[YBA] foss.org.il, floss.org.il

2008-12-04 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Dear linux-il list members, Two years ago TkOS registered the domain names floss.org.il and foss.org.il. We no longer have an interest in these names per se but would like to transfer them to an organization that will make appropriate use of them. Let me know if you have suggestions regarding

TODAY at TAU: Hadoop at Yahoo! State of technology today and future development.

2008-12-04 Thread Edward Aronovich
This lecture will be given today at Tel-Aviv University, school of Comptuer Science, Schreiber building. Time: 17:00-20:00 Room: 006 Map: http://www2.tau.ac.il/map/unimapl1.asp Hadoop at Yahoo! State of technology today and future development. Talk Abstract As the most visited site on the

logcheck Filtering

2008-12-04 Thread Noam Rathaus
Hi, We are receiving log entries to our log which then get emailed to us, I would like to filter these out, but documentation on how to do this with logcheck is scarce, can someone point me to the right direction? Sample line: Dec  3 16:06:30 vagary named[10422]: client 83.8.173.146#10652:

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/4 Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Another question, does anyone have experience with ordering a laptop from a major manufacturer (Dell, Lenovo) over the Internet - from Ireland or any other place - without an OS? Is it easier than buying a laptop in Israel and going through a small

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Sorana Fraier
I am interested. On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Zvi Devir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All. Sorry for the previous bad HTML email... I wrote to tell that Slashdot [http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/12/03/1949230.shtml] also got the story, and placed a link to the Haifux website. I am

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Zvi Devir
I was just slashdotted! Zvi Devir wrote: News Flash: The first Windows refund in Israel! Check it up: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3632367,00.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Zvi Devir
Hi All. Sorry for the previous bad HTML email... I wrote to tell that Slashdot [http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/12/03/1949230.shtml] also got the story, and placed a link to the Haifux website. I am thinking of preparing a talk for Haifux about my fight sometime in the near future, if there is

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Eyal Rozenberg
Bravo Zvi! What was the reason not to go to court, though? I mean, I don't suppose you needed the 550 so badly... :-) Eyal = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g.,

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Adir Abraham
Congratulations. You rock :) On 12/3/08, Zvi Devir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: News Flash: The first Windows refund in Israel! Check it up: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3632367,00.html ___ Haifux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Zohar Snir
בסגנון תגובות למהרשת: צבי, תעשה לי ילד ברצינות, כל הכבוד On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:00, Zvi Devir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: News Flash: The first Windows refund in Israel! Check it up: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3632367,00.html

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
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... :-) What is the reason to go to court? They agreed to giving him everything he asked for, plus not require him to keep silent about it. It's not as if

Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Zvi Devir
News Flash: The first Windows refund in Israel! Check it up: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3632367,00.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run

Re: TODAY at TAU: Hadoop at Yahoo! State of technology today and future development.

2008-12-04 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/12/5 Edward Aronovich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This lecture will be given today at Tel-Aviv University, school of Comptuer Science, Schreiber building. Time: 17:00-20:00 Room: 006 Map: http://www2.tau.ac.il/map/unimapl1.asp Hadoop at Yahoo! State of technology today and future development.

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/12/5 Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Compared to that, Zvi's experience looks a) painful, and b) not worthwhile except for the publicity and the precedent. I mean that the You are the second poster I read on this thread (haven't read it all) to talk about worthwhile and hassle. I have

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:56:30 +0200 Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just in case you missed it, it is the lead item on The Register, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/04/dell_windows_eula_israel/ (shall we expect a slashdot item soon, too? :). It is a reasonably faithful

silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I've been doing shell programming for years but this got me stomped (simplified version): rsync=/usr/bin/rsync -navHz --delete --delay-updates --bwlimit=256 -e 'ssh -i /root/rsync.id' local=/mnt/data/html/minicpan copyto=test01:$local $rsync $local/ $copyto/ When I execute this script with

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread sara fink
Oh, well, Dell Israel are likely to say something like, Since you are not running Windows your warranty is void, and then one would have to go through a small claims court again, attaching the email exchange and the refund confirmation to the suit... I'd like to comment on this. I have a

Re: silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread guy keren
there are certain constructs of quoting that you simply cannot do with a shell. put your 'ssh -i /root/rsync.id' command in a script file, and supply the script file in the '-e' flag of rsync. you may also pus the 'ssh -i ...' in a shell function - it'll work just the same. --guy Amos

Re: silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread Omer Zak
I checked the expressions, using 'echo $whatever' in my bash, whose version string is: GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. All behaved without extra quote marks or whatever. So, Amos - please let us know which shell and

Re: silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/12/5 guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: there are certain constructs of quoting that you simply cannot do with a shell. put your 'ssh -i /root/rsync.id' command in a script file, and supply the script file in the '-e' flag of rsync. Yes I though about that - but it's very ugly, especially if

Re: silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/12/5 Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I checked the expressions, using 'echo $whatever' in my bash, whose version string is: GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. All behaved without extra quote marks or whatever. So, Amos

Re: silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread guy keren
Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/12/5 guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: there are certain constructs of quoting that you simply cannot do with a shell. put your 'ssh -i /root/rsync.id' command in a script file, and supply the script file in the '-e' flag of rsync. Yes I though about that - but it's very

Re: silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/12/5 guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: this is a great way to write write-only code. often-times, the simple solution, even if it is uglier, is the one that'll be easier to maintain later on. I think the external-script solution is uglier because it's yet another file to keep track of in a

Re: silly bash scripting question

2008-12-04 Thread guy keren
Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/12/5 guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: this is a great way to write write-only code. often-times, the simple solution, even if it is uglier, is the one that'll be easier to maintain later on. I think the external-script solution is uglier because it's yet another file to

Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread MMS
Less than a year ago we bought a Dell laptop to my daughter in Petach Tikva. We could buy it without any OS if we wanted to or with Vista/XPPro for an additional fee. Saba Moshe -- http://www.sh-dor.info = To unsubscribe, send

Re: logcheck Filtering

2008-12-04 Thread Amos Shapira
Could it be that you should look for logwatch instead of logcheck? On 12/5/08, Noam Rathaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We are receiving log entries to our log which then get emailed to us, I would like to filter these out, but documentation on how to do this with logcheck is scarce, can

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

2008-12-04 Thread Amichai Rotman
Zvi, I salute you for the effort you took for the grater good! Yashar Koach! As for Israeli shops selling Laptops with pre-installed Linux - I remember a guy at the last August Penguin (2008) selling said Laptops by the staircase. I can't remember the name but I know he has a web site... Can