Since the idea is to bring Hamakor to the hearts of
the masses, it might be useful to add to the server
some other stuff:
- Mandrkae 9.1 ISOs (and maybe additional 2-3 gigas
for the Contrib packages) - 2-4 gigas
- Knoppix - less than 1 giga
- Kazit - less than 1 giga
- Morphix - gaming edition (th
Promoting Linux for schools is much more involved than just a proper training program.
There are multiple issues that need to be addressed:
Many of the computers in schools are outdated, and would run feature-rich graphical
environments too slow than to allow any productive work to be do
One possibility (not necessarily applicable for this one) is that the job involves
work abroad. There are countries that do not give work permits unless you have a
degree (as a proof of special expertise that can not be replaced with locals).
A second possibility is that somebody is paying
On Monday 07 July 2003 10:52, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> > One possibility (not necessarily applicable for this one) is that the
> > job involves work abroad. There are countries that do not give work
> > permits unless you have a degree (as a proof of special expertise that
> > can not be repl
No need for any special driver, as long as your usb is defined correctly (just check
dmesg to see that the modem is recognized) all you need to do is to load the kernek
module CDCEther (e.g. modprobe CDCEther if your distro already includes it) and once
you do that it becomes eth0.
Gilad Ben-Y
Kinneret is intended to run from CD. While it may be possible to install it using
Knoppix scripts, this is not currently supported officially and besides that it is
still not ready for general release.
While I can not speak for Linbrew, afaik it is still in development and it might be
quite s
Alternative solution:
http://www.compass.com/synaptics/
This makes the touchpad a really useful device.
For example: you can tap with two fingers for middle click, three fingers for
right click, and moving a finger up or down on the right edge of touchpad
scrolls up or down.
For a sample con
I use 9.2 for over a month. Overall, it feels more
robust than 9.1. I no longer experience any freezes,
crashes etc. There are no major new features, but the
increased stability and maturity is a great bonus.
If you have LG CD-ROM, make sure you read the errata
linked from Mandrake's site and have
Occasionally, discussions erupt in various forums as
to whether SUSE is free or not free. Two such examples
were argued lately in Whatsup and Tapuz.
It looks like different people have different opinions
as to how to define "free".
Since I am not a lawyer, I usually turn to GNU to
check whether
Crazy thought:
Will the disk include a localized live-linux CD
(a.k.a. Kazit) along the Windows installation files?
Wouldn't this be a killer? ;)
--- Diego Iastrubni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and...
>
> will the disk also include linux versions? or
> windows only?
>
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On Monday 17 November 2003 21:28, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
> Is there a kind soul here that wishes to contribute
ISO images of
> Mandrake 9.2 that will not harm unpatched LG drives?
Ehad 9.2b is available for Download. It includes the
patched kernel released by Mandrake shortly after the
incident an
He lives in Houston Texas, his live CD is indeed the
best there is (in my opinion ;) - second to none (and
it's still in beta), and he runs one of my favorite
Linux community sites that not only has great forums
but is also very lively.
You can get more info about his live CD here:
http://www.wha
Diego, lost your pen?
texstar -at- houston.rr.com
--- Diego Iastrubni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> search in cooker mailing list, were he posts rarely.
> you will find his email
> there, send him a big THANKS from me. :)
>
> áéåí ùéùé, 19 áãöîáø 2003, 18:57, ðëúá òì éãé Noam
> Meltzer:
> > ---
Small world :) Bill Kendrick mentioned below is the
author of TuxPaint (among others) and was very
cooperative in adding Hebrew support to his great app
despite the challanges faced by the use of SDL
libraries.
Anyway, to the point, what I'd like to see more than
anything else for Microsoft to do
Numbering is really not an issue. See, it can always
start at 3.0 as the first stable version. That
practice worked quite well with NT ;)
By that time Linux may still be at 2.8, and if for
some reason Linus will decide to go for the magic
Number 3.0, Hurd can launch as Hurd 2005 ...
btw, did anyb
docbook is hardly something that no one knows anything about it. You can always read
the docbook book (or by it) and it is indeed a very sophisticated document creation
system that far exceeds in depth and flexibility any WYSIWYG systems.
You can generate the output in multiple forms, such as
is finally released as a stable OS, regardless of
numbering.
Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Dovix wrote:
> Numbering is really not an issue. See, it can always
> start at 3.0 as the first stable version. That
> practice worked quite well with NT ;)
&
"My system" could help you, though note that it is much less sophisticated than
docbook and/or Borges, is still being updated from time to time (i.e. the XSL is still
a mess as I'm learning the technology while writing it), supports only HTML generation
and the documentation is still not comple
specify your correct address (even in the email body) if you write to me.
Dovix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"My system" could help you, though note that it is much less sophisticated than
docbook and/or Borges, is still being updated from time to time (i.e. the XSL is still
a mess
Try to install an RPM package from here:
http://mandrakeusers.com/Misc/
Instructions (in Hebrew) are available here:
http://www.whatsup.co.il/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=78#338
Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Assaf Flatto wrote:
>
I know how this looks like. I encountered it once when
upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2rc2 but I don't recall doing
anything special other than fixing manually all font
settings.
Just in case something in your local KDE settings is
broken, try to create a new user and log in. If you
can not change settin
Efraim Yawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone used the Kinneret live CD? It seems to work fine, except that
> I have trouble connecting to the Internet. I run pppoeconf, ...
I am not aware of any specific connection issues. The method you described is not
supported by the project so m
Might is be that the hostname was not in /etc/hosts ?
Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:11:52PM +0200,
Amichai Rotman wrote:
> and the apps start 80% faster (as they
> should, i.e.:
>
> Before: Mozilla browser would open a URL in 15-20 secs
> Now: 5-7 secs.
Internet connectivity is a real issue for Linux users, especially newbies. A few years
a go it used to be Hebrew support - but that is behind us. Now, almost every second
question from newbies is "how do I connect to the Internet?"
And life is tough. ISPs tend to shift towards dialers more an
Yesterday's news item in Maariv is probably the cause. Following that article (which,
by the way, caught us by surprise as well) there was a huge increase in download
attempts of GNU/Linux Kinneret.
Prior to that article, the download attempts counter was at 1800. A few minutes a go
it is at
I am trying to get in touch with our site admin to route the downloads to Berlios
until we get the issue sorted.
In the meantime, if you encounter any questions about this issue in forums please
provide this link: (hebrew)
http://whatsup.co.il/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=10218
Don't know if you happen to hear Reshet Bet, but if
you do they occasionally advertise job postings (I
think it's Luah Dahaf but I'm not sure).
Anyway, recently I heard a message that "Bezeq
international is looking for new support personnel,
with knowledge in computers, opereting systems and web
Shachar is right.
We have a real issue with OO.org (as well as with
Mozilla Firefox) since we aim GNU/Linux Kinneret to
support multiple languages used by pupils/students in
Israel. As a minimum this means we have to have full
English support as this is the default when a specific
language transla
Hi everybody,
We don't usually announce developemnt versions of
Kinneret in the first week after it's available so
that we can spend some more time on QA.
However, we are going to have an exception this time
because this is not just another new release, it's the
first time we try to make it avail
Though Bittorrent is considered safe, an md5sum is
also available:
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/kinneret/Kinneret-0.7.2.md5sum
--- Dovix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
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Hi,
GNU/Linux Kinneret's home page was updated and now
includes a choice of download mirrors for both the
stable and unstable releases.
I trust that the next "rush" expected when GNU/Linux
Kinneret will be presented in "Zombit" (8/Mar) will be
less stressful.
On behalf of the GNU/Linux Kinneret
http://e2compr.sourceforge.net/
I'd be happy to hear about your experiences, this is one of those things I really miss
in modern OSes...
(e.g. for ensuring /var or document directories are always compressed...)
Shlomi Loubaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations
I'll appreciate your comments/corrections to the
attached guide.
Please note this is a redirection link, please do not
link to it permanently. Once I get feedback I will
post the guide to a permanent location.
http://tinyurl.com/2mk8t
Note:
Please post your comments here:
http://www.whatsup.org
Hi,
I packaged Mandrake RPMS for the new Culmus 0.100 set
and updated the fancy package to include the Ktav-Yad
font.
If you didn't define the Ehad source then do so with:
urpmi.addmedia 9.2-ehad
http://ehad.berlios.de/pub/9.2/RPMS/ with hdlist.cz
if you have it, update the list file:
urpmi.up
When Mandrake included Culmus in the distro, they
decided to label the package fonts-type1-hebrew and
since I am using their spec file, it uses the same
naming convention.
The previous version you had is not the one that
Mandrake released - but the RPM provided by the Culmus
project, and uses the
I would like to turn your attention to some recent
news items that are available in a printable format
from Whatsup. If you are engaged in providing Linux
(and FLOSS in general) products and/or services, you
may use such information as references. I did
emphasize selling point for FLOSS in those ar
It may not have been clear that the advocacy I was
aiming at *in this specific post* was towards
businesses, organizations and corporates, not home
users.
I am not saying we should not advocate to home users.
I am also aware to the fact thar there are other
selling point of FLOSS to the business m
I have a small issue with OpenOffice 1.1.1/2 and Culmus 0.100 - if I
select a text and change the font, it changes fine. But if I type new
text, the font reverts to Lucidasans when in
Hebrew mode (switching to English returns the selected font). It looks
as if OpenOffice doesn't know the new fonts
Hmm... That's not absolutely correct. Club members do get download
editions (community, official) before the general public, but these
are not club-only editions.
Please see this for more details:
http://www.whatsup.org.il/article/2654 (Hebrew)
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/e n/pr-releaseprocess.ph
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Dovix,
>
> I tried doing the following in OOo 1.1.1 with Culmus 0.100:
>
> Typed Hebrew text in LucidaSans. Selected some of the text. Changed the
> font of the selected text to AharoniCLM. The font changed fine.
>
> While the text was still se
If you didn't burn the OpenCD yet, you should have a look at GnuWin II.
It is a similar type of collection but the assortment of programs
seems richer and more interesting.
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/en/index.html
Also, since people are more reluctant to try a new OS, CDs with the
Hebrew version of Op
On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:35:02 +0200, Diego Iastrubni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> fuck them, they are loosing costumers. this is my opinion.
Wish we could fsck them instead ;)
> YNet is getting better non IE support. Tapuz is getting better in their
> forums. Patient is the key word here.
Sometim
Have you tried gpart?
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:28:48 +0200, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When the partition table is destroyed (fully or partially) in hard disk,
> it needs to be reconstructed using patterns in the rest of the hard
> disk, documentation and shrewd guesses.
>
> After a gues
Backwards?
Check the po file for TuxPaint - it uses natural Hebrew.
The program is also written using SDL - and the direction issue was
solved back in 2003 (see the fourth note in this page:
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/news/2003.05.shtml )
Since the code is open, this can be a good star
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