Re: Linux BitTorrent client question

2005-09-21 Thread Alex Alexander
In Windows there's a Client called BitComet. This client allows u to "ban" certain content, blocking it from being downloaded. That way you can download just the files you want and it works. Bittorrent OR bittornado should have a similar option. Haven't checked it out though, will do when I get ar

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread ik
Hi, I myself uses cables, but dialers are a hoax (at least for customers). In ADSL instead of making the modem/router of ADSL to speak ADSL and Ethernet, it speaks only ADSL, and the dialer make the talking of ADSL and Ethernet for you. In cables, it seems that without a dialer, the cables com

Re: Linux BitTorrent client question

2005-09-21 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22 Sep 2005 01:23:48 +, Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Geoff, > > I readily admit that I don't know much about how bittorrent works, so > maybe I will say something stupid. Who cares - it will not be the > first or the last time... > > Assuming you use a client with a CLI, an

Re: Linux BitTorrent client question

2005-09-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Geoff, I readily admit that I don't know much about how bittorrent works, so maybe I will say something stupid. Who cares - it will not be the first or the last time... Assuming you use a client with a CLI, and to download a bunch of files you do sth like $ download $files won't a simple for l

Re: Old laptop is firewall, spindown the disk?

2005-09-21 Thread David Harel
Did it: works great. Thanks. Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 03:25:59PM +0300, David Harel wrote: Hi, I have this old laptop I turned into a firewall. It is only doing IP forwarding (NAT, MASQUERADING or whatever it takes) using iptables. I have 256MB ram on it. My idea is

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Peter
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, El-al, Netta wrote: btw, i asked them why they care how much bandwidth i use and they said something about them paying netvision for the bandwidth usage... strange... are they basically using netvision's service and charging users to be the go-between? (oh, and btw, i ha

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Aaron
Hi, I had this happen as far as price was concerned. I just compared the price others were getting for the same or more service and threatened to switch to the other company and I got a better price. The dialer issue I never even fought though, and you are right the dailer is a pain, I had no idea

passing non GET/POST request methods to php script on RH vs Debian

2005-09-21 Thread Yedidia Klein
Hello linux-il, I've a simple php script  (see below) that write to a file the REQUEST METHOD that was used while calling this script. means that when I use a browser to access this script it write to the file "GET" The problem starts while I try for example to send an OPTION request t

Re: Linux BitTorrent client question

2005-09-21 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:36:07PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > it's not a bug, it's a feature. the torrent does not really care where > one file begins and another ends, for the torent the entire "package" is > one large tar. to download sequencially will mean that the algorithm > needs to change

Re: Linux BitTorrent client question

2005-09-21 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Geoffrey S. Mendelson, from the post of Wed, 21 Sep: > If I am downloading a torrent that contains several parts, let's say > a linux CD install set, I want the client to finish downloading each > entire part first, before starting the next. it's not a bug, it's a feature. the torrent does

Linux BitTorrent client question

2005-09-21 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hi, I'm looking for a bit torrent client that runs under linux and has an unusual option. If I am downloading a torrent that contains several parts, let's say a linux CD install set, I want the client to finish downloading each entire part first, before starting the next. For example, the torre

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Alon Altman
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Random Penguin wrote: Packets sent to apple.com,microsoft.com,ibm.com,fbi.gov all go via netvision (fbi.gov is only five hops, which is a little spooky) Your data is faulty... All these are hosted in Israel via akamai or similar services. Alon -- This message was sent

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Random Penguin
Hi list, I am hoping that somebody from Actcom themselves is reading this list and will give us some facts. I personally have been very satisfied with the service I have received from them for the last 2 years. Their presence at August penguin contradicts the claim of some that they are no longer

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:06:51PM +0300, El-al, Netta wrote: > btw, i asked them why they care how much bandwidth i use and they said > something about them paying netvision for the bandwidth usage... strange... > are they basically using netvision's service and charging users to be the > go-bet

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's strange about these stories is that they appear to complain > about usages which don't appear extreme at all. 20 GB for 3 months > is just 2.5 KB/s (20 kbps), an amount that even a modem user could > use (say, connected 8 hours a day). If you're

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:59:57AM -0700, Alex Shnitman wrote: > Same story here. I signed up for a year, and after the > year ended they told me I have too pay 2000 NIS for > the next year (that's 166 NIS a month!) because of > high bandwidth usage. So I guess that's what they need > the monitorin

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"El-al, Netta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this is what i have to say about actcom: last year i got sick of > bezeqint's crappy service and their hanging up on me every time i > uttered the word linux so i switched to actcom. they were a little > more expensive but offered me a deal for a half a

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread El-al, Netta
btw, i asked them why they care how much bandwidth i use and they said something about them paying netvision for the bandwidth usage... strange... are they basically using netvision's service and charging users to be the go-between? (oh, and btw, i had a problem accessing www.craiglist.org and wh

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005, David Randelman wrote about "RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more": > have no contractual limit on my usage, that I paid extra to increase my > upload to 150kbps and to be fair, I don't think 20GB for 3 months (both TX > and RX) is abusive of the service. What's strange ab

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread David Randelman
After being with Actcom for almost 8 years even when their bandwidth was crappy, the same things recently happen to me with them- they claimed that in 3 months I downloaded 20GB of Data and that according to that I should be paying them 3 times the amount I paid until now (I paid a year in advance)

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Alex Shnitman
Same story here. I signed up for a year, and after the year ended they told me I have too pay 2000 NIS for the next year (that's 166 NIS a month!) because of high bandwidth usage. So I guess that's what they need the monitoring for. I'm also a happy Netvision customer now. Although having a static

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Maxim Kovgan
Ido Kanner wrote: >Hi list, > >Recently I updated my 4 years old account in Actcom (this is my 4th year). >After watching the price of the account in my office, I found out that I pay a >lot more for a lot less. That is I pay 760 NIS for 750 without a dialer, while >at work we pay a lot less for a

Re: Procmail

2005-09-21 Thread Leonid Podolny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alon Altman wrote: > > It seems you're using an mbox file and you have passed the maximum file > size > of 4GB. I suggest either switching to maildir or archiving your old LKML > messages to a different folder. > > Alon > No, it's only 60Mb -- it

RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread El-al, Netta
this is what i have to say about actcom: last year i got sick of bezeqint's crappy service and their hanging up on me every time i uttered the word linux so i switched to actcom. they were a little more expensive but offered me a deal for a half a year for fifty something shekels for 1.5M. after

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, I had the same problem, but not with the money issue. When i upgraded my Internet line, they automatically moved me to dialer. All my body was shaking from anger ;) I called them and fought for my right to continue with DHCP. I finally got it, but a bitter taste still floating in my mouth. I ha

Re: Procmail

2005-09-21 Thread Alon Altman
It seems you're using an mbox file and you have passed the maximum file size of 4GB. I suggest either switching to maildir or archiving your old LKML messages to a different folder. Alon On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Leonid Podolny wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, For some r

Procmail

2005-09-21 Thread Leonid Podolny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, For some reason my procmail rule on LKML broke down. At procmail logs I see the following: procmail: Error while writing to "mail/lkml" procmail: Truncated file to former size - From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 20 11:47:20 2005 Subject: Re: [ANNOU

Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-21 Thread Ido Kanner
Hi list, Recently I updated my 4 years old account in Actcom (this is my 4th year). After watching the price of the account in my office, I found out that I pay a lot more for a lot less. That is I pay 760 NIS for 750 without a dialer, while at work we pay a lot less for a faster connection. BTW