Re: thunderbird composing with hebrew

2005-05-13 Thread Peter
I don't know *what* you use Hetz, but imho change it soon. This is what I see (pine very recent): Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 03:26:40 +0200 From: Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux-IL linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: thunderbird composing with hebrew

Is open source more secure? [was Re: Moving to Linux]

2005-05-13 Thread Ori Idan
I think this is an academic debate if GNU/Linux is more secured or not. For the simple people, let us look at the facts: 1. When was the last time any of this list members has seen a virus in his GNU/Linux desktop? (I guess the answer is never) 2. When was the last time you had a spyware in

Re: Is open source more secure? [was Re: Moving to Linux]

2005-05-13 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 10:18 +0300, Ori Idan wrote: I think this is an academic debate if GNU/Linux is more secured or not. For the simple people, let us look at the facts: 1. When was the last time any of this list members has seen a virus in his GNU/Linux desktop? (I guess the answer is

Re: thunderbird composing with hebrew

2005-05-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Peter dear, For composing this email, I'm using the gmail compose capabilities through their web site (gmail.com) with firefox 1.0.4. I really don't know whats the problem with your pine. It's not that I'm sending this text uuencoded.. Maybe the fact that GMAIL encodes text as UTF-8? Thanks,

Re: Is open source more secure? [was Re: Moving to Linux]

2005-05-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:18:49AM +0300, Ori Idan wrote: I think this is an academic debate if GNU/Linux is more secured or not. For the simple people, let us look at the facts: 1. When was the last time any of this list members has seen a virus in his GNU/Linux desktop? (I guess the

Re: thunderbird composing with hebrew

2005-05-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 13 May 2005 02:58, you wrote: , 13 2005, 01:21,Hetz Ben Hamo: Hi People, I don't know if anyone knows, but I have this problem which I cannot solve, and thought maybe someone else thought about a solution/workaround. Editing BIDI in Gecko sux0rz. Just wanted to tell

Re: Is open source more secure? [was Re: Moving to Linux]

2005-05-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 13 May 2005 12:05, you wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:18:49AM +0300, Ori Idan wrote: I think this is an academic debate if GNU/Linux is more secured or not. For the simple people, let us look at the facts: 1. When was the last time any of this list members has seen a virus

Re: Is open source more secure? [was Re: Moving to Linux]

2005-05-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 12:05:45PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:18:49AM +0300, Ori Idan wrote: I think this is an academic debate if GNU/Linux is more secured or not. For the simple people, let us look at the facts: 1. When was the last time any of this

Re: Is open source more secure? [was Re: Moving to Linux]

2005-05-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:20:26PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Friday 13 May 2005 12:05, Didi wrote: The reasons I don't prefer LISP are: [snip] We're here for windows vs. linux religous wars. Hackers-il is for languages religious wars. This thread is long enough as it is. Just to prove my

Re: Is open source more secure? [was Re: Moving to Linux]

2005-05-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 13 May 2005 15:01, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:20:26PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Friday 13 May 2005 12:05, Didi wrote: The reasons I don't prefer LISP are: [snip] We're here for windows vs. linux religous wars. Hackers-il is for languages religious wars.

Re: Is open source more secure? [was Re: Moving to Linux]

2005-05-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5/13/05, Ori Idan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is an academic debate if GNU/Linux is more secured or not. For the simple people, let us look at the facts: 1. When was the last time any of this list members has seen a virus in his GNU/Linux desktop? (I guess the answer is never)

Re: TES (The Times Educational Supplement): Ditching Microsoft can save millions

2005-05-13 Thread Yishay Mor
And the official BECTA report: http://www.becta.org.uk/corporate/press_out.cfm?id=4681 punchline: This report indicates that open source software can provide a cost-effective and efficient solution in schools if effectively deployed. Becta believes that software used in schools should be of a high

Re: TES (The Times Educational Supplement): Ditching Microsoft can save millions

2005-05-13 Thread Uri Sharf
Like someone said on Linmagazine when we published this story, as long as there's no time table or an action plan which someone is committed to, it's nothing much ... http://linmagazine.co.il/node/view/8513 Uri On 5/13/05, Yishay Mor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And the official BECTA report:

Re: Is open source more secure? [was Re: Moving to Linux]

2005-05-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5/13/05, Yedidyah Bar-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: common as a server. So the crackers develop means to break linux servers. If/When linux is very common on the desktop, you'll start seeing the same there. Same flawed FUD used by the MS camp. Apache is the most common web server in the