[OT] Linux Video Conference Tools

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello In continuing of recent discussion of ISP's I wanted to ask if anybody have experience with video conferencing applications under Linux. How do they compare to Windows applications ? What speed is required for video conferencing ? Anybody on this list actually use video conferencing on

Re: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio

2002-11-14 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov: 1. I will not sign an NDA. that's very brave, but there's 0% chance of finding anything without an NDA in today's market other than in the Universities. do your math. if you give up that one ideal (I did, and I agree it's painful), I can pass

Re: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio

2002-11-14 Thread Eli Marmor
Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov: 1. I will not sign an NDA. that's very brave, but there's 0% chance of finding anything without an NDA in today's market other than in the Universities. do your math. These days, the chance is not way better when you

Re: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio

2002-11-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:20:17AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: These days, the chance is not way better when you agree to sign NDA's Maybe we should start up a list of Linux friendly AND IP friendly companies. Although I'm afraid I can think of companies that fit in either set, but no company

Re: [OT] Linux Video Conference Tools

2002-11-14 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Simple... GnomeMeeting - THE best app I've seen for this usage: http://www.gnomemeeting.org It works very nicely with other Video Conferencing programs like MS Netmeeting (as long as you install the GSM codec from this web site on the windows machine). Speed - really depends on various

Re: FW: [OT] Linux Video Conference Tools

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Sternberg
Still, regarding speed - will be 750/96 Kbps connection good enough ? -Original Message- From: Hetz Ben Hamo [mailto:hetz;witch.dyndns.org] GnomeMeeting - THE best app I've seen for this usage: http://www.gnomemeeting.org It works very nicely with other Video

postfix causing very high load average

2002-11-14 Thread Sagi Bashari
Hi, I just setuped a new server. It is only running postfix at this time, relaying mail from another server. The distribution is RedHat 7.3 with all of the updates. There is a large amount of mail in the queue (about 17k mails). The load average goes upto 8.x. If I kill postfix, it goes back

Re: postfix causing very high load average

2002-11-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Sagi Bashari wrote: Hi, I just setuped a new server. It is only running postfix at this time, relaying mail from another server. The distribution is RedHat 7.3 with all of the updates. There is a large amount of mail in the queue (about 17k mails). The load average

Re: postfix causing very high load average

2002-11-14 Thread Omer Zak
I/O bound? Being killed by the journalling overhead of ext3? Insufficient RAM to cache the files being accessed in the disk (improbable)? My first guess is that this has to do with interaction of postfix with ext3 journalling. Things to check/try: - Is the system actually I/O bound? - What

Re: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio

2002-11-14 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 11:20, Eli Marmor wrote: Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov: 1. I will not sign an NDA. that's very brave, but there's 0% chance of finding anything without an NDA in today's market other than in the Universities. do your

Re: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio

2002-11-14 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 11:39, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:20:17AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: These days, the chance is not way better when you agree to sign NDA's Maybe we should start up a list of Linux friendly AND IP friendly companies. Although I'm afraid I

OT, NDA (was: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio)

2002-11-14 Thread Guy Baruch
I hope this is not too OT for this list, but why not sign an NDA ? I understand not signing total relinquishment of one's past, present or future IP to one's (prospective) employer. (I refused signing such an agreement for a previous employer) I very much agree with not signing anything you

Re: postfix causing very high load average

2002-11-14 Thread Skliarouk Arie
Hello Sagi, Maybe limit the number of postfix processes (of some kind?) No, it's not that: [sagi@black sagi]$ ps auxww|grep -ic postfix 77 [sagi@black sagi]$ Command w or uptime shows number of processes that are waiting for CPU AND number of processes that stuck for one or other reason

Re: postfix causing very high load average

2002-11-14 Thread Henry Ficher
Take a look here: http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/postfix/ext3.shtml Cheers, Henry Sagi Bashari wrote: On 14/11/2002 13:51, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Sagi Bashari wrote: Hi, I just setuped a new server. It is only running postfix at this time, relaying mail from

RE: OT, NDA (was: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio)

2002-11-14 Thread Martin Polley
The problem is that signing certain NDAs means that your employer owns all the IP coming out of your brain in the time you are employed by them. Therefore, anything you contribute to any open-source project (during this time) is also subject to such an agreement... Martin Polley Technical

Re: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio

2002-11-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
Maybe I did not made myself clear. What I meant is that I would be able to tell what I do at the workplace and not have to keep exactly what I'm doing secret (as is the case with Rephael). If NDA simply means that you don't give the code you wrote to anyone else - that's fine with me. Regards,

Re: OT, NDA (was: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio)

2002-11-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002, Martin Polley wrote about RE: OT, NDA (was: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio): The problem is that signing certain NDAs means that your employer owns all the IP coming out of your brain in the time you are employed by them. Therefore, anything you contribute to any

Re: OT, NDA (was: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio)

2002-11-14 Thread Baruch Even
* Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021114 17:08]: But my suggestion: do the NDA refusal only after you are guaranteed the job and given a contract to sign. If you go with the I will not sign an NDA to the first interview or put it in the CV, they can easily ignore you without even considering

RE: OT, NDA (was: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio)

2002-11-14 Thread herouth
Quoting Martin Polley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is that signing certain NDAs means that your employer owns all the IP coming out of your brain in the time you are employed by them. Therefore, anything you contribute to any open-source project (during this time) is also subject to such an

Re: postfix causing very high load average

2002-11-14 Thread Sagi Bashari
That's where I took the original command from. I can't change the partition settings or repartition the harddisk because /var is a very big partition that is also used for data (database,web). However i have empty 6GB partition on the harddisk. I don't need that much for spool directory, is

Re: postfix causing very high load average

2002-11-14 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov: I can't change the partition settings or repartition the harddisk because /var is a very big partition that is also used for data (database,web). time to split it up. worth a few minutes of downtime to improve relyability and performance.

Re: OT, NDA (was: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio)

2002-11-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:20:31PM +0307, Baruch Even wrote: Note: they may wonder how comes you expect to have free time to actually do any such projects. That's only a problem with startups, and (in my experience) startups that do not understand how development works. this should take 4

Re: postfix causing very high load average

2002-11-14 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 14/11/2002 16:50, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov: I can't change the partition settings or repartition the harddisk because /var is a very big partition that is also used for data (database,web). time to split it up. worth a few minutes of

Re: SUCCSESS: Rotal ADSL USB modem

2002-11-14 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
Like I said before, working Rotal modems are a hoax. The only thing you can try is to sniff out the synchronization sequence yourself - and I wasnt able to do that because the USB snooper crashes my only Windows box. The symptoms are the same in at least 3 confirmed cases. Not sure I

Re: postfix causing very high load average

2002-11-14 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov: time to split it up. worth a few minutes of downtime to improve relyability and performance. I only have remote access to the server (it is colocated). I asked here few weeks ago if there is a reason to put /var/www somewhere else

Re: SUCCSESS: Rotal ADSL USB modem

2002-11-14 Thread Hetz Ben-Hamo
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:24:58 +0200, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote Like I said before, working Rotal modems are a hoax. The only thing you can try is to sniff out the synchronization sequence yourself - and I wasnt able to do that because the USB snooper crashes my only Windows box. The

Re: postfix causing very high load average

2002-11-14 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 14/11/2002 17:30, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov: I can move /var to / and repartition /var. But I have software RAID running on this drive. Is it safe to do, remotely, when software RAID is activated on / and /home? probably OK, but you won't

converting from/to LyX/LaTeX to kword

2002-11-14 Thread Arie Folger
Anybody found a good way to convert documents from LyX or Latex to Kword? How about the other way around? I mean without using either plain text or html transformation, as I am concerned about documents with footnotes. Thing is, even as I love LyX, Kword is doing unicode while lyX isn't (yet).

Re: converting from/to LyX/LaTeX to kword

2002-11-14 Thread Hetz Ben-Hamo
Hi Arie, Please check this web site: http://koffice.kde.org/filters/status.phtml For more info I would suggest for you to connect to irc.kde.org on channel #koffice (I think the latex filter was improved a lot lately).. Thanks, Hetz On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:06:08 -0500, Arie Folger wrote

Re: 2 IDE cards ?

2002-11-14 Thread Ira Abramov
umm, the idea of calling ourselves IGUL dropped long ago, my man :) Quoting Ehud Karni, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov: I want to build a cheap file server (samba and NFS) with more than 600 GB so I need to install another IDE card to add the extra drives. there are external RAID boxes that will

Re: converting from/to LyX/LaTeX to kword

2002-11-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Arie Folger wrote: Anybody found a good way to convert documents from LyX or Latex to Kword? How about the other way around? I mean without using either plain text or html transformation, as I am concerned about documents with footnotes. I'm not sure about Hebrew Thing

Re: postfix causing very high load average

2002-11-14 Thread Oleg Kobets
There is no problem in breaking RAID (mirror or otherwise), you do not lose information. So, backup, break the raid, repartition, rebuild the raid and restore. I did it, and it's very simple. - Original Message - From: Sagi Bashari [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: 2 IDE cards ?

2002-11-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: 2 IDE cards ?: umm, the idea of calling ourselves IGUL dropped long ago, my man :) the Israeli Group of Unix Lusers? :) -- Nadav Har'El|Thursday, Nov 14 2002, 10 Kislev 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2 IDE cards ?

2002-11-14 Thread Ehud Karni
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:52:40 +0200, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there are external RAID boxes that will take a few IDE disks and look as one big SCSI device on the outside, but either way, what you are doing sounds a little crazy to me :) The boxes are not cheap ($5000-$6000) while

Microsoft freebies turn India gov. against open-source

2002-11-14 Thread Daniel Paikov
Title: Microsoft freebies turn India gov. against open-source http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2002/11/14/india/index.html Daniel Paikov TIG, QA CP, IL

IGUL (circle)

2002-11-14 Thread Ehud Karni
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:14:19 +0200, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: 2 IDE cards ?: umm, the idea of calling ourselves IGUL dropped long ago, my man :) the Israeli Group of Unix Lusers? :) I liked that (but then there is no Linux in

Re: 2 IDE cards ?

2002-11-14 Thread Eran Tromer
Ehud Karni wrote: I can put 7 disks and an additional ventilator inside the computer box (all I need is supporting frames). Disk drives draw a lot of power when they spin up (e.g., the Maxtor 80GB can reach 22W on the 12V line plus 2W on the 5V line). I doubt a standard power supply can handle

RE: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-14 Thread Meir Michanie
I know that it is not a option for everyone, but on my laptop(440MHZ-128MG) I use blackbox and fills my needs. On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 11:12, Dvir Volk wrote: AFAIK, this is the main goal of KDE 3.2 - increasing interface responsiveness and launch speed, rather than bloating KDE with more

Re: 2 IDE cards ?

2002-11-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:59:17PM +0200, Eran Tromer wrote: Ehud Karni wrote: I can put 7 disks and an additional ventilator inside the computer box (all I need is supporting frames). Disk drives draw a lot of power when they spin up (e.g., the Maxtor 80GB can reach 22W on the 12V line

Secure nfs

2002-11-14 Thread Meir Michanie
The problem with using nfs today is authentication (don't read authorization, it may be another problem). NFS and PORTMAP relay on trusted hosts, you could use ips or dns names, or * (wilcards?) spoffing this is as simple mounting the nfs share using edited local /etc/passwd. You may say that

Re: Secure nfs

2002-11-14 Thread Eran Tromer
Meir Michanie wrote: The problem with using nfs today is authentication (don't read authorization, it may be another problem) [...] 3. get the private key from one compromised client and you have root control over the net, next step would be ssh root@server -i compromised-key [...] Yup, NFS

OT: Arie and the penguins...

2002-11-14 Thread Amir Tal
dear Mr. scoop had some things to say, and for some reason they decided to quote that trash on YNET. why trash you say ? because i saw some lines there that almost caused me to throw my laptop out the window...and i am on the 5th floor, so imagine how that almost ended. anyway :

Re: Secure nfs

2002-11-14 Thread Eran Tromer
I see that Coda is now in the stock Linux kernel, so maybe things have indeed improved. Eran Eran Tromer wrote: The alternative filesystems included AFS, SFS, CODA and InterMezzo. Theoretically all are up to the task, but the last three were immature (at least at that time) and AFS lacks

Re: Secure nfs

2002-11-14 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth Eran Tromer: Meir Michanie wrote: The problem with using nfs today is authentication (don't read authorization, it may be another problem) The alternative filesystems included AFS, SFS, CODA and InterMezzo. Hmmm... I suspect that TCFS (Transparent Cryptographic FS) is the better