Re: Suggested lecture: From VxWorks to Linux

2010-12-02 Thread Rafi Gordon
Raz, Linux is a major player now in Embedded Linux, nobody can doubt it. I will happily attend such a lecture. And I believe that are many more who will, best, RafiG 2010/12/2 Raz razi...@gmail.com: yes. this is the plan. On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: 802.11N

2009-12-21 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, frankly I don't understand why do you need ssh to the router Apart from tunnels and tc, a real need is for running tethereal (wireshark ) on it and sniffing the wireless (and non wireless) traffic. This is a real need in many development projects. I would appreciate if anybody who knows

Re: firefox and Bank Leumi web site

2009-12-12 Thread Rafi Gordon
did not asked for further any details about their services. I thought of using their digital services for buying/selling stocks and also performing deposits (hafkadot) to pakam (though rarely used recently). Rafi On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:52 PM, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: Rafi Gordon

firefox and Bank Leumi web site

2009-12-10 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, I saw that Bank Leumi web site is alleged to finally support FireFox under Linux. see: http://twitter.com/haizaar/status/5923095225 I would like to hear if anyone has had any experience with it lately. I don't want to use ie6 and I would like to get feedback about accessing Bank Leumi

Inconsistency with Bluetooth scanning / looking for a recommendation for a Bluetooth USB adapter for Linux.

2009-10-08 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, I bought a Dynamode bluetooth USB adapter in Ivory. It is Ultra Compact Dynamode bluetooth 2.0 adapter (it is the only one Ivory have). I inserted it into a Fedora 11 x86_64 machine. lsusb recognizes it as: ... (Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd

Assign both CTRL keys to switch language in Gnome Layout Switching.

2009-05-12 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hi, list, I am trying unsuccessfully to assign both CTRL keys to switch language. I am using Fedora with Gnome 2.22.1. I have two languages : US english and hebrew. When I go to keyboard preferences-Layouts-Layouts Options-Layout Switching (By right clicking on the language indicator and

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-23 Thread Rafi Gordon
of their profits are from internet services, I believe. If this is true, than around the globe, it seems that blocking VOIP traffic with DPI is more important to cellular companies supplying internet service than to ISPs. Or am I wrong? Regards, Rafi Gordon

Re: ot: isps

2009-04-21 Thread Rafi Gordon
voip application) with a cellular comapany intenet service ? did it work? did he encounter any difficulties ? I apprecaite if anybody who know about the status of DPI in cellullar companies in Israel will share his knowledge. Regards, Rafi Gordon 2009/4/21 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com: hi i want

Re: [Haifux] YOM HA'SHOA ?? [HAIFUX Lecture] OpenCL Overview - Ofer Rosenberg

2009-04-20 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, I join Micha : I cannot attend today and I am *very* interested in hearing this lecture; I will be happy if it will be rescheduled. rgs, Rafi Gordon On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:25:34 +0300 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-03 Thread Rafi Gordon
Zvi, - First, congratulations for winning this important battle ! - Second, I myself intend to buy a laptop in the near future. And indeed, after surfing many israeli websites, I found out that all of them come with windows. I don't intend to use windows on my laptop. So may I ask: How long

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-03 Thread Rafi Gordon
. I urge anyone that knows about such cases to inform us. I really doubt there is even one such store/vendor. Regards, RafiG On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Rafi Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zvi, - First

Connecting two Linux Desktops simultaneously to the Internet

2008-10-04 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, I have two Linux Desktops at home (both running Fedora Core 9). I had connected both Desktop to a simple switch; also the ADSL bezeq router (BFOCUS 312+) is connected to the switch. One desktop has this ip address on eth0: 10.0.0.1 and on the second I configured 10.0.0.2 as the ip

Re: Connecting two Linux Desktops simultaneously to the Internet

2008-10-04 Thread Rafi Gordon
at 12:49 PM, Rafi Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have two Linux Desktops at home (both running Fedora Core 9). I had connected both Desktop to a simple switch; also the ADSL bezeq router (BFOCUS 312+) is connected to the switch. One desktop has this ip address on eth0: 10.0.0.1

Re: Connecting two Linux Desktops simultaneously to the Internet

2008-10-04 Thread Rafi Gordon
/resolv.conf says: ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script nameserver 10.0.0.138 Regards, Rafi On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Noam Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Rafi Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Still I really wonder: can my goal be achieved when using

Re: AdvFS - anyone played with it?

2008-06-24 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hi, As I always do, I looked into the document properties (Alt+Return in evince) and lo and behold, the Producer: string is . (look for yourselves, it begins with a capital O ;-) I never tried to get the producer info of a pdf file (I am running acroread for pdf files and I am not sure

Re: Looking for a recommendation for a book about Embedded LINUX

2008-06-06 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, It has no less then 7 (or even 8) contributers, with Karim, Jon Masters and your truly as the main co-authors and what I really like about it is that each contributing author wrote about a specific topics that he is really qualified to write about. Out of pure curiosity - may I ask: in

Re: [Job offer] Senior Kernel Engineer

2007-11-22 Thread Rafi Gordon
Have your marketing/PR people tried switching between [z] and [s] to see if there is an effect on the bottom line or on the contents of CV's you get? what about the effect of FilesX10? could be interesting... ;-) Rafi Gordon On Nov 22, 2007 3:01 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Next Telux Presentation: Embedded Linux on 16-September-2007

2007-09-09 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, 1) You probably mean 16-September-2007 and not 16-August-2007 2) Sorry I cannot attend because of the early hour. If it was at 18:30 , I would have come. rgs, Rafi On 9/9/07, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! The Tel Aviv Linux club will gather again on Sunday,

Looking for English-Hebrew trasnlator aoolication for linux.

2006-12-04 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello linux-il, I am looking for an English-Hebrew trasnlator for linux. (prefereably for Fedora Core 6). I once (more than a year ago) installed wordtrans+babytrans on Fedora (see: http://www.escomposlinux.org/rvm/wordtrans/index.php http://fjolliton.free.fr/babytrans) But it seems to me that

Double mount : nfs and vfat - is it possible ? (or other solutions)

2006-11-26 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hi linux gurus, I have a machine which is dual boot (linux /windows). The windows partition is /dev/hda1. This machine is booted usually into linux (though it is possible of course to boot to windows). I mount the windows partition (/dev/hda1) on /mnt/win (type vfat ,rw). I created

Re: IDE RAID controller and software raid in linux

2006-09-27 Thread Rafi Gordon
, 2006-09-02 at 10:53 +0300, Rafi Gordon wrote: Hi Gilboa , Thanks for your qeustion. I had encountered chapter 26 , which is devoted to linux software raid ,in Linux(r) Quick Fix Notebook book By Peter Harrison. (Published by Prentice Hall.) Here is a quote grom the end

off topic : job offers in linux-il mailing list

2006-09-21 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, I am subscribed to linux-il for a long time; I wonder why some job offers reach my mailbox and some not. I noticed it by accident when looking at the archives of linux-il: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/ For example, the following DID reach my mailbox: #

Re: IDE RAID controller and software raid in linux

2006-09-02 Thread Rafi Gordon
? or is your opinion different than Peter Harrison, the book author ? Regards, R. Gordon On 8/16/06, Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 14:12 +0300, Rafi Gordon wrote: Hi, My question is : I am considering using a RAID with2 disks (and later on maybe more than 2

IDE RAID controller and software raid in linux

2006-08-16 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hi, My question is : I am considering using a RAID with2 disks (and later on maybe more than 2) on a Linux Box. The two options I see are : Software-RAID and using a controller. Nowadays a simple PCI ide RAID controller (**NOT** SATA) is quite cheap ; prices can be in the range of 20$-40$. My

g.729 audio player

2006-07-13 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, - g.729 ia an audio codec which is used a lot in telephony apps. Maybe somebody knows a free player for g.729 files in linux ? googling did not helped me to find. TIA, RG = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

isolinux and booting linux from a USB CDROM

2006-04-02 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, Did anybody tried and succeeded in wiriting a script for isolinux (linuxrc or init) to boot from external USB CDROM drive ? I tried to look at knoppix , but it is a different than the default isolinux. I talk of course on motherboard which supports booting from BIOS. Regards, RG

nfs mount to machine (which is aftereards down)

2006-03-26 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, I am mounting a solaris folder (/export/home) by adding to /etc/fstab on a linux station the following: 192.168.0.10:/export/home /mnt/solaris nfs auto,rw where 192.168.0.10 is the address of the solaris station. I am running mount -a, and the solaris folder is mounted OK. ( The solaris

Re: Telux: Linux Kernel Tuning and Customisation on 26 March

2006-03-19 Thread Rafi Gordon
Didn't you hear about the new kernel time API ?! As part of Linux Kernel Tuning you can move real world time (I am speeking about Greenich world time,not time of computers) backwards... RG On 3/19/06, Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote: Date:Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:30:59

Is there a way to print to this printer from linux

2006-03-10 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hi, We have at office a printer which is connected directly to the LAN. (It is **not** connected as a slave for any PC). It has a local IP address. Is there a way to print to this printer from a linux client ? I know that there is a linux driver for this printer. (But I am not talking of course

modify_ldt() system call invokation

2005-12-27 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, Processes can change their Local Descriptor Table using modify_ldt() system called. see man modify_ldt or : (for x386 look at include/asm-i386/unistd.h: #define __NR_modify_ldt 123) However, usually there is no need to manipulate the LDT with this system call. I saw in wine a

Re: Maximum number of interruprs a CPU can receive without dropping/losing any

2005-12-03 Thread Rafi Gordon
experimenting, in which I can get to know , for different CPUs (with different clockspeed) ,when it is better to use NAPI (polling) instead of interrupts? -- RG On 01 Dec 2005 13:42:23 +, Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafi Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I assume

Maximum number of interruprs a CPU can receive without dropping/losing any

2005-12-01 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, Interrupts are handle by the PIC (Programmable Interrupt Controller) on older processors and APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) on more modern processors. I assume that there is a limit on the maximum number of interruprs a CPU can

Context switch of kernel threads and user sapce threads

2005-11-22 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hi, Is the cost , in terms of CPU , when there occurs a context switch between two kernel threads is the same as when there is a context switch between two user space threads ? Is this cost the same when there is a context switch between a kernel thread and a user space thread ? If you look at

Re: Context switch of kernel threads and user sapce threads

2005-11-22 Thread Rafi Gordon
between 2 ***user space*** threads,is there ALWAYS a TLB flush? Rafi G. On 11/22/05, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:02:12PM +0200, Rafi Gordon wrote: Is the cost , in terms of CPU , when there occurs a context switch between two kernel threads

Preventing wrap (continuing from top) in Firerox find

2005-11-14 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, Please excuse me if the solution for this question is trivial; I did spent time googling for the answer and did not find a solution. How can you prevent the wrap in Firefox search? What I mean is: when ypu press ctr/f in Firefox and enter text to search, pressing Enter subsequently goes

Intel IDF (today) and Xen

2005-11-02 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hi, If anybody is at intel IDF today (in tel aviv) and hear anything there on the new Intel VT processor and Xen - I will be happy if he will share this info with us. -- RG To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Virtual Console switching:

2005-10-30 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hi, On my fedora core 3 , running alt/ctrl/f2 changes to virtual console number 2.(According to /etc/inittab, there are 6 virtual consoles). My question is : how is it done ? what is the chain of actions (or maybe single action) which alt/ctrl/f2 initiates ? On the FC3 keyboard

Re: It's about time: a delay of 1 microsec in a user space

2005-08-19 Thread Rafi Gordon
a heavy operation (even if we only pass a little timeval struct). Regards, RG On 8/18/05, Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafi Gordon wrote: Hello, Is there a way to create a delay of 1 microsec in a user space applcation in 2.4 or 2.6 kernel? If you really meant 1

kernel threads and proccess context - clarification

2005-08-15 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, There was a discussion in this mailing list titled File I/O within kernel threads about 2 weeks ago. It was said there, more than once, that A kernel thread is a proccess context. Thinking about it a little I wonder what is the meaning by saying that. I looked for example at kswapd.

Re: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 messages in the kernel log

2005-07-27 Thread Rafi Gordon
/firefox-installer/firefox-bin /opt/fireFox1/firefox-installer/firefox-bin any idea? RG On 7/26/05, Ilya Konstantinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafi Gordon wrote: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate

Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 messages in the kernel log

2005-07-26 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, from time to time I see in the kernel log the following messages; I am not opening any audio application in the time intervel when theses messages appear: I am using RH9. from /var/log/messages: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module

registration August Penguin 2005

2005-07-15 Thread Rafi Gordon
Penguin 2005 web site (http://august.penguin.org.il) TIA, Rafi Gordon To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]