Re: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)

2002-11-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Oh, one more thing - with crossover office 1.3.1 I was finally able to write full hebrew documents without (almost) any problems, answer forums questions in hebrew (using Explorer under crossover office). I also hear that a Klez detector was issued as

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2002-11-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
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Re: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)

2002-11-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
maybe I missed something, but are you saying your typing got up from 10 to 30 words a minute just by changing office suites? No, I'm saying that time to run the program, flipping pages (page up, page down), and the responsiveness was faster in word 2k then in open office.. Hetz

RedHat's kernel - and NTFS

2002-11-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi People, As many of you know, Red Hat kernel comes out without any NTFS support. A step which has forced many people to recompile their kernel with the NTFS support... No more... http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html - you can get here the module that you need - either as an

RE: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)

2002-11-12 Thread Dvir Volk
Btw, just checked it on my workplace machine (win2k, PIII500, 256MB RAM. Why oh why don't they let me install linux here? :) ). It took 27 seconds (!) to start swriter and 2.5 seconds to start msword XP. -Original Message- From: Hetz Ben Hamo [mailto:hetz;witch.dyndns.org] Sent:

Re: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)

2002-11-12 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 14:24, Dvir Volk wrote: Btw, just checked it on my workplace machine (win2k, PIII500, 256MB RAM. Why oh why don't they let me install linux here? :) ). It took 27 seconds (!) to start swriter and 2.5 seconds to start msword XP. Not exactly a fair compare, you

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2002-11-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
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RE: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)

2002-11-12 Thread Dvir Volk
I know it's not, but still, 27 seconds to load swriter? WTF? Are they compiling it on the fly? :-) and it's not much better on linux. Gimp for win loads in a reasonable time, more or less like paint shop pro (5-7 seconds), and it's not native either. -Original Message- From: Hetz

Re: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)

2002-11-12 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Dvir Volk wrote: I know it's not, but still, 27 seconds to load swriter? WTF? Are they compiling it on the fly? :-) and it's not much better on linux. Gimp for win loads in a reasonable time, more or less like paint shop pro (5-7 seconds), and it's not native either. I take it to mean you

Re: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)

2002-11-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 14:24, Dvir Volk wrote: Btw, just checked it on my workplace machine (win2k, PIII500, 256MB RAM. Why oh why don't they let me install linux here? :) ). It took 27 seconds (!) to start swriter and 2.5 seconds to start

Printing Hebrew

2002-11-12 Thread Martin Polley
Hi all, Has anyone succeeded in printing Hebrew from any application in KDE? If so, how? I have successfully made MS TTF fonts (which include Hebrew characters) available to GhostScript, but they appear as squares in ps files and printed output. Any ideas? TIA, Martin Polley Technical

Re: Printing Hebrew

2002-11-12 Thread Ohad Lutzky
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:10:39PM +0200, Martin Polley wrote: Hi all, Has anyone succeeded in printing Hebrew from any application in KDE? If so, how? I have successfully made MS TTF fonts (which include Hebrew characters) available to GhostScript, but they appear as squares in ps

Re: Printing Hebrew

2002-11-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Martin Polley wrote: Hi all, Has anyone succeeded in printing Hebrew from any application in KDE? If so, how? I have successfully made MS TTF fonts (which include Hebrew characters) available to GhostScript, but they appear as squares in ps files and printed output.

Re: Printing Hebrew

2002-11-12 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 13:10, Martin Polley wrote: Hi all, Has anyone succeeded in printing Hebrew from any application in KDE? If so, how? I have successfully made MS TTF fonts (which include Hebrew characters) available to GhostScript, but they appear as squares in ps files and

RE: Printing Hebrew

2002-11-12 Thread Martin Polley
But if I do: gs prfont.ps and then: /ArialMT DoFont (where ArialMT is actually arial.ttf), I CAN see Hebrew... Strange, no? (I use GS 7.05.5, KDE 3.0.3, Gentoo 1.2, and I know that OO and KWord have access to these TTF fonts.) Martin Polley Technical Communicator

linux conference

2002-11-12 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Hi Fellas, People and Computers (Anashim Ve'Machshevim) are organizing an Israeli Linux conference, to take place probably in January. They are interested in forming a steering committe, composed amongst others of community members, to talk about the conference and about Linux in Israel in

Re: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)

2002-11-12 Thread ogoldshmidt
Dvir Volk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know it's not, but still, 27 seconds to load swriter? WTF? Are they compiling it on the fly? :-) and it's not much better on linux. That I can live with. However, in a few years of using Star Office and recently Open Office for *viewing* Word-created

RE: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)

2002-11-12 Thread Martin Polley
I have opened a few non-trivial Word docs in OO (build 643 in Win), and it does not screw up too many things. Transitioning to OO would not be too difficult (except for rewriting Word macros in OO's equivalent). But I can't really see OO being used for round-tripping (i.e. for working on Word

[OT] LJ Cover

2002-11-12 Thread Eliran
Hey! I just bought the latest issue of Linux Journal from stimatzki (how do you spell it ?) and I saw in the cover a keyboard, on the keyboard were some letters... I recognized 2 of them to be hebrew : shin and gimel are these really hebrew letters ? Sorry for the *exterme* offtopic but I

Re: [OT] LJ Cover

2002-11-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002, Eliran wrote about [OT] LJ Cover: 2 of them to be hebrew : shin and gimel are these really hebrew letters ? At second thought, I decided to go to www.linuxjournal.com and see what you're talking about. This definitely isn't Japanese. Probably Hindi, or some similar

Re: [OT] LJ Cover

2002-11-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002, Eliran wrote about [OT] LJ Cover: I just bought the latest issue of Linux Journal from stimatzki (how do you spell it ?) and I saw in the cover a keyboard, on the keyboard were some letters... I recognized 2 of them to be hebrew : shin and gimel are these really hebrew

Re: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance)

2002-11-12 Thread voguemaster
Hmm, Performance in a word processor is not just about typing. Try to stuff big tables and Excel worksheets into the doc (with graphs and all) and some other things. Word crawls like a baby. It's quite possible for a word processor to be a burdon on the system. While on the subject, there are

Re: linux conference

2002-11-12 Thread Ehud Karni
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:51:45 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People and Computers (Anashim Ve'Machshevim) are organizing an Israeli Linux conference, to take place probably in January. They are interested in forming a steering committe, composed amongst others of community

[OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-12 Thread Shaul Karl
In a continuation to the office suit launch speed discussion it might be interesting to look at the following thread from debian-user. The URL is http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200211/subject.html and one should look for `[OT] Moving away from KDE to what?'. I am aware to

[OT] LJ Cover

2002-11-12 Thread Reuven M. Lerner
Eliran == Eliran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eliran I saw in the cover a keyboard, on the keyboard were some Eliran letters... I recognized 2 of them to be hebrew : shin Eliran and gimel are these really hebrew letters ? The issue's theme is internationalization. The cover artist

SNMP question

2002-11-12 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hi, I'm using UCD-SNMP version 4.2.3 over Linux. I've compiled the ucd tutorial mib module into an *.so library, which SNMPD loads. The following lines the access section of snmpd.conf: com2sec paranoid default public com2sec readonly default public group MyROSystem

RE: Printing Hebrew

2002-11-12 Thread Martin Polley
Eureka! Have you verified that fonts embedding is not disabled? Font embedding was DISABLED (by default). I enabled it, and now it works perfectly. Thank you very much. Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053)

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-12 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
I feel that Linux became slow in everything regarded to GUI. way too slow. While it seems the Microsoft XP work much faster ( the boot and the GUI ) Its not only the speed also the smoothness is better at Microsoft. Something must be done :( - Original Message - From: Shaul Karl [EMAIL