Re: [Haifux] Open Source Graphic Design - Discussion

2016-01-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
d: If you're using a tool that only has community > support, and resolving a bug involves undetermined amount of time, it > is a "no go" situation. > The training often costs more than license, so called "invisible" > cost: less training = less downtime, more val

Re: [Haifux] The Heartbeat vulnerability in OpenSSL (and hence ssh/https)

2014-04-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:17:45PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: [Haifux] The Heartbeat > vulnerability in OpenSSL (and hence ssh/https)": > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 02:20:17PM +0300, Sorana Fraier wrote: > >

Re: [Haifux] The Heartbeat vulnerability in OpenSSL (and hence ssh/https)

2014-04-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
OpenBSD CVS. This is the only example I can think of of a project switching from Git to CVS. Though we had OpenOffice switching from Mercurial to Subversion when moving to Apache. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mut

Re: [Haifux] The Heartbeat vulnerability in OpenSSL (and hence ssh/https)

2014-04-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
se it's being avoided for the sake of not supplying the > almost-finished attack to script kiddies. SSH is safe from this - it does not use this mechanism. Its protocol is different.Likewise is GPG is safe from this bug as it is built with GnuTLS. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber

Re: [Haifux] amd64

2013-12-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
that in turn don't have amd64 version ? Maybe they just want to release a single package. i386 works on both i386 and amd64 (x86_64), but not the other way around. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tza

Re: [Haifux] mailing list to facebook

2013-07-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
list .haifux/ (saves mail messages in the maildir haifux). If I wanted to pipe it to a script: :0c * ^List-Id: Haifa Linux Club mailing list | path/to/my/script with params As an example script: here's an email -> XMPP (Jabber) convertor script: http://www.ladro.com/jabber/jsmtp.h

Re: [Haifux] [JOB OFFER] VB Developer needed in Univ. of Haifa

2013-07-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
; > interesting project. > > VB as in "Virtually-Broken" -- no? I thought he meant VirtualBox, given the list. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf

Re: [Haifux] Command-line tips meeting: A rough summary

2013-01-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:09:19PM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > netstat -a -n -p Deprecated in recent years. Try 'ss' instead (similar switches. Slightly different and better defaults). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: [Haifux] Oops your system with plain malloc()

2012-05-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
t;bug fixes only" but I understand there is no such around > at the moment. What I call a vintage kernel. You obviously have a beefy system with memory to spare. You obviously don't really care rebooting it. The logical conclusion: build some kernels and test it. Grab a kernel tree, se

Re: [Haifux] Something fun and geeky to read

2012-05-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:12:01PM +0300, boazg wrote: > also, the black perl > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl http://www.ioccc.org/1990/westley.c - Charlie and Charlotte Other entried from the IOCCC could be useful. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM i

[Haifux] Plover for fast typing [was: Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE] Maqaf Hataf Patakh - The new standard Hebrew keyboard layout by Amir E. Aharoni]

2012-01-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
The fast typing method that was mentioned at the meeting is "Plover". See: http://ploversteno.org/ http://opensource.com/life/11/12/open-source-changes-face-stenography-and-possibilities-hearing-impaired -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzaf

[Haifux] coding guidelines

2012-01-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
kernel ones[1] are sane enough. The kernel folks also bothered writing a small script to check for most of them (checkpatch.pl). What would you recommend for coding guidelines for PHP and shell? [1] http://kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org

Re: [Haifux] The Wiki Workshop tomorrow

2011-09-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
nts will then write, rewrite or expand an article of their > choice. The following list is presented as an option: ר' גם: http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%AA הקטגוריה "תוכנה חופשי

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX MEETING] Wiki-Workshop with Tomer Ashur

2011-09-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
n opportunity for you > to contribute both to promoting FOSS and free content, even if you > cannot physically attend. What do you mean? > > > > We meet in Taub (CS Faculty) building, room 6. For instructions see: > http://www.haifux.org/wher

Re: [Haifux] Running 32 bit applications (Firefox?) on 64 bit machines

2011-08-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ore than 4GB of memory space. And this is far from being the only program. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|| friend

Re: [Haifux] Running 32 bit applications (Firefox?) on 64 bit machines

2011-08-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
now got to the stage of being useful enough to actually confuse users. So we'll just have to wait and see. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|

Re: [Haifux] No Poetry Today

2011-08-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 02:33:08PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 10:43:16AM +0300, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 02:37:32PM +0300, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda w

Re: [Haifux] No Poetry Today

2011-08-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 10:43:16AM +0300, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 02:37:32PM +0300, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > Orr writes poetry, > > > I am not in the mood. > >

Re: [Haifux] No Poetry Today

2011-08-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 10:43:16AM +0300, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 02:37:32PM +0300, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > Orr writes poetry, > > > I am not in the mood. > >

Re: [Haifux] No Poetry Today

2011-08-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
apper: Someone who knows what we actually need to chart (and what we don't have to / shouldn't) A team should probably include 1-3 other participants. After finishing to cover an area, the team should move on to a place with an internet access and update the data. [1] http://www.openstreet

Re: [Haifux] When was the last time you have given a talk @ Haifux?

2011-05-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 01:42:39PM +0300, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > Most problematic. > We cannot access chats in that floor. Looks like an interesting chalange. Is it possible to hook up any Linux laptop to the network there? Never mind the main display for now. -- Tzafrir

[Haifux] עבודה: מפתח לינוקס במשרה מלאה

2011-03-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
, נא לפנות אלי. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|| friend ___ Haifux mailing

Re: [Haifux] some additions and eratta to today's lecture

2011-03-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
rt summary: someone of the Linaro project (Linux on ARM) looks into the matter only to discover those devices are heavily tuned for using FAT32 as the file system. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.or

Re: [Haifux] Public Domain Day event - January 5th, HaifaU

2011-01-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
get it working on my laptop as a separate login. Not all it working, but there are some interesting things. * Show yesterday's eclipse in Stellarium (I may or may not be able to attend) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Creative Commons Licenses - Dalit Ken-Dror - Part II

2010-12-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
s/osd [3] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html [4] http://opensource.org/licenses/ [5] http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#GNUFreeDocumentationLicense.28FDL.29 -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's

Re: [Haifux] Router question

2010-10-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
few days to make the git protocol work properly. Don't expect them to actually admit it. Expect those "network oddities" to "resolve themselves". -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf..

Re: [Haifux] Kernel for Fedora: Repository or vanilla?

2010-09-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
o you, reconsider. > Distibutions that you wanted (3-5 years between major upgrades) have > around 1K patches :-O One alternative to that is the target 'binrpm-pkg' for your own kernel tree? make menuconfig # or oldconfig, whatever make binrpm-pkg Anybody use

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Packaging in Debian - Ohad Lutzky

2010-08-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
t on September 13th is still vacant! This could be YOUR > talk. Don't miss the opportunity! (I'm not sure I can make such a lecture. Anybody?) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: [Haifux] Lecture proposal: Packaging in Debian

2010-08-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
o > build packages, how to build repositories, how to version-control the whole > thing by example of git, as well as a short overview of the extensive > documentation available on the subject. Slightly related: anybody need their PGP keys signed? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@j

Re: [Haifux] Haifux is a candidate for Hamakor Prize

2010-08-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
L at the same time :-) Kudos to the Blogli folks who ended up first in that category. You missed a nice event. I hope to see you there next year. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf.

Re: [Haifux] Haifos?

2010-04-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
hat we're talking about Free (*Libre*) OSS, and may confuse people to thing we're talking about freebies. Thus the name should be HaiFLOSS. And the homepage should be green. Gah, this thread should have been a week ago. Like http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/969355 .

Re: [Haifux] Kernel oops, so what?

2010-01-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
fussy) Two arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c? (the path from the message) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend __

Re: [Haifux] Kernel oops, so what?

2010-01-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
on. If a kernel thread existed unexpectedly and left some resources in use, you may have a problem recovering. > > Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:390 > > hpet_next_event+0x5c/0x81() (Not tainted) But as Muli already noted, this is a warning,

Re: [Haifux] cat-like command

2009-12-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ote2f_defconfig has: # CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN is not set CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y (I just got one such laptop. Looks nice, though the included software could be improved. They seem to be making an effort and I see quite a few changesets from @lemote.com addresses in 2.6.33) OTOH, you can buy a used Mac/Po

Re: [Haifux] FOSS/Proprietary Debate

2009-11-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
? Note that this question mostly ignores moral aspects. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 |

Re: [Haifux] How come Haifux isn't listed in linux.org's LUG listing?

2009-11-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:50:02PM +0200, Tzafrir Rehan wrote: > http://www.linux.org/groups/israel.html > > No Haifux :( http://www.linux.org/groups/ mentions you should contact the webmaster to add your group. I just did. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VI

Re: [Haifux] [W2L Event] Monday 9/11, 18:30: FOSS Philosophy

2009-11-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
k them to come to a regular clum meeting. Once this is done, use standard trolling precedure to invoke a discussion :-) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best

Re: [Haifux] [HELP HELP] Uses of Linux in the "real world"

2009-10-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:51:37AM +0200, guy keren wrote: > linksys wireless routers are linux-based machines. Some of them. Some aren't. E.g. WRT54G (later versions) vs. WRT54GL -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mut

Re: [Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + "Linux guru"

2009-10-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
e alternative is SVN or another centralized system. If you just use files, you have no problems working offline. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: [Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + "Linux guru"

2009-10-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
git-over-ssh repositories. Alternatively you can also use the http method to provide a public repository off t2 from your homepage :-) (Just make sure to 'chown +x .git/hooks/post-update' At least here - Debian Lenny - this makes a repository run the required git-update-server-info)

Re: [Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + "Linux guru"

2009-10-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
semester, the memory leaks are > checked in Matam (Introduction to Systems Programming) course and 1 > point is reduced for each leak. The check is done automatically, > using, guess what, valgrind. So the students in Matam actually care > very much about the memory leaks. ... which are de

[Haifux] OT: yes, I do want duplicates

2009-10-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Slightly off-topic, but: I noticed that messages from the recent discussion were only coming into my INBOX and not into my haifux folder. Fix: logging into the mailman web interface and setting "Avoid duplicate copies of messages?" to "No". -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf

Re: [Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + "Linux guru"

2009-10-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
d version control systems make the common case of a repository for the project simple. Unlike Subversion, you don't need to set up a separate server. And it saves you a whole lot of time in saving ex1.c_1 , ex1.c_2, ex.c.orig and such. I think that demonstarting simple linear workflo

Re: [Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + "Linux guru"

2009-10-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ifux.org/lectures/182/ -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend ___ Haifux mail

Re: [Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + "Linux guru"

2009-10-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
mind: gcc make vi / vim gdb autotools emacs kdevelop eclipse (Just a list of tools from the top of my head, I don't intend to start a flame war on the exact content of a non-existing lecture) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: [Haifux] Idea: "Welcome to Open Source" instead of "Welcome to Linux" this year

2009-09-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:26:32PM +0300, Ohad Lutzky wrote: > I agree. "Welcome to Linux and FOSS" should be the name, and a short (no > more than 20 words) explanation of the name should preclude the event. Now try pronouncing that :-) It's not that short. -- Tzafrir

Re: [Haifux] Missing UDP statistics in recent distributions (RcvbufErrors, SndbufErrors)

2009-07-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
//archive.kernel.org/ -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend ___ Haifux mailing li

Re: [Haifux] Open call for projects by ISOC-IL

2009-07-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
/15/kzamir/mborla-voice-synth However Mbrola is in the "not exactly free" category. Don't you just love to have an ugly, metalic voice read your email with tons of funny errors? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

[Haifux] an OS for your PIC

2009-06-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
kilobytes of RAM and 40 kilobytes of ROM. (And it can even use IPv6) The second one appears to be a bit more posixish: http://nuttx.sourceforge.net/ -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.o

Re: [Haifux] Fun with timezones in Linux

2009-04-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
y input you might have. > http://blog.lutzky.net/2009/04/18/timezones-are-fickle/ > Many thanks! "Pure" timezones with no DST mess? TZ=GMT-3 date TZ=GMT-2 date Sure, there are many ways you can shoot yourself in the foot. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://

Re: [Haifux] "Windows-Free" laptops in Haifa

2009-02-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
r made some noise, because it got the message > through, that a computer can run something else than Windows. But as far > as I'm concerned, that's all there is to it. Which is why I advised to buy a laptop from those who don't bundle MS-Windows with it. -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: [Haifux] "Windows-Free" laptops in Haifa

2009-02-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
computer stores > with an unusual request. Asking to check the laptop for Linux > compatibility with a Live CD makes sense, but with all respect, I find > this struggle pointless. Unless you enjoy it, of course. You mean: asking them to do what Dell already does today in Israel (preload w

Re: [Haifux] "Windows-Free" laptops in Haifa

2009-02-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
not > interest them, and they said that they are not going to change anything > in this policy. Cheaper Dell models in Israel seem to be distributed with FreeDOS as an OS. Some Acer laptops are distributed with some Linux distribution (Linpus. Yeah, a distro iwth such a name really exists)

Re: [Haifux] The 10th tip?

2009-02-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
defaults to a posix shell (bash). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend __

Re: [Haifux] The 10th tip?

2009-02-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ת הקובץ, למשל באמצעות הפקודה הבאה: > > > gedit ~/.base_aliases sensible-editor $EDITOR -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ#

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-02-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 03:31:35PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > No Linux video player can play the Technion's video lecture files. Err... what format do they use there? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mut

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-02-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
not for real useful editing. I'm not really sure RTF files are more portable. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754

Re: [Haifux] The use of SSDL...

2009-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ny - unison and hevea are among those packages) > Software Verification: Again: what relevant tools? > Software Seminars. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ

Re: [Haifux] Linux Party

2009-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Main headache: To make > it work. Added bonus: make it able to run using a small qemu binary on the CD. I know this worked at least once, but not sure what's the status of that. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafr

Re: [Haifux] Haifux Digest, Vol 17, Issue 15

2009-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
in an SVN repository and check them out separately in each environment. You can create a simple SVN repository under your home directory and access it through file: or svn+ssh: . -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt&#x

Re: [Haifux] LINUX and SSDL

2009-01-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
y ideas on how I > > convince the computer to connect to the wireless before I logon? Prior to login or at login? At login: pam-mount (heard the name, never used it) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: [Haifux] lecture suggestion: gdb in greater depth

2009-01-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
much better version > control alternatives have been available, and was answered that it was mostly > due to inertia. gdb has its share of bugs, and I'd like to improve it, so > it's > a shame that I still have to face this obstacle. searching for: gdb git seems to give a f

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:26:32AM +0200, Eyal Rozenberg wrote: > Bravo Zvi! > > What was the reason not to go to court, though? I mean, I don't suppose > you needed the 550 so badly... :-) Sure he does: http://www.hamakor.org.il/content/view/41/51/ ;-) -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
charge. * On higher end Dell models this is no longer the case. XP professions or Vista professional seem to be the base standard there. * Computers of most other vendors don't seem to have a similar "NO OS" option. And while I'm at it: http://zap.co.il/model.aspx?mo

Re: [Haifux] Why open source

2008-11-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
27;m just making up numbers). It will encourge spamming projects, and it will create a conflict between the vaqrious developers for who gets how much ("that's not fair. He's getting 5c and I get nothing!"). > Messing around with licences and selling software seems like a waste

Re: [Haifux] Why open source

2008-11-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ons. > what is left for the developer? > > Is there someone who can give a lecture on the subject? > Are there more people interested in the subject? -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mu

Re: [Haifux] Multi-thread debugging for C++ on Linux

2008-11-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
y even less "connected" before the NPTL change in Linux 2.6 . But then again, most of us don't need to care about Linux 2.4 and older... -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [Haifux] W2L + Installation party?

2008-09-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ter on. So maybe dedicate a "support corner" on each club meeting? -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] || best ICQ# 16849754 |

Re: [Haifux] UBUNTU instalation

2008-09-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
s. Recall that the D-I system already install security updates at system install time, as they use apt to install packages. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] || best ICQ# 1684975

Re: [Haifux] UBUNTU instalation

2008-09-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
xactly sure about the Ubuntu installer. But in the Debian installer: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en#preseed-pkgsel -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Haifux] More information about latest OpenSSL/OpenSSH/OpenVPN vulnerabilities?

2008-05-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
he thread) And you actually believe everything they write on Slashdot? (That is to say: no decent references over there) -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [Haifux] Journalized filesystem question

2008-02-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
this should only happen due to bugs Or due to a physical damage to the disk. > and should be extremely rare. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] || best IC

Re: [Haifux] Simulated permissions on VFAT

2008-02-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
er archivers? Any archiver that preserves unix permissions (like tar) but allows in-place changing (like zip and uncompressed tar)? -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [Haifux] Lecture proposal : how Ethernet works ?

2008-02-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
No sniffing of the network allowed (at lecture time)? So it's not as fun. I guess that the alternatuve is to build our own network for demonstrations. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [Haifux] Security issues in Linux

2006-05-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
One small point that still bothers me: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:22:18AM +0300, Michael Vasiliev wrote: > For the less security aware, there is the kernel support for hardware > generators on the motherboard in the current kernel that is about as hard to > get as running "make menuconfig" and

Re: [Haifux] Security issues in Linux

2006-05-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:44:54AM +0300, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > Nahum shalom, > > thanks for the information. > > However, next time, please consider sending us all the link instead the > PDF. > Seems to have been published two monthes ago: http://www.gutterman.net/blog/2006/03/new_paper_onl

Re: [Haifux] text editors

2005-12-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
7; at the bottom and the content appears to have remained the same. so let's turn it into a "mixed" file: let's edit-away just the \r on line 2: sed -i -e '2s/\r//' file vim $file Now we see the ^M on line 1. Gettign rid of them all (inside vim): :%s/^M// To

Re: [Haifux] Accessing Mozilla mail files

2005-07-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
time > I'll access that folder. That's a headache. Interface with imap and store with your custom storage on the server? -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [Haifux] dvorak and hebrew

2005-06-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:25:44PM +0300, Michael Vasiliev wrote: > On Tuesday June 21 2005 00:24, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Hi > > > > To answer a question from the lecture: > > > > I haven't tried it myself, but frankly I can't see any conflict between &

[Haifux] dvorak and hebrew

2005-06-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
f you want to experiment with dvorak, don't forget that X's keymap and the console keymap are seperate. Be sure to configure both of them. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [Haifux] VoIP software (was: Re: [Haifux] [Job offer] Lead Developer (fwd))

2005-06-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
alup with an IAX client. The setup is still more complicated and the only well-compressed codec they support is non-free (g729), apart from the not very well compressed ulaw. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt'

Re: [Haifux] What encoding ?

2005-06-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:52:12PM +0300, Ron Artstein wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > >What mail client do you use? Is it pine 4.44 on Aix 4? Any more > >up-to-date mail client availble? (e.g: pine 4.5x, mutt 1.4/1.5) > > > >ISO-8859-8-i has

Re: [Haifux] What encoding ? -> [Haifux] [Fwd: Re: [ISO-8859-8-I]

2005-06-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
cters as ISO-8859-8, but implies logical ordering of characters. ISO-8859-8 in mail-web implies visual ordering, which is generally a bad idea. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

[Haifux] [JobOffer] support a mail server

2004-12-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi I'm looking for someone to provide support for a small to meduim size mail server on my Kibbutz's LAN. Please contact me for further details: mobile: 050-7952506 icq: 16849755 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tzafrir Cohen +---

Re: [Haifux] Editing a pdf file?

2004-10-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
You won't loose much converting back and forth between those two. However postscript is much a much nicer plain text format. There are probably more and better tools to manipulate it, and better documentations of it. So just skip the xfig bit. --

Re: [Haifux] /etc/fstab

2004-09-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ming that your locale settings are sane) It is also advised that you change the '1' there to '2' , or even to '0' . This is the priority of fsck checking at boot time. -- Tzafrir Cohe

[Haifux] Re: Microsoft registered a patent for switching between links via the 'Tab' key

2004-09-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
cus shape. This patent is thus exteremly easy to bypass. Thus I suspect that this claim and claim 6(e) were added to bypass existing prior art. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+

Re: [Haifux] xkb, Hebrew and caps lock

2004-08-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
t; or its xorg.conf equivalent. > > > -- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Tzafrir Cohen +--

Re: [Haifux] rpm segfault

2004-04-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 05:53:42PM +0200, Maor Meir wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:45:07PM +0200, Maor Meir wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am running mandrake 8.1, and practicly anything I do with rpm > &

Re: [Haifux] rpm segfault

2004-04-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ess bars", as it uses rpm -[iU]vh to install packages. > > what does urpmi do diffrently? > how does one debug rpm? (I would rather avoide compiling rpm with debug > symbols and debugging it as one of my own) Two useful tracing tools: strace, rpm -vv -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: [Haifux] License of Haifux lectures

2004-02-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
use code snippents from the lecture slides/notes in my free program? And specifically: can I use them in a GPL-ed program? The GFDL has such an issue. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[E

Re: [Haifux] Latex + prosper

2004-01-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
etex-french(no description available) pn tetex-latex-he (no description available) pn tetex-lib (no description available) pn tetex-nonfree (no description available) ii prosper1.00.4-4

Re: [Haifux] [OT] Hebrew HTML guide

2003-12-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
etc), but I wasn't able to find a > way to convert these characters to Hebrew. What I needed and didn't > have was a UTF-8 > Latin-1 filter. Why not simply convert: uniconv --encode ISO-8859-1 |iconv --decode ISO-8859-8 -- Tzafrir Cohen +-

Re: [Haifux] static link with glibc2.2 segfaults on systems with glibc 2.3

2003-12-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
using a different libc altogether (uClibc for producing the ultimatly static busybox) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best fri

Re: [Haifux] Re: failed dependencies...

2003-11-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
t; > I's be glad if you'd be able to help me.. > > BTW, right after the initial installation, my gnome panel crashed and will > > not reopen... > > also, i'm unable to do the "rpm --rebuilddb" action on account of the error > >

Re: [Haifux] rpm, install only what you can?

2003-11-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
ther things. Otherwise I may install only part of the required packages for the upgrade I want. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a m

Re: [Haifux] Hebrew LaTeX-generated PDFs in Acrobat Reader

2003-11-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
recent snapshot from http://iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/HebLatex/ Hebrew should then default to postscript fonts (Culmus), and should look well on PDF. As for the rest: I don't recall, sorry. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~t

Re: [Haifux] Resizing NTFS problem

2003-10-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
(?) of knoppix 3.2 (22-9). qtparted seemed to have some problems with that partition. (and of course: resizing the filesystem is only the first stage. One has to be careful later when resizing the partition itself). -- Tzafrir Cohen mai

Re: [Haifux] recomendations for free format presentation creators

2003-10-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
t; pstricks, both of which are supported by dvips. I think that there's something called pdftricks > I've been told > that prosper depends on pstricks so it doesn't work with PDFLaTeX. It is being actively used with pdflatex, AFAIK. But so far I haven't got ar

Re: [Haifux] Idea from last meeting

2003-06-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
s there a need for a "Haifux-specific" list? - e.g.: topic specific for Technion or HaifaU students - questions after the lectures > > As you can guess, I think this might cuase confusion, but if 6 people will > approach and would

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