[somewhat OT] simple machine forums software update

2011-07-04 Thread is123
I noticed today the simple machine forums software that is used for many tech bulletin boards and forums has a new country in the countries list: Palestinian Territory, Occupied I didn't realize Palestine was a country and I thought the Israelis left when they created the PA, if so, who is

Re: [somewhat OT] simple machine forums software update

2011-07-04 Thread is123
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:08:55 +0300 Mordecha Behar mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: You should send an email to RMS asking his opinion about it. Make sure he replies as president of the FSF so people can argue about his views in the future. No doubt, just as all those respectful and well

Re: [somewhat OT] simple machine forums software update

2011-07-04 Thread is123
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:38:18 +0300 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Mon, Jul 04, 2011, is...@zahav.net.il wrote about [somewhat OT] simple machine forums software update: I noticed today the simple machine forums software that is used for many tech bulletin boards and forums

Re: secure data export

2011-06-23 Thread is123
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:35:16 +0300 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all security experts, I would like to export data from a machine on a business's internal network on a safe media, such that only the files I want exported are on the media. Specifically, I consider the

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

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

Re: sending mail from the command line

2011-05-10 Thread is123
On Tue, 10 May 2011 17:37:10 +0300 guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: according to the logs - the mail was not delivered to an external machine. check your sendmail's mail queue (using 'mailq') to see if the message is still there. it could also be that the mail was delivered to some

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck? [OT]

2011-05-10 Thread is123
On Tue, 10 May 2011 21:57:53 +0300 Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: On Sunday, 8 בMay 2011 19:42:55 is...@zahav.net.il wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:19:25 +0300 guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: and how is all this related to solaris Vs. linux? solaris is *nix, at least was the

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-08 Thread is123
On Sun, 08 May 2011 09:55:35 +0300 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2011, is...@zahav.net.il wrote about Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?: I don't agree with this setup. Regular consumer drives setup with RAID to stripe are going to be much, much faster and have

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-08 Thread is123
On Sun, 08 May 2011 10:02:18 +0300 geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: One of the bad things is that standard *NIX files systems are designed with magnetic media in mind, they update the access time of files every time you open them. This is bad for files that are opened

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-08 Thread is123
On Sun, 08 May 2011 10:15:30 +0300 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2011, Nadav Har'El wrote about Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?: Having two hard disks will, at best case, *double* your seek time. This is Of course, I meant *half*, not *double* :-) Actually

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-08 Thread is123
On Sun, 08 May 2011 17:28:07 +0300 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 07:31 +, is...@zahav.net.il wrote: at this point Linux (and BSD) still aren't doing SMP as well as other OS Care to elaborate? I think it's well-known Solaris exploits multicore better

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-08 Thread is123
On Sun, 08 May 2011 18:11:24 +0300 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 14:56 +, is...@zahav.net.il wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2011 17:28:07 +0300 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com wrote: I don't track Linux very much but I can see from conky on my boxes Linux just

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck? [OT]

2011-05-08 Thread is123
On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:19:25 +0300 guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: and how is all this related to solaris Vs. linux? solaris is *nix, at least was the last time i heard ;) Yes, you are right, but for some reason Solaris has the reputation for handling multicore better than Linux and BSD.

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-07 Thread is123
On Sun, 08 May 2011 07:28:49 +0300 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: Instead of buying a huge SSD for thousands of dollars another option you might consider is to buy a relatively small SSD with just enough space to hold your / partition and swap space. Even 20 G may be enough. The

Re: [OT] Sun Fire v440 servers

2011-04-28 Thread is123
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Kfir Lavi lavi.kfir-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote: Hi all, Is anybody interested in some old beasts? http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v440/ Regards, Kfir Ok, 6 x Sun Fire v440 quads, raid, 2 power supplies 2 x Sun 220 (not sure but

Fw: [OT] Sun Fire v440 servers

2011-04-28 Thread is123
and maybe one of the 220s... Thanks again, Israel ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il