Re: MSI Laptops under Linux

2007-09-04 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Daniel Feiglin wrote: > Has any one tried running MSI Laptops under Linux? > > Specifically has anyone tried the VR600 model? > > What's interesting about it: > 1. It's not too expensive > 2. You can buy it locally without a pre-installed OS > 3. The reseller (in this case Ivory) claims that they s

Re: question about mailing list

2007-09-04 Thread Michael Tewner
That sounds like a scary command... step 1: Sign up for moderated list step 2: Get email addresses of all users step 3: Profit! On 9/4/07, sara fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I lost an email of someone. What is the command in this list to > retrieve all the emails of the users in the list. >

Re: MSI Laptops under Linux

2007-09-04 Thread Oren Held
Ivory is not just "the reseller in this case", Ivory is MSI's Israeli representative (www.msi-israel.co.il). They push MSI very hard to the market. *I've never used MSI laptop*, but I'd bet the 'major laptop vendors' has both so much better official Linux drivers and community support. - Oren

MSI Laptops under Linux

2007-09-04 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Has any one tried running MSI Laptops under Linux? Specifically has anyone tried the VR600 model? What's interesting about it: 1. It's not too expensive 2. You can buy it locally without a pre-installed OS 3. The reseller (in this case Ivory) claims that they support it at their various centers i

Re: [Israel.pm] Perl-Israel Meeting on 11-Sep-2007

2007-09-04 Thread Yuval Kogman
Oh wow, an hour and a half... I should write some more slides. ;-) Is it OK if I give Stevan's introduction to moose talk, and then my talk from YAPC, both of which are 40 minutes? On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 19:47:32 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 September 2007, the Israeli Perl Mongers

Re: bt in core dumps

2007-09-04 Thread Ori Idan
Yes, I ran tests on the same machine so the linked libraries where at the same relative places. -- Ori Idan On 9/4/07, shimi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok, how about... > > Were the linked libraries stated in relative paths during > compilation/linkage ? If so, are they relative the same

question about mailing list

2007-09-04 Thread sara fink
I lost an email of someone. What is the command in this list to retrieve all the emails of the users in the list. Thanks in advance = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g

Re: Career advice needed

2007-09-04 Thread Herouth Maoz
On 04/09/2007, at 10:20, Kfir Lavi wrote: Consider going back to school and find the field you want to research. This will give you the intellectual stimuli you need. I thought about it. But then, I never could get a handle on the way academic research works. It was always beyond me. Coll

Re: Career advice needed

2007-09-04 Thread Herouth Maoz
On 04/09/2007, at 09:29, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Map applications are an excellent example for this topic. First, they may not have existed in the '80, but they certainly did exist in the early '90s. Only then you couldn't do them without a serious client, way over the capabilities of the

Perl-Israel Meeting on 11-Sep-2007

2007-09-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday, 11 September 2007, the Israeli Perl Mongers will hold their regular monthly meeting. The program: * 18:30-20:00 -- Yuval Kogman will talk about Object Meta Programming, which is a hot topic nowadays, with Perl 6's feature set materialising and Moose gaining acceptance. The meeting

Re: Career advice needed

2007-09-04 Thread Dan Bar Dov
Wow, what a thread have you started. My only 2 cents - and maybe I'm wrong - If you like the area of web-dev - stick with it. If you worked for the salary, I would feel sorry for you. But if you enjoy what you do, then stick to what you enjoy, the extra money is not important. As to technologies

Re: Career advice needed

2007-09-04 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007, Herouth Maoz wrote about "Re: Career advice needed": > by 1992 or so. It was just a matter of being able to work the > interface in a user's environment (when the user didn't have $10,000 > to spend on a workstation), and improve storage capabilities of > clients, and sp

Re: Career advice needed

2007-09-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:24:36AM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > I wouldn't be so sure, although there's probably a difference of > scale. You'd be surprised how many people call themselves kernel > programmers when in fact their output is accurately described by slide > 29 of this presentation:

Re: Career advice needed

2007-09-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:20:37AM +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: > If you are Zionist as you said, wouldn't it be great to create more power to > Israel, by boosting its economy. > You also don't have to build yourself the company or be a manager, its just > to find the right people to build it with the

Re: Career advice needed

2007-09-04 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:59:02AM +0300, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > but in fact do not. You don't have that marketing problem with Linux > kernel programming. I wouldn't be so sure, although there's probably a difference of scale. You'd be surprised how many people call themselves kernel pro

Re: Career advice needed

2007-09-04 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, I have worked back in 1998 at a computer game company. One of the leading programmers was someone from big company in the Silicon Valley, with about 10 years experience in graphic programming. Back then the salary was bombastic, but as for production, he was ACE. Unfortunately the company close

Re: Career advice needed

2007-09-04 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Folks, A word of caution here - HTML/AJAX/FLASH, etc. is a marketplace that is clogged with people doing poor work and getting paid poorly for it. There are a few talented individuals who are doing great work and are paid handsomely. The problem here is distinguishing yourself from the crowd