Re: Hebrew fonts on digital readers

2011-07-03 Thread Steve G.
FWIW, this is not the same discussion as far as I am concerned. The previous discussion was about what reader is best for Hebrew book. This one is about how to read Hebrew on a Kindle 2. I am not going to buy eVrit, nor any book with DRM on it, if I can help it. On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:01 PM,

Re: UDP packets loss at Israeli ISPs during peak hours

2011-07-03 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jul 3, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: No, Geoff, I am not missing that. What you are saying is that the 50% loss is over the whole path that includes numerous "autonomous systems" (AS), and not all of it may occur inside the ISP's network. yes. While this is obviously correct,

Re: UDP packets loss at Israeli ISPs during peak hours

2011-07-03 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jul 3, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: FTP? TFTP? You're right, I think I confused the two. Regular FTP uses TCP. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM Making your enemy reliant on software you support is the best revenge. __

Re: UDP packets loss at Israeli ISPs during peak hours

2011-07-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:23 AM, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > However Oleg, you are missing an important bit of information. Since there > is no such thing as an "internet", one ISP can not be assumed to be at all > like another. In the real world, such things are determined by how good the > conn

Job Offer, for Freelancers in Linux System area

2011-07-03 Thread ik
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Re: UDP packets loss at Israeli ISPs during peak hours

2011-07-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 08:25:27AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > HTTP was built around TCP because the designers wanted 100% reliablilty > instead of (possible) better performance. > > FTP was built on neither. The FTP protocol uses UDP, but includes a > rudimentry implementation of the sa

Re: UDP packets loss at Israeli ISPs during peak hours

2011-07-03 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jul 3, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: We are all familiar with UDP vs. TCP tradeoff, but I think it is quite irrelevant in the context. The OP sees 50% packet loss through ISP#1 and zero packet loss through ISP#2. I do not think that one can claim that 50% loss is "normal" for UDP

Re: UDP packets loss at Israeli ISPs during peak hours

2011-07-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
We are all familiar with UDP vs. TCP tradeoff, but I think it is quite irrelevant in the context. The OP sees 50% packet loss through ISP#1 and zero packet loss through ISP#2. I do not think that one can claim that 50% loss is "normal" for UDP and the network works "as designed". The "upper" TCP wi

Re: UDP packets loss at Israeli ISPs during peak hours

2011-07-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011, geoffrey mendelson wrote about "Re: UDP packets loss at Israeli ISPs during peak hours": > That's 10 years old. Even then it was questionable, UDP packets were > dropped by ISPs all over the world when congested. That's why I worded The "expected" behavior is for the IP