Re: dependency hell OR it should not be this hard

2019-08-11 Thread Ari Becker
No, it doesn't have to be that hard. Plugging NixOS: https://nixos.org/nixos/about.html which solves this issue by making safe rollbacks as easy as rebooting and choosing the previous immutable system configuration. On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 9:06 AM Shlomo Solomon wrote: > Let me start by saying

Re: Moving away from cron jobs to some workflow manager

2018-06-19 Thread Ari Becker
Hi Rabin, Did you consider using Jenkins? It may be a little heavyweight, but it should be relatively easy to set up and configure. You can use the same scripts you're using today, the ability to state which jobs run on which nodes, set up dependencies between them, set timeouts, set cron

Re: Linux install party @ HUJI

2014-11-25 Thread Ari Becker
Yeah, I'm also a weekends-only kinda guy, but if it fit with my schedule then I could help. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014, 16:29 Rabin Yasharzadehe ra...@rabin.io wrote: I'm limited to only Sundays Thursdays but +1 for helping, -- Rabin On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:57 PM, E.S. Rosenberg

Re: OT: Cell phone service providers

2014-02-11 Thread Ari Becker
As far as I'm concerned, Golan should be the default. I call and am called by relatives in the US so their price and features are unbeatable. Their service is great and so is the online control panel. I haven't had problems with SMS with Golan, but honestly, these days everyone uses Whatsapp

Re: OT: Cell phone service providers

2014-02-11 Thread Ari Becker
geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/11/2014 5:15 PM, Ari Becker wrote: As far as I'm concerned, Golan should be the default. I call and am called by relatives in the US so their price and features are unbeatable. Their service is great and so is the online control panel. I haven't had

Re: Choosing a new bank

2013-06-09 Thread Ari Becker
Mizrachi works well on Arch + Awesome WM + Chromium, but I rarely do more than check my balances with it so YMMV On Jun 9, 2013 7:49 PM, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com wrote: After getting the reply we only support Windows and Mac one time too many from Bank Leumi, when reporting about

Re: /usr/opt instead of /opt?

2012-03-08 Thread Ari Becker
If you're familiar with the Fedora proposed move from /bin and /sbin to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, you see that one of the ways that they're ensuring legacy compatibility is, after moving everything under /usr, then symlinking /bin to /usr/bin and /sbin to /usr/sbin. See:

Re: Announce: Hspell 1.2

2012-02-29 Thread Ari Becker
Thank you - Hspell 1.1 now flagged as out of date on Arch, should be updated soon. -Ari On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Moish mo...@mln.co.il wrote: Thank you ! Moish __**_ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Scheduling a Meeting in a Cafe or Restaurant

2011-11-06 Thread Ari Becker
If there's smoke, there's fire; if there's fire, there's rm -rf /* -Ari 2011/11/6 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com 2011/11/4 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com As I told wrote to you in private - use meetup.com, send a link to linux-il and manage all of this off-list. first, i think this

Re: Switching a newly-installed PC from Gnome to XFCE?

2011-10-18 Thread Ari Becker
://packages.debian.org/sid/slim. Just remember to edit your /etc/inittab appropriately, i.e. make sure you boot to run-level 5 and load slim: x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim /dev/null (copy-pasted from Slim documentation). so that you don't install slim and end up booting gdm anyways. -Ari Becker On Sat