Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-17 Thread Uri Even-Chen
Dear Linux people, First, I want to apologize if any of you were offended or harassed by the messages I sent to this list about 3 months ago. I didn't mean to offend anybody. I want to ask you something about Linux servers. My father thinks about installing a new server in his company, which w

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-17 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Uri Even-Chen: > the messages I sent to this list about 3 months ago. I didn't mean to > offend anybody. That's ok, old chap. Better to offend and ask forgiveness than to not offend and ask permission... [snip] > My father asked an expert from a company we work with, and the expert > rec

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-17 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Saturday 17 February 2007 10:20, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > Dear Linux people, > > First, I want to apologize if any of you were offended or harassed by > the messages I sent to this list about 3 months ago. I didn't mean to > offend anybody. > > I want to ask you something about Linux servers. My

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Uri Even-Chen wrote: > Dear Linux people, > > First, I want to apologize if any of you were offended or harassed by > the messages I sent to this list about 3 months ago. No problem. > and a server for > Microsoft Access. The Access program will be executed by a few users > simultaneously. Is it a

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 11:45:38AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Uri Even-Chen wrote: > > Dear Linux people, > > > > First, I want to apologize if any of you were offended or harassed by > > the messages I sent to this list about 3 months ago. > No problem. Me too :-) > > and a server for > > M

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 11:09:26PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > I am not sure I understood the OP question, and neither am I sure others > did. If you intend to use the server, as others guessed, only as a file > server for Access, then samba will probably be just as good. If they > intend to

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-17 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Sunday 18 February 2007 00:00, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 11:09:26PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > I am not sure I understood the OP question, and neither am I sure others > > did. If you intend to use the server, as others guessed, only as a file > > server fo

Re: [OT] ADSL connection outage

2007-02-17 Thread Meir Kriheli
Ori Idan wrote: > In the last 4 days, my Internet connection is off for few hours each day > due to Bezeq prbolems in my area (Herzelia) > Does someone have any idea what causes these problems? > > Also what is your experience with cables today? I am thinking about > changing to cable connection s

Converting to UTF-8 encoding

2007-02-17 Thread Uri Even-Chen
Dear Linux people, In addition to my previous message, I decided it's about time to convert my Hebrew websites from Windows-1255 encoding to Unicode (UTF-8). (By the way, is it a smart decision?) Anyway, since I didn't find a better way to do it - that's how I did it: I opened each file that co

Re: Converting to UTF-8 encoding

2007-02-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Uri! (and all) On Sunday 18 February 2007, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > Dear Linux people, > > In addition to my previous message, I decided it's about time to > convert my Hebrew websites from Windows-1255 encoding to Unicode > (UTF-8). (By the way, is it a smart decision?) > > Anyway, since I didn

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-17 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On 2/17/07, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it a requirement that it be "Access", or should it be "a database server"? It has to be Access - it's not only a database, but a whole program written in Access, with at least 50 forms, at least 100 queries and lots of VB code. I wrote

Re: recvmsg on dgram socketpair blocks on open socket?

2007-02-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16/02/07, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Baruch Even wrote: > If it is a process parent/child pair then you could listen on the signal > SIGCHLD and when the child exits your process will be notified by the > kernel. Well, no. The most obvious programs that will be run through pr

Re: recvmsg on dgram socketpair blocks on open socket?

2007-02-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16/02/07, Tzahi Fadida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there an added value in contrast of just using a simple server that accepts on low ports but bounces the packets to a low privileged port? Examples: 1. A daemon for which you don't have the source and which you can't configure to use no

Re: recvmsg on dgram socketpair blocks on open socket?

2007-02-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 17/02/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Baruch Even wrote: > You assume that the signal was received in the recv() call, you'll have > a race condition where a child might die just before you go into recv() > and the child is never reaped. The chance might be small t

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-17 Thread Arieh Skliarouk
Hello Uri, But if we do decide to convert, we will convert only the tables (there are at least 50 of them) and not the entire program. I see only-tables conversion as good first step. There is howto on access-mysql conversion: http://www.kitebird.com/articles/access-migrate.html How many com

Re: recvmsg on dgram socketpair blocks on open socket?

2007-02-17 Thread Baruch Even
* Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070218 05:18]: > On 17/02/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Baruch Even wrote: > > > >> You assume that the signal was received in the recv() call, you'll have > >> a race condition where a child might die just before you go int

Re: Converting to UTF-8 encoding

2007-02-17 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On 2/18/07, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can use the following command to convert a single file: iconv -f WINDOWS-1255 -t UTF-8 oldfile > newfile Thanks! It works! Anyone knows about good UTF-8 text editors? Uri. =

Re: Linux servers vs. Microsoft servers

2007-02-17 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On 2/18/07, Arieh Skliarouk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How many companies do you know, which are not computer companies, who use Linux? Many. Mostly on servers. Just as your father's company can. I was refering to end users computers and not to servers. I wrote you another message (differen