Re: You ain't paranoid if people really are out to get you!
Hear, Hear! On 10/26/07, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about You ain't paranoid if people really are out to get you!: Since the topic came up earlier today, I thought this might be relevant: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/25/google.israel What was attributed to government paranoia or greed turns out to be good defense. Forgive me for saying this, but this piece of news, which was also published in all major Hebrew newspaper, is one of the worst pieces of crap that was published in the last year. A good journalist should know that reporting a fact is not the same as reporting the whole truth. For example, a journalist might report that Nadav Har'El was not found guilty of a murder, which is technically true (I really haven't been found guilty of any murder), but incorrectly implies that I have been suspected of some murder, and might cause readers to wrongly associate me with some murder or some suspicion, that never existed in the first place. In the case of the story you quoted, the papers basically quoted a fact: that the Hamas was using Google Earth to see maps of Israel to decide where to launch their rockets to. But quoting this fact as a piece of news *implies* to the average reader that the Hamas are somehow dependent on Google Earth for their targeting Israel, and if Google Earth did not exist (or was somehow blocked by Israel) - the rockets would immediately stop. But the plain truth is that Google Earth doesn't give Hamas much beyond what a plain printed map - of the type you can buy in any bookstore or gas station - could give them. They are probably using Google instead of the printed map because of the same reason we use it - convenience - not necessity. Similarly, I am guessing that the Hamas are writing their terrorism plans on a computer with Microsoft Word, not on pieces of paper. So, why not publish a piece of news saying that Microsoft Word Used to Plan Terror Attacks! After which surely many readers will want to block Microsoft sales in the Gaza strip, and many readers might start believing that Microsoft is evil and must be boycotted... -- Nadav Har'El| Friday, Oct 26 2007, 14 Heshvan 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |What's tiny, yellow and very dangerous? A http://nadav.harel.org.il |canary with the super-user password. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Next Telux Presentation: Rehearsal Intro to Linux Presentation on 4/Nov/2007
Hi all! The Tel Aviv Linux club will gather again on Sunday, 4-November-2007 to hear a rehearsal/preparation presentation of the Welcome to Linux Intro to Linux, as given by Meital Bourvine. The purpose of the presentation is to be better prepared for the actual presentation. We will meet at 18:30 at Schreiber 008 (Computer Science building) in Tel Aviv University. More information can be found here: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/ Attendance is free and everyone are welcome to attend. Regards, Shlomi Fish - Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:http://www.shlomifish.org/ If it's not in my E-mail it doesn't happen. And if my E-mail is saying one thing, and everything else says something else - E-mail will conquer. -- An Israeli Linuxer = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NETDEV WATCHDOG transmit timeout?
Hi, Under heavy traffic, I'm getting the above syslog message every day or two. Unfortunately, the failure is far from graceful: ifconfig up/down doesn't help, and the system is occasionally hung so that it's unreachable via other interfaces, forcing a reboot. Some more details: Dual core 3.4GHz Intel CPU # cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.18.5abc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #3 SMP Fri Sep 7 21:32:00 IDT 2007 # lspci -v [...] 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 19) Subsystem: SysKonnect Unknown device 4340 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 74 Memory at d002 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] I/O ports at 9000 [size=256] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 6000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [5c] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable+ Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting [...] # cat /var/log/messages [...] Oct 26 09:39:45 abc kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth3: transmit timed out Oct 26 09:39:45 abc kernel: sky2 hardware hung? flushing Oct 26 09:48:35 abc kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth3: transmit timed out Oct 26 09:48:35 abc kernel: sky2 status report lost? [...] A quick google didn't find anything blindingly relevant. Any ideas, suggestions or hints humbly accepted. Thanks, Rony To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
