This may be somewhat off topic to Linux but since we are on the topic of
browser incompatibilities I thought I would share a recent Firefox / IE
javascript incompatibility that wasn't caught by any of the standards
checkers that I use. The specific instance was
a href=somelink id=myID
div
I am also thinking of moving to linux-only for about 10 years now,
both in work and home
(my own system has always had dual os via dual boot, colinux, vmware, etc ..)
1. firefox (even on windows) does not support a lot of israely sites:
my nephue can't play at fun.walla.com, i can't reach yes's
Did you try the javascript in FF after waiting for the page to load and
display or was it run at startup ?
Peter
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The actual case was somewhat more complicated. The code was part of a
javascript scroller that I had modified to generate the contents of the
scroller dynamically. So first there was javascript code that generated
the a hrefdiv code and later a timer handler checked the height of
the
First of all - Happy New Year and Mazal Tov for the new job
I've reccommended http://www.rotmax.com in the past and I'm still
happy with their service - it's a mediuim size hosting operation.
I've been hosting there for the past 3 years and I know that some
people in the list have hosted there
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, David Suna wrote:
The actual case was somewhat more complicated. The code was part of a
javascript scroller that I had modified to generate the contents of the
scroller dynamically. So first there was javascript code that generated the
a hrefdiv code and later a
-Original Message-
From: Lior Kesos
I've reccommended http://www.rotmax.com in the past and I'm
still happy with their service - it's a mediuim size hosting
operation.
I've been hosting there for the past 3 years and I know that
some people in the list have hosted there as well.
The
Quoth Erez D:
1. firefox (even on windows) does not support a lot of israely sites: my
nephue can't play at fun.walla.com http://fun.walla.com, i can't reach
yes's program guide, etc
True. Absolutely true. Linux is - alas - not yet for children.
2. OO: even with OO 2.0 beta, i tried reading
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
/me reminds Uri and Peter of an enlightened decision of some people in
Massachusetts, that was already linked to in this thread.
Yes, there is such a standard: Sun has submitted OpenOffice 1's
document format to OASIS as a standard candidate. After some
Oron Peled wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 בOctober 2005 12:54, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
I think there should be a standard for office file formats, and the
standard should not be owned by MS.
There is. It is called OpenDocument (by OASIS). Tzafrir already
pointed you to the Massachusetts decision to
Aaron wrote:
The answer from a technical writer is no, not with MS office, not with
OO, not with anything other than pdf.
I had a client that no matter what I did if I sent an office 2000
document to them it never looked right. (we were both using office 2000)
That is why pdf is the only or
On 10/6/05, Marc A. Volovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoth Erez D:
what mailer are you using (what is 'Quoth' ? )
1. firefox (even on windows) does not support a lot of israely sites: my
nephue can't play at fun.walla.com http://fun.walla.com, i can't reach yes's program guide, etcTrue.
On 10/6/05, Uri Even-Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, but we can't actually use the standard as long as the majority of
people can't read it. And they can't read it because they use MS
Office. You can't send a non-MS-Office-compatible files to such people.
It will not work. They will not
On Thursday, 6 בOctober 2005 12:50, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
But you can't edit a PDF file with MS Office.
Is there any Free software which can edit PDF files and convert them
to other formats?
As previously stated, KWord from the KDE Office suite can open and edit
PDF documents, and then save
On 10/6/05, Yedidyah Bar-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But are you sure the right thing is to dump Debian (or gentoo, for thatmatter) and start from scratch? Debian isn't just dpkg and apt. In fact,
We cannot accept any non-free software in our repository. Not even
links to non-free software. So
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
Aaron wrote:
The answer from a technical writer is no, not with MS office, not with
OO, not with anything other than pdf.
I had a client that no matter what I did if I sent an office 2000
document to them it never looked right. (we were both using
Quoth Erez D:
what mailer are you using (what is 'Quoth' ? )
mutt and thunderbird. quoth from mutt.
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 01:41:54PM +0300, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
And recently Massachusetts declared it to be the official documents
format for all govrement workers as of 2007. Which probably means
MS-Office will be forced to support it as well by then.
And what happens until 2007? They
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:52:31PM +0200, Erez D wrote:
On 10/6/05, Marc A. Volovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoth Erez D:
what mailer are you using (what is 'Quoth' ? )
OT: some useful tools:
'dict quoth' gives me:
Quoth \Quoth\ (kw[=o]th or kw[u^]th), v. t. [AS. cwe[eth]an, imp
On 06/10/2005, at 13:52, Erez D wrote:
i just wanted to state that OO is the same as word in 'changing
the defualt format'
in word 2003 i can save also in RTF, but if i get a doc in
word2003, i need someone to do that for me. same with getting OO
2.0 format when i only have OO 1.1
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005, Robert Wallner wrote about Re: Help needed for the KODIX
project:
Big projects have the tendency to forget where they came from. Not to begin
a flame war, but we are a GNU distribution, not a Linux distribution. So,
linux is just a package, the same for kfreebsd. Also,
On 10/6/05, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not trying to continue a flame war, but rather trying to understand thisstatement. How can the type of kernel (rather than, say, the version of aspecific kernel) be a package, with Linux and freebsd being alternative
packages?
I didn't say they
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
It's a free market. Then can either support the new standard and still
keep that client or not support it and force the every civil servant to
have OpenOffice (or a different conforming word processor) installed on
his/her desktop.
I agree. It's good to have a standard.
Oded Arbel wrote:
As previously stated, KWord from the KDE Office suite can open and edit
PDF documents, and then save them to any other supported format
(OpenDocument, for example). Granted, you lose a lot of formating - it
doesn't convert the graphics and you lose all non-trivial styling,
Peter wrote:
Is there any Free software which can edit PDF files and convert them
to other formats?
http://www.google.co.il/search?q=convert+pdf+to+html+free
A link to Google doesn't help much. There are many non-free
applications out there. If you check the websites on the Google page
I'm sending again - without the file. Why Linux-IL doesn't receive files?
Uri.
Original Message
Subject: Re: Why most people prefer Windows
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 13:27:43 +0300
From: Uri Even-Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Speedy Net
To: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC:
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
I'm trying to send this message again, it didn't work the first time.
Uri.
Dear Uri,
since you sent the message to the list and to me by cc for the second
time, I got the message with the attachment and the list got the message
without the
On 10/6/05, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/6/05, Gil Freund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PDF is the same as a printed document. It's a one way street.
That's the common wizdom but I was surprised to learn that
KOffice can actually open and edit PDF files. I haven't played
with it a
My opinion - you do not need to translate your resume into Hebrew.
Your question reminds me of the following anecdote from my salary slave
days.
I was looking for a job. When seeing an ad, I snail-mailed my resume to
the company in question (those were the pre-Internet and expensive FAX
days).
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
Peter wrote:
Is there any Free software which can edit PDF files and convert them to
other formats?
http://www.google.co.il/search?q=convert+pdf+to+html+free
A link to Google doesn't help much. There are many non-free
applications out there. If
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
I'm sending again - without the file. Why Linux-IL doesn't receive files?
Because we prefer to receive VBA macro viruses via regular email.
Peter
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On Thursday 06 October 2005 19:08, Man Gregory wrote:
First off all sorry for offtopic stuff.
I have a question and I don't know where can ask about this.
Do I need to translate my resume to Hebrew from English, if I want send
its to the job offers in IT industry of Israel?
I don't think
Hi Peter,
I was not aware that the list doesn't receive files. However, I didn't
receive this message from the list at all (I do receive other messages I
send). So I got the impression that the list didn't receive my message
at all. That's why I sent it again (and then again, without the
Man Gregory wrote:
First off all sorry for offtopic stuff.
I have a question and I don't know where can ask about this.
Do I need to translate my resume to Hebrew from English, if I want send
its to the job offers in IT industry of Israel?
I'm a native Hebrew speaker and keep my resume only
On Thursday, 6 בOctober 2005 21:22, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
Thanks. It is available for Windows?
On Thursday, 6 בOctober 2005 21:31, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
I'm looking for a Free software, as in Capital F. With source code and
everything.
Hmmm... 9 minutes passed and
On 10/7/05, Man Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First off all sorry for offtopic stuff.
I have a question and I don't know where can ask about this.
Do I need to translate my resume to Hebrew from English, if I want send
its to the job offers in IT industry of Israel?
This is my first
On 10/7/05, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First advise I got from all job agencies I worked with when looking for
jobs is Make it in Hebrew.
And BTW - I maintain both my English and Hebrew resumes using
OpenOffice and never got a complaint from people who asked for it
in MS format.
Oron Peled wrote:
On Thursday, 6 בOctober 2005 21:22, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
Thanks. It is available for Windows?
On Thursday, 6 בOctober 2005 21:31, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
I'm looking for a Free software, as in Capital F. With source code and
everything.
Hmmm... 9 minutes passed and
Amos Shapira wrote:
On 10/7/05, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First advise I got from all job agencies I worked with when looking for
jobs is Make it in Hebrew.
I agree. Send it in Hebrew. Or both languages if you want to.
And BTW - I maintain both my English and Hebrew resumes
Shlomi Fish wrote:
Hi good people!
Having a very populated homepage ( http://www.shlomifish.org/ ), and having
gained a job with a nice steady positive income, I'd like to move my homepage
to a serious web-hosting facility. At the moment, it is hosted at Actcom
(with parts on a different
Some people here asked about an OOo viewer- so I thought that this
thread snippet from one of the OOo mailing lists would be of interest...
Begin forwarded message:
From: Alexandro Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14:18:45 GMT+03:00 6 אוקטובר 2005
To: discuss@openoffice.org
Subject: Re:
Shlomi Fish wrote:
On Thursday 06 October 2005 19:08, Man Gregory wrote:
First off all sorry for offtopic stuff.
I have a question and I don't know where can ask about this.
Do I need to translate my resume to Hebrew from English, if I want send
its to the job offers in IT industry of Israel?
Uri Even-Chen wrote:
Amos Shapira wrote:
On 10/7/05, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First advise I got from all job agencies I worked with when looking for
jobs is Make it in Hebrew.
I agree. Send it in Hebrew. Or both languages if you want to.
Thanks for your solution.
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
Actually, I don't understand why don't you select a virtual server,
and allow me to highlight some points:
1. With Virtual Server, you're not locked to any version of component
(imagine that you want to use some feature from Perl 5.8 or Apache 2,
but your host machine only has prior version. go
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