Re: slightly OT - backup strategy
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 10:15 AM Dotan Shavit wrote: > Consider raid + zfs + daily snapshoots > > RAID/ZFS/replication are NOT backups. This is a common problem that needs explaining every time :) https://www.raidisnotabackup.com/ > בתאריך יום א׳, 17 ביולי 2022, 16:50, מאת Shlomo Solomon < > shlomo.solo...@gmail.com>: > >> I recently lost some files because of a bad disk - hardware problem. >> >> I do regular backups so I was not really worried, but I now see that I >> have a problem with my backup strategy so I'd like to know how others >> handle/prevent what happened to me. >> >> I backup files using rsync and I basically have 2 types of backups. >> >> My most important files are backed up every night. I do incremental >> backups using:rsync -aqrlvtogS --ignore-errors --backup >> I keep about 4 months of backups. So if a file is damaged, >> missing or accidentally deleted, I can find a good file - even if, for >> example I screwed up the file and only discovered the problem a few >> days later. >> >> BUT, all the rest of my files - music, videos, pictures, etc are backed >> up daily and weekly on 2 different physical drives using: >> rsync -qrlvtogS --delete --ignore-errors >> I use --delete to prevent accumulating garbage on my backup disks. >> >> So here's the problem: Because of a hardware problem, several files on >> one of my disks were lost. As a result, the daily backup script >> "thought" that those files should be deleted from the daily backup. >> Unfortunately, I did not notice the problem. A few days later, those >> same files were also deleted from the weekly backup. So they are lost. >> >> So on one hand, I need --delete to avoid keeping backups of old >> garbage, but on the other hand, the --delete option does not know if I >> deleted the file or if it's gone because of a hardware problem. >> >> >> >> -- >> Shlomo Solomon >> http://the-solomons.net >> Claws Mail 3.17.5 - KDE Plasma 5.18.5 - Kubuntu 20.04 >> >> ___ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: slightly OT - backup strategy
Inline On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 9:50 AM Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I recently lost some files because of a bad disk - hardware problem. > > I do regular backups so I was not really worried, but I now see that I > have a problem with my backup strategy so I'd like to know how others > handle/prevent what happened to me. > > I backup files using rsync and I basically have 2 types of backups. > > My most important files are backed up every night. I do incremental > backups using:rsync -aqrlvtogS --ignore-errors --backup > I keep about 4 months of backups. So if a file is damaged, > missing or accidentally deleted, I can find a good file - even if, for > example I screwed up the file and only discovered the problem a few > days later. > > BUT, all the rest of my files - music, videos, pictures, etc are backed > up daily and weekly on 2 different physical drives using: > rsync -qrlvtogS --delete --ignore-errors > I use --delete to prevent accumulating garbage on my backup disks. > > So here's the problem: Because of a hardware problem, several files on > one of my disks were lost. As a result, the daily backup script > "thought" that those files should be deleted from the daily backup. > Unfortunately, I did not notice the problem. A few days later, those > same files were also deleted from the weekly backup. So they are lost. > I would consider an external backup that's cheap and not really limited in terms of space - glacier or something similar. Drop a monthly archive there without --delete and even if some garbage accumulates, it's not a big deal. It all really depends on the amount of data in question, if it's not insanely huge, you can simply buy some cheap drives and do the same thing. Tiered backups aren't anything new, it is best practice to have a set of fresh hot backups, like your dailies, a weekly or biweekly warm archive in case you need to pull out something older, and a cold archive that's essentially a big dump of ancient stuff on very cheap and very slow medium, used for emergencies. > > So on one hand, I need --delete to avoid keeping backups of old > garbage, but on the other hand, the --delete option does not know if I > deleted the file or if it's gone because of a hardware problem. > For this, I would run a seperate infrequent backup without --delete, and dump it on the cold storage, just in case. Another option, if you want to save space, would be to drop rsync and switch to something like backy2 or it's alternatives. > > > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Claws Mail 3.17.5 - KDE Plasma 5.18.5 - Kubuntu 20.04 > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: (BDS OFFTOPIC) Re: Venue for RMS
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 11:35 AM Omer Zak wrote: > Is he the same RMS who boycotted Israeli universities at 2011 happily > surrendering to demands of Palestinians - without even making a token > effort to ask if Israelis are willing to take over his trip's finances > so that Palestinians won't have to pay for his non-boycotting trip to > Israel and Palestine? > > If yes, I urge the TAU and HUJI people not to help him. > +1 there should be no room for hypocrisy. > > > On Wed, 2022-05-18 at 17:43 +0300, Julian Daich wrote: > > Hi, > > > > RMS is coming to Tel Aviv. I am receving him. He is looking for a > > place to give a prentation in a mayor university on Msy 31 st or > > June 1st. Is there here somebody from TAU or HUJI that can help to > > organize it? He will no chsrge for his talk. > > > > Please, contact me in private. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Julian > -- > Any legal limit to self defense means that there is no right for self > defense at all. This is because the aggressors would exploit those > legal limits to render their victims totally defenseless. > My own blog is at https://tddpirate.zak.co.il/ > > My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. > They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which > I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at https://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: multiple python versions
On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 12:51 PM Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I guess I don't completely understand the concept after all. If I setup > a virtual environment for 3.9.6, how would it "know" that modules are > installed in the 3.8 directory? As I wrote in my original post, without > a virtual environment, in 3.9.6 I get: > > >>> import scapy > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'scapy' > > but the module does exist in 3.8: > > sudo pip3 install scapy > Requirement already satisfied: scapy in > /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (2.4.4) > > > So how do I tell the 3.9.6 environment to look for modules in the 3.8 > directory? > You don't, that's the whole point of venv - you have a separate set of modules in each environment, specific to it's version. There's the site-packages argument of course, but it's far from being best-practice. > > > > > > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:41:41 -0400 > Dan Yasny wrote: > > > why reinstall? Keep your versions venvs in place and hop in/out > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 12:37 PM Shlomo Solomon > > wrote: > > > > > Omer Zak wrote: > > > > The answer to your prayers is pyenv. > > > > It allows you to install multiple Python versions in parallel, > > > > and for each version you can maintain several virtualenvs. > > > > > > Dan Yasny wrote: > > > > How about using virtualenv for alternative versions? > > > > > > > > > Yes, I know about pyenv and virtualenv, but wouldn't I have to > > > re-install modules for each version/environment? That's what I'm > > > trying to avoid. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Shlomo Solomon > > > http://the-solomons.net > > > Claws Mail 3.17.5 - KDE Plasma 5.18.5 - Kubuntu 20.04 > > > > > > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Claws Mail 3.17.5 - KDE Plasma 5.18.5 - Kubuntu 20.04 > ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: multiple python versions
why reinstall? Keep your versions venvs in place and hop in/out On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 12:37 PM Shlomo Solomon wrote: > Omer Zak wrote: > > The answer to your prayers is pyenv. > > It allows you to install multiple Python versions in parallel, and for > > each version you can maintain several virtualenvs. > > Dan Yasny wrote: > > How about using virtualenv for alternative versions? > > > Yes, I know about pyenv and virtualenv, but wouldn't I have to > re-install modules for each version/environment? That's what I'm trying > to avoid. > > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Claws Mail 3.17.5 - KDE Plasma 5.18.5 - Kubuntu 20.04 > ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: multiple python versions
How about using virtualenv for alternative versions? On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 12:05 PM Shlomo Solomon wrote: > The default Kubuntu installation is 3.8.10 and I do not want to > uninstall it since that could potentially "break" something. > > But for various reasons (not relevant to this discussion), I also have > 3.9.6 installed. > > I can run either one of them, but in some cases, imports of modules > that work in 3.8.10 don't work in 3.9.6. > >>> import scapy > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'scapy' > > Although I don't want to re-install all modules, I "experimented" and > got: > > sudo pip3 install scapy > Requirement already satisfied: scapy in > /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (2.4.4) > > So even if I was willing to re-install everything, it would not work > since the modules are already installed, but 3.9.6 does not "look" for > them in the 3.8 directory. > > I know I can use venv to set up virtual environments for different > versions, but although I haven't tried it, I don't see how that would > solve the problem. > > Any ideas would be appreciated. > > > > > > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Claws Mail 3.17.5 - KDE Plasma 5.18.5 - Kubuntu 20.04 > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: oVirt over CentOS or ovirt-node
Quite a bit, and afaik some of the developers are on this list too On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 10:08 AM, Shay Goverwrote: > > On Jan 2, 2018 15:23, "Rabin Yasharzadehe" wrote: > >> Hi >> >> is any one here got any experience with ovirt on any of this host os ? >> >> thanks in advance. >> >> >> >> -- >> Rabin >> >> ___ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Advice on lightweight laptops for Linux (of course)
The point here is that they sacrifice a lot of the think* series sturdiness for the lack of weight and thickness. And you can't upgrade the thing, it's all a single block you can't take apart. There's also a problem with later kernels getting mces and panics on overheating because of a bug in the way the kernel manages pstates - dynamic turbo mode or whatever intel call it. The only way around I found is to disable pstates altogether. On Dec 27, 2016 1:32 PM, "Michael Shiloh" <michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Dan for your perspective. I'm actually going to teaching in Abu > Dhabi next September so I'm really glad you brought that up. > > In general, I've been hearing good things about the current model (4th > generation) which I believe came out earlier this year, so I assume > your model is something prior. Is that correct? On the other hand, the > current model has only been around for a year, so fewer opportunities > to fail. > > Michael > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Dan Yasny <dya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been carrying an X1 around for a couple of years now. The battery > life > > is great, Fedora support is great, weight and convenience is quite good, > > except the keyboard is a bit on the weird side when it comes to the > function > > keys and the missing insert key, but I've learned to live with that. > > > > The downside however is the reliability. In this time I've had the screen > > replaced, the keyboard replaced and the motherboard/cpu/ram/etc (it's > all a > > single block) replaced. Each time it takes a week at the lab (I don't > have > > the onsite warranty, and I am in Canada, so YMMV). So if you intend to > use > > it somewhere where warranty isn't available, or if you intend to use it > > longer than the warranty period - stay away. It's expensive enough to be > > expected to last, but it's quite flimsy. > > > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Michael Shiloh > > <michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Thanks Eli, > >> > >> What kind of laptop do you use? > >> > >> Michael > >> > >> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 2:30 PM, E.S. Rosenberg > >> <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote: > >> > Ever since getting my current laptop that weighs ~1.5kg I said I will > >> > never get anything heavier again, it's something you can't return > >> > from. > >> > > >> > Thin and light devices (like the X1 and the T460S) tend to not be very > >> > upgradeable, it's a price you pay for thin & light... the SSD is most > >> > likely upgradeable on any model you choose because so far soldered on > >> > SSDs aren't all that common > >> > > >> > The videos on youtube clearly show that the T460S has at least one > >> > SODIMM slot, the X1 does not seem to have it. > >> > > >> > Regards, > >> > Eliyahu - אליהו > >> > > >> > 2016-12-26 23:37 GMT+02:00 Michael Shiloh < > michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com>: > >> >> Hello everyone, > >> >> > >> >> I hope everyone is enjoying a very happy Chanukah. > >> >> > >> >> You might recall about a year ago I raised the question of a powerful > >> >> laptop for Linux. I settled on a Thinkpad W541 and I am thrilled with > >> >> it ... except for the weight. > >> >> > >> >> As I travel more and don't need the power of the W541 all the time, > >> >> I'm thinking of a lightweight laptop for daily use. > >> >> > >> >> It's hard for me to consider anything but Thinkpads: I love the > >> >> TrackPoint, the keyboard, the solid feel of the devices, etc. Given > >> >> that, the top two contenders are the X1 Carbon and the T460S. > >> >> > >> >> The X1 is about 2.6 pounds and more expensive than the T460S which > >> >> weighs about 3 pounds. > >> >> > >> >> Another big difference is whether the RAM and/or SSD can be upgraded > >> >> on the X1 (I've seen equally strong claims that they can and can > not). > >> >> Some conversations insist they are soldered in, other say that > perhaps > >> >> the RAM can be upgraded by the user but is a non-standard form factor > >> >> that can only be purchased from Lenovo. > >> >> > >> >> I think for the extra .4 pounds I'm willing to go with the better > >> >> price of the T460S, especially if upgrading RAM and SSD is not > >> >> possible on the X1 (I usually purchase from Lenovo with less storage > >> >> and upgrade on my own). > >> >> > >> >> Any thoughts or advice? > >> >> > >> >> ___ > >> >> Linux-il mailing list > >> >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > >> >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >> > >> ___ > >> Linux-il mailing list > >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > > > > ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Advice on lightweight laptops for Linux (of course)
I've been carrying an X1 around for a couple of years now. The battery life is great, Fedora support is great, weight and convenience is quite good, except the keyboard is a bit on the weird side when it comes to the function keys and the missing insert key, but I've learned to live with that. The downside however is the reliability. In this time I've had the screen replaced, the keyboard replaced and the motherboard/cpu/ram/etc (it's all a single block) replaced. Each time it takes a week at the lab (I don't have the onsite warranty, and I am in Canada, so YMMV). So if you intend to use it somewhere where warranty isn't available, or if you intend to use it longer than the warranty period - stay away. It's expensive enough to be expected to last, but it's quite flimsy. On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Michael Shilohwrote: > Thanks Eli, > > What kind of laptop do you use? > > Michael > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 2:30 PM, E.S. Rosenberg > wrote: > > Ever since getting my current laptop that weighs ~1.5kg I said I will > > never get anything heavier again, it's something you can't return > > from. > > > > Thin and light devices (like the X1 and the T460S) tend to not be very > > upgradeable, it's a price you pay for thin & light... the SSD is most > > likely upgradeable on any model you choose because so far soldered on > > SSDs aren't all that common > > > > The videos on youtube clearly show that the T460S has at least one > > SODIMM slot, the X1 does not seem to have it. > > > > Regards, > > Eliyahu - אליהו > > > > 2016-12-26 23:37 GMT+02:00 Michael Shiloh : > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> I hope everyone is enjoying a very happy Chanukah. > >> > >> You might recall about a year ago I raised the question of a powerful > >> laptop for Linux. I settled on a Thinkpad W541 and I am thrilled with > >> it ... except for the weight. > >> > >> As I travel more and don't need the power of the W541 all the time, > >> I'm thinking of a lightweight laptop for daily use. > >> > >> It's hard for me to consider anything but Thinkpads: I love the > >> TrackPoint, the keyboard, the solid feel of the devices, etc. Given > >> that, the top two contenders are the X1 Carbon and the T460S. > >> > >> The X1 is about 2.6 pounds and more expensive than the T460S which > >> weighs about 3 pounds. > >> > >> Another big difference is whether the RAM and/or SSD can be upgraded > >> on the X1 (I've seen equally strong claims that they can and can not). > >> Some conversations insist they are soldered in, other say that perhaps > >> the RAM can be upgraded by the user but is a non-standard form factor > >> that can only be purchased from Lenovo. > >> > >> I think for the extra .4 pounds I'm willing to go with the better > >> price of the T460S, especially if upgrading RAM and SSD is not > >> possible on the X1 (I usually purchase from Lenovo with less storage > >> and upgrade on my own). > >> > >> Any thoughts or advice? > >> > >> ___ > >> Linux-il mailing list > >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: LPI Certification
I took LPI 1 and 2, and CompTIA L+ back in 2007-2008, it wasn't really worth much and the level was basic. If you want a meaningful certification, aim for RHCE and the courses that compose the RHCA On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote: Hi all, I am thinking of getting an LPI certification [1]. Wanted your 2 cents about it: Is it worth it? Which is the best to start with? and so on... Thanks, Amichai [1] https://www.lpi.org/ ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: LPI Certification
It's more a matter of prestige than anything else. LPI is about knowing trivia, RH** is about knowing how to do real work. On Jun 10, 2015 9:49 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote: Have you revisited the certifications recently? I'll look into RHCE and RHCA too. I'd like to get certified for something valid in Europe and the US as well as in Israel to do freelance jobs. Thanks! 2015-06-10 16:37 GMT+03:00 Dan Yasny dya...@gmail.com: I took LPI 1 and 2, and CompTIA L+ back in 2007-2008, it wasn't really worth much and the level was basic. If you want a meaningful certification, aim for RHCE and the courses that compose the RHCA On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote: Hi all, I am thinking of getting an LPI certification [1]. Wanted your 2 cents about it: Is it worth it? Which is the best to start with? and so on... Thanks, Amichai [1] https://www.lpi.org/ ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: LPI Certification
The problem with trivia based certification is that it's so easy to get without actually knowing anything. Download braindumps, go over them a few dozen times, and you can pass any exam that is based on standard questions. In Europe and the US, high-end IT shops know this full well, and they would only look at certifications that are more implementational than trivial, or at actual experience, especially because there's a huge, dirt-cheap workforce out there with MCSEs and CCNAs, and no real world experience. None of those guys would pass an RHCE exam, because there, you'd have to actually sit down in front of a machine and do real actions, instead of memorizing braindumps and redumping them. So if the goal is to find a job in high-end IT companies, banks and so on, you have to keep in mind that a trivia based cert with no experience to back it up will take you nowhere. On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Geoffrey Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: I think you should consider your audience more than yourself. If you are an employee ask your boss to pay for it. If they refuse ask them what they will pay for. If they won't pay for anything, ask them what certifications would make you more valuable to them if you got them at your own expense. If you are a contractor/consultant, ask your clients. If you work through an agency or marketing person, ask them what would get you better jobs. My guess is that Microsoft and Cisco certifications will be worth more as it shows that you know how to play well with others and (almost) no one has a 100% linux shop. Geoff. On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:53 PM Dan Yasny dya...@gmail.com wrote: It's more a matter of prestige than anything else. LPI is about knowing trivia, RH** is about knowing how to do real work. On Jun 10, 2015 9:49 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote: Have you revisited the certifications recently? I'll look into RHCE and RHCA too. I'd like to get certified for something valid in Europe and the US as well as in Israel to do freelance jobs. Thanks! 2015-06-10 16:37 GMT+03:00 Dan Yasny dya...@gmail.com: I took LPI 1 and 2, and CompTIA L+ back in 2007-2008, it wasn't really worth much and the level was basic. If you want a meaningful certification, aim for RHCE and the courses that compose the RHCA On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote: Hi all, I am thinking of getting an LPI certification [1]. Wanted your 2 cents about it: Is it worth it? Which is the best to start with? and so on... Thanks, Amichai [1] https://www.lpi.org/ ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Geoffrey Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ Jerusalem Israel ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: [Call-for-Action] Indigogo Campaign for Putting Emma Watson Getting Interviewed for a Tech Job under CC-by
This is the kind of spam that kills an otherwise good and useful mailing list and community. On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, you can find the Indiegogo campaign here: * https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/emma-watson-tech-interview-story-make-ccby/x/8136150 * https://twitter.com/shlomif/status/486970414610923520 * https://www.facebook.com/shlomi.fish/posts/10152143825556981 * https://plus.google.com/+ShlomiFish/posts/XSgj2fgYaZ1 Reading from the links: Not only about that, but about allowing me to create such future artworks and essays, while becoming financially independent. I'm OK with getting a part time job, but I refuse to be a wage slave (and it's mentioned in the link). Please donate even if it's just a dollar or two, and please help spread the word, if you found my stories, aphorisms, articles and essays (including the blog/Twitter/G+/Facebook/Reddit/etc. posts) of inspiration and enlightenment. I want proof that there are good people in the world. Best regards, -- Shlomi Fish P.S: incidentally, some of the people who most needed to read the original screenplay (= the wage slaves) did not due to lack of time , even though it was not long. -- -- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris helps the gods that help themselves. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: [Call-for-Action] Indigogo Campaign for Putting Emma Watson Getting Interviewed for a Tech Job under CC-by
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com wrote: 1. What makes you feel this is spam? I don't see it as unoslicited bulk E-mail. Any email sent to a list is bulk. And I didn't, in any way, solicit this Emma Watson bs, nor your pleas for funding or support. The very least you could do, out of common courtesy (I really hope you know what that is) is mark your email as offtopic, you know, like everyone in every other LUG does, with the [OT] marker in the subject? This way I, and anyone else not interested in anything but the technology this list is about, can filter it out, and let you keep spamming those who are for some reason interested. 2. What makes you feel it kills a good and useful mailing list? As soon as a list(/community/forum/etc) turns into an offtopic promoting medium, the useful and productive community members leave. I've managed enough forums to see that happen. Vague complaints are vague. ;-) Nothing is vague here. This is off topic, your stories aren't interesting, aren't funny and would not belong in a LUG, even if they were. - For the record, I tolerate things that are of much lower SNR here like job offers for which hardly anyone here is qualified or is willing to apply, and this is on topic here despite (or even due to) being fiction. Job offers at least, are related to the tech that this list is there to discuss. I'm not saying everything has to be about technology, but what you are posting is utterly elsewhere. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish P.S: next time - please trim your reply. -- -- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris helps the gods that help themselves. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Canada's Start-up Visa
Amazing, all this, while other people have to wait for years and years for the same citizenship On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/23/2013 6:07 AM, Tom Balazs wrote: Q: What is the minimum investment that I would need to apply for a start-up visa? A: You must secure a minimum investment of $200,000 if the investment comes from a designated Canadian venture capital fund. You must secure a minimum investment of $75,000 if the investment comes from a designated Canadian angel investor group. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/**immigrate/business/start-up/**index.asphttp://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/start-up/index.asp Or if it turns out that you were born in Canada, or have a relative that was born in Canada, you are a Canadian citizen. I was born in Canada, my parents were dual US/Canadian citizens. I moved to the US when I was 5, and never went back, so I lost my citizenship. About two years ago, the law was changed, and I am now a Canadian citizen, so is my wife, my children (who have never been to Canada), and their spouses and their children*. I think it goes farther than that. In order to claim your free citizenship, you fill out a form and send them $75, which gets you a citizen's ID card (similar to a tehudat zehut). Once you have one of those you can apply for a passport. Since the citizenship was bestowed upon you, and not requested it does not affect your other (e.g. US or Israeli citizenship) you may have, nor does it incur any tax liability. Geoff. * My oldest son is the only one who is married and it turns out his wife's father was born in Canada, so he would also be a citizen, and so would his children because his wife is now a citizen. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 __**_ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/**mailman/listinfo/linux-ilhttp://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Finally - A RMS talk in Tel-Aviv. Including details
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Orr Dunkelman orr.dunkel...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com To be more general, it is unheard of for a prospective guest to set political conditions for his hosts. Aside of any other aspects, the man is a boor, and should have been ignored. I'm not sure that's true. Haven't musicians and other performers used their platform as a way to express agreement or disagreement with particular political positions for ages? Michael It is very rare in computer science to mix politics and work. Actually, this is true for most exact sciences. As for RMS, who is an advocate of freedom of rights, he has just agreed to accept money (travel costs) in exchange for giving away his freedom of speech. Tz'e Wolmad... /me don't see what the argument is about. I'll simply vote against RMS's and his politically inclined friends bs with my feet by _not_ going. End of story -- Orr Dunkelman, orr.dunkel...@gmail.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Regards, Dan Yasny ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Computer recommendation for Linux server.
any brandname machine with the right specs will do. a word of warning though - don't hope to scale the specs, purchase the max set of hardware you'll need right away - upgrades can be more expensive than the machine itself. If you expect to need more than a single server, maybe a beefy machine that can carry multiple VMs would be preferable. 2011/6/16 Josh Roden joshro...@gmail.com: Hi Everyone, This is my new address (was j...@hadassah.ac.il). I searched the archives and only found a few answers to the same request that I made in 2009. I would appreciate any updated suggestions. The server needs a good RAID 5 card and, if possible, a dual and redundant power supply. The budget is up to 10,000 shekels. The computer should be able to serve 80 - 100 client computers. Thanks, Josh ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: [job] C++ development in a Linux environment
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com wrote: We're looking for an excellent[1] C++ developer, and an excellent JavaScript front end developer. Requirements: Language agnostic, know-how, self-managed. Located near the Bursa, smart folks, competitive salary, modern hardware and a cake every afternoon. For additional details feel free to email me. [1] I wonder if there's a company who's advertising jobs mediocre developers needed. I'm on a lookout for beginner developers/QA wanted - wife is finishing her studies very soon ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:06 PM, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: you are stepping into never-never land ;) iostat -x -k 1 is your friend - just make sure you open a very wide terminal in which to look at it. disks are notoriously slow, regardless of error cases. it is enough if an applications perform a lot of random I/O - to make them work very slow. i'd refer you to the slides of the linux I/O lecture, at: http://haifux.org/lectures/254/alice_and_bob_in_io_land/ read them through. there are also some links to pages that discuss disk I/O tweaking. as for the elevator - you could try using the deadline elevator and see if this gives you any remedy. if you eventually decide that it is indeed disk I/O that slows you down, and if you have a lot of money to spend - you could consider buying an enterprise-grade SSD (e.g. from fusion I/O or from OCZ - although for your use-case, some of the cheaper SSDs will do) and use it instead of the hard disks. they only cost thousands of dollars for a 600GB SSD ;) Would probably be cheaper to get a bunch of SATAs into a raid array - spindle count matters after all. My home machine is not too new, but it definitely took wing after I replaced one large SATA disk with 6 smaller ones in a raid5 (I'm not risky enough for raid0) --guy On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 15:29 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: I have a PC with powerful processor, lots of RAM and SATA hard disk. Nevertheless I noticed that sometimes applications (evolution E-mail software and Firefox[iceweasel] Web browser) have the sluggish feel of a busy system (command line response time remains crisp, however, because the processor is 4x2 core one [4 cores, each multithreads as 2]). I run the gnome-system-monitor all the time. I notice that even when those applications feel sluggish, only one or at most two CPUs have high utilization, and there is plenty of free RAM (no swap space is used at all). Disk I/O is not monitored by gnome-system-monitor. So I suspect that the system is slowed down by disk I/O. I would like to eliminate it as a possible cause for the applications' sluggish feel. I ran smartctl tests on the hard disk, and they gave it clean bill of health. Therefore I/O error recovery should not be the reason for performance degradation. I am asking Collective Wisdom for advice about how to do: 1. Monitoring disk I/O load (counting I/O requests is not sufficient, as each request takes different time to complete due for example to disk head seeks or platter rotation time). 2. Disk scheduler fine-tuning possibilities to optimize disk I/O handling. 3. If smartctl is not sufficient to ensure that no I/O error overhead is incurred, how to better assess the hard disk's health? Thanks, --- Omer ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:41 PM, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 16:19 +0300, Dima (Dan) Yasny wrote: On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:06 PM, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: you are stepping into never-never land ;) iostat -x -k 1 is your friend - just make sure you open a very wide terminal in which to look at it. disks are notoriously slow, regardless of error cases. it is enough if an applications perform a lot of random I/O - to make them work very slow. i'd refer you to the slides of the linux I/O lecture, at: http://haifux.org/lectures/254/alice_and_bob_in_io_land/ read them through. there are also some links to pages that discuss disk I/O tweaking. as for the elevator - you could try using the deadline elevator and see if this gives you any remedy. if you eventually decide that it is indeed disk I/O that slows you down, and if you have a lot of money to spend - you could consider buying an enterprise-grade SSD (e.g. from fusion I/O or from OCZ - although for your use-case, some of the cheaper SSDs will do) and use it instead of the hard disks. they only cost thousands of dollars for a 600GB SSD ;) Would probably be cheaper to get a bunch of SATAs into a raid array - spindle count matters after all. My home machine is not too new, but it definitely took wing after I replaced one large SATA disk with 6 smaller ones in a raid5 (I'm not risky enough for raid0) you are, of-course, quite right. provided that a hardware RAID controller is being used. I've seen performance increases even using fakeraid (the feared intel matrix 8.x in my machine) and mdadm. Especially in a machine that has a UPS (to step in instead of a BBU) and, like mentioned above - lots of crunchpower --guy --guy On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 15:29 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: I have a PC with powerful processor, lots of RAM and SATA hard disk. Nevertheless I noticed that sometimes applications (evolution E-mail software and Firefox[iceweasel] Web browser) have the sluggish feel of a busy system (command line response time remains crisp, however, because the processor is 4x2 core one [4 cores, each multithreads as 2]). I run the gnome-system-monitor all the time. I notice that even when those applications feel sluggish, only one or at most two CPUs have high utilization, and there is plenty of free RAM (no swap space is used at all). Disk I/O is not monitored by gnome-system-monitor. So I suspect that the system is slowed down by disk I/O. I would like to eliminate it as a possible cause for the applications' sluggish feel. I ran smartctl tests on the hard disk, and they gave it clean bill of health. Therefore I/O error recovery should not be the reason for performance degradation. I am asking Collective Wisdom for advice about how to do: 1. Monitoring disk I/O load (counting I/O requests is not sufficient, as each request takes different time to complete due for example to disk head seeks or platter rotation time). 2. Disk scheduler fine-tuning possibilities to optimize disk I/O handling. 3. If smartctl is not sufficient to ensure that no I/O error overhead is incurred, how to better assess the hard disk's health? Thanks, --- Omer ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Looking for KVM consultant
Being in .il, who can help with Red Hat's technologies better than Matrix? And yes, 5.4 is old, kvm works much better in 5.6, and even better in 6 2011/4/3 Tom Rosenfeld trosenf...@gmail.com: Hi guys, We are looking for help setting up KVM in our production environment. We have been using Vserver, but want to move to KVM which has many more tools for management. Our initial tests under CentOS 5.4 have not been good. The KVM guests often hang when they are under load. Any recommendations? Thanks, Tom Rosenfeld Cloud Optimization Engineer tom.rosenf...@exlibrisgroup.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: mail issues questions
I've had problems sending to yahoo, until I set up DKIM. Never tried hotmail, though none of the mailbox holders ever complained, so I guess it's fine there. Can you post a smtp transcript, done manually? 2011/2/28 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com Hi, There used to be a time that in order to setup a mail server, all you had to do is the mail server itself, MX records, PTR and you're done. These days you'll need to also have SPF and DKIM. I did all the things for a mail server for my business, tested few emails to gmail, walla and other places, and I got it correctly without going to spam. Yahoo and Hotmail is another story: Yahoo moves the mail I send to SPAM while in Hotmail the email simply doesn't show up anywhere. I looked at the logs (I'm using postfix) and I don't see any error message at all. Here's an example: Feb 28 02:02:03 mail postfix/smtp[5758]: 256081900B2: to= heuni...@yahoo.com, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=1.6, delays=0.04/0.01/0.01/1.6, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok, id=08689-09, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as B79C11900C2) Feb 28 02:02:03 mail postfix/smtpd[5764]: disconnect from mail.hetzbiz.info[127.0.0.1] Feb 28 02:02:03 mail postfix/qmgr[12019]: 256081900B2: removed Feb 28 02:02:03 mail postfix/qmgr[12019]: B79C11900C2: from= h...@hetzbiz.info, size=1508, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 28 02:02:05 mail postfix/smtp[5765]: B79C11900C2: to= heuni...@yahoo.com, relay=g.mx.mail.yahoo.com[98.137.54.238]:25, delay=2.2, delays=0.03/0.01/0.75/1.4, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 ok dirdel) Same for hotmail, Code 250 (which means it send OK). I tried to contact Hotmail support, only to find some that I need to register to their Sender ID (did it, successfully) and the SPAM protection program (which I failed since I don't have any opt out - go tell them that all the customers in this business are paying, and if someone leaves, he won't get any service/emails, I already replied that to them). Any tips what can be done about these 2? (hotmail and yahoo) Thanks, Hetz -- *חץ בן חמו חץ-ביז (הוסטינג) *השכרה ואירוח של שרתים פיזיים השכרת שרתים וירטואליים מקצועיים וגדולים במחירים *קטנים* בקרו באתרנו בכתובת hetz.biz http://www.hetz.biz/ ובבלוג שלנו: blog.hetz.biz טלפוןן: 078113/4/5, אימייל: sa...@hetz.biz מסנג'ר: sa...@hetz.biz - סקייפ: heunique ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: mail issues questions
DKIM is a method of publishing a public key in a txt DNS record, with which the subject line of every email sent, is signed. When yahoo MTA's receive an email, they don't just check the PTR record, they also check the subject line signature, with the public key available in the DNS records. If the signatures match - email goes through, otherwise it's dropped. And as for SPF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote: Yahoo and Hotmail are very important. Why did you set up SPF and DKIM? what are they anyway? try removing SPF and DKIM for your domain and then send again. By the way, I'm using Google Apps. You might want to consider Google Apps (free account) instead of setting up your own mail server. Uri Even-Chen Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559 E-mail: u...@speedy.net Website: http://www.speedy.net/ 2011/2/28 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com: If it was only for me, I could do that, but what would you tell a paying customer? here's a mail box, but you cannot send emails to Yahoo and Hotmail? :) Hetz On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: On Monday, 28 בFebruary 2011 02:34:32 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Any tips what can be done about these 2? (hotmail and yahoo) Ignore them. They are dead beef... -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge -- חץ בן חמו חץ-ביז (הוסטינג) השכרה ואירוח של שרתים פיזיים השכרת שרתים וירטואליים מקצועיים וגדולים במחירים קטנים בקרו באתרנו בכתובת hetz.biz ובבלוג שלנו: blog.hetz.biz טלפוןן: 078113/4/5, אימייל: sa...@hetz.biz מסנג'ר: sa...@hetz.biz - סקייפ: heunique ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: weird network issue
google seems to find quite a lot of hits for the error, most of them sum up to misconfigured ETH http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/server-ifup-rtnetlink-answers-network-is-unreachable-problem-340915/ http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/server-ifup-rtnetlink-answers-network-is-unreachable-problem-340915/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=155299 2011/2/14 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com Hi, I'm getting some really weird error, even though the network on the machine works well. When I'm doing: service network restart or ifup eth0, I'm getting a message: RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable. It is reachable. route's output is perfectly ok, the machine can access the net and I can access it from outside. DNS works, ping works etc.. Looking at /var/log/messages, all I see is: Feb 14 13:23:00 testing23 kernel: eth0: intr type 2, mode 0, 1 vectors allocated Feb 14 13:23:00 testing23 kernel: eth0: NIC Link is Up 1 Mbps Here is my ifcfg-eth0 (it's a virtual machine, so the check_link stuff is what vmware added) DEVICE=eth0 ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no BOOTPROTO=none NETMASK=255.255.255.224 IPADDR=82.XXX.XXX.203 PEERDNS=no check_link_down() { return 1; } HWADDR=00:50:56:a3:00:18 GATEWAY=82.XXX.XXX.193 TYPE=Ethernet Any suggestions? Thanks, Hetz ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: weird network issue
If you remove the check link parts, do you keep seeing the issue? Would also be nice to try with a different NIC type (e1000 or virtio) 2011/2/14 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com Hi Omer, On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: Hello Hetz, 1. Does the virtual machine have additional network cards (eth1, eth2, etc.)? If yes, you may be accessing the network via those cards rather than via eth0. (Statement about proper routing withstanding.) Nada. eth0, lo - nothing more. 2. Which Linux distribution is running in the virtual machine? Centos 5.5 64 bit + updates. Google search (rtnetlink answers network is unreachable) yielded the following possibilities: - Misconfigured IP address in firewall script. No new IP addresses were added. Default firewall configuration. - Network card does not exist (as far as the virtual machine is concerned). exists, I'm ssh'ed to this machine as I write this mail :) - Misconfigured network card. I posted the configuration here. Looks OK to me. Two of the URLs I got from the above Google search: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/server-ifup-rtnetlink-answers-network-is-unreachable-problem-340915/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=155299 Looked at both of them. Didn't see anything special which could help. Hetz ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Advice on where and what to study
Hi all, I'm looking for some advice on which courses and where to take, in the Central area. What I'm looking at is getting some more formal and proper programming background, something around Intro to C - Advanced C - intro to C++ - Advanced C++ - Linux specifics maybe... I tend to mostly work with Python, but I keep running into dead ends because I lack proper education more and more recently I am aware of proper BSc/BA programs, but I'd like to do this in under a year overall, and stay away from the extra math/physics/etc courses. Background - 15 years sysadmin, bash, python, powershell scripting Highschool pascal, prolog, magic, assembly etc - long forgotten mostly So if anyone is aware of a college of institution that provides such courses, preferrably as a set up program, I'll be very happy to hear about it Cheers, D. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Advice on where and what to study
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: You could try looking at the open university, but the question is what do you expect to get out of these courses. I don't get anything out of those I'm afraid - books I can get and read on my own, but I'm looking for something more structured, and with more exercise... University courses I know don't teach you much about actual programming. I would take at least one course about software engineering, preferably both functional and object oriented, including uml and testing methodologies. Also an object oriented course with emphasis on object oriented methodologies and design. These have proven more invaluable to me than actual programing courses. Computer structure and operating systems have also been very good, but you have to read between the lines, as sometimes the interesting part of the syllabus is hiding behind lecturers who are not even aware of it (initial course in lisp in tau for example) Computer structure you say? I'll keep that in mind. In general, I'd like to get a hold of at least a list of courses to look for and their ordering. I want to get some proper studies done because I've been touching some topics here and there, and ended up at a point where I can write a heavy recursive function in C or Python, but reading a bit of code where instead of int I see unsigned int puzzles me. Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for some advice on which courses and where to take, in the Central area. What I'm looking at is getting some more formal and proper programming background, something around Intro to C - Advanced C - intro to C++ - Advanced C++ - Linux specifics maybe... I tend to mostly work with Python, but I keep running into dead ends because I lack proper education more and more recently I am aware of proper BSc/BA programs, but I'd like to do this in under a year overall, and stay away from the extra math/physics/etc courses. Background - 15 years sysadmin, bash, python, powershell scripting Highschool pascal, prolog, magic, assembly etc - long forgotten mostly So if anyone is aware of a college of institution that provides such courses, preferrably as a set up program, I'll be very happy to hear about it Cheers, D. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: OT: Suggestion for good KVM Over IP?
The native ones are quite OK nowadays - Dell DRAC/IBM IMM/HP iLO... Anything Avocent should be OK as well 2010/11/29 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com: Hi, I was wondering if someone could recommend a good KVM switch which I can connect to servers and control them through the net. I have seen few KVM's which gave some crappy display results, others which have some issues that when you press a key, it repeats it dozen times (try to type an IP like that). Any suggestions? Thanks, Hetz -- חץ בן חמו חץ-ביז (הוסטינג) השכרה ואירוח של שרתים פיזיים השכרת שרתים וירטואליים מקצועיים וגדולים במחירים קטנים בקרו באתרנו בכתובת hetz.biz ובבלוג שלנו: blog.hetz.biz טלפוןן: 078113/4/5, אימייל: sa...@hetz.biz מסנג'ר: sa...@hetz.biz - סקייפ: heunique ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: OT: Suggestion for good KVM Over IP?
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, DRAC/IMM/iLO are great - and I have them on my servers. But I need the KVM for clients who want to co-locate there servers to my hosting, and they don't have those solutions. Hetz Then look at Avocent's line of products - IMM/RSA/DRAC are an Avocent rebrand really, and I suspect iLO has a lot from there as well BTW, If you sell fat VPS, based on KVM for example, you can simply provide VNC access to the VMs. 2010/11/29 Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com The native ones are quite OK nowadays - Dell DRAC/IBM IMM/HP iLO... Anything Avocent should be OK as well 2010/11/29 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com: Hi, I was wondering if someone could recommend a good KVM switch which I can connect to servers and control them through the net. I have seen few KVM's which gave some crappy display results, others which have some issues that when you press a key, it repeats it dozen times (try to type an IP like that). Any suggestions? Thanks, Hetz -- חץ בן חמו חץ-ביז (הוסטינג) השכרה ואירוח של שרתים פיזיים השכרת שרתים וירטואליים מקצועיים וגדולים במחירים קטנים בקרו באתרנו בכתובת hetz.biz ובבלוג שלנו: blog.hetz.biz טלפוןן: 078113/4/5, אימייל: sa...@hetz.biz מסנג'ר: sa...@hetz.biz - סקייפ: heunique ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- חץ בן חמו חץ-ביז (הוסטינג) השכרה ואירוח של שרתים פיזיים השכרת שרתים וירטואליים מקצועיים וגדולים במחירים קטנים בקרו באתרנו בכתובת hetz.biz ובבלוג שלנו: blog.hetz.biz טלפוןן: 078113/4/5, אימייל: sa...@hetz.biz מסנג'ר: sa...@hetz.biz - סקייפ: heunique ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: [JOB OFFER] Software Engineer - Systems Management at redhat
2010/11/4 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com You might want to re-check the link, it talks about working at US :) that's why he said it is _also_ available in Raanana Hetz 2010/11/4 Ohad Levy ohadl...@gmail.com Hi, This position is also available at our Ra'anana office For more details - https://careers.redhat.com/ext/detail?redhat6323 Thanks, Ohad ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- *חץ בן חמו חץ-ביז (הוסטינג) *השכרה ואירוח של שרתים פיזיים השכרת שרתים וירטואליים מקצועיים וגדולים במחירים *קטנים* בקרו באתרנו בכתובת hetz.biz http://www.hetz.biz/ ובבלוג שלנו: blog.hetz.biz טלפוןן: 078113/4/5, אימייל: sa...@hetz.biz מסנג'ר: sa...@hetz.biz - סקייפ: heunique ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Web based file exchange portal
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote: how about this one: http://www.knowledgetree.com/ .::. This is hardly free or OSS Amichai Rotman Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] .::. 2010/9/2 Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2010 11:24:51 Dima (Dan) Yasny wrote: 2010/9/2 Shahar Dag d...@cs.technion.ac.il Hi What about SVN over apache? That would provide versioning, but large file support would be pretty lame. All I need is a centralised place to which users from different offices can upload files, assign permissions for other users from other offices, so that the others can download those files from there. Something like rapidshare, but with access control, or like dropbox, but without the file sync abilities (which are nice, but quite redundant in my case) Maybe try http://owncloud.org/ . Regards, Shlomi Fish Wouldn't this be a bit of an overkill? This is a large collaboration portal with a huge feature set, not a webexchanger -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Optimising Code for Speed - http://shlom.in/optimise God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Web based file exchange portal
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote: hmm You are right... It answers all the rest requirements though... I'll take another look! Thanks, all I want for the moment is a nice looking web frontend to vsftpd (the user GUI more important than the admin GUI for me) Even if the userbase is local, with no LDAP support, I could find a way to sync it to AD using a script. .::. Amichai Rotman Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] .::. 2010/9/8 Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.ilwrote: how about this one: http://www.knowledgetree.com/ .::. This is hardly free or OSS Amichai Rotman Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] .::. 2010/9/2 Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.ilwrote: On Thursday 02 September 2010 11:24:51 Dima (Dan) Yasny wrote: 2010/9/2 Shahar Dag d...@cs.technion.ac.il Hi What about SVN over apache? That would provide versioning, but large file support would be pretty lame. All I need is a centralised place to which users from different offices can upload files, assign permissions for other users from other offices, so that the others can download those files from there. Something like rapidshare, but with access control, or like dropbox, but without the file sync abilities (which are nice, but quite redundant in my case) Maybe try http://owncloud.org/ . Regards, Shlomi Fish Wouldn't this be a bit of an overkill? This is a large collaboration portal with a huge feature set, not a webexchanger -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Optimising Code for Speed - http://shlom.in/optimise God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Web based file exchange portal
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote: This might be a bit of an overkill - but it is free: http://linuxappfinder.com/package/zcs Yeah, we use it a lot, definitely overkill for 'lftp for dummies' :) .::. Amichai Rotman Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] .::. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:51, Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.ilwrote: hmm You are right... It answers all the rest requirements though... I'll take another look! Thanks, all I want for the moment is a nice looking web frontend to vsftpd (the user GUI more important than the admin GUI for me) Even if the userbase is local, with no LDAP support, I could find a way to sync it to AD using a script. .::. Amichai Rotman Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] .::. 2010/9/8 Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.ilwrote: how about this one: http://www.knowledgetree.com/ .::. This is hardly free or OSS Amichai Rotman Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] .::. 2010/9/2 Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.ilwrote: On Thursday 02 September 2010 11:24:51 Dima (Dan) Yasny wrote: 2010/9/2 Shahar Dag d...@cs.technion.ac.il Hi What about SVN over apache? That would provide versioning, but large file support would be pretty lame. All I need is a centralised place to which users from different offices can upload files, assign permissions for other users from other offices, so that the others can download those files from there. Something like rapidshare, but with access control, or like dropbox, but without the file sync abilities (which are nice, but quite redundant in my case) Maybe try http://owncloud.org/ . Regards, Shlomi Fish Wouldn't this be a bit of an overkill? This is a large collaboration portal with a huge feature set, not a webexchanger -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Optimising Code for Speed - http://shlom.in/optimise God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Web based file exchange portal
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il wrote: how about this: http://2storypdx.posterous.com/web-based-file-share-part-i Haven't read it past the Goal part yeah, looks like what I'm facing, I wonder if this ever became tangible, r stayed in blueprint. Reading on... .::. Amichai Rotman Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] .::. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:32, Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.ilwrote: This might be a bit of an overkill - but it is free: http://linuxappfinder.com/package/zcs Yeah, we use it a lot, definitely overkill for 'lftp for dummies' :) .::. Amichai Rotman Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] .::. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:51, Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.ilwrote: hmm You are right... It answers all the rest requirements though... I'll take another look! Thanks, all I want for the moment is a nice looking web frontend to vsftpd (the user GUI more important than the admin GUI for me) Even if the userbase is local, with no LDAP support, I could find a way to sync it to AD using a script. .::. Amichai Rotman Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] .::. 2010/9/8 Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.ilwrote: how about this one: http://www.knowledgetree.com/ .::. This is hardly free or OSS Amichai Rotman Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [ http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] .::. 2010/9/2 Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.ilwrote: On Thursday 02 September 2010 11:24:51 Dima (Dan) Yasny wrote: 2010/9/2 Shahar Dag d...@cs.technion.ac.il Hi What about SVN over apache? That would provide versioning, but large file support would be pretty lame. All I need is a centralised place to which users from different offices can upload files, assign permissions for other users from other offices, so that the others can download those files from there. Something like rapidshare, but with access control, or like dropbox, but without the file sync abilities (which are nice, but quite redundant in my case) Maybe try http://owncloud.org/ . Regards, Shlomi Fish Wouldn't this be a bit of an overkill? This is a large collaboration portal with a huge feature set, not a webexchanger -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Optimising Code for Speed - http://shlom.in/optimise God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Web based file exchange portal
2010/9/2 Shahar Dag d...@cs.technion.ac.il Hi What about SVN over apache? That would provide versioning, but large file support would be pretty lame. All I need is a centralised place to which users from different offices can upload files, assign permissions for other users from other offices, so that the others can download those files from there. Something like rapidshare, but with access control, or like dropbox, but without the file sync abilities (which are nice, but quite redundant in my case) Dan. Shahar - Original Message - *From:* Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com *To:* linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il *Sent:* Tuesday, August 31, 2010 12:16 PM *Subject:* Web based file exchange portal Hi all, I am looking for an OSS solution to the following: - Linux (RHEL based) frontend, running on Apache - Windows backend and filer, with AD auth - Users are able to upload/download files using a web interface (and hopefully a windows/OSX/Linux client) - File versioning is nice to have - Quotas for users - FTP access is also nice to have The idea is to have a Linux server in DMZ for file exchange control of files that are actually in a network that holds the windows infrastructure I have checked iFolder (mostly Suse oriented, mono/dotnet based, so I probably can't use it). SparkleShare is too raw for production. Either way, I don't really need the dropbox-like functionality, just the basic file upload/download and permission management, maybe someone can advise on an appropriate piece of software I could use Thanks D. -- ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Web based file exchange portal
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2010 11:24:51 Dima (Dan) Yasny wrote: 2010/9/2 Shahar Dag d...@cs.technion.ac.il Hi What about SVN over apache? That would provide versioning, but large file support would be pretty lame. All I need is a centralised place to which users from different offices can upload files, assign permissions for other users from other offices, so that the others can download those files from there. Something like rapidshare, but with access control, or like dropbox, but without the file sync abilities (which are nice, but quite redundant in my case) Maybe try http://owncloud.org/ . Regards, Shlomi Fish Wouldn't this be a bit of an overkill? This is a large collaboration portal with a huge feature set, not a webexchanger -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Optimising Code for Speed - http://shlom.in/optimise God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Web based file exchange portal
Hi all, I am looking for an OSS solution to the following: - Linux (RHEL based) frontend, running on Apache - Windows backend and filer, with AD auth - Users are able to upload/download files using a web interface (and hopefully a windows/OSX/Linux client) - File versioning is nice to have - Quotas for users - FTP access is also nice to have The idea is to have a Linux server in DMZ for file exchange control of files that are actually in a network that holds the windows infrastructure I have checked iFolder (mostly Suse oriented, mono/dotnet based, so I probably can't use it). SparkleShare is too raw for production. Either way, I don't really need the dropbox-like functionality, just the basic file upload/download and permission management, maybe someone can advise on an appropriate piece of software I could use Thanks D. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: official way to load aoe module?
Thinking about it, in this case there doesn't seem to be any gain in using AoE or iSCSI over NFS. NFS is far from being perfect, but it takes care of the shared FS, and since the network spped is the bottleneck here... (reposted to all, my apologies) On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: We are a little concerned about the situation of two guests mounting the ext3 and starting to manipulate the sqlite files on it in parallel. I think you should be *very* concerned about the situation where 2 guests mount an ext3 partition and start to manipulate files *sequentially*. It looks like you *are* concerned (rightly), since you wrote that only one client *mounts* the partition at a time. Another option was to allow all guests to mount the file system read/write but carefully configure each guest to own different files or directories of sqlite files on the FS. What if one starts, e.g., creating files or appending content to existing files (and allocating new blocks, etc., in the process)? The other clients won't be aware of it. I admit I have not thought long and hard about it, but it sounds dangerous to me. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | o...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il