Re: RavKav Online

2017-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
from, but the rest can be found in glibc (and with > the license text suggesting the program is written in GO). I haven't > checked out opal.com.au, but does it allow refilling your card from the > website without a card reader? > > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:21:05PM +1100,

Re: RavKav Online

2017-03-07 Thread Amos Shapira
Why do they need a client anyway? What does the special client do that a browser can't? I suppose the parallel here in Sydney is https://www.opal.com.au/ and it all works from the browser. Even the "mobile support" is just a mobile view of the same web site at https://m.opal.com.au/ On 8 March 20

Re: sendmail or ssmtp or ??

2017-01-06 Thread Amos Shapira
Why do you need an SMTP server? You need an SMTP client talking to whichever SMTP server your hosting provider provides you. e.g. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer (I only remember it because of a security flaw published about it last week, but it's PHP so... meh.) On 6 January 2017 at 07:34,

Re: CentOS yum install problem

2016-12-08 Thread Amos Shapira
I'd also check that your DNS configuration haven't changed, e.g. try "host mirrorlist.centos.org" and see if you can get it to resolve. On 9 December 2016 at 08:35, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: > Seems right, try commenting the mirror line and use a direct URL, and see > if it's help. You can also

Re: strange ping and traceroute results

2016-11-24 Thread Amos Shapira
stan.com.au) doesn't use Anycast. On 24 November 2016 at 04:06, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > On 22/11/16 02:19, Amos Shapira wrote: > > On 21 November 2016 at 18:20, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > >> The DNS resolving google.com guesses your gegraphical location, and >> gives

Re: strange ping and traceroute results

2016-11-21 Thread Amos Shapira
y neat, personally I find it a fascinating trick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast --Amos -- <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: strange ping and traceroute results

2016-11-20 Thread Amos Shapira
Google.com is not one computer. Google spreads their locations all over the world including pops in many ISP's. https://peering.google.com/#/ On 20 November 2016 at 19:18, shimi wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Shlomo Solomon > wrote: > >> On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 08:25:18 +0200 >> shi

Re: Gradual installation of debian packages

2016-08-06 Thread Amos Shapira
es (e.g., duration of receive time), it is > not easy to know you're not breaking something for someone by mistake. > > It could be for example the physical location of the antenna at the client > which would make a difference. > > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Am

Re: Gradual installation of debian packages

2016-08-05 Thread Amos Shapira
ints, but in this particular case, where > testing is expensive, not all of them seems valid. > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Amos Shapira > wrote: > >> What provisioning tools do you use to manage these servers? Please tell >> me you aren't doing all of this m

Re: Gradual installation of debian packages

2016-08-05 Thread Amos Shapira
to revert the change altogether. If you are in a properly supported virtual environment then I'd even go for immutable server images (e.g. Packer building AMI's, or Docker containers), then it's a matter of just firing up an instance of the new image both when testing and in produc

IS there anyone here with experience with VyOS/Vyatta?

2016-07-27 Thread Amos Shapira
ther annoyances. Specifically I'm now trying to use it for remote-access l2tp/ipsec and also have an issue with the office VyOS having trouble generating DNS traffic using the right source address. --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-i

Re: Questions for network/hardware engineer candidates?

2016-07-04 Thread Amos Shapira
ut me having to keep holding their hand. On 5 July 2016 at 10:04, Shay Gover wrote: > Hi Amos, > > Please define Hardware and Network. Server? PCs? PC Technician? Something > else? > > Shay > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 2:36 AM, Amos Shapira > wrote: > >> Hi, >&g

Questions for network/hardware engineer candidates?

2016-07-04 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, My workplace is looking to fill in a position for a hardware/network person, someone to look mostly after the office network. Do people here have ideas about where to look for good interview questions/exercises for such a role? Thanks, --Amos

Re: single threaded web servers

2016-07-02 Thread Amos Shapira
at 08:35, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jul 2016 07:13:13 +1000 > Amos Shapira wrote: > > > Thanks for the explanation. I like this. > > How would a single-threaded process take advantage of muti- CPU? > > Threads is just one method of multiprocessing. IIRC, back in th

Re: single threaded web servers

2016-07-02 Thread Amos Shapira
der=="HelloWorld") > { > HttpResponse(200,"Hello, world"); > } else { > File::Read(request,header,[](bool success, string body) > { > if (success) >HttpResponse(400,body); > } e

Re: single threaded web servers

2016-06-30 Thread Amos Shapira
I'm curious - what's the background of this question? What's the original goal that led you to ask this? On 28 June 2016 at 18:04, Erez D wrote: > i tried searching the web but got no result > > what web servers other than node.js are single threaded ? > anyone has experience with one ? > is the

Re: iba.org.il programs

2016-06-06 Thread Amos Shapira
I don't watch much but noticed that היהודים באים is available on youtube officially by IBA. Here is the Youtube account which makes it available, perhaps the program you are interested in is also available? https://www.youtube.com/user/MEDIAIBA On 6 June 2016 at 08:02, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Hi

Re: vdsl2 router

2016-03-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8 March 2016 at 21:01, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > > > 2016-03-08 9:10 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira : > >> What exact model of TP-Link have you got? >> > WR740N (v4.x), WR841ND (v5.x), WR1043ND (v1.x) > >> I have a TP-Link AC1750 ADSL2+ modem router which is great ex

Re: vdsl2 router

2016-03-07 Thread Amos Shapira
What exact model of TP-Link have you got? I have a TP-Link AC1750 ADSL2+ modem router which is great except that OpenWRT doesn't support this specific model's WiFi well (see multiple "Notes" in https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c5-c7-wdr7500) So I'm half-heartedly on the lookout for somet

Re: OT: SSL certificates

2016-03-07 Thread Amos Shapira
I too would recommend letsenctlrypt. The only down side is possibly that you have to keep renewing (automatically with a cron job) every three months. Alternatively, www.ssls.com lists very very cheap certs. On 8 Mar 2016 4:49 p.m., "Baruch Siach" wrote: > Hi Gabor, > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 07

Re: [OT] Password regex change on mybills.co.il

2016-02-27 Thread Amos Shapira
One condition I see from this regex which wasn't mentioned yet is that there should be at least two *consecutive* letters in the password. All in all, as Steve said - this is an idiotic way to enforce such complex requirements (and I consider myself a regex enthusiast), and they should fix their o

Re: problems upgrading an Ubuntu EC2 node

2016-02-22 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks for coming back with the solution. Though in a broader perspective: "you are holding it wrong" - get used to the fact that you are running in the cloud and use it right - learn to build your images from scratch so you can move to a updated base image and automatically install and configure

Re: More pieces of the IPv6 puzzle (Re: ISP with native ipv6 in isarael)

2016-01-30 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks everyone. On 30 Jan 2016 12:43 a.m., "Yuval Adam" wrote: > > > On 01/29/2016 11:52 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: > > > > Does anyone here have experience with public IPv6 in the cloud > > (AWS/DigitalOcean/Google, in decreasing order of preference)? >

Re: More pieces of the IPv6 puzzle (Re: ISP with native ipv6 in isarael)

2016-01-29 Thread Amos Shapira
Does anyone here have experience with public IPv6 in the cloud (AWS/DigitalOcean/Google, in decreasing order of preference)? On 29 Jan 2016 6:19 a.m., "E.S. Rosenberg" wrote: 2016-01-28 20:37 GMT+02:00 Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin < beni.cherniav...@gmail.com>: > Due to bezeq's modem's wifi unreliabil

Re: Python for Kids

2016-01-11 Thread Amos Shapira
I'd be interested to hear about resources for these ages in English too. On 11 January 2016 at 01:11, Justin wrote: > Has anyone discovered good resources for teaching kids python? Hebrew? > (Ages 8-11) > > Code.org has great resources for abstract programing. They even translate > into Hebrew.

Re: Problems while trying to install CENTOS 7

2015-12-31 Thread Amos Shapira
You should also take the offer by the installer to checksum the media. On 1 January 2016 at 03:18, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Israel! > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Israel Shikler > wrote: > >> I downloaded Centos 7 from a mirror site in Israel, >> In the first time I created an installatio

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

2015-12-24 Thread Amos Shapira
Backports? https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/ On 25 Dec 2015 9:04 a.m., "E.S. Rosenberg" wrote: > Unless it has dependencies that force you 'onward' there is no reason > not to download the deb and install it manually > > 2015-12-24 20:14 GMT+02:00 Omer Zak : > > As it turned out,

Re: Summary: Which Linux distribution is stable yet up-to-date

2015-12-01 Thread Amos Shapira
I tried to avoid this discussion but I'm a little surprised that nobody mentioned Debian Testing. I've used it as a desktop for a decade or so and it had a great combination of very good stability (i.e. I can't recall it ever disappointed me) and still relatively up to date. But then again - it's b

Re: persistent private browsing ?

2015-11-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks. As far as I know (I left this company almost four years ago), this is a subset of the metrics they collect. On 18 November 2015 at 21:49, Yedidyah Bar David wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Amos Shapira > wrote: > >> Tell me about it :) >> I used to w

Re: persistent private browsing ?

2015-11-17 Thread Amos Shapira
Tell me about it :) I used to work for an Australian startup which makes money from just doing this (and a few other tricks) - threatmetrix.com On 18 November 2015 at 07:46, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > BTW The plugins/addons/language preferences you use and advertise to > the website actually help i

Any Chrome extension developers around here?

2015-11-17 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I have a itch with Chrome I'd like to scratch but don't have time to learn how to program a Chrome extension. Does anyone here know how to program Chrome extensions and is interested in a small project? It's about controlling which of multiple parallel logged in Chrome users (think - workpla

Re: Void Linux tips

2015-10-21 Thread Amos Shapira
What's the advantage of this distro? I may be old and tired but I have to see a unique strong benefit for deviating from the mainstream. On 22 October 2015 at 06:18, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently switched over to Void Linux, a KISS principle distro much > closer to Slack than to Ub

Re: KODI on Raspberry PI2 - no screen output

2015-10-20 Thread Amos Shapira
There very active forums for OpenELEC and kodi. I suggest that you try asking there too. On 21 Oct 2015 6:37 a.m., "Shlomi Fish" wrote: > Hi Shlomo! > > Just a question: > > Shlomo Solomon >> http://the-solomons.net >> Sent by Claws Mail 3.11.1 - KDE 4.12.15 - LINUX Mageia 4 >> >> > Are you still

Re: [OT] Deleting Thousends of Messages in Gmail

2015-08-23 Thread Amos Shapira
What would be the advantage of Claws e-mail over the previously provided GMail web interface search? I got the impression the web interface can achieve this on the server side, which will save network bandwidth and time. On 24 August 2015 at 11:28, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 23:07:0

Re: Major rendering bug affecting Hebrew in pango has been fixed

2015-08-22 Thread Amos Shapira
Is this the same code used in Android? Just today I read a Hebrew article in Pocket (https://getpocket.com/) on my Nexus 5 and was reminded that it still justifies the "mobilized" version to the left. On 23 August 2015 at 05:53, Dov Grobgeld wrote: > This might be interesting to someone on the l

Any Chrome extension developer looking for a project?

2015-07-28 Thread Amos Shapira
uot;) and tell Chrome "If you are sent these URL's then open them using the 'work' account". Now, since nobody could point me to an existing way to do that, and I couldn't find such an extension myself, I thought it might be an interesting pr

[JOB] Looking for a Linux NetFilter or general Kernel module programmer

2015-07-23 Thread Amos Shapira
other forums to publish this job, would be greatly appreciated. Please respond in private e-mail to me (amos.shap...@gmail.com), more details will be provided to relevant responses. Thanks. --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http

Re: Extending R.E. Syntax

2015-07-21 Thread Amos Shapira
The sages of Linux has a saying "Talk is cheap, show me the code". https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#2000-04 On 21 July 2015 at 15:22, Omer Zak wrote: > The ancient sages of Israel have a saying "סוף מעשה - במחשבה תחילה", > meaning that the end of a project is as planned in the begi

Re: Eliminating binary from a text file

2015-07-20 Thread Amos Shapira
Then how about: "grep -v -P -a '\x00' file"? Based on http://superuser.com/a/612336/27453. Explantion of the flags: -v - inverse - print NON-matching lines -P - use Perl regexp -a - force treating the file as a text file On 21 July 2015 at 13:39, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > On 21/07/15 00:22, B

Re: Eliminating binary from a text file

2015-07-20 Thread Amos Shapira
+1 for "tr -d '\0' < file > newfile", based on the updated description. But "prevention is better than a cure" - find a way to avoid this in the first place. On 21 July 2015 at 07:22, Boruch Baum wrote: > I see that I'm late to the discussion and that your original problem has > morphed a bit. M

Fwd: [SLUG] Fwd: 8TiB HDD, 10^14 bit error rate, approaching certainty of error for each "drive of data" read

2015-06-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Interesting thread about ZFS and large disks bit-rot... -- Forwarded message -- From: Zenaan Harkness Date: 10 June 2015 at 11:52 Subject: [SLUG] Fwd: 8TiB HDD, 10^14 bit error rate, approaching certainty of error for each "drive of data" read To: s...@slug.org.au FYI -

Re: New Qemu and VirtualBox docs for Linux

2015-05-23 Thread Amos Shapira
emely powerful way to document repeatable and automated steps. Cheers, --Amos On 24 May 2015 at 08:31, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > As part of my DIY Linux push, I've completed documents on running and > modifying Linux distros on Qemu and VirtualBox. There are many &

Re: Linux Kernel 4.0 is Out + Debian Jessie Planned Upcoming Release

2015-04-15 Thread Amos Shapira
inally a Chinese curse is unsubstantiated). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times "Break a leg" is a wish for good luck, though :) Go figure... --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: formatting a disk for a home NAS

2015-04-14 Thread Amos Shapira
ntext I'd expect 99% that ext4 will do just fine for the job. Good luck, --Amos On 14 April 2015 at 17:17, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > Of course you're going to reformat, after all the technicalities of > the local fs will be hidden from the clients by nfs/smb/(web)dav. > > A

Re: I've been hacked, or not?

2015-04-13 Thread Amos Shapira
e IF you are working off someone elses money and/or > paying for your own time. > > If, however, this is something done in your spare time, serving mostly you > and being paid for out of your own pocket, the difference between 8€/mo and > what you said becomes big. > > Shacha

Re: I've been hacked, or not?

2015-04-13 Thread Amos Shapira
-121119074533-phpapp02/95/cern-data-centre-evolution-17-638.jpg (from http://www.slideshare.net/gmccance/cern-data-centre-evolution, origin at http://www.slideshare.net/randybias/pets-vs-cattle-the-elastic-cloud-story) --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: Bezeq Ruter

2015-04-12 Thread Amos Shapira
I wonder - do you have to get the modem from Bezeq? Can't you buy anything compatible on the free market? On 13 April 2015 at 16:18, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > In addition to the "fancy" (read crappy) wireless routers that Bezeq > will always try to offer you to lease/buy/get/whatever the latest fa

Hebrew keyboard cups?

2015-04-09 Thread Amos Shapira
el but perhaps I can get friends/family to buy offline and ship with someone I'm expecting to come over soon if that's the only option). Thanks. Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

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

2015-04-01 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi Nadav, Will it be video taped? Slides made available? Thanks, --Amos On 2 April 2015 at 05:53, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: Back to the Future > with C++ and Seastar": > > "Nadav Har'El" wri

Re: Good design to expose debug info from kernel module

2015-03-28 Thread Amos Shapira
inux/plot_ftrace_sched_switch.py > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Amos Shapira > wrote: > >> If serialisation (aka "marshalling") is considered, how about making it >> text based? >> Then you can use simple shell tools to talk to it. >> >>

Re: Good design to expose debug info from kernel module

2015-03-27 Thread Amos Shapira
If serialisation (aka "marshalling") is considered, how about making it text based? Then you can use simple shell tools to talk to it. On 27 March 2015 at 22:34, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > IMHO, C structs are no way near as usable as proper serialization > format. For example, what about optiona

Re: HOW to prevent DNS resolver from going into revert lookup (record of PTR type)?

2015-03-23 Thread Amos Shapira
On 24 March 2015 at 01:57, Lev Olshvang wrote: > Hi Amos, > > > > I managed to persuade our sysadmin to give me permission in AD DNS server > and I put there PTR record. > It should be part of his job - otherwise the PTR records will keep getting out of sync wi

Re: HOW to prevent DNS resolver from going into revert lookup (record of PTR type)?

2015-03-23 Thread Amos Shapira
OK, I think I understand you now. Let's take a step back for a moment - you say that the client fails to resolve IP address back to hostnames and that causes you problems? How about configuring your DNS server to provide the right PTR records? --Amos On 23 March 2015 at 19:13, Lev Ols

Re: HOW to prevent DNS resolver from going into revert lookup (record of PTR type)?

2015-03-22 Thread Amos Shapira
I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve here - PTR records and A records are completely separate entities living under different domains. Both of them should be maintained separately (there are probably tons of tools to keep them in sync if you like, but from DNS' perspective there is no relati

Re: Server stopped DNS name resolution

2015-03-22 Thread Amos Shapira
"Google unicast public DNS servers" s/unicast/anycast/, I keep forgetting that term. On 22 March 2015 at 22:28, Amos Shapira wrote: > 1. Sounds like the ip's in your resolv.conf are wrong. Where does the > server get them from? ip's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are the G

Re: Server stopped DNS name resolution

2015-03-22 Thread Amos Shapira
1. Sounds like the ip's in your resolv.conf are wrong. Where does the server get them from? ip's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are the Google unicast public DNS servers. They are reliable but it's not optimal for a server to have to reach out to them on every query. 2. The ssh login is possibly slow because

Re: Something is injecting malware into my HTTP traffic

2015-03-21 Thread Amos Shapira
could be likely, but that is OT here. >> >> Note that different ISP in Israel is a fairly relative statement since >> there are basically just a few major players who own a bunch of the smaller >> ISPs and could have caching proxies on their international lines... >>

Re: Something is injecting malware into my HTTP traffic

2015-03-20 Thread Amos Shapira
Just speculating, but could it be that your ISP uses a caching transparent proxy (which would explain why it doesn't happen on SSL) and its cache got corrupted? The "other ISP" case could be explained if it's actually upstream/downstream from your ISP, or they share a proxy cache for other reasons.

Re: OT: Biometric ID

2015-03-15 Thread Amos Shapira
BTW this anecdote might interest Yonathan Klinger and other anti-bio-id activists since it could be pointing a fatal flaw in the system. On 15 Mar 2015 9:26 pm, "Gabor Szabo" wrote: > A few weeks ago I asked to get a biometric ID. They took my finger prints > and asked all kinds of funny question

Re: OT: Biometric ID

2015-03-15 Thread Amos Shapira
"mv Israel Chelm" (ref for the uninitiated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_humour#Che.C5.82m) ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-15 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks both of you for your input. Yes I'm aware of the caveats (luckily I get to play with AWS, and AWS automation, all day in my current job :) ). Cheers, --Amos On 15 January 2015 at 21:17, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: > I believe that the time required for system start depends on the

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-14 Thread Amos Shapira
to fire up your server) if it was offered? --Amos On 15 January 2015 at 09:38, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: > Hi Amos. > It means you make use of an instance which is very quick to load. Removing > non-esential services, or postponing them to after Jira starts, using a > lightweight sys

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-13 Thread Amos Shapira
Etzion, just a question: "Amos 0 if you can customise your instance to be very very light," - what do you mean by that? Your description is close to what I have in mind. As for the changing IP address - this can be easily overcome using Elastic IP and/or no-ip.com and friends. Thank

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-13 Thread Amos Shapira
ating it by yourself can be more then > enough.... > > 2015-01-08 11:37 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira : > >> I was thinking about running it on my own laptop, and perhaps I will. >> >> But that would mean leaving it on around the clock which I don't want to >> (I'm

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-08 Thread Amos Shapira
ld like to have access to my server from both my mobile and workplace. On 8 January 2015 at 19:59, Vitaly wrote: > Amos, > IMHO, it's not technical, but more "human" issue. For example, as far as > you decide that you need Jira every last day of month, you can launch > in

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-07 Thread Amos Shapira
e and buy them for 3 years; the total > average cost is equivalent to what we would have paid for the hosting and > so the hardware is "free". > > > - Aviram > > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Amos Shapira > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >&

Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-07 Thread Amos Shapira
nient. So is there another way? Thanks, --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Linux on Android related question

2014-12-26 Thread Amos Shapira
Just a few weeks ago I read (I think on DarkReading) that there are many cheap phones which come with malware built in. I google'd for this when I found this link: http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2014/12/coolreaper-revealed-backdoor-coolpad-android-devices/ Bottom line - avoid these de

Re: Recommendations for drive recovery

2014-12-23 Thread Amos Shapira
copied the > data. (rsync iirc) > > 2014-12-22 12:26 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira : > >> I once helped a friend in a similar situation (family photos and >> documents on a dying disk without backups). >> >> I followed broadly the following procedure: >>

Re: Recommendations for drive recovery

2014-12-22 Thread Amos Shapira
I once helped a friend in a similar situation (family photos and documents on a dying disk without backups). I followed broadly the following procedure: 1. Put the disk in an airtight plastic bag (reason - to avoid humidity getting in during the following steps). 2. Put in the freezer for an hour.

Re: Adding external HDD to Raspberry Pi

2014-12-14 Thread Amos Shapira
Get a powered USB hub (i.e. a usb hub which also connects to a wall power socket). I'm not familiar with RPi USB version but check for USB 3.0 vs. 2.0. On 15 December 2014 at 06:07, Gabor Szabo wrote: > > Hmm, good question. The Raspberry does see the device when it is > connected, so is it possi

Re: Mageia 4 - update delay

2014-12-07 Thread Amos Shapira
Also - what do you see in the logs? On 7 December 2014 at 03:39, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I tried running ps -A before clicking, a few times during the 4 minute > wait and after the GUI started. I then used diff to compare. The only > change I found during the wait was an additional kworker/2:0 (

Re: Mageia 4 - update delay

2014-12-06 Thread Amos Shapira
Use "strace -p -f -rT -o strace.out" to see what the process and its children spend time on. On 7 December 2014 at 03:39, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I tried running ps -A before clicking, a few times during the 4 minute > wait and after the GUI started. I then used diff to compare. The only > chan

Re: Backdoor?

2014-11-23 Thread Amos Shapira
There are various chrome tools, e.g. the Task Manager. On 24 November 2014 at 07:45, Amichai Rotman wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to troubleshoot a bottleneck in my internet connection. > > I came across a few lines like these ones when I run 'netstat -ptW': > > tcp0 0 10.0.0.3:4

Re: good free dynamic dns server ?

2014-11-09 Thread Amos Shapira
I did this for years until I "broke down" and paid the $16 for a year of avoiding these. On 9 Nov 2014 10:31, "Erez D" wrote: > hi > > i am currently using no-ip.org as a free dynamic dns server for my home. > however it has the annoying feature of sending me the following emails: > "Please confi

Re: How do I debug this (mailman)?

2014-10-11 Thread Amos Shapira
"Either way, where are the logs?" what does "lsof" say? On 12 October 2014 14:00, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > On 12/10/14 00:24, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Could that be caused by MX records for the list not yet pointing at the > new host? i.e., perhaps the new mailman instance is not handling the

Re: How do I debug this (mailman)?

2014-10-10 Thread Amos Shapira
mailman logs? I mean - if the MTA doesn't say anything about this then perhaps the client haven't sent anything? On 10 October 2014 23:38, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > 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, sho

Re: Daemontools intro

2014-09-24 Thread Amos Shapira
About a year ago I wrote a Puppet module to install and configure daemontools services which we used very successfully at my previous workplace. I got permission to open-source it but can't find it right now. I'll try to dig it up when I get home. On 25 September 2014 12:46, Steve Litt wrote: >

Re: better antenna for a USB DVB-T dongle?

2014-07-26 Thread Amos Shapira
door, with perhaps only the balcony rail blocking it from direct line of sight. Cheers, --Amos On 27 July 2014 01:09, Tomer Cohen wrote: > Roof antenna could not be very helpful in your case, but you can buy an > active antenna or place the current one near a window. As for the antenna &g

better antenna for a USB DVB-T dongle?

2014-07-26 Thread Amos Shapira
Buy a bigger internal antenna which can connect to this weird jack. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks, --Amos -- <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: reverse ssh

2014-07-21 Thread Amos Shapira
blocking > access to random non-standard ports is very high. > > I use fail2ban to prevent brute forcing and generally also try to have > some form of port knocking (knockd and fwknop are good options) to prevent > initial access to the SSH server to "unidentified" machines

Re: reverse ssh

2014-07-21 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22 July 2014 00:52, Guy Gold wrote: > Hi Erez, > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Erez D wrote: > >> >> it is not even a dynamic ip, it is a private ip behind a dynamic one >> > > Then, what Eliyahu wrote should serve you a perfect solution. > > Also, there's not much advantage in the poin

Re: Backing up to encrypted Blu-rays

2014-07-15 Thread Amos Shapira
There's even no need for that - there are web sites for subtitles and all media players I use (currently almost exclusively XBMC) will automatically use the subtitles files if they find it next to the movie file (if it's somewhere else then you can tell it where it is). On 16 Jul 2014 07:31, "E.S.

Re: [Call-for-Action] Indigogo Campaign for Putting "Emma Watson Getting Interviewed for a Tech Job" under CC-by

2014-07-11 Thread Amos Shapira
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/1366510848/h28F3DD64/ On 11 July 2014 16:34, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hello Dan, > > thanks for clarifying your position. Let me reply. > > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Dan Yasny wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: >>> >>> 1.

Re: [Call-for-Action] Indigogo Campaign for Putting "Emma Watson Getting Interviewed for a Tech Job" under CC-by

2014-07-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10 July 2014 23:24, Dan Yasny wrote: > This is the kind of spam that kills an otherwise good and useful mailing > list and community. > +1. > > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> you can find the Indiegogo campaign here: >> >> * >> https://www.indiegog

Re: bugzilla+postfix+email_in.pl

2014-06-22 Thread Amos Shapira
arent dirs are at least executable to the daemon? >> Regards, >> Eliyahu - אליהו >> > > ​This - and a similar comment from Amos sent privately (I think) - gave a > clue. I have to chmod o+r all the files - and chmod o+rx all the > directories - both above and below

Re: Satire: Emma Watson getting interviewed for a software development position

2014-06-19 Thread Amos Shapira
Please don't send this sort of stuff here. On 19 Jun 2014 19:12, "Shlomi Fish" wrote: > Hi all, > > in this URL: > > > http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/Emma-Watson-applying-for-a-software-dev-job/ > > you can find a short satire titled “Emma Watson getting interviewed for a > software develo

Re: Looking for a performance/health monitoring and alerting solution

2014-06-16 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16 June 2014 19:11, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > Amos - can you add a TL;DR about your mail? > Nagios and its ilk are not scalable or efficient, resulting in very complex setup and too slow event discovery. Zabbix is not a good fit if you want to have an automatic setup using things like

Re: Looking for a performance/health monitoring and alerting solution

2014-06-16 Thread Amos Shapira
How do you configure zabbix outside its GUI? As far as I saw so far it's not possible so you have to point and click your way through its gui. Most of what I wrote against nagios is relevant to Zabbix as well - central server etc. On 16 Jun 2014 17:49, "Rabin Yasharzadehe" wrote: > I can recommen

Re: Looking for a performance/health monitoring and alerting solution

2014-06-15 Thread Amos Shapira
Another thing - while I was digging the Sydney DevOps meetups for a talk about monitoring by a dude from Google, I stumbled across a reference to InfluxDB: http://influxdb.com/. On 16 June 2014 10:49, Amos Shapira wrote: > For a start, it looks like you put both trending and alerting in

Re: Looking for a performance/health monitoring and alerting solution

2014-06-15 Thread Amos Shapira
setup a "proper" vpn then you can always look at ssh vpn (e.g. Ubuntu instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH_VPN), and if you can't be bothered with ssh_config "Tunnel"/"TunnelDevice" (ssh "-w" flag) then even a simple ssh port redirection with ssh -

Re: advanced dhcpd.conf

2014-06-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Yup. Or do what we did at my workplace and use puppet to maintain (and generate, if needed) the configuration. On 10 Jun 2014 05:33, "shimi" wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Erez D wrote: > >> no, i want: >> host vm01 { hardware ethernet 00:11:22:33:44:01 ; fixed-address 10.0.5.1 } >> ho

Re: self mail hosting

2014-06-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8 June 2014 21:38, Efraim Flashner wrote: > a bit more, but not so much. I also have it running deluge, which > crashes a little too often for me, so I have a cron job running to > relaunch it if it crashes. Fileserving works well. I tried using it Consider runit (http://smarden.org/runit

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Amos Shapira
Yes I think we got this. I'm not the OP bit I wonder what can an AP admin do to configure it in a way which triggers this OS smarts on the client. On 27 May 2014 07:16, "Guy Gold" wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Erez D wrote: > >> however, that not what i ment >> i was only asking how

Re: twisted and python3

2014-05-22 Thread Amos Shapira
and-Client-in-Python ). My suggestion - beyond checking its status for the Python version you want, have a spike (http://www.techopedia.com/definition/9503/spike) and see what the code you come up with looks like and whether you like it. --Amos On 22 May 2014 20:11, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > &

Re: qemu and chroot

2014-05-20 Thread Amos Shapira
Most of the times when I use chroot, I usually do something a-la (from memory): for i in proc dev sys; do mount -o bind /$i /chrootdir/$i; done ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Upgrading Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04

2014-05-16 Thread Amos Shapira
Beyond the original specific question - upgrades like this should be tested using a Vagrant box, preferably also using an automatic provisioning tool like Puppet (my personal preference) or Chef (obligatory mention) and automatic testing using things like Cucumber, Spec, ServerSpec or perhaps other

Re: ubi cloning

2014-05-12 Thread Amos Shapira
How about ddrescue (the GNU one I think, there are multiple implementations with same name) into an image file then try to fix the fs around the bad sectors? On 12 May 2014 18:46, Erez D wrote: > Hi > > i need to clone a nand flash. which has ubifs on it > > doing 'dd' didn't work as the source

Re: NTP

2014-05-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Which software? Smart Tome Sync? On 9 May 2014 18:02, "geoffrey mendelson" wrote: > > Unless you already have an old smartphone that you want to keep for this >> use, look for a simple USB GPS receiver - between $20-$40 (I can see it now >> for $35 in Amazon

Re: NTP

2014-05-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Umm, thanks. I might try this connected to the cubox-i I plan to buy. On 9 May 2014 17:16, "Ori Berger" wrote: > On 05/08/2014 04:25 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: > >> +1 for Smart Time Sync + ntp server. >> Now the perfectionist in me would still like to combine what i

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