Mistery resolved. making linux behave as multitask, multiusermachine.

2003-07-11 Thread Meir Michanie
short answer: overheat explanation: the computer would work very stable for days, without any problem. but would locked if i try to rip a dvd. Reason: transcode use almost 100% cpu. using 100% of CPU in a so demanding task would make the cpu temperature to raise. Solution: I opened the machine,

[rms@gnu.org: Re: Translating Hebrew to English]

2003-07-11 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FSF needs volunteers for translation Hebrew to English. Any volunteer please contact the CCed in gnu.org: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Ehud. - --- Start of forwarded message --- From: Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fork exec from a threaded application

2003-07-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
On 11 Jul 2003, Alex Shnitman wrote: Hi, #include pthread.h #include sys/types.h #include unistd.h #include stdio.h void *thread(void* arg) { while(1) sleep(1); Am I wrong or does sleep() halts the entire process (all the threads)? Maybe that's the bug here. I

Re: [rms@gnu.org: Re: Translating Hebrew to English]

2003-07-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Ehud Karni wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FSF needs volunteers for translation Hebrew to English. Is it translating from Hebrew to English or from English to Hebrew? In both cases, what has to be translated? In any case, I may be able to help here.

MDK 9.1 and VIA Chipset Blues

2003-07-11 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hello fellow Penguins, I thought it would be idea to switch to MDK 9.1, after using the 8.2 version since it came out... I tried installing. It was absolute hell ! After installing, the computer ran fast and a lot better than ever before (hardware specifics follow) but after 15-30 minutes or

Re: [rms@gnu.org: Re: Translating Hebrew to English]

2003-07-11 Thread Eliran Gonen
Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FSF needs volunteers for translation Hebrew to English. Is it translating from Hebrew to English or from English to Hebrew? In both cases, what has to be translated? I already translated the main page into hebrew but they always tell me to go to this Dov dude

Re: fork exec from a threaded application

2003-07-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
On 11 Jul 2003, Alex Shnitman wrote: Hi, I have a problem executing a fork() and exec() from a threaded application. I'm including a minimal test case below that demonstrates the problem. I must be missing something. If I don't create the thread before forking, the exec works fine. IfI do

What is ARP? [ Was Re: A 2 hosts Ethernet network with a 255.255.255.254 netmask. ]

2003-07-11 Thread Shaul Karl
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:39:15PM +0300, Amir Sela wrote: An ARP request? What for? Is it to find the MAC of the default gateway? ARP maps the MACs into IPs, doesn't it? An ARP request would send the MAC address and expects to get in reply the IP that correspond that MAC, isn't it?

IDE PCI controller supported in Linux?

2003-07-11 Thread Tim Tsahayev
Is there any chance for buying Linux supported IDE controller for less than 250 NIS? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail

Re: What is ARP? [ Was Re: A 2 hosts Ethernet network with a255.255.255.254 netmask. ]

2003-07-11 Thread Amir Sela
You are right that when I ping x.x.x.x I do know the IP address. Yet according to the DSL-HOWTO/appendix.html ARP Address Resolution Protocol. Converts MAC addresses to IP addresses. The way I read this is that an ARP request would send the MAC and

Re: accessing physical mem

2003-07-11 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Erez Doron wrote: well, /dev/mem let me only access real memory, not the adress space of the pci cards I positive that you CAN in fact access pci card address space via /dev/mem, because this is how XFree86 does it when it's running in non accelerated cards. in the end, i used ltsp to

Re: What is ARP? [ Was Re: A 2 hosts Ethernet network with a255.255.255.254 netmask. ]

2003-07-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:57:35PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:39:15PM +0300, Amir Sela wrote: An ARP request? What for? Is it to find the MAC of the default gateway? ARP maps the MACs into IPs, doesn't it? An ARP request would send the MAC address and

Re: IDE PCI controller supported in Linux?

2003-07-11 Thread Adir Abraham
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Tim Tsahayev wrote: Is there any chance for buying Linux supported IDE controller for less than 250 NIS? Is there an IDE controller which is not Linux supported? :) I would like to hear about that one. And how critic the speed which is supported? You can buy SATA ones

Re: accessing physical mem

2003-07-11 Thread Amir Sela
On ?, 2003-07-11 at 20:19, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Erez Doron wrote: well, /dev/mem let me only access real memory, not the adress space of the pci cards I positive that you CAN in fact access pci card address space via /dev/mem, because this is how XFree86 does it when it's

Re: A 2 hosts Ethernet network with a 255.255.255.254 netmask.

2003-07-11 Thread Guy Teverovsky
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 21:09, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: Shaul Karl wrote on 2003-07-08: I still don't get something. Quoting section 7 of the IP Sub-Networking Mini-Howto: For the sake of this example, let us assume that you have decided to subnetwork you C class IP network

Re: IDE PCI controller supported in Linux?

2003-07-11 Thread Gilboa Davara
I'm using Promise controllers (NON Raid) for most of my older machines (All running RedHat 7.3/8/9) without a problem. However, some IDE cards are not supported... especially Raid cards. As long as you are going for normal ATA100/133 cards, it should be fine. Gilboa On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 20:47,

Re: MDK 9.1 and VIA Chipset Blues

2003-07-11 Thread Oded Arbel
On Friday 11 July 2003 15:12, Amichai Rotman wrote: I tried installing. It was absolute hell ! After installing, the computer ran fast and a lot better than ever before (hardware specifics follow) but after 15-30 minutes or so (random) the comp froze completely and after reseting the machine

Re: What is ARP? [ Was Re: A 2 hosts Ethernet network with a 255.255.255.254 netmask. ]

2003-07-11 Thread linux_il
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:57:35PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: You are right that when I ping x.x.x.x I do know the IP address. Yet according to the DSL-HOWTO/appendix.html ARP Address Resolution Protocol. Converts MAC addresses to IP addresses. The way I read