Re: [Haifux] RFC: lecture ideas from Aviram Jenik

2003-06-09 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Even more interesting was the message "from" Orr praizing UML so religiously. When I first read that message I was in total shock. What!? Orr involved in a large project using UML!? Isn't Orr the crpthography guy!? Doesn't he have a thesis to work on!? Where did that sudden love to UML come from

Re: [Haifux] stack size

2003-06-19 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: [Haifux] stack size": > > You're doing something wrong. Huge data structures do not belong on the > > stack, which is by definition a small area used for temporary allocation > > of small things during

Re: [Haifux] ksyms as an indicator for existence in the kernel

2003-06-22 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Eli Billauer wrote: > I looked for some non-static function in quirks.c, and found > pci_fixup_devices. So off I went to the laptop which runs this kernel > and did: > > grep fixup /proc/ksyms > > and got nothing. For an identifier to appear in /proc/ksyms, it is not suff

Re: [Haifux] [MSG from Mark Silberstein] Sandboxing in linux

2003-06-24 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:53:24PM +0300, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I am looking for the solution to run application in sandbox. That is, I > > want to control everything the application is doing except of CPU and > > memory accesses.

RE: [Haifux] [MSG from Mark Silberstein] Sandboxing in linux

2003-06-24 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > I am probably of the mark because you probably know that, but chroot is a sandbox of > a shell. i am > not a linux programmer, but i think there are libraries for this chroot thing, so > maybe it will suit > your needs. also, maybe there are already p

RE: [Haifux] [FW for Amihai] Re: 'Hibernate' on Linux

2003-07-01 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Probably this link is better: http://sourceforge.net/projects/swsusp but I have absolutely no experience with it. Emil On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > I hope its joke because that link shows a java/sql software that has not

Re: [Haifux] Getting information about current process memoryconsumption

2003-07-28 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Eli Billauer wrote: > I think the solution lies in reading /proc/$pid/statm, where there is > info about memory usage. man proc for more details. getrusage() might also help. man getrusage Emil > > Eli > >

Re: [Haifux] birthday celebration.

2003-08-16 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
I might come as well. Emil -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Haifux] JVM

2003-10-06 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Hi Nahum, Goto Help->About Plugins and check whether the Java plugin is on. You have to see lots of mime types such as aplication/x-java, application/x-java-applet, etc handled by the plugin. Probably you will not see anything like this, meaning that the java plug-in is not loaded. In this case,

[Haifux] Re: FW: [Haifux] JVM

2003-10-07 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
--- > "The road to success is always under construction" (Jim Miller) > -------- > > > > -Original Message- > From: Kohn Emil Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:28 AM > To: Nahum Cohen > Cc: [EMA

Re: [Haifux] Resizing NTFS problem

2003-10-08 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Give PartitionMagic a try, if you can. I don't know how it works with XP, but at least with Windows 2000 It does make wonders ;-). Although not being free, I think it's an excellent piece of software. Emil On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Eli Billauer w

[Haifux] haifux site problem

2004-01-09 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Hello, I would like to report a small problem with the current haifux site. Since I do not know who is in charge of it, I will post on the list. My appologies. The problem is that the link to the USB ADSL modem driver is broken. Also I think that it's a good idea to place contact information of t

Re: [Haifux] haifux site problem

2004-01-10 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
> Hi Emil and all, > > The broken link is fixed now, thank you. > The contact address for the web page is > webmaster at haifux.org, and I added a line about it to the bottom of > every page. > > Orna. Thanks a lot, Emil

Re: [Haifux] /var/log/messages

2004-01-26 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Nahum Cohen wrote: > Hi, > > Where can I find information about the error messages in /var/log/messages ? > > > I get all kind of messages and I want to know what they mean. > > For example: > > Jan 19 23:38:58 nahum-x telnetd[24258]: ttloop: peer died: EOF > > Jan 19 23:38:

Re: [Haifux] Informative: Cellular internet / ttyS0 dead

2004-02-24 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello all. > > > co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 9600 vt100 > > And this is what I call annoying! For some reason that is beyond my > understanding, someone decided that my only COM port should be tied up > to doing logins. > During the good old day

Re: [Haifux] slides for shell lecture

2004-03-01 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Orna Agmon wrote: > thus the gnu FAQs are formed. It was the best answer there. > > > 19. in 'error redirection', the '>&' redirects both standard output AND > > standard error, while the '2>' in bash redirects ONLY the standard > > error. better mention that, or cha

Re: [Haifux] ADSL driver challenge

2004-06-25 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Alexander Kanevsky wrote: > Hi people, I am from the Tecnhnion and a newbie to Linux. Some people > told me that you can help me. I have mdk9.2, and a very common (at least > here in Israel) ADSL modem of Dynamode (DynaMiTe A360, Alcatel chipset, > but not speedtouch as far

[Haifux] Mandrake 10.1: missing g++

2004-10-08 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Hi all, As I understand you have decided to install Mandrake 10.1 Community Edition on the next InstaParty. I would like to point out a small annoying problem with this distribution: For some reason, they forgot to add the C++ compiler package! I have tried to install it, selected the Developmen

Re: [Haifux] Mandrake 10.1: missing g++

2004-10-08 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
++ Emil On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Kohn Emil Dan wrote: > Hi all, > > As I understand you have decided to install Mandrake 10.1 Community > Edition on the next InstaParty. > > I would like to point out a small annoying problem with this distribution: >

Re: [Haifux] C++ STL object

2005-07-07 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Hi, From the error message you receive, it seems that you are using Microsoft Visual C++, (so some haifux guys might rightfully ask you: "And your linux question is...";-) with a debug version of the runtime library and you are messing up the dynamic memory heap. As far as I know, the STL

[Haifux] Linux kernel books

2006-01-25 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Hi all, Maybe for some of you this is old news, but I just found out that there are new updated versions of the (IMO great) books "Understanding the Linux Kernel" and "Linux Device Drivers" (3rd edition, both covering the 2.6.X kernels). "Linux Device Drivers" is available online at: http://

Re: [Haifux] Help with new project under Linux.

2006-03-26 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Hi, You can find info about writing device drivers in Linux from the book "Linux Device Drivers (3rd Edition) " by Jonathan Corbet Alessandro Rubini. The book is freely downloadable from the Internet from: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3 Other books relevant to the Linux kernel are: "Linux Ker

Re: [Haifux] Asking for help with Cygwin.

2006-04-07 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Hi, Indeed unzip exists under cygwin, but it is not installed by default. IIIRC when you run the setup, you can choose to see all the packages sorted alphabetically. Then you check the unzip package (it is not checked by default). Emi

Re: [Haifux] Spamassasin 3.1.2 and Bayes filtering

2006-06-05 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Hi, Dunno what to say about this, fact is that there was a time (more or less the whole last year) during which I have almost never received any spam on my account on csd. Now the spam is back again. So it looks like the spam filter has been tricked again. Also there are lots of spam messages

Re: [Haifux] lecture proposal

2007-04-05 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
AFAIK the latest version of AIX (AIX 5L) is based on Linux (at least this is what I heard that the 'L' stands for), so I think that there is definitely a big connection with Linux and AIX if anyone cared about it. Other than that, I agree with Eli.

Re: [Haifux] My "Stop Using (and Teaching) C-Shell and Tcsh" Page

2007-10-19 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
> > I don't accept the "find isn't available on Windows", since MATAM is > UNIX-focused even regardless of shell scripting, plus I'm guessing > there's probably some find-like binary in Windows, just like > C:\Windows\System32\find.exe is a sort-of-a-grep. Right. A lousy approximation of find wo

Re: [Haifux] [hackers-il] My "Stop Using (and Teaching) C-Shell and Tcsh" Page

2007-10-20 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Oron Peled wrote: On Friday, 19 בOctober 2007, Shlomi Fish wrote: My problem with FISH is that... What? You of all people have a problem with FISH? Worse, even FISH himself ;-) [couldn't resist ;-] Neither. -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-

[Haifux] ELF executable program interpreter

2008-01-23 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Hi Shachar, In the last lecture I told you that the name of the interpreter for dynamically linked ELF files is stored inside the ELF file. Here is the relevant information: http://www.caldera.com/developers/devspecs/gabi41.pdf (the System V ABI) See the chapter "Dynamic Linking", section "Pr

Re: [Haifux] [SMALL PAID-HELP WORK OFFER] Latex Refinement

2009-06-03 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Hi, When I wrote my master thesis, I used LyX instead of plain LaTeX. I was very satisfied with the results, and I highly recommend her to use it. http://www.lyx.org One one hand LyX allows you to work at a "high level" (i.e. completely shielded from the intricacies of LaTeX), and on the ot

Re: [Haifux] Me Volunteering to Give a Presentation

2009-09-06 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Hi, I would like to hear a lecture on cmake. Regards, Emil On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, due to the lack of recent volunteer presenters in the open-source clubs, I decided to step forwa

Re: [Haifux] Kernel oops, so what?

2010-01-15 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Hi, IIRC in Linux an OOPS will not necessarily freeze the system (though this can be configured via some /proc entry or at compilation time). If an OOPS occurs in the context of a process, that process will be killed with a SEGFAULT, and the system will attempt to continue to work. Obviously f

Re: [Haifux] Kernel oops, so what?

2010-01-15 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Hi, The /proc entry I was talking about is /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_oops Emil On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Kohn Emil Dan wrote: > Hi, > > IIRC in Linux an OOPS will not necessarily freeze the system (though this > can be configured via some /proc

Re: [Haifux] Kernel oops, so what?

2010-01-15 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Eli Billauer wrote: > Thanks for your answers (on this one and on my other issues). > > I realize that the oops is still an oops, only nowadays nobody want to > stop the whole show, just because some kernel code misbehaved. If the > general idea is that the worst thing a ker

Re: [Haifux] Router question

2010-10-17 Thread Kohn Emil Dan
Hi, I am also connected to Bezeq Beinleumi (actually 'upgraded' to it after Actcom's demise). I have tried your gpg command, and I found IMO some interesting results. Doing an nslookup on subkeys.pgp.net reveals that this host has a number of IP addresses: $ nslookup Note: nslookup is dep