Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010, Michael Tewner wrote about Re: CPU RAM in a storage box: Have you seen this? ... At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of ... Looking at their site, it appears that

Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-28 Thread Ori Idan
I think dropbox.com can be used as a backup system to Linux. It has a daemon for Linux, however the daemon itself is propriatry, the GNOME Nautilus extension is not. -- Ori Idan On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2010, Michael Tewner

RE: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-28 Thread ronys
DropBox is nice for what it does, but I'm not sure I'd consider them a backup service. For Linux-friendliness, I don't think that you can find something better than http://rsync.net/ http://rsync.net/, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Note that they have discounts for Open Source

Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Not that I want to open a flame war, but.. $.80 per gigabyte? even I (as hetz.biz, my business) sell equivalent service for less then that price, and my servers are located in Israel. They brag about international, but looking at their FAQ, they do a backup to some international location, so

Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010, ronys wrote about RE: CPU RAM in a storage box: For Linux-friendliness, I don't think that you can find something better than http://rsync.net/ http://rsync.net/, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Note that they have discounts for Open Source developers. Disclaimer:

Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-28 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Sep 28, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: so in theory I could back up a terabyte of movies for the same price (of course, it would probably take a year to upload a terabyte ;-)). If my arithmetic and assumptions are correct, you can upload a megabyte in 8 seconds with an 800k

Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-28 Thread Ori Berger
Nadav Har'El wrote: At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of Looking at their site, it appears that while their systems run on Linux, they don't give service to Linux machines. Is that true?

Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010, Nadav Har'El wrote about Re: CPU RAM in a storage box: Thanks for the recommendation, I'll look into it. Their price is a bit of a turn-off, though - at $0.80 GB/mo, backing up 20 GB costs $16 a month, .. I wonder what is rsync.net's discount for open source developers

rehovot linux

2010-09-28 Thread Jorge Mariano
Hi to all, happy holidays first of all ! Now do any of you know if there are any linux groups in rehovot ? be it users/programmers/support Also across the country what linux pre-installed have you seen when buying computers ? what what type of computers ( PC/Latops/Netbooks/etc ...) on

Re: rehovot linux

2010-09-28 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 09:33 -0700, Jorge Mariano wrote: Now do any of you know if there are any linux groups in rehovot ? be it users/programmers/support I know only about a Perl mongers group in Rehovot, whose meetings I never attended. It was the venue of the last two August Penguin events,

Re: rehovot linux

2010-09-28 Thread Elazar Leibovich
I would like to see linux pre-installed on a computer. And assuming it's installed in a good manner, I might buy such a beast. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Jorge Mariano jmari...@ymail.com wrote: Hi to all, happy holidays first of all ! Now do any of you know if there are any linux

Re: rehovot linux

2010-09-28 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I live in Rehovot and would be happy to share of my knowledge and learn from other Gnu/Linux/free software users in town. As far as I know there is no Linux users group yet. I know some other guys who might be interested as well. Jorge, do you volunteer to organize it? Regards, Dov 2010/9/28

Re: rehovot linux

2010-09-28 Thread Steve G.
As far as I know, you can get a small selection of servers from Dell and IBM with Linux preinstalled, and there are specialty Linux providers that offer only preconfigured Linux servers. Also some netbooks (Aspire, EEEPC sell - or at least sold - them with Linux. I suspect you will have to order

Re: [OT?] Hebrew on Samsung Galaxy S android phone? Root'ing android?

2010-09-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:51:56 +0200 Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, September 27, 2010, Amos Shapira wrote: 2. root'ing and (as of last night) installing the Hebrew fonts and a soft keyboard solved 99% of the problems I had so far. I've been following this thread