From alon at skylinesoft.com Thu Sep 17 08:42:16 2015 From: alon at skylinesoft.com (Alon Barzilai) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:42:16 +0300 Subject: newbie: il ubuntu mirror down? Message-ID: <55FA52B8.2040904@skylinesoft.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kaplanlior at gmail.com Thu Sep 17 09:12:01 2015 From: kaplanlior at gmail.com (Lior Kaplan) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 09:12:01 +0300 Subject: newbie: il ubuntu mirror down? In-Reply-To: <55FA52B8.2040904@skylinesoft.com> References: <55FA52B8.2040904@skylinesoft.com> Message-ID: It was down for maintenance. Already up by now. Kaplan On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Alon Barzilai wrote: > Hi list, > > when I try to install ssh server through: > sudo apt-get install openssh-server > I get this error: > > Reading package lists... > Building dependency tree... > Reading state information... > The following extra packages will be installed: > libck-connector0 ncurses-term openssh-client openssh-sftp-server > ssh-import-id > Suggested packages: > libpam-ssh keychain monkeysphere rssh molly-guard > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libck-connector0 ncurses-term openssh-server openssh-sftp-server > ssh-import-id > The following packages will be upgraded: > openssh-client > 1 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 248 not upgraded. > Need to get 267 kB/1,224 kB of archives. > After this operation, 3,502 kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Err http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ > vivid/main libck-connector0 amd64 0.4.6-5 > 503 Service Unavailable > Err http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main ncurses-term all > 5.9+20140712-2ubuntu2 > 503 Service Unavailable > Err http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main ssh-import-id all > 4.1-0ubuntu1 > 503 Service Unavailable > E: Failed to fetch > http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/consolekit/libck-connector0_0.4.6-5_amd64.deb > 503 Service Unavailable > > E: Failed to fetch > http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/ncurses/ncurses-term_5.9+20140712-2ubuntu2_all.deb > 503 Service Unavailable > > E: Failed to fetch > http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/ssh-import-id/ssh-import-id_4.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb > 503 Service Unavailable > > E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with > --fix-missing? > > this is the content of /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid main restricted > deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid main restricted > deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-updates main restricted > deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-updates main restricted > > when I try to access the url of the packages from a browser, I get an > error saying the site is under maintenance. > since I got this error both today and yesterday, I suspect I am doing > something wrong. > > when I replaced il.archive.ubuntu.com in us.archive.ubuntu.com in > sources.list > I got an error saying > Package 'openssh-server' has no installation candidate > > > any ideas? > > Alon > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From shlomif at gmail.com Sat Sep 19 12:53:37 2015 From: shlomif at gmail.com (Shlomi Fish) Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:53:37 +0300 Subject: Softare Freedom Day 2015 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Amichai, On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote: > How come nothing happens in Israel? > > > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2015 > > Amichai > > One plausible explanation is that this always falls on a Saturday, which is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath in Judaism. Add to that that many of the Israeli FOSS community members are busy, lazy and/or disorganised, and that many Israelis don't share the obsession of many Americans with assigning special days in the year ( = sysadmin appreciation day, secretary appreciation day), and there you go. Today is also http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ - arrrr! Regards, -- Shlomi Fish > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- ------------------------------------------ Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris helps the gods that help themselves. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shlomif at gmail.com Sat Sep 19 13:06:33 2015 From: shlomif at gmail.com (Shlomi Fish) Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 13:06:33 +0300 Subject: FSF30 Years Party Network In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Amichai, 2015-09-18 13:24 GMT+03:00 Amichai Rotman : > ???? ?????, > > ????? ???? ????? ????? ?? ?????? [1]? > > ????? ????? ???? ?????. ?? ?????? > > I'm not sure this will be very popular given RMS?s behaviour the last time he visited the Palestinian authority and Israel. See: http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/pipermail/linux-il/2011-October.txt Regards, -- Shlomi Fish > ????? ???? ????? ??????... [2] > > ????? ????? > > > > > > > [1] https://www.fsf.org/fsf30/party-network > [2] https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FSF30_Party_Network > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- ------------------------------------------ Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris helps the gods that help themselves. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoff at QuiteLikely.com Sun Sep 20 23:56:59 2015 From: geoff at QuiteLikely.com (Geoff Shang) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 21:56:59 +0100 (BST) Subject: Problems getting PCTV 292E working Message-ID: Hi, Thought I'd post here as I know a number of you have played with DVB devices. I'm currently in Scotland. I bought a PCTV Tripplestick 292E (http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCTV_Systems_tripleStick_T2_(292e)) to watch local free-to-air TV (aka Freeview). I'm running Debian Jessie on a Linux VM running under VMWare Fusion 7 (yes I know 8 is out now) on a late-2011 Macbook Pro. I'm using the stock Jessie kernel. Linux portkey 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3 (2015-08-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux I plugged the 292E in and told VMWare to connect it to the Linux VM. Linux recognised the device right away and set up the DVB devices. I downloaded the 292E firmware files from http://palosaari.fi/linux/v4l-dvb/firmware/Si2168/ and copied them to /lib/firmware/ $ ls -lh /lib/firmware/ total 60K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7K Sep 20 01:03 dvb-demod-si2168-02.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28K Sep 20 01:03 dvb-demod-si2168-a20-01.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18K Sep 20 01:03 dvb-demod-si2168-a30-01.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.8K Sep 20 01:03 dvb-demod-si2168-b40-01.fw I invoke w_scan as follows: # w_scan -f t -c GB -F -t 3 w_scan fails to find any channels and errors get printed to syslog. Sep 20 18:19:28 portkey kernel: [64658.040700] si2168 1-0064: si2168: found a 'Silicon Labs Si2168' in cold state Sep 20 18:19:28 portkey kernel: [64658.040750] si2168 1-0064: firmware: direct-loading firmware dvb-demod-si2168-02.fw Sep 20 18:19:28 portkey kernel: [64658.040755] si2168 1-0064: si2168: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-demod-si2168-02.fw' Sep 20 18:19:29 portkey kernel: [64659.745971] si2168 1-0064: si2168: found a 'Silicon Labs Si2168' in warm state Sep 20 18:19:29 portkey kernel: [64659.767509] si2168 1-0064: si2168: found a 'Silicon Labs Si2168' in cold state Sep 20 18:19:29 portkey kernel: [64659.767540] si2168 1-0064: firmware: direct-loading firmware dvb-demod-si2168-02.fw Sep 20 18:19:29 portkey kernel: [64659.767543] si2168 1-0064: si2168: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-demod-si2168-02.fw' Sep 20 18:19:31 portkey kernel: [64661.469856] si2168 1-0064: si2168: found a 'Silicon Labs Si2168' in warm state Sep 20 18:20:10 portkey kernel: [64700.562720] em28178 #0: write to i2c device at 0xc8 failed with unknown error (status=3) Sep 20 18:20:10 portkey kernel: [64700.562732] si2168 1-0064: si2168: i2c write failed=-5 Sep 20 18:20:12 portkey kernel: [64702.071617] em28178 #0: write to i2c device at 0xc8 failed with unknown error (status=6) Sep 20 18:20:44 portkey kernel: [64734.972373] em28178 #0: write to i2c device at 0xc8 failed with unknown error (status=6) Sep 20 18:22:59 portkey mpt-statusd: detected non-optimal RAID status Sep 20 18:23:47 portkey kernel: [64917.750325] em28178 #0: write to i2c device at 0xc8 failed with unknown error (status=6) Sep 20 18:24:27 portkey kernel: [64957.405047] em28178 #0: write to i2c device at 0xc8 failed with unknown error (status=3) Sep 20 18:24:27 portkey kernel: [64957.405059] si2168 1-0064: si2168: i2c write failed=-5 Sep 20 18:24:55 portkey kernel: [64985.700415] em28178 #0: write to i2c device at 0xc8 failed with unknown error (status=3) Sep 20 18:24:55 portkey kernel: [64985.700424] si2168 1-0064: si2168: i2c write failed=-5 I did some earches for the i2c errors but found mostly code references and little that's relevant. I do note that it doesn't appear to have loaded firmware from either the a20, a30 or b40 firmware files. Not sure how to make this happen. I will keep digging but I thought maybe someone here might have some whisdom. Thanks, Geoff. From geoff at QuiteLikely.com Mon Sep 21 01:38:27 2015 From: geoff at QuiteLikely.com (Geoff Shang) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 23:38:27 +0100 (BST) Subject: Problems getting PCTV 292E working In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, Geoff Shang wrote: > I do note that it doesn't appear to have loaded firmware from either the a20, > a30 or b40 firmware files. Not sure how to make this happen. I tried what appear to be three different versions of the b40 firmware. https://github.com/OpenELEC/dvb-firmware/blob/master/firmware/dvb-demod-si2168-b40-01.fw http://palosaari.fi/linux/v4l-dvb/firmware/Si2168/Si2168-B40/4.0.4/dvb-demod-si2168-b40-01.fw http://palosaari.fi/linux/v4l-dvb/firmware/Si2168/Si2168-B40/4.0.11/dvb-demod-si2168-b40-01.fw None of them seem to lload. I only found two copies of both the a20 and a30 firmwares, and they both seem to be the same file. Geoff. From shlomif at gmail.com Mon Sep 21 16:20:11 2015 From: shlomif at gmail.com (Shlomi Fish) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:20:11 +0300 Subject: Tomorrow (22 September 2015) is MP3 Liberation Day Message-ID: Hi all, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing_and_patent_issues : An exception is the United States, where patents filed prior to 8 June 1995 expire 17 years after the publication date of the patent, but application extensions make it possible for a patent to issue much later than normally expected (see submarine patents ). The various MP3-related patents expire on dates ranging from 2007 to 2017 in the U.S.[60] Patents filed for anything disclosed in ISO CD 11172 a year or more after its publication are questionable. If only the known MP3 patents filed by December 1992 are considered, then MP3 decoding may be patent-free in the US by 22 September 2015 when U.S. Patent 5,812,672 expires which had a PCT filing in Oct 1992 So MP3 should be patent-free then (note: I Am Not A Lawyer (IANAL) / etc.). The saga of MP3 patents has involved several patent litigations (which made some lawyers richer) and involved creating an alternative open format that was intended to be non-patent encumbered from the beginning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis Red Hat Linux which is an American company opted to drop support for mp3 playback from its core Linux distributions which led to it being a commonly asked question and featured in the Unofficial Fedora FAQ: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#mp3 So rejoice! Note that later MPEG-based standards may still be patent-encumbered. 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URL: From nyh at math.technion.ac.il Wed Sep 23 23:15:11 2015 From: nyh at math.technion.ac.il (Nadav Har'El) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:15:11 +0200 Subject: Announce: ScyllaDB - a 10-times faster rewrite of Cassandra Message-ID: <20150923201510.GA12593@fermat.math.technion.ac.il> Hi, today we are making the first release of ScyllaDB, a new open-source C++ rewrite of Cassandra, the popular NoSQL database. http://www.scylladb.com/ ScyllaDB is a drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra, and initial benchmarks show huge performance improvements over the original Cassandra: A single machine can achieve 10 times more transactions per second with ScyllaDB than it can with Cassandra, while at the same time achieving sub-millisecond 99th percentile latency. Imagine what you can do with all the money saved by cutting your company's Cassandra cluster to 10% of its original size :-) This amazing performance improvement was achieved by rewriting Cassandra, originally Java code, in C++, and by using the Seastar library (http://www.seastar-project.org/). Seastar allowed us to write the highly complex asynchronous code without paying the huge performance penalties of traditional asynchrony mechanisms (such as threads and locks). I've announced the open-source Seastar library on this mailing list in April (http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/pipermail/linux-il/2015-April/011800.html) and ScyllaDB is the best proof to date of how Seastar can really help develop applications which are both highly efficient on modern multicore hardware, while at the same time being very complex. ScyllaDB was developed by Cloudius Systems, a small Israeli startup led by Dor Laor and Avi Kivity (of KVM fame). Cloudius Systems previously developed and open-sourced the OSv operating system (http://osv.io/) and the Seastar library (http://www.seastar-project.org/). ScyllaDB is also open-source, released under the AGPL license - check out http://scylladb.co/ for more information. -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Sep 23 2015, 11 Tishri 5776 nyh at math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Tact is the art of making a point without http://nadav.harel.org.il |making an enemy. From w1 at zak.co.il Thu Sep 24 01:40:59 2015 From: w1 at zak.co.il (Omer Zak) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 01:40:59 +0300 Subject: Where are you, kiwix? Message-ID: <1443048059.28230.11.camel@zak.co.il> Since it would be cool to be able to hold a Wikipedia snapshot on my PC for offline access in case of need[1], I looked into kiwix. Turns out that kiwix is unavailable for Debian Jessie (the distribution that I am currently using). This is because the package was removed[2] a year ago. The cause for removal is removal of xulrunner from Debian. I tried to google for information about xulrunner removal, but found nothing relevant. There are 3 bugs[3] in Debian bugs database, but no one of them mentioned removal of xulrunner. Is there anyone who knows more about the Debian xulrunner issues and can shed more light on the matter? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download [2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-edu-pkg-team/Week-of-Mon-20140922/000720.html [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=xulrunner --- Omer -- One cannot argue with a Bayesian filter. Peter Lorand Peres My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html From geoffreymendelson at gmail.com Sun Sep 27 15:35:19 2015 From: geoffreymendelson at gmail.com (geoffrey mendelson) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:35:19 +0300 Subject: GRE tunnel Message-ID: <5607E287.6090805@gmail.com> I need to communicate over a GRE tunnel. The easiest thing seems to me to buy a cheap router that runs DD-WRT (or whatever the latest thing is called) and use that. I only need a WAN port and a LAN port, I don't need more than one of each, WiFi or a lot of other features, e.g. USB. Does anyone know what the cheapest router that is available in Israel that will accomplish this is? I'd be ok with WiFi and or USB if it lowered the price. TIA, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ Jerusalem Israel. From geoffreymendelson at gmail.com Mon Sep 28 19:14:09 2015 From: geoffreymendelson at gmail.com (geoffrey mendelson) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 19:14:09 +0300 Subject: cisco 26xx or 28xx router Message-ID: <56096751.5070303@gmail.com> Anyone have a spare cisco 26xx or 28xx router they would be willing to give me, or sell for a small fee? TIA. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ Jerusalem Israel. From amichai at iglu.org.il Tue Sep 29 20:59:55 2015 From: amichai at iglu.org.il (Amichai Rotman) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:59:55 +0300 Subject: [OT] Moving to Jerusalem - Looking for a Job Message-ID: Hi All, This is slightly off-topic: Do to personal reasons, I have to move back to Jerusalem. In order to do that, I need a job... - I have a lot of experience with troubleshooting and fixing computer problems (software and hardware). - I am using Linux since 1999: Installation, configuration, troubleshooting - both Desktops and Servers. - I am looking for a position in the IT department. 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