Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-05-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:05:27PM +0300, Arie Skliarouk wrote: For a long time I find myself looking for an open smartphone, with Linux and GPS. Initially I had high hopes for OpenMoko's platform, but now I think it is dying (...) This makes me look into direction of Android G1. Note

Re: [Linux-il] Web browser on ARM

2009-01-25 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:28:09PM +0200, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: I going to cross compile a web browser for ARM Have you any suggestion where to get ready web browser for ARM The whole of Debian is available on ARM; it contains precompiled binaries for several web browsers. However, it

Re: [SUMMARY] Current status of Israeli ISPs

2007-07-09 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 03:34:02PM +0300, David Smith wrote: (...) perhaps now is a time to consider an alternative possibility - a community ISP. I like the idea; I wouldn't actively participate myself because I don't live in Israel, but if it is n00b-friendly enough, I'd push my family to it

Re: UPS and Linux

2007-07-02 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:15:32PM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: On Thursday, 28 June 2007 19:42, ik wrote: I'm looking for a home UPS that is known to be good an to be working with Linux either by SNMP or other protocols that I can find some daemon that can understand it. Most Linux distros has

Re: Quickest way to list content of directory(s)

2007-02-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:35:27AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: There is a multitude of commercial compilers. Last time I heard, Intel's was considered the best or close to the best (it's their code that made Microsoft's compiler so good). However, I've read in the past that the Intel compiler

Re: revoking old uid's

2007-02-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:03:39PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: pub 1024D/0C6D642D created: 2003-08-26 expires: never usage: SCA trust: ultimate validity: ultimate sub 1024g/A8A01FE9 created: 2003-08-26 expires: never usage: E [ultimate] (1). Amos

Re: USB UPS

2007-02-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:11:46PM +0200, David Suna wrote: I need to replace the UPS on my Ubuntu Dapper machine. My local computer store (which knows nothing about Linux) has a UPS that connects via USB rather than the serial port. I was wondering if anyone knows if this type of UPS is

Re: Locating bandwidth bottlenecks

2007-02-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:01:59PM +0200, Gadi Cohen wrote: Is this possible? Try bing: http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/bing It may not do what you want, though. -- Lionel = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Freedom of speech online

2006-09-09 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 05:39:11PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: And the bottom line is this. It's not about you, just like it wasn't about me. As things stood, when MS did explicitly target Wine (in WGA) they actually went public with it. I've heard that Wine actually passed the WGA test

Re: Inernet Bandwidth Question

2006-08-05 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 01:05:17AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 10:39:19PM +0200, Nathan Orenstein wrote: I am confused by what my Internet bandwidth really is and how to measure it. I noticed that I had some problems with slow Internet. I did not expect this

Re: Off Topic - Lenovo To Shun Linux

2006-06-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 07:50:48PM +0300, Baruch Shpirer wrote: After believing in IBM for the last years for being one of the Linux not-so-little helpers Snort. Have you actually _tried_ getting a Thinkpad without MS Windows in the IBM days? There was like _one_ model years ago and since then

Re: the PAIN that is Adaptec

2006-06-04 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 09:37:38PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: I got into a fight this week with an Adaptec onboard RAID in an IBM x346 server. Is it worth all the trouble or should I stick to Linux' own MDadm? I think in this case I just might as well. I may lose the ability to HotSwap if I

Re: the PAIN that is Adaptec

2006-06-04 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:19:12PM +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: Quoth Ira Abramov: I got into a fight this week with an Adaptec onboard RAID in an IBM x346 Is it worth all the trouble or should I stick to Linux' own MDadm? No - do NOT use MD for anything except kiddie-games. Care to

Re: Inheriting directory permission

2006-05-29 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:04:09AM +0300, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: E Leibovich wrote: Is there any standard way to make a certain folder to inherit it's permission, to set a umask for this directory? i.e. I want all files created in this directory to have the same permssions of the

Re: HTTPS URL finding

2006-05-29 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:25:00AM +0530, Madhav Sathe wrote: i want to find the URL in the HTTPS packets. Look at the logs of the http server that is getting those packets. -- Lionel = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: [YBA] Job Opening

2006-05-17 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:52:07PM +0300, Imri Zvik wrote: Microsoft is not the root of all that is evil, Bill Gates is not Satan, and you can download a free Word viewer from their site. You can? A _free_ (like in speech) one? That will run on a free (like in speech) operating system? Show me

Re: Symbolic links at tar file

2006-02-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 08:11:04PM +0200, Ori Idan wrote: I have a source tree which some of the files are actually symbolic links to other files in the same tree. When I extract the files to the same machine everything works fine. When I extract the files to another machine with same

Re: Helping Linux move into business: FireFox vs. IE

2006-02-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 03:30:14PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:37:47PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, when a directory is protected, then the files inside it are protected as well. Not quite true. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: OT: Babylon scare tactics

2006-02-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:27:38PM +0200, Leonid Podolny wrote: A friend of mine, then a lawyer in the beginning of his carreer, once told me over dinner that he was shocked to realize how unfair our legal system is. One of the examples was that if the defendant proves that the evidence was

Re: [OT] Fair registrar?

2006-01-05 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 09:23:54PM +0200, Levy, Chen wrote: It's that time of the year, time to renew my domain. As I walk through the steps of doing that, I am required to agree to the terms and conditions of the registrar. In particularly in every place I looked so far such terms allow for

Re: An article about BItKeeper/git from historical/political point of view

2005-11-15 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:42:23PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: On Tuesday, 15 בNovember 2005 18:14, Baruch Even wrote: Omer Zak wrote: THE QUESTION: According to the above git README, objects in git are named by their SHA1 hashes. So, what happens if two objects have the same SHA1 hash,

Re: An article about BItKeeper/git from historical/political point of view

2005-11-15 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:09:24AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: On Tuesday, 15 בNovember 2005 20:55, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: What has _already_ happened is that methods for collision construction in about 2^60 hashings have been found, and are likely to be improved upon. Actually, 2^63 last

Re: Free Software-like equivalents of Google?

2005-11-14 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:56:55PM +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: [solved] Re: A Conundrum: weird load average

2005-11-08 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:50:38PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: I still don't understand why the Java process wasn't showing on the ps/top list - it didn't even have a lot of 'total cpu time' allocated to it. Maybe you are running a kernel before 2.6.10? See http://procps.sourceforge.net/faq.html

Re: Linux distro for new user with Hebrew support and open office

2005-11-07 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:09:44PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: On Sunday, 6 בNovember 2005 09:32, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 08:05:03AM +0200, Aaron wrote: would I gain something from ubuntu? I'd like to amplify Marc's answer. Ubuntu is sort of the Windows of Linux.

Re: A Conundrum: weird load average

2005-11-07 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 01:05:39PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: Another weird thing is that a quick calculation would have the VIRT usage of the system very close to the total memory available (1GB physical + 1GB swap), yet the top output above shows more then half of memory to be available(!).

Re: Linux distro for new user with Hebrew support and open office

2005-11-07 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:46:11PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: On Monday 07 November 2005 10:46, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: KDE is IMHO inappropriate for the title of good desktop for Unixy OS for another set of reasons; the worst is that they refuse to integrate with the rest of the Unixy OS

Re: How do I implement insmod from a program?

2005-11-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:37:47AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 02:35:19AM +0200, David Harel wrote: If that is the case, David, just do system (I prefer fork+exec - saves on the intermediate shell, but maybe that's just renmants of my Windows days talking) Not

Re: kernel building question

2005-10-30 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:23:06AM +0200, Aaron wrote: fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -vanilla --revision 0.1 kernel_image Tzafrir mentioned: make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot Yes, use make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot instead of fakeroot make-kpkg. It will give fakeroot less work, because

Re: kernel building question

2005-10-30 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:06:03AM +0200, Aaron wrote: Hi all I am starting again and noticed that in building my kernel the processor type was pentium pro. I have a PIII, should this be Pentium MMX? Well, no, it should be Pentium III. (Config option CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII, labelled

Re: Detecting media bus type

2005-10-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 07:24:55AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: The reason I'm not elaborating beyond what I already said was that there was not much to say. I'm trying to write something that will perform some operation on all HARD DISKS in the system, ignoring non-mechanical storage

Re: Detecting media bus type

2005-10-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 07:51:36AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: Try reading the bus entry in sysfs of the devices. For hard disks, it will point to an ide or scsi bus (as far as I guess, you don't need to differentiate between those) and for DoKs it will point

Re: Setting memory size limit over processes

2005-10-27 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:20:42AM +0200, Noam Meltzer wrote: I'm trying to set a size limit over processes for some system. I tried setting 'ulimit -m' (memory size limit), but it had no effect. You need to use ulimit -d and ulimit -s. 'ulimit -v' (virtual memory) it can restrict the size

Re: Web based mail client for linux?

2005-10-27 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:53:41PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:07:15PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: A local imapd. At least uw-imapd and dovecot support a pre-authenticated mode of running the imapd by the user. Thus you can connect with mutt from either

RE: cp -a hangs (wait_on_buffer)

2003-03-03 Thread Elie
Anyone? I tested the drive on Windows 98 in the same machine (dual boot) and there are no problems. Can anyone think what would cause this? btw, its a 91360u4 (not 931...). -EW -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Elie Sent: Sunday, March 02

cp -a hangs (wait_on_buffer)

2003-03-02 Thread Elie
can do to further test/fix this. I will try to format this in fat32 to use with windows 98 to see if I can eliminate some possibilities though I doubt that will be helpful. -Thanks, Elie. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: random adsl disconnect

2003-01-01 Thread Elie
eth1: succeeded Jan 1 08:47:36 golem firewall-2.4: After the connection dies, I can't ping the modem for about 5 minutes. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shaul Karl Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 10:41 PM To: Elie Cc: linux

RE: random adsl disconnect

2002-12-30 Thread Elie
not help. Could this be a network card problem? -Elie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Elie Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 9:06 PM To: linux ILUG Subject: random adsl disconnect I have been running my adsl connection on my linux box for only

random adsl disconnect

2002-12-29 Thread Elie
mentioned above comes in too slow to play. Why is the connection rate dropping to the masqed machine? Thanks, Elie. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo