use the interview (was: Re: Recommendations for XP under Linux)

2006-07-03 Thread guy keren
not that it will help you this time, but for next time: when i interview in companies and we get to the "terms of employment" stage, i clearly state that i require having a linux desktop. in my first few jobs, i simply had a linux desktop and that's it. exchange weasn't so popular back then, and

Re: subversion ouch

2006-07-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 30 June 2006 22:04, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Friday 30 June 2006 12:13, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > >>> What must I do to get this working? > >> > >> Since Shlomi brought up the matter of payed consulting, we offer > >> commercial SVN support as well. > > > > Seeing

Re: use the interview (was: Re: Recommendations for XP under Linux)

2006-07-03 Thread Andre Bar'yudin
In big companies it is much more complicated. On 7/3/06, guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: not that it will help you this time, but for next time: when i interview in companies and we get to the "terms of employment" stage, i clearly state that i require having a linux desktop. in my first

Re: use the interview (was: Re: Recommendations for XP under Linux)

2006-07-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:59:13AM +0100, Andre Bar'yudin wrote: > In big companies it is much more complicated. Not necessarily - it all depends on the company. I work for one of the biggest, and all you need to do to get a Linux desktop is ask for it. It's supported and in some departments, exp

Re: use the interview (was: Re: Recommendations for XP under Linux)

2006-07-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:03:27AM +0300, guy keren wrote: > note: i only worked in small companies, which tend to be flexible about > these issues. they say "for a lousy 3000 shmeckels i don't intend to > reject a work candidate that i want to employ". note that this is simply > part of the stand

Re: use the interview (was: Re: Recommendations for XP under Linux)

2006-07-03 Thread Andre Bar'yudin
Are we talking 10,000+ employees? In companies of such size the choise of almost everything on person's desktop (as in wooden desk) is dictated by centralized policies. So when you want to get something unusual, it is quite hard. I could have told you all sorts of horror stories about getting t

Re: use the interview (was: Re: Recommendations for XP under Linux)

2006-07-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 03 July 2006 14:12, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:59:13AM +0100, Andre Bar'yudin wrote: > > In big companies it is much more complicated. > > Not necessarily - it all depends on the company. I work for one of the > biggest, and all you need to do to get a Linux deskt

Re: use the interview

2006-07-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Andre Bar'yudin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are we talking 10,000+ employees? More like 350,000+ ;-) I work for them, too... > In companies of such size the choise of almost everything on person's > desktop (as in wooden desk) is dictated by centralized policies. So > when you want to get s

Re: use the interview (was: Re: Recommendations for XP under Linux)

2006-07-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 12:36:09PM +0100, Andre Bar'yudin wrote: > Are we talking 10,000+ employees? 330,000 or so. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the com

Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE]Utilizing IOMMUs for Virtualization in Linux and Xen

2006-07-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 01:53:01PM +0300, Orna Agmon wrote: > This Monday, at 18:30, Haifa Linux Club will once again gather to hear > Muli Ben-Yehuda talk about > > Utilizing IOMMUs for Virtualization in Linux and Xen The slides are now available at http://www.mulix.org/lectures/using-iom

Re: Haifux problems ? (Was: RE: Introductory lectures on Linux)

2006-07-03 Thread guy keren
haifux is up now. time to leech some slides ;) --guy On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Michael Sternberg wrote: > Haifux web site is not available for four days. I was subscribed it its > mailing list and tried to send a message about web site failure - message > was returned with permanent error (attached).

wifi problem on encripted wifi network

2006-07-03 Thread David Harel
Hi, I got my wifi connection working well on public networks but on private network containing encryption I was unable to connect. The key I found on the router definition was "pre-shared Passphrase" 32 bytes long. I copied it to the iwconfig but when I looked in iwconfig again it seems only

OFFTOPIC: WiMax and Israel

2006-07-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I found on The Register an article named "WiMAX in the UK. Here's why it won't fly". Here's the link to the story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/03/uk-wimax-outlook/ Since I don't know enough about WiMax and Ghz licensing much, I was wondering if this situation could be happend here i

SMS Hebrew encoding

2006-07-03 Thread Levy, Chen
Hi, List. I am trying to use vicq to send myself a Hebrew SMS message. my $LANG is en_US.UTF-8 my phone is a Samsung 620 with Pelephone I use a script such as: - - - #!/bin/bash MSG=$@ TMSG=$(echo $MSG | iconv -f utf8 -t ) CMD="sms 97250/$TMSG\nquit\n" echo -ne $CMD | ./vicq - - - I already tr

Re: SMS Hebrew encoding

2006-07-03 Thread Omer Zak
My ideas: 1. Use a modern ICQ client (I use Kopete, but never tried to send SMS messages via ICQ). vicq is unsupported since 2002 or so. Or use the sendsms script. 2. To send legally-formatted Hebrew SMS message, certain flags in the system parts of the message need to be correctly set for it to h

Re: SMS Hebrew encoding

2006-07-03 Thread Levy, Chen
ביום שלישי 04 יולי 2006, 07:39, נכתב על ידי Omer Zak: > My ideas: > 1. Use a modern ICQ client (I use Kopete, but never tried to send SMS > messages via ICQ). vicq is unsupported since 2002 or so. > Or use the sendsms script. I need it to run on a remote system where I have no root privileges, an

Re: SMS Hebrew encoding

2006-07-03 Thread Levy, Chen
ביום שלישי 04 יולי 2006, 08:27, נכתב על ידי Omer Zak: > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 08:11 +0300, Levy, Chen wrote: > > > 2. To send legally-formatted Hebrew SMS message, certain flags in the > > > system parts of the message need to be correctly set for it to have 70 > > > Unicode characters rather than

kernel module question

2006-07-03 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hi, I'm writing kernel module for 2.6 linux. The purpose is to intercept all writes to disk devices and to notify user mode application about sector/length of write. I want to change function pointers of request_fn and make_request_fn to my own routines. The question is what is a difference

Re: kernel module question

2006-07-03 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Michael Sternberg wrote: Hi, I'm writing kernel module for 2.6 linux. The purpose is to intercept all writes to disk devices and to notify user mode application about sector/length of write. I want to change function pointers of request_fn and make_request_fn to my own routines. Sounds lik