Adhocracies and pissing contests (was: Re: Elections)

2002-05-28 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > And another thing - if we do it "my way", the right people to be handed > > the jobs you describedwill become obvious because they will be the ones > > doing the stuff anyway... right now elections will be nothing more then > > a pissing contest. > >

Re: Elections

2002-05-28 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: > All those in favour of doing ANYTHING AT ALL, please raise their > left, right or middle appendage. > > http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html = To unsubscr

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-28 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Amir Tal wrote: > personally, i think that Hetz's basic idea about a "commercial" Yom iyoon is > better, and will serve linux better then just another "get together" of some > already linux users. a-ha. but why not make two seperate events? it seems that we are split amongs

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-28 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 11:10:26AM +0300, guy keren wrote: > > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Amir Tal wrote: > > > personally, i think that Hetz's basic idea about a "commercial" Yom iyoon is > > better, and will serve linux better then just another "get together" of some > > already linux users. > > a-

Re: mounting iso9660 as rw

2002-05-28 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
> > > > I think I could copy all the files from the iso, and my own, and rebuild the > > whole bunch, but I just don't like the idea. > > But this seems to me to be the only clean way. > Of course, it might won't work for you at all (e.g. if the image is of > a bootable CD which you can't create

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-28 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth Muli Ben-Yehuda: > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 11:10:26AM +0300, guy keren wrote: > > > > if i hear enough voices (i.e. 3 or more) for this idea, i'll start > > collecting names of people wanting to come and pay 50 NIS for the event. > > I'm in, you're in, Gilad's in, other people have said i

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-28 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm in, you're in, Gilad's in, other people have said in this thread > that they're in (but will have to say it again, just to make > sure). I am in, but now everyone will post "I am in/out" to the list - there goes the already low S/N... -- Oleg

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-28 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 11:10, guy keren wrote: > > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Amir Tal wrote: > > > personally, i think that Hetz's basic idea about a "commercial" Yom iyoon is > > better, and will serve linux better then just another "get together" of some > > already linux users. > > a-ha. but why n

Re: mounting iso9660 as rw

2002-05-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, May 28, 2002, Dan Kenigsberg wrote about "Re: mounting iso9660 as rw": > I am not in the business of duplicating NT CDs, or any copyrighted CD for that > matter. > However, I wonder what is it that you are saying - is it impossible to extract > the 1.44Mb bootable floppy image from a boota

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, May 28, 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Re: YOM IYOON?": > The only problem is that I already did exactly that last month and got > only 6 replies from interested people which were willing to pay tghe > same as a regular movie. If we can pull this off it'll be much better. I > only rai

RE: Strange 3com 3c905b card problem

2002-05-28 Thread Ohad . Levy
Is it a driver problem?(I guess) If it does, could it be that it exists for so long? -Original Message- From: Jonathan Ben-Avraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 8:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Strange 3com 3c905b card problem O

Re: mounting iso9660 as rw

2002-05-28 Thread Cedar Cox
UDF is really a cool idea, but like M$ Outlook, is horrible when it doesn't work (yes, I'm saying Outlook would be almost good if it worked). From experience (I used to do phone tech support for CD writers), I would recommend against using UDF, especially considering beta drivers. I saw so call

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-28 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 12:26, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Re: YOM IYOON?": > > The only problem is that I already did exactly that last month and got > > only 6 replies from interested people which were willing to pay tghe > > same as a regular movie. I

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, May 28, 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Re: YOM IYOON?": > BTW, this is for the beta tape version, the 33mm version costs MUCH > more... I guess Moore and his friends got greedy... What does he think, that you can fill a movie theater with 200 people to see this geeky movie? Would you

Whats new in this IBM invention???

2002-05-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi people, I've looked yesterday at Walla news at this URL: http://news.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=item&path=4&id=230631 In the Article, IBM claimed they have a new revolutionary way that no-hard disk is needed, and it can boot from network... I'm pretty sure that many people have been done

Re: Whats new in this IBM invention???

2002-05-28 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 18:15, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > I've looked yesterday at Walla news at this URL: > http://news.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=item&path=4&id=230631 > > In the Article, IBM claimed they have a new revolutionary way that no-hard > disk is needed, and it can boot from network...

Re: Whats new in this IBM invention???

2002-05-28 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > I've looked yesterday at Walla news at this URL: > http://news.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=item&path=4&id=230631 I can't read the hebrew, anyone have a link to an English version? > In the Article, IBM claimed they have a new revolutionary way that no-hard > disk is ne

Re: Whats new in this IBM invention???

2002-05-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> The idea is that with iBoot your OS doesn't need to be aware that it > boots from a remote disk. The whole "diskless" thing is completely > transparent to the OS and the user. It works via iSCSI, which is SCSI > over IP. > > For more details: > http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/projects/storage/iboot/

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-28 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 14:23, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Re: YOM IYOON?": > > BTW, this is for the beta tape version, the 33mm version costs MUCH > > more... Moore didn't. the distributors did. Dont confuse the two. > I guess Moore and his friends g

RE: Strange 3com 3c905b card problem

2002-05-28 Thread Ohad . Levy
Ou, Sorry, I'm using the LTSP 2.4.9-6 kernel. Ohad. -Original Message- From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Strange 3com 3c905b card problem On Tue, 28 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it a driver p

Re: Elections

2002-05-28 Thread Orna Agmon
I see my cinicism went unnoticed. My point, said bluntly, is that elections are usually based on the principle of equality. If you do not demand anything, then voting is pointless: if i want to be appointed as anything, i will bring all my huge family to vote, all my friends, etc. The things you

Re: Elections

2002-05-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 13:18, Orna Agmon wrote: > I see my cinicism went unnoticed. I do /ignore cinicism - specially when it comes to serious issues as Amuta. > My point, said bluntly, is that elections are usually based on the > principle of equality. If you do not demand anything, then voting

Re: Elections

2002-05-28 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did not ask for taxes, But you did ask for elections, and if memory serves, the most powerful (if not the biggest or the oldest) democracy was started from linking the two... I'd say that an amuta assumes membership dues, and whoever pays should b

RE: Whats new in this IBM invention???

2002-05-28 Thread Tzahi Fadida
please note though that this is not open source and actually proprietary. http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/projects/storage/iboot/faq.html check out q5. anyways this is a pretty neat solution, though a bit dirty because u have to plant a An optional rom besides the bios. however, I wouldn't be surpris

Re: writing to FAT

2002-05-28 Thread Shaul Karl
I am not sure I fully understand you. In any case, I have a vfat (fat16?) partition and have no problems when using the mtools to copy any file from/to linux. In the past I had no problems mounting the device and using Linux native tools. For the infrequent times I have to use that partition us

Re: Elections

2002-05-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> > > > Again and again - if people are so against it - then fine, we'll do it (the > > people that want this) anyway and other could join.. > > count me in as "the people that want this". > and guys - a wake up call : > nothing is going to change \ advance with linux unless we will do something

Re: YOM IYOON?

2002-05-28 Thread Oron Peled
On Tue, 28 May 2002 12:26:27 +0300 "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if instead of taking the cinemateque it will be possible to take > some movie room in some university (I know the technion has one in Beit > Hastudent and it's probably possible to view movies in many lecture h

OT: adsl microfilter and analog modem

2002-05-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, Sorry for being off-topic, but I am desperate. I asked whoever I know who has adsl, computer and electric equipment stores, bezeq, STFW ... And I have a suspicion that there are here some people with much better knowledge than me about phones stuff. My problem: I can't use an analog mode

Re: writing to FAT

2002-05-28 Thread linuxil
> On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 10:32, Eli Segal wrote: > > i need to know if there is a way to write to a fat exactly as does windows > > i'm using Br-8 digital studio that uses zip disks for data > > now, it uses fat16 for its format and ican back it up on windows no problem > > i also can copy from the

Re: OT: adsl microfilter and analog modem

2002-05-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:25:20AM +0300, guy keren wrote: > > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > > My problem: I can't use an analog modem with the microfilter bezeq > > gave me for adsl, e.g. I can't send a fax while being connected to > > adsl. When I try, the modem says 'NO D

Re: OT: adsl microfilter and analog modem

2002-05-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:41:11AM +0300, Barak Kaufman wrote: > all the filter does is split the frequencies (low frequencies range goes to > teh phone , hish to the adsl). probably what happens is that the modem doesnt > recognise the "filtered" dialtone, what u can do is try to override the