How to get new people use IRC?

2009-09-17 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, I am involved in a project where I am trying to get some people who never used IRC or participated in any open source project, and some of them have never programmed to teach them some programming and to get them involved in an open source project. I encounter several issues in how to get

Re: How to get new people use IRC?

2009-09-17 Thread shimi
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am involved in a project where I am trying to get some people who never used IRC or participated in any open source project, and some of them have never programmed to teach them some programming and to get them

Re: Fwd: Flash based games not working

2009-09-17 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, I have managed to watch the advertisement part of the video on the http://wejew.com site: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133473 The trick was to disable adblock, remove or add exception for the stock rule /adserver/* . Looks like everybody here has the adblock enabled :)

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-17 Thread Lev Olshvang
Hi Gilad, Have you heard of KVM-lite ? (KVM that doesn't require virtualization features from processor) In what sense "KVM rocks", do we have any benchmark of KVM versus VirtualBox ? I saw a post from Ingo Molnar stating that context number of context switches in KVM reduced dramatically

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-17 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Hi, We developed and support for years now a software product for tech support centers that uses KVM as a hypervisor. One installation at Canon in Japan runs 35 concurrent Vista/win2k/xp and soon Win7 instances. Each session is about a minute long (it is used by tech support people to help them

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-17 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Kvm lite is not very interesting. As for VirtualBox - if you want to run one VM, especially if you are on win or mac, virtualbox is really cool. Whenthe amount of VMs is measured in tens, id use KVM. Gilad Amos Shapira wrote: 2009/9/16 Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com sklia...@gmail.com:

[Herzelinux] lecture today

2009-09-17 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Hi, To anyone who is wondering - yes, today lecture, The good, bad and ugly - of threads, processes and coprocesses by yours truely, will take place today at Herzelinux as scheduled. Details are on the web site. I haven't announced to the list because I am a lazy bastard^H^H^H been too busy.

Re: Fwd: Flash based games not working

2009-09-17 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/9/17 Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com: On ubuntu 32bit, the firefox locked up hard however, after watching the 10 seconds of the ad. Don't know whether this is related but whenever I try to switch youtube video to full screen on Ubuntu 9.04 32 bit firefox locks up. Does anyone else have

I have a rabbit in my ears ;-)

2009-09-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
While looking on Google for information about digital TV on Linux, I searched in Hebrew לינוקס טלוויזיה דיגיטלית (linux digital television) and I found the following forum, in Hebrew: http://www.unix.com/iw/whats-your-mind/87912-digital-tv-rocks.html I found the subject of the thread,

Re: Fwd: Flash based games not working

2009-09-17 Thread Raz
I do. firefox 3 64bit. Sometimes it gets so heavily busy that it hangs the entire system. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/17 Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com: On ubuntu 32bit, the firefox locked up hard however, after watching the 10 seconds

Re: Fwd: Flash based games not working

2009-09-17 Thread Danny Lieberman
Amos Flash on Ubuntu 9 in general consumes much more CPU than previous versions, full screen youtube on my dual core machine takes 70% of each of the two cpus- which may be why FF locks. I've confirmed this for 32 and 64 bit - it's well documented on the Ubuntu forums.fwiwpeople are

Re: Fwd: Flash based games not working

2009-09-17 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/9/17 Danny Lieberman dan...@software.co.il: Amos Flash on Ubuntu 9 in general consumes much more CPU than previous versions, full screen youtube on my dual core machine takes 70% of each of the two cpus- which may be why FF locks. I've confirmed this for 32 and 64 bit - it's well

Re: I have a rabbit in my ears ;-)

2009-09-17 Thread Tomer Cohen
Such websites became quite common thanks to Google who started providing Hebrew translation recently. They are doing so in order to get some traffic from other languages as well as doing SEO to their site (more content - higher rank). I guess that English to French translation, for example is far

Re: I have a rabbit in my ears ;-)

2009-09-17 Thread shimi
2009/9/17 Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il While looking on Google for information about digital TV on Linux, I searched in Hebrew לינוקס טלוויזיה דיגיטלית (linux digital television) and I found the following forum, in Hebrew:

Re: Fwd: Flash based games not working

2009-09-17 Thread Danny Lieberman
This is a well known bug in Flash on FF on Ubuntu - I've tried 32 and 64 bit FF3 and FF3.5 (you can update with Synaptic) and all I can say is that the problems seem marginally better in 32 bit systems - I assume because 64 bit Adobe is still alpha code. When you find an answer let me know Ditto

Re: How to get new people use IRC?

2009-09-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 17 September 2009 09:14:30 Gabor Szabo wrote: Hi, I am involved in a project where I am trying to get some people who never used IRC or participated in any open source project, and some of them have never programmed to teach them some programming and to get them involved in an

Re: How to get new people use IRC?

2009-09-17 Thread Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
Gabor Szabo wrote: I encounter several issues in how to get them to use IRC. One of them is that they don't find the IRC clients intuitive for them. The other one is that they seem to be afraid of talking on the main project channels. This is in general a good thing. People should lurk

Re: I have a rabbit in my ears ;-)

2009-09-17 Thread sara fink
I tried to translate more than once french to english. It is done badly as well. There is no way around with those machine translations. it translates word by word. 2009/9/17 Tomer Cohen to...@gmx.net Such websites became quite common thanks to Google who started providing Hebrew translation

Re: I have a rabbit in my ears ;-)

2009-09-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
sara fink wrote: I tried to translate more than once french to english. It is done badly as well. There is no way around with those machine translations. it translates word by word. Some of them do, at least. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Re: I have a rabbit in my ears ;-)

2009-09-17 Thread Orr Dunkelman
2009/9/17 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz: sara fink wrote: I tried to translate more than once french to english. It is done badly as well. There is no way around with those machine translations. it translates word by word. Some of them do, at least. my hovercraft is full of eels

Re: Mustek 1200CS not working

2009-09-17 Thread mbrace7forums
Many thanks for your reply Sara, I appreciate it especially with the Yom Tovim on us now, I looked at the link below also. I didn't get a straight answer from it. I have also copied to the /usr/share/sane/gt68xx/firmware those files including what could the firmware I downloaded from Mustek

Re: I have a rabbit in my ears ;-)

2009-09-17 Thread mbrace7forums
Manchester University were one of the first to install a computer. Back in those days they probably needed half the power of the Electric grid of the area to run them. They were all glass and large cabinets. By today's standard probably the equivalent of 286 computer not even a Pentium. 

Re: I have a rabbit in my ears ;-)

2009-09-17 Thread mbrace7forums
Manchester University were one of the first to install a computer. Back in those days they probably needed half the power of the Electric grid of the area to run them. They were all glass and large cabinets. By today's standard probably the equivalent of 286 computer not even a Pentium. 

Administering Drupal

2009-09-17 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, I find myself in the position of overseeing a Drupal installation on Ubuntu Server. We're running the 8.04LTS version of Ubuntu with the intention of staying with it until the next LTS release (next year?). The problem I have is that Drupal 6 is not packaged for 8.04. I got around

Re: Mustek 1200CS not working

2009-09-17 Thread mbrace7forums
Many thanks for your reply Sara, I appreciate it especially with the Yom Tovim on us now, I looked at the link below also. I didn't get a straight answer from it. I have also copied to the /usr/share/sane/gt68xx/firmware those files including what could the firmware I downloaded from Mustek

Re: Mustek 1200CS not working

2009-09-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Sep 17, 2009, at 8:20 PM, mbrace7for...@aim.com wrote: Many thanks for your reply Sara, I appreciate it especially with the Yom Tovim on us now, I looked at the link below also. I didn't get a straight answer from it. I have also copied to the /usr/share/sane/gt68xx/firmware those

hosted machine and load average

2009-09-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I have my own server which is located in US. It's running CentOS 5.3. I tried to ssh it today.. no go. I could ping it, but none of the services were accessible: http, ssh, etc.. I tried to connect using serial. I could see the welcome message, but I couldn't login (timeout). The only

Re: OT: Digital TV decoder USB sticks

2009-09-17 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, I bought this toy today. I'm glad to say that it worked out of the box in Ubuntu 9.04 - or at least it appears so: Kaffeine is happy with it, I do have /dev/dvb/ devices and dmesg seems to report that the drivers are ok. I bet the following kernel drivers are related: dvb_usb_af9015,

Re: hosted machine and load average

2009-09-17 Thread sammy ominsky
On 17/09/2009, at 22:33, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I tried to ssh it today.. no go. I could ping it, but none of the services were accessible: http, ssh, etc.. Sep 17 12:58:11 hetz sendmail[2707]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 140 So my question: What do you do in case you

Re: OT: Digital TV decoder USB sticks

2009-09-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi, I bought this toy today. I'm glad to say that it worked out of the box in Ubuntu 9.04 - or at least it appears so: Kaffeine is happy with it, I do have /dev/dvb/ devices and dmesg seems to report that the drivers are ok. I bet the

Skype Sound (was: Re: Fwd: Flash based games not working)

2009-09-17 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/9/17 Danny Lieberman dan...@software.co.il: This is a well known bug in Flash on FF on Ubuntu - I've tried 32 and 64 bit FF3 and FF3.5 (you can update with Synaptic) and all I can say is that the problems seem marginally better in 32 bit systems - I assume because 64 bit Adobe is still

Re: hosted machine and load average

2009-09-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Sammy, Watch is good and nice, but Watchdog main purpose is to reboot the server if something wrong happens. Thats not what I'm looking for. Hetz On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:40 PM, sammy ominsky s...@avoidant.org wrote: On 17/09/2009, at 22:33, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I tried to ssh it today.. no

Re: hosted machine and load average

2009-09-17 Thread sammy ominsky
You can make it do other things too, like kill or restart processes. --sambo On 18/09/2009, at 00:29, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Sammy, Watch is good and nice, but Watchdog main purpose is to reboot the server if something wrong happens. Thats not what I'm looking for. Hetz On Thu, Sep 17, 2009

Re: hosted machine and load average

2009-09-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I can write a simple script which will detect if a process goes crazy and kill it/restart the service, thats not the issue.. The issue is about investigating a rebooted machine after a huge load, for example: lets say it's not your well taken care machine but it's your friends small web server

Re: hosted machine and load average

2009-09-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: So my question: What do you do in case you have the same scenario? what steps do you take to prevent things like that from happening? I would focus less on prevention, and more on diagnostics. I usually use munin (you can see a live example at