the Hebrew debian-install howto

2003-07-29 Thread Amir Tal
all, i started translating the install howto a few months back, and had to stop in the middle due to serious lack of resources, mainly time. i want to see that howto done already, and i was wondering if there is anybody from the community who is willing to chip in and help me finish it. take a loo

YAPC::Israel::2004 - Call for Participation

2003-07-29 Thread Gabor Szabo
Dear Linux users, Thanks to Offer Kaye and Shlomo Yona we can finally announce the first call for participation on next years Perl conference. Read and pass on the announcement! English: http://www.perl.org.il/YAPC/2004/html/announcement.html Hebrew: http://www.perl.org.il/YAPC/2004/html/annou

Re: Fwd: Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon) Beta 1 PublicAvailability

2003-07-29 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: AFAIK you'll have to pay for the support and life cycle gurantees, not for any included propritery software license. So it is free as in speech, just not free as in beer, even if they won't put ISOs for download on the net. One correction - all I've written above is s

Re: Fwd: Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon) Beta 1 PublicAvailability

2003-07-29 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi People, Enclosed is the annoucment of Redhat beta of "taroon". "taroon" is the codename of Redhat's next STABLE version of their upcoming products series (Redhat Linux WS, ES, AS) and this version is going to be upgraded only every 18 months. This is NOT like the SEVERN

Re: Python bindings for fribidi (log to vis heb for PDF creation)

2003-07-29 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Meir Kriheli wrote on 2003-07-29: > Hi, > > I need to convert logical heb to visual (to generate Hebrew PDFs with > reportlab). > I saw pure-python bidi code inside Shfifon__. It's ported from some pure-perl code with changes; at a quick glance it seems to strive for Unicode conformance but I'm

Fwd: Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon) Beta 1 Public Availability

2003-07-29 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi People, Enclosed is the annoucment of Redhat beta of "taroon". "taroon" is the codename of Redhat's next STABLE version of their upcoming products series (Redhat Linux WS, ES, AS) and this version is going to be upgraded only every 18 months. This is NOT like the SEVERN beta version which i

Re: locales: Changing default font without translating messages

2003-07-29 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Micha Feigin wrote on 2003-07-28: > How do I use iso-8859-9 as the default font without forcing the message > translation when using locales? > I tried reconfiguring locales to use he_IL.iso8859-8 but that changed > all my menus and messages on the locale aware programs to hebrew, which > I don't

Re: Python bindings for fribidi (log to vis heb for PDF creation)

2003-07-29 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 14:46, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:36:08PM +, Meir Kriheli wrote: > > The preferred solution would be to keep logical layout, but couldn't find > > a tool able to handle dynamic creation of PDFs using logical hebrew, any > > recommendations/solution

Re: Python bindings for fribidi (log to vis heb for PDF creation)

2003-07-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:36:08PM +, Meir Kriheli wrote: > The preferred solution would be to keep logical layout, but couldn't find a > tool able to handle dynamic creation of PDFs using logical hebrew, any > recommendations/solutions ? PangoPDF? Never tried it, though. Hopefully it will b

locales: Changing default font without translating messages

2003-07-29 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I use iso-8859-9 as the default font without forcing the message translation when using locales? I tried reconfiguring locales to use he_IL.iso8859-8 but that changed all my menus and messages on the locale aware programs to hebrew, which I don't want. I am using debian unstable if it matter

Re: Python bindings for fribidi (log to vis heb for PDF creation)

2003-07-29 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, I recommend you use swig to do that. On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Meir Kriheli wrote: > Hi, > > I need to convert logical heb to visual (to generate Hebrew PDFs with > reportlab). > > There's log2vis ( http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/log2vis ), but it needs > the ICU lib as well, and it's w

Python bindings for fribidi (log to vis heb for PDF creation)

2003-07-29 Thread Meir Kriheli
Hi, I need to convert logical heb to visual (to generate Hebrew PDFs with reportlab). There's log2vis ( http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/log2vis ), but it needs the ICU lib as well, and it's written for old version of python (1.6) and looks unmaintained, doesn't follow current installation

SUCCESS: Transfer Domain Name linux.org.il , request 181810 ,successfully processed (fwd)

2003-07-29 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi All, FYI, I transfered linux.org.il to "haMakor". - yba -- EE 77 7F 30 4A 64 2E C5 83 5F E7 49 A6 82 29 BA~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}ooO--U--Ooo{= - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - --

RE: SMB mount point hangs

2003-07-29 Thread Arik Baratz
> -Original Message- > From: Gil Freund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] > Arik Baratz wrote: > [snip] > > In short: Why doesn't smbumount have a 'force' option? It's > > SUID root anyways, so it can in theory run umount as root. > I don't know, but I guess such an option would actually b

Re: SMB mount point hangs

2003-07-29 Thread Gil Freund
Arik Baratz wrote: [snip] In short: Why doesn't smbumount have a 'force' option? It's SUID root anyways, so it can in theory run umount as root. I don't know, but I guess such an option would actually be very dangerous. If you mount an smb share under one login context, use it under another log