[YBA] Apropos FOSS edu content

2009-10-23 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi friends, A few weeks ago there was a discussion here of electronic text books. Last night I met the executive director of www.curriki.org who is doing just that, developing a platform for FOSS educational materials. Apparently there is a move in this direction in the developing world and to

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-23 Thread Diego Iastrubni
I have an HP printer/fax/scanner here. Nice piece of HW. I connected it to the wireless network, and under Windows it's a charm. Under linux, I can print to it from the network. They have this nice web interface from which you you can scan, I did not manage to get the scanner working directly w

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-23 Thread Oron Peled
On Friday, 23 בOctober 2009 13:09:31 Diego Iastrubni wrote: > I have an HP printer/fax/scanner here. Nice piece of HW. I connected it > to the wireless network, and under Windows it's a charm. Model? My HP Officejet 6313 is connected to the network (I didn't want the wireless model due to securit

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-23 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Hi Oron, See comments inline: On Friday 23 October 2009 13:49:08 you wrote: > On Friday, 23 בOctober 2009 13:09:31 Diego Iastrubni wrote: (I should fix kmail's translation...) > the wireless model due to security: Whats wrong about WPA2+do not broadcast the SSID? > Model? > > My HP Officejet 6

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-23 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Omer, Check out http://www.linuxprinting.org/ or go directly to http://www.openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi (you can get to it from the first link if you go to fatabase -> Printers). -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list

[Weekend Reminder] Re: [Telux] Next Meeting: "CMake" on 25-October-2009

2009-10-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! This is a weekend reminder that we will have a TelFOSS meeting about CMake the upcoming Sunday (25-Oct-2009) on 18:30 in Tel Aviv University. More details can be found below. Sorry for not publicising it on Facebook, but the wretched Send button did not work in Firefox. :-(. It was on

Re: How to say in Hebrew "intermittent"?

2009-10-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
Thanks, all, I have settled on לסירוגין as it seems to be the most accurate. I have no problem with using a Psycometry word or a technical term as I expect that the audience is intelligent and technically-inclined. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ___

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-23 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Oleg, Thanks for the link. However my purpose in asking for recommendations was to get feedback from actual people, who actually print under Linux. When buying the CX3200, I vetted it using Linux compatibility guides and it indeed proved to be compatible (both printing and scanning). Howev