How To Find A Computer With GNU/Linux Pre-Installed in Israel
There is an article about How To Find A Computer With GNU/Linux Pre-Installed http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/66518/ pointing also to a list of such places. I wonder if there is any such company in Israel and if we could put together such a list? I am quite sure that most (if not all) local computer shops will sell a desktop computer without any operating system on it but the two I asked here in Modiin would not touch Linux. They say the customers don't ask for it and I think they don't know what to do with it. side note Frankly I think they make a nice part of their income on additional software they sell (e.g. games) that either don't yet exist on Linux or are free and might be even included in the distribution. So it might not be their interest to promote Linux. /side note Notebooks: Once I bought a Dell notebook from http://www.notebookclub.co.il/ without operating system. Gabor http://www.szabgab.com/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI program for pppoe
Quoting Aviram Jenik, from the post of Thu, 03 Aug: Hi, Someone asked me about a GUI program that can be used to connect to the ADSL. I know that pppoe (pon/poff) works like a charm, but it's command-line based and the user wants an easy to use applet instead. kde and gnome both let you define icons to run any command you want, why not create two for pon and poff? I've never even bumped into such questions since the broadband prices went down, I just set machines to dial as soon as the OS comes up and keep it alive, period. why would you ever want to manually futz around with that? I googled for a while, but couldn't find anything relevant (except for a project that hasn't been maintained in the last 4 years). Does anyone know if there's a simple way to do this on KDE? # apt-cache search ppp|grep -i kde kppp - KDE dialer and frontend to pppd but I still think it's pointless... -- A familiar face in a strange land Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI program for pppoe
On Friday 04 August 2006 10:52, Ira Abramov wrote: I just set machines to dial as soon as the OS comes up and keep it alive, period. Me too. But that person has a laptop, and he wants to come home, connect it to the ADSL modem and turn the connection 'on'. Sure, he can buy an ADSL router instead but I think it's silly when connecting to ADSL on Linux is so trivial. why would you ever want to manually futz around with that? Because it's there # apt-cache search ppp|grep -i kde kppp - KDE dialer and frontend to pppd That's the first program I checked out - it's for modem dialing, not ADSL. For one, it expects a phone number. - Aviram = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Beautifying latex documents
I want to produce a latex document template that looks similar to professional books' templates. That is, with notes bounded by a box of different color and having a picture on the top of the box. There's a book series with ants teaching you java and C++ with many examples for such a template. there are three elements I don't know how to implement by latexbounding a piece of text, that may span across more than one page, with box.Colouring a box with gradient color. Alternatively, setting a background image to the box changing a text so that it'll appear vertically instead of horizontallyI'll appreciate references.An example document image can be found here.http://img235.imageshack.us/my.php?image=trynp7.png
Re: Beautifying latex documents
I want to produce a latex document template that looks similar to professional books' templates. That is, with notes bounded by a box of different color and having a picture on the top of the box. There's a book series with ants teaching you java and C++ with many examples for such a template. there are three elements I don't know how to implement by latex 1. bounding a piece of text, that may span across more than one page, with box. I'm not sure about the spanning more than one page part. 2. Colouring a box with gradient color. Alternatively, setting a background image to the box You can make nice coloured, gradient boxes using the pgf package http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf In the manual, there are examples of placing text on such backgrounds. 3. changing a text so that it'll appear vertically instead of horizontally there is a package called rotating that does this. do a search on ctan. Jason -- Jason Friedman Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Home page: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~jason = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI program for pppoe
Quoting Aviram Jenik, from the post of Fri, 04 Aug: On Friday 04 August 2006 10:52, Ira Abramov wrote: Me too. But that person has a laptop, and he wants to come home, connect it to the ADSL modem and turn the connection 'on'. ahh, that makes more sense. ok then, back to my first idea, define two icons that activate pon and poff... -- Snake oil salesman Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
