Ubuntu laptop hard drive heating up

2008-07-10 Thread Ami Chayun
Hi, I installed Hardy on a friend's new Thinkpad X61 laptop, and I'm facing a serious problem. The laptop's hard drive heats up to unbearable temperature (hddtemp shows numbers over 50 degrees). When running smartctls, the hdd's Load_Cycle_Count is increased in an alarming rate. The web is filled w

Re: Ubuntu laptop hard drive heating up

2008-07-13 Thread Ami Chayun
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:25:56 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote > 2008/7/10 Ami Chayun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > I installed Hardy on a friend's new Thinkpad X61 laptop, and I'm facing a > > serious problem. > > The laptop's hard drive heats up to u

Hebrew PDF generation

2003-08-14 Thread Ami Chayun
Hi, Does anyone know a commandline tool to create a PDF from HTML in Hebrew? P.S. Htmldoc does not seem to be able to accomplish this. Thanks, Ami = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the

Problem with hebrew PS

2003-08-25 Thread Ami Chayun
Hi all, I am trying to find a *stable* software for embedding / replacing (hebrew) fonts in PS. Any ideas? Ami Chayun Beyond Security Ltd. http://www.BeyondSecurity.com http://www.SecuriTeam.com = To unsubscribe, send mail to

Re: Problem with hebrew PS

2003-08-25 Thread Ami Chayun
I tried a2ps, but I can't get it to embed fonts (even ISO-8859-8) in the output PS. bidi rendering, what's that? Ami On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 17:22, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, > 2003 at 05:02:58PM +0300, Ami Chayun wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am trying to

skipping the mozilla profile selection

2003-09-03 Thread Ami Chayun
I don't know if it's a known issue, but I looked for some time for a way to launch mozilla without launching a new process every time. Finally I wrote this script, hope someone will fid it useful. Warning! line wraps #!/usr/bin/perl # launch mozilla and skip the profile window #

Re: skipping the mozilla profile selection

2003-09-03 Thread Ami Chayun
10x Noted. On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 17:26, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 15:45, Ami Chayun wrote: > > I don't know if it's a known issue, but I looked for some time for a way > > to launch mozilla without launching a new process every time. > > Fi

brief naps

2003-10-30 Thread Ami Chayun
Hi, I have a question regarding short sleeps (under 10 millisec). I require to implement sleep with about 1-10 microsec accuracy (that's no problem), but I require to sleep for times ranging between 1 microsec to 1 millisec. From my understanding I have two options: 1) CPU tight loops, and count

Re: brief naps

2003-10-30 Thread Ami Chayun
usleep gives you usec accuracy, but the system scheduler can't give you resolution less than 10 millisec quanta... Please correct me if I'm wrong. Ami On Friday 31 October 2003 00:34, you wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:49:38PM +0200, Ami Chayun wrote: > > Hi, &g

RE: brief naps (aftermath)

2003-11-03 Thread Ami Chayun
Hi all, First of all, I'd like to thank everyone that have answered, I never expected so many solutions :) A couple of results: 1) The rdtscll Pentium instruction (Eran's answer) is very useful. It's super accurate and right now I decided to use it mostly to benchmark other solutions, and to esti

Re: brief naps (aftermath)

2003-11-04 Thread Ami Chayun
If you don't set your process to SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR (only possible as root) and give it realtime priority, you can never be sure to wake up in time (see Gilad's message in the thread). >From my understanding, if you recompile the kernel with HZ value higher than 1000, you can use nanosleep or u

Re: Hebrew calendar

2004-05-10 Thread Ami Chayun
I use Korganizer with iCal from: http://hebcal.com/ I downloaded a yearly calendar, but you can also register for changes etc. On Tuesday 11 May 2004 00:01, you wrote: > I´m looking for an hebrew calendar. with X-Window suport if possible. > > I need something with jewish jagim. > > Already seache

Re: [HAIFUX Lecture] The fascinating world of Regular Expressions in Perl - Ami Chayun

2006-12-31 Thread Ami Chayun
On Sunday 31 December 2006 12:27, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > Tomorrow, Monday, 1/1/07, at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Ami Chayun > talking about > > The fascinating world of Regular Expressions in Perl Actually the lecture is about Philip Hazel's PCRE (http://p

[JOB-OFFER] Cisco is looking for a software engineer

2008-03-26 Thread Ami Chayun
-- Forwarded message -- Cisco Israel is looking for a software engineer for a core engineering team developing infrastructure for application/protocol acceleration. Requirements: • BA/BSc. in CS/CE, MSc./PhD. in CS/CE – advantage • 2-4 years experience in software engineering (al

KDE remote connection

2008-04-22 Thread Ami Chayun
Hi, I connect to my desktop from remote on a daily basis. Since I find remote X to be quite sluggish on DSL I prefer VNC. I usually use vnc4linux/tightvnc, but I recently played with the built in 'Desktop Sharing' feature of KDE. I find it to out-preform the other VNC implementations in many ways

APCHI

2004-07-13 Thread Ami Chayun
August Penguin Hacking Challenge Invitation! Beyond Security and Hamakor are happy to invite you to the August Penguin Hacking Challenge, the APCHI. Compete against your fellow IT professionals, Linux gurus and security experts and test your hacking skills! APCHI is a competition

Re: OT: The pursuit for better ui.

2004-12-22 Thread Ami Chayun
u can post this information (you can break it to many emails as well IE > not right away to write every thing..) to > > idokan at gmail.com > > The subject must be: What I'm looking for on UI that does not exists > > Thank you very much for any help on that matter, >

Re: Managing a Linux based cluster.

2004-12-26 Thread Ami Chayun
On Sunday 26 December 2004 17:09, Amit Roseberger wrote: > Hi All. > I am trying to build a Linux based (haven't yet decided on the exact > distro/s) cluster for testing a complicated server side application. > Building the cluster is not my problem though... > What I need is an idea/software (open

OT: Items for giveaway

2005-01-19 Thread Ami Chayun
sing the computer to hang 1 laptop of model: IBM Thinkpad 760ED (Pentium 133Mhz) Too damn slow for us Several PCMCIA cards (all of them work): Zoom V-92 PCMCIA Modem Model 1273 ClipperCom V.34 PCMCIA Modem Etherlink III PCMCIA ethernet card 3c589b Xircom PCMCIA ethernet 10/100 card -- Ami Chayun

Re: OT: Items for giveaway

2005-01-20 Thread Ami Chayun
Hi everyone, Thank you all for the overwhelming response. The items were all taken today, and were donated for charity purposes. -- Ami Chayun Beyond Security Ltd. http://www.securiteam.com = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

smbfs does not respect permissions

2005-01-31 Thread Ami Chayun
know of a solution for this? -- Ami Chayun Beyond Security Ltd. http://www.securiteam.com = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsub

Re: smbfs does not respect permissions

2005-02-02 Thread Ami Chayun
> the one defined on the server. Needless to say that this is undesired... > > I remember reading some time ago that this was a known problem in smbfs. > Does anyone know of a solution for this? -- Ami Chayun Beyond Security Ltd. http://www.securiteam.com ===

OT: Items for giveaway #2

2005-03-28 Thread Ami Chayun
Beyond Security's offices in Netanya. 1 Cellcom GPRS modem for Palm Pilot (universal palm connector. hardware only, not including any software or service). 1 Ethernet hub 8 port 10 MBit 1 Ethernet hub 4 port 10 MBit (D-link) 1 24X CDROM. -- Ami Chayun Beyond Security Ltd.

Integrating sendsms with KAddressBook / Kopete

2005-08-07 Thread Ami Chayun
endsms.sh %N The script supports both Hebrew and English. Note that you need to have sendsms installed, and properly configured. Enjoy, Ami Chayun Beyond Security Ltd. http://www.securiteam.com ksendsms.sh Description: application/shellscript

Re: It's about time: a delay of 1 microsec in a user space

2005-08-23 Thread Ami Chayun
> the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ami Chayun Beyond Security Ltd. http://www.securiteam.com = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Gamatronic Smart Compact 750 with NUTs

2006-03-22 Thread Ami Chayun
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 15:26, you wrote: > Does anyone have a Gamatronic UPS (I specifically have a Smart Compact 750) > working with NUTs (Network UPS Tools)? > > I have been going through all the drivers and trying to see if anyone of > them can see the UPS. Several come up as "online", howeve

Automake header install problem

2006-05-24 Thread Ami Chayun
I use automake to build a binary (not shared library), and I would like Makefile to install several headers (located in the include dir of the project). I added to my src/Makefile.am the following line: include_HEADERS = api.h I also tried several variations on the line, with no success. Proj

Re: Automake header install problem

2006-05-24 Thread Ami Chayun
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 23:32, you wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 בMay 2006 16:30, Ami Chayun wrote: > > I added to my src/Makefile.am the following line: > > > > include_HEADERS = api.h > > ... > > Project structure is (assuming the project is under dir named

Re: Automake header install problem

2006-05-28 Thread Ami Chayun
On Friday 26 May 2006 08:29, Oron Peled wrote: > On Thursday, 25 בMay 2006 09:17, Ami Chayun wrote: > > Oron, Thanks for the answer. It was indeed the mistake. > > The situation is a bit more complicated though. > > My api.h is generated from api.h.in > > OK, but it does

Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-25 Thread Ami Chayun
Hi list, While trying to generate a gpg keypair in a remote server, I discovered I lack entropy. A short research lead me to the following startling fact; Someone suggested to disable the entropy gathering from popular network cards, including tg3 and e1000: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/5/107 T

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-26 Thread Ami Chayun
On Sunday 25 June 2006 18:39, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Geiger counters coupled to slightly sub-critical lumps of enriched > > uranium can be tuned to provide arbitrarily large amounts of > > entropy. > > Certainly you don't need enriched uranium for that. Wh

Re: Random numbers in Linux servers

2006-06-28 Thread Ami Chayun
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 16:06, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > At least on the boards I checked this, the sensors give very inaccurate > > data - e.g. temperature accurate to 0.5degC. You can't really use that > > for random data. I guess Intel's RNG has many more digits. > >

Re: Getting the registers of the program in a signal handler

2006-07-02 Thread Ami Chayun
The only way I know of is becoming a registered debugger with ptrace, and using the uber ability: ptrace(( __ptrace_request )PTRACE_GETREGS, pid, 0, ®s) If the program is not being debugged externally, you can try to attach inside the handler, if you succeed, getting the registers. Hope this h

Backup advice

2006-08-21 Thread Ami Chayun
Hi all, I would like to get some advice for a backup utility with the following capabilities: 1. Be able to snap-shot directories and databases (not the entire file system). 2. Perform incremental backups (at least for directories) 3. Good integrity checks 4. Sane recovery process The main prob

Re: Backup advice

2006-08-22 Thread Ami Chayun
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 11:26, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > On Monday 21 August 2006 11:54, you wrote: > > Hi all, > > I would like to get some advice for a backup utility with the following > > capabilities: > > > > 1. Be able to snap-shot directories and databases (not the entire file > > system). > >

Shared Library entry point

2006-11-14 Thread Ami Chayun
Hi all, I have a shared library, and I want a specific function to be called once the library is loaded. Dlls has the notorious DllMain function. Is there a method of achieving the same in an .so file? Ami = To unsubscribe, send m

Re: Phishing for an anti-spam / anti-virus solution

2006-12-04 Thread Ami Chayun
Chaim, There are many combinations to fight spam, and I'm sure many people on this list can recommend solutions. Here is my suggestion: 1. Run Postfix for SMTP. Postfix can be hardened against spam very effectively (RBLs and RFC mail checks): For more information look at http://www.howtoforge.co