Re: Connecting from Linux to MSN Messenger?

2005-09-14 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, I did connect to an MSN Messenger with gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/) on RH9; it was quite a time ago ; I don't remember the exact details of configuration (it could be that I downloaded some plugin) but it was not difficult (when you add a new accoount you should select from a list

Re: Connecting from Linux to MSN Messenger?

2005-09-14 Thread Omer Zak
Thanks, Amos Shapira and Rami Rosen. I use kopete and when I start it up, various Qt related error messages show up but it seems to work OK. I ended up createing a new account on MS-Passport and then saw no failure to connect (but no actual communication with the user in question either, the user

Re: Connecting from Linux to MSN Messenger?

2005-09-14 Thread Alex Alexander
I use Kopete for my messaging needs. MSN, ICQ, Yahoo Google Talk (jabber) all work nicely with no or minimal configuration required. GAIM is a good IM program too :) On 9/14/05, Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Amos Shapira and Rami Rosen. I use kopete and when I start it up,

Re: Connecting from Linux to MSN Messenger?

2005-09-14 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
I like GAIM. dont waste lots of resources Omer Zak wrote: Did anyone succeed in connecting to MSN Messenger from Linux (Debian Sarge distribution)? If yes - what was the recipe used to accomplish this end? - Package/s - Manual configuration required - Full registration procedure assuming that

Re: sys / db performance block size

2005-09-14 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
After a week of testing i decided to go with JFS as the FS for Postgres. im not an expert benchmarker so I hope I initiated the right parameters in bonnie pgbench. The bonnie command: bonnie++ -u miki -b -d /data/bonnie/ -s 6080:8k -m pr1 pgbench commands: pgbench -i -s 10 test pgbench -c

dependuncey dungeon

2005-09-14 Thread Aaron
Hi all, my subject unfortuentely says it all. I am using debian and with a mixed bag of sources. I upgraded my system to stable (which was previously sarge and stable was woody) but didn't change my sources.list. I hadn't however changed any system files and only removed a few apps. But my

RE: sys / db performance block size

2005-09-14 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Told u to use JFS :) Also, as I tried to explain in my previous mail, the block size of your disks is not necessarily 8kb, i.e. you will probably not save any I/O request that way (probably make it worse). A reason to choose a 8kb block for the File System, theoretically, its because you want the

Re: how to add file type handler to firefox ?

2005-09-14 Thread Peter
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Peter! To add a new protocol handler, see: http://www.advogato.org/person/shlomif/diary.html?start=219 I don't know how to add a new filetype, but it should be possible. Dear Shlomi, the link you pointed me to above does not contain

Re: dependuncey dungeon

2005-09-14 Thread Amos Shapira
On 9/14/05, Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, my subject unfortuentely says it all. I am using debian and with a mixed bag of sources. I upgraded my system to stable (which was previously sarge and stable was woody) but didn't change my sources.list. How did you do the upgrade?

Re: how to add file type handler to firefox ?

2005-09-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 14:06, Peter wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Peter! To add a new protocol handler, see: http://www.advogato.org/person/shlomif/diary.html?start=219 I don't know how to add a new filetype, but it should be possible. Dear Shlomi,

Re: Connecting from Linux to MSN Messenger?

2005-09-14 Thread Diego Iastrubni
ביום רביעי, 14 בספטמבר 2005, 10:02, נכתב על ידי Omer Zak: I still have a problem connecting to ICQ from kopete (however licq has been working for me for long time). The problem is that the password, which works on licq - does not work on kopete connection. I tried to delete and recreate the

Regarding the kernel high-res timer

2005-09-14 Thread Amos Shapira
In light of the thread about high-resolution kernel timers, here is a bit of news which are somewhat related: http://kerneltrap.org/node/5661 Cheers, --Amos To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe

Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-14 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Thu, 08 Sep: On 9/8/05, Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The short answer: Just in case someone can answer a quick yes or no: BSD 4.2's filesystem used to move blocks around as files grew in order to keep them together, does ext2 (or any