[Haifux] [JOB OFFER] Re-arranging the library (servers)
Hello everyone, Shura from the main Haifa Library (CCed) is looking for someone to help her (for payment, of course) set up proper mailing lists for the heavy lists they have there - about 75K emails. Currently they have a problem distributing these mails because gmail considers them as spammers (and they often write full emails in the "to" field...). I would also suggest looking into security issues there. Please contact Shura directly. Thanks, on behalf of all of the Haifa library users :) Orna ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Muli Ben-Yehuda, on The Nom Profit-Maximizing Operating System
It is not an April Fools Day Joke: Speaker:Muli Ben-Yehuda, M.Sc. Thesis SeminarDate:Wednesday, 1.4.2015, 14:30 Place:Taub 601Advisor:Prof. D. Tsafrir In the near future, cloud providers will sell their users virtual machines with CPU, memory, network, and storage resources whose prices constantly change according to market-driven supply and demand conditions. Running traditional operating systems in these virtual machines is a poor fit: traditional operating systems are not aware of changing resource prices and their sole aim is to maximize performance with no consideration for costs. Consequently, they yield low profits. We present nom, a profit-maximizing operating system designed for cloud computing platforms with dynamic resource prices. Applications running on nom aim to maximize their profits from their resources by optimizing for both performance and costs. The nom kernel provides them with direct access to the underlying hardware and full control over their private software stacks. Since nom applications know there is no single ``best'' software stack, they adapt their stacks' behavior on the fly according to the current price of available resources and their private valuations of them. We show that in addition to achieving up to 3.9x better throughput and up to 9.1x better latency, nom applications yield up to 11.1x higher profits when compared with the same applications running on Linux and OSv. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal
I am! On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Shimon Panfil i...@industrialphys.com wrote: Hi friends, is anybody interested in lecture Electromagnetic calculations with Fortran and python which I am ready to give? Shimon -- Shimon Panfil: Industrial Physics and Simulations http://industrialphys.com ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] [JOB OFFER] Android application
Hello Haifuxers, My friend is looking for paid help with a high-school project on android. Please see below. Thanks Orna On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Ron and Ela Schreier wrote: Hi Orna, I ask you to look for a student who could help (under payment of cause) my son Itamar with his programming project. The project is at a level of high school (12'Th grade), and it should lead to an android application for people hospitalized or under medical care in a hospital. The application is designed for both patients and medical stuff. It should contain elementary data base of several diseases (or illnesses, sickness), of different treatments (such as blood tests, CT, MRI, plastering etc.), and the medical history of the patient. The application will be linked to a server (mounted on a PC), and will receive relevant orders (which treatments/examinations are needed) and where to go next (according to available room in one of the required treatments). Medical stuff should have general access to the data base, while ordinary users will get only what's relevant for them, at the specific care. Looking forward to hear from you, Ron Schreier 054-6251104 ron_ela KRUCHIT hotmail.com ron_...@hotmail.com -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Free listening to CS faculty courses
Hello Haifuxers, There is a free listening option for CS courses, intended for certain companies and CS graduates. It includes a car permit. http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/FREE_LISTENER14/courses.html This link is valid until the end of the semester, there should be a new one for the upcoming semester. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] call for lectures
Hello Haifuxers The queue is NULL We need some DEV to make it full! If there something you always thought you might talk about but always postponed it - this is the time! -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: CSL Luncheon: Thursday, 14.11.2013, 12:30
The second part of the great talk from last Monday will be given tomorrow. -- Forwarded message -- From: Liran Shapira lira...@cs.technion.ac.il Date: Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:15 PM Subject: CSL Luncheon: Thursday, 14.11.2013, 12:30 To: cs...@listserv.technion.ac.il CSL Luncheon: How To Write A Good (Systems) Paper Date:Thursday, *14.11.2013, 12:30*Place:Room 337-8 Taub Bld. I remind everyone that between 13:00-13:45 Gernot Heiser---the dude who headed seL4 (the only formally verified OS kernel)---is giving the following talk: TITLE: How to write a good (systems) paper ABSTRACT: Much good work fails to get the recognition it deserves because it does not get published in high-profile conferences. The good venues are highly competitive, and PC members have to review a large number of papers, and generally look for deficiencies to eliminate papers. For a paper to be accepted, it must not only have good ideas, it requires a convincing case that it addresses a relevant problem, and does a convincing job of solving the problem. Besides that, it must be presented well, as the reviewers do not have the time for archaeological exercises. This talk focuses on what I call paper engineering, a systematic approach to turning an idea into a publishable paper. It is primarily focused at the systems community, but much of it should apply to other areas of experimental computer science. We look forward to seeing you. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] The Do-S and Don’t-S of Benchmarking -- Gernot Heiser
Currently there is no automatic car permit agreement. I arrange a car permit for the speaker through the secretary. On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Leon Romanovsky l...@leon.nu wrote: On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: On Monday, November 11th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Gernot Heiser: The Do-S and Don’t-S of Benchmarking Do we have any car arrangement agreement for Haifux's visitors? We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: Help with spreading the word about my class
Mark Silberstein is giving a new advanced OS course in EE, see below. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mark Silberstein m...@ee.technion.ac.il Date: Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:49 AM Subject: Re: Help with spreading the word about my class To: Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com This course is about computer systems, and it introduces “systems perspective”, a way of thinking about systems that is global and encompassing rather than focused on particular issues. Using operating systems as an example of real-life computer systems, students will study design principles and advanced research topics in operating systems research. The goals of this class are - to learn the main design principles of computer systems - to understand what systems research is and what it is not - to read classic systems papers that shaped the field - to understand technical details of systems concepts - to learn to present technical materials to others both orally and in written form. We will read and discuss both classical and recent research papers from major systems conferences (SOSP, ASPLOS, OSDI). We will focus on insights, lessons and implications of various design decisions, as well as their actual impact on real systems in the long run. Most of the selected papers represent the best of breed publications in systems research, and we will try to extract their secret sauce beyond exceptionally creative and well-performed technical solutions. http://moodle.technion.ac.il/course/view.php?id=3460 -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Reporting forum spammers per IP
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: ** Hi all, I'm running a little phpBB forum, which is being bomarded by attempts to submit spam posts. I've solved the core problem already (i.e. preventing the spamming itself and the flood of new users) down to zero, but I've noticed a huge amount of attempts -- I'm at ~800,000 hits per month, and it's not getting any better. It's quite easy to tell a spammer's IP watching the HTTP logs, so it's not a big deal to write a simple script and find the offending IPs, and block the worst of them individually. In fact, I've already done that. But now I want revenge: I'd like to make the spammers' hosting providers aware of their user activity. Is there any convention on how to automatically track down who should be contacted for each and every IP? Or maybe some database, where hosting providers are really looking? I expect some dozens of these every month. So an automated reporting method should be possible. Thanks in advance, Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux As a wikipedia controller I used to do exactly that, but I had to do this manually. I would track each IP and find its owner by a combination of host, whois and traceroute. Then I would check out the owner, and decide (on a hunch, mostly) if this was a private machine connected by an ISP or a bad company’s machine. In the first case I would report the machine to the abuse address of the ISP, and in the second - to the police in that country (this was usually done by people who had more time than me - I just supplied them with the evidence). Sadly, I do not remember any effect that these operations ever had. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] mailing list to facebook
Hello Haifuxers, During the past months several Haifuxers joined the Haifux group on facebook. I was wondering if it was possible to connect the mailing list and the group page, such that messages from the mailing list will appear on facebook, to connect the populations. Thanks Orna -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] mailing list to facebook
Currently, they miss the action on facebook most of the QA. What I want is at least for the facebook people to get the official action. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Sorana Fraier sf10...@gmail.com wrote: and what about those who don't facebook? On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Haifuxers, During the past months several Haifuxers joined the Haifux group on facebook. I was wondering if it was possible to connect the mailing list and the group page, such that messages from the mailing list will appear on facebook, to connect the populations. Thanks Orna -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] mailing list to facebook
Of course this is my intention. We are only left with the original problem - I don't know how to subscribe a facebook page to a mailing list. On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Sorana Fraier sf10...@gmail.com wrote: If the rest will receive the mail as usual without entering facebook, there is no problem. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.comwrote: Currently, they miss the action on facebook most of the QA. What I want is at least for the facebook people to get the official action. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Sorana Fraier sf10...@gmail.com wrote: and what about those who don't facebook? On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Haifuxers, During the past months several Haifuxers joined the Haifux group on facebook. I was wondering if it was possible to connect the mailing list and the group page, such that messages from the mailing list will appear on facebook, to connect the populations. Thanks Orna -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: [CS Colloquium] June 19th@14:15 Haya Shulman on DNS Cache-Poisoning: New Attacks and Defenses
-- Forwarded message -- From: Rachel Kolodny trac...@cs.haifa.ac.il Date: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:04 PM Subject: [CS Colloquium] June 19th@14:15 Haya Shulman on DNS Cache-Poisoning: New Attacks and Defenses To: colloq col...@cs.haifa.ac.il June 19th, Wednesday 14:15, Room 303, Jacobs Building Title: DNS Cache-Poisoning: New Attacks and Defenses Lecturer: Haya Shulman Lecturer homepage : http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IyGJlV8Jhl=en Affiliation :Department of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University The Domain Name System (DNS) is key to the availability and correct operation of the Internet. Due to its significance it is also a lucrative target for attacks, most notably for cache poisoning. DNS cache-poisoning enables attackers to redirect clients to malicious hosts, allowing distribution of malware, credentials theft, phishing and spam, web sites defacement, and more. Cryptographic defenses were designed (DNSSEC), but are not widely deployed; instead, multiple challenge-response defenses are used. However, we show how attackers may be able to circumvent those defenses and poison in spite of them; specifically: - Circumvent source port randomisation, in the (common) case where the resolver connects to the Internet via different NAT devices. - Circumvent IP address randomisation supported by standard-conforming resolvers. - Circumvent query randomisation, including both randomisation by prepending a random nonce and case randomisation (0x20 encoding). We present countermeasures preventing our attacks; however, we advocate that only correct adoption of cryptographic security such as DNSSEC, can prevent the cache-poisoning attacks, and discuss the challenges and status of DNSSEC deployment. Joint work with Amir Herzberg. ___ Colloq mailing list col...@cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/colloq The material posted is under the full responsibility of whoever posted it and under their sole responsibility and liability. The University takes no responsibility whatsoever for any material or other damage, direct or indirect, that may incur from publications in the forum and/or distribution list. Nor is it responsible for the authenticity of any data and material posted in the forum and/or distribution list, their legality, accuracy, credibility or their completeness -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Massivizing OpenTTD: Distributed Computing Challenges and Quality Time -- Alexandru Iosup
Correction - Abel Gordon's talk (the one after Alexandru Iosup's) will be two week after (on June 17th) Sorry for the mixup. On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: On Monday, June 3rd at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Alexandru Iosup: Massivizing OpenTTD: Distributed Computing Challenges and Quality Time Abstract Hundreds of online games entertain over 250,000,000 online gamers in a maturing global market of over 30 billion Euros. A popular game genre is Real Time Strategy (RTS), which includes games such as StarCraft II (one of the best-selling games of 2010). Although Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games already entertain hundreds of millions of online players, the current games do not scale. For example, even popular RTS games such as the StarCraft series support in the same game instance only up to 16 players and up to only 3-400 moving units. We present the rationale for and the design of a massively multiplayer online RTS (MMORTS) game, OpenTTD@large.OpenTTD@largeis a derivative work from the popular open-source game OpenTTD, which in turn has derived from the economic simulator Transport Tycoon Deluxe. We begin by analyzing the current technical and design limitations of OpenTTD--although this game can service its target audience of 8-16 online players very well, scaling it to even hundreds of players is currently not possible. We further present an approach to co-scale the platform and the design of OpenTTD, towards the OpenTTD@large MMORTS platform. We present here the new game design and three elements of our approach: a new approach for trading-off consistency for latency to support the future scalable game world, a game analytics back-end to support the future social component of the game design, and a mobile offloading system to support the future mobile component of the game platform. (Warning: OpenTTD@large is ongoing work, and has many research and technical unknowns.) The talk will be given in English. TEAM: Alexandru Iosup (Project Lead/Pricipal Investigator), Otto Visser (Lead Dev/Lead Valorization), Siqi Shen (Lead Researcher), Yong Guo (Lead Researcher), Alexandru Olteanu (Lead Researcher), Marcin Biczak (Lead Dev/Researcher), Lucas van Dijk (Dev) ==**==**= We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.**html http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! ==**==**== Future lectures: NOTE: The next meeting is just a week away! 10/06/13 ELVIS -- Efficient and Scalable Paravirtual I/O System: Abel Gordon ==**==**== We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il __**_ Linux-il mailing list linux...@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/**mailman/listinfo/linux-ilhttp://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Resource management in Linux -- Rami Rosen
Sorana and Eli did, we are waiting to see what they come up with together. On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Rabin Yasharzadehe ra...@rabin.io wrote: was any one able to record this lecture ? On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: We have another request for a recording of this lecture. If anyone has the proper means, please volunteer. Thanks Orna On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Rabin Yasharzadehe ra...@rabin.iowrote: On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.ilwrote: On Monday, May 27th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Rami Rosen: Resource management in Linux Abstract * Resource management in Linux * Kernel Namespaces implementation (kernel 3.8) * Kernel Namespaces as an infrastructure for process virtualizaton - Network namespaces and pid namespaces kernel implementation - System calls for namespaces - usage examples * cgroup kernel implementation - cgroup VFS - cgroup filesystem ops for handling cgroups examples - The cgroup release agent and the notification API + examples - Memory controller (memcg) example - Two networking controllers examples - linbvgroup-tools + examples * Checkpoint/Restart in brief ==**==**= We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.**html http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! ==**==**== Future lectures: *** NOTE: The next lecture is only a week away! *** 03/06/13 OpenTTD: Alexandru Iosup 10/06/13 ELVIS -- Efficient and Scalable Paravirtual I/O System: Abel Gordon ==**==**== We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il __**_ Linux-il mailing list linux...@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/**mailman/listinfo/linux-ilhttp://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il Hello list, Unfortunately I can not get to this lecture, but I would really like to hear it, Is there anyone that goes to the lecture and can record it - I prefer a video recording (e.g Google+ Hangout) but audio recording will suffice if it's any trouble Thank you, -- *Rabin* ___ Linux-il mailing list linux...@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org -- *Rabin* -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: Israeli Perl Workshop - list of talks - registration
FYI. The unicode problems in perl talk will be re-run (and extended) in Haifux in April. Orna -- Forwarded message -- From: Gabor Szabo ga...@szabgab.com Date: Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:03 AM Subject: Israeli Perl Workshop - list of talks - registration To: linux-il linux...@cs.huji.ac.il Hi, the Israeli Perl Workshop http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2013/ is less than 3 weeks away. The list of talks is available at http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2013/talks If you are interested to attend, please not that the full attendance fee is 190 NIS but the early bird price - valid till 17th February - is only 90 NIS. regards Gabor ___ Linux-il mailing list linux...@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Please upvote and add a comment for http://www.haifux.org/ on Stumble Upon
Haifux is not an economic entity, I don't see how we can collect payments legally. However, Starting 2013 we are no longer hosted for free by hamakor, due to surprising DNS changes that kept happening there. Currently, we are hosted by a service that costs about 35$/year. Eli already pays for the domain haifux.org. Eli volunteered to pay this sum even if nobody else does, but I think we should divide the costs among us, if only for the feeling of a mutual deed. It does not have to be divided equally, we are not going to set up a collection system, but something is better than nothing. On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Maxim Kovgan kovg...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I meant flattr.com micropayments. On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Maxim Kovgan kovg...@gmail.com wrote: voting is cool, how about flatter ? On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.orgwrote: Hi all, Stumble Upon is a WWW service that allows you to recommend sites and individual pages to other people, comment on them, and to find such new and interesting pages on the web. Haifux has a page for it at: * http://www.stumbleupon.com/content/1Z4hjL I recently upvoted it, and commented on it, and you should too. Here are some related resources: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon * https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stumbleupon/ - Firefox addon. * http://www.stumbleupon.com/blog/su_chrome_extension/ - Google Chromium/Chrome extension. * http://www.stumbleupon.com/home - home page. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - http://shlom.in/enemy Chuck Norris does not code; when he sits at a computer, it just does whatever he wants. — Kattana on Freenode’s #perl6 . Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply. ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Maxim Kovgan -- Maxim Kovgan ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Please upvote and add a comment for http://www.haifux.org/ on Stumble Upon
We do not have any annual report. To follow the law to the letter, Eli would have had to give each donor a receipt. And pay VAT. And increase his circulation. This is why we set up hamakor to begin with - to have an economic entity for things like August Penguin, and to represent us officially (e.g., in the knesset meetings). But the current board is quite different from the people who founded hamakor. And we just made the ultimate move to be separated from the current Hamakor, since we have been having trouble collaborating with their current board for a while now, even at the level of sharing a virtual machine. BTW, there is no hardware to purchase - it is something like a virtual machine. On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Maxim Kovgan kovg...@gmail.com wrote: How one presents a foundation expenses paid by a private person in the annual report ? If there is a bank account, the only thing to add to that is to print the receipt/invoice, and add a line. Is it more complicated ? If not, I'd think of funds raising for a project (h/w purchase, for example): it would be legally feasible. otherwise - a real fuss. On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: On 01/19/2013 06:30 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: Eli volunteered to pay this sum even if nobody else does, but I think we should divide the costs among us, if only for the feeling of a mutual deed. It does not have to be divided equally, we are not going to set up a collection system, but something is better than nothing. Thanks for the offer, but the more I think about it, $45/year is not a sum that is worth the fuss. I mean, the accumulating annual fuel expenses for showing up to the meetings are in the same order of magnitude. Besides, I saved some 300 NIS incidentally lately, on a completely unrelated matter, so let's say it evens out, at least for this year. Eli -- Maxim Kovgan -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Job opportunity at Qualcomm
FYI On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Shavit, Gad gsha...@qti.qualcomm.comwrote: Qualcomm Israel (Haifa office) is searching for an experienced Linux Drivers developer. ** ** Job description: ** ** *Linux Driver Developer* ** ** We are looking for a strong and self-motivated engineer with the knowledge of developing kernel-level Linux drivers. The work will cover various stages of development such as design, implementation, integration and eventually deployment on customer platforms. The work will also include system and research work of different layers of the kernel stack. ** ** Requirements: The applicants should have at least five years of experience in the following areas: **· **Software design and implementation in C or C++ **· **Proven expertise in Linux OS, Linux Kernel and Linux driver development **· **Advantage: Knowledge in the Storage SW stack ** ** Qualcomm participate in contribution to the Open Source. ** ** Resumes can be sent to my_car...@qualcomm.com or through the Qualcomm website www.qualcomm.com. Please specify that you are applying to the Linux Drivers position. ** ** Thank you ** ** ** ** ___ Linux-il mailing list linux...@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Introduction to Flash Memory -- Leon Romanovsky
Amir, trolling is great when it has some truth in it. The facts are: 1. I wrote the code for the new version of the site, made the sources accessible and released the basic package under the GPL (available as a tar ball from http://ladypine.org/make_site-1.tar.gz) when I was not affiliated with the Technion at all. 2. Haifux is currently managed by three people, one from Haifa university, one partially from the Technion, and one from the industry. 3. Haifux was founded by one person from the industry and one from the Technion. This means that Haifux has always been led by people from outside the Technion in collaboration (sometimes) with people from the Technion. This is why Haifux takes place in the evening, unlike all the Technion seminars. This is why we have not had the key to the PC cabinet for years. This is why we struggle to get a regular room. This is why we have trouble with car permits. This is why we fight to get our talks announced in the Technion. In short, we have been trying to get INTO the Technion for years, we certainly have no problem getting out. Orna On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Amir Eldor amir.el...@gmail.com wrote: warning: I am not usually trolling, but when I do, I have fun doing it. @Shlomi, I don't remember who said it, but he suggested the Haifux guys are afraid to leave the Technion boundaries and do anything outside of their beloved Taub. Thus, sharing their site's code in the wild, or doing anything that is not Technion-based, is definitely out of the question. Also, I like the indentation on your name in your signature. Amir On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.orgwrote: Hello guy, On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:33:30 +0200 guy keren guy.choo.ke...@gmail.com wrote: the site is not meant for collaboration, and as such - does not need more engineering. What do you mean by more engineering? [please don't bring your trolling here] Well, I cannot make heads nor tails of the sources in this page - http://www.haifux.org/about.html - do I really need to manually download all those links? Can I somehow find a tarball with all the sources, so I can submit a patch? Furthermore, there are many more good reasons to use a version control system (including for single-user development) rather than only to facilitate collaboration - see: http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Perl/Newbies/lecture5/version-control/motivation.html That put aside, someone had complained in 2007 about Haifux’s build system here - http://www.mail-archive.com/haifux@haifux.org/msg02591.html (also see my reply: http://www.mail-archive.com/haifux@haifux.org/msg02598.html ), and while this may have improved somewhat since then, it seems that he ran into problems while trying to update the site too. Furthermore, software projects should not deliberately try to discourage people from contributing, see what I wrote about it here: * https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769899 Namely, thinking no one contributes to my project so there is no need to make it easy for them is likely going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, and if you make it easier to contribute to your projects, then it's more probable people will. Regards, Shlomi Fish --guy On 01/07/2013 10:16 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Orna, On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:52:10 +0200 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: It is room 6. Shlomi, or anyone else, if you can edit the Hebrew page I will be happy to update it. I lost the ability to do that due to encoding problems. Thanks for the info. I see the site's code is mentioned in http://www.haifux.org/about.html . Is the self-contained source available inside a version control system? If not, then Haifux should definitely use one, see: * http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/#version_control I don't want to start a flamewar here, but I think that there's a large general consensus among most open source developers (and a large number of clueful ones working on non open source software) that using version control is a good idea, and it will facilitate collaborating on the Haifux site. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Star Trek: We, the Living Dead - http://shlom.in/st-wtld XSLT is the worst thing since non‐sliced bread. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply. ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list
Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Introduction to Flash Memory -- Leon Romanovsky
It is room 6. Shlomi, or anyone else, if you can edit the Hebrew page I will be happy to update it. I lost the ability to do that due to encoding problems. On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Eli, DeCCing Linux-IL, On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:55:25 +0200 Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: On Monday, January 7th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Leon Romanovsky: Introduction to Flash Memory Abstract In this lecture we will discuss flash memory. We will go through history, different types and physics. We will talk about current limitations of flash. This lecture will help us to understand, WHY we need new flash friendly file system. = We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.html This page: http://www.haifux.org/where.html - still says Our meetings are held in lecture room 3 in the Technion's Computer Science Building (Taub), at 18:30. Then it says Room 6. What is the correct room? A Linux FOSS enthusiast who came to hear the talk called me on my phone now twice, and I used the site as a reference and may have initially misled him (though not by much). Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris/etc. Facts - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/ CPAN thrives *because* of the unfettered uploading of shit, not in spite of it. — Andy Lester Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: [YBA] Interested in giving HAIFUX lecture
Hello Haifuxers,
YBA is offering to speak in Haifux. Please voice your opinion regarding
your topics of interest.
Thanks
Orna
-- Forwarded message --
From: Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il
Date: Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:35 AM
Subject: [YBA] Interested in giving HAIFUX lecture
To: Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com
Cc: Baruch Siach bar...@tkos.co.il
Hi Orna,
I would like to do a presentation at HAIFUX.
I have been preparing lectures for embedded linux courses and a book. Here
are some topics that I could cover:
1. Bonding and VLAN interfaces - I have a mobile lab consisting of a laptop
and a high-end HP 24 port switch that I use to demonstrate the
configurations.
2. Kbuild Introduction and HowTo
3. Git Introduction and HowTo
4. Kernel cybernetics: How to get useful information from the kernel
archives
If there are other topics that you think might be of interest to embedded
developers please let me know what you think would be of most interest.
- yba
--
EE 77 7F 30 4A 64 2E C5 83 5F E7 49 A6 82 29 BA~. .~ Tk Open Systems
=}**ooO--U--**
Ooo{=
- y...@tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il -
--
Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda.
http://ladypine.org
___
Haifux mailing list
Haifux@haifux.org
http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] my attempt for a new endeavour: debugging2day - Linux/C/C++-centric debugging methodologies online E-zine
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 2:41 AM, guy keren guy.choo.ke...@gmail.com wrote: for want of a shorter name ;) i started this last year, then got a little lazy - and now that the world didn't come to an end, decided to give it a second go - and this time, even tell people about this :0 http://debugging2day.**wordpress.com/http://debugging2day.wordpress.com/ if anyone has comments, or has ideas or requests for article topics (assuming they are within my grasp) - feel free to share. This is terrific! Ideas/requests: *Parallel debugging - debugging of programs compiled with MPI and/or openMP. *Profiling - in particular caveats where you might think you are profiling, but you are actually making an impact on the measured program. *Attaching to a program that is already running when it hangs, reading its strace, understanding the problem from the trace of syscalls. *Figuring out the machine topology and how it is related to program performance (lstopo, who has which cache, is the machine NUMA or SMP, who shares which cache) *Figuring out compilation errors in C++ *Figuring out building errors and debugging makefiles, in particular linkage errors with dynamic libraries, naming conventions (major/minor versions), how to specify a particular minor version, how to specify an LD path and make the program compile when there are alternatives for the same dynamic library. I saw that there is a Windows-oriented course for debugging C applications. I think there should be a market for a Linux one. I know of several people who will want to attend such a course and pay for it. thanks, --guy __**_ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/haifuxhttp://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] TCE systems day
I have no idea, but I trust Dan Tsafrir to make it interesting. Dan? On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.namewrote: Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote on Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 19:02:26 +0200: On March 21st there will be a systems day in the Technion. Registration is now open. http://events-tce.technion.ac.il/ The Program page is still empty; when will it have content? -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] TCE systems day
On March 21st there will be a systems day in the Technion. Registration is now open. http://events-tce.technion.ac.il/ -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Learning from the open source production process - Yael Vaya-Talmor, tomorrow in Haifux
Hello all, Here is the updated abstract (and title) for Yael's talk tomorrow. Orna Abstract: The open source production process is fascinating in many respects: it produces high quality code outside the boundaries of the hierarchical organization, it defies the rules of many traditional software production models and it has many profound implications on social, political, and economic systems of the Internet era. I will discuss prior research work on the topic. For example, should open source serve as an example of how to develop systems of participation with the aim to transform our current systems as Benkler suggests? Can the open source community development process be better understood by researching the architecture of software such as Git? Is open source a revolutionary movement transforming our prevailing social, economic and political systems as Weber suggests? What are the drawbacks of these perceptions? Finally, we will discuss some open questions. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] call for lecture: cgroups
Hello Haifuxers, Cgroups is a way way to cap specific resource use of applications. For example, you can read about what DotCloud does with it: http://blog.dotcloud.com/kernel-secrets-from-the-paas-garage-part-24-c. Since in the KVM hypervisor each virtual machine is actually a process, it can also work for virtual machine resource capping. Is anybody interested in giving a Haifux talk about Cgroups? I will use this opportunity to remind that we still have an open invitation for a tickless kernel talk. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] call for lecture: cgroups
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.bizwrote: On 12/11/2012 02:35 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: Hello Haifuxers, Cgroups is a way way to cap specific resource use of applications. For example, you can read about what DotCloud does with it: http://blog.dotcloud.com/kernel-secrets-from-the-paas-garage-part-24-c. Since in the KVM hypervisor each virtual machine is actually a process, it can also work for virtual machine resource capping. Is anybody interested in giving a Haifux talk about Cgroups? I will use this opportunity to remind that we still have an open invitation for a tickless kernel talk. What would you want to know about the tickless kernel? I don't think it is a particularly large subject to carry a complete talk. How does it work? What is the paradigm change? How should applications behave to make better use of it? How should one profile the use of a tickless kernel? Gilad Ben-Yossef intended to give a talk about this, as well as some related topics. His abstract (http://www.haifux.org/lectures/JIFFIE/) was: How Time Flies: Jiffies, Hi-Res Timers and the Tickless Kernel - Gilad Ben-Yossef Abstract This lecture, by Gilad Ben-Yossef, describes the Linux time keeping mechanism and related features, covering: - Jiffies and HZ: how the Linux kernel measure the passing of time - Hi-Res Timers: Accuracy and precision of the Linux time keeping code - Clock sources: abstractions of time keeping hardware - Tick-less kernel: how the above contribute to a better Linux performance in real time, power consumption and virtualization domains Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: [CS Colloquium] IBM PLSE Seminar - Invitation
Dear Haifuxers, There is a large IBM HRL seminar next Monday, focusing on Programming Languages and Software Engineering (see announcement below). The seminar ends at 17:00. Note that we also got a Haifux talk scheduled this evening (by Yael Vaya-Talmor), so if you are from outside of Haifa, now you have a double reason to come to town! Thanks Orna -- Forwarded message -- From: Itai Segall1 it...@il.ibm.com Date: Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:06 PM Subject: [CS Colloquium] IBM PLSE Seminar - Invitation To: Itai Segall1 it...@il.ibm.com On Monday, November 12, 2012, we will host Prof. David Parnas at the IBM seminar on Programming Languages and Software Engineering in the IBM Research – Haifa auditorium. Prof. Parnas is an early pioneer of Software Engineering, who is responsible for some of the basic concepts of the field. This is his first visit to Israel. He will give the seminar keynote on Software Development – What's Missing? Prof. Parnas, along with Orna Bery, Oded Cohn, and Prof. David Harel, will also participate in a panel discussion titled Fixing Software Engineering, moderated by Prof. Amiram Yehudai. You can find the full program at http://bit.ly/PLSE2012. To join us for this unique event, please register by November 8 at https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/Workshops/plse2012/registration.shtml Participation is free, and includes lunch. Please forward this invitation to any of your colleagues who might also be interested to attend. Best Regards, The PLSE 2012 Organizing Committee ___ Colloq mailing list col...@cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/colloq The material posted is under the full responsibility of whoever posted it and under their sole responsibility and liability. The University takes no responsibility whatsoever for any material or other damage, direct or indirect, that may incur from publications in the forum and/or distribution list. Nor is it responsible for the authenticity of any data and material posted in the forum and/or distribution list, their legality, accuracy, credibility or their completeness -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: Call For Participation: Compiler, Architecture and Tools Day at Intel Haifa, Nov. 26
Dear Haifuxers, On Nov. 26th, Intel will hold a Compiler, Architecture and Tools Day, which is of high interest to systems people. Haifux will not hold a lecture on this date, so as not to overload. See you at the next Haifux talk (next week - Lessons from FOSS to the industry by Yael Vaya Talmor, and after the compilers day - Flash Friendly File System (F2FS) - by Leon Romanovsky) Orna -- Forwarded message -- From: Zaks, Ayal ayal.z...@intel.com Date: Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:30 PM Subject: Call For Participation: Compiler, Architecture and Tools Day at Intel Haifa, Nov. 26 To: C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ** ** Compiler, Architecture and Tools Conference Intel Development Center, Haifa, Israel November 26, 2012 http://www.intel.co.il/compilerConf2012 Endorsed by the HiPEAC Network of Excellence ** ** We are delighted to invite you to participate in a Compiler, Architecture and Tools Day at Intel Development Center (IDC9) in Matam Industrial Park, Haifa, Israel. Lunch and light refreshments will be served. Participation in the event is free of charge, but registration is required (at http://www.intel.com/il/compilerConf2012/registration.htm). The official language of the conference is English. ** ** ** ** PROGRAM ** ** 8:00Registration 8:50Welcome 9:00Keynote: Prof. David August, Princeton University, USA 10:00 break *Session 1: Programming for GPUs and OpenCL* 10:15 *To Malloc or Not To Malloc in OpenCL Kernels *Roy Spliet, Ana Lucia Varbanescu and Lee Howes, Ben Gaster; Delft U., Netherlands and AMD, USA 10:40 *GPU Compiler Language Design Issues *Andrew Richards, CodePlay, UK 11:05 *AlgCL: A Kernel Coordination/Composition Language For OpenCL* David Minor, Orbotech, Israel 11:20 *A Programming and Runtime Environment for Parallel Applications on Heterogeneous Clusters* Ely Levy, Amnon Barak, Tal Ben-Nun, Amnon Shiloh, HUJI, Israel 11:35 break *Session 2: Compilation Techniques* 11:50 *High throughput processing of regular expressions on GPUs *David Lehavi, Sagi Schein, HP Labs, Israel 12:15 *SAT-based Instruction Scheduling for VLIW-processors with Distributed Register Files *Jan-willem Roorda, Intel, Netherlands 12:40 *Feedback Directed Dynamic Recompilation Engine for Statically Compiled Languages Sergei Dyshel, Revital Eres, Dorit Nuzman, Marcel Zalmanovici and Jose Castanos, IBM, Israel and USA* 12:55 *Memory access pattern optimization for GPGPU kernels on Intel® HD Graphics Processor* Paweł Majewski, Konrad Trifunović, Marek Targowski, Radosław Drabiński, Krystian Matusiewicz, Intel, Poland 13:10 lunch 14:10 Keynote: Geoff Lowney, Intel Fellow, USA 15:10 break *Session 3: Tools and More* 15:25 *A guide to AMD’s Heterogeneous System Architecture *Yaki Tebeka , AMD Fellow, Israel 15:50 *Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE: A One-Stop Shop for Parallel Performance Analysis *Stas Bratanov and Artyom Kuanbekov, Intel, Russia 16:15 Dynamic Instrumentation of Kernel, Driver and BIOS with a High Speed Emulator Nadav Chachmon, Aviv Segall, Yair Lifshitz, Robert S. Cohn, Gregory M. Lueck, Intel, Israel and USA 16:40 break *Session 4: Parallelization Techniques* 16:55 *An Integrated Approach to Software Thread-Level Speculation: Machine-Learning Based Policy and Parameter Selection *Daniel Powell, Björn Franke, U. of Edinburgh, UK 17:20 *Sambamba: A Runtime System for Online Adaptive Parallelization *Kevin Streit, Clemens Hammacher, Andreas Zeller, Sebastian Hack, Saarland U., Germany 17:45 *Parallelization Hints via Code Skeletonization *Cfir Aguston, Yosi Ben-Asher, Gadi Haber, U. of Haifa and Intel, Israel 18:00 Closing Remarks ** ** ** ** Please register freely, preferably by Nov. 12, at http://www.intel.com/il/compilerConf2012/registration.htm ** ** We look forward to meeting you in Haifa! ** ** ORGANIZERS Ayal Zaks, Gadi Haber, Nadav Rotem; Intel Development Center, Haifa (first.last at intel.com) Erez Petrank; Computer Science Dept., Technion, Haifa (first at cs.technion.ac.il) Dorit Nuzman; IBM Haifa Research Lab (first at il.ibm.com) - Intel Israel (74) Limited This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org
Re: [Haifux] Help a Haifa guy get Linux!
Hello Haifuxers, A private installation/configuration party is required, possibly for payment (see below). Any volunteers? Orna On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Sella Rafaeli Hi! I reached this email via http://haifux.org/hebrew/where.html. *tl;dr: Can you help me get Linux on my PC/New computer?* My name is Sella; I have recently finished my CS degree, I am living in Haifa, and it's high time I changed my Windows for Linux. I'd like to get a Linux installation - either on my current PC or (preferably) on a new PC, if that's not too expensive (and if that has anything to do with you guys). I tried installing a dual-boot on my Windows-running PC (from which I am writing you these words), but now it seems to be malfunctioning; something to do with the Windows installation itself. Anyway, I know Linux is known for its helpful community and I thought maybe you guys could help me get set up. I'd be happy to pay for whatever is necessary. The Linux-installation-day link seems to be broken ( http://www.haifux.org/hebrew/linuxday), so I am contacting you by mail. Thanks for any help! -Sella -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Researcher night tomorrow, Yael Vaya Talmor's talk postponed
Hello Haifuxers, Note that tomorrow's talk was postponed due to the scientist night events in the Technion. Yael's talk was postponed to November 12th. Details on the event: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/he/news/2012/553/ Thanks to Motty and Miki for noticing the inconsistency on the website. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: INFECTED - join a 48 hour creative hackathon exploring virality at the Jerusalem Leper Colony
- Forwarded message from Yana Katz y...@cs.technion.ac.il - Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 10:15:08 +0300 From: Yana Katz y...@cs.technion.ac.il Reply-To: Yana Katz y...@cs.technion.ac.il Subject: INFECTED - join a 48 hour creative hackathon exploring virality at the Jerusalem Leper Colony To: cs-all-student...@listserv.technion.ac.il As the evening shadows grow long on September twelve, we'll all gather in the halls of the Jerusalem Leper Colony in order to create the ultimate interactive party. In 48 hours we will develop games and live interactive installations all exploring the topic of virality and infection. The event will end with a grand party on Friday, when we will open the gates to the public and present the awesome experiences we've built. Space is limited, so be sure to register today to guarantee your place. http://thelepercolony.wordpress.com/ CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Who's invited: Game developers, interaction experts, graphic designers, animators, illustrators, video artists . anyone from seasoned game design gurus to novice students in animation, design and computer science, who want to build and express their wildest dreams with games, video, music and most of all - human interaction. Where: Bezalel's new Center for Design, Media and Technology at the historical Jerusalem Leper Colony ( https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Marcus+17,+jerusalemhl=enll=31.767499,35.2 16525spn=0.003968,0.016512sll=31.767498,35.216522sspn=0.008811,0.016512h near=David+Marcus+17,+Jerusalem,+Israelt=mz=17layer=ccbll=31.767498,35.2 16522panoid=Pyu_Jb294pk_zN3B7O5yNwcbp=11,84.65,,0,-2.81https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Marcus+17,+jerusalemhl=enll=31.767499,35.216525spn=0.003968,0.016512sll=31.767498,35.216522sspn=0.008811,0.016512hnear=David+Marcus+17,+Jerusalem,+Israelt=mz=17layer=ccbll=31.767498,35.216522panoid=Pyu_Jb294pk_zN3B7O5yNwcbp=11,84.65,,0,-2.81 Marcus 17, Jerusalem) What to bring: your personal computer and dev apps and your talent and creativity... that's it (thanks to our generous sponsors we'll take care of all the rest... food, entertainment, antidotes etc) When: Wednesday through Friday - September 12-14 Schedule: 48 hours of hacking Wednesday 18:00 - gathering at the Leper Colony 19:00 - talk on viral distribution mechanisms in nature 20:00 - brainstorming and team building 22:00 - dinner - hacking session - 03:00 - movie night - overnight hacking - Thursday 09:00 - breakfast 10:00 - gaming crash courses - another hacking session - 14:00 - lunch - more hacking - 22:00 - dinner - yet another hacking session - 03:00 - movie night - final hacking push - Friday 08:00 - breakfast 09:00 - dress rehearsal 11:00 - summer party presenting the games installations Feel free to call me with any questions 054.245.1115 please distribute on to your most creative friends ... -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org As the evening shadows grow long on September twelve, we'll all gather in the halls of the Jerusalem Leper Colony in order to create the ultimate interactive party. In 48 hours we will develop games and live interactive installations all exploring the topic of virality and infection. The event will end with a grand party on Friday, when we will open the gates to the public and present the awesome experiences we've built. Space is limited, so be sure to register today to guarantee your place. http://thelepercolony.wordpress.com/ CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Who's invited: Game developers, interaction experts, graphic designers, animators, illustrators, video artists . anyone from seasoned game design gurus to novice students in animation, design and computer science, who want to build and express their wildest dreams with games, video, music and most of all - human interaction. Where: Bezalel's new Center for Design, Media and Technology at the historical Jerusalem Leper Colony ( https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Marcus+17,+jerusalemhl=enll=31.767499,35.2 16525spn=0.003968,0.016512sll=31.767498,35.216522sspn=0.008811,0.016512h near=David+Marcus+17,+Jerusalem,+Israelt=mz=17layer=ccbll=31.767498,35.2 16522panoid=Pyu_Jb294pk_zN3B7O5yNwcbp=11,84.65,,0,-2.81 Marcus 17, Jerusalem) What to bring: your personal computer and dev apps and your talent and creativity... that's it (thanks to our generous sponsors we'll take care of all the rest... food, entertainment, antidotes etc) When: Wednesday through Friday - September 12-14 Schedule: 48 hours of hacking Wednesday 18:00 - gathering at the Leper Colony 19:00 - talk on viral distribution mechanisms in nature 20:00 - brainstorming and team building 22:00 - dinner - hacking session - 03:00 - movie night - overnight hacking - Thursday 09:00 - breakfast 10:00 - gaming crash courses - another hacking session - 14:00 - lunch - more hacking - 22:00 - dinner - yet another hacking session - 03:00 - movie night
Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] The Resource-as-a-Service (RaaS) Cloud -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
Hi Steve, There is no future talk planned, but the paper is available online, and is quite readable. You might also read news items about the work, for example in calcalist - http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3573485,00.html This is the first part - the motivation. The part about memcached is not written (but the code is of course available, BSD license. All those are linked from the talk's page: http://haifux.org/lectures/285/ We've got a talk about FOSS for production of goods coming up (this was its tentative name), now it is differently titled. By Yael Vaya-Talmor, now called What more can industry learn from open source? http://haifux.org/lectures/286/ Orna On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Steve G. word...@gmail.com wrote: Could not attend, for geographical reasons - by chance, is the lecture repeated anywhere else in the coming few weeks? Also, was there going to be a lecture about open source hardware? I vaguely recall something like that on previous announcement. Thanks, Z. On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: On Monday, September 3rd at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda: The Resource-as-a-Service (RaaS) Cloud Abstract Over the next few years, a new model of buying and selling cloud computing resources will evolve. Instead of providers exclusively selling server-equivalent virtual machines for relatively long periods of time (as done in today's IaaS clouds), they will increasingly sell individual resources (such as CPU, memory, and I/O resources) for a few seconds at a time. We term this nascent economic model of cloud computing the Resource-as-a-Service (RaaS) cloud, and we argue that its rise is the likely culmination of recent trends in the construction of IaaS clouds and of the economic forces operating on both providers and clients. The paper appeared in HotCloud 2012. Joint work with Muli Ben-Yehuda, Assaf Schuster and Dan Tsafrir. The theoretical talk will be followed by a code walk-through of patch to memcached which makes it an application that can use the benefits of the RaaS cloud, which is joint work with Eyal Posener. ==**==**= We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.**html http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! ==**==**== Future lectures: 24/09/12 What more can industry learn from open source?: Yael Vaya-Talmor 15/10/12 Adding Colors to Kademlia: Gil Einziger 29/10/12 Israeli Digital Rights NPO: Zvi Devir ==**==**== We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il __**_ Linux-il mailing list linux...@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/**mailman/listinfo/linux-ilhttp://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Sincerely, Steve http://www.words2u.net - GPS points and tracks (mainly in Costa Rica) http://www.words2u.net/recipes - Recipe collection ___ Linux-il mailing list linux...@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Placing the Dots: On the Technical Challenges and Cultural Aspects of Typesetting Hebrew Vowel-Marks - Zvi Gilboa
On Monday, August 20th at 18:30, Haifux will celebrate a Bar-Mitsva and gather to hear Zvi Gilboa talk about: Placing the Dots: On the Technical Challenges and Cultural Aspects of Typesetting Hebrew Vowel-Marks Abstract This lecture will discuss the challenges presented by Hebrew vowel marks (nikud) with respect to glyph-placement and kerning in (La)TeX and under Linux, as well as the various approaches to date to meet these challenges, and likewise the cultural aspects of their causes and implications. = We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! == Future lectures: 03/09/12 The Resource-as-a-Service (RaaS) Cloud: Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda 24/09/12 FOSS for production of goods (tentative title) - Yael Vaya-Talmor 15/10/12 Adding colors to Kademlia - Gil Einziger 29/10/12 Israeli DIgital Rights NPO - Zvi Devir (the first talk of the semester) == We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org ~ -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Call for Talks
Dear Haifuxers, The queue is empty, For a poem we have time. This is a poem, It does have a rhyme. The queue is empty. It is time for a poem. Most poems rhyme, This one does not. Open dates are 3/9 24/9 15/10 and then we have the first talk of the semester, about the Israeli Digital Rights NPO, by Zvi Devir. What to talk about? You can scan the list of past talks ( http://haifux.org/lectures.html) to get ideas of the scope. In general : Anything you like to talk about, within scope (free something, something software). An interesting paper you read Interesting work you heard of A small contribution you made top open source/FOSS In addition, there are specific topics we have not heard of yet: *The completely fair scheduler *Linux timing, Jiffies, tickless kernel -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Patentability of software related inventions by Doron Sierdazki
Dear all, For a quick survey, in order to anticipate the number of people arriving tomorrow, please reply to me (or to webmaster at haifux org) in private if you intend to arrive. If you are not sure you can simply write that you are not sure - this, too is information. Thanks Orna On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: On Monday, August 6th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Doron Sierdazki: Where did Bilski take us? Patentability of software related inventions Abstract In the last two decades patenting software relations invention in the US was a flourishing business. Recent ruling by Federal Court and its affirmation in the Supreme Court of the US may seriously affect this. We will review the current legal status of software related patents in the US in view of this ruling as well as relate to the legal status in Europe and Israel. The recently enacted America Invents Act (AIA) will also be reviewed. ==**==**= We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.**html http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! ==**==**== Future lectures: There are no scheduled lectures! Do YOU want to talk about something? ==**==**== We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il __**_ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/haifuxhttp://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: CFP: Compiler, Architecture and Tools Day at Intel Haifa
-- Forwarded message -- From: Zaks, Ayal ayal.z...@intel.com Date: Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:51 PM Subject: CFP: Compiler, Architecture and Tools Day at Intel Haifa To: *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies. OTOH, please forward to other interested colleagues *** ** ** CALL FOR PAPERS Compiler, Architecture and Tools Conference Intel Development Center, Haifa, Israel November 26, 2012 http://www.intel.co.il/compilerConf2012 Endorsed by the HiPEAC Network of Excellence IMPORTANT DATES * Paper Submission deadline: August 19, 2012 * Author Notification: September 16, 2012 * Conference date: November 26, 2012 OVERVIEW The interaction between advanced compilation techniques, modern processor architectures, and associated tools continues to face new challenges and opportunities. Traditional demands to increase performance, reduce power consumption, and reduce time to market now apply to heterogeneous, virtualized and diverse user-experience environments. New programming environments such as OpenCL and C++ AMP enable programmers to better leverage data and task level parallelism, relying on effective compiler, binary translation and runtime tools to translate and map their programs onto diverse platforms. This conference will focus on these exciting new directions and how they are influencing the architecture and compilation domain. TOPICS The main focus of this conference is advanced compiler technologies ranging from static to dynamic and binary translation, for modern processor architectures and associated tools. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Compilers, runtime and tools for modern server, client, mobile and embedded systems * Compiler/hardware support for hiding memory and I/O latencies * Compilation to hardware * Dynamic translation and optimization * Heterogeneous parallel architectures and computational models * Power/Performance/Monitoring tools for application behavior understanding * Parallel programming languages, algorithms and applications INVITED SPEAKERS We are delighted to host Prof. David I. August from Princeton University and Intel Fellow Geoff Lowney as our keynote speakers. VENUE The conference will take place at Intel Development Center (IDC9) in Matam Industrial Park, Haifa, Israel. Lunch and light refreshments will be served. Participation in the conference is free of charge, but registration is required. The official language of the conference is English. SUBMISSIONS Authors should submit their original contributions by email to Ayal Zaks ( ayal.z...@intel.com). Submissions must include an abstract and contact information. The authors are free to provide related documents (technical report, article) with additional details on their research work. Abstracts will be provided online at http://www.intel.co.il/compilerConf2012. With author approval, papers may also appear online and extended versions of the best papers may be included in a special issue of IJPP. ORGANIZERS Ayal Zaks, Gadi Haber, Nadav Rotem; Intel Development Center, Haifa (first.last at intel.com) Erez Petrank; Computer Science Dept., Technion, Haifa (first at cs.technion.ac.il) Dorit Nuzman; IBM Haifa Research Lab (first at il.ibm.com) ** ** - Intel Israel (74) Limited This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: כלב בעל?
Dear Hebmorphers, In yesterday's talk we tried Hebmorph online, and found that a dog may be interpreted as like a heart or as a husband/owner, which seemed pretty odd, and Itamar said we need to ask Nadav about this. We did, and Nadav's explanation (in Hebrew) follows. Orna -- Forwarded message -- From: Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il Date: 2012/7/9 Subject: Re: כלב בעל? To: Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com Cc: Dan Kenigsberg dan...@cs.technion.ac.il, ita...@code972.com On Mon, Jul 09, 2012, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote about כלב בעל?: ערב טוב נדב אני בהרצאה על הבמורפ ואנו תמהים מדוע כלב מפוענח כ כ+לב או בעל יש פתרונים? ואו, תפיסה טובה! יש הסבר מצחיק... כלב, המילה האהובה עלי כידוע, היא המילה הראשונה בקובץ שמות העצם nouns.hif, שהוא רשימת שמות העצם המוטים. בין נטיות מילה אחת לשנייה מפריד הסימן -- אבל בראשית הקובץ שכתי להוסיף סימן כזה! לכן, כשקובץ זה שורשר (עם cat) אחרי הקובץ biza-nouns.hif, שמסתיים בנטיות יוצאות הדופן של המילה בעל, המילון למד שכלב הוא נטייה של בעל... אני לא בטוח שלא מדובר פה בקונספירציה של התכנה cat נגד הכלבים :-) תיקנתי את הבעיה כעת. תודה שגיליתם אותה. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Jul 9 2012, 20 Tammuz 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Life can only be understood backwards but http://nadav.harel.org.il |it must be lived forwards. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] ZeroVM: lightweight containers based on Google Native Client---Camuel Gilyadov
On Monday, June 25th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Camuel Gilyadov (קמואל גלעדוב), founder @ LiteStack (litestack.com), talk about: ZeroVM: lightweight containers based on Google Native Client Abstract How cloud-friendly is traditional virtualization? As a matter of fact, all traditional virtualization technologies predate cloud era. Traditional virtualization has major advantage, they are backward compatible on binary level, making it easy to run in cloud any existing pre-cloud application. But what if backward compatability is not a requirement? What about new post-cloud applications, that are developed specifically for cloud? Is traditional virtualization still a good platform for them? More information can be found on http://zerovm.org/ and discussion on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746222 ==**==**= We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.**html http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! ==**==**== Future lectures: 09/07/12 Hebmorph: Itamar Syn-Hershko ==**==**== We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Disk storage media by Guy Keren
Hello to the lucky future attending, Can anybody voice-record the talk? Thanks Orna On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: On Monday, June 11th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Guy Keren: Disk storage media - state of the art in the enterprise world Abstract This is a: 1. very detailed-oriented talk. 2. no prior knowledge required. 3. not specific to linux. 4. not useful for home users - it all concentrates on enterprise systems. 5. second-hand knowledge (i.e. a lot of someone told me and i heard that... claims will be involved). 6. not going to talk about the internals of SSDs - but rather on their machine interfaces. 7. will cover hard disks, SSDs (Solid-State Disks) and the way they are/will be used in enterprise computing environments. ==**==**= We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.**html http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! ==**==**== Future lectures: 25/06/12 Git for solo projects too: Eli Billauer 09/07/12 Hebmorph: Itamar Syn-Hershko ==**==**== We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il __**_ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/haifuxhttp://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: Travel Grants for the Europython 2012 Conference (free entry for top conference) - Deadline for registration: June 12, 2012
- Forwarded message from Noa Mor noa...@cs.technion.ac.il - Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 10:08:06 +0300 From: Noa Mor noa...@cs.technion.ac.il Reply-To: Noa Mor noa...@cs.technion.ac.il Subject: Travel Grants for the Europython 2012 Conference (free entry for top conference) - Deadline for registration: June 12, 2012 To: cs-all-student...@listserv.technion.ac.il Google is delighted to announce Conference and Travel Grants for the https://ep2012.europython.eu/ Europython 2012 Conference. We are offering the winners free registration for the conference and up to 1000 EUR towards travel costs. You can find the eligibility criteria below. Deadline for registration: 12 June 2012 Eligibility Criteria . Bachelor, Master or PhD student/graduate in Computer Science or a related technical field . Student will graduate in 2012 or graduated in 2011 . Strong academic background with demonstrated leadership ability Skills and experience in the following areas are preferred: . Scripting/Coding skills and experience in one or more of the following languages: C, C++, Perl, Python, Java, Shell, or PHP . Unix/Linux systems, Systems administration, Operating systems . Network programming and/or developing/designing large software systems . Analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems . Data structures, algorithms and complexity analysis How to apply It's easy and only takes a few minutes: Applicants complete and submit https://services.google.com/fb/forms/europython2012/ this form including a CV/resume (500 KB max). Let me know if you have any questions at all. Thank you Efrat Aghassy http://www.efrataghassy.com/?page_id=2 , www.efrataghassy.com http://www.efrataghassy.com/ , Google + me! https://plus.google.com/108650089011647605296/posts Talent Outreach specialist Desk: +972-747466711 Mobile: +972-543003869 Google RD Center , EMEA - To REMOVE yourself from this list, go to: http://listserv.technion.ac.il/cs-all-students-l.html and click the 'Join or Leave the List ..' link. - End forwarded message - -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org Google is delighted to announceConference and Travel Grants for theEuropython 2012 Conference.We are offering the winnersfree registration for the conference and up to 1000 EUR towards travel costs.You can find the eligibility criteria below.Deadline for registration:12 June 2012Eligibility Criteria Bachelor, Master or PhD student/graduate in Computer Science or a related technical field Student will graduate in 2012 or graduated in 2011 Strong academic background with demonstrated leadership abilitySkills and experience in the following areas are preferred: Scripting/Coding skills and experience in one or more of the following languages: C, C++, Perl, Python, Java, Shell, or PHP Unix/Linux systems, Systems administration, Operating systems Network programming and/or developing/designing large software systems Analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems Data structures, algorithms and complexity analysisHow to applyIt's easy and only takes a few minutes: Applicants complete and submitthis formincluding a CV/resume (500 KB max).Let me know if you have any questions at all.Thank youEfrat Aghassy,www.efrataghassy.com,Google + me!Talent OutreachspecialistDesk: +972-747466711 Mobile: +972-543003869GoogleRD Center , EMEA ->>> To REMOVE yourself from this list, go to: http://listserv.technion.ac.il/cs-all-students-l.html and click the 'Join or Leave the List ..' link.___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] InfiniBand, RoCE and RDMA Verbs - Empowering Supercomputing and Data Center Interconnects by Dotan Barak
Hello RDMA-ers (can you actually pronounce this?), I heard there was a live talk this week, which is great. Is there an interest in a second talk on the topic? Dotan suggested to expand on writing code that uses InfiniBand, such that the talk would actually contain code. If you enjoyed the first and would like to go deeper, or if you did not need the basics but want the advanced stuff, please have your say! Thanks Orna On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: On Monday, May 14th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Dotan Barak: InfiniBand, RoCE and RDMA Verbs - Empowering Supercomputing and Data Center Interconnects Abstract This lecture aims to provide a brief introduction to the InfiniBand architecture and programming using RDMA verbs. InfiniBand is an open standard, used in HPC (supercomputing) and data center environments for high performance connectivity. This standard defines a complete fabric architecture, from the physical layer all the way to the programming API. The programming API, also known as RDMA verbs, allows for transparent memory operations over the network, transport layer offloading, and a complete kernel bypass. ==**==**= We meet in Taub building, room 3 (or 6, room swaps have occurred lately). For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.**html http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! ==**==**== Future lectures: June 11, 2012: Disk storage media - state of the art in the enterprise world by Guy Keren June 25, 2012: This slot can be YOURS July 9, 2012: Hebmorph by Itamar Syn-Hershko ==**==**== We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il __**_ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/haifuxhttp://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Is the risk real? (Was: New mail icon for Thunderbird over Gnome)
1. My parents' Windows machine got infected with a very hard-to-get-rid-of virus that turned their machine, which was no server at all, into an SMTP machine, and used it for massive mail operations. 2. When I was a checker for Wikipedia, I could check the IP of registered users who violated Wikipedia rules (vandalized pages - in particular, placed the Nazi flag in Jewish pages). I tried to trace the machine they were using, and file a complaint (or enable others to file a complaint) to the relevant body: the ISP (in case of a home connection) or the company whose machine it was. In some of the cases, the vandalizer used compromised machines - machines that were known to vandalizers to be open for such use. On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: ** Indeed, it's wise to have the firewall up. But what I tried to figure out, was if something real actually happened to someone. Port scanning is indeed unpleasant to watch if you're unprotected, but would something really happen if you dropped your firewall? Would whoever scanned those ports attack a Linux computer? Not that I volunteer to try that out myself. And still. On 05/14/2012 02:58 AM, guy keren wrote: at least in the past - the risk was real. when i first connected my computer to the internet via ADSL, and set up firewall rules - i was surprised to see that i get many (hundreads) of failed network connections from around the world. what people do, is run software that scans complete address (IP) ranges, and attempt to find exploitable services on them. the solution, on my part, was to close down everything i could at the firewall level, and try to keep the open services (e.g. the kernel itself, ssh server, etc) updated. keeping things updated was annoying with redhat - specifically the distribution updates - and is one of the reasons i switched to ubuntu. i tend to keep to the LTS (long term support - 3 years) versions of ubuntu - and try to be in long delay after the latest distributions - after having the diss-pleasure of upgrading too early to 8.04 (or something). --guy On 05/14/2012 12:45 AM, Eli Billauer wrote: Hi, Since my not-so-updated software versions became an issue in itself (somehow I always get that) I wondered: Leave alone the unpleasant feeling of knowing your computer *could* be exploited, are there any real cases of attacks against personal, non-server Linux machines? The need to protect a server or a shared machine is obvious. But when it comes to a personal computer, is there any real life justification to be anything else than completely indifferent to those risks? Or can we in fact take a kibbutz approach of leaving the door open, knowing that we may invite someone to break in, but that doesn't really happen? This is not a question about what can happen, but what really does. And just to wrap up the original subject: I was reluctant to try mail-notification, because my mail filters move around the mails as they arrive. So I suspected things would get messy using a tool that apparently polls the mail box files directly. Anyhow, my solution ended up to be the Gnome Integration add on. I also installed Mail Tweak, which among others allowed me to set HTML + Plain text as the default outgoing mail format. Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Something fun and geeky to read
Hello geeks, wherever you are, Dima (CCed), of the ASAT in the CS faculty, suggested hanging printouts of interesting, fun, folklore bits in prominent places (coffee corner, bathroom doors), in order to increase the geekiness of the students at the expense of the profession-seeking mentality. Feel free to throw in suggestions: Some suggestions to start with: The First Linux Announcement from Linus Torvalds http://www.thelinuxdaily.com/2010/04/the-first-linux-announcement-from-linus-torvalds/ Bill Gates Letter to Hobbyists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_Gates_Letter_to_Hobbyists.jpg The Girl Who Proved P = NP http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/the-girl-who-proved-p-np.html -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Something fun and geeky to read
Write in C: http://www.lyrics007.com/Anonymous%20Lyrics/Write%20In%20C%20Lyrics.html What about that story about the guy who used the cyclic memory to make the program overflow and write on itself as a part of the regular run of the program? Can anybody locate it? On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Muli Ben-Yehuda m...@cs.technion.ac.ilwrote: Nice idea! Two off the top of my head: The Story of Mel: http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html Some AI Koans: http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html Cheers, Muli -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] [JOB OFFER] Fwd: JOB AD: developer with kernel skills
-- Forwarded message -- From: Muli Ben-Yehuda m...@cs.technion.ac.il Date: Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:14 AM Subject: JOB AD: developer with kernel skills To: linux-il linux...@cs.huji.ac.il Hello everyone, IBM is looking for a developer with (mad) kernel skills for the TSM FastBack team. CVs should be sent to Eran Raichstein, `eranra' at il dot ibm dot com. Location: Haifa (flexible) Description: The employee will function as part of a team that develops Data Protection Recovery solution. As part of her/his role s/he will be expected to handle areas of the product which are kernel related, as well as customers problems related to Kernel . Requirements: - At least five years of experience in C, C++ on Windows and Linux - Strong experience with WDM Kernel Driver and Linux Kernel module - Deep and proven experience in windows environments, programming languages etc ... - Experience developing at the system level e.g. OS internals, multi threading, sockets, etc. - Knowledge of the storage stacks, communication, multi threading and object synchronization. - Proven experience in technical leadership design of complex solutions - Proven experience of working with customers - Candidates should have excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work as part of a global team, ability to work in multi-task environment and good problem solving skills. Required Bachelor's Degree English: Fluent Hebrew: Fluent Cheers, Muli ___ Linux-il mailing list linux...@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE][WEEK NOTICE] Modern Web Development in Perl - Gabor Szabo
Note change of time AND place: Next week, Monday 23rd (and NOT today), we will meet in Taub 3 (and NOT 6) to hear Gabor Szabo talk about: Modern Web Development in Perl Abstract Back in the early years of the dynamic web, Perl was the de-facto choice of language. It was so ubique that people associated it with CGI. For that, even today, Perl suffers from a bad image. Even though, under the visible surface, there are strong powers leading to a much better future. In the last couple of years a new bread of frameworks appeared in the Perl world. They are all based on the PSGI standard that rhymes to WSGI and Rack. In this presentation we will see a couple of examples for writing PSGI ( http://plackperl.org/ ) and Dancer ( http://perldancer.org/ ) based applications. About the speaker: Gabor Szabo is a long time Perl developer and trainer. He has been using Perl since 1995 and teaching it since 2000. He is runs his blog at http://szabgab.com/ and publishes a weekly newsletter with Perl related news called Perl Weekly: http://perlweekly.com/ . = We meet in Taub building, room 3. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! == We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Automatic parallelization in GCC - Razya Ladelsky (ROOM 3)
Note change of room!!! On Monday, April 02nd at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Razya Ladelsky (IBM HRL): Automatic parallelization in GCC Abstract With the emergence of multicore architectures there is a growing need for automatic parallelization, that distributes sequential code into multi threaded code. OpenMP defines language extensions to C, C++, and Fortran for implementing multi-threaded shared memory applications. Generation of such extensions by the compiler relieves programmers from the manual parallelization process. OpenMP specification has been implemented in GCC, and is part of the standard release since version 4.2. In this talk we review the OpenMP and the data dependence support which serve as the basic infrastructure for the automatic parallelization in GCC. We describe the capabilities of the automatic parallelization, demonstrated by some examples, and show its benefits with SPEC2006 experiments. Finally, we discuss current and future directions of work that may further extend the optimization's applicability. = We meet in Taub building, room 3. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! == Future lectures: Modern Web Development in Perl Gabor Szabo 16/04/2012 GUI in perl (Tentative) Gabor Szabo 23/04/2012 Scientific Python (Tentative) 30/04/2012 RDMA verbs Dotan Barak (Mellanox)16/05/2012 == We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Poll: When to announce a Haifux talk
Hello Haifuxers, Do you happen to forget to make time for Haifux? We currently give only a late notice (reminder), counting on people to get updated using other means (website, calendar). We do not want to burden you with announcements, so we would like to know how many announcements you would like to get, and when. Keep in mind that things may change at the last minute, so the sooner we announce the more we might need to correct announcements. However, meetings seldom get rescheduled on the last week. Please take this poll to voice your opinion. The link to your poll is: http://www.doodle.com/g38p3tksyuex4eta Thanks Orna -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: [ceClub] **Monday 15:30**: Rick Eads @ EE
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ittay Eyal it...@tx.technion.ac.il Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:44 PM Subject: [ceClub] **Monday 15:30**: Rick Eads @ EE To: clubne...@listserv.technion.ac.il You are invited to the next ceClub talk. For details of coming talks, ceClub's online calendar etc., please visit the ceClub site http://ceclub.technion.ac.il/. Speaker: Rick Eads Title:PCI Express: Technology, Road Map and Design Challenges Affil.: Agilent Technologies; Member of PCI-SIG board of directors Time: *Monday**, 19/3/12, 15:30** ** * * * Location: *Meyer 861 ** *Abstract: Below PCI Express is an industry standard, and the most prominent interconnection architecture for I/O devices and other boards inside a computer. It is defined and updated by the PCI-SIG(R) industry standards body, originally formed in 1992 as the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) special interest group (SIG). Agilent Technologies, a prominent developer and provider of test equipment at all levels yet not a competitor in the computer market, has played a key role in the advancement of PCI Express as a high performance yet extremely reliable interconnection scheme with very good interoperability among different-vendor equipment. This talk will provide the following: an overview of PCI Express; PCI Express design and debugging challenges; Agilent tools for PCI Express development (physical layer, signal integrity and protocol validation); PCI Express electrical and protocol testing; and a live demo of testing solutions.* Bio:* Rick Eads, a senior program manager for PCI Express tools at Agilent Technologies, serves as Agilent's PCI Express Technology lead. Since 2007, he has served on the board of directors of PCI-SIG. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Fortran and GPU
I am. But is it FOSS? On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Shimon Panfil i...@industrialphys.comwrote: Hi folks, is anybody interested in listening about GPU computing with Fortran? I am ready to prepare lecture on this subject. Shimon -- Shimon Panfil: Industrial Physics and Simulations http://industrialphys.com __**_ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/haifuxhttp://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] GPGPU, part 4/4 - OpenCL Tools and Profiling for Performance by Ofer Rosenberg
Dear GPGPUers, I am writing this from room 337, via the cs_guest wifi, so there will be wifi today. However, please install the SDK at home, so that the speakers (Ofer Rosenberg and Yaki Tebeka) are able to proceed with the actual material. Thanks Orna 2012/1/1 Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il ** On Monday (TOMORROW), January 2nd at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Ofer Rosenberg (AMD Israel) talk about GPGPU - OpenCL Tools and Profiling for Performance Note: This is the second hands-on lecture. Arriving with laptops with at least the AMD APP SDK (regardless of your computer's GPGPU, if any) is highly recommended. This meeting (and the next one) will take place in Taub 337 for the sake of better Wifi support. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.html Abstract This is a series of 4 talks about GPGPUs, intended for the practical engineer. 1. Motivation, AMD's architecture 2. OpenCL overview 3. Case studies, Dos and Don'ts 4. Tools and Profiling for Performance For assignment code, slides, installation instructions, and updates, please visit http://haifux.org/lectures/267/ Attendance is free, and you are all invited! Future Haifux talks include: 09/01/2012 Maqaf Hataf Patakh - The new standard Hebrew keyboard layout by Amir E. Aharoni We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event Haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il ___ Linux-il mailing list linux...@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Reminder: Public domain day
Hello freedom lovers, Public domain day will be celebrated at the Creative Commons center in HaifaU next week (Tuesday, January 3rd). Everyone is invited, but please register. Further details are available at: http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/he/AcademyInCommunity/ClinicList/tech/Pages/PD-Day.aspx -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Cyber Warefare – How Stuxnet took down an Iranian Nuclear Facility
Hello security people, You might be interested in this talk, which is open to the public, and will take place in Taub 3. Orna *Cyber Warefare – How Stuxnet took down an Iranian Nuclear Facility* *Wednesday, December 28 at 12:45, class 3. * ** ** In July 2010, the world was stunned with the discovery of a computer worm that infected the Iranian Nuclear program. The worm, known later as Stuxnet, was a sophisticated software that caused significant damage to Iran Nuclear facilities. It revealed the existence of a new era in information security that was known to few people - Cyber Warfare. In this lecture we will tell the detailed story of Stuxnet and mention some other important recent attacks.** ** Lecturer: Mr. Tomer Teller, Security Evangelist at Check Point Software Technologies ** -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] GPGPU talk for today postponed to next week
Dear GPGPU-ers Due to the problem in the train lines from Tel-Aviv, the GPGPU talk intended for today (#3) will not take place today. Talk #3 will take place next week, instead of talk #4. Talk #4 will be re-scheduled later. Sorry for the inconvenience. You can use the extra time to install the AMD SDK, if you have not done so yet :) Technion people - can somebody post a note on room 337, for those who arrive there anyway? Thanks Orna -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] GPGPU talk part 3 postponed
Dear GPGPU-ers, Part 3 of Ofer Rosenberg's talks will take place on December 19th (next week), instead of December 12th (this week). Part 4 will take place as planned on the 26th. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] [GPGPU Course]: openCL software requirements
Dear GPGPU-interested, Here follow installation instructions from Ofer. The installed software will be used on lessons 3 and 4, so you have a chance to try installing it and contact Ofer during the next meeting if you have any problem. The instructions are suitable for machines with the hardware specifications (Intel or AMD CPU, better if you have an AMD GPU). To take full advantage of other GPUs (e.g., Nvidia) you will need Nvidia's implementation, which will not be addressed in class. -- Forwarded message -- From: Rosenberg, Ofer ofer.rosenb...@amd.com Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:57 AM Subject: RE: openCL software requirements Our samples are built with makefiles. Eclipse is for convenience only – as the host source file and cl files are separated. Next session is without hands-on – it will be an OpenCL overview only (with the new 1.2 features). ** ** Installation: I did it step by step to verify that it works. It is tested on OpenSuSe 12.1 Required Installs: ** ** Go to Eclipse downloads site: www.eclipse.org/downloads Choose Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers (includes Incubating components) - 32bit or 64bit ** ** Installing AMD Catalyst (for people who got AMD GPUs only): http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1product=2.4.1.3.42lang=English Installation explanations for catalyst can be found here: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Main_Page For example, installing on SUSE/OpenSUSE: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/SUSE/openSUSE ** ** Installing AMD APP SDK (OpenCL, required for all): http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK/downloads/Pages/default.aspx ** ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Towards the GPGPU lecture series
Hello everyone, General Purpose GPU programming became a hot topic in the last few years, ranging from academic studies to being used by commercial software products. As an example, three out of the world’s top10 supercomputers (June2011 list) contain GPUs in them. This series of lectures focuses on OpenCL, the open standard for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems. On November 14th Haifux will begin a 4-meeting series (8 hours in total) of practical, hands-on GPGPU, given by Ofer Rosenberg from AMD Israel ( http://www.linkedin.com/in/oferrosenberg ). The meetings will take place at Taub 6, on alternate Mondays (14/11, 28/11, 12/12, 26/12), 18:30-20:30, but watch our site (http://haifux.org) or join the announcement mailing list on the same page for announcements on changes (in particular, room changes). The outline of the talks will be as follows (see detailed syllabus below): 1. GPGPU introduction 2.OpenCL introduction 3.OpenCL Dos and Don'ts 4.OpenCL optimization and profiling The third and fourth meetings will include hands-on experience, under Ofer's guidance. For these meetings, each participant will have to bring a laptop with: 1. Linux (this is Haifux, the Haifa Linux Club) 2. An x86 processor, either AMD or Intel. An IPAD is not good for this purpose. 3. AMD's OpenCL implementation installed. It works both on AMD and Intel, installation details for those who need them will follow. 4. Eclipse installed. 5. If possible, an AMD GPU, with a version number of 54 or higher. Use “lspci | grep VGA” to find the GPU vendor model. To arrange for machine access for those who do not have a suitable laptop, as well as prepare for the series,* please reply in private to webmas...@haifux.org* *if you intend to attend the series. *If you have (or do not have) the required gear. In particular, if you have an AMD GPU. Please forward to whomever you see fit. *Syllabus: Introduction to GPGPU Programming* General Purpose GPU programming became a hot topic in the last few years, ranging from academic studies to being used by commercial software products. As an example, three out of the world’s top10 supercomputers (June2011 list) contain GPUs in them. This series of lectures focuses on OpenCL, the open standard for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems. 1. GPGPU introduction The first lecture is an introduction to GPU architecture and GPGPU programing. It covers the differences between GPU and CPU architectures, and how these differences impose restrictions on programming GPUs. We will also touch the issue of memory aspects of GPU architecture and the overall system (CPU GPU) 2. OpenCL overview From the Khronos website: “OpenCL™ is the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices”. This lecture will provide an overview of OpenCL, covering the API programming aspects (such as OpenCL objects, contexts, queues, events, etc.) as well as the language enhancements (such as vectors, images, samplers, built-in functions etc.) 3. OpenCL Do’s and Don’ts This lecture provides a practical guide for programming in OpenCL by doing a hands-on guided experience of writing OpenCL applications and kernels. Starting from basic examples through more complex scenarios, we will provide some tips for writing code that provides the required correct results. We will also provide some performance tips. 4. OpenCL Optimization Profiling This lecture focuses on performance aspects of OpenCL. We will provide a hands-on experience of improving performance of OpenCL kernels by optimizing a specific example. In addition we will show ways to profile the kernel, including working with profiling tools such as AMD kernel profiler and gDebugger. Note that some of issues presented in this lecture will be possible only on AMD GPUs. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] New CS Students Invited to Haifux
Great, thank you so much. Abel - your talk is the next one, please be aware of these people who are new to computer science and may show up, so you may need to level the knowledge (do not assume a CS BSc knowledge) Also, if indeed we have some newcomers, maybe we would need to do some introduction level talks. I suggest that veteran Haifuxers try to locate those new faces and learn in one-on-one chats what they would like to hear about (of course, intend to do so myself, too). This can be done during the break of Abel's talk and before it. Abel's talk is about advances stuff, so we need not to scare them off. On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Tom Balazs tom123onl...@gmail.com wrote: Today was Orientation Day at the Technion (Yom Hakvana). I attended Prof. Irad Yavneh's welcome lecture to the incoming class of computer science students. He was kind enough to let me address the group after his talk, to invite them to Haifux. I spoke for a few minutes and told them when and where the meetings are held, about our upcoming lectures, and gave them the URL for the Haifux website. Later, I stood at the exit door and passed out Haifux fliers. Overall, the students seemed interested, some said they planned to attend the next Haifux meeting. I hope to see new faces at Haifux's next meeting. Tom Balazs -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] שרותים מהעירייה
Actually, it does not work with Linux if you try to register a child to a TSAHARON. If you only try to register to a kindergarten with no TSAHARON, it works. 2011/10/7 Diego Iastrubni elc...@kde.org On יום חמישי 06 אוקטובר 2011 21:28:53 Dotan Cohen wrote: I just sent the URL of this page to the Daily WTF: http://www.haifa.muni.il/Haifa/Pages/edjucation.aspx Sorry to ask... but I don't see it, what is so wrong in this site? Just a average site from the mid 90's (from the look, the HTML souce shows that it it make using asp.net). ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] New students (orientation) day
Hello Haifuxers, October 23rd is YOM HECHVEN - orientation day. This year, we (Technion clubs) are going to be included in their tour in an orderly fashion. The leaflets are ready. Who wants to talk to new students? Who has other PR suggestions for the new academic year? -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX MEETING Taub 337] Wiki-Workshop with Tomer Ashur
Hello all, To allow for decent connectivity, we are moving the Haifux meeting tomorrow from Taub 6 to Taub 337. Taub 337 is in the same building, on floor 3. When you exit the stairs/elevators and stand with the great window behind you, turn left and walk to the end of the corridor. Connectivity will be through the cs-guest wifi network, on a special temporary user id. Orna On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: ** On Monday, September 12th (TOMORROW), at 18:30, Haifux will gather for a Wiki-Workshop with Tomer Ashur. Abstract During this meeting, the Haifa Linux Club will help the Hebrew Wikipedia project to extend, improve, generate, and fix various FOSS related entries. The meeting will start with a few pointers by Tomer about how a good Wikipedia entry looks like, and then will follow by participants working on their assigned entries. We note that this is an opportunity for you to contribute both to promoting FOSS and free content, even if you cannot physically attend. We meet in Taub (CS Faculty) building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! Future Haifux talks include: 26/9/2011 Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing by Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda 10/10/2011 How to Participate in the Linux Kernel Development (and Why) by Baruch Siach 31/10/2011 Better Performance in Virtualization by Abel Gordon 14/11/2011 GPGPU - Motivation and Architecture by Ofer Rosenberg 28/11/2011 GPGPU - OpenCL by Ofer Rosenberg 12/12/2011 GPGPU - Case studies, Do's and Dont's by Ofer Rosenberg 26/12/2011 GPGPU - Tools and profiling for performance by Ofer Rosenberg We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event Haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Mesh Networks:Hacking the T3lc0 Model by Amir Sagie
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Michael Vasiliev mycr...@yandex.ru wrote: On 08/28/2011 03:59 AM, Eli Billauer wrote: On Monday, August 29th (TOMORROW), at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Amir Sagie talk about Mesh Networks:Hacking the T3lc0 Model Abstract Want to build your own Telco? You'll probable need mesh power. Avoid past mistakes by learning about the history of mesh networks, hear how the first wi-fi router was liberated and be sure to checkout what we're doing in project Arig ( http://arig.org.il), here in Israel! Be sure to attend the router emancipation party afterwords: bring your wi-fi router and wash away all it's sins by flashing it with a FOSS OS such as OpenWRT. Complete redemption guaranteed. Follow-up to the lecture: The inverted Internet joke on the bandwidth thief I've mentioned is hosted here: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html Amir, this could be a good start for the split-network router configuration. See also - How Secure are Secure Interdomain Routing Protocols? by Sharon Goldberg et al. Sharon spoke at ceclub last year, and there is a video of her tal on the site. http://www.cs.bu.edu/~goldbe/ -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev ___ Linux-il mailing list linux...@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] The other poem Orr did not write
Since my last poem, the queue gained weight, with talks until January first. GPGPUS and kernel are abundant, but what about the softer kind? Let's spice the talks with users' notes on things so cool, on things with which to boast, on a new desktop, on a new distro, it does not need to be me, it can be...you, yo! -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Running 32 bit applications (Firefox?) on 64 bit machines
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: Thank you all for your answers. I suppose the conclusion is that using 32 bits for application is a nice workaround for applications that cause trouble as 64 bits, unless it's really computation intensive (simulations etc.). Maintaining the necessary 32 bit libraries is a not fun, but nothing compared to waiting for this and that binary plugin to work correctly. Since the performance issue was mentioned more than once, I'll say that my hunch is that except for real number crunchers (finite elements simulations, video encoding and stuff Orna plays around with) most applications are limited by data starvation (cache misses), so the extra registers allowed for in x86_64 aren't necessary making any real difference. In particular when it comes to browsers, word processors, maybe even video rendering and compilation. But this is really just a hunch. I forgot to mention that sometimes, on really funny occasions, you get a performance penalty from using the 64bit code. For example, when you take a number close to 1 (1.0001) to a power. You will get absolutely stuck with the 64bit code. So 32 bit for Firefox it is. As for the rest, well, who cares, as long as it works. Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il __**_ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/haifuxhttp://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Running 32 bit applications (Firefox?) on 64 bit machines
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: Hi, It has suddenly hit me, that there's no apparent reason to run most executables as 64 bits on a x86_64 machine. I mean, what for? It's not like I expect Firefox to address 1 GB of RAM. If it does, let it crash. On the other hand, plugins and other binaries for 64 bits is a headache. Flash player tops the list, I suppose. So it really makes me wonder: Why are the preinstalled binaries on a 64 bit machine, well, 64 bit executables? I run a 64 bit machine because I want the *overall* RAM to exceed 4 GB, but except for virtual machines, I don't expect any application to have problems with the 32 bit limitation. Insights? There is a performance penalty for running 32-bit on 64-bit, and the extent of it it very much depends both on your processor (Intel/AMD) and your application. Eli P.S. Just changed my Firefox to 32 bits. Had to install some libraries manually to get Flash Player going: yum install libpk-gtk-module.so libcanberra-gtk-module.so libcurl.i686 (thanks goes to strace as usual). -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il __**_ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/haifuxhttp://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Mesh Neworks | Hacking the T3lc0 Model - Amir Sagie
Hello all, This is a pre-announcement for the next Haifux talk on Monday, August 29th, which is NOT this coming Monday, when we will gather to hear Amir Sagie of the Arig project ( אמיר שגיא מפרוייקט אריג) Abstract: Want to build your own Telco? you'll probable need mesh power. Avoid past mistakes by learning about the history of mesh networks, hear how the first wi-fi router was liberated be sure to checkout what we're doing in project Arig (אריג), here in Israel! Be sure to attend the router emancipation party afterwords: bring your wi-fi router wash away all it's sins by flashing it with a Foss OS such as OpenWRT. complete redemption guaranteed. See also http://arig.org.il -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] [JOB OFFER] XIV
Forwarded from facebook - Hi hi, This is a job offer. I'm looking for ninja-developers with system background or ninja-system people with development capabilities. For a job in an IBM development team, within the XIV storage division. We develop and deploy complex automation solutions involving both hardware and software. Our platform is Linux. Python, Django, JQuery, SQL, Slurm, git, Postgres, Test-driven development, VMware, Apache, Mysql, MongoDB, Ruby on rails - If most of those buzzwords appeal to you and you're interested, you can contact me at procs...@gmail.com -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] No Poetry Today
Orr writes poetry, I am not in the mood. The talk queue is empty, and this is not good. So think of a topic, Suggest an idea, Pick yourself a date Winter is near. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Haifux's 12th Birthday : date change
Hello all, Haifux is going to celebrate its birthday on August 15th, with Aviv Sharon's talk about 0AD's progress and Wikimania. Note the unusual date - 3 weeks from the previous talk. Refreshments are still welcome. There will _not_ be a lightning talk session on the 22nd. Subject: 0 A.D. Revisited (And Perhaps a Few Words About Wikimania 2011) - Aviv Sharon Abstract 0 A.D. is a FOSS game of ancient warfare, belonging to a genre of games called Real-Time Strategy (RTS). It is mostly implemented in C++, along with scripts in JavaScript, and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. The game was last presented at Haifux in December 2009 and has developed tremendously since then, with advances in graphics, A* pathfinding, opponent AI and more. Aviv will demonstrate some of the new features of the game of particular interest to Comp Sci people and explain how he manages the PR and social media aspect of a volunteer FOSS project. Probable bonus: Pictures and experiences from Wikimania 2011, where Aviv is set to assist the organizers with media and PR aspects. Orna On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.comwrote: Hello all, First, the mailing lists are up again, as you can see. We are currently working on lowering the chances for the repetition of such a malfunction of our basic utilities. Second - we have only one lightning talk so far. We need more volunteers to have a successful party. Even if you are not so sure if the topic is right - just contact us off-list. Third - it would be nice if people who intend to come to the birthday party will bring some refreshment. Again, please communicate what you intend to bring to webmaster at haifux dot org, off the main mailing list. Thanks Orna On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Haifuxers, (yeas, if you are reading this, you are a Haifuxer) On 22/8/2011 we will celebrate the club's Bat-Mitsva! Don't worry, we hope to celebrate a Bar-Mitsva next year. To celebrate the event we will have a lightning talk session. If you have a pet project, if you got something nice you would like to share, if you have anything for show-and-tell - this is your chance. Anything of free spirit or general software/hardware curiosity fits, as long as it is of interest to Haifux members. Please send lightning talk proposals to webmas...@haifux.org. Expect a talk to get about 10 minutes, we will see about the exact length when we see how many talks we have. Please indicate how long you would like to talk about your lightning topic, ideally. Slides are possible, but not compulsory. If speakers have slides, we will have them all on the same computer to save switching time. Thanks for your cooperation in making this a successful Haifux birthday! -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Haifux's 12th Birthday - Call for Lightning talks
Hello all, First, the mailing lists are up again, as you can see. We are currently working on lowering the chances for the repetition of such a malfunction of our basic utilities. Second - we have only one lightning talk so far. We need more volunteers to have a successful party. Even if you are not so sure if the topic is right - just contact us off-list. Third - it would be nice if people who intend to come to the birthday party will bring some refreshment. Again, please communicate what you intend to bring to webmaster at haifux dot org, off the main mailing list. Thanks Orna On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Haifuxers, (yeas, if you are reading this, you are a Haifuxer) On 22/8/2011 we will celebrate the club's Bat-Mitsva! Don't worry, we hope to celebrate a Bar-Mitsva next year. To celebrate the event we will have a lightning talk session. If you have a pet project, if you got something nice you would like to share, if you have anything for show-and-tell - this is your chance. Anything of free spirit or general software/hardware curiosity fits, as long as it is of interest to Haifux members. Please send lightning talk proposals to webmas...@haifux.org. Expect a talk to get about 10 minutes, we will see about the exact length when we see how many talks we have. Please indicate how long you would like to talk about your lightning topic, ideally. Slides are possible, but not compulsory. If speakers have slides, we will have them all on the same computer to save switching time. Thanks for your cooperation in making this a successful Haifux birthday! -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] SSD fundamentals - Amit Berman
On Monday, July 11th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Amit Berman: SSD fundamentals Abstract Modern NAND Flash-based Solid-State Drives (SSD) presents low latency, high throughput, low power consumption and solid-state reliability improvements comparing to traditional magnetic-disk based Hard Disk Drives (HDD). In this talk, I will review solid-state drive technology, including introduction to flash memory structure and operating principles, storage of multiple bits per cell, endurance and retention characteristics, approaches for high performance as well as power conserving write/read/erase policies, wear leveling, write amplification, file systems for solid-state non-volatile memory, concepts of interconnections and I/O communication protocols. = We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! == Future lectures: 25/7/2011 - How to Spread Knowledge Throughout the World While Wearing Only Your Slippers (or Wikmedia, Wikipedia and free content projects) - Tomer Ashur Upcoming events in Haifa and Israel: 4/8/2011 Wikipedia academy, in Haifa http://wikimedia.org.il/Conf11 4-7/8/2011 Wikimania 2011, in haifa, Israel http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 12/8/2011 August Penguin 2011: http://www.hamakor.org.il/2011/07/08/%D7%94%D7%96%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98-%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9F-2011/ == We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Evolution of open source and Linux Kernel - Dr Oded Koren
http://hamakor.org.il/pipermail/discussions/2011-June/003158.html 2011/6/21 Diego Iastrubni elc...@kde.org Facebook is evil. Please provide more details in public. Thanks :) On יום שני 20 יוני 2011 12:00:10 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: The talk is in Tel Aviv, and it is a part of Dr Koren's Phd dissertation. More details are at the facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=153550138049501 ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Evolution of open source and Linux Kernel - Dr Oded Koren
The talk is in Tel Aviv, and it is a part of Dr Koren's Phd dissertation. More details are at the facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=153550138049501 -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: [OT] Job offer: Linux system programmer in Haifa area
-- Forwarded message -- From: ronys ro...@gmx.net Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:35 AM Subject: [OT] Job offer: Linux system programmer in Haifa area To: linux...@cs.huji.ac.il Hi, Posting for a friend: Looking for a Linux system level programmer in the Haifa area - Experience in C++ development on Linux + GDB - Knowledge in Linux system call usage - Kernel development is a plus - Work is for a new exciting startup. - The project is for about 2 months with a potential for longer term work - Partial work from home may be possible Applicants please send resume to danny.geist at gmail dot com Rony ___ Linux-il mailing list linux...@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: M.Sc. Thesis Seminar by Michael Kuperstein
Hello all, During Eli Billauer's PCI talk we had a brief discussion regarding the necessity of barriers and the approach of placing a barrier everywhere. Michael Kuperstein's work refers exactly to this point: automatically finding where a barrier is really needed, thus saving long discussions on one hand, and unnecessary inefficiency on the other. He will present his thesis this Wednesday at 12:30. Orna. - Forwarded message from Graduate Seminar Announcement grad...@cs.technion.ac.il - Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 12:30:23 +0300 From: Graduate Seminar Announcement grad...@cs.technion.ac.il Reply-To: Graduate Seminar Announcement grad...@cs.technion.ac.il Subject: M.Sc. Thesis Seminar by Michael Kuperstein To: cs-grad-seminar...@listserv.technion.ac.il Time and Place: 25/05/2011 12:30 in Taub 601 Speaker: Michael Kuperstein Title: Preserving Correctness Under Relaxed Memory Models Supervisor: Dr. Martin Vechev and Dr. Eran Yahav Abstract: We present an approach for automatic verification of concurrent programs running under relaxed memory models. Verification under relaxed memory models is a hard problem. Given a finite state program and a safety specification, verifying that the program satisfies the specification under a sufficiently relaxed memory model is undecidable. For somewhat stronger memory models, the problem is decidable but has non-primitive recursive complexity. We use abstract interpretation to provide a verification procedure for programs running under relaxed memory models. Our main contributions are: -- A family of partial-coherence abstractions, which partially preserve information required for memory coherence and consistency, while allowing effective verification. -- A framework for automatic repair of programs. Given a program, a specification and a description of the memory model, our framework computes a set of constraints that guarantee the correctness of the program under the memory model. The framework then realizes those constraints syntactically as memory fences, hardware instructions that ensure the constraints are never violated. We implemented our approach in a tool called BLENDER and used it to infer correct and efficient placements of memory fences for several nontrivial algorithms, including practical concurrent data structures and mutual exclusion primitives. This email was automatically generated. For the full list of seminars and colloquiums, see the faculty web page http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/he/. For regulations on how to announce Ph.D. and M.Sc. seminars, see http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/he/graduate/faq/seminar/ - End forwarded message - -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] [WINTER PROJECT OFFER] virtualization - rational memory overcommitment
The corrected version - now with the missing references. -- Forwarded message -- Hello Systems People, In virtual machines, the host (hypervisor) can allocate memory to different guest virtual machines as it sees fit. In particular, it can let a guest have less physical memory than the guest thinks it needs. This is called memory overcommitment, and it allows the hypervisor to run more guest virtual machines at the same time than would otherwise be possible. It is used in cloud computing and in data-centers all over the world. There are various mechanisms for over-committing memory, but the most interesting mechanism is the ballooning mechanism, which enables balancing memory on the fly between unmodified guests without requiring their explicit cooperation. The key questions are: how much physical memory should be allocated to each guest? How much does each guest really need? Who would benefit most from a given amount of memory? Muli Ben-Yehuda and I are offering a Technion academic project in virtualization, dealing with a novel approach to memory overcommitment for uncooperative guest operating systems. The project involves designing and implementing the new approach, and will lead to at least one scientific publication. The project can later be developed into a full Master's thesis, which unites areas of systems and virtualization, game theory, and security under the domain of cloud computing. Two prominent papers in this field are: [1] Ripal Nathuji, Aman Kansal, Alireza Ghaffarkhah, Q-Clouds: managing performance interference effects for QoS-aware clouds http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/118372/QClouds.pdf [2] Abel Gordon, Michael Hines, Dilma Da Silva, Muli Ben-Yehuda, Marcio Silva, Gabriel Lizarraga, Ginkgo: Automated, Application-Driven Memory Overcommitment for Cloud Computing http://www.mulix.org/pubs/cloud/resolve11-ginkgo.pdf Please contact me or Muli for further information. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] eBook conference
Hello all, I am forwarding an announcement about a conference in haifaU about eBooks, law and business. There is more information on the conference page, as well as below (in Hebrew). http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/he/Events/ebook/Pages/default.aspx Please contact Lily, CC-ed, for any further information. FYI, Orna 2011/5/15 Lily Faibish-Schor lfaib...@univ.haifa.ac.il שלום רב, כנס ראשון מסוגו בנושא eBook, משפט ועסקים יעסוק באתגרים המשפטיים והעסקיים שמעוררת מהפכת הספרים הדיגיטאליים. בין היתר, ידונו בכנס: - איך תשפיע המהפכה הדיגיטאלית על תעשיית הספרים? - אילו מודלים עסקיים יממנו את עולם הספרים הדיגיטאליים? - זכויות יוצרים בעידן הדיגיטאלי - האם ניתן לשמור על פרטיות הקריאה ועל חופש החיפוש בעידן הדיגיטלי? - כיצד ניתן למנוע ריכוזיות בשוק הספרים ולשמור על תחרות בשימור אוצרות תרבות? - ההחלטה בעניין פרויקט הספרים של גוגל: היום שאחרי בכנס ישתתפו מומחים מרחבי העולם, במגוון תחומים: כלכלנים, משפטנים, מידענים, מפתחים, חוקרים מהאקדמיה, נציגים מן התעשייה (גוגל, I.B.M, התאחדות הוצאות הספרים ועוד) ומעצבי מדיניות. הכנס יערך באוניברסיטת חיפה ביום חמישי, 19 במאי 2011. ההשתתפות אינה כרוכה בתשלום אך מחייבת הרשמה באתר הכנס: http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/ebook נשמח לראותכם המרכז למשפט וטכנולוגיה ומרכז שגיא לחקר האינטרנט, אוניברסיטת חיפה הספרייה הלאומית, ירושלים -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] When was the last time you have given a talk @ Haifux?
This is exactly the problem. The wifi is http only. I tried to set up a chat during the AD0 talk, to let AD software developers join in the talk on the IRC forum. I did not try for long, but I could not do IRC from there. I could not even ssh from there. I did not try to hook up the laptop to the wired network in the classroom, which goes with the presentation machine. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 01:42:39PM +0300, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: Most problematic. We cannot access chats in that floor. Looks like an interesting chalange. Is it possible to hook up any Linux laptop to the network there? Never mind the main display for now. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|| friend ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: [Project offer] WebKit guru
-- Forwarded message -- From: Gilad Ben-Yossef gi...@benyossef.com Date: Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:31 AM Subject: [Project offer] WebKit guru To: linux...@cs.huji.ac.il Hi, Some friends are looking for a consultant with the following quallifcations: · WebKit o Overall architecture, in details o Scanners (main scanner, pre-load scanner) o Flow of loading a web-page · HTTP and TCP implementation on Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb · HTTP and TCP implementation in Chromium · Optionally: same topics above for other mobile operating systems The project is at Haifa and I'd be happy to provide more details in private if you are interested and qualify, but please, do me a favor - send me an email only if you truly fit the bill. Thanks, Gilad ___ Linux-il mailing list linux...@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Call for volunteers - Python course
Hello all, We are working on setting up a course for teenagers, with the support of the school (in Haifa), to introduce them to programming in a FOSS environment - as an alternative to the Windows they get for free at school. The school is cooperative, and the hardware will be new. The intended population is the brightest students in the school. All in all, this looks like an open door, waiting for us to step in. The current idea is to base on guy keren's course, which needs some brushing: http://www.python.org.il/course/ We are looking for volunteers to prepare and give the course. Shortly we are going to start preparing the course, which is meant to be given next year. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] FWD: Job offer - experienced Linux system administrator
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Greg Pendler pend...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My company is looking for an experienced Linux and network administrator for production team. Requirements: - At least 5 years of Linux administration experience - Ability to write scripts in Perl and shell - Solid knowledge of networking (theory and practice). - Experience with MySQL - Experience in large production systems - an advantage. The position is in Herzliya, Please send CVs to pendler_AT_gmail.com. Kind Regards, Greg -- Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is user friendly. It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with. --Unknown -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: קול קורא לפרויקטי קוד פתוח - 2011
For those who do not read Hebrew on mail - see http://www.isoc.org.il/open/ Orna -- Forwarded message -- From: Eyal Sela e...@isoc.org.il Date: 2011/3/7 Subject: קול קורא לפרויקטי קוד פתוח - 2011 To: i...@haifux.org שלום, *ברצוני להודיע כי איגוד האינטרנט הישראלי יוצא בקול קורא לפרויקטי קוד פתוח לקידום האינטרנט בישראל.*** מציעי ההצעות יכולים להיות קבוצות התנדבותיות, גופים מסחריים או יחידים. שיקולים בבחירת הפרויקטים: ישימות והערכת יכולת ביצוע מבחינה טכנולוגית וארגונית. קיום תשתיות המבטיחות המשכיות ויכולת תחזוקה לאורך זמן – דוגמת בסיס משתמשים רחב בישראל, קיום תומכים זמינים וכדומה. *דוגמאות לפרויקטים מתאימים*** 1. *לוקליזציה* של תוכנת אינטרנט בקוד פתוח. 2. *תיקון או שיפור* מערכת אינטרנט שכבר עברה לוקליזציה. 3. תכנית *הטמעה או הגברת שימוש* במערכת קוד פתוח אינטרנטית בישראל. 4. *מדידה של השימוש* או היבטים אחרים של האינטרנט בישראל. 5. *כתיבת דוקומנטציה, חומר הדרכה, מדריך למשתמש* בעברית למערכת אינטרנטית. 6. *פיתוח מערכת אינטרנטית* המותאמת לצרכים ספציפיים של המציאות הישראלית. 7. תכנית יזמות עסקית ל*עידוד יצירת שוק* ספקים התומכים במערכות פתוחות בישראל על ההצעה להתקבל עד* 15 **באפריל 2011*. *מידע נוסף, תקנון וטופס ההגשה*: www.isoc.org.il/open בברכה, אייל סלע | מנהל פרויקטים, הועדה הטכנולוגית ומשרד ה-W3C הישראלי | איגוד האינטרנט הישראלי | www.isoc.org.il | www.w3c.org.il Eyal Sela | Project Manager, Technology Committee the Israeli W3C office | Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL) | Tel: www.isoc.org.il | www.w3c.org.il -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] UniversAAL - Open Source platform for Ambient Assisted Living and Smart Home Environment - Vadim Eisenberg
On Monday, February 28th (TODAY) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Vadim Eisenberg talk about UniversAAL - Open Source platform for Ambient Assisted Living and Smart Home Environment http://haifux.org/lectures/251 Abstract I will present two presentations about an EU FP7 IP project I work on, UniversAAL - http://universaal.org/. The goal of the project is to develop an open source platform for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). Ambient Assisted Living is a kind of Smart Home environment for elderly people - for example, a house equipped with different sensors and in which different devices, sensors and home appliances are networked together and managed by software applications. In addition, the platform could be used for monitoring of chronic deceases, providing healthcare services at home, supporting people with disabilities. I will present the project and will talk about technologies involved in the project: OSGi, Middleware, (Semantic) SOA, Security, Android, Living Labs. About me: I work in IBM, IT for Healthcare Life Sciences group, and do my M.Sc. studies at the Technion, Computer Science Department. My research interests are Semantic Web, Software Engineering and Programming Languages. I made my first Open Source contribution two months ago - http://d2rqupdate.cs.technion.ac.il/, Apache 2.0 license (on my personal time, it is not related to IBM). I developed D2RQ/Update and D2R Server/Update prototype extensions to a popular RDF-to-RDB mapping platform - D2RQ http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/d2rq/ (it is related to Semantic Web technologies). We meet in Taub (CS Faculty) building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! Future Haifux talks include: 14/3/2011 The story of Alice and Bob - the I/O requests by guy keren (part i) 28/3/2011 The story of Alice and Bob - the I/O requests by guy keren (part ii) We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] MCTIP computer technician course
Computer security: http://www.graduate.technion.ac.il/heb/Subjects/?SUB=236350 Ask the lecturer for permission to sit in the class, write down everything you do not understand or have never heard of, and go and learn it yourself afterward. Orna On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:59 AM, amichay p. k. am1chay@gmail.comwrote: Hi, First of all, thank you everyone for the advice, I'm always happy to hear other opinions. I guess there is something in what you say, but I want you to pay attention to my following preferences: * I'm not interested in learning subjects that have no possibility for practical use - hands on type of knowledge. * I do not want to learn about programming / science / math, at least not before the military service. * Work that I most want is to be in information security, security consultant recommended / penetration testing consultant. ** To work in this profession I have to have a good knowledge of computer systems, servers, networks, etc.. Which course do you recommend for me at this point, about eight months to military service? Amichay 2011/2/22 Greg Pendler pend...@gmail.com Great manifesto. I can second every word. Studying is your and everyone else's way to succeed, but not all studying options were born equal- choose wisely. As someone interviewing people I can say that university degree makes a big difference while different courses are probably doing the opposite. Good luck Greg On Feb 21, 2011, at 15:48, Michael Vasiliev mycr...@yandex.ru wrote: On 02/20/2011 09:23 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: How about starting your CS BSc instead? The open U is free for all, even if you do not have the bagrut yet, and the Technion has special programs for good students - some start at 16 or earlier. I'm replying to this reply, since I did not get the original letter (ugh, again!), and can't figure out whose mail server is to blame. Even though more than good 13 years passed since I was in that exact situation, I'd like to share some insights, based on nothing else but actual experience. Let's say you are, like I was, a young hacker in his teen years looking for a job. You have some computer, network, linux, and programming knowledge, and lacking relevant experience, you're looking into persuading the employer in your abilities. You are, like all people have a resource, time, which you want to invest wisely. First of all, if you think that a prospective employer would take a teen off the street, with or without courses and let him manage expensive equipment and business-critical data, you're so wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I cannot emphasize it any further. Unlest that employer is your close relative, the best you're looking at is laying LAN cable or assembling computers from parts, both below minimum wage (sic!). The kind of jobs you have the lowest chance to make a mistake at, from the employer's view. Delegate-able, mundane, tiring, minimal possible loss jobs. Worst part of it, these are also available right now, without any courses. Nowadays, every business is an information business, and were IT business a Zen monastery, that's the kind of jobs you were doing in your first year. Except that in Zen monastery, you get to learn later on, and here you're not. Every job you can get, you can continue doing for the rest of your life, because there's no shortage of the same dull tasks, and every single one of these jobs is both a career dead-end and a constant insult to your intelligence. Let's talk courses now. These credit-less courses are on the level of advanced OS user at best, the programming ones are on the level of novice programmer, it's nothing you don't know already. They're thriving since the days of the hi-tech bubble, and only during these crazy days they were somewhat effective. Back then, with the shortage of hands and abundance of shareholder's money, you could actually get a position doing absolutely nothing of value whatsoever. All course graduates hired back then found themselves unemployed when the bubble burst. But people still try the easy way to high-tech salary. Isn't that the all-around marketing slogan? That's how it will be: the course will be filled with naive people who don't know two bits about computers and want to switch from another field, unrelated to exact sciences. By offering yourself as a lowest bidder in terms of knowledge you'll get, on these courses you'll be taught by (surprise!) -- a lowest-bidder lecturer, which is at best a university or college student or dropout, an unlucky jobless teacher, or, in vast majority of cases, a graduate of the very same courses on minimum wage. I was both the student and lecturer in similar circumstances, and I feel bad for doing both. The kind of nasty feeling if you have personal ethics for your vertebrae column and know that despite your best efforts, you're doing a half-arsed job. Pardon the wording. This budget you describe
Re: [Haifux] MCTIP computer technician course
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Michael Vasiliev mycr...@yandex.ru wrote: On 02/20/2011 09:23 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: How about starting your CS BSc instead? The open U is free for all, even if you do not have the bagrut yet, and the Technion has special programs for good students - some start at 16 or earlier. I'm replying to this reply, since I did not get the original letter (ugh, again!), and can't figure out whose mail server is to blame. I am sorry about that. I considered replying in private, then re-added the (wrong) list - amichay posted to linux-il, I posted to haifux, we got a weird cross-posting effect. Even though more than good 13 years passed since I was in that exact situation, I'd like to share some insights, based on nothing else but actual experience. Let's say you are, like I was, a young hacker in his teen years looking for a job. You have some computer, network, linux, and programming knowledge, and lacking relevant experience, you're looking into persuading the employer in your abilities. You are, like all people have a resource, time, which you want to invest wisely. First of all, if you think that a prospective employer would take a teen off the street, with or without courses and let him manage expensive equipment and business-critical data, you're so wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I cannot emphasize it any further. Unlest that employer is your close relative, the best you're looking at is laying LAN cable or assembling computers from parts, both below minimum wage (sic!). The kind of jobs you have the lowest chance to make a mistake at, from the employer's view. Delegate-able, mundane, tiring, minimal possible loss jobs. Worst part of it, these are also available right now, without any courses. Nowadays, every business is an information business, and were IT business a Zen monastery, that's the kind of jobs you were doing in your first year. Except that in Zen monastery, you get to learn later on, and here you're not. Every job you can get, you can continue doing for the rest of your life, because there's no shortage of the same dull tasks, and every single one of these jobs is both a career dead-end and a constant insult to your intelligence. Let's talk courses now. These credit-less courses are on the level of advanced OS user at best, the programming ones are on the level of novice programmer, it's nothing you don't know already. They're thriving since the days of the hi-tech bubble, and only during these crazy days they were somewhat effective. Back then, with the shortage of hands and abundance of shareholder's money, you could actually get a position doing absolutely nothing of value whatsoever. All course graduates hired back then found themselves unemployed when the bubble burst. But people still try the easy way to high-tech salary. Isn't that the all-around marketing slogan? That's how it will be: the course will be filled with naive people who don't know two bits about computers and want to switch from another field, unrelated to exact sciences. By offering yourself as a lowest bidder in terms of knowledge you'll get, on these courses you'll be taught by (surprise!) -- a lowest-bidder lecturer, which is at best a university or college student or dropout, an unlucky jobless teacher, or, in vast majority of cases, a graduate of the very same courses on minimum wage. I was both the student and lecturer in similar circumstances, and I feel bad for doing both. The kind of nasty feeling if you have personal ethics for your vertebrae column and know that despite your best efforts, you're doing a half-arsed job. Pardon the wording. This budget you describe can pay tuition fees for one year of proper, regular CS university courses or a university preparatory program you could use to improve your school grades. Or you can study for a psychometric exam (best of such study is, surprisingly, not a course, but gathering course books of all your friends and sitting on your butt solving them with pencil, eraser and stopwatch in the privacy and comfort of your own home, which is another lesson I've learned the hard way). Time and budget permitting, try to get into excellent student program in your school, that will get you university courses for a credit to use later. Try to get the best grades you can while still IN SCHOOL, or improve the one you already have. To summarize: I've been on that very road, and I cannot say anything but don't waste your time taking such courses. It's nothing but ripoff and a complete waste of your precious time. Please, I'm begging you. I wholeheartedly wish someone persuaded me otherwise back then. Make your decision on a field and work relentlessly towards getting a proper degree. If you can't figure out what field you like, but you think it's something from exact sciences, start with math(preferrably) or physics. Both can give you a solid math background, a hardcore
Re: [Haifux] MCTIP computer technician course
Sorry for misleading - by free for all I meant it does not perform a selection process upon entrance. It is not the getting in that is hard - it is the graduation that is hard - having the self discipline to finis all courses (which is why I think highly of their graduates). Another good point of the openU is that soldiers can do that on their free time (or even get some time off from the army to go to their courses, especially if you are in a computer-oriented service). It is especially good for someone who is used to home-schooling. On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Orr Dunkelman orr.dunkel...@gmail.comwrote: Please note that the OpenU charges per-course, so it is not that free (actually, you can buy the books for a fraction of the course's price, but then you do not have access to their support, teaching, etc., and most importantly - you cannot take the exam and collect credits). On a different note, also HaifaU has programs for good students (Etgar). Cheers, On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: How about starting your CS BSc instead? The open U is free for all, even if you do not have the bagrut yet, and the Technion has special programs for good students - some start at 16 or earlier. 2011/2/20 amichay p. k. am1chay@gmail.com Hi, I consider these days to start learning computer technician course. This course is MCTIP by Microsoft, + free Linux course. Total of 252 + 64 hours, + Microsoft and LPIC 1 + 2 exams. The price is 11,700, including everything. Do you have any idea whether I should study the course? You know what the price range for similar courses? Any advice? Thanks, Amichay -- the debate isn't security versus privacy. It's liberty versus control Bruce Schneier ___ Linux-il mailing list linux...@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orr Dunkelman, orr.dunkel...@gmail.com GPG fingerprint: C2D5 C6D6 9A24 9A95 C5B3 2023 6CAB 4A7C B73F D0AA (This key will never sign Emails, only other PGP keys. The key corresponds to o...@vipe.technion.ac.il) -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] MCTIP computer technician course
How about starting your CS BSc instead? The open U is free for all, even if you do not have the bagrut yet, and the Technion has special programs for good students - some start at 16 or earlier. 2011/2/20 amichay p. k. am1chay@gmail.com Hi, I consider these days to start learning computer technician course. This course is MCTIP by Microsoft, + free Linux course. Total of 252 + 64 hours, + Microsoft and LPIC 1 + 2 exams. The price is 11,700, including everything. Do you have any idea whether I should study the course? You know what the price range for similar courses? Any advice? Thanks, Amichay -- the debate isn't security versus privacy. It's liberty versus control Bruce Schneier ___ Linux-il mailing list linux...@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Fwd: new Technion course: Operating Systems Engineering
-- Forwarded message -- From: Muli Ben-Yehuda mu...@mulix.org Date: Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:03 AM Subject: new Technion course: Operating Systems Engineering To: Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com Hi, A new course on 'Operating Systems Engineering' will be given next semester in the Technion and may be of interest to Haifuxians-who-are-also-CS-or-EE-students. The course is all about hands-on hacking: we will write a new minimal but functioning operating system from scratch! More details available here: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dan/course/ose/2011/OSE-syllabus-2011.pdf Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda | http://www.mulix.org -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Call for Lectures
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful queue is done; The club has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is not won; The emptiness is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring: (*)... Yes, dear listeners, the queue got empty again, So it is time to become Speakers again.(**) Speak your mind, Talk about your work, Talk of work of others, Speak of what you know or take the chance to learn a new topic. And if you care for suggestions, then here are some Both old and new, borrowed, but never blue: *gnu enterprise *tickless kernel *linux for kids (a talk where people are encouraged to come with children maybe? or parents are encouraged to come, to learn about things for kids? Games? How to set up a machine for kids?) *stellarium (*) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Captain!_My_Captain! (**)Note that we welcome two new speakers on the queue, but still January 31st is an empty slot. -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)
Hello all, I am forwarding this as a non-job offer, since participants are not paid (though they have a chance of winning a monetary prize). Orna. -- Forwarded message -- Following the Success of the second season of Beauty and the Geek we are now beginning the search for our next contestants who are willing to take part in an adventure of a lifetime! Thinking it's about Time to Make a Change? Always Wanted to Transform Someone Else? Come and take part in Beauty and the Geek, the Most Humane Reality Show on Television If you are a girl and look amazing and you are sure that you are able to teach brilliant geeks a thing or two … take this opportunity to show everyone what you worth! If you are a young intelligent guy who would like to try and step out of his boundaries, break free, change and yes … to have some good time with some amazing beauties – join us in an experience of a lifetime You can leave your details: Voice Mail – 052-999 Mail - yafa.g...@gmail.com -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)
Clarification: even though I forwarded this to the list as part of my role as co-webmaster of haifux, and as a service to the community, I strongly join guy's view, and more: Please do not embarrass Haifux/Linux-il by declaring yourselves as members, when taking part in a stereotypic low-denominator TV program. Thanks Orna On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:42 PM, c...@actcom.co.il wrote: just do me a favor - DON'T register under the title Haifa linux club member or something similar - i had enough problems at work after the fiasco with Moshic Afia on Once in a life time of yes, several years ago... people kept reminding me of that show for more then a year after it was shown on ynet - and i wasn't even there! --guy Original message Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:52:10 +0200 From: Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com Subject: [Haifux] [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10) To: Haifa Linux Club haifux@haifux.org, linux-il linux...@cs.huji.ac.il Cc: shani helmer shanihel...@walla.com, מערכת היפה והחנון 3 yafa.g...@gmail.com Hello all, I am forwarding this as a non-job offer, since participants are not paid (though they have a chance of winning a monetary prize). Orna. -- Forwarded message -- Following the Success of the second season of Beauty and the Geek we are now beginning the search for our next contestants who are willing to take part in an adventure of a lifetime! Thinking it's about Time to Make a Change? Always Wanted to Transform Someone Else? Come and take part in Beauty and the Geek, the Most Humane Reality Show on Television If you are a girl and look amazing and you are sure that you are able to teach brilliant geeks a thing or two … take this opportunity to show everyone what you worth! If you are a young intelligent guy who would like to try and step out of his boundaries, break free, change and yes … to have some good time with some amazing beauties – join us in an experience of a lifetime You can leave your details: Voice Mail – 052-999 Mail - yafa.g...@gmail.com -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Refreshments
Hello to all those who (wish to) attend Haifux meetings, Hamakor are offering us a modest refreshment budget for meetings, like other groups are getting (for example, the perl group in Rehovot). We are not allowed to bring food and beverages into the class, but we can do this outside the room. 1.Is there an interest? 2.If so, is there someone who is willing to handle the purchasing and bringing of such refreshments? Thanks, -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Refreshments
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Tzafrir Rehan tzafri...@gmail.com wrote: You'd be surprised how many students will show up once the sign says Free Refreshments. We need to think about ways to actively lure them into the room once they're done eating free food. (I used to administer a shared calendar named Free food in the technion dedicated to such events) I heard about that calendar :) I think, however, that I failed to stress that the budget is indeed modest. Around 20-30 shekels per meeting. This can cover a couple of soda bottles, or cookies etc. Not huge tables covers with tiny sandwiches of tired cheese and cucumbers... On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.comwrote: Hello to all those who (wish to) attend Haifux meetings, Hamakor are offering us a modest refreshment budget for meetings, like other groups are getting (for example, the perl group in Rehovot). We are not allowed to bring food and beverages into the class, but we can do this outside the room. 1.Is there an interest? 2.If so, is there someone who is willing to handle the purchasing and bringing of such refreshments? Thanks, -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Public Domain Day event - January 5th, HaifaU
Hi all, I will present Haifux and FOSS for 10 minutes at the Public Domain day (day after tomorrow). Nobody is presenting anything else which is software related. We can get a table and set up a booth for the free time after the microphone presentations. The question is - what would we like to do with it, and who volunteers to man the booth. Suggestions: Flyers about Haifux like we did for the orientation day A laptop with Linux, so people can see Linux on a desktop A laptop with Linux installed with kids games A laptop with 0AD Hamakor rolls (the standing posters) with the Gnu and Tux, that Omer Keshet designed for August Penguin (who has those? Lior - maybe you can get them?) Suggestions and volunteers are welcome (note - there will be free food and beverages...) Orna On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.comwrote: Hello All, Public Domain day is celebrated round the world on January first (when the rights on art created on the year which ended 70 years before expire). Creative Commons Israel (specifically, Dalit Ken-Dror) is organizing an event to celebrate this day on the evening of January 5th (this Wednesday!), in the Haifa University. We are all invited! For further details, please see the Facebook event page and Creative Commons Israel's site: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124623154270750 http://creativecommons.org.il/ -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] Public Domain Day event - January 5th, HaifaU
Hello All, Public Domain day is celebrated round the world on January first (when the rights on art created on the year which ended 70 years before expire). Creative Commons Israel (specifically, Dalit Ken-Dror) is organizing an event to celebrate this day on the evening of January 5th (this Wednesday!), in the Haifa University. We are all invited! For further details, please see the Facebook event page and Creative Commons Israel's site: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124623154270750 http://creativecommons.org.il/ -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] [JOB Request] Looking for a job as SW developer
Forwarded message from Yosi Yarchi, who is interested in the Yokneam/Haifa area. --- Hi My name is Yosi Yarchi and I'm embedded software developer. I'm very skilled and experienced - since '95 - in variety of embedded environments (linux, VxWorks, C, C++, Perl, Bash, controllers, etc.) and applications (mostly communication and networking: IP, Ethernet, SONET/SDH, routing protocols, etc). I'm looking for *partial* *time* job - 50-60%. The partial is because at the rest of the time I'm leading social project with at risk youth. By employing me at partial time job, you actually enable this social project. Please check if there are any open jobs at your company. My CV could be found at: www.yarchi.com/clients/resume.pdf www.yarchi.com/clients/resume.odt With best regards Yosi Yarchi -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Creative Commons Licenses - Dalit Ken-Dror - Part II
On Monday, December 20th, at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Dalit Ken-Dror continue her talk about Creative Commons Licenses, Open Source Software Licenses the new Israeli Copyright Act of 2007 Abstract Part I of the talk covered the new Israeli Copyright Act of 2007. This part of the talk will focus on Creative Commons Licenses. = We meet in Taub (CS Faculty) building, room 6. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! Future Haifux events include: 3/1/11 From VxWorks To Linux by Raz Ben Yehuda Note: Boaz Goldstein's talk about Bash, which was intended to be given this coming Monday, was postponed. We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
