[JOB OPENING] QA automation engineer at TrapX Security

2019-08-25 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
erience - must. - Basic knowledge in networking - must. - Experience with a defect tracking system (JIRA - desired). - Experience with virtualization technologies - advantage. - Experience with AWS, Azure or other cloud environments - advantage. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@

[JOB OPENING] system/infrastructure software engineer at TrapX Security

2019-08-25 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
und - an advantage. * Knowledge of and experience in Windows internals - an advantage. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

[JOB OPENING] full stack software engineer at TrapX Security

2019-08-25 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ckground - an advantage. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: writes to /dev/kmsg

2019-02-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
e been mounted and before any other facility is made available - see above. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

[JOB] TrapX Security is looking for a DevOps engineer

2018-11-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ical foundation in virtualization technologies, including at least some of VMware, KVM, Hyper-V. * Ability to build, monitor, and tune production servers and services. * Ability to work individually and in small teams. * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field - advantage.

Re: commercial support for Debian 7 beyond LTS

2018-04-30 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Oleg Goldshmidt writes: > Hi everyone, > > Does anyone provide commercial support for Debian 7 (wheezy) beyond its > EOL (including LTS) on 31/5/18? Does anyone know of anyone? Eh, apart from Freexian (https://www.freexian.com/en/services/debian-lts.html), that is - we already

commercial support for Debian 7 beyond LTS

2018-04-30 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
fixes to affected wheezy packages) and maybe, though unlikely, some other *critical* bugfixes. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: ifdown/ifup and friends

2018-04-27 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Oleg Goldshmidt writes: > I will try and check if using a different driver for virtual NIC makes a > difference. Turns out not to be so simple, as the VMs come from OVFs and no NIC options (save for e1000 defined in the OVF) are available. I have a workaround, and I will try to create/i

Re: ifdown/ifup and friends

2018-04-25 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Oleg Goldshmidt writes: > my machine is a VMware VM, which should not matter, but might Yes, it would seem that it does. A physical machine behaves differently than a virtual one, and it seems that "ip link set up|down" works on a physical machine. I will try and check if usin

Re: ifdown/ifup and friends

2018-04-25 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
96 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > My system is a debian SID host, except that it is using the 4.16.3 kernel. > > -- > Lior -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: ifdown/ifup and friends

2018-04-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
cripts under /etc/network/if-*.d/ so I tried ifdown --no-scripts (in addition to --force), in vain. Let me also emphasize that the actual code in our scripts does not matter because things do not work when I run commands by hand, either. Thanks, -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org

ifdown/ifup and friends

2018-04-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
sufficient for the immediate purpose, but a) it's ugly, and b) I would like to understand how one can toggle the IFF_UP flag programmatically. I also have a dim recollection that ifdown/ifup and/or ifconfig down/up used to work in distant past... Any ideas? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshm

[JOBS] open positions at TrapX Security

2017-02-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
e - Linux kernel module development - advantage - Cyber security - advantage -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: How dynamic is the dynamic IP from ISPs ? (Bezeq Int + HOT)

2016-06-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
So far so good, but if they change something else all bets will be off. As for when the address may change, I assume it may happen whenever the DHCP lease expires (assuming direct DHCP, no dialer). In my experience, the address stays the same for quite a long time, but I never use it, jus

Re: Does anyone know how to solve "Too many login attempts" with smtp.gmail.com?

2016-04-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Boris shtrasman writes: > Thank you Oleg, > Unfurtunatly I wasn't using that account as a smarthost (I have > dedicated account to be used for smarthost). The blocked account is a > free account. Sorry for the noise then. Was worth a shot... -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p.

Re: Does anyone know how to solve "Too many login attempts" with smtp.gmail.com?

2016-04-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
t (check logs?), I'd suggest you look up their documentation and/or contact their support. They'll unlock the account and will also tell you how to avoid the problem in the future. I don't recall what the solution was since I was not the one handling the issue. That was in a commercia

[JOB] DevOps engineer

2016-02-28 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
security concepts (network, OS, application). * Strong technical foundation in virtualization technologies * Ability to build, monitor, and tune production servers and services * Ability to work individually and in small teams -- Oleg Goldshmidt

Re: How to install several kernels on Debian

2015-12-15 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Yedidyah Bar David writes: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: >> >> this is something that Red Hat do without being asked >> (they keep several versions, usually 3), so it is something that seems >> natural to me. > > Generally, should wor

How to install several kernels on Debian

2015-12-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
175-7.2 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. does not add to my confidence. I want 2 kernels, 2 initial ramdisks, etc., on the same machine and in the same grub without investing time to compile. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _

Re: Matrix inversion tool

2015-08-09 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
p of that, it is not clear to me how much the fact that + is XOR and * is AND over Z2 may help (with or withut CUDA or similar). -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Matrix inversion tool

2015-08-09 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
l the (integer[*]) addition results, and your determinant will be 1 (over Z2) and not 3. Friends again? ;-) [*] I strongly suspect you read too much into Omer's use of the word "real" (also used in the OP). -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___

Re: Matrix inversion tool

2015-08-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
rs are 0 (i.e., get the integer result modulo 2). If you can overload + and * operators for type Z2 you can make it pretty simple. And efficient, if you implement addition as XOR and multiplication - as AND. If you find, e.g., a decent templatized C++ inversion routine maybe you can use it as is

Re: Matrix inversion tool

2015-08-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
and ones, and you never need to divide, just multiply and add modulo 2. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

[somewhat OT] casting to unsigned [Was: Memory pool interface design]

2015-05-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
In the hope to amuse at least some of you... Oleg Goldshmidt writes: > So you've been lucky so far. At some point you will inevitably run into > client code that occasionally does something stupid like passing a > signed integer as size. Trust me, when that happens the size param

Re: Memory pool interface design

2015-05-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
t program. > Those would have to return error, and the user would have to check the > error. As both Guy and I said before, this is the proper behaviour for a general purpose library. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Memory pool interface design

2015-05-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
d embedded system. 7. Why do you say handling failures will complicate the API a lot? It is not clear from what you wrote. After all, malloc() is not more complex because it can return NULL, is it? So can your alloc() member - what's the problem? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@

Re: Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar

2015-04-01 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
astar implements them in C++, and how much C++ has changed in recent > years from what you may remember about it. I might come (close to work :). C++ has futures and promises natively, as a part of its standard library. Can you add a couple of words on how Seastar's futures diffe

Re: OT: Biometric ID

2015-03-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
both privacy and security. Why wouldn't, say, iris scans be preferable? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Help: OpenLdap bindRequest with NTLM authentication makes mailformed message.

2015-03-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Lev Olshvang writes: > Does anybody have example or can advice how to perform NTLM > authentication of Linux client toward Microsoft AD service? Eh, I know of cntlm proxy - is that an option? If not, maybe looking at its code will help to some extent? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmi

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Time varying FSMs

2015-01-30 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
. An implementation of such a Turing Machine may be not practical, however, and therein lies a possible motivation for exploring DSMs as a more practical approach. [*] "Intuitively" here means that a negation of the statement will require a proof... -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Time varying FSMs

2015-01-30 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Oleg Goldshmidt writes: > I don't think so. No one said anything about having an infinite number > of states, for instance. s/numer of states/memory/ of course. I did get it right closer to the end of my post. Sorry for the slip. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@gol

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Time varying FSMs

2015-01-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
If I have accidentally stumbled upon a way to construct a Turing machine, I don't know. I doubt it, at least because nothing has been said about expanding memory indefinitely. But I have not thought about it enough. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org __

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Time varying FSMs

2015-01-28 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
lp. Another serious difficulty would be generating implementations at runtime, but this difficulty seems practical rather than conceptual. I don't know how much it helps. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.h

Re: Question about Linux installation and selecting a language

2015-01-12 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
quot;rpm -qi kbd", "rpm -qi xkeyboard-config", "rpm -qi system-config-keyboard"? [*] Sometimes it is UK, sometimes it is GB... -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Question about Linux installation and selecting a language

2015-01-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
eas how this problem can be resolved ?  I use a somewhat older Fedora, so YMMV, but in KDE open System Settings -> Input Devices -> Keyboard Settings -> Layouts and select what suits you (I assume American + Israeli?). -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _

Fwd: preventing dhclient from running under certain conditions

2014-11-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
t does or what it is supposed to do, and I would be quite uncomfortable switching to allow-hotplug without really comprehensive retesting of *everything* (as opposed to testing starting/stopping DHCP interfaces). Thanks, -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org

[JOB opportunities] DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer, Product Manager

2014-10-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
d business sense combined with ability to think strategically and ​ ​ execute tactically ​* s​ ome marketing, business development, and / or selling experience a ​ ​ plus ​* p​ roven ability to develop quality products on time ​* s​ trong documentation skills ​* t​ ravelling > 40% -- Oleg G

preventing dhclient from running under certain conditions

2014-10-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ps trying, for all VLANs and for a long time, before giving up. You don't want this to keep a machine from booting, to keep other interfaces from starting, etc. One would want to detect this early (e.g., using ethtool or similar) and not even attempt to bring up DHCP interfaces. [In my mind, th

Re: Who is leaking memory in my Linux Jessie/KDE4 installation?

2014-08-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
mory size will you run into trouble, trouble being either performance problems associated with swap usage or OOM killer springing into action. I hope the above will help you in your investigations. Frankly, I suspect you do not have a real problem.

Re: Who is leaking memory in my Linux Jessie/KDE4 installation?

2014-08-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
linux-il/2011-December/008322.html - you will either find that useful or it will help you sleep (well). > The next question, of course, is how to get rid of those memory hogs > without destabilizing the system. First, find out if there is a problem, and what the problem is. --

Re: reverse ssh

2014-07-22 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
m and documented. And not every Tom, Dick, and Harry will have root access to modify sshd_config without adult supervision.] I am not arguing for or against using a non-standard port. Just pointing out that "non-standard" and "non-privileged" are two different things. -- O

Re: diff/patch rootfs

2014-07-09 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ld for new (that you have, e.g., rsync'ed, etc.) with the possibility of rolling back? Once new is running you can update old, too, if it is needed to prepare for the next upgrade. The second partition will cost you some space, of course... -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _

Re: bugzilla+postfix+email_in.pl

2014-06-22 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
I had thought that adding users postfix and bugs to the group that owns the hierarchy should be enough, but apparently isn't. I'll admit that my experience with Ubuntu and postfix is very limited - I am used to RH and sendmail. And I hadn't installed Bugzilla myself in this instance

bugzilla+postfix+email_in.pl

2014-06-22 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ted it, and I cannot re-install it for various reasons (at least i am *extremely* reluctant to). Has anyone seen anything like this? ​ ​Any ideas?​ ​ What am I missing?​ -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux

console widgets without X

2014-06-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
to. 5. dialog(1) - actualy may pass the muster... A notch beter looking than newt... My current favourite. 6. Various toolkits (Tcl/Tk, Tinker, etc.) would probably pass the aesthetics committee, but all seem to require X. Any other suggestions? Thanks, -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmid

twisted and python3

2014-05-22 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ke to​ ​ learn of really disqualifying issues ASAP. Thanks a lot for any input,​ -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: CPU Overheating Problem When Running 4 CPU Intensive Threads with Latest Untained Kernel

2014-05-19 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
;. Check info coreutils 'nice invocation' for explanations and examples. [Also note that the nice argument is relative to the current niceness, not an absolute value.] -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: CPU Overheating Problem When Running 4 CPU Intensive Threads with Latest Untained Kernel

2014-05-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
(you won't know, but [some] big brands are more likely to design for that)? Does anything (from dust to a wall that is too close) clog or block ventilation holes? Are the sensors correcty located, well calibrated, and working properly? As an additional wild hand-waving, does anything cha

Re: LaTeX on Ubuntu

2014-04-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
I think it was asked and answered in this thread. Thanks, and Chag Sameach, -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: LaTeX on Ubuntu

2014-04-12 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Oleg Goldshmidt writes: > What does not work is that no cls or sty files are found. The first > thing that throws an error is > > ! LaTeX Error: File `article.cls' not found. FWIW, it looks like the specific server is borked in some weird way. On a different Ubuntu Server 12

Re: strange ( * vs ./* )

2014-04-09 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
file whose name starts with a dash (-)? Definitely a candidate... Some less likely things to check: Verify there is no alias to grep (or script in path) with --exclude of some sort, or --null, or some other weird stuff. Check GLOBIGNORE. What does "shopt -s" say? Is there anything

Re: LaTeX on Ubuntu

2014-04-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Daniel Shahaf writes: > 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 thi

LaTeX on Ubuntu

2014-04-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ne that worked for me). Has anyone here encountered this problem? Solved it? Any ideas? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Who's counting jiffies when all CPUs idle in NO_HZ mode?

2014-03-25 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
in light of these special processes. A situation where some of the CPUs are either idle or run a single process (and thus no scheduling interrupts need to be delivered to them) is, however, possible, and that seems to be what is described in the docs. -- Oleg Goldsh

[JOB] Linux Software Engineers

2014-03-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
significant advantages: * LAMP and related: Apache, MySQL, nginx, etc. * Web development: PHP, CSS, AJAX... * Web services: XML, SOAP, JSON, REST, etc. * Cloud: Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Google Cloud If you are interested you can send your CV to me (not to the list!). -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p

Re: linux-friendly ebook with decent support in Israel?

2014-01-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
owed. It will not connect > on frequencies where an access point isn't listening, so why bother? I suppose that even if there is nothing to connect to on a particular frequency a device may still emit, e.g., scanning a frequency range, and thus be a source of interference. -- Oleg Goldshm

Re: Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

2014-01-09 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
revenge when you least expect it. \end{rant} In addition, restarting a service may be an overkill. Many a well-behaved daemon will reload configuration on a HUP or USR signal, without restarting/downtime. Apache does, for instance. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org __

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
geoffrey mendelson writes: > On 1/6/2014 12:02 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: >> We are not discussing past-EOL versions here, so the implicit >> assumption is that critical security updates are provided, without >> downgrading functionality. > > But they are not. W

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"E.S. Rosenberg" writes: > On 1/6/2014 2:26 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: >> >> Sounds a bit harsh. A device cannot possibly become less useful with >> time than it was when you bought it (barring a HW malfunction). If it >> did then what it says on the

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
useless. The curiosity is not just a sociological survey but a source of potential hints whose SW I should avoid in the future. The original statement didn't qualify anything though, thus I thought it was too harsh. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org __

Re: Chinese KitKat

2014-01-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
#x27;s original firmware or to the official updates thereof. This does not render the device useless, just potentially a bit less future-proof than others. [I cannot give a compelling example of such functionality, but I can imagine it might exist.] -- Ole

Re: OT: rooting vs. warranty in Israel? [Was: Linux with Android MTP]

2013-12-10 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
understanding is that the seller has to prove it is a direct effect of the SW you installed to void the warranty - good luck. Note that if you root, then overclock the device, and then claim that it overheats, they may have a better case... In any case, I am disappointed that there is no link to the actual

OT: rooting vs. warranty in Israel? [Was: Linux with Android MTP]

2013-12-10 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
#x27;custom firmware' on them. On top of that, Steve Kondik (a.k.a. 'Cyanogen') was, until recently, employed by Samsung to work on CyanogenMod. The irony... By the way, I don't see anything specifically about rooting in http://www.samsung.com/il/support/warranty/w

Re: OT: Cellular banking

2013-12-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"E.S. Rosenberg" writes: > UMTS (3G/HSPA) has much stronger encryption which afaik has not yet > been cracked, I would expect newer generations (4G/LTE) to be even > more secure It is reportedly possible to jam the 3G/4G signal so that handsets will fall back to 2G... --

Re: OT: Cellular banking

2013-12-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
app demand complete network access as well as complete storage access even though in my mind it has no legitimate need for either, but that's just me. If you decide to trust all of the components mentioned as much as you trust everything between your home PC and your

Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: DVB-T and Linux updated.

2013-11-28 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
en repeat with "modules_install" target). In principle, there is no guarantee that it will build or work correctly, but you know that. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailm

Re: Linux with Android MTP

2013-10-23 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ME/GVFS guy, simple-mtpfs may be different. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
e-way > broadcast) there's cell broadcast if the providers/government are > willing to cooperate. I think the OP clarified that one-to-one messaging was a requirement - this is why Twitter is no good. Can one get really cheap (surplus? used?) Blackberries today? They come with messaging

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Oleg Goldshmidt writes: > "Steve G." writes: > >> Is there a messaging platform that is either open source or free > Eh, Twitter? ;-) [Clarification] I obviously read "free" as "free as beer", despite being aware of GNU's 30th anniversary t

Re: Messaging system that works on older text phones, PCs, in addition to feature and smart phones

2013-10-10 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
MS to their "constituents": those updates will not be frequent and this may very well be scalable enough (depending n how scalable group SMS realy is). I don't know if it is possible to forward an individual tweet as an SMS message. http://support.twitter.com/articles/14014-twitter

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
t; over long periods. I think my previous post explained the meaning of "long" compared to fuctuation scale. Note again that Guy and I were discussing economy in a particular driving regime rather than long term consumption over your typical driving pattern. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@g

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
you can also watch the momentary values on the other screen to see how fast and how much they fluctuate). -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
s. I am sure that of all people you get the "running average" concept very well indeed. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
to recharge the > battery. every time i leave the accelerator (e.g. when coming to a > traffic light, or due to getting too close to a car in front of me) - > the battery is being recharged. I made a note of it in my very first post. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
peed limit is 100 or 110 km/h... There are reasons why, despite the screams from various influential, well-meaning but not very deeply thinking quarters, our highway speed limits have risen from 90 to 100-110 in many cases. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ope, while Passats are not very popular in the US but common in the Old World. Guess what: Americans drive much slower on average (highway speed limits between 55mph and 65mph). This could easily affect design decisions. [Again: no, I did not watch over the shoulders of Toyota or VW engineers.

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ly inside the city it is still not bad since you are not in an efficient regime anyway and much less can be done under 50km/h. (Well, getting a small, light car in this case will make sense, and screw aerodynamics). -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org __

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-15 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ervice and parts, etc. - and factor it in. Then you can repeat the exercise and check which model is more worthwhile for you. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-15 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Oleg Goldshmidt writes: > Even if your car is a plug-in there are things to consider. Take a new > Prius with an extended Li-ion battery with capacity of 4.4kWh. I pay > ILS0.54/kWh at home, so at 80% efficiency a full charge will set you > back about 3 shekels. At ILS8/l this is abo

Re: OT: Hybrid cars

2013-09-15 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
on because their models are different, e.g., you will not see a VW Jetta with a smaller than 2.0L engine in American reviews, whereas in Israel you can get a 1.2L or 1.4L TSI Jetta that is quite likely to be more economical than a 1.5L (or 1.8L) Prius (no, I did not check). Even

Re: [hopefully on topic] is SSH secure in default configuration?

2013-09-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
of course. [*] I hope no member of Linux-IL who has authored academic papers on attacks on AES that experts dubbed "almost practical" will be offended, either. ;-) https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_aes.html http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il

[hopefully on topic] is SSH secure in default configuration?

2013-09-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
nless someone I trust says AES-128 is suspect. And maybe not even then... But curiousity is killing this cat... -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Fedora 17 (Re: Winter clock issues in linux)

2013-09-07 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
bly, later versions) a normal update should bring the correct tzdata in. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Watch out for Bezeq

2013-09-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
frends. But do make sure you have a master password on FF (it's a setting), and do not try the same thing with Chrome that does not believe in passwords at all - cf. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/08/browser_password_poll/. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org

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

2013-08-19 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
anging the argument in > just one place rather than two. In bash, I use fc ("fix command") for this: $ printf "%s\n" 04 04 $ fc -s %s=%d printf "%d\n" 04 4 $ fc -s %d=%e printf "%e\n" 04 4.000000e+00 Very useful. Check out a

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
is large your mileage may vary. Literally. At some point you'll need to go to the printer to pick up the pages, anyway, but having to do it each time before clicking "Print" still looks kinda silly. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org __

Re: List of Israeli contributions to open source/Linux/Mint?

2013-08-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
sraelis which should be reconsidered if used by the > said individual or his distribution. Starting with Intel CPUs? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: how to determine PSU wattage

2013-08-01 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
xhausting "software" options. And, of course, I was curious - always a good excuse for me. Thanks again, and sorry for making you think I had less trivial needs, -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: how to determine PSU wattage

2013-08-01 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
wer requirements" calculators on the Web. I am guessing that a rough estimate (is it a 400W, 600W, 800W PSU?) should be OK for the purpose. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.a

Re: how to determine PSU wattage

2013-08-01 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Thanks, problem solved. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

how to determine PSU wattage

2013-07-31 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
, but neither returned anything for PSU. There is nothing on the outside of the PSU that I can find (well, it does say "220Vac"). Can acpid help? Am I out of luck? Thanks, -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailin

Re: output of CRON job

2013-07-31 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
self disappears. > > Any suggestions where to look? MTA logs? In particular, does cron generate a valid From/Sender? try adding MAILFROM=solomon (whatever is right) to the crontab file? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il

Re: Retooling my mail server

2013-07-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ing, except that apparently the tutorial assumes that you aready have a) hosted server, b) DNS, c) backup, d) some sort of redundancy setup, e) configured web server, etc. Knowing you, you probably have. ;-) As a generic "get rid of GMail in 2 hours" recipe for amateur cooks it may f

Re: mmap not async-signal-safe?

2013-07-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ption of System Calls and Library Functions by Signal Handlers"? [Also in "Interruption of System Calls and Library Functions by Stop Signals" right after that.] I may be misreading your question here. Hope it helps, anyway, -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: when linux was linux

2013-07-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
knowing which process higs the CPUs, but just to cover this angle as well. Disclaimers: 1) I have no real idea what the problem is in your case. 2) I do not even use nautilus or GNOME or XFCE myself, I am only waving my hands vigorously here. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org

Re: linking problems with several static libraries

2013-07-10 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ing the domain problem or proper modularization of functionality or both. This will likely bite your team in the future in more serious ways than this. So deal with it early. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Blu-Ray and Linux

2013-07-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
10 years ago themselves, but didn't. What am I missing in your theory? IANAL, etc., etc. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Linux on Haswell

2013-06-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
or CPU-related problem. If anything, the guy got the latest Asus mobo and made it work with F19 but not with F18. Some other dude (next in thread) succeeded with F18. Intel 4770 is mentioned incidentally but not fingered as problematic. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@

Re: Is it OK to poll() a device file descriptor

2013-06-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
le.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/poll.2.html: BUGS The poll() system call currently does not support devices. Your code works fine on Linux, but I suppose you know that. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Lin

Re: APL-like python for fun

2013-06-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
ot;pretty-unfontified" version's compiler barfs on that likely means that the algo is incomplete and some operation/function/whatever is un(der)?defined. This will be flagged before it aggravates the coder's life, etc. It's fun to muse, not just to write elisp. Thumbs up for kn

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