Re: weirdest problem ticket opened today.

2005-04-20 Thread Arik Baratz
On 19/04/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Few years ago, while (and still) administrating the Israeli Radio Amature Commette (IARC) server, which is a Linux machine, and back then it was old [snip] rm -Rf home AAARG! NOW I know what happened to my f-ing files on that

Re: IBM desktops screaming under Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Dan Kenigsberg, from the post of Tue, 19 Apr: Dear List, I wonder if anyone heard of a similar problem. Somewhere there exist two IBM desktop machines, model 8189-7cg to be exact, running RedHat 9 (2.4.20 kernel) and Fedora Core 1 (2.4.22-1.2197 kernel). Once in a not-too-long while,

Re: weirdest problem ticket opened today.

2005-04-20 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:41:06AM +0300, Arik Baratz wrote: AAARG! NOW I know what happened to my f-ing files on that server! Your backups were NOT up to date enough!!! *ROTFL* EZ, you win :-) Cheers, Muli signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: MOSIX vs OpenMOSIX [2nd attempt]

2005-04-20 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, Just to clarify my last mail: the problems I mentioned are inherent to (Open)MOSIX. Our IT staff did a lot of work configuring and optimizing the system and fixed all that could be fixed (I know because I also looked at some of these problems myself), but it boils down to fundamental

Re: MOSIX vs OpenMOSIX [2nd attempt]

2005-04-20 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, Another clarification to my cluster of e-mails about clusters: The OpenMOSIX at Weizmann *does* work very well for applications that were specifically rewritten with MOSIX in mind, such as custom scientific computation C programs written by the institute's researchers, and even some Matlab

Re: MOSIX vs OpenMOSIX [2nd attempt]

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Green
On 4/20/05, Eran Tromer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OpenMOSIX at Weizmann *does* work very well for applications that were specifically rewritten with MOSIX in mind, such as custom scientific computation C programs written by the institute's researchers, and even some Matlab programs (if

Re: IBM desktops screaming under Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Gosh, it is a small world. (Or should I say, a small Linux community?) It is amazing what happens to service calls. I looked up at your posted message and saw something about emacs in mail mode. I have NO idea how come this piece of information was generated. The Technion guy with these problems

Software RAID Hot Swap under Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
Hi Everyone im going to get a new IBM / DELL rackable server. I thought of using software raid and save the expenses of Hardware one. The raid is going to be a simple mirror raid of two SCSI HD. I heard that the performance deference between the Hardware solution to the software one is

Re: Software RAID Hot Swap under Linux

2005-04-20 Thread shimi
--=-xeMgqremlNSKwXUf6JLO Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 18:13 +0300, Michael Ben-Nes wrote: Is it possible to Hot Swap the faulty HD in the software solution ? the IBM spec say the bay scsi adapter support hotswap. How reliable and easy to

Re: MOSIX vs OpenMOSIX [2nd attempt]

2005-04-20 Thread Orna Agmon
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Eran Tromer wrote: So if you expect it to be magic supercomputer you'll end up disappointed; as Gilad said, if you have well-characterized and MOSIX-friendly workload, great. Otherwise, don't expect great success. I also considered installing MOSIX for some time, and

Re: MOSIX vs OpenMOSIX [2nd attempt]

2005-04-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 05:43:14 -0700 Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting David D [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [this is my second attempt. The first one didn't make it to the list] OK, I know how to google, and I have read several documents, but almost all of them talk about

Re: MOSIX vs OpenMOSIX [2nd attempt]

2005-04-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:26:23 +0300 Eran Tromer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 19/04/05 21:13, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: MOSIX/OpenMOSIX is a great academic excersize - a working academic excersize, but not something I would use except for very specific and narrow taks in controled

Re: MOSIX vs OpenMOSIX [2nd attempt]

2005-04-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:09:18 +0300 Michael Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/20/05, Eran Tromer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OpenMOSIX at Weizmann *does* work very well for applications that were specifically rewritten with MOSIX in mind, such as custom scientific computation C

Re: [OT] FOSS OCR solutions?

2005-04-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:07:28AM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote: Hi list, I'm looking for a free software tool for solving a specific OCR task (details below). I've googled up several projects, but because of time limits I'll not be able to give them a fair try. If you have some

Re: MOSIX vs OpenMOSIX [2nd attempt]

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Green
On 4/20/05, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW there is a way to allow matlab to migrate over openmosix (and probably mosix) although you need to disable the gui interface (JAVA) using the - nojvm flag (it can still open image windows) and disable the licence manager heartbeat

Re: MOSIX vs OpenMOSIX [2nd attempt]

2005-04-20 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 08:45:36PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: You may also want to have a look at www.kerrighed.org/ OpenSSI (http://openssi.org/) is also worth watching. Of all of the SSI projects, it's the only one that appears to stand a non-negligible chance of mainline kernel inclusion -

Re: MOSIX vs OpenMOSIX [2nd attempt]

2005-04-20 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Orna Agmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the advanced OS course in HaifaU Oleg Goldshmidt showed benchmark results, which show that migration does not enlarge the ability of the cluster to deal with loads in a significant manner. Back filling, on the other hand, does. Ahem... ;-) I would not

Re: [OT] FOSS OCR solutions?

2005-04-20 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Thanks alot for the reply. I'll try having a look at both tools. Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Description: --- We have a large database of scans consisting of numerical data, which need to be accurately converted to text, with minimal human intervention. The scans are low quality

Re: MOSIX vs OpenMOSIX [2nd attempt]

2005-04-20 Thread Guy Teverovsky
I'll second that. Have just started deploying OpenSSI for our researchers and it looks very promising (mainly for high volume image processing). Couple of useful links: http://www.gelato.org/pdf/Illinois/gelato_IL2004_openssi_walker.pdf This one in Hebrew:

Re: OT: Windows time zones with daylight saving support

2005-04-20 Thread Guy Teverovsky
Shahar, Your update is not sufficient. The data from HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft \Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones\Israel Standard Time is read ONLY when the client *switches* the timezone. When updating you also need to write to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation directly.

Re: OT: Windows time zones with daylight saving support

2005-04-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Guy Teverovsky wrote: Shahar, Your update is not sufficient. The data from HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft \Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones\Israel Standard Time is read ONLY when the client *switches* the timezone. When updating you also need to write to

Re: OT: Windows time zones with daylight saving support

2005-04-20 Thread Guy Teverovsky
It is incomplete on purpose: 1. You cannot change the setting while explorer is up. Changing the registry directly like that creates inconsistency between the running configuration and the stored configuration, resulting in confusion or worse. We successfully updated several hundred hosts

Re: OT: Windows time zones with daylight saving support

2005-04-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Guy Teverovsky wrote: It's not about who's solution is better. This is just an FYI that you might run into issues with your current solution. Adding instruction to switch TZ back and forth after merging the reg would save you some grief. It wasn't done for personal consumption, but thanks