Cellular company as ISP

2009-09-23 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
Hi, What is the quality of a cellular ISP connection compared to an ADSL line. Like: Latency factor that effect SSH like protocols. The ability to consume the full speed capacity. Cheers, Miki -- Michael Ben-Nes - Internet Consultant and

Re: Open Source Games or the Lack of Them

2009-09-23 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
For years I been waiting to get the same Windows gaming experience from Linux.Sadly the gap is just get wider over time and I don't think the increase will reverse it self in the coming years. Lucky us technology change rapidly and my expectation is that in the coming years gaming / application

Re: Open Source Games or the Lack of Them

2009-09-23 Thread Ely Levy
Linux game experience is affected a lot by the lack of normal graphic API (It seems not serious engine uses opengl, even less use opengl shader language.) Drivers for most card work slowly on linux. With the exception of the closed source NVidia drivers. Beside that Linux is also really lacking on

Re: sendmail smart host auth (solved)

2009-09-23 Thread Erez D
ok. after seeing all references to this are for mc and not cf. i decided to go with changing the mc file. so here it is for posperity i added the following lines to submit.mc: == MASQUERADE_AS(doron.com) FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl

Codes snips on the web

2009-09-23 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
Hi, I noticed of http://snippets.dzone.com which provide a way to share code snips in a web 2.0 like. For years I kept my snips using private methods and I wish to start share and access them more easily. Does anybody knows of a better solution to share and keep code snips? Cheers, Miki

Re: For webmaster of linux.org.il

2009-09-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 15 Sep 2009 10:12:50 Michael Ben-Nes wrote: Hi everyone, I see its not yet fixed. Who is actually responsible for the site / domain ? Hi! I think it's Shachar Shemesh: http://shemesh.biz/ . He's subscribed to Linux- IL, but I CCed him on this. I should note that with this

RE: Codes snips on the web

2009-09-23 Thread ronys
http://www.nomorepasting.com/ http://pastebin.com/ http://pastebin.ca/ (In no particular order. I've used each of them a while ago.) Rony _ From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of Michael Ben-Nes Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Re: Codes snips on the web

2009-09-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 23 Sep 2009 14:33:59 ronys wrote: http://www.nomorepasting.com/ http://pastebin.com/ http://pastebin.ca/ (In no particular order. I've used each of them a while ago.) Hi Rony! With all due respect to them and to many other pastebin sites (see

Re: Open Source Games or the Lack of Them

2009-09-23 Thread Danny Lieberman
Shlomi Excellent analysis. Right on. I will add one more point from personal experience. People buy games with their eyes. A couple years ago I was experimenting with Croquet and Small Talk (both OSS tools) for a virtual world application and I had the opportunity to learn more about Microsoft

Re: Codes snips on the web

2009-09-23 Thread Ohad Levy
Hi, One option would be to create a github account, and create one or more repositories. you would get the version control + it would allow others to search and look at your changes. Ohad On 9/23/09, Michael Ben-Nes mich...@epoch.co.il wrote: Hi, I noticed of http://snippets.dzone.com which

jobop: PHP Contractor

2009-09-23 Thread Eliezer Israel
Abe's Market is looking for an experienced PHP programmer for contracted development work. Sound knowledge of object oriented programming and experience with PHP frameworks is required. Experience with the Zend Framework is a plus. Experience developing for the Magento E-Commerce system is a

Re: Cellular company as ISP

2009-09-23 Thread Guy Corem
Miki, In the last few months I've used Cellcom unlimited deal with Option GlobeSurfer III router, in a reasonable manner ( ~1GB of traffic per month). All was well, until today. In the last month, on purpose, I've downloaded about ~100 GB through Cellcom. I've received the invoice yesterday, and

Re: Cellular company as ISP

2009-09-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:47:49PM +0300, Guy Corem wrote: Bottom line: if you're planning to consume a lot of bandwidth, use ADSL / cables. Likewise if you plan on using VoIP. BTW: VoIP is actually not a major bandwith consumer. It is merely a competition to the service they provide. --

Digital Photo Keychains for Linux

2009-09-23 Thread Eli Marmor
Hi, Do you know all those trendy Digital Photo Keychains? These cute and tiny digital frames that are sold for 49-79 NIS and are charged and fed by photos from a PC through USB? Well, I've always was sure that they use the standard flash disk protocol with the computer, like all the other