Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-08-30 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 30 בAugust 2009 07:52:18 Boaz Rymland wrote: ... or, go for sure on the Linux pre-installed ones. Just a general warning (don't know if it applies to this specific model). Many devices on the market with Linux pre-installed have some binary components that make them worthless --

Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-08-30 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:06:43 +0300, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: On Sunday, 30 בAugust 2009 07:52:18 Boaz Rymland wrote: ... or, go for sure on the Linux pre-installed ones. Just a general warning (don't know if it applies to this specific model). Many devices on the market with Linux

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread Eli Marmor
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: ... Will it be totally open? I don't think so because they have to support their DRM'd music/video which you buy, and their DRM is from .. Microsoft, but OTOH writing/porting an app to N900, is IMHO way easier then to Android/WebOS/iPhone.

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread Erez D
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: Umm, actually, pretty open.. Read this: http://flors.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/software-freedom-lovers-here-comes-maemo-5/ Also, within the last few days, they signed and sumbitted new drivers to be included in the

Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-08-30 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 30 בAugust 2009 10:15:51 Boaz Rymland wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:06:43 +0300, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: Just a general warning (don't know if it applies to this specific model). Many devices on the market with Linux pre-installed have some binary components that make

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Eli Marmor wrote: Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: ... Will it be totally open? I don't think so because they have to support their DRM'd music/video which you buy, and their DRM is from .. Microsoft, but OTOH writing/porting an app to N900, is IMHO way easier then to Android/WebOS/iPhone.

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 30, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: In all honesty, I would rather have a phone that works than have a phone that runs my applications. I am much more worried about Android's lack of friendliness to third party applications (unless they come through the Market) than I am

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
geoffrey mendelson wrote: My point is that while Shachar states that Windows Mobile is a better development enviornment I said no such thing! I said it was a horrible environment made even more horrid by the move to slim appliance. What I said was that it is a more open one. Shachar --

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Shachar Shemesh wrote: I am much more worried about Android's lack of friendliness to third party applications (unless they come through the Market) than I am about the fact it is running a non-standard environment. What do you mean by Android's lack of friendliness to third party

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Hi, You have been severly misinformed. All you need to install using USB is the free as in speech Google SDK and USB cable that comes with the phone. Adb is running on all phones and you don't need to be root to install applications. More important, you can install application by simply

Re: Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

2009-08-30 Thread Boris shtrasman
Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi all, Can anyone provide feedback on the following Acer laptop, or any other Acer Linux based laptops? (Interestingly, searching for linux word in laptop section in zap.co.il shows almost exclusively only Acer results:

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Shachar Shemesh wrote: I am much more worried about Android's lack of friendliness to third party applications (unless they come through the Market) than I am about the fact it is running a non-standard environment. What do you mean by Android's lack of

Re: [OT] Power over radio is it a true thing or just a myth ?

2009-08-30 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
2009/8/24 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz Michael Vasiliev wrote: The power of the signal is inversely proportional to the square of distance. That is not precisely accurate. An undirected point source of EM radiation (or any other type of energy) transmits energy that expands on a

Re: [OT] Power over radio is it a true thing or just a myth ?

2009-08-30 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 30, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: If we stick to the air as our media, then you will need a unidirectional antenna. This is also an idealization, as an antenna which points to one direction, projects energy to the opposite direction as well, and there is also

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Adb is running on all phones and you don't need to be root to install applications. The Samsung Galaxy, at least as sold by Cellcom, does not run ADB by default. Even when I set USB debugging, I cannot see the phone when I do adb devices, and cannot connect to it

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Adb is running on all phones and you don't need to be root to install applications. The Samsung Galaxy, at least as sold by Cellcom, does not run ADB by default. Even when I set USB debugging, I cannot see the phone when I do adb devices,

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Shachar Shemesh wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Adb is running on all phones and you don't need to be root to install applications. The Samsung Galaxy, at least as sold by Cellcom, does not run ADB by default. Even when I set USB debugging, I cannot see the phone

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Shachar Shemesh wrote: The Samsung Galaxy, at least as sold by Cellcom, does not run ADB by default. Even when I set USB debugging, I cannot see the phone when I do adb devices, and cannot connect to it (let alone install anything on it). Not sure, but I'm guessing it might be a problem with

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Shachar Shemesh wrote: The Samsung Galaxy, at least as sold by Cellcom, does not run ADB by default. Even when I set USB debugging, I cannot see the phone when I do adb devices, and cannot connect to it (let alone install anything on it). Not sure, but I'm guessing

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Not sure, but I'm guessing it might be a problem with your setup, rather then a Smasung imposed limit. Are you sure you have set up the ADB udev rules correctly? Of course not :-) All I know is that, on my setup, the HTC worked with me having to actually set up

Israeli online sources for Tellico?

2009-08-30 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi All, Any of you know of online sources I can add to the Sources List in Tellico to update Hebrew books, for instance? I'd like to perform ISBN or Dana Code searches for books published in Israel... Thanks! .::. Amichai Rotman UIN#:

Drupal or Joomla for Heb-Eng Site?

2009-08-30 Thread Chaim Keren-Tzion
Which is preferred for building a Hebrew-English site, Drupal or Joomla? The management interface can be in English. I will need content and menus in He and En though. Thanks in advance. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Drupal or Joomla for Heb-Eng Site?

2009-08-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Chaim Keren-Tzion wrote: Which is preferred for building a Hebrew-English site, Drupal or Joomla? The management interface can be in English. I will need content and menus in He and En though. Thanks in advance. I don't know Drupal very well. Lingnu's site is built with Joomla

Re: Drupal or Joomla for Heb-Eng Site?

2009-08-30 Thread Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
Chaim Keren-Tzion wrote: Which is preferred for building a Hebrew-English site, Drupal or Joomla? The management interface can be in English. I will need content and menus in He and En though. Thanks in advance. I got Eng-Ru set up of drupal-5.x + localizer working fairly well, although it

Re: Drupal or Joomla for Heb-Eng Site?

2009-08-30 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, * The specified requirements list was much too slim to judge (how much does a suite for an orphan cost? Is there such a sentence in English? :-) * This is a hot debate between enthusiasts from both camps. * Here are some links that try to address this issue: o

Re: an open phone from nokia ?

2009-08-30 Thread Meir Kriheli
On 08/30/2009 11:52 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Eli Marmor wrote: Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: ... Will it be totally open? I don't think so because they have to support their DRM'd music/video which you buy, and their DRM is from .. Microsoft, but OTOH writing/porting an app to N900, is IMHO