Re: Response...

2001-12-11 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
For the Newbie it seems that Linux is harder then windows when it comes to install program or maintain the system. I think the revolution should start at the companies that will switch their workstations/servers with Linux to avoid the fee to Microsoft. Then the companies workers will start to c

Re: Two mouses in X.

2001-12-11 Thread The Rabbit of Vugluskr
Thanks ;-) Max. On Wednesday 12 December 2001 00:18, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001, The Rabbit of Vugluskr wrote about "Two mouses in X.": > > IBM laptop with "native" mouse (I don't remember how it's called, the red > > button people sometimes call "dagdegan":-)) recognized as Gener

Re: Making linux look harder than it is, Response

2001-12-11 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
> > By doing so, Microsoft has achieved an important target: The user doesn't > really need to know how the program works in order to start working with > it. This is the very thing that (IMHO) wasn't achieved on Linux. > The stupid user approach: a program that does not work on the first run, is

Re: Unpack/Extract a file

2001-12-11 Thread Diego G. Iastrubni
On 2001 December 11 &bet;,Tuesday 04:29, you wrote: (deleted my orrors spelling... does anybody know how to configure kmail to check for spelling orrors each time I press ctrl-enter?) > Well, WinCommandder is a really good program, but it is not free, so I > guess you can't port it yourself. I wa

Re: strange free output

2001-12-11 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Schlomo Schapiro wrote: > Hi, > > I just now got my new AMD Athlon 1600+ w/ 512MB RAM and free gives this > output: > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem:514032 208576 305456 0 48824 178956 > -/+

Re: Two mouses in X.

2001-12-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001, The Rabbit of Vugluskr wrote about "Two mouses in X.": > IBM laptop with "native" mouse (I don't remember how it's called, the red > button people sometimes call "dagdegan":-)) recognized as Generic PS/2 > (/dev/psaux) and USB mouse (/dev/input/mice). X works perfectly with

Two mouses in X.

2001-12-11 Thread The Rabbit of Vugluskr
Hi list. Sorry for bothering you guys, but here is another problem: IBM laptop with "native" mouse (I don't remember how it's called, the red button people sometimes call "dagdegan":-)) recognized as Generic PS/2 (/dev/psaux) and USB mouse (/dev/input/mice). X works perfectly with both, of cous

Re: New SendSMS released

2001-12-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote about "New SendSMS released": > A new version 2.5 of SendSMS has been released. Oof, those SMS providers can't let me have a single restful evening :( Today, around 14:00, Orange-Walla changed their site too, forcing me to release yet another version of Se

Re: Response...

2001-12-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Unkillable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You still have to learn the basic commands ! Not really. The modern GUIs work just as well as Windows or better. > after all, you have to remember that linux is command-line based... > but windows is more friendly to the user, and you dont allways have t

Response...

2001-12-11 Thread Unkillable
You still have to learn the basic commands ! after all, you have to remember that linux is command-line based... but windows is more friendly to the user, and you dont allways have to open shell window to perform an action, for example to use 'grep' you need to use the commandline, my point is

Re: Making Linux Look Harder Than What It Is (or: Why do newbies stillhave a hard time after a 'deep' explanation?)

2001-12-11 Thread Alex Chudnovsky
On Monday 10 December 2001 00:57, Ez-Aton wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Shlomi Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Ez-Aton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Adir Abraham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Orr Dunkelman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Orna Agmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > "Alon Altman" <[EMAIL P

Re: Squid conf.

2001-12-11 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
Actually more and more FTP clients (not webbrowsers) do support ftp-over-httpd. Even the famous lftp command line client does it well. Schlomo On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Maxim Kryachko wrote: > Got the point, tnx. > > Max > > On Monday 10 December 2001 18:01, Evgeny Popov wrote: > > Will not work. Sq

Re: porting from outlook

2001-12-11 Thread Erez Doron
although evolution has the look and feel of outlook, AFAIK it does not have shared calanders and does not support hebrew. ( I would be happy to be corrected on this :-) regards erez. Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > Also, i need a program that have strong mailing rules like in > > outlook that can a

Re: porting from outlook

2001-12-11 Thread Hetz Ben-Hamo
Or if you could wait a month or so, Ximian will release (for money) their Ximian connector and I assume they'll have some import for this... And for those who are thinking to purchase Ximian connector (with their announced price) I would strongly suggest to wait. As far as I know there are 3 c

Re: porting from outlook

2001-12-11 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
I tried to install Open Mail. It was hard to Install Hard to understand / configure and slow for even 1 user ! I recently checked KOrganizer and it sure look hot. I hope that Hebrew on KDE3 with the upcoming Korganizer 3 which suppose to support some kind of server ( like exchange ) will give a

RE: porting from outlook

2001-12-11 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
> I believe that some subscribers of this list had experience with HP > Open Mail, which may be a (better than nothing) solution. It isn't not a solution (and maybe not even better then nothing). At least that was my experience with it. I do know that HP stopped supporting it though. Gilad. -

RE: porting from outlook

2001-12-11 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
> Also, i need a program that have strong mailing rules like in > outlook that can also read and write hebrew prefferably in X. > Any one have a solution that will fit the above description? Personally I think the notion of Outlook having strong rules is quite funny, having come to know procmai

Re: porting from outlook

2001-12-11 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
Oh yes, I tried it. If you can, don't touch it. Also, it might be discontinued now (I heard such a rumor some time ago). Schlomo On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Eli Marmor wrote: > I believe that some subscribers of this list had experience with HP > Open Mail, which may be a (better than nothing) solut

strange free output

2001-12-11 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
Hi, I just now got my new AMD Athlon 1600+ w/ 512MB RAM and free gives this output: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:514032 208576 305456 0 48824 178956 -/+ buffers/cache: 18014398509462780 533236 Swap: 52530

Re: porting from outlook

2001-12-11 Thread Eli Marmor
I believe that some subscribers of this list had experience with HP Open Mail, which may be a (better than nothing) solution. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020

RE: porting from outlook

2001-12-11 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Once I had a similar problem with mail in Outlook, and wrote a small Perl script which exports the mail to text files, and from there on you can use Mail::Folder or whatever to process it and store in mailboxes accessible from linux programs. Several issues however: 1. You need Perl installed on

porting from outlook

2001-12-11 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Hi all, I have gigs of archives of email messages over the years which are on pst files and are easy for me to search and backup. The thing is, that i want to work on linux more, and in order to do that i need to port my email system to another format while still maintaining the directory struc

Re: Making linux look harder than it is, Response

2001-12-11 Thread Dani Arbel
Boris, Your opinion about textual interface and command line is basicaly wrong. The point is that in the *nix OS , the command line and terminal is just the default input/output devices. When a program/utility/whatever is writen and uses the default io devices it becomes extremly flexible: you can

Re: Making Linux Look Harder Than What It Is (or: Why do newbies still have a hard time after a 'deep' explanation?)

2001-12-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > What about Mozilla? The Best browser for Linux (and any >>other OS as >> well). >>>And heaviest (even comparing to IE). It has many problems, yet, >>> I'll also note that I don't think it is inherently heavier than IE. Only problem is that you cann

RE: Making Linux Look Harder Than What It Is (or: Why do newbies still have a hard time after a 'deep' explanation?)

2001-12-11 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
> > > What about Mozilla? The Best browser for Linux (and any > other OS as > > > well). > > > > > And heaviest (even comparing to IE). It has many problems, yet, > and, still, > > sux. > > For the record, although this was not doubt true for previous versions, IMHO the latest version of M

RE: Making linux look harder than it is, Response

2001-12-11 Thread Isaac Aaron
I'm not going to defend "Unkillable"'s opinion, but over the time I have established an opinion about the various Linux GUI implementations. On Linux, 99% of the server applications take their configuration from a config file. This requires you to do one of the following: 1. Get to know what the