Re: Are there any implication of using or supporting Debian now that the Project Leader shared a call for BDS on debian.social ?

[Marc Volovic (me)]

IANAL, but the Israeli law is rather inimical to BDS and its derivates. I am 
not even going to consider what is the drift outside Israel, aince whatever the 
status is now, it will likely change significantly in the coming months (and 
not, I suspect, in Israel's favour).

What the Israeli law do with people making use of products "tainted" with BDS 
opinions, I have no opinion. Given, however, the general Israeli propensity for 
sippenhaft, I would consult with a lawyer before making use of Debian in future 
projects and activities.

3 Mar 2024 10:44:50 borissh1...@gmail.com:

> Hi,
> 
> While it is nice and fun to have a political discussion on how much the 
> debian leader is wrong, and how it hurts FOSS in general.
> 
> I'm asking, if we as people who work with debian or contribute to it would 
> have a problem now in  IL , US or DE.
> 
> I for example train new developers and it guys on Debian, provide services 
> that use debian as the main OS, and even have done some work that 
> auto-package software to run on Debian, given this announcements, it is not 
> clear for me if I'm even it is safe to still do it now.
> 
> On Sunday, 3 March 2024 10:11:06 IST Marc Volovic (me) wrote:
>> i suggest not starting down the route of the "who did more to whom" 
>> measuring. This is a yardstick measurement comoetitio  that Israel will not 
>> win, by any type of measurement.
>> 
>> The "right" response would be a protest for bringing political discourse 
>> into the technical sphere (if this is indeed a technical sphere, something 
>> not certain) or ignoring the rise. Remember the "wrestling in the mud" adage.
> 
>> 
>> 3 Mar 2024 10:03:14 Omer Zak :
>> 
>>> OOPS, my mistake.
>>> In this case, I suggest:
>>> 
>>> 1. Check if any Debian Developers (Israeli or non-Israeli) were killed
>>> by the Hamas on Oct. 7th.
>>> If yes, call for impeachment of Highvoltage on grounds of his betrayal
>>> of some Debian Developers.
>>> 
>>> 2 Call out Highvoltage's ignoring of the atrocities advocated
>>> by Hamas against Israel.
>>> On Sun, 2024-03-03 at 09:49 +0200, Boris Shtrasman wrote:
>>>> The person who shared that post is Highvoltage (the Debian Project
>>>> Leader) , it's posteed on Debian Project Leader page (but originally
>>>> written by someone else).
>>>> 
>>>> On Sunday, 3 March 2024 9:45:24 IST Omer Zak wrote:
>>>>> I looked around the links and some Debian information.
>>>>> I found no indication that the guy has any leadership role in
>>>>> Debian.
>>>>> He describes himself as "pro-Palestine, pro-Black, pro-Indigenous,
>>>>> pro-
>>>>> Queer, pro-létarian".
>>>>> 
>>>>> Seems to me that someone, who is so busy with those identities,
>>>>> would
>>>>> not have much time for real technical work.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I believe that the proper course of action is to complain against
>>>>> his
>>>>> ignoring (if he did ignore - I did not read carefully) the 1200
>>>>> Israelis mutilated and murdered by Hamas as well as the Hamas
>>>>> Charter,
>>>>> and then just ignore him and do not let him affect our Debian
>>>>> related
>>>>> work.
>>>>> 
>>>>> --- Omer Zak
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, 2024-03-02 at 21:21 +0200, borissh1...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>> …
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> "Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by
>>>>> looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made
>>>>> it
>>>>> possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man." - Walter E.
>>>>> Williams
>>>>> My own blog is at https://tddpirate.zak.co.il/
>>>>> 
>>>>> My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone.
>>>>> They do not represent the official policy of any organization with
>>>>> which I may be affiliated in any way.
>>>>> WARNING TO SPAMMERS:  at https://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html
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Re: Are there any implication of using or supporting Debian now that the Project Leader shared a call for BDS on debian.social ?

[Marc Volovic (me)]

i suggest not starting down the route of the "who did more to whom" measuring. 
This is a yardstick measurement comoetitio  that Israel will not win, by any 
type of measurement.

The "right" response would be a protest for bringing political discourse into 
the technical sphere (if this is indeed a technical sphere, something not 
certain) or ignoring the rise. Remember the "wrestling in the mud" adage.

m

3 Mar 2024 10:03:14 Omer Zak :

> OOPS, my mistake.
> In this case, I suggest:
> 
> 1. Check if any Debian Developers (Israeli or non-Israeli) were killed
> by the Hamas on Oct. 7th.
> If yes, call for impeachment of Highvoltage on grounds of his betrayal
> of some Debian Developers.
> 
> 2 Call out Highvoltage's ignoring of the atrocities advocated
> by Hamas against Israel.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2024-03-03 at 09:49 +0200, Boris Shtrasman wrote:
>> The person who shared that post is Highvoltage (the Debian Project
>> Leader) , it's posteed on Debian Project Leader page (but originally
>> written by someone else).
>> 
>> On Sunday, 3 March 2024 9:45:24 IST Omer Zak wrote:
>>> I looked around the links and some Debian information.
>>> I found no indication that the guy has any leadership role in
>>> Debian.
>>> He describes himself as "pro-Palestine, pro-Black, pro-Indigenous,
>>> pro-
>>> Queer, pro-létarian".
>>> 
>>> Seems to me that someone, who is so busy with those identities,
>>> would
>>> not have much time for real technical work.
>>> 
>>> I believe that the proper course of action is to complain against
>>> his
>>> ignoring (if he did ignore - I did not read carefully) the 1200
>>> Israelis mutilated and murdered by Hamas as well as the Hamas
>>> Charter,
>>> and then just ignore him and do not let him affect our Debian
>>> related
>>> work.
>>> 
>>> --- Omer Zak
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, 2024-03-02 at 21:21 +0200, borissh1...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,
 
 A bit clueless question , but are there any legal implication of
 using or supporting Debian now that the Debian Project Leader
 shared
 a call for BDS  ?
 
 The Debian Project Leader (highvoltage) had "repeated" (shared?)
 a
 call for BDS on the debian social site (
 https://pleroma.debian.social/notice/AenLD9Ez2JCrSfrCsK)  that
 can be
 seen on his admin account at  
 https://pleroma.debian.social/highvoltage (one would need to
 scroll
 down to see this message).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> "Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by
>>> looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made
>>> it
>>> possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man." - Walter E.
>>> Williams
>>> My own blog is at https://tddpirate.zak.co.il/
>>> 
>>> My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone.
>>> They do not represent the official policy of any organization with
>>> which I may be affiliated in any way.
>>> WARNING TO SPAMMERS:  at https://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html
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Re: RMS

[Marc Volovic (me)]

RMS (besides being a rather egregious person in general) is, in this case, 
neither supporting nor not supporting anyone's enemies.

He's calling to reduce arms sales to a state that engages in wholesale 
slaughter of civillians, just like its enemies.
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Re: .il domain names with IPv6 support

[Marc Volovic (me)]

i am quite satisfied with he.net - hurricane electric.

2 Aug 2023 07:53:03 אורי :

> Hi Gabor,
> 
> I also use https://www.box.co.il/ and you can put any name servers you want, 
> I usually don't use the same company as a registrar and for name servers - I 
> use different companies. I would recommend either AWS route 53 (not 
> expensive) or also DigitalOcean - if you have an account then name servers 
> are free, I think you don't have to have droplets with them (although I do) 
> and also you can try Linode or Vultr (I never tried these two companies' name 
> servers). Or use the name servers of your hosting provider.
> 
> Thanks,
> Uri.
> אורי
> u...@speedy.net
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 8:34 AM Gabor Szabo  wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have been using BOX ( https://box.co.il/ ) for my .il domains and for DNS. 
>> Apparently their DNS server still does not support IPv6.  So far it did not 
>> bother me too much, but now that I am trying to move a domain to use GitHub 
>> pages it seems that they require that configuration as well.
>> 
>> So my question what do you suggest as a domain registrar for .il domains 
>> that has a reasonable DNS interface that also supports IPv6. Alternatively, 
>> what DNS provider do you use?
>> 
>> (for my com/org names I use https://iwantmyname.com/ and I am quite 
>> satisfied)
>> 
>> regards
>>     Gabor
>> 
>> -- 
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Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

[marc volovic]

I missed mist of the discussion, so pardon me for possible going over plowed 
ground - it is probably difficult to nigh impossible to buy a linux-installed 
machine, but it is quite easy to buy a "no os" machine (actually, with 
freedos). Why not get one of them and deploy whatever flavour of Linux the 
tickles your fancy?

And no - I am not going to debate which distro is shiniest.

On 15 May 2020 15:59:39 GMT+03:00, Tzafrir Cohen  wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Pardon me for straying a bit off the topic of the recent sub-thread,
>
>On 14/05/2020 23:08, Steve Litt wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 May 2020 14:39:02 -0400
>> Steve Litt  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> That's perfectly reasonable, although I'll personally never use or
>>> recommend Mint again. 
>> 
>> I'm going to bow out of this debate now. I should have bowed out of
>it
>> long ago. First of all, I'm presumably on the same side as most of
>you
>> when it comes to the major important facts, as opposed to the side
>show
>> I've been discussing. Number two, I have nowhere near as much skin in
>> the game as most of you have.
>
>Be actually constructive and more on-topic and answer the question.
>
>The last computer I bought with Linux pre-installed was a purism
>laptop.
>Rather expensive and cannot be bought in Israel. The OS is a Debian
>derivative, and it works well out of that specific box. But then again,
>if you don't limit yourself to Israel, there are a number of others.
>
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Re: Can anyone help translate the Open Source Hardware statement to Hebrew?

[Marc Volovic]

Thanks!
Would be glad.
—mav
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> On 9 May 2020, at 10:52, Michael Shiloh  wrote:
> 
> Great! I'll put you in touch with Alicia.
> 
> On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 10:39 AM marc volovic  <mailto:marcvolo...@me.com>> wrote:
> Will be glad to help.
> 
> On 9 May 2020 09:17:56 GMT+03:00, Michael Shiloh  <mailto:michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I was just poking around the Open Source Hardware Association 
> <https://www.oshwa.org/> and was shocked to see that their definition 
> <https://www.oshwa.org/definition/>, while available in a number of other 
> languages, is not available in Hebrew. I say shocked because usually in 
> technology and especially in Open Source, Hebrew is among the first 
> translations.
> 
> My Hebrew, and especially my technical Hebrew, is not good enough to work on 
> this.
> 
> How about you?
> 
> If you're interested I'm happy to connect you with Alicia, one of the 
> co-founders.
> 
> Michael
> 
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Re: Can anyone help translate the Open Source Hardware statement to Hebrew?

[marc volovic]

Will be glad to help.

On 9 May 2020 09:17:56 GMT+03:00, Michael Shiloh  
wrote:
>I was just poking around the Open Source Hardware Association
> and was shocked to see that their definition
>, while available in a number of
>other
>languages, is not available in Hebrew. I say shocked because usually in
>technology and especially in Open Source, Hebrew is among the first
>translations.
>
>My Hebrew, and especially my technical Hebrew, is not good enough to
>work
>on this.
>
>How about you?
>
>If you're interested I'm happy to connect you with Alicia, one of the
>co-founders.
>
>Michael

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Re: which filesystem

[Marc Volovic]

You use vi, I see...

You will now need to hide from the e-police, I just denounced you.

m
---MAV
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On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Diego Iastrubni elc...@kde.org wrote:

 On שבת 11 אוגוסט 2012 14:59:29 Marc Volovic wrote:
  IMHO - xfs
 
  Sent from my iPhone


 I am sorry. I cannot take you seriously when I read those two sentences
 together.

 Please read chapters 3, 5 and 8 of the vim manual as atonement. Here are
 the
 links, don't even waste time looking for them:

 http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_03.html
 http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_05.html
 http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_08.html

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Re: which filesystem

[Marc Volovic]

IMHO - xfs

Sent from my iPhone
So topes font cont

On Aug 11, 2012, at 14:42, Erez D erez0...@gmail.com wrote:

 hello

 i have and external USB hard-drive size 2TB, mounted as ext4. (ubuntu 10.10 
 amd64)
 every time there is a power failure. i need to do a manual fsck on this disk. 
 and this takes around an hour ...


 i am looking to replace the ext4 file system with something better:
 1. stable
 2. more resilient to power failures
 3. short fsck time
 4, supported out of the box (i may want to mount this external disk on other 
 computers with other linux distros e.g. centos).


 what can you recommend ?


 thanks,
 erez.
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Re: Digikam image re-compression - is it reliable?

[Marc Volovic]

You do not say whether the originals are in JPG formst or in RAW format. If
the latter, they contain a lot of information that can be safely discarded
(it is used for photo-processing which - in re-compressing - you have
decided to forgo.

If your originals are JPG files, the re-compression is just that. Now, a
JPG compression on JPG compression adds more artefacts, depending on what
has been photographed.

And, you will not be able to enlarge and print anything really huge.

C'est touts.

M


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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi,

 I'm preparing a disk-on-key with family photos to send to my mum and
 noticed something a bit unexpected.
 Most of the photos were taken with a Canon EOS 300D, maximum resolution
 and minimum compression.
 Some were taken with Android phone and iPhone 4.
 I use Digikam on Debian to manage my photos.
 The total space of the original images (including movies, which weren't
 touched) was ~7.6Gb.
 The total space after re-compression using default parameters (75%, JPEG,
 no resizing) -  1Gb.

 I think I saw before that simple re-compression saves a lot of disk space,
 but this is about 90% reduction (take into account that this includes
 copied untouched .mp4 movie files).
 From eye-balling the images on the computer screen (24, 1920x1280) they
 look just fine. They are going to be printed on regular sized photo paper,
 not made into bus-stop posters or anything.

 Am I missing something? Should I still send the larger images (I think I
 can just barely fit them into an old 8Gb disk-on-key) or will the smaller
 ones do fine?

 It also makes me wonder about my own photo stash - it takes a few dozens
 of Gb's now. If I can recompress them without losing noticeable quality
 (assume I never intend to display/print them larger than an A4 page) then
 this could save me a huge amount of disk (+backups, handling, easier
 shipping to relatives on the other side of the world etc).

 Thanks,

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Re: HW/SW for license server

[Marc Volovic]

4th is 4gb with iPhone autocorrect. Fuck apple. 

DL1xx is is HP. Check their site. 

1000/sec is special

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 25, 2011, at 12:25, Valery Reznic valery_rez...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Thank you, Mark.
 
 A few more questions:
  - what is HP DL1xx-class box with 4th ram
 - 6 request/second is trivial. On each ratio do you think it will need 
 something special?
 
 Valery
 
 From: Marc Volovic marcvolo...@me.com
 To: Valery Reznic valery_rez...@yahoo.com
 Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 12:03 PM
 Subject: Re: HW/SW for license server
 
 Dear valery,
 
 6 requests per second is trivial. Get the cheapest HP DL1xx-class box with 
 4th ram and the cheapest CPU you can manage. 
 
 M
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:19, Valery Reznic valery_rez...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
 Hi, All.
 
 I need to setup license server and looking for advice what hardware/software 
 to use
 
 General schema is following:
 
 There are about 20K clients all of them periodically (let say once a week) 
 query license server for license via https
 I'll try my best to spread all those requests over the week, but in worse 
 case scenario all those 20K request can came during 1hour,
 spread relative evenly i.e about 6 request/sec
 
 When license server get request it query database ~20K records with 2-3 
 small fields, generate license and return it to client.
 
 License generation is light - md5sum of the very small input ( few hundreds 
 bytes)
 
 I think use following software for it
 
 1. CentOS 6
 2. Apache with mod_python
 3. Mysql
 
 My questions about software are:
 1. License server software is likely to be written in python, hence 
 mod_python.
   If I'll use python as CGI instead of Apache module, will it result in 
 significant performance drop?
 
 2. How configure apache - what is reasonable settings for MaxClient 
 parameter?
Any other important settings?
 
 3. Use Mysql or Postgres? Or something else?
 
 Hardware questions are:
 1. What computer should I use for this task
 i386 or x86-64?
how much memory?
disk spaces?
 
 2. What hosting company to buy this server from?
 
 Do you have any experience or suggestions to share?
 
 Thank you,
 Valery.
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Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

[Marc Volovic]

Being significantly less conversant with US corporate law than e.g. Israeli 
corporate law, I'll take your comments at face value.

Is RMS, by agreeing to the conditions set by the financial contributors to his 
visit, in violation of US law? Mind - to the best of my understanding - he has 
not gone BDS publicly, only stated in private email conversations that he will 
adhere to the conditions set. Does that also contravene?

M

On Jun 12, 2011, at 9:45 AM, geoffrey mendelson wrote:

 
 On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Marc Volovic wrote:
 People, RMS (as well as any other person) is entitled to support, adhere, 
 acquiesce or abhor, deny, etc any and all BDS activities.
 
 The man is entitled to his opinion and choice. It is his right as a man and 
 as a public figure.
 
 
 Marc, it has to do with US corporate law and practice. In the US, officers of 
 a corporation are limited in liability for their actions as corporate 
 officers. What they do as private citizens is different than what they do as 
 officers of the corporation.
 
 This is different than Israeli corporate law, where there is much less of a 
 corporate veil.
 
 When they do something as an officer of the corporation, it takes on a whole 
 new meaning. It is the stated policy of the corportation.
 
 If RMS as RMS states what he does, as a private citizen, it is free speech. 
 He is entitled to his opionions and limited by US laws as to what he can say 
 and where, but those limits are awfully wide (compared to Israeli ones for 
 example).
 
 However, once he signs an email as an officer of the FSF, or states it 
 publicly that he, as representing the FSF is going to support a boycott (or 
 not) and so on, it is FSF policy. So like it or not, the FSF has now 
 incorporated the BDS movement into their message. It's not just FREE 
 Software, it's also support the Palestinians and boycott Israel.
 
 If RMS wants to vacation in Ramalah, or sun himself on the beaches of Gaza, 
 he is welcome to. If he does not want to stay in, vist or even pass through 
 Israel, (He could enter Gaza from Egypt, or the PA from Jordan), he is 
 welcome to. However as the President of the FSF his perceived boycott of 
 Israeli institutions is unacceptable, and dilutes the FSF and it's message.
 
 Depending upon exactly what he does and does not do, and who provides the 
 money for his visit, he (and therefore the FSF as he spoke and speaks for 
 them) may be in volation of US law, and therefore subject to investigation, 
 tax audits, etc. Quite simply this will not end well for the FSF.
 
 Geoff.
 
 
 
 -- 
 Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM
 Making your enemy reliant on software you support is the best revenge.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

[Marc Volovic]

[a whole pile of claptrap, including previously written and quoted claptrap, 
snipped]


People, RMS (as well as any other person) is entitled to support, adhere, 
acquiesce or abhor, deny, etc any and all BDS activities.

(Some of) Your moral outrage is not a whit less ridiculous that agreement.

The man is entitled to his opinion and choice. It is his right as a man and as 
a public figure.

Those of you gnashing your teeth - please open YouTube and type פלדרמאוס 
באולימפיאדה.

Enough!


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Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

[Marc Volovic]

Dear Stan,

You are, indeed, entitled to as much freedom and opportunity to BDS Israel for 
its criminal policies and proclivities.
You are, indeed, entitled to as much freedom and opportunity to BDS RMS and 
others for their BDS'ing Israel.

Just, please, try to do so without speechifying with a tearful whine. THAT 
makes it tiresome AND defeats your purpose. Haven't the Jewish People suffered 
enough!? is, of course, a tremendous moral fillip, but u... rather 
:-) is ridiculous. You know - something about tears and crocodiles.

M

On Jun 11, 2011, at 1:53 AM, Stan Goodman wrote:

 On Saturday 11 June 2011 at 01:47:50 (GMT+2) Marc Volovic 
 
 I understand. Stallman is entitled to express his opinion, but I am not 
 entitled to express mine because he is a public figure.

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Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

[Marc Volovic]

Ah, Dear Stan, how appropriate and typical to your line of argumentation.

Hail! You are a true representative of your cause.

M

On Jun 11, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Stan Goodman wrote:

 On Saturday 11 June 2011 at 06:30:36 (GMT+2) Marc Volovic 
 marcvolo...@me.com wrote:
 
 Dear Stan,
 
 You are, indeed, entitled to as much freedom and opportunity to BDS
 Israel for its criminal policies and proclivities. You are, indeed,
 
 Go pound salt.

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Re: Update: eVrit e-book Reader

[Marc Volovic]

Will they work using an open US-based proxy?

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On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:39, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote:



in addition to this discussion - i found out that the nook cannot be
delivered to israel neither from bn, nor from bestbuy (which sells it
in the USA).

i considered getting it via mustop- but then i found that online book
purchases won't work using an IP address outside the USA.

this is quite a bummer...

--guy

On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 11:57 +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote:

Hi all,


Just wanted to share my experience with this little device...


As some of you know, I asked which one should I buy: Amazon Kindle or
this one. I am glad I have bought this one. It's all I need!


I have 130 books on the internal 1.2GB memory and I still have lots  
of

space.


I bought it so I can carry around all those 1000+ pages technical
books.


Pros:




Runs Linux!
Small size.
Light weight.
Lots of space (can work with an MicroSD card, up to 32GB).
Supports Hebrew (none of the other readers out there do).
Long battery life.


Cons:


e-vrit eshop:
Very uncomfortable to browse the e-vrit website and shop for books
(Both from the desktop and from the device). While browsing from the
device, it opens a page on the local FS that asks you to follow a  
link

to enter the online shop. This page comes up after connecting to the
WiFi network, so they could easily take you there directly after the
connection was made...
You cannot search for books by author, and if you find an author you
like, it is not possible to click the name to access all the books
available by that author. This is true for both the device and the
desktop sites.
Note: The site accessible from the device is maintained by Newpan and
the site accessible from the desktop is maintained by Steimazky
A small number of books are available on the shop. No Sci-Fi books at
all. No old books (those books I bought as a kid and are out of print
are great candidates for this format).


When listening to MP3 files - even with the volume all the way up, it
was too low to hear in a noisy environment. Granted - I only tested
Podcasts, not music.


Slow response while switching between books and display modes (full
screen, back to the main menu). flipping pages work fast, though.


Terrible for photos / pictures. Too dark, no colors and slow. The
books' covers and in-book diagrams and line art look great!


User Experience:


As I mentioned, I am very happy with the device. It is very light and
under the right lighting conditions it is very clear and fun to read
from. Using it under the sun was even better than under florescent
light.
I downloaded a sample book from the Barns  Noble site (what they  
call

a 'NookBook) and transfered it to the device directly (an .epub file)
- and begun reading immediately! no DRM, no conversion - out of the
download! I called their Customer Support (voice - I needed to hear
it) and asked if it is because it's a sample. the representative said
the sample is technically the same as the full book!


Over the course of the last three years I've read very few books,
mostly technical books by the computer, but since I've bought this
device I have read more than 70 pages of a Hebrew thriller, and a few
pages of some technical books and got the epub version of a 1500 page
book I was wondering how to carry around with me...


Conclusion:


Very good buy for those of you who need the Hebrew support. Not very
expensive. No dual display. No color display - but perfect for  
reading

books!


I hope I helped someone out there to reach a decision...


Amichai.
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Re: small linux hardware

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Gumstix are quite expensive comparatively.

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On Jan 10, 2011, at 23:05, Michael Tewner tew...@gmail.com wrote:




2011/1/10 Erez D erez0...@gmail.com
I am looking for a linux hardware which would be small, low power  
and cheep


I found the telit GE863-PRO (pdf: http://www.telit.com/module/infopool/download.php?id=725 
 )
which is actually a gprs module + linux on arm9. it is 41.4x31.4x3.6  
mm in size and i can get it in 50$ (in quantities)


however as i do not need the gprs module, i thought i could find  
something smaller and cheaper...



anyone knows of such a hardware ?

thanks,
erez.

Have you looked into Gumstix?
http://www.gumstix.com/

-Mike

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Re: [4SALE] Lenovo T400

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Price is reasonably negotiable. Am open to interesting exchanges.  
Interesting exchanges in this context would be (e.g.) Canon EF 17-40mm  
f/4L NIB or a Multiplex Royal Evo Pro 9 2.4GHz with two receivers.


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On Oct 26, 2010, at 6:12, m...@bard.org.il m...@bard.org.il wrote:


Lenovo T400
C2D T9400 (2 core 2.53GHz CPU)
4GB RAM (can expand to 8GB)
X4500 display adapter
1440x900 resolution LCD
DVD-ROM
160GB Hard Drive
Usual stuff - wifi (bgn), bluetooth, usb, firewire, pcmcia, camera,  
gbit eth

High capacity battery
Docking station
3 (maybe 4)xPower Bricks

Model is T400 type 6475-B17

Battery is in excellent shape. Machine is super clean, not used a lot.
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Re: Apple Slim USB Keyboard

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I have one - you are welcome to try.

M

On Oct 14, 2010, at 3:56 AM, Steve G. wrote:

 Has anyone successfully connected the Apple brushed aluminum keyboard (I am 
 thinking the USB one, not the bluetooth) to a linux box?
 
 I tried it at an apple store, and liked the feel of the keys, but a search 
 suggests the issue is iffy.
 
 Thanks,
 
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[4GIVEAWAY] More stuff

[Marc Volovic]

Ok, known drill.

1. Four (maybe five, maybe six) Display Port cables
2. One AGP VGA Card
3. One Adaptec 39160 SCSI HBA

Ya want em, come and get 'em from the great urban sprawl that is Mazkeret 
Batya. Else shed their mortal coil they shall and no later than Saturday at 
that.

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[4SALE] One differential SCSI cable - great sentimental value

[Marc Volovic]

Hi Ladies, Gentlemen

It is with a heavy heart tinged with the silver toppings of relief that I am 
offering my (need I say it) legendary differential SCSI cable for sale.

The cable is neither new, nor is it in pristine condition, having been 
assiduously applied to the thinking/sitting parts of a non-trivial majori... 
u, MINORITY of Linux-IL members new and old (but mainly old). It has a 
fleck or seven of the old saliva and some dark brown rusty spots that give off 
the whiff of metallic regrets.

In return for this fabulous antique of proven provenance and efficacy, I ask 
but for one thing and one thing only - the DNA map of a clueful newbie.

Or - if above is unavailable - for the original thirty pieces of silver.

With gravest hilarity,

Marc A. Volovic

PS. I (and, indeed, the community) am deeply indebted to a Mr. L. O. for 
talking me into this spasm of generosity. His address shall be a supplementary 
and superfluous adjunct to the item itself.

M

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Re: [4SALE] One differential SCSI cable - great sentimental value

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On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Omer Zak wrote:

 May I suggest that you, Marc the Terrible, hold on to the Holy
 Differential SCSI Cable for mere two extra weeks (less one day and a
 weekend); and during the Highly Esteemed August Penguin 2010 Religious
 Ceremonies, auction off the Holy D.SCSI.C and after deducting your
 thirty sinful ducats, donate the rest of the proceeds to Hamakor?

Sinful Ducats? Ducats are not sinful! Tis the use thereof that may be sinful. 
And sinful is singularly good - a philosophy expounded by Mz Zaza Gabor.

As for said August Penguin - at the moment, I have very few plans to attend. 
That is for FLOOR(very few)

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Re: question about customers management webapp

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icount.co.il

On Jul 22, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 I just became a freelancer (I wrote a post with some things I learned that 
 could be useful to others, thats why I added the link), and I'm looking for 
 something that I'm quite surprised I cannot find.
 
 I'm looking for some customer management web app (which supports Hebrew), 
 so it could allow me to issue price quotes. There are few CRM programs but 
 these are monster solutions, and I'm looking for something simple: 
 add/edit/view customer details, a catalog of products, and a simple way to 
 create some page with customer name and some products, VAT and make a PDF 
 out of it. I can spend few hours writing such a thing in PHP/MySQL, but it 
 will be like reinventing the wheel..
 
 I'm sure that there are few people here who are freelancers, so I wonder 
 which solution do they use, and which app do they recommend?
 
 Thanks,
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[FLASH] LJ giveaway

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Hi all

35cm vertical stack of Linux Journals for giveaway. You wants it, you come and 
get it.

Why [FLASH]? Very simple - I am going to compost the stack Thursday morning. If 
you want it - come and get it from me BEFORE that.

From me means from Mazkeret Batya.

No, I am not carting them anywhere.

No, I am not keeping them after Wednesday night/Tursday morning.

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Re: [FLASH] LJ giveaway

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Dear Tomer,

Great idea. Anyone one wants to take them and cart them to August Pengui?

I am not, presently, planning to attend.

M

On Jul 20, 2010, at 10:06 PM, Tomer Cohen wrote:

 Some people might be interested in these copies at August Penguin for reading 
 them in the lobby instead of attending to sessions, or taking them home right 
 after. Do you mind postponing their death? 
 
 On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 21:40, Marc Volovic marcvolo...@me.com wrote:
 Hi all
 
 35cm vertical stack of Linux Journals for giveaway. You wants it, you come 
 and get it.
 
 Why [FLASH]? Very simple - I am going to compost the stack Thursday morning. 
 If you want it - come and get it from me BEFORE that.
 
 From me means from Mazkeret Batya.
 
 No, I am not carting them anywhere.
 
 No, I am not keeping them after Wednesday night/Tursday morning.
 
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[4SALE] Core 2 Duo 2.13GHz, 4GB RAM, 2x250GB disks

[Marc Volovic]

For sale a Dell desktop:
Core 2 Duo 2.13GHz
4GB RAM
2x250GB disks
ATI 2400HD PCIe (dual screen capable)

ILS 2,000 OBRO

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[4SALE] iMac 17 1.83GHz C2D, 1GB RAM, 160GB disk

[Marc Volovic]

And... to make matters worse -

For sale an iMac 17:

Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz
1GB RAM
160GB disk
Mac OS X 10.5.8

ILS 1,500 OBRO

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[4GIVEAWAY] 3 10/100Mbit NICs

[Marc Volovic]

Mes Enfants,

3 10/100Mbit NICs, giveaway. Two are (I think) RTL, one is e100, PCI all.

Come and take em...

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[4SALE] Dell E197FP monitor NIB

[Marc Volovic]

Hi All.

Shlomi - see, no in-reply-to header.

For sale - brand new in box (never opened) 19 Dell LCD monitor - E197FP.

ILS 850 OBRO (or best reasonable offer)

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Re: [4SALE] Opteron machine

[Marc Volovic]

Dear Avraham,

The machine is fully Linux compatible. It is actually NOT Windows compatible 
(Win XP - no SATA, Win 7 - no audio). Under Linux (ubuntu and so on) works 
great.

No need to send money before we meet. Easiest is paypal :-). Cash in hand is 
also fine.

Will supply machine with a 1-2 VGA cable splitter (it is dual screen capable) 
and a spare 250GB disk, just in case.

Best regards.

Marc


On Jul 8, 2010, at 1:17 PM, Avraham Rosenberg wrote:

 On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 07:20:01AM +0300, Marc Volovic wrote:
 Opteron 148
 2GB RAM
 250GB disk
 ATI 2400
 
 1,200 ILS
 
 Marc Volovic
 marcvolo...@me.com
 
 
 Marc,
 You give very few details, but coming from you, I assume that all the
 hardware is linux-compatible.
 If this is so, I am interested in the machine.
 We live in Jerusalem, but we shall be in your neighbourhood (in 
 Rehovot or/and Nes-Ziona) within the next two weeks.
 If you wish me to send the money before we meet, please indicate the
 modality. The simplest way would be to deposit it in your bank account, but
 I am open to any suggestion.
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[4SALE] Opteron machine

[Marc Volovic]

Opteron 148
2GB RAM
250GB disk
ATI 2400

1,200 ILS

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Re: Just for giveaway and/or trade

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:) it is handle to pick up computer room floor tiles.

Looks like a phone hand-set.

Marc

On Jun 20, 2010, at 8:17 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:

 If you are nice, I want one and one thing only in trade - a vacuum handle 
 for computer room tiles. One. C'est touts.
 
 
 Hi Marc. What is special about such a vacuum handle? I have lots of
 junk and I'm pretty sure that there are some vacuum cleaner
 accessories at my mother in law's place. What makes computer room
 tiles special such that they need a specialized vacuum handle, and how
 can I tell that I have such a handle?
 
 
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Just for giveaway and/or trade

[Marc Volovic]

Yo, kiddos, 

I have some computer trash for giveaway or trade. Some misc RAM (SODIMM and 
RDRAM), a 100Mbit network card, an AGP VGA card or two, some cables.

You want it, you come and get it.

If you are nice, I want one and one thing only in trade - a vacuum handle for 
computer room tiles. One. C'est touts.

I am not keeping anything for anybody nor carrying anything anywhere. You want 
it, you come and take from where I live - Mazkeret Batya.

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Re: hosting in USA

[Marc Volovic]

rackspace

On May 6, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Serge wrote:

 Hello there,
 Could you advise any good hosting provider in USA? Somebody wants to
 move from godaddy. Any input very  appreciated.
 
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Re: hosting in USA

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And after asking all these questions, the answer is still rackspace.

Note that had he asked about cheap colo, I'd have answered differently.

M

On May 6, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

 Rackspace? it's like killing a Mosquito with a Canon, and their price is 
 really big.. 
 
 It really depends on the person's needs: Is he looking for Dedicated server? 
 VPS? or a simple shared account?
 He/she should also take into consideration other details such:
 
 * Where his target audience is located? if his customers are located in 
 Israel, perhaps it's best to find a good deal here in IL
 * Is shared hosting good enough for him? then something like bluehost.com 
 could be sufficient for him (although their uptime record is horrible)
 * How many people are accessing his web site?
 
 After answering these questions (to himself) it would be easier for him to 
 find a good company for his needs.
 
 Hetz
 
 
 2010/5/6 Marc Volovic marcvolo...@me.com
 rackspace
 
 On May 6, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Serge wrote:
 
  Hello there,
  Could you advise any good hosting provider in USA? Somebody wants to
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Re: Serial connection?

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You are talking about a terminal server.
I suggest you buy the simplest possible linux machine (micro box would be VERY 
good), plug in two USB hubs and plug into the hubs USB-RS232 converters. 
Voilla! Instant TS.

M

On Apr 22, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

 Hi,
 I wonder if someone could recommend a cheap and simple device to connect 8-10 
 servers through serial port so I can connect them from outside using telnet 
 or ssh.
 
 A device name and price / link to purchase would help.
 
 Thanks,
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Re: Serial connection?

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I suspect that you are indeed right - reliability is questionable in a USB to 
serial. I have had devices with good reliability and some with dismal (same 
maker).


On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:

 On 04/22/10 10:25, Marc Volovic wrote:
 You are talking about a terminal server.
 I suggest you buy the simplest possible linux machine (micro box would
 be VERY good), plug in two USB hubs and plug into the hubs USB-RS232
 converters. Voilla! Instant TS.
 
 While this is relatively cheap solution, it may prove rather unreliable.
 I am using USB-to-Serial cables for serial consoles quite a lot for my work,
 and they all have a common problem - periodically USB freaks out
 and device disconnects and reconnects, often under different device name.
 
 Old CISCO 2511 will do much better job. I don't know where to get one of
 those in Israel. In US it's possible to get one for ~$300.
 
 Ebay has quite a few listed, BTW.
 
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Re: home automation question

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AVR is fine. So is a second hand wrap or alix.
More expensive than X10 :-) mind you.
However, X-10 is a very unreliable protocol, you're better off toggling a GPIO 
line which, in turn, toggles on ptocoupler...
eBay _is_ your friend.
m

On Apr 21, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Erez D wrote:

 hi guys.
 
 i have a warehouse. it has two connections to the buildings - power and 
 ethernet.
 
 i want to control the warehouse external lights from the house.
 
 I thought of buying an X10 light switch, but it seems that each consts around 
 50$, which is expensive
 so my other option is a computer i can control (prefferably a linux box, 
 somthing like nslu2).
 
 so:
 1. anybody knows of a cheap place to buy X10 stuff (or somthing similiar) ?
 2. what is the cheepest computer (doesn't have to be a full computer, an 
 avr with ethernet and gpio will do) ?
 
 thanks.
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Re: Recomendded on j-tag for ARM + Source kernel debuging

[Marc Volovic]

Lauterbach

On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:56 AM, itamar levit wrote:

 Hi All
  
 Is someone can recomended on j-tag for Arm Cortex-A8 support linux kernel 
 source level debuging.
  
  
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Re: High Availability

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A number of issues:

First - what. You need to replicate (a) links, (b) storage, (c)  
service machines.


Links are internal and external. Multipath internet connexions.  
Multipath LAN connexions. Multipath storage links. Redund network  
infrastructure (switches, routers, firewalls, IDS/IPS).


Replicate storage. If you use SAN with dedicated links, multipath  
links and storage. Redund storage hardware and add storage  
replication. Add auto-promotion, takeover, and (if possible) partition  
prevention mechanisms. Use STONITH.


Service machines are the easiest to replicte. Simple heartbeat will  
provide a significant level of failover and/or failback. Here,  
likewise, use STONITH or other partition prevention mechanisms.


Under-utilize. 70% duty cycle is good.

Expect costing hikes.

M

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On Apr 15, 2010, at 7:35, Boaz Yahav(berber) ber...@weber- 
sites.com wrote:



I guess this is more a theological question.



Would you build a web site  infrastructure that needs to be highly  
available using a single machine where the front end servers are  
virtual servers?


Is this even considered highly available or might it be what's some  
may  call partially highly available J?




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Re: Need advice on differences in socket programming on regular vs cellular networks.

[Marc Volovic]

On Apr 6, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Baruch Even wrote:

 While this is true on the surface, it's worth being aware to your
 underlying network special idiosyncrasies. There is a lot more packet
 loss than usual and round trips are longer. Design the protocol to
 reduce the problems that can be incurred due to these issues. Pipeline
 your requests and don't use a stop-and-wait method unless required.
 This will reduce the overall time it takes for your app to achieve its
 goals. If you are using a standard protocol find where you can
 pipeline in it while following the spec. There are probably other
 things you'll find along the way, the above is just what I could come
 up with on the fly.


This is true for any medium, wired, wireless or etheric - be aware of the 
medium's behaviour and change the app/protocol to work around the medium's 
weaknesses.

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Re: Need advice on differences in socket programming on regular vs cellular networks.

[Marc Volovic]

On Apr 6, 2010, at 2:47 PM, David Harel wrote:
 A friend wants me to code a solution on a mobile device connected to local 
 area network via cellular modem (having simm card and a valid local IP 
 address).


Assuming above obtains, a socket is a socket is a socket is a socket.

Bind and accept normally.

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[JOB OFFER] Junior Multiplatform/Network Admin

[Marc Volovic]

Heyo, Mes Enfants

One of my clients is looking for a junior system administrator.

Job Requirements:
1. Knowledge of Linux systems (CentOS mainly, but multi-distro is a 
plus) allowing reasonable management of NON-peculiar local Linux servers
2. Knowledge of Windows Administration (including Active Directory) and 
Windows systems allowing reasonable help to Windows using non-developers
3. Willingness to stick hands into a network wiring closet
4. Basic knowledge of switch-oriented IOS and willingness to learn more
5. Willingness to learn and go beyond the three walls

Job Minuses:
1. You are NOT working on Apple Mac OS X
2. I am consulting this client

Job Pluses:
1. One day I shall be gone

Drop me a line

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Re: Home Theatre computer

[Marc Volovic]

Yes, there is such a unit. It is called Mac Mini, iMac or Mac Pro,  
whichever is your poison.


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On Nov 6, 2009, at 14:29, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote:


2009/11/6 Noam Rathaus no...@beyondsecurity.com:

Hi,

I am looking for a pre-built system that I can seamlessly and  
easily

install Boxee on it.

I am not interested in building one from scratch, as my goals are:
1) ease of installation
2) silence - the computer has to be dead-quite
3) everything just there - i mean, I don't want to buy X, Y and Z  
from three

different places
4) has to be small and look slick

AND most importantly
5) Has to have/come with a remote control

Does anyone know of such units being sold in Israel?


Sorry no answer from me about this one.

But if you are like me - I suspect that you might be looking for
something to allow you to watch Internet media as well as digital TV
on your large screen TV in the living room, right?

I recently learned about DLNA (dlna.org) - there are apparently
thousands of devices supporting it and the TV's among them which do it
properly should allow viewing of media over LAN (or even wireless LAN)
and there are apparently some open source efforts to support its
server-side on Linux too.

My current (mid-term) plan is to get my hands on one of these TV's,
get a proper Digital TV tuner card on my desktop Linux and serve media
from the Linux over Wirless N or wired LAN to the TV.

I have absolutely zero experience with actually implementing this or
even seeing/reading about someone who did. I just read a bit about it
in the last few weeks.

Cheers,

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Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

[Marc Volovic]

On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:

[giant snip]

Here is what could have been done to make things better. The client  
issues a request for a project at cost+, asking for a discount on  
the hourly rate in exchange for a significant bonus in case the  
project is delivered on time. Mathematically speaking, this offer is  
identical to the above offer, but as it is phrased in positive  
rather than negative terms, it is much easier to approve. This, of  
course, means that it can start much earlier, and have a better  
chance of succeeding.






Dear Shahar.

I agree with all that you wrote above and I snipped, but this last  
paragraph shows you have taken leave of your senses. I have known you  
for many a year and this is proof positive, in my opinion, that you  
have finally cracked. Where do you buy your psychedelics? On the  
surface, what you write above is indeed reasonable, but there is a  
total disconnect between it and reality. Reality you are acquainted  
with. And, in fact, reality I am acquainted with. ;-).


Seriously, dear chap. You are writing something entirely reasonable  
about the israeli outsourcing market. Tell me who your dealer is. :-)


Love ya!


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Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

[Marc Volovic]

On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:


Hi Shachar,
Without knowing the details... You don't need any more details,  
you hit the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such a  
project?





A kamikaze pilot.

Five weeks for an unproven hardware platform is science fiction.

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Re: High availability virtual ip

[Marc Volovic]

Hi

First, the problem is not an IP, but the mac-ip mapping and ARP  
caching strategies.


Second, don't use ping.

Third, do use project 'heartbeat' and 'fake'. They provide what you  
need.


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On Jun 16, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Biran, Yahav (Yahav) yahav.bi...@gmail.com 
 wrote:



i have two linux machines, that are running on the same LAN.
i would like to find a way to set HA IP.
i was thinking on creating virtual ip that will ride on the exiting  
eth. lets say 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 and the VIP will be 172.16.4.1

both will run an infinite loop of:while (ping 172.16.4.1) do ...
once that the while is exiting in one of the hosts it will try to  
acquire the VIP.
there is additional lock mechanism to implement so the two servers  
will not try to acquire the same VIP concurrently.


i would like to know if there is any out of the box sofware that can  
do this task?

yahav

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Re: Computer recommendation for Linux server.

[Marc Volovic]

Hi

Can't be done.

You're (to put it candidly) saying - what DESKTOP machine with lotsa  
disks be cheap!


The answer - with your budget - none. Five 1TB disks will cost you  
some 2K ILS. A RAID controller will cost another 600-1500 ILS, say 1K.  
This is your budget and no desktop yet.


Either reduce capacity oir increase cost.

M

On May 7, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Josh Roden wrote:


Hi,

I need to setup a Linux Centos Samba file server.
The server should have Raid 1 or 5 with a high storage capability  
(up to 4 or 8 TB).
The budget is around 3,000 shekels so an HP or IBM machine probably  
won't

be relevant.
Last, but not least, the machine should be Linux compatible at least  
from your

experiences if not in writing.

Thank you very much,

Josh


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Re: בנוגע למכירת ציוד

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Dear Nadav,

Some of the equipment is still available.

Best regards.

Marc

On Apr 27, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Nadav Hekselman wrote:

קיבלתי את הרשימה של הציוד אותו אתם  
מוכרים

ואני מעוניין לרכוש מספר פריטים

צרו עימי קשר עם עדיין רלוונטי

תודה ,

נדב הקסלמן

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Swiftouch remaining stuff

[Marc Volovic]

Item
Quantity
Unit Price (NIS) before VAT
IBM Intellistation M (2xP3 CPU, 1GB RAM, HW RAID controller, multiple  
SCSI disks)

2
750

Compaq DL360 (2*Xeon 2.6GHz, 4GB RAM, HW RAID, 2*147GB SCSI disks)
1
4,000

Compaq ML350 (2*P3, 1GB RAM, HW RAIDx2, 2x18GB SCSI disk, 4*250GB SATA  
disks)

1
1,000

Acer Aspire One laptop
1
1,500

Assorted CD/DVD ATAPI drives
4
25

Routerboard RB200 w/case
1
250

Assorted hard binders (45 of them)
1
100

PC Engines WRAP.1
2
300

PC Engines WRAP.2
2
300

Atmel AVR32 eval board
1
150

TS7400 eval board w/BDM
1
1,200

iMac 20” G5 (1.8GHz G5, 3/4GB RAM, 250GB disk, no KB, Leopard)
1
4,000

PowerMac G5 (1.8GHz G5, 2.5GB, 80GB+250GB disk, no KB, Leopard)
1
4,000

Samsung ML16xx laser printer
1
300

IBM Netfinity 6000R (3xXeon CPU, 3GB RAM, HW RAID, 6*18GB SCSI disks)
1
750

DGP306 SIP IP Phones
5
300

IBM T43 laptop (1.8GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB disk)
1
1,000






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Posters, network equipment, other equipment still

[Marc Volovic]

Dear Or, friends, relatives, Romans,

The posters are 60x90cm (I think, maybe slightly more), and there are  
three of them - Unix Feuds, Unix Magic and Unix Views.


I am still trying to decide how much to ask for them, because I love  
them VERY much and will sell them only if we need money to pay off the  
Israeli government :-(...


As for servers/network equipment, please find enclosed a list of  
remaining equipment:


A friend drew my attention that, apparently, few people recognize some  
the items below. Namely, WRAP and Routerboards. Both are Geode (i.e.  
i386) based embedded network devices, with no active cooling, etc. The  
RB has two NICs and slots for WiFi. The WRAP.1 have 3 NIC's and one  
miniPCI, the WRAP.2 have one NIC and two miniPCI. Each of the WRAP.2  
have a WiFi card installed. All have cases. All have power supplies.


Item
Quantity
Unit Price (NIS) before VAT
IBM Intellistation M (2xP3 CPU, 1GB RAM, HW RAID controller, multiple  
SCSI disks)

2
1,000
Compaq DL360 (2*Xeon 2.6GHz, 4GB RAM, HW RAID, 2*147GB SCSI disks)
1
4,000
Compaq ML350 (2*P3, 1GB RAM, HW RAIDx2, 2x18GB SCSI disk, 4*250GB SATA  
disks)

1
1,500
Acer Aspire One laptop
1
2,000
Assorted CD/DVD ATAPI drives
4
25
Sun 17” CRT monitor
1
0
Routerboard RB200 w/case
1
250
Assorted hard binders (45 of them)
1
100
PC Engines WRAP.1
2
300
PC Engines WRAP.2
2
300
Atmel AVR32 eval board
1
150
TS7400 eval board w/BDM
1
1,200
Office chairs (Ashton)
1
200
Assorted network/power cables
12345
0
iMac 20” G5 (1.8GHz G5, no KB)
1
4,500
PowerMac G5 (1.8GHz G5, no KB)
1
4,500
Assorted cellphones
5
300
Samsung ML16xx laser printer
1
300
IBM Netfinity 6000R (3xXeon CPU, 3GB RAM, HW RAID, 6*18GB SCSI disks)
1
1,000
DGP306 SIP IP Phones
5
300

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Re: Adios

[Marc Volovic]

Dear Shlomi,

Many thanks!

Marc

On Apr 16, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:


On Tuesday 14 April 2009 21:23:55 Marc Volovic wrote:

This is not an adios to you, my compatriots in impatience. This is an
adios to our company.

We're shutting down after seven years of operation.



Thanks, good bye, and good luck with all your future endeavours.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

--  
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God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as  
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Unix .* Posters

[Marc Volovic]

Dear All,

I have, in my possession, three Unitech posters. You know them, right? Here's a 
link to one:

http://nuxx.net/gallery/v/random_stuff/found_images/unix-magic-overacre-poster.jpg.html

How much, were I to try to sell them to cover our company dissolution costs, 
would they go for? Anyone? Would anyone on this list buy?

Best!

Marc


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Adios

[Marc Volovic]

This is not an adios to you, my compatriots in impatience. This is an  
adios to our company.


We're shutting down after seven years of operation.

I'd like to thank all the people who we worked with and for and  
especially all the people who worked for us.


The crew - you were tremendous! Stupendous, even. I love you all, dong  
ma? I owe you all. You are all jen duh sh tyen tsai.


I will remember you all and cherish this memory. I wish you all the  
best of luck, the swiftest of successes and the sweetests of  
victories, whatever you do!


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Re: Sale

[Marc Volovic]

Oh - and the prices are (of course) in Israeli Shekels...

On Apr 14, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Marc Volovic wrote:


Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Swiftouch, not to praise it
The nonsense that men do lives after them
The good is oft interred with their bones
So let it be with Swiftouch. Some noble friends
Hath told you Swiftouch was ambitious,
If it were so, it was a grievous fault
And grievously hath Swiftouch answered it.


To sum - we're shutting down. This is the sale of our stuff. If you  
know anyone who needs/wants this stuff, please help.



Item
Quantity
Unit Price
DGP306 SIP IP Phone
5
300
HP/Compaq dc7100 SFF (P4 2.4GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB disk)
3
1,000
IBM Intellistation M (2xP3 CPU, 1GB RAM, HW RAID controller,  
multiple SCSI disks)

2
1,000
IBM Netfinity 6000R (3xXeon CPU, 3GB RAM, HW RAID, 6*18GB SCSI disks)
1
1,000
Sun Ultra 30 (1 CPU, 1GB RAM, 2 SCSI 18GB disks)
1
500
Compaq DL360 (2*Xeon 2.6GHz, 4GB RAM, HW RAID, 2*147GB SCSI disks)
1
4,000
Compaq ML350 (2*P3, 1GB RAM, HW RAIDx2, 2x18GB SCSI disk, 4*250GB  
SATA disks)

1
1,500
IBM x31 laptop
1
500
IBM T43 laptop
2
1,000
Fujitsu Amilo laptop
1
1,000
Acer Aspire One laptop
1
2,000
Assorted CD/DVD ATAPI drives
4
25
Sun 17” CRT monitor
1
0
Shredder
1
100
Routerboard RB200 w/case
1
250
Assorted hard binders (45 of them)
1
100
PC Engines WRAP.1
2
300
PC Engines WRAP.2
2
300
Atmel AVR32 eval board
1
150
TS7400 eval board w/BDM
1
1,200
Netgear Access Point .11bg
1
100
Office chairs (Ashton)
3
200
Assorted network/power cables
12345
0
iMac 20” G5 (1.8GHz G5, no KB)
1
4,500
PowerMac G5 (1.8GHz G5, no KB)
1
4,500
19” LG LCD monitor
1
300
19” Dell LCF monitor
1
300
Assorted cellphones
5
300
HP 3055 laser scanner/printer/fax
1
500
Samsung ML16xx laser printer
1
300


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Sale update (i re-subscribed to the list, was unsub'd before)

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The following is still available (had had some reneges):


Item
Quantity
Unit Price (NIS) before VAT
IBM Intellistation M (2xP3 CPU, 1GB RAM, HW RAID controller, multiple  
SCSI disks)

1
1,000
Sun Ultra 30 (1 CPU, 1GB RAM, 2 SCSI 18GB disks)
1
500
Compaq DL360 (2*Xeon 2.6GHz, 4GB RAM, HW RAID, 2*147GB SCSI disks)
1
4,000
Compaq ML350 (2*P3, 1GB RAM, HW RAIDx2, 2x18GB SCSI disk, 4*250GB SATA  
disks)

1
1,500
Fujitsu Amilo laptop
1
1,000
Acer Aspire One laptop
1
2,000
Assorted CD/DVD ATAPI drives
4
25
Sun 17” CRT monitor
1
0
Routerboard RB200 w/case
1
250
Assorted hard binders (45 of them)
1
100
PC Engines WRAP.1
2
300
PC Engines WRAP.2
2
300
Atmel AVR32 eval board
1
150
TS7400 eval board w/BDM
1
1,200
Office chairs (Ashton)
2
200
Assorted network/power cables
12345
0
iMac 20” G5 (1.8GHz G5, no KB)
1
4,500
PowerMac G5 (1.8GHz G5, no KB)
1
4,500
Assorted cellphones
5
300
Samsung ML16xx laser printer
1
300
IBM Netfinity 6000R (3xXeon CPU, 3GB RAM, HW RAID, 6*18GB SCSI disks)
1
1,000
IBM T43 laptop (1.8GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB disk)
1
1,000


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Re: [YBA] embedded VPN-1?

[Marc Volovic]

Ages ago :-) I did some work on their appliance. For them. The  
footprint (then, 2003) was about 90MB excluding Linux which took some  
30MB more.


M

On Apr 2, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:


Hi linux-il list members,
I would like to make an appliance using Checkpoint's VPN-1  
(including their Redhat distro) on a PC104 or smaller board. Have  
any of you done this? Can anyone tell me what VPN-1 requires in  
terms of disk space, RAM and CPU?

TIA,

- yba


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small computers

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I completely forgot about these:

http://www.vortex86sx.com/


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Re: Where can I rent computers?

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alltrade is willing to rent a full cluster lab including setup

m

ps i am not affiliated w/alltrade in any way


On Jun 13, 2008, at 4:37 PM, David D wrote:



Unfortunately I cannot waive the location restriction, as it is  
posed by the man with the bucks (actually, the man with the NIS's)



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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

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Hello,
I need to lease several linux computers, preferably connected
into a cluster for a CPU intensive project. The computers have to be
located here, in Israel. Can anyone give me any suggestions, company  
names

etc. (either to this list, or privately)?

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Re: Under which keywords can such systems be found?

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Except for the very obvious choice of the Gumstix (which is the  
smallest you can normally get), look at http://www.embeddedarm.com.


You imply an ability to execute a full devel suite on it... I suggest  
cross-compiling...


M

On Jun 13, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Omer Zak wrote:


On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 11:57 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:

Omer Zak wrote:
I am looking for a computer with small form factor (cellphone  
sized or

even smaller) with the following features:
1. Runs Linux.
2. RAM+disk - as needed to run a Linux system without X-Window.
3. Audio input.
4. At least one USB port.
5. Ethernet port.
6. Runs on batteries.
7. A way (such as a memory card built on another system) to install
Linux on the computer.
(Keyboard and display are not needed - programming can be done by
sshing.)

I would appreciate suggestions under which keywords to search for  
such a
system in Google (or in specialized product search Websites), and  
where

can it be obtained in Israel.
--- Omer


Two questions (Spanish inquisition non-withstanding).
1. How much do you want to pay for it?


Less than Asus EeePC.


2. Does it have to be Intel based?


No, but it needs to be supported by Debian.

I see that two just became two squared. :-)


3. How many units do you need?


One - for experiments and prototyping.


4. USB host or device?


USB host, as I want to connect USB devices to it.


Any computer on a chip system can provide you with everything you
asked for (well, you will need to adapt the battery yourself, but the
voltage and, more importantly, amperage are compatible with battery
operation).


Thanks for the keyword suggestion.
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Re: Openmoko Group sale

[Marc Volovic]

Should is entry #4086 on page 139 of the Book Of Famous Last Words.

M

On May 31, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Lior Kaplan wrote:


The device runs Linux, and thus should have Hebrew support.

Dotan Cohen wrote:

2008/5/31 Dan Aloni [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Hey there,

Anyone interested in joining an Israeli Openmoko Freerunner group  
sale?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GroupSales

Join the revolution :)



If the device has full Hebrew support, then I am very interested.

Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ- 
ק-ר-ש-ת


A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?


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Re: [ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues

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- Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,
 
 2008/4/5 Uri [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  Dear linux-il friends,
 
 I somehow have a feeling that many people from here already marked a
 message from you as SPAM and kicked this message.

Dear Hetz,

I feel that your reaction to UeCh is somewhat Pavlovian. His idea (which - alas 
- is more of the very old same only smeared with spiritualistic nonsense) 
does not merit such reaction, in my opinion.
 
 1. You're thinking about creating yet another file sharing company.
 Find yourself some lawyers.

That is sound advice. Alas, Uri, no matter whether your intent is to share 
unencumbered content or (tfu-tfu-tfu, has ve halila, perish the thought) 
encumbered content, the powers that be (namely, people with gazillions of 
dollars in ready money) will not look on such an idea with all that much 
goodwill.

 2. As a person who previously matched between companies and
 developers, I would say to any developer who wants to join you, that
 you are a Red Risk, which means that developers should ask for cash
 (and not Shotef+30 or anything like that) or bank's cheque or a bank
 guarantee. Why? because you either do not know the law in Israel
 and/or being fully Naive.

Hetz, my dear, this is an ad hominem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem). 
It might even constitute libel. Yes, Uri is either unaware or ignoring Israeli 
and other laws, but using an ad hominem is always a bad idea.

 3. Of course, any developer who accidentally served in the Israeli
 army should NOT try to work with you or else you'll mock and insult
 him, just like what you did 1-2 years ago, an act that was fully
 childish behavior.

Again, an ad hominem. What does it matter that Uri rails (quite incoherently, I 
must say, which gravely detracts from his argumentation) against criminal 
organizations like the IDF, etc. Uri is somewhat misguided in his views, but 
that is not a very good reason to ad hominem him.


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Re: Source code control system

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Oi,

Git is a silly that.

M

- Ohad Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 what about git?
 


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Re: Source code control system

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Good heavens...

Subversion and/or CVS - take your choice.

I am not sure what you mean by graphic management, but both have graphic and 
web CLIENTS.

Management is something completely different :-).


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Re: Paper journals

[Marc Volovic]

Dr. Dobbs

- Leonid Podolny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,
 My employer considers purchasing a subscription to some linux
 journals. 
 I mean, paper (aka hardcopy) ones. The intended public is developers,
 
 not sales/management, so it must be sufficiently technical. Can
 someone 
 recommend something specific?
 -- 
 
 
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Re: managing two interfaces

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This is indeed teaming. In your case, teaming does not even require  
teaming on the other side of the cable pair since you do not actively  
intend to run the paired cables active/active.


The specific kernel module is bonding

Marc

On Jan 16, 2008, at 16:33 PM, Dotan Shavit wrote:


You just described teaming of your network interfaces.

#

On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Constantine Shulyupin wrote:

Hi,

I have a computer connected with two interfaces to same network. Each
one backups another.
When eth0 is down, eth1 have to work.
When eth1 is down, eth0 have to work.
The most sutable solution I've found is to monitor RUNNING status of
interfaces and change the routing table from my program.
Could you please suggests already implemented solution for the  
problem?




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Re: [Job Offer and a byte more] PHP programmer and CTO

[Marc Volovic]

Aviv,

You are beginning to disappoint me.

What you have not seemed to grasp is that you need to decide what your  
company needs/wants - a CTO or a programmer. There is precious little  
chance that you can get both in a single person.


You know - just to be on the constructive side - I'll send you a list  
of people I think might work as CTO candidates in a private email -  
address them. I doubt any of them want to be a programmer, though.


Your project/company seems to be lacking managerial guidance. Get  
some. From somewhere. Even part-time. Buy a manager and OBEY the  
manager. This is one of the most difficult decisions an entrepreneur  
must make and it is imperative. Few people make it over the divide and  
BECOME managers (I think the only one I can can remember off the cuff  
is Gil Schwed).


So - I'll send you a private email.

M


On Jan 16, 2008, at 17:59 PM, aviv sher wrote:


Hi Guys,

Well its me Aviv who started the whole mess :) i would like to thank  
alot to all the really great insights... though i still have  to say  
that almost no one has come forward either as a CTO or a Programmer...

 So I am a bit disappointed...

so i am asking again if anyone out there knows someone that knows  
someone that want to be part of a really interesting web 2.0 project  
(we pay salaries...yep) as a programmer or any either Tech. title  
hew would like to have


we are still looking :) you can contact me through the email or call  
me at 054-6838708


have a great evening

Aviv



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Re: [Job Offer and a byte more] PHP programmer and CTO

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Aviv, hi.

I am somewhat less keen than Geoff to suspect you of trying/hoping to cheat a 
prospective CTO. In fact, I am sure you have every intention of paying the CTO. 
What I do fear is that you do not really understand the position and job of a 
CTO.

The CTO's job is NOT to be a good programmer or support the current system. If 
the CTO is engaged in this kind of activity, his or her attention will be 
consumed by the minutiae of the work, leaving no free brain-cells to 
proselytize technology. A CTO is a priest, a hierophant - not a programmer. A 
CTO is a salesman of the IDEA, not a programmer.

Marc

- aviv sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Geoff thanks for the insight,
 
 The CTO title means he will handle the whole Technology part of the
 system
 (and the technology vision), and if he would like to change the
 technology
 in the future it will be his decision... we also want him to be a
 good
 programmer so he can support the current system we dont want
 anyone to
 work for free so if my message was not clear...
 
 The job is a payable job :) the partnership is only so he will feel
 some
 obligation (and may be make some big bucks in the future)
 
 Aviv
 
 On Jan 13, 2008 12:41 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
  On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:11:20AM +0200, aviv sher wrote:
  
   a young startup company with a very interesting web 2.0 platform
 is
  seeking
   for a
   PHP programmer with knowledge in AJAX HTML or any other 3-4
 letters
   combinations that has to do with web or open source!
  
   This programmer will eventually become the CTO of the company...
 not to
   mention partnership!
 
  IMHO probably not. If you have already decided the technologies,
 which
  is what you said in the begining of this post, then there really is
 no
  longer an opening for a CTO.
 
  What you are looking for is a programmer who will be given the
 title
  of CTO as an inducment to take less or no money, but will never be
 allowed
  to actually make any technology decisions. A real CTO would leave
 out of
  frustration, a young programmer will never sucessfully make the
  transition
  from doing it all themeselves to running a group.
 
   I dont want to put a long job description I know that who ever
 fits the
  job
   knows it already
 
  Yes, but as I said, IMHO, you have already scared them off.
 
  If you are looking for a programmer to join you, who will be paid
 in
  equity, you should say so and get a person who can do the job you
 want
  without any unreasonable expectations. If you really have those
  expectations, IMHO, you really need to have a professional take a
 good
  hard look at your business plan and advise you on staffing among
 other
  things.
 
  Geoff.
 
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Re: [JOB OFFER] PHP programmer

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- Herouth Maoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 (Anything you see in parenthesis is my own remark)
 
 Unicell is looking for a PHP programmer.

Which is not a pure-Linux vocation!

 (I just know that one of the regular Job-offer bashers will get me for
 that...)

Quite the contrary - I think it is a high time that we - as a group - got weaned
from our bigotry. This list - if it help place some people - will have been 
proved
absolved of the flood of its other electronic drivel.

 (I'd add - some knowledge of Linux, not being afraid of command line
 or cron).

There you go - the sop for us bigots! Thanks, Heruth.


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Re: Mounting a DD'd ReiserFS image?

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Under Linux it will work

Under MacOS it will not work - no ReiserFS support that I know of

M
- Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I saw this question on another mailing list, not related to Linux.
 
 Someone has a DD dump of a ReiserFS partition. Can it be mounted as a
 file and read? Under Linux, I would try mounting it as a loopback
 device, but will even that work?
 
 I know that some file systems store data as sector addresses and DD
 images can only be put back on a disk of the same geometry and in the
 same place, while others only store LBA for example, ISO9660 and UDF.
 
 They want to mount it under MacOS (which is BSD) if that helps
 (and any pointers to programs/drivers).
 
 Thanks in advance, 
 
 Geoff.
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Re: [job offer] SysAdmin

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Gil, I love you like a brother, but I simply must

Translation in body, below:

- Gil Freund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Responsibilities
   Strategy  Planning

Translation: Plan and then see the plan go up in smoke

   Work with scientists and software developers in support of existing

Translation: Herd cats

 systems documentation for educating end users and new IT staff.

Translation: trying to imparts a few morsels of wisdom to people who do not 
want it and yourself

 Academic or industrial experience is required.

Translation: No PhD, you lowly serf?

 including Windows System Administration.

Translation: Outlook is more important

 Personal Attributes

Translation: We're an equal-opportunity bigot!

 Strong customer service orientation.

Translation: Groveling is a way of life and a universal panacea

 Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Translation: Must be able to understand pained quizzical eyebrow movements 
from PhD's

 Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a
 high-pressure environment.

Translation: Oi, Gevald, my Outlook has deleted ALL MY MAIL JUST LIKE I TOLD 
IT! GET IT BACK NOW

 Good written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.

Translation: Good written, oral, labia-lingua-cloacal, and interpersonal 
communication skills

 Team-oriented and skilled in working within a collaborative
 environment.

Translation: Able to withstand constant backbiting and angle-gnawing

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Re: PC router distro?

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yes - pfsense - marc



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Re: PC router distro?

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1/2 yes - pfsense (based on freebsd) - marc

- Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 How about using OpenBSD for this purpose?
 Is there an OpenBSD based distribution suitable for working as a
 router?


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Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

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Yes - we're using Zimbra and some of my peers are using Zimbra or Scalix. Fine 
enough.

I am actually quite happy with Zimbra - there are some annoyances (its 
NON-interop with Nokia e-series mobiles, eg) but otherwise it works very well.

M

- Dvir Volk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 thanks,
 anyone has real experience in using them in a real business
 environment?
 
 
 On 10/11/07, Lior Okman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  You might want to checkout Scalix, OpenGroupware.org and
 openXchange,
  all of which have (more or less) all the features you mentioned.
 
 
  OpenXchange requires that you buy a connector for Outlook access,
 but
  it's pretty cheap.
 
 
  I think Scalix provides the Outlook connector for free, but
 requires
  that you use a premium user with the connector. The first 25
 premium
  users in the community edition of Scalix are free, but when you
 need
  more premium users, you need to buy licenses for them. The number
 of
  standard users in Scalix is unlimited in the free (community)
 edition,
  but standard users only have email, and can't collaborate/share
 calendars.
 
 
  Access to mobile phones and PDAs might have to go through Funambol
 -
  you'll need to check that out. I had no need for this, so I didn't
  bother with it last time I looked around for an exchange
 replacement.
 
 
  Open-Xchange -
 http://www.open-xchange.com/header/community_area.html
 
  OpenGroupware.org - http://opengroupware.org/
 
  Scalix - http://www.scalix.com/
 
 
 
  Hope this helps,
 
 
  Lior
 
 
  Dvir Volk wrote:
 
   Hi list,
  
   My company, a rapidly growing startup (right now about 15
 employees,
   probably around 50 within a year), is looking to upgrade our
 current
   mail server to a full fledged Exchange or similar solution.
  
   Before we're surrendering to M$, I'd like to know if anyone knows
 of a
   full FOSS solution for our needs, possibly with someone to support
 it
   or at least install it and guide us, in Israel.
   our requirements are:
  
   Mail; Calendar sharing; PDA Access; Access to all features from
 Win
   (Outlook access is a must) , Mac and Linux; Web Access; and our
 own
   dedicated server.
  
   Any advice?
  
   Dvir
  
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Re: FOSS alternative to Exchange

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It is NOT too much a hassle to set up. All you need to do is:

  1. Call the IT person into the room
  2. Make a serious and intimidating face
  3. Using a grave tone, say - Nir - you will install Scalix tomorrow. I want 
it done yesterday

M

- Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 12/10/2007, Lior Okman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  OpenXchange requires that you buy a connector for Outlook access,
 but
  it's pretty cheap.
 
 
 Last time I tried to look at openXchange (in order to learn about an
 exchange alternative when I hoped I'll be asked for it) it looked a
 pretty
 complicated task to set it up. Is this true or did I get the wrong
 impression?
 
 And as Dvir asked already - does anyone here have true real-life
 experience
 setting up and using any of these solutions to report about?
 
 Thanks,
 
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Re: Commercial/FOSS C++ dev env for Linux?

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Hiya.

First - SlickEdit costs US$250-450 per seat. And while it is ok as an IDE, it 
has quite a few limitations especially as far as debugging is concerned.

There are NO good integrated development environments for Linux. Slickedit, 
Eclipse, etc, are a reasonable set of editing tools, but very very very 
mediocre debugging tools.

You could try TotalView and Code Insight (Debugger and Editor).

Marc


- Maxim Veksler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 9/1/07, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hello,
 
  We are at this stage were the lead C++ developer needs to switch
 over our
  mostly ACE-based applications from Windows to Linux and needs a GOOD
 and
  CONVENIENT debugging environment for multi-threaded applications.
 
  He's giving a honest effort to use gdb but so far found it very hard
 to work
  with and at least once he managed to get gdb itself to crash.
 
  Can anyone recommend a REALLY USEFUL(TM) debugger for Linux, even
 cheap
  commercial ones (up to around 100$ per seat)?
 
  Please spare me the preaching about gdb being so great - that guy,
 who
  haven't touched Linux until last week, is already doing a tremendous
 effort
  to convert and needs any tool he can to help him.
 
  At least one of the target environments will be RHEL4 (due to
 customer's
  demands) but there is a good chance the Debian will be our internal
 SOE.
 
 
 Have him look at http://www.slickedit.com/
 
  Thanks,
 
  --Amos
 
 
 
 
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Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses

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IANAL, but if I remember correctly, the answer is that it is not only forbidden 
to encrypt a message, it is even forbidden to modulate a message (i.e. change 
the signal), without due permission from the relevant ministry.

In effect, by using such problematic and scurrilous items as voice mail 
systems, cellular phones and so forth, we all are risking being sent to the 
nach und nebel.

M

- Moshe Leibovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'm wonder if the Israeli law allows you to
 encrypt your communications over public channels.
 I wouldn't shock me to find out the even this discussion is illegal
 :)
 
 On 20/08/2007 01:03, Amos Shapira wrote:
  On 20/08/07, *Nadav Har'El* [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
      far less opposed to giving the police more search power. It
 doesn't
      make us a
      totalitarian state, unless the police actually (ab)uses this
 power,
      and so
      far, I don't think that it actually does.
  
  
  There is also the issue of having all the information about you 
  concentrated in one place, open for corrupt officials to give/sell
 away 
  to anyone who wants to know this stuff about you.
  
  It's already mostly there with the Identification Number being a
 single 
  join field on everything written about you - from your birth 
  certificate through your school marks, your army records, your
 rental 
  agreements, bank records, national insurance, any club membership
 your 
  have etc. etc.
  
  As far as I followed the article, the new law is just going to make
 it 
  even easier to track you.
  
  BTW - all this cryptography and stenography stuff is not the point -
 I 
  suppose none of us in this forum are criminals that have anything to
 
  hide. But as law abiding citizens we are now even more exposed to 
  criminals having more information about us - e.g. someone who
 gathers 
  enough information about you can start pretending to be you and get
 
  credit cards on your name, or know that you are away from home for a
 
  period and break into it, knowing exactly what to look for because
 they 
  also found your credit card or warranty records, etc.
  
  --Amos
  
 
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Re: Linux friendly hardware RAID card in Israel

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On Monday 16 April 2007 03:08, Arieh Skliarouk quoth:
 Hi,

LSI Logic have multiple models. From 150-4 (4 SATA-1 ports) to 300-8X (8 
SATA-2 ports).

I am using an LSI 150-6 (6 SATA-1 ports) and it can be installed 
transparently. The later models (3xx) have RAID 0,1,5,6,1+0 and 10. The 
earlier models lack RAID6.

 Can anyone recommend me Linux friendly hardware RAID card with following
 features:

- Available for purchase from Israel company or reseller
- SATA support for 4 drives or more
- Open source driver included in latests 2.6 kernel
- Must support true HW RAID[0,1,5] raid, when BIOS and Linux see only
single disk (unlike Promise cards).
- Consequence of previous two requirements: debian 4.0 can install
itself onto the RAID (configured from BIOS), out-of-the-box.
- hot-swap is not necessary, the system can be powered off for
maintenance sometimes.

 Thank you in advance!

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Re: OT: SparcStation monitor needed

[Marc Volovic]

On Tuesday 14 November 2006 16:01, Jonathan Ben Avraham quoth:
 We used a regular VGA monitor. Maybe you need an adapter cable.

I can probably give or lend you an adapter.

you need a fairly capable (Hz/KHz/MHz-wise) monitor

I'd use a serial cable

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Re: [ot] svn branches and tricks

[Marc Volovic]

On Monday 02 October 2006 20:30, Diego Iastrubni quoth:
 The problem starts when I decide that the development branch should become
 the trunk. How can I tell SVN:
 for get this dir, now trunk is branches/test1.

The simplest way would be similar to what you suggest as the second option, 
albeit somewhat differently:

svn mv trunk branches/kablamo
svn mv branches/foo trunk

Keeps history, too.

You could eschew the branches/ subdirectory, making the rename even simpler.


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