Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

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 a

Re: logcheck Filtering

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 sc

Successful Windows Vista refund!!

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 -- = To unsubscribe, send ma

Re: silly bash scripting question

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

Re: silly bash scripting question

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

Re: silly bash scripting question

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

2008/12/5 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. > >

Re: silly bash scripting question

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, especi

Re: silly bash scripting question

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 version

Re: silly bash scripting question

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 S

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

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

silly bash scripting question

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 wi

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

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 > faith

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

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".

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

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 de

Successful Windows Vista refund!!

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: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

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 sma

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

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!!

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 PROTECT

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

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., r

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

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!!

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 int

Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

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 a

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

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 s

Re: Successful Windows Vista refund!!

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 account (compared to Ynet's original), but I also looked at the comments, http://www.the

logcheck Filtering

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: quer

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

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 Int

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

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 u