Re: Cost-Efficiency of Unix and Windows Admins [was Re: Relevancy Criticism (was: Re: [Job Offer] - Senior programmer (web))]

2005-08-03 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 21:19, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > As I said in my original post, I was refering to the discussion on this > list about a month ago. Ahhh... hearsay... Good. So I can stop worrying and keep charging more than the average MS-dude :-) -- Oron Peled

Re: Cost-Efficiency of Unix and Windows Admins [was Re: Relevancy Criticism (was: Re: [Job Offer] - Senior programmer (web))]

2005-08-03 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 08:28:55PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > I should note that I'd also like to know from where GSM has his data > regarding > the salaries of Windows and Linux specialists. (not necessary admins). As I said in my original post, I was refering to the discussion on this list ab

Cost-Efficiency of Unix and Windows Admins [was Re: Relevancy Criticism (was: Re: [Job Offer] - Senior programmer (web))]

2005-08-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 18:54, Oron Peled wrote: > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 16:36, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > ... focusing on the low market salaries for Linux people in Israel. > > > > ... while wanting the higher salaries that Microsoft technology > > programers get paid ... > > Did

Lightning talks and "who dropped the packet" at AP4

2005-08-03 Thread Orna Agmon
Hi All, An update about those two topics is available from http://linmagazine.co.il/node/view/10480 and http://linmagazine.co.il/node/view/10476 If you intend to bring posters for your project/group, please bring things to hang them with, and clear them at the end of the day. See you tomorrow at

Re: Transfering PPP over a serial link, oh my...

2005-08-03 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Oron Peled wrote: It seems you tried Nadav's (semi-correct) answer about "raw" line discipline before I sent my answer... "stty raw line 3" was what needed in the end. I know. I looked at the tty.h file to find out that N_PPP is 3 to begin with Since I hate to be wrong, I dug into the

Re: Transfering PPP over a serial link, oh my...

2005-08-03 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 19:00, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Nadav Har'El wrote: > > I am guessing that you need to switch the device driver into the "raw" > > line discipline, meaning that no interpretation is done on the bytes you > > send. It seems you tried Nadav's (semi-correct) answer about

Re: Transfering PPP over a serial link, oh my...

2005-08-03 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 16:51, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Suppose I have a bunch of PPP "packets" and suppose I want to push those > unto a serial line (tty device) The first problem I see, is that PPP has some state information which it negotiate at link startup via the LCP protocol (things l

Re: Transfering PPP over a serial link, oh my...

2005-08-03 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Aug 03, 2005, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Transfering PPP over a serial link, oh my...": I hope there is someone here twisted enough to know the answer to my question :-) I'm sorry that I don't have any pppd-hacking experience, so my answer will be mostly guess

Re: Relevancy Criticism (was: Re: [Job Offer] - Senior programmer (web))

2005-08-03 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 16:36, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > ... focusing on the low market salaries for Linux people in Israel. > > ... while wanting the higher salaries that Microsoft technology > programers get paid ... Did I understand it corrrectly? Do you claim MS-sepecialists cost more

Re: Relevancy Criticism (was: Re: [Job Offer] - Senior programmer(web))

2005-08-03 Thread Gábor Szabó
On 8/3/05, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Looking for Python software developers in a Perl mailing list. If anyone is looking for a Python programmer and can't find on the Python mailing list s/he is welcome to send the ad to the Perl mailing list. For us Python is just one other way t

Re: Transfering PPP over a serial link, oh my...

2005-08-03 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 17:18 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Transfering PPP over a > serial link, oh my...": > > I hope there is someone here twisted enough to know the answer to my > > question :-) > > I'm sorry that I don't have any pppd-hacking

RE: Relevancy Criticism (was: Re: [Job Offer] - Senior programmer(web))

2005-08-03 Thread Omer Zak
H... When two competing technologies (X1 and Y2 in the following) serve approximately the same market need, how far should we look for people mastering technology X1 in a mailing list dealing with technology Y2? If the mailing list in question is purely technical, then the answer is no. Obvio

Re: Transfering PPP over a serial link, oh my...

2005-08-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Transfering PPP over a serial link, oh my...": > I hope there is someone here twisted enough to know the answer to my > question :-) I'm sorry that I don't have any pppd-hacking experience, so my answer will be mostly guessing and quite likely,

Re: NAPI performance ; tg3 and broadcom driver

2005-08-03 Thread Rami Rosen
Hello, I asked about the tg3 and broadcom drivers at Broadcom support; according to them there is almost no difference in quality between the tg3 and broadcom drivers. The broadcom drivers have some additional features, like BASP (Broadcom Advanced Server Program Driver) support. In the nea

Transfering PPP over a serial link, oh my...

2005-08-03 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Hello list, I hope there is someone here twisted enough to know the answer to my question :-) Suppose I have a bunch of PPP "packets" and suppose I want to push those unto a serial line (tty device) which is connected to a modem. The tty and modem have already been configured to the correct

RE: Relevancy Criticism (was: Re: [Job Offer] - Senior programmer(web))

2005-08-03 Thread Tzahi Fadida
I had a feeling this would come :). As I said, I am just forwarding this for anyone interested. However, I assure you that there are people who have knowledge in more than one platform. Besides, when it comes to web apps, at several occasions knowledgeable people changed the minds of the employe

Re: Relevancy Criticism (was: Re: [Job Offer] - Senior programmer (web))

2005-08-03 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 04:11:21PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > However, I fail to see relevancy to Linux-IL a job posting, which > mentions, as required experience: C#, IIS, Microsoft components. > The startup in question appears to have chosen the Microsoft way, for > better or worse. I'll take the

Relevancy Criticism (was: Re: [Job Offer] - Senior programmer (web))

2005-08-03 Thread Omer Zak
As warned, I saw the same E-mail message also in the Hackers-IL mailing list. I have no objection to its posting to Hackers-IL, as I assume that the company in question is looking for a hacker-level software developer. However, I fail to see relevancy to Linux-IL a job posting, which mentions, as

[Job Offer] - Senior programmer (web)

2005-08-03 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Hi, I am forwarding this job description. I appologize in advance if you somehow got this mail more than once. Subject: Hiring: Senior programmer (web) --- Hi, We're looking for an exp

Re: low-level formatting?

2005-08-03 Thread Peter
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Peter wrote: Afaik modern drives do the mapping silently using spare sectors in each track. You get bad blocks when the drive runs out of spare sectors. It seems that this is not exactly correct. Modern drives do automatic remapping if and only if

Re: low-level formatting?

2005-08-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Peter wrote: Afaik modern drives do the mapping silently using spare sectors in each track. You get bad blocks when the drive runs out of spare sectors. It seems that this is not exactly correct. Modern drives do automatic remapping if and only if they managed to correctly read the data once

Re: low-level formatting?

2005-08-03 Thread Skliarouk Arieh
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/1/05, Ilya Konstantinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shouldn't modern drives do it automatically? From what I read, every modern drive comes with some spare sectors to allow migrating data from damaged sectors. There's also a S.M.A.R.T statistics value (ch

Re: Sendmail+Milter performance tuning

2005-08-03 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 11:05:58AM +0300, Larry Weisberg wrote: > I need to use the Milter architecture in order to scan and possibly > modify incoming emails. If someone can suggest a better solution then > Milter - I am all ears. If not I would appreciate some > sendmail-Milter tuning help. M

Re: Sendmail+Milter performance tuning

2005-08-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 11:05:58AM +0300, Larry Weisberg wrote: > (I am reposting a previous post with some additional requirements) > > I am currently working on a SendMail Milter application. I am looking > for anyone who has significant experience with performance tuning of > Sendmail+Milter,

Sendmail+Milter performance tuning

2005-08-03 Thread Larry Weisberg
(I am reposting a previous post with some additional requirements) I am currently working on a SendMail Milter application. I am looking for anyone who has significant experience with performance tuning of Sendmail+Milter, who might be interested in a few hours of consulting work? I need to use