Re: OO and problems parentheses in mixed hebrew/english text

2004-10-31 Thread Herouth Maoz
On Saturday, Oct 30, 2004, at 19:13 Asia/Jerusalem, Amit Aronovitch wrote: 2) Applications don't always handle them right. For example, OpenOffice handles them correctly, but makes them visible - depending on the font, you usually see an annoying blank square in their place (they should be

Re: OO and problems parentheses in mixed hebrew/english text

2004-10-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 07:51:06AM +0200, Herouth Maoz wrote: By the way, the lyx keyboard variant only contains the marking characters, not the embedding characters. I had a discussion about this in Whatsup this week. I see embedding as more natural, as you don't have to think Hmm, BiDi

Re: Free/Open video conferencing solution

2004-10-31 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Hi Dvir, Dvir Volk wrote: I'm looking for a Free solution that will allow several users to conduct a video conference online. It should have clients running on both Linux and Windows, and the server side (if it's not pure p2p) should preferably run on Linux. It should support 3 or more users in

The Security Forum - meeting #5 -14/11/04 (fwd)

2004-10-31 Thread Ely Levy
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:57:44 +0200 From: Gadi Evron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Security Forum - meeting #5 -14/11/04 Hello! The next, non-commercial, technological Security Forum will take place on Sunday, the 14th of November, 2004, at Tel Aviv University's Lev

Re: The Security Forum - meeting #5 -14/11/04 (fwd)

2004-10-31 Thread shimon
Hi Ely, I joined Linux-IL recently, and I sas your letter. Is there any security mailing-list too ? Regards, Shimon = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run

edimax 7108PCG pcmcia support

2004-10-31 Thread Lior Kesos
Just got myself a pcmcia wireless card for my laptop (sarge installed). All this linux is wonderful ,works out of the box and next next next themes running around numbed me senseless to the point I didn't enter the trio ($cardname linux support) in google. Being the Israeli that I am I got the

Re: edimax 7108PCG pcmcia support

2004-10-31 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Lior Kesos wrote: relatively new card or it lacking any linux support whatsoever (but I don't even get the linuxquestions.org threads asking for support and with 4 replies of Isn't supported - bummer so there's still hope). I read about cardctl ident being a kinda lspci

Re: edimax 7108PCG pcmcia support

2004-10-31 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Lior Kesos: Just got myself a pcmcia wireless card for my laptop (sarge installed). All this linux is wonderful ,works out of the box and next next next themes running around numbed me senseless to the point I didn't enter the trio ($cardname linux support) in google. Please send cis

Students on Linux woes

2004-10-31 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
Hi, Related to the Welcome to Linux series, I'd like to draw your attention to the following issue: It's quite hard to be a Linux-only student, at least at TAU (and at least on the exact sciences faculty, although the issue is probably much worse at other faculties). A few years ago, when

Re: OO and problems parentheses in mixed hebrew/english text

2004-10-31 Thread Micha Feigin
At Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:51:06 +0200, Herouth Maoz wrote: On Saturday, Oct 30, 2004, at 19:13 Asia/Jerusalem, Amit Aronovitch wrote: 2) Applications don't always handle them right. For example, OpenOffice handles them correctly, but makes them visible - depending on the font, you

Re: Students on Linux woes

2004-10-31 Thread William Sherwin
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: Once you start your studies, however, the main problem becomes that a lot of classes are given with PowerPoint presentations, which are then available at the course website. I often ask the prof. about availability of the lectures in a more open format (pdf for

Re: OO and problems parentheses in mixed hebrew/english text

2004-10-31 Thread Amit Aronovitch
First of all, thanks Tzafrir - I was not aware that the lyx and SI variants had any bidi chars in them (I do remember googlin and greppin around before starting to mess with symbol files - probably did not do that very well - since now I can easily find the stuff you mention...) Herouth Maoz

Re: Students on Linux woes

2004-10-31 Thread Yosef Meller
--Boundary_(ID_ny1ohRLr1agJ+LoSGTXDCA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-8-I; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: Hi, Related to the Welcome to Linux series, I'd like to draw your attention to the following issue: It's quite hard to be

Re: Students on Linux woes

2004-10-31 Thread Orr Dunkelman
There is no way to force lecturers to use anything (I know, as nobody forces me to use PowerPoint). The way is to contact the computing commitee of your department (not the system guys, even though they can tell you who is in charge of that), or the undergraduate studies committee of your

Re: Students on Linux woes

2004-10-31 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:29:29 +0200, Yosef Meller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenOffice Impress and writer usually do a wonderful job showing the presentations and .doc files with homework. Homework, interestingly, is not a problem for me. Since homework is written by TAs, it's usually available

Setting users privilege for CUPS

2004-10-31 Thread ik
Hello list, Recently I'm experiencing some problems using CUPS... Afther a short investigating, I found out that the problem is lack of user privilege in CUPS itself. Alto I googled for a solution about this problem, I could not find any information that can help me to use CUPS regular user

Re: Students on Linux woes

2004-10-31 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sunday 31 October 2004 22:03, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: Ideally, it would be officialy policy to have all course materials available in an open format, but I would settle for having that as a de-facto policy. Hi, I know that this doesn't address your direct complaint about

Re: Students on Linux woes

2004-10-31 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sunday 31 October 2004 23:29, Yosef Meller wrote: Perhaps we TAU students can write a joint letter to the people at the top windows (not the computing division) about why openness is in the true university spirit? I can't see a lot we can do when the budget is shrinking and the entire

Re: Students on Linux woes

2004-10-31 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
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Re: OO and problems parentheses in mixed hebrew/english text

2004-10-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10:19:40PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: I still think that this is the wrong approach, even if it is the easiest. I think that directionality should be taken from the keymap and not explicitly (at least in the normal flow of things). It does cause problems of course if