Re: Using the code of dead project - Political question

2007-03-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Besides the parts already discussed, there is a technical aspect. Under sourceforge's policy, you can ask to take over a dead project. If I remember correctly, it entails one of the many trouble ticket styles, but read the docs for details. Their policy includes contacting the original developer

Re: Using the code of dead project - Political question

2007-03-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007, Maxim Veksler wrote about Using the code of dead project - Political question: Hello List, A political question if I may. What to do if you wish to use the code of some GPL'ed project hosted on sf.net but the project is dead? Do you fork the project for your own code,

Re: Using the code of dead project - Political question

2007-03-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: As someone with a bit of experience with dead projects (I wrote one, sendSMS), I think the answer is yes: you can, and should, fork the project. (by the way, any takers for SendSMS? ;-)) What would you prefer. Someone forking SendSMS, calling it, say, SendSMSStillAlive,

Re: Using the code of dead project - Political question

2007-03-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:59:40AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: The second, example, is Mosix vs. OpenMosix. Mosix is an interesting cluster OS project from HUJI, that started its life as patches to a proprietary operating system (BSDI) but later became free software on top of Linux (see

Re: Using the code of dead project - Political question

2007-03-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote about Re: Using the code of dead project - Political question: Nadav Har'El wrote: As someone with a bit of experience with dead projects (I wrote one, sendSMS), I think the answer is yes: you can, and should, fork the project. (by the way, any

Re: RAID5/ext3 trouble...

2007-03-18 Thread Dan Bar Dov
That's a good question to which I have no answer. I don't know how google do it. I can think of 1. special file system 2. some kind of scrubber - a daemon scanning for FS changes and copying whatever changed 3. use a sync tool (rsync?) on adaily (hourly?) basis I doubt google has 1. This is some

Rsync and databases

2007-03-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
I lost the original to this thread, but I thought some comments may be usefull. First of all, rsyncing an open file is not a good idea. If the file is a database you can end up with a totaly worthless bunch of random bits. :-( If the file is closed, then RSYNC will work, but it may not work for

Scanners

2007-03-18 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hello folks! I am looking for a low end USB flatbed scanner = NIS 1000, mostly as a fax front end and for scanning documents. No fancy photography is required. An examination of the Sane site, http://www.sane-project.org/ as well as a look at the SUSE scanner installation list, crossed with what

Re: Using the code of dead project - Political question

2007-03-18 Thread Peter
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Star Office (which is MOSTLY but not 100% open source), or OpenAsterisk which was created because the prime nonemployee contributor to Asterisk had his GPL'ed code sold out from under him. Do you have a reference on OpenAsterisk ? Google does

Re: Scanners

2007-03-18 Thread Peter
Imho, buy an all-in-one machine from HP etc. It all works great under Linux with cups hpijs and sane. The price is about $100. You get everything in one box (even a copier). Mine is a HP-1315 and I paid even less than $100 at Office Depot at the time (with rebate + it was a gift but that's

Re: Scanners

2007-03-18 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 14:12 +0200, Daniel Feiglin wrote: Hello folks! I am looking for a low end USB flatbed scanner = NIS 1000, mostly as a fax front end and for scanning documents. No fancy photography is required. The sort of unit I have in mind should have resolution 1200x2400 or

Re: Rsync and databases

2007-03-18 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:35:00 +0200 From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Israel Linux Mailing list linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Rsync and databases I lost the original to this thread, but I thought some comments may be usefull.

spam and mail forwarding

2007-03-18 Thread Ori Idan
Hello list, I assume some people here have more experience then me with sendmail... I have a Linux server running sendmail. The server itself does not store mail for users, it only forwards mail to their addresses. It is done by adding their name in /etc/mail/virtusertable Is there a simple

Re: Scanners

2007-03-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 18 March 2007, Daniel Feiglin wrote: Hello folks! I am looking for a low end USB flatbed scanner = NIS 1000, mostly as a fax front end and for scanning documents. No fancy photography is required. An examination of the Sane site, http://www.sane-project.org/ as well as a look at

Re: Scanners

2007-03-18 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I've been using a Mustek 1200 UB for several years with no problems. Resolution is less than you specify (I think 600X1200), but for faxing and document scanning, it's more than enough. Even for OCR, I don't use the highest resolution. It sells for about 250 Shekels. NOTE that there is a

Re: Rsync and databases

2007-03-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:35:00 +0200 From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Israel Linux Mailing list linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Rsync and databases I lost the original to this thread, but I

Re: Scanners

2007-03-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 18/03/07, Daniel Feiglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks! I am looking for a low end USB flatbed scanner = NIS 1000, mostly as a fax front end and for scanning documents. No fancy photography is required. An examination of the Sane site, http://www.sane-project.org/ as well as a look at

Re: RAID5/ext3 trouble...

2007-03-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18/03/07, Dan Bar Dov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a good question to which I have no answer. I don't know how google do it. I can think of 1. special file system 2. some kind of scrubber - a daemon scanning for FS changes and copying whatever changed 3. use a sync tool (rsync?) on adaily

Re: Rsync and databases

2007-03-18 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:32:06 +0200 From: Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jonathan Ben Avraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED], Israel Linux Mailing list linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: Rsync and databases

Re: spam and mail forwarding

2007-03-18 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Ori Idan, from the post of Sun, 18 Mar: Hello list, I assume some people here have more experience then me with sendmail... I think it's that RPM you need to remove before you install an MTA because of some conflict. I donno, I use Debian. Is there a simple way to run spam filters