Slightly OT: Free hardware specs? IBM might do it again...
As some may recall, IBM surprised many people when in the beginning of the 80s, in a rush to enter the new PC market before the Apple II takes away their Mainframe market (well almost), they created in a record time of 18 months the IBM PC from commodity bits and pieces (rather than 100% home-grown tech and manufacturing like everything else up to that point) and took one step further and published the specs. The idea being that if every shmoe had the specs for the bus and the rest of the circuitry, more third-party hardware vendors will make daughter cards for their new odd child, which they didn't know how to market. The result as we all know is the creation of the PC standard and x86-forever traditions that are carried to this day for better or for worse. Now they seem to be doing it again. On the high end market. IBM caught up with the blade server market pretty late, two years almost after HP tried to enter the market. but they did really nice real fast and today they are at 44% marketshare compared to HP's 32%. For a year they have been offering up the specs for the bus and other components of ther BladeCenter for sale but noone answered, and now they decided to just give the specs away. I have no idea what that means exactly yet, but open hardware specs are always accepted gladly by us :-) For those out of the loop: Pizzas are passe for LISA LOBOS and other types of compute clusters. a BladeCenter is a fat U chasis with built in redundant power supply, LAN switches, Fiber channel switches, KVM and many more goodies where you slide in and out entire computers easier than you change disks in a hot-swap RAID. In fact with the specs open, third parties can offer RAID chasis that are installed as a blade next to the computers in the chasis, or for that matter any other imaginable black box application that can fit the bus. this also opens up the market for replacement management, fiber and LAN switch modules at the back of the IBM Bladecenter Imagine a box with a Cisco switch+router in the back, 10-computer cluster in the front, plus a RAID and a telephony interconnect blade or any other odd combination of hardware, all running on the same central management and buss, and redundant poer supplies. this is a power-appliance dream for startups whoe want cluster appliances, black box solutions, and who knows what else. Of course, this has (almost) nothing to do with GNU/Linux, except for the fact I've been toying with such blade centers for over 18 months now with embeded Oracle clusters at Etagon and Xcat-deployed compute clusters at Motorolla etc. -- First runner up Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE Apps under CVS
Some libraries are shipping with the right macros (e.g: gtk+, glib, gnome, freetype2, etc.) QT does not ship these tools as Trolltech probably assume you will use their qmake tool to generate Makefiles. Theoretically, distros can fill this hole, but I haven't seem them doing it and AFAIK the KDE libraries are not shipped with m4 macros either. What Kdevelop does (AFAIR -- long time since I used it), is to generate the required macros and scripts and than use them in its configure.ac file. Ok, although what you suggest is possible there is an easier solution in the form of qmake. The options that we have thought about are: 1. Manually using autotools to create Makefiles for the entire project, without using Kdevelop at all. Of course, the scripts you mentioned are still necessary. The original problem was that KDevelop itself was lousy at recompiling forms (ui files) and moc (meta object code) files. And since we've also had other object files that are built seperately, this created a mess. 2. Using qmake to create everything. QMake knows how to compile all ui and moc files (for the later it also adds them to the link process :) and is a snap to use. Trivial. For Qt applications, this is the way to go. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of autotool's in terms of cross-platform development but for developing Qt/KDE apps, it is THE easiest tool that I've seen. FINALLY! Eli -- Eli Kara Beyond Security Ltd. http://www.beyondsecurity.com/ http://www.securiteam.com/ The First Integrated Network and Web Application Vulnerability Scanner: http://www.beyondsecurity.com/webscan-wp.pdf = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sshd security.
Can you recommend me how to secure sshd and restrict access to specific networks only? -- Thanks. David Harel, == Home office +972 4 6921986 Fax:+972 4 6921986 Cellular: +972 54 4534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sshd security.
David Harel wrote: Can you recommend me how to secure sshd and restrict access to specific networks only? Can you read man sshd_config (specifically the ListenAddress directive)? --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sshd security.
David Harel wrote: Can you recommend me how to secure sshd and restrict access to specific networks only? RTFM tcpd. tcpd is compiled into sshd. It reads and respects /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. You don't need to run it through tcpd. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. http://www.lingnu.com/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Job opening
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Re: Job opening
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Tal Achituv wrote: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify us immediately and delete this communication. Not that we are not happy about job offers, but this kind of comments create legal problems as linux-il list is being archived, e-mails are being forwarded and so on, would be nice if you can avoid putting ELUA in the end of the email:) Ely = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Job opening
Not that we are not happy about job offers, but this kind of comments create legal problems as linux-il list is being archived, e-mails are being forwarded and so on, would be nice if you can avoid putting ELUA in the end of the email:) I am sure that this mail has a disclaimer at the end... its the darn e*change server... and domain policy.. I don't have anything to do with it just ignore it... Sorry... Tal. ---IGNORE ANYTHING AFTER THIS LINE-- :-) This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify us immediately and delete this communication. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE Apps under CVS
On Sunday 05 September 2004 17:00, Eli Kara wrote: Ok, although what you suggest is possible there is an easier solution in the form of qmake. On Thursday 22:04:42, Oron Peled wrote: ... QT does not ship these tools as Trolltech probably assume you will use their qmake tool... Yes, I mentioned the possibility of qmake, but but for developing Qt/KDE apps, it is THE easiest tool that I've seen. Exactly. The question is if your project is *only* a QT/KDE app? Many projects have QT/KDE gui but uses many other libraries as well as an example of (non-QT) project with many dependencies: $ ldd /usr/bin/gnomemeeting | wc -l 70 (for the curious, of these maybe ~20-25 are gui related). Would qmake save you work with the other 40-50 libraries? No. Would most of these libraries have autotools macros? You bet. So I would use qmake for pure QT/KDE jobs with almost no other dependencies/options. Real world apps (for some definition of real world), regretfully require build environment which is more complex. -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 Promises are like babies: fun to make, but hell to deliver. -- Nadav Har'El = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnu gettext PO files and UCS-2 char-set
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 12:05:42PM +0300, ik wrote: Hello list, I have a .PO file that I made, and currently it's in UTF-8. I have a problem displaying it on GTK-1.2, when I try to find the right font to use. Please note, that I *do not* care about Bi-Directional, only on displaying it. I wish to try the UCS-2 char-set instead of UTF-8, but when I do convert it to UCS-2 (using iconv), the program msgfmt does not understand the char-set. You don't need to convert the .po file to any other charset. Keep it in UTF-8. gettext will convert the message from the stored charset to the locale's charset. One thing that seems unlikely, though, is that your locale's charset is UCS-2 (run 'locale charmap' to see). On a Unix system, a UCS-2 encoding would break casual C null-temrinated strings. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE Apps under CVS
On Thursday 22:04:42, Oron Peled wrote: ... QT does not ship these tools as Trolltech probably assume you will use their qmake tool... Yes, I mentioned the possibility of qmake, but but for developing Qt/KDE apps, it is THE easiest tool that I've seen. Exactly. The question is if your project is *only* a QT/KDE app? Many projects have QT/KDE gui but uses many other libraries as well as an example of (non-QT) project with many dependencies: $ ldd /usr/bin/gnomemeeting | wc -l 70 (for the curious, of these maybe ~20-25 are gui related). Would qmake save you work with the other 40-50 libraries? No. Would most of these libraries have autotools macros? You bet. So I would use qmake for pure QT/KDE jobs with almost no other dependencies/options. Real world apps (for some definition of real world), regretfully require build environment which is more complex. There is no doubt in my mind that you're right my friend, just as there is no doubt in my mind that our friends from Trolltech provided us with qmake not only to make our lives easier but to make us use their tools :) The problem with autotools is that they are hard to use if you're inexperienced with them and have to do something *special*. In order to be able to extend autotools and do special feats you need a better understanding that just specifying source files and link stuff in your Makefile.am :) At least there's a free book (although the problem is - you have to READ it hehe) Eli -- Eli Kara Beyond Security Ltd. http://www.beyondsecurity.com/ http://www.securiteam.com/ The First Integrated Network and Web Application Vulnerability Scanner: http://www.beyondsecurity.com/webscan-wp.pdf = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Job opening
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 08:47:48PM +0300, Tal Achituv wrote: Not that we are not happy about job offers, but this kind of comments create legal problems as linux-il list is being archived, e-mails are being forwarded and so on, would be nice if you can avoid putting ELUA in the end of the email:) I am sure that this mail has a disclaimer at the end... its the darn e*change server... and domain policy.. I don't have anything to do with it just ignore it... Sorry... Tal. ---IGNORE ANYTHING AFTER THIS LINE-- :-) This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify us immediately and delete this communication. ---PLEASE STOP IGNORING HERE :-) So now I have two requested Outlook plugins: 1. disclaim-dislaimer 2. save-threading-headers -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
