Re: [Fwd: BSA Accuses OpenOffice ftp sites of piracy]

2003-03-04 Thread Eli Billauer
I think this is quite sad. Not the BSA accusations, but the fact that they are right. Because if you open KWord, you can't take it as anything else but a clone of MS-Word. It looks the same, it feels the same, and it has a very related name. Every little item on the window's outline just

Re: Information Week

2003-03-05 Thread Eli Billauer
When will you guys understand, that Linux becoming OS #1 is our worst nightmare? Being #1 means that the system needs to be adapted to grandma, not us. If it has to sell to the masses, it has to be adopted to the masses. It's enough to see how the main Linux distros have changed over the

Re: Information Week

2003-03-05 Thread Eli Billauer
I haven't gotten very deep into the GNU licence, and I haven't thought this all through. But I'm quite confident that if someone really wants, it's possible to release a Linux distro with a vital component, which is closed. How, pray, can RedHat close source the kernel? You don't close the

Re: Information Week

2003-03-05 Thread Eli Billauer
So I had a closer look in the GPL. It's nice that we have an intellectual conversation about its details, but I don't think that Microsoft will care very much about them. That company has a history. Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: You need to look deeper into what "derived work" means in the GPL.

Re: 012 adsl limitation ?

2003-03-09 Thread Eli Billauer
A month ago I discovered that every sunday we can't surf most of the sites (google, 012, nana YES, but ynet, yhaoo,cnn NO) killing the pptp+ppp0 don't work as well as rebooting the all system. Can you elaborate on this? What exactly doesn't work? DNS failure? No route? What goes wrong? Eli

Re: egged.co.il works

2003-03-10 Thread Eli Billauer
Ah, your advocacy is for a *simpler* site, not a *standard* site. These two things are different. Do we want to put the effort in convincing the man to give up his gadgets and toys? IMHO, this is the best thing we have to come with. I would go for simplicity means business. A bank shouldn't

Re: Kernel Bug ?

2003-03-11 Thread Eli Billauer
Well, not a kernel bug, but most probably a kernel *module* bug (is that the same thing? ;) I posted the workaround and Haifux' list, which boiled down to: My solution was to go to the BIOS, and disable USB 2.0 support. This means missing out the 480Mbit/sec that USB 2.0 allows,and take the 12

Getting your good old Xemacs back again

2003-04-02 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all. After installing RH7.3, I ran Xemacs and soon found out that it doesn't behave like I'm used to. I was especially annoyed to discover that delete buffer had moved from File to Buffer, which may be the right thing theoretically, but why play with the menus all the time? And there

[OT] Looking for a grandpa laptop

2003-06-03 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I would like to spend 200 NIS or so on a laptop. Requirements: * 486 or Pentium @ 66 MHz * ~ 1 GB Hard disk * laptop = portable computer, something you can carry with you. * Doesn't have to be small. * Doesn't need to run on batteries. * May have defects, but must at least be stable

Re: [OT] BEOS IS ALIVE!!!!1!

2003-06-03 Thread Eli Billauer
Windows is better than Linux. Windows has higher technology, it's developed by serious proffesionals, and of course you can't write quality software if you're not paid for it. Well, these are not my opinions, of course, but it seems like we all need another thread of 30 messages about who is

Free dating site - call for volunteers

2003-06-05 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All. There is something very annoying about dating sites: If they eventually succeed in gathering enough participants to become really useful, they start charging money. What happens then is that some decide to pay, and others move to the next site, which is free until it becomes the

Those mechanics

2003-06-07 Thread Eli Billauer
20 car mechanic experts decided to make a conference about advanced motoric techniques in a hotel at 20:00. 5 refused to come, because their cars work on natural gas, and they can't refill their tanks frequently enough to make it back and forth. They sent a letter to the conference, urging

Testing on various computers needed

2003-06-12 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I have addressed this issue in the past, but never got to really solve this. And it's annoying me again. I'm running RH7.3, with a 2.4.18-3 from-the-box kernel, which in my opinion doesn't meet a basic requirement to be called a multi-user or multitask OS. The thing is, that when

Re: Testing on various computers needed

2003-06-12 Thread Eli Billauer
Ely Levy wrote: are you trying it on the same disk your system is on? couldn't it just be the fact reading becomes much slower when write into the disk like that? Even if that was true, it's no excuse to get stuck. And no, it's not the reading getting slower. I'm talking about slow echo

Re: Testing on various computers needed

2003-06-12 Thread Eli Billauer
What CPU (and other hardware) do you have? Modern and fast IDE disks, with their (comparatively) primitive controller, cause high CPU load. I'm with a 1.7 GHz Celeron on an Intel motherboard. 256MB of RAM, almost never swapping. A rather new hard disk. But even if the IDE controller is a

My own tests (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-13 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello again, Either most of you don't believe me, or you don't think that a Linux box getting stuck is so serious. I have gotten some responses, some in private, with the same experiences. Someone mentioned going to a coffee break when a large file is being untarred (I do the same). And I ask

Re: My own tests (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-13 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello again, As usual, it's me answering my own questions. The very slow perfomance of the hard disk under Linux caused me to reconsider the DMA issue again. I also found that others have been discussing this:

Re: My own tests (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-13 Thread Eli Billauer
I'm not saying that you're wrong, I am saying that before you start a 'Linux sucks' advocacy thread, one would suggest that you start by reading more about the IDE controller that you are using (Intel chipset?) and the kernel support it has in 2.4.18. Suppose that upgrading the kernel will

Re: Kernel 2.4.21 released

2003-06-14 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All, I downloaded 2.4.21 from the Israeli mirror, and untarred it, just to find that all files belong to user group 573, rather than root. User 573 doesn't exist on my system. I changed the ownership on all the files to root, and I think others should take this precaution as well. Or

SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testingon various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello All. Bottom line: If you haven't done it yet, become root on your computer and go: hdparm /dev/hda or whatever hdX you have as your hard disk. You'll have a line saying using_dma = 1 (on). But if the line says that your DMA is off, I suggest start thinking about doing something about

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations

2003-06-15 Thread Eli Billauer
As one can understand from my previous posting, I like my Linux box running steadily, so I'm not so happy doing these tests, unless it's really critical for someone. Besides, the sound interface is now recognized too, which is a nice bonus ;). Eli Guy Baruch wrote: Just out of curiosity:

Re: [OT] Spamming (was [OT] A note about internet zahav customercare)

2003-06-16 Thread Eli Billauer
There is two ways to approach the fact that there are cockroaches in the world. One is to try having them away from you, and another is to understand how come they survive so well. And in fact I don't think that you can be really effective about the former without the latter. Despite my

Re: Senior job opening at Lerner Consulting

2003-06-17 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello Reuven All. It was a month since you posted a message, looking for an open-source one-man orchestra, and this list started to discuss your chances of finding someone meeting your requirements. So, Reuven, could you share your experiences with us? Did you get any really interesting CVs?

What do we REALLY want? (Re: Captain Internet Responds)

2003-06-24 Thread Eli Billauer
Since the Linux for masses issue is up again, here's my little food for thought: What's wrong with the situation as it is? What's wrong with Linux not being in every home? Why do we care if our grandmother pays for her operating system? There are, of course, a few things that I would like to

Re: What do we REALLY want? (Re: Captain Internet Responds)

2003-06-24 Thread Eli Billauer
Gilboa Davara wrote: Here's a couple. A. Development tools and workplaces: Low adaptation gives MS power to dictate *bad* (non)standards. MS-Word is not the real problem here; MFC, DirectX, Visual Basic, C#, etc are! As developers we are forced to use non standard closed tools and libraries that

Can't kill artsd

2003-06-28 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I have a process named artsd (sound daemon for KDE), which takes 99% of the process time. But even worse, it refuses to get killed. I don't care very much if artsd is buggy. What bothers me more, is that kill -9 fails, which I think is a bit of a fundamental problem. Any idea of

Re: Can't kill artsd

2003-06-28 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, Yes, it would make sense to supply ps aux. As you can see, the process is Running, and the file in question is OK. As for trying to kill it with various signals, I've covered everything from 1 to 32... :( Eli [EMAIL PROTECTED] eli]# ps aux | grep artsd eli 4045 43.0 0.2 15500 520 ? R

An idea (was: Looking for ideas for free-software projects)

2003-07-06 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello Nadav + list, This is something I thought of while preparing my lecture about iptables at Haifux. You are all welcome, of course, to tell me that a project like this already exist, or that it's otherwise useless. ;) Problem: Setting up (static) routing tables and/or firewall rules is

Re: An idea (was: Looking for ideas for free-software projects)

2003-07-08 Thread Eli Billauer
Solution: Use the distribution's configuration files for interfaces, ans shorewall (www.shorewall.net) for firewall rules. It simplifies thing to great extents. Simplifies? It may be that these guys are bad in documentation, but after a first glance on their Setup guide, there's nothing

[JOBOFFERS] Several offers

2003-07-08 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello list, I've gotten this from someone who knows someone (a bit of an endless loop). But this looks serious to me, so if you think you fit some of the jobs, e-mailing the relevant person is the thing to do... I have nothing to do with this personally, so please don't contact me for

Re: [HAIFUX] Special insta-party distro ?

2003-08-25 Thread Eli Billauer
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: No clear indication how to update the system, security fixes, bug fixes etc. For that, you need to essentially base your distro on a well-known one - back to fights? Of course it's *based* on a well-known distro. Actually it will almost *be* the original distro. The

Re: [HAIFUX] Special insta-party distro ?

2003-08-26 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello Shaul, and hello all. Shaul Karl wrote: I am under the impression that in general, preparing any kind of a Linux CD that truly enhances another CD requires a lot of work. As I explained in my original post (bothered to read it?), not at all. Preparing the CD, as I suggested, is more or

Re: Help, Help, I've ran out of entropy!

2003-10-01 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello Oded list. Could you please be more detailed about what you need this for? Is it the internal TCP-sequence number generator, or do you have some application that is hungry for a lot of random data? How random does it really have to be? Eli Oded Arbel wrote: Hi list. I'm having a

Re: Old computer linux dist.

2003-10-11 Thread Eli Billauer
I was successful with Debian Potato (2.2r0) on a P133 laptop of esoteric brand (AST). I would try that. Eli Tzahi Fadida wrote: Does anyone remember a site that i think was posted here, about Experience and stories of people installing linux on old computers. I have a p75 thinkpad 755cx that

Pink Tie instead of Red Hat? (Was: EULA on free software?)

2003-11-10 Thread Eli Billauer
Hi, Let's all remeber that Red Hat is a company, which has one thing to own: Trademarks. They want to make money, and I can understand that. What they seem to be doing, is to restrict the use of their trademarks, so if I want my server to answer Red Hat Linux, I have to pay for that luxury.

Re: Pink Tie instead of Red Hat? (Was: EULA on free software?)

2003-11-10 Thread Eli Billauer
Oron Peled wrote: So, after we get used to Fedora as a codename for: RedHat code without the brand name and no support It suddenly may become a forbidden word. Which makes Fedora and Red Hat equally problematic. Your idea of finding a free name for it would help just a little. Not long ago

Re: ADSL Monitoring Crontab

2003-12-16 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, I'm taking another approach: I have a process running, which makes sure the connection is up every minute. The advantage is that if I don't want ADSL connection for a while, I can kill a process, not crond. This script has terrible bash syntax, but it has proven to work well for over a

Re: help with partition table

2003-12-28 Thread Eli Billauer
Get yourself a Knoppix 3.3 (or later) CD. Boot from the CD, and use gpart. It's not a graphical interface, as one may think, but a command-line tool that recognizes the partitions on the hard disk. If your partition table is wrecked anyhow, you may use it's feature of setting up the partition

Re: fork on windows?

2004-05-23 Thread Eli Billauer
Diego Iastrubni wrote: The question is very simple, how can i fork() under windows using c/c++? Simple question, simple answer: If you're ready to use cygwin (which may be as little as depending on one DLL), you have the fork() system call. Cygwin's fork() is based upon Window's CreateProcess,

[OT] editaste, a social bookmarking site: Call for editors

2005-11-07 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, Imagine that you have a site, which you enter, and immediately get of links to the latest *interesting* threads in some high-volume newsgroup, a *relevant* security alert, some *funny* cartoons and a really *nice* blog entry. That's what editaste tries to create. Impossible, you

[HAIFUX LECTURE] GPLv3

2006-10-15 Thread Eli Billauer
This Monday, at 18:30, Haifa Linux Club will (finally) gather to hear Yoni Rabkin Katzenel talk about GPLv3 This lecture introduces the draft version of the GNU General Public License introduced in January of 2006 (from now on referred to as GPLv3 or GPL3). The lecture walks through

[HAIFUX LECTURE] DVD Authoring with Linux

2006-11-04 Thread Eli Billauer
This Monday (6.11.06), at 18:30, Haifa Linux Club will gather to hear Eli Billauer (myself) talk about DVD Authoring with Linux This lecture is a walkthrough of the process of creating a video DVD for a standalone consumer DVD player. Starting from recoding video files, through

[HAIFUX LECTURE] KVM

2006-11-12 Thread Eli Billauer
This Monday (13.11.06), at 18:30, Haifa Linux Club will gather to hear Avi Kivity talk about KVM (Kernel Based Virtual Machine) KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a new virtualization hardware driver for Linux. kvm allows one to run multiple virtual machines (guests) on a single

[Haifux Meeting] Crawling in Lightning

2008-02-09 Thread Eli Billauer
Next Monday, 11th of February, at 18:30 the Haifa Linux Club, will gather for a lightning talk session Crawling in Lightning Abstract This is a show-me-the-source meeting, during which several one-liners and scripts will be presented. The core subject is methods for interacting

[HAIFUX Meeting] The Lightning Strikes Again

2008-07-13 Thread Eli Billauer
Next Monday, 14th of July, at 18:30 the Haifa Linux Club will gather for a lightning talk session. Or, as it was named: The Lightning Strikes Again During this meeting, several speakers will make short talks about various subjects. The list will be published soon (this was not a promise, but

[HAIFUX Meeting] Discussion - Design Pattern implementation in C++

2008-08-10 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday (TOMORROW), 11th of August, at 18:30 the Haifa Linux Club will gather for a discussion session. Or, as it was named: Design Pattern implementation in C++ == We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see:

[HAIFUX Lecture] Breaking the Ice with SELinux (part I)

2008-12-05 Thread Eli Billauer
, and you are all invited! == Future lectures: 8/22/08 Breaking the ice with SELinux part II Eli Billauer 5/1/2009 Supercomputing 2008 Orna Agmon 19/1/2009 Introduction to openmp

[HAIFUX Lecture] Breaking the Ice with SELinux (part II)

2008-12-19 Thread Eli Billauer
Next Monday, December 22nd at 18:30, Haifux will meet to hear Eli Billauer's talk titled Breaking the Ice with SELinux (part II) We will continue from Policy syntax this meeting (after a quick review of the previous one). We will also see how to write an SELinux module to keep a certain

[HAIFUX Lecture] Introduction to openmp

2009-03-14 Thread Eli Billauer
This Monday, March 16th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to enjoy Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda's talk about Introduction to openmp Abstract (Orna hasn't submitted an abstract... I'll improvise) This meeting will be an introduction to OpenMP API, which is a preparation lecture for openmp - from

[HAIFUX LECTURE] gdb in Greater Depth

2009-05-17 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, May 17th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Guy Keren's talk gdb in Greater Depth (which is part II of Guy's double lecture) Abstract gdb is one of the more powerful tools that you have as a programmer in the UNIX environment. The previous talk was an introduction to gdb and

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Compiling Effectively for Cell with GCC

2009-05-30 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, June 1st at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Revital Eres' talk Compiling Effectively for Cell with GCC Abstract (and slides?) to be published. = We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see:

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Arduino - Open Source Hardware and a Viewport to Micro Manufacturing

2009-06-14 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, June 1st at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Amy Chayun's talk Arduino - Open Source Hardware and a Viewport to Micro Manufacturing Abstract Arduino (http://www.arduino.cc) is an open source hardware platform. Since its launch it became much more than just a hobbyist playground.

[HAIFUX LECTURE corrected] Arduino - Open Source Hardware and a Viewport to Micro Manufacturing

2009-06-14 Thread Eli Billauer
(I got the date wrong in the previous mail -- sorry.) On Monday, *June 15th* at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Amy Chayun's talk Arduino - Open Source Hardware and a Viewport to Micro Manufacturing Abstract Arduino (http://www.arduino.cc) is an open source hardware platform. Since

[HAIFUX LECTURE] How Time Flies: Jiffies, Hi-Res Timers and the Tickless Kernel

2009-07-25 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, July 27th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Gilad Ben-Yossef's talk How Time Flies: Jiffies, Hi-Res Timers and the Tickless Kernel: Abstract This lecture describes the Linux time keeping mechanism and related features, covering: * Jiffies and HZ: how the Linux kernel

[HAIFUX LECTURE] GCC Profile Guided Optimization

2009-08-09 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, August 10th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Shachar Shemesh' talk GCC Profile Guided Optimization Abstract Compiler optimization is a crucial part of modern computerized systems. This lecture will cover what optimization is, why it is necessary, as well as go into more

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Social and Cultural perspective on the Israeli FOSS community

2009-10-25 Thread Eli Billauer
. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.html Attendance is free, and you are all invited! == Future events: 04/11/09 (W2L) Development Tools: Tzafrir Rehan and Eli Billauer 09/11/09 (W2L) FOSS Philosophy: Orr Dunkelman 10/11/09

[HAIFUX/Welcome to Linux] Quick and Dirty Bash

2009-11-15 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday November 16th (TODAY) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a (rerun) talk by Eli Billauer: Quick and Dirty Bash Abstract This lecture is a quick and informal guide to scripts and sophisticated commands in Bash. The aim is to supply the listener with tools to use the command

Haifux lecture on Yom Hasho'a?

2010-04-01 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, This message is relevant only for those who want to attend Haifux' next lecture about Genetic Algorithms. The Genetic Algorithm lecture is currently scheduled on April 12th. This happens to be Yom Hasho'a, or to be precise, the evening after the day of the ceremonies. So

Re: Haifux lecture on Yom Hasho'a?

2010-04-02 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, It looks like I should have clarified a few issues: 1. Voting on Doodle does NOT require any subscription whatsoever. You MAY leave your name, which will not be published, nor your vote. Names will help us, of course. 2. Details about Haifux meetings (location, time, etc) can be

Next Haifux lecture remains on April 12th

2010-04-06 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, The poll is now closed. It showed clearly that most of you have no issues with that date. Thanks to those who participated. For those who voted against, sorry, but I can only say that you're in very good company. But yet, you were a clear minority. See you! Eli -- Web:

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Towards One-Class Pattern Recognition in Brain Activity via Neural Networks

2010-04-11 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, April 12th (TOMORROW) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Omer Boehm talk about Towards One-Class Pattern Recognition in Brain Activity via Neural Networks Abstract I would like to present the work done regarding how one-class recognition of cognitive brain functions

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Challenges in the Ben Yehuda Project - Asaf Bartov

2010-06-21 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday (TODAY), June 21st at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Asaf Bartov talk about: Challenges in the Ben Yehuda Project Abstract (in Hebrew, the topic justifies it...) פרויקט בן-יהודה הוא מיזם התנדבותי אשר בונה ומתחזק מאגר חופשי של יצירה עברית שאינה מוגנת בזכויות יוצרים. המהדורות

NO HAIFUX LECTURE TOMORROW (July 19th): Valgrind Lecture postponed

2010-07-18 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, I know this was just announced, but not loud enough, in my opinion, for this short notice: Shachar's talk is postponed to Monday, July 26th, 18:30 (same place and hour, next week) due to July 19th being 9th of Av. There will be no Haifux talk tomorrow (July 19th). Eli --

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Valgrind - from magic to science - Shachar Raindel

2010-07-25 Thread Eli Billauer
TOMORROW, July 26th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Shachar Raindel talk about: Valgrind - from magic to science Valgrind is an extremely powerful development tool, which detects and pin-points many common programming errors when running a program. Some examples for the problems it

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Zemereshet - Yair Even-Zohar

2010-08-01 Thread Eli Billauer
TOMORROW, August 2nd at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Yair Even-Zohar talk about: Zemereshet Zemereshet is an Emergency Project for the Rescue and Electronic Documentation of Early Hebrew Music. It is a volunteer association of enthusiasts who have assumed the mission of preserving the

[HAIFUX LECTURE] HTML5 - The next generations of the web - Tzafrir Rehan

2010-08-15 Thread Eli Billauer
TOMORROW, August 15th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Tzafrir Rehan talk about: HTML5 - The next generations of the web - Tzafrir Rehan Since 2004, the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) has been working on the next generation of HTML, the markup that makes up

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Packaging in Debian - Ohad Lutzky

2010-08-29 Thread Eli Billauer
TOMORROW, August 30th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Ohad Lutzky talk about: Packaging in Debian Debian is one of the more popular Linux distributions, well-known for its excellent package management. Debian has also been known to be the base for many other distributions, such as

TODAY'S HAIFUX LECTURE IS CANCELED

2010-08-30 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello everybody, Unfortunately, there will be no Haifux lecture today (Packaging in Debian). Sorry about the very short notice. Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Creative Commons Licenses - Dalit Ken-Dror

2010-12-04 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, December 6th (TOMORROW) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Dalit Ken-Dror talk about Creative Commons Licenses, Open Source Software Licenses the new Israeli Copyright Act of 2007 Abstract Not available yet. Isn't the title a bit of an abstract?

Slides for Creative Commons lecture are available

2010-12-19 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, The slides for tomorrow's lecture (which is part II) are available here: http://haifux.org/lectures/247/haifux-cc-lecture.pdf The lecture was originally planned for one session, but the subject is so deep in our region of interest, so we had questions, she had good answers, and so we

[HAIFUX LECTURE] From VxWorks To Linux - Raz Ben Yehuda

2011-01-02 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, January 3rd (TOMORROW) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Raz Ben Yehuda talk about From VxWorks To Linux Abstract Preempt RT is a growing hard real time linux OS. In this session I will present Preempt RT basics and uniqueness, provide a Live demo, present a benchmark

[HAIFUX LECTURE] A FOSS Yankee in Microsoft's court - Boaz Goldstein

2011-01-16 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, January 17th (TOMORROW) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Boaz Goldstein talk about A FOSS Yankee in Microsoft's court - Boaz Goldstein Abstract A year ago I started working for a small multi-national software giant named Microsoft. What I found is a company with rather

Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE] A FOSS Yankee in Microsoft's court - Boaz Goldstein

2011-01-16 Thread Eli Billauer
At times, we do record Haifux lectures, but I don't think that has been done for a while. This one will not be recorded for obvious reasons. Eli Mordecha Behar wrote: Wow. This looks like a fascinating talk. But unfortunately I can't be there. Are the Haifux talks regularly recorded?

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Root on NFS: Running Linux on a diskless computer - Eli Billauer

2011-01-29 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, January 31st (TOMORROW) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Eli Billauer talk about Root on NFS: Running Linux on a diskless computer Abstract A motherboard, a CPU, and a memory stick. Add a fan and a power supply, and you have a little computer which boots from network

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Encryption - Alice, Bob and Co. -- Amichay Peretz Klopshtock

2011-02-12 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, February 14th (TOMORROW) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Amichay Peretz Klopshtock talk about Encryption - Alice, Bob and Co. Abstract In this lecture I'll talk about the encryption methods that were common through history, how to use them, what their weaknesses are and

[HAIFUX LECTURE] The story of alice and bob - the I/O requests (part II) by Guy Keren

2011-03-27 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, March 28th (TOMORROW), at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Guy Keren talk about The story of alice and bob - the I/O requests (part II) Abstract In this story, we'll follow the life story of alice - a file-systemized I/O request, and bob - a raw-device I/O request, from their

[HAIFUX LECTURE] The story of Alice and Bob - the I/O requests (part III) by Guy Keren

2011-04-10 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, April 11th (TOMORROW), at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Guy Keren talk about The story of Alice and Bob - the I/O requests (part III and last) Abstract In this story, we'll follow the life story of alice - a file-systemized I/O request, and bob - a raw-device I/O request, from

[HAIFUX LECTURE] vIOMMU: Efficient IOMMU Emulation by Nadav Amit

2011-05-01 Thread Eli Billauer
Attendance is free, and you are all invited! Future Haifux talks include: 16/5/2011 The anatomy of a PCI/PCI Express (Linux) kernel driver by Eli Billauer 30/5/2011 How to Spread Knowledge Throughout the World While Wearing Only Your Slippers by Tomer Ashur. 13/6

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-07 Thread Eli Billauer
I would suggest making the check I mention in my own blog, in particular if you're running an old kernel. There has been a bug in the way the kernel handles heavy disk loads. http://billauer.co.il/blog/2010/10/disk-io-scheduler-load-dd-freeze-stall-hang/ Omer Zak wrote: I have a PC with

[HAIFUX LECTURE] The Anatomy of a PCI/PCI Express Kernel Driver by Eli Billauer

2011-05-14 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, May 16th (TOMORROW), at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Eli Billauer talk about The Anatomy of a PCI/PCI Express Kernel Driver Abstract Very few will ever need to write a PCI driver from scratch, and even when apparently doing so, the kernel API parts can (and should

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Wikimedia, Wikipedia and free content projects by Tomer Ashur

2011-05-28 Thread Eli Billauer
include: 13/6/2011 The anatomy of a PCI/PCI Express (Linux) kernel driver by Eli Billauer 27/6/2011 GPIO, SPI, and I2C Control from Userspace, the True Linux Way by Baruch Siach 11/7/2011 SSD fundamentals by Amit Berman We are always

[HAIFUX LECTURE] The Anatomy of a PCI/PCI Express Kernel Drive, part II by Eli Billauer

2011-06-11 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, June 13th (TOMORROW), at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Eli Billauer talk about The Anatomy of a PCI/PCI Express Kernel Driver (Part II) To the extent possible, this talk will start exactly on time, and spend the first 15 minutes on a quick recap

[HAIFUX LECTURE] 0 A.D. Revisited - Aviv Sharon

2011-08-13 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, August 15th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by Aviv Sharon: 0 A.D. Revisited (And Perhaps a Few Words About Wikimania 2011) Abstract 0 A.D. is a FOSS game of ancient warfare, belonging to a genre of games called Real-Time Strategy (RTS). It is mostly

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Mesh Networks:Hacking the T3lc0 Model by Amir Sagie

2011-08-27 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, August 29th (TOMORROW), at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Amir Sagie talk about Mesh Networks:Hacking the T3lc0 Model Abstract Want to build your own Telco? You'll probable need mesh power. Avoid past mistakes by learning about the history of mesh networks, hear how the

[HAIFUX MEETING] Wiki-Workshop with Tomer Ashur

2011-09-10 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, September 12th (TOMORROW), at 18:30, Haifux will gather for a Wiki-Workshop with Tomer Ashur. Abstract During this meeting, the Haifa Linux Club will help the Hebrew Wikipedia project to extend, improve, generate, and fix various FOSS related entries. The meeting will start with

The Wiki Workshop tomorrow

2011-09-11 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, On behalf of Tomer, I'm forwarding his clarifications about tomorrow's meeting. There's Hebrew in this mail, as these are entries in the Hebrew Wikipedia. Forwarded message follows. The meeting will

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing by Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda

2011-09-24 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, September 26th (TOMORROW), at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda talk about Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing Abstract Cloud providers possessing large quantities of spare capacity must either incentivize clients to purchase it or suffer

[HAIFUX LECTURE] How to Participate in the Linux Kernel Development (and Why) by Baruch Siach

2011-10-08 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, October 10th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Baruch Siach talk about How to Participate in the Linux Kernel Development (and Why) Abstract The Linux kernel is one of the largest scale free software projects. More than thousand developers contribute code to each kernel

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Bare-Metal Performance for I/O Virtualization by Abel Gordon

2011-10-29 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, October 31st at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Abel Gordon (IBM HRL) talk about Bare-Metal Performance for I/O Virtualization Abstract Direct device assignment enhances the performance of guest virtual machines by allowing them to communicate with I/O devices without host

[HAIFUX LECTURE] GPGPU, part 1/4 - Motivation and Architecture by Ofer Rosenberg

2011-11-12 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, November 14th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Ofer Rosenberg (AMD Israel) talk about GPGPU - Motivation and Architecture Abstract This is a series of 4 talks about GPGPUs, intended for the practical engineer. 1. Motivation, AMD's architecture 2. OpenCL 3. Case studies,

A good Linux kernel vintage?

2011-11-16 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, I'm running Fedora 12 on my main computer, with no intentions to upgrade the entire system (as I have a lot of non-distribution software which will be headache to reinstall). My choice of distribution in indeed questionable, but not the issue. I'd like to upgrade my kernel to

Re: A good Linux kernel vintage?

2011-11-16 Thread Eli Billauer
it right. Anyone? Eli Billauer wrote: Hello, I'm running Fedora 12 on my main computer, with no intentions to upgrade the entire system (as I have a lot of non-distribution software which will be headache to reinstall). My choice of distribution in indeed questionable, but not the issue

Re: A good Linux kernel vintage?

2011-11-17 Thread Eli Billauer
Nadav Har'El wrote: Well, basically, all released kernels fit your description. It's not like Linus, and a few hundreds of the kernel developers, are going to release a version, after a few weeks of intensive testing, which doesn't work. You could be sure that all of them love multitasking, and

[HAIFUX LECTURE] GPGPU, part 2/4 - OpenCL overview by Ofer Rosenberg

2011-11-26 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, November 28th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Ofer Rosenberg (AMD Israel) talk about GPGPU - OpenCL overview Abstract This is a series of 4 talks about GPGPUs, intended for the practical engineer. 1. Motivation, AMD's architecture 2. OpenCL overview 3. Case studies,

HAIFUX LECTURE POSTPONED: GPGPU meeting #3

2011-12-05 Thread Eli Billauer
Dear GPGPU-interested, Please note that GPGPU meeting #3 (Do's and don'ts + hands-on practice), which was planned for next Monday, is to be rescheduled to a later time. We'll be back with the new dates for future meetings as soon as this issue is settled. Eli -- Web:

[HAIFUX LECTURE] GPGPU, part 3/4 - OpenCL Case studies, Dos and Don'ts by Ofer Rosenberg

2011-12-17 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, December 19th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Ofer Rosenberg (AMD Israel) talk about GPGPU - Case studies, Dos and Don'ts Note: This is the first hands-on lecture. Arriving with laptops with at least the AMD APP SDK (regardless of your computer's GPGPU, if any) is highly

[HAIFUX LECTURE] GPGPU, part 3/4 - OpenCL Case studies, Dos and Don'ts by Ofer Rosenberg

2011-12-24 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday (TOMORROW), December 26th at 18:30, Haifux will (fingers crossed) gather to hear Ofer Rosenberg (AMD Israel) talk about GPGPU - Case studies, Dos and Don'ts Note: This is the first hands-on lecture. Arriving with laptops with at least the AMD APP SDK (regardless of your

[HAIFUX LECTURE] GPGPU, part 4/4 - OpenCL Tools and Profiling for Performance by Ofer Rosenberg

2012-01-01 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday (TOMORROW), January 2nd at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Ofer Rosenberg (AMD Israel) talk about GPGPU - OpenCL Tools and Profiling for Performance Note: This is the second hands-on lecture. Arriving with laptops with at least the AMD APP SDK (regardless of your computer's

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Maqaf Hataf Patakh - The new standard Hebrew keyboard layout by Amir E. Aharoni

2012-01-07 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, January 9th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Amir E. Aharoni talk about Maqaf Hataf Patakh - The new standard Hebrew keyboard layout Abstract In the last two years a committee in the Standards Institution of Israel worked, on my initiative and with my active

Cat on (RAM) steroids

2012-02-04 Thread Eli Billauer
Hi all, I need a simple command-line program, which works as a plain FIFO stream buffer with a huge RAM. Something I can do: $ fatcat -b 256M /dev/datasource | ./my_shaky_data_sink The idea is that fatcat reads data whenever available and stores it to non-swappable RAM. It then pushes

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