Re: [r...@gnu.org: Speeches in Israel?]

2011-01-17 Thread Mordecha Behar
He does like it when commercial companies sponsor him, but he is still careful about who he is seen with. Remember, he is a GNU founder, not a Linux founder. There is a difference. I think the best body to sponsor his talks here would be Hamakor, after all, they are the largest (and official) FOSS

Re: [HAIFUX LECTURE] A FOSS Yankee in Microsoft's court - Boaz Goldstein

2011-01-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16 January 2011 22:36, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: At times, we do record Haifux lectures, but I don't think that has been done for a while. This one will not be recorded for obvious reasons. Let me guess - you can't afford to pay the Copyright license, right? ;)

Re: [r...@gnu.org: Speeches in Israel?]

2011-01-17 Thread Uri Even-Chen
2011/1/17 Mordecha Behar mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il: Remember, he is a GNU founder, not a Linux founder. There is a difference. Actually RMS doesn't like the name Linux, and he wants the operating system to be called GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux and not Linux. I attended an open source conference

Re: [r...@gnu.org: Speeches in Israel?]

2011-01-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 17/01/11 10:45, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Actually RMS doesn't like the name Linux, and he wants the operating system to be called GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux and not Linux. How about Linux+GNU? I know, let's try to merge them together. How about Linuxgnu? Maybe make it shorter... Lingnu? Shachar

Re: [Haifux] [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)

2011-01-17 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: Clarification: even though I forwarded this to the list as part of my role as co-webmaster of haifux, and as a service to the community, I strongly join guy's view, and more: Please do not embarrass Haifux/Linux-il

Re: [r...@gnu.org: Speeches in Israel?]

2011-01-17 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:50, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: On 17/01/11 10:45, Uri Even-Chen wrote: Actually RMS doesn't like the name Linux, and he wants the operating system to be called GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux and not Linux. How about Linux+GNU? I know, let's try to merge

Re: [r...@gnu.org: Speeches in Israel?]

2011-01-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 17/01/11 10:52, Uri Even-Chen wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:50, Shachar Shemeshshac...@shemesh.biz wrote: Lingnu? Ask RMS if he likes this name for the operating system... I'm afraid there is already a commercial company by that name (not to mention a few Anime characters,

Re: [Haifux] [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)

2011-01-17 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: Clarification: even though I forwarded this to the list as part of my role as co-webmaster of haifux, and as a service to the community, I

Re: [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)

2011-01-17 Thread Gabor Szabo
So this is yet another show that is trying to reinforce the stereotype that girls need to be beautiful and stupid while guys need to be clever. Do they also pick the girls to be blond? Or do they run the show with half of the beauties being male for half of the geeks who are female? I have a

Re: [Haifux] [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)

2011-01-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:28, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: I have a (probably unfounded) hope that guys on the linux lists will look for other things in women than just their external (!) beauty. Of course, if they can't cook then they're right out! Seriously, though, a production

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] A FOSS Yankee in Microsoft's court - Boaz Goldstein

2011-01-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:18, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 January 2011 22:36, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: At times, we do record Haifux lectures, but I don't think that has been done for a while. This one will not be recorded for obvious reasons. Let me

Re: new SI1452 keyboard layout

2011-01-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 05:11, Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz wrote: Dotan, I'd ask you constructive questions, but as you've obviously did not read the comment thread on my blog (or you wouldn't say these incorrect things), I can't. Please attempt at being informed before passing

Re: [Haifux] [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)

2011-01-17 Thread Shachar Raindel
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:28, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: I have a (probably unfounded) hope that guys on the linux lists will look for other things in women than just their external (!) beauty. Of course,

Re: [Haifux] [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)

2011-01-17 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:08, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: Clarification: even though I forwarded this to the list as

Re: [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)

2011-01-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 17/01/11 11:28, Gabor Szabo wrote: So this is yet another show that is trying to reinforce the stereotype that girls need to be beautiful and stupid while guys need to be clever. Do they also pick the girls to be blond? Or do they run the show with half of the beauties being male for half

Re: [Haifux] [OT][NON-JOB OFFER] Beauty and the Geek 3 (Channel 10)

2011-01-17 Thread Mordecha Behar
חנונים are nerds, there's a difference. http://www.nerdist.com/2010/03/geeknerddorkdweeb-venn-diagram/ I think what people object to here (or at least what I object to) is the entire premise of the whole show. There are a few base assumptions here which are, imo, not necessarily true: 1. All

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] A FOSS Yankee in Microsoft's court - Boaz Goldstein

2011-01-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 17 January 2011 20:46, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:18, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 January 2011 22:36, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: At times, we do record Haifux lectures, but I don't think that has been done for a

Sending hebrew mails from PHP to Outlook

2011-01-17 Thread Ori Idan
I am sending HTML mail in Hebrew from a server running Ubuntu 10.4 and PHP 5.3.2 When sending the mail as UTF-8 with the header set to Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 the mails are read as gibrish. When converting to windows-1255 (and changing the Content-type header) the hebrew received Ok

Re: Sending hebrew mails from PHP to Outlook

2011-01-17 Thread ik
It's a known bug of Outlookhttp://idkn.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/outlook-%D7%90%D7%95%D7%99%D7%99%D7%91-%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8/that was never fixed. BTW, you should store non us-ascii as base64 string, and place it as part in the email afaik. Ido LINESIP - Opening the source for

Re: Sending hebrew mails from PHP to Outlook

2011-01-17 Thread shimi
2011/1/17 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il I am sending HTML mail in Hebrew from a server running Ubuntu 10.4 and PHP 5.3.2 When sending the mail as UTF-8 with the header set to Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 the mails are read as gibrish. When converting to windows-1255 (and changing

Re: Sending hebrew mails from PHP to Outlook

2011-01-17 Thread David Ronkin
Try to use charset=iso-8859-8 instead (it's more correct for hebrew i think). David 2011/1/17 shimi linux...@shimi.net 2011/1/17 Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il I am sending HTML mail in Hebrew from a server running Ubuntu 10.4 and PHP 5.3.2 When sending the mail as UTF-8 with the header

Re: Sending hebrew mails from PHP to Outlook

2011-01-17 Thread Ori Idan
When sending with charset=windows-1255 it works. The problem was that the headers where terminated with \r\n instead of \n only. As for the UTF-8 problem, I am not going to solve it now. Windows-1255 is enough for the customer. Again spending hours of work because of Microsoft bugs. -- Ori Idan

Re: [r...@gnu.org: Speeches in Israel?]

2011-01-17 Thread Baruch Even
Debian is already called Debian GNU/Linux as well as Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and Debian GNU/Hurd. Debian is the name of the project, the distribution is always GNU based with a different kernel. Baruch On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Uri Even-Chen u...@speedy.net wrote: 2011/1/17 Mordecha Behar

Re: instructions how to use BPhone on Linux

2011-01-17 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Few weeks ago I mentioned on this list Bezeq's new service, the BPhone (you can use your number on their VOIP solution), which is available for Windows, Nokia S60 V3, S60 V5 and iPhone. I published a post on my blog (in Hebrew) how to

OLPC needs translation help in Arabic and Hebrew, among others

2011-01-17 Thread Michael Shiloh
-- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 6:08 PM Subject: [Localization] Calling all localizers To: OLPC Localization list localizat...@lists.laptop.org Dear Colleagues, Just about every language (besides Spanish) has

defcon group meeting no 2

2011-01-17 Thread amichay p. k.
Hello all, the local DefCon group intends to meet for the second time today in Tel Aviv. For further details please see: http://dc9723.org/ see you there, amichay. --