[Haifux] LINUX and SSDL

2009-01-26 Thread Yossi Gil
Dear All, I hear that there is an active Linux community that you run. I would like to see if we can cooperate in one of the following issues regarding the installation of Linux Ubuntu in SSDL. In particular, I would like to check if we - can help you guys in organixing Linux lectures? - ditto,

Re: [Haifux] LINUX and SSDL

2009-01-26 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, Let's start with the sad fact, that most active Haifuxers are not Technion students. In particular, not undergraduate students. Which brings us to my first question: What is SSDL? What have you been running there until now? My initial response (others -- please speak up if you

Re: [Haifux] LINUX and SSDL

2009-01-26 Thread Yossi Gil
Hi Eli and Yotam: Just to answer your questions: SSDL is a laboratory for software engineering students at the Technion. We have 20 workstations (equipped fairly impressively, lots of RAM, dual screens, HZs, etc.) We migrated to Ubuntu 8.04 at the beginning of the school year. Up until then, we

[Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-01-26 Thread Yossi Gil
Folks, here is the list of the unedited gripe list of students. As you will see, some of the problems are educational (MS WORD is sexy), other are organizational (not enough quota), while others are technical (Eclipse crashes). I am asking for your help mainly in dealing with the psychological

Re: [Haifux] LINUX and SSDL

2009-01-26 Thread Haggai Eran
Hi, I can offer some suggestions for some of the problems you described below. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com wrote: 2. Running FF3 is not possible if a user is logged on to multiple stations. This isn't a solution for the common user, but an advanced user can

Re: [Haifux] LINUX and SSDL

2009-01-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:59:45PM +0200, Haggai Eran wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Yossi Gil yossi@gmail.com wrote: 2. Running FF3 is not possible if a user is logged on to multiple stations. This isn't a solution for the common user, but an advanced user can run firefox

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-01-26 Thread Amir Hardon
Hi, First I'll state that I'm a first year student here. About the problems the students mention, it seems like the only real problem is MS Office compatibility, I am struggling with this problem daily from the other side - often Word documents that are sent to me are getting scrambled when

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-01-26 Thread Haggai Eran
I assumed the problems with moving files to windows was the different encoding of new-line characters. unix2dos and dos2unix can be used if that's the case, or their equivalents on windows systems. If eclipse is used, I think it can be changed to use whatever style you like. About eclipse: I've

[Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-01-26 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
Hi Yossi, Regarding the portable document editing, I suggest introducing the students to latex at an early stage. In addition to being portable, it is also a handy (and sometimes mandatory) tool for writing papers. From the other angle, I believe CS staff should be a model regarding open

[Haifux] Long messages

2009-01-26 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
Hi All, As some of us have recently discovered, there is a limit to the size of a haifux message, and the first message in the current thread about student complaints is about this size. So please, to avoid nagging Orr for each mail, do not include the original message when replying. it is not

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-01-26 Thread Tzafrir Rehan
And of course, I side with Eli regarding using a flexible tool chain, such that everyone may mix and match. An editor can be anything which can syntax-highlight and indent properly (nano/pico do not count, neither does textpad) I somehow feel the need to defend nano: set autoindent in

Re: [Haifux] Haifux Digest, Vol 17, Issue 15

2009-01-26 Thread Eran Arbel
Hi, some time reader, first time writer. I'm a second year CS student and had to work with the Linux in the farms for a while now and frankly, I love the idea that someone finally forced me to use Linux. I think it's a good thing. I've already had stuff explained to me and had a chance to explain

Re: [Haifux] Student complaints.

2009-01-26 Thread Ohad Lutzky
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Yossi, Regarding the portable document editing, I suggest introducing the students to latex at an early stage. In addition to being portable, it is also a handy (and sometimes mandatory) tool for writing