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


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