Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Peter
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

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Micha Silver
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

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
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

Why the Internet sucks

2007-01-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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

Re: Why the Internet sucks

2007-01-18 Thread Tzahi Fadida
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

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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

Re: Why the Internet sucks

2007-01-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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.

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Peter
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

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Peter
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

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
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

Re: Why are GNOME applications (and applets) take so much [EMAIL PROTECTED] memory ?

2007-01-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
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

Re: How Can We Help to Make this Happen?

2007-01-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
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

RE: Bar Ilan Respnsa or Judaic Library CD

2007-01-18 Thread Nati CT
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:

A new approach to illegal downloads

2007-01-18 Thread Peter
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.

Re: How Can We Help to Make this Happen?

2007-01-18 Thread Diego Iastrubni
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

Re: Why the Internet sucks

2007-01-18 Thread Diego Iastrubni
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

Re: Why the Internet sucks

2007-01-18 Thread Tzahi Fadida
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

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Oron Peled
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

Re: Why are GNOME applications (and applets) take so much [EMAIL PROTECTED] memory ?

2007-01-18 Thread Oded Arbel
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

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Oded Arbel
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

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
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

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Oded Arbel
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

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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

Re: Internet speed and page loading problems ?

2007-01-18 Thread Oron Peled
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

Re: How Can We Help to Make this Happen?

2007-01-18 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
--660480-1173983471-1169192680=:21158 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=windows-1255; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT 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