entering hebrew?

2007-02-14 Thread Dan Bar Dov
How do I input hebrew on Linux? More specifically, in firefox (2.0). Thanks, Dan = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL

Re: entering hebrew?

2007-02-14 Thread Julian Daich
El mié, 14-02-2007 a las 09:55 +0200, Dan Bar Dov escribió: How do I input hebrew on Linux? Your question sound like,¨ How do I use an computer?¨ More specifically, in firefox (2.0). Could you be more specific? Which Linux distribution and desktop enviroment are you using? Did you set the

Re: entering hebrew?

2007-02-14 Thread Tzahi Fadida
You need to switch to a hebrew keyboard. If you have xorg, then you'll probably have to edit it and add/edit something like this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver kbd option CoreKeyboard option XkbRules xorg option XkbModel pc105 option

Re: Quickest way to list content of directory(s)

2007-02-14 Thread Peter
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:18:16AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Just for the record, it is not at all clear that, on modern CPUs, code you write in machine code (or even Assembly) will, in fact, run faster. The compiler can be quite good at

Re: entering hebrew?

2007-02-14 Thread Moshe Gorohovsky
Hi, For xorg: 1. Test from command line: host~$ setxkbmap us It is important to save this in shell history, before you switch to Hebrew ! host~$ setxkbmap he Typpe in Hebrew in firefox. host~$ setxkbmap us 2. Configure your favorite keyboard indicator: Add keyboard

Re: entering hebrew?

2007-02-14 Thread Julian Daich
El mié, 14-02-2007 a las 10:39 +0200, Tzahi Fadida escribió: You need to switch to a hebrew keyboard. If you have xorg, then you'll probably have to edit it and add/edit something like this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: In many distros if you are using a Gnome or KDE all the keyboard layouts you do

Re: entering hebrew?

2007-02-14 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 11:01, Julian Daich wrote: El mié, 14-02-2007 a las 10:39 +0200, Tzahi Fadida escribió: You need to switch to a hebrew keyboard. If you have xorg, then you'll probably have to edit it and add/edit something like this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: In many distros if

Re: entering hebrew?

2007-02-14 Thread Julian Daich
El mié, 14-02-2007 a las 11:20 +0200, Tzahi Fadida escribió: On Wednesday 14 February 2007 11:01, Julian Daich wrote: El mié, 14-02-2007 a las 10:39 +0200, Tzahi Fadida escribió: You are right, of course, but i wish it was true for my KDE on kubuntu. The dang thing ignores ALT-SHIFT or any

Re: entering hebrew?

2007-02-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14/02/07, Julian Daich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El mié, 14-02-2007 a las 09:55 +0200, Dan Bar Dov escribió: How do I input hebrew on Linux? Your question sound like,¨ How do I use an computer?¨ That wasn't nice. Dan probably has experience with Windows, not Linux. When he learns Linux, and

Re: entering hebrew?

2007-02-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14/02/07, Dan Bar Dov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I input hebrew on Linux? More specifically, in firefox (2.0). Thanks, Dan Dan, the answer to your question depends on several things. What distro are you using? Ubuntu? Fedora? Gentoo? Slackware? SUSE? Something else? Also, what

Re: entering hebrew?

2007-02-14 Thread Ira Abramov
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Firefox and egov:fines payment

2007-02-14 Thread Arieh Skliarouk
Hello, I tried to pay my fine using web interface on following URL: http://ecom.gov.il/police Unfortunately, each time I filled name, date, fine amount and pressed Ishur, the system returned me to the same page, with highlighted error message, that if there are discrepancies between your data

Firefox and Isracard

2007-02-14 Thread Gabor Szabo
I have just tried to access http://www.isracard.co.il using Firefox. I managed to register but once logged in nothing useful comes out of it. I wrote to the support from where I got prompt answer that currently they don't support Firefox. I also asked when are they going to support it but

Re: Firefox and egov:fines payment

2007-02-14 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Arieh Skliarouk, from the post of Wed, 14 Feb: Hello, I tried to pay my fine using web interface on following URL: http://ecom.gov.il/police for the VAT, IRS and one time a fine to the court system, looks like Linux is out of the picture, yes :-( (funny they put it under police when

Re: Firefox and Isracard

2007-02-14 Thread Zvi Har'El
I use the extension User Agent Switcher (http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/) to access their site :'( Gabor Szabo wrote, On 14/02/07 16:14: I have just tried to access http://www.isracard.co.il using Firefox. I managed to register but once logged in nothing useful comes out of

Re: entering hebrew?

2007-02-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i am using RH9, fvwm. i can switch the keyboard to write in openoffice, but not firefox. many thanks ! dorit Probably a Firefox bug, then. If you can type in Hebrew in OOo and other apps, then you've got the OS and WM configured

Fwd: Firefox and egov:fines payment

2007-02-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 14, 2007 5:08 PM Subject: Re: Firefox and egov:fines payment To: Arieh Skliarouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2/14/07, Arieh Skliarouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried to pay my fine using web interface on

Re: entering hebrew?

2007-02-14 Thread Dan Bar Dov
Thank you all for the very interesting thread. FYI I'm using fedora core 5, KDE, everything standard. But that is not relevant. Dotan I think, almost figured me out, I'm using Linux for years, but always in console mode, never graphics, never gui. For that I used windows. All I needed to know

USB UPS

2007-02-14 Thread David Suna
I need to replace the UPS on my Ubuntu Dapper machine. My local computer store (which knows nothing about Linux) has a UPS that connects via USB rather than the serial port. I was wondering if anyone knows if this type of UPS is supported by Linux, specifically Ubuntu. I never managed to

Web development tools (Was Re: Fwd: Firefox and egov:fines payment)

2007-02-14 Thread David Suna
Are there any programs, that would check a site and would highlight areas (HTML, JS, CSS), that are problematic from cross-browser compatibility perspective? Such a program can even suggest to web-designer, ways to replace or spice the problematic spot with more compatible code (indispensable

Re: USB UPS

2007-02-14 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:11:46PM +0200, David Suna wrote: I need to replace the UPS on my Ubuntu Dapper machine. My local computer store (which knows nothing about Linux) has a UPS that connects via USB rather than the serial port. I was wondering if anyone knows if this type of UPS is

Re: Learning kernel modules development

2007-02-14 Thread Tzahi Fadida
The problem with NFS Root is that i don't have a second machine :(. Anycase, it took a while and i got a uml to work on a debootstrap ubuntu edgy with network support and no super user for the helpers so i won't make a mistake (took half a day just for that). Got my hello world module though so

Re: entering hebrew?

2007-02-14 Thread Julian Daich
El mié, 14-02-2007 a las 14:09 +0200, Dotan Cohen escribió: On 14/02/07, Julian Daich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El mié, 14-02-2007 a las 09:55 +0200, Dan Bar Dov escribió: How do I input hebrew on Linux? Your question sound like,¨ How do I use an computer?¨ That wasn't nice. I meant

Re: entering hebrew?

2007-02-14 Thread Julian Daich
El mié, 14-02-2007 a las 18:51 +0200, Dan Bar Dov escribió: Thank you all for the very interesting thread. FYI I'm using fedora core 5, KDE, everything standard. But that is not relevant. Why do you think is what not relevant? Next time be more specific! Dotan I think, almost figured me

Re: Learning kernel modules development

2007-02-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:10:52PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: The problem with NFS Root is that i don't have a second machine :(. Anycase, it took a while and i got a uml to work on a debootstrap ubuntu edgy with network support and no super user for the helpers so i won't make a mistake

Re: Learning kernel modules development

2007-02-14 Thread Tzahi Fadida
10x for the tip. Mostly solved it by attaching the consoles to pty. On Wednesday 14 February 2007 23:20, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:10:52PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: The problem with NFS Root is that i don't have a second machine :(. Anycase, it took a while and i

Entering Hebrew (2nd round) - VNC with twm

2007-02-14 Thread Ehud Karni
Hello gang, After reading the 1st round of entering hebrew? I have similar problem for the gurus of this list. I'm interfacing with Linux through VNC, i.e. I have a virtual screen created by VNC, with twm as the windows manager. The OS is as old as RH7.3 or new as FC6. I connect to the Linux box

Re: Changing files on a samba share triggers nothing

2007-02-14 Thread Amos Shapira
On 14/02/07, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: however, this does not seem to work, and I can't find how to turn it on, even though I see that Samba is compiled on Debian with the FAM support. OK, I got the picture. I hesitate to point this out to you, but smb.conf(5) contains: fam

Re: USB UPS - MGE ups systems?

2007-02-14 Thread shaulka
On Wednesday, February 14, 2007 8:11 pm, David Suna wrote: The USB UPS is made by Gammatronic. Don't know about Gammatronic. Alternatively, does anyone have a specific UPS that they recommend to use with Linux? MGE ups systems?