Re: Questions for network/hardware engineer candidates?

I'd ask for a "war story" that the candidate is proud of. How s/he approached the problem, how methodical (or not), how false leads were eliminated, what lessons were learned. >From there I'd invent a slight variation, and see how the candidate handles it. You can also describe the symptoms of a

Re: portable encypted filesystem

https://www.boxcryptor.com Note that they have a freemium business model. The free version should be good enough for simple stuff. On יום ג׳, 17 בנוב׳ 2015 at 11:27 Erez D wrote: > Hello > > It is very nice to hold some data on the cloud accessible from everywhere > however

Re: geolocation in firefox

Hola (hola.org) might be able to help you re IP addresses. Rony On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Tomer Cohen to...@gmx.net wrote: The browser geolocation feature meant to provide sites access to an accurate location data from a GPS receiver or other techniques. This feature is in use by

Re: [hopefully on topic] is SSH secure in default configuration?

The algorithm itself is the least of your worries. In modern cryptography, key management is the preferred target. With regards to ssh, this means the key negotiation phase of the protocol handshake. Using your own keys of reasonable size, and managing them properly, is your best bet for

Re: Watch out for Bezeq

plug PasswordSafe http://pwsafe.org, while mainly developed for Windows, has usable buildshttps://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/Linux-BETA/0.91/for deb rpm distros. Artistic License 2.0 http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license-2.0.php. /plug disclaimerI'm the admin/lead

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

Hi, Thanks to all for your replies. Based on them and reviews, I've decided on an HP Officejet Pro 8600+ (710 NIS, picking it up this evening). Will let the honorable forum know if I find any surprises with this, for better or worse. Cheers, Rony

Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

Greetings, My trusty HP all-in-one has finally gone to the great bit-bucket in the sky after one of the scanner lid hinges broke, and I'm looking for a replacement. This is for home use: Color printing is required by family members. Other than that, I'd like network connectivity (pref. via

Re: c/unix q

Nothing. You're just wasting resources (file descriptors) and making your code a bit harder to understand and maintain. Note that for pipe(), you can use both fds at both ends of the pipe, but it's very easy to get into a race condition.Better to open a pair of pipes, one for each direction (of

Re: Home made NAS

I've had good experience with FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/), but on a box with homogenous disks/controllers. YMMV, but it's definitely worth checking out. Rony On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM, David Suna da...@davidsconsultants.comwrote: I have a bunch of old machines lying around which

Re: Android phone question

Bought this for my daughter a few weeks ago, when the spec I had was the cheapest phone possible that can run whatsapp. She's* **very* happy with it (also installed some other apps, of course, but no hacking - yet). To my old eyes, the screen's a bit small, but hey, that's just me. R. On Thu,

Re: How can I explore what is causing my laptop to not come out of suspend properly when the lid is opened?

You might want to check the Lenovo support website to see if they've a BIOS/driver update for your model that addresses this issue. Rony On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Michael Shiloh michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com wrote: For years I had been hibernating my laptop (Lenova T60 and now T61)

Re: Walla mail from Linux - Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): The connection was reset.

Looks like Walla's having electric problems at their servers: http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000753302 R. On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012, geoffrey mendelson wrote about Re: Walla mail from Linux - Error 101

Re: what happens if

FTFM: The child process is created with a single thread - the one that called fork(). 2012/3/19 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com what happens if i am running a multithreaded app ( 3 threads ) and one thread calls fork() ? ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

I've had luck with 'sudo telinit 6' in cases where the reboot command failed. There's also a /proc variable that will force a reboot when written to, but its name escapes me for the moment. Rony Anyways, thanks for the pointers, trying them out now. For some reason, the machine doesn't seem

Re: init sequence

Hi, I'm not familiar with 'e2fsc stage', but I solved a similar problem a while ago by labelling the partitions and specifying the mount command with LABEL=abc instead of an actual device name. UUID also serves the same functiuons. Rony On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Avraham Rosenberg

[OT] Job offer: Linux system programmer in Haifa area

Hi, Posting for a friend: Looking for a Linux system level programmer in the Haifa area - Experience in C++ development on Linux + GDB - Knowledge in Linux system call usage - Kernel development is a plus - Work is for a new exciting startup. - The project is for about 2 months with a potential

[OT] Job Offer: Configuration Management Engineer

Hi, [Posting this for a friend. If interested, please send me your CV and I'll forward it.] A company in the Herzeliya area is looking for a person to take charge of their configuration management needs. This is a full-time position. Requirements as follows: - At least 2-3 year as team

RE: wiping files

Hi, If you're stuck with Windows, then Eraser (http://eraser.heidi.ie/) is a nice shred(1) equivalent + integration into Windows (e.g., right-click on a file gives you 'Erase' in the menu, support for copy+erase original, etc.). Rony -Original Message- From:

RE: Looking for books/tutorials about Linux I/O

http://www.nostarch.com/tlpi The site has links to some sample chapters you can download. The electronic version (pdf) seems like good value to me, at $50. Rony -Original Message- From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of Nadav

RE: CPU RAM in a storage box

DropBox is nice for what it does, but I'm not sure I'd consider them a backup service. For Linux-friendliness, I don't think that you can find something better than http://rsync.net/ http://rsync.net/, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Note that they have discounts for Open Source

RE: Laptop

Re which laptop, this is an interesting data point: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7851?hq_e=el http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7851?hq_e=elhq_m=1065883hq_l=3hq_v=392d56542 1 hq_m=1065883hq_l=3hq_v=392d565421 Re virtualization, I recommend the free open source VirtualBox, which works fine under Win7.

RE: Linux books, fast shipping?

Here's another vote for Book Depository. Another point in their favor is that they accept PayPal, whereas Amazon insists on having my credit card number. Rony _ From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of Jason Friedman Sent: Monday, August

RE: What to do with a constant flow of attempts to login to my compuet?

Hi Gabor, Moving sshd off port 22 to any non-standard port worked fine for me. Most attacks are too lazy to do a full portscan, so if they don't find the default port open, they just move to the next host. Of course, this is assuming that the attack chose you at random. If it's a targeted

RE: Kudos to Osem

Of course it's a good idea to praise them, *especially* if the choice was random. This increases the chances of the choice being non-random next time... Rony _ From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of Shachar Shemesh Sent: Monday,

[OT] Looking for a website conversion contractor/company

Hi, I'm looking for a person or company to convert a mostly static website (hmtl + SSI) to a modern CMS. The project includes: - Designing a front page to replace the current one - Designing a template for the contents - Converting/importing a respectable part of 3000 existing html files

RE: Codes snips on the web

http://www.nomorepasting.com/ http://pastebin.com/ http://pastebin.ca/ (In no particular order. I've used each of them a while ago.) Rony _ From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of Michael Ben-Nes Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009

RE: Virtualization recommendation

Hi, Here's another vote for VirtualBox. Using it in both Windows host / Linux guest, Linux(64bit) / Linux(32bit) and Linux / Windows. Integration with host is excellent. Support is also quick responsive. You might want to make sure your laptop has a healthy amount of RAM, regardless of the

RE: RE: Virtualization recommendation

recommendation 4GB should be enough. Right? David Suna da...@davidsconsultants.com ronys wrote: Hi, Here's another vote for VirtualBox. Using it in both Windows host / Linux guest, Linux(64bit) / Linux(32bit) and Linux / Windows. Integration with host is excellent. Support is also quick

RE: [OT] Power over radio is it a true thing or just a myth ?

ubergeek-mode Actually, the speed of light *in a vacuum* is the universal constant, invariant regardless of the observer's frame of reference. 'C' is so defined - the speed of light in vacuum. This is now understood to be such a basic constant that in 1983, the meter was defined in terms of the

RE: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

Note that if you're going to dd, at least use if=/dev/urandom. Running dd several (10) times is best (or using shred(1), which does the same). Rony _ From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of Shachar Shemesh Sent: Tuesday, August 18,

RE: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of Shachar Shemesh Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 5:17 PM To: ro...@acm.org Cc: 'ILUG' Subject: Re: Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support ronys wrote: Note that if you're going to dd, at least use if=/dev/urandom. Running dd several (10

RE: recommended remote backup service?

Hi, No direct experience, but I've heard good things about these guys: http://www.lingnu.com/en/backups.html as well as these http://www.rsync.net/ YMMV, of course. Rony -Original Message- From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf

RE: ssh from 012 cable to server in US fail

FWIW, Netvision, although they've started blocking outgoing SMTP (port 25), still allow SSH with no problems, both locally and to the US. I doubt that it's a Big Brother type of issue (yet). Who was it that said not to attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity? Chag Sameach,

Perl hack - fooling isatty() ?

Hi, I need to call e2fsck from a Perl script. Thing is, e2fsck checks if it's being run interactively or not (using isatty(0) isatty(1)), and exits if not. I know that calling e2fsck with -p/-n/-y would fix this, but this is not an option for me (don't ask). So, is there some Perl magic that

Israeli ISP blocking outgoing SMTP

Hi, For the last few days, an ISP who shall remain nameless (but who's name in octal is equal to 11) has decided to block outgoing SMTP connections to servers abroad. They've done this unilaterally, without notifying customers, and, for the first couple of calls to support, without admitting

RE: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

Indeed it's legal. When the anti-spam law was passed, a special exemption was put in to allow politicians to send spam. IIRC, this was Leiberman's initiative. Rony -Original Message- From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of Dotan

ssh -X woes

Hi, I've a subcontractor who ssh's in to our gateway via 'ssh -X gateway', and from there to other machines on our site, e.g., 'gateway% ssh -X target'. This used to work fine, allowing the user to run X apps on the target and display them on his machine. Recently, attempts to connect to the

RE: parental control - outbound firewall?

Hi Gabor, As a parent, I've decided not to restrict my kids' access to the Internet by technological means. Instead, I've discussed with each of them the do's and don'ts of surfing the Internet. As part of the struggle against various censorshi big-brother laws, ISOC and Bezeq have come up with

Configuring fallback IP address in dhclient.conf

Hi, I've an appliance (running Debian Etch) that needs to be able to run in an environment that might or might not have a dhcp server handy. I've made the following changes to dhclient.conf, and got surprising results: 1. The changes: timeout 10 ; lease { interface eth0; fixed-address

RE: Configuring fallback IP address in dhclient.conf [solved]

: Configuring fallback IP address in dhclient.conf ronys wrote: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:90:fb:15:e0:00 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:90:fb:15:e0:00 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4

RE: Dropbear SSH

Hi Oleg, No experience with Dropbear, but I've used LibTomCrypt in a couple of projects, and it rocks. You can configure it to the level of paranoia you're comfortable with, e.g., scrubbing memory that contains keying material, etc. - the typical security/performance and time/space tradeoffs.

RE: NIC woes with Debian MSI MS-7507

option, is that the motherboard does not support this chipset; There were (very rare ) cases in which such was the case; but these things happen. This can easily be checked with their support. Regards, Rami Rosen On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:14 PM, ronys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Debian etch

RE: NIC woes with Debian MSI MS-7507

PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Baruch Siach Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Rami Rosen'; linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: NIC woes with Debian MSI MS-7507 Hi Rony, On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:07:19PM +0300, ronys wrote: Hi Rami, Thanks

NIC woes with Debian MSI MS-7507

Hi, Debian etch (latest stable) distro installed on the above PC results in an unusable onboard NIC. /var/log/messages tell me that the NIC is Jul 15 19:15:54 hostname kernel: eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xf8822000, 00:1d:92:a1:96:19, IRQ 177 The module for it is found and loaded: Jul 15 19:15:54

RE: Under which keywords can such systems be found?

Hi, A friend of mine (in Israel) worked with these a couple of years ago - no idea how he bought them, though: http://www.gumstix.com/ HTH, Rony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Omer Zak Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 10:44 AM To:

RE: Where can I rent computers?

Hi David, If you’re willing to waive the location restriction, you might wish to check out Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2 Rony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David D Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 2:58

SourceForge down?

Hi, Is it only me, or is sourceforge.net unavailable over the last few hours? I can't reach them from Netvision or from Bezeqint. Slashdot.org also seems down (both are owned by SourceForge Inc. - odd). Rony = To unsubscribe,

RE: SourceForge down?

-mail, I tested sourceforge.net and slashdot.org. As of 15:15 I can reach neither of them, and I am connected via Golden Lines (012.net). Anyone from outside of Israel, check both sites please? On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 14:47 +0300, ronys wrote: Hi, Is it only me, or is sourceforge.net

RE: AOE and iSCSI (software only)

Hi, For a LAN, AOE seems to have less overhead, so performance *might* be better (assuming the network is the bottleneck). iSCSI is much more popular in the industry, though. My experience is with iSCSI - feel free to ask me if you need more info on setting up iSCSI initiators targets.

RE: SNMP: GET/SET vs. TRAP

Hi, Conceptually, there's a big difference between get/set and traps: get/set messages in SNMP are always requested by the management application and responded to by the SNMP agent. Traps, OTOH, are messages that are sent, unsolicited, from the agent to notify the management app of something

RE: Efficient C++ XML validating parser?

Hi, If you decide to do without validation, then I've used TinyXML in a couple of projects, and am pretty happy with the footprint performance. http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml/ Your right in that it will require you to write the parser manually, though, with all that that implies.

Hebrew-friendly list server on Linux?

Hi, I'm looking for a mailing list server that is meant to serve a few hundred users. The catch is that these are non-technical users who will correspond only in Hebrew. My first solution, Yahoo groups, is a big failure due to the number of users who complain about gibberish in their inbox.

[OT] Looking for full-time Linux Java engineers

Hi, Thought this might be of interest to some of the members of this list. If interested, please reply to the mail listed below. Cheers, Rony We are seeking excellent s/w engineers to join GED-I Ltd in the development of s/w for Storage Data

RE: collaborative online document writing software

Google Documents (http://docs.google.com/) can be used in the manner you described. Rony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maxim Veksler Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 7:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-il Subject: Re:

RE: Source visualization program

Source-Navigator: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcenav/ A bit long in the tooth, but it does the job. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dvir Volk Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 4:04 PM To: linux-il Subject: Source visualization

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

[OT] Looking for a Linux embedded web server developer

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Re: debian netinst q

Hi, Regarding root, IIRC, 'sudo' is configured to allow the user to get root access, e.g., 'sudo bash' should give you a root shell. This is the approach taken by Ubuntu as well - root itself is disabled, all root work done via sudo. The idea behind this is better security. I'm not ocnvinced