dd(8)-written disk has ~800MB of NULs

Subject: dd(8)-written disk has ~800MB of NULs tl;dr: I dd(8)'d a partition to a HD in an external enclosure, then cmp(1)'d to verify the copy, and found 800MB of NULs in the target of the copy; I'm trying to figure out what went wrong and whether I can trust the enclosure and HD the data was writ

Re: Installation report: Bootstrapping a first installation bootable USB

Thank you both for the suggestions; I'll keep them in mind next time. (For the time being, I have a bootable disk for my friend so I'm all set.) Cheers, Daniel ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listi

Installation report: Bootstrapping a first installation bootable USB

I tried to walk a friend through using Windows 10 to create a bootable Linux USB disk, so they'd install their first Linux box. Debian (and FreeBSD) recommend win32diskimager. Arch suggested a few other tools, of which I tried Rufus 3.19 and "dd for windows". The first and third didn't work at a

Re: recover ssh-agent socket

Tzafrir Cohen wrote on Sat, 08 Jan 2022 09:06 +00:00: > I accidentally deleted my ssh-agent's socket from /tmp. The agent is > still running and I have $SSH_AGENT_PID and $SSH_AUTH_SOCK set in > various processes, so I know where it should have been. > > Is there any way to recover the socket? Shor

Re: Python on Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS

אורי wrote on Tue, 04 Jan 2022 04:07 +00:00: > Are there powers of 2 which give exactly 10% of each of the digits 0 to 9 (in > decimal form)? No, because then the sum of the digits would be a multiple of nine, so the number wouldn't be a power of two. _

Re: Got an SPF report, am I reading this right?

אורי wrote on Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:49 +00:00: > I suggest that you use/create a Gmail account, send yourself mail the way > you usually send it and check the headers from there. I just did basically that. My copy of my post to this list a few minutes ago shows as dkim=fail on my end. My copy of a

Re: Floppy disks at 2021?!

Ira Linux Abramov wrote on Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:11 +00:00: > On 2021-12-22 22:48, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> If it's IDE you might be able to connect a CF card to the old computer >> with a CF<->IDE adapter? Not sure if a 1997 vintage IDE controller >> would

Re: Floppy disks at 2021?!

If it's IDE you might be able to connect a CF card to the old computer with a CF<->IDE adapter? Not sure if a 1997 vintage IDE controller would be up to this. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo

Re: diff

אורי wrote on Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:32 +00:00: > אורי > u...@speedy.net > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 5:22 PM Daniel Shahaf > wrote: > >> אורי wrote on Tue, 14 Dec 2021 07:44 +00:00: >> > Actually I prefer the "<(..)" method, because sometimes I w

Re: diff

אורי wrote on Tue, 14 Dec 2021 07:44 +00:00: > Actually I prefer the "<(..)" method, because sometimes I want to compare 2 > commands: > > diff <(pip freeze | sort) <(cat requirements.txt | sort) > Consider s/diff/comm -12/. > Or even use cat and echo to add a specific line to one of the outputs.

Re: strange problem with digits in Libreoffice

Perhaps it's a font issue? Screenshot the "שלום 3 2 1" on both computers and check whether the digits are from the same font? Try pdftotext on the PDF and see it emits digits? Diff the list of installed packages (`dpkg -l`) on the two machines? Try running libreoffice under a new user to rule o

Re: Mail blocked by Google

Vordoo wrote on Sun, 16 May 2021 11:28 +00:00: > On 5/16/21 6:48 AM, אורי wrote: > > May 16 04:00:01 www postfix/smtp[1364]: 79264BD01C: > > to= > >, > > relay=aspmx.l.google.com[142.250.27.27]:25, delay=0.13, > > delays=0.02/0.01/0.02/0.07, dsn=5.7.1,

Re: Some Bash/zsh helpers to convert away from bitbucket's mercurial repos

Shlomi Fish wrote on Sat, 24 Aug 2019 10:32 +00:00: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:30 PM Efraim Flashner > wrote: > > Alternatively, for anyone wishing to remain using mercurial, sourcehut > > offers hosting of hg repositories. And has a "come on over from > > bitbucket" script. > > > > https://

Re: Debconf20 will be in...

rganizing? Cheers, Daniel > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 3:21 PM Daniel Shahaf > > wrote: > >> tl;dr: the 2020 incarnation of Debconf (Debian's annual developers > >> conference) will be held in Haifa. This is the second-next

Fwd: Debconf20 will be in...

tl;dr: the 2020 incarnation of Debconf (Debian's annual developers conference) will be held in Haifa. This is the second-next Debconf, following one scheduled for July 2019 in Brazil. Congratulations to the bid team :-) Daniel Daniel Lange wrote on Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:02 +00:00: > -BEGIN P

Re: Patch management tools?

Omer Zak wrote on Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:49 +0300: > While I can reapply my patches by using 'git rebase', I am curious to > know if there any specialized tools which assist in this process. Like > the 'quilt' tool used by Debian package maintainers to deal with a very > similar use case. There is ht

Re: Server load spike debugging

David Suna wrote on Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:12 +0300: > I am working on a VPS. Earlier today there was a load spike that made > the server unresponsive for a period of time (around 10-15 minutes). > Both ssh and web access were not responsive. After a while the problem > just stopped and the server

Re: Hebrew Translation of Computer Terminology

Amichai Rotman wrote on Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:01 +0200: > Is there an up-to date list of the Hebrew translation for computer related > terms? > > I am referring to a standard list of terms for computer components in > Hebrew, i.e. CPU, RAM, Hard Drive etc. It's not a "list" per se, but generally I

Re: Rendering of ו עם חולם

Daniel Shahaf wrote on Sat, 13 Jan 2018 17:52 +: > I was trying to print a word with niqqud in LibreOffice Writer. I'm on Debian stretch, libreoffice 1:5.2.7-1. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il

Rendering of ו עם חולם

tl;dr: Rendering of וֹ looks wrong in LibreOffice Writer in many fonts I was trying to print a word with niqqud in LibreOffice Writer. The word in question has a חולם מלא. In most fonts, that holam rendered above the ו and slightly to its left, rather than directly above it, making it look more

Re: Internet recommendations

Geoffrey Mendelson wrote on Sun, 23 Jul 2017 22:07 +: > Tonight from around midnight until 0:50 both DSL lines and cellular data > went out. > > My son thinks something happened we will read about tomorrow on the news. > > I think the timing indicates a shift change at BEZEQ and the night shi

Re: Internet recommendations

Good morning Geoff, Geoff Shang wrote on Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:30 +0100: > My requirements are, therefore, in no particular order: > > * Fast > * Reliable > * Usable with third-party routers > * Able to be managed without a visual CAPTCHA. > > Obviously, some of this is relevant to ISPs as well as

Re: RavKav Online

Efraim Flashner wrote on Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 14:56:17 +0200: > grumble grumble .deb only. It's a binary blob: % find . ./usr ./usr/bin ./usr/bin/ravkavonline ./usr/share ./usr/share/doc ./usr/share/doc/ravkavonline ./usr/share/doc/ravkavonline/LICENSE.txt ./usr/share/doc/ravkavonline/changelog.

Re: strange ping and traceroute results

Shlomo Solomon wrote on Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 07:01:10 +0200: > When I try ping or traceroute to www.google.com, I get strange results. > Both utilities "think" that www.google.com is at 213.57.*.*, but those > addresses belong to my Internet provider - Hotnet. > > What am I missing? > Try with a

Re: [ANN] Understanding Vim's excalamation mark command quoting/escaping rules

Shlomi Fish wrote on Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 15:38:42 +0300: > Hi Daniel, > > thanks for your reply, > You're welcome. > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Daniel Shahaf > > wrote: > > > Shlomi Fish wrote on Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 22:56:28 +0300: > > >

Re: [ANN] Understanding Vim's excalamation mark command quoting/escaping rules

Shlomi Fish wrote on Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 22:56:28 +0300: > I prepared a document where I investigated which characters need to be > escaped in vim's ":!" commands of filtering the text through a shell > command. The escape rules are documented: :help cmdline-special > Executive summary: >

Re: How to search Linux Kernel changelogs? (USB disconnect problem)

Omer Zak wrote on Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 13:54:50 +0200: > At your hint, I have installed powertop. > I did not find a tip in Debian, but there is a tiptop command in my > system. Rabin wrote "tlp" with an 'L', not "tip" with an 'I'. Daniel > How can they help me diagnose USB problems? > > > On

Re: [OT] driver's license exam app?

minfo capability that terminals would set in their terminfo descriptors and ncurses could query. Cheers, Daniel > --- Omer > > > > [1] https://github.com/Hamakor/teuria > [2] > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heliconbooks.epub.epubreader > > > On Fri, 2

[OT] driver's license exam app?

I've got here a desktop app that quizzes the user with questions from מבחן התיאוריה (the one people take when they learn driving). It's basically a self-test/study app, using the questionset from the Ministry's web site. (They publish questionsets in six languages, I only tried the Hebrew set.)

Re: xargs guide

Steve Litt wrote on Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 21:37:47 -0400: > Hi all, > > xargs is a gender-changer type program that adapts one program's stdout > to the next program's command line arguments. It's extremely handy for > shell scripting, but it can be tricky. I've written a short guide for > xargs th

Re: [Off Topic]: Speedy Mail 2.0 - a new webmail platform in Python and Django

Uri Even-Chen wrote on Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 16:24:57 +0300: > Which protocols we should use to connect to the mail server? I understand > that IMAP has folders but not labels/tags, does it mean we can't use it? Is > it better to use POP3? IMAP does have labels, via the FLAGS command. (There are "

Re: Memory pool interface design

Elazar Leibovich wrote on Sun, May 17, 2015 at 00:04:49 +0300: > A concrete example, a "regular" read_line function > > char *read_line(struct reader *r) { char *rv = malloc(len); read_to(rv); > return rv; } ... > Our read_line example would now look like > > struct error read_line(struct reader

Re: Hebrew subject text in mutt

Alan Yaniger wrote on Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 14:09:06 +0200: > Hi Linux-IL members, > > I'm using bidiv to read Hebrew in mutt. > > It works ok with reading Hebrew messages, but not when reading the > subject headers, which still show the Hebrew backwards. > Personally, I set edit_headers=on, and

Re: How do I debug this (mailman)?

Shachar Shemesh wrote on Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 15:38:29 +0300: > I'm trying to set up mailman on a new host (transferring my VPS to a new > machine). This is running Debian. Mailman is set up, shows up in the web > interface. I transferred the mailing list. I'm trying to send myself a > password rem

Re: LaTeX on Ubuntu

Oleg Goldshmidt wrote on Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 17:55:59 +0300: > I got desperate and ran > > $ export TEXINPUTS=$(ls -R /usr/share/tex* | awk '/^\/.+:$/ {printf > "%s",$0}')"." > > After this, everything worked. > > Has anyone here encountered this problem? Solved it? Any ideas? - strace to see

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II) -- Eli Billauer

Oleg Goldshmidt wrote on Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 17:00:40 +0300: > Daniel Shahaf writes: > > > Sure. It's a zsh-specific syntax for an anonymous function with > > arguments. In effect it's an anonymous block. For example: > > > > % (){ printf "$1\n&q

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II) -- Eli Billauer

Michael Shiloh wrote on Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 16:36:35 -0700: > > > On 08/18/2013 02:08 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> Some of the odd corners of shell syntax are quite useful in interactive >> usage. For example: >> >> % (){ foo $1 bar } 24 >> to run a c

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II) -- Eli Billauer

Amos Shapira wrote on Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 08:46:02 +1000: > And the list goes on and on. Some of the odd corners of shell syntax are quite useful in interactive usage. For example: % (){ foo $1 bar } 24 to run a command several times (recalling it from history) and change some parameter around

Re: Jolla phone

E.S. Rosenberg wrote on Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:52:56 +0300: > Normally I don't do this, but I was wondering, any other people here > pre-ordering? I've got them earmarked on my "May be a good option; review them after they have released some product" shelf. Daniel __

Re: Jolla phone

E.S. Rosenberg wrote on Tue, May 28, 2013 at 17:18:40 +0300: > 2013/5/28 Daniel Shahaf : > > E.S. Rosenberg wrote on Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:52:56 +0300: > >> Normally I don't do this, but I was wondering, any other people here > >> pre-ordering? > > >

Re: OT: mailbox generator

Daniel Shahaf wrote on Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 22:36:31 +0300: > Tangentially related, I couldn't give my password if I wanted to: I'm > a touch-typist, so I have my password wired in muscle memory, but > I never memorized the string value, so I wouldn't be able to give that &

Re: OT: mailbox generator

Tangentially related, I couldn't give my password if I wanted to: I'm a touch-typist, so I have my password wired in muscle memory, but I never memorized the string value, so I wouldn't be able to give that verbally or write it on paper --- I can only recover it by using a qwerty keyboard. I'm not

Re: Hardware Database

Amichai Rotman wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 15:05:58 +0200: > Hello, > > It would've been nice to start a website where people could refer to to > find out all the practical issues of installing / using FLOSS in Israel: > > * A hardware DB where they can look up a device by category (i.e. > Moth

Re: OT: creating disk image from existing disk for VirtualBox

Nadav Har'El wrote on Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 22:47:17 +0200: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2012, Mord Behar wrote about "Re: OT: creating disk image > from existing disk for VirtualBox": > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:26 PM, David Suna > > wrote: > > > I have an old hard disk which ran Windows XP. I would like

Re: Requesting Input about a New Page about Text Processing Tools

Vim can be used non-interactively: % vim -e -s -n -N -i NONE -u NONE -c 'g/bar/normal! g??' -c wq ./foo.txt I'm not sure you listed ed: % printf 'g/bar/d\nw\nq\n' | ed foo.txt Shlomi Fish wrote on Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 00:32:09 +0200: > Hi all, > > I've set up a new page about text processing t

Re: qmail and mx records

It's not clear to me what your problem is/was, but we flush qmail's DNS cache daily because we found it wasn't respecting TTL. ik wrote on Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 17:57:36 +0300: > Answering myself: There is a DNS problem at "my" server side, and not > the so called problematic server. > > Ido > >

Re: What's the practical use of the error close() returns?

Shachar Shemesh wrote on Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 06:35:18 +0300: > On 07/29/2012 02:12 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > So if the disk hardware fails after close() returns but before the OS > > caches are flushed... > > It is not part of close(2)'s job description to protect a

Re: What's the practical use of the error close() returns?

Shachar Shemesh wrote on Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 09:56:40 +0300: > On 07/27/2012 02:52 PM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > > > > (as mentioned earlier, the "no space left" could just as well happen > > after the file was closed, so I don't mind that much it's not reported > > on a close()) > > > Ehm, no. >

Re: Python question - first call is slower?

Nadav Har'El wrote on Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:20:04 +0300: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012, Meir Kriheli wrote about "Re: Python question - first > call is slower?": > > Is it a generator ? > > What does this mean? Sorry, but my level of knowledge of Python is well > below my level in other programming la

Re: Semantic C code indexing and query tool

Daniel Shahaf wrote on Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:35:36 +0300: > Baruch Siach wrote on Mon, May 14, 2012 at 07:34:56 +0300: > > Hi linux-il, > > > > I'm looking for a tool that can do semantic search is a body of C code. > > Example query: "give me all referen

Re: Semantic C code indexing and query tool

Baruch Siach wrote on Mon, May 14, 2012 at 07:34:56 +0300: > Hi linux-il, > > I'm looking for a tool that can do semantic search is a body of C code. > Example query: "give me all references to field y in struct x defined in file > z.h". I would prefer an open source, command line driven tool.

Re: Unicode in C

Nadav Har'El wrote on Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 22:16:23 +0200: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012, Elazar Leibovich wrote about "Re: Unicode in C": > > Something very important, one need to consider is Unicode normalization. > > That is, how to strip out the Niqud, and to substitute, say KAF WITH DAGESH > > (U+FB3

Re: Migrating a Linux (Debian Squeeze) system from one HD to another HD

Omer Zak wrote on Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 04:03:05 +0200: > My PC has a 500GB hard disk, and I want to migrate it to a 2TB hard > disk. > The new hard disk has been formatted to have two physical partitions, > one serves as /boot and the other is an encrypted LVM volume, which has > its own division i

Re: vim mappings for Hebrew

Nadav Har'El wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 09:57:18 +0200: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012, Avraham Rosenberg wrote about "Re: vim mappings for > Hebrew": > > the difference between them...In general, I would like to know where from > > you got this wealth of information about the editor. Can you recommend

Re: vim mappings for Hebrew

Tzafrir Cohen wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 17:32:52 +: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 04:21:06PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012, Daniel Shahaf wrote about "Re: vim mappings for > > Hebrew": > > > :set keymap=hebrew > > > &g

Re: vim mappings for Hebrew

Avraham Rosenberg wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:59:38 +0200: > Hi all, >I need, lately, to edit Hebrew texts with vim. As most vim commands, in > normal and command modes use lower-case latin letter, which cannot be > produced when the terminal is in Hebrew chars mode, I found myself > switc

Re: Silly Debian E-mail question

In Mutt, ':set edit_headers' may be relevant. Perhaps ask this on the Debian lists too? Omer Zak wrote on Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 23:20:10 +0200: > I have two PCs in a LAN. One PC has Debian Squeeze installed on it, and > the other - Debian Wheezy. > The Debian Squeeze PC has regular Internet acce

Re: Goodbye, Lingnu

On Monday, November 14, 2011 1:14 PM, "Nadav Har'El" wrote: > You can complete the job in less time if you stop thinking about selling > time, and instead think about which jobs you can take which will allow you > to *reuse* things you learned, and code you wrote, while working for previous > cli

Re: umount and data is lost?

On Sunday, November 06, 2011 8:21 AM, "Amos Shapira" wrote: > On 6 November 2011 08:12, Diego wrote: > > * disk is umounted using system("umount /data"), and then I call from C to > > sync(); > > > > Why not a direct umount(2) call? Do you check the return value of system()?

Re: Scheduling a Meeting in a Cafe or Restaurant

On Saturday, November 05, 2011 3:43 PM, "Shlomi Fish" wrote: > On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:01:32 +0200 > "Daniel Shahaf" wrote: > > You might want to clarify what it would be about and why it can't be > > held over phone or instant messaging or smoke si

Re: Scheduling a Meeting in a Cafe or Restaurant

I was trying to ask the OP to clarify what he had wanted the asked meeting to be be about. Sorry to hear it came across sounding rude. On Thursday, November 03, 2011 7:38 PM, "Ori Idan" wrote: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > > On Thursday, Nov

Re: Scheduling a Meeting in a Cafe or Restaurant

On Thursday, November 03, 2011 6:16 PM, "Shlomi Fish" wrote: > I don't see why a real-life meeting of people who share similar > interests should be disallowed. That's the first time you even hinted at what the meeting would be about. You might want to clarify what it would be about and why it

Re: Newer gcc swallow version control keywords

Shachar Shemesh wrote on Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 22:47:49 +0200: > On 10/17/2011 10:29 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > >> - did you try > >> changing that to: > >> static const volatile char foo_src_id[] = "$Id$"; > > Hmm... "const volatile" hadn't occurred to me before, but I have just > > tried it and

Re: [OT] Self-employed's office

e included the list in the Cc if they had intended for the responses to become public... In any case, I'm BCC'ing the responders, and I'll repeat here the "Any academic institution or library" suggestion that came to me via several routes. Sorry, Daniel > On Thursday,

Re: [OT] Self-employed's office

I got a few replies off-list, one of them in particular seems very promising; thanks to all who responded. Daniel Shahaf wrote on Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 04:44:20 +0300: > [ Hopefully this isn't too off-topic for this list. ] > > I'm located in the Tel-Aviv area. These days I

[OT] Self-employed's office

[ Hopefully this isn't too off-topic for this list. ] I'm located in the Tel-Aviv area. These days I'm working remotely (under several different hats), but working from home is getting a bit long in the tooth, so I've been wondering what other options I have. There are cafés, of course, and a se

Fwd: [OT] Self-employed's office

Re-sending. (I asked -owner@ why the original hadn't been moderated through, but haven't heard back.) - Forwarded message from Daniel Shahaf - > Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:44:02 +0300 > From: Daniel Shahaf > To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > Subject: [OT] Self-employed