Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
How about contributing to Hamakor's effort, which is in Hebrew and Israel specific, regarding vendors and services: http://wiki.hamakor.org.il/index.php/%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%99_%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA Regarding Hebrew installation guides, I agree that Israeli FOSS lovers do not have

Re: Announcement : http://vim.begin-site.org/ - The Vim Beginners' Site

2012-12-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Nadav, On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:25:10 +0200 Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Fw: Announcement : > http://vim.begin-site.org/ - The Vim Beginners' Site": > > I would like to announce that today I started working on > > http://vim.begin-site.org/ - the Vim Begi

Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread vordoo
On 2012-12-27 15:05, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hello, It would've been nice to start a website where people could refer to to find out all the practical issues of installing / using FLOSS in Israel: As I see it, the pro

Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
E.S. Rosenberg wrote: Call me old fashioned but why start yet another such database instead of contributing to existing efforts? Not only that, but it won't answer the original question. It will tell you that something did not work and when, but it does not tell that something WILL WORK toda

Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Call me old fashioned but why start yet another such database instead of contributing to existing efforts? 2012/12/27 Daniel Shahaf : > Amichai Rotman wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 15:05:58 +0200: >> Hello, >> >> It would've been nice to start a website where people could refer to to >> find out a

Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Shiloh
Seems like a great idea to me. On 12/27/2012 05:05 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hello, It would've been nice to start a website where people could refer to to find out all the practical issues of installing / using FLOSS in Israel: * A hardware DB where they can look up a device by category (i.e.

Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Amichai Rotman wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 15:05:58 +0200: > Hello, > > It would've been nice to start a website where people could refer to to > find out all the practical issues of installing / using FLOSS in Israel: > > * A hardware DB where they can look up a device by category (i.e. > Moth

Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hello, It would've been nice to start a website where people could refer to to find out all the practical issues of installing / using FLOSS in Israel: * A hardware DB where they can look up a device by category (i.e. Motherboard) and check the compatibility sorted by distro etc. * A list of Isr

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2012-12-27 Thread shimi
On Dec 27, 2012 11:54 AM, "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > They still are illegal here, and some manufacturers simply don't sell those devices here (for example the Apple routers), or sell special 802.11n devices without the 5gHz channels. Sure they are? http://www

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Rami Rosen wrote: Hi, About four years ago I bought a laptop in one of the stores mentioned in the thread. It turned out that it came with a different wireless nic than that which appeared in the official manufacturer link! It came with a wireless nic without 80211n support. And it was not a link

Re: Fw: Announcement : http://vim.begin-site.org/ - The Vim Beginners' Site

2012-12-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Fw: Announcement : http://vim.begin-site.org/ - The Vim Beginners' Site": > I would like to announce that today I started working on > http://vim.begin-site.org/ - the Vim Beginners??? Site, which is a static site I love vi - I've been using it for m

Re: Dictation software - Hebrew, Linux or Free

2012-12-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I also found that using a keyboard that does not have the Hebrew letter stickers on it has forced me to know the Hebrew layout by heart. 2012/12/27 Nadav Har'El : > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012, Steve G. wrote about "Dictation software - Hebrew, > Linux or Free": >> So, I am looking for a Hebrew dictatio

Re: Dictation software - Hebrew, Linux or Free

2012-12-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012, Steve G. wrote about "Dictation software - Hebrew, Linux or Free": > So, I am looking for a Hebrew dictation software. Preferably Linux, but I > can do Windows. Should be free, if possible, or inexpensive. Should work > without a long and hard training period, because my acce

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/12/27 Rami Rosen : > Hi, > About four years ago I bought a laptop in one of the stores mentioned > in the thread. It turned out that it came with a different wireless > nic than that which appeared in the official > manufacturer link! It came with a wireless nic without 80211n support. > And i

Re: Announcement : http://vim.begin-site.org/ - The Vim Beginners' Site

2012-12-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Jonathan, On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 07:09:11 +0200 (IST) Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > > A commendable effort, Shlomi, thanks. > > - yba Thanks and you're welcome. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:36:40 +0200 > > F

Re: Motherboards for new Ubuntu install

2012-12-27 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, About four years ago I bought a laptop in one of the stores mentioned in the thread. It turned out that it came with a different wireless nic than that which appeared in the official manufacturer link! It came with a wireless nic without 80211n support. And it was not a link to a wrong model. E