Re: using a wireless adsl modem/router as an access-point only?

2007-12-04 Thread Oded Arbel
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 12:02 +, Amos Shapira wrote: I'm after a wireless access point. I saw the D-Link DI524 for a good price but also the that D-Link 604T can give the same functionality plus ADSL2+ modem for a little more money (I currently use an ADSL1 modem on an ADSL2+ plan). Any

Re: using a wireless adsl modem/router as an access-point only?

2007-12-04 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, I am total newbie ob this, so my question may sound silly, but: You could make sure and buy a Linksys WRT54G-L router and run a Linux distro on it. Try Tomato www.polarcloud.com Suppose I have WRT54G-L route at home and it runs indeed LInux (because I heard there are versions of this

Re: using a wireless adsl modem/router as an access-point only?

2007-12-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:00:59PM +0200, Dan Shimshoni wrote: I am total newbie ob this, so my question may sound silly, but: You could make sure and buy a Linksys WRT54G-L router and run a Linux distro on it. Try Tomato www.polarcloud.com Suppose I have WRT54G-L route at home and it

Re: Request for UPS info

2007-12-04 Thread Moshe Gorohovsky
You can replace PC + UPS system by a laptop with external monitor and with (USB) keyboard and mouse. Then you will have up to three hours of power protection:). You definitely need to select a laptop with adequate CPU/GPU/NIC for your tasks. Current (Dec 2007) Debian unstable works fine on

Re: using a wireless adsl modem/router as an access-point only?

2007-12-04 Thread Yuval Hager
On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Dan Shimshoni wrote: Suppose I have WRT54G-L route at home and it runs indeed LInux (because I heard there are versions of this router which do not run Liux). the 'L' in the model name is for Linux. The latest (v8 I believe it is called) is running vxWorks. --y

Re: using a wireless adsl modem/router as an access-point only?

2007-12-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:43:07PM +0200, Yuval Hager wrote: the 'L' in the model name is for Linux. The latest (v8 I believe it is called) is running vxWorks. What happened is the original version ran Linux. Linksys found that they could use half the RAM, get better performance and prevent

Re: using a wireless adsl modem/router as an access-point only?

2007-12-04 Thread David Shwatrz
Hi, the 'L' in the model name is for Linux. I don't understand something: is the source code for the Linux kernel and other applications running on the WRT54GL (the kernel and applications which are shipped with it upon purchase) are open and available freely from LinkSys ? and in case it is so

Re: results for benchmark for Maildir filesystem

2007-12-04 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Sat, 01 Dec: Hi, I just saw a link for this on the CentOS mailing list and though it might interest people here. http://www.htiweb.inf.br/benchmark/fsbench.htm indeed, my jaw dropped. I had no idea ReiserFS was so far behind EXT3 :-( time to

Re: using a wireless adsl modem/router as an access-point only?

2007-12-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:43:31PM +0200, David Shwatrz wrote: So I wonder - did anybody read this ? why is at at cost ? I expected it to be at no cost? Why? The GPL does not require the source code to be FREE as in no money. Exactly what at cost is, can be defined many ways all of which are

Re: results for benchmark for Maildir filesystem

2007-12-04 Thread Meir Kriheli
Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Sat, 01 Dec: Hi, I just saw a link for this on the CentOS mailing list and though it might interest people here. http://www.htiweb.inf.br/benchmark/fsbench.htm indeed, my jaw dropped. I had no idea ReiserFS was so far behind EXT3

Re: results for benchmark for Maildir filesystem

2007-12-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, indeed, my jaw dropped. I had no idea ReiserFS was so far behind EXT3 :-( time to reconsidder XFS I guess? I never used it before. Is is better at recovering from crashes than ext3? journaling and all, I had it sometimes come up in a bad, barely recoverable state after a crash. I think

Re: results for benchmark for Maildir filesystem

2007-12-04 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 14:07 +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Sat, 01 Dec: Hi, I just saw a link for this on the CentOS mailing list and though it might interest people here. http://www.htiweb.inf.br/benchmark/fsbench.htm indeed, my jaw dropped. I

Re: using a wireless adsl modem/router as an access-point only?

2007-12-04 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 13:43 +0200, David Shwatrz wrote: Hi, the 'L' in the model name is for Linux. I don't understand something: is the source code for the Linux kernel are open and available freely from LinkSys ? and in case it is so - from where can I get it ? I had went to the

Re: Fedora 7 -- Fedora 8

2007-12-04 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 09:19 +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: Dear List, For reasons best kept private, I upgraded by Fedora 7 box to Fedora 8 (via yum update). After the dependency hassle was solved, I'm left with an extremely slow-responsive GUI. Using ssh seems fine, but in xterm it takes

Welcome to Linux: Introduction to Linux on Sunday, 2-Dec-2007

2007-12-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
As part of the Welcome to Linux ( http://welcome.linux.org.il/ ) series, the Tel Aviv Linux club will hold its second meeting next Sunday, 9-December-2007. Sagiv Barhoom will give the Linux for the Student presentation, which non-students may find useful to attend, and which will cover the use

[JOB] Java Web Application Programmer

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi All, Please note new job openings listed at http://tkos.co.il/he/corporate/jobs.html and http://tkos.co.il/en/corporate/jobs.html In particular Tk Open Systems has an immediate need for a lead programmer to join our staff in Talpiot to work on a project for a European start-up. Required

help with fonts

2007-12-04 Thread Dan Bar Dov
I *need* to run ie6 on my fedora 7, for Hebrew sites that use asp. When I was on fedora 6, it worked ok. Now I don't get any Hebrew fonts. I probably botched something in the installation, anyone knows what? Thanks, Dan

Re: help with fonts

2007-12-04 Thread Dan Bar Dov
And, I alreadey tried to install ie4linux with HE locale, then I got all the IE menus in gibberish, and walla still opened with no Hebrew dfonts On Dec 4, 2007 5:50 PM, Dan Bar Dov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I *need* to run ie6 on my fedora 7, for Hebrew sites that use asp. When I was on fedora

Re: Store selling Linux computer with support

2007-12-04 Thread Maxim Veksler
On Dec 3, 2007 8:25 PM, Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, 2 בDecember 2007, sara fink wrote: d-source installs ubuntu. They will help to connect to internet as well. http://www.d-source.co.il/ Can you back it up? I followed your link with the following results: - Didn't see

Re: help with fonts

2007-12-04 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, You can try to install either culmus RPM package or use the MS core fonts (http://corefonts.sf.net) Thanks, Hetz On 12/4/07, Dan Bar Dov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, I alreadey tried to install ie4linux with HE locale, then I got all the IE menus in gibberish, and walla still opened

Re: Store selling Linux computer with support

2007-12-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 04/12/2007, Maxim Veksler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So... This thing got me curies and I went to verify some information. http://d-source.co.il are resellers of http://affordy.com which delivery hardware + software for the home marked based on Ubuntu. 1. They will support you in your first

Re: results for benchmark for Maildir filesystem

2007-12-04 Thread Noam Meltzer
On Dec 4, 2007 2:07 PM, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: indeed, my jaw dropped. I had no idea ReiserFS was so far behind EXT3 :-( Please note that this test was for ReiserFS3.6 and not the ResierFS4 This is a big difference...

Re: results for benchmark for Maildir filesystem

2007-12-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Noam Meltzer wrote: On Dec 4, 2007 2:07 PM, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: indeed, my jaw dropped. I had no idea ReiserFS was so far behind EXT3 :-( Please note that this test was for ReiserFS3.6 and not the ResierFS4 This is a big difference...

Re: results for benchmark for Maildir filesystem

2007-12-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote: time to reconsidder XFS I guess? I never used it before. Is is better at recovering from crashes than ext3? journaling and all, I had it sometimes come up in a bad, barely recoverable state after a crash. What I heard was that Reiser, XFS, and if I remember correctly