Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-14 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Thu, 08 Sep: > On 9/8/05, Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The short answer: > > Just in case someone can answer a quick "yes" or "no": > BSD 4.2's filesystem used to move blocks around as files > grew in order to keep them together, does ext2

Regarding the kernel high-res timer

2005-09-14 Thread Amos Shapira
In light of the thread about high-resolution kernel timers, here is a bit of news which are somewhat related: http://kerneltrap.org/node/5661 Cheers, --Amos To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe

Re: Connecting from Linux to MSN Messenger?

2005-09-14 Thread Diego Iastrubni
ביום רביעי, 14 בספטמבר 2005, 10:02, נכתב על ידי Omer Zak: > I still have a problem connecting to ICQ from kopete (however licq has > been working for me for long time). > The problem is that the password, which works on licq - does not work on > kopete connection. > I tried to delete and recreate t

Re: how to add file type handler to firefox ?

2005-09-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 14:06, Peter wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi Peter! > > > > To add a new protocol handler, see: > > > > http://www.advogato.org/person/shlomif/diary.html?start=219 > > > > I don't know how to add a new filetype, but it should be possible. > > D

Re: dependuncey dungeon

2005-09-14 Thread Amos Shapira
On 9/14/05, Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > my subject unfortuentely says it all. > > I am using debian and with a mixed bag of sources. > > I upgraded my system to stable (which was previously sarge and stable was > woody) but didn't change my sources.list. How did you do the u

Re: how to add file type handler to firefox ?

2005-09-14 Thread Peter
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Peter! To add a new protocol handler, see: http://www.advogato.org/person/shlomif/diary.html?start=219 I don't know how to add a new filetype, but it should be possible. Dear Shlomi, the link you pointed me to above does not contain instructions

RE: sys / db performance & block size

2005-09-14 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Told u to use JFS :) Also, as I tried to explain in my previous mail, the block size of your disks is not necessarily 8kb, i.e. you will probably not save any I/O request that way (probably make it worse). A reason to choose a 8kb block for the File System, theoretically, its because you want the d

dependuncey dungeon

2005-09-14 Thread Aaron
Hi all, my subject unfortuentely says it all. I am using debian and with a mixed bag of sources. I upgraded my system to stable (which was previously sarge and stable was woody) but didn't change my sources.list. I hadn't however changed any system files and only removed a few apps. But my pr

Re: sys / db performance & block size

2005-09-14 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
After a week of testing i decided to go with JFS as the FS for Postgres. im not an expert benchmarker so I hope I initiated the right parameters in bonnie & pgbench. The bonnie command: bonnie++ -u miki -b -d /data/bonnie/ -s 6080:8k -m pr1 pgbench commands: pgbench -i -s 10 test pgbench -c 1

Re: Connecting from Linux to MSN Messenger?

2005-09-14 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
I like GAIM. dont waste lots of resources Omer Zak wrote: Did anyone succeed in connecting to MSN Messenger from Linux (Debian Sarge distribution)? If yes - what was the recipe used to accomplish this end? - Package/s - Manual configuration required - Full registration procedure assuming that

Re: Connecting from Linux to MSN Messenger?

2005-09-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:14:41AM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > Did anyone succeed in connecting to MSN Messenger from Linux (Debian > Sarge distribution)? > If yes - what was the recipe used to accomplish this end? > - Package/s > - Manual configuration required > - Full registration procedure assumin

Re: Connecting from Linux to MSN Messenger?

2005-09-14 Thread Alex Alexander
I use Kopete for my messaging needs. MSN, ICQ, Yahoo & Google Talk (jabber) all work nicely with no or minimal configuration required. GAIM is a good IM program too :) On 9/14/05, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Amos Shapira and Rami Rosen. > > I use kopete and when I start it up,

Re: Connecting from Linux to MSN Messenger?

2005-09-14 Thread Omer Zak
Thanks, Amos Shapira and Rami Rosen. I use kopete and when I start it up, various Qt related error messages show up but it seems to work OK. I ended up createing a new account on MS-Passport and then saw no failure to connect (but no actual communication with the user in question either, the user