Re: [OT] Miguel de Icaza visiting the Middle East

2005-03-12 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Ilya Konstantinov, from the post of Sun, 13 Mar: > > This discussion is bound to get wildly off-topic, so let's just sum up > that there's no reason[*] why a foreign guest whom our LUGs would be > interested to see couldn't visit Israel. well, in a discussion with RMS from several month

Re: [OT] Miguel de Icaza visiting the Middle East

2005-03-12 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Yosef Meller wrote: Seeing that link, it's obvious now why he fears that in Israel foreign citizens get arested for no cause - the border police have in their bag several cases of detaining visitors just for being leftists (um... I mean... troublemakers. Of course. You misheard me the first time

[HAIFUX LECTURE]A look at other open source operating systems. An introduction to *BSD". Ido Barnea.

2005-03-12 Thread Orna Agmon
Next Monday (14/3/2005), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once again meet to hear Ido Barnea talk about: A look at other open source operating systems. An introduction to *BSD". Abstract Besides Linux, other unix open source operating systems exist. The most popular one b

Re: [OT] Miguel de Icaza visiting the Middle East

2005-03-12 Thread Yosef Meller
Lior Kesos wrote: Hi Ilya, If you check out the bottom of Miguel's homepage you start understanding where he stands in the palestinian - Israeli conflict (although I generally read his blog for linux/gnome related stuff the ei (electric intifada) links where pretty interesting as well. http://prima

Re: Linux NAS like Solution

2005-03-12 Thread Michael Green
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:49:17 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you refer to a NAS that costs 2000$ as referred to in this thread or > to a high-end NAS such as the one you use? > Obviously I had our NAS system in my mind while I was writing, but I honestly belive that any dedic

Re: Linux NAS like Solution

2005-03-12 Thread Miki Lewinger
Shalom Baruch. I have been using a server with 3ware SATA raid for a year and a half now, and a Silicon something or other (built in with dell servers), on a variety of IDE RAID 0,1 and 5 levels. As you said: IDE is unreliable; I have experienced a 2 out of 10 disk failures. You can't beat IDE f

edimax 802.11g usb dongle (Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook)

2005-03-12 Thread Amit Aronovitch
I just got my new edimax ew-7317ug usb dongle working. (In fact, this post is my first wireless linux email :-) ). It has Zydas zd1211 chipset, which has a GPL'ed linux driver (dual GPL/MPL in fact) - no firmware needed. Reported to work on 2.4.x & 2.6.6/2.6.7 kernels (I'm using 2.6.10 - but t

Re: Linux NAS like Solution

2005-03-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 01:18:58AM +0200, Michael Green wrote: > I agree with Ariel. > I'm administering NetApp NAS (relatevely high-end one I must admit) > here. I've seen also SATA Raids baised on Intel server boards. You > just cannot compare first to the second. In my opinion no Linux with > wh