Re: Preferred video card for Linux dual-head?

2008-08-27 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/8/26 Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Amos presumably needs a working solution TODAY. Promises for bright Not TODAY, YESTERDAY. These monitors are sitting unused for almost a week now. future are irrelevant. If he chooses ATI cards, he should use only 1st reason to justify his choice.

Small victories, but more work to be done

2008-08-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
Today I got a letter from YNET that they are moving their videos to Flash from WMV to support Firefox and Linux users. Nice move, and they will have me visiting their website, and their advertisers, as soon as the change happens. I have spoken with technical support at postil twice by telephone,

Re: Small victories, but more work to be done

2008-08-27 Thread Valery Reznic
Hi, Dotan. If you know of other Israeli websites that do not work in Firefox or Linux, please mention them and I will contact them. Thanks! Ben Gurion Airport site not work in the FF (at least on Linux)

Re: Small victories, but more work to be done

2008-08-27 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Dotan, Recently, there was a long thread about this subject in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. The problematic pages is the HOT broadcasts schedule page and the page for contacting them: http://www.hot.net.il/EPG/Templates/EPGTimeline/EPGTimeline.aspx

Re: Preferred video card for Linux dual-head?

2008-08-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/8/26 Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Amos presumably needs a working solution TODAY. Promises for bright Not TODAY, YESTERDAY. These monitors are sitting unused for almost a week now. future are irrelevant. If he chooses ATI cards, he

When to boycott hardware only partially supported by Linux? (Re: Preferred video card for Linux dual-head?)

2008-08-27 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 15:07 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/8/26 Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Amos presumably needs a working solution TODAY. Promises for bright Not TODAY, YESTERDAY. [... snipped ...] You pretty much nailed it, just like

Re: Small victories, but more work to be done

2008-08-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote about Small victories, but more work to be done: Today I got a letter from YNET that they are moving their videos to Flash from WMV to support Firefox and Linux users. Hi, I'm a bit curious - why do you consider changing from WMV to Flash important for

Re: Small victories, but more work to be done

2008-08-27 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Velery, How about the video content on JPost.com? Did someone mention then already? - yba On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Valery Reznic wrote: Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:45:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Valery Reznic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-il. linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Small victories, but more work to be done

2008-08-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/8/27 Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm a bit curious - why do you consider changing from WMV to Flash important for Linux or Firefox users? Because I personally have never been able to play embedded WMV in the browser on Linux, yet I've never had a problem playing embedded Flash. WMV as

Re: Preferred video card for Linux dual-head?

2008-08-27 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/8/27 Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Great, just great. So while considering all the apathy hang-vidia shows towards open-source, their crappy BLOBs, and they dropping support from older cards, and not releasing specs, etc. - you're still supporting them with your wallet. How do you expect