Re: real hardware access for a virtual/Paravirtual machine?

2008-05-04 Thread Dan Armak
are Workstation. The host always claims all devices at boot, and so guests can't be given direct access to them. (I suppose the architecture doesn't make this inherently impossible, but it's not supported.) -- Dan Armak

Re: wmv in linux

2007-12-15 Thread Dan Armak
presumably wouldn't have a (supported) package. I think you can also download them yourself from the mplayer site. My mplayer played the WMV at the URL posted by Dvir without problems. Can you post a link to a file whose sound you can't play? -- Dan Armak ===

Re: Video card recommendation

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Armak
(radeon) for anything under X1000 (i.e. X800 and below is OK). X1000 and above are supported by the new/experimental radeonhd driver, but you don't need a fast card anyway. zap.co.il shows the cheapest X300 cards at just under 200 ILS. The cheapest PCI-E nVidia cards are a little cheaper, bu

Re: Open standards

2007-10-03 Thread Dan Armak
osing these kinds of limitations? I would really like to know. It's a university, it has already decided to publish these books online free as beer for all comers. What else is there but to let people use the books in the most ef

Re: Development Environment Setting Up (was: Re: [Israel.pm] errors and warnings in Perl)

2007-09-16 Thread Dan Armak
ld or new, non-packaged versions will normally also build. There's also support for having many versions of different toolchain (gcc/binutils/...) components installed (as well as JDKs, etc.) and you can switch between them on system/user/shell levels. And ot

Re: Career advice needed

2007-08-31 Thread Dan Armak
iously doubt that. Can you even find jobs, today, where the skills required include "Python"? -- Dan Armak = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g.,

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Dan Armak
them that DRM doesn't actually work and causes a lot of trouble and so on. -- Dan Armak = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Open standards

2007-08-29 Thread Dan Armak
s project to go > Open. Hello, By opening do you mean publishing the books online? Free of charge? Allowing copying? Allowing modifications? Has anything already been published in some other format? Can you provide a link? Tha

Re: 2 hardware questions

2007-08-10 Thread Dan Armak
h smartmontools 5.37. So if this helps try using a newer kernel or smartmontools. -- Dan Armak = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FOSS accounting software

2007-04-08 Thread Dan Armak
On Sunday 08 April 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:53:45PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: > > On Friday 06 April 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > > I have a philosophical question. With open source software how do you > > > make sure that t

Re: FOSS accounting software

2007-04-06 Thread Dan Armak
More importantly, why can't they get as much information by verifying the data your app submits? After all, even with a duly certified and unmodified app the user still controls the input. The app has no more knowledge than is contained in its output. If I needed to mangle the input data

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Dan Armak
On Wednesday 04 April 2007, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I tried all these before my previous post. The /dev/sdc partitions are > definitely not mounted. Maybe something like dmraid or lvm is using sdc9 to build logical volumes? Check with /proc/mdstat, pvs, etc. -- Dan

Re: Sign the Petition for a Better Internet!

2006-12-27 Thread Dan Armak
to make a > change ASAP... My initial reaction is that there are far too many unfriendly, high-profile sites. What good is a blacklist that covers a big part of the Israeli internet? Tens of percents, in my experience. (I count Flash-dependant sites as unfriendly.) -- Dan Armak -- B

Re: Gentoo is about to drop hspell support

2006-08-29 Thread Dan Armak
ven't kept track. Easiest just to ask... Gentoo dev handbook, "becoming a developer": http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2 -- Dan Armak pgpHRlwtXF9aN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New DMCA in Israel?

2006-08-17 Thread Dan Armak
not read a long message. And the tiny textarea on the submission page doesn't inspire confidence that a long message would be read. Maybe there's a better way to contact them, such as email? -- Dan Armak pgpiZZe4av7Z6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-24 Thread Dan Armak
asn't passed to protect an ethical right. (That's what the 'spiritual rights' part of the Israeli (and British etc) 'Authors' Rights' law is for.) It was passed to enable an economic model based on a distribution monopoly, because it was beneficial given the techn

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-24 Thread Dan Armak
7;s necessary, it's not automatically evil (or automatically ethically acceptable), and it certainly isn't theft - so please stop calling it that. -- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951 pgprmrZvasi6A.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-24 Thread Dan Armak
ssume it is not really a crime? What's enjoyment have to do with it? Enjoyment doesn't prove that something is legal _or_ that it is ethical. The lack of others' suffering is what proves the latter, and only the law books can prove the former. -- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-24 Thread Dan Armak
only the uploading party is violating copyright law, so it's legal to download in that case. -- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951 pgpeihy6FhNAT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-24 Thread Dan Armak
oving the copyright laws isn't necessary to achieve this; we can even use them in the form of viral copyleft. -- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-24 Thread Dan Armak
ed for the law to explicitly grant you these additional rights. You can simply include them in every contract/license you enter. So why would they be mentioned in the law? (I'm not saying they aren't; I've never heard of them before and would like an explanation.) -- Dan Armak Gentoo

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-24 Thread Dan Armak
only the uploading party is violating copyright law, so it's legal to download in that case. -- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951 pgpC1aq1sveu2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-24 Thread Dan Armak
ilian disobedience - when is that allowed under Israeli law? Is it only made valid retroactively when you win the consequent court case? -- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951 pgpU2uc50BR6v.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-24 Thread Dan Armak
not something a copyright holder can be > allowed to do[1]. In other words, there'd be no copyright. If media/information of all kinds were freely copyable, what would be left for copyright law to forbid? I'm not saying I completely disagree here, but what you're asking for is to

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-24 Thread Dan Armak
: property and copyrightable works have nothing to do with one another. First sale applies to property, not to copyright. It allows you to resale, lend, lease and give away the physical disc you bought. It doesn't allow you to copy the disc's contents over p2p. -- Dan Armak Gen

Re: bash, konsole, login shell and suspend.

2004-08-31 Thread Dan Armak
Konsole" there is a session pane. > You can configure Konsole to run what you want. There's also a parameter 'konsole -ls' that starts a login shell. -- Dan Armak Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key F

Re: Better Deals from Microsoft [was Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.]

2004-02-04 Thread Dan Armak
alue of rational arguments ;-) However, if the only choice were between requiring FOSS and nothing at all (proprietary software and formats), I would still have to choose the former, even though it's unpleasant in itself. It's something over nothing. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public

Re: Better Deals from Microsoft [was Re: Debian-installer i18n bidi and Hebrew news.]

2004-02-03 Thread Dan Armak
later on. So, fighting fire with fire, simlpy because I don't trust my future government (not to mention other nations') not to pass such laws. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FD

Re: Dream Distribution

2003-10-31 Thread Dan Armak
x27; will spend lots of time compiling the same update for different machines. > I don't know how to handle automatic security updates without compiling > either. No really automatic way to do this yet AFAIK. It's an often requested feature and I remember people working on it rec

Re: distro with 2.6 kernel ?

2003-10-21 Thread Dan Armak
u want the cd to have and a kernel .config file, and it makes you a nice ISO. (Disclaimer haven't tried myself, but that's how it's supposed to work ;-) So you could extract a Gentoo stage3 tarball (ie tarball with a base system precompiled), chroot into it, and do the above. --

Re: distro with 2.6 kernel ?

2003-10-20 Thread Dan Armak
ngelogs on a kernel.org mirror under pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: distro with 2.6 kernel ?

2003-10-20 Thread Dan Armak
ule-init-tools and everything else needed for a 2.6-based system. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: A story from ynet has been sent to you

2003-10-13 Thread Dan Armak
t's hope the trend continues ;-) -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: Keysigning issues

2003-08-02 Thread Dan Armak
("this document was signed in front of me by so- and-so. ") but IANAL... Does the law hold the position that everything said or written is binding as long as it can be proved to have been said/written? So that digital sigs merely prove that I wrote the document in question? Or do they make it more binding somehow? -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: Keysigning issues

2003-08-02 Thread Dan Armak
On Saturday 02 August 2003 4:13, Shaul Karl wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:30:25PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: > > Hi all, > >Hello, > > > 1. What we actually check when we look at someone's ID card/driver's > > license/ passport/etc, is that he's

Re: Keysigning issues

2003-08-02 Thread Dan Armak
On Saturday 02 August 2003 0:29, Orna Agmon wrote: > On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Dan Armak wrote: > > 2. For some reason, noone seems to use the option of adding a photo to > > their gpg key. (Except for me that is :-) Why is that? Photos, printed > > out along > > Have you tho

Keysigning issues

2003-08-01 Thread Dan Armak
ercentage of signed posts, many people begin filtering out all non-signed posts. (This happened on the frost boards in Freenet.) Your unsigned message (fex to a m/l you're not subscribed to, where you don't know the rules) might get ignored in this way. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Publi

Re: [Key Signing] Problems Downloading Some of the Keys

2003-08-01 Thread Dan Armak
it being uniqe. > Bird house principle (? - SHOVACH YONIM). Which is why you should always verify the fingerprint, which is much more unique. The pub key ID is good only for specifying the key quickly when you intend to veridy it later. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://dev.ge

Re: KDE Opens a URL using Galeon instead of Konqueror

2003-07-28 Thread Dan Armak
nqueror, > but don't know how. In kcontrol, in the File Associations module (under KDE Components in kde cvs; in kde 3.1.x it may be elsewhere), check the app loading order for text/html. Make sure konqueror is first. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dana

Re: something to print

2003-07-23 Thread Dan Armak
d enough... how can it be? Perhaps it's a matter of who was able to get to the summit, which afaik was in the US? Travel isn't cheap, unless someone was paying for free tickets for all kernel devs... -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gp

Re: [August Penguin] Updates and a poster

2003-07-13 Thread Dan Armak
On Sunday 13 July 2003 12:17, you wrote: > talking abut this... how can I get your public key? whoops - we had an infrastructure change and I forgot to update my .sig. It should be dev.gentoo.org not cvs.gentoo.org. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danar

Re: [August Penguin] Updates and a poster

2003-07-13 Thread Dan Armak
ered I couldn't attend the big keysigning party. Turns out that registration was required and it closed a week before the expo (!). So I'd not want to miss it again :-) -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD7

Re: Captain Internet Responds

2003-06-24 Thread Dan Armak
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 13:30, Dan Armak wrote: > It may be mild (in comparison to the harsher things he may have written), > but it's definitely not an apology (which he owns us for publishing > incorrect facts, not for a hostile opinion) and he doesn't take any of his > wo

Re: Captain Internet Responds

2003-06-24 Thread Dan Armak
iated) press sometimes publishes about linux (such as Scope's recent SCO comments). Ah well, making progress by small steps... This rant isn't by any means against hamakor and the people who helped reply to the Captain (I did so too). It's just a rant about what we consider to b

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 19 June 2003 19:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 06:09:01PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: > > The Boycott SCO apge on pclinuxonline.com has an interesting suggestion: > > "Linus, please deny SCO the right to the Linux trademark until they drop >

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Dan Armak
ease deny SCO the right to the Linux trademark until they drop these suits and agree in writing to never pursue them again against any Linux vendor." If Linus can do that, it'd be a good way to hurt SCO (without waiting for the trial to begin). -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 19 June 2003 16:47, Ely Levy wrote: > see the ban SCO icons at www.pclinxonline.com (sign the petition;) ...should apparently be www.pclinuxonline.com. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6

Re: Applying open source pressure on SCO

2003-06-19 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 19 June 2003 16:47, Ely Levy wrote: > see the ban SCO icons at www.pclinxonline.com (sign the petition;) Hm, DNS lookup failure for that hostname... -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6

Re: What programming language to teach in schools ?

2003-06-11 Thread Dan Armak
so I'll settle for retraining the teachers for a new syllabus. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: What programming language to teach in schools ?

2003-06-11 Thread Dan Armak
gorithm notation practiced in school. > > If it were in english, they would probably notice sooner that it is > just a mechanic transformation of Pascal ;-). Yes, the general idea is a good one but the current implementation is quite pointless... (And they make you write line number

Re: What programming language to teach in schools ?

2003-06-11 Thread Dan Armak
arned after pascal iirc). It's taught as an end and not as a tool. Second, it is in Hebrew. This is purely IMHO, but programming in Hebrew doesn't come naturally to me - I don't know how easy it is for native Hebrew speakers. (I'm not a native English speaker either, so I&

Re: FS/OS in schools: why don't *they* tell us what they want?

2003-06-08 Thread Dan Armak
ks like. We should teach people about alternatives. There remains of course the issue that a school has to teach students to use some one app, which is then a case of them or us. In view of all the above reasons, which stem from the basic fact that openoffice is a free program and msoffice isn

Re: Linux distro for old computers

2003-06-07 Thread Dan Armak
On Sunday 08 June 2003 01:10, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:25:38PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: > Content-Description: signed data > > > On Saturday 07 June 2003 21:04, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > > > Use custom installtion. Ditch stuff you don

Re: Linux distro for old computers

2003-06-07 Thread Dan Armak
On Saturday 07 June 2003 22:25, Dan Armak wrote: > On Saturday 07 June 2003 21:04, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > > Use custom installtion. Ditch stuff you don't need. > > > > Tried that. It's not granular enough. > > Gentoo is great for setting up a

Re: Linux distro for old computers

2003-06-07 Thread Dan Armak
ives again :-) But granularity and making very small/customized installations really is one of Gentoo's greatest deployment strengths. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: FS/OS in schools: why don't *they* tell us what they want?

2003-06-05 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 05 June 2003 00:07, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > Dan Armak wrote on 2003-06-04: > > On Wednesday 04 June 2003 19:06, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > > > So, since there *is* a motivation among hackers to provide schools > > > with free software that would benefit

Re: FS/OS in schools: why don't *they* tell us what they want?

2003-06-05 Thread Dan Armak
ganized post... [1] Of course, you can use any decent compiler without her noticing, but again, do we want teachers telling students to get illegal copies of tp? -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: Offline IMAP?

2003-06-02 Thread Dan Armak
cvs (ie towards kde 3.2) has what it calls disconnected imap support. I've never used it (no imap mailbox), so I don't know how good it is; check the kmail site, there's probably a featurelist somewhere. HTH, -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.o

Re: Standard path for offline site copies?

2003-06-01 Thread Dan Armak
ore detail. About plugging in cache pieces, since it hashes the filenames, you'd need to prepare them with another wwwoffle installation. So it's not clean in that regard. Still, maybe you'll find it useful. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: In what ways maildir is probably better then mbox?

2003-04-05 Thread Dan Armak
in addition to the 40mb mbox file kmail also created two index files, ont of which was about 4mb large. So the information might have been in those. I don't know if that means kmail doens't confirm to the mbox standard. But, it's what led me to make the above claim. - -- Dan Armak

Re: In what ways maildir is probably better then mbox?

2003-04-05 Thread Dan Armak
parse the headers of your deleted messages, which takes time if you have a lot of them. I _think_ the above is true... although it's possible that when I thought I was using mbox, I was really using 'mbx', which is an upgraded mbox format. I also found this benchmark & comparison:

Re: Gentoo distributes RPMs binaries?

2003-04-03 Thread Dan Armak
April 1st contribution. A lot more people seem to have believed it than the originator expected :-) In the original it was pretty obvious that it was a joke (especialy since it had a date on it), but the people who believed it and quote it in other places can decieve others... - -- Dan Ar

Re: "Hamakor" finally established!

2003-04-02 Thread Dan Armak
ds as hamakor membership cards with the logo etc. for people to burn whatever they want on (and provide/link to various livecd isos). How difficult is burning a credit card cdr/cdrw, would a typical burner be unable to do it? - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.or

Re: Exact place of Go-Linux conference

2003-04-02 Thread Dan Armak
benyossef.com/go-linux.jpg Um... I still can't find in it the info on when (ie at what hour) it all starts. The list of lectures is much appreciated though. - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key -BEGI

Re: Exact place of Go-Linux conference

2003-04-02 Thread Dan Armak
rc isn't available yet) - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+irk4UI2RQ41fiVERAoHMAJ9dzwgrZPHkM5sVjyHq3yea1iWtaACffiB8 1e0HgXlz+K6adze60b8p4H0= =gD9u -END

Re: go-linux date?

2003-03-27 Thread Dan Armak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 March 2003 02:09, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003, Dan Armak wrote about "go-linux date?": > > I thought it was April 10th as stated here, but www.pc.co.il/go-linux/ now > > says Apr. 8th. Has it

go-linux date?

2003-03-27 Thread Dan Armak
it too in the list. I thought it was April 10th as stated here, but www.pc.co.il/go-linux/ now says Apr. 8th. Has it been moved? - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/L

Re: Red Hat Enterprise servers - cutting through the EULA BS

2003-03-19 Thread Dan Armak
bm jdk references https://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/lxdk/lxdk-p and says the license is the IBM-ILNWP (attached license file as exists in portage tree). HTH... - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: Red Hat Enterprise servers - cutting through the EULA BS

2003-03-19 Thread Dan Armak
edistribute the archive with their CDs. AFAICS you need to agree to the license to download, but there's nothing about registration. - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU

Linux becoming #1 is good for everyone

2003-03-05 Thread Dan Armak
those support requests from my friends will be _much_ easier and more pleasant to handle :-) Also we won't have to deal with msword documents anymore, or broken websites. And linux skills will be in high demand. What's wrong with this picture? I'd give a lot to live in such a world

Re: MORE [was: Equipment - anyone?]

2003-02-21 Thread Dan Armak
, or taking away the system). Finally there's a friend of mine who wants a k6-III for sentimental reasons, but says the shop prices are too tall. If someone has one he doesn't really need he'd be glad to buy it or trade for it. - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: h

Re: Embedding fonts in printing

2003-02-16 Thread Dan Armak
gt; Shachar Shemesh > Open Source integration consultant > http://www.consumer.org.il/sun/ > > > > = > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body,

Re: burning bin+cue?

2003-02-03 Thread Dan Armak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 February 2003 08:51, Amit Margalit wrote: > Hi, > > Try gcombust, I think it can use bin+cue. If you prefer kde :-), so can k3b (at least the current cvs - not sure abuot the last release...). - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel P

Re: of mailing lists, read confirmation and security

2003-01-24 Thread Dan Armak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 January 2003 14:14, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Dan Armak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't know too much about email format/headers, but if we had some > > List-* (List-post in particular I suppose)

Re: of mailing lists, read confirmation and security

2003-01-24 Thread Dan Armak
st functionality even without the List-* headers. That's what I do with linux-il. But, is there a reason not to add the List headers on the server side? - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Re: Microsoft's advantages

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Armak
put as much effort into it as we are putting into having fun :-) - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+MECsUI2RQ41fiVERAvDtAJ9SnQOx+vKG0u7wFmO3mde9zUz2UQCdG

Re: Microsoft's advantages

2003-01-23 Thread Dan Armak
; "is this another attempt to take advantage of ignorance and lack of > experience from innocent readers?" i wonder if this is the new technique > from now on... - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key

Re: Rename to GNU/Linux

2003-01-17 Thread Dan Armak
d not some other name, well, the credit issue was there too (it just wasn't the most important thing) and I think it sounds better, too :-) And also the GNU is tied to rms's ideas more than the GPL (since the linux kernel _is_ free software and is GPL'd, but represents a very dif

Re: Rename to GNU/Linux

2003-01-17 Thread Dan Armak
their gnu/linux systems. As I said, my personal opinion is that the name of a system/distribution/lug isn't the right place to give credit of this sort (ease of use, with a short name, is more important); but the 2nd purpose, that of spreading the gnu ideas, is important and appropriat

Re: Rename to GNU/Linux

2003-01-17 Thread Dan Armak
freedom has an intrinsical value to you. If Amichai means to 'give credit' to the gnu developers then I'd agree that renaming the lug is probably the wrong way to go about it. But I hope he meant something more like what I describe :-) Well, that's my persona

Re: Costs (was: Re: is there a VMware clone ?)

2003-01-16 Thread Dan Armak
hem. That would probably comply with the eula... - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JroOUI2RQ41fiVERAj0TAJ9Ad7akwhYe0Jb+Rzww7nnHSA9qtwCff+Gz SY0SVcLN9jwvHH1vcL8

Re: is there a VMware clone ?

2003-01-16 Thread Dan Armak
's 50 times slower then your native machine speed (thats according to the > main bochs developer, based on the CVS version). If anyone's interested, the post I linked before claims that bochs+plex86 can go as fast as 90% of your native speed in the optimal case. That's certainly

Re: is there a VMware clone ?

2003-01-16 Thread Dan Armak
6 > code to bochs these days). I looked it up, http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/plex86/ and it looked revived. I only glanced at it though. Now I've looked at it more throughly and realized you're right, all the activity there was support & the porting to bochs that you ment