Re: Questions for network/hardware engineer candidates?

2016-07-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 23:01:02 +0300 ronys wrote: > I'd ask for a "war story" that the candidate is proud of. How s/he > approached the problem, how methodical (or not), how false leads were > eliminated, what lessons were learned. > > From there I'd invent a slight variation, and see how the candi

Re: Questions for network/hardware engineer candidates?

2016-07-06 Thread ronys
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 > > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.

Re: Questions for network/hardware engineer candidates?

2016-07-04 Thread Amos Shapira
t; >> 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? >> >> Tha

Re: Questions for network/hardware engineer candidates?

2016-07-04 Thread Shay Gover
work. > > Do people here have ideas about where to look for good interview > questions/exercises for such a role? > > Thanks, > > --Amos > > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > htt

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: Raspberry PI questions

2013-06-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Does anyone know of a company selling them here? I'm looking for them with a > reasonable price, e.g. board, cheap shipping and VAT, as opposed to board > and expensive shipping from out of the country. > > Second question, which I ca

Re: Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 02:57:02PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I'm not sure I can actually > use it, but if I do, I now know where to buy them from. > > I also got a reply about the USB (I don't know if it was to me > direct or to the list, so I'll

Re: Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-26 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I'm not sure I can actually use it, but if I do, I now know where to buy them from. I also got a reply about the USB (I don't know if it was to me direct or to the list, so I'll just say thanks and summarize to the list): The model A has a single USB po

Re: Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-26 Thread Ram on Agmon
I bought from Lion Electronics. Good service. took about 3 weeks. got the new version (512Mb ram). ~250nis (include all taxes + express Shipping) http://www.lion.co.il/ On 02/24/2013 04:33 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Does anyone

Re: Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-25 Thread Michael Shiloh
another local vendor: dan electric http://www.dan-e.co.il/index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=raspberry%20pi On 02/25/2013 08:28 AM, Moish wrote: On 25/02/2013 10:58, vordoo wrote: On 2013-02-24 16:33, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Does anyone know of a company selling them here? I'm l

Re: Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-25 Thread Moish
On 25/02/2013 10:58, vordoo wrote: On 2013-02-24 16:33, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Does anyone know of a company selling them here? I'm looking for them with a reasonable price, e.g. board, cheap shipping and VAT, as opposed to board and expensive shipping from out of the country. Second que

Re: Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-25 Thread Meir Michanie
This vendor is selling it in Israel www.dan-e.co.il On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:58 AM, vordoo wrote: > > On 2013-02-24 16:33, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > Does anyone know of a company selling them here? I'm looking for them with > a reasonable price, e.g. board, cheap shipping and VAT, as o

Re: Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-25 Thread vordoo
On 2013-02-24 16:33, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Does anyone know of a company selling them here? I'm looking for them with a reasonable price, e.g. board, cheap shipping and VAT, as opposed to board and expensive shipping from out of the country.

Re: Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-24 Thread Michael Shiloh
If you're not in a rush, I can bring it with me in a couple of weeks. I'm coming for the mini maker faire at jerusalem science museum. Let me know. Michael P.s. Mouser has a distributor in Israel. Do they carry the pi? On 02/24/2013 01:12 PM, Lior Okman wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:33 PM

Re: Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-24 Thread Lior Okman
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone know of a company selling them here? I'm looking for them with > a reasonable price, e.g. board, cheap shipping and VAT, as opposed to board > and expensive shipping from out of the country.

Raspberry PI questions

2013-02-24 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Does anyone know of a company selling them here? I'm looking for them with a reasonable price, e.g. board, cheap shipping and VAT, as opposed to board and expensive shipping from out of the country. Second question, which I can't quite find an answer, does the model B have 2 separate USB ports

Re: Are Android questions on topic here?

2011-05-11 Thread Omer Zak
mered into the minds of the Android-infected Linux-IL participants. If not: Let's make Android questions on-topic on the Linux-IL mailing list as long as they don't deal (much or deeply) with Java. Then, Once the list gets swamped with Android related questions to the annoyance

Re: Are Android questions on topic here?

2011-05-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, May 11, 2011, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "Re: Are Android questions on topic here?": > Isn't Android Linux? I think Richard Stallman would point out that Android *is* Linux, but it *isn't* GNU/Linux ;-) That being said, I suspect that most Android discussio

Re: Are Android questions on topic here?

2011-05-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 11/05/11 13:01, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:56:28PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Question to the (non-existent) LINUX-IL cabal: this is a list for technical questions on Linux. Some Android issues have been discussed here. Are technical Android discussions

Re: Are Android questions on topic here?

2011-05-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 11/05/11 12:56, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Question to the (non-existent) LINUX-IL cabal: this is a list for technical questions on Linux. Some Android issues have been discussed here. Are technical Android discussions officially on topic or off topic? Can we decide once and for all? I&#

Re: Are Android questions on topic here?

2011-05-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:56:28PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Question to the (non-existent) LINUX-IL cabal: this is a list for > technical questions on Linux. Some Android issues have been discussed > here. Are technical Android discussions officially on topic or off > topic? C

Are Android questions on topic here?

2011-05-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Question to the (non-existent) LINUX-IL cabal: this is a list for technical questions on Linux. Some Android issues have been discussed here. Are technical Android discussions officially on topic or off topic? Can we decide once and for all? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org

Re: Hardware questions

2011-05-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 5, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Ram-on Agmon wrote: http://blog.k1789.org/?p=1791 Thanks, it's just a shame IMHO that you got the 260 NIS one working instead of the 55 NIS one. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to misquote it.

Re: Hardware questions

2011-05-05 Thread Ram-on Agmon
http://blog.k1789.org/?p=1791 Ram on On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:54 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. I understand you can now buy a USB digital tv receiver stick that is > supported by Linux. > I'm looking for one that is supported in Ubuntu 11.04 and can be boug

Hardware questions

2011-05-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
1. I understand you can now buy a USB digital tv receiver stick that is supported by Linux. I'm looking for one that is supported in Ubuntu 11.04 and can be bought easily by specifing the exact store or item (I need to send a non technical person to do it) or ordered by phone or via eBay.

Re: mail issues questions

2011-03-01 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Most people don't complain on spam. If some people complain, most likely that it is spam and nobody wants to receive it. True, but you shouldn't blacklist an entire server's mail on the basis of one person's complaint without any human intervention.

Re: mail issues questions

2011-03-01 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 13:10, Nadav Har'El wrote: > This, and similar, anecdotes are examples of flawed spam filtering techniques. > The whole point of spam is that *a lot* of people get it. If just one person > complains, it most likely *isn't* spam. Most people don't complain on spam. If some p

Re: mail issues questions

2011-03-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011, Geoff Shang wrote about "Re: mail issues questions": > >Yahoo and Hotmail are very important. Why did you set up SPF and DKIM? > > SPF and DKIM are technologies which should make it more likely that your > mail will be accepted, not less. If you

Re: mail issues questions

2011-02-28 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Yahoo and Hotmail are very important. Why did you set up SPF and DKIM? SPF and DKIM are technologies which should make it more likely that your mail will be accepted, not less. SPF seeks to define which servers are authorised to send Email for a pa

Re: mail issues questions

2011-02-28 Thread David Ronkin
When you say "tested few emails" - this may be the reason for hotmail: they are very sensitive for spam - you must start sending very slow to them after all your server records are correct (google for more info on that). David 2011/2/28 Hetz Ben Hamo > > I think Hetz's email rejection is e

Re: mail issues questions

2011-02-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> I think Hetz's email rejection is either because of improper setting > of its SPF, or because his IP is in some mail blacklist (you can use > http://www.dnsbl.info/dnsbl-database-check.php to check). Negative for both assumptions: I do not appear on any blacklist, and my SPF is correct (feel fre

Re: mail issues questions

2011-02-28 Thread Ehud Karni
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:46:10 +0200, Dima (Dan) Yasny wrote: > > DKIM is a method of publishing a public key in a txt DNS record, with which > the subject line of every email sent, is signed. When yahoo MTA's receive an > email, they don't just check the PTR record, they also check the subject > lin

Re: mail issues questions

2011-02-28 Thread Dima (Dan) Yasny
DKIM is a method of publishing a public key in a txt DNS record, with which the subject line of every email sent, is signed. When yahoo MTA's receive an email, they don't just check the PTR record, they also check the subject line signature, with the public key available in the DNS records. If the

Re: mail issues questions

2011-02-28 Thread Uri Even-Chen
Yahoo and Hotmail are very important. Why did you set up SPF and DKIM? what are they anyway? try removing SPF and DKIM for your domain and then send again. By the way, I'm using Google Apps. You might want to consider Google Apps (free account) instead of setting up your own mail server. Uri Even

Re: mail issues questions

2011-02-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
If it was only for me, I could do that, but what would you tell a paying customer? here's a mail box, but you cannot send emails to Yahoo and Hotmail? :) Hetz On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Oron Peled wrote: > On Monday, 28 בFebruary 2011 02:34:32 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > Any tips what can b

Re: mail issues questions

2011-02-28 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 28 בFebruary 2011 02:34:32 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Any tips what can be done about these 2? (hotmail and yahoo) Ignore them. They are dead beef... -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron The

Re: mail issues questions

2011-02-28 Thread Dima (Dan) Yasny
I've had problems sending to yahoo, until I set up DKIM. Never tried hotmail, though none of the mailbox holders ever complained, so I guess it's fine there. Can you post a smtp transcript, done manually? 2011/2/28 Hetz Ben Hamo > Hi, > > There used to be a time that in order to setup a mail se

Re: xlib questions

2010-01-26 Thread Erez D
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:57 PM, ik wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 13:16, Erez D wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:04 PM, ik wrote: >> >>> 2010/1/26 Erez D >>> >>> i need your help i am trying to grab a cursor image (i have the cursor's XID). xlib doe

Re: xlib questions

2010-01-26 Thread ik
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 13:16, Erez D wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:04 PM, ik wrote: > >> 2010/1/26 Erez D >> >> i need your help >>> >>> >>> i am trying to grab a cursor image (i have the cursor's XID). >>> >>> xlib doesn't have any functions that does that. >>> xfixes have a function

Re: xlib questions

2010-01-26 Thread Erez D
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:04 PM, ik wrote: > 2010/1/26 Erez D > > i need your help >> >> >> i am trying to grab a cursor image (i have the cursor's XID). >> >> xlib doesn't have any functions that does that. >> xfixes have a function that reads the cursor image, but only the current >> cursor >>

Re: xlib questions

2010-01-26 Thread ik
2010/1/26 Erez D > i need your help > > > i am trying to grab a cursor image (i have the cursor's XID). > > xlib doesn't have any functions that does that. > xfixes have a function that reads the cursor image, but only the current > cursor > and i am trying to get a cursor which i have i'ts XID.

xlib questions

2010-01-26 Thread Erez D
i need your help i am trying to grab a cursor image (i have the cursor's XID). xlib doesn't have any functions that does that. xfixes have a function that reads the cursor image, but only the current cursor and i am trying to get a cursor which i have i'ts XID. XCopyArea(display,mycursor,...)

Re: SIP provider questions.

2010-01-20 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 20, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Rami Addady wrote: Hi, Spikko work also using IAX. You can find more information in this blog: http://gilpalmon.com/2008/08/25/spikko-asterisk-free-iax2-to-pstn-in-israel/ Thanks, that's the dead link we were talking about. BTW, although it works fine for i

Re: SIP provider questions.

2010-01-19 Thread Rami Addady
Hi, Spikko work also using IAX. You can find more information in this blog: http://gilpalmon.com/2008/08/25/spikko-asterisk-free-iax2-to-pstn-in-israel/ Rami geoffrey mendelson wrote: On Jan 8, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Rami Addady wrote: Hi, 012.net provide SIP trunk (minimum 4 lines) spikk

Re: SIP provider questions.

2010-01-19 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 20, 2010, at 7:15 AM, shimi wrote: The Google Cache works for me. Check out the comments there as well, they are insightful. Also see that he mentions that the IP address of the server has changed in the past which might also be the issue; Maybe you need a sniffer to check out what'

Re: SIP provider questions.

2010-01-19 Thread shimi
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:03 AM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 20, 2010, at 6:44 AM, shimi wrote: > > >> >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:30 PM, geoffrey mendelson < >> geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Have you (or anyone else for that matter) gotten Spi

Re: SIP provider questions.

2010-01-19 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 20, 2010, at 6:44 AM, shimi wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:30 PM, geoffrey mendelson > wrote: Have you (or anyone else for that matter) gotten Spikko to work with asterisk? I signed up (it's free, why not :-) but can not get it to connect. I get it to register, but calls never

Re: SIP provider questions.

2010-01-19 Thread shimi
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:30 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Have you (or anyone else for that matter) gotten Spikko to work with > asterisk? I signed up (it's free, why not :-) but can not get it to connect. > I get it to register, but calls never are connected t

Re: SIP provider questions.

2010-01-19 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 8, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Rami Addady wrote: Hi, 012.net provide SIP trunk (minimum 4 lines) spikko.com provide SIP/ IAX Have you (or anyone else for that matter) gotten Spikko to work with asterisk? I signed up (it's free, why not :-) but can not get it to connect. I get it to regi

Re: SIP provider questions.

2010-01-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Rami! Please avoid sending HTML-only E-mails, either to Linux-IL or in general. As a result, I haven't read your message. Maybe the list administrator can block such E-mails from reaching the list at all. Regards, Shlomi Fish On Friday 08 Jan 2010 08:32:34 Rami Addady wrote: --

Re: SIP provider questions.

2010-01-07 Thread Rami Addady
Hi, 012.net  provide SIP trunk (minimum 4 lines) spikko.com provide SIP/IAX Rami geoffrey mendelson wrote: Does anyone know if: 1. There is a SIP (or IAX) provider selling Israeli DIDs? I need them to be in Israel and accept "Israel only" credit cards.     Cheap is more importa

X/Xlib programming questions (solved)

2010-01-06 Thread Erez D
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:44 PM, ik wrote: > Try XQueryTree and XGetWindowAttributes to find if it's the proper window, > unless i'm still missing something here. XQueryTree and XGetWindowAttributes will do the work, however, XTranslateCoordinates takes less calls (and syncs with the server) than

Re: callweaver/asterisk questions

2010-01-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 6, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: An invalid extension still goes somewhere in the dialplan. Use that fallback. In some cases this is as simple as providing a catch-all extension - _X. and such. Patterns have lower matching priority than actual extensions. Ok, thansks, I'll tr

Re: callweaver/asterisk questions

2010-01-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 01:44:36PM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > I have a few asterisk/callweaver questions. Callweaver docs seem to be > very rudimentary, so I've looked at asterisk docs, but still can't find > the answers I need. > > Here are my questions, any

callweaver/asterisk questions

2010-01-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson
I have a few asterisk/callweaver questions. Callweaver docs seem to be very rudimentary, so I've looked at asterisk docs, but still can't find the answers I need. Here are my questions, any help would be appreciated. I've tried to do a web search and looked at the Oreily bo

Re: X/Xlib programming questions

2010-01-04 Thread ik
Hello Erez, I think you are looking for XQueryPointer ( http://www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/XQueryPointer.3.html). Ido http://ik.homelinux.org/ On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:20, Erez D wrote: > hello > > i want to send keyboard and mouse event to a window at position x,y. > i thought of using XSendEvent

X/Xlib programming questions

2010-01-04 Thread Erez D
hello i want to send keyboard and mouse event to a window at position x,y. i thought of using XSendEvent how do i find which is the top most window at pos x,y (without moving the pointer position) ? what fields do i need to fill in the event i send via XSendEvent, i guess event.xbutton.serial and

Re: SIP provider questions.

2010-01-03 Thread Ori Berger
geoffrey mendelson wrote: 1. There is a SIP (or IAX) provider selling Israeli DIDs? I need them to be in Israel and accept "Israel only" credit cards. Cheap is more important than providing customer support, or good service. didww.com; They are cheap ($3/month for an Israeli DID, flat -- som

SIP provider questions.

2010-01-03 Thread geoffrey mendelson
Does anyone know if: 1. There is a SIP (or IAX) provider selling Israeli DIDs? I need them to be in Israel and accept "Israel only" credit cards. Cheap is more important than providing customer support, or good service. 2. Is there a pay-as-you go SIP (or IAX) provider that works with

Re: open office questions

2009-08-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I am looking for open office with hebrew menu for linux. Is there a higher > version than 2.3.1 in hebrew? > The latest version in hebrew that I found is here: > http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/openoffice.org.il/ > > Second question is how can I install only certain packages from open office. > I w

Re: open office questions

2009-08-15 Thread sara fink
On 8/15/09, Lior Kaplan wrote: > Hi Sara, > > Tk systems try to sent it's fixes upstream. I suggest you'll take the > latest version of oo.org you distribution offers (should be 3.1). Can you provide the link? I checked now this link: http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US I see there lo

Re: open office questions

2009-08-15 Thread Lior Kaplan
Hi Sara, Tk systems try to sent it's fixes upstream. I suggest you'll take the latest version of oo.org you distribution offers (should be 3.1). About installing only part of the software - that really depends about how the software was packaged and whether it can be separated. 2009/8/15 sara fi

open office questions

2009-08-15 Thread sara fink
I am looking for open office with hebrew menu for linux. Is there a higher version than 2.3.1 in hebrew? The latest version in hebrew that I found is here: http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/openoffice.org.il/ Second question is how can I install only certain packages from open office. I want only the

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-22 Thread sara fink
ID 1d6b:0001 > > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 > Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:08a6 Logitech, Inc. > Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 > > [r...@localhost ~]# > > Moshe > > > --- On *Thu,

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-19 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
-- On Thu, 19/2/09, Shlomi Fish wrote: From: Shlomi Fish Subject: Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?) To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Date: Thursday, 19 February, 2009, 1:16 PM On Thursday 19 February 2009 00:40:07 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I do

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 19 February 2009 00:40:07 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I don't see you, Dotan Cohen, asking questions which were already asked > > recently. I don't think that any of your example questions would > > currently qualify as noob questions. Long time has passed s

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I guess the term newbie here means those that do not search archives or > google before posting questions. > That is consistent with what the anti-noobs have been saying on the list. However, if so then it should be stated on the signup page: If you googled and RTFM first, ask he

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-19 Thread Ori Idan
> > > > The kind of newbies' questions which I prefer to avoid is the repeating >> one. One newbie asks how to mount his USB DiskOnKey. We answer him. A >> week later, another newbie comes and (being newbie, he is totally >> unaware of the list archives or

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
ginal message, leaving only the relevant parts, and then answering those inline. You then save your readers the need to guess which part of the message you were referring to. The kind of newbies' questions which I prefer to avoid is the repeating one. One newbie asks how to mount his USB

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-18 Thread Micha Feigin
7;ll play along in this posting.) > I prefer snipping and in posting personally but yes, sometimes top posting can be a lot clearer and I've deleted my share of messages that I was just too tired scrolling to the end to see what they added. > The kind of newbies' questions which I prefe

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I don't see you, Dotan Cohen, asking questions which were already asked > recently. I don't think that any of your example questions would > currently qualify as noob questions. Long time has passed since anyone > compiled his own kernel in Linux-IL or discussed writi

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 13:42 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/2/17 Omer Zak : > > Shahar's suggestion addresses the problem, and lets busy Linux-IL > > oldtimers ignore the newbies' questions. > > > > However, I am concerned about newbies, who would be confus

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was: Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-18 Thread Geoff Shang
Omer Zak wrote: My proposed solution to the problem is to have the Linux-IL old timers volunteer to field gnubies-il questions, according to a schedule. IMHO, this is really overkill. Unless I've fallen of the list recently or some mail is being caught up somewhere, the newbie list see

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
Deal! > I don't mind having newbies-IL traffic as long as we get to shoot people > that top post, deal? :) -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-18 Thread Gilboa Davara
losophical discussions. > Some beginners may be intimidated by the more advanced questions, but I doubt > it will be an issue. In any case, maintaining GNUbies-IL is not time > consuming > at all, so I'm perfectly fine keeping it in its mostly-dormant condition. > > Regards

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-17 Thread Micha Silver
st new Linux users ask on web-forums instead of on mailing lists. I'm still a GNUbies-IL admin in case someone posts, and am subscribed there to answer any questions that people may have. I personally support accepting beginners' posts here on Linux-IL, assuming there will be

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-17 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
and hope for the best. Moshe --- On Tue, 17/2/09, Shlomi Fish wrote: From: Shlomi Fish Subject: Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?) To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Date: Tuesday, 17 February, 2009, 7:09 PM On Tuesday 17 February 2009 14:23:23

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
indeed very little traffic on GNUbies-IL . I expect most new Linux users ask on web-forums instead of on mailing lists. I'm still a GNUbies-IL admin in case someone posts, and am subscribed there to answer any questions that people may have. I personally support accepting beginners' p

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Compiling a Kernel was a new thing in 1995, when I started doing it. Now > it's usually not necessary for the average user to do, and IMHO saying that > you had to do it to access a device would scare away the average new user. > > As for writing a driver, it's not a noob thing, it's not even an

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-17 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:42:07PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: The problem is, what is a noob question? If I've been running Linux since 2001 (and I have- Red Hat 7,1 with KDE 2) but I still don't know how to compile a kernel (and I don't), then am I a noob? If I install Kubuntu for a friend and h

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/17 Omer Zak : > Shahar's suggestion addresses the problem, and lets busy Linux-IL > oldtimers ignore the newbies' questions. > > However, I am concerned about newbies, who would be confused and post > using linux-il rather gnubies-il, so their messages won't

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:21:11AM +0200, Shahar Dag wrote: > Hi > > Can we make the gnubies-il actually an alias (or what ever) to linux-il, and > configured things that every message sent to gnubies-il will have in the > subject [GNUBIES]. > This will: > - be easy to fil

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-16 Thread Omer Zak
Shahar's suggestion addresses the problem, and lets busy Linux-IL oldtimers ignore the newbies' questions. However, I am concerned about newbies, who would be confused and post using linux-il rather gnubies-il, so their messages won't be flagged. Also, how do we ensure that answ

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:21:11AM +0200, Shahar Dag wrote: - give an easy was for advanced users to select which questions to answer without having to subscribe to gnubies-il. this may help make Linux more popular among new users Seriously, will it? There are times that reading this list

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-16 Thread Shahar Dag
Hi Can we make the gnubies-il actually an alias (or what ever) to linux-il, and configured things that every message sent to gnubies-il will have in the subject [GNUBIES]. This will: - be easy to filter gnubies questions - give the gnunies a look on more advanced subjects - give an easy was for

Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was: Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/17 Omer Zak : > The split between Linux-IL and gnubies-il was made in order to spare the > Linux experts from having to waste their time deleting newbie questions. > Before the split was made, newbie questions caused flame wars and people > to leave Linux-IL altogether. &g

Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was: Re: No noobs?)

2009-02-16 Thread Omer Zak
The split between Linux-IL and gnubies-il was made in order to spare the Linux experts from having to waste their time deleting newbie questions. Before the split was made, newbie questions caused flame wars and people to leave Linux-IL altogether. I strongly oppose re-unifying them. However, I

Re: few questions

2008-12-17 Thread Udi Oron
Hi! Erez D wrote: hi. 1. in ubuntu, if i type "g++" and don't have it installed, it will tell me to "sudo apt-get install pkg-somthing" can i know that easily in fc10 what yum command i need to get g++ ? (or any other file) In ubuntu the package is: http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/comma

Re: few questions

2008-12-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:25:53AM +0200, Erez D wrote: > hi. > > 1. in ubuntu, if i type "g++" and don't have it installed, it will tell me > to "sudo apt-get install pkg-somthing" IIRC this is done in Ubuntu using a shell function that has a list of some specific commands and the packages in w

Re: few questions

2008-12-17 Thread Erez D
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Baruch Siach wrote: > Hi Dvir, Erez, > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:46:43AM +0200, Dvir Volk wrote: > > 2. try using screen to run you program, and then you can access it from > > anywhere via ssh. > > > 2. i have a program running on a remote linux-box (fc10) on

Re: few questions

2008-12-17 Thread Erez D
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2008/12/17 Erez D : > > hi. > > > > 1. in ubuntu, if i type "g++" and don't have it installed, it will tell > me > > to "sudo apt-get install pkg-somthing" > > can i know that easily in fc10 what yum command i need to get g++ ? (or > any > >

Re: few questions

2008-12-17 Thread Erez D
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Dvir Volk wrote: > 1.as root run: > yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries" > should take care of all the things you need to compile stuff. > thanks, but i was hopeing for a more general answer, not specific to g++. > > > 2. try using scree

Re: few questions

2008-12-17 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/12/17 Erez D : > hi. > > 1. in ubuntu, if i type "g++" and don't have it installed, it will tell me > to "sudo apt-get install pkg-somthing" > can i know that easily in fc10 what yum command i need to get g++ ? (or any > other file) I think "yum search " or "yum whatprovides " might do this j

Re: few questions

2008-12-17 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Dvir, Erez, On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:46:43AM +0200, Dvir Volk wrote: > 2. try using screen to run you program, and then you can access it from > anywhere via ssh. > > 2. i have a program running on a remote linux-box (fc10) on vt1 (i.e. > > alt-ctrl-f1). can i connect to that vt withough acce

Re: few questions

2008-12-17 Thread Dvir Volk
1.as root run: yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries" should take care of all the things you need to compile stuff. 2. try using screen to run you program, and then you can access it from anywhere via ssh. btw, it's not FC10, but F10. they removed the Core from the name. On

few questions

2008-12-17 Thread Erez D
hi. 1. in ubuntu, if i type "g++" and don't have it installed, it will tell me to "sudo apt-get install pkg-somthing" can i know that easily in fc10 what yum command i need to get g++ ? (or any other file) 2. i have a program running on a remote linux-box (fc10) on vt1 (i.e. alt-ctrl-f1). can i

Re: skype and voip questions

2008-06-18 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Sorry for the slow response. sara fink wrote: What traces you ran? I need to solve it. They are pulling on me all the nasty things. tcpdump? or other things? traceproto -k 12 -H 5 -I 10 -M 14 -w 2 -W 300 -p udp -d 5060 -o c -P 40 At the time I was using a Linux host in the US running

Re: skype and voip questions

2008-06-13 Thread sara fink
Thanks. My screen is 15.1". I"ll add skype group. On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/13 sara fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> HI Amos >> >> It seems that the iptables rules are cut. Can you post the whole lines >> here? Probably when you cut and paste f

Re: skype and voip questions

2008-06-13 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/6/13 sara fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > HI Amos > > It seems that the iptables rules are cut. Can you post the whole lines > here? Probably when you cut and paste from nano/pico this happened. They look OK on my 19" wide screen, here they are from the blog: # match all outgoing packets from gi

Re: skype and voip questions

2008-06-12 Thread sara fink
HI Amos It seems that the iptables rules are cut. Can you post the whole lines here? Probably when you cut and paste from nano/pico this happened. Supernode is on what port? I had 32323 and changed it now to other non standard port. On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED

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