[ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues
Dear linux-il friends, 1. I'm very concerned with freedom of speech online, especially today when the www and Internet has become so commercial. When the big corporations control the Internet, or at least to some extent are controlling the Internet, some things can't be said and some ideas can't be expressed without being censored or sued. There are a few issues I want to discuss related to this, it's off topic linux but related to open source and freedom of speech so I think it's better if you reply off list to my posts or write me directly, I'm not writing everything here because it's long and I don't want to spam the list. 2. I need some information and advice about open source software for exchanging files and ideas, and I'm also looking for people to support and help coding or finding people who can help coding and also (before coding) designing the technical issues involved here. It's long and off topic so if you are interested please see more information here: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/?p=83 3. I recently joined facebook but my account was disabled and I decided to leave. It's also related to me being politically active and also me criticizing facebook. There are many people who use mainly facebook to communicate with other people and I can't communicate with these people (including my friends) and by the way things I wrote have been removed from Wikipedia talk pages and I was asked to leave and not return to this website too. http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/?p=81 4. I'm currently looking for work. If you know something please let me know privately. You can see my profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/urievenchen Thanks and I hope this post is accepted although it's not directly related to linux-il. Uri Even-Chen Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My website: http://www.speedy.net/uri/ "Never believe anything men say on odd days. Never believe anything women say on even days. Check the date before you believe someone!" * מכתב זה אישי וחסוי מתחילתו ועד סופו. כל זכויות היוצרים שמורות לכותב המכתב. אין לפרסם או להפיץ את המכתב ברבים ללא רשות מפורשת מכותב המכתב. אם קיבלת מכתב זה בטעות וקראת עד כאן, "תשכח" מה שקראת, "אל תדע" מה שידעת ו"תעמיד פנים" שמעולם לא קיבלת ולא קראת את המכתב. *
Re: [ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues
Hi, 2008/4/5 Uri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear linux-il friends, > > 1. I'm very concerned with freedom of speech online, especially today > when the www and Internet has become so commercial. When the big > corporations control the Internet, or at least to some extent are > controlling the Internet, some things can't be said and some ideas > can't be expressed without being censored or sued. There are a few > issues I want to discuss related to this, it's off topic linux but > related to open source and freedom of speech so I think it's better if > you reply off list to my posts or write me directly, I'm not writing > everything here because it's long and I don't want to spam the list. I somehow have a feeling that many people from here already marked a message from you as SPAM and kicked this message. > 2. I need some information and advice about open source software for > exchanging files and ideas, and I'm also looking for people to support > and help coding or finding people who can help coding and also (before > coding) designing the technical issues involved here. It's long and > off topic so if you are interested please see more information here: > http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/?p=83 I read your idea, and I would like to say few comments both to you and to people who might want to join you: 1. You're thinking about creating yet another file sharing company. Find yourself some lawyers. 2. As a person who previously "matched" between companies and developers, I would say to any developer who wants to join you, that you are a "Red Risk", which means that developers should ask for cash (and not Shotef+30 or anything like that) or bank's cheque or a bank guarantee. Why? because you either do not know the law in Israel and/or being fully Naive. 3. Of course, any developer who "accidentally" served in the Israeli army should NOT try to work with you or else you'll mock and insult him, just like what you did 1-2 years ago, an act that was fully childish behavior. > 3. I recently joined facebook but my account was disabled and I > decided to leave. It's also related to me being politically active and > also me criticizing facebook. There are many people who use mainly > facebook to communicate with other people and I can't communicate with > these people (including my friends) and by the way things I wrote have > been removed from Wikipedia talk pages and I was asked to leave and > not return to this website too. http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/?p=81 Hmm, I wonder why they banned you :) > 4. I'm currently looking for work. If you know something please let me > know privately. You can see my profile at LinkedIn: > http://www.linkedin.com/in/urievenchen With your behavior? with your history? any potential employer who will Google you will throw your CV to the trash after 3 minutes. You clearly alienated tons of people with your act and any HR clerk with half a brain who will google you and see the results, will think that you are a "trouble maker", and thats a big red-flag to them, which means they won't accept you. In all honesty Uri, you made few very-public mistakes by flaming many Israelis on your web site's banner only because they served in the army, and you keep doing so on other places till today. I've seen that you've become a "spiritual" guy, and one of the things that any spiritual things that you learn is to accept the other, even if his opinions are the opposite of yours. I myself write a blog and I wtite my political opinions there (I'm from the right-side of the political map), but I totally respect people who disagree with me. It's very important to separate a political opinion from a person and a basic respect should be given. I think you should apologize to many people who were insulted by your actions. Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: choice of provisioning server?
Hi, I must agree here with Ohad. I have been using Puppet in my last 3 projects at 3 different customers. I do consider Puppet as a provisioning service, as I can provision with it practically everything: 1. Configuration files 2. Packages (rpms / debs / solaris pkgs) 3. UNIX accounts (users / passwords / groups) 4. Everything you can just imagine. It is highly customizable and very robust (gee.. what a bunch of buzz words, but i do agree with them here). With every project I have deployed I learned new features of puppet and developed a bigger appreciation for the product. Regarding the kickstart part, Cobbler is a nice tool, which I can also recommend, but personally I just prefer "vanilla" kickstart, as I have better control over it (atleast, that's how I feel) and I already have a template ks.cfg profile and post install script which I carry with me from one place to another. Once I get to the post install scripts, I deploy a puppet client, and let it do the rest of the job. - Noam On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Ohad Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Checkout Cobbler. > > Puppet is a great tool, you might want to use it if you manage a lot of > servers... > > Ohad > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Ira Abramov < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Quoting Marc A. Volovic, from the post of Mon, 31 Mar: > > > poppet > > > > Thanks. Took me 5 minutes to discover it's spelled Puppet, and 20 more > > of reading through all the FAQs and manuals to realize it does > > management, not provisioning. > > > > I'll make it clearer: I'm looking for a product that will allow me to > > remote-install blades and tower machines via PXE from a smart kickstart > > or other type of image server. Management after provisioning is a bonus, > > not a must. > > > > Thanks, > > Ira. > > > > -- > > Gzunda the desk > > Ira Abramov > > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ > > > > = > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >
Re: choice of provisioning server?
Hi, I also agree with Noam ;) additionally, puppet give you free inventory tool :) I myself don't use Cobbler, I found it too "heavy" for my needs, I've created a ruby erb template for my kickstart and pull it out of a simple sql db - works great if you want to have customize options for different hosts (even RHE version or arch) but still use one kickstart over a cgi script, I use puppet to do all the rest. if anyone is interested I can send you the script. Ohad On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Noam Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I must agree here with Ohad. I have been using Puppet in my last 3 > projects at 3 different customers. > I do consider Puppet as a provisioning service, as I can provision with it > practically everything: > 1. Configuration files > 2. Packages (rpms / debs / solaris pkgs) > 3. UNIX accounts (users / passwords / groups) > 4. Everything you can just imagine. > It is highly customizable and very robust (gee.. what a bunch of buzz > words, but i do agree with them here). > With every project I have deployed I learned new features of puppet and > developed a bigger appreciation for the product. > > Regarding the kickstart part, Cobbler is a nice tool, which I can also > recommend, but personally I just prefer "vanilla" kickstart, as I have > better control over it (atleast, that's how I feel) and I already have a > template ks.cfg profile and post install script which I carry with me from > one place to another. Once I get to the post install scripts, I deploy a > puppet client, and let it do the rest of the job. > > - Noam > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Ohad Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Checkout Cobbler. > > > > Puppet is a great tool, you might want to use it if you manage a lot of > > servers... > > > > Ohad > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Ira Abramov < > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Quoting Marc A. Volovic, from the post of Mon, 31 Mar: > > > > poppet > > > > > > Thanks. Took me 5 minutes to discover it's spelled Puppet, and 20 more > > > of reading through all the FAQs and manuals to realize it does > > > management, not provisioning. > > > > > > I'll make it clearer: I'm looking for a product that will allow me to > > > remote-install blades and tower machines via PXE from a smart > > > kickstart > > > or other type of image server. Management after provisioning is a > > > bonus, > > > not a must. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Ira. > > > > > > -- > > > Gzunda the desk > > > Ira Abramov > > > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ > > > > > > = > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > >
Re: choice of provisioning server?
Beware of Tivoli Provisioning stuff.. I spend few days with it, and with CentOS 5 (and 4.x). It sucks. really bad. (I haven't tried the latest version which came 3 months ago though). It craps the network config files, xorg.conf files etc.. Thanks, Hetz On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Noam Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I must agree here with Ohad. I have been using Puppet in my last 3 projects > at 3 different customers. > I do consider Puppet as a provisioning service, as I can provision with it > practically everything: > 1. Configuration files > 2. Packages (rpms / debs / solaris pkgs) > 3. UNIX accounts (users / passwords / groups) > 4. Everything you can just imagine. > It is highly customizable and very robust (gee.. what a bunch of buzz words, > but i do agree with them here). > With every project I have deployed I learned new features of puppet and > developed a bigger appreciation for the product. > > Regarding the kickstart part, Cobbler is a nice tool, which I can also > recommend, but personally I just prefer "vanilla" kickstart, as I have > better control over it (atleast, that's how I feel) and I already have a > template ks.cfg profile and post install script which I carry with me from > one place to another. Once I get to the post install scripts, I deploy a > puppet client, and let it do the rest of the job. > > - Noam > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Ohad Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Checkout Cobbler. > > > > Puppet is a great tool, you might want to use it if you manage a lot of > servers... > > > > Ohad > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Ira Abramov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Quoting Marc A. Volovic, from the post of Mon, 31 Mar: > > > > poppet > > > > > > Thanks. Took me 5 minutes to discover it's spelled Puppet, and 20 more > > > of reading through all the FAQs and manuals to realize it does > > > management, not provisioning. > > > > > > I'll make it clearer: I'm looking for a product that will allow me to > > > remote-install blades and tower machines via PXE from a smart kickstart > > > or other type of image server. Management after provisioning is a bonus, > > > not a must. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Ira. > > > > > > -- > > > Gzunda the desk > > > > > > > > > > > > Ira Abramov > > > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ > > > > > > = > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: major packet loss at hot server
Yeah - I seem to be getting 20-30% loss on TCP packets to www.cnn.com on the same router that was dropping the ICMP packets. (#4 below) Selected device eth0, address 10.1.1.193, port 38669 for outgoing packets Tracing the path to www.cnn.com (64.236.29.120) on TCP port 80 (www), 30 hops max 1 10.1.1.254 0.514 ms 0.974 ms 0.985 ms 2 X 0.986 ms 0.988 ms 0.983 ms 3 xxx.ser.netvision.net.il () 9.403 ms 11.062 ms 12.373 ms 4 vl100.coresw2.hfa.nv.net.il (212.143.8.69) 13.803 ms * 10.785 ms 5 ge0-1.gw2.hfa.nv.net.il (212.143.8.212) 9.913 ms 9.894 ms 26.442 ms 6 pos1-0.brdr1.nyc.nv.net.il (212.143.12.13) 255.455 ms 247.516 ms On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Michael Tewner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just talked to Netvision Asakim support - > > He was knowlegable - ran `mtr` on his workstation and saw the packet > loss. > > > > He explained that "there is no problem" and that the core routers are > > dropping the ping packets based on the amount of load on the router. > > He explained that the router should only be dropping ICMP packets. > > I didn't read all the messages on this thread but maybe if you could run the > same tests with tcptraceroute you could see weather the packet drop happens > to TCP packets or not? > > --Amos > > = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing kernel 2.4 -> 2.6
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:14:10AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Replace the entire hardware with a new one (optional), install a > fairly recent version of Linux, and Xen 2 on it. Copy your entire > current RedHat 7.2 distro to the Xen image, and replace the kernel > with a 2.4 kernel of your compiling which has the > para-virtualization patch from the Xen 2 source tree (that's the > reason you cannot use Xen 3). Hell, if might actually work on the > same hardware you currently have. I wouldn't recommend Xen 2 to anyone who cares about their bits. I do think it's a good idea to buy a new machine which has Intel VT-x or AMD SVM and run the old machine's image under Xen (possible) or KVM (recommended). You get the best of both worlds. Cheers, Muli = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: major packet loss at hot server
Hi Michael et al,
I have been watching vl100.coresw2.hfa.nv.net.il for the past month for
a customer of mine and have seem roughly the same TCP packet loss going
into it on port 80. (It turned out that the customer's problem was not
that but a configuration error on a different, internal Netvision router.
FYI,
- yba
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Michael Tewner wrote:
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:51:06 +0300
From: Michael Tewner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: IGLU Mailing list
Subject: Re: major packet loss at hot server
Yeah - I seem to be getting 20-30% loss on TCP packets to www.cnn.com
on the same router that was dropping the ICMP packets. (#4 below)
Selected device eth0, address 10.1.1.193, port 38669 for outgoing packets
Tracing the path to www.cnn.com (64.236.29.120) on TCP port 80 (www),
30 hops max
1 10.1.1.254 0.514 ms 0.974 ms 0.985 ms
2 X 0.986 ms 0.988 ms 0.983 ms
3 xxx.ser.netvision.net.il () 9.403 ms 11.062 ms 12.373 ms
4 vl100.coresw2.hfa.nv.net.il (212.143.8.69) 13.803 ms * 10.785 ms
5 ge0-1.gw2.hfa.nv.net.il (212.143.8.212) 9.913 ms 9.894 ms 26.442 ms
6 pos1-0.brdr1.nyc.nv.net.il (212.143.12.13) 255.455 ms 247.516 ms
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Michael Tewner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just talked to Netvision Asakim support -
He was knowlegable - ran `mtr` on his workstation and saw the packet
loss.
He explained that "there is no problem" and that the core routers are
dropping the ping packets based on the amount of load on the router.
He explained that the router should only be dropping ICMP packets.
I didn't read all the messages on this thread but maybe if you could run the
same tests with tcptraceroute you could see weather the packet drop happens
to TCP packets or not?
--Amos
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Re: [ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues
- "Hetz Ben Hamo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > 2008/4/5 Uri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Dear linux-il friends, > > I somehow have a feeling that many people from here already marked a > message from you as SPAM and kicked this message. Dear Hetz, I feel that your reaction to UeCh is somewhat Pavlovian. His idea (which - alas - is "more of the very old same only smeared with spiritualistic nonsense") does not merit such reaction, in my opinion. > 1. You're thinking about creating yet another file sharing company. > Find yourself some lawyers. That is sound advice. Alas, Uri, no matter whether your intent is to share unencumbered content or (tfu-tfu-tfu, has ve halila, perish the thought) encumbered content, the powers that be (namely, people with gazillions of dollars in ready money) will not look on such an idea with all that much goodwill. > 2. As a person who previously "matched" between companies and > developers, I would say to any developer who wants to join you, that > you are a "Red Risk", which means that developers should ask for cash > (and not Shotef+30 or anything like that) or bank's cheque or a bank > guarantee. Why? because you either do not know the law in Israel > and/or being fully Naive. Hetz, my dear, this is an ad hominem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem). It might even constitute libel. Yes, Uri is either unaware or ignoring Israeli and other laws, but using an ad hominem is always a bad idea. > 3. Of course, any developer who "accidentally" served in the Israeli > army should NOT try to work with you or else you'll mock and insult > him, just like what you did 1-2 years ago, an act that was fully > childish behavior. Again, an ad hominem. What does it matter that Uri rails (quite incoherently, I must say, which gravely detracts from his argumentation) against criminal organizations like the IDF, etc. Uri is somewhat misguided in his views, but that is not a very good reason to ad hominem him. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: major packet loss at hot server
Wow -
A post from December 2006 in a gaming forum shows major packet loss
from the same router:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=208330
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tracert ablpls-01-02.planetside.com
Tracing route to ablpls-01-02.planetside.com [199.108.204.34]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 18 ms 19 ms 19 ms lo0.lns13.hfa.nv.net.il [212.143.205.170]
2 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms vl102.agr01.hfa.netvision.net.il [212.143.210.25
3]
3 * * 19 ms vl100.coresw2.hfa.nv.net.il [212.143.8.69]
4 28 ms 19 ms 19 ms ge5-0.core2.hfa.nv.net.il [212.143.8.210]
5 99 ms 99 ms 99 ms pos2-3.brdr1.lnd.nv.net.il [212.143.12.57]
6 108 ms 99 ms 99 ms ge9-1.br02.ldn01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.52.13]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 179 ms 179 ms 179 ms vl46.ashaens-1.sonyonline.net [64.37.144.177]
9 189 ms 179 ms 169 ms ablpls-01-02.planetside.com [199.108.204.34]
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Jonathan Ben Avraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Michael et al,
> I have been watching vl100.coresw2.hfa.nv.net.il for the past month for a
> customer of mine and have seem roughly the same TCP packet loss going into
> it on port 80. (It turned out that the customer's problem was not that but a
> configuration error on a different, internal Netvision router. FYI,
>
> - yba
>
>
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Michael Tewner wrote:
>
>
> > Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:51:06 +0300
> > From: Michael Tewner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: IGLU Mailing list
> >
> > Subject: Re: major packet loss at hot server
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yeah - I seem to be getting 20-30% loss on TCP packets to www.cnn.com
> > on the same router that was dropping the ICMP packets. (#4 below)
> >
> > Selected device eth0, address 10.1.1.193, port 38669 for outgoing packets
> > Tracing the path to www.cnn.com (64.236.29.120) on TCP port 80 (www),
> > 30 hops max
> > 1 10.1.1.254 0.514 ms 0.974 ms 0.985 ms
> > 2 X 0.986 ms 0.988 ms 0.983 ms
> > 3 xxx.ser.netvision.net.il () 9.403 ms 11.062 ms 12.373 ms
> > 4 vl100.coresw2.hfa.nv.net.il (212.143.8.69) 13.803 ms * 10.785 ms
> > 5 ge0-1.gw2.hfa.nv.net.il (212.143.8.212) 9.913 ms 9.894 ms 26.442 ms
> > 6 pos1-0.brdr1.nyc.nv.net.il (212.143.12.13) 255.455 ms 247.516 ms
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Michael Tewner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Just talked to Netvision Asakim support -
> > > > He was knowlegable - ran `mtr` on his workstation and saw the packet
> > > >
> > > loss.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > He explained that "there is no problem" and that the core routers are
> > > > dropping the ping packets based on the amount of load on the router.
> > > > He explained that the router should only be dropping ICMP packets.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I didn't read all the messages on this thread but maybe if you could run
> the
> > > same tests with tcptraceroute you could see weather the packet drop
> happens
> > > to TCP packets or not?
> > >
> > > --Amos
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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Re: [ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues
> Dear Hetz, Hi Marc, > > 2. As a person who previously "matched" between companies and > > developers, I would say to any developer who wants to join you, that > > you are a "Red Risk", which means that developers should ask for cash > > (and not Shotef+30 or anything like that) or bank's cheque or a bank > > guarantee. Why? because you either do not know the law in Israel > > and/or being fully Naive. > > Hetz, my dear, this is an ad hominem > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem). It might even constitute libel. > Yes, Uri is either unaware or ignoring Israeli and other laws, but using an > ad hominem is always a bad idea. Ad hominem, the short hebrew version: http://milon.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=index&term=ad+hominem I see your point, but I respectfully disagree. I can give myself as an example: After signing my last contract to work at a start-up, the "boss" decided (3 weeks after I started to work) that I need to select an option: either a 60% cut of my salary or quitting. He's sure that he can get professional Linux staff for around 6-7K "bruto". (I'm not talking about some person who just finished RHCE, he is looking for someone who knows load balancing, scripts, deep server knowledge etc..). Why he didn't check prior signing a contract with me getting people with this amount of salary is beyond me. I know that I had to quit due to his childish decisions and be left high and dry. It's not that he wasn't satisfied with my work, it's that he wasn't satisfied with the contract that he himself wrote and signed. Thats why I wrote what I wrote. > > 3. Of course, any developer who "accidentally" served in the Israeli > > army should NOT try to work with you or else you'll mock and insult > > him, just like what you did 1-2 years ago, an act that was fully > > childish behavior. > > Again, an ad hominem. What does it matter that Uri rails (quite > incoherently, I must say, which gravely detracts from his argumentation) > against criminal organizations like the IDF, etc. Uri is somewhat misguided > in his views, but that is not a very good reason to ad hominem him. Oh? look at this (http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3295235,00.html). If someone cannot separate a military service from a citizen's life, then I think that developers who want to work for/with him should decide whatever they want to decide. Sorry for this OT stuff. Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:53:49AM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > I see your point, but I respectfully disagree. I can give myself as an > example: After signing my last contract to work at a start-up, the > "boss" decided (3 weeks after I started to work) that I need to select > an option: either a 60% cut of my salary or quitting. He's sure that > he can get professional Linux staff for around 6-7K "bruto". (I'm not > talking about some person who just finished RHCE, he is looking for > someone who knows load balancing, scripts, deep server knowledge > etc..). Why he didn't check prior signing a contract with me getting > people with this amount of salary is beyond me. I know that I had to > quit due to his childish decisions and be left high and dry. It's not > that he wasn't satisfied with my work, it's that he wasn't satisfied > with the contract that he himself wrote and signed. Thats why I wrote > what I wrote. I expect that it was something quite different. Much more likely is that they either had money troubles, or they had staffing problems and wanted to hire someone who wanted the extra money. They figured you would take the cut, and if you did not, they would live with whomever they could get at the salary. Each month they did not fill the job, they would "make do" and save the money. Quite possibly, they budgeted salaries and expenses at 4.25 NIS to the dollar, got their funding in dollars and found that it was now 30% short. I'm sorry that you had to go through the emotional roller coaster but in the end you are well rid of them. 95% of all startups fail, 75%-85% of them in the first year, and this is just one of the reasons. The statistics the government publishes are skewed because they only count startups that make it to the point of incorportation or registering with the tax authorities. Lots of startups are funded privately and never get that far. I'm not sure how you could do it and not expose yourself to trouble, but you should let everyone know who the guy was and the name of his company, so that no one else falls for the same trap. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ot] Freedom of speech online + some more issues
Hi Geoff, > I expect that it was something quite different. Much more likely is that > they either had money troubles, or they had staffing problems and wanted > to hire someone who wanted the extra money. > > They figured you would take the cut, and if you did not, they would live > with whomever they could get at the salary. Each month they did not fill > the job, they would "make do" and save the money. > > Quite possibly, they budgeted salaries and expenses at 4.25 NIS to the > dollar, got their funding in dollars and found that it was now 30% short. Actually they had the money from VC's (around $700K) which isn't bad for a 4 people start-up. They already started to make some money. > I'm sorry that you had to go through the emotional roller coaster but in > the end you are well rid of them. 95% of all startups fail, 75%-85% of > them in the first year, and this is just one of the reasons. Emotional roller coaster? thinking about the work there right now, it was simply "written all over", and I should have connect the dots and see it coming. Want an example? I was given a simple task: create a backup/restore scripts. Nothing fancy, just create some tarballs, run it with cron with a command line parameter for debugging. Easy stuff, right? So I wrote it in bash, just like the other scripts were written. He didn't like that I use "grep" instead of "egrep". fine. modified the script. Now he wants it to be written in Perl. Fine, Perl it is. Then he wanted it to be written in PHP. Fine, I wrote it in PHP with libcurl for uploading/downloading. He doesn't like libcurl. Fine, I'll rewrite it without libcurl. Ah, but libcurl can give you the HTTP status (200,300 you know..), rewrite with libcurl and add parameters for more verbose output. See what I mean? A damn simple job to create backup/restore had to be written 4 times because he couldn't decide on one way or letting me decide what to write and with what to write. Thats why I wrote what I wrote the first time. If your boss is acting like a child when he needs to make decisions, then this should be a sign for a potential employee. Personally, I like to laugh a lot and making stupid things, I have strong political opinions, and I even do some "research" on mysticism, and I write a blog about these things. I leave all of this behind me when I work. I'll be happy to talk to friends at work about mystic or political stuff when we're eating out or when we finished working at the end of the day, but I will NOT mix my agenda's with my work. Few months ago, I wrote a post about a biologist who was fired because he believed in creationism. You might be interested in reading it: http://benhamo.info/wp/?p=314 > I'm not sure how you could do it and not expose yourself to trouble, > but you should let everyone know who the guy was and the name of his > company, so that no one else falls for the same trap. I prefer not to name names. Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: choice of provisioning server?
Ira, xcat now went through major changes, and its now under EPL and hosted at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/ Though, xcat1.3 ( based on the old version) is still there. Tomer Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Beware of Tivoli Provisioning stuff.. > > I spend few days with it, and with CentOS 5 (and 4.x). It sucks. > really bad. (I haven't tried the latest version which came 3 months > ago though). It craps the network config files, xorg.conf files etc.. > > Thanks, > Hetz > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Noam Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I must agree here with Ohad. I have been using Puppet in my last 3 projects >> at 3 different customers. >> I do consider Puppet as a provisioning service, as I can provision with it >> practically everything: >> 1. Configuration files >> 2. Packages (rpms / debs / solaris pkgs) >> 3. UNIX accounts (users / passwords / groups) >> 4. Everything you can just imagine. >> It is highly customizable and very robust (gee.. what a bunch of buzz words, >> but i do agree with them here). >> With every project I have deployed I learned new features of puppet and >> developed a bigger appreciation for the product. >> >> Regarding the kickstart part, Cobbler is a nice tool, which I can also >> recommend, but personally I just prefer "vanilla" kickstart, as I have >> better control over it (atleast, that's how I feel) and I already have a >> template ks.cfg profile and post install script which I carry with me from >> one place to another. Once I get to the post install scripts, I deploy a >> puppet client, and let it do the rest of the job. >> >> - Noam >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Ohad Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Checkout Cobbler. >>> >>> Puppet is a great tool, you might want to use it if you manage a lot of >>> >> servers... >> >>> Ohad >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Ira Abramov >>> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Quoting Marc A. Volovic, from the post of Mon, 31 Mar: > poppet > Thanks. Took me 5 minutes to discover it's spelled Puppet, and 20 more of reading through all the FAQs and manuals to realize it does management, not provisioning. I'll make it clearer: I'm looking for a product that will allow me to remote-install blades and tower machines via PXE from a smart kickstart or other type of image server. Management after provisioning is a bonus, not a must. Thanks, Ira. -- Gzunda the desk Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >> > > > > = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnucash annual reports for Israel
Hi list, It's that time of year again (for submitting fiscal reports). This year I have everything under gnucash though! I was wondering what is the best way to file the reports to the accountant. Assuming he does not know or care about the software - What reports should I create and send to him? I know Gnucash reports are US oriented, and have no idea which ones apply to Israel. Thanks, -- Yuval Hager [T] +972-77-341-4155 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bluetooth support under linux.
I have a cheap bluetooth USB dongle. It was made by ISSC and is called an ISSCBTM. Under Windows I get a nice bluetooth icon in my system tray, and a GUI to use it to discover nearby devices. Under Linux, I can't see a thing. Unfortunately the only actual bluetooth peripheral I have at the moment is a cell phone which belongs to my wife and is with her. I looked for the dongle and found it in /proc/bus/usb/devices. It seems to be there and have drivers loaded, but I'm not sure. Is there any bluetooth gui which includes device support and discovery? I'm running Fedora 8. To complicate things, the computer is somewhere else, and I am connecting with VNC (I can use a remote X session if need be), so I can't unplug it and see what happens. Thanks in advance, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnucash annual reports for Israel
If we are at this subject, can anyone, who has experience with using GNUCash in Israel, write an HOWTO about configuring GNUCash to meet the needs for micro-business accounting in Israel? Sample questions: 1. How to set up things so that VAT will be automatically calculated and credited to a VAT account? 2. How to get the accounts notarized (or whatever) by a CPA? --- Omer On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 09:07 +0300, Yuval Hager wrote: > Hi list, > > It's that time of year again (for submitting fiscal reports). This year I > have > everything under gnucash though! > > I was wondering what is the best way to file the reports to the accountant. > Assuming he does not know or care about the software - What reports should I > create and send to him? I know Gnucash reports are US oriented, and have no > idea which ones apply to Israel. -- "Kosher" Cellphones (cellphones with blocked SMS, video and Internet) are menace to the deaf. They must be outlawed! (See also: http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/2006/04/21/the-grave-danger-to-the-deaf-from-kosher-cellphones/) My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
