Re: Merchant accounts and software

2004-07-20 Thread David Suna
Yes, I have used PayPal in the past. However, the downside to using PayPal is that everyone using it must have a PayPal account and you exit your site in order to do the processing. The client I am investigating this for wants to avoid those issues so that they can have a customized form for

samba-3.0.4-2 vs Win2003 Server as file server?

2004-07-20 Thread Stiven Andre
Hi list. I maintain a samba file server for a some company that uses it for sharing database files for their windows based administration program. Currently we experience many problems with a program named Business Organizer that based on MS access. The program often crashes with error messages.

pptp discarding out-of-order

2004-07-20 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Hi, Does anyone knows what these mean? and how to minimize them. there is one line for every few minutes. background: I have a cables connection to netvision. pptp 1.1.0 pppd 2.4.1b2 kernel 2.4.4 connection line: /usr/sbin/pptp-linux cable.netvision.net.il debug user $USERNAME remotename

Re: cable access.

2004-07-20 Thread Itamar Ravid
Well, I was doing something along those lines until I moved to using l2tpd, which works far better IMO. I have a script in my init.d, called cables - it runs after l2tpd and before all other internet requiring scripts. Took some adjustments of the runlevels :-) I've attached the script, if anyone

read(2) and write(2) atomicy?

2004-07-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, How atomic are read and write? Background: I want a queue implemented between different *threads*. At the moment, there are several threads that need to send data, and only one thread that retrieves the data from the queue. The most obvious answer seemed to be use a pipe. Here's the

Re: read(2) and write(2) atomicy?

2004-07-20 Thread Kobi Cohen-Arazi
Hi Shachar, Have you considered using Unix domain sockets with DGRAM ? Unix domain sockets as far as I understand, will be reliable even with DGRAM, which allow you to benefit from the message oriented protocol. There is only one gotchas here, the enqueuing threads need to make sure they can

Re: read(2) and write(2) atomicy?

2004-07-20 Thread Kobi Cohen-Arazi
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 15:18, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Dvir Volk wrote: fifo's must be thread safe, because they support communication between a number of processes. but if all the threads are in the same process, and there's so little data per read/write, why not use a queue inside the

Re: read(2) and write(2) atomicy?

2004-07-20 Thread shtirlitz
Quoting Kobi Cohen-Arazi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The original design has some drawbacks. Fist of all u need to understand that when threads are used, there are no need to establish a solution that will suite to forked processes. You just need to create some class that will implement a queue. Access

Re: read(2) and write(2) atomicy?

2004-07-20 Thread Kobi Cohen-Arazi
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 17:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again we are talking about threads. The are no need to copy data to kernel, and than copy it back. So it will bot be faster at all. It is *much* faster than using semaphores, I've checked it. And yes - I could hardly believe it myself ;-)

Re: read(2) and write(2) atomicy?

2004-07-20 Thread shtirlitz
Quoting Kobi Cohen-Arazi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, The test created consumer Thread Pool which were sitting on a synchronized message queue (using condition variables with mutex etc ...) The producer thread insert messages to that queue. The test measured the time took the system to consume

Re: A story in Yediot

2004-07-20 Thread aamehl
Hey a friend translates it as the last idiot... anyways another friend installed XP on five partitions on the same computer and couldn't understand why nothing worked. I don't know many who install their would OS, and partitioning under linux I find to be much easier than with windoze. Also

Re: read(2) and write(2) atomicy?

2004-07-20 Thread Oron Peled
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 17:17, Kobi Cohen-Arazi wrote: It is *much* faster than using semaphores, I've checked it. And yes - I could hardly believe it myself ;-) If you talk about SysV semaphores (semget et-al), than they are known to be quite expensive (a lot of extra funcionality,