Re: [OT] ISPs and fixed IP

2004-05-04 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Ira, On Tuesday 04 May 2004 08:10, Ira Abramov wrote: > indeed you should have. when my current prepaid year is up I intend to > make it VERY clear to them that I do not intend to pay more for the > service that was so far built-in. afterall my machine is online 24/7, > what difference does it mak

Re: [OT] ISPs and fixed IP

2004-05-04 Thread Yonah Russ
Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yonah Russ, from the post of Mon, 03 May: they wanted me to pay 200- I complained and they lowered it to 150. I should have complained more. indeed you should have. when my current prepaid year is up I intend to make it VERY clear to them that I do not intend to

Re: [OT] ISPs and fixed IP

2004-05-04 Thread Yonah Russ
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Ira, On Tuesday 04 May 2004 08:10, Ira Abramov wrote: indeed you should have. when my current prepaid year is up I intend to make it VERY clear to them that I do not intend to pay more for the service that was so far built-in. afterall my machine is online 24/7, what diff

[JOB] Programmer Needed

2004-05-04 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Linux-IL, Tk Open Systems Ltd. has an opening for a full-time (180 hours per month) programmer for permanent employement. The position involves bidi localization and maintenance of open source applications such as OOo, Gtk+, MythTv, and almost no new development. The required qualifications are:

portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread linux-il
Hello, I am looking for an easier way to program a simple UDP socket program for both Windows and Linux than using "#ifdef __WIN32__" and typedefing SOCKET etc. I found SFL (http://freshmeat.net/projects/sfl/) but I am pretty sure that I saw a more specialised library which I can't find now. Th

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread Eli Marmor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking for an easier way to program a simple UDP socket program > for both > Windows and Linux than using "#ifdef __WIN32__" and typedefing SOCKET etc. > > I found SFL (http://freshmeat.net/projects/sfl/) but I am pretty sure > that I saw > a more specialised libr

RE: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread shany pozin
You can use ACE http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-overview.html which is both open source and portable Shany From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c) Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 14:35:54 +0300 Hello, I am looking for an easier way to program

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread linux-il
Thanks for the pointer. I know ACE already and it seems to be the exact opposite of what I need: 1. C++ (not C). I would have preffered to write in C++ but it would bloat the final executable too much as far as I can tell. Also I'm not sure how well mingw32 handles cross-compiling C++ code. 2.

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread Idan Sofer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am looking for an easier way to program a simple UDP socket program for both Windows and Linux than using "#ifdef __WIN32__" and typedefing SOCKET etc. Perhaps SDL_net? http://jcatki.no-ip.org/SDL_net/ I found SFL (http://freshmeat.net/projects/sfl/) but I am pre

Re: [OT] ISPs and fixed IP

2004-05-04 Thread Boaz Rymland
I've followed this thread since it matters me for the same reason it does to you. Why did they gave it for no charge earlier ? maybe they still had free static's to give but all other ISPs did charge. In comparison to them they could have charge without any doubts. I called them to learn of th

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 4 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 3. Since I plan to ask people to run this program (it's a test program) > on their > machines for me I'd like to keep things as simple as possible so they > can audit > my code if they don't trust me or my programming abilities. From my > experience >

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread Oded Arbel
בTuesday 04 May 2004 15:15, נכתב על ידי [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Thanks for the pointer. I know ACE already and it seems to be the exact > opposite > >> I am looking for an easier way to program a simple UDP socket program > >> for both > >> Windows and Linux than using "#ifdef __WIN32__" and typedefi

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread linux-il
Omer Zak wrote: If you can ask people to install Perl or Python on their computers, then why not use the thread libraries from those languages to do the actual UDP transmission/reception stuff, with your C program only creating/analyzing the actual packet data? No, I can't ask people to install

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread linux-il
Idan Sofer wrote: Perhaps SDL_net? http://jcatki.no-ip.org/SDL_net/ Oh yes. This rings a familiar sound. Any experience with using it with a cross-compiler? Thanks, --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 04 May 2004 14:35:54 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am looking for an easier way to program a simple UDP socket program > for both > Windows and Linux than using "#ifdef __WIN32__" and typedefing SOCKET etc. > [snip] ... possible to dev

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread linux-il
Ehud Karni wrote: Compile it with Cygwin on Windoze and you are done (you may have to use different #include, but that's all). Notes. 1. You'll have to add the cygwin1.dll to your program distribution. Can I use the "-static" gcc flag to contain cygwin1.dll inside the single exe I want to provi

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 14:35, you wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for an easier way to program a simple UDP socket program > for both > Windows and Linux than using "#ifdef __WIN32__" and typedefing SOCKET etc. > > I found SFL (http://freshmeat.net/projects/sfl/) but I am pretty sure > that I saw

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 04 May 2004 17:33:14 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can I use the "-static" gcc flag to contain cygwin1.dll inside the > single exe I want to provide? No you can not, But it is only 1 file about 1.3 MB. Ehud. - -- Ehud Karni

Games for Linux

2004-05-04 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Linux-IL, Are the Linux versions of SimCity 3000 and Quest from Loki z"l comparable in quality to the MS Windows versions? Where is a good place to buy Linux games? - yba -- EE 77 7F 30 4A 64 2E C5 83 5F E7 49 A6 82 29 BA~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}--

Re: Games for Linux

2004-05-04 Thread Diego Iastrubni
בTuesday 04 May 2004 15:34, כתבת: > Hi Linux-IL, > Are the Linux versions of SimCity 3000 and Quest from Loki z"l comparable > in quality to the MS Windows versions? Where is a good place to buy Linux > games? > > - yba The SimCity was in Mandrake 9.0 games edition. I have heard that it is not BC

Re: [OT] ISPs and fixed IP

2004-05-04 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Gilad Ben-Yossef, from the post of Tue, 04 May: > > The reason they charge more for a fixed IP is the same reason dogs > leak their genitals: because they can. Or to put it in "economic" > terms: because people are willing to pay extra for it. It has nothing > to do with the their cost.

Re: Games for Linux

2004-05-04 Thread Noam Rathaus
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 18:34, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > Hi Linux-IL, > Are the Linux versions of SimCity 3000 and Quest from Loki z"l comparable > in quality to the MS Windows versions? Where is a good place to buy Linux > games? > > - yba Hi, I had some good experience with WineX (http://www

Re: Bandwidth consumption limit/measure

2004-05-04 Thread Noam Rathaus
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 09:41, you wrote: > On Mon, 3 May 2004, Tal Achituv wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Is there any way to measure and or limit the monthly bandwidth on a box? > > Hi Tal, > To measure the bandwidth I use ntop and to limit bandwidth I use tc with > the HTB. Note you can also prioritize b

Re: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 4 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 3. Since I plan to ask people to run this program (it's a test program) > on their > machines for me I'd like to keep things as simple as possible so they > can audit > my code if they don't trust me or my programming abilities. From my > experience >

RE: portable socket libraries? (linux/windows, c)

2004-05-04 Thread Hyams Iftach
In it can be a good idea to write your own #ifdef or #defines or wrapping functions. It is quiet similar (I wrote a complex UDP application that compiles on 4 different OS's so contact me privately for details). The differences are in some types, errors and IOCTL's. Note that Windows 2000 has a

Governments spending on IT

2004-05-04 Thread linux-il
According to the Walla article at: http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/3/538997 The government has agreed on spending 470 Million NIS on projects "Merkava" and "Memshal Zamin". With all the talks about OpenOffice, MS licenses vs. Linux etc. - does anyone here have thoughs on the effect of such spending on