Re: Cable Internet DNS Problem

2003-06-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Mix Sella wrote: Again. There are precisely two places that deal with resolv.conf: 1) Your dhcpcd that periodically renews leases. Yes, it's stupid. As I told before, I use -R command line option to prevent dhcpcd from overwriting /etc/resolv.conf The problem is that I'm not using dhcpcd. I'm

Re: Cable Internet DNS Problem

2003-06-22 Thread Mix Sella
On Sunday 22 June 2003 10:07, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Mix Sella wrote: > >Again. There are precisely two places that deal with resolv.conf: > > > >1) Your dhcpcd that periodically renews leases. Yes, it's stupid. As I > > told before, I use -R command line option to prevent dhcpcd from > > overwri

Re: OT: Captain Learns Linux

2003-06-22 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-06-19 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:57:52AM +0300, Christoph Bugel wrote: > > > Naturally, I wanted to write my email in *hebrew*. I must > > admit that I didn't know how to do this in my favorite email > > client: xterm+mutt+vim, > > Need help? > > (If so: in what

[OT] A call for a lawyer

2003-06-22 Thread Ely Levy
Hey, I'm doing OSS project related to old jewish scripts (something like SWORD) and I have some copyright problem I wonder if anyone on the list has official law education and can answer me the following question. a) If someone put non copyright metirial like the bible or some other jewish book w

linux laptop / windows refund?

2003-06-22 Thread Christoph Bugel
Hi, I am planning to buy a laptop soon, and I will install linux on it. Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to buy a brand-name laptop that doesn't come with windows. This means that I am being forced, more or less, to pay a sum of money to microsoft. I feel very strong against paying them

Re: linux laptop / windows refund?

2003-06-22 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Christoph Bugel wrote on 2003-06-22: > Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to buy a brand-name > laptop that doesn't come with windows. This means that I am > being forced, more or less, to pay a sum of money to > microsoft. > Nasty :-(. > I know that at least one person succeeded in getting

Re: Encoding Video

2003-06-22 Thread Oded Arbel
Dekel Tsur wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:00:42PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I have a 3 hour long VHS I need to convert / encode to a digital media format that can fit on a CD (so it can be distributed). You want to fit a 3 hours long VHS to 1 CD, that means a good (or should I say

Re: Cable Internet DNS Problem

2003-06-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:07:08AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Mix Sella wrote: > > >Again. There are precisely two places that deal with resolv.conf: > > > >1) Your dhcpcd that periodically renews leases. Yes, it's stupid. As I > >told before, I use -R command line option to prevent dhcpcd f

Re: linux laptop / windows refund?

2003-06-22 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
AFAIK most attempts at getting the refund were made in the US and Australia. Check out http://windowsrefund.net in particular the (US-specific) HOWTO http://windowsrefund.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=19&mode=thread&order=1&thold=0 I have no idea if there have been suc

Modem server development... HELP!?!?

2003-06-22 Thread Gilboa Davara
Hello All, I'm stuck... I'm writing a modem server (quasi dial-up server that connects remote client to an internal sub-system.) Last time I wrote something like was ages ago, and in ASM and I don't remember squat. I know that I can access/control the modem using the termios library. I remember

Re: Modem server development... HELP!?!?

2003-06-22 Thread Oded Arbel
Gilboa Davara wrote: Here's the part the I'm missing... how do I signal the modem that from now on, I'm sending the data to the other end, and not to the modem's controller. If I remember correctly it has something to do with the CTS/RTS flags... I just don't [EMAIL PROTECTED] (And I remember some

Re: Modem server development... HELP!?!?

2003-06-22 Thread Gilboa Davara
Oded, If you weren't a man, I would have kissed you. :-) I knew that I'm doing the right thing; and I knew I forgot something important guess I'm getting old and stupid..! I'm in your debt. Thanks! Gilboa On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 14:54, Oded Arbel wrote: > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > >Here's the

Re: Encoding Video

2003-06-22 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 13:24, Oded Arbel wrote: > 3 hour of TV signal quality video under 700MB only becomes feasable > using a very good MPEG4 encoder, and then it would only be playable on a > modern PC with a good software set - no hardware player currently > available on the consumer market

Re: Cable Internet DNS Problem

2003-06-22 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:48:54PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script the function make_resolv_conf indeed seems > quite hardwierd. However editing this file is easy (simply override this > function). > > Though according to the dhcp distro (and maybe also the debian po

Re: Cable Internet DNS Problem

2003-06-22 Thread linux_il
On Sunday 22 June 2003 16:41, Shaul Karl wrote: > I am not aware of any limitation for editing it as far as policy is > concerned. On the contrary. The fact that it is under /etc might policy or no policy - the bottom line is that when you upgrade the package it will (or supposed to) notice that

Re: [OT] hebrew in mutt [was: OT: Captain Learns Linux]

2003-06-22 Thread Eliran Gonen
Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:57:52AM +0300, Christoph Bugel wrote: > > > Naturally, I wanted to write my email in *hebrew*. I must > > admit that I didn't know how to do this in my favorite email > > client: xterm+mutt+vim, > > Need help? > > (If so: in what

Re: OT: Captain Learns Linux

2003-06-22 Thread Eliran Gonen
Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Naturally, I wanted to write my email in *hebrew*. I must > > admit that I didn't know how to do this in my favorite email > > client: xterm+mutt+vim, Oh, it was for writing... sorry didn't notice.

Re: OT: Captain Learns Linux

2003-06-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:10:35AM +0300, Christoph Bugel wrote: > On 2003-06-19 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:57:52AM +0300, Christoph Bugel wrote: > > > > > Naturally, I wanted to write my email in *hebrew*. I must > > > admit that I didn't know how to do this in my favor

Re: Problems with PASV ftp

2003-06-22 Thread Herouth Maoz
Thanks, guys. Apparently the problem isn't with Actcom. My "other" OS, using the same hardware, connects and allows passive ftp without a problem. So now I'm left with the question - what could cause PASV to fail? I am not a networking expert, mind you. I tried replacing shorewall with guarddo

Re: Problems with PASV ftp

2003-06-22 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Sunday 22 June 2003 23:21, Herouth Maoz wrote: > Thanks, guys. Apparently the problem isn't with Actcom. My "other" > OS, using the same hardware, connects and allows passive ftp without > a problem. > > So now I'm left with the question - what could cause PASV to fail? > > I'm using a Samsung

Re: [OT] A call for a lawyer

2003-06-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003, Ely Levy wrote about "[OT] A call for a lawyer": > a) If someone put non copyright metirial like the bible or some other > jewish book which has expired copyright on the internet can I freely copy > it or does it fall under some copyright law? Before I say anything I must mak

Re: [OT] A call for a lawyer

2003-06-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: [OT] A call for a lawyer": > said (paraphrasing what I can recall) that in Israel, you can only copyright > something if non-trivial amount of creation and creativity was involved in > making it. Hard work has nothing to do with Israeli copyright.

www.il.kernel.org

2003-06-22 Thread Jason Friedman
Hi, Is there a good reason why www.il.kernel.org points to iglu (http://www.iglu.org.il/IGLU/) from where you have to hunt for the link rather than to the kernel source directly (ftp://ftp.iglu.org.il/pub/linux/kernel/)? Jason Friedman =

Re: www.il.kernel.org

2003-06-22 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Monday 23 June 2003 00:22, Jason Friedman wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a good reason why > www.il.kernel.org > > points to iglu (http://www.iglu.org.il/IGLU/) from where you have to > hunt for the link rather than to the kernel source directly > (ftp://ftp.iglu.org.il/pub/linux/kernel/)? It always

Re: Problems with PASV ftp

2003-06-22 Thread Herouth Maoz
At 23:41 +0300 on 22/6/2003, Aviram Jenik wrote: There's still not enough info about your network to really help you out. Could you explain your set up exactly? Are you using a NAT gateway machine or connecting directly from the Linux? Did you make any MTU changes on your "other" OS that you

Re: Problems with PASV ftp

2003-06-22 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 12:42:01AM +0300, Herouth Maoz wrote: > >The part I got stuck in > was attempting to access security updates - that's done in passive > FTP. > Have you explicitly tried the passive command from within the ftp program and go

Re: Problems with PASV ftp

2003-06-22 Thread Herouth Maoz
At 02:07 +0300 on 23/6/2003, Shaul Karl wrote: Have you explicitly tried the passive command from within the ftp program and got stuck? Have you tried to access other ftp servers in passive mode? Yes, indeed. I used "set passive" in ncftp, and examined the transcript later to be sure that i

Re: Problems with PASV ftp

2003-06-22 Thread linux_il
On Monday 23 June 2003 07:22, Herouth Maoz wrote: > Yes, indeed. I used "set passive" in ncftp, and examined the > transcript later to be sure that indeed it was sending the PASV or > the PORT command as indicated. And I tried with every Mandrake PPC > mirror - copied and pasted the URL to ncftp. W

Re: Problems with PASV ftp

2003-06-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Herouth Maoz wrote: At 02:07 +0300 on 23/6/2003, Shaul Karl wrote: Have you explicitly tried the passive command from within the ftp program and got stuck? Have you tried to access other ftp servers in passive mode? Yes, indeed. I used "set passive" in ncftp, and examined the transcript

ARP storm from my computer ?

2003-06-22 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello list. I'm running Mandrake 9.1, two NICs bonded to a single IP. >From some reason, from time to time, computer starts to issue a lot of ARP requests to non-existent IPs (that are still in my subnet). I think that the same behaviour was observed with a single NIC too. ARP table gets filled