Re: new computer. Thanks

2006-03-17 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 19:17 +0200, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi, Thanks to Gilboa, Didi and Alex for their answers. I think I got the picture. As the last time I bought a computer was three years ago (for my wife), the only information I had about the hardware available nowadays was from

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

2006-03-04 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 22:50 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Today, after few days, I upgraded the Debian Testing (Etch) installation on ThinkPad R40e laptop to have the most recent package versions. The laptop has few kernels - among them I have 2.6.15-1, 2.6.12-1 and 2.6.8-2. The 2.6.15-1 never

Re: Hebrew and Evolution 2.4.1

2006-02-21 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:21 +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi Guys and Gals, I wonder, any of was successful in configuring Hebrew with Evolution 2.4.1? It is really annoying - especially when I try to answer e-mails written to me in Hebrew. I have to fight the first line to go down (new

Re: Swap problem

2006-02-15 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 00:55 +0200, Marc A. Volovic wrote: Quoth Shlomi Shalem: Hey all, until now, except one thing: my swap partition is not working! I mean, my physical memory is always standing on somrthing like 96% used but my this is normal and perfectly ok. in fact, it is a

Re: Swap problem

2006-02-15 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 00:37 +, Shlomi Shalem wrote: Hey all, I have a strange problem, hope you guys are able to help:) Anyway, a few months ago I installed Slack 10.1 and everything goes well until now, except one thing: my swap partition is not working! I mean, my physical memory is

Re: VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:23 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:06:10PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, VMWare next week plans to give away VMWare (GSX version, not the WS or ESX). So? free is not open. Xen is both (and yes, it can run Windows). I wish VMWare

Re: VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 18:01 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: You can't run Windows from Xen today, unless you either have an engineering sample of Intel's Core with VT enabled (the shipping version has VT disabled, and that includes the new Apple ProBook or the new IMac), or you're willing to

Re: Adobe Reader vs. Ghostscript

2006-02-01 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 12:37 +0200, Efraim Yawitz wrote: Hi, I have a PDF file (a scanned book) which appears much clearer in Adobe Acrobat Reader than in Ghostscript (gv, actually). Evidently, Adobe does some kind of smoothing that Ghostscript doesn't. Does anyone know a setting or

[Job Offer] Jobinfo looking for UNIX/Linux developer(s) in Jerusalem

2006-02-01 Thread Gilboa Davara
Hello all, I'm not sure I'm not breaking the list's rules by posting this. (I'm not the one looking for an employee; I'm just trying to help) Never the less here's the original message: __ I am looking for outstanding C++ on unix/linux

Re: Any Linux package simmilar to Beyond Compare?

2006-01-27 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 05:06 +0200, David Harel wrote: Hi all, Well, is there? the feature that impressed me most was the ability to define synonyms but there are other impressing features on this product or maybe I simply don't know how to take the most out of kdiff. I personally use

Re: HTB Traffic Control Problems...

2006-01-23 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:37 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 03:12:22PM +0200, David Randelman wrote: From my experience the main problem is believe it or not your download speed as well, the ISP creates huge buffers of data being sent to you. If you want low

Re: Microsoft propaganda

2006-01-20 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 14:00 +0200, Efraim Yawitz wrote: Anyone have any reactions to this? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/facts/default.mspx = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Re: Security hole?

2006-01-19 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 19:04 +0200, Efraim Yawitz wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: You don't need to be root to create a tar file with device files in it. This is merely writing a tar file. You do need to be root (or otherwise priviliged) to mknod. Generating the

Re: Security hole?

2006-01-19 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 21:08 +0200, Efraim Yawitz wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Gilboa Davara wrote: Umm mounting loop device is limited to root for a good reason. Once a user had loop mount capability, it's much easier for him to mount a modified FS where all the sbin utilities

Re: RTL Hebrew Text Input in Evolution?

2006-01-10 Thread Gilboa Davara
Just to correct myself. RTL input semi-works. You can type text from left to right. (I'm typing this on 2.2.3) E.g: שלום עולם - מה שלום כולם... But it is severely broken. (At least on Fedora/Evo2.2.3 and Slackware/Evo2.4.0 (Numbers and punctuation marks end up in the wrong place.) Gilboa On Tue,

Re: RTL Hebrew Text Input in Evolution?

2006-01-10 Thread Gilboa Davara
Known bug in 2.x. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314988 Gilboa On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:26 +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi all, I would like to be able to enter text in Hebrew from right to left, like the BIdiUI extention works in Thunderbird, but in Evolution. Is it at all

Re: got Hyperthreading or not?

2005-12-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 14:08 +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: I just landed on this random page at RedHat and got confused - is this FUD? http://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/rhel/details/enterpriselinux3/enterpriselinux3kernel/ they claim kernels 2.6 don't support HT, which I thought became part of

Re: got Hyperthreading or not?

2005-12-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 16:55 +, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Be ware that the performance benefit of HT is negligible, at best. Well, it depends on your workload. As is always the case. Think twice before turning it on, if you are into I/O intensive

Re: got Hyperthreading or not?

2005-12-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:49 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 05:05:04PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: The application we tested on was a kernel based network system that did a lot of I/O (with network cards and FS) and a huge memory hog. We never really bothered

Re: got Hyperthreading or not?

2005-12-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:58 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: On Monday, 5 בDecember 2005 17:05, Gilboa Davara wrote: Either way, Intel is dumping Hyper-threading in future CPUs. In the end, HT was nothing more then a marketing ploy designed to save a bad core design. (The I've got too many stalled

Re: got Hyperthreading or not?

2005-12-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 20:17 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 07:43:28PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:49 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 05:05:04PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: The application we tested on was a kernel

Re: got Hyperthreading or not?

2005-12-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 20:53 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: On Monday, 5 בDecember 2005 20:13, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:58 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: On Monday, 5 בDecember 2005 17:05, Gilboa Davara wrote: Either way, Intel is dumping Hyper-threading in future CPUs

Re: Switching from HOT to aDSL, Cable TV to Yes (linux info?)

2005-11-27 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 23:29 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Hi, Due to HOT dropping the cartoon channel, I have been asked by my number 1 TV viewer (my 10 year old son) to consider dropping our cable TV and going to Yes. This would also mean dropping my cable internet connection and

Re: Singularity

2005-11-14 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 11:14 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: On Saturday, 12 בNovember 2005 01:32, Gilboa Davara wrote: About buffer overflow: you are missing the point. You are not overflowing the host stack, but the VMs one. This actually is good thing from that point of view. Um

Re: Free Software-like equivalents of Google?

2005-11-13 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 12:56 +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Omer Zak wrote: Now Google is in the news, and threatens to engulf the entire world and become the next Microsoft. Just as Linux is competing with Microsoft and is checking its threat, it may be a good idea to have something,

Re: Singularity

2005-11-11 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 20:23 +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Can you spell php...? cgi? How many computers ending up running php/cgi? 1% maybe 2%? How many Windows /desktop/ machines got comprimised since this thread began...? How can you even begin to compare these two cases. Perl gets

Re: Singularity

2005-11-10 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 22:48 +0200, Danny Lieberman wrote: Microsoft is developing a new O/S in c#- looks like they reincarnated IBM VM in a 2005 version Quoting: The Singularity project http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity contains new languages and tools, and a whole new

Re: Singularity

2005-11-10 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 18:45 +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Gilboa Davara wrote: They are talking about code isolation and preventing code manipulation, while their framework devision has designed the hideous .NET framework that forces people to dynamically generate code just to read raw

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
nVidia already contributes to the open source nv driver. A couple of months ago I spoke to the lead nVidia Linux driver developer about opening their driver, and he claims that even if nVidia wanted to, it is bound by a number of NDAs that prevents it from releasing a full open source driver.

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:19:46PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: With a little bit of luck, the FOSS community may persuade nVidia to release bigger chunks of their driver. (Currently only a small part of the drivers, the kernel glue is semi-open and can be modified) Not intending to start

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
, Gilboa Davara wrote: I understand your point. But as it stands, I rather have half open driver that works and gives me Windows-like OpenGL performance then have a fully-open driver that doesn't support acceleration (nv) or worse, nothing at all. That is your prerogative. Just please

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 15:12 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:52:43PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: Before we go into an all out war, may I suggest what I suggested to the said nVidia dev? Open -all- the generic code (AKA kernel interfaces, etc) creating a fully

Re: Petitition for Nvidia to Release Open-Source Drivers

2005-11-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
of the driver. Gilboa On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 16:30 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:07:13PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: In short, in my view, hopefully someone, somehow will find a way in- between * without starting yet another holly war (against nVidia) which we have no hope

Re: Bank Recommendation

2005-11-03 Thread Gilboa Davara
Leumi's Mozilla-capable site (their old site) works, but it's a far cry from their main IE-only site. However, it does work. Gilboa On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 17:20 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! I need a recommendation for an Israeli bank whose web-site has a good support for Mozilla-based

Printing Hebrew web pages in FireFox/Fedora?

2005-10-19 Thread Gilboa Davara
Hello all, I remember reading about a solution to this problem; but I couldn't find it in the archive. How do I print a Hebrew web-page from within Firefox running on Fedora Core 3/4? OpenOffice/Abiword all seem to print just fine. But when I print from Firefox I get white-spaces instead of

Re: Why most people prefer Windows

2005-10-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
After sifting through this thread, and the the one that followed (firefox, etc) it, I'm forced to ask the obvious: Why did you post this message in the first place? * You like Windows. * You rather no spend the time require to learn (?) Firefox (!!!) and/or OpenOffice. * You find it acceptable

Re: performance diffrence between two servers

2005-09-29 Thread Gilboa Davara
Ummm Sorry for pointing the obvious... but: Old server has 10K U1600 SCSI RAID, while the new one has normal IDEs with a software RAID 1. (RAID1 is known to reduce performance) Second, did you check that the IDE drivers are running at UDMA133/32bit mode? (hdparm /dev/hdX) Gilboa On Thu,

Re: Fedora contribution mechanism

2005-09-22 Thread Gilboa Davara
Dan. Thanks for adding hspell to -extra. Do you have any idea if it'll be possible to add add ooo-hspell to -extra (or better yet, making it OO 2.0 compatible and then add it to -extra?) Gilboa On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 20:07 +0300, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: Hi List, I thought it would be nice

Re: Quest for *nix C/C++ IDE

2005-09-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 09:45 -0700, Nzer Zaidenberg wrote: Real developers (like me) use gvim and Makefiles like God intended us to work. Amen to that! vim + ctags. period. We don't use-no-stinking-mouse around here! No sirrie! lesser beings... use slickedit or kdevelop. slickedit cost

Re: Quest for *nix C/C++ IDE

2005-09-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 12:29 +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:44:11AM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 09:45 -0700, Nzer Zaidenberg wrote: Real developers (like me) use gvim and Makefiles like God intended us to work. Amen to that! vim

Setting up a private network behind a firewall.

2005-09-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
Hello all, I looking to create a permanent connection between my home network and the private network I have at work. The setup is as follows: Home - Firewall Cable - Internet - ADSL - Win2K - Workstation - Work. I'm currently using the SSH port forwarding to gain access to my private network

Re: Setting up a private network behind a firewall.

2005-09-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 14:59 +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 02:06:23PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: Hello all, I looking to create a permanent connection between my home network and the private network I have at work. The setup is as follows: Home - Firewall Cable

Re: Setting up a private network behind a firewall.

2005-09-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
Thanks. Vtun works great. The only thing that concerns me is the password issue (that sits inside the /etc/vtund.conf) I assume that the password is being exchange encrypted, right? Beside creating the vtun connection over SSH, is there any other way to secure vtun? Gilboa On Mon, 2005-09-05 at

Re: ACPI, buttons, and why my laptop stopped to shut off the screen of the laptop when the lid is closed...

2005-09-04 Thread Gilboa Davara
Try modprobe button The ACPI button module exists in build 1376. Gilboa On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 12:51 +0300, Orr Dunkelman wrote: Hi everybody, Few months ago, when I installed FC3, I found out I could save power by turning off the screen when the lid was closed. Surprisingly enough it was

Re: ACPI, buttons, and why my laptop stopped to shut off the screen of the laptop when the lid is closed...

2005-09-04 Thread Gilboa Davara
other PGP keys.) On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Gilboa Davara wrote: At last here, /proc/acpi/button exists. I'm running 1376. Gilboa On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 14:14 +0300, Orr Dunkelman wrote: The library doesn't appear even when I load the button module manually. Tried that. Doesn't work. -- Orr

Re: Kernel mode disk I/O. Take 2. (Was: File I/O within kernel threads?)

2005-08-31 Thread Gilboa Davara
Amos, Thanks. I'll give it a try. Gilboa On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 08:40 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: Have you though of startting with the code of sendfile and going from there to add the processing? --Amos On 8/30/05, Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:40

Re: Kernel mode disk I/O. Take 2. (Was: File I/O within kernel threads?)

2005-08-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
the sys_open() as was suggested in GergKH article I had cited in the thread from a month ago ? ( sys_open() accpets the O_DIRECT flag) Regards,, Rami On 8/29/05, Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Couple of weeks ago I started a thread called File I/O

Re: Kernel mode disk I/O. Take 2. (Was: File I/O within kernel threads?)

2005-08-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
on behalf of the user. By drilling the code it seems that I need to map the pages using get_user_pages but due to the lack of samples/documentation I'm not really sure. Thanks, Gilboa On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 18:13 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: Hello all, Couple of weeks ago I started a thread called

Re: Kernel mode disk I/O. Take 2. (Was: File I/O within kernel threads?)

2005-08-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:40 +0300, guy keren wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Gilboa Davara wrote: Anyway, if you don't know how to use O_DIRECT from inside the kernel, why don't you take a look at the part in teh kernel that implments O_DIRECT from user space and do the same thing

Kernel mode disk I/O. Take 2. (Was: File I/O within kernel threads?)

2005-08-29 Thread Gilboa Davara
Hello all, Couple of weeks ago I started a thread called File I/O within kernel threads? which ended with a call for numbers. (Read: Is I/O within kernel performance increase justifies the development overhead?) Last week I took my user-land simulator (that takes a file, reads it, and creates and

Re: Gcc 4 in Debian Testing?

2005-08-18 Thread Gilboa Davara
I'm using GCC 4.01 on both FC4/i386 and FC4/x86-64. Seems to be working just fine. I had some problems debugging libraries under gdb when libraries were compiled against gcc 4.0. But I've yet to try gdb with gcc 4.01. Gilboa On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 20:27 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, My

Re: Advice - fastest INTEGER operations CPU

2005-08-09 Thread Gilboa Davara
It remains to be seen. I'm almost certain that the Titanic2 will outperform anything on this planet in FPU performance. But as long as Intel doesn't improve the ALU performance and bus design, it'll continue to produce lackluster Integer and memory performance, forcing Intel to further

Re: Advice - fastest INTEGER operations CPU

2005-08-09 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 11:10 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Gilboa Davara wrote: It remains to be seen. I'm almost certain that the Titanic2 will outperform anything on this planet in FPU performance. But as long as Intel doesn't improve the ALU performance and bus design, it'll

Re: Advice - fastest INTEGER operations CPU

2005-08-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
Shachar, There's no single answer to your question; in-order to give you better answer I'll need some further information about your software. Here's a couple of points that you might find interesting: (I mostly do kernel-level network streaming/filtering work, so YMMV) * The AMD Opteron

Re: Advice - fastest INTEGER operations CPU

2005-08-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
( wish i remembered where ) that if the budget is limited and the option are: Dual Opteron 250 CPU OR One CPU 275 ( dual core ) You should go on the single 275. one of the reasons was the balancing between two real cpus slow the performance. Im wondering if that true. Gilboa Davara wrote

Re: NAPI performance ; tg3 and broadcom driver

2005-08-01 Thread Gilboa Davara
Interesting... we're having a similar discussion under the title File I/O within kernel thread On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 11:35 -0400, Rami Rosen wrote: Hi, NAPI (New API) is a technique to improve network performance on Linux. It is not so new (relatively) - first howto is from 16/2/2002. In

Re: NAPI performance ; tg3 and broadcom driver

2005-08-01 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 17:50 +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: Quoth Rami Rosen: Best thing will probably test also with a new kernel, with both drivers ,tg3.c and the bcm5700, in all scenarios. Admittedly, we have not played with 2.4.x with the tg3 driver, but all tests we did on 2.6.x (x

Re: File I/O within kernel threads?

2005-07-31 Thread Gilboa Davara
that can be bent to suite my rather weird requirements. As the saying goes: Writing you own FS really cuts down on your Doom3 time! :-) Gilboa On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 14:56 +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Gilboa Davara wrote: Muli, I well aware of the controversy surrounding FS access from

Re: File I/O within kernel threads?

2005-07-31 Thread Gilboa Davara
Gilad, Umm... Interesting. You might be right... but I'm still not convinced. (Though my project manager will love the general idea. To say the least, she doesn't really fancy the idea of writing our own FS :)) I'm sorry if I seound harsh, but I don't think you udnerstand your own needs. It

Re: File I/O within kernel threads?

2005-07-31 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 17:35 +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: I should add the encryption optional, depending on load and source. (And more important, how fanatical is the client) (There's no way in hell, I'll be able to process and encrypt two OC48 links in real time...) I believe

Re: File I/O within kernel threads?

2005-07-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
: Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IL List linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: File I/O within kernel threads? Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:24:41 +0300 Gilad, First, thanks for the answer. On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 16:44 +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: A kernel thread is indeed proccess

Re: File I/O within kernel threads?

2005-07-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
-07-28 at 23:41 +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:15:57PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: Never the less, if anyone has interesting insight as for how to .very. fast file I/O inside the kernel (Yes, I know that its considered bad, and may results from a bad design decision

Re: File I/O within kernel threads?

2005-07-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
-28 at 23:41 +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:15:57PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: Never the less, if anyone has interesting insight as for how to .very. fast file I/O inside the kernel (Yes, I know that its considered bad, and may results from a bad design decision

Re: File I/O within kernel threads?

2005-07-28 Thread Gilboa Davara
(?) enough, porting my code to vxworks is not an option ;)) In general, I plan on doing swapper like file I/O. Gilboa On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 15:17 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: Hello all, I need to file I/O operations from within kthread context (Multiple fast network streams, no time to push

Re: File I/O within kernel threads?

2005-07-28 Thread Gilboa Davara
Gilad, First, thanks for the answer. On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 16:44 +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: A kernel thread is indeed proccess context, but since you brought it up already and assuming we're talking 2.6, the correct way to do is use work queues (and hence schedule_work) instead of

Re: Getting the IP address of eth0 in a kernel module

2005-06-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
/kernel.h #include linux/module.h #include linux/moduleparam.h #include linux/inetdevice.h #include linux/netdevice.h MODULE_DESCRIPTION(Test Module); MODULE_AUTHOR(Gilboa Davara); MODULE_LICENSE(GPL); static int ethernet_id = 0; module_param(ethernet_id,int,0400); MODULE_PARM_DESC(ethernet_id

Re: [Fwd: Re: Fedora Core 4 DVD version]

2005-06-22 Thread Gilboa Davara
fine. Why? I don't know, neither could i find a reasonable explanation. but it worked for me on two seperate machines. 5. Enjoy! Dvir Gilboa Davara wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 19:42 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: On Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:56, Gilboa Davara wrote: Did it detect your IDE chipset? I

Re: [Fwd: Re: Fedora Core 4 DVD version]

2005-06-22 Thread Gilboa Davara
I usually setup a mirror on one server and do an NFS install instead. If you use a kick-start image, you have a running FC copy within 20 minutes, hands off. Gilboa On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 12:17 +0200, Uri Sharf wrote: If it makes sense to you, and you don't need to re-install on multiple

Re: Directing kernel messages to file

2005-06-22 Thread Gilboa Davara
syslogd and klogd will log the messages under /var/log/message (or what-ever file configured in /etc/syslog.conf) Adding 'dmesg -n 1' to the rc.local will prevent non-critical messages from making their way into a console. Gilboa On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:49 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi

Re: Fedora Core 4 DVD version

2005-06-21 Thread Gilboa Davara
not being able to mount root device NULL and suggest that I append root= to the command line. What gives ? I'm guessing I didn't do anything wrong, but probably I can get it to work if I can supply the correct root flag. what should I put in ? -- Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nice

[Fwd: Re: Fedora Core 4 DVD version]

2005-06-21 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 19:42 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: On Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:56, Gilboa Davara wrote: Did it detect your IDE chipset? I think that it did, but I can't really tell as it runs pretty fast by, and i can't page back or pause it. The box currently has Mandrake 10

Re: Kernel code browsing

2005-06-08 Thread Gilboa Davara
I'm no kernel guru, but I, too, found cscope to be *very* annoying. vim+ctags is much better. (Let alone faster.) Doing :tag ssize_t or :tag size_t (Or Ctrl+] over the tag itself) will jump to include/linux/types.h without too much fuss. *However* if you you're looking for tag reference (E.g.

Re: Connecting Nokia 6230

2005-05-18 Thread Gilboa Davara
First, I'd suggest you post in English and in plain text. HTML Hebrew message encoding tend to screw numbers and links... plus, not all email clients accept HTML messages. In general, you can't find the serial DKU-2 in Israel (at least I couldn't) and the USB-to-serial DKU-5 cable (the one being

Re: Connecting Nokia 6230

2005-05-18 Thread Gilboa Davara
I stand corrected, then. Never the less, IRDA and Bluetooth should probe to be faster then a 128Kbps serial line. Gilboa On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 13:08 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: In general, you can't find the serial DKU-2 in Israel (at least I couldn't) and the USB-to-serial DKU-5 cable

Re: openoffice 2

2005-05-17 Thread Gilboa Davara
Last time I tested it (Build 88?), the Office import plug-ins advanced to point where I could open Office 2K3 docs that couldn't be imported by older OO versions. The beta itself was pretty stable and the Hebrew support was top-notch. Though, I'd wait for the final version before using it

Re: OT: computer for givaway

2005-05-09 Thread Gilboa Davara
I'd venture to guess that it's a P1/166MMX. The only other 166Mhz Pentium was the Pentium Pro 166Mhz/512kb, and was rarely used. Gilboa On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 15:51 +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote: Erez Doron wrote: I have an old p2 166 mmx for giveaway. Is that really a P2 ? I think

Re: Job offer

2005-05-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
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Re: Job offer

2005-05-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
Quite on the contrary...! If the bubble is back, I've got ~3 years to pay my mortgage, buy a BMW M5 and fly around the world... twice. (before going back to minimum-wage pro gaming in Java :)) Gilboa On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 18:00 +0300, Peter wrote: On Thu, 5 May 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote:

Re: Hebrew in OpenOffice

2005-05-03 Thread Gilboa Davara
. On the other hand, xfontsel shows over 2000 fonts. Perhaps I just need to tell OpenOffice about all the fonts I have installed, however I don't know how to do that. I am using Fedora Core 3. -- Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nice Systems

Re: State of ATI driver support for Linux

2005-04-12 Thread Gilboa Davara
a forum or reviews site? I've tried Googling, but I get old reviews - I'm looking for more uptodate stuff, especially with regards to their newer GPUs, such as the XT850. -- Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nice Systems Thanks in advance,

Re: State of ATI driver support for Linux

2005-04-12 Thread Gilboa Davara
: , 12 2005, 16:39,Tzafrir Cohen: On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:16:28PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: ATI has just released a new set of i386 and x86-64 drivers. While they are still inferior to nVidia performance wise, ATI seems to be doing it's best to close the gap. For now, I'd stick

Re: Bank Leumi Web Access (again ;-( )

2005-04-10 Thread Gilboa Davara
, I just get a message saying that the service is temporarily unavailable. Can anyone shed any light on this issue ? TIA. -- Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nice Systems

Re: Bank Leumi Web Access (again ;-( )

2005-04-10 Thread Gilboa Davara
I last used it on Thursday... Maybe we should contact their service-rep and ask for their help? Gilboa On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 12:35 +0300, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: On Sunday 10 April 2005 12:28 pm, Gilboa Davara wrote: Seems like a normal service-down problem. God knows it happens *alot

Re: ssh logout hang

2005-03-17 Thread Gilboa Davara
. That's not my case however. To make things worse it happens at random with different combinations of *NIX/SSH. -- Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nice Systems

Re: Linux NAS like Solution

2005-03-10 Thread Gilboa Davara
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RE: Linux NAS like Solution

2005-03-10 Thread Gilboa Davara
the RAID and Linux tools without changing anything. -Original Message- From: Gilboa Davara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 1:12 PM To: Baruch Shpirer Cc: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: Linux NAS like Solution

Re: cable internet service providers

2005-03-09 Thread Gilboa Davara
Interesting. How's your US/Europe bandwidth during peak hours? Gilboa On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 20:24 +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: I convinced Barak013 to give me DHCP access (=no dailer) so I won't have to configure the dailer under linux. That took a few calls and expressing the fact that I'll

Re: Xeon, 64bit Debian

2005-03-08 Thread Gilboa Davara
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Re: cable internet service providers

2005-03-08 Thread Gilboa Davara
Netvision. Hands down 1.The ISP wWorks with pptp and l2tp. 2, They have connection instruction and scripts (for both pptp and l2tp) on their site. 3. Their tech support have Linux people. Gilboa On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 16:56 +0200, Boris Zingerman wrote: Hi I would like to know which cable

Re: Resume needs to be in Hebrew?

2005-02-11 Thread Gilboa Davara
? -- Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shlomo

Re: which arch

2005-02-06 Thread Gilboa Davara
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Re: which arch

2005-02-06 Thread Gilboa Davara
or a server? Shachar Gilboa Davara Mobile: 972 54 4968909 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which arch

2005-02-06 Thread Gilboa Davara
actually run slower... As for WhiteBox/CentOS, I used them both on my x86-64 IBM Opterons and they worked just fine, greatly outperforming their 32bit variants. However, as I said, YMMV (Your millage may vary...) Gilboa On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 11:53 +0200, Erez Doron wrote: Gilboa Davara wrote

Re: IPS not detected

2005-01-27 Thread Gilboa Davara
is not there, it's just that the device is not detected. Ideas, anyone? Shachar -- Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: disabling selinux, fc3

2005-01-18 Thread Gilboa Davara
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Re: sound issue...

2003-07-26 Thread Gilboa Davara
idea ? tal. Please do $ls -l /dev/dsp. Gilboa On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 17:00, Amir Tal wrote: On Thursday 24 July 2003 10:07, Gilboa Davara wrote: no i dont. i didnt know that using cat will play the file!??! it just gave me a giberish output in my terminal. tal

Re: sound issue...

2003-07-24 Thread Gilboa Davara
Ignore arts for a second. Do you hear anything when you cat wav_file /dev/dsp (as root)? Gilboa On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:35, Amir Tal wrote: got myself a used dell inspiron 4000 for a (very) good price, and loaded debian sid on it. it used to run winXP before i formatted it, and sound

Re: sound issue...

2003-07-24 Thread Gilboa Davara
Please do $ls -l /dev/dsp. Gilboa On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 17:00, Amir Tal wrote: On Thursday 24 July 2003 10:07, Gilboa Davara wrote: no i dont. i didnt know that using cat will play the file!??! it just gave me a giberish output in my terminal. tal. Ignore arts for a second

Re: linux 9 installation

2003-07-16 Thread Gilboa Davara
I assume it's using the Intel Serial ATA controller, right? Try checking here: http://support.intel.com/design/motherbd/linux/ Here's the PDF: ftp://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/linux/RedHat9_info.pdf Gilboa On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 13:05, Herouth Maoz wrote: Quoting Moti Holzman [EMAIL

Re: IDE PCI controller supported in Linux?

2003-07-11 Thread Gilboa Davara
I'm using Promise controllers (NON Raid) for most of my older machines (All running RedHat 7.3/8/9) without a problem. However, some IDE cards are not supported... especially Raid cards. As long as you are going for normal ATA100/133 cards, it should be fine. Gilboa On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 20:47,

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