Re: USB Headphones and Microphone

2005-12-27 Thread Oded Arbel
On Monday, 26 בDecember 2005 21:47, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Is there any advantage to having a USB audio device? Advantage: * You can use a USB Headset audio device with almost any OS - Linux with kernel 2.4.x, 2.6.x, BSD, Solaris (9 and above), Windows (98, AFAIK win98 requires drivers for

modify_ldt() system call invokation

2005-12-27 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hello, Processes can change their Local Descriptor Table using modify_ldt() system called. see man modify_ldt or : (for x386 look at include/asm-i386/unistd.h: #define __NR_modify_ldt 123) However, usually there is no need to manipulate the LDT with this system call. I saw in wine a

Re: modify_ldt() system call invokation

2005-12-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:46:59PM +0200, Rafi Gordon wrote: I was wondering in which occasions is this system call being invoked: did anybody had encountered (or used himeslf) a call to modify_ldt() in other apps (emulators maybe ? ). qemu uses it: The Linux system call modify_ldt() is used

Re: modify_ldt() system call invokation

2005-12-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:46:59PM +0200, Rafi Gordon wrote: I was wondering in which occasions is this system call being invoked: did anybody had encountered (or used himeslf) a call to modify_ldt() in other apps (emulators maybe ? ). qemu uses it: The Linux

Re: modify_ldt() system call invokation

2005-12-27 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 04:22:22PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: The ultimate upshot of all of the above is that Wine jumps throgh hoops trying to make sure that the memory image under Linux is the same as the memory image under Windows for loaded programs. I will not be the least surprised

Israeli Perl Mongers Meeting on Thursday, 5 January 2006

2005-12-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
The Israeli Perl Mongers ( http://www.perl.org.il/ ) will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, 5 January 2006, in room 205 of the Kaplun building in Tel Aviv University (at 19:00). During the meeting we will have Lightning Talks, especially such that are scheduled for the OSDC conference (

Re: modify_ldt() system call invokation

2005-12-27 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Rafi Gordon wrote: Hello, Processes can change their Local Descriptor Table using modify_ldt() system called. see manmodify_ldt or : (for x386 look at include/asm-i386/unistd.h: #define __NR_modify_ldt 123) However, usually there is no need to manipulate the