Re: problems upgrading an Ubuntu EC2 node

2016-02-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Posting the fix to list, in case someone searches the archives: Turns out that there were some leftover upstart files in /etc/init/, which apparently belonged to an old package (lxcguest) which had been uninstalled but left configured (possibly a remainder from a previous upgrade). Moving them awa

Re: problems upgrading an Ubuntu EC2 node

2016-02-20 Thread Amit Aronovitch
whoops. Forgot to attach log: Xen Minimal OS! start_info: 0xa01000(VA) nr_pages: 0x26700 shared_inf: 0x7ccbf000(MA) pt_base: 0xa04000(VA) nr_pt_frames: 0x9 mfn_list: 0x967000(VA) mod_start: 0x0(VA) mod_len: 0 flags: 0x

problems upgrading an Ubuntu EC2 node

2016-02-20 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Hi list, I have an Ubuntu machine on EC2, which I have been trying to upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04 using the do-release-upgrade command. This seemed to work well, but when it finally rebooted, it became unreachable (shows 1/2 checks passed in the EC2 management console, does not respond to ssh). I

scientific computing meeting: Tomorrow, 11/6/2012 in TelAviv

2012-06-10 Thread Amit Aronovitch
ething to talk about). For further details, see website: http://alturl.com/turwv thanks, Amit A. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

new group: number-crunching with free tools

2012-04-19 Thread Amit Aronovitch
ברצוני לבשר על הקמת קבוצה חדשה, שתנהל מפגשים פעם בחודש, בנושאים הקשורים לחישוב מדעי/נומרי בעזרת כלים חופשיים. קהל היעד הוא כל מי שמשתמש או רוצה להשתמש בכלים הללו - פתוח לכל, עד כדי מגבלת מקום. בינתיים יש אתר[1], ומעכשיו גם רשימת דיוור[2]. בימים הקרובים נתחיל לדבר על תאריך, מקום ותוכן. אז כל מי שיש

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce "Secure Boot"

2011-10-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:51 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Amit Aronovitch wrote: > > Setting aside the amusing political debates and going back to the original >> topic - what's the actual status of th

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce "Secure Boot"

2011-10-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Setting aside the amusing political debates and going back to the original topic - what's the actual status of the UEFI boot issue? (Following up on the link from Tzafrir's post:http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/6503.html, see my comments below ) On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: >

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce "Secure Boot"

2011-10-24 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:51 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Oct 24, 2011, at 1:56 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: > > > I wrote: > >> >>> The FSF is struggling to regain some semblance of public support after >>> RMS's >>> disastrous FSF boycott of Israel and his comme

Re: FSF Campaign against Microsoft's Plan to Enforce "Secure Boot"

2011-10-24 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011, Steve G. wrote about "Re: FSF Campaign against > Microsoft's Plan to Enforce "Secure Boot"": > > at least MS are not openly anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic, > > or anti 'the bad Jews/Israeli'. > > Indeed. I still remember ver

[Job Offer] Linux sysadmin (contractor/consultant) for TaKaDu

2011-03-12 Thread Amit Aronovitch
TaKaDu Ltd. is deploying new servers. We are looking for an experienced *nix sysadmin, possibly freelance/contractor/consultant, to help selecting/deploying/maintaining the infrastructure and requirements of the company platform. Extent of the job is around 40 hr/week for several months, until the

Re: Die GNU autotools

2011-01-10 Thread Amit Elbaz
haha, good one. anyway, use CMake :) On 01/10/2011 12:09 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: Sorry but I felt compelled to share this book title with you: I saw a book entitled "Die GNU Autotools" and I thought "My feelings exactly". Turns out the book was in German. ref: http://twitter.com/timmartin2/sta

Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2010-12-27 Thread Amit Elbaz
On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 20:37 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently finished working on a new document titled "How to Start > Contributing to or Using Open Source Software" intended to get more people > involved in the world of free and open source software (FOSS). You can find > it

Re: problems with syslogd [solved]

2010-06-10 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Oron Peled wrote: > > On Wednesday, 9 בJune 2010 15:14:44 Amit Aronovitch wrote: > > Recently I stopped getting any messages in /var/log/messages (and probably > > ... > > 1) /etc/syslogd.conf is debian's standard, seems to support &

Re: problems with syslogd

2010-06-09 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:27 PM, linux.il wrote: > > > > > 5) Google found some similar problem reports, but they all turned out to be > > either filesize overflow (have plenty of place on the /var/ partition btw), > > or crashed daemon. > > > may be your /var is out of inodes? nope, I think: pen

Re: problems with syslogd

2010-06-09 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Valery Reznic wrote: > Connect to syslogd with strace: > > strace -p syslogd_pid > > And then "provoke" message that should go to /var/log/messages > strace will show you what syslogd do. > May be it will reveal cause of the problem. > Does not help much. After the

problems with syslogd

2010-06-09 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Hi, Recently I stopped getting any messages in /var/log/messages (and probably some other files as well). Basic tests I could think of all check out OK (see below). Any ideas what I should check next? Using sysklogd+klogd 1.5 on Debian (unstable). 1) /etc/syslogd.conf is debian's standard, seems

Re: Hebrew e-mail - Mandriva 2010.0 - KDE4

2010-06-09 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I tried that and it does work, but there's no way I'll get my wife to do > that > - there's got to be an easier way :-( > > Is the KDE team or the people who handle Hebrew support aware of this > problem? > Should it be reported as a bug? > >

[OT] [Free association] Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-09-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
k that as such (teaching technology *in addition* to teaching other stuff), it is actually a good idea to teach basic computer skills. Of course, just MSPaint would be a poor choice of contents (and besides, Tuxpaint also makes those funny noises and much more fun :-) ). > > > Danny > &g

Re: Kingle/Reader on Linux in IL (WAS: Re: Linux / Computer Books in Israel)

2009-08-07 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Hi all - > > I read a few reviews of the Kindle2 vs. Sony Reader - > > Anyone out there have either of those and use it with Linux? AFAIK, I'll > see > > the storage as a USB device on either device - But what about purchasing > > books, etc

Re: switch in gawk

2009-05-14 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Omer Zak wrote: > > $ gawk 'END {switch(NR) {default: print NR}}' /dev/null > gawk: END {switch(NR) {default: print NR}} > gawk: ^ syntax error > > System: > $ uname -a > Linux c2 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Mar 26 01:08:11 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux > >

Re: Emacs & Hebrew

2009-02-21 Thread Amit Aronovitch
erested in this issue. I use emacs for daily work, but switch to gedit whenever there's Hebrew involved - not very convenient (but managable since work is in English)... If someone else starts working on this, I'll follow closely and maybe give a hand (if I find time). Amit

Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-09 Thread Amit Aronovitch
ad an angry/offended tone, which was amusing). - Amit ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: what's a reliable, easy to use slide show presenter?

2009-01-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
need to pause the show if you want to delay on some slide). A wireless mouse, which has 3 buttons or wheel (mid-button is used for backwards) is very handy, as you can move away from the computer. Also, gthumb can auto-build pretty web photo albums, which you can use if you dont

Re: site freezing - probably java related

2008-11-27 Thread Amit Aronovitch
elp. However, some binary search testing with the plugins and extensions reveals that the freeze occurs IFF the Java plugin is enabled. file: libjavaplugin_oji.so (Java 6 1.6.0.10) comes from Debian package sun-java6-bin version 6-10-2 I disable this and site does not hang... Amit

Re: good python IDE for linux?

2008-11-04 Thread Amit Aronovitch
hamakor.org.il/pipermail/python-il/2008-April/42.html Good luck, Amit

Re: gcc thoughts

2008-01-26 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On Jan 26, 2008 10:16 AM, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >From a brief glance at the gccxml Web site, the project looks to be > relatively unmaintained (at least). The most recent release was at > 2004. > --- Omer Well, I have not used it myself, but

Re: gcc thoughts

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Leonid Podolny wrote: > Hi, list, > This letter is probably better suited to hackers-il, but I need help > from people that are better acquainted with a development process of gcc. > This morning, while browsing through pages of frustratingly irrelevant > cscope output, I got an idea. In every kos

Re: Virtualization software on Linux

2007-09-20 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On 9/18/07, Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amit Aronovitch wrote: > > Note that (some? most new ones?) of these laptops come with "Home" > > versions of windows Vista on a "recovery partition". > > This is bundled (cannot be bought with

Re: IGLU down?

2007-09-19 Thread Amit Aronovitch
time, we'll probably want to discuss possibilites for switching the site to different technologies... thanks, Amit On 9/18/07, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > >

Re: Virtualization software on Linux

2007-09-18 Thread Amit Aronovitch
"Home") version with virtualization technology, so you will have to buy "Ultimate", "Enterprise" or the likes seperately (and that's a considerable addition to the price tag). BTW, how does Vista work virtualized? Do you run it without the 3d effects, or is there some way

Re: NTP configuration

2007-09-01 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi, > > Those of you who are paying attention will remember that I moved here > from Australia 4 months ago. Again, thanks to those who have answered > questions for me in that time (don't worry, there will be more). > > I've finally decided that it's time to configure NTP.

[Python-IL] Meeting - this Thursday 19:00 at Egloo

2007-08-07 Thread Amit Aronovitch
תזכורת - פגישת משתמשי פייתון תתקיים השבוע ביום חמישי 9/8/2007, במשרדי Egloo, רח' הסדנאות 3 בהרצליה. בתכנית: * הרן פלפל יספר על שפת Lua * לאחר מכן נמשיך בדיון הפתוח מהפעם הקודמת פרטים נוספים באתר: http://wiki.python.org.il/Upcoming_Meeting והערה אחרונה - דרוש מחשב נייד להרצאה. מי שמגיע ו

Re: [ATTN] [MOD] Deactivation of Linux-IL aliases at linux.org.il and iglu.org.il

2007-07-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
sages were lost. regards, Amit Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Linux-IL Moderator wrote: > >> Dear subscribers, >> First of all, I deeply apologize for bringing it up postfactum, but due to >> large amount of spam traffic coming through and inability to deal with

[Python-IL] next python meeting - Wednesday 11/7/07 18:30

2007-07-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
פגישת משתמשי פייתון תתקיים ב- 11/7/07, בשעה 18:30 במשרדי Egloo, רחוב הסדנאות 3 בהרצליה. הנושאים להפעם: * מאיר קריחלי על "להק" ו- Django * דיון פתוח - "שאלות לפורום". בין הנושאים שהוצעו: סביבות פיתוח, איסוף אשפה ועוד. פרטים ועדכונים באתר http://wiki.python.org.il/Upcoming_Meeting בברכה,

Re: [SUMMARY] Current status of Israeli ISPs

2007-06-20 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Amit Aronovitch: >> - Uses Netvision. Netvision seems to have a single Linux support >> person. It is easier to re-create the problem using a MS-Windows >> laptop and re

Re: Current status of Israeli ISPs

2007-06-18 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Omer Zak wrote: > What is the current status of Linux support by Israeli ISPs? > > I'm using Netvision. Following data might not be up to date, as I did not have any serious problems lately. Netvision seem to have support for Linux, but my policy still is - recreate the problem using windows (

[Python-IL] next python meeting - Wednesday 28/3/07 18:30

2007-03-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
פגישת משתמשי פייתון לחודש מרץ תתקיים ב- 28/3/07, בשעה 18:30 במשרדי Egloo, רחוב הסדנאות 3 בהרצליה. הנושאים להפעם: בני צ'רניאבסקי על metaclasses Simon Robins על SOAP בפייתון (קצר) פרטים ועדכונים באתר http://wiki.python.org.il/Upcoming_Meeting בברכה, עמית

Re: scan to PDF question

2007-03-21 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On 3/20/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:51:50PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > * can use Sane to scan a document > * can save it to PDF > * The PDF shouldn't be a dumb TIFF/JPG file page/collection, but a > "real" PDF (so I can search/grep for words

Re: Why are GNOME applications (and applets) take so much [EMAIL PROTECTED] memory ?

2007-02-10 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Eli Marmor wrote: > The programs were also friendlier, because all the options in the > (limited) UI/menus/etc were textual, in simple English, and not > graphical icons that you must be a genious to guess what the programmer > meant. If icons were really friendlier than text, it could be useful i

Re: skype under debian ?

2007-02-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Amos Shapira wrote: > On 07/02/07, *Peter* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > Has anybody got the latest skype working under debian/testing ? > Here it > starts up and gets stuck when I try to call out (including echo) > > > What version? 1.3.0.53

[Python-IL] next python meeting - Tuesday 30/1/07 18:30

2007-01-28 Thread Amit Aronovitch
פגישת משתמשי פייתון לחודש ינואר תתקיים ב"איגלו", רחוב הסדנאות 3, קומה ג', הרצליה. בתכנית להפעם: 18:30 : שחר יצחקי על Robin 19:45 : בני צ'רניאבסקי על "Pygame, Numeric and Magic Fields" פרטים/עדכונים בויקי: http://wiki.python.org.il/Upcoming_Meeting בברכה, עמית ===

Re: Convince me to switch to Digikam (Was: Exaile - a Gtk+-based Amarok Clone)

2007-01-15 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Amos Shapira wrote: > On 16/01/07, *Dotan Cohen* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Thanks, I did install libkipi0-dev and libexiv2-dev via apt-get. > However, it still complains about exiv2: > config.status: config.h is unchanged > config.status: executing

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-15 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Oren Held wrote: > A. VMware Server (formerly GSX) which is free for use. > B. Dan Aloni's coLinux (Not full virtualization but very interesting > and good for some purposes) - http://colinux.sf.net . However you need > a windows X Server (i.e. Hummingbird Exceed or Cygwin Xorg) to get the > GUI.

Python-IL Meeting: Wednesday, 27/12

2006-12-23 Thread Amit Aronovitch
פגישת הפייתונאים לחודש דצמבר תתקיים ביום ד' 27/12/06, בשעה 19:30. הפגישה תערך במשרדי חברת Egloo, ברחוב הסדנאות 3 בהרצליה, קומה 3. הנושאים להפעם: * נדב סמט ידבר על TurboGears * תומר פיליבה ידבר על pyconstruct לפרטים נוספים, מומלץ להתעדכן בדף הפגישה: http://wiki.python.org.il/Meeting_27_Dec

Re: starting an X application from remote computer

2006-12-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > On 12/21/06, *Ori Idan* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > I have two computers on internal network (both of them Debian > unstable) > I would like to login to a remote computer using gdm. > > > That is, you want to start an entirely

[pythonil] - meeting, Wednesday 22/11/06, Herzeliya

2006-11-13 Thread Amit Aronovitch
30-21:00 Other topics are under discussion, For updates and more details, see the wiki: http://wiki.python.org.il/Upcoming_Meeting Regards, Amit Aronovitch --- שלומות, לאחר הפסקה ארוכה, יש לנו מארח חדש, והפגישות מתחדשות. תאריך:יום ד', 22 בנובמבר 2006,

Re: Novell and Microsoft

2006-11-13 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Ariel Biener wrote: > Is it at all possible for people on this list to accept the following: > > 1). We can only speculate at the motivations behind Microsoft+Novell > agreement. > Right. But wild speculation is always fun (and sometimes might even be fruitful) > 2). None of us has a definitive

Re: force umount

2006-11-01 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Erez D wrote: > found another very nice solution for smb/cifs (at least for my case) > it is very usful for other things too > > it is called SHFS > you can mount whatever you can make ssh connection to > > RTFM: http://shfs.sourceforge.net/ > > erez. Hmm... How about FUSE over smbclient? Should n

Re: Tab Completion in GRUB on Fedora on x86_64 machines - does it work??

2006-11-01 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Debian x86_64 GNU GRUB 0.97: The 64 bit shell tool does not autocomplete. However: 1) Actual boot loader does complete (I'm not sure which version it was when I installed it. I think /boot/grub/stage2 just stayed there ever since). I think it was installed from the 64bit debian package - but I

Re: 2 ssh servers on 1 ip

2006-10-18 Thread Amit Aronovitch
ssh -p 501 -o HostKeyAlias=host1.home.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh -p 502 -o HostKeyAlias=host2.home.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] man ssh_config for more details :-) On 10/18/06, Erez D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi i have one ip on the internet, but two ssh servers. so i did port forwarding: port 501

Re: קוד פתוח אלק

2006-09-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Re: linux.org.il Let's be more constructive - write in action-items format, and use the contact links on the site instead of posting here. See comments below On 9/25/06, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Slick graphic > excution does not have any added value for this site. There are

Re: Problems with iglu.org.il and how we can attempt to resolve them

2006-09-15 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On 9/15/06, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I see from this link that there is a lot behind the scenes beyond the current thread, so I better just shut up because I don't know the entire story here. Actually, I for one, would be happy to hear the solution of this mystery (maybe some ker

Re: Problems with iglu.org.il and how we can attempt to resolve them

2006-09-14 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On 9/15/06, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 15/09/06, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a last-resort fall-back line before system crash - maybe consider using > > dynamic swap space allocators like swapd or swapspace: > > > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/sw

Re: Windows PowerShell

2006-08-29 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Nadav Har'El wrote: > From these, I think that psh is far from what I'm looking for. I am not > looking for a shell with a different syntax (in this case, Perl's syntax), > but rather a shell whose pipelines passes not unstructured text (in a unix > pipe) but rather structured objects. > Such a sh

Re: Recommendations for XP under Linux

2006-07-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
One option that was not mentioned here, which might be easier under some circumstances, is using rdesktop to connect to some windows machine you have a login on. The company might have a dedicated server for such use, or you might have a co-worker running windows 2003 server that wouldn't mind you

Re: Outlook Web Access - Hebrew

2006-07-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
One thing I noticed, some time ago, was that the outlook web interface presented in IE was much better than in other browsers (completely different organization of the main "portal", different navigation panels, some buttons don't appear at all, etc.). Playing with the browser-id revealed that thi

[pythonil] Python-IL Meeting: Monday, 26/6, new location

2006-06-24 Thread Amit Aronovitch
פגישת הפייתונאים לחודש יוני תתקיים הפעם בחברת Kashya. שימו לב למיקום החדש: רחוב אבא הלל 7, רמת גן (ליד צומת "עלית"), בית סילבר, קומה 8. תודה לאנשי Aduva/Sun שארחו אותנו עד היום, ובמיוחד לליאור. על סדר היום: 18:30 - רוני מאור על SQLAlchemy 20:00 - "קצרים" - לפי הצע וביקוש פרטים באתר http:/

cups locale wierdness

2006-06-23 Thread Amit Aronovitch
orter. These come about because I'm actually running a 32bit binary driver using dchroot from a 64bit cupsd (but it should have no effect, because I also ran my debugging script on the 64bit side). Thanks, Amit = To u

Re: amd64-bit/32-bit woes

2006-06-21 Thread Amit Aronovitch
n't run "xv", but "/usr/bin/xv" (a good idea, btw. this way we know exactly which 'xv' we're running). Do you have several "xv" commands on the ia32 chroot? Maybe you have something on /usr/local/bin/ Maybe the chrooted shell sees the 'xv' launcher script itself (the modified do_dchroot, which you used in previous code sample). >>> I'll be damned! >>> >> until you start adding debug messages to your script. then you'll be >> puzzled - and that's a much better state of being ; >> > In my experience, these two states are not incompatible. > Puzzling indeed. Currently my best guess is that somehow the 'xv' command on the chrooted system runs the launcher script itself again (which is called xv too), and since it has that 'if' inside it, it does not do anything. Good luck, Amit = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 32-bit chroot environement for amd64

2006-06-21 Thread Amit Aronovitch
.conf, /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/ (contains a sample file with listing of all recognized options), the apt-doc package (short html manuals) plus several guides on the net (I seem to recall some detailed html one but can't find it). Best, Amit =

Re: 32-bit chroot environement for amd64

2006-06-19 Thread Amit Aronovitch
that it's a "personal use only" license (distributing binaries is illegal, even if you buy the "site license"), so even in non-free it would be illegal. However, I'm sure an automatic installer in "contrib" (like the ones for Java or MS truetype fonts) wo

Re: 32-bit chroot environement for amd64

2006-06-18 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Avraham Rosenberg wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:50:59PM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote: > >> To avoid trouble, I try to run everything in the pure 64 environment, >> with minimal stuff on the 32bit chroot. >> Can you give the specific reasons why you nee

Re: 32-bit chroot environement for amd64

2006-06-09 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Avraham Rosenberg wrote: > Hi, > Still struggling with my new amd64 system and with its 32-bit > chroot environement. > Here it works mostly fine. Sometimes it needs some tweaks, mainly related to changing behaviour of the dchroot utility (between new releases of the package). > I installed it

[Python-IL] reminder - 29/5/06 יום שני

2006-05-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
‫שלום, ברצוני להזכיר שפגישת הפייתונאים הבאה תתקיים ביום שני הקרוב, 29/5/06 במשרדי אדובה ברמת גן. http://www.python.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/Upcoming_Meeting על הפרק: * 18:30-19:30 - אלי גולובינסקי על wxPython ‫* 20:00-21:00 - רוני מאור על Twill או על SQLAlchemy‬ פרטים, עדכונים, קשר - בו

Re: charge per usage (a bit off topic)

2006-04-23 Thread Amit Aronovitch
to count specific IP's (e.g. Hamakor mirrors) for this "fine"? After all, open-source distros and package updates are not such a big chunk of traffic (surely when compared to P2P networks) - they might think it's worth it for a little PR. Amit ===

[Python-IL] reminder - 24/4/06 יום שני

2006-04-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
‫שלום, ברצוני להזכיר שפגישת הפייתונאים הבאה תתקיים ביום שני הקרוב, 24/4/06 במשרדי אדובה ברמת גן. http://www.python.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/Upcoming_Meeting על הפרק: * 18:30-19:30 - Michael Bernstein על Zope ‫* 20:00-21:00 - נעם רפאל על GUI בעזרת Glade ו- PyGTK‬ פרטים, עדכונים, קשר - בויקי

[Job Offer] - Zend is looking for a Product Delivery Engineer.

2006-03-26 Thread Amit Roseberger
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[Job Offer] - Zend is looking for a Unix/Linux Build Master

2006-03-20 Thread Amit Roseberger
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[Python-IL] reminder - 21/3/06 יום שלישי

2006-03-19 Thread Amit Aronovitch
‫שלום, ברצוני להזכיר שפגישת הפייתונאים הבאה תתקיים ביום שלישי הקרוב, 21/3/06 במשרדי אדובה ברמת גן. http://www.python.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/Upcoming_Meeting על הפרק: * 18:30-20:00 - מערכות ניהול גרסאות (subversion, gnu arch, bazaar-ng, ואולי עוד). * 20:00-21:00 - הדגמה של Robin , ע"י מיש

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-11 Thread Amit Aronovitch
I don't think that's got anything to do with the "free"ness of mplayer.The dll's are not packed in the mplayer package -  your'e supposed to download them from mplayer site or whatever yourself (you can actually watch many types of videos with free codecs only, and whichever extra codecs you choose

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-07 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Re: mplayer deb-packageI think I recall some ugly flamewars between mplayer upstream dev and debian maintainers (in debian mailing lists), so there might be some personal issues in this. I was not able to google them up, but I found this link http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html which

Re: Crossover office - Writing hebrew in IE

2006-03-06 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Daniel Feiglin wrote: > Version 2 of Crossover Office seemed to work OK, and then it broke on > version 3+. > > Solution: > Using Samba, network and old Pentium II just to run MS IE, Office &c. Interesting idea. Will a PII work faster than QEMU on an Athlon? (How about VMWare?) Note that to make

Re: More Data (was: Re: Trouble with Gnome 2.12 after upgrade to current Debian Testing packages)

2006-02-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
he_IL is for locale.AFAIK the correct xorg layout name is "il". At least that's what's in my (working) config...

Re: RESEND: Trouble with Gnome 2.12 after upgrade to current Debian Testing packages

2006-02-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
In Desktop->Preferences->Keyboard->Layout Optionsthere's the "Group Shift/Lock behaviour" droplist with all the normal key combinations to choose from.At least it's there on my machine - I have version 2.12.3-2 of gnome-control-center (that's the current default for unstable).btw, if your'e messin

Re: outofthis mess soundadvice

2005-12-02 Thread Amit Aronovitch
for backup: I think the best way would be on HD. Do you have an empty partition big enough to contain your whole current distro? Maybe a new hard-disk? When I moved to amd64 distro I kept my old harddisk connected in a removable "drawer".  I can still boot to it on emergency, but the best thing

continuing multisession cd with xcdroast: cdda2wav -J problem

2005-11-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
tisessions with newer versions of cdrw tools? (Maybe more modern burning progs don't use cdda2wav at all) Regards Amit = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

python-IL : meeting 15/11 18:00

2005-11-11 Thread Amit Aronovitch
The Hebrew announcement will be followed by an English one... פגישת הפייתונאים לחודש נובמבר תפתח גם הפעם בשיעור למתחילים מאת נעם רפאל. הפגישה תתקיים ביום ג', 15/11/05 בשעה 18:00, במשרדי חברת "אדובה", רחוב בצלאל 33 רמת גן (מגדלי פז), קומה 13. שעור המתחילים דורש ידע בסיסי כלשהו בתכנות. זהו השעור הש

Re: help my bash is gone

2005-10-31 Thread Amit Aronovitch
The problem with this issue, is that there is a wide range of possible causes to this problem, spanning a large 'diagnosis tree'. This makes it hard to diagnose by iterative mail questions. I'll try to ask enough questions to cover the "more reasonable?" causes. Aaron wrote: >>>"cd" command not f

Re: help my bash is gone

2005-10-31 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Amos Shapira wrote: >On 10/31/05, Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hi all, >> >>I have this strange behaviour that when I open a new term session or >>even in an existing term sesstion I will execute a common command such >>as ls or cd and the shell returns command not found. usually I can

Re: debian-amd64 mirror (fwd)

2005-10-27 Thread Amit Aronovitch
the package-lists smoothly. Since my distro is up to date now, I don't know about installs. I'll do tommorow's installs from the new mirror and let you know if any trouble. Amit = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Israeli Linux Logo

2005-10-22 Thread Amit Aronovitch
On 10/21/05, Shoshannah Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Putting the other comments aside for a moment, it seems to me thatthe text has a grammatical error in it. Shouldn't it be "מערכתההפעלה הכי כשרה"- and not "מערכת הפעלה" (noticethe extra heh)? Yeah,  and while we're at it - note the position

Re: Reminder: Python-IL Meeting Today

2005-10-18 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Sorry for messing up the link :-( here it goes again: http://www.python.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/Meeting_19_October_2005 Regards, Amit = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe&qu

Reminder: Python-IL Meeting Today

2005-10-18 Thread Amit Aronovitch
an be found at this Python-IL Wiki page: http://www.python.org.il/mediawiki/index.php?Meeting_19_October_2005 Regards, Amit Aronovitch = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscri

Re: Wireless card (zd1211)

2005-10-17 Thread Amit Aronovitch
If you do use zd1211 - few things to note: 1) Last time I checked, the released tar.gz on sourceforge did not work. Use the cvs version. 2) There's also another development branch on subversion: http://zd1211.ath.cx/   That IS the same project, but the two branches are not fully merged yet,

Re: rdesktop tip: If you use Alt-Shfit to switch languages...

2005-10-02 Thread Amit Aronovitch
, BUT - now some important keys (the normal arrows, insert/end/home/del) are completely ignored ... Any idea what's going on? Amit Ilya Konstantinov wrote: >Hi, > >Something useful I just found out: > >If you use rdesktop to connect to a Windows machine a

Re: python script for scribus

2005-10-01 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Hi Aaron, I don't think I understand what you are trying to do. Can you explain more clearly, maybe with some examples? (I'm not familiar with scribus, so example of how the numbers should be formatted would help). If you sent the script itself as attachment - it does not appear on the list. Ple

Reminder: Python-IL Meeting Tomorrow

2005-09-19 Thread Amit Aronovitch
food, and talk. * 20:00 - 21:00 - Using matplotlib, by Amit Aronovitch Attendance is free. ~10 NIS as pay for the refreshments would be welcome. More information can be found at this Python-IL Wiki page: http://www.python.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/Meeting_20_September_2005 Regards,

Re: Linux-based Windows rescue/cleanup cd?

2005-09-16 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: >I belive in: use the best tool for your job. > >What I would recommend is not a Linux solution, but sort of "mini >windows" solution. > >It's called: bartPE, it's GPL'd, and it creates an ISO image from your >current Windows XP installation. Prior to making the ISO, you can a

Re: errors when starting X

2005-08-10 Thread Amit Aronovitch
#x27;m guessing the libspeedo thing is similiarly harmless (some unused "encode" funcs?). The issue was marked as a minor bug against xserver-xfree86: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=178210%3A However, unstable only recently switched to x.org (6.8.2 now - but I'm s

Re: [Possible off-topic] Decent x86_64 book

2005-08-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Leonid Podolny wrote: > Hi, > Apparently, I will be in charge of porting our (kernel-space) > application from ia-32 to x86_64 (aka EM64T) which I have very little > experience with. So I think I will need a good book. The Linux kernel > context would be a HUGE advantage, but it is not mandatory in

Re: [Possible off-topic] Decent x86_64 book

2005-08-07 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Leonid Podolny wrote: >> Hi, >> Apparently, I will be in charge of porting our (kernel-space) >> application from ia-32 to x86_64 (aka EM64T) which I have very little >> experience with. So I think I will need a good book. The Linux kernel >> context would be a HUGE advantage, but it is not mandat

Re: Apache2 on Sarge doesn't list large files

2005-07-29 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Ira Abramov wrote: > > > check this out: > > [Fri Jul 29 09:30:58 2005] [error] [client 192.115.133.133] (75)Value too > large for defined data type: access to > /centos/CentOS-4.1-x86_64-binDVD1/CentOS-4.1-x86_64-binDVD1.iso failed > > looks like it's been open in Debian for quite some time

Re: system clock loops

2005-07-25 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Ehud Karni wrote: >You can use ntp.ilan.net.il (aka ntp.net.il) - startum 1 (using lab >atomic clocks - not GPS - I think it is more accurate). > >Stratum 2 Israeli ntp servers: timeserver.iix.net.il , openu.ilan.net.il . > >BTW. Why do you need startum 1 (which telescope do you operate ?). > >

[Job Offer] - Product delivery Engineer.

2005-07-25 Thread Amit Roseberger
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, and creator of products and services supporting the development, deployment and management of PHP-based applications is seeking a qualified person to be a team member in an integration & quality assurance group for one of our products line. The offer i

[Job Offer] - Product Delivery Engineer.

2005-07-25 Thread Amit Roseberger
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, and creator of products and services supporting the development, deployment and management of PHP-based applications is seeking a qualified person to be a team member in an integration & quality assurance group for one of our products line. The Job is

Re: system clock loops

2005-07-24 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > I am a Nevtvision customer, they use a GPS unit to give them a stratum > one server. I would avoid the overloaded server at HUJI if at all possible. Netvision here too - but I see them as stratum 2. I sync to ntp.netvision.net.il (+ 2/3 times europe.pool.ntp.org for

Re: trapping recursive rm

2005-07-21 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Thanks for the ideas, people. I'll start with a simple sticky subdir containing files owned by most probable users (tks, Oron & Guy). With some luck, that might narrow down the 'who did it' and perhaps the 'from where' too (of course, it might never happen again so I'll never know). now, for some

trapping recursive rm

2005-07-20 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Situation: -- * I have a shared directory tree, world writable, shared by NFS server (I'm not sure of server's OS - probably solaris, maybe linux) to many client machines (whole network has common users/authentication scheme). * Recently I found that most of the contents of this dir had be

Re: Grayscale charts

2005-07-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Eran Tromer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for free software to render a 2D dataset as grayscale chart, > i.e., as a matrix whose cell colors are determined by the corresponding > dataset elements. It should include the usual aids (tickmarks, scale > legend, axis titles etc.), and preferably should

Re: my new Palm Zire 72

2005-07-08 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > There is no point in doing Ctrl-Z. If you want to shoot - shoot, don't > talk. Ctrl-C. and if this does not work, you can also try Crtl-\ (backslash) (sometimes progs stop responding to SIGINT, but they still respond to this - it sends SIGQUIT)

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