Hebrew and SDL_ttf

2005-06-21 Thread Ido Kanner
Hi, The game http://lwars.sourceforge.net/index.php uses SDL_ttf. Recently it added support for languages, and I placed an Hebrew translation for this game. The developer noted that the rendering of Hebrew with SDL_ttf takes more then 100% time then any other language he tested in Linux (while he

Active Directory - a short story

2005-06-21 Thread Ira Abramov
I wondered once or twice if people united their linux machine to authenticate against an existing Active Directory. today I had the chance to do it for a client. first we tried the old fashioned way - install SFU (Seervices for Unix) on the 2000/2003 machine, and bind to it with LDAP. this proved t

Re: Active Directory - a short story

2005-06-21 Thread Josh Zlatin-Amishav
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Ira Abramov wrote: I wondered once or twice if people united their linux machine to authenticate against an existing Active Directory. today I had the chance to do it for a client. first we tried the old fashioned way - install SFU (Seervices for Unix) on the 2000/2003 machi

Fedora Core 4 DVD version

2005-06-21 Thread Oded Arbel
I downloaded the DVD version for fedora core 4, and tried to boot from it (on a relatively new P4 machine with a no-name DVD reader). on all boot modes available I get a kernel panic: VFS complain about not being able to mount root device "" and suggest that I append "root=" to the command lin

Mozilla firefox 1.0.4 and Flash issues

2005-06-21 Thread Oded Arbel
I have this weird problem which I thought I might share with you: A friends computer has Mandrake LE2005 installed, with some cooker packages (notably KDE and Firefox), he also has the Macromedia Flash 7.0.something plugin installed from the mplug urpmi repository. A setup very similar to my ma

Re: Fedora Core 4 DVD version

2005-06-21 Thread Gilboa Davara
Did it detect your IDE chipset? On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 18:40 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: I downloaded the DVD version for fedora core 4, and tried to boot from it (on a relatively new P4 machine with a no-name DVD reader). on all boot modes available I get a kernel panic: VFS complain about no

Re: Fedora Core 4 DVD version

2005-06-21 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tuesday, 21 בJune 2005 18:56, Gilboa Davara wrote: > Did it detect your IDE chipset? I think that it did, but I can't really tell as it runs pretty fast by, and i can't page back or pause it. The box currently has Mandrake 10 installed on it, so I would consider it quite a shame if Fedora can

Re: Mozilla firefox 1.0.4 and Flash issues

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Tuesday June 21 2005 18:50, Oded Arbel wrote: > I have this weird problem which I thought I might share with you: > A friends computer has Mandrake LE2005 installed, with some cooker > packages (notably KDE and Firefox), he also has the Macromedia Flash > 7.0.something plugin installed from the

[Fwd: Re: Fedora Core 4 DVD version]

2005-06-21 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 19:42 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: On Tuesday, 21 בJune 2005 18:56, Gilboa Davara wrote: > Did it detect your IDE chipset? I think that it did, but I can't really tell as it runs pretty fast by, and i can't page back or pause it. The box currently has Mandrake 10 install

Re: Active Directory - a short story

2005-06-21 Thread Guy Teverovsky
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 16:23 +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > I wondered once or twice if people united their linux machine to > authenticate against an existing Active Directory. today I had the > chance to do it for a client. first we tried the old fashioned way - > install SFU (Seervices for Unix) on

Re: Active Directory - a short story

2005-06-21 Thread Guy Teverovsky
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 16:40 +0300, Josh Zlatin-Amishav wrote: > and remember two important lessons: > 1. when requesting a kerberos key with kinit the domain name is case > sensitive This is Kerberos realm and not domain name. Kerberos realms are always upper case. > 2. make sure to update yo

new linux center need help

2005-06-21 Thread yishay ben adar
hello we opened a comunity center in the corner of florentine - ben atar street in tel aviv the center contains music room, bikes workshop, a meeting place for groups for social change, silk screening room, more.. , and still developing i used to collect computers from the street and fix them. we g

Re: new linux center need help

2005-06-21 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:49:30PM -0700, yishay ben adar wrote: > hello > we opened a comunity center in the corner of > florentine - ben atar street in tel aviv > the center contains music room, bikes workshop, a > meeting place for groups for social change, silk > screening room, more.. , and st

Re: [Fwd: Re: Fedora Core 4 DVD version]

2005-06-21 Thread Dvir Volk
I've had this problem too (i think it has something to do with certain SATA controllers), and the solution is profoundly bizarre and dumb, but it worked for me, and for many others: 1. load the CD/DVD 2. when the first boot menu appears, DO NOT press Enter or type any valid kernel name (like "l

Re: Hebrew and SDL_ttf

2005-06-21 Thread Yoni Levy
Hi, I will not anwer your question but rather add one (sorry): I've tried translating a SDL_ttf based game (fish fillets), and ran into a problem - hebrew is presented from left to right, instead of right to left .. Did you find a solution to this issue ? (I'm starting to develop small SDL ga

Re: Hebrew and SDL_ttf

2005-06-21 Thread ik
At this moment I'm writing the words backwards, using a function I'd written a very long time ago and it's a bit buggy. I think that someone should go over SDL and add some serious language support according to unicode standard. On Wednesday 22 June 2005 06:57, Yoni Levy wrote: > Hi, > I will

Re: [Fwd: Re: Fedora Core 4 DVD version]

2005-06-21 Thread Amir Binyamini
Hi, amazing! I am also thinking about installing fedora core 4 from a DVD. I looked at fedora site and according to it there should be FC4-i386-DVD.iso somewhere. But I followed the download link and I saw there only disc1-disc4 iso images (no DVD), I am talking about: http://download.fedora.r

Re: [Fwd: Re: Fedora Core 4 DVD version]

2005-06-21 Thread Gilboa Davara
I could only download the DVDs (both i386 and x86-64) using BitTorrent. Gilboa On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 09:22 +0300, Amir Binyamini wrote: Hi, amazing! I am also thinking about installing fedora core 4 from a DVD. I looked at fedora site and according to it there should be FC4-i386-DVD.iso so