Fax Modems?
I'll like to set up a hylafax server to SEND faxes from my computer. I'm runnning Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS. I have several HAM type modems, but from what I can see there are no drivers in a 2.6 kernel for them. What do people use? Is there a source of fax modems that work with Hylafax in Israel? Thanks, Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout
Guess that answers the question about RLM/LRM.
- yba
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Baruch Siach wrote:
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:04:16 +0200
From: Baruch Siach
To: Jonathan Ben Avraham
Cc: Dotan Cohen , linux-il.
Subject: Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout
Hi Yonatan,
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:45:17AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
What is "standard Hebrew keyboard layout" (disregarding aleph-tav)?
How about SI1452?
http://www.qsm.co.il/NewHebrew/Key1452e.htm
baruch
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:13:24 +0200
From: Dotan Cohen
To: linux-il.
Subject: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout
Where is the RLM (right to left mark) on the standard Hebrew keyboard
layout? I have googled and found that I can configure the Lyx layout
and then the RTM character is at Ctrl-Y, but can I make it Ctrl-{ like
in another popular OS?
Also, where is a list of the Shift characters in Lyx? I have found
some images that show where the nikud are, but none of them show the
RTM and LTM marks, and I suspect that they may be otherwise incomplete
as well. Thanks.
Suggestions for other alternative Hebrew layouts welcome!
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Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout
Hi Yonatan,
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:45:17AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
> What is "standard Hebrew keyboard layout" (disregarding aleph-tav)?
How about SI1452?
http://www.qsm.co.il/NewHebrew/Key1452e.htm
baruch
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:13:24 +0200
>> From: Dotan Cohen
>> To: linux-il.
>> Subject: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout
>>
>> Where is the RLM (right to left mark) on the standard Hebrew keyboard
>> layout? I have googled and found that I can configure the Lyx layout
>> and then the RTM character is at Ctrl-Y, but can I make it Ctrl-{ like
>> in another popular OS?
>>
>> Also, where is a list of the Shift characters in Lyx? I have found
>> some images that show where the nikud are, but none of them show the
>> RTM and LTM marks, and I suspect that they may be otherwise incomplete
>> as well. Thanks.
>>
>> Suggestions for other alternative Hebrew layouts welcome!
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Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?
Hi, On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 06:12, Ira Abramov wrote: > None give KVM/Qumranet, OpenVZ and the rest even the tiniest mention. > > know anyone using it in production at least, and are they professionally > happy with it? We use both KVM and OpenVZ. We are happy with OpenVZ but not so much with KVM. The KVM has rudimentary support for Audio inside of virtual machine and works unacceptably slow with Vista. The management tool (ubuntu 8.10) is not intuitive and does not expose as many knobs as we would like to see. IMHO KVM needs about a year to get usability comparable to mainstream virtualization technologies. Both technologies are robust enough, in the sense that when they work - they work. -- Arie ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout
What is "standard Hebrew keyboard layout" (disregarding aleph-tav)?
- yba
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:13:24 +0200
From: Dotan Cohen
To: linux-il.
Subject: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout
Where is the RLM (right to left mark) on the standard Hebrew keyboard
layout? I have googled and found that I can configure the Lyx layout
and then the RTM character is at Ctrl-Y, but can I make it Ctrl-{ like
in another popular OS?
Also, where is a list of the Shift characters in Lyx? I have found
some images that show where the nikud are, but none of them show the
RTM and LTM marks, and I suspect that they may be otherwise incomplete
as well. Thanks.
Suggestions for other alternative Hebrew layouts welcome!
--
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Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?
Quoting Lior Okman, from the post of Wed, 04 Mar: > Ira Abramov wrote: > >> This is what I need for the clients. Both are good at windows, only >> starting out in Linux. Both need something that's not too techie and CLI to >> manage. ESXi has been the automatic no-brainer choice, but with >> XenServer being free I'll need to ask the Lazyweb... >> > There's also Proxmox Virtual Environment ( > http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page ) , which provide an OpenVZ and > KVM hybrid solution, which a very usable web interface. A lot easier to > install IMO than ESXi. Quoting Oron Peled, from the post of Wed, 04 Mar: > 1. You forgot KVM. If you have modern CPU (e.g: Intel from Core-2 Duo > and up or an equivalent AMD [don't remember their spec]) you can get a > Free solution with pretty good performance. I've been waiting for KVM to hit the prime-time for a while, I remember Mulix told me a year ago it's "Xen done the right way" and it should be my first step into the world of FOSS virtualizations, however I'm looking at the market, and it seems between EC2 and Academic grids - I see Xen has become the de-facto standard for now. I may love playing with it on my own servers, but I'm much more conservative in what I offer clients. I don't want them left with a system only 10 people in the country know how to handle if excrement occurs. However, I admit Qumranet's SolidICE sounds pretty sweet "on paper". Anyone using it in production? their site is not very detailed, there's no trial version that I can find from either them or from RHAT. Also, So far all posts and articles I saw comparing hypervisors picked Citrix against VMware, occasionally mentioning M$. None give KVM/Qumranet, OpenVZ and the rest even the tiniest mention. know anyone using it in production at least, and are they professionally happy with it? thanks, Ira. -- A choose-your-own-adventure Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Cheap VM cluster (software, storage) ideas
Hi, Why would s3 bother you ? Its there it does not cost money if you do not use it it cost fairly little when you do and it works ok. The only thing you will need s3 for is to store images of systems you want to launch, you could use public images but the cost of keeping private onse in s3 is negligible and this gives much more flexiblity in creating custom servers. EBS has been in production for quite a while (I also used it before it was in production.) So far after a few month no glitches. You can do anything you want with it software wise. You do have to learn how to handle it aka instances can die and then you loose their disk this has been rare lately, was more common a few month ago. The EBS drives however do not die with the machine so data on them is much safer, they are kept in 3 copies at Amazon in different locations. You can split your servers to 3 different zones for more reliability. You can use s3 for backups and it is probably much safer then anything else you have. You can put mysql, or any other software in images or load them when the instance is up. You can run RedHat, Gentoo, Ubuntu or even Windows... You can scale up and down the number of your servers and EBS disks as needed. Make an account and play with it!! A small machine/instance (32 bits) is 10 cents an hour. If you cannot afford that you are not really commercial :) A few minor calculations should give you the correct cost numbers. As sysadmin using it in a real web company it is very good, has a learning curve like everything else. On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Ghiora Drori, from the post of Wed, 04 Mar: > > Hi, > > Amazon EC2 instances plus their EBS disks. > > Scalable, available, reliable (from my experience) and you can experiment > > for a few $'s a day. > > I tried to calculate the hosting costs, but was lost when I could not > find the full explanation on how to calculate some of the parameters > Amazon asked. Also it seemed the move to the EC2 would force me to use > S3 and that was a deal breaker. this EBS feature is something I missed > from the stroll in their site, so I suppose it's not something they are > pushing hard yet. is it production-ready? can I stick a mysql server and > all and just keep it all running as-is? > > As for hosting cost calculations - is there a tool you can recommend I > can run on existing servers, or just a checklist to go over, that will > help me judge if my system would make the move smoothly and at what > price? I see so many conflicting suggestions on Google and I don't know > which to trust, and have 0 time for useless trial and error. > > Also, knowing this client, I think he's not too happy about shooting his > precious core business machines over the net to be hosted out of reach. > It may be a psychological thing, but I can sympathize :-) > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Ira Abramov < > lists-linux...@ira.abramov.org > > > wrote: > > > > > related to the Citrix-vs-VMware question, in the spirit of the times... > > > > > > I want to create a way to host a cheap HA solution for a web hosting > > > outfit. they are running a few pretty busy asymetric servers and want > to > > > start improving that infrastructure. each machine holds several dozens > > > of virtual hosts. > > > > > > At the moment each server has its own local storage and mysql. every > > > part is a SPOF other than the minimal RAID and such things. > > > > > > I'm thinking: > > > * Move to a central non-virtual MySQL for the backend. > > > * have two servers go P2V and have those VMs hosted back on their > > > original hardwares (sadly this means some painful downtime), and find a > > > way to let them crash-migrate for HA (still trying to figure this out) > > > * Second stage, add a second MySQL in a master-master setup. > > > > > > I'd love to have two servers with symetrical setup, but as you can > > > guess, the virtual hots are dozens of different apps that are too > > > expensive to go and rewrite for clusters at this point, with the issues > > > of user-uploaded files having to be available to both Apaches, etc. > > > > > > Assuming we want the cheapest reliable solution, i.e. not a $6K-20K SAN > > > and FC, I am looking for an easier solution (easier on the pocket at > > > least). However NFS proved to be a disaster in such cases (high-load > web > > > services), OCFS has not been nice to me with any setup other than maybe > > > Oracle clusters, and GFS also never ran smoothly in my tests. > > > > > > Also OCFS and GFS require a common disk, which at this budget would be > a > > > Linux machine running an iSCSI target at best (or OpenNAS). > > > > > > Am I missing something? Can this kind of reliability be achieved > without > > > shelling out big bucks? > > > > > > Of course, The other option is just separate the MySQL, have a third > > > machine rsync the files of the two (non virtual) servers every few > > > minutes and have the hosting farm's layer4 switc
xfone 018 phone service and Linux
Hi, Recently I discovered an VoIP phone service by company xfone: http://www.018.co.il/mpa.asp >From what I understood, they provide you with hardware phone that is connected to regular internet line (preferably with them as the ISP). They also provide an PC client for windows that supposedly allows you to call landlines and mobiles phones in Israel and over the world using your phone account (similar to skype). Can someone confirm my understanding? Is the PC client an regular SIP softphone? How do they solve the latency problems inherent to any internet connection? -- Arie ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: What is the secret to using Lyx with Hebrew?
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:23:33 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/3/4 Maxim Kovgan : > > I used lyx by implementing the instructions from huji site about lyx. > > what I got to was: > > when I pressed F12 (IIRC), it *switched* language, both he->en and > > en->he, depending on the current state. > > I don't remember having to worry about anything else. > > > > I don't understand exactly what do YOU wish to achieve ? > > > > I would like to be able to switch languages in Lyx just like I do in > any other application, that is, with the windows manager's shortcuts. > In my current setup Lyx displays Hebrew as LTR when I switch > languages. I must go back, highlight the Hebrew text, and select > Hebrew from the languages list. > That is not currently possible due to the latex requirement that it know the current language of the block of code and not just the current character. If you use xetex, still a bit of a pain under lyx though, it will put the text in the right order inside words, but the words and alignment are are in the wrong direction. Lyx was moved to work with unicode internally so it may be possible to do it implicitly in the future (change paragraph / text segment orientation automatically). If I recall correctly though the reason lyx currently has it's own keyboard switching short cut is due to two main reasons: 1. It is not possible to know on all platform what the current keyboard is, just what the character is which made it a bit difficult to choose the language 2. latex doesn't work with general hebrew encodings so lyx needs to control the input incoding (with widespread unicode support that is probably changing though) ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Cheap VM cluster (software, storage) ideas
Quoting Ghiora Drori, from the post of Wed, 04 Mar: > Hi, > Amazon EC2 instances plus their EBS disks. > Scalable, available, reliable (from my experience) and you can experiment > for a few $'s a day. I tried to calculate the hosting costs, but was lost when I could not find the full explanation on how to calculate some of the parameters Amazon asked. Also it seemed the move to the EC2 would force me to use S3 and that was a deal breaker. this EBS feature is something I missed from the stroll in their site, so I suppose it's not something they are pushing hard yet. is it production-ready? can I stick a mysql server and all and just keep it all running as-is? As for hosting cost calculations - is there a tool you can recommend I can run on existing servers, or just a checklist to go over, that will help me judge if my system would make the move smoothly and at what price? I see so many conflicting suggestions on Google and I don't know which to trust, and have 0 time for useless trial and error. Also, knowing this client, I think he's not too happy about shooting his precious core business machines over the net to be hosted out of reach. It may be a psychological thing, but I can sympathize :-) > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Ira Abramov > wrote: > > > related to the Citrix-vs-VMware question, in the spirit of the times... > > > > I want to create a way to host a cheap HA solution for a web hosting > > outfit. they are running a few pretty busy asymetric servers and want to > > start improving that infrastructure. each machine holds several dozens > > of virtual hosts. > > > > At the moment each server has its own local storage and mysql. every > > part is a SPOF other than the minimal RAID and such things. > > > > I'm thinking: > > * Move to a central non-virtual MySQL for the backend. > > * have two servers go P2V and have those VMs hosted back on their > > original hardwares (sadly this means some painful downtime), and find a > > way to let them crash-migrate for HA (still trying to figure this out) > > * Second stage, add a second MySQL in a master-master setup. > > > > I'd love to have two servers with symetrical setup, but as you can > > guess, the virtual hots are dozens of different apps that are too > > expensive to go and rewrite for clusters at this point, with the issues > > of user-uploaded files having to be available to both Apaches, etc. > > > > Assuming we want the cheapest reliable solution, i.e. not a $6K-20K SAN > > and FC, I am looking for an easier solution (easier on the pocket at > > least). However NFS proved to be a disaster in such cases (high-load web > > services), OCFS has not been nice to me with any setup other than maybe > > Oracle clusters, and GFS also never ran smoothly in my tests. > > > > Also OCFS and GFS require a common disk, which at this budget would be a > > Linux machine running an iSCSI target at best (or OpenNAS). > > > > Am I missing something? Can this kind of reliability be achieved without > > shelling out big bucks? > > > > Of course, The other option is just separate the MySQL, have a third > > machine rsync the files of the two (non virtual) servers every few > > minutes and have the hosting farm's layer4 switch redirect to the > > fallback if something happens. Not very "smart" nor scalable, but does > > 70% of what we need till a bigger investment is required. > > > > your thoughts, as before, are welcome... > > > > Thanks, > > Ira. > > > > -- > > Can't catch me yet > > Ira Abramov > > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ > > > > ___ > > Linux-il mailing list > > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > > > > > -- > Constant change is here to stay! > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- An out of body experiance Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?
Ira Abramov wrote: I want to make life easy for two clients of mine who want to go virtual, but are set against MS as host (Not my work, I swear! :) Citrix XenServer is free, in case you missed it: http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1686939 ESXi has been free for a while as well: https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=esxi And of course, the Xen project alone is free and Free, but people tell me it's not for the beginners. This is what I need for the clients. Both are good at windows, only starting out in Linux. Both need something that's not too techie and CLI to manage. ESXi has been the automatic no-brainer choice, but with XenServer being free I'll need to ask the Lazyweb... I googled for comparisons, all I learned is how the I/O and CPU overhead and driver efficiency are, but thee's no information about the user experience, compatibility with hardware, and so on. Before I waste a day on tests, did anyone try this themselves? The second client also wants HA, I understand the XenServer comes with the LiveMotion thingy but no HA features (that will cost you a license of Xen Essentials, a remote management machine, etc). Should I tell him to go and add a few thousand $$$ to the project or is there a reliable hack to achieve a similar effect? (VM revival on another node if its host becomess unstable/dead) any ideas and experiences welcome... There's also Proxmox Virtual Environment ( http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page ) , which provide an OpenVZ and KVM hybrid solution, which a very usable web interface. A lot easier to install IMO than ESXi. Lior ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout
Where is the RLM (right to left mark) on the standard Hebrew keyboard
layout? I have googled and found that I can configure the Lyx layout
and then the RTM character is at Ctrl-Y, but can I make it Ctrl-{ like
in another popular OS?
Also, where is a list of the Shift characters in Lyx? I have found
some images that show where the nikud are, but none of them show the
RTM and LTM marks, and I suspect that they may be otherwise incomplete
as well. Thanks.
Suggestions for other alternative Hebrew layouts welcome!
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Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?
On Wednesday, 4 בMarch 2009, Ira Abramov wrote: > This is what I need for the clients. Both are good at windows, only > starting out in Linux. Both need something that's not too techie and CLI to > manage. ESXi has been the automatic no-brainer choice, but with > XenServer being free I'll need to ask the Lazyweb... 1. You forgot KVM. If you have modern CPU (e.g: Intel from Core-2 Duo and up or an equivalent AMD [don't remember their spec]) you can get a Free solution with pretty good performance. 2. For management you'd want to look at libvirt [http://libvirt.org]. It can manage via the same interface Xen and KVM (and old Qemu, but that's just for demos on old hardware). 3. You may talk to libvirt either via the virsh command line tool or via virt-manager GUI: http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/screenshots.html I played with both (against KVM/Qemu) and it's a breeze to manage guests both locally and remotely via a secure connection (ssh or ssl). You can instantiate new guests, control them and view their vnc console. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron __ / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . . ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Cheap VM cluster (software, storage) ideas
Hi, Amazon EC2 instances plus their EBS disks. Scalable, available, reliable (from my experience) and you can experiment for a few $'s a day. On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Ira Abramov wrote: > related to the Citrix-vs-VMware question, in the spirit of the times... > > I want to create a way to host a cheap HA solution for a web hosting > outfit. they are running a few pretty busy asymetric servers and want to > start improving that infrastructure. each machine holds several dozens > of virtual hosts. > > At the moment each server has its own local storage and mysql. every > part is a SPOF other than the minimal RAID and such things. > > I'm thinking: > * Move to a central non-virtual MySQL for the backend. > * have two servers go P2V and have those VMs hosted back on their > original hardwares (sadly this means some painful downtime), and find a > way to let them crash-migrate for HA (still trying to figure this out) > * Second stage, add a second MySQL in a master-master setup. > > I'd love to have two servers with symetrical setup, but as you can > guess, the virtual hots are dozens of different apps that are too > expensive to go and rewrite for clusters at this point, with the issues > of user-uploaded files having to be available to both Apaches, etc. > > Assuming we want the cheapest reliable solution, i.e. not a $6K-20K SAN > and FC, I am looking for an easier solution (easier on the pocket at > least). However NFS proved to be a disaster in such cases (high-load web > services), OCFS has not been nice to me with any setup other than maybe > Oracle clusters, and GFS also never ran smoothly in my tests. > > Also OCFS and GFS require a common disk, which at this budget would be a > Linux machine running an iSCSI target at best (or OpenNAS). > > Am I missing something? Can this kind of reliability be achieved without > shelling out big bucks? > > Of course, The other option is just separate the MySQL, have a third > machine rsync the files of the two (non virtual) servers every few > minutes and have the hosting farm's layer4 switch redirect to the > fallback if something happens. Not very "smart" nor scalable, but does > 70% of what we need till a bigger investment is required. > > your thoughts, as before, are welcome... > > Thanks, > Ira. > > -- > Can't catch me yet > Ira Abramov > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- Constant change is here to stay! ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
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Re: What is the secret to using Lyx with Hebrew?
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 07:23:33PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/3/4 Maxim Kovgan : > > I used lyx by implementing the instructions from huji site about lyx. > > what I got to was: > > when I pressed F12 (IIRC), it *switched* language, both he->en and > > en->he, depending on the current state. > > I don't remember having to worry about anything else. > > > > I don't understand exactly what do YOU wish to achieve ? > > > > I would like to be able to switch languages in Lyx just like I do in > any other application, that is, with the windows manager's shortcuts. > In my current setup Lyx displays Hebrew as LTR when I switch > languages. I must go back, highlight the Hebrew text, and select > Hebrew from the languages list. The main issue here is that LaTeX's language support is inherently explicit: for each part of the text you mark of which language it belongs. LyX follows suit here: Hebrew text is not the same as English text. Fixing this would probably require some major changes in LyX. In some earlier versions of LyX the keyboard language and the document language were basically the same (and LyX comes with its own independent Hebrew layout. I'll leave it for you to guess the exact layout :-) . In later versions this was gone. And toggling languages became a pain. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: What is the secret to using Lyx with Hebrew?
2009/3/4 Maxim Kovgan : > I used lyx by implementing the instructions from huji site about lyx. > what I got to was: > when I pressed F12 (IIRC), it *switched* language, both he->en and > en->he, depending on the current state. > I don't remember having to worry about anything else. > > I don't understand exactly what do YOU wish to achieve ? > I would like to be able to switch languages in Lyx just like I do in any other application, that is, with the windows manager's shortcuts. In my current setup Lyx displays Hebrew as LTR when I switch languages. I must go back, highlight the Hebrew text, and select Hebrew from the languages list. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Cheap VM cluster (software, storage) ideas
related to the Citrix-vs-VMware question, in the spirit of the times... I want to create a way to host a cheap HA solution for a web hosting outfit. they are running a few pretty busy asymetric servers and want to start improving that infrastructure. each machine holds several dozens of virtual hosts. At the moment each server has its own local storage and mysql. every part is a SPOF other than the minimal RAID and such things. I'm thinking: * Move to a central non-virtual MySQL for the backend. * have two servers go P2V and have those VMs hosted back on their original hardwares (sadly this means some painful downtime), and find a way to let them crash-migrate for HA (still trying to figure this out) * Second stage, add a second MySQL in a master-master setup. I'd love to have two servers with symetrical setup, but as you can guess, the virtual hots are dozens of different apps that are too expensive to go and rewrite for clusters at this point, with the issues of user-uploaded files having to be available to both Apaches, etc. Assuming we want the cheapest reliable solution, i.e. not a $6K-20K SAN and FC, I am looking for an easier solution (easier on the pocket at least). However NFS proved to be a disaster in such cases (high-load web services), OCFS has not been nice to me with any setup other than maybe Oracle clusters, and GFS also never ran smoothly in my tests. Also OCFS and GFS require a common disk, which at this budget would be a Linux machine running an iSCSI target at best (or OpenNAS). Am I missing something? Can this kind of reliability be achieved without shelling out big bucks? Of course, The other option is just separate the MySQL, have a third machine rsync the files of the two (non virtual) servers every few minutes and have the hosting farm's layer4 switch redirect to the fallback if something happens. Not very "smart" nor scalable, but does 70% of what we need till a bigger investment is required. your thoughts, as before, are welcome... Thanks, Ira. -- Can't catch me yet Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?
I want to make life easy for two clients of mine who want to go virtual, but are set against MS as host (Not my work, I swear! :) Citrix XenServer is free, in case you missed it: http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1686939 ESXi has been free for a while as well: https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=esxi And of course, the Xen project alone is free and Free, but people tell me it's not for the beginners. This is what I need for the clients. Both are good at windows, only starting out in Linux. Both need something that's not too techie and CLI to manage. ESXi has been the automatic no-brainer choice, but with XenServer being free I'll need to ask the Lazyweb... I googled for comparisons, all I learned is how the I/O and CPU overhead and driver efficiency are, but thee's no information about the user experience, compatibility with hardware, and so on. Before I waste a day on tests, did anyone try this themselves? The second client also wants HA, I understand the XenServer comes with the LiveMotion thingy but no HA features (that will cost you a license of Xen Essentials, a remote management machine, etc). Should I tell him to go and add a few thousand $$$ to the project or is there a reliable hack to achieve a similar effect? (VM revival on another node if its host becomess unstable/dead) any ideas and experiences welcome... -- Mongolian beefcake Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
