Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 04:10:08PM +0300, boazg wrote: i was wondering if there is enough interest for a lecture on AIX? I don't quite see how a talk about a proprietary OS fits Haifux's charter? Cheers, Muli - Haifa Linux

Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread Ohad Lutzky
I certainly trust Boaz's judgement on this one. Besides, the way the queue looks, it seems like even two hours on the benefits and issues of Rocket Jumping in various versions of Quake would be a welcome lecture :/ On 4/5/07, Orr Dunkelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked in the website for

Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread Eli Billauer
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: I don't quite see how a talk about a proprietary OS fits Haifux's charter? Lecture #79: Random numbers Lecure #81: Multilingual typesetting Lecture #95: Hebrew fonts Lecture #114-SIL: Intro to Alice, Bob and Eve: a glimpse of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Haifux' charter has

Re: [Haifux] Yum problems from the Technion

2007-04-05 Thread Dave Roi
Hi, I am getting the same problem on the Linux stations in the farm. The problem has appeared before for a while, then stopped and started again about a week before Pesach. Haven't managed to solve the problem but if anyone finds a solution it would greatly help me too. Dave (from the CS Linux

Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Eli Billauer wrote: Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:51:13 +0200 From: Eli Billauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Haifa Linux Club haifux@haifux.org Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED], boazg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: I don't quite

[Haifux] another lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
If there's interest, I'll be happy to give this talk I'll be giving at OLS '07 at Haifux as well. The Price of Safety: Evaluating IOMMU Performance IOMMUs, IO Memory Management Units, are hardware devices that translate device DMA addresses to machine addresses. Isolation capable IOMMUs perform

Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread Orr Dunkelman
We don't have a charter! Unless something changed in the last few months. The question whether AIX is something Linux people want/need to know about. Knowing the way other UNIXes work seems to me in the scope of haifux (and actually even the way windows drivers work, so we could understand the

Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread Eli Billauer
Ladies and gentlemen, Sincerely, I can't see the point of this discussion. A group of people wants to meet for a lecture. What reason in the world could there be to stop it? I mean, for all I care, if someone wants to make a lecture about how to manufacture icecream at home (with no

Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
AFAIK the latest version of AIX (AIX 5L) is based on Linux (at least this is what I heard that the 'L' stands for), so I think that there is definitely a big connection with Linux and AIX if anyone cared about it. Other than that, I agree with Eli.

Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:38:05PM +0300, Kohn Emil Dan wrote: AFAIK the latest version of AIX (AIX 5L) is based on Linux (at least this is what I heard that the 'L' stands for), I think there are a few hundred AIX developers who would be very suprised to hear that! Cheers, Muli

Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread Ohad Lutzky
Hear hear. People are interested, we should have the lecture. If anyone isn't interested, simply don't show up. (Liking the ice-cream manufacturing idea... Boaz?) -- Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminate DRM, learn more at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm Ohad Lutzky

Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread boazg
actually, while on the subject of 'proprietary', any idea where i can get an AIX system for lecture time demonstrations, anyone? any PowerPC RS/6000's laying around? On 4/5/07, boazg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/5/07, Kohn Emil Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK the latest version of AIX