Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-24 Thread Maxim Kovgan
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Noam Rathaus wrote: hi Noam! it is great you've brought up the subject, and if u find more info on what exactly was there, please post it on here. and there is always a danger that some malicious submitter submits a package to rpm/deb/tgz database with a trojan. as well as

Re: Mail and Hebrew]

2003-11-24 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 24/11/2003 03:09, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Life could be much easier if Mozilla supported RTL+LTR switching. At the moment, we must use IE for proper hebrew support of mail composing. Tell that to my mom that uses mozilla Is there any option to set the direction to RTL for hebrew text

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-24 Thread linux-il
Maxim Kovgan wrote: how often do you dissassemble your compiled code ? According to the following, even dissassemling your compiled code won't be trusty because how can you trust your dissassembler that it wasn't trojan'ed to hide the melicious code? http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ Excellent

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-24 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:49:43AM +0200, Maxim Kovgan wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Noam Rathaus wrote: hi Noam! it is great you've brought up the subject, and if u find more info on what exactly was there, please post it on here. This link has surfaced lately: http://www.wiggy.net/debian/

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-24 Thread linux-il
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:49:43AM +0200, Maxim Kovgan wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Noam Rathaus wrote: hi Noam! it is great you've brought up the subject, and if u find more info on what exactly was there, please post it on here. This link has surfaced lately:

Re: Mail and Hebrew]

2003-11-24 Thread Aaron
I have been lurking and am wondering if and how I can compose/read hebrew on evolution?? Thanks Aaron On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 11:24, Sagi Bashari wrote: On 24/11/2003 03:09, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Life could be much easier if Mozilla supported RTL+LTR switching. At the moment, we must use IE for

Re: Debian.org Hacked... How far was it from apt-get installing Trojans?

2003-11-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maxim Kovgan wrote: how often do you dissassemble your compiled code ? According to the following, even dissassemling your compiled code won't be trusty because how can you trust your dissassembler that it wasn't trojan'ed to hide the melicious code?

Re: Mail and Hebrew]

2003-11-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:24:36AM +0200, Sagi Bashari wrote: On 24/11/2003 03:09, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Life could be much easier if Mozilla supported RTL+LTR switching. At the moment, we must use IE for proper hebrew support of mail composing. Tell that to my mom that uses mozilla

Re: Mail and Hebrew]

2003-11-24 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 24/11/2003 13:35, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Is there any option to set the direction to RTL for hebrew text messages? Right now every hebrew email I get is aligned to the left. I have the same problem when composing an email, I have to send it as HTML to align it properly, and even then it only

Re: Mail and Hebrew]

2003-11-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Sagi Bashari wrote: A text has no base direction attribute. But what's wrong with simply sending Hebrew text? The problem is that mozilla doesn't detect the base direction, so when I write everything is aligned to the left - and even if I change the alignment manually using the toolbar (for

Looking for off the shelf embeded boards

2003-11-24 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hi, I'm looking for a source of off the shelf embedded system boards. What I need: 1. Off the shelf availability in ISRAEL. 2. GOOD customer support. 3. x86 processor. preferably about 300mHz low power. 4. LINUX ready to run included in a development kit or readily available. 5. Ethernet,

Re: Mail and Hebrew]

2003-11-24 Thread Oded Arbel
24 2003, 15:40,Shachar Shemesh: Mozilla from totally unusable for Hebrew to bearable, with no better alternative, at least as far as I'm concerned. KMail is the obvious alternative, but there are other Qt based mailers, all are quite usable. Personally, I think what kmail is doing is

Re: Mail and Hebrew]

2003-11-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 04:05:10PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: 24 2003, 15:40,Shachar Shemesh: Mozilla from totally unusable for Hebrew to bearable, with no better alternative, at least as far as I'm concerned. KMail is the obvious alternative, but there are other Qt based mailers, all

[OT] Government is switching to OpenOffice

2003-11-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
.. still on Windows, but Microsoft is mad nonetheless. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34154.html Apparently, the feeling is mutual. ;-) -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Mail and Hebrew]

2003-11-24 Thread Oded Arbel
As you managed to misquote everything I wrote, I will simply start from scratch: Kmail is a text only MUA. it can read HTML mail but it can only send plain text. this is fine for me : I don't need to send HTML, but YMMV. so in the next paragraph I'm not talking about HTML at all, and anything

nfs mounting query

2003-11-24 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Howdy, Assume the following situations: - A Linux NFS client - An NFS server, listening on either UDP or TCP (the client doesn't know which). The client will try contacting the server on TCP first. Assuming it fails, will it fallback to UDP? looking at the code in the kernel, nope. Looking

Re: Mail and Hebrew]

2003-11-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oded Arbel wrote: 24 2003, 15:40,Shachar Shemesh: Mozilla from totally unusable for Hebrew to bearable, with no better alternative, at least as far as I'm concerned. KMail is the obvious alternative, but there are other Qt based mailers, all are quite usable. Personally, I

Re: [OT] Government is switching to OpenOffice

2003-11-24 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: .. still on Windows, but Microsoft is mad nonetheless. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34154.html Apparently, the feeling is mutual. ;-) I find it amusing that The Register treat all stories regarding anything Israeli MS related as having to do with the mac.

Re: [OT] Government is switching to OpenOffice

2003-11-24 Thread Shachar Tal
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: .. still on Windows, but Microsoft is mad nonetheless. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34154.html Apparently, the feeling is mutual. ;-) No surprise here. The windows OS line generates a small amount of money for MS, compared to the Office product line (I

Re: [OT] Government is switching to OpenOffice

2003-11-24 Thread Diego Iastrubni
, 24 2003, 16:31, : .. still on Windows, but Microsoft is mad nonetheless. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34154.html Apparently, the feeling is mutual. ;-) not the government, but IBM. This is a really interesting point everyone for some reason forgets. Those boxes, are maintained

Re: silly gnome-panel question

2003-11-24 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Cool! Thanks. Just what I was looking for. On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:20:01AM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:06:59PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: I see that my question wasn't clear. I'll restate it. When a window opens, gnome adds it automatically to its task

local override for javascript functions?

2003-11-24 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
All of us are familiar with annoying javascript functions on specific pages, that do somthing that is not understood by our browser, or is simply unwanted to us end-users. Wouldn't it be nice to say to mozilla: http://some.url/page.html defines a function called doBadThing. would