Re: [Haifux] Something fun and geeky to read

2012-05-09 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
Mel the programmer? http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > Write in C: > http://www.lyrics007.com/Anonymous%20Lyrics/Write%20In%20C%20Lyrics.html > > What about that story about the guy who used the cyclic memory to make the

Re: [Haifux] Google Street View party?

2011-08-23 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
I work at Google, will try to let you know (if I'm allowed) On Aug 23, 2011 10:17 AM, "Chaim Kutnicki" wrote: > It looks like Google Street View will be permitted in Israel: > http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3528992,00.html?dcRef=ynet > > Perhaps we could prepare a 'party' fo

Re: [Haifux] Job Offer: AMD

2011-06-24 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
I suggest you try to apply to the job and see if you really are automatically filtered (assuming you are otherwise qualified. With that data you'll be in a better position to send the word fuck to a mailing list and provoke flame wars. On Jun 24, 2011 1:15 PM, "Shlomi Fish" wrote: > Hi all, > >

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

2011-05-05 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
Is the wifi http only, or port 80 only? If it's the latter (I doubt the technion does deep packet inspection) we can setup a server somewhere with an sshd on port 80 and tunnel our troubles away. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > This is exactly the problem. The wifi

Re: [Haifux] My own posts to the list

2011-01-24 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
Just out of curiosity, how does DNS prevent a message from going through? On Jan 24, 2011 3:58 PM, "Shachar Shemesh" wrote: > On 24/01/11 12:39, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> For some reason, I am not getting my own posts to the list. I don't >> know how it is when opening a new thread

Re: [Haifux] Refreshments

2011-01-06 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
r members is nice. however i don't like the idea of > bribing people to show up at haifux. the club is by us, for us. we have > different platforms to spread the word. i therefore oppose the chipping in > on principle. > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 14:22, Tzafrir Rehan wrote: >

Re: [Haifux] Refreshments

2011-01-06 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Tzafrir Rehan wrote: > >> You'd be surprised how many students will show up once the sign says "Free >> Refreshments". >> >> We need to think about ways to actively lure them into the room once >> they're done eating f

Re: [Haifux] Refreshments

2011-01-06 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
You'd be surprised how many students will show up once the sign says "Free Refreshments". We need to think about ways to actively lure them into the room once they're done eating free food. (I used to administer a shared calendar named "Free food in the technion" dedicated to such events) On Thu

Re: [Haifux] Linux Newbie, enjoyed first meeting

2010-08-18 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
This is amazing, thank you so much for taking these notes! On Aug 18, 2010 11:08 PM, "Tom Balazs" wrote: > Hi, > > This week was my first Haifux meeting (I'm new to Linux too) and I enjoyed > it. Thank you to Tzafrir. During the meeting I wrote down some links. I > thought I'd pass them on to you

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

2010-08-16 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
fux 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 > web doc

Re: [Haifux] SVN quota

2010-01-18 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
Maybe there is a way to have an ssh server which will always run quota and exit before starting the user's shell? That way SSHing into the server will never let a user do anything but knowing his quota. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Maxim Kovgan wrote: > I think there is a problem to run the

Re: [Haifux] reading electric current registers on CPU

2009-12-28 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
Did you have a look at powertop? It's code might have relevant ideas. On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Mark Silberstein wrote: > Friends, > > I'm trying to find the way for the user-level program to read the electric > current sensor of a CPU to compute its power consumption (given vCore it > sh

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

2009-11-10 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
http://www.linux.org/groups/israel.html No Haifux :( ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux

[Haifux] My slides from today's talk

2009-11-04 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dd2pmx44_494dp837jg9 Please link to it from haifux.org . I had a great time talking, I hope the students enjoyed as well. -- Tzafrir. ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mail

Re: [Haifux] advanced of programming in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
IBM laptops usually have the useful pageup and pagedown way far up the keyboard, and the usually useless "Next" and "Previous" near the arrow keys. In Linux it takes two lines of xmodmap to map those keys to pageup and pagedown. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Shahar Dag wrote: > Hello all > >

Re: [Haifux] advanced of programming in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
Some short scripts I wrote: Download a website every 5 minutes and send me a email if it changed (used when waiting for grades in physics) - Windows doesn't have a method of downloading a file, doesn't have a method of sending emails, doesn't have a method of comparing files - In linux this took

Re: [Haifux] Open Source Games or the Lack of Them

2009-09-19 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Oron Peled wrote: > On Friday, 18 בSeptember 2009 16:50:38 Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Since a typical game nowadays costs a lot of money to develop, and > requires > > the collaboration of many people, it seems unlikely that we will see many > > open-source games tha

Re: [Haifux] save my Linux

2009-06-09 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
I'm getting a feeling that ubuntu's 7.10 end-of-life is actually a cause for some of this mess. The lack of gutsy folders at http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/ may have made the upgrade die in an unexpected way. On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > Hi Zohar, > > I

Re: [Haifux] Who will come to a lecture about profile guided optimization in GCC?

2009-06-02 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
If it's newbie friendly enough, I'll come, and if it appeals to 2nd year students, I'll try to convince a few friends to show up as well. On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Tal Abir wrote: > I will come. > > 2009/6/2 Shachar Shemesh > >> Hi all, >> >> I know this approach is extremely non standar

Re: [Haifux] Technion's PDP-11 Simulator

2009-03-29 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
I also faced that problem at my 2nd semester. The course staff told me that there is some sort of work on a new simulator, that will also run on linux. You'll have to wait for that to happen, which will probably be after both of us graduate. Also, notice that some of the PDP11 simulator executab

Re: [Haifux] The 10th tip?

2009-02-07 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
I'd add something about the typing break feature - one of the lesser known features of gnome. Enable it in Keyboard preferences, and if you type for X minutes without stopping, it will force you to take a break. Sounded very ridiculous when I first saw it, but I once tried it and it actually is qu

[Haifux] Using apt to make a "student" ubuntu distribution

2009-01-28 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
I'm having this idea in my head, of creating an apt repository, which contains a dummy package that depends on all the packages that we recommend students to install right after installing ubuntu. Then all we need to give students is the simple instructions as to how to add that repository to apt

Re: [Haifux] Virtual Box\Machine

2009-01-28 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
While that 8.04.1 disk will work, it is probably better to burn a new 8.04.2 disk (released this week), to reduce the amount of post-install updates necessary. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Yossi Gil wrote: > Hi. The Pizza/Softdrinks party will not run "formal" installation, but > there is no

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-01-26 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
> > And of course, I side with Eli regarding using a flexible tool chain, such > that everyone may mix and match. An editor can be anything which can > syntax-highlight and indent properly (nano/pico do not count, neither does > textpad) > I somehow feel the need to defend nano: set autoindent

Re: [Haifux] [CALL FOR LECTURE] R programming Language

2009-01-12 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
That link is for registered users only. Wikipedia link for the benefit of the lazy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language) On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > Hi all, > > "To some people R is just the 18th letter of the alphabet. To others, it's > the r

Re: [Haifux] W2L + Installation party?

2008-09-20 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
> I can step up for a November lecture, after Moed B and Miluim. > > But I myself am curious, what can users do with point and click in > Linux that they cannot do with point and click in Windows? Serious > question. > Lets start a list, everyone throw what they notice once in a while: - Pausing

Re: [Haifux] W2L + Installation party?

2008-09-17 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
> > One additional point - almost all of the linux adoptation I've seen in the > Technion works like this: People see it, use it for a course, avoid it for a > (geometrically distributed) while, then decide to install it (by themselves. > All of the adopters I've seen are perfectly capable of perfo

Re: [Haifux] GIMP workshop(s): Any interest?

2008-09-11 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Eli Billauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > > I'm sure that most of you are aware of the existence of GIMP (The GNU > Image Manipulation Program) which is the free software's answer to > Photoshop (and for once, not an attempt to clone it). > > > I ha

Re: [Haifux] Idea for lecture: connecting to HOT / 012 without a router

2008-06-17 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
That's ISP territory, they should know what you're talking about. Use MPLS and חיבור ישיר ללא חייגן. 2008/6/18 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/6/18 Hai Zaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You do not need modem IP address. You just plug your (network) modem > > to, say, eth0 configure it to us

Re: [Haifux] Idea for lecture: connecting to HOT / 012 without a router

2008-06-17 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
Mine's a thomson modem and it works past the router, but maybe that's because I'm connected with a DHCP connection (no dialer). On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/18 Tzafrir Rehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Try ht

Re: [Haifux] Idea for lecture: connecting to HOT / 012 without a router

2008-06-17 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
Try http://192.168.100.1/ On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/17 Hai Zaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Last time I've checked pptp worked fine for bezeqint and zahav. > > But with Hot you've got even better solution - direct connection > > (le-lo haigan)

Re: [Haifux] Idea for lecture: connecting to HOT / 012 without a router

2008-06-17 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
Voting for the pptp packages to be on the ubuntu CD should also help this cause: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6961/ props dave -- Tzafrir On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have several people interested in having Kubuntu installed on their > c

Re: [Haifux] Idea for lecture: connecting to HOT / 012 without a router

2008-06-17 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
Most ISPs will let you have that solution (they (mistakenly?) call it MPLS) where they associate your modem's MAC address to the ISP, and you can use normal DHCP, I've always had it and will never agree for anything else. Some ISPs though either refuse to give you that service, or charge extras fo

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

2008-05-16 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
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Re: [Haifux] More information about latest OpenSSL/OpenSSH/OpenVPN vulnerabilities?

2008-05-13 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
2008/5/14 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/5/13 Tzafrir Rehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-1 > > http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-2 > > http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-3 > > > > I like how a bug in the ra

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

2008-05-13 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
2008/5/14 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/5/13 Tzafrir Rehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-1 > > http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-2 > > http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-3 > > > > I like how a bug in the ra

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

2008-05-13 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-3 I like how a bug in the random number generator caused this, I actually found some of my keys in the 100,000 lines blacklist. Does anyone have more information about this? -- Tzafrir. _

Re: [Haifux] Ctrl-c Ctrl-v behaviour when using hebrew keyboard on ubuntu/gnome

2008-03-05 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
g.cgi?id=69230> on > this. Well, turns out I just don't copy/paste enough in hebrew outside firefox. Checked on firefox 3, this is fixed, so thanks for clearing this out for me :) -- Tzafrir. > > > Regards, > Haggai > > On 05/03/2008, Tzafrir Rehan <[EMAI

[Haifux] Ctrl-c Ctrl-v behaviour when using hebrew keyboard on ubuntu/gnome

2008-03-05 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
When switched to hebrew keyboard locale on ubuntu/gnome, ctrl-c is not recognized, being ctrl-ב, and does not copy to clipboard. Does anyone know a good workaround for this? Thanks in advance, -- Tzafrir. ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org ht

Re: [Haifux] my talk on the 25th

2008-02-21 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
+1 interested On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Hai Zaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can give a lecture about initramfs. Here are the lecture topics: > * What happens between grub and init? > * pre-initrd era, initrd era, new, initramfs, era. > * Booting from various disks > * Finding your boot

Re: [Haifux] [Haifux Meeting] Crawling in Lightning

2008-02-09 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
xt, crawls a page every 15 seconds or so, and switches an IP address after a short while using anonymous proxies (also read: virus infected computers worldwide) then no program, or human, can know it's not a human surfing. -- Tzafrir Rehan. On Feb 10, 2008 8:47 AM, Shahar Dag <[EMAIL