Re: Force reboot a machine?

2003-06-04 Thread Idan Sofer
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:23:16PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > On a side note, what's 2.4.18-8? I thought debian went with vanilla > always? Debian's kernel source packages are not plain vanilla, the maintainers add couple of patches, mostly removal of non-free stuff(driver that contain fi

Re: Captain Internet Responds

2003-06-24 Thread Idan Sofer
> Today Ha'aretz published a response from Captain Internet to the "Angry > Linuxers" (as they called it). The response is mild - it includes URL: http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=310854&objNo=10045&returnParam=Y -- Idan =

Re: Maximum file size on IA32

2003-06-25 Thread Idan Sofer
> On 2003-06-25 Honen, Oren wrote: > I have a 5.4G file on an ext2 filesystem, no special block size was > needed. If I recall correctly(This was stated in PostgresSQL docs somewhere), such large files are possible, but will also result in degraded performance(sounds reasonable, considering 64-bi

Re: kernel 2.5.69 problem

2003-07-05 Thread Idan Sofer
> I tried to compile kernel 2.5.69 on debian unstable using gcc ver. 3.3 > on a sony vaio with amd athlon xp 1500+ (1.3 GH) I'm currently running 2.5.73, compiled with gcc 3.3, without much trouble, on I815e based motherboard and PIII, so far runs as solid as rock(tfu tfu) I actually had troubles

Re: [OT] [JOB OFFER] - We we are looking for Linux Kernel Guru

2003-07-07 Thread Idan Sofer
> As I said in the example itself, you don't necessarily have to have a BSc > to > have the necessary clue. However, when someone has a BSc, you can be sure > that > he *was* exposed to the required concepts and actually marked for them. So > it > gives you that much certainty. My 2 cents to the t

Re: insane memory usage

2003-07-09 Thread Idan Sofer
> On that same note, Why do gnome applets take so much memory. > I tried loading acpi-docklet, it took a meg of mem to show a small Is it VSZ or RSS? VSZ shows the total virtual size of the process, this also includes memory maped files, library code(which is shared), etc... You should look for

Re: Clock Drifts

2003-07-25 Thread Idan Sofer
Amichai Rotman wrote: my KDE Clock applet reads 11:29 Aruzei Zahav Digital clock reads 11:47 output from hwclock reads 11:47 Which means the problem lies with the KDE applet AFAIK There are _two_ clocks, the hardware clock(aka rtc, or real time clock), and the system, or software clock. hwc

Re: Apache 2.0

2003-07-30 Thread Idan Sofer
On יום רביעי, 30 ביולי 2003, 18:28, Tal Achituv wrote: > Hi all! > > 2) the 2nd problem is that my PHP script does not recognize parameters, > like test.php?active=true&bad=good > the parameters $active & $bad are both empty (WHY?!? OH WHY??) It's not apache's fault. Starting from version 4

Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements)

2003-08-29 Thread Idan Sofer
My reply was mistakenly sent only to Oded... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements) Date: יום שישי, 29 באוגוסט 2003, 12:02 From: Idan Sofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements)

2003-08-31 Thread Idan Sofer
> I'm using KDE and GNOME and I have similar problems on P4s with NVidia > cards - its not really about CPU or GPU power, I think its just X being > slow. I'll try running a simple WM on my P4 tomorrow and see if it maked a > difference - I highly doubt it. I'm using KDE as well, but with a CPU fro

Re: wingate equivalent in Linux.

2003-09-05 Thread Idan Sofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 September 2003 12:54, Oleg Kobets wrote: > Why doing it with iptables is pain to manage ? It's darn easy to do. > > Take a little filey, write the iptables command and save the filey. Then > execute the filey or put it in rc scripts or som

Re: Routing problem

2003-09-09 Thread Idan Sofer
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 14:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > |172.17.2.30 Masquerade t this interface > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt > Iface > 172.30.0.0 172.16.0.10 255.255.0.0 UG

Re: [OT] Digital Cameras and Linux - thanks and report

2003-09-20 Thread Idan Sofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 September 2003 13:46, you wrote: > Xine shows MOV's just fine in full screen mode. GPhoto does a fair job > showing pictures but leaves much to be desired in terms of > presentation capabilities, compared to the NikonView I tried on the

Re: [OT] new virus? (was Re: unsubscribe)

2003-09-29 Thread Idan Sofer
On Friday 26 September 2003 13:16, you wrote: > Over the last couple of weeks I've been getting up to a thousand a > day. Just checked - 286 have arrived since last night. Probably a > combination of "Swen" and a few oldies. Luckily for me, they all are I've suffered greatly from this recent plaque

Re: ping....

2003-10-18 Thread Idan Sofer
On Saturday 18 October 2003 23:27, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > sorry... i remember when this list had about 10-20 mails per day... > > we about less then 30 the last week... Trolls to the rescue!:-D = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: "GNU/Linux Compatible" Initiative

2003-11-10 Thread Idan Sofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 November 2003 11:27, you wrote: > > The validator, only the validator, nothing but the validator! > > yea, yea, of course. and still you can't reasonably expect that all web > sites in the entire world will be made to be 100% validator fri

Re: Kernel Modules Legal Status (was: Re: [REOPENED TOPIC] Re: [OT???]...

2003-11-17 Thread Idan Sofer
On Monday 17 November 2003 05:54, you wrote: > solutions, but I also want my hardware to work, and to have some > proffessional quallity software that there is no chance will ever hit the > opensource. Although drifting off again, peer pressure wont solve all the > opensource problems. Lets see pee

Re: Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-15 Thread Idan Sofer
Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:01:00PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: In Mozilla, the numbers and bullets of and lists appear at the far right of the screen. This is despite the fact that in Konqueror 3.1.x Known bug. What's stopping its' resolution is that CSS doesn't de

Re: Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-15 Thread Idan Sofer
Alon Altman wrote: A good solution to this will be to add a new (non-standard) method of setting the margins, say, "margin-start" and "margin-end", and use it in the default stylesheet, and have margin-left and margin-right override this non-standard setting. AFAIK That's exactly what is being

Re: language screwed up

2004-02-23 Thread Idan Sofer
aamehl wrote: Hi all, I am running debian and my language settings got all messed up and I can't remember what I need to do to fix them. I also can't remember the command to reconfigure my language settings. Help! here is the reoccuring error I get. Also I can't burn cds all the resulting disc

Re: looking for webmail software

2004-03-26 Thread Idan Sofer
Noam Meltzer wrote: p.s. i know there's also a package called "cyrus" which supposed to give similar features, but i never saw it in action. Cyrus mainly acts as IMAP/POP3/NNTP mail/news server, and does not include a web mail interface. You can however use an IMAP aware webmail package alongsi

Re: OT: e100 vs eepro100

2004-05-10 Thread Idan Sofer
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hi all, Please excuse the offtopicness. On an Intel d815eea with an onboard e100 NIC, using the e100 driver I also have intel 815 motherboard. in my case the eepro100 is unusable, I've also experienced random hangs, where the NIC just no longer functions, often tak

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread Idan Sofer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am looking for an easier way to program a simple UDP socket program for both Windows and Linux than using "#ifdef __WIN32__" and typedefing SOCKET etc. Perhaps SDL_net? http://jcatki.no-ip.org/SDL_net/ I found SFL (http://freshmeat.net/projects/sfl/) but I am pre

Re: [OT]DB structure efficiency

2004-06-10 Thread Idan Sofer
Amir Hardon wrote: For example what will be better, storing all items information in one table with one column for category, or having a separate items table for each category. My guess is that separate tables will be faster for use but will consume more disk space. It's a good example where

Re: [WEB Site] The First Maps Site on Linux?

2004-06-16 Thread Idan Sofer
Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:36:09PM +0300, Amichai Rotman wrote: http://www.eyeonisrael.com/ -- Looks like a tourist thing more then something useful at the moment, but its nice that there is finally a map that works under linux. The only problem is that the whole t

Re: quick MySQL howto, anyone?

2004-06-21 Thread Idan Sofer
Ehud Karni wrote: Do binary backup (mysqldump) for disaster recovery (a must), but also mysqldump actually dumps a text output(in SQL), not in binary form = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in

Re: Developing Platform for web programing

2004-07-13 Thread Idan Sofer
Ben-Nes Michael wrote: As my company grew i discovered im lacking some mechanizim that will control the web site developing. Currently every one in the company that edit a html, class file need to first ask if any one already working on it. this starting to become a major problem because sometim

Re: A story in Yediot

2004-07-18 Thread Idan Sofer
Yosef Meller wrote: although the problems they mention are real, As usual on that paper the subtext is pro-windows. I was esp. surprised about the writer's surprise when his LiveCD did not remmember ghis setting from run to run. Gal Mor actually tends to cover free software better then other tech

CBQ question

2000-09-04 Thread Idan Sofer
Hello. I have a linux system(2.2.16) connected to the internet using dial-up connection, And another two win98 systems connected to the linux system via ethernet. The linux machine is masquerading tcp packets from the win98 boxes to the internet. problem is that if the the linux machine is downl

Re: Problems connecting to the NET (fwd)

2000-09-04 Thread Idan Sofer
I had some problems with masqmail so the email in the from field was invalid. sending again. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 00:35:21 +0200 (GMT-2) From: Idan Sofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Erez Boym <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Problems connecting to the NET

2000-09-04 Thread Idan Sofer
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Erez Boym wrote: > Can some one help me make my pppd work when I'm a normal user ? edit /etc/group, and add every user you want to have ability to run pppd to "dip" group(that's what i do, anyway) = To unsubsc

Re: eth0 Promiscious Access

2000-09-23 Thread Idan Sofer
--- guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > as a regular user? (Without using suid root) > > modify the kernel to allow that. as far as i know, > the kernel won't allow > a regular user to set an ethernet card to promicious Just an idea i have for quite a time.. It is probably possible to write

Re: a question on C++

2001-07-10 Thread Idan Sofer
On 10 Jul 2001 12:18:17 +0300, mulix wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, b g wrote: > > > the loop contains system() comand, that boots the big program. everything > > goes ok untill i logout. when i do logout, the programs are killed. > > how can i prevent this? > > two ways: A thrid way: Run it wi

Forwarded mail.... (off-topic)

1999-08-31 Thread Idan Sofer
31) Susanne Michel, Jena, Germany 32) Dr. Thomas Liehr, Jena, Germany 33) Oskar A: Haas, M.D. 34) Julie R. Korenberg, Ph.D. M.D. 35) Andre L. Vanderhal, MD 36) Chana Arnon, Jerusalem, Israel 37) Tosha Schore, CA, USA 38) Nili Nimrod, Holon Israel 39) Shuki Vaknin, Jerusalem Israel 40) Idan Sofer, Ram

GDK/GTK 1.2 with hebrew support

1999-05-25 Thread Idan Sofer
A few months ago i have written a logical-to-visual translator called iDiB, which for those who wonder, is a "BiDi" in reverse, since i did not implement BiDi, instead i've written it by intuation. Today i have managed to patch GDK from Gtk+ 1.2.3 package to use iDiB, and thus making Gtk+ partly

Re: GPLed Hebrew Wordprocessor - Help needed

1999-05-25 Thread Idan Sofer
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Gady Kozma wrote: > Help from someone with experience in working with Hebrew on X. I DON'T > THINK HE MEANS A PROGRAMMER, JUST AN "ENLIGHTENED" USER. I do, the question is how i can help? I know how to set gtk to use hebrew fonts, and i have created a logical-to-visual tran

Re: GDK/GTK 1.2 with hebrew support

1999-05-27 Thread Idan Sofer
> the GdkDrawText routines do a BiDi translation on the string before > it is painted by X11. Unfortunately this approach cannot work properly. of course, it's a hack, but it provides a temporal solution for those who really need hebrew support. actually, at first i hacked the gtktext widget, but

Re: GDK/GTK 1.2 with hebrew support

1999-05-27 Thread Idan Sofer
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Alex Shnitman wrote: > makes them create the Hebrew widgets instead,and then LD_PRELOAD that > library into any GTK application? Theoretically this should allow us why making things complex?isn't patching Gtk itself would be simpler?

the Hebrew howto

1999-05-27 Thread Idan Sofer
anyone is working on the Hebrew Howto?