max user processes

2004-11-02 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Hi All how do i raise the parameter of max user processes ? # ulimit -a max user processes(-u) 256 Thanks -- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-4-6991122 Fax: 972-4-6990098 http://www.canaan.net.il

Re: max user processes

2004-11-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ben-Nes Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All how do i raise the parameter of max user processes ? # ulimit -a max user processes(-u) 256 setrlimit(2) -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To

Re: A television show about FOSS

2004-11-02 Thread amos
One other nice point about using open standards and open source - the Australian government decided late last year to move all its archives to OpenOffice in order to avoid dependence on single-vendor with proprietary format and implementation:

Re: max user processes

2004-11-02 Thread Yoav Karniely
On 02 Nov 2004 11:06:12 +, Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben-Nes Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All how do i raise the parameter of max user processes ? # ulimit -a max user processes(-u) 256 setrlimit(2) ulimit -u 512

Re: record radio - results

2004-11-02 Thread amos
Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], from the post of Tue, 02 Nov: Just to update the list for the benefit of others: 1. To record Galatz I now use: mplayer -noconsolecontrols -nojoystick -nolirc -nomouseinput \ -really-quiet -dumpstream -dumpfile $1 http://213.8.143.165/glz-stream

Another ammunition for the FOSS show

2004-11-02 Thread amos
This just landed in linmagazine: http://linmagazine.co.il/node/view/4800 = 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]

OT: Israeli FBSD mirror

2004-11-02 Thread Ely Levy
Hey, Does someone know of an updated israeli FBSD mirror which support rsync? Or if not does someone know of a not israeli FBSD mirror which supports rsync?(ftp7,ftp13 == evil) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel

Re: OT: Israeli FBSD mirror

2004-11-02 Thread Amir Shalem
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-rsync.html and some of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html mirrors are listed as rsync as well which aren't listed in the first link. On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:49:01PM +0200, Ely Levy wrote:

Re: record radio - results

2004-11-02 Thread amos
Haggai Eran wrote: I managed once to record a file directly to mp3: I told mplayer to dump the file as wave instead of an asf, but instead of writing to a file, I set up a fifo node. then I ran lame to that fifo to compress it live to an mp3. Well, on-the-fly conversion to mp3 is not the issue for

Re: A television show about FOSS

2004-11-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 01 November 2004 17:11, Ori Idan wrote: Next week on tuesday I am going to be on TV at Teva Hadvarim channel (I have no idea where it is in Yes or Hot). The show is called MicroScoop and will be shown on November 9th at 18:00. The show will be recorded this wednesday so if you

Re: A television show about FOSS

2004-11-02 Thread Herouth Maoz
Quoting Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you treat your users like they were your co-developers they will respond by becoming your co-developers.. Actually, if you treat your users like they were your co-developers they will respond by becoming very frustrated and angry, and ask you what this

Who wants the admin password for the OpenSVN linuxisrael repository?

2004-11-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! I opened a repository at opensvn.csie.org for Israeli Linux activities. At the moment I'm the only one who has the admin password, but I wish that at least someone else will have it as well. So if you want it please say so. The repository root is: http://opensvn.csie.org/linuxisrael/

Re: Who wants the admin password for the OpenSVN linuxisrael repository?

2004-11-02 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Tue, 02 Nov: Hi all! I opened a repository at opensvn.csie.org for Israeli Linux activities. At the moment I'm the only one who has the admin password, but I wish that at least someone else will have it as well. So if you want it please say so. hey

Re: Students on Linux woes - petition 1st draft

2004-11-02 Thread Yosef Meller
--Boundary_(ID_SeASKRHq4ktUurv+TiRbxA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-8-I; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Well, I can't be all talk and no deeds. OK, I can, but where would that put me? :-) Anyway, I wrote a first draft of a letter to the rector. I tried to present

Bad sectors

2004-11-02 Thread ik
Hi list, I mounted a cdrom, and wanted to read it content, but the kernel reported about some bad sectors... The content of the cdrom are images, and i could not kill the imagemagic display program, nor umount the cdrom. And every action I did try to do, hand the system, until I exit the

Re: edimax 7108PCG pcmcia support

2004-11-02 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Lior Kesos wrote: Marc -I assume the cids are retrieved through dump_cis which returns a: prompt#dump_cis Socket 0: no CIS present MAtan -Here's my lspci although it doesn't show anything in it.. :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82440MX Host Bridge (rev 01)

Re: A television show about FOSS

2004-11-02 Thread Amit Aronovitch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: guy keren wrote: neglecting the ideological issue completely is, well, not such a good idea. much of your open source software wouldn't have been there, without the ideology. When people talk about ideology they usually mean FSF style arguments, centered around freedom

Why not using global variables considered thread-safe ?

2004-11-02 Thread Maxim Vexler
Hello to everyone, After a recent question regarding libbzip2 on this list has send me to the source code, i've stumbled upon this comment : The low-level part of the library has no global variables and is therefore thread-safe. on the documentation page :

Re: Students on Linux woes - petition 1st draft

2004-11-02 Thread Amit Aronovitch
I'm not sure if and how this should affect your plans for action, but you should be prepared to the common responses you get from people when trying to talk to them about w3c web standards (if you talk to university authorities they'll probably forward to or consult their web-people, so expect

Re: Why not using global variables considered thread-safe ?

2004-11-02 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Maxim Vexler wrote: Doesn't the kernel allocate each thread his own memory space (including for var's which are global for that thread)? No. In fact, common memory is the major benefit of threads (when compared to e.g. forking a new process). Global variables which don't get used

Re: Why not using global variables considered thread-safe ?

2004-11-02 Thread Dvir Volk
Amit Aronovitch wrote: Maxim Vexler wrote: Doesn't the kernel allocate each thread his own memory space (including for var's which are global for that thread)? No. In fact, common memory is the major benefit of threads (when compared to e.g. forking a new process). Global variables which don't

Fwd: edimax 7108PCG pcmcia support

2004-11-02 Thread Lior Kesos
-- Forwarded message -- From: Lior Kesos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 00:08:07 +0200 Subject: Re: edimax 7108PCG pcmcia support To: Matan Ziv-Av [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Matan,Marc list.. As expected the truly nasty and mysterious problems have extremely stupic and trivial

Re: Why not using global variables considered thread-safe ?

2004-11-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Maxim Vexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello to everyone, After a recent question regarding libbzip2 on this list has send me to the source code, i've stumbled upon this comment : The low-level part of the library has no global variables and is therefore thread-safe. on the documentation

Re: Why not using global variables considered thread-safe ?

2004-11-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Dvir Volk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a 1-CPU machine, when you have global variables such as ints or floats, isn't reading and writing them atomic, and needs no locking? Absolutely not! 1) It is not just reading and writing. Consider, say, incrementing a global variable. It involves a

Re: Why not using global variables considered thread-safe ?

2004-11-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 07:00:06AM +0200, Dvir Volk wrote: Amit Aronovitch wrote: [snip] On a 1-CPU machine, when you have global variables such as ints or floats, isn't reading and writing them atomic, and needs no locking? what are the general rules this issue? This isn't the problem - the