On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 07:40, Faraj Meir wrote: > > > > > I'd guess this a font issue not a browser issue...Mozilla / Galeon at > > least seem to be good at rendering non-Roman characters when they > > actually exist in the font... > So it will be good to put good hebrew font , so it will work like > in IE for windows . > Because , Than I couldn't switch to windows just to read hebrew news ;-)
Yep. After writing that email, I tested the page you mentioned with Galeon. I use Arial and Times New Roman as my default fonts, and it loaded and displayed fine - all Hebrew characters, none of those placeholder boxes. > > Could this be a DMA issue? Check whether DMA is turned on on your drives > > using hdparm. > > It's not turn on by default ? > why not to turn it when the drive support the option? Short answer, I don't know. I think it's turned on by default on most hard drives, but it's still worth checking with the hdparm program. It's turned off on a lot of CD/DVD devices, in MDK 9.0. > > This is a legal issue. Nothing can really be done about it. Simply put, > > putting DVD playing functionality in the main distribution would be > > illegal in the USA, and entail splitting up the distribution into US and > > non-US versions. The slowness again sounds likely to be down to DMA > > problems. Enable DMA on your DVD drive. > > Yep , Plf is a good solution when tested and working easiest than now , > there are to many dependances between plf and contrib .... I agree with that. > > I don't believe it's really possible to have too MANY programs. Try > > booting a vanilla copy of Windows to see what too FEW programs looks > > like. :) > Not what I really whanted to tell , I think there are to many differents > options > NOW for a single type of programs , new user are quite lost with them. > > > > That's ridiculous and counter-intuitive. And defining the "commonly > > accepted best application" isn't exactly easy. > I know but it will be good to try to do this since a user that want to for > example use a > messenger apps will have more than 6 apps and will have to try each one and > play with options for , > for example found the correct one for msn or ICq .... > If for example everybuddy was the only messenger apps in the menu ans two > down arrows like in windows menu give others poss . it will be easiest to > found "better suited" apps and commonly used one . But personally I'd say Gaim's a far better app than Everybuddy. Who's to pick which is the "default"? I really don't like the Microsoft "let's hide the menu from you" UI decision. -- adamw
