RE: mozilla's mouse pointers

I don't know about the pointers, but if I was you, I would try Phoenix instead of Moz. On a 300MHz machine, Moz probably runs pretty slowly. Phoenix is quite a bit lighter. HTH, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile:

RE: Kword not ready for [Hebrew] prime time yet

.) The main point is, you CAN embed the fonts. Regards, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901 Hlade's Law: If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person. They will find an easier way

RE: Kword not ready for [Hebrew] prime time yet

tscript/fonts (which IS in the search path). Now when I do gs prfont.ps, and then /ArialMT DoFont (at the GS prompt), it shows me the contents of arial.ttf. So far, so good. 3. Enable font embedding in the KWord print dialog (actually, you have to click the Options button and enable it in the

RE: OT, NDA (was: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio)

The problem is that signing certain NDAs means that your employer owns all the IP coming out of your brain in the time you are employed by them. Therefore, anything you contribute to any open-source project (during this time) is also subject to such an agreement... Martin Polley Technical

RE: Linux Tourist Information Station

I haven't looked at it myself, and it is kind of old (1999), but some of these issues may be covered in the Kiosk HOWTO: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kiosk-HOWTO.html HTH, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 86

RE: Printing Hebrew

Eureka! >Have you verified that fonts embedding is not disabled? Font embedding was DISABLED (by default). I enabled it, and now it works perfectly. Thank you very much. Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053)

RE: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)

ng on Word docs that will then be opened and worked on in Word). Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901 Hlade's Law: If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person. They will find an easi

RE: Printing Hebrew

But if I do: gs prfont.ps and then: /ArialMT DoFont (where ArialMT is actually arial.ttf), I CAN see Hebrew... Strange, no? (I use GS 7.05.5, KDE 3.0.3, Gentoo 1.2, and I know that OO and KWord have access to these TTF fonts.) Martin Polley Technical Communicator http

Printing Hebrew

Hi all, Has anyone succeeded in printing Hebrew from any application in KDE? If so, how? I have successfully made MS TTF fonts (which include Hebrew characters) available to GhostScript, but they appear as squares in ps files and printed output. Any ideas? TIA, Martin Polley Technical

RE: Hebrew fonts for GhostScript

eate, view and print ps files with READABLE Hebrew? TIA, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901 Hlade's Law: If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person. They will find an easier way to

RE: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

have dial-up (33.6Kbps). I also have lots of patience ;) Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901 Hlade's Law: If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person. They will find an easier wa

RE: Hebrew fonts for GhostScript

Oops--I accidentally hit "Send" before I finished writing... It should have said: OK, now I can reply to my own question (after some RTFMing): The answer is here, in the Fonts-HOWTO: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/x346.html Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.su

RE: Hebrew fonts for GhostScript

OK, now I can reply to my own question. The answer is here, in the Fonts-HOWTO: Martin Polley Technical Communicator Tel: 732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 -Original Message- From: Martin Polley Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 11:25 AM To: Linux IL Subject: Hebrew fonts for GhostScript

Hebrew fonts for GhostScript

available to update the relevant files? (fontmap, fonts.dir and fonts.scale--or do I just need to update fontmap?) Or can I get GS to use the fonts just by setting thhe appropriate GS environment variable? TIA, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel

Printing Hebrew

looks for fonts, or what I need to add. I know the problem is not the printer (or driver) because when I print to a PDF, the PDF has exactly the same problem. Any ideas? TIA, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 8

RE: Hebrew keymap in Gentoo

>Try running: > > setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll il I tried it--it worked great. I had to add en extra, blank '-option' to remove my original (non-working) options. Thanks again, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [E

RE: PLEASE IGNORE MY PREVIOUS MESSAGE - ITS A VIRUS

client for Linux (that will support all features of Outlook) I will gladly use it. Doesn't Ximian do a (non-free) plugin for Evolution that lets it work with Exchange? Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053)

Hebrew keymap in Gentoo

'il'). If I get this working, I can finally get rid of RedHat... TIA, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901 Hlade's Law: If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person. The

RE: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

You can get mplayer RPMs (none specifically for RH8.0 or in Rawhide, but Mandrake or Freshrpms versions may work): http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=mplayer&submit=Search +... (Copy/paste the link, including the ...) HTH, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.

RE: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

I've heard good things about Xine, too. (The pronunciation doesn't sound good in Hebrew though...) Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901 -Original Message- From: O

RE: PCI MODEM for MDK 8.0?

I am successfully using a Zoom Lucent-based "Winmodem" under Redhat 7.3 and Gentoo 1.2 I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work with Mandrake. (Just get the right "ltmodem" driver for your kernel.) HTH, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-

RE: Kernel compile problem

booting my old, working Gentoo kernel). BTW, what is the boot log file called? I know how to view it with dmesg, but that doesn't help me here... Thanks, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617

RE: Kernel compile problem

My keyboard has a standard PS/2 connector. Kernel version 2.4.19r5 (Gentoo sources). Unfortunately, I can't send my .config right now, only when I get home... Thanks, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 86

Kernel compile problem

e) so that my keyboard is recognized? TIA, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901 To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

RE: The new build of openoffice

Do you mean that when you do Format | Styles | Catalog..., select a style and click Modify, then change the font (in the Font tab) and then click OK, it freezes? If so, then is does NOT happen in OO 643 on Windows XP. HTH, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL

RE: A random computer shop in Vienna

Every bookshelf should have a humor section... Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901 -Original Message- From: Christoph Bugel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 10

RE: job wanted also - NOT - YES!

a linux-il-jobs list. However, I'm sure a lot less people would be exposed to what would be posted there. The nature of mailing lists makes it very easy to skim over the headers and ignore the ones that are of no interest. Thus, a few "I am looking for work" posts do not bother

RE: Options (Re: VMware and competing products)

A few days late... Here is a comparative review of VMWare Workstation, Virtaul PC and Bochs: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1054 HTH, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901

RE: VMware and competing products

BTW, you can get a free evaluation copy of VMware. (I don't know what the limitations are.) Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901 -Original Message- From: Official Flamer/Caba

RE: redhat cd

-- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |A Nobel Peace Prize? I would KILL for one http://nadav.harel.org.il |of those. HTH, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901 =

RE: Gentoo install problem (GRUB problem?)

gt;In 1.2 I never had those problems, but on the other hand, gcc 3.2 is wa faster then 2.95. I guess that's the price you pay for using an RC release :) Can't you use gcc 3.2 in Gentoo 1.2? Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972)

RE: Gentoo install problem (GRUB problem?)

Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901 -Original Message- From: Oleg Kobets [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 1:36 PM To: Martin Polley Cc: Linux-IL Subject: Re: Gentoo

Gentoo install problem (GRUB problem?)

use System Commander to multi-boot, which then takes me into GRUB or Win on the appropriate HD.) Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Will running grub-install help me? TIA, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053)

Comic makes fun of Linux(?)

See today's "Soap on a Rope" (25 Aug 2002): http://www.soaprope.com/ Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901 ===

RE: lite distributions

quot;have to compile", right? Right. Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901 -Original Message- From: Moshe Zadka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 5:51 PM To

RE: lite distributions

Have you looked at Gentoo? It's definitely not a beginner's distro, but you can install as much or as little as you want. And it is supposedly very fast, because you can compile EVERYTHING from source (with local optimizations). www.gentoo.org HTH, Martin Polley Technical Communi

RE: knesset meeting on open source

hat's why MS Word's file format is not openly published). But this really depends on what ABCDE *is*. Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: (Way OT) where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset meeting on open source)

In fact, much academic research these days is actually funded (partly or completely) by industry. The question then becomes--do the results of the research belong to the researchers or to the corporation that funded the research? Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ Tel

RE: Israeli Immigration Law [was Re: An American Programmer Looking fora Job Here]

Thai agricultural workers and Romanian building workers. Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 -Original Message- From: Shlomi Fish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROT

RE: www.iglu.org.il

No, it's not just you... Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 -Original Message- From: Gabor Szabo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 10:26 AM To: linux-il Subject: www.iglu.org.il g

Bidi OO

Hi all, Has anyone else seen this problem: When I try to insert a footnote (in bidi writer), it crashes (in both RTL and LTR). I downloaded the RPM from http://www.iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/OpenOffice/. Or could it be an unresolved dependency problem? TIA, Martin Polley Technical Communicator