Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-15 Thread guy keren
Dotan Cohen wrote: I'm not sure I agree with your claim about old Actcom's staff. I know most of them (except one, I think) were not hired by Bezeq Int. Really? They assured me that the staff stayed, and I have gotten L-word help when I needed it. Netvision would not help me when I couldn't

Re: As an employer what type of project (Engineering) you would like to see ?

2009-06-10 Thread guy keren
each employer has their own preferences - so stick to something you will enjoy, and do it as deeply and as broadly as you can, given the time frame. it doesn't matter what the project is about as long as it is challenging - what matters is what you did in it eventually. --guy Boris

Re: software engineering project

2009-06-10 Thread guy keren
and you really think that a student with no industrial experience and no access to statistics from the industrial world, can conduct such research seriously? --guy shlomo bauer wrote: HI, As a former professor teaching software engineering, I was bit surprised by your posting -- perhaps I

Re: As an employer what type of project (Engineering) you would like to see ?

2009-06-10 Thread guy keren
most companies will prefer that you do a _successful_ project - i.e. that you'll get, eventually, something that does what you planned to do, or that will make some kind of (even the tiniest) break-through. however, achieving this in a research project is not very likely. when people here

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-09 Thread guy keren
looks like www.actcom.co.il doesn't respond to requests any longer. users.actcom.co.il does respond to requests. it looks like this breaks my site as well, since i've used www.actcom.co.il in the links between my pages :0 i guess i'll modify the site for a new URL and upload a new version

Re: switch in gawk

2009-05-10 Thread guy keren
i fails also on ubuntu 8.04 (certainly not the latest ubuntu since 9.04 came out, though). --guy Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Hi, I would like to run a tiny and trivial gawk configuration survey. Background: I wrote a bunch of gawk scripts lately, and without giving it much thought I used the

Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE] gdb - customize it the way you want by Guy Keren

2009-05-01 Thread guy keren
! == Future lectures: 18/5/09 gdb in Greater Depth: Guy Keren 25/5/09 OpenCL Overview: Ofer Rosenberg 1/6/09 Compiling Effectively for Cell with GCC: Revital Eres 15/6/09 Arduino - Open Source Hardware and a Viewport to Micro Manufacturing: Amy Chayun

Re: Kernel memory management problem

2009-03-02 Thread guy keren
if you don't care about the speed of copying the data and of slowing down the disk media consderably during this copying, try to change the copy program, so it will use the O_DIRECT flag when opening the file (and then you'll need to make sure the buffers you pass to write() are aligned to

Re: Kernel memory management problem

2009-03-02 Thread guy keren
keren c...@actcom.co.il Cc: linux-il. linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 4:24 PM On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:16 PM, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: if you don't care about the speed of copying the data and of slowing down the disk media consderably during this copying, try

Re: Bank Leumi site finally works from Linux

2009-02-11 Thread guy keren
Gilboa Davara wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 13:27 +0200, Yuval Hager wrote: I was happily amazed to find out that the new revamped site of Bank Leumi fully works using Opera on Linux. I also tested FF, and it seems to work fine too (including viewing cheques images, graphs etc.). So long IE

Re: [off] job offer - Softwa re Engineer in RD – Python Specialist

2008-12-11 Thread guy keren
Shachar Shemesh wrote: guy keren wrote: (note: the work is in a linux environment - which is why i'm also sending this message on this list). I speak for myself here, but I don't think, especially in this rocky era, that we should be too picky. I wouldn't like to see openings for Windows

[off] job offer - Software Eng ineer in RD – Python Specialist

2008-12-10 Thread guy keren
(note: the work is in a linux environment - which is why i'm also sending this message on this list). A Sequoia backed company located in the north is looking for an experienced software engineer with extensive knowledge of Python Title: Software Engineer in RD – Python Specialist

Re: silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread guy keren
there are certain constructs of quoting that you simply cannot do with a shell. put your 'ssh -i /root/rsync.id' command in a script file, and supply the script file in the '-e' flag of rsync. you may also pus the 'ssh -i ...' in a shell function - it'll work just the same. --guy Amos

Re: silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread guy keren
Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/12/5 guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: there are certain constructs of quoting that you simply cannot do with a shell. put your 'ssh -i /root/rsync.id' command in a script file, and supply the script file in the '-e' flag of rsync. Yes I though about that - but it's very

Re: silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread guy keren
Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/12/5 guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: this is a great way to write write-only code. often-times, the simple solution, even if it is uglier, is the one that'll be easier to maintain later on. I think the external-script solution is uglier because it's yet another file

Re: GNU Make Problems in Trying to Create a Directory Times and Again

2008-09-17 Thread guy keren
as a workaround - use mkdir -p. Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! When using this makefile: http://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/code/backup.mak (Mandriva Cooker, Pentium4) I'm getting the following: shlomi:~/conf/Bash/backup$ make -f backup.mak osvn # (cd

Re: Byte per month?

2008-09-08 Thread guy keren
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: How do I keep track of the number of bytes sent and received per month? To be exact I'm running a 2.4.34 kernel, and the interface is ppp0 using the old pptp-linux user space driver. Being able to resolve it to the something like every 10 minutes would be fine, I

[OT] Sequoia backed startup looking for a Linux Systems/Kernel Developer

2008-09-04 Thread guy keren
Hi, the (new) startup company i work for is looking for linux developers - see the below ad. if anyone considers themselves suitable, please send me your CV. thanks, guy --- Sequoia backed startup looking for a Linux Systems/Kernel Developer A Sequoia backed company based in

Re: Puppet anyone

2008-08-08 Thread guy keren
in fact - if you (ohad) actually _used_ it in a non-trivla setup - that'll be quite interesting. if you will also take the time comparing it to cfengine - even better. --guy sara fink wrote: I would be interested to hear it on haifux. Is it possible? On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Ohad

Re: Corrupted stack - Why Ubuntu 7.10 does not have libsafe; does not show errors in ?

2008-05-20 Thread guy keren
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: guy keren wrote: when you can use valgrind - most other things are pretty useless. did you encounter a memory-handling bug that valgrind failed to catch, while another tool (such as libsafe) did catch? note: i never used libsafe, so i might be missing something - i

Re: Corrupted stack - Why Ubuntu 7.10 does not have libsafe; does not show errors in ?

2008-05-18 Thread guy keren
when you can use valgrind - most other things are pretty useless. did you encounter a memory-handling bug that valgrind failed to catch, while another tool (such as libsafe) did catch? note: i never used libsafe, so i might be missing something - i simply compared valgrind to many other

Re: newbie grub question

2008-05-15 Thread guy keren
if you're that person from the past that has problems with colors, and you want to disable the splash screen during boot - you should edit the file everyone here mentioned (/boot/grub/menu.lst) and comment-out the line with the word 'splash'. then you'll get no annoying splash screen.

Re: /proc/pid/mem not working?

2008-05-02 Thread guy keren
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, I'm having some strange time with /proc/pid/mem. The manual page says: /proc/[number]/mem This file can be used to access the pages of a process's memory through open(2), read(2), and lseek(2). Some digging through the internet reveals that

Re: Posix/NTPL : Is particular thread alive ? (pthread_timedjoin_np ??)

2008-04-16 Thread guy keren
Lev Olshvang wrote: Hi friends, I seems that i have buggy implementation of pthread_timedjoin_np. Although linux does not documented this function yet ( see http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/missing_pages.html ), I suspect that on my installation this function does not work properly

Re: SCSI Mischif

2008-01-15 Thread guy keren
1. the order of assigning a SCSI Device file to a SCSI device, is the order of discovery. for example: if you have two internal SCSI controllers, the order of loading their drivers will change the device file assignment. sometimes, the existene of a USB disk-on-key in the system could

Re: forcing forms to the left in Firefx/Tapuz?

2007-12-06 Thread guy keren
Amos Shapira wrote: On 06/12/2007, Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, There is CTRL SHIFT X but that only works when editing text and it doesn't push any special chars to force it RTL or LTR.. Thanks - it indeed aligns the input field to the left but the display in Tapuz stays

Re: RedHat Cluster Suite as a replacement for linux-ha?

2007-11-30 Thread guy keren
they are both the same thing, in general. i am not sure which is easier to configure. the redhat cluster suite is easier to install on RHEL (and thus also in CentOS). heartbeat comes as part of SLES(10?), and is easier to install there. --guy Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, I'm beginning to

Re: concurrent timers on linux

2007-11-10 Thread guy keren
i think you have a simple bug in your code that causes the behaviour you're talking about. i would suggest that, as an exercise, you write a program with only 2 threads, have one of them wait (with pthread_cond_timedwait) for 10 seconds and then print a message with the thread ID and

Re: concurrent timers on linux

2007-11-10 Thread guy keren
on. Does this seem to be corrct, specifically the seconds I add to tmspec.tv_sec? Thanks, Rafi. -Original Message- From: guy keren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:23 AM To: Rafi Cohen Cc: 'Gilad Ben-Yossef'; linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: concurrent timers

Re: limiting cpu

2007-09-30 Thread guy keren
Erez D wrote: On 9/30/07, Ilya Konstantinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/30/07, Erez D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way, other then using nice (which doesn't really do what i want) to limit cpu usage of an app ? is there a way to limit firefox to a certain amount of cpu (not via nice)

Re: Hard disk image mounting problem

2007-09-28 Thread guy keren
Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, My hard disk failed and I had to ddrescue it to an image file. What I did is copy the whole HD to image file. So now I have hda.img The problem is that now I want to work on the separate partitions in the image, which I don't know how to do. 'fdisk -l hda.img' will not

Re: Link back open deleted files - a working solution

2007-09-13 Thread guy keren
Constantine Shulyupin wrote: Here is similar solution: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vfs-undelete/ this looks like a dead link there's nothing to download yet, and when browsing via CVS, i only see empty directories, no files. am i missing something? it looks as if there were files

Re: Link back open deleted files - a working solution

2007-09-13 Thread guy keren
Amos Shapira wrote: On 13/09/2007, *guy keren* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Constantine Shulyupin wrote: Here is similar solution: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vfs-undelete/ Yes indeed, it looks like its purpose is identical to fdlink's, though

Re: Career advice needed

2007-09-01 Thread guy keren
Herouth Maoz wrote: On 01/09/2007, at 03:22, Amos Shapira wrote: , you might want to consider expanding your existing skills towards related ones - SQL database design and programming should be useful in many places. Oh, SQL, table structure design, stored procedures, transactions - it

Re: Career advice needed

2007-08-31 Thread guy keren
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Herouth Maoz wrote: I can use these 6 months to develop my skills in some other area of programming, and maybe even get some experience by participating in an open source project of some kind. What I'd like your advice on is - what directions are popular, have high

Re: Binding to an IP but using anonymous ports

2007-07-29 Thread guy keren
Amos Shapira wrote: On 29/07/07, *Gilad Ben-Yossef* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: guy keren wrote: here is something interesting: man 7 socket and look for 'SO_BINDTODEVICE' You might find the following example useful

Re: Binding to an IP but using anonymous ports

2007-07-27 Thread guy keren
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to conduct initiated TCP communication while binding to a certain IP address, but still use the anonymous port range? At the moment, I know of two modes of work: 1. Bind to a specific port, whether on a specific IP the machine has or all IPs

Re: Time Clock

2007-06-19 Thread guy keren
Amos Shapira wrote: On 19/06/07, Chaim Keren Tzion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any recommendations for a workers time clock system. (Manual time entry ie. no card swiping) It would include: Reporting of work hours Comments Vacation and sick days. Holidays Reports generating capabilities. There

Re: Is pthread_mutex_lock fair?

2007-06-09 Thread guy keren
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, In principle, a mutex needs to satisfy two conditions: 1. It should never ever ever allow two threads/processes in simultaneously (exclusion) 2. A blocked process/thread should know that, sooner or later, and assuming that other threads are occasionally releasing

Re: multithread problem

2007-05-21 Thread guy keren
Rafi Cohen wrote: Hi, I'm asking for further assistance for yet another problem I encounter with my project, this time concerning multithreads. In order to explain my problem, I'll write a short example: main: pthread_mutex_lock(mut); flag = 0; pthread_cond_broadcast(cond); printf(after signal:

Re: need some help with tcp/ip programming

2007-05-18 Thread guy keren
Rafi Cohen wrote: Hi Shachar, can you please give more detailed explanation why a thread per socket is not a wise idea? Not that I'm in a hurry to impplement this way, but I'll give you an example where I thought this could be a solution for me. One of the requirements of my project asks that my

Re: need some help with tcp/ip programming

2007-05-18 Thread guy keren
search the net for better documentation, but if anybody can give me brief explanation of this and which of them is relevant for my case, I'll be more than glad to listen and learn. Thanks, Rafi. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of guy keren Sent

Re: need some help with tcp/ip programming

2007-05-15 Thread guy keren
Shachar Shemesh wrote: guy keren wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: On 14/05/07, *guy keren* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alas - I think that I've just read not long ago that there is a bug in Linux' select in implementing just that and it might miss the close from the other side

Re: need some help with tcp/ip programming

2007-05-14 Thread guy keren
Rafi Cohen wrote: Hi, as a pproject for a company I'm writing a tcp/ip application on linux using C language. ah welcome, welcome to the pleasure dome... My application has 2 connections as client to remote servers and is by itself a server accepting remote client connections. I'm using

Re: need some help with tcp/ip programming

2007-05-14 Thread guy keren
(rafi - your quoting mixes your text with mine - you might want to fix this - it was very hard to read your letter). see my comments below: Rafi Cohen wrote: Hi Guy Rafi Cohen wrote: So, I have a couple of questions and I'll most apreciate any assistance. 1. Would you confirm that

Re: need some help with tcp/ip programming

2007-05-14 Thread guy keren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: amos shapira wrote: Maybe using poll(2) will help you around that (I also heard that poll is generally more efficient because it helps the kernel avoid having to re-interpret the syscall parameters on every call). this is interesting. can anyone provide more info on

Re: need some help with tcp/ip programming

2007-05-14 Thread guy keren
Amos Shapira wrote: On 14/05/07, *guy keren* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafi Cohen wrote: Reading some documentation on tcp/ip programming, I had the impression that the select mechanism should detect such remote disconnect event, thus enabling

Re: need some help with tcp/ip programming

2007-05-14 Thread guy keren
Amos Shapira wrote: On 15/05/07, *guy keren* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you are tinkering with semantics and so miss the real issue (do you work as a consultant? :). did you write that to rafi or to me? i'm not dealing with semantics - i

Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about science

2007-04-25 Thread guy keren
please stop feeding the troll. --guy On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:52:11 +0300 From: Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Uri Even-Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-il [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [off topic] Some new articles I wrote about

Re: Recommendation for software/hardware for virtualization

2007-04-16 Thread guy keren
Tzahi Fadida wrote: On Monday 16 April 2007 22:16:00 Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: 5) A virtual machine such as VMware. You will need a decent computer, enough memory, etc., but the requirements are modest by today's standards. I run Linux on a T43 Thinkpad and there are some things (being

Re: MySQL etc hardware whines

2007-03-22 Thread guy keren
Peter wrote: Afaik the fastest servers (including Google and many others) do not use SQL for anything. An optimized hash table (tiered etc) should work much better than any SQL. funny you should mention google - because all their computers that run the google sites, are no-name 1U and

Re: MySQL etc hardware whines

2007-03-22 Thread guy keren
to what you said - it's you who brought up google as a good example, after all. --guy Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:03:51PM +0200, guy keren wrote: they use a replicating file-system + lots of communicatoins redundancy + monitoring software + lots of technicians

Re: OT: Linked lists

2007-03-20 Thread guy keren
for y'all this might be a joke. i currently work for that company :0 try to imagine what i feel about this ;) --guy i diss-associate myself from any patents on structures less advanced then Fibonacci heaps Oron Peled wrote: On Tuesday, 20 בMarch 2007 13:05, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: This

Re: Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.

2007-03-09 Thread guy keren
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007, Tzahi Fadida wrote about Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.: Can someone throw some tips as to how i should proceed? Let me give you my 2 cents. Since so many people have replied already, with so many ideas, I'll try to go against the flow

Re: Big Off-Topic: Finding a linux related job.

2007-03-08 Thread guy keren
sorry for top-posting - but my answer is not related to what you write here, rather to things i've learned about you via other means. your first problem is quite simple - you went for an M.SC in industrial engineering, in something that people perceive as information systems. when people look

Re: Visual diff tool for patches.

2007-03-05 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:03:49 +0200 From: Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexander Indenbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Israel Linux Mailing list linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: Visual diff tool for patches. On Monday 05 March 2007 14:33,

Re: Visual diff tool for patches.

2007-03-05 Thread guy keren
Tzahi Fadida wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 19:40, guy keren wrote: On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:03:49 +0200 From: Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexander Indenbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Israel Linux Mailing list linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re

Re: the great jerusalem firewall

2007-03-02 Thread guy keren
Yonah Russ wrote: On 3/2/07, *Peter* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip You are of course assuming that the laws are perfect and consistent, and constant. The laws are made by a few people who think that they are in a position to judge for many, and who strongly

MySQL License (was: Re: PostgresQL database on raw partition (and something about Access conversion)

2007-02-25 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Tzahi Fadida, from the post of Sun, 25 Feb: On Sunday 25 February 2007 16:09, Alex Dover wrote: There was a question about business perspective of MySQL vs. PostgreSQL... As far as I can tell , MySQL is not free for commercial distribution.

Re: MySQL License

2007-02-25 Thread guy keren
Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting guy keren, from the post of Sun, 25 Feb: Didn't MySQL used to be plublished under dual licenses? either GPL or embedded? it still is. however, the other license is commercial - i.e. you need to pay $$$ for that. Choo, You've been in this business a long time, I

Re: PostgresQL database on raw partition (and something about Access conversion)

2007-02-20 Thread guy keren
Amos Shapira wrote: On 21/02/07, *Tzahi Fadida* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends. Sometimes queries takes longer. However it is not the point. The reason for backupping once in a while is for PITR - point in time recovery which is a new facility in

Re: PostgresQL database on raw partition (and something about Access conversion)

2007-02-20 Thread guy keren
Tzahi Fadida wrote: On Tuesday 20 February 2007 14:37, Maxim Veksler wrote: What about redundancy. I need an active-active cluster for databases to get the 5*'9's up time euphoria. Is there an open source database that can do that? Planing to? Tried to? PostgreSQL can do that and i am betting

Re: looking for a drawing application

2007-02-19 Thread guy keren
(i'll top post you too! ;) i used to use xfig to make drawings at work. i got tired of the crummy interface, and after some searches found dia - which does everything better then xfig, and looks better. i'm not sure xfig is being developed any more. i use dia whenever i need something, and

Re: Locating bandwidth bottlenecks

2007-02-15 Thread guy keren
please DON'T hammer down on DNS server to check your bandwidth limits - you'll disrupt the service of everyone else by doing so... the only way i saw for this so far, is by connecting to different ftp servers, and see what they give you. this is far from being ideal, though, since you don't

Re: Locating bandwidth bottlenecks

2007-02-15 Thread guy keren
Baruch Even wrote: * guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070215 18:46]: please DON'T hammer down on DNS server to check your bandwidth limits - you'll disrupt the service of everyone else by doing so... About two requests a second for a minute or so is hardly hammering it. Obviously, running

Re: Learning kernel modules development

2007-02-13 Thread guy keren
Tzahi Fadida wrote: Hi, As you might guess from a previous thread, i am trying to learn modules development. I use kubuntu as my dist. My first goal is to be able to run the hello world module example in the linux device drivers 3rd edition book. Apparently in 2.6 you need to have the whole

Re: Looking for a kernel book recommendation.

2007-02-08 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Tzahi Fadida wrote: I am looking for a book that will help me get more into programming in the kernel. Specifically in the storage areas and kernel programming etiquette. Perhaps something current like for kernel 2.6? Any recommendations? linux device drivers, 3rd

Re: Vmware server 1.0.1 supports webcam?

2007-02-08 Thread guy keren
download the software, get a 30-days evaluation license, and see if this actually solves the problem. better then to pay up-front and then fount it does not help you. --guy Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, Short question - do I have to buy VMware Workstation 5 in order to make Windows XP Pro

Re: possible to dial into netvision from linux?

2007-02-06 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Peter wrote: On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:38:50AM +0200, Ori Idan wrote: Yes, but most AT compliant PCI modems today are

Re: possible to dial into netvision from linux?

2007-02-06 Thread guy keren
Peter wrote: On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, guy keren wrote: assuming no one develops new modems any longer (what for? 3rd-world countries?), it's likely the same chips are used, and hence - the same Right, this is way up there with '640k RAM should be enough for everyone'. Rest assured

Re: possible to dial into netvision from linux?

2007-02-06 Thread guy keren
apparently you, too, misinterpreted what i wrote. i said develop new modems. i didn't say manufacture new modems. ah, well... --guy Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Guy, No argument with most of what you wrote, but: guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: assuming no one develops new modems any

Re: vmware doesn't find libgnomevfs module?

2007-01-03 Thread guy keren
just a silly question - what is 'VMware 1.0.1'? VMware has many products - most of them have higher current version numbers. other then that - this sounds like a compiler versions mismatch to me - for some reason, your vmware-thingy is taking gnome libraries from your system, instead of its own

Re: strange error message

2006-12-29 Thread guy keren
you have a redundant ';' character in: Z4=`expr $Z3; + 9` --guy On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 19:49 +0200, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi, Thank you very much for the good advices. Now, to a question more related to linux. I wrote this small script to get a more pleasing output from bidiv:

Lecture announcement: LVM2 (Logical Volume Management) Under Linux

2006-11-26 Thread guy keren
This Monday (27.11.06), at 18:30, Haifa Linux Club will gather to hear guy keren (i.e, me) talk about LVM2 (Logical Volume Management - 2nd version) Abstract: LVM is our way to say no to getting stuck with fixed-size disks, and to having to heavily rely on backups. In an enterprise

Re: Picture spams - again.

2006-11-26 Thread guy keren
the moment you publish anything on the web in a non-anonymous way - this becomes useless. i had a hoard of image spams here in the last few month, and about 3 weeks ago most of them were gone. i think someone in my ISP changed their anti-spam software or setup. i think that you have to give up

Re: ScsiSata Inquiry tool for linux

2006-10-15 Thread guy keren
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Amos Shapira wrote: On 14/10/06, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm afraid that a simple scsi rescan will not work - there's no such thing in kernel 2.4 (neither in kernel 2.6, before 2.6.12). we had to work for a while in order to get a rescan to work

Re: ScsiSata Inquiry tool for linux

2006-10-13 Thread guy keren
[since you're a top-poster, i'll top-post too ;)] in kernel 2.4, for SCSI disks, there is support for at most 16 * 16 = 256 devices. there are 16 major numbers (listed in the kernel's documentation), and for each of them, there are minors 0, 16, 32, 48 that are used for the devices (the

Re: Israeli ADSL dialers and privacy

2006-10-13 Thread guy keren
from customer support point of view, it is easier to give people CDs that they just need to install, then give them written instructions. if you give the average user written instructions, they are likely to make a mistake. --guy On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 09:13 +0200, Julian Daich wrote: El jue,

Re: ScsiSata Inquiry tool for linux

2006-10-13 Thread guy keren
wrote: Good idea, Also, if I remmeber correctly sg3utils allows to issue a SCSI RESCAN, which I can use to overcome the 'linux kernel not being aware of new LUNs' issue. 2.6.x really made things sane in this area. On 10/13/06, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Limiting the number of simultaneous HTTP connection per IP

2006-10-10 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Amos Shapira wrote: Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:25:05 +1000 From: Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-il linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: Limiting the number of simultaneous HTTP connection per IP On 10/10/06, Sagi Bashari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL

Re: Nfs mounting and unmounting a machine on which a shutdown is performed later on

2006-10-09 Thread guy keren
NFS soft-mounting means data could be lost. you never use this option on a production host that serves important data. instead, you make sure the server it mounted the file-system from, is more reliable then the server mounting the NFS share. this is because, a soft-mount may lose data in case

Re: Login problem

2006-09-28 Thread guy keren
ok. i completely misunderstood your original mail, and i see now why this works. sorry, --guy On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 22:00 +0300, Michael Vasiliev wrote: On Saturday September 23 2006 19:18, guy keren wrote: On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 06:25 +0300, Michael Vasiliev wrote: On Saturday September

Re: Build processes

2006-09-28 Thread guy keren
(you didn't state if you are interested in becoming an employee in one company, or a consultant. i assume you're talking about being employed by a single company). if you'll check this issue, you'll find that different companies have completely different definitions for what a configuration

Re: Login problem

2006-09-23 Thread guy keren
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 06:25 +0300, Michael Vasiliev wrote: On Saturday September 23 2006 03:31, Amos Shapira wrote: On 23/09/06, Michael Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not entirely correct, if you have some privileges, namely if you are still a root user inside a chroot padded cell,

Re: Meetings in Haifa

2006-09-21 Thread guy keren
it looks like haifux is down due to vipe being off the network. we're trying to fix this, one way or another. will let you know when things are working again, and we can schedule meetings again. --guy On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 12:03 +0200, Ben Hornedo wrote: I haven't seen any mention of Haifux

RE: FC device driver for sniffing

2006-09-15 Thread guy keren
try to see what other vendors of fiber-channel sniffers are doing - e.g. finisar. i think that the fact that a fiber-channel protocol analyzer cannot be found that runs on linux, implies there's good chance that this is not possible to do with commonly available hardware. you might have the

Re: paying 'Bituach Leumi' using Firefox

2006-09-15 Thread guy keren
סתם שאלה - למה ישר לתבוע? לא מוטב קודם לדבר ולהסביר, לפני שרצים לבית משפט? הרי המטרה שלנו אינה להרוויח כסף - אלא להוביל לתיקון המצב. יש סיכוי שדיבור והסברה לאנשי ביטוח לאומי יוביל לתיקון המצב באופן מהיר יותר. אם לא - אז אפשר לדבר על תביעות. --גיא On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 12:46 +0300, Moish

Re: solved (was: udp question)

2006-09-05 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Erez D wrote: recvfrom() returns the data needed on the server when using sendto() and all the other answers you got are nonsense. you don't need to listen on both sides, and you have no problem working in a bi-directional manner with udp. -- guy For world domination -

Re: basic iSCSI configuration refuses to work :-(

2006-08-23 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Ez-Aton wrote: RH Cluster is a bad joke. linux-ha is also not so good (e.g. it cannot recover from loss of access to external disks). I have used various HA solutions, including VCS, SunCluster, HACMP, and even MSCS, and without a doubt, RH Cluster sux. It lacks

Re: No time statistics in gprof, although multithtread hook is pre-loaded

2006-08-01 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Olshvang Lev wrote: Hello friends, I am trying to get profiling data for the CA product. They built for me executables with gprof option. The CA insisted their daemons are not multithreaded, but I sawthat they useg++ STL (STL surely is thread-safe and uses pthread

Re: use the interview (was: Re: Recommendations for XP under Linux)

2006-07-05 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: On 7/3/06, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not that it will help you this time, but for next time: when i interview in companies and we get to the terms of employment stage, i clearly state that i require having a linux desktop. in my

use the interview (was: Re: Recommendations for XP under Linux)

2006-07-03 Thread guy keren
not that it will help you this time, but for next time: when i interview in companies and we get to the terms of employment stage, i clearly state that i require having a linux desktop. in my first few jobs, i simply had a linux desktop and that's it. exchange weasn't so popular back then, and

Re: Haifux problems ? (Was: RE: Introductory lectures on Linux)

2006-07-03 Thread guy keren
). What's happening ? Regarding my original question: From: guy keren On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Michael Sternberg wrote: I'm looking for slides for introductory lecture on Linux for approximately 90 minutes. Please, point me on right direction the right direction depends on what you want

Re: optimization guidelines required for C.

2006-06-29 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can any one send me the optimizing guidelines in C language for coding ? there are no guidelines. you question is like asking for guidelines for writing stable applications. you should look for a book on the subject. -- guy For world domination -

Re: Introductory lectures on Linux

2006-06-29 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Michael Sternberg wrote: I'm looking for slides for introductory lecture on Linux for approximately 90 minutes. Target auditory - windows developers and QA, never touched anything but Windows all their lives :) Should be in English, Hebrew is not good. I think I'veseen

Re: amd64-bit/32-bit woes

2006-06-20 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi experts, there are no experts for this subject here, it seems. try hobbists - you might have better luck ;) anyway, i got some hunch that you'll need to test, see below: After leaving the 64-system for a while, yesterday when I returned to

Re: ways to split single passwd cracking john?

2006-06-11 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Michael Green wrote: Is there an easy way to split a single john process into several (smaller?) tasks each running ona separate CPU in order to speed up the cracking process? I've got a dozen of Opteron cores idling here... i think you forgot to add and the reason i'm

Re: projectors and Linux

2006-05-30 Thread guy keren
note that: 1. various projectors support a limited resolution (e.g. up to 800x600). 2. various projectors support a limited refresh rate (e.g. up to 75Hz). if you try to feed them with a higher resolution/refresh rate, they go blank. what you might want to do, is prepare an alternative X

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: problem with usb2.0 usbkey with kernel 2.6.8]

2006-05-07 Thread guy keren
just out of curiousity - most USB disk-on-key devices i saw had a partition on them that was supposed to be mounted (i.e. you'd need to mount /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdb3, rather then /dev/sdb). did you verify that you indeed should mount the entire device? doesn't fdisk recognize partitions on this

Re: spelling in vim

2006-03-12 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Tzahi Fadida wrote: I am using gvim in windows to edit latex files in english and render them with miktex. I use aspell to spell-check words in the document. However, aspell does not seem to go beyond the words, i.e. to how they are positioned in a sentence and issues

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