Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-28 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yedidyah Bar-David) writes: How about placing a cheap microphone (with very bad shielding) inside the case (preferably, right next to the CPU's fan) and sample it, taking the LSB from each sample? Sounds pretty good to me, but I am not a physicist, nor a statistician. I

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:10:00AM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yedidyah Bar-David) writes: How about placing a cheap microphone (with very bad shielding) inside the case (preferably, right next to the CPU's fan) and sample it, taking the LSB from each sample?

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-28 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Oleg Goldshmidt: [snip microphones] I would not be so sure that it will be random at all. Especiallyclose to fan. Of course, a GPS receiver (6 channel) and usage of relative signal strengths/qualities can be used as seed too ;-) -- ---MAV Marc A. Volovic

Where to get avisynth.dll?

2006-06-28 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Ynet seem to try to address some of Firefox users needs by reffering to Firefox in their embedded video frames, e.g. I went into their article at http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3268358,00.html using Firefox on RHEL 4 and got a message explaining why I failed to watch their video

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I would not be so sure that it will be random at all. Especiallyclose to fan. I'll clarify my suggestion. Place the microphone. Whether a noisy environment (where there are a lot of contributers) or a semi-quiet environment (where even small contributers make a

Re: Where to get avisynth.dll?

2006-06-28 Thread Andre Bar'yudin
I guess you could get it from your Windows partition (if you have one). Also, there is a package of Win32 codecs for mplayer. I set it up years ago, and I can play movies from Ynet. Unfortunately, I am away from my machine, so can tell you exactly how it was done. You can find more info in

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In any case, after placing the mic, start sampling. Keep playing with the gain control so that the actual noise is at about 80% of the maximal sampling range (or, at the very least, no more than 80% of the sampling range).

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shachar Shemesh wrote: My little experiment failed to record anything at all from /dev/dsp. It will take me a little while to get the data. Does anyone care to look at the attached program and tell me why it fails to record from the mic? I've set the mixer independently. I get a bunch of

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:52:44PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In any case, after placing the mic, start sampling. Keep playing with the gain control so that the actual noise is at about 80% of the maximal sampling range

Re: sshd timeout.

2006-06-28 Thread Noam Meltzer
I suggest you'll try a test like running ssh client from the server itself to itself, or from a different server connected directly to it.I have encountered numerous cases similar to yours, and they all were related to connectivity problems. NoamOn 6/27/06, David Harel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-28 Thread Ami Chayun
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 16:06, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: At least on the boards I checked this, the sensors give very inaccurate data - e.g. temperature accurate to 0.5degC. You can't really use that for random data. I guess Intel's RNG has many more digits. How

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-28 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My little experiment failed to record anything at all from /dev/dsp. It will take me a little while to get the data. I managed to find out what DIEHARD is, but not how to get it. Care to help? Hmm... The FSU site seems to have lost it... And there

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-28 Thread Baruch Even
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Shachar Shemesh wrote: My little experiment failed to record anything at all from /dev/dsp. It will take me a little while to get the data. Does anyone care to look at the attached program and tell me why it fails to record from the mic? I've set the mixer

Turning OFF hardware TCP checksum offloading

2006-06-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi list, Is there a way to turn off hardware calculation of the TCP checksum? I have a setup with the following network connections Machine 1 - Firewall, eth0 on the internal network, eth1 connected to the ADSL modem, ppp+ connected to the internet via PPPoE on eth1 Machine 2 - Server,

Re: Turning OFF hardware TCP checksum offloading

2006-06-28 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:45:09PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi list, Is there a way to turn off hardware calculation of the TCP checksum? ethtool -K interface rx off tx off = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Turning OFF hardware TCP checksum offloading

2006-06-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Answering my own question Shachar Shemesh wrote: I want to test this theory by turning hardware TCP checksum calculation off. I've just downloaded the kernel sources trying to figure out how to do it, but if anyone happens to know the answer, that would be great. Ok, I got an answer

How to meter disk I/O ?

2006-06-28 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello, I have written a small application that performs stress load of filesystem. Which external tool I can use to meter disk I/O generated by this application ? I.e. I'm interested in number of Mb per second written to raw disk (not to filesystem or maybe its cache).. Thanks.

Re: Turning OFF hardware TCP checksum offloading

2006-06-28 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:00:46PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: As usual, you have all been a great help Careful, we might start charging you the going consultancy rate :-) Cheers, Muli = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: How to meter disk I/O ?

2006-06-28 Thread Omer Zak
vmstat -d 1 #(at least version 3.2.1, available in Debian Sarge)? On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 17:07 +0300, Michael Sternberg wrote: Hello, I have written a small application that performs stress load of filesystem. Which external tool I can use to meter disk I/O generated by this application ?

[OFFTOPIC] Re: Turning OFF hardware TCP checksum offloading

2006-06-28 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 17:14 +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:00:46PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: As usual, you have all been a great help Careful, we might start charging you the going consultancy rate :-) and deprive the object of the above sentence of the

Re: Where to get avisynth.dll?

2006-06-28 Thread Amos Shapira
On 28/06/06, Andre Bar'yudin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess you could get it from your Windows partition (if you have one). Also, there is a package of Win32 codecs for mplayer. I set it Nope. No windows partition either at work nor at home. Maybe I should try the separate corporate

Re: Where to get avisynth.dll?

2006-06-28 Thread Amos Shapira
On 29/06/06, Dan Kenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to http://www.avisynth.org/ it is a GPLed software that does video editing in Windows. I extracted the dll and I attach it (no warrenty!) because I don't see it supplied on the site. Please tell (preferably on list) if that helps,

Re: How to meter disk I/O ?

2006-06-28 Thread Alex Behar
Please mind that you also need a 2.6 series kernel for this switch of vmstat to work. On Wednesday 28 June 2006 17:27, you wrote: vmstat -d 1 #(at least version 3.2.1, available in Debian Sarge)? On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 17:07 +0300, Michael Sternberg wrote: Hello, I have written a small