Re: MS buys Skype - will it support Linux

2011-05-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, May 11, 2011, Amos Shapira wrote about MS buys Skype - will it support Linux: In case this haven't hit your newspad yet: http://blogs.skype.com/en/2011/05/microsoft_will_acquire_skype.html Any ideas on what it implies for none-Windows platform support? I am not aware of *any*

Re: MS buys Skype - will it support Linux

2011-05-11 Thread Orr Dunkelman
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: I am not aware of *any* Microsoft product that is officially supported on Linux. So I don't think there's any chance that a Linux version of Skype will continue to exist. While this is the case, MS can only stop

Re: MS buys Skype - will it support Linux

2011-05-11 Thread Elazar Leibovich
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: 3. Will Microsoft also drop support for Skype on non-Microsoft smartphone OSs (iOS, android, etc.)? Microsoft is actively developing software for Android and iPhone devices, so I guess the answer is Yes.

Re: MS buys Skype - will it support Linux

2011-05-11 Thread Ely Levy
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011, Amos Shapira wrote about MS buys Skype - will it support Linux: In case this haven't hit your newspad yet: http://blogs.skype.com/en/2011/05/microsoft_will_acquire_skype.html Any ideas on

Re: MS buys Skype - will it support Linux

2011-05-11 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Nadav, On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:10:28AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011, Amos Shapira wrote about MS buys Skype - will it support Linux: In case this haven't hit your newspad yet: http://blogs.skype.com/en/2011/05/microsoft_will_acquire_skype.html Any ideas on

Re: MS buys Skype - will it support Linux

2011-05-11 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 11, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: I am not aware of *any* Microsoft product that is officially supported on Linux. So I don't think there's any chance that a Linux version of Skype will continue to exist. I don't agree. For two reasons. My experience with the Mac Version

Re: MS buys Skype - will it support Linux

2011-05-11 Thread Ori Idan
3. regulation - if MS go after the Linux version, they will probably face regulatory investigations all around the world. As rich as MS is, a billion or two in fines in several countries, may change the purchase to a disaster (think of the stockholders! why nobody think of the

Re: MS buys Skype - will it support Linux

2011-05-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
2011/5/11 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: In case this haven't hit your newspad yet: http://blogs.skype.com/en/2011/05/microsoft_will_acquire_skype.html Any ideas on what it implies for none-Windows platform support? I guess they aren't daft enough to just drop it but would they shuffle

Are Android questions on topic here?

2011-05-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Question to the (non-existent) LINUX-IL cabal: this is a list for technical questions on Linux. Some Android issues have been discussed here. Are technical Android discussions officially on topic or off topic? Can we decide once and for all? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org

Re: Are Android questions on topic here?

2011-05-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:56:28PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Question to the (non-existent) LINUX-IL cabal: this is a list for technical questions on Linux. Some Android issues have been discussed here. Are technical Android discussions officially on topic or off topic? Can we decide once

Re: Are Android questions on topic here?

2011-05-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 11/05/11 12:56, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Question to the (non-existent) LINUX-IL cabal: this is a list for technical questions on Linux. Some Android issues have been discussed here. Are technical Android discussions officially on topic or off topic? Can we decide once and for all? I'm

Re: Are Android questions on topic here?

2011-05-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 11/05/11 13:01, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:56:28PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Question to the (non-existent) LINUX-IL cabal: this is a list for technical questions on Linux. Some Android issues have been discussed here. Are technical Android discussions

Re: Are Android questions on topic here?

2011-05-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, May 11, 2011, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about Re: Are Android questions on topic here?: Isn't Android Linux? I think Richard Stallman would point out that Android *is* Linux, but it *isn't* GNU/Linux ;-) That being said, I suspect that most Android discussions would *not* be about its

Re: Upgrading Android Under Linux

2011-05-11 Thread Amos Shapira
I'm following the forums around it but from what I heard CM7 doesn't fully support the SGS yet though this might change soon since Samsung released the kernel sources a few weeks ago. Another concern is that the CM7 apparently doesn't add battery or speed on top of stock 2.3 Android. For this I

SYN flooding

2011-05-11 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I last week set up a VPS that we're using to run a little Internet radio station using Icecast and a handful of other stuff. I've done this before and have even done so professionally, and I've never had to deal with this. Yesterday and today at specific times, I found myself unable to

Re: SYN flooding

2011-05-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 11/05/11 20:19, Geoff Shang wrote: Hi, I last week set up a VPS that we're using to run a little Internet radio station using Icecast and a handful of other stuff. I've done this before and have even done so professionally, and I've never had to deal with this. Yesterday and today at

Re: SYN flooding

2011-05-11 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 11 May 2011, Shachar Shemesh wrote: This might not be SYN attack at all. This might be just packets arriving too fast to be handled. Could it be that during those times that the attack is arriving on something particularly interesting is on, and the number of listeners spikes up, and

Re: SYN flooding

2011-05-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 11/05/11 21:15, Geoff Shang wrote: Is there syn cookies statistics saying how many SYNs vs. how many ACKs arrive? Where would I see this? Somewhere in proc? If not, try to disable SYN cookies, and see whether the number of connections in SYN_RECV state (nestat -a) is steady of

Re: Are Android questions on topic here?

2011-05-11 Thread Omer Zak
As one of the most vociferous deniers of the existence of the IGLU Cabal (and whether it is the same as the LINUX-IL Cabal or different from it), let me chime in with my opinion. First, let's make sure there is not already an Android-IL mailing list. If yes, make its existence known and hammered

Swapping B and Caps_Lock in a new keyboard layout

2011-05-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
Hi all, I'm trying to create a new ergonomic keyboard layout: http://dotancohen.com/eng/noah_ergonomic_keyboard_layout.html I'm getting stuck on moving the modifier keys and CapsLock. My current approach is simply to modify the standard US layout to swap CapsLock and B, like so: First I enable