Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-10 Thread Ely Levy
Talking about openoffice, anyone know how is it translated? Does it use the official machon hatkanim hebrew? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Shoshannah Forbes wrote: On 09/01/2005, at 17:33, Omer Zak wrote: One bug, which I didn't see in

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005, Ely Levy wrote about Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users: Talking about openoffice, anyone know how is it translated? Does it use the official machon hatkanim hebrew? Ely, what is Machon Hatkanim Hebrew? Since when is Machon Hatkanim an authority

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-10 Thread Uri Bruck
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2005, Ely Levy wrote about Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users: Talking about openoffice, anyone know how is it translated? Does it use the official machon hatkanim hebrew? Ely, what is Machon Hatkanim Hebrew? Since when is Machon Hatkanim

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-10 Thread Ely Levy
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Uri Bruck wrote: Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2005, Ely Levy wrote about Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users: Talking about openoffice, anyone know how is it translated? Does it use the official machon hatkanim hebrew? Ely, what

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-10 Thread Ely Levy
, 2005, Ely Levy wrote about Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users: Talking about openoffice, anyone know how is it translated? Does it use the official machon hatkanim hebrew? Ely, what is Machon Hatkanim Hebrew? Since when is Machon Hatkanim an authority on the Hebrew language

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-10 Thread Arnon Klein
Jerusalem Israel On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2005, Ely Levy wrote about Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users: Talking about openoffice, anyone know how is it translated? Does it use the official machon hatkanim hebrew? Ely, what is Machon

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-10 Thread Uri Bruck
Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2005, Ely Levy wrote about Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users: Talking about openoffice, anyone know how is it translated? Does it use the official machon hatkanim hebrew

Fwd: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-09 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
As OpenOffice 2.0 is getting close to releasing a beta version, many important Hebrew bugs where pushed back to OpenOffice Later, meaning that the fixes would *NOT* be in OpenOffice 2.0. I am contacting whoever I can to get them fixed by 2.0, but I need your help as well- if I can show

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-09 Thread Arik Baratz
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:30:25 +0200, Shoshannah Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I have complied a list of the most important of these bugs, and I would be glad if people take the time, sign up to the bug tracking system, and vote for them: http://www.xslf.com/archives/000122.html I just

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 17:21 +0200, Arik Baratz wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:30:25 +0200, Shoshannah Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I have complied a list of the most important of these bugs, and I would be glad if people take the time, sign up to the bug tracking system, and

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-09 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
On 09/01/2005, at 17:33, Omer Zak wrote: One bug, which I didn't see in Shoshannah's list is that when exporting an Impress presentation in Hebrew to PDF file, the parentheses come out reversed. That bug is being worked on, and should be fixed by 2.0 --- Shoshannah Forbes http://www.xslf.com

Re: Fwd: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-09 Thread Noam Rathaus
by 2.0, but I need your help as well- if I can show that there is a demand for this fixed, there are better chances that these bugs actually getting re-targeting for being fixed by 2.0. I have complied a list of the most important of these bugs, and I would be glad if people take the time, sign up

Re: Fwd: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-09 Thread Diego Iastrubni
a beta version, many important Hebrew bugs where pushed back to OpenOffice Later, meaning that the fixes would *NOT* be in OpenOffice 2.0. I am contacting whoever I can to get them fixed by 2.0, but I need your help as well- if I can show that there is a demand for this fixed, there are better

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-09 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Shoshannah Forbes wrote: On 09/01/2005, at 19:51, Diego Iastrubni wrote: There are also many Arab mailing lists, did you contact them? I am sure we share most of the bugs. Arabeyes for example have a good lets make noise system, it's a good idea to use it. :) I am shameful to say that I don't

re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-09 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
On 09/01/2005, at 19:51, Diego Iastrubni wrote: There are also many Arab mailing lists, did you contact them? I am sure we share most of the bugs. Arabeyes for example have a good lets make noise system, it's a good idea to use it. :) I am shameful to say that I don't really know the Arab lists

Re: Help make OpenOffice 2.0 better for Hebrew users

2005-01-09 Thread Orna Agmon
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Omer Zak wrote: Ditto. My only complaint was that Shoshannah listed 8 bugs and I could only cast 5 votes. So I had to prioritize bugs. Note that you can also cast more than one vote per bug (up to 2). This is relevant especially regarding bugs (the strategic bug)

xml help

2004-11-11 Thread Aaron
HI all, I am using an xml dialect which has been used for data interchange and no one has used it to create output. I need to either take content in tags and call a font or tranfer it to svg and output it as grphics/fonts. I have no idea where to begin: the problem is that a b c etc. (ascii)

Re: xml help

2004-11-11 Thread Omer Zak
and scripting languages. Look for the terms SAX and DOM when reading documentation. The parsers recognize all elements of the XML files (including tags etc.). It is easy to parse your own text in scrpting languages like Python and Perl. Contact me off-list if you need more help

Re: [OT/2] Looking for a VB programmer to help me convert a VB program to Linux

2004-10-18 Thread Eran Sandler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Does anyone here have the ability and will to help me with the VB program? Hi Amos, I can help you if you wish, just Email me the program and tell me what is the different output you are getting. I can give you an important tip right now even before you send

PAM help

2004-10-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, I'm building a Linux system from scratch. It's not done according to the Linux from scratch docs, but close enough. My problem is this. I cannot log in via getty. It asks for a password, and then says that login authentication for root failed. I have tried it with both passwd and

Re: PAM help

2004-10-12 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, I'm building a Linux system from scratch. It's not done according to the Linux from scratch docs, but close enough. My problem is this. I cannot log in via getty. It asks for a password, and then says that login authentication for root failed. I have tried it

Re: PAM help

2004-10-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 03:56:56PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, I'm building a Linux system from scratch. It's not done according to the Linux from scratch docs, but close enough. My problem is this. I cannot log in via getty. It asks for a password, and then says that login

Re: PAM help

2004-10-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, I'm building a Linux system from scratch. It's not done according to the Linux from scratch docs, but close enough. My problem is this. I cannot log in via getty. It asks for a password, and then says that login authentication for root

Re: PAM help

2004-10-12 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote: In any case, what I'm looking for is more fundamental. One of the PAM modules is failing the login. Doesn't any of them issue logs saying why? Could it be that it's not even PAM, but me compiling login without PAM support? I'm missing some

Re: PAM help

2004-10-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 06:37:10PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: In any case, what I'm looking for is more fundamental. One of the PAM modules is failing the login. Doesn't any of them issue logs saying why? Could it be that it's not even PAM, but me compiling login without PAM support?

Re: PAM help

2004-10-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 05:36:03PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 03:56:56PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, I'm building a Linux system from scratch. It's not done according to the Linux from scratch docs, but close enough. My problem is this. I cannot

[OT/2] Looking for a VB programmer to help me convert a VB program to Linux

2004-09-26 Thread amos
Hello, I'm looking for someone with the knowledge and tools required to help me compile a Visual Basic program on Windows. What I hope to find is someone who can do tweaks like adding some helpful printf's in some of the loops and make the program print its output as text instead of showing

epoll help

2004-08-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, I'm trying to make the attached very very simple program work: For some reason, the first epoll_ctl fails with Acess denied. I don't know why. Anyone has any insights? This must be something very basic I'm missing here. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting

Re: epoll help

2004-08-24 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:03:43PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to make the attached very very simple program work: For some reason, the first epoll_ctl fails with Acess denied. I don't know why. Use the source, Luke... fs/eventpoll.c:sys_epoll_ctl() /* The

Re: epoll help

2004-08-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:03:43PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to make the attached very very simple program work: For some reason, the first epoll_ctl fails with Acess denied. I don't know why. Use the source, Luke...

Re: epoll.h trouble (was: Re: epoll help)

2004-08-24 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:40:15AM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: In file included from test_epoll.c:4: /usr/include/sys/epoll.h:60: parse error before uint32_t /usr/include/sys/epoll.h:66: parse error before uint32_t test_epoll.c: In function `main': test_epoll.c:14: storage size of `event' isn't

Softwre Freedom Day - Call for Help

2004-08-21 Thread Ori Idan
to do it on sunday august 29th (The Software Freedom Day is on August 28th). We need volunteers to orgenize these stands in central places in the big cities (Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem) It does not have to be only there. If you would like to help please contact as soon as possible: [EMAIL

Re: Softwre Freedom Day - Call for Help

2004-08-21 Thread Dovix
Freedom Day is on August 28th). We need volunteers to orgenize these stands in central places in the big cities (Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem) It does not have to be only there. If you would like to help please contact as soon as possible: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ori Idan

Re: Softwre Freedom Day - Call for Help

2004-08-21 Thread Orna Agmon
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Ori Idan wrote: We would like to do it on sunday august 29th (The Software Freedom Day is on August 28th). I doubt if Sunday is a good day. They took Saturday, because it is their last day of the week - a lot of comotion in malls, and many people do not work. Sunday is

Re: Softwre Freedom Day - Call for Help

2004-08-21 Thread Alon Altman
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Ori Idan wrote: I agree to move it to friday, but we need to orgenize it. Currently we got few volunteers that will go tomorow to malls to see if we can put a stand there. First we should check for the possibility of putting a stand, the excat date can change. Friday

Re: Softwre Freedom Day - Call for Help

2004-08-21 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Dovix wrote on 2004-08-21: If you didn't burn the OpenCD yet, you should have a look at GnuWin II. It is a similar type of collection but the assortment of programs seems richer and more interesting. http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/en/index.html Wow! That's a whole distro. Now I know what *I* will

Help Us Collect Hebrew Spam

2004-06-22 Thread Ilan Aisic
Title: Message Hi, We arefew Israeliswho are using SpamAssassin in an effort to fight spam. We concentrate on fighting Israeli and Hebrew spam. Please visit http://www.deltaforce.net/hebrewspam/ to read more about our effort. To be able to write good rules against spam and also to put

Help getting rid of M$

2004-06-16 Thread Ben Hornedo
application on Linux in Hebrew? Maybe someone would like to offer some ideas or talk directly to the factory as a private consultant. I would prefer that to the Micro$oft peddling bunch that are talking to them now. Any help is appreciated, Ben Hornedo

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oron Peled wrote: About disturbing other alarm/ualarms, you may want to look at Stevens [advanced programming in the Unix environment, circa 1995] which has a very nice chapter about implementing sleep(3) using alarm(2) with all the common pittfalls (saving timers while setting them, avoiding

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-11 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 10:58:54AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oron Peled wrote: About disturbing other alarm/ualarms, you may want to look at Stevens [advanced programming in the Unix environment, circa 1995] which has a very nice chapter about implementing sleep(3) using alarm(2) with

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-10 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 18:52, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to provide a library call that will run a ping to a server. The catch is that it needs to be done as a non-root user, and I would like to avoid any solution that involves any SUID or root running processes beyond what

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-10 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Thursday 10 June 2004 10:12, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Wednesday 09 June 2004 18:52, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to provide a library call that will run a ping to a server. The catch is that it needs to be done as a non-root user, and I would like to avoid any solution

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-10 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 23:48, Shachar Shemesh wrote: RTFM pselect, and more specifically, select_tut, for an answer to that one. I am fully aware for pselect importance in the general case, but I was refering to your specific example in which it was used only to wait for the event to

Running ping, need help

2004-06-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, I'm trying to provide a library call that will run a ping to a server. The catch is that it needs to be done as a non-root user, and I would like to avoid any solution that involves any SUID or root running processes beyond what is already there. That leaves me, pretty much, ping. The

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-09 Thread Maxim Kovgan
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to provide a library call that will run a ping to a server. The catch is that it needs to be done as a non-root user, and I would like to avoid any solution that involves any SUID or root running processes beyond what is already

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-09 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 18:52:16 +0300, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to provide a library call that will run a ping to a server. The catch is that it needs to be done as a non-root user, and I would like to avoid any solution

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Maxim Kovgan wrote: man pthread_create man pthread_mutex_init good luck. M. I'm afraid you will have to be WAY more specific than this. Why would threads and mutexes help me at all? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. http://www.lingnu.com

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ehud Karni wrote: Caution: untested suggestion. You can use alarm(2) in the child process before `exec'ing the ping. Then it either will finish normally (exit 0) or will fail for any reason (including SIGALRM). No good In this way, you can use blocking `waitpid' in the parent process. If you

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-09 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:31:31 +0300, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The more serious problem is that ALRM has a resolution of seconds, which is not good enough. You can use `setitimer(2)' instead. It has microseconds resolution, but IIRC

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-09 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 06:52:16PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Now here's the thing. Sometimes, I can see that the ping returned fairly immediately, but the full timeout was spent. I suspect that, due to the fact pselect is not a system call in Linux, ping has indeed finished before the

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-09 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 19:18, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Maxim Kovgan wrote: man pthread_create man pthread_mutex_init Why would threads and mutexes help me at all? They won't, wrong direction. Instead, why blocking SIGCHLD and getting to possible critical races? An simpler alternative seems

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: how about replacing the signal with e.g. a pipe? i.e. fork twice, have the first son share a pipe with the father, then fork exec the ping, and wait on it. Once the ping returns, write to the pipe. In the father, select on the pipe with the timeout you want. No async events

Re: Running ping, need help

2004-06-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oron Peled wrote: On Wednesday 09 June 2004 19:18, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Maxim Kovgan wrote: man pthread_create man pthread_mutex_init Why would threads and mutexes help me at all? They won't, wrong direction. Instead, why blocking SIGCHLD and getting to possible critical

Re: console fonts help

2004-05-05 Thread Avraham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As far as I recall consolechars -f expects a complete file name (though maybe not the full path) Good luck, Avraham On Sun, 2 May 2004, Aaron wrote: Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 23:25:55 +0300 From: Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux IL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: console fonts help Hi all I am

RE: console fonts help

2004-05-03 Thread avrahamr
= Original Message From Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Thanks I tried that also, but could you remind me what debian package contains these fonts?? I don't have them installed. Aaron On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 00:52, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:25:55PM +0300, Aaron wrote:

console fonts help

2004-05-02 Thread Aaron
Hi all I am trying to add console font to my two debian based distros mepis and xandros. I try # consolechars -f iso08.f16 -m iso08 and I get: set_kernel_font: Invalid argument What is going on? Thanks Aaron = To unsubscribe,

Re: console fonts help

2004-05-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:25:55PM +0300, Aaron wrote: Hi all I am trying to add console font to my two debian based distros mepis and xandros. I try # consolechars -f iso08.f16 -m iso08 Not an answer to your question, but a general recomendation: If you use a UTF-8 local, you should

Re: console fonts help

2004-05-02 Thread Aaron
Thanks I tried that also, but could you remind me what debian package contains these fonts?? I don't have them installed. Aaron On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 00:52, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:25:55PM +0300, Aaron wrote: Hi all I am trying to add console font to my two debian

RE: Help manipulating new cell phone numbers

2004-04-22 Thread Arik Baratz
-Original Message- From: Ehud Karni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 21:17:18 +0300 (IDT), Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enclosed is a perl script I wrote (in simple easy to follow code) that reads a file exported by morotola phone tools, and

Re: Help manipulating new cell phone numbers

2004-04-19 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 21:17:18 +0300 (IDT), Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enclosed is a perl script I wrote (in simple easy to follow code) that reads a file exported by morotola phone tools, and converts it. The actual conversion

Re: Help manipulating new cell phone numbers

2004-04-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
think perl has some extension. Can someone help please ? There is http://search.cpan.org/~razinf/Number-Phone-IL-NewCell-0.1/NewCell.pm by Oded Resnik. Anyway, numbers are pure ascii. Unless you use a character for the hiphen that is not the standard ascii hiphen-minus ('-'), the whole string

Re: Help manipulating new cell phone numbers

2004-04-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Anyway, numbers are pure ascii. Unless you use a character for the hiphen that is not the standard ascii hiphen-minus ('-'), the whole string is ascii, and thus any standard text manipulation tools should be able to handle it, even if they don't support UTF-8 . Enclosed

alien invasion, help (deb attack)

2004-02-25 Thread aamehl
Hi all, I have been playing with a script that uses rpm2cpio. After running it alien invokes rpm2cpio and tries to make a cpio instead of a deb. This is what I get on the console: theone:/usr/local/viavoice/rh-6.2# alien -i ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2.i386.rpm mkdir: cannot create directory

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-25 Thread linux-il
Oded Arbel wrote: Will you tell us what the final decision was (when it taked place), please ? just the usual curiosity :-) Well, yesterday was the meeting. It turns out that we are still in the design stage - what sort of data should the application have and how will it help its

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:12:35PM +0200, guy keren wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My gliding club is going to write their own software, after years of being dependent on an ancient Magic software that no-one could update and did a fraction of the requirements.

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-23 Thread linux-il
and also get some money for it ;-) And the tools are opener so there are more chances to get community help for development. I'll try that too. Thanks, --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Can I help to Bittorrent Kinneret?

2004-02-23 Thread linux-il
Hi, I have a static IP (actcom) on an ADSL line (96Kb upload). It's not much but would it help if I downloaded Kinneret via Bittorrent and kept the Bittorrent up? Would it help if others in this forum did this? --Amos

Re: Can I help to Bittorrent Kinneret?

2004-02-23 Thread aamehl
Whait's involved? my ip is not static. Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a static IP (actcom) on an ADSL line (96Kb upload). It's not much but would it help if I downloaded Kinneret via Bittorrent and kept the Bittorrent up? Would it help if others in this forum did this? --Amos

Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread linux-il
help me find arguments against this setup? Currently I have: 1. Windows/IIS/ASP are insecure. 2. Not scalable in terms of size of database and number of users (but then it's not going to be a large number of users, only club members). 3. Expensive (but they might be willing to invest this). 4

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread Omer Zak
believe to be a mistake to be dependend on MS proprietary technology, but not being able to give the time to program myself I am a bit at loss as to how exactly can I convince them to see the dangers in that road. Can people help me find arguments against this setup? Currently I have: 1

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread Alon Weinstein
on MS proprietary technology, but not being able to give the time to program myself I am a bit at loss as to how exactly can I convince them to see the dangers in that road. Can people help me find arguments against this setup? Currently I have: 1. Windows/IIS/ASP are insecure. 2. Not scalable

RE: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread Uzi Refaeli
: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access Hi, My gliding club is going to write their own software, after years of being dependent on an ancient Magic software that no-one could update and did a fraction of the requirements. A club member who knows MS stuff valunteered

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread linux-il
for help). The people actually involved in the project work with computers for a living, some are programmers, some are hardware design managers but I don't know their leaning except for that guy who valunteered to do the actual coding. Thanks for your comments. --Amos

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread linux-il
Omer Zak wrote: My argument against MS software: They force you to upgrade to more recent versions of their environment. [ rest of the argument deleted for bravity ] I'm aware that such things happened sometimes in the past, but do you have concrete refferences I can show them? Without these

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alon Weinstein wrote: How about meeting them half-way -- first thing to suggest using mysql/postgresql as the database instead of access -- they're free, and at least I know mysql can run on Windows without a problem. Access has no advantages over mysql in this kind

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread Alon Weinstein
Unfortunetly, at the moment Postgres only has a cygwin version for Windows. There is no native Win32 version at this stage. Also, due to name folding differences, you may find that some tweaking of the SQL statements is required. I have started a project in the past to allow easy translation

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My gliding club is going to write their own software, after years of being dependent on an ancient Magic software that no-one could update and did a fraction of the requirements. A club member who knows MS stuff valunteered to write it in

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread Gil Freund
believe to be a mistake to be dependend on MS proprietary technology, but not being able to give the time to program myself I am a bit at loss as to how exactly can I convince them to see the dangers in that road. Can people help me find arguments against this setup? Currently I have: 1. Windows

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread Oron Peled
: here is what open source can produce through colaboration To help clarify your club members the upgrade cost of MS, you may want to demonstrate the *true* cost of the Magic solution -- having an abandoned software that cannot be maintained any longer. The MS upgrade cycle mentioned by others, almost

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread linux-il
Gil Freund wrote: OK, some real world examples: [examples deleted] My conclusions: Access is underpowered as multi user DBMS. Access is overpowered for single user data management (unless the users knows his/her way around an RDBMS). To take make any use of Access you need a really good VB

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread linux-il
its not web based (it's a GTK app), you may play with it (I didn't) to see if it's a reasonable as a demo-ware. I.e: here is what open source can produce through colaboration Hmm. Maybe so. How well would it work on a Windows system? To help clarify your club members the upgrade cost of MS, you may

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread Gil Freund
Oron Peled wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2004 15:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [deleted] To help clarify your club members the upgrade cost of MS, you may want to demonstrate the *true* cost of the Magic solution -- having an abandoned software that cannot be maintained any longer. The MS

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday 22 February 2004 23:01, Gil Freund wrote: Actually, this is not a good example. Magic was delivered in two flavors - developer and run time. In order to modify the code of the application you needed the developer version, as well the developer. I have used Magic for many tasks back

Re: Need help - arguments for Why not VB+ASP+Access

2004-02-22 Thread linux-il
Oron Peled wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2004 23:01, Gil Freund wrote: Actually, this is not a good example. Magic was delivered in two flavors - developer and run time. In order to modify the code of the application you needed the developer version, as well the developer. I have used

font creation help

2004-02-02 Thread Aaron
Hi all, I need to know whats involved in creating a font. I am writing a book. Earlier volumes of the book has titles in an unusual hebrew font . I would like to scan the titles and then tweek them and use that for my fonts in the title. What linux tools do I need and whats involved. Thanks

Re: font creation help

2004-02-02 Thread Maxim Iorsh
You will need a pfaedit (http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net) and perhaps an autotrace (http://sourceforge.net/projects/autotrace/). Autotrace greatly simplifies the life, as pfaedit knows to invoke it and trace scanned images. On other side, the quality of autotracing is worse than manual. So you can

Call for community help: iwiz debugging marathon

2004-01-27 Thread Dovix
the tool is ready for production, we need testing and debugging of the various connection scripts, and this is where we ask for the help of the community. We need people to try the tool on various configurations and assist in fixing the scripts. We need people to help with ideas and guidance

Re: Call for community help: iwiz debugging marathon

2004-01-27 Thread Shaul Karl
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:54:39AM -0800, Dovix wrote: the more experience you have - the more you can help in less of your time. Not necessarily. Take a look at the following thread: http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Linux/maillists/03/10/threads.html#00326. Executive summary

help with partition table

2003-12-28 Thread Shimon Panfil
Hi folks, playing with grub I have corrupted partition table of two disks out of 3 on my computer(my fault not grubs). Partitions themselves were not touched so in principle information is still there. Is there any way to restore partitions and file systems? TIA, Shimon -- Shimon Panfil

Re: help with partition table

2003-12-28 Thread Eli Billauer
Get yourself a Knoppix 3.3 (or later) CD. Boot from the CD, and use gpart. It's not a graphical interface, as one may think, but a command-line tool that recognizes the partitions on the hard disk. If your partition table is wrecked anyhow, you may use it's feature of setting up the partition

[OT] - some help in contacting a supplier

2003-12-22 Thread Assaf Flatto
Hi In the instaparty last year in the Rennim Kanyoyn , there was s hardware vendor . can some one send me off list the name and phone number of that vendor ? Thanks Assaf --- This

Re: [OT] - some help in contacting a supplier

2003-12-22 Thread Sagi Bashari
I believe it is Brain Box Computers [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04-6222990 On 22/12/2003 14:55, Assaf Flatto wrote: Hi In the instaparty last year in the Rennim Kanyoyn , there was s hardware vendor . can some one send me off list the name and phone number of that vendor ? Thanks Assaf

Re: Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-15 Thread Idan Sofer
Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:01:00PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: In Mozilla, the numbers and bullets of ol and ul lists appear at the far right of the screen. This is despite the fact that in Konqueror 3.1.x Known bug. What's stopping its' resolution is that CSS

Re: Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-15 Thread Idan Sofer
Alon Altman wrote: A good solution to this will be to add a new (non-standard) method of setting the margins, say, margin-start and margin-end, and use it in the default stylesheet, and have margin-left and margin-right override this non-standard setting. AFAIK That's exactly what is being

Re: Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-15 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:34:29PM +0200, Alon Altman wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Idan Sofer wrote: Known bug. What's stopping its' resolution is that CSS doesn't define a property for margin from start of line but only margin from left/right. Thus, you cannot give ols and uls a

Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! In the document: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/rub-a-dub/rub-a-dub-dub-heb_final.html In Mozilla, the numbers and bullets of ol and ul lists appear at the far right of the screen. This is despite the fact that in Konqueror 3.1.x they appear fine, and that with simple pages (like

Re: Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-14 Thread Guy Teverovsky
Vote for the bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140611 Guy On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 17:01, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi! In the document: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/rub-a-dub/rub-a-dub-dub-heb_final.html In Mozilla, the numbers and bullets of ol and ul lists appear at the

Re: Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-14 Thread Oded Arbel
14 2003, 17:01,Shlomi Fish: Hi! In the document: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/rub-a-dub/rub-a-dub-dub-heb_final.html I have no idea what is causing it. Both the body and the ol and ul tags have a dir=rtl attribute. This document was generated from an OpenOffice document, so

Re: Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
] http://www.Guides.co.il Come to write at the forums: http://www.guides.co.il/forums - Original Message - From: Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-IL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December14, 2003 5:01 PM Subject: Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

Re: Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-14 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:01:00PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: In Mozilla, the numbers and bullets of ol and ul lists appear at the far right of the screen. This is despite the fact that in Konqueror 3.1.x Known bug. What's stopping its' resolution is that CSS doesn't define a property for margin

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