which distribution?

2003-09-21 Thread Shlomo Yona
Hello, I want to install some GNU/Linux distribution on a new IBM Thinkpad T40. So far I've heard (runors) that one of the following distributions should be best for me: Debian Mandrake RedHat Suse Debian will probably not be an option unless I find someone to hol

Re: Mozilla 1.0.1 bug? (was: Re: onSelect event of TEXTAREA...)

2003-09-21 Thread Gil Freund
Oded Arbel wrote: [snip] Which is not a big issue - at most you'd download some binaries again. the user setting library remains the same (unlike under winXX for example where the mozilla user setting directory is by default under the installation path). Not quite. In Win(NT/2K/XP) User sett

risk-aversion and the IT market

2003-09-21 Thread Gabor Szabo
In relation to our previous discussion about the use of FOSS[1] in Israel, why not approach it from the basic assumption that IT managers are risk averters. They would prefer to buy bad but known products than other, less know (or less understood) products even if those promise better quality. Th

Re: which distribution?

2003-09-21 Thread Gil Freund
Shlomo Yona wrote: Hello, I want to install some GNU/Linux distribution on a new IBM Thinkpad T40. So far I've heard (runors) that one of the following distributions should be best for me: Debian Mandrake RedHat Suse Debian will probably not be an option unless I f

Re: which distribution?

2003-09-21 Thread dittigas
AFAIK SuSE is defiantly the easiest and most mature of the desktop variants. It's only available for purchase, or a some what technical online install from SuSE's site. I would go for this option, if only because the very extensive supplementary documentation that comes with it (3 books in 8.0) a

Re: which distribution?

2003-09-21 Thread Shlomo Yona
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Uri Sharf wrote: > AFAIK SuSE is defiantly the easiest and most mature of the desktop > variants. It's only available for purchase, or a some what technical > online install from SuSE's site. > > I would go for this option, if only because the very extensive > supplementary

Disk errors.

2003-09-21 Thread David Harel
Hi, Recently I got some disk errors: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02 (hda), sector 3462718 hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=4566479, sector=3462719 In my evaluation process I did the following: bash-2.05a# g

can't see hebrew of fat file system

2003-09-21 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a disk on key with a fat file system (I think its fat16 but not sure). I put some Hebrew files on it from a windows partition only under Linux I see gibberish. The console is gnome-multi-terminal running iso8859-8 font, and I can see iso8859-8 Hebrew on it. I tried mounting with the code pag

open office menu direction

2003-09-21 Thread Micha Feigin
Hello, Setting the LC_CTYPE to he_IL causes the menus in open office to appear rtl (actually just about most of the program), although the menus are still in English. How do I disable this behavior (its quite annoying) ? I tried changing the default locale option, but it didn't help. I am using de

Off the topic

2003-09-21 Thread Ran Milstein
I wanted to congratulate Gilad Ben-Yossef for his wedding that took place last Thursday. HUZZA !!! thanks, Ran. <>

Re: which distribution?

2003-09-21 Thread dittigas
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 12:28, Shlomo Yona wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Uri Sharf wrote: > > > AFAIK SuSE is defiantly the easiest and most mature of the desktop > > variants. It's only available for purchase, or a some what technical > > online install from SuSE's site. > > > > I would go for th

Re: Off the topic

2003-09-21 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
The rabbie was dressed as a penguine ? -- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-4-6991122 Fax: 972-4-6990098 http://www.canaan.net.il -- - Original Message - From: "Ran Milstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Jumping" hebrew letters in mozilla

2003-09-21 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Recent mozilla versions (as well as firebird/thunderbird) show hebrew letters with different size for each letter. I remember it's a known fixable problem, could somebody point me at the fix? I can't stand it any longer ;-). -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =

Re: "Jumping" hebrew letters in mozilla

2003-09-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote about ""Jumping" hebrew letters in mozilla": > Recent mozilla versions (as well as firebird/thunderbird) show hebrew > letters with different size for each letter. I remember it's a known > fixable problem, could somebody point me at the fix? I can't

A new product line from Culmus project ;-)

2003-09-21 Thread Maxim Iorsh
Hello everybody!   I'd like to announce the new collection of fancy fonts from the Culmus project. These fonts are not included in the main package (and most of them will never be) and are available for separate download. Right now there are just two, but there will be more.   Please visit

Re: Disk errors.

2003-09-21 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:41:24PM +0300, David Harel wrote: > > All errors were of the type: { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > What is your estimation on the severeness of those errors, what is your > recommendation to treat them and which tools do you recommend to fix the > problems. >

Re: A new product line from Culmus project ;-)

2003-09-21 Thread Lior Kaplan
Hi Maxim,   1. I didn't find a link as said bellow. Can you give a direct link? 2. Why wont these fonts be in the main package? Regards,   Lior Kaplan[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.Guides.co.il   Come to write at the forums: http://www.guides.co.il/forums - Original Message - From:

Re: A new product line from Culmus project ;-)

2003-09-21 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Lior Kaplan wrote on 2003-09-21: > Hi Maxim, > > 1. I didn't find a link as said bellow. Can you give a direct link? http://culmus.sourceforge.net/fancy/index.html Third in the site menu on the left side. -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: "Jumping" hebrew letters in mozilla

2003-09-21 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Nadav Har'El wrote on 2003-09-21: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote about ""Jumping" hebrew letters in > mozilla": > > Recent mozilla versions (as well as firebird/thunderbird) show hebrew > > letters with different size for each letter. I remember it's a known > > fixable problem,

RE: A new product line from Culmus project ;-)

2003-09-21 Thread Maxim Iorsh
Hello!   2. The main package is a general-purpose one, and it appears in some distributions quite unrelated specifically to the Hebrew language or Israeli public, and consequently wastes some precious space on shipped CDs. Therefore I try not to blow it. Whoever decides that his/her distribu

Re: Disk errors.

2003-09-21 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
David Harel wrote on 2003-09-21: > Hi, > > Recently I got some disk errors: > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02 (hda), sector 3462718 > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=4566479, > sector=3462719 > Sounds famili

Re: Disk errors.

2003-09-21 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2003-09-21 David Harel wrote: > All errors were of the type: { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > What is your estimation on the severeness of those errors, what is your > recommendation to treat them and which tools do you recommend to fix the > problems. My uneducated opinion is that it's

which ISO?

2003-09-21 Thread Shlomo Yona
Hello, I went to one of the mirror sites listed in http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#stable and I don't know which files I should get. Should I get the i386 files or the source files or both? (I need it for an IBM ThinkPad T40). Thanks. -- Shlomo Yona [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cs.haifa.ac.i

Hercules 3D Prophet 7000 dual-head VGA / Radeon 7000 dual-head VGA

2003-09-21 Thread Alon Weinstein
Hello all. I'm trying to set up a dual-head configuration on RH9 with a Hercules 3D Prophet 7000 Dual-head (that's two VGA connectors) card, which is a Radeon 7000 with two VGA connectors. (I've posted a similar question in the xfree86 users mailing list, alas, no answers so far.) I've searched

Reading Hebrew with Linux (fwd)

2003-09-21 Thread Ely Levy
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:08:06 +0200 From: Ollie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reading Hebrew with Linux Hello, I am an Italian blind woman, and I'm interested in migrating from Windows to Linux. I have installed the

Re: Mozilla 1.0.1 bug? (was: Re: onSelect event of TEXTAREA...)

2003-09-21 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:10:14PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > Is it a known bug in Mozilla 1.0.1? On your version of Mozilla, please inspect the Javascript methods and properties available on the TEXTAREA object with the DOM Inspector. Rough guide: 1. Type the page's URL in the top bar of the DOM I

Re: can't see hebrew of fat file system

2003-09-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:43:51PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > I have a disk on key with a fat file system (I think its fat16 but not > sure). > I put some Hebrew files on it from a windows partition only under Linux > I see gibberish. > The console is gnome-multi-terminal running iso8859-8 font,

Re: [OT] Help! server, browser, firewall or network issue ?

2003-09-21 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sunday 21 September 2003 23:54, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > apparently, the browser gets stuck when ob_gz_handler is active and there > > is data before the handler is called. this data gets flushed out of the > > output buffer and is sent infront of the gzip compressed, but after the > > headers -

Re: which ISO?

2003-09-21 Thread Lior Kaplan
for example: http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.fi.debian.org/debian-cd/3.0_r1/i386/ Download the NONUS version of disc #1. Regards, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Guides.co.il Come to write at the forums: http://www.guides.co.il/forums - Original Message - From: "Shlomo Yon

Re: Propaganda Point (was: Re: linux support companies in Israel)

2003-09-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:40:09PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Gil Freund wrote: > > > > Before one hails and advocates OSS one has to educated for better IT > > > thinking: > > > Find out what the business requirement are. > > > Strip out MS-tal

Re: [OT] Help! server, browser, firewall or network issue ?

2003-09-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oded Arbel wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2003 23:54, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: apparently, the browser gets stuck when ob_gz_handler is active and there is data before the handler is called. this data gets flushed out of the output buffer and is sent infront of the gzip compressed, but after the hea

OpenOffice 1.1 in Hebrew locale shows everything right to left

2003-09-21 Thread Arie Folger
Hi, I just installed OO 1.1 besides my existing 1.0, and to my horror, documents created in 1.0 show up a bit differently in 1.1 (bad for documents where graphic layout is important, such as Impress or Draw documenst with lots of text boxes). Even worse, all the paragraphs are right to left, ev