Re: Ynet: MoF considers using Linux (probably Mandrake) for desktops

2003-12-14 Thread Herouth Maoz
Quoting Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My guess (pure guesswork) is that IBM is the one offering the actual migration. Isn't IBM's preferred distro SuSE? The article at least talks about Mandrake. Herouth = To unsubscribe,

Re: Ynet: MoF considers using Linux (probably Mandrake) for desktops

2003-12-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 09:54:21AM +0200, Herouth Maoz wrote: Quoting Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My guess (pure guesswork) is that IBM is the one offering the actual migration. Isn't IBM's preferred distro SuSE? The article at least talks about Mandrake. SuSE and RedHat,

RE: Slow KDE?

2003-12-14 Thread Iftach Hyams
If I recall correctly, the slocate is running among boot (maybe it is from cron daily). Anyhow, it scramble the disk when you most need it ... This e-mail message has been sent by Elbit Systems Ltd. and is for the use of the intended recipients only. The message may contain privileged or

Re: Slow KDE?

2003-12-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:35:07AM +0200, Iftach Hyams wrote: If I recall correctly, the slocate is running among boot (maybe it is from cron daily). Anyhow, it scramble the disk when you most need it ... It is run from the daily cron. Typically around 2-4 am. This should not interfere with

Re: Ynet: MoF considers using Linux (probably Mandrake) for desktops

2003-12-14 Thread doron
On Sunday 14 December 2003 10:25, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 09:54:21AM +0200, Herouth Maoz wrote: Quoting Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My guess (pure guesswork) is that IBM is the one offering the actual migration. Isn't IBM's preferred distro SuSE? The

Re: Ynet: MoF considers using Linux (probably Mandrake) for desktops

2003-12-14 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Herouth Maoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't IBM's preferred distro SuSE? The article at least talks about Mandrake. from the IBM-hat-off-head-speaking-for-myself-only department #include stddisclaimers.h (require 'std-disclaimers) // you get the drift - nothing I write below should be

Re: Ynet: MoF considers using Linux (probably Mandrake) for desktops

2003-12-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:52:12AM +0200, doron wrote: AFAIK , RedHat, SuSE, Turbolinux and UnitedLinux Reference to IBM supporting the latter three? Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ the nucleus of linux oscillates my world - [EMAIL

Re: Ynet: MoF considers using Linux (probably Mandrake) for desktops

2003-12-14 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about Re: Ynet: MoF considers using Linux (probably Mandrake) for desktops: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 09:54:21AM +0200, Herouth Maoz wrote: Quoting Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My guess (pure guesswork) is that IBM is the one offering

Re: Slow KDE?

2003-12-14 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:56:58AM +0200, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: maybe of topic but i was amazed how fast the linux was up after i installed gentoo ver 1.4 maybe 30% faster Is this start time? Can you compare it to a different distro on the same machine? Can you try to time

Re: Ynet: MoF considers using Linux (probably Mandrake) for desktops

2003-12-14 Thread Oded Arbel
14 2003, 12:09,Nadav Har'El: Even more so when it comes to Hebrew support (which is the issue discussed here) - if Mandrake has better Hebrew support (does it?) It does. mostly due to the efforts of several Israeli guys (I won't name names as I'm sure to forget some), Mandrake is AFAIK

Re: Slow KDE?

2003-12-14 Thread Oded Arbel
14 2003, 12:40,Ben-Nes Michael: The only thing that bother me is how robust is the portage system, is it good enough to Servers ? ( I mean while updating, resolving dependencies ) I don't think it will ever be - its geared towards source packages (I understand there is some support for

Re: clarification

2003-12-14 Thread Oded Arbel
11 2003, 16:43,Oded Arbel: offering is based) being install by IBM in National Security offices across Sorry about the above mistake - just to make things clear, when I wrote National Security I actually meant Social Security - BITUACH LEUMI. -- Oded ::.. Any nitwit can understand

Pixelated output when exporting from Lyx to PDF

2003-12-14 Thread voguemaster
Hello all, Not too long ago I was still using Lyx version 1.2.x to write my technical papers. It used (as some of you must know) the xforms frontend. Now that I've migrated to a newer version of Linux (and KDE, etc...) I'm using the newer Lyx with the Qt frontend. Now, this shouldn't matter much

Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! In the document: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/rub-a-dub/rub-a-dub-dub-heb_final.html In Mozilla, the numbers and bullets of ol and ul lists appear at the far right of the screen. This is despite the fact that in Konqueror 3.1.x they appear fine, and that with simple pages (like

Re: Pixelated output when exporting from Lyx to PDF

2003-12-14 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
It sounds like a problem related to Acrobat failure to show raster fonts very well. It can be solved if the vector fonts are embedded in the document file, as can be done in dvips -Ppdf file.dvi ps2pdf file.ps This problem might have raised its ugly head to to changing of your

Re: Pixelated output when exporting from Lyx to PDF

2003-12-14 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 04:44:11PM +0200, voguemaster wrote: Hello all, Not too long ago I was still using Lyx version 1.2.x to write my technical papers. It used (as some of you must know) the xforms frontend. Now that I've migrated to a newer version of Linux (and KDE, etc...) I'm using

Re: Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-14 Thread Guy Teverovsky
Vote for the bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140611 Guy On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 17:01, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi! In the document: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/rub-a-dub/rub-a-dub-dub-heb_final.html In Mozilla, the numbers and bullets of ol and ul lists appear at the

Re: Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-14 Thread Oded Arbel
14 2003, 17:01,Shlomi Fish: Hi! In the document: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/rub-a-dub/rub-a-dub-dub-heb_final.html I have no idea what is causing it. Both the body and the ol and ul tags have a dir=rtl attribute. This document was generated from an OpenOffice document, so

Re: Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Lior Kaplan wrote: Hi, 1. You don't need to write dir=rtl each time the one for the HTML/BODY tags is enough. 2. Notice you don't have Hebrew text, but weird chars in your source code. 3. You have tons of un-needed span/font tags. 4. (most important): if you remove the

Re: Pixelated output when exporting from Lyx to PDF

2003-12-14 Thread voguemaster
Well, After reading the short but informative section and searching using Google and even trying to figure out what is going on manually from the files I think I understand the problem. According to the manual, Lyx uses the T1 encoding, and thus the newer EC fonts. I'm assuming that's because of

Re: Hebrew HTML Help: Bullets or Numbers in Lists appear at the right

2003-12-14 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:01:00PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: In Mozilla, the numbers and bullets of ol and ul lists appear at the far right of the screen. This is despite the fact that in Konqueror 3.1.x Known bug. What's stopping its' resolution is that CSS doesn't define a property for margin

Re: Ynet: MoF considers using Linux (probably Mandrake) for desktops

2003-12-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:20:51PM +0200, Gil Freund wrote: Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: [snip[ AFAIK IBM is officially distribution-agnostic. Major distros get certifications on IBM platforms (as Red Hat did recently - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/34501.html), IBM works with them

Re: Ynet: MoF considers using Linux (probably Mandrake) for desktops

2003-12-14 Thread Gil Freund
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: [snip] That is such a broad, sweeping statement, that I'm not sure how to respond. Please qualify it as to say *which* products does IBM offer in binary only packages. I'm sure there are some, just as I'm sure there are some that are free software, with everything that

Preapering a uml kernel the Debian way (?): rootstrap gets stuck

2003-12-14 Thread Shaul Karl
I am trying to build a root_fs with rootstrap. Yet rootstrap gets stuck after Mounted devfs on /dev and nothing seems to happen. All the processes seems to fall asleep. Pinging the tap0 interface works but not the uml side of the connection. No network traffic seems to take place, which is

RE: Connecting Fedora Core to Cable Internet

2003-12-14 Thread Offer Kaye
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 08:56:13PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: route add default $GATEWAY /dev/null 21 Whoops, that should've been: route add default gw $GATEWAY /dev/null 21 That did the trick- thanks Ilya! Offer Kaye

RE: Preapering a uml kernel the Debian way (?): rootstrap gets stuck

2003-12-14 Thread Offer Kaye
I am trying to build a root_fs with rootstrap. Yet rootstrap gets stuck after Mounted devfs on /dev and nothing seems to happen. All the processes seems to fall asleep. Pinging the tap0 interface works but not the uml side of the connection. No network traffic seems to take place,