Re: PPP over an Ethernet connection.

1999-08-25 Thread Itamar S.-T.
shaul wrote: > > I want to set up a *dynamic* PPP connection over an Ethernet connection (at > least, that is what I think). > Can you tell me what are the available tools ? You might try reading the VPN-Howto - it talks about PPP over ssh, which would do what you need. -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROT

Re: Hebrew forum

1999-08-03 Thread Itamar S.-T.
"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: > IB>> extra quizz : how does perl support hebrew chains ? > > What's it "hebrew chains"? Strings. You know - mahrozot. -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] o--o Sealingwax Greeting Card

C problem

1999-08-01 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Compiling the following example program: #include int main(void) { double x = sqrt(2.0); return 1; } Gives me the following error: [itamar@porthos hashtest]$ gcc math.c /tmp/cc1Mfpzc.o: In function `main': /tmp/cc1

Re: Another Windows Emulator

1999-08-01 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > >From the specs and the info available on their web site - it doesn't > look very impressive (no Win NT support, No Sound, no MS Networking > etc)... Since it says it can read files from the Linux hd, no networking is a non-issue. And it just doesn't support IPX, TCP/IP i

Re: unmount / ?

1999-07-27 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Gaal Yahas wrote: > #umount / > and: > #fsck /dev/hdXY .. > > I think this technique suffers from a slight case of implausability. > Would anyone care to fix this? umount -r / umounts and then remounts read-only ==

OFFTOPIC: SunOS 4 manpages

1999-07-25 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Anyone know where I can find man-pages for SunOS 4 on the web? Stupid TAU has us do our homework on SunOS, but doesn't let us ssh in. -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] o--o Sealingwax Greeting Cards | Trust? Ha! The US dollar

Linux jobs in Israel

1999-07-23 Thread Itamar S.-T.
I hope you all noticed the big color full page advertisement in Hi-Tech Job that comes with the newspaper (Ha'aretz at least) advertising for a company that are going to be making 3d arcade games for Linux. http://www.immersian.com. You can also find the ad in http://www.hitechjob.co.il, I think

Re: Sharing ISDN card on WIN98 to Linux

1999-07-20 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > You can also try Wingate, but that means to change every program > (Netscape, Telnet, IRC, etc) - at www.wingate.com Isn't wingate the program that allows everyone on the internet to use your computer as an anonymoizing proxy (e.g. for spam)? -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: pop3 problem.

1999-07-19 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Mike wrote: > > Hi all. > I manage to send mails through my RedHat6.0 Sendmail program but can't > connect to my server in order to get them. > I notice that i do not have in.pop3 file anywhere on my server, how come > and from were can i get it ? > Does anyone has another idea why it is not work

MC and GPM (was: Which FM to R?)

1999-07-18 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Daniel Feiglin wrote: > For Redhat 6.0 "statndard" installation, at a command line in text mode: > > If you run Mdinight Commander (4.5.30) , mc does NOT get control of the > mouse (unlike 5.2). What you get are the session "cut and > paste" facilities. How can you fix this? This is almost cer

From Gnome weekly news - Unicode in Gtk+

1999-07-13 Thread Itamar S.-T.
After lots of design work and many distractions, Owen Taylor has started coding GScript. See: http://www.labs.redhat.com/~otaylor/gscript/ GScript is the GTK+ framework for Unicode text. It will bring full-featured internationalization to GTK+, supporting input and output in all the world's ma

Re: whois

1999-07-13 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Evgeny Stambulchik wrote: > IIRC, the Internic's ftp site has the whole DB in a plain text file. > Download it and use grep etc... They removed all the .COM, .NET, .ORG due to spammers using it. -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To

whois

1999-07-11 Thread Itamar S.-T.
How can I found all domains owned by organzation/person? I remember once seeing a web interface that does it, but I can't seem to find it (www.networksolutions.com only lets you do the normal whois query.) -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o-

What does this mean?

1999-07-07 Thread Itamar S.-T.
EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)): ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=150140, block=598034 -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o-o Sealingwax Greeting Cards | The only good morning is a dead one | http://www.sealingwax.

Re: anti virus (please read)

1999-06-12 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Nimrod Zimerman wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 04:38:14PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > > I'm plannning to install a Linux machine which will be our mail server at my > > work. > > > > My question: since there are so many viruses around for windows, and many users > > simply don't follow a

w3m text-mode browser

1999-06-10 Thread Itamar S.-T.
This browser is way cool - it supports tables, and lets you scroll around the page and click on links with a mouse (only in xterms - no gpm support apparently). http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/ -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o--

Re: Mirroring Software Recommendations

1999-06-09 Thread Itamar S.-T.
"Aharon (Al) Schkolnik" wrote: > > Hi. > > I'm setting up some internal mirroring, and was wondering if anyone > can recommend some good mirroring software. I've located a bunch of > possibilities on the web, but don't know which is "good". rsync is supposed to be good and faster than regular m

Re: GIF 2 JPG

1999-06-06 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Mike Almogy wrote: > I'm looking 4 a program that convert from GIF to JPG and reverse. > The program MUST work in console and not in Xwindows ! ImageMagick is what you want: convert example.gif example.jpg Doesn't get any easier than that. -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Every day something new...

1999-06-04 Thread Itamar S.-T.
I found this program, part of the metamail 2.7 package. Doesn't seem to work right, but YMMV: mailto-hebrew - Run the mailto program to send Hebrew/English mail The mailto-hebrew program will start an xterm using the appropriate font in order to send mail in mixed

Sending secure email to Windows users

1999-06-02 Thread Itamar S.-T.
I want to be able to send encrypted email to Windows users from a command-line program (for a web-server), without these people having to buy PGP. Is there any decent way to do this? I haven't manage to find one free S/MIME program for Linux. Apparently OpenSSL still doesn't support this either

New RH 6 images

1999-06-01 Thread Itamar S.-T.
http://lwn.net/daily/rh-images.html Fixes all kind of bugs, but they also say: > Problems that will be addressed in a future image release: > >o Adaptec SCSI negotiation infinite loops >o AMD MegaRAID driver updates to support newer cards >o Installation from various parallel por

Re: update (bdflush) in kernel 2.2.8

1999-06-01 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > I read in kernelnotes.org (The Site Formerly Known As Linuxhq) that as of > > version 2.2.8 of the kernel you should disable the update program that runs > > from init. I'm running 2.2.9, so I guess this applies to me. > > Why is this, should I disable, > > because b

Fetchmail 5.0.0

1999-05-31 Thread Itamar S.-T.
I just upgraded to RH6, and Fetchmail is giving me problems. It keeps on rejecting messages whose From: field includes an invalid domainname. While the idea in general is nice, I don't want it - I want to recieve all the email sent to me. Any idea how to shut this off, or do I need to downgrade

update (bdflush) in kernel >= 2.2.8

1999-05-31 Thread Itamar S.-T.
I read in kernelnotes.org (The Site Formerly Known As Linuxhq) that as of version 2.2.8 of the kernel you should disable the update program that runs from init. I'm running 2.2.9, so I guess this applies to me. Why is this, should I disable, and how come things like this don't show up in the ker

Re: M$ IL latest craze

1999-05-26 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > what do they want? to stop israeli resselers from selling "naked" machines > without OSes, say that all those machines end up with pirated m$ software. > (well they dont exactly say it like this, this is what I understand from the > story, ebtween the lines). Don't worr

Re: Install Fails - Adaptec 2940 UW

1999-05-26 Thread Itamar S.-T.
"Aharon (Al) Schkolnik" wrote: > > Hi. > > I'm trying to install RH 6.0 on a new machine which has an IDE CD, and > a SCSI disk on an adaptec 2940 UW controller. The install fails as > follows: > > Boots from the CD fine. I've had problems installing RH5.1 when I booted off the CD, so maybe tr

Re: Linux experts are needed

1999-05-26 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Efi Itzcowitz wrote: > > Hello, > > We are looking to hire linux experts for a start up > company in Israel. What sort? Programmers? Sysadmins? Users? -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o-o Sealingwax Greeting Cards | The only

file-size limits

1999-05-24 Thread Itamar S.-T.
I came across an email which talks about NetBSD filesize limits. They have code for up to 256TB files. That's 8.5 years of MP3 compressed sound. -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o-o Whole Pop Magazine Online| The only good mor

Re: ISDN with RedHat 6.0?

1999-05-20 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Alex Shnitman wrote: > That mightly sucks. 1) they can add security holes with their patches, > and little people would know because the code isn't reviewed like the > rest of the kernel, actually most people don't see that code at all; > > What the hell is going on here? How do people accept t

Re: HELP!!!!

1999-05-16 Thread Itamar S.-T.
the rookie wrote: > > Your floppy disk is dead > > ok, but what do i do?! > PLEASE!!! help me! You can write a new diskette in windows using a utility called RAWRITE and a linux boot image, which might be found on your Linux CD. Why were you using floppys anyway? They die a lot. -- Itamar -

ssh dies after a few minutes

1999-05-11 Thread Itamar S.-T.
I'm trying to use ssh for encrypting a ftp session: ssh -n -L :www.example.com:21 -g www.example.com it works fine, but after a few minutes the ssh connection dies and says: Read from remote host www.example.com: Connection reset by peer How do I prevent this from happening?

Re: Apache & MySQL

1999-05-07 Thread Itamar S.-T.
"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: > So I'm heretic twice (or even four times) - I use both :). I think it's > very simple - if you need advanced logic, calculations, external > modules, etc. - use Perl. If you need to parse many data and display to > (or collect from) user in many ways - u

Re: Apache & MySQL

1999-05-07 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Stas Bekman wrote: > > > Whow now im confused. > > > > PHP3 or wdbi ? what is the benefits and lack of them. > > Do you know PHP? Do you know perl? Either pick the one that you know > something about or give the both of them a little ride - then pick the one > you like best. Perl is much more p

Re: Apache & MySQL

1999-05-06 Thread Itamar S.-T.
"Peter L. Peres" wrote: > >If you don't want to code in C, go on PHP3 ( http://www.php.net ). > >If you plan to migrate to another DBMS in the future, prefer > >accessing MySQL through PHPLIB. But you have to learn SQL. > > And you have to learn PHP first ;) > > Peter Which should take, for an

Redhat 6 for free

1999-04-28 Thread Itamar S.-T.
http://www.mailordercentral.com/lsl/prodinfo.asp?number=RHGPL-01 Redhat 6 for free from LSL. Don't know about S&H. -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o-o Whole Pop Magazine Online| The only good morning is a dead one | http://www

Re: [OT] Wanted: Used books

1999-04-25 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Boaz Rymland wrote: > http://isbn.nu This one has more bookstores in it: http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~bgannon/booksearch/ Of course, none of them calculate S&H. -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o-o Whole Pop Magazine Online| T

Repeating messages

1999-04-21 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Mean while I've gotten about 8 copies of the "some questions" and it's replies. What's with the mailing-list? -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o-o Whole Pop Magazine Online| The only good morning is a dead one | http://www.whole

Error messages from kernel

1999-04-19 Thread Itamar S.-T.
My father's having the following problem: "I keep on getting an error message from the kernel: target 0: rate=10.0 Mhz, synchronous, sync offset = 15 bytes this everytime the disk is accessed, so it floods the console screen. I removed the ethernet module from conf.modules and rebooted, and th

New GNOME RPMS

1999-04-11 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Now would be a good time to download the new Gnome RPMS before the announcement gets out. They're way better than the original release.

Re: RPM updating.

1999-04-08 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Eyal Retter wrote: > Here I got a very long list of packeges based on the older lib (libXXX-1.8) > and it refused to update it. > I decided to ask before trying the --force...;) > If you do rpm -ivh it'll install without erasing the old one, so things that are linked to libXXX.so.1 will sti

Re: VMware available for download

1999-03-16 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Ben Nes Michael wrote: > I installed it too but what is the fun of PII 350 that works like 100 u can > just make another partion and install it as stand alone And when it costs $300 - you can get a whole new PC for that price. OTOH, the latest version of bochs (http://www.bochs.com) added preli

Re: 56k modems

1999-03-16 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Cyber_Ghost wrote: > Hello. > I'm thinking of buying a 56k modem, and I need a list of modems that > work in linux. Any modem that isn't a WinModem. -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o-o Whole Pop Magazine Online| The only good m

Re: Hebrew keyboard layout

1999-03-13 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > How do I change the keyboard layout to a hebrew one in X? > At the moment I use KDE 1.1, which has kjkbd, that does just that. But as > nice a KDE is, it does require a little bit to much memory (this simple > kjkbd takes 3.7 MB). Gnome has an applet that is supposed to d

Re: WP8 Security bug

1999-03-10 Thread Itamar S.-T.
"Peter L. Peres" wrote: > If the files in /tmp are 666 ANYONE can delete and replace them with a > symlink to ANY readable file. It is to be shown that the permissions on wp > are not enough to overwrite some important file. Try this: Nothing happened. The file was left untouched. Maybe it was

WP8 Security bug

1999-03-10 Thread Itamar S.-T.
http://linux.corel.com/linux8/linuxfix.htm I don't understand this. I can see that having 666 files in /tmp isn't great. But I checked my installed files and the binary isn't suid root, so why should there be any major security problem, as long as you don't run wp as root? -rwxr-xr-x 1 root

Re: http://www.efax.com : get fax by email ++LINUX !!!

1999-03-07 Thread Itamar S.-T.
Udi Finkelstein wrote: > on the other hand, all I did was to register, and send myself a test fax from > israel. It arrived fine, with no spam whatsoever, and not a single spam letter > ever since. It was a "we may pass you email on to third parties" clause. Of course, it is worth getting the Y

Re: http://www.efax.com : get fax by email ++LINUX !!!

1999-03-07 Thread Itamar S.-T.
"Peter L. Peres" wrote: > I just ran into this ad, and answered it. It lists Linux among the OS > preferrences. 10 big red points to them ! True, but you're also agreeing to receive spam. So this should only be used with a free Yahoo account. -- Itamar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --