Re: Compaq Evo N1015v

2002-12-15 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Christoph Bugel wrote: hmm... as a last option you could try to install something that doesn't require a cdrom. I'ts may not solve the cdrom issue, but at least the rest of linux will work. Suse has a download from FTP option. You can do it with 3 floppies or an 18meg cdrom image. Geoff. --

Re: Compaq Evo N1015v

2002-12-15 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 10:20, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Christoph Bugel wrote: hmm... as a last option you could try to install something that doesn't require a cdrom. I'ts may not solve the cdrom issue, but at least the rest of linux will work. Thank you very much to all that

Re: Compaq Evo N1015v

2002-12-15 Thread guy keren
On 15 Dec 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Thank you very much to all that replied. I was already aware of the possibility to install from HD , floppies or network. Unfortunately, the RedHaT install mailing list post I quoted indicates that all of these have been tried and failed because the

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 01:47:52AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: Can you please expand on the reasons you chose not to incorporate the generated word lists as a language package to some existing spell checker (such as myspell or aspell) and thus making it immidietly useful for end users ? I

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting guy keren, from the post of Sat, 14 Dec: PC Magazine, for example, has done a great job for years, with 22 annual comparisons, per year. One of those comparisons, repeated any year, compared all the printers that were announced that year (more than 100 PER YEAR). These comparisons

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002, Oded Arbel wrote about Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker: Can you please expand on the reasons you chose not to incorporate the generated word lists as a language package to some existing spell checker (such as myspell or aspell) and thus making it immidietly

Re: Compaq Evo N1015v

2002-12-15 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 11:30, guy keren wrote: On 15 Dec 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Thank you very much to all that replied. I was already aware of the possibility to install from HD , floppies or network. Unfortunately, the RedHaT install mailing list post I quoted indicates that all

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Sun, 15 Dec: If you look at hspell.pl you'll see that the code in it is fairly trivial, simply looking up words in word tables generated in advanced (part by hand, part automatically - into which the real brains of this project went), with only

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Eli Marmor
Nadav Har'El wrote: 1. Aspell does not (or at least we didn't figure out how to) support prefixes, so instead of a 125,000 word word list (in this release) we had to multiply this by the number of prefixes (he, shin, etc. - about 20 prefixes in all) and the resulting

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker: are you doing the tests per-word or do you also try to do heuristics about whether words are syntacticly vers, nouns, adjectives and such based on structure/order? The tests are currently per-word -

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Sun, 15 Dec: They where playing in the park, and than it started to reign. (note that the last error - rain/reign, is particularly hard to catch, I see no error there, it's a perfectly correct English sentence. question is if you could fix: Ani

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker: Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Sun, 15 Dec: They where playing in the park, and than it started to reign. (note that the last error - rain/reign, is particularly hard to catch, I see

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote about Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker: nor can it rain). So it started means what hetchil means in Hebrew ... Hem sichaku ba-park, v-pit'om hitchil limloch. And sorry about the major fadichot in my transliterations above :( -- Nadav

Rotal USB ADSL modem - ALE130

2002-12-15 Thread yosi yarchi
Hi All I 've just got ROTAL's ADSL USB modem. I didn't get the old one (ALE070) which proved to work under linux, but newer one, ALE130 (very small size). I couldn't operate it with the provided package. I suspect the reason is that it identifies itself as unknown USB device. Attached the

Re: Rotal USB ADSL modem - ALE130

2002-12-15 Thread Michael Stolovitzsky
On Sunday 15 December 2002 18:55, yosi yarchi wrote: Did you really unplug/replug your modem before launching this script? Hi All I 've just got ROTAL's ADSL USB modem. I didn't get the old one (ALE070) which proved to work under linux, but newer one, ALE130 (very small size). I couldn't

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Alon Altman
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Dec 15, 2002, Oded Arbel wrote about Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker: Can you please expand on the reasons you chose not to incorporate the generated word lists as a language package to some existing spell checker (such as

Re: Rotal USB ADSL modem - ALE130

2002-12-15 Thread yosi yarchi
Of course. I think the problem is that the configuration file knows only ALE070, and build data base only for the appropriate values: /etc/eciadsl/vidpid: 1690/0205 0915/0206 The DOCTOR program looks for those values. In our case, it find the value 211, not 205 or 206, thus report fatal

Re: Rotal USB ADSL modem - ALE130

2002-12-15 Thread Xavier Gentoo
Sorry for the double, my rewriting is screwed up - setting up a profile for somethining else. On Sunday 15 December 2002 19:58, you wrote: On Sunday 15 December 2002 18:55, yosi yarchi wrote: = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: favorite=favourite? umm, ispell (or was it aspell?) complained to me once about coloUr? ach, Americans... damn yankies... The man page of the old spell(1) said in its BUGS section: British spelling was done by an American. I could not find any

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002, Alon Altman wrote about Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker: However, you could suggest a *patch* to aspell which will replace the word-checking routine for Hebrew BTW - Any plans of creating a CPAN module Lingua::HE::Spell (or the All these suggestions

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Eli Marmor
Did you look at the work of Erel Segal (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erelsgl) and his morphologial analyzer? Yes, I did notice his work. But he does not publish anywhere where he got his word lists (and what are their copyright status). Probes sent to him about this issue were not

[OFFTOPIC] ADSL modem advice

2002-12-15 Thread Omer Zak
While this question does not pertain specifically to Linux, I feel that it has the nature of request-for-help rather than a philosophical one. So I don't feel that it would be suitable for Hackers-IL. I am planning to upgrade my Internet connection from ISDN to ADSL. I noticed that Bezeq now

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Oron Peled
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:20:19 +0200 Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: favorite=favourite? umm, ispell (or was it aspell?) complained to me once about coloUr? ach, Americans... damn yankies... Check your example with: aspell --language-tag=en-british aspell

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Sun, 15 Dec: On Sun, Dec 15, 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote about Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker: nor can it rain). So it started means what hetchil means in Hebrew ... Hem sichaku ba-park, v-pit'om hitchil limloch. And sorry about the major

Re: [OFFTOPIC] ADSL modem advice

2002-12-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Monday 16 December 2002 00:25, Omer Zak wrote: While this question does not pertain specifically to Linux, I feel that it has the nature of request-for-help rather than a philosophical one. So I don't feel that it would be suitable for Hackers-IL. It might be a good suggestion for everyone

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Alon Altman, from the post of Sun, 15 Dec: However, you could suggest a *patch* to aspell which will replace the word-checking routine for Hebrew umm, what does aspell/ispell/gspell do about Smikhut(trns?) in German? where you can pretty much stick almost any two or three nouns

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 09:25:54PM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: Did you look at the work of Erel Segal (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erelsgl) and his morphologial analyzer? Yes, I did notice his work. But he does not publish anywhere where he got his word lists (and what are their

Re: Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-15 Thread Eli Marmor
Ira Abramov wrote: it = zeh Are you sure? And I've thought that it = Technologiot HaMeida. Or Ginger. Just Do IT! (TM of Nike) -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __ Tel.:

Re: [OFFTOPIC] ADSL modem advice

2002-12-15 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:25:52AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: While this question does not pertain specifically to Linux, I feel that it has the nature of request-for-help rather than a philosophical one. So I don't feel that it would be suitable for Hackers-IL. I agree. I am planning to

Re: ADSL modem advice

2002-12-15 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:18:35AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Alternativly - if you willing to have a small risk - you can buy them very cheaply at eBay - most of the time you won't need to replace the firmware. URL:

Re: ADSL modem advice

2002-12-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Does replacing the firmware means downloading a file and loading it to the modem similar to the way you upgrade a bios or is it more complicated and might necessitates you to open the box? What details does one need in order to be able to determine in advance whether replacing the

Re: Compaq Evo N1015v

2002-12-15 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:20:21AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Christoph Bugel wrote: hmm... as a last option you could try to install something that doesn't require a cdrom. I'ts may not solve the cdrom issue, but at least the rest of linux will work. Suse has a download from

Re: Compaq Evo N1015v

2002-12-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Does this off the network installation involves some hassles to get people off to their pay options like having to wait 3 months before it is available or is it plain and simple? The download version is pretty simple to install - as long as you have the full URL to download/install from (I

Ale Yarok and Open Source????

2002-12-15 Thread redbaron
I knew this is not a political list, but I feel need to express my appreciation to a grope of people that think (good things) about open source (and think of animals as wall :-))... I think this is the best thing any political party has done for Open Source since for the past 8 years(the time

Re: [OFFTOPIC] ADSL modem advice

2002-12-15 Thread Dani Arbel
Hi! Generaly I recommand using Bezeq leased modem. When leasing the modem from Bezeq whenever you have a malfunction it is their problem. Take into account that the modems are prone to thunders, power spikes etc. I already had 2 of them burnet out within 2 years ( two different installations).