Re: Administrivia (was Re: äöòä äòöä)

1999-03-31 Thread Uri Bruck
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Vadim Vygonets wrote: Quoth Evgeny Stambulchik on Tue, Mar 30, 1999: Vadim Vygonets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 64KB seems to be one day (or less) on this list. You're right, it's about 100K a day during the last couple of months. So? Should I setup digests to

Re: Linux Socialism in TAU

1999-04-14 Thread Uri Bruck
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Udi Finkelstein wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 23:26:00 +0300 (IDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shalom, According to an advertisement I saw today in Tel-Aviv University, the Hadash (Communist Party) student group will hold tomorrow (Wednesday) at 18:00 in Gilman 277 a

Re: two in one :)

1999-10-22 Thread Uri Bruck
It's documented in "Core PHP Programming" - didn't actually try to throw anything at it yet. Uri On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: This is a very good news, I wonder why its not documented anywhere. Any one have the mail of Zeev Suraski so he can add it to the documents ? Ilya

Webmaster Needed!!!

1999-10-31 Thread Uri Bruck
Webmaster (job 401) 1. Knowledge in Unix and HTML, and experience in perl. 2. Familiarity with c/php/sql - an advantage. 3. The position requires, among other things, providing customer service by phone, and interdepartamental coordination. 4. The position is avaiable in Haifa. 5. The

linux.org.il webmaster ?

2000-01-09 Thread Uri Bruck
Hello, I am looking for the correct email address of the linux.org.il webmaster. I believe that most recently Alex Dubrovsky took the post, although I may be wrong. Thanks, Uri = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Looking for perl programmers

2000-01-09 Thread Uri Bruck
Hi, Actcom is looking for perl programmers. We are located in Haifa. CVs can be sent directly to me, via email, or to fax 04-8676088, please specify "for Uri, job 402" Thanks, Uri = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: FW: January IVCUG Meeting

2000-01-13 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, guy keren wrote: btw, as for celebrities - this is fun once or twice, but eventually, it tends to be repeteteive, and boring. not to mention one great disadvantage - they carry out the talk in english, and this makes it less fluent then it could be, when done in

Re: bidi in mozilla (fwd)

2000-04-02 Thread Uri Bruck
Saw something similar on macs back when, on Arabic texts that were imported from non-mac. This has to do with a misapplication of the bidi algorithm to non-directional characters such as spaces, intepreting all "normal" spaces as LTR spaces, and only RTL spaces (there's a different code for

Re: sendmail and TZ

2000-04-21 Thread Uri Bruck
Israeli Daylight Savings time is GMT+3 not GMT+2. So the time zone is fine in those headers. On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, David Tabachnikov (NetHunter) wrote: I don't know, (I dislike timezones, and daylight saving time, and time at all ;), thats why all my clocks are still on the previous time),

Re: procmail

2000-08-20 Thread Uri Bruck
Hi, The unfiltered mail goes to whatever is in DEFAULT. So you can just add, on the top of your .procmailrc DEFAULT=/full/path/of/your/inbox Thanks, Uri On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Bareket wrote: Hi guys, I managed to filter the mail with procmail. The filter worked fine, but where are the

Re: Kosher vs. Non-Kosher (was Re: Organizing a Linux Dinner)

2000-08-21 Thread Uri Bruck
And even doing things for appearances sake ("Mar'it Ayin") is not so clear cut. If you do something for "Mar'it Ayin", then it is a legitimate argument, by some orthodox people as well, that it were better had you not observed the rule at all. Now personally, when dining in a group some of

Re: Logical - Visual Hebrew in Python

2000-09-13 Thread Uri Bruck
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote: If anyone's interested I have a C module (based off ICU) that converts logical to visual Hebrew. It should be able to run on Unix and Windows, although Win32 will only be tested once I get Visual C++. Next up, integration with Zope

Re: M$ ad

2000-10-22 Thread Uri Bruck
The only thing missing from that ad is "The Computer is Your Friend" :) On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, guy keren wrote: On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: OH That's a new M$ advertisement in german, first one against Linux. OH http://www.koehntopp.de/kris/msad.jpg

Re: MS internal network compromised

2000-11-01 Thread Uri Bruck
Which can be done in court behind closed doors. Moot point. On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Sorry, but you're wrong.. Since most of Linux applications are open source - they cannot say it's stolen, cause if they'll say that - then they'll have to show their code and prove that

Re: Palm - Linux in Hebrew

2000-11-01 Thread Uri Bruck
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Erez Boym wrote: Some one needs to change all the labels, menus and commands and to make the right changes to in the code so I'll support "Right To Left" etc. In application where all labels and menu commands are defined outside the code as "resources", and you have a

Re: Debian mirror in Palestine

2001-01-26 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: I don't lugh at them, but I joined .il mailing list and not pl, sk , ru or what ever. and il = mean Israel. If there are Palestinian users they should open their own list or behave by the moral code which are held in israel. Regardless of the

Re: Adsl - Linux vs. Win9x

2001-03-23 Thread Uri Bruck
Just to add something here. I've been hearing the story of "only in Israel we get such low speed where the rest of the world has great high speed internet" for years now. First it was with the 28s, then 33, then 56s So I think this quote from Jim Seymour (PC magazine), even though it was

Re: Adsl - Linux vs. Win9x

2001-03-24 Thread Uri Bruck
;high speed" - nowadays, ADSL is considered high speed. Different eras, different techonologies, same complaints, same amount of realism. Thanks Uri Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Uri Bruck wrote: | | | Just to add some

Re: Adsl - Linux vs. Win9x

2001-03-24 Thread Uri Bruck
http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2570300-1,00.html On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Uri Bruck wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Ely Levy wrote: No one talked about the v.90 that complitly diffrent issue. a lot related to old phone lines. btw I bet this artical isn't that new

Re: Bloatware (OT)

2001-03-25 Thread Uri Bruck
On 25 Mar 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: btw, i don't only see microsoft's products as bloated. the same goes for KDE, gnome and other graphic applications. IMHO a lot depends on your modus operandi. It is very easy to accuse, say, XEmacs of being

Re: ADSL and IP's

2001-03-28 Thread Uri Bruck
Hi Miki, Actcom gives you a static IP with your ADSL service. The IP is assigned to your username when you first open the ADSL account (when ADSL is enabled for your account) - and it must be in a range defined for the redback your ADSL line is connected through. If Bezeq will change the

Re: WANTED: A Gnome/Enlightenment screenshot

2001-04-08 Thread Uri Bruck
Would a photo of a garden gnome do? On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Oren Held wrote: Hello! I need for my site a nice gnome and/or enlightenment screenshot to attract users to use Linux.. If anybody here uses one of these (or a combination of them both), and is able to burn 2 minutes of his

Re: AbiWord - hebrew (fwd)

2001-04-29 Thread Uri Bruck
I installed one on Windows, where it showed Hebrew fonts, but when I looked at the files it saved (xml) I found that it uses an encoding I couldn't recognize for Hebrew. Aleph = d790 Bet = d791 etc. I haven't had a chance to inquire about this, but could ths related to the original question?

Re: AbiWord - hebrew

2001-04-29 Thread Uri Bruck
I installed one on Windows, where it showed Hebrew fonts, but when I looked at the files it saved (xml) I found that it uses an encoding I couldn't recognize for Hebrew. Aleph = d790 Bet = d791 etc. I haven't had a chance to inquire about this, but could ths related to the original question?

Re: AbiWord - hebrew

2001-04-29 Thread Uri Bruck
Thanks. I suppose I should have looked up that one On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:05:09AM +0300, Uri Bruck wrote: I installed one on Windows, where it showed Hebrew fonts, but when I looked at the files it saved (xml) I found that it uses

Re: Bidi support for Linux

2001-05-11 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:04:35PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: It depends what you mean by #1: if you mean switch language and the local direction that goes with it, than you are not missing anything. But Ehud wrote Direction unchanged,

Re: Bidi support for Linux

2001-05-11 Thread Uri Bruck
Way back I used to read an Arabic computing mailing, some members of which were reading this list too. I'll try to look them up. On Thu, 10 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: small question has anybody aksed our cousins about what they are thinking? What are they doing? Maybe all arabic

no linux GUI in 97?

2001-04-22 Thread Uri Bruck
I know that date is wrong, but one of the Captain Internet writers seems to think that when linux first showed up in 1997 it had no GUI. Seems to have strange ideas on when linux showed up. Anyone wants to set him straight one that?

Re: Bidi support for Linux

2001-05-13 Thread Uri Bruck
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Oded Arbel wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2001, Uri Bruck wrote: As for testing how things actually work on Windows, The behavior on Windows in widgets and in applications is not necessarily the same. In widgets: It is consistent across widgets drawn by the OS's

Re: OpenSourceSchools Journal Online

2001-10-09 Thread Uri Bruck
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: Anyway, one education official was interviewed for the paper, and what suprised me the most was that he said that one of the worst things about your school's computers being stolen is that the insurance only covers hardware, not software,

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: SPOILER WARING I hope I'm not spoiling anyone's fun, but here's what I would have done: Send my packaged locked (with my lock). The receiver can't open this, but he can put another lock on the same place (I'm assuming it's a sort of hanging lock

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote: Hey everyone, Speaking of newbie question -- A while ago, I posted here a message looking for programmers to help us build a content engine system for School Sucks. I got tens of flames about it, people were amazed how come I dared

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Uri Bruck
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote: Hey, On Saturday 29 December 2001 02:45, Uri Bruck wrote: Let's see. schoolsucks is a site that sells readymade homework essays, with links to something called cheathouse.com, at some point during that thread you are refering to, you

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-28 Thread Uri Bruck
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote: Excuse me? The shonot is shonot from the rest of the subjects, if you're unable to understand that when you look at that menu -- maybe its best that you dont .. I know that's what it's supposed to mean - that's why it has to appear last,

Re: Care and Feeding of Stupids (was: Re: stupid me)

2001-12-29 Thread Uri Bruck
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote: Dear Mr Law abiding citizen, On Saturday 29 December 2001 16:32, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: Since abiding by the law means reporting intent or offers to break the law (unless bound by special strictures like lawyers or

Re: StarOffice - IBM's Hebrew

2002-01-13 Thread Uri Bruck
Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: What about RTF? It generally takes more place (due to a very inefficient encoding of hebrew. Something in the lines of quoted-printable) but it is readable by any decent word processor (word95/7/0/xp,

Re: Basic Compiler

2002-02-11 Thread Uri Bruck
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Well, for one reason that you got tons of stupid MCSE people who don't know nothing from their lives and are simply too lazy to learn something real(tm)... Remember 10 years ago what language they tought at school for newbies? logo - fd 10,

Re: OT: Gates donations, etc.

2002-02-12 Thread Uri Bruck
MSNBC is a joint Microsoft NBC thing, I don't know exactly who owns which part. As for Microsoft donation, there ar ea number of aspects for this. In the US, charitable donations are tax deductible. MS had a charity program for several years, where it gives a dollar for every dollar donated by

LSB--CAN IT HELP NETWORK MANAGERS COPE WITH LINUX?

2002-02-20 Thread Uri Bruck
LSB--CAN IT HELP NETWORK MANAGERS COPE WITH LINUX? The Linux Standard Base (LSB), a specification that would establish interoperability among various Linux distributions, holds many potential benefits for network managers. The idea [behind LSB] is that if everything is in a standard place,

Re: star office

2002-02-24 Thread Uri Bruck
Sun distinguishes between star office and open office. Is this just about the former or about both? Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, tal amir wrote: I'm wondering if anyone saw this coming : sun said that star office is no longer under GPL for linux\windows

Re: Religous War Bait (sic) (was: Re: Perl Meeting)

2002-02-26 Thread Uri Bruck
Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote: begin Adi Stav quotation: On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:19:34PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Give us a break, let's hold the meeting in a classical Sushi place, in a more pleasant

Re: Translating software to hebrew

2002-03-03 Thread Uri Bruck
On 3 Mar 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think this is much due to the lame Hebrew translations that Israelis are used to seeing everywhere around them. Movies, books, computer software - many times when you look at the original item (on which a

Re: No more windows ??

2002-03-05 Thread Uri Bruck
I think the newsforge article misses an important point. From the article: I have friends who work for Microsoft, and they are perfectly nice people. But I'm sorry, this is over the line. A company that makes this kind of threat in response to requests that it follow the basic rules of free

Re: No more windows ??

2002-03-05 Thread Uri Bruck
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Uri Bruck wrote: I think the newsforge article misses an important point. From the article: I have friends who work for Microsoft, and they are perfectly nice people. But I'm sorry, this is over the line. A company

Re: No more windows ??

2002-03-06 Thread Uri Bruck
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UB Microsoft *is* playing by the rules of competitive capitalism. UB That's how it got to a big near-monopoly. The emergence of such UB monstrosities is an inevitable consequence of a free market UB economy. That's a pretty strange claim. I

RE: No more windows ??

2002-03-06 Thread Uri Bruck
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote: I don't know how this topic became economics 101, but I want to return to the quote. If you'll open any operating system concepts book, you will see that separating the shell or the user interface, is very important in order for the os to have a

RE: No more windows ??

2002-03-06 Thread Uri Bruck
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: Note: Terribly long lines. Please tweak your mailer to cut them. On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote: I don't know how this topic became economics 101, but I want to return to the quote. If you'll open any operating system concepts book,

Re: No more windows ??

2002-03-06 Thread Uri Bruck
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UB 'inevitable' - always worked out this way so far, I'm extrapolating. I.e., you claim that every market that is existing long enough and isn't heavily regulated is by now monopolized? There is a world of difference between every market ..is

RE: No more windows ??

2002-03-06 Thread Uri Bruck
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TF the design and quality of the product. If there was an ethic TF committee for these kind of violations they would be disbarred, If there were ethic commitee on this kind of things, all major software vendors would have been taken out and

Re: No more windows ??

2002-03-06 Thread Uri Bruck
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UB There is a world of difference between every market ..is UB monopolized and monopolies arise in a free market. Did you claim that arising of monopoly is inevitable consequence of a free market? And then I explained that by 'inevitable' I was

RE: Whatsup - Important updates

2002-03-19 Thread Uri Bruck
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Amir Tal wrote: Uri, 1) the domain : Co.il has a problem. I am guessing you are using actcom, because their DNS did not update (for some reason) with the new ip. We hosted there 2 years ago (?!), and still... It will be fixed soon. 2) statistics : does it really

Re: Some clarifications !

2002-03-19 Thread Uri Bruck
the diference. If the hosting page conflicts with that - sorry. Tal. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Uri Bruck Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 10:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Linux-IL mailing list' Subject: RE: Whatsup

Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel

2002-04-09 Thread Uri Bruck
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Sagi Bashari wrote: From: Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Apr 09, 2002, Eli Marmor wrote about Re: OT: Transparent Proxies in Israel: But back to the original question: Can anybody list the ISP's that don't use transparent proxies, even not for ADSL users who

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-16 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: So what are the reasons for not switching our official language here from English to Hebrew (not in a day, but rather in a month-2 months time period)? Please reply and explain your position... Thanks, Hetz When you discuss linux in Hebrew do

Re: Hebrew Here - Final Verdict

2002-05-19 Thread Uri Bruck
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: On Sun, 19 May 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: * There is a small (but larger) group of people who promote Hebrew on linux-il on the patriotic grounds that Swedes do it, Finns do it. No they don't. They have No,

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Uri Bruck
On 19 May 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote: On Sun, 19 May 2002, Ely Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would you change it to? The latin alphabet. It has remained pretty much constant (besides the change in the look of S -- the old look which inspired the look of the sign for the integal)

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-19 Thread Uri Bruck
On 19 May 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote: On Sun, 19 May 2002, Uri Bruck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Hebrew alphabet also remained pretty much constant for the last 2K years, and is flexible enough to serve well three languages No, it remained dead and nobody used it in day to day

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-20 Thread Uri Bruck
On 20 May 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2002, Uri Bruck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is false. You simply do not know the history of the Hebrew language and the Hebrew alphabet. Hebrew was never dead. It was used among Jewish communities. Nikud came into use during the 9th

RE: mysql error

2002-05-26 Thread Uri Bruck
I've seen such an error once, and found no good reason for it. Eventually I dumped the table to a text file, dropped it, and recreated it from the dump. The error did not recur. Probably was a nearly corrupt file On Mon, 27 May 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote: The thing is, that the whole thing is

Re: knesset meeting on open source

2002-07-14 Thread Uri Bruck
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Jul 14, 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote about Re: knesset meeting on open source: On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped lots of good comments Nadav, you're preaching to the choir. Why not CC Eitan in the future,

Re: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset meeting on opensource)

2002-07-15 Thread Uri Bruck
On 15 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Somehow, somwhere, somwehn the human race (or part thereof) came up with the weird notions that ideas can be owned. The idea that ideas can be Someone already pointed out that ideas cannot be copyrighted. There is a distinction between an idea, and

RE: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset meeting on opensource)

2002-07-15 Thread Uri Bruck
This one's OT, but since the discussion drifted to AIDS medicine, I'd like to point out this commentary: http://www.time.com/time/2001/aidsinafrica/drugs.html On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote: obviously you did not notice I replied someone. I know the difference between a drug and a

Re: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset meeting on opensource)

2002-07-15 Thread Uri Bruck
On 15 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Oh wait... they did start their research. They did give it for free not just to third world countries but to the entire world. They did manage to stop almost completly a disease that is just as horrible and just as terrible as AIDS and the only

Re: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset meeting on opensource)

2002-07-16 Thread Uri Bruck
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Oron Peled wrote: On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 05:40:29 +0300 (EET DST) Uri Bruck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salk developed the vaccine for polio while working for a university. He worked for a salary. The project was a joint project of several universities, and obviously had

Re: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset meeting on opensource)

2002-07-17 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, guy keren wrote: On 17 Jul 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I actually paid a bunch of lawyers once to understand a particularly difficult employment contract. It was explained to me at length that the law (in Israel) recognizes non-competition without any explicit

Re: sorting hebrew in mysql

2002-07-30 Thread Uri Bruck
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Guy Cohen wrote: Hi, I want to sort a mysql table, but the charset in the database is Hebrew. I currently *can not* recompile mysql with Hebrew or start it with --default-character-set=hebrew. The solution i had in mind was to change the appropriate colum from varchar

Re: [OT] Looking for jobs

2002-09-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On 2 Sep 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: IANAL, but IIRC US courts have come to a bizarre conclusion that people do not expect the same level of privacy in their electronic communications (such as email) as in their conventional communications (such as regular mail). This is one of the

Re: [OT] Looking for jobs

2002-09-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: So in the U.S. your employer can legaly tap your phone, read your email, etc, in fact mine does. It's a well stated company policy. Surely you don't mean your home phone. The wage-slavery system can only go so far. -- Thanks, Uri

Re: Aligning Several HTML Forms in a table

2002-09-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: Because I want all of them aligned. Something like: [Entry1][Button1] [Entry2][Button2] [Entry3][Button3] [Entry4][Button4] Why use XHTML ? I want the HTML to be standards-compliant. Off the

Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption

2002-09-10 Thread Uri Bruck
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Sep 09, 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about Re: [OT] proposed israeli laws regarding internet and encryption: Yes, but they try to scare us here from small group of not highly-organized terrorists. In this context if the technology is availble

Re: Qtext

2002-09-24 Thread Uri Bruck
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi, Of course, this is an important question. I just thought that the first question is whether we have any chance of getting the source. Since you say that someone might possibly fund it, I'll try to dig some more details from the guy when I

Re: Qtext

2002-09-27 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Matitiahu Allouche [EMAIL PROTECTED] [27/09/02 13:29]: The main problem in a Bidi word processor is not how to transform logical to visual format. As Tzafrir Cohen mentioned, there are a number of libraries available for this purpose, which

[OT] Fw: tzedaka project (fwd)

2002-10-02 Thread Uri Bruck
Hi, This is different than the kind of volunteering usually discussed on the list. Please don't reply to me, but directly to the email in the message. - Original Message - From: jamesoppenheim Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:54 PM Subject: tzedaka project Volunteer(s) needed.

Re: apache2 hebrew issue + solution

2002-10-03 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Reuven M. Lerner wrote: Tzafrir == Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tzafrir There are a number of incompatible ways to encode Hebrew Tzafrir (e.g: ISO-8859-8/visual, cp1255/logical and UTF-8). So Tzafrir

Re: apache2 hebrew issue + solution

2002-10-04 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: On 3/10/2002 Uri Bruck wrote: using html lang=he dir=rtl appears to override the charset header. It would be helpful to mention which browser led to this observation. Personally, I am not aware of this being true for any browser, Worked

Re: apache2 hebrew issue + solution (fwd) - ps

2002-10-04 Thread Uri Bruck
this document too: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#edef-HTML -- Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:15:56 +0300 (EET DST) From: Uri Bruck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matitiahu Allouche [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

Re: Hebrew Lashon Academy

2002-12-08 Thread Uri Bruck
? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Uri Bruck wrote: On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: as for Cookie - the Academy claimes they went to the original definition, when cookie actually came from the cookoo bird which lays

Re: IBM Workshop with RMS and T'so in Tel-Aviv and Haifa

2002-12-18 Thread Uri Bruck
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote about Re: IBM Workshop with RMS and T'so in Tel-Aviv and Haifa: be a Jewish Atheist, because Judaism is essentially a peopleship, that the Jewish religion is a small (and unnecessary) part of. If that isn't

Re: A question about Opensource

2002-12-23 Thread Uri Bruck
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On 23 Dec 2002, Meir Michanie wrote: I remember visiting the GNU site and getting lost there. I was searching for the guide: how to register a program as opensource GPL license. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer GPL is a license: it details

Re: OT: Mila Tova on Bank Leumi site and linux/mozilla client

2002-12-26 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Dec 26, 2002, Guy Baruch wrote about OT: Mila Tova on Bank Leumi site and linux/mozilla client: Hello, just a good story for a change, hope it's not too OT. Bank Leumi just recently did a face-lift to their Leumi-Ba-Internet site.

Re: OT: Mila Tova on Bank Leumi site and linux/mozilla client

2002-12-26 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Thu, Dec 26, 2002, Uri Bruck wrote about Re: OT: Mila Tova on Bank Leumi site and linux/mozilla client: 1. A company that designs its website with the typical Israeli over- complication and utter disregard to standards and non-IE browsers

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: Right. Full localization of the working environment the (child) user normally works with is normally needed. Except for English and such programs, that is. And that working environment may be even a dedicated application, in some cases. I

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
Seems like you're advocating the round about route first. Lobbying an MK to put some weight can never the first stage of any process. It's something that should be done only after regular channels fail. On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: I think that if there is a time to push matach on

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: This friend of mine, on the other hand, can now do absolutely nothing with his knowledge of Turbo Pascal This is a claim I find odd. Most of programming is not about learning the syntax of a specific language. and DOS, and yelling But these were the

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On 2 Jan 2003, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Everyone has a choice, of course. I do think that such an attitude is a bad one though. No, not everyone needs to be a rocket scientist. But I don't think you need a rocket scientist to have a basic understanding of how things work. This I can relate

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Victor Zaslavsky wrote: 1. Do not forget support cost - it usually higher for Linux than for Windows (there was appropriate IDC report). Doesn't matter, the numbers are quite diffrent for goverments. 2. I want my kids to be

RE: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: Cause what he would use outside in the world has nothing to do with the things he uses at school in school he learns browesing/office he DOESNT learn how to use windows. browsing and office are the most common uses for windows for non-developers (most

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Xavier Gentoo wrote: Unless of course *you* are comfortable that *your* kids are going to be deprived of elementary independent thinking, that is. If you are, I suggest you watch Total Recall 2070 to see how bright out future is going to be. So someone who chooses MS

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Alon Altman wrote: I think we should try and pass legislation that schools will be forbidden to require the students to purchase closed software to submit their schoolwork. How is that different than requiring students to buy a certain textbook? (In Haifa we rarely did

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-03 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Uri Bruck wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Xavier Gentoo wrote: Unless of course *you* are comfortable that *your* kids are going to be deprived of elementary independent thinking, that is. If you are, I suggest you watch Total

STAROFFICE FREE TO DANISH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

2003-01-03 Thread Uri Bruck
http://listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0301L=edupageD=1T=0P=74 STAROFFICE FREE TO DANISH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS Sun Microsystems has added Denmark to the list of countries in which its StarOffice software package will be made available free for students. Deals had already been

Re: RMS Dinner

2003-01-09 Thread Uri Bruck
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=247510contrassID=2subContrassID=13sbSubContrassID=0 I couldn't find it in the English version of haaretz On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Shaul Karl wrote: 1. http://www.haaretz.co.il. 2. Click near the upper left most corner for the English

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: Imagine a country where not only can schools use free software, but kids are actually free to use the same software at home without draining the family's budget. This is not only essential to sick kids, but also useful for parents who cannot afford

Re: Edu in linux

2003-01-02 Thread Uri Bruck
English: http://www.cet.co.il Hebrew: http://www.cet.ac.il On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: someone knows matach's homepage? i remmebered it once but I can't find it anymore for some weird reason.. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Thu, 2 Jan 2003,

Re: article in nana

2003-01-12 Thread Uri Bruck
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Eli Marmor wrote: But at least, the Gnu is in a good company: Another images that were attached to the article, were: RMS with a flute (halilit) That's a recorder, not a flute. flute is 'halil' (aka halil-tzad because of the way it is held) his autograph

terminology Q

2003-01-13 Thread Uri Bruck
Hi, What term would you use for proprietary system in Hebrew? -- Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command

Re: Ha'aretz article regarding RMS

2003-01-14 Thread Uri Bruck
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Arik Baratz wrote: Richard Stallman wrote: Thanks for translating it for me. Does the article really refer to the system the first time as Linux? I'm afraid so. They write Linux in Hebrew, which is Lamed-Yod-Nun-Vav-Kof-Samech. They didn't add GNU. The name is

Re: Hebrew word for hacker/hack? (was: RE: Academia LeLashon / hackerjargon)

2003-01-15 Thread Uri Bruck
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Omer Zak wrote: Few ideas: - Tekhadshan/Tekhidush (from Khidushei-Torah; i.e. hacks were invented 2100 years ago!) I'd think older, considering that Hammurabi was the first person known to have compiled code - Targilan/Targil - Mekasem/Kesem or miksam (I was thinking

Re: hebrew sugestion for hacker (was: Re: Academia LeLashon / hacker jargon )

2003-01-15 Thread Uri Bruck
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: hacker - TAHSHAV or TAHSHEVAN hack - TIHSHUV hacked [past] - TIHSHEV Hmm, that sounds a bit too familiar, is it taken already? tikshuv - a compound of tikshoret and mikhshuv. yet another academy word that made it. -- Thanks, Uri

Re: Rename to GNU/Linux

2003-01-17 Thread Uri Bruck
and then there's The Gnu Song http://www.poppyfields.net/poppy/songs/gnu.html On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: well like the famous song about parat moshe rabenu says pashot likroa la GNU ve hi tavo myad;) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel -- Thanks, Uri

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