[Haifux] SOLVED: USB caused RH 7.3 to hang

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

Re: [Haifux] stack size

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

[Haifux] [OT] Looking for PCMCIA USB card

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

[Haifux] Red Hat 9.0 CDs

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

Re: [Haifux] Make money from our sites

2003-10-07 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, I see one main benefit of this: To know, once and for all, how much money one can *really* make out of web advertising. My personal hunch: nil. It's pay-per-click, and last time I remember, which was in the dot-com era, it was $0.13 / click at its best, $0.05 nominal. But I would love

[Haifux] Resizing NTFS problem

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

Re: [Haifux] Resizing NTFS problem

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

[Haifux] Using a non-vanilla kernel on installation

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

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

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

Re: [Haifux] Resizing NTFS problem

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

[Haifux] Installing RH 9.0 -- my impressions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [Haifux] Linux source code

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

[Haifux] Laptops: Graceful shutdown with ACPI

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

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

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

Re: [Haifux] Hebrew HTML guide

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

Re: [Haifux] Getting the word out

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

[Haifux] Immortal artsd process

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

Re: [Haifux] Immortal artsd process

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

Re: [Haifux] Immortal artsd process

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

Re: [Haifux] Immortal artsd process

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

Re: [Haifux] Static analysis tool

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

[Haifux] A LaTeX to HTML tool that works

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Haifux] Fetchmail: The Mail Herschale [1]

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

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

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

Re: [Haifux] An Apology

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

[Haifux] The Haifux logo

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

Re: [Haifux] jpeg to mpeg or avi

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

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

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

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-29 Thread Eli Billauer
of Bulgarians being unaware that Eli Billauer wrote the lecture about IP maquerading. And there is the third possibility: That they get sick and tired of licenses, and write it all by themselves. Which happens all too often. Will they give us credits? Of course they will! It's for their own benefit

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

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

Re: [Haifux] Windows kernel programming lecture

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

Re: [Haifux] Encoding internet-quality video

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

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

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

Re: [Haifux] MD5 collisions

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

Re: [Haifux] MD5 collisions

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

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

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

Re: [Haifux] installing linux

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

[Haifux] Desktop Google for Wined Linux?

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

Re: [Haifux] Desktop Google for Wined Linux?

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

[Haifux] Linux at the airport

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

Re: [Haifux] make: lecture offer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Haifux] iptables with --uid-owner

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

Re: [Haifux] iptables with --uid-owner

2005-08-09 Thread Eli Billauer
guy keren wrote: on my system, this works fine. i'm using redhat's kernel, 2.4.18-17.7.x . did you: 1. look in /var/log/messages while running this command? 2. strace this command? if not - shame on you Shame on me, indeed. So I punished myself a bit... At some stage I upgraded

[Haifux] SOLVED: iptables with --uid-owner

2005-08-10 Thread Eli Billauer
...well, sort of. It's not like I really understand what the problem is. I only know how to bypass it. The magic solution: Compile iptables statically. Download the sources, uncomment the first row in the Makefile (which happens to be NO_SHARED_LIBS = 1), install the non-dynamic iptables

[Haifux] Re: [W2L] unanswered questions

2005-09-13 Thread Eli Billauer
I know that not attending any of the meetings, nor being very active in the matter (British understatement), my opinion may not count very much. My personal opinion about both the insta-parties and the W2L series, is that they are terribly outdated. Today, when the main part of the

Re: [Haifux] IOU - from the lecture today

2005-11-15 Thread Eli Billauer
I have no idea why Orna hasn't used Meir's examples that were much more verbose. And I have no idea why you are so verbose in general. If you had something to contribute to the issue, you could have done so without going head-on-head with Orna. The regular group of Haifuxers know you and

[Haifux] Honey, I shrunk the club

2006-03-14 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I think it's time to talk about this: The number of participants in Haifux lectures seems to be shrinking lately. It was notable in particular in Orr's and Guy's recent lectures, which both covered highly technical issues, which have plenty of implications even if you don't deal

Re: [Haifux] Honey, I shrunk the club

2006-03-15 Thread Eli Billauer
Erez Hadad wrote: OMG people. You sound like its time to close the shop and go home. Noone wants to close the shop. But we need to find out why the sales go down. I didn't answer my own question, by the way: I have found myself coming less, simply because I know much more about Linux

Re: [Haifux] Money

2006-03-17 Thread Eli Billauer
Orna Agmon wrote: 4.In order to get people who are interested in Linux to come to Haifux, listen and contribute, we need to PR Linux where Linux is of intererest, in English as well as in Hebrew: Ah, that was the next issue I wanted to talk about. I got to know about Haifux because of a

Re: [Haifux] The proposed A4

2006-03-19 Thread Eli Billauer
I have to express my slight disappointment, that Haifux' own logo doesn't appear on the flyer. It's pretty good as is, but really, we have such a cute logo... Eli Orr Dunkelman wrote: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~orrd/Haifux-ad.sxw (comments, flames, etc. - please send in private till

Re: [Haifux] FYI: Entrace with your car to the Technion (VIP)

2006-05-23 Thread Eli Billauer
Adir Abraham wrote: ... and free entrance to the Technion - for a whole *year*, by getting a free entrace sticker. This is only suitable for non-Technion members. Anybody can register to it. According to Asat's site, the entrance is allowed from 17:00 for Asat's activities. In the (remote)

[Haifux] Spamassasin 3.1.2 and Bayes filtering

2006-06-05 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I started to get increasingly annoyed by certain spam mails getting through my previous 2.63 version of Spamassassin, mainly because the Bayes filter didn't bite any more, so I had this weird idea about upgrading my two-year-old thing with a brand new one. So I did. After some

[Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] KVM

2006-11-12 Thread Eli Billauer
This Monday (13.11.06), at 18:30, Haifa Linux Club will gather to hear Avi Kivity talk about KVM (Kernel Based Virtual Machine) KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a new virtualization hardware driver for Linux. kvm allows one to run multiple virtual machines (guests) on a single

[Haifux] DVD authoring: No green boxes

2006-11-25 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, Those of you who attended my lecture about DVD authoring may recall that I mentioned a bug in the encoder, which causes green boxes to appear on the screen when played on my DVD player. I asked about this in the mencoder-user mailing list a couple of weeks ago. The answer came only

[Haifux] [Lecture Reminder II] Perl6 by Gabor Szabo

2007-01-28 Thread Eli Billauer
Tomorrow, (29/1), 18:30, Taub 3 (usual place, usual time), the Haifa Linux Club will host Gabor Szabo who shall talk about Perl6 Perl6 is a major rewrite of Perl with many advanced featues and a change in the syntax. This talk is an introduction to the language based on the Perl6

Re: [Haifux] An introductory of sorts

2007-02-06 Thread Eli Billauer
I'm trying to get into the mind of a student, who wants to get the exercises done. To most people, useful is the best way to attract someone to stay around. Since the birth of LiveCDs, there actually is a way to give a student something that can work right away. Packages are nice, but

Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread Eli Billauer
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: I don't quite see how a talk about a proprietary OS fits Haifux's charter? Lecture #79: Random numbers Lecure #81: Multilingual typesetting Lecture #95: Hebrew fonts Lecture #114-SIL: Intro to Alice, Bob and Eve: a glimpse of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Haifux' charter has

Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread Eli Billauer
Ladies and gentlemen, Sincerely, I can't see the point of this discussion. A group of people wants to meet for a lecture. What reason in the world could there be to stop it? I mean, for all I care, if someone wants to make a lecture about how to manufacture icecream at home (with no

Re: [Haifux] Vehicle Entry Permission

2007-05-01 Thread Eli Billauer
That's one way indeed. A second is to get a VIP card, paying 50 NIS per year, which is the way I get into the Technion. Less heroic, much simpler. ;) Eli Leon Romanovsky wrote: Hi all, I wanted to ask you, if anyone interested in automatic entry permission (ishurei knisa lerehev) for

Re: [Haifux] lecture idea: High-Availability clusters on Linux and other systems

2007-05-03 Thread Eli Billauer
Go for it, Guy. guy keren wrote: during my work i had the pleasure of working with different high-availablity (HA) clustering software of various types. i can try to prepare a lecture that covers issues such as: - what are high-availability clusters - how they work, - what cluster software is

Re: [Haifux] Big Laptop Mistake

2007-06-05 Thread Eli Billauer
matias mittelbach wrote: I'm searching, (and searching) on the net, and I couldn't find something (good) about Linux installations on this kind of laptops. You did? Because when I went Linux Compaq N610C on Google, I found several pages. Like this one:

[Haifux] Haskell lecture -- part II

2007-07-24 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, To begin with, thanks for a mind-opening lecture. Unfortunately, time ran out somewhere in the middle of it. So this calls for a follow-up. The question is: Do we postpone the queue by one slot, or shall we squeeze in the second part on Monday Jul 30th? What do you say? Eli --

[Haifux] [LECTURE REMINDER] Running C# and ASP.Net on Linux using Monoppix by Roiy Zysman

2007-10-21 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, Since this is the first lecture after a long break, I took the liberty to remind you that it's TOMORROW. Details: http://www.haifux.org/lectures/174 See you, Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il ___ Haifux mailing list

[Haifux] Sort-of slides for tomorrow's lecture

2007-12-16 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, Since tomorrow's lecture will be without slides, I've summarized the main points I'm going to make (plus many small details I won't bother to get into). You can find this at http://billauer.co.il/cinelerra-video-edit-quickstart.html Just so won't be bothered with writing down or

[Haifux] Crawler Lightning session: Call for participants

2008-01-24 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, Our next meeting, on February 11th, is a lightning talk session, which means that there will be several speakers with some 5-10 minutes each. The idea of this meeting is to share and compare the different ways we make the computer mimic a web browser in order to fetch data over

[Haifux] Scripts from Crawler Lightning session

2008-02-15 Thread Eli Billauer
Hi, The scripts, which were shown in the session, can be downloaded at http://www.haifux.org/lectures/183/ Thanks to Lutzky for handling the items I didn't. ;) Regards, Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il ___ Haifux mailing list

Re: [Haifux] Lecture proposal - high performance multi threaded programming

2008-04-29 Thread Eli Billauer
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Fine, I'll cover the basics of multi-threaded programming, but I won't go into the API discussion. It's not really relevant. Actually, my remark about your use of the word anyone was more like isn't grandma somebody?. I'm fine with going right to business about

[Haifux] IP Masquerading lecture uploaded to Google Video

2008-05-05 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all. Almost exactly five years ago, I gave my IP Masquerading lecture, which showed the fundamentals and hands-on of getting several computers to share an ADSL/cable modem connection (plus a bit about firewalling). The lecture was recorded on video at the time. I've recently uploaded a

Re: [Haifux] Monday's lecture - too long?

2008-05-10 Thread Eli Billauer
Shachar, I know that you may not be keen on driving to Haifa twice, but scheduling two meetings for this lecture is the almost automatic response. Another solution could be to prepare for a 3-hour session, with a large break in the middle, but I think everyone will agree on two meetings.

Re: [Haifux] Suggested lecture: Crash and burn: writing Linux application fault handlers

2008-05-12 Thread Eli Billauer
This goes under why bother asking, just schedule it! Eli Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Howdy folks, I'd like to suggest a lecture for Haifux meeting. Title: Crash and burn: writing Linux application fault handlers ___ Haifux mailing list

Re: [Haifux] More information about latest OpenSSL/OpenSSH/OpenVPN vulnerabilities?

2008-05-14 Thread Eli Billauer
Dotan Cohen wrote: Lesson 1: Comment your code when doing something unusual // for openssl Lesson 2: Patch upstream // for debian I would go for Lesson 0: Do not mess with cryptographic algorithms and code Though in the beginning I blamed Debian for this mess, after reading that

Re: [Haifux] Lightning talks session proposal

2008-06-17 Thread Eli Billauer
By all means, book it. I will fill up whatever gaps needed with my ever-so-weird topics (candidates: How to keep your computer clock accurate without messing too much) and maybe how to prepare your video for upload to YouTube. For the rest of you: This is high time to remember that you have

[Haifux] [HAIFUX Meeting] The Lightning Strikes Again

2008-07-13 Thread Eli Billauer
Next Monday, 14th of July, at 18:30 the Haifa Linux Club will gather for a lightning talk session. Or, as it was named: The Lightning Strikes Again During this meeting, several speakers will make short talks about various subjects. The list will be published soon (this was not a promise, but

[Haifux] [HAIFUX Meeting] Discussion - Design Pattern implementation in C++

2008-08-10 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday (TOMORROW), 11th of August, at 18:30 the Haifa Linux Club will gather for a discussion session. Or, as it was named: Design Pattern implementation in C++ == We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see:

Re: [Haifux] W2L discussion

2008-09-03 Thread Eli Billauer
Orr Dunkelman wrote: If this is of any interest, please raise your hands Doesn't look like there are too many hands to count. And I'm not so surprised. I see the decline in W2L activities (instaparties in particular) as a natural response to Linux becoming a mainstream issue. It's not a

Re: [Haifux] Let's face it! (was W2L discussion)

2008-09-05 Thread Eli Billauer
Oron Peled wrote: If it points to haifux.org for the real info, than that's fine. However, I would not like it to become *the* principal haifux announcement board. Completely agreed. I would take it even further: No events should ever be announced there. I see no advantage in announcing

[Haifux] GIMP workshop(s): Any interest?

2008-09-11 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I'm sure that most of you are aware of the existence of GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) which is the free software's answer to Photoshop (and for once, not an attempt to clone it). I have to admit, that for a long time I had difficulties getting something useful done

[Haifux] Breaking the ice with SELinux

2008-11-16 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, Since the pipe is empty, I'll skip the who's-interested-part: I'm suggesting next Monday (not tomorrow) for the first of two lectures about SELinux (thus occupying Nov 24th and Dec 8th). As you know me, I'm into hands-on, so I'll focus the lecture on how to single out a certain

[Haifux] [HAIFUX Lecture] Breaking the Ice with SELinux (part I)

2008-12-05 Thread Eli Billauer
are all invited! == Future lectures: 8/22/08 Breaking the ice with SELinux part II Eli Billauer 5/1/2009 Supercomputing 2008 Orna Agmon 19/1/2009 Introduction to openmp

[Haifux] NdisWrapper, anyone?

2009-01-19 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, For some reason, which is beyond me, I decided to try my wireless card under FC9. It took me a couple of hours to realize that it's most likely a Linux driver issue (reading the sources of netplugd turned out helpful). But that's not the issue. While trying to solve the problem, it

Re: [Haifux] NdisWrapper, anyone?

2009-01-19 Thread Eli Billauer
working. Unless someone else thinks this is an interesting topic. Eli On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il mailto:e...@billauer.co.il wrote: Hello, ... Question: Does anyone have any experience with this utility? Even better, can anyone give

Re: [Haifux] NdisWrapper, anyone?

2009-01-20 Thread Eli Billauer
. But really, that wasn't the point. Thank you all, again. Eli Eli Billauer wrote: Hello again, For the first time ever, I got several replies in private, and only one on-list. I think that means you asked a stupid question, but I wouldn't like to embarrass you in front of everyone. So

Re: [Haifux] LINUX and SSDL

2009-01-26 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, Let's start with the sad fact, that most active Haifuxers are not Technion students. In particular, not undergraduate students. Which brings us to my first question: What is SSDL? What have you been running there until now? My initial response (others -- please speak up if you

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