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1999-12-01 Thread nir bareket
Hi everyone, My linux server is also a mail server, for some resone i do establish a connection with him, but i cannot recieve or send mail. Does anyone run into this problem, and how do i solve it? 10x Nir __ Get Your Private, Free E

Lack of enthusiasm

1999-12-01 Thread Ralph S. Birnbaum
Schlomo Schapiro writes: > We have to make our ILUG (or GILI :-) more attractive to recruit more > members, and not only newbies looking for free help but rather (and this > is more important) professionals and specialists who can raise the level > of discussion and meetings etc. You forget t

Lack of enthusiasm

1999-12-01 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
Hi, I fully participate in your pain. Over the last year (or two) I tried to organize two linux *meetings* (nothing big, just plain meeting), but in both cases some poeple showed interest but never more than 3 or 4 and it never got anywhere. Now I know already more Linux people in Jerusalem that

Re: Jon Hall's lecture

1999-12-01 Thread dorit
>close all the windows closing windows is _always_ good for ones health, regardless :) = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail

Re: Jon Hall's lecture

1999-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am only a relatively simple user no users are too "simple" to participate :-) > but I would come to show solidarity > only I have a cold and a fever. Refua Shlema! close all the windows, run the heat daemon and reboot, call me when uptime reache

Re: Jon Hall's lecture

1999-12-01 Thread dorit
Hi guys I am only a relatively simple user but I would come to show solidarity only I have a cold and a fever. Maybe next time ?:) Dorit = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message

Re: Jon Hall's lecture

1999-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, guy keren wrote: > just FYI, some of us actually decided to 'get off our lazy butts', and set > up a (rather small) haifa linux club. it was started out few month back, > and carries out a lecture (almost) once every two weeks. so far there were thanks Choo! yes, I was correc

Re: Jon Hall's lecture

1999-12-01 Thread guy keren
just FYI, some of us actually decided to 'get off our lazy butts', and set up a (rather small) haifa linux club. it was started out few month back, and carries out a lecture (almost) once every two weeks. so far there were 6 lectures, including one given by informix's representatives in israel. t

Re: Constantly polling nonblocking I/O prevents the OS from putting the polling processes to sleep?

1999-12-01 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Shaul Karl wrote: > I understand why "This is often a waste of CPU time...". > What I am failing to understand is that the "OS can never put these processes > to sleep". the notin here is not "technically cannot", but rather "would not". these processes will go to sleep due

site. 2) http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/support/Linux/LDP/

1999-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Shaul Karl wrote: > 1) How can I tell whether I am better of using mirror instead of the master > site? if it loads faster, it's better for you, then use it. that's what a mirror is for. > More specifically, how can I tell if I am better of using > http://www.cs.huji.ac.il

1) Determining when it is better to use a mirror then a master site. 2) http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/support/Linux/LDP/

1999-12-01 Thread Shaul Karl
1) How can I tell whether I am better of using mirror instead of the master site? More specifically, how can I tell if I am better of using http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/support/Linux/LDP/ rather then www.linuxdoc.org? 2) Am I right that http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/support/Linux/LDP/ was not updated fo

Re: Constantly polling nonblocking I/O prevents the OS from putting the polling processes to sleep?

1999-12-01 Thread Shaul Karl
> Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > I found the last paragraph of subsection 12.1.1 of the "Linux Application > > Development" (3rd edition) contradicting my knowledge. Am I right that it is > > not accurate, or do I missing something essential? > > > > Trying to quote the paragraph without copying the

Need a ride for Friday's meeting.

1999-12-01 Thread Shaul Karl
I am in central Tel-Aviv. Can I join in to someone who is going to the meeting from the Tel-Aviv area? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsu

Re: Constantly polling nonblocking I/O prevents the OS from putting the polling processes to sleep?

1999-12-01 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Gavrie Philipson wrote: >Shaul Karl wrote: >> >> I found the last paragraph of subsection 12.1.1 of the "Linux Application >> Development" (3rd edition) contradicting my knowledge. Am I right that it is >> not accurate, or do I missing something essential? >> >> Trying to quote the paragraph wi

about getting to the lectures (physicly and conceptually)

1999-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
Partially a pep talk, and partially as a reply to the complaints I heard over the list about times and places. I'm adressing them all in one bunch, hopefully this will settle some of the issues. try to read this with a positive and optimistic mind before replying :-) the WHY --- In the past

Re: A lecture about the Linux kernel. (fwd)

1999-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
On 1 Dec 1999, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > I have a lecture hall for Friday at 1pm here at the IDC. > > Can you explain what IDC is and where it is and how to get to the > lecture hall? the IDC is indeed the interdisciplinary Center, and the map to get there is here: http://www.idc.ac.il/main/

Re: 15th Century French Castle for Sale (fwd)

1999-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Adam Morrison wrote: > The point was that the vast majority of spam is not followed immediately > by an apology from the spammer. So that message might not have been > spam. so far the one spam messged begot a thread of 15-20 messages in reply, all offtopic in every respect,

Re: A lecture about the Linux kernel.

1999-12-01 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Ira Abramov wrote: > > Friday. Sat would be unfair for the religious. > > I have a lecture hall for Friday at 1pm here at the IDC. if I can't get > Maddog, I still think we should have a lecture. Me and my dean are on > Peli Peled's tail, but he is hard to get during the COMDEX. if you have > con

Re: 15th Century French Castle for Sale (fwd)

1999-12-01 Thread Adam Morrison
> > This ``spam'' was sent to the mailing list on Sun, 21 Nov 199 > > 16:20:37. An apology explaining that the message was sent here > > by mistake followed 1:06 minutes later. > > Yes. Apology is not enough. The point was that the vast majority of spam is not followed immediately by an apolo

Re: A lecture about the Linux kernel. (fwd)

1999-12-01 Thread Adir Abraham
The IDC is the Interdisciplinary Center Herzlyia - "Hamerkaz Habentchumi Herzlia", where he studies, I think. If I'm not wrong. On 1 Dec 1999, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a lecture hall for Friday at 1pm here at the IDC. > > Can you explain wh

Re: A lecture about the Linux kernel + remider about Comdex

1999-12-01 Thread Eli Marmor
> I have a lecture hall for Friday at 1pm here at the IDC. if I can't get > Maddog, I still think we should have a lecture. Me and my dean are on > Peli Peled's tail, but he is hard to get during the COMDEX. if you have > contacts to him (Cellphone? Eli Marmor?) It'll help. I don't have any speci

Re: A lecture about the Linux kernel. (fwd)

1999-12-01 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a lecture hall for Friday at 1pm here at the IDC. Can you explain what IDC is and where it is and how to get to the lecture hall? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled ou

Re: A lecture about the Linux kernel. (fwd)

1999-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Ury Segal wrote: > > > Friday, December 11 ? > > > > Friday December 10 or Saturday December 11? > > Friday. Sat would be unfair for the religious. I have a lecture hall for Friday at 1pm here at the IDC. if I can't get Maddog, I still think we should have a lecture. Me and

Re: A lecture about the Linux kernel. (fwd)

1999-12-01 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Friday, December 11 ? Friday December 10 or Saturday December 11? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth." [F. Scott FitzGerald] ==

Re: Constantly polling nonblocking I/O prevents the OS from putting the polling processes to sleep?

1999-12-01 Thread Andre E. Bar'yudin
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Shaul Karl wrote: > I found the last paragraph of subsection 12.1.1 of the "Linux Application > Development" (3rd edition) contradicting my knowledge. Am I right that it is > not accurate, or do I missing something essential? > > > Trying to quote the paragraph without cop

Re: Constantly polling nonblocking I/O prevents the OS from putting the polling processes to sleep?

1999-12-01 Thread Gavrie Philipson
Shaul Karl wrote: > > I found the last paragraph of subsection 12.1.1 of the "Linux Application > Development" (3rd edition) contradicting my knowledge. Am I right that it is > not accurate, or do I missing something essential? > > Trying to quote the paragraph without copying the entire subsect

Re: Jon Hall's lecture

1999-12-01 Thread Moran Cohen
"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote: > > Personaly, I think something like "Integrating Linux into a Windows World", > would be far better. It might attract people who are not pro-linux, and > that's what we need. I think what should be promoted is open source/free software in general, because I don't

Constantly polling nonblocking I/O prevents the OS from putting the polling processes to sleep?

1999-12-01 Thread Shaul Karl
I found the last paragraph of subsection 12.1.1 of the "Linux Application Development" (3rd edition) contradicting my knowledge. Am I right that it is not accurate, or do I missing something essential? Trying to quote the paragraph without copying the entire subsection, I get: Although nonblo

Re: Logical Hebrew Under Netscape

1999-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > 3. Is PF1 involved with this project? 2 days ago slashdot published that > Redhat is going to give some financial boost to mozilla. Any relations > to this? and 4. does it mean Logical Hebrew just for Windows (editing in Email and composer) or does it a