Re: Floppy disks at 2021?!

2021-12-24 Thread Uri Bruck
Floppies like these? https://fibersiv.net/threads/pieceinfo.html On 22.12.2021 21:27, Omer Zak wrote: I have a friend who has a PC, which got stuck in the late 1990's. This Ethernet-less and Internet-less PC has old (circa 1997) RedHat Linux installed on it and it uses floppy disks (diskettes)

Re: sms via icq with the new mobile companies

2012-08-07 Thread Uri Bruck
On 08/06/2012 10:39 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Aug 05, 2012, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Re: sms via icq with the new mobile companies": So not only check your bill carefully, but before you start sending lots of free SMSs, make sure it

Re: How to say reference implementation?

2011-03-14 Thread Uri Bruck
On 03/14/2011 11:44 AM, Oron Peled wrote: On Monday, 14 בMarch 2011 10:56:59 Robert Wallner wrote: I'm not a linguist either, but what about מימוש סמך לא רע, מה לגבי מימוש יחוס. שניהם נשמעים טוב. בין שניהם הייתי בוחר על מימוש יחוס. -- Thanks, Uri http://bruck.co.il twitter

Re: How to say reference implementation?

2011-03-14 Thread Uri Bruck
On 03/14/2011 03:04 PM, Uri Bruck wrote: On 03/14/2011 11:44 AM, Oron Peled wrote: On Monday, 14 בMarch 2011 10:56:59 Robert Wallner wrote: I'm not a linguist either, but what about מימוש סמך לא רע, מה לגבי מימוש יחוס. שניהם נשמעים טוב. . בין שניהם הייתי בוחר מימוש יחוס -- Thanks

Re: linux beivrit

2010-07-05 Thread Uri Bruck
On 07/05/2010 04:31 PM, Raz wrote: Hey Nadav When i started i tried to work with open office in Hebrew, but i simply spent too much time trying to fix things, indentation, merging pictures and so on. also, how can ask for people to send me their comments ? I did not see track changes.

Re: How to say in Hebrew intermittent?

2009-10-22 Thread Uri Bruck
Bick's Technical Dictionary offers סירוגי as one of the options It's transparent, due to the obvious relation to לסירוגין. Sound good to me. Dotan Cohen wrote: How to say in Hebrew intermittent? Words such as תקופתי, מקוטע, או לא קבוע do not fit as I am trying to describe a bug to Orange.

Re: eTextBooks (for kids)

2009-10-09 Thread Uri Bruck
Justin wrote: When I left high-school in the capitalist USA in 1994 this was also the process. I can only assume it still is. It's just sensible not to throw out all the books every year. It's not really tied to any political ideology. In Haifa, Israel we have the same system --

jobop - asterisk person

2009-09-09 Thread Uri Bruck
Hi, There's an outfit looking for a full time asterisk person -- Thanks, Uri Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: jobop - asterisk person - ps

2009-09-09 Thread Uri Bruck
Uri Bruck wrote: Hi, There's an outfit looking for a full time asterisk person Contact email - da...@a.co.il I have no further details - please don't reply to me -- Thanks, Uri Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere. ___ Linux-il mailing

Re: problem with xls files to read in open office

2009-05-14 Thread Uri Bruck
This document appears to be in SpreadsheetML The openoffice wiki has a document on this: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SpreadsheetML From a cursory look it looks like OpenOffice 3 is supposed to be able to handle this. sara fink wrote: Regarding the xls files, I just found out that

Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

2009-02-09 Thread Uri Bruck
b...@rymland.com wrote: You may want to start with this: http://www.moital.gov.il/NR/exeres/1A0A7AB5-68D4-4739-801D-44390FEE7A39.htm That's exactly the reason why I haven't done it myself as well. The necessity to appear in court which means taking a day off or something. A few

Re: System stopped wotking with firefox

2007-03-14 Thread Uri Bruck
Zvi Har'El wrote: אכן, בשלב זה, אתר הכללית תומך רק בדפדפנים מסוג אינטרנט אקספלורר של מיקרוסופט מגרסה 5.5 ומעלה. מבדיקות תקופתיות שאנו עורכים על הרגלי הגלישה בישראל עולה כי כ-98% מכלל הגולשים בישראל משתמשים בדפדפן מסוג אינטרנט אקספלורר (הנתונים על הרגלי הגלישה בעולם, אגב, מראים כי 93.7%

Re: System stopped wotking with firefox

2007-03-14 Thread Uri Bruck
comes close to the 93.7% figure given by clalit. That might have been true 4-5 years ago, certainly not today. Uri Bruck wrote: Zvi Har'El wrote: אכן, בשלב זה, אתר הכללית תומך רק בדפדפנים מסוג אינטרנט אקספלורר של מיקרוסופט מגרסה 5.5 ומעלה. מבדיקות תקופתיות שאנו עורכים על הרגלי הגלישה בישראל

Re: MySQL vs. Microsoft Access

2007-02-18 Thread Uri Bruck
Uri Even-Chen wrote: On 2/18/07, Arieh Skliarouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see only-tables conversion as good first step. There is howto on access-mysql conversion: http://www.kitebird.com/articles/access-migrate.html There is a great feature we use with the tables stored in Microsoft

Re: paying Bituach Leumi using Firefox

2006-09-15 Thread Uri Bruck
Eddie Aronovich wrote: This is clear way to start an endless thread to different unrelated issues like what is the real meaning EULA of IE / WIN. I am not a lawyer, but IMHO, the antitrust means something totally different. Beofre someone will think - please, there is no need to bother a lawyer

Re: (OT) OpenOffice Impress to executable

2006-07-20 Thread Uri Bruck
ik wrote: Hi, I'm looking for an idea on how to take an existed OpenOffice Impress file, and convert it into executable, so anyone (depends on the executable format) will be able to use it without installing Impress... I would appreciate any ideas, suggestion or pointing for such subject.

[Fwd: Orit Hazzan on July 3rd's Israel.pm meeting]

2006-06-21 Thread Uri Bruck
Original Message Subject: [Israel.pm] Orit Hazzan on July 3rd's Israel.pm meeting Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:30:35 +0300 (IDT) From: Yona Shlomo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Perl in Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I'm very pleased to announce that in

Re: [YBA] Job Opening

2006-05-17 Thread Uri Bruck
Ori Idan wrote: Free word viewer? yes, free as in free beer. YBA is talking about free software in the sense of free speach. He wants a person to understand the meaning of free software and sending in a free format is one way of showing it. I get that it's About Choice. In your world, it's

Re: [off topic] A new project - automatic translation

2005-11-14 Thread Uri Bruck
Nadav Har'El wrote: And, for an interesting corpus, why not try... the bible? It has been translated into countless languages, and a strict correspondence between the verses has been observed. Of course, some of the translations features some archaic language :-) Hebrew and the 1917 JPS

Re: [off topic] A new project - automatic translation

2005-11-14 Thread Uri Bruck
Uri Even-Chen wrote: I also read the article Translation memory [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_memory] (linked from the articles you sent me). I think the term Translation memory describes what I want to do: I want to create a huge translation memory database of many languages,

Re: [OFFTOPIC] resume translate

2005-10-06 Thread Uri Bruck
Man Gregory wrote: This is my first resume in Israel after aliya and army service, and I don't know what I need to do. I wrote resume in English and then I try to translate I get more words in English that in Hebrew (all programs and OS's names). You can try to transliterate them into

Re: Why most people prefer Windows

2005-10-04 Thread Uri Bruck
Peter wrote: So adding one more program to the mix adds that many more things that can be incompatible. I am no longer following you here: What do you propose ? I wasn't proposing anything. I wrote: Compatibilty with the clients' documents is a one of the major issues. For people who

Re: Why most people prefer Windows

2005-10-04 Thread Uri Bruck
Amos Shapira wrote: On 10/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Uri Even-Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The same problem is with FireFox - it doesn't come with Windows, you have to install it. I know of quite a few people who switched to FireFox but wouldn't switch from

Re: Why most people prefer Windows

2005-10-03 Thread Uri Bruck
Peter wrote: Compatibilty with the clients' documents is a one of the major issues. For people who are painfully aware of compatibility problems between different versions of MS-Word, OpenOffice may not seem very attractive. This isn't just a matter of cost, it's also a matter of the time

Re: Why most people prefer Windows

2005-10-03 Thread Uri Bruck
Peter wrote: I'm telling it as they tell me. People who are aware of the incompatibility between MS Office document versions are more likely to try something else in the hope the document will open somehow. And with OO, it does, even if the formatting is d. The document I receive

Re: Linux, Active Directory and TIMEZONES

2005-09-28 Thread Uri Bruck
Uri Even-Chen wrote: Ira Abramov wrote: that's because MS are a**hes and don't think Israel uses summer clock. Asia/Jerusalem on win machines is GMT+2 year round It's like a thorn in the ass. Every summer I have to enter the control panel of all the computers at home office and change

Re: Linux, Active Directory and TIMEZONES

2005-09-28 Thread Uri Bruck
Amos Shapira wrote: On 9/28/05, Uri Bruck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uri Even-Chen wrote: depend on some assholes at Microass to come up with a solution. They did. Solution 1: http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/WUToys/W95KernelToy/Default.asp Time Zone editor

Re: Linux, Active Directory and TIMEZONES

2005-09-28 Thread Uri Bruck
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Uri Bruck wrote: They did. Solution 1: http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/WUToys/W95KernelToy/Default.asp Time Zone editor. Solution 2: http://lingnu.com/support.html Hold on a sec. This link is up to date as far as the law that passed about

Re: Linux, Active Directory and TIMEZONES

2005-09-28 Thread Uri Bruck
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Uri Bruck wrote: the registry data is specific for each year. Historic data remains untouched. This works for the case of The appointment looked fine when I wrote it a year ago. I want it to keep looking the same No, I'm afraid this statemnet is wrong. OK. I stand

Re: Actcom without a dailer costs more

2005-09-25 Thread Uri Bruck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The copy you got was my first try, before I was subscribed to the list. I then subscribed to the list and posted my message *TWICE* more (second time after I saw that the first one didn't appear for much time). My mail log says iglu mailer got it fine (it said ok)

Re: Debian Political standings

2005-08-27 Thread Uri Bruck
Michael Ben-Nes wrote: Hi Everyone While installing Debian i was asked to choose from which coutry I am. I was suprised that in the country list I found the following entry: Palestinian territories, Occupied Its not that importent but: 1. Does debian need to take a stand in the dispute ? 2.

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-26 Thread Uri Bruck
Stanislav Malyshev wrote: UB That's the everybody's doing it argument. There's a whole of a lot UB of immoral and illegal stuff you can justify with that. Actually, I have hard time thinking about anything illegal and immoral that a lot of people are doing and even more people see nothing bad

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-26 Thread Uri Bruck
Stanislav Malyshev wrote: UB There are a lot of people who believe, as I do, that disrespecting IP is UB immoral. So your presentation of it is misleading, and your question is UB better unasked. OK, they do believe so, so what? Your own argument was based on may more people see nothing

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-25 Thread Uri Bruck
Shlomi Fish wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 23:54, Uri Bruck wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote: do you think it is desirable to enforce a law that prevents people from ripping a CD/eBook/DVD/whatever and sharing it online? Do you think it would be practical? Do you think that it is a crime to do

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-24 Thread Uri Bruck
Shlomi Fish wrote: http://www.advogato.org/article/841.html As an artist, I can testify that making a living out of one's creations plays a very marginal in one's artistic activities. The main motivation is creating something new and getting everybody possible to experience it, and

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-24 Thread Uri Bruck
Shlomi Fish wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 16:44, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:46:27PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Check: http://www.advogato.org/article/841.html This is a very well written article, which attempts to justify software and other intelectual property

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-24 Thread Uri Bruck
Shlomi Fish wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 20:32, Uri Bruck wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 16:44, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:46:27PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Check: http://www.advogato.org/article/841.html This is a very well written

Re: Acting against anti-file-swapping Lawsuits in Israel

2005-05-24 Thread Uri Bruck
Shlomi Fish wrote: do you think it is desirable to enforce a law that prevents people from ripping a CD/eBook/DVD/whatever and sharing it online? Do you think it would be practical? Do you think that it is a crime to do that? Technology advances, and law and philosophy must advance with

Re: Is open source more secure? [was Re: Moving to Linux]

2005-05-14 Thread Uri Bruck
Shlomi Fish wrote: It's bread and circuses in English, AFAIR. Comes from Latin, if I know. Right and Right. http://www.bartleby.com/61/39/B0463950.html -- Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net = To unsubscribe, send mail to

Re: [OT, but so often discussed] www.iaa.gov.il wants IE

2005-03-07 Thread Uri Bruck
Omer Zak wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 00:00 +0200, Oron Peled wrote: Ok, solved. Good work! The answer is that the site tries to set a cookie -- if it get refused -- you get the stupid error message instead of one that ask for enabled cookies. The Web site QA people probably did not cover all

Re: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005

2005-03-02 Thread Uri Bruck
Kovriga, Gregory wrote: Is such a case there are probably better ways to act. Such as sending the letters to: 1. moatsa le tsarhanut 2. there is also government supervision over banks, there should be an address for mails there too... It's done through ha-mefakeakh al ha-bankim the contact info

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-11 Thread Uri Bruck
System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Uri Bruck wrote: The Hod Ami dictionary is online at the John Bryce site: http://www.johnbryce.co.il/milon/index.asp Ely Levy wrote: The Hod Ami dictionary is based on the cooperation between Machon hatkanim and the academy, I think

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-10 Thread Uri Bruck
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2005, Ely Levy wrote about Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users: Talking about openoffice, anyone know how is it translated? Does it use the official machon hatkanim hebrew? Ely, what is Machon Hatkanim Hebrew? Since when is Machon Hatkanim an

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-10 Thread Uri Bruck
The Hod Ami dictionary is online at the John Bryce site: http://www.johnbryce.co.il/milon/index.asp Ely Levy wrote: The Hod Ami dictionary is based on the cooperation between Machon hatkanim and the academy, I think there is also a version on line in the academy site but I couldn't find it. Ely

Re: BLUE MURDER!

2004-11-28 Thread Uri Bruck
Lior Kesos wrote: Isn't this the one that celebrated a 1 yr birthday? Never but ever jinx you're leading server in public mailinglists.. I wonder if guiness supports a linux uptime record ... :) Guiness requires some news report before it accepts anything for consideration. If you get it on the

Re: Electronic elections

2004-11-19 Thread Uri Bruck
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi Please quote only relevant parts, BTW. On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:54:19AM +0200, Honen, Oren wrote: On Wednesday, November 17, 2004 4:56 PM, Evgeny Pinchuk wrote: Even an eye?! What are you gonna do, poke someone's eye out? :P ( this is an implicit YES ) Please read

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Theoretical Israeli Tie

2004-11-18 Thread Uri Bruck
Omer Zak wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 00:13, William Sherwin wrote: So, please tell me, though this is off-topic: if elections were to be held in Israel in which two parties split the vote evenly - 60 Knesset seats for each - and the sides were unwilling to cooperate, how would the government be

Re: [JOB OFFER] Computers + Physics and/or Math Hacker

2004-10-28 Thread Uri Bruck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eli Kara wrote: Working alongside scientists, helping them implement the scientific equations while not neglecting quality, portability, readability, modularity, maintainability, efficiency - all those things Physicists tend to neglect. As a physicist AND a programmer, I

Re: focus site in Linux browser?

2004-10-18 Thread Uri Bruck
Stiven Andre wrote: Hi list. Anyone knows why http://focus.msn.co.il/ doesn't work in any Linux browser? Should I install something to make it work or it's just incompatible :-(? Regards Stiven. An included javascript file for the main page starts with: var xmlDoc = new

Re: osCommerce hebrew translation

2004-09-27 Thread Uri Bruck
There's this on the oscommerce site: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1052/category,7/search,hebrew Amir Hardon wrote: On Sunday 26 September 2004 01:10, Yitzhak Bar Geva wrote: Any updates on OsCommerce in Hebrew? I saw a reference to Zencart, but when I checked their site, there

Re: Reviving and old program to Open-Source

2004-09-01 Thread Uri Bruck
ik wrote: But exactly this advantage is also a disadvantage: Qtext was already beaten once by Microsoft. Maybe this had something to do with it being not as good as Microsoft Word? Remember that when Microsoft announced Word in Hebrew it did not yet have a monopoly. Microsoft Word was simply

Fwd: [ISRAEMPLOY] JOBOPPS + UNIX SYS-ADMIN-freelancer (fwd)

2004-02-10 Thread Uri Bruck
do not reply to me. REply to the address below -- Thanks, Uri - Forwarded message from mickael4973 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 16:19:23 - From: mickael4973 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: mickael4973 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ISRAEMPLOY] JOBOPPS + UNIX

[fwd] [ISRAEMPLOY] JOBOPPS + CENTER + UNIX INFRASTUCTURE TEAM LEADER

2004-02-10 Thread Uri Bruck
[don't reply to me] Please send CV in Hebrew to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Position available for UNIX INFRASTRUCTURE TEAM LEADER. Must have experience in managing at least 5 people for at least 2 years. Must have 3 years practical experience with SUN SOLARIS. Must have 2 years experience in managing

Re: mysql hebrew

2004-01-29 Thread Uri Bruck
Once in phpMyAdmin, set the encoding to one of the Hebrew encodings, and then defining the table. On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Alon Weinstein wrote: Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:40:40PM +0200, Aaron wrote: Hi all, I am creating a mysql database which needs to have

Re: Fw: What's wrong with this code?

2003-11-18 Thread Uri Bruck
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 08:41, Tal, Shachar wrote: It makes it harder, as diffs are examined (by a single person or two people) before introducing code to the main branch. It's possible to obfuscate a backdoor, of course, but harder than

Re: [hackers-il] Ongoing Translation of ESR's Homesteading the Noosphere

2003-08-14 Thread Uri Bruck
I may have missed the beginning of this, where was the translation posted? Shlomi Fish wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote on 2003-08-07: I'll appreciate any help in either translating or proof-reading the translation. E-mail me if you volunteer. I've read

Re: politics at sourceforge hosters.

2003-01-30 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2003, Meir Michanie wrote about RE: politics at sourceforge hosters.: anybody using barak? I got to this site without a hitch. But it does seem strange. http://drip.sourceforge.net/ I got redirected to a

RE: Israeli sites not supporting Linux browsers

2003-01-23 Thread Uri Bruck
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Eddie Aronovich wrote: During RMS talk the feeling of love and help to your community was one of the main issues. Abir is right - stop to hate and start to love. Is that anything like Make love - not war? -- Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net

Re: Rename to GNU/Linux

2003-01-17 Thread Uri Bruck
and then there's The Gnu Song http://www.poppyfields.net/poppy/songs/gnu.html On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: well like the famous song about parat moshe rabenu says pashot likroa la GNU ve hi tavo myad;) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel -- Thanks, Uri

Re: Hebrew word for hacker/hack? (was: RE: Academia LeLashon / hackerjargon)

2003-01-15 Thread Uri Bruck
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Omer Zak wrote: Few ideas: - Tekhadshan/Tekhidush (from Khidushei-Torah; i.e. hacks were invented 2100 years ago!) I'd think older, considering that Hammurabi was the first person known to have compiled code - Targilan/Targil - Mekasem/Kesem or miksam (I was thinking

Re: hebrew sugestion for hacker (was: Re: Academia LeLashon / hacker jargon )

2003-01-15 Thread Uri Bruck
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: hacker - TAHSHAV or TAHSHEVAN hack - TIHSHUV hacked [past] - TIHSHEV Hmm, that sounds a bit too familiar, is it taken already? tikshuv - a compound of tikshoret and mikhshuv. yet another academy word that made it. -- Thanks, Uri

Re: Ha'aretz article regarding RMS

2003-01-14 Thread Uri Bruck
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Arik Baratz wrote: Richard Stallman wrote: Thanks for translating it for me. Does the article really refer to the system the first time as Linux? I'm afraid so. They write Linux in Hebrew, which is Lamed-Yod-Nun-Vav-Kof-Samech. They didn't add GNU. The name is

terminology Q

2003-01-13 Thread Uri Bruck
Hi, What term would you use for proprietary system in Hebrew? -- Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command

Re: article in nana

2003-01-12 Thread Uri Bruck
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Eli Marmor wrote: But at least, the Gnu is in a good company: Another images that were attached to the article, were: RMS with a flute (halilit) That's a recorder, not a flute. flute is 'halil' (aka halil-tzad because of the way it is held) his autograph

Re: RMS Dinner

2003-01-09 Thread Uri Bruck
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=247510contrassID=2subContrassID=13sbSubContrassID=0 I couldn't find it in the English version of haaretz On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Shaul Karl wrote: 1. http://www.haaretz.co.il. 2. Click near the upper left most corner for the English

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-03 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Uri Bruck wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Xavier Gentoo wrote: Unless of course *you* are comfortable that *your* kids are going to be deprived of elementary independent thinking, that is. If you are, I suggest you watch Total

STAROFFICE FREE TO DANISH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

2003-01-03 Thread Uri Bruck
http://listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0301L=edupageD=1T=0P=74 STAROFFICE FREE TO DANISH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS Sun Microsystems has added Denmark to the list of countries in which its StarOffice software package will be made available free for students. Deals had already been

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: Right. Full localization of the working environment the (child) user normally works with is normally needed. Except for English and such programs, that is. And that working environment may be even a dedicated application, in some cases. I

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
Seems like you're advocating the round about route first. Lobbying an MK to put some weight can never the first stage of any process. It's something that should be done only after regular channels fail. On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: I think that if there is a time to push matach on

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: This friend of mine, on the other hand, can now do absolutely nothing with his knowledge of Turbo Pascal This is a claim I find odd. Most of programming is not about learning the syntax of a specific language. and DOS, and yelling But these were the

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On 2 Jan 2003, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Everyone has a choice, of course. I do think that such an attitude is a bad one though. No, not everyone needs to be a rocket scientist. But I don't think you need a rocket scientist to have a basic understanding of how things work. This I can relate

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Victor Zaslavsky wrote: 1. Do not forget support cost - it usually higher for Linux than for Windows (there was appropriate IDC report). Doesn't matter, the numbers are quite diffrent for goverments. 2. I want my kids to be

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: Cause what he would use outside in the world has nothing to do with the things he uses at school in school he learns browesing/office he DOESNT learn how to use windows. browsing and office are the most common uses for windows for non-developers (most

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Xavier Gentoo wrote: Unless of course *you* are comfortable that *your* kids are going to be deprived of elementary independent thinking, that is. If you are, I suggest you watch Total Recall 2070 to see how bright out future is going to be. So someone who chooses MS

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Alon Altman wrote: I think we should try and pass legislation that schools will be forbidden to require the students to purchase closed software to submit their schoolwork. How is that different than requiring students to buy a certain textbook? (In Haifa we rarely did

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: Imagine a country where not only can schools use free software, but kids are actually free to use the same software at home without draining the family's budget. This is not only essential to sick kids, but also useful for parents who cannot afford

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
English: http://www.cet.co.il Hebrew: http://www.cet.ac.il On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: someone knows matach's homepage? i remmebered it once but I can't find it anymore for some weird reason.. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 2 Jan 2003,

Re: OT: Mila Tova on Bank Leumi site and linux/mozilla client

2002-12-26 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Dec 26, 2002, Guy Baruch wrote about OT: Mila Tova on Bank Leumi site and linux/mozilla client: Hello, just a good story for a change, hope it's not too OT. Bank Leumi just recently did a face-lift to their Leumi-Ba-Internet site.

Re: OT: Mila Tova on Bank Leumi site and linux/mozilla client

2002-12-26 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Dec 26, 2002, Uri Bruck wrote about Re: OT: Mila Tova on Bank Leumi site and linux/mozilla client: 1. A company that designs its website with the typical Israeli over- complication and utter disregard to standards and non-IE browsers

Re: A question about Opensource

2002-12-23 Thread Uri Bruck
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On 23 Dec 2002, Meir Michanie wrote: I remember visiting the GNU site and getting lost there. I was searching for the guide: how to register a program as opensource GPL license. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer GPL is a license: it details

Re: IBM Workshop with RMS and T'so in Tel-Aviv and Haifa

2002-12-18 Thread Uri Bruck
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote about Re: IBM Workshop with RMS and T'so in Tel-Aviv and Haifa: be a Jewish Atheist, because Judaism is essentially a peopleship, that the Jewish religion is a small (and unnecessary) part of. If that isn't

Re: Hebrew Lashon Academy

2002-12-08 Thread Uri Bruck
? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Uri Bruck wrote: On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: as for Cookie - the Academy claimes they went to the original definition, when cookie actually came from the cookoo bird which lays

Re: apache2 hebrew issue + solution

2002-10-04 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: On 3/10/2002 Uri Bruck wrote: using html lang=he dir=rtl appears to override the charset header. It would be helpful to mention which browser led to this observation. Personally, I am not aware of this being true for any browser, Worked

Re: apache2 hebrew issue + solution (fwd) - ps

2002-10-04 Thread Uri Bruck
this document too: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#edef-HTML -- Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:15:56 +0300 (EET DST) From: Uri Bruck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matitiahu Allouche [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

Re: apache2 hebrew issue + solution

2002-10-03 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Reuven M. Lerner wrote: Tzafrir == Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tzafrir There are a number of incompatible ways to encode Hebrew Tzafrir (e.g: ISO-8859-8/visual, cp1255/logical and UTF-8). So Tzafrir

[OT] Fw: tzedaka project (fwd)

2002-10-02 Thread Uri Bruck
Hi, This is different than the kind of volunteering usually discussed on the list. Please don't reply to me, but directly to the email in the message. - Original Message - From: jamesoppenheim Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:54 PM Subject: tzedaka project Volunteer(s) needed.

Re: Qtext

2002-09-27 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Matitiahu Allouche [EMAIL PROTECTED] [27/09/02 13:29]: The main problem in a Bidi word processor is not how to transform logical to visual format. As Tzafrir Cohen mentioned, there are a number of libraries available for this purpose, which

Re: Qtext

2002-09-24 Thread Uri Bruck
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi, Of course, this is an important question. I just thought that the first question is whether we have any chance of getting the source. Since you say that someone might possibly fund it, I'll try to dig some more details from the guy when I

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Uri Bruck
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Sep 09, 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption: Yes, but they try to scare us here from small group of not highly-organized terrorists. In this context if the technology is availble

Re: [OT] Looking for jobs

2002-09-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On 2 Sep 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: IANAL, but IIRC US courts have come to a bizarre conclusion that people do not expect the same level of privacy in their electronic communications (such as email) as in their conventional communications (such as regular mail). This is one of the

Re: [OT] Looking for jobs

2002-09-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: So in the U.S. your employer can legaly tap your phone, read your email, etc, in fact mine does. It's a well stated company policy. Surely you don't mean your home phone. The wage-slavery system can only go so far. -- Thanks, Uri

Re: Aligning Several HTML Forms in a table

2002-09-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: Because I want all of them aligned. Something like: [Entry1][Button1] [Entry2][Button2] [Entry3][Button3] [Entry4][Button4] Why use XHTML ? I want the HTML to be standards-compliant. Off the

Re: sorting hebrew in mysql

2002-07-30 Thread Uri Bruck
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Guy Cohen wrote: Hi, I want to sort a mysql table, but the charset in the database is Hebrew. I currently *can not* recompile mysql with Hebrew or start it with --default-character-set=hebrew. The solution i had in mind was to change the appropriate colum from varchar

Re: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset meeting on opensource)

2002-07-17 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, guy keren wrote: On 17 Jul 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I actually paid a bunch of lawyers once to understand a particularly difficult employment contract. It was explained to me at length that the law (in Israel) recognizes non-competition without any explicit

Re: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset meeting on opensource)

2002-07-16 Thread Uri Bruck
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Oron Peled wrote: On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 05:40:29 +0300 (EET DST) Uri Bruck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salk developed the vaccine for polio while working for a university. He worked for a salary. The project was a joint project of several universities, and obviously had

Re: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset meeting on opensource)

2002-07-15 Thread Uri Bruck
On 15 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Somehow, somwhere, somwehn the human race (or part thereof) came up with the weird notions that ideas can be owned. The idea that ideas can be Someone already pointed out that ideas cannot be copyrighted. There is a distinction between an idea, and

RE: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset meeting on opensource)

2002-07-15 Thread Uri Bruck
This one's OT, but since the discussion drifted to AIDS medicine, I'd like to point out this commentary: http://www.time.com/time/2001/aidsinafrica/drugs.html On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote: obviously you did not notice I replied someone. I know the difference between a drug and a

Re: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset meeting on opensource)

2002-07-15 Thread Uri Bruck
On 15 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Oh wait... they did start their research. They did give it for free not just to third world countries but to the entire world. They did manage to stop almost completly a disease that is just as horrible and just as terrible as AIDS and the only

Re: knesset meeting on open source

2002-07-14 Thread Uri Bruck
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Jul 14, 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote about Re: knesset meeting on open source: On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped lots of good comments Nadav, you're preaching to the choir. Why not CC Eitan in the future,

RE: mysql error

2002-05-26 Thread Uri Bruck
I've seen such an error once, and found no good reason for it. Eventually I dumped the table to a text file, dropped it, and recreated it from the dump. The error did not recur. Probably was a nearly corrupt file On Mon, 27 May 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote: The thing is, that the whole thing is

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