Orna Agmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Linux is complicated, becasue you compile.
Corollary: Windows is simple because no compiler comes with the system...
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Hi
I logged in to one of my servers today and noticed that the load average is
very high. After investigating the problem I found two processes in D stat
(uninterruptible sleep):
root 24344 0.0 0.2 1532 584 ?DN Jul21 0:01
/usr/bin/updatedb -f NFS,SMBFS,NCPFS,PROC,DEVPTS -e
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Sagi Bashari wrote:
I logged in to one of my servers today and noticed that the load average is
very high. After investigating the problem I found two processes in D stat
(uninterruptible sleep):
root 24344 0.0 0.2 1532 584 ?DN Jul21 0:01
Why then there is such a thing as uninterruptible sleep in Unix/Linux?
What useful purpose (besides full Posix conformance) does this serve?
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, guy keren wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Sagi Bashari wrote:
[... snipped ...]
Their parent- pid 1532 is already dead.
My
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002, Omer Zak wrote about Why do we need uninterruptible sleep?
(was: Re: killing uninterruptible sleep process):
Why then there is such a thing as uninterruptible sleep in Unix/Linux?
What useful purpose (besides full Posix conformance) does this serve?
As far as I know,
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Omer Zak wrote:
Why then there is such a thing as uninterruptible sleep in Unix/Linux?
What useful purpose (besides full Posix conformance) does this serve?
cause in some situations, you cannot afford to be interrupted. for
example, when you have a mutex you own, and you
I meant that installation should be much more user-friendly so that a
general user
will be able to install it alone.
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- Original Message -
From: Orna Agmon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Eliran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED];
A computer is a complecated system. When something is broken in your house
you can either fix it yourself (if you know how), ask a friend to fix it
for you, or call a shiputznik.
Quite the same with computers.
But installations *should* be a basic and easy to use thing, at least that
what
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Eliran wrote:
A computer is a complecated system. When something is broken in your house
you can either fix it yourself (if you know how), ask a friend to fix it
for you, or call a shiputznik.
Quite the same with computers.
But installations *should* be a basic
Eliran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some windows users (that I know) *don't* know how to install the OS.
If we want these kind of users to use linux, we at least should make the
installation easier.
True story:
Yesterday night an acquaintance asked me to help her with her
computer. She was
My whole point is that installations as a general thing should be easy to
use, especially OS's
installations... Unless you want only gurus and techies to use the OS...
Currently I'm trying to help a newbie to install linux but he gets errors in
the installation,
that's what he get :
hda:hewelt
Of course there are some exceptions, not all users care about the
installation or reading/writing
documents. But most do care.
About the games it's depend about what kind of games... Graphic games such
as
Quake 1-3 and Unreal works there even better than on win machines, games are
available to
Title: RE: Desktop Linux -- Linux lost
You can not compare seriously quantity and quality of games on Windows and Linux.
And this is major use of computer at the most family homes... :(
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-- From: Eliran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
-- Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002
Title: RE: Desktop Linux -- Linux lost
Not quality, it's the usage of the power of the
video card.
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G./a
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From:
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 6:15 PM
Subject: RE:
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2014694,00.html
What is happening with Ynet ? once they use the term 'cracker'
and another they use 'hacker'...
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 05:51:15PM +0200, Eliran wrote:
About the games it's depend about what kind of games... Graphic games such
as
Quake 1-3 and Unreal works there even better than on win machines, games are
available to purchase from locki.
Ehem, Loki's dead, has been for quite some
Eliran wrote:
Quake 1-3 and Unreal works there even better than on win machines, games are
available to purchase from locki.
sorry to point the obvious here, but loki went down in a mantle of flames
(have I gotten my mythologies mixed up ? o:-) )
so no, there are no serious new games for
On Monday 22 July 2002 12:13, Eliran wrote:
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2014694,00.html
What is happening with Ynet ? once they use the term 'cracker'
and another they use 'hacker'...
Maybe, but just maybe, the reason is two different journalists having two
different opinions?
Eliran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some windows users (that I know) *don't* know how to install the OS.
If we want these kind of users to use linux, we at least should make the
installation easier.
For the record, me and another member of this list were paid for aprox.
3 years for building
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 06:09, Alex Chudnovsky wrote:
What they aren't right in, IMHO, is that such 13 y.o teenagers should get some
life on their vacation instead of spending 18(sic!) hours a day at a computer
- actually becoming computeroholics.
Oh, right, they should play some more
I am looking for an old SVGA adapter to grab 2 of its memory chips.
I believe I am looking for chips that were popular on the latest
generation of {ISA,VLB} display adapters or early generations of PCI
display adapters. This imply that if you have such an adapter there is
some probability
On 22 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
As for the 'Linux Lost' hugwash, I see where all my Windows-centric
*programers* friends ended up working (if at all) and I see where I and
other Linux people work and I know that *we* have won and will continue
to win. All the rest is just intertia.
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