Re: Debian still generated bad ssh keys

2008-06-10 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/6/10 Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Sat, 07 Jun: >> >> But can you mark a package as "nothing depends on it, but I want it >> >> around" (lower-case "m" in aptitude) vs. "keep it around as long as >> >> something needs it, but remove it when it's no l

Re: OT: Netscape 4.61i

2008-06-10 Thread Tomer Cohen
Ira Abramov wrote: Long time ago, there was a Netscape browser with the version tag >> 4.61i. It used to be the first version with the core of Netscape >> Navigator to feature bidi support without funky fonts (Globes font was >> quite popular back than) thanks to IBM contribution and some talent >

Re: protection from runaway CPU-hogging process

2008-06-10 Thread Noam Rathaus
Hi, If it is not the processes maybe it is the harddisk/filesystem ? Log files being written by multiple users to different files can have a harsh effect on the performance of the operating system if the harddisk isn't up to it. As I recall from my university sessions :) Cadence tends to write

Re: QoS question

2008-06-10 Thread sara fink
I have 1.5Mbps dl and 128 kbps up. This is the only Qos they apply on me? Can you send a link where it's written that 012 was caught with rewriting actual bitorrent packets? I have problems with dc++. barely use bittorent. What other tricks they pull? I want to say that hot mpls without diale

protection from runaway CPU-hogging process

2008-06-10 Thread Ira Abramov
still at the client with the VLSI tools. Some of the users here are running heavy simulations (all userspace, almost 0 kernel time), at times a single process can hog the entire system. I have no idea how that happens, as this is a fairly modern kernel (the slightly older scheduler of RHEL4's 2.6.9

RFC: Linux "evolution"

2008-06-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I was a bit board here at home and I thought about writing a "short" article about Linux evolutions. I wrote about Linux mistakes, the ups and downs and where it stands today. Naturally, I didn't do any real time-line since 1991, but more of an "overview" if you will. You can see it here: htt

Re: OT: Netscape 4.61i

2008-06-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 04:58:41PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Tomer Cohen, from the post of Wed, 04 Jun: > > Hi, > > > > Long time ago, there was a Netscape browser with the version tag > > 4.61i. It used to be the first version with the core of Netscape > > Navigator to feature bidi supp

Re: OT: Netscape 4.61i

2008-06-10 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Tomer Cohen, from the post of Wed, 04 Jun: > Hi, > > Long time ago, there was a Netscape browser with the version tag > 4.61i. It used to be the first version with the core of Netscape > Navigator to feature bidi support without funky fonts (Globes font was > quite popular back than) thank

Re: QoS question

2008-06-10 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting sara fink, from the post of Tue, 03 Jun: > So, if they do it on the docsis channels, what exactly they do? > > And, how this influences the end user? it means the IP channel is locked to 1500/500 or 7000/700 or whatever the speed you are paying Hot for. nothing to do with the ISP, who may

NetworkManager

2008-06-10 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Hetz Ben Hamo, from the post of Tue, 03 Jun: > Ira, > > Network Manager is going to be the new default networking > configuration application accross the board: SuSE (SLES), RHEL 6, > Ubuntu, and Mandriva (if I'm not mistaken). Not sure about the next > stable version of Debian though.. t

Re: Debian still generated bad ssh keys

2008-06-10 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Sat, 07 Jun: > >> But can you mark a package as "nothing depends on it, but I want it > >> around" (lower-case "m" in aptitude) vs. "keep it around as long as > >> something needs it, but remove it when it's no longer needed by > >> anything else" (upper-case

Music to the ears

2008-06-10 Thread Amos Shapira
"Suncorp envisages Linux, ODF for 20,000 desktops" http://tinyurl.com/5gt6q2 Also see the mention of MS support for ODF as a catalisator for that decision... :) Just the kind of news I just lve to read :) Enjoy, --Amos = To u