Re: Problems with Eth Conn to LinkSys HPRO200 ADSL Router

2003-01-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
Replying to myself: this was my mistake. The computer has two Ethernet cards and I tried to connect to the router using the card that was not connected to anything... ;-) After I switched the configuration to the right one, everything worked perfectly. Sorry if I bothered you, or caused you to

Re: Feiya Memory Bar

2003-01-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I don't know about your particular problem but Amichai Rotman wrote: The comp freezes completely after accessing it in any way ( I don't even get to mount it...). The Kernel dumpes a core saying the swapper is unable to sync disks and the computer freezes. I can't copy the dump from the

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 01:34:25 +0200 (IST), Ely Levy wrote Hey, I wanted to raise a discussion about the intergation of linux on schools and kindergardens around israel. there are few questions that come to

Re: Feiya Memory Bar

2003-01-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:24:23AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: When the kernel panics, you don't get a core file. What you do get instead is a dump to console of the stack state during the crash. This is pretty much useless unless you are willing to do some kernel debugging. If you are

Re: Feiya Memory Bar

2003-01-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 10:24, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I don't know about your particular problem but Amichai Rotman wrote: The comp freezes completely after accessing it in any way ( I don't even get to mount it...). The Kernel dumpes a core saying the swapper is unable to sync disks and

Re: Feiya Memory Bar

2003-01-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:12:23AM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Actually, there is now support for Linux kernel core dumps, Shameless plugcontributed by SGI :-)/Shameless plug. I even think it's merged into 2.5.x but I might be wrong. http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/ No, it hasn't

Red-Hat 8 ,where can I get some ?

2003-01-02 Thread Moshe, Eyal
Title: Red-Hat 8 ,where can I get some ? Hi all I tried to download from various places with no success. I'll pay, I need it asap. Thanks , Eyal.

Re: [linux-support] Red-Hat 8 ,where can I get some ?

2003-01-02 Thread Voicu Liviu
On Thursday 02 January 2003 11:19, Moshe, Eyal wrote: Hi all I tried to download from various places with no success. I'll pay, I need it asap. Thanks , Eyal. http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html = To unsubscribe, send

RE: Red-Hat 8 ,where can I get some ?

2003-01-02 Thread Assaf Flatto
Title: Message http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=7 is one place you can go and the other is the FTP mirror site on iglu : ftp://iglu.org.il/pub/and search there for the red had mirrot -Original Message-From: Moshe, Eyal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday,

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
Right. Full localization of the working environment the (child) user normally works with is normally needed. Except for English and such programs, that is. And that working environment may be even a dedicated application, in some cases. I really don't understand where that comes from?

How to check OS/HW performance

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello list. Recently I have feeling that my PPC Linux is much slower (network, scheduling, flash I/O) then similarly equipped AMD board. I can not say where is the problem - hardware, operating system or users' applications.. I'm looking for set of Linux utilities that can check hardware/OS

Dinner with RMS - details and directions.

2003-01-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hi everybody, The details of the informal dinner with Richard M. Stallman follow below. The people who sent RSVPs will get them in a separate email as well, just in case some of them don't read the lists regularly. I hope those who do will tolerate a duplicate. If anyone suddenly decides he or

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Ely Levy wrote about Edu in linux: Hey, I wanted to raise a discussion about the intergation of linux on schools and kindergardens around israel. A very important topic indeed. 6)Does matach does programs which can't be replaced by opensourced programs? The sad (but

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Alon Weinstein
IMO, the first role Linux can take in schools is as a server. Many schools have small to medium sized networks which either don't have a central server or rely on a Windows server running on a too-slow machine. Using Linux as the server can reduce costs by both eliminating the need for

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Ely, You are wasting your time. Israeli K12 has no use for Linux. Been there, done that. If the kids don't have the same OS at school as at home then forget it. If it doesn't run MS Word, then forget it. Regards, - yba On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: Hey, I wanted to raise a

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Alon Weinstein
I think this is going too far. If children will use Linux from early grades, they might install it at their homes. In today's problematic economy, parents will be happy to pay 0$ for software, although I'm sure most children don't really pay for their Windows -Original Message- From:

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
I think that today with the hard economical state there are poor schools which hardly have money for computers and would be more than happy for free programs. crossover office runs MSoffice with hebrew support preety well and they would have access to better and nicer GUI programs which they can't

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Ely, You are wasting your time. Israeli K12 has no use for Linux. Been there, done that. If the kids don't have the same OS at school as at home then forget it. If it doesn't run MS Word, then forget it. Regards, How much does a development

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about Re: Edu in linux: Hi Ely, You are wasting your time. Israeli K12 has no use for Linux. Been there, done that. If the kids don't have the same OS at school as at home then forget it. If it

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
crossover office writes/reads hebrew doc/ppt files. and if it's a matter of moving them from word.. well openoffice works on windows as well no?:) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote:

Dinner with RMS - rides

2003-01-02 Thread Alon Altman
Hi, As I am coming without a car, I will need a ride to Haifa after the dinner, and a ride from TAU or somewhere I can get by bus to the place before the dinner. If you can help give any of these rides, I'd be happy if you notify me. Thanks, Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 13:19, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: home. The Windows vocabulary has entered our daily Hebrew speech. My kids (all 10 of them) had to submit a portion of their homework assignments in doc format (Gush Etzion school system) for the past four years. My wife is in a

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Victor Zaslavsky
1. Do not forget support cost - it usually higher for Linux than for Windows (there was appropriate IDC report). 2. I want my kids to be ready to start their work immediately in any normal office. Why should I to sacrifice competitive strength of my kids to OS wars? Regards, Victor.

printing on okipage 14ex via samba

2003-01-02 Thread Boris Gorelik
Hi all. I have this annoying problem with printing on okipage 14ex printer via samba. This is the storry: The printer is installed on a windows98 computer and is shared over the LAN. while there is no problem with printing on this printer from other windows computers, I couldn't succeed to print

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread mnna4
From my kids' experience ( 12 + 16 ), technical issues are about office products (Heb OO will do fine here) and the rest of the activity is web search (Meida'anut whatever that means in English) and remote learning. As a linux layman , I can vouch for Mandrake or RH (DONT flame) as more than

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
someone knows matach's homepage? i remmebered it once but I can't find it anymore for some weird reason.. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, mnna4 wrote: From my kids' experience ( 12 + 16 ), technical issues are about office products (Heb OO will

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: crossover office writes/reads hebrew doc/ppt files. and if it's a matter of moving them from word.. well openoffice works on windows as well no?:) Hi Ely, OOo works in Hebrew on Windows at we will soon be providing a Hebrew UI for it, but the problem is

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 14:19, Victor Zaslavsky wrote: 1. Do not forget support cost - it usually higher for Linux than for Windows (there was appropriate IDC report). A research paid for by Microsoft. Allow me to be skeptical... ;-) Linux is sometime cheaper and sometimes not so is every other

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 13:19 Asia/Jerusalem, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: My kids (all 10 of them) had to submit a portion of their homework assignments in doc format (Gush Etzion school system) for the past four years. My wife is in a masters program at Touro College and Beit Morasha

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Alon Altman
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Ely Levy wrote about Edu in linux: Hey, I wanted to raise a discussion about the intergation of linux on schools and kindergardens around israel. A very important topic indeed. 6)Does matach does programs which can't be

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Alon Altman
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: someone knows matach's homepage? i remmebered it once but I can't find it anymore for some weird reason.. http://www.cet.ac.il/ or: http://www.cet.co.il/ -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 The RIGHT way to contact

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, mnna4 wrote: From my kids' experience ( 12 + 16 ), technical issues are about office products (Heb OO will do fine here) and the rest of the activity is web search (Meida'anut whatever that means in English) and remote learning. As a linux layman , I can vouch for

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Shoshannah Forbes wrote: On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 13:19 Asia/Jerusalem, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: My kids (all 10 of them) had to submit a portion of their homework assignments in doc format (Gush Etzion school system) for the past four years. My wife is

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Xavier Gentoo
On Thursday 02 January 2003 12:53, Ely Levy wrote: This and that, you are arguing absolutely useless points which boil down to your personal opinions, biased towards your now outdated experiences. Now why don't you stop wasting your time with the debate and actually go to a school near you,

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Victor Zaslavsky wrote about RE: Edu in linux: 2. I want my kids to be ready to start their work immediately in any normal office. Why should I to sacrifice competitive strength of my kids to OS wars? Have you ever seen anyone who learned Linux and was unable to work

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Alon Weinstein
-Original Message- Ben Avraham Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 2:54 PM Subject: Re: Edu in linux Hi Shoshannah, The reason is that the teacher wants all the kids in the class to submit material in the same format. The teacher does not have time or patience to convert

event reschedule

2003-01-02 Thread Amir Tal
all, the people and computers event was moved to march 6. for more details please see : http://www.whatsup.org.il/modules.php?name=Contentpa=showpagepid=18 -- == Tal Amir, Founder, Owner Whatsup, Hebrew Linux Portal. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whatsup.org.il ICQ :

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Shoshannah, The reason is that the teacher wants all the kids in the class to submit material in the same format. The teacher does not have time or patience to convert document formats for even two out of thirty-five kids in the class.

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
This is one thing that I never understood- word can read a wide variety of Hebrew document formats, so why insist on the files being submitted as doc? Hi Shoshannah, The reason is that the teacher wants all the kids in the class to submit material in the same format. The teacher does not

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Boulgakov Andrei
Title: RE: Edu in linux 3 years ago I did support to the schools in B7. There (I guess in other cities too) was support cost by hours. So, If school needs file/printer server the cost is same for both MS and Linux. But, if school(specialized in math and comp) needs Web/FTP + DB server, Linux

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Tzafrir Cohen, from the post of Thu, 02 Jan: Frankly, there is no ms-word format. There are a bunch of (non-compatible) formats: word2, word6, word7(95), word8(97), word9(2000), word10(xp) and now there is a word11 (.net?). MS swore on their mother's grave that OfficeXP is bit-by-bit

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Boulgakov Andrei wrote about RE: Edu in linux: courses on Linux, SQL, Apache, PHP, cvs, bla-bla-bla 20 clever boys will switch from Ms to Linux. boys *and girls*, I hope. -- Nadav Har'El| Thursday, Jan 2 2003, 28 Tevet 5763 [EMAIL

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 15:03, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: So you think what your children need to be successful adults is full knowledge of Word? Funny, I prefer my children to learn to think for themselves, be self reliant, learn to solve problems and be creative, learn to protect their

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about Re: Edu in linux: home. The Windows vocabulary has entered our daily Hebrew speech. My kids (all 10 of them) had to submit a portion of their homework assignments in .doc format (Gush Etzion school system) for the past four years. My wife

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 16:17 Asia/Jerusalem, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Boulgakov Andrei wrote about RE: Edu in linux: courses on Linux, SQL, Apache, PHP, cvs, bla-bla-bla 20 clever boys will switch from Ms to Linux. boys *and girls*, I hope. Yep :-) (and let's not

Re: still need help with USB printer

2003-01-02 Thread shlomo solomon
On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My lsusb gives all the details it can find, which is a lot: Actually, so does mine (version 0.10). The default is to give only the first line (as I included previously). But there's a -v (verbose) switch which gives tons of

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about Re: Edu in linux: terms of both production tools and training. Also, many of the academic community who plan the content want to use features that Msoft offers that are not standard technologies in order to get maximum visual effect -

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
I agree, I think that what would push linux into school that why I don't bother going to the school before having something to show up, a lot of shchonot metzoka might earn a lot from the idea. thanks to Alon who send me the site of matach (http://www.cet.ac.il/) I see some of their programs are

Getting Israeli Web sites to comply with standards- some action

2003-01-02 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
Well, after the parallel discussion here and in the Mac forums ( http://forums.ort.org.il/scripts/ showsm.asp?which_forum=307mess=1646728 ), I wrote a document about why it is good to build your site for standards. I posted the first draft on the web, and would love to hear your

solved (was Re: still need help with USB printer)

2003-01-02 Thread shlomo solomon
I found the problem, but I can't imagine what caused it. During install, MDK 9.0 printdrake correctly detected and installed the printer as /dev/usb/lp0. Nobody made any changes to this setup (to be honest, I wouldn't know how). But when checking things for maybe the 20th time, I saw that

Re: How to check OS/HW performance

2003-01-02 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Michael Sternberg wrote: Recently I have feeling that my PPC Linux is much slower (network, scheduling, flash I/O) then similarly equipped AMD board. It is probably true. From my experience, with various versions of gcc, PPC code runs on a G4 (7450) at about the same speed

Re: How to check OS/HW performance

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: Matan Ziv-Av [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Michael Sternberg wrote: I'm looking for set of Linux utilities that can check hardware/OS performance. I found lmbench useful for this. It's not extremely easy if you want to cross-compile on

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 16:05, Alex Shnitman wrote: [ Note: I edited the order of paragraph in Alex's post from the original ] And you can very well think for yourself, be self-reliant, learn to solve problems, be creative, learn to protect your rights and ask smart questions, while at the same

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Guy Baruch
Nadav Har'El wrote: Recently Channel 2 news carried a story about large families (like yours) whose schools demand 500 shekels a year (or more) from each child for school trips. For the school it's much easier and nicer to force everyone to fit this mold and not cause problems. But what does a

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
Your mistake is going to the schools talking to them, they know nothing about computers nothing about OS. If you would come to them with a working product saying hey look this has that and that and it supports the stuff you need to do almost as well as windows + it can do things which windows

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Alon Weinstein wrote: Pretty well is the key word here - you need perfect compliance IMO. And CrossOver is not free (or am I wrong?), which means you need to purchase an Office license and CrossOver, so the cost saving shrinks. They have the same problems with moving from

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: Right. Full localization of the working environment the (child) user normally works with is normally needed. Except for English and such programs, that is. And that working environment may be even a dedicated application, in some cases. I

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Victor Zaslavsky wrote: 1. Do not forget support cost - it usually higher for Linux than for Windows (there was appropriate IDC report). Doesn't matter, the numbers are quite diffrent for goverments. 2. I want my kids to be ready to start their work immediately in any

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
Ok I admit your answer sounds much better than mine:) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On 2 Jan 2003, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 14:19, Victor Zaslavsky wrote: 1. Do not forget support cost - it usually higher for Linux than for Windows (there

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
I agree on the part that while being MALKAR and living from public funds they should be open source. I also think that they should at least be forced to concider porting their programs to other OSs. I think making people use any kind of software over the other is a bad bad idea and kind of ruin

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
Well you hit the nail in the head as well, That where we can offer them help to reduce the amount of time and money that it would take porting those programs to linux that might make them want to take a shot Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Jonathan

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
I agree coverting from office 97 to XP is much harder especialy when it comes to hebrew. actualy that is the reason why a lot of people do use RTF when they don't know the version of windows the person they are sending it to would have. anyhow I would like to remind the EU is working on enchant OO

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Boulgakov Andrei wrote: I think battle for Linux Desktops in schools is useless. Battle should be on Colleges and Univercities, there jobs usually submitted in english :) . All we can do in school - work with 15-17 aged. As example I can tell you about activities of Amuta

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 17:57, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Don't forget that not everyone in this world is meant to become a programmer. In fact, *all* the people in the modern world are mere consumers of most of the technologies and products that they use, be it computer software or canned

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Guy Baruch wrote: Nadav Har'El wrote: Treatment of multiple-children families by the state and society is way OT, as well as politically explosive, lets NOT go there. Maybe it is! but it is part of it! actualy it is part of the reason of why I'm bringing it up now

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Xavier Gentoo
On Thursday 02 January 2003 17:11, Ely Levy wrote: Ironically, it looks like I'm getting hired by a school to implement certain software projects. It would also be a great opportunity to inspect the school world for Linux infestation potential. Guess it's time for me to formally join the

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Guy Baruch wrote about Re: Edu in linux: Treatment of multiple-children families by the state and society is way OT, as well as politically explosive, lets NOT go there. This is indeed getting OT, but I'd just like to point out that while the treatment of

Stallman interviewed in Haaretz Friday Magazine

2003-01-02 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
You may find it interesting to follow the following link (reg req unless jscript disabled [*]): http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=247510contrassID=2subContrassID=13sbSubContrassID=0 And if you wondered, it does feature the Xerox printer anecdote. -- [*] archiving this

Re: Stallman interviewed in Haaretz Friday Magazine

2003-01-02 Thread Amir Tal
On Thursday 02 January 2003 20:07, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: is it just me, or does this page requires registration to Haaretz ?? tal. You may find it interesting to follow the following link (reg req unless jscript disabled [*]):

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
I'd like to try to give a summary of some of the points raised in this thread: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: Hey, I wanted to raise a discussion about the intergation of linux on schools and kindergardens around israel. there are few questions that come to mind. There are a number of

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Ely Levy
I think that if there is a time to push matach on porting things to linux it's now, maybe we should originize and approch haching like eitan or nachama ronen, and ask them, 1)make matach allowing the port of programs to linux, 2)release their rav pealim word list (remember they wanted to pay ibm

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
Seems like you're advocating the round about route first. Lobbying an MK to put some weight can never the first stage of any process. It's something that should be done only after regular channels fail. On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: I think that if there is a time to push matach on

Re: Stallman interviewed in Haaretz Friday Magazine

2003-01-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: But when you do register, you don't have to bother with your real details, or even your real email (because, frankly, who knows what they do with these details...). After you register with fake details you will get a link (written in reversed Hebrew, for some reason...) to

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: This friend of mine, on the other hand, can now do absolutely nothing with his knowledge of Turbo Pascal This is a claim I find odd. Most of programming is not about learning the syntax of a specific language. and DOS, and yelling But these were the

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On 2 Jan 2003, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Everyone has a choice, of course. I do think that such an attitude is a bad one though. No, not everyone needs to be a rocket scientist. But I don't think you need a rocket scientist to have a basic understanding of how things work. This I can relate

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Victor Zaslavsky wrote: 1. Do not forget support cost - it usually higher for Linux than for Windows (there was appropriate IDC report). Doesn't matter, the numbers are quite diffrent for goverments. 2. I want my kids to be

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: Cause what he would use outside in the world has nothing to do with the things he uses at school in school he learns browesing/office he DOESNT learn how to use windows. browsing and office are the most common uses for windows for non-developers (most

Re: solved (was Re: still need help with USB printer)

2003-01-02 Thread Shaul Karl
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:20:32PM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote: I don't know what cause the system to select lp0 or lp1. I had similar problem with tapes. I have 2 SCSI tapes (a DAT and a DLT) attached to the same machine. Some time I get the DAT on /dev/st0 and the DLT on /dev/st1 and sometimes

Re: solved (was Re: still need help with USB printer)

2003-01-02 Thread Ehud Karni
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 01:21:40 +0200, Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder whether these tapes are smart SCSI devices in the sense that the host adapter is the one that actually assign their device id (0, 1 and so on)? I believe that such ability of the host adapter and the SCSI

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Alon Altman
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Shoshannah, The reason is that the teacher wants all the kids in the class to submit material in the same format. The teacher does not have time or patience to convert document formats for even

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Alon Altman
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Victor Zaslavsky wrote about RE: Edu in linux: 2. I want my kids to be ready to start their work immediately in any normal office. Why should I to sacrifice competitive strength of my kids to OS wars? Have you ever seen anyone

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Xavier Gentoo
On Thursday 02 January 2003 19:30, Alex Shnitman wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 17:57, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Don't forget that not everyone in this world is meant to become a programmer. In fact, *all* the people in the modern world are mere consumers of most of the technologies and

C vs. Pascal vs. the World [was Re: Edu in linux]

2003-01-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: I remember very clearly a discussion I had with a friend 11 years ago when I was in the 11th grade. We were studying then Turbo Pascal on DOS and also using Windows (3.1) at school, and I told him about C and Unix, which were virtually unknown

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Shoshannah, The reason is that the teacher wants all the kids in the class to submit material in the same format. The teacher does not have time or patience to convert document formats for even

Re: Dinner with RMS - rides

2003-01-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Alon Altman wrote: Hi, As I am coming without a car, I will need a ride to Haifa after the dinner, and a ride from TAU or somewhere I can get by bus to the place before the dinner. If you can help give any of these rides, I'd be happy if you notify me. I'd like to have

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 19:17 Asia/Jerusalem, Ely Levy wrote: anyhow I would like to remind the EU is working on enchant OO file format that would become the official file format for documetation and passing info between goverment and citizans. The guys who work on it seems to be very

Re: printing on okipage 14ex via samba

2003-01-02 Thread Cedar Cox
You're right on with the ljet4 driver. The problem is samba. (It works directly connected..) You need disable cr-lf translation. Look in the smbprint(??) file. The binary data is getting garbled, similar to ftp in ascii mode. It's coincidence that the page is ok (or almost ok) until half

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Xavier Gentoo wrote: Unless of course *you* are comfortable that *your* kids are going to be deprived of elementary independent thinking, that is. If you are, I suggest you watch Total Recall 2070 to see how bright out future is going to be. So someone who chooses MS

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Alon Altman wrote: I think we should try and pass legislation that schools will be forbidden to require the students to purchase closed software to submit their schoolwork. How is that different than requiring students to buy a certain textbook? (In Haifa we rarely did

Re: C vs. Pascal vs. the World [was Re: Edu in linux]

2003-01-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And C is the only language that is expected to bootstrap itself.[1] snipped to footnote [1] - There are a few exceptions. ghc is an Haskell compiler that is the only tool capable of compiling its own Haskell code. The GNU Ada compiler is written in

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: Imagine a country where not only can schools use free software, but kids are actually free to use the same software at home without draining the family's budget. This is not only essential to sick kids, but also useful for parents who cannot afford

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
English: http://www.cet.co.il Hebrew: http://www.cet.ac.il On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: someone knows matach's homepage? i remmebered it once but I can't find it anymore for some weird reason.. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 2 Jan 2003,

Re: Stallman interviewed in Haaretz Friday Magazine

2003-01-02 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote about Re: Stallman interviewed in Haaretz Friday Magazine: Except neither of these statements are true any more. They now send you your password via email, so a real email address is required, and disabling javascript did not work for me (and also