Re: problems upgrading an Ubuntu EC2 node

2016-02-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Posting the fix to list, in case someone searches the archives: Turns out that there were some leftover upstart files in /etc/init/, which apparently belonged to an old package (lxcguest) which had been uninstalled but left configured (possibly a remainder from a previous upgrade). Moving them

Re: problems upgrading an Ubuntu EC2 node

2016-02-20 Thread Amit Aronovitch
whoops. Forgot to attach log: Xen Minimal OS! start_info: 0xa01000(VA) nr_pages: 0x26700 shared_inf: 0x7ccbf000(MA) pt_base: 0xa04000(VA) nr_pt_frames: 0x9 mfn_list: 0x967000(VA) mod_start: 0x0(VA) mod_len: 0 flags:

problems upgrading an Ubuntu EC2 node

2016-02-20 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Hi list, I have an Ubuntu machine on EC2, which I have been trying to upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04 using the do-release-upgrade command. This seemed to work well, but when it finally rebooted, it became unreachable (shows 1/2 checks passed in the EC2 management console, does not respond to ssh). I

scientific computing meeting: Tomorrow, 11/6/2012 in TelAviv

2012-06-10 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Hebrew announcement will be followed by an English one תזכורת אחרונה: ביום שני 11/6/2012, בשעה 19:00, תתקיים פגישה בנושא כלים חופשיים לחישוב מדעי, באתר הספריה, מגדל שלום, תל אביב. (שם עברי לקבוצה החדשה אין לי עדיין - אז הצעות יתקבלו בברכה) הפגישה פתוחה לכולם, אבל *יש לאשר הגעה מראש* (בטופס:

new group: number-crunching with free tools

2012-04-19 Thread Amit Aronovitch
ברצוני לבשר על הקמת קבוצה חדשה, שתנהל מפגשים פעם בחודש, בנושאים הקשורים לחישוב מדעי/נומרי בעזרת כלים חופשיים. קהל היעד הוא כל מי שמשתמש או רוצה להשתמש בכלים הללו - פתוח לכל, עד כדי מגבלת מקום. בינתיים יש אתר[1], ומעכשיו גם רשימת דיוור[2]. בימים הקרובים נתחיל לדבר על תאריך, מקום ותוכן. אז כל מי

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

2011-10-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Setting aside the amusing political debates and going back to the original topic - what's the actual status of the UEFI boot issue? (Following up on the link from Tzafrir's post:http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/6503.html, see my comments below ) On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Amos Shapira

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

2011-10-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:51 PM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 25, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Amit Aronovitch wrote: Setting aside the amusing political debates and going back to the original topic - what's the actual status of the UEFI boot issue? 1. Microsoft

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

2011-10-24 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011, Steve G. wrote about Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot: at least MS are not openly anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic, or anti 'the bad Jews/Israeli'. Indeed. I still

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce Secure Boot

2011-10-24 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:51 PM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 24, 2011, at 1:56 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: I wrote: The FSF is struggling to regain some semblance of public support after RMS's disastrous FSF boycott of Israel and his comments about Steve

[Job Offer] Linux sysadmin (contractor/consultant) for TaKaDu

2011-03-12 Thread Amit Aronovitch
TaKaDu Ltd. is deploying new servers. We are looking for an experienced *nix sysadmin, possibly freelance/contractor/consultant, to help selecting/deploying/maintaining the infrastructure and requirements of the company platform. Extent of the job is around 40 hr/week for several months, until

Re: problems with syslogd [solved]

2010-06-10 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: On Wednesday, 9 בJune 2010 15:14:44 Amit Aronovitch wrote: Recently I stopped getting any messages in /var/log/messages (and probably ... 1) /etc/syslogd.conf is debian's standard, seems to support /var/log/messages

Re: Hebrew e-mail - Mandriva 2010.0 - KDE4

2010-06-09 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.comwrote: I tried that and it does work, but there's no way I'll get my wife to do that - there's got to be an easier way :-( Is the KDE team or the people who handle Hebrew support aware of this problem? Should it be

problems with syslogd

2010-06-09 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Hi, Recently I stopped getting any messages in /var/log/messages (and probably some other files as well). Basic tests I could think of all check out OK (see below). Any ideas what I should check next? Using sysklogd+klogd 1.5 on Debian (unstable). 1) /etc/syslogd.conf is debian's standard, seems

Re: problems with syslogd

2010-06-09 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Valery Reznic valery_rez...@yahoo.comwrote: Connect to syslogd with strace: strace -p syslogd_pid And then provoke message that should go to /var/log/messages strace will show you what syslogd do. May be it will reveal cause of the problem. Does not help

Re: problems with syslogd

2010-06-09 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:27 PM, linux.il linux...@gmail.com wrote: 5) Google found some similar problem reports, but they all turned out to be either filesize overflow (have plenty of place on the /var/ partition btw), or crashed daemon. may be your /var is out of inodes? nope, I

[OT] [Free association] Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
2009/9/8 Danny Lieberman dan...@software.co.il Yonatan, Dov, et al 1. I think an argument against competitive alternatives on the basis of an incumbent industry's economic interest is, to say the leastweak. Right and true. Luckily, I believe that at some point the alternatives will

Re: Kingle/Reader on Linux in IL (WAS: Re: Linux / Computer Books in Israel)

2009-08-07 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all - I read a few reviews of the Kindle2 vs. Sony Reader - Anyone out there have either of those and use it with Linux? AFAIK, I'll see the storage as a USB device on either device - But what about purchasing

Re: switch in gawk

2009-05-14 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: $ gawk 'END {switch(NR) {default: print NR}}' /dev/null gawk: END {switch(NR) {default: print NR}} gawk: ^ syntax error System: $ uname -a Linux c2 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Mar 26 01:08:11 UTC 2009 i686

Re: Emacs Hebrew

2009-02-21 Thread Amit Aronovitch
2009/2/20 Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com There was a complex issue of emacs bidi that I tried to follow back in 2002. The mailing list still up at: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-bidi/ What I remember from the discussion was that fribidi and the Unicode Bidi algorithm were

Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-09 Thread Amit Aronovitch
According to a couple of recent Hebrew spams that I got, there's a loophole allowing ONE spam message per spammer per email address. They say that the law allows sending one message if it is an offer for registration to a publicity list (they can't send you more if you do not respond), so

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il writes: at the very least, i want to point it at a directory of images, and cycle through them, pausing for a couple of seconds on each picture. If it's only images (no text slides), than

Re: site freezing - probably java related

2008-11-27 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Confirmed on Debian Iceweasel 3.0.3 . On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:15 PM, David Ronkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Flashblock Firefox plugin to prevent such flash issues - very recommended if sbdy still not using it. David Installed this and checked - does not help. However, some binary

Re: good python IDE for linux?

2008-11-04 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Dvir Volk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all i'm starting a python project, and need a good IDE with debugging and all (GUI based) eclipse pydev seems a bit too heavy for my taste and CPU, kdevelop doesn't have debugging (at least by default). any personal

Re: gcc thoughts

2008-01-26 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Jan 26, 2008 10:16 AM, Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a brief glance at the gccxml Web site, the project looks to be relatively unmaintained (at least). The most recent release was at 2004. --- Omer Well, I have not used it myself, but

Re: gcc thoughts

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Leonid Podolny wrote: Hi, list, This letter is probably better suited to hackers-il, but I need help from people that are better acquainted with a development process of gcc. This morning, while browsing through pages of frustratingly irrelevant cscope output, I got an idea. In every kosher

Re: Virtualization software on Linux

2007-09-20 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On 9/18/07, Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amit Aronovitch wrote: Note that (some? most new ones?) of these laptops come with Home versions of windows Vista on a recovery partition. This is bundled (cannot be bought without), and cannot be upgraded to a different license

Re: IGLU down?

2007-09-19 Thread Amit Aronovitch
How about the python.org.il (www and wiki) pages? Sooner or later we'll have to start setting up the October meeting, so reviving the wiki at least would be appreciated. I believe our generous donor Mr. Baratz would agree to set up the appropriate DNS changes :-) Later, when we find the time,

Re: Virtualization software on Linux

2007-09-18 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Note that (some? most new ones?) of these laptops come with Home versions of windows Vista on a recovery partition. This is bundled (cannot be bought without), and cannot be upgraded to a different license. By EULA, *you are not allowed* to use this (or any other Home) version with virtualization

Re: NTP configuration

2007-09-01 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Geoff Shang wrote: Hi, Those of you who are paying attention will remember that I moved here from Australia 4 months ago. Again, thanks to those who have answered questions for me in that time (don't worry, there will be more). I've finally decided that it's time to configure NTP. but

[Python-IL] Meeting - this Thursday 19:00 at Egloo

2007-08-07 Thread Amit Aronovitch
תזכורת - פגישת משתמשי פייתון תתקיים השבוע ביום חמישי 9/8/2007, במשרדי Egloo, רח' הסדנאות 3 בהרצליה. בתכנית: * הרן פלפל יספר על שפת Lua * לאחר מכן נמשיך בדיון הפתוח מהפעם הקודמת פרטים נוספים באתר: http://wiki.python.org.il/Upcoming_Meeting והערה אחרונה - דרוש מחשב נייד להרצאה. מי שמגיע

[Python-IL] next python meeting - Wednesday 11/7/07 18:30

2007-07-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
פגישת משתמשי פייתון תתקיים ב- 11/7/07, בשעה 18:30 במשרדי Egloo, רחוב הסדנאות 3 בהרצליה. הנושאים להפעם: * מאיר קריחלי על להק ו- Django * דיון פתוח - שאלות לפורום. בין הנושאים שהוצעו: סביבות פיתוח, איסוף אשפה ועוד. פרטים ועדכונים באתר http://wiki.python.org.il/Upcoming_Meeting בברכה,

Re: [ATTN] [MOD] Deactivation of Linux-IL aliases at linux.org.il and iglu.org.il

2007-07-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Hi, Would appreciate if you post the reply for that on the list. I failed to remember the thing about the alias change (probably because of Shachar's post, I thought that decision might not be final, postponed making the appropriate configuration changes in my MUA's), and my messages were

Re: [SUMMARY] Current status of Israeli ISPs

2007-06-20 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Amit Aronovitch: - Uses Netvision. Netvision seems to have a single Linux support person. It is easier to re-create the problem using a MS-Windows laptop and report the error messages displayed by MS-Windows

Re: Current status of Israeli ISPs

2007-06-18 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Omer Zak wrote: What is the current status of Linux support by Israeli ISPs? I'm using Netvision. Following data might not be up to date, as I did not have any serious problems lately. Netvision seem to have support for Linux, but my policy still is - recreate the problem using windows

[Python-IL] next python meeting - Wednesday 28/3/07 18:30

2007-03-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
פגישת משתמשי פייתון לחודש מרץ תתקיים ב- 28/3/07, בשעה 18:30 במשרדי Egloo, רחוב הסדנאות 3 בהרצליה. הנושאים להפעם: בני צ'רניאבסקי על metaclasses Simon Robins על SOAP בפייתון (קצר) פרטים ועדכונים באתר http://wiki.python.org.il/Upcoming_Meeting בברכה, עמית

Re: scan to PDF question

2007-03-21 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On 3/20/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:51:50PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: * can use Sane to scan a document * can save it to PDF * The PDF shouldn't be a dumb TIFF/JPG file page/collection, but a real PDF (so I can search/grep for words in the

Re: Why are GNOME applications (and applets) take so much [EMAIL PROTECTED] memory ?

2007-02-10 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Eli Marmor wrote: The programs were also friendlier, because all the options in the (limited) UI/menus/etc were textual, in simple English, and not graphical icons that you must be a genious to guess what the programmer meant. If icons were really friendlier than text, it could be useful in

Re: skype under debian ?

2007-02-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Amos Shapira wrote: On 07/02/07, *Peter* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody got the latest skype working under debian/testing ? Here it starts up and gets stuck when I try to call out (including echo) What version? 1.3.0.53 http://1.3.0.53 works OK

[Python-IL] next python meeting - Tuesday 30/1/07 18:30

2007-01-28 Thread Amit Aronovitch
פגישת משתמשי פייתון לחודש ינואר תתקיים באיגלו, רחוב הסדנאות 3, קומה ג', הרצליה. בתכנית להפעם: 18:30 : שחר יצחקי על Robin 19:45 : בני צ'רניאבסקי על Pygame, Numeric and Magic Fields פרטים/עדכונים בויקי: http://wiki.python.org.il/Upcoming_Meeting בברכה, עמית

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-15 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Oren Held wrote: A. VMware Server (formerly GSX) which is free for use. B. Dan Aloni's coLinux (Not full virtualization but very interesting and good for some purposes) - http://colinux.sf.net . However you need a windows X Server (i.e. Hummingbird Exceed or Cygwin Xorg) to get the GUI.

Re: Convince me to switch to Digikam (Was: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone)

2007-01-15 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Amos Shapira wrote: On 16/01/07, *Dotan Cohen* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I did install libkipi0-dev and libexiv2-dev via apt-get. However, it still complains about exiv2: config.status: config.h is unchanged config.status: executing depfiles

Python-IL Meeting: Wednesday, 27/12

2006-12-23 Thread Amit Aronovitch
פגישת הפייתונאים לחודש דצמבר תתקיים ביום ד' 27/12/06, בשעה 19:30. הפגישה תערך במשרדי חברת Egloo, ברחוב הסדנאות 3 בהרצליה, קומה 3. הנושאים להפעם: * נדב סמט ידבר על TurboGears * תומר פיליבה ידבר על pyconstruct לפרטים נוספים, מומלץ להתעדכן בדף הפגישה:

Re: starting an X application from remote computer

2006-12-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On 12/21/06, *Ori Idan* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two computers on internal network (both of them Debian unstable) I would like to login to a remote computer using gdm. That is, you want to start an entirely new

Re: Novell and Microsoft

2006-11-13 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Ariel Biener wrote: Is it at all possible for people on this list to accept the following: 1). We can only speculate at the motivations behind Microsoft+Novell agreement. Right. But wild speculation is always fun (and sometimes might even be fruitful) 2). None of us has a definitive

[pythonil] - meeting, Wednesday 22/11/06, Herzeliya

2006-11-13 Thread Amit Aronovitch
are under discussion, For updates and more details, see the wiki: http://wiki.python.org.il/Upcoming_Meeting Regards, Amit Aronovitch --- שלומות, לאחר הפסקה ארוכה, יש לנו מארח חדש, והפגישות מתחדשות. תאריך:יום ד', 22 בנובמבר 2006, 18:30 מקום: איגלו/ לוגיה

Re: Tab Completion in GRUB on Fedora on x86_64 machines - does it work??

2006-11-01 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Debian x86_64 GNU GRUB 0.97: The 64 bit shell tool does not autocomplete. However: 1) Actual boot loader does complete (I'm not sure which version it was when I installed it. I think /boot/grub/stage2 just stayed there ever since). I think it was installed from the 64bit debian package - but I

Re: force umount

2006-11-01 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Erez D wrote: found another very nice solution for smb/cifs (at least for my case) it is very usful for other things too it is called SHFS you can mount whatever you can make ssh connection to RTFM: http://shfs.sourceforge.net/ erez. Hmm... How about FUSE over smbclient? Should not be

Re: 2 ssh servers on 1 ip

2006-10-18 Thread Amit Aronovitch
ssh -p 501 -o HostKeyAlias=host1.home.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh -p 502 -o HostKeyAlias=host2.home.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] man ssh_config for more details :-) On 10/18/06, Erez D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i have one ip on the internet, but two ssh servers. so i did port forwarding: port 501

Re: קוד פתוח אלק

2006-09-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Re: linux.org.il Let's be more constructive - write in action-items format, and use the contact links on the site instead of posting here. See comments below On 9/25/06, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slick graphic excution does not have any added value for this site. There are two

Re: Problems with iglu.org.il and how we can attempt to resolve them

2006-09-15 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On 9/15/06, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see from this link that there is a lot behind the scenes beyond the current thread, so I better just shut up because I don't know the entire story here. Actually, I for one, would be happy to hear the solution of this mystery (maybe some

Re: Problems with iglu.org.il and how we can attempt to resolve them

2006-09-14 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On 9/15/06, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15/09/06, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a last-resort fall-back line before system crash - maybe consider using dynamic swap space allocators like swapd or swapspace: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/swapd

Re: Windows PowerShell

2006-08-29 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Nadav Har'El wrote: From these, I think that psh is far from what I'm looking for. I am not looking for a shell with a different syntax (in this case, Perl's syntax), but rather a shell whose pipelines passes not unstructured text (in a unix pipe) but rather structured objects. Such a shell

Re: Outlook Web Access - Hebrew

2006-07-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
One thing I noticed, some time ago, was that the outlook web interface presented in IE was much better than in other browsers (completely different organization of the main portal, different navigation panels, some buttons don't appear at all, etc.). Playing with the browser-id revealed that this

Re: Recommendations for XP under Linux

2006-07-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
One option that was not mentioned here, which might be easier under some circumstances, is using rdesktop to connect to some windows machine you have a login on. The company might have a dedicated server for such use, or you might have a co-worker running windows 2003 server that wouldn't mind

[pythonil] Python-IL Meeting: Monday, 26/6, new location

2006-06-24 Thread Amit Aronovitch
פגישת הפייתונאים לחודש יוני תתקיים הפעם בחברת Kashya. שימו לב למיקום החדש: רחוב אבא הלל 7, רמת גן (ליד צומת עלית), בית סילבר, קומה 8. תודה לאנשי Aduva/Sun שארחו אותנו עד היום, ובמיוחד לליאור. על סדר היום: 18:30 - רוני מאור על SQLAlchemy 20:00 - קצרים - לפי הצע וביקוש פרטים באתר

cups locale wierdness

2006-06-23 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Hi, As you probably know, the CUPS daemon handles print jobs by running a chain of filters in separate processes, piping data between them. The weird thing I noticed on my system (debian unstable, cups 1.2.1, locales 2.3.6) is the behaviour of the filter process' locale settings. After

Re: 32-bit chroot environement for amd64

2006-06-21 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Avraham Rosenberg wrote: 2-Another possibility which does not take much more disk space (and with nowadays' big disks, who cares anyway ?), is to install a separate unstable distribution, just for that. I tried to do it, but, during the bootstrap of the 32-bit chroot system, I received a

Re: amd64-bit/32-bit woes

2006-06-21 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Hi Avraham, I see your'e suffering from dchroot aches (as I said in previous post - the common source of trouble in deb-amd64...) One small comfort is that this is only a temporary situation, because a) Debian plan to go multiarch . The chroot thing is merely a temporary workaround. b)

Re: 32-bit chroot environement for amd64

2006-06-19 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Avraham Rosenberg wrote: packages only. Anyway, I went immediately for it and for transfig. I was less lucky with octave2.9: Package octave2.9 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from

Re: 32-bit chroot environement for amd64

2006-06-18 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Avraham Rosenberg wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:50:59PM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote: To avoid trouble, I try to run everything in the pure 64 environment, with minimal stuff on the 32bit chroot. Can you give the specific reasons why you need these apps to be 32bit? ImageJ: Can't

Re: 32-bit chroot environement for amd64

2006-06-09 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi, Still struggling with my new amd64 system and with its 32-bit chroot environement. Here it works mostly fine. Sometimes it needs some tweaks, mainly related to changing behaviour of the dchroot utility (between new releases of the package). I installed it

[Python-IL] reminder - 29/5/06 יום שני

2006-05-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
‫שלום, ברצוני להזכיר שפגישת הפייתונאים הבאה תתקיים ביום שני הקרוב, 29/5/06 במשרדי אדובה ברמת גן. http://www.python.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/Upcoming_Meeting על הפרק: * 18:30-19:30 - אלי גולובינסקי על wxPython ‫* 20:00-21:00 - רוני מאור על Twill או על SQLAlchemy‬ פרטים, עדכונים, קשר -

Re: charge per usage (a bit off topic)

2006-04-23 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Stanislav Malyshev wrote: GD Switching ISP might not solve the problem... It's just a matter of time GD till all other ISPs follow suite. That might depend on how many users would leave Netvision and tell them the reason they left is the bandwidth limitations. If there's enough the idea might

[Python-IL] reminder - 24/4/06 יום שני

2006-04-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
‫שלום, ברצוני להזכיר שפגישת הפייתונאים הבאה תתקיים ביום שני הקרוב, 24/4/06 במשרדי אדובה ברמת גן. http://www.python.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/Upcoming_Meeting על הפרק: * 18:30-19:30 - Michael Bernstein על Zope ‫* 20:00-21:00 - נעם רפאל על GUI בעזרת Glade ו- PyGTK‬ פרטים, עדכונים, קשר - בויקי

[Python-IL] reminder - 21/3/06 יום שלישי

2006-03-19 Thread Amit Aronovitch
‫שלום, ברצוני להזכיר שפגישת הפייתונאים הבאה תתקיים ביום שלישי הקרוב, 21/3/06 במשרדי אדובה ברמת גן. http://www.python.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/Upcoming_Meeting על הפרק: * 18:30-20:00 - מערכות ניהול גרסאות (subversion, gnu arch, bazaar-ng, ואולי עוד). * 20:00-21:00 - הדגמה של Robin , עי

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-11 Thread Amit Aronovitch
I don't think that's got anything to do with the freeness of mplayer.The dll's are not packed in the mplayer package - your'e supposed to download them from mplayer site or whatever yourself (you can actually watch many types of videos with free codecs only, and whichever extra codecs you choose

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-07 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Re: mplayer deb-packageI think I recall some ugly flamewars between mplayer upstream dev and debian maintainers (in debian mailing lists), so there might be some personal issues in this.I was not able to google them up, but I found this link http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html which

Re: Crossover office - Writing hebrew in IE

2006-03-06 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Daniel Feiglin wrote: Version 2 of Crossover Office seemed to work OK, and then it broke on version 3+. Solution: Using Samba, network and old Pentium II just to run MS IE, Office c. Interesting idea. Will a PII work faster than QEMU on an Athlon? (How about VMWare?) Note that to make the

Re: RESEND: Trouble with Gnome 2.12 after upgrade to current Debian Testing packages

2006-02-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
In Desktop-Preferences-Keyboard-Layout Optionsthere's the Group Shift/Lock behaviour droplist with all the normal key combinations to choose from.At least it's there on my machine - I have version 2.12.3-2 of gnome-control-center (that's the current default for unstable).btw, if your'e messing

Re: More Data (was: Re: Trouble with Gnome 2.12 after upgrade to current Debian Testing packages)

2006-02-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
he_IL is for locale.AFAIK the correct xorg layout name is il. At least that's what's in my (working) config...

Re: outofthis mess soundadvice

2005-12-02 Thread Amit Aronovitch
for backup: I think the best way would be on HD. Do you have an empty partition big enough to contain your whole current distro? Maybe a new hard-disk? When I moved to amd64 distro I kept my old harddisk connected in a removable drawer. I can still boot to it on emergency, but the best thing is

continuing multisession cd with xcdroast: cdda2wav -J problem

2005-11-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
For some time now, I've been using a strange hack to backup my data on CD's: I chroot into my old harddisk and run xcdroast from there. This is because xcdroast started misbehaving after some major distribution upgrade I had to do - I could not make it continue any multisession CD's, because it

python-IL : meeting 15/11 18:00

2005-11-11 Thread Amit Aronovitch
The Hebrew announcement will be followed by an English one... פגישת הפייתונאים לחודש נובמבר תפתח גם הפעם בשיעור למתחילים מאת נעם רפאל. הפגישה תתקיים ביום ג', 15/11/05 בשעה 18:00, במשרדי חברת אדובה, רחוב בצלאל 33 רמת גן (מגדלי פז), קומה 13. שעור המתחילים דורש ידע בסיסי כלשהו בתכנות. זהו השעור

Re: help my bash is gone

2005-10-31 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Amos Shapira wrote: On 10/31/05, Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have this strange behaviour that when I open a new term session or even in an existing term sesstion I will execute a common command such as ls or cd and the shell returns command not found. usually I can close

Re: help my bash is gone

2005-10-31 Thread Amit Aronovitch
The problem with this issue, is that there is a wide range of possible causes to this problem, spanning a large 'diagnosis tree'. This makes it hard to diagnose by iterative mail questions. I'll try to ask enough questions to cover the more reasonable? causes. Aaron wrote: cd command not found??

Re: debian-amd64 mirror (fwd)

2005-10-27 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Orna Agmon wrote: Hi all, If anybody is using an Opteron and can help checking the Debian mirror, it will be highly appreciated. Is Athlon64 ok too? (same binaries AFAIK) I did notice the disappearance of hamakor amd64 mirror, and have been syncing with alioth and european mirrors ever

Re: Israeli Linux Logo

2005-10-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On 10/21/05, Shoshannah Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Putting the other comments aside for a moment, it seems to me thatthe text has a grammatical error in it. Shouldn't it be מערכתההפעלה הכי כשרה- and not מערכת הפעלה (noticethe extra heh)? Yeah, and while we're at it - note the position of the

Reminder: Python-IL Meeting Today

2005-10-18 Thread Amit Aronovitch
be found at this Python-IL Wiki page: http://www.python.org.il/mediawiki/index.php?Meeting_19_October_2005 Regards, Amit Aronovitch = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message

Re: Reminder: Python-IL Meeting Today

2005-10-18 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Sorry for messing up the link :-( here it goes again: http://www.python.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/Meeting_19_October_2005 Regards, Amit = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the

Re: Wireless card (zd1211)

2005-10-17 Thread Amit Aronovitch
If you do use zd1211 - few things to note: 1) Last time I checked, the released tar.gz on sourceforge did not work. Use the cvs version. 2) There's also another development branch on subversion: http://zd1211.ath.cx/ That IS the same project, but the two branches are not fully merged yet, some

Re: rdesktop tip: If you use Alt-Shfit to switch languages...

2005-10-02 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Thanks Ilya, this seems very interesting. We've been having a different kind of problem: The linux machines use the right-windows-key for language-switch, thus avoiding the problem you described. However, the trouble is that very frequently windows gets into a sticky alt state (as if rdesktop

Re: python script for scribus

2005-10-01 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Hi Aaron, I don't think I understand what you are trying to do. Can you explain more clearly, maybe with some examples? (I'm not familiar with scribus, so example of how the numbers should be formatted would help). If you sent the script itself as attachment - it does not appear on the list.

Reminder: Python-IL Meeting Tomorrow

2005-09-19 Thread Amit Aronovitch
, and talk. * 20:00 - 21:00 - Using matplotlib, by Amit Aronovitch Attendance is free. ~10 NIS as pay for the refreshments would be welcome. More information can be found at this Python-IL Wiki page: http://www.python.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/Meeting_20_September_2005 Regards, Amit

Re: errors when starting X

2005-08-10 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Avraham Rosenberg wrote: to pay attention to every error message. Nevertheless when starting X (I still prefer to boot in console mode), I get some error messages I quote: (II) LoadModule: GLcore (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a Skipping

Re: [Possible off-topic] Decent x86_64 book

2005-08-07 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Leonid Podolny wrote: Hi, Apparently, I will be in charge of porting our (kernel-space) application from ia-32 to x86_64 (aka EM64T) which I have very little experience with. So I think I will need a good book. The Linux kernel context would be a HUGE advantage, but it is not mandatory in

Re: Apache2 on Sarge doesn't list large files

2005-07-29 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Ira Abramov wrote: check this out: [Fri Jul 29 09:30:58 2005] [error] [client 192.115.133.133] (75)Value too large for defined data type: access to /centos/CentOS-4.1-x86_64-binDVD1/CentOS-4.1-x86_64-binDVD1.iso failed looks like it's been open in Debian for quite some time. I'm

Re: system clock loops

2005-07-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Ehud Karni wrote: You can use ntp.ilan.net.il (aka ntp.net.il) - startum 1 (using lab atomic clocks - not GPS - I think it is more accurate). Stratum 2 Israeli ntp servers: timeserver.iix.net.il , openu.ilan.net.il . BTW. Why do you need startum 1 (which telescope do you operate ?). I'm

Re: system clock loops

2005-07-24 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I am a Nevtvision customer, they use a GPS unit to give them a stratum one server. I would avoid the overloaded server at HUJI if at all possible. Netvision here too - but I see them as stratum 2. I sync to ntp.netvision.net.il (+ 2/3 times europe.pool.ntp.org for

Re: trapping recursive rm

2005-07-21 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Thanks for the ideas, people. I'll start with a simple sticky subdir containing files owned by most probable users (tks, Oron Guy). With some luck, that might narrow down the 'who did it' and perhaps the 'from where' too (of course, it might never happen again so I'll never know). now, for some

trapping recursive rm

2005-07-20 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Situation: -- * I have a shared directory tree, world writable, shared by NFS server (I'm not sure of server's OS - probably solaris, maybe linux) to many client machines (whole network has common users/authentication scheme). * Recently I found that most of the contents of this dir had

Re: my new Palm Zire 72

2005-07-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: There is no point in doing Ctrl-Z. If you want to shoot - shoot, don't talk. Ctrl-C. and if this does not work, you can also try Crtl-\ (backslash) (sometimes progs stop responding to SIGINT, but they still respond to this - it sends SIGQUIT)

Re: Grayscale charts

2005-07-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Eran Tromer wrote: Hi, I'm looking for free software to render a 2D dataset as grayscale chart, i.e., as a matrix whose cell colors are determined by the corresponding dataset elements. It should include the usual aids (tickmarks, scale legend, axis titles etc.), and preferably should

keyboard problems following kernel upgrade

2005-06-10 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Hi, Lately, ever since I upgraded my kernel (both old and new are stock debian-pure64 version 2.6.11) I've been experiencing keyboard problems. The keyboard always works fine in the bootloader menu (grub), and also no problems when I boot another kernel (e.g. 2.6.8 amd64). However when

typo...

2005-06-10 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Amit Aronovitch wrote: dmesg output: - The one I got after a bad boot (using ssh from other maching): http://www.tau.ac.il/~kineret/amit/dmesg_bad.out For comparison here's one after a good: http://www.tau.ac.il/~kinetet/amit/dmesg.out last one should

Re: Accessing eci b-focus 312+ ADSL Router/Modem

2005-06-04 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Matan Ziv-Av wrote: - don't use the modules! Suse, Red Hat and others regularly ship with such modules in the distribution. Some graphics card drivers (like nvidia) are notorious for this. Most 802.11g drivers available run the original (win32) driver in an emulation because they are closed

Re: hebrew in vim's commands+unprintable chars

2005-05-24 Thread Amit Aronovitch
avraham wrote: You are really fast with your reactions and with your fingers. Re your question: Can you give me a reliable criterium to recognize automatically the paragraph structure of the initial document ? That really depends on the style of the text. Many times if you look for lines

Re: Lilo boots slow...

2005-05-23 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Ira Abramov wrote: just have to is not good enough. not documented enough, and what's with having to learn yet another commandline with non-standard disk enumeration and partition numbering? this MAY be excellent for someone who uses it daily maybe but I need it only once every few weeks or

Re: mandrake su curiousity

2005-05-23 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 02:57:40AM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote: Discovering this raised my curiousity. Since the new login does not have access to the old one's xauth info, this can't be done by the login scripts (I actually grepped them for such stuff). So it must

Re: mandrake su curiousity

2005-05-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 02:57:40AM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote: Discovering this raised my curiousity. Since the new login does not have access to the old one's xauth info, this can't be done by the login scripts (I actually grepped them for such stuff). So it must

Re: ANN: Python in Israel Homepage - http://python.hackers.org.il/

2005-05-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Orna Agmon wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2005, Shlomi Fish wrote: Is Wednesday OK as a day for Python meetings? The thing is: 1. Sunday is Telux. 2. Monday is Haifux. 3. Thursday is Perl-IL. 4. I think the Tapuz Linux forum meets up on Tuesdays. Wednesday is JLC day, and they meet pretty

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