Re: IPV6?

2011-02-03 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Not sure about the status for Israeli ISPs, but at least one is registered at ISOC-IL's IIX as peering also IPv6: http://isoc.org.il/iix/2x_list.html Very interesting on a number of levels. I don't recall seeing anything about IPv6 in either of

Amazon Kindel

2011-02-03 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hello all, Any of you got the Amazon Kindel? I was thinking of buying one (the WiFi $140 model) and was wondering if it's a good idea. The eVrit reader seems to be total waste of money - 900 NIS for 50% of the features and power... I'd appreciate your input. Thanks! Amichai.

Re: Amazon Kindel

2011-02-03 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 20:30 +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hello all, Any of you got the Amazon Kindel? I was thinking of buying one (the WiFi $140 model) and was wondering if it's a good idea. The eVrit reader seems to be total waste of money - 900 NIS for 50% of the features and

Re: Amazon Kindel

2011-02-03 Thread sammy ominsky
On 03/02/2011, at 13:30, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hello all, Any of you got the Amazon Kindel? I was thinking of buying one (the WiFi $140 model) and was wondering if it's a good idea. The eVrit reader seems to be total waste of money - 900 NIS for 50% of the features and power... I'd

Re: Amazon Kindel

2011-02-03 Thread Steve G.
There is a reason the Amazon is the market leader. From all I could read, it has the clearest screen, a long battery life, and is faster with less glitches than the competition. I also think there are more books available for it then for other format. Of course, I have only tried the Kindle, so I

Re: Amazon Kindel

2011-02-03 Thread Mordecha Behar
I think your best bet is BN Nook Color. The 7 inch screen is not as small as you think. I have a 7 tablet from China, and the screen size is just right. It's the size of an English paperback. (I know that Hebrew ones are larger, for some reason...) The main advantages I see are functionality.

Re: Amazon Kindel

2011-02-03 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hello all, Any of you got the Amazon Kindel? I have a nook. I got it because my wife is on several librarians lists, and everyone on them said they were buying the Kindle for the school because of some deal, but were buying nooks for

Inline assembly doesn't like constant 64bit values... Help?

2011-02-03 Thread Gilboa Davara
Hello all, I'm trying to pass the following command inside GCC inline assembly block (which targets x86_64 kernel and usermode). asm volatile { ... andq $0x, %%r11 ; ... } And getting the following error: 'Error: operand type mismatch for `and'' The

Re: Inline assembly doesn't like constant 64bit values... Help?

2011-02-03 Thread Udi Finkelstein
I'm not an x86-64 expert, but it implies from intel docs that 64 bit immediate values are supported only for the MOV instruction: http://www.intel.com/assets/pdf/manual/253666.pdf --- 2.2.1.5 Immediates In 64-bit mode, the typical size of immediate operands remains 32 bits. When