the mkinitrd command. I have used it and made a new initrd, But nothing happens. Did you make sure that lilo is using your new initrd? If the initrd and kernel used do not match, a problem very similar to the one you are describing is

Re: Launching a shell script from a remote Windows machine.

2004-11-21 Thread Yaacov Fenster - System Engineering Troubleshooting and other stuff
Amir - Perhaps you might want to use the "magic scripts" in a Samba server (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch08_02.html ) Amir Hardon wrote: I'm looking for a way to create a simple click-n'-forget icon on a Windows(98) machine, that will invoke a shell script on a Linux server

emacs no text wrapping at all

2004-11-21 Thread Aaron
HI all, I am using nxml for editing xml and want to be able to scroll forever to the right. I can't figure out how to do this in emacs, but I need this desperately. anyone know how? Thanks Aaron = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMA

Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Fatal error

2004-11-21 Thread Eran Levy
At 10:21 AM 11/21/2004, you wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 07:02:31AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Eran Levy wrote: > > >Hi, > >I have installed a new RH 9 box and Im trying to compile the new 2.6.9 > >kernel. When compiling with "make bzImage" , "make modules_install" > >all goes fine. I had on

Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Fatal error

2004-11-21 Thread Eran Levy
At 11:15 AM 11/21/2004, you wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 07:02:31AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Eran Levy wrote: Hi, I have installed a new RH 9 box and Im trying to compile the new 2.6.9 kernel. When compiling with "make bzImage" , "make modules_install" all goes fine.

OT: persistent remote display

2004-11-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, Please excuse the somewhat-offtopic subject. I think it concerns and interests quite many people here. I want something like the following (no real, thought out design, just a sketch): A client machine (think about a thin, maybe netbooting diskless PC one, but doesn't have to be) somehow

Re: Launching a shell script from a remote Windows machine.

2004-11-21 Thread amos
Amir Hardon wrote: I'm looking for a way to create a simple click-n'-forget icon on a Windows(98) machine, that will invoke a shell script on a Linux server. The only solution I can think of that doesn't involve writing a client-server application specific for this task, is using ssh+putty, but th

Re: Launching a shell script from a remote Windows machine.

2004-11-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 08:41:48PM +0200, Amir Hardon wrote: > I'm looking for a way to create a simple click-n'-forget icon on a Windows(98) > machine, that will invoke a shell script on a Linux server. > The only solution I can think of that doesn't involve writing a client-server > application

Launching a shell script from a remote Windows machine.

2004-11-21 Thread Amir Hardon
I'm looking for a way to create a simple click-n'-forget icon on a Windows(98) machine, that will invoke a shell script on a Linux server. The only solution I can think of that doesn't involve writing a client-server application specific for this task, is using ssh+putty, but this won't be simple

Re: Open Office - external dependencies.

2004-11-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hello Amit, Looking at the screenshot you attached, I think you have some fonts problem (it could also be regarding to page size). I would suggest the following issues to be looked at: 1. Make sure you have the same set of fonts in both machines (OO does replace fonts when it cannot finds some,

Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Fatal error

2004-11-21 Thread Lior Kesos
> CONFIG_EXT3_FS, etc are set to YES. In an (unhelpfull) and totally unrelated topic ... There's a new way to search for parameters starting from 2.6.9 just press a / like in vim or firefox search and presto ... Actually written by a friend of mine (yuval from aduva) so there's a bit of israeli pri

SUSE Certified Linux Professional (SCLP)

2004-11-21 Thread Danny Lieberman
guys and gals   you'll love this - http://www.suse.com/us/business/services/training/certification/sclp.html   Give them a 10 for obscure writing.   Does this bode well for Novell and Suse?    Does this mean we'll all run out and become CLP's?   Danny Liebermanwww.software.co.il+972-8-970-148

Open Office - external dependencies.

2004-11-21 Thread Amit Roseberger
Hi All. I have recently encountered an interesting phenomena with Open Office which is installed on two of my Linux boxes. I have two identical installations of Open Office (1.1.3) for Linux Glib C 2.1. One is installed on Fedora core II (Kernel is 2.6.5) and the other on a hybrid (kind of messed

LDAP pains

2004-11-21 Thread Ira Abramov
Hey there people! I just moved a client to a new mail server and it looks like the clients (outlook and outlook express) see and treat the LDAP differently (e.g. search is now only by UID and not by name and surname, so is the listing, etc). both machines are running openldap but different distrib

Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Fatal error

2004-11-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 07:02:31AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Eran Levy wrote: Hi, I have installed a new RH 9 box and Im trying to compile the new 2.6.9 kernel. When compiling with "make bzImage" , "make modules_install" all goes fine. I had only a "Fatal: Cylinde

Mozilla Mail Client - spell checking the subject.

2004-11-21 Thread Amit Roseberger
Hi. I am working with Mozilla (1.7.3) Mail Client. Has anyone noticed that when running a spell check on a message the Subject line is ignored...? Thx, Amit = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Fatal error

2004-11-21 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 10:21:28AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Are you booting using initrd? If so, did you generate a new initrd for > > the new kernel? > > Why would he need an initrd? On RH type systems, if you boot using the root=LABEL=somelabel syntax, the partition that corresponds to

Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Fatal error

2004-11-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 07:02:31AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Eran Levy wrote: > > >Hi, > >I have installed a new RH 9 box and Im trying to compile the new 2.6.9 > >kernel. When compiling with "make bzImage" , "make modules_install" > >all goes fine. I had only a "Fatal: Cylinder...(1024>10

Re: Writing a mathematical book with OpenSource

2004-11-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 10:17:36PM +0300, Yosef Leibovich wrote: > Hi, > I wish to write a mathematical book to be published (think Academon > publication for instance, real book should be produced) (sollutions for > questions in Misler's excellent book for Infinistimal Calculus BTW). I > want t