Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Eli Marmor
Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Isn't that what "Free Market" means? The usual sequence of events is > that when you have 10 options for a library, 7-8 of them die out, and > you are left with two. That's what happened in the desktop env (anyone > still seriously using GNUStep? fvwm?) > > It's a good th

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Henry Ficher
Eli Marmor wrote: Chazal said: "Kin'at Sofrim Tarbe Hochma". What I really miss in Open Source? What does it lack? Open Source offers almost everything we need. Actually, much more than we need: How should I choose my choices? The first choice I make is the distribution. The advanta

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Quoting Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > - You need a text editor? > - No problem; We have emacs for you, we have vi, etc. Just take one. hehe... a signature I caught the other day on some random mailing list: Emacs is a fine OS, but what it lacks to be able to hold it's own against Linux and

Re: Blessed Religious Wars

2002-12-13 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Henry Ficher, from the post of Fri, 13 Dec: > >How should I choose my choices? > > > >This site may be called "ReligiousWars.something", and will enjoy a > >high rating from its first day (because people CARE about religious > >wars). So contrary to typical Dot.Com initiatives, this one has

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just wish to have a site that will allow me to choose the right tool > for my needs. There is an ongoing thread on comp.lang.c.moderated that started when someone posted a question about the best book to learn C from. He was told to figure out first wha

KMail questions

2002-12-13 Thread shlomo solomon
As part of my move fro MDK 8.1 to MDK 9.0, I also decided to try KMail (instead of XFMail that I've used for years. So far, I'm quite satisfied. But I have one question and one problem and I haven't found any information on either of them. QUESTION: Is there a way to prevent the message to be

Re: KMail questions

2002-12-13 Thread Amir Tal
On Friday 13 December 2002 13:09, shlomo solomon wrote: > As part of my move fro MDK 8.1 to MDK 9.0, I also decided to try KMail > (instead of XFMail that I've used for years. So far, I'm quite > satisfied. But I have one question and one problem and I haven't > found any information on either of t

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-13, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > hehe... a signature I caught the other day on some random mailing list: > > Emacs is a fine OS, but what it lacks to be able to hold it's own against > Linux and Windows is a good text editor. > > ;-) I've heard it in a shorter version: (even better IMO

Re: KMail questions

2002-12-13 Thread shlomo solomon
On Friday 13 December 2002 13:38, Amir Tal wrote: > what version are you using ? > i am using 3.0.4 and i dont think there is an option (like in knode, for > example...) but i do believe that it was added to CVS and will be included > in 3.1 final (check the kde archives, i saw something about it

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Eli Marmor
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > There is an ongoing thread on comp.lang.c.moderated that started when > someone posted a question about the best book to learn C from. He was > told to figure out first what it was he wanted to do with (in?) C. The > OP said he had a very good idea what he wanted, and that

Re: Mozilla problem

2002-12-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know if these are Mozilla or Mandrake problems. After installing MDK9.0, > I decided to try Mozilla 1.1 - **out of the box**. Installation, or upgrade of your system? Was your home directory preserved? > > 1 - I can reach any site I want, a

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can't just "harvest" details from the Internet and build a check > list; > You should try all of the choices in order to get a decision. > This is the only way to decide which of them is really the easiet. > And which of them is really the fastest. > Bu

Re: KMail questions

2002-12-13 Thread Alex Chudnovsky
On Friday 13 December 2002 13:09, shlomo solomon wrote: > As part of my move fro MDK 8.1 to MDK 9.0, I also decided to try KMail > (instead of XFMail that I've used for years. So far, I'm quite > satisfied. But I have one question and one problem and I haven't > found any information on either of t

Re: Mozilla problem

2002-12-13 Thread shlomo solomon
On Friday 13 December 2002 14:31, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't know if these are Mozilla or Mandrake problems. After installing > > MDK9.0, I decided to try Mozilla 1.1 - **out of the box**. > > Installation, or upgrade of your system? > Was your h

Re: KMail questions

2002-12-13 Thread shlomo solomon
On Friday 13 December 2002 13:48, Alex Chudnovsky wrote: > > QUESTION: Is there a way to prevent the message to be immediately > > marked as read when you highlight it in the Message LIst? I'd like > > the change from unread to read to be only after a few seconds - not > > immediately. > > Yes, Se

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Eli Marmor wrote: > > >The real thing that is missing, is the opposite one. > >We have a problem of rich men: too many choices. > > > > > > > Isn't that what "Free Market" means? The usual sequence of events is > that when you have 10 options for a lib

Re: KMail questions

2002-12-13 Thread Alex Chudnovsky
On Friday 13 December 2002 14:04, shlomo solomon wrote: > On Friday 13 December 2002 13:48, Alex Chudnovsky wrote: > > > QUESTION: Is there a way to prevent the message to be immediately > > > marked as read when you highlight it in the Message LIst? I'd like > > > the change from unread to read to

Re: KMail questions

2002-12-13 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Friday 13 December 2002 12:04, shlomo solomon wrote: > On Friday 13 December 2002 13:48, Alex Chudnovsky wrote: > > > QUESTION: Is there a way to prevent the message to be immediately > > > marked as read when you highlight it in the Message LIst? I'd like > > > the change from unread to read to

Re: Blessed Religious Wars [Was: Mandrake 9.0 is fantastic]

2002-12-13 Thread Christoph Bugel
On 2002-12-13, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > (anyone still seriously using GNUStep? fvwm?) For the record, yes: at home my main wm currently is fvwm2. And a collegue of me at work is actually using twm.. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [

Re: KMail questions

2002-12-13 Thread Amir Tal
On Friday 13 December 2002 13:54, shlomo solomon wrote: > On Friday 13 December 2002 13:38, Amir Tal wrote: > > what version are you using ? > > i am using 3.0.4 and i dont think there is an option (like in knode, for > > example...) but i do believe that it was added to CVS and will be > > includ

Re: KMail questions

2002-12-13 Thread Amir Tal
On Friday 13 December 2002 13:48, Alex Chudnovsky wrote: > On Friday 13 December 2002 13:09, shlomo solomon wrote: > > As part of my move fro MDK 8.1 to MDK 9.0, I also decided to try KMail > > (instead of XFMail that I've used for years. So far, I'm quite > > satisfied. But I have one question and

Announcement: free Hebrew Spell-Checker

2002-12-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
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