Re: Hebrew fonts and PPTP

2004-01-26 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:34:30AM +0200, Yaniv Almog wrote: 2. Last June I installed a PPTP client (from pptpclient.sourceforge.net) to connect my computer through the cables to the Technion VPN server. It worked smoothly for two months but then, in August, because of Blasterworm, the

Re: Hebrew in Console?

2004-01-26 Thread Oleg
Actually, in Debian all you need to do is reinstall locale and enable hebrew. Does anyone knows a good console font ? Mine is ugly like hell :0) Oleg. - Original Message - From: Beni Cherniavsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Itamar Ravid [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday,

Re: Hebrew fonts and PPTP

2004-01-26 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Yaniv Almog wrote: 2. Last June I installed a PPTP client (from pptpclient.sourceforge.net) to connect my computer through the cables to the Technion VPN server. It worked smoothly for two months but then, in August, because of Blasterworm, the Technion made some changes, one of them was to

Re: [OT]nesws regarding vigros chicks

2004-01-26 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:56:57PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: This is just wonderful! An article in this line has appeared in NYTimes (reg req) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/weekinreview/25john.html?hp -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ

Re: Hebrew fonts and PPTP

2004-01-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:34:30AM +0200, Yaniv Almog wrote: Shalom, 1. I have recently installed Microsoft's TTF fonts on my Fedora core partition. I have installed them both with ttmkfdir and fc-cache. However, I am getting squares on my screen when I try to view them on my screen. I

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about Re: no display: On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:07:01PM +0200, Aaron wrote: theone:/home/aamehl# xev Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified what does 'xhost' say? does 'xhost +localhost' or 'xhost +' help? be

Re: KDE Slowness -SOLVED

2004-01-26 Thread Amichai Rotman
I guess the problem was the fact the local host wasn't included in the search order of the DHCP client. I didn't know how to mess with the DHCP config files, so I didn't touch it... Can anyone contribute a theory? Thanks... On Monday 26 January 2004 09:40, Dovix wrote: Might is be that the

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Aaron
Well thanks, I often need to fix a readonly or system file and out of habit use gvim. Or I want to run Synaptic which I think needs me to be su. In Fedora, Redhat or Mandrake I never had this problem. This only happens in Debian/Xandros I am guessing that this is on purpose? You did catch that

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:01:04PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: You may be surprised that root can't do something that an ordinary user can, but X-Windows authentication actually works differently from the ordinary Unix permission model, because it is aimed to work across hosts, not just on one

Re: KDE Slowness -SOLVED

2004-01-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:09:34PM +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote: I guess the problem was the fact the local host wasn't included in the search order of the DHCP client. I didn't know how to mess with the DHCP config files, so I didn't touch it... Genrally simply add your hostname to

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:09:17PM +0200, Aaron wrote: Well thanks, I often need to fix a readonly or system file and out of habit use gvim. Or I want to run Synaptic which I think needs me to be su. In Fedora, Redhat or Mandrake I never had this problem. This only happens in

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004, Aaron wrote about Re: no display: I often need to fix a readonly or system file and out of habit use gvim. Or I want to run Synaptic which I think needs me to be su. In Fedora, Redhat or Mandrake I never had this problem. This only happens in Debian/Xandros As a

Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Alex Gontmakher
Hi everybody, If anybody of you have tried to access the Discountbank.net web site (for online account access), you would surely notice that it accepts connections originated from Internet Explorer only. That's quite a problem for Linux users - it wouldn't even try to communicate with Mozilla

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Ehud Karni
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Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Alon Altman
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Alex Gontmakher wrote: I have tried to contact the bank technical support on this issue, and got a response stating that Since the Internet Explorer is the mostly used browser, we don't support any others. In the future the bank will discuss working with additional

Re: KDE Slowness -SOLVED

2004-01-26 Thread Oded Arbel
26 2004, 01:25,Tzafrir Cohen: On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:11:52PM +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi All, I want to thank you all for your ideas. I eventually fixed the problem - by chance (Murphy's...). I have asked my Cable company to provide me with a fixed IP, so I can rid

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Monday 26 January 2004 13:30, Alex Gontmakher wrote: Hi everybody, If anybody of you have tried to access the Discountbank.net web site (for online account access), you would surely notice that it accepts connections originated from Internet Explorer only. [...] (and yes, yes, I know

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Christoph Bugel
Alex Gontmakher wrote: Hi everybody, If anybody of you have tried to access the Discountbank.net web site (for online account access), you would surely notice that it accepts connections originated from Internet Explorer only. That's quite a problem for Linux users - it wouldn't even try to

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Aaron
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2004, Aaron wrote about Re: no display: I often need to fix a readonly or system file and out of habit use gvim. Or I want to run Synaptic which I think needs me to be su. In Fedora, Redhat or Mandrake I never had this problem. This only happens in

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Aaron
Thanks to everyone on the list for all their answers with my no display question. You guy are great, not only did I get a quick fix but a tutorial in X. I infact didn't understand how X works at all, so my simple question got me some great answers. Thanks again, Aaron

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Omer Zak
Another suggestion: Given that the bank charges are lower for transactions made via their Web site than when they involve a warm and breathing teller, it may be a good idea to petition the banks and the regulator of the banks for lower charges for people who cannot access the bank's Web site and

RE: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Rony Shapiro
Hi, I also wrote to them to complain about this. When they gave me their standard reply We support only the most popular browser, I answered that this position is odd for a bank such as IDB, since if their customers only used the leading bank for their banking needs, where would that leave

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Lior Okman
Count me in. Same issue, different bank, does anybody have any success with Leumi's web site? Lior Alex Gontmakher wrote: Hi everybody, If anybody of you have tried to access the Discountbank.net web site (for online account access), you would surely notice that it accepts connections

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:52:52PM +0200, Lior Okman wrote: Count me in. Same issue, different bank, does anybody have any success with Leumi's web site? An ancient version of mozilla (1.1, IIRC) used to work. Nowdays, no modern browser I've tried works. I'm slowly trying to decide which

Re: no display

2004-01-26 Thread Lior Kesos
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 12:09 +0200, Aaron wrote: I am guessing that this is on purpose? You did catch that I was trying to run as root. I sometimes find that some tabs or addons to mozilla only will install if I (gasp) run mozilla as root. he tabs addons or whatever get installed typically

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread dittigas
you can see an official response from the bank on this, here: http://whatsup.org.il/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=2136 and more positive response (sort of) here: http://whatsup.org.il/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=2147 Contact person in the bank, who expressed

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Ely Levy
did you try changing the user-agent of mozilla and konqurer to ie one and see if it works? does it need active x or the sort? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Alex Gontmakher wrote: Hi everybody, If anybody of you have tried to access the

RE: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Kovriga, Gregory
The problem is that consider it in the next release is another standard reply after we support most popular browser - I've think everyone on this list that cared to reply to the first one, got the second... And what has changed? For the most: they considered and decided not to do it... Gregory.

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Monday 26 January 2004 16:53, Ely Levy wrote: did you try changing the user-agent of mozilla and konqurer to ie one and see if it works? I did. Doesn't work. does it need active x or the sort? Nope. As I wrote, it doesn't even work on IE over wine/crossover (this usually solves my

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Alon Altman
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Aviram Jenik wrote: On Monday 26 January 2004 16:53, Ely Levy wrote: did you try changing the user-agent of mozilla and konqurer to ie one and see if it works? I did. Doesn't work. does it need active x or the sort? Nope. As I wrote, it doesn't even work on IE

URPMI Sources - Secure?

2004-01-26 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi All, I am running MDK 9.2. I have a bunch of URPMI sources configured. All of them (except IGLU's) came from the official Mandrake Mirrors List. I found a number of cool independent RPM sources, with cool apps. My question: is it safe to use them? I mean, I don't know the person behind

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Alex Gontmakher
Ely Levy wrote: did you try changing the user-agent of mozilla and konqurer to ie one and see if it works? Yes I did. Looks like it's smarter than that (which means, they did quite an effort to support IE, instead of investing that effort to support something else... sounds like a

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Yonah Russ
I have been using this site for a while- I actually tried playing with the user agents a little and it seems that do some more interesting browser snooping to prevent you from tricking them. I wonder if Ie5 for mac works either. yonah Alex Gontmakher wrote: Hi everybody, If anybody of you

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! You can add my signature: Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Shlomi Fish -- Shlomi Fish[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Writing a BitKeeper replacement is

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Alon Altman
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Alex Gontmakher wrote: The closest thing they have to Microsoft is that you can download an Excel file with your account report, but even that can be opened on Linux now. The so-called Excel file is (like in most sites that generate spreadheets on the fly) actually a

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004, Lior Okman wrote about Re: Discountbank.net web site: Same issue, different bank, does anybody have any success with Leumi's web site? Go to https://hb.leumi.co.il/H/Login.html instead of the normal site. (at least, I think this is not the normal site) Works quite well on

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread Alex Chudnovsky
On Monday 26 January 2004 16:12, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: An ancient version of mozilla (1.1, IIRC) used to work. Nowdays, no modern browser I've tried works. I'm slowly trying to decide which bank to switch to for the day-to-day stuff (Poalim would be a leading candidate, but I really dislike

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread linux-il
Alex Chudnovsky wrote: On Monday 26 January 2004 16:12, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: An ancient version of mozilla (1.1, IIRC) used to work. Nowdays, no modern browser I've tried works. I'm slowly trying to decide which bank to switch to for the day-to-day stuff (Poalim would be a leading candidate,

Re: Discountbank.net web site

2004-01-26 Thread linux-il
Alon Altman wrote: BTW(OT): How hard is it to switch banks, especially if I have savings in the old bank? Not at all. I've done it at least two times over recent years. The old savings are just kept there. You should have your paperwork kept properly so you don't forget when they open.