Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread sara fink
Don't do the mistake to move to Hot. It will be the mistake of your life. Lots of disconnections, old modems, bad service, over charging,waiting on the phone line at least 20 min). I don't want to name all the defects. Even their CEO Kaminitz agrees that they have to improve the service. Their

Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

2008-10-08 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Nadav, Thanks for adding this historical note. Indeed there were others involved as well, Waleed Husny from IBM Egypt (now at Sun) who did much of the AWT RTL support. Helpful comments were also received from Matitiahu Allouche of IBM and Yura Gauchman of Oracle. Thanks to all who

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Gilboa Davara wrote: If you ISP supports it (Barak does) you can use DHCP instead of L2TP/PPTP. In this case, you router no longer needs to do anything (beyond NAT) Thanks, but maybe my question wasn't clear enough. In the past, I did pptp and NAT on my Linux box

Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

2008-10-08 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Omer, Using your original suggestion, the Arabic text could be displayed with correct joining when displayed in input (logical) order from right-to-left. This should work well for predominantly Arabic paragraphs with some embedded LTR text. The problem would be when diplaying an LTR

Re: [YBA] Logical VS Visual Text Selection

2008-10-08 Thread Ori Idan
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nadav Har'El wrote: Another presentation was given there on a similar topic by Eli Zaretskii who focused, believe it or not, on the MS-DOS EinsteinWriter (yes, this editor was an antique even at that time ;-)), and how

Re: Planning a room using Dia/Kivio

2008-10-08 Thread Eran Levy
Check the new app from google On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2008, Oren Held wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a Linux software for planning a room. MS Visio does a fine job in MS Windows. Dia Kivio should be the Visio

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Eran Levy
Since you have a router, you shouldn't have any problem connecting your network. Just configure your router. I'm using HOT cables + netvision and it works fine. Eran On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Shlomo Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Gilboa Davara wrote: If

Re: Planning a room using Dia/Kivio

2008-10-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Eran Levy wrote: Check the new app from google Which new application? Care to share a link? Regards, Shlomi Fish On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2008, Oren Held wrote: Hi, I'm looking

Re: Planning a room using Dia/Kivio

2008-10-08 Thread Eran Levy
First, ok, thx Second, It's not right. You can run it using Wine - I already tried it and it works perfect (check this out: http://www.wine-reviews.net/applications/google-sketchup-6-on-linux-and-freebsd-with-wine.html ). You have two versions: Free and Commercial - try and decide the one you

Re: Planning a room using Dia/Kivio

2008-10-08 Thread Ori Idan
Free as in free bear does not mean free. Shlomy talked about free as in free speach. It is not open source as much as I know. So I don't care if I can run it using wine or not. -- Ori Idan On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Eran Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, ok, thx Second, It's not

Re: Planning a room using Dia/Kivio

2008-10-08 Thread Eran Levy
I know exactlly what Shlomi meant. It's not open source. I just suggested - do whatever you want. On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Ori Idan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Free as in free bear does not mean free. Shlomy talked about free as in free speach. It is not open source as much as I know.

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: As for the phone deal, it's ok, but there are better and cheaper deals depending on what call quality you want, and where you want to call. To replace a BEZEQ line, it's a good deal and does not use their infrastructure. Thanks for the

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: First of all, you do not want to use DHCP. The actual name of what is hapening is called MPLS and it to be blunt sucks. The extra overhead of a pptp or more likely l2tp tunnel is IMHO worth it, although if you are at the edge of

Re: Planning a room using Dia/Kivio

2008-10-08 Thread Eran Levy
sure, my pleasure, it's called: Google Sketchup: http://sketchup.google.com/ It allows you to draw house/rooms/etc in 3D. Brilliant application. thx Eran On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Eran Levy wrote: Check the new app from

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 11:43:55AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: easier to manage and use /etc/hosts), I added the MAC addresses of all machines to the reserved IP address list and specified what IP to give each. This gives me 2 advantages: 1 - constant IPs on the network 2 - If needed, I can

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 11:03:25AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: As for reliability, service and speed, the best thing to do is to call HOT and ask for their business internet sales office. They offer higher speeds, better reliabilty and they will come and fix problems a lot better and a

Re: Planning a room using Dia/Kivio

2008-10-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Eran! On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Eran Levy wrote: sure, my pleasure, it's called: Google Sketchup: http://sketchup.google.com/ It allows you to draw house/rooms/etc in 3D. Brilliant application. thx Eran First of all - please avoid top-posting. Now, Google Sketchup is proprietary,

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 09:20:58AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Thanks, but maybe my question wasn't clear enough. In the past, I did pptp and NAT on my Linux box and shared my internet connection over the entire network. Since I bought an ADSL router from Bezek, everything is literaly plug

Re: Planning a room using Dia/Kivio

2008-10-08 Thread Meir Michanie
No Linux version. - Original Message - Subject: Re: Planning a room using Dia/Kivio From: Eran Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Oren Held [EMAIL PROTECTED],Linux-IL linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Date: 08-10-2008 10:43 sure, my pleasure, it's called: Google

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 21:36 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:03 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: First of all, you do not want to use DHCP. The actual name of what is hapening is called MPLS and it to be blunt sucks. The extra overhead of a pptp or more likely l2tp

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:03 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: First of all, you do not want to use DHCP. The actual name of what is hapening is called MPLS and it to be blunt sucks. The extra overhead of a pptp or more likely l2tp tunnel is IMHO worth it, although if you are at the edge of

Re: OpenMoko freerunner warning

2008-10-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Arie, (Disclosure: I work for Openmoko) Many people have purchased from Koolu with fine results. We also have vendors in Europe which might be closer for you. You are welcome to join the Openmoko community mailing list where you can ask these questions. We have many Israeli participants.