[digikam] [Bug 138838] Picasaweb export plugin

2018-01-31 Thread Amos Shapira
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138838 Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com> changed: What|Removed |Added CC|amos.shap...@gmail.com | -- You are rec

Re: RavKav Online

2017-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
e > linux-vdso.so.1 is from, but the rest can be found in glibc (and with > the license text suggesting the program is written in GO). I haven't > checked out opal.com.au, but does it allow refilling your card from the > website without a card reader? > > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:21

Re: RavKav Online

2017-03-07 Thread Amos Shapira
Why do they need a client anyway? What does the special client do that a browser can't? I suppose the parallel here in Sydney is https://www.opal.com.au/ and it all works from the browser. Even the "mobile support" is just a mobile view of the same web site at https://m.opal.com.au/ On 8 March

Re: sendmail or ssmtp or ??

2017-01-06 Thread Amos Shapira
Why do you need an SMTP server? You need an SMTP client talking to whichever SMTP server your hosting provider provides you. e.g. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer (I only remember it because of a security flaw published about it last week, but it's PHP so... meh.) On 6 January 2017 at

Re: CentOS yum install problem

2016-12-08 Thread Amos Shapira
I'd also check that your DNS configuration haven't changed, e.g. try "host mirrorlist.centos.org" and see if you can get it to resolve. On 9 December 2016 at 08:35, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: > Seems right, try commenting the mirror line and use a direct URL, and see > if it's

Re: strange ping and traceroute results

2016-11-24 Thread Amos Shapira
for stan.com.au) doesn't use Anycast. On 24 November 2016 at 04:06, Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz> wrote: > On 22/11/16 02:19, Amos Shapira wrote: > > On 21 November 2016 at 18:20, Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz> wrote: > >> The DNS resolving google.com gue

Re: strange ping and traceroute results

2016-11-21 Thread Amos Shapira
On 21 November 2016 at 18:20, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > The DNS resolving google.com guesses your gegraphical location, and gives > you an answer that is nearest where you are. If you use another DNS to > query the domain, you will get a different IP: > It's not always a

Re: strange ping and traceroute results

2016-11-20 Thread Amos Shapira
Google.com is not one computer. Google spreads their locations all over the world including pops in many ISP's. https://peering.google.com/#/ On 20 November 2016 at 19:18, shimi wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Shlomo Solomon > wrote:

Re: Gradual installation of debian packages

2016-08-06 Thread Amos Shapira
een releases (e.g., duration of receive time), it is > not easy to know you're not breaking something for someone by mistake. > > It could be for example the physical location of the antenna at the client > which would make a difference. > > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 2:27

Re: Gradual installation of debian packages

2016-08-05 Thread Amos Shapira
lar case, where > testing is expensive, not all of them seems valid. > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> What provisioning tools do you use to manage these servers? Please tell >> me you aren't doing all o

Re: Gradual installation of debian packages

2016-08-05 Thread Amos Shapira
What provisioning tools do you use to manage these servers? Please tell me you aren't doing all of this manually. Also what's your environment? All hardware servers? Any virtualisation involved? Cloud servers? Reading your question it feels like you are setting yourself up to fail instead of

IS there anyone here with experience with VyOS/Vyatta?

2016-07-27 Thread Amos Shapira
I'm looking for answers about some corner cases I hit with it. I generally managed to get it up and running and connecting my AWS VPC's over IPSec VPN with BGP-4 routing (fully automated, I'll publish the AMI Packer receipe and CloudFormation stack later), but have a few other annoyances.

Re: Questions for network/hardware engineer candidates?

2016-07-04 Thread Amos Shapira
to keep holding their hand. On 5 July 2016 at 10:04, Shay Gover <govers...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Amos, > > Please define Hardware and Network. Server? PCs? PC Technician? Something > else? > > Shay > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 2:36 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmai

Questions for network/hardware engineer candidates?

2016-07-04 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, My workplace is looking to fill in a position for a hardware/network person, someone to look mostly after the office network. Do people here have ideas about where to look for good interview questions/exercises for such a role? Thanks, --Amos ___

Re: single threaded web servers

2016-07-02 Thread Amos Shapira
Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jul 2016 07:13:13 +1000 > Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for the explanation. I like this. > > How would a single-threaded process take advantage of muti- CPU? > > Threads is j

Re: single threaded web servers

2016-07-02 Thread Amos Shapira
equest.header=="HelloWorld") > { > HttpResponse(200,"Hello, world"); > } else { > File::Read(request,header,[](bool success, string body) > { > if (success) >HttpResponse(400,body); >

Re: single threaded web servers

2016-06-30 Thread Amos Shapira
I'm curious - what's the background of this question? What's the original goal that led you to ask this? On 28 June 2016 at 18:04, Erez D wrote: > i tried searching the web but got no result > > what web servers other than node.js are single threaded ? > anyone has

Re: iba.org.il programs

2016-06-06 Thread Amos Shapira
I don't watch much but noticed that היהודים באים is available on youtube officially by IBA. Here is the Youtube account which makes it available, perhaps the program you are interested in is also available? https://www.youtube.com/user/MEDIAIBA On 6 June 2016 at 08:02, Tzafrir Cohen

[Puppet Users] Re: Is there a way to publish a module via the Forge API?

2016-05-20 Thread Amos Shapira
i/dpl#puppet-forge > > > Corey > > On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 9:51:38 PM UTC-7, Amos Shapira wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I didn't find a way to upload a module to the Forge using the Forge API. >> Is this possible? >> >> I find it a bit w

Re: [Puppet Users] Is there a way to publish a module via the Forge API?

2016-05-20 Thread Amos Shapira
gt; distributed team and can't/don't want to share the forge password with > everyone. > > I'm sure you could get the same thing working with other services than > GitHub/Travis CI, those are just the pair I know. > > On Friday, May 20, 2016 at 3:48:16 AM UTC-4, garethr wro

[Puppet Users] Is there a way to publish a module via the Forge API?

2016-05-19 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I didn't find a way to upload a module to the Forge using the Forge API. Is this possible? I find it a bit weird that a tool which advocates "infrastructure as code" doesn't cater for options to script module uploads. Am I missing something? Thanks. -- You received this message

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting augeas type to working on OS X

2016-04-27 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks. I'm out of office until Friday, then I'll test that. On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 10:35:06 UTC+10, David Lutterkort wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.s...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Correction - Puppet Agent is version 4.x of

[Puppet Users] Re: Getting augeas type to working on OS X

2016-04-25 Thread Amos Shapira
Correction - Puppet Agent is version 4.x of Puppet, which we haven't migrated to, so I can't use that package yet. On Sunday, 24 April 2016 12:19:58 UTC+10, Amos Shapira wrote: > > Thanks. > > Since running Puppet is the ultimate goal, I'll try to go that way. They > even provi

[Puppet Users] Re: Getting augeas type to working on OS X

2016-04-23 Thread Amos Shapira
and all the other goodies that make up > puppet-agent) in it. > > David > > On Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 9:28:46 PM UTC-7, Amos Shapira wrote: >> >> More updates found just after posting this (why do all the useful links >> appear only after posting questions,

[Puppet Users] Re: Getting augeas type to working on OS X

2016-04-21 Thread Amos Shapira
and might be abandoned): https://github.com/berndmweber/open-source-puppet-master/blob/master/modules/puppet/README.md On Friday, 22 April 2016 14:23:10 UTC+10, Amos Shapira wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm working on automating of OS X vmware build using Puppet. > > I use Packer to

[Puppet Users] Getting augeas type to working on OS X

2016-04-21 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'm working on automating of OS X vmware build using Puppet. I use Packer to build the base image (based on excellent work done in https://github.com/timsutton/osx-vm-templates) and take the opportunity to pre-install Puppet, Homebrew and gems used by Puppet itself like hiera,

Re: vdsl2 router

2016-03-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8 March 2016 at 21:01, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote: > > > 2016-03-08 9:10 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com>: > >> What exact model of TP-Link have you got? >> > WR740N (v4.x), WR841ND (v5.x), WR1043ND (v1.x) > >

Re: vdsl2 router

2016-03-07 Thread Amos Shapira
What exact model of TP-Link have you got? I have a TP-Link AC1750 ADSL2+ modem router which is great except that OpenWRT doesn't support this specific model's WiFi well (see multiple "Notes" in https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c5-c7-wdr7500) So I'm half-heartedly on the lookout for

Re: OT: SSL certificates

2016-03-07 Thread Amos Shapira
I too would recommend letsenctlrypt. The only down side is possibly that you have to keep renewing (automatically with a cron job) every three months. Alternatively, www.ssls.com lists very very cheap certs. On 8 Mar 2016 4:49 p.m., "Baruch Siach" wrote: > Hi Gabor, > > On

Re: [OT] Password regex change on mybills.co.il

2016-02-27 Thread Amos Shapira
One condition I see from this regex which wasn't mentioned yet is that there should be at least two *consecutive* letters in the password. All in all, as Steve said - this is an idiotic way to enforce such complex requirements (and I consider myself a regex enthusiast), and they should fix their

Re: problems upgrading an Ubuntu EC2 node

2016-02-22 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks for coming back with the solution. Though in a broader perspective: "you are holding it wrong" - get used to the fact that you are running in the cloud and use it right - learn to build your images from scratch so you can move to a updated base image and automatically install and

Re: More pieces of the IPv6 puzzle (Re: ISP with native ipv6 in isarael)

2016-01-30 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks everyone. On 30 Jan 2016 12:43 a.m., "Yuval Adam" <yu...@y3xz.com> wrote: > > > On 01/29/2016 11:52 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: > > > > Does anyone here have experience with public IPv6 in the cloud > > (AWS/DigitalOcean/Google, in decreasing

Re: More pieces of the IPv6 puzzle (Re: ISP with native ipv6 in isarael)

2016-01-29 Thread Amos Shapira
Does anyone here have experience with public IPv6 in the cloud (AWS/DigitalOcean/Google, in decreasing order of preference)? On 29 Jan 2016 6:19 a.m., "E.S. Rosenberg" wrote: 2016-01-28 20:37 GMT+02:00 Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin < beni.cherniav...@gmail.com>: > Due to

Re: Python for Kids

2016-01-11 Thread Amos Shapira
I'd be interested to hear about resources for these ages in English too. On 11 January 2016 at 01:11, Justin wrote: > Has anyone discovered good resources for teaching kids python? Hebrew? > (Ages 8-11) > > Code.org has great resources for abstract programing. They

Re: Problems while trying to install CENTOS 7

2015-12-31 Thread Amos Shapira
You should also take the offer by the installer to checksum the media. On 1 January 2016 at 03:18, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Israel! > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Israel Shikler > wrote: > >> I downloaded Centos 7 from a mirror site in Israel,

Re: How to search Linux Kernel changelogs? (USB disconnect problem)

2015-12-24 Thread Amos Shapira
Backports? https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/ On 25 Dec 2015 9:04 a.m., "E.S. Rosenberg" wrote: > Unless it has dependencies that force you 'onward' there is no reason > not to download the deb and install it manually > > 2015-12-24 20:14 GMT+02:00 Omer

Re: Summary: Which Linux distribution is stable yet up-to-date

2015-12-01 Thread Amos Shapira
I tried to avoid this discussion but I'm a little surprised that nobody mentioned Debian Testing. I've used it as a desktop for a decade or so and it had a great combination of very good stability (i.e. I can't recall it ever disappointed me) and still relatively up to date. But then again - it's

Re: persistent private browsing ?

2015-11-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks. As far as I know (I left this company almost four years ago), this is a subset of the metrics they collect. On 18 November 2015 at 21:49, Yedidyah Bar David <d...@bardavid.org> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Re: [SLUG] Wiki suggestions?

2015-11-18 Thread Amos Shapira
I think there is an "edit source" option somewhere there, if you insist on text syntax. Personally I find its WYSIWYG interface pretty convenient, compared to the rare times that I find myself correct entries on Wikipedia. On 3 Oct 2015 6:09 pm, "James Gray" wrote: > I

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Unplanned outage on apt.puppetlabs.com

2015-11-17 Thread Amos Shapira
apt cache. > > Morgan > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:51 PM Amos Shapira <amos.s...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> I arrived to this thread because I was looking for a status update about >> the following "apt-get update" failure on all our servers: >&

[Puppet Users] Re: Unplanned outage on apt.puppetlabs.com

2015-11-17 Thread Amos Shapira
I arrived to this thread because I was looking for a status update about the following "apt-get update" failure on all our servers: *W: Failed to fetch http://apt.puppetlabs.com/dists/trusty/main/source/Sources Hash Sum mismatch* *W: Failed to fetch

Any Chrome extension developers around here?

2015-11-17 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I have a itch with Chrome I'd like to scratch but don't have time to learn how to program a Chrome extension. Does anyone here know how to program Chrome extensions and is interested in a small project? It's about controlling which of multiple parallel logged in Chrome users (think -

Re: Void Linux tips

2015-10-21 Thread Amos Shapira
What's the advantage of this distro? I may be old and tired but I have to see a unique strong benefit for deviating from the mainstream. On 22 October 2015 at 06:18, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently switched over to Void Linux, a KISS principle distro much

Re: KODI on Raspberry PI2 - no screen output

2015-10-20 Thread Amos Shapira
There very active forums for OpenELEC and kodi. I suggest that you try asking there too. On 21 Oct 2015 6:37 a.m., "Shlomi Fish" wrote: > Hi Shlomo! > > Just a question: > > Shlomo Solomon >> http://the-solomons.net >> Sent by Claws Mail 3.11.1 - KDE 4.12.15 - LINUX Mageia 4

Re: [SLUG] Website

2015-09-20 Thread Amos Shapira
I agree the site doesn't give a great shot of confidence in Linux as a web server, it doesn't render any page to completion for me. There is a link to "See the code" which points to https://github.com/sydney-linux-user-group/slug/commits/master, where the last commit happened over three years ago

Jira (PUP-2905) When installing PIP packages from sources different than pypi, the install and any notifies are triggered during every run.

2015-09-16 Thread Amos Shapira (JIRA)
Title: Message Title Amos Shapira updated an issue

Re: [OT] Deleting Thousends of Messages in Gmail

2015-08-23 Thread Amos Shapira
What would be the advantage of Claws e-mail over the previously provided GMail web interface search? I got the impression the web interface can achieve this on the server side, which will save network bandwidth and time. On 24 August 2015 at 11:28, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On

Re: Major rendering bug affecting Hebrew in pango has been fixed

2015-08-22 Thread Amos Shapira
Is this the same code used in Android? Just today I read a Hebrew article in Pocket (https://getpocket.com/) on my Nexus 5 and was reminded that it still justifies the mobilized version to the left. On 23 August 2015 at 05:53, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com wrote: This might be interesting

Any Chrome extension developer looking for a project?

2015-07-28 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I'm looking for a Chrome extension which can do the following (copied from my unanswered question at https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/hIH8rDKCpgI/aYD_rvSSW6AJ ): I'm logged in to two accounts on my workplace Chrome in parallel, let's call them work and home. I keep at

[JOB] Looking for a Linux NetFilter or general Kernel module programmer

2015-07-23 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, A startup is looking for a contractor with proven experience in writing Linux kernel modules for a short contract job. Preference for candidates with proven experience in writing NetFilter modules (http://www.netfilter.org/). Forwarding this e-mail to others you know, or suggestions for

Re: Extending R.E. Syntax

2015-07-21 Thread Amos Shapira
The sages of Linux has a saying Talk is cheap, show me the code. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#2000-04 On 21 July 2015 at 15:22, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: The ancient sages of Israel have a saying סוף מעשה - במחשבה תחילה, meaning that the end of a project is as planned in

Re: Eliminating binary from a text file

2015-07-20 Thread Amos Shapira
+1 for tr -d '\0' file newfile, based on the updated description. But prevention is better than a cure - find a way to avoid this in the first place. On 21 July 2015 at 07:22, Boruch Baum boruch_b...@gmx.com wrote: I see that I'm late to the discussion and that your original problem has

Re: Eliminating binary from a text file

2015-07-20 Thread Amos Shapira
Then how about: grep -v -P -a '\x00' file? Based on http://superuser.com/a/612336/27453. Explantion of the flags: -v - inverse - print NON-matching lines -P - use Perl regexp -a - force treating the file as a text file On 21 July 2015 at 13:39, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: On

Re: [SLUG] mailing list archives?

2015-06-10 Thread Amos Shapira
for? Ben On 10/06/15 13:05, Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find the SLUG mailing list archive but any link other than the home page (e.g. http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/) just gives the default Welcome to nginx! page. Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Fwd: [SLUG] Fwd: 8TiB HDD, 10^14 bit error rate, approaching certainty of error for each drive of data read

2015-06-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Interesting thread about ZFS and large disks bit-rot... -- Forwarded message -- From: Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net Date: 10 June 2015 at 11:52 Subject: [SLUG] Fwd: 8TiB HDD, 10^14 bit error rate, approaching certainty of error for each drive of data read To: s...@slug.org.au

[SLUG] mailing list archives?

2015-06-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I'm trying to find the SLUG mailing list archive but any link other than the home page (e.g. http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/) just gives the default Welcome to nginx! page. Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and

Re: [SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites

2015-06-08 Thread Amos Shapira
an MTU of 1492. Problem solved. Only some sites were affected, which made it confusing. I can't imagine why anyone would do this and not tell anybody. My reseller couldn't tell me who the upstream supplier is, except that it isn't TPG. Go figure. On 08/06/15 18:41, Amos Shapira wrote: You

Re: [SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites

2015-06-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8 June 2015 at 18:59, James Gray ja...@gray.net.au wrote: As for the weird connectivity, I know TPG for a long time ran transparent proxies without really making it widely known. I’ve seen similar behaviour to that which you describe when my local Squid cache get’s it’s panties in a

Re: [SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites

2015-06-08 Thread Amos Shapira
You probably refer to the drop of support for NPAPI (e.g. article in http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/24/google-chrome-will-block-all-netscape-plugin-api-plugins-in-january-drop-support-completely-in-september/ about Chrome but Firefox is following cloesely behind). There are temporary work-around

Re: New Qemu and VirtualBox docs for Linux

2015-05-23 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi Steve, I only read the first articles you sent a few weeks ago and they were pretty good. Well done. In relation to the latest installments - I'd like to suggest looking at Vagrant and Packer too. I find that configuring everything in a text file (basically, a Ruby script) is an extremely

[SLUG] CloudFormation chat before last night's SLUG talk

2015-04-25 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, There was someone who talked to me about not having enough info about using AWS CloudFormation over pizza before the talk last night, but I didn't get her name before she left. If you see this - I can possibly provide you with some working examples I use at my workplace if you like. BTW -

Re: Linux Kernel 4.0 is Out + Debian Jessie Planned Upcoming Release

2015-04-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 15 April 2015 at 22:29, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: 2015-04-15 14:49 GMT+03:00 Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com: “May you live in interesting times.” Thanks, you too and all of us. Actually in the English context it's considered a curse (even though the myth that it's

Re: formatting a disk for a home NAS

2015-04-14 Thread Amos Shapira
If all you want is for this server to be there and not have to worry about it then I'd recommend ext4. Put the data and the OS on separate disks if you can. Many years ago (over ten years), I used ReiserFS for my desktop. It worked great and didn't have the limitations of the other fs's of the

Re: I've been hacked, or not?

2015-04-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 14 April 2015 at 02:34, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: If I just reinstall the server (both time consuming and expensive, as I need provision a temporary server to make a smooth transition), I'm still going to be open to the same attack vector unless I do something. Don't you

Re: I've been hacked, or not?

2015-04-13 Thread Amos Shapira
off someone elses money and/or paying for your own time. If, however, this is something done in your spare time, serving mostly you and being paid for out of your own pocket, the difference between 8€/mo and what you said becomes big. Shachar On Apr 14, 2015 3:02 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap

Re: Bezeq Ruter

2015-04-13 Thread Amos Shapira
I wonder - do you have to get the modem from Bezeq? Can't you buy anything compatible on the free market? On 13 April 2015 at 16:18, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: In addition to the fancy (read crappy) wireless routers that Bezeq will always try to offer you to

Hebrew keyboard cups?

2015-04-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Not specifically Linux related but I hope members here can help me with antique hardware question. I just ordered a couple of MS ergonomic keyboards like this: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-au/p/natural-ergonomic-keyboard-4000 and now I'm looking to make them Hebrew friendly. I had an OK

Re: Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar

2015-04-01 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi Nadav, Will it be video taped? Slides made available? Thanks, --Amos On 2 April 2015 at 05:53, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2015, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about Re: Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar: Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il writes:

Re: Good design to expose debug info from kernel module

2015-03-28 Thread Amos Shapira
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: If serialisation (aka marshalling) is considered, how about making it text based? Then you can use simple shell tools to talk to it. On 27 March 2015 at 22:34, Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO, C

Re: [SLUG] Recommendations for Australian Based VPS

2015-03-25 Thread Amos Shapira
1. Have you tried asking on Whirlpool forums? They got plenty of experienced people there. 2. I just started using Exigent for web hosting (not vps) and so far they are cheap and deliver. They also have VPS options. They got reports of improving over time on Whirlpool. --Amos On 25 March 2015 at

Re: HOW to prevent DNS resolver from going into revert lookup (record of PTR type)?

2015-03-23 Thread Amos Shapira
. Hope now I explained the queston more thoroughly. L. *From:* Amos Shapira [mailto:amos.shap...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, March 22, 2015 10:08 PM *To:* Lev Olshvang *Cc:* linux-il *Subject:* Re: HOW to prevent DNS resolver from going into revert lookup (record of PTR type)? I'm

Re: HOW to prevent DNS resolver from going into revert lookup (record of PTR type)?

2015-03-23 Thread Amos Shapira
. The question is whether it is possible to confugre nsswitch, or dnsmasq, nscd or other resolver from doing reverse lookup. Not that I'm aware - what do you expect it to do when the client asks to resolve an IP address? Aways fail? *From:* Amos Shapira [mailto:amos.shap...@gmail.com

Re: Server stopped DNS name resolution

2015-03-22 Thread Amos Shapira
1. Sounds like the ip's in your resolv.conf are wrong. Where does the server get them from? ip's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are the Google unicast public DNS servers. They are reliable but it's not optimal for a server to have to reach out to them on every query. 2. The ssh login is possibly slow

Re: HOW to prevent DNS resolver from going into revert lookup (record of PTR type)?

2015-03-22 Thread Amos Shapira
I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve here - PTR records and A records are completely separate entities living under different domains. Both of them should be maintained separately (there are probably tons of tools to keep them in sync if you like, but from DNS' perspective there is no

Re: Server stopped DNS name resolution

2015-03-22 Thread Amos Shapira
Google unicast public DNS servers s/unicast/anycast/, I keep forgetting that term. On 22 March 2015 at 22:28, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Sounds like the ip's in your resolv.conf are wrong. Where does the server get them from? ip's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are the Google unicast

Re: Something is injecting malware into my HTTP traffic

2015-03-21 Thread Amos Shapira
Just speculating, but could it be that your ISP uses a caching transparent proxy (which would explain why it doesn't happen on SSL) and its cache got corrupted? The other ISP case could be explained if it's actually upstream/downstream from your ISP, or they share a proxy cache for other reasons.

Re: Something is injecting malware into my HTTP traffic

2015-03-21 Thread Amos Shapira
the connection both from working and non-working settings? Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2015-03-21 8:30 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: Just speculating, but could it be that your ISP uses a caching transparent proxy (which would explain why it doesn't happen on SSL) and its cache got

Re: OT: Biometric ID

2015-03-15 Thread Amos Shapira
mv Israel Chelm (ref for the uninitiated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_humour#Che.C5.82m) ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: OT: Biometric ID

2015-03-15 Thread Amos Shapira
BTW this anecdote might interest Yonathan Klinger and other anti-bio-id activists since it could be pointing a fatal flaw in the system. On 15 Mar 2015 9:26 pm, Gabor Szabo ga...@szabgab.com wrote: A few weeks ago I asked to get a biometric ID. They took my finger prints and asked all kinds of

[Puppet Users] Re: why doesn't 'Package | provider == apt |' work for me?

2015-03-11 Thread Amos Shapira
On Thursday, 12 March 2015 00:39:53 UTC+11, jcbollinger wrote: On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 10:30:48 PM UTC-5, Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, I'm running into the common issue of having to force an apt-get update before installing packages (in my case - because the base EC2 AMI is old and I

[Puppet Users] why doesn't 'Package | provider == apt |' work for me?

2015-03-10 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I'm running into the common issue of having to force an apt-get update before installing packages (in my case - because the base EC2 AMI is old and I need it to pick newer package versions). I ended up doing the usual: exec { 'apt-get update': path = '/usr/bin/', } - Package | |

Re: [SLUG] Fixing broken apt-get on Zentyal (Ubuntu)

2015-02-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11 February 2015 at 11:39, scott redhowlingwol...@gmx.com wrote: On 02/10/2015 05:32 PM, David Lyon wrote: Hi, I have a working Zentyal server and everything is fine except that I need to deploy Python Imaging Library to it, and it doesn't work. apt-get is for some reason broken.

Re: [SLUG] Fixing broken apt-get on Zentyal (Ubuntu)

2015-02-10 Thread Amos Shapira
, scott redhowlingwol...@gmx.com wrote: On 02/10/2015 09:19 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: On 11 February 2015 at 11:39, scott redhowlingwol...@gmx.com wrote: On 02/10/2015 05:32 PM, David Lyon wrote: Hi, I have a working Zentyal server and everything is fine except that I need to deploy

Re: [SLUG] Strange behaviour of Chrome

2015-02-10 Thread Amos Shapira
Are you sure you got the youtube page open only once? No other tabs or windows? On 10 February 2015 at 17:25, Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: On 10/02/15 17:08, scott wrote: On 02/10/2015 01:03 AM, Heracles wrote: When I look at a youtube video in chrome it seems to start the

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-15 Thread Amos Shapira
use the instance for 20 minutes, shut it down and then bring it up for 20 minutes, you pay for two hours. So it might be beneficial to wait a bit, at least until the end of a full hour. Orna On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Etzion. Yes you

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-14 Thread Amos Shapira
, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: Etzion, just a question: Amos 0 if you can customise your instance to be very very light, - what do you mean by that? Your description is close to what I have in mind. As for the changing IP address - this can be easily overcome using

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-13 Thread Amos Shapira
it by yourself can be more then enough 2015-01-08 11:37 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: I was thinking about running it on my own laptop, and perhaps I will. But that would mean leaving it on around the clock which I don't want to (I'm very conscious of power consumption, both

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-13 Thread Amos Shapira
it by yourself can be more then enough 2015-01-08 11:37 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: I was thinking about running it on my own laptop, and perhaps I will. But that would mean leaving it on around the clock which I don't want to (I'm very conscious of power consumption, both

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: Yes I'm well aware of the RI option. It can save up to %70 for high-load (i.e. machines which are up 24/7), but much less saving compared to something that you can keep bringing up and down on demand. Also the up-front cost

Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-07 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, Do people here keep EC2 instances running? Do you leave it running 24/7 or do you fire them up when you need them? I'd like to run my own EC2 instance running $10 Jira + $10 Confluence (+$10 some extra useful add-ons) (to clarify - these are one-off $10 for each product), but can't justify

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-07 Thread Amos Shapira
paid for the hosting and so the hardware is free. - Aviram On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Do people here keep EC2 instances running? Do you leave it running 24/7 or do you fire them up when you need them? I'd like to run my own EC2

Re: Linux on Android related question

2014-12-26 Thread Amos Shapira
Just a few weeks ago I read (I think on DarkReading) that there are many cheap phones which come with malware built in. I google'd for this when I found this link: http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2014/12/coolreaper-revealed-backdoor-coolpad-android-devices/ Bottom line - avoid these

Re: Recommendations for drive recovery

2014-12-23 Thread Amos Shapira
the data. (rsync iirc) 2014-12-22 12:26 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: I once helped a friend in a similar situation (family photos and documents on a dying disk without backups). I followed broadly the following procedure: 1. Put the disk in an airtight plastic bag (reason

Re: Recommendations for drive recovery

2014-12-22 Thread Amos Shapira
I once helped a friend in a similar situation (family photos and documents on a dying disk without backups). I followed broadly the following procedure: 1. Put the disk in an airtight plastic bag (reason - to avoid humidity getting in during the following steps). 2. Put in the freezer for an

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1403275] [NEW] i915 display driver causes crash back to login window

2014-12-16 Thread Amos Shapira
Public bug reported: I've just installed Ubuntu 14.04 server on Dell Latitude E7440 and then installed Cinnamon 2.4.5 on top of it. The laptop has an external monitor connected through Display Port and a docking station. On the first day the system worked perfectly. On the second day, the

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1403275] [NEW] i915 display driver causes crash back to login window

2014-12-16 Thread Amos Shapira
Public bug reported: I've just installed Ubuntu 14.04 server on Dell Latitude E7440 and then installed Cinnamon 2.4.5 on top of it. The laptop has an external monitor connected through Display Port and a docking station. On the first day the system worked perfectly. On the second day, the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1403275] [NEW] i915 display driver causes crash back to login window

2014-12-16 Thread Amos Shapira
Public bug reported: I've just installed Ubuntu 14.04 server on Dell Latitude E7440 and then installed Cinnamon 2.4.5 on top of it. The laptop has an external monitor connected through Display Port and a docking station. On the first day the system worked perfectly. On the second day, the

[Bug 1403275] [NEW] i915 display driver causes crash back to login window

2014-12-16 Thread Amos Shapira
Public bug reported: I've just installed Ubuntu 14.04 server on Dell Latitude E7440 and then installed Cinnamon 2.4.5 on top of it. The laptop has an external monitor connected through Display Port and a docking station. On the first day the system worked perfectly. On the second day, the

Re: Adding external HDD to Raspberry Pi

2014-12-14 Thread Amos Shapira
Get a powered USB hub (i.e. a usb hub which also connects to a wall power socket). I'm not familiar with RPi USB version but check for USB 3.0 vs. 2.0. On 15 December 2014 at 06:07, Gabor Szabo ga...@szabgab.com wrote: Hmm, good question. The Raspberry does see the device when it is connected,

Re: Mageia 4 - update delay

2014-12-07 Thread Amos Shapira
Also - what do you see in the logs? On 7 December 2014 at 03:39, Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.com wrote: I tried running ps -A before clicking, a few times during the 4 minute wait and after the GUI started. I then used diff to compare. The only change I found during the wait was an

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