Re: 2 hardware questions

2007-08-10 Thread Dan Armak
On Friday 10 August 2007, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > 2 - I want to use smartctl, but: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# smartctl -i /dev/sdb > smartctl version 5.36 [i586-mandriva-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce > Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > Device: ATA WDC WD

Re: Printing Photos in Israel

2007-08-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
> Are you sure? I got to a page where they tell me to accept the ActiveX > installation and remove the pop-up blocker... Seems you are right. I guess my sister actually brings the camera/memory card and prints there. Sorry :-) -- Didi

Re: rtorrent choking my internet connection

2007-08-10 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Friday 10 August 2007 13:25, Gadi Cohen wrote: > Did you cap the upload speed at under 10 Kb? Or are you saying that you Yes. BTW, as an experiment, I removed the cap and uploads reached about 20 (slightly more than is "theoretically" possible. I also notice that a cap of 10 in rtorrent resu

Re: Webmail like Gmail + encryption

2007-08-10 Thread Kfir Lavi
Danny, Google apps is exactly what I'm trying to avoid :-) What did you mean by "You don't want to get involved in encrypted mail on your lonesome."? On 8/10/07, Danny Lieberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kfir > > The best bet for you is Google Applications - surf to www.google.com/a > > You d

Re: Webmail like Gmail + encryption

2007-08-10 Thread Danny Lieberman
Kfir The best bet for you is Google Applications - surf to www.google.com/a You don't want to get involved in encrypted mail on your lonesome. danny On 8/9/07, Kfir Lavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I would like to keep company emails secure and encrypted. > I'm looking for a webmail pr

Re: rtorrent choking my internet connection

2007-08-10 Thread Gadi Cohen
Shlomo Solomon wrote: > As I already wrote, the upload speed is under 10 Kb. So that doesn't seem to > be the problem. > Did you cap the upload speed at under 10 Kb? Or are you saying that you haven't defined a limit but you've noticed that it never exceeds 10 Kb on it's own? The latter is w

Re: rtorrent choking my internet connection

2007-08-10 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Friday 10 August 2007 11:55, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi Shlomo, > > I had the same problems as you had. I always have around 6-13 torrents > open and downloading/uploading. > > I'm using 2 solutions on different machines: the first is Azureues. In > Azureus you can set the total upload limit, no

Re: rtorrent choking my internet connection

2007-08-10 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Friday 10 August 2007 11:44, Gadi Cohen wrote: > As long as you're not using the standard ports, you shouldn't have > problems with your ISP. Probably your problem is that you're reaching > your maximum upload speed and therefore choking your connection. Check > the upstream bandwidth of your

2 hardware questions

2007-08-10 Thread Shlomo Solomon
1 - I need a USB 802.11g dongle. The cheapest one I found is a tp-link TL-WN321G sold for 74 shekels at Ivory. The Ivory site and the manufacturer's site don't mention Linux support, but I did find an Australian reseller who does mention Linux and a few vague references to it working in Fedora o

Re: rtorrent choking my internet connection

2007-08-10 Thread shimi
On Friday 10 August 2007 11:44, Gadi Cohen wrote: > As long as you're not using the standard ports, you shouldn't have > problems with your ISP. That was true in the past. Some ISPs today are already using Layer 7 protocol detection - so the ports doesn't matter anymore. Some even QoS HTTP po

Re: rtorrent choking my internet connection

2007-08-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Shlomo, I had the same problems as you had. I always have around 6-13 torrents open and downloading/uploading. I'm using 2 solutions on different machines: the first is Azureues. In Azureus you can set the total upload limit, no matter how many torrents you up/download. This method works here

Re: rtorrent choking my internet connection

2007-08-10 Thread Gadi Cohen
As long as you're not using the standard ports, you shouldn't have problems with your ISP. Probably your problem is that you're reaching your maximum upload speed and therefore choking your connection. Check the upstream bandwidth of your package (iirc with 1.5mbps it's only 128kbps), divide by 8

rtorrent choking my internet connection

2007-08-10 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I decided to try rtorrent (rTorrent 0.6.4 - libTorrent 0.10.1), instead of ktorrent whch seemed to be strangling my internet connection. So long as I was dealing with only 1 or 2 torrents, everything seemed OK. I should say that I didn't change anything in my firewall (i.e open any ports for rt