Re: StarOffice - Israeli mirror? RPM?

2002-01-13 Thread Herouth Maoz
Regarding Staroffice 5.2 installation, here are the details from the book - I did it and it worked well. Note my comments below. [begin quote] Installation Overview: You'll be installing StarOffice on the server, then running a setup file that gets installed on the server, to install

Problem with installation and SCSI CD/R.

2002-01-13 Thread Herouth Maoz
Hi. I have a problem installing Suse 7.3 on my machine (which had suse 7.0). I should say on the outset that this is a PPC machine, but I think the problem is probably not CPU-related, so maybe the experience of people here may help. Basically, I have an internal IDE hard disk (on which I

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Eli Marmor
Matitiahu Allouche wrote: - does it import Hebrew winWord? Answer: yes! I think IBM deserves a big Shkoyech (cheers? thanks?) for the whole project, even without this critical feature. And this specific feature, is the most important, at least in my humble opinion. Just think about the

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002, Eli Marmor wrote about Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew: - does it import Hebrew winWord? Answer: yes! .. And this specific feature, is the most important, at least in my humble opinion. Just think about the possibilities that this feature opens... It opens the

Re: StarOffice - Israeli mirror? RPM?

2002-01-13 Thread Jeremy Hoyland
I also got hit with this when I tried installing staroffice. Here is a tried-and-tested way of installing staroffice on your linux machine in a normal, unix-like way: 1. su to root 2. run the installation with the -net option, and install in (say) /opt/staroffice6.0 (N.B. Ignore any components

RE: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Dvir Volk
Richard Stallman of GNU just published an interesting article on newsforge on the subject, titled We can put an end to Word attachments. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/10/1711238mode=thread and by the way, KWord can edit hebrew MSWord documents rather decently. Dvir Volk

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: I always get people sending me emails with these kinds of formats. I try to convince these people that the formats they are using are formats for *editing*, and since I don't intend to edit the stuff they send me, they should use some sort of hardcopy

RE: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Dvir Volk wrote: Richard Stallman of GNU just published an interesting article on newsforge on the subject, titled We can put an end to Word attachments. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/10/1711238mode=thread and by the way, KWord can edit hebrew MSWord

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Dvir Volk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and by the way, KWord can edit hebrew MSWord documents rather decently. I never managed as much as open Word documents (English) with KWord. If I did, I would not have bothered with StarOffice, most probably... Incidentally, what is the best Linux tool to

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It opens the possibility that now that you can finally read Hebrew Word files, some annoying Microsoft-addict will send you a Hebrew Powerpoint, MS-Project, or whatever kind of file that you still cannot read ;) Or, as reported on /. recently, a ZIP

Orange SMS from linux

2002-01-13 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hi, Is there currently a working SMS interface to Orange? I would prefer a linux porgram of course. Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson Bloomberg L.P., BFM (Israel) 2 hours ahead of London, 7 hours ahead of New York. Tel: 972-(0)3-754-1158 Fax 972-(0)3-754-1236 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2002, Eli Marmor wrote about Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew: - does it import Hebrew winWord? Answer: yes! .. And this specific feature, is the most important, at least in my humble opinion. Just think about the possibilities

Re: Orange SMS from linux

2002-01-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about Orange SMS from linux: Is there currently a working SMS interface to Orange? I would prefer a linux porgram of course. Thanks, Geoff. You can try my SendSMS program (it's Perl, and works on Linux of course) from

NFS and VFAT file system :

2002-01-13 Thread Iftach Hyams
RedHat 7.1, FAT32 partition is mounted as /dev/hda6 /data vfat noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,uid=500,gid=8000 0 0 But I can't export it (or more accurate, I can't mount it) while exporting a dirctory under / filesystem works fine. Can anyone reference me ? Thank you, Iftach

RE: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Dvir Volk
and by the way, KWord can edit hebrew MSWord documents rather decently. interesting. it seems like anything I try to load on it (not just Hebrew) explodes, it's not even beta grade. does it save as word at all? because if it saves only as kword, it's not very useful for businesses yet

GeForce2 MX 200 + TV OUT anonymous

2002-01-13 Thread Iftach Hyams
I bought this card from unknown manufacturer - is it matter ? It seem to be running but once I executed OpenGL application (/usr/bin/bounce from mesa-demos) it stacked after few seconds. XF86configuration-4 is (I home) fine - I changed the device to nvidia, removed GLcore module and added glx and

Re: GeForce2 MX 200 + TV OUT anonymous

2002-01-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Iftach, On Sunday 13 January 2002 17:19, Iftach Hyams wrote: I bought this card from unknown manufacturer - is it matter ? It seem to be running but once I executed OpenGL application (/usr/bin/bounce from mesa-demos) it stacked after few seconds. XF86configuration-4 is (I home) fine - I

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Dvir, I respect MR. Stallman opinion, but I still say he's lunatic and I really don't care how much flames I'll get. I'm looking at the real world here in Israel for example - I'm unmployeed and whenever I'm trying to send my CV as a text, HTML or PDF I get shouts from the HR department

Re: Problem with installation and SCSI CD/R.

2002-01-13 Thread Shaul Karl
Hi. I have a problem installing Suse 7.3 on my machine (which had suse 7.0). I should say on the outset that this is a PPC machine, but I think the problem is probably not CPU-related, so maybe the experience of people here may help. Basically, I have an internal IDE hard disk (on which

Re: Problem with installation and SCSI CD/R.

2002-01-13 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: suse 7.0). I should say on the outset that this is a PPC machine, but What is the behavior with MS (in case you have it installed)? well, when you find MSwin for PPC on the shelf, tell me. Herouth: ppc is quite rare in Israel, and you haven't even

RE: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Dvir Volk
Hi about stallman's article - as always, he's not a lunatic but an idealist. but the anti-word movement must come from the users, even MS users: personally, i hate word attachments mainly because they are big and tend to eat out my memory when i work with win98 on my office computer. i edit

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi Dvir, I respect MR. Stallman opinion, but I still say he's lunatic and I really don't care how much flames I'll get. I'm looking at the real world here in Israel for example - I'm unmployeed and whenever I'm trying to send my CV as a text, HTML

Re: Problem with installation and SCSI CD/R.

2002-01-13 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hi! I have A SCSI CDRW on a regular Intell system with SuSE 7.3. I did the text mode install with yast1 from diskette. After the inital boot, it asks if you have any modules to install. Well, you sure do. Say yes, and you are asked to use the second diskette to select modules for your SCSI

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Uri Bruck
Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: What about RTF? It generally takes more place (due to a very inefficient encoding of hebrew. Something in the lines of quoted-printable) but it is readable by any decent word processor (word95/7/0/xp,

Looking to buy: cat5 cable + a crimping tool + RJ45 (male) connectors?

2002-01-13 Thread Shaul Karl
Networking hardware: Is there someone on this list who would like to sell me some of the above stuff? I am aware to the `Where to buy home network' thread from mid September (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Linux/maillists/01/09/msg00211.html). I just hope that buying ODAFIM from people

RE: Looking to buy: cat5 cable + a crimping tool + RJ45 (male) connectors?

2002-01-13 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Shaul, Har Tzion street near Central Bus Station in T.A. has a number of a small electronics shops which have everything you need, and at decent prices (comparing to computer shops). You may want to shop there before looking elsewhere. Haim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]