Re: Remote Desktop to Display :0

2011-10-17 Thread Tom Goren
You mentioned FreeNX but from my experience the proprietary version is still light years ahead (http://www.nomachine.com/). It will definitely serve actual desktop sessions as well. Very low hassle to configure and should work out of the box. Tom 2011/10/17 Guy Tetruashvyly guy@gmail.com

Re: Remote Desktop to Display :0

2011-10-17 Thread Tom Goren
They have a 'free' edition: http://www.nomachine.com/select-package.php?os=linuxid=1 On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Guy Tetruashvyly guy@gmail.com wrote: ** On 10/17/2011 12:21 AM, Tom Goren wrote You mentioned FreeNX but from my experience the proprietary version is still light

Re: MySQL / PostgreSQL limitation

2011-08-23 Thread Tom Goren
+1 Shimi And my 2c: Short answer: depends Long answer: depends, and get a DBA, because a large site like you describe, that has already invested a lot, and is about to invest more in some monster server, should probably invest a bit more in an expert before their whole operation slows down to a

Re: How do I install linux on a raid0?

2011-08-18 Thread Tom Goren
Micha Hi, From the little experience I had with this, I recall reading that these 'RAID controllers' on consumer level motherboards, aren't especially advised for use with linux. I don't know about Debian in this case, but here are the instructions for Ubuntu:

Re: email alias issue

2011-07-19 Thread Tom Goren
Why better? puppet and version control can compliment each other, as puppet's versioning is hopelessly poor. When was the last time you tried to roll back an update you deployed via puppet? There are no logs or inherent diffs or anything you can do - only a big mess of a hash tree you can maybe

Re: Looking for an open source web based software for project management

2011-07-14 Thread Tom Goren
+1 Redmine: easy to set up ( my recommendation is to use unicorn+nginx - shameless plug to my howto http://tech.tomgoren.com/archives/245 ) Also Tzafrir - uses more resources? Trac is one of the slowest moving systems there are (and I am big of fan of python, especially over ruby). Redmine is

Re: practical limit on the number of UIDs

2011-06-29 Thread Tom Goren
Sounds like a job better suited for a DB backed authentication system such as LDAP. This is just off the top of my head, but for some reason I wouldn't want /etc/passwd and its relatives 1 million lines long. Like I said, no deep reasoning here, just intuition. On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:20 AM,

Re: practical limit on the number of UIDs

2011-06-29 Thread Tom Goren
Also, there is another issue: 1 million users could be a lot to lose, and a few files aren't as resilient as a DB, which gives you things like replication and redundancy. Since you stated that only a few users will connect at a time, then sure, performance isn't an issue. Maintainability, like

Re: weird network issue

2011-02-14 Thread Tom Goren
Which distro/arch for the guest and what hypervisor/version? 2011/2/14 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com No new firewall rules, new machine, default rules. Hetz On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Dotan Shavit do...@shavitos.com wrote: Any if-pre-up rule? # On 02/14/2011 12:32 PM,

Linux SysAdmins wanted at Evolution Online

2010-12-15 Thread Tom Goren
at t...@evolution.co.il). Thanks and Good Luck! Tom Goren. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Pop toaster recommendations seeked

2010-11-03 Thread Tom Goren
This looks interesting (never tried - but read some good stuff about it): http://www.iredmail.org Let us know how it goes if you try :) Tom. http://www.iredmail.org/ On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Ira Abramov lists-linux...@ira.abramov.orgwrote: Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of

Re: Pop toaster recommendations seeked

2010-10-31 Thread Tom Goren
You could go with postfix + dovecot + roundcube for web interface For backend administration webmin perhaps. If you really want to go nuts for the client, try out virtualmin to handle everything on the backend (useful for dealing with several domains) - pretty simple to set up as well. Tom.

Re: Two instances of Apache on the same server

2010-10-06 Thread Tom Goren
Sorry for the crude question, but why would you want to do this? Are you trying to run to different versions of apache for testing or for some specific application need? What advantages do two separate instances of the actual apache process present over a multiple virtual host configurations?

Re: Two instances of Apache on the same server

2010-10-06 Thread Tom Goren
, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/10/6 Tom Goren t...@tomgoren.com: Sorry for the crude question, but why would you want to do this? Are you trying to run to different versions of apache for testing or for some specific application need? What advantages do two separate

Re: Problem at startup - lockup loading swap

2010-09-12 Thread Tom Goren
ok - so edit fstab On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:01:14 +0200 Tom Goren t...@tomgoren.com wrote: use the appropriate /dev/sdaX entry instead of the UUID - something may be messed up with the hash - especially if you have

Re: comparing two directory structures

2010-09-05 Thread Tom Goren
I like the rsync solution - it is what I was going to suggest. On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Ehud Karni e...@unix.mvs.co.il wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:21:40, Gabor Szabo wrote: I guess there is an obvious command for this, I just don't know it. How can I compare two directory

Re: full backup remotely?

2009-12-30 Thread Tom Goren
i prefer clonezilla.org, a similar project, but a bit more well-rounded in my opinion. very easy to use - for windows backups as well as linux. tom. 2009/12/30 sammy ominsky s...@avoidant.org On 30/12/2009, at 20:34, Elazar Leibovich wrote: http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page Neato.

Re: combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-23 Thread Tom Goren
officejet 5610 fine all around here fyi (tested in ubuntu and arch). a bit old, but cheap. tom. 2009/12/23 Michael Vasiliev mycr...@yandex.ru Not all HP MFT's are born equal. Mine is not partially supported in linux (no scanning support by sane and no duplexing support by hplip) On

Re: Google Chrome vs. Firebox or good old Internet Explorer?

2009-12-21 Thread Tom Goren
fyi, according to this: http://gs.statcounter.com/?nomore=ie6#browser_version-ww-weekly-200827-200951 ff 3.5 is the most popular browser in the world right now (per version). tom. 2009/12/20 Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il Hi Uri! Just a note - please break your E-mails into paragraphs

Re: [SEMI-OFFTOPIC] eBook reader recommendations, anyone?

2009-12-17 Thread Tom Goren
windows. The eBook reader would be required to be able to open more than one book simultaneously and have a GUI to switch from an open book to another open book. --- Omer On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 09:30 +0200, Tom Goren wrote: what is this fantastic device you have invented? 14-15 by 9-10

Re: encoding hebrew text

2009-12-16 Thread Tom Goren
iconv is what i was going to recommend in the first place, once the encodings were figured out. 2009/12/16 Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il On Wednesday 16 Dec 2009 11:50:49 Ori Idan wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: On Wednesday 16 Dec 2009

Re: [SEMI-OFFTOPIC] eBook reader recommendations, anyone?

2009-12-16 Thread Tom Goren
what is this fantastic device you have invented? 14-15 by 9-10 inches display? most ebook readers are much much smaller. perhaps you should take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_e-book_readers - there is a big matrix there comparing all features of most devices on the market.

Re: [SEMI-OFFTOPIC] eBook reader recommendations, anyone?

2009-12-16 Thread Tom Goren
maybe you will like this abomination: http://www.geeks.co.uk/11414-the-entourage-edge-in-action-dual-scree-ebook-reader ;-) 2009/12/17 Tom Goren motne...@gmail.com what is this fantastic device you have invented? 14-15 by 9-10 inches display? most ebook readers are much much smaller

Re: 3G USB known to work with Linux?

2009-12-15 Thread Tom Goren
I use the orange option icon modem on a regular basis with Ubuntu (almost plug and play), and got it to work with arch as well (not as fun). used some info from here: http://ubuntu-il.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20t=3020 good luck! tom. 2009/12/15 Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com Justin, As

Re: encoding hebrew text

2009-12-15 Thread Tom Goren
could you perhaps attach an example of such a file? it would make it easier to recommend the appropriate conversion for you to make (in my opinion it should eventually all be utf8). i know that notepad++ should be sufficient. tom. 2009/12/15 Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net Hi people, I have

Re: encoding hebrew text

2009-12-15 Thread Tom Goren
also i just remembered, notepad itself has an option of saving the files natively to utf8 format, however it is utf8 with BOM, which is bad for you. 2009/12/16 Tom Goren motne...@gmail.com could you perhaps attach an example of such a file? it would make it easier to recommend the appropriate

Re: parameters to shell script

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Goren
awesome, thanks for the info. 2009/12/8 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com 2009/12/8 Tom Goren motne...@gmail.com does it work with *su* (as opposed to over ssh)? i.e. *su - bybass -c /Path/To/bypass.sh** param1 param2 *also, more information is definitely required, especially why

Re: parameters to shell script

2009-12-07 Thread Tom Goren
does it work with *su* (as opposed to over ssh)? i.e. *su - bybass -c /Path/To/bypass.sh** param1 param2 *also, more information is definitely required, especially why you are trying to use this script as the default user shell, which does not sound like best practices... a shell is a

Re: Home Theatre computer

2009-11-09 Thread Tom Goren
somewhat blasphemous to promote apple products on a linux mailing list... the fit-pc2 looks awesome, i am already making inquiries now, interested in buying one myself. tom. 2009/11/6 Marc Volovic marc.volo...@swiftouch.com Yes, there is such a unit. It is called Mac Mini, iMac or Mac Pro,