Second article about BiDi programming, and last announcement to this list

2009-07-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
/programming.feed?type=atom -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

inet_ntoa and segmentation fault

2009-07-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
) ); The cause: Failing to include the relevant header file. The solution: Add: #include arpa/inet.h Sorry for the noise. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: Second article about BiDi programming, and last announcement to this list

2009-07-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
think this really would be spamming. Anyone interested can subscribe to the RSS. Anyone not will not be bothered. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: Refactoring a mailing list policy to eliminate a special case (was: Re: Second article about BiDi programming, and last announcement to this list)

2009-07-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
bar. Clicking it gives the actual URL, so you can subscribe Firefox to it, or copy it into your standard RSS reader. --- Omer Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Re: inet_ntoa and segmentation fault

2009-07-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oron Peled wrote: On 15.07.2009 Shachar Shemesh wrote: The problem: The following code segfaults: printf(%s\n, inet_ntoa(addr) ); The cause: Failing to include the relevant header file. The solution: Add: #include arpa/inet.h Easier to catch during compile time: CFLAGS='-Wall

Re: Homepage Blog Feature About the Termination of my AdSense Account

2009-07-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
owned Carabean island, I'll be more than happy for him. All I'm asking is that he plays fair, and not litter where I (and others) eat. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il

Re: Homepage Blog Feature About the Termination of my AdSense Account

2009-07-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
. Everyone else, the abstract is that Shlomi's google adwords account got suspended. There is some other stuff there, like what he did about it (appeal) and what effect it had (nothing), but no punch line that I could decipher. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http

Re: Why initramfs stops although root device is mountable and ready to use

2009-07-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
? Lev, from the prompt you get, can you do cat /init and paste here what appears there? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Why initramfs stops although root device is mountable and ready to use

2009-07-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
mount them using the boot= kernel option. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Article one in a series about BiDi programming

2009-07-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
-introduction.html, and as it aims at non-Hebrew speakers, it is obviously in English. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman

Re: BIND_TO DEVICE and the loopback interface

2009-07-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
from localhost is still possible, provided you give the external IP address rather than the internal one. Attached is a sample program. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com #include sys/socket.h #include netinet/in.h #include netinet/ip.h

Re: BIND_TO DEVICE and the loopback interface

2009-07-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Hello List, A friend presented me with a difficult problem which I don't have a solution for and I thought someone here on the list might have an idea. The problem is as follows: You have an application running on a machine that has two

Re: watch hebrew?

2009-07-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
(for the same reason). I do believe they have problems dealing with multi-byte characters. I have nothing to suggest besides sending a bug report. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing

Re: watch hebrew?

2009-07-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Yuval Hager wrote: if I try to run $ watch echo שלום123 I just get the '123' on the page, Hebrew characters stripped. man watch says: Non-printing characters are stripped from program output. Use cat -v as part of the command pipeline if you want to see

Re: Help - can anyone explain this segfault?

2009-06-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
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Re: vfork

2009-06-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
the parent process loans its address space to the child and blocks until the child returns it. Except most vfork implementations today do, in fact, copy the address space. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Help - can anyone explain this segfault?

2009-06-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
! (adding a printf after the wait confirms that the child returned with status code 0, so it must be the parent that is seg faulting). help? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: Help - can anyone explain this segfault?

2009-06-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Dotan Shavit wrote: On Friday 19 June 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote: help? From man vfork: behavior is undefined if the process created by vfork() returns from the function in which vfork() was called... # Well done, you nailed it. Placing an explicit call to exit for the child

Re: Why is GNU/Linux so Bloated?

2009-06-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz writes: I'm not sure whether base addresses are allocated randomly or something else is at work here, but collisions are not that common. You can manually rebase a DLL at post-link time, and I think that DLLs shipped

Re: Why is GNU/Linux so Bloated?

2009-06-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
not translate to final in memory size, and it's not clear which -Os is trying to minimize. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
works? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

A question about CFS

2009-06-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
), or is there any additional tweaking going on that does that? Thanks, Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo

Re: How to count dropped connections

2009-06-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
up to the load you describe should not be too big a project. Contact me if you want a quote :-) Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: How to count dropped connections

2009-06-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
tcpdump rules that can match those, and I wouldn't trust its performance anyway, so I think a dedicated one would work best). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il

Re: A question about CFS

2009-06-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
rarely goes above 4, I can see why nobody is worried about O(log n). Thanks, Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman

Re: A rack and a switch for sell

2009-06-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
ik wrote: Hello List, A friend of mine is selling a rack (2 meters) and a switch (for it) 16 ports. If any of you interested, please contact me in private for additional details. Regards, Ido http://ik.homelinux.org/ Additional details? Price, location? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh

Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

2009-06-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
to install all packages from the get go, etc.). When I do such transitions, I always save the old etc directory somewhere, so I can pick up things I forgot later on. Good luck Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
was fixed by replacing it with a new one. Needless to say, the new keyboard was a Hebrew/qwerty keyboard, so that was another problem solved. Shachar [1] - http://blog.shemesh.biz/?p=517 -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Re: recommended remote backup service?

2009-05-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
not a nice situation to be in. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Israeli spam! Who do I contact?

2009-05-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
to. Contact the spammer and offer them to pay you directly. If they refuse, sue them in small claims. ISOC has court paper templates you can use. http://isoc.org.il/spam/ There is, however, no one to do the work for you, I'm afraid. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http

Re: Israeli spam! Who do I contact?

2009-05-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
a lawyer, whatever. Udi http://elyon1.court.gov.il/heb/forms/ktanot.htm http://www.moit.gov.il/NR/exeres/1A0A7AB5-68D4-4739-801D-44390FEE7A39.htm -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il

Re: Israeli spam! Who do I contact?

2009-05-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
is that it does not require of you to decide whether the company representative is telling you the truth or not (rule no. 1 again). Again, not a lawyer. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il

Re: Israeli spam! Who do I contact?

2009-05-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
for small claims court, and you are not allowed to be represented by a lawyer there. Do contact them, as they may help with preparing the suite and with counseling, but they will not represent you in small claims court (or, likely, any other court). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open

Re: List working ?

2009-05-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
So, sorry, it will not be approved. Put your JPG somewhere and post a link to it. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il

Re: [Test] Kmail, Firefox, etc scrambling text -without attachment

2009-05-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
decision. If you would like to cancel this posting, please visit the following URL: http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/confirm/linux-il/a185c64fe6a1f0399ec0b7e33d896b02793af3a7 -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Re: Backup encryption key

2009-04-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Yuval Hager wrote: בThursday 23 April 2009, נכתב על ידי Yuval Hager: On Thursday 23 April 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I should point out one huge disadvantage of storing binary diffs when using encrypted systems. There is no (practical) way to erase old backups. Your backup storage

Re: another c++ q (with specialization and inheritance )

2009-04-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
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Re: another c++ q (with specialization and inheritance )

2009-04-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
. If that fails, have gen_c2 return a pointer to c1int. As c1int is a public parent of c2int, it should amount to almost the same thing. In any case, having a child function return a copy of a parent class is bad OO design. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http

Re: looking for a c++ debugger

2009-04-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Erez D wrote: hi currently I'm using ddd as a c++ debugger anyone knows of a better one which 1. supports linux 2. supports c++ 3. gui 4. free (at least as in beer) Perhaps you can start by saying which of the above you feel ddd does not provide. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open

Re: looking for a c++ debugger

2009-04-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Erez D wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz mailto:shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: Erez D wrote: hi currently I'm using ddd as a c++ debugger anyone knows of a better one which 1. supports linux 2. supports c++ 3. gui 4

Re: OT: c++ q

2009-04-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
is defined with no return type and no parenthesis). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: OT: c++ q

2009-04-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
that the problem is not what you think it is. Try using -E on gcc - it tells it to run the C preprocessor and stop. Inspect the resulting file - it may reveal the problem. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Re: OT: c++ q

2009-04-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
and unusual route. I do think every programmer should take the time to implement binary search and quick sort at least once from scratch. The number of corner cases there is outstanding, and it is a great practice of thinking of the fine details. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source

Re: OT: c++ q

2009-04-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Diego Iastrubni wrote: On Sunday 26 April 2009 17:31:59 Shachar Shemesh wrote: Go back to school, and as punishment re-implement quick_sort in VB.NET. Now that's going the cruel and unusual route. I do think every programmer should take the time to implement binary search and quick

Re: Backup encryption key

2009-04-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
and such, where I do not trust the admins. I can write a Windows key logger in about half an hour, and I don't think you would need admin in order to run it (making it run in other people's session is another matter). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http

Re: Backup encryption key

2009-04-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
it is a piece of cake. You can perform quite sophisticated server side processing on it. Shachar P.s. Blowfish? In this day and age? -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: suid root - bash script

2009-04-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
is: are there attack vectors against the following script? #!/bin/sh -e echo Hello, cruel world -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman

Re: suid root - bash script

2009-04-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
the perl script as suid, and it auto-detects that, and uses the helper to run the actual script. The result is you just set the perl script suid and that's it. I already tested it from Apache, and it worked for me (several years ago). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd

Re: Backup encryption key

2009-04-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
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Re: suid root - bash script

2009-04-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
) #2 is explicitly stated as not necessary, and even harmful. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: suid root - bash script

2009-04-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
to root and added suid. From a broser, ran: http://localhost/cgi-bin/test?%2fetc%2fshadow Result: /etc/shadow was dumped to the browser window. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: Backup encryption key

2009-04-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
not having access to whatever data that I need to open my backups, but do not want to leave them unencrypted. How do you use the password in an automated backup then? You encrypt using a public key. You only need the private key in order to decrypt. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open

Re: Backup encryption key

2009-04-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
currently use rdiff-backup, but it does not abide to (3) above. I started looking into duplicity (from the same author), and then thought about description, hence the original post. http://rsyncrypto.lingnu.com + rsync Provides 1-5. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd

Re: Backup encryption key

2009-04-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
the advantage that every snapshot is independent. You can erase old snapshots in arbitrary order, without risking your data. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il

Re: stealing domain names by Israeli registrar

2009-04-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
matter of persistence... . Complain to ISOC. info-doma...@isoc.org.il Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: Why the use of domain-literals in email addresses is strongly discouraged?

2009-04-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
e2xbegqsdyt21hfc wrote: --- On Thu, 4/9/09, Shachar Shemesh wrote: e2xbegqsdyt21hfc wrote: Why the use of some...@[an_explicit_ip_address] is strongly discouraged? a. Where did you get the idea it was strongly discouraged? Quoting RFC 822: Note: THE USE OF DOMAIN

Re: Why the use of domain-literals in email addresses is strongly discouraged?

2009-04-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
e2xbegqsdyt21hfc wrote: Why the use of some...@[an_explicit_ip_address] is strongly discouraged? a. Where did you get the idea it was strongly discouraged? b. Why would you WANT to use it? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Re: Israeli ISP blocking outgoing SMTP

2009-04-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
013. Octal 11 == Decimal 13 :) Last time I checked, Octal 11 was Decimal 9. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman

Re: Israeli ISP blocking outgoing SMTP

2009-04-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
: int isp=013; Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

The role of Wine

2009-03-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
of these options; they can easily get away with using Open Office. Now you are no longer talking about which OS to use. You are now clearly within the realm of which word processor to use. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Re: Hebrew Under crossover

2009-03-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
keyboard language reporting. The upshot of this is that switching keyboard when typing in Word will likely produce reasonable Hebrew *or* reasonable English outputs, but not both in the same run. Changing keyboard effectively requires changing the LANG variable. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu

SPF and mailing lists

2009-03-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
. I simply don't know. If anyone has any constructive suggestions how to make things work smoother, please share Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Re: Network Traffic Generation

2009-03-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
a virtual interface (such as tun) for your work, and write the code for the rewriting inside of it. Sorry, almost got it :-) Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il

Re: Network Traffic Generation

2009-03-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
, that I don't think a packet generator checks what you are trying to check - TCP throughput. Either way, give tcpreplay a go and see whether it is capable of testing what you want tested (I doubt it). Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Re: Getting volume keys to work in KDE

2009-03-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Meir Kriheli wrote: Better yet, place them in ~/.Xmodmap which is read upon session startup, Not on Debian, it isn't. I will put in a reference to it in the doc, however. Thanks for the feedback. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Re: Network Traffic Generation

2009-03-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
nowadays. Switching is fine, as long as they are only layer 2 aware. So long as you actually have two actual physical network cards, there is no reason for the packet not to go out. A layer 3 switch might notice the short path, but a layer 2 switch should work fine. Shachar -- Shachar

Re: Network Traffic Generation

2009-03-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
are layer 2 connected? If it does that, switch VM software - it's a bug. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman

Re: Network Traffic Generation

2009-03-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
, you are not allowed to do this optimization. In any case, this took us too far from the OP. I would be really curious to know if iproute2 trickery can solve the problem for Daniel or for you. Agreed. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Getting volume keys to work in KDE

2009-03-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
as other undefined keys are concerned. That's it. KDE already has pretty decent default handling of the XF86AudioRaiseVolume family of sym codes, so there is nothing further you need to do. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Re: Getting volume keys to work in KDE

2009-03-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
license (which is a free license - not all CC licenses are). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/il/ Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: Getting volume keys to work in KDE

2009-03-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I'll have the article up on the Lingnu web site. I would rather you link directly there. This way, I can update it should there be any erratas. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing

Re: Getting volume keys to work in KDE

2009-03-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Dotan Cohen wrote: I'll put it up on dotancohen.com and send a link to the relevant lists. I know that many people complain about this. Thanks! Please link to http://www.lingnu.com/en/howto/58-kdevolume.html Thanks, Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http

Re: Getting volume keys to work in KDE

2009-03-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
want (I did release it as CC), but make sure you link to the Lingnu copy by way of giving credit. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: strace -e open

2009-03-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote: Good morning to you, I followed your instructions and my picture appears in the Skype Preview, here is a picture of the console. SendThisFile File Notification Click the following link to retrieve your file:

Re: Additional Webcam description in Mandriva Console Directory

2009-03-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi Moshe, You are a newbie, so I'll explain a few rules you need to stick to in order to talk with the list. First of all, keep all answers to the list. With the current configuration, the easiest way to do that is to hit reply to all rather than reply when you answer someone's emails.

Re: RAID Recovery

2009-02-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi, I have a server abroad that has a RAID setup - that server has died - I bought another computer but now I want to take disks that I have prepared here in Israel on the same computer setup with RAID and ship them. Is it possible to somehow instruct the RAID setup on

Re: offtopic: job?

2009-02-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, Still looking for a Linux sysadmin job (this damn recession makes life really miserable, for me specially for the last 3 month looking for a job) If anyone hears something, please contact me directly. Thank you very much, Hetz Ben Hamo It's not easily understood

Re: Introducing myself

2009-02-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Adam Benayoun wrote: Hey guys, I just subscribed myself to this mailing list right after its existence has been brought to my attention by a friend, and I wanted to say hello and introduce myself. Welcome aboard. Please do try to keep the signature size and colorness down. The list

Re: pluginserver.ex

2009-02-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shlomo Solomon wrote: In the latest update of my Mandriva 2008.1 box, I moved from Firefox 2.0.0.16 to 3.0.6. Everything seems OK, but I noticed that when I run Firefox, an additional process starts - plugserver.ex. This process is a VERY heavy CPU user and I don't know what it is or where it

(off thread topic) Linux-il as the source for obscure answers

2009-02-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Dotan Cohen wrote: That is consistent with what the anti-noobs have been saying on the list. However, if so then it should be stated on the signup page: If you googled and RTFM first, ask here: linux...@~ If you did not google or RTFM first, ask here: gnubi...@~ I should point out an

Re: SanDisk Cruzer micro 8Gb and Ubuntu, GNU/Linux

2009-02-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gabor Szabo wrote: I have just bought an 8Gb SanDisk Cruzer Micro (USB 2.0) disk on key. I plugged it in my computer, the reassuring red light came on but Ubuntu 8.10 did not recognize it. The messages suggest that it did. It assigned sdb to it. Why Ubuntu didn't auto mount it is an

Re: SanDisk Cruzer micro 8Gb and Ubuntu, GNU/Linux

2009-02-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:14:02PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: At least on my SanDisk Cruzer, that was relatively harmless on Linux. On Windows, these lines suggest that any time you put the drive in it launches the horrible U3 system and starts messing

Re: Debian Lenny release party

2009-02-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Yehoshua (Shay) O'Hayon Suchar wrote: Hello folks, As some of you know, Debian Lenny was released this weekend, and we are going to meet for a little celebration at around 8.30-9pm in a cafe/bar called Lenny's in tel aviv (http://www.telavivcity.com/eng/BDisplay.asp?BusinessCode=1495) and you

Re: how to MD5 sum a DVD without copying it.

2009-02-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Baruch Siach wrote: Hi Geoff, On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:41:23AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I want to make an MD5 checksum of a DVD ROM to verify that it was burned properly. Is there a way to do this without making an ISO file from it? While I obivously have to read it, I

Re: Identifying linux-il messages

2009-02-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote: Have Ely enforce it by: * reply-to * tag the subject * use the mutt-supported headers * hack the list server to allow any of the above as a personal setting for each subscriber (why is it not a built-in feature?!) * let each reader pick his way. I'm not sure what those

Re: [OFFTOPIC] RE: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Omer Zak wrote: From the contents of a relatively unfiltered mailbox (which fortunately is not widely advertised and I check it only once each few weeks), Leiberman indeed uses very much the political exemption. I got in that mailbox a lot of spam from: * Israel Beitanu (Leiberman's party) -

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

2009-02-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
b...@rymland.com wrote: That's exactly the reason why I haven't done it myself as well. The necessity to appear in court which means taking a day off or something. You can add that cost to the claim. A few complimentary questions: 1) Have anyone heard of successful small claims suits so

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

2009-02-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Well, I find that hard to believe. You will eventually have to prove that you received the SPAM from them. and that you did not alter it in any way. The law is very specific that having your name appearing on the spam as the one being advertised is sufficient

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

2009-02-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:24:34AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: The law is very specific that having your name appearing on the spam as the one being advertised is sufficient evidence that you are the presumed spammer. I imagine that, should the spammer want

Re: Uptime vs. security

2009-02-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote: I am hoping Lenny becomes stable soon, though it could have been cool to have a 550 day uptime :-) Due date is February 14. In 5 days. Shachar ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

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

2009-02-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: What do you do in such a case? Sue. The law specifically says that the person in charge of marketing must make a personal effort to make sure that the company is spam free, or face PERSONAL consequences. In any case, like I said before, it's up to the spammer to prove

Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 07:11:59AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Shachar seems to suggest that this might be used for a small claims court case in which the spammer may be sued for up to 1000 NIS per email. Does this only cover email from Israel, or can it be SPAM

Re: Identifying linux-il messages

2009-02-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Moshe Gorohovsky wrote: Hi All, How do I identify linux-il messages? That depends on why you want to identify them. If it's because you want them to go to a different folder, then you will need to disable an option on the mailing list server. The option is called nodups. If you disable

Re: Identifying linux-il messages

2009-02-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Herouth Maoz wrote: I consider it to be very annoying, but I have no say in the matter... No, that's not true. The last time the matter was seriously discussed (i.e. - before this time) the matter was put to a vote, and this (the current settings) came out as the preferred solution by the

Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Dotan Cohen wrote: I have started getting Hebrew spam again, even now that the new anti-spam law is in place. Sure, I _could_ just filter it, but I would prefer to make life miserable for the spammers, even at my own expense. What legal tools do I have? Anyone who got spam from Rinat Zoref

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Orr Dunkelman wrote: The question is whether your swap partition is encrypted or not. In case it is not - you are probably writing too many secrets to the hard disk. If it is - well, then I can understand why the machine is slow. It is encrypted, but swap is hardly used on my machine.

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Erez D wrote: so i though of a solution - use a crypto FS. but there are many problems with it. the practical problems are at least: 1. i do not know of a major linux distibution (i.e. redhat/ubuntu etc... ) that fully support crypto-fs out of the box, so if i use it, i will need to do manual

Re: data security

2009-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Orr Dunkelman wrote: I guess that the configuration may still reveal some secrets (like which hosts are important enough to be in /etc/hosts), but it's better than nothing... On my laptop, most of the data is not encrypted. I discovered that compiling inside an encrypted partition is

Re: VIM removal of Unicode ('bomb')

2009-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Noam Rathaus wrote: I am using: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Jan 15 2003 08:05:27) And I have a few unicode characters (unicode encoding 'bomb'/marker) at the beginning of the file that I want to remove. 000 bbef 3cbf 4421 434f 5954 4550 6820 6d74 I m referring to 0xbb,

Re: VIM removal of Unicode ('bomb')

2009-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Noam Rathaus wrote: I am using: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Jan 15 2003 08:05:27) And I have a few unicode characters (unicode encoding 'bomb'/marker) at the beginning of the file that I want to remove. 000 bbef 3cbf 4421 434f 5954 4550 6820 6d74 I m referring to 0xbb,

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