On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Dave Roi david...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with you, but then you give a double standard.
It's OK for them to have silk gloves when they use Windows but it's not
OK when they use Linux.
OK... I see your point. The tough question is how to put the silk gloves on,
The curriculum is such that they use Linux right from the start - that is,
they have to make their C and C++ programs run on our mainframe - and they
use a terminal windows to logon to that. Moreover, in their second semester
Introduction to Systems Programming they learn about makefiles,
1. another KDE tip (please verify it works in current KDE systems):
there is a tool named 'klipper', which allows you to save the last 10
(or more) copied entries. whenever you copy something, it gets pushed
into klipper's window as well, and when you click on an entry in klipper
- it gets
On Saturday 07 February 2009 14:20:38 guy keren wrote:
6. adding parametrized bookmarks and short-cutting them (copied from a
user's comment on some blog page):
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Awesome article! Learned a few tricks here, to be sure. However, the
feature that I find most useful about Firefox
Thanks for all the tips and information. Here is what I have for now: 4 GUI
tips, 5 shell tips, and 2 tips for more information. I did not include the
firefox tips yet, since I think these deserve a separate page.*
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*יא טיפים לעבודה בלינוקס*
א. *העתק הדבק מהיר**: *אמנם ניתן לעשות
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
I have worked in a mechanical garage for six years. I know to rebuild
engines, replace entire steering / braking systems, replace almost
anything electrical in the vehicle, replace trim components, and of
course how to
If we are on the subject of panel applets might I suggest
Hamsterhttp://projecthamster.wordpress.com/
.
Description:
Project Hamster helps you to keep track of how much time you spend on
various
activities during the day. Whenever you move from one task to another, you
change your current
I'd add something about the typing break feature - one of the lesser known
features of gnome.
Enable it in Keyboard preferences, and if you type for X minutes without
stopping, it will force you to take a break.
Sounded very ridiculous when I first saw it, but I once tried it and it
actually is
Excellent tip. I will add this one right away!
2009/2/7 Tzafrir Rehan tzafri...@gmail.com
I'd add something about the typing break feature - one of the lesser known
features of gnome.
Enable it in Keyboard preferences, and if you type for X minutes without
stopping, it will force you to
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
You might want to asdd a mention of Sticky Keys: the ability to hit
Shift _then_ a letter instead of having to hold shift. This ability
has sped up my typing speed considerably. It is not unique to Linux,
but it is better
Another nice feature for the shell that makes life prettier. From the upper
menu of the shell go to-Settings-Schema-Transparent, Light background.
This will give the background of the desktop (whatever picture they have
there). They will have to play with the font colors to be visible when they
On Saturday, 7 בFebruary 2009, Yossi Gil wrote:
Moreover, in their second semester Introduction to Systems Programming
they learn about makefiles, shell programming and other UNIX stuff.
We just do not do enough to make this learning effective...
I'd like to mention that this is probably one
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:12:00PM +0200, Oron Peled wrote:
* The Unix part is tragic story in itself. Let's start with the simple
fact it uses csh/tcsh (Nee, nee, nee, nee)
Nope :-(
http://webcourse.cs.technion.ac.il/234122/Winter2008-2009/en/syllabus.html
Even Mac OSX defaults to a
What I meant was GUI IDEs such as Eclipse and Netbeans instead of vim and
emacs.
And for the kicker, see attachment :-)
Dave.
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 21:46, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote:
On Saturday, 7 בFebruary 2009, Dave Roi wrote:
Every single task a Linux user (user, not
The choice of shell isn't the worst part (although, seriously... tcsh? holy
crap!). Read the assignment itself. A system to manage and analyze a list of
delay tickets for public transportation. Good idea for perl (which is
explicitly forbidden IIRC, as are sed and awk)? Certainly. But for tcsh?
Hi everybody,
Reminder:
On 3.12.08, we heard about Zvi Devir and his Successful Windows Vista
refund - see:
http://www.mail-archive.com/haifux@haifux.org/msg03372.html
And later, there was a lecture in Haifux by Zvi Devir about it:
see:
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