Looking for compact MP3 enabled distributuon

2004-05-23 Thread Hyams Iftach
The platform is Pentium 166 Laptop with 16MB. The mission - hook it to the stereo in the living room to play MP3 collections. Graphical interface is very desirable. Thank you, Iftach This e-mail message has been sent by Elbit Systems Ltd. and is for the use of the intended recipients on

Re: Linux Lectures

2004-05-23 Thread Eli Marmor
I want to second Aviram. Aviram Jenik wrote: > > On Friday 21 May 2004 11:27, Joel Isaacson wrote: > > > > Here is an updated list of the talks I give on Open Source > > Software. I give these talks, for the promotional value, gratis (for > > free) to companies and groups, so that they understand

Re: Looking for compact MP3 enabled distributuon

2004-05-23 Thread Boris Ratner
I had a Debian "sid" (unstable) machine to do that for a while it was P166MMX with 48MB of ram and 10GB hdd. The platform is Pentium 166 Laptop with 16MB. Plays MP3 without any problem. The mission - hook it to the stereo in the living room to play MP3 collections. Graphical interface is very de

Re: Thinkpad modem does not link with FC1 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl

2004-05-23 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:19:17AM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > It does not find the modem device. Knowing why is practically > impossible without the source or disassembly, sorry... oooh, so THAT's what wrong with closed-source! -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread ik
Tzafrir, the problem is that fork() is a kernel command (well taken from posix, but still a kernel thingy), mingw etc.. will not have it, you will need to use the ms-windows way for threading.. and fork () is not one of them... :( Ido --- "We have the power who'll face the future Cause we a

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 12:36:38PM +0300, ik wrote: > Tzafrir, the problem is that fork() is a kernel command (well taken from > posix, but still a kernel thingy), mingw etc.. will not have it, you > will need to use the ms-windows way for threading.. and fork () is not > one of them... :( Tha

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tzafrir, the problem is that fork() is a kernel command (well taken > from posix, but still a kernel thingy), mingw etc.. will not have it, > you will need to use the ms-windows way for threading.. and fork () is > not one of them... :( Windows is (supposed to be)

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread Christoph Bugel
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: That's not entirely accurate. fork() is several things, including a POSIX API (specification) and a system call implementation. There's nothing that says you can't implement a fork() wrapper on windows that will conform to the fork API while being implemented using windows AP

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread linux-il
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Windows is (supposed to be) POSIX-compliant since NT-whatever - M$ would not be able to sell the system so successfully without some degree of standard-compliance. It has nothing to do with sales - as far as I remember the DOD (American Department of Defense) requires PO

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:39:51PM +, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > ik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Tzafrir, the problem is that fork() is a kernel command (well taken > > from posix, but still a kernel thingy), mingw etc.. will not have it, > > you will need to use the ms-windows way for thre

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > >Windows is (supposed to be) POSIX-compliant since NT-whatever - M$ > > would not be able to sell the system so successfully without some > > degree of standard-compliance. > > > > > It has nothing to do with sales - as far as I remember th

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread ik
Christoph Bugel wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: That's not entirely accurate. fork() is several things, including a POSIX API (specification) and a system call implementation. There's nothing that says you can't implement a fork() wrapper on windows that will conform to the fork API while being imple

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 12:36:38PM +0300, ik wrote: > Tzafrir, the problem is that fork() is a kernel command (well taken from > posix, but still a kernel thingy), mingw etc.. will not have it, you > will need to use the ms-windows way for threading.. and fork () is not > one of them... :( > A

How to compile ddd-3.3.8 [Was Re: Missing header files in ddd-3.3.8 tarball]

2004-05-23 Thread Amir Hardon
On Saturday 22 May 2004 14:03, Amir Hardon wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to compile ddd, > but it seems like some header files are missing in the ddd tarball, > my first make try failed with this error: > No rule to make target `../include/xregex.h', needed by `regex.o' > After some non-helpful google-in

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A dirty solution that doesn't achieve exactly what you want but is the > closest alternative to threads is to do a vfork and exec self with a > special flag. > > This should work under mingw etc. Check what vfork() does - it may simply fork() [e.g. unde

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2004-05-23 Thread avraham rosenberg
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2004-05-23 Thread avraham rosenberg
I apologize for the large number of messages sent to the list. The idea was to check if I managed to convince mut and pine to send the correct return address. I was too impatient when checking the mail and I was under the impression that the previous attempts did no get through. Sorry for that.

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 05:36:32PM +, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A dirty solution that doesn't achieve exactly what you want but is the > > closest alternative to threads is to do a vfork and exec self with a > > special flag. > > > > This should w

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2004-05-23 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting avraham rosenberg, from the post of Sun, 23 May: > I apologize for the large number of messages sent to the list. The idea > was to check if I managed to convince mut and pine to send the correct > return address. I was too impatient when checking the mail and I was under > the impressio

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread Eli Billauer
Diego Iastrubni wrote: The question is very simple, how can i fork() under windows using c/c++? Simple question, simple answer: If you're ready to use cygwin (which may be as little as depending on one DLL), you have the fork() system call. Cygwin's fork() is based upon Window's CreateProcess, wi

Will someone unsubscribe the job advertiser, please?

2004-05-23 Thread Herouth Maoz
Perhaps everybody's junk filters are filtering this, but it's really annoying to get two job-offer junk mails a week, which I can't do anything about since they come through a mailing list (I usually report all my junk through spamcop, but only the list owner is allowed to report junk that came

Re: Will someone unsubscribe the job advertiser, please?

2004-05-23 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Herouth, I thought that we decided that job offers that are Linux or Open Source related are welcome on the list. - yba On Mon, 24 May 2004, Herouth Maoz wrote: > Perhaps everybody's junk filters are filtering this, but it's really > annoying to get two job-offer junk mails a week, which I

Re: Will someone unsubscribe the job advertiser, please?

2004-05-23 Thread linux-il
How about creaing a linux-il-jobs mailing list (and/or alias it "opensource-jobs", so people will understand it's not solely about directly-Linux-related jobs)? That way only interested people will receive such mails (after moderation) and others will be spared. I think a non-commercial mailin

Re: Will someone unsubscribe the job advertiser, please?

2004-05-23 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:47:17AM +0300, Herouth Maoz wrote: > Perhaps everybody's junk filters are filtering this, but it's really > annoying to get two job-offer junk mails a week, which I can't do Which job offers are you talking about? if it's Linux / FOSS related, it's allowed. Cheers,

Re: Will someone unsubscribe the job advertiser, please?

2004-05-23 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday 24 May 2004 08:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How about creaing a linux-il-jobs mailing list (and/or alias it > "opensource-jobs", We don't have such a high volume of job posts to warrant a separate mailing list (IMO). It's far easier to agree that every job post will include a [JOB] i