Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Oded Arbel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 áéåí ùìéùé, 8 áàå÷èåáø 2002, 23:11, Arie Folger ëúá òì 'Re: A disturbing article...': On Tuesday 08 October 2002 02:05, Michael Sternberg wrote: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1883 The above article is about somebody who had a terrible

Re: TAU's response to the complaint about one of the faculties website

2002-10-12 Thread Oded Arbel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 áéåí øáéòé, 9 áàå÷èåáø 2002, 00:31, Nadav Har'El ëúá òì 'Re: TAU's response to the complaint about one of the faculties website': Is viewing RTF really easier than viewing DOC on Linux? I can view DOC files on a text terminal using antiword (and

RE: *OT*wired got a makeover

2002-10-12 Thread Tzahi Fadida
message sent. here is the message i sent. not really eloquent or anything, but i think its a start. simple and to the point: Hello, I am a concerned Israeli surfer. Why is your site not w3c compliant? the forum section in the end of an article cannot be seen in mozilla which is also the engine of

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Guy Cohen
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:33:13PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: most for the fact that a lot of user interactivity and system integrity aspects in Linux in general and Red Hat specificly suck nuts. Heh. Thats total bs. If you can't configure it properly, don't blame the system.

[Slightly OT] Itanium CPU time for rent?

2002-10-12 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
I wonder - is there anywhere a machine running the already-not-so-new Itanium processor, where I can have (rent?) login access? I would like to do some benchmarking. Thanks, Dan. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: open source law?

2002-10-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote about Re: open source law?: If you misunderstood their open source definition, don't feel bad: that's *Exactly* what Perens and his friends meant to do (see the Remaking the meme chapter in O'Reilly's Peer to Peer book). They deliberately chose a term

Re: [Slightly OT] Itanium CPU time for rent?

2002-10-12 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 10/12/2002 7:23 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: I wonder - is there anywhere a machine running the already-not-so-new Itanium processor, where I can have (rent?) login access? I would like to do some benchmarking. Compaq/HP provides testing accounts on their servers, see

online gamers

2002-10-12 Thread Amir Tal
hi, I've became a games addict. yes, i know, i am 30 years old - so what ? i must admit that Quake III Arena and Unreal 2003 really grubbed me, and as a person that didn't spend to much time with computer games, i am finding myself in front of those games for hours...and hoursand hours.

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Oded Arbel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 áùáú, 12 áàå÷èåáø 2002, 17:38, Guy Cohen ëúá òì 'Re: A disturbing article...': On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:33:13PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: most for the fact that a lot of user interactivity and system integrity aspects in Linux in general and Red

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi List, I tend to concur with Oded, The first problem is that Linux advocates usually do not understand just how unusable and inappropriate Linux is for the average person, which leads to the second problem, that there is no Linux distribution that works out-of-the-box like Windows does. This

Re: OpenOffice.org Hebrew

2002-10-12 Thread Barak Kaufman
no hebrew support in the Impress module :( hopefully yet :) On Wednesday 09 October 2002 09:08, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Amir Tal wrote: this is the download page at openoffice.org : http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.0.1/index.html#localizations That version still

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Mark Veltzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 October 2002 21:41, you wrote: Hi List, I tend to concur with Oded, The first problem is that Linux advocates usually do not understand just how unusable and inappropriate Linux is for the average person, which leads to the second

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Guy Cohen
here here. Computers are to be *used* by users and installed/configured by the professionals. Even linux :) On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:17:36AM +0200, Mark Veltzer wrote: On Saturday 12 October 2002 21:41, you wrote: Hi List, I tend to concur with Oded, The first problem is that Linux

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Oleg Kobets
You know, I agree with you a 100%. As one who was the tech guy that did install windows on new / old computers I can testify that it is the case. Only computer literate people (read: proffesionals) actually do the installation by themselfes, other people go to shops and ask to repair / reinstall

RE: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Eytan Heidingsfeld
I disagree. At my company I've installed many formatted machine with windows and had a very easy time performing the installation including setting up servers connecting to the network etc. I just recently installed linux at home and I still can't get ADSL to work on it (a whole week playing

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002, Mark Veltzer wrote about Re: A disturbing article...: Actually Linux works much better out of the box than windows *** IF *** you compare two machine which come scratched (nothing on the hard drive). But since machines don't come that way it *** looks *** like windows is

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Oron Peled
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 21:41:15 +0200 (IST) Jonathan Ben Avraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first problem is that Linux advocates usually do not understand just how unusable and inappropriate Linux is for the average person, which The guy in the story had most problems in *configuring* Linux,

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Oron Peled
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:00:37 +0200 Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I use the system's configuration program to switch to another desktop and then switch back - I do expect to get back to exactly the same desktop I left, otherwise its a bug. Definitely. A system that works 100% after

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Oded Arbel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 áéåí øàùåï, 13 áàå÷èåáø 2002, 00:17, Mark Veltzer ëúá òì 'Re: A disturbing article...': I beg to differ. I willing to wager that 90% of windows users NEVER install their operating systems. Either the sys admin at the company they are at does it

Re: A disturbing article...

2002-10-12 Thread Oded Arbel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 áéåí øàùåï, 13 áàå÷èåáø 2002, 00:33, Oron Peled ëúá òì 'Re: A disturbing article...': A system that works 100% after you read the total of two large instruction books and spend several days writing configuration files still sucks. Many

Re: XF86Config problem

2002-10-12 Thread Stiven Andre
From: Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Daniel Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XF86Config problem Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:34:29 +0200 On Tuesday 08 October 2002 06:25 pm, Daniel Pearson wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002, Amir Tal [EMAIL