Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-15 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting geoffrey mendelson, from the post of Sun, 12 Jun:
 
 On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
 
 I don't agree with you, Geoff. What Richard Stallman does as a
 private person does not mean the FSF in involved. As a private
 person Richard Stallman has the right to boycott Israeli
 institutions and universities. It does not mean that the FSF is
 boycotting Israel.
 
 You can agree or not, it's your opinion. However US law is that once
 he signs his emails as an officer of the corporation, in this case
 president, it does.

you know, there IS a logical falacy of guilt by association. before you
oycot the FSF and the registration office that handled their NGO
registration, and the entire govenrment of the country that enploys that
registration clerk, and so on, I suggest we stop and call on the FSF
spokespeople to give their opinion on the matter and maybe resolve it
otherwise.

two sideline remarks:
1. As I mentioned in my blog post, I don't see the financial boycott as
a problem, and I'm even hoping it started moving something, but I have a
real problem with justifying the academic BDS. however after I saw this
Item, I wonder what will I do if more and more Universities ד‚?ere proven
to act the same:
http://www.mako.co.il/news-channel2/Channel-2-Newscast/Article-230c47f2e3f8031004.htm#

2. As usuall, I am suprised how appropriate my random signature comes
out :-)

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Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-15 Thread Erez D
2011/6/15 Ira Abramov lists-linux...@ira.abramov.org

 Quoting geoffrey mendelson, from the post of Sun, 12 Jun:
 
  On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
  
  I don't agree with you, Geoff. What Richard Stallman does as a
  private person does not mean the FSF in involved. As a private
  person Richard Stallman has the right to boycott Israeli
  institutions and universities. It does not mean that the FSF is
  boycotting Israel.
 
  You can agree or not, it's your opinion. However US law is that once
  he signs his emails as an officer of the corporation, in this case
  president, it does.

 you know, there IS a logical falacy of guilt by association. before you
 oycot the FSF and the registration office that handled their NGO
 registration, and the entire govenrment of the country that enploys that
 registration clerk, and so on, I suggest we stop and call on the FSF
 spokespeople to give their opinion on the matter and maybe resolve it
 otherwise.

 two sideline remarks:
 1. As I mentioned in my blog post, I don't see the financial boycott as
 a problem, and I'm even hoping it started moving something, but I have a
 real problem with justifying the academic BDS. however after I saw this
 Item, I wonder what will I do if more and more Universities ד‚?ere proven
 to act the same:

 http://www.mako.co.il/news-channel2/Channel-2-Newscast/Article-230c47f2e3f8031004.htm#

 2. As usuall, I am suprised how appropriate my random signature comes
 out :-)

  --
 Peacemaker

Ira, I do not know you, but from my experience, people that say they are
'peace makers' usually cause the opposite ... ;-)
(e.g. neville chamberlain)

 Ira Abramov
 http://ira.abramov.org/email/


On the subject: I wouldn't boycott the FSF. I love the idea behind the FSF,
even if I do not agree with everything RMS belives in.
I may act differently if the FSF boycotts israel.

I will probably not go to any of RMS lectures. I do not think he is
anti-Semitic, but he have been at least insensitive.
I also believe that leaving the issue in low profile would be best.

you may agree or not. this is my opinions.


cheers,
erez,

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Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-15 Thread Ely Levy
Are you going to start that discussion again?
Everyone said their opinion and nothing new was added for quite a few emails
now.
Maybe we should just let it die out?

Ely

2011/6/15 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com



 2011/6/15 Ira Abramov lists-linux...@ira.abramov.org

 Quoting geoffrey mendelson, from the post of Sun, 12 Jun:
 
  On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
  
  I don't agree with you, Geoff. What Richard Stallman does as a
  private person does not mean the FSF in involved. As a private
  person Richard Stallman has the right to boycott Israeli
  institutions and universities. It does not mean that the FSF is
  boycotting Israel.
 
  You can agree or not, it's your opinion. However US law is that once
  he signs his emails as an officer of the corporation, in this case
  president, it does.

 you know, there IS a logical falacy of guilt by association. before you
 oycot the FSF and the registration office that handled their NGO
 registration, and the entire govenrment of the country that enploys that
 registration clerk, and so on, I suggest we stop and call on the FSF
 spokespeople to give their opinion on the matter and maybe resolve it
 otherwise.

 two sideline remarks:
 1. As I mentioned in my blog post, I don't see the financial boycott as
 a problem, and I'm even hoping it started moving something, but I have a
 real problem with justifying the academic BDS. however after I saw this
 Item, I wonder what will I do if more and more Universities ד‚?ere proven
 to act the same:

 http://www.mako.co.il/news-channel2/Channel-2-Newscast/Article-230c47f2e3f8031004.htm#

 2. As usuall, I am suprised how appropriate my random signature comes
 out :-)

  --
 Peacemaker

 Ira, I do not know you, but from my experience, people that say they are
 'peace makers' usually cause the opposite ... ;-)
 (e.g. neville chamberlain)

  Ira Abramov
 http://ira.abramov.org/email/


 On the subject: I wouldn't boycott the FSF. I love the idea behind the FSF,
 even if I do not agree with everything RMS belives in.
 I may act differently if the FSF boycotts israel.

 I will probably not go to any of RMS lectures. I do not think he is
 anti-Semitic, but he have been at least insensitive.
 I also believe that leaving the issue in low profile would be best.

 you may agree or not. this is my opinions.


 cheers,
 erez,

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Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-15 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On Jun 15, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Ira Abramov wrote:


you know, there IS a logical falacy of guilt by association.


There may be, but there is a clear case here, RMS as president of the  
FSF has, ex officio (from his office, meaning as the president, not  
his desk) said that he was boycotting. This makes it FSF policy.


 I suggest we stop and call on the FSF spokespeople to give their  
opinion on the matter and maybe resolve it otherwise.




They already have, the President of the FSF has said so. As the  
President of the FSF. Is there anyone more appropriate to be their  
spokesperson? It's now up to them to say that different or not.


This is however, the best vindication of project GNU. You can boycott  
the FSF, you can sue them, have their nonprofit status revoked, you  
can burn RMS in effigy, declare him persona non grata in Israel, do  
anything you want to him and the FSF and still use GPL'ed software for  
free, and get all the updates and source code for free.


To paraphrase the movie My Blue Heaven, This is the worst case  
scenario of RMS's dream.





2. As usuall, I am suprised how appropriate my random signature comes
out :-)

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Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-15 Thread is123
 I may act differently if the FSF boycotts israel.

Is the FSF not boycotting Israel? I guess it depends on how you see things,
but when Stallman signs on a letter as President of the FSF that he will
not come to Israel unless it is at a venue that sponsors an anti-Israel
boycott, I don't know what more would be required in order to be able to
say with confidence that constitutes a boycott of Israel by the FSF.

 I will probably not go to any of RMS lectures. I do not think he is
 anti-Semitic, but he have been at least insensitive.

Does everybody not realize Stallman was born Jewish? I wonder if the Arabs
who are sponsoring his visit realize that. Or maybe since he has declared
himself an atheist they are ok with it.

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USB I/O draining my userspace (Ubuntu Natty 64b)

2011-06-15 Thread Ira Abramov
First, an appology. I added another message on the RMS fiasco only to
find out later the threads all died out and I was committing a faux pas.
my appologies! please ignore I posted it if at all possible.

Second, here's my problem: I have here a workstation running an Athlon
3700+, and part of my job is to occasionally write out an image file to
USB universal card reader, testing the product of my builds. The writing
takes forever (since I haven't discovered how to get dd to write out the
sparse image to the CF card sparsely). Also, untill I moved the card
reader to one of the backpanel ports, the write would drag my entire
environment to a halt at the same time - even the mouse pointer gets
stuck at some point, until dd would finish. switching from front to back
panel and adding the oflag=dsync option solved the freַ¯ing of the
userspace but not the horrible writing speeds.

I have a feeling this is a major bug with the USBstorage driver or some
related module, but as this is old hardware running on the latest kernel
from Ubuntu, I am surprised. Anyone got a clue?

Thanks,
Ira.

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Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-15 Thread Stan Goodman
On Wednesday 15 June 2011 at 15:56:03 (GMT+2) Ira Abramov Lists-Linux-
i...@ira.abramov.org wrote:

 Quoting geoffrey mendelson, from the post of Sun, 12 Jun:
  On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
  I don't agree with you, Geoff. What Richard Stallman does as a
  private person does not mean the FSF in involved. As a private
  person Richard Stallman has the right to boycott Israeli
  institutions and universities. It does not mean that the FSF is
  boycotting Israel.
  
  You can agree or not, it's your opinion. However US law is that
  once he signs his emails as an officer of the corporation, in this
  case president, it does.
 
 you know, there IS a logical falacy of guilt by association. before
 you oycot the FSF and the registration office that handled their NGO
 registration, and the entire govenrment of the country that enploys
 that registration clerk, and so on, I suggest we stop and call on
 the FSF spokespeople to give their opinion on the matter and maybe
 resolve it otherwise.

I question that RMS does his lecturing as a private person, and that he 
is not engaged because of his connection, not to say identification, 
with FSF. When organizations place posters advertising his talks, surely 
he is billed as the head if FSF; nothing else makes sense. If that is 
true, then he is not speaking as a private person, and he (or his 
spokesman) is not speaking as a private person when giving detailed 
instructions about the bona fides and anti-Israel attitudes of sponsors 
and any organizations that might be associated with his engagement, and 
the kashrut of the hall itself and its owners. No, that is way beyond 
any fallacy of guilt by association. The fallacy is that he is a 
private person when he speaks publicly, and can say or do whatever he 
wants with no blowback on FSF.

Full disclosure: I do not favor political boycotts. I also do not favor 
cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. And I certainly do not favor 
being dragged by someone else, celeprity though he may be, into a 
boycott or being identified with one
 
 two sideline remarks:
 1. As I mentioned in my blog post, I don't see the financial boycott
 as a problem, and I'm even hoping it started moving something, but I
 have a real problem with justifying the academic BDS. however after
 I saw this Item, I wonder what will I do if more and more
 Universities ד‚?ere proven to act the same:
 http://www.mako.co.il/news-channel2/Channel-2-Newscast/Article-230c47
 f2e3f8031004.htm#

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Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-15 Thread Stan Goodman
On Wednesday 15 June 2011 at 16:18:42 (GMT+2) Erez D 
erez0...@gmail.com wrote:

 2011/6/15 Ira Abramov lists-linux...@ira.abramov.org
 
  Quoting geoffrey mendelson, from the post of Sun, 12 Jun:
   On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
   I don't agree with you, Geoff. What Richard Stallman does as a
   private person does not mean the FSF in involved. As a private
   person Richard Stallman has the right to boycott Israeli
   institutions and universities. It does not mean that the FSF is
   boycotting Israel.
   
   You can agree or not, it's your opinion. However US law is that
   once he signs his emails as an officer of the corporation, in
   this case president, it does.
  
  you know, there IS a logical falacy of guilt by association. before
  you oycot the FSF and the registration office that handled their
  NGO registration, and the entire govenrment of the country that
  enploys that registration clerk, and so on, I suggest we stop and
  call on the FSF spokespeople to give their opinion on the matter
  and maybe resolve it otherwise.
  
  two sideline remarks:
  1. As I mentioned in my blog post, I don't see the financial
  boycott as a problem, and I'm even hoping it started moving
  something, but I have a real problem with justifying the academic
  BDS. however after I saw this Item, I wonder what will I do if
  more and more Universities ד‚?ere proven to act the same:
  
  http://www.mako.co.il/news-channel2/Channel-2-Newscast/Article-230c
  47f2e3f8031004.htm#
  
  2. As usuall, I am suprised how appropriate my random signature
  comes out :-)
  
   --
  
  Peacemaker
 
 Ira, I do not know you, but from my experience, people that say they
 are 'peace makers' usually cause the opposite ... ;-)
 (e.g. neville chamberlain)
 
  Ira Abramov
 
  http://ira.abramov.org/email/
 
 On the subject: I wouldn't boycott the FSF. I love the idea behind
 the FSF, even if I do not agree with everything RMS belives in.
 I may act differently if the FSF boycotts israel.
 
 I will probably not go to any of RMS lectures. I do not think he is
 anti-Semitic, but he have been at least insensitive.
 I also believe that leaving the issue in low profile would be best.
 
 you may agree or not. this is my opinions.


Of course he is an anti-Semite. Israel bashing is the modern phase of 
anti-Semitism. 

So is Noam Chomsky, for the same reason.
 
 
 cheers,
 erez,
 
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Re: USB I/O draining my userspace (Ubuntu Natty 64b)

2011-06-15 Thread is123
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:19:08 +0300
Ira Abramov lists-linux...@ira.abramov.org wrote:

 First, an appology. I added another message on the RMS fiasco only to
 find out later the threads all died out and I was committing a faux pas.
 my appologies! please ignore I posted it if at all possible.

It's too late! You've done it now ;-)

 Second, here's my problem: I have here a workstation running an Athlon
 3700+, and part of my job is to occasionally write out an image file to
 USB universal card reader, testing the product of my builds. The writing
 takes forever (since I haven't discovered how to get dd to write out the
 sparse image to the CF card sparsely). Also, untill I moved the card
 reader to one of the backpanel ports, the write would drag my entire
 environment to a halt at the same time - even the mouse pointer gets
 stuck at some point, until dd would finish. switching from front to back
 panel and adding the oflag=dsync option solved the freַ¯ing of the
 userspace but not the horrible writing speeds.

I do hourly rsyncs between two drives and it often causes my system to bog
heavily. I won't speculate on the reason because that topic is apparently
as inflammatory as the Stallman's boycott (!) but it does happen. It also
happens on my system with dd between disks. System in question is E8400 with
Seagate 16M Barracudas with Slackware and 2.6.29.6 kernel. I have seen this
behavior in every desktop OS I have tried (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
Slackware, the W word) except for Slamd64 (no longer maintained).

 I have a feeling this is a major bug with the USBstorage driver or some
 related module, but as this is old hardware running on the latest kernel
 from Ubuntu, I am surprised. Anyone got a clue?
 
 Thanks,
 Ira.
 

Are you using the default blocksize for dd? It may not be optimal for your
USB device. I wonder if it would be possible to find out what blocksize the
device uses and if it would make a difference. I know bs does make a big
difference when copying big files to a physical disk.


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Re: USB I/O draining my userspace (Ubuntu Natty 64b)

2011-06-15 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On Jun 15, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Ira Abramov wrote:

Second, here's my problem: I have here a workstation running an Athlon
3700+, and part of my job is to occasionally write out an image file  
to
USB universal card reader, testing the product of my builds. The  
writing
takes forever (since I haven't discovered how to get dd to write out  
the

sparse image to the CF card sparsely). Also, untill I moved the card
reader to one of the backpanel ports, the write would drag my entire
environment to a halt at the same time - even the mouse pointer gets
stuck at some point, until dd would finish. switching from front to  
back

panel and adding the oflag=dsync option solved the freַ¯ing of the
userspace but not the horrible writing speeds.

I have a feeling this is a major bug with the USBstorage driver or  
some
related module, but as this is old hardware running on the latest  
kernel

from Ubuntu, I am surprised. Anyone got a clue?



No. It has to do with how USB is implemented in hardware. Almost every  
motherboard I have seen only has 2 USB ports. Motherboards with 6 USB  
ports on the back, and connectors for more on the front of the case  
still have only 2 USB ports, but they have a hub built into the  
motherboard.


For example, on one system I have: lspci yields:

00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1  
Controller (rev 62)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1  
Controller (rev 62)

00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 65)

The third USB controller is a PCI card. Now if you do a lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

But I don't have any hubs. They are on the motherboard and the PCI card.

So if you plug the keyboard and mouse into the same port as the memory  
stick, you are doing two things.


The first is you are slowing the memory stick down to the speed of the  
keyboard and mouse, usually 12mbits per second.


The second is that you are blocking IO to the keyboard and mouse while  
the disk is busy.


Geoff.

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Re: USB I/O draining my userspace (Ubuntu Natty 64b)

2011-06-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:19:08PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
 First, an appology. I added another message on the RMS fiasco only to
 find out later the threads all died out and I was committing a faux pas.
 my appologies! please ignore I posted it if at all possible.
 
 Second, here's my problem: I have here a workstation running an Athlon
 3700+, and part of my job is to occasionally write out an image file to
 USB universal card reader, testing the product of my builds. The writing
 takes forever (since I haven't discovered how to get dd to write out the
 sparse image to the CF card sparsely). Also, untill I moved the card
 reader to one of the backpanel ports, the write would drag my entire
 environment to a halt at the same time - even the mouse pointer gets
 stuck at some point, until dd would finish. switching from front to back
 panel and adding the oflag=dsync option solved the freַ¯ing of the
 userspace but not the horrible writing speeds.

Perhaps it uses USB1 and not 2?
Can you rmmod all *hci_ucd modules except for ehci_hcd and see what
happens?

Did you try cp (or cp --sparse=always if you really want to) and
see if it helps? I don't know of a similar option for dd.
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Re: USB I/O draining my userspace (Ubuntu Natty 64b)

2011-06-15 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Wed, 15 Jun:
 
 Perhaps it uses USB1 and not 2?

nope, I had that problem when I accidentally switched ports to a USB1
port, the 22 minute burn took over 113 minutes before I noticed it was
still writing and killed it.

also, to answer Geoff - nothing else is on the USB, the M/K are on PS/2
connectors. Maybe the same controller chip, but not the same bus or
kernel module.

at least with oflag=dsync it doesn't get the entire userspace stuck,
whatever that does.

bs=8M is the next parameter I'll try, or maybe I should go for 32M?

 Can you rmmod all *hci_ucd modules except for ehci_hcd and see what
 happens?

nope, I assumed Ubuntu would have taken precautions not to insmod
anything useless for my hardware...

 
 Did you try cp (or cp --sparse=always if you really want to) and
 see if it helps? I don't know of a similar option for dd.

I have here an image with partitions in it, which is why I use DD. cp
can't help me, sadly.

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Re: USB I/O draining my userspace (Ubuntu Natty 64b)

2011-06-15 Thread Raz
i suggest you trace it. use blktrace.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Ira Abramov lists-linux...@ira.abramov.org
 wrote:

 Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Wed, 15 Jun:
 
  Perhaps it uses USB1 and not 2?

 nope, I had that problem when I accidentally switched ports to a USB1
 port, the 22 minute burn took over 113 minutes before I noticed it was
 still writing and killed it.

 also, to answer Geoff - nothing else is on the USB, the M/K are on PS/2
 connectors. Maybe the same controller chip, but not the same bus or
 kernel module.

 at least with oflag=dsync it doesn't get the entire userspace stuck,
 whatever that does.

 bs=8M is the next parameter I'll try, or maybe I should go for 32M?

  Can you rmmod all *hci_ucd modules except for ehci_hcd and see what
  happens?

 nope, I assumed Ubuntu would have taken precautions not to insmod
 anything useless for my hardware...

 
  Did you try cp (or cp --sparse=always if you really want to) and
  see if it helps? I don't know of a similar option for dd.

 I have here an image with partitions in it, which is why I use DD. cp
 can't help me, sadly.

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Re: USB I/O draining my userspace (Ubuntu Natty 64b)

2011-06-15 Thread Matan Ziv-Av

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, geoffrey mendelson wrote:

No. It has to do with how USB is implemented in hardware. Almost every 
motherboard I have seen only has 2 USB ports. Motherboards with 6 USB ports 
on the back, and connectors for more on the front of the case still have only 
2 USB ports, but they have a hub built into the motherboard.


For example, on one system I have: lspci yields:

00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev 62)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev 62)

00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 65)

The third USB controller is a PCI card. Now if you do a lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

But I don't have any hubs. They are on the motherboard and the PCI card.

So if you plug the keyboard and mouse into the same port as the memory stick, 
you are doing two things.


This is incorrect. Those hubs you see are virtual root hubs which are 
merely a way for the linux kernel presents things. Note that the vendor 
is Linux Foundation. Actually, all your USB ports are connected 
directly to the host controller, which has (on a typical PC) 6 or more 
ports.


The first is you are slowing the memory stick down to the speed of the 
keyboard and mouse, usually 12mbits per second.


A USB 2.0 high speed hub may be connected to both low/full speed devices 
and high speed devices at the same time, and the high speed devices will 
be used at high speed.


The second is that you are blocking IO to the keyboard and mouse while the 
disk is busy.


That is not how USB works. The data to/from disk is done in bulk 
transfer which has lowest priority so it does not block HID data from 
keyboard or mouse that uses interrupt transfer. On the other hand the 
small amount of data that the mouse and keyboard generate is unlikely to 
noticeably reduce the bandwidth available to the disk.



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Computer recommendation for Linux server.

2011-06-15 Thread Josh Roden
Hi Everyone,
This is my new address (was *Josh*@*hadassah*.ac.il).
I searched the archives and only found a few answers to the
same request that I made in 2009.
I would appreciate any updated suggestions.
The server needs a good RAID 5 card and, if possible, a dual
and redundant power supply.
The budget is up to 10,000 shekels.
The computer should be able to serve  80 - 100 client computers.

Thanks,
Josh
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