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Re: linux X-serving MS applications



Asher Frenkel wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:

> 
> > PS/2. Following the example of whoever it was that broke into the
> > knesset site and expressed his political views about our president
> > somebody should break to the IDF site http://www.idf.il and post a firm
> Can I quote you on that, if someone breaks into it?

By all means do - Last time I saw the guys from the computer crime team
of the Israeli police they asked me to help them configure their
Linux... ;-))

It is my firm belief that big public institutes, like IDF, need a
constant reminder from us, capable citizens, that information security
is not to be taken lightly.

Too many times are such big public bodies lured by smooth sales talk of
marketoids and the nice colors of the glossy papers that they forget to
ask or think about what REALLY is required. 

It's pretty obvious that someone put the Knesset site in the wrong
hands, I can only be glad that this site most probably has no actual
connection to the Knesset computers themselves. Hopefully it will be
better guarded from now on.


> 
> > disagreement that the special "pikood ha oref" site is written (the only
> > part of the site!!!) only is Microsoft Hebrew, that is - completely
> > incomprehensible for any one not using the specific hebrew versions of
> > the Microsoft OS - <Sarcasm> imagine the poor Linux hacker dying of gas
> > poising because he could not read the important instruction on the
> > "pikood ha oref" site </Sarcasm>
> I agree that it is wrong currently to put only "logical hebrew"  version
> of such a sensitive important site.
> however, I think logical hebrew is a good standard, and I hope it will get
> wider support.

I do not mind WHAT kind of standard is used as long as the choice is
made with sense.
The current state of things is that are two standards: one made up by a
commercial company with very limited support (you cannot read M$ hebrew
with non-hebrew version of their own OSes) and a second, inferior yet
widely supported standard.
I do not believe that the choice of what will be the "standard" protocol
of using Hebrew on the Internet be left to a commercial body with narrow
interests, ESPECIALLY not of the kind Microsoft is.
Maybe we should all send a request to the ministry of communication to
determine what is the "official" stand hebrew on the internet ... ? ;-)

Gilad.


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