Re: Remote Red hat upgrade

2002-05-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Eran Tromer wrote: Hi, Whatever method you use, doing a full upgrade using the installer has a very high chance of failing in *some* way, so if you don't have low-level remote control facilities you'd better be prepared to come over anyway. If you can't do that, you may be better

Re: Hebrew Here - Final Verdict

2002-05-19 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Wow, a long thread, eh? And worthwhile, I think. I'd like to note the following. The discussion is significantly biased towards technical issues, which is natural given the nature of the list and the interests of its population. However, there were a few emails that touched on a broader question

gphoto2 usb problems

2002-05-19 Thread El-al, Netta
hi, i upgraded from mandrake 8.0 to mandrake 8.2 and now when i run gphoto2 (for my digital camera) i get the following error (even if i run it as root): An error occurred in the io-library ('Could not claim the USB device'): Could not claim interface 0 (Device or resource busy). Make sure no

Re: Remote Red hat upgrade

2002-05-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Eran Tromer wrote: Hi, Whatever method you use, doing a full upgrade using the installer has a very high chance of failing in *some* way, so if you don't have low-level remote control facilities you'd better be prepared to come over

Re: Hebrew Here - Final Verdict

2002-05-19 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: * There were no postings from people who do not know Hebrew. I think there used to be quite a few. Have all of them left the list recently for political or other irrelevant reasons? I hope not. I stayed silent because it was a holiday. From sundown on Thursday to

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Ely Levy
I think the problem is not with the clients which can or not read hebrew, but rather the major problem of no standart way to call things. You can't write in pure hebrew and what people usually have problem with is the technical stuff anyhow. add to that the fact that almost all console mail

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Ely Levy
actualy I know a LOT and I mean a LOT of people who doesn't use linux cause of lack of docs/native reading-writing/mailing lists hebrew support. I know it doesn't matter to you, but hebrew is and still and if you ask me I hope it would keep being the language of our country. there is something

RE: Hebrew Here - Final Verdict

2002-05-19 Thread Tzahi Fadida
To some it all up in a few sentences. I think that many here have told their small techie problem and have clearly expressed they are not going to make the extra effort to fix their mail client. They also decided that they are not going to remain on the list if it would allow Hebrew. (whether

Re: Hebrew Here - Final Verdict

2002-05-19 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: * There is a small (but larger) group of people who promote Hebrew on linux-il on the patriotic grounds that Swedes do it, Finns do it. No they don't. They have No, ZERO, NADA, ZIP, efes, Hebrew on their lists.

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Ely Levy wrote: actualy I know a LOT and I mean a LOT of people who doesn't use linux cause of lack of docs/native reading-writing/mailing lists hebrew support. That's a whole 'nother thing. At this time if you want Linux, you need English literacy. The reason you don't need it for windows

Re: Hebrew Here - Final Verdict

2002-05-19 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And have you ever looked at their lists? How much Swedish, Finnish, etc do the have on them? I'll bet all the really juicy questions are in English or if not, could be understood by an English speaker. Geoff, you know me well enough :-). I

Re: Hebrew Here - Final Verdict

2002-05-19 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Geoff, you know me well enough :-). I *have* looked at the Swedish/Danish LUG web page / mailing list archives before posting one of my previous follow-ups. They are mostly in their native tongue, and that is qualitatively less comprehensible than, say, Italian or

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Ely Levy wrote: actualy I know a LOT and I mean a LOT of people who doesn't use linux cause of lack of docs/native reading-writing/mailing lists hebrew support. That's a whole 'nother thing. At this time if you want Linux, you need

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-19 Thread Itai Arad
How did you manage to convert the deb to rpm? I tried alien, but it get the following message: alien -f bidi-openoffice.org_1.0.0-4_i386.deb Control file couldn't be read! at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Alien/Package/Deb.pm line 161. I am using Mandrake 8.2, and I got this message both

Re: Hebrew Here - Final Verdict

2002-05-19 Thread Uri Bruck
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: On Sun, 19 May 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: * There is a small (but larger) group of people who promote Hebrew on linux-il on the patriotic grounds that Swedes do it, Finns do it. No they don't. They have No,

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Translation: Hebrew readers: was this sentence the first thing you read [in this post]? Apologies for the Hebrew content, but it is Here to make a point. Point well made. *plonk*

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-19 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:54:02PM +0300, Itai Arad wrote: How did you manage to convert the deb to rpm? I tried alien, but it get the following message: alien -f bidi-openoffice.org_1.0.0-4_i386.deb Control file couldn't be read! at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Alien/Package/Deb.pm

Re: OpenOffice BIDI Support

2002-05-19 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
To all of you having already generated OO executables, or planning to do so: there is a fix to apply in addition to the bunch of patches that I have already distributed to those who asked. The fix is for the following problem: after changing the direction of a table, the cells are not

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-19 Thread Itai Arad
The mdsum is e96459338707838194fa5d3481cf6d24 bidi-openoffice.org_1.0.0-4_i386.deb I downloaded it twice, and at each time I got the the same MDsum (and the same error message from alien) Itai. On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 16:45, Yotam Rubin wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:54:02PM +0300, Itai

Open Office Hebrew Support

2002-05-19 Thread Barak Kaufman
Hello list. I am encountering a strange problem and i wonder if anybody else got it / solved it. I am openning a MS word (office XP) saved document, i cant see any of tthe letters until i select the whole text and change it to one of the hebrew fonts availible in OO's menu. i thought it was

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Eliran
Hebrew has nothing to do with newbies, but in my opinion newbies will prefer to use hebrew. I dont mean all of you people that are interested in computers, I talk about regular people who use computers as a tool (document processing and a like...). And gnubies-il as much as I know should be

RE: Open Office Hebrew Support

2002-05-19 Thread Ishay Inbar
What about opening new mailing list for Hebrew OO ? It seems like it will be (and should) be here forever... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Barak Kaufman Sent: ?? 19 ??? 2002 17:12? To: linux il Subject: Open Office Hebrew Support Hello

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Ely Levy
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: !! here we go.. no headers who say what encoding he is using.. ely To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the

RE: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Ely Levy
Well you know what they say, being it's not their fault for being newbies some poor people are just born like that. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Fri, 17 May 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote: I don't believe that the Hebrew language is connected to being a newbie or

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Ely Levy
It require to limit yourself into certain email client it require learning about encoding, sometimes exporting the e-mail it require figuring what kind of bidi the specific client used don't forget gnome kde and mozilla and uses a diffrent kind of bidi alogarithim and more joining.. Ely Levy

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-19 Thread Itai Arad
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:02:00PM +0300, Itai Arad wrote: The mdsum is e96459338707838194fa5d3481cf6d24 bidi-openoffice.org_1.0.0-4_i386.deb I downloaded it twice, and at each time I got the the same MDsum (and the same error message from alien) Alright, what does: ar -p

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Ely Levy wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: éàììä ÷ãéîä!! here we go.. no headers who say what encoding he is using.. Err... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8-i Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Ely Levy
I really don't get it.. why doesn't sw or nl or ru or br people care about other people from other countries to read their mailing list? this is linux IL notice the capital letters in the end of the mailing list name. If someone from other country would write e-mail in english most chances s/he

USR 56K modems

2002-05-19 Thread Eliran
Hello ! Anyone selling a second hand US Robotics 56K *COURIER* Modem ? I have checked lots of places in israel including online ones and I found out that they don't sell USR or sell other modem than COURIER. Any one ? Thanks! Eliran -- Good intentions will always be pleaded for every

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Ely Levy
the point is that they would show some sentances not in the same way.. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 19 May 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, 19 May 2002, Ely Levy wrote: It require to limit yourself into certain email client As I said: most

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Ely Levy
Yea yea we all know how prode you are in getting the name ivrix ; btw most important I didn't see any laguistic people there.. Which make me wonder how would you translate things to hebrew? Most things doesn't have names in hebrew yet and whatever you would chose would probebly won't become

Re: Remote Red hat upgrade

2002-05-19 Thread Ely Levy
dhcp Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 19 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list, Does anyone know of a way to remotely upgrade a red hat OS ? (without keyboard/mouse - in fact only a LAN connection). Kick start is a nice way, but requires too

Re: OpenOffice with BiDi support.

2002-05-19 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:37:12PM +0300, Itai Arad wrote: Well I get the control file. So? Maybe there's something wrong in LM8.2 ? People say it is trivial to convert deb==rpm. So why can't anyone who done that upload the rpm to iglu.org.il ? it would be so much easier than fighting

Re: USR 56K modems

2002-05-19 Thread Ely Levy
hehe join me in my unending quest to find a cheap modem that works on linux. check the thread from few days ago to get some ideas about how to get one Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 19 May 2002, Eliran wrote: Hello ! Anyone selling a second hand US

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Ely Levy wrote: On Sun, 19 May 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, 19 May 2002, Ely Levy wrote: it require figuring what kind of bidi the specific client used don't forget gnome kde and mozilla and uses a diffrent kind of bidi alogarithim They use

Re: USR 56K modems

2002-05-19 Thread Ely Levy
asking me or eliran? I'm looking for pci one Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 19 May 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Is ISA ok? Ely Levy wrote: hehe join me in my unending quest to find a cheap modem that works on linux. check the thread from few days

Re: USR 56K modems

2002-05-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Is ISA ok? Ely Levy wrote: hehe join me in my unending quest to find a cheap modem that works on linux. check the thread from few days ago to get some ideas about how to get one Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 19 May 2002, Eliran wrote: Hello ! Anyone

Re: USR 56K modems

2002-05-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I'm telling the list what I have. 56K ISA. I have just bought a 56K USR PCI from Ligad, after asking them three times to make sure that this is a Linux compatible modem. The price also seems to suggest that it is. I'll get it and test it out. If it works out, I'll let you all know.

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Ely Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know it always amuze me when people suggest to change hebrew writing into latin and giving up LTR. You will note the Turks did this and never looked back. Other then the people murdered by Attaturk, they seemed largely happy with that

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Uri Bruck
On 19 May 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote: On Sun, 19 May 2002, Ely Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would you change it to? The latin alphabet. It has remained pretty much constant (besides the change in the look of S -- the old look which inspired the look of the sign for the integal)

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Moshe Zadka
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 day to day. Because it is a stupid alphabet, optimized for

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 19 May 2002, 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 day to day. Because it

Re: USR 56K modems

2002-05-19 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just bought a 56K USR PCI from Ligad, after asking them three times to make sure that this is a Linux compatible modem. FWIW, I am using something called 3Com US Robotics (if I read the fine print on the box right, it is made by 3com, USR

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
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 Unless you believe there is something holy about it, I don't see the point

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
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.. if you know how do tell me I would be more than happy to do it Ok. How about the following idea: make a (say) Redhat 7.3 based Hebrew

Re: mipsel linux headers -- where?!

2002-05-19 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 18:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people I got this hublike appliance-thingie with a flash thingamabob and a stripped down Redhat 6.2 for Little Endian MIPS, and a MIPS Texas Instruments CPU. Amazing, but it actually works. Whoever installed it didn't bother putting

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, May 19, 2002, Ely Levy wrote about Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?: On Fri, 17 May 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: éàììä ÷ãéîä!! here we go.. no headers who say what encoding he is using.. By the way, from my short experience with getting Hebrew email, I saw that

Re: mipsel linux headers -- where?!

2002-05-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:50:23PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 18:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people I got this hublike appliance-thingie with a flash thingamabob and a stripped down Redhat 6.2 for Little Endian MIPS, and a MIPS Texas Instruments CPU.

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
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.. if you know how do tell me I would be more than happy to do it Ok. How about the following

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, May 19, 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?: They use different *implementations* of the same algorithm (KDE: QT's implementation, Gnome and abiword: fribidi, mozilla and openoffice: ICU) the point is that they would show some

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, May 19, 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote about Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?: 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,

pretty printing source code

2002-05-19 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Hi, I'm looking for a way to pretty print some source code into a post script file. Possible options: 1. use emacs' 'ps-print-buffer', which prints directly to the printer. Can I get it to print to a ps file instead? 2. a LaTeX package? Lyx support? groff? 3. source - HTML - postscript?

Re: pretty printing source code

2002-05-19 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 11:56:12PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to pretty print some source code into a post script file. Possible options: 1. use emacs' 'ps-print-buffer', which prints directly to the printer. Can I get it to print to a ps file instead?

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Uri Bruck
On 19 May 2002, 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 day to day. This is

Re: pretty printing source code

2002-05-19 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 23:56, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to pretty print some source code into a post script file. Possible options: [ 1 .. 3 options emitted ] Anything else? Of course! c2ps is the greatest gift the Technion has ever given man kind, except for

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi Nadav, To create a fribidi rpm, you need to do 'rpm -tb fribidi-0.10.4.tar.gz' as root, to get the rpm in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/ or you need to setup some rc files in your user home. There is a nice HOWTO from mandrake which I studied rpms. BTW, let me know of the Local Linux in a Month

Re: pretty printing source code

2002-05-19 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:27:15AM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 23:56, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: I'm looking for a way to pretty print some source code into a post script file. Possible options: Gilad wrote: Of course! c2ps is the greatest gift the Technion has

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Barak B
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Ely Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know it always amuze me when people suggest to change hebrew writing into latin and giving up LTR. You will note the Turks did this and never looked back. Other then the people murdered by Attaturk, they seemed largely happy with

Re: Remote Red hat upgrade

2002-05-19 Thread Eran Tromer
Eran Tromer wrote: By the way, here's a useful trick when remoting upgrading kernels. 1. Install the new kernel, but keep the old one as the default. 2. Use lilo -D newkernel to make the new kernel the temporary default (this affects only the next reboot). 3. Reboot. 4. Update lilo.conf

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Arie Folger
I have noticed the underrepresentation of not so fluent Hebrew speakers to this thread, so here is my NIS0.02: I live in the US, and speak Hebrew quite fluently (without that accent you guys dislike ;-)), yet except in English I have quite some trouble discussing IT matters. I simply don't

secondary address on loopback

2002-05-19 Thread Semion Lisyansky
Hi List, Would someone please explain me why when I add secondary address to loopback interface by either as a secondary or by ip addr add it does not add route entry in routing table? I've tried on RH6.2 with both 2.2.20 and 2.4.18 and I think it's a tipical behavior, but what's the reason? --

Re: gphoto2 usb problems

2002-05-19 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 11:32, El-al, Netta wrote: hi, i upgraded from mandrake 8.0 to mandrake 8.2 and now when i run gphoto2 (for my digital camera) i get the following error (even if i run it as root): An error occurred in the io-library ('Could not claim the USB device'): Could not claim

X hangs and refuses to be killed

2002-05-19 Thread Boris Gorelik
[second attempt. it seems that the first one failed. in case I'm wrong, please forgive me] hi, this is a strange problem: we have dual PIII with RH7.2 on it (as only OS). Today, while X was logging out from KDE session, I tried to swich to text console (by Ctr-Alt-F1), and X just hanged. The

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
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 the same sentence in a different way, then at least one of them

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Matitiahu Allouche
Please respond to Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:Ely Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists? Nadav Har'El wrote the following about Unicode

Re: X hangs and refuses to be killed

2002-05-19 Thread Malcolm Kavalsky
Boris Gorelik (by way of b g ) wrote: [second attempt. it seems that the first one failed. in case I'm wrong, please forgive me] hi, this is a strange problem: we have dual PIII with RH7.2 on it (as only OS). Today, while X was logging out from KDE session, I tried to swich to text console (by

Re: X hangs and refuses to be killed

2002-05-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:30:53AM +0300, Malcolm Kavalsky wrote: Boris Gorelik (by way of b g ) wrote: [second attempt. it seems that the first one failed. in case I'm wrong, please forgive me] hi, this is a strange problem: we have dual PIII with RH7.2 on it (as only OS). Today,