Re: Linux filenames with definite encoding (Was: FTP server with intl support)

2002-02-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:58:58AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Sorry for retreating in the thread, but an important note struck me from > my past. > > Nadav Har'El wrote: > > >No, UNIX traditionally operates on strings of "chars" (bytes/octets). No > >special treatment is ever given by syst

Re: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft

2002-02-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > http://witch.dyndns.org/stuff/linux-il.htm A number of comments 1. Good reading. Quite a good introduction 2. a little issue with the hebrew: there is basically one difference between microsoft's version of bidiorectional hebrew and the standard ve

OT: Gates donations, etc.

2002-02-12 Thread Efraim Yawitz
This is a bit OT, but does anyone have any reactions to Bill Gates' recent donation of $24G to some kind of charity foundation (featured on the cover of Newsweek last week)? I'd appreciate an URL of some responses in the free software community. By the way, does the guy really own Time and Newsw

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2002-02-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
How do I start a screen session that runs the program hello (synchronoushly) and then detach immediately? I'd like to be able to reattach it later, like a regular screen session. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- Shlomi Fish

Re: OT: Gates donations, etc.

2002-02-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002, Efraim Yawitz wrote about "OT: Gates donations, etc.": > This is a bit OT, but does anyone have any reactions to Bill Gates' recent > donation of $24G to some kind of charity foundation (featured on the cover > of Newsweek last week)? I'd appreciate an URL of some responses

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2002-02-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote about "screen equivalent of "hello &"": > > How do I start a screen session that runs the program hello > (synchronoushly) and then detach immediately? I'd like to be able to > reattach it later, like a regular screen session. from screen(1): -m -d

Re: OT: Gates donations, etc.

2002-02-12 Thread Uri Bruck
MSNBC is a joint Microsoft NBC thing, I don't know exactly who owns which part. As for Microsoft donation, there ar ea number of aspects for this. In the US, charitable donations are tax deductible. MS had a charity program for several years, where it gives a dollar for every dollar donated by

Re: Linux filenames with definite encoding (Was: FTP server with intl support)

2002-02-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Adi Stav wrote: >On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:58:58AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > >>Sorry for retreating in the thread, but an important note struck me from >>my past. >> >>Nadav Har'El wrote: >> >>>No, UNIX traditionally operates on strings of "chars" (bytes/octets). No >>>special treatment

Re: Linux filenames with definite encoding (Was: FTP server with intl support)

2002-02-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: Linux filenames with definite encoding (Was: FTP server with intl support)": >... > >UTF-8 is designed to be 100% backwards compatible with ASCII -- the > >encoding of an ASCII string in UTF-8 is exactly the same. Series of > >two or more no

Re: Linux filenames with definite encoding (Was: FTP server with intl support)

2002-02-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: Linux filenames with definite encoding (Was: FTP server with intl support)": I am well aware that this doesn't happen, and am only brining that as a clarifying example for my previous claim

Re: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft

2002-02-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
One other thing On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > 5. You mention that gnome 2 will be ready on march, and you also mention > Evolution+Ximian Connector. When will both be available for *Gnome 2*? A more general question: How can I get the basic features of Exchange/Outlook with a lin

Re: OT: Gates donations, etc.

2002-02-12 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Last time I checked, NBC was owned by GE. No way Bill Gates bought GE - > not even he can affort it ;) > > I haven't heard of any of the other rumors you mention (24G - you mean > 24 billion??). Care to give pointers? It was the cover story of Newswe

KDE/GNOME login commands

2002-02-12 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
I need to execute some commands each time a user logs in or out of the system, on a per-user basis. How can I do it regardless of which login method is used: a) a KDE/GNOME/whatever session from the usual graphical login as comes with RH; b) a console login; c) an ssh login from a remote comp

Re: KDE/GNOME login commands

2002-02-12 Thread baryudin
> > I need to execute some commands each time a user logs in or out of the > system, on a per-user basis. How can I do it regardless of which login > method is used: > > a) a KDE/GNOME/whatever session from the usual graphical login >as comes with RH; > b) a console login; > c) an ssh login

Re: KDE/GNOME login commands

2002-02-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 12 Feb 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > I need to execute some commands each time a user logs in or out of the > system, on a per-user basis. How can I do it regardless of which login > method is used: > > a) a KDE/GNOME/whatever session from the usual graphical login > as comes with RH; > b)

Re: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft

2002-02-12 Thread Yehuda Drori
Hetz hi ... Good work... very intensive and concluding document. I think you left out in the browsers section Galeon which quite stand up for it self and support Hebrew too.. As an addition I think you should add that linux environment is quite strong for developments of web based application

Re: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft

2002-02-12 Thread tal amir
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 07:18 pm, Yehuda Drori wrote: > Hetz hi ... > > Good work... very intensive and concluding document. > > I think you left out in the browsers section Galeon which quite stand up > for it self and support Hebrew too.. > > As an addition I think you should add that linux

Re: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft

2002-02-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, tal amir wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 07:18 pm, Yehuda Drori wrote: > > Hetz hi ... > > > > Good work... very intensive and concluding document. > > > > I think you left out in the browsers section Galeon which quite stand up > > for it self and support Hebrew too.. >

Re: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft

2002-02-12 Thread tal amir
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 08:15 pm, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, tal amir wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 07:18 pm, Yehuda Drori wrote: > > > Hetz hi ... > > > > > > Good work... very intensive and concluding document. > > > > > > I think you left out in the browsers sectio

webmails [was Re: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft]

2002-02-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, tal amir wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 08:15 pm, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > However those web-based clients are generally not a replacement to a > > desktop. I have tried twig and phpgroupware, and looked at horde. I figure > > that the rest of them can't be much be

Fork-Execute-Kill (was: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft)

2002-02-12 Thread Eli Marmor
Why should you write about "Linux in Israel", when this is already the hottest thread on slashdot? (today) ;-) -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8

Re: Fork-Execute-Kill (was: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft)

2002-02-12 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why should you write about "Linux in Israel", when this is already the > hottest thread on slashdot? (today) > > ;-) I don't see it, but maybe it's my settings... OpenMosix is there http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/12/1310222&mode=thread&tid=10

Re: Fork-Execute-Kill (was: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft)

2002-02-12 Thread Eli Marmor
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/12/1310222&mode=thread&tid=106 > > - did you mean that? ;-) Of course... ;-) ("Eilu VaEilu Divrei Elohim Hayim..." (don't remember the exact source)) -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Techn

Internet connection in Virtual PC

2002-02-12 Thread Peleg Wasserman
hi. I've set up redhat 7.1 in virtual PC and trying to configure linux to connect to the Internet. I have an ADSL connection trough the Aztech 100U modem which is not supported in linux however from what I can see VPC is emulating a NIC that linux recognizes. When trying to connect in Netscape

Re: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft

2002-02-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> 2. a little issue with the hebrew: there is basically one difference > between microsoft's version of bidiorectional hebrew and the standard > version: the case of HEBREW-digit. e.g: ?-8 > This looks OK in MS Hebrew, but not in unicode Hebrew. To be best standard > conforming you should write it

Re: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft

2002-02-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 19:18, Yehuda Drori wrote: > Hetz hi ... Ahalan Yehuda, > Good work... very intensive and concluding document. Thanks. > I think you left out in the browsers section Galeon which quite stand up > for it self and support Hebrew too.. Stand up for itself? it rips Mozi

Re: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft

2002-02-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 09:49, Eli Marmor wrote: > In the last weeks, there were at least 5 articles in the Israeli press > with lots of details, numbers, and statistics about the Israeli market, > how it is divided, what vendors, etc. Umm, URL's please? > Two research companies, IDC and MET

Re: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft

2002-02-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> A more general question: > > How can I get the basic features of Exchange/Outlook with a linux client > and a linux server? Basic as what? as pop3/IMAP4? or you mean more then that? If you mean more - then bynari client mail program might be helpful for you: http://www.bynari.net/bynari/insig

Re: Linux in Israel (desktop part) - first draft

2002-02-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > A more general question: > > > > How can I get the basic features of Exchange/Outlook with a linux client > > and a linux server? > > Basic as what? as pop3/IMAP4? or you mean more then that? > Something about a common schedule. Does evolution, or a

Re: Internet connection in Virtual PC

2002-02-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Peleg Wasserman wrote: > hi. > I've set up redhat 7.1 in virtual PC and trying to configure linux to > connect to the Internet. > I have an ADSL connection trough the Aztech 100U modem which is not > supported in linux however from what I can see VPC is emulating a NIC that >