Re: Linux is ready for the desktop!

2011-09-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Sep 17, 2011, at 11:08 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: I'm not sure this discount even applies to computer stores like, for example, Ivory. I don't think there's any hope for major laptop labels, and frankly I don't really care about these (this is a separate discussion ;-)). Things have ch

Re: Linux is ready for the desktop!

2011-09-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: Linux is ready for the desktop!": > Re PPPoE: every acquaintance who has a dialer on his/her Windows has > to start it, and if it crashes, start it again. It does not start on > boot, it is not a Windows service, AFAIK. And making it start on

Re: Linux is ready for the desktop!

2011-09-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" writes: > I think either you have tons of experience doing such installations > (so every problem you saw you could fix in less than a minute), or > you're simply being over-confident and not remembering the actual > problems you encountered in your own installations and how much t

Re: Linux is ready for the desktop!

2011-09-17 Thread Guy Tetruashvyly
In light of the latest economic protests, I hope what I wrote in my last paragraph doesn't sound filthy-capitalist. It's not that I think that 1,000 shekels is peanuts. But it's that 1,000 shekels is much cheaper than what typical computers used to cost (5,000 shekels 10 years ago, You're righ

Re: Linux is ready for the desktop!

2011-09-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: Linux is ready for the desktop!": > "Nadav Har'El" writes: > > > I didn't see Oleg's mail (I don't know why), but I definitely do NOT > > agree that a vanilla FC15 is ready for actual use one hour after > > install > > I actually wrote (eff

Re: Linux is ready for the desktop!

2011-09-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" writes: > I didn't see Oleg's mail (I don't know why), but I definitely do NOT > agree that a vanilla FC15 is ready for actual use one hour after > install I actually wrote (effectively) that it was ready to use 1 hour after you've burnt the ISO. Less if you defer installing updat

Connecting Linux to a Windows network with router

2011-09-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
A family member wants to replace his Windows XP Professional computer with a Kubuntu machine (different hardware). He connects to the internet via Hot infrastructure and his work is the ISP. His work apparently validates his machine for connection by checking the Windows license key. Is anybody her

Re: Android users, please confirm this Hebrew Android bug

2011-09-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 01:14, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Looks just like it should on Samsung Galaxy S with FW 2.2, build > number FROYO.JHJPC, kernel 2.6.32.9. Right-to-left, nikud, and > everything. > Thank you Oleg! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _

Re: Android users, please confirm this Hebrew Android bug

2011-09-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 20:13, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Umm, you should upgrade your ROM to Gingerbread IMHO. > I just used Dolphin browser (which uses the built in browser to render > pages) to look at Machon Mamre bible pages with all the "nikud" and it looks > perfect. > See this screenshot: http

Re: Linux is ready for the desktop!

2011-09-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011, Guy Tetruashvyly wrote about "Re: Linux is ready for the desktop!": > a few years now. reminiscing my first Linux days, 4 years ago, the > most frustrating part was " why isn't it working 5 seconds after I > installed it ? " , so, I do agree about the part of h