Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:03:49PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, Here is a theoretical question: Lets say I have a Linux server in Israel, and I have a block of storage (lets say iSCSI partition for this example) in USA, and I want to mount it on my server in Israel. iSCSI over such a

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:27:34 +0200 From: Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org To: Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com Cc: ILUG linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: remote directory/partition On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:03:49PM +0200, Hetz Ben

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Nutrino will enforce connection-less transport. I am not sure it is desired. He will have to emulate connection tracking by software, which will pay these few nanoseconds earned earlier. Not worth it, I think. Gravity generator. The speed of gravity is still unknown, but might be very very fast,

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:24:40AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: If you use IP over nutrino-based transport you might be able to shave a few nanoseconds off the speed of light, see this: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/neutrinos-faster-than-light/ Shavua tov, The speed of

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote about Re: remote directory/partition: Gravity generator. The speed of gravity is still unknown, but might be very very fast, and will enforce low-latency and cross-barrier transport across continents. I don't think, however, you can find a gravity

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 23, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: (And for those of you who ask why those stupid folks use a GPS to messure the distance and don't messure it accurately once: the ground around the Alps moves. And the distance has changed over the course of the experiment) So lighttpd is

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 23, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: Indeed. It is worth remembering that the diameter of a circle is a full 1.5708 (PI/2) times shorter than half its circumference, so if you can get the communication *through* the earth, you can make the latency 37% lower than with

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011, geoffrey mendelson wrote about Re: remote directory/partition: If you are going that far, you can just install an oracle database, and have it serve you the data before you ask for it. Make sure not to get the Cassandra version, the data is unreliable. Actually,

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread Udi Finkelstein
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2011, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote about Re: remote directory/partition: Gravity generator. The speed of gravity is still unknown, but might be very very fast, and will enforce low-latency and

FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

2011-10-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, The Free Software Foundation started a campaign called “Stand up for your freedom to install free software!” about Microsoft's plan to enforce “Secure Boot” in the installations of Windows 8, which will prevent people from being able to boot into GNU/Linux, one of the BSD variants, or

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread guy keren
as far as i know, the only available solutions for this problem - are commercial solutions, that perform some kind of caching on the local side - this assuming you need to access the device on both sides (i.e. both in the USA and in israel). if your needs are different - please state them -

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

2011-10-23 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Oct 23, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: The Free Software Foundation started a campaign called “Stand up for your freedom to install free software!” about Microsoft's plan to enforce “Secure Boot” in the installations of Windows 8, which will prevent people from being able to

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

2011-10-23 Thread Ori Idan
Unfortunately this is not FUD at all, it was reported by a Red-Hat employee and was not denied by Microsoft. See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/21/secure_boot_firmware_linux_exclusion_fears/ -- Ori Idan On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 1:06 PM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

2011-10-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:11:01PM +0200, Ori Idan wrote: Unfortunately this is not FUD at all, it was reported by a Red-Hat employee and was not denied by Microsoft. See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/21/secure_boot_firmware_linux_exclusion_fears/ The said RedHat employee is Matthew

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
2011/10/22 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com: Hi, Here is a theoretical question: Lets say I have a Linux server in Israel, and I have a block of storage (lets say iSCSI partition for this example) in USA, and I want to mount it on my server in Israel. iSCSI over such a long distance and with

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread Evgeniy Ginzburg
2011/10/22 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com: Hi, Here is a theoretical question: Lets say I have a Linux server in Israel, and I have a block of storage (lets say iSCSI partition for this example) in USA, and I want to mount it on my server in Israel. iSCSI over such a long distance and with

OT:yard sale

2011-10-23 Thread Meir Michanie
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Fwd: OT:yard sale

2011-10-23 Thread Meir Michanie
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OT: Linux magazines

2011-10-23 Thread Meir Michanie
Hi List, I am selling a bunch of Linux magazines (around 180 issues) Most of it is Linux Magazine www.linux-magazine.com some Linux-Format, some Linuxmag, some Linux - Journal, bidding starting at 300 shekels, less than 2 shekels per mag. I own a lot of my knowledge to these magazines, so I

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23 October 2011 18:27, Yedidyah Bar-David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: I used drbd on a LAN, and know that it can theoretically work rather well on larger distance when used as read-write on one side only. They also have a pay-for tool to do this asyncronously called drbd proxy. This

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

2011-10-23 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23 October 2011 22:06, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 23, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: The Free Software Foundation started a campaign called “Stand up for your freedom to install free software!” about Microsoft's plan to enforce “Secure Boot” in the