Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Peter, I've noticed these problems also. Seems to come and go. We are also using Actcom. It is not just actcom, I checked 3 providers, in the country and out of it. All had problems. Maybe a backbone router died or something. Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Peter, I've noticed these problems also. Seems to come and go. We are also using Actcom. - yba Actcom was purchased by Bezeq Ben-leumi. Maybe this is the result?? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
Micha Silver wrote: Actcom was purchased by Bezeq Ben-leumi. Maybe this is the result?? Let's not start the FUD, shall we? In Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchett, an old witch is teaching an apprentice witch the secrets of the trade. She comes to the subject of curses. The quote goes, loosely: One day you, too, will have to curse. Make it long. Make it unpronounceable. Make it up if you have to. The next day, when his finger is hit by an accidental hammer, he'll remember your course. Just to set the record straight, Actcom was not, yet, purchased by anyone. The deal is awaiting the approval of the government. If the relevant branch (not sure which one it is, probably in the chamber of commerce) decide that there is danger that such a merger will reduce the competition in Israel dangerously low then the deal will not be approved at all. Until the deal is approved (and, probably, for some time after it's approved) you see absolutely no change in anything regarding service from the company. I think it's fairly safe to say that whatever the problem is, whether it's a problem on Peter's computer, in the infrastructure, or at Actcom's, it has nothing to do with the planned acquisition. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why the Internet sucks
In case you haven't been following the English press, both HOT and YES have dropped English language channels. This has caused an uproar among the English speaking (aka Anglo) community here. I was interviewd by a reporter for Haaretz, and also commented in my blog, that now that people were angry at both they would be changing the way they spent their entertainment shequels. I also commented that anyone who had an Internet connection would quickly find out that they could bootleg the programs for free without YES or HOT and this would really clog the Internet. While I did not tell her how to bootleg the programs, as assuming I did know how, it would not be appropriate for me to tell anyone. If someone was interested they would have to find out on their own. The Jerusalem Post was far more forthcomming, they listed URLs in their articles. I have heard that 70-80 percent of the Internet's traffic was BitTorrent files, and most of them were bootlegs. After this latest increase in downloading to replace what was free, but is no longer available, I expect that almost all of the traffic in Israel is downloading bootleg files, most of it TV programs that people used to watch on BBC Prime (dropped by HOT) or Star World (dropped by YES). In plain English, there goes the neighborhood. :-( Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why the Internet sucks
Just a little correction: IIRC YES moved StarWorld to channel 270. (Just a little FYI to all the Trekkies out there :) ). On Thursday 18 January 2007 12:13, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: In case you haven't been following the English press, both HOT and YES have dropped English language channels. This has caused an uproar among the English speaking (aka Anglo) community here. I was interviewd by a reporter for Haaretz, and also commented in my blog, that now that people were angry at both they would be changing the way they spent their entertainment shequels. I also commented that anyone who had an Internet connection would quickly find out that they could bootleg the programs for free without YES or HOT and this would really clog the Internet. While I did not tell her how to bootleg the programs, as assuming I did know how, it would not be appropriate for me to tell anyone. If someone was interested they would have to find out on their own. The Jerusalem Post was far more forthcomming, they listed URLs in their articles. I have heard that 70-80 percent of the Internet's traffic was BitTorrent files, and most of them were bootlegs. After this latest increase in downloading to replace what was free, but is no longer available, I expect that almost all of the traffic in Israel is downloading bootleg files, most of it TV programs that people used to watch on BBC Prime (dropped by HOT) or Star World (dropped by YES). In plain English, there goes the neighborhood. :-( Geoff. -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:32:39AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Until the deal is approved (and, probably, for some time after it's approved) you see absolutely no change in anything regarding service from the company. That's an interesting point, but IMHO completely wrong. You are assuming that announcing the deal had no effect on ActCom. For example, I will NEVER purchase anything that comes from BEZEQ International (BBL). If they become the ONLY company selling Internet access in the country, I'll live without it. Since my yearly contract with HOT and Netvision is up this month, and my connection has deteriorated in terms of staying up, from one failure every other month, to three or four a week, I'm looking for alternatives. Now that the possibility exists that if I sign up with ActCom, I'll end up with BBL, they are no longer under consideration. While I doubt that most people don't feel as strongly as I do, there are lots of people out there who won't use their services. If they were considering a new ISP, they won't consider ActCom, if they were ActCom customers and their contract is up, they will change ISPs. This will cause ActCom's income to go down, which means they will have to reduce their expenses. One thing you don't want to do is to have lower profits when you are trying to sell your company. Since most people have no idea of what performance they get, or are supposed to get, the first thing ActCom will do is to reduce the international bandwidth they buy. This has probably started already, and will continue. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why the Internet sucks
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:38:15PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Just a little correction: IIRC YES moved StarWorld to channel 270. (Just a little FYI to all the Trekkies out there :) ). They moved it, but as of the 15th, it's GONE!! No one except me complained. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Micha Silver wrote: Actcom was purchased by Bezeq Ben-leumi. Maybe this is the result?? I knew that. And the other two providers ? Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: This has probably started already, and will continue. I do not agree. The bandwidth contracts cannot be cut at such short notice. Also the problems affected everyone (3 providers) during the time I was complaining about. The problems seem to be caused by high load (dropped packets) and maybe misconfig on the backbone switches and routers (which should be set up to put torrent streaming traffic where it belongs, at equal bandwidth with other services - as you know a torrent download will connect simultaneously to several hosts and pull data as fast as it can, and may drop and reconnect several times as the network can't cope or slows down). The bittorrent issue could be partly responsible. Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
On 18/01/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:32:39AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Until the deal is approved (and, probably, for some time after it's approved) you see absolutely no change in anything regarding service from the company. That's an interesting point, but IMHO completely wrong. You are assuming that announcing the deal had no effect on ActCom. For example, I will NEVER purchase anything that comes from BEZEQ International (BBL). If they become the ONLY company selling Internet access in the country, I'll live without it. Since my yearly contract with HOT and Netvision is up this month, and my connection has deteriorated in terms of staying up, from one failure every other month, to three or four a week, I'm looking for alternatives. Now that the possibility exists that if I sign up with ActCom, I'll end up with BBL, they are no longer under consideration. While I doubt that most people don't feel as strongly as I do, there are lots of people out there who won't use their services. If they were considering a new ISP, they won't consider ActCom, if they were ActCom customers and their contract is up, they will change ISPs. This will cause ActCom's income to go down, which means they will have to reduce their expenses. One thing you don't want to do is to have lower profits when you are trying to sell your company. Since most people have no idea of what performance they get, or are supposed to get, the first thing ActCom will do is to reduce the international bandwidth they buy. This has probably started already, and will continue. Geoff. I've actually been very happy with Actcom. I've got my own static IP address and a 1.5 MB line for 40 shaH a month. Before I had a router, they help me set up scripts to connect me to the 'net. If Bezek buys them I'll stay so long as it's Actcom representatives that I deal with and not Bezek idiots. However, the day I call them and someone answers the phone with the word Bezek in their mouth, I'm gone. That said, I've noticed a slowdown of my net access over the past few weeks. I thought that it was entrophy building up in my distro, and that the time had come to reinstall. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/627/ziro.html http://slashedot.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why are GNOME applications (and applets) take so much [EMAIL PROTECTED] memory ?
On 16/01/07, Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Oded, people... Few weeks ago, I worked temporarily at a small company, and they gave me a PC which was with Athlon XP (if I recall it was 1.6 Ghz or something) with 756MB RAM to work with. So, I installed CentOS 4.4, upgraded my KDE 3.5.5, and upgraded OpenOffice to the latest one, and used FireFox 2 for browsing. I started to work. I started to use OpenOffice to write a small spreadshot. BOY was it slow as hell! it was so slow that I was almost sure I had some Pentium 2 300Mhz processor. Switching apps (using ALT TAB) was a PITA. I have not been running many applications: Twinkle, Kopete, FireFox, KMail, OO, and Konsole. Nothing more. The machine was crawling. I took Office 2003 from the Windows team, installed Crossover 6 (the latest version finally solves the flickering flash bug), and started to use Office 2003. Finally I could write somthing without the machine being crawling, but opening few more tabs in FF 2, and the machine crawled again.. My opinion: Some serious debate needs to be occured, whether in slashdor or the mailing lists, some sort of shake up in the GNOME/KDE development community, to remind them that this situation cannot be continue, and some diet is required. I heard my advocates who recommend people to switch to Linux and use KDE or GNOME with 256MB RAM. To them I can say HA HA! go ahead, fire the latest GNOME and open 2-3 apps and give the machine a minute or so, it will be almost unresponsive. It's better in KDE but not by much. If someone wants something speedy, they should look at using FVWM, flux box or any other lite window manager and use some independent applications. I used FVWM with Kopete and KMAIL and Konqueror, and the results were pretty good on a 192MB machine. I tried to switch to GNOME (yes, stupid decision) and I had to reset the machine in order to get my control back. Today, everyone is laughing/amazed by the hardware requirement of Windows VISTA (specially with Aero Glass interface). Well, my friends, at this pace, GNOME (and maybe even KDE) is going at this way, with all the latest GLX eye-candy, and the hefty memory requirements. I do not know the future, but I do remember KDE usage only few years ago with a Pentium 4 1.7Ghz, 512MB RAM, and it was very usable and enjoyable. Thanks, Hetz KDE is still very usable, if you use it. Instead of FIrefox, use Konqueror. Instead of OpenOffice, use KOffice. Instead of Thunderbird, use Kmail. You'll find that it'll run just fine on a machine with 128MB RAM, even though the KDE developers recommend 192MB. And don't runn Apache, Bind, SSH, or other daemeons in the background if you don't need them. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/lyrics/149/377/nine_inch_nails/the_fragile_right.html http://fedorafaqs.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Can We Help to Make this Happen?
On 16/01/07, Jonathan Ben Avraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Amichai, IMHO what we have to offer to make this happen is to pool our collective intelligence (or lack thereof) to start writing public policy. The market will not correct itself in the short run because of the cost benefit factors that the spokesperson from the TA municipality so correctly cites. So the only alternative is to lobby for a public policy on open source, and we are the only people who can write that policy. In order for the policy to have a chance of being accepted it probably has to be drafted as a requirement to follow international standards (ODT, W3C HTML, etc..) in order to ensure equal access to all communities or some such politically fashionable language. The place to apply this policy is probably with the Bank of Israel, the Ministry of Finance, and finally the Knesset itself. Our ally in this is probably ISOC-IL and perhaps a few oddball academics. If any of you are interested in puting some time and effor into this please contact me off list. - yba I'm replying on-list because I've got the time and resources to be active online, but not in person. I'm a student (like Amichai and I'm certain others) and that means that I've no free time. But if I can use products or services that promote FLOSS, then I'm all for it. Dotan Cohen http://essentialinux.com/emulators.php http://what-is-what.com/what_is/foss_floss_software.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Bar Ilan Respnsa or Judaic Library CD
Have you tried applying the following patch? http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Responsa/contact.htm#Question_2: http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Responsa/contact.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Rubin Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:55 PM To: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Bar Ilan Respnsa or Judaic Library CD Is anyone familiar with the Bar Ilan Responsa or Judaic Library CDs? These contain a library of Hebrew Texts. There is strong copywright control and the software only runs if the original CD is inserted in the drive. I have got the CD running in a virtual Windows XP environment under vmware but I would rather have it working under wine. I have installed it and mapped the CD drive to d: but when I try and run the software I get the message Please insert original CD. The original CD is inserted and mounted. It seems that the program must detect the original CD. This works in Windows and virtual Windows but how do I get it working in wine? Thanks, Alan = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] attachment: winmail.dat
A new approach to illegal downloads
Excellent novel Open Source type approach to a serious problem from EA. I hope that the idiots who push DRM and 'media control' get the point and take the hint: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/17/yourmoney/media.php Peter P. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Can We Help to Make this Happen?
ביום ראשון 14 ינואר 2007, 11:45, נכתב על ידי Amichai Rotman: http://netmag.nana.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=420657 We can stop marstubating and talking about free software and imrpoove existing one. We need: * OpenOffice.org to fully support hebrew. Importing DOC files is a must. Tables inside tables a must. HSpell integration out of the box on the official builds (not only the local ones). OOo still needs polishing. * Mozilla's input line have no hebrew support. There are a log of bugs open - close them. Pango integration on X11 - which neans nijjud will work finally. * A usable ICQ client. All of the client have the same problem: no direction control, not RTF support, and no SMS support. Many people use those things on a daily basis, in fact many users have ICQ just to send SMS. * A lot of polising in the default UI presented by GNome in RTL mode. The default layout is a piece of garbage, I don't care what people think - it's just badly done. I assume more can be talked about, I will stop here. - diego = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why the Internet sucks
ביום חמישי 18 ינואר 2007, 12:38, נכתב על ידי Tzahi Fadida: Just a little correction: IIRC YES moved StarWorld to channel 270. (Just a little FYI to all the Trekkies out there :) ). Which days and hours? :) = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why the Internet sucks
On Thursday 18 January 2007 19:59, Diego Iastrubni wrote: ביום חמישי 18 ינואר 2007, 12:38, נכתב על ידי Tzahi Fadida: Just a little correction: IIRC YES moved StarWorld to channel 270. (Just a little FYI to all the Trekkies out there :) ). Sorry, did not know that. I guess it is lucky i just moved to HOT. Which days and hours? :) Saturday at 19:00 there is the last (probably ever) season of Enterprise. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
On Thursday, 18 בJanuary 2007 16:46, Dotan Cohen wrote: That said, I've noticed a slowdown of my net access over the past few weeks. I thought that it was entrophy building up in my distro, and that the time had come to reinstall. Care to explain? How exactly does entropy build up in your distro? Disk fragmentation I can understand, but a re-installation that would accelerate your packets is some new theory I haven't heard of. -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 .. Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why are GNOME applications (and applets) take so much [EMAIL PROTECTED] memory ?
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 22:40 +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: Let's compare a few clock applications: app VIRTRES NOTE xdaliclock3756796 oclock36321540 xclock85442976 kclock.kss25840 8164 clock-applet (Gnome) 90212 11256 (only the applet process) clock_panelapplet (KDE) 33664 12028 (for kicker with only a clock applet) Hardly fair - Kicker does tons of stuff even when no applet is loaded - its the entire panel mechanism (including the main menu, or without ?). If you want to compare apples and apples, you should compare your KDE figure with the sum of gnome's clock applet and gnome-panel (entirely - everything that is painted on the gnome-panel is out-of-process). Trying to understand where Gnome's clock-applet's huge VIRT comes from, I discovered something very interesting. It start with just 28 MB of VIRT, but at the moment you right-click on the clock, and a menu pops up, it grows to, belive it or not - 90 MB. That's 60 MB to show a menu !? I diffed the /proc/../maps, and this is what the extra 60 MB contain: 0.5 MB of newly allocated memory, plus a lot of mapped files; One interesting mapped file is the HUGE /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/icon-theme.cache, taking up 28 MB of mapped space! I'll check some of the other suspects to see whats in their mappings. Funny enough, gnome-system-monitor has a UI for /proc/../maps, which - if I'm reading it correctly - shows that Evolution with a relatively small VIRT of 500MB maps over 200MB of it as writable memory. Just as a comparison, that 200MB is almost twice as the entire VIRT size of KMail. -- Oded ::.. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Perelman = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 13:39 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Companies that are also long distance carriers split their bandwidth between telephone and Internet service. They adjust it on the fly to keep the phones working. When there are lots of calls in progress, Internet bandwidth is decreased. I would argue that there are ISPs in Israel which have lines dedicated to internet as they are not telephony carriers, but this really isn't the case anymore, right ? ;-) If at their main routers, an ISP lowers the peak useage available to their Internet customers, their throughput and peak useage charges go down. This does not require a contract change, notification of customers, etc. As far as I know, the actual pipes leading out of Israel (fiber and satellites) are far from being fully utilized (I no longer have up to date figures, but I'd be surprised if int'l connectivity is at over 50% capacity), and its cheaper to get more bandwidth on demand then lower throughput to customers, in case of unexpected usage peaks. -- Oded ::.. Self test for paranoia: You know you have it when you can't think of anything that's your own fault. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
On 18/01/07, Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 18 בJanuary 2007 16:46, Dotan Cohen wrote: That said, I've noticed a slowdown of my net access over the past few weeks. I thought that it was entrophy building up in my distro, and that the time had come to reinstall. Care to explain? How exactly does entropy build up in your distro? Disk fragmentation I can understand, but a re-installation that would accelerate your packets is some new theory I haven't heard of. I was thinking along the lines of log files filling up and dns cache files filling up. What do I know about that stuff? :) But until I prove otherwise, I always assume that the fault lies with myself and my system rather than the providers of services. Certainly there are problems that I don't know about that could cause my net access to appear slower with time. Even something as simple as adding too many Firefox extensions can have that effect. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/ram.html http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/664/p-funk.html
Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 21:42 +0200, Oron Peled wrote: On Thursday, 18 בJanuary 2007 16:46, Dotan Cohen wrote: That said, I've noticed a slowdown of my net access over the past few weeks. I thought that it was entrophy building up in my distro, and that the time had come to reinstall. Care to explain? How exactly does entropy build up in your distro? Disk fragmentation I can understand, but a re-installation that would accelerate your packets is some new theory I haven't heard of. I thought its obvious from the second law of thermodynamics ? -- Oded ::.. Software is like Entropy: it's hard to grasp, weighs nothing and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics, i.e. it always increases -- Norman Augustine = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:18:23AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: As far as I know, the actual pipes leading out of Israel (fiber and satellites) are far from being fully utilized (I no longer have up to date figures, but I'd be surprised if int'l connectivity is at over 50% capacity), and its cheaper to get more bandwidth on demand then lower throughput to customers, in case of unexpected usage peaks. But that's not my point. While it's cheaper to get more bandwidth on demand, if you are trying to raise profits in anticipation of selling the company, then the easiest way is to limit your throughput, if you pay by either (or both) throughput (bytes transfered) or peak demand. Since during peak demand people have gotten used to lower performance, they hardly could tell. If you can limit your peak bandwidth to 90% of what it was and save 10% of your real costs, it would make a big difference. Your customers probably would not notice, but the purchaser of your company would. By the time the customers figured out what happened, the sale would have been made, and you would be sitting on a beach in Tahiti. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?
On Friday, 19 בJanuary 2007 00:22, Dotan Cohen wrote: I was thinking along the lines of log files filling up logrotate? and dns cache files filling up. What dns cache files? AFAIK, named(8) has a memory cache only. [even if it did have disk cache, isn't simpler to trim cache files than reinstall your operating system :-O -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 We continue to live in a world where all our know-how is locked into binary files in an unknown format. If our documents are our corporate memory, Microsoft still has us all condemned to Alzheimer's. -- Simon Phipps = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Can We Help to Make this Happen?
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Hi linux-il members,
Diegos's list looks reasonable to me. Is there a concensus?
- yba
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:52:03 +0200
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Subject: Re: How Can We Help to Make this Happen?
áéåí øàùåï 14 éðåàø 2007, 11:45, ðëúá òì éãé Amichai Rotman:
http://netmag.nana.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=420657
We can stop marstubating and talking about free software and imrpoove existing
one. We need:
* OpenOffice.org to fully support hebrew. Importing DOC files is a must.
Tables inside tables a must. HSpell integration out of the box on the
official builds (not only the local ones). OOo still needs polishing.
* Mozilla's input line have no hebrew support. There are a log of bugs open -
close them. Pango integration on X11 - which neans nijjud will work finally.
* A usable ICQ client. All of the client have the same problem: no direction
control, not RTF support, and no SMS support. Many people use those things on
a daily basis, in fact many users have ICQ just to send SMS.
* A lot of polising in the default UI presented by GNome in RTL mode. The
default layout is a piece of garbage, I don't care what people think - it's
just badly done.
I assume more can be talked about, I will stop here.
- diego
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