Re: [Haifux] The Bash vulnerability (shellshock)

2014-09-26 Thread guy keren
On 09/26/2014 12:30 PM, Eli Billauer wrote: env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c 'echo This is a test' you're too late - there's a (partial?) fix being distributed around... --guy ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailm

Re: [Haifux] planning our 15th anniversary?

2014-08-04 Thread guy keren
ggest rerunning lecture #1. Same speaker, same slides. Let's see if and how things have changed. ;) Eli On 03/08/14 20:47, guy keren wrote: in two-weeks time, haifux will be 15 years old, and i think we should celebrate that. anyone has a good idea they'd like to propose (besides bring

[Haifux] planning our 15th anniversary?

2014-08-03 Thread guy keren
in two-weeks time, haifux will be 15 years old, and i think we should celebrate that. anyone has a good idea they'd like to propose (besides bringing food or drinks to the normal meeting)? --guy ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hai

[Haifux] off-topic - oron peled - can you contact me please? [EOM]

2014-03-04 Thread guy keren
sorry for the noise, --guy ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Introduction to Flash Memory -- Leon Romanovsky

2013-01-07 Thread guy keren
the site is not meant for collaboration, and as such - does not need more engineering. [please don't bring your trolling here] --guy On 01/07/2013 10:16 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Orna, On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:52:10 +0200 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: It is room 6. Shlomi, or anyone else, i

[Haifux] my attempt for a new endeavour: debugging2day - Linux/C/C++-centric debugging methodologies online E-zine

2013-01-05 Thread guy keren
for want of a shorter name ;) i started this last year, then got a little lazy - and now that the world didn't come to an end, decided to give it a second go - and this time, even tell people about this :0 http://debugging2day.wordpress.com/ if anyone has comments, or has ideas or requests

Re: [Haifux] Is the risk real? (Was: New mail icon for Thunderbird over Gnome)

2012-05-13 Thread guy keren
at least in the past - the risk was real. when i first connected my computer to the internet via ADSL, and set up firewall rules - i was surprised to see that i get many (hundreads) of failed network connections from around the world. what people do, is run software that scans complete addre

[Haifux] lecture suggestion: "disk" storage media - state of the art in the enterprise world

2012-04-04 Thread guy keren
this is a: 1. very detailed-oriented talk. 2. no prior knowledge required. 3. not specific to linux. 4. not useful for home users - it all concentrates on enterprise systems. 5. second-hand knowledge (i.e. a lot of "someone told me" and "i heard that..." claims will be involved). 6. not goi

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

2011-08-20 Thread guy keren
because this is progress - to move to a 64-bit operating system, and running all the applications in 64-bit mode. mixing between 32-bit and 64-bit is not such a good idea. and why do you think firefox doesn't get above 1GB of RAM? on my system it currently takes 1.2GB of virtual memory (with 24

Re: [Haifux] Implementing read() like UNIX guys like it

2011-04-22 Thread guy keren
Hi Eli, i'm afraid you're trying to solve the "holy grail" of non-local files. you can't hold the pole on both sides. first - it does not seem that you have a notion of "end of file" for your input - is there? the only time when read is allowed to return 0, is when it reached end of file (for a

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

2011-03-21 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 14:26 +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011, guy keren wrote about "[Haifux] some additions and > eratta to today's lecture": > > > > 1. etzion asked about controlling the age of dirty pages before pdflush > >fl

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

2011-03-14 Thread guy keren
-date info about this in the book "the linux kernel, 3rd edition" - in the VFS chapter. --guy On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 01:35 +0200, guy keren wrote: > 1. etzion asked about controlling the age of dirty pages before pdflush >flushes them - the default value is 30 seconds, and ca

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

2011-03-14 Thread guy keren
1. etzion asked about controlling the age of dirty pages before pdflush flushes them - the default value is 30 seconds, and can be seen by: cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs (the time there is in milli-seconds). it can be changed by echoing the desired time into that file, e.g.

Re: [Haifux] CPU usage percentage doesn't add up

2011-02-25 Thread guy keren
tell him, when running 'top', to press '1' (so he'll see the CPU usage percentage for each core separately), and then to press 's1' - so the screen will refresh every second, instead of every 3 seconds. this might change what he sees. another thing - what does he call "CPU usage"? 'top' separate

Re: [Haifux] Lecture about PCI?

2011-02-15 Thread guy keren
"me too". are you sure a single lecture will suffice for these two topics (i.e. both hardware coverage, and PCI drivers coverage)? also, since the drivers coverage will probably assume basic knowledge of writing drivers, while the hardware thing can be interesting to non-kernel-programmers as wel

Re: [Haifux] Getting mouse buttons to work

2011-02-15 Thread guy keren
perhaps try to switch to a runlevel that does not have X window running. it could be that the X window code is competing for these events - and when you make tests, you don't want to have that. --guy On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 11:55 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:19, Yedidyah

Re: [Haifux] FOSS alternatives to an Access-based organizational software solution

2010-12-04 Thread guy keren
as a non-expert in this area, i will try to give you two cents and a penny ;) 1. regarding scaling the existing solution - i guess that switching the back-end to using SQL server will make it scale better. further, it might be possible to make a crude test of this without changing the entir

Re: [Haifux] Login console freezes: Eli's weekly riddle

2010-10-28 Thread guy keren
why not strace sshd and find what it's doing? log into the machine, then run a separate sshd under an alternate port , and under 'strace -f -o -tt -T', then see what strace shows you it is doing, and which operations are taking a long time (-tt gives a timestamp for each syscall invocatio

Re: [Haifux] Router question

2010-10-16 Thread guy keren
you should have a traceroute-line utility that runs on TCP ports of your choice. for example, tcptraceroute. see an explanation here: http://christophe.vandeplas.com/2007/11/04/using-traceroute-icmp-and-tcp --guy Ohad Lutzky wrote: > traceroute is ICMP. I'm having trouble with specific ports

Re: [Haifux] Orientation Day at the Technion

2010-10-14 Thread guy keren
are we talking about a replay of "staying in linux", or something similar? --guy Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > Hi All, > > Summary of the day: > > There was no need to stand in the sun - there are huge trees! > Five people manned the stand at the peak hour (Boaz, Eli, Evgeny, me and > two-mo

Re: [Haifux] טרמפ למפגש בטכניו ן מזכרון יעקב

2010-10-12 Thread guy keren
i am not from zichron (and i'm not sure there are people from there coming to haifux meetings) - but it might help if you'll give more details of the car required (i.e. enough space to put your wheel chair in, i suppose?). by the way - anyone knows if taub building is properly accesible withou

Re: [Haifux] Where were the organizers?

2010-05-10 Thread guy keren
hi orr, it will be a good idea to add this info to lecture announcements - in case this happens again in the future - as well of adding it to haifux.org (not just on haifux - people won't necessarily remember that it is written there when this problem happens again in a year from now). thanks

Re: [Haifux] Kernel oops, so what?

2010-01-15 Thread guy keren
this is oops-dependent - but i tihnk this is generaly a software bug. some oopses cause the machine to freeze and you need to reboot. some other times, they just cause a user-space process to terminate - and you can continue working normally. in general, i think the old myths are not true tod

Re: [Haifux] QEMU/KVM vs. VMWare: The beauty and the beast

2010-01-10 Thread guy keren
Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello, > > > I've been playing around with my new Fedora 12 computer (Intel i7 quad > core) for a few days, mainly for the purpose of making educated > decisions about how to virtualize two old computers, which I want to get > rid of. They are running Windows 2000 and Red

[Haifux] Startup in yokneam looking for linux user+kernel programmer

2009-11-24 Thread guy keren
the company i work for is looking for a linux user-space+kernel-space programmer to join the r&d team. minimal requirements: - experience with kernel-level programming under linux. advantages: - experience with programming under linux in user-space (system programming, application programming.

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

2009-10-30 Thread guy keren
tivo (the first wide-spread digital video recording appliance) is a linux-based machine. linksys wireless routers are linux-based machines. google's android operating system is actually based on linux. many (most?) cable modems and adsl modems run linux as their base operating system. in fac

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

2009-10-18 Thread guy keren
(if you top-post - i'll post-top too! :P~~~) well, that _is_ good news for employers (bad news for the students ;) --guy Vadim Eisenberg wrote: > guy keren wrote: >> you can mention memory leaks if you want - but students don't care about >> them so much, becau

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

2009-10-16 Thread guy keren
Eli Billauer wrote: > guy keren wrote: > >> >> what - no valgrind? >> > I stand corrected. A quick demonstration of valgrind (show how it > detects memory leaks and access to unallocated/uninitialized memory) is > in place. It's definitely something handy f

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

2009-10-15 Thread guy keren
the problem with git, is that it's very easy to shoot yourself in the foot. giving it to students, who might accidentally reset their repository into losing their code, is not a very good idea, if you don't have time to give a proper explanation plus warnings. --guy Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On

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

2009-10-15 Thread guy keren
what - no valgrind? it's the one killer application that might save students many nights of pulling out their hair. of-course, we can go the asimov way ("profession day") and claim they need to go through some such nights before they are introduced to the blessing of valgrind... --guy Eli B

Re: [Haifux] Me Volunteering to Give a Presentation

2009-09-08 Thread guy keren
lecture would be most parallel with what I perceive >> Haifux to be. > > Yes. Haifux is indeed one of these concepts. If you think Haifux is a > Guava, then Haifux is a Guava (so does the zionism, btw). > >>> BTW, when Haifux was founded in 1999 by guy keren and Orr Dun

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] GCC Profile Guided Optimization

2009-08-09 Thread guy keren
it seems to work for me now (i'm connected via bezeq bein leumi). can you check again? --guy Serge wrote: > Is www.haifux.org down? it doesn't work for me. > > Thanks, Serge. > > On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 14:03 +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: >> On Monday, August 10th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to h

Re: [Haifux] what's the status of getting into the technion with a car?

2009-05-30 Thread guy keren
Dotan Cohen wrote: >> If you reach after-hours and say your destiny is Michlol, there is a very >> good chance they will let you in. >> > > Actually, the Miclol is closed at 18:00 so be careful with that one! > But the swimming pool is another good destination, and it is open > until 21:00 at leas

Re: [Haifux] reminder regarding tomorrow's second gdb meeting

2009-05-18 Thread guy keren
thanks. there's no point in keeping the old slides - the new slides are a superset of the old ones (with some corrections) - so you could set both 210 and 211 to point to the new slides. thanks, --guy Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > Hi guy and all, > > The new slides are now up for lecture 2

[Haifux] some addendums to today's gdb meeting

2009-05-04 Thread guy keren
1. clarification: the command 'watch *(char*)0x65476 == 0' puts a hardware watch-point for a single byte at the given address. if you want to find a change to an item with a different size (e.g. 4 bytes), use a different cast: 'watch *(int*)0x65476 == 0' 2. regarding the 'x' command and end

[Haifux] what's the status of getting into the technion with a car?

2009-05-03 Thread guy keren
is it possible these days for haifuxers or not? thanks, --guy ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] gdb - customize it the way you want by Guy Keren

2009-05-01 Thread guy keren
6. For instructions see: > http://www.haifux.org/where.html > > Attendance is free, and you are all invited! > > ====== > > Future lectures: > > 18/5/09 gdb in Greater Depth: Guy Keren > 25/5/09 OpenCL O

Re: [Haifux] The 10th tip?

2009-02-07 Thread guy keren
1. another KDE tip (please verify it works in current KDE systems): there is a tool named 'klipper', which allows you to save the last 10 (or more) copied entries. whenever you copy something, it gets pushed into klipper's window as well, and when you click on an entry in klipper - it gets cop

Re: [Haifux] Lecture Suggestion - Disco Project, an open source Map-Reduce framework based on Erlang and Python (mostly Python :-) )

2009-01-14 Thread guy keren
can you explain, briefly, what map-reduce is, so those not in the know (like me) will be able to decide if this is interesting? ;) thanks, --guy Eran Sandler wrote: > Hi all, > > It's been a while since I've posted to Haifux (or Linux-IL for that > matter) but I am watching the mailing list f

[Haifux] lecture suggestion: gdb in greater depth

2009-01-12 Thread guy keren
Since i've moved back to using gdb alot, and since i got tired of the limitations from the past, i started digging deeper into the documentation, and found a wealth of features that were added to gdb over the years (some available only on current linux systems), and i could come up with a lect

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

2008-11-28 Thread guy keren
i did not understand what feature you want. gdb supports suspending all the threads together (which is what you normally want), continuing all of them together, and doing a single-step in one thread (which has the annoying side-effect of allowing other threads to also continue executing at the

Re: [Haifux] W2L + Installation party?

2008-09-17 Thread guy keren
whatever you do - please be careful with choosing ubuntu - version 8.04 completely broke sound support for many programs i'm talking about usability - not about politics) - and people kept asking questions about this issue on the various forums, at least until august (i stopped looking, since

[Haifux] [OT] Sequoia backed startup looking for a Linux Systems/Kernel Developer

2008-09-03 Thread guy keren
Hi, the (new) startup company i work for is looking for linux developers - see the below ad. if anyone considers themselves suitable, please send me your CV. thanks, guy --- Sequoia backed startup looking for a Linux Systems/Kernel Developer A Sequoia backed company based in

Re: [Haifux] Proposal: Git lecture

2008-01-26 Thread guy keren
if there'll also be some comparison of git with traditional things (e.g. cvs/svn) and similar tools (e.g. the previously-used bitkeeper, or something like 'arch') - that'd be even better. can you extend this? --guy Maya Shapira wrote: > I'm in. > > Maya. > > On Jan 26, 2008 1:01 PM, Ohad Lu

Re: [Haifux] A question about g++ dump files

2007-12-20 Thread guy keren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question about binary files of g++ , please: > in the option > g++ -fdump-class-hierarchy source.cpp > I get the hierarchies of c++ in memory, in a file named source.cpp.class > How can I get the binary data of it? i did not understand what you said

Re: [Haifux] Update of the Club's lecture hall

2007-12-14 Thread guy keren
can you do something better - a comparison of Linux journaled file-systems (ext3, reiserfs, xfs) with zfs? note: do not assume that the crowd will know how the other file systems work - so you'll have to show that too )and learn that, along the way). just showing zfs alone will be less interes

Re: [Haifux] Intro to Linux

2007-11-11 Thread guy keren
Amichai Rotman wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to start a kind of a LUG at my workplace, a 60-120 minutes > lecture every two weeks for the workers only (an internal LUG). how many people are expected to be in each such meeting? 5 people or 20 people may use a different approach (and probably - i

[Haifux] daytime-client and multi-client-echo-server sources from today's meeting

2007-08-06 Thread guy keren
c < 0) { perror("read"); return -1; } /* close the socket */ close(s); /* pad a null character to the end of the result */ *pc = '\0'; /* print the result */ printf("Time: %s\n", buf); /* and terminate */ return 0; }

Re: [Haifux] A lecture suggestion : Linux Kernel Networking Overview

2007-07-02 Thread guy keren
if there will be any demand for this - i could give the re-run. --guy Eli Billauer wrote: To begin with, I'm not what you could call a network programmer, so it's very possible that this lecture could be done better by someone else. But to begin with, let's see that a talk about basic socket

Re: [Haifux] A lecture suggestion : Linux Kernel Networking Overview

2007-07-01 Thread guy keren
hi rami, please consider spreading the material as a "lecture set". i think that once you write down the material as slides (or something similar) you'll get an idea of how long it'll take. assume never more then 15 slides in a (quite condensed) hour. why do it too brief, when you can get a

[Haifux] lecture idea: High-Availability clusters on Linux and other systems

2007-05-03 Thread guy keren
during my work i had the "pleasure" of working with different high-availablity (HA) clustering software of various types. i can try to prepare a lecture that covers issues such as: - what are high-availability clusters - how they work, - what cluster software is available for linux - how these cl

Re: [Haifux] Call for experts (for the Linux for CS lecture)

2007-03-22 Thread guy keren
Ohad Lutzky wrote: On 3/22/07, guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i guess i might fall into that category, then. i'll try to come. of-course, that means i'll tell them students to stick with windows and visual studio - unless they are courageous enough and stubborn enough f

Re: [Haifux] Call for experts (for the Linux for CS lecture)

2007-03-22 Thread guy keren
Ohad Lutzky wrote: On 3/22/07, Peleg Sapir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: errr... am I considered "expert" enough? If so, I would gladly come ;-) You're more of a "henchman", but OK ;) (Anyone who is capable of compiling, debugging, valgrinding and creating a makefile for a multi-source-file C an

Re: [Haifux] An introductory of sorts

2007-02-04 Thread guy keren
Ohad Lutzky wrote: On 2/4/07, guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and then you'll come and say "oh, we need to give the lecture about debugging and developing on linux". wasn't it already agreed to re-run it for the spring semester students? Well, definitely, bu

Re: [Haifux] An introductory of sorts

2007-02-04 Thread guy keren
Ohad Lutzky wrote: It's that time again... Spring semester coming up soon, and I was wondering what we can do to pester non-linux-users around us :) I was thinking something small, CS faculty, a few printed A4s. One lecture, one hour, a bit CS-second-semester-oriented, but not technical. That i

Re: [Haifux] Lecture suggestion: Open Solaris

2007-01-17 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 08:39 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:34:17AM +0200, Rami Rosen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Sun had released Open Solaris about a year and a half ago ,under > > CDDL license; It is probably going to be changed soon to GPLv3 (See: > > http://www.linux

[Haifux] are we there yet? what's on monday?

2006-12-09 Thread guy keren
hi, is ohad lutsky going with his lecture on this monday? is the schedule on haifux's web site in sync with reality? was there a lecture by peleg sapir last week? inquiring minds want to know --guy - Haifa Linux Club Mai

[Haifux] additions for today's LVM2 lecture

2006-11-27 Thread guy keren
here are some issues that were raised during today's LVM2 lecture, and some answers i found for them: 1. the word for "silencing" the file-system (or application) is 'quiesce'. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiesce for a very incomplete article. 2. Quiesce in reiserfs and ext3 - it appears t

[Haifux] Slides for tomorrow (LVM2) - temporarily on my web site

2006-11-26 Thread guy keren
i just finished the slides and sent to the webmaster. until they are on haifux's web site, you may read there from: http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lvm2/ (for the "printers" - you have them also in "one big HTML file"). i assume i have errors in them, which you (or i) will find during the lectu

[Haifux] Lecture announcement: LVM2 (Logical Volume Management) Under Linux

2006-11-26 Thread guy keren
This Monday (27.11.06), at 18:30, Haifa Linux Club will gather to hear guy keren (i.e, me) talk about LVM2 (Logical Volume Management - 2nd version) Abstract: LVM is our way to say "no" to getting stuck with fixed-size disks, and to having to heavily rely on backups. In an enterp

Re: [Haifux] Proposition for a lecture next monday

2006-11-26 Thread guy keren
by the way, regarding timing of the lecture, since there is already a promise to give a 'debugging in linux' lecture for the CS students next week, and to avoid disrupting the normal club operations, this "linux, GNUs and penguins" lecture will have to be done in 3 weeks from now. this means that

Re: [Haifux] Proposition for a lecture next monday

2006-11-23 Thread guy keren
עדיף להשאיר את הפילוסופיה לשלב מאוחר יותר - לא להתחיל בזה את ההרצאה. קודם תראו מה יש ומה זה, סובבו את שולחן העבודה לכל הכיוונים מצידי כדי שאנשים יקשיבו, ואז תגידו להם "עבדנו עליכם - זו רק העטיפה" - ותרדו לפרטים - פילוסופיה, כונן C, שורת הפקודה כמובן, מי שקובע מה יהיה בסוף, הוא מי שמתכנן את

Re: [Haifux] Proposition for a lecture next monday

2006-11-22 Thread guy keren
אם אתה רוצה לעשות הרצאה כזו, אני מציע לדחות את ההרצאה שלי בשבוע - אין טעם ליצור עומס גדול מדי על המועדון וחבריו. זה גם יאפשר לחלק מהחברים הוותיקים יותר להגיע להרצאה שלך ולעזור לענות על שאלות. לגבי ההרצאה עצמה - כדאי שתוודא שאתה יכול להכניס את כל מה שאתה רוצה, כולל הדגמות, בזמן סביר, ולהשאיר זמן

Re: [Haifux] Haifux 2.0 (was: Moving to Tuesday)

2006-10-31 Thread guy keren
ome kind of hardware issue on their laptop, or they need > someone to explain something to them about Linux - and I would tell > them to come to Haifux. And after the lecture, people would stay and > help out - but it was late by then, and things would be rushed. > > I know I'm not

Re: [Haifux] Haifux 2.0 (was: Moving to Tuesday)

2006-10-31 Thread guy keren
(first - i've no problem with tuesdays as well). On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Alon Altman wrote: > I think the format we had - alternating between advanced and entry-level > lectures (standard and SiL lectures) is the best. there are two issues we didn't solve with this: 1. preparing W2L is tedious.

Re: [Haifux] Tomorrow's lecture is postponed

2006-07-16 Thread guy keren
i think you should have written "tomorrow, the Haifa linux club will NOT hold a lecture about "GPL 3", not to be given by yohai ;) hold on to your houses, everyone. be safe, --guy On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 14:34 +0300, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Due to the situation, the Techni

Re: [Haifux] Asking for help with Linux comilation.

2006-04-10 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Joseph wrote: > (.text+0x91): undefined reference to `_libintl_gettext' you'll have to hack the makefiles in order to get this working - the symbol you mentioned is probably part of GNU's gettext library, used for internationalization support. search for info about it on the

Re: [Haifux] Asking for help with Cygwin.

2006-04-06 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Joseph wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Could you please help me with the issue of installing the unzip command > under Cygwin, and from where Ican download it. if it must be under cygwin, then i imagine you can download it from cygwin's web site. their installer allows you to c

Re: [Haifux] PR [Was: Money]

2006-03-18 Thread guy keren
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > I'll make some A4 and bring few copies to the next meeting (Ohad's > lecture), which you are all welcome to take and distribute. I'll also put > an online version if you can't come and still want to help... please get me some copies to put at intel - i'

Re: [Haifux] re-question: a talk about using FOSS-only in a startup-chik

2006-03-18 Thread guy keren
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Orna Agmon wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, guy keren wrote: > > > i proposed this once as a hole-plague, and i propose this again now. > > the talk will cover how a very small startup-chik used only FOSS tools to > > develope its product (which is propri

[Haifux] re-question: a talk about using FOSS-only in a startup-chik

2006-03-17 Thread guy keren
i proposed this once as a hole-plague, and i propose this again now. the talk will cover how a very small startup-chik used only FOSS tools to develope its product (which is proprietary). i'll discuss the thought processes, briefly cover the tools used, how non-foss programmers took this, and wher

Re: [Haifux] Money

2006-03-17 Thread guy keren
i suggest we try to make a test-run at intel, for a couple of reasons: 1. they use linux quite extensively (even thought mostly as a platform to run their programs, which are not linux specific, althought some actually work with linux itself - drivers and all). 2. many people there live in

[Haifux] 13/3 Haifux meeting: nothing like the SAN

2006-03-12 Thread guy keren
(since it looks there was no reminder, i'm sending one myself. how. self-promoting ;) tomorrow, 13-march-2006, we'll meet in haifux for a talk, by your not-so-humble host, guy keren (AKA me), titled "nothing like the SAN - a fabric tale about channels". this will deal ha

[Haifux] OT: job offer: part-time student programmer job in nesher

2006-03-03 Thread guy keren
hi, the company i work in, store-age (www.storeage.com) is looking to hire a CS (or similar) student for a programming job. the job is part-time (2 working days a week, flexible hours). note that the job is not linux-specific, but rather a multi-platform one, and lots of perl will be involved ;)

Re: [Haifux] quick lecture idea: using open-source for a proprietary application (was: Re: [Haifux] Anyone for a quickreplacement?)

2006-02-12 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Orna Agmon wrote: > sounds great in general - but no rush, we are settled for this week. Take > your time to prepare it. i see alon's lecture is still listed on the web site as tomorrow's lecture. is this correct? -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and pl

[Haifux] quick lecture idea: using open-source for a proprietary application (was: Re: [Haifux] Anyone for a quickreplacement?)

2006-02-11 Thread guy keren
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Alon Altman wrote: > Hi, > I'm not sure I'll be able to prepare my lecture on time for this Monday. > Is anyone here willing to replace me? i could sketch up something about a project i worked on in a smallish startup company - in which i'll depict how we used open source s

Re: [Haifux] Ruby tutorial

2006-01-25 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:47:15AM +0200, guy keren wrote: > > > i once started reading a tutorial on ruby, just to see what's all the fuss > > about, and gave out in the middle - if i see no idea after reading for > >

Re: [Haifux] Ruby tutorial

2006-01-25 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:07:13PM +0200, Ohad Lutzky wrote: > > All present hackers, you'll much enjoy this - an excellent Ruby tutorial. > > Starts > > out slow, but proceeds with really cool examples. > > > > http://tryruby.hobix.com > > If I may

Re: [Haifux] compiling

2005-12-27 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, yakouba abaya wrote: > suppose i have :ABC.h , A.c , B.c , C.c > is it possible to build all threesource files to one object file ? yes - by building a library (static library or shared library). for info: http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/libraries/unix-c-

Re: [Haifux] Scheduling season

2005-11-03 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Orna Agmon wrote: > Just name the (far away) date when you want to commit to giving the two > lectures you volunteered to give. you may schedule the first lecture (SAN) to sometime around end of february/beginning of march. the second lecture'd better go on sometime around m

Re: [Haifux] Scheduling season

2005-11-02 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Orna Agmon wrote: > Not Duck Season, nor Rabbit Season, but: > > Scheduling of the 2006 season has officially begun. Please consider: > > *topics you would like to talk about, which are of interest to the club > members assuming this is far, far in the future (more then 3 mon

[Haifux] Re: [W2L] Re: [Haifux] Re: [W2L] unanswered questions

2005-09-13 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > 100 ppl arrived to the first lecture. > > ~60 came to your lecture. > > ~20 came to the following lecture. a-ha. i think that we can conclude that we need to do a 2-lecture series only. the first one will be made of a very short demonstration plus FOSS

[Haifux] haifux Lecture tomorrow: sign of the times

2005-08-28 Thread guy keren
copied from www.haifux.org: -- Signs of the Time - by Guy Keren Abstract * 1. time zones, summer time and zic. * 2. keeping machines synced in time. * 3. sub-second sleeps. * 4. "accurate" select-based timers - avoiding the time warp danc

[Haifux] laptop with sound for tomorrow's haifux lecture?

2005-08-28 Thread guy keren
anyone is coming to the lecture tomorrow and bringing a laptop that has properly configured sound support, and is willing to loan it for running the lecture on? please let me know in advance, so i could transfer the material to you before the lecture (i was threatened that network *might* be down

Re: [Haifux] iptables with --uid-owner

2005-08-09 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Eli Billauer wrote: > I hope one of you paranoids out there can help me with this. > > Problem: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner root -j ACCEPT > iptables: Invalid argument > > I'm running iptables v1.2.5 under a 2.4.21 kernel for i686. The > ipt_

Re: [Haifux] W2L meeting

2005-08-09 Thread guy keren
by the way this looks, i think that a missing piece is a web site that we will give to people, and which will contain instructions about how to get from nothing, to a machine connected to the net, with development environemnts (for the programmers), hebrew set up in everything, etc, in the "do-it-

Re: [Haifux] lecture suggestion: "Signs of the times"

2005-07-19 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > I say yes. > > Even though 15/8 may already be reserved (as I've told in yesterday > lecture which was very good, btw). unfortunately i couldn't come there yesterday, so i wasn't aware that this date is taken. that's actually better - if 15-aug is take

[Haifux] lecture suggestion: "Signs of the times"

2005-07-18 Thread guy keren
how about a lecture that discusses several small time and timing issues with Linux: 1. time zones, summer time and zic. 2. keeping machines synced in time. 3. sub-second sleeps. 4. "accurate" select-based timers - avoiding the time warp dance. 5. timing and profiling. most of this is about progr

Re: [Haifux] C++ STL object

2005-07-08 Thread guy keren
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, yakoub wrote: > i'm using microsoft only because my course staff required this . > and course staff are under budget so i'm asking you people > > > hash_map H, S; > > for( .. ;... ;... ) > H.insert(); > > ofstream out("tmp",ios::binary); > out.write((char*)&H,sizeof(H)); <

Re: [Haifux] Real-time write on *ANY* filesystem

2005-06-22 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Eli Billauer wrote: > guy keren wrote: > > > I don't think it's the "disk gets full". i think its "the page-cache gets > > full". try this: get a partition that is already quite full, and run the > > test on it. you

Re: [Haifux] Real-time write on *ANY* filesystem

2005-06-22 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Eli Billauer wrote: It turns out that it's not a FAT issue, but that the same problem occurs on ext3 systems as well. I've written a small program to test the delays between writes, and the results are not very encouraging. Specially when the disk getsfull (it always does,

[Haifux] ascii art lightning URL

2005-06-20 Thread guy keren
for anyone interested, the short html page for the ASCII art light, is found at http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lightning-ascii-art/lightning-ascii-art.html just note: the tetris game is based on the winner in 'best game' category of the IOCCC contest of 1989 (go to http://www0.us.ioccc.org/years

Re: [Haifux] Training timetable

2005-06-10 Thread guy keren
(i know i'm not orna, but i felt like responding anyway). On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Yael Vaya wrote: > Hi Orna, > > According to the kids they are avaliable for training from 10.07.05 > (untill July they are on camp, tyol shnati etc). They can make it Friday > mornings, and during the week at the aft

Re: [Haifux] [IBM HRL TALK] Overview of AIX Kernel

2005-04-03 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > The next IBM Haifa Research Lab Linux Study Group talk will take place > on Tuesday, 05/04/2005, at 1400 at IBM HRL > (http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com). Anyone interested in attending should > contact me privately for arrangements. > > Title: Overview of A

[Haifux] regarding monday's "Unix memory management" lecture

2005-03-19 Thread guy keren
i took a look at the slides, and i realize there's a need for two lectures to discuss everything. Thus, i expect to talk about half the material on monday (probably up to and including slide 17). we'll schedule the second part to one of the coming SiL lecture slots. see there whomever comes, --

Re: [Haifux] boot errors

2005-03-14 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, yakoub wrote: > pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5 > pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5 go to google, type the error message between double-quotes, and see what it gives you. in many cases, this works. sometimes you'll need to clip th

Re: [Haifux] Re: c with a spoon and pointer arithmetic

2005-03-10 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Yoni wrote: > Thanks for the answers :-) > If i understand correctly, the free function might look something like this: > void free(pointer) { > // gets start address, and size of memory to free to the os > letGoOfMemory(pointer-1,*(pointer-1)); > } > do i understand corr

Re: [Haifux] Re: "Emergency" lecture about winbind

2005-03-07 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Shachar Raindel wrote: > OK, though I will not be available for the next month or so (until I > will get settled in the IDF). I might teach the rest of linux-sup > group what I did, so they will be able to lecture. I will keep you > updated. that's ok - what's the hurry? it's

Re: [Haifux] What's gnucash ?

2005-02-20 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Yoni wrote: > Will the lecture tomorrow be any good to a linux newbie ? > Thanks. i'd assume it will be - if you're interested in managing money issues using your computer. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy

Re: [Haifux] Orna's lecture - can someone approve ?

2005-02-07 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Yoni wrote: > Can someone approve the lecture is held at lecture room #3 ofthe > computer department, and that it takes place at 16:30 ... > Don't wanna go there for free :p > Yoni. as you probably saw, the lecture was held at lecture room #3 of the computer science departme

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