Re: laptop
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 08:51 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: On 29/12/06, Maxim Veksler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - IBM (note: Not the new lenovo junk!) Do others agree that Lenovo != IBM? I'm not a laptops expert but was considering to look at some Lenovo stuff based on the great Linux support by IBM laptops. The Thinkpad series still works as it were before - I don't know for how long, but I hope that Lenovo won't kill a winning horse. The Lenovo 3000 series also works rather well, but people are having issues with sound supports (ICH8 - external speakers aren't turned off when headphones are plugged in), screen resolutions (i945 - can't enable native 1280x900 resolution in X, always goes back to 1024x768) and camera (doesn't work at all, but its still better then the Thinkpad that doesn't have a camera). -- Oded ::.. Breaking Windows isn't just for kids anymore... = 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: laptop
Hi, Do others agree that Lenovo != IBM? The team that was designing and developing the thinkpad series has been sold to Lenovo. Lenovo was already manufacturing the Thinkpad for IBM before Lenovo bought IBM Thinkpad Division. The 3000 V100 series is their move away from the R series (Value) to something which doesn't resemble the thinkpad line. You can see that in term of design it looks totally different from the Thinkpad models. Lenovo had decided that the 3000 series would be for more private/home users while the Thinkpad line (T, X) will be for corporate users and that the corporate models will have the IBM logo and the same design remains. For example, you can look how their X60 looks: just like T30, X31, T40 etc, only a bit slimmer, plus the damn wiindows keys, they modified the power connector (no more backward compatibility), but a simple look from a distant, and you know it's Thinkpad. In terms of service, nothing has been changed. IBM Israel repairs their machines, and IBM Service in Israel is WAY WAY better then anything else is period! I would definatly not recommend going with HP, as their service simply sucks big time (unless it's their precioud servers, which is served by a totally different unit). I'm not a laptops expert but was considering to look at some Lenovo stuff based on the great Linux support by IBM laptops. I would recommend (depends on your budget) to go with Thinkpad R50 or R60 series (or if you can afford youself - the T50 or T60 series or X60). You can save few thousand shekels with the competitors, but you WILL pay those shekels back when you'll need to either upgrade or fix this notebook. Been there over 4 times already. Thanks, Hetz -- Visit my blog (hebrew) for things that (sometimes) matter: http://wp.dad-answers.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: laptop
I have an HP NC8000 Notebook that works flawlessly with linux. It uses an atheros based wifi card that requires the free madwifi module. Ubuntu has it preinstalled, debian has a source package (madwifi-source) you can download and build with the debian package tools. Everything else works out of the box. The only thing I haven't tried to use yet is the 56K modem, but I don't need it anyway So +1 for HP from me :) Alex On 12/30/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lenovo != IBM in the sense that IBM is no longer in control. The factory is the same (in theory). In practice, things may have changed (not necessarily to the worse, quality control wise): http://www.namedevelopment.com/articles/NYTimesLenovoNmeChng120404.html http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1374143,00.html http://uk.gizmodo.com/2006/05/19/ Peter = 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] -- | | Alex Alexander | Flash PHP Developer | GlobalStar Interactive Intelligence | visit us @ www.globalstar.gr \
Re: laptop
Hi Oded, The Lenovo 3000 series also works rather well, but people are having issues with sound supports (ICH8 - external speakers aren't turned off when headphones are plugged in), screen resolutions (i945 - can't enable native 1280x900 resolution in X, always goes back to 1024x768) and camera (doesn't work at all, but its still better then the Thinkpad that doesn't have a camera). The Thinkpad series is aimed to the corporate usage, starting from the low end (R), goes to mainstream workers (T) and all the way to the top (X). The features that the Thinkpad has are more or less dictated by the customers and it seems Lenovo goes really slow here when it comes to change the Thinkpad series. You can see for example the lack of firewire in the thinkpad, as well as the weird issue that even a brand new thinkpad (T,X) (well, at least up to T50) has ... a parallel port. Why? corporates wanted it.. Firewire, integrated cam, weird resolutions are nice things to have for the private consumer, not for the corporate suits, so they appear in the 3000 series. Thanks, Hetz -- Visit my blog (hebrew) for things that (sometimes) matter: http://wp.dad-answers.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: laptop
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 15:20 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: For example, you can look how their X60 looks: just like T30, X31, T40 etc, only a bit slimmer, plus the damn wiindows keys I'm using a T43, which sadly lacks the windows and menu keys - they're ton useful, I always need more shift states, and when I don't have an external keyboard I have to make do with only 3 :-( I would recommend (depends on your budget) to go with Thinkpad R50 or R60 series (or if you can afford youself - the T50 or T60 series or X60). You can save few thousand shekels with the competitors, but you WILL pay those shekels back when you'll need to either upgrade or fix this notebook. Been there over 4 times already. R50 sells for as low as 4000 NIS, which is a great price for a laptop no matter how you look at it. -- Oded ::.. The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both wins and losses. The Guru doesn't take sides; she welcomes both hackers and lusers. The Tao is like a stack: the data changes but not the structure. the more you use it, the deeper it becomes; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the root. = 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: OpenOffice Hebrew encoding
Thanks for the two replies I got, but unfortunately, neither of them solves the problem. In case I wasn't clear in my earlier post, let me clarify. I have 3 Mandriva boxes - 1 is 2006 and 2 are 2007. On the 2006 box I have OOo 2.0 - build 8990 and on the 2007 boxes OOo 2.0.3 (from the install DVD). I have Hebrew capability on all 3 installations of OOo. BUT, on one of the 2007 boxes I can only see Hebrew using CLM fonts. Let me say again that I CAN see all the Hebrew fonts in the selection list on all machines. I can't find any relevant difference in what I installed on the three machines. On Friday 29 December 2006 17:57, Ori Idan wrote: Check font translation, make sure that David is translated to David CLM. I don't have font translation enabled on any of the 3 installations, so since I have no problems with Hebrew on the other machines, I don't believe this to be the problem. Also, install msttcorefonts. Here too, I don't have msttcorefonts installed on ANY of the machines. That shouldn't be necessary in the first place since I imported Windows fonts. And agai, on 2 machines I have no problem. On 12/29/06, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: possibly the locale settings? Try in a console to see if what $LANG is set I don't see why this would be relevant, but I did check and on all 3 boxes LANG is en_US.UTF-8. There's only one difference I could see that **might** be relevant, although I doubt it. On the **problem** machine I have many more font packages installed than on the other 2 machines. Is it possible that there is some conflict? On one of the **good** machines: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa|grep fonts|more ghostscript-fonts-8.11-5mdk fonts-ttf-dejavu-2.9-1mdv2007.0 fonts-ttf-decoratives-1.3-15mdk fonts-ttf-west_european-1.3-15mdk mkfontscale-1.0.1-3mdv2007.0 xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts-7.1.0-6mdv2007.0 fslsfonts-1.0.1-3mdv2007.0 xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts-7.1.0-6mdv2007.0 fonts-type1-hebrew-0.101-2mdk urw-fonts-2.0-16.1mdk and on the **problem** machine: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa|grep font x11-font-sony-misc-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-misc-ethiopic-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 libxfont1-1.1.0-4.1mdv2007.0 x11-font-cursor-misc-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-bitstream-100dpi-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-bh-ttf-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 libfontenc1-1.0.2-2mdv2007.0 x11-font-cronyx-cyrillic-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-dec-misc-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-wqy-bitmapfont-1.0-0.20060916.2mdv2007.0 xfontsel-1.0.1-5mdv2007.0 xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts-7.1.0-6mdv2007.0 libxfontcache1-devel-1.0.2-2mdv2007.0 x11-font-arabic-misc-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-winitzki-cyrillic-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-jis-misc-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-alias-1.0.1-8mdv2007.0 libfontconfig1-2.4.1-1mdv2007.0 x11-font-bh-100dpi-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-daewoo-misc-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 libfontconfig1-devel-2.4.1-1mdv2007.0 fonts-type1-hebrew-0.101-2mdk xlsfonts-1.0.1-3mdv2007.0 x11-font-schumacher-misc-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-encodings-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 mkfontscale-1.0.1-3mdv2007.0 fonts-hebrew-elmar-3.3-9mdk fonts-ttf-west_european-1.3-15mdk x11-font-micro-misc-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 fontconfig-2.4.1-1mdv2007.0 xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts-7.1.0-6mdv2007.0 x11-font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-bitstream-speedo-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 fonttosfnt-1.0.1-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-xfree86-type1-1.0.0-5mdv2007.0 x11-font-misc-misc-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-util-1.0.1-3mdv2007.0 chkfontpath-1.10.0-2mdk libfontenc1-devel-1.0.2-2mdv2007.0 x11-font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-bh-type1-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-adobe-utopia-75dpi-1.0.1-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-adobe-utopia-type1-1.0.1-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-type1-1.0.0-3mdv2007.0 showfont-1.0.1-3mdv2007.0 x11-font-screen-cyrillic-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-isas-misc-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-cyrillic-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-adobe-utopia-100dpi-1.0.1-4mdv2007.0 libxfontcache1-1.0.2-2mdv2007.0 x11-font-bitstream-75dpi-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 font-tools-0.1-13mdk fonts-ttf-freefont-20040828-5mdv2007.0 fonts-ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-bitstream-type1-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 xorg-x11-cyrillic-fonts-7.1.0-6mdv2007.0 urw-fonts-2.0-16.1mdk x11-font-mutt-misc-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-bh-75dpi-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 fslsfonts-1.0.1-3mdv2007.0 fonts-ttf-decoratives-1.3-15mdk x11-font-misc-1.0.0-3mdv2007.0 x11-font-misc-cyrillic-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 x11-font-ibm-type1-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 mkfontdir-1.0.2-2mdv2007.0 x11-font-sun-misc-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 fonts-ttf-dejavu-2.9-1mdv2007.0 x11-font-misc-meltho-1.0.0-4mdv2007.0 tv-fonts-1.1-6mdv2007.0 ghostscript-fonts-8.11-5mdk libxfont1-devel-1.1.0-4.1mdv2007.0 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shlomo Solomon Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 11:05 AM To: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: OpenOffice Hebrew encoding This is probably trivial, but I haven't been able to find it. On a new install of OpenOffice on Mandriva
Re: Keyboard shortcuts with Hebrew letters
On 12/27/06, Ilya Konstantinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also would like to solve this at the X level.
I think you could create a new XKB il mapping where holding Ctrl or Alt
is a modifier that activates the 1st shift group. It shouldn't be too hard.
It's funny how I never got to it.
Just for the record, I've tried today to define such an XKB keymap, without
sucess. I've tried both defining it in terms of compat mappings (but they
only allow you to map a key + a modifier to an action, not any key + a
modifier) and in terms of symbols mappings (by changing the mapping of,
say, LALT to map to actions[Group1] = { SetGroup(1), SetGroup(1) ]).
So far, it looks like this is a problem that have to be solved in each and
every X client (on the toolkit level, obviously).
Re: Keyboard shortcuts with Hebrew letters
On 30/12/06, Ilya Konstantinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also would like to solve this at the X level.
I think you could create a new XKB il mapping where holding Ctrl or Alt
is a modifier that activates the 1st shift group. It shouldn't be too hard.
It's funny how I never got to it.
Just for the record, I've tried today to define such an XKB keymap, without
sucess. I've tried both defining it in terms of compat mappings (but they
only allow you to map a key + a modifier to an action, not any key + a
modifier) and in terms of symbols mappings (by changing the mapping of,
say, LALT to map to actions[Group1] = { SetGroup(1), SetGroup(1) ]).
So far, it looks like this is a problem that have to be solved in each and
every X client (on the toolkit level, obviously).
Thanks for the effort. Do you have any links for information on how to
make such a keymap for KDE? I've been googling this, and I cannot find
anything relevant.
Dotan Cohen
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http://what-is-what.com/what_is/open_office.html
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Re: Keyboard shortcuts with Hebrew letters
On 12/30/06, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the effort. Do you have any links for information on how to make such a keymap for KDE? I've been googling this, and I cannot find anything relevant. There's nothing KDE-specific about XKB keymaps. There are also no GUI tools to produce them. For information about the XKB layouts concepts and syntax (which is a pretty complicated subject), see Ivan Pascal's reference on the subject: http://pascal.tsu.ru/en/xkb/
Re: Keyboard shortcuts with Hebrew letters
On 30/12/06, Ilya Konstantinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/30/06, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the effort. Do you have any links for information on how to make such a keymap for KDE? I've been googling this, and I cannot find anything relevant. There's nothing KDE-specific about XKB keymaps. There are also no GUI tools to produce them. For information about the XKB layouts concepts and syntax (which is a pretty complicated subject), see Ivan Pascal's reference on the subject: http://pascal.tsu.ru/en/xkb/ Thanks for that. I'll spend some quality time with that site, and see what I come up with. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/171/eagle-eye_cherry.php http://dagot.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: Israel TV
Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Thu, 28 Dec: On 28/12/06, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone got more illegal links to post to the list? :-) Sorry, I wasn't aware that there is anything illegal about these links. I got them from a Tapuz Forum post, where Tapuz is particularly touchy about putting anything illegal (or even matters like criticizing commercial companies by disappointed customers) on its forums. I'm quite positive none of these links are legally rebroadcasting any of the said stations. linking is legal I guess, for now, in Israel (it isn't by American law), as long as you are not the one actually providing the service. -- You know my name, look up my number 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: Israel TV
On 31/12/06, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Thu, 28 Dec: On 28/12/06, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone got more illegal links to post to the list? :-) the said stations. linking is legal I guess, for now, in Israel (it Good - so I haven't broken the law, have I? Happy new year... --Amos
Re: Israel TV
Amos Shapira wrote: On 31/12/06, *Ira Abramov* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Thu, 28 Dec: On 28/12/06, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone got more illegal links to post to the list? :-) the said stations. linking is legal I guess, for now, in Israel (it Good - so I haven't broken the law, have I? Happy new year... If I remember correctly, linking is not legal in Australia. I actually think the USA has not yet fully decided whether it's legal or not --Amos Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html = 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]
