[Haifux] Emergency lecture about winbind

2005-03-06 Thread boazg
Abstract: I wll try to explain how linux-sup has configured the new stations we installed, so that they will have a psedu-single-sign-on system, using winbind, NIS and pam-mount. I can also give some theoretical background about these tools. Sadly, I am going to be drafted to the IDF next sunday,

[Haifux] programming in linux lecture

2006-04-30 Thread boazg
, the porgramming in linux lecture is given during the start of the winter simester. regards boazg

[Haifux] programming in linux lecture

2006-04-30 Thread boazg
, the porgramming in linux lecture is given during the start of the winter simester. regards boazg

Re: [Haifux] programming in linux lecture

2006-05-01 Thread boazg
, PASAL, and OBOL, anon Spammers: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~orrd/spam.htmlGPG fingerprint: C2D5 C6D6 9A24 9A95 C5B32023 6CAB 4A7C B73F D0AA(This key will never sign Emails, only other PGP keys.) On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, boazg wrote: i have been asked on many ocasions by the MATAM students

Re: [Haifux] programming in linux lecture

2006-05-06 Thread boazg
so can we finalize a programming in linux for the 15'th? i dont want less than a week's notice, so it would be nice to set this now. unless anyone anyone really wants to give this one, i'll be mor happy ot take it. boazgOn 5/1/06, boazg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i can give it. i don't know about

Re: [Haifux] vim was so nice

2006-05-25 Thread boazg
it was a redhat thing, and due to messing stuff up it was cancelled afaik. vim shouldnt do to many stuff out of the box. vim7, btw works very well with a proper vimrc btw.On 5/25/06, Orna Agmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All,My system was recently updated from Red Hat Enterprize 3 to RHE4,

Re: [Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution

2006-06-11 Thread boazg
me and the farm crowd strongly stand behind ubuntu. the 6.06 release takes simple to a whole new level. it has hebrew, a new, much nicer, clearlooks derivative theme, and apt is quite the leader in package management. they;ve also put a frontend on apt simpler than synaptic for people who want to

[Haifux] Disappointing Linux Day

2006-06-25 Thread boazg
I would like, on behalf of myself and Maya, to express my disappointment in the Linux Day we had yesterday. Adir, while you did take leadership of the project, I feel dissatisfied with the way things worked out. The most basic necessities for an installfest were unavailable. Power bricks were in

Re: [Haifux] Disappointing Linux Day

2006-06-25 Thread boazg
just for the record i would like to oppose this drawing of knives whitch is taking place.

Re: [Haifux] Disappointing Linux Day

2006-06-25 Thread boazg
a stroke of Murphy's law, that was all it was, and holding adir to blame for it is absurd. all in all, few could have done better, scarcely much, better and complaining about it isn't helping making the next one good either!On 6/26/06, boazg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:for god's sake man, adir worked very

Re: [Haifux] Lecture suggestion: Open Solaris

2007-01-17 Thread boazg
a definite yes! On 1/18/07, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:31:37AM +0200, guy keren wrote: yes please! Cheers, Muli a me too vote ;) While we're at it, if someone feels comfortable talking about MINIX v.3 I'd love to hear it. Cheers, Muli

Re: [Haifux] Re: version control wiki

2007-01-24 Thread boazg
i too recommend TRAC. ive worked with it on some projects, and it is quite an impressive combination. On 1/24/07, Jacob Broido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I second that one, TRAC! This suite is just brilliant: wiki,svn,project management, bugtask management, extendable and pluggable, not

Re: [Haifux] An introductory of sorts

2007-02-05 Thread boazg
sounds like a great idea. just remember to use only well-tested stable beryl plug-ins. and give KDE an equal and fair chance. On 2/4/07, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ohad Lutzky wrote: On 2/4/07, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and then you'll come and say oh, we need to give the

Re: [Haifux] An introductory of sorts

2007-02-07 Thread boazg
with Linux, but ended up thinking that it's pretty handy, this could affect future decision about what to choose once he or she reaches the industry. Or at least be fully aware of the fact that something free can be useful. Which is much more than what is commonly thought. Eli boazg wrote

Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread boazg
actually, while on the subject of 'proprietary', any idea where i can get an AIX system for lecture time demonstrations, anyone? any PowerPC RS/6000's laying around? On 4/5/07, boazg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/5/07, Kohn Emil Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK the latest version of AIX

Re: [Haifux] Lightning talk! LEHITPAKED

2008-07-09 Thread boazg
hi i'm in a graphics mood cairo, anyone? On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:16, Ohad Lutzky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I couldn't find any appropriate translation. Anyone know one?) Time limit for this session: 7 minutes! Everyone participating, please list the topics you'll be talking about.

Re: [Haifux] pop(queue) fails

2008-10-25 Thread boazg
i can give a lecture on the cairo compositing engine (the thing that makes GTK shiny) On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 17:01, Orr Dunkelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: hi guys, I have some issues with the following code, help would be appreciated. #include stdio.h struct Lecture { char

Re: [Haifux] Using apt to make a student ubuntu distribution

2009-01-28 Thread boazg
i think something like this http://uck.sourceforge.net/ is more fitting On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 23:16, Tzafrir Rehan tzafri...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having this idea in my head, of creating an apt repository, which contains a dummy package that depends on all the packages that we recommend

Re: [Haifux] Idea: Welcome to Open Source instead of Welcome to Linux this year

2009-09-11 Thread boazg
IMHO it's a branding issue. Linux is a brand name. When you say Welcome to Linux it has associations. When you say welcome to FOSS, people give you a blank stare, and then you have to explain, all the while making sure your arguments don't enter tin-foil-hat land. It's not as if Welcome to Linux

Re: [Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + Linux guru

2009-10-15 Thread boazg
as a side note, a seperate lecture on git for CS students, and how to use it with t2 would be a good idea. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 16:44, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: Hello again. The FOSS lecture will be held by Orr (I have to admit I wasn't aware that he's a candidate). There

Re: [Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + Linux guru

2009-10-16 Thread boazg
it seems that on t2 (now called stud) you can use not only file:/// but also svn+ssh://, with only a student account. in that case i agree that subversion is much better than git for this purpose. as for the question of why do you need version control for something as simple as MATAM, it really

Re: [Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + Linux guru

2009-10-18 Thread boazg
i don't think 20 minutes is enough for subversion if students are to use svn+ssh:// from t2. an hour is minimum. it should get it's own seperate lecture, IMHO. also, it shoudl be pitched seperately, as it has apeal also for students working on obscure OS's that arent POSIX-like. just another hook

Re: [Haifux] [HELP HELP] Uses of Linux in the real world

2009-10-31 Thread boazg
worlds most powerful computer runs linux, based on wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner) i like this example because it shows how nicely linux scales from a cellphone or a modem to 12K CPU supercomputer On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 07:56, Vadim Eisenberg

Re: [Haifux] [HELP HELP] Uses of Linux in the real world

2009-11-01 Thread boazg
these aren't any noobs. they are CS students, and they care because their job might be on linux even if their desktop is windows. that's a point we have to make. On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 22:08, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/30 Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il: Hello,

Re: [Haifux] advanced of programming in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread boazg
a good example is copying ownership of a set of files from one computer to another. lets say someone messed up the permissions for all of /opt recursively, but we have the same /opt on another computer. we can obtain an ls-like description of all the files with find /opt | xargs -n1 ls -ld copy

Re: [Haifux] FOSS/Proprietary Debate

2009-11-14 Thread boazg
i'll hapilly voulenteer as the technion debater. either side. 2009/11/14 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: Hello all, and especially the avid argumentative people, The Technion debate club has offered to organize a show-debate on the subject of FOSS vs.

Re: [Haifux] QEMU/KVM vs. VMWare: The beauty and the beast

2010-01-10 Thread boazg
have you tried virtualbox? it's GPL, and i've had some good experience with it. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 21:06, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: Hello, I've been playing around with my new Fedora 12 computer (Intel i7 quad core) for a few days, mainly for the purpose of making

[Haifux] preventing caps lock at the kernel level

2010-03-19 Thread boazg
to work. anyone have any better ideas as to where i should be looking? thanks boazg ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux

Re: [Haifux] preventing caps lock at the kernel level

2010-03-30 Thread boazg
; for interrupt 1 it says:IO-APIC-edge ). In case of level-triggered interrupts this might have been OK. Rgs, Rami Rosen On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:19 AM, boazg boaz.ge...@gmail.com wrote: hi, i have a laptop in which due to a hardware problem, computer thinks the caps lock key is pressed

Re: [Haifux] Haifos?

2010-04-08 Thread boazg
haifux has a ring to it that kinda makes it obvious what it's about. it's also become known over the years in the technion CS faculty. i think it's a better idea to keep it On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 22:05, Michael Vasiliev mycr...@yandex.ru wrote: On 07/04/2010 19:20, Shachar Raindel wrote: But

Re: [Haifux] Lecture about valgrind

2010-06-16 Thread boazg
+1 On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 15:30, Leon Romanovsky l...@leon.nu wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:51, Shachar Raindel shach...@gmail.com wrote: If there is enough interest, I will probably be able to get a few slides together and talk about it for a bit (read - 2 hours). --Shachar +1

Re: [Haifux] X terminal

2010-08-04 Thread boazg
http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ 2010/8/4 Shahar Dag d...@cs.technion.ac.il I am looking for a free X-terminal software that will run on an Win-XP station and will allow me an easy access to RedHad Ubuntu Linux machines. ___ Haifux

Re: [Haifux] X terminal

2010-08-04 Thread boazg
? This shows how much the developers care about the end user. Compare that to the Firefox website or even the MobaXterm website. On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 15:17, boazg boaz.ge...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ 2010/8/4 Shahar Dag d...@cs.technion.ac.il I am looking

Re: [Haifux] A Stand in the Orientation Day at the Technion

2010-09-28 Thread boazg
i volunteer. and i think it's a great idea. On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 00:43, Amir Eldor amir.el...@gmail.com wrote: Do you want to hand over Ubuntu CD's? I think Ubuntu Israel might have CD's in stock but they are a bit gay and might want people to donate in order to receive a free CD. On

Re: [Haifux] Orientation Day at the Technion

2010-10-10 Thread boazg
i can stand in the sun for an hour or two. On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:08, Orr Dunkelman orr.dunkel...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, The orientation day will take place this Thursday, between 10:00-15:00, where there is a real need between 12:00-15:00. We need two types of volunteers: 1.

Re: [Haifux] Orientation Day at the Technion

2010-10-14 Thread boazg
, and is yet a technical talk (newcomers do not need persuasion - they need an intro to the club). Orna On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:26 PM, boazg boaz.ge...@gmail.com mailto: boaz.ge...@gmail.com wrote: i can stand in the sun for an hour or two. On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:08, Orr Dunkelman

[Haifux] two lecture proposals

2010-10-25 Thread boazg
1) the BASH shell 2) the Cairo graphics engine ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux

Re: [Haifux] two lecture proposals

2010-10-25 Thread boazg
yes. cairo does linux. it can be a pain to get it to run on windows, though. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 20:17, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 18:35, boazg boaz.ge...@gmail.com wrote: 1) the BASH shell 2) the Cairo graphics engine Does Cairo run on Linux

[Haifux] a proposed lecture change

2010-11-08 Thread boazg
on time. what you all? boazg. ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux

Re: [Haifux] a proposed lecture change

2010-11-09 Thread boazg
orr.dunkel...@gmail.comwrote: Of course :) In any case - Boaz - please send us abstract asap. Thanks! On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 08:39, boazg boaz.ge...@gmail.com wrote: hi, as some of you may know, i am currently employed

[Haifux] postponing the bash lecture

2010-12-13 Thread boazg
sorry, mid-semester stress and the likes, i won't have time ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux

Re: [Haifux] Refreshments

2011-01-06 Thread boazg
a small budget for members is nice. however i don't like the idea of bribing people to show up at haifux. the club is by us, for us. we have different platforms to spread the word. i therefore oppose the chipping in on principle. On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 14:22, Tzafrir Rehan tzafri...@gmail.com

Re: [Haifux] Refreshments

2011-01-06 Thread boazg
decent point. i retract my claim and would be happy to chip in. On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 15:33, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: On 06/01/11 14:49, boazg wrote: a small budget for members is nice. however i don't like the idea of bribing people to show up at haifux. This isn't

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] A FOSS Yankee in Microsoft's court - Boaz Goldstein

2011-01-17 Thread boazg
also, the speech comes with a viral EULA. On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:46, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: . The speaker is DRM encrusted, as are all Microsoft employees. I'm just learning C# and already I stutter when I say Debian on film

Re: [Haifux] Something fun and geeky to read

2012-05-09 Thread boazg
young whippersnappers with your modern nerd-comics! in my day we had only text and we liked it that way. now get off my lawn! On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Orr Dunkelman orr.dunkel...@gmail.comwrote: Sudo make me sandwich. http://xkcd.com/149/ On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Baruch Even

Re: [Haifux] The Bash vulnerability (shellshock)

2014-09-27 Thread boazg
you need to find a vulnerable site. CGI doesn't have to pass through bash. you need a site that opens a subshell for something. they aren't uncommon, but it's not every linux-CGI site. On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: Hi, I did # yum upgrade bash on

Re: [Haifux] The Bash vulnerability (shellshock)

2014-09-27 Thread boazg
try it with DHCP instead https://www.trustedsec.com/september-2014/shellshock-dhcp-rce-proof-concept/ On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:36 AM, boazg boaz.ge...@gmail.com wrote: you need to find a vulnerable site. CGI doesn't have to pass through bash. you need a site that opens a subshell

[Haifux] the state of linux gaming

2014-10-01 Thread boazg
a lecture or two ago, when Guy Keren was saying that linux would never ever be a gaming platform i tried to point out he was wrong, and it's actually doing OK, and everyone looked at me like i'm crazy. anyhow, if anyone wants to try, Borderlands 2 Game Of The Year edition (that means all the