Re: [Haifux] Yum problems from the Technion

2007-04-05 Thread Dave Roi
Hi, I am getting the same problem on the Linux stations in the farm. The problem has appeared before for a while, then stopped and started again about a week before Pesach. Haven't managed to solve the problem but if anyone finds a solution it would greatly help me too. Dave (from the CS Linux

Re: [Haifux] Yum problems from the Technion

2007-04-09 Thread Dave Roi
, such list might be useful, if we want to ask Technion system personel to look into this. P.S. Does anyone in the Technion outside CS can confirm this problem? Or even lend me a proxy? On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 05:34:00PM +0300, Dave Roi wrote: Hi, I am getting the same problem

[Haifux] Software freedom day - September 15

2007-07-28 Thread Dave Roi
Hi, Software freedom day is coming up and I've noticed there are no teams in Israel. Are there any plans to start one? http://softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeamPage There are 3 days left for registering and getting the free goodies. Dave.

Re: [Haifux] my talk on the 25th

2008-02-21 Thread Dave Roi
Hey, I'm interested too. Dave. On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Hai Zaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can give a lecture about initramfs. Here are the lecture topics: * What happens between grub and init? * pre-initrd era, initrd era, new, initramfs, era. * Booting from various disks *

Re: [Haifux] Syncing Nokia phones

2008-02-24 Thread Dave Roi
This should work: http://www.goosync.com/SupportedDevices.aspx your cellphone is listed as supported. It syncs it over the internet. no need for a computer. Dave. On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Ohad Lutzky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I have a shiny new Nokia 6120 Classic, and I

Re: [Haifux] Lecture proposal - high performance multi threaded programming

2008-05-01 Thread Dave Roi
Another aye from here. David. On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abstract: With a bit of manual reading, anyone can learn how to create a program that has more than one thread of execution. This breaks down, very rapidly, however, as the

[Haifux] Fwd: OpenSource and Free Technologies Fest - Mon 19/5

2008-05-18 Thread Dave Roi
Hey all, As part of my job at Sun I organized a lecture tomorrow at Taub. The covered topics are listed below and at http://sun.vzwar.com/ The lecturers are OpenSolaris developers that came to Israel especially for this series of lectures. You are all invited. As stated below, the lecture will

Re: [Haifux] Idea for lecture: connecting to HOT / 012 without a router

2008-06-17 Thread Dave Roi
There's also a bug report attached to the idea, but the response to the bug report was that it's only a niche user base that has this problem, thats where brainstorm comes to try to help. Dave. 2008/6/18 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/6/17 Tzafrir Rehan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Voting for

Re: [Haifux] UBUNTU instalation

2008-09-09 Thread Dave Roi
There is a much easier way to do this. Synaptic has a feature that creates the installation script for you. In Synaptic under File-Generate package download script. You can also use the File-Save markings and File-Read markings to do the about same thing. If you want to mark all the packages in

Re: [Haifux] UBUNTU instalation

2008-09-09 Thread Dave Roi
). Dave. P.S sorry for the double email. On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 00:33, Dave Roi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a much easier way to do this. Synaptic has a feature that creates the installation script for you. In Synaptic under File-Generate package download script. You can also use

Re: [Haifux] UBUNTU instalation

2008-09-10 Thread Dave Roi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Dave Roi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that if you use these mass installation methods, ALL packages will be marked as manually installed (as opposed to most of them being dependencies). The result of this is that if you later choose

Re: [Haifux] W2L + Installation party?

2008-09-17 Thread Dave Roi
Hi, I believe instaparties are still needed, just with more focus on post install configuration and usage instructions. I suggest focusing on installing all the cool packages that are needed but aren't installed by default like setting up the dial up connections to their ISPs, codecs, fonts,

Re: [Haifux] W2L + Installation party?

2008-09-17 Thread Dave Roi
Oh god finally someone who understands... On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 20:35, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/9/17 Orr Dunkelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Showing people the stuff that they cannot do using point-and-click (which today is quite a lot). Don't do that until they ask. People

Re: [Haifux] Linux + Hebrew?

2009-02-02 Thread Dave Roi
Yes, I would also suggest posting a one page Linux for windows users guide on every station like the ones I posted on the Linux stations in the main farm. A simple orientation of where everything is in Linux. I believe I gave Tzafrir the original document which can be edited. Dave. On Mon, Feb

Re: [Haifux] The 10th tip?

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Roi
I strongly agree with Dotan here, Every single task a Linux user (user, not administrator) or even a programmer will ever want to do, he can do it using GUI alone. I believe that the perception that every Linux user needs to know how to use the command line if he wants to use Linux is an archaic

Re: [Haifux] The 10th tip?

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Roi
a...@hamakor.org.il wrote: I strongly agree with Dave and Dotan. The regular user is looking for simplicity and less typing. This will convince him that it's impossible to use Linux from a user's point of view. Adir On 2/7/09, Dave Roi david...@gmail.com wrote: I strongly agree with Dotan

Re: [Haifux] The 10th tip?

2009-02-07 Thread Dave Roi
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

Re: [Haifux] The 10th tip?

2009-02-07 Thread Dave Roi
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

Re: [Haifux] Haifos?

2010-04-08 Thread Dave Roi
Haifreedom? :-) On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 16:32, Orr Dunkelman orr.dunkel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: No. FOSS, as we all know, fails to state that we're talking about Free (*Libre*) OSS, and may confuse people to thing we're

Re: [Haifux] MCTIP computer technician course

2011-02-20 Thread Dave Roi
If you take the CS programming courses up front (the programming ones, not the math ones) and get a good grade then you will have a good chance at getting a student position at some high tech company for around 50-60nis/hour instead of the minimum wage you will get from being a computer