Re: [Haifux] RFC: lecture ideas from Aviram Jenik

2003-06-08 Thread Eli Billauer
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: The three possibilities are: - Wireless (in)security and war driving - Setting up a SPAM filtering system (MUA independent) - Full disclosure (non technical) I'm afraid I can't figure out what to expect from either of these lectures. Could you please say a few words ab

Re: [Haifux] RFC: lecture ideas from Aviram Jenik

2003-06-08 Thread Eli Billauer
Hi, as opposed to Muli, my preferences are in the reverse order: Spam filtering first, securing wireless networks, and then last the full disclosure issue. I think that after three lectures about cracking and auditing, most of us have gotten the picture. Now as for this: Wireless networks (i

[Haifux] SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testingon various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All. Bottom line: If you haven't done it yet, become root on your computer and go: hdparm /dev/hda or whatever hdX you have as your hard disk. You'll have a line saying "using_dma = 1 (on)". But if the line says that your DMA is off, I suggest start thinking about doing something about

[Haifux] SOLVED: USB caused RH 7.3 to hang

2003-06-15 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello again, I have previously reported that connecting a webcam to a USB port caused Linux RH 7.3 to hang (in the kernel sense, total freeze). This was previously worked around by disabling the USB 2.0 option, thus giving up some good transfer speed. We're talking about a 845PE - based Intel

Re: [Haifux] stack size

2003-06-19 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello Orna. What I would do, is to write a small function which returns the value of the stack pointer, when it was called. It's not very accurate, but it can give a good indication of how heavily the stack is consumed. I process is more or less: Write a dummy function, which does nothing inte

[Haifux] ksyms as an indicator for existence in the kernel

2003-06-22 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I've started a small adventure of installing Linux on an old laptop. It appears as if some chipset is buggy (82437MX), as it's listed in the pci/quirks.c file with a fix. Reading that quirks file, I see that a kernel message should have been generated, but it wasn't. So I wanted to

Re: [Haifux] ksyms as an indicator for existence in the kernel

2003-06-23 Thread Eli Billauer
Thank you Muli & Emil. Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Functions marked __init will be freed, if they're built-in. In 2.4, __init code in modules was ignored, but in 2.5 it's removed as well. To answer your question, check if pci_fixup_device is marked __init or not. pci_fixup_device comes with no __ini

[Haifux] Old laptop: New kernel isn't always good

2003-06-25 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I'd like to share some of the experience I've gathered while attempting to install Linux RH 7.3 on a AST Ascentia P50 laptop (Pentium 133 MHz, 20 MB RAM, thanks for asking). It's probably from around 1997. And with laptops, as in laptops, nothing about its hardware is really standard

[Haifux] Linus about ideology

2003-07-14 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, This is a bit old, but anyhow: Linus Torvalds, about Linux, on Apr 2002: > Quite frankly, I don't _want_ people using Linux for ideological reasons. > I think ideology sucks. This world would be a much better place if people > had less ideology, and a whole lot more "I do this because

[Haifux] Linux in the heat

2003-07-21 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all. The summer is here, and it's not only us humans who feel it. Your CPU and other motherboard components might be well beyond their healthy temperatures. In a perfect world, you computer was built OK, and the cooling issue was well handled. In reality, it goes from your computer shop

Re: [Haifux] Getting information about current process memory consumption

2003-07-28 Thread Eli Billauer
I think the solution lies in reading /proc/$pid/statm, where there is info about memory usage. man proc for more details. Eli Haim Cohen wrote: Hi, Does some one know if there is a system call to get information about the memory usage of the current process ? I mean - a C system call, not a sys

Re: [Haifux] haifux.org is about to expire

2003-08-09 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, The domain will expire on Sep. 24. The domain is registered to Eli Billauer via Yahoo! Domains, which are charging a lot of money, and could be registered much cheaper. Very true. Not only do they charge a high price, but they also renew the domain automatically, charge my credit

[Haifux] Haifux' birthday present (was: haifux.org is about to expire)

2003-08-10 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All. As you all know, Haifux will be 4 years old on 19/8 (one day after our next meeting), and we will celerbrate the event. The birthday present is, of course, the renewal of the club's domain. Based upon various opinions and experiences, I intend to transfer the domain to Mad Dog Domai

Re: [Haifux] haifux.org is about to expire

2003-08-11 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All & Shachar (Tal & Shemesh). First, I would like to suggest that you use another regsitrar, as there are plenty regsitrars that will charge you $8.99 or less (I recently payed that much for a .com domain). I used Mad Dog domains, BTW. I'm open to suggestions of specific registrars, which y

[Haifux] Haifux.org domain transfer

2003-08-14 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I've started the process of transferring haifux.org to our new, cheaper registrar. I expect this to take something like a week to complete. In theory, this is can be done with zero problems in accessing the web site and sending mail to the list. I've taken the measures to make it as

Re: [Haifux] haifux.org is about to expire

2003-08-14 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello again. These are the DNS records that haifux.org has currently: A haifux.org 132.69.253.254 A www.haifux.org 132.69.253.254 MX haifux.org vipe.technion.ac.il Unless a debate about these entries is going to start: Shachar, we warmly accept your offer. Please set DNS servers up on

[Haifux] [OT] Looking for PCMCIA USB card

2003-09-19 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, This is me fishing for some garbage again. I need a PCMCIA USB card with proven experience of working with Linux. I may settle for just an USB card with a respectful reputation. Old and simple cards are welcomed. A new card costs around 300 NIS, so my wallet will behave accordingly.

[Haifux] Red Hat 9.0 CDs

2003-10-05 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All. I've just downloaded RH 9.0 (shrike) from iglu (3 Install + 3 SRPMS) and I'm burning them as these words are written. Anyone wants a copy? I'm ready to give away a single copy of the discs, to whoever promises to make an offer similar to this one (recursive iteration). Eli

Re: [Haifux] Make money from our sites

2003-10-07 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, I see one main benefit of this: To know, once and for all, how much money one can *really* make out of web advertising. My personal hunch: nil. It's pay-per-click, and last time I remember, which was in the dot-com era, it was $0.13 / click at its best, $0.05 nominal. But I would love t

[Haifux] Resizing NTFS problem

2003-10-08 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all. I have a nasty problem with my newly bought Presario 2121EA Laptop. Well, the problem is really with XP. But on a laptop, a reinstall of XP doesn't sound like much fun. The thingy came with a 18GB hard disk, in one partition of NTFS. I want to resize it to 5 GB (this is the Linux co

Re: [Haifux] Resizing NTFS problem

2003-10-08 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello again. To begin with, I've ran defrag a zillion of times. There is this stubborn chunk that doesn't go away. And keep in mind that I don't need a resizing tool. I need a reallocation of files (which is commonly done with defrag). Now Partition Magic: There has indeed been rumors about PM

[Haifux] Using a non-vanilla kernel on installation

2003-10-08 Thread Eli Billauer
Another thing: What if I want to install Red Hat 9.0, running the installation itself on a kernel other that the one supplied? Is there any easy way? The obvious (?) way is too take the boot.iso and change the kernel image and modules in it. I'm not sure that will work 100%, but that's a start.

[Haifux] Re: Did you find a PCMCIA USB ?

2003-10-08 Thread Eli Billauer
some time ago you asked ( in haifux ) about PCMCIA USB adapter. Did you find one that works well ? The answer is yes and no. Yes -- In Atid Machshevim, Grand Kanyon and other places, an EDIMAX adapter. No -- It was cardbus. My laptop only has 16-bit PCMCIA interface, so the card didn't work

Re: [Haifux] Resizing NTFS problem

2003-10-08 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All. The good news are that a good defragmentation application exists: It's O&O Defrag, available for a 30-day complete trial at http://www.oo-software.com/en/index.html. 30 days should be enough to repartition, I think. This tools offers several defragmentation algorithms, and it can al

[Haifux] Installing RH 9.0 -- my impressions

2003-10-11 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All. I'm in the middle of setting up Red Hat 9.0 on my new Compaq Presario 2121EA (effectively a 2100US), and I think this is the right place to share my impressions: Overall, the distro is great! It's a collection of good taste in several matters. Examples of what I call "good taste":

Re: [Haifux] Installing RH 9.0 -- my impressions

2003-10-11 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello Alon & list. Don't count on me. I consider the laptop "mission-critic", and as such I don't want to add any piece of software except the minimal necessary to do what I need. If really needed, I'll backup my entire system, and run the CD. I can't do this earlier than at end of this month.

Re: [Haifux] Installing RH 9.0 -- my impressions

2003-10-11 Thread Eli Billauer
I'll download the CD and have a look. Eli Alon Altman wrote: In that case, could we just ask you to install the very few -hfx compiled packages on the CD that help with Hebrew customization and branding, and try to look in the updates CD for software before checking the WWW? Alon -

Re: [Haifux] Is the redirect to /newcomers/ a good idea?

2003-10-11 Thread Eli Billauer
Alon Altman wrote: This is a temporary measure to help promote the W2L series. This is the classic paradigm held by Microsoft: The user has no idea what he or she wants, let's push our suggestions. That's why you never know what happens next when you run Windows. Why are we imitating?

Re: [Haifux] A thought that occur to me

2003-10-23 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello Orr, and welcome back. And ah, hello list. My suggestion is to add a tips page (maybe call it otherwise) with those problems and their solutions. This is a nice idea, but I wonder how much patience we'll have to keep up with it. Usually, if the question is formulated right, google will ev

Re: [Haifux] Welcome to Linux! please show up.

2003-10-26 Thread Eli Billauer
Maor Meir wrote: Hi, It is important that Haifux members will show up to this lecture(and others) even if they probably won't learn much. begore and after the lecture we expect to be swamped with linux questions, many of them very basic(You don't have to be a GURU to help). Correct me if I reca

[Haifux] [ANN] cdepend: Map your C project

2003-10-31 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All, Well, well, I haven't been able to resist my impulses, and all this ended up with an alpha release of *cdepend*. We've all been there, reading a C source file, which is one out of 50 in some project, trying to understand what the function does, who calls it, where to find the functi

Re: [Haifux] [ANN] cdepend: Map your C project

2003-10-31 Thread Eli Billauer
How does your software relate to the gcov utlity as far as tracking unused portions of code? What about the -fprofile-arcs and -ftest-coverage gcc flags? Let me tell you all something. There is one wonderful thing about releasing a piece of software: You get all kinds of suggestions of tools

Re: [Haifux] [ANN] cdepend: Map your C project

2003-10-31 Thread Eli Billauer
how is cdepend different from the existing cross-reference tools? ... such as? Have I reinvented the wheel? why did you find the need to read debug information from binaries, instead of using some tool that parses the source (e.g. finding an existing lex+yacc based tool that already parses the

[Haifux] Light assembler hacking lecture

2003-11-03 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All. Orna suggested, in the context of cdepend, that I'll make a lecture about light assembler hacking. The idea is not to teach the assembly language itself (which I don't know too well myself), but rather deal with a few techniques for us who usually don't program in assembly. On the a

[Haifux] Our view of freedom? (was: CD logos)

2003-11-10 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All. These legal discussions come and go all the time, both here and (especially) in linux-il, and they always make me rub my eyes, over and over again. Linux and GNU are supposed to be the representatives of the free world, aren't they? How come we always find ourselves in these legal

Re: [Haifux] Our view of freedom? (was: CD logos)

2003-11-10 Thread Eli Billauer
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: You are confusing a few things, notably the GPL'ness of the code and RedHat's trademark. I'm not confusing anything. I understand the legal issues. I only think that all this dealing with legal issues are far away from anything that I call "freedom". If the life of a "fr

Re: [Haifux] Linux source code

2003-11-20 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, It's quite weird that the Linux source would not be in the three "normal" CDs. Source or not, it's a mainstream part of  the distro. I suppose that you can download it from ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/redhat/9/en/os/i386/SRPMS/kernel-2.4.20-8.src.rpm (found at rpmfind.net) or grab yours

[Haifux] Laptops: Graceful shutdown with ACPI

2003-11-25 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello List. I have a Compaq Presario 2121EA. I recently recompiled the 2.4.22 kernel to make it support ACPI (a flavor of power management) and installed acpid as well. I do this for one single purpose: I want the laptop to shut down gracefully when the battery goes low. I must be sure about t

Re: [Haifux] Laptops: Graceful shutdown with ACPI

2003-11-25 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello Erez. Since you run Linux/ACPI on a Compaq Laptop, I'd like to know if you can actually get a battery readout (/proc/acpi/battery not empty). I can't get this to work on my laptop - Evo 1000v with RH9.0 with modified ACPI revision 20021212. If so, what version of kernel and ACPI are you us

Re: [Haifux] SOLVED: Laptops: Graceful shutdown with ACPI

2003-11-28 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello List. I'm following the tradition of answering my own questions. I found no answer about how the laptop behaves on a low battery, so I ran a test. I let the battery drain out, and watched carefully what happens. Here are the answers: (1) Does a low battery generate an "event"? Yes, it d

[Haifux] [OT] Hebrew HTML guide (was: Translation of My Guide)

2003-12-10 Thread Eli Billauer
Speaking of which, is there any good guide for writing HTML in Hebrew? Is there any place where all this info is concentrated? There are several other questions, such as what character set to use in the HTML for the Hebrew, what fonts, and how the overall thing should work. And things I can't t

Re: [Haifux] Hebrew HTML guide

2003-12-12 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello List. Allow me to summarize this thread so far, as I see it: 1. There is no guide that gives recommendations on how a Hebrew page should look like. At least not a well-known one. 2. We don't seem to agree among ourselves how that should be done. (And some of us are supposed to know someth

Re: [Haifux] Getting the word out

2003-12-17 Thread Eli Billauer
Orna Agmon wrote: I was reading the Interest section in the Achbar Ha'Ir and I have noticed the HAIFUX meeting are not mentioned there. I believe the events listed there pay for that. I don't know about computer events. If you organize a concert, for example, the publi

[Haifux] Immortal artsd process

2003-12-25 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello list. This question has been asked elsewhere, but I haven't seen anyone answering it. I have occasional problems with artsd (version 1.0.0, as in RH7.3), which stops functioning (i.e. no sound). It also takes 98% of my CPU, and a quick look at its /proc entry shows that it has a modest 2

Re: [Haifux] Immortal artsd process

2003-12-25 Thread Eli Billauer
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Usually, you'll see a processes in an uninterruptible sleep represented as 'D' in ps. Since you say they are 'R', please do magic-sysrq-t to see where in the kernel they are. For those of you who have no idea what Muli is talking about (you're in good company), have a look

Re: [Haifux] Immortal artsd process

2003-12-25 Thread Eli Billauer
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Not much. It's a backtrace, but it needs to be resolved. Please use either 'addr2line' or 'ksymoops' to translate the address (c0109ea8) to a function in the kernel. You'll need the vmlinux for your kernel to do that. This is what ksymoops translated for me (addr

Re: [Haifux] Immortal artsd process

2003-12-26 Thread Eli Billauer
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Trace; d0ee7f7f <[i810_audio]drain_dac+8f/140> Trace; d0eea0d1 <[i810_audio]i810_release+21/b0> But this is relevant probably. Looks like for some reason, drain_dac() is not finishing properly. We even know at which point it's possibly stuck. Yes. Catc

Re: [Haifux] Immortal artsd process

2003-12-26 Thread Eli Billauer
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Therefore, when a process is executing in kernel space, it can only be killed if the programmer who wrote the code that it is executing at the moment took care to handle signals. Even if she did, the signal will only be handled at specific points. I seem to be missin

Re: [Haifux] Favour: Being Guine Pigs for my "Template Toolkit" Lecture

2003-12-27 Thread Eli Billauer
Having been at the previous YAPC, I think that *after* the lecture would a more realistic simulation, especially regardnig people's patience during lightning sessions. In addition, this assure that this little drill won't be forced on anyone. Eli Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi good people! I know it'

Re: [Haifux] Static analysis tool

2003-12-29 Thread Eli Billauer
I announced a utility named cdepend (http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00565.html) on this list a couple of months ago. I got several pointers to other free tools from the members of this list, as the archive shows. My announcement at comp.lang.c (http://groups.google.com/groups

[Haifux] A LaTeX to HTML tool that works

2004-01-18 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello list. I just want to tip you off, that there's a great tool for converting LaTeX to HTML. It's called TeX4ht, and it's nothing like LaTeX2html and friends. This one WORKS, even if there are nested macros, as most of us by-hand LaTeX authors have. It also generates beautiful output, inclu

Re: [Haifux] A suggestion for a lecture - How to protect your network, using IPtables.

2004-01-18 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello Adir. As you may recall, I gave a lecture about iptables, which covered both masquerading and some basic firewalling. But it seems like iptables is a very popular topic: The knockout winner of google searches, that bring people to my site, is exactly iptables and masquerading (since I kee

[Haifux] ANN: Lectures: Writing device drivers in Linux and Windoze

2004-01-26 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, Partly on behalf of Muli, I'd like to announce that two lectures, one by Micro$oft and one by Muli, are going to be held as part of the "Operating systems" course at the Technion. The issue is going to be writing device drivers in the respective operating systems (no, Muli is not going

[Haifux] Why SiL (Was: Eran Sandler on The Mono Project)

2004-01-26 Thread Eli Billauer
Wow, Shlomi. I had exactly those those thoughts about the Perl lectures. Why are they needed? Perl, after all, is a language that you best learn by trying it out. And it has plenty of friendly tutorials that will show your way. After all, the basics don't change. And the thing I never grasped:

Re: [Haifux] Need help ASAP - Till Tuesday 12:00

2004-01-27 Thread Eli Billauer
Slava Shklyar wrote: 1. init reads a location of needed files from paths.h The SHELL is defined there. Maybe you can change the default shell only for single user in the init.c. Search for ':[sS1]:' regexp in this file ... This may be a bit too late, but I would simply change the "/bin/sh" string

Re: [Haifux] Re: InstaParty Thought - Buy/Receive the CD or Bust

2004-02-02 Thread Eli Billauer
Hi clubbers, Tell me guys, when is the next insta party? Soon? Couldn't find anything about that in the site. Because otherwise you are all wasting your breaths and time on this discussion. Experience shows that the real decisions about W2L and parties are made soon before the events themselve

[Haifux] Fetchmail: The Mail Herschale [1]

2004-02-05 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All. I've been playing recently with fetchmail. What I want to achieve is that the connection with external POP servers will be done in the background, and the Mozilla mailer will fetch them from the local computer. Why? Because the Mozilla gets stuck every now and then when the connecti

Re: [Haifux] Fetchmail: The Mail Herschale [1]

2004-02-05 Thread Eli Billauer
Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: That's really weird. From fetchmail man page (this section worth reading in entirety): Thank you for that one, Oron. I never got through that man page (it's s long). But it seems like I'm going to complain in fetchmail's own mailing list soon. T

[Haifux] SOLVED: Fetchmail: The Mail Herschale [1]

2004-02-06 Thread Eli Billauer
Slava Shklyar wrote: I think when Procmail cannot chdir to /home/fetcher/Mail it tries to deliver a mail to the default distention and if success, returns EX_OK to the Fetchmail, thus message is flushed. Thank you! That's exactly the thing! My conclusion: Use fetchmail with care. Or to be preci

Re: [Haifux] An Apology

2004-02-10 Thread Eli Billauer
Yoni Rabkin Katzenell wrote: I have been told that my previous mail to the list in relation to Haifux being Linux or GNU/Linux, was an inappropriate and inflammatory email. Who told you that? As far as I remember, you didn't use any dirty words, nor did call anyone by names. Or did anything that

[Haifux] The Haifux logo

2004-02-21 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I don't want to start another voting, and we all know who the winner is (and I'm happy with that one). But I think that the text on the logo is somewhat redundant when it appears in the site. On a T-shirt it's in place, but for the site I think that a clean Tux with Haifa's coast wi

Re: [Haifux] jpeg to mpeg or avi

2004-02-24 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, After downloading "transcode", I've used the following command for heavy video generation: transcode -i bmp-files-list -x imlist,null -g `identify imgs/image.bmp | perl -ne 'print /\s(\d+x\d+)\s/'` \ -y raw,null -f 10 -o trial.avi This takes a list of image files, given in "bmp-

[Haifux] Informative: Cellular internet / ttyS0 dead

2004-02-24 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all. Just to inform you about a very annoying thing I found out about Red Hat 9 (Shrike), and possibly other version. I was trying to connect my cellular phone to my laptop, running Linux (for internet). Worked fine under Windoze XP, but modem didn't respond to anything under Linux. Trie

Re: [Haifux] Informative: Cellular internet / ttyS0 dead

2004-02-24 Thread Eli Billauer
Kohn Emil Dan wrote: During the good old days of UNIX, before the advent of personal computers and workstations, it was customary to attach terminals on serial ports, in order to allow several users to access the computer. Old habits die hard ;-) Emil We're talking about something that

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-29 Thread Eli Billauer
If they won't, we have saved our slides from the terribly faith of millions of Bulgarians being unaware that Eli Billauer wrote the lecture about IP maquerading. And there is the third possibility: That they get sick and tired of licenses, and write it all by themselves. Which happens all to

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-29 Thread Eli Billauer
Alon Altman wrote: And that's exactly why we want the licenses to say that explictly, so that the one lecture written on company time and based on sources which do not want to be widely redistributed will not lead to people suing Haifux. The licensing should have been done in the first place befo

Re: [Haifux] Windows kernel programming lecture

2004-03-08 Thread Eli Billauer
I say definitely yes. Whoever views the list of lectures will notice that several of them are remotely Linux-related, but are still accepted because of general interest. And whatever we think about Windows, it has a kernel, and the software is there. And I've heard that it's used on a computer

Re: [Haifux] Windows kernel programming lecture

2004-03-10 Thread Eli Billauer
Orna said: I say no. In my view, this is a Linux club, and by extention a free software club. We've been at that discussion already, and I think we agreed that our policy is that we don't have a policy. So it boils down to if people are interested or not. And then Ron said

Re: [Haifux] 'Bad magic number in super-block'

2004-03-14 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, I'm repeating my post to linux-il here: Get yourself a Knoppix 3.3 (or later) CD. Boot from the CD, and use gpart. It's not a graphical interface, as one may think, but a command-line tool that recognizes the partitions on the hard disk. If your partition table is wrecked anyhow, you ma

Re: [Haifux] 'Bad magic number in super-block'

2004-03-16 Thread Eli Billauer
Paramahansa Polo Vieyra wrote: If you are using a ext3 partition, I think you can forget about it. It happen to me with RedHat 7.2 and ext3. ext3 is like ext2 with a journal, which is more or less like another file on the filesystem. I can see no reason why ext3 would be harder to recover

[Haifux] Encoding internet-quality video

2004-05-20 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, After buying a video sampling card (Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe, with USB connection, and not so deluxe), I want to create video clips in a low-bitrate format which must be highly interchangable (I respect people who use other operating systems). Transcode is great for generating VCD MPEGS,

Re: [Haifux] Encoding internet-quality video

2004-05-20 Thread Eli Billauer
Erez Hadad wrote: I have no experience in this field whatsoever, but how about the "mencoder" package of the MPlayer project (http://mplayerhq.hu)? Thanks for trying, but I think anyone who has tried out the field of video grabbing and encoding will agree with me, that every time something

Re: [Haifux] Encoding internet-quality video

2004-05-20 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, and thanks again. I just want to get things in order: You can also try viodeolan http://www.videolan.org/ After viewing their site, I'm under the impression that it's a (cool) streaming tool, with no encoding capabilities of its own. It uses transcode to do the job for it (or am I

Re: [Haifux] Encoding internet-quality video

2004-05-21 Thread Eli Billauer
Rami Rosen wrote: You were wrong in some of your assumptions. More than you imagine. It turns out that ffmpeg is straight to the point. At least if you want to convert an MPEG file to a smaller one. I simply went something like ffmpeg -i big.mpg small.mpg and got a file of fifth the size, a

Re: [Haifux] IMP: ethereal GUI during the lecture today?

2004-07-19 Thread Eli Billauer
OK. I'm bringing in my laptop with RH9.0, which includes ethereal (and it works well with the overhead display). As for root access: My laptop is your laptop... Eli guy keren wrote: i forgot to ask - could someone give me access to run ethereal (X window) as root on a linux machine during the l

Re: [Haifux] MD5 collisions

2004-08-17 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello Orr & all, any proof-of-concept code to try out? (and sorry for not coming yesterday. I really wanted to hear the combined lecture, but was under the impression that it's only next week :((( ) Eli Orr Dunkelman wrote: A recent research found how to produce collisions in MD5 (from md5sum)

Re: [Haifux] MD5 collisions

2004-08-17 Thread Eli Billauer
Orr Dunkelman wrote: http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/199 paper. The code exist The technique is quite blurry in the 4-page paper... Blurry indeed. And I'm sure the code exists, but the question is whether one can try it...? It's always sad to find out that a security measure fails, but is it time

Re: [Haifux] MD5 collisions

2004-08-18 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello Muli (and welcome back). When and where are these lectures going to take place? Thanks,     Eli Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:57:45AM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: (and sorry for not coming yesterday. I really wanted to hear the combined lecture, but

Re: [Haifux] Would you like to hear about CPP? +call for lectures

2004-09-01 Thread Eli Billauer
I vote yey for CPP! I mean, it would be nice to know more about the small people who do things every time I go "make" or "gcc"... Eli Orna Agmon wrote: Hi all, Unfortunately, Eli Marmor's Apache lecture (intended for 13/9 - the next lecture) will have to be postponed. Instead, would you like to

Re: [Haifux] ptrace - playing debugger chess

2004-10-14 Thread Eli Billauer
I say: A big YEY! Eli Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Would the esteemed list members be interested in a talk on ptrace(2), and the amazing and wonderful things you can do with it? Cheers, Muli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il --

Re: [Haifux] proposed lecture(s) - linux VFS and writing a real file-system

2004-10-20 Thread Eli Billauer
I say: 1. Yes. 2. I foresee yet another multi-lecture smashing hit Go for it, Guy! guy keren wrote: i was wondering if these will be of interest. in the past month i've been working on writing a silly file-system, and found that there is no good document (or book?) explaining the gory details (or

Re: [Haifux] Proposed Lecture - Linux USB Subsystem Layer (in Video4Linux Context)

2004-10-28 Thread Eli Billauer
Yes, I would love to know more about USB on Linux. Rami Rosen wrote: I must warn that most of these topics are purely technical, and usually are NOT needed in real life (...) 1. That's like warning a bunch of hungry people that "there is going to be a lot of food..." 2. I don't know how your "re

Re: [Haifux] Re: [IBM HRL TALK] The Pentium Architecture - Support for Multiprocessing Operating Systems

2004-11-13 Thread Eli Billauer
I vote YES. Eli Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:59:52PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Haifuxers, Edi has graciously agreed to give the this talk to Haifux, if there's interest. I think that those of you interested in the low level OS details would enjoy it quite a lot. Interes

Re: [Haifux] installing linux

2004-12-07 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, I'm not in for the job, but I can tell you how I run both computers (Linux and Win2000) with one screen in a stable manner (for a couple of years now): Keyboard and screen connected to the Windows PC, which has Cygwin installed on it. The command, which opens a window with the entire Li

[Haifux] Desktop Google for Wined Linux?

2005-02-13 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, Some of you have surely heard about Google's desktop searcher (http://desktop.google.com/). It's a downloadable application, which scans your own computer, and sets up your own little Google site. So you search your own computer like you search Google. It's really a cutie. It's the e

Re: [Haifux] Desktop Google for Wined Linux?

2005-02-13 Thread Eli Billauer
yakoub wrote: Why not just use "locate" and "updatedb" commands ? Exactly for the reason that Google is more effective than "archie" (those who remember): Many times you know what's in the file, but forgot its name and where you put it. Not to mention is you want to look for an application that

[Haifux] Linux at the airport

2005-03-15 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, On my way abroad, I stood in the queue at Ben Gurion to have my luggage X-rayed. The queue went really slow, because one of the X-ray machines was stuck. At some point I had a look on the faulty X-ray machine's screen, where one usually see images of luggage. What I saw looked famili

[Haifux] RAM FIFO

2005-04-27 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I'm capturing a video stream with a command-line tool, which sends the data stream to standard output. Now this is written to a disk, only the disk access is at times too slow (the average speed is more than OK, though). Now, since I use a common UNIX pipe to store the file (tee, act

Re: [Haifux] make: lecture offer

2005-05-22 Thread Eli Billauer
I say -- great idea. Finally I'll know what I'm doing... Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Haifux] Useless remarks (was: VoIP software)

2005-06-12 Thread Eli Billauer
Title: Preliminary copy of new USB manual Shachar Raindel wrote: He is using skype, instead of using one of the many open-source and open-protocols available for VoIP. Shame. Correction: He put a job offer on our list, to the benefit of Haifuxers. I couldn't care less what software he us

[Haifux] Real-time write to FAT filesystem

2005-06-21 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello Haifuxers, I'm using Linux to record video. I had a problem with jumps in the video stream, and after eliminating everything possible, it looks like the issue is writing to the FAT filesystem. I don't know why, but when I wrote the data to a quite-so-full (defragged) FAT filesystem, th

[Haifux] Real-time write on *ANY* filesystem

2005-06-21 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello again, It turns out that it's not a FAT issue, but that the same problem occurs on ext3 systems as well. I've written a small program to test the delays between writes, and the results are not very encouraging. Specially when the disk gets full (it always does, doesn't it?). In my opin

Re: [Haifux] Real-time write on *ANY* filesystem

2005-06-22 Thread Eli Billauer
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: mknod mypipe p mbuffer -i mypipe -o /fatfs/output-file & ./writefat mypipe > listfile Until 2.6.mumble, pipes only used a single page in memory. Since 2.6.mumble we're using up to 16 pages and flipping between consumer and producer, which should give mu

Re: [Haifux] Real-time write on *ANY* filesystem

2005-06-22 Thread Eli Billauer
guy keren wrote: I don't think it's the "disk gets full". i think its "the page-cache gets full". try this: get a partition that is already quite full, and run the test on it. you will not see this problem. Well, you may get other results if you test it, but what I saw was that if the partiti

Re: [Haifux] Real-time write on *ANY* filesystem

2005-06-22 Thread Eli Billauer
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Where can I find the sourcve for mbuffer? http://www.rcs.ei.tum.de/~maierkom/privat/software/mbuffer/ I downloaded 20011008 (the latest version didn't compile). Which kernel are you using? I'm on 2.4.22 and 2.4.21 (yeah, yeah, retro). As for the results you posted:

[Haifux] Accessing Mozilla mail files

2005-07-02 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I would like to write a (Perl) script, which automatically scans my Mozilla mail files, and runs Spamassassin's learn utility accordingly. This relies, of course, on my habit not to throw away any mail I get, but rather store them all in subfolders, according to their category. So

[Haifux] [slightly OT] Connecting your IR device to laptop

2005-07-18 Thread Eli Billauer
Hi, Continuing our short post-lecture discussion of today, regarding how to connect the IR sensor to a laptop which lacks both RS-232 and Parallel port (and they call THAT a computer?), here's yet another idea: * Take +5V from some USB port or PS/2 mouse connector. * Return the signal via the

Re: [Haifux] lecture suggestion: "Signs of the times"

2005-07-19 Thread Eli Billauer
Sounds good to me. I expect a fruitful exchange of experience in such a lecture. We all have our stories, haven't we? ;) Eli guy keren wrote: how about a lecture that discusses several small time and timing issues with Linux: 1. time zones, summer time and zic. 2. keeping machines synced i

[Haifux] Spamassassin 3.0.x -- worth the upgrade?

2005-08-02 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I'm still using version 2.63 of spamassassin, and I now saw that 3.0.4 is out. I'm using it for filtering my private mail, so it's not like I need some corporate-scale features. So those of you who are already using versions 3.0.x: Is there any significant change making an upgrade

[Haifux] iptables with --uid-owner

2005-08-09 Thread Eli Billauer
Hi all, I hope one of you paranoids out there can help me with this. Problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner root -j ACCEPT iptables: Invalid argument I'm running iptables v1.2.5 under a 2.4.21 kernel for i686. The ipt_owner module exists, and was actually autoloade

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