Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Israeli Digital Rights NPO -- Zvi Devir

2012-10-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
had the right to force you to watch advertisements, or a right to prevent you from brining videos you bought in the U.S. into Israel. No, they wanted to be able to impose new restrictions on the buyers on the way they use (*not* copy) the content, so they invented DRM. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: [Haifux] Is the risk real? (Was: New mail icon for Thunderbird over Gnome)

2012-05-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
and improved software all the time. I don't know why anyone would want look for alternatives. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El|Monday, May 14 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |The meek

Re: [Haifux] OT: Open CVS/SVN servers

2012-05-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
of the files or their history), git is better because each person will have his own complete copy of the history. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, May 10 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ

Re: [Haifux] Running 32 bit applications (Firefox?) on 64 bit machines

2011-08-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
or ld or whatever - cannot work well without holding all that stuff in RAM concurrently. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Aug 22 2011, 22 Av 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191

Re: [Haifux] Running 32 bit applications (Firefox?) on 64 bit machines

2011-08-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
(1.0001) to a power. You will get absolutely stuck with the 64bit code. This is really bizarre... I wonder how x86 and x86-64 differ in that regard? -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Aug 22 2011, 22 Av 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: [Haifux] Running 32 bit applications (Firefox?) on 64 bit machines

2011-08-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
a 32-bit version of Windows or Linux installed. x86-64, the 64-bit extensions to the x86 architecture, have been on every AMD processor for eight (!) years, and on every Intel processor for about six years. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Aug 21 2011, 21 Av 5771 n

Re: [Haifux] Job Offer: AMD

2011-06-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
, with an attitude like that, I have some doubts about it being a good workplace to work for. So fuck AMD. I think this statement is a bit harsh and unwarranted, Shlomi. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Jun 26 2011, 24 Sivan 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: [Haifux] Implementing read() like UNIX guys like it

2011-04-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
. It will only return one byte when there's nothing better to do than calling read() all the time. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Apr 26 2011, 22 Nisan 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Open

Re: [Haifux] Implementing read() like UNIX guys like it

2011-04-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
ahead and try it. And do tell how much the difference was noticable in the end system. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Apr 26 2011, 23 Nisan 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Wear short

Re: [Haifux] some additions and eratta to today's lecture

2011-03-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
of a second), neither milli-seconds nor seconds as you wrote above? -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Mar 21 2011, 15 Adar II 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I considered atheism but there weren't

Re: [Haifux] No! No! Don't compile your kernel!

2011-01-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
% of the users wouldn't bother themselves with recompilation (or any other manual step for that matter) to make their games run 1.27127529900685765% faster ;-) -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Jan 24 2011, 19 Shevat 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: [Haifux] No! No! Don't compile your kernel!

2011-01-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
are a kernel developer, i.e., modifying the kernel? -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Jan 23 2011, 19 Shevat 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get http

Re: [Haifux] Mirroring Fedora repositories for rainy days

2011-01-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
that ever existed, since 2003. Note, by the way, that you don't need to do anything special to your yum configuration to use these mirrors. The standard yum configuration used the aforementioned mirrorlist link to find all the available mirrors for your release. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: [Haifux] Pulseaudio: Sounds good in theory

2011-01-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
to use: PulseAudio Device Chooser(padevchooser) or Gnome Volume Control I've been using pavucontrol (I don't know what is padevchooser), and used it successfully to select between the sound card's microphone, and a USB-plugged microphone. -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday

Re: [Haifux] Where were the organizers?

2010-05-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
slide projectors - being locked in the afternoon. They were perhaps chained to the floor, but still operable. -- Nadav Har'El| Saturday, May 22 2010, 10 Sivan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ

Re: [Haifux] Where were the organizers?

2010-05-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
have to verify in advance (how can I?) that the other side's meeting room will be open, or that the projector I was told in advance that they have wouldn't be locked. If I'm told I can come with my car, I expect that to be true, and again, don't need to verify that this is indeed true. -- Nadav

Re: [Haifux] SVN quota

2010-01-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
with whatever policy makes sense for you. Also, you'll need to figure out how to enforce this policy :-) (some sort of commmit hook might work, but I really didn't try to implement this idea). Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Jan 21 2010, 6 Shevat 5770 n

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Social and Cultural perspective on the Israeli FOSS community

2009-10-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
about what she said. Are the slides, or a paper, or anything, available for me to look at? If not, can someone perhaps summarize her main results? Thanks, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Oct 27 2009, 9 Heshvan 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-02-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
, and there is no reason for Linux not to be able to. But students that have a completely different main need? Students whose basic premise is that only one specific Windows-only software can meet that need? Well, sorry, Linux is not for you. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Feb 3 2009, 9

Re: [Haifux] My Stop Using (and Teaching) C-Shell and Tcsh Page

2007-10-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
today) what about ksh, which has been part of Solaris for many many years? Or simply, sh? -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Oct 25 2007, 13 Heshvan 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Always go

Re: [Haifux] Entry Permission

2007-05-08 Thread Nadav Har'El
be afraid that someone can infiltrate the Technion? Is it perhaps better that terrorists/criminals operate in my own neighborhood, and not in the sacred Technion? These are my 2 cents My contribution is worth less than that, even with the declining dollar ;-) -- Nadav Har'El

[Haifux] Re: version control wiki

2007-01-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
don't have any experiance of actually *installing* such a system, but from a user's perspective, I'd recommend MediaWiki, because it has the most familar syntax (at least to the hundreds of thousands of people which contribute to Wikipedia). -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Jan

Re: [Haifux] Linux Day: Choosing the right distribution

2006-06-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
updates from yum. This is a downside in Fedora that needs to be considered. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Jun 11 2006, 15 Sivan 5766 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |We are Microsoft. You

Re: [Haifux] Re: iso distribution

2006-05-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
, the installer will ask you which CDs you have. I don't think this is a safe assumption. My experience with Redhat and Fedora is that you must have all the CDs ready in advance. I never saw any form in Fedora's installation where you're asked which CDs you have. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: [Haifux] Why not sharing the filmed lectures in bittorrent ?

2005-11-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
creates a different lecture based on it. So feel free to do it, if you wish, and I promise not to sue you :-) -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Nov 2 2005, 30 Tishri 5766 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191

Re: [Haifux] Things I forgot from the meeting

2005-08-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
that if half the people will never come to the third lecture, at least what they heard in the first two will be enough to make them remember Linux as something good - not as something geeky and/or fanatic and/or extremely hard to use. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Aug 14 2005

Re: [Haifux] Re: [W2L] News about the Blitz Lecture

2004-09-09 Thread Nadav Har'El
mail now face annoying temporary failure messages and have to retry the send manually. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Sep 9 2004, 23 Elul 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Energizer Bunny

[Haifux] Re: Welcome to Linux 2004

2004-08-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
, a .org.il would be more indicative of our Israeli nature, but I guess .org is nice if you're thinking of growing abroad. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Aug 5 2004, 18 Av 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ

Re: [Haifux] I must admit I am amazed

2004-04-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
to pose with a loaf of bread and bottle of wine? http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mike.jb/images/david_spirit2.jpg -- Nadav Har'El| Friday, Apr 16 2004, 25 Nisan 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-790466, ICQ

[Haifux] Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE, KEYSIGNING, DINNER] Oron Peled on Advanced Autoconf

2004-02-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
of Automatic Configure, not of Automatic Confiscate. Therefore, the verb should be Autoconfigure, not Autoconfiscate... Or if you must, Autoconfize or Autoconfate (eek). -- Nadav Har'El| Friday, Feb 20 2004, 28 Shevat 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Haifux] gcc -pg, but no gmon.out

2004-01-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
perhaps show us a short excerpt from your make output, including the final linking stage? I'm assuming that you checked the obvious things, like the current directory not being writeable to you... -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Jan 28 2004, 5 Shevat 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Haifux] gcc -pg, but no gmon.out

2004-01-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
a -pg anywhere on the linking line... Or do I need to get new glasses? :) Just make sure you add a -pg to that line, and it will work. -- Nadav Har'El|Wednesday, Jan 28 2004, 5 Shevat 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone

Re: [Haifux] gcc -pg, but no gmon.out

2004-01-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
do a lot of library calls or IO you'll may have a lot of unexplained time in the profiling results. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Jan 27 2004, 5 Shevat 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-790466, ICQ 13349191

Re: [Haifux] Lecture Suggestion: Web hacking for fun and profit

2004-01-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
the cheaper price (90 shekels) is only available for another two days. -- Nadav Har'El| Tuesday, Jan 13 2004, 19 Tevet 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If you drink, don't park; Accidents cause

Re: [Haifux] Linux source code

2003-11-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
of a specific application, you can search for it individually on the web. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Nov 20 2003, 25 Heshvan 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-790466, ICQ 13349191 |How much wood would a woodchuck

Re: [Haifux] SOLVED: Permission denied

2003-11-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
! Ooops! The noexec option to mount prevents this from happening. Of course, it doesn't stop the user from jumping through hoops in order to run something from that filesystem (e.g., by copying the binary to his own directory and running it), but it prevents the obvious traps. -- Nadav Har'El

Re: [Haifux] RedHat 9.0 is the official distribution of the instaparty

2003-09-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
be installed on the new machines and you don't ask the users to do that on their own. Remember that many of the users will have modems, and downloading 500 MB (!!) of errata will take a bit of time (to say the least) for them. -- Nadav Har'El| Saturday, Sep 20 2003, 23 Elul

Re: [Haifux] stack size

2003-06-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
(for example) is most likely a mistake and you should (or at least) fix it. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Jun 19 2003, 19 Sivan 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |You have the right to remain silent

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

2003-06-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed): On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 10:13:47PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: (a while ago I gave on this list, or perhaps hackers-il, an example of a nasty

Re: [Haifux] Mail forwarded from old address

2003-06-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
will be using all those GUI stuff?? Through X Windows? If so, it will only be useful inside the Technion. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Jun 15 2003, 16 Sivan 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Sign