Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson In xsession-errors I found the problem. Sometime in 12.04's maintenance a bug was introduced to Gnome on Intel GMA-950 video cards. It was not in the 12.10 release, but was propagated between Wednesday when I installed it, and Saturday night when I upgraded it. It runs of of space somewhere, the diagnostic message makes it look like disk space but it is in the video card itself. Although the bugs filed are for Gnome, using KDM and KDE did not fix it. Please report that bug, Geoff: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug/?no-redirect This, Dotan, is the reason why I said NO ONE can warranty that Linux, especially UBUNTU will run on a computer. I don't see how it is relevant. I didn't ask anyone to sell me a computer running Linux that will never have any userspace software issues. I asked a company which sells computer components which motherboard has components that are currently compatible with commonly-available Linux distros. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: Please report that bug, Geoff: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug/?no-redirect It's already been reported. That's how I found out that it existed. I don't think I can document it with any useful information except that it worked on Wednesday and was dead on Saturday. Since I no longer have that system, I restored to a Friday backup, I can't look for anything. I hope that you at lest clicked the Launchpad.net button for Also affects me as I do know that Canonical takes that seriously. I don't see how it is relevant. I didn't ask anyone to sell me a computer running Linux that will never have any userspace software issues. I asked a company which sells computer components which motherboard has components that are currently compatible with commonly-available Linux distros. It's relevant IMHO because it goes against conventional wisdom. If you tried a live CD, if you did an install on one system, if you looked at the Hardware Compatibility Lists, if you just looked up the driver status of every bit of hardware on the computer, if you had rolled twelve sided dice and accepted anything above 7 on each of them, it would have been ok, but failed miserably if you installed them this morning. I'm not even sure it is a userspace issue. Before I gave up and went back to my working backup, I tried KDE. I got effectively the same results. I may of had something misconfigured at that point, but I can't tell anymore. I'm not trying to make this a personal attack, and apologize if you were or are offended in any way. I seriously do not think it is possible for a computer vendor, even the size of Ivory, to warrant that a computer you buy will run Linux. Ironicaly, I did buy the laptop in question from Ivory, almost 4 years ago to the day. In that time it has run Linux, Windows, BSD, occasionaly all at the same time. Although I have had to live with lots of features of UBUNTU, until last night it never failed to run. I'm not offended, Geoff! I actually find your opinion very pragmatic even if I disagree. Now, if you tell me that my children are ugly and my dog is disobedient, I will be very much offended indeed! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?
I use Bezeq for my infrastructure and Bezeq Beinleumi for my ISP. Every hour or two my internet connection is disconnected. It will remain so until I unplug the modem and plug it back in. Connected to the modem is a D-Link DIR-320 router, which connects my Ubuntu machine via cable and various other devices (laptop, Nook, Android phone) via wireless. Yesterday I called Bezeq Beineumi about the issue, as I've been told by both companies that when the modem's DSL light is lit that the problem is with the ISP. The woman who answered (Galit) informed me that she shows 4 disconnects that day (this was at about 14:00) and that 4 disconnects in a day is considered valid (תקין). Is this really considered valid in the industry? Have things really gotten this bad for consumers? She furthermore insisted that the problem is not with Bezeq Beinleumi but rather with Bezeq, despite the DSL lights. We got a Bezeq technician on the line (Alex) who could not help us diagnose the issue because there was no Windows machine to connect directly to the modem. However, he agreed to send a technician here tomorrow. Unfortunately, I won't be here (my wife will meet the technician) so I suspect that if this intermittent issue does not appear during that time then nothing will get fixed. Is 4 disconnects per half-day really considered acceptable now? Other than the DSL light, can I diagnose problems myself? How? How can I diagnose a bad modem on a home Linux machine? If when the internet is 'down', if I can still access the router's web control panel is that a sign that the router is not to blame? Might the router be to blame, even though a modem reset resolves the issue and even though I can still access the router when the internet is down? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Announcing New Israeli Tech User Groups
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Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: If your infrastructure was upgraded from an aDSL-2 to vDSL/aDSL-2 combination units, you need to upgrade your modem. You can tell, by the maximum speed BEZEQ can offer you. If it is 15m or less it is aDSL-2, if it is more, than the hardware was upgraded. The problem is the upgraded hardware does not do aDSL-2 very well, and you should upgrade to vDSL. BEZEQ does not tell people this when they make the upgrade. Thank you, this seems to be the issue. I know that Bezeq has recently installed (within the past year) a connection box 30 meters from my building, with all sorts of fiber optic connections inside, buzzing fans and blinking lights. The guy who installed it showed me around the box while my dog waited patiently for her walk! In fact, just last week I got a call from Bezeq offering to upgrade my 5 MiB/sec connection to something higher that I don't remember. I refused only because he wanted my billing information and I wasn't willing to give that information to someone who called _me_, rather I said that I'll call Bezeq and give that information. When it turned out that was impossible, I decided that I was talking to a phone-phisher and told him that I refuse to give that information over a call that I did not initiate. While you are at it, you should upgrade your router. It's going to have all sorts of problems running out of space for routing tables, and very likely does not reset NAT tables when the line drops. I don't understand why this would be an issue. Why are the routing tables going to be larger? The router needs store only the routing tables for the devices that it acts as a default gateway for, i.e. my LAN and that hasn't changed. Wouldn't NAT tables be discarded anyway after a short time? How else could two computers on the LAN browse the same website? I have had really good results with a D-Link 6740vn router from BEZQ which has an integrated vDSL modem. It's nice because you can log into the router and check the speed and quality of the DSL connection. You can even run BERT (bit error rate) tests on the fly. I'll ask about that. Thanks. Note that almost no one in Israel had an aDSL connection to their central office. BEZEQ quietly replaced every line they could, and are still working on the rest with fiber optic connections. Each connection is 100mBit and gets split at the corner to DSL lines. So your actual DSL connection is a most a few hundred meters, and often a lot less. Geoff. Thank you! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Guy Gold guy1g...@gmail.com wrote: If Dotan connects a laptop to the modem's LAN port, instead of the router, and the same issues keep happening, doesn't that clear the router from being the culprit ? Seeing how Bezeq does not have a Linux 'dialer' this is not an option. I already fought with them on the phone about this. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Yes. However, unless his laptop has a darned complete firewall, he'd better reformat it after that test. What would you recommend? I'm not running an SSH server on the desktop, so if I shut down my local Apache instance will I be safe? Note that I am using an up-to-date Linux distro (Kubuntu), not Windows. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?
The Bezeq technician just came and went. He found no fault on the equipment and left without changing anything. He is of the opinion that the problem is with Bezeq Beinleumi, and he insists that if the problems continue to contact them. However, he cannot give to me a paper which describes what he had found, so that I might give that paper to Bezeq Beinleumi. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Cloud Backup
Nadav, Amazon has a special service made just for this: http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/ The trick with Glacier is that the data is stored _offline_. That means two things: 1) It is actually more failure-redundant than EBS, S3, or rsync.net 2) You get your data about an hour _after_ you request it. Data transfer in is free and data transfer out has a free tier per month. Data storage is the absolute cheapest on the internet. Again I stress, this is the _most_failure_redundant_ service that exists. It is specifically designed for long-term backup and archiving. Furthermore, I am very happy with Amazon's cloud offerings. I have had very good experience with their support teams. On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a cloud backup solution for Linux, where I'll be able to use rsync, sftp (and similar utilities) to a remote server to back up by files, and when needed, look at individual files (e.g., using sshfs) or restore all my files. I am *not* looking for a solution based on special purpose (and usually, closed source) utilities or daemons that attempt to decide for me what to back up and when - I want to be of full control of this process. For the last 3 years, I've been using the services of rsync.net, and they're doing exactly what I want. However, the storage price I pay them is 40 cents per gigabyte per month, is 4 times that of Amazon's, so I think there must be a cheaper solution. One thing I've been thinking - wouldn't it be fairly easy to store my files on Amazon's S3 or even more simply EBS, and then run rsync server on a micro instance on EC2? Sounds like a cheap, convenient backup solution for Linux diehards like myself, and I wonder if anyone has done this before and then I won't need to code this myself? Thanks, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El| Saturday, Feb 23 2013, 13 Adar 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Creativity consists of coming up with http://nadav.harel.org.il |many ideas, not just that one great idea. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Choosing a new bank
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com wrote: After getting the reply we only support Windows and Mac one time too many from Bank Leumi, when reporting about problems with their internet site, I have decided to finally switch banks. (They have annoyed me in other ways as well). Do you have any experience with the other banks? Which is the most Linux (or rather standards) friendly bank in Israel? I switched from Discount to Poalim exactly for the same reason. I am so happy with Poalim branch 702 in Haifa that when I moved to Beersheba I kept my branch in Haifa. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Raspberry PI questions
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know of a company selling them here? I'm looking for them with a reasonable price, e.g. board, cheap shipping and VAT, as opposed to board and expensive shipping from out of the country. Second question, which I can't quite find an answer, does the model B have 2 separate USB ports, or one USB port spilt with an on board hub? Thanks in advance, Geoff. Hi Geoff! I just got a Raspberry Pi B as a gift. If you want to play around, I can set up an account on it and give you shell access. It is running on my home network. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Postfix unable to find /etc/postfix/virtual file
On an Ubuntu Server 12.04 machine, I've set up an email forwarder for a specific address in /etc/postfix/virtual: exam...@mydomain.com postfix-t...@dotancohen.com The address postfix-t...@dotancohen.com works and receives mail. When I send mail to exam...@mydomain.com I get this in the logs: warning: hash:/etc/postfix/virtual is unavailable. open database /etc/postfix/virtual.db: No such file or directory warning: hash:/etc/postfix/virtual lookup error for exam...@mydomain.com warning: 705B58190E: virtual_alias_maps map lookup problem for exam...@mydomain.com -- deferring delivery Why might postfix be unable to find the /etc/postfix/virtual file? $ ls -la total 96 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 4 08:46 . drwxr-xr-x 102 root root 4096 Jun 24 06:23 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 274 Jun 24 06:23 dynamicmaps.cf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1549 Jul 4 08:46 main.cf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5531 Jun 24 06:23 master.cf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19707 Feb 20 20:03 postfix-files -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8729 Feb 20 20:03 postfix-script -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26498 Feb 20 20:03 post-install drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 20 20:03 sasl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root43 Jul 4 08:27 virtual -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130 Jul 4 08:26 vmailbox $ cat virtual exam...@mydomain.com post-t...@dotancohen.com $ cat main.cf | grep virtual virtual_mailbox_domains = mydomain.com virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/vhosts virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vmailbox virtual_minimum_uid = 100 virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 virtual_alias_domains = fastupfront.com virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual # virtual_alias_maps = /etc/postfix/virtual # I tried without the 'hash:' prefix as well. Note that mydomain.com is anonymized. In fact, the domain name that is used in the files is a real domain name that does have its A and MX records pointed to the IP address of this server, and serving webpages with Apache works. The DNS records were changed last week, so I know that they have propagated. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Postfix unable to find /etc/postfix/virtual file
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%2Fetc%2Fpostfix%2Fvirtual.db%3A+No+such+file+or+directoryl=1 You need to execute postmap /etc/postfix/virtual after editing the file. Thank you Amos! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Postfix: Accept some mail to mailbox, and forward some mail.
Hi all. I need to set up a virtual alias (forwarder) and a virtual
mailbox on the same domain. I'm using Postfix on Ubuntu Server 12.04.
Here is my setup:
$ cat /etc/postfix/main.cf
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
biff = no
append_dot_mydomain = no
readme_directory = no
# TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_use_tls=yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
myhostname = awsBeta
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
mydestination = awsBeta, localhost.localdomain, , localhost
relayhost =
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [:::127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all
virtual_mailbox_domains = someDomain.com
virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/vhosts
virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vmailbox
virtual_minimum_uid = 100
virtual_uid_maps = static:5000
virtual_gid_maps = static:5000
virtual_alias_domains = someDomain.com
$ cat /etc/postfix/virtual
forw...@somedomain.com t...@gmail.com
$ cat /etc/postfix/vmailbox
do...@somedomain.com someDomain.com/dotan
$ sudo postmap virtual
$ sudo postmap vmailbox
$ tree /var/mail/vhosts/
/var/mail/vhosts/
└── someDomain.com
└── dotan
When mail is sent to forw...@somedomain.com it is properly forwarded
to t...@gmail.com. However, when mail is sent to do...@somedomain.com
the sending address receives a mail with this error:
Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table
This appears in the log:
warning: do not list domain someDomain.com in BOTH
virtual_alias_domains and virtual_mailbox_domains
Of course, I cannot remove the domain from either
virtual_alias_domains or virtual_mailbox_domains because I need to use
bothe of those features. So how might one set up do...@somedomain.com
as a real mailbox (no unix account though), but forw...@somedomain.com
to forward to t...@gmail.com? I've been trolling Google for answers,
but though I thought that this would be easy, I'm stuck!
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Re: Postfix: Accept some mail to mailbox, and forward some mail.
Thank you Shachar!
Did you use Dovecot to access the mail? I am having some trouble with
the Dovecot passwords. I am finding this in the logs when I
unsuccessfully try to log in:
Jul 07 08:13:25 auth-worker: Debug:
pam(u...@somedomain.com,212.179.241.14): lookup service=dovecot
Jul 07 08:13:25 auth-worker: Debug:
pam(u...@somedomain.com,212.179.241.14): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password:
Jul 07 08:13:27 auth-worker: Info:
pam(u...@somedomain.com,212.179.241.14): pam_authenticate() failed:
Authentication failure (password mismatch?) (given password: 12345)
Jul 07 08:13:29 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 2 user=u...@somedomain.com
Jul 07 08:13:29 pop3-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 2
attempts): user=u...@somedomain.com, method=PLAIN,
rip=212.179.241.14, lip=10.138.11.251
This is not the real password, but an example to show that I think
that there is an issue:
$ /usr/bin/doveadm pw -u u...@somedomain.com -s DIGEST-MD5
Enter new password: # Here I have typed 12345
Retype new password: # Here I have typed 12345
{DIGEST-MD5}f4e442b0dec5009eaa8b9b4104923edc
$ printf 12345 | md5sum
827ccb0eea8a706c4c34a16891f84e7b -
$
Shouldn't that password match the md5sum check? Also, might I have the
file formats wrong?
$ cat passwd
u...@somedomain.com::5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/someDomain.com/user
$ cat shadow
u...@somedomain.com:{DIGEST-MD5}f4e442b0dec5009eaa8b9b4104923edc
$
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Re: Postfix: Accept some mail to mailbox, and forward some mail.
Note that testing in Telnet fails the password as well, both when specifying the user without a domain and with a domain: $ telnet mail.someDomain.com 143 Trying x.x.x.x... Connected to mail.someDomain.com. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. a login user 12345 a NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed. e logout * BYE Logging out e OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. $ telnet mail.someDomain.com 143 Trying x.x.x.x... Connected to mail.someDomain.com. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. a login u...@somedomain.com 12345 a NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed. * BAD Error in IMAP command received by server. e logout * BYE Logging out e OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. $ -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Postfix: Accept some mail to mailbox, and forward some mail.
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:37 AM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: I do use dovecot, but mine is an LDAP setup, so I suspect that that part of the configuration is completely different between our systems. Right, I just looked again at your main.cf. I thought that you meant that you use LDAP for the user database. I'll go pour a coffee retroactively for yesterday. Thanks! Have a great week! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Watch out for Bezeq
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com wrote: Just a general heads up: I recently registered on the Bezeq site in order to be able to view my receipts and stuff. When I signed up I provided a username and a password. Which they then sent me to my email address in plaintext. So just a reminder: don't reuse passwords, and use a throw-away password for bezeq. Have a Shanna Tova! I have so much to add under the idea Watch out for Bezeq. Too bad that they only happen to be the least-worst infrastructure in Israel. Go sign up for Lastpass, my entire office is now using it. I lets you set up individual passwords for every site, and they are encrypted locally. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Open position: Full time job in Beersheba.
If anybody here is in the Beersheba area, I would love to talk to you in person! We have a full time position open for a developer skilled in any of these technologies: Python PHP Apache Solr Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, RDS) -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless
Are the drives spinning all the time? If the drives are not accessed for some time (say, one hour) then I would expect the device to spin them down. On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: There are plenty of cheap low-power mainboards available... Intel Atom boards AMD E-series ARM stuff (pandaboard, beagleboard, and many more) So you can build your own low-power solution that will use in the area of 33W (though if you have lot's of disks I really don't see how you would get that low a peak usage with more then 2 disks since the avg. usage of a disk is about 10W, though that may have improved by now...) And yes, RAID 6, 1, 10 or RAIDZ should be what you look at Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/10/7 vordoo vor...@yahoo.com: DO NOT USE RAID 5, Go for 1, 6, or 10 : http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162 use flickr which offers free storage up to 1TB (you can mark all your files private if you want)... Marked or not, if you flickr privet it will not be anymore. Which may be OK as long as you know. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: self mail hosting
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:40 PM, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote: And then, there's The Cloud (TM). http://aws.amazon.com/ses/ This is what I use. I think I pay something like $1 monthly. I'm very happy with AWS in general. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: terminal emulator
I can confirm that Konsole works out of the box in Kubuntu 14.04: $ touch שלום.txt $ ls שלום.txt $ vim שלום.txt $ cat שלום.txt שלום, עולם Note that VIM did have some trouble with the RTL, however. On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Yedidyah Bar David linux...@didi.bardavid.org wrote: 2014-08-28 18:06 GMT+03:00 Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com: tilda shows up left-to-right with hebrew letters, mlterm shows up right-to-left with boxes. All on debian sid. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7048321/tilda.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7048321/mlterm.jpg I now verified that konsole also shows hebrew right-to-left. You should probably configure mlterm (ctrl-rightclick) to use some other font. I personally use both xterm and mlterm with a very old raster (pcf) font I found somewhere a very long time ago, don't remember anymore where, and tweaked a bit since. I don't mind sharing it, but any modern vector font will probably look better. -- Didi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Hebrew in markup
http://dotancohen.com/howto/rtl_right_to_left.html The LRM and RLM characters do not have to be invisible. I agree that when I'm editing markup I prefer to see all the control characters. If your markup interpreter supports HTML entities, then LRM is lrm; and you can guess what the RLM is. Even more useful is the Right-To-Left Embedding character which is HTML entity #8235; There is a table of useful RTL-related HTML entities at the bottom of this page: http://dotancohen.com/howto/rtl_right_to_left.html On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Sat, Mar 07, 2015, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about Hebrew in markup: But I could not figure a simple way with any of those to get decent control of bidi. Or specifically: * Make the whole document RTL * Make various paragraphs LTR I guess I need to override some styles. With asciidoc I could not find a simple way to do that and ended up having to create my own separate bidi style. I didn't yet check all the various reSt and markdown implementations. Any better alternatives? I see the discussion in this thread focused on how to edit such a document, but I think there's a deeper issue here - not how to edit this document, but how the different markdown displayers and converters (the most popular is, of course, githaps) will *display* the resulting document. 15 years ago, I approached the same problem in pure-text documents (such as emails) by inventing my own conventions (embodied in the bidiv program) which automatically determines each paragraph's direction in a natural (I think) way: I decided on a convention that paragraphs are separated by a blank line, and a paragraph's direction is the direction of its first directioned character. It would be wonderful if popular markdown converters would be added a similar automatic direction convention, so Hebrew paragraphs would just work (and be right-aligned) without any concious changes to the text needed. Seems very easy to add this support to any particular markdown converter (I'd start with github's...). Alternatively, (or additionally,) special markdown conventions could be added to control directionality. Unicode also has the LRM, RLM characters, but I *don't* recommend those - I hate invisible characters in my documents. -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Apr 1 2015, 12 Nisan 5775 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Linux: Because rebooting is for adding http://nadav.harel.org.il |new hardware. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: What's so secure about sudo?
One reason that I like sudo is that root can be disabled for all intents and purposes. Most random SSH logins were once to the root account. We hardly ever see that anymore, thanks in no small part to the deprecation of root in many widespread Linux distros. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:24 AM Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > This has bothered me for years and I decided to "get it off my chest". > > For many years I used su to do administrative tasks, but "everyone" > uses sudo and the claim is that it's more secure than actually logging > in as root. > > In principal, of course, root login is not a good thing, but let's > remember something I've never seen discussed. I would assume that on > most systems the root password is MUCH more secure than that of a > regular user. Now if I give user david sudo privileges, anyone who > cracks david's (weak) password now has access to root privileges. > > And before anyone says that this is only a one-time authorization, what > if the guy who cracked david's password now does: >sudo passwd root > > So what's so secure about using sudo? > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Claws Mail 3.16.0 - Kubuntu 18.04 > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: A mailto link with RTL body
As Boris mentioned, you need to add the \u200f character to the beginning of each line. This page will explain how to add that keycode to your keyboard, I've already done it to a few Debian machines: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/674997/new-keyboard-layout-variant-not-detected-after-reboot On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 10:46 AM Dimid Duchovny wrote: > > Hi, > > Is it possible to add some unicode characters so that the body of the email > will be displayed right-to-left? > I've tried the answer here with both Thunderbird and Gmail, and it didn't > work. > https://stackoverflow.com/a/7556801 > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Visidata with RTL text
LRE and PDF are generally only useful at the beginning of text lines. RLM and LRM are useful in all places in a text line. I use them often, I've even added them to my keyboard: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/674997/new-keyboard-layout-variant-not-detected-after-reboot On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 11:41, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 09:53:36AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > > On 09/06/2022 19:10, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > If anybody doesn't yet use Visidata, then give it a look. It is > > > ostensibly a tool for looking at tabular data, like CSV files, but it > > > works with so many formats that I find myself using it very often as > > > it is easier to use than purpose-built tools. I even use it to poke > > > around the filesystem sometimes. > > > > > > https://www.visidata.org/ > > > > > > Visidata unfortunately places consecutive RTL cells in reverse order. > > > Here's the bug that I filed: > > > https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/1392 > > > > > > It would be great if someone could add something constructive to that > > > bug report. I personally have many CSV files and other files with > > > Hebrew and Arabic text. Thanks. > > > > > > If you can find the part of the code that outpus, simply inserting > > an "LRM" character between cells should, at the very least, greatly > > improve things. > > Isn't that what LRE and PDF are for? > > -- > mail / xmpp / matrix: tzaf...@cohens.org.il > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Visidata with RTL text
If anybody doesn't yet use Visidata, then give it a look. It is ostensibly a tool for looking at tabular data, like CSV files, but it works with so many formats that I find myself using it very often as it is easier to use than purpose-built tools. I even use it to poke around the filesystem sometimes. https://www.visidata.org/ Visidata unfortunately places consecutive RTL cells in reverse order. Here's the bug that I filed: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/1392 It would be great if someone could add something constructive to that bug report. I personally have many CSV files and other files with Hebrew and Arabic text. Thanks. Dotan Cohen ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Are there any implication of using or supporting Debian now that the Project Leader shared a call for BDS on debian.social ?
Debian, as an organization, has a public image that reflects the sentiments of the people who make up that organization. Those people have begun slandering the Jewish state. Debian is not conscious and can not support or oppose anything. The people who compose of the organization are conscious, and have declared their stance. On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 at 15:20, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 09:21:37PM +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 ? > > Debian does not support (or oppose, or whatever) BDS. > > Some Debian people may support (or oppose or whatever). > > -- > mail / xmpp / matrix: tzaf...@cohens.org.il > ___ > Linux-il mailing list -- linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > To unsubscribe send an email to linux-il-le...@cs.huji.ac.il > ___ Linux-il mailing list -- linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il To unsubscribe send an email to linux-il-le...@cs.huji.ac.il
