Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >No. The unicode specification specify exactly how a compliant > >implementation should display bidi (convert logical->visual). All > >implementations should be strictly compliant. If two separate > >implementations display t

RE: gphoto2 usb problems

2002-05-20 Thread El-al, Netta
yeah, i have it mounted and it still doesn't work :o(. in fact i added an entry in fstab with permissions 0666. then i unmounted (because it was already mounted) and mounted usbdevfs. what could have possibly changed from mdk 8.0 to 8.2? On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 11:32, El-al, Netta wrote: > hi, > i

Re: pretty printing source code

2002-05-20 Thread Sagi Bashari
From: "Ishay Inbar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > Using code beautifier for Perl (in my case) called Perltidy > (http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/) you can add the HTML option and get a > very nice HTML page out of any code. > I believe there should be things like that to other codes as well. > > sh

Silly question: who stole my locale information

2002-05-20 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I would swear that I had he_IL locale information installed under /usr/share/locale in my former RH72. Now that I upgraded to RH73, it is missing, and I (quite shamefully) cannot find the rpm that contains it. Any idea? Dan. = To

Re: secondary address on loopback

2002-05-20 Thread Semion Lisyansky
Hello Oron, Nice to hear from You. The only thing I can say is that when I add secondary address to eth or dummy with ifconfig (not ifup script) it adds route entry, and only with loopback it does not. -- Semion Lisyansky >From: Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Semion Lisyansky" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, May 20, 2002, Matitiahu Allouche wrote about "Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?": > According to Unicode, the paragraph embedding level is computed anew for > each block. A block is delimited by the start/end of text, and by Block > Separators. There are no Block Separato

Re: Silly question: who stole my locale information

2002-05-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, May 20, 2002, Dan Kenigsberg wrote about "Silly question: who stole my locale information": > I would swear that I had he_IL locale information installed under > /usr/share/locale in my former RH72. > > Now that I upgraded to RH73, it is missing, and I (quite shamefully) cannot find > th

Re: Silly question: who stole my locale information

2002-05-20 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
> > On my Redhat 7.3, > $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/locale/he_IL/ > glibc-common-2.2.5-34 > $ ls /usr/lib/locale/he_IL > LC_ADDRESS LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_MONETARY LC_PAPER > LC_COLLATE LC_MEASUREMENT LC_NAME LC_TELEPHONE > LC_CTYPELC_MESSAGESLC_NUMERIC LC_TIME > > I don't see ho

Re: Silly question: who stole my locale information

2002-05-20 Thread Sagi Bashari
From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Please tell me what do you make of this - it seems beyond my grasp: > > ~$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/locale/he_IL > glibc-common-2.2.5-34 > ~$ ls /usr/lib/locale/he_IL > ls: /usr/lib/locale/he_IL: No such file or directory > ~$ rpm -V glibc-common > .?.

Re: Silly question: who stole my locale information

2002-05-20 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
> > From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Please tell me what do you make of this - it seems beyond my grasp: > > > > ~$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/locale/he_IL > > glibc-common-2.2.5-34 > > ~$ ls /usr/lib/locale/he_IL > > ls: /usr/lib/locale/he_IL: No such file or directory > > ~$ rpm -V gl

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Moshe Zadka
OK, this is a joke, right? On Sun, 19 May 2002, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (and the alphabet you are refering to was relevant to the time people > wrote with very primitive pens on very problematic paper. Non of this is > relevant to pencils, and to printed materials. Let's leave

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Sun, 19 May 2002, "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So basically, what you want us to do is to tell newbies "Well, Linux IS > easy to learn! But first, you'll need to learn a new alphabet first!!". No, you misunderstood. My rant went well beyond Linux -- Hebrew on Linux is just a sy

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Uri Bruck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is false. You simply do not know the history of the Hebrew language > and the Hebrew alphabet. Hebrew was never dead. It was used among Jewish > communities. Nikud came into use during the 9th-10th cent. You think > anyone would

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Barak B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry: the real solution is not to change to other Charset/Lang and so on > A lot of ppl (include me for example) feel better in Hebrew, like Hebrew, > and see Hebrew as the language as part of Jews tradition. Yes. The alphabet, ho

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 22:18, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Sun, 19 May 2002, Uri Bruck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The Hebrew alphabet also remained pretty much constant for the last 2K > > years, and is flexible enough to serve well three languages > > No, it remained dead and nobody used it in

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Uri Bruck
On 20 May 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Mon, 20 May 2002, Uri Bruck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is false. You simply do not know the history of the Hebrew language > > and the Hebrew alphabet. Hebrew was never dead. It was used among Jewish > > communities. Nikud came into use during

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Uwe Brauer wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen writes: > > On Sun, 19 May 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > > > On Sun, May 19, 2002, Ely Levy wrote about "Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL >mailing lists?": > > > > month work > > > > maybe if you work full time on it day by day.. >

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Moshe Zadka
On 20 May 2002, Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alphabets aren't "designed" to be easily OCRable or to have a high > entropy; Yes they are. OCR is what your brain does -- only much better. Still, alphabets to gravitate towards easier differentiation, because it makes them easier to r

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Uri Bruck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So? Should we post in Yiddish or Ladino? Or did you have a point? > > The point I made in a previous post. It's an alphabet that served several > languages. Were all the users of those languages stupid? No, they used an alphabet the

Re: USR 56K modems

2002-05-20 Thread Eliran
Hmm forgot to mention that I'm looking for an *external* modem and it should be PCI, I already bought a ISA USR56K modem internal() and put it on my old P1 computer but it didn't work. Unfortunatly I *don't* have a ISA bus (bus right ?) on my newer PC... The reason I need a new modem is because I

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 15:19, Moshe Zadka wrote: > Yes. But what both you and Uri are missing is: "Alphabets are supposed > to serve us, not the other way around" You are right. My point is that diversity is part of humanity, and even though in many cases it doesn't make sense from a practical po

Re: Silly question: who stole my locale information

2002-05-20 Thread Oron Peled
On Mon, 20 May 2002 12:56:23 +0300 (IDT) Dan Kenigsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ~$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/locale/he_IL > > > glibc-common-2.2.5-34 > > > ~$ ls /usr/lib/locale/he_IL > > > ls: /usr/lib/locale/he_IL: No such file or directory > > > ~$ rpm -V glibc-common > > > .?. /usr/libex

Re: X hangs and refuses to be killed

2002-05-20 Thread Eliran
Thats remind me... sometimes X hangs, and when I try to switch back to a VC it doesn't or just show me a black screen with some gray little squares. Switching back to X does not work and the screen shut itself off after a few seconds, I can't even reboot using C+A+DEL only using the cold reboot bu

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Moshe Zadka
On 20 May 2002, Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are right. My point is that diversity is part of humanity, and even > though in many cases it doesn't make sense from a practical point of > view, it still continues to exist, because we as people like it that > way: practicality is n

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Eliran
First, I have found a site which may be related: http://www.langbox.com/heb_e.html On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:49:33PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002, Ely Levy wrote about "Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing >lists?": > > month work > > maybe if you work full time on

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Eliran
BTW for latex there is a editor called 'he2' very useful. On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:49:47PM +0300, Eliran wrote: > First, I have found a site which may be related: > > http://www.langbox.com/heb_e.html > > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:49:33PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > On Sun, May 19, 2002,

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 18:41, Moshe Zadka wrote: > > You are right. My point is that diversity is part of humanity, and even > > though in many cases it doesn't make sense from a practical point of > > view, it still continues to exist, because we as people like it that > > way: practicality is no

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Moshe Zadka
On 20 May 2002, Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't need a reason to use it, because you already do. No, I avoid it like the plague > If Windows does their job fine Windows cannot do anything fine, because you give up freedom using it. Freedom is a *practical* thing. Or would

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Diego Iastrubni
On Monday 20 May 2002 12:20, Nadav Har'El wrote: > This was exactly my point. When you have a iso-8859-8-i email, what > are "blocks"? If the mail reader and writer don't agree on the same > definition of blocks, there can be problems. in kde3, lars fixed the hebrew output of kmail, to what you se

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 20:44, Moshe Zadka wrote: > > If Windows does their job fine > > Windows cannot do anything fine, because you give up freedom using > it. Freedom is a *practical* thing. Or would you like my to lock > you up so you can see how freedom is not just some abstract princple? > ;

What people think of IGLU.

2002-05-20 Thread Amir Hardon
In Tapuz's linux forum, people are talking about the linux-il Hebrew mailing list discussion. I suggest for anyone on this list who is configured for hebrew viewing to check it. You should see what some linux users think about IGLU (They don't like it!). Please don't flame me for this, I'm don

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Arie Folger
Moshe Zadka wrote: > So? Should we post in Yiddish or Ladino? Or did you have a point? Far vus nisht? (Yiddish) qui en sapiense i entendiente ... (from e'had mi yode'a - Pessa'h seder - in Ladino) .. will undoubtedly agree that it will spruce up the list and make it interesting to non Linux peo

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists? - OT

2002-05-20 Thread Arie Folger
On Monday 20 May 2002 07:40, Alex Shnitman wrote: > > No, it remained dead and nobody used it in day to day. Because it > > is a stupid alphabet, optimized for carving on stone. You are obviously unaware of the large amount of literatue that was written in Hebrew over the was 2000 years. In fact

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Diego Iastrubni
On Sunday 19 May 2002 23:14, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > KDE3/gnome2 will give you that. when nadav will finish his project, they will be usable ;) I did managed to write my mothers resume in kword, printing it, and I could fax it to others, but for big documents, I doubt it been good. BTW: can I fax

Re: Remote Red hat upgrade

2002-05-20 Thread Diego Iastrubni
On Sunday 19 May 2002 10:28, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > releases? What is the procedure? For example, why can't up2date be used > to upgrade RedHat 7.2 to 7.3? because then you will not have to purchase a new distro every 6 months or so. If it was possible, then you had to buy a linux distro only o

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Sagi Bashari
From: "Diego Iastrubni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Again: Mandrake's installer already does that, if you choose "Israel" > > installation. I'm not sure about redhat. Some difaults may have to be > > re-visited. For instance: the fact that Mandrake 8.1 defaluted to loading > > KDE2 with the charset IS

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, May 20, 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote about "Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?": > On Sunday 19 May 2002 23:14, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > KDE3/gnome2 will give you that. > when nadav will finish his project, they will be usable ;) My project? No, the QT/KDE/Gnome/Pango guys ar

Re: What people think of IGLU.

2002-05-20 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, May 20, 2002, Amir Hardon wrote about "What people think of IGLU.": > You should see what some linux users think about IGLU (They don't like it!). > > Here is a link (The thread name is "BEITAR"): > http://www.tapuz.co.il/Forum.asp?id=236 Thanks for pointing us to that vile thread. Linu

Re: What people think of IGLU.

2002-05-20 Thread Peleg Wasserman
What I see is a small bunch of people who want to have everything made for them and don't bother learning another language. I wonder if they erver bother reading the posting guidelines or read the archives before they write something. At 21:32 20/05/2002 +0300, Amir Hardon wrote: >In Tapuz's

mouse suddenly off center

2002-05-20 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, My beloved laptop is afflicted with a new disease (bug), never noticed before upgrading to RH7.3+KDE3.0.1, and I don't know what to blame. Sometimes, as I am working and X is on, the mouse pointer suddenly ceases to represent the actual coordinates of this critter (actually, it's a touchpa

Re: mouse suddenly off center

2002-05-20 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
I have the exact same problem on my compaq laptop. I've seen various reports about it on the web, but I have no idea why it occurs, sorry. Alexander Maryanovsky. At 18:25 5/20/2002 -0400, Arie Folger wrote: >Hi, > >My beloved laptop is afflicted with a new disease (bug), never noticed before >

RE: mouse suddenly off center

2002-05-20 Thread Amir Sela
Well, from the details you gave, it might be reasonable to assume that the problem is related to hardware cursor handling.. You did not state what driver you are using for X display... So the general advice would be to disable hardware cursor handling in your XF86Config and see if it helps in

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In Hebrew, base words (nouns, verbs) have dozens of different > conjugations (hatayot), binyanim, etc. etc., so making a word list > by collecting words from articles or online newspapers and so on, is > likely to yeild a very incomplete wordlist, How

Re: mouse suddenly off center

2002-05-20 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Arie Folger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > upgrading to RH7.3+KDE3.0.1, and I don't know what to blame. Sometimes, as I > am working and X is on, the mouse pointer suddenly ceases to represent the > actual coordinates of this critter (actually, it's a touchpad), and is about > 1.5 cm to the lef

Re: What people think of IGLU.

2002-05-20 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 00:03, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002, Amir Hardon wrote about "What people think of IGLU.": > > You should see what some linux users think about IGLU (They don't like it!). > > > > Here is a link (The thread name is "BEITAR"): > > http://www.tapuz.co.il/Forum.as

Re: mouse suddenly off center

2002-05-20 Thread Shay Ohayon
I had a simillar trouble with the mouse and the X system, i found out that the gpm crashes with the mouse on X, did you try to shut down the mouse on the console, and then to work with X? Root: gpm -k /etc/init.d/gpm stop (use one of them) Then startx, maybe that's the problem, good luck. --

Walla's Comments

2002-05-20 Thread Jeff Cohen
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