GRUB help

2005-07-11 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
Hi. I had my machine at home set up with GRUB to boot to either: - Linux - Windows 2000 - XP home edition Windows 2000 and XP were on the first hard disk (hd0 in GRUB-speak), and Linux was on a separate disk. For Windows 2000 I was using: rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 For

Hebrew Support in Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
In recent years, Hebrew support in Linux has vastly improved. But still, several pieces of the big picture remain missing. I sat down and wrote in an orderly fashion my thoughts on what's missing, but since I did so in Hebrew, I sent it to the ivrix-discuss and [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists, but not to

Re: Hebrew Support in Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, 1. Hebrew in a popular general-purpose Linux distribution I think that Hebrew support in Linux is quite good these days. There are some issues (ahhm, Thunderbird/Mozilla/Firefox hebrew text composition has some issues, and I wish the guys from IBM who wrote it will take care of it..), but

Re: Hebrew Support in Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about Re: Hebrew Support in Linux: Hi, 1. Hebrew in a popular general-purpose Linux distribution I think that Hebrew support in Linux is quite good these days. There are some issues (ahhm, Thunderbird/Mozilla/Firefox hebrew text composition has

Israeli Pythoneers Meeting at this Thursday - 14/July

2005-07-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! On Thursday 14/July there will be an Israeli Pythoneers meeting. We meet at Azrieli Center, Tel Aviv at 18:00 (or at your option later), and talk, eat, shop, etc. More information can be found at the wiki: http://www.python.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/Meeting_14_July_2005 Regards,

Re: Reminder: Lightning Talks at Telux Today

2005-07-11 Thread Orna Agmon
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Shlomi Fish wrote: any chance you'll tell us what the topics will be? Well, due to the nature of the event (the fact that those who attend volunteer to give a presentation on a topic that's on their minds) and the fact that we did not heavily publicize it a long time

Re: Hebrew Support in Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Diego Iastrubni
ביום שני, 11 ביולי 2005, 12:06, כתבת: This is exactly what I said (please read the entire article I liked to). Hebrew support in invidual applications and widgets is already quite good. But, the problem is integration in a *distribution*. An Israeli user would like Hebrew to be enabled

Re: Hebrew Support in Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Diego Iastrubni
ביום שני, 11 ביולי 2005, 14:03, כתבת: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005, Diego Iastrubni wrote about Re: Hebrew Support in Linux: Nadav, whats wrong with the approach of Mandrake/Mandriva? You choose the language at the install and you have hebrew all the way to your desktop (even booting messages are

Re: Hebrew Support in Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 02:03:41PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005, Diego Iastrubni wrote about Re: Hebrew Support in Linux: Nadav, whats wrong with the approach of Mandrake/Mandriva? You choose the language at the install and you have hebrew all the way to your desktop

Re: Hebrew Support in Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Diego Iastrubni
ביום שני, 11 ביולי 2005, 14:55, נכתב על ידי Tzafrir Cohen: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 02:31:19PM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: ביום שני, 11 ביולי 2005, 14:03, נדב כתב: I haven't seen anything even close in Debian (you can apt-get specific Hebrew packages, but you have to know what to install

Re: Hebrew Support in Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
By the way, in Fedora Core 4, the OpenOffice 2 Hebrew Language Pack contains not just the translations (which I don't use), but also a Hebrew spell-checker (based on Hspell's data, of course). Works beautifully. On Mon, Jul 11, 2005, Diego Iastrubni wrote about Re: Hebrew Support in Linux: If

Re: Looking for an open source solution for generating cross platform printable documents

2005-07-11 Thread Youval Bronicki
Thanks for mentioning OpenOffice (I hadn't considered it as a conversion engine). It looks like a good fit. JooReports (http://jooreports.sourceforge.net) seems to have already done the Java integration I also need in my project. Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 10:56:48PM

[SOLVED] Openoffice and unicode and windows 98

2005-07-11 Thread Aviram Jenik
Ok. Here's a workaround to what seems to be an openoffice bug (and might have very little to do with Windows 98 or unicode). Here's a summary of the problem: On Thursday 30 June 2005 13:21, Aviram Jenik wrote: - Take a Hebrew excel file created on Windows 98 - edit it with Openoffice on Linux

Looking for an open source solution for generating cross platform printable documents

2005-07-11 Thread Youval Bronicki
Hello all, [This is not strictly a Linux question. I hope it will be of interest to the list.] I am developing an enterprise application that will generate various business documents (invoices, purchase orders, RFQs). The documents should be printable (and pretty), and also be available

Re: Looking for an open source solution for generating cross platform printable documents

2005-07-11 Thread Danny Lieberman
Yuval You can do this in PHP . We just did an application for generating business documents (proposals etc...) for a call center that use SugarCRM with Firefox, XML, templates and a merge with the mysql db, the output from browser prints to PDF Creator which is then transferred to a FaxoIP

Re: my new Palm Zire 72

2005-07-11 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 09:31:53PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: (Snipped Bluetooth question - I never used Bluetooth) I already read your later message about 95% success. So :-). am also pretty sure it's a (partly) physical problem of the connection, not (only) a software one. I doubt that.

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2005-07-11 Thread ga44
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Strange C-code behavior with pipes

2005-07-11 Thread Alon Altman
Hi, I have some strange behavior of a C program. The code is simple: #include stdio.h int main(void) { char input[255]; printf(Hello\n); gets(input); return 0; } When I compile this into a file called prog and then run: ./prog|cat I see that Hello is not printed until I give it

Re: Strange C-code behavior with pipes

2005-07-11 Thread Peter
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Alon Altman wrote: Hi, I have some strange behavior of a C program. The code is simple: #include stdio.h int main(void) { char input[255]; printf(Hello\n); gets(input); return 0; } When I compile this into a file called prog and then run: ./prog|cat I see that

Re: Strange C-code behavior with pipes

2005-07-11 Thread Alon Altman
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Peter wrote: add fflush(stdout); after printf. The buffer is related to the stream stdout. You can turn it of using setvbuf() and friends. Don't do it if you don't have to. The pipes are set up by the shell and may defeat what you are trying to do with flush and setvbuf().