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

2009-01-22 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2009-01-22 01:58, Michael Shiloh wrote: > What's a good way to automatically create a pdf file from a bunch of > images? I use this script: http://tromer.org/misc/pages2pdf Help text: Converts a bunch of image files (in any common format) into one PDF file. Optionally, reduces resolution a

Wiki software with page access control

2009-03-13 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, Any recommendations for decent Wiki software that - Runs on Linux - Has decent per-page read/write access control - Supports embedded LaTeX markup with a modern interface and well-maintained codebase? We were planning to use MediaWiki in our research group, but some pages are work-in-progress

Re: Digital Photo Keychains for Linux

2009-09-23 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi Eli, On 2009-09-24 01:51, Eli Marmor wrote: I was amazed to find out that these devices require a special software to manage them. Adding insult to injury, the mandatory Windows software shipped with these devices all-too-often contains malware. Example: http://hothardware.com/News/Samsun

Re: frequent ADSL disconnections

2002-09-26 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2002-01-25, Daniel Pearson wrote: [snip] > As you may have guessed, I am able to successfully connect to and use the > Internet via DSL. The problem is that the connection suddenly stops working at > rather frequent, but very irregular intervals. When this happens packets don't > go through a

Re: routing question

2002-10-02 Thread Eran Tromer
While of no use to you, in iptables (kernel 2.4) you can achieve that using the OUTPUT chain of the NAT table. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a machine with two outside interfaces. One (ADSL) if the default > route, used for all outgoing traffic, and the other (FR) is used mostly to > receive

Re: rsync + ssh

2002-10-03 Thread Eran Tromer
Michael Sternberg wrote: > Just wondering how rsync+ssh combination is working. > Is it safe from security point of view ? > What overhead it introduces - is it quick enough ? It works perfectly. In regard to security, in terms of the data passed it's as secure as ssh, but there's a catch: becaus

Re: Gentoo

2002-10-21 Thread Eran Tromer
Eli Marmor wrote: > Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > In precompiled kde 2.2.2 from mdk8.1 (i586) and self-compiled 3.1 > > (i686) I did not find any speed improove and in startup even a 5 > > seconds less: > > load -> kde2.2.2 10 sec, kde3.1 15sec > > konqui both about 2 secs. > Do you mean that no pr

Rootless Cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-05 Thread Eran Tromer
such as the RENDER extension (read: antialising) and XKEYBOARD (read: keyboard language switching). All Hail Matsuzaki Kensuke! Regards, Eran Tromer [1] X-Win32 is closed source, and a single license costs from $140 for a standard license (1 year of upgrades) to $60 for a box-specific time-limit

Re: Rootless Cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-06 Thread Eran Tromer
Ira Abramov wrote: > why isn't it cheap to access win from lin? I have done it several > times with TightVNC clients, as well as with the windows RDP client > (both are packages on Debian's main tree, apt-get install rdesktop > xvncviewer) I find VNC way too slow and jumpy for extensive work, whi

Re: Rootless Cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-08 Thread Eran Tromer
Oded Arbel wrote: > TightVNC is quite usable on a non-dedicated ISDN connection (i.e. - > other things are using it at the same time), so I believe it will be > very responsive on a LAN. > > I also used the vncviewer from AT&T and the krdc from KDE 3.1 and > they're both usable on low bandwidth co

Re: ps notes.

2002-11-08 Thread Eran Tromer
, but then you can't print the annotated version or send it to other people. I couldn't find any existing free software for this. There are several commercial applications for annotating PDF files, including Adobe's own Acrobat; google for "annotate PDF". Using pdf2ps and

Re: I have 2 spare CPU's (maybe not)

2002-11-10 Thread Eran Tromer
Hmmm. Then if the scheduler is unaware of SMT, then even on a single-processor box SMT may degrade performance due to memory cache issues -- when two unrelated threads are executed in parallel, the effective size of the L1 and L2 caches is halved. With today's processor vs. DRAM speed difference, t

Re: big question: FW-1 VS. Linux security tools

2002-11-11 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2002/10/28 10:30, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > no true "state" is kept (for example - no proper tracking of > connection's state, no ability to limit packets based on > packets seen so far on the same connection) Regarding this specific feature, which you listed as missing from netfilter: the curr

Re: 2 IDE cards ?

2002-11-14 Thread Eran Tromer
Ehud Karni wrote: > I can put 7 disks and an additional ventilator inside the computer box > (all I need is supporting frames). Disk drives draw a lot of power when they spin up (e.g., the Maxtor 80GB can reach 22W on the 12V line plus 2W on the 5V line). I doubt a standard power supply can handl

Re: Secure nfs

2002-11-14 Thread Eran Tromer
Meir Michanie wrote: > The problem with using nfs today is authentication (don't read > authorization, it may be another problem) [...] > 3. get the private key from one compromised client and you have root > control over the net, next step would be ssh root@server -i > compromised-key [...] Yup,

Re: Secure nfs

2002-11-14 Thread Eran Tromer
I see that Coda is now in the stock Linux kernel, so maybe things have indeed improved. Eran Eran Tromer wrote: > The alternative filesystems included AFS, SFS, CODA and InterMezzo. > Theoretically all are up to the task, but the last three were immature > (at least at that time

Re: Secure nfs

2002-11-15 Thread Eran Tromer
Having peeked at the TCFS sourcecode and scanned their 95-slides presentation (http://www.tcfs.it/docs/linux-expo-2001/Diapositiva1.JPG.html): TCFS encrypts at the file block level, and the protocol for sending file blocks back and forth is plain NFS, so an eavesdropper knows which block of which

Re: Secure nfs

2002-11-16 Thread Eran Tromer
Ehud Karni wrote: > On 15 Nov 2002 00:28:00 +0200, Meir Michanie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>3. get the private key from one compromised client and you have root >>control over the net, next step would be ssh root@server -i >>compromised-key > > That is not true. The intruder has already root pri

Re: Secure nfs

2002-11-16 Thread Eran Tromer
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Eran Tromer wrote: > >>Having peeked at the TCFS sourcecode and scanned their 95-slides >>presentation >>(http://www.tcfs.it/docs/linux-expo-2001/Diapositiva1.JPG.html): >> >>TCFS encrypts at the file block leve

Re: Alcatel ADSL modem port limit.

2003-01-07 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/01/07 15:15, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > The major advantage the sofaware/check point S-Box has over a linux > computer (and, for that matter, all integrated solutions) is the lack of > a rotating cooling device. This can be worth the money and lack of > control if you happen to host your int

Re: Fan or no Fan? (a bit off-topic)

2003-01-08 Thread Eran Tromer
On a well-ventilated system with one or two HDDs, you probably don't need extra fans. But just check! All modern HDDs have built-in temperature sensors that are accessible via the SMART interface. Two ways to get the HDD temperature on Linux are 'smartctl -v /dev/hda' (using the 'smartsuite' packa

Re: [Haifux] Kol Kore

2003-01-15 Thread Eran Tromer
Erez, There's an effort by Mel Gorman to document the VM code of recent Linux 2.4.x kernels. You may find it useful, once it covers from the Slashdot effect. http://www.kerneltrap.com/node.php?id=555 http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/ Eran

Tracing disk I/O

2003-02-12 Thread Eran Tromer
Greetings, How does one go about tracing *physical* disk I/O on Linux? Level 1: trace physical I/O requests: "wrote 4 sectors at offset 533624 on /dev/hda1" Level 2: report/filter-by PID: "PID 256 (/bin/foo) wrote 4 sectors at offset 533624 on /dev/hda1" Level 3: map physical locations back

Re: egged.co.il works

2003-03-10 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/03/10 16:03, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Only about 1% of the people who browse the internet do so from Linux > (http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html). > My site (http://www.shemesh.biz), which was published mostly on Linux > related forums (here through my sig, Wine, Haifux) gets about

Debian server tips?

2003-03-27 Thread Eran Tromer
Ahoy, I'm going to install a Debian webserver (replacing a RedHat Linux 6.2, which has just gone out of RedHat's shortened maintenance cycle). My plan is to install Woody, add Bastille Linux, do the generic security tightening and follow 'stable' happily everafter (from the IGLU mirror). Is there

Re: C flame (was: FS/OS in schools)

2003-06-08 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/06/08 12:01, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > Java itself, the language, hasn't changed since JDK 1.1 (released in 97 > if I'm not mistaken). Nearly so. JDK 1.1 added the "strictfp" keyword, and JDK 1.4 added the "assert" keyword. Eran =

Re: C flame (was: FS/OS in schools)

2003-06-08 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/06/08 12:56, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Reportedly, more important changes will be introduced in 1.5, > including [snip] templates (dubbed "generics") Hardly! In Java's new generics you declare what the template argument must extend/implement. In C++'s templates the template code just ref

Support for CNWLC-811

2003-07-01 Thread Eran Tromer
Ahoy, Does anyone happen to know whether the CNet CNWLC-811 (AKA CNWLC-811-5V) 801.11b PCMCIA card works under Linux, and with drivers? It's based on the Prism chipset. The web site claims Linux support and provides some drivers, but the only relevant post I found claims they silently fail. There

Israeli DMCA looming?

2003-07-02 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, On June 30th, Globes Ha'erev (page 4) lists "goals and deadlines" which were set by the PM to the various government ministries. The following is one of the goals set for the Ministry of Justice: "Improvement in protection of patents. Completion and application during 2004. Improvement o

Re: Israeli DMCA looming?

2003-07-02 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/07/02 16:42, Herouth Maoz wrote: > Quoting Eran Tromer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> "Improvement in protection of patents. Completion and application >> during 2004. Improvement of Israel's status in regard to money >> laundering and protection of

Re: Linux compatible wi-fi

2003-07-23 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, Both the Edimax EW-7106 (PCMCIA) and Edimax EW-7115U (USB but very compact) are supposed to work well under Linux. At pchardware.co.il they sell for 245NIS and 280NIS respectively (you may want to do a zap.co.il lookup). That's cheaper than the unsupported D-Link DWL-650+. No 22Mbps, thoug

Re: Linux compatible wi-fi

2003-07-23 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/07/23 19:11, Eran Tromer wrote: Both the Edimax EW-7106 (PCMCIA) [snip] Correction: the full model name is "EW-7106PC". Eran = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe&

Re: [OT] Why do non-crossed ethernet cables exist?

2003-07-24 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/07/24 20:35, Shaul Karl wrote: I believe that straight through cables are simpler to produce: you literally push the cable into the RJ connector and press it. Hardly. If you just cut a round cable and press the wires into a flat array, you get them in nearly random order. "Nearly" becau

Re: Linux compatible wi-fi

2003-08-08 Thread Eran Tromer
and by what it broadcasts I suspect that it's silently ignoring some configuration commands. The problem may be due to a mismatch between Knoppix and RedHat 9.0's kernel wireless extensions version, so it may very well work on the latter (hey, they advertise it as such). Eran On 2

Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos

2003-10-04 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/10/03 19:44, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > It's absolutely perfect as far as I can see. > [...] mixed RTL and numbers, dashes etc. etc. - > all work exactly as expected. OOe 1.1 seems to have the usual hebrew-hyphen-number problem ("H-5" renders as "H5-"), which necessitates typing of the

Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos

2003-10-05 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/10/04 13:44, Eran Tromer wrote: OOe 1.1 seems to have the usual hebrew-hyphen-number problem ("H-5" renders as "H5-"), which necessitates typing of the logically incorrect "H5-" and causes bad importing of newer MS Word documents. http://www.openoffice.or

Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos

2003-10-05 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/10/06 01:38, Eran Tromer wrote: 2. a. During text input, use heuristics to produce an encoding that's rendered as desired. In the case of hebrew+minus+digit, instead of a plain HYPHEN-MINUS insert some appropriate Unicode sequences such as RLE+(HYPHEN-MINUS)+PDF or RLE+(NON-BRE

Re: Search engine for http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il ?

2003-10-07 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/10/07 19:45, Shachar Shemesh wrote: If anyone has email dating further back, in either mbox or maildir > formats, please send them over. My linux-il mbox goes back to 1998-30-01, and is complete (to the level allowed by the SMTP Uncertainty Principle). Interested? Eran ===

Re: UTR#9 - Unicode BiDi (was Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos)

2003-10-08 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/10/08 19:58, Ehud Karni wrote: This is a known issue with Unicode BiDi. It arises because we use the - character for both minus and hyphen. When one wants to connects letters with numbers one is using a HYPHEN and wants it to appear as 5-word. When one wants to write a negative number one u

Re: GPL Licensing Question

2003-10-26 Thread Eran Tromer
Ahoy, On 2003/10/26 21:33, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Sunday 26 October 2003 20:15, Eran Tromer wrote: The distiction is anything but simple. [snip] My answer was given in the form of two separate paragraphs and such a choice of lexical structure usually denotes two separate subjects are

Re: GPL Licensing Question

2003-10-26 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/10/26 19:06, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: The distinction is very simple - whatever code that is a derived work from the GPLed parts (and assuming they are *GPLed* and not, LGPLed, for example) can only be distributed under the GPL license by him. In practice what this usually boils down to

Re: brief naps

2003-10-30 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/10/31 00:34, Shaul Karl wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:49:38PM +0200, Ami Chayun wrote: 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 m

Re: protecting one's IP

2003-11-15 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/11/15 22:34, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: There was an elegant proof given at one of the HRL seminars last year that any obfuscator can be beaten. Are you speaking of the work by Boaz Barak et al. (http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~boaz/Papers/obfuscate.ps)? If so, your summary is a bit mislead

Userspace mount

2003-11-20 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, How do you let non-root users mount arbitrary filesystems, such as NFS and SMB mounts anywhere on the network? Linux allows non-root users to load only partitions specified as 'user' in /etc/fstab, or pre-specified in a relevant automount entry. Is there a way to let users mount arbitrary file

Re: Userspace mount

2003-11-20 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/11/20 16:46, Micha Feigin wrote: Failing that, maybe there's some userspace thing that would emulate a mount for all glibc-based programs via LD_PRELOAD? The proper way would probably be to use sudo and give all authorised users access to running mount (that would allow you to give that abi

Re: Userspace mount

2003-11-20 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2003/11/21 00:40, Oron Peled wrote: On Thursday 20 November 2003 16:46, Micha Feigin wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:06:11PM +0200, Eran Tromer wrote: How do you let non-root users mount arbitrary filesystems, The proper way would probably be to use sudo and give all authorised users

Tracing disk I/O (followup)

2004-01-30 Thread Eran Tromer
Ahoy, On 2003/02/12 23:13, I posted here a question about tracing physical disk I/O on a Linux system: How does one go about tracing *physical* disk I/O on Linux? Level 1: trace physical I/O requests: "wrote 4 sectors at offset 533624 on /dev/hda1" Level 2: report/filter-by PID: "PID 256 (

Re: [OT] Digital Camera

2004-03-30 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2004/03/30 16:01, Ira Abramov wrote: > and one Dell 2650 running WhiteBox linux. Speaking of which, how compatible is WhiteBox Linux with RHEL3? Theoretically perfect, but in practice? And how reliable is their update service? Eran ==

Re: Whitebox

2004-03-30 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2004/03/30 21:01, Ira Abramov wrote: > I see no reason why it should not be a 100% match, as it is basicly > compiled from the same sources with the same .spec files. I've seen claims that for some packages RedHat just used existing RPMs compiled for and on older distributions, so building fro

Re: Using W3C standard and ignoring IE?

2004-04-06 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2004/04/06 16:48, Amir Hardon wrote: > A great example for this issue is the W3C DOM standard addEventListener > function, which isn't implemented in the popular browser. The popular > workaround for this is checking whether addEventListener exist and if not > using attachEvent (Which is a mi

Re: hard drive errors - bad disk or?

2004-04-20 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2004/04/20 20:05, Nachum Kanovsky wrote: > Is there a way to check if it is a disk problem, or perhaps a chipset or other > thing? Look at the on-disk SMART statistics and error log ("smartctl -a /dev/hdX"; it's part of the smartmontools package). If it reports relocated sectors and such, then

gcc precompiled headers

2004-04-21 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, Just a quick note about the precompiled header support of gcc 3.4: At least on the small C++ project I tried it, it works well and dramatically reduces compilation times when you have complex #includes such as STL. (And it's about bloody time, too! Lack of precompiled headers was the #1 shor

Re: Printing Photos in Israel

2007-08-09 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi Yuval, On 2007-08-09 03:57, Yuval Hager wrote: > Does anybody know of a site in Israel in which you can upload your photos and > get them printed? It should > > 1. Work with a non-IE browser > 2. Have decent prices > 3. Good service level and attitude. > > I am looking for standard printing,

Re: Digital Photo Manager

2007-08-12 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2007-08-12 15:46, Ira Abramov wrote: >> md5) and not filenames, I will be able to move images on the filesystems or >> between machines without losing track of the metadata I recorded for them. > > unless you hide it in a file "fork" like on a mac or in NT, your only > way of copying a file wit

Re: Nostalgia is not what it used to be

2007-10-03 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2007-10-03 06:38, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Once a 32 bit kernel is up, the BIOS never gets used again. Actually, many modern machines (especially laptops) still execute BIOS code after the 32-bit kernel is up, via System Management Mode. It typically gets invoked by hardware sensors, keys, the

Re: Recommendations for incremental backups

2008-02-13 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi Geoff, On 2008-02-13 06:07, Geoff Shang wrote: organise backups of the office machine on one of the servers. I was going to use a simple rsync process, but as far as I can see it, it would have to run as root on my end in order to be able to write to directories owned by other people. I'

"Cluebat Sender" button

2004-08-28 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, Following up on my recent footnote, and in light of the rapidly increasing amounts of Israeli spam, I hereby suggest a FOSS project which I don't have time to write, but would love to use. :-) The idea is as follows. Write a Mozilla extension (or the equivalent for your favorite MUA) that add

Mozilla startup time

2004-09-21 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, On my otherwise idle Linux box, Mozilla startup takes about 7.5 seconds (5 of which are CPU usage), even on repeated invocations when everything supposed to be cached. Any idea how to reduce this? Purging the plugins and bookmarks.html makes no noticable difference. Running Fedora Core 2 and

Re: Mozilla startup time

2004-09-21 Thread Eran Tromer
On 09/21/2004 04:03 PM, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > - can you profile it? (with oprofile, please...) Ah! Got it. While helpful suggestions were pouring, I did some more testing and found that the problem is user-specific [1]. Then, I followed your suggestion and suggestion I oprofiled an invocation;

Slow software RAID5

2004-10-14 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, I have a Linux box running a software RAID5 array of 3 IDE disks. Each disk, by itself, has a raw read bandwidth of over 40MB/sec. I thus expect the raw read bandwidth of the RAID array to be at least 80MB/sec; but it's just 26MB/sec. Any idea what could be wrong? Details follow. /proc/mdsta

Re: Wireless advice

2005-01-05 Thread Eran Tromer
On 05/01/05 11:17, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Actually, I was seriously considering not using it. The idea is that, since WEP is so weak, I might as well do without altogether. Any host wishing to do anything at all on my network, including browsing the internet, will need to have openvpn installed

Re: Wireless advice

2005-01-05 Thread Eran Tromer
On 05/01/05 12:01, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Yes, but the difference is a legal one. If you do not encrypt your > network, you are inviting anyone to use it. If you do, you can claim > you were "hacked". An encrypted network would indeed make it easier to establish "unlawful entry to computer

Re: Protecting against fork/memory bombs the Right way

2005-01-14 Thread Eran Tromer
On 14/01/05 13:24, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: When its just about CPU time, the Linux kernel is pretty fair: it won't allow any process to choke the others. However, when I/O comes into picture (e.g. the user needs so much memory that other processes need to the swapped out), then the aggressive p

Re: problem with implementing mmap

2005-01-30 Thread Eran Tromer
On 30/01/05 16:50, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: remap_page_range has some peculiarities. In particular, are you setting the pages you are mapping to PageReserved first? "Some peculiarities" indeed! If you use remap_page_range (e.g., via /dev/mem) to mmap a physical address that's valid and unreserved

Re: problem with implementing mmap

2005-01-30 Thread Eran Tromer
On 30/01/05 18:56, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: If you use remap_page_range (e.g., via /dev/mem) to mmap a physical address that's valid and unreserved (i.e., all of "normal" memory), it fails silently: the PTE is allocated but left marked as not present (see mm/memory.c/remap_pte_range). So far it s

Re: MOSIX vs OpenMOSIX [2nd attempt]

2005-04-19 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, On 19/04/05 21:13, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > MOSIX/OpenMOSIX is a great > academic excersize - a working academic excersize, but not something I > would use except for very specific and narrow taks in controled conditions. That's consistent with my experience. Here at the Weizmann Institute,

Re: MOSIX vs OpenMOSIX [2nd attempt]

2005-04-20 Thread Eran Tromer
limitations of (Open)MOSIX. So if you expect it to be "magic supercomputer" you'll end up disappointed; as Gilad said, if you have well-characterized and MOSIX-friendly workload, great. Otherwise, don't expect great success. Eran On 19/04/05 22:26, Eran Tromer wrote: > Hi,

Re: MOSIX vs OpenMOSIX [2nd attempt]

2005-04-20 Thread Eran Tromer
On 20/04/05 10:15, Eran Tromer wrote: > Hi, > > Just to clarify my last mail: the problems I mentioned are inherent to > (Open)MOSIX. Our IT staff did a lot of work configuring and optimizing > the system and fixed all that could be fixed (I know because I also > looked at s

Re: undeterministic zip?

2005-05-09 Thread Eran Tromer
On 09/05/05 17:40, Ira Abramov wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar zcf - directory |md5sum > 484497aa0d7e1bb391a73cc8b42acce2 - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar zcf - directory |md5sum > 552bbc02b0b2b5b142a425d476f0d5c0 - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar zcf - directory |md5sum > 792afdaf2be839dfccc1c91dfd4

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-29 Thread Eran Tromer
On 25/06/05 22:26, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > encrypting the information we rsync Not just over the wire, according by your webpage, but even backup server can't decrypt it. Excellent. But how can you do that with a secure (hence chained) encryption mode while maintaining the communication efficien

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-29 Thread Eran Tromer
On 29/06/05 12:37, Eran Tromer wrote: > secure (hence chained) encryption mode Or more generally, a mode with an IV that changes between encryptions. Eran = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the w

rsyncrypto (was: offtopic: a sad story about VPS)

2005-06-29 Thread Eran Tromer
Ahoy, On 29/06/05 13:50, Shachar Shemesh wrote: >> Not just over the wire, according by your webpage, but even backup >> server can't decrypt it. Excellent. >> > Otherwise we gain nothing. You'd gain protection from a 3rd-party adversary listening in on the traffic (if you didn't a secure channe

Re: rsyncrypto

2005-06-29 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, On 29/06/05 20:43, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Ok, so maybe it will. Not as elegantly as storing a single ~60 byte > state per file, though. True (and my original objection), but more efficient in communication -- the overhead per delta is just due to AES block alignment. >> Specifically, yo

Re: A new venture - preventing spam

2005-06-30 Thread Eran Tromer
On 30/06/05 17:03, Nadav Har'El wrote: > SPF is probably the best solution I know of for this problem > which still keeps your plausible deniability (i.e., gpg is TOO strong) That's an important and often-missed drawback of signed e-mail, but not an inherent one. There are well-established cryptog

Re: Grayscale charts

2005-07-08 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi Oleg, Thanks, but it doesn't have the chart type I need. Eran On 09/07/05 01:06, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Eran Tromer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Hi, >> >>I'm looking for free software to render a 2D dataset as grayscale chart, >>i

PC-to-phone VoIP

2005-08-19 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, Is there any reliable PC-to-phone VoIP solution for Linux that's reliable, works while on the road and requires a sane amount of configuration? I know of only two purporting to be such, namely Skype (semi-evil and chokes on my laptop's sound system) and GnomeMeeting (which is hardcoded to a s

Re: PC-to-phone VoIP

2005-08-20 Thread Eran Tromer
eing in an expensive hotel with very limited time puts me in the highly atypical attitude of "Just make it work, I don't care how". On 08/20/2005 07:08 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 07:20:35PM -0400, Eran Tromer wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Is

Re: PC-to-phone VoIP

2005-08-20 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, On 08/20/2005 11:23 AM, Maxim Kovgan wrote: > Eran, isn't skype-in and skype-out just good enough ? Semi-evilness and security concerns aside, theoretically yes. But Skype chokes on my laptop's sound system (a few seconds into any call it stops all sound, mumbles something about /dev/dsp-1, a

Re: Encrypting ReiserFS

2005-08-24 Thread Eran Tromer
On 08/23/2005 10:22 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > 1. Encrypting entire filesystems: In case it's relevant, note that in some circumstances, any user with write access to any part of that filesystem can get your key in a few dozen milliseconds: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~tromer/papers/cache.

Re: Wireless card

2005-10-21 Thread Eran Tromer
On 21/10/05 03:39, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > Actually, Ralink ( http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ ) and Intel > ( http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ ) are just as friendly. [snip] > - a Ralink RT2500-based Edimax EW-7128G PCI card (even cheaper!), > which I've tried with Ralink's GPLd driver a year ago

HTTP proxy switching

2005-11-23 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, I'm plugging my laptops into various networks, and each has its own setup for the various TCP/IP parameters. Most of these settings are nicely handled by dhcpd (which sets the interface parameters and changes /etc/resolve.conf [1]), but what about the HTTP proxy [2]? The thing is, HTTP proxy

Re: HTTP proxy switching

2005-11-24 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, On 2005-11-23 20:13, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > Have you tried Apache with mod_proxy? It has a feature to redirect > requests to a peer proxy (ProxyRemote), should be reasonably lightweight > (with each new version, Apache gets more modular) and - well - what's > more likely to be standard-co

Re: Crossover office - Writing hebrew in IE

2006-03-06 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi Noam, On 2006-01-29 12:45, Noam Meltzer wrote: > I can see Hebrew alright, but not write. > I tried to contact the crossover office presale support, but what I was > told was that they don't support Hebrew. > > I tried running the crossover IE with my default locale (POSIX) as well > as with

Re: Campaign to boycott HD DVD

2006-03-09 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, On 2006-03-09 10:37, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Both formats WILL be cracked. It's only a matter of time and stupidity > of those companies. Last time it was because none of the DVD forum > companies had any support for Linux, until "DVD Jon" came with DeCSS > and from there, the rest is history.

Re: firefox friendly credit card service

2006-03-27 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, CAL's website (www.cal-online.co.il) is usable with Firefox 1.5, though some elements are misrendered. I haven't tried their one-time-number solution. Eran On 2006-03-27 15:33, Skliarouk Arieh wrote: > Hello, > > I want to choose credit card service that is firefox friendly. From my > ex

Re: [OT] Stupid DVD DRM

2006-07-06 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2006-07-06 11:40, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > I have here 6 DVD drives here at home. Guess how many times I had to > fiddle with region locking/DRM stuff? none! no firmware patching, no > locking, nothing. Well, lucky you; this is highly drive-specific. >From what I gather, when the region doesn't

[OT] Anicent hardware for giveaway

2006-08-28 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, Relocation to Boston is forcing me to discard some of my computer junk collection. The following is available for free if you can pick it up from Rehovot by early Friday morning (the earlier the better): * An old Pentium (300MHz or so) with some PC100 RAM * Apple Macintosh SE (with a keyboard

Project management software

2006-11-01 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, Can someone recommend some nice, lightweight project management software for Linux? All such software I found so far is either long abandoned or works as a one-way converter from some annoying text format to static reports; I want a usable live GUI interface. It's for a small, simple project,

Re: Project management software

2006-11-01 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi Jacob, On 2006-11-01 20:40, Jacob Broido wrote: > Check out TRAC: > http://trac.edgewall.org/ Thanks, but does it have Gantt charts? If it does, they sure fail mention it on the website. (And I'd rather have a proper interactive GUI instead of a web interface.) Eran ==

Re: Project management software

2006-11-02 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2006-11-02 07:29, Maxim Vexler wrote: > Any of those? : > > http://taskjuggler.org One way text-to-report, with no real GUI manipulation of input. > http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/ Missing basic features, such as task duration in hours. No resource leveling, so it merrily assigns the 1

Re: Project management software

2006-11-07 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2006-11-07 14:30, Meir Kriheli wrote: > This has surfaced at gnome-files.org, HTH: > > http://faces.homeip.net/ Thanks, but it's yet another one of those one-way textual-representation-to-graphical-report tools. Eran = To uns

Re: Project management software

2006-11-17 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi Maxim, On 2006-11-17 15:35, Maxim Vexler wrote: > I think that faces, which just popped out from a seemingly unrelated > search for "build tools" on freshmeat should fit your needs. Check it > at http://freshmeat.net/projects/faces/ That's another one of those one-way tools that convert a text

Re: MySQL latest beta versions

2000-08-02 Thread Eran Tromer
lems? Also, isamchk doesn't detect all errors, so consider using mysqldump to reconstruct your database from scratch. This following is directly applicable: http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Problems.html#Crashing Regards, Eran Tromer

Re: ADSL questions

2000-12-13 Thread Eran Tromer
nth for unlimited time dialup on *both* channels), will be twice as fast at a comparable price. Regards, Eran Tromer = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g.

Root RAID broken on 2.4

2001-01-09 Thread Eran Tromer
id1 personality registered [should recognition of my RAID configuration happen here? --Eran] EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=09:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:00 - What am I missing? T

Estimating disk activity

2001-01-15 Thread Eran Tromer
await disk I/O and those that await socket input, for instance. My primary goal is to determine whether disk usage is a performance bottleneck in a web server (Apache+PHP+MySQL). In case the solution is driver-specific (low-level counters?), I'm using RAID1 on SCSI, kernel 2.2. Regards,

Re: Estimating disk activity

2001-01-15 Thread Eran Tromer
guy keren wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Eran Tromer wrote: > > > How do I tell remotely how heavy is the disk activity on a Linux box? > > man vmstat Thanks. Does the trick for me (almost no disk access on the web server -- everything in RAM, as is right and proper).

Re: Estimating disk activity

2001-01-16 Thread Eran Tromer
s. The Linux port is rather recent. The "sysstat" package (RedHat7, Suse 6.4) contains both. Regards, Eran Tromer Eran Tromer wrote: > > guy keren wrote: > > > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Eran Tromer wrote: > > > > > How do I tell remotely ho

Re: Updated ADSL-HOWTO

2001-01-28 Thread Eran Tromer
t;ATUR2". On the other hand, the problematic single-jack version has "ATUR3" in its version string (but Bezeq's support didn't have any special name for it). So, ignoring the existence of a third type of Orckit modems, the current state of the art is: ATUR2 works with Linux, A

ADSL pppd problem

2001-02-03 Thread Eran Tromer
t. Feb 3 16:45:12 lucian (unknown)[2356]: log[pptp_conn_close:pptp_ctrl.c:276]: Closing PPTP connection ------ Regards, Eran Tromer = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubsc

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