[Haifux] My lecture (9/6/2003)

2003-05-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
g, so I doubt I'll be able to give any more lectures that night (and I won't have time to test the things I'm supposed to demonstrate). Is there any chance you can switch my and Eli's lectures? If not, maybe switch with someone else? Shachar -- Shachar Shemes

Re: [Haifux] Autotools ROCK!

2003-06-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
lf for not hearing about them. This is the same forum that organized the Go-Linux event). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ -- Haifa Linu

Re: [Haifux] stack size

2003-06-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
k analysis, such as the one mentioned in the bugzilla archive, or a commercial tool such as IDA pro (http://www.datarescue.com) can do it for you, if you take the bother to learn how to operate it. Thanks, Orna. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home pag

Re: [Haifux] [LECTURE] WINE, by Shachar Shemesh

2003-06-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Next Monday (23/06/2003), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once again meet to hear Shachar Shemesh talk about: WINE You are all invited! More info on how to get to the meeting etc. at the haifux website: http://www.haifux.org Future lectures include: July 7

[Haifux] Re: [LECTURE] WINE, by Shachar Shemesh

2003-06-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Next Monday (23/06/2003), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once again meet to hear Shachar Shemesh talk about: WINE An important note - while I will defenitely bring the wine, it's strictly BYOC&B (bring your own cheese and bread). Not having a bite

Re: [Haifux] 'Hibernate' on Linux

2003-07-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
. -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Haifux] haifux.org is about to expire

2003-08-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
de about transfering ownership). Flames are welcome. -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To uns

Re: [Haifux] haifux.org is about to expire

2003-08-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
e you like, so long as you include sleeper. Reason being that the other three are all at actcom's, and we want redundancy. Sleeper has not updated yet, but it will be within 24 hours. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://w

Re: [Haifux] haifux.org is about to expire

2003-08-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
nt is to make changes. So thanks for the comment, but I think we'll keep it as is (forgiving Shachar Shemesh for making www.haifux.org a CNAME of haifux.org -- he knows what he's doing). Thanks for the vote of confidance. Do you want me to change the MX record, though? Third, I can

Re: [Haifux] haifux.org is about to expire

2003-08-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
re most welcome. Authorative DNSes: ns.fiasco.org.il dns.iglu.org.il sleeper.securiteam.com Of course, give me some head start to set things up. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - htt

[Haifux] Re: haifux.org is about to expire

2003-08-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Alon Altman wrote: Hi, The domain of the Haifa Linux Club is about to expire on 24/9/2003. I suggest the domain be renewed by HaMakor, with a cheaper domain provider. Can the Amuta fund this? Alon I see no problem with that. Who's the current domain provider? Shachar -- Sh

[Haifux] Wine lecture slides

2003-09-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Well, I did say I was going to post them You can get them at my site (http://www.shemesh.biz/lectures.html). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh

Re: [Haifux] Transforming ppt to a free format

2003-10-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
res I gave in Haifux that are available from my site were exported this way. I have since switched to exporting PDFs (again, using OO), but it should give you an idea. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page &am

Re: [Haifux] Re: Make money from our sites

2003-10-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
r use with free software (Arial comes to mind). That is WAY expensive, however. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ -- Haifa Linux Club Mailin

Re: [Haifux] Linux Day (Haifux instaparty) - Information for inst allers candidates

2003-11-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ez-Aton wrote: I don't know. However, the student edition is about 300$ per license. FYI. Ez. If it is, they are ripping you off. I bought a non-student edition for the same price. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resu

Re: [Haifux] CD logos

2003-11-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
m claiming that they are RH 9 discs). The use of the red hat on the update disc may be outside this scope, because it was compiled by us. Orna. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page &am

Re: [Haifux] CD logos

2003-11-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Maor Meir wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Orna Agmon wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Alon Altman wrote: Hi, The CD designs for the Linux day are available at http://www.haifux.org/newcomers/cd-logo/ Alon Very pretty. I like the updates design more

Re: [Haifux] Re: Please recommend linux sites

2003-11-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
never used Debian, but I got to hear only good things about it. The reason I recommended Debian and not MDK (the better choise for newbies), is that I know that users that recommend RH, would never recommend MDK. That's a pitty. One more spot for Debian: It's support would probably never cea

Re: [Haifux] CD logos

2003-11-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
orce those same things that Trademark law doesn't cover via contract. I think RedHat made my list of proprietary software vendors now - they sure act like one). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source i

Re: [Haifux] Re: Please recommend linux sites

2003-11-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
x27;s the case, I think, full disclosure dictates that you mention you prove points out of pure guesswork). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ -

Re: [Haifux] SOLVED: Permission denied

2003-11-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
quot; - see "-rw-rw-r--". Do "chmod a+x a.out". Try to run the program. Get "permission denied" again. Do "ls" - see "-rw-rw-r--". Realize that something is preventing the "x" flag from being set. Remeber "noexec" mo

Re: [Haifux] [OT] Hebrew HTML guide

2003-12-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
kedit file" viola! you have your text. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration & consulting Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haif

[Haifux] Re: Configuration of haifux backup

2003-12-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Alon Altman wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Alon Altman wrote: Hi, Can you fix this? Alon This problem results from "stud.technion.ac.il" having a single name server, and that aserver being down. The only way to solve it is to bring to make sur

[Haifux] Re: Configuration of haifux backup

2003-12-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Alon Altman wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 15:27, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Alon Altman wrote: Hi, Can you fix this? Alon This problem results from "stud.technion.ac.il" having a single name server, and that aserver

Re: [Haifux] Re: Configuration of haifux backup

2003-12-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
le are interested. I was thinking about talking about how SMTP works at large, and how to configure an SMTP server using qmail. I was planning on attending your lecture anyways, so making sure there is no overlap should be relatively easy. If people are interested, of course. Shachar

Re: [Haifux] PLEASE ASSIST ME (fwd)

2003-12-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
identified Orr's forward as legit. As for the Nigerian spams themselves - http://www.419eater.com offers hours of uncontrollable laughs. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration & consulting Home page & resume -

Re: [Haifux] int a=1.6;

2004-01-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
C++ rather than C will probably do that for you. While C++ is not fully "backwards" compatible to C, most of the differences are in exactly those places you want to catch (stricter type checking and such). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Systems Consu

Re: [Haifux] Telux has a penguin over the lecture room

2004-01-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
n't people arrive at the wrong room? (with Haifux's recent move to Taub 3 and all.....) Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Systems Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/ -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (h

Re: [Haifux] Invitation for Lecture

2004-01-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
#x27;t think DNS requires a whole 2 hours, however. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Systems Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/ -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Haifux] Order in Court (Was and Still IS: Flame Wars)

2004-01-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
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Re: [Haifux] Got my Hamakor members card

2004-01-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Yoni Rabkin Katzenell wrote: I just got my Hamakor members card in the mail and am as happy as can be. The thing is that I signed up around the 1st of August and got it only now. Did everyone get their cards now or was there some delay? As Adir said, discussions at hamakor org il is the right p

Re: [Haifux] "For the sake of ten"[1]

2004-02-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Orna Agmon wrote: [2] "You" means you, too. One person, one vote. So who's that person who has the vote? There is no haifux cabal, there is no haifux "membership"[3]. Are you making fun of a certain reasonably known organization? Shachar -- Shachar Sh

Re: [Haifux] Wine and VmWare

2004-02-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
y, but I can't vouch for a how good that works. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Systems Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/ -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Haifux] Multiple PPTP connections

2004-02-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
PPP_RELAY. PPP_RELAY1 is the only one available. What I don't understand is what he is trying to gain from this. This will not give more bandwidth. -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Systems Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/ --

Re: [Haifux] Is it safe to attend the following (was: [Fwd: a note for ee students] (fwd))

2004-02-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
g, or write your name down at the enterance, don't go there. Otherwise it's a public presentation and nothing presented there can be regarded a trade secret. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Systems Consulting http:/

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
cture slides under a free license was a prerequisit to giving a Haifux lecture. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Systems Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/ -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.hai

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
but should answer whatever is needed. As for the security lectures - I'll have to look into those. If anyone needs to do anything specific with them, they are welcome to contact me. As for the videos - can I start off by purchasing a copy myself? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Ling

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
lly consider what the software is going to be used for, and then decide on the most appropriate restrictions Eli -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Systems Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/ -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
;s Enterprise TCP/IP stack". I'm not breaking any laws, despite the fact that you may understand from that that I wrote all of it. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Systems Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/

Re: [Haifux] ssh problems

2004-04-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
n. If your key is not encrypted, you can just use ssh without a password. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/ -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Haifux] MD5 collisions

2004-08-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
structure have the same SHA1 hash. (You gotta love studying with Eli Biham :-) That attack, in and on itself, was not sufficient to say that SHA1 is broken, because the chances your original message follow that format is not high. Is this attack of a different nature? Shachar -- Sh

Re: [Haifux] MD5 collisions

2004-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
. The paper was pretty scarce on details. What is the attack method? Also, I wrote a newbie friendly explanation of what happens there in my blog. http://www.israblog.co.il/35850. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

[Haifux] Re: Hamakor and Haifux merchandise

2004-10-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: Hamakor and Haifux merchandise": I really think Hamakor should stand for more than "MS Bashing". This picture does not honor what we stand for, and I'm not very comfortable about i

[Haifux] Re: Hamakor and Haifux merchandise

2004-10-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
f Hamakor. Just my opinion, Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. http://www.lingnu.com/ -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Haifux] Editing a pdf file?

2004-10-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
something slightly better you could do, however. If ghostscript can convert a PDF into a Postscript, then there are tools to convert Postscript into xfig. This should allow you to edit the graphics in the PDF. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. http://www.

[Haifux] Proposed lecture - the Debian package acceptance procedure

2005-02-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
getting to the quality standards it's in can be understood from these. Anyone interested? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/b

Re: [Haifux] isolinux

2005-03-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
y isolinux. Unsurprisingly, that does not matter). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www

[Haifux] Lecture proposal - rsync, rsyncrypto and building a secure backup service for the terminally paranoid

2005-11-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
rithm. The extended time will allow comparison of attacks to other standard encryption methods. For scheduling reasons, I would prefer it if the lecture would be scheduled next year (i.e. - two months from now). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed

Re: [Haifux] Lecture proposal - rsync, rsyncrypto and building a secure backup service for the terminally paranoid

2005-11-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ohad Lutzky wrote: >You got my vote. > > I really don't think it counts unless you CC the list. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lin

Re: [Haifux] Mazal tov, Dr. Orr Dunkelman

2006-03-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
CONGRATULATIONS Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To

Re: [Haifux] Suspend-to-RAM on IBM r50e

2006-03-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ohad Lutzky wrote: >So happy to have figured this one out, I thought I'd post the solution here: > > Save me the RTFM and tell me where to hook this so it works with fn+F4? I'm sure "hotplug" has something to that effect. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh

Re: [Haifux] Security issues in Linux

2006-05-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
anPinkasReinman2006.pdf > >A quick search did not provide any discussion of this up until Zvi >Gutterman's company published a press release on 1-May . > >-- Tzafrir > > Just for completeness sake, here is my analysis + opinion about the difference between "cryptology&quo

Re: [Haifux] Please read the following with a smile

2007-01-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Orr Dunkelman wrote: > Don't use lame excuses (like I'm not even in Israel) prevent you from > giving such a lecture > > Orr. Ok. I'm stressed out of my wits, but I'll volunteer. How about the lecture I'm also about to give at Telux? It's a lecture about modern algebra, cunningly disguised as a le

Re: [Haifux] [call for lecture] Tor

2007-04-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > Is there a doctor in the house? > > Well, we do not really need a doctor, but we would like to find > somebody who can give a lecture about TOR (anonimity network). I would love to study the subject, but I'm not sure my time resources can cope. When would such a lectu

Re: [Haifux] Big Laptop Mistake

2007-06-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
matias mittelbach wrote: > I just buy a new Compaq N610C laptop and I see: I couldn't install my > Linux OS!!. What are the symptoms? > > (I need to view a light point from the horizon) Load Knoppix on it, and run "lspci" on it. This will allow us to better asses whether the laptop is Linuxable or

[Haifux] Re: Virtualization software on Linux

2007-07-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Eran Sandler wrote: > 1) Thinkpad T61 running Ubuntu and VmWare 5 with XP + Visual Studio 2005 + > MSSQL + IIS > 2) Macbook Pro (similar specs to the T61) running MacOSX + Parallels and a > virtual machine with the same configuration. > > I prefer Linux but if the performance is worse than what I w

[Haifux] Re: [Haifux Lecture] Tor by Shachar Shemesh

2007-07-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Kfir Lavi wrote: > Hi, > Can someone give me a lift to the lecture from Tel Aviv ? > Tnx, > Kfir I'm driving there from Kfar Saba. If you can reach either Lingnu's offices in Kfar Saba (Weizmann 130), the northern Ra'anana junction or Netanya/coastal road, I can pick people interested up from there

[Haifux] Pending DNS caches, the list is back up

2007-09-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, First, please allow me to apologize for the list's down time. A while back Bezeq Intl. finally did what they said they will do all along, and pulled the plug on the old Actcom server farm, along with beak and eskimo, the two old servers run by Hamakor. The new server was up and running, an

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

2007-10-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Orr! > > For some reason, I'm receiving the emails that you send to me, but not the > emails you send to the mailing list. It's a bit annoying. And I do receive > emails that get sent to the mailing list. > Go to your accounts setup on the list, and remove the "nodups"

Re: [Haifux] Did something happen to www.haifux.org ?

2007-11-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Orr Dunkelman wrote: > Hi, > > The problem was first observed on Tue., and I am waiting for Adir to > go to the server physically and take care of it, which should happen > today. > > In the meantime, we are looking for a place to host haifux. Please > contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Haifux] Announcing a new project - fakeroot-ng

2007-12-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, I would like to intrude upon your time to announce an EXTREMELY preliminary project called "fakeroot-ng". Project web site is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fakerootng. At this point there is no formal release, but you can get the code from SVN and it compiles fine on Linux i386 (

Re: [Haifux] Announcing a new project - fakeroot-ng

2007-12-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
gabik wrote: > Hi Shahar > > One question. > Why one would need such a "fool the process into thinking it is running as > root"? > I could think only about some testing scenarios and think there are better > ways to test than to implement all this functionality. > > Thank you, > > Gabi > > I'll

Re: [Haifux] Announcing a new project - fakeroot-ng

2007-12-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
gabik wrote: > Hi > > > Would not it be more correct to fix the system, that requires you to be root > if this is not really required, to not require a root? > I described the system. I'll gladly hear your suggested solution. I'll even settle for you saying where the logic flaw is that causes

Re: [Haifux] Announcing a new project - fakeroot-ng

2007-12-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
gabik wrote: > Ok > > I thought from what you wrote: > >> Thing is, there is no real reason to be root. No actual root privileges >> > are required > that Debian requires a root without an actual need for that. > > This is where I think the flaw is - in erroneously requiring to be a root.

Re: [Haifux] Announcing a new project - fakeroot-ng

2007-12-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That being said, I don't really know why fake a chroot jail within > fakeroot. I can understand why you'd like a userspace chroot jail, but > you won't usually need to fake root at the time. > Actually, the two really come together. You use the same technology for b

Re: [Haifux] Announcing a new project - fakeroot-ng

2007-12-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Alon Altman wrote: > One thing I don't understand is why the complex set of scripts to save > state? Can't you just use one instance of fakeroot to run the entire > build script under? And even if you do need to save state, that's what > the -s and -i options are for. It's what they are for, b

Re: [Haifux] Announcing a new project - fakeroot-ng

2007-12-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ori Idan wrote: > The target embedded system, usually runs as root, however on your host > machine where you cross compile and prepare the images to download you > wouldn't like to run as root. Actually, if it is actual cross-compiling, then chroot will not work anyways. Very few platform combi

[Haifux] fakeroot-ng lecture

2008-01-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I figured there really isn't enough meat to talk only about fakeroot-ng, so I'm expanding the scope of the lecture quite a bit. It will be about user space syscall intercepting at large. LD_PRELOAD, ptrace, challanges etc. Shachar ___ Haifux mailing l

Re: [Haifux] [Haifux Lecture] User space syscall tracing andmanipulation - fakeroot-ng by Shachar Shemesh

2008-01-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
arbel yossi wrote: > Hi, > It is not clear from this post whether the lecture will deal > with fakeroot-ng or not. The Abstract talks about various techniques > but does not mention fakeroot-ng, while the title includes both. > > Regards, > Yossi > Fakeroot-ng is a (as far as I know) first attemp

Re: [Haifux] [Haifux Lecture] User space syscall tracing andmanipulation - fakeroot-ng by Shachar Shemesh

2008-01-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Dan Shimshoni wrote: >> Certainly ptrace has been used to both trace and modify running >> binaries, by gdb, strace, dumpmem[1], memfetch[2] and others. >> Yes, I am aware of all of the above except memfetch (I did not remember the names of dumpmem, but I did attend your lecture at the time)

Re: [Haifux] [Haifux Lecture] User space syscall tracing andmanipulation - fakeroot-ng by Shachar Shemesh

2008-01-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: >> 2. Syscall generation - program calls one syscall, you make it call >>three. >> > > Interesting... I assume this is without kernel support (e.g., UML's > SKAs patches). > I wouldn't be able to call it "user space" if it was. I should point out that, ptrace b

[Haifux] What are the car arrangements these days?

2008-01-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
What do I have to do in order to be able to get my car into the Technion? Shachar ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux

Re: [Haifux] What are the car arrangements these days?

2008-01-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nir Abulaffio wrote: > p.s. unfortunately, I think I will not make it this evening. > I hope I will. I have not yet managed to get recursive debugger support working :-) That feature is taking me more time than writing the powerpc port. Shachar __

Re: [Haifux] What are the car arrangements these days?

2008-01-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Just to clarify: > I hope I will. That was a joke. I definitely will :-) > I have not yet managed to get recursive debugger support > working :-) > but it's actually getting along. > > That feature is taking me more time than writing the power

Re: [Haifux] invitation to work hands-on with Openmoko linux phone

2008-03-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Sorana Fraier wrote: > The wifi is for independent browsing the internet and not through gprs? > What flavor of linux it has? > The distribution is called "OpenMoko". The phone itself is called "NEO1973". The GUI is based on GTK, and the entire phone, top to bottom, is going to be open source

[Haifux] Lecture proposal - high performance multi threaded programming

2008-04-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Abstract: With a bit of manual reading, anyone can learn how to create a program that has more than one thread of execution. This breaks down, very rapidly, however, as the inter-dependencies inside the program start to burden you down, to the point where you get race bugs that are close to imp

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

2008-04-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Eli Billauer wrote: > Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > >> Abstract: >> With a bit of manual reading, anyone can learn how to create a program >> that has more than one thread of execution. >> > *cough* > > How about defining "anyone"? ;

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

2008-04-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hai Zaar wrote: > Yeah, great topic! > It will be great if this issue will be covered as well: > http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/79 > First, I've only read this through twice, and so have not, yet, understood what the compiler is doing to this code. As such, I don't feel qualified to comment

[Haifux] Monday's lecture - too long? + car question

2008-05-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, Attached is the lecture slides for Monday. They were not that long, but 100 K is still over the list's limit. This message sent again without the actual slides. Here's what I'm worried about. It's too long Far too long. There are 60 slides, trying to cover about 8 subjects (not includ

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

2008-05-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Eli Billauer wrote: > 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 wil

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

2008-05-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/5/14 Orr Dunkelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> http://www.links.org/?p=327 >> >> > > Lesson 1: Comment your code when doing something unusual // for openssl > Lesson 2: Patch upstream // for debian > > Though in the beginning I blamed Debian for this mess, after re

Re: [Haifux] [W2l] New "Welcome to Linux" Series

2008-08-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oron Peled wrote: > On Tuesday, 19 בAugust 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> ... My Microsoft boots,... >> > > Yes, I also want Microsoft boots, where can I get them? > It's a short form. This is not boots, just boot straps. > [couldn't resist] > > If you are going to do a nitpicking joke

Re: [Haifux] Multi-thread debugging for C++ on Linux

2008-11-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hai Zaar wrote: > > Insight did a best job for > me debugging project that heavily used C++ templating, where ddd got > lost tracking source code. > When compiling code for use with a debugger, especially C++ code with complex code interleaving, always pass -O0 to the compiler. Despite what

Re: [Haifux] Multi-thread debugging for C++ on Linux

2008-11-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ohad Lutzky wrote: > > I thought tracking source code was gdb's job... (Hitting l? And does > anyone know, off the top of their heads, how to get it to show the > current line number and file?) > > Actually, it's the compiler's job. The compiler embeds inside the executable the information need

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Eyal Rozenberg wrote: > Bravo Zvi! > > What was the reason not to go to court, though? I mean, I don't suppose > you needed the 550 so badly... :-) > What is the reason to go to court? They agreed to giving him everything he asked for, plus not require him to keep silent about it. It's not as

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Dan Shimshoni wrote: > Zvi, > > - You are our Open Source hero of the week (or maybe of the year, > or maybe decade!). > Personally, I think the importance of windows refund reach far beyond the scope of "using Linux without paying the Microsoft tax". I wrote about it in my blog (http://blog

Re: [Haifux] Haifux Digest, Vol 17, Issue 15

2009-01-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Most files can be either dos or unix, but some (notably shell scripts) > must be unix. > C source and header files too. For most lines, a new line or a carriage return followed by a line feed are the same in C, so it is not trivial to spot the difference. It does show

Re: [Haifux] "Windows-Free" laptops in Haifa

2009-02-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Orr Dunkelman wrote: > > > The only reason Microsoft cannot have the benefit of "Buy us or > else..." is the fact that they control too large portion of the > market. The moment they will go under 70%, they would be able to > actually say the above (70% may be country dependent). > > > There is

Re: [Haifux] "Windows-Free" laptops in Haifa

2009-02-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shachar Raindel wrote: > > > When shopping for my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1525) I found out that > windows Vista basic have a NEGATIVE price of 200$ - the N series which > had linux preinstalled cost 200 USD more than the normal variation, > which was (and still is) in a constant "sale", offering it

Re: [Haifux] "Windows-Free" laptops in Haifa

2009-02-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Zvi Devir wrote: > However, I won't start the process with > you unless you really want to go all the way (up to district court if > required). > It is not at all trivial that, should the small claims court fail, the district court is an option. If memory serves me correctly, you are not aut

Re: [Haifux] Technion's PDP-11 Simulator

2009-03-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
crashes, or maybe trying to compile it on Linux (it looks like a not too os-dependent console program). I got a polite negative answer saying "This has to be passed through many channels before approving". have you looked at other emulators? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMH

[Haifux] Who will come to a lecture about profile guided optimization in GCC?

2009-06-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
bor. If the show of hands is not significant, I would suggest that those people who are interested in hearing the lecture try to arrive to Herzelia this Thursday at 6:30pm. I know, it's a long drive, it requires leaving work early, and it means there is a long drive home afterwards. I know ho

Re: [Haifux] Who will come to a lecture about profile guided optimization in GCC?

2009-06-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
compiler does during optimization. The lecture will also cover profile guided optimization - where the compiler's optimization decisions are assisted by information collected when the program is actually running. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingn

Re: [Haifux] Who will come to a lecture about profile guidedoptimization in GCC?

2009-06-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
achar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux

Re: [Haifux] Who will come to a lecture about profile guidedoptimization in GCC?

2009-06-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shachar Shemesh wrote: yossi arbel wrote: Hi, Can you give it at a later date, in the academic year? than I will consider coming.Don't forget that in the summer vacation there are less people. The date is up to the Masters of the Club(tm) (aka Club Cabal, or Clubal). A later date is

Re: [Haifux] [SMALL PAID-HELP WORK OFFER] Latex Refinement

2009-06-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
equations placement and such. Anyone willing to give some paid help, please contact Rotem directly. Thanks Orna. Insert appropriate joke about polymers and the refinement process. Hell, this is latex. You can insert an inappropriate joke, if you like. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu O

[Haifux] The slides for the PGO and optimization lecture

2009-06-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
The slides for the lecture to be given this evening at Herzelinux are now available online at http://tuxology.net/herzelinux/herzelinux-lectures/gcc-pgo/ Enjoy, Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source

Re: [Haifux] Yet another poll

2009-06-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
ecture, on the other hand, is a re-run, so I would really like to know there are people who actually want to hear the lecture again. Thanks, and sorry for the trouble, Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com __

Re: [Haifux] save my Linux

2009-06-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
d and video not working for people. I would go with 8.10 for newbies. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux

Re: [Haifux] Interview for research regarding FOSS community

2009-07-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
olunteers. Thanks, Orna. ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Haifux mailing li

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