Re: Something is injecting malware into my HTTP traffic

2015-03-21 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Traceroute is useless. Only traffic directed at port 80 is routed through the proxies. Nothing else, meaning that ICMP, used for traceroute, would got to the target directly. There are methods of identifying transparent proxies (you could probably ask Google about them), however, this is not one

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-15 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
such a service (to fire up your server) if it was offered? --Amos On 15 January 2015 at 09:38, Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il wrote: Hi Amos. It means you make use of an instance which is very quick to load. Removing non-esential services, or postponing them to after Jira starts

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-14 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
instance to be very very light, - what do you mean by that? Your description is close to what I have in mind. As for the changing IP address - this can be easily overcome using Elastic IP and/or no-ip.com and friends. Thanks, --Amos On 13 January 2015 at 08:11, Etzion Bar-Noy eza

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-12 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Except that NUC costs about 700+ ILS (I have three. I know. This is the Celeron version). Amos 0 if you can customise your instance to be very very light, and it can startup in about 15 seconds or so, it is acceptable to have it on-demand. You can wrap it in a script (using AWS API and tools) to

Re: Question about Linux installation and selecting a language

2015-01-12 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
US International. Etzion On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks , Oleg use a somewhat older Fedora, so YMMV, but in KDE open System Settings - Input Devices - Keyboard Settings - Layouts and select what suits you (I assume American + Israeli?).

Re: sending to same dest via different interfaces

2014-03-05 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Sorry. My default was not 'send to all'. Now posting to the list as well. On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com wrote: Another idea from colleague, is to bind the source address of the socket to the address of the desired netwrokr interface. While it doesn't

Re: sending to same dest via different interfaces

2014-03-05 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
a clean control over how a specific packet goes, however, you will be able to split the communication between the two interfaces to whichever ratio you desire. Lots of info on the Internet. Ez On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.ilwrote: Sorry. My default

Re: Astrerisk question, anyone sell a cellphone that can be used to make calls?

2012-06-10 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Sorry. Should have been reply all. Not to mention that Hot sells phone lines with unlimited plan at 69 ILS/month, if I'm not mistaken, which leaves you with a simpler solution. Way simpler and cheaper than connecting cellular line... Ez On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Nadav Har'El

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-05 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Because most households in israel do not buy their office... It would be stupid to assume they do. Moreover - the school headmaster does not assume that either. He/she knows most people just have their office installed, and they care nothing about it. Ez On Feb 5, 2012 9:12 AM, Nadav Harapos;El

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-04 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
I agree with the notion. At best - the school headmaster will ask you what to open it with, and how would the students with ms office would handle it. This is hopeless, unfortunately. Ez On Feb 5, 2012 8:48 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il wrote: Hi Boaz, The time is not ripe. Don't

Re: Virtual Server - Consult...

2012-01-22 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Mind you that the level of user experience would depend on the speed if the display adapter. This is not a simple requirement in a virtual environment. None of the desktop-level virtualization solutions would give you that. Display will be slow, and with it - the entire user experience. You need

Re: question: discount bank web site - linux+firefox friendly?

2012-01-21 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
To my knowledge this bank uses the international bank backbend systems, and it works with linux quite well. Etzion On Jan 19, 2012 10:51 AM, Nadav Harapos;El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012, guy keren wrote about question: discount bank web site - linux+firefox friendly?:

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Finding the next lucrative niche (was: Re: Goodbye, Lingnu)

2011-11-14 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
True. However, the best support can be given by a pro who has a cooperation of the hosting company. Most of them will never cooperate, as they earn better (despite their awful quality of work) with an external person/company. So, your main channel - the hosting supplier, will probably not like you

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Finding the next lucrative niche (was: Re: Goodbye, Lingnu)

2011-11-14 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
It doesn't matter. Because a customer needs a method of estimating a work, does not make you his bitch(tm). You can estimate your work, but you seldom work in a vacuum. You are working on his servers, on his setups, his storage devices, around his network equipment. Under most cases, when I get

Re: Checkpoint VPN client for Linux - is there any?

2011-10-27 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Snx is for their ssl snx product. It will not work where officeconnect should be deployed. Ez On Oct 27, 2011 7:13 PM, Noam Meltzer tsn...@gmail.com wrote: If I remember correctly CP has some kind of plugin/extension/some other kind of lie called snx. Or at least snx was the utility for linux

Re: remote directory/partition

2011-10-23 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Nutrino will enforce connection-less transport. I am not sure it is desired. He will have to emulate connection tracking by software, which will pay these few nanoseconds earned earlier. Not worth it, I think. Gravity generator. The speed of gravity is still unknown, but might be very very fast,

Re: New (First!) smart phone (OT_

2011-10-04 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Welcome to the world of the cellular. First - there are various keyboards available for the device. Their key size might differ, layout might differ, and ease of use, for you in person, would differ as well. About stylus - you will need a device designed for capacitive screen. Although I am not

Re: what was the name of the app...

2011-08-14 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
OpenMosix, but it I's hardly usefull for most usages, old, not really maintained, and very expensive. Why do you need it? Ez On Aug 14, 2011 9:07 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Few years ago I heard about an app which can connect few servers behind it - and show itself as a

Re: Finally - A RMS talk in Tel-Aviv. Including details

2011-07-17 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
+1 to that. Etzion On Jul 17, 2011 8:07 PM, Dima (Dan) Yasny dya...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Orr Dunkelman orr.dunkel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com To be more general, it is unheard of for a

Re: UDP packets loss at Israeli ISPs during peak hours

2011-07-02 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
It's probably due to their over commit, and it means your UDP packets are in queue until expired. Since Israeli ISPs has learned the trick, I tend to believe ICMP packets have high priority, so that no customer will be able to complain. When you can't complain, well, it means that the problem is

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-13 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
I have been reading quite a lot of messages about this topic. I feel (and this is my feeling only) that it has been talked enough. Mr. Stallman doesn't want to be here. He doesn't care about the other side of the story, and he is so much about his own religion, that he forgets that each coin has

Re: An alternative to Skype

2011-06-10 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
By logging in to their site, you can reactivate your credits. Ez 2011/6/10 Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net Hi people, I saw Richard Stallman's signature: Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/ I'm using Skype

Wanted - Linux sysadmin for Integration

2011-05-31 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
are required to be independent, assertive, ready to learn (and a lot), knack for automated tasks and a corporate point of view. I am outing myself a bit, but you are most invited to search for my name, Etzion Bar-Noy or my nick name, ezaton, on the net. You are most invited to read my technical blog

Re: Centos 5/5.5/6.0 and StorageWorks P2000

2011-05-25 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Probably. At worst, you can download the 'megaraid' driver and compile/run it. You should have boot driver floppy image in case you need it for boot and you can't find it. Ez 2011/5/25 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com Here is the output which mentions the SAS: 07:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI

Re: Centos 5/5.5/6.0 and StorageWorks P2000

2011-05-24 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
You should download and install the latest lsi logic sas driver. As Baruch said - check lspci for the exact model. Ez 2011/5/24 Baruch Even bar...@ev-en.org On May 24, 2011 1:57 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to assist someone. He has an IBM Server and he's

Re: auto-maximize a logical partition with ext3

2011-04-03 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
DD is a lousy OS replication tool, and I would not have used it. Using simple (!!!) scripting to replicate systems, with any possible combination of sfdisk, LVM, mkfs.ext3, resize2fs would probably be better, not to mention - faster. Example: Boot; create a new partition layout on your new disk

Re: Checkpoint Endpoint Security VPN with linux

2011-03-21 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.bizwrote: On 21/03/11 02:41, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: It is common that the VPN provider policy *prevents* you from connecting to multiple networks (theirs and someone else's). The logic behind it is to prevent data leak

Re: Checkpoint Endpoint Security VPN with linux

2011-03-20 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
It is common that the VPN provider policy *prevents* you from connecting to multiple networks (theirs and someone else's). The logic behind it is to prevent data leak, especially accidental, by combining somehow their network with someone else's. So - this poses no problem to be dealt with. The

Re: Advice Needed - Bye Bye Nokia!

2011-02-20 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
And did you downgrade your MFE to 2.9 from 3.0, as 3.0 doesn't work well with Google Apps? Ez 2011/2/20 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com Hi Amichai, I'm in the exact position as you with the same phone, yet I'm not planning to switch for several reasons: - Battery life: Try to find any

Re: Advice Needed - Bye Bye Nokia!

2011-02-20 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
it, but got an error the existing version cannot be removed Amichai. On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 14:23, Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.ilwrote: And did you downgrade your MFE to 2.9 from 3.0, as 3.0 doesn't work well with Google Apps? Ez 2011/2/20 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com Hi

Re: total uptime between shutdowns

2011-02-01 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Your solution will work, of course, only on a tidy shutdown. For unplanned shutdown (aka - power failure) it will not work. Ez On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 10:00 +0200, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: Hi Guys, Is there a tool that will show

Re: Help me understand connection to internet: Infrastructure and ISP

2011-01-29 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
I have been pursuing an Internet problem for the last two weeks until its apparent solution last week. It was classical - Packet Loss. Hot blamed Bezeq Int. and did nothing about it, I have had to prove (using Bezeqint support personnel) that the problem was Hot's. It was very tiresome, and I

Re: What to tell 13 year old kids about Linux and Open Source?

2011-01-09 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
These kids are used to these four freedoms, illegal, but works fir them. You may want to stress that their current (probable) actions are illegal, and that the existing model of selling software is one which changes into selling services. Talk about the ability to avoid vendor-lock, as part of it

Re: Electronic Junk in Haifa

2010-12-19 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
As far as I can recall, the junkyard near downtown, around where the bridge above the train line (the bridge which leads to road 22) is still functioning. Yankale's junkyard or some similar name. Ez On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:04 AM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec

Re: Linux friendly scanner

2010-11-27 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
at the time, and the message wouldn't go away and wouldn't let me send faxes or do anything. Hetz 2010/11/27 Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il HP products don't behave like this. Ez On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Steve G. word...@gmail.com wrote: Not true at all. I have

Re: rdesktop question ( using Linux in a windows environment.)

2010-11-27 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
You could actually do this, also, on the Linux machine, when mouse-over the Windows terminal client. This should behave quite similarly. Meaning Linux mouse mover or Linux keyboard presser or the likes. Generate some keyboard/mouse move on your desktop. Ez 2010/11/27 shimi linux...@shimi.net

Re: Linux friendly scanner

2010-11-26 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
No relationship between the scanner module and the printer module in the device. They both work indifferently. Ez On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.comwrote: On Thursday, November 25, 2010, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: All HP (and most others) scanners are working

Re: Linux friendly scanner

2010-11-26 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
by forcing you to change the ink every 3 months at ridiculous prices. Every color that dries up bricks the machine FOR EVERY FUNCTION. Instead of starting, it gives an error message and quits. Z. 2010/11/26 Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il No relationship between the scanner module

Re: Linux friendly scanner

2010-11-25 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Same goes for HP Photosmart C5283 All-in-One Ez On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.comwrote: I'm having a multifunction printer Canon Pixma MP140, and was very surprised to find out that it works out of the box in Ubuntu 10.04 with the simple scan utility. On

Re: wifi adapter problem

2010-11-17 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
It did not accept your ESSID command. Look - your essid is empty. Try running that command again. Ez 2010/11/17 David Ronkin dron...@gmail.com Hi I bought Edimax EW-7711USN usb adapter (with linux support written on the box). Looks like the driver is found by my ubuntu 10.10 Maverick (on

Re: looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Get yourself an old openmoko device. They are ARM based, well documented, with several simple options of Linux distros for them. Very weak, of course, but for ARM games (playing with your arm :-) ) they should be just fine. Ez On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Muli Ben-Yehuda m...@il.ibm.com

Re: Pop toaster recommendations seeked

2010-11-01 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
I have been managing a system based on ispman (well, created and managed), and it was a wonderful tool, full of features, and worked quite well. It was very complex, and requires substantial understanding of directories (LDAP). It was too complex (afterthought), but worked well. I would not

Re: Amazon free to new customers!

2010-10-24 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
With defined limitations. You can use *their* kernel and initrd, or some others supplied, but you cannot supply your own. Also - adding custom OS selections is not trivial. If not already created by someone else (with his/hers S3 space to store that image), you might find yourself lacking the

Re: Amazon EC2 hosting,

2010-10-16 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
A small note. I was led to understand (from a fried who uses EC2 and aggressively) that xlarge instances are (usually? Always? I think the later) alone on physical hardware. So you would prefer to use xlarge instance to prevent slowdowns. Ez 2010/10/10 Maxim Veksler ma...@vekslers.org On Sun,

Re: Awful Bandwidth from Most Sites on Bezeqint - What can I do about it?

2010-10-13 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Hi. I am not quite happy myself, lately, either. Browsing and downloading seems slow, as well. wget http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrivalinux/devel/cooker/SRPMS/main/release/gcc-4.5.1-1mnb2.src.rpm --00:08:12--

Re: Awful Bandwidth from Most Sites on Bezeqint - What can I do about it?

2010-10-13 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
P.S - I am on private NGN... Ez On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.ilwrote: Hi. I am not quite happy myself, lately, either. Browsing and downloading seems slow, as well. wget http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrivalinux/devel/cooker/SRPMS/main

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-12 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Bad. Depends on the amount of damage you have created, the following procedure would work: I believe the failure is in /dev/sda8, around 30GB, based on your fileserver lvm backup file. Upload an older one for me to be sure. pvcreate -u GBsXFQ-RdXS-iMhp-Phle-iqfM-5571-aJgQAa /dev/sda8 (if

Re: How can I grab the filesystem from corrupted lvm (help recover data from lvm with one pv missing)

2010-10-12 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
marked as missing. Restore failed. Today ill try to create again an image of the drive (dd all the drive ) in order not make any more damage by restore attempts, Yesterday I found out that the harddrive going to die (errors from the kernel). 2010/10/12 Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il

Re: seeking cross-platform professional backup recommendation

2010-10-12 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
I don't know about Bacula and Windows, but the requirement was that the server runs on Windows, right? ArcServ is a lousy product. Easier to backup. Harder to restore. Symantec product is OK. You will not have the ability to restore from bare-metal without some major work, however, you can create

Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-10 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Linux LVM2 has been around for several years now. It can take and use snapshots, and I do it for the last three or so years on *production* sites. There are limitations, such as space utilization and performance, but the most significant one is that LVM snapshots are nowhere near NetApp

Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-10 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il: Linux LVM2 has been around for several years now. It can take and use snapshots, and I do it for the last three or so years on production sites. There are limitations, such as space utilization and performance, but the most significant one is that LVM

Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-09 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
This is a joke, right? You want someone to host your system, which, by design, will not be rack-mountable, and would be large, due to the amount of disks you are to place there. It is possible, but extremely expensive to host a non-1-U server nowadays. Who would give it to you? An

Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-09 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
On top of rpath Linux, which is the root of all evil. Also - although I have implemented quite a few of these, OpenFiler suffers from various bugs and shortcomings. Still - in the free like beer area - it is good enough for most purposes. Ez On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Amos Shapira

Re: CPU RAM in a storage box

2010-09-09 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
CPUs are also rather rare in the 1-2U markets, and are far from trivial to obtain, and worse - get service for. Ez On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2010/9/9 Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il This is a joke, right? You want someone to host your

Re: question about a firewall

2010-09-03 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Hi. I am in your shoes. I maintain several Linux systems hosted in Netvision (currently) for the last few years. For the last 7 years or so, I have been using iptables to protect my systems from intrusion. I have been using denyhosts to prevent unauthorized SSH logins, and prevented direct root

Re: question about a firewall

2010-09-03 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
years or so. Ez On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: I'm doing this thing right now. The only issue I worry about is attacks like DDoS. Hetz 2010/9/4 Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il Hi. I am in your shoes. I maintain several Linux systems hosted

Re: question about a firewall

2010-09-03 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
DDoS attacked. Hetz 2010/9/4 Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il Your Cisco won't protect you against these either. There are specific DDoS protection systems, which you are not going to try and afford. Unless your servers are about gambling, porn or something very hot, you will not likely

Re: official way to load aoe module?

2010-08-24 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
locking. For this there is a cluster. Ez On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: On 23 August 2010 14:47, Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il wrote: Adding LUNs does not require a reboot. Removing ones do. However, if you let the cluster software manage all

Re: official way to load aoe module?

2010-08-22 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Because it is. Not in a way you will suffer physical damage. Your legs will be fine, and so will be your hands. Your data, on the other hand, will probably be very unhealthy... Anyhow, RHCS, as a clustering infrastructure, should allow you to solve this problem with minimal chance of human

Re: official way to load aoe module?

2010-08-22 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Inline On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: On 22 August 2010 23:22, 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

Re: official way to load aoe module?

2010-08-22 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Again, inline. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: On 23 August 2010 04:42, Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il wrote: Inline On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. But apart from hoping that RHCS

Re: official way to load aoe module?

2010-08-21 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Oops. Reply all is better. Insert into /etc/modprobe.conf the line: alias scsi_hostadapter2 aoe Rebuild your initrd using mkinitrd, and it will be available on startup. Ez On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: On Saturday 21 August 2010 01:20:26 Hetz Ben

Re: official way to load aoe module?

2010-08-21 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Indeed. The easiest to implement, amongst the free clustered filesystems is OCFS2 by Oracle. Two or three RPMs, a short configuration phase, and you're fine. Ez On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com writes: I just wonder

Re: official way to load aoe module?

2010-08-21 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
I think OCFS2 is slightly better. Listen - if you don't need clustered filesystem, avoid it at any cost. However, if you do need it, then A/P cluster is not enough. Ez On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/8/22 Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il

Re: You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?

2010-08-16 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
And I presume you edit your CV at least once a week. In a market where there the employers can pick, you want to play by the rule. Where you, as an employee can pick, they, mostly, will play by your rules. When you're out looking for a job, your rules are dictated by those who hire. When you are

Re: You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?

2010-08-15 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Why? Can't your OpenOffice create doc files? It you are to make a war about it, fine, but you might miss some of the better jobs because the subcontractor's HR are not technical people, and if your CV is a little more difficult to open in their own software or whatever, your loss. Next. If you do

Re: You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?

2010-08-15 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 00:13 +0300, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: Why? Can't your OpenOffice create doc files? Actually, whenever I am due to send a .doc file, I send a .rtf, figuring that it is a more reliable way to preserve

Re: Amazon EC2 hosting, was: Dedicated hosting in the US

2010-08-12 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Amazon has experienced a set of performance problems recently. Their system is overly complicated, and, except for specific usage, I would recommend people to avoid. Other cloud services exist, but still - the cloud is a buzzword which, translated to simple language is you might have performance

Re: Amazon EC2 hosting, was: Dedicated hosting in the US

2010-08-12 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/8/12 Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il Amazon has experienced a set of performance problems recently. Their system is overly complicated, and, except for specific usage, I would recommend people to avoid. Have you got reference

Re: Server Disk Problem

2010-07-27 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
As I have said - if he could mount it, he can read the superblock. Ez On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/7/27 Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il Are you checking the correct device? If fsck.ext3 can't find superblock, the system could

Re: Alternative for getline() function in AIX 5.3

2010-07-27 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
IBM supply a set of GNU utilities, including GCC-related software (and GCC, as well, if I recall correctly, but an old one) in an additional CD supplied with AIX. This is called something around Utilities for Linux or some other lie. So you do not need to force gcc to compile under AIX, but only

Re: Server Disk Problem

2010-07-26 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Are you checking the correct device? If fsck.ext3 can't find superblock, the system could not have mounted the device to begin with. Please post the results of lvm lvs cat /etc/fstab (if available) Thanks Ez 2010/7/26 Daniel Feiglin dilog...@inter.net.il Hello folks! I am trying to assist

Re: linux beivrit

2010-07-10 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Hi. I love those with the flare in their eyes, and their self-righteousness. The majority of the crowd, in Israel especially, will not be able to read ODT. Since PDF is good enough format, those who did not bother to read your document were, well, so filled with their hatred that they forgot the

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-14 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
This seems to me like issue with the video card. Probably firmware. Ez 2010/5/11 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com Hi Elazar, Another problem I have been experiencing for the past 3 major Ubuntu distributions (8.*, 9.*, 10.04, 64 bit OS on a 64 bit dual core) is that the X becomes

Re: WAN connection through a Linux machine

2010-04-20 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Oops - and now with reply-all... Hi. You should run both these commands (I will not disclose how you make it apply after-reboot for now) 1. echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 2. iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE Don't forget to set correct DNS on your host B Ez On Tue,

Re: High Availability

2010-04-15 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
The answer to the original post is It's not HA, it's MA, however... Middle-Availability is not high-availability, of course, but it's a good start. HA is a very nice buzz word. HA should protect you against what? software failure? OS failure? hardware failure? network failure? storage failure?

Re: Switch between virtual consoles CtrlAltFx problem.

2010-03-23 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Use Alt+F1-7 when in console mode. Don't use Ctrl+Alt+F1-7. Ez 2010/3/23 David Harel harel...@gmail.com Hi, Using Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) with plain gnome desktop. When I switch to text only console using the CtrlAltFx keys I can't travel back to X11 mode using CtrlAltF7 or switch to any

Re: Xen and storage

2010-03-15 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/3/12 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com: Hi, I have taken 3 machines for a project: 2 machines will act as Xen servers and one machine will act as storage. The storage box is just a machine with few hard disks

Re: Xen and storage

2010-03-15 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
/FCS transport. Don't believe me? Check your virtual farm. See what throughput you get for your DRBD/central storage links. Ez On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/3/16 Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:41 AM

Re: Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-14 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Kids will always be kids, and there will always be competition. I think competition is good. Otherwise - go be a Cobol developer. No competition there, you know. Not in five years time, when everyone who knows something will retire. Linux is a dynamic and evolving profession. It gets more and

Re: Where to learn Linux?

2010-03-14 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Actually, you should be in another profession to make lots of money. You won't make your millions with computers, you know. Programming and syadmin are two different disciplines, and none is better than the other. It should be first what you love doing, otherwise, you will never be excellent in

Re: better platform for virtualization

2010-01-19 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
PV drivers were released by Oracle, who run their own virtualization platform based on XenCommunity. KVM is wasteful and requires VT support even for Linux machines. Not only that, but its virtualized hardware is legacy old hardware supplied by QEMU. The leading virtualization solutions

Re: better platform for virtualization

2010-01-19 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/1/20 Etzion Bar-Noy eza...@tournament.org.il: PV drivers were released by Oracle, who run their own virtualization platform based on XenCommunity. Just wondering - are these required to be installed separately when trying to run Windows on CentOS