Just a thought: so do you think that more machines were installed with Linux yesterday in israel than with Windows? :)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Adir Abraham [mailto:adir@;vipe.technion.ac.il] > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:14 PM > To: Dvir Volk > Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: The Haifux Linux-Day 2003 - Impressions and summarize > > > About 75, as I mentioned in the original email. This also > includes little tweaks (such as note number 2 of Muli) and > special installations (showed up to install ADSL, for instance). > > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Dvir Volk wrote: > > > Just out of curiosity - how many machines were installed in total? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [mailto:mulix@;actcom.co.il] > > > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:43 AM > > > To: Adir Abraham > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: The Haifux Linux-Day 2003 - Impressions and summarize > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:35:39AM +0200, Adir Abraham wrote: > > > > Hi all. > > > > > > > > This wednesday (6/11/2002) we've had an installation party, in > > > > Adut area, the Technion. The installation process included > > > Mandrake 9.0 and > > > > RedHat 8.0. > > > > > > Many people also inquired about debian and freebsd, and > there was a > > > slackware box present as well. > > > > > > > The Day started quite calmly, as an installed-person > > > arrived once per > > > > 15 or even 20 minutes. It continued like that till 15:00 > > > > approximately. At 15:00, though, more people started to > > > arrive, mostly > > > > to hear the lectures and to check what's all the mess > > > about, and Meir > > > > gave his lecture at 15:30. Unfortunately, Shlomi Fish who > > > was supposed > > > > to do the lecture of 12:30pm, did not do it. > > > > > > Nor did Muli, who replaced him, because only one person showed up > > > for it. For future instaparties, we might wish to have > two or even > > > three reruns of the lecture in the afternoon and evening. > > > > > > > I estimate that approximately 100 people arrived at > least to see > > > > what's going on (this also includes the installed-persons). > > > > > > Who had loads of fun talking about Linux. You don't have to be an > > > installer or installee to show up and have fun... just... a geek. > > > (no offense intended to anyone, I carry the term proudly). > > > > > > > I hope that you've enjoyed the event! > > > > > > I certainly did. > > > > > > A couple of Linux related tips from the weirder problems > that we've > > > seen: > > > > > > 1. Always, and I do mean always, run 'tail -f > /var/log/messages' in > > > a terminal when debugging a kernel problem. The kernel gives you > > > useful information - use it. An annoying NIC on laptop > problem was > > > solved this way - turns out we were trying to load the > wrong module > > > for this no name card and it needed 8139too.o instead. > > > > > > 2. SMP kernel crashes during boot with 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 > were solved > > > by passing 'noapic' to the kernel during boot. 'single' and > > > 'init=/bin/sh' are very useful as well. > > > > > > That's it, thanks to everyone who showed up, it was great > fun. See > > > you again next time! > > > > > > -- > > > Muli Ben-Yehuda > > > http://www.mulix.org/ > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace > > > /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ > > > Quis custodes ipsos custodiet? > > > http://www.mulix.org/cv.html > > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > > > word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the > command echo > > > unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > ================================To unsubscribe, send mail to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the > > message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
